Star.
London, England, 1802-03-08 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
PARIS, MARCH 3.
The jeurisal de Paris contains the following re.
marks refpeaing the Emigrants whore names have
been Bruck off the lift.
" Every day the lilt of Emigrants is diminifh-
ing,every day the lift of the ungrateful is increafing.
One hears ten times a day, Government has at frqtb
done nit an ail • f by soi menu talkie. Mk who
it is that ores the expraffion, you will find it is an
Emigrant who has borne arms againfl his country,
and who on his return has regained his poffeffions;
but when you hear a man, who, with a counte-
nance of joy and pleafure, tells you brifkly aair
bar beenfirsei out ; the piled Government makes us for.
, get the two that have been earfftd MO GOVentllatil
" coltish have zone before it, you may be allured that
',this man is a father of a family, whole name was
;Wilted on the fatal fill becaufe he was compelled
to fly, or to conceal himfelf ; and that on his re-
turn he has not recovered of his former polreffions,
either a cottage to flicker him, or a field to give
him bread.
" An Emigrant of rank (as he pretends) lately
met a Ruffian officersand prefesited to him another
man of quality with this introdudion—Permit me,
Sir, to prefent to you M. Comte de —, he has
had the honour of ferving under your orders in
Italy; and this is laid by the fide of a French Ge-
neral, who has received a wound in fighting the
Ruffian army in Italy."
Every day the lilt of ungrateful men increafes ;
that of the Emigrants decrcafes. Bad men, when
they are alto ungrateful, become vile and con-
temptible.
At Mentz they were ping to eftablifh a German
Theatre ; it is now faid that this projea has been
dira pp roved of by th e Con ftit uted Authorities. hap-
pears to be the obi eel of Government to render the
French language more familiar to the inhabitants
of thole countries, which mull be advantageous
to them, fince they are defined to. live under the
French laws. The fociety of Literati, ettablithed
at Mentz, have received orders to hold their con-
ferences in the French language.
The journal de Paris contains a letter from Ma-
dame LACROSSI, in juflification of the charaaer
her hufhand, Admiral Lacaossit (lately expelled
from Guadaloupe). She inclofcs two letters ad-
drefred to her hulband, one from the late General
Hocm I, the other from TRU° int., formerly Mi-
miller of Marine, complimenting him in the high-
eft terms for the gallantry he difplayed in the de-
fence of les Droits de l'Homme, a French fhip of
the line, againft the INDRTATIGABLI, Sir EDWARD
Pas.esw's veld, and the AMAZON frigate. For
his condole upon this'occafion he was promoted
by the Direaory to the rank of Admiral.
The National Inftitute at its Sitting of the 26th
ult. eleaed a Refident Member of the clafs of Ma-
thematical and Phyfical Sciences for the Seetion
of Mineralogy. RAMORD obtained the appoint-
ment. having 233 votes. PATRIN had 230. and
VALMONT de &MARE 197. The Inftitute alto ap-
Tponted three Foreign Afrociatesone for each clafs.
he three Candidates in the clafs of Literature
and Fine Arts were Meas. Myst., lieorsroce,
and SURRIDAN ; in the dais of Mathematical and
Phyfical&iences,Meffis.MASK ILYVE,HIRSCH sta.,
and PIIIRSTILT; in the clafs of the Moral and Po-
litical Sciences, Meffrs. Ram te, RunroaD. and
Mixesa. The order of the general fcrutiny was
the fame as in the clafres, and Mefirs. Harms,
MAIEILTNs, and Rust roar), were elated Foreign
Affociates.
A letter from Strabourg lays, That the build-
ing of the new fortreffes along the left Bank of the
Rhine is to commence in March. It is affirmed
that the cities of Bonn, Saint Goar, and Franken-
that, will become fortreffes of the fecond rank.—
Several battalions of miners and pioneers have
already arrived on the Banks of the Rhine, to be
employed on there works.
When the Ifland of St. Domingo was difeovered
by CNIMTOPNER COLV MMUS, Its population
amounted to a million of inhabitants; but in con-
fequence of the cruel oppreflion which there un-
happy people experienced from the Spaniards,their
number in the fpace of fifteen years, was reduced
to 60,000. At the era of the Revolution, the
French part of the Ifland contained 42,000 whites,
free people of colour, and 600,000 Raves.
iti:7:7)ot afcertained that fince that time there has
any diminution of the inhabitants taken place; but
when we confiderthe wars,mafracres, baniflnents,
and emigrations which have taken place, to com-
pute the diminution at too,ooo perfons, would
come short of the truth. It molt alto be recol-
lated, that St. Domingo owed much of its inha-
bitants to importation; and there is no certainty
that without this •fource it is able 'to fupply the
efpecially as in its molt flourithing times,
. the continual importation of Negroes made no fen-
tilde addition to its population. It is a fall, that
in 1789, the number of deaths amounted to 7122,
that of births to 4232. From theft premifes it
would be ralh to conclude, that without importa-
tion of negroes the population of this colony would
continually decreatc ; but as this would plainly
have been the cafe in the period preceding the Re-
volution, it is neceflary to obviate it by reforming
abufes, or introducing a Legiflation more fuitable
to the Ifland than that which has fu long rendered
importation indifpenfible.