Star.
London, England, 1814-12-09 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTER.

4. VIENNA, NOVEMBER 2S. —The deliberations of
the Congress become more and more secret. Even
contradictory accounts are chcalated with less rapi-
dity, and we begin to think that nothing important is
yet decided upon. The principal Committee appoin-
ted to fix the fate of Poland, Saxony, Belgium, and
the provinces on the left bank of the Rhine, appears
confounded at the difficulties which arise. It is cer-
tain that the fate of Poland is not yet decided, al:
though the precipitate departure of the Grand Duke
Constantine fur a short time led to the supposition
that all was terminated.

gi Even the fate of the Republic of Genoa, which
was thought to be irrevocably united to the States d
the king of Sardinia, has become doubtful. It is well
known that Genoa is of the highest importance to the
commerce of F.ngland.
" This union cannot then be regarded as complete,
without the adhesion of England ; this adhesion is
not only wanting, but it is certain that the powers of
the Minister of the Republic at Vienna have just been
verified, acknowledged, and registered upon the acts
of the Congress.
" The interests upon which the Congress is called
upon to pronounce are so various and opposite to
each other, that a few conferences, and a union of a
few weeks of the principal Sovereigns, or most skilful
politicians, cannot be expected to lead to the impor-
tant results which are to restore to Europe its political
equilibrium, and peace and tranquillity to all nations.
It is bel evt4 that the Congress will continne for some
time ; the proof of this assertion is, that all the Mi-
nisters of the Great Powers have re-engaged their
hotels for one miaith, from the Ist of December, and
that the departure of the Allied Sovereigns is nu lon-
ger talked of at Vienna ; it cannot be otherwise, when
it is considered how long the Congresses of Utrecht,
Westphali., and Ryswick continued.
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NAPLES, NOVEMBER is, •

On the 12th the Minister of War and Marine gave
a magnificent ilinneron board his Majesty's ship tile
Capri, Among the persOni invited were reraarked
Count Mier, the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary. and
Prince Esterhazy, with many of the fire functiona-
ries of the §tatc. After dinner the Minister gave ter
following toast To his Majesty the Emperor of
Austria. and his dynasty." Count Mier gave as the
second toast—" To his Majesty the King of Naples
and ii;s dynasty." Prince Esterhazy proposed the
third—" To the high Powers which have given peace
to the world."

PARIS, DECEMBER S.

The King has appointed Marshal the Duke of Dal- i
matia to be Minister and Secretaty ct State for the
War Department ; Ccunt Beugnot, to be Minister
and Secretary of State for -the Marine and Colonial
Department ; and M. d'Andre, to be Director Ge-
neral of Police.
Marshal Sachet, Duke of Albufera, is appointed
Governor of Alsace, (sth military division.)
• The Chamber of Peers has adopted the law-respect-
ing iron with an amendment.
ripe Report of M. Faget de Baure has been printed
and distributed. It comprises 29 articles, of which
the following are the must remarkable dispositions :
" 'rite panishmeat of death is pronOuneed against all
mini:-.Ters who attempt the safety of the King's per.
son, or the safety internal or external of the State by
coranittnications with the enemies of France, or to
subvert the Royal authority, the order of succession
to the cr4wn, or the constitutional power of one of
the three branrhes of the Legislative authority. Every
Minister guilty of Attempts on the public rights of the
French, consecrated and defined by the Constitutional
Charter, shall be pull:shed with imprisonment for a
time in a place of stengths"
M. Leine, President of the Chamber of Deputies,

;6 mrseh better. It h said., that the sating of this
Chamber will close between the 20th snd 30th of

this month. •
The Congress of Vienna still keeps people In sus-
'tense, as to those • important decisions which are to
•Itecure the tranquillity of the nations of the'Cunti-
neat. In general, full confidence is reposed in that
equitable-spirit which doubtless presides at these de-
liberations. It would in truth be too painful, both to
the heart and understanding, to entertain distrust.—
Who can apprehend; that those who seem to have
taken lip arms only to shew Europe the double
triumph of moderation over violence, and of legi-
timate over lawless power—who, we say, can ap-
prehend that even those should sully such renown,
by now displaying violence after so much modera-
tion, and injustice after so much generosity ? Yes,
those who in conjunction with us have driven from an
usurped throne the usurper of Ajaccio, will restore
the ancient honour of crowns—in no quarter of En-
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rope will they suffer living evidences to exist of the
usurpation they have destroyed.
We know there are persons who speak only with
disdain of what they denominate the politics of feel-
ing but the politics of feeling are almost always the
politics of opinion, which in the long run undermine
the politics of cabinets. Sully always thought the
politics of good faith the best, and Sully was not
only a very honest man, but a very skilftil Minister.
This policy has its root in the understanding of the
people, and that equity which sooner or later prevails.
It is this policy which guides the King of France at
Vienna as at Paris; he supports there, by his Am-
bassador, those principles of moderation and inflexible
justice from which he would as little depart, even
with victorious armies as with Plenipotentiaries. It
cannot longer be dissembled, the repose of Europe
and the civilization of which it boasts would be no
more, if the sceptre of unjust force was not entirely
broken now by the hands which wield the sceptre.—
Such is the true, and perhaps the surest triumph of
generous ideas, which are better defined by noble
actions than by equivocal words.