Star.
London, England, 1802-06-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, 3 MES4IDOR, JUNE az.

The Miniacr for the Home Department has
written t! le following letter from Havre, dated
26th Praitial ( June :5).
.• Citizens, the FIRST CONSUL has fent me the
petition which addreled to him refpeeing the
importation of fr•reign refined Lugar. You may
gel fa.i.fic.l that Government has taken up that
Attica with all the zeal that you can with for. I
have Ird a report npon this matter before the
Vint Conful, and you may loon expel to have his
decifion upon ir. In the mean time (pare no pains
in profecuting with unabated ardour the works be-
longing to the bekehonfes, and to evzry thing that
concert; the national fugar trade."
In a former Number (No. 267) we publifhed the
letter, in which the Prefect of the Department ac-
quainted the Miniller of the Interior with the
number of votes delivered in at the head office of
the Prefelt on the coeftion fubmitted to the French
People by the decree of the Goth Floreal ult. viz.
Shall NAPOLEON BONA PARTE be Conful for life ?

In that number were not compiled the votes
infcrit3ed in the iegifiers opened by the Firft Au-
thorities at the Offices of the Minifters, and the
Police Offices, and at the Office of the Tribunals.

A part of theft regilters has juil been given in
to the Minifter of the Interior.

The number of votes for Paris now amounts to
60,395 for te affirmative, and 8o for the nega-
tive. To thefe there will be to add the votes in-
scribed on the books °petted at the offices of the
Secretaries to the five Minifters, and at the Office
of the Tribunal of Appeal, who have not as yet
delivered in their regiflers.
On no former occalion have the votes of the
citizens of Paris amounted to fo large a number.
Fur the appointment of the Mayor of Paris in
1789, the numbers were only 14,010. For the
acceptation of the Conftitution in the Rth year of
the Republic, the numbers were 27,675. While
on the quellion for making BONAPARTE Conful
for life, the numbers are (though the whole is not
as yet filled up) 60,395.

4 stEssioos, JUNE 23.
A notice has been iffued by the general admi-
Wtration of the Poll Office, informing the public,
that from the 26th of the prefent month, all letters
and packets for England will he fent from Paris on
Monday., Wednefdays, and Saturdays ; and from
Calais Mondays, Wednefdays, and Fridays. They
are all to be pan paid from the place where they
are dated as tar as Dover, otherwife they will re-
main in the office.

The grand quellion of the liberty of the com-
merce to India, or the re-efiablifhment of a pri-
vileged company., is on the eve of being di tided.
A great number of memoirs and writings have
been publithed on the fubjed. The refult of this
difeuffion; in the opinion of the public, as far as
this opinion has been collated, is favourable to
the freedom of commerce. Citizen GattoNtis,
one of the authors who has fupported this fide of
the queftion, males a reflation which cannot fail
to be generally interefling: " No one, rays he,
can be better judges than the, merchants themfelves 1
of what is advantageous, or deftruttive to their
interetis. It appears to me attoniflting, I confers,
that an attempt fbould be made to convince the
merchants that the commerce of India cannot fail
to be difadvantageous to them, and above all, hof-
tile to the fuceefs of private 'Peculation, when
from all parts of France thefe very merchants de-
mand the freedom of this commerce, to whore im-
portance they attach the greaten value, and from
which they expel the happieft eonfequences."--,
atiara! Ist De&au.
In the Journal It Parir of yeflerday, and in the
Official Journal of this day, we find a long article
refpating the amount of the revenue which the
Government may draw from the ettablithment of
a tax on Field Sports. The article concludes in
the following terms : " When it is confidered that
Zngland draws from this routed a tax amounting
to 1,500,000 francs, from a territory which in
point of extent does not exceed one-fourth of that
of France, it may be teen that France may draw
from it 6,000,000, and at the fame time form a
very important branch of general police, which
would be a powerful encouragement to the multi-
plication and improvement of the breed of hones."
In the Sitting of the Tribunate of yellerday, the
proprietors of St. Domingo, Refugees at Nantz,
delivered in a petition, !hung their with to return
to their property, and their want of rerburces for
fuch a voyage, and praying that a gratuitous par-
rage might be afforded them in the vet Tels at the
dirporal of Government ; and alto the means of
fobfittence until their departure. This petition
was tent, together with feveral others, to Govern-
ment.

The General Council of the Department of the
Upper Loire, at the fame lining at which it was
unanimnufly voted, that Bcvermtre Ihould be
Conful for life, pall J a vote of thanks to the fe-
cond and third Conti'ls.

By a decree of the CHIEF Cowsut., General
Dteasm is appointed Captain-General of the
French eflabliihments in the Eaft Indies, and• G-
eneral .)em ova.; ET, Captain-General of the bland
of TohJgo.
The Government have decreed twenty-nine ar-
ticles concerning Places of Exchange, in which
every thing Teta' ive to Iliac efiablifitments is fully
regnlited. The fir( artit.le declares, that the Ex-
changes 111111 be open to every Citizen, and evtn
to foreignet s.
Citizen Let. thus has received a letter from one
of the alert, itic men who accompanied Capt. Btu.
01119 it is dated Timor, Venslemiaire 12, (on. 4,)
•' We left the tile of France (flys the writer) on
the ascii of April, and on the 39th of May came
in figlii of the cnaft of New Holland, towards
Cape Lewen, which lies to the S. W. We (leered
along it for the (pace of four hundred leagues,
touching from time to time at the moll important
points. The want of water and frellt provif
obliged us to bear away for Timor. In about
eighteen months ham we shall be 4t tile Ilk or
Franca!

ytnee
A letter from Frankfort, of the itith ttf june,l
contains the afflieling news of the death of the '
Archduke CHARLES, at Prefbourg. The &knell
of that Prince was previoufly announced by a letter
from Vienna of the gth, Rating the departure of
the Phyfician, the Baron de Ilt2 ARSE, to attend his
Royal Highnefs.
Baron Hatsoosr has ereCted, at a beautiful fpot
called L'lRe, about half a league from Augfbourg,
a monument to Prince CHARLES, the Hero of Ger-
many.

JUNE 25.
Dr. Mont, who is now employed here in the
compilation of a Chinefe Dictionary, has received
as a prefent from the EMPEROR of Russia, an ele-
gant diamond ring of the moll exquifite work-
manfliip.
Of 40,000 voters in the Haute Loire, 38,000
have voted for BONAPARTE being Conful for life :
there were oily four votes againit the meafure.
In St. Gaudens and Ruffec, there were 16,000 l
votes in the affirmative, and only two in the nega-
tive. In the department of Roer, of 86.099 voters,
85,060 voted in the affirmative : the negative votes
were 249.
In feveral of the Italian Journals appeared a
letter from Cagliari, dated the t4th of May, which
was copied into the French and German Papers,
announcing a prohibition by the KING of Su..
UINIA againfl the reception into that ifland of any
verfel arriving under French colours. This intel-
ligence is formally contradided in the Frankfort
Journal of the IA of June; and it is farther
dated, that French vac's arc received in the Sar-
dinian ports with all poilible refpea.