Star.
London, England, 1801-05-22 00:00:00

GERMAN?:

VIENNA, MAY a.
The day before yefterday a refcript was iffued
to all the Chiefs of Chanceries, Departments, and
Tribunals, which gave great pleafure to the inha-
bitants. It orders all public funCtionaries, with-
out exception. to Rate, in writing, whether they
belong to any Secret Society, or Order, or not ;
in the latter cafe, they are to make oath, and the
refcript declares, that, if ever the Government
lhould learn that a public funftionary, who pro-
feffes not to belong to any ferret Society, is never-
thelefs a member of any of them, a perfon thus
perjured !hall be broke with infamy, and tried as
a criminal. Marty public functionaries have al-
ready fent in their declarations.—A courier from
the office of the commanding General in Italy has
brought intelligence that a body of French troops
of about tOOO men has again taken poffeffios of
feveral places on the right banks of the Adige, be.
longing to the Bilhopnc of Trent, in favour of
the Citalpine Republic, declaring, that this mea-
Cure was agreeable to the fenfe of the treaty of
Luneville, wherein it was ftipulated, that the
Adige, where it quits the Tyrolefe, fhould form
the limits of the Auftrian poffeflions in Italy. It
is to be hoped that this unpleafaat event will have
no difagreeable confequences.
Mar 6.—During the whole of the 3d and 4th intl.
the Archduke CH A Imes had remained in a very cri-
tical situation, but laft night he became more tran-
quil, and his fever abated. There happy fymptoms
Rill continue this day, but the Prince's nerves, Co
much weakened by frequent relapfes, do not promife
him a Jailing Rate of health, as long as he !hall be
unable to lead a life of more tranquillity, on which
account it has been propofed to give him the af-
Rftance of Field-Martini the Palace of Conran,
in his official duties. The prefent relapfe is owing
to a vifit he paid to the military hofpital, where he
tatted the provifions intended for the tick, which
he found of fo bad a quality, as to throw him into
a violent paflion. Soon after he had the mortifi-
cation to fee a regiment marching through the
city, which, agreeably to his orders, fhould have
been new cloathed, inflead of which the men were
almoft in rags.
• When the French troops entered the Neapolitan
territory, the French General demanded, that
fupplies for the army fhould not be made in mo
as had at firft been Ripulated, but in kind.
entering the Neapolitan dominions, feveral Fre
officers were ill.treated, which was alto the cafe
the bifhopric of Trent, part of which the Fren
have again taken poffeffion of: on this occalio
Come ofifturbances took place, in which the Impe-
rial fubjelts and Come French troops came to blows,
hut it is hoped that they will not have any die-
agreeable confequences. InftruCtions have already
been fent to Count Cpsauzzst., at Paris, on ac-
count of the latter occupation.
This day's Court Gazette contain, a copy of
the note, by which hiS Imperial Majefty orders
the Chiefs of all the Public Departments to de-
mand a declaration from all Public Funaionaries,
whether they belong to any Secret Society. The
following is the Note:

0 Vienna, April 23, dm
a External Peace being now rettored, it is our
moll ardent with, as much as in th lies, to pro-
cure to our fiithfitl fubjeffs Internal tranquillity
and fecurity,and to remove every thing that might
give them even the kali apprehentiOns on that
account. Expericnce having taught us, that Se-
cret Soctt.....c; and Fraternitic.: have been one of

the principal rooms by which the moil dear '
tive principles are fpread, true Religion under-
mined; Morality, if not entirely corrupted, at
leall greatly changed ; Party Spirit violently ex-
cited by all poffible artifices; and Domcftic Tran-
quility and Happinefsconfequentlydeftroyed—The
orders we iffued Tome time ago, not to coffer in our
States fuch Secret Societies or Fraternities, under
whatever denomination or pretence, are to remain
io force ; the more fo, as even fuch as are eftablifh-
ed with a good intention frequently degenerate, fo
that they are as unbecoming as they are dangerous
to any State. In order, therefore, to promote mu-
tual confidence between the Sovereign and his Sub-
jects (whore reciprocal welfare and good are fo
clofely connected), as well as to prevent internal
tranquillity from being difturbed by our Public
Functionaries, and that we may place the necef-
fary confidence in them, it is requifite that we
fhould know them to be free from all fuch Secret
Connections, which either tend to prevent a fer-
vant, though otherwife a man of integrity, from
aridly executing his official duties, or, at leaf', to
place him under Tome embarraffment—We, there-
fore, order you, to demand from all Public Func-
tionaries, under your direetion, of whatever rank
or clafs they may be, without any reference to the
pail, a declaration upon oath, that they are not
at prefent connected with. any Secret Affociation
or Fraternity, either at home or abroad ; or, in
cafe they fhould be, that they will immediate-
ly relitiquifh them, and never again enter into
any fuch Secret Conflation, on• any pretence
whatever. In appointing new Functionaries, the
above claufe is to be made a part of their oath.
You are therefore ilriely to execute this order,
deliver to us the whole of the declarations upon
oath collated by you, accompany them with
your report, as well as to deliver to us a fimilar
declaration upon oath for your own perfon.—
The demanding this declaration upon oath is to
be repeated annually, and every one of our Public
Officers, who full hefitate to comply with this
regulation, !hall be at liberty to apply to us for
leave to renounce our fervice, on Rating his mo-
tives for fo doing."
The departure of the Archduke Fun:memo and
his Confort, for Freiburg, is fixed for the 12th
infiant. The Duke of MODENA, his father-in-law,
has confirmed all the Imperial Public Officers in
their charges, in the Brifgaw, which has been
ceded to him. The adminifiration of the country ,
will remain as before, without undergoing any
change.