Star.
London, England, 1815-08-05 00:00:00

AIX-LA CHAPELLE, JULY 28.

The Official Gazette of this city contains the fol-
lowing Letter to the Prefect of the Department of
the Seine :

" PARIS, JULT C, F 9:.:.

" SIR—Yr.. agreeable Letter of the 9th, whici,
have had the honour to receive this morning, has
been sent in the original as you desire to his High-
ness Prince Blucher, of Wahlstadt.
" After the reiterated orders which I have received
for the raising of the contribution imposed by this
Prince on the city of Paris, it is not long in my
power to avoid those coercive measures which are
iei.deica necessary by tne tergiversations employed
to elude my propositions. At the rvcript of this
letter, you and several of the inhabitants of Paris,
ate placed as hostages under a military guard. and
if we do not receive this very day a part of the con-
tribution in question, you, as well as the ether hos-
tages, will be conveyed to the fortress of Graudinz,
in Weq Prussi:t.

4$ This measure has been dictated to me by the
Commarn;er in ChieC You and your fellow-citizens
cannot tax it with injustice, when I remind you of the
overtures which I have several times made you re-
specting the demands of Prince Blucher.
'• You know that in 1806, 1807, and 1808, Prus-
sia, under the administration of Mr. Daru, not only
lost its prosperity, but was ruined by the enormous
mass of requisitions and extortions to which it was
subjected : you know what was done in 1809, 1810,1
and 1811,, to exhaust the kingdom ; nor can I dis•
semble that in 1812, though then in alliance with
France, several of our Provinces suffered treatment of
which the most cruel enemy would hardly have been
guilty. It was in 1813 that we shook off the yoke of
tyranny : the victorious arms of the Allies delivered
France from a dynasty under which that fine country
had groaned for so many years.

64 The tncoaeeivable efforts which Prussia made
to support the great contest, after six years of oppres-
sion, signalised by all kinds of extortion and arbitrary
treatment, put it out of our power to make a suitable
provision for the equipment, the pay, and other wants
of the armies again called forth to combat Bonaparte
land his adherents. France, now delivered, cannot
refuse its gratitude to the conquerors of the common
enemy, when one reflects on the persevering courage
and patience, in the midst of rumberless privations,
which th, y have shewn during the most extraordinary
lefforts ; but this gratitude must not consist, as in
1814, in empty words, but in deeds. Yon pretend
that the contribution of 100 millions of francs exceeds
the ability of your• city.—Ask Count Dam, what
Berlin (a city of the quarter of the size of your's) was
obliged to furnish ? and you will be convinced it
greatly exceeds the demands of Prince Blucher from
I the capital of France.
66 it we treated your prisoners as you did our's
from 1806 to 1814 the contribution to be imposed
'according to that standard slight ex(yed your ability.
But far from using reprisals, we have hitheito de.
mantled only the teinibursement of the expenses of
the war ; for the budgets of our financesyive no head
for the exurbirtfit infpus;do:is levied in foreign coun
tries, such as were found in die budgets of France,
previous to the year 1814. Last year the conquest
of Paris ended. the war. In this canirtign the
conquest has been the object of our la4„•urs ; to at I
tain it we have been forced to make pron.ises to d e,

troops,—not such prom7.es as the French leafier m tile
to his army before the debiats on tit- R 4 71) I cA. near
Caine and Dennewitz, which hindered foin • um p.:r-
forming them, but soch as ge.ieronsciniqu Tips
to modest soldiers, whose well ire they value, and
whose coura7e they know how to appreciate.
el It is by the contiibution that thew p.omises frost
he fulfilled; and I ca:inot conceive, Sir, how it 'has
happened, that in these three days that we Ivive been
negociating on this subject, you have not gin toge
ther a sum on account sufficient to s'lew your good
will to the Prince, who must not he deceived in his
hope of fulfilling his promise to his iolliers, who are
used to depend on his word. You, and thins.. who
have neglected or rather prevented the pap!) •nt of a
stun in part, are the persons to whom Paris must
ins:Jute the disagreeable coLsetittenci s of this neglect.
I am sorry, Sir, that having a particular es•eem for
you, lam obliged to nvilc.: this decl oration I mutt
add, that the ineasines taken on this occasion .!re nn
violation of the Convelizi,”l of Pariq, %if:re they IA
only on those who sliew disoliedience or coolness in
the execution of our orders. Accept the assom ce, Src.
(Sitfnud) HBP.NTIt•-to "

This 7 •-er was written in Cermln, wi•ich the Pre-
fect n understinding, tegted t ~earcr ti•
late it for him, which hr rea,ll% ..id. The i r I,•ct
sniferel !lumen to he mrected, cterp,d his j.,sur-
nit to Glau;clitz by .4 p.tynt, lit.

A Mail fr,m 1-Tol.:a.itl also arrit.t.rf ?Tr.-71;1f..
The Dallis!, c,,ntime,,t, 15,000: tut.r.g, is fov, y•., •
horn Antwtri) tot:•atd, the French ftontit:i. H , •••dt
for Paris ! is the cry. We lit pe they ru..ln de-
mand the value of their fi-er, from the can ,rs.
viz. the abettors rf Wu:Ay:sitTe. Sixteen I!..•t.dions
of English troops have passed through Bross,ls for
P.tris within these few days, and eight wore (front
Canada) were hourly expected.