Star.
London, England, 1809-12-29 00:00:00

WORKS OF PARIS.

" Paris becomes every day by its works, more wor-
thy of being the metropolis of one of those empires,
around which are grouped, in the history of times,
all that is contemporaneoui. In its vicinity the bridges
cif Bezons, Choisy, and Scires luve been begun; thit
of Chalenton has been re-established, that of St. Cloud
restored. •

4' The beautiful bridge of Jena has been conducted
to the raising of the arches ; that of St. Michael has
been freed from the houses that obstructed it—the
Quais Napoleon and the Louvre have been finished ;
that of Jena has been carried beyond the esplanade of
the Invalids ; the part of the Rape has been executed
on a great and a beautiful plan.
4, Plentiful granaries have been founded.
K Every disposition for the construction of an im-
mense abattier has been made near the barrier of Ro-
cheehouard, the ground is levelled and the founda-
' tion prepared.
A provisory establishment for an exchange, till
the time when the magnificent edifice intended for the
puCcose, and which is already begun, shall be finish-
ed.—The Temple of Glory occupies a great number
of workmen ; it will be worthy of its noble destina-
tion. Four massy pillars, faced With a stone equal
in hardness and grain to the finest marble, intended
to support the triumphal arch of l'Etoile, are nearly
completed.
~ The column of Austerlitz is adorned, for half
its height, with bronzes, which will eternize the great
achievements of our warriors.

•' The arch of the Carousals, which is finished,
unites taste and magnificence.
'6 The façade of the building in which you meet
is finished. The Louvre displays new beauties in the
rapid progress of its restoration ; the Gallery which
will complete its junction with the Thuilleries,
astonishes, by its progress, the inhabitants even of
this city.

46 Already the capital enjoys a part of the waters
which will be brought to it by the canal of Oureg,
while the basin of La Villette, and the fountain of
Innocents, present to it works as_beautiful as they are
useful.

" In this long communication, I am only able to
point out the least parts of the works completed or
continued in the course of this year, but each of you
is witness to their developement, since there is not
a part of France to which they do not extend.—
Among these grand cons:ructlons there are some
more particularly consecrated to public order and be-
nevolence.

ESTABLISHMENTS OF BENEVOLENCE.
" The Emperor has ordered the establishment of
42 depots of mendicity, and secured to them the ne-
cessary funds for their maintenance; thus will be healed
the most hideous wounds of political states ; thus the
public manners and industry will profit by a regula-
tion which will snatch from misery and depravity a
number of beings who seemed condemned to them
without resource.

• Several of these establishments have already
been completed.
• His Majesty has bestowed immense benefits on
those of his subjects who have suffered great calami•
ties. The banks of the Rhine had been ravaged by
inundations ; the inhabitants have received nearly a
million, either for indemnities, or •to be employed in
reparations and useful labours.

The countries which have suffered by storms or
fire have received succours. His paternal care has
furnished a great number of cities with supplies of
bark, which they have punctually received.
,4 Depots for vaccination have been established.
They secure to families the certain means of never
wanting an invaluable preservation, which, useful and
true friends of humanity have made known to all the-
classes of our numerous population.
se Among those of the wants of the French, which
had fixed the attention of the Sovereign, the cultiva-
tion of the moral qualities, that of the mind, that of
the arts of imagination, have continued to hold one
of the first ranks: