Star.
London, England, 1814-07-16 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1814.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A'l' TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduced 68P, —Cons. 68—for acc. 6914
4 per Ct. 84-U-5 per Ct. Navy 9i }—Oran. e. pre.
Bank Long Aniu. 16 9-16thsi—IndiA Bonds, 13s. 14s. pre.

We have great pleasure in stating that, notwith-
standing insinuations to the contrary, the interchange
of paternal and filial affection between the PRINCE
REGENT and the PRINCESS CII A RLOTTE conti;:ues undi-
m;nished by any of the late occurrences. Her Royal
Highness is still at Carlton House ; nor has access
been refused to those whom she has expressed a wish
to see : and we understand that an order has been
issued by the PRINCE REGENT, for all letters and com-
munications, either from or to the PurNcEss, to pass
without interruption. Ali Ii books and correspon-
dence have beca placed in her nem apartments, pre-
cisely in the gat,: in which they were in 'Warwick-
House.

Next week her Royallllness will set our for
Cranhourn in Wind ;:,r Fs)rec•t, where she will
remain for a few days ;—al;.•r which, should sea.
bath:ng be recommended by her Physicians, the PRIN..
cEss will proceed CO Worthing or Brighton.

We have received Paris Papers of the 13th instant.
On the I(2th, Abhe MoxTF.sot•tou, Minister of the In-
terior, in the name of the King, delivered in the
Cham'-.er cf Deputies, a kind of E.viori- of the state
of the kingdom. It affords a most melancholy picture
of the miseries ii.flicted upon France by BONAPARTI.
The Minister commences by blaming the war as the
cause of all these miseries. At the end of the cam-
paign, in Russla, i. e. fin the 11th of January, 1813,
f;i0,1)(10 fresh conscripts were called out, by one de-
cree: in the course o! that year the armed force in
France was, mminelly, augmented by lioxAzimurs-.'s
decrees, to one million three hundred thousand men !
the whole of these, it is true, were never raised, but
the expenses incurred by the Govntiment, in forming
depots, and the ruin brought upon the inhabitants by
the consequent requisitions, were n:vertheless great
beyond precedent.
The immense waste of population created by the
war was made up, in some measure, by the success
of vaccination, and even by the conscription laws
themselves : early, but immoral and improper mar-
riages, to avoid the conscription laws. A sickly po-
pulation, however, was the result—men above the
age of twenty were scarcely to be seen.
Under t he head of Agriculture, the prospect k
more tlatte:ing. The cultivation of lands and the
breeding of cattle have of late years been better un-
derstood. The proprietors of vineyards have suffered
dreadfully, however, under the Continental System.
The attempts to breed Merinos have totally failed,
in eiinsequence of the imprudent measures adopted
by BONAPARTE. The breed of horses, until the fatal
years 181'2 and 181:1, was also excellent, and afforded
a numerous cavalry. The loss of a few months, in
these years, amounted to two hundred and thirty
thousand horses. The stock was, of course, exhaus-
ted. Every horse cost the Government at the rate
of four hundred, or four hundred and sixty franks—
about £2O sterling.
The working of the mines of France, manufac-
tures, mechanics, and chemistry, have greatly im-
proved—the cotton manufactures employ 4.00,000
workmen, and a capital of 100 millions of francs.—
The war with Spain has injured the manufacture of
silk and woollen stuffs. The silk procured from Italy
was not equal to the demand.
Under the head of Commerce, the licence system
is accused of having ruined the trade of France.
" Such (says the Ex poi;) is the present situation
of the ogricultural, commercial, and manufacturing
interests of the nation : that activity which required

,nly liberty and encouragement, has been incessantly
-.tiered and retarded by the influence of a Govern-
nent, which, by wishing to domineer over or to
reate every thing, destroyed in the very root the
ood which it pretended to protect.
" If we sow turn to the department of the Mini-
-er of the Interior, the situation will appear still
nore deplorable."
Thelwantsof this Department for current expenses,
in consequence of the war, amounted of lite 'Tars to
140 or 150 millions—of this sum about fifty millions
only were supplied by regular taxes, the rest was
provided for by special requisitions, which tbr Mi-
nister of the Interior was compelled to resort to of
his own accord. The public works were of course
neglected, and the money applied to the ruinous pro-
jects of BONAPARTE.
Under the head of Hospitals it is stated, that for
the last three years they have been totally without
any support from Government : the Minister of War
is indebted to the Hospitals of Paris alone in the sum
of one million and a half of francs fur sick and
wounded soldiers. The hospitals are also without
medicines, furniture, or bedding.
Under the bead Public Works, it is stated, that
with the exception of these at Paris, they have been
all neglected.
In the department of the Mi:,ister of War all is
chaos and confusion : the armed force on foot in
France at the end of May, amounted to 5'20,000
men. To these may be :.dded nearly 100,000 priso-
ners of war, who have since returned, and about

120,000 who are on half-pay.
The campaign of 1812 and 1313 consumed a capital
of 250 millions of francs (re 10,425,000 stet-nag) for
artillery and field equipments alone !
The Report next alludes to the Navy : the project
for the invasion of England was the ruin of the French
Navy! One hundred and fifty millions of money were
sacrificed to this chimera :—all the naval timber in
the dock-yards was used for useless flat-bottomed ves-
sels, and the best seamen-were taken from the ships
of the line to manoeuvre them in the presence of the
old women and children of France. Even Paris ex-
hibited the spectacle of flat-bottomed boats on the
stocks for the invasion of England ! But all this was
nothing to the dreadful expenses attending the naval
preparations in the Scheldt,all of which proved equally
futile and useless. The naval operations at Cber-
bourgh and Toulon were alone of any andvantage to
France, and even these had been disregarded and fet-
tered by the pursuit of extraneous objects : every
where else, nothing but ruin presents itself in the
French marine.

In fifteen years France has lost forty-three ships of
the line, 82 frigates, 76 corrcttes, and 62 smaller
vessels. No timber fit fOr naval purposes now exists
in France, or of experienced seamen to navigate the
ships of war which remained. The former was used
fur the Boulogne flotilla, the latter were drafted as
soldiers into Spain and Germany, where they perished.
The loss of the Colonies and the interruption of the
Fisheries, render an immediate supply next to im-
possible.
Under the Head of Ministry of Finance, where, as
the Reporters observe, all ought to be regularity, we
meet literally with " Confusion worse confounded."
The public debt amounts to 1,643,469,000 francs, or
£655,612,083 sterling.
The E.vitari concludes with a most melancholy
picture of the state of religion and morality in
Fr rice. Religion was restored by BoxaP.sim it is
true, but it was only to make it subservient to his
ern vile system of despotism. The path to prefer.
ment with him lay not through the Temple of Ho-
nour or of Virtue, but through the sanguinary and
disLonourable ho:-bids of Vice and Corruption--
No per on was sure of enjoying hits place for an
hour under such a despot : he therek,re made has:e
to get rich, and so upled not to ti.; his motets by
raFine and mut der ; these were crimes for which he
knew Box APART I; would n.:ver punish any man ! On
the contrary, titles, dignities, and riches awaited him
who was most pre-eminent in villainy and crime!
We regret that our limits %sill not permit us to give
this interesting document at length to-day.

An officer has reached town from Astoria-. who
gives us a most mel...neholy picture of condithin of
affairs in Spain. All the ancient expedients of lcvenue
which have been so oppressive to the country, are re-
vived by the new Government.
LIVERPOOL, Jet.v 14.—Arrived the Paris, Hanittsots, frogs*
Marantichi, from whence she sailed on the Bth of June; a single
ship. On the 20th of June 1:11 In with a flee:, under convoy of
a frigate and a sloop of war, in lat. 47. 37. long. 54 13. steering
tip the Gulph of St. I.:mtance. On the 210 of J one spoke his
LThjesty'a ship Rue Al. OAK, in lat. 4G. 44. long. 53.::0. bound
to t NN:th 1000 trooo on beard.
.1-be Robert Huntelt, Altiu iy, frost A'.tigua ; the N'ittoria,
Pentherton, from ditto; the Furothall. Cooper, fur Barhado,:s;
and the Contract, Spencer, for ditto, were captured off Ber-
muda about the t oth May, by the 1-1.-ru American privateer.
the Contract was ',Linden d and given up to the crew, and ar-
rived at Bermuda, the rest were sent for Antertca. The Hero
sailed from L'Orient 13th Arril, and bail taken 16 or 18 vessels.
WEsTSIINSTER ELL( lutx.—This morning at ten
o'clock Covent Garden was crowded with the inha-
bitants of Westminster, to proceed to the election of
a Member to fill the seat rendered vacant by the
expulsion of Lord COCHRANE.
After the High Bailiff had read the SPEAKER'S
Warrant for Election, Sir FRANCIs BUItDETT came
forward, and amid great applause addressed the
Electors in a speech of considerable length, in which
he alluded to the hoax on the Stock Exchange as a
link in the system of hoaxing which, he said, had
been attempted, but without SUCCE4S, to be attached
to Lord COCHRANE. He said this was the aqe of
hoaxes—the public were amused with them eves y day.
The bax of a sea-fight, to be performed by men
of war, made of canvas, in one Park ; the hoax of a
land-battle, to be fought with squibs and crackers in
another park ; the hoax that the people were truly
represented in Parliament by Members known to
be returned by Borough-mongers; and the at-
tempt to hoax the people of Westminster out of the
Representative whom they had with so much I: neur
to themselves sent to Parliament, and who he could
not doubt, would be instantly re-elected to spew to
the nation that they remained as incorruptible as
ever, and were determined not to be hoaxed.
The nomination of Lord COCHRANE was seconded
by Mr. STURM h,
who paid his Lordship some and-
some compliments.
The nomination was received with universal accla-
mation, and his Lordship, after a few words from
Alderman WOOD, was declared duly elected.—The
, whole business occupied only about an hour.