Star.
London, England, 1814-11-03 00:00:00

PORTSMOOM, NOVEMBER 2.

Arrived his Majesty's ship ACBAR from Plymouth.
Nothirg sailed today. Put back to St. Helen's roads
his Majesty's ship BOMBAY, bound to the Downs.

DEAL, NOVEMBER 2.

Arrived and sailed for Sheerness his Majesty's ship
SaattAeOt7TA• Sailed the MERCURIUS sloop of war,
for Calais. Remain in the Downs his Majesty's ships
REDPOLE, OLYMPIA, RATTLESNAKE, SWAN, and
SCOURGE.—Wind N. E.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
Captalh Mould, to the Mutine, vice De Courcy.
(Lieutenants Andow to the Chatham, Davies to the Amaranthe,
i.abe to the Moine, Stuart to the Leonidas, H. E. Temple to
the Sapphire, J. Wall& to the Leviathan, and Edw. S. Cotgrave
to the Jaunt.

Robert Gamble, Esq. late purser of his Majesty's ship Victory
is appointed Agent Victualler at Halifax.
Mr. Wilknott, Clerk of the Rope-yard, at Woolwich, is ap.
pointed Clerk of Survey, at Sheerness; and Mr. Peake, the
brother of Sir Henry, the Surveyor of the Navy, is appointed to
the Rope-yard, at Woolwich, in'the stead of Mr. Wilmott.

When BONAPARTE visited Holland, he addressed
Admiral K. who said he did not speak French. The
Emperor became irritated and exclaimed; I suppose
you can speak English, to which Admiral K. an-
swered in the negative. BONAPARTE, .being a little,
pacified, asked him why he had not learned French ?
to which the Admiral replied that the French language
was not taught at sea !
'MADISON cries out against American traitors fight-
ing in the British ranks : and yet one of his grounds
of war was the pretended right which British-born
subjects have to throw off their allegiance and fight
in the American ships, as Americans, in virtue of his
Mama", which he calls a, naturalizationP'—g, The ge-
neral pacilkation of Europe," it is true, makes it now
convenient that he should not insist on this principle;
but it is equally true, that of the 11 MOUSOM11" [for
`Elsetsiansle read tsar l Of seafaring citizens" impressed
into our service, service almost the whole were British-born;
Wand tbat the right of search was indeed indispensable.
by the open avowal that the United States would
protect them as naturalized subjects.
_The following is the Narrative of the Captain of the
Golden Grove, which was supposed to be lost, but
.fortunately got into Newhaven, after having been for
•some days beating about on the coast of France. on
Thursday last. She was bound from Archangel to
Cork Sailed tram Archangel on the 11th of Sep-
tember, in company with 14 sail of other vessels, on
the night of the 13th suffered much under a heavy
E Cress.
the North East, between Knock John and
Island ; the night being very dark, hove-to
until day-light, when the ship began to make water.
During the gale many heavy seas struck the vessel,
and made a breach over her ; in the night missed the
leer; bore up at day-light for Archangel Roads, but
the wind having driven me from the South West,
found it Wrinkle to fetch the Roads ; then fell in
with five sail; bore away, and proceeded on my
voyage ; got through the passage, with a good
offing to the north east of Cape Sweet Nose, when a
mend heavy gale from the north east obliged me
again •to heave to, and the water increased ; in round-
ing the North. Cape, had to encounter another severe
gale, sod, owing to its freezing and snowing inces-
santly, could not use some days of the first of this
gale.. Supposing myself to be a little to the south
east of the Cape, and no wn to be seen, the vessel
suffered accumulated distress, and gained water upon
us very fast ; these three gales were all foul winds,
and alone sufficient to have ruined any ship whatever.
After rounding the North Cape by dead reckoning,
lanother heavy gale from the north-east sprang up, the
water still increasing, but the pumps and gear being
in good order, I wax not without hopes of reducing it,
and having a fair wind, I continued under foresail and
close-reefed main top-sail, until I got to the lit. of 70
deg. 46 min. North, and long, of 14 deg. 19 min. East,
when the vessel sprung a fresh leak, and made three
feet is a quarter of an hour ; sat both pumps going,
but she gained five inches in three hours on both
pumps ; wore ship, and hove to. and, in three hours,
got the water out, after which one pump was sufficient
to keep her tree ; all bands took a spell, and at seven
in the morning wore and run to the westward, but in
Tess than an hour the ship again gained three feet wa-
ter, which compelled me to wear and heave to again ;
the leak was supposed high up on the larboard side,
the deck was cleared of every article except anchors,
cables, boats:and teak's copper. Continued for seve-
ral days in this dreadful state; made for the land,
the crew exhatnttd, and no provisions; at last got on
the coast of Lapland, and anchored in foul ground
of 90 fathoms water; went on shore, got rye bread,
being the best provisions to be had; the crew °bilk
ed to eat raw meat, having no time to cook any ;
continued to encounter gales and every hardship,
until at last obliged to leave the ship to the charge
of strange boys, all hands on board being totally ex-
hausted- Myself and crew have now been IS days
on breed and water, and have been obliged to throw
er part of the cargo to save the ship."

JOURItt.II. #' riot ittensiOlsr bPit44ivc4
IN A SERIES OF LE I'TERS;
IIRMARKS MORAL, IIIsTORICAL, TOPOGRA,
PHICAL, ETC.
• (Colttinued from the STAR of October I I.)

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LETTER V. pARis, , 1814.
I resume my description of the public Owes.
The LOUVRE.—To give you a faint picture of the
contents of this superb structure, would occupy a

small ♦olume. It is not well known when the first

Louvre was founded ; but it must have been at a
very remote period. It is built close to, and nearly
parallel with the Seine; and the front of the edifice
is said to be 525 feet in length. Part of the Louvre

was built by Francis I. in the year 1528 ; part by
Henry 111, and Louis XIV. desirous of making it

the finest palace in the world, employed the most

celebrated architects of his age on this work. It was

under this monarch that the beautiful front was exe-

cuted, scarcely to be matched in modern times.
The great Picture Gallery, which connects the
Louvre with the Thuilleries, was begun by Charles
IX. and was completed, as I said before, by Henry

IV. in the year 1600. This truly superb room,
which is no doubt the largest, and contains the most
numerous and finest collection of paintings in the
world, is 1362 feet long, 33 broad, and of conside-
rable elevation inside. It was intended to have dis-

ributed the pictures upon the walls of the gallery

according to the chronological order of the age in
which their respective masters flourished ; but this
was rendered impracticable, from the disproportion

of the size of the pictures.
The first place in the Louvre usually visited by
strangers, is the Galerie des Antique:, on the ground

floor, containing a fine collection of ancient statues,
busts, bas-reliefs, &c.; which, as well as the pictures,

for the most part have been, plundered and carried
off from Italy ; or, as the French say, they are the
fruit and glorious trophies of their Italian conquests.
Citizens Barthelemy, Bertholet, Mae, and others, had
been appointed by the Republican Government, for
the purpose of selecting many of these curious and
valuable reliques of antiquity, from the Capitol and
Vatican at Rome : and the, extensive assemblage of
ancient curiosities and paintings to be seen at the
Louvre, will skew how far the French have profited
by, and availed themselves of the spoils of that de-
voted country. It will also demonstrate how far
these people have redeemed the solemn and religious
pledge that they made to the world, at the corn.
mencement of the French Revolution, viz. that the
liberty and property of all nations should be secured
to them, as far as the republican arms could gua-
rantee them by their victories ; declaring that they
had abandoned all idea of conquest, and that they
sought only the glorious triumphs of reason and of
philosophy.. The recollection that by far the greatest
part of these beautiful specimens of rare sculpture)
and paintings have been forcibly wrested from there
rightful owners, and do not preperly belong to France,
is certainly a great alloy to the pleasure felt by the
spectator, who expects a more divine gratification in
viewing them.
The Galerie des Antiques has six apartments, besides
the entrance hall. All the cielings are ornamented
with handsome bas-reliefs and paintings, done from
allegorical and historical subjects ; and from the va•
riety of matters thus represented by the artists, the
different apartments seem to have been named for
the sake of distinction.
To give you some idea of the contents of these.
apartments, I shall mention those of the Vesigule,
from which you will be able to judge of the similar
nature of the contents of the other rooms: it contains,
then, busts and statues of Diana, Marcus Aurelius,
Adrian, Bacchus' (colossal), Minerva (colossal), Se-
Antinous, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Peru:, Demi-
Atculalsitu : all which appear to me to bear real
and undoubted marks of antiquity.
It would far exceed the limits of a letter to describe
er enumerate the many curious memorials and speci-
mons of the Grecian and Roman ages which are to
be seen here ; I shall only mention one, out of many,
which is very unique and remarkable, called the
Athenian Inscription:, better known by the name of the
Nointel Marbles. These are two stones which were
brought from Athens to Paris about the year 1690,
by M. Nointel, French Ambassador at Constanti-
nople. They are tables of marble, containing the
names of several hundred Athenian officers and sol-
diers, who fell in Egypt, Phoenicia, Cyprus, Egina,
and Megara, during the third year of the 80th Olym-
piad ; that is to say, about 457 years before Christ.
The names of these heroes are -engraved in three co-
lumns, and in the order of their respective ranks and
tribes. It is snitch to be lamented that these scare
and precious memorials of Grecian archzology are
not perfect; great part of the stones being now broken
off, and thereby many of the names of the warriors
for ever lost. The remaining inscriptions are mostly
very legible.
The entrances to the different apartments of this
lower gallery are ornamented with superb columns
of oriental marble.
The Picture Gallery, which is the largest in the
world, is divided into nine parts. One part contains
the productions of the French artists; the four next
divisions are occupied with the pictures of the Ger-
man, Flemish, and Dutch schools ; the remaining
four are made up of the paintings of the different
Italian masters. The greater part of the pictures,
I think, are on religious and allegotical subjects. A

catalogue of them may he bdtight at the door, which
gives a list of 1233 paintings, and a short history of
the pieces.
Artists have permission. to• come and copy from
the picteres, but not :o tike them down from the 1
walls. I saw several painters, both male and female,
busy in copying from the originals. I saw also an
Englishman hard at work upon a landscape.
Persons coming to visit the curiosities at the Louvre I
have to deposit their umbrellas and canes at the door
with a person who tickets and takes care of them ;
for this service you pay three sous at coming away.
FRENCH CARRIAGES.—I think it may be said, in
general, that their wheeled carriages are clumsier
than ours. I saw very few four-wheeled waggons in
lany part of the country. For transporting goods,
they use a sort of very large long cart, balanced on
gigantic wheels, which carries a very great load, and,
as far as I could judge, without much expense of
power to the horses. The box which receives the
axle is very long, and projects beyond the body of the
wheel ; so that the vehicle is very apt to get foul of
other carriages, especially in narrow streets. If we
add to this the awkwardness of French driver!, and
the natural tendency of adverse carriages to slide
down a slippery and sloping pavement, and ap-
proximate each other in the centre and lowest part
of the street, we shall not be surprised at the nume-
rous instances of vehicles coming into rude contact
in almost every street of the French metropolis. The
French have a contrivance for loading and unloading
their carts, which I do not recollect seeing in Eng-
land, and which is, I think, worthy of imitation. On
the fore-part of the cart, which is a machine nearly
as narrow as a brewer's dray, and so low as almost
to touch the ground behind, is fastened and belong-
ing to the cart a winch, turned by four spokes. Two
men, with the help of a rope, passed round the
winch, can thus draw up into the cart a cask or other
body, which their united strength, unaided by this
power, would be unable to accomplish..
One of the last acts of Bonaparte wasto lay an ad-
ditional tax on carriages. Rope harnessis very com-
monly used for carriages throughout France, except
in some of the large cities, where leather is made use
of for private vehicles.

BONAPARTE'S BRAZEN COLUatsr•—One of the most
modern curiosities at Paris is the bronze Column
erected by the late Emperor in the Place Vendome ;
one of the finest squares in the whole place, being 150
yards of a side. The Column stands upon the spot
where formerly stood an Equestrian Statue of Louis
XIV. and is 133 feet high. It was surmounted by a
colossal Statue of Bonaparte, which was removed
within a very few hours after his abdication of the
throne. It is built after the model of the virtuous
Trojan's monumental Pillar at Rome, with a beauti-
ful coating of brass, half an inch thick all the way,
and ornamented with suites of bas reliefs and tro-
phies of military exploits performed by the Emperor
in person, which run in a spiral form, belt-like, four,
feet brood, from the pedestaf to the capital, where'
there is a fine balcony, also of brass, from which you,
have an extensive view of the city over the neigh-
bouring houses. The brass used in the construction
of this truly noble column, as we learn from an in-
scription on the front, was taken from the Austrians
in the campaign of 180.5, which was terminated by
the battle of Austerlitz, so glorious to the French
cause, and so disastrous to ours. You ascend to the
top by a narrow spiral stair of 168 steps; and as',
there is no light admitted by any aperture through',
the long and'winding labyrinth, you are furnished
with a lamp to direct your giddy steps in the ascent
of the staircase, which is so narrow that only one per-
son can pass at a time. For seeing this public curio-
sity, we had to pay one frank each person, which is
the first instance of money bring called for. The
Column can be entirely seen from the gardens of the
Thuilleries, which it fronts.
The following is the Inscription alluded to upon
the base of the Pillar, which is quite classic :
NA POLI• imp. Aug.
Monumentum Belli Germanic',
Anno M.DCCCV.
Trimestri wale; duetu suo
Ex Zre eapto.
Gloria exereltus maxim' dicavit.

Instead of the colossal Statue of the redoubtable
Emperor, there is now hoisted a simple white ensign
of Royalty.--,6 Sic iratuit gloria "wadi I" I may add,
too, that on almost every steeple in France the Boor.
bon flag waves triumphant. Long may it wave, the
banner of peace

Lows XVIII. as a mark of attachment to those
brave Officers who have assisted so strenuously to-
wards the restoration of his Majesty and the House
of Bourbon, has procured two well-executed busts of
Marshal BLUCHER and of the Duke of WELLINGTON,
which are placed beside each other under a table, in
a sort of recess in one of the apartments of the Thuil-
leries. On the table stands a similar bust of his Ma-
jesty the Emperor ALIOCARDER.
The French Government, it is asserted, have made
up their minds to confine their military operations,
(should such be necessary) against St. Domingo, to
the getting possession of Cape Nichola Mole, with
one or two other strong places cu the coast. Strength-
ening these to the utmost, they will be in a condition
either to propose a treaty of commerce to the Black
inhabitants, or to wait patiently until time and cir-
cumstances shall enable them to restore the political
relations which before subsisted between the Island
and the parent State.
It is not true that Mr. HAMILTON, the Under• S-
ecretary of State, went to Paris for any purpose con-
nected with the British Embassy there, or for any
other political object- The whole weight of business
appertaining to the Foreign Department being now,
in a great measure, thrown upon our mission at
Vienna, that enlightened scholar has taken the oppor-
tunity of a few days' relaxation in the French capital,
well merited by his assiduous and exemplary atten-
tion to the duties of that laborious office, in which lir
has been distinguished for so many years.