Star.
London, England, 1814-12-29 00:00:00

,STATE PAPER.
Treaty of' Peace between his Majesty the King of
Denmark, and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia,
.concluded at Hanover on the Bth of February, and
!atified at Vienna, on the 16th of Novemb.r,lBl4:
Art. I- There shall he henceforward peace, friendship, and
good understanding between his Majesty the King of Denmark,
and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia. Both the high Con
tracting Powers will pay the greatest attention to the maintaining
of complete harmony between their respective states and subjects,
and will carefully avoid every thing that might interrupt the bar-
mon, so happily restored.
11. The political relations, as well as the old treaties, which
existed between the two Powers before the war, that for a mo-
ment broke off their operating. are again restored to full effect
by the present Treaty, in so far as they do not militate againlit
Treaties which have recently been concluded between the Empe-
ror of Russia and other Sovereigns of the North.
111. The relations of navigation and commerce are again re-
stored between the two States, the same as they existed before
the war. They shall he subject to the same regulations, and en-
joy the same advantages as before the breaking out of the war.
IV. 1 he sequestration laid on the property of both Sovereigns,
and of their respective subjects' as well as Abe embargo laid on
the shipping of both nations in the various ports of Russia and
Denmark, at the time when war was declared, shall be removed
as soon as the present Treaty is ratified.
V. The two llizh Contracting Parties formally bind them-
selves to conclude no separate peace with the common enemy.
(The 6th Article regulates the mode in which the Russian
troops in Holstein were to be supplied.)
• VII. 'I he two High Contracting Parties guarantee to each
other the possession of their present states, so as they shall be
found at the period of a general peace.
VIII. The ratifications of the present Treaty shell be exchanged
within six weeks at Copenhagen, or earlier, if possible.
In confirmation whereof, we, the Plenipotentiaries thereto au-
thorised with full powers, have signed this present Treaty, at
Hanover, this Bth February, 1614.
(Signed)

Le BOUILIEre
Le VOX SUCIIITLLLO•

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DECEMBER SS.

Lotteries have been considered as a necessary evil
in modern Governments ; but their number requires
repletion, for, as Colbert was wont to observe, " in
matters of finance, two and two don't always make
four." The alien with whom the wrath of HEAVEN
afflicted France, had no such extensive views : the
madman thought, that by multiplying the chances
of receipts he multiplied his gains; but his annual
budgets for the last fifteen years proved that his 180
annual drawings of the Lottery did not produce
more to the Treasury than the 94 annual drawings
which preceded them. It' would be easy to assign
the reasons ; but his multiplied drawings, without
being more useful to the States, caused infinite mis-
chief to society, by constantly supplying toad to cu-
pidity, by inflaming the imagination of the labouring
classes, who lost their time in calculating the daily
renewed lottery chances, and forgot that industry is
always the surest and mosthonourable resource. It was
doubtless with a view to destroy this pernicious abuse
that the King has just issued an ordinance, suppressing,
from the first of Januaty next, the two lottery-wheels
at Bourdeaux and Lyons, and announcing that the
wheels at Lille and Strasburgh will be suppressed as
speedily as possible ; so that there will soon be only
two drawings per month of the lottery at Paris. This I,
,ordinance may be regarded as a real mitigation of
imposts, as a true benefaction on the part of the King,
who does not let a single day pass without diffusing
' or nieditating new ones.
Letters from Rouen state that trade was theft In',
the greatest activity, and that it was difficult to fin 4
a sufficient number of hands for the manufactures.
Since the English manufactures had been seen in.{
France, everybody could convince .himself that oar
cotton goods are not inferior to those of the English ;
and this conviction was enough to make our manu-
factories flourish.

Letters from Stuttgkrd mention. that the King of
Wurtemberg's indisposition was so severe thatt he had
sent for his physician to Vienna.

• CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITWINO or TIM 24T11 or 'MUM'.
STATE PRISONERS,
M. Sattelon, from the Committee of Petitions, pre.
sensed a Report. Nineteen old Prisoneri of State,
he said, among whom were Major-General Desoldo
Grisolles, and other old Officers, represented to the
Chamber, that they had been detained in different
state prisons for a considerable space of time. Some
of them had been imprisoned for ten, eleven, twelve,
and thirteen consecutive years ; one of them for fif-
teen years.
The Petitioners were most of them at first con-
fined in the Castle of Vincennes ; but the eight strong
castles designated by the late Government not being
sufficient to contain the immense number of prisoners
of their class, several of them had been distributed
into various ordinary prisons. The Petitioners were
sent to St. Pelagic and Bicetre, where a separate
quarter was established for them, worse in every re-
spect, they say, than the state prisons which they left.
They had been all interrogated, as prisoners of State,
by Count Jolivet, pursuant to the Decree of the Sd of
March, 1810.
The thirty-third Article of that Decree imported,
'that there should be granted to such of these Priso-
ners as should require it, a sum of two francs per
day, as allowance, besides the ordinary maintenance,
which, it appeared, was fixed by the,Police at a sum
of two francs.
The nineteen Petitioners had written frequently to
the Duke of Revigo, Minister of Police, to demand
this sum, but had never received it. Their claims
had no effect, and they were deprived of every thing.
Several of their unfortunate comrages were dead of
misery. They themselves have lost their health, and
expended all that remained to them, after sacrificing
a part to obtain some communication out of doors.
They say that the Minister touched the four francs al-
lowed them, and appropriated them to his own use;
they therefore consider him responsible, and demand
that he should pay what is due.
They think that at all events that Minister should
be made responsible for the violation of the Decree
t.f which the execution was entrusted to him.; they
dcmaud that either he be condemned to pay them
what was their due, because he received the amount,
or that the State should give them that indemnity
which they had in vain demanded of the old Direc-
toq:General of the Police since the Restoration.
Major-General Grssolles has also preferred a se.
cond Petition, co:a:toting details and a new demand
relating exclusively to himself. He had been pied
Vendean, in the year Twelve, before a Special
! Commission, and unanimously acquitted ; but this