Star.
London, England, 1813-12-07 00:00:00

SPIRE, NOVEMBER 24.

All continues quiet before the fort of Cassel, op-
poke Mentz. The enemy have made no movement
of any importance: they seem to be reposing after
their fatigues, and to be principally employed in pro-
caring provisions for their troops. We see on the
opposite bank only small detachments ; the troops of
the enemy are in cantonments in the interior of the
country, and their chief force seems to be concen-
trated between the Lahn and the Neckar.
Detachments of troops of the line, cohorts ofthe
National Guard, Sti. all coming from the interior, or
from the neighbouring departments, are continually
arriving on. the left bank of the Rhine. These troops
are full of ardour and zeal. The cantonments of our
troops extend from' the Rhine to Treves, and the
neighbourhood.
The accounts from the Lower Rhine are satisfac-

tory. All measures are taken to make a vigorous
resistance, in case the enemy should attempt to pass
that river.
In all the departments on the Left Bank, the levy
of the contingents for the 120,000 men has been of-,
fected in the best order, and with great activity. The
conscripts marched away for their respective depots
in high-spirits.
• • MILAN, NOVEMBER 25.
Ig On the 16th, the enemy landed 2,000 men, corn-
-manded by General Nugent, near Volano, on the
lower Po. Having advanced on the Mesola, they
had sent detachMeits towards Rovigo and Ferrara.
A small body of our troops, on the lower Adige,
was obliged to fall back. His Imperial Highness

progress ___Ary, . _:). , the Viceroy informed of these circumstances, ordered
came to be proposed, did he say that he should op- in saying, that in the, contemplation of the law trans- ' two moveable columns to march to the points Me.
Hse that : but he again solicited the attention of the portation was always considered for life, although it
House to this fact, .that nothing could justify this , was often mitigated. ' awed. One of them passed the Po at Ostiglia, and
mode of proceeding extept.the very peculiar circum-i Mr. Serjeant BEST was surprised to find how• was placed under the orders of General Pino. At
stances in which the country was at this period placed, , much his Hon. and Learned Friend (the Attorney the 'Same time this General. assembled, at Bologna,
and the very imkortant duties which devolved upon , General) had been misunderstood. He certainly all the troops that were in that military division. In
those who conducted the Government. i never had said that transportation ought always to
the first actions that took place, the detachments of
Lord LIVERPOOL did not consider it old-fa- Ibe for life, nor had he said 'any thing like it. He en-
shioned to pay particular attention to the progress , tirely concurred with him,' however, in thinking that the enemy were disperse, and 150 prisoners taken,
and provisions of the annual Mutiny Bill. On the 'it was best to make the offence liable' to transports - among whom are five hussars, with their horses. Tbey
contrary, he considered the annual passing of that'. Lion for life, which sentence might be mitigated by had 10 killed, and a larger number wounded.
Bill, and the attention which the Legislature was by the Judges, when favourable circumstances appeared. 1
FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER 26.
that means enabled to pay it-ilie army being by 1 For putting down or preventing the offence, it was!
this means, as it were, kept constantly under the con- ; necessary that the terror of the greater punishment i Prince Repnin continues to govern Saxony in a
trol of Parliament—he looked upon this as one of the i should be held over the heads of the offenders. It {military manner :he has just raised an extraordinary
best securities of the constitution. But the Noble was not cruelty, it was mercy to hold out this terror; , contribution of two maligns of dollars. With snch a
Lord would observe, that the object of this bill was and it was impossible to say that cases might not oc- mode of proceeding, it is impossible that that king.
not to extend the provisions or the operations of the cur which would demand the whole punishment of darn should ever rise from its- ruins. The Russian
Mutiny Act. The object was merely to pass it before transportation for life. 1
Governor has also ordered AI Saxons, from eighteen
the recess_, that there might be no danger of that im- Mr. ADDINGTON said that he should have had .
pertain Act being allowed to expire. He admitted, great reluctance to propose the renewal of the Bill, if 'to forty-five years of age, to be enrolled by force, and
however, that it was unusual to press forward this transportation had not been substituted for capital' to crown all, he has ordered the Saxon cockade to
. bill at so early a period of the Seision, though the punishment. I
be changed, and the Russian colours to be mixed in
:Noble Lord was mistaken in supposing it to be Sir WILLIAM GAR ROW brought up a clause, ' .
rt. .•This is the worthy reward of an army which has
without a precedent in modem times, and he men- vesting in the Judge who tried offenders under the
• eioried as an instance the precedent of the year 1795. Act, a power of commuting the punishment of the betrayed its Prince and fired on its allies /
-It was, however, unusual, and he was perfectly wil- person convicted, from transportation for life to trans- The Queen of Bavaria arrived on the #22d of No-
ling to rest its justification on the extraordinary. cir- portaticu for seven years. vember at Carlsruhe.
,eurristances of the times, which rendered it certainly The House then proceeded in the farther conside-
It is said that some actions of consequence have
desirable that this bill should be passed now,' rather ,ration of the Report, • and after some further comer-
between taken placethe army of the Prince of Eck-
te'An in February, or the beginning of March. With cation, the Bill was ordered to be read ; third time
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regard to the not summoning ate house, he acknow- on Wednesday neit.—Adiourned. mail', and the Russian and Swedish troops; but the