Star.
London, England, 1815-05-12 00:00:00

COVATRAY, MAY 4.

Yesterday 40 lancers arrived here, coming from
Lille, with-their baggage, arms, and hones.
say that the desertion is considerable from Lille t,
Tottrnay ; that there is a dearth nt enrage in the f•;t
of these places! and that their horses had not r.
ceived Any during the last five days. The diligen-e
from Ldle to Courtray are t rbidden.
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i.EMI3tRG, APRIL IC.

The day after to:tnor-ow we expect the first co.
limn of the Russian ailny, which is going to the
Rhine ; its passage will c mtinue to the 30th It cr
sins of • 25,4X)Q men, with 26,000 horses. The
of the Russian army from Poland has been del.iyt•d
by the. Polish army having commenced its march
the Turkish frontiers before the first colum' of
Russian army broke up for Germany.

• FI.BERFELD,.MAY 2.
PROM AN AUTHENTIC LETTER FROM MINIX, APRII. 27.
" Wall the provinces of France are as decidr,lly
against Bonaparte as the department of the North,
he will hardly reign two months. At Lille all is
incensed against him. The Citizens declared when
the National Guard was assembled to take their oath
of allegiance to the.new Government, that they would
not serve Bonaparte, but their lawful King. Some
of the ()Meer' Who declared for ,Bonaparte, were in•
stilted and pelted with mud. Many cried, down
witfi the -jaeobins • give Louis XVIII.' 1'
frenzy of die troops begins to abate, and nitmeroui
desertions take place. if Louis XVIII. enteic the
North department, he will find at least 50,000 men
ready to tight for him.
6, Bonaparte has taken incredible pains to indict
Macdonald to take a command, but in vain. lit
sent Davoust to him, with orders to leave no ro,
untried ; but Macdonald remained cold and resolve i•
At last Davoust is reported to have said to him, ei.it
when the danger increased, if not love of the Em-
peror, yet his honour would cause him to embrace
the cause of his country ; to which Macdonald re
plied, clapping him on the shoulder...-. That he aid
not avast Aim to teach Aim the lacy of hooreetr.'
'6 P. S. We know for certain now what we are to
contyhtite to the apprhaching contest, viz. 11),00,1
recruits, still in arrear from the I.4st levy—seven m.l-
- measures of corn, or an equivalent of six fl
per measare, and 12,000 new squadrons of reserve
for the 100:00 velites, who take the field. Troops ATt
daily passing along the bridge here. All the tro
except the rci• rve, will oe drawn out of Ilii;iga;)•
These contributions are heavy, tor a country so
AS Hungary, ions every Hisagatirn would wiirni.,.F
give double, to attain At length the desired rer-e
" The preparations for war have doubled rrices 0.
all kinds of provisions.
• 44 The exchange on Augsigurg is to•day 390."

...

SECOND DECLARATION o► imt ALLIES.

" VIIIRNAI APRIL 26.

ri The Declaration of the 13th of Mardi is known
in yr ince, at is proved by tht article inserted in the
joriii dr Paris of the sth of April. This peelers.
tion is the unanimous expression of the wishes and
arages of nations. The article which pretends to
Irate it presents us with the most scandalous abuse
tilt ever has been made of the facility.or speech and
jf human reason among an enlightened 'people. •
The developement of the principles which dic-
.3:ejo:e act of the Congress of the 13th of Marsh,
oil e.emonstrate to the French nation that it has not
owl, that it never will speak. the sacrilegious 10-
.. ~e a Lich its oppressor attributes to it, will Iva.
.ore its cause from his, preserve to the flatlet° its teal
.iignity, and open to it a prompt and honourable
way still to rally to the rest of Europe. •
. The Congress has not deliberated upon supposi.
:Lim It has prescribed Bonaparte. This man can.
liit .and ought not to ind any further asylum among
:ivilized nations. Still less can he govern them.
Nil is the principle of the act of proscription de-
,unced against him. It is founded upon justice. as
sivll as upon the legitimate interests of nations, it is
ierefore irrevocable. Assistance has been offered
,a the French natioti. and to its Government. It is
:ill offered. It may nobly decline this assistance) by
,:ijeciing Irons its balm the Principal of also isaa.'la•
:„„not do without its as long as it shall bear the yoke
:f a man who seeks to dishonour it, by making it
cuilty of a two-told perjury. A compact united it
sith its Sovereign. A Treaty had reconciled it with
Europe. Bonaparte, in arrogating to himself the
opreme power, has made it violate boip. He re-
iitinges it into the horrors of civil war, anarchy, and
rallitary despotism. Is it possible that he dares to
roniise France liberal institutions, and 'the empire
of the htwa?

s Is it p %sit& that this man can have the effron-
tery to promise to feeeign nations that he will respect
treaties, and not interfere in their affairs ? Is it he
who pretends to make die independence of the French
Ispecied ? His leaving the Isle of Elba, his arrival
r. Fiance, the titles with which he dares to invest
tho authority he has seized upon, the dein-
;:ons w ith which he surrounds it, those which he is
?reparing to support it ; all these crimes, if legitimated
the assent of the European Powers, would threaten
axial order with complete destruction, and nations
I;th the yoke from which they have just been deli-
; No experience has been lost for Europe ;
krr so many years of suffering and calamity none
sill be lost for France herself. She knows the count-
evils which the monstrous despotism of a single
Ilan has caused to weigh upon her at upon the rest of
1.• universe, and which made nations feel what they
their .::gisity, as Members of the European fa-
e:), a;;,.1 to their internal prosperity .is
This sentiment h /vine, become common to
tll people and all Governments, created a new moral
farce in political combinations, which alone made the.

and alliance prosper, and enabled it even to c,-1-
itt r the general pear* at the gates of Paris. 'foot
force exists is indisputable, because it is composed
the most ponerhd motives (springs of action), pad
:.he skates' sosseistsrats,those of rdigion, patriotism
).1 nati.mat honour.

The Treaty of May SO, laid down the basis of
res:oration of the public law of Europe, and it
-Abii,lied by In consequences a happy concord bei
s.eea the progress of the spirit of the Age, and the
erfecting of the institutions calculated to. guarantee
.n rich people the enjoyment of its glory and its
:;arty. The Congress of Vienna was on the eve of

'nlpieting the-work of the re-construction ofthe po.
weal system of Europe. The ware Congress, the
ii• of conduct which it bas followed, proves that all
rerests have been maturely weighed, and its labours
lered the consolatory result which insures to nations
inalienability of their independence. It is no
.:nger the will of the strongest which stifles the voice
titruthond crushes the most legitimate resistance.—
:is the rights of each—it is the general interest. It
:urtice and political reason, (rams d'etat) no longer
:miles, which decide.

turope desires peace; she has doubtless need of
• But she will not think she has obtained it, till It
,(all be founded on the immutable principles inbe-
n.t in each State, and on the common interest of all
' maintain it. he is resolved not to be reduced to
,!are it under the perpetual safeguard of armies ;-
1e cannot do this, being demoraßzed.
" But can this France, represented by addresses.
France, governed by a man whom perjury ind
,ie infraction of all treaties have conducted to the
•srone—can this France, as long, as this. man she
alk in her name, pretend to inspire that confidence
4,icla is the first basis of political transaction ?
-" It is with States as with individuals, their credit
.^ults only from their actions.
Europe has declared war against Bonaparte.—
ince can and ought to prove to Europe that she
"ticiently feels her own dignity, not to ehuse.the'
Aereignty of this man.
" The French nation is powerful and free; her
"..rty and her greatness repose in herself, and are
-Tcessaty to the balance of Europe. The Peace of
ails and the Congress of Vienna have proved it.
" it is in this intention, and in this hope, that the
:-:laratiln of the 13th of March, has teen made.—
this act i 3 founded on a supposition, it is solely
.'r, that which is derived from the esteem which

"[le has justly given to the French Nation. It
4. judged her. It knows that she is too enlightened
respect to her true interests, too full of the principles
:-.onour to *link her subjected to the will of an indi.
';!,ial whose power is composed of the elements which
td on the ruin of States. We repeat it ; France
d' but to free herself from her Oppressor, ha, but
return to the principles on which social order is
.3dcti, in order to be at peace with Europe."

LEGHORN, API
Oar Grand Duke left this CityUL yesterday, to go to
As soon as he was gone a mob collected,
'!'"ch. not contented with tearing down the arms of
'rat on the door of his Consol, but ill treated stee-
-1 of those called Jacobins, and dragged them about
e city. The tumult was checked by the Governor,
.$ the aid of the armed force, and by a prodigious
11 of rain ; but the thirst of vengeance against the
:14pArtists and the adherents otblurat, st
,ta ll con:i-
-in the spirit of the people.

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THE EVENING STAIC-

LO N DON.

Os TO-MORRO* ALL THE LOITERT MUST BE
DRAWN—PH!.Y 5.680 TICKETS—duo" PRIZE—
sou GUINEAS IN GOLD.

FRIDAY, MAY Ig, 1815.

,
!RICE OF ST4 sk`Ks THIS Dia 141* TWELVE O'CLOCKs
Resioted 54-4 per CG 7i 5-5 per Cent. Bef—Script if pr.
'Coos. 58-I.sr accouut. Sof —lndia Boo& 112.125. pr.
Excliequer lialk Las. to Ss.

Yesterday we laid before our Readers the DECLA•
'tallow issued at Gheat on the 2d, by Louts XVIII.
and this day we insert in our columns a SECOND 1)IC.
CLANATION or THE ALLIER, issued on the 26th ultimo.
These may both be considered as one political act—
they correspond in object, in spit t, and in the period
of promulgation. The object a the war is declared
without any equivocation.--44 The Congress has not de&
iterated wpm sulepositioru. It has proscribed Bohr:were
and the French people are called upon to assert their
own Independence, and prevent the entrance of the
Allied Armies into France, byevoluntarily expelling
the man who is the author of all her miseries.
There is in the new Vienna Declaration one sen-
tence which might furnish a there for a volgose--.1
. .
we quote the words ; 4, The Treaty of the 30th of
May laid down She bases of the restoration of THE PUBLIC 1
LAW of Europe, and it established by ice consequences, a
happy concord between the progress of the SPIRIT of the
age, and the perfecting of the institution: calculated to gua-
rantee to each peopk the esOornest of its glory and its
liberty." The sentiments and their avowal in this
sentence are most important. Out of the evils en-
tailed on Europe by the enormities of the Revolts,
tionists, has come much real good to her different
States. The necessity of not only maintaining the
public law of Europe, but adapting its pro-visions
to the progress of the spirit of the age, is here recog-
nised with a frankness which can only' have flown
from conviction ; and the very avowal is a gua-
rantee of lithe general happiness. It is, in-
deed, creditable to the eltirit of the Rulers of the
present period. It is a trite remark, that Govern-
ments are generally the followers rather than the
formers of public opinion; and this has often been,
inconsiderately, charged against them as a crime.
Me error on the part of Governments, however, hp
not, generally, been that of following, but of entirely
and resisting the public voice ; and hence
Coe imbecile condition in which the era of the French
Revolution found all the States of Europe except
Britain.—ln this country, from our happy constitu-
tion, our Government, though it took not the lvad
( for no wise Government will seek to do so), was never
far behind she progreu of the &pint of the age : in
the of .c SLIM the regrets of the spirit of roe was
was either not seei, -et 'was disregarded. The na-
tural consequences followed. 'riiere was no commu-
nity of sentiment between the rulers and the ruled,
and the convulsion when it reached them, shook
them to their very foundations. This is now seen
and acknowledged. What a triumph to the princi-
ples and practice of our own happy constitution.—
Britain has thus conferred on the other nations a
blessing far surpassing the aids afforded to them by
her fleets, her armies, her subsidies, her perseverance
--She has laid the foundations of an extended social
compact, founded on the bases of mutual rights, mu-
tual benefits, mutual protection ! Each will have
an interest and a right to remind every other of the
necessity of avoiding individual conduct unsuited to
the improved state of society, as acts which threaten
the general peace of the great European family ; and
the slow but certain amelioration of the condition of
those individual communities which are yet compa-
ratively low in the scale of political condition, will
inevitably be the consequence. Wise Statesmen have
but one possible evil to dread from the system now
avowed—namely, the indiscreet haste of particular
States to attain instantly the maximum of political
happiness.
As Governments should never resist the progress of
social improvement on throne hand, so, on the other,
whatever means they may adopt to improve the pub-
lic mind, they should manifest their prudence by so
conducting themselves as to mein to follow not to
dictate the public voice. We speak not now of the
direct reward of virtue or punishment of vice,
which ought never to slumber in a well regu-
lated community, but of those political measures
and institutions which should ever be in the eye of
wise Statesmen as calculated directly to ameliorate
the condition of the people, improve their mind, and
extead their moral energies; and ultimately to in-
crease their physical resources. We soy these should
ever be in their eye, as• means much better adapted
than war and conquest to make nations rich, great,
and free; but by too much haste, they may retard in-
stead of hastening the general improvement.

It augurs well, however, to mankind, that States-
men have at last discovered, or, if known before,
avowed, that an attention to the progress of the spirit
of the age, is one of the means 44 calculated to gua-
rantee to each people the enjoyment. of its glory
and its liberty." •

- We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday. They
furnish but little intelligence of intereit. The M.ai.
tarr in particular is dull and uninteresting. It is
nearly filled with a translation of a dull effusion from
the pen of an Englishman, in the form of a letter to
Louis XVIIL in which the superior claims of Bo-

NAPARTI to the :French Throne are zealously, bu
warmly 'advocated.

Tbt 'most important paragraph in these Papers
that which announces the interchange of Couiiers b.-
tween the Cabinet of Vienna and that of the Tbuille-
ries. BONAPART6 is asserted to have said to Caano.r.
that be had reason to hope that the peace between
France and Austria will not be interrupted. He said
the same thing a few weeks ago respecting England!
The present assertion• may be equally remote horn
truth. •

The French Funds are a little improved : they
were 57i on Monday.

COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OP TUESDAY MORNING.
_ _

' General Leccurbe has his head-quarters at BeFort.
Prince Canino arrived to-day at Paris.

Letters from Milan of the 26th of April, state,
that the Austrian army was marching upon Ancona,
and that King Joachim was continuing his retreat.
The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher
have had an interview at Tirlemont.

Prince Joseph was busy with the Emperor all yes-
terday.

It appears certain that there is at present an ex-
change of Couriers between the Cabinet of Vienna
and that of the Theatrics. We are assured drat the
-Eauperet, has said so. °strut Carnet u 1 hap that the
peace will ~or be interrupted."

Intelligence from Augsburgh of the 28th April,
states that a revolution has broken out in the king.
dom d Naples.

M. de Menneval, Secretary of the Cabinet of the
Empress Maria Louisa, was to set out on the with of
April from Vienna on his return to France.

PARIS, MAY 8.
A telegraphic dispatch was received at mid-day,
stating, that the divisiotvof the Prussian army, which
was in full march to the frontiers of France, from
Luxemburg, had suddenly halted, and retraced its
steps.

Letters from the Northern frontiers state, that the
Belgian peasants have brought into France 20,000
muskets, and delivered them to the French Thwaniers.
His 'Majesty has created Battalions of Chasseurs of
the Pyrenees, and of the Alps, which are to be assi-
milated in every respect to the Battalions of the Line.
In every quarter of Paris we meet with conscripts
going to rejoin their corps, and all are animated with
the best spirit.

A misunderstanding is said to have taken place
between the Duke de Berri and the Prince of Orange.

One Robert, an old Chouan chief, has been trying
to incite the peasants of La Vendee to a civil war.
A detachmeAt of the 26th of the line has surprised
him in the Castle of Juillier, near Beanpre, where he
was killed. His followers, to the number of ISO,
have bren almost aU taken.