Star.
London, England, 1817-12-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA,

An official tAle, primed in the Clazette of Pete,,!..
burgh, h.t.; been published at :.4cr.cow, of the number
of dwelling houses destroyed by the conflagration is
1312, and now rebuilt. The stone houses before the
hurtling amounted to 9r,67, those of wood to 6591,
mskiag in ail 9153. There remained standing 5:t.;
of stone buildings, 24.00 wooden houses, making a
tetal of 2626. There have been newly rebuilt 3137
none houses, and wooden houses 5531, making a
total of 8688; it appears from this that the number
of Reuses in general, and particularly that of stein
lionsc;, is very much increased. The city counts at
present 11,314 dwelling-hpuses. The re•establishment
of the shops and magregiAk(pasprinees:cd a little less
rapidly. There wow before the burning
8521, 1863 remained stantl,ing, and there have bean
rebuilt 5544, making the total number at preseht
amount to 6917. The pupal it:on of that city 41 pie-
sent amounts to 312,000 pi t sot it.

F

FRENCH PA PERS.

PARIS, NOVEMBER VI.

- - .
The King yesterday admitted to a private audi-
ence Baron Vincent, who notified to his Majesty the
de rah of Princess lierinione, of Anhalt, the sponse
of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduke
Joseph Palatine ni Hungary, brother to the Empertir
of Austria. 1 he French Court are going into mourn.
irg eleven days for this Princess.
The bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies did not
meet yesterday. The ceder oF the day announces
simply s meeting of the bureaux for Saturday. At
the same time it is believed dist there will be a public
suing for the purpose of receiving a communication
from the Ministers of the project of law foraecru;;lng,
The Spanish Journals mention, that on the 13th of
last October there was so strong atharricane at Ali-
cant that the waves raked by it carried off the pieces
of artAlery from out of the bastions, and dashed
them so violently against the ne4,hbouring houses,
that four of them were thrown down. In a quarter
of an hour the city was inundated, a:d presented the
appearance of a great shipwreck.
We read in the Journal of Toulouse the following
notice We are authorised to make it known, that
in consequence of new communications which have
taken placehetween the Ministers of his 13titannic
Majesty and the French Ambassador in London, the
English Government has declared its intention not
to receive into its ports the Spanish refugees who may
there present themselves in future."
Le Pere Elysee, first surgeon to the King and
Monsieur, died on the 27th at midnight, in the 65:h
year of his age, of the consequences of a gangtenots
affection in fits hgs, which terminated a lung series
of indisposition. The concourse and zeal of projes-
aioual ineture.), among whom were remarked several
of the most distinguished, and the failure of their
efforts. dicey that the malady was not curable. Fa-
ther Elysee is the last et the Fraternity of Chorite
whom we have seen devoting themselves to the exer-
cise of the surgical profession ; and particularly to
the practice of the art of lithotoiny, the methods of
operating in which they had either interned or im-
proved. He exercised his profession with the most
brilliant success at Go noble fir &teen years, when
he was called to the Royal army commanded by the
hince ot Conde. There is 11-1 one of that army who
does not recount some wonderiul cures he performed.
or some trait of diontereateeliitsa by which he was dis-
tinguished. The reputation of his successes procured
for him the esteem and even the friendship of almost
all tic Sovereign, of Europe. Several of them made
him flattering offers to settle in their dominions, but
his existence was devoted to the French Princes. He
followed them to England—his talents and his cha-
racter made him soon be received by the most august
persons, and he was seen immediately employing
his credit and his fortune in assisting the companions
of his exile. When at last happier days began to
beam on France. be accompanied his Majesty on his
restoration, sad received from him the tide of his
first Surgeon, as a just and woetby recompence of
his fidelity. He saw death approaching, and re-
eel/red his summons with that pious Christian resig-
nation which becomes a man of his character and
state. His funeral will take place to-morrow, at
four o'clock in the afternoon, at the parish church of
8:. Germain Amami'.
The Bourdeaux paper publishes an extract from
the official Gazette of the Isle of France, for the pur-
pose of destroying the absurd and exaggerated reports
that bad spread on the causes and the extent of the
late fire which afflicted that colony. The fire took
place on the Ist of July, and the article is dated Port
Louis, the sth of July. The fire was dreadful, and
destroyed much property in Port Louis, but no lives
were lost. All the vessels in the harbour were con-
sumed. Though nobody petished in the flames, a'
eerjtant of the 12th regiment, called Mackenzie, bad
a limb broken by the falling of a piece of wood, while
attempting to extinguish the fire, and a subscription
was immediately raised for the relief of this victim
of so laudable a zeal. The fruits of 25 years of labour
and industry were lost to some of the settlers.
PRIVATE LETTER&
" PARIS. NOVEMBER in.
" The violent language of Prussia is certainly a
species of lese•majtio against legitimacy ; and if there
was any serious respect for the doctrine, we think the
Holy Alliance would issue a writ of correction against
t se Minister Hardenberg.
a Prussia would certainly wish to drain France of
11101 t treasure; but the true motive of her present
exaction dots not originate in a spirit of avarice, but
in the
She
of her fears.
She feels conscious that she has wounded the
pride and excited the animosity of the French nation
collectively, by injudicious insults and an ungene-
r sus abuse of victory. She sees the moment ap-
proach when the cords which bound France to the
tack must be cut—when she will be released, lacera-
ted, but not mutilated—momentarily weakened, but
idtb ail the vital faculties unimpaired.
•' This image of renovated power scares Prussia
out of all respect for justice and the Bourbon Dy-
nasty. She sees no salvation unless she can consum-
mate her oppression by the dismemberment of France;
sad the policy urged in her famous Note, when the
Treaty of Paris was negociating, has received an ad-
ditional incitement from she councils of her present ter-
ra. The enchainment of France, until circumstances
may permit other powers to co-operate in her parti-
tion. is the true key to those extravagant demands of,
which the Treaty never proposed to tale cognizance;
demands which the keows cannot be paid. and which
art turd only to afford a pretext for protracted bond-
age. lrettenately
.for France, those Powers which
might wish to assist the scheme of dismemberment
are paralyzed by their own internal difficulties. Still
France now feels that her danger increase, as the
moment of her realemption appenathestbat oppor,
tunities will be industriously ported *involve her
in hostile discueions, which may retard Abe period of
ostsancipation--and that an unio4t of wisdom and
energy can en• save her from .ihe toils whichthe
itrusseas Cabt is eedeavouring to throw over her."
j' VARIS, NOVEMBER es.
The Chamber of ties soatiaue to meet in
their Bureaux on diet: Projets before them.—
They are much divided flit that on the Liberty of the
press ; four of the Cosesiiiteloo vote for the Trial by
Jury in all cases—five Sete spinet it. To mend
surpvise, &said is among the former. 'l'be

Chamber of Peers have as yet no butiness to meet
upon...—The differences betweeh France and Prussia,
respecting the-pecuniary claims of the latter, may be
considered as adjusted. A fresh fund of fifteen mil-
lions of renter will be created for the final extinction
of these claims, and a compiny is already formed to
purchase them of the Prussian Government. The
penury of its treasury. and the necessity of maintain-
ing a considerable force to keep its people in subjec-
tion, are said to have obliged this Government to
urge its claims on France with sir much rigour at this
moment. The present pecuniary transactions with
France are connected a ith a negotiation for the remo-
val of another part of the army of occupation, in the
course of next Spring.
44 Little transpires as yet of M. Corvetto's plan of
I finance for the ensuing year. It is presumed, how-
ever, that another kin of fifteen millions will be re-
sorted to for the extraordinary exigencies, in which
case the general increase of stock will be precisely the
same this year with that effected the last, thirty mil-
lions. The public impression on these matters will
account for the declining state of the French Funds,
which in a very few days have gone down from 661
to 63 and a fraction. The Recolorriiances de Liquida-
tic*, the best accredited Fund of any, have fallen
from. 72 to 63. Some attribute this depression to a
macerilivre of the Loan Contractors, at a moment
when a fresh Loan is in agitation.
" The Law Projet on the Concordat may have
had its share also in effecting this fall, less perhaps,
however, from the additional charges it brings with
it, than from an idea of the instability of such a state
of things as this Concordat establishes and forbodes.
" A narrative of the melanch•ly shipwreck of the
Medusa frigate, belonging to the Senegal expedition
of 1816, makes some sensation here. It reflects bit-
terly, but justly, on the Minister of Marine at that
period. A bub.criptio:k has been opened in favour of
the few individuals, fifteen in all, saved from timer'.
tastruphe, and who have been dismissed the service
for giviag an account thereof on their return."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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MORE THAN SIX 'IIIIOUSAND TICKETS WILL BE
DRAWN NEXT' FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF
DRAWING, AND EVERY TICKET WILL BE A PRIZE,
-ALL THE SIX PRIZES OF *rwEN ry THOUSAND
POUNDS ARE YET IN THE WHEEL.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1817.
!PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK
Reduced Seit —Cow. S3H—For Opening. erg 84
4 per Cent. 99H-5 per Cent. Nary 10811
Beat Long Anne. St —lndia loud* ltel7 pr.
Exchequer if is 28 pa

Last night we received some German Papers, in
addition to those which reached us in the morning;
and this day we have received Hamburgh Papers to
the 22d ultimo.

The most important articl3 for the immediate con-
sideration of those who superintend the maritime
forces of the Civilized World, is *hat relates to the
Algerine corsairs.
A letter from Algiers, dated the sth October, has
reached Hansborgh, via Marseilles, which, speaking
of the Hamburgh ship Reiherstieg, of which the new
Dey bad made a present to the British Consul, (as
stated some time ago in the STAN) the writer, after
mentioning that the vessel had sailed on the 28th of
September, adds 4-44 but, unhappily, the ship has the
plague on board, of which two men had already died."
The Russians belonging to the ship taken near
Lisbon, who, (after riiing on.the prize-master and
hie hands, and throwing them into the sea,) were
again captured and carried into Algiers, are obliged
to work there in the Marine, with wretched diet, and
. .
are treated exactly like slaves, except that they are
not in chains. One thousand piastres per man are
demanded as ransom.

On the SOth September a squadron of six corsairs
put to sea to cruize against Prussian, Oldenburg,
and Hanseatic vessels. 44 They are not," says the
writer, " to go farther than to the English Channel;"
and he expresses a hope 44 that all the Northern ves-
sels will provide themselves with Turkish passes."—
But will these passes be of any use io preventing in-
fection being communicated to such vessels as these
thieves choose to have intercourse with ?

Among our shipping intelligence this day, we have
an instance of a British vessel having been very re-
cently boarded by this squadron of pestilence.
According to accounts from Tangiers of the 20th
October, two Algerine corsairs, a brigantine of 14
'guns, and a plata, of sixteen,- which anchored in
that road, said, that about twenty-five clays before,
they had taken in the ocean, on the cnast of Biscay,
a Hamburgh ship, and sent it to Algiers. They
proceeded from Tangiers, after• taking in water, into
the ocean, to complete their cruise, which was to
last three months. According to other accounts the
curtains are to cruize principally against Prussian
and Hamburgh ships.

To these particulars we have ter add a report,
brought by the Elizabeth Hill, Captain &terra's,
which arrived yesterday in Margate Roads from
Smyrna, last from Gibraltar, in ten days—" spoke
off Cape de Gatt the Mary, from Tanis, bound to
Barcelona, and was informed that the Dal of A Lotus
(meaning, we think, the new one) bad been shot,
and that war was declared against the Sicilians,
panes and Swedes."

An article from Rome mentions a recent attempt
at robbery followed with this curious fact, that the
Wages who by mistake stole LUCID/ BONAPARTeII
Secretary instead of himself, afterwards sent word
that they were willing to ransom him for SAO Ron
man uowas I 1 We know not whether a State that

can suffer such outrages to be pe: rimed within its
jurisdietinu, or the lawless Algerines, are the most
intolerable—yet, with We former, notwithstanding
the robberies and assassinations which daily occur,
some men, who would be deemed wise 'Rulers, are
actually negociating what they call Concordat:—
miserable folly and stupidity.