Star.
London, England, 1817-04-02 00:00:00

PARIS Ptita,

The trench journals of Said./lay and Sund4Y
arrived this morning but are very barren of polit,c.i
intelligence.
The KING and the rest of the Royal F.mil• ir.
ten!, it is said, to remove during the summer months
to Vt.rsailles, which will have the honour ct beiog &be
place of the: Duchess of Eattat's acinnachemelt.

The Count of BRqCQCENE9RO, a Belgian, formerly
in the. French service, and M. ARMAND de Bawl.
viu.r, have been arrested, and their papers wilted,
on charge of being concerned in a criminal cones'
dente with some re ogees in Belgium:
The Theatrical Critic of the Gazette dr France,
M. MAWIAINVILI.ti, has received a caning from hr.e
Of the soas of M. ANNAULT, the Author of Gere.4.
nice.,, for his criticism on that Tragedy. M. MJ-a-
TAIbVILLE would have sott,;ht that prompt satisfac-
tion which a barbarous yet honourable cu. om has
provided in such cases, but he pleads that being jest
recovered from is severe illness, and in a state cf ex-
treme debility when he was assaulted by M. Ait-
NM:LT, he owes it to society and to himself to leave to
public justice the put►ishment of a fellow who could
be cruel enough to cane a sick critic for an offence
committed when he was not altogether touts in is.
Some prisoners of war recently returned hat
Russia report that, on the extreme frontiers of that
Empire, there still remain Mae thousand: 6f ii c (
French army, whom the want of the means necessary
for a long and difficult journey, prevent returniq to
their homes.

At Ajaccio, in Corsica, six brigands have suffered
the punishment of death for their crimes, with a de-
gree of obdurate ferocity, which may equal any
thing in the annals of human turpitude. Three of
them were brothers, of the age of from :wenty to
thirty years. When asked a few hours before their
execution, if they would eat something —aa We will
give you," (said the jailer) whatever you desire."—
Ah, well then," replied they, " give us the heart
of —," naming one of their enemies.
To the number of phenomena which have distirt-
' guiihed the present season in all parts of Enrol-re, se-
veral new and extraordinary particulars are constantly
adding. Oa the 21 of February there was remarked,
at Odentee, in Denmat k, in the south-west, a sort of
a shower of fire, which fell with great rapidity, and
seemed to increase in pr.portiou as it approached
nearer to the earth. On the 6th, a storm of rain,
bail, and thunder, burst suddenly ovei Rome ; the
lightning struck oa the chateau of St. Auge, zr.d
much damage was done. On the ISth, about three
in the afternoon, there was heard at Agen, in Frame,
a tend explosion, similar to one that occurred at the
same place on the 5.h of September. 1814, whit
several zrolites, or air.stones, fell. The explosion
peered to come from the southern part of the heavens,
and immediately a light breeze which was blowing from
the north was calmed, and during mote than two mi.
nutes afterwards a succession of detonations more or
less strong was heard.

The last occurrence which is noticed is still more
remarkable. It happened at Alcoeer, in Spain, on
the 20th. The weather was rainy. At three o'dock
in the afternoon there was some lightning, followed
with thunder; about half-past six there arose ail of a
sudden a most tempestuous wind ; torrents nf
and hailstones fell; the whole Heavens became illiimi_
nated with lightning, with the exception of a black
cloud which increased by little and little to a great
bulk; at seven a detonation was heard of such
ar-
palling loudness, that the people in the but ets fell in
terror on the ground, and a suffocating soil
of sulphur ensued, noways calculated to t calve their
clammed nerves; a second detonation, not so loud,
followed, and the black cloud then bursting open, an
immense globe of fire issued from :t, and descendin•
rapidly on a Convent of Franciscans, destroyed the
iron cross which surmounted it, set fire ti the timber
work, and dividing itself into two volumes of flame,
envelbpped the whole of one side of the church, and
making an opening of more than six feet in thc
burst into the interior.

This extraordinary explosion was succeeded lr a
thick shower of hail, soon after which the azmospl•:4e
became quite tranquilliz,:d and serene ; and the:-.;:i-
bants, recovering from their su-prise, exerted them-
selves to extinguish the file in the Convent, in vilk!'•
however, they did not succeed till the greater pet cf
it was damaged or destrwieLl.

An article from Vier ns, in the French Papery.
i states, that the Princess a IVALp.s, who is expecte.,
there soon, intends to proceed thence to Odessa, to
travel in the southern pro, inces of Russia, and alter•
wards to pay a visit to Constantinople.
A letter from Dridge.Tewn, Barbadoes, dated i!:e
21st January, says :—" At about eleven o'clock tins
forenoon, the convicts ( I '23 in number) who Last been
concerned in the late rebellion, were removed from
jail, escorted by the flank companies of the Royal
Reg4nent to the wharf; whence they were conveyed
on board the ship Fr4n.es and Mary, in whi-h tl cr
are to be sent to Honduras, where they will rod their
days in the very laborious employment of cutzing and
preparing mahogany for the English proprietors is
that Settlement."
Four Negroes, among whom was one be longing to
Lotd fiozwoop, had been msnumr,e4l by the Le.
8411Iture of BubadOca. in January last, ror their gocd
conduct during the last rebellion in ma Masi, and
the annual sum of ten pounds eseb appropriated to
t heir sappers., •