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London, England, 1811-07-11 00:00:00

WORKS AT PARIS.

The canal of l'Ourcque, and the distribution of its
waters in the different parts of Paris, are attended
with an expence of two millions and an half of
francs a year. In a few years these works will be
completely finished.
Already sixty fountains spread the waters of the
Ourcque in the different quarters of Paris. The water
arrives there constantly. The Seine, the Marne, the
Yonne, and the Oise, have considerable works con.
structing on them to improve the navigation.
The cut of St. Maure, which will be finished in
the next year, will shorten the navigation of the
Marne by five leagues, and will spread its waters by
sumerous channels. The sluices constructed at Port
d'Arche, at Vernon, and at -, will facilitate the
navigation of the Seine ; and other sluices will con-
tinue it to Troyes and l'Aube.
The bridges of Choisy, Besen, and Jena, facilitate
the communications, or concur in the embellishment
of the capital.
The Louvre is finishing ; they are pulling down
that quantity of houses which was between the Lou•
vre and the Thuilleries. A second gallery re-unites
the two palaces.

MARINE.
We have lost Guadaloupe and the Isle of France.
The wish to relieve these colonies would have been no
sufficient reason for trying to send nut our squadrons
in the state of relative inferiority in which they are.
Since the annexation of Holland, that country has
furnished us with 10,000 seamen, and 13 ships of
the line. 'We have considerable fleets in the Scheldt
and at Toulon—squadrons of ships of the line, more
or less strong, are in the different ports, and fifteen
ships on the stocks at Antwerp. Every thing there
is so arranged as to add every year a great number of
ships of war to our squadron in the Scheldt.
Two ships of the line are building at Cherbourg,
and the magazines of timber, and other materials of
every kind, are there so considerable, that we may
put five on the stocks before the close of 1811.—
L'Orient, Rochefort, and Toulon, have all their
Iframes occupied. Numerous ships are constructinz
I at Venice. .

Naples ought, in pursuance of treaties, to have this
year six ships of the l►ne and six frigates. That king-
dom has them not—but its Government will be con-
vinced, of the necessity of repairing this negligence.
Our resources, our interior navigation, :!re suffi-
cient to advance the material part of our marine to
the same point as that of our enemies.
The experiments made of a maritime conscription
have succeeded—young men of 18, 19, and 20, sent
on board our ships, display the best incl►nation, and
are rapidly forming. The frequent sorties of our
squadrons, the cruizing on the coast, the evolutions
of our fleets and flotillas in the ZuyderZee, the Scheidt
and in all our Roads, have enabled our young con-
scripts to make a progress which justifies our enter-
taining the best hopes.
WAR.

In one year the greater part of the strong places in
Spain have been taken, after sieges which do honour
to the genius of the artillery of the French army.—
More than 200 colours, 80,000 nrisoncrs, and hun-
dreds of pieces of cannon, have been taken from the
Spaniards in a number of pitched battles. This war
was verging to its close, wh,en England, departing
from her tonal policy, came to present herself in rho
front line. It is easy to foresee the result of this
struggle, and to comprehend all its effects upon the
destiny of the world.
The population of England not being able to suf.
fice for the occupation of the two Indies, of America,
and of a variety of establishments in the Mediterra.
nean ; for the defence of Ireland, and of her own
coasts ; for garrisons, and the manning of her im-
mense fleets—fig the consumption of men in an obsti,
nate war, supported against France on the Spanisla
Peninsula ; the chances are greatly on our side, and
England has placed herself between the ruin or her
population, if she persist in supporting this war, or,
disgrace if she abandon it, after having put herself
forward so strongly.
France has 800,000 men under arms ; and while
new forces, new armies, march into Spain ta con 'aat
there our eternal enemies, 400,000mcn, and 50,000
horses, remain in our interior, or on our coasts,rea..iy to
march in defence of our rights wherever they shall be
menaced.
The Continental system, whichis followed up with
the greatest constancy, saps the basis of the Enances
of Englaqd. Already her exchange loses 3S per
cent. ; her colonies are destitute of outlets tor their
produce; the greater part of her manufactories are
shut: and the Continental system has oniy just arsen I
Followed up for ten years, it alone will be sufficient
to destroy the resources of England.
Her revenues are not founded on the prolate of
her soil, but on the produce of the commerce of the
world ; even already her courting-houses are half
closed. The English hope in vain, that from the ad,
vantages of time, and of events which their passioes
light up, some markets will be opened to their cox.-
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coerce.
With regard to France, the Continental system !lasi
produced no change in her position ; we have been,
for ten years past without maritime commerce, and!
we shall still he without maritime commerce. The
prohibition cf English merchandise upon the Conti-
nent has opened_ an outlet for our manufactures ; but
should that be wanting, the consumption ot the Em-
pire presents a reasonable market ; it is for our ma-
' nufactures to be regulated by the wants of more than
sixty millioni of consumers.
The prosperity of the Imperial Treasury is nct
founded on the commerce of the universe. Mute
than 900 Millions, which are necessary to meet the
expences of the empire, are the result of home taxei,
direct or. indirect. England must have two milliards,
in order to pity her expences ; and her proper revenue
could not'furni'sh more than a third of it, We shall
-believe that England will be able to support this
struggle as lo Is as we can, when she shall hive passed

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