Star.
London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

11012.LE-DUC, JULY 24.

The situation of fiur country is far from satistac•
tory—it h growing worse every day. The hope of
a rich harvest insensibly vanishes, on account of the
excessive and extraordinary increase of the waters,
which in a few moments change into marshes the
best cultivated fields—and it is the third year we have
experienced this misfortune.
On Monday evening, their Excellencies the Com-
enissioner-General charged with the affairs of the Pro-
testant worship, and the Director-General charged
with the affairs of the Romati. Catholic worship, ar-
rived here. Their Excelliteies have bad several
conferences with some Depeties from the City and
the environs upon the affairealtbe Church which are
here in litigation z they have also examined all the
edifices consecrated to Divine worship. The happiest
result is expected.
General Baron Ochs, who in the campaign of
1812 commanded the Westphalian Corps, in a work
on the New Art of War which he has published, has
shewn that, in the fatal explosion of Moscow, it was
not so much the cold, as the want of provisions,
which caused the ruin of the French Army and of
the Allied Corps. This want of provisions was the
consequence of the new method of marching without
magazines—a method which brings with it the neces.
sity of levying requisitions by force of arms; and causes
the ruin of all the places near the road by which the
army marches. This system of pillage leaves an
army without any resource when it is forced to re-
treat by the same line that it followed in its advance.

PERPIGNAN, JULY Is.

When the Spanish Government sent orders, after
the sentence passed on General Lacy; to send him to
Majorca, it.was because fears were entertained that
the numerous friends whom Lacy had at Barcelona,
might be able to excite a commotion in his favour.—
The most urgent representations were made in favour
of the General by several Officers of the highest dis-
tinction, in order to obtaiknanitigation of the sen-
tence of death, but they Were ineffectual. On the at-
rival of General Lacy ral Wilmot his sentence wig.
read to him, and he was slsot.on die morning of the
sth. This Officer, who hats() many times shed his

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blood for the service of his country, died with equal
composure and firmness All that I request (said
he). is to die by the hands of my ancient brethren in
arms=—it was on the. field of boqour, and while com-
bating the enemies of Spain,that a warrior like me
ought "ea hays finished. his tarter." After these
leads he said to the soldiers--w rim I"

FRENCH PAPERS.-

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Frisby have
arrived since our last.
The Kniin of PUUSSIA is expected to visit the
Prussian part of the Army of Occupation early this
month, and Marshal Ounisor, Duke of REGGIO, has
been deputed to go and rrcrive his Majesty on the
frontiers, in the name of the KINO of FRANCE.

new Council of State of Prussia have, by a great
majority, rejected the Plan of Finance submitted to
them by M. Butow, the Minister or Finance, on the
ground that the Provincial Estatri have alone the
power of determining all matters. of supply. No
Resolution could be of greater importance than this
to the People of Prussia. The power of taxation
being once recognised as resting solely with them-
selves, and once strictly acted upon, every thing else,
necessary to the completion of a free Constitution,
will infallibly follow in course of time, and it must
depend much on the people themselves how soon
they shall arrive at a consummation so devoutly to
be wished.

Another very important resolution has been come
to by the Bavarian Co*fined of State, who have almost
unanimously supplicated the limo to reduce his Army
to one hall of its present amount.
In Wjrtembeig a great reduction of the Army is
already going on, and the Courts of Hesse. Cassel
and Iladen are expected, it is said, to fellow the same
course.

The Auttrian Army, according to an official
statement of it, just published, consists of 41)3 Gene-
rals, MO Colonels, 76 Regiments, and 38 Battalions
of infantry, 34 Regiments of Cavalry, 5 Regiments
of Artillery, a Corps of Bombardiers, 19 Corps of
Garrison Artillery, and a Corps of Engineers. ( A
Regiment in the Austrian service generally cotn•
prebends two and some times four B.ttali•ms.)—
The division of the Austrian Army now in France,
consists of six regiments of infantry. two battalions
fri,Soot chasseurs, two rtgiments of% 'dragoons, and
two regiments of hussars. And 'ti ic tither division
whickhas been stationed in the tipgdom of Naples,
but. is now on its return, is composed of three regi-
ments of infantry and a regiment of dragoons.

Nvw wheat is to he seen in every French market.
Such is the bounty of PROVIDDICII this year, that
four bushels of wheat, which last year averaged only
latilbs. in weight, now weigh 2161b5. A baker of
Nantes has been tined 1000 francs, and is to be im-
prisoned for three months, for spreading reports cal..
culated to raise the price of corn.
French Funds, 31st July, 68 francs.

A Corrrspondent h; the Ca/demi/in Mertsny says
that he has the beta authority for saying that Minis-
ters are organising measures for the re-establishment
(,f the Property Tax ; and that a learned Professor;
intimately acquainted with the agricultural interesti,
is employed in making stales of assessment oa the
tenantry, &C.

' Dispatches overland from India have been received
'at the East India House, from the Governor of Bow_
bay, dated March 22, and communicating the impor.
taut intelligence of the taking of the fortress of Hat-
trass by the British army. The circumstances which
led to this event are as follows : A chief, named Rio
Doss, had for some time past, manifested a spirit
of restlessness and encroachment towards the British,
and, by taking possession of this strong fortress, his
hostile designs against the British possessions bor.
bering on the Mahratta territories, became obvious.
Itmoo?trances and explanations,,proving unsatilac-
toryorecourse was had by our'Government to more
effectual measures, by prompt' Act vigdrous military
operations. Our army, composed. of British and na.
tire troops, immediately took the field, under the
command of Colonel MARSHAL, an Officer of high
military reptitation. Arrived before the place, he
summoned it to surrender; but the enemy, confiding
in his strength and means of defence, refused to capi-
tulate. It was then determined to carry it by storm—
a heavy bombardment was commenced; and bombs
and Congreve rockets were used with terrible effect.
A bomb falling on the magazine, occasioned a tre-
mendous explosion, which destroyed numbers in
the garrison of Hattrau. Oakes, by the fire of the
enemy, was inconsiderable. Lieutenant Counmasti
was the only officer wounded. The Bombay Go-
vernment had not received the official accounts; but
the substance of the details we have given was com-
municated to that Government by a private letter from
Madras, and may, therefore, (having been made the
subject of an overland dispatch) be considered au-
thentic. The conduct of BCINDIA, in the countenance

he has given Rio Doss in his hostile dispositions to•
wards the British, is much blamed. A probability
might be entertained of a Mahrattn war, were it not
for the impression which the British arms may have
made on the councils of the Mahratta confederates.

iboir
orpsun, altobar S.— Mr. and'Mrs. D. Gaosys-
s. left the Castle, on Thurf,'llfsit 4Ondon. On
'F dity,f 'her Mauna= and e'Vi 40 Meets ELIZAUTH,
awaking to the PrinciikalMittagm Princesses
A mere and Smite took thWiiiiiing on horseback
in le Park. Same day, the'rilir and Conmess of
Mica.ssrlaw arrived at the Castle from Sheibourne.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, her MAnsTr's Conned
met, which teas attended by the Archbishop of CAN-
T/AMON Lord Aatan, and the Maid= of the RQUA.
The preparations are almost finished at Frogmote for
tho fate to be given by 'her Royal Highness the Prin-
ce's Euzassrii,, on TuesdAy. The invitations, for
-thd hrst rank of the Nobility, arc very ounscrovi.

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