Star.
London, England, 1828-11-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PROM THE GAZETTE DE TRANCE, NOV. lb.
PARIS, Nov. 14.

No interes:ing intelligence has been received from
the theatre of war. It is thought at Vienna that no
bulletin sill be published in the Russian army berme
the taking of Silistria. It is sa:d that after that event
Count Wittgenstein will take up a strong position be-
fore &bumla, where he will wait for the favourable
season. The corps I f General Roth had rejoined that
of Prince Sclierbatoff before Silistria.
Letters from Bucharest say that fer two days past
a heavy cannonade had been heard in Abe direction of
hi isiria, which continued even dining the night. It
was afUrmed that the Russians had jlaced their heal),
*Hillery in the batteries which tile:), bird erected 'eV
near the fortress. The Turkish garrison is said fo.
amount to 24,000 men. The Itus,saan hqsiesiostarmy
is at least 30,000 strong.
The of ;part of the llionitipir contains several Os.
din:Aces of the King.

ibelasy in 19 atdelve, Legatoss the new orgaifiza•
tion of the new Council of Stsie. The sagood gjeces
the 41111D41 9f the Cannel Wes or State, bosh ordinary
and oatsnordinary, and al,p the Maiitie de 11,eqoeter.
The thkdappointo the Chevalier Fauu tp, be Councillor
in ibf COWL of-Ceirsation. The fuusth appt hits the
klarqpis de Yeukilier. I'gWoasteo.Geoesal. so lie Di-
iecrortGitheral of the CdestomL: apd ;he fifth 4ppoi, is
the Salon Villeneuve, .1)0W DittiPr-Gclieral eqf the.
Customs, to be gostpustorlGenernl. The sixth contains
25 porainations and changes io tie Prefectures ; ,and
the 7th appoints .a Committeeof 10 rnernhers fqr the
sPignartiOnent of the Studs.

The Bulletin of the Laws, N 0.961, poblibhed to.day,
oontuins se Of dinance of the King, in 196 aitialost49ll-
- the,goverairbeet of IlioncliAiiiiasko.

FILIIIICA FBlllOlll-..Pa W. 14.—Rive per Gam ipif.
Terre per Crew 75f. We. .11aAlc.ligpck I peat gojargs Ale Nay*,
7W. 70e. Ezdtange ea Lemke, oar mouths 251. 20c. Three
digtes 15f. 104

The state of the French highways has been a subject
of loud and general complaint, both with natives and
foteign travellers. Some parts of the road between
Calais and Paris is so bad, as at certain seasons cr.
the year to occasion great delay and some danger;,
And the roads leading into Germany by Strasburg, or
to Italy by Lyons, are still worse. This fact need
excite no great surprise, when it is recollected that
the whole of the highways in France are made and
repaired at the expense of the Government, and
that the whole amount set down in the budget under
this head of expenditure—namely, for making roads
and bridges, and for keeping them in repair —is
only about 20,000,000 of francs, or about 800,0001.
The necessity for same change in this part of the in-
ternal administration of Fiance led, in August last, to
the appointment of a commission to inquire into the
facts, and to suggest improvements. This commissi•in
nominated two of its Members, Baton Pasquier and
Count Mole, to draw up a statement embracing' the re-
sult of their inquiries, and the former has just printed
his report. It al:wean from his statements, that the high.
ways either at present used or about to be opened, ex-
tend .the length ef 8,584 leagues, tie league being 4,200
yards, or about two English miles and a half. Of this
total amount, 3,572 leagues only (or less than the half )
are in a state of repair, and are kept up at the expense
of 2,280 francs per league (or 8,146.821 francs in all);
3,580 leagues are in such a state of dilapidation,
that it would require 18.624 francs per league
to render them fit for use; 1813, being unfinished,
would require to complete them 47,420 banes per
league; and 365, being still to be opened, would de.
mated 71,962 francs per league fur their construction.
Thus, separately from any expenditure for annual re-
pairs, it is cAculated that 198 000,0h,0 of francs, or
nearly 8,000,000/. sterling.would be necessary to restore
and complete the lines of communication which go
wider the name of royal roads or national highways iu
France. Of course the whole of this charge would not
accrue in one yeti, nor are all the roads which it would
be necessary to complete of equal urgency ; but such an
expenditure would be requiste to form a tolerable system
of roads in Fiance, or to bring the existing communi-
cations into a proper state t.f repair. In the opinion of
Baron Pasquier, this exvense, though great, ought to
be borne with cheerfulnes by the nation, and w ould
soon be repaid with huttett by the increase ofl
wealth, and the extension of indiistry, which improved,
facilities of communicationwould create. The com.
mission afterwards pioceed. to the discussion of many
points of no grist footrest tin this side of the water.—
Such as, whether they olrght to recommend the Mac-
adamisation of their road's, the plantation 'of trees to
shade them, and other such questions. When the atten-
tion of the Ministfy, the public, and the Chambers, is
.thus called to the state of the French high ways, there,
can be little doubt that improvements will soon be.
adopted. The sum demanded far lire new construction
is formidable; 6or a nation which allossed its Sovereign
in waste 5,000,00 N. sterling on the palace and park of
Vers,ailles, aad which three yells ago advanced
400,000,9001, sterling to .imienaffy the.emigrant Nobi.l
lity, ought not to grudge 8,000,0001. to . complete its
hues of interval communication.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.
BRUSSELS, Nov. it.
A 'British Cabinet Messenger passed thrcugh this'
city yesterday on his way from Odessa to London, with
dispatches.
Two persons, both of them concerned in the pub-
lication If the Courier des Pass Has, have been sum-
mated to-day before Baron de Vandevenne, Juge
I &instruction, and after a long examination they were
called upon to name the author of a letter on Jesui•iqu
and Nlirasterialism, inserted in the Number of 13:h Nov.
and of the article on the Lrberty of the Press, in the
Number of 9.h Navemll.r, a decree mith which these
pers• ns declared they would rut
It is affirmed that tl.e fi'teen millions asked by the
Ministry for the service of-our Colorri.l iros,ebsions will
nr tbe grAnteJ by the &coati Chamber of the States
G..r.eral. •

SEIULIN, Ocr.
The Austrian contractors, who have engaged to sup-
ply the Tusk-VI fortrebses on the Danube, ue doubling
their exertions, in order to fulfil their contracts before.
,the winter. The Mahomedan bands which have ravaged
Little Wallachia can no longer forage there, and the
aesfety of Widdin and Itudrchuk is at stake, which will
be seized as soon as Sili.t: is has fallen. We axe ih-
fotined that a considerable quantity of 'heavy artillery
has been embarked upon the Danube, and that the prin.
' cipalitussianOilicers.who,directed the operations against'
Varna repair to the Head-quartets at Bancoukßazardj•k,
a central position, from w hick all the operations against
the Turks will henceforth be directed. It the latter do not
quit their cantonments, and venture into the open field.
all the tpwas on the danerbe, as far as Belgrade, will
be besieged. We hear of three Russian a: mien, which
are to act in concert, as soon as every thing shall be
ready. to advance. Hence all the Oriental Christians
will be cAlled upon to take up arms, the present war
being a question of political existence between Russia
and Turkfy. The famous Omer Vtione, who boasted
that he would 'Ave Varna, has fled ; Bosnia, a prey to
anarchy, resists the orders of the Sultan, who might
come and pass the winter at Adrianople, if the state of
his capital allowed him to leave the camp at Ramis

The French expedition in the Morea keeps Albania
and Macedonia in alarm, so as to paralyse the forces of
these two proviaces._______

VIENNA, Nov.*.
The Imperial Interapncio, baron d'Ottenfels, has
gum interviews with the Reis Effen4 to whom he has
lately presented a most impnitant note, intimating to
the Porte the desire of Austria and England that peace
,should be re-established with Russia.
DUSSELDOEFF, Nov 7.
-Deplorable excesses have lately been committed at
Creveld, by the workmen in the manufactory of that
place,,in consequence of the reduction of their wages.
Ole houses of seventeen manufaciturers have sailed
more or less, and the disorder was not put a stop to till
the arrival of 58 hussars, with three officers, sent from
that place. At the tit it notice of the riot, 13 persons
4c44lSed srf bet' kis taken past in the disturbances have
.t en bought.isititer, and cuatioted in our prison, and a
gteater number cf them are at Creveld.--Dreuels
1 errs, Aoe, 15.

Art. 3. Tie Council of Ministers consists of a Presi-
dent and the Ministers who are Secretaries of St rte.
Art. 4. The Ministers of State are d;stribureJ into
V.e six following Departments—The Minister of Vie
Inter, icir, or Goveannicits; the Minister of Justice; the
Minister of War ; the Minister of the Navy ; the Minister
of Finince ; the Minister of Foreign Allairc.
A Decree shall organ* the Ministry, and its Depart.
meats, a:rd settle the distribtrion of its Officers.
The Liberate r President can charge one Ministry
wit!' the execution of two offices or Secretaryships.
Att. 5. Every Minister is the Wet of his respective
Department, and the immediate organ to communicate
the orders emanating from the Supreme Power. No
order that has been issued from any other channel, nor
any Decree whatever that is not authorised by the cot.
responding Mu liner, can beexecutrd by any funceoirary,
tribunal, or private

Att. 6. Tile Ministers Snietaties of State are respon.
.stble in all cases %here they IA in the strict execution
of their dudes, when they ate to be tried under a special
D:cree to he issued on t is subj ct.
Art. 7. In case of inchs-Tosition, absence, or death of
the President of the S;ote, the President of the Council
of Ministers is to t.ke upon himself the Government at
the Republic ; and, in the last-mentioned else, his first
act is to be to call together the National Reptesei.tation,
within a max not exceeding 150 days.

CMAIP. lII—Or SUS Council n► STATII.
_ Art. 8, The Council of S.ate 611.111 consist of the Pre-
sident °tithe Council of Minister,, and f.f the Sec. etAr its
of State:. and at least of one Councillor for each sal the
'active Departments of the Republic.
Art. 8. When the 'Aerator does not preside at the
uncii, the Pre>ident of the C of ►Ministers shall
do so.

Alt. 10. The Cduncil of State shall-
-Ist. Prepare all the Decrees and ltesoluthins which
the Chief of the State is toiissue, whether the propositions
originate with the Ministers, or proceed Ir im orders
that may be commun cited t r this effect. A spe4sl
Regulation, which tie Council may give before, to ,he
approbation of Government, will fix the rule of proceed•
ing, a•iJ its own policy.
2i. To make its report to Government, in cases of
declaration of war, preliminaries of peace, ratification
of treaties with other nations, according to 9, 10. and
11 of the second Article of the,first Chapter of this
Decree, and upon any other application that may be
'oath. to tl,em.

3d. To report respecting persons of capacity and
merit, candidates for the Prefectsbips and Government
of provi,:ces, of places, of Judges of the High Corot
4tid Court of Appeal, and other Tribunal; and Judicial
Orfitces, of Arclibishopi, Bishops, c •nonical eignittes,
and situatoms in the Metropolitan and Cathedral
Churches; of cads of the superior offic:b, andemploy-
meats in the Revenue.

CAMP. IV. -Or u OBOANIXATIOX MID ADMIX& T.ATIOX OF TUN
TIOILIUTOXY OF TUX RXFUSLIC.
Art. 11.--The territory of the ltepuNlic k, with a
view to its borer administration, to be divided into Pre-
fectures, which are to be marked out by the Council of.
Stare as soon as it meets.

Aft. It —A Prefect is to be at the head of each Pie-
rec Lure.

Art. 13.—The Prefects are the superior political
Chicn in their respective districts, and the immediate,
natural agents of the head of the State. Their
functions and duties are those which the laws impose on
the Intendants.

Art. 14.—The Intendancies of the Departments are►
suppressed. Every province is to be administered by a.
Governor, whose functions and &ties are detailed by
the laws, and who will be classified by a special deem.

Caa/• V.—O' Tall ADMIUSTILATION or Jams&
Art. 15. Justice shall be administered in the name of
the Republic, and by authority of law, by a High
Conk, Courts et Appeal, and Judges of the First In-
stance, Tribunals of Commerce, Courts of Admiralty,
and Military Tribunals.

Att. 16. One of the first obj cts of the Council of
State wiil be to consult the organic decrees of the Tri-
bunals and Courts of Judicaui•e, as well as matter*
concernicg the establishment of Judges of the Let (Ju-
ries), 'Tribunals of Correctional Police, and the organi-
zation of the public Administration.

CHM'. V1..-.6IIIISIIIAL Aaaamaipunirs.
Art. 17. MI Colornbians me equal in the cye of the
law, and alike admissible to all Civil,Ecclesiastical, and
Military employments.
Att. 18. Individual liberty shall be equally guaran-
teed, and no one shall be arrested in common offences,
except in cases determined by the laws, and upon a
Previous summary deposition as to the fact, and on a
written order horn a competent authority. But these
provisions shall not be required in arrests ordered by the
police, as a correctional punishment,nor in such which
the public safety renders necessary in cases of climes
against the state.

Ait. 19. The infamy attached to any punishment
shall never mend to any one else but the (gender.
Ait.2o. All men havitthe same right to publish their
opinions, and cause them to be printed, without any