Star.
London, England, 1803-11-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCTOBER 18.
It is hid that the departure of the Farr Corson. for

' the Army of England is very near at band. But if
it is true, as is faid, that the tour of the Minifler at
War, through the Departments of the North, will
• airily occupy a few days, it is molt probable that the
Vim Consoi will not let out till after his return.—
The
Minifter at War, in his infpeCtion of the camps
of St. Omer, Bruges, and the other camps on the
cask will only take a rapid review of the troops and
their refpeCtive pofitions. In proportion as he found.
the Rate of the preparations to be more or lefs ad.
granted in the different camps he has fent orders to
the Commanders to batten more and more the execu.
tion of the meafures entrutted to their care. The
fame Minifter, previous to his leaving Paris, autho.
sized the Commiffary General, who is to fupply pro•
vifions for the feveral camps, to make the necefary
arrangements in the departments by which the fupplies
are to be furni(hed. All the Conictipts of the years
feven, eight, nine, and ten, and all others not in.
eluded in the military confeription above the age of
forty, are invited to exert themfeives in their feveral
departments to enter the corps to be recruited. All
thole who enter are required to proceed to St. Omer
without delay. The activity of the preparations for
the expedition agaMft England cunaantly encreafes.
The old frontiers of the North of France, and the
• departments of ci-devant Belgium, are the theatre of
inceffant movements among the land'forces as well as
in the naval department. The land forces contittne
to receive daily reinforcements, and arc gradually
advancing nearer the coati. where they are to be but-
ted, or placed in barracks. In a limiiar proportion, the
boats of the national flotilla daily accumulate in all
the ports, and on all the rivers of the Republic.
Ocr. ,9.—The Prefider,t of the United States has
fent three Commiffioners to Lonitiana, to make a
report relative to fcveral prrieted ettablillorntnts on
the river MilLffipp:, and where will be the belt fitua.
thin to found a new commercial town, New Orleans
being too much expored to inundation.
The report is to be laid before Congrefs.
The emigrants who were lately d:nounced or feat
to the Temple, it is underftood, were not engaged in
any direct royalilt confpiracy, but were Ilifpeetcd as
friends of England, and carrying on a correfpondence
with that country.
The mother of the FIRST CONSUL intends to make
a vifit to her brother, Cardinal FISCII, at Rome.—
The greater part of her daughters in law will, it is
faid, accompany her on her journey, which will take
with t...0t or t.:c . tasr Comstri.
place at the fame time ;lh IF
Madame Boa APAILTE is ill of 4 Lever, and is only
it ifited by her family.
General AUGEREAV, who commands the army at
Bayonne, arrived on the t ith initant at Paw, where
be reviewed the 83d dcmi brigade.
An apothecary has been airetted at Vannes for
entrefponding with England.
The report that t! onps of armed rebels are :trem-
bled in the Depittrncon.s of Mot hihan and Fmilletrc
is unlottoded. Some partilans and agents of England
may b: tiv,zged on iutri,,;ucs, but they are watched
by the folic,.
The report that the Grand Mailer of Malta has
retired to Corfu i.; con:r.adiacd.
OCT.2O.—In addition to tho'l military meafures,. .. . _ .

which may bccor.fid:red as nothing b: pond the ofitai
routine, feveral others of quite different dcferintion
have lately been determined nt Among there is the
plan Inc a new organization of the army uhich lias
been lately fixed, (hi t!:: dcuilshAve not sea beci,
offically publifhed. This plan, apparently adopted for
aconomtcal purpofe,, fecms to hare for its grand
oojescl the diminution of the core. of iufantry and
cavalry without reducing the number of foldiers who
compote them. By this means the expence of the
Staffs of theft Corps fo fuppretied, would be laved to
the publio. Ddcrcot regitmoth of cavalry, and dtf.

ferent rub-divifions of that force will be diminifhed,
while others will receive a proportional augmenta-
tion. Demi-brigades of infantry of the line and light
infantry are to be incorporated, and thus converted
into regiments, conning of four battalions of a thou-
land men each. The regiments raifed in Switzerland
for the fervice of the Republic have been modelled
on thefe principles. The French military corps will
not, however, be placed on this footing till circum-
fiances appear particularly to require it,nor will it be
effeCted but in a very gradual manner. The new ar-
rangement is, however, in fubßance, beginning to be
carried into effeet. Several demi brigades of infantry
have been incorporated, with the view of being fub-
jeCled to the new regulations. According to other
decrees of the Government, dated the sit Vendcmi-
aire (Sept. z 3), alfo iuggefled by confiderations of
sec,,nomy, a great number of places and polls of a
military charader in the new frontier departments of
the North have been fuppreffed. Bruffels, Louvain,
Tirlemont, Ghent, with the exception of its
cattle, Hula, Axcl, Tertrai, Menin, Warneton,
Fumes, Mons, Tournay, except its citadel, Namur,
Liege, &c. are in the number of places no longer to
be confidered as garrifon towns. The fortifications
and military grounds of thefe places are to be fold,
and the amount of the produce of thee fales is to be
tent to the public Trcafury.
General MOREAU is appointed Member of the Le-
gion of Honour.