Star.
London, England, 1817-09-03 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning.
The King of Prtirs.tA left Paris, as expected, on
.Saturday morning. The Duke of Renato, who had
the honour of receiving. his Mansvx on his entrance
into France, has been also commissioned to attend
• him on his return to the frontiers.

- On the day before the Duke of WzrAtteoron's de-
parture from Paris, he had a long confesenie. at his
fittel with the Duke of RICUELIIV) the Austrian,
PrussiAn, and Russian Ambassadors. Nothing of
the result has transpired ; but there can be no doubt
ii:at the Army of Occupation has been the subject of
deliberation, since the Duke of Wacussoross could
not be the Representative of England or have any
political chaiacter at such a meeting, except as Ge-
neralissimo of that army. That some decision has been
to upon the intended amount of the Allied
Forces during the ensuing year, we think highly
prob Able. The French Ministers would of course
press for a decision in time to aireet thfir "choice of
measures to be proposed to the Councils, and no
fairet opportunity could certainly occur of acceding

to their desire, than, when two such ruling personages
in Coalition as the King of Paussm and Duke of
;Wt.: mummy, were at Paris. Whatever the decision
:is, we should conjecture it to be of a nature which
has kit the French Ministers in no difficulty on the
*object; for we observe. that within a few hours
• after the King of Faust's!' departure on Saturday,
a meeting of the two Committees of the Council of
State. intrusted with the Departments of the Interior
!and of War; was specially convened by the Keeper

of the Seals, for the purpose, no doubt, of commu-
nicating the result of this Ministerial conference, and
digesting the measures consequent upon it.
It may be considered as in some degree strengthen-
ing the probability of a reduction in the Army of
Occupation, that no pOssible means appears to be
spored on the part of the French Go-velment, to
Saleciliate the good-will and attachment of its own
military —that imiirary, the dread of whichip alone
'the cause of a foreign force being retained in the
-ewustry. The Journals received this day, mention
Iwo acts of this description, which can scarcely fail
to have a strong effect on the minds of the French
soldiery. Marshal Iltsvousr, Prince of Eckmuhl,
has been presented to the Sato, and, k Is said,
will shortly receive a Marshal's baton : and Ge-
seal Discus, who was condemned for his cod-

duct. during the second usurpation, to death, bet
teoeived a commutation of his sentence into ten
years imprisonment, and has since been confined is
the citadel of Besancon, has now received a full par-
don. and been restored to liberty and to his cottony.
The two soldier:, Desbsus and Chayoax, who have
been condemned for a conspiracy against the lives of
the Princes, have appealed against the judgment,
The Repairer who was directed to communicate the
sentence to the prisoners, went to the Abbey, for
that purpose between two and three of the morning.
/Albans was in bed and in a sound sleep. It re.
sittired some efforts to rouse him sad make him go
dorcito'the gaoler's offir.e, where the sentence was to
lie read. *During and after the reading of it, be pre-
served all his original boldness. 64 Deith," be re.
Itigalcd, se is noshing to me; I shall march to the
"Plain of Grenelle as on a day of battle. I shall fancy
aft :Wag a sharp-shotaisq." Chayous manifested less
Smogs AO AIM ,1401 IttsitlAy to. the.
'iv/he's( appeal still left him.
Seater:tracts from' the Madrid Gazettes complain
moth of tbe want of intelligence from the toktaies.'
ger the ;emit of 114 toes Expedition, DO lipprebrice
Whatever is said to be entertaiseds but a great im-
patience is expressed to know what has passed in the
months of Jane and Jaly between Generals Bottvait
and Mottn.Lo 46 who ought to have met," i said,
by this times" if the Insurgents have bad the costar
•
to await:else Royal troops." 1
of the point of dangerithe conception of the Ma-
drid politicians is, nn thick, pretty correct; and; if
they have no more go flattering unction to their souls"
than tbe.bope that men who have already se often
Met Sod foeght and conquered the royal troops,
will tow fly in despair before them t they may pro-
bably soon have their impatience set at rest, by such
a mak as they We expect. .
An article Wpm Hamburg!' confirms the pacific
view whi4 irs lately ventured to take of the political
relation of 'Nisi& Oa the Persian fruitier the army
.of vbeervation maiataihed, by Russia has been coati.'
&tasty distibished t the force shill kept up being
Ma* soilioioot to Bcpross the incurious of the was.

&ring tribes ct Caucasus. The differences which
have kubsisted between the Turks and Russians are
likely to be soon composed; and a negotiation of
great importance is spoken of as being on foot at
Constantinople, for engaging the Porte to suffer the
free navigation of the Dardanelles to ships paying a
moderate toll. This permission,' if
,granted by the
Turkish Government, will not, we trust, be confined
to Russian vesst Is. The commercial nations of Europe,
in general, ought to have deeply at heart an object so
important to the universal interest of the trading
world; and Turkey must surely be alive to the ad-
vantage of encouraging by all fair means s commer-
i •
cial intercourse, of which her position mast necessa-
rily place the key in her own hands.
The Emperor ALaXANDER is on the eve of quittirig
Petersburgb for the long period of eighteen months.
His Imperial Majesty will pass his winter between
the two capitals of Moscow and Warsaw ; after which
he proposes to inspect or traverse the southern pro-
vinces of his immense dominion.

French Funds. August 30, 68 1. 45 c.

HAMPURGH MAIL.

By the Mail of this morning we have received ac--
counts from St. Petersburgh, Vienna, Berlin. West-
phalia, and other places, from which we shall select
the more prominent articles.
The system of drawing upon futurity for the re-
lief of present exigencies is becoming every -obi,' mere
general among the Governments of the world.. and
will, one day or other, produce mighty consequences.
If. States cannot find their resources within the year;
it must be owing to,one of two causes .I—either they
are pursuing objects from which they ought to de.
silt, being beyond their means—or some unfair ten-
derness is excercised towards those whose income
should furnish the expenditure which is either in•
curred for the benefit or for the protection of their
property, or ought not to be incurred at all.
The Russian loan yields the subscribers about in
per cent. for their money.

Religious persecution, under the pretest of sup.
pressing fanaticism, has not yet ceased on the Con.
tinent :—we are always slow to believe the chauel;
exhibited in the foreign journals against sectarians,
for when one side alone is allowed the right of public
statement; there can never be a want of charges.
The secular festival of the Reformation, which is
about to be celebrated on the Continent excites con•
siderable interest. The appellations of Prokstasst and
Losfuror, are in future to be dimped in the Prussiai
dominions. It is recommended to the Clergy to
employ in their sermons and writings the terms
Evairfical Ciarch—Evaaideal atistiesu," sad to
speak with tenderness of" their sionvirairgelital irethree."
' Will this answer the end intended by Rulers f We
very much doubt it. Sooner or later they will •id
that the recognkion of any sect or sects whatetet tli‘6l
matter by what dime they may be designated), as,
entitled to greatey favours or proteejion from**
State than others, alWays brings with it a certain poe-
tion of political evil. If they wish to put an end to
all religious feuds arnong their subjects, let them treat
them all with equal inspartiality, and know them
only as civil 'members of the community. •

T. PETFRSSURGH, AUGUST Is.
Large sums continue to be subscribed to the new
loan. It yields seven and a half per cent. interest,
because, fur a hundred rubles. which the subscribers
pay, they receive an inscription for 120, which bear
six per cent. interest. The billets which are given to
the subscribers are signed by Count Lumbest, as
President, and Mr. Nicolay Stieglite, as Director.

VIENNA, AUGUST if.

A few days ago there was discovered, some leagues
from this place, a sect of the nature of the adherents
Of Poeschel. These sectaries met in the neighbour-
hood of Wiedling, on an eminence in the forest,
where there has bees for many years a small image
of the Virgin Mary upon an old oak. The bead of
this sect is said to be a Countess. Their exalted fancy
led them to consider this place as their church, and
they. wanted to compel the clergyman of the neigh-
bouring village of Suffering, to read mass there ; and
upon, his refusal the Countess is said to have threat
ened to do it herself, if be would not agree to it.
—The Government has been informed in time, by
,_the Clergy of the surraboding villages, of they dim..
den, so that by the employment of energetic .matte,,
sures, this unspond excrescence has also been de-
Strayed hi thaleginning.
f Tbe Doke de Sao Carlos, hitherto Spanish Atubas-
Atador at this Court, set out yesterday for his new
destination at the Court of London. His successor,
Don Pe4ro Cavallos, is not expected in less than a
month, during which time the Secretary of Legatiea,
de Los Rios, is Charge d'Aff.ires. •

WESTPHALIA, AUGUST as.
1 The Minden Sunday Paper contains a remarkable
1 circular letter to the Evangelic Clergy of both Con-
fessions in the Prussian Monarchy, on occasion of the
intended celebration of the seeular•festival of the Re-
formation, in which there is the following passage :
“ The representation of the occasion, and the object
of the Reformation, will afford the Clergy ample
materials for edifying reflections and discourses, cal-
culated to aficet the thinds of their hearers, without
their being tempted to give their sermons a ten-
dency hostile to their Noo•Evangclie brethren.—H
The spirit of truth which animated the Reformers,
and in whose energy they began and accomplished
the great teprk, is also a spirit of peace and of lure•'

The fruits of this spirit, according to the exhortatoll
of the Apostles, should •be kir:Nines:, justice, and
truth. Only on account of the few Clergymen who
might perhaps forget this, it must be mentioned, that
Sermons to be delivered on the festival of the Refor-
mation, ought to avoid every expression of bitterness
or contempt towards the adherents of another mode
of belief, as it would be wholly incompatible with
the dignity of the Evangelical Church, and would
likewise be directly opposed to the expressly declared
will of his Majesty the King, it being his desire that
the pure representation of the spirit of the Reforma-
tion, without any mixture of unfriendly expressions
towards other Confessions, be the general theme or.
which the Clergy in his Mejesty's dominions shall
uniformly preach, upon the prescribed choice of texts.
• " The Ministry farther observe, that the name of
Pride:lash significant as it was at the time of its in-
troduction, though it is more adapted to indicate the
defence made at that time of the external rights of
the Evangelical Princes and States in the concerns
of Religion and Church Government, than the pecu-
liar spirit and meaning of the Evangelic Church, yet
even this last sense occasions various misconceptions,
and has in fact been here and there misemployed in
this manner in these latter times.
" It seems therefore advisable, on more accounts
than one, to leave these denominations, Protettant,
Prokttani Chinch, to history, to which they belong,
and henceforward universal* to rooky in their stead,
especially to religious writings and discourses, the
more proper and more generally intelligible terms,
Allays& Church, Ilwastgefic Christian. Luther him.
self disapproved of all party names : he remonstrates
in his writings against the professors of the Evangelic
Faith calling themselves after his name Lutheran,
and refers them to die sole foundation of the Chris-
tian Faith, the doctrine of CHRIST—the Evangelist..
In the celebration of the approaching high festival if
the Church, may the spirit of their DIVING Maslen
repose on all faithful labourers in the vineyard of the
LORD, and crown their endeavours with success!

" The MiSiotry of die Interior,
(Signed) u V. oil UCKIIANII."

a Berlin, luxe 10, 1117."

According to this official declaration, the names,
Protestant and Lutheran, will for the future be disused
in the Prussian dominions.
WARSAW. AUGUST IS.

A few days ago a great storm, accompanied with
thunder, rain, and hail, caused dreadful devastations
At Kishe and the environs, over an extent of country
five German miles long and 1 broad—thirty villages
in particular have buffered. In some parts of Gal.
lieia the hail has wounded a great number of cattle,
killed birds, &c.