Star.
London, England, 1816-01-16 00:00:00

LAUSANNE, JANUARY 2.

The approaching journey of his Royal Highness
Prince Gustavus, son of her Majesty Queen Frederica
of Sweden, from Carlsruhe to Lausanne, and his pas-
sage through the Swiss Caatons has been announced
to the Government of Switzerland by M. D. Inner,
the Minister of the Grand Duke of Baden.
The towns of Basle, Zurich, and St. Gall, intend,
it is said, to seed a deputy to Paris, to claima by virtue
of the Convention of the 20th of November, the resti.
tution of the requisition made by General Massena,
for the service of the French armies.
A capitulation is going to be made for a fourth
battalion, for the regiment Aufde Maur, in the ser-
vice of Holland. The three first battalions were ra-
pidly completed, particularly by the inhabitants' of
the Canton of Tessin.

AUGSBURCH, JANUARY I.

A German Journal has the following remarks upon
the lonian Islands
•e The Century which' saw Venice, Genoa, Ra,
gusa, end Peolizta cease to be independent States,
has presented us, for the second time, with a tepub-

lie of the lonian Islands. This time, as the first,
Russia comes forward as the father of•the child; but
now England trues upon herself the guardianship,
and will hardly let it slip out of her hands. Corfu is.,
indeed a sterile rock, but in strength it hardly yields
to the impregnable . Malta. • Catalonia and Zante
yield in abundance the finest fruits of the South s.
besides this, the opposite coast, the native country of
Pyrrhus and Castriot, is inhabited by the boldest
and most Warlike people of the East of Europe.—
There England will recruit her armies, if the market
in Germany should become too limited. From this
point she can act with energy, if at some (attire
time a neighbour should have a mind to transplant
into Greece the benefits of our civilization, our Loan.
dal system, our conscriptions. „ '
In a few days' sail from Corfu an English fleet
may be before the Dardanelles, and a tio-operating
army requires at most lit to cross" Mount Humus.
Considerations of dis kind have probably induced
Austria to recognize the aewiltepublic ; for it' cer-

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tainly bas not escaped her ClutiseHors that the Sove.l
reigoty of the Adriatic is transferred from Venice to
Corfu, and that a few ardicd boats suffice to ruin
the whole commerce of the Littorale. There seven
islands on the coast of Albania, Livadist, and the
Mores, about 45 (German) square miles, and
200,000 inhabitants—Thsl are, I. Corfu, by fir the I,
largest ; 2. Paro ; 3. Santa Maura ; 4. Cephalonia;
S. Theali (the ancient Ithaca) ; 6. Zante ; 7. Cereigo'
From the end of the 14th century to the Treaty of
Campo Formic. (17th October, 1797), they belonged
to the Republic of Venice, which treated like a cruel
step-mother these countries formerly a part of Greece-
-14 In the year 1790 they were conquered by the
Russians and the Turks, and formed into an indel
pendant State, under the title of Republic toy the
Seven Islands. But they soon fell into the hands of
the French, in which they remained till the fall
sOf
Bonaparte, when the Treaty of Paris has at last de-
termined their fate. For the futbre happiness, for
the natural and moral improvement of the islands;
-extraordinary advantages spay be expected, and en'
courage the unhappy brethren, sighing under the
Turkish yoke, at length to rise so the dignity of men;
It almost seems as if the High Allies bad expressly
contrived this arrangement to bring about the resnr:
tendon ef Greece.