Star.
London, England, 1817-08-23 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Park Papers of Wednesday arrived at a late
hour to•day.

l'he King of PRUSMA continues to visit every thing
of curichity and novelty which Paris • offers to his at-
tention. TIT Duke of RtoteLtru. the ENGLISH Ast-
BASSAIX)II, and other distinguished individuals. have
had audiences of his MaJests%

Two Royal Ordonnances have been published, one
appointing the Duke Ot MAMA a Member of the
Chamber of Peers, and the other raising the Marquis
D'Avatts, to the Ducal dignity.
Some commercial letters pre stated to have been
received announcing the death of President PETION,
and that he has been succeeded by a General, whose
name is not stated, who is nearly in his eightieth year.
, An article from Leghorn, of date the 2J August,
states, that an English merchant vessel, which had
arrived there from Alexandria, had been subj. cted to
the most rigorous quarantine, on account of the plague
which prevails along the African coast. The vessel
was originally from Tunis, and on its passage thence
to Alexandria, the whole of the crew and passengers,
the pilot alone excepted, had perished of the plague.
--On its arrival at Alexandria the English Consul
had prevailed on six English sailors who had desert-
ed from Admiral DUCKWORTH'S Beet, when at the
attack on Constantinople, to embark in the infected
vessel and carry it to its destination, upon a promise
of obtaining them a free pardon and it was this
forlorn crew which had brought the vessel to Leg-
horn. They purified the vessel every day, by filling
it with water even to the upper deck, and then emp-
tying it by the pumps, and by this means escaped the
contagion, so fatal to the previous crew.
The famous partizan Czeintr-Ganaozs, formerly
Chief of the Servian insurrection against the Orromas
' Prawn, is reported at Vienna, to have been seized at
Kissanov, a small place in Bessarabia, where he has
been living for some time in a state of retire-
ment, and beheaded by the PACHA of Bstonane,
on a charge of being concerned in stirrit,-; ,:p some
new commotion., which are likely rather to be in-
flamed than suppressed by this act of vengeance on a
character in such high popularity among the Servians.
French Funds, 19th August, 68 fr.

The American Journalists, like our own, are crying
up the necessity of economy. To prove their position
they are publishing the whole contents of the Republi-
can Red Book. The President has 25,000 and the
Vice• President 5000 a year—Pounds t No, Dollars 1
The salaries of the Officers in the State Department
are 17.096 dollars—in the Treasury 16,010, &c. &c.
They appear, tberelore, to have great cause of com-
plaint ; for in one uay and another the grand total
of the salaries of the Officers and Clerks employed,
at Washington, absolutely amounts to 351,8b7 per
annum—almost 90,000 Posta& SterSog 1 This is
almost as much as it costs England to keep BUN A•
PARTE at St. Helena.

On Monday her Manumit, the Princesses Au-
OUSTA and Euzaaarrn. their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Gummi-me, Princess &rota
of Guinea:Tea. and several of the Nobility, paid a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of MattLannocuti, at
their beauliful seat of White Knights. The Royal
Party arrived about twelve o'clock, and alter t.sking
refreshment, proceeded in open carriages to visit the
gardens and pleasure-grounds of this delightful place.
The day, though cloudy, was pleasant, and the park
acid lawn were rendered more lively and interesting,
from being peopled with groupes of company from
Reading and the adjacent villages, who, gaily
dressed, enamelled with every hue the verdant land-
scape, and added the charm of motion toils beauties.
The Duke of Marlborough's band of music was sta.
tioned in the woods, and every circumstance attended
to by the NAle Proprietor, which could add to the
enjoyment of the scene. The last visit our venerable
Monarch made, previous to his lamented indisposi-
tion, was to White Knights, iu 1805, since which
time both the house and grounds have received such
improvement from the fine taste of the present Duke,
as to render it unrivalled.

The fineness of the weather and the unequalled
attractions of Vauxhall Gordis:. induced a great nuns.
ber of fashionable, to repair thither yesterday evening.
[ A considerable portion of the happy but bumbler
family of honest Ahu Bull were also present--ming-
ling their pleasures with a sigh of regret that these.
scenes of recreation and delight are, in another
week, to terminate for the season.
A Gentleman just returned from a tour through
France states that the crops of corn throughout that
country are beyond all description fine. The wheat
•as not beaten down by the rains' and upon the
banks of the Rhine, near Switaerland, they were
busily employed in reaping it a full month ago.
Sunday last a violent storm burst over the towns
of Senlis, Compiegne, =id Chantilly. Hail-stones,
as large as pigeons eggs, broke the windows of pub-
lic edifices and private houses. Happily, nearly all
the harvest had been got in.