Star.
London, England, 1817-09-11 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

A Hamburgh Mail which arrived last night, has
brought German Papers to the 4th inst. from which
we have given same extracts in a preceding column.

An article from Berlin announces with affected
gratification, that• " one step more has been taken
towards the forming of a Constitution for Prussia."
One step wore I It would have been more correct,
perhaps, to have said that it is the fiat and the only
step which has ever yet been taken on the subject.—
And what is this step? One speech has. we are
assured, been actually delivered in Council, descrip-
tive of the basis on which the constitutional labours
should commence, and three Commissioners have
been appointed to enquire—what sort of laws 'the
people have got already ! The insincerity of the
Icir.c: of PRUSSIA, in all that regards the representative
Government which he so repeatedly pledged himself
in the most public and solemn manner to grant to
his pecple immediately after the peace, is a great
deal too palpable to require either comment or
exposure.

The extraordinary arrest of Colonel MassExnacn,
at Frankfort, has excited, as might well be expected,
much observation among his fellow patriots in Wir-
temberg. Accustomed to ascribe all such kingly
acts to any thing else than their ostensible motives,
they may perhaps feel it difficult to exclude from
their minds an impression that the flight of MAWS--
BACH from Stutgardt to Baden—his expulsion tram
Baden to Frankfort—his abduction from this last
.supposed sanctuary of freedom—and consignment to
the distant dungeons of Prussia—are all links of one
system of persecution which he has entailed upon
himself by his strenuous opposition to the measures,
in his opinion arbitrary and unconaitutional, of the
KIND of WIRTZSIBEhO, rather than the consequence
of any delinquency, either old or new, tit kit his for-
mer Sovereign of Prussia can possibly have to charge
against him.

The Duke of Witt.r.aacirou is become a Cittaeisreir
and a Collector of Painting and Sculpture. His
ample fortune will afford him the means of gratifying
his taste : and a noble gallery for the reception of the
works of the most celebrated Masters, both of ancient
and modern art, is to form a part of the national
mansion to be elected for him. His Grace !bat lately
eared to his Collection a very fine cast on Grouse from
the Glirefiorvr, which is for the present placed in the
g.r.ta of his house in Piccadilly.

FRENCH PAPERS. _.

The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived this
morning.
The following is given as a sort of progratnme of
the military progress of the Duke of WettietoroN.
On the 9th (Tuesday last) his Grace was to be at
Colmar to review the corps of the Austrian Army,
who were to make their mat: Ivies in the Plain
which separates that City from Schoppenwehr. On
the 10th he was to proceed to Reichshoffen; and on
the 11th (to day), he was to review, near Gander s•
hoffen, the corps of the Wirtemburgoise Army; and
afterwards, in the Plain of Marienthal, the Artillery
of the Austrian division.
An article from Vienna denih that either PtinCe
METTERNICH or Mr. LAMB had been at Carlsbad,
and leaves the public to judge horn this, of the verity
of what certain papers have written as to a pretended
Congress at Carlsbad.

The winning Prince of STAtinEmpeno, in conse-
quence of a balcony a a country chateau num under
repair breaking down with bins, has had both his legs
broken, and received several other grievous wound:.

The return of the Emperor and Empress of At;s.
TRIA to Vienna is nut expected now till the begin.
ning of November.
At Constantinople the plague has renewed its ra-
vages in a very alarming tumlts.. Some ships from
Alexandria have principally contributed to spread it.
The hospitals are filled. Even the interpreter of the
Palm has been infected by one of his domestics.—
The intelligence from Smyrna and Canea, with re-
spect to the progres; of the contagion in these quar-
ters, is said to be not less disquieting.

The capital of the GRAND SEIGNIOR ha: been also
the scene of another alarming conflagration. On the
25th, one of the powder mills behind the Seven
Towers, blew up with a tremendous ezplosi.in : eight
lives were lost. Fortunately the tire did not commu.
nicate to the magazines of powder, add by prompt
exertions its farther ravages were stayed.