Star.
London, England, 1829-02-26 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, Fes. a.
- The official part of the Menikur contains a Royal
Odinance, conferring the dignity of Marshal of France'
on General Maison, Commander-in-Chief of the army
io the Mores.

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The number of Marshals of France had'remained in-
complete since the death of Marquis Lauri.ton, apd the
King has taken this opportunity of giving a striking
Iproof of his satisfaction to General Maison, and to re-
compence at the same time both the former add the
recent services of the General, who distinguished him.
self both in 1814 and 1815.
Two expresses bare brought, within a ithr days of
each other, dispatches from the Marquis Maison, dated
the 19th and 23d January last. At the time of the de-
parture of the vessel which received the General's
patches, the towns: occupied b 7 the Frenth troops in
the Mona were beginning to rise from the 'ruin's, and,
to have ad appearance of life, commerce, and industry.
The symptoms of plague which had shod.; themselves
had entirely disappeared, and the ample assistance;
voluntarily offered by all the corps of• the divisions bad
afforded the means of giving provisions and clothing
to the unfortunate inhabitants of two villages; which a
wise precaution bad rendered is necessary to deprive
fora time of all communications.

Our brave soldiers have eagerly embraced this new
opportunity of manifesting the generous sentiments
which animate them.
All letters agree in giving the most satisfactory ac-
counts of the health of the troops. The number of men
received into the hospitals rapidly decreases; and in a
short time the proportion of sick will be no grater
than what is'estial in garrison... ' .. '
No Court Aside:dips has been received.
• PROM THE CQNSTITUTInNNIL, FEB. 2s.
• 'WIN& Fra. 17.
• 'TM physical situation of Greece was melt deplorable
at out arrival. Some fields at a distance from the
places occupied by the Turks were scarcely cultivated,
and.one could not conceive how the people could sur-
vive such misery, if moderation and patience did not
exist to so eminent a degree among the Greeks, andl
they bad not still some few mountains to which they
might fly with dieir flocks. Argot, which has been
twice ravaged, is almost entirely rebuilt, and I have
some hopes of the next harvest. Some travellers from
Tripolitna assure us, that there are already three thou-
sand new houses; nothing is comparable to the industry
of the (ireeks; and when we have seen the rock of
Hydra covered with houses,.m which' are more than pa-
laces for that country, we may hope that Greece, were
it free; would acquire riches and power in a proportion
much beyond the *scent of its territory:"" •
The populatioeof Peloponnese' amount to about
$OO,OOO, and that of the neighbouring isles t 0150,000.
Among these the greater part find a field, and a few
stones of which a house is soon wade; but there are .1n
dre Motes, in the isles, and particularly in Egina, re-
fugees from Eumelia, who are in the greatest misery.
The American Committee cause some assistance to be
distributed here. The President employs a part of the
subsidies to solace the unfortunire people; but those
'cititridt last always, and 'a part of ltumelia must be
rendered to the Greeks, or they must be colonised in
the Peloponnesus. The latter means are certainly not
-hese which Would most please the Greeks. They de-
mand, it appears to me very reasonably, Attica and
,Thebals which they have watered with their. blood.
nasal, and Epirus would be required to make a power
'of the third order' and in a state to resist by itself. But ,