Star.
London, England, 1811-10-24 00:00:00

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• awl splendour that so-statiagtished it formerly—no.
thing is seen but the equipagei of the French Gene-
rals and commissaries, and the trisinedlate Officers of
its Court. The taxes and duties levied on the pro-
duce of the country, are posithrely stated it twice the
amount of its first cost, which, with use same or a still
*more ruinous course of exchange than prevails there,
(I believe, rather less than three dollars for one pound
sterling,) prevent foreigners from purchasing, which
annoys Murat, is he is subject to a heaVy expendi.
lures indeed, to tell truth, it is not to him that thew
calamities are to be attributed, but to the eternal or.
'den he daily receiVes from Paris; for, ihdividually,
4 appears, the Neapolitans are rather attached to him
khan otherwise, being mighty fond of playing the
icing, and shewing his figure in theatrical dresses,
'such a's thebld Spanish habit, Roman bciots, ac. *c.
liter we may form a clear idea that his actions and in-
tentions are not in unison ; for, in his reply to the de-
putation of merchants, who intreated some relaxation
in favour of commerce, he roundly declared, that if
be .were it the head of 200,000 bayonets, his conduct
Is a sovereign would be quite different. It would
appear that this, or some such expression of his ge-
imiUe sentiments, is the cause of what is now reported,
that Jknapartt has determined to remove him from
th.tt dull Kingdom, either by deposing or transport-
• ing him to some other soil already ruined by the pa-
ternal cares of the French troops : this, at least, is the
news of the day ; and it would appear that the wily
Corsicalt has deliberately matured his plan, as in hat.l
ing withdrawn alinott all the French troops from
Naples, he has provided against any resistance to his.
caprices that his brothe'r.in-law might be inclined to
make against an order for retransportation. As for
the Neapolitan soldiers, they are good for nothing,
as he Well knows, and according to the experience of
In the onl; allusions to that countr-

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ages. !y two ..siusions to that c0u....y, in
the Expose to the French Legislative Assembly, a
coincidence with this report may be observed ; for
where the Minister speaks of the Romans as interior.
ing with the communication of the troops in Up. CT
and Lower Italy, one might suppose that Naples was
in integral part of the trench Empire already, and.
not an independent state with a distinct Monarch.
" On allusion to the non-performance of Mitrat's
contract to build six ships of the line and six frigates,
ihera is what must be understood as a threat by all
who can decypher the chief tyrant's language ; it is
cruel enough to harrass his kinsman on the subject ci
gbip-builtling, of which we may well suppose a ca-
gal: y Officer, like Murat, is rather uninformed ; as
tsf the only line of battle ship he has attempted
we should properly be regarded as the Mari:lots,
by Bonaparte,
.in having intercepted all Cie. cop_
per sheathing in one expedition, and all the masts,,
yards, &c. in another lately. Our young stuff cl the
Thames triiate and Cephalus brig had even the in:
aelicaey to go on shore for JE (0,000 worth of
stuff, which they deliberately attached to 2.5.gua and
slier boats, with oil, wine, &c. to the admiration of
several hundred military spectators on shore, and
brought theni
".NIESSTN..t, AtICI7St S.
mesh troops which have arrived in Calabria to
Ell up the vacancies in the Regiment of Esteri, and
will in part form the Camp in the vicinity of Torre
del Piali. The French General who commands on
the coast opposite to us, is General Manhis.
" On Wednesday arrived in this port his Britannic
],Majesty's ship of war Victorious, Captain Talbot,
With some transports."
AUGUST 24.—0 n Wednesday entered this Port,
escorted by a frigate, several vessels laden with wheat
from Egypt, which were sent to Alexandria by the
Commissary General of the British Navy forsprovi-
sions for the Little."
GIIIRALTAR, SEPT. 7.
" The FAME and Cvalte, with a4l4rge convoy for
England, sailed from hence yesterday ; also the 39th
regiment, and WArrEviLLE's, for Cadit. which ar-
rived a few days ago from Sicily. •
GeneralßALLAszenos' army is at Manilba, in this
neighbourhood. The inhabitants of this place have
subscribed 20,000 hard dollars for supplying it with
arms and necessaries."
We have received Gazettes from Buenos Ayres to
the 19th of July, and letters to the 7th of August. The
former contain the Manifesto addressed by Ei.to to
the Junta of Buenos Ayres, calling upon them to
acknowledge FERDINAND VII. and to return to their
allegiance to the mother country. This is followed
by an indignant reply of the Junta, in which they re.
peat their declarations of independence, and set the
Moolevideans at defiance. Our Readers already
know the retult of the bombardment of Buenos Ayres
which followed. The private letters, which are of a
teach later date, convey the information that all is
still unsettled in that quarter. Extracts from these
atlons will be found in.another part of our

Taper.
Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain Jost' CRAIG was
sworn into the command of the new ship Duchess of
Gordon. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till
Wednesday next.
The Hon. Octal.= HAT, Lord NEWTON, one of
the Senators of the College of Justice, died suddenly
on Saturday last, at Powrie, in Forfarshire.
Yesterday, the Court Martial held at Portsmouth,
on Captain Passros, of the GENTDIRDR, for tyranny
and oppression, broke up, when Capt. PRUTON was
admonished to be more aratompeot in his language
in future.

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