Star.
London, England, 1817-08-02 00:00:00

PETERSBURGH, rCLY 1.

The nuptials of the Grand Duke Nicholas with
the Princess Charlotte of Prussia, were celebrated
this day in the Chapel of the Palace.' After the cere-
mony n Deana was sung, which. was followeJ with
Duntine salvmm fat Imperworem, accompanied by a
idillie of S I guns.
A grand dinner was afterwards served up in the
Great Marble Hall, to which the three first classes
of the State were invited. During dinner, the com-
pany were entertained with all sorts of vocal and in-
strumental music, and the four following toasts were
given to the sound of trumpets and of cymbals—
•' His Maje•ry the King of Prussia," announced by
a salute of ,5l gu is. The Grand Duke Nicholas
and his august &ide. a The Imperial Family."—
'4 The Clergy, and all faithful subjects." The three
Lost toasts were announced by a salute of 31 guns
each.—At night there was a Court Ball in the Great
Hall of Saint George. The bells of all the churches
were rung during the day, and at night the fortress
and every part of the capital were ollun:inated.
French Funds, '29th July, 6sf. 60c.

Our Readers have already been informed that a
negociation has been for ante time going on for the
removal of another fifth of the Army of Occupation
from France. England and Russia incline to the
proposal; but some of the Allies, (Prussia aid Aus-
tria, it is believed,) object to it. By private letters
from Paris, we learn that 'the boon held out to Eng-
land (and probably to Russia also) is a Commercial
Treaty, which shall 'give a reciprocal spur to the en-
terpr3se and industry of the two countries. No such
Treaty can be entered upon by France, consistently
with her honour, while the Allied Armies occupy her
soil ; and, according to the same authority, the King
has given this pledge to all parties at home. Most
joyfully will every sincere friend to his country, on
both sides of the Channel, hail the era of this Com -
mercial Treaty.
There is, nevertheless, something suspicious in the
postponement on the past of the French Government
of the commencement of Negociations ; and in the
mean time they are getting deeper and deeper into
oar debt: Whether their pecuniary embarrassments
are real or pretended, it is not for us to say; but
certain it is, that they were two months behind in
paying the last dividends on their Funds—a circum-
stance which has been publicly known within these
few days only. In short, there is the usual veil of
intrigue and mysticism thrown over all their entree.
ments ; and we have no reason to expect any thing
else than a repetition of the same crooked policy
which has o often made and unmade France.

Intricate discussions occupy at this .moment the
Cabinets of London, St. Petersburgh, and Madrid.
Report says, that FIRDINAND has demanded oar ac-
tive assistance, by a marine force, to put an end to
the depredations of the Insurgent privateers, and also
to afford the means of an armament for bringing
back the revoked Provinces of South America to
subjection; that intermediation is mere trifling, and
that it is now. to, late for neutrality—that the Reve-
lation is so far advanced, that, without active aid in
AV:, men, and money, the whole.of-South America
must be lost to the Mother Country—aand that Spain
cannot contemplate this nil without looking else-
where for assistance, if denied it by England. Sbe
is offered it by the Emperor ALEXAADER, upon con-
ditions, with which FERDINAND says he must comply;
and the ?Luxus Rrarwr must not therefore be sur-
prised if he shall learn that the two Californias and
Niinurca will be ceded to Russia in full sovereignty,
ill return for the aid in ships, seamer, and troops, to
reduce the Insurgent Americans. Such is the rumour
in circulation ; and the many Councils lately held, as
well as the 'conferences with the Ministers of those
Powers, and the remonstrances made by the Spanish
Ambassador against the late embarkation of officers,
arms, and ammunition, ultimately destined folfiouth
America, though nominally fitted out for Wig fa•
dian ports, give strong-countenance to the antrib;

We have received Bahama Gazettes to the Ist of
June. They contain a most singular article, chargirg
some person or persons, residing at New Providence,
with committing a daring and unpardonable forgery.
with the view, it seems, of bringing the House of As-
sembly into disrepute, with his Majesty's Ministers.—
We stated, some months since, it will be recollected.
that the King's Officers, Civil and Military, of the Ba-
hamas, had taken great offence at the House of As-
sembly, for their conduct respecting the Slave Regis-
itht t ~tip.. We stated also, that the subject had under.
g -this consideration of Ministers, and it now
ti peals that the impression made uppn them by the
'd :iiineats transmitted was highly unfavourable to
. ifisuse of Assembly. We most be here allowed
to remark, that we have no other evidence of the
forgery thus charged against some nameless indivi-
duals, than the assertion of the Bahama Casette; and
our frith in that assertion is not strengthened by
the scurrilous and intemperate language with which
ail Gazette bespatters the *HATO cffenders..

After calling tl•em " infamous •illains," &c. se:'. I
rat times, he informs his readrrsthat--" lie thi► pre
tended copy were two clauses in relation to the free
blacks An.; people of colour, the particulars of which
we forbear to mention, their tenor !sting as odious as
their tendency is alarming ; but we owe it to ow
Legi.•!ainr: to say, that no such clauses were in Any
part of the Bi:I in question, or in any of the stages of
its progtess."
Tire Paper then states, alit as inhabitants of a
B& iris!) colony, they call for justice, and for the im-
mediate exposure of the" daring wretches^ who have
iOren the fabricators of the forgery. We extra& part
t of the elegant language used on the occasion. s

When so m4try felonious robbers of the colonial
repuiatinn are suffered to perpetrate their villanies in
day kileSS and security, in the very bosom of our set-
tlement, conjecture is almost at a loss there in par-
ticular to Is a suspicion of the origin of the present
guilty attempt."
Our Readers will see front the above extract. that
much ill will still prevails in the Bahamas. and that
the late Clouse of Assembly (fur it was long since
dissolved) I.as not been animated by the most chari-
table spirit in their intercourse with his Majesty's
Officers.

By the latest accounts from China. some recent
information has been received respecting Cochin-
china, where, it seems, much discontent prevails
among t►,e people, occasioned by the KING having
nominated for his successor a son of one of his•concn-
bines. The EhiPaltOß of Com. who pretends to have
a right to interfere in the appointment of the Kqlgs
of that country, has expressed I is displeasure at the
nomination. The King of CoonNcualis expressed
a great dislike to the Roman Catholic
Mistaking this for Christianity, be has declared his
wish that in future Paganism alone shall be tole-
rated in his dominions.