Star.
London, England, 1818-11-06 00:00:00

PRIVATE VETTER.

" There has been a great bustle among the diplo-
matic people this morning, owing to the return of
the Emperor Alexander. His Imperial Majesty was
the first to stir. He drove to the Duke of Welling-
ton's at the early hour of nine o'clock, in full uniform,
and remained with his Grace for about an hour. The
Emperor seems to consult the Duke of Wellington,
and to negociate with him on all subjects, in pre-
ference to Lord Castlereagh, who is o,liged to look
for his friends among a different class of politicians.
The Emperor immediately returned to; Mine ser-
vice in the Chapel of his Hotel; and the. Duke of
Wellington, accompanied by two ladies, walked to
the atelier of Sir T. Lawrence, to see his progress in
painting the Sovereigns. •
" The Crown Prince of Prussia was at the time in-
specting the battalions of Guards, in the Grand-place'
before the Hotel de Ville. This Prince arrived on
Friday night at ten o'clock. He yesterday morning
paid a-visit to the Emperor of Austria, afterwards to
the Grand Duke Michael ; and dined with his aunt,
the Princess of Tour and Taxis, who has just re-
turned from a short excursion to the shores of Bel-
gium. The Crown Prince will remain here during
Congress, and will then probably accompany his
father to Vienna There was to-day no conterence of
Ministers. Lord Castlereagh waited at eleven o'clock
on Prince Hardenberg, and remained a considerable
time ; at one o'clock he paid his respects to the Em-
peror of Russia. His Imperial Majesty will proceed
to-morrow morning to meet his mother, ..ho comes
from Cologne. The Empress will dine with her two
sons, the Emperor and the Grand Duke Michael,
and then set out for Maestricht, on her way to Brus-
sels. Baron Stein, formerly Minster of Prussia, and
Minister of the Allied Powers for the administration
of the conquered Provinces of Germany, during the
war of 1818 and 1814, is expected here to-day. lie
will of course be consulted in any matter that has a
reference to the Confeieration. Count Munster has
set out for London. _ _

" The memoir of Count Bentinck, one of the me-
diatised Princes, reclaiming the Sovereignty of Knip-
hausen from the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh, has re-
ceived the imprimatur of the Prussian authones. The
police at first placed delays in the way of its impres-
sion. The Prussian Government is rather displeased
with the decision of the military commission of the
Diet, erecting Ulm into a fortress of the Confedera-
tion, to be garrisoned by Austrian troops. Prussia
is negotiating with the Netherlands for an exchange
of territory in this neighbourhood. Prussia wishes
the line of the Meuse for her frontier, and by this
means would obtain Ruremonde, Limburg, Verviers,
Spa, &c. in exchange for which she proposes to sur-
render to the Netherlands, certain portions of the
territory of Cleves and Guelders, which lie more con-
tiguous to the dominions of the King of the Nether-
therlands. This new demarkation will give better
!military and commercial lines of communication to
each of the Powers than they at pre;ent possess. The
transaction must, of course, receive the sanction of the.
other Powers, or of Congress. if terminated before
it disperses. A treaty of commerce would then be
rendered more easy between them.
" A new Treaty of Alliance is said to be on the
eve of being concluded, into which France till be
received as a party. The difficulties that have hi-
therto retarded it hive arisen or. the part of Prussia,
which felt the shield of the Quadruple Alliance most
necessary for her security. If I can rely on the reports
I have heard from good sources, this Power, in case
the treaty of Parris as a guarantee against France
were annulled, expressed a desire that some measure
should be adopted to bind more firmly together, and
under her direction, the Northern part of the German
Confederation, as a balance to the growing strength
of her rival. She felt that this great body has neither
head nor heart—neither unity of views, nor con-
formity of interests—and that, acted upon by the
powerful influence of France, its various small States
would shake, and form themselves into some new
arrangements, like a quantity of iron filings on the
-approach of a magnet. She wished, therefore, to
give them more of the qualities ofThe emblem of the
United Stag, and to keep the northern bundle of
rods in her own hand. Some Prussian authors have
written in this sense. They have expressed a desire
to see a northern and southern German Empire esta-
blished ; the former having Prussia, and the latter
Austria for its head: and though Prince Harden-1
berg, the Prussian Minister, was said, in a public pa-1
per, to have testified his dissatisfaction at the mootmg!
of such doctrines, there is no doubt that the propou-
tion or dissolving the quadruple alliance made the'
Prussian Government think of some such measure
of security.
" The question of Jewish privileges, so far as it
was the iuteutiun of the Allied Sovereigns to dispose

of it, was disposed of at the Congress of Vienna and
the German Diet ; and whatever prejudices now
exist, will be left to be destroyed by the increasing li-
berality of the age, and the influence of such produc-,
tions as that alluded to. On the retreat of the French
from Germany in 1813, the Hanse-towns of Bremen,
Lubeck, and Hamburgh, and the imperial city of
Frankfort, returned to their old oppression of this rste,
and deprived them of the privileges which the French
, system had conferred upon them."