Star.
London, England, 1816-08-15 00:00:00

FRLATH P2PERS.

• AUGUST 11.
Dr suet, Count d'Erlon, absent par eashumaxe, was
yeirsarday condemnt d to death.
The Duke of Richmond, Peer of France, arrived
on Saturday at Paris from. Brussels.
The Duke of Wellivon will be, at Paris about
the 20th.
The royal [leg is highly respected in the Mediter-
ranean. At Smyrna, French vends .are preferred
by the merchants of that place to those of other
nations for the carri.tge of merchandize.
The Duchess of Berri went yesterday to meet
Madame on her return from Vichy. The two Kin-
ceases met atChareoton, and arrived at the Thuille-

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ties with his Majesty.
We have collected the following further intelli-
gence respecting Madame B. born %V. :—The arrest
.4 the wuman Cardinrt, and the girl Vernier, agents
of Madame de G. has furnished a clue to the in-
gigues of Madame B. Her first Lusband was the
bieurr Dumas. After his de:ith she married the fheur
B. Ito outrageous Revolutionist. BM exercised the
emp;oyment of sweeper (fouillanc) in the prisons.
The spirit of intrigue and rogues y which she did.
played soon led to her discharge. How could such
a woman inspire any confidence in persons who could
degrade themselves to become the instruments in
such shameful intrigues ? This is what we cannot
Comprehend.
A curious trial for forgery has lately occupied the
public attention. A metehant, named Jean .Nicho-
las Meret, was seven years ago condenined par tow
sentatei to eight years of. imprisonment, for having
forved a power of attorney in the name of his wife
(who lived separate trod him), to obtain possession
of some of her property. Last March he was ar-
rested, and he h.is• just been tried A second time, on
which occnsiolt he was acquitted, but condemned to
pay the costs of the former trial.
A Monsieur Guillotia has obtained permission of his
Majesty to change his. name, being a man of a very
mild and humane disposition.

srocipioLP.f, JULY go.
The long continued drought in our vicinity cleared
angle alarm for the harvest, which is now however
"vargthed. The crops are said to look well in the
provinces of East and West Gothland, and the
drought it would appear, has been chiedy conned
t 6 the country about Stockholm.—Upon the whole
there is no present fear of the harvest.
VIENNA; JULY or.
A melancholy adventure took place here ten Or
twvivedaySago. An EnglishGentlinian, who has
been a brag time domiciliated at Vienna, applied to -
the English Ambassador to he sent home as a eourien•
for the purpose of soliciting a pension from Govern.
ascot. He pretended that he had claims to one, and
was descended from the Stuarts. His requeit was
'eloped, because the undid couriers were then going
to thiland. *rum r Gentlema plungedaii the ,
natiudoo to imself t ha into. thal

nimbi* .ani, tacit Aoat. tin *WM& In
three platek with a penknifb pad was endeavoiwing
10 tut his throat whet beiniktaken out of the water..]
U persisted in'refusing to take any sustenance, re-
peating his dish to Bie t but the aids et religion.
brought the unfiirtunate man to more rational senti.
(tient*, and he has now abandoned his fatal design.
, Br. PETERSBURGiI, JULY It.
At last the drought has been mitigated by benne
showers of rain. Within these three days we had
some thunder storms, accompanied with rain.
Odessa continues yearly to flourish, and that port
will become as important for the commerce of the
southern provinces of the empire; as this is for the
trade of the northern. Up to the 28th of June 498
ships had entered Odessa, bringing merchandise to
the value o( a million and a halt of rubles, besides a
very large quantity of specie.' During Ile same
period these sailed 246 ships, laden with Russian
produce to the amount of 15,220.000 rubles including
above 450,000 tschetverts of wheat. Odessa at pre-
sent contains 35,500 inhabitants, and seven churches.
AUGSBURG. AUGUST 2. •

General Kosciusko. after having visited Lugano,
has taken the torte of Sitnplon, in company with the
English Colonel Stewart.
The Gazcue Uqiwerulk of the 29th of July contains
a letter which appears to have been addresseil to the
editor of that paper by a French 'traveller. It is as
follows ;

ge Auosisuno, JULY 25, 1816.

“ Sin—A Frenchman, whatever be his patriotism;
may read without much vexation, what certain-papers
daily publish against the Government of this coup.
try ; for the majority of these papers, unimportant
as they may seem, have still more importance than
value—bark vend:. But your's is too much re.
spected in Europe for a Frenchman not to be af-
fected at finding in it attacks upon his country. Ai-
riving yesterday in Augsburg, I read in your publi.'
cation of to-day, under the head France, some verses
of a tragedy (Adelaide Dusueselin) played at Court
on the marriag•i of The Duke de Berri, and I cannot
but be aware of the impression your correspondent
would produce by that quotation : he•wishes it to be
understood that the purpose was to represent the
English unfavourably, or at least that there was little
objection to affronting them, by inviting -their Am.
bass odor to the performance of a piece in which such
a passage was to be found. It is, in truth. to thew
that those who govern us are either too careless or too
insolent. My inclination and my fortunate obscurity
compel me to live tar removed from that sphere ; but
we.,can see as well from the pit as from the boxes,
and I hate always perceived that the King and his
Ministers were convinced that dignity alone became
great calamities. ”
•4. rhe opinion of your correspondent, if he could
estab:ish it, em.ll to raise up against us a nation
whicl perhaps will never be our friend, but which
has no longer any reason hr being our enemy, and
whom we certainly are not disposed to provoke. I
appeal, then, Mr. Editor, to your good faith, to your
intelligence, -and I entreat you to tell me it it be pos-
sible to discover any resemblance between the present
situation of France and that to which the lines quoted
refer. Ido not mean to justify here the selection of
the piece; but allow me to observe,. that our present
situation being unique in our history, and even, I
may venture to say, in the histories of all countries,
allusions are impossible. We are no•more now sub-
ject to the English y oke, than to that of the Russiaar,
the Austrians, the Prussians, the Bavarians, or the
Danes., Conquered by united Europe (without ex.
cepting Frame herself, for a great part of the nation
was the auxiliary of those powers)—conquered, I
say, by united Europe, if it be true that the French
are under any yoke, it is under that of the whole of
Europe. It is enough that they are not humiliated;
and perhaps, besides, if we are to suppose France
under the yoke of all the world, politically it is to be
r under the yoke of no one. We have then no cause
to lov'e or to hate the English more than any other
nation; they have all don; to us the same good and
the same evil. Is it to be said that the English com-
bined against us the powers of Europe t That is a
mistake. Each of her successive Ministers for twenty
years strove to form this general union—but this un.
heard-of success was left to Bonaparte : the.accom.
plishment of that last object terminated his prodigi.
ous and frightful career. It concluded as it began—
by wonders. •
Dreadful retaliation has compelled us to feel in
lour turn the full rigour of that eternal and mein-
choly sentiment Si vials ! Between us and our enc.
mtes reproaches cannot be exchanged—.one recollec-
tion effaces another—resentments are softened down
and hatreds expire : a general and reciprocal forgive.,
nets again leaves the hearts of all open to natural
benevolence. Since the German States have finished
their territorial arrangements, and regulated their
federal constitution, Europe will find herself in a
situation.most eoedtseive to a long. repose. The great
Powers have proclaimed the principles which promise
us the hllessings of peace. Do you not think then,
Mr. Editor, that writers who, like yoe, are animated
by a good spirit, ought to reject with cottempt every
thing that can obstruct this general desire for 'peace
and concord t—l am, Sec.".

• Several retired • Officers who- applied for leave to
reside in France, have obtained the 'Niece Ranatrei
permission, and will receive their pay in that country.
.. Their.paisports have been signed by 'Major-Gener.tl
Gerdon. Cheapness of provisions, lodging, and
schooling for their children, were their principal ma
tives. Aletter from one of them says, they found
it very difficult to get lodgings; ibry -were dear and
dirty. Two of the Officers took a house between'
them, and luckily brought their own bads, &c. with
them, as they could not get a furnished, .house.—
Mutton was Ad. per lb. sold by the jointi as the
French do not weigh. t. The writer says,-64. I have
jest bought a hind quarter of good mutton for.,ls. Gd.
weight 81b. ; bread is at Sid. per lb. ; wine 9d. per
bottle; the cider is bid, and there is iio heir
; brandy
is Bs. per gallon ; but neither ruin nor gin is to.be
had." One of the Officers was about sending his
children to shooli' but wal prevented by a Priest,
who waited on him and stated, that no Protistant
children wale permitted-to attend school, unless a dis-
relation wal obtained front the Bishop and 'Police,
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but' that it ‘vcinlcl be applied for.-89 Much for
the present. gkrious Goveraatent and* anciein order
et* titiagsf • - • : • • .z.- -,

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Atiost+.
A Report, signed: by M. de Rithelien, M. de
Caen, and M. Ladle, dnd Written Much in style
and spirit of thrift of Fouche, has lately been pre-
Seated to the King, on the internal state of France.
This Reprint exhibits thd arbitrary proceedings of the
Pivotal Courts; the bad effects of the late elm-
dons in the South, deprecates the inquisitdrial prac-
tices used for the entrapping of victims, and depicts
ift strong colours the numerous abuses committed
every where in the name of his Majesty. The dele-
sates of the Royal Authority are therein stated to
ve kiddled the passions of the people, to have
armed the citizens against each other, and to have
put the country on the verge of a civil war, which
may break out on the first occasina. The Report
demands to diirnissal of a certain number of Pre-
fects and Judges, in order to give effect to the bene-
volent intentions of his Majesty, and to operate a
real change in the system of Government. lam in-
formed that the King, struck with 'the force of these
.resentetions, has consented to the removal of 20
refects, and to a great many more Magistrates of
minor rank. Bat if his Majesty has conceded this,
point to his Ministers, he skews himself inflexible on
another of still more serious importance—die main-1
mining unchanged the present Chamber of Deputies..
In a final council held on the subject he declared it
his pleasure that no partial renewal should take 'place,
bat, that if the Chamber' did not meet with a mon
diaiderate spirit this Session than the last, he scotch)
exercise his prerogative and dissolve it.
Puzzo di Borgho had, within these few days, a
conference with the King. in which his Majesty ex-
pressed surprise that the Emperor of Russia should
think it necessary to strengticep his contingent of the
army of occupation. The Ambassador replied, that
his master could not see with unconcern the military,
preparations making in France, and the dittracted
state of parties threatening a convulsion in which fo-
reign states, however distant, might be involved ;
and be took that opportunity of communicating to the
King a letter from the Emperor to that purport.
The King, after perusing this letter, broke off ;he
conference, referring Ikea() di Borgho. to the Count
d'Artois fur any explanation he might require. Ac..
cordingly M. Pozzo communicated the letter to his
Royal Highness, who, without making any observs.
tion on its contents, said, " And what tells me that
this letter comes from the Emperor of Russia r-
.. And what tells your Royal Highness," replied M.
Puzzo, " that I am his Envoy ?"

LETTER FROM HENRY WILSON, ESQ. TO A FRIEND

AT PARIS.

rAn imperfect account of the trancaction to which
the inclosed letter relates has appeared in the public
Prints. We are now enabled .to furnish the particu-
lars by Mr. WlLsoe's letter. The writer is a mostl
respectable Merchant lately established at Bourdeaux,l
and is the son of Colonel Wii.s.es, who commanded'
one of the regiments of City Velunteers during the
War. Mr. Ewe and Mr. JOIINSTOII* are also most'
respectable English Merchants, also resident at Bout-
deaUX, and are well known to our City Friends.]
" Bourdeivr. Avon I, MG.
"My dear Sir—l am sorry to acquaint you that
cur few remaining hopes of this year's vintage have
been destroyed by one of the severest hail-stnrms ever
known, which has just fallen on some of the best
districts ; and which has not only stripped the vines
of the link fruit there Was, but it is feared, has very
much injured the plants themselves.
" I am now to acquaint you with an unfortunate
business in which I have unexpectedly been made a
principal party, and which has occasioned much
alarm among our countrymen at this place.
" Mr. Eade, Mr. Thomas Johnson, and myself,
set out on Saturday last, on our own horses, to make
an excursion into the white wine country. We pro-
ceeded as far as Langon, about thirty miles from
Bourdeaux, where we stopped to dine, and take up
ma quarters for the night. We had scarcely finished
dinner', when in walked two Gens d'Aames, and de-
manded our passports : we informed them, that we
were resident domiciliated Merchants, at Bourdeaux,
and that as we had merely cense to see the country,
intending to return the net day, we had not thought
it necessary to have passports : one of them then left
the room, desiring the other to remain with us ; in
about ten micutes-he returned, and told us to follow
him ; are begged to be conducted te the Mayor.—
He said we were in our way to him, and took its to
a small house, in the entrance of which we were met
by an ordinary looking OMB, who we were informed
was the Mayor (we afterwards learned be was only
one of the adjoints), upon which we stated our story,
and requested if we were out of order, that we might
be perfnitted to return to the hotel, and remain there
till• the necessary infounatien could be obtained, who
and what we were. He told us that he bad no au-
thority over us, and that being in the custody of the.
Gens d'Armes, we were entirely at their disposal-e•
We mentioned the name of M. de Saluce, who lived
close by, to whom we were all of us known. .W 4,
without avail. We vs ere then desired to follow* der
Gene d'Armes to the Consniendans. After passing
through several streets, we at lass arrived at a house
where stood several other genstPaemes, and amongst
them, one, that appeared superior to the rest. We
inquired if this was the Commandant ? when, on ex-
pressing our wish to-speak to him, and approaching
for that purpose, he stern said, withoneallowing us
to speak, Fakes les entrer.'. pointing to the interior
of the house. We were then led through a-passage,
at the end'of which an iron door was thrown open,•
and we found ourselves in a dungeon, where about
twenty miSera6le looping
.wretches. were lying in all
parts. of the place. These,as we afterwards learned,
were condemned criminals who were air their way to
the-galleys for' all sorted crimes. We inquired
this was to be our. place of confinement ? and were
answered. that I therwat the place .for prisoners,
which we now everee We theerasked for pens, ink,
and paper, to write to tbe•Mayor. -Theyesa:l if we
wanted to write, we must pass into another apartment.
" They then took vs into an opposite tell, where,
on entering, we fund only ate prisoner confined.—
We then wrote to den tdtfyor requeltillitm to point
out what meatures we
.ought to' t;ifie late relieved
from out peuent.situatiosi and alistr shot he would
forward• for new letter ea bur Conetk at boordegux.
it was tbenabent oftieVelocke Wetemained in this
situation**, whole night, With hotting 'but a plank

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to Ile down Upon not even k straw id
raise our heads. About seven the next nuiraing 041,
jailor altered, and desired, na to follow him. wa
were led into.* room, tellere sat the Mayor and tle
Commandant of the gensa'armes. Our depusitioli
were taken who and what We were. When they came
to my narne,• it WAS observed, that it was a very btu.
picious name in rrance' at that moment. The Marcr
then said, that he was sorry for O ; mbat.on, bt,t
that all be could do was tp forward a letter for us to
our o.nsui, at Bourdeaux. We "again requested to
be permitted to return to our hotel, to remain ther
in custody of the gens.d'armes, *tin an answer could
arrive, but the Commandant positively refused us:
We then wrote to the Consul, and dispatched a criu:
rter with the letter. We were then teirlanded to our
former place of confinement. We desired to !Live
breakfast brought to usifrcm the hotel, but this
was refused us, and we were forced to put up wj
the miserable fare which the jail kitchen afforded...,
We remained there the whole of this gay, add the
next night, when our situation *as somewhat alle.
slated by a maurass upon which we all of IA re.
clincd. The next morning our messenger rcurnei
with a letter from our Copal', inchtsing an order
from the Prefect for our liberation, which we SOOQ
after obtained, and returned to the hotel, where,
after cleaning ourselvei • from the filth and 'if:A.6n
with which we were covered, we took our horses and
returned to Bourdeaux.

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66 We have drawn up astatement of our cart to be
laid before the Authorities bere, and shall send a cfpy
to his Majesty's Minim,. at. Paris. I beg you will
also make this as public as possible atziong our e.iun-
trymen there, who, If not ftmished with passports,
may be subject to similar indipities.
di I am, my dear Sir, yourbtost•obedient servant,
41 mom wauina.”

THE EVE NI

; STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, AUGITSI 15, 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAYAT O*E irci.qcK :
Reduced 611 —Cons. 1111..—Coasjor ace. 61 j;
4 per Ceat. 770-3 per Cent. Naiv if—Bonds Ss. O. pre.
Escluluer Ililb, par 44. pre.

Paris Papers of the 11th strived last night. Ano.
ther Fiench General (Drouit d'Erlon) has been
tried and found guilty of bearing arms ag.iinst the
King, previous to the 20th of M.rch—Guilty....
Death—when they can catch aim ! for, though tried,
he is not in custody.
The French Papers contisue to boast that the
French flag is in high favour in the Mediterranean.
It is, it seems, more respected on the Levant than that
of any other nation. We had before sufficient reason
of complaint againstihe pirates of that sea ; but if
their late conduct to the vessels of other Powers has
been influenced by the effects of French intrigue ;
if the object of their movements is to extend their pro.
tection to give French vessels the carrying trade to
the exclusion of the British, shook! this consideration
induce us more than ever to truckle to the demands
of the Pirates, or to chastise them for their daring
robberies? We know that there are men who pant
to bring back the old system of presents to the Deys
from time to time, to keep them in pod humour !
Indeed. within these few days, a deputation from a
body of Merchants trading to the Mediterranean,
waited on Ministers to press upon them the irapolicy
of exciting the enmity of the Barbary Powers, and LA
urge a return to the old system, as best calculated to
preserve to this country our proper share of the
Mediterranean trade. We can easily conceive the
nature of the arguments they employed on this occa.
Sion; but we have not learnt what ear was given to
them.

It is difficult, or rather impossible, to learn with
certainty from the French Papers any thing respecting
the state of parties at the Court of the Thuilleries.—
From private letters it would appear tliat there' is a
great want of cordiality—a great difference in opinion
as to the line of policy best calculated to promote the
interests of the throne and the people. A Report;
said to have been signed by M. de Rtcuaitto, M. de
Carts, and M. Lam% written much in the spirit of
Fovcna's Reports, and lately presented to tbe Kiwi,
Is mach the subject of private conversation is Paris.
This morning we also received the French Papers
of Monday. The most important article they
'twain is in sealant of the first day's proceed-
lags before the Correctional Tribunal against a
French Abbe' (Vissori), for a seditious publication.
The cause has been put off for a fortnight. Io the
mean time, the Abbe, who serous to be a furious
ultra t..oyalist, is "accused of publishing a seditious
libel. calculated to excite disturbances in France.,
His work is entitled 44 The Concordat explained to
the icing, according to the doctrines of the Church
and the Canonical Protests of the legitimate Bishops
of France."
The most objectionable

is one in which the

passage
poor half-witted Abbe denounces as" Jobbers, sacri.
legioas despoilers, and hardened transgressors of all
the Divine taws, and threatens with eternal damns.
Lion all Laymen who detain any lands alienaied Ilona
the Clergy since 1791.".

Abbe littrain is well known in London as an Au•
thor, we believe; and he will probably have cause to
repent that he ventured to publish his nonsense any
where elec.

The inviolability of the rights of the purchasers of
the national domains has been so.ofLen confirmed by
LOUIS XVIII. that we scarcely expected, to hare
inet with any person bold estoogh, in France at least,
to controvert the legitimacy 'ot such conciliatory

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OTRANTO, JULY 94; •
Tbre4 shiPs'of war, two brigs,
.and a frigate, have
piled from this port to join the squadron destined'
ainst the Pirates. All our mains and cities :heir
ibantielves animated with. the keenest indignation
ligainst the Barbarians. Subscriptions have'been en-
vied into to buy off all the slaves, previous to the.
ComMencement of hostilities, lest they should fall
',ictims to the barbarity of the Janissaries, at the time
'of the bombardment of the shores of Africa.
-GENOA, JULY e 9.

The greatest activity reigns in our harbour; Com-
iserce is as active ainur present circumstances, and
the kin'd of war waged by the Barbarians, will per-
mit. Several vessels in particular have arrived here
from Cette and from Marseilles, laden with wines
and brandies. Nothing bist French brandies will sell
here. The English are very numerous, but they
.spend little, which takes from their respectability
among the people. Several English fainilies have
placed their children at our schools, from economical
motives.

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• AUGUsr I.
TEgsalif4ignbark•is about to saillor Holland,. with
about go Swiss emigrants, for the United States.
. General Kosciusko has returned to Solenre, where
he meane'constapilf to reside. His travelling corn
pauinn is the English Culotte', Stewart. . .
A great quantity of snow fell on our monntaids tb•
lutes end of July, which has swollen the Rhine pro.'
diginally. Never was the grand fall of this river, at-
MOTe Subliine = and strangers, of course,
Wave been astonished and delighted With the view.