Star.
London, England, 1818-10-20 00:00:00

AIX-LA-CLIAPELLE, OCTOBER 16.
PRIVATE LETTER.
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" In my letter of the I th instant, and in one or
two former communications, I alluled to delibera-
tions going forward among the Ministers of the four
Allied Powers, for the object of forming some pre-
cautionary arrangements with regard to Prince, if,
in certain contingent circumstances, it should be
found necessary to exercise any con:roul over her in-
creasing influence. If along with the recovery of
the freedom of her territory and the consequent un-
controlled enjoyment of her vast resources, she should
likewise recover her ambitious spirit and passion for
conquest, they felt that some barrier should be fixed
in their continued concert against her future encroach-
ments. These arrangements, had they been made, would
probably have embraced a renewal and consolidation
of the quadruple alliance. Such a measure, it is re-
ported, was urged by some of the Powers, which,
having stitfere t most from the past domination of
France, and profited most by its subsequent reduc-
tion, were the most exposed to her future aggres-
sions. The confers:aces on the subject were confi-
dential, but I have good reason for believing that
they have led to no result, and can therefore com-
municate to you the important intelligence that no
such project is any longer in contemplation. The
majority of the Ministers are said to have been of
opinion, after mature consideration, that suds pre-
cautionary arrangements would appear ungracious to
France, as arguing too great a suspicion of her con-
duct and intentions, and would tend rather to irri-
tate her pride than to form any security against her
attempts. They felt too that the formation of any
new act of alliance wculd be unnecessary, so long as
the spirit of the alliance continued ; and inefficacious,
if it did not. They are now therefore employed in
drawing up a declaration, addressed to the French
people and Government, on the evacuation of their
territory, which will probably appear about the end
of the month. The object of this declaration is not
yet distinctly stated. The delay that occurs in its
formation is said to arise from the difficulty of ad-
justing its expressions so as to meet the views of all
the Powers ; some of them wishing to have it stronger
and more menacing ; others more temperate and
confiding. The French Ratification of the Treaty
arrived yesterday. The English has not yet arrived,
but is expected to-day or to-morrow. The Sovereigns
who are here will give it their official sanction imme-
diately afterwards, and the exchange of Ratifications
will probably take place at a conference of Minis-
ters on Monday or Tuesday. It is now determined
that the Sovereigns will leave Aix-la Chapelle, to
proceed to the French frontiers, for the review of
their troops, on Sunday evening. The Emperor of
Austria, contrary to the original report on this sub-
ject, will accompany their Russian and Prussian Ma-
jesties to this briiliant scene. The two latter proceed
afterwards to Paris, on a visit to the King of France,
but will not remain in that capital snore than 24.
hours. They go there merely to shew a mark of per-
sonal regard to the King, and having dined with him
will immediately return. They are expected back
to Aix-la-Chapelle in the course of ten days at the
utmost. The Emperor of Austria will not visit Paris.
Mean time the Allied Ministers will proceed with
the other business of their mission, and will be ena-
bled to lay the result of their deliberations before the
Sovereigns on their return. They have already com-
menced the consideration of an affair of great impor-
tance to the tranquillity of Germany, and the con-
sistency of their past proceedings at the Congress of
Vienna and Paris. I allude to the differences be-
tween Bavaria and Baden, which was brought for-
mally before them on the conference of Wednesday,
the 14th instant. Bavaria, as has been stated in all
the Journals of Europe, claims the Palatinate of the
Rhine from Baden, in the event of the demise of the
present Grand Duke without heirs male, as guaran-
teed to her by the Congress of Vienna, in compensa-
tion for the cessions she made to Austria to round
the territory of that Power, and thus secure the in-
dependence of Germany. The Grand Duke, it is
known, is married to one of the Beaaharnois
family, and has three daughters, but no son.—
He has two surviving uncles by a legitimate mar-
riage, who have no children ; but he has declared in
1818, the children of his late grandfather, the Grand
Duke Chal les Frederick, eligible to the succession.
These children are the fruit of a marriage of Charles
Frederick with a daughter of a Baron de Geyer, who
in 1796, was created Countess of Hochberg, and by
the laws of the Empire cannot succeed, as they are
born cf the marriage of a Prince with a subject. The
Grand Duke, however, is determined that no por-
tion of his dominions shall go out of his family, and
strongly protests against the intended violation of his
States ; while Bavaria, having transferred to Austria
possessions for which the Pidatinate was to be the
equivalent, insists upon the fulfilment of the bond.
This dif erence. as it arises out of the arrangements
of the last Congress, must he settled by the present.
It is said that both the Emperors of Russia and Aus-
tria are anxious for a speedy. adjustment ; the former
as the brother it-law of the Grand Duke, and the
latter as the son ir-law of the King of Bavaria, who
is likewise a brother-in-law'of the Grand Duke, and
possessor of the territory fur which the Palatinate
was to be the compensation. 'This little family mis-
understanding will be rendered more intricate by a
proposition on the part of Russia, which is said to
be under consideration, to cede the territory of Bris-
gau
to the son of the Ex• King of Sweden, who is
both the nephew of the Empress of Russia, of the
Queen of Bavaria, and of the Grand Duke. The
Sovereign of Baden thus finds himself surrounded
with relations, who, as he says in his remarkable
letter to the King cf Bavaria, are endeavouring to
4 dispose of his succession before his death.' The
singular • marriages of three of the sisters of this
Prince to husbands professing the three different
forms of Christianity (to Alexander of the Greek
Church, to the King of Bavaria of the Roman Ca-
tholic, and to the King of Sweden of the Protestant
persuasion), gave occasion to a merry-andrew of his
Court to say, that if he had another sister he would
give her to the Graud Turk: but If they proceed is
this way to despoil him of his possessions, he will be
apt to think that they are of no religion at all, or at
leas that the latter alliance would have been the most
eligible. The other little German Princes are stirring
as well as the Dukc of Laden; and probably from

the same feeling of uneasiness and hopes of redress.
The mediatized Prin..ecare going to make that ap-
peal to .Congress which they have in vain made to
the Diet.

Count Bentinck, the former Lord Paramount of
Varel and Kniphausen, in the ancient circle of West-
phalia, is here to reclaim his dominions from the
Grand Duke of Oldenburgh, and in his notice of ar-
rival style. himself Le Comte de Bentinck, Souverain
de Kniphausen." To answer him; we have at Con-
gress M. de Beaulieu Minister of Oldenburgh. This
agrees with the intelligence which I sent you on the
151, that the mediatized Princes are going to make
a formal reclamation of their rights through theme-
dium of Prince Waldeck, whom they have deputed
for the express purpose of representing their interests.
If favour was to be shewn. to any one of them, it
should be to the Souverain de Kniphausen, who was'
among the first of the Western Germans who joined
their cause to that of the Allies against Bonaparte,
and who even exposed his life to danger in making a
premature declaration of his resistance to the tyrant
j of the Continent.

" Leaving the mysteries of German politics, which
are almo.,t as unfathomable as their metaphysics, I
may mention, that the Ambassador of Spain at the
Court of Petersburgh, le Chevalier Zea Bermudez,
is arrived here, probably to try his influence in ob-
taining the interference of Congress in the quarrel
between Spain and her Colonies. This Minister, who
was high in the confidence of the late Administra-
tion, has had no communication with his own Court
since the change, and probably will be the less lis-
tened to on that account. Nothing as yet indicates
that Congress will at all interfere in the business. It
is stated from authority, which I think unquestion-
-1 able, that Alexander I lumboldt, whose arri• al I an-
nounced yesterday, has come here merely on his own
private afiairs. I dare say you have heard before
this time, that the differences between Spain and Por-
tugal are considered as already adjusted by the Com-
mission which sat at Paris. More Russians are daily
arriving here. Baron Nicolai, the Minister of Rus-
sia in Denmark, and Prince (ialitzin, attached to the
Russian Legation in Spain, have within these few
days an ived. The Emperor has now about him his
Ministers from all the great Courts in Europe. To
balance all these diplomatists, we have got here
within these few days, Lord Stewart, the. brother of
Lord Castlereagh, from Vienna. Ile has already as-
sisted at the killoon of Mademoiselle Garnerin, and
at several concerts and dinners. The last of these
was a grand soirée supper and concert, given by the
Duke of Wellington, last night. The Emperor Alex-
ander, (who about four o'clock in the evening arrived
frum Spa), the Emperor of Amu is, and the King of
Prussia, honoured his Grace with their presence. The'
company consisted of about one hundred persons of
the hrst distinction in the place, all in full dress, and
decorated with their orders. To an admirer of stars
and orders it was a beautiful sight. The day being,
the birth-day of the Crown Prince of Prussia, a few
of the people in the neighbourhood of his Grace's
hotel, thought it their duty to illuminate, where their
loyalty would not be hid under a bushel. This illu-
mination, the rattle of the carriages, and the desire
of seeing the distinguished company, attracted a
great crowd to the street in which Lord Wellington's
hotel is. The company, which consisted of all the
Mi-
nisters, began to arrive at eight o'clock, and dispersed
about 11. The arrival of the Burgo-master M. Guaita,
whose house the Duke occupies, excited a laugh
among the crowd : he is the most perfect represen-
tation of a City Magistrate that we have seen since
leaving England, and seems a ready-made Alder-
man, without probably having ever seen turtle
soup or feasted upon green fat in his life-time.—
The Monarchs went away immediately after the con-
cert, and before supper. Madame Catalani was the
attraction of the evening. She sung at the conchr-
sion of the concert GOD save the King, not only to
the delight of the brilliant assembly within who ho-
noured her with their plaudits, but to the high satis-
faction of great crowds in the street who honoured
her with their silent admiration.

" The aeronautic experiment of Mademoiselle Gar-
nerin has not succeeded so well as that of her rival,,
the German Professor's wife, though made in more,
favourable circumstances, in a finer situation, on a'
more profitable scale, and before a more brilliant as-
semblage of rank and fashion. Almost all the Mi •
nisters and persons of distinction now in the town at •
tended. Among the rev: I observed the Duke of
Wellington, Prince Hardenherg, Prince Metternich,
Lord and Lady Canlereagh, Alexander Humboldt,
the Princess of Tour and Taxis, and the King of
Prussia, who (in his quality of patron), arrived about
half-past four o'clock, and after condescending to
converse svith the aeronaut, spewed an impatience to
hasten her ascent. An hour intervened—at last she
made the attempt to disengage her nacelle from its
moorings, and twice fell out of it as it was rising
from the ground. On the third attempt, either by
accident or design, the ropes that bound the balloon
to the nacelle were loosened, and the former made
its ascent v•ithout her, soon disappearing from the
view in a clear unclouded sky. The shouti and
laughter of some of the spectators were probabl}•
more overpowering to her at this time than the effects
of her fall, or the consciousness of her fear. She
was carried from the field by Prussian soldiers in the
large basket in which she was to ascend, like that
used for carrying-poultry to market, and appeared
completely overwhelmed by the feelings so natural
to her situation. The King of Prussia, and several
of the distinguished spectators, testified the utmost
sympathy for her.

" The last time this Lady failed in her experiment
she was not so well tre.....ed. The people of Madrid
had no sympathy for her fall, and wished to take
vengeance fur their money. Here there was no de-
mand for a restitution, though the sum collected
could not be less than 6,000 or 7,000 francs, nor was
there displeasure exprc,sed towards the aeronaut by
the multitude. The police have, however, laid their
hands on the collection, and the Prussian Treasury
will profit by the failure of Mademoiselle Garneriin
She has, however, announced a fresh ascent as soon
as she acquires courage. and has recovered her bal-
loon and her health.

" The Police are here very strict in the affair of pass-
ports and casks de suretf. In two days the Correc-
tional Police has fined eighteen householders in 20,
10, and five francs each, for neglecting to announce
the arrival and departure of strangers from their