Star.
London, England, 1821-02-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon
Nothing still of the passage of the Po on the 29thult.
We find in some of our contemporaries of this morn-
ing a degree of lingering credulity, on this point,
which even a passion for consistency can scarcely
excuse. We are well inclined to believe in the pro-
bability, nay, in the ultimate certainty of such an
event ; but we cannot conceal from ourselves that
the positive statements which were borrowed into all
the Morning Papers of Monday, from a respectable
Sunday Paper, were nothing more than ingenious
anticipations of an extremely probable fact, very well
got up, and which may possibly have turned, in the
hands of some parties, to a profitable enough account.
It is argued that " the passage of the Po was said
to have taken place on the 29th ultimo : but the most
recent intelligence of a positive nature from Verona
is of the 28th, from Vienna of the Ist instant, and
from Laybach, through that capital, of the 26th of
January. There is, therefore, as yet no contradic-
tion of this news entitled to any serious notice." Now
this is neither the whole truth, nor are the facts which
are admitted placed in their fair light. Prom the
Paris Papers, to which these statements refer,
and the contents of which we gave yesterday, it
appeared that the passage of the Po, which was re-
ported to have taken place on the 29th of January,
was not known at Vienna on the Ist of February, not
known at Frankfort on the Gth of February, and not
known at Paris on the 11th of February.
The wonder therefore is, that an event, the tidings
of which must have come overland, could be known
at London before it was known at any of these ',laces,
which are so many hundred miles nearer the scene
of action. Can it be said that there is no contradic-
tion in this entitled to serious notice? The wonder
must be still further increased by the further arrival,
this forenoon, of the Paris Papers of Monday, which
bring down the accounts from Vienna to the 2d of
February, and from Frankfort to the 7th January- ; at
which dates there was, in these capitals, still as much
ignorance as ever of the reported passage of the Po
so far back as the 29th of January. The extracts
which we suhjoin will furnish our Readers with seve-
ral considerations besides, which can leave them in

little doubt as to the accuracy of the conclusion we
have come to.

" VIENNA. FEBRUARY 2.
" The most recent accounts from the Congress
state, that the conferences between the Sovereigns,
land the Meetings of the different Ministers, had mul-
tiplied for some days. Great activity was remarked
in the Bureaus of the Chancellory of Prince Metter-
nich. It was generally believed at Laybach, that the
result of these conferences would be immediately
transmitted to Naples.
" It was on the 26th of January that, for the first
time, the Plenipotentiaries of the Italian Courts were
admitted to the conferences, of the Ministers of the
Great Powers, in the following order:
" Rona—Cardinal Septa, Legate at Bologna.

0 NArtzs--.Prince Rurro, Ambassador to our Court.

" SA/WlNlA—Marquis de Sr. Minus', Minister of Foreign
Affairs; and Count d'Aiazso, Sardinian Minister to the Cabinet
of St. Jaines's...---Tnecsur—Prinee Naas.Couud.
" MooaslA—Blarquis )Isitso, Minister of Foreign Affairs to
the Grand Duke.

" Count Hardenberg, Hanoverian Minister to our
Court, has left this capital for Laybach."

" VIENNA, FEBRUARY 1.

" A report has been spread here, several times, of
the passage of the Po by the Army under the orders
cf General Frimont. As yet, however, this news
has not been confirmed. However, it is still said,
and even given out as a positive thing, that the
movement will take place between the Ist and 10th
of February."

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER FROST VIENNA
OF THE IST FEBRUARY.

" The conferences are continued at Laybach with
much activity ; it is believed that the result will be
sent to Naples in a few days. Every moment we
expect to hear the news of our troops having passed
the Po. It has been already announced several
times, but without foundation.
" P. S. Letters from Laybach state, that the con-
ference in which the ultimatum of the Sovereigns
will be delivered to the Duke de Gallo, has been of
new deferred. The Duke de Gallo has not even had
permission to repair to Laybach ; he is still at Gerice,
and will not be admitted, it is said, to the Ministerial
conferences in the quality of Minister, but only to re-
ceive the ultimatum."—[This is quite at variance with
the preceding accounts.]

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM A TRAVEL-
LER AT LAYBACII, DATED JANUARY 28.

" The number of diplomatic characters here is un-
commonly great; I believe it surpasses all preceding
Congresses in this respect. The affairs which it has
to discuss are, indeed, important. A great part of
the garrison of Laybach has set out fur Italy, and it
will be followed by other troovs. The most profound
secrecy is observed as to the object of the conferences,
which have hitherto been put partial.

" The King of Naples is gone to Ober-Lay bath
to reeeive the Duchess de Floridia, his spouse, and
the Princess, hi: daughter. Tie Monarchs of Russia
and Austria will make a pleasure excursion to Trieste
in the beginnifig of February ; it is believed that
they will afterwards repair to Italy."

A Treaty for fining tfeOnitively the frontiers of the
territories of Norway, SWlttiell, anti Russia, has just
been concluded.