The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-24 00:00:00

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PARIS, APRIL 16.—There will be an extensive
promotion and a diplomatic audience to-day at
Compeigne. Several of the Ministers set out fur
that place yesterday morning.
We are assured that hii Majesty's excursion to
Saint ()ulna!' is deferred.
PAH`PELUNA, MARCH 30.—Mina, who was at
the head of one of the most numerous bands that
infested Navarre, was yesterday wounded and ear.
vied by one of one moveable columns before Ge-
neral Dufour, Governor of the Province.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH I.—The first stone
of the immense building, properly called the Porte
• (the gate) has been just laid with the usual sere.
monies. This building, it is known, was burned
by the Janissaries. Under its ruins were buried
• that build and enterprising man, Mustapha Bairac.
tar: the main-spring of the revolution undertaken
to reestablish the Sultan Seim, which proved fa-
tal to that Prince.
SCHWERIN, MAncn 31.—The military con.
scription proceeds regularly in our duchy ; butt
the exceptions are too numerous, and the persons
at the head of the recruiting department too indul-
gent. it has as yet been only applied to the la-
bouring peasantry—a regulation which will no
doubt be soon changed,
Our Government, on receiving intelligence of
the sailing of the gnglish fleet fur the Baltic, dis-
patched commissaries to Wismar and Wagemiontle,
to inquire into the means of defending these ports,
its case they should be attacked by the enemies of
the Continent. ,
The system.reWisug to the non.admittance of
suspected vessels is executed here with more riguturi
if possible, time in the neighbouring States.—
Sugar and coffee have utmost entirely disappeared.
It is reported that Kotzebue embarked at Kiel
for England. It is also said that be will be cm.
ployed by the British Government to publish a
pamphlet, Wailed The Inspartial Politician, a
name peculiarly applicable to a journal edited by
Kotzebue.
Comeernee, Atm .3.—Priday his Majesty
bunt on horseback. The stag was killed in the
river, after having crossed it two or three times.—
Her Majesty the Empress followed the chase in
her open chariot, accompanied by the Lady ht
waiting, spills several of her female attendants in
carriages, and equerries on horseback. In the
evening the play of the Cid was performed in the
new gallery by the Company from tile French
Theatre. Talma perfvued the •principal cha-
racter.
Yesterday. their Majesties took an airing in the
forest. In the evening Phaedra was performed—
Mademoiselle Duchestsois displayed extraordinary
abilities ; she was well supported by Dames and
Saint-Rix. The company will perform Andre.
lnache and Beilannicus, and Omit make room for
the performers from the Comic Opera., who will
give Several successive representations.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of West.
phalia, the King and • Queen of Naples, their
Highnesses the Duke of ‘Vurlthurgh and the
Princess Borghese, are arrived, and have taken up
their residence in the Imperial Palace. The Vice.
Roy and Vice.Qvecn of Italy, and the Graud Da-
chess of Tuscany, are expected.
VIENNA, MARCH 30.—The latest advices from
Turkey state, that the Russians were preparing to
attack the Turks near Nissa, and important re-
sults were expected. The combined Russian and
Servian army was daily angmentlng by a prodi.
gious number of deserter* from the Northern pro.
vinces of Turkey.
FRANKFORT, APRIL 7.--The cordon of troops
forming on the maritime frontier of the North,
from the mouth of the Ems to that of the Elbe, will
. forthwith be reinforced by several French and
IVestphalian regiments: According to letter{ from
Hanover, the greater part of the troops that have
been for some time past quartered im that city and
the environs, have actually received orders to set
ont for the coasts, sad have begun their march
for Bremen. None of the French corps from
the Banks of the Inn and Danube have hitherto
moved down to the coasts ; but orders are daily
expected from Paris, to regulate the definitive po.
sitions which they are to occupy.
HAN/MR, MARCH 23.... The Imperial Com.
felonry, and Director General of the Eatraordi-
nary Customs, has published a notification re.
specting the provisional measures be is charged to
adopt for the administration of the Customs in the
Duchy of Lauenburgh, inasmuch as by virtue.,of
the Ist article of the Treaty of Cassel, which' is
explanatory of the Treaty of Paris of the 14th
January, 11110, the Duchy of Lauenburgh is ex-
cepted from the cession made of the Hanoverian
territories to the King of Westphalia, and will
continue to be administered in the name, and furl
the account of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French.
BERLIN, MARCH 31.—The repori is revived of
his Majesty intending shortly to make an excur.
eon to Silesia. The time of his setting ail; not
yet cutely fixed. It is, however, supposed that
his Majesty will satisfy himself, for the present,
with visiting Breslau, and that he will sot go to
Upper Silesia. The Queen' will accompany her l
august spouse upon this occasion, as well as in his
journey to Paris.
In consequence of the order issued on the
Oth inst. by the Police of this 'city, prohibiting
• the circulation and reading of -4‘ The Bee," seals
have been put on all the copies found in the hands
of booksellers, and in reading rooms ; and the
owners have been compelled to make oath, that
they will not suffer a single copy to be circulated.
TRITSTR, MARCH 30.1,-.-WI; -kat. received very
satisfactory advices from Corfu. Since the late
fruitless debarkation of the English,"lbey have
made no further attempt against that island, the
' garrison of which is idea very respectable state of
defence. The English have not a sufficient num.
ber of troops to enable them to make a successful
descent. General Stuart, the Commander in
Chief, being unwilling to weaken the defence of
Sicily, has refused to give Admiral Martin a fewH
battalions which he applied for. On the otl4tl
bandi the blockade of the island, by the Erigliseb