The Statesman.
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more pressed, that his own feeliogs, and those of the
inhabitants of the town of Bergbeins and the vici.
roil, were as much the reverse as possible of those'
imputed to him. Th• Frenchmen chuckled at the
agreess of his irony, and winked at as, whispering(
a roue vases corium ter Francais soot dines.'
" The bias in favour of the French, which a frit•
vellei who Miler'''. eny thing of the lohabitsats can•
not fail to detect in every conversation ate table
d'bote in these provinces, is, in a great measure, et•
tributed to the decline of the manufactures, which
form one tusks ermapation.of the inhabitants.' 80.
steparte's systens.of exclusion had fostered these to
the highest pitch of prosperity; and west the Com.
plaints of the fair, politician at Bonn of their mini
are loud throoglioet OA -country. and continuant
find vent in the Jearosis of the Netherlande.' -Ttiv
productions of Ala-te4:l4Rellet Sgt:
joie, Cologne, &5.. /or **V ;rend 'over all 'ties.',
many and lossiserstbn drupdrins. of Crereld;:isersi
ones seen in the. Muslin_ of, Cesnstantinople, andl
were especially patronised bri Frederick of Prussia.
They are now quit* unable to, compete with the Ma.)
nefactures of Biresioebatn„
,IVakefield, and Men:
chester, which inendate the country. Nomberiesi
manufactories con4equeatly • stand still, and' large
bodies of popelation are oot of employ. Daring
the Continental System, the country boasted no less.
titan 21 of Bonaparte's notable chyosical menefacto•
ries for making beet-root a substitute far sugar--a
trade which, in spite of its serviceableeess in keep,
tog up the less ries of conslioies and coffee, whets
they were in imininent danger of being annihilated,
is, as you may: suppose, little able to maintain itself
• the index of colon's' produce.

against .
64 The pres4nee of 'the Prissian•troopi s, who
stationed io ',pry town, by no means conciliates the
good-will of the People. A little while ago, no one
dared to speak a word of French in their hearing.—
The removal of almost all the native employee in the
provinces, sod the substitution of 'Prussians, also
causes discontent; althoegh with some few eacep.
dons, the French laws and systems, Which had so
importantly improved on the German ones, are left
by the Government nearly as they were found—a pa.
jicy also wisely adopted in the Bavarian and Hessian
Vrovinees which comprise the remainder of the re.
conquests of Germany from the French Empire.—
Bat as yet every thing in the provinces appears
on a provisional and temporary footing—it is to'
be hoped• chi discontents are so too. All are
looking with expectation to the sort of Diet which
.the Prince Chancellor Hardenberg is shortly to bold at
Coblentz, for the porpoise of organizing the Constitu-
e, don ,of this large and valuable limb of the gigantic
;$ Prussian empire—et posiesslon which, besides being
;_ incomparably richer than any thing that the King of
Prussia possesses elsewhere, Ores him a footing in the
• , boon of Europe, and a frontier ou France. His Si.
, Wien provinces penetrate into the bead of Austria;
end with the exception of about 15 er.2o intervening
Jeagues, which are all that Separate Rhoads and West.
phonon Prussia from Old Brandenburg. the kingdom
of Prussia now connects Fresco with Russia t This:
excessive auraudisement is thought favorable to the
balance of power; bat if any but graduated
diplo-
matists may presume to form so epistles en that east
subject, surely the political equilibrium is equally in*
jolted by Brobdiguags and Lilliputs. The King of
Prussia, by side of his Royal Neighbours, the Sore.
reigns of Lippe.Waldeck, Hesse-Ilemburg, be. looks
like the Irish giant ia company with Lady Morgan; bet
there are symmetry and reacted proportion in nei-
ther, and the Coutieent is as likely to saffer from
being overrun by two or three immoderately sized
Sovereigns, as from the miserable stagnation of in-
tellect and frittering of character in the principalities
of three leagues by two."

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FRENCLI P4PERS.

nun, OCT. 5.--. Yesterday the King received the
homages of several Ambassadors, else of the Mini-
sters, and the Marshals Dukes de Treviso, Cor-
negliano, and Dantsic, at the head of whom was Ma-
jor-General the Doke de Reggio.
His Eacellency Count Pozen di Borg., the Rus-
sian Ambassador, had an audience of departure of
the King on the 3d instnat, and set off yesterday
evening for his-la.Chapelle.
The Marquis de Bonney, French Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the Prussian Court, sets out to-mor-
row for Berlin, but is to stay some days at Aiz-la;
Chapelle.
The Journal de Frankfort states, that the Em-
press consort of Russia was espected in that city on
the 2d inst.
Letters from Italy condense to ensconce a mist
abundant harvest.
HAMM/RON, SW. 26.—Our commerce is at pro.
sent iu a very isageld state, the only articles in doe.
mend are prosisimm to be exported to FAseland.
Aucsatraoss, Satsr.*B.—The King of Hillevia has
issued an Ordonnance, directing an entire revision of
all the Laws relating to Agriculture, with a view to
their amelioration. • • •
VIENNA, Szerr.llll:o-We keen from Lisboa, that
12 Austria' vessels, laden Vaith grain, had arrived
there from Trieste. Portugal is :offering under a
scarcity, and our speculators make.tbe most of it.
DREIDI.S, Seer. 26.—The fanatic Cloos„,; tire
founder of the sect which signalised its origin in the
environs of Lelpsic, by murder and human sacrifices,
is still in prison, but scarcely any thing transpires
respecting his interrogatory. His partizans confines
to act in secret, bet are narrowly watched by the
Authorities. Enquiry is continued as to every thing
that relates to this sect, but the Government declines
giving any publicity to the result, and it has prohi-
bited the circulation of a small pamphlet, published
at Leipsic, the object of which was to expose the sec-
wigs and their conduct. The Government has also
sent an intimation to all booksellers and printers to
publish nothing on the subject.
LAUSANMS, Escellency the Minis
MK of France, the Count de Talleyrand, preying, to
his departure for Paris, announced to the Federal
• Directory, that, satisfied with the adhesion given by
the Government of Friberg to the measures taken
by the Diet, on the subject of Frenchmen resident in
Switzerland, the reprisals adopted by France should
instantly cease; that the passports of the People of
Friburg should be inspected as heretofore by the
Embassy, and that the payment of pensions should
suffer no dolly.

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