Star. — 1811-12-28 (London, England)

LONDON.  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. liocr IN wocctirs.iipol,!ay at the Exchequer, Bank, Rutludta a;nl :3.kwh-Sea lioutes.  French Papers to the 21th inst. have arrived in town. They contain some most important information. The Conservative Senate held an extraordinary Session on the 20th instant, in which a Decree was made for calling out the Conscription cif 1812. One'hundrecl and twenty thousand additional French troops have thus been placed at the disposal of the IMinistcr at War.  - The waste of the war in the Peninsula must have rendered some measures for the effectual recruiting of the French army indispensably necessary ; but as that waste had not very recently been aggravated by any unusual losses, there could have been no necessity for an 'extraordinary meeting of the Senate. That gradual diminution of the numerical amount of the French army, which required not to be made up arty time these two months pa.t, could not on the sudden become so urgent on the 20th of December, as to require the Senate to be called together out of the regular course, for the purpose of making provision for recruiting the army. Some other cause then must • be assigned for this extraordinary proceeding, which, whatever may be the effect of the exterminating war in the Peninsula, must be looked for elsewhere.  The rumours which we have repeatedly mentioned of Russia being on the eve of assuming a warlike • poAure seem therefore to gain additional credit from the above circumstance. Some few letters have been received through a pri. vate channel from Riga, and we are happY to learn, that there is no foundation for what has been stated of the promptitude of the Russian Court to manifest a dispcsition of hostility to the commerce with this country, on the disappearance of our fleet in the Baltic. The dates are to the 16th November, and at that time the Bay of Riga was open, and colonial produce was admitted, under the same restrictions to which it was before exposed, and nu difficulties have been intruded on the trade, of which we bad not been long since apprised.  We announced, yesterday, in the greater part of our impreision, that the vile miscreant William:, who there can be no doubt was one of the murderers of the families of Marr and Williamson, bad escaped the public infliction of Justice, by suicide. The particulars will be found in the account of the Coroner% inquest, given in another part of our Paper. We may be allowed to remark, and the suggestion we hope will be acted upon on any future occasion, that the means of self-destruction should not be left in the power of such a wretch : nay more—individuals placed in such circumstances should not be left alone, for a moment, till the safety of the public is sucured, by the demands of justice being satisfied. May we not be allowed also to suggest, that public justice and public safety demands that some sort of public stigma, more permanent and memorable than burying in a cross-road, should be inflicted on !ha body of this notorious criminal. We kizow not the whole extent of the Coroner's powers ; but certainly it extends thus _fir at least, that the stake driven through the body may be of the form and height of a tall gibhistThe hint we have given embraces important consequences, but the protection of the public is a matter of still greater magnitude. It is plain as the light u£ noon-day that this largo-mettopolis is not protected as it ought to be. The public .alarm is great, and, unhappily, but too well founded. We need a PREVENTIVE POLICE to guard us from the assaults of Midnight murderers; and until this species of p•otecdon can be provided, we ought to enjoy that protection which )tight be derived from parties of military, acting under the direction of the civil Magistrates, as nightly guards and patroles to the Isletro?olis. _ There can be no sound objection to such a measure. The Military are paid for the protection they afford .to the public ; and, in fact, they perform the part of citizens, when they act under the command of the civil Magistrates. We have plenty of them, almost in a state of idleness. Let them be employed for the public seem ity.  His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT gave a handsome dinner to some of his tradespeople and his household, 3t Carlton Palace, on Christmas-day. The table ab•'iunded with good English cheer, consisting chiefly of roast beef and plum-pudding, with turkeys, and tiro haunches of venison. The .REGatiT's Park is rapidly preparing. The Circus is completely formed, and enclosed by an oak paling, The workmen arc at present employed in planting laurels, fiis, and other evergreens. The ride round the Circus is nearly made ; the latter is intersected by other roads, the principal of which leads to the New-road, opposkte Portland-place. The Palace of Cassel has, as we have stated, lately been in a great measure destroyed by fire. The citizens, it is said, presented a loyal Address to the King JEANIE BoNAEAPTE, and to his consort, on the occasion, offering to rebuild the edifice at the expence of the city, This offer JEROME declined, but allowed his con Soft to accept a present, tendered for the purpose of snakily good the losses sustained by her Majesty,  •  .