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m• to ed ,!A yen the 1 of otTl. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 13. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Cantolt, for money, 63W—May 631+ —omolum pr. Exchequer Ms, par. to mi. dif. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Rink Stock $35 534 3 per Cent. R. An. 6s 651 3 per C. Cont. An. 6sll 4 per Cent. Sof* 5 per Cent. Navy 96it Long AIM lit ss•s6 Short Ann. lndfa Ssoek z 861.11 fndia Bonds sa.ss pr. Ezeheq. Billa.par ta. dif. Omnium i i prem. Irifb Ditto 4 prem. Lottet7 Tickets 191. ER'. Confols for ace. 63{ 63 mittee of the Houfe,itad olhis tellintOny biing ellen tial to the profecutions !bat had been ordered. The Houfe divided on this queftion,-i-For Captain Her. bert's motion 13—Againft it 46. After the Gallery was re•openei. the Hottfe in a Committee of Supply voted t 6841. to make good the deficiencies of the votes for the fervice of the Britifh Mufeum in 18os, and 38711. for the eflimated ett penfes of that ettablifhment in the current year. The Report to be received to-morrow. The fecund reading of the Clerkenwell Parifh Bill was put off till Monday.—Adjourned. Some additional French and Dutch Papers have reached us, but not later in date than thofe we an nounced yelierday. From one of them we have given a letter from Madrid, containing an account of the capture of the Britifh fchooner (the CRAFTY) with difpatches from Admiral DUCKWORTH, and from Malta. This letter does not mention that the dif patches have fallen into the hands of the enemy—a circumftance that could hardly have been omitted to be mentioned, had it taken place. Refpeaing affairs at Conftantinople, the only new article prefented in thefe papers is the following ex tra& from the Vienna Court Gazette of the 4th init. " The Englifh fleet, which had direeed its courfe for the Sea of At mora, has not made its re-appear ance off Cortantinople, as was apprehended. It repaffed the Dardanelles on the sth of March, with out any frefh 'a& of hoftility, and has refumed its nation off Tenedos. The reafons of this important event are not fujictently untierflood." A letter from Rotterdam, received yefterday, of the date of April 19, Rates as a rumour, that Admi ral DUCKWORTH had again appeared off Conftanti nople on on the 7th of March, and adds, that a force of 6000 men, from Sicily, had been put in poffeflion of the forts of the Dardanelles.—We are not told how this account found its way to Rotterdam. On the 16th inft. the Dutch Legiflative Body ter minated its fitting ; on which occafion a Deputation waited on King Louis, and prefented an addrefs to him. In reply, the minion Monarch condoled with the Deputation on the ftagnation of their commerce, and the lofs of their colonies ; bnt encouraged them with the flattering hope that the Emperor NAPOLEON would reftore to them all their former property, greatnefs, and power. Letters from Gibraltar, dated early in March, mention, that feveral (hips had paired up the Medi terranean, for the purpofe of affording Admiral DUCKWORTH additional means of attacking the Otto mon Capital, (hould he be compelled to extremities. Thre vefrels not only contained the ordinary means of bombardment, but alfo carry out a very power ful battery of fire-rockets. The reinforcement was expeeted to mach the Dardanelles about the middle of March ; if, therefore, it be true that the Btitifh fquadron has retired. as Rated in the Foreign Papers, it may have been merely for the purpofe of forming a jun&ion with this force, of the approach of which the Admiral was apprifed, We truft that more cer tain and fatisfaltory accounts will reach us before many days (hall have elapfed. " MADRID, MARCH 14. eg On the 9th intl. an Engirt galley, of 14 guns, 1 13-pounders, appeared off Cape Leon. Two Spanith privateers immediately fet fail from Algefiras, and took poffeflion of it, after a long and very buil engagement. —The Prize was carried into Ceuta. — The Englifh had five killed, and I 3 wounded : the lots of the Spaniards was fc,ur killed, (among whom was the Captain of one of the privateers) and to wounded. The Engli(h galley was cart ying di [patches to London, from the Britifh Minifter atConflantinople; and alto difpatches from Malta." JAMAICA MAIL. By this Mail, the arrival of which we announced iefterday, accounts have been received of the (ale arrival of the Weft India fleet at Jamaica on the Bth of March. The abolition of the Slave Trade had produced a great and general fenfation. It does not appear, however, to have given any check to the ordinary rigour of the Planters—the papers flill overflow with advertifements for fugitive flares, and the prOfelred (lave brokers kern to have indultrioufly availed them felves of the circumftance of the abolition to double their price. There are fome ingenious calculations to prove the impolicy of the meafure ; the injuftice, the inhumanity of it, are paired over in a few words. 0 The Parliament of England," lays one of there Rpers, 66 does not know the happincis of our naves. What, in faa, is flaver y in the \Val Indies? It is nothing but a fy item equally advantageous to Mailer and Slave—the Mailer is fecure of fervice—the Slave is fecure of what is fuflicient for his exiftence. He is fecure of more—he is fecure that his wife and family will befnpported. In what kingdom of Europe can the poor fay as much ? Mr. WILBERFORCE is a very worthy roan. btt he has conceived too much at the name of " Slave."— • The French privateers (till continue their depreda tions.—The preparations at Guadeloupe Rill con tinue :—the Jamaica Papers are full of conjeBures as to their probable obje4t. Some of thefe conje&ures are ridiculous enough. The mai rational opinion is that expreffed in the King]lon Gazette: . The alarm at the preparations at Guadaloupe is unworthy both of our courage and our common fenfe. Why are thefe preparations at Guada'oupe ? The anfwer may be given in a word—they are preparing at Guada loupe, becaufe they fee us already prepared in Ja. maica :—They art doing now what we hive done two years fince :—They intend no Expedition, but they fee us in a Rate of attack, and have therefore the common prudence to put themfelves in a Rate of defence." There is no authentic intelligence from St. Do mingo. An American veffel arrived at Jamaica re ported that a General Engagement had taken place, and that Piaou had obtained a complete Vktory. —The American (fated, however, that he had learned this only from report ; that the illand wis evidently in the midi of a civil war when he had left it; and that &angers were not fuffered to land. The mon horrible cruelties were pradifed by both parties—no prifoners were Caved—trey were all exe cuted, by hanging or impalement, in the moment in which they were taken—Pitlou was confidered as the mon humane. The Mulattoes were to a man for Piitou. All agriculture, both of corn and the cane, had ceafed—the Hand was ravaged from one end to the other. The veffels concerned in the Smuggling Trade between Jamaica and the Spanifh Main, report. that a general ferment prevails through all the provinces of Spanith America ; and that the authority of the Government had been in vain exerted to reprefs the fpirit of turbulence. The Militia, who hail been armed by a late ordinance, had refufed to give up their arms, and the Government had been obliged to compromife. The fleet for England was appointed to fail on the Loth of May. GOTTENBURGH AND HUSUM MAILS. The Mail of the 17th arrived this day. The fol lowing are the principal articles of intelligence re- ceived by this channel : CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH as The Englig) Admiral has rcpaffed the Dardanelles, where a more alive and continued fire was kept np on him than at his former paffage. He, however, loft only a corvette and a brig laden with ammuni tion, and on the 7th of March, the whole of the Engliih. fleet was again on its old Ration off Tenedos. The Engliih appear now to confine themfelves to the blockade of Contlantinople, as they have already taken fcveral merchant (hips under Turkifh colours, bound to that capital. This hoftility againft private property, has induced the Porte to have recourfe to repasts, and the real has been placed not only on the palace of the Engin Ambaffador, buton the ware houfes of the Englifh merchants ; and it is underftood the declaration cf war againfi England, which will be publiihed in a few days, will be accompanied by a Firman, ordering the coufifcation of all Englith pro perty and goods, without exception, throughout the whole Turkifh empire. _ _ The Porte has formally acknowledged the new king. of Holland and of the two Sicilies, and figni fied to Count Ludolph, the Minifler of king Ferdi nand IV. that in future he can only be confidered as a private individual. BERLIN, APRIL 14. Letters from Dantzig announce that the fiege of that place h continued with much aaivity ; the gar rifon has indeed made ftveral forties, but has always been repulfed with lots ; we are allured that fome Ruffian troops have arrived in that city, which were Cent by lea. In one of the lift forties 4o Ruffians were made prifoners. Four hundred Pruffians from Koniglberg who de bat ked almoft oppolite Pillau, (cutely arrived at the village of Karlfber when they were taken by a fmall French divilion : among thefe 400 men are 120 boric men.—( From the Telegraph). NUREMBERG. APRIL 9. A report is circulated on the Lower Maine that an armittice has been concluded between the belligerent powers of the Continent, according to which there will be between the two armies a (pace of 25 German miles unoccupied by the troops of either party, but which will be neuter.--.L'Aki/k :t1 ..0 _pr 17. BAMBERO, APRIL to. They write from Pofen, under date of the 2 rft of March, that intelligence from good authority con. firms the report circulated tome time fince. of nego. ciations having been entered into by the Belligerent powers, and add, that, zccording to the turn which there negotiations have taken, there is room to be lieve that peace will loon be ligned.—ldem. VIENNA, APRIL 4. The St. Petes:Purg6 Court Gazette of the 22d of February (Gth of March, N. S.) under the head of Koningiberg, contains the following intelligence : " Governor General Ruchel has been ordered by the King to Memel ; but his Excellency will only makea thort flay, and will immediately return hither. The French General Bertrand arrived here from the French bead quarters, and has alfo fet out for Memel, accompanied by Major Aid de•eatnp kleift, and a Cabinet Courier. We are ignorant of the objea of his miffion, but whatever may be the nature of the propofitions he has to make; his Majefly is firmly deiermined to reject all 'Aegociations which (ball' relite to the Pruftan Monarchy eaclufively, and not take any Rep without the content of Ruifia and England, his allies." " GOTTENBURGH, APRIL 16. • lig Accounts have reached us to-day (but not offs• cial ones), that the Swedifh army from Stralfund has taken poffeffion of Roßock in Mecklenberg, and that in its march thither woo more prifoners have, fince the affairs of the sd and 4th infant, fallen into its hands, betides baggage, ammunition, &c. and a eonfiderable fum of money equal to about 80,0001. Reding; the prifoners previoufly remarked, it is lard, that a general difcontent prevails in the French ar mies in Poland; in confequence of the hard fervices they have been expofed to. Indeed, from all ac counts, it would teem that if a Cafe rallying point could be offered them, great defertions would take place." SECOND EDITION. The importance of the following Private Letter, from a molt refpeeable quarter, will ferve as a fuf licient apology for flopping the refs to infert it : " LOWER F.LBE, APRIL 17. lg We are here in fuch a fituation that it is almoft impotlible to come at any truth in political fubjefts; Notwithftanding the French head quarters are re moved to Finkenftein, 12 German miles (go Fng• lifh) farther back than Oflerode (it lies on the like of Graudenz), no caufes whatever are aligned in the papers for this. Since yeflerday, indeed, reports have been fpread here of a molt DESPERATE BATTLE, WHICH IS STATED TO HAVE LASTED FIVE DAYS, and to have ended greatly to the difadvantage of the French. But we have no means to trace the authen_ city of it ; and, perhaps, the fimple circumßance of the retrograde motion of the head quarters may be the only foundation of it. " Other reports of the railing the liege of Dantzic, of the taking of Stettin by the Swedes, &c. remain equally unconfirmed, though Rill boldly affirmed, particularly the latter. It teems certain that the Swedes were at Prenzlow nn the 7th. All the Ha• neverian Minifters now leave the Electorate. Perhaps this has given rife to the allertion that Hanover is to be organized as a French Province, as a previous Rep to ordering a levy of zo,ooo men. " The laft letters from Koningfberg Rate the fituation of the armies to be Rill the fame. The want of all neceffaries was felt more and more; but fupplits were expeEted from different ports of the Baltic. In Dantzic alfo, provifions were very dear. The force of the combined Ruffian and Pruffian armies is Rated at ao,ooo men, and the garrifon of Dantzic at 25,000. " The Telegraph contains many letters,dated from Conftantinople, from Aleppo, &e. giving accounts of the hoßile proceedings in Turkey and Perfia, againtl the Ruffians and Englifh ; but there is great rcafon to fufpeit them as forgeries. Even the official report which 1 fent yon in my laft, of the events at Conflantinople, I have now pretty good reafon to be lieve, wasmade hereby Martha' Brune and Secretary. I am told it was much more violent, but Bourienne foftened it. lam likewife informed they are now employed on a fimilar produCtion. " We cape& here General Dumoncean (perhaps he is already here, for his Aid•de•Camp arrived this i morning) from Bremen. It is fuppofed he will take the command here, and; that Marfhal Brune will go to the Grand Army. A letter (tom Bremen, which ' cam: this afternoon, fays Gen. Dumoncenu and his 1 flaff are gone from there ; 2000 Dutch troops that I arrived yeßerday received orders in the middle of the night, to march early in the morning to the Elbe. We have here hardly any troops at all. 1 "In Hamburgh are not many troops, but more are expelled. •• Yeflerday a meeting of the citizens was called, the object was to deliberate upon the redeeming of the Engliflo property here, for a fum of money. It is whifpered that Marfhal B. defires to have the fingering of this money before his departure, and that befides, the French think it poflible that the Englifts may come and difappoint them. 44 They had demanded at firfi ten millions, but now only four ; and it is fuppofed that by a little delay, this will be much leflined : the Citizens have left the whole to the Senate. 44 The murder of the Pacha of Belgrade, with all the Janiffaries, their wives and children, by the Servians, while leaving the province under a Servian efcort, will, it is feared, be followed by that of the I Turks in all Scry ia." The Houfe of Common., after fome debate, came to a determination laft night, upon the fubjed of the bribery and corruption with which the IA Eleflion for Pearhyn was difgraced. It was moved that Sir C. HAWKINS be now expelled the Houfe for the principal [hare which he had in thAfe prafticec ; but ' this motion was not agreed to, and the final determi nation was, that, in the &it inftance, Sir CHRISTO PHER, and 113 others, should be profecuted for the alledged offences. iVial7l6L TATELLICE.* , CE. PENZANCE, APRIL so. . Since my lati the following vetrels have pot in hr•e wild botind. the Good Intent of Harwich, the Se vern of Chicheller, the Fidelity of Dartmouth, tl it Venus and the Edward of Bithiiford. the Princes ' Mary of Yarmouth. the Amity from London, the Bpeculation of Sluthton, the Friendfbip of Biddiford, the Fanny of Feeley, the Brothers of Weymouth, the Active of Yarmouth, the Thorn from Chatham, the Thomas of Plymouth, the Friends from Portf mouth. the Telemachus of Plymouth, the Britith Q2ecn of Carnarvon, the Brothers of Coombe, the Mary 9f Dungarvon, the William and Ann of Ply. mouth, the Unity of Coombe, and the Howe of Penzance ; moll cf which have failed again for their refpeetive dellination.—The Nancy, Blum D, is arrived from Milo!, and the Betfey, of , rind from Exettr, with fundries for this place. FALMOUTH, APRIL ao. Arrived the ReBUFF gun brig, from a cruize, and failed again. His Najdly's (hips CROCODILE and AVENCIER, with a fleet under convoy for Newfound land, Q2ebec, Halifax, &c. appeared off this harbour : this morning they were joined by leveral veffels from hence, and then proceeded on their voyage. PORTSMOUtIL APRIL 22. Sailed his Majeny's filipc NEMESIS and FURY ) on a cruize.—Wind E. DEAL, APRIL 22. Arrived the Flamer gun brig from a cruize off Boulogne. Sailed the Refinance frigate, Exertion and Furirus gun brigs, on a cruize off the Coati of France ; Tinny, of 5o guns, for the Note, with fu pernumeraries, to be put on board the Zealand lying there ; Solebv frigate, Devanation bomb, and Cenfor gun brig for Yarmouth, with part of the Regiment of Royals on board, for Yarmouth ; alfo feveral tranf ports for Ramfgate harbour; and the Seagull flop? on a cruize off the Galloper.—Wind E. S. E. YARMOUTH, APRIL sz. Sailed nn a cruize off the Dutch Coaff, to relieve the Dicwroa and Nassau, the RESOLUTION and AcEtscouav men of war ; and the ALERT, on a cruize. Sailed the Csasoa gun brig, with a convoy from Hull, bound to Oporto. The SHANNON and Mist-aeon frigates are under failing orders, to cruize between Shetland and the North Cape.—Paffed through feveral fail of light flaps to the Northward. —Wind S.W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVZIRNO, MARCH za.—Palled by the Lucy and Alicia, Cummings, from Africa; Perfeverance, Swain, from New York; Elizabeth, Saber, from Charlefton ; Ritfon, Brows, from Balti more; Nereus, Sumerman, from Dautzic; janc, Tayler; Wit ham, Fofter; Ann,. Hate, and the Arrafell, Ncwen, from Ton ningen. Sailed the Jemina, Barber, for Dublin; Fime, Mere dith, for Gibraltar, and the Phoenix, Bergs, for Tonningen. Yellerday, about twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Windfor. The Corporation of the City of London left Guild hall at one o'clock, and proceeded on their way to the Queen's Palace, through the Horfe Guards, and along the Patk. The Lord Mayor's Rate carriage, his f e tvants in Rate liveries on foot, and the number of carriages between the trees, had a molt delightful effeEt. The proceffion arrived at the Palace exaaly at two o'clock, and proceeded in grand proceflion in the following order : The City Martha! in full uniform. The Mace. The Cap of Liberty. The oword of State. The Lord Mayor, with Trainbearer, and feveral Attendants. Aldermen—Curtis, Watfon, Anderfon, Eamer, Price, Perring, and Shaw. The Recorder and Common Serjeant. Able-men—Hower, Hunter, Scholey, and Hankey. The Sheriffs of London and Middlefex. The City Remembrancer. Deputies—Birch, Wrench, and Dixon. Mcffes..—Browne, Harper, VaUance, Clark, Boak, Greenaway, J. Dixon, Stewart, Box, and Rowlet. The Hall keeper and fever al other Officers. Soon after their arrival, his MAJESTY entered the Levee Room, when the Recorder prefented to his MA J ESTY t} , e Addrefs of the Court of Cnmmon Conn cil upon the Catholic Qtjelion ; which was moft gracinufly received. And his MAJESTY was pleat - eel to confer the honour of Knighthood upon JONATHAN MILES and' JAMES BRANSCOME, the Sheriffs. There were likewife prefent at the Levee — Their Graces the Archbithnps of Canterbury and Dublin, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Prcficlent of the Council, the Firit Lord of the Treafury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the three Secre taries of State, the Firlt Lord of the Admiralty, the Judge Advo cate, the Dukes of Montrofe, Leeds, and Argyle • Marquis of Abercorn ; Earls—Ayhford, Sandwich, and Maccle sfield ; Lords G. L. Gower, e. Somerfct, Heathfield, Rivers, J. Hamilton, and Manners; Sir P. Hales, Admiral Holloway, General Sir Charles Rofs, Captain Lambert; Mars. W. Eliot, Rofe, Fawkener, B. Bathurft, and A'Court. The following had the honour of having audiences., being introduced, and kiffing his MA jESTY'S hand, upon their feveral appointments, promotions, Ste.— The ArchbiihoP of Dublin, upon coming to his title of 'Earl Normanton. His Grace prefcnted to his Majelly an Addrefs from the City of Dublin. The Earl of Sandwich, upon his being appointed one of the Joint Poßmafiers GeneraL Admiral Holloway, upon his being appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bland of Newfoundland in America. General Sir C. Rofs, upon his being appointed to the command of the 86th Regiment. The Hon. W. Elbt, upon being appointed one of the Lords of the Treafuty. Mr. George Rote, upon being appointed Treaturer of the Navy. Lord Granvilk Levifon Gower, upon his being appointcd Am baffador Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. Peterfburgh. Mr. A. Court, upon his being appointed Secretary to the Earl of Pembroke, upon his Embaffy at the Court of Vienna. Captain H. Lambert, late of his Majefly's Lip Sc. Fiortmo, upon his return from the halt Wks. Lord Manners, upon I is being appointed the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Lord J Hamilton, by his father, the Marquis of Abercorn. His MAI IiSTY held a Privy Council, at which Lord MANNERS WAS introduced and fworn in a Member, and took his feat at the Hon. Board accordingly.— His Lordthip was Ult.:wife fworn into his office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Hi. MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke of POET LAND, Lords HAWESSBURY, SANDWICH, CASTLE.. REACH, and Mr. WiNci, who laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of fcveral Court Martial,. His MAJESTY left town ye(lerday loon after five o'clock for Wmdfor. The bells of St. Martin's and St. Clement's, yefle - day, greeted the Loan MAYOR, Aldermen, ant Common Council, as they paffed through the Stran with their Addtefs of Congratulation to his Majusr