Star. — London, England, 1807-09-26 00:00:00

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE. September, day. PERSONS whore annual Premiums fall due on the , a9th la& are hereby Informed, that Receipts ars now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over the ROYAL Es. ceasing and In PA u. •MALL, as well as by their rerpeffilve Agents, In the &venal Counties; and the parties allured are requeited to ap ply, for the renewal of their Policies, on or before the Loh of Odober next, as the ufual fifteen days allowed for payment, be yond the date of each Policy, will then expire. SAMUEL FENNING, jun. Sec. •„'' Attendance is given, daily, at the Paid Ofßees, for the Affuranee of Buildings, Goods, Merchandize, and Ships in Hy. hour, in Dock, or while Building, (tom Lofs or Damage by Fire ; and alfo for the Affuranee of, and granting Annuities on Lives. N.B. Firs Polidu will k ?food fres of expense to tho offorld •svbsys She 4aawal ?radio lassoonst: to fu. or upward:. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. FIRE AT HOLLOWAY CHAPEL. WHEREAS the CHAPEL at Holloway, near Iflington, was Burnt down this Morning abort Three o'Clock, and there is great reafon to bclicve it was wilfully fet on fire, the above Reward will be given on convidlion of the offender or offenders, by applying to Thomas Wilfon,Efq• No. 16, Artillery Place, Finfbnry fquare. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER a 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s Conf. money 641—fro acc 6 sti—Omnium, par to pre. Excheq. Bills, par to is prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, 23i op. India Bonds, par to. clif. 3 per Cent. Red that Imp. 3 per Cent. 621 3 per Cent. Cool 6all Imp. Ann. 7i z t-t6ths Defered 3 per Cent. Coot 61If Enke* Bills, se. a ts. (BE per Cent. abut Foglia' Tickets aol. rya. 5 per Cant. Navy, 961,1 Conf. fir sec. 621 63 The Declaration of his Majefty refpeaing the late attack upon Denmark will be read with much intereft. —The arguments it exhibits are exaaly fuch as have been fuggefted by the public. All parties are agreed that the cafe was a hard one refpeaing the Danes, as alto that nothing but the molt urgent neceffity could juftify the meafures adopted by this country. To the latter point the declaration is chiefly confined, — Government had pofitive information of the intention of France to occupy HoMein, and it was not to be doubted that the feizure of the Dui& fleet would have followed. The concluding paragraph of the Declaration hints at the poffibility of hollilities being continned between Denmark and Britain. 64 It Rill rooming for Denmark to determine whether war than conti nue between the two nations r —lndeed if we may credit Come who poirefs the bell means of being cor• rally informed on the fubjeft, it is by no means cer tain that a good underltanding will be fpeedily re ftored between the two Powers. It is even Paid that erders have been fent out to out Commanders in the Baltic not to abandon Copenhagen till the points fill at iffue flail have been fettled. Difpatches were this morning received from Monte Videq, brought by the PHEASANT, of tEI guns, ar• rived at Plymouth. We have not been able to learn that tbefe clifpatches bring any thing farther than duplicates of thofe which have already been made public. At the time the PHEASANT failed, on the sath of Juty laR, the Bridal troops in that quarter were about to embark. Several officers of the army came horn• paffengers in the PHEASANT ; among whom are Colonel PARKS, Colonel STUART, Captain DAMPIER, and Captain COCKBURN. The private letters brought by this conveyance are not of a nature to leffen the diiratisfaelion excited by the accounts formerly received. That our arms have been difgraced in South America, all the mi litary men are agreed ; but they cannot agree to whom the blame fhould be imputed. It now appears that the attacking army had _five hammers (not one more), with which to attack the barricaded houfcs in Buenos Ayres! By the Lifbon Mail, we received the Madrid Gazette to the 25th ult. • The seal of the native population of South America to affil the Spanifh force in refill ing our troops is very oftentatioufly blazoned forth. It is Rated that ten Caciques, who are Indian chiefs, waited upon the Government of Buenos Ayres,' offering to bring forward ao,ooo men, with Immo horfes, I. to fight (as they termed it) againft the Red Coats." The reception they met with is very minutely detailed, including of cootie an alfurance of grati tude from the Government, accompanied by an ex preffion of confidence, that their aid was unneceffary, as fuels a difpofition was made, which the refult un- fortunately proves, as would be quite fofficient to re pel and overthrow the enemy. It is added, that five other Caciques had afterwards waited upon the Spa niih Commander with the offer of to,ooo auxiliaries, and met with a fimilar reception. Whether tilde ilatements were introduced into the Madrid Gazette with a view to induce an idea of the popularity of the Spsnint Government in South America, and thus to damp any expectation cf foe eefs in that quarter, we fhall not attempt to inquire. Indeed, the event which has fince occurred at Buenos Ayres renders that inquiry quite unneceffary. It was or:known in Spain or Portugal. that our troopi had failed at Buenos Ayres. The Matitid Gazette contains alto a letter, ex trailed from a paper puhlified at Buenos Ayres, under the title of The Puhlkille. This letter is fun 'Of cenfure t f the conduel of General Batt imam Of the charges we have already given a (peones. - GIBRALTAR, AUGUST :5. " The Madrid Gazettes and the Journals have heft paragraphs upon the failure of a third attempt by our troops upon Rufetta, and the confequent eva cuation of Egypt. By comparing the dates with that of the lateß intelligence from Malta, it will be immediately perceived that thole accounts cannot be correft. " By the lateft accounts from Algiers, we learn that a treaty has been concluded with the Regency of that country, by which the exclusive right of the trade of the ports of Bona, La Cala, and II Col. has been ceded to the Britifh. for the exportation of hides, wool, wax, and 7Soo fanaques of wheat annually. " The Dey has alto ceded the coral finery on the coact, to the Englifh. eg Aucusr 2o.—Artived today the Carteret packet, in thirteen days pillage from England, with the mail for • July. eg AUG. 22.—This morning a Spanith convoy ar rived at Algefiras, from Cadiz. under the protection of two armed fchooners and three gun boats. It was expelled by many that Come attempt would be made to intercept them, as it is well known that a large train of fiege artillery is hourly expelled to arrive from Cadiz to the Spanith lines. ee The Spann troops in the neighbourhood of this garrifon are under orders to march for Portugal at a moment's notice. At/Gurr 23.—Lafk night the Princefs Eliza beth packet arrived here, in twenty days from Malta, with the mails for this place and England. She brings letters alto from Alexandria of the sad of June, at which time every thing was quiet there, and the garrifon was plentifully fupplied with all kinds of provifions. Our prifoners were all well at Cairo, and experienced good treatment, though it was generally fuppofed that they would not be given up by the Turks without a ranfom. 44 This morning ►he Intrepid, Captain Woos °us', arrived from Meffina, with five light tranfports to carry the tenth Regiment, from this to Sicily. Ge neral Fox and his family are paflengers on board the Intrepid, on their way to England. 41 Auotrsr a6.—Our accounts from Spain (late, that a large French army had already entered that country, on their way to Portugal. Many Spanifb regiments are alto ordered to be in readinefs to march for Portugal, from this neighbourhood, who are foon expelled to be replaced by French regiments." Captain WRITE, of the Navy, arrived at the Ad miralty lel night, at nine o'clock, with difpatches from Admiral BERKELEY, on the American Ration. The nature of thefe difpatches we did not learn, but it is not probable that in the prefent cireumnances they eau be of much importance. The differences between this country and the United States, are at prefent merely matter of negotiation, and the ulti mate refolt is to be expeded more from the determi nation of our Court, than from any intelligence from a foreign Ration. The precife demands of the American Government, though report has attempted to defcribe them, are as yet, we believe, not very well known, and his MAJESTY's Minillers have not yet corn• to any definite refolution. Mr. Momaou waits for the anfwer of our Government, and will fail immediately, it is fuppofed, on obtaining it.— From the prefent temper of the two Governments, it is not likely that a war will take place, if it can poll• bly be avoided. We have no doubt, however, that his MAJESTY'S prefent Minifiers polka firmnefs enough to prevent any compromife either of the ho nour or interells of this country. We have been favoured with the following extra& of a Letter from Malaga. The American Executive Power appears to have been early apprehenfive, that the late occurrences at the mouth of the Ckefapeak might lead to a decifive rupture, and to have 101 l no time in taking precautions againfl the died of it " MALAGA, AUGUST 19. " Yciterday evening a foil falling American fchooner arrived in our Bay, in ss day■ from New York, chartered by Government to bring dlfpatcbes to their Mips of war and Confuis in the Medi terranean. A Meeting was immediately held on board of the Con. itituthan frigate,of her Officers, and of thole of a brig of war which accompanies her. Nothing more of the buenefs has tranfpired ; hut the fchooner that brought the difpatches proceeded immedi ately up the Mediterranean. It is foppoled it mat be to give no tice to American merchantmen to be on their guard with the Frg liih, in confequence of the occurrence that has taken plate with the Cheraprak." Yefterday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo reign Office, which was attended by all the Umiliers in town. Lad night Mr. L►Lavßw, a Mellinger, was dif- patched from the Admiralty with difpatches for Portugal, to be fur warded. by a fad failing veld from Portfmouth. rn. , rnirg Government received difpatcho f.qm Admiral GAMBIeR,Ight to Yartnogth' by a cutter, which arrived there yetterd.ty. Captain SMITH zrrived IA night at the Admiralty with dilpatches hem 'I ialifaz, which wet& itnmedi atelv feat off to fiord MULGRAVII, then at hit fcat at Fulham. Government have received, by the INTR BPI% ae: c o unts from Aleandrta of a very recent diste, which Gate, that the troops were in good health, and were plentifolly fupphed with provilions by the Arabs. The Tur k. had not (hewn any difpofition to attack Alexandria. • Yetlerday General Sir SAMUEL AUCRMUTT had an audience with the FirQ Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Sinaiy SMITH had alfo an audience witl t Seefetary thr Foreign Affairs. STATE PAPER. • ►. DECI.ARA I lON OF THE KING. V'ettminft,r, Sept. 25, iB:7. His MAJISTY owes to hiinfrlf, and to Eutope, a frank captition of the inotives vshich have diaated hislate meatuses in the Baltic. Hia MAJESTY has delayed this exporninn only in the hope of , that more amicable arrangement with the Court of Denmark which•it was his Majssry's firfl with and endeavcor to obtain—for which he was ready to mike great efforts and great facrificeF; and of which he never lon fight, evcn in the moment of the moll decifive hotlility. Deeply as the difappointment of this hope has I been felt by his MAJESTY, he has the confolation of refle6ling that no exertion was left nroried on his part to produce a different refult. And while he laments 1 the cruel necellity which has obliged him to have recourfe to aas of hollility againft a nation with which it was his MAJESTY'S moll earneft defile to have eftabli(hed the relaticns of common intereff and alliance; his MAJESTY feels confident that, in the eyes I of Europe and of the World, the jrtflification of his I tondua will be found in the commanding and indif- ' penfable duty, paramount to all others, amonia the obligations of a Sovereign, of providing, while there was yet time, for the immediate fecurity of his people. His MAJESTY had received the moll pofitive infor mation of the determination of the prefent Ruler of France to occupy, with a military force, the ter ritory of Holftein—for the purport of excluding Great Britain from all' her accultnmed channels of communication with the Continent ; of inducing or compelling the Court of Denmark to dole the paffage of the Sound againff the Britifh commerce and na vigation;. and of availing himfelf of the aid of the Dana Matine for the Invaficn of Great Britain and of Ireland. Confident as his MAJESTY Was of the authenticity of the fources from which this intelligence was de rived, and confirmed in the credit which he gave to it, as well by the notorious and repeated declarations of the Enemy, and by his recent occupation of the towns and territories of other neutral States, as by the preparations a&ually made for collating a hoßile force upon the frontiers of his D.tnifh Msielly's Continental dominions, his MAJESTY would yet wil lingly have forborne to a&upon this intelligence, until the complete and praakal difelofure of the plan had made manifeß to all the world .the abfolutc neceffity of refining it. _ His MA'AM' did forbear, as long as there could be a doubt of. the urgency of the danger, or a hope of an effednal counteradiou to it, in the means or in the difpofitions of Denmark. But his Malssry could not but recoiled thskt, whey, at the dole of the Former war, the Court of Denmark engaged in a, hoftile confederacy againn Great Britain, the apology offered by that Court for fo unjuflifiable an abandonment of a rieutrality which his Majtsvy had never ceafed to relped, was fcunded on its avowed inability to refill the operation of ex ternal influence, ar.d the threats of a formidable neighbouring Power. His Matissvy could not but compare the degree of influence, wbich at that time determined the decifion of the Court of Denmark, in violation of pofitive engagements, folemnly con-, traded but fix months before, with the increafed ope ration which France had now the means of giving to I the fame principle of iptimidation, with kingdoms proflrate at her feet, and with the population of na tions under her banners. Nor was the danger lets imminent than certain. Already the army defined fox the Invafion of Hol. Qein was affembling on the violated territory of neu tral Hamburg): : and, Holflein twee occupied, the Ifland of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the Navy of Denmark at her difpufgl. It is true, a Britilh force might have found its way into the Baltic, and checked for a time the move menus of the Dana's marine. But the feafon was approaching when that precaution would no longer have availed, and when his MAJESTY'S Fleet midi' have retired horn that tea, and permitted France, in uneiflurbed fecuricy, to accumulate the means of offence againft his MAjibTlell dmninions. Yet even under thele circurnflances, in calling upon Denmark for the !ilia - al:lion and fecurity which his MAJESTY was compelled to require, and in deman ding the only pledge by which that festivity could be rendered tffeltual—the temporary pothflion of that fleet, which was the chief inducement to France for forcing Denmark into hofilities with Great Britain & his Mk; a STY accompanied this demand with the offet of, every condition which could tend to reconcile it to the humus and to the feelings of the Court of Denmar k. It was for Denmark herfelf to hate the terms and l i ftipulations which the might require. If Denmark wasapprehtnfive that the forrinder o f h e r fl e et would- be relented by France as an sit of connivance, 1 4 ,1,s ► Atjarrir bad prepared a f or i e of fuch fOrMi , dable magnitude, as mull have made son ceffion juftifiable even in the eftimation of Trance, by rendering refiflance altogether unavailing. If Denmark was really prepared to , refill the de mands of France, and to maintain her independince, his Blaiairy 'proffered his co-operation for hei de fence—naval, military, and pecuaiary Aid , the' pa • t rantee of her European territories, and the fecurity and extenfron of her colonial pofreflions. That the fword has been drawn in the execution of a fervice indifpenfable to the Gray of his MAJESTY'S dominions, is matter of fincere and painful regret to his-MAJESTY. That the Hate and circumftances of the world are fuch as to have required and juftified the meafures of Pelf prefervation, to which his Ma i kaTY has found Mini& under the neceflity of retort ing, is a truth which his MAJESTY deeply deplores, but for which he is in no degree refpnntible. His MAJESTY has long carried on a moil unequal conteft, of fcrupulous forbearance againft unrelenting Alolence and oppreflion. But that forbearance has its bounds. When the defign was openly avowed, and already but too far advanced towards its accomplith. merit, of fubjeding the Powers of Europe to one univerfalufurpation, and of combining them by terror or by force in a confederacy againft the maritime rights and political exillecce of this kingdom, it became neerffary for his MA) &STY to anticipate the fuccefs of a fyftem, not snore fatal to his inters& than to thufe of the Powers who were defined to be I the infiruments of is execution. It was time that the effects of that dread which France bas infpiired into the Nations of the World, &fluid be counteraded by an exertion of the power of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the crifis, and proportioned to the magnitude of the danger. Notwithaanding the declaration of war on the part of the Daniih Government, it Hill remains for Denmark to determine, whether war (hall conti nue between the two nations. His MAJESTY fill proffers an amicable arrangement. He is anxious to fheathe the Avoid, which he has been mon reluc tantly compelled to draw. And he is ready to demotiftrate to Denman k and to the world, that, hav ing a.led folely upon the fence of what was due• to the fccurity of his own dominions, be is not defirous, from any other motive, or for any object of advan tage or aggrandifement, to cart y nneafttres of holtdity beyond the limits of the neceWty which bas produced them. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived this day. We have aTo received Harnburgh Papers to the 12th The following eztrad , contain every thing worthy bf notice in mete journals : ST. PETERS BURGH, AIM Az. General Bennigten is sxpefted here. Three da!s ag►o the treaty of peace concluded between Rufla and France, was notified• to the diplomatic court by the Minifier for Voreign Affsir: ; and the day before yeßerday M. Lefreps, she accredited 'rench aarge "'Pim to this Court, had his an. dience of introduetion in that capacity of his Imperial Maiefiy. FRONTIERS OF ITALY, AUGUST 17. The two Neapolitan Regimms which bad arrived in Uppex Italy, on their march to the North, have received orders to I emit. MILAN, AUGUST 24. Cattarn and its territory having been giv:u up to the French, it will be immediately organized accord ing to the laws of the Ki.egdom of Italy. It wiU alfo be more flrongly fortifked. ROME, AUGUST 2a. A great number of Fr•nch t , nops are marching from Upper Italy to the kingdom of Naples, whence it is concluded that an attack on the didod of Sicily is not far distant. The Coors at P.lerro has, in confequence, by way of precaution, already it. utoved its treafuty and other valuables to Malta. VENICE. AUGUST 23. On the 7th infant the French both Dalmatia took polrefEon of Ca , tari., CAllel Nunvo, and the other tons at the mouth of the Cattarn, and the Ruffian pinion then embarked for Corfu. The Republic ut the Seven Wands, is to ke taken pollifion of by . the French. 1: b g i the pfelent month all the (rack at Otranto, and the other Neapolitan pots on the Adriatic Sea, were put in tequifition, to convey French troops to cortu. GOTTENBURGH, SEPT. r 3. We have nothing new from Copenhagen to day it is faid that the Englifh Tailors are bnfily employed in equipping the Danifh Fleet, in'order to its being brought to England, and that three or four fhiesare already prepared fir their departure, with the Zar lifh flag flying upon them. None of the Englifli fa diers are permitted to enter Copenhagen, on account of the ditlreffed liate cf the inhabitants. Lord Oath cart's orders on this head are fo aria, that even Genera‘ Officers have been refufed permiffion. Se veral Merchants houfes there have already flopped pay ment. Sear. t 4.—A Swediflt traveller, arrived from Ca penhagen this morning, reports that upwards of6oor/ of the inhabitants were killed in the late liege, that the people ate much diffatisfied, both with the Crown Prince, and the Governor of Copenhagen (Peyton) the latter of whom, he fays, dales not venture" Without a flrong guard ; he alto lays that be was credibly fpfortned at Copenhagen, that BPnaPr had made large pecuniary offers to the Denial Go vernment, to give up their navy. This traveller re poit; that 14 millions of rix dollars was the offer. We have alto reports to-day that the French army in Poland is again preparing for warlike operations againft It i uffia : indeed it is Paid to'be in full march. The polls between Hamburgh and this place are yet aePPesis We have received no Germa n mails fpi a inotO. - •