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TY GALGACUS. eta—After the Cole= call upon you by the EDITOIL of the STAR to continue your ufeful and snoft Important labours, I dare not hope, if that fails of fuccefs, that an appeal to your patriotitin from an obfeure individual can influence your de termination—Yet I hazard the attempt from con& derations the Theft auguft and impofing—the love of my country, a devotion to her interefts, and an ar dent defire that the glorious caufe in which we are engaged thould be held up to the Nation and to Eu rope in .a Ilyle appropriate to its grandeur, as alio that the Subverter of Peace and Order fhould be szthibited to mankind in his proper chat after, divefled of thole • Palk glaring lights • Wide* eenqueft and recede have thrown around him." To do jufliee to there fubjees, and to reprefent them in the molt :strafing and slowing colours, ex elufively belong to your penal: adopt then, Sir, With the fignature you have chofen, the conduct of the heroic GALGACVs. Perfevere in your endeavours to render effential fervice to your Country, till the termination of the coma ; and, confident as you molt be of your powers to animate your fellow-ci risen, in the bright career of glory and of duty, you cannot fail of experiencing the delights of an ap proving confcience ; and, if yes continue to eurite, pof tatty will affociate the ancient and modern Gas.- secys in their tellimonies of applaufe ; but flatter not yourfelf that the retrocellion of a Briton, at a erifis like the prefent, from the fervice of the State, be it in arts or arms, can be made.with honour. I am, Sir, your humble Servant, ITANIIICUIe FRANCE. PARTS, JANUARY ly Chiarn MACNAIN, who travels in Spain to continue doe degrees of latitude, het i terminated his triangles along the coaft of Catalogtnea. He was ready to pall over to the Wands of Majorca and Yvica, to eltablint fignals there, when the Spanilb brig, on board which be had taken his pafrage, having loft feveral pinions by the yellow fever, was ordered into quarantine. We are affured that of the number of male indivi duals born in England, of as, one dies in foreign countries. which is a (biking proof of the enterprifusg fpirit of the Englifh nation. According to a deeifion of the tribunal of appeal, aria rents ID favour of a clergyman. married lance the revolution, are annulled by the aft of marriage. . kis laid that.the tapeftry embroidered by Q ueen is engraved in the 6th and Bth volumes of the Academy of Infcriptions. with an explanation of 'Lancelot ; and in the o R and 2d volumes of the work called la Monarchic Francoife by Mourraucon, tin Infcriptions accompany the figures, and by it the tapeftry of MATILDA explains many obfeure points of the contemporary Marley. The figures furnifh envious obfervations of the cufloms, manners, and dreffes of the age. According to report, our Government has ordered the tonftrudtion of new fortifications on four differ ent points on the left fide of the Rhine. There works are to be begun next fpring. A Military Comrniflion his condemned to fix nteinths imprifonment, a Clergyman at 'female, in the Department of Olona, in the Italian Republic, for baying infulted a national guard on duty, with ex 'preSons of-hatred and contempt for the Re public. It is Paid that his Catholic fsla jeily has interfered and procured the Kingdom of Etruria an abfulute neutrality. The excavations ordered by the Pope eontir.ue at .oAia. A number of Ratites medals, marble columns, and other precious antiquities, have been found.— Two columns of the lonian order, upwards of two .paltnas diameter, and about t 8 palmas in height. are particularly admired. They are of black marble. The Government at Milan has ordered a fum of 5,2ci0,000 livres, for the conarullion of two frigates, twelve gun boats, and for the equipment of thefe veffels, tic. This fum is to be levied by an extraor dinary contribution. Three hundred men of the firft marine artillery re giment have paled through Rouen,for Bieft,dellined for Boulogne. PROM THE PARIS P wERs. 'sow, c. :to.—The Grind Judge, hli• Milker of Plaice, and id the Police, informed, that minn b ers of N e ignert, who arrive in France, are provided with pates not containing a deaription of their p er (ons, age, &c. (Jse: kaalor-rat), has written en this ruble& to our Pi cleft, who, in a circalar lette to all Mayors of our department, has ordered that to remedy this want of formality, they are in fut ire to write on the back of the pats the defcription of each foreigner who travels through their communes. They are Wicks firiely to compare thole defcriptions ready written down, with the perfone who are• the bearers f th e patrons ; and, in cafes when the defcription does not enfwer. drain the bearer, report tire cafe to the Prefett, in fending li'm the pals, and tl,c real .1:- getstion of the perfon deta:r:d. iIICT. Dec. 2 , ).—A11 the orerations ri.l.l::ve to the confcription of young men for the years c t and u. are ended in the department r.f Niciii the. _ Tn•day ha% ruffed i:lrough S.ierbourg a (+Min battalion of th* yith reximcnt td the line, la 6 0 0 picked men, &flirted fur the camp forming Agar Arras. . . The sill reg.rnent of light draggrms, it ga►rifon I.yyms,lt.tt that city fur Airasvn the 231 ►wliaut. LONDON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 27. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAy AT ONE O'CLOCK a Conf. for money, 3615—Ditto, for February 46* ',educed 36i—Onwinns a dif.. Olds per Cents. k4}}—New S per Ceuta. 941. 4 per Cents. 734t—Skort Ann. 35 3-16. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERD4Y. Bank Stock 1554 India Stock 1734 it 7 1 41 3 per C. Red. Ann.36*Fll I India :'.ands S. as. pram 3 per C. Con 13H*36* Imp. 3 r-r Cent. 33* 4 Per C. 734 74 73: Imp. Ann. so (I to 5 per C. Navy 8913 Exchey. Bills is a sapres. 5 Per C 1 797 94.935 94 011initiM 15 3 at a. Long Ann. At 9-t6 Lottery Tickets. noL Short Anu.3l 5.16 Conf. for arc. 56 551 5611 The Riga we rejoice to (late, is now perfeilly re covered. Yellerday his MAJESTY found himfelf fo far re.ftablifhed as to be able to take exercife on horfe back, for a confiderable time, in the Riding Houle, He then gave an audience to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of You. The public have already been informed of the eva cuation of St. Domingo. Yeflerday Government received official details of the circumflances which attended it, brought by Captain Sottass.s., late com mander of the G , which was loft off Cape Francois. For the laft three months Roc liAllallAU'had filtrat ed the moft affliaing diftreffes, and yielding at length to the preffure of famine, he propored terms as well to the Blacks, by whom he was affailed on the one fide, as to the Britilb Commander, who blocked up the harbour of the Cape on the other. The former granted him ten days for the evacuation of the co lony; in confequence of which he embarked with the remnant of his force, and a number of the white inhabitants, onboard three frigates, two corvettes, and eighteen tranfports, the whole of which had ar rived at Jamaica at the date of there advices. The number of troops "that have thus fallen into our hands amounts to between four and five thoufand ; and the value of the cargoes is computed at a very confider able fum. The Cum man of war, arrived at Portfmouth, is laid to have on board the military cheft of the Army of St. Domingo, confifting of a great part of the plunder of the Republican officers, and the fpecie of which cordifts principally of dollars. Of there, report rays, there are about five hundred thourand, which will be of great fervice to the public in the prefent want of a Myer circulating medium. The Britith (hips to which the enemy's forces fur rendered, are the VANGUARD, BILLISILOPHON, and H s ac u Le, of 74 guns each, and the Biamois frigate. Two French Generals, who ferved under ROCHAM. *Eau, are come to England in the Cuss ; and a tranfport, with three hundred of the Republi can prifoners on board, is already arrived at Portf mouth. Since the commencement of the war between the French and the Blacks, upwards of go,ooo troops have been landed in that ill fated colony ; but (lays a private letter) fo great has been the devanation by the (word and the climate, that the remnant amounts to litttle more than 4000, who were accompanied from the Cape by about aOOO men, women, and children. This event has completely eftablifhed the Sove reignty of the Blacks over the Ifland of St. Domingo; for the Britifh have made no attempt to take pail: iron of the evacuated poll, and it is much to be hoped, that the idea of territorial acquifition in that quarter, either by conquell or by treaty, will never be reviv ed. It may, indeed, be expedient, with a view to our commercial intere as, to eftablifh faitories in different parts of the Colony, and to keep op an intercoufe purely commercial with it ; but beyond this, wifdom and policy alike forbid us to proceed. So far as leipeas the views of France, and the real interefts of humanity, we have reafon to rejoice at an event which has cAufed to terminate in difappoint ment, and difgrace, one of the molt formidable cape alitions ever flirt to the Welt Indies; but it is tine that a Negro Republic in the Welkin woad is an eftablifhment not to be contemplated without anxiety; it is an eflthlifhment which naturally leads forward the mind to important views of the future condition of our Weft India Settlement:. Much will depend on the fiat arrangements formed in reference to the new flair of things. It will require all that policy combined with wifilom can effea, to frame the grounds of our otigirial intercourfe with the Black Government. Even at this moment it might be for midable, unlefs moderation and firmnefs are properly blended. What is now required is the formation of a general bails of commercial intercourfe, and if we may be allowed the expiation, of incidental poli tical relation. What may be afterwards permanently fixed will be the fobjeft of molt momentous confider*. tion.—At prefent it is neceffary to di that which, while it is applicable to immediate circumftances, will not at all comprt mire any fublquent arrangements which an extenfive view of the whole fubjeft may fugge ft. We have more than once already taken oc. cation to hint that an attempt at taking poffeffion of any part of St. Domingo would be highly ruinous. We are glad to find that there is no appearance of fuchla setblution on the part of our Commanders, and we have only to exprefs a wills, that this line of con duit will be wifely adhered to. Lvery advantage of Commerce or of revenue will be gained without taking filch a (1.:o, as an attempt at a permanent fettlement. and by t v..n retifitig the jeal3ufy of the Blacks, all I that r e hay now gained might be rendered abortive FOREIGN JOURNALS. We have this day received various French and German journal ; but their contents have been moftly anticipated by Ode that reached us on Satur day laft. On the prefent political Rate of Germany we have, however, prefented our Readers with a well written Letter from Ratifbon, which contains tome interefting particulars. RATISDOIIp Dec. 28.--The molt vifible dice which the influence of foreign politics has for Come time paR had on the German empire, is to wide it by weak• ening it, and to increafe the difhnion, diverfity of views and principles, in proportion as it becomes en feebled, and lofes a great part of its members. The objet of this kind of fchifiu, which has eftablifhed two Chiefs in the empire, and two dillinEt parties, is. at prefent, two principal queftions ; one of them is that of the viril votes, the other the exemption of the im mediate Nobility of the empire. One of our Journals lays, that the Minifter of Brandenbourg has received and communicated to feveral of the Minifters a re fcript of his Court, which Rates, " That his Pa vistas MAJIISTY will never depart from the principles he has hitherto manifefted on the queflion of the viril votes; that he will always infilt on the full execution of the rail; of the Deputation ; and that if the Eta ream refutes to ratify the alit of the empire. which is preparing on this fulijee, the ditadvantage will be on his fide." If the primitive Conflitution of the empire. as well as the ancient relations between the Chief and its Members be recollected, a declaration of this nature thews how times and circumftances are ebanged,and what difference there is between forms and reality. The Court of Berlin, particularly fines the treaty of Bane, has teen its influence in the diet in mate, while the Court of Vienna has been obliged to alt merely in oppolition, and on the defentive. The Court of Munich, by abfolutely feparating itfelf from Aultria, has completely difplaced the weight in the Germanic balance, and the other members mutt regulate themfelves according to their interelts. At the fitting of the diet held on the :4th inliant, a memorial of Baron BILDT, the Swedith minifter, was reld. the fubtlance of which is as follows : " In the vote given on the aIR of March, a demand was made in the name of his Swedifh Majefty in his qua lity as a Rate of the empire, of two new viril votes in the college of Princes. As the deliberation on the conferring of the new viril votes has begun agree ably to the decree of the Imperial commiffion of July Bth, the underligned judges it neceffary to renew this demand by a particular invitation, making however a modifications namely. that his Swediffi Majeßy in regard to the hypothetic arrangement which he has concluded with the Duke of MDCLINDOVIO RIN, in regard to the town and Lordfttip of Wilmer, will now be contented with one new viril vote, which will be for the principality of Rugen. There can be no doubt that a vote may be founded in dais confi derable principality, which contains 26,0c0 inhabi tants. His Majelly then is convinced, that all his co-ellates will make no difficulty to accede to his jun demand. difpofed as he is to favour and fupport, in his quality of Duke of Anterior Pomerania, de mands equally well founded which may be made by other Rates." In the fame fitting was read an Addrefs, which the Prince(' Dowager of Oetlingen Wallenfteiri eau( ed to be laid before the Direaory, and in which the demanded a fecond viril vote for the County of Bal. dem. In the prefent [late of Europe and the Em- pire, the poffeMon of one viril vote more muft ap pear of little importance. . . The other quellion, which relates to the immediate Nobility, is more conneaed with the Conftirution , and Rights of the Germanic Body. It pi-dents two different objeas of difeuffion :—The firfl is to know whether exemption from the territorial fuperiority of the Princes,in whofe tcrritoriestbe immediate nobility are Melded, is not an ufurpation ? or whether it be a right legally and conairutionally acquired, authorifed at leak and eßabliffsed by polfdlion equivalent to a right ? The fecond demand is, fo ppofing that the imme . . . . diate Nobility have no fufficient right of exemption, and that their porrefflon is, at preCent, an ufurpation Cufceptible of being abolifbed, or brought back to its primitive origin, have the tertitotiAl princes a right of doing it of themfelves without invoking the politi cal authority, or judicial power of the Empire ? or, in other words, whether the principles of natural and common law, as well as thole of the Get manic body, allow there princes members of the raid body to do them (elves jußice, and to conflitute themfelves as it were judges in their own caufe ? In regard to the idea that the exemption from territorial fupericrity, claimed by the immediate nobility, is merely an ufurpation, Come obferre, that if one were to en quire narrowly into all the ofurpations favoured by the lapfe of time or the oblicrity of ages. the terti. tonal fuperiority of the ma powerful princes of the empire. and that even of the princes who claim ter ritorial authority over the immediate nobility, will be found In the fame dilemma ; and, that if the Ger manic body exhibit at relent the fpeftacle of a fede rate body. without the power of conllraint, where many of the members all as independent powers, it it in faniiar ufurpations to which poffeffion has gives the force of right. that we mull leek for the origin of that anti•Cocial order, or at leaft that it regular Rate of things. One of the olden and molt delicate queili..ns in the public right of Germany. is to fix the oa ;gin, nature, and boundaries of what is called territorial fuperiority. But, independently of there confident. tions of right, experience , has proved the confufion which refidts from the adof taking poffellion which has been done by the Eledor of Bavaria and Other princes after his example, without the intervention of a com mon authority, either political or judiciery. to regu late the reciprocal rights. The reafon of this is, that the Princes themfelves who claim power over the immediate nobility and their lands, are not agreed among thesnfelves in regard ed the relations between them and Their valfals, while Nee of them take pot. felon of there lands, as territorial forereigns ; others only take them under their protedion, to prevent their neighbours from kiting them. An inllaoee of this has been teen by the patent on the pin of the Court of Caffel, publitbed on the s6th of DP/ 4 4nber. The following is another Wiled bytbe Prince of Nas sau Usispea We Flavin ano Avonsrvs, Ore. &C. having been informed of the encroaChments on the immediate equeftrian order by leveret of our co ellates, we can not defer taking thole matures which' the mainte nance of onr rights and thofe of our houfe render indifpeafably neceffary ; with this view, we fummors as far as concerns ale fiefs belonging to us and to our houfe, all our Tafels of the equeftrian order of the empire, both in our old countries and in thnfi which we have received as an indemnity, to conform them (elves to the obligation they save entered into, to watch over with the molt fetopuloui attention, the prefervation of our property and fiefs, and thofe of our houfe, and confequently not to permit any fo reigner taking poffeifion ; to oppofe the fuperiority of force of the juridical miens, to make a report im mediately after, and in general to condo& themfclves as hecomes loyal vaffals worthy of the confidence which we place in them. They may be affured on our part, of our good wilt and of all our proteilion. " Swum AUGUSTUS PRINCE OF NASSAU." • Done at Blzbericte, Dee. so, 5803." In the midtt of this collection, which brings to mind the expreUlon of the Poet, Non kw juailarins dfcerito [mina roam. the loft of the left bank c 4 the Rhine wilt be felt for a long time ; and all the grievances which have there refulted are far from being redretred. The Prnie of Bietnenheim has caufed the Miniflers of the Counts of Weflphalia to reque“ in the Diet, Om it would afe its influence with the French Government to obtain a removal of the fequefiration front the privet e property it porefet on the left bank of the Rhine. Yeeerday her Majascy and Prince's* Avow* and ELIZABETH, took an airing by Richmond; Prin. eels AMELIA took ah airing by Fulhiiin. Princes SOPHIA of GLOOCESTE/L vihted her MAJESTY. In the evening dteir Mai amts bad a convert and U lna party* Among the company were—Earls of Heaeinorom and DARTMOUTH, Lord and Lady SUDLAY. Counter's of CHATHAM, aK. Mr. Secretary Yoagg had an interview yelterday with Lord Sr. Vinegar, at his bode !A the Maim. ralt y. A correfpondent defires as to alk Minißem whe ther it be not a fall that at this time there are 14,000 French and Spanifh troop at the Havanna, and that the utmoll atlivity is of ed in CaJiz and other ports of Spain, to fit out for fea every veffel capable of keeping above water;—And whether it be nut probable, that an attack is intended to be made upon Jamaica, while the navies of France, Spain, and even Portugal, make an attempt upon Ireland ? Might not Spain be dill abled completely from attempting any thing to our prejudice ? A party of recruits Lave marched into Sheernefs to join the t zth Battalion of the Army of Referve. winch Regithent is in Barracks at the Fort. It is Paid that a Dutch veal was employed by /lc- Napalm to convey 7000 (land of arms, and other floret, from one port to another : the velrel was no boner beyond the reach of the batteries, than the Dutchmen altered their, courfc, and fitt is now fate in the river Thames. We have received a letter from Lifbon, dated the 7th inR. which acquaints us, that the Prince having affembled the merchants, had demanded of thew two millions of crowns, to fatisfy the immediate calls of France. In the mean time the Portuguefe treafory pays nothing. General LASWES lids had another quarrel with the Secretary of State, and all was again i n contemn. Spain is reprefented as bleeding at every pare; and the advizes from that count v indi cate extreme apprehentions of a rupture with Br:. ain. —Exchange 64/—Fills, 6 R. per quintal.—Whcat e Soo a 660 rs. palquier.—Greand itrivertker. Letters were received in town ►ellerday front Newfoundland, Jamaica, Barbadocs, and the Weft Indic s. Alfo American Papers to the ayth, from which we have made a kw extrath : but they are of no importance. ILHAIILfSTOWK, Dsc. 24.—The Prefident has laid before the Senate a liatement of the perfons imprelfed from American vcfnls, of v hi:11 the following is the fummary By the Brit'lb, forty-three perfons, being citizens of the United States, of whom twelve had protec tions; ten being natives of the Brititb dominions. and not Rated to be naturaliard as American citi zens ; and feventaen of all other countries, who are not Rated to have been naturalised in the United States. By the Agent. rf France. two; and one b 7 the Agents of the Bolivian Republic. New Yoult. Nov so.—J. inns lIMIAPAITI left this city yelierday, for Philadelphia. in the fame flyla in which he came z that is, in his coach and font. accompanied by his forgeon and fecretary in a cur rick and pair. and attended by a numerous retinue of fetvants. It is (aid. that latex eis In much pleated with the polite attention tbewo to him h.•,e, that he intends to drfchstrge his Baltimore enaNillment, and return to refs the winter in New Yeti.