Star. — London, England, 1807-12-03 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3. PRICE OF S rocKi THIS DAY AT ONF. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Con( lbw—for Jan. aecouat 63{ 64. Reduced 6cif—Omuium Mt, 3s. prem. Dank stock PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. India Bonds, par is. dif. Imp. 3 per Cent. 6it 6a Excite. Bilk 3s is pr. Omnium t t to # prem. Conf. for uc 64 631 3 per Cent. Red. 6314 6:1 4 Per Cent. 811 8i s per Cent. Navy 98i1 98 Luog ADM 17 rs-zotbsi We mentioned yellerday what an unirfual had prevailed at the Admiralty in the morning, fending off Meffengers to the different Ports. In a few minutes after our Paper was at prefs, the caufe tranf pired, in a cnmnaunication from the SECRETARY for Foasion AFFAIRS to the LORD MAYOR, announcing the fufpenfion of all friendly intercourfe between the Court of Sc. Peteriburgh and that of London. It was alfo notifi:d to the Stock Exchange by Mr. NALDER, the City Marfhal. We again infert the communication, with the addition of others to dif ferent quarters, announcing the fame event : N TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR. " MT LORD. 4 Stanhope street, December 2. " I have the honour to acquaint your Lordthip, that Difpatches have been received this morning from His MAJ IC STY'S Ambaffador at the Court of St. Pctcriburgh, by which it appears that the Eas- PEROII of Itusact, having publilhed a Declaration, in which his Imperial Majclty announces his determination to break off all communication with England. to reed his Ambaffador from this Coot, and not to permit the Britifh Miffion to continue at the Court of St. Peterfburgh : His Aft --AJISTY'S Minliter has demanded Lis paffports, and is now on his return. " I have loft no time in communicating this intelligenee to your Len!hip, in order that it may be made as public u poifible. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, &e. " GEORGE CANNING." About four o'clock another communication was made to the LORD MAYOR and to Lloye's, by the SECRETARY of SEATS, of which the following is a copy:-- " The difpatches received from St. Peteriburgh were fent from that place on the morning of the 9th ult. at which time no em bargo had been laid on the Britib (hipping in the ports of Rums ; it appears that about twenty fail of Bud& veffels remained at Cronftadt, molt of which were loaded. On the 3lft df Odtober there were fifty-two &kith Chips at Riga ; and on the 13d of Oa& ber the River at Archangel was frozen over, and no Britilh Ups remained there." At BAT:totes Coffee•honfe, the cußomary retort of our Ruffian hletchants. the following communi• cation was alto publicly exhibited The Governor of the Rahn Company has received from Mr. CANNING, the Copy of a Letter from Lord G. Levey's/ GOWSR to Sir STII7BIII SUM P, informing him, that an end had been put to all political ►elations between the Court of London and St. Peteriburgh, and that he &told, In confequeoce, leave the country in a very few days, The date of the Letter is Nov. 8,1807. STZPII IN &BAIR P mentions, that there were 20 thipli at Cron ftadt, tome of which be hoped would get away." On the whole of the intelligence from St. Feted- burgh becoming public, the Funds experienced a fall of about a half per cent. Hemp and tallow had a confiderable advance. Such then is the fituation of our affairs. Our dan gers were numerous and great before, but the addi tion cf Ruin,* to the number is calculated to excite the deepen reflation. We are not only driven away, and Phut out from all intercourfe with the reit of ci ♦ilized mankind, but cut off from thofe fources whence we ufed to derive our chief fupplies of naval flores. The comforts, however, which we may en joy, if we do but guard them with a ftrong hand, and ufe them with a (paring one, are fuch as the rea of Europe, crouching under the dominion of fuch a Tyrant as it now does, may well envy. The old world is, for the future, to live open her own refources ; the is to have no foreign commerce ; and the Matter who teaches her this leffon, impofes a fimilar talk upon England. The latter is no longer to fupply the Continental nations with the produce of dillant climes ; therefore the too mull live upon her own refources ; and we think it no difficult alternative to chute, between fo living, and living in fubjeltion to a foreign defpot. So that, if this is the only war which it is now in his power to wage upon us, we do not think it otte that is likely to drive us to early fuhmif fir,n. But we are far from believing his powers Co limited, or his ambition fo fatiated, that he will not devife, and that he is not now deviling, various other means of (tarotlion. Our means of prefer v ation are chiefly t wo—cconomy and unanimity ; and the one will be the caufe of the ether ; for if the people (and of this they are very competent judges) ' fee that no burthens are laid upon them which are not immediately neceffary for their defence, there will not be one diffenticnt voice, or one ;native arm, whenever it fh :Übe neceffary (and neceffary, we have no doubt, it will be ultimately), to repel the affaults Ist . a tyrant, whom every heart abhors. Peace, to be foie, is a pleating found; and if it would come with its ufual attendant, fecurity t we would clamour for it as loudly as the moll illiterate manufaEturers of Yorkibire ; but if k does not put an end to our dan gers, we greatly fear, that we have, in reality, more need of patience Caen peace. In filch a cries, need we again to endeavour to rot“e the country to a proper fenfe of its danger, and to make a proper ufe of the phyfical means with which Pam-time E has DIA us, tl he ready for the formidable itivall n now in embryo, and which threa• tens to defolee our coutary with innumerable bolls of inveterate ft ei, bent cn nothing lets than our otter annihilation. We have lt ng teea proclaiming in the ears of our rulers and our fellow citizen•, the neceffity of becoming an armed nation. We have been called croakers—alarenifts—timid cowards, for daring to perform our duty to the public, but nothing has been able to Rifle our voice. Who will now be fo fool hardy as to turn a deaf ear to the cry of Pelf prefervation ? Who will dare longer to be fuch a traitor to his country, as to neglea for a Tingle hour the adoption of meafures equal in their energy to the caufe which calls for their adoption ? If there be a Mini(ler or a man in the country who can be fo infa- tuated, fo befetted, fo criminal as to fail in the duty he owes to his country, may the public vengeance fall upon him ! A few years ago, when we were firft threatened with invafion, we were the firft to call upon our country to arm in her own defence. The pact iotic call refounded from every contemporary print—the public pre& did its duty—there was but one voice, and the ardour of our youth throughout the country gave fuch a refponfe as might be eel:rated from men who know the value of our privileges, and can form an adequate idea of the horrors with which our fitters, our daughters—our wives, are threatened ! By this time we might have been an armed nation —but how have thefe efforts been paralifed—the ar dour of our youth repreffed—our defence negleded! —By whom ? For what purpofe ?-..1t would now, perhaps, anfwer no good end to enquire. But let not a like evil occur a fecond time.—Another re petition of fuch conduB and Britain—proud Britain —Britain the glory of civilized humanity—the envy of the world ! becomes the (lave of her enemy. REVOLUTION IN SWEDEN. FROM THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. " Edinburgh,Noveaalux 3o.—One o'clock. " We flop the prefs to hate the following impor tant intelligence : " The Hon. Mr. Ptsaassotrr, our Minifler at Stockholm, arrived this morning in Leith Roads, in twelve days from Helfingburg, in a lugger, with difpatches for Government, fuppofed to be of great importance. He immediately fet out for London.— He was fainted with 15 guns by the Admiral's 114. " The particulars of the intelligence brought by this conveyance, have, of courfe, not tranfpired ; but we underhand, that a Revolution has broken out in Sweden—a report not the lets entitled to credit, being accompanied by the return of our Ambalfador —a eircumaance we were not at all prepared to ex. pea." PORTUGAL A Gentleman who left Lifbon flue the Ruffian men of war entered the Tagus, informs ns, that it is impoffible for the Portugnefe fleet to fail for the Brazils, were the Court fo difpofed ; the Ruffian fhips having placed themfelves in fuch a manner, that without their permiffion they cannot pat to tea ! Yefterday morning, at three o'clock, Sir RORVRT WILSON reached town with difpatches from Lord L. Cows a, at &. Peterfburgh. Tbefe were the dif. aetches that announced the holtile difvfltion of Ruf- La. At noon, a Cabinet Council was held at the Secre tary of State's Office, in Downing Street, at which the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of WaSTWIRLAND, Lords HAWKIIIIVRY and MULGRATE, and Mr. Pea. c a VA 1., attended. Sir Roacar Wit.som, it is Paid, has brought intel ligence to Government, which he beard on high au thority at Peterfburgh, that BONAPAITI has deter mined to make immediate preparations for the invalion of this country. Ireland or Scotland, it is fuppofed, will be the lint objet of his attempt. A notice was this morning pofied at Lloyd's, fia ting that tso fail of Britifh veffels had been fuddenly ordered to leave Ruffia, and had arrived fafely off Helfingborg, in Sweden. Many of them :ire only half loaded, and Tome are in ballaft. A Military Officer, named Mt.:Trust.. arrived yefterday at the Secretary of State's Once, with difpatches from Lifbon. Government has determined to prevent the further entrance of all Foreigners into the ports of the United Kingdom. Orders to this elf,e& bare been iffued to the Commanding Officers at.all the Ports. No perfon of any defcription, under any pretext, except he can produce an authenticated 'palfport, is in future to be allowed to land in England. The Sufanaah, one of the fleet that failed under convoy of the Lively frigate, is arrived at Cork; the faw on the t 3th ult. five fail of the line in lat. 47. 30. long. 8. 35 ; they were Sir Strom SMI rtes fquadron. We have had, however, accounts of its having.been ken in lat. 43. a little to the Northward of the lati. tude of Cape Finiflerre. Friday, two companies of the Royal Artillery ar rived at Liverpool from Woolwich, on their route to Ireland. The Renfrewihire Yeomanry, commanded by Co lonel Muss, of Caldwell, were infpetted in the Green of Glafgow on Tuefday fenniiht by Colonel SCOTT, the Infpetling field officer of that diftritt, when the men acquitted themfelves highly to his fatisfatlion. This corps has been ten days is that town, on per manent duty, and their behaaidur, officers and men, has been worthy of the noble caufe in which they are engaged.• They marched home on Saturday morn ing. Captain HAN mil, of the ad Royal North &kith Dragoons, is appointed Brigade Major to the troops Rationed at Canterbury, where he arrived on Tudday. Covsar Gaania.-.The Melo drama of the Blind Boy was repeated IA night, and afforded no leis gra titicatinn than on its firfl performance. The great intereft of the (tory; the excellence Of the acting, and the charms of the fccnery, and mufic, cannot (Ail to render it a tailing favourite with the Public. The Houfe was filled by a brilliant audience, who bean? ed cn it the moll decided applaufe. PORTUGAL.. TO THE Lt)l FOR OF THE STAR: Sir—The many in►erefting obfervations which have! oceal nally appeared i‘t the S rate, refpe&ing the prefent critical fituation of Portngal, induce me to I offer for your Paper, fome remarks and matters of fa& on the fubje& ; the remit of local knowledge and of authentic information. The propufed abdication of the heads of the Go. vernment, and the emigration of the Royal Family,' &c. to the Brazils, were not fudden or hely refolves occafioned by the very reccnt fubjngation of the Continent. The plan had been conceived and ma tured feveral, perhaps nine or ten yesrs ago, and was only laid aftde in confequence of the Peace of Amiens. Since the renewal of the war, the Government, under the immediate terror of France, and preffure of French exaction on the one hand, and jealous and diffident of England on the other, negotiated, wa- vered, and procraftinated, but refetved as the lai (Lake, and dernier refort, the execution of the plan of emigration. Thefe plans ought, indeed, to have been entrulted confidentially to England, the only Power in the world capable and able to further them ; and the only one conneEted with Portugal, by ties of reciprocal amity and intereft. But whether the fcheme ultimately fucceeds or fails, the confequences will be of the irtnaoft impor- tance to this country ; and if its Government at with wifdom, promptitude, and vigour, the advan• tages which may yet be gained, will crunterhalance the temporary excluilon of •ur commercial relatiov with Portugal. Whila the Trident remains with Britain, Portugal can be only acceffible on the land tide. Nothing can be conceived more difficult than the march of an hoftile army through the moil rugged and lean cultivated country in Europe, except only the difficulty of fubfilling an army in it. Portugal does not nautili" raifi in the year es much corn and pro , oilionz of wouldfubjfi its population for three months. There would be an annual famine in the land, were it not for the conflant supplies it receives by tea. Its extenfive waft, numerous harbours a and large rivers, readily admit the conveyance of aU manner of goods through out its narrow territory, but the very reverie is the cafe with regard to articles of bulk ccming over land from Spain or France. There are no roads for car riages, and, except the Tagus, the rivers are unnavi gable. In effcEt a friEt and rigourons blockade by sea, would in fix months abfoluttly ruin and defolare the country. The dreadful meafures which the Tyrant of the Continent compels us to adopt, mull be refleded on, himfelf. Europe, at this moment, refembles a great vetrel on the point of shipwreck. The ties of fubor- I dination, of refped, of friendltip, are all abfotbed in the overbearing inflinet of felf-prefervation, and in this conflia and ftruggle for life, we mull not he fitate to make a rampart of the bodies of our friends who have already fallen, as well as of our enemies. Our implacable enemy always arils with cunning, though he defpifes caution. The meafures which he intended to purfne with regard to Portugal, were long ago palpable and obvious; and the Englifh Government would have performed a wife and pro vident part to have anticipated him. Not a moment thould be loft to atchieve what yet remains to be done ere the enemy be before hand with us ; it is feared, indeed, in lime momentous concerns, as the feizure of the Portuguefe fleet, he has already been fo. There remains, however, an acquifition beyond his reach, ziz. the Portuguefe Iflands of the Atlantic. Thefe arc the Cape de Verd Elands, the Acores or Weftern Hes, and the Madeiras : the firt, though produtlive, are altnoa wholly defencelefs, and would be a defirable place of refreflament for our outward and homeward-bound fleets. 'Ale Azores are the molt delightful gronpe of iflands in the world, lying midway between the two Ccntinents ; they would alto be an eafy acquilition. The Madeiras are well known, but they are difficult of steeds even in mo. derate weather, and naturally fo Strong that a land. ing might be prevented, by the rigorous oppofition of a (mall force. We took poffeffion of the Madeiras with one Regiment (the Bsth) prior. to t e Peace of Amiens. Infular coaquelis are much better Nited to our means, and are more valuable, than Continental : it is needlefb to remark, that the above iQands, pasifed by Great Britain, would prove a moft valuable ac. quifition. As to any attempt on the Braails, that muft be wh , illy governed by the conga of events, and of " ezifting circumftances." I remain, &c. LVSITAMICys. November 29, 11807. On Monday Come of the principal Portugal mer chants addreffed a letter of thanks to the Portaguefe ambafPador, for the particular attention he d therm on all occafions to their concerns; and more a ptcially for his intercetlion with the Britifh Government, to obtain thole indulgences tor the Portuguefe trade,' which have been granted in favour of it in the late Order of Council ; and further requeling him to re- commend to our Government to fend out a Flag of Truce to Portugal, with a copy of the Order of Council, that it might fhew to that Government what had been done in its favour. At the fame time they wifhed that the Mails, which had been fent back by the Walliugham packet, might be fent out again with the Orders of Council ; anJ they doubted not that they would be finally meted. .LVLR/CA. Nrw . YORK, OCI'OIIER 26. ? Captain Cropfy, o f t h e f c h uoner Minehefler, it; 'Jforms us, that St. C r oi x i s i n a (late of block.cie.— The inhabitants w ere remov i ng the i r property into the country. Two Brit;th frigates and a fchooner, on the sth intlant, cut all the veffels out ot the weft end ot St. Croix, an.' fent them to Tortola, with the exception of the brig Entei prife, Lovell, of 80 0% a lumber veffel, whit h efcapetl, with the lois of only t 3 . lioglheads of rum. Caton and Munnfey Tinning, two of the mutineers on board the Britifh frigate Jafon, were executed at Halifax on the tath init. Four others, fentenced to fuffer at the fame time, were refpitcd, after they had afemled the platform. TRIAL 011 BURR. Colonel Burr called a witnefs in his favour of the name of Power, fru:n New Orleans, with a view to impeach the teflimony of General IVilkinfon, and to prove chat he was in the pay of Spain, and had only made the difclofure on this account, and not from any motives of patriotifm. Power refilled at firli to anfwer, he being a filbjcel of the King of Spain, and not bound to ditcover the fecret connedions and ne giciations of his own Sovereign. At lalt, however, it appears, that he was compelled to answer, though his tellimony is not given in the papers. The fol. lowing is the refult of the proceedings in the lift day's trial ttIIdSDAY, OCT. 20.--I o'ctocr.--The Court has jua delivered a long and elaborate opinion, in which it determioes that it would be improper to commit the accufed on the charge of treafon. The conclufion of the opinion is as follows : [hall commit Aaroq Burr and Herman Blennerluffet for preparing and providing the means for a military expedition, againft the territories of a Foreign Prince with whom the United States acre at peace. If thole whore province and duty it is le profecute offc..ces agatult the laws of the Uuited States Shall be Of opinion alat a crime of a (laver die has been committed,it is not their choice to at in conformity with that opinion. lfrael Smith is not proved to have provided or prepared any means whatfoever and therefore I (hall opt commit hini If he has really offended agaudt• the lirs, he may be profecuted for the treafon in Ken tucky, or for , the nufdczneauour on his own Bate, where, If say where, his offence ha been committed." Mr. Hay moved to have Aaron Burr and Herman Blennerhalkt committed for trial in the diariEt of Ohio, which was ordered. David Flyd (lays a Louirville paper of the 13th of Anguil) has been found guilty of a mifdemeanour, by the Circuit Court of the Indiana territory, on ss charge of the United States, as being concerned with Aaron Burr in his late treafonable expedition. It is expeded the Court will pronounce their fett• tence this day. A few d:tys will determine what will be done is regard to the letter llealing bufinefs. Next to the affair of the Chefapeak, nothing has excited fo much indignation here. We are happy to inform our Readers that our. Agents at Canton have accommodated their difpute with the Chinefe, ten Blips fully laden, and under convoy of the Lion, of 64 guns, had failed for Eng land. - OAST INDIES. PORT WILLIAM. Pusuc DIPARTAWIT, Arm. 9, 1807. The following Eitratt from a °foetal Letter from the Hon. the Comm of Direttsrs, dated the 13d of July, do% Is robillbeill for general Information : "We dire t on the receipt of ibis difpatch, that public notice be !trued, forbidding, under pain of our high difpicafere, any pets.. lie affemblege, either of our own fervent, or of private merchants, traders, or other inhabitants. whetfoever, without Set obtaining the fanetion of the Government thmugh the medium of the Sheriff for the time being ; and we further direct, that with the application for holding loch meeting*, the f übjeds intended to be taken into conuderation be alto fubmitted to your previous confi deradon, in order that you may have it in your power to judge of the propriety of allowing the quellions that may be propofed, to be agitated ; and on no confideration whatever is the Sheriff, or the Ofker prefiding at filch meetings, to allow any fubjed to be conadered that has not been previoufly fubmitted for your eonu deration. We have fall confidence, however, that our Govern nt ems in India will not preclude our fervent* or other European inhabitants from meeting for the purpote of eapreffing their fentiments, whenever proper fubjetfts are Admitted for their deliberation. " Publlihed by order of the Governor General in Council. " 11:10. BROWN, Chief Set.to Govt." With refpett to any neceMty fiippored to via for the above regulation, we are left totally in the dark. The College of Fort William has not been abo tithed. Difputations in the Oriental languages took place there on the sd of March, and k was under- Rood that the College was intended to be continued for the purpOfe of completi:ig the education of thole, who were defined for the Civil Service of the Coal. panT. Another frigate. named the Salfette, built at 80.1 • bay, was Munched in March left, and it was expedled that when the new dock was finifhed, a Bridal 74 would be candrueed of Teakwood. Docks had alfo been formed at Coring', to the northwa r d o f Madras. Vaccination was making rapid progrefs in Ipck t It has alfo reached China, and bad become general at Canton. ' Nothing was known serpeiting the Skelton Catlle t fo late as the middle of April. Yellerday a Court of Direaors was held at the Ea& India Houk, when Captain STURROCK was (worn into the iommand of the (hip Prear,n, configned to Madras and Bengal. The Coort adjourned at fie o'clock till Wednefday neat. Advice' have been received of the fafe arrival at Madeira, of the Blips Experiment, NORMA'S!). and Tigrit, MACDOIMALL • they were to fail from thence on the Th Oaober lad, for Madras and Bengal. A mutiny took place on board the Travers out ward bound Indianian, in November lag, which was not got tinder until the boatfwain, the ringleader, wai fhot. Ten or twelve of the crew deferted, but fix of them were afterwards taken, and lodged in prifort at Bombay. We yotterday received New York Papers to the a7th ult. The only intelligence of importance which they bring is, that two Britifb frigates had cut out all the acids from the ifland of St. Croix, and were blockading it. Two of the mutineers of the Jason were executed at Halifax, on the tath of October.-- Colonel Botta is committed for" preparing and pro viding the means for a military expediti.:n sigatnit the 4territor ire of a foreign Prit.ce, with whom tue Waited States wait at peace."'