Star. — London, England, 1804-02-22 00:00:00

STATE PAPERS. !Limier, Jaw. so.—The King of Pruffia, areor. ding to a propoi.:l made the day before yeflerday by his. Minifter to the Diet, wilbes to give to that Af. (embly full power to determine in regard to the con. teft which has eiren between feveral Princes andtbe EqueftrianOrder. The idea of this ezpedient which deviates from the ordinary rules, rappore on the part of his Majefty, a defire to eftablifh new principles.-- At the Emperor does not participate in this defire, he perfies in °brewing in this affair a different courfe, 'traced out by the Coneitution, and which tends to 'rapport it. This evidently appears by the following important declaration, given in this day to the Diet, by the two Comicial hSniften of the Court of Vienna: IMPEIUAL DECLARATION TO TUE DIET. rr The numerous infringements which, fince the occupation of the countries affigned as indemnities. have beat thade by feveral States of die Empire, in the rights and the immediacy of the Equeßrian Or 'der and its Members, have for a long time excited the Intention of Germany. w His Irtsual. Mammy, as fupreme Chief of the Empire, and agreeably to the obligation, under which he lies to maintain the degrees of the Diet, as well as order and tranquillity, has already endeavoured, as Is ;Fell 'known. by paternal exhortations, to put a lop to meafures contrary to the Rate of poffe&ori, and to the laws which have been pained in regard to the Eqießrian Order and its Members. and to re 'eflablifh thinss on their legal footing. Thefe efforts of his Iwesatat. hiajarry have not produced that area which he bad a right to expert The infringe ments, on the contrary. have become more general 'and more oppreifive; and the confequence in the in terior of the Empire hat been events which mull ne. gefarby entriutger the public tranquillity. and bring ' on eifolitte effejims of the Equeßrian Order I the exigence and rights of which are, however, opted to tit* ea theism ' Ott Estfire,:and have been fecund as well as the Conftitution Wei& by the Peace of Weßphalia, by the old and new decrees of the Diet. and particularly by the lag decree of the Empire. . At the requeß of the General Direlfory of 'the Equirlan Order in the Aulic Council of the Empire, as a Coaltituthisal Authority, there was itself, on the sgd of January. by this fupreme tribunal, a Cot- Itrostoriont, for the protation of the Equefirian Order againf all encroachments, which might in future be attempted, andfor the re-eltabliihment of that order in the State in which it was before the occupation of the countries afigned as indemnities. The execution titbit [mance is referred to the Eleffor, the Arch- Chancellor; the Bettors of Saxony and Baden. and to his Imperial . Majefly himfelf in his quality of Archduke of Auftria, with the claufe, each indivi vidually, and of colleffively. a His Issvaarax Majesr t, in his quality as i Rate of the Empire, is animated with a fincere defire of contributing, according to his ilrength, to the main tenant, of jußiee in the empire, as well as of the public fafety end tranquillity, and of the fecority of the German Coaßitation, and he enjoins his Mini. Rees to make a declaration too this &Weil to the Ge neral Diet." Fasavaay S. The comitial deliberations en the affair of the virile votes, which were again interrupted for Tome tilne, have been refumed. Several Mini fters, whofe Courts bad delayed declaring their opi nions, have now given their votes. Among thefe is the Eleitoral Minifter of Hanover, who ha► pro pcfed the eftablifltment of a deputation authorifed to endeavour to bring together the divided opinions, and to fubmit to the Diet conciliating propolitions. But the affair which at prcfent excites moll attention is that relating to the Equeftrian Order of the empire, which has come to finch a culls as to be no longer fslaiable of an amirahle arrangement. The Conferva torium of the Empire, or fentence of the Aulic Council of the Empire, announced to the Diet by the Mini(ler' of the Court of Vienna, gives to the Elec tor the ARCH CHANCELLOR, the ELlfors Of SAXONY and Baden, and to the Archduke of Ausvats a formal commiflion, to re-eflablifh the immediate no bility in their former fltuation, and even in cafe of nerd, by the force of arms : of the execution of this rommiffion, the Emperor espens to be informed in the courfe of two months. What inei cafes the dan ger of this trills, is the fopport which the court of &din may give to thofe of Munich, Caffel, Darm filth, and others, if they fhould attempt to (wore :he fentence of the Aube tribunal of Vienna. The hive of PR VSSIA has carded a formal declaration be made to the diet, that he will not admit the de - of the Tribunals of the Empire. This decla - • nis contained in a memorial which was delivered .n the Diet by the Prullian Miniller, on the zSth of idnuary. DECLARATION 01' MS PROS 4 IAN MAJF.,I V. "His Malelly the KING of Pia has obit.' red 14 ;th attention and intent( the events whi.:h have token place for tome time pall in fevers' parts of the Empire and i❑ the heart of Germany, in regard to the poffelhons of the Mcm;,(rs of the Eqncillian Order. It would have been of great advantage if in t 1;: ..--.., of the Deputation of the Empire it had bcc❑ p Able to eftablifh a regulation, or fixed rule ,+5 enniring the future relations of the Equatian trier, in a manner In as to reconcile a regard fur the ights of all with the new litiiaiion of thing , , the Lew its, and the real good of the Empiie. n if the Ecclefiatlical &aim 6etdmitsilikamlialred into the hands of new poffeffors, no►only with the tights reaUy e ifed, but alto with their pretenfi ons ; and if there Government% formerly ecelefiailic according to their nature and organifation, and,ac• cording to the intereft, merely perfonal, of their Ec. cleaaftical Sovereigns, can have fete with indiffe rence the efforts of the Equatian Order to extend its tertimial independence, and its immediacy, the new poffeffors as fevereign and bereclitary laic% may have brought with them new interefts and may have confidered.things update differen; point of view. They mutt and ought to have found theenfelves differently obliged to claim rights, which might beconfitiered as rial and ancient integrant parts of their dare of the indemnity ; tights which could not be weakened bat by negligence and by encroachments made at a fur mer period. Aronfed by fuch an event, the other pliffeffors of the ancient lay countries, where fimilar relations, equally hurtful to their rights and to their ' adminifb.ation exifted, have begun to bring forwards their pretenfions. Hence it bas happened that 4- moft at the fame time feveral of the moft diftingeifh ed States of the Empire, fuch as the Enscroa of Bavaata, the Pante& of •FULDA, the ELICTOt of Hesse, the LAROORava of Hesse DAItiIeTADT. title , Duna of Sara-blentunosa, and other Princes have all tended to the fame objee. There Princes have formed claims to the villages and lands of the Equeftrian Order lying within their territdry, or 4. tuated on their frontiers, both becaufe there poffeffions formerly made an integrant part of their countries, and becatife they are (till in relation with the latter by their geographical pofition, by the Feudal Law, by the dudes and rights of jurifdiaioo, and other con nations, which, as ancient fources, met Rill be con. fidered as indications of fovereignty. They have' confequently .thought themfelves authorifcd to re; place under their Sovereignty theta places and lands, and to caulk to be announced by patents the poffef lion they have taken of them, and to fecure a part of them by fending thither military detachments. Hither- to no uniform and certain principles have been dials; Lilted or followed ;—and not only have conteftations arifen among tbe fovereigns and perfons of the Eqief trianbrder,who have been erpofed to encroachments; bat differences hive broken out between one fovereign and another, in regard to the Waits of their refpeltive territorial jurifdittions. A juridical examination and inttritaitto in regard to this objea having been infuf ficient, becauffe the organization of the circles is not yet compacted i the queftion is to know, whether or in what meaner the tribitnals of the empire ought to interfere in this affair ? The whole Germanic body participatesin the regret excited by this Rate of things, and by the anarchical crifu which threatens, in fo great a number of places, the property and fubjefts of the empire. If every one is convinced that this crifss cannot be of long duration, but that meafures ought fpeedily to be taken to pot an ene to it, it is the more indifpenfably neceffary to think of the means of accompfifhing this end; the affair has become too im portant and too general to be difcuredby the tribunals oftbe empire. Itcannot be diffembled, that in the Rate in which the affairs of the empire are at prefent, the difpofitions of there tribunals would never operate but in a partial manner, and would never be any thing but palliatives. The collifions in queftion are, indeed, too complex, and too extenfive ; they lead too im mediately to general complaints on the part of the States; they are even too intimately connelked with the affair of the indemnities, and they have Rill too much need of general principles, well determined, and which may accord with the new fituation of the em pire, for a juridical procedure• to be proper and ftitli cient. His Majefty can never fee with indifference advan tage takenof this opportunity to fpread by procedures divifion in the empire, and by thefe means to accom• pin fame political objcia. His Majefty cannot either permit that his moll powerful co-elates fhould be weakened, by taking away for no end of the vaffals and property of the Ecqueftrian Order. " His Majefty, guided by conftitutional fentiments, is, confequently, of opinion, that there can be no means Curer and more proper than to fubmit to the Diet this objet, which is equally important to the fafety andtramoillity cd the particular members ofthe empire; in order, that in the deliberations which may take place, there than be eflablilbed general princi ples in concert wish all the States, and particularly with thole towelled, that the latter may regulate their condor acc 4.dingly. His Maissry has rea fon to expel that the States of the Empire, who have received (tom him in the moll important affairs an al fiftance fo effeaual, and on the continuation of which they may depend, will acknowledge his good inten tions in the complex affair in queftion, and will regu• late themfelres according to his enunfels. In his patriotic folicitude, and the aftliaion he experiences in regard to the differences which have already taken place, and which may Hill occur, his Mails-re can :tot help exprefliag an ardent with, and pofitive• ly requiring that all th..: State, and particu larly thole Mho ar: intel-efled in the relations of the Equellian will concert among thernicives and detetucr,e, above all, in the molt inecife manner, by means of a regular deliber ation of the Diet, the general principles to be obferv ed in regard to theft relations, as is reittired by the circuital rights of chore interelled by the new lima tint; of the Empire, and the need of coat:44'6og - , mare and WON its internal (mit, that thole who are injured may regulate their condua accordingly L— and that the States between whom differences have arifen, may terminate them in an amicable manner, according to this baGs. • • "His ihjeur, in judging this meafure effential for maintaining internal tranquility, mull require alto, that in the interval, and nuil the diet has come to Come determination , on this fubjed, the prefent bias gale &all be provilionally maintained, with refpeit to every thing hitherto done, in regard to the poffeffions of the Eq,netkrian Order ; that in the mean time the military detachments fhall be re called to their warms, the meafures of execu tion every where fofpended, and that the prefent Rate ofxhings than receive no extent, in order that far ther collifions may be prevented. " His Majefty, for theprefent, will abfkain from any deduction on the principles to be eitablithed, and will is no manner anticipate the future deliberations. In the mean timi he will perlift in the principles whiebehe is authorikd to carry iutoeffeft. in his prin cipaliftes of Franconia, again& the Members of the Equeflrian Order, who are there domieiliated." iiocs or rna Mara. Fe. . 3. It is reported that ,a body of Anftrian and Saxon troops are expelled bar .ta.carry into execution the mandate of the Conarvito d ism ifued by the Au& Council of the trapimin rourof the immediate Equearian Order. Baaces.ons, Jas. 25.—YeRerday a letter, dated Aranjues, the 37th ham, received from the Mug ger of Finances, was polled op in the Exchange of this place,. by order of the Royal Confolate- It Rates in fubtlance that the Rteo, animated by a de6re of preferring peace, has negociated with the Belligerent Powers fot the neutrality of Spain ; that this neutrality has been acknowledged by France ; and that, though it has not yet been formally ac knowledged by England, that poser has hitherto fo far refpefted it, that it has &two itfeif difpofed to give a favourable reception to the pacific intentions of his MoR Catholic Majeity, by readily Meiling to the complaints of the Captains of Spaniel Mips ' which have been taken by its cruifen. and by doing them fpeedy juftice- A fentence paired by the Judge of the Englia Court of Admirahy, on the 17th of December left, has ordered rellitntion of the Spaniel brigantine La Nueltra Senora de los Dolores, taken by the Dragon privateer, and condemned the Cap tain to pay damages and intereft to the proprietors of the Span& nip, annulled the Captain's letter of marque, and declared him amenable before the pro. per tribunals for his ccoduS towards the crew of the Paid Chip. His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wm.'s; has been pleafed to appoint Mr. SIIIRIDAN, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall. in the room of Lord Eitor. deceafed. The bufinefs refpating the Duke of Arno Lt's claim on the Ifle of Man, which was to have come on yefterday at the Cockpit, Whitehall, was again put off till a future day. SOUTHWARK Et.aerton.--In confequenee of the Committee having, the precedingday, decided againft the admilTion of what were called the" farmed' votes (viz. thole occupiers of (mall tenements, who, on the condition of a trifling advance of rent bad their taxes paid by the Landlord), Sir Twowas TURTOU yelterday declined proceeding further in big petition. Every thing is *Willey now—the new Comedy is to be named forfooth t. Love Sounds the Alarm." Whoever drills the Ladies at rthearfal, there is no doubt of a brilliant anion and a fuccefiful engage. meat. The Subteription for making a Canal and Rail roads from Oyfiermouth Cattle to Swanfea, is com pleted. Lieutenant C Nous, late of his Majetty's armed veffel the BOTTA LO, bas been [truck off the lift of Lieutenants of his Majeily's navy, in confecuence of not abiding his trial by a Court Martial, on certain charges preferred againit Lim by Lieuttnata ALEX. FORSYTH, of the Paid armed veffel. Basao.—Yeflerday the Loan Marna ordered the price of Bread to be continued the fame as lalt week ; vie. Wheaten, 811 and Haufehold, 7d. _ _ _ Taking up, in an Officer's room, a " Polyznus's Stratagems of War," I found in one of them a very extraordinary account of the Gillis Fiat. The fe cret of fbch a combuflible, Lord STAN HOPS bath al ferred, teals. If fo, might not fire flups, cbarg ed with it, be fent with Need's into the enemy's ports, crowded as they are at this time wi.h eetrels ? —There is in that celebrated volume of antient mi. litary (attics another firatagem which, if our naval Commanders be not above firaragems, might, I con ceive, in the relent centeft, be fitccefsfully employed. To infert it, I fear, would be too great an intrufion on your paper. Our Letter horn Dublin, of Feb. tg. fat's: _ - Al•hre the prompt zeal of our . comaiiry is fueh as not to be praifed too h;ghly, yet it is of importance that it fhould not be too frequently exprefTed without • nceellity. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in concurrence with the Commander of the forces, has thought it expedient to have a communication with the feveral Captains Commandants of the City Corps, in confequence of the alarm on TticfJay evening left ; and it has been fettled that an office !hall be etlablifh ed at each fide id the River, at which the permanent Serjeants are,in future,to receive orders every day,by which their condoin is t" be governed. This regula tion might loo.c heLn deemed no. cl:Ar y, Although no recent Alum bad taken puce, for it is certain, that our Government calculate upon an immediate attempt ot the enemy on this part of the United Kingdom. We are in a moil lot midable Rate of preparation the military, of every defcription, arc continually prallifing the retell:l.y ta:lics, and although I will not deny that too much difatfc!lion may NM trill, I am proud and happy to know that in e v er y pe a t o f the country, the pulfe of loyalty beau high." Nturic 4 a • • MAILS THIS DAYWIndI ICY& In " n • • n au aos. l . • Dublin o AabtidL O 'll Waterford s • PROM THE LONDON GAZCIFTL £DNIRALTY-011PTICI4 rtl.ll, I Copy ea Letter Mut the Men liormarakik Ladlll4 ILIL Admiral of the Woe, &c. to Wo.usaa Bilnassito. 41/4110114 et itemfgate, the tilt imßant. - Sir—l herewith tran(mit for tht htfargleafigar their Lordthips, a Dopy of a letter krdps with the capture of a French horfe t r ass p or WSW Stursaast, I have the Honour to be. Stc.' 11n1114 Stumm. 'et Dow, idh it. Sir—l have to inform you I this morning capturp4 a French Schuyt, No. 656. called l'Efperance, Elmo noel Vaaderfweip, Mailer. She faded la' sight from Offend bound co Boulogne; the is fatty sou burthen, fitted to carry eight !tortes. (Signed) amszsr HAIM*, Cape& Beorigy, dummy's. Penance, Ps& ttl.—Put in here wind lawantitea day, the Lively, of and from Qteker, ltaratio, with timber for Plymouth Dock Yard i the Provi dence, Watre, of and for Portfmouth with cheefe, he. &ins Metier ; alfo the Friends, HICK/AID ) 7 , the Providence. Kr :cur ; and the Albion, Hussato mailer, of and from North Yarmouth t the twofer. otter for Liverpool, and the latter for Dublin mu corn. The Albion will fail to night it twelve eels& for Scilly. and there wait a fair wind for The !loop Prince& Royal, of and* for etrA, Ovary nailer, is pet in here with rig plats for La. don. It now blows fret at eat north eat. FALWOI7TH, Fre. 19....-Arrived lidt evades! Wm hiajefty's dip BACCHANTS. of 23 guns. Capt. asa- WOOD. from Plymouth. and failed this wing is company with . his Majelly's (hip Oarratis, af sa uns'Capt. n HILL, having under their enemy di following ails, bound for Lithos and Oporto TOR ILMON. rot orowria. • Bs*. espuip Milks itery.Clitals Dim Taarillefers. As Easiaatcor, 406 mil I •Titipii is My defter . , jams Withe Dere;Atesdrimy ► Aimee* Goaklige Helm Frames Damao faiday, AMA. Sends. Orme • . Low Omni Pass. Iliad Fler inal t r a • doll lideasia. Sens Swaim. is* Unbll NTllkor4 . ?e a tisaq Praia " Diatt o Thassiis r. Amok MOW, la falet eli r i ftlego aor Mys tew , alals. cf e lla‘ Pural.llllll Arrived the tbip Hawke, of and from Livered, Captain TIOSIDDIIIt, to pin convoy for Lifilem very leaky, and will be obliged to difcharge her cargo (coals) before the will be able to proceed. Alfa die Portngoefe fchoosier Rebierie, Capt. Rana°, figs London, with naval lore. for Liam*, very leaby. Remain the Panic... Crummy-re and gyms Ceaa. LOTT* pockets: the latter wish mails of the la init. for Jamaica and Barbadoes ; and the former with mails of the syth init. for the Leeward Inas& Alto remain in Carrick Roads, ,waking a favourable wind to proceed for the Downs, his Majeßy's brig Sea. vLowse, of is guns, Lieut. Owes; and the Waseau e LIM raft India Chip.—Wind North. Moe o'o=k lk M. P. S. Juft anived the SHIIIIIIIII3 cutter, Lima.- Rowan, with difpatches from Sir En . Par.r.aw's /gar droll, Off Ferrol : left them all well otr the t tibial!. and on the 17th inft. fell in with the grand GM ti Breft, confifting of 17 fad of the line ; was informal that the Hus salt frigate. of 38 guns, Capt. Wilmw sox. was loft on the coal! of France, and that the Captain and t r of the crew were 'picked up by a French flitting boat, and pet on board the Vau.a an Pasts. _ PLYMOUTH. FIN. so.—Sailed the AWLS. of 3S guns, on a cruise; the URANII, of 38 guns, foe Portfmouth ; and BACCHANT,, of 20 guns. for Fal mouth, to take the trade to Litho's.— fhe HUSSAR ' Of 38 guns, Capt. WILKINSON, is IoR on the Saints Rocks: the officers and crew have been all faired, awl put on board the fleet cruising off &eft. PORTSMOUTH. Fre. 21.—Sailed the DIAMOND frigate, with the Ajax tranfport under convoy for Ply mouth. DEAL, Ft e. 21.—Remain in the Downs the IL LOSTRInUS, R•ISOA•BLI, UTRECHT, and MONARCH men of war, EURY•LUs Ifigate, FURY and Plaseus !loran, VIS‘CECO flonp of war, and &vend armed revenue cutters.—W Ind N. N. W. A cutter came in an hoer ago, but whether front the ftluadron off Bee!ogee I have rot been able to learn. A Dutch fillsing boat was fent in early this morning, fuppofed to have been taken by the ha- MORTALITI. The wind Rill continues N. E. SCHIEDAM, Flll. to. Two American threemaa (Lips have been wrecked on the coati of Zealand. The crew of one, bound for itrtterdam, was walhed overboard, except the mate who maintained his bold. All the malls of the other were carried away ; but the crew were on board •hen the achrices came There are hopes of favins• part of the cargo. Twenty-two velfels laden with wine, brandy-wine. &C. were wrecked on the coact of Sables in the Ilorm of Jarman :6:11 lath Every foul was loft oa board of firveral, and utters were lathed to pieces agA i n a the tucks. On the sth inflant, the Merchant, of Bolton. for Rotterdam, with tobacco, was Its anded no the ifland of Schouwen : Come of the rip. ing and cargo will be laved ; only one man of the mew &aped. The licto, s.f Alezandtia, in America, with a like cargo and for the fame place, came into Brnuwett-haven the fame evening without malts and leaky. iROM LLOYD'S LIST. -, O , Fe.. al.—Sailed the Ruffle Company, khaki,. fur Lobe: ; Mlbcttda, Afoolgumery, fur Dahill, ; Join Hons. dm, Do /Crete; 1 nc Gehrtakts, Daum, and the thee Gall& teta, —.., for Amfterdam. Several Ruffian and Lit MCI of war are now in the pert Or Naple.. Two &kith 64 run Onto artived at Triefte on the :9th ult. An Erie. rAit)1.41•110.112 Is aatC.l to have bt Sabics, having a cargo valued at adocr‘..): DISTRINU'IION OF PRIZE-1101;EY. The Clyde, for the capture of the flop 'lwo Brothers and Ice cargo, by the hleroatad, will be paidlo Plymouth, cm Friday tie ad dealt neat. The bir.tl armed cutter Cygnet, far die capture et ter hoe flip. wEI be pa d at the fame time aid place. The [loop Scourge, ter die recaptured the Sip itleesee, bc paid ea du liovp's =Mg K aboussfe. s • to r' bids Itch Our the dti.e !ItTL with At enccs It rt- r.o w:ty ,s twt ttelf agl• oej.