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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. .CEMBER 25. Ss done at the Stock Exchange. !KS YESTERDAY. InJia Brnds, far is dif. Imp. Ann. 7i Fscheq. Bias, is dif. Is. pr City I..n.fry Tickets 71. 14s. Conf. for °pg. 64ii FRIDAY, DF CHROIMA3 11.1.Y.—N0 bufintt PRICE OF STOC: Bank Stock 3 per Cent, Red 64 63 4 p r Cent. Bclif pa Cent. Navy (but Long Ann. t7f t3-16ths • Laft night we received Hart burgh Papers to the gth inflant. They contain a new decree of BONA• rams's againti the commerce of this country. hex tends the decree of the Gth c•f Augull to all veffels arriving in the mouth of the Wefer, and contains fume very fevere regulations refpetling the granting of certificates of ot igin. When a vefrcl arrives in any port in the Elbe or the Wefer, each individual of the crew is to be eximin,rd feparately by the French Commercial Agents and Cutiom.lionfe Officers, in order to difciiver whether the written documents produced by the Captain are ger:trine. If it be dii . covered that the vetrel has tiuchtel at England, on any account whatever, betides the confircation of the fhip and cargo, the Captain and the Sailors who make falfe declalations arc liable to fine and irnprifonment. The Captain is to pay a fine rf 6oco fi ancs, and each fail , 'r 500, in addition to all the other penalties which former decrees impofed for the produtlion of forged bills f lading, or other un.lutlientic papers. Thefe reflriai••ns have made the lituation of the people of Germany trtily deplorable, for the Ilrietnefs with which they are enforced, and the multitude of troops which cover the country in every diretlion, render evati.ms extremely rare and hazardous. It appears, that BoNAPAr r s has no intEntirn of allowing the troop: of the Rhenifh Coi.federac to be difbanded. Ilis Subject PI InCeS mull burthi:n their States scith large military ellabliatmentr, until that refllefs ambition, from which the Ccryinent has fuffered fo much, finds Erne new , objet for the employment of this force. The whole of the contingent of the Con• federacy, annunting to more than sc,coc, men, is to be affembled in Franconia. EXTRACT ram! TUf HAMEURGH PAPERS. IIXTKAC r F.('M THE PILNUTP WICK OT THE OFFICE OF THE SPCRETARY ()T STATE. Palace of Fontainbleau, Nov r 3, We, Nay -r_EoN, Emperor of the French, King of Irdly, and Proteelor of the Confederation of the Rhine, upon the Report of our NlO.iiier of Finance, li;:ve decreed, and do decree, as follows : Aar I. 1 . 11~ eranntert. of our Impfrill Decree or the 6th rBc7, are applicable to the eargocs of vc which may arrive in the rriNth of the Wefer—th4e articles of nn:rchandize therefore, fpecified in the fcconcl article of the (aid Decree, that' be felted and cot.hfcateJ ; arc all r. •loni_l produce (hall he ac• r ompanied by crstificares of origin de;i /tred by our Con'imercil Lc,maniffaries at he different ports where they were tzken on Loan!. ART IL Our Commercial Commifr.ries fh..llnnt confine thein telrt.s, in their ecrtidcares, merely to at 0. ft, front the Coinni..s of ::glasid. nor fiam bee commerce; they fhall alto point out the place of their ori,;in, the parrs which have been tahi.titted to them in fuppert of the made to tercet, and the name o. the thin on bo,:rd of which they have been or . gioally crag p ,rtcd from the place tio-y were prodaced, to that where tire Commii: - .riss refidc. They (hall addrefs dop:teatcs of their ccrtite...tes to the tAreiftor Cenerz.l of the et:limns. Attor 111. All (hips which, after having tonclied a: arty Britith per:, en any teJilttnt sthatever, :hal! arrive in the mouth of the Elbe and of the Wefer, (hall be iliac(' and conlifeated, together with their eargae3, without any exception or of pro. duce or mach mdize. Aar IV. 'lle Captains of Ships arriving in the .mouth of the ribe or of the Wefer, mulf make declaration to the Chief Officer of the ImpLrial Ciifloms on that It akin, of the pl ice from which they failed, as sectl as of thole which they touched at, and (ball deliver to him their manifefts, bills of lading, lea-papers and re. gift , :rs. Whin the Captain (hall figned this declaration, and d , over: d up his papers, the Cur.om houfe Offleers (hall interrogate the tailors, one by one, in pretence of two head Colledlors ; if it ap fr m tl,is examination, that the (hip has touched at an Logliat port, ()elide the feizure and confirrltion of the fhip and cargo, the Cat.tain, as well r.s chore of the tailors. who, upon their elannaati 10, hare male a falfe declaration, (hall be trade prifoners, and elan not he liberated till aft.; paying a rum oh ftz thoulan3 frac:s by way of penalty for . the Captain, aim! a Nat of sc.t francs fur each of the errdled tailors, in addition to the peualGcs incurred by :hole who falfily their lea papers and mitten. ART V. If :he adsiees and intnrinitlon nntun;cated to the Diredtor of our Cuttoms refide:it at liambur;:li, enice tufricions With tegard to the origin of the earge:-s, they Iliad be provifionally depofited in warehoutes, till it has been aft:l . :aired and decided, that they come wither from England n or !rom her colonies. ART VI. The lipt. of Off!ct rs of the Ci.iton.s formed upon the Elbe and frciniers uf Holßciu, (hall be augmented by one hundred men. Th: Vircel.ur General of our Cuflom, hall give the rector fary orders for placing Cytrieers &tactic(' fr,en that Ihe, at the ports fitu.ited on the houth of the Weer. atid for their exerciA.;g the infl:eetion of all fhip.i which fhsil appron't. Aar VII. The Infpedlors of Col l .ons arc authorifed to make -faits to tbe IN: of Neuwerit and to the W. 1.4 or other little ifles Minted in the mouths of the Elbe and Weer. ART yin. The C,rnraandents of troops of the line, and of the Gens d'Arnlcrie. are brand to lend their ai4 to there Infpcdors, as often as they fhall he required to do fo by the Chief Cullom bolfc Of6zers of the diaric e .t. ART IX Our Minill.nrs of War and Finance ire charged, each „ I h i, 0 ," D e p„.rusicot, with the execution of this Decree. (Sipt.ti) NAPOLEON. HUOI TES B. MARET, Sccrctary cif State. (A True Copy) GAUDIN, Mi.:liter of Finance. (A True Cnpy) COLLIN, Director Grneril of theCuaotus. (A Truc Copy) EUDEL, Dir7aor of the Cuitcnir. •• HAM BURGH, DECEMBER 7. Yellerday Gland Nl , lft, and a Te Mum, were performed in the Chape/of Lontienr.e, the French I+,liniti.r, in celebration of the Coronat:rm of the Y.,trpetot aF,it cf the . b;:t:le of ISAREUTB. NOVBMBER the whole of the troops of the contingent of the Rh;nifh Confederacy, which altogether confifls of upwards of yo,ooo men, are to be cintoned in Fran. conia. Each General in Chief will have his head quarters in Bayreuth. The firft diyifirn cf the Bavarian troops have already arrived on the Bay- I nun territory. PETERSEURGH, NOVEMBER 18. Though Lord Gower has gone to Sweden, ti:e Secretary of the Engin Embaffy remains here in confequence bf indifpofition. In the lift of departures given in the Gazette are the names of mon of the Englifh merchants. Colonial produelions have experienced an extraor• dinary rife in price fence the Declaration of that Court againft England was publifhed. The day after the Declaration appeared, twenty Engl'flt (hips failed from Crontladt. BERLIN, DECEMBER 3. Yeßetday, in cenfequence of the orders of Mar. {hal ViEtnr, Governor of Berlin, and Commander in Chief of the fir II corps, the tr oop; of that corps ce lebrated the anniverfary of his Majelly the Emperor's coronation. The fix regiments Rationed in Berlin marched, at nine o'clock in the morning, to Tem plehofer Berg, where they went through many ma nem/res. In the evening the Theatres were open to the public. The evening of the day before, and yellerday morning, the Fete of the day was an nounced by a difcharge of 48 cannon. On the ill the Intendant General Darn gave a grand dinner. There were t5,0c0 men of the first corps, of very fine appearance, who executed fome grand manoeuvres on the ad ; at which were prefent his Royal Highnefs Prince A ngtats ot Frail', Field Martha' Mollenclorf, the Relident Anibafradors of the different Powers in alliance with France, and an imm:nfe crowd of people. After a grand dinner of near a hundred covers, the health of their Imperial Majetlies, and of their family, were drank with enthuiLfm, which was fol lowed by a brilliant concert and ball, attended by French, PrutUan, and foreign Ladies of the firfl diftinttion. The palace and th: garden of the Governer were brilliantly illuminated. On the 3d, the General Von Knubkfdorf, the late Pruflian Envoy at the French Court, arrived here from Par is. LEIPSICK, DEBEMBER t. Yeflerday zoo° of NafTau Uling,:r troops marched into this town and the neighbouring villages, and to morrow they are to proceed further on their march with the Wirtemberg troops, which had before halted here. In a day or two we expect noo of the Wirtem berg troops ; on the 4th, 42,00 Bavarians ; and be. tween the Rth and toth, (even regiments of Italian troops, with two hundred artillery. The great train of artillery, colifraing of 6000 wagging, will loon f.llow. The troops of Wurtzbing'r, and of the Prince Primate, have alfo paired through here witida thefe few d4ys. By an Atneiican fhip called the Adv?nture, ar• rived az Perez ince from Cadiz, letters were yeiterday received in town of the 2.4. th, 25th, and :6th ult.— One of thefe lays, " tint all the late unpleafant difa. greements in the Rate had been adjuticd, and happi. ncfs was again reflorLd." A letter from Gibraltar, of the :Sth tilt. has all . ° been received by if gentlernai; of eminence in the City, which Rates, that -the Heel at Cadiz was perfeiHy ready for lea, and that ripaua troops, under the command of Genes..: SALERNO, had been embarked. It is added. that thi fleet was to be joined by a French iquadron from T ,, ulon (alio with troops), which tvas to fail ab:sut the fame time. Thefe Reds were to rendezvous at Malaga, at v:hich place barracks had been prepared for the rec eption of the troops embarked both at Cadiz and Toulon. It continues to be foppofed that Gibraltar is the principal objed of this force. His Majefty's gun brig the CHEERLY, Is arrived at Falmouth from the Mediterranean, with difpatches fro:n Lord Cor.Lsoo‘voon, which reached the Admi ralty yeflerday. Accounts have been received by this conveyance, of the death of Mr. Sraartow, the MetTenger, who died in Sicily, of a fever, a few days before the CHEEKLy left that Ifland. Accounts have been received at the Admiralty, that the fleet under the commatd of Sir C. Corrou had b:en feen, all well, clear of the Channel, (leer. ing a foutherly coolie. The !hips have four months provifion on board, and the troops left all their heavy baggage behind. The Bth Regiment, at Portfmouth, which rept/led to form a part of the expedition, was ordered, on Monday, into barracks. Neither its deflination, nor that of the 7th, which is alfo at Portfmnuth, ate yet known. Of the other troops now at that port, fame cf them, it is laid, will &only embark for the Weft Indies. Letters from the Conqueror, of 74 guns, Captain J. Pk LL EN', deed the 7th intl. (late her being all well At that peri"d, and that Sir S. SMITH, with five fail • f the line, and three frigates, were clofely block ading the Tagus, but expeeted to be thortly joined by fome more (hips from England. Admiral COTTON will, on his arrival off Lifbnn, take the ccmmard of the blockading fquadron now Rationed there. and Sirq —MET SMITH will proceed with General Spasms& on an impoitant expedition. Captain Yio did not leave town until yefterday, when he prrceeded to Plymouth. He is the bearer of difpatches for Sir SIDNEY SMITH. The follov ing is a Lill of Merchant fhips that have received failing Orders, under command of his Majefly's frigate Atuphion, Captain Hours, bound for Gibraltar and Malta : London, Rover, Helena, William, Neptune, Dousbta, Mtrcury, New Diligence, Lankins, Betfey and Sally, Endeavour, Mediterranean, Miley, Dolphin, William, Robert and Sally, Sarah Ann, Frederick, Thetis, Phcmniz, Gallant Schemer, Three Brothers, Hawki.foury, Ambrofio, and Thomas and Mary. • Count ST. MARTIN DR FRONT. Arnbaffador from the King of SARDINIA to our Court, lately prefented a remonfirance to Government, in which he com plains that our.cruizers in the Mediterranean have frequently violated the neutrality of Sardinia, by carrying off French vac's, wrecked upon the Coal% of that ifland, and pnrfuing their crews on fhore ; and that the FRENCH Comm, in Sardinia, has de manded his paffports, and threatened his SaaotatAll Malls-x.lr with hollilities, in cafe reparation was re. fufed, and this fyflem of aggrellion fhould be con. tinned. Government have, in confequence of this reprefentation, ordered, that infirnaions fhould be fent to our naval forces in the Mediterranean, to prevent a repetition of there injuries, and to provide for the fecurity of the Eland againtl any attack on the part of France. A packet is appointed to fail for the Brazils. The Poll Office has intimated, that letters to any part of that fettlement will be fpeedily forwarded. Some merchants yellerday c ,, mrr.micated to the Admiralty their requefi to know, whether, and when a convoy would be gran:ed :n the Brazils ? but no decifive anfwer has been received, or rather fame time was required to confider the fubjefl and prefent an anfwer. Yefterday a Deputation cf merchants trading to Portugal waked upon the Portuguefe Ambaffador, to enquire his opinion concerning the propriety of beginning immediately a dirdt trade from hence to the Brazils. His Excellency declined giving any ar.fwer in his official chara:ter—he intimated, how ever, that fuch a Rep would be at prefrnt premature. Itlr.Tuo R aro/4 Envoy Extraordinary and Milliner Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, will in a few days take his departure from Yarmouth, in a IA failiag cutter, for Gottenburgh. Admiral Ru:s F tr. has already received orders to have a cutter in readi nefs for him. HENRY DRUMMOND, Erq. has been apt - •inted Lien tenant Colonelof the Pt ince of Wales's L. orps of Vo. lunteers, in ro, , m of Sir WALTSR STIR LI rc, refigned. Ancther refignation in this corps is talke of. Wednefday night, at a late hour, difp..elres were fent from the Secretary of State's Office to Plymouth, to be forwarded by the HALCYON Root) of war, to General SPENCER, at Gibraltar, who recently failed with the Expedition under the command of Sir CHARLES COTTON. An Order of Government has been received at Dover, to fit out the Danifh velfcls lying at that place, and to fend them up the Thames. When Lord STRANG7 'RD took his final leave of the PRINCE REGENT t.f Portugal, his Royal High nets drew Pram his Eiger a diamond ring, which he prefented to his Lordalip, as a token of his high re gard and eflee:n. The ceatre none of this valuable gem is valued at eight thoufand guineas. The Ge!le: al Court Martial, of which Lord Stop ford was Prtlident, which heel) , fat at Hythe, upon .he trial of Lieutenant Colonel J. B:omhead, of the .nth Lincoln Militia, on charges cf peculation eferred againft him by the Surgeon of the Regi ment, have trnanirr.oufly, molt honourably, and fully acgoitte , l him of the fame, and have further declared hat the charges were groundlefs, hivolous, malici cats, and vexatious. His Majefty has approved of mo;l i -aourable and full acquittal of Lieutenant Colonel J. Brornhead. The Atchh:fhop of Catureanorty left his Palace yellerday, at Lambeth, for NVindfor. At a meeting of the Dean and Chapter, held on Wednefday morning tall, in the Chapter 1 - laufe of Chrill Church, Oxford, the following Gentlemen were ele6letl Students of that Hottfe : The Hon. Frederick North Douglas, fon of Lord Gknhcrvie ; Wm Venabks Vernon, E. 1. Cleaver, Wm. Wickham, Robert Gordon, John Mackir,Thomas Salter, Chutes Monro, and Henry Cotton, Lfqrs. The Duke of PORTLAND attended his MAJESTY on Wednefday, for the Ertl time there two months. Wednefday morning, Lord Mutcreave and Mr. CANNING had a conference with the Duke of PORT• LAND, at his houfe .in Piccadilly, previous to their attending his MAJESTY at the Qteen's Palace. On Monday Lore GAMBLER, Captain Iran, and feveral other Naval Officer., and a fele& party of friends, dined with Loid Mor.oeav so, at his houfe in the Admiralty. Lieutenant HOLLER, of Bakerlireet, undertook yeflerday, for a bet of 501. to run a mile in fix minutes, another in fix minutes and a half, and ano ther in (even minutes, at three flaw, and to be al lowed half an hour to perform the three miles. The race was on the Kilburn Road, and the Lieutenant, who weighs :3 none, loft the match in the third (tart. He performed the fit ft mile in half a minute lets than the given time, the fecund mile with difficulty in the time, and he was a minute over time in going the tall. A folditr belonging to the Shroi (hire Militia onfor. Innately fell over into Dover hatbnur on Tnefday night, and was droivned before any perfon got to his all - Mance; and next morrirg ch body of John At- kins, a lawyer belonging to that place, who has been sniffing fince Saturday evening, was found in the mud in the 13afori, having, it is fuppofed, walked over the quay, the night being very dark and foggy: he has left a wife and fix children to lament his lois. GIBRALTAR, NOY. 26. By a Gentleman jolt arrived from Lifbon and Ca• diz, who left the latter place on Monday, we learn tl;ere are eleven !hips of the line (French and Spa niards) at Cadiz, ready for lea, fails beta, and provi- Cloned for fix months ; that the Marquis del Socorro and Selena, Governor of Cadiz, is gone to Madrid, to take fome command in the Spanifh army defined to invade Portugal; that the French were to enter that kingdom fome time in this month, their head quarters to be at Alvantura. The Military Corn. mandant of Cadiz now is Brigadier General D. Nat.- cefe de Pedro, who was lately fecond in command at Algefiras under General Caftaner. General Pedro was promoted by the Court of Spain, in confideration of his attention to the Britifh prifoners after the bat tle of Trafalgar. We have alto received his Catholic Majefly's fecond decree, dated at St. Lorenzo, Nov. g, declaring his Royal Majefly's pardon to the Prince of Afturias, in confideration of his Royal Highnefs's contrition and lubmifllon. The Prince's letter; to the King and Queen are inferted in the Paid de• cree. The Prince addreffes the Kmg and QEeen— " My dear King and,lZieen—Papa and Mama."— The firft decree cf the 3oth 08ober not having pro duced any teftification of loyalty on the part of the fnbjeas towards their Sovereign, or of refentment againft the Prince, which it was intended to call forth, the Prince of Afiurias' enemies were forced to yield ; but his weaknefs and pufillanimity induced him to obtain his releafe at the fact ilice of his reputa tion. It would fecm that his Serene Highnefs the Prince of Peace ;sill' in power ; we had heard that he was in dilirace ; that the fecond fon of Charles 111. had fucceeded him in the dignity of Grand Admiral of Spain ; and that the other high offices had been difpofed of among the friends of the Prince of Aflu rias and other Grandees. The report came from tolerably good authority; but it has received no confirmation by the Gentleman who arrived yeller day. It is, however, more than probable that the Prince of Peace will fall ere long, if he be not already out of power. At Cadiz they have only one battalion of regular infantry, but fome militia are expedled.— There are not, perhaps, more than tom troops, as they are all gone to the Army cf Portugal, of which the Duke of Freas is to have a command. The num. ber of French troops in Spain is Rated not to exceed 47,0c0. We had heard before that it amounted to upwards of 70,,D00, and that it was to be increafed to t oci,ooo at leaf. This Gentleman had not heard of the French troops having aitually entered Madrid or of any infurreftion having taken place there, as before reported. But I do not think myfelf, that the authority of the former report is fhaken by his apparent - Contradiftion, becaufe I have reafon to ap prehend this Gentleman, from religions difficulties, did not mix much among the higheft circles. He lays likewife, that it was not thought now in Spain, that the French intended to befiege this lowers. He heard, however, that a French fquadron at Toulon had taken troops on board, and was ready to put to lea ; and that the troops, if the flips fucceeded in getting out of Toulon, would be landed at Malaga. Other previous accounts Rated, that barracks were preparing at Malaga for the French troops, and that the French were going to garrifon all the lea ports in Spain. We have had a rumour likewife, that the French are going over to Ceuta, which feems not improbable—the condo& of the Moors towards us, in limiting our fupplies fo much, notwithflanding the enormous unheard of duties paid for them, affords a prefumption in favour of fuch rumour. Our Com mander in Chief here has taken all the precautions which prudence dilates ; and I incline to believe that much more credit is due to the information upon which he ailed, than any which could be derived through other channels. His Majefly's gun brig Anne failed yefterday for England, with difpatches from Sir Hew Dalrymple. The Engli(h prifoners now remaining at Verdun are chiefly naval or military officers, with the &kith travellers who were fo feandalouily arrefied by the tyrannic order of Bt naparte. The main Wily of our captive foldiets and failors are at Arras, and an adjoining town, to the amount of about 8000. Mr. CHARLES STOAT ' when the laft accounts left Verdun, continued a clofe prifoner in the dungeon of a cattle, sleeping upon Itraw. Yefterday there was a rretty general mutter of the troops in and around the metropolis. The IR Guards were muttered in the Bird Cage Walk ; the sd and 3d at Knighttbridge and Knighttbridge and Portman barracks ; the Ealt and Well London, and the t ft and ad Tower Hamlets Militia, were muttered at their refpeeive head quarters, at Greenwich, Woolwich, London, and Hackney. The Volunteer corps alfo wer e muttered at their quarters, previous to making up the quarterly returns of their effeeive arength, and the number of days they had ferve4, to qualify them to exemption from the Militia ballot, as after this no further exemptions will be allowed. CAUTION TO VOLUNTEERS.— A private Gunner, belonging to the Pendennis Artillery Volunteers, was lately, brought before the Mayor r.f Falmouth, for having worn the pantaloons, part of his regimentals, when not en duty, whereby they had been injured. He was found guilty on his own confefflon. Penalty atos. by ad 44 Geo. 3, cap. 54, fee. 44. but in con federation of its being the firtt offence, the penalty was mitigated to los. the full value of the pantaloons, and the expenses.—Two or three other Volunteers, belonging to the above regiment, have been called upon (by virtue of orders horn the Bard of Ord nance) to pay the value of arms injured and loft. through their neglee.