Star. — London, England, 1804-04-23 00:00:00

3 P : 3P 4 Pe , .5 Pu Sat Th( able ° flan tha the an, I Pe' art bi ' the 1 wit CH ' Go • be; , det wil 4 of dif . tai bri VC Ti Pi ga to Li at to ba • to fe e 4 01 ti ti of re el is fi 14 14 d 14 a , tl b 1 t I • LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 23. PRICE OF STOCKS Ti-lIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I Cunt tnr money, 53 Ditto for May arc. 353. Old 3 ptrCent. SIC ew s per COIL y 4 f--. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. sal 351 55 5 per Cent. 1797 94i 3 per C. Conf. s ;it Long Ann. t 6 I-16 4 per Cent. 7 0v,i Short Ann. 3 1-1.1 5 per Cent. Navy 9Of Conf for 3CC. 351 it The accounts from India given in the Gazette of Saturday, refit& much credit on the Britith arms.— They cannot be read, however, without a confider able degree of emotion. What havoc, ruin, and (laughter ! Such dear bought victories are little better than defeats. Eventually they may be attended with the mod ferious confequences, as they only tend more and more to excite a fpirit of hatred againd Euro peans among the Natives, and to teach the latter the art of war. We are told there viCtories were gained by a handful of men over a multitude—the fame was the cafe with CHARLES XII. of Sweden, when at war with Ruffia ; but what was the confequence ? " Let Cusittas beat my men for a time," faid PETER the GREAT, " he wain the end infallibly teach them to beat his own!" The Difpatches from India prefent Gen. Lass's detailed account of the battle of Ca lowly, and like" wife Come particulars of General WILLESLIT'S pro grefs. No official account of the battle of the 29th of November has arrived, though it is announced in difpatches from Bombay. Difpatches were on Saturday received at the Ad miraky, from Admiral Coatiwatzis, which were brought to Plymouth by his Majefty'. !hip ENDY mos. Captain the Hon. C s Esc sr. Our fleet were dole off Breft, when the EDDY below came away. This Ihip alto brought accounts from Sir EDWARD PRIAM whom with feven fail of the line and a fri gate, the left in Betanzos Bay, near Ferrol, on the loth inft. Sir EDWARD had received a letter from Lord Nszsoa, dated off Toulon, the tith of March, at which time the French fleet had made no attempt to put to fea. Difpatches were this morning received from Sir jzmas Saurroisz at Guernfey, but their contents have not yet tranfpired. • Government, we are informed, have refilled the pafports demanded by the Bavarian Minifter, being refolved to detain him as a hoftage for the fafety of Mr. MALE. Letters from Holland mention the execution of feveral perfons at Paris, who had lodged or conceal ed the pretended accomplices of the pretended con (piracy. They complain of the emigrations of molt of the richeti Dutch citizens, at a period when the contributions demand fuch immenfe fums. At Am lierdam 1500 warehoufes and magazines arc adver tired to be fold or let ; and at Rotterdam, 4.60. — The value of houfes in thefe two cities has decreaf ed three-eighths, and of country houfes nearly an half, from within thefe two years. At Amfterdam, of a population of zoo,ooo, 85,000 are infcribed• as reduced to beggary, and in need of relief. The Ex change of Amfterdam, as well as that of Rotterdam, is almoft empty, fine French police agents demand prffes, or arreft any perfon they choofe to regard as fill - paled, or to accufe of trading with England. On Saturday morning his MAJESTY gave audiences to the LOAD CHANCELLOR and Mr. ADDINGTON. Yefterday morning his MAJESTY gave an audience to the LOAD CHANCELLOR, and in the courfe of the day rode in the riding-houfc. On Saturday morning her MAJESTY and the Piin ceiTes ELIZABETH. MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, took an airing in the neighbourhood of Hampftead and Highgate. Yefterday her MAJESTY and the Princefles, ar tended by the Counteifes ELY and Ay tssaua v, took an airing on the Surrey road. Yefterday the Duke of Cu MBE OMAN° gave a grand dinner at his apartments in St. James's Palace. The Duke of Kitty yeflerday had an interview with Mr. ADDINGTON and Lord Sr. Vl:rear+ r, for a confiderable time. The Earl of Rouen arrived on Monday at Edin burgh. Yefierday being the firft Sunday in Eafler Term, the Judges, attended by the Serjeants and principal BAtriflers, met the Losu Msvna, Aldermen, &c. At St. Paul's Cathedral, where a Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. PRIMING, Chaplain to his Lordfhip. Yelerday afternoon the Biftop of LowDON preach- ed at St. Paul's. Lord RAOUL/ALA having finally tefufed to accept of the Lord Chief Jollicefhip of the Common Pleas, direSions were late on Saturday night fent to the pa. tent Office to make nut a patent appointing Mr. MANSFIELD to that tiii;nity. Sir THOMAS MANNERS SUTTON Tti:ZTIS the Solici tor Generallhip , and fleece d, Mr. MA S.S Fl ;1.11 As Chief Plaice of Cheller, and Mr. DALLAS is to be the DON Solicitor Gener.i. The Ilehcfler Committee Tore on Sa•intlay, and adjuJgcd Col. OGLE'S petition frivolous and %c l a. tious. By an arcount prefente.l to ?Fin Honk of Commo ns , it appear , that tl t total in t pt,,,..e of the PertnAr.ei;t Talcs on tic sth 4'l April, 114c3, ineiuttitz Ili• duties tin S , Tar, Mitt, and T..l).tec• , , .mr,\lll4 voted, was 1 ; p, 2 X tl. 2t. and 'n the sth of April, 1 8 ( 4 . t;.l. The pr•sdtice r.f the .• •• • . ; t,. • ,n 1•• i • •...1:, was 1,;•G6,C.,71. 2S. :;:d. N tIUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind W. N. W. •RR. DVX. •at. nut. Dublin 3 o Hamburgh 0 2 Wun.rford a 0 Gattenburg 0 0 Pr szarice, APRIL 20.—Yefterday morning the under mentioned vcffels failed to the Eaftward, with a fine fmart breeze at about N. N. W. which conti nued to blow all day, viz. the Triton and Refolu tion, from Briacl ; the former fur Weymouth and Portfmouth,and the latter for Plymouth; the Aftive, the New Speedwell, the Vella], and the Charlotte, for London ; the Wilton, the James, the Mary tender No. z, for Plymouth ; the Ruth, for Winftaple ; the Venus, for Chatham, with many veffels laden with coals and culm, bound fur a market, under the con voy of the Britifh Fair as far as Plymouth. Another convoy will no doubt take them up Channel. FALMOUTH, Attic zo.—Sailed this day about zo fail to join his Majeßy's (hip la TOPAZ', of 38 guns, off the harbour, from Portfmouth, bound to New foundland : alfo failed the INDUSTRY armed veal, PENS. as, for Portfmouth, and alfo took under her convoy the trade for the call ward. Sailed lall even , ing his Majelly's brig Busy, of 18 guns, with about 55 fail from this port, for the Well Indies, and were joined off the harbour by about 14 fail from Cork ; they proceeded down Channel with a fine wind at North. The LADY ARABELLA packet will fail on Sunday next with the mails of the 7th infant, for the Leeward Wands. The Lifbon packet, JERK INs. from London, with a cargo valued at zo,oool. for this port, is taken by a French privateer, and carried into Bou logne : it is much feared, that the brig Ballet Pus- H A PS, from London for this port, faid to be valued at 30,0001. has alfo (hared the fame fate ; (he failed from the Downs 2 I days ago, and not fince been heard of. PLYMOUTH, APAIL 2 in his Majefty's (hip THUNDER'', of 74 guns, from the Channel fleet; alfo the Alec us, of t 8 guns, with fever al veffels from the weftward ; the COURAGEU X, of 74 guns, Capt. BOY LI, IS jut come from Hamoaze to Cawfand Bay, (he is defined for the Earl Indies, and waits the ar rival of Tome (hips from the Eaftward, which will fail under her convoy. Sailed the Chrifina Regina, Captain Ma LH is, for Varel ; the Edward, Captain HAITMAN, for Tonningen ; and the AURORA, of 28 guns, Captain MAL BON, on a cruize. Came in the ISANTA MARGARRTTA, of 38 guns, from the coatof Ireland. POLTSSIOUTH, APRIL 22.--Arrived the PHEASANT (loop of war from Torbay ; BENGAL, —; and the EARL ST. VINCENT, —, Eaft Indiamen, from the Downs.—Wind S. W. Dam., APRIL 22.—Arrived the BONITTA floop of war, and STARLING gun-veffel from a cruize.— Sailed the Cautzat floop of war on a cruize. Ar rived the Hato, Hawor, from Trialle, and failed for the River, with a flan from the weft ward.—Wind W. S. W. Dom, APRIL 20.-1 informed you in my lad, that a divifion of the enemy's puny flotilla had been got of the harbours of Boulogne, Vermeheuil, and Ambleteufe, and had moored along the coati, under the dole proteaion of its numerous batteries. 1 now have the pleafure of announcing to you, that this divifion (confiding of 156 fai1,3301 which were brigs) has been difperfed and dircomfited by the late gales from N. E. and by the well-timed annoyance of part of our blockading fquadron. On Monday afternoon it blew very hard, and fe veral of the enemy's veffels were obferved to be drift. ing, and apparently in much confufion,endeavouring to regain their ports, when the Eurivaeus, LEDA, LARS, HARPY, and VOLCANO immediately g.)t under weigh with admirable alacrity, Rood as dole to them as the depth of water would permit, and gave them many well•direled fhot to their great annoyance.— The fhallownefs of the water prevented our (hips getting fo near as to cut any of them off ; hut they loon began to feud for their weflern ports, and the next morning not a Frenchman was to be teen with out their harbours. Many of them are probably in Etaples, Dieppe and Havre. The batteries poured forth vollies of (hell and fhot in their defence, but the atmofphere was fo hazy, and the (hips were running fo faft through the water, they fullained no material injury. One fhot I underhand hulled the EURY•LUS betwixt wind and water. The preparations of the enemy for his grand effort againft us do not appear to be complete, nor do I believe he ever meant to at. tempt it before the fummer feafon, although the country has been kept in fuch a conhant Rate of anxiety, alarm and expellation, during the winter. YARMOUTH, APRIL 2 2.—Arlivcd from a cruize the Swirl gun brig; alto the Vixr rt gun twig, with a convoy bound to Tonningen ; alfo arrived from ' Hai wish the BADGEII Resennc cotter, and the DIANA picket, Captain ST EW•RT, to take on board the lug. gage and retinue of the Hon. Mr. PIiIIPOINT, who wall embark in the l'a•ousirt cutter for Huforn.— The Honourable Mr. l'ts P.INT has artived at the Nelfon's Hotel, and is expelled to fail to-morrow. — Remain in the Road, the Sr Art Lv, Adm. Russt L; ANTS L. , •Pb, Sir. S. SNIT H R IS,NABF, Captain Hortram; MAGICIIS•S Sri ate, SS If F, C! ASOR, and Vixr..4 gun brigs, At"'•sits, flanc.R, and 14111- T I II cotters, and toe a! oird through a stay large fleet ed the no: al PROM LLOYD'. LIST. GRATLSTHD, AP/IL 22.—Salied the Bee, Lifter; Almeria, Harper ; Ranger, Orton ; Robert, Popplcwell ; Progrefs, Lacey ; Albicore, ; Fanny, Dornthwalte; Bellilarius, Emlns; and LenfkeU, ()away,. for Peterlburgk; Slade, Appleby, for Lubec; Venus, Saggs; James, Bowring; Eva, Monk. and Jonge Peiter, Ayles, for Tonningen ; Friends, M'Neil, for Charleflon ; Martha, Wanlell, for New Y, rk ; Pagett, Straycock, for New foundlaud ; Mercury, Rocher, for Oporto; San Miguell, Torre, for Bilboa ; Fortune, Ghie, and Batley, Snowden, for Quebec; Flora, Schultz, for Kosiugiburg ; Hero, Gray; Dorothea, Burn; and the Good lutent, —, for Moore. Ait atveu..—At Clyde, Roilna, Potter, from New Brunfwick— At Blade, Integrity, Gardner, from Demerara—At Oporto, Sif ters, Pike, from Falmouth; Nimble, Cuild, from Liverpool; Nof tra dos Maotyrus, —; and Galgo, Inquires, from Poole . GREENOCK, APRIL 20.—0 n the 59th of Mardi, Captain POTTER, of the fhip Rofina, of this port, fell in with the Trio, of Briftol, Capt. J. Do u GLass, from Tobago, bound to London ; out 49 days, in lat. 45. 4. N. long. 36. W. Parted company with the Trio on the z6th, in lat. 46. 39. N. long. 35. 30. W. Arrived the Naarßigheid, DOURRIER, at Embden From Leith; and Jeanie, THoMsoN, at Liverpool, from Clyde. Ho Lt., APRIL 20.—The wind during the laf fortnight has blown fo ftrong from the ealt north ealt, as to prevent any veffel leaving the Humber for either the Continent or the northern parts of this kingdom ; this day it is north weft, and the convoy for Tonningen is expeitted to fail ; alfo fuch neutrals as are ready for that port and Embden. The Re covery, THOMPSON, from Ipfwich, to Sunderland,' and the Good Intent, Curros, from Sunderland to Bridlington, on Wednefday put into the Humber leaky. The Day, --, of zoo tons, and the Wal pole, —, of 23otons, from London to Newcaftle, are taken and carried into Mend. A veffel, fuppof ed from London, was captured by a privateer on Sunday laft, off Saltfleet, and within fight of the guard (hip Rationed in the Humber, The privateer and her prize immediately made fail towards the Dutch coaß ; and it is feared they might reach an enemy's port in fafety. Nothing has tranfpired from which the name of the captured veffel can be learn ed. The Flora, JAN HOLZ ; George Ludwig, KRE vir ; Frederick, ALBRECHT ; Margaretta Cornelia, NI c LASSEN ; Karen, HOLSTRONI Verwagting, Loans, all from this port, are arrived at Embden. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. To the Culloden and Minotaur, la Mutine and Transfer brigs, and Perfeus bomb, for the capture of the town and fortrefs of Civita Vecchia, and its dependenetes, a diltribution will be made to the parties, at No. z 3, 's Inn, Holborn, on Thurfday, the 3d day of May next. The (loop Moucheron, for the recapture of the brig Dodd&lre, will be paid on her arrival into port. Saturday the Purfers of the Company's frigate, Cornwallis, for St. Helena and Bombay ; of the Lady Burgers and Dover Cagle Indiamen, for St. Helena and Bengal ; of the Afia for Madras ; of the Nep- tune, Perfeverance, True Briton, and Royal Charlotte for China ; of the Walthamilow, for Ceylon and Bombay ; and of the Earl St. Vincent, for Bombay. received their final difpatches at the India Houfe, for Portfmouth, from whence thefe veffels, together with the Aufpicious, Ruby, and Logic Family, are immediately to fail to Plymouth, where the Coo- Lac sus is in readinefs to convoy them to India. The Lilbon Mail, of the 7th inf. brings accounts of the capture of two letters of marque, viz. the SAL LY and Reszcza, of 22 guns; and the RAWLINSOPI, l of t 8 guns, laden with coffee, cotton, &c. from De merara for Liverpool, off the coaft of Ireland, by the Blonde privateer, of 36 guns, of Bourdeauz, and that they have been Cent into Vign. The privateer was left in chace of an hired armed (hip that failed with them from America. Siz privateers were to fail from Cadiz early in the prefent month. Lieutenant BOWEN, of the Navy, failed from Sid ney, New South Wales, in June laft, with the rank of Lieutenant Governor, to form a new fettlement on Van Diemen's Land, which it is fuppofed, will loon be of great value and importance. A number of the conviets, guilty of recent petty crimes, are to be fent to this new colony ; and among them the un fortunate Sir Henry Hays. He incurs this punifh ment, in confequence of having founded a Lodge of Free Mafons, in direa oppofition to the orders of Go vernor KING. A letter from an Officer, on board the Sir David Scott, outward bound )rail Indiaman, was received on Saturday, at a mercantile houfe in the City ; it is dated Tcneriffc, March 2 2, and Rates, that the above (hip, in company with three others, viz. the Fame, the Sir William Bentley, and the Thames, experi enced fome damage in a gale of wind. The three former attempted to get into Teneriff!, but the Sir David Scott only fucceeded ; the Thames having received but little injury, had gone for St. Helena, and it was fuppofed, that the Fame, and the Sir William Bentley (leered for Madeira. He alto Rates, that on the 2 111, the day before his arrival at Tene• riffe, a French (tip of force arrived in that port, with four Weft Indiamen, prizes, and failed again in the morning of the std. The day on which he wrote, apprehenfions confequently prevailed, that the above veffels may fall into the hands of the enemy. The Egyptienne French privateer, of ao guns, ano ther of 32, la Renommee, and les Amis, of 54, l'Oi feau, of to, and Vigie Government almoner, were on the windward coalfof Africa on the Sth March. The Captain of la Prudente, which was wrecked at Se• negal, has fitted out la Rofolie at Goree ; they have made tome captures of importance, and, it is feared, will do much mifchief. The Bnrilh force fuppufed to be at this time or, the coati of Africa, confills of the ROMNEY, Of 30 guna, Liscaan, 38, INCONSTANT, 36, And Pyladcs, 16. On Saturday night, April 7, fume merchantmen in the Channel, were alarry , .(l by f-ine lignals ef a rocket and blue lights, made in Boulogne Bay, con. ceivrog that the fignals were made on acccunt cf the Boulogne flotilla having come out of liar boor. The Las c Hoop, frippofing the fame, had all hands to tlllancis. Tile I:4t - c was, Lieutenant LARf, of the 1.0..05e 7. , in brig, having ohicrved tome tuggers in Boulogne Roads in the aftsrr.uon, thought it miflible to cut one or two of them o u r f or this purpo r e l ie Manned his cutter and jolly boat, and proceeded to the ;pot where the tuggers were betwecn mac and tr '1 hock at night ; they were goi.e. lie after• wards went dote to the Pierfread in Bo.ilogne hat hour ; one of the centinels gave the alarm, wht4. became general. The drums beat to arms, and the zuv.r. ai/Ain C011f4(43. Not one 4.1" the uu• merona gun-boats ventured not to afcertain the dan ger. The fignals were made by Lieutenant Lacs, in order that he might recover his brig, which he did without being the lead annoyed. The URIANA frigate from Pottfmnuth, pall Ma. deria, on the 29th March, with a fleet under convoy for the Weft Indies. A letter, by way of Liverpool, from an Officer in the fquadron off Martinique, dated the 16th of Fe bruary, fates, that le Curieux, of 16 guns and too men, has been cut out from under Fort Edward, by four of our boats and 7o men, after a very defperate confliet, in which Lieutenants Rey otns and But. TE RWORTH, Mr. TRACEY, the Commodore's fecretary, and 7 or 8 men were wounded, one of the latter mor tally. Lieutenant RETNeLDS, who was more feverely wounded than the other Officers, is recovering, and has been made commander into the prize. The Frenchmen fought with great gallantry, and every Officer, except one who was below, was killed or wounded. Lieutenant HUNTER has been killed, and Lieutenant COLE, of the BLENHEIM, deprived of a leg in a fortie. We have alfo to lament the loft of Lieutenant Dom txr, who was blown up in a tender, when he and 16 men peri(hed. Colonel FaszElt arrived in town on Friday laiLand attended at the Admiralty Office, and alio at Lord HAWKESBVILYPS Office. The three Lieutenants CamPleLt., of the 74th re giment. who fell in the battle of the 23d September in India, were brothers, being font of Lieutenant Colonel Castrazis of the fame regiment. We lament to learn, that Colonel Msuaos, his daughter, and Lieutenant Motions, of the 34th re giment, were drowned at Madras the at ft of lalt Odober. The additional force for the King's fcrvicc is to be railed by Officers of the Line, who get a (lei, of per manent rank upon completing their quotas. The proportion of recruits for each rank is as follows : A Major for a Lieutenant Coloweicy - - - 82 Men A Captain (having Leaved fie yenta 29 a Commiffioned Officer) for a Majority - - 90 A Lieutenant (of two years u a Conuniffioncd Offi cer) for a Company - - - - - 45 An infign for a Lkutenaney - so The men are to be railed for general and unlimited fervice. Teri guineas bounty Kill be allowed to the recruit. Wednefday morning, a trial was made of Come (hots from a light 6 pounder field piece, placed on the White Foreland Point, near Greenock. The objea being to afcertain, whether, with a charge of et ounces of powder, and at an elevation of 14} degrees, the ball would reach the oppofite (bore of Rofeneath, diftant about a6OO yards. Several fell fhort, but one charg ed with the above quantity fell on (bore, and was picked up by Come of the party, who had gone thi. ther on purpofe to obferve the are& The flight is (tamd to have occupied Itt feconds : travelling, ac cording to this account, at the mean rate of about 6zo feet per fecond, towards the obje.l : at leaving the piece, it mull have acquired the velocity of up wards of too° feet per fecond. Duke d'Eproo it m.—dln the 16th infant, at HA Hall, Leiccllerfhire, in the domeftic chapel of the Noble owner, a folemn fervice for his Serene Highnefs the murdered Duke d'Eito leo was celebrated, by the Rev. Dr. B. O'Baras. formerly almoner and preacher to his moft Serene Highnefs Louis Pomp Duke of ORLEANS, grandfather, by the mother's fide, to this murdered Prince, and, ordinary chaplain to his Majefly Lours the Eros urserr To of France. Fitte.-Saturday afternoon a fire broke out at a linen draper's in Leicelter-fquare, which was fortu. natcly got under without doing any further damage than confuming the furniture of the room where it originated. The Church of Field Dolling, in NorfAlle. was lately robbed of a quantity of lead which covered ill* roof. A Printer, in Gloucefter, was laft week fined 301. for printing a hand bill without affixing his name to it. Saturday afternon, a carriage belonging to one of the fathionables, got fi entangled with the coach of Mrs. Tartoa, nt Cavendith tquare, that the wheels caught the projetling part behind, and the coach was completely overturned about the middle of Bin ton-ftreet, Bond-ltreet. The coachman was knocked off his box, but fell unhurt. There were two young ladies in the carriage, who were very much alarmed, hut fortunately received no material injury. The Mar quis of St.:oo's coach happened to pats by at the time, and the company took the Ladies to their in tended place of sifiting. The pole of the coach and other parts of it were uroken, but ao injury of a fe rious nature was fuliained. Early in the laft week feveral foreigners were ar relled under very fufpicious circumtlances, by order of the SECIIiTARY of STATE, two of whom, it w.is afferted, had a defign upon the life of a certain au guft Perfonage. Although we looked upon this as an idle rumour, yet the frequency of there arrefis gave us reafon to tuppofe that Government were in poi - - fell - ion of Come information of foious import. We were led into this opinion (torn an order having been given laft week by the Princes of the Houfe of Boys non to their attendants, not on any account what ever to admit of foreigners who are ftrangers into the knifes where they refidc, and to be very cautious in their communications with thole whom they may meet. With refped to the report about the Prince of WALES, as the fubjeet has excited a more than common intereft, we think it necetrary to lay before Of Readers a Ilatement 4.1 the facts. About a month fince a Fiche') cook (who had formerly been employ ed in the kitchen of Carlton Hou(e) v.tote to the Prince', Stewas el to get !chili:tied Alt. Pac e did not anfwer the letter, hut on Saturday lennight the man in company with atai:her Frenchman. (who like wife was a cook and wanted a place) called nn Mr. P. and laid that lie had jut! escaped from France, with great difficulty. Mr. P. acquainted his Royal Highttelb with the application, who laid jocofely. I believe we do hot want a cook," and ordered them to be detained until the Secretary of State had examined them. Thera wet c immediately taken to the Secretary of State's OUi.:e, where nothing particu lar tranipired. Since the at l iv.l of theic men fewer:al others have been .treated, who have all left France 8.u....irt the laft month, And can give no fAticfAnory Account of their hurwel",, even of the means by vit.: : ch they cuntinued ;:..rr.: Lk) I.lloAnd. .4