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

FRANCE. 'PRIVATE ISITER.—PARIS, JAN. la, The Americans here are highly pleated with Bus , fince the arrangements reepeaing Loui- Gana. A great many fail-makers have been ordered from Bell to Boulogne, Dunkirk, &C. BOMAPAILit has ordered that the Maritime Prefefture, compofed of (even members, Mould make a report refpetling the Officers of Marine who diflinguilli themfelves the moor. From each of the fix principal ports there will be chofen four Captains and a proportional num ber of Lieutenants and (cameo, who &all be appoint ed Members lithe Legion of Honour. It is reported here that the Commanders of the Englifla fhie in the Weft Indies were in coffeepot'. donee withDessaitnes and the other principal Black Generals in St. Domingo ; and that it was believed the army of Rocuanaaau had furrendered to the BritiOt Stipa, The Camp at Bruges is eorapofed of so,ooo Duo. The barracks form a curious map dial. At Mot a battery, cusapofed of fix pieces of cannon, of the hawk& metal, is crated upon piles, at the "glace of • gun Slot fiion the jetty. Bo 'is idea, and ordered the execution of it when that place. His flatterers add—" None could conceive the thought." The work place, it is added, are indefatigable ; they candle-light. General Avousau arrived anardeen on the sd of Nitro& (24th December), remind by the firing of cannon. - the late Lams above twenty of the large • Thelllaries, and nearly as many at the Luxembourg, were blown down. The Pantheon Garden of Plants have Coffered confiderably. d has been blown off the Senate Hook, and flatus, ameag which, I believe, was that of War, were broken. Thefe laft circumfiances .iis particular period, regarded by the vol. rather ominous. Several public buildings greatly injured. Bat the melt ferions part naiene is, that feveral people have been of them even dangeroufiy, by the falling and Oates. BONAPatTII has got a piant:e of Mr. Fox Jeering room. ~ aus,o,l, J AL s.—Our papers contain the news from Paris:—We have received the ..are from Germany, that Count de Cos ear est. declared, that if the belligerent powers would air eve the mediation of his Imperial Majelly, a plan of geleilicatino would be laid before them, from which the ► Coaxes was to be expeded. We du not amt that France will accept this offer ;—but side of England will never fubmit to any Cacti balers a loading haw taken place. . of Maim of • gt gave the idea, I he was at that but binefelf cod men at that plat work with cant at Bowden= • • sad was reedy Duriag the 1 tram is the Th • Laztaiboarg, sad the Garde The id hoe b feveral Rasa Julius Calarti are, at this pa vie as rather • have been gra of the tallying • hurt. foes of t debilitate ant Madame Bo •Is her daring &saliva° falothig neve wan bete from has declared. t sops the =edit pitilicatina die bah ae ww doubt bat the the pride of E fins before a I GIVOI d JAI • has pared the to to Toul a corps of harbour. and I Ca sips of di of war, and to fail, and an Nassau. bow blockaded. IPaownsas lees is divie likielades tht • easillibig of sill. sad thc a look out at Greece. The dowry • aping& of a Asisreatia 'kips arrived dsaa . The Engli Teal, on du was burnt ; f • were carried Such conduit been fent to A JAM. 10.— Fl•Aing for , a very flrid the flotilla, a chewy. No% bottomed boa board any 11 evening. Di pointed to w Haoue, Ji publicly pad and the Carl who in the ye to the Englif jured, and inl baoifhed the Theft three land. On Friday felt al , ng tht dingen and Schiedam. undulatory f felt in Ilona boo in 1755 : To inuvoj the preient eztraordinar of all the int levied as s gi bationwill bi who are to e • the lit fi of 24,0c0, the the 3rd at paid at four per, among • &eatable in • is left than The plan oar rettory bcfu i ng tit tile I The day refletl bcte, 17 ALr. Jar. g.—The French General Reoetee I through this city on his way from 80. Toulon. where he is to take the command ps of tome men which airembled near that and hold themfehres in readier(' to embark. / of the line, four frigates. Come fmaller , and a number of tranfports. lie there ready , and are taking on board fix months provifions. however. keeps the port of Toulon clofely iisekaded. tact or ITALY, JAIL 4—Lord NILSON'S divided into three divifions ; the firongell the French .fleet at Toulon ; the fecood, of finall veal", watches the Wand of Si , the third is cruifing before Malta. and keeps out at what is going forward on the coati of dowry Of the Prineefs Bosoursa is valued at of a million and a half of feudis (dollars). HOLLAND. Tatar, Jar. 7.—During lark year 2,690 arrived here, which make the number 858 lefs Englilb frigate Scoueos captured, near the a the erls lark month, a pilot boat which burnt ; four pilots were fet at liberty, and three carried awiy as prifoners of war. To prevent conduit for the future, reprefeatations have to Admiral Lord KSITN. o.—Eleven tranfports have failed from lasing for °Rend. General Moamar has publifhed very flriA ordinance, to prevent accidents on board flotilla, arifing either from carelanefs or trea. No 'fire is to be made on board any flat. boat or tranfport, nor any to be kept on ly Ibip of war after eight o'clock in the During the night krong patroles are ap to watch. /a. JAN. 57.—Yellerday our Catin , :l of WAT paired lenience on Rear Admiral Sroxy, Captains VAN DF. CA PELL EN and VAN BRAAM, `le year t 799, gave up our fleet in the Vlieter )glith. They are declared difgiacei, per td infamous, degraded from their polls, and the Republic, not to return on pain of death. me Officers, it is well known, are in Eng- iday the 13th init. a kind of earthquake was the Lower Miele, in the villages Vlaar - And Maefelaod. and at Rotterdam and at an. It was not a fudden (bock, but a 11,.w ory motion of the earth, Galata to what was oiland at the time of the earthquake at Lif- /SS• inside for the extraordinary expenditure of rot year, the direftory has refolved on a new inarycontributionon the primacy and income t inhabitants of the Republic. which is to be a gratuitous gift. The amount of this contri ill be forty millions of flot ins. The inhabitants to contribute to it are divided in:o 1? chilies, of which is afraid at 16,000, the ad at the 3,1 at tx,ooo, Bce. the 30 at feven, and at three florins. The contribution ib to be four inßulrnents, in money or good Rate pa• linens which is reckoned the refcriptions re t& in the prefent year. Domeflics whore fatiry than so 1101111.. are esi.mpicd grim th; tax. an of ibis contribution w ill be Lid by the di. before the legiflative body, at its next mect. the ill of February, for its fatuftion. day before yeßerday four petfbns were ar here, charged with being Eughlki (pies. rußisr. Consmarrwons, Dae to.—The Captain Paeha died here fuddenly. Some days before hi, return he was attacked with a fevere diarrhea, which had much weakened him s a new fhip of the line being launched in bad weather, he opened the windows, and thereby encreafed his diforder fo much, that all the fltill of the Phyficians was of no avail. He is raid to have left a will, requeffing the GRAND Ss tow lout to fairer his property to pay his debts, which are confiderable. Banta Bay is appointed Captain Pacha. Dae. tg.—The rebels in Romelia are again in motion, and the troops of the GRAND SviGnicla have loft a battle againft them, and are now obliged to hold themfelves on the defenfive. One of the chiefs of the rebels, who had fled to Afia, has been taken there, and his head is expated loon at Cooftantinople. No Ruffian (hips of war have as yet peed from the Black Sea through the canal into the Mediter. mann. Mr. &narrow has had his audience of entry of the Cameo Ssionme and Rats E r aa the new Envoy Plenipotentiary from England. GERMAN,: Haman RCN, Jas. 2o.—Four Englifit mails are ar rived here to-day—one due. Hamovait, Jaw. t+—A new tar is going to be railed in Hanover ; every civil officer and inhabitant is to pay 3 per cent. of his income, 3 per cent. on his castes, and a per cent. of his property. Three foldiers of the legion have been OtoX at Zoll, and two others will fuller the fame punifhment. The number of French troops now in Hanover is from °Woo to ao,ooo men. Robberies are daily committed here. A corps of aOOO men is to be formed from the French troops, Come of whom will be Rationed in every dif. trift for the military police : it is concluded from this that there is no immediate profpea of the evacuation of the elatorate. LAUIMIIVRO Jaw. al.—To - day the hates of .Chamborand ;aye the duchy of Lauenburgh, and return over the Elbe to Luneburgh, where they will be cantoned in the neighbouring villages. Inßead of them, we receive two companies of Chaffeurs. In the towns of Lauenburg, Ratzeburs, and Mollon, the Mad% difcipline is oblerved ; in order to maintain which, no foldier is Coffered to be leen in any public houfe after eight o'clock in the even ing, and any landlord who ferves them after that time with wine or brandy, is fined ten rue doiars. WITS, Jaw. 7.—Three Officers of Marine, fent by the French Government to Ruffia in laR Augull, to buy up naval notes, have returned and paired through this place for Paris. Twenty-nine families of the intenediate nobility have renounced their rights, and taken the oath of fidelity to Bavaria. Marv:, Jaw. ay.—Within this week five regi. ments of cavalry have arrived at the Rhine, between Coblentz and Stralburgh, which will receive their new organization in the interior of the Republic. The report is entirely without foundation that French troops have palled the Rhine, at the requelt of a German Prince, to fupport him againfl a power ful neighbour. We are likewife to reckon among the unfounded reports, that of an approaching remarriage of the Queen of Eratsaia, and that Lucien B^MAPAITE will take on him a confiderable poR of Government ' in Italy. PARLIAMENTiIRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, /TB. z: TfiOSPEAKER took the Chair a little before four o'clock. A !limber, whore xsame we could not ham, Wok the Oaths and his feat. Mr. Secretary YORKE gave'notice, that en this day Unnight it was kis intention to move for leave to bring to a bill to confohk ate. amend, and explain, the feveral Ada puffed relative to the Vo lunteers. Mr. SERGEANT moved. that the Speaker do iffue his War rant foe the Eledlon of a new Member for the Borough of Truro, In Cornwall, in the room of John Lemon, Efq. who, Ilene his Median, bath accepted the °See of one of the Lords of the Admiralty.—Ordered. A New Writ was alto ordered tolbe iffued for the dedion of a Member to ferve in Parliament for the Borough of Wallingford, la the County of Becks, in the room of Sir Francis Sykes, Ban. deceafed. Mr. VANSITTART moved that there be laid before the Houk an account of the net produce of the Revenues, from the soh of January IRos, to the sth of January 1804, diftiogulfhing each quarter relpedively. Mr. HOBHOUSE brought up a Bill to enable bb itiejefl7 to grant certain Crown Lands to him Royal Hig'inefs the DIAL of York, which was read a firft, and ordered to be lead a fecund time te.rnorrow. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that be would tomorrow Sure for a Selza. Committee to take into confideration the State of the Civil Lift Revenue of this Country : And alfo for a &led Cortimitter to take into ea Joint Ancient between Great Britain and Ireland. am the MIDDLESEX kLECTMII. Mr. FOX rote, -- and requeßed the attention of the Hieufe to a few obfervations he had to make on a fubjeCt which was to come before them to.m.‘e tow He alluded, he laid, to the Winer,. or the Middle fee Eleflion, on which he was apprehenfive that the iloule had been drawn into an error. Rinse the time of palling the Grenville AO, a great variety of amendments and pie vilions had been made, relative to the mode of reroceeding under that AO, in cafes of contelled elettii.ns and vexatious petitions; paid eularly by the Aft of the 2Rth of the Kiri-, eine clank of which, among other things, veil , denial', pied plainly enafts, that the Houtz (hall nit gee i:.to the confederation of any petition ginner the Glens ilk Aft, unlels the perfons ligning the fame than ex. prefsly Rate thermelves to hive a tlijl4 of Lkai , :n. —ln one of thy Petitions relative to the hliddleies Elation, 'he Petitioners Rate themfelves to be Freeholders, but do not Rate their Rig& f Eltßioa, which he thought abfolutely trecelfary ; for there might be, and he doubted not there were, many Freeholders who had a not a right of Elation. In the proceedings of Courts of law, it was very well known, that if all the neceffary averments which the law requires are not made, the million is fatal, and renders tire whole plea void, aid of no cleft.— 'lie AO he lead jull q uieted was the solemn Aft of tha: I loufe, made esprcfsly for the pturpole of ten dering as pure as rabic the proceedings whi , -11 01.-y lbould adopt in purfnarce it the Grenville AI, and to give that Aft every poaale degree of lice and cifeet. lie thought, um - elute, that the Houk mull feel themfelves particularly called on. not to fet the pernicious example of difobeying that law which they had ena&ed for a fpecific and exprefs purpole. It into an his opinion that the Houfe had been d rawn an error, and this was the only time in which that error could be retlified. He thought it his duty. therefore, to Hate his fentiments on the little& to the Houfe. The moll material queftion which would arife, was, what the mode of proceeding Mould be and he was of opinion the choice of thefe two was left for the Houfe to adopt, viz. either to difcbarge the Order for to-morrow, fo far as relates to that Petition, or to defer the whole Order for the ballot till Friday. He did not conceive this could be attended with any confiderable degree of inconvenience ; and if it was adopted. it would give time to thole Gentlemen, who did not coincide in opinion with him on the fubjea, to give it their ferious confideration till to-morrow, when it was his intention to bring it under the con• fideration of the Houfe. He then defired that the A& he had cited might be read. which was done ac cordingly. The Petition was afterwards read, by which it appeared that the Petitioners, figning the fame, had (bled themfelves generally freeholders, but bad not flatted that they had any claim or right to vote. He thought the law on the fubjea was as clear as any thing could poffibly be. If any Hon. Member differed from him on the fubjea, be would, by the pollponellent of the ballot till Friday, have time to give it due confideration before to-morrow, and come better prepared to enter into the debate, if any de bate fhould arife thereon. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid, that in a cafe. in which be mull confefs,Jrons what he had heatd, he differed eonfiderably ,in opi nion from the Hon. Gentleman who brought it for ward, he thought the Houfe could bare no hefitation in agreeing to the pollponernent of the ballot in quefiton, according to the faggeftion of the Right . Hon. Gentleman, as fuch a proceeding would give him and every Hon. Member more time to give fo important a fubjea the molt ferious and deliberate confideration before they Mould be calico upon to give their decifion.—lt appeared, from the reading of the Petition, that the perfons figning it had not exaaly conformed themfelves to the Ae cited. in giving the defignation thereby required; but as he contidcred the matter to be of the utmoß importance, the rights of fo many perfons being implicated in and affetted by it. he would beg leave to Rate the ground of thofe doubts which had arifen in his mind on the fubjea. In the firft place, he thoqibt the Houle would do well to confider and intillfre into what has been the pra&ice of the Houfe on fimilar occafsons, or fuch as come as near to it as I poifible. If the Houle fhould allow the Petition to' go before • Committee, it would be incumbent on the Petitioners to make out their cafe ; and if the failed to do that. their petition would of courfe fall to the ground. The Petitioners defire by the prayer of their Petition, that their cafe may be takes' into confideration, and they have brought it before 1 the -Houle in the only way in which they had the power fo to do ; it would. therefore, he thought, be hove the Houfe to confider the fubjeft moll delibe rately indeed before they determined to rejea the prayer of the Petition. in conformity to the impera- tive part of the Aft. which the Hon. Gentleman had Hated. The Houk had already ordered that the cafe of the Petitioners fhould be taken into confideration on a certain day. That order had fince been renewed. and no objeftion had till now been made on account of the informality at prefent pointed out as fit matter for rejeaing the Petition. The principal ground of doubt with him was this. that the Houfe ought to pre!~ pc/lons to be other than what they (toted themfelves to be. They had tinted themfelves to be freeholders. and certainly as fuch they have a right and claim to vote, unlefs fome caufe of dirqualihea tion can be proved againft them. He wilted, how ever, that the fubjt. Oloutd have the fulleft and molt mature confideration before it was determined ; and 1 1 as fuch he thought tie Houfe wool.: do well to agree to the Hon Gentleman's fuggeftioti of poftponing the' ballot till Frida!', in order that the queltion might have a dileuffion morr'-w. Mr. FOX then moved, that the Order for the bal-, lot which flood for to-morrow be read, which was done, the Order difcharged, and the ballot fixed for Friday. The fame proceeding took place on the ballot for Midhurft, which was alfo pottponed till Friday. Mr. VANSIT rA Pa !Nought up feveral Papers, which were ordered to lie on the Table. The Committee of Supply and Ways and Means were feverally poilponed to Friday, and the He ufe adjourned. LONDON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY a. V' !eV. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIEs • •.er Cent. Conk,la, money . 55ii Ditt,,, for February 36 a s 6 l Reduc.,l - ' ' S 6 t O own. • 1 ! 8 5 tiaL t•RICF. OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Ban% itlIC . l 15P 15;4 Slum Ann Al 3411 .1 per Cent ked Ann Ott i Imp 3 per Cent. 3Sj ss • prt Cr. t Cad. sitit Imp. Ann. 9 9-26 i 4 per ( .n: 7:iil Omnlum 111 clif. 3 per Cent. N.ory 89 8141 I.ottery 'tickets. sp. s int. Cam. 17.'7 9111 i I Coo!. for act. 333 361331 Lot.g Ann. if, 9-t6i The Houfe of Commons met yekerday parfuan• to adjournment. Mr. YORK, gave notice that he would on Wednefday next move for leave to bring in a Bill to crinfolulate, amend, and explain the fe veral A&s relative to the Volunteers. We have al ready Rated that a Bill to this effen would be one of the fire matures of Parliament. Wednefday was fixed upon, to give time for the deeifion of the Court of King's Beech, in the cafe of Mr. Dowxer. The ilifctarton en this fuhjen will be extremely interefting. We hope it will be condoned with coolnefs and mo deration on all fides, but we can hardly help depre cating any innovations at the pretest m ment, when .•llterations and amendments may tend to unhinge the u hole fy Rem. The Coancaxxoa of the Excnacqpia gave notice of his intention to move this day for the appointment of a Sekft Committee to =quire into the flats of the Civil Lift, ana likewife for tnother Committee to enquire into the (late of the Joint Account between Great Britain and Ireland.—The Houfe exhibited a much more numerous attendance than we expetied. Not fewer than zoo Members were prefeat. The private letters from India (peat in the molt defponding terms of the fituation of the Englifb at Ceylon. The conteft with the King of Candy, into which the Government plunged itfelf, has hither to been produftive only of difaftrons events. The climate bad fo minced our troops at an inland fort, that the Commanding Officer, Major Davie, found it necelEsry to propofe a capitulation, which was agreed tot but no fowler was it carried into tile, . than a body of Malays in our fervice, joined the na tives and murdered all our Officers, except one who efcaped. Among the fulferers were Major DAVIS, Captains Gassy, PLIND , MILIAN, &C. &c. Serious fears are entertained for the fafety of the Settlement. Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the Bth October, fent by a !lave (hip, by the way of the Weft Indies, mention the unpleafant fituation of that colony in confequence of the intelligence of the war. On the firft arrival of the news, all the Englills inha bitants there were ordered to keep their houfes, and their property was put under fequefiration, but this order was afterwards taken off in confequence of a very fpirited remonfl ranee on the pare of Mr. PRIMO t.s, the Agent of the EaR India Company, to whom the Batavian Government was under very confider. able obligations for pecuniary affiftance, without which their garrifon would have proceeded to a ge neral mutiny. It Was very properly hinted to the Jacobin party in t►e Government, that neither Hol land, nor the nation to which it was Chained, could prevent England from taking pnffeSon of the Cape whenever it pleafed, and that any intuit or indignity offered to its fubjeas might one day be retaliated.— This remonftrante had its proper effect, and the Eng• Mb merchants fince that time have remained unmo leßed ; but the Dutch inhabitants are daily expecting and ardently praying for, an Englifis force to appear 'before the town, which, there is little doubt, would forrender without firing a !hot. The ftrength of the garrifon is syoo effective men ; the Hottentot corps is dilbanded and difperfed in the country ; and they have not a tingle (hip of war on the Ration ; but fe vers' privateers, !kith there and at the Mauritius, are fitting out, ender the idea of intercepting our homeward bound India (hips. No intelligence bad arrived at that time of die return of Ltaois's fqua dron to Mauritius, from which place, as appears by what we Rated yefterday, it certainly failed for In dia. The (mall garrifins of the Cape was in Inch a (late of infubordination when the intelligence of the ' war arrived, that the Government thought it necet. fairy to increafe their pay and double their rations,in order to kccp them quiet ; and it was making s feeble effort to call out the Burgher Militia, who. however, had declared themfelves to a man unwill ing to oppofe their bell friends the Englifh. There letters mention alto an idea generally entertained at the Cape, of Mr. PattioLv being entrufled with cer tain overtures from that Government to his Majef- ty's Minitlers, with regard to that fettlement. Mr. PRINGLR, we underßand, is on board the Exited. mem, which arrived a few days ago at Cork. • We have feen other letters from the Cape of Good Hope. dated the 29th of Odober, which Hate, that immediately on the receipt of the intelligence of the war in Europe having been -cnewed. the Governor of that colony ordered teals to be put on the whole of the property belonging to the EAR India Company; and on the 101 l rving day (September 29) a Prods• mation was gad, forbidding, under any pretence, the transfer of any fpecies of property belonging to Englilh fubjeas, tinder penalty of the whole value of the koed h and commanding, that no debts due to the fubjeds of his BRITANNIC MAJISTT timid be paid, under penalty of three times the value of all pay ments fo made. Sn harlh a meafure as the feizing of all private property, naturally threw the Englilk inhabitants into the utmnf Rate of alarm, and a meet. ing was in confecmence called, at which it was agreed, that a Memorial fhnuld be prcfented to the Governor upon the fubje3. A Committee of the Britifh Incr. chants accordingly waited on his Excellency with a remonfirance, on the 2d of (Maher, in which, after calmly teprefenting the injußice of the meafure, and cnntrailing it with the mild and liberal proceedingi of the Britifh Government, on ("miler occafions, they reminded him of the encouragement held out to them to remain in the fettlement, and their peaceable and indußrions defacanour fince the re•eftablifhment of the Batavian Government ; and concluded by declar ing their readinels at the fame time, to enter into loch obligations for their future propriety of coodts as his Excellency might think proper to esaa, con' latent with their trot allegiance to their King and country. This remonarance, we are happy to end. produced the &fired effect ; for, in a few days, anti• thcr Proclamation was itlued by the Governor. rr yoking the hat& mature complained of in every for fpea. A Gentleman, who left Paris upon the t4th (hates, that, in the bell informed circles of ttlat it uAI confidently expteted an attempt would be nude upon Ei.glAnd l.etore the sgth inltant, but that B ACTS would not command the CipediliCii Pe Ca PC CI T 1