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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER t 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: . . Coutols, for acc. 6414—Reduced 63i• —Omnium, 3to z pre. Exchcqmr Bills, par zs. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. g per Cent. Red 63+ Old S. S. Ann 63 • 3 per C. Conf Ann. rout Imp. 3 per Cent. 62•111 4 per Cant. 81 8t Esc,laeq. Bills, 4e. pr. par per Cent. Navy Phut I Onmium ti prem. Long Ann. z 7 z 3 , t 6ths City Lot. Tickets 7L 14s• Bonds, as AM par Conf. for am; 64i . • • Rumours of a very Contradiftory nature were aflharyeflerday afternoon refpeaing the fquadron of Sit Sioisv St4ITH. Some maintained that he had entered the Tagus and obtained a decided villory— others, that he had been fo roughly treated by the batteries of St. John and by the Ruffian fleet, as to he obliged to retreat with his fquadron in a very ihattered ftate. Some faid accounts from the Tagus had come by the veffel which left Rotterdam on Thurfdsy left— other:, that the intelligence came from Fowey. But after every effort in our power, we have been unable to trace any recent intelligence from the Tagus to ether the one fource or the ether, and we have to Rate, that no accounts have reached the Admiralty• An American Gentleman mead town yefterday from Bourdeaux, whence he failed on the soth ult. in an American 'hip, which, with all others, under the flag of the United States, had been embargoed there for five days. The order for the embargo was put in .execution on the 2sth, on which day every Captain was direCted to deliver up his papers to the officers of Cuftoms. This meafure is Rated to have been retorted to for the purpofe of preventing the efcape of tome perfon from France. It was not known whether the objeß was accomplilbed, but on the 3oth the embargo was taken off. Government have within thefe few days become poffeffed of fome very important French documents, which ditArife fecrets of the higheft magnitude in re (pee to the defigns of BONAPARTI. A very confi derable degree of confequence is, we underhand, at. tacked to them. They are figned by BONAPAILTt and TALLIYRAND arid perfons well acquainted with the fignature of both are perfuaded that they are ge. Thefe documents, it is whifpered, relate to TAL. LITILAND'S projeCted journey to Holland, and the motives and objets that give rife to it ; but whether this be aCtually the cafe, we know not. It gives us much pleafure to obferve, that the Commiflioners for ViCtualling his Majefty's Navy have advertifed for Tenders of Weft India Rum for the fupply of that fer vice. The confumption of foreign fpitits, not the produce of our own colonies, fhould never at any time be encouraged in this country. At the prefent moment in particular, when the ware houfes of our Weft India merchants are filled with produce, and the enemy , endeavours to deprive us of every market on the Continent, it would be highly impolitic to allow brandy to be ufed in the navy. Its ufe fhould be prohibited even on 'bore. The more inveterate the efforts of our enemy Na• !OLEO* are, to defiroy our commerce, the more inde fatigable ought we to be to encourage the confump. tion of our own manufaaures and the produce of our colonies. But this is not all—this country ought to adopt a regular fyilem for the fiapply of its own wants for the interdietion of our commerce with the Continent may occafion an evil of this kind to be fcverely felt, as well as the accumulation of many articles for the want of a market. What we principally have in view at prefent is the nectflity of leffening the confumption of corn, that we may always have a large fur plus in the country, as a fafeguard againli a Ihcrt crop. Shut out from , the granaries of Europe—involved perhaps in a war I with America, in what a diflrefling fituation would this country be, in the event of a bad harveft I Sound policy requires that we fhould wifely pro vide in time for filch a pt Bible contingency : One of the means that fhould inflantly be adopted 114 s bcfore been reforted to by Government. The ufe of grain in the breweries and dittilleries Atould be fufpended till things return into their natural channel. This meafure would not only promote the objea which found policy demands, but would be produaive of great advantages to tic commerce of the•country, by eonfuming the fugar produced by our Weft India Planters, which is all paid for, dirsnly or inditealy, to the manufaaures of this country. It would belrlihtl on the patriotifm of cur land- holders to fuppofe it pc flihle that they fhould threw any obflacic in the way of loch a fyflent. Their gains deperd leis on the ciii;.riti.y (Scorn at the mar. kcr, titan t o the ability of the cot Pi n ner to pay a hbe- tat price for the commodity ; and the way to fccure 11, 4 0. i; by promoting, by every mean, the • coniumption of , lir. m. - ,iitintattres. There, however, are but fecon,!ary confi.ferations. The flirt duty of every Government i. to provide fur the fupply of the Pe' pic—tiaLfivi duty of every individual:is co, aid arid anil ;he .v.inm:nt'in its efforts fnr that end. AMERIC A. We this morning received additional letters and papers from America to the r zth ult. The following articles, which we have fileeted, are important, as (hewing that the hoilile feelings of the Americans towards Great Britain have completely fublided:— NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 5._ Orders we under Rand have been feut froth the war department, to the different military polls of the United States, direCting that all deferters from the fervice of foreign nations, mould be forthwith dif charged. At this port feveral have been difcharged ; they were molly, if not all, Britifb. This has been confidered as indic ttive of a pacific difpofition by Tome ; nnlefs we know more of the motives, we shall not offer any opinion upon the fubjea. The bell informed circles at the city of Walhing. ton, men who undoubtedly derive their impreiflons from executive information, are of opinion that the prefent dircuffions with Great Britain, will terminate amicably. As loon as the Revenge (hall have re. turned, the Prefident means to communicate to Con grefs all the documents (forming a voluminous mafs) on this fubjeCt.—Pbil Gaz. Capt. Brownovho came paffenger in the fchogner Hamilton from La Vera Cruz, informs, that about the 11l of September a fevere gale of wind was felt in the bay of Mexico. At Campeachy, 5o houfes were deßroyed, and about so veifels 1011. The tide role to fuch a height as to drive tome of the veffcls three miles into the country. About r x veffels were 101 l at La Vera Cruz, and the molt of the crews perifhed.—lt was fuppofed to be the beaviell gale ever experienced at that place.—N. r. Gem. movemosz 6. TH a Woe IC or DISTRUCTIOII.—The attack on the Conflitution glanced at in the Prefident's late Mef fage, is more fully explained in the following refolu tioo,lately introduced into the Vermont Legiflature The refolution is precifely what was to have been expelled from that Legiflature, and from the man who introduced it. The men who advocate the propofed change fhould proceed with deliberation : they are treading on hallowed ground : they are aiming a blow, which, if it fhould not overturn the Conffitution itfelf, will route the (lumbering fpirits of its friends. Differences of.opinion on minor fub. jean will be forgotten, and all who value the Confli (Lotion will rally around it as a common Randard, as the facred bond of union, as the-great bulwark of our national happinefe, fafety, and glory. In the Houfe of Reprefentatives of the Legiflature of Vermont, on the 9th ult. Mr. &ADM introduced the following Refolution,which was referred to Meffrs: Bradley, Chafe, and T. H;tchinfon. " Refolved, That the Sesators In Coogrefs from this State be initrueted, and the Rearefentatives therefrom requited, to ate their exertions to procure an amendment of the Cooßitudon of the United States, in fuch a manner as will empower the Pref. dent of the United States to remove any of the Judges of the Su preme Court of the United States, upon Addrefs to him made for that purpofe by a majority of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, and two thirds of the Senate in Congrefs affembled." MOIIIitERIL 9. • Captain Jackfon, who arrived yefleiday, informs, that the inhabitants of St. Thomas were in a conti nual (fate of alarm—Britilh (hips of war were off that place daily—every man on the island was obliged to be equipped for defence, under pain of fevere penalty and punifltment ; and it was their determination to defend the place to the laft extremity. Upwards of 3000 perfons were afflilled with the influenza at Charleflon the 23d ult. The Charletton papers fay, that the crops are more luxuriant than for many preceding years, and the weather remarkably favourable for gathering them in. There was a (harp frog in the vicinity of that city the 20th. • lExtraEt of a letter from Baltimore, November 3.. " The town was yefterday in great confnlion in con. fequence of a mob that was railed to cxprefu their ~, contempt of Judge Marfball, A. Burr, H. Blanner hafTett, and Luther Martin. They carried the effigies of thofe perfons through the flreets in the evening, and halted twice before Mr. Martin's door, and-each time gave three cheers, thence proceeded out of the • city to a gallows that had been ereded, and there, hung them. Burr, Blannerhaffett, and Swartwontl were in town yeherday, and heard of this intended riot ; bat whether through fear or fume other mbit4 left town in the mail, for your city. General Strickef being apprehenfOrthat Come ads of violence might be attempted, ordered Captains Hollingfwcrth and' Barney's troops of horfe to parade the flreets, to quell any 'Mt that might take place, tun fortunately it all 1 ended in Mud hut zas." - 1 That difgracetul proceedings of this nature tbould I partially difhonour our country, and be carried to the 1 molt outrageous lengths by jacobin revolutinnifts, Will excite the wonder of no man who has read the denunciatinn.of the Judiciary in . the Prefident's Met. fage to Conifers. Bet thanks to the good fenfe and found ptinciples of our citizens, the Conflitution of the United States mall yet prevail againft all machi- 1 nations to bring its powers within the grafp of any individual—and he who has entertained the prejed, may by this time refit& 44 tuna .I,!su cult prekree priu: donentat.—Political Reg. DANVILLE (KEN) OCTOBER 14. TH a INDIAN s.—There are rumours from almnft all parts refpefting the hoftile difpofition of our red Brethren. Governor Harrifon, of Indiana, in a late meffage to the Legillature of that territory. men• tinned that they had become refllefs and trouh:efane, perhaps at the inttigation cf the Britifh agents. It is Paid alto, that G wernor Hull, of 'Michigan, had been malc;iig preparations for 'ilte defence of Detroit, againli any luddigi, ittatks which might be made by the Indians. - It further teems that a number of Indians had affembled at Fort Grenville, in Ohio; when alked what was their objee't for which they affemhled, they declared it was to maintain a peaceable neutrality in the expe&ed war between the United States and Great Britain; they alfo expreffed a diffatisfaCtion with General Wells, the United States' agent. PRIVATE LETTLR. " New York, November 7, do,. 44 But a few days have elapfed fence I (crawled for you a few flatly lines by the way of Liverpool, con taining the hleffage of the Prefidenr to both Houfes of Congrefs—it was no way fatisfaftory on the fob. jeft of the late differences between this Country and Great Britain, but we were greatly rejoiced to learn, by an arrival at Bofton from Liverpool, of their having terminated in an amicable adjunment ; by far the lei for the true intereft of both Countries, and agreeably with the %Hiles of a large majority of their inhabitants. I hope fincerely nothing may again• in-1 terfere to threaten our peace, or cut the thread of , friendly intercourfe, which [till ft bfifts. Bufinefs, in gmeral, has been very dull for Come months paf , a circumftance that may, and is, generally attributed, to the late profpcft of war, but now that the cloud I which hovered over our beads is Taft difpelling, we I look for a revival." His MAJESTY did not come to town yeflerday, as was expetled, in confequence of Lord Hawitesisuay as Secretary of State fur the Home Department, informing his MAJESTY, in the difpatches which a Meffenger fet off with on Tuefday morning, at two o'clock, to be with his MAJESTY before fix, inform ing him that there was no public bufinefs that re quired his MAJESTY'S prefence at the Queen's Palace yeflerday; his MAJESTY therefore commanded that his attendants in London fliould be informed that he was not coming to town. The (Z . FitEN and Pasm exists intended to have accompanied his MAJESTY to London„ aad to have dined with the Duke of Your : their tradefmen were ordered to attend them at the Qzeen's Palace, and the orders were not countermanded till a late hour on Tuefday night, when an exprefs arrived in town to that effett ; the Qtrtam and PRINCESSES not having known that the Kin° was not coming• to town till he went to partake of their deffert at five o'clock. Yefterday morning his MAJESTY, accompanied by Princeffes AUGUSTA, SOPHIA and AMELIA, Earl of WESTMORLAND, Lady CRANLIY, General FITZROY, &c. took an airing on horfeback in Windfor Park. Early yefferday morning the Princefs of Wats: fent off one of her fervants exprefs to Windfor, with a letter to the KING. The fervant returned with an anfwer between one and two o'clock. Yefterday a Cabinet Council affembled at the Fo reign Office fhortly after two, and continued fitting until nearly five o'clock. The following Members affifled at the deliberations:—Earls Camas* and WRSTMORLAND, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord HAWILISSORY, Mr. CANNING, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHSQyea. Yeflerday Mars. WALSH and NESBITT waited on the Minifter, and concluded on having two Lotteriet of 25,000 Tickets each, infiead of two of 30,000, as they fiat propofed. The payments are to be as under : Depont, sad December • Xi so aid January S gth February 5 o Three days before Drawing S 34 LI7 4 and a depnfit of cos. per Ticket nn the Second Lot tery to be paid at the fame tube as the depofit on the firft. Yenerday a Court of Dire lors was held at the EMI India Houle, when the Court voted a piece of plate to Captain JAMIESON, as a mat k of their approbation of that Officer's gallant defence of the extra (hip Fame, which was captured by a French frigate of very fuperibr force. The Court adjourned at f►x, till Tuefday next. Difpatches from the Esfl India Houfe and the Admiralty were WI night forwarded to Portfmouth, to be fent to the Edit Indies, by the Nom: bag of war. About the beginning of laft month a vefFel bound to Ireland was put alhore near the fouth end of Airan, a part of the cargo was taken out to lighten her, among which were about 30 fmall calks, marked 68 Barley." There having excited fufpicion in the mindi of the Officers of the Excite, they had them opened, and found that they were filled with gun powder. They then got a party of Mr. LINDSAY'S detachment of the gartifon battalion, and feized the veld, vn board of which, under the cabin, (hey found ten calks more. They have taken the veal into Campbelton. Tua Earsorrion.—The following is raid to be an accurate lift of the Staff appointed to the Expedition now about to fail from Pnrtfmouth : Major General Spencer, Commander—Brigadier General Mac Farlane—Lieutenant Colonel George Tucker, Seth, Affiilent- Adjuiant-General—Captain Bradford, 3d Guards, Deputy Affif. tent Adjutant•General—Captain Bogle, s.:ith, ditto ditto ditto-- Lieutenant-Colonel Bathurft, hoth, AMRant Quart ir• Matter • General—Major Kt iney, 82d, Deputy ditto ditto—Captain Har dinge, ditto ditto ditto—Brigade Major Preflonosoth regiment— Ditto ditto Kronenfeldt, King's German Legion—Ditto ditto De lien, ditto—Captain Balfour Aid du-Camp—Dr, Shapter, Infpec tot of Hafpttals—Dr Weber, Deputy ditto ditto—Dr Deare, Phy fician—Dr Meurer, ditto—Staff Surgeons, Mars Nicolay, Kcac kalfe, Brenda, and Wolfer. The Expedition preparing at Pnrtfmouth is not expected to tail till the end of this week or the begin. ning of the next. The Bzd regiment embarked on Monday, and the 3zd yellerclay. The Right. Hon. Ganacs Forum/ay comes into Parliament for Taviltock, in the room of Earl GREY The refignation of Mr..Juftice Rooxs is, we 'alder- Rand, - finally arranged ; birt Who will fucceed him, is uncertain. THR/iTRES. DatIZY LAllll.—Laa night a new Tragedy, avow. edly the produnion of Mr. GODWIN, WAS pc:formed at this Theatre. It i, erg itied i'aulener, the ground work rf which is to he tound i❑ Roxalana, an old Novel of DAN tri. Der np.—Thc principal chataftert re ac follow . • Faulketier Count J'Auini Stinky Ihnedetto Duke Gaoler A rahella Laureva Emilia Mr. P.LWTOM POWELL • H. Smoot.: PACZER. RAY SHlrn - Mr 4 Pawn!. H. SWOONS - MirsTIDIWELL The Scene of this Piece lies in Florence, to which city Faulkener, an Englilh foldi.:r of fortune, had re. turned, from the memorable frege of Candia, accom. panied by his friend Stanley.—Tbe objeet rf the incef• fent anxiety of the hero of the tragedy is a loft mother, (Arabella) whom, from a very early age, he bas never been permitted to fee or hear of, on account of the milcondua of one pet ind of her life. Her fir& hatb an d , the fath.r cf Faulkentr, having been killed in the battle of Worceller, the had been induced to linen to the fond protedations or Charles 11, then about her own age, and became his mill ref:. Afterwards Fortune threw her in the way of Count d' /lufini, while on a vifit England, who made her his wife, and carried her to Florence, where the was refisling at the point of dine at which the play commences, and where Faulkeaer fita, after a long abfence, obtains a fight of her, at a grand mafquerade, through the apparent good offices of Benedetto, a relative e,f the houfe of Aslini, but who is devoted to lauretta del Monte, a former and vindic tiie mittrefs of the Count, who, having learned the hillory of Arabella, avails herfelf of that knowledge, to infpire dillru& and animofity among all parties.— This malevolent agency leads to a feries of horrid, events, in the produdioa f which little regard is paid to poetical 011ie:, and as little dramatic skill it manifelled in bringing about a denouement for the infor =don of the parties concerned, of which the audi. ence is fully acquainted from the beginning, and which after all is very unfiti,fadory.—The language of this pieclis ftrongly marked with the peculiar Ryle of the Author, alternately laboured and puerile. It is prole, but not colloquial ; yet is, notwithftanding, here and there very impaffioned, though, as to the moral object of the Author, we are altogether at Ids to find it nut. The ailing of Et.t.rrrou was admirable ; and that of HARRY Sinuous was delaying of much commen- dation. Mrs. Powat.t. exerted herfelf with confider able effe& in the Counrys ; and Mrs. H. SIMONS / laboured with fuccefs in t aureita—a part very fuited to her talents, as indeed the ccmfelfed in an apologetical Epilogue, well delivered. The Prologue croaked out in mail fepulchral tone by Etas, limply told us, that the [tory of the piece was taken from the works of the Author of Robinfon Crufoe. The audience eras very numerous, but far from unanimous in their approbation of the Tragedy, on its being given out for a future reprefentation. COVENT GARDIN..--1,0 night Sir JOHN VAN. BURGH'S CO/Dedr of The Confitkraty, was revived at this "Cheatte.—The performers acquitted them(elves well in their feveral parts. The Corinna of Mils Noa: TON, and the Fhppanta of Mts. Marroces were par titularly entitled to praife. Mr. Jonas, in Dick "fink!, and Mr."Litwis, in Brafs, did every thing that could be expeEted from thecharafters which they fupported. Ti e Moneytriip of Mr. MUNDEN was highly arnufing. Gripe was rather out of Mr. EMERY'S hue ; but what. ever ccu'a be done for the part he ad . The route was well filled, and the play well re ceived. The caufe of capture of merchant chips in the Baltic, by open boats, is chiefly owing to the matters and crews themfelves. They have cannon and fmall arm► on board, it is true, but the former are either lumbered up, or in qo condition to fire ; and th; latter, red with ruff, or perhaps not one in three have locks or flints. A Telegraph communicating with Yarmouth is now erefltng, and nearly completed, on Rymer Heath, between Thetford and Bury. This will nearly complete the chain of communication between theAdmiraltiand the aboire port. LaR night Gregfon and - Gulley met, by appoint. ment, and agreed to fight oil the . itit of next May, for Soo guineai a fide. ~ • ; ..•-• • In the Court of Chancery, yetierday morning, jolt al as the Loao CuaNcszt.oe. took hi s f ea t, he was ', dreffed by a woman of mean appearance, cillin ' herfelf Elizabeth Davis, who raid, the came to folic* jultice ; that a Lady Burgefs had left her fume property, of which the Parith Officers of Fordea, Welch Pool, in Mnntgomeryfhire, hattgot poifeffion, and driven her hufband, a cripple, with 7 children, out of the print, and had fent men, with knives, to murder her. She then proceeded to abate lawyers and their big wigs. The unfortunate woman bad every appearance of infanify. His Lordfhip ordered her to be removed out of Court. A Gentleman in Portland Road, who has retired from the bufy fcenes of life, received an unexpeded letter on Saturday from a Clergyman at Wellington, near Devizes, at whole hoofe his daughter, a young .Lady, 19 years of age, was receiving private tuition, eating that it was abfolutely necellaw for her to be . removed, to prevent her eloping with a Rodent of Winchefter, who had fought by various ftratagems to accomplilh fuch an objettf; and by a Mkt dew found in the poffeffion of the young Lady, a day was fixed for what was termed her deliverance. The uncle of the young Lady proceeded accordingly to Wel lington with an Officer, but on their arrival there on Monday morning, the had clandeftinely made 2111 efcape about two hours before with her lover. The fugitives were purfued to Mare, a village in Somer. fetthire, where they were farprifed at dinner by their put fuers. The young Lady arrived is town yelterdaYs with her uncle, who concluded her home. Moans R.—Barbara Malcolm was a few days nue committed to Edinburgh jail, charged with poifon ing her daughter, aged 18 months. Under pretence of giving the infant a medicine for cold, the forced down its throat a qoantity of .aqua fortis and arfe nic, of which it died in extreme agony in a few hours. So potent was the deleterious mixture, that the bottom of a new tin jug in which it was Cons tirteJ was in a few minutes dcatoyed. w -