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

PRIVATE LETTER, PAPS, MARCH sq. Do not write to me before you hear from tne ;Pins The Ireeeherl s Of -the and not the vigi lance of the Police 4es lye jy caufed fo much wretCh ednefs, and made ft) -many viaims. Ever face lan January, every foreign getter, without ewayirion, has been opened. with molt of thole from Lyons, Rouen, and from the Weßem Departments. Be upon your guard how arid to whom you write. The brother of Slaves is the exelefrve infpeaor of the Poll Office. Lail Saturday all the gates or barriers were again Ihut at fix o'clock in the morning, and continued fo for forty-eight hours. During this time every perfon walking in thf arms was arrefted who had no pats, and a gencral domiciliary vifit took place; I fay a paera4 beetutfe the Fleet Consul.. sefliew an example of friallog, when the cowry is is aver, did not ex ewe his own palace, when even two fufpicious perfons were arrefted. Tacceveawn's brother was, though releafed in twenty.four hours, arrefted at his hotel in Rue de Bacque. The terror is now fo great, and honour and duty fo entirely vanquiffied. that G— antt L— were given up by their own relatives; M —r, by his wife s • and poor R— , by his filler and brother in law, whom he fared from deßroltion is 579;. Madame Dumas (offered in the Temple, the atnoy of fixty hours confinement. During her flay, the old Duebefs de H— and her grand daughter were brought in there. You know the former is above So, and the latter not 14 years of age. They had been denounced by their owPfer., vents. The prifon of Gammas is unknown ; but thole of Pic H Ica u and Moa tau are changed almoß every ac hoots. They have been by turns in the Temple, in the Abbey, in La Force, at Vincennes, l and in the Conciergerie. The dread of their nume rous partifans has caufed thefe tyrannical meafures of precaution. PICI4IORY has been very ill from the wounds he received when taken, and it has even been reported that he was dead ; but I hear this day that he is Rill in La Force ; that when, yetlerday, he was ordered to be removed to the Temple again, he was unable to rife from bad. He has two very deep wounds in his head, and has been delirious. The examinations of the prifonersare continued every day feparately, but they have not yet been confronted. Their interrogatories are very volunsi nous, and it is fuppofed that they will not appear before any tribunal this week. Ever; day ibme more perfons are fafpeeted or implicated. The nisi- CONRAIL fent late Friday for Messina, MACDONALD, and La Coutes, and they have fi nce left town, which has produced the report, that they have been exiled until the Rate trials are over. Lae night the camp equipages of the Fran. Con sus le ft for the fecond time in ten days this city for the C r oak, but a Courier has ordered them back again. Late Toefday they were at Amiens, but received with the Telegraph orders to return. You can judge from thefe contradiaory movements, how impoffible it is to fay, when the deftiay of England will finally be determined. That it is, however, not diltant, is the common opinion. They write from Ulm, that the Ecscrot of BA VARIA has font orders to the officers of different ad miniftrations in his dominions, either fituated in towns or in villages, to fend all walk paper they poffefs to the neareß military corps, to be employed in making cartridges. This infignificant event has c.•.fed many fpeenlations, and fume go fo far as to impute to the Elettor hoflile intentions. Apninam CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, .D C. 30, The arrival of a French Commiffary from the Wand of Mauritius, hat: created here no little bale, which has further been increafed by that of a flnall cutter, which speedily followed. An embargo was inflantly laid on all the (hipping in the. Bay, all that could ferve as tranfports were taken op, and at this moment four or five are laden with provifions and primunition, put on board by 'the French Commit*. ry. The s3d regiment is alfo embarked, and the s}d, witb'half the artillery, are immediately to fol- low, fo that we null have little more for our garri- fon than the Waldec regiment. The Geivernment hold oat the idea that it tele) reinforce Batavia, but Come think it is for a very differedt objea ; nothing lets than, in conjunction with Limon, to:maks Cey- lon, from whence they Might aim a deadly blow at ' your empire in the &A The flea part of the expe- dition is to (ail inuntaftately. and 41 the coffee (hips from Batavia have received order, to unlo ad their cargoes, and take in troops. A cutter bas jaft arrived and brought intelligence, that Admiral HAPTIIIII;It may be daily expeitted, with five (hips of the hot, and with orders that all the troops that tan be (pared, with grovifions and refrefbments, may be in iradinefs to ettibaile without delay ; Co that we fupfinfe this rand expedition naafi have been planned in Holland. Not a creature in the whole place that is not sirdently wishing and expeaieg an Englifis fleet before the hitl t, but our. Government wifb it to be underftood, that we 'mall be reinforced by French troops from the Ifle of France. which, however, Ido not believe. If they faceted in this grand enterprise, the - Cape is a very fecondary obje& to Holland, being of great ex- peoce,"ied making no actual returns. It is not fo to Y..ngland: We have at length succeeded in getting the cow peck into the fettreineut, but the boors are fo dread. all alarmed that they will not come with corn or cattle within thirty miles of the town, but leave them at,the Pearl and Steltenbofeb. I am tarry to tell you, that a (treadle' fire has broken out at the latter place, and entirely confamed twenty•five dwelling-houfes, nearly half the whole village ; among thefe is the parfofiagerhoufe. FRANCE. . . MINISTRY OF MARINE. Ititytare OP DISPATCHES (ROM THE CAPTAIN GENE- RAL OP THE PLEIICH ESTABLISHMENT IN INOIAi TO THE stintazim, Of 41•111111. The Mauritius, Sept. rp. When we dried the Coaft of Coromandel on the loth of July, the Engliol fquadron was before Porto Novo. It was loon under fait, and on that evening the Englilli Admiral manoeuvred in (itch a manner, as not to leave any doubt of his being on the watch, and even difpofed to as offenfively, as loon a; he &mild think proper. He had already committed an ea of violence upon the Belle Poule four days before the arrival of the divifion. He had staelsoresi on the flarboard and lirboard of that fri- gate, a (hip of 6o guns, and a corvette. This con- do& and the reft4il to furrender Pondicherry, had coated am to demand at Madras a categorical en- terer. which I received a Short time ago, but it was ewafives as well as the note addrefe d the Cub. jca to the Adjutant Commandant, who was charged with my difpatches. Limns' divifion failed in the night of the 13th of July. I had left at Pondicherry all that had been embarked on board the Belle Poule. for there would have been danger in attempting to re-embark every thing. It would have been for the Englifh Admiral the signal to undertake something againfl our feeble dirifioo, which would certainly not have Coffered in- tuit, but which would have been obliged to fight with very unequal forte ; the event has convinced us of the reality of the perfidious projea which he 'meditated, for he culled the transport, the Cote d'Or, to be feized, which did not arrive till three days after our departure, and which was fomnsoned to anchor within gnn.Sbot of the Englifh (question. Adutant Commandant BINO'T expreffed to the EngliSh Aditiiral his extreme furprize at filch a vio- lation of treaties; he received none but a haughty reply. The French Captain let fail to the Mauritius on the teal, notwithllsoding the vigilance esercifed with refpea to this ship at the anchorage : but chaced and come up with at tome miles dillanr, the Captain was summoned and cannonaded at piftol- thee. Forced to furrender. be was carried, under the Briggs flag. to the anchorage of Pondicherry it was necessary to open a negotiation at Madras to obtain the fubkquent reflitution of the (hip. It is thus that in fell peace the Cabinet at St. James's dilates to its agents in India, in what man- ner they are to receive the French. 'What more boa& inftruaions could they give even after a Pup. ores *round, watch, cannonade, abufe by their superiority of force, fuch is their pacific code. Wi t h the exception of altaffiaations, this code is of a piece with their fyliens of war and defiruaion in the old and new world. DIELITTE. Maim, tz.—This day an Englifh cruiser was perceived near the coat. About two o'clock in the morning. a boat landed twenty' men. Their object apparently was to plunder a few hooks. Citizen Barry, Lieutenant of horfe chaffeurs, Served them. (offered them to advance. and though be bad only five chaffeurs with him, he prevented i them from proceeding. The Englifh attempted to By. he sabred three, and made prifoners ten or twelve. It is fuppofed that the remainder were droNned. FA•NCILFORT. MARCII 1,, —The marches and pre • paralinas of the Autitimi trips continne without interruption, and begin to excite fo much the more &nfatioa in the German Empire, as thofe princes who had invaded the property of the immediate no- bility, have already declared that they were reedy to • refit-ire every thing in jam To. It ii laid that Gen. WOLrssiHL has been ordered to take the command over the troops affembled in Suabia, and that he is to eftablifh his head-quarters at AVeilienliorn, a (mall town on the Bavarian frontiers. But as the Minalcrs of Raffia and France, according to the fame ru. moors. have prefented fetious remoultrances ioi 11 , is fithjea w the Court of Vienna. it is to be hoped that the march of the Auflrian troops will (non cc,:e. And that the Etoreena of Gin MANY will nut efft.mai I Government, wed white he it oe friersi.!: LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE ITCLOCII s Coofois for looney OH —Ditto for ea. se+ Olds pa CAW. MI. MARC. 31. 31 pw Cad. Get. Deb. 64—s per C. Gov. Deb. poi. Greed Canal 6 pa Cent. VS. Isckange, Dublin ern Leaden i6l. Yeßerday difpatches were received at the Admi ralty from Lord blusom. A report bas been fence very current in the bell informed circles, that the French fleet have made their efcape from Toulon, and that his Lordfkip's ditpatches contained an ac count of this event. We do not think the report improbable, u we know, from unquellionable autho rity, that the Toulon Fleet was ready for fee Come time ago, and only waiting for a favour. able moment to elude the vigilance of our gallant Commander in the Mediterranean. If they have aelually failed, Sicily, no doubt, is their declination, as the only thing which has hitherto prevented the French troops from entering Naples, has been an ap prehenfion, that if they did fo, the Britifb would im mediately take poffetlion of that ifland. If the French fhould be able to land there a few thoufand troops, they would find themfelves under no reftraint, and would relpat the neutrality of Naples as little as they have lately done that of Germany. If the arrell, trial, and condemnation of the Duke d'Eacetaw, by the orders of the Tyrant who now rules in France, has pot/need the fame Ilona indig nation in other independent States, which it has done here, the Flair Cossui. will have no reafon ulti mately to rejoice in the fuccef. of his diabolical ma china' inn. Such an outrage again( the general laws of civilized Europe, midi excite the irdignation of . every Sovereign; nor can their fi,lijed. fed indifferent to the quellion : If flee men are, with impunity, to be carried away by force from their habitations, and from the country which gives them proteaion, and to the laws of which they are fubjell, there is an end to all cider, to all fafety, to every thing worth con- tending f.r among civilized men. The Duke d'ENontels, who is the PrinceGurures, of whom the AfvoUnor talks, had refided at or near the iIiACC where he was arreßed for f.me time pan, on a property which he received from the Cardinal de KONA , Prince Bifhop of Stranuirgli, and part of whole sciritutics lay on the German fide of the Rhine. The Duke d'Escat.s, therefore, does not labour I under the furiicion 4:C haring been engaged in pl f rom hi s b e ing found fix near the French territories. 'A Prince of the Blood Royal of Frauce has thus been kidnapped from his adopted country, carried back to hit pative country, and there doomed to die.--by a man who was not born a Frisch fu►je&, and yet has the infnlcnce to treat the defeendants of Henry IV. as aliens, when the, an to be tobbed of their inheritance ; and fubjelts, when they are to be mar. dered. Such are the vkifGtudes of human affairs. The Duke d'ENoasaii is. we are a fraid we mutt fay wai, the moll accomplithed of the French Princes. He fought in his grandfather's corps during the war, and greatly difiinguifised himfeif. It was natural, indeed, that the Fu asr Cowsur. Mould be alarmed at his neighbourhood. The letters from Strafbargh, in the Paris Journals, take it for granted that application was made to the Esecroa of ISADIN. for his pertnifrion to enter kit 'territories. We doubt this very much. If any ap. plication had been made to the Exscroa of BLOM at leaft be ought to have been at liberty to fend the accufed out of his territory. He had no right to de. liver up the Duke d'Eroui as to the French Govern. mcnt, both becanfe the Duke was refiding on his own property, which by the plan of indemnities, it teems, had been annexed to the State of Baden, confequently entitled to proteSion, and becanfe the laws of hof. pitality are more tiered than the decrees of Confuls or Kings. The Duke d'Esomilia was not a felon and a criminal whom the laws of all eivilieed focieties deliver up to a common juftice. If the MAIMRAVII of Bass yielded to the fuggeftions of Bo AAAAA ra on this occafion, he is afoul murderer. What though ufurped greatnefs had folicited him as King JOHN did I WI tiwe what, my Friend, He lo a very finest in my way. And wberefoe'er tai, foot of mine ddb tread, He Sea before me. Daft than anderttand roe Thew art di; dopy% Yes, the Margrave of BADSM was hit keeper and pro tator too; and by every facred tie of duty—by every feeling of dignity and honour, he was bound to Ihut the door again ft the affatE nt ; or unable to defend the he Ihould have warned him to fly. He timid have Ihrun k at once from the partnerthipof a crime in which he was to flare the infamy without the profit. 'Tis true that the Margrave of Banta owes his Eleaoral crown to BONA PASTE, but be was not to thew his gra titude by confenting to this bloody deed. It i► impoP fable he Mould fo far forget the honour of a Prince, the humanity of a man, and the indefeafible rights of misfortune. It is impotable. The German Empire mull have been invaded by open force; and, when the thing was done, an infolent nodes of the fait was probably the only acknowledgment of the Eleaor's fovereignty. After this, we Amid not be furprifed that the Flair Couto z thould fend a regiment of dragoons to feize Mr. Setacza SMITH at Stutgard, and carry him to Paris to be hanged as a fpy. Some thing like it has been threatened. The Doke d'Es -0111111 never was a fubjea of Bo ; and no majority of the French could, by any ntetaphyfical or legal &lion, render him smenable to the Confulate. If he was praaifing againft Bo AAAAA Ti t it was natu ral that the latter fhould demand his removal from a neutral territory front which an attack was medi tated, but he could have no right to break every facred obligation of public law, in order to obtain potTelGon of the perfon of his rival. Boraraars has levelled himfelf to the rank to which he degrades Gammas. He is a low, bale kidnapper. The performance of fo vile an aa, is a proof of defperation. The nest' Cortut Teems to have loft all the qualities which at hat dazzled the vulgar with the taudry fplendour of generofity. He is poi. fried like Seim., by an evil fpirit, and Teems wholly defected by his better genius. Should the Duke d'Eso HISII be murdered in purfuance of the fentence patied on him, the people of France, weary of the prefent reftlefs and precarious Rate, will naturally be turned more thong!) , to the caufe of Royalty, from pity of the Royal Youth, his amiable qualities, and the truly tragic fpeaacle of " chance and change in human life" exhibited in his melancholy fate. By his blood the fentiment of loyalty will be revived and firengthened. That any of the powers of Europe will inllantly thew any public or fpirited refentment of tke outrage committed on the independence of all nations we doubt. The effect, however, will not be 1011. Wrath will be laid up againfl the day of wrath; aod, in the mean time, Bo AAAAA vs, though for the moment he may Teem more fecure by fuck deeds as this, will find, that he is but entering on the path of blond, in which to retreat, and to advance, equally leads to dellrudion. Yefterday morning his MAJESTY rode in the %toss's Riding Houle. Yeßerday, about one o'clock,the Loop Cniiacst.. snit had in audience of his Marirry. Soon after one o'clock her MayslTT, and the Princeffes ELIZA. IF TI4, MART. Sorties. and Ammo*. attended by Ladies C and SEDAN r, took an airing nn the Croydon Road The Dukes of Ksor and Cast. SE IDG I dined with her MAJESTY. Yellenlay, at half pall elaven o'clock. Si- LUCAS Parts had an interview with Mr. Auatara tom, atter attending hi% Melssrv. The At. ratetar are expelled to remove to Kew in the cour:c of a week. Yellerday the SWIDISII A•ipAssatai bad au midi ence of L'rd Flaw uuvar. NIGNTON, APRIL!. The fafhionable brilliance of the Steyse yefterday, indeed, reminded us of thofc fcenes of gaiety which invariably diftingnifh it in the bunting months of fummer and autumn: Among the numerous pedef. trians parading its furface in die courfe of the day, were Lord and Lady Passau, the Honourable Ge neral and Lady Lemnos, the Marchionds of Dowa sit lan, Lords DOWNSIIIILL and HASSOILD, Lard Haa. 'arrow, the Honourable Captain and Lady CAPI L. Sir Craalas Buitesti., Captain and Mrs. ham., and others of the bra confequence and rank. Lady lHalaaavor. we are lorry to notice. Rill continues very ferioufly indifpofed. The Suffer Militia had tome fewere prailice this morning op the Leyel. Lord Pitney gave the word of command. Many fpeftators of rapk *ere pterept. The indefatigable Artillery corp.* of Col. Mona* were yefterday exercifed on the Port. _ , Additional temporary barracks, for the aceommo dation of ope thoufand infantry 4 ate fpeedily tct be eteded at Lewus. A formidabil encampment in ColOole Bottom, is Rill fpoken of, as very wordy to take place. The Honourable Cara and Lady CAROLINA CA. PAL left tu t for a few p only, this morning. CM 'Mt STOIOI EZPIPX.TION. "N" Ti We ormstaT, Uhl rip iiragaio gees. 841114.0eglint* awe, We heye his as .pi.—it M psellsekii We s soill block up di* Wows with Stem ! Yelterday bis Royal fligitnefs the Doke of CIA. acmes 'arrived at his honk in the Stable Yard' st. James's, from Bak Park. Yeßerday his Grace the Date of Bsorogo arrived in town from Woburn, and her Grace from Putney, horn a Vial to Mrs. Foaores. The Earls of ()Risotto and sassoar arrived in tort from Ireland lafi week. The FALCON. jolt arrived at Spitbcad from WOR• foundland, is ordered to lie got ready for fea age* immediately. and the crew to be paid in advance.- The Navy Board have Oft gNen orders for twelve! !loops of war to be built with all potLbk difPatch. A letter from an Irifh Gentleman in Bourdeaux, dated February sB, fays. 66 I have been again arrea eil, but was extricated by,the exertions of Mr. Ls; (an American), who claimed me as his private Sc. eretary ; but yefterday freib orders have reach den Authorities commanding here. ordering the handle ment of every Britilk fubje& even thole who bad been long refidart Isere, married to French women. Many merchants had received permit ion about Mt months ago to remain I, but thefe orders have been revoked, in coal neon of the late movements it{ Paris. 1 ass yet dottbtEnl whether I iball k able to pals as an American. The fituation of commerce has been very mods declining fince the war, 112 4 about two monis. ago the effees were felt in the fail ure of the houfes afStrobell aad Martini here, for four, millions of livres, in confeinence of which Gave other \ honfes have flopped payment. The ftoppage of ' Perron and Lee, and of Perron and Bimii, and the banifhtnent of the faglifh merchants from hence, were. only wanted to crown the calamity aid it is ralwey fuppofed that every commereitl ' houfe will l ankrupt within Ga months, and the once Roo tithing commerce of this pin totally annihilated." Roret Cue aaataan Snear•Seroorsas.—Yefter day morning the Company of Royal Cumberland Sharp-Shooters, Captain Banta, were reviewed, for the Era time, by their Colonel, the Duke of Can a, at Chalk Farm, on the Rampant! Road. At ten o'clock. the bugle born annpunced the ap: proach of his Royal Highnefs, who, accompanied by his Aid de Camp, defcendcd from his coati, and en, tered the field on horfeback. He was received by Captain B at the head of the Company, with a Royal Salute The Corps then underwent a re. gular review, and performed all the field exercife it) ; cident to their difcipline, at which his Royal High ncfs was pleated to exprth the higheft (etiolation, andl frequently exclaimed. " incomparable well indeed.". The men afterwards, in the prefeace of his Royal Highnefs, fired at a target placed s to yards off, and. nn an average, every other man bit the bull's eye. Oa leaving the field, his Royal Highnefs unfortunately flipped. and fell into a ditch. from which he was aflifted by Captain B . 11 SPAM FlONT.—Montay morning the Firft &Tren t Lambeth, Streatham, Camberwell, and Tooting Vo lunteers, affembled on their different parades, to ar range the plan of a (ham fight and field day, as it was intimated tothem that her RoyallHiglthefs thePrincefa of Watts would honour them with her prefence.— It was determined that half of the Fir* Surrey, half of the Lambeth, and the whole of the Streatham Vo lunteers, mould compote the Englifis party ; and that the other half of the Surrey and Lambeth and the whole of the Camberwell and Tooting Volunteers, mould form the French. The parties, amounting to about Soo men each, fkirmithing dieifions, &c. hay ing been properly told off, the French marched firff and took polrefflon of Denmark Hill, near Dulwich. for which they contended with much (kill; but on the advance of the main body of the Englilh, they fled in all directions, and one company of the Lambeth regi ment was fo completely beret by the flankers of the advancing party, that a flag of truce was difpatched to the Englifh, requelling that they might be per• mitted to return to their party with all the honours of war, which being granted, the fight was retuned. —The village of Dulwich now became the fcene of sake for full two hours, during which freer firing. attempting to flank the enemy at the outikirte of the town, rallying the main body, charging with bayo. net, were all tried before the French could be driven from the flrong pofition they had taken. At length. however, they found it neceffary to beat their retreat to Sydenhsm Common, and took poffeifion of the hills. On the advance of the Englifla a general action commenced, which felled a cunfiderable time, and owing to the bong pofition of the French, it teemed impoffible to role them. To accomplifh this, fltir nsifhing parties, riflemen. and light infantry, were difpittehed in every direittion, to cover the advance of the main body of the Englifh, who, after expire. encir; many dif4culties, fueceeded IA obtaining vidury over the enemy. C Cl Cl ,