Star. — London, England, 1802-03-27 00:00:00

Tears ending sth July - LONDON. 3 per C. COl4. 69i it I I Imp. Ann. tri 9-16 S per Crnt. Ann. toiii Excheq. Bills Imp. 3 per C. 60; Conf. for Acc. 693 ri r it- BOOKSF.LLERS AND PkINTERS PE i'MON. The ltep , re of the Committee on the Bookfel kr. a-.. 1 Piiiiters ::as been printed. The ~A,,ation the th trade has declined lince the lag d u ty imp , fed un paper iiv wei i , ,hr, at aid per F ound, is pi need by the evidence of fit teen intelli gent b;)okiellers and printers. In feveral cafes t h ere i v ,t 5 a falling oif of one hair. One incii v:dti,tl alone did taut conceive the trade afieded by the On the fecond allegation, that the new duty is the caufe, a number ot evidence,. were examined, and the Committee report ; that the encreafed rice of printing paper having been attributed to the diry of zid. per lb involed in April, Sot," a nimiSer of witneffes were examined on this point, as to the furcharges caufed by the duty on the pro grefs of the article to the Bookfeller. On this head the Committee fay : Th.. G T ...4411mm or surcharges on the duty inward as it paffts from the Paper Makers to the Stationers, and front the btationeis to the Bookfrliert and to the Printers, having been implicated in the above evidence, with the operation of the Dm.: in ruling the price of printing paper and of books, to the prtj::dicc of their fide at home and Abroad-o , e occaftonal va lue of rags, and inereafed price of labour, as conducing to fuch inereafc of price, became the fubjed of further siamina tiom The refult of this examination is, that rags fluc tuated in price. Relative to wages and the price of work, feveral w i tne tr e s were examined, who Rated that there has been no advance. Refpeeling other circumnances affeding the Trade, a greater number of Bookfellerc (hued, that from the efTeEt of the tax, Englifh Books were ac tually printed at variow. parts on the Continent much cheaper than in England. '1 hr opinions and declarations of the Paper Makers, Station er, and Bookfcllcrs (with but one exception) generally coincide in the ~Ii ration of Mr. Evans, that a repeal or alterAtion in the duty per weight of printing paper, is indifpcnfible to the fupport or recovery of rh:t trade. But hi this they appear (by the evidence of Meffrs. Parry, Rees, llonft•r, and others) to take the contingent charges ac cruing on the duty from furcharges by the Paper Makers, WholLfale Stationers, and eventual diminution in number of co pies taken from he fame letting of types and profs, to avoid rifle and dirctt lots from a greater dock of paper fo charged being on baud, as combined with and ncceffarUy conneded in operation with and belonging to the duty. Upon the whole it feemed to be the opinion of the et idencc examined, that it was impoffible to make any diffstence in the duty of writing and printing paper that would not give great facility for chtating the revenue. F ro m an Eftima:e in the Report of the Com mittee of the Houfe of Comn - mns appointed to con. 6der the etfeets of the hilt additional Duty on Pa. per, it appears that Printing Papers cf 211b.weight per team, have advanced, from 1793 to 18ot, a period of tight years, 14s. per ream, viz, from 142. to 28s. which is 100 per cent. of which 6s. i tel. is aanal duty. Whereas, Writing Papers of 241 h. weight per ream, have only advanced ifs. per ream , via. from 26%. to 415. which is not quite 6o per cent. and of which ss. flid. is aftual duty. And the Ellimate is calculated on a Writing Pa per in common ufe for account books, three pounds per ream heavier than the Printing Demy. Had the Papers been of equal weight, it would have reduced the advance on Writing Papers to 55 per cent. which then would have been a left advance, during the fame period, than Printing Papers, of 45 per cent. By this Report it appears that theGrofs Amount of the Duty on Paper, Palle-Board, and Milled Boards, during the latt (even years, vas as follows: C. I. i. 117 9 6 . 167,263 7 6} 1797 - 155.220 6it 1798 - 160,506 14 el 1799 • 154,598 3 3 doo . 162.0 4 3 17 1 Three (tarter" ending stlt April tBct - 162,965 13 4 Groh Amount for Three (ZLiartert of a Year,/ 57803 15 m ending stk January des - SATURDAY, MARCH 27. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Cool 69H—for April ace. 69111 5 per Cent. Ann. 104. piticz OF STOCIS YLSTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Hamburgh 32 4 24 U. Madrid 39i effec. I Venice —. Altana 32 5 i 4 U. BElboa I Lifbon 694 Cadiz 31 i in paper Leghorn s2 i Oporto 654 I)itto A effedive Naples 45 I Dublin 12 Madrid 3:+ in paper Genua 481 Venice, 58 Livres Picub Effedive pr. C. Red. Duir.m, MARCH 1.3.-1 per C. Gee. Dcb. 99j. Ezdunge—Dublin on Louden s ti. This day Paris Journals, one day later than thole received yeflerday, arrived in town. The Morti :eur contains official details refpeeting St. Domingo. The intelligence Rates, that one of Toussairr's Generals had received a check, and that the French General had fent notice to To uss Atirr that unlefs thoald forrender within four days, after the expiration of that term he fhould be pro. claimed :t rebel to the French Republic. General CiIItISTAPNE, as was Rated in the non-official pa pers, had been obliged to retreat to the Grand &mean. The intellig ~ •nee received yetterday from Dover, of the Definitive Treaty having been figned, &c. he. turns nut as we expefted. Our letters from Dover received this morning inform us, that the iollead of having come from France, is no::• believed, to have been forwarded from the Stock Exchange ! Mr. JOHNFoNe the Mcfrengcr, arrived this day with difpatehes from Marqu►s CORNWALLIS; but he had a long pallitge of 24 hours, and brought no_ thing o!'fittlicient importance to male a Meeting of the Cabinet nceelrary. HIGHLAND SOCIETY. LaR Tuefday the t Hieland Society heed tLei• monthly meeting at t Shakelpeare Tavern, Lot M'DONALD in the chair. Fourteen of the Officer, of the 4.2 d Regiment, who diitingui tiled thernfelve , in the memorable battle before Alexandria on the sift of March, dined with the Society by invita tion. They appeared in their uniforms, wearin;.; the gold medal prefented to theni by the GRA%II SEIGNIOR. Many other Officers of diitinaion wet, prefent, particularly Colonel 14AC Lion, Comman dant oldie Princefs Charlotte of Wales's Reginfent of Highlanders. An elegant dinner was ferved at half-pall fix o'clock, during which feveral National Airs on the pipe were performed by the Pipers to the So ciety, and a few Pebrachs, with wonderful ulle and execution, by BUCHANAN, Piper-Major to the 42d Regiment. After dinner feveral loyal and appropriate toans were given in the Gaelic language, and many plain tive and martial Gaelic Songs were fung, of which one in particular (the War Song of the ancient Highlanders), with great tulle, animation, and exprelEon, by Sir JOHN MAC PHIIRSON excited a peculiar degree of applauf c and enthu fiafm. The latter Gentleman, after many rounds of toalts had been given (too numerous to be here recited) propofcd the Princefs Charlotte of Wales's Regi ment of Highlanders, which was received by the honours of three times three; and for which Colo nel MACLEOD, of Calbeck, the Commander of that Corps, in a fhort fpeech, thanked the Society. The greaten harmony and conviviality prevailed during the evening. Gow's Band of Intl r omental Mutic, MURPHY, the Irifh Piper, together with the vocal ( trains of DIGNUM, and other public Singers, added much to the general fentvity. On the complimentary toast to the 42d Regi ment, and the two other Highland Corps on the Egyptian Service having been given, the follow. ing Stanza, the extempore compolition of a Mem ber prefent, was introduced by Mr. DIGNUM, in the chara&erinc Air of—" The Garb of Old Gaul." The Pillar of Pompey and fam'd Pyramids. Have witneUd our valour anti triumphant deeds; Th' Invincible Standard from Frenchmen we bore, In the Land of :`..e Beys the Laurels we wore : For fuch the fire of Highlanders when brought into the field, That BONAPART elk Invincible. mutt pains or mutt )6141. Well bravely fight like Heroes bold for honour and applaufe. And defy the Conful and the World to alter our Laws. The KIND left town yefterday morning for Windfor. The gym and Panics:us followed at noon for the fame place. Mr. Du,: DA: art ived in town on Thurfday night from Scotland. Tuefday the annual eleftion for Officers of the Board of Agriculture took place, when the Right Hon. Lord CARRIa carom was re-eledled Prefident of the Board for the year enfuing. THE ORATORIO.—The beautiful Serenata of ifei: and Galatea drew a numerous audience laft night to Covent Garden Theatre. Bawn's Benefit, on Thurfday, is fuppofed to have produced upwards of 2000 guineas. Her Royal Highncfs the Pr inccfs of WALES was at the Opera on Thurfday night. Their MAJESTIES apprehending from the vaft concourfe of carriages going to the Opera Houfe the night before laft, at Madame BARTZ'S benefit, there might be lime obltruetion in their !mirage, took the unufual route of St. James's flreet and Piccadilly on their way to Covent• Garden Theatre. The crowd at Barr rs's benefit was yeflerday the fubjeft of general convet fation. But a circumstance more (angular has occurred at a former benefit at the Opera Houfe. About the year 1780, for the benefit of the elder VESTRIS, foi-difant le Dieu de l danfe, a very important debate in both Hodes of Parliament was abfolutely deferred, on account of the great curiofity excited on the occaficn. On Saturday the soth inflant, the court of Ez. chequer in Ireland finally pronounced judgment in the long conceited caufe for a confiderable eft ate in the counties of Kildare and Meath, in which the late Sir DUKE GITFARD, Bart. wan plaintiff, and Sir . 101111 HURT, of Hortland, in the county of Kildare, Bart. was defendant, by unanimon fl y difmiffing the plaintiff's bill, &c. The original proceedings commenced as long ago as the year 1752, and this final adjudication has occupied the attention of the Court particularly theft lift three terms, by which a poffeffion of above half a cen tury is at length confirmed to the HORT family . KOTZEBUE s narrative of his late exile into Si beria, by order of the Emperor PAUL, is the moil interetling and affeCting performance that has ever iffued from the pith. In point of entertainment it equals the famous romance of Rolinfon Crufor, or any exifting work of imagination, wl:ile it more powerfully interefts the feelings and arrefts the at tention, by poffeffing the fterling powers of truth, and by containing a prodigious variety of new and genuine information. The late Sir Tosv BUTLER, an Irifh Counfellor of great eminence, was remarkable for his brogue, his wit, his henetly, and his flovenly appearance. One day in Court, the Judge, who was thought not to have hcen very poi:dome, fah' to h:rii— " Sir Tosv, your flirt is very dirty." " True, my Lord," filial Sir Tory, holding up both tifis, " but I have dean herds !" On Tuefday fe'nn:ght, a Gentleman, who is an officer in the gari ;tin, of Fermoy, walked from the King's Arms in that town, to Scragg's Hotel in Cork, and back again to the :pot a•here he fet out, in eight hours and ten minutes. As the ground gone over was not leis than 3?. 1 , , frith, or 41 Eng lifh miles he mutt have wanted at the rate of full five Englifh miles an how, on a very rugged road. A curious couple of Dwarfs have het:a prefented to the French Miniller of the Home Department. The male is t 9 years old, and only 26 inches high ; the young lady, who is ola beautiful Kyle of crm. tenance, and 22 years old, measures 25 inchc.:.— She plays inimitably on the piano, and dances with canficlerable grace and agihty.-.-Courier sir .I.eadrtf. ST. DOMINGO. Ti.ere are in St. Domingo more than 25::,0oo ()es, of whom too,ooo are capable of bearing arr,s, and more than 40,0u0 are aaually armed at uretent. General LECLLUC has either been de ceived hinifelf, or wilhed to deceive his army and France, when h,: fdd, That 'l' ovzSAINT had only ten or twelve half.brigades. In cafe of necellity he can arm altogether more than Bo,coo blacks. The French will eafily potrefs tliemlclvcs of all die maritime towns, and even the plains along the coat, but thefe only conflitute a fmali part of St. Domingo. The plain of the Cul de Sac, which is the largeft, is only twenty miles in extent. In feveral places, as at L'Arcahaye, the plain is not more than three or four miles in lice. In polfeffing On:trill:lves of the plains and the maritime towns, the French have three objects in view :--ta, To procure themfelves provilions of every kind. of which they !land much in want :-2dly. To pro. tal the fugar plantations and render them pro. dustive (thofe of coffee are in the mountains) : and 3dly, To intercept all maritime communica tion between ToussaisT and the United States; from whence he procures his warlike (lores. TouSSAINT has on his fide the moll powerful of all allies, the climate—lt will do mole for hint than go,ooo foldiers. The heat of the day and the damps of the night, from which the French cannot help themielves from being fuccellively e,,- pofed, will, probably, bervcen this and the month of June, cut off more than ttiehali of the 33,000 foldiers fent to St. Domingo, art! 'h: set. i. they will moft ftrongly feel wilt he ti.at ot phy ficians, medicines, and proper hofpital stores. It is impoffible that the fleet could have can ied all thefe in a fufficient quantity, and they will find it impoffible to fupply the deficiency on the Ifot. The mortality which the heat, tl.r damps, the rains, and intemperance generally produce amongft European foldiers in St. Domingo is loch, that out of twenty battalions which were fent thither in t 7SB, not more than goo men ever returned to Europe. It is in click points that the great fii perioi ity of the Negroes confilts. Aceuttonted to the Climate, which is healthy for them, having no need of clothes, and living on pulfe or fruits, they will preferve their numbers, their force, their health, and their activity, while all thefe will daily diminith on the fide of the French. The Negroes have another great advantage, that of being able to avoid the kind of warfare molt fuitable to the French, while thefe cannot avoid that moft agreeable to the Blacks. Thefe laft, re tired into their defiles and mountains, will always have the choice of the place and the time where and when they with to fight—they will make a con tinual petty warfare of furprizes, ambufcades, and ftratagems ; the kind of war, in fliert, which the Spartans made againft the Helotes, which the Cor ficans made agaitul the French, and the Maroons made in Jamalca—but none of thefe had, in the fame degree, the advantage of ground which the Blacks have in St. Domingo ; the mountains of that ifland extending more than 500 miles from earl to weft, and prctenting infurmountable obltacles to any armed body that may attempt to penetrate them. The Blacks then will carry on a war which may be extended on the greateft poffible scale, and with all the advantages which climate, phytical conilitution, and ground can give them. 'Before thefe advantages mull fink the only ones which die French poffefs, thole of filperiority of taaics, of difcipline, and military refources. The bill to repeal the American Judicatory Code has been carried, after a long conteft in the Senate of the United States, by a majority of t 6 to 15, and is now before the Houfe of Reprefentatives. A letter has been received in town, by a Gentle man belonging to the Cuflum-houfe, from a Perfon on his way home from Corfu, by which we are informed, that he left his Majelty's (hip Aotx- COVET, Captain RITES; SOLEBAY, Captain Dom- DAS ; and CHAMPION, Captain the Right Hon. Lord WILLIAM STUART, at that Ifland, on the 24th January all well. On Wednefday laff, died at Hawkefbuty, in Gloucetterfhire, in the 97th year of his age,tbe Re t Potter Cole, M. A. of an ancient and refpedable family of that name, formerly of Entione, in the county of Oxford : he was Vicar of Hawkeibury 73 years, and patted his long life in the conttant and uniform practice of every Chriftian duty. It is remarkable of this excellent man, that he was never abfent from his Parilh for the fpace of one month, at any one time, and that he never ad vanced the Rent of the Tithes of any of his Pari fhioners during his long incumbency. He was a friend to feveral Public Charities t and his private donations were a perpetual fourcc of comfort to the Widow and the Fatherlefs. The Poor of hjs own and the neighbouring Parifhes were almoft daily partakers of his Bounty, particularly dui ing the late years of fcarcity, and have great cattle deeply to deplore the lofs of their Benefador. By the death of HENRY, Earl Fs ocoNaFRG. the Lord Lieutenancy and Cultos Rotulorum of the North Riding of York(hire becomes vacant. His Lordfhip was alfo one of the Lords of his Majefty's Bed-chamber. He was twice married—by CHAR LOTTE, filler to Lord Vifcnunt MELBOURNE, his lira wife, he had four daughters, Lady CHAR LOTTE WYNN, Lady ANNE WOMBWELL, ELIZA RE T ti, Countefs of LUCAN, now living, and Lady IIARRIET, who died in her infancy. He married, kcondly, JANE, Clad} daughter of the late JOHN Clii SHYRE, Efq. of Benington, Herts, by whom he has left no Kite. The Earldom, therefore, be comes extinct ; but the titles of Vifcount and Baron FAUCONEFEG devolve on ROWL 1N1) BELASY.E, Llq. His Lordihip was in the fifty-eighth year of his are. Ent; LUSH STATE LOTTERY.—Twenty-third Day —No. 35,023, a Prize of toool.—No. 42,306, a Prize of tool.—Nos. 23,565, 59,846, and 53,382, Prizes of 501. The Ticket Ni. 35,023, in :he preftnt State Lot tery, drawn this day a Prize of scoot. was 101.1 and tegilt , ,red at DRU mr4oND% cad Eliabliacd Otlice, N.P. C 3, Fleet 'beet—Where Ticke:s and Shares, ill great variety of Numbers, will continuo on fade duitng the drawing. NiIUTICAL LIGE:VC E. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND South. ARRIVED ,Ol; F. I buiihll, 1 • W:turford, O ifamburgh, o Frct.ch, Liflon 0 FALMOUTH, MARCH 23. Arrived, the American liiip Garzzs, Blll6liS, 11 um the Gitlph of Carnb.:ia, in the E.i:l Indies, laden with cott.,n and piece fiords, is.r market: Ilie has been 7o days from th: C.!]% of Good Hope. Alfo the Icy Anna, Captain TompKiss, from Norfolk, in 32 days, with flour and wheat for this port. MARCH 24.—Arrived, the Kr sr C; OR G F paCZCZ, YESCOV: SE, in eight da7s:rorn Lilbon, the PRINCE ADOLF' NUS packet, with the mail In: England, was expeeed to fail from thence on the 211 k inilant. Paled this port for London, the flip An.i:rfon, Captain MAT THLW MOP.r.LY, EOM au Wci In dies, all well. Sailed the PRINCF. or WAt.rs packet. TODD, for Lithon ; and the QL.rl..r,i CHARLOTTE packet, MUDGE, for Leeward Iflands; the latter with mails the t7th inflant, and the former with the ene of the zGtL inflant. His MA:Cay P S fhins AMETHY:tIr . and FiscAan, are lying in Ca:rick Road , , and will proceed on a entire thr firft favourable wind. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26. This day tailed the SEVFRN, WILLIAM BLACK• woora, for Chicheiter. _ Carne into harbour the Apot.to frigate; Cna was towed in by 3o boats, being light wind. His Majclty's Chip PALLAS is relcaled from qua rantine. FROM LLOYD's LIST. DEAL, MARCH 26.—Arrived and failed for the River the Nuttwell, CHRISTALL, florn Came down the Lucy Maria, —, for and remains.—Wind South. GRAVESEND, MARCH 26.--P:tit by the Ruby, POLLAT, from Tobago, Amand.i, —, from atarante ; Juno, CLattKE, from Savannah ; Ruby, SHARP, from Peterfburgh ; Jonge Metta, (l' from Lifbon ; Aretimfa, RAIHSDF from Dema rata ; Ilabella, GREEN, from Cintricilon ; and Cattle, ANDERSON, from Martinique.—Sailed the Walhington, iNivE, for Virginia ; for New Yolk ; Conftantia, RANG F. it ; and jon:;e \Vollge, —, for Havre dc Grace. LANCASTER, MARCH 24. Arrived the Badon, —, from hence at Bar badoes ; the Fortitude, Favra ; and Parasol:, HART, from hence at Demerara ; the Ardet.r, THOMPSON, front hence at Stu inam; the Ari Ado-, JOHNSON, from Demerara, and the Mary Ann, DTZT, from Trinidad, at Greenock. LIVERPOOL, MARCH as. The Earl of Liverpool, Hu from hence Gallinas, 16th of December, acconntf , :rt by Capt. Loci', jolt going off; LA Fraterni!e, Sro-r r ; ;:rd Lord Nelfon, ARMSTRONG, from Africa :it B a. does, and gone to Demerara : the Lord Duncan, AIKIN, from hence to Jamaica, was fps ke with one the 23d of January in lat. 17. 6. N. long. st. 30. W. We have the pleaftere to (late that advke was received yetlerday of the fife arrival of Ole fh'p Nu TWELL, Captain JOHN CRIsTALL, firm laden with rice. The following information i s from the Nurv..ELL :—The SUFFOLK 711a71 of 11-1 r left the Cape on the loth or t ith of lannary, with the following (hips und e r convo y : . 1711 1 .iam Pitt, Arran, country (hip; Scarborough, Sir jo', l Borlafe Warren, Sir Edward Hamilton, Gillwell, and the Duke of Kent, whaler. The above Ihip; arrived at on the zit} or 2:d, and :'ailed from thence as fvliows : Scarborough and William Pitt, , )n the 31 11 of ja. nuary ; Sir John Borlafe Warren, !;ir Hamilton, Giilwell, and Duke of Kent, tit of February. The NUTWELL arrived f•IT Helena 3 tit of January, and parted company 6 or 7 degrees to the Imithward of the Line—Ships left at the Cape on the igth of January : his Ma. jelly's (hips LANCASTER ; HINDOSTAN ; DIOMEDE ; JUPITER ; Ihip Duke of Clarence; his Nla;..iiy's brigs EUPHROSYNE ; EXPE A 174 ENT ; and CA LEDO. NlAN.—Ships left at Sr. Helena : Lord Teign mouth, from England ; his Wjelly's Ihip S u F . rout was to fill from thence on the 4th of Feb. in company with the Arran. TELEGRA PH packct, from England, bound to China, arrived the 3 tlt of January and was to fail of the t It of February. An account received from Calcutta, by the LORD THURLOW, rays, " On the ill of July, the Noxsucu, on her paffage to China, fdl in with a boat, having 63 Chinefe on board nearly Ilarved to (lead'. Thefe unfortunate beings had belontzed I to a large Chinefe junk that had been wrecked on the 15th of Cie preceding month, on 1:rou rocks off the ifland of Ilainan. The NONsICH re ceived them on board, and landed them at a fmall village on the coati of Cambodia." We are concerned to announce. by a recent letter from Canton, that the Ihip Jos:AT:4AS Dt.'N cAm, in proceeding through Mitt's Straits. was attacked by eight large canoes is a mind daring manner, who difcharged a heavy fliglit of ail ov , at the Ihip, by which four n,en were da-i7erc:ffly wounded, two of whom died a few (la% i n a hate of delirium, owing to the arrows hying ri• limed. This obliged the Do Ncf.si to dikharge a heavy fire of mulquetry, when fcveral of the na tives were killed and the canoes beat oft: Some .)f the aricws meaftired five feet in length. Tile canoes were from Go to 70 feet long. carrying 40 nun in cub, of a very favage appearance. • ■k'