Star. — London, England, 1801-10-09 00:00:00

to dc• 4ir irtiE isnLimNAßms. 7 - 77' • • 'ltse Telegraph at the Admiralty was at work s o n this forenoon, and the communication was confklently alerted to be, that a French Envoy had reached Dover this morning tit four o'clock, and incnght with him the Preliminaries of Peace,which hJel been ratified by the French Government, on Sunday hill the 4th infant. Recollecting with how much confidence a report was circulated two days ago, we can not vouch for the truth of the preknt, though we think it extremely probable. If corred, the En %oy or other Pcrfon arrived may be momentarily cxpated to reach town. The following doggrel rhymes were Ruck up yederday near the Stock Exchange Huila—Gratified; Bsaas—A/orti d; • NATION-". • • fitd; Axt.sr—Poried ALL—EkariAct we are told there were tome policies done in the City yefierday refpating the conclnfion of the definitive Peace. Twenty guineas were taken to return a hundred if the definitive Peace wasfigned before the tit of January next. Policies were yetterday done that the three per cents. (hall not be 80, on or before the ttt of De cember. Since the figning of Preliminaries was announ ced, bulimia in the City has been in tome degree at a Rand; merchants thipping goods particularly have been at a lots how to att. By the convoy du ty ad, it is exprefsly enaded that after the fign ing of Preliminaries it (hall not be necefary to ad vance that duty; at the fame time theCommiffion ers of the Caftans have received no direftions to di4venfe with the payment of the convoy einty, 10 that thole who !hip off their goods mutt either rivanee the duties, or take their chance of the Inconvenience of the delay, till the figning of the Preliminaries is officially and formally announced. We are perfnaded that the difpofition of his Ma jely's confidential fervants Will lead them to turn the .r thoughts moil ftrioully to give every po - fible relief to the middling and lower defog of tisciety, who have borne the prefum of the war with to much Fortitude and patience ; and that peace will not only bring with it fecurity from a foreign ene my and relief from heavy but-them, but reitore to them the comforts of life. It is upon this principle, we flionld prefume, that Government has very humanely &reified the bounties on corn to be continued to an indefinite period. We have no doubt that the price of meat, particularly of beef, will alto loon find its proper reduition by the peace; but in order to have tome check over that, as well as to provide for a nu merous data of men, to whofe perfeverance and bravery the country is fo much indebted, we fug sett whether it might not be ufeful to employ a very large number of &amen during the enfuing *inter, in the fiffieries, by w hich: the Metropolis and its environs might be fupplied with 66 at a price within the (cope of every perlbn's ability to purchafet a. ed ad lr of r., The Hon. ARCHIBALD Dotrotae. whore misfor tune we fame time ago mentioned by the burning of his double-barrelled gnu, near Aberdeen, when on a (booting party, has fince been fo dangeroufly indifpofed as to render an amputation by the writ} indipenfably necefary. After the firft difkgree able accident, he loft one of his fingers; but a mortification rapidly advancing, his friends were glad to fave a valuable life by the expedient now defcribed. Lord DOUGLAS, the father, was greatly alarmed on the aecafion. In one of the !aft French Papers we find a cu rious abfirad of a difertation by the late Bifh ip of Antwerp, in which be endeavours to (hew, that at the end of every two hundred years nations expe perience political Revolutions. and are dittingutfh ed by remarkable events. This idea be proceeds to apply, in s neculiar manner, to the events of the French hiftory. In this detail he begins by alluding to the French Revolution at the end of the ifith century, the circurofkances of which being Alp univcrfally k nown , h e • it unnecefrary mi. :atly to defc r ib e . Th e mot i ons exc i te d at Inc end of the t 6 t h by the ligious difputcs of that period, form the fecrind sera in his narration, and in fuppo rt of his po fi tion he adverts to all the proofs of tumult and revolution which fo particularly. tharaderized that age, aid more efpecially the kingdom of France. In remounting to an earlier period, he finds that at the conclu6on of the 14tb, during the reign of Charles VI. the Empire was dreadfully torn by inteftine fallow, and Coon af ter on the point of experiencing an Englifh inva finn. Nothing Ws than a kind of miracle fared it from deftruhitan under Charles Vll.'s admini illation. The termination of the isth prefents an all their activity the crufades, which fo power fully contributed to change the whole afpeCk of Europe, and from whence firft (prang thole rays 4 light which (erred to dd . * the clouds of izoo. ;Ince and barbarifm. He beholds at the ante of the loth the Carlovingian race driven from their throne, and HUGH Carer, the founder of a new dynafty, advancing to kite on the Govern ment. In fpeaking of this event, he remarks as a eiroomflance not unworthy of notice, that the lati of his fuccefors was driven from his throne, and jPerillied under the Rroke of the guillotine, in she fame year of the centur that his anceftor ac quired i t . Th e B t h beheld t he extended conqueßs of C/4•RLIMAGNI, and the formation of an em pire which bad no parallel lance the extinction of Roman greatnefs. In the 6th he defcribes the Mayors of the Palace, as beginning to ufurp the royal autho r ity, an d leaving only a Ihadow in the hands of their fovereigns. In the 4th he fixes the attention of his reader, on thetriumphs ofCLovas, and the eftablifhment of the French monarchy.— This coincidence is certainly finking, and cannot 6 A to give rife to curious refiedions in minds prone t' , ( peculate on the vicifritudes of human affairs. , • , ' . s NAUTICAL IN•7ELLIOSNOB. • , MAILS THIS DAY. I .-WIND E. S. E. AIIITVED. out: Hamb . nret, OR. a, o b Dublin, I i Waterford, ad. 5 , I• i Donolhadee, Oft. 4, s, o I Guerafey, Odt. 5, o I jerky, oft. 6, • .—.-.. YAIM6ITTIL OCTOBEI L Arrived the KIMG Gamic s packet, Capt. Vt. y am, from Cuxhaven,. with the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails of the ad inliant.—Th e paffengers by this packet are, Mr. B AZ &LIT , Mr. Et tts, ut. tow, and Mr. Moasmoi, King's Meffenger, with difpatche's from the Court of Vienna.—The DIANA packet, Capt. STEWAIT, is detained by contrary wind.—Arrived from a cruize, the GEORGE, Di twascr, and PHOENIX cutters, and la Jstouss and VIDZTTE brigs. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 8. Arrived the Nox cutter, with a convoy from the Downs; the Mary, Jowrs for Halifax ; and the Hope, tranfport, WM, for Egypt. Arrived alfo this afternoon, the BEAVER, of r 6 guns, from a cruize. Came into Harbour, the Sr. ANTOINE. SHEERNESS, OCTOBER S. Arrived the CYGNITT cutter, Lieut. WALKER, from the Downs.—Sailed the INSPECTOR and ANN Hoops, with the Baltic and Elbe convoys.—Sailcd the THUNDER'', of 74 guns, Captain-nut's, to the Great Nog. The GALLANT gun-brig is to proceed to Chatham to be paid oft No altera tion has yet taken place at this port, in confequence of the Peace, and every exertion is making to get the (hips ready for fea as loon as poflible.—Remain at the Nore his Majefty's Guard Ship ZEALAND, of 64 guns, Vice AdmiralGammt,with the THU/I rma, of 74 guns, Blues and DAPHNE frigates, ALCESTE, la RAISON, and SERAPIS, Floating Batteries, BOREAS Slop Ship, and EXPERIMENT fire veffel, EMPRESS MARY, fore flip t with the CRASH, SWINGER and WRANGLER, gun brigs, and the DOL►HIN and CYGNETT cutters—At the Lit tle Nore the PINCHER and Sr • , gun-brigs. FROM LLOYDS LIST. DIAL, OCTOBER B.—Sailed the Newts!! frigate, andCaacz az gun veal, on a cruize. Wind S.S.W. blows hard. GRA, [SEND, OCTOBER B.—PAffed by, the Ber wick, NELsom ; Fortuna, —; Elizabeth, BACK• MAR j and Eolus, NaLson, from Norway ; Alli• anee, KIRKMAN, from Gottenbur • gh ; Alexander, Gums, from Quebec ; Ann, TAYLOR, from Archangel ; John, Citorz, from Lilbon ; Ranger, from Tencriffe ; Oak, Las, from Riga; and Marianne, —, from Peterfburgh.—Sailed the Gambrevian, ; and Twe Gebroders, —, for Hamburgh ; Marquis of Kildare, —, for Waterford; Anna Margretta, Tmose Plow ; Drie Gefußers, —, for Antwerp ; Maria Char lotte, SCHMIDT, for Stockholm ; Jonge Johannes, Josoß, for Amllerdam ; Jonge Obel, OLIR ; and Elizabeth, PETERS, for Rotterdam. ARRIVED. At Dub Key, from Jamaica. At Llverpool—Surannalt. Gladitone, froth Jamaica; and Portland, Pollard, 'from New York. At Danarara—Amazon, —, from Africa. In the Weft Indies—Crefcent, —; Choice, —; Kate, 000 d; and Henry, Watt, from Africa. At New York—Liberty, Woodham ; Belvidere, Rots ; Ame rican, Shelley; and Perfeveranee, Allen, from Liverpool. At Cowei--Patil Sienna, from Baltimore. At Rotterdam—Sifters, Charlton, from Charleiton. The Mercury, RICHAaOS, of London, was on the 28th ult. taken by the gun-boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, and carried into Algefiras. She de fended herfelf near three hours ag ainll a French fchooner and five gun-boats, and did not ftrike . dntil her fore- top maft was ( hot away, her m a i n and wizen malls (hot through, and her fails and rigging much cut, befides feveral (hots through the hull. The fchooner had feveral men killed and wounded. The ST. ANTOINA irt SAN ANTONIO) made a prefent to the French y the Kim° of Srsis, is a very fine Chip, perfealy !bond, and fails very well; the was one of the 'hips that lay in the harbour of Fermi at the time of our aasmorable expedition to that place. Yeflerday morning, 7.46 friliassfro was exe cuted on board the Gtzessoaa frigate, at Spit head, purfuant to his fentence on Thurfday lafl, tor endeavouring to excite mutiny on board the Paid (hip. Thomas Oxford, who was fentenced to be executed alto, has been pardoned. 1 1 An account lately received from Bengal informs us, that an attempt has been made to explore that vaR track of country lying between Berar and Orif fa. None of the inhabitants, however, would com municate with our party. 'Though feveral villages were approached with all poffible precaution to avoid giving alarm, neverthelefs the Europeans were perceived, and the inhabitants fled away with their wives and, children, running through the I openings of the Jungle, and skipping from lock to rock, with all the atkivity of the animals that haunt them. They appeared to be too wild to give any hopes of familiarizing them with us, and the very fowls appeared almoll as wild as the people to whom they belonged. Government, it is laid, do not intend to explore farther. The people of Jay pour are in the fame (late of nature. A kind of rice, we underhand, has been lately imported from the Southern countries below the Chants into Bengal, remarkable for the fine odour it diffufes when boiled. It is produced in feveral parts of Hindofian, but particularly in the moun tainous countries of Ramgtur. **l/2471t85. tovami-Gainar.,—Late bight a new piece in titled Integrity, aid called a cosass6, was performed at the above Theaßt for the firfL time, and though altogether defedive in its drimatic - fixuAture, was very favourably receiv e d.—lt is, w e und er ttancl, a hafky tranflation from the German, and, like molt of the Rage produ&ions of that nation, it is overloaded with trite fentiment : however, the genial moral of the piece Is fo good, that we thould make no hefitationinbeftowing our unquali. fled praife upon the labours of the author, had he properly brought the bufinefs of his fcenes to that conclufion which, though eafily anticipated, is at prefent left only to be figured by the imagi• nation of the audience. By writing a new fifth ad, this defed, we thin, may be eafily repaired, and the play be rendered an acceptable women,. The principal character is that of a Lawyer refu ting to plead any other than jolt mires; of courfe the man is poor, and liable to oppreffiont—two great difficulties which, however, his virtue, or re filer his good fortune, furmounts, but how, is not fatisfaCtorily made out.—ln a word we confider the play but as a vehicle brought forward to exhi• bit the talents of young Simons, who appeared la fl night for the firft time before a London audi ence as the confc ientious Lawyer andwhich he per formed, after the manner of hi: pat-tinder fcheol, with confiderable effed.—His voice is weak, and in tone much like that of his uncle,little capable of mo lula- Lion ; but his action is unembarraffed,andhisgeneral manner of fpeaking corred.—Coav, from Drury lane, alto appeared in the fame piece to much ad vantage; the character given to him is that of a dark defigning villain, but very badly delineated by the Author.—The ref of the dramatis perform were re fpedably fhpported by Hatter JOHNSTON, Mug. RAY, BRUNTON, Mrs. H. JOHNSTON, Mrs. Mar. TOCIES, MVII.I•Y, MILS CH•PIMAt4,&C. Integrity was preceded by a very indifferent Pro logue by Mumma, end followed by an Epilogue by Mrs.MATTocas and MifeMuzitAy, containing feveral good points, one of the mna acceptable of which was an illufion to Peace and Plenty. DituaT-LANE.--The Opera of A-taxer/in was laft night brought fore and at this Theatre, for the purpofe of introducing Mrs. BiLtiscirox in the charther of Mandan.. It has been got up, in the theatric_phrafe, with all appropriate fplendour the dreffes and decorations sere all dfitingnithed by oriental magnificence. Mrs. Bit Liaciroti rung as ufual, that is to fay, with exquilite (kill, and wi.h powers beyond all precedent. Her voice has the greateß richnefs of nature, joined to the fine R culti vation of art. Kr LLY gave to Artdana all the force that belongs to the charaCter. Mrs. MOUNTAIN in Arlares acquitted herfelf very refpeCtably, and had a defervect applaufe, though flan:ling by the fide of talents In much fuperior. DiGNLIIN'S Ar taxerxes was of the fame defcription. Mrs. BLAND gave the Songs of Srmira with much fweetnefs and taße, and was rapturoufly applauded. The pro ceilion in the third Aft with the kettle-drums, Ste. had a fine effect, and fpeaks highly for the atten tion of the Proprietors, The houfe was bril.iantly filled ; the halt price produced an overflow. Matta.and the ASHLLYS are gone to a Mufie Meeting at Bury. Of courfe the Suffolk fi,lks will have both vocal and infirsmsenialmoic in perfeflior. Saturday a failing match took plat! at' Bi igh ton ; the contending parties were Stockings and Jafper; two to one on Jafper at flailing. But it was won with cafe by Stockings catrying a greater profs of fail. The Loan Maros has iffued a Proclamation againa letting off piftols, guns, fquihs, crackess, &c. in the !trees, when the General Illumination for the Peace takes place. At the next Houghton Meeting at Newmarket, Mr. F. NEALE's Humbug. 811.414. is matched againtl Lord SACKVILLS'S Dia Andrew,, 7(1. t ilb. B. C. wogs. ; and Mr. F. NEst.s's Hiptona, 8(1. 71b. is matched againft Mr. Wm &Ley's VivakG, 711. 71b. Two•yr old Co.irfe, wogs. h. ft. At the firil Spring Meeting, at Newmarket, next year, Sir C. 131.111BURY'S Eleanor, 8(1. 71b. is matched againit Mr. WILSON'S hr. c. by roan: Ecfipli, darn by High. her, out of Elm': clam, two yrs old, 71}. R. M. aoogs. h. ft. E&anor won the Derby at the laft Eprom. PLOUGHING MATCH •T BUCIEWOOD PARIC.—On the 2d inilant, a ploughing match took _place, at the feat of Sir JOHN SEARIGHT, Bart. in Hertford fhire. It was a match made between Sir JOHN Si sal° NT, and Mr. Colic, of Holkham, in Norfolk, for two hundred guineas. Sir JOHN'S bet was, that a Norfolk plough with two honks could not plough a be n acre ne o in f H a (i i rl a rd n (di; g ike round e e i 1.1 thatten is hours, te b to e fit for towing. Mr. CORE accepted the challenge, and undertook to find both men and borfes. Ac cordingly, on Friday they Railed : the bets ran ten to one again(' Norfolk ; but, notwithftand ing the odds, the ground was turned up, to the no fmall aftonilhment of all prefent. The company prefent exceeded two hundred perfons ; among whom were Sir JOHN SEEIRIGHT, Sir JOHN DASH WOOD KING, Mr. DORRIIX, Mr. COTTON, Mr. MAILTIN, Mr. KING, Mr. STANLEY, Mr. CRAW. LEY, &c. A difpute has fence arifen relative to Mr. Coxes winning, the Hertfordfhire farmers :Oat, the ground is not fit to be (owed. The mat ter at prefent mils to be fettled by arbitration. DANCING.—An inflitution to cultivate and im prove the graces necelfary to form and embellilh the riling generation, mull ever flonrill in a coun try fo juilly famed for the liberality of its inhabi tants: it is therefore with pleafure we hear the aca• demy for faihionable dancing, under the direc tion of Mr. Horrlti s, continues open, for the im provement of his numerous friends ; and that no credit whatever is due to a report, that he had re moved it from Coach-makers ball, Foller-lane, bu• continues to infirat Ladies and Gentlemen in all the modern qualifications, recsi• lite for the &ft alremblies. We moll therefore with fuccefs to fo refpeaahle a feminary of improve ment, which has long received the patronage of the firft circles in the fallsionable world. - 4 , Cont•litiikAm . . • CORN EXCNASCIE, SEPT 9. Althottgp we had but a trzfling quantity of Eng nth Wheat Viere fine Monday, the tales have been heavy (except for prime picked &triples for feed), at a reduttion of near ss. per quarter. The car goes of Rullian and Peterfburgh, which havelately arrived, are alfo extremely doll, and look down wards. We had a rather large fupply of old and new Beanras well as Barley and Oats, fince our laft advice, which art alto cheaper, astral' be ob lerved by reference to our currency beneath--Male is on the decline-Rye. without alteration, as are Hog Peafe and Barley. Tares are plentiful and quite adrug-Carra way and Coriander brifk articles-Rape-feed un altered-Flour ss. lower. N. B. The dulnef which we noticed onMonday Rill prevails in the Corn trade altogether. Englifh Wheat, 48s. 665. 755. per quarter. Foreign Red Wheat, 44.5. 68s. Fine Dantzic Wheat, 765. Rye, 34.5. 38s. Barley, 305. 365.-Beit (New) 445 . Malt, 50s. 6os. 725. Oats, 225. 28S. 363. Horfe Beans, (New) 385. 425.-Old 445. Tick Beans, (New) 3os. 345.-Old 425. Hug Peafc, 4os. to 4.65. Boilers, 665. 7Os. Tares, ss. to 6s. per bufhel. F10ur,.655. to 7os. per lack. American ditto, 3os. to 4os, per barrel. CarraWay Seed; 335. to 425. per cwt. Coriander, 25e. to 28s. per cwt. Rape Seed, 381. to 431. per laft. At Kendal market, laft Saturday, the following were the average prices. -Belt American and other wheat flour , 3s. gd. per ft one of t6 l b.-oats (74 Winche ft er bufhels) 285.-oatmeal U. Indian meal, is. rod. • Latt week a cabbage was cut in the new garden of J. C. CURWEN, Efq. near Workington, which w:ighed 3606. and tneafitred 4 feet a inc h Friday lad, a very large monk-fillt, nearly five feet in length, was caught in a troller, near the niolth of Whitebaven harbour.--‘Tbe monk.filit is a fpecics of the and flat ; its rhape is between that of the long an flat cartilaginous kind of fifhes. It is covered with a mucous lubttance, but under it tl:a (kin is harfb, and round enough to terve for the polilhing of wood or ivory. It is of a brownifh gray, on the back and fides, and white under the belly; the head flatted and roundilb, and the mouth large, and opening at the extremity of the fnout. ' In the mouth are three rows of teeth, 18 in each row.—A great number of flounders were found in its belly.—lt was purchafed and fent to the Mu feum at Kendal. So ne beautiful flowering (drubs have been d;f cov2red in the country of Corair, in the Eaft des, of a very fingular kind, which require much b it.inical knowledge to determine the clafs in the vegetable kingdom to which they belong. Some fe.ds have however been procured, in order that• tide lovely offsprings of the wildernefs may he trmsferred to adorn the gardens of the Company's fettlements. A letter from Calcutta fays, " The /vfahrattas ha ,, e at hilt tui ned their thoughts towards the com fort of their peafantry, who have been kept in the moR ab ed Italy of dependance, and thereby pre vented from engaging in any tumult, or canting any trouble to Government. Coin being very fparingly circulated among them, they derive lit. tie more from their manual labour than the habi tation in which they live, and the fond which is neceffary to fullain them, their fuperfluity being always taken away. The Brinjarry encounters difficulties that, in the defcription of them, appear to be infuperable, and fullers hardatips which his indefatigable induary and lupe' ior patience could alone enable him to fuflain." The manufcripts colleted at Paris are already producing the expei:d advantages to the literary word. The learned ProfclTor, bcuw syssa, of Straits(ug, known by bis excellent edition of Polybius, is now preparing one of Athenrus, from a manufcript brought from Italy, by order of the FIRST , CONSUI. This manufcript, which had for ages lain buried in a library at Venice, has been incontetlibly proved to be the °idea ex. Ming copy of this valuable work ; and to hive been the original of all the others. There has been no edition of Athenrus fince that of Cafaubon. Tuefday night, as one of the mail coaches w rs going along Wimbledon Common, the =cal,. of the coachman and guard were drawn to the fide of the road, by the lamentable cries of a mln whom they found lying on his back, weltering in his blood, through his own imprudence, ficepitil on the (hafts of a four-wheeled waggon, belong. ing to a Mr. Turner, going to Guildford; both the near wheels went over his body, yet he wa s able to fpeak. The honks went on, and aboo half a mile from the man they were found en•an : ,- led in a ditch. The mail coach called at th e Bald Stag, near the Common, to apprifc people there of the accident, not being able to remove the man, with any fafety, into the coach: perfons were immediately fent to his relief, but it was not ex pefted that he would furvive the accident many hours. On Saturd. old, WAS fonni from Finden. (trolled, on tl home at Fin 3, ries, and being poled en have iivc crying. , nade the the dilcovery r lay re'nnight a child, about four years ' 1 nd dead in a wood, a Ilvirt dillance i i . Th..- little innocent, it feems, had the Wedne day preceding, from its Jen, into .he above wood, after ber. ii ig unable to find its way out, is fur. e died fir want of food, or of excel. Diligent fearch had, in vain, been child f-om the time it was mitred till a the body.