Star. — London, England, 1801-08-27 00:00:00

IMIW . 11511.4• • • LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'C' OCK: 3 per C. Conf. 6014—Reduced 614-4 per Cent. 814. New 5 per Cent. 96j—Ommum 9 lc. ?RICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 per Cent. Red. 604 3 per C. Cool 591 6o 59.1 4 per Cent. 801 per C. Navy 951 94.1 5 per C. I.oy. 96 Long Ann. 18 9-164 Short Ann. 31 India Bonds 7s. prem. Imp 3 per Cen.5914 Fxchequer Bills as. a 31. dif. Omnium 84 44 Conf. for Acc. 60-4 4 4 We this day received Paris Journals to the 22d inclufive, which however do not bring any impor tant intelligence. The war being ended with Portugal, the French troops are now withdrawing, and about to return to their own country. The Moniteur of the 23d contains a ♦ery long letter of five columns from Rear-Admiral LA- eansse, Captain General of Guadaloupe, to the Minifter of the Marine, dated Palais de la Capi tainerie, July 4th. In this letter Admiral LA. caoss e (peaks of an aEtion which took place on the 28th of May between la Cocarde Trench frigate, and the ANDROMEDA, Captain &AMOY, near Mariegalante, in which Captain BILADBY and 20 men are hated to have been killed. The veffel, however, was not taken, The remaining part of the letter relates to the (late of the French Colony of Guad-Joupe, and is accompanied with feveral Proclamations and Addreffes iffued by the Admi ral at that island. The Moniteur of the 24th, contains a copy of the Treaty of Friencifhip, Commerce, and Navi- gation, concluded between the KING of Sweats and the Ernesto& of RUSSIA, on the 13th of Match acii, and ratified at Landfcrona on the tith of April, and at Peterfburgh on the 11th of June. The principal articles of this Treaty were given in the STAR of the 18th intl. The French Tier, Confolidi have rifen confider ably. They were at 48 f. on the 23d intl. For other articles we refer our readers to the following extra6ts PARIS, AUGUST 24.—The KING and Queen of TUSCANY made their entrance into Florence on the 12th intl. It was General RIvAUD who re ceived the KING in that city; an immenfe con courfe filled the Ilreets, and feveral battalions of French grenadiers formed the Prince': guard of honour ; all the Nobility were affembleci at the Palace, to pay their refpeCts to them. There was a general illumination, a concert, and play; where ever the French Staff pallid, the people covered them with applaufcs, making the air refound with !bouts of Vive ref rmee Frorwaife ! EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ♦RTILLERY AT GUADALOUPA, DATED FORT LISERTE, JULY 3. T embarked at L'Orient on board the Cocarde frigate, on the 21ft of April, our parrage was 591 days. On the 2Sth of May, at four in the after-1 noon, being near Defirade, we were chaced by an . Englifh frigate, which we juftly concluded was got cruizing alone: la Cocarde being aftern, was attacked about ekven at night : we maintained a running fight, and with fo much effea, that we killed the Englith Captain and so men, while we 10 only five men, all gunners ferving one of the (larboard guns. soon after, la Corneille, which was a-head, lay to, to take part in the action, and fired fome fbots, but the enemy's frigate had got fome diftance from us. Next morning we obferved at fome diftance, a fhip i of 5o guns, and two other frigates, which chaced I us, and which had doubtlefs col up on hearing' the cannonade the preceding evening, but they were too late; we were near the harbour of Point a Pirre, where we anchored the 29th of May, at eight in the morning. The arrival of this divifion has produced the molt agreeable fenfation in this ifland. General, LACROSSE was received with enthaufm. Accla- mations and general illuminations plainly (hewed bow much the inhabitants of this country had need of a better order of things. My letter will be brought to you by La Cornelie. • Since we have been here, a fhip of fifty guns and fix frigates, have been continually on the coati. CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF •UEIICA. Tunis, July as. The Bev of TRIPOLI having declared war againfl the United States of America, our Government has been obliged to fend a fmall fquadron to pro %eft our commerce from the depredations' it is threatened with from that regency, and to encore our external tranquillity. We confequently mull in. form all the agents of the Powers in good amity with us, that Tripoli is now blockaded by the laid American fquadron, and that every vette] which Plan attempt to enter the laid port, will be punithed accord•ng to the law of nations, applicable in filch cafes. (Signed) W. •EATAN, Conful at Tunis. CALRIS, AUGUST 19.—We are quite in fpirits here, tincc the defeat of the Engli(h before Bost ), gne, on the night between the igth and ifith ; stn.), to add to our happincfs, the flotilla of Dun. ,jii k, cosefitting of forty fail, deftined to join that at Boulogne, lias entered this port : it paired in fight of a divifion of NbLSON'S fleet, and arrived in fafety: it will loon reach the place of its deflination. ANCONA, JULY 24.—The Englifh continue to infeft our coafls, and to blockade our ports. The French privateers can no longer put to fea, and le veral of them have been in great danger of being captured. Three of them which were returning with prizes, le Loup, le Brutus, and is Grand Diable, favcd themfelves with difficulty, by aban• doning their prizes. The Englifh blockade Sini. gaglia alfo ; they lately fired fome fliot at the mole, in purfuing a Venetian veffel which entered the port. A company of French grenadiers has been Ita tinned at a fmall village on the fea coafl, between this place and Sinigaglia, to prevent any attempt on the part of the enemy. This day the Englilh veffels came within can non Chat of our port, and fired feveral guns with out effea. It is believed that they have planned Tome enterpi ife, as they have fent for the remainder of their fleet which is at Tricfte. TAREN TO, AUGUST 3.—A few days ago two Engin frigates and two brigs, making part of a fquadron of twelve fail, teen at the entrance of the gulph of Tarcnto prcfented themfelves, formed in a line, as if intending to attack the ifland of St. Paul, fituated in the middle of the harbour, and which defends the entrance towards Tarento.— The French 'Rationed there faluted the Englifh with feveral cannon (hots, three of which reached them, and with feveral bombs. The enemy re tired without firing a (hot. SAL•MANCA, AVG. B.—l embrace the opportu nity of the prefent Courier to give you an account of the movement juft now effeeted by the French army : The head quarters of the army which had hitherto been at Ciudad-Rodrigb, hat. made a re trograde movement of fifteen leagues, and is now at this place : all the artillery has been ordered to proceed to Burgos, and a part of the troops are I now palling by Valladolid, Zamora, and Tora; in a word, a report is current here that the army is about to return to France, and every thing feems to (hew that this is the cafe. The hofpitals have been in part fuppretfed. Louis Botta partrE fets out for France': it is faid that he is going to drink the waters at Barrege. FLORENCE, Auaust 7.—Though the attentive preparations againft Porto-Ferrajo fill go on, the Marquis de VENTURA, Minifter Plenipotentiary, has thought proper to fend Captain Gur KAzzt, as Deputy, to notify to the inhabitants of that place, that Tufcany has been taken polteffion of in the name of his Majefty, the KING of ETRURIA, and to invite them to deliver it up to their new and lawful Sovereign. He promifes them an amnefly, and to reftore them to their refpeetive charges and employments. A French Officer of the Staff ac companies this Deputy; he is the bearer of a letter from General MURAT, containing the fame invita tion, and giving them the fame affurances. Thefe two perfonages will embark this day at Leghorn, on board a flag of truce. We wait with great anxi ety for the refult of this new and important Rep. The Government of Lucca has fent two Deputies to Parma, to compliment our Sovereign. LEGHORN, AUGUST 7.—Three hundred 'Poles have embarked for Porto-Ferrajo, and another Corps for Piombino. No new attack has been as yet made againll that place. We wait to. know the refult of the deputation which has been fent.— Several Englith (hips of war are fill cruizing on thefe coatis: they have fearched a great number of (hips laden with merchandize for this port, but fuffered them to continue their mute. The two French frigates which lately arrived here have not yet left us. A Cabinet Council was held yellerday morning at Lord HAWK E SIIVRY'S Office. It was attended by Mr. ADDINGTON, and molt of the Members of the Cabinet. His Royal Higlinefs the PRINCE of WALES has appointed Mr. Jrwaews to inftruft the Princefs CMARLOTTI in dancing. We obferve with much pleafure, the appoint ment of the Dust of Keay to the command of the two battalions of the Royals, vacant by the death of Lord ADAM GORDON ; as the exemplary conduL and Cervices of his Royal Highnefs de fervedly entitled him to fuch a mark of his Ma ils.' y's favour and approbation. Yefterday a Court of Direflors was held at the EaQ India Houle, when a great number of tenders were opened of (hips of various defcriptions, which were referred to the confideration of the Commit tee of Shipping. Letters for the feveral Prefiden cies by the (hips now under difpatch were figned. The Court adjourned at fix o'clock, when the Scru tineers of the annual Election dined Kith the Di retlors off the King's venifon. Mr. DAVID Sco;T is Paid to have religned the Prefidency of the Court of Diredors, on account of a difagreement between him and his brother Di reCtors, on the queftion of the propriety of permit ting country-built (hips to come to England with the produce of India, fin. the purpofe of transfer ring private property, which is now remitted home through the medium of foreign agents And (hip ping. This meafure was originally prorfed by Mr. Du DA% and ha All along been fupported by Mr. SCOTT, but thenuoutly oppLifed by the other Direatirs. itEr MOUTH, AUGUST 45. The ROYAL FAMILY returned from their aquatic ercurfion yeller day evening at fix o'clock, after (pending a very cheerful day. While their MA JESTIES were on the water, a tranfport hound to Egypt, with troops, was (poke to by the Princefs Augufta yacht. 1 he theatre was honoured with the pretence of the ROYAL FAMI LY, to fee The School for Scandal, and the entertainment of My Grandmother. After breakfall, their MAJESTIFs and the Prin. CeffeS AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, MARY, and SOPHIA, went to tea with a fine breeze, the wind blowing South Eaa. • Prince ADOLP H U s, attended by his Equerries in waiting, rode out on horfeback. Princefs AMELIA, accompanied by Lady NEALE, took an airing in a phaeton on the lands. A very fine brig was attempted to be launched here WI night, but failed. She went off exceeding well this morning. The Guard belonging to the Mail Coach fell from the box between Over tun and Blandford, by which accident he unfortunately broke his thigh in two places; he was left dangeroufly ill on the road. Among the new appointments of Prefident JEF FERSON, is that of a Conful General, at London. Mr. WILLIAMS, who was promoted to that office by Mr. ADAMS, and who has filled it for two years pall, is to be fuccerded by Mr. J. ERVING, fon of GFONGt ERVING, Efq. of George•(lrect, Hanover fquare. Mr. J. ERVING, whore father was an American Royalill, has refidcd much in America, and is a young gentleman of great talents and re fpe&ability. The Margravine of Aw sr/to+ has juil arrived at Dover, from Calais. As a fpecial At of Grace, the French allowed a palfage velfel to come over with her Serene Highnefs. Sir Jo HN GALLINI is arrived at Dover from the Continent. Mr. Mstrrts gave a grand dinner the firft day of the Races at York. Sir HARRY V. TEMPRST, and a long lift of fathion were prefent. Afieep was roalled whole for the /upper given on Tuefday night laf at Shrewfbury, in honour of the delivery ot Lady CATHERINS FOLMAR of a fon and heir. Scotland has attracted a large proportion of the fafhionable world this feafon. Mr. Hums, of Hume-wood, Member for the county of Wicklow, arrived at Glafgow on the 2I ft ; as did alfo the following Britifh Nobility and Gentry :—Lord and Lady DOUGLAS, Lord AVDLEY and Lady, Lord WALPOLE and Lady, General HAMILTON, the Hon. WILLIAM HILL, M. P. WILLIAM LLOYD, Efq. of Afton, CILITCHETT, Ll+ J. LOINS, Efq. &c. &c. Sir BENJAMIN and Lady DUNIAR have contri buted much to reftore the pleafure and agreeable fociety for which Newtonberry, in the county of Wexford, was fo diftingnifhed before the Rebel lion. Her Ladyfhip, (ince her arrival, has put all the neighbourhood in requifition, for Balls, Sup pers, and rural Fetes. The famous and admired Weeping Willow, planted by Por a, which has lately been felled to the ground, came from Spain, inclofing a prefent to the late Lady Su FFOLK, who came over with GEORGE IL and Queen CAILOLIFIR i and was a favourite of both, particularly fo of the KING. Mr. Poet was in company whin the covering was taken off the prefent : he obferved the pieces of Ricks appeared as if there was fome vegetation, and added, " Per haps they may produce fomething we have not in England." Under this idea he planted it in his garden, and it produced the Willow Tree that has given birth to.fo many others. An appropriate dfneedote.—ln May, 1745, the fmall ifland of Anguilla, in the Well Indies, was bravely defended by a handful of men againft 600 French ; on whole approach Governor Honos is Paid to have made the following laconic fpeech to his men : " Gentlemen, I'am an utter Rranger to all arid' military difcipline, fo have nothing to recommend to you but to load and fire as fall as you can, and Rind by one another in the defence of your Coun try ! So GOD blefs you!" 111 in-ration among the Tailors!—Two hundred and fifty in Berlin, who refufed to work without an in creafe of wages, have been feized and fent to prifon. We learn (lays the Leeds Intelligencer) that on Sa turday fenni&ht in the evening, in confequence of a requifition from Mr. BEAUMONT, one of his M a • jelly's Juftice s of th e P eace , t h e Huddersfield Vo lunteers were under arms, and marched fome dif tance from the town, there being reafon to ap prehend that a meeting of the difaffeded was about to be held ; reports to that etLd having been circulated, probably for the purpofe of afcer taining the effete; we are happy to find there was no occafion for the lei vices of the Volunteers, whole alertnefs and promptitude on the occafion were highly laudable, there being fcarcely one of the corps, within the found of the drum, that did not inftantly obey its fummons. The following is the fentence on Lieutenant-Co lonel Win -rat, on a charge exhibited againfl him by Capt. BERTIfi, of his Majelly's flip MALTA, for having made ufe of expreffions publicly on-th e Ma rine Parade, tending to create difcnntent in the minds of a party of marines then going to embark on board the MALTA, with the fervice upon which they were intended to be employed, and to the prejudice of good order and military difcipline Tie Court is of opinion, • 'Narver tendency the conver fation might have which palled between Litutenant-Coloi,el , ROBERT WINTER and Captain BERM, which by DO means h proved to the extent of the warrant, and which, neverthe- H's, might be good or bad, according to the fiyle or manner of Its delivery, u, by evidence adduced, it reached not the cars of the men, and was, confrquently , a cunverfation confined wholly to themf, Ives ; that LIEUICIIIIII-COIUDeI WINTER could !UTE no other (shied in view than the good of his Mauls - re. kr vi. r ; a fcntiment the Court more readily adopt, from the very hi,;h and Battering tefilmooy which the witnefies have brought towards the citabbilunent of this principle in the Lieutenant. " J.kllo=llllt-COior.Ci Roaccr WINTER it therefore fully acquitted of thr charge brought agatn4 him; the Court do therefore give him the mat honourable acquittal" The following Qt!eilions are propofed for difcuf• lion by the ROYAL SOCIETY Of COPENHAGEN; t. " Is oxygen, or any gas containing it, abfolutely neeeffaty to the growth and eapantion of the chick in the egg of the cm mon domeßic hen, or of any other fowl ?—Or, is it poffible for that growth and expanfion to take place in any gas unfit for refpiration ? and what is that gas ? z. " what influence has Eketrieity, pofitive or negative, on the Rate of the air: and on the capacity of the atm:l:here 11 take up water in the Rate of gas or vapour ? " For the beft anfwer to each of there queai ons will be given a prize of a gold medal, worth on.: hundred Danifh Crowns. The memoirs mull he fent in before the end of September, 180 z. " T. ➢UGCI." It is faid that the Emperor ALEXANDER has given a fpccial invitation to all the Ambaffadois now a: the Court of Peteriburgh, to aflift at the approaching coronation, at Moicow. That ea is at prefent filled with illuftrious foreigners from all parts of Europe, who expefl to find is the grand folemnity a fcerteoffpiendour to which there has been nothilig parallel fince the grand corona. tion of CATHARINE, which united whatever re. fined luxury or barbarian magnificence could play to captivate and pltafe the admiring fpx tators. The ELECTOR or BAVARIA lately publiflicd decree, which does equal honour to the policy aml the liberality of his government. He intimated that diverfity of religious principles fhouid form no obitacle to the enjoyment of all the rights of 66- zenthip throughout his dominions. Some bigotted magiftrates, whofe narrow fouls could not enter into the beneficent views of their fovereign, pro. tefted againfi this me:afore as contrary to the treaty of Wellphalia. The ELECTOR, however, treated their remonftrances with the contempt which they deferved, and in feveral inftances the edict has been catried into full effeet. The EMPEROR of GERMANY has granted liberty to all the Belgic Refugees now in his fervice to ab. fent themfelves for the fpace of twelve months, and has allowed them a penfion of fa months of that period. This interval- they are to employ in en deavours to procure leave to return to their coun try, and in the event of their being unfuccefsful, he has promifed to give them a fettlement in his here ditary domionions,and continue them in his fervice. lk letter lately received from Bengal rays, " The Rajah of GomUD has acknowledged himfelf tribu tary to the Poonah Mahratta. The Rajah, in confequence of the late proceedings in Delhi, has fortified, very Itrongly, the fortrefs of Gualior, which (lands on a 'tall rock, about four miles in length." We hear from Bengal, that an Englifhman, named MARTIN KELLY, who had deferted from a merchant (hip, and tied to the Andamans, where he has refided for eight or nine years, has at length come down to the fort, and is once more familiar with our people. Ho has lived with the natives ever fence, of whom little is known at prefent, and dreffes in all refpeas like them. He has fubmitted to the operation of being tattooed, and is (cored all over his face : in lift, it appears he has re nounced his country, and means (till to refide with thefe wandering people. The nand of Onrooft, near Batavia, which is Rated in letters received from the Eaft Indies to be taken by fome of our !hips, will prove a great lois to the Dutch in that quarter of the world, as it is at this place they careen their (hips. Theie is a dock for repairing veffels, with an arfenal, con taining a great quantity of naval ftores. A number of plants, called the Pimento, or the Allfpice of the Well Indies, are to be fent to Ben gal by one of the Eaft India Company's extra (hips now about to be difpatched. Tfiey are con figned to the care of Dr. Roxsuaaw, the Com pany's Botanical Superintendant in Bengal, at tile recommendation of Sir JOSEPH BANKS, in order to afcertain whether the climate of that part of the world is favourable to the growth of the plants, as has been flat:cf. The prefent Sovereign oPPerfia is devoting him felf with fuccefs to revive the trade of his empire, and has caufed feveral large . veffels to be built on the Cafpian and Perfian Seas: The alarm excited by the movements of the Rumens having ruhfided, the cities of Gangi and Tiflig, which had been nearly deferted, are again •in a flourifhing Rate ; and AGCAI MAHOMMED KHAN having retreated from Mafshad, the capital of Kohraffan, to Tab ran, tranquility is generally reftored. The EM PEROR, in compliment to the Englifh, has prohi bited the (ale of horfes throughout the Perfian do minions, for exportation, to any others than the Agents of the India Company. NEWSPAPERS.—The following account of the ' various publications in the world, is given in a German Paper: "There is hut one Paper puhlifh ed in Portugal, and that only appears three times a week ; it is concluded by a German, who takes care to exclude only the French news, while he ad mits thole of Madrid, Hamburgh, and London. In China there is only one Gazette a week, but it is a folio volume : it contains no foreign news, but merely the hihory of the events in the country. There is no joking in it about truth, for in 1726, one of the writers having thought proper to infert fume falfe intelligence, &c. &c. was condemned to lofe his head; the Emperor himrer fometimes con tributes to this Paper. In 1798, the prefent Em p:ror inferted a Funeral Oration, which he corn puled upon his Rredeceffor. It is a (ingular cumftance that Tome accounts once appeared in it, which it was thought improper to make known. That particular number was immediately cup prefer', and the people were forbid ever to (peak of it in future. There is a Paper publifhed in the Perfian language at Delhi, the capital of the Great Mogul. Some curious perfons have preferved co- pies of the paper of the 18th February, 1798 . , which is five Fr e n c h e ll s i n length. The intelli gence contained in it is of the moll abfurd nature, filch as that " the men who had the care of the oxen and honks have taken leave of his Highnefs the Great Mogul, for want of payment, and have fent their cattle to pafture, &c." The Englifh, who ought to love a paper fo many yards in 'corks have, however, iaftituted another paper in the Ea Indies." I