Star. — London, England, 1802-02-20 00:00:00

FLINCL PARIS, Is PLUMOSE, riBRUMILT •4. All the Entiillt journals have faid relative to the Preliminaries figned with the Porte, and its actual relations with France, is totally deftitute of foundation. Never were two nations animated with a more fincere define of renewing their an cient friendly relations, and re-elabliihing all the ties which for fo long a period bound them in mu tual aireeion.—planters. The Engliffi General CRADOCIts who tinted dor. ing the campaign in Egypt, arrived at Milan on the sd of February from Naples and Rome, with five of his Officers. They will return home through France. Fee. ti. —The liftnifter for Foreign Affairs has received from his MayitTY the Emperor of Ruffle, through M. Mimeos?, a fnuirbox ornamented with his portrait, and enriched with three fplen did ffiamonds. The Minifter for Foreign Affairs pretested to 14. Mascots, on the part of the Cater Coitus., a button and loop, ornamented with diamonds of the greatefi value. As Anseriaaa brig arrived at Oporto from Bal timon, reports, that in three degrees of latitude, ,and twenty-three of longitude, it perceived a dip of she like under French colours in allate of great Mink firing fignal rms. He vainly attempted Ilbr fermi boos to join the flip, the fea being too high, audits vied too boiderous. nom THE FARM PAPER& %emu Fes. g.—Tbe French Ambarador has frequent cOnArenees with our Miniller of State. A camp of go,noo nun will, in the enf_ning fixing, be formed m.the neighbourhood of Pre. buf 4te necefrariee of life and the articles of luxury are very dear. _ _ _ RETIESOII, FES. The Envoy of the neaflE of Cologne to the Diet has notified to his Col leagues, that the Chapter fitting at Arenfperg, had communicated to the Archduke ANTHONY Vic- Tee, 'the requell which had been made to him to tenon= his Epifcopal rights on the left bank of the Rhine. and that thatTrince had replied. that a The Treaty of Luneville ettablithed the inde- pendence of the Italian Republic : at the moment when that treaty was figned, this country was held by right of conqueft, and was ruled by a Pro vitory Government, entirely under the direaion of the General of the French army. It was neceffary to proceed to organize this country; and this was the objets of the Confulta at Lyons. Two kinds of organization were in our choice : the one of that fort which this country obtained in (70 — This might have been impofed by force, but would never have been tubmitted to by the inhabitants. It would have produced diforder and civil diften dons. It would have rendered the Cifalpine the center of anarchy, and confequently a perpetual objea of tenor to her neighbours. The fecond organisation nearly correponded to that propofed by the inhabitants, with a thong and central Go vernment. All the places have been eafily filled mit, for few countries abound in citizens fo rallied both by their information and their Kai- I ty. But the firft place, owing to circumaancesi was not fo eafily filled up. On this account, that line of conduit was followed, which the intereft of the country diftated, and, we may fay, the in terea, well enderttond ; of her neighbours. The Government is fixed at Milan. The principal laws necettary to fet the Conttudon in motion are framing . t and the country, without effort, and in a (bort time, will find itfelf completely organized. Thole who imagine that nations may be organized in one day, in one hour, fimply by &gelling a paper, mull find tomething extraordinary in ac complithhig fuch a meafure. But fah as are convinced that a people really poffeffes no Cant& intim except when it is effetlive, and that among all nations, the moments of organization are a terrible crifis, will readily be convinced that the Reps which the Confulta at Lyons has taken, are both wife and natural ; and whatever ma/ be faid to find more in its concluftons than is really to be found there, is but idle prating. But it may be Paid, that France combines to its thirty millions of inhabitants, the acceffion of influence attached to four millions which inhabit the Italian Republic! An alarm is excited on this aecount—an outcry againft the power and ambition of France. Let us compare the influence of France in different parts fine the Treaty of Luneville, with that whfcrrpotfeffed in 1788. In :788 France pot feffed a confid-ruble influence over the King of Sardinia, the King of Naples, and the Republic of Venice. Over the Republic of Venice, hecanfe the was, by her fituation, the enemy of France ; over the King of Naples, on account of the Fami ly Compaa; over the King of Sardinia—for be was bound to France, by his inability to defedd Savoy and Nice, by doable Alliances, and thil more, by the pretentious of Altana to Montferrat. Thus France pi:feted an influence in the fyitem of Europe over three great States, containing twelve millions of men At the prefent perio d, Venice belongs to the Emperor : with regard to Naples, the kamily Compact no longer exifts.— The Italian Republic mutt, therefore, compenfate both of thefe loges Thus France has made no addition to her influence. The cettion of Venice has given the Emperor a marked afcendant in the Adriatic, and over Italy ; and if' the Italian Re public languithed in diforganization—if the did not become the lure and faithful Ally of France, the political Rate of Europe would be at the difpo ig of Anthill; the equilibrium would be loft, and the refult of a war, during which we. have con quered in a hundred battles--.during which we have twice found peake under the walls of Vienna, would be to place us in a fituation worfe than be fore the war. France ought not to exercife an in. ordinate power over the neighbouring countries ; bat the ought carefully to watch over the quill beium, the true guardian of peace. In the tyttem of Germany, Muni, Turkey and Sweden united themfelves with France. Poland is no more : it has been employed to augment the power of our miehbours. Turkey, a prey to civil war, is . jutt able to retain the con fi ftenee neceffaiy to contunie to exift : the can no longer have any weight in' he affairs of Germany. The acquifitions which Ruffle has made in Poland 1 the degree of civilization and power to which that nate has attained in mo dern times, and time which changes every thing— all thefe circumkances have' excited the Defeen dents of Charles XII. to maintain the equillbrium ' of the Ude, but have left them no real power in the of of Germany. The accelfion which France hai acquired in the four Departments of the Rhine, does not compenfate the ucittfionr which her neighbours have acquired by the parti tion of Poland. This partition has rendered France a double Infer ; becaufe the has not only lien a natural Ally, of confiderable population, anaglated in the balance of Europe, but even gone to enlarge thofe whom the fhould have affif tid to keep within bounds. In the equilibrium of the affairs of Germany, France has rather han gained ; and if (he had been obliged to acqniefce in the partitions of Poland, without ph - as a conspenfation neither Belgium, nor *Departments of the Rhine, the woul d be, what the has always been, a Peeper red. We will not continue this parallel DOT demonftrate how ilitfcrent the titua- France was in t7Bd, and , after the Preli• of Londe% Tippoo Seib, like Poland, difappeared fro* the fyitem of India, and his territories have gone to incivate the immenfe pot. of the Englifh. No nation ever !hewed fo moderation as France. All that the con -lin war the has reftored at Peace. But it is the thould :aria lierfelf to certain limits, which the Government mutt fall into we.ik- Equilibrium in the 'affairs of Germany, equi 's in the affairs of Italy—fuch is the Mien) t the does nee tefire• to give the An Amount was preketed from the Conimiikaers of the Timms Navigation, of their Receipt, and Diiburfements tor the rear am. Counfel were heard at force length relative to the Scotch Appeal: John Scott, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, v. Alexander Brodie, of Carey fireet, London, To proceed again on Monday. Lord Vifcount Cuvrriva (of Ireland) was in troduced in full form (the Duke of NORFOLK at tending as Earl Marlhal, and Lord GWYDIR as Great Chamberlain) as Baron Meaner, on the demife of the late Lords fworn, and took his feat. His Lordlliip's fupporters were Lards WALIIND• HAM and ALYANLEY. Lord RlDieDeLi, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, (lase Sir jolts MITFORD, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons), was introduced with the like forma lities, fworn, and took his feat. His Lordllip's fupporters were Lords To nazow and Psznasi. Some routine, and private bufinefs, WAS tranf afted, in the courfe of which a Petition was pre fented on behalf of .George Hoar, the younger, Efq. for leave that a Bill might be brought in to diiTolve his marriage with Elizabeth Cooke, his now wife. The Loan Ounce:A.oa rote, and called the at tention of the Houfe to the fubjea of this Petition. ' He adverted to what bad paired on a formes. even- ' 1 ing on the fame fubjeoft, when, upon a propofition which he had the honour to fubmit to the Houfe, their Lordihips were induoed to poitpone the fur ther ciimfideration of the rabies% This he had done, on its having regularly come to the know ledge of the Houk that proceedings were had up on the Cafe in the Courts in Weitminfter Hall, where, on two occafions, a verdia againit the Pe titioner had_been given, and which were not, as they (hould be, duly fet forth in the Petition and Bill then before their Lordfhips.—His principal motive for propnfing to defer the confederation of the Cafe was, in order to give the Petitioner an opportunity, if fo advifed or inclined, not only of withdrawing his Petition and Bill, and of prefent- I ing a new Petition, in which there omillions be reitified, but of Rating thofe grounds on which he deemed himfelf entitled to the interpofition of the Legiflature in his behalf, in the way defired. In confequence of what had taken place, the Peti tioner, it appeared, bad withdrawn his Bill, and came forward with a new Petition,- which be then held in his hand, in which due notice was taken of the proceedings in the Courts in Wefminler Hall. It was, however, in reined to this true itatentent of the Cafe, he bad to call the ferious attention of their Lord thips in the prefent infiance. It would, he &revved, be the fiat enhance in which a Bill was ever before that Honk grounded on a cafe in which, on two different occafions (as a new trial was obtained) the verdiEts of Juries of the Country were againa the Petitioner. This w-s a ferious and important confederation ; however, by what he premifed, be did not propofe that their Lord flips ibould come to an immediate decifion upon the Cafe, but firongly to imprefs them with the idea, that it was one in refine) of which they (hould proceed with the utmoft deliberation ; and in the prefent infiance he would fubmit that the further confederation of the Petition should be poaponed, in order to enable their Lorain: to turn the c.sfe in their minds, and determine on what was proper to be done; and, in that view, he thought Ibis day fe'nnight would be an unobjetctioaable day. This propofal teeming to meet the concurrence of their Lordthips, the Noble and Learned Lord moved, " That this Petition be taken into farther confide- I ration on this day fe'nnight, and that the Lords be fummoned for that day," which was ordered - accordingly. CIVIL LIST. Lord Port -pass uncle an intimation to the Houfe, that on Monday be intended tn'move, that the Mr. WILLIAM Duaoasreferred to the notice he had g iven on a former day of a moti on f or leave to tiring in a •Bill to enable the Court of Di. retlors of the Eafl India Company to transfer the Prefidency of Bencoolen to Madras-4f it was ne: cefrary he could adduce many reafons in favour 'of the propriety of fuch a meafure, It might be tufficient to flare that it had originated with the Court of Direetors about twenty years ago, and their objed was to transfer the Prefidency, anO remove the refidence of four Affiftants and four Clerks to Madras. It had, however, been found that the India Company had not power to make this alteration without the affiltance of the Haute. Of late it bad become neceffary to lefeit the ex. penditure of the Eafl India Company's Ellablilli ment—fuch an °hied was molt clearable, and no means calculated to promote it ought to be pegleeted. It was to be ohferved, that on the Weflern fide of India, on the Malabar Coat, pepper was found in great abundance ; this Ikt. Clement of Beneoolen had originally been made with view to the Pepper Tiede only ;of late years the revenues of Bencoolen had amounted to 60001. and the eipences of the Settlement to zo,oool. leaving a balance of 13,c001. again* the Company. by rem ov i ng the Prefidency tO Madras there would be' an aftual faving tq di. Coinpany of goo& a firma turn certainly, cons. pared with thofe he Ihould have to detail on a fu. ture day, yet sufficient to induce the polite to adopt the Bill. For particular reatOns it would be inconvenient to abandon Bencoolen iltogether, as it would then be open to the occupancy of the firft comer; he ihould therefore move forleave to bring in a Bill tp anchorite the f.aft India Com pany to make Fort Marlborough and Fortlicilliain a fa Cory fubordinate to the Prefidency of Ma. dras, and to transfer the Prefidency of Bencoolen, and remove the refidence of the four Affulants and four Clerks to Fort St. ckorge. Glamapi. - Sir WILLIAM Y.usc moved, That the Petition prefented on behalf of the Merchants of Grenada, praying for relief, (hould be read. The Clerk having read it, the Hon. Member obferved, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had fuggelled the idea of referring the Petition to a Committee —of the propriety of fo doing it was impoffible for any one to entertain a doubt. He wondered the fuggeßion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad not been ailed upon ; as a Member of Pinta. ment, if he thought it had been delay in cord,. quence of the Petitioners not vrifhing to put their claims to the tett of an inquiry, he fliould be Aimed of having prefented it. He concluded by moving, That the Petition fhould be referred to a Committee..—Orderid. The fame Hon. Member prefe.nted the annual Petition on behalf of the Levant Company, pray. ing for relief.—Ordered to lie on the table. CONVOY DUTY. Mr. DZYT raid, a report had for fame time been in circulation that the Convoy Duty having ex pired in confequence of the fignature of the Pre liminaries of Peace, it was the intention of his Majefty's Minifters to continue the receipt of a fum equal to the produce of that tax by an addi. tio tat duty on Imports and Exports. He rofc to alk whether Government had any fuch inten tion ? The CHANICILLOR of the Excnagyaa Paid he could not help remarking the impropriety of that praetice which had of late increafed, of Gentle- men alking queftions publicly upon fubje&s which it would be more convenient and more proper to obtain information of privately. Be did not think any Member ought to alk publicly what was the intent of Government as to any particular tax. Certainly it would be premature to (late any thing till he fubmitted to the Houfe the belt mode his mind fuggefted to him of the railing the Ways and Means. If the Hon. Gentleman would adopt his recommendation, he would give him all the information he wifhed ; but be could not Laid/ him in anfwer to queftions put by him publicly in his place as a Member of the Houfe of Cow mons. Mr. DINT expreffed himfelf fatisfied with the reafons given by the Chancellor of the Excheque for declining to give him an anfwer. The Committee of Supply and Ways and Means were poftponed till Monday, to which day 0 UM JOhlllllll. 44mi ma+. ..... . •••••" •••••• ..1"*... , ..... Of t h e u 1 not having/yet aimed the reins of Government, lo g than i he could not give his opinion upon the Mika.— ac . uierce That be neverthelersthought it right to ads.* the : 1 . al Chapuo to follow the idvice of the Elicitor of May. the four / IL ence, and cosi& the *irks of the POP y eA t d,to The Mailer of the Ekiar of Treves has as- , isaineed to the Diet, that his Maier bad formally __,..7. • renewed an bin Metroportaa rights es the flit t r i gr r of i heb of the Rhine. _. , Binaries YIIAISCIIVOILT' Fes. ?rare are algal' th at hi h as &r em the • ' between the Cabinets of the Thnil- tal ii 43 4; levies, teens, sad Botlin. a elfig, has Oren Mons of refpeeiAt the famous ilasy °fasts*, psid by all muc h mo the yeah that navipte the Wefir. and which oe- (me w i n 1 eartoaed great (litotes at the Cotter Windt. ro p er I h 4 It is hid, that a propeation bas made to in- w i - , siesseify the bilbop of Lows. the pisprietor oil sets. ETti t !*' . ' this duty, by converting this Proteilant Dithqprie librioin in ‘V : " . ii ~ 4•- I) . alit , few t&bosEt of lidacin Olden- of name AMERICA Noa►oL;, jaa. s.—Papers received by the Two Brothers, a rrived Offerday from Port Repabli twin, are of as late a date as the 14th December. They contain very little intereffing, being full of Proclansations for the Laws of t& new ronaitu tion. Among force general remarks on the late confpiracy Of MOTU" TOUSSAINT OblifTeS, that 46 the cruel experience be has fufered has not been 'skies to him. for after the mifcondolt of General Moves, no officer doll be appointed in his Read as fecond in command until orders from the French Government." New You, Jaw. 13.—A Gentleman jull arrived at Baltimore, from the Welt Indies, brings intel ligence of the arrival there of a French fleet, con fitting of forty-five fail, with troops, Mined for Guadakupe. JAN. t B.—The following official notice has been publiffied here this day : • American Ccefebte, Hamm* Dec. as, *lO,. Sir—By an order Otte Govanneet of this Viand, pub- Med this day, the adusilion of Ansakan end aII other foreign ' yeah from any of its ports Is prohibited frau this date. Yon win be pealed, Sir. to give immediate peaky to this infor mation, for the Government of the maehants and trades of your diftridt. I remain, Sir, with refpoß, your met obedient fervent, (Signed) JOSS IWORTOII. " To the Codedor aide port of New Tort.* jam. ,9. —By a (hip from Jamaica, arrived at Norfolk, we learn that 6ve fail of the line of the Channel Beet had arrived there, and (even more were momently expelfted with 7oco troops. Bar • racks were preparing at Spnith town for 4000 men. It is fuppofed that they were to as in con cert with the French troops in the rednaion of St. Domingo. JAN. so.—A letter from Richmond, Virginia, to a Gentleman in Philadelphia, dated January to, isos, tap -44 We have been alarmed by an ez prefs which arrived from Peteriburgh laft Thurf day to the Governor of this place, with informa tion that the Negroes of the county of Notway bad rites in a body of five hundred, with an intent to defray all the Whites. Happfty they were dif covered in time, otherwife I fear we thould have been in a bad way. The troops and citizens are patrolling the sheets every night in this city.— Some of the confpkaton are taken; the rent are difperfed in the woods." The Senate of Penarylvania has rejefted, by large majority, a Refolution of the Hoare of De legates of that province for calling a Convention to amend the Confikation of that State. The Cenfus Ball had been agreed to by the Se nate, tf to g. At a debating foeiety in Baltimore, the follow ing queftion 'was lately ditculfeel, in the pretence of 550 perfons: Whether has WASNINOTON or BONAPARTE rendered nsoft fervice to 'mankind?" —Ayes, for Wasuisoron, 145.--Bonaraars, 5. MIRAN, Ti.. Members of the Con fnita at Lyons have arrived here. Their return has produced endutfiaßie fatisfiaion throughout the wink Italian Republic. At Milan, the city was illsminated for three fueceifive days. The Committee of the Government has publithed the following PROCLAMATION. view, we fee that Trance has gained no new U. ceffion of influence: fhe has only maintained her former rank." Vance, JAN. 30.--ore learn from Corfu, that the new Coollitution of that Mind has been orga nised, and received the approbation orthe Impe rial Courts. The principal articles are as follows : " The fovereiginy refides in art Ariftecrafic Coma of 240 1 Members, of whom silo arc claftal from the towns and vii. l lags, and too from the city of the raft, 4o are taken from the cif' of the Nobles, ao from the Proprietor or Artifts, 14 from ths Merchants, and Ix from the Artifans. The Maim- i hers of that Coundi AA he called and fhaft not be ca -1 pable af .bdng roused. When my one dies, the Council &AI replace him from the fame data. All the AMU, onviaed of any public crime, or of having fold or bought votes, Aall forfi it their feats. A Tribunal of Cenfure than be appointed to witch over the cambia of the ArilU. The Ex-Venetian and Muni. cipal Laws (ball remain In force till the new Code be digeited by the Council. It Daft name, from its own body, three Se nators, who (hall concert with thofc of the other tiles, fuch menfures as relate to the whole Republic, The Council Ihall chock the Members of the Govern ment, the Magiftrado and Tribunals, who 11011 remain in their funtliont only one year. The Council Sall only refolve by a plurality of voicei. It (hail fa on boot a force neeeffary for the fafety of tile lee. Religion, Caftans, and property Anil be religMuily repotted, except the Eedefiattical pairs:Suns, which kali be falska to the exigencies of the public intereft. The Ariftoaatic Council may modify the Coalkitution. add to, or take away from Come articles ; but it bas no right to change any of its prineUla, of which We have given an extract " Saints. Jaw. 17.--r Alarming reports arc be ginning to be rpread rerpeeing Belgrade. It is Paid that a confiderable body of 4rnauts are ap proaching that city, and have already arrived at Proferefze. On the other hand, we are allured that PASSWAII oc:toy has made movements to batten the affiflance of the Janifaries. The latter, inciead of becoming more firmly united at the ap proach of the danger which threatens them, are agitated by dillruff and difcord. They hive ar relied MOLLAIL EFFENDI, a man who was highly effeented among them, and who was particularly concerned in the airaffination of the Pacha. CON STAIITIIIOPLE, Dec. 280.—The CAP IT4II PACVA has made a precut to the GRAND &roam& of 40 fuperb Arabian horfes, and given a number betides to the principal Officers of the Seraglio. PitItLIAMENTART PRQCZEDINGS. HOUSE 'OF LORDS, FRIDAY, PEE. 19. Mr. Axxxonnsa brought up the WeWafter FM Sale, the Southern Whale Eatery, and the x,toopcoL Exchequer Loan EON, from the Commons. One Private BM wasicsusbt up by 81r agoacc Ssucc. 1111;1011. for that day, be poliponed to that 4ay fe'nnight ; which, he teemed to fay, he was induced by the confideration of the other Houfe of Parliament having ordered the various Papers and Accounts adverted to in the Melrage to be referred to the confideration of a SeleEt Committee—a line of pro. ceeding which he fhould propofe to be adopted on the part of their Lordfhips. The Bills recently brought up from the Com mons were then read a firii time, and the Houfe adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A motion was nude for adding the Members for Middle. fez, Surrey, and the Borough of Southwark, to the Committee on the Coal Trade. Tke Report of the Committee on the Expiring Laws was brought up, and ordered to be reecival on Monday. The Petition of Mr. Payne Edwards for relief refpeding the Loan in x 795, was upon niotlon ordered to be referred to a Committee. The CIANC ►t.LOR of the EICRPAOtt brought up certain Accounts relating to his PA. jelly's Civil Lilt, which were re ferred to the Committee appointed to examine the Accounts refpeding his Majefty's Civil Lift. The American Tremor of Amity and Commerce Bill was read a lira, ordered to be read a fecond time on Wednefday, and in the mean time to be printed. Mr. VANSITTART moved that there Ihould be laid before the Houle -an Account of the Value of the Cinnamon and Call Ligua, and Hides, imported during the three years end ing the sth of January, ; and an Account of the Du ties on the lathe articles, for the fame period, dillinguifhint each year. _ _ Mi. SUAW I. moved for an Account of the grofs amount of the Duties on Paper. Pa,lebosrd, and hilliboard, for the three qua rten of the year ending the sth of April, ; 794. Alto for an Account of the graft amount of the Duties uu Crown, Tingle Demy, ►loyal, and Imperial, diftinguithing the number of bundles, and the duties for each for the fame period. Atli, an Account of the Dutics on Paper, Palteboard, and Millimard, for the year ending the stb of July, 5796, to the quarter ending the sth of April, aor, ineltdjye. Alfo for a funilar account to the quarter ending the soh of January, apa. INDIA.