Star. — London, England, 1802-06-30 00:00:00

LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3*. rata 01P STOCKS THIS PAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 ptT Cent. Confcli for Inly 7 cif+ italleCd 741-4 per C. Conf. 90 89r—New s per Cent. tos _ OmWm. par. COURSE OF EXCHANGE- Molten:lam, to t7l U. Cadiz 30 elk& theta, at fight to z c Madrid 34 Parlr Rotterdam, to tB4 U. Ditto 361 effect. Hamburg)' 32 321 U. Bilbea 36 die& Altana 33 4 U. WWII 30 Cadiz 34 Ia plc, Naples 44 "%fib,' day's date, 13 ts- . Dittos IX as lie. lteurdeauz 111. as t Ile. Venice, spi Lima Piceli Effect lal pet IL Ital. COM 471 Lams 67 Oporto 671 Palermo 9c pence per or. Dublin ill The Gazette of laft night contains * new com. :nunieation from Lord St.Httsms, at Peterlburgh, dated 3d of June, Rating fnortly the fubilance of the Converfation between M. Kovscavilv, the Ruffian Minifter, and M. Srantsca, the Swedifh Minifter, refpelting the acceflion of Sweden to the Convention of the 17th of June, :Sot. It will be recolleEted that the Court of Sweden was dilfatic -sed with the terms of a note on the fubjedt from Lord 'Sr. Flimsy's, in a former Gazette. TI truth is, that Sweden has acceded to the Conven t:on very relultantly; but if Count KOTSCHUSEY'S argument be just, the Convention of the 17th June ,now the Code between the Northern Powers, which is all that Lord Sr. Hecate, aliened. How lung that Code may be adhered to, is quite another que ft ion. The Gazette contains alto the Proclamation for calling a new Parliament. The eleCtions, there fore, will commence without delay. The fame official Paper contains silo a confir mation of the KING of SARDINIA'S refignation of his Crown to his brother the Duke d'Aosr ; and of the acceffion of the OTTOMAN PORTS to the Treaty of Amiens. According to private letters from Paris, the general opinion there is, that there will be no G. beral Commercial Treaty with this country. The prejudices of the French znanufaaurers are irre concilable to it. The regulations that may be espefted from the prefent negociations will be con fined to the admifflon of fuch ankles of the pro. duce and manufaanres of this country, as are leas calculated to compete with the infant and feeble efforts of the French martufafturers. We fhould Imagine that the duties inzpofed by the French Government on fuch goods as they permit, will be fach as will gist fufficient advantage to open trade as will defeat fmuggling. . If certain articles are altogether prohibited, or loaded with prohlbitiob duties, they will infallibrbe finuggkd. Thus the prohibition will be nugatory and the Cullom duties would be loft. At preftnt the Miniffer of the In- I terior:in France, CHAPTAL, dediCates much of his attention to the encouragement of manufaftures. Private letters from Paris fay, that the changes in the French Couftitution, fo much talked of, will be officially announced on the t4th . of July, when &marmite will be invefted Chief ConM for life. It it fiiid the military will be particular ly confuhed refpelting them, prior to that event. BONAPARTS continues to provide for his Gene rals. General OuDinor, a good officer, is juft appointed Governor of Louiftana. The Eat! of Motu, on a tour to the North, ar rived at Edinburgh on Friday laft. Mr. and Mrs. HAMILTON Ns:ars-v arrived in England, lately from Naples. Mr. Nesetv T has ►rought over a large colledioa of curiofities from Turkey and Rome. Captain Goanos, who arrived a few days ago from Malta, has brought over with him various kinds of Egyptian cattle, !beep, oxen, /cc. The Marquis and Marchionefs of HIRT roas in tend remaining in town till Auguß. Sir CAR MART and Lady HAGOIRSTOIIt and the Mifs HAW IRSTOfiI s left town yeaerday for their feat in Yorkl ire. Government have ordered the little Barracks at Bopeep, near Winchelfea, and thole of Winehel- ' lea, to be fold by authors. The Barracks at Northam, and other places along the coat), will alto thortly come to the Mummer. In confequente of the reduftion of the teth Light Dragoons, Rationed at Brighton, between forty and fifty ferviceable horfes were on Tuefday let brought to the hammer, ;and fetched, upon an average, tel. per bode. On Saturday laft, three troops of the sth itegi ssentof Dragoons, for fome time Rationed in Glou tiler, marched from thence for head quarters, at woreetter. On Saturday laft the Loyal Tarbert Fencibles, Colonel Sir E. Litton, were dilbanded at Mill-bury Barracks, Plymouth. The greater part embarked (limed? for Cork in nails provided by Govern ment for that purpofe. At the dole of yefterday's poll for Bridgeleaf.' 1 ( 4 19 the numbers were—Mr. GaMbill. 2 9 2 4 — Mr. Marriott, alas- -Mr. reoward. The appointment of WILLIAM ADAM, Efq. Which 3ppeared in the Gazette of laft night, as Lord Lieutenant and Cullos Rotulorum Kinmfsfhire, is the only inftance, except one, in our recolleaion, u herc the lon g ro b e an d t h e coc k a d e L ive b een Gaited, and that was the late Lord Klarom, who meld the Lord Lieutenancy of Flintfhire. This morning died, at the Reeory.houfe, Wan lead, of a deep decline, in the bloom of youth. MIA CI AM, daughter of the Rev. GIORGI. GLASSI § Reaor of Hanwell, in ?fiddle fe—a molt amiable 'young Lady. She met death N th the fo rt i tu d e o f a Saint. and expired in a M. GARRERM'S BALL6OY. " • The rapidity of M. Gaansatn's voyage is une qualled by any experimentalift in his line. After llte afcent at Ranelagh, which took place at five o'clock on Monday, he only took three quarters of an hour to traverfe in the air a fpace, which . would, iu the moil explditious modrt,of travelling, have extended to very nearly fixty miles. He and his intrepid companion in the enterprise, Captain SOWDL /4, alighted tolerably fafe on a common,four miles beyond the town of Colchener, about a quar ter of an hour before fix o'clock. Unfortunately by the violence of the wind the balloon has been defiroyed. The following are the &it authentic advice' that arrived from the Voyagers : CAPTAIN SOWDEN TO COLONEL 6111ITILLE. DEAR GREVILLE, Cokbefter, June 29. After a delightful voyage of throe quarters of an hour, we landed fate at Colchefter. Our landing was estrum* difficult, on account of the high wind. Yon may fsppofc at what • devil is rale we Game at. Your's. fitc. • R. C. SOWDEN. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM Y. OARNICRIN, TO 0/11 OF RI) FIIENDS IN LONDON, DATED COLCHESTER, 29111 JUNE, ONE lIITNZ MORNING. I take the culla opportunity of informing you, that after a very preafant journey, but the molt dangerous defeent I ever made, on account of the bollterous weather, and the vicinity of, the lea, we alighted at a dlftanee of four miles from this phce, td fixty from itanelsgh. We remained only three quarters of an hour on the road (in the air)t to-night I intend to be in London with my balloon, which is all to pkees, as well as the netting. We ourfeives are all over bindles, Ste. The appearance of the balloon, we underhand, excited the utmoll aitonilliment among the coun try people, and in Colcheller, where the Dredgers were not a little afraid of its floundering among the nyfter.beds, and aflonifhing the native:l as Rt. seta, befor: he entered the car at Ranclagh,exaßed from Capt. Sown/N his word of honour, that he would not require to be landed till he (Garnerin) pleated. GsaNearr deligned to go is far as he could, and he was only flopped by his approach to the tea. Captain Sow psi took the precaution of making his will previous to the day of excurfion. He rub fcribed the fum of two hundred pounds towards the expences of the day, for the privilege of being his companion. The diameter of this Balloon is about 2o feet ; in round numbers, the furface is about t aoo feet, and the folid contentsrather more than 8000 cubic feet. The inflammable air, or hydrogen gas, with which it is dihended, is about thirteen times lighter than atmofpheric air; a cubic foot of in flammable air weighs 411 grains, while the fame bulk of atmofpheric air weighs 348 grains • the whole volume of inflammable a i r i n the ba lloon would weigh 441 b. while the fame bulk of atmo fpheric air would be equal to 5621 b. Suppofing the weight of the Balloon and Car to be equal to one hundred weight, with an addition of 4001 b. the balloon would be juft buoyant in at morpherie air; their fpeeific gravities would then be exaßly equal. Ifin the Car there they'd be any weight lets than 4001b.•the balloon will rife with a velocity proportionate to this difference ; as it . riles in a fluid which. iliminithes in .denlity accor ding to the height, the balloon will become ha downy when floating in that medium where their fpetitic parities are equal. To continue attending, ballith is thrown Out ; the Balloon again rife: till the fame equilibrium take: place. In order to de fcend, there is a valie, Which opens inwardly, and which is opened by pulling a cord, and the Bal. loon flnksin proportion to the quantity of gas let out. When the Balloon has afcended about 1300 fa thoms, it has arrived at abeight which Sauss oil calls the line of perpetual Snow& The thermometer finks to 32 degrees. LtillalDl, in his excurfion, found it as low as 29 degrees, viz. 3 degrees below the freezing point. The velocity of the Balloon is difficult to determine, the variation, at different inhants, being fo confiderable. In attending, it appears to move rapidly ; when arrived at its maximum of the height, the motion mull be coin paratively (mall. Lumen)* rote from the Artil lery-ground at five minutes after two, and arrived at North hlimms at half pail three : he again risk, and arrived at Stendon, near Ware. at twenty mi nines pall four; fo that the average velocity was not more than twelve miles per hour. The Eagle can fly in a minute 6ol,3 Englilb feet. — M. GAILMERIN'S balloon went at the rate of 649_1. A Hawk belonging to Henry the ad, King of France. flew away from Fountainbleau, and was - caught 24 hours after at the i fl and of Malta. In that time, therefore, this animal had travelled icoo Englifh miles,which make about 42 miles per hour, or 3696 eet per minute. At the rate at whic h M. Gatti tures balloon proceeded, it would go round the Globe in 134 Jays, allowing the circumference of it to be 2400 miles, which is double the velocity With vilhich Diamond and Hambletonian run againfi each other, and with about half the ftviftnefs of a carrier pigeon, on one of which went, in the year 1779, from Lon don to Tipton Church, in Staffordfhire, which is 1 to miles, in 53 minutes. • DISACULIia, and other writers on pneumatics, have tined, that when the wind blows at the rate of a mile in the minute, it is termed a hurricane, or form; but the refult of this experiment is a different conclufion. as the balloon, in afcending and defcending, did not go fo quick as the wind d being heavier, though at the time it travelled in a horizontal direction, it would move along as if it bad been a component part of •the air, being ex ', Rely of the fame fpecific gravity. We need not he furprifed if the velocity of wind never could be fairly afeertained till Balloons were invented, as it was till then impoffible to accom pany any body carried along with the air in a di tea line, or to regulate the specific gravity of fuch a body. and as all the nice and carefully made ex periments with the fails of windmills loaded, are liable to the moh_egregious errors. By making experiments on a Balloon, and a loaded fail, the force of wind at a given velocity may be accurate ly determined. . Minus, though the impullive force was as eafily meafured as it ever will be, yet the menfuration of velocity being impracticable, no conclufion could be drawn ; whereas, if one fat of the experiments were once fairly made with both at the fame time, the loaded fails will be ...or after 4 .1041.101 mr.stsw4••• .• , CORN 11.4RXET. MAIR-LAIII, JIINt 30. No arrivalsofcenreguence have taken place fince Monday lad. Wheat, Flour, and the other forts of Grain, are in a middling fide, at the prices men tioned in our Ult. Ye fterday the Mailer and Wardens of the Bakers' Company waited tin the LORD MAYOR, to fet the afGze of bread, when his Lordfhip ordered it to be reduced one affize, or zd. in the , peck loaf. A CAUTION TO ELICTORII.—The celebrated Boss Dosourros when mentioning, in his Diary, his interview with the Duke of blEvecArrt E, On an eleitioneering bufmefs, fags, cubes we parted he lip me, and promifed every thing, bat that it all wind." Mr. Raaubottom, who has *Al's eye to the reprefentation of Windfor, would be fure of fuc cefs among the Soutbdommu or LekOerfitire. Memel, where the King of Paussi* and Em peror of Russia have met, is remarkable for its timber. This has probably induced the two Mo narchs to make there a joist came. Mr. KIM a Ls, accompanied by Mr. Hs Ali News, Pets out next Friday on his tour through Spain.— They go by the way of France, and will flop for a that time at Paris. Mr. Ksosaxs, it is faid, does nut propofe returning to England before next March. TINS MATCH.—A Gentleman of property un dertook, for a confiderable vrager, on Monday Taft, to ride from the Borough oldritichurch, in Hampthire, to Hyde Park Corner, a dillance of sot miles, in feven hours. He was allowed feven hones to perfoOn the talc, which he did with ap parent cafe in five hours and forty minutes. The lalt thirteen miles he rode in forty minutes on one. boric. In another part of his journey he per formed fourteen miles in thirty.fix minutes with two horfes. On the whole, this istonfidered one of the greateft equeilrian feats that is remembered ever to have taken place. Yefierclay Mr. ASTLIT junior's Annual Prize Wherry was rowed for by the following watanten: = s Howell, Weftminiter, Scarlet. WeElwood, Vauzba jaws Still, Wdtininiter, Robot Darrow, Three Cranes, Naas Wood, Strand.how, WUliam Sliepberd, Hungerford, Hairy Weltwood, Chace, Edward Burch, Pm...alley, Abraham Lock, Weitnainiter, ob Janes, Ditto, obn Shepherd, Lambeth, °kph Wing, Hangerford, Heath, lionidide, Siebert Law, Hungerford, Green. Yellow. The prize to be determined by one heat. To Rant from a barge Rationed off Searles's, at Lam beth, go to Hungerford Stairs, from thence to Vauxhall &airs, and return through the centre arch of Weßminiter.bridge to Hungerford Stairs again, back to Vauxhall and to return. The fire paling through the center arch of Weßminfter bridge to win the prize. The plan originally was, that the prize Would be determined by four heats, but that was abandoned in confequence of the weather. At five o'clock the above (even boats Rated. At the firil offset, the Blue and,Scarkt were fire. Three to one was then betted on the Blue. When they got about half-way to Hungerford the Blue got ahead ; and when he pallid through the arch of Weßminiter,bridge,, on his return, the Scarlet was about ten yards aßern of the Blue. The Blue continued fire until they got to Lambeth Church, when the Stripe got ahead of the Blue. From off Roberts's. the boat-builders, to Hungerford, but little war was gained by ei ther; and, on their return through the bridge a fecond time, the 'tripe was grit, the fcarkt fecond, the blue third, the lilac fourth, the purple fifth, the green filth, and the yellow fail. The ftripe continued the whole way ahead after it fire gained that fituation, and won with cafe in an hour and five minutes. The blue was not a dozen yards altern when the wager was decided. The yellow and green gave in the conteft at Lambeth. Wing was indebted to his partner, Shepherd. for his fuc cefs, he kept the labouring oar the whole time. Shepherd is a very powerful man, and exerted his ftreagth very fucceMully. The value of the boat was, as ufual,.twenty guineas; it was made by one of the belt men in the ferric*. A band of mi litary mufic played in a barge. Many perfons of fafhion and diltinaion were prefect, among whom were the Duke of MAIIOIE3IIIII and Lord CAte van in their funnies : all the eight-oared sallies belonging to the different focieues were 'precuts and numerous pleafure-boatt, &c. The banks of the River, the bridge, &c. were lined with people; but although the crowd was great, no accident happened. This is the loth prize given by Mr. ASTLIIt, jOIL The new Serio-comic Pantomime of.the Golden Fanner, or &Aria Plagbley, brought put at the i Royal Circus, abounds with i ncidents and tricks which difpliy the elegance of anion and attitude of Bran a ' in the part of Harlequin, for both of which he bads unrivalled in a moil eminent de gree. Mrs:WYBROW pleafes alto highly for tilde, Joined to a raft degree of_fprightlinefs throughout the part of Columbine. MONTacioas iv's Clove is mirth aril . ; and the Gokim Ferwwr has an able reprefentative in Hat sit. Finer Scenery has never been viewed; and in the Mafquerade Scene, which is peculiarly brilliant, the dancing of Mifs ADAMS is fo elegant and raceful, as thydravi forth the higheft applaufe. The Vertical Tranflueill Temple of the Nymph of the Spring has a grand and afto • effeit i thefe, with the fine mufic of W. Wags, aura& and charm molt overflowing au diences., A very extraordinary and melancholy event lately occurred In the island, of St. Chriftopher. Two Officers of the Buffs, a Captain and Enfign, were upon particulars terms of intimacy. On the ofth of April hail , the latter went into the room the former, and without any apparent reafon, or the kid explanation with his friend, flint WI throogh the:head.. He then very deliberaba emit taco awather rum. amL iseabeihene es. .; NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. On Windily arrived.at Plyrzionth, the Lord M'Coirtney, MACKZE, from New Brunfwick,,. The Perfeverance, Hvaraasom, horn Cotheil ! burg to Coleraine, is on fliore in Colerane River, and it is feared the fhip and cargo will be loft. SHEERNESS, JUNE a 9. Arrived the DRIVER limp, from a cruize; the WOOLWICH fore !hip, from the Tharue.s ; and the CONFLICT and ARCHF,R un brigs, from a cruize, Sailed the ALoszo loop, for .C' atham ; and ADVICE Advice boat, and Lottirr gun velici, up the Thames. _ _ A boat belonging to the Haart !loop, with 12 men and one woman in it, was overfet by a fucl den fquall of wind, but by the allillanee of font: boats which were near, the whole of them wen: happily faxed. Wind W. blows liroog. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEALatINIt zp..-.Arrived and failed fur the River, the Prince, naafi, from Grenade; Atlas, Nicolas's, from Barbadoes : Experiment, FRITH, from Antigua; Regulus, Ranzote, from Drnecrara; Lady Jane Halliday. Ross, from Muntferratt; Ann and F.Uxa, 100 s ; end Coverdaile, :UL!,from the Weft Indies; Ned Malcolm, en , Isolate, from Jamaica. Wind S. W. blows bard. GRATRitIID, JUNe I_9o—Palred by, the London, GOLD FINCH, from Jamaica; Britannia, Rosins, from Waterford ; Ayr, S , from Cbarante ; and ColinnyoUte, from Martin imic.—Saided the Garlsod. tf sdn, for Ham• burgh; Adventure, —, for Leghorn; Dorothea, SASLOW, for Rouen; and the Jong fur St. Vallery. American Papers up to the zd of June have been received. The Governor of Georgia iffueda Pmerimation calling an extraordinary meeting of the Legitha- Lure of that State on the toth, to - take into confi. deration matters of importance. 'They are fup pofed to relate to the celfion of the Miffiflippi ter ritory to France. Capt. ALLEN, who arrived at Wilmington. on the aSth ult. from Cape Francois, Rates, that the dal before his departure General ToussslNT ar. rived at the Cape, and the morning on which to failed there was a general rejoicing on account of. the peace made with that General, who could hold out no longer, his ammunition and provifions being entirely expended, and the principal part of his troops having deferted, and turned their arms • againß him.—He Gays alfo, that there gill remains in the Mountains a confiderabk number of the Congo Negroes, who are determined not to come under the fubjedion of the Whites. In the Lower Counties of North Carolina, the are much alarmed at the conduit of the s. Nightly patroles of boric and foot are kept up; and numbers of thefe deluded wretches are in confinement. Several have been tried and executed. A letter from Cape Francois, under date of the 29th of April, to a gentleman in Philadelphia. lays, 14 A rumour is now very prevalent, that Toussaint. has been thot in the [boulder, and has died of the wound." On the 16th of May, a Tenet arrived at Balti ' more, in eighteen days from Cape Francois. The • terms of the capitulation were not known whep the failed. She left at the Cape three French 74's and three frigates. The following paragraph; relating to an event which has occafiosed a contiderable expreffion of forrow, we copy from The New Toni Commercial efelverifferi of the 27th ult.: " It is with much re gt:ct we announce to the public tbc death of Mrs. MARTHA WASHINGTON, relitt of the great and good Prefident WAS HINGTON. Her deceate took place on Saturday loft. at Mount Vernon. The death of this eftimable woman mull ftrongly recal to the recolleftion of every true American the many amiable qualities which marked her charac ter through the revolutionary war, and through the halcyon days of the fira eight years' admini... oration of the federal government, The worthy confort of thefirft of smem—.4lie [hared his anxieties —the foothed his cares—the conciliated for hip; and for herfelf the ;illations of her country. and has left a name that will be refpeded and beloved by the Citizens of there States, while fuperior ex cellence continues to command their approbation and efteem." Doninica.—V4 are favoured with the follow. ing copy of General Orders, aired by the Com ? mander to Chief of his Majelty's forces at Mans nique, relative to the late mutiny of the fide Wet India Regiment at Dominica. GENERAL ORDERS. • Adjutant-General's Office, Fort-Royal, Martinique, April 27, ans. The Commander 'in Chief has been under the peccary e 7 performinimpsinful duty, that of ordeting the emotion of (curd mutinous at the Bth Welt India Regiment. This unfortunate event will not induce him, in the (masa degree, to raped the fidelity of the other Weft India regimeuts he will not confound the innocent with the guilty ; and he fis cerely hopes that no pedal will be fo unjelt as Ledo fa. This mutiny is to him no cede of approhatfion that other regiments will fallow the exunple ; he, 04 the contrary, be lieves, that the foldiers of the Weft 'lndia regiments wit', as well as thofe Of other regiments, confider with abhorrence the crud murders committed by fame et the Bth Welt ladle regi. meat. . • The rft Weft India regiment is in Fort Edward, and the only troops in the town of Fort Royal, where the Commander in Chief Mitres, are detaeihnents from the 4th and tOth Weft- India relliglunis I thee three corps &nigh the guard on his quarters: he does not intend to make any alteration, but will continue firiounded and guarded by there troops , the molt entire confidence in dick fidelity and good conduet. Should a change of drama ltances occadon his again going on (device in this cosily, he will take under his command as many Weft India Regiments as the nature of the (entice will admit It has been Laid that a report was fpread amoogft the (Adler. of the Sth Welt India regiment that they were to be fold as naves; If any tuelt report has been circulated in the Bth; or any other Welk India regiment, by evil minded perfons, the Commander in Chief affures the (*ldlers of thole regiments that the report is entirely without foundation, no Each thing either will or can happen but his Excellency does not mean to ex tend this affuranee to mutineers and murderers. He will protect and encourage fueh men ache Bth Weft In. dig regiment, as Rail appear not to have joined in the mutiny. This order to be read at lead three times to every Weft India regiment ; the officers of thok regiments will ufe their uunoft endeavours to make themen underftand the purport of it. ' The Commander in Chief is Weill fendble of the Merit, ad' die pimps and effeaqual inesfures adopted by Bripdiee-Go nerd Joh:dose, to (uppish the botrnudny. ' • The very favourable repel ma B e 4 loy Brigadier-General John lbw. of t he good conduft. seal, and [perk of the aftl . r nod •••••••4: Ar•