Star. — London, England, 1802-10-19 00:00:00

1 AMERICA. PuttAort.enlA, 7.---Yefterday, (the Sab . bath !) the Vice Prefident, and feveral other dill' tinguilhed perfonages, dined on board the French Irigate la Romaine, the Commodore's (hip. On this occption, the three frigates (la Romaine, la Volentaire, and la Confolante) were in full drefs;' the flags of the different nations were all difplayed, which, from the wind being prong from the North. ezbitsized the molt beautiful fcene of the l kind we ever witneiTed. Appropriate difcharges cannon were fired, and the day, no doubt, was Bent with that harmony and politenefi which is the charaderiftic of the French nation. SAVANNAH, AUGUST to.—An event took place this morning, which terminated in the death_of V.M. HUNTER, Efq. Mho fell is a duel with Mr. l).vio MITCHELL. The difpute had its origin in lidy hilt, in the County Court, to the Jury of which Mr. HuNrait was Foreman, in a cause in which MITCHELL was Counfel. During the trial t appearing to Mr. HUNTER that the examination of the evidence was not concluded by the Counfel with that impartiality which juftice required, he addreffed a few words to the Court, when Mir. CHILL got up and obfereed, that Mr. H. was very officious on the occafion. Mr. H. replied, that of ficioufnefs of jurymen was not to be compared with the impertinence of certain Attornies. There the matter retest until laft Monday, when Marc HILL attacked Mr. Hvitrall in the ftreet with a large bludgeon. Mr. H. having nothing to defenOins self with, after receiving four blows, attempting Luducpersfully at the fame time to feize Mt rem sta. by the collar, he fail, " Mr. MITCHELL, lam un armed ; I mull retreat unlefs you lay afide your weapon." Mr. H. then retreated to Dr. Km.- es (hop for a cane—there was none there.—. By this time, Tome Citizens interfered, and they left the ground. The fame evening Mr. Hun rat fent MITCHRLL a challenge, who, after much equi vocation, accepted it.. Dr. Kots.ora was Mr. H.'s Second. Major B. Mazy etc was Second to Mir cm I t.t. Mr. H. fired firft and hit MITCHELL on the hip. Mirentitt. miffed My. H. Mr. H.'s re cond ball hit Mt rc HELL on the groin, alfo without pcnetrating the (kin; but Mr. ,fly area received MI rcn eta. s fecond ball in his right breaft. Mr. Hum rut immediately turned, and exclaimed, — ow Irdeed owe;" and as Donors GLenn and Lati.ocz caught him in their arms, he aflted fpr a Oaf; of tiring, and expired. HlALirs Orrice, Philadelphia, Sept. 6. Phyficians report the following perfons i ll with st4lignant fever—Two women in Vine between Se cond and Front flreets; a man in Shippen between Front and Second-ftreets ; a woman in Mifflin's alley, near Sonth-ftreet wbarf; a woman in Lom bard near Frnnt-ftreet; a man in Water near Chef npt-ftreet. Arociation of the Northern Liberties report no new cafe of fever. Hearts Omen *Wilariaston Del. Sept. I. Whereas chili ßoard hails recervelinformation that the contagion or infellious difeafe, now pre 'Silent in the city of Philadelphia, has dinned a more alarming aped' i and whereas tome cafes of have a malignant difeafe ve appeared in this Borough, which there is' reafon to believe have been intro dnced from that city— Iteililvedb That the RAfilistins debit Bardoidtkodirs the Preeiesedea of the Illegeffee and 414 gaits sidle ilkik. be rstrelatbal, and dot fade qt the reitrradonedep se re. letre to the City at he mad emetpaie Is tall fame 2 ,41 eine& The city of New York hoed: an exemption from this calamity, and contends, that any apparent kit-reale in its obituary beyond the ulna' propor tion, is to be imputed to . the arrival of the French fquadron, irhich landed 162 fick. chiefly of die dyfentery, at the Marine Hofpital, of whom 11 had died. The city of New York, it . will be re. colleited, has been long accufed of exaggerating its own happinefe jn this refpe& , aad the calami ties o‘ its rivals , Philadelphia particularly, with a Reif fib view to the advancement of its own coin fierce. It is certain, however, that the difeafe has arifen to an ells-ming height at PhiladelPhin, a; a great part of the inhabitants had fled; the Cullom-houfe was removed, and meetings were held to confider of transferring the liven' Banks to fume othkr place.- The accounts from the Weft Indies, publifhe4 n the American papers, are in general vague and unfatisfadory, little regard being paid•tO date, and the report of Tome Cap tain or pallinger of a (trip their only ground of authenticity. So 4r, however, as the authority of there papers is to be regarded, and they come • down to the Loth of September, they confirm, as we slated yellerilay, that Bow APART' is fick or his tranfatlantiF glories, and that the Weftern hemifphere does not fupply the bell fuel for his ambition. The blacks continue very obainate at Guada lcupe, where the long expelled reinforcements had not arrived. Accounts from St. Thomas Rate that the French ifiands to be given up, would not be taken polieilion of previous to the tit Ottober, as the French had not a full dent number of troops t;+ take complete -charge of them. The French fquadron, which mighte fuPpofed to be employed ,n effelling thefe changes, was at New York fo late as the 9th SepteMber, all at anchor within two Oiles of the city, where they were to take in pro iifions with all expedition, being in expetlaticn of immediate orders to fail, but their deitination was net mentioned. The Dutch appear to have been snore alive to their Weft India intergßs. The mat ter of a ve(fel reports that Surinam, and all the other parts rearmed to the Dutch, had been evacuated by the Englillt forces, which had arriv ed at St. Vincent's, the Dutch having taken . com plete poiteffion of all there Rations. The peace of Amiens has infpired America with great jealoufy .)f France. Mr. Wisp*, os's feeches, reprefent ing the danger to America froM the cefiion of Loui liana, &c. have been eagerly read and diligent ly circulated through the "ram continent. In this fpirit we find a variety of paragraphs, but gatich are too 'contemptible or local for particle fpcaing the French fquadron at New papers alto' acknowledge the receipt papers from Pun Repalicain in St. so the s a of Argun. The only ar• , title which 4ter eolvfider weeds mention fi a pro clamation of Gears' Luc ma. of tht#th July, impales a contribution of 13,000,000 Trench franks *wigs* for the tire of the army, ;won the inhabitants of that iOand ; landed proprietors ' low a Ow rate of one-Ofth of the yearly value of their property, and houfes of public accommo dation One hail The arbitrary terms in which payment is to be enforced afford unanfwerAble proof of the mifery of the people. The average prices of American Rock for the week ending the 7th September, were -8 per Cents, intereft of - =r4 6 per Casts. ditto - • sox Navy ditto - 10 3 S 078- • - • 64 FRANCE. PRIVATE LETTER-PARIS. OCT. 314. BONAPARTI is constantly employed in diger ting plans of gigantic meafures, if 1 may ufe the expreffion ; a hint is fufficient to fet him to work, efpecially promifes to redound to tie glory or intereß of the French Nation. At firft he receives hints of this nature with a kind of affe6ted indif- Terence; if he finds any of them predicable, how. tier, it is Pure to meet with all the attention in his power. He has one great plan in view at pre feat, nay it has been in contemplation for fome time paft:but it is condated with the greaten pof fible feerecy. From the firft moment he appears to have laid down a certain fyltem, a portion of which every day developer. Part of this fyftem was to render Spain fubfervient to France in the article of Finance ; he now propofes to divide the gold trade of the New' World with Spain, in fuch a manner as to lull all furpicions of invading that monopoly ; he has propofed a partnerfirip with Spain in the banking line. One Bank is to be eftablithed at Paris, another at Madrid, and a third at Peru, and all under the guarantee or firm of the two Nations. By this met= BONAPARTS will be enabled to import bullion immediately froth South America, without paean; through Old Spain. M. Manzi, a very intelligent' Spaniard; is appointed on the part of his Court to atffift in the arrangement of this meafure, which is now faid to be in fuch a Rate of forwarclnefs, that, in all pro. I bability, it "will beimade public in a &oft time." LONDON. TUUDAY, OCTOBER it. P,RiCE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s 3 per Cont. Confab 66f i—Ditto, for time, OW. New 5 per Ceat. er. div.—l f ong Ass. 01.— Opsnitun toi* The intelligence of a complete change in the Cabinet of St. Peteriburgb, which we communi cated to the Public yefterdiy, has diffufed a gene ral fatisfaition, and has even infpired a hope in many that it will lead to Come Ohm of e*cacious refiftance to the encroachments of France, without the neeeffity of ai renew►al of hoitilidet. We hope that the Emperor Aiszawasa, whofe good inten tions all men applaud, will now attach Malta ro the fyftem by which, alone Europe an be pre ferred. That fyflern is a determined refifiance to the eztenfton of France. Thole bale compromifes, by which for a paltry job gained, feveral great Powers have concurred in France obtaining im. menfe aggrandizement, Ihould be abandoned. They ought not to have allowed themfelves to be fo corrupted. Above all others Raffia, a country for which France can do fo little, either for ag- grandizement or protedion, mould never be de. graded to the level of a fecondary State, like Pruffia, to move as a fatellite about the luminary ma which it depends. Rua Otould at a higher part. Since this change has taken place, and as the principal men at the bead of affairs are hoSile to the oniverfol Empire of France, we may hope that Ruffia will feriouily interfere in favour of the Kinu of &lap . txra—and, from a defire of pre ferving the independence of Europe, in favour of Switzerland. The annexation of Piedmont to France, we cannot help confidering as a perfonal lank to that Sovereign who h'acl patronifed the 'Ciao of SARDINIA, as well as an ;auk to the Rupan Empire. The prote&ion of that'Empire was entitled to weight - but both At.ezzsosa I. and his Minifters mull fee how BOWAtARTII yet at nought their interference. This Mould be care fully impreffed on the Els:slog or Rt/SIIIA. Every day's accounts usuft remind' our readers of the neceffity, which we &flirted from the firft, of retaining the Nand of Malta, We repeat our former expreffions, that nothing but that circurn (lance can prevent the French • from becoming Miners of Egypt. We appeal to the unbialfed opinion of every military man: It was our private opinion that BONAPARTA would not have realized any of his plans until he had wheedled us from Malta. But the impatience and impetuofity of his chara4e; do not fu'er him to veil his projefts. • All parties Teem to unite in the recetEty of check ing the career of the French. We take fire at their conduit towards Switzerland. 'This is well, 'But were ,their encroachments left vifible in the cafe of Elba, Tiouifiana, Brafil, Picilroont, ace. &c. Sec.? , We again affure the public, that if Minittry aban don Malta, they abandon the Ora intereils of this country, and deferve the iaveaives of a violent, but fometimes unanfwerable' Weekly Politician, whom we feel no private difpofition to praife, but whofa arguments ought tti alarm his countrymen. 4 is now, IsowsYsr, FirtT genera* beilic74• that fa confequence of the !mown intrigues and' prepare** of France is the Mediterranean, and the Apo:Arms pretenfrons of the French Govern.: mentavery where, Minifters will not give up Mal. ta. We 'with it could be retained. We think that its being retained would be justifiable, in conic quence of the new hoftile mind, and new hoftile ads,, of France. We are not fure, however, that we should be able to obtain it without a war—and war brings fuch a train of evils that it. ught not to be reforted to till every other mean has been tried for eftablifhing fuch a balance of power as may fecure the independence of Etsrope. Every one at all acquainted with the hiftory of the world knows that one of the heft means to pre- vent war is to be prepared for it. Our Readers will therefore be glad to hear that fornething like a preparation on our part has begun to manifeft itfelf. Our letters from Portfmouth, by the mail of this morning, inform us, that on Strnliy morn ing an order was received there to get ready for fea immediately the A rot. co and la Lot a a frigates ; in confequence of which a great many fhipwrights were inftantly ordered on board. Two line of battle (hips have alto been ordered with all pot Able expedition to take in there provisions and acmes for the Mediterranean Ration ; and the renters of Southfea Common have had notice given them, that, !fa Ca* if &meal eletelsey, they are to gait poi: filen ett a weeks notice On the whole, we doubt not, that if Bow.- PARTS'S unbounded ambition fhould force his Ma lIIITT to a renewal of hoftilities, he will find this country fully prepared to repel any unjuft aggref fion, and afert Aer pre-eminence among furround ing Nations. • We cannot at the prefent cribs refrain from cal ling on Minifters to revile tome late proceedings at the Dock-yards, as it is not perhaps too late to remedy the evil, and to avert the confequences which may refultfrom them, if we be unavoidably hurried into hoftilities by the prefent Rate of poli tics on the Continent. ft has ? we believe, been an inva riable praftice, on reducing the number of work men at the end of a war, to turn out theloweft upon the lift, unlefs where mitcondua made any of the older ones deferve a ditmitral. For this method of proceeding there were mayy good reafons. The old hands were bell acquainted with the routine of duty—and it teemed but reafonable that thofe who had (pent the prime of their life in the fer vice, fhould not be turned out to beggary in their old age. But at the late reduCtion of hands the former praitice was revorfed—the hands difmilled were taken from the top of the lift, and many were turned adrift who had been in the yards from :thirty to fifty years ! Is this the way that Britain fhould reward her old fervants ? No ; nor' is it the way in whicj his MitiliTY or his Minift.en would will to fee them rewarded. There muff have been tome miftake, tome unintentional overfight in the bufinefs, and we are cure it needs only to be (tilted to meet w i th a Tpipedy. An evening Paper of yefterday, under the date of Calais, gives the following article : " I have the honour to inform you, that the Frit Cooful fet out from Paris* troth of Vendesuiaire, (Oftober is), to go to Rouen, Havre, !Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Ike. Such is the report of the day. We ezPeet him here the beghining of next week. What I can afore you is, that M. Mengaud, Comudf fary Deoeral, has fet out today to meet Aim" We are hardly inclined to credit the ftatement, but fhould it prove 'corieet; we fhould have little cloak of the °Ned intended—namel7 preparations —fecretly perhaps—for hoftilities ! •or to bully at leaft, if his pref.cnt projesfts be oppofed by this country. .• . la'r notice, ref' York. Thefe of I mats of Pudziniut uP DUTCH MAIL. The Mail from Holland, which we announc e d yelierday, arrived at fo late an hour as to prevent our giving any estrads from it. We fubjoin fome intereßing details received by this conveyance : AIMISTILDAYI 9 OCTOIIIIIII 113.-A letter from Tu nis, dated July 30, contains the following intelli gence On tbs 16th inftant two Spanith frigates anchored in this harbour, probably with a view to ftipport the negociations of the Spanifh Conful, but, it is Paid, that they failed again on the :zit, without accomplithing their objea, which gives reafon to believe that Spain has complied witlyhe demands of our government, however extravagant they might at fira appear. gf On the 6th of lan month an American brig was carried into-Biferta, by a Tripolitan corfair. The cargo, confining of wine, oil, brandy, and other French prOduEtions, has been fold here, but the prifoners, confining of (i*teen perfons, among whom were (even Swedes,' have been carried to Tripoli by the corfair, " There are now thirty-eight Tunifian corfairs at fea, wbo bring in alma every day prizes, either Neapolitan, Sicilian, or Genoefe; one of thefe cor fairs lidded lately on the Italian coati, and carried off a child a year old, and two which were Come what older. LaR week another arrived here, after an engagement with a Genoefe merchant veffel, in confequence of which the was obliged to fheer ,off. The ccofair 'had tweinpfive meu killed and ten feverely wounded. The Captain oti !bore and died next day of his wo new differences have arifen between men* and the Bey of Conftantine, an( fuch a ferioua turn, that our troops ordered to march to the frontiers. Al bottles and (hops are Mut. At Birfert 160 large boats employed in the coral STOCILHQLII, OCT. I.—Yefterday Minifter. Citizen WESTREIMIN Dg T his public audience of introduCtion jamas. He alfo was prefented in .dience to ta... Queen DOWAGU. Nor will have his audience in a few da The Prince of GLOVCIESTEL is not but is eapefted every hour. MADRID, Ssrr. 25.—The fmall nut who occupy themfelves in general poi teen with extreme furprife the meafur, to the domains of the Crown all the priories, commanderies, 4cc. which Malta polkaed throughout Spain. confiderad as a very difficult thing articles of the Treaty of Amiens which relate to that Order, becaute, in faa, its revenues are f o much diminifhed by the innumerable lodes it has experienced in France, Piedmont, Italy, an d i n all the countries, whether republicanifed, or re cently united to France, that we can hardly colt. ceive how it will fupport itfelf in future. A n a this difficulty is more evident when we relic& that the power, in Whole territories the Order had the moft property, has on a fudden confifcated the whole of it. Yet every one knows the powerful influence which the French Government poffeffes over ours. How happens it then if the former are defirous that the Treaty of Amiens fhould be exe cuted with refped to the Order of Malta, that they have confented to its total ruin ? That would teem to me to explain and jutlify the pro lonption of the detention of the Ifland of Malta by the Englifh ; for what could render the evacu. ation neceffary, but the hope of the Treaty's be. ing executed ? On the one part, therefore, we fee that the beit friend to France prevents, in a molt efficaci ous, though indirect manner, this execution, whilft another preponderating power, Ruffia, is known never to have fully adhered to thole articles of the Treaty p This mealuse of confifcation difpleafes very much all the great families in Spain, and all the Nobility, whofe younger branches fubfilted in a great degree upon the prebendaries and revenues of the Order. BSURNONVILLE, the new French Ambaffador, is expeted here in a few days. This is the thi7 ';eenth Ambatrador !ince the conclttkn of tht Treaty with Spain in i 794. ERENCIi go URNAL,S. We have received the M.Ritns► to the 16th int. It is chiefly occupied with detail: refpeeting inter nal regulations, eftablifhed for the Government of the Italian Republic, which are of no importsnce to an Englifh Reader. It alto contain: a Copfular Decree for the ebb- Lament of a Municipal Guard for the fervice of the city of Paris. This guard is to cone of 2154 infantry, !►d 180 horfe. b o perfon can be a fubaltern in this corps unlefs he has enjoyed t he fame rank in the troops of the line ; and no one Can be 4 fuperior Officer unlefs he has attained to the rank of Captain at kali in the army. Refpeiling Switzerland the fame filence is ob ferved which has charafterized the Monitivr fiace the ailing of BONAPARTE'S mandate. The following details are extrafted from the Moniteur MINISTRY OF THE MARINE. -THE PRFFECT OF GUADALOTIFE AND ITS DEIEII OSNCIES, TO THE MINISTER. Of THE MARINE AND COLONIES. Base Terre. Guadaloupe,Therm;dor zB, year zo (Aug. 6). Citizen Minifter---Itear Admiral Laciosss u• rived here yefterday from Marie Galante. Honour was paid to him--..he was received on the fea (bore; there were flourlfhes of trumpets, mufic, illumina tions, and ferenades. At night repeated fhouu of rive Lacroj; accompanied the Admiral as he went along. He is in general much loved here, and even regretted, at prefent when his enemies, and thofe of Government, have been expelled, or dr ftroyed, or defeated. If there were any thing t° find fault with in his conduit here, it would be for having been lo lenient towards the worthlefs, and having had too much confidence and goodnefs of chara&er. I !hall leave it to General LACKOSSII to give you a more detailed account of his appear ice here. Health and refpeaful attachment. (Signed) LESCALLIS I. 4. LACROSSE, ZIAA-ADMIRAL, CAPTAIN•GENERAL OF GUADALOUPE ANDITS DEPENDENCIES, TO ELIE' ADMIRAL DECRIS, MINISTER OF THE MARINE A' COLONIES. Bee Terre, Thermidor 17, year zo (Ausuit 5•) Citizen Minilitr—l have the honour to an nounce to you, that I yellerday re-entered Gua daloupe, to reiume the Government agreeably to the iiginatious which you have addrefed to toc muds. s ome our gov ern . have tak en ps have b een the coff ee _ mta there are al %try." the Batavias NEINAT, had to their MA. a private au- 4r. AItSUTH. days. t yet arrived, imber of thoj e politics, hav e iire of unitin g property, t h e the Order of It has been to execute the .