Star. — London, England, 1802-02-04 00:00:00

I I LONDON. - I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Conk:ls, for money, 68 ft—LAttn, Inc sec 6R 4 I Itcdoced 644--,, 4 Per Cent. 85) —New 5 per Cent. yyij— OM 5 per Cent. 93f—Loug Ann. 20. PACE OF STOCILt YEsTEKDAY. Sank Stock isit 19c1 Short Ann. 31 3-t6 3 per Cent. Red. 6911 1 India Stock 2531 3 per C. Cala 6Rii i Imp. 3 per Cents. 6 7 1,1 a per Cent. 851 j 1 Imp. Ann, 133-lei 5 per Cont. Aan. 9 8 11 Excheq. Bills p. 6s. prem. 5 per Cent. tog 1 797 9911 Englifh Tickets if i6l. p s. Lang Ann. cr.r. for Ace. 691 69 COURSE OP EXCHANGE. liamburgb 32 <2 zi U. Akona 3s 1 111 U. Cadiz sp . in paper Ditto 33f effedive Madrid apt in paper Madrid 391- effee. Venice 361 Bilbao 38a effec. Lifbon 674 Leghorn 32 Oporto 681 Naples 44 Dublin I 2 Genoa 48 The ROYAL FAMILY CAM to town yeflerday from Windfor, when his MAJ s sty held a Conned at the Queen's Houfe, at which were prefent their Royal Highneffes the Dukes of Yoe K, C LARENCE , KeNT, and CUMBERLAND, the Dukes of Poet- Leap, and ROXBURGH ; the Bifhop of Lou DON; the Marquis of SALISBURY ; the LORD CHANCEL. ICOR ; the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER; Earls CHESTIRTIELD and AYLISTORD; Lords amen- JURY, PALMAS*, HOBART, WHITWORTH,_ and CATHCART ; and Mr. PAW MINER, when his Royal Highnefs the Duke of CA t 4 DRIDC I was introduced, ma took his feat in the Council. — their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES sient laft night to the Concert of Ancient Mufic, for the &II time this feafon. Tuefday his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cele stoma removed into his new apartments in the Palace at St. James's. The Pews of WALES met with rather an un• lucky accident on Monday. Difmounting from his horfe, his fpur got entangled in his boot, and pricked his leg, which has fubjeded his Royal H igh nefs to a lamenefs. Yellerday Lord HAWK s 'way gave a grand din ner, at his houfe in Sackville-ftreet, to Several Members of Adminifiration. It is intended to extend the Militia force to 6,000 men. A bill has been drawn and fent round to all the Lord Lieutenants and Militia Colonels for their advice, previoufly to its being introduced into Parliament. It is a plan which will receive the rapport of all thole who defire to fee the de fence of the country provided for by any means rather than that of a large (landing army. On Wednefday fe'nnight the firft regiment of Dundee Volunteers were infpated by Lieutenant- Colonel STACK, of the North Lowland Fencibles. l The total number of officers and troops belong. ing to his Majefty's regiments ferving in the Eaft Indies will be embarked at Portfmouth on board the Company's (hips in the following proportions, viz. for Bengal by the LADY BULGES, LADY JANE DUNDAS. Maitosis WELLESLEY, and BARING, 29 officers and 47; men ; for Madras, per Psassva- IaNCIALNWICR CASTLE, CI sseacarris,and MAIL. CHIONESS of EXETER, 19 officers and 823 men, slaking a total of 1300 non-commiffioned officers and privates. Ycfterday a Court of Directors of the Eaft In dia Company was held at the India Houle. Capt. PHILIP HUGHES is appointed to the command of the Company's Ilsip the BRUNSWICK, configned to China this feafon, in the room of Captain jests LUDOVIC GRANT, who refigns this feafon. The overland difpatch received on Sunday laft from Bombay informs us, that the Board of Trade is employed in making arrangements for the ex tenfive cultivation of flax and hemp on the banks of the river Naaf. LuKwA DADA, in confequence of the fuccefsful iffue of the war with the Rajah of Jeypoar, has been advanced to the higheß Ration by his High nefs the Peifhwa. Moonai a E Boom sLA n, the Chief of the Eaflern Mahrattas, has at length yielded to a requell made by our merchants to open the trade of Nagpoer, which is reprefented to be very advantageous. A very fevere thock of an earthquake has been felt at Palambang, and °cc:lf - toned confiderable damage. The Rajah of Roath has been taken by the Mahrattas on the borders of the Draub. Private letters received from Bombay, dated in Auguft lall, Rate the capture of ZEMAUAT SHAH, by his brother Mast HOOD, who is reported to have put out his eyes. They alto give the welcome news of Colonel INN ES having gained a complete tiaory over the rebel Polygars to the fouthward. The ring-leader of the rebels in Guadaloupe is a Mulatto, named PILAGO, formerly a Have at Mar tinique. In 1792, when lacaossa, the exiled Commander in Chief, infligated the Negroes to rife againft their mailers, Ps Lao° alfaiGnated his mif trefs, that he might plunder her treafures.—ln the next difturbances he commanded a company of Mulattoes. He afterwards enjoyed the confidence of ROCHAMBIAU, and defended with the greateß courage one of the redoubts of the Fort Bourbon, when the Englilh attacked it. According to the lan advice:, the Negroes were on the eve of joining the Mulattoes, ana a general convulfion was ap prehended. _ _ The following anecdote is related of Touffaint 1 L'Onverture :—Six White Planters had been fen taxed to die, at the time of the convention be- ! viten General MAITLAND and the Negro Chief. Chi: former, on releafing the Black Officers, feat a requell to Totissaisr, that the fix vietims might he fpared ; to which he replied, that he would take it into confederation. The next Sunday, when the Prieft was in the pulpit. Toussaiiir mounted and ordered him out, nbferving, that on that day fhcnld preach, which he accordingly did for a letole hour, on the duty of forgiving our enemies. While he was thus dircourfing, the fix genilemen who htid been condemned to die, were brought in to the aifle, with halters round their necks. At the dole of his fermon, he addreiTed himfelf par ticularly to them, and obferved, that they fhould now fee that he was a good Chriftian, and could prailice what h e p reac h e d—" Y ou are now f ree , (laid be), go, and fm no more." LIFB-BOATS. The great utility of Life-I3cats is row fo gene rally underftood, th a t we h o p e f oen to h ave it in our power to announce that they have been pro vided on every part of our coafts where Mariners are expofed to the chance of being Thipwrecked. Every thing that can tend to further fo ufeful an ellablithment deferves particular attention and conntenance from every friend so humanity ; and we are happy in taking dui fl'aiint opportunity of announcing that Mr. FITNIIY GREATHFAD, who fo much improved and firft brought them into praaice, has been hononrea with the attention of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Mann fatiures, and Commerce, Adelphi, who have voted him their gold medal and a purfe of fifty guineas, as a teflimony of the lento they entertain Gf the benefits which have Tel - tilted to the country from his indefatigable exertions. We cannot here forbear quoting the Epilogue to the fecond part of King Henry IV. aaed at Reading School laft Otlnher, for the benefit of the Humane Society. The Epilogue is from the pen of WILLIAM BOLLAND, Ell. and the following elegant and expreffive Lines are particularly ap plicable to the prefent lubjed. When therms &rife, and thunders (hake the pole, When high in sir the circhng billows roll, Alone, yet feariefs of the tenipeit's roar, Meek PITY ftrays along the fea-beat More: She !tops, with liit'ning car, latent to mark The diftant fignal of the found'fing bark. Sodden the ihrieks !--a prompt and hardy train Launch the ftrong Life-boat on the angry main, Stretch to each finking wretch a guardian hand, And bear the flaipwreek'd wanderers fafc to land. Three thmifand guineas for a Service of Plate have been voted in the handfomeff manner, by the Houfe of Affembly of Jamaica, to his Royal High nefs the Duke of CLARENCE, in teftimony of the gratitude of the Affembly for hit exertions in Par liament in favour of their inrerefts. His Grace the Duke of Nola° z, though he has for many years feceded from the political vortex, has, in the midi! of the evils of war, patronized, in the molt diflinguifited manner, the nobler arts of peace, by undertaking, in conjunction with Mr. THOMAS Tastox, the celebrated Platonic Philo fopher, a fplendid edition, entirely at his own ex• pence, of the Works of PLATO, in five vols. 4to. The period allowed by Government for the re demption of the Land Tax will expire in a few days. Three candidates have already (farted for the county of Dumbarton at the next general eleilion, viz. Major Coutyttouu the prefent Member ; Lord Joull CAMPBELL, Member for the county of Argyll ; and HIINLY ULASSFORD, of Dugaldfton, Eft]. The Vice-Chancellor Of CAMIVIDOI has award ed the two Annual Prizes of 251. each (left by the late Dr. Roster SMITH, F. R. S. to the two Ba chelors of Arts, who than appear, on examina tion, to be the beft proficients in Mathematics and Natural Philofophy,") to Mr. T. P. WHITE, of Q2een's College, and Mr. GRISDALR, of Chrifk The following are the Gentlemen to whom the credit belongs of having prepared the Petition to Parliament refpeding the Duty on Paper : OTILIDOI and Sow, Strand ; PARRY, BLACK, and Co. Leadenhall.tlreet ; STEELE and Co. Tower hill; VERNON. and HOOD, Poultry; LANs and NEWMAN, Leadellhall-RTECL; STOCKDALR and SOK, Piccadilly; OJAI and SON, Portugal-Rreet ; and their Secretary, WILLIAM WOODTALL. On Monday laR, the Hon. THOMAS Lord Fo cus appeared at the Bar of the Court of Common Pleas, and fuffered recoveries of elates of cone. derable magnitude in point of value. A recent determination of the Court of Ex chequer, has made a conSderable alteration with regard to the Law of Tythes—it has been adjudg ed upon folemn argument in the Court of Ex chequer, that Tythes are not payable for the forced productions of nature in Hot.houfes. The recog nition of a contrary law has ever been confidered a moll unjull oppreffion. The Judges, with the ez• ception of Mr. Baron GRAHAM, were unanimous in abrogating the law as it has hitherto exilled. The population ofCadi z which formerly amount ed to So,ooo fouls, is reduced, by the late Epidemic Difeafe, to 45,000. As a great proof of the increakel population of tl'e town and Dock of Plymouth, and the influx of (hangers, during the late war, the tolls of the bridge at StonehOute, between that town and Dock, the property of Earl Moutur EDGCU lit BE and Sir J. Sr. Aosta, which, at the building of the bridge, in the year :772, let for cool. per annum, let laft week at the rate of asool. per annum. A Correfpondent in one of the Papers, fpeaking of the Portfmonth Theatre, rays, " if the ma nager does not rani or otter.lmttom his gallery, my friends and I, when we "At the front boxes, wiU be obliged to get our tervants to hold tarpaulins over us during the performance !" The feizure of a trawl.boat, with 200 ankers of (piths in Catwater, Plymouth, was occafioned by a laughable difpute about a gull thot by the excite boat's people, which the men of the trawl boat picked up, and refuted to deliver, on which the excite-boat run alongfide, boarded, and, to their agreeable furprite, found an excellent feizure of (pints. The excite officer ficerirgly asked the wafter of the trawl, Inv floe the gull P The woodmen of Boxley-hill, on Satureay laft turned out, at the Upper Blue Bell, a marten cat, which had t 5 minutes grace before it was purfued by three couple and a half of beagles. After af fording an excellent run of two hours and a half, it was taken in a tree, with great difficulty. Ber.—A gentleman lately betted, that within one hour he would lift too ftones, placed in a ftraight line, at one yard diftance each, and de pofit them in a circle round the firft. He won the bet by two minutes and a half. The diftance is 51 miles. The loth, both, 88th, and tooth, are the fourths of the diftance, and nearly correfponded to the cleaners of the time, on which account a great many bets were taken. A'AUTICia mrELLIGRYCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND S. S.W. •1111t1VCD. DUE. o FIVIICh, o Dutch, 0 o Hamburgh, 2 O Dalin, o O We error& I New York and Halifax 0 PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Lafl night failed the galliot Frow Elizabeth, Capt. HACRIMMAN, laden with nuts, for London. Same day his Majeily's iltip 14 EGYPTIENNE was releafed from cpraran tide ; and this morning the three following men of war were releafed, VIZ. I'AFEICAINE, HENOINF, And the THISBE. Some Guards were lauded from thele !hips this day. SHEERNESS, FFB. 2. —The MAGICIENNE, IRIS, and WAAZAMNFID frigates, and la Sottitta (loop, have received orders to proceed to the Great Nore to be paid wages; it is expelled that they wiil then proceed to the Weftward.—Remain at the Nore the (hips as per laft.—lt blew a tremendous gale Taft night fron► the S. W. Several boats have been fwamped, and confiderable damage done to the fences on the fea coafts. YARMOUTH, FEB. 3. —This morning arrived the EARL OF LEICESTER packet, Capt. CH. THOMP soN, from Cuxhaven, with mails and paffengers ; the mails, on account of the Itrong wellerly wind, were landed at Burlington on Saturday laft, with a Turkilh Melfenger ; the other paffengers, mofily foreigners, landed here this morning.—Sailed for London, with goods, the Allley, Ifabella, Hope, Friends Adventure, and Mary.—Wind S. S. W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, FEB. 3.—This morning the JOSEPH, Hop• rtit, from Sicily, with fulphur and rags, ran on Shore near Deal Cagle, but is got off with little damage by our boats. Wind S. S. W. blows hard. GRAVESEND, Frs. 3.—Sailed the Adamant, SPALTRR, for Cadiz; Hope, BAR/LETT, for Oporto; Difpatch, HARRIS, for Cork ; Intys Abell, —, for Amaerdam ; and Twe Gefulters, —, for Mend. ARRIVFII. At Dover—Margarct, Griffith, from St. Michael's. At Hoylakt--Huifar, Rlchardfon, from Zara.. At Lytham—James, Rud, from Jamaica. At St. Viocent's--Britannia, Bell, from Brißol ; Thames, ; and Neptune, Stringer, from Africa. At Naplesa—Queen, Young, from LiverpooL GLASGOW TONTINE LIST. Lucy, Cralg,is arrived at Liverpool, from Martinique. Itof.unond, Corbel!, at Charlefton, from Clyde. Margaret Miller, in the Clyde, from Newfoundland. Dick - , M4.1=1, in do. from Long Bland. William and Margaret, Reynolds, In the Clyde, front New York.—She has made three voyages in I t months, having failed from New York on the azd of February tiiez, a;th July, and 35th December. Pallas, Bowden, in Clyde, from Charlellown. James, Prior, Is arrived at Liverpool, from Jamaica. Lord Duncan, Miller, at London, from St. Kin's. Lady Harwood, —, at ditto, from Jamaica. Sarah, at ditto, from ditto. GREENOCK, JAN. t9.—The weather has been uncommonly tempettuous of late. There have been three very heavy gales from the fouthward fince Monday ; on Tuefday morning, on Wed nefday night, and laft night ; the brit was even Rill more fevere here than the violent ftorm of Thurfday laft week, but fortunately it being off (bore, did no mifchief among the (hipping. I am lorry to inform you, that accounts Rill continue to be received of the fatal dirafters occa fioned by that form, or more properly hurricane. The Friendthip, HF.RON, arrived this morning from Peek, in the Me of Man, brings accounts of the lots of the two following veffels on that day the 2 I ft : the Afia, M , GILL, one of the Leeward Nand fleet, bound for Port Glafgow, was driven on (lore oppo fiteCarmichael,between Peel and Jorky Head,none of the crew were loft, and the greater part of the cargo will be faved ; and the (loop Peggy, of Dum barton, JOHN MUNN matter, from Drogheda, bound to Newry, with barley and wheat, totally loft near Peek, the matter drowned ; his body was found on the rocks next morning and decently interred ; one of the crew pet alied in the cabin by cold and fatigue ; three of the crew faved, one of whom was the matter's fort. The Captain of one of the (hips lately arrived who was in the North Channel on Wednefday, the day preceding the hurricane, tells me, that on that day the appearance of the heavens was very uncommon, and portended rome awful change ; there was not a breath of wind, and the fea was running mountains high ; he prepared accordingly, and luckily he did fo, as the llorm came on early on Thurfday morning, fudden as a clap of thunder, jult as he was abrealt of the Mull of Kintyre. . . . _ Arrived laft night the Favourite, 800, from New York, in 34 days ; brings nothing new. Hum., JAN. 18.—On the gth inftant, arrived at Lifbon, after a pafrage of eight days from Ply mouth, the Prince of Brazil, Captain GEORGE CARMEL, of this port. Laft night feveral heavy fqualls of wind came on at this port, in violence at intervals nearly equal to the hurricane of Thurfday fe'nnight. We have not yet heard of any damage being done ; and are happy to (tate, that the confequences of the former gale have not proved fo very deftruc tive on this part of the coat} as its tremendous fury gave reafon to apprehend. Arrived at Portfmouth, the George, of this port, Captain BOYLE, from the Downs, bound to Li&on. Some ferious inconveniences are at prefent ex perienced by the trade, from the very crowded (tale of the harbour at this place, which is filled with rads of all dimenfions, to a degree never before remembered. Near 200 fail of detained craft are lying ready to proceed up the rivers, and at laft night's tide feveral veffels arrived, which were able to obtain moorings at the entrance only of the harbour. From this caufe, and the conti nued prevalence of a bong South wind, a com plete embargo has taken place on all outward bound veffels within the harbour. To accommodate the trade, the Hope, Captain P. SMITH, and the Expedition, JOSEF H BAILEY, failed from hence this day to attempt their pale • no the Elbe to flomh.,•fts. k received refpcning eh: navigation ot Coe During• tie late heavy rile, a fm All Arn•p lying at the entrance of the hartwur, in b ilia it, was blown into the Humber, from thence to lea, and has not lince (Ken heard of. Tim Mary, DOVE, of Sunderland, ftrock on Bawdfey Sami, in the late gale, when the 101 l her rudder, cut both cables, and was afterwards loft. Crew faved. The Five Good Friends, Pan' K from Hull to Rotterdam, is carried into elvoetfluys, clitina3cd. The Crafton, PILE, of North Shields, bound to that port from London, in ballafl, was driven from off Scarborough, into Bridlington Bay, by the gale on Tkurfday tennight, and went on flume that evening near Mappleton, on the Holdernefs coall. Her rudder was previouily broken, the hold full of water, and tile pumps choaked. She is not es peeted to be got off. The Providence, Sims, of London for Shields, with flour, &c. is on thrive on Spurn point. The whole of the cargo is laved, part of it arrived at this port.—The veffel will be got off without much damage. The Sally, BFCR ET, of Lynn, was driven on the Trinity Sand, in the Humber, during 'the late form, and wrecked.—The crew lived. The Hero, OSBORN E, and Lark, GItIV E s, from Pea, in ballafl ; and the Friendthip, SA 1., from London to this port, with corn, have put into Yar mouth, with lofs of anchors and cables. . Our Sunderland correfpondcnt We are under great apprehenfions for the fliips which failed lafl week. The Providence, ARMSTRONG, is on fhore near Orfordnefs : crew laved, but the velrel is likely to be a wreck. The Ann, of Sunderland, has been towed into Yarmouth difmailed."4 The Pitt, -, fiom Newfoundland to St. Kitt's, ii taken by a Spanith privateer. and carried into Porto Rico. The Nancy, —, from London for Naples, is wrecked on Cape Prcfalgo ; Chip loft; crew raved, except one paffenger and a boy. During the tremendous gale of wind on the 21 ft ult. about three o'clock afternoon, the Diana, of Dublin, Thomas wafter, from Santa Cruz, bound to Cork, ftruck upon St. Bride's Point, in St. Bride's Bay, Milford Haven, and went entirely to pieces ; all hands (rave one) perifhed, and the number thereby loft amounts to 29, and one woman. The veffel was laden with rum, fugar and mollaffes, of which no part is likely to b Paved. Yefterday fe'rmight arrived in Leith Roads the Rambler, of Leith, Capt. NOIRIs, from New York. laden with aches, :laves, &c. The Rambler has bad a very boliterous paffagc, and at times the wind and lea were fo very high, that the frequently pitched the half of her bowfprit in the water. The brigantine Hope, of Aberdeen, Capt. Wismmtr, bound from Berwick to Hall,grain loaded, was drove ashore oft l hurt day the Hit init. near the light-hobfes on the Spurn-Point, in a hard gale of wind. Six other veffels went ashore at the fame time ; one of them totally loft, the others are all much damaged, but expeeted to be got off if the weather fhouid Ira ep moth :re. The brig Mary, of Workington, in Cumberland, Capt... SCOTT, Itruck upon Battery-head, on Sunday fe'nn'ght, and received confidtaable damage; but has been got into Fralerf. burgh, where file mutt unload. The fhip WAS front Rufaa, ►ound to Liverpool, with a cat go of wood and flax. Yefterday morning the Court Martial held at Sheernefs returned to hear the defence of Mr. PASLEY, late A6ting Lieutenant on board the Brauctau frigate, as mentioned in the STAR of yefterday : after hearing his defence, the Court, after mature deliberation, finding that part of the charges had been fully proved againft him, fen teneed him, that he fhould be difmifl'ed his Majef ty's fervice, and rendered incapable Ito ferve again as an Officer in the Navy. The price of horfes in Glafgow market on Wed. nefday tennightrote very confiderably. D raug h t horfes which would have fold a few weeks ago at from Isl. CO 201. were fold at 451. The storm of Thurfday fe'nuight exceeded any thing ever experienced like it in the Isle of Man. Upon Major TAUBMAN'S efiate, at Nunnery, up. wards of two hundred trees were blown down ; feveral others were torn up, in different parts of the ifland; a great number of houfes unroofed ; the pier at Douglas cunfidera'oly injured ; and t: e golden ball on the top of the light-houfe was blown off into the water. By the violence of the wind on Thurfday fe'n• night, a range of (tabling at Theale, the property of Mr. FROMONT, coach-mailer, was blown down, and nine horfes buried in the ruins, three of them were fo much hurt, that they were obliged to be killed. At Eaa Ililey, a wind-mill, belonging to Mr. JAMES COLLINS, was torn up by the roots and (lathed entirely to pieces ; it had lately been rc inired, and the damage is eßimated at 3001. — Fortunately there was no perfon in the mill at the time. A letter from Etrick, in Scotland, dated Jan. 18, Pays, " The weather has been filch as Etrick fovea bath not experienced in the memory of man. The fnow in December having been fofiened, and again frozen fo hard that no cheep could pierce it, we have been obliged to drive the whole of our flocks into the low grounds of Dumfries-(hire, or into the eaft country where fodder was to be had. For a month pall the prolpea here has been truly difmal ; the whole upper parts of Selkirkfhire, and the adjacent muirs have prefented nothing to the view but one defolate " You might have'travelled forty miles without Peeing a living creature, except a few difconfolate females and children, fcarcely peeping out of doors; nor has the fmooth furface of' the fnow ever been dillurbed by the foot of an animal, faving here and there by the half familhed hare :—even the nightly wanderer, the fox, afinnithed at teeing no creature but himfelf, had forfaken his wonted rounds. 44 Celebrated as the pafloral life is, you fee it has its difficulties;—nor is the above all ;—the thaw which is now commenced has intercepted the poor exiles on their way home, threatening the de ftruetion of many of them by flooded waters, ren-. dering it impaffable by breaks of fnow and ice." It has long been a defideratum in Medicine to free Opium from thofe diftrelling effais it is well known to produce more or lets, whenever it is ad miniflered.—This is at length effated in the Me dicine advertifed in the &II page, which, by means of a Chemical Prof, renders it comparatively harmlefs, it retains in the fulleft degree, its defirable propertie s o f re li ev i ng pain. foothill. ll t l t