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1' F - 77 - f '1 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Confab, fee jam. Sof 4-miteximeed t 541 Ognalom t s prem —lsetweeer Bins. plr se. pfer4. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Raab Stock Imp. Ana. -- 3 per ems R. mi. s qi Ruth. ans, rt. 31 piens 4pa Cant Ornstein sl press Legg Anis t tS i 6 EngiNfklielwe 191 iis. Tags Beads. se. 31. pr. Omfols ler am 6' bap. 3 per Calf& ,Slt FRANCE AND SPAIN. By the brig Snake, S which we yeller• day announced to bare arrived at Weymouth, from Lam, a letter from a Britiat Merchant at the lat• ter place was received, which mentions that it was currently reported at the time of his writing, that Bo had demanded horn the Spanifis Go. vernrnent a categorical anfwer to three quellions a. The astute sod arms of their late Negotiation. yrlth RAI f 1. The re..fone rce not providltig fuffielently fur the fecurity of their pnlie Moos is America 3. Why Spas was at precept arealaif Demandin; at the fame time the payment cf fifty d:lnland dollars per day. until fuch queflions fhould be fatisfattorily anfwered. The fame letters Rate, that two pack:ts from England were uff the Bar of Lillian, and mentioned that feveral captures of Englifh Tads had been made by Spanifb row-boats off the Oporto Bar. TURKS AND RUSSIANS. Our Readers mull bare leen from the Complexion of the intelligence given in the Paris journals for fame time pan, that the French intereft has lately gained an afeendaney at Conflacitinople that threatens a war between the Porte and Ruffla. That the Cabinet of St. Cloud has for a con6dcrable time been labout ing to bring on Inch a rupture cannot be doubted, and we are conspned to be obliged to Qate that we have every reafun to fear their efforts will prove but too foccefsful. At a erilis like the prefent. any intelligence that levees to throw light on a queftion of fuch importance to the intereils of Europe, cannit but prove highly acceptable. We arc therefore happy in being enabled to lay before our Readers the following letter, which comes from the Srft authority: CONSTAEITINOPLE, OCTOBER to. " Since my hill, public affairs in this country have " taken a very unexpefted turn. The French intlu— " ence has gained loch an afcendaocy with the Divan " that it is now very generally believed in the bee " informed circles bare, that the Porte is on the eve " of a war with Ruffia. " The Ruffian Ambaffador and his fuite have " every thing packed up, and are ready to fet off at a " moment. Yefterday he gave orders far all the " weals carrying the flag of that nation, to fail im• 44 mcdiately, and at the fame time recommended to " the Ruffian Merchants to apply to the Eaglifb • Aasbaffador for protation, as he would in future " crania& whatever .bulinefs related to affairs be " twecn the Ruffians and Turks. Notwithflanding all this many of us here hope, ' 4 perhaps becaufe we with it, that matters will not' " come to an 'dual rupture. It cannot be for the " interell of the Turks to involve themfelves in a " war with a power in intimate alliance with Great " Britain, and which can do them fnel: ferions in " jury, and therefore we have firong reafons to be " litre that they will avoid it if they can; but whe• ▪ they they will be able, confide:in the affiduous " perfeveranee with whieh the French endeavour to 41 blow up the flames of war, is a querlinn which os time alone will be able to unfold. Much will de " pond on the events that may take place in the war " that now threatens the North of Germany." THE LATE NEGOCIATION. - - On this fubjea a demi•offcial work was publifbed Janda, by Mr. STOCISDA LE ; at leaf fo we confider it, as it is evidently the produCtion of loins perfon annulled with the fecrets of Government. The offi cial information it contains is of great importance, and therefore wt would not think ourfelves jellified in withholding it from our Readers. The Author's reafoniog we have not time to examine, nor does it concern us—the public will judge (or themfelves.— We confider the produCtion as a bin(' Ants& of the documents to be laid before both Hfflif.s of Parlia• ment, by order of his MAJES TY. After a vafi vane; y of preliminary obfervations upon the general (hie and afpee of public affairs, the writer p. ti( cc& thus : Rull confented to treat wi.h France upon the famp'e baits of the flaw ask k//ant, with regard to her felf. Now, as RotEa had astuter gained nor I dl any territy,or theil,./to ante heihnii,with regard to her, *At the lame as the Hate of aaual polfeinon—the forces of the two belligerents having only to retire, and leave y thing as they bad found it.—RufEa, therefore, had no firmer propoled this foils of treaty to France, than France pros:s.46l the fare to England. This principle, however, as applied in different circom itances, :,ccame nominally a different hafts—with re. yard to Ruf6a it was the flaw site re• gari to England, the otipllletis.—Bat the difference, 8 , is ev id e n t ni t the face,; vas but merely nominal. It was in this Oita of cocumllances that the over. ture was made by France—lit ft in Matti and genet 41 tams, ttarieg, that— ••• • - - of reaec being equally to tbetvideat loterefts at the two idcgdowta--1 rmee hashes nothing to fear b the ge• nrnd Nerds et her armies. sad Fwgiand basing no fartber per tv•-ie rolled ia the cumtwatancc of ; tie Emperor sl Ger- many having made peace, and the Ramose Akrantkr rem-ated from Europe with attiolution to dul ha tempting no more —in this ftatt of things, fo happy for dm glory of Franew,bis Royal and Imperial Majefty bad no other wifb but that of pence, which might rettnee the intercoutfe of tattoos that were not farmed to be enemies." Ths reply. therefore, to the French aotiEcation, was fubtlantially— That England, embarked In a common elute, had no Intereft but that of the Confederation; that France could not be mu►e anemia to niters the tranquillity at Europe; that England, there fore, in concert with her aUiu, would eagerly embrace any over tures (or the commencement of negociaticui, which, by duly acid officially pledging the public faith to the Gnecrity °finch mature., prondlid their fuccefiful termination in an bonoorabk and per manent peace." This was a direB acceptance of the French over. lure, qualified only with the condition that it (lipoid be repeated in form. The French Minithy now thought proper to reply direllyi the fubflance of the anfwer, however, was ,little more than the fame affnrances officially repeat ed, in the form of a letter, from the Minifter of Foreign Affairs in Pal is, to the ?distiller of the fame officio) refponfibility and duty in London. Upon this, though irregular, the Britilla Cabinet confented to aB, giving here another proof of their anxiety far an honourable peace, by this repeated furrender of preliminary forms, and voluntary departure from diplomatic referee. The notification. however, of the French Cabinet, was ail/ general ; the Brittfh Government, accordingly, replied by a demand of— “ The Ws upon which the French Government wore willing to eater upon Negotiation, ea, is the event of foch a Negotiation being commenced, it would much facilitate Its happy termination to confine, within certain preliminary limit., the line of Went*. Bon ; that an explicit declaration on thi. 6 ad was therefore ex peeled from the part of the French Government, and was meet f ary to confirm the ccofidenee of his Majefty'a Government in the fmcerity of the French proporals." The anfwer to this, on the part of the Geyer gmeat of France, gave the decided form to the Negociation.' —The French Government replied with a detail not ufual in the ordinary coorfe of official correfpon. deuce ; it repeated ifs anxiety for the reiteration of peace, and even entered on that fate of things which rendered it an equal objeft of defire to France and England. In that interrogatory form, which is de- Solent equally in gravity, and, in foam degree con trary to the equality of Independent States, 4 It was demanded, what France could farther feet or hridt by war f that the fortune of war bad gives her enough, not only for her (afety, but for her glory; that the fate of her ume had left her no other bounds but her medentioo ; that having those& reeled all her own interefts—the lotted!, of her farm and her glory.-lhe had now no other aka than to contribute all in her power to the reftoration of general tranqainity, and the recovery of the bl.ffing‘ of peace, That, as France had nothing further to fur, fo could England have nothing further to hope in the con- Umlaut of hrltibties. That ills (late of ilium prefented • halt- , able foundation for the reftoratito of peace. That Prance gave full credit to the affin an ees on the part of the Emil& Govern. went that that Government Was anxious to give its efforts to pro- cure an event of flub inanifeftly general interett, and Is witch general intereft that of England was not the abaft incesidemble. That France, on her part, demanded the fame confidence, as to • linewity fo conformable to her batten, from the Irk& Gomm ment. That the French Government could not bet applaud the direelnefs with werkla their overture* had been hitherto media That Catch undue was worthy of an hoosurable nation is toter cards with a nation equally honourabk. That, in this oesibleoce the French Govern:neat bad no befnation to comply vela Ow in vitation of the Englith Mintiley, and declare, as a preliminary, the WS upon which the Negniation fhould be concluded. That, upon that fubjeet, France had only to repeat her declaration, that, neither in pace or war, had Ike any farther object of aggrandize ment ; that the French Government, therefore, bail nothing to reek let peace, but peace Melt; the relloration of the repofe of hula?, and that of Furore, and the ordinary keuritles that fuck peace Soule nut be merely seminal That, u • retch from tLis Rate of circumflances, the Punch Government bad to propole to that of Fngbod. that the bails of the Negotiation about to be en weed upon between the two Governments, Mould be--- " The Aate of Ulm' poireflioo, the we fyise/oh, fabled, how ever, to the exchange upon eqtrivaleots." _ . To this an immediate anfwer was returned from the Englifh Minifry a unequivocally accepting the propnfed balls, but— .. Excruptinp, from the principle of vicinage upon equivalents, his hfairlty's Haeoverian dominions, which, having been kind without any pretest of huftillty, or Jail ennife of the debts of war, were not an obj,dt of treaty, and al fuch an affurance was re quired on the part of the French Government, that, In any nego tiation which Ihould be entered upon, they thould not be fo con. lidered, but ihould be Teflon(' upon the conclution of peace, with out the demand of any equivalent." The balls of a Treaty was no fooner agreed open, than there arofe an event equally unexpected by both Governments,* an event which, on the part of the Boiifh Government, gave fubflance and meaning to what before was but a line marked by a fhadow Thls was the capture of the Cape by Sir HOMI YOtM•M. The French now perceived that the lasi pOiltils, which Mr. For had cnneluded upon, was salted into fignificatinn which they never intended; the Eng hill had cometh;ng ma retain, and what was more, thcy were refolved upon retaining it. The French Government. therefore, protefled againit (hi; acquifttion being included in the agreed ball•,—that !Living arifen fence, and being nor even within contemplation of the two Governments, it could net he conlidered as making any pelt of the contr.ia concluded between the two Pnwers,—that it was evidently no part of the time of attual poffet and as Inch the relleratkon of it would be ex paled on the part of the French Give, nment. It was replied, on the part of the lit id& Govern ment— ■ That [baba& of actual p..fr as agreed upon between the Arms upon both fides, cork! net look merely to the Rate of things it the padre point of time in which it was concluded— but that k maR neeeffarily comprrkcn thots variations, which, from the eircumflances raffling at loch point of time, mutt be coedits! en occur—that all loch riremultances, and the seriatim's produced then on the origtnal Rate of thing', mutt be ennfelered as part of the general Rate of poffeffion.—that at the time In which • the bafa was agreed upon, it was known to Europe that the Eng lab expedition , were wit upon fame diftant capture. The Cope • It i. lmpolbk that thli tvot could have been unforef..en by oar Mmißers; as they well tom the late Adminiftration amply provided for the co: simft o' the Cape of G•od Hope.l of Geod Hope was at halt at peffible as any etha. It sookl not therefore be pretended that the French Government agreed town 'helm& Ordinal poffeffian veldt a perfed it:mance that say thiog might polfildy arife to vary the date under which It was concluded., That the befit, however, confided of two parts—that of adieu poffellion, and exchange upon equivalents. That the Britifh Go• vernmeet, In their earneft &Arc for the friendly progrefs of the Negoeiatlon, wnaU oppofe no difficulty to :he difenifion of this fulled under the latter part of the hafts; that If France defired the relocation of the Cape, the French Government had only to propofe an equivakst In eaekange.•' It was now replied on the port of the French Go vernment, with that tone of haughtinefs and ill hn moor which. from the indignified interpofition of the parties too immediately concerned, has not un frequently charafterized that Government— That the honour and good faith of France to her Aka de manded the reftoratloo of the Cape of Good Hope ; that it could not be for a moment fulloined ; that the acquilidon ofk by Eng land had not varied the date of things under which the bah. of &anal polfdfion had been agreed upon by France; that the offer- Ma was equally groundlefs.tbat, to the then catalog ftate of thing% France could have (ordeal the needfef, or nem =WWI& y,Of fuck an event; that France died bet attention upon her own marine, and bad no regard to the Drilla+ expeditions ;--that, therefore, France would not•eonfkler the Cape aa any part of the date of at- Val potfetEon t the; the reiteration of It mu roes,fary ; that if England nqulred an equivalent, France bad already contented to give her one, MI ter 'Versa*. of Yetweer." To this, in the exprefa words of Mr. Fox, it was replied decidedly by entering fully into the fubjeEt of the occupation of Hanover— That Hanover had been Gila, not conquered—that it had been taken from t►e Mader, not from the King of Great Britain .-that it was the (poll of peace, and the pillage of neutrals-that no Nrgneiation could proceed, or would have been commenced, anlefs from the dlretit entrance that It •add be unequivocatly, sad wit►out equivalent. Mimed to the Medor—that loch affa rame had been givan-.-that Hanover therefore mutt be conlldered 'se:entre/ from all further dlfeudion...tisat the Agcnt of his Ma- Jetty's Government had It moreover in order to exprer. the refolu tire ands &falsity's Government to retain the Cape of Hood Hope as a permanent poffellion, unlefs the French Government Mould offer to exchange a continental objet of equal great value." The French Government replied by repeating their offer of Hanover,—or " perhaps Malta," in a long argumentativssanfwer. The faa was, that the (inse ct«) of the French Government was now changed by Come political occurrerces. It was now known that the Court of Peteriburgh was inclined to peace. The powers of D'Oubril were Paid to have been figned, and the Ruffian Miniftry, is a left refource to pteferve their places, had been compelled to fall in with the Court party, and propofe peace. The Engin Agents were upon this dcfired by the Ckvernment at home to declare— " That the negotiating' mutt remain furgiended, till the French Government Mould return to the harts within whkh it had bees mutually agreed that the dircuifion mould be confined—that it was only upon this baba that his Majeity's Government bad been induced to enter upon the propofed conferences—that they beheld with regret the wide departure of the French from their own pro pofals.—that ya Majefty's Government could not but fee la this departure too iamb reams to fufped the fmcerity with which that of France hod wade pad& ovule:mi.-41w In thin Rite of tidage Ida Majoliee Oartwomont could nos but confider It as con vary to lu dlyrky, and aD ha:towable caodoar, to continue a ne giseistion, which, in Its onlimmommait, promifed fo little fumes, lad in which one of the parties feemcd to hold it as a rule to re toad what they had granted, and grant only what tics intended to nitrate It was not however the interefl of the French Go vernment that the Negociation (Mould be thus clofed. With whatever little fincerity they had hitherto con ducted it, it had anfwercd a good purpofe to them, and could they have procured the kind of Peace which they fought, it would have done more to have confirmed the fortune of France than many "Marie'. The French Government, therefore, alarmed by the firmnefs of the EnglifhCabinet, now again thifeed their tone, and relapfed into that oßentatious profetlion of their defire for peace, which that Government knows well how to employ when circumllance► require. It replied to the Eighth Note of Remonfirance, by re- 1 pealing in yet more minute detail all thole circum• fiances which rendered peace defirable to the two nations. Who had commenced the week of peace f Who bad Invited t he attempt to give repofe to &trope / France—Why, therefore, mould the &troy her own work f In a Rate of things which did not all for factilices, which would (cartel, leave them jußiliable In the eyes of Fortuity, France had come forward in a tone of concelLon more lifted to her humanity than her glory. That France did not with to conceal teat it Was now the higheß point of her ambition to give peace to Europe and report to the world— that the French Government Rill retained the confidence that the Government of England would concur In Its efforts to this cod—. that the appointment of Plenipotentiaries, or fuller powers to the Agenu now employed, would much facilitate fuch an event—that it did not appear that the prefent Gentleman had any other flied& powers than thole of moiler. conference—that the French Govern ment waited with confidence and Impatience for the farther telU. mooy of the pacific difpoßdon of the Government of England.' The Englith Government replied to this Note by enlarging the powers of the perfons entrulled with the management of the Negotiation in France, and by a diree affurance, that when the Negotiation had affumed the necetrary form, a Plenipotentiary timid he fent without delay. It was now, therefore, for the firfl time, that the Negotiation began to proceed io semen, and with every appearance of a favourable termination. The Ruffian Minifler was daily ex• pefied at Paris, and not a doubt was entertained but that the end of his minion would be peace. A change indeed WAS momentarily expetted in the Ruffian but even this change, as brought about by Court intrigue, was expefied to be in favour of peace. The English' and French parties were to nearly ba. lanced at Peterfburgh, that, deflroying each other's influence, it was believed they would be totally with out effee, and that the event would be regulated folely by Ruffian principles and Ruffian politics. Franc% was now called upon to preterit a pr , , , je on which the Negotiation might affume a determined form. It was agreed, however, between the nego. dating Mininers parts fides, that the prOjet thOtlid r Etre come (tong the part of the Englini Agents, and that the French Minitter fliould reply to it by arouses It is not within the perpofe of this detail to fol low not; by note the alternately abrupt and retarded progrefs of this Negociation. Let it tilfce to fay generally, that nothing was negletled on the part of the French Covenant/it which could elude t* ' the BIWA, Negociators. Such were the endlef‘ con ferences upon the fuhjei of Malta—the mano r which the confirmation of the Baas Sovereignty over it fhould be t xpreffed—tbe extent to which It Maid be confirmed—whether it fhould be pared ji.3 fhould be mentioned as geeffion on the part f France,-or limply eonfidered as a part of the An te o f canal poSeffion—whether Englanil fboold pone(' it in perpetuity, or for a term of fame fever a l points, with many others of the fame kind. were de. bated with the nfual diplomatic dexterity on the pan of the French Negotiators. The complaints agaiolt the liberty of the Eaglifb pref. ware revived, cad, in reply to she anfwer of the Britifh Negoclator, that the Engliffi Government could not prevent even liiidares upon Well, a fingolar demand was made, whether an AR of Parliament was not of force to teed every thing t In another of the ennferencee the French Negotiator exprefTed his confidence, and, as it would appear from the language employed, npre. fed it as the direa organ of his Sovereign, that in the event of the faccefsful termination of the negotiation. the peaceof the two Governments would not be again interrupted by the ofientatious reception, according to their feveral titles and orders. of the French erni. grants in the Briiiffi Coert—that Inch acknowledg. meot would ever be confidered as cherilbing the di. refit enemies of the French Government, and mull moreover render impoffilsle the domeftic intercourfe of the'two Comas. There kind of topics lengthened every conference, and were dillindly the fubjed of many. It is as impo ffi ble, as it would be afelth, to relate them all minutely. Suffice it to fay, that, after the exchange of many projer: and colors pojeb, the fol. lowing, which was proposed by the Negociators on the part of England, was the one under dikulEon fo late as the middle of July left: t. France to modem the Cape of Good Hope In perpetual fo• vertignty to England. a. France to procure the Immediate reftoradoe of Hanover. 3. France In the fame manner to coi4irri the 'Riad of Malta he perpetual foverrignty to England. The article to be expreffed 4. France to evacuate the kingdom of Naples, and became a party in a general guarantee of the letegrity of the Tarkith Eso. pire. 3. That if, in return for a due valuable eonSderation, the Sib.. lane Parte cond be induced to the firreader or exchange of the illtrldt of Mootcnegro to his Ruffian Malady, France Ewald not °ppd . ; but Ewald oo the other hand falthfolly, and anomaly, concur to give ttf,d to fuck negotiation. 6. That the Republic of /tarifa fbould be decbutd Indelds• dent, but under the protettion of Rufia. 7. England, on her part, In return for the above cellkem s Ind the reiteration of the ordinary amicable interconge betimes as. dons at pacc, to ac►nowledge the Imperial and Royal Tit* most the Rate of adtual poff, fLoo on the part of France and her AO% fubjedt!to the a►ove exemptions only. 8. The leveret fettletnasts and Wand', coopored w the port of bit Britannic Majefty, from Foote or her Mao, m Als. Africa. and America, with the exception of the Cep at Good Hope, most the fettlements of Surinam and Poo:Wherry, to be roacced to do rowel Powers from whom they may have hem oeneliervel • This. fcherne or prO had been hue a few days In dileirffion, when the honour and aaoal flout-hist she French Government appeared in ire proper point of few. Thep?* was admitted into difeuEon, and difcuticd with much apparent heat, fo as to girt the mod natural colour to the artifice. Wilda the ftW picions of the Britifli Negotiators were thus laid elect), and they were congratulating theintelres upon being onjthe point of effeding the fnud objed of their aims—a ItmEan and Turkiflt barrier—the French Government procured D'Oubril to fign the am of the aoth of July, and renounce for ever that for which . England was contending. • • ♦ • • How did this affect the pr*t under ditcnffion be. tvreen the French and Englilh Governments ?—Why, the French Negotiators immediately declared, that Ruffle having sennunced the required barrier, and • Ragufa being otherwife difpnfed of, the prnpofals upon thrice points could no longer make pan of any drlcufGon. - In the mean time, the Eoglifh Court were loft in alloniffiment when they learned the ail of D'Oubril - They were already better acquaioted with the new Miniflry at Pcterfisorgb than IDOubril himrelf. They ' had received afforances from them of fidelity to the common caufe, at leaft of negotiating in concert—. How, therefore , were they to explain this aft of D'Oubril ? TheMinillry had been long enough efts bliffied for D'Oubril to have received new orders— D'Oubril, however, had evidently received none— the Court of Peterffiurgh was too much governed by private fa lion. The immediate Court Party might have prevailed—Even fuppofing the aft of D'Oubril not authorized by the new Minifiry, how could the Sovereign refisfe to ratify it ? Such Was the halation of the Cabinet of England —ln this difficulty it was accordingly refoived to fend the Earl of Lauderdale—What remains may now be difmilred—The details of the negmlatioe Of Lord Lauderdale will loon meet the public eye. The propofals of France were now dwindled down to the celLon of the Cape, Malta, and the reftoration of Hanover, and a free commerce upon paying cer tain Allotted duties, for which England was to foriren der all other conquered inane's, and to confirm, &c. &c. the nate nt •Anal poffeffion with regard to France and her Allies. It was now that another incident arufe on the ge neral date of European a ff airs, which was not with out a molt confiderable, and immediate effeB, upon the relations on all fides—This was the declare and even angy tone affunted by Pruffia in her intercourfs with France—The perfidy of the Court of Paris Mad at length ontilript that of the Court of Berlin, and . the latter. having already 101 l its honour. found it ne ceffary to enter into ,a cunflif for her exitience. The feafon for iemporifihg was now pall, and though in the habit of eluding, the had now loft half her Mi rage to ad ; the enemy was on her frontier, and it • was necelfary to march forward and meet him. This dilpofition of Pruffia doubtlefs improved the fituation of the Earl of Lauderdale. The Government of France, on their part, were rendared by the fame event more anxious for a final • fettlanient between France and England. This change of circumflance produced accordingly a change of the form of Negotiation on bo:h - fideat fnme conceffions were made on the part of the French Government, which induced Ms Eat l of Lauderdale f