Star. — London, England, 1806-02-28 00:00:00

--WOOS -• I - THE EMU* *T4I 0 LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONst O'CLOCK Confab, for money, 6off--for April 644—Radnced 61i. PRICE OF STOCKA YESTERDAY I Dank Stack %oaf 2:3 soai India Stack thi 3 per C. Red. An 6stt India Rao& 24 4 3a. pron. 3 par Cent Co.( 60.19 t Imp. 3 per Cent Oot 4 Pee Cent )91 Ifni Etebel /Mr 40. prow per Cent. Navy pill Lottery Tkk • tel. tan LONg Ann. 1719 t 6 CouL for ax. 61 64 We yeilerday had the fathfaaion to announee, in part of our impreffion, the capture of the Cape of Good Hope by his Hajelly's Forces. Major BAIRD, of the Army, with difpatches from General Sir Dam Bomb, and Capt. DOM/1174AP, of the Navy, with difpatches from Commodore Sir Flows Porstaw, containing the particulars of this itri portant event, arrived in Town at four o'clock in the afternoon. Soon after the arrival of there Officers, the follow lag Note was fent by the Fit ft Lord of the Admiralty to the Lord Mayor, and the receipt of the news wit. at the fame time announced by the difcharge of the Park and Toter guns: " ADMIRALTY, FED 27, /So& " Mr. Gast has the honour to tramfmit to tile Loan Mavot, the incload account of the fuceefs of his Majefly's Forces under the command of Sir Davin Resin and Sir HOU. Po►maw. " Admiralty Mice, Feb as, alto 6. • Otpusta Down: an, aide hiaießy's Ihip Diadem, arrived tide afternoon with difpoodam from Sir 140111111 POPMAIe, dated at she Ceps of Good Hope, the 13th of January. The &moots 11 night by Ude aster Rate, thlt the firadron tinder Sir Hone POPll4l.loleololMild arrived et the Celle on the Ath; that the inshing of the .t►oops was faded on the 6th ; and that ante an stilton on the tkh. in which the enemy loft about 100 and his ;!g *AO foam ahem Mo in tined and wounded, a capitulation WY lived ea the lath, by which the Ceps Town and it. &pen. &Was weft turrendand to hie Makites arms. General JA /I SOM. who cemm►aded t►e estray's troop., bed retired with the re. illaapSer hk fate. amannadint to about itoo or sOOO seta, Into tit Wirier el the country. (A one Copy.) Medan " Jaws. Snsw, Mayor. " Meabm•Heds. Feb.'s,. taco, " belt pet teer, P. M. ` In addition to the above particulars, we are in. formed, that on the landing of our troops on the 6th, General Basso infiantly advanced with them towards a hill, Amend miles diflant froth the town, which had previonily been occupied by the Dutch forces, to the amount of near sOOO men. The Britiih troops, whore t♦ayttber did not exceed 4000, advanced naon the imosiay under a tremendous fire of grape and muf. kinetry, and charged them with the bayonet. The Dutch (attained the charge with firmnefe fot time time, but in the end retired, leaving, killed and *oho dell, in the field, upwards of 700 men. Our land forces, which exerted theenfelves fo glo• rionfly and faccenfuHy in this inflanee, confined of a detachment of Artillery i a detachment of the loth Light Dragoons j the 14th, 38th, 59th, 71n, 7141, s3d, and 93d Regimeats. The following is, we believe, a pretty correB nate. trent of our own 101 l on this occafion t 7.lnedvitOart. Foams, rick R. sod Bitten privates. Worredodv4Anstssani Colonel CAMPIII[I.I., /la RAs.: Liette goat WOW 011•11 T, 7sd ditto; Lieutenant Camel Homer- UAW, 93d ditto ; Captain MT. , 59th ditto ; Az Sabal• tarns, and 573 privates. The Dutch General left about too of his troops at Cape Town, and retired with the remainder into the interior of the country. On the loth, the town and its dependencies furrendered by capitulation, without attempting any further refißance. The terms are of I the ofual defcription. The prifoners are to be fent borne the firfi opportunity, and the place is held for his Britannic Majcily. It is thought that the troops who have retired into the country under General Janos!, will not long hold out. They are chiefly foreigners, and their pay being in wear, it is highly probable that they will be inclined to furrender, and perhaps to enter in to our fervice. The want of pre:miaow' is likely to prevent their maintaining thernfelves in the interior, to that we may Conn exped to hear of the entire con quell of this important liniment —a potreflion of fo much value to this country, that we hope it Will never be again relinquilked. Some Dutch fchnyts, under neutral colours, arriv ed in the River yelterday, the crews of which report, that a formidable French army was in motion, fop pored to be defined to a,t againft Pruffia, who conti• mired to refill the demand of France relative to the hutting her ports againft tke commerce of England. It is probable, however, that the army alluded to, is that which has already been rived to be on its way to the toad; as we know that the molt vigorous exertions are now making along the French coalt, the objed of which, according to every accounj, is an at tack upon England early in the coining fpring. By the above veffels Dutch papers, one day later than thole we yefterday made extraels from, were rc,•,eived t alto fome of the unofficial French Journals to the fame date as thole of yelterday. The inhabitants of Frankfort have paid two mil lions, that is one half, of the contributi9n irnpofed upon them by the French. They hope by the alacrity they have manifcited in paying the &ft moiety, that the other will be remitted. We fufpeEt, however, that they will find the French adopt a different mode of reafoning. The French armies continue to accumulate on the Maine. It is sow afccrtaincd, that, with the weep• • • J (ion of Bowasaart'a life guards, &wetly a French corps of ronfiderable belies has puffed the Rh in e en the contrary, the conferipts continue to arrive bn the right bank of that Ritter. Franconia, the Land graviate of Darmlladt, Frankfort, and the dilltifts contiguous to that city, are rerefented as being in undated by French troops. The army of Auoa 'a Eau has been ;Imelda to fifty thoufand men, and 6611.hiDOTTI, with forty thoufand more under his command, is near at hand to form a junAion with him, if it &Wel be neceffary. Other di►iGons are behind there t fo that alraoll the whole of the force which beat down Auntie, can be brought, in the entitle of a few days, to bear upon Heffe, or Saxony, 4nd Pruffia, ultimately. It is Paid, that A ooze sates corps is to remain in Germany, " till every thing is `fettled." The phrafe is well underßood in the Em. pire. When Bo 's plias (ball have been rea -1 lized•—when independent States and Princes (hall I have been parcelled out, and transferred and ex changed one gait& another, according to his caprice, or ulterior •iews—then, and not till then, will Ifis troops evacuate the countries which they drain and opprefs. We have already had occafion to announce that the Elector of Baden is to be one of Bo 'a new Kings. His dominions according to repent are to be ;omitted by the annexation of Frankfurt, and a confiderable part of Darmfiadt ; the Landgrave of vitt:chi' to be referred for his indemnity to Weflpha lia, or more likely, after the example of the King of &iota lA, to wherever be can find it. The Pruffian provinces of Anfpach and Bayreuth are probably defined to pats under another rule. The Gazette els Frame offers a very ingenious argta• ment in fupport of the neceffity of the proje6ed alit , nation. This diminution of territory is even proved to be all for the advantage of the Court of Berlin. It is held out as the opinhn of the ablef Frahm Statefmen, and even his Majefly is Paid to be recon ciled to the principle, " that it is neceffary to facri fice the dillant provinces to flrengthen the heart of the Kingdom." We cineftion whether FILIONRICII %Visuals will be induced by the force of this friendly logic to content to the lots of Anion!: and Bayreuth, or to admit a principle which Bo has always ready fur the fervice of the Continent, but which, io no one inflance, has he ever applied to himfelf. AMERICA. Mails arrived this day from Halifax and New York, by which we have received American Papers up to the 27th January. According to the lateft accounts from New York and Walhingtonithe differences between America and Great Britain bad not been amicably fettled, however much defired by the Inhabitants of booth countries. The doors of the Convert are now thrown open to ((rangers as ufual : it was underflood that Arne matters of the laft importance were diteuffed while the public were excluded, and the proceedings of Con yers dnrirg that period had not tranfpired. A war is talked of between Spain and Ame. rice, and an expedition againfl the Colonies of the former Country is Paid to be in agitation by the American Government. • Yeßerday the Lou, Cams ca t.coa dined with the Duke of Dtvossio tan. On Wcdnefday !aft Colonel ?ANA Now was re defied for the Borough of Aldbnrough. Mr. MARIDIM retires from the &crew-y(6;p of the Board of Admiralty, and will probably be fucceeded by Mr. 0. MA222211. 'lhe Right Hon. J2I4ES F1TZ011121.2 is to be ap pointed Mailer of the Rolls, in Ireland, in the place of Sir MICHAIL SMITH, who retires on a penfion.— The Marquifies of Et.tr and Dario m IDA are removed from the Joint Pofimallerfhip of Ireland; and Lord HINLY Frrzoxitat.o fucceeds to one of thofe appoint ments, and not to the Tellerfhip of the Exchequer. The Duke of 1311202 D went down yefterday mor ning to Woburn Abbey, to complete his arrangements there, preparatory to his embarkation for Ireland, where his Grace, and the Duchefs, are experfted to arrive before the 57th of next month, nn which day, being the Feftival of St. Patrick, a fplendid Court will be affembled at the CAI!, in order to congratu late their Excellencies upon their arrival in that king dom. Yeflerday, Sir Isaac Hump, Garter King at Arms, with the proper Heralds, attended the Houfe of Peers, for the purpnfe of attending the ceremony of introducing the Earl of LAUDIRDALII, as an Eng lift Peery Lords CRSIIVILLI and HOLLAND were likewife in attendance with their robes, far the pur pofe of introducing him, but the Noble Earl did not arrive till four o'clock, which was too late for the ceremony to take place, it being contrary to a (land ing Order of the Houfe for a new Member to be in troduced after four o'clock. A regulation ha, been adopted by the prefent Go. vernment, the objed of which is to facilitate the pay ment to officers of their fiaff pay and contingencies, as loon as the money is iffued from the Pay office.— For this purpofe notice is to be given in the London Gazette and the other newfpapers,of the day on which iffiies are male for any of the above-mentioned fer vices. Thus the naff-officers will be officially apprized of the moment on which they ought to receive their demands, and no excufe can exilt f.,r protrafling the payment to the feveral claimants upon them. On Wednefday, Lord Moms, attended by General LAWSON, Col. D'AitcY, and a number of' other Of ficers, arrived at Chatham and infpceed the fortifi cations now nearly completed at thatplace. His Lord (hip, after a fhort flay, let off for Canterbury, on his way to perform a tour of the coati, fur the purpof e of examining what (late of defence it is in. Two troops of artillery hones are arrived at Chat ham, one of which is to proceed to Cavite? bury. • kAST INDIA NOME. :, . , Yeßeedit y a Genertai -Court of Proprietors was held purfuant to public Notice, for the purpofe of confi.ter. Ins a propofition from the Court of Diretkors, which Lad relation to the late Marquis Cornwallis. , The Chairman opened the bufinefs of the Meeting In a neat fpeech of a few words. He hated to the Conn, that the melancholy event (the death of the late Martinis), which was the occalion of their being then affiembled together, was not only deplored by himfelf, but by every perfon at all interelted in the affairs of India, and by every fincere well wither to the Britith Empire. it was, therefore, unneceffaty for him to attempt to pronounce a eulogium to the memory of a man what integrity and talents were recorded in the heart of every Engliffiman. It was Tome coofolation for the country, however, ro reflat that, though hi* invaluable life was loft in their ler. vice, he had lived long enough to arrange the plan 'ef a pacific fyllem, which there was every reafon to eipcfl would be abed on b f his focceffor (Sir George Barlow), and would produce the mon beneficial re hilts to the &inn% interells in India. The Coort of Diredlors had therefore come to a refolution to ca mels their gratitude for fuch important fervice, by voting a fum of money to his heirs, as a fmall re muneration which would have been juflly due to the Noble Marquis himfelf, had he furvived the labour of his late million. On the motion of Mr. RANDLI Jacasos the col.. refpoodence which took place between the Diretlois and Loid Cornwallis on the fubjeft of his appoint ment ; a letter of,the Noble Marquis's on his arrival in India, hating the enibarrafFed fituation in which he, found the Company's finances; the official flatcment of his Lordfirip's illnefs and death, by Sir George Barlow; and a fubfcquent letter from the prefent Governor General, holding out a hope that by the adoptiop of the Noble `Marqui.'s plans, a general peace in India would i.e fpeedily brought about, and the intereft of the Company be confiderably advanced. Mr. R. Jacasoa, in a very animated fpeech, re counted the many fervices which hid been rendered to the Company, by the late MOCIIII! Cornwallis; he dwelt with peculiar force on the mesitt of the politi cal lfc, and urbanity of rnanners.of that revered No- bleman, as well as his plan for the civilization of the natives, which had endeared his name to every man throtighout the Afiatic territories. He entirely can• corred with the Court of Dire fors, in the fentiments which they had expreffed, as to the propriety of voting a fum of Money to the reprefenratives of that great warrior and ilatefinan (Marquis Cornwallis) apd concluded with moving, 'Muhl' Or isosl o g hued sad deo ppm ossopooleatell AT the Mast tiMesesso emeassilsi tie Isis Nam* elposvalils, issodose obbstalr Illoislodsasapos slot Itstskol4Tiet sliolliost Num wit% ilnowsile the Crowe of Solis hatipmats which dry Pave iv lovingly emealred, Mat great and Marlow charades. That losititstor Crevices of his life, to 'feature the calamity of Ids Peek, Olen an deeply deplores the ton which the 1:111 ,1 Eolt Ise& Coaspobp pod.** Pdhlic have (Whined, in being de prived of the ski et to moth wiftioro, and Co much virtue, at a this of thdr Mai sfo peculiarly calling for the emerge of thole qualities. That trim under there (ormolu! Imprellon I. this Court cannot but partake of the fatisfaelion exprertd by the Court of Diredlo:s, that the purpofe for which his Lerdihip may be truly (aid to have , ffered up his life to his country, Is likely to be ft.;iy answered by the (chaise of general pacification which be bad dif- Mftiy marked out, by the progrth already snack In negotiation under his orders, and by the determination of Sir George Barlow the pre eat Governor General, to adhere to the prindples laid down by his prodeceffor, as founded upon the declared will of the Lcsitiature, mid the unequivocal orders of the Court of Dirt:Clots. Thai feeling equaly anxious with the Direaors to evince its grate fol refpedt for the memory of this eminent perfon, this Court doth cordially agree with their recommendation, to grant to the repro. tentadves of his Lordship the Glary of Governor General for the remainder of the year In which he died, sod for one whMe year betides ; but taking it Into its eonfideration, that bad the Noble Marquis lived he would have received that Glary in Bengal, and hove Iven entitled to fuch advstitages of exchange as ovoid have made 233 addition of upwards of eight thoofand pounds. This Court recommends to the Court of Diredlors to pretent to the It preen. Wives of the late Marquis Cornwallis a fum equal to a year aid a hairs Glary of Govcroor General, together with loch amount as , would have been produced by the advantage of exchange relishing therefrom. Mr. ROCK, in a fhort but impreffive fpeecb,feeonded the motion. Sir WILLIAM Bottom/oils bore honourable tefli envoy to the wifdom of the plans of the tale Noble Marquis, avnich, from ten years experience, he had' known to have been the means of rendering the inha bitants of India, who were fubjett to the kiritilli Go vernment, infinitely more happy than any other Art istic fohjeas. The Worthy Baronet then entered into a minute detail of the Rate of the Company's finances, from which he inferred that, notwithhanding the enormous appearance of the Company's debt on pa per, their finances were confiderably improved Since the year 1797-8; the Company's revenue was nearly doubled, their territory extended, and their frontiers Nrengthened. He then moved, as an amendment, That one half of the film propofed fhould be given to Lady Mary Singleton, daughter of the late Mar quis Cornwallis. This was feconded by General Campbell. Mr. Geasr, the Chairman, denied every part of Sir W. Burroughs' Ilatementof finance—wifhed much that the refolution might pats as propofed, and the Hon. Baronet might make his amendment the fubjeft of a dillinel motion. Mr. R, Thornton, Mr. John hone, Mr. Elphinflone, and Mr. Twining alio condemned the detail into which the Worthy Baronet had entered, aid fupportcd the original motion. The debate was proceeding, when Mr. &MAW:U.ILT obferved, that it had occurred to him, that the advertifernent did not correfpond witti the Bye Laws, which prohibited all grants of money v ithoin a fpecific notice, that fuch a grant word," he propofed. He, however, imputed no blinte to the . Chairman, whole numerous duti e s mi g ht ea fily have occafioned the miflake. Mr. ADAM, the Standing Counfel, confirmed this interpretation of the law ; and the Court was of nc re& y adjourned till fourteen days notice (ball have expired. The fleet which failed 110 M Cork on the evening r f the 2nth nit. return -d the next day, except the SQf en. hoop of war, and f.urteett fail, which had not re tut ned on the 23d. Monday morning, ac feveral of the Davis's Straits fltips wire the wadding of one of the gone of the Nior,)l.l:, in fca:inz, Ornck the (boulder and face of Captain I . Ft.-.sr,s ;.,m:1- , !, Matter of the Hotlnung, I-vgh, and inftan , ly killed . • 'NAUTICAL nu it LIGXNCL MAILS THIS DAY.—.ITIA4 WM.I •1111. Out. "00t. . Dublin • s a GottenbreVe ••' • 3 Waterford tz 3 iiamtstog... . 0 LlThon 2. z I jarful,' O 0 FALMOUTH; FOS. 2g.—Arrived the Waliingham packet, Capt. Gael' (ailing) from Lif'onn in nine days ; and the Mancheder packet, Captain Davisi from New York in nineteen days, both with mails ; the Adventure, BARRON, from Nino!. Wind S. W, P/14ZANcJI, Fla. 25.—This morning the PrutLan galliot the Rhea, of Stettin, 6ttit. CHAR LCS Gahm, from Labor:, failed with fruit, for London ; and the Nancy of this port, with block t in, _ acc. for &MA Pparsmoorm, Fulsome? d 7 .---Arrived l'Essont (loop of war from the Cape of Good H.pe ; lus frigate from Guernfey, and the Malades ( new French fhip lately captured), from Halifax ; Defen. der, Forward, and the Hardy gun brig from a cruise : the Anfon frigate is appointed convoy to the Weil ward.—Wind N. W. DIAL, Fes. 27 —Arrived the Pansrsao bomb, from Portfrnouth, WL TMOVTH frigate from the Eaft Indic., with a convoy, which have failed for the River; 11rw frigate from the Nore, Rants ua and Ost• son hoops, Uaarter, Acurr, BasiLisz, Moaarys And Dues, Ave gun brigs from a cruise, and the Suffer Oak ketch from Deptford.—ln the Downs, Edgar. Utrecht, Trully, Immortalite, Venus, Miner. va, Weymouth ; Daundefs, Raillenr, Efpiegle, Ansa. ranthe, Kite, Mofquito, and Bonetta hoops Prof pero, Devadlation, and Fury bombs; Diligence horn fh:p Urgent, Actite, Bafilifk, Monkey, Defperate, figreft, Mariner. Earneß, Flamer, jackall, Griper, And Archer gun brigs Harmony tranfport; Wal thamßow, Lord Nelfon, Afia, and Fame FAR India (hips ; Bullet Oak hired ketch, and Addington hired tranfport.Atrived and failed for the River, the Jupiter, DON*, from .Lillson, in la days pa/age; the beat ail Spanilh privateer. mounting 54 gems, and so men, in lat. 40. 35. N. long. so. as. W.—Wind N. W. by W. blows hard, equally. , PROM LLOYD'S LIST. Aitaiven-v•ln Standeate Creek. tie Thema*. Duel, from Se wing. ON Dover, Speedwell, Medlar, (wok Gibraltar. In Ike Clyde. Hope, PAacGoarge, from Bniknn ; ord, Humphries, from ; Mary, Rice, from Savanna h;nd the Recovery. Wylie, from Hew York. At &Valk, William, Were', front London. At ITlgelestso, Chirlotte from Liverpool. - The Amelia, Bevels?. from Penzance for Londoia, was captu'ed off Portland on the 14th The Burtend, —, from HuU for I f onsloo, captured and carried into Calais. Eztrat of a Litter, dated Torre de l'Annonciata, near Naples, Dec. 2, IBos :----1 , On the Both oh. (two days ago) we were reviewed by their Sicilian Ma- Jellies near this place. Sir Jona ( Fdrostar commanded the line. We exceeded eight, ahoufand men. Sir jaws CIAIO accompanied their Majeßies, who ex• maid their admiration at the appearance of the troops, and their confidence in the fupport which had been thus furnillsed by the King of Great Britain againft the common enemy. It walla curious cir cumllance to contemplate a Brains may manceuver ing at the foot of Vefuvios, whofarlofty crater was di(charging its fmnky volumes air their heads. The day was fine, the grosnd of review 'on which the troops were afferobled was the felt beach, and the profpeft of all the Britilh (hips of weer and tranfporu in the Bay, decorated with their lerightell colours, contributed to reader the whole one of the moll im preffive fpeilacles that could be imagined—add to all this, that the regiments which were reviewed, are fome of the fined of the Briti(h army. ,' There was a very confiderable eruption of Ve liavius a Ihort time before our arrival, the lava of which is (till warm between Naplei and this place.— The effetla of the earthquake are elate every where throughout the kingdom ; there i fcarce a hoofe in Naples, this place, Callen a Mare, or any where along the coati, that has not a vifible rent from its roof to its foundation. In Abruzzo, where its atlas were particularly felt. feventeen thoufand lives are (aid to have been loft. Every bleffing has thus its counterpoife : were it not for thefe difellers, to which this country has been fometimes prone from natural caufes with which Paovousaca has thought proper to tax it, its climate would render ita paradife." The General Court Martial, which has been fit ting in Brißol, has elofed : one of the charges brought before it was inflituted by Capt. Catiettdifh, of the Welt Middlefex Militia, againit Lieutenant and Paytnafter Francis Auftin, of the fame regiment; sit, for refuting the payment of the Captain's bill for the payment of his Company; ad, by fuch refufal keeping the men from their pay, which tended to fubvert good order and military difeipline ; and 3d, caufing it to be ennfidered, by fuch refufal, that Captain Cavenclills had made a falfe demand, injuri ous to his honour and reputation as an Officer. The opinion of the Court is, that the Paymaller is guilty of the crimes laid to his charge ; but as his coquet proceeded from an error in judgment, the Court fen tenced him to he reprimanded, which fentence has been coufirmed by his Mijcily. Coast EXCHANGI, Fa s. :S.—Owing to the late blowing weather, the Market is without arrivals of Grain io general—waiting better fupplies, but few tales are effeeled—Fine Wheat fu:ports laid price ; Barley likessife, and frw prime (ampler here—White real at the late reduetion —The Oat Trade, for thole of hell quality, is rs. an I as. per quarter dearer -1 In Fiour and oilier articles bin (mall vari.ason. CZNIiIAL CURISNCT All UNDIII: Wheat. 45S 60 , 70. prr qr. Grey Peale jcs 369 Finc Ditic, 7sit Iss cd Ric. 37101 od Scam, (old) scs 56, Tick Ditto 44, so. Oti Bar 1 , 4,171 33. 04 M■k, 63, 69. at Ulitc l'eak, 33 4 421 04 Oat', 34$ 28$. 31$. Palms iitco 3ss 33► 6d Rape Seed, 381 431 - per klt. PLICI Ot 'LOUR. 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