Star. — London, England, 1803-12-29 00:00:00

I LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER sp. PRIM OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s Coot for 0n.34-.-Reduced 5411-omnium 51 6 W. Long Ann. is} s5-16—Sbort Ann. 3 11-464. It appears by our Plymouth letter of this day, that the VILLA DR Naas of tto guns, Admiral CORNWALL is' flag Chip, was feen off the Lizard beat ing down to her old Ration, where by this time fhe hah no doubt arrived. The Fo UDILOYANT of 8a guns. it appears, was the moR leeward of the fleet, and fome fears were entertained for her fafety, but we !lad yef terday the fatisfaaion to announce her arrival at Plymouth. Seven or eight of the Breß fquadron lvtve now been forced to quit their nation and take thelter in port, and the remainder will be obliged to follow their example, as they omit have fuffered very feverely by the late liormy weather. The perfeve rance of Admiral Cottswas.t.ts and the gallant Of ficers under his command. in keeping at fea fo long at this inclement rearm, is however worthy of admi ration. It will thew our inveterate foes what kind of antagonifls they have to encounter, and how fruitlefs muR be their attempts to fubdue a country which poffeffes fueh defenders. We have no doubt that the noble Admiral who has held forth fueh an example to the navy in general, will be fuitably re warded. The intelligence we yefierday communicated of apprehenfinos being entertained at Copenhagen of a •Kit from the French, during the winter, is partly corroborated by the following account that has been received at Edinburgh : EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM SWEDEN. " You may depend upon it, that the EMPEROK has sefured to fend another Ambaffador to Paris in place of Mattor-, and the coolnefs between the Courts increafes. The Danes are much afraid of a vifit from the French. If they don't invade Holftein, it is the general opinion that they will take pofeffion of Lubec. BottaruTC muR difpofe of his armies, whether he drowns them in the Britifh Channel or otherwife." We look with anxiety for farther accounts; for with the information that has hitherto been received, it is impo(lible to form any thing like a corral opi nion. We can only suers at probabilities—and, only prefnming to guefs, we fufpea the Fiasr CONSUL has been fuggetting to the Northern Powers, ova a has of signore, the propriety of Shutting out the Bri -01 from the Baltic. His condua refpeaing the Tabe gives countenance to this opinion. It can hardly be fuppofed, however, that thefe Powers would agree to deftroy their own commerce to gratify the enmity of the French againft this country. If the demand has been made, (and we think it has,) molt probably it has been refuted. The refufal may have drawn a threat from Boravaara, which he has no way of executing but by an attack upon Holftein— for that an attack may be made in that quarter is much more probable than that one fhould be even meditated againft the capital itfelf. The account received yefterday, though it teemed to carry the laft mentioned inference, probably was only intended to exprefs the fears entertained at Copenhagen, that that part of the Dana dominions which lies expofed to an attack would be vifited by the French in an honile manner during the winter.—We may expect loon to hear fomething farther on this fubjea, with which it will probably turn out that the levy of troops ordered in Ruffia is intimately conneaed. An attack upon Holftein could hardly fail to hurt the pride, and wound the feelings of RufGa.— Holitein is the hereditary dominions of the ancef tors of the Emperor of Rossi*, who were all Dukes of Holftein ; and that duchy was only ceded to the King of Dtsraas by the late Emprcfs CarKauas the lld. in exchange for the Duchy of Oldenbourgh in Waphalia, of which a relative of the Emperor, and a younger branch of the Dukes of HoMein, the Prince Difhop of Lussc, was made Sovereign The greater part of Denmark, including its capital, being fafe from all attack unaided by a naval force, if that power be arming, it moil be in defence of Holflein. in which the Loth], the capital of the Prince Bithop of Lubec, is iituate. That Prince is the coals of the Emperor of Russia, on whom there is therefore a double call at the prefent moment to exert his power to retrain the houndlefs ambition of the diaurber of Europe. This day we received letters from Gibraltar, which we fubjoio : GtBRALTAR, DECEMBER B. ~ On the 3d, the convoy, of 47 fail, got under weigh for England, hnt the wind coming to the wcftward before they had got clear of the Got, they were obliged to return to the Bay the following morning. " This mornipg a Nall cutter, with Englifh colours, was obfer red coming through the Straights, when two French privateers immediately came out from under the Ifland of Tariffs, and attacked her warmly, and would, probably, have captured her, had not the lvlsuusa frigate, Capt. Cost, which was lying off the New Mole, inflantly flipped her cable, and, in lets than five minutes, was under weigh, with every fail fat in chafe of them. Th e privateers immediately flood fur the Spann lhore, to get under tile protelion of their batteries ; but the Manus*, loon getting within gun Mot of them, after a few broadfides, obliged the largell to fluke her colours, and drove the other on fhore, near Cabrita Point, with the lots of her mizen man, and otherwife much flattered. The one he brought in proves to be the Efperance, of 4 guns, and 70 men, the privateer which captured the Flora tranfport, and which treated the crew and paffengers with fo much inhumanity. Capt. Goaa's fpirited conduit is highly approved of on this occafion, and a few Each leffont will loon convince the French privateers, that if they violate the neutrality of Spain, when it faits their interefts, they, in return, (hall not be proteCted by that neutrality, which, on every occafion, they totally difregard, when they can by doing fo preju dice us. The cutter, which the privateers attacked, was from Plymouth, in 13 days, with difpatches for the Governor and Lord NILSON. Lieut. Patel, of the navy, commands ber : fhe was hulled by Come large (hot from the privateers, and had her fails and rigging a good deal cut : the will fail for the fleet off Toulon whenever the is repaired. " DEC. 9.—The Spaniards are now fitting out 18 fail of the line in their different ports. We learn, by our accounts from Spain, that this circumftance has alarmed the merchants not a little, as they entertain no doubts of being loon engaged in Ritual honilities with England. in fpite of all the facrifices that have been made by the Court of Madrid, to preferve its neutrality. The prefs for lumen is Rill carried on in the Spanifh ports. The fever at Malaga continues much the fame as when I lag wrote you. We are extremely cautious, to prevent its introduCtion here." Yeflerday morning his Majesry, attended by Generals M , MANNINGNAM, and SPINCIR, took an airing on horfebock in Windfor Great Park. The Hon. EDWARD HARBORD is appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk one of the Deputy Lieu tenants for that county. _ _ Captain FBA ROM is engaged to perform a few nights at Drurylane theatre. Nine hundred and fifty pikes, each nine feet long, were landed at Lancaller ha week, and were depo fited in the Caine. Latt week, the Battalion of Army of Referee list. tinned for tome time at Monmouth, marched through Gioncefter on their route for Portfmouth, there to receive further orders. Lord Kure has fitted up his refidence at Ealt Cliff, near Margate, in a very elegant and combo. dious Ryle. The concerted trial of the fignals eftabliftted in the county of Roxburgh took place on Thurfday laft.— The day fignal was made by fmoke, at noon, and anfwered remarkably well; the night fignal, by fire, was fixed for feven in the evening, and although the weather was very unfavourable, being wet and hazy, the whole four appeared in flame, nearly at the fame inftant, and continued burning for a confiderable time. The appearance they made, which was very beautiful, gives every reafon to believe that they will fully anfwer the obje& they have in view. A mode of bayonet exercife, we underfland, has been fubmitted to the Duke of You, which is high ly approved. One hundred of the Guards well 'killed in the exercife are immediately to be appointed to inftrue the Volunteers. The Pimlico Corps have made great progrefs in the art, which gives a fur prifing fupertotity over thofe who are unacquainted with fuch a mode of defence. The advantage is equal to that which a fkiltial fencer has over a perfon who never was taught the ufe of the (mall fword.— The inftrumeot with which the men are inftrutted, is made of wood, and the bayonet refembles a tragedy dagger, which mark the bit of the affailant without injuring the perfon hit. Letters were received in town yefterday from Phi ladelphia, Li(bon, Newfoundland, and the Baltic. A letter from Copenhagen informs us that two merchants of that City having, in difobedience to the I.ws, procured for foreign veils pairports and other papers, have been lately tried by the Supreme Tri bunal, and condemned, not only to a heavy pecu niary mul& but alfo to the lots of Citizenfhip. During the late war, the French Government fold by audinn, or difpofed of by private contra& up wards of t.soo merchantmen, captured by French privateers, from England, Holland, Spain, Portugal, and Naples. Moft of them were bought by foreigners, who obtained poltelfion of them upon the fecurny of fome French houfes, which bound themfelves under a forfeiture of col. per cent. of the purchafe money, to reftore the veffels, upon demand made by the French Government, upon three months previous notice, within the (pace of ten years from the date of the contra& ; or, if loft, to fupply (hips of the fame burthen in their places, Government undertaking to refines at the fame time the money advanced in part payment. In the (unmet of 1796, when the expedi tion againft Ireland was in agitation, thefe (hips were demanded by the Direaory ; but, by a partial rent,- ration and large bribes, particularly when General Hdeu t failed in that enterprise, the Direttorial order was laid afide. Shortly after BoN•ratisr's late re• turn from Boulogne, the Minifter of the Marine Department font notice to all foreign Confuls in France, and to all French houfes bound in fuch fecu rities as we have already mentioned, to fulfil their engagements before the eft Germinal next (aid March, t 804); or par the fines into the National 7 rea fury, under pain of military execution. Many of thcfc (hips were paid for by foreigners in mandats and aflignats ; others took them in payment for pro vifions, military ftnres, timber, &c. furniChed for the fleets or armies; and thus purchafed them, for perhaps one ballot one fourth of their real value. The toper cent. therefore, now demanded, will amount in Come cafes to nearly one half of the original purchafe mo ney. There latter circumflances have been commu nicated in a private letter of the r sth inft. from Paris, and we mull piefume that Government are well ap piled of them. We do think that they open a view to a fyflem by which lic AAAAAA a might get into his poffeftion many vcifelt now Or his s, aCtually and avowedly neutral, and known ns sch IWO" OW Ma DUBLIN, DEC. 24. Yellerday, Mr. Crofs, and Mr. Smith, printers, of this city, who had been taken into cuflndy with t wo others for being concerned in the printing of the Memoirs of BONAPAR.TE, were liberated) the others have been detained. On Wednefday laft, Lawrence Byrne, one of Dwyer's accomplices, was brought into town, under a thong guard from Arklow. A young man, of the name of Keogh, of Rath farnham, who had been arr^fled immediately after the 23d of July, has been liberated, it appearirg the charge againft him was malicious and unfounded. For thefe fome days paR notices have been ferving on the inhabitants of this city, according to the Ge neral Defence Bill, to know what horfes, carriages, &c. &c. they can furnifh, in cafe of any emergency, for the conveying of the army to any certain diretlion. Captain Naomi. who was unfortunately fhot and Boned to death by the infurgents near Dublin, on the 16th inn. was the eldeß fon of the late Vamp of aro+ '4. He was an amiable man in private life, a fond hufband, a good father, and an intelligent and courageous foldier. He has left a widow, with two children, and in an advanced Rate of pregnancy, now refident at Tooting. IFET'AIOUTH, DEC. 27. Yefterday morning the right fquadmn, with the entire band of the regiment (eleven of whom are Blacks) marched in here from Dorchener. The re mainder of the regiment are removed to Biandford and the neighbouring towns, until the ele9inn at Dorchefier is over. They are espeeed to return there on Saturday nest. The Weymouth Volunteers, confining of about goo men, are on aaual fervice ever fence the begin ning of November, and receive the fame pay as the infantry of the line, but not the meat and bread al lowances. They wear black belts, Re. like the Re ferve, and feveral of them are armed with Spanilh firelorks, taken from privateer laR war. A num ber of thefe arms have been diaributed to other corps in this country, but they are conitantly replacing by arms from the Tower as faft as they can be got ready. The Parses:A. (loop of war and another veal re main Rai in Portland Roads. A Pruflian galliot, the Young Peter, of Embden, from Rotterdam to Lifbon, that was at anchor in the Roads, fprung her mainmaß in the gale on Sunday. Yefterday ihe worked into the harbour here, and now lies at the quay. The wind continues t• blow fo Levee from the foothwud, that no velfel can venture to fea. EPIGRAM .-ON A UMW'S IaTCHEN. ■ Stare ow out wale sot r (good whalebone abler, Where Servants are melds or apt to be aim). In H 'a bitches* placed : A Footman, while bosom& was been as bb Thus lathed the old Deg, as beneath It be writ.. ■ We cannot Ipare say to wafts r 11. t. The New Pantomime at Covent Garden, after the alterations which it has experienced. promifes to be an attradive entertainment for the arliferar FiL r. They talk a good deal at prefent of calling it the filver currency. Some fl if pircepen lu the City, bow e v er, think it would be mach better to caU it eg, to fupply the deficiency of change which they at prefent fo much experience. - - - - - - The report of the Breit fleet being at fea, was very prevalent on Satur day, but next day, it ate over. A poor woman aged 52 years, was, a few days ago, delivered of a fine boy, at Caine. Her hufband is in the 74th year of his age. About a fortnight ago, two perfons in the neigh- bourhood of Ulndale, near Cockermouth, fora wager of half a crown (with a fa of their acquaintances) (wallowed (and by fair maitigation) dirtl . fix fill berriap, and drank three peck of a (Wtnehefier meafure) within the (pace of an hour I N. B. The cook, being a huutourill, fried the lea moiety of the herrings in half a teradlet 1 Among the prefents made to Exri Bar ' on the part of Government, were a hundred fakes from the armoury in the Tower, and a curious feven•barrelled gun, which he had admired, on examining that as done] repofitory. At Southampton, on Chrifimas-Day, the wind blew very violently, and particularly about noon. Several chimneys were blown down, and aorehoufes unrodfed in the town. Sunday the heavy gale of wind from the South- Weft, occafioned confiderable damage at Canterbury, a garden wall was blown down, various honfes were (tripped of their tilings, many windows broke and forced by its violence, and, in the country, trees were torn up by the roots. . . The Earl of Urea& Ossoav's carriage was plun dered on its way to town on Thorfday left, of a large trunk containing linen and wearing apparel. The robbery was a very daring one, being committed in Tottenham-court Road about the dufk of the even ing, and was accompliOnd under very difficult cir comßances. The trunk was placed in the front of the carriage, and fecured by an iron chain, and two leathern belts ; there were four Istafes to the catriage, driving at a good round pace. The late meteor has been put in requifition by the Flair Coast's.. to aid his attack upon this country. —The embroidered tapeflry of MATILDA, wife to Witctast the Conqueror. reprefenting the conqueß of England by that Prince. is now exhibiting at the Mufeum at Paris, and the attention of the Parifians has been drawn to it by an article in the Matittur, of no lets than eight columns in length. The FIP.ST CONSUL bimfelf went to fee this famous piece of em broidery. and was particularly &tick with one part, which reverent, HAROLD oa his Throne, at the mo ment that he was alarmed at the appearance of the Meteor which prefaged his defeat. He afked Meffrs. Devoe and VISCONTI how long the appearance of this Meteor preceded the ir.vafinn of Wicciasi, and was informed that it was two months and a half. or three months. The FIRST CoNtut, having rumi. nated for Tome time, with great gravity upon this croft important piece of infornsation, continued his lattninaticn* SPORTING. On Tuefday morning, loon after breakfaft, his MAJESTY and the Duke of Caw satocE, attended hr Lord WALsiNottast, Generals MANNINGHAM, M. Naas, and SPENCER. left Windfor, and rode to Wood End, near Afcot Race-Ground, where the Earl of SANDWICH and a large party were waiting the arrival of his MAJESTY to enjoy the fports of the field. The deer was Darted ir a few minutes after the arrival of his MAJISTY for the day's diverfion. At Darting, the deer ran with great fssiftnefs acrofs the race courfe ; and got into one of the new rides that leads to Tower-hill, in which he continued running with great fpeed for a confiderable time. When he was near King's Beach Hill he made a double, at which time all the royal fportfmen were in fight.—. From this place he took his crank acrofs Bagfhot Road towards Cobham, leaving Sir WILLIAM As- N s Y's feat to the right, making a double to the left, cromng the Heath to Potnell Wood, where he rat , for a confiderable time, making feveral doubles, st he , the hounds comirg up with him, he left the Wont', and the chace was returned in the adjoining incic litres, where he was clofely purfued, and was taken near the Heath, about two miles from Virginia Wa ter, after a run of Above two hours. The deer is only three years old. He was bred at Swinley. This was the &II time of his being turned out. On Monday laft a courting party met on the Duke of RUTLAND'S manor, the fide Hill, Newmarket, and had an excellent day's (Port. Six brace of hares were courted. and four brace killed, after feveral hard runs. Yefterday a walking.tnatch took place on the Weftern road, between two Gentlemen, of the City, for a confiderable wager. The parties aimed near Kenfington turnpike, for the 'purpofe of walking to the twenty•fourth mile-hone, near Maidenhead, and to return to the fame (pot, being a diftance of 47 miles. They are Paid to have walked the Brit twenty miles in the (tort (pace of three hours and three. quarters. We are informed the name of the visor is Cot.t.rnowoon, who arrived at the decided fpot in the (hart (pace of eleven hours, notwithilanding the in. clemency of the weather, leaving his antagonift at the diftanee of about four miles in his rear, The vigor has betted a eonfiderable (um, that be will walk over the fame ground in a confiderable lets (pace of time, which talk, we underiland, will bq performed is the courfe of the enfuing week. The Duke of CLAIIIICII left Nay Park on Toil day, oa a vifit to bis Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wes's, at Brighton. They Wye the Pavilion to. morrow, on a (booting party to the feat of Sir Heim, FIATIIIIISTOIte, for a few days. The Duke of POLTLAND entertained about 200 of his Poor Tenantry with beef, pudding. and drong beer, on Chriemss Day at his feat at Boliirocie, be fides tilliributing fermi loaves. and pieces of beef among feveral other per families. Roan? llsoDuarn,Efri. M. P. is the pa:chalk of the late Earl of Locate s bade, in Charks.lbeet, Berkeley4quare, lately occupied by the Zed .of Asor ma, and whither be will immediately remove his family. - - The numbers of Widows and Orphans who ware relieved from the Collodion at the laft Glooooder Mufic Meeting, are as follow I—Gloneefter, 4 wi. down. and so Hereford. t t widow.. and 49 orphans ; and Her 19 widows, and itS or. phans. The Dowager Duchefs of Beau FORr and her lovely daughters, have taken Lady Dowels's houfe, in Chat les•Rreet, Berkeley.fquare. Caoynow Assn stat.r.—A grand Subfcription Ball was given on Tuefday evening, at the Affembly Rooms, at Croydon, which was attended by all the Pathionables in the vicinity. The Ball was opened about eight o'clock by Mite Potts-maw and an Officer in the Militia. About eleven o'clock the company prefent exceeded too perfons, and the circle continued to increafe until twelve. The dancing was kept up with great fpirit and elegance until one o'clock, when reels and llrathfpeys concluded this agreeable diver. tifement. Q 2 ZILN OF POILTUOAL'S BIRTH D.I.T.—On the t9th inLtnt, the Annual Dinner in celebration of the QiicEm or Porructat.'s Birth Day, was given at the Thatched Houle Tavern. The Miniften of Auftria and Sardinia, attended ; thofe of Spain and Naples fent their apologies. The Minifter of Portugal pre fided, and among many others invited were included the Chevalier De Liwa, Admiral CAMPBELL, the Conful General Monfieur De LUCINA, the Agent hfonfienr J. Rasamacea, the Rev. Mr. PRYER, Fiat Chaplain ; and all the other Gentlemen attached to the Royal Chapel. The firfl wafts were— The (bees of Portugal. _ The Prune of Brasile. The King and 4Zuten of Great Britain, with Cod Sow the rho by Mr. Ferrel. The Sovereign of the Minibus precut. The Repel Families of Europe. The Prince of Wales,with Auk Beitaseht, by Mr. Dewey. The Minifter Prefident then role, and declared, that having drank thofe healths, diEtated by duty and refpeit, he would now propofe a toaft, didtated by Loyalty That all Poetognefe in Swope, in the Mande, to the Brazils, Africa, sad Ala, may ever have but one fentiment, and toe thought; namely : M The Houk of Braganca. or Death." Which toall was received with enthufiafrn by all prefent ; and, after drinking it, theglaffeswere thrown in the air. Admiral CAstraeLL then propofed the following fentiments, in the Portugnefe language, which were. received with general applaufe, and read in Englifb from the chair, IR• ad. 3d. 4th. sth. a. That the glory of the Sovereign, end the happinefr of the Sub. Ica. may be the coolant loadftooe to the pubtical compafa of Port a. u ttat the virtues of a beloved Prince. and the loyalty of a brave nation, may prove the Lot and Reel to (trite that Late. news Are, which fo much difUngutitted Portugal In the glorious or of WO. 3. That the Independence of Portugal may be as lice as her nears of defending It arc ample. 4. That the glory of the Sovereign may be eredled on the bar rinds of the People, and the happinefs of the People conititute the furporten to the Crawls of Portugal. 5. That Portugal may ever have an open heart for her Friends. and a drawn (word fur her Enemies. Many other loyal and national toafts, with (Kea• fional glees And longs, enlivened the company, which I broke up at a very late hour.