Star. — London, England, 1803-03-21 00:00:00

WANTED AFURNISHED HOUSE, within four Miles of the Royal Exchange, for Four Months from the sr.iddle of April, eonfifting of one large or two lbsali Far lours. four or five Bed-roans, with two rooms for Servants; Oath-hi-lure and Stabling for three Horfes. .IWlre4 a line to J. H. John's CoQee•houfe, HOLLAND. }Lour, Masten ig.—The news of the war. like preparations going on in England has °ma i-toned a peat fenfation here; and as Holland feems implicated in the Royal accufation, and of cootie has every thing unplea(ient to expe& from a formidable marine foe, Government are taking every porble precaution to fecure our treafures on the ocean from falling into the enemy's hands.— But what are the preparations making M our parts if we except the Louifiana expedition, which is doubtlefs intended to take poreffion of that coun try? If we have a few (hips of war on the flocks, they are not expedited with any extraordinary bale ; and, after what we have 1011, who can dig: pute the policy and the neccay of attempting gra dually to repair that lots ? and it is as much the intereft of the country as it is the finceredifpofition of the prefent men in power, to preferve the peace. The confort of the French Atnbarador de Si. MONVILLI is fet off from hence for England. The agreeable intelligence juft received by onr Government, that the ifland of Berbice has been furrendered, is fornewhat foured by the chance of being (hortly obliged to keep that ifland, as well as the others now in our poreffion, by the dint of mere force, inftead of remaining the exclufive 'offerors by the force of friendflup. The effed which the King's mefage, on the (ult. jeft of war, brought hither yefterday by exprefs to the Englifis ConTul, produced in the mercantile world, may be eater conceived than deferibed...- It operated inftantaneoufly ; and none of the hold ers of Well or Eaft India produce would fell a tingle parcel. The infurance on [hips immediately role from two to three per cent. higher. Even our export articles were depreffed ; the foreign orders are withheld for the prefent. The Government of State in the Hague held dole conferences, and expreffcs are continually difpatching to the feveral mercantile cities. Our Magiftrates have been a 1 Cembled this evening, on receiving a mange from the Government. Our (peculators are greatly alarmed for the return of their coffee-!Lips from Batavia, as it is probable they will be on their homeward voyage, before the news can reach them at Batavia. ROTTERDAM, MARCH ty.—The news of an ap proaching rupture between England and France, bas occaTioned a great confternation in our corn• mereial world. It is, indeed, but too true, that the Englith are preparing for the woril. How ever, if the apprehenfions of the Britifh Govern ment are purely excited by the preparations mak ing in the fea-ports of France and Holland, we do not conceive thefe to be formidable enough to excite furpicion : nor is there much reafon to fup pore that the colonial expeditions are deftined for any other than the purpofe given -out, where hov •'? they may be of more differvice to England than in the event of being employed at home againft her. It is more probable that England fezzes this pretence of arming, in order to acce lerate the pending negotiations; for it is well known that it has long been the plan of the French Government to keep the Englifh in uncertainty and alarm, without ferioofly meaning to hike a blow. The appropriate time for this is not yet arrived. All the holders of Weft India produce refufa to fell: and though coffee is not demanded, the prices continue firm. Sugars remain as before. Rice is fomewhat lower, and is noted at 7135. Cloverfeed is now dull. Qin is lower and dull : London proof is noted at to. Coals are got up to 3o f. per bd. and they are expeCted higher. Of feveral forts of Englifil dyed goods, therc is a fcarcity. The premiums of infurance here are confiderably advanced. In the flocks there is little doing. Yefterday in Amllerdam, Batavian Referiptions were noted at 663 a 3 ; to•day they were offered here at 66, but no one would give more than 631 per cent. FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH iS. We learn from Rochelle, that on the gth inL. the frigate Themis failed from that Road for Lil lian, having on board General Laws, our Am bafEador to the Court of Portugal. The Tribunate yeaerday adopted, by a majori ty of voices, 54 to 3, the 4th title of the Civil Code, which relates to the ahfent. Adjourned to the it 6th. Our trade with the Levant is beginning to re vive; bat the greatta difficulty is felt for want of capital. The Englith. who are much more for tunate is their commercial fpeculations, have eftabliated A kind of Company at Smyrna, and have adopted fuels wife regulations, that they have greatly the advantage over us. The Confuls have iffued a decree, forbidding the exportatioo of any articles cot:voled of gold or Alger. _ _ The Attar:an Miniaer at Ratifbon has received orders to steals to all the arrangements of the General Resew, without exception. It is generally believed at Brufrels, that the journey of the near Cossus. thither, will certain ly take place in the end of April or beginning of May. Lall Friday the principal inhabitants of the City alfembled at the Hotel of the Prefeau. rate, to organize the Fiasr COYSUL'S Guard o: Honour. M. Louis de Licers has been appointed Commandant of that Guard. Five per Ccnt. 59 f. 50 c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Faanciroar, Nttecis hardly roailale to conceive an idea of the jealulify tcilified by the En;lins merchants, in confequenc: of the efforts which France is making to rtvive !:er enatinerce. Wbile their eyes are continually turned towards the Continent, they become inflamed with pafflon, on foxing Dew commercial datiliC4runts fanucl in every quarter, which leas to threaten their re venues. It is to the inftigations of France that I they impute the care employed by Spain to re-ani mate the induftry of its manufthories, by feverely prohibiting the exportation of its wool. They be hold, with pain, the matures purfued on the Scheldt and the Rhine to prevent the entry of Englifh merchandize into the territories of the Republic ; the encouragement, on the other hand, given to thole who can find means to intro. duce into England contraband articles, and the declaration which, by making Cherbourg a free port for liquors and brandy, may give rife to a very confiderable trade in there commodities with the coatis of Ireland and England. It is in parti cular the eftablifhment of Chambers of Commerce throughout all France, and of a Council-General of Commerce in the Capital, which excites their nevi& attention, and efpecially as they fee that preparations are making to imitate there inftitutions in the other States of the Continent. Scarcely have the Londoners recovered from the apprehenfions excited by Colonel SRSAIITIANI, when they (peak of nothing but the cellion of the port of Tetuan to , the French, and of the fortifications of Tourne how, at the mouth of the Scheldt, deftined to (hackle the Englilb commerce. CORFU, Jaw. 3t.—The eftablifhroent of a new Provifional National Council has taken place in the Republic of the Seven Hies, and has filled the In habitants with joy. It has been compofed in the moll fatisfatory and molt equitable manner, and will Coon meet to employ itfelf in reftoring order to this too long diftraded country. MADRID. FRIRUARY ao.—A new organization is about to be given to the Spanith Navy. The condition of the Seamen will be ameliorated, and fuels arrangements will be taken as may in future enfure the pun(Aual payment of their waves._ During the latt war there was a great delay in the payments, which induced a number of failors to defer : an amnefty was granted to them, as well as to the foldiers, on condition of their making their appearance within fix months. During the month of January the fea on our coatis was exceedingly tempeftuons. Befides the Juno frigate, and the flip Cantabria, which had on board 600,000 piaftres, fix yeffels, molt of them laden with cochineal, indigo, and fugar, were loft in the Port of Cadiz. His Mikity has granted a general pardon to all prifoners detained in the different jails of the kingdom on the fame condi tionsas thole eftablithedat the time of his marriage. LONDON. MONDAY, MARCH 2 r. PRICE OF STOCKS I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK per C. Conf. money. 6 44/1/j. Ditto, for April ace. 65i r t. Olds per Cent. Ann. 99 Onaniurn to dif. PRICE OF STOCKS N SATURDAY. Bank Stock az Exacq. Bills. ss. dif. Pre C. Conf. 651 641/ Ortmlum +I 13 121 f per C. Ann 99 too 991 Englith Tickets til. ill& • India Stock 210 foe opg. Conf. foe Ap. ac. 664/ 65/ 66 India Beads par 65i DOILOI, MARCY t y. s per Cent. Government Debenture, 93 93 9a}. Courfc of Exchange—Dublin so on x 2/. . From our Correfpondent, in Dublin, we have this day received information firongly tending to confirm the account already given in the Sras., of the traitorous machinations of the rebel renegado O'Connor and his aniffaries in Ireland, to revive the fpirit and anion of difaffedion in that country. On Tuefday morning left, Major S RR, on informa tion received to that effect, proceeded with a guard to a certain place in Dolphin's Barn, where he found 84 newly-forged pikes, of an improved and peculiar conftrudion. The fame day notices were lent to the different Yeomanry Captains Com mandant of Dublin, to attend the Lord Lieute nant, and, accordingly, about three o'clock, they waited on his Excellency, who addreffed them to the following circa, viz.— di That they were called together not with the intent of treating any unneceffary alarm, but to aroufe in the people that energy which might bell avert danger, and efiablifh fecurity. From the fituation of affairs between the Governments of Great Britain and France, occafion might, proba bly, wife to call forth the loyalty of the Capital again : in times of great commotion, the City of Dublin had been left entirely to the care of the Yeomanry ; and circumflances might fhortly oblige General Mtanowas to call the military ' forces from the Capital, and confign it folely to the proteaion of the Yeomanry : although he had reafon to think that the country was generally in a Qate of tranquillity, he was forry to have reafon Ito fay, that there were Rill tailting proofs of con tinued treafon ; for within the laf 24 hours, 84 !pike -heads, recently forged, had been difcovered in the neighbourhood of the Capital ; and, there ! fore, it became neceffary for the feveral Captains of Yeomanry to afcertain what number of effe&ive men they could bring into fervice, in order that Government might iffue arms accordingly, and returns to this effea were to be made to Colonel , LITTLEH•Lis as Coon as polliblc." In confequence of this communication from Lord Haa owtc e s, tome of the Yeomanry Captains me: the follow ing day, particularly the Stephen's green Infantry, when it was warmly determined to re-embody the Corpswith all poflible expedition, and the Merchants' Corps appointed a meeting for Friday. Orders have.been given to the Board of Ordnance in Ireland, to purchafe horfes without limitation of number ; and the profs for icemen ; goes on in the river of Dublin with the greaten I warmth. Theft we're% exprefs, on the part cf the Ira COMIIIMIt, a vigilance faked to the importance of the unit repofed in them, but, at the fame time, they are not occafioned by any circumitanees which jetly encourage the attempts of foreign hoßility ; for although there are fome turbulent fpirits whom nothing can reprefs, and whore love of change no experience can corn& who cannot take a leffon from the (offerings of others, or draw a moral from liberty in profeilion, and ty ranny in prthice, yet the property, goodtenfe, and intelligence of Ireland will fupport its government, and render abortive the efforts of thofe intidions foes who may endeavour to reduce them to flavery under the pretext of freedom." Yefterday we received Paris Journals of the 16th, and this morning fome of the t 7th in flant. We have prefented fome extraels in the preceding column. They are hill fdent, generally (peaking, refpeding the mifunderfianding between the two countries. The only article we find alluding to it, is the following, which we tranflate TROM THE jouacim DU COMMERCE. " The peace of Europe is the aft of the French Government. After fo dreadful a war it was, no doubt, the moll fplendid favour which could ever be conferred on long fuffering humanity; and co temporaries will indubitably. in this refpea, anti cipate the judgment both of the hiftorian and of pollerity at large—it required a confiderable de gree of ability to divert PAUL L from his cruel and long exifling prejudices, and to detach him from a coalition to which he mull have been the more devoted, as he was peculiarly influenced by romantic fentiments of honour and glory; this was the firft meafure adopted for carrying into execution a 1 - yller:snot lets bold than great, namely, of urging. (as it were, between France and Ruffle) the belligerent powers, and compelling them to make peace, and expedite the execution of former treaties—wthat conception, which has already prov ed fo beneficial in its confequences, was the moll powerful guarantee which had ever beet; given to Europe of a folid and permanent peace. 4' England had twice impofed upon us—Lord CORNWALLIS would have perhaps given us a repe tition of the part which Ma Lasses va v had played —the circle of Popilius was drawn, and the treaty was concluded.—A meffage from the Kola of ENGLAND to the Houfe of Commons throws a dark fhatie over the peace which was fo much wifhed for, over this peace, which is as neceffary for his own fubjeas, as for the other nations of Europe.—Now what does this fame meffage con. tain ? What relates to heads of nations is to be fpoken of with great circumfpeaion and refpea— fuppofing even that ridicule were to attach to their decrees, a different conduit would be attended with fertous confequences ; on filch occafionsjolinz mull be out of the quellion. " 1 Ile KING of GILLiT BRITAIN thinks it need- Cary to inform the Houfe of Commons that, on account of the great preparations carrying on in the ports of France and Holland, be deems it expedient to refort to meafures of precaution for the fafety of his dominions." We can neither deny nor diffemble the Rate in which our navy and that of Holland Rood at the conclufion of the war—a nation &add poffefs a military power in proportion to the extent of its territory, and of its commercial relations, as well as to the force which may eventually be brought it—the fire care, therefore, of our Govern ment ihould have been to reltore our navy. The 1 3ritith Government did not, to be furs,' confider it was implied in the 'treaty that it could,. at will, fet limits to the number of oar (hips, and fend over a Consmiffary to the port of Dunkirk l—thofe days are gone by. Why then this uneafinefs with regarceto a Government which aimed fo cordially at peace, which negociated it with all its means, which commanded it with all its power, a peace which became fo neceffary for all Europe, perifh ing by a war, as inveterate as it was unreafonable. For the better underßanding of this melfage, we think it will be fuff►cient to traullate it into other words. What would be fait' of the French Go. vernment, if it tranfmitted the following =Cage to the Legiflative Body i 8 Government deems it needfary to inform the Legidative Body that, as the Britith Govern ment does not burn at lea one half of its navy ; that as a certain degree of Wale prevails in the Britifh ports, arfenals, and dock yards ; and beeaufe it does not execute the treaties, Ike. it judges it to be prudent to adopt meafures of precaution for the fafety of the State, ice." d. There is certainly no difference between call ing for the redudion of an ezilling force, or pre• tending toprevent the creation of aneceffati force ; but there would be a difference with refpat to the Governments which would hold fuck language, and France might alledge motives, which would sot, perhaps, meet the approbation of the Britith Government, for we might repeat, it was the French who wilted for, and who aaually made and commanded peace ; it was you, Brain; Go. vernment, that willed for war—k is you then who are to be fufpceed, and who arc calculated to awaken alarm. 14 England is borne down by an enormous debt, and fhe wifhes to make us pay the intereft of it, a. well as the capital, by the means of a Treaty of Commerce, drawn up in a certain way—it is verl good natured of her to make dupes of us !—Wc think, however, that if Europe has no right to confider ns as cowards, fhe can adduce no reafons to prove us to be fools. After having conquered with our arms; after having negotiated with equal ability, forefight, magnanimity, and refolution, it mull be fuppofed that a Government which was capable of fuch achievements, would have greatly degenerated, if it conknted at once to pay, irdi. redly, the expences of the war which was waged 1 again a us, and to cumin' the means of renewing it ! The period mull come when Governments, as I well as individuals, will do each other juftice, and confent, through their own exertions, to extricate themfelves from their embarraffment, however great, and into which their own imprudence plunged them, under pain of falling into a worfe and more unenviable predicament.".—Joarna/ do Commerce. The French funds on Tufilay IA fell about per cent. They were at 58 f. se c. What the Preach Journals have not dated to tell, we have been informed of by numbers of private letters, and we can affert, on the molt queftionahle authority, that the account of BON*. PARTI'S behaviour to Lord WHITWORTH, which we, left week, laid before our Readers, was in all the it:upon:int circumftances coma. Thole who witneffed the fcene agree that pallon was never exhibited with greater caergy.-4t may be the fub jea of difpute whether the conduit of the Prase Cowsua was an ebullition of sage, or whether it was the refuh of a premeditated deGgn ? If the latter be admitte I, he mull have intended to give fuch an elm to his complaints as would induce every public Bitnifter at his Court to communi cate the occurrence, *ith the reafon of it to his Court. The manner, it mull be confeffed, was highly indecorous, and was unworthy of the Gift Magiftrate of any Country; but in a parties hr manner of the Reprefeneative of a Nation that ranks Politenefs among its peculiar qualities. But whether it was premeditated or not, there was fo much of method in the madpefs, that coo is at no fors to draw from it this coaclufion, that the Fiasr Coesus. is incenfed beyond, seafarer at the condua of this Government. The following ftatement however has bees crane mitted to this Country, from perfons high is the confidence of the French Government, and as the French account of this curious tranfaaioa. Otte Renders will perceive that it materially differsfren our former account with refpea to the temper which is fuppofed to have aauated the patty chief lr concerned Thy, FIRST CONSUL being prefent At dse Drawing Room of Madame Boearaxxs, wMeh wok place on the (aid Ventofc), 13th Marsh, and having found Lord Werrwoarn and $. De MANCOVP (landing together, faid to the •We ' have fought far fifteen years, and it teems there • is a norm gathering at London, which may pro• 4 duce another War of fifteen years more. The ▪ Kiao of ESOLANA bas raid in his &lease to the ' 4 Parliament, that France had prepated offenfive ▪ Ang?aSnents he has been Mirtahees there is sot • in the ports of France, ;fly confiderable fort* • they having all yet out for Saint Domingo. He • faid there esifted fame diffairces between the 4 two Cabinets ; Ido not know of any. It is true 4 that His Majesty has engaged by Treaty, that 4 England thould evacuate Malta—lt is potable to • kill the French People, but not to intimidate them. 44 At the concluGon of the Drawing ROOM. the Englith Minifter, being near the door, the Con. stn. laid to him, The Duchefs of Doassv has 4 paired the moil unpleafant feafon at Paris; I molt 4 ardently with fhe may pats pleatant ooe allb; 4 but if it is true that we are to have War, the re. • fponfbility, both in the fight of Oon and Man, • will be on chore who !hall refufe to execute the • Treaty.' Here the converfation ended. The French papers now dirt, that the Fiasr Comity,. has notified to the Court of Si. Peterf. burgh, that be would comply with the wales of his Imperial Majeßy with regard to Make. tat we mull have this information from Peterlburgh itfelf before it will become entitled to much con. fideration. The Ditch, not being ander the fame rellra;nt as the French journalifts. have ventured to fpeal: out a little refpelling the preparations now carry ing on in our ports. In a Rotterdam paper it is obferved, that there is not much reafon to fappofe that the expeditions preparing in the ports 4 France, are deßined for any other fervice that; that which is avowed. namely. the colonies. " wheri hereafter they may be of more difervice to Enr land. than in the event of being employed at home againik her ;" it proceeds " it is more pro bable that England feizes this pretence of arming. in order to accelerate the pending negotiations. for it is well known that it has long been the pim et the French gore:omens to keep the &glib is nu; Be sec cov liai Eu CA CAI Go OM C..' Ti from been fa S xi:11 three ins•, the h neigb tour the S t.) LC/11 . The