Star. — London, England, 1803-01-26 00:00:00

11OLLAn'D. HAGUE, JAN. 25.—0 n the rgth inflant,Citiren SLMONSILLE, An:ha:radar from the French Re public, prefented to cur Government, in the name or that of France, a Note of Remonfirance again(' the propofed conver lion of the financialrefeription., payable eight months after the peace, into perpe tual annuities- The French Government difap. proves the meafure exceedingly ; and infilts, that the Batavian Government Mall fulfil its engage ments to the holders of the refcriptiens. The tavian Ambalfador, at Paris, had, before this xneafure was publicly propofed, km notice, that it would not be diffatisfaClory to the French Go. vernment. The French Direflory, when in power, had taken two millions of thole rrferiptions at 25 per cent. Thrill: have beer. lately withdraw n, and fold on the Exchange at Amilcrdam. Having la'n for fume years in the dell:, they were parti cti:arly known, when produced, by the frefhnefs of the paper. It is underflood, that Mr. V°, had made Come roiiiake in regard to the anfwer of the French K. oilier. The rcicriptions are now riling in value. They have been fold, time the note eta' prefentcd,l at from 66 to per cent. The houfe of Bofkij, at Amlierdam, had orders (on the very day on, which the Note was prefented), from the houle of VON •DER-HOL VE N and Co. at Paris, to make pur-1 chafes of this Stock to a large amount. It is pretty sv ell known fcr lahatnerfctu in Paris thole purchidesl were made. We have information from Bruffels, that all the demi-brigades of the French infantry, both light infancy and troops of the line, are to be completed to the number of 2,800 men each, by a coiji-rip ti,n. The regiments of cavalry and dragoons are to be railed, each to 6co men : the horfe chafrenrs and huffar regiments to Soo men each. The corps of cavalry and infantry of the Fritsr CONSUL'S guard will alto be reinforced with an addition of boo men. There is a great aftivity of manufafture now going on in the cannon founderies and the arfenals at Douai, Metz, and Strafburgh. The Minitler of War has given orders, in all the Belgic departments, to mire as many recruits as poffible for the colonies. FRANCE. PARIS, JANUARY at. The Sittings of the Swifs Confulta are drawing vs a clofe. The following intelligence has been received from Berne and Zurich: Bane, January 13. " The courier from Paris, who arrived yefteraay, brought in the Conftitution of our Canton decreed by the Deputies, and s approved of by the nit ConfuL The Canton is divided into diftrids, and the diftrids into tribes. The Citizens of the Canton, enjoying a fortune of 'cool. have alone the right of voting. Each tribe names an Elector out of fifty Citizens.— The union of thole Eledars from the Eledoral Body of the Canton, which names the Grand Council. compofed of 2)9 Members. It is to that Council that the Legiflative Power is confined; It appoints to all places. Twenty-levee of Its Mem bers from the Petty Council, from which are to be taken two Avoyers, a Treafurer, and a Chancellor, who form, with the two oldeft and the two youngeft Counfellors, the Executive Committee. The Grand Council appoints from among it. Members thole who are to form a tribunal of civil appeal, and a cr iminal tribunal. The fame letters announce, that Abe cantonal organiza tions of Bafie, Fribourg, Lucerne, and Sokure, arc alto com pleted; and that they refemble thole of Zurich and Berne. The molt remarkable difference between the old and new Con flit ution of the Cantons formerly ariftocratical, is the political equality between all the Citizens who compote than, the appli cation ni w hich is to be found chitty in the compofition of the Lledoral Bodies. The provifinn by which the exercife of the adminia retire and that of ti,e judicial power, arc confided to the fame body, ha, excited many remonitrances. It is luppofed that provifinn wig he changed. " We le.rn further, that the eftablifhment of a general Hel vetic Unit, to alTemble once a year, and to confift of one o...pla ty from each Carton, is agreed upon. To (Ralik& a certain equality among thediffe rent L anions, t be Deputies of the greater Cantons are to have different voices, in proportion, refpect ivei y, to their population. The Mee ti ngsof the General Di will be in turn. at Zurich, Berne, Lafle, Solcurc. rrihnurg, and Lu cerne. The Deputy for the place at which the Diet lams will be Prefideet for the time being." We have receive,: intelligence that the Emperor ratified, on the sth inflant, the Conventi us con cluded on the 25th of De.:ember, relative to the Supplementary Indemnities to the Grand Duke. The exchange of the ratifications is to take place at Paris. • All the attempts made by the Imperial Cabinet to enter into a new definitive alliance with RulTia, have totally failed. PRIVATE LETTER, PARIS, JANUARY it. The Annivcrfary of the trZt2een of England's With Day was celebrated here by his Excellency Lord WHITWORTH. the Britifh Arnhafrador, in manner becoming his Lottfillip's %tell known mag nificence, And firm attachment to the Family of his Sovereign. The Englifh Nobility and Gentry of Dillintlion now in Paris were entertained by his Excellency and her Grace of Doßsar. with a meld magnificent dinner, not exstlled in tafte and elegance by any of thole lately difplayed on the part of the luau. Tinos Minifters of the Kepublican Eflablithment, which far exceed thole of the Old Government. 'rite company confided of— L..setl Whitworth and the Du- aril Lair Bellso•-n-1,% cheroot Dorfet 1-1 , .n. Mr. an , i Mrs.NriElr:s The Doke and Duch& of Sr Mr. and Lady Ells. Munk rnerlet Lord It ,ri..gdon Lord and LadvCre•ninghani I. ..rd Lorkrdale I.orl and i..dy V.,rnion-h Lori 1, 0 ,1., 1.0,1 :l••d Lady ChP y 1...5d Lor I and 1....dy S:IAV:4I 3.8 C 5..1. The DIR iir Gripryttir and Lc:- far d.os n er weir invited, to;...ctl.cr with Lad)' wset t g For, r F R ; hilt wliethei horn ;illicit's, en the hilith: of prepar 1.4' a pt t h e lot i n cr away, we know Lot. Her Grace, Itnwsver, wis 11. 111g:1 Ij.i.ia 41 1%. i n it, lraid , t of a toillitn: ti,cle, at her iaitmuon s to tri , it rat the !':,h• tanirdic :,, e ." 111 , 1••:,:n in lir of her j. dy's Porili I by Al t h e p fun the An.liali.d..r's r— .xcertitst Lori TH and Ductitis 1)(1• wt. All ' R utlians, Lta.scn Ficn. h, t,,,,, s A4. " • 14 . '• 1..v.n to Agm supper at t n _„,••,1 Z w h . ... mr • . I ottu .tL.,ut Lvc itiOcuLz. 4 .0 0 • / •: 1 ). .• Nit • de/"." • . -•-t g -,,t - 6.1 z, _ : 1,.1 . LONDON. ERR ATVM....4R yesterday ' s STAR, In the London news 3d paragraph, 27th line, for " in their corps they firft began," read " in their cups," Scc. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 0. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Reduced 7t} t 3 per Cent. Cot!. 7ol—for ace. 71% Olds per C. tocli—Ncor ditto te3 1--Omniurn By the Henrietta, arrived at Plymouth from Honduras, we are happy to learn, that when fhe failed there was no appearance of any mifunder• fianding between the Britifh and the Spaniards.— We are therefore inclined to hope, that the ac couitts of this kind before circulated were exag gerated, if not unfounded. Several letters by the Jamaica Mail of Monday give (range accounts of the proceedings of the Frchch at St. Domingo. According to one of them, General LECLERC, in a fit of defpair, poifoned ; but this we do not believe. Another, from which we this day give an extraft, contains a mote probable Rory. It Rates, that feveral of j the French Officers, animated by the fpirit of li berty, formed a plan of emancipating the blacks, by putting themfelves at their head. Among tittle, General DUCA, A is named, and it is laid he poifoned himftlf on the difcovery of his defigns. Such rumours, if falfe, neceirarily arife out of the de plorable Rate of the French affairs at St. Domingo. The Dutch Loan forms a very interefting fub jett of converfation in the city. Some years ago the Batavian Government iffued Refcriptions pay able loon after Peace, which kept up to a tolerable price. Inilead of fulfilling the engagement, and paying them at the flipulated period, the govern ment raifes a new Loan, to which there Refcrip tions might be fubfcribed ; and thole not fub fcribed are to be funded. Upon this the Refcrip tions fell. The French Government was poffeffed of a large quantity of theft refcriptions, which it had come very bon fitly II no doubt. Perfons con• neled with the French Government were alfo poffeffed :of them to a confiderable amount. In dignant at the mode of difpofing of them, and the confequent depreciation, the French Government fent orders that the free and independent Republic of Batavia (hould make i , s loan in fome other way. —The news of this communication, or rather mandate from Paris, of courfe role the price of the refcriptions enormoufly, and it is Paid, a certain gentleman in Paris, known to be fond of money, forefeeing what would happen, bought up fuch a quantity at the depreciated value, that he has made a large fortune. We are happy in being able to give fome intel ligence from Malta, of fo late a date as the agth of November. Our Readers will not fail to ob ferve, that in that Wand the French follow the fame fyftem that has marked their proceedings in other quarters. The perfon who officiates there as Minilter for the Republic is abfolutely a French General ! (FROM all OFFICSIO Malta, Nov. 29th, t go& We have had no private communication for thefe months pall from Old England : men of war, however, have arrived, fome of them with difpatches, but failing under fealed orders—why or wherefore cannot fay ; no letters have been re ceived through them by the Garrifon. The evacuation of this ifland is not likely to take place fo fuon as expeded : the Britifh troops confine themfelves chiefly within the works of la Valette, comiaing of about 3000 cffedives, in. claire of about 200 of the Royal Artillery, and a detachment from the corps of Royal Engineers. Sevelal ad battalions of regiments have been re duced, and about too Officers belonging to them are on the eve of embarking for England. A moll tremendous form happened here on the night of the 23d ult. It commenced about (even o'clock in the evening, and continued molt furi oully to blow, rain, lighten, and thunder, till day light : the damages done have been confider able ; a breach, full fifty yards in length, was made through the fortrefs : other parts of the works were alually waffied away with the rain, betides fix hunks and a church beat in by it. An ordnance traidport, with powder on board, had her fore- Cal I iCti away by the lightning, which at the fame time, let fire to her in two different parts, hat luckily it was extinguifhed by the great torrent of rain then falling, without any ferious damage. ThelWitning (hock in fcveral points of the forti. ; a (hip lying in the mole was totally uilinallyd ; c..nlid‘rab:e damage has alto been done in tin: country parts. Both trolis and Iliips in this quarter are in the terviec• able lime, though neither by any mcansnumermis:rnmour gives out that the whole is to be rei.:ved in the courie of rotation : moil of the former have been on fres-ice pnvimilly to the c Inn eileement of the war. No Grand Matter is yet aiiived, thomgi,, by accemts, rme has been sl:fted ft.mt. time pan. A rresich General is now taidcrit ;i4 t hi s :land Asa Miniazr 1: am 114 t nation. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, JAN. 26. Our Sales this day are particularly dull, and Prices remain unaltered. 13111AD.—Yetterday the Lord Mayor, after ex amining the reports of the Mealweighers, ordered the price of Bread to continue the fame as laft week, viz. od. the (tartern Loaf Wheaten; and yid. lioufehold. WILTS AND BERKS CANAL. The Shares in the Optional Loan, which the fhortnefs of the timeallowed prevented the original Subfcribers from fccuring, have been brought, ac cording to a folemn engagement, to public fate. All were bought at a premium, and three times the quantity would have been greedily bought up. —The old Shares, which bear no interefl, are un der par ; but very few are ever feen in the market. Yefterday the Duke of YORK vifited their MA _terries and his Royal Sifters, at the Queen's Houk, as his Royal Highnefs has daily done, fince the indifpofition of his MAJESTY and the PrincetTes Sarnia and AUGUSTA. A great number of the Nobility alto left their cards, and made enquiries after their health, and we are happy to fay the anfwers were, they were much better. About three o'clock Mr. ADDINGTON arrived, and had a long audience of the KING. His Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief, it is laid, has it in contemplation to eftablifh the following regulation :—On felling . a Commiflinn, the Officer, whole property it is, is to fend in his refignation to the Commander in Chief, who will offer it, at the regulation price, to the oldeft Officer of nest inferior rank to the perfon retiring. Should he not have it in his power to purchafe, it will then be offered to the reft downwards, and want of means in any inftance can never be a detri ment to any Officer but at that immediate time, as the fame offer will be made on every fubfequent occafion of a refignation. This regulation will have the doubly good effea, of preventing men, who have Peen no fervice, from obtaining rank in the army by the power of money only, and of doing away entirely the neceffity of employing army-brokers. Letters from Lifbon, received b the Owners of the Lord Nelfon fchooner, dated January 5, Rate her fafe arrival there ingood condition,with acargo of pepper, pilchards, &c. for Venice and Naples, for a market. She failed the 28th of November laft, and has been ever fince beating about the Bay of Bifcay, trying . to gain the Straight in the moil tremendous hurricane and mountainous feat ever ken by the oldeft feaman on board. Captain C. thought it prudent to bear away for Lifbon, w here ' he arrived Cafe on the sd inftant, all well, with a great number of veffels of different de ft inat ions and nations, fome in damage, all waiting a wind to pufh through the Gut of Gibraltar. Extra& of a Letter from Kingfton, Jamaica, dated the a tft November, received by the mail of yefterday We have jolt received letters from Cape Fran cais, and Port-au-Prince, with news of the death of General LseLsac, after a few days illnets.— That event appears noways unfortunate for St. Domingo, as there feems now to prevail more fpirit and more confidence in Rociiessat•o, than in the late Chief of the Government. This new General has ellablifhed a defenfive plan, which is to be kept till the arrival of the espeßeci reinforce ments. Saint Marc is not to be evacuated, as Li- cLutc bad ordered it. CH RISTOPHI and Dr sse- ' Lines are with the brigands, but they will not venture any more before the gates of the Cape, fince their laft defeat, and as they cannot at pre fent depend upon a party in their favour in that town, nor in Port-au-Prince, two tiouland doubtful slaw baying beat, en both placer, trallported to the Sea (Isparta ala Ater) ; amongft whom were all the ci•ekvant black guides of the General in Chief, and of fome other European Generals: befides, fome Generals and Officers known by their Repub lican principles, have been embarked for France. •• General DUGUa ' and three of his Aides du- Camps, poifoned themfelves after the difcovery which was made of a plot for placing themfelves at the head of the Blacks, and overturning the ad miniftration of La cr. sec. The greateft difTention prevails in the army, where Jacobinifm has a great influence. The fyftem is now a total extertniwtion, which is a meafure deemed neceffary for recoil. quering the foil. " The plain of the Cul de Sac is untouched : there the negroes, cultivators, Orme& the planta tions. The mountains of Grand Bois and Mira tidal' are preferred, and have a French garrifon. The Southern part is maintained by a very aftive , vigilance and vigorous meafures. The Black Ge• neral, LARIT'S!, is there the Commander in Chief, to the great fatisfattion of the inhabitants, who preferred him tothe French GeneralDassu asAu who has been embarked and fent home. LA. FLUKE is the only Black Chief who now has a command; but he willies to go to France, and he will obtain a paffport for that purpofe. Nothing intere fling is expeaed till the arrival of frefh troops from France." Other Letters from Jamaica, dated Nov. 2 ;th, Rate the accounts from St. Domingo, received there, to be particularly difireffing to the French fleet and army. Previous to the death of General LECLERC, he difarmed the whole of the 6th regi. ment of men of colour for cowardice, and at tempting to join the Brigands, and with their wives and families had them conveyed on board an old tranfport, which was fcuttled and funk. The whole harbour was foon filled with floating dead bodies, the poifonous Rench arifing from their putrid Rate, and the heat of the weather. occa fioned dreadful mortality both afloat and on more. In one French frigate lying in the harbour, out of 270 men, 200 died in lix week : . Every day boats full of dean bodies were ken drawing to wards the (pore. The letter, which is from an in tell;gent Officer, rays, the French Officers pub licly declare their affair of the conqueß of St. Domingo is very fimilar to the unfortunate bu fincfs of Q!iberon, with the emigrants, in 1795. JRALAND. DUBLIN, JAW. 22.—We hear that a vacancy via Chord,' take place by the promotion of our worthy Recorder to a feat in one of the fuperior Cow ts; and that feveral Candidates have already fluted. The Cork Mail Coach was attacked about fir o'clock on Tuefday evening, the 18th inft. within 3 miles of Clonmell, by five armed robbers, who fired at and killed two of the horfes, and fev e r e k wounded the Mail Guard, robbed the coach and paffengers, and carried off the bags of letter:, which were difpatched firms the General Poll (Ace, on Monday the 17th infl. for the fullowit.ti Poft-towns, viz. Carrick-on Suir, Cafhel, Caale martyr. Clogheen, Clonmell, Dungarvan, Fer moy, Killworth, Lifmore, Ratlicormuck, Tallow, Tipperary, and Youghall. The Poßmafters Ge neral have offered a reward of tool. f•ir the ap prehending and conviaing any of the perfons con cerned 11 in the above robbery. An attempt was made onThurfday night to roi) the Northern Creech near Diugh:da, but G. E I - guard making a fl irited refitlancc, the mail r..:st cart led f rward in fafety. Tuefday morning lafi, the Newry Fly was flop ped about two miles from that town, by fevcral armed men, and every article of value taken from the palrengers. WATER/ORD, JAN. IB.—Sunday eight boxes full of dollars, laved out of the wreck of the fhip Moya. lately 101 l at Bonmahon, were brought into this city, and lodged in the Cullom-hook flares. LIMERICK, JAN. lg.—Saturday, General Palma arrived in this town, and took on himfelf the com mand of this Garrifon. On Monday laft, the Right Hon. WM. Wict it Al 4, accompanied by the Solicitor General, and Mr. FLINT, his private Secretary, arrived here to obtain the moll fatisfaaory information refpeaing the origin, nature, andteadency of the difturbances in this county, and to apply to them the moll mediate and effeEtual remedy. extotts as, Jaw. 19.—Laft night, betwen feven and eight o'clock, His Majesty's mail was (Lopped within four miles of this town by five men : the two foremoft horfes were killed, and the guard re• ctived a flint through his arm, which paffed alfo through his body, and the unfortunate man was brought in here on a car, with little hopes of his recovery. When, in confequenee of an attack fo well preconcerted and executed, the coach was in the power of this banditti, it is fcarcely necelfary for us to add, that its valuable luggage was the objeEt of their booty. Every bag, except only that to Colic, which efcaped, as we fuppofe through accident, was carried off, together with the blurt derbufs and piftols from the guard. The robbers being themfelves embarraffed in unharneffing the wheel horfes, forced the coachman to difengage them, and after packing their plunder in the large mail bag, galloped off. From an expreffion which dropped from one of thefe ruffians afterwards, we fuppofe one of' the (hots fired by the guard (and lie fired three) took effea—for when they had rifled the coach and a solitary palfenger, they made him and the coach man more than once to go on their knees, threat. ening them with inftant death, ,one of them ex claiming," you wounded me, I'll fettle you now." From the palfengers they took a bundle of clothes, his money, watch, and hat, of which they after. wards returned the two latter articles. Mathew Loneigan and Thomas Naghten wow ye'lcrday evening committed to the county gaol. by t 1 Right Hon. Earl DONOUGHMORT, on fuf• picion of being privy to the murder of John Fitz gerald, of Ardmote, on the night of Wednefday the t 2th inft. on the road between Newcaftle and Cappoquin. We are happy at being authorifed to Rate, that the Nobility and Gentry refident in this country. feeling a juft abhorrence of the difturbances which have lately prevailed, and of the atrocities which are always the certain confequences of fuch dif orders, are determined to affemble at Tipperary, on Wednefday the 26th inft. to accompany from thence the High Sheriff to the Glen of Aherlow. in order to tnanifeft to the deluded numbers, who Rand in need of fuch admonition, that they are unanimoufly and decidedly refolved to fet their faces againft all violators of the public peace. This day about one o'clock, a man of the name of Bran O'Meagher O'Ryan, from the neighbour hood of Nine•mile-houte. was brought in here by THOMAS PiNDERGAST, Efq. on Rrong fdpicion of being one of the party, who robbed th.: Mail Coach lag night.—The villains in their hurry overlooked nine parcels, containing bills on this town and Cork, to the amount of a thoufand pounds and upwards. His MAJESTY has ordered that a wall be bu:lt round that part of Kew Palace oppofite Brentfend, 6.0 feet in length, and 28 feet in height. A letter from Bruffels (late:, that the Auflrian Government has appointed a Commillioner to re pair to London, to fettle with the &kith Miniftry every thing neceffory relative to the liquidation of the Loans controlled in England, on account of His IMPERIAL MAIRSTY, which were fecured On different branches of the public rever ne of the Low Countries, as alto on the Domains of the Crown. A report has been received in town, that fonie time ago a French trading veir,:l was feited by GMEZZAR. PACNA of Acre, the cargo and the crew put into irons. The Fir CONSUL made a very humble application to him, through the Ottoman Porte, for the deliverance of the ple ; to which he is laid to have rerlitd, that, as 8014 AAAAAA 111 a made war up , in him at the time when he was at peace with the Porte, he could not nJw yield to ony requeft of his, by any other means than a Minifler fent dirs.:Cy to Acre from the French Republic to recognize his indepen dence, and to treat with him for peace. It is be ' lived that the FIRST CONSUL %sill not fail to asi 'upon the invitation thus given ; and that a neg.- elation h w ill opened with GNLSEtE PAC.IA, :55 with a Sovereign Prince—in nn:, no means wiij be overlooked to get a footing in Ez?pt 1