Star. — London, England, 1803-11-24 00:00:00

TußgEr. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 9.—The Governmenthere ha. os. . 5..: he agierablc intelligence that Alezan• dria is not 'lt to t.: , e Porte. According to the ac• count: received idle, the foll'•wers cf AIM(' t, CH AS 11. i Vc into the Icfart, and the Porte ap peal> to has I touch lefscaufe fm anxiety widi iefpett to them. Tlie CAP/T iN PAC H A has taken two Mainot corsairs off the coaft of the Morea, and cut off the head of tbe Captain of one of them. As many AP binefe have gone in European vetfels to Cairo, to join the infut gent Arnauts there, the CAPITAN PACHA has complained to the European Miiiiiters here, and requefled diem to prevent the Captain: of fJcli veffels from taking them. The Ruffian Ambaffidor has pro pofed the more effeaual meafure of ftrialy prohibit ing the emigration of the inhabitants of Albania, and their embarkation on board riny veffels whatever. A few weeks (ince another fire broke out in the neigh bourhood of the magnificent mot - clue of Santa Sophia, which confutned above a hundred bonfes.—Several Councils of State have been 1:1d, and great levies of troops will immediately be made.—The CAPSTAN PACHA has received orders to keep a prong force on the coalls of the Morea. We have had reports here, that French troops had already landed in that penin &la, but there are now known to be unfounded.— Many troops, which had matched againit the rebels in Romelia, have returned to this vicinity.—Not withilanding the vigilance of the French privateers, a fhip from London, with a rich cargo, has lately arrived fare at Smyrna, where a Tut kills Ihip from Barcelona, with a great quantity of Spanilh colonial commodities, and which had been fuffered to pals by the Englifh, has likewife arrived. PARLIAMENT/Mr ;PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23. A meeting, loon after two o'clock, took place this • clay. Several arrangements were made with refpeet to the hearing of Appeals, &c. At a quarter before three their Lord(hips (having previontly adjourned till Wednefday next) proceeded to St. James's with their Addrefs to his Majefly. HOUSE O COMMONS. Immediately after the Speaker had taken the Cline. he laid that It was his duty to inform the Houfe that certain Burgeffes, who bad petitioned that Houle in the month of Augnfl daft againft the return of Members to Carve in Parliament for the Borough of Great Grinay, had not entered into the recognizance need:ay fur fol lowing up that medure. Several new Members took the Oaths and their Seam Mr. DUNDAS brought up a Report from the 'Waterford Seled Committee, listing that Francis W. Grant, Efq was abfent from that Committee, and that Mr .Ward had celled to be a Member of that Houle. He therefore moved, that the fitting of that Commit tee be adjourned to Friday next. The Honourable the Sri...eta Rated, that the Houle had al ways received with the utmolt jealonfy any Motion for the ad jouniment of an Eledion Committee. However, when it was leen to be confiltent with the attainment of the ends of jollier, or that the particular eireornfiances of the cafe required it, they bad fonsetimes granted that indulgence. According to the Aet of Parliament, any Gentleman being abfent from an kleetion Com mittee, of which he is appointed a Member, Nall be fummoned to attend; be Stall then either find a fulficient ramie or incur the cenfure of that Houle. How far the prefect cafe merited the indulgence to which be had alluded, it was for the Houle to determine. The queltion was then put. and the adjournment ordered. The number of days in- which El•dtion Petitions are to be received in Great Britain, or derofited with the Clerk of the I Crown in Ireland, was then fixed in the fame manner as lalt &Son. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART. the Committee on the Expiring Laws Janina appointed. Several other Committees were fixed for certain days, as is cruel at the beginuiug oldie bedlon. Mr. Everson moved that the order upon the journals of the Houk, refrain, the qualification of T. Fydell, Efq. Member for Bolton, ihould be then read, for the rurpofc of pcifipuning the time of his delivering in a particular of Lis qualification. The Steamsa oblerved, that be knew of but one inftance on the Journals of the Houk. in which that time limited for deli • trains in filch a particular bad beta extended beyond the regular period of s s days; that was In the year '740. and was the cony: de of the prefent cafe. The Houle, howes,r, would determine wise - tha the prefect was a cafe which called equally for the indulgence if the Houle. Mr. Etuson then moved that the time be extended for keen days more—Ordered Mr. lawns gave notice that cm Friday next he would move for leave to bring in a Bill (or the more cranially manning Lis Ma jetty's navy. On the motion, that the EleCtion Petitions on the Table be re newed together, and taken into confide:ration an the order to which they had been prefetited to the Hou.e, or according to the order of JAR felion of Parliament. The S obferwd, that the Middlefee, hliditurft, and Southwark Petition.. which be then had before him, were pre- Stored in the order in which he moved them ; but that they came within the cth Chia. and neither was entitled to any preference by the orders of WI feffino. The CMANC/LLull of the Feeler iv ea laid, that when theft Petitions were to be taken into coofideration, it might be cm-en try to have a Call of the Houfe, a. had been the ',make left fef- Ban- He did not think it likely that there wqpid ha a very tell at- Msdance of the Houle for loose time. ti, therefore moved, that the Middies Petition be taken into confideration on Iturfday the tel of February, at three o'clock—doe hlidisurft at half putt diree—and the Southwark on Tuefelay the 7th, at three in the 'Stemma, as that was a time that fuck hairnets was moil likely to come forward as wuuld produce a fuller attendance of the Houk. The quettigri was then put from the Chair, and the cc:Rank-ra tion of thole Petition* fixed accordingly. AM:MISS OF THANKS. The Hen. Mr. CIOPLFY ASFILFY brought up the report of the Committee appointed to confider of the A.:drefs of Thanks to his Majetiy for his moll gracious Speech ; and 'the Speaker having put the queflion in the affirmative, Mr. WINDHAM role, and addrend the Houle to the following rift:49—A. Sir, in the few obfervarion, I have to make, I do not rife for any purpufe of re- Visiting the Went %%hid) I yeilcrday gave to the Ad drefs of Thanks to his Majelly, marked as it has been by the unanimous vole of this Houle; but I rite fir the purpnfc of timing, ditlinelly and expli citly, the ground, upon which I have given that al Int. I was extrinnly that the Addref, fhould pal. wick the rni.fl rifen wiaiiiinity, and it is lily nio:i can detiie that this univerfal 1 - m6- rue -I', in a cti moments's, aid perilous as the eertt, I . 'ool cou'in.te until& ht O. I linecre:y wish for a vote vales trill evince s t his :,fajc:ly the I •va:ty • f and him of t.•e zral aid V et d_•••+ n. ..ring v.th wi,,elt we ale .13wited U• Lurni.m...l I • :rti-ns Co f,.i p : rt the cage of the -uun• • rr•rznt aw1..1 to. is rtu , e ; rblic .t. 4;•11 I; I .re, to exp:.:l3. fervt•m: it riArd ..g.C.E.11 an 16 , o:rut into whit.. wino potitdus may iall ; 1 t‘iilli to prevent an idea from going ahrbad, that the unani mity which has been (hewn upon this occafion, is unanimity in fupport of his Najd Miniflers.— Some perfont think that Minifters are identified with Government io a certain degree, and that therefore they fhould he fupported in all their meaftires. If, by the oppofition let up aping Minifters, thefe per cons mean a captious and frivolous oppofition, an op pofition calculated to perplex, not to air& and invie Borate the meafures and operations of Government, I certainly fhould not agree in their fentinient but, if there fliould, on the other hand, be perfons on this ride of the Houfe, who think that Minillers have (hewn titemfelves inadequate to the execution of the arduous duties they have undertaken to difcharge ; that they have themfelves caufed the greater part of the imminent danger with which the bell interegs, and even the exigence of the Empit e are threatened; that they have themfelves failed in thofe grand mea fures of public fecurity which they ought to have adopted, and that Bonaparte and hia legions are lefs terrific than that band whom you now lie on the Treafury Bench, guiding his Majelly's Councils ; it follows then, Sir, that thefc perfons are in potrellion of futaient grounds to juftify them in withholding from fuch men their fupport, and in depriving them of any (hare in that vote of unanimity, which has been folely given to Government, in defence and prof. lion of the common cattle. Of this eV. I confers myfelf one ; convinced as I am of the total unfitnefs of Minillers to difcharge, with honour or advantage to the Country, the great troft which has been veiled in their hands. To rid; defcription of pertims, thinking as I have defcribecl them, I do not heiltate to fay 1 belong. When I look at his Majetly's Miniflers, and confider their talents and attainments, I am ready to give to them all the praife to which I know, and probably they themfelves know they are entitled. I certainly behold men who have had a very liberal education, who are favoured with large endowments, and who are not degitute of great acquirements. But viewing them as men fit to isrefide over the fate of this Empire, at a critic like the prefent, I do think they are incompetency itfelf. I fear that, if they are fuffered much longer to retain the guidance of his Majefty's councils, the tountry will not outlive their adminifiration. They are the Augeuli under whom the fate of the country will fall. Power has, I lament to fay, been too long in their hands, and we are fait approaching to the fulfilment of thofe melancholy forebodings to which a juft knowledge of their want of talents, and inca pacity for Government, ha? fo frequently given rife. It is two years fince I was compelled to fay that the Right Hon. Gentleman had figned the death-war rant of the country. I have felt it neceffary to make thefe obfervations, in order to thew to Gentlemen the obvious diflinelion which crib between the fup port given to his Majettv's Government and the country, and that which tome perfons give to Mini.' tiers, identifying them with both. The Addrefs, I admit, is certainly drawn up with great and proper caution, and, generally worded as it is, does not require any minute invetligation. I agree that, with refpeet to the date of Ireland, more hope is expreffed than is warranted by fats and the actual conjunc ture of affairs in that part of the United Kingdom; and I coincide in the fears expreffed by the Honour. able Gentleman (Mr. Fox) who made that remark in the courfe of yelterday's debate. I might with that lefs frets had been laid upon that part of his Ma jelly's fpeech. Another point fill more objection. able, is, in my mind, the hope expreffed of the final line of the conceit in which we are engaged, and the refult to which our exertions will lead. In my opi. Mon, we thould look to fomething mote than the mere fafety of the nation as the iffue of the prefent ilruggle. lam not one of thole who think the coun• try tale becaufe it is not conquered, but extend my view:. to permanent advantages, to durability of in dependance, and to the fecure triumph of national honour. It is not, Sir, in my mind, a mere efcape from the dangers of the threatened invalion, or from the perils of aaual defcent, that ought to afford fa• tisfaaion to thole who are actuated by true fenti menu t.f patriotiftn ; yet this appears to me to be the utmoft point to the attainment of which the talents and labours of his Majefly's Minillers are directed. I was afhamed when I read in the Addrels, of the in glorious conquelts of Demarara, of Elfequibo, and Berbice ; pnlicalons which were caft away by the ene my. I will not, however, Sir, detain you by dwel ling upon fithordinate points ; and (hall content my. felt with declaring my perfeel conviction, that what ever may be the condua of Minitlers, the country will never relinquith its fpii it, nor relax its vignur. I have now only on: Jingle fubjea to which I beg leave to call the attention of the Houfe, and of Mini. tiers. It is the firlt opportunity I have had finee my coming from Norfolk, where, like other Gentlemen, I have been engaged in the common defence ; and it , may, perhaps, be the IA before we are called to more alive exertions than the delivery of our fend nients in this Houfe. The fubjeet to which I allude requires no anfwer, and will not therefore, in the flighteft degree, difturb that unanimity which I am Cr tincerely dellrous fhould dillinguith our vote on the prefent occafion. 11, notaithltanding the infor mation which has been given to his Majefly's Mint• flers, it thould happen, front their want of attention to that information, that any great ftroke lhould be Bruck, unlet's indeed the groke were to dellroy the acculer, the accufcd, and the accufation, and thnuld Is cep away at once the poet and the long, I myfelf will be their *easier. I thought it my duty to make this gatement, which the Honourable Gentleman cannot confider as a charge, but as a notice or a me lIACC, I now employ for enforcing their attention to that which is m. 41 deferving of their attention and their exertions. With this declaration, Sir, I (hall fit down, pri Idling my perfett deteimination to fop. port his Majetly to An unlimited extent at a moment to awful as the piefent, with all the means, with all the reiources, with ail the zeal and power of the country. But I mull tay, if any attack he made in a certain quarter to which h have alluded, and if that attack unfortunately prove iticcctsful, it can only be fit through the want of attention t 44 the part of his Maiefly's The Addrefs having b-en read 6un the Chair, and by the Clerk, was agrecd to cram rontrmli.-rii..c, and ordered to be prefented to his Tvlaietty by the whole lintite; filch of the Members of the Howe as are of his Majefty's Piiey Council being hill appointed to know his gracious pleasure with ref; :ft to the time a placating it.—Adjuurned. LONDON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24. PRICE OF STOCKS ]'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK' 3 per Cent. Col.f. for money, 531 i Ditto, for NJ,. 5.3 i 54 Re..:l:ced 53-4 per Cent. Ggif Old 5 per Cciit.B7}l--New ditto 87}4 Onniturn 83} dif. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock Loos Ann. 154 3 per Cent. Rel 53;} ' Short Ann. 3 1-16 3 per C. Conf. ss}} 53} 54 India Stock 165 166 4 Per Cent. 68{} Omninm 84 8 Cf. 3 per Cent. Ann. Bth} Lottery Tickets, lit 41. Imp 3 per C. sit} Conf. fur ace. S 4 lit Ditto 1'97 87i}} Dom.'s, Nose's sex i 2.-5 per Cent. Goy. Debedures 173. Comic of Exchauge—Dublin on London is i a is}. Difpatches were laft night received at the Admi• ralty from Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, offGuernfey, with official accounts of Captain DUNBAR, of his Majefty's (hip POUL ETTA, having driven 30 fail of French veffels on the rocks, in the neighbourhood of La Hogue. In that Iltuation they were ezpofed to the fire of the POUL ETT 6 for Come time, when the crew volunteered to go in their boats, and endeavour to bring off fume of the vaffcls as prizes. They fucceeded in capturing a brig, a lugger, and a (loop, and damp ing the other veffels, happily without the lola of a tingle man. Thefe three we c‘-nfider as the fame vet fell that wcrebrought into Portfmouth a few days ago. HAMBURGH MAIL. The letters by the Hamburgh Mails of yeflerday, not having been delivered from the Poft Office till after our Paper was at prefs, we are obliged to re. peat a fat or two which appeared in only a part of our impreffion. Our letters. from Hamburgh, confirm the accounts already received of the demands made by the French Government of a forced loan from that city, with which the Senate has been obliged to comply. The city is to fupply France immediately with two mil lions of marcg, and to furni(h befides three hundred thoufaad livres, per month, as long as the French are in pofieffion of Hanover. A Commiffion of Senators and Citizens has been appointed to come to an arrangement with the French on this fubjeft.— Similar demands it is faid have been made on Lubec and Bremen. General BEATHIIIt is raid to have ufed very high language to the Senate of Hamburg!), and to have threatened, that if they were refraaory, General Mormilt would come with 30,000 men, to kin: them to miens. The inhabitants of Holßein nre alto under great apprehenfion of a vifit of the like kind. The enormities committed by the French in Ha nover have become the fubjea of general execration in the North of Europe wherever they are known ; but the moR important point in there letters is what relates to Ruffia—that Power, it is generally believed, will foon declare war againß France; but fbould the Ruffian fleet be once (hut up by the ice, it is ap prehended that the French, who trample or, the rights of neutral territory without the (mallet helitazion, will then occupy all the ports of the Baltic. Another important piece of intelligence is con tained in a letter from Venice, of the 2Sth of Oflober, as follows :-4. Several (hips which have arrived here and at Trielle from the Levant, Rate, that an Englilh fquadron from Malta, had appeared before Alexandiia, and with the confirm of the Beys, had landed feveral thoufand men, who took poffiffion of all the forts in the neighbourhood of Alexandria. The Ist letters from Conßantitiople make no men tion of this circumaance, but Government has an nounced officially that Alexandria is not log to the Porte, and that the adherents of Abdul Wechab have retired to the &fart." HAM SURCH, Nov. 4.—Our city has been for thefe two UR days in great confufion and embarraffment, from which it is not likely that it will be able to ex tricate itfelf without confiderable facrifices. What has been lung torefeen and foretold by all who have paid any attention to political matters, is at length Cottle to pal's. The French having entirely (tripped Hanover of every thing that it was poffible for them to get at, and having certainly let out upon the prin ciple of maintaining the Army of Hanover at she expence of other people, no matter of whom, finding now that no more is to be got in that quarter, have applied to the lianfe Towns, as being the nearetl, the weakeß, and moil able to furuith them with mo ney. They have, accordingly, made a formal de mand of a very large fum (as it is faid, of four mil lions of dollars), in the fhape of a loan, for which they offer to mr,rtgage the Duchy of Laitenburg.— The French Minitler, Citizen Rsenuaaur, bas alfo prefented a long inculpatory memoir to Ole Senate, wherein he complains, that people are here employed to recruit for England, and has named (eventl per. lons as being engaged in this recruiting ; that a fhip, on hoard of which fome hundred perfons are going as fettlers to America, is really declined for Eag. land, and that the laid fettles-. arc Englifh recruits, and many other complaints of a fimilar nature, and equally founded in juftice and in truth. Lail night the Senate was affembled, and again this morning, as were alfo the Aldermen and Council of 6o ; but nothing was decided, and, therefore, nothing can be pofitively known, the Senators,&c.being bound to dif. dole no part of the deliberations, till after a Jecifion has taken place. All that is known is, that the pro. poials above•mentioned were deliberated on, and, as, is generally believed, related provilionally. To. "sorrow is a general meeting of the Citizens, when it will be decidtd what is to be done. It is moll pro bable that the city will be forced to comply ratite than expore itfelf to be put under military execution. General BERTIMR, who has been here en :his burl. net's for there few days pail, was upon Change the day before yeflerday, and endeavoured to perfoade the merchants to come into this meafure. 'limy re prefented to him that it was not porGble, in the prt feliz (late of things, for them to agree to foch a flip; that he knew, as well as they could tell him, that their trade was at a total nand, Sec. To all this, it retros, l he could find no better anfwer than to fay, " faire quelque et -le pear la Grande Nation." The Englith Mir.ifler, Sir GEORGE RUMBOLD, i Paid to have advifed the rejeelion of the propofals.— In the mean time, a thoufand reports, all equslly falfe, are fpread and devoured with an avidity wt.:v. is aflonifhing even to an Engliffiman. Now we al: told, that to,ooo French troops are on their maid., and will be here the day after to-morrow ; that di , French have feised a large number of waggons con: ing from Lube:k with Englifh goods, and mar.) , other news of this nature. Some think that we have a Frill:Gan garrifon, or a Danith one, to preter us ; but confidering the condo& of all parties to at time, it does nut teem probable that Prufli r, in par ticular, having delayed its interference fo lung, fhould now come forward, when it is, perhaps, too late.— It is here pretty generally believed, that RutEl will loon declare war against France i but here agair the fame fatality, which has accompanied till this time all the meafures of the Continent, extends its de. &naive influence. In a fbort time all the ports of Ruffia will be flint op by the ice, and the fleet, confequently, rendered ufelefs. In the mean time, whether Ruflia aaually declares war or not, it is very generally apprehended, and that upon very good grounds, that as loon as the Ruffian fleets alually are blocked up, the French will, without delay, occupy all the ports of the Baltic feA, at ler& thole of Mecklenburg and Holftein the inhabitants of both which countries are by no means eafy under their prefent profpeas. _ _ The news from Hanover are indeed of a nature not very tranquillizing for thole who fee themfelves expofed to fhare the fame fate. Betides the robberies and extortions on a grand rule, the profits of which moftly go to enrich the Gene,als, Commiffaries, of the great nation (the Comrnifrary-General Ms cnatto has =aired already upwards of two millions of livres), the inhabitants are expofed to a thoufand vexations, which are never heard of except individu ally and by chance : for example, feveral French Of. ficers have martied young women in Hanover, who have fine difcovered that their new hufbands have wives and children in France. A few days ago, a party of tc.o French foldiers fuddenly furronnded a houfe, where a company was dancing, to celebrate a wedding or Come other feftival, and Come of them entering the &trembly room, went up to a Hamme -1 rim Officer, who was dancing, and without raying the why or the wherefore, put a piaci to his head. and blew out his brains, becaufe, as they Paid after wards, they believed that he was employed to recruit for England ; an accufation, which, it feems, was totally groundlefs. Under a fimilar pretext of look ing for Englith recruiting Officers, they lately came to a public-houfe on the territory of Hamburgh, where, not finding tke mailer and miarcfi. and it being denied by the fon that any fuck perfons were there, they, without more ado, Ibot him dead on the fpot. ANOTNIR LITTER, SANS DAM The vifit of General Burn se, Chief of the Staff of the army of Hanover, has put us in great agita tion. He has made a demand of a heavy loan, as he Pays, to cafe the States of Hanover. That country to be fure has been redly plundered ; and after the Generals and Commiffaries are fatisfied, the reft goes to France. The troops are left unpaid. Lubeck and Bremen are likewife called upon for a quota. Every day we hear of fome violence committed by the French. On Wednefilay they flopped the tranfport of goods in Lauenborgh, leading to Lubeck ,bot this appears for the purpufe si main fees. It hos:- ever creates foam oneafinefs—and IA they atould proceed spina the trade of Lubeck, by taking poi . - feMon of Travemunde, the Englals veffels are to drop down there to be ready to make their efcape. The precaution may be good, but I do not think it yet ' neceffary. The ports of Holftein moult remain open to ut, at leaft till the French attack Denmark. Nov. 8 —Notwithftanding the refufal of the loam which the French demanded of this city, a refufal only given by the Senate at the advice of certain Foreign Mini tens confulted on this fabjeft, there es tortioners have, however, gained their end. The fum demanded as a loan amounts to nine millions of francs, a far more confider:We furn than that which. for want of more accurate information, I fisted to you in my laft. BERTHIER had orders to fnlicit this money, to re lieve the urgent wants of the French army in Hano ver ; and he fairly hinted, that if the demand was wit granted, the French army would find means to /Aire the furn on the foot. Intimidated by this menace, the Senate fent coo tiers to Berlin and Vienna, and convoked, at the fame time, a General Convention of the Elders and Bur gores, in which the majority of votes, efrecially among all young men, was to refge the money ; t: 1 I i i i Ire t C( C) ria In,