Star. — London, England, 1803-10-04 00:00:00

FRANCL 1111 CONTINVATION FROM THE PRECEDING PAGE. PARIS, SLPTENIBM is. While England is thr:atened with a defcent from the mails of the Ch..nnel and along Belgium, en ex pedition wili he undertaken tc Ireland from the coatis 01 ri Irvlnt Normandy and Brittany. Troops arc drawing towards the coaas from the vicinity of Strafburgh. From Rnclifort we learn that the greatefl altivity prevails in the dock yards. From that port there have been launched, in the entitle of the year t i, two (hips of the line, the MajefLux, of xd guns, and the ?slag. nanime, of 74. In the courfe of the month Vendc miaire there is to be launched another fhip, called the Lion, of 74 guns. Soon there will be latinche3 feveral frigates, which are now in a great Elate of for w•ardnefs. Two of gun•boars preparing in the Dock op. polite the Helpital of Invalids, will ptobably be ready to he launched on the at Vendemiaire (Sept. 23). The building of a great number of the gun-boats in the fame dock yard will be completed in a very fhort period. From an apprehenfion that the water in the Seine may not rife sufficiently high, and with the view of accelerating the preparations, the boats neareß the fide of the river are firli to be launched. At this time they are in a fituation to be floated without the fmallefl difficulty. The boats now in pre paration are in various Rages of fnrwardnefs, and they will be fuceeffively launched as they are finifhed. In addition to thole velfels now aflually building, it is underßood that others will fpeedily be laid down, Co that on the whole the armaments on this river will be very confiderable. Two flat-bottomed veffels of the 3d fize, which were launched on Thurfday and Friday lag, will fall down the Seine to St. Cloud, to be infpated by the Fitsr Cousin., with their guns, rigging, and mode of manoeuvre. The Notaries of Paris have offered to the-State, towards defraying the expences of the expedition againft England, t 3,580 francs; the DireCtors and Clerks in the Public Regiller Office, 3834 francs; General 13CIWYER. Commandant of Invalids, aczoo francs; L. M. La NAGLE, the demiffionary Bilbop of Morbihan, 59z francs. General DF Lmorrs has taken the command of the marine troops at Brea. The report that the Miniflet at War has left the captital to jape& the (late of the different camps, the;troops in which are to form the Army of England, is premature. He will not fet out till the early part of the enfuing month. Admiral Ds Wt arta is Paid to be appointed by his Government to be Commander in Chief of the naval force of Holland. The Toulon fleet, of nine fail of the line, and fix frigates, put to fea on the tt th ult. but returned in ten hours, on fight of the Britifls fleet off the coat. The Mositew• Rates that our privateer la Felicite had taken three Englifh (hips, laden with fulphur, and bound to Malta. The privateer l'lntrepide, of 4 guns and fifty men, has taken two Englifh (hips of , 16 and t 4 guns, and eacir having ao men, by board ing. They were from Liverpool and bound to Ve nice, laden with velvet, cloth, muflin, Soo hogfheads of fugar, &c. The Captain of l'lntrepide and his fon. flat leaped on board the (hip of t 6 guns, killed the Captain, and with the alliance of Come of their men overpowered the crew. The other (hip was taken at the fame time by 14 men. The French flip bad only four men wounded. Official letters from St. Domingo annonneethat the Pourfuivanie, of ao guns, has had, near the Mole, a fharp aaion with the Huey,. Es Englifh (hip, of 74 guns, which was forced to quit her. We hear that the Captain of the Hsacotts was killed in the anion. ailaritesw. The Moniteur of this date contains a letter from the Captain of the Gueriere, containing an account of the ((cape of that fbip into Corunna, after a running fight with tome Englith (hips. She had fix killed and 35 wounded. By a Deeree'of the FIRST Comm, ifTued at St. Cloud, 18th Augull, the Legiflative Body of the Republic is ordered to meet on the loth of October. A Decree of the Government, Hilted from St. Cl•'ud, September the 37th, ordains that the flags of truce which, according to the Decree of the s ft Thar midor (pity 26) were only to be admitted into the bay of Audierne, near Era, are henceforth only to be received into the port of Morlaix. General AVOIREAU has arrived at Paris, onhis way to the Spanifh frontiers, on the gth of Septem ber. He was expeCted to fet out on the following day for Bayonne. M. Orr°, late Mini rler Plenipotentiary at the Court of England, and (ince appointed AmbafTador to the Court of BAvelli4, has left Paris, to commence the exercife of his funEtions. The Eleetoral College of Charente, afTembled at Sante%, have eleCted as candidates for the Legit:Wive Body Citizens Gym Loataansz aPrefeet,andDuars,a Lawyer. Ace. ants from Peterfburgh of the 23d of Auguft Rate, that, in c• nfequence of the arrival of feveral outliers from London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, frequent conferences have taken place betwixt the Grand Chancellor of the Empire and the Count de &rat:plow, Envoy of his Imperial Majefly. It is (up. pofed that the objet of there conferences is to draw more clofely the relations betwixt Atalria and Ruffia. A !somber of Auftrian Officers, natives of Belgium, have refolved tn quit the fervice of the Emperor, to pal*, into the t szth demi bli7ade of Infantry of the line which is organizing at 117ufTels. Several of them who have obtained tltetr difmilTal have already pre rented themfelves at the Prefecture of our Depart ment, to be admitted into this new corps with the fame rank which they ftrmerly enjoyed in the Auf trian fervice. A letter from Rennes complains greatly of the effetts of the long•continueri drought,which has taken away the means even of watering the cattle. All the ditches and marfhes being dried up, they are obliged to quench their thirft in many places with fpring water, which care is taken to warm before hand. It is more particularly in the country of Bain that the drought is felt. The great pond there is altnoil dry, and the inhabitants are forced to go a great dillance for water. In this deplorabte fituatirn, however, while we !Cain from 4E4 every part, that the waters have diminifhed cnnfiderably, the rivers of Ille and Vilaine have furnifhed more water than they have for the laft 12 months. The Mayor of Rennes has only as yet brought from the fiiperior ponds three feet of water for the ufe of the mills. An article from Bafle, dated the ,7th of Septem ber, lays, that an law reCtion, which had broken out in the town of Aarwangen, in the dillriet of Berne, had produced great confternation. A letter from Genoa, in the 3fonjitur of the efith Au gull, gives very minute details of the proceedings of the Albanian and Amain rebels in Cairo. Of thele the moll important particulars have already been re ceived. Some new circumilances are, however, dif clofed. Taher Pacha, the Chief of the Infnrgents, it appears, availed himielf of the firft moments of fue ccfs to be guilty of the greaten outrages. He maf facred a veil number of the Ottomans and the inha bitants attached to their party. On the furvivors he levied the heaviest contributions, and allowed his troops to he guilty of the greateß esceffes. After venting his rage on the Ottomans, he next laid the Franks and Chrillians under contribution. The Eng lifh Commiffary, Major Massed., was imprifoned in his houfe, and for fome time his life was in danger. The Imperial Commilfary, M. ROSITTI, endeavour ed to put an end to his exaCtions, by paying two hundred polies. M. Matouser, a very eminent merchant, was compelled to contribute fix hundred pais. All bodies and individuals were forced to contribute in fimilar proportions. Achmed Pacha at length fucceeded in putting him to, death by the fhot of a carabine, and afterwards fent his head to Damietta. He failed, however, in taking priffeffion of the citadel, which was immediately fele. ed by Mahemed Ali, fecond in command among the Arnauts. He began his career by putting to death the attendants of the Tefterdar and the Pacha, together with a number of Ottomans. Finding him felf in need of fupport, he found it neceffary for him to call in the affillance of the Beys, who on receiving hollages, agreed to join his caufe. They had the precaution, however, to leave their head quarters at Come diftance tinder the management of Ibrahim Bey, their rnoft experienced and trolly leader.— Reckoning on this fupport, the Albanians proceeded to attack Achmed Pacha, who, with the feeble rem nant of the Ottoman troops, was under the neceffity of making a precipitate retreat. He took refuge is a (mall fort called Sulkonflci, conftruBed by the French near Cairo. The Mamelukes endeavoured as far as they could to reprefs the outrages of their new allies. £very fort of outrage continued to pre vail in Cairo. A number of Englifh merchants were Pillaged of goods to a very large amount, and nothing but the protection of the Beys raved Major Messed. from deftruftion. Major Massed. did all in his power to bring about a reconciliation betwixt the different parties. For a confiderable period things continued in this diftraaed Rate, till at length the principal forts were furrendered to the Mamelukes, and the Albanians having loft their principal leaders, and defiitute of difcipEne, were, after fome further oppo fition, reduced to obedience. Great hopes are enter tained that in confequence of the conduift purfued by the Beys on this accafion. a cordial reconciliation will fpeedily take place betwixt them and the Otto man Porte. FRENCH ACCOUNT OF THE BOMBARDMENTS. Paais, Sur. 19.—The Eng Ells now begin to bombard other harbours as well as Boulogne, of which the Mostiterr contains the following account. Dieppe, September re. This morning about 8 o!clock,•two Eng bomb vac's, two frigates, and two fmaller (hips of war, appeared off our coaa. The batteries of Puy, and one of the batteries of Dieppe, fired fome (hot at them. They anfwered with a dreadful fire, and dif charged from 230 to 300 bombs, and above 400 balls again( the town, many of which flew half a mile beyond it. About 30 (hot (buck the !midis ; a (hell fet two houfes on fire in the ftiburb De la Barre, and one of them was much damaged. Chim• vies were knocked down, balls entered the windows, and damaged the furniture, &c. We maintained on our part a very atlive fire, and the Englifh were obliged to put out to lea. It is laid that fome arm balls reached them.—We are in fear cf another visit from them loon. Many perfons have left the town and retired farther up into tbe enun.rv. Sim 13.—Yefterday morning, about R o'clock, an Englifh divilion appeared before our harbour. Two bomb veffels threw iso'bombs, without kill ing or wounding any perfon, only a (mall hook was damaged. Our batteries anfwered sery vigorourl. A great number of our balls did execution, and an Englifh frigate loft one of her mails. We killed and wounded above forty of the enemy. They then put to lea to repair, and fence have not re-appeared. The brave people of Dieppe conducted themfelves with their cultomary retilution, and hafiened to the bat uric:. This bombardment, of which we know not the motive, did not delay for a moment the building of the Hat•botwmed boats, which we hope will do more damage to the Englilh than we have fuffered from this vain bravado. Sr►T. itS.—The.Englifh do not quit there teas.— Lail night they.effelled a debarkation, in which they had but little fuccers. About half an hour after ten in the evening, the patrole on duty belonging to the Cuttom Houk, perceiving (rime one im the Gde of Nicholas, immediately challenged him, •when they were anCsvered by a di/charge of four markets, but without receiving the leall injury. The patrole then returned their fire. when the party took to flight and regained their .boat. From the cries which were uttered, it is fuppofed that one of them was wound ed. The patrole alfo found a hat, which, in the hurry of .flight, had been left behind. Lt is fuppofed that there people bad landed to fee tbe.c ffcet which had been produced by the bombardment on the town. SE►T. 20.—The Moniteur of this day contains the following article : _ _ Fecarnp,Sept. rt. The Engin dirilion has thrown ab..lnt 30 bombs into our harbour. We have not been incommoded by them. not a fingle having been killed or wounded. Our bAtterieb Aufwered rigoroutly, and the enemy retired. Rnivit Sept. 15. We have this moment received n letter from Dieppe, and we can with confidence give the fellow• ing detail of the bombardment w; ich Dieppe rd. tamed yellerday from our implac.thlc enemies. The engagement lalted vi:l , nut interruption firm elht in.the morning till bid:: full eleven ; but uoinntil (landing the number of fhells and balls which were difcharged againft the town, the damage that was. done was much lefs than there was reafon to expel. Some of the houfcs have fuffered in a flight degree. and two were deltrnyed by fire in the fuburb of La Barre ; but not a tingle perfon was either killed or wounded. One of the Englifh frigates was fo ill treated, that the was obliged to quit the line, and re. tire into the offing to repair her damages. Granville, Sept. 57. On the loth infant eight or ten EnglA (hips of war appeared before our harbour, arid from two till five in the morning threw in about too bombs. They did no damage, nor was there a man killed or wound. ed. We were, we believe, more fuccefAul againft the enemy. Our batteries anfwered warmly. The divifion of our flotilla, which was In the harbour, went out and behaved excellently: On the tgth the Englifh renewed the bombard. ment, but with as little fuccefs. A divifion of our gun boats, obfetving that the Englifh bomb veffels might be attacked, weighed anchor, and failed to- , wards them, on which they retired. The lath light half brigade, which manned the flotilla, would have attacked them with the bayonet. Citizens,foldiers.and failors, all manifefted the greaten zeal and altivity. The Pubficifle contains the following-article relative to the bombardment of Dieppe ; • Grantee, Sept. The Englifh have bombarded os for two fueceflive days. On the tath they did us no damage. On the tph one man was killed, a ball article a merchant (hip, and the roofs of two houfes were damaged. 'ln the mean time the Englifli frigate which had the command ran aground. The divifion of flat hot. tomed boats immediately weighed anchor, and the Englilh (hips furrounded the frigate. Our boats ap proached very near, and the cannonade was extreme ly vigorous. The Englifh fhips were fo much da maged that they were obliged to cut their cables and Peek facet yin the open tea. The frigate which was aground would certainly have fallen into our hands but for two (hips of the line front Jerfey. The zeal of the foldiers of the 24th light brigade merits - the greaten praife, and we are convinced, that if the di vifion of flat bottomed boats had been more numer. ous, and had not bicit under thinecifilty of recruit. ing their exhaulled ammunition, more important confequences would hive turned. St. VaSery, Seet.lll. An Englifh divi fi on, compored of fir rap, appeared before this place, fleeting from eaR to weft on the Lath inn. betwixt the hours of two and three in the afternoon. It is from that point that they have kept up a firing of bombs and bullets. The bombs have fallen here and there in the interior part of the city. One of them fell upon the top of a houle, and in burning made a dreadful noire and havoc. An ar. tificial bullet has alfo fallen upon the houfe of a pri vate individual, but as he chanced to be a mariner, he was luckily oceupied in the fervice of the place: All the furniture was broken to pieces, and the cafements totally burnt. Other bullets have knocked down chimnies ; but what is reckoned a very fingulay circumstance, one has been obferved to have remained in the wall of a houfe fituated upon the fea The enemy kept up the mon dreadful firing for the fpace of more than an hour. The number of bombs and bullets which they fent us, is reckoned to amount to nearly 200. There was fo much the more reafon for entertaining apprehentions of the confequences, as a profound calm allowed them to nation them. (elves to advantage, but we remarked all of a rudden the fignal given for their fetring fail. From the break of day we have teen the divifion pals by the port at nearly twh league. into the main, carrying all fail towards land. It m4y be further remarked. that hap. pily they have not let fire to any part. and ‘..e have the cosifolation to luppofe, that no perfon has been Wounded. The divifion afterwards got beyond the port, and employed the remainder of the afternoon and evening in regaining the wind, which blew from the North Etta. The inhabitants patted all the night of the reth on foot On that day the fame divifinn ap proached the port on the Ea'tern part. It failed before the wind in order to perform the fame mancrovre as on the evening before. and we expened that we fhould have to fultain a dreadful attack at the hour nt full ttde. We have had the good fortune, that the calm having continued to the moment of high tide and even to the ebbing, the divition drove npon the wef tern coati, and afterwards we perceived it regain the lea. Although the place be not futficiently well pro. vided with fortifications, yet we are difpoied to de fend ourfelves courageoully. DANMARK. COPIIINAGIN, Sail. O.—His Royal Hi:hnefs the Hereditary Prince FREDEItiC is not expeeted back here before the 4th of the next month. Captain j6311/1 is going with the frigate Frede rickfen to the Well Indies, in order to put a Rop to the outrages of the Englilh privateers, which take advantage of the abfence of Danifh (hips of war, to capture, without ♦ißinaion, all the Danilh veffcls they meet with. Tortola is raid to be full of captured Dania' merchantmen: • The blockade of the Elbe and Wefcr has had the effed of increafing tbe importation of all kinds of preedions here, Co that they are now much lower than ufuel.. • Another Ruffian friar is arrived in Elfireur Road from the North Sea. The Engli(h Arnbaffador. Mr. Lisvna, has paid a vilit to Lnuifenland. Fle has alfo been at Hamburg's where he (pent a day with Joan Nets ot, Ely. Seer. 17.—We hear that M. von GULDINPALM, Wraith Charge d'Affaires in London, is recalled. . Report hays that two Englilh men of war have taken from the harbour of Bakkefund, in Norway, a French Well Indiaman, which had run in there. Our Commercial Gazette has an article horn Paris, !Wing. that two Swedifh [hips arrived at Ilourdeaux, from Sweden dire.% were lent away from that port, though they had all necelfary cettificates bccaufe they had been captured on the paffage by an Englifh cruizer, carried to England, and then let free, and, confecpiently, were Lan from an Enghth port. The day before yeflerday an Englifli colter (the Sway) failed with a numerous convoy for England. Three Ruffian frigates lie here. It is remarked, as a ca.nterience of the landaf.le meafures of the Government to introduce the vaccine, that this year only a tingle pertain has died here of the (mall poz. .ThehatteftioNorway has tinned out uaLoostably LONDON. Z. 13. mews great ignorance of the true eharadter of the STAR! infield of pretending to infallibility, it has always been our pride to corral, as fom as we difrovered them, any errors into which we may inadvertently have fallen, and Z. 13 would have received our thanks had he enabled at to relify any mittatement. In the prsgraph, however, which he has made the fubjeet of his animadverfions, there is none of that inconfiltnny which his warped judgment would fit upon it. such boats as would be ill adapted to eras the Channel with an Invading army in the fan of our tars, who laugh at them, Might be well and fuccelf. fully oppofed by finglar boats, navigated by theme !mins, manned with Beitifk tan, and ((vended by thettandming broad ' fides of our wooden walls. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCIes 3 per Cent. Confole, toe morn, 5 14—for Odteber We. Ss it Omolain to 4of dif. ERICE 07 STOCKS YESTERDAY : s per C. Cont. 5 41 I Entire; BEN 3. a 4p. tilt I per Cont. Am 2.1354 ' Omnluir tot ell India Bonds at a 3a. if. Conf. for see. satif On Sunday Mr. PITT arrived in town, raid to he fent for ewers, on bufinefs of importance, relative to the defence of the Cinque Ports. Yellerday morning Capt. JINN Suastax CARDTN, arrived at the Admiralty, with difpatches from Vice Admiral c.atetaa, on the Eafl India nation, dated Bombay harbour, March 7, 1803. —Ail was well there. In the preceding columns we have given farther extracts from the Hamburgh Mails. and alto from the Paris journals to the 23d ult. The latter, from the 16th to the 33d, arrived at lb late en hour yellerday, that we could do little more than notice them. We find in the Official journal letters from Gran. vile, Dieppe, and Fecamp, giving an account of the bombardment of thole places. It is fail that very little effee was produced by the French batteries, ;04 little by the Englifh fhips. But it appears that the inhabitants, sts is natural, look with apprehrntion to future vifitations of the fame kind. We find little on the fubje6 n the preparations for the invafion of this country that can be cenfidered new. The letters from Flanders repeat the fame ac. counts of the match of tionpr i the arrival of Gene. gals, which mirk the pretence of a large army, and indicate the approach of military enterpriaci. Lt letters from Bruffels it ii Rated, chat St. Omer's it the grand head quarters of the invaders& army, and not Ghent. Corps will b: detached to other places as cireamlances require, and as the plan of ember. kation will point out. Accounts from the Hague of the sdi fay, that at ?lathing official intelligence bat been received &dui Paris that the FIRST COIOI7L will fpeedily be there. The batch Government, by corn. mend train Paris no doubt, have fixed upon * the principal Rations for the gun boats, fiat.bottomta boats, &c. now building in Holland. The firth diviliOn, comprehending the armaments in the Ems and the Znyde! Zee, are to *tremble in the Texel. The fecond divifion, comprehending thofe in the Waal, the Lech and the Mettle, are to afemble at Helvoettlitys. The third divifion, comprehending thofe in the Scheldt and neighbouring rivers 'and ca nals, are to ;tremble at Fluffing. Each of them is to be commanded by a Vice Admiral, and the wholi; according to report, are to be under the direaion of Admiral Ds Wiersa. In faa, it appears to be the means of conveyance, and not of troops, that will now be the obflacle. The whole will form at thb camp at St. Omer's and the neighbourhood 4so o k; inen.—Lodgings are already prepared for the First Cosset and the Moiler at War. In the mean time telegraphs are to be confirufted between Paris and all the principal ports for the benefit of 'tittitker refpondence. • • The Paris journals elle Rate, that at the fame time that the attempt of Invafion is made from the coatis Of Holland and Flanders, it will be tried tlfo from the ports of Britinny and Norinandy. There are many troops at Breit, and we look with particular anxiety to that quarter, as Ireland in all kobibility is the nbieft, and we deem it more probable that a fleet of Chips fhould reach the objea of their'dellinition, than that the gen-boats flionld be able to waft any for midable body of Invaders to the Englifh tbai: The building of gunboats on the Seine at Paris is Rated to be going on with great aaivity. Severil have been launched, or are juft ready to be threns off the flocks. But in the conllrttaion of larger vef leis the fame aaivity is difplayed. It is raid that two Chips of the line, one of no guns. another of 74. have been launched at Rochford in the conrfe of the laR year, and another of the line will be launched in a month, bade' feveral fligates now in great for waninefs. The French military preparations in Italy are at tributed, in letters from thence of the Bth of Septem ber, to a defign of felting upon the Mores, by way of eompenfation for Malta. Perhaps fuck a fcheme is in agitation. Unlefs force views be QM entertained either againd the Turkilli Empire, Greece, or Egypt. it is not eafy to explain the objed of naval e quip• masts and the forming of an army of embarkation. The Monittar contains a long account of the difurb• ances in Egypt,from which it isevident how much the fate of that country interells the Fiarr Cowin& ; and perhaps it may be conjedured that its fate is nor a little influenced by his intrigues. Indeed the Mate of Egypt is loch that the Porte has no authority there, and is not likely (non to recover it. The re bellions troops and the dill:H . 46W Berl uniting form a force which the Potts has little detect acute. &int there of thl lion man) have trent teemi They terra cin peitbi After t4ui I . * Ca *oul ). 1 1 and the L dis elite Neu aftil pref lieii flust and, Air VT P' tots' tem Ho :Vol his en I del tot val to Po its In r4l .ou