Star. — London, England, 1803-03-17 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH Ty. PRICE OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C Conf. mone7, 654, 6.7, 64i4.1, 65,t. Itivo, for April acc. 66, 651 t. 6 .514. 66. 0:d c per Cent. Ann. 994.--Otnnium 1:4 dif. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock 178 1774 op. I imp. Ann. ro 13-1669 3 per C. Cont. 6 . ti 43 hi Eseb. to 61. if. per ('. Ant,. 97 9:+ini: 01.1:Mmt 145 14 14.5 dii. iodic Stn soS for opg En t tiill3 Tickets 171. tBs. Imp. 3 per C. 61. Cenf. for Ap. Ac. 6 31 6 455 64 We mentioned yefterday, a report very preva lent, that on board a large French veffel, Branded down the Channel, there had been found a num ber of Fire Arms and Standards, which were fop pofed to be intended for Ireland, in the hopes of a new Rebclhon being brought about in that Coun try. The fat% however, turns out to be, that French National brig called le Volcan, bound from Dankirk to New Orleans, was (handed near Shore ham, fo far back as the 26th of IA December; that the had on board many cafes of mufacts, of which feveral were preferved ; that the crew until very lately did not abandon her ; and that until the prefcnt preparations for the alternative of War or Peace, the efcaped all inveftigation of a minute nature. In confequence of the alarm railed by the aetivity of Government in the adoption of metfures for the fecurity of the Country, an en quiry was fet on foot with refpeft to le Vulcan, and Come boxes were found, which being forward ed to the Admiralty, became yefterday the fubjed of infpeaion. There were indeed colours, but none other than thole which the was warranted in keeping on board. So far back as the ill of January, the ftranding of this veffel was announced in the London Gazette. Reports of new arrangements in the Cabinet are flill in circulation. It is very confidently aflerted that Earl ST. VINCENT retires from the Admiral ty, where he is to be fucceeded by Lord MszviLts; and that Sir THOMAS TROWBRIDGE and Captain MAIRRAM are alto to quit the Admiralty. The report alfo gains ground, that the Earl of Monte is to be Maller•General of the Ordnance, and the Earl of CHATHAM to be Lord Privy Seal. Some of thefe arrangements will probably be announced in the Gazette on Saturday next. The Stocks experienced fome rife before the dole of the market yellerday. The 3 per Cents. were at 66. It was reported that the difpatches which arrived from France, on Tuefday, had brought affurances that the FIRST Concur. had no willies to provoke hoffilities ; and that the French Ambaffadorhadyeaerday received difpatches from his Government, announcing that M. TALL sr. anus has been removed from the office of Minifler for Foreign Affairs, and that M. Orro, the amia. ble pacificator, had been appointed his fucceffor. Thefe reports gained the more credit from Ge neral AnDLIOSSI having been at the Levee yeller day, from which it was inferred that the French Government was defirous of conciliating our Ca binet, and of preferring peace ; fince if the Film. Consul. were indignant and difpofed (or war, he would have ordered his Ambalrador to fufpend his vifits to Court. This, however, is an argument of no weight ; for nothing is more common than for Ambaffadors to maintain the moll decorous civility even when they know that hoftilities are unavoidable. Mr. COURTOISIPR, the Mellinger, returned from Paris this morning with difpatches from Lord WHITWORTH. As to the real Rate of the negotiations, nothing has atftually tranfpired, but if we may credit in formation which has come to us through a re• fpatable channel, the cants of the alarm into *ich w•e have been thrown, has very little rela tion to Malta, though undoubtedly it will be made as prominent a feature as poffible in the ground of quarrel, &mild France infift on our quitting it without a proper guarantee. We fay, that this will be the chief ground of argument, but if our information be coffee, it is not the only or the real ground of the quarrel. Our rea ders will perfectly underhand our meaning when we inform them that Government have been on. der confiderable alarm bylearning that France is in Treaty at this time with the Dutch Government, topurchafe the Sovereignt y of Batavia and the other Dutch poffeffions in the Mild of Java, and in Ti mor, Celebes, Amboyna, and Malacca. In (bort, to buy all the Dutch poffeffions in the Eaft Indies. Should this turn out to be not t ‘e oflenfible, but the real ground of quarrel on the part of our Go ♦ernment, we doubt much, whether the country at large would confider this a jug tante for our entering into a war; for forcly the French have as good a right to is!, EaR India territory arum its relent proprietots, as any other popes toPae uric„ tt /y force without paying for it at all. We (hall not infift upon this at prcfent, but con tent ou►fclves with expreffing a hope, that fuch an enquiry may be fet on foot by di, to who hold in their hands the National Parte, as may remove every furpicion or ambiguity as to the matters really in difpute, before the Nation commits itrelf. The Slams of War are eafily kindled, but the es• tent of the deflag►ation cannot be calculated. PARIS JOURNALS. Jufl as this Paper was putting to profs, we re- 1 ceived the French papers to the 14th inclufive. It will appear flrange to an Englifh Reader to be informed, that though tlry contain a copy of His Majefly's Meffage to Parliament, it is unac companied with a Tingle remark either in the Mo niteur or any of the other Journals. The Metrage appears in all the Papers on the fame day, viz. Monday lA. It is certain, how. ever, that it had reached Paris fooner ; and there circumftances Phew how completely the prefs is under the controul of Government. The only meafure announced that feems to have any relation to the difputes, is an Order of the Government, publifhcd in the Monitors of Sunday laft, 4 day before the meffage was allowed to be publilhed, prohibiting the exportation of fpecie till fur ther order,. The papers of the r4th could not announce the prices of the funds, the 13th being Sunday. The papers of Sunday fate the 5 per cents on Satur dsy to have been at 6e f. 30 c. ; 60, 40 ; 60, 50— a high price indeed, confidering circumflances ; for on that day the King's Meffage, we think, mull have been known to many. If it was, it is plain, that the belief at Paris was that an accommodation was certain of taking place. One of the unofficial papers announces an event which we were prepared to erped, by our fall let ters from Gibraltar: It is now known," lays the journal alluded to, " that the Dey of Algiers has ordered the Agent of the Republic to quit his States in the courfe of two months. We are un unacquainted with the motives of this infult." Letters front Toulon (late, that the frigates le Rhin and la Cornelie failed on the 18th of Febru ary, to cruize before Algiers, in older to prevent the pirates of that nation from injuring the French commerce. The frigate la Muiron was preparing to proceed to the fame deflination. BREST, MARCH B.—The fquadron defined for India, which failed the day before yefter day, mug proceed on its voyage with rapidity, as the wind was favourable to it, and blew a frefh gale during yeflerday and fall night. The veffels which compote it are, the Marengo fhip of war, the Semilante, Atlante, and Belle Pottle fri gates, and the Cote d'Or tranfport. General VANDER MAC S►N, Adjutant General Biwor, and the Officers of the Staff let out with General DECAEH. General MARTIGNy having had a finger cut by the boat getting foul of the veffel, has been obliged to remain on there. PARIS, MARCH t4.—At eight o'clock Tefterday morning the FIRST CONSUL, accompanied by Ma dame BOICAPARTE, paid a cult to the Mint, where he was received by the Adminifirators. After infpeding the Cabinet of Mineralogy, he proceed ed to the Rooms where the Direftor (hewed him all the different operations. When he came into the Coining Room be ordered the Fly Preis to be fet to work, and Gold and Silver Pieces, with his own Effigy, were frock. Tliefe were pre fenced to him; and while he did juflice to the coffee nets of the impreffion, he did not fail to bellow a jai tribute of applaufe on the dif tinguifhed talents of C. Tiriousß, who had etre. cutcd the dies. One trait which ought to be made pul)lic is, that when he law the workmen place the piece between the dies with their hand. his Int. manity induced him to earth a with of feeing them Ihcltered by fume new invention from a pro. cefs which exports them every moment to the danger of being lamed. It is to be remarked that BoaaP•RTI is the fiat Chief of the French nation that ever vitited this eftablilhment. Yeflerday, loon after twelve o'clock, the Ktwc came from the Q t teen 4 Houfe to St. James's Pa lace, where his MAI ESTY held a Levee, which was attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chancellor, the Attorney ano Solicitor Ge nerals, the Secretaries of State, the Imperial, Ruf fian, Ft ench, Pruflian, liatavian, American, Hano verian, Bavarian Turkilh, Swedifh, Spanifh, Pottuguefe, I)an ifh, Neapolitan, and Sardinian AmbalLtdors, and a great number of the Nobility and Gentry. About two o'clock the Vice Chancellor of the Univerfity of Cambridge, attended by upwards of an hundred Members, strived with the Addrefs from .the Univetfity, congratulating his Majefty on his late efcape. _ _ _ After the Addreffes had been prefented, his MAjt sr , ' conferred the honour of Knighthood on CHAS. BLICR I,W.IPAITON,3IId W.BLI TARE', Dips. Among the prefent.itions to his MAJks r If were : M .VlRtiorg, by Lord Canttkn. Mr. El-LISTON, by Lord fied,,et. Mr. J. Dar, by the Marl of I‘',llmn - eltml. Colonel P.tituLlt, by the Fad of NlArcleAtld. Chevalter hn -LILA NT, by the Sweddh MlrllaCr. Lord Misr t.sa. killed the King's hand on his creation to the Peerage, as did Lord GARDN“, I.ord NK csnx, and fercral Naval Officers on their ..pointmcnts.. _ _ _ • The Levee broke up about four o'clock, when the KUM held a Privy Council, and about fax o'clock His MAiisry returned to the Q . 2een's Houfc. In the evening the R'•YAL Efirmy went to the Ci.ncert of Ancient Mufic. The Levee sv.is more numerotifly attended than Any W ithin the rcerillceinn of the oldal perfon About St. James'.:. His MAJP.STY WAS heard to eblerve never Law lo full A Levee. Every duct I. :A 4iu g J WAS blocks(' up. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, MARCH rs. Carne in the ATALAMTI, of 18 guns, Capt. Menem°, from Mounts Bay, and towed up the Ga too, of 54 guns, from the fame place, with the lots of her foremaft ; the latter is in Cawfand.bay. Sailed the SIRIUS, of 36 guns, Capt. Paowsx, under fealed orders : the is completely equipped with a war complement of men and Rores. The clew of the RIVOLVT ION•Ill 5, of 40 guns, are to be turned over to the PLANTAGEI sr, of 74 guns, Captain HAMMOND, now fitting in Ha. moaze.—Came from Hamoaze to Cawfand Bay, the Coo RAG E In, of 74 guns, Captain HAIDY, and the Nemesis, of 28 guns, Captain Sot: !AVM LE. Two expreffes arrived here froni London, one , yefterday evening, the other this morning ; the lat.' ter Paid to be with direttions for the Nast am and Ara Lamy to fail immediatelyunder fealed orders. The Bakers in the Vitlualling-office here, are diretted to bake t 8 fuits of bifcuit each day in bad of t a ; and the Blackfmiths in the Dock yards are directed to work three days for one : in Rion, in every department, the greateft afti►ity is ufed to expedite the public fervice. Sailed this evening to the well ward the 1k1214 F $ll, of 28 guns, Captain Some evitza ; and the Ara. La eve, of 18 guns, Captain bias arts LI). LA evening, after poll, the eight French Ch ing boats which came in from Dieppe IA Friday s”ith fifh, &c. for a market, failed for Dieppe, as the mailers and crews had heard of the King's Meffsge, and the bounty offered for feamen, and of courfe were, in cafe of a rupture, afraid of an l embargo : they were manned with too very fine looking men, moßly feamcn. This forenoon the twelve recruiting parties from this divifion of Roy la! Marines, headed by their Officers, marched through Stonehoufe and Plymouth to their refpec- tive deflinations ; they were attended to the end of the town by their excellent band, in full uni form, playing, Rule Britannia," "Britons Strike Home," " The Grenadiers March," and fevers! other national tunes. The men were in hiph order. and in great fpirits, on the eccafion, This valua able corps is to be completed to its enabliihment as loon as poffible. The Right Hon. Admiral Lord KEITH, K. B. of the Blue fquadron, is hourly ezpeCted at Dock, to fuperintend the fitting out the fleet of obferva tion at this port. The deftination of the Cotton/a, of 74 gum, is certainly the EAR Indies. There was a very hot pref. lan night : feveral hands were picked up and fent on board the flag-flip in Hamoaze ; to prevent confufion, the conftables of the night at tended the different gangs. PORTSMOUTH. MARCH teu It was fluted in the Portfmouth newfpaper lafl Sunday, from which it has been copied into the London prints, that the' , GRA ts rus being intended fur the flJg !hip of Vice Admiral GAMBIER, Capt. CAULFIILP is to have the command of the EWDY• 2.11014." Capt. Cm/Least-is has not yet joined the GRAM. ►us, but is on his way fo to do from the country. and there is no authority wl u• ever to fuppofe he will have the EN DT 101011.•flIC has to undergo great repairs. Capt. Loss, the Captain of the Isis, the prefent flag (hip of Admiral Gamma, has no veafoo to fuppofe the GRA 61► vs is intended for him, but that the Isis willcontinue on the Newfoundland nation as long as the prefent Commander in Chief con titans on that fervice. The Isis is now undergo. ing repairs, for fame temporary fervice, before the proceeds this feafon to Newfoundland. Arrived the Rover, —.—...—, from Gnernfey.— Sailed three Revcuue Cutters to the weaward, with gangs for preffing. SHEERNESS, MARCH i 6. Arrived, the Coarrancs, from the River Thames, full manned. The ALstow. of 74 guns, goes to the Note to morrow, under the command of an old veteran officer, Captain FkARIER. The CHAILGit, gun.veffel, is ordered to lea immediately. The detachment of the line, which came here yeilerday, do duty in the King's Dockyard ; a meafure highly proper, aad which does credit to the vigilance of thole In office ; for nothing cer. tainly can be of more importance at this momen tous crilis than to guard all naval arfenals. Three fine frigates, the Amet.is, ETHACION, and ATRICAM, are, we underhand, all to cruise off Goree, to watch the motion of the Dutch, (hould it be necefary to give timely information to Government. Lieutenant Joists Motets, of the Royal Navy,* meritorious Officer, is appointed Firfl Lieutenant, under Captain HOTHAN, in the Ralsoaaats, fit ting out here. The Magiarates, at this place, have ordered their Conitables to Like up 41 able-bodied va grants, and deliver them to the Commander in Chief here, to ferve in the Royal Navy. ?ROM LLOYD's LIST. DIAL, MAAR ss.—Remain In die Dowt Ihips ai per laft, and federal outward.bound W. S. W. Mwacm z6.—Sailed the Carlton, —, ft ral outward-bound verels.—Wind E. S E. GRAVLIIND, MAII.CII(S.—P.Ged by the from Leghorn; Two Brothers, —, from and Tom. Dobbin., from Waterford; and I fon, from Cork.—Sailed the Maryland, Wicl York ; Galen, Hinckley, for Bolton; Argue, Georgia; Ri.daha, Fergedin, for Grenada; r for Oporto , Liberty, Dobfun, for Bremen ; for Rotterdam; Vrow Revs, —, for Rot Norbung; Frederick, /Boman, and juffrow for :Witten:lam. NIAR am 6.—Pafftd by the Mercury, Donald, and kifing States, Unseen, from Cltrilliana.—.' tha, Hattlerfon, fur Philadelphia ; Juliana, ' York; Sarah,Lightly, fur Harnburgh ; am' —, fir Rouen. HULL, MARCH i 4. This morning the Franck fort, Bailey; Len curt', Martin; and Elbe, Gak, failed front burgh, with a fair wind. The (mack 1 homas and Hannah, belongii Barber mailer, was run dawn about ten days' off the Spurn, as lite lay at anchor, by a light ' northward; the mailer and the crew infl anti, and after 27 hours hard labour and fatigue, fortunate!. the Yarldhlre coat. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MI The Coop Cynthia, for the capvire of me Favourite, an American Sour sip, will bs paid on TlaurfdAy the tytb at No. tj,, Clement's Inn. To the dbop Martin, for the capturc of the Noodfter 2r4 ionic Ifabelia, a dittribution wili be paid on SAturtlay the z6th wit. at the Adam and Eve, York-Itreet, Weltminftcr. The brig &libertine, for the capture of le R guius French privateer, uu Thurfday the 17th inft at the swan, in Arun• A diltribution to the undermentioned (kips, who have not already era. ived their proportions of the prizes exprefikal againft the laid Cups, when the dift:ibutions were made in the kink terrancan, will be re-called the firft and third Thurfday iq every month. at the fame hoult :—Ptianix. two Greek po lacres, Conttantla, and Madona de lilts ; Niger, la Pas and ('Emerald ; Mercury. hxtern prizes; Caroline, Spanifis Scuse Mara Senora de Rofsriu and Bull Dog privsteer; and Came lion, fundrics captured between the sada of September and pft of °duller, !Sus, and five Span& haws. 'V he (loop Spitfire, for the recapture of the Defiance, wil , he pail on Monday the 21 ft illft. if the Spitfire ie then in port, or on her arrival afterwards, at Torpoint, near Plymouth.: Captain Foitats is appointed to fuperintend the Imprefs ferrite at Liverpool. Capt. S.MaariN is appointed to the Coactplatoll. The AIM r. of 64 guns, at Chatham ; the Ass A AAAAA a, t - 4" 24 guns, and the Pilt. 1113 hemb ♦clfel, at Woolwich, are ordered to 31. prepared for commiffion. A detachment of the Guards it gone to Wool. with, to do duty in the Dock-yard and other places Caere. Stem!terns of Militia are entitled to the Peace allowance for 18os, previous to their being re embodied. Companies of Riflemen are to be formed, com piled of the bell markfmen of every regiment of Militia, and to be brigaded together in battalions, to acquire the neceifary evolutions i their uniform el be green. _ _ In Delon Goo of the Yeomanry have volume. rily enrolled to terve as two Regiments of Cavalry. under Lord Rotra, without pay. to march to any Port of the Wellem dißria, to afGR the Civil Power, and to prevent the plunder of wrecks. The Cambridgefhire Militia, commanded by his Excellency the Loan List:maim of Ireland, are to be under arms next week. The HertfordMire Militia, commanded by the Marquis of SALMI/It v, are alfo to be under arms next week, at their refpeaive headquarters. The Citadel, the Forts, and all the Works of La Valette, are in the tole polliffion of the Britifts troops. The Neapolitan troops continue to oe• copy quarters without the Fortifications of Malta, and are only Coffered to enter the Town in very !mall parties. It is in contemplation to call in the Out-pen. flours of GreenwichHofpital, in order that fuch as are able may do duty on board of guard-atips lying at the different ports, and alto to expedite the fitting out of fuch Mips as may lie Mort of their complement. Yefierday morning, about half paR fix o'clock, the Funeral Procelfion of the Duke of Baszsaawa- Tall fet off from his houfe in Clevelandrow, for interment in the family vault in Little Gaddefden, near Kendal,in Hertfordfhire, about 30 miles from town. The Proceffion moved as follows Two condudtors on •horfcbtek, eight other boefemen with crapes. Man, and flown, next the hew* with 11: bodes, that mourning earrisges, the family cordage. with Az bodes web. The protease went up st. jannewiteust. blond-ftnxt, Ottaniv firmt, through Kdduiron, till k strived at its defined pima biainsrOns, MAIMS 15 1 -The judges arrived in town left night, and opened their CommiMon.— This morning they prneceded to bufinefs. Mr. Baron Hortive fat on the A$ Prigs fide; but the Learned judge and Counfcl were hardly tested, when they found they muff again fpeedily diflodge. The Court had been newly painted. and was fcarcely dry. The fmell of the paint was moR intolerable, and the effluvium very loon be gan to operate. Before the firft cattle was half over, Mr. GARROW put his hand on his breall.— The Serjeants became horfe, and the Bar all began to !pit. The Judge bore it the longeß without complaint, when at length he declared it was irn pollible for him any longer to keep hit feat. In this dilemma, Mr. WATSON was deputed to en deavour to find a new room for the Court to fit in; and on his return he reported, that the only room to be found was the Ball Room at the Star Inn. The Court was immediately adjourned to that place. The Judge was feated at the upper enJ of the room. The leading Connie' fat at a round table; the tell of the Bar ranged down the room, and the nand% was elevated in a chair. — After the bufile occalioned by this removal had a little fubfided, bufincfs went on tolerably swell.-- Eleven caufes were tried in the courfe of the morn• ing, but none of them any ways interelling. MARRIED. At Hall, Edward Mitchell. Efq. to Miff Wray, daughter of lotus Wray, Efq. of that place, Ranker. I ONDON: Printed for t►e Proprietors. by JOHN DANIEL Itlakkn-lane, Corotd-Oarden) at the Sinn Palwroecs qv mg, No. t, Carry-Rrnti and pubiahod by LEVEL XENT,of Canterbury -place,l.ansbetb; at No. s ,Catepther. liar ipee P tate Bill of tl the Pil haul Mer at 1 kno Cha that Too en tl Ow give Was, Is. balL Ste SP., u 4.11 T•C , fzeti NI, a 1 T. towns his Mayfty • and vcffels.7-Al'ind for India, and fere- the Neptune, tm lonhtlen ; Mary td Induftry, Wickham, for New - gus, Chalmers, for ; Comtu:rce, ; Elizabeth, Forbes, Rouen; Harmony, w Henrietta, onald, from Rouen; la.—Sailed the Mat- Br t.sn, for New td Vrow Elltgotida, M. tipai g, Clark ; Mer. this port for Ham_ aging to Harwich, pi Goer, ten leagues it Nil bound to the tly took to the hoot, lia fortunately reached Sato. Pell LIONEY. ma, 9^1..