Star. — London, England, 1803-09-22 00:00:00

T siL ifMERICA NEW YORK. AUGUST I.—By the fchonner William and Margaret, Captain WA% Tom, in i 6 days . from l‘la7tinique, we learn that the (late of the Mend re• nwined neatly the fame as it was mentioned to be in our laft. The day on which Capt. W. failed ( July sa) a Britith (loop of war cut a French (hip of 300 tons from Guadaltaipe out of Martinique, under a heavy fire from the tort. The crew efeaped on (bore in the boats. AUGOST 3.—The French Gentleman who is raid to be JEROME qPIRTI, came in the Baltimore Rage, on Saturday mottling, as fur as Chel}er. Chef ter is 13 miles Truth of.Miladelphia, and near the Delaware, on which he probably intended to embark on board iiime fh;p from Philadelphia bound to Eu rope. Spain more likely than Holland. AUQVIT 4.—Difpoches from London arrived in Naihington Lift Monday or Tuefday. They were immediately forwarded by exprefs to the Prelident, slow at MonticeHo. It is rumoured, in this city, that they bring official notice from the Britifh Government, that they intend to take poire(fion of New chitlins and Louisiana, And warn our , Government againft paying the fifteen millions plchafe money. It is wailing time to make comments on a report fo vague and uncertain as the above, although it appears to have contiderable credit. Should if be true, our Go .vernment will be involved in mach perplexity. A Frederic Town (Maryland) paper, of July 15, rays, 44 We have had no rain for forty days t the kitchen gardens are burnt up, and fcarcely a vegetable can be procured in Frederic, or for many miles round it. The crops of corn, it is feared, will be poor in deed. We'are informed by a Gentleman from Ten. scree, that no rain has fisllen there for 91 dayi." HALIFAX, Atrausr 6.—The Ship Charlotte, of Philadelphia, Captain HORTON, from Hamburgb, bound to Philadelphia, with near 170 paffengen redemptioners) on board, put into this bar. &our on Monday left, Ibort of provifions. Several of obeli people are excellent mechanics, farmers, &c. who, flying from a country which the French were abtun to ravage, hoped to obtain an afylum in the *Otis of America. Several raped:able iahabitants of the town and vicinity have engaged a number of there unfortunate perfccuted WOOdefeTS on very liberal Niwa kola Rept Goma, Mpg It. Arrived the brig Britannia. Captain NsecoLsoc, .from Whitehaven, which place the left :Bth June, end Rte put into Lochrier the 23d, and failed again on the 37th, in company with the brig Clyde, Capt. M'Cost. boond-to St. John's, Newfoundland. On the wit , in lat. 55. co. N. long. 8.45. fpoke the (hip 'Fanny, from New York. bound to Greenock, out 47 days, and on tft July, in lat. 55.50. N. long. tz. 47. W. fpoke his Majefly's flsip Spirants, and was detained by her Liz hour. SWEDEN. Bvocznotas, Avo. ag.--Baron TAIIIIIIJI is arrived fame expels from Harattrgh, with the exchanged ratification, pa the part of Mecklenburg, of the Con vent its for the cellGon of Wifmar. Our trade is veil brifk, and the harped, particu larly 4 rye, has been very good. The price of rye, which, in the three years, has been tight dollars, /a fallen to five, and even four. Di4'MdRL COVIIIINAGEN, AUG. 20.—The two Ruffian (hips, ideflined for a voyage round the world, tinder Com modore Keine) TT RR are arrived in this Rood.— Two fhips have been purchafed at Altona, for foreign account, which are to be armed there, and afterwards flationed off Stade. At the Requifition of the De partment for Foreign Affairs, this Wines is recom. mended to the proper Magiftrates to be examined in the Ariifteft manner. The experiments which Profeffor Pats mule lafl Week in the Sound, with his new fwimming drefs, have turned out quite fatisfatlory. The (grimmer went in it over the Sound, from Ellineur to Hehint. hourg. On the way, he feveral times loaded and fired a pillol, fmoked his pipe, took food, to thew that he had the free ufe of his hands. The machine is fo contrived, that if any one fall into the water, his head remains dlways uppermoll. even in the heavieff (ca. It is alto very durablt, weighs only Sibs. and is fold for the (mall Cum of three rig-dollars, for the benefit of the poor. . An Englilh frigate arrived in the Sound on Tuef 4ay, with a convoy of forty merchantmen, from London. Avo. a3.—Sis Englifh tranfports from Roßock have palled the Sistine!, hiving . on board the clefts of the Kiva of Ersor.astti, carried from the Palaces la Hanover, and foam of the King 's horfes. A Captain arrived at Elfi neur in 54 days, from St. Peteriburgh, has declared that two Ruffian fleets are ready to fail, oqe foe the Sound, and the other for the Belt. The Enghlh frigate Coact, which arrived tan week with a convoy from L00d...n. is failed again for the With Sea ' with a Beet of too fail of merchantmen. The day before yeflerday arrived the frigate Cos i r aloe a, with a convoy from Leith, and alto a con• coy from Hull. From the beginning of this month yo the aid, 5 290 merchantmen have patfed the Sound. The fuppofition that our troops iq Holfiein would firortlyreturn in part, is now almoll turned to cer. tainty, and letters from head quarters affirm repeat edly, that the orders for that purpofe will be given next month. Notwithilanding the arrival of @era' richly laden We* Indiamen, the puce of colonial produce, parti culaily fogar and coffee, is hill high in the extreme. c 011) K Wen. AUG. 27 —The report that HoMein was to be entirely lip:anted from the German empire, and Cub. jefled to the Dana laws, is wholly groundlefa. A!MYa7 31.—Therr Royal Highnelres the Crown Prince and l''ineels will not return from Holhin to the capital till the middle of Gabber. The Engldli Misailler, Mr. LISTON!, fit. of the d a y afier MIII I I/W to accompany his brolher.io.law to Histum, who is tick, and going for a Thom DIM ;o England. 3.—Mr. Ltsroir, who left this for Huhn nn lie sat, wiU nioa likely pay a edit to the Gown Prow& RUSSIA. ST.I I I7IIIIIURGII, AUGUST t6.—By letters from the interior of the Empire, it appears, that the harveti of all forts of grain has been highly produaive. The Ugh% Phylician, Dr. Roosasor, who has praftifed here many years, and is jut/ returned from his native cowry, is appointed chief Phyfician to the army and navy. The frigate which was fent to Warn/monde to fetch our Great Di.cht•fs Huss* is returned. PRUSSIA. 'tams, Au°. 25.—Yefterday their Majellies went to Ludwigfluft, to via the Hereditary Princefs of MECKLEABURG SCHWERIN. Her Majcity the Qieen Mother returned on the zoth from Wittltock, %%lure !lie had paired a day in company with the Klee and OuksN of SWEDEN, who is her niece. The King and Qt2een of Sweden proceeded thence to Magde- burg, where they flopped a day, and then went to Qtedliaburg, to the Princefs Maus, their aunt, whence they will go by (port Rages to C.arlfruhe.— They have rent an apology to our Court, Rating, that the neceinty of hallening their journey did not allow them to vilit their Majefties at Berlin. Atrausr go.—.. Their Mattsries returned the day before yefterday from Lodwigfluft to Chariot. tenbnrg. The day after to-morrow they go to Pares, where they will remain to the ItSth of next month, and then come to Berlin, to be prefent at the au tumnal reviews, under command of Pield-marfhal Mott.itanoars ; and then go to Potfdam for the other reviews. A Portuguefe and a Neapolitan Meffenger have paged through here to St. Peterfburgh. The dif patches of the latter are believed to concern the me diation of the EMPIROIL of Russia, in the precept Rate of affairs. SIM'. 3.-4 Ruffian Mellinger from St. Pmerf burgh. who paffed through here the day before yet. ter y, carries to his Highnefs the Doss of Sall %Visalia. a letter of the Emperor's own hand, and the intelligence that on the day that his Highnefs the MUMMERY PRINCE was efposfed to the Prin cefs Masts PAWLOWIIA he was appointcd by his Imperial Majefty, Lieut!General, Commander of the Regiment of Kkw Grenadiers, and Knight of St. An drew. The Mellinger was particularly charged to arrive at Weimar on the 3d MR. as being his High nefi's birth-day. It is pofitively affirmed, that the negociations for railing the blockade of the Elbe and Wefer are car ried on very brifkly in London. and that the hope of that happy event encreafes. Sarr.6.—Baron VON DREIRII EDT DR GILDIR arrived, and next week will deliver to his Majelly his credentials as Batavian Ambaffador. The Eng. lith Asuballador, Mr. Jacesos, is gone to Drefden. GERMAN?: HLsao►ta, Styr. 4.—The propolitions which Gen. ' Warms made the day before yefierday to the con• vocation of the States related to the payment of the arrears of two months pay for the French troops in the EleCtorate. The entire pay requifite is ellimated at 990,000 livres per month. As loon as this lad mall be paid, it will be endeavoured to take meafures to leffen the number of the troops, and then it is Lid the difembodied Hanoverian army will be attended to. Up to this time, three millions and a half have been paid to the French. The daily fupport of the French troops colts the country to or t t,OOO rix. dollars per day. The Revenges amount only to 4,000,000. SETT. 6—General MOILTIER is laid to have pro. poled throwing up Itrong works on Tome points of the Banks of the Elbe and Wefer. The States, it is reported, hare rernondrated &gait& this: for the , red, it is not doubted that this is a meafure of pre. caution againit the pothbility of a landing of the Englith. The pay not yet difcharge.i for the dif embodied Hanoverian force of t4.33y men, of which 3613 foldiers have alked to be dilnifed, amounts to 543.000 dollars per annpm. The Legion, which is partly formed at the espencel of Hanover. of the natives of the country, to fe►ve wind England, is not continued to be organifed or' augmented. ilastauacu, Ace. s6.—We are hers in the mnft eager espeastion of the news which tnny be brought by the Englith mail of the isith, Rill due—many of our hill letters from London having confidently afured as, that Ruffin had acceded to the propofals of England, and that in confcquence the Elbe would' loon ►e fine. SEPT. 6.—Their Majeßies the Kiss and Quasi of SWIDIII are arrived, by way of Leipzig ' atifei. tsar. The day before yellerdzy his korai Highnefs the Hereditary PRINCI of DiNMAIM, pith the two Princes, his tons, arrived at Alton*. - The Danilh troops, in Ho !nein, have received cr. dens to return to their refpeEtive quarters Thole in Wandthech and other places in our neighbourhood, are already broken up. _ _ _ The news fpread by tome of the German Papers. of a terrible bombardment of Algiers by Admiral Lord Nx csor, is here generally difcredited, efpeciaUy as the laft letters from Italy do not confirm it. li•macritaa, SEPT. 9.—Notwithfianding all the reports of the railing the b'ockade of our river, and the evacuation of Hanover, our hopes on this head are much diminilbed, principally becaufe it does not Teem likely that the French will give up fo great an advantage as the poffeaion of Hanover, merely to open the River for the ikon time that the feafon will probably permit the Englids to blockade it ; the only hope is. that as the country is fo poor. it cannot isof fibi y fupport fuch a dreadful burden for any long time. the French moll of neceffity leave it, and fine a farther infraaion of the neutrality of the North would moll likely draw on ferious difpntes with the other Powers, which would be an efatual bar to the fo much talked of expedition to England, if they are ferious in it, it is not impoifible that. *het haring Note:est out all they can, they will retort; lame but whether this will be before 'vista, is a matter of south doubt. The Ling and %tete of Swede. are strived at 'Frankfort. having travelled ihroash Leipfick. Wa rner, etc. in all which places they have been received with every mask of rapt", sad have won the gad will of all, by their aff4ility and gcaeroftty. PRANCE. 3301114c1' I, SEPT. v.—The following an the re gulatiow to be obferved on board the National Flo. till/ to be employed againfi England, as ilrued by Admiral Bausx, the Commander in Chief; I. Every If ßef' veffel (Arming part of the National Floeilla.gliall have her crew complete, in conformity to the order of the alth of la Melßdor ( July 7). - - - - H. The Commander and Olken, both by fea and land, ow barked on board di& Pesbl►, the crews and the trove of debark ; Wen, Inuit regularly eat and Beep on board. 111. The regulations for mariceuvring for approaching the coal and lauding, mutt be obferved with the gratelt itridtheis, than be written fully out, and placed in light of the crew In the molt eon pauousput of the veffeL IV. Before the Blips fail, a board !hall be hied up, the contents of which null be read aloud before its being placed in the alp, on which than be inforibed the names of the individuals to be em ployed in fuccalhon in Rated works, in giving affillance to feth wain as may require it, or for the purpolk of eatinguilhing any Game width may break out in the post or road. A commiloned °Seer, or In his room, a Midiltipman. or Mailer, Ball be it all times reedy to cooduth this detachment, and of rade hit name I will be inferibcd in the board alluded to. NETHERLANDS. Baossacs,• gIIPT. +-All the troops 'which are In garrifon in Picardy and the old frontier of France, from Lifle to Metz, according to orders from the Miniller at War, are to hold tbemfelves in readinefs to march within 24 hours after they (hall receive or dens. The whcle force which is colleSing between Compeigne and Ghent will amount to t 80,000 men, and is to be alrembled before the zoth of September. The ,4th demi brigade of infantry has marched through this city for Boulogne. A great uanti ty of artillery is drawing towards Ghent. °STAND, Sur. s.—The Engliih have not as yet begun to bombard our town : but a great number of their (hips of war are militantly cruising off oar harbour. They have examined the whole midi as far as Blankenbing, and even put so perfons on (tore at the Downs ; but on the approach of a detachment of cavalry, there perfons fled precipitately to their (hips.—Several inhabitants of this place are gone to Bruges, to efcape the danger that is apprehended.— In cafe the Englifh fhotild make an attack on our port or town, the women and children will be fent away. The merchants have been direited by the Commandant to adopt the neceffary meafures for the fecurity - of their magazine, particularly that near the fn. Some troops are on their march to occupy the coaßs between this town, Bla , kenburg, and Nieuport. Every preparation - is making to oppofe the Englifh if they mould bombard us. 1101,L,AND. HAGVI, SIM 6,—ACCOffling to force accounts from Hanover, it has been propofed, that the French (hall withdraw their troops from the Hanoverian tar• ritory, and leave it to a Pruirian garrifon of gOOO men, on condition that the States (hall fecure to the French Government a yearly payment of two millloascilivres during the continuance of the war. The report is renewed, that a Congrefs will be beld at Brunets, to negnciate a peace between England gnu! France. under the mediation of the Northern rowers. LICYDaII, SEPT. 4.—The dilratisfaaion on the pet of the French Government, occafioned by the afembling of Dania troops in Holiiein, is not likely to be of long duration ; if it is true, or the lista intelligence from Copenhagen is to be credited, thee there troops are to break up on the 26th of September. to be liationed in their refpeitive garrifons. In the mean time, it is found that the plan of excluding gn g lilb manutaftures from the Continent encounters the greatefl thrEculties. I (This article is followed by an estraa of an article which appeared under the date of Frankfort, in the Mealier, Tome time (ince, relati►e to the new channels opened up for Engli(b commerce.] LONDON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. His MMIRIIITT . SC ma—Holiday at tie NAG aloft An account was received at Dublin on Saturday !aft from Cork, that a •clfel arrived at that port, had Ipoken a Gip of war on its way to England, with difpatchcs announcing the capture of Martinique by *Ault. It gives us much pleafure to be able to confirm the intelligence we communicated yellerday,of a number of valuable prizes having been tent into the Forth by our North Sea fquadron. In the Caledonian Mer cury of Monday I.Q, received this morning, we find the following article on this fubjcd : 4 , The following •tails, prizes to the Evwaztons Cmorronos. and Cams!, arrived in Leith Roads. on Saturday afternoon, laR from Braffay Saud t - beech Sip & Has, from the himeritime, lades with weep. esteem, pepper, &c. "Imbed) French bey/arum America. with csetem sled Memo, • La Pendulum and is Deity% two Frank rash. him Iceiend. " Zeeheft Dutch sip, from Surinam, wiM &gar, Nem awl Mika • NET/tunas Date' flip, from dk to, aidt ditto. ▪ Mariana, thdnelassa, of Liverpool, retakes. ▪ jobs. d Workington, frays Norway, makes." In the preceding columns our readers will ind va. sloes carats from the Hamburgh Mails which we were yefterday prevented from giving by want of room, and we fobjoin feventl other articles received by the Linton Hail, from Leghorn, Madrid, and Gibraltar. It will be teen that the accounts from the two lan mentioned places, bring a piece of intelligence which !embed us form days ago through moths, channel, namely, that Spain luta agreed to pay to France a Ripulated fum of money as the price for her neutrality, inllead of the naval and military aid which. by the treaty of 1796, Ae was bound to far. ai& to IPrarice, is cafe of the latter Wag involved in a war with any power. A pecuniary castrated,* of this fort malt virtually and elreati4l7 owl"' iris fags a moral into as bofik power. U 114 familial a the flume of war," which is all that is wanted by our adverfary, &toms, Vary's., and com,mos fenfc, muR all agree that Spain can no lon. ger Ricker bola behind the Alicia of a pretended neutrality. As to the "Ilion reported to have taken placn be. tween Lord Nassos and the Algerines, though we think it our duty today the accounts that have reached us before the public, we alfo think it our duty to Rate that we have ftrong reafons for difcrediting the ac. counts in tom, They arc thefe.-.The Leghorn ictter does not mention whet; the asaionlaappened,nor ;be veal that carried dancers to Gibraltar twenty days before the seth of Angnft, L e. on or ahout the 23d of July t and the account of the Aim; was Paid to have been brought in there by a Greek 'Orel form days before. Now, we know, by letters of a later date than any of the above received from Gibrahat by the goats frigate. which arrived three days ago with difpatches from Lord Nitsow, that on the zoth of Auguß the Ameatos cotter arrived m Gibraltar from our fleet off Toulon In 28 days, and that this vela; bad heard nothing of any fuch engagement.— It cannot therefore be true that an anion, fuch as has been reported, took place in July. Indeed, had it happened, it would have made part of Lnrd NsL. son's difpatches, and would no doubt Pave beet' officially commu-icatcd to the public before this The letters received by the lloats, to which we ha alluded, fhall be Lid before our Readers to-morrow. .. X.EOI-113RN, AUG. is. g• An engagement lately took place between an Englifb frigate and an Algerine flotilla, in which the former was obliged to efcaps to Malta ; from whencs i two (hips of the line and two frigates proceeded againfl the flotilla, and ftranded feren of the veffels belonging to it, Anil confidexably damaged the tar maining fix. The confequenee of this affair has been, that the Dar of Algiers, as foon as he haarcl of it, caufed all the Englifh rending at Algiers, to bs thrown into prifqp, and their property to be con & cited. The news face reached the beet of Ad/M. ral Miaow, who immediately fat fail to AlgkP With revel; frigates; when he appeared before the harbour be fent a flag of wuce to demand Immediate fatlA failion. The Dar would give no aafwer to the mange t—but canted the veffel to be foiled. Lord Ner.sou, after waiting a confiderable time for the taunt of the ve & l, at LIR gave orders, about midnight, to bombard the town of Algiers. A tre mendops ruing of booths and red hot balls th in en. fued, which fpread terror and devaiiation through. out the whole place. ;hidet there clreginflances the Paw feat a Rag of won. Lord Nettou infonne4 the perfoos who came, that be meld give ;heal no enterer for fame hours ; and, in the mean time, by ordered the firing to continue. The bonthardmegt had already lafted so hours, when another veffel ar rived, with a declaration that the Del was willing to give up every point. provided the bomberameet on the part of the Engin would code. Lord Nst. sou is Paid to have. propofed the following tame, namely—That all the Englilb lhould be let at liberty, and their property rellored ; that all the Raves at Algiers timid alto be let at liberty,without dillinflima of any nation ; and that they Ilsould be delivered pp on board the Englith thips; that Algiers should give an siftwauce, that in future no Neapolitans or Tofcans !Mold be made Oaees . l4l Ala that the Pet thou l .4 immediately pay socoots fequins.7,l MADRID, AUGUST sy " I have the pleafure of informing yen, that thq intelligence which I lately communicated is eon 6 beyornl the riGbility of a doubt. O ur Neutrality. during the prefent war between Trance and I:ingland. is now completely fesmni t two difpatches arrived LIR night from Par one one to M. Zoo auouvtsts the French Ambalfsdoi, and the other to,' Or On. Terms/at, containing the happy news." [Other letters Rate. that general Pluminations took place on the inyful omens ; gad tint a fktntlar cow munieatioa had been difpatelsid by the Frsech vernment to Portugal, confirming alto its Neutrality for the payment of One Million and a Half &alibi per annum.] 01111LALTAIL A M UST 7. " On the ad the convoy for this plugs and Mute, confining of twenty-eight fail, with the Simmers. Aalow, and Paavovaistr arrived here in twentr one days from Portimoudr. They captured a priv teer and a Spinals (hip with French property on board, which they brought In here. " On the 4th Admiral Gummi. fkiled in the Ca. morns, to juin Lord Neceou of Toulon ; and tit Tampa, Sir ROW? BARLOW, being now cow• pletely Spoked, Will immediately fail alto to join the gees. _ " By a veirel from Leghorn sra are balanced. that fives Algerians had fallin w wilt oft of our convoys is the night. sad fired upon them. and that as ac tions had in conatmenee taken place. itt which fonts of the Algerian were lank. and others taken, This Rory is not iselprobabh. as we bow to a certainty. that the Alserimes had already taken four Malaga vefels vadat Eaglitk eolo i, sad with Will Po*, as board. sad carried tbqui iota Meer% staking naves of the crews. " There is ao doubt. however. hada she news pewee MI. that the insolence o( tbeh tiros " 111 ' 'fob be haaablad by toed Nat.soir, ar his Lordhip bas received orders to had Mr. Tasctia• 'dor Ccar ul Wig SW% (4os timpor