Star. — London, England, 1803-05-10 00:00:00

GERMAA'T. HASIRURIII-I, APRIL 29.—The flagnatiern in all commercial hnfinefs which has prevailed here ever lance the news of the King's Meffage to Parlia ment reached this city, 163 continues. Very refpeetable private advice!. from Copenha gen, received this evening, under date of the 27th iirftant, Rate, that a propnfal has been made to that Court by France to enter into an offenfive and defenfive alliance with that Republic in cafe of a rupture with England. But the Prince Royal of Denmark entirely waved the propofition. Being farther urged by Citizen Bouarrostrr:, the French filler in Denmark, to declare what fvllem of cnndtra he meant to adopt, his anfwer was, that lie would flriftly adhere to every fair and honour ahle principle of neutrality. Citizen Bouricoirz , ., who plifed though this place, on his return from Copenhagen to Paris, will douhtlels communicate the refult of his miaion to the CNILV CONSUL in per fon. Colonel ent.nr‘r, the hearer of the Cm rr r Crosset.'s difparches to the Emperor of RUSSIR• who had hems taken ill on the frontiers of Raffia. arrived at Peteribnrgh nn the 12th, in the morn ing On alighting at the hotel of General 1-Is• riouvrwr, the French Amhaffadnr, the latter im mediately ordered his horfes to be put to his car riage, and drove with COLRRRT to Cr.unt Woans:- 'tow, the Emperor's Prime 'Angler, with whom he had a very long conference, the refult of which remains, however, a profound fecret with the Cabinet. .... Should a war take place between Great Britain and France, it h the general belief at Peterfburgh that the Emperor Milton:art will obferve a fill& neutrality. FRIIIOVRO 1N TR! BRISCALT, AVRII. 26.—The French, who for three years have occupied the Brifgau, have at length evacuated it : this morn ing the third battalion of the t6th demi-brigade, sod a detachment of artillery, which were here, fet nut towards Hunningnen. The battalion will proceed to Alexandria in Piedmont, where the remainder of the corps now is. HOLLAND. Y-1* c v.. MA? 6.—lt is laid that the Batavian Government will fend Mr. VON DUMAN to Paris, upon a particular minion relative to the Lite in which this Republic is at this moment. With the news from Paris, that Ltstcl \VHtr• WORTH had demanded paffports, in order en his departure. and General Awl:owns, had orders to leave London, we received likewife information that new French troops were to advance into this country. We already know, that the troops which were in Zealand have gone to Bergen-np. Zoom, and that they are to be fucceeded by others which come from the Belgic Departments. The Batavian Government dill refutes compli ance with the demands of the French Generals and Adminillrators. Orders are given to furnith no thing voluntarily to our allies, but no - . to oppofe them in any feizures which they 'hall attempt. — Our prefent fituation cannot long endure, but muff terminate in rime fignal explnfion. GRAVE, M•v I.—After the head quarters of Gen.MONTRICHARD had been ellablifhed at Breda, we thortly afterwards old - erred French troops which were ahlembled in the ntighbourhond moving hi therward ; they came in here fneceflively, pa fTed the night, and next morning went over the Made. The 48th half brigade, one battalion of which flaid here for farther orders, while the other proceeded for Nimeguen, was the firfl, and was followed by the fecond regiment of Hon:lts of Chamboran.— Afterwards arrived the 27th half•hrigade of light infantry, tic t tth regiment of dragoons, a divi lion of riding artillery, with four eight-pounders, and the tooth half brigade, to keep gars lion here, hat of which the limnd battalion lies cantoned in the environs, for want of accommodation among the citizens, who are already ftiffisiently npprelTed. Lad of all palled here eight loaded gun-carriages, with the neceffary artillerills to man them. The ei.kvant Secretary of the Council of the American Colonies, P. E. Twit, having been no. minated Receiver-General of Dem:lran., let off a few days fence for the place of his deflination. A molt grievous tax is propofed en be laid on the inhabitants of this place and its jiirifdietion, for amending the wretched finaaces of this town. — Among other arrilitry articles, chimney milers are to be fubje6l to an annual tax! Bs VDA,MAY S. —Thole alarms by which we have for the IA two months been didlithed, are much augmented by the Order here futijoined, which hat been recently ;fried from the head quarters of General MONYISICNARD. Its difpnfitions for the levy of the contributions appear to indicate, that the Datavian Coniiitution is going to be Impended, and this country to he placed "holly under :Mili tary Government. The tan fall in the pt ices of nit pnhlic fincks is afcribed in part to the eff4t produced by this Order. THE onnin.. TN! ..... ntri•trot IW NATAYIA. Head-quaver. a Brrels, Rth Fhr•sl 'April oth r•sr 4. 1 the French 11.-rmhhe. The bode ef . Fr•nrh trnn`• tr. flv•eia are informed, the fm'• the ttt Flnreal April sr'. Mr. htiehant. nnrle. the cha- Teeter nfOrd , ,nrateur, has autiotritr •••• ?sere& thnr, fittin.ons which, till that A te, were rltfeharged he • :en ftenrin. The turietiono et the Ordneinsteur,ne Ceeneniffare General, are thee r— t. Tn renv;rlr f , • the GTO. no r j•rne.6nn. of 311 f" , t..b.s•h to the army in t•• encampment• and muffles. and to all places Nieh are n may be gartifleed. 2. To Ira , . eh. tootti,uttrine 3. 10. n-oleo. ',writ= of be filli.!3fT 'raffles, and eon 'op of p.ovitlo..• /1- To ftr , i rat , l'ett for .berneerrone. of p.n.ifinn., n r a .. 6/w e . a wg f." •N. of. Al tbofe perfors in tie army eta. Hull be sllnereet to boor toll or travelhot t o rermter *be hofreal., pc.foos, an-pa 4e rat& , and deb.. ro;t 4. eftelf. Peet. Ilk 0 :14141440C prov.bons, (-rage, feel, tiv..0.4, Iln4lo•llC fdriseurr ? 1,, at el.,,••••t• an 6,t0111.15S l a id nu . for an 3...•r.ft• and of all ,4b.r carte., icept tSr paf of ab• A rA nii-• N,ti M .041.0414. d at N.rn.reen rnn corr• lid , a 4 t '. and receive bit... qtr... tun... eotk. C: to-41 L'•101119•11.I. mow t• eret..i. Cleat tatiove el tie. Sta. ad .a.r.s. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOITSF. OF LORI)c, MONDAY, MAY 9. Their Lordfhips, in 3 Committee of Privileges, attended fist fine time to the luveitigation o the claims to the Chandos Peerage lord BOLTON (poke at very ennfitlerable length in favor n the claim. Its farther examination was then poftponed till Thurfdav nest. Mr. Estistore, .S;r. Rne►aT Witt tams, Sir %rituals E ATHeOTr. Lnrd FOA Or CAVENDISH, Mr. Cu tRLIES .DAs, and others, brought up nine private Bills from the COMIIIOII4. Mr. Sirevr czs prefemed an account of all the rums of money itrued by Government to the Society for augmenting the living,' of the poorcr Clergy. from the origin of that hiltitution to the prt fent rear—and of the applicatioti oft e fame. Mr DA Irrfolk . . ! . 1 . 001 the Chancery of Irelmd, gave ir, npon oath, co; i •or re-taro papers heltiogity; man Irith Ap /cal Caufe. Lord .IAUCRI.A ten gAve To ur, ot what the untlerlttmit to he a motion frbtive to the Acetoic , ' communicated to the 14oufe, rJpeett- R the public to he made on Friday nest. Lord KlTfle pave notice, that he would, no Friday nest, he elide to tiring forward his long expected motion on the Public Arco nt4. "f he Houfe went intn a Cnmmit•rc nn the for the rt. tenflorr at the Coventry Act. Some corwerf.ition concerning the amendment of certain elatift. Arote between Lord Hirt N- ItIIItOUGII and Lord ALVANLLT. The Mil then naffed throngh the Comtnatee, and way ordrred fora third reading. the other Order. of the Day were dif i tofed of. STATE OF THE IiEGOCIATIns: WITH TRANCE. PELHAM then rofe. He had, he raid, lig. nifiecl to the Houfe, on Friday lall, that he expea ed to have it this day in command from his Ma jelly to make a communication fittest to remove the anxious uncertainty of their Lordthips and the Public, relative to the state of the dircullion which had arifen between this Country and France. In confetweace of what he had then the honour to reprefent, the Honfe was pleated then to refrain from entering into particular deliberation upon that fithjeet. A Noble Earl who had given notice of a motion to elicit information rerpeaing it, was likewife pleaftd to defer his motion. For thefe realons, his Lordlhip, though circumflances did nut yet enable him to addrefs their Lordthips with the expefted communication from his f‘lajeflv, thought it incumbent nn him, as far as was poill ble, to fatisfy the Houfe in regard to the caufes of the delay. Lord Whitworth, it was Rated on Friday, had received orders to leave Paris on a certain day, unlefs he fhonld previoufly receive the fatistaftion required upon the points in dilpute.— As General Andreoffi had on Friday applied at the Foreign Office for pairporta, and no difpatches had been for tome days received from Lord Whit. worth, it was concluded that the Britifh Ambaffa dor had, on Tueblay or Wednefday loft, moll probably left Paris ; and it was believed that his Lord(hip's arrival in London might he within the next two days. Contrary to this expeaation, Lord Whitworth, when on the eve of leaving Paris, had been addrelfzd with a new propofat on the part of the French Government, upon which his Lordfhip had thought it his duty to delay his departure from the French metropolis, till he Ihould have tranf mitted that propofal to his isla;elly's Minillers here, and Ihould have received farther orders upon it. The propof.l was not of fuch a nature as to form a pr-tper fubjeci of any communication to ' Parliament. Yet, it neceffarily produced matter of delay, till an anfwer Ihould have been returned to it, and received at Paris. Only for that period, would the intended communication to their Lord fliips he withheld. rr Unlels, however, in the mere fan of delay, his Lortllhip laid, he had no reafon to hold out to the Hustle that the propofal on the part of France was of a nature to produce a change in the fublance of the promifed communication." His Lordthip concluded by Rating, that, with as little delay as was compatible with the circum fiances of the incident he had mentioned, a com• municatiors adapted to put an end decitively to the disagreeable uncertainty in which he was lorry that their Lordlhips and the country had, for Com e time, been, would OM fail to be brought down from the King. Lord DAR 4 LVY gave his thanks to the Noble Secretary of State, for having, in a manner fo han4rme and candid, Rated thole fails to the Houle, which their Lordlhips had now heard.— Tn him they were, for the relent, entirely lois fattory. He moil readily agreed to refrain from now bringing on the motion of which lie had given notice. Nay, farther, if intended com. munication fhould prove to be r f th.rt clear and decilive nature, putting an end to ali nocertaitity, which the worth of the Noble Sect er y if State encouraged him to hope, lie vrotold the:t confider himtelf as freed from any neceairt of bri !Tint! on his motion at all. He wished to fry a few wo:ds of the realons upon which lie had been induct ,' to give notice of that motion. Ht undertook ru make the cootion,hccaufe it had been propofed by nn other Noble Lord. The darknels and mixer. randy in which the nation had been In long held, in regard to the recent difpute with France ; the endlef, protrafling of the negotiation ; the conti nual increating anxiety which pervaded the minds' of the whole public ; the milchiefs at iting from all dill. to every concern of britinel, public and pri vate, moll forcibly demanded a fitiA . ..retory expla nation from his Majctly's Afinilrera. Where could that explanation be given with fo mach conflim tional propriety, as in the two Houfes of Parlia ment F. But lie would not enter further into the tubjca, bemire lie was anxious, at this time, to provoke nnthing like a general difctiffion. He ; wm i ld not fit down, however, without mentioning' t h at if the communication, which they were to cape& fhould not prove of that decifive, fatisfac. tory nature, which the Noble Secretary of State feemed to intimate, he fhould then reel himfelfilill ender an obligation to move the Houle as fnon as poffilile, agreeably to his original notice. He con chided with moving, that the order for his intend. ed motion should be dlidia , g A. It was difcharged accordingly. Earl Setae's entirely approved the condull of the Noble Earl, in forbearing to bring on the mo tion which he had intended to make. He agreed with him, that the aaplanation of the Noble Se vetary of ~rate was, in the prtfent cireumfiances or the affair to which it related, not at all unlatif f testy. He laid, that he and his fa iends had lately avoided pr cdanq too mach Ilion his M t; ,74. nu trys ti.r esiilit"ati"m, an an opinion that they had to ftraggle with sliften'tlet and embar. raftments in the great bufinefs by which these at tention was chiefly occupied, amidll which it would he ungenerous, if not unfair, eagerly to harah them in the Howes of Parliament. Yet he could not but obferve, that by what had rifled fince Fri day, he and his friends were Pillified in the de si re which they had then espreffed, that the Hoitfe fhonlil not adjourn over Saturday. As he then thought, fomething had occurred, even on the morning of Saturday, which was fit to afford mat ter for a certain fort of communication to the public, it would have becn better and more coniti tutional if that information, (mall as it was, could have been given on Saturday, and in the firtl in fiance to the two Houfes of Parliament. His Lordillip concluded with exprefling his hope, that the Houle would, with a: little delay as podilde, he favoured with a clear, decisive, and fatixiaaoty communication.—Adjourned. iiOI , SF. OF CONINTONI. The Report on the lainat.ie. ERA , : Bill ivoi read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to he read a third time Elie Silver Bullion Bill we: read a brit, and ordered to he read a fecortii timr,nn W'rdnrtilac next, and all. to he prioted. The CuA Nr rtt mit of the hseureturit gave notice. that to• morrow he would move to poftpone the confideration of the feveral Election Petitions now before the Houle, except thole which are tired her . Ihurfday nest. Several Petition. for arid againll the Drifted Canal Bill were prefentinl. and referred to the Committee on that Bill. A Miliage was delivered from the Lords, requelting the Houk to communicate to them what were the gratin& upon which they (the Houk of Common.) laad founded the Notting• ham fletßion Bill. To this the Houle agreed, by immediately fending up a ropy of the minute. of the proceeding* before the Setedt Committee au the Nottingham Petition, as the founda tion of their proceeding. in that wicafure. Mr. J. C. Bt aaaa °No obtained cave to bring In a Bill for the improvement of the harbour of Dublin, and for mending and keeping iii repair the walls on the banks of the river Liffey. The Order of the Dec welt moved for taking into further eonfidtration the Report of the Com mittee appointed to try the merits of the Ilcheiter Petition. - - Mr. Smtvu Rated that fence the former Report of the Committee was laid on the table, a new eleetion had taken place. At this time there had been prefented two petitions, containing the fame allegations on which this Report was founded. He therefore thought that it would be better to defer the further confideration of the fubjelt till the Committee appointed to try the merits of the lag Petitions had an opportunity of giving in their Re port. At all events, he conceived that it would be proper at lean to wait a few days to give the Houle an opportunity of determining what was the centric moll proper to he !willed. On this principle he fhould move, that the further confider ation of the Report be delayed for a fortnight. Mr. Rost contended that the cafe laid before the Home in the Report exhibited one of the groffea fcenes of corruption which ever took place. If the queftion was (offered to pars over unnoticed, there was an end to all freedom of eleCtion, and confe quently the Grenville ACt was a mere nullity. It was contrary to the honour and the dignity of the Houle to have the Report lying on the table as a dead letter. He fhould, therefore, give his de cided oppofition to any motion, the objeCt of which was to prevent a full inveftigation of fodifgraceful a bufinefs. Mr. Swim' amended bi , motion by propofing that inflead of a fortnight. the difcuilion &mild be delayed for a week. Mr. WALLACE thought that delay was, under all the circumllances, highly expedient. A molt powerful reafon for delay was, that at prefent there were a great many aftions inflituted againfl Mr. Davifon for corrupt praflicrs in the conduit of the Eleftinn. It was effential that no prejudice fhonld he created in the minds of thole who might here. after he called on to try thefe affirms. Bur any decision of the Houk on the ftsbjefl could not but have the effea of creating fuch a prejudice. On this grnnnd lie was a friend to the propofed ad• journment of :he debate, and thought it right to Intimate that, when the fubjeft came to be regu larly difeuffed, he fhotild in all probability feel it to he his duty to oppnfe any decifion on the fubjefl till the iffue of thefe aftions was known. Mr.ft,,sx fAid a few wards in explanation. Sir R. BUXTON, though willing to agree to the propofed adjournment, could not by any means Accede to a propolitinn the adoption ofwhich would involve the flighteß fulpicion that the lionfl was inattentive to its duty, in taking the mol effeltual means to check praelices utterly fubverfive of the freedom of Eleftion. Mr. I.es followed on the fame fide. The motiuu of Mr. Swim was then put and cart teci. After this bufinefs was difpofed of, the CHAN* CELIMR of the Excirsosto ?Ole and fpoke to the following effcet :—" Although I am aware, that it is romewhat irregular in me to addrefs you at relent, yet I ftel it incumbent upon me to a& the indulgence of the Houle for a few moments. I flared on Friday lad, that I erpeaed to be enabled on this day to make a communication from his Majeliy to this lionfe. That expeaation was founded upon circumliances which would not ad mit of any other cnia-lnfi )))) than that on which I founded my notice. I think it, however, Sir, right to flare, that other circumilances, unforefeen and unespeCted, prevented the departure of Lord Whit worth from Paris, and that his Lordlhip's depar ture did nut take place from that city. What there circumthinces are the Houle will not espeel that I Ihrndd difclofe, but I feel it to be due to the Houle to date, that I have not any doubt in my own mind that the points in dilculTion between the two Governments will be brought to a decive refult in the courfe of to-morrow, or Wednefday morning, and I am therefore juflified in entertaining a per. fell conviCtion that I than be able to make a com munication to the Houle in the courfe of a very few days." _ _ The attendance was one of the anon numerous we ever witneffed. There were upwards of four hundred and fifty Members prefent. As loon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer fat down, they began to &frier& with the greaten ra pidity, and not a Jingle obfervatinn was made in reply to his fpeech. _ _ _ 'the otitet Orders ~f the Day being itiportd or, the I:,,ufe adj.tui eti. LONDON. YVESDAY, MAY to. MKT OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT tm:r. O'CLOCK , 3 rer confols 64 63i I-- f or are. 631. Oki c per Cent. ppi—.New ditto 9S. 4 per Cent. Sot. Ptt ICE OF STOCKS TF.STERO.IY: %elk emelt 1•• t for net. 3 per Cent. Rai. 64 63} per Cent. Cond. 65! nefl 54 New 4 per Cent. ROi St Yo} per Ct. Ann. pot yo Ditto, 1797, 97 1 0 97! Short Aim. 4 - India Stock 20 .3 k 2 . 0 41 India Bondi 44 to 6s. prem. Imp. 3 per Cent. 6s} lizeheq. Bills, is. to se. clif Conf. ace. 6$ 6Silt The converfatinn in both Houfes of •Parliament yelterday, though thort, was interefling. Minifiers hated, that tinexpeeed circumftances occurred to prevent their making-that communication they had Announced. The particulars of courfe they forbore to difclofe. Mr. ADDINGTON, however, in the moll explicit manner limed, that he entertained no doubt " that the points in difcufflon between the two Governments would he brought to a decilive refult in the courfe of this day, or Wednefday morning," and, continued he, " 1 am juftitied, therefore, in entertaining a perfect convidion that I (hall be able to make a communication to the Honfe in the courfe of a few days." Nothing far. th er patted on the fubjee. Lord Pettiest, in the Houle of Lords, went farther, and gave little hope that the communication he announced would be different from that which was to be given at the time when Lord Wmtrwoar“ was every moment expened. • It is pretty generally underilood, that Nrnifler, have not dcparted from their ultimatum to Mien to the new propnfal of the CHIEF CONSUL; and from what Lord PELHAM laid, it is plain that Miniflers are not fanguine in their hopes that the French Government will modify the propofal it has made. It is laid that Minifters are mneh diffatisged with Lord WIIITWORTII'S ftay, after the period that had been fixed on for his departure, flionld the French Government not previonfly agree to the ultimatum he had prefented y and the general belief is, that they have inftrulted him not to litlen to any thing (hint of an acquiefcence in the terms. and have named a new day for his departure, fhonid they not be accepted. The report in the diplomatic circles is, that Mi nifters themfelves confider a war as inevitable and, indeed, the encreafed aCtivity viable in every department lance the receipt of the new French preo Teems to (peak the fame language. A few days will, probably, put an end to the prefent uncertainty, for it is hardly potlible that Minifters will allow any thing to induce them to withhold, beyond a very fhort period, the promifed commu nication. Lord Hawnesloar and Mr. ADDINGTON had a bog conference with the Commander M Chief. his Royal Highnefs the Dual of Yoaa. at the Horfe Guards, yetlerday morning. A Cabinet Council all It for a considerable part of the day. Orders have been given to the Admiralty to grant no proteaions whatever—filch is the urgency with which the (hips ordered to be commiffioned are wanted for the fcrvire. Sir SIDNIT SMITH, who arrived in town Teter day, !et rff again this morning to join his fleet. Lord Nst.soa had a long audience with the Admiralty Board this morning, where every thing is altivity and hurtle. This morniug we received Paris Journals of the 7th infant. They mention the circumflance of Lnrd Wu yr- WORTH'S Raying at Paris beyond the time firfi fixed on for his departure, and feem to augur fa vourably from the event—a day or two will (hew with what reafon. The States of Germany are beginning to follow 'up the new arrangements rendered neceffary by the final fettlement of the Indemnities. After the arrival of the official intelligence at Carlfruhe of the ratification of the conclufum of the Diet on the 24th of March, the Margrave of Baden and the Duke of %Vurtemberg alumed the title of Eleacir, fecured to diem by the definitive ra tificatinn—Steured to them !—lf the flames of war Choul4l break out again, as there is every appear. ance at prefent will loon be the cafe, what Rate can pr.anne on being able to keep itfelf out of the mifehiel? Even a coalition to maintain religion. order, and good gervernotnt, we have feen to be nn f.ciirit y that all the parties fhall continue to exiil as independent States. If, unhappily, a nest war I/mold take place, we have nn doubt, in por own minds, that it sill be prodalive of as many and as great changes in the political Rate of Eu rope as the lafi. _ _ Pails, MAY s.—According to the news of yell rerday morning, no dou b t was entertained that the Englifh A mhaffador was ready to depart, and the reports of a ritptute between France and England feem to be confirmed. The departure of Vora Wm mecum! is deferred. This morning he Lad an important conference with the !klinifter of Fn rcign Aff Ors ; and after th:s conference, a !def• f . criges was slfparch-d to 1., rdon. _ . it wat 1.41.1 mum:tig, that the LefiCat;er th Ei fr 4