Star. — London, England, 1803-05-09 00:00:00

ORCROFT FARM. NEXT WEEK WII.L BE SOLI) 3Y AITTION, At Mr. CHRISTIE's Auelton Room, Pall , lall A LL that Val itahle FA RM, called OXC R OFT, 4 1 near Newmarket. many years the Stud Farm of the Lite Fad Chose-inn'; conlifting of Eighty Acres of Me adow.and Twelve Acres of Arable, in the highell Bate of Cultivation; a Dvrclling.houfc, Stables, Hovels, a Dove-houfe, a Weighing Engine, a remarkably fpacious and convenient Barn, all in ex etllent repair. A more commndious compan and beautiful fpot, either for Stud or Farming, is not be found in this Kingdom. FRANCE. PARIS, o 3 FLOREAL, MAY 3, The war faelion has fucceeded in perfuading the Cabinet, that the Treaty of Amiens is hurtful to the interas of England, becaufe it has obliged it to refiore a part of its conquefts. Might not one far, that the Englilh Government alts upon the principle, that what it is good to take, it good to keep ? flad fuch a fyftem of policy been adopted by France, would fhe not have a right to alledge that Italy;Holland, Portugal, and a part of Germany, were conquefts good to be kept ? It is the part not even of corfairs, but of free-1 hooters, and pirates, to reafon and aFt, as a fa&ion hoftile to peace and to the faith of treaties, would perfuade the Englifh Government now to do. That a power which has been forced to maintain a long and ruinous war (hould demand and obtain facrifices proportionate to its lufTes, is in nothing contrary to reafon and juflice. But, that a power which every day exults in full Parliament, by the voice of its lqinifters, in the profperity of its of fairs, the increafe of its wealth and polfeffions, its growing means for the advancement of its for. tunes, of the augmentation of its own ftrength, and the diminution of that of its rivals; that fuch a power fhould confider all as fair prizes that it has taken by the advantages of war, is a theory of which the praftice muft become truly dreadful to the human race.—Clef c is Castes. In a journal publifhed at Rouen, is the follow ing article :64 Some perfons talk of probability of a Treaty of Commerce between France and England; but thole perfons muft have forgotten, no doubt, that at the sera of the famous treaty figned by Vergennes, nothing was to be feen in the ports of Havre and Rouen, but veldt bearing Britilh colours. From the Ift of January to the Both of April 1788, 559 (hips entered thofe two ports. Of thofe, not fewer than 148 were Britifh. Thisfimple ftatement mutt fuffice to put an end for ever to all idea of the poffibility of an uleful Com mercial Treaty with the Cotrrt of London." LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 9. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE s 3PareCnat. 6 4Piii'k. Old 3 pet le e Cent. 94.2 —New unto 971. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. 3 per Cent. Red 64 3 per Ct. Ann. 911/ 3 per Cent. Conf. 65 64 6si Co Long Ann. ill/ t9l 64* 634 nsL ace. 65i 64 66 64165} DUBLIN MAY 3. S per Cent. Government Debenture - 97197. 3 per Cans. Goy. Deb. (April s 9) - 63 Conde of Exchange—Dublin on Leaden est ts. NAT S. s per Cent. Government Debentures 9S it 3 per Cent. Gov. (April yo ) 65 Exchange— Deb. Dublin on London 13i. We Rated on Saturday the agitation that bad taken place in the public mind, in confequence of the rumours circulated in the morning refpeifling the natureof the difpatches and intelligence brought over by Mr. Sit.vvirsa. All was uncertainty and furmife ; but a few particulars have fince tranfpir. ed refpeßing the prefent !late of the negociation, which we think are entitled to Come credit : The &patches were of fa& a nature as will probably protra& Lord WHITWORTH'S flay in Paris, and General AN DAZOSSI'S in London for tome days at leaft longer than was expeeed, from the previous complexion which the dircuffions had &Earned. 10 US. Lord Witirworrn had orders to quit Part, un lefs the propofals he had offered to the French Go- vernment were agreed to on Wedneftlay night at the late/. He gave notice of there orders to M TAL- L- rasa% Nothing pallid till a few hours before hit intended departure, when a Meffage was fent to him by M. TALL' mum, to remain at Paris, as ba had a propofal to fend to him which he had no doubt Lord Wm urworrn would think it right to fubmit to his Court. The Pmpofal was accord ingly fent—Lord WmITWORrn tranfmitted it, and laid he fhould wait the return of the Mellinger who carried it. The terms pmpofed by our Ambaffador we un derhand were—" That the French Troops fhould evacuate Holland; that the Swifs fhould be re• howl to a Free Government; and, that Malta fhould remain in the hands of the Britifh for a certain number of years, (we believe km) and, afterwards, until rune new arrangement could be made refpeling it, which fhould completely fecure its independence." The propofal made by TALLEVIAND to Lord Witorwoava, and which lie tranfmitted by SYL- TrasTaa the Meffenger, we underhand to be facia fadory upon the firft point. Upon the kennel, re. fpeding Switzerland, it is open to negotiation, but with a dotard ilairniton of enabling the Swifs to form a free Government; and, upon the third, a much (hotter time is given for our retention of Malta, than had been propored in the shine:arm, and the poffeflion of Lampedofa (a [mall ifland osfortifial, with a port capable of containing about tut or keen fail of the hoe !) is alto Aid to be prnpored to he obtained for Its from the Irmo of I NA pus, to whom it belongs, and to he guaranteed The ifland of Lam )edora, called by PTOLEMY Lopadufa, by the French Lampedoufr, is about 20 miles in circumference, limited between Malta and the coaft of Africa. It is uncultivated, but there is a harbour, in which veffels water. There is an hermitage, in which a Prieß of Malta per forms divine fervice, in a chapel dedicated to the VIRGIN MARY, and keeps a lamp burning at the (brine of a Turkifh Hermit—a circumflance which has occafionally attrafted pilgrims to the Ifland of both religions. This Prieft has alto a fecular em ployment : he keeps an inn, filled with good pro 1 vifions for tailors and pilgrims. The natural fer tility of the ifland enables him to keep a good flock of corn, cattle, and vegetables. He receives alms when he can feU nothing ; fo that he accu mulates confiderable property in the courfe of a life confecrated to Monkifh poverty.—The coafts of the ifland abound with fifh. With proper cul tivation it might beco:ne a valuable polliffion: it is covered with wild olive trees. The fleet of the Emperor CHARLES V. was wrecked on the coati in the year 5552. It is fituated in latitude 36° long. 3o° 33 g. On Saturday a Cabinet Council fat on the dif patches received from Lord WHITWORTH, which was attended by all the Cabinet Minifters. The refult was fent off on Saturday night to Paris. We cannot pretend to a knowledge of its nature, but it is plain, that by this offer of the French, and by Lord WHITWORTH receiving it, inftead of coming away, as he had been ordered to declare he would, if any thing fhort of unqualified acquiefcence was offered to his ultimatum, the aegociation will be prolonged for a few days. In the mean time Minifters are put in rather an aukward fituation ; for Parliament and the Pub lic were led to expel a communication of fome kind this day on the grand objea of our hopes and fears. We do not think, however, that any blame at taches to Minifiers for the delay. Their declara tion was fo explicit, that no man can doubt of po_ fitive orders having beeen fent to our AmbalTador to leave Paris, if the ultimatum he prefented on Tuefday fe'nnight was not agreed to implicitly by left Tuefday. No anfwer being received by him on that day, he was preparing on Wednefday morning to depart, his horfes were atually put ting to the carriage, when a mirage from M. TALLEYSLAND announced that an offer to avoid a rupture would be made. His Lordfhip of courfe waited for the communication, and had three hours converfation with the French Minifter. Though the propofal made by the latter was thou of what Lord Wttarwotest had been ordered to demand, we are not among the number of thofe who will blame his Lordfhip for Wing a dif cretionary power, and remaining till he fhould again receive inarations ; nor do we think the Public will attach blame either to his Lordatip or Minilters for the delay, for nothing can be more deferable than to maintain Peace if pdfible. In the mean time, if we may judge from the meafures that have been adoped fence the arrival of Mr. Si z.v ESTE a, we mutt exprefs our fears, that circumltance care not fuch as to Rrengtheg the hopes of peace being preferved. Orders were traufmitted the fame even ing to an the ports for encreafed exertions to be ufed in forwarding the naval equipments, and the hottett prefs, perhaps, ever known, took place on the Thames,and continued during the whole of theday. The general opinion of official men remains unalter ed, and war is contisiered by them as inevitable. Much, however, depends upon the conduit of the French Government. If Bo it APARTE has offered to concede any thing, the fame policy may induce him to concede all that is required ; and though we are not difpofed to give him credit either for gond faith or good will to Great Britain, his reluaant compliance would, of courfe, be the means of avoiding, for fome (port time longer, the manifold evils and calamities of war. But it is appre hended by many that the roam prqet of the CRISP CONSUL is defigned for the purpofe only of gain ing time, in order to lave his Well India and other fquadrons now on their return to France. Should this be the opinion of his Mai ssry's Mini tiers, which appearances feem in a great degree to favour, the promptitude of their decifion will fruf trate the artful views of the Cow sot. ; and the rem nant of the French naval force may, in that cafe, be lhortly expeded in the ports of Britain. Dif patches have been fent off to all our Commanders in the different quarters of the world ; and the Channel Fleet, of xhich Admiral CORNWALLIS has received the chief Command, is ordered to put to fea with all poffible expedition. Mr. Sy 1., arr sit who let off on Saturday night with the inbullions of the cabinet for Lord WHITWORTH, arrived at Dover at nine o'clock yellerday morning. The Telegraph had prepared a veflel for him, and he was embarked (after a very few minutes term-fitment at Payne's Hotel) by half pall nine, with intention to land at Bon lope; he would reach that place before one, the wind being fair and brifk, and will be at Paris this afternoon; fo that he may return again to London on Thurfday. Yellen:lay arrived two mails from Hamburgh, one from Holland, and Paris journals of the sth inflant ; and this morning we received French papers of the 6th. The communications by thefe channels are comparatively unimportant. We fubjoin Inch articles as deferve any notice. Palm, MAT S. —The affairs of Germany are terminated. The decree of the ratification of his Imperial Majefty was folemnly tranfmitte4 on the 28th of April to the Diredory of the Diet and laid before the Didaturate. The title of the EkBoral Chancery of Mentz was immediately con verted in to that of the Arch-chancery of the Empire. This definitive ad, which regulates the indemnity, will be publifhed to-morrow in this paper with the avis of the Empire and alfo the ratification of the Emperor.—Moaiteur. It is believed that the Legiflative Body will re. ceive to-morrow from. Government Come commu nication in regard to the prefent Rate of affairs between France and England.—Gazette & France. Letters from Lilbon, dated April 7, (late, that at that period Admiral de Winter received orders by a corvette difpatched to him from the Texel, to return to Holland immediately with the fleet under his command, which confifts of three fhips of the line and Come frigates. Five per cents ss fr. to c. BRUSSELS, MAY a.—The movement of the French troops towardsNimeguen is continued with adivity. They will loon occupy a camp near that place, till orders are given for their farther defli nation. It is announced that General LEFRIVLE will have the command of this fmall army. On the other hand, we are allured, that the different bodies of troops, Rationed in the rstb military di. vifion, will immediately alembic near Venloo. A courier difpatched by the Commander in Chief of this divifion, palled through this place the day be fore yefterday, on his way from Liege to Paris, with difpatches for the Minifter at War. We have received here pofitiva intelligence, that the important affairs which at this time occupy the Cmisr Consux will require his pretence Tome time longer in the Capital, and that his journey is put off till force time in the courfe of Prairial (between the sift of May and 2111 of June). A report pre vails here, that at that period a Congrefs will meet here, but nothing is Paid of the nature of the objeas which will be treated of in it, and for this reafon the authenticity of the intelligence is doubted. It is alerted alto, that Bovareare will treat in per- Con with a Society, who for Tome time have formed a projea of conftruding a canal betweenCharleroy and Bruffels, deßined to join the Sambre and the Meufe. However this may be, letters from Wefel pofitively Rate, that his Majefty the Kara of Pause• will have an interview with the CrtaF Cowivi, and according to every appearance, at Duffeldorf, to which the ELECTOR of BAVARIA will repair alfo, to have a conference with there illukriouc perfonages. HAGUE, APRIL 29. — We do not know on what foundation a report has been fpread in France and England, that the Batavian Government has ap plied to different Courts, with a view of obtaining neutrality for our Republic in cafe of hoftilities be tween France and England. We are alto ignorant what has given rife to a report which Rates that our Minifter, at the Court of London, has been requefted to found the difpofitions of the Britifb Cabinet in regard to the project of neutrality. But in examining the affair more minutely, it does not appear probable that our Government wifhes to take any Rep of this kind, and to expofe itklf in j this manner to the certainty of not fucceeding ; and to be conlidered as deficient in good faith and frieadfhip towards a Power fo clofely conneded with it by political relations, by folemn treaties, and by an alliance offenfive and defenfive. The Batavian Republic, after having fo long made a common caufe with France, and after having identified its exigence, as we may fay, with its Ally, will not ad fo ridiculoufly as to pretend to require, in its relations with France, advantages without any burthen, and to form a feparate Body in the prefent critical moment. BIRLIN, APRIL 2+.—The King will fet out on his journey at the end of the month of May. He will then purfue his way to Fulda and Wilhensf bad, by the way of Anfpach and Wurzbourg. In the latter city he will have an interview with the Elator of Bavaria. Sr. PETERSSURGII, Antis B.—The day before yefterday a bridge of planks was laid aerofs the Neva, over which a large train of artillery was PCILOR. tranfported. With the approbation of his Ism aut. MAJZSTY, a new Company is formed for carrying o%the great fifheries off Archangel, Nova Zembla, &c. The Company has neither received nor asked any eaclufive privileges. Count TATISCHTSCNEFF will loon depart for Naples, at which place he is named Ambaffador, in the room of Count Iras.ausar. with a Glary of 16,000 roubles. The EN►aaoa has :tow Ggaed the ettablithateut of the Univerfities and Academies that are to b: founded, and accorded the annual fum of 1,300,000 roubles for that purport. The Court Gazette of to-day contains the ukafe for the manuntifLan of the peafants of the Nobility. In Livonia and the interior of Ituflia great quan- tities of Ship timber and naval flores arc buying up for the French Government. The Est r aim has fent for architats from Italy, to rebuild the palace at PAwloufky, during the fummer, entirely after the old plan, fo that the Estrarss Dowan Ea will not be able to perceive any difference. APRIL 13.—C01. COLIIIIRT, who comes on a particular million from BON•PARTE, is arrived here, and has already had an audience of the Ex. In Ruffian Poland, near the frontiers of Gallicit, there will be this fummer a camp of 80,000 men, commanded by the EMrsaoa ia perfon, who, it is thought, will there have a meeting with the Ebt esitoa of GERMANY and the KING Of PRUSSIA. It is now as good as certain, that our differences with Sweden are on the point of being fettled, if they are not already. APRIL Is.—The hopes of peace are here entire ly vanifbed. On the t Sth inft. our troops march. The Emperor advances money to the Officers, that they may not be embarraffed by the expences of preparing for the march and the campaign : Gen. MICHELSON is Commander in Chief ;—General SUCHTELEN remains with the Emperor, who, it is gill Paid, will make the campaign in perfon. The fleet is commanded by Admiral TscNITSCHAGOFT the younger.—(N. E. This paragraph is only in one of the Hamburgh papers, not the Corrdefts. dra, which is the belt.) A rich Ruffian private individual at Mofcow, Mr. PAUL vote Drursoorr, has requefted leave of the Emperor to give towards the fupport of the Univerfities and Academies, 300,000 Rixdollats, and the revenues of 3000 peafants, which !hall be bequeathed to the Univerfities. This Patriot de. clares in his letter to the Emperor, that be thinks it the duty of every perfon of property to follow. by voluntary contributions, the example of a Mo narch wbo does fo much for the education and accompliibing of the national youth. The French Colonel Cocas ar will, in a few days, return exprefs to Paris. On the toth inR. the Neva was free from Ice. after having been frozen up £53 days. The lowing day the Commandant went with the ufual ceremonies, difcbarges of artillery from the docks. /Cc. to the Winter Palace to announce to his Ina. perial Majefly the reopening of the navigation of the River. By the Emperor's exprefs command a bridge of boats was immediately laid from Sttfckhof to the Finland fide, which muft be quite flared to-day. _ _ On stub Iscu Maimesmaa Bay, Envoy from the Chan of Bucharia, was pro:rented to the Em. peror. He is the fame who brought to the Em. pref. CA7IIIIIIIII the elephant which the Chan feet her as a prefent. Yefterday their MAJISTIAS and four Prineefes walked to St. George's Chapel, where an excel lent ferrnon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Hair- LAM, from the Firft Epiftle of St. Peter, part of the eighth verfe. Their Msjisriss, attended by General Gwveas and Major Pates, walked to Frogmore ; the four PRISMS MI went in two coaChes, where they walked in the Gardens for a long time, and returned to the Lodge to dinner. The Royal Family will come to town to-mer. row, and on Thurfdav her MAJISTT will have a drawing-room at St. James's. Saturday night's Gazette contains a Proclama tion appointing the t6th of June, as the da for the Eletlion of Reprefentative Peer for in the room of the late PATRICK Earl of Dumfries. Lan Saturday's Gazette contains an addrefs to his MAJISTY. from the borough of Newcaftle under-Line, prefented by JaMes CALDWILL, Erns Recorder of that Borough. DUCH /SS or YORK'S Be ILT M.DAY.....0111 Saturday the Duchefs of You completed her 36th year.--- The day was obferved at Oatlands, where a very grand entertainment was given. About twelve o'clock her MAJESTY and the Prineeffes Aucuirra. Etizassym, and Maar arrived; they were re ceived by the Duke and Ducheii and full fuite. The day being remarkably fine, her Me; ssrr and the PRIIICIISM walked in the pleafure-groun3s , and viewed that truly beautiful place. Her MA. jasry and the Palaces:Ls partook of a molt fumptuous cold collation, confining of every de licacy which the feafon affords, and returned to Windfor about four o'clock. The Prince of Wats*, Dukes of Cultlam and CUMBERLAND, and a numerous affemblage of the Nobility, dined with their Royal Highneffes. In the evening there was a grand ball. The Prince Oept there. A grand dinner was given on Saturday evening by Mr. limey ADDINGTON. at the Half-Pay Of Whitehall. The company invited were. the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Lord Metvitts, Lord Btu ess,Colooel Hor a, Mr. Roar and Mr. Wattaca. The CMARCILLOII of the Ercatui terday with the Duke of POILTLAIIN . - .... in Piccadilly. Mr. TATLOt is appointed Naval at Malta. _ _ The Glean Bsiositoa has tent OM as a prefent to his Royal Highnefs d You a very elegant and curious fare, with diamonds, worth fifteen hundred r. ret 'el rt, of pre pre tab isne, AL ebl rd Met TlLt e, BLIT DWlDatit I.on yea dined yel l s. at his hoide tutt, al Storekeepe r 6011 er to Etigland , i the Dua l ...m. of Ant f a bre, Mu dd e d jui g d pounds.