Star. — London, England, 1803-05-20 00:00:00

Ltwtlttrea rpoke at eonfiderable length in reply to Mr. Addington. The &cart-Aar at Wait made feveral obferva. tions on the Militia Aft, and the propriety of af fembling the Militia at the crifis of his Majefty's MCITAge. He con fi desed the armament at Toulon as one which might, by pollibility, be intended fox Ireland. Mr. W. SMITH canfidered the prefent impor tant crifis as one which peculiarly called upon Minifters to give to the Houfe of Commons every poffible information upon the important fubjeft to be difeured on Monday. The MAST I R of the ROLLS thought that general information on fuch a fubjeft was fufficient. He entered into a very ingenious and argumentative defence of the Minifterial objeaions to the produc tion of Papers concerning the armaments. Mr. WINDHAM explained. Mr. Gary begged to be indulged with a few obfervations, by way of reply. With regard to Tome of his motions he kad nothing to offer, be eaufe it appeared to him they were acceded to a.. With refpea to others, it had been Rated that as no official communication could be made, there fore there Should be none at at all. The necellity of explanation was admitted, but it was refaced to be given, becaufe there was no written informa tion on the fubjeft. Unfortunate it was, that upon a fubjed affecting the lives and liberties of mil lions, that we fhould have no other account than a verbal one. Unfortunate it was, that upon fuch a fubjeft as France having placed, under pretence of fending commercial men to this country, mili tary men in our ports to take their founding:, there ihould be no explanation given but what was of a verbal nature ; the Houfe ought to have full ex planation on the fubjeft ; he did not know whether France might not deny the affertion made by Ws Majefty's Miniflers ; he argued that he did not deny military preparations in the ports of France and Holland were a lull pretence for war ; but he doubted as to the exiftence of the faa, and the Houfe was as much entitled to a full explanation on that part of the fubjeft, as it hid been at the period of 1783. The grounds of the debate, Which was to take place next Monday, rendered Inches previous enquiry abfolutely necerary ; the Houfe was pledged to thew the country that the war was jug and neceffary-- , -that it was brought wit by the ambition of the enemy, and not by the incapacity of Minifiers ; they were bound to af certain the real truth ; he has not called for mi nute intelligence, but only general information ; he had ever heed taught that plain dealing was the belt rule to obferve. At a period like the prefent, when the country was to (train every nerve in the coma, all he raked was, to have an accurate (late of fads, and proof that the danger did not confift in the imagination of his Maje fiy's Minifters. The CHANCILLOR or viii Excesews a. recur tins to the gatemen of the converfateon between Lord Whitworth and the Vita Coofnl, Paid, that the affertion of the Firft Conful refpeding his fa cilit of turning the force at Toulon again ItEgypt. applied to a force not a month before, but attually thin at Toulon, and Rated alto, that an actual con feription for new levies of force, had taken place in France three weeks before the Merage and that this infeription was fpecifieally mentioned by the Plrlt Conful, in his menaces to Lord Whitworth, for the invafion of this country. LAwaINCII PARSONS laid a few words to the Abu etre& : when the queftion being loudly called for, was put on the ibteral motions of Mr. Grey ftfCceitvely ; hen the t ft, 3d. and Bth were carried in the affirmative. Upon the ad, 4th, sth, and 6th, Lord HAwassaorty moved the previous QLreftion, Which was carried. The 7th, refpeding the Cape of Good Hope Lord Footstool, moved ail amendment, " together with the date of the laft difpatches received by his Majefty's Miaifers refpeding the retention thereof." To which Lord HaweIISBURY acceded, and the *notion pared in the affirmative. Upon the 9th queftion, refpeding the produt. tion of documents relative to the Armaments in the French and Dutch ports, the queftion being put, the Hours divided... Ayes 59.—Noes 161%. Majority againft the motion Vt. Adjourned at half rift ten. LONDON. a.aa,aasa. //AWAY. litAt 10. pm tot er STOCK!' THIS DAY AT OW O'CLOCK I 3 per C.K. Cackle. oloacy, Pei fo. Mt. Dtaa for aceerasu i t Old s Pa Cam 94 tew Ditto 931. Deimos to gratify. to the utmot of our power. the anxious expedtations of our Readers at the pre- fent important cries ; we ventured yellerday to fubjea them to a double expellee for the Sr•a, that, by means of a Supplementary Sheet. we might be enabled to lay before them at once the whole of the Papers prefented the day before by his Mk; sIITY'S command to both Houfes of Parlia ment, except his MAJISTII'II DICLAILATION, which want of room, notwithlbanding our double Sheet. obliged us to polipone till this day. The printed Papers laid before Parliament were followed by an Appendix containing Colonel Sa- BASTLANI'II Report, the View of the French Re. public publiffied in the Mealier IA February, and the Mandell° which appeared in the Hamburgh Paper ; all of which have already been laid before the Readers of the STML• It contains alfo a letter from Srtatonoa Foe assTl to Lord HAWKIIIIDIT,isfonniag him. that *d the Cesar Com sm. had tabu ware his peataine the Catholic. Apoßolic. and Roman Churches of the Republic of the Seven Illeads." It contains Intuits a letter from the French Ml. aifter to C. FAOVILIT et Dublin, which among other infra lions gives hiss the following :- 4 0 t t. You an required to lana' a Pisa of the Ports of your Diftritt, with a Specification of the Soundings for mooring Vellels. " 12. If no Plan of the Ports tan be procured, you are to point out with what wind veffels can come in and go out, and what is the greateft Draught of Water with which Veffels can enter therein deeply laden It would be infating the good fenfe of our Readers to trouble them with remarks of our own on the Papers which have been laid before the public, and which are of fuch a nature that but one opinion can be entertained of them. But, however great the infillts that have been offered to our Kawo, our Contlitution, and,the-Nation, we may be allowed to exprefs a belie, that thould the French Government become difpofed to aft with more jullice and moderation, Mininers will lend a ready ear to any honourable propofitions that may be made, calculated to avert the horrors rancorous war. In the meantime we have to announce that hof tilities have already commenced : the Freifa, Cap tain Fierdet, from Ceuta, with wine and brandy for Amfterdann, having been taken by the VIXEN gun vette', and fent into Dover. An interefting Debate took place in the Honfe of Commons laft night, on the Motion of Mr. GREY, for the produftion of certain Papers not included in thnfe laid before the Houk by order of his Mayan's, on Wednefday laft. The thf. culion chiefly turned on what related to that part of the K►wo's Mcfrage which Rated that arma ments v e.e carrying on in the ports of France arid Holland. The Hon. Member preffed very clofely for fuch documents as gave rife to that part of the Meffage, and the Refolutions adopted in confe quence of it. Lord Hawn sum met all his ar guments. and very forcibly (hewed the impropriety of yielding up die Papers demanded, as the Cl • • was of a fecret nature, and the development of it would, in fad, break up that channel of information, which it was of importance to preferve, and betray a duplicity in his Majefty's Minifters not at all confiftent with the dignity of the Britifh Empire. Mr. Gases motion was re jetted by a large majority. A DUTCH MAIL Arrived this morning. The following is the only article it brings worthy of attention : Levant, May I a.—From the Hague and from Antwerp we have received intelligence, which at the prefent moment cannot but increafe our unea fnefs. In the hat place we were informed, the day before yellerday, of the entire diffolution of the French armament dellined for Louifiana, which hitherto has remained at Helena(boys. On the sth, arrived here a letter from the Minifter of the Marine at Paris, dated the 6th, Rating, that until further orders, no 14 freighted by Govern ment ()mid fet out for the Colonies after the loth ; that coaßing vefels might, however, go out, but that it ought to be recommended to them, as well as to trading veffels in general, to obferve every precaution poinble, on account of the uncertainty of circumilances, under which it was probable that England would, according to callow, commence hoßillties before it made a declaration of war." FRENCH JOURNALS. irefterday we received Paris Journals of the t and this day thofe of the 16th and 17th inn. The Monitor of the 15th contains a Meiage from Bo na ra ITI to the Legitimise Body, dated St. Cloud, May t 4, Rating, that two orators would proceed thither at two in the afternoon, to make an extra ordinary communication, which Government de fired might be heard in a Sant Cesmelose. The communication was made at the hour appointed by the Counfellors of State, Taunus?, Gous on , ST. CYR, and THIIIIII3DI/11/6 Similar communi• cations were made to the Senate and Tribunate. The Monikers of the 16th and 17th, do not con tain a fingle word refptaing the difputes between the two countries. The French funds for Germinal are 52 f. 6o c. for Vendemiaire 49 f. 50 c. Pasts, Ma ts.—The CNIST CONSUL arrived here yeßerday at noon. He prefided in the fitting of the Council of State. He vifited the Prytaneum of Paris, which he had not Peen for two years, and found the eftablifitment and difcipline much im. proved. This Calllge contains at prefent boo Rodents. In the evening he was prefent at the reprefentation of Polyeußes in the Theatre de la Republique, and returned to Beep at St. Cloud. In confequence of the departure of the Englith Ausbaffador, it has been recolleßed that, in 1778, four months elapfed between the return of the Ansbaffador of his Britannic Majefty and the &dual of hollilities. Letters received at lourdeaux from Cadiz Rate, that the &skean was run foul of near Cape St. Mary, by a Spann °sip of war of 64 guns return• ing from the South Seas, and inftandy went to the bottom. May 16.—1 t is announced that the difpote between the United States of America and the Court of Spain, in regard to Losifiana, is happily terminated, and that this arrangeasaat has been owing in particular to the upright aid pas views of the French Government, which has ceded Louifiana to the United States. it is Paid alto that the Milted States have made a prefent of t 4000 acres of land to General La. ?avert E, in gratitude for the fervices rendered by that General during the war for their indepen dence. Letters from Vienna (late, that in cafe of a rup. tute between France and England, the Q . lieen of Naples will repair to that city with the Princeffes her daughters, as the two belligerent parties will not, and even cannot, enfure the neutrality of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, on account of the importance of its ports. Some pretend to know that Colonel Cot.aaar, who has jun returned from the Court of Peter!: burgh, to which he was charged with a miffion by the CHIEF CONSUL, has brought backthe mon fa tisfaEtnry refults of this meafure. According to what is Laid on this fubjed, the EMPEROR of Rua to put at end to the difputes which cant be tween France and England in regard to Malta, has !hewn himfelf difpofed to guarantee the in dependence of that ifland agreeably to the slifpo &ions of the Treaty of Amiens, and for this put.. pore will confent to caufe it to be occupied by a body of Ruffian troops, until definitive arrange ments may be formed in regard to this important obje& between the French Government and his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. BRUSSELS, MAY I 3 are informed from the Hague, that Mr. LISTON, the Britifli Ambaffador to the Batavian Government, has received dif. patches from his Court, which are faid to be of a very important nature. It is generally believed at the Hague, that this Miniaer will return to England if war fhould break out between France and Great Britain, and confequently that M. Scitistsmrismancit, the Batavian Ambaffador at London; will return to Holland. This circum• fiance would be a fufficient pool that the Batavian Republic makes a common caufe with France. Ralissom, MAY 6.—Baron de BV HLIR, the Minifter of Ruffia, tranfmitted yefterday a note to the Diet, in which he declares, by a formal order from his Court, That his Majefty the Emperor of Ruftia, who has hitherto taken fo intimate a part in the tranquillity and profperity of Germany, would with pleafure fee that the Empire, as a re turn for his efforts and care, fhould confer the elec. toral dignityon the Ducal Houk of Meeklenbourg Schwerin ; that the Chkf of the Houfe of Meek lenbourg Schwerin would make this demand in a manner conformable to the laws and nfages, and that his Imperial Majelly would confine himfelf to previoufly recommending this affair in concert with theCHIIV CONSUL of France, in order to en lure, by there means, to the Duke a happy rank. RA TISION, Mar 7.—The following Note from the Minifters of the Mediating Powers was yefter day tranfmitted to the General Diet of the Em pire, by the Dire&orial Minifter Baron Ataint. " The Underfigned Minifter Extreordinary of the French Repabi Ic to the Diet of the Germanic Empire, has been made accuthited with the with which his Imperial Majety of all the Rufus has meted dila day to be es preffed by bit Minifter Ple nipotentiary, In favour of the Ducal Hoare of Mecklenbours,.. He has olden to afure the Diet, that the Chief Corfu' of the French Republic, always eager to contribute to the faddist:Hos of his Msjelty,and to manlfelt thennanktilty eltablinsedbetwoce them, will with pleafure fee the provinces! demand made in his name in favour of a Hoofc for which he entertains Co particular an affedion, become as agreeable to the Ceramic Body, as It Is agreeable to him to concur in all ea:snow la the aecomplinsment of inch objects is are intending to his Ma lefty, (Signed) Lamar:* A flmilat note was prefented in the name of the EMPEROR by Baron os BUMMING MAY B.—We learn by letters from Vienna, that the Imperial Court has addreied to Citizen CNASI• PAGNY, the French Ambaffador, and to the Hon. Aar tucPaosr,the BritiihMinifter,a declaration, Rating, that the Emplane entertained the molt fincere willies for the continuation of peace between France and England 1 but that if contrary to his expeOation, war fhould again break out between thefe two countries, his MAJESTY was determined to obferve the ftrieell neutrality. This commu nication was tranfmitted to Paris and to London by extraordinary couriers difpatched by the re fpedive Ambatradors. Ditpatches from the Duke of You's Office will be fent to Gibraltar and Malta by the AMPIIIOII frigate, for which purpofe they were forwarded to Portfmouth lall night. The regular packets from Dover to Calais con tinue to go as ufual, and. we believe. will do fo for tome time. - - • --- On Wednefday his MAJESTY conferred the ho- nour of Knighthood on RICHARD HANRSY, Cap tain T• BoLroN (Navy), Sir JAMES PULTSPISY, Famtess WMITWOITII, and RttPIRT GEORGE, to enable them to appear asProsies at the Inftallation yefterday, at Weßminfter Abbey. The fcramble for copies of the correfpondence in the lobbies of the Houfe of Commons on Wed acfday, when they were brought down, was aftonilhing. The bundles were - felted from the porters, cut up, and catch as catch can was the word. Many Ccueles and quarrels enfuod : Come few Rrangers were concerned, but the uproar was in faa mcalionsd by the eagernefs of the Mem ben. The fubjea, it will be fee% was noticsd retterday in the Hour' of C.meutioss. NAUTICAL INTEiLIGENCZ. C se, Hint 19 —Arrived hb Majelty's *tip Em. D 'rum from the Mediterranean. its fu leaky a Rate, that haw found occeffary to dock her burnediastiy. The [cameo oat board the RUIN tv ..nd Itanonos have vo lunteered their krriees for any other chip or thipa S:r Wm. Rut a arrived yetterday to infpret the prifon hips ; the SA NUIVICIT koests Telt, and Bute tsar ADe ire ezpeCted to b • commdboned fur that purport. in a few days. Vales-day the dad Regiment kit inir barracks for Canter bury ; the yotli will be relieved by a deta.:htnent of the Guards. Doves, MAT tit... General Asoatusss failed yefterday morning, about (even o'clock, In the Parfait Union, Captain Moseu r. Lord Wurrwoerii had a contemner with him be fore he let off: be was fluted by the guns of the Cattli; at fail ing. Sailed aUo the French pact .t, with upwards old: pato. gets. This day the French pa:lca C. Semra, arrived ha the Roads, with 40 patfengers.—All our Englilb packet are at Calais, waiting to bring over Lord Wu ITWORT it's baggage and bodes. A Chip to in the Road, laid to be bound to force port of Holland, with brandies, fr. n Cate, fact In by one of the gun brigs cruizing off here. Pie emu rN, Mar t7.—Laft night, after Pott, failed from Cawtend Bay, his Majelly's tbip CoulAGEuc. of 74 Capt. HARDT : the went round Penlee Point, at (even o'clock. P. M. with a fine gale at N. W. it is raid that the is deader:a to the Weft Indies, and has on board three companies of thole troops that lately returned from Gibraltar. Came in the EAGLE cutter, from Wales, with 3o impretred men. Sailed the Rase- LOTION cutter, with gores, for the ufe of his Majelly's (him that may touch at Falmouth; Ainl.t. of 36 guns, to Torbay. with t3o men for the fleet there. Orders were received here by exprefs lath night, to prevent the failing of any rads from this port. Sailed the LIIIR R T, Of 14 guns, on a cruise. Came in this morning from Torbay a (choosier, with a great number of women, from the Sect they were gettin,; under weigh at the time this velTel failed, and were going on a cruise. The RRVOLUTIONAIRC, II 44 guns, is gone into CATifand litaYs where the lies at fignal anchor. MAT 111--. Came in the Stert,Capt. Katt', from Landon, for this port. Sailed to join the Chinnel gem the ReVOLUEJONAIIt Capt. 1,0 RK ; SIRIUS, Of 36 gutsCapL PROWSt of 44 gulls, and the Nemesis, dig guns. Capt. SosseaviLLE. Came in the Picem, of to guns, from a cruise, with Impreffed men. Sailed the RANG ra, of 14 guns, en the impress fatties. Re. main in Cawfand Bay, Tosetcr, of z 8 guns; MALTA, of 80 guns; SPARTIATL, of 74 pans; Mass, of ye pal; Peas. a' AGE Is ET, of 74 gut's; and Co:supcßoa, of 74 VIM. RCITIfig in the Sound, DAsiata, of 18 guns; DRIVER, of a guns; Hu sTita, of i 8 guns; PORT MAUON, Of IS guns; Iwonent. of ill guns; GA LOO, of 14 guns; ant PICICI.t, of to gum. SORRINESS, MAT 15..--.Latt nigh* about Nine o'sr.ork rived here Lord Korn, to both his Sag on board the Zeto- LAND.—Sir JANUS SADYARRz ftfliCk his gag this morning at to o'clock, and has failed in the KI r P., Captain Pt roic,..ine IMMoRTALITI is paid this day.—The ZEALAND bas gone out of harbour to the Great Nora—The Leas, Captain * Cowie, has arrived here.—Stangste Creek is toiler of !kip sander yea. rantine than has been remembered fora long time. DEAL, MAT iB.—Arrived the Swallow revenue cutter. from Admiral Thornborough's fleet, which he left era/slag canna. int of the RAISOI4 , Lusa, &tattle, HYDRA, and Aras. cats., and Stan cutter. Sailed, the JAROUSI Soap of war, Viz au,Ce Nsoa,and Suitt gun brip,on a creise.--.Wind,PLE. MAY t9.—Sailed the Mt frigate, to the wiftward. Remain In the Downe.the G ID MO Of War, Rad LT NS Gimp of war. Wind N. E. blows hard. Gas, MOCK, MAY z 7.-00 Saturday night laft, about Its o'clock, the goon Dart, Do steers Oa Lists matter. on her pat-' Page from Liverpool to Greenock, funk about Mid Channel. between the land of Arran tad the Heads Of Ayr ; k woo blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N. W. and the wafter fuppoka the accident mid have happened from the Ihrting a butt; the water was over the tellatt blare it was dammed, and the went down In a very bat time after; It wan with, much difikuky the crew were Wad in the boat, witts•ast thing but the clothes they had on. The Dart aras a fine Soo,, only three years old, and nothing igen:dm her. FROM LLOYD ' . LIST. Garrisawo, MAY :9,-Pled by the Frodarick. Manes from Norway I and Istk7, May. far Andterdam. CORN MARKBT, MARX-I.4NR, MAY no Our demand for Wheat has been very bride during this week, and Prices have rather advanced for good qualities.-Oats are dearer.-Tick Beans. with Barley and Malt, all bring more money, Boiling. and Grey Peas, are in good requeft.- Flour has been freely bought at Os and sos.-A farther rife may be looked for next week, unlefs nur fupplies &mild be very cooGderable, which. from the prefent afpeet of affairs, we think rather unlikely. Engli(h Wheat,_per qr. sss. sBs. Fine 64. 66s Fine Danizie Wheat, sob 365. Rye; 34$ 2 1 64 - 375. Barley, aos. ays. 6d. (Superfine) 21011. 28$. 6d. Malt, 441. 461. 3os. Oats, 201. 241. s6s. Hoek Beans, 325. 345. Tick Beans, aiis. 3os. Hog Peale, 305. 34). Boilers, 4os. 465. Carraway Seed, 445. to 475. per cwt. Coriander, sBs. to 3os per cwt. Canary', 7 is. to 745. per qr. Rape Seed. 341. to 301. per laR. Flour, 48s. sot. per fack. INSPICTOILS ILITUaII ?KOMI 0211111002. MA? 19. Wheat, per Load, from Isl. os. to tyl. los. Bagley, per (barter, from it. 4s. ail. ye. Oats, per car ter, from 11 4s. to Is. Beans, per starter, from 11. ess. to tl. flu Nate, per Quarter, from tl. I es. to sl. os. Lord Warman:a, the Duellers of Duals?, and fuite. arrived at their hoof*, is Whitehall, about eleven o'clock on Wednefday night. He landed at Dover about twelve on the preceding evening. His Lordfhip was trbated on his tore from Calais with every demonffration d o7ten fpeit by the people, as well as by the Municipal Officers, and . the Military. He was filmed by a difcharge of guns, and all parties honed to the occaGon of his departure. On his arrival t Dover, where be found General Amok:ems, who had received fimilar honours, his Lordflip tent a mirage to the French Ambarador imponing a defire to have an interview with his EnvAmen before he left this country, and respelling that Is latter would point out the mode for the meows plifhment of that purpofe. General Aemeosse returned an anliver exprefave of high Terme mod acquiefcence, but leaving the arrangement tnLmd WNITWORTIS. It was then determined that net. ther flould meet the other at their refpeAive hotels, and an interview was held at a third pLace. What paired at this interview, we do not pretend ta Rate. After this meeting, each of the Mobster don viated the other at their hotels, sad both exprelred their fining retire of the treatment which they had received in their refpeaive c and their anxious hopes that all caufes ef " := differences would fooa be removed. General Au. DtIOSSI then took his leave, with every telliamay of public and private rept& He embarked at Wedatiday morMag at icrea o'clock.