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August 15, i 806,
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Ex.rlu•::T or A. LETTER FROM ST. THOMAS'S, DATER

174. y., g; 1803.

" Last Sunday (6th) 'the French Squadron, with-
ou' board, passed, this placer,,
and; an hour after, passed Admiral Co CilltANE, with
bar Line of Battle Ships and three Frigates ; but
the drench Shewing a*disposition to give him battle,
he tilt' not wish to'etigfe.fheir superior' force, and
issince' arrived at Tortda."

WE stuted'yesterdaY, that a-Cabinet Council was
summoned to .ta.ke, into consideration the. Dispatches
brought over by BASILIC°. The Council assembled
about one o'Clock : Lord .GEENVI-LLE, the Limp
en-Az: ut.Lott, Lord SPENCER, Lord HowrcK.,. Lotd
. .
SIDMOUTH, Lord HENRY PETTY, and Mr. WIND-
HAM were present. The Council sat 'till three
o'clock, .. and at half past ten o'clock last night
BASILIC() was sent off with Dispatches to Lord
LAUDERDALE.

The flu6..tuation in the Funds yesterday was, we
believe, greater than upon any one day since the Sig,
nature of the Preliminaries of the last Peace. In
the morning, as soon as the arrival of the Mes-
senger was known, the Funds' rose rather more than
one pzr cent. hut about one O'clok a sudden, alteration
took place ; Stocks began to fall,, and, at one time,
()annum was as low as 51. per cent. It left off at last.
at 64. A variety of causes have been stated as
having tended to produce this extraordinary depres-
sion. It was said that the French Government, so
fir fruai shewing any sincere desirefor Peace, took
opportnnity of treating the British Minister
wit!, the Most marked coolnesl. Lord LAUDERDALE
r2iI,::!QCI Paris, -we believe, .on Tuesday se'nnight,.
and of.course immediately announced his arrival to
TA T, LEYRAND, and deinanded an interview. The
Frc2:1...1 Minister for"ForeiartAtfairs under the pretext
of the pressure of business,declined seeing his X,ordship
until the Saturdayor Sunday following. Anotherreport
which .vas' eireulatei yesterday, but .which, we have
to believe is wholly` unfounded, Was, that
1. L4tip.ol,..n.tt.E, finding that there was no pro-
of succeeding in' the-Negotiation, had,•be-
i :r: B.isztsico, left
,Paris,'-demanded hi'S Passports.;
-,1:-..111y it was said; that a Treaty- of .Aliiante,
Pffenive and .defensive, had". been:concluded be-
tween Franco. and' Russia, and that they were
"-to if vigorously• together. against Great Britain,'
if he latter did not consent to a PeaCe with France.
Such were the reports :Circulated yesterday.with great
:confidencp. The offea they produced we have:al-
Te3dy stated.- When we received the intelligonce of
the conclusiorl -of a separate Peace bet Ween France
. and 1111;ssia,we expresSed our opinion, that it would
yrodecc a material ch;tnge in the tone. of France to
this Country. That change has, 'we understand,
till:Lt.:l place ; .and although we do not, take upon
owselve4 to day that.there is no probability of Peace,
we have reason to believe,that it is considerably di-
minished.

The Dispatches Which were yesterday sent off to
Lord LAUDERDALE were,: we. have no doubt, of a
deeisiveaature : it is therefore likely that the Ne-
gotiation will be brought to a deeisive issue, :,one
way or the other, in a very short time. With respea
t.r' the report of an Alliance, o4"ensive and defen.
between Russia and France; we are not dis-
posed to attach any credit to 'it. .The arrival, how-
eVer, of Lord G. L. GOWER, our late Ambassador at St.,
.Petersburgh, in England, before his successor, the
Marquis of DOUGLAS, had left this Country, proba-
bly -tended to induce Many persons to believe the

;Ci•C)rt.

V.:l received last night Paris and Da‘cli Papers,
(1)e i:')ciner to the 9th, and the latter to the 12th, in-
a; 111. The contents of-these Papers, which are
v,2cylinpottant, are-tiot calculated to excite any hbpcs
of Peace,: By a Uecree of the 3d inst: BUNAPAXTt
hai ordered that 50:000 of the Conscripts for the
pAiS:-Itit year should be immediately' called out. It is
iii ti,)st impossible•to. account for this extraordinary
rnodw re,except by supposing that he has formed some
fw-Oier pl. n of as extensive and gigantic a nature/as
o,we which we have already seen 'errie into exel,
cution.: it true, that in the Decree great pains
are, iakeri to convince Opt t.ii Ineiely A
;„--41;:i;a!'e of
.cburr,e, and neithil.r. indicative'6f 'Peace
sr:- '3,V4r,, •But NVlaoif it ig (Vll.3idCred that last 4p;.ar,

after, the

of ti:Austrlans at Ulm, BGDIAPA? it

'id not dcc,-,1 c,ece-sary to call ont, the Conscript.:4;
althaugh he still had the unbroken force of the

to contend againsti it is but reasonable
to pre,llfne that he nust.nolxi',have some extraordi-:

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nary objea in vietv, when, after concbiding a Peace
with Austria and Russia, he makes such a largeaug-

mentation to his ArMy. • •
The Plan of, the .new Confederation, or, as it is.
dialled; the Leagite'of the :Rhine, has been presented
to the Diet of Ratishon' by the French Minister
BACHER. In the Note. Which M. BACKER present,
ed upoh'this Occasion; after explaining the grounds*
Which induced his Master to declare himself Pro-
feaor of Germany, or, in other words, Head of the
Empire, he says, that he has but one wish remaining,
and- that-is, to use the means whiCh Providence has
given him, to restore the Liberty qf the Seas, and
to establish the freedom of commerce.

THE late' Prussian Minister:tO this Court, Baron
JAcontKLOEST, has at length quitted England. He
embarked yestftdAy.oa :board the Auckland Packet,
at Harwich, for Husurri.

There is no variation in the report of Mr. Fox
this day : I)ii friends continue with some confi-
dence to augur his recovery. -
Yesterday morning the Dtnix of YORK transacted
business with-His MAJESTY.

Afterwards His' 'MAJESTY, the DuK.Esof Yo,pc.
ancICA.NaRinoE, Lord VirAL .c&GnAm,LadyTnyNNE,
Generals. FITZROY and CARTwiticwr,Colonels GORE,
GREVILLE, and TAYLOR, rode in Windsor Great
Park, &c. and returned about half past twelve.
The DUKE of CAMBRIDGE arrived at Windsor on
Wednesday night.. _

Lord- SE-AFORTu has received leave to return to
Europe; but owing to .the Enemies' operations •in
the West Indies, he determined not for the present
to quit liarbaclOes.
Government, it is understood, have obtained per-
mission to receive Aineriean oak, as a supply to our
Dock-yards. This will at all events prevent th 6 too
rapid exhaustion of the royal forests. •
The LORD MAYOR crave yesterday a splendid en-
tertainment to the LORD CIIANCELLOR and others-
ofthe Cabinet Ministers,, in honour of his Excel-
lency the Hon. DAVID ERSKINE, the Minister pro,
ceeding from England to America. There were
present on this occasion—

The, Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Lord Ellenborough,
Mr. Win(Mani; Sirs S. Cotterell, W.'Curtis, and Charles,
Price; Mr. Barclay, Mr. Combe, Mr. Munroe, Mr. Pinck-
ney, General, Lyman, the Hon-.- H. Erskine, T. Erskine,
Mr. Harris, and Mr. Wilson, the Lord Chancellor's Soli-,
citor.

.
After Dinner, the following Toasts were drank :
•
" The King, and God bless hart:" •
" The Queen and Royal Faintly:"
" The Prince and his .12,0yal Brothers -; and thanks to them
for- the honour they have. done the City, in ;the present
Ma yoraity,:bv Their presence."
" The American Ministers present (Mr. Munroe, Mr,
Pinckney, and Cenetal.f.yman); ,nd may there o perpetual
harmony between the two Countries:"

Mr. MUN ROE begged leave to- return thanks for
the honour which had been-done him,
,which he-did
not estimate so- much persOnally, as . with :regard to
his country. There. existed. a thousand reasons; he
said, which made it desirable for him to promote 'a
becoMing feeling of goodrWili between Great Bri-
tain and. America; but while he must he considered
a true and faithful Servant of hisnepublic, yet- no
peronal exertions on his part
„should be wanting to
preserve.that Cordiality which Was so essential to the,
interests of the two countries ; and he begged leave
to drink all thely good'healths,
. Mr. Pl:sic:l6.mA; observed,- that he accorded per-
feftly in the sentitilents that had_ been expressed by
his Colleague, and , that no 'endeavours- on his part
"should be wanting to promote the 'good understand,
ing which ought ever to subsist bet Ween Great Bri--
tain and America..
The next Toast was— •
" Thc,Lord. Chancellor of Erigand, and may the name of
Erskine and the Trial by Int)/ eve:r be united:"
•
which was drank with the Warmest- erithusiasni.
The Lori 'CHANCELLOR returned thanks. He
said, he felt it to be the highest honour that he could
enjcy, to have l health drank and introduced in
the manner if ' had been, at the Head7Quaners
of
the City of London,,-..a 'City where he had had
many opportunities of using the talents which
be possessed in support of that law which was the
admiration of the world, and which was so•admir-
ably executed by hi's:Noble and Learned Friend
present, whose health he would take the liberty of
proposing. • •
The Health of Lord ELLENBOROUGH having been
drank— •

His Lordship thanked the Company for the ho-
.ndur they had done .him, so much beyond his de-
serts. 1,
The next Toast was,
mr. Windham, and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers."

Mr. WINDP.Ard returned thanks.
Then followed
" The Earl Spencer, to whom they had been on former
occasions so much obliged."

His Lord-ship returned thanks, and expressed his
high sense of the obligation conferred on him.
Then followed-
" The immortal Memory of Mr. Pitt."

" The Wcoden Walls"---:" The Army," &c. &c.

. . ,
The Ministers withdreW about ten o'clock ; but
the hilarity and good liumoUr of the company were
sprotrataed *to a late . hour. -• . .• : • -

. ,
DREADFUL' AcCIDENT.=-Xesterday afterncion
Mr. Bolton, Haberdasher, of Stanhope-street, Clare
Market, Wits travelling with his son, a fine boy ,four
years old, inside the Bath and Taunton
died cOacti,' in Piccadilly, the dour flew open, and
the child fell out ; 'the hinder wheels of.the vehicle,
which was loaded with trom'll- to 20 passengersi
went over bo'zl the legs of. the,. ho above the..anclei
and' broke thi!l'hooes into splinters. It w.fs a spee-
tacle too :sltocking to give a full description c)f; the
blood flowed copiously from the 'wounds, and the
legs sowed only to: be held together by the sinews.
The pew child was taken to the shop of ;'fir. Harr.-
bridge, Piccadilly, Ifflwre every assistance was afrord,-
ed tc) alleviate its sufferings;