Star.
London, England, 1808-03-12 00:00:00

• THE EVtNiIsTG STAR.
LONDON.

on the part of this eenntry. •
. Mr Arnistrenis
aecess,27„can Minister at Paris, had applied to the
in'—of marine in France, Mons. Decret, on the
14.1,11„'ster d was informed by him that the Decrees
014"-- an be acted on With respect to America.—
.et not to
authority could be applied to,. and it was
?")bettm.ceer for him to inquire farther. We had,
Ot7„,samsr- hly cast away the American trade. He
length
:lowered at considerable some arguments of
Stevens, on the subject of premiums on insurance,
gr,
asueht that we ought to have waited nnother month
,se;how the Americans would act, and was of °pi-
th if the doctrine of Ministers was admitted,
itteldathe ‘ ssible that neutrals could carry on
AP h atever
allstrar. wEvENI, S. explaioed, in answer to the last I
sou, some points in his speech on the preceding
BARING
r.made some observations in support
of his statementSE .
defended the principle
measure of the Bill, as
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of the utmost importance to the mercan-
WC
this country. Neutrals had no right
interes.
comp in
of the Orders in Council, for they became
to
este, in consequence of Bonaparte's decree,
utovoi
I„;,,the British Isles in a state of blockade. He
a,tc,,r-duaed° with observing,
. that the present Atimini-
`ton- ad no hostile idea against America.
trte E MORRIS, with considerable animation,
lu:red ;he Orders
.in Council, which tended to ruin
cog
to commerce of this country. Instead of irritating
fings of the Americans, already too much car-
L'e;3, We ought to hold out some coneiliation, and
;mon' the mutual interests of both nations. The
-orders were contrary to the common law of the land,
• direct violation to the 28th of Edward 111. andcontrary to the law of nations ; since it was there
lid down, that the consent of the neutral ought to be
reviouslyobtained, before his right could be infringed.
!dr. HALL defended the measures of the Orders
!I Council, and contended that we were justified in
then by the multiplied aggressions of France, and
bs the law of self-preservation and retaliation.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL entered at length
into defence of the Bill. He maintained that it
en of infinite importance at this awful period of the,
world, that we should stand high in point of moral
character in the eyes of Europe and the world. He'
therefore could not but deprecate the attempts that
lad been made to depreciate it, by holding up those
measures as violations of all law and justice. He con-
tended they were, under the circumstances of Europe,
perfectly conformable to, and consistent with the Law
of Nations, and that they were governed by princi-
ples of the soundest policy.
Mr. GRATTAN abstained from taking any share
in the debate, in the hopes of hearing any thing in
the shape of argument from the other side, in favour
of a measure which foreboded the ruin of British corn-
tierce. He was astonished at the mode in which this
Bill was originally forced on the House ; and he was
equally surprised when the evidence which the Mer-
chants of Liverpool and London had to offer against
the Orders was rejected.
Mr. BANKES argued ably on the same side, and
emjured the House to pause before it proceeded in
that career of violence against neutral states.
Mr. WiPERFORCE supported the measure ;
and Lord Henry Petty rose at two o'clock, wken he
tatted into a most perspicuous statement of the con-
sequences which would result from these measures,
sad cautioned Ministers of their responsibility for the
system of political empiricism which they were pur-
suing.
Mr. CANNING, in a most brilliant speech, ex-
posed the fallacy that pervaded every argument from
the other side. It was in viewing this measure,-not
as directed against an enemy, and only incidentally
affecting neutrals, but as a blow aimed directly at
neutrals themselves. file lamented as much as any one
that neutrals, from the circumstances of the world,
were placed in this predicament • but shoved, that it
was no new principle from which they so suffered,
but one established since the very first period
that blockade had been resorted to, as in the
blockade of a port or a river, all the innocent inha-
bitants surrounding the one, or living upon the banks
of the other, suffered equally with the enemy, against
whom the blockade was directed. He ridiculed, in
Brains of the happiest oratory, the line of argu-
ment adopted by the enemies of the Bill. They had
chosen to give up the evidence of Lord I lowick's
letter, the most wise and exalted document of the
A Petition for Peace is now going round for sig-
united abilities of the late Government ; they had
natures in the towns of Manchester, Salford, and
chosen to pass by the less firm and important letter
neighbouring places in the County of Lancaster. The
of Lords Holland and Auckland to Mr. Mattison ;
signatures on Wednesday evening last, amounted to
and they had chosen to rest the whole strength of their
upwards of 37,000.
wet on the afire dinit of Mr. Decres, a French Mi-
Sir-Emit:No NEAGLE was yesterday appointed Cono
ruster, whose doctrine had been proved false in point
minder in Chief of the squadron on the Jersey and
of fact, and fallacious in point of reasoning. He then
Guernsey station, in the room of Sir JAMES SAUMA.
onsidered the question as it regarded America, and
An, who is to be employed on a Secret Expedition.
said, the doctrine now laid down would, .if acted ORATORIO.—The Selection last night, at Covent
Non, amount to this : If we were at war withsone
Garden, 'consisted of the favourite Serenata of Aar
Pewee, we would have no hesitation in injuring all
and Galatea, which was delightfully performed by ,
the rest of the world, being neutrals, in pursuing M p
KPRARAM, Mrs. DICKONS, Madame DussEs,
measures against that single Belligerent—but,. as
Mrs. BLAND, Miss BOLTON, Mr. Goss, and Mr.
the number of belligerents increased, so in proportion I
BELLAMY. Mrs. BLAND was loudly applauded in
me would relax in our system, till, at last, there being , Would you- gain- a tender creature?" Mr. Bea-
only one neutral to all the world in arms against us,
lanai was rapturously encored in "Love sounds the'
We would allow that neutral, unrestrained and tiocon- . alarm." He also sang, in the happiest stile, BAUZ.I
tra, aletelloto supply all our enemies with every thing • zisn's sweet air to Sir JOHN DALLAS'S words, " Strike,
flat they could desire. This was precisely the case
strike
_lJ_the Harp," and received unbounded applause.
le the present instance ; and America was said to be
Mrs. ICKONS was most rapturously encored in "01
the more injured, because, by her remaining the only
had I Jubal's lyre !" The whole ended with the
neutral power in the world, she had engrossed all that
grand Chorus of " Live, live for ever." The House
tonunerce, which would, under other circumstances,
was crowded, and the Company elegant.
hive been participated among many. He contrasted
At the close of Chief Baron Sir A. MACDONALD'S.,
the conduct of the late Administration with regard to
charge to the Grand Jury of Essex, on Tuesday last,
America and Denmark, and condemned their having
at Chelmsford, his Lordship remarked, that he was I
threatened the power least able to resist the rights of
under the painful necessity of calling the attention of
Great Britain, while they had rather bowed to the
the Gentlemen of the County to the cold and uncom.'
monger power. ' fortable lodgings, that had for so many years been
Mr. WHITBREAD answered Mr. Canning in an provided for the Judges in that town, and of which
*mated speech ; he considered the principles laid they had so long complained. The Sheriff had of-
down by the Right Tionourable Gentleman who pre. ficially exerted himself to the utmost in his power to
ceded him, as totally subversive of the commercial remedy it, but in vain. After stating the extreme in-
PelieJ of the country. He was anxious the House convenience, and uncomfortableness of the apartments,
should vindicate its character by an almost unani. both to Mr. Justice HEATH and himself; and the proba-
mous opposition to the measure proposed by his Ma- ble impediment of the public business of the Circuit,
iestY's Ministers. from the health of the Judges being so erpo-ed, his
Mr. ROSE explained a after which a division took Lordship said, they had
resolved, if they did not re-
place, when there appeared for the Bill, ceive assurance of more appropriate lodgings being
Ayes, 168—Noes, 68—Majority, 100. , provided before the next Commission, to remove the
Assizes from Chelmsford, and hold them in future
The House adjourned at Six o'clock this morning,
in this town of Colchester.
till Mondry nest.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12. -
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, money, 641--for April acc. 6411--Owitlimn S 4 pre.
Exchequer Bills, par.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
9 per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds, 2s. 3s. dis.
s percent. Cans, 64f Imp. Ann. 71
4 per Cent. shut Ex. Bills, 4s. 2s. pr.
5 per Cent. 9611 English Tickets, 211.
Long Ann. shut Cons for Feb. 641 i
India Stock 172 opg.

The Herald, Captain MiKissocK, is arrived at
Greenock, from Jamaica, which place she left 26th
January, in company with the Croydon, for London,
which has a Mail on board under convoy of a ship of
war, and parted two days after sailing ; his Majesty's
ship Meleager, with the fleet under her convoy, which
sailed from Portsmouth on the 18th of November,
lad arrived at Jamaica ; also a fleet from Cork.

—The brig Margaretta, formerly la Plata Packet, i
from Monte Video, parted from the convoy in lat.
10. 8. and had not arrived on 23d January ; the rest
of the convoy arrived 11th January. The Mars, REID,
from Monte Video for St. Dcmingo, I.a I been de-
tained by a British cruizer, off Cape Nichola Mole,
and carried into Jamaica, where it was thought she
would be condemned, not having a licence.

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Sir Joins STUART, the Hero of Maida, will sail
immediately, to take the contntand of all the British
troops in the Mediterranean.
Among the Officers to he entpioyedoa the Swedish
Expedition, are mentioned the names of Lords Row-
LYN, MoIRA, HurentNsow, and PAGET General Ccrr-
TON* Major-General JOHN HOPE, Brigadiers Drorr,
Hourros, and DORRIEN. Generals Lori BANBURY,
FINCII, and THORNTON, go with the Guards.
The forte on this expedition will exceed that of the
Danish. In addition to the corps mentioned in the
StAll of Thursday last, it is said that there will go—
Lord Cathcart's Regirnent of the 3th Foot.
Life Guards. Sli,t Do. (21 Battalion).
The Horse Guards, Blue. 42d, or Royal Highlanders, (21
Ist and 241 Dragoon Guards. Battalion.)
Scots Greys. 71st Highlanders.
14th, 15th, and 16th Light 73d Ditto.
Dragoons. 74th Ditto.
A very large Force of Foot and 87th, or Irish Heroes, (24 Bat.)
Horse Artillery. 921, Gordon Highlanders, (2cl
sth Foot. Battalion.)
We are sorry to hear that the Egyptian ophthalmia
prevails much at the C ape of Good Hope. It was brought
to that settlement by the Ist Battalion of General
\Vim Etocas.'s regiment, who had 300 men down with
it ay.bin our accounts came away ; however, by the
excellent regulations of Brigadier-General Lord BLAY.-
NET, and by the police established by Lord CALEDON,
Arrivals from Holland are now more frequent than
the contagion was kept down in the settlement.
lately. By an American vessel we have received
We are sorry to hear that a fever prevails among
Dutch papers to the Bth instant. The news from
the troops in garrison at Plymouth.
Paris given in these papers, only comes down to the ,
2d. Private letters of the Bth have also been received WEST INDIES.
from Holland, which are full of complaints of the Wejust received the Journal of our Corres-
have j
distresses occasioned by NAPOLEON'S commercial re-
strictions. Ipondent (date beginning of January) at Barbadoes.
The Commander-in-chief had gone on the expedi-
tion against the Danish Islands, from which the
Accounts from Barcelona state, that the French en-
cers concerned promised themselves much prize-money.
offi-
tered that city on the 16th of February, to the num-
ber of 10,000 men. They have also marched in great That excellent officer Sir JOHN WARDLAW comman-
force to Cadiz, and it is said intend to occupy all the ded at Barbadoes. General BOWYER had taken with
sea ports of Spain. Ihim all the troops he could collect, (about 1.500) and
Several American vessels have been brought into
General MAITLAND and Brigadier-General GLAD-
Leghorn
STANES. Generals MACLEAN, SHIPLY, and RAMSAY,
rn by French privateers, and there condemned
as in the ports of France. That place, as well as had sailed a fortnight before the Commander-in-chief.
Civita Vecchia and Ancona, according to rumours q The troops were rather sickly, particularly at Bar-
bebadoes and Grenada. Some regiments from Englai d
contained in the Foreign Papers, is to united to
the kingdom of Italy. To this, probably, the curious were anxiously looked for, particularly the 13th, 25th,
document refers, which we insert to day—the feeble and 63d, who must by this time have relieved the
protest of Pius VII. against the occupation of his 37th, 70th, and some others of the skeleton corps.
territory by the troops of BONAPARTE. General BOWYEIt was immediately to go home after
A vessel which left Bilboa about ten days since, the capture of the Danish islands. Lieutenant-Ge-
brings a report that the Porn has resigned both his neral BECKWITH was to act till a new Commander in
temporal and spiritual power in favour of Cardinal Chief was appointed, and come out with a Staff from
FISCH, NAPOLEON'S uncle. England.
The Captain of a French privateer, carried into
Plymouth on Thursday, reports that five or six sail of
the line got out of Brest between the '2sth and 31st of
January.
Letters have been received from Genoa of the 15th
ult. which state, that a French squadron had arrived
at Toulon from the ocean. After remaining in that
port till the ships already lying there were made ready
for sea, they all departed, but in what direction is not ,
intimated, some time between the 6th and 10th of
February ; yet it has been said, that one squadron
sailed from Toulon on the 18th of January. At the 11
same time, the French papers publish an account of
one of their squadrons being seen off the Cape de Verd
Islands, on the 29th of January, by a Danish East
Indiaman. These 'atter articles of intelligence have
again rendered doubtful the correctness of the state-
ment that it was the Rochefort squadron which
passed the Cape de Gatte on the 26th of January ;
though it is not a matter of doubt that it was an
hostile squadron.

DUEL.—On the 12th ult. a very remarkable duel was
fought near the Austrian fortress of Brannan, with a
publicity and a solemnity, we believe, altogether un-
exampled in modern times, and which assimilates this
combat to the legal and judicial duels of the feudal
ages. The parties were Baron von MISER, formerly
Swedish Minister at Vienna, and Baron von WREDE,
a General in the Bavarian service ; and the occasion
of it, as far as we recollect in general, was this :
Some dispatches, which had been sent from Vienna
to Stockholm, by the Swedish Minister, were inter-
cepted by the French, and made public. In these,
Baron DUBEN had reflected very severely upon the
conduct of the Bavarian troops in the campaign of
1805, accusing them of surpassing even the French
in acts of pillage and cruelty. This was resented
as a calumny on the Bavarian military. General
I WREDE, as the principal officer, immediately chal-1
longed Baron Dvnen, with an intimation that if he
himself should fall, the Baron would be called out
by the next in rank, and so on, till he was killed. The
parties could not come together immediately ; the re-
spective Sovereigns both forbade their fighting ; but
the Swede ventured in a case of this kind to disobey,
and travelled into the South of Germany to meet his
enemy. But here he found that the Bavarian Gene-
ral had been more obedient to his Master, and had, on
command, neglected to attend his appointment. On
this the Minister posted the General as a coward in
the public prints of Germany, about a year since ; and
the general opinion was of course in his favour. We'
find from the last French Papers, that the duel 'was
fought on the 12th ult. near Brannan, in the presence
of a great number of the inhabitants. Baron DI:BEN came
from Vienna on purpose, and had been already a week
there; General WREDE arrived the day before. The
parties met in the village on the Bavarian side of the
Inn ; and after the seconds (the English Col. BURKE,
and Count Von RECHBERG) had made the arrange..
ments, they entered the lists, which were beset by Ba-
-,
Tartan military, and placed themselves at a distance
of -15 paces. Baron DUBEN fired, and the ball
passed the right ear of his adversary. General Wiizon's
first pistol missed fire. The Baron's second fire was
equally ineffectual, the ball passing the General's
breast. The General's next pistol flashed in the pan.
Enraged at this repeated mischance, he drew his
sword, and advanced towards the Baron ; but the se-
conds rushed forward, and declared that the combat.
ants had acted like men of honour, and that nothing
further could or should be done. They then departed
from each other in a state of r erixt reconciliation.
About six in the evening of Tuesday last, a tre-
mendously alarming fire broke out in the newly erec-
t-A flour mill at Sturry, near Canterbv rj, belonging to
Mr. Sampson Kingsford, which burnt so rapidly, that
in the space of three hours it was wholly destroyed,
togetht r with a large quantity of wheat and flour.—
The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the
friction of some part of the machinery in the fourth
floor. No part of the building remains but the brick
work of the ground floor, and the large waterwheel;
the other wheels, which were of iron, are either broken
or otherwise rendered useless. Dui ing the pro7res, o'
the flames a quantity of flour which was in sacks, was
moved from the lower stages, but compa• atively tri-
fling with what has been consumed, whi h, in vhc
alone, is said to have consisted of 2150 quarter.