Star.
London, England, 1807-01-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. BOWMAN brought up the Bill for tegulating the Fifheries
of the River Tweed.—Read a firft time, and ordered to be read
a fecond time.

Mr. VANSITTART moved the Order of the Day for the third
reading of the Malt Duty Bill.--Read accordingly the third time,
paged, and ordered to the Lords.
'Upon the motion of the fame Gentleman. the Petition Duty Bill
was aWo read a third time, paired, and ordered to the Lords.

Mr.VANSITTART then moved, that ati Account of the net
Produce of the War Taxes and Permanentilaxes, fox two years,
ending the sth January, 184, be laid before the Houk, dittin-
guithing each year and cash quarter. "

The Exchequer Bills Bill, for granting to his Majesty the (urn of
x0j00,0301. to be railed by I.oans or Exchequer Bills, was then
brought up by Mr. VANSIT FART, and, on his motion, read a
Brit time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow.
Mr. HOBHOUSE brought in the Annual Qualification Indem-
nity Bill—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a famed time
to morrow.

Lord OSSULSTON acquainted the Houfe that hii Majesty
had been waited upon with the Addrers voted unanimously, the
sth instant, and that his Majerty was graciouily pleared-to return
the following anfwer
GENTLZMN,

" I thank the Houfe of Commons for their loyal and dutiful
Addrefs, abd receive with fatisfadion your affurance that the re •
itoration of peace bas been prevented only by the inordinate ambi•
tion of the enemf. I rely with confidence upon the effect of iliac
exertions which my faithful Commons &ail think neceflary for
the vigorous profecution of the prcfent conteft, to maintain the
dignity of my Crown and fccure the happinefs of my people."

COMMITTIE OF SUPPLY.

On the widen of Mr. VANSITTART the Houfe retain,' it-
felt into a Committee of Supply, Mr. CALCRA FT baying moved,
that the Ordnance Effimatee he referred to the faid Committee.

Mr. CALC RAFT, in riling to move the Ordnance
ERimates, felt much fatisfaElion, that it would not
be neceffary for him to detain the Committee by ob-
fervations of any length ; that if, however, there
were any topics that required further explanation, or
any queßions that Gentlemen might deem it neeeffary
to proper( to him, he &mild willingly anfwer fuch
queftions, and, if he could, adequately. He had an
additional fatisfaition In being enabled to inform the
Committee that there was a confiderable redueion in
the Ellimates he had now to fuhMit to them, com-
pared "widlfiriofe of Taft year ; he did not mean, in
Rating thii, to claim any extraordinary acknowledg-
rnent of merit as due to the prefent Board of Ord
:lance, he rather thought that the prefent reduction
might more judly'be imputed to the adequate fup-
plies of former years, which, in facilitating the pro-
grefs of the public works, had 'dined the grants of
money neceffary"to fupport them. 'lf the Board of
Ordnance had any claim to merit, It was for the uni-
form zeal with which the Board refilled all the pro-
jees of expenditure that had been fubmitted to them,
and confulted upon all mations the moll poetical
economy. The principal reductions were owing to
the completion of thofe great works in Kent; and
upon the coaft of Suffer, which, while ereeing, were
productive of an txpence of no inconfiderable magni-
tude. The fum now required would be found to be
600,0001. lefs than that voted lag year, and this too,
notwithltand;ng the increafe of zoo men in one bat-
talion of foot artillery, the increated expence of the
oflablithment of engineers, and the augmentation of
pay to the artillery, granted by his Majelly. This
threefold addition to our expenditure would amount
to tscytool. fo that had there not been a reduction
of 600,0001. the fupply now required would amount
to 750,0001.
As to the Ordnance Edimates for Ireland, the di-
rninution would be found to be in the fame proportion,
and to be afcribed to the fame caufe ; and in general
he could far, and it was great fatisfaeion to Wm that
he felt warranted in (ging, that whoever timid
have the honour of difcharging, next year, the duty
he was now called upon to perform, would yet have
a more pleating talk, as the reduftion would, by that
time, be Rill greater, as the lines of Chatham, and
the great works now carrying on at Dover and the
Coati, would, by that time, be completed. He had
but one obfervation more to make, that (ince the DU-
mates had been laid upon the table, an advance upon
the Vote of Credit had been made to the amount of
400,0001. ; he fhould therefore, from the Cum origi•
sally required, make a dedueion to that amount.—
He did not think it neer Ifary to detain the Comiuittee
further than tly Rating, as at fird, that he was very
willing to give every information in hi: ;over to any
Gentleman, and fhould lilen with refine to any fug-
geftion the Honourable Gentleman oppofite to him
(the Honourable Wendt), Pole) fo converfant in bu-
finefs of this kind, fhould think it neceffary to offer.

The following fums were then voted without any
obfervation:
To defray the charges of Ordnance for the year
1805, not made good by Parliament -4.30 t ,406 9 8
To defray ditto, &c. for the year tBc6 • 262,365 14 2
For charge of Ordnance for 1807 . - 2,278,197 01°
For charge of Ordnance for Ireland 479,246 19 7
•

The above Report was ordered to be received to•
morrow, and the Committee of Supply again to fit
on Friday.
The SPEAKER informed the Houfe that to mor-
row, being the day axed upon for balloting for a
Committee to decide upon the double return for the
Borough of Hortham, in Soiree, he thould attend to
take the Chair at half pail three o'clock, and pro-
ceed to count the Houfe at a quarter before four.—
Adjourned.

THE tVti•TING STAL
LONDON. , • -

THURSDAY, JANUARY
PRitE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk.
Coutols, for Jan. 64 61—Reduced 59/ 66 —thonhun a I pi.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
3 per Ceim R. An. t 94 India Bomb, par sq. per.
3 per Ceht. Coat 5844 59 Imp. 3 per Cent. sdlitpi
4 per Cent. 1741 Excheq. ra r . la. prem.
t per Cent Nats Omnium,
Long Ann. i 7 Basil& Tickets 191. t6s.
India Stock 1761 Confola for ace. 6c.il

The Hamburgh letters; brought by the Mail from
Denmark, which were delivered from the Pbft Office
yefterday, have brought very larg4 remittances to
the merchants, and affurances of farther remittances
to a confiderable amount. This foafonable :fopply, •
has almoft entirely removed the embarraffineetts
which were occafioned by thefirft interruption to the
regular bufinefs with Hatx!horgh, occafioned by the
occupation of that eityhithe'Fiench ittlenow
thought that no soy-Serious ineonveaietwe irfitaccrue
to our commercial ineesefta by the partial changes
that will be rendereditetiffey by theinterfeitnee of;
•. • .
the enem7. . .
We underhand, however, that the Members of the
Englifh Factory at Hamburg!! have Aloe an at-
rangement Term/ling the giviet up the Bkittilh isio-
perty in their poffellioni and that they are not to be
fent prifoners to Verdun..
The account's rerpefling Italia and the Polo wee
contradictory. It fcemt true that the former 'hive
entered Moldavia and Wallachia, but without all
declaration of war. Some accounts fay they haws,
entered as friends of the Porte ; otberb, ittts`f they have
formed a jun.tion with the Servian infurgentswnder
CZHRNI Gaoaus, to the number of 40,000. If this
be true, it muff lead either to a declaration of war
by the Porte againft Ruflia at the inftigation of France,
or by France againft the Porte, for fubmitting to this
proceeding on the part of ftuffia. It is poffible, how.
ever, as this circumftance took place towards the fat-
, ter end of November, that it was in confequence of
the arrangement made between- the two powers in
the preceding month, and with the view of alarming
the French for the fafety of Dalmatiaand the Venetian
territories. The occupation of the Turkifh provinces
appears to have mortified BONAPARTB exceedingly.
He has taken up the caufe of the poor Porte with
fuch earneftnefs and fincerity, that he revenges its
injuries even upon States feveral hundred leagues
removed from the Turkifh tertitory. The Duchy of
Mecklenburgh has been occupied es a kind of cau-
tionary pledge for the evacuation of Moldavia and
WallaChia by the Ruffians.

Domenic calamities continue daily te. add to the
afilietions of theßOtas. FAMILY of PRUSSIA. Betide
the deaths we yellerday mentioned as having occur-
red in that family, the Lady of Prince Wa LLIA at, the.
brother of the Kntc, has 101 l both her children by
ficknefs ; and the Princefs of SOi.ll, the (Ziraaa's
filler, has been delivered of a Ilill-born chill. The
children of the Kix° and allysta are at St. Peter!•
burgh. The eldell is in very bad health.
A very fpirited proclamation was iTued by his
PKUSSIAN MAJESTY, on the ill of December, the
cnnclufion of which only has reached us. After
having Rated his reafon for rejetling the armillice
concluded with DUKOC, he proceeds as follows-:'.
Whilft the King has thus done every thing in his power to
prevent the further tffullon of blood, he has, on the other hands
been inceffantly occupied in preparing the means of refiftance
with which Pam/mance has fupplied him. Though the fortreffes
of Stettin, Cultrin, and Magdeburgh, notwithrtanding their being
abundantly fupplkd with provifions, and furnilbed with fulficient
garrifons, have been unjuftifiably furrendered by their Governors
and Commanders ; yet the remaining fortreffes of the country, and
panicearly thofe.on the Viftula, have been with the ottnoß adti•
vity placed in the belt Rate of defence, and confided to the care of
refolute and faithful Commanders. The troops remaining in the
provinces on the Viftula, and the Wartha, will form a jundion
with the numerous and brave Ruffian armies ;.befides which, a
new army will be colieded, andsot in readinefe foe krvice. The
KING, therefore, relics upon the fupport of the nation,wbkh, in the
Seven Years War,made a glorious nand againlt aimed the whole of
Europe, and which gave no of defpair or itrefoludon, though
then, as now, the rapital,. and the greater part of the kingdom,
had fallen into the power of the enemy. In that war Pruifia Rood
alone. in this the has to rely on the atfillance of ALIXANDZI,
who ailviateAis with hie Whole force to her fupport. In this conteft
PrulLal will identify her interefts with Ruffle. Both will Rand or
fall together."

In the preceding columns our Readers will find
("me farther extra& from the Foreign Journals re-
ceived yefterday.

B.IEltic)*AYREi

We have no doubt whatever that all the reports
that have been hitherto circulated refpeaing the re-
capture of this place, are totally unfounded. A fecond
Bulletin was yeflerday afternoon fent from the Ad-
miralty to Lunn's, of which the foll Owing is a copy s

(Official)

" ADMIRALTY Of FICA, JAN. 7.

" By an examination of the prifosers taken in the Spanlih
pcket,it appears me failed from Monte Video, upwards of three
months fince, at which period that place was in polreMon of the
Spaniards, and Buenos Ayres of the Englith."

We have every reafon to hope, that long before
this time Buenos Ayres has been put in a nate of
complete fecurity. We have more than once flared
that reinforcements were fent from the Cape of Good
Hope before the beginning of let September.—
The Cape Town Gazettes .to the s4.th of that
month, which have arrived, Rate,, thal on the 29th
of Auguil his Majelly's fhip Lancaitaa, Cap-
tain FoTusaciLL, failed from Simon's Bay foi

kw it Plait, tirtth the todeiki ot, 'farm 'tall'
troops ander convoy) vie. Aleafaaer,.HOWAßD ;•••6.
Polly, tHarriam ;a4terili Caaii";=-Caledcidla, J.
M'lvra ; Pretty Lafs,C. Com w Imo ; Royal Charlotte,
Posta/me ; and Fanny,, S. Jnasoa. On the 1611
previous, his Majefly's (hip Me ousa, the Honourable
Captain Bootisatt, failed for the River Plate, with
' hit Majelly's Rote (hip Howe, Captain KILWICK ;
Diadeth tranfport, R. Hosts; Adamant tranfport,
STERLiIia ; and Columbine tranfpott, Lesx, un-
der convoy. The whole of the troops on board the
two fquadrons amounted to about 2500.
Thefe reinfoicements were lien off St. Helena on
the 4th of September 4 from thence to the Spani(h
Main it :was only from to to 14 days run ; fo that
'there is every reafun to hope and believe that they
..arrived in full time-traretider our newly-acquired ter-
ritorkalsclue.i. that quarter of 'the globe. •
HOLLAND.' • lt• •
It now *Opt* *bad i doubt, that the bitch'
,
Government ;Will not Oar,
,in Abe finalleß degreev.
from the rigour of its proceedings, rerpeeing the
Arid, of Holland. witb this country. All commercial
jitttercourfes,ther.cfore, is furpended between the tivo
eimitries.. 4 &letter bf the 27th was received Idler.:
Lttay Tionand ythich determines the point.. As,
iHnolhiPiould porGbly fail with it, it was put on board'
the sra veffel met with at tea bound to England,
in Orderto. communicate to the merchants here • the'
impoffibility of any traffic between the two countries,'
fed to prohibit the eipOrtatlunif.any *etch iodize to
Holland-11;pm this .country.' The lettsr, alfo new,
that •a .Petition. had. been .prefentrd. by the
.Dutch
merclsantotothe Government: praying, that fuch
lkiPscartmertioaded.priev to the iffuing of the De-
aeisititbeitt fuifired to fail.

yefierday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY at.
rived at the Queen's Palace, from Windfnr. At two
o'clock his bfijssry held a private Levee, u
was attended by

The Archbithop of Canterbury—The Lotd Chancellor—The
Lord Prefident of the Council—The Lord Privy Scal —The Firft
Lord of this Treafury—The Secretaries of State.—The Matter
General of the Ordnance—The Whop of Bangoo-•Earl
Fitswfl-
Uam—Vifeognt Ofrolftoo—Lords Bolton and Heathfield—Thc
Dean of Windfor—Captain Sir E. Hamilton and Sir 11. a Neale,
and Mr. Fawkener.

The following had the honour of being preFented
to his MAJIISTY
Captain Sir EDWARD HAMILTON by Earl Spencer, upon his
being appointed to the command of the Royal Mary yacht.
The Rey. Dr. RA NDOLPD. by Earl Spencer, upon his being
tranilated from the Bithoprie of Oxford to Bangor, when the
Rev. Prelate did homage before his Majefty upon the oceafion.

Vifiount Osso L STOW delivered tohii MA] SSTY the
Addrefs of the Uoufe of Commons upon the Papers
relative to the late Negociation being laid before
them.

After the Levee his MAJESTY field a Privy Council.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to the LOND CHAN.
CELLOS, Look, Gasaviu.a and Howicz, and Mr.
WINDHAM.

• At five o'clock hi• MAJESTY fet off nn his return
to Windfor, ercorted by a party of the Light Horfe.

Yellerday the Princefs CHARLOTTI of Wasss
completed the eleventh year of her age. In the even.
ing the paid her refpeils to her Royal Father, who
congratulated her mon cordially upon the occafion.
After leaving Carlton Houle her Royal Highnefs
had a Concert at Warwick Houfe, to which, however,
none but the perfons entrufied with the different
branches of her education were invited.

The Countefs of GLENCAIRNE, on Sunday laR, er.
tettained her brother, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and
the Lord ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND, and their refpec-
tive families, with fome other friends, at Cattle Bear
Houfe. Her Ladylhip's table difplayed true hofpi•
talky, lid with it