Star.
London, England, 1805-08-24 00:00:00

,CONTINEYTAL POLITICS.

Yetterday we laid before our Readers loch parti-
cnlars refpeaing the (late of politics on the Continent,
as we were aide to coital from printed Journals and
fome private letters, with which we had been fa-
voured. We have fince received fame 4:Analog-in-;
telligence on the fame fubjeCt, from a fourcc
-which
may be confideredas indifputable "authdrity.
It is fufficiently plain from what has been fuffered
to tranfpire refpeaing the diplomatic intercourTe be-
tween the Corms of Vienna and St. Cloud, that ex-
planations have been :mutually demanded refpeaing
the military movements they have refpeaively been
carrying on, particularly on the fide of Italy. We
can affert, that the language made nfe of by Bows•
PARTE has been grois and infulting. Every an has been
employed to lull the Houfe of Auftria into a (late of
falfe fecurity : bribes have been offered, which, how-
ever, would have colt France nothing—fome unoffend-
ing, but weak neighbours, were to be the fufferers.
This failing to produce the acquielkence which was
expefted, recourfe was had to invalive and thieats;
and the impatience of the Ufurper led him to betray
his views in to undifguifed a manner, that it was im-
poflible for the Court of Vienna longer to (hut its eyes
to the danger with which all Europe is threatened by
the unprincipledambition of the French Ruler.
As if the Emperor of Germany had been ihe ag-
greffor, an ultimatum was delivered by the French
Court, and of fuch a nature, that application was
immediately made by the former to the Court of St.
Peterthurgh, demanding the fulfillment of a treaty
ezifting between thefe Powers, by which the one is
bound to ant the other in the event of certain cir-
cumftances mehtioned in the treaty. In confequence
of this application, a Ruffian army of fixty thoufand
men is now on its march to Brim, which place it
was to reach in forty days from the time of its felting
out, for the purpofe of fnpporting the Court of
Vienna in refitting the infolence of the Cotfican
Ufurper.

For the correlinefr of this intelligence we pledge ouffilves.
It it she refire no longer gi whether pits! is So he main-
gained between France and iluflria-- War, we snow is
termined on, and we fhould not be furprifed to fee hot-',
tilities commenced before the termination of antum.
Will Pruflia be involved in the war ? -We fay yesi
We have firong grounds for believing 'that even that
power begins to fee the guiph that lief before it, and
which it cannot efcape, Gould BONAPARTE fucceed
in his wild projeas. It is not long fince property be.
longing to tome flibjals of Prnfila was feized by BER
NADOTTE, by exprels ot ars from BONAPARTE. Re-
monflrances were had rtcobrfe to, as is nfual between
powers at peace, to obtain refioration and reparation
for the injury, but without effea. The Court of
Prnffia obtained nothing but evafory anfwers, and idle
unmeaning profaions, and at length was plainit told
that the property could not be rylored, having already been
difpofid of. This, and other circumflances, have tend.
ed not a little to roufe the indignation of the PrufGan
Monatch 2g:dna an unprincipled Tyrant, who lets
treaties at defiance, and treats with contempt thofe
ties which are confidered by civilifed nations as bind-
ing and facred.

From a confederation of theft rafts, we are inclined
to believe, that Pzuffia will not continue an idle fpec-
tater of the great events that are likely to refult from
the prefent fituation of affairs on the Continent.—
Indeed, we are izerfuadcd that political opinions have
undergone a material revolution at the Court of Ber.
En, and that coercive meafures will not now be need.
fary to induce it to fend its troops into the field.

Yeßerday, at two o'clock, Mr. asurruura, one
of his Majefty's Melfengers, arrived at Lord MuL•
GRAVE'S Office. in Downing-llreet, with difpatches
from St. Petcrfburgh.
In confcquence of the death of Vifcount Avow MORE,
Chief Barun of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland,
the following new arrangements are mentioned a.
likely to take place in the Law Department in that
part of the kingdom
The Right Hon. STANDISH O'GRADY, the veleta Attorney-
General, to be Chief Baron.
Mr. Pct./ NIECT, the preirnt Solicitor-Gtneral. to be Attorney-
General.-t-And Mr. Serjeant Busty' to be Solicitor-General, in
the room of Mr. PLUNEET.

• The place of At orney-Cenral, it is Paid, was offered to Mr.
Gtottoc Pox SON ar, and rattled by that Gentleman._

SIR SYDNEY SMITH'S ETPERIMENT.—YeIIerday
this gal!ant Officer entertained the inhabitants raid-
ing at the water-fide with a new kind 6f nautical ex-
hibition. Some time fince Sir SYDNEY confiruCted the
mod,' of a veffel inu-ndad to convey large bodies of
troops, without noife or confulion, in {hallow water,
under the enemy's batteries. The fiiß experiment
took place yellerday morning about ten o'clock, when
Sir SYDNEY, a Naval Lieutenant, and fix men, inde-
pendently of four others who were Rationed at the
oars, got on board the veffel, proceeded up to Chel-
fea, and from thence failed down the River to Green-
wich. The form of this raft refembles two wherries
laid alnngfide, but feparated by means of a platform
24 feet wide and 22 feet long, to which the wherries
are attached. Eigh fprit fails carry the veffel. Thefe
fails art fo conaruaed as to form, when neceffary, a
complete tent, under which the regulating officer and
Men are Rationed. The whole contrivance appears
very ingenionc, and the moh fanguine expeCtations
are formed of its ultimate fucccfs.

In our Paper of yefterday, we Rated the large im-
portations of Foreign Wheat. The quantity lately
arrived, and moilly in port, is near 250,000 quarters,
which evidently will caufe a further reduftion in the
p; ice.
A match was made ha week between three gen-
tlemen of %whetter, for too guineas, 'that an old
honk of G. THomrson, Efq. thould trot to miles on
the London road within the hour, which he loft by
two minutes. .