Star.
London, England, 1812-05-14 00:00:00

Aivttßiek.

By several artivals at Liverpool fromAmeriii,•Ve
have received New. York Papers to the 6th of April,
and Letters to the 7th, being the day on which the
last vessel sailed. The comniunicaaous from Wash-
ington are of the 4th April. We have already stated,
that the attitude assumed by the American Govern-
ment was warlike, although Mr. FOSTER had, in a
most spirited manner, solemnly disavowed en the
part of Great Britain all participation in Htsay's
Conspiracy. Mr. FOSTER has also, in an equally firm
manner, informed the American Ministry, that
should Congress pass a law, Authorising merchant-
vessels to arm for the purpose of resisting the right
Of search, it would be considered a Declaration of
War, and his functions, as British Minister, would
from that moment cease.

It is evident that the Ameiican Ministers must
have been Staggered by Mr. FOSTER'S declaration,
for three Cabinet Councils were held in succession
on the three following days, and a itubour was im-
immediately circulated, that Commissioners were
about to proceed to this Country, as a last effort at
obtaining,peace. Mr. BAYARD, a most respectable
Member of the Senate, and Judge LIVINGSTON, of
New York, are said to be nominated as two of the
Commissioners.

Since the passing of the Embargo Act, Congress
have continued to deliberate with closed doors, and
of course the precise n.tture of their subsequent re-
solutions hits not transpired.. It may be fairly con-
jectured, however, that they have not been rash
enough to hazard a positive declaration of war--the
Embargo being a very good temperiting substitute
in the harts of the Democrats. To this we have to
add, that Mr. FosrErt is daily sren in familiar and
close conversation with Mr. NlanotsoN, at his levees.
In the mean time the greatest consternation has
been occasioned by the Embargo at New York.—
Flour has experienced a temporary rise, and 53 ves-
sels were instantly put in requisition to convey it to
Europe before the commencement of the operation
of the act. The New \fur!: politicians have been
thrown into a state of complete despondency. . The
flour trade was the only branch of cor.merce which
the Americans had left, and the agricult..re of the
country was daily improving in conseque;:ce. The
farmer will of course no longer have a market at
which to dispose of his produce. It is true that the
British arntit•s in the Peninsula may also suffer from
a perseverance in the Embargo, but, from the letters
we have seen from America on the huh jec t, we have
no doubt that the measure, if continued, will produce
incalculably greater mischiefs across the Atlantic
than it can effect in Europe, and tse may once more
hazard an opinion often risQued by all those Ameri-
cans Of sound ju fgment with whom we have con-
versed, that the United States will not go to war with
Great 13tit.,in.

The language of the Nationel Intl/Armen Which
may be regarded as the organ of the American Go-
vetnnient,.is, of course, severe against this country.
The Editor founds his complaint; however, not so
much upon HENRY'S affair as upon the declarations
in Parliament, by the British Ministers, that the Or-
ders in Council are to be persevered in, and he sedu-
lously copies some stupid declamatory articles from
some of the vilest party prints in this country on the
subject of these Orders, telling his Readers, at the
same time, that they speak the sentiments of the peo-
ple.of this country !—Risum km*: amice

In addition to the particulars which we have giveh
above, and which have been collected, from the best
possible sources, we subjoin the followin4 letter
from some most intelligent sorrespondents at Liver-
pool
" LIVERPOOL, MAY 12.

Aititt

We have great pleasure in skating. that denttiti
Km., the hero to whom irt are indebted in a great
measure for the capture of Badajns, is Treading Of
his wounds ; and that General WALEER, another az-
cellent officer, who entered the town on the left, Is
out of all danger.
The 91st Ragimeiii fame marched frooi Canter.
bury to Chatham. The Tipperary Militia are Rode
froms,Chatham to Dover, and the 3d Lancashire
Militia from Dover to Cabterbttrr.---.The 94 batta-
lion of the 71st are to march from Ospringe to Dsal
to-morrow, and the Westmeath Militia from Deal%
Ramigate on Saturday.

44 Several, ships have arrived here to-day, which
bring intelligence that an Embargo has been laid on
all the ports in the United States.
4# As far as I can learn, the Magdalee, from New
York, was t:ie latest of them that left America ; she
sailed on the 7th April, the day on which the Em-
bargo was to commence. The Orbit, another that
arrived to-day, is not near full, and what cargo she
has, was put on bbard in the River, some distance
below New-York. Indeed, the whole of them must
have dome off very suddenly, ai they have brought
almost no lettet-s.

Nelif.fL INTELLIGENCR.

EAST 116:bIA SHIPPING.

The undermentioned ships- arrived 'off Wetiskinits
at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, underbonvoy of
his Majesty's ship INDETATIGABLL The Faller'
the ships.lnglis, Ann, and Perseversnce Untied there:
The Henry Addington, Essex, Cumberland, Pa-
severance, Marquis of Ely, Charles Grant, Ceres,
Warley, Warren Hastings, Lowther Castle, inglis,
and Balcarras, left China 12th .14nuary, arrive :I at
St. Helena about 20th Mtrch ; left St. Helena 2Sth
March.
The Carnatic, Metcalfe, Rose, Marchioness of
Exeter, Union, and Castle Eden, 11-ons Bengal, left
their pants 19th December 'act. arrived at St. H-
elena 4th March, and sailed the I6th, under convoy
of the MINDEN and Acas-rA men of war.

The Taunton Castle, tior, Ptincess Amelia, and
gAlirafialimnegraCajsiicanu,arleyftt in China; arrived there the be-
.
1. The following shipi Were left at Bengal the 'lsth
December,-181 Europe, Streatham, Devon.
shire, Baring. Lord M4Ville, Ocean, Devaynes, Ge-
'twill Stuart, Sit Wm. Iwulteney, and Uui tniPheenir.
lereiton, Hugh Inglis. William /rat. Huddart, and
Northumberland, fromfava I Lady Castlereagh,
Canine4o, Warren Hastings.-Surrey, Casnbridge.
James Daiid Scott, Waltham stow, Lord
Forbes; Retreat, Harlestoni and Lady Lushington ;
Denier Castle and Martinis or V.'cliesiey, from Ceylon.
The Dorsetshire and Sc-deby Castle had been sent
from 134ithbay to Java, and had arrived there.
' A letter hts been xceives! from Captain DOYA L
SON, of the Neptune, dated the 29th January last,
,lat. 15. 24° N. long. 27. L'. W. advising that the
,Neptune, Arniston. Royal Charlotte, and Courts had
Palled cotinsany front the Thaw.; and Tigrii4 the
atter ships were consigned to St. Helena.
'file Thames arrived at St. Helena the 20th Mech.
The Tigris pitted company from the Thanes on the
28th January near the C tpe de Verde Isl nds, and '
had not arrived at St. Helena the 27th Wish, but
was hourly expected;
FALmotiTi4, MAY to
This morning the fallowing ships put into this
port by ecintrary wind, under convoy of his Majesty's
ship MONTAGUE, of 74 guns, Admiral Dixon iais
the Princeis Charlotte of Wales, Thomas Gitrnv 11a
Broxbourninny, Sir Godfrey Webster, Apollo; and
the Lord Duncan East-Indiamen.
PLYMOUTH, MAY M.
Sailed the Cowsriur, for Basque Roads t Aunott
cutter, for the Brest station ; ACHATtS, 18 grins; on a
cruize. The Omni, of 98 guns, and MioNtrrottztr
and NORTHUMBERLAND, of 74 guns eath, detained hs
harbour there nine days by contrary winds, this day
passed from liamoaze to Cawsand Bay.— Arrived
the American schooner Arrow, and the American
ship Tantivy, both from France, and detained by his
r Majesty's ship A ftMIDE ; the American ship Eprripe;
with timber; the Concord, TAYLOR, from Teneriffet
in 31 days ; Castor American ship, frOrn. Washing-
ton ; and the Princess Caroline, from the Brazils.—
Sailed the Monos gun-brig to the Eastward.—Wind
North-Westk
PORTSMOUTH, MAY )9. -
Arrived his Majesty's ships Menstato and COll3lO.
RAN? with a fleet for Lisbon.—Wind Southerly.

•
DOVER MAY I& •
A trench, row-boat privateer, with 29 men, was
taken by the DECOY cutter, off Dungeness, andr sent
in here; she is lugger-rigged. The ctptain of her
was shot. We fear those vessels will do us Much
mischief this suntmer, as there is no comistg up with
them, and are only to be taken by surpiize.

. DEAL, MAY 12.
Arrived his Majesty's ship JASPER, with * convoy
for Oporto, which are sailed for the Rivet; the Fox.
novsn sloop of war, from Plymouth.—Sailed bis
Majesty's ship ABOUKIR, Rear-Admiral MARTIN, to
join Admiral Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ in the Baltic...-.
Came down from the River the Fairlic and Earl
Howe, for Bengal ; and his Majesty's ship Nemesis,
from Sheerness, and remain, &c. as per last.
MAY 13.—Arrived several West Indiamen from
the Westward, and are sailed for the River.—Wind
South-west.

FLEET OFF TOULON.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER ERONI AN OFFICER OF ?RR
CALEDONIA.
" Off "Tilton, 15th April.
le We spent a good part of the winter in Mahon
Harbour, and sailed from thence on theJst of ApriL
It is exceedingly tedious to be constantly cruising
' I here in front of an enemy who, with the same pum-
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a LIVERPOOL, MAY It. 1 ber of ships (16 sail of the line) fight: to sky of „,. .
An Act lbe laying an Embargo had passed the
Solnetimes they come out and splash the water about
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lAwer House by a majority of twenty-one, and there when we have made a good offing, but run like geese
as soon as eve dash at them and chace them, under
was no doubt it would pas the Senate and receive
Tom their batteries, which are warm ones and numerous.
the signature of the President.' Indeed, the
Hazard, an American ship, has arrived here, which When we left England we expected to be out for
three years, but it is reported that we shall come
left New-York on the Bth March, and she reports, home at the end of this summer to be docked. A
that a boat was sent down to the Hook, off which great many of our men have been drafted into dif.
t
she was, to inform her that an embargo hid actuallyerent ships since we left England. We have as fine
a fleet here as ever England sent to sea, and in the
taken place, and that the Collector of the port of
day of trial it will be lad to be a feet :hat will do
its duty."
New-York had received orders to put it in force on
,
,
the 7th ult." / - 44 Its Majesty's Ship Keit, artToulon, I*b Apell.
The French Minister to-the United States at thel is we are now with the fleet, 'but lam afraid we
time the embargo was laid, caused it to be publicly shall not get the Frenchmen to venture, out. On the '
- .e
made known, that all vessels discovered to be bound 10th instant we had a dreadful fire on board finis
sh
to England would be burnt by the cruizers of France ip ; happily, by great exertions, we succeeded l
eitinguishang the flames. It was a dreadful ',erne-
--thus admitting that the Berlin and Milan /hates I cannot bear to think upon it. I would rather go
are warepsalod. 1 imp so bundred actions dams be is a skip oo fire.

There are at pfesent signals hohted for several
More ships being in sight, which will be round to-
morrow, aad most probably we shall have further
accounts by them."