Star.
London, England, 1805-05-24 00:00:00

ILiIifBURGH NAIL.

',NA. MAY B.—A courier arrived here yeller.
dty from St. Peter(bnrgh, whole dispatches contra-
t the report that a treaty of alliance has been con-
cluded between England and Raffia.
ITALY, APRIL 27.—Betides the camp at Margnyo,
in which arc alfembled the troops lately employed in
ci-devant Piedmont and its vicinity, another French
Italian camp will he tOrmed at Calliglione, robe corn
poled of troops from Milan, and the neighbouring
country.

CONSTANTINOPLE' APRIL 18.—Since the depar-
ture of the French Ambaffitdor Mat that Btu NE, there
has been no official communication between the
French Charge d'Affaires and the Sublime Potte.
COPENHAGEN, MAT 11...—The PEUffiAll Envoy to
the Court of Sweden M. VON TARRACH, and the
Ciunfellor of Legation M. TRISCHICE, have been re-
called, and will Coon let out for Berlin.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 9.

General Est NOV r's Aide de-Camp is arrived in Eu-
rope, after a palTage of 29 days, bringing favourable
intelligence from the Antilles, where the French fleet
had taken and burnt 250 (hips of the enemy, all
laden. The lois fullaiped by the Engin trade on this
occalipn is etlimated at too millions of francs.

It is ftid, that the Englifh have fuffered a Ilia
treater iofs on the fide of Portugal.
Count Von STARR EMBERG, the Auftrian Miniller
at the Court of London, is about to let off for Vienna,
where he will remain fome months. It is fail, that a
cnolnefs fublills between the Courts of London and
Vienna.

They write from Lifbon, dated the Sth of April,
that JEROMR Bomaratrz had arrived there in an
Ame:;can Blip, en board of which were, as paffen-
gers, Mr. and Mifs PATTERSON. JEROME BONAPARTE
let off pea for Madrid, and Mr. and Mifs PATTr a SON
re-embarked. It is faid, they purpofe returning to
Ame:ica immediately.—Mcnikar.
It is laid, that an advice chip has arrived at Bow--
desuz, dispatched from the Rochefort fleet, and
b:inging very important intelligence.
On the la infant their Imperial Majeßies arrived
at Alexandria ; after which the Emperor repaired to
the celebrated plain of Marengo, where he infpeacd
the thirty thouland troops affembled there. His Ma-
jeßy was on horfeback from ten in the morning to
!even in the evening, and tired no lefs than !even
horfes in the courfe of the day.
It is faid that Isoo troops have been left by the
Rochefort fquadron at Martinique, rsoo at Guade-
loupe, and that another body of troops have been
fent to St. Domingo, to reinforce General FE &RAND.
A part of our fquadron was cruizing to the windward
of Barbadoes for the Cork convoy.
MAY 13.—The MaNikur of this day has publifhed
a long difpatch from Rear-Admiral LINOIS, giving
an account of his fecund cruize. It contains a detail
of his aflion with the CENTURION.

MADRID, Aram 16.—1 t is Alerted, that the (hips
of war which lay in the port of Carthagena, have
formed a junaion with the Toulon fleet, and that of
Cadiz. They have failed, with a favourable wind,
for the place of their deliination.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, AMY 24.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Confols, for money, Oa—Ditto, for July 59;:
Omnium A... Reduced 5711—E:check Bills par to Is. dIL

A Poll Office exprefs arrived at the Admiralty
yet-le:day afternoon, from Greenock, with a letter',
which had been landed there from Admiral CocH. I
&Mlle in the Well Indies. It is dated the 9th ult.
at fen, and is Paid to (late, that he was then in dace
of the French fquadron, which he had great hopes of
being able to come up with before it could reach St.
Domingo. Intelligence of the moil important and
fatisfaelory nature may therefore be fhortly expeaed
from that quarter.
On the 20(11 inflant a Danifh veffel arrived in Stand-
gate Creek, from Cadiz, from which place the failed
on the 2111 ult. The Mailer's Mate and the whole
of the crew retort that on the soth of April at fix
P.M. a French frigate appeared off Cadiz, fignals were
immediately paired between her and thole in the
harbour, very (hortly after, there appeared off the
harbour, feventeen fail of French line of battle (hips,
&c. together with fix frigates ; there were nine Spa-
nifh line of battle (hips, three frigates, and one French
line of battle thip then in the harbour; every thing
appeared inftantly in a bale, and the Captain be-
licves every man that could come from his houfe to
go to the Mole, was there ; at the fame time, the
French fleet appeared, one of the Engli(h frigates
from the blockading fquadron reconnoitred the
Fiend', and the blockading fquadron was then in
light—When the French appeared, a great number
cf Spanifh foldicrs, with every expedition poffible,
.I.,:re embarked on board the nine Spanifh and one
anch line of battle Ihipe, and failed out of the bar-
.or that night ( loth of April) with three Spanifh
I,:Aates, and were out of fight the next morning,
irld nahhcr part if the combined fleets had returned
to Cadiz when he failed, on the silt April. It was
irportet!, that they were gone to Corunna, to take
ten ciil of the line from thence, and that their delti-
natior, was thy Well Indies.

Admiral C‘ /LLINGW6OD, whore failing from Ply-
in u.h we fiat.: d yefterday, is to receive his final in-
a from Admiral Lord GARDN lilt, off Breit.
Bill proceed to the Welt Indies, or reinforce Lord
N Laos's fquadr, m, as circumitances may appear to
r quire. H. force c.:nfills of eleven fail of the line,-
cr•ixteletely v ianalled and pored for fix months.
A letter h. is been received in town, by a relpetqa-
ble houfe in t.'se city, from Litbon, which limes, that
thc Eva TIM Us \frigate, on her way to England, on the

2 zsi of April, a few leagues off C..&z, obfaved t wen-
ty•two tail of the line, which file took for an enemy.
This information the Captain took the earliell means
of conveying to Lord Rosser FITZGERALD, at Lif.
bon, whn deemed it of fufficient importance to dif-
patch the Prince of Wales packet to England with
the intelligence to Government.

Yefterday evening we received Paris Journals to the
r sth. They mention the report which we have before
Rated that the Combined Fleets had attacked Li!bon,
captured a number of our Merchant (hips, and alto
the force under Sir JAMS. CRAIG. &c. &c. But as this
intelligence is Rated to have been received at Perpig;
nan on the zd of May, and the ha Lifbnn packet
left that pl ice on the 4th, it is evident that the whole
is a mere fabrication.

Thefe papers prefent come exaggerated details re•
fpeding the operations of the French fquadron in the
Well Indies. They 'late the number of captured vef-
fels at 250; if fo, they mull mean boats included.—
The lots of the Colonias they put at four millionsjlerfing!
A letter from Liteios gives an account of the ac-
tion between the Marengo and the Centurion, in
which he gives infons to prove that it was imp ple
to cßpture the Math Chip. Annexed to the
difpatch is a lid of all the Ihips taken by Liams 'lnce
bis having been in the Eaft Indies. They are—

The Counters of Sutherland, Manatchy, Eliza An la,
and Admiral Rainier, Althea, Admiral Aplin, Saverb,
Barlow, El:onora, Adtivc, Pomona, Vulcan, Machnniccl Boa,
Friendfhip, Endeavour, Unicorn, Nancy, Creols, Shrcwfliury,
Friendrnip, Margueritte, Faza S..uhany, Bt. Maur,: Chatalent,'
Janus Fihalld, Emit, Stirling Caftle, Moraington, Henrietta,
Priacefs Charlotte, Hope, Perle, Charlotte, Upton Cattle, and
Mouth:.

The moft important of the contents of the Aro-
niteur: that have reached us are copies of intercep-
ted difpatchcs from the Marquisof Ws LLESLEv. They
occupy no lcf than twenty columns : of courill we
cannot inflantly lay the whole before the puhlic.—
We have fubjuined as much as our limits would per.
mit, and than give the remainder as loon as we can
find room.
DISPATCHES OF MARIVIS WELLESLEY, CAPTURED IN

THE HOPI li I REAR ADMIRAL LINO'S.
No. 1.

EXTRACT or A LETTER. ADDRESSED BY HIS EXCELLENCY TUE
MOST NOBLE THE GOVERNOR orNzaAL TO TUE [RENT NW

NOURAILY LORD UOLALT, DA CEO NOV. SO, 18c3.

The fel ies of the events in India during the Taft
three months has futnifhed matter for ferious reflec-
tions in regard to the deligns of the French in India,
and with refpea to the means by which a formidable
French party might be ellabliffied among the Native
Powers. Whatever may have been the interpretation
given in England to the convention of :787 in regard
to the natore of the French eflabliffiments in India,
the cireumflances which accompanied the arrival of
M. Pinot and M. Decaen at Pondicherry, added to,
the general condutt cf the French at Pondicherry
finee the conclufion of the peace of Amiens, has evi-
dently proved that the intention of France was to
eflablifh a military and political power in India.
4, This intention will ay; ear evident to your Ex-
cellency, by examining the fubjoined [late of the efla-
blifhment formed by the French government for the
occupation of the French poffeflions in the continent
of India. This efiablilliment, difpatched in a great
part from France in the month of March, 1803, is
now at the 111: de France, under the command of M.
DICAEN, and the reft were embarked at Madras for
France, under the command of M. Btu or, agreeably
to the terms granted to tlse French who had landed
at Pondicherry in the month of June.
4‘ Your Lordihip will be pleafed to remark, that
the French expedition, fuch as it arrived in India,
was purely military, and that the French Government
had appointed for the fervice of India a very exten-
five Military Staff, capable cf furnilbing officers to
a confiderable army. The intention of the French
in regard to the re•conftruetion of their old fortifica-
tions has not been manifefled, but confidering the
extent of the expedition which has arrived in India,
one mull neceffarily conclude, that the intention of
France was to embrace this opportunity of reinforcing
and extending its military refources and its power in
India.

" The civil and military government of the Car-
natic being in the hands of the Company, the French
who are arrived with M. Binot met with great li@i•
culties in their political intrigues, and thefe difficulties
are Dill increafed by the fituation in which that divi-
lion of the French troops finds itfclf, in regard to the
doubtful Rate of the negotiations which exifled be-
tween his Zslajeity and the French Government.

" The vigilance of the Government of Fort St.
George, fupported by theft advantages, rendered all
r communication between the French at Pondicherry
and ti.c Native Powers of India-almon impoffible.—
There exifl, however, many reafons to jullify my opi.
nion, that the French have arrived in India with the
mon hoflile difpofition, and a relllefs anxiety of em-
bracing every opportunity for opening a way among
the Native Powers for their fyllem cf political intrigue,
and for finding out there a rival iufluence, in order to
weaken the Britifh power in that part of the Globe.
According to information tranfmitted to me, 1
have no doubt that the intention of the French Go.
vernment was to difperfe emiiTaries of political in-
ttigue, and military adventurers in all the Courts
and Camps of the native Princes; and I am convin-
ced that all the queflions fappofed in my difpatch of
the xoth of June, would have been Rarted immedi-
ately after the reftitution pf the French eftabliihrnents•

44 That I may afford yoor Excellency an oppottu-
nity of judgigg of the political and military progrefs
of the French, who have arrived in India, in confe-
Anence of the peace of Amiens, I have the honour of
fubjoining two pieces, one of which comes from Pon-
dicherry from Lieutenant-Colonel Cullen, an officer
charged with the execution of the reflitutions to be
made on the coati of Coromandel : it was written by
M. le Febre, formerly an officer in the fervice of the
French at Pondicherry, who accompanied M. Decaen
in India, and who at the time Colonel Cullen had this
piece, was Aid-de-Camp to M. Binot. This memoir
was prefented to the Fir fiConful of the French Repub-
lic; and Col. Cullen remarked, that it was confidered
at Pondicherry as a fecret paper, which he could not
obtain without great difficulty. The fecond
was addreffed to me by M. Muller, who lays, he holds
in the army the rank of Chef de Brigade. He arriv-
ed at Calcutta loon after the news of the renewal of
hoftilities between Great Britain and France had
arrived at this Prefidency. Having declared that it
was in his power to difcnver to this Government
things of importance in regard to the &Signs of
France ; and having ailed him to communicate this
information in writing, he addreffed to me the letter
which I have the honour of fubjoining.
" Though thefe papers contain proporak which in
many refpeEts are abfurd and chimerical, they fuffi-
ciently indicate the fpirit of thofe who conceived and
approved them ; and even the execution of flute of
thofe pr .:efts cannot be fNppofed to be fo sift 'nary,
when one :Ideas on the Rate of the native armies, as
they might at fira appear.
"The caufes and events of the conttfl in which the
Britifh Government is now engaged againft two
Chiefs of the Marattah Empire, have given fuflicient
proofs of the formidable power which might be eta-
bliffied by French adventurers and a fpirit of enter-
prife in the armies and Rates of the native powers.
" Your Excellency will certainly turn your atten-
tion to the difpatches addreffed during the fall fix
month., to the Secret Committee of the Court of Di.
reaors, by the Governor General feparately, and by
the Governor-General in Council, and you will loon
perceive the rapid increafe and dangerous military
refources of Dowlut-Row-Scindiah, under tire direc-
tion of M. Peron, or rather the rapid and dangerous
increafe of the military refources of the French in
India, tinder the nominal authority of Dowlut- Row-
Scintliah.

" If the piratical (late founded by M. Peron i a
the barks of the Jumna, had not been, to my know-
ledge, anteriorly conne&ed with the French Govern-
ment, your Excellency will judge that this circum-
fiance ought not to have exhibited danger, norwith-
(landing the formation and increafe cf fuch a power
in India. This power was fully prepared to give
effectual and cordial aid to fupport the French caufe
in India, and to forward the plojefls of France with
equal promptitude and zeal.

" The origin, indeed, and progrefs of the civil and
military authority cf M. Perron mutt be afcribed to
the diforder and confufi9n of the Marrattah Empire,
the weaknefs and corruption of the Council of Scin-
diah, and the decline of his real intereas and jutl
dominion. The Chiefs and' Commanders of this
french State are all military adventurers, and they
have drawn their refources from licentious conqueit
and unbounded depredation. Thefe traits of their
charader, however, do not appear to be of Inch a na-
ture as to render them altogether unworthy "of the
attention of the prefent rulers of France. Your Ex-
cellency will remark, in regard to the political pro
jells of France in India, the advantage which M.
Peron and his band of French adventurers have
derived from the :.Safe of the nominal authority of
the unfortunate Emperor Shah-Alum.
" M. Peron has obtained the exercife of the So-
vereign authority over a territory, the annual re-
venues of which are nearly two millions &fling, and
he has negociated and concluded treaties andalliances
in his own name, with feveral petty Bates.
(A true Copy.) (Signed)
M. B. EDMONSTON, Sec. of Government.

Mr. Baooxe, the Chief Clerk of the Alien De.
partment, an ived at Dover on Monday LW, for the
purpofe of examining all the perfons who accompa-
nied Madame JEROME BONAPARTE on board the Erin.
The French phyfician who attends that Lady, far
advanced iu her pregnance, and much indifpofed,
was permitted' to remain with her at the London
Inn, but under the eye of a proper officer, until the
final decifion of Government be known, as to his dif-
pofal, and that of the other male perfons who came
over with her. Two men fervants, after examina-
tion, were left on board the Erin, under a guard.—
Mr. BRooxi went firfl to Deal, hut found on his ar-
rival there, that the veffel had failed (tom the Downs
for Dover.

Madame JIIROME BONAPWE is artived in town,
and has taken up her relidence at the honk of a re-
lative in I.•;nclorAreet, Fenel,urch-drect.

The marriage of jElleMt llowapearc, according
to private letters from Paris, has been annulled by
the Pot!, upon the double motive of the hufband be-
ing a minor, and the wife a heretic.

Young BETTY played liarrilet tali night. It was
announced as the jnak of his performances for till
feafon. Confidering that it was only his fol,rd, Bene-
fit this fezlon, the Houfe was well attended. „
STATI LovrEar—Thild Day.—The following
numbers were drawn prizes above ,ol: No. 13,553,
(firit drawn,) a prize of wool. No. 11,499, a prize
of 5001. Nos. s}/14, 53,4341 24,462, and 27,352,
prizes of tool. each; and Nos. 1227,14,251, 14,390,
14,559, 18,955, and 27,639,- prizes of soh each.