Star.
London, England, 1802-03-20 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MARCH 20.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
3 per Cent. Conf. OF—U.,. account 691 t.
3 per Cent. Ann. tot
!LICK OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank 189} for the open. I Imp. 3 per Cent. 68}
3 per C. Cont. 69* 69 a Imp. Ann. 12 7-0 i
5 per Cent. Ann. zor I Exchcq. Bills par to is prem.
India Bonds Ss. prem. Conf. for Acc. 69} t
COURSE OF EN.CHANGE.
Hamburgh 3s 4at U. Madrid 39 ace.
Altona 13s s at U. Bilboa
Cadls 3t in paper Leghorn sat
Ditto 39 effective Naples 45
Madrid 31 in paper Genoa 48i

Venice —•
Lilbon 6sni
Oporto 69
Dublin is

Further news from St. Domingo is looked for
with confiderable anxiety. It is reported in fome
of the higher circles, that more news has been re.
ceived from St. Domingo than has been publifhe,l
in the Monikur. It is even faid, that the French
force had been obliged to re-embark. This, how.
ever, is hardly to be credited ; it is poflible, that
fome one detachment, as the French landed at dif-
ferent points, might fail in its objea, and that this
might give rife to the report.
This morning Mr. DRFSSINGS, one of the
King's Meffengers, arrived at the Secretary of
State's Office, with difpatches from the Marquis
Cozawas.us, at Amiens. The difpatches were
fent to Lord HAIVICESBUILY.

The negotiations at Amiens are now drawing
to a dole. It appears from the fiatement which
we yefterday prefented from the Nonitear, that the
terms were abfolutely fettled fome time ago, as
was Rated in the STAR at the time alluded to.
The Menitnir has not, however, [fated the fad cor-
redly, where it tiles evrcffions intended to convey
an idea that nothing but difeuffions refpeCting the
wording (the reclaim), had occafioned delay in
concluding the Treaty.
The truth is limply this : after the negociations
were fo far advanced as to need hardly auy thing
to be ;done but what was connected with forms,
the bufinefs of the Confulta at Lyons, granting to
BONAPARTE the chief direCtion of the Italian Re-
public, was made known in the French official
Journal. Onr Knitters very naturally took alarm
at this proceeding; for if the pretended paucity
of able men in any State were to be admitted as a
pretext for receiving a foreign head, there was no
poffibility of forefeeing how far it might be car-
ried—Switzerland, Holland, even Spain itfelf,
might, by fimilar arguments, have been rendered,
virtually and perpetually, parts of the French Re-
public, though allowed to affume other deligna-
tions.

If fuch States, however, chute to fubmit to
receive the commands of a Foreigner, it might
be difficult to fee an immediate remedy : but the
cafe was different with raped to tome other ter-
ritories which came under dircufflon.—Malta in
particular; and it was hardly to be expeded,
that being in poffeifion, and teeing what had taken
place with refped to the Italian Republic, that
we fhould put it in the power of France to ob.
tain, by any means whatever, a fimilar offer fiom
the Maltefe.

This, we learn from good authority, was the
caufe of the negociations at Amiens being procraf-
tinated ; and we have reafon to believe, that when
the terms, at laft agreed upon by all parties, ihall
be made known, the public will find that they are
more favourable to England than thofe of the Pre-
liminary Treaty—or than they would have been,
tad not the bufinefs at Lyons ended as it did.