Star.
London, England, 1813-04-15 00:00:00

STRALSUND.

" Paris, February 27.
" Government is informed, Sir, that numerous contracts for
grain have beeii made in the Hanseatic departments, intended to
be sent fraudulently abroad. Stralsund is pointed out as one of
I the principal points of depot. Great speculations of an illicit
kind are therefore evidently intended in English merchandise,
and principally in colonial commodities; a prompt and absolute
sale is expected.
_ _ _

" I request you on the receipt of this, to take proper measures
to frustrate these criminal attempts. lam well persuaded that
they must fail, but it will be very agreeable to me to be able to
attribute their failure to your zeal.
" Receive, I request, Sir, my most affectionate salutations,
(Signed) It Tilt DIRECTOR MINIMAL OP CUSTOMS."
" TO SALON MORATID, GOVERNOR OP POMERANIA.
" Hamburgh, March B.
" M. La BARON—Yon will have been informed by General
St. Cyr of the orders arrived from Berlin. We are ready for our
departure. Since the evacuation of that latter place, I can give
you no Information in that respect.
" But it Is reported as certain, that Czernichef has offered his
co-operation for the retaking of Pomerania since the day when
he failed upon Berlin.

" It is added, that a small expedition was to set ont on the Ist
of March, to assist in this design. If it has left the ports of
Sweden, the storms which have prevailed for the last five days
must have done it much damage. These reports, whether true
oz false, merit the utmost attention.

" I knew not whether you have resolved upon any thing, but
it would have been well if your movement had been combined
with that of General St. Cyr. The precaution of destroying all
the boats on4he Elbe will leave you scarcely any passing but at
Damitz, or at Hamburgh itself. This Is a point on which you
should establish your calculations, that you may not be taken
unprovided, should this case not have been foreseen in your in-
structions. I know not whether Colonel Ducasse has received
any information, as in his pr}-sent position, not having joined us,
he has no other resource but to join you.
" If after our departure, which depends now on a new order,
or the adv ce of my agents, I can transmit you any information
relative to our march, I will avail myself of all the communica-
tions which may remain open.
" Accept, M. Le Baron, the etpression of my high conside-
ration. (Signed) "

In the same hand, but without signature :

" Your trunk is arrived here, and I have caused it to be placed
in a safe house, not knowing whether you would wish me to
send it to France, and not being able to carry it with me, as I
shall go on horseback, abandoning the greater pan of my effects,
all my moveables, my cellar, Etc.
" If you should chance to arrive here after my departure,
which is uncertain, you will find it on enquiring for it with se-
crecy of the Censor. I shall tell him when it shall be time, but
no imprudence. Tear my letter, that you may compromise no
person. _ _

" Your money arrived in time.—We explain ourselves by
halves in these times, because we do not know the fate of letters,
and we can say nothing to people who arc alljiol4s to wreak their
vengeance on every thing French,

44 You are wrong to quarrel with M. • • o... This is st opts
folly and madness. He has explained the thing to me, ond he is
perfectly right; besides, to what good purpose is it to quarrel?
—1 know not what we shall do, whether we stay or go, and I
think you must be in the same uncfrtainty. 1 have resolved
to go on horseback frown necessity; not this It b Fa* "at
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HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 14.
in a Committee of Privileges, the coosideration of the Claim
to the Borthwick Fewer being farther resumed ,
The LORD CHANCELLOR strongly recommended the pro-
priety, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, of the Com-
mittee's making a Report to the House respecting what had
transpired in evidence, and requiring instructions from the House
as to their farther proceedings, with respect to the case; and
added, that in the event of such a proposition being agreed to by
their Lordships, it was his intention to move the House to give,
what he conceived a proper instruction to the Committee, in
which should be embodied what appeared to him to be the law
on the subject.

This seeming to meet the acquiescence of the Cesnmittee, the
Noble and Learned Lord moved to that effect ; which was or-
dered accordingly.. After which the Hesse resumed.

After prayers were over, the Scots Appeal Cause, Whitsuns v.
Ramsay, Bart. was taken into final consideration, when the Lord
Chancellor moved, as the judgment of the House, that the De-
cree of the Scots Court ihould be alarmed..—Ordered.

In the course of forwarding the Private and Local Bins, the
Lord Chancellor announced his Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent's consent, as far as his Majesty's interests were concerned,
to their Lordships' proceeding with the Regency Park Bill. .
An Account of the quartity of Silver, and also of alloy used in
the Tokens cbined at the Mint for the Bank of England, was
presented at the bar by Mr. Kesnpe, of the Mint, and ordered to
lie on the Table.

Copies of the Memorials presented by the Cotton Manufac-
turers and others, relative to the Importation of Cotton Wool,
was presented 0; Mr. Hill from the Treasury. And also, the
several documents ordered to be laid before the House, on the
motion of Earl Stanhope, on a former evening, respecting cer-
tain improvements in Naval Architecture, were presented by Mr.
Clipton, from the Admiralty.
These accounts were ordered to He on the table.

The Bermuda Trade, the Artideers' Wages Bill, (returned
with the acquiescence at the Commons to their Lordships' amend-
ments therein) and several private Bills were brought up from
the Commons, by Mr. Lushington, Mr. Pane, and other Mem-
bers, and respectively read a first time.