Star.
London, England, 1804-05-23 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNFSDAY. MAY 23.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Costal roquig sh{ 37-4-awed 34!-
.ositnlqua 41} prest..-.4 per Cent. 7
New 5 per CULL 95*--Oki ditto 9s 93•
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
&Windom 38 4li LIE Cadiz .-. pap Thpias 371
Do. might 37 11 Elko 34 WC Goma 45
Rotterdam is 1 s Ur. Madrid .-. pap Libra 614
Newburgh 36 3sf Ur. Ditto 31 et Oporto Sri
Alma 36 4Si UL Dillow 3 it Dublin 16
Paris: day's date ss to lie. Leghorn ell
Faris - 15 :I sUL Venice 59 Ewa Whelks
loardom 25 a ditto per al Ream.
AO on the Bank of stand et per Cent.
New DWI" pee ounce, p. sd.

The Gazette of lan night contains the particulars
of Sir SYDNBY Sutra's engagement with the Dutch
Flotilla. first announced in this Paper on Monday.
The flotilla confined of 0 veffels of different con•
ftruaious. whufe objeft was to teach the port of
Mende and in their paffsge thither were attacked by
Sir Sinewy Swint, in the A111'21.071, of so guns.
with four other vetch under his command• The
engagement kited revere' hours, but the greater
part of the flotilla were able to reach Offend.
veral of the enemy's fchoozers were driven on (pore,
bat are fuppofed to have been recovered by the
army ; others were probably very much nattered,
and four appear to have been funk. bat only one
(chap has fallen into our poffeffion. Commodore
Vaau sort commanded the enemy's flotilla.

We have the pleafure to announce the arrival of
the honsewa,d bound Jamaica fleet, off Cape Clear.
Several of the (hips bound to Liverpool are arrived,
and the remainder may be a:petted eery hour.— i
The Telam. from Demerara. is arrived at Liverpool,
tall from Barbadoes, which place the left about the
23d of April ; the expedition was then fitting out
with all poffible difpatch, and was ezpated to fail
from that place about the 7th idlest, againft Suri-
nam, whets there are about Ilso foldiers, gni one
frigate, beads& (mailer 16ip.. After the reduaion of
Surinam. it was (uppofed our fleet would proceed
again& Cayenne. where there are 500(014m, com-
manded by Vireos Huang..

A Mail arrived this day from Litho, by which
we have received Letters from Spain and from Oi-
brakes. The latter, however, are not of recent
dates, arat are chießy filled with particulars of events
shwa, tem.'u, as the captor. of the Swirr cutter
by a large French privateer off Barcelona coma
time ago, add the Ws of the HIRDOSTSII naval Roes
drip by ire. Captain Ls GROS and all the crew
except (our men, were Caved.
By our Cadiz letter it will be fees that the Frenth
have demanded eight millions of dollars from Spain
in addition to the cum agreed to be paid as the price
of neutrality 1 This is ezaely what we predilled
would be the cafe. All the treafure brought from
America after the peace, which has not already
found its way into other countries, will be employed
by France, as its own property, dining the prefent
coma—nor can Spain help itfelf. The only queßion
is, whether this country fhould fufer it t
The tame letter Rates, that a quarrel lately took
place at Cadiz, between two boats crews belonging
to French and Brit& veffels. Our tars had the bet-
ter of it, though the French were armed and they
not. The French were the aggreffors.