Star.
London, England, 1802-04-01 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, APRIL r.
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

3 per CUM Coat sqt—for April arc. 7:11.
5 per Can. 1035.

By the proceedings in Parliament laR night, it
will be feen, tbat the claims of the PRINCE of
WALE. for the Arrears of the Duchy of Cornwall,
have been negatived in the Houfe of Commons by
a majority of Sy. In favour of thofe claims 103
voted ; againft them t6o.
Yeßerday the feveral parties of Gentlemen who
are Candidates for the Loan, had an interview

with the CHANCELLOR °idle Exatictynt, to fettle
the Preliminaries of the Andtion. The Parties

who went up were :--

r. Meas. Ito OASTS, CORTIS,COLDSSIID,SALO mos,Ta it.
Limon sad Co.
s. Mfrs. SPILOT, HANNOVID, and others, for the Stock
Ezr,lssge.
3. al flaancts Bnanto,AnOSllSTeln,lind Ca
4. fati.ilts EiDwILI,SuivrILL, sad Co
5. SMITS, PATINE, and SMITO, Mosoaw and
Pins. _ _

6. LORD LIIWAIID, &MARRO, GLIM, M other, fere-
teatime the Committee.
7. MEM EVIRITT, NRWIRIAN, ELLIS, W. and Co.

Mr. ADDINGTON informed the gentlemen, that
it was his with to receive their bidding: on Mon.
day morning next. That he should want twenty-
five millions at lean; that is twenty-four millions
for England, and one million for Ireland ; but that
he could not yet fay precifely that this would be
fufficient. It might be twenty-fix or even twenty-
feven millions; but that the Loan might be very
confiderably increafed for the ferries of Ireland, as
the lati Irilh Parliament had provided for a Loan
of three millions, to be funded in Ireland, for
making canals and other public works. Of the frills
Loan, one million and a half might be•mada trans-
ferable in England. He could not,however,fay pre-
cifely what the amount of the Paid Loan would be.
A long converfation took place on this point.—
It was material, the Gentlemen Paid, to afcertain
the precife amount, as under the various heads he
had Rated, it might amount to 19 or 3Q POROUS.
It was left however unafcertainel

He then told them, that for the Loan of the
United Kingdom, for which the bidding was to
be made,he propofed that every fubfcriber of tool.
(hould take 651. of three per cent. coafols, 601. of
three per cent. reduced ; and that the bidding
fltould be made on the fmalleft quantity of a three
per cent. deferred flock, to be incorporated with
the confols on the sth of January, 1808, and to
bear no intereli until that time. His reafon for
this he Rated, to be, that in tBoB the Short Au-
nukie4 fell in, amounting to • - 418,993
And that b the cootie of deo and deb Ea-
chequer A:mollies fell fn to the amount of Woo

Making akm of above - - swim()
for which Taxes were already provided, and which
might be a provifion for this new (lock, without
impaing any additional burtben on the people.
- -

The idea teems to have been borrowed from the
praftice of the American Government, at the clofe
of their war, when a large proportion of their
Public Debt was funded in a Stock which only
now begins to bear an intereft.
In the courfe of Mr. ADDINGTON'S pillrelAt.loll
with the Gentlemen attending the Meeting, be laid
it was his intention to propole that tbe old and
new Sinking Funds fliould be confolidated, and
made applicable at compound Inters& to the whole
of the National Debt, without or ex.
tent; by which operation the redemption of the
whole Debt will be effected in a shorter period
than by the application of the funds in the man.
ner now provided.

This plan amounts to a reverfal of the principle
of the Redemption Fund, eftabliflud by Mr. Pirr
in 1786: It was always tinderftood that when the
Redemption Fund Mould amount to 4,000,0001.
which it will do in 1804, then it was to flop, and
all the growing produce beyond that sum Ibould
go to the repeal and extin9ion of the moll grievous
taxes, fo that the prefent generation should feel
the benefit of the Sinking Fund. On the other
band, Mr. ADDINGTON propoles, that Wind of
taking off taxes, it 'hall be allowed to go on, and
be made altogether applicable to the redemption
of the debt, and by which the whole would be re-
deemed in forty.five years, even if in that (pace of
time we lhould want to borrow tochooo,oool.
rmore. It would therefore be unneccffary to pro-
vide any Redemption Fund for this new loan, or
for the 8,y00,0001. lately raifed on the credit of
the Income Tax, which he meant to move to re-
peal. His plan was to confolidate the Old and
the New Sinking Fund, that is, the annual million
fet apart by Mr. Parr in 1786 for the Redemption
Fund, and the new Sinking Fund, being one-hun-
dredth part of the capital debt created during the
'war. This is an operation which we unit will be
moll ferioully fcrutinized by Financiers, before it
&all be hazarded by Parliament. We are pre-
vented this day front entering into any difculfion
of the fubjett.

The IntlAhnents on the Loan are to be as follows:
to per Cent on the [4th April
to - - silt May
to - -18th June
15 - - l6th th
to - oath Auguß
•to - 17th September
. 19th Odeber
- ',. nth November
17th Deconbcr

10 -
10 -

Laos
DU-count on prompt payment 4 percent.
The Exchequer Bills iffued payable on the toth
Inftalment, to be taken on the 9th, that is in the
December payment, as there arc only nine Inftal-
ments.

No more Exchequer Bills are to be iffued in the
courfe of the prefent year. They are to be paid
off as they become due, and a Vote of Credit, to
the amount of 5 millions, may be alked for that
and other purpofes.
The Funds felt little fenfation by this notice, as
they had been prepared for a Loan of near 3o
millions.

This day we received Paris Journals to the 291 t
ult. The point that calls for molt notice, is the de-
termining the precife day on which the Definitive
Treaty was figned, as many bets are now depeltd-
ing on it.
The following will decide the queflion :—The
Treaty was firft publifhed in a fupplement to the
Atteniterr of the sth Germinal, the 26th March, and
bears date the day before.
As the London Gazette Rated that it had been
figned on the 27th, many were inclined to believe
that .there was fome miftake, not only in the date
of the printed treaty, but in that of the fupplement.
The Treaty is, however, re-printed in the Mo-
nitor of the 6th Germinal, the 2-th March—the
very day on which our Gazette Rates it to have
been figned at Amiens.
There can be little doubt that the 25th was the
day of fignature ; for betides the evidence afford.
ed by the above fads, we find the following letter
fent officially to the Prefect of the Police, on the
26th of March :

"oTHE 111N1/TER OT. FORRION RELATIONS TO TN%

PILIFICT OP THIt FOLIC&

° Paris, Germinal 5, (March 16)—three quazten pat tiro.

" CM= Prdea-4 have the honour to acquaint you, that
the Definitive Treaty of Peace between the French Republic,
his Majelty the King of Spain and the India, and the Batavian
Republic on the one part, and his Majcity the King of the Unit-
ed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the other, was
figned at Amiens, the 4th of Germinal, Year to, (March zsth.)
I have the honour of fainting you. (Signed)
C s MAOILICI TA

• A true Copy. The Polka of Pollee Dvauu."
And, in confequence of the above Letter, this
happy event was announced to the people of Paris
about five in the afternoon, of the a6th, by dif.
charges of artillery. The Palace of Government,
the Hotels of the Knitters, and many of the pri.
rate honfes, were illuminated in the evening, and
there was a concert at the Tuilleries.
The fad we believe to have been this : The
Treaty, written originally in the French tongue,
which for the laft century has been confidered, and
in Tome fort recognized, as the Pole diplomatic
language, was figned late in the evening of Thurf.
day the astb, but WI/Ilk CORNWALLIS requiri
that a tranflation into nglith ibould be made and
written oppofite to the original French, in that
copy of the Treaty that-was to be tranfmitted to
his Government, it was not until the :7th that his
Secretaries were enabled to aceomplith it, when it
was figned for mere form in the pretence of the
Municipality and PrefeEts of the Department, as
we have already mentioned.
The following are cur:4s from the Paris Jour.
nals :

Pens, Morten 28.—A =letter, dated at Cape Fran..
ads, Saint Domingo, 3o February so, arrived by
the way of Bret, Sates, that at the above period the French
army had felted a great many of the Mak= agents of Toots
MIXT Lc, VVVVV vac, who had been feet on board the beet,
where they are detained "Wooers of war. Anaoog them are
&viral Whites, who fens to have bow, if not the inftigamn,
the accomplices of the Negroes in their revolt. Chief de bri-
pte of artillery, Ovate's ow, &ream of the park. and the
asked, under the caminand of TOUSSAINT, has been aifo
lased. He is wolfed of having prepared, an the evening be.
before the town was fat on lire, the matches employed for
dot peepore. He has been pat in boos on board the Fiddle
°Misstated at ate Cape ce the morning tithe 3oth, Feb. so.
that a general compost had taken place the preceding even-
/si between the &Mebane/ and the rebel, and that after the
ataxy were completely beam, General Lieci.aac got poifif.
SOS TOSAISWeI cum.
The letter contaledng Mb details adds, that the Ocean, In.
Pmriote,* Revokable, and Cotatitution, with the
Badfm frigate,were to fail in alike days for a beret deflation,
and that AAlettifll VILI:AILIT•JOT1117$1t was going to boat hi.
Sag an board the Oastappes, IMO which he was to rel.tiontieDS
with lib Min.

7.7-;

EXOLIS)II STATS -I.orliair.—Twotpl venth
Day.—No. 15,911; a Priie of :sol.
The following is the State of the Wheel, at the
conclufion of yefterday's Drawing :-
3 Prises of - - L. SNOW
2 - - 10402
a . • 2,000
4 - - - 1,000
S - ' ' • * Soo
Betides Prizes of tool. &c.—Undrawn Tickets and
Shares are felling at every Licenfed Office, and
the firft drawn Ticket next Tuefday is entitled to
Twenty Thoufand Pounds
The uncommon rich Sate of the Wheel makes the prefent
a molt advantageous time to purchafe Tickets and Shares, for
the Lottery has but a few days to draw, and there are
3 Primes of - - C.a0,000
s ditto of . - topoo
s ditto of - - spoo
4 ditto of - - 1,000
5 ditto of - - 500
betides prises of tool. Sol die. &c. and the Brit-drawn Ticket
sat Tuefday is cackled to sopooL The fate for Tickets fine
the Drawing bcpn has been great beyond all former years,
which may be attributed to two rearms, lb*, their being kept
at a moderate price, ebd next the Capitals keeping in. Undrawa
Tickets and Uwe' will emitinue on fele at the old eftablilhed
Offices of T. Bias, No. 4, Cornhill. and No. 9, Charing-Crofs,
whit a Ticket can be procured.

LONDON: Printed for the Proprietors, by JOHN DANIEL.
(hrtlabrareet) the STA. PRINTING-OMM No. t.
; and pablillted by LEVEL 110° NT, (of Can-
tmtery-place, Lambeth). at Na E. Carey-ftmet. and at the
Praa-Orree, Temple-Bar; to arbkb Oilice all agiattnani•
dams far tba BOITO‘ are requited it be asidrelbal.