Star.
London, England, 1801-05-12 00:00:00

TUESDAY, MAY 12.

MICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK:
Curb 6o4—Confols for ate. 414 .—Onaniurn 9: 9 81.
uced c94—l per Cent. 781 i.
PRICK OF STOCKS YISTEKDAY.

Rank Stock i per C. Loy. 94 931
3 per Cent. Red. 5911 Long Ann. 181 3-16
3 per C. Conf. 601 Short Ann.; -t-t6}
4 per Cent. 78% Otnniunt 9*
3 per C. Navy Conf. for May 61 6of 6t
The fum paid on account of ttie Loan, arm on Friday Taft
24,600pe01. The fum due on the Inttakoents was only
.5,450#200.

The Difpatches refpeeting the capture of the

Danith and Swedifh iflands in the Well-Indies,

were not from Sir Rosser CALDER, as we yeller.
day Rated by mittake, but from Lieut.-General
Tainns, Commander in Chief of his Maissres
forces in ;the Well-Indies, and Captain EKIN s, of
the Navy.
The II lands Captured are, St. Croix, St. Thomas,
and St. John, belonging to Denmark, and St.
Bartholomew and St. Martin, belonging to Sweden.
The only refinance worthy of mentioning ex-
perienced by our troops in the reduEtion of thefe
valuable poffefGons, was at the ifland of St. Mar-
tin, where the enemy appears to have been in con-
fiderable force, and to have oppofed a vigorous
refinance. The gallantry and difcipline of the
64th Foot, and the Bth Well India regiment, were
particularly confpicuous in the attack. The lat-
ter was command:d by Lieutenant-Colonel PAKEN•
HAN, and after a refinance marked with more bold-
nefs and fpirit than could have been expeBed, from
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the information received by General TRIGGE and
Admiral Due [WORTH, the island was compelled to
enter into articles of capitulation. We have the
plcafurc to (tate, that our lofs was trifling ; only
a few privates of the 64th regiment having been
wounded.

Every poffible meafure was taken to enfure
cefs to the eipedition, and to the vigour and una-
itimity with which the operations of General
Tawas and Admiral Duceworru were diffin-

tuned, the happy iffue of the undertaking is prin-
cipally to be afcribed.
Captains M'MAHoN and EKINS came lalk from
Cork, where the frigate on which they were on

board had been obliged to put in.
Sir ROBIRT CALDER, with fix (hips of the line,
has arrived in the Weft-Indies, after having fol-
lowed GANTHISAWIE to a certain diftance, as we
Rated yefterdar. Some letters which we have
fees, hate that on the 24th of March, Sir R. was
at Martinique, waiting for inftruftions from the
Commander in Chief on the Leeward Bland Ration.

On Saturday Mr. Anoimovos had a long au-
dience with his Mammy at Kew.
On Sunday afternoon Lord ST. HELENS, and
the following Gentlemen, embarked on board the
Lavoita frigate, Capt. SOTHERON at Yarmouth,
for Copenhagen and St. Peterlburgh ; viz. Count
WORONEOW, NOVORSELTZOLT, SNEARP, and two
Meffengers. His Lordfhip was fainted on his en-
uring the quarter-deck with fifteen guns. The
frigate failed immediately, with a frefh of wind at
South-Weft.
Captain Hors, of the KENT man of war, is the
Officer appointed to come home with the next dif-
patches from Egypt. He was to fail about the
szd of March in a cutter for England, and is
daily expeeted.
The PRINCE de BOUILLON is appointed to the
rank of Commodore, and boats his broad pendant
on board the BRAVE, to command all the naval
force at Jerfey, and on the neighbouring coafts.
Enfign Itnititison, of the Coldftrcam Guards,
who was killed in the battle of the t 3th near Abou-
kir, is the fon of Captain Jaw it ill son, of Windier-
ter, and nephew to the Earl of LIVERPOOL.
Lieutenant &mon. Mtxxsa, of the Both Regi-
ment of Foot, is appointed to the Royal Garrifon
Battalion now doing duty in tke Mend of Jerfey.
One Troop of the sth Dragoons has arrived at
Hereford ; the reft of the R.egiment are Rationed
at Worcefer and Gloucefter.
The St. George's Volunteer Regiment haul a
field-day yeflerday morning in Hyde Park.
An apprehenfions of Invafion teem now to be
completely gone by; if, however, they Mould
slain arife, it has been Ilrongly recommended to
Government to revive the ufe and ezercife of the
Pike. It is a weapon that is peculiarly ufeful for
defence. The ezercife of the Pike is fully defcribed
and exemplified in a (cries ofEngravings in Grofe's
Military liiftory of England ; a book which con-
tains a defcription and reprefentation of every wea-
pon, either offenftve or defenfive, that has been
ufed fence the Norman Conqueß.
With pleafure we correa a paragraph which ap-
peared in this Paper a few days ago, refpeltinig
Tome volunteer corps Paid to have Lod down their
arms, having originally merely enrolled them-
(elves againa invafion. The Plymouth corps,
which has ever diftinguifhed itfelf by its loyalty
and good difpofition, and which was mentioned
among them by miflake. originally offered its ler-
vices generally for the diftriift, and Rill continues
to difCharge its duty on every occafion with that
vigilance and aaivity which become a loyal and
tall difciplined military corps.
Private accDunts Rate, that a dreadful mortality
prevailed on board of .Gamrsizausit's fquadron
before it reached Toulon, occafioned by a kind
of leprofy which was much encreafed by the great
number of troops embarked for reinforcing the Re-
publican army in Egypt. It is confidently naiad.
that no lefs than woo men were thrown over-
board, all of whom had peaked by the difc