Star.
London, England, 1802-04-15 00:00:00

THURSDAY, APRIL zs.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
3, per C. Conf. money, 77} 1 I—fer May account. 781 1-
Reduced 76.1 1-4 par Cent. 9*-5 per Cent. to 6—
New Ann. to6l-omnium 41 S•
PRICE or STOCKS YESTERDAY.

sank Stock t 95 Short Ann. 5 3-16 i
3 per Ct. Red. 75 h India Stock ass} 229
3 per Ct. Conf. 7 Milt 5 per Cents. Mt
4 per Cent. 90} 91 Eacheq. llil4 za. to is. prent.
5 pet C. Ann. 105 zo6i ro6 0111111 URI dal pr n.
Long Ann.sri 9.16 Cone for y Ace. 7711 78
The Speech of Mr.ADDINGTON laft night in the
Houfe of Commons feems to have been received
with much fatisfaltion by the majority of the pub-
lic. Great as our National Debt is, being Four
husdrei msd Eighty-eight Milfietu, paying a yearly
intereft of Thirty Milfionr, he Rated the means of,
redemption to be fo great, that in 43 years and
two months, taking even the molt unfavourable
ellimate, the whole will be paid off. If Peace can
be maintained, the meafure, no doubt, may be ac-
complifhed ; but if the Nation fhould unhappily
be again plunged ip war, we fear the payinents
will bear a fmall proportion only to the frefh bor-
rowings.
The Honourable Eve Lira Pisa k PO:NT, with Mr.
Hum-ran, jun. the Mellinger, embarked at Dover
ye fterday morning at nine o'clock, with his Majtlty's
Ratification of the Definitive Treaty of Peace.
This morning we received t'aris Journals to the
.t3th inliant. Their principal contents are the
following :
GTUTTGARD, APRIL SPENCER SMITH,
late Ambaffador from England to the Sublime
Porte, has arrived here with his family, as well as
Lieutenant Colonel BROMLEY, from Egypt.
CORFU, Frs. 25.—Four days ago a squadron
of fix Englifh veffels arrived here, the Commander
cf which brought with him a letter to our Go-
vernment from the Miniftry of the Porte, (toting
that, as gur Conftitation had not been accepted
by the Gamin SEIGNIOR, it was annulled, and
ghat the old Government was to be re-eftabliffied.
The Englifh troops then took poffeffion of the forts,
and carried thefe orders into execution. We
e::pcel here alfo Ruffian troops. The letter of
the Turkifh Government lays, that our iflands
than- be converted into defarts, rather than fair
in them a Conflitution which occafioned fo many
troubles in France. The new Government has
already begun the exercife of its funetions by
changing all the perfons employed in public offices.
PARIS, 19 GERMINAL, APRIL 9.—The Cardi-
nal Legate of the Holy See was this day at two
o'clock introduced to an audience of the FIRST
CONSUL. The hlinifters and Members of the
Council of State being prefent, the Legate made
a fpeech to the Firft Conful, and then read and
figned the prefcribed Oath.
APRIL 21....-The Firft Conful has nominated to
the Archbithopric of Paris C. JOHN•BAPTIST-DR.
'ELIOT. This refpeEtable Prelate, 84 years of
age, long honoured, by Z' is virtues and knowledge,
the Epifcopal See of Marfeilles, which he occupied
!ince '755.
The Confuls of the. Republic have authorifed,
by a decree, Cardinal CAPRARA, Envoy in France,
with the tide of Legate a &ere, to exercife the

fanClions announced in the Bull ifilied at Rome on

Monday, 6th Fruaidor, year 9, (Aug. 24, 18014
but with the provifo of conforming entirely to the
rules and (Wages obferved in France in fuch cafes.

TN MTN ON AMOUNT (VP TRY HAPPY EVENT OP
PEACE AT APtIENS, AND THE PUBLICATION or

THE LAW RISPECTING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

This Ts DEUM will be chaanted in the Metro-
politan Church of Paris, in pretence of Govern-
ment, on the 28th of Germinal, April iB.
At fix in the morning thirty cannon (hall be
fired, and ten cannon every hour till noon.
At eight o'clock the Fiasr CONSUL fhall.pro.
mulgate the Law of Germinal 18.

At nine o'clock the Local Authorities shall pub-
lifh it, in the form and with the ceremonies ufual
for Treaties of Peace.
At eleven o'clock the Government (hall fet out
from the Palace of the Thuilleries, and repair to
the Metropolitan Church. •
The departure of Government (hall be an-
nounced by the firing of 3o cannon, and its return
by an equal number.

In the evening there fhall be a general illumi-
nation.

LEGISLATIVE BODY, et GERMINAL, APRIL 7.
?RESIDENCE OP MARCOREL.

The fitting announced for eleven o'clock was
opened at one. Befides the galleries and area of
the hall filled with fpeftators, four rows of benches,
deftined for the Members of the Legiflative Body,
Were occupied by ftrangers of all ranks and of both
fexes. An officer requefted the company to leave
the fourth bench empty, but as they did not feem
difpofed to comply, it was neceffary to introduce
five fufilliers, upon which the bench was imme•
diateiy left free. Among the fpettators were a great
number of foreigners of diftiation, Englifh, Ger-
mans, Dutchmen, Ruffians, &c. ; the Hereditary
Prince of ORANGE and his fuite, the Ambaffador
of Ruftia, and Mr. Jacitios, the Minifter Plenipo-
tentiary of Great Britain.
After fome time the Oiators of the Tribunate
arrived, and then thofe of the Government. There
were, on the one hand SIMEON,LUCIEN BONAPARTE,
and JAUCOURT ; on the other Portents, REGNAUT-
de-ST.-JEAN-d'ANGELY, and Br•owiie. The Pre-
fident read a Meffitge, announcing the will of the
Tribunate for adopting the Convention agreed on
between the French Government and his Holinefs
Pius VII.

Loci IN BONAPARTE mounted the Tribune..." I
Come, faid he, to carry to the LegiClative Body
the with of the Tribunate in favour of the Con-
cordat agreed on between the French Government
and the Pope Pio s VII. together with the Organic
Laws of the Catholic and Protefiant Worthip.—
Legiflators, the revolutions of Empires refemble
thofe great and violent locks, which, by tearing
the bofom of the earth, lay open its foundations
and difplay the caufes of there dreadful convultions!
It is after funilar political commotions that the
obferver ftudies the mutes of them, and endeavours
to difcover and check their fatal efreets." After
proceeding fome time in this figurative (train-
" It is in the pretence of the DEITY," faid he,
" that Nations are civilized, that people aid each
other, and that men become brethren —Temples
are their common afylum—Goo is their firft hap-
pinefs. Religion forms man to individual virtues;
it protects him from his cradle—it tranquillifeshim
at the fight of the grave—it infpires him with a
falutti7 dread of wickednefs--it fupports perfecut.
ed virtue—it confoles the good man under mill
fortunes—it rays to tome, Pemble,and to others, be
comforted, there ezifts a Goo on high who punilbes
and who rewards.

The deftruetive doarine of the Atha gives up
the human heart to its paflions, renders it a fport
and a viaim to them. Atheifm flatters itfelf with
the hope of analyfingevery thing, while it only dif-
folves every thing. Miferable Sophifts! in vain do
yon accumulate arguments and objeetions'to prove
that morality and religon are impraaicable, and
that its doarine is incomprehenfible. The one is
inconceivable only to minds blinded by error, and
theLother is impraaicable only to hearts dried up
by the fcorching breath of the paflions.
" It has been proved in this tribune that the ableft
and wifeft founders of empires made religion the
balls of them. ROUSSEAU, the Author of the So..
cialContraa,did not think otherwife—" Religion,"
fail he, " ought to be chafed among the firft af.
feetions of a State." Even MIRADEAU, who will
not be fufpeeted of ignorance and fuperftition, one
of the firft movers of the Revolution, fuffered the
following words to efcape from him in the Confli.
tuent Affembly—" Let us declare loudly, in the
face of all nations, that the acknowledgment of a
GOD is neceffary to the French people. Let us
plant the fign of the Crofs on the fummit of all
the departments : and let us not fuller ourfelves
to be reproached with having attempted to break
down the reftraints of vice, or to dry up the 14
refource of diftreffed virtue."

After•fhewing in the new organic laws of the
Catholic worship the annihilation of old *bufes,
and the recal of the minifters to their primitive in-
ftitution, the orator traced out the condudt of the
Conftituent Aitembly, which, wilhing to force the
priefls to take the civic oath, and to acknowledge
the civil eonllitution of the clergy, purfued only
intemperate and ill timed meafures. The Legitla-
ture which fucceeded it, laid he, were defirous of

/mating meafures Hill ltinre revere, and tin lefs
imprudent. The Convention went flits farther
than the Legiflative Affembly. It tranfported to
Guyana thole pt ;efts who rcfufed to take the oath :
it pronounced death againfl thafc who in twenty.
four hours did not comply with the law in regard
to tranfportation. The demon of deflruCtion fonn
arofe in France. The priclls who took the
oaths became alfo necelfary viaims to the rage ofi
innovators. The cry of death was extended to all
the minifters of religious wot (hip. It was thought
they could not be annihilated but by maffacring
them. There was then no medium left to them
between the fcaffold and abjuring the Gofpel.
Infamous courtifans were introduced into the lane- '
tuary, and feated on the marble of the altars. Sa-
tisfied with their work, fanatics thought they had
annihilated religion in its foundations ; after hav-
ing overturned the temples and profcribed their
minifters, the band of demagogues propofed
sharing their lands. On all fides the (late was
verging to ruin. Several departments, however,
shuddered to fee that fanatics had changed the
mild manners of the French into ferocity.—
Atheifm was frightened at theli exceffes. It chang-
ed its language. It recalled from that oblivion
in which they had been buried, the ideas of the
exigence of a Goo, and of the Immortality of
the Soul. The Atheifts themfelves became the
preachers of a morality which they had difowned
is fo indignant a manner. The Direftory made
war againft religion in a manner lefs open, but
no lefs cruel than the Convention. It proclaimed
liberty of confcience and wo: fhip, yet canfed its Mi-
' nitlers to be imprifoned. It entered into an accom-
modation with the infurgent priefts of la-Vendee,
and tyrannifed over thole who had fubmitted. It
ellablifhed Thropkilanthropy, which ferved only to
prove, that Chrillianity was the only religion fuited
to France. In a word, the 18th of Brumaire ar-
rived, and the people were permitted to pcknow•
ledge a COD, a Religion, and a form of Worfliip
without danger. The Government loon after a&
dreffed itfelf to the head of the church. Thacon-
ferences of the Concordat began at that epoch. It
is on this labour of two years that you have to de-
cide. Hagen, Citizens LegifLttors, to make re-
paration for fo many errors and evils in which you
had no fhare. SanCtion the religious code, and
you will have difcharged the debt you owe to your
country. While the head of the Government gives
external peace to Europe, you will reftore the in•
ternal peace of confciences."
JaucoußT, one of the three Orators of Govern.
ment, Paid a few words in regard to the Organic
Articles of the Protellant Worfhip. He beheld in
them a term to thofe numbcrlefs evils produced by
the revocation of the edift of Nantz.—The con•
quells of the Republic had produced the return of
a great number of Proteflants—the Concordat
will occafion the return of a great many more.
The Affembly having proceeded to the Appeal
Nominal, of 249 voters.--22.8 were in favour of the
Convention between the French Government and
the Pope Pius VII. The Prefident then declared
it a law of the State.

This being Maunday Thurfday, his Majelly's
bounty was, as ufual, diltributed to fuch Poor as
were thought worthy; by the Rev. Dr. VINCENT,
Sub Almoner to his Majefty, at Whitehall Chapel.
At a Meeting of the Whig Club in Dublin, on
the sth inftant, the Duke of LEINiTRR was in the
chair, and Mr. GRATTAN attended.
On Thurfday, at a meeting of the Proprietors
of Bank Stock, is Dublin, it was agreed to put..
chafe the Parliament.houfe for a National Bank;
they are to pay 40,0001. and 2401. per ann.
The following Letter was yetterday communi-
cated to the Gentlemen t•f the Stock Exchange :
Du k e-Itreet, it 3 April, 1802.
1 requeft you will take meafurcs for communicating that an
Loan for 1,6230001. Irdb, will be negociated in Ireland,
on or about the 6th of May, and that I have appointed Thud-
day next, the tsth inftant, for meeting any of thofe who may
with to bid for the Loan, and who may be defirons of knowiig
the particulars thereof, at three o'clock, in Duke-ftreet.
I am, Sir, your obedient fervai t,
John Puget, Etc. IFAIC CORRY.

Some new arrangements are in contemplation
for the Settlement at New South Wales. The
Corps at prefent there is to be reduced, and their
place, it is fuppofed, will be fupplied by a detach.
went of Marines, which is to be regularly relieved
at (Laced periods.
There was a fplendid ball and flipper at Pen-
rith, on Friday in celebration of the Peace.
The Princcfs of WALES is now giving a merry
round of dinners, not to perfons of her own fez,
but to a vat circle of Gentlemen, political and
military. On Tuefday her Royal Highnefs had a
company of 21 Members of Parliament ; and yef-
terday, for the fecond time, the gave an elegant
entertainment to a party of the Officers lately re-
turned from Egypt. Her invitations, we under-
Rand, are to extend to the whole of the Military
Gentlemen who have ferved in that country ; but
no Ladies are invited to any of the far.ies.
It is flawd in the Decade Phi/ofpiique that the
Voyage of MORCHAND Round the World, latelyl
publithed by FLEUR= of the National Inflitute,
(a tranflation of which has lately been publithed
by Meffrs. LONGMAN and Rigs, both in Quarto
and Oaavo) has been fent, by order of the French
Government, to the different Sovereigns of Europe,
and among others the KING of GRUA T BRITAIN.
This is the fame work that was prefented by Bo-
NAPARTL to the Prelident of the Royal Society of
London, accompanied by a letter in his own hand-
, writing.

NAUTIC.II INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS TINS DAY.-WIND