Star.
London, England, 1809-10-10 00:00:00

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST-INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GNTLEIL2N,
N compliance with a custom, which has of late
usually been adopted by the Candidates for the East-India
Direction, I take this opportunity of respectfully informing you,
that it is my intention to offer myself to your choice, upon the
next vacancy which may occur. The part which I have taken
for many years, upon various subjects which have been brought
under your consldaation at the General Courts, will best enable
you to judge, whether, if by your favour I obtain a Seat in the
Direction, I shall be likely to promote, in that situation, the Wel-
fare of the East-India Cpnipany.
It is suidciently evident, that the dine which is approaching is
of more than common importance to our concerns; and I feel
this so forcibly, that if, when a vacancy occurs, any. Candidate
shall appear, who, in your opinion, and in the opinion of the
Court of Directors, shall better deserve your confidence than I
do, and be better qualified than I am to maintain the Company's
just rights and interests, I shall wish, most unfeignedly, that
such a Candidate may be preferred to me. If, however, I should
have reason to conclude, that my thus offering myself to your
notice is thought favourably of by yourselves, and by the Court
of Directors, I shall certainly solicit your support.
I can with truth declare, that in the part which I have hitherto
taken as an East-India Proprietor, I have never acted from any
private motive, or with a view to any private advantage, but I
have uniformly endeavoured to promote the Company's welfare ;
and, if I should obtain the honour of a Seat in the Direction, my
conduct there will be guided by similar principles.
I am, with much respect, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient and very humble Servant,
Strand, Oct. 6,1809. RICHARD TWINING.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

VIENNA, SEPT. 7.

A train of artillery has been sent to Hungary.—
The troops which composed the camp of Spitz have
marched for Hungary. These dispositions prove no-
thing against peace ; they announce merely that the
Emperor will be prepared for every thing. There is
no man of sense here who thinks that the Emperor
of Austria will renew a conflict, the issue of which
would be fatal to his house.

The Russians have definitively evacuated Lemberg
and all Eastern Gallicia. Their troops are going to'
Moldavia. We are persuaded that this is the result
of new arrangements between the Courts of St. Pe-
tersburgh and Paris.
SEPT. 16.—The conferences at the castle of Alten-
burgh continue. Our course of exchange is still bad.
It is to-day on Augsburgh at from 317 to 318.
A principal demand in the negotiations for peace is, that
meld a pacification with England a French army shall re-
main in the Austrian State:.
The mines under our fortifications are still to be
more strictly examined.
Several military Officers have proceeded hence
in different directions. All the high points in Aus-
tria, above and below the Ems, are to be strongly
fortified, chiefly the Gottweicher and the White
Mountains.

got a day passes without fresh trodps arriving from
France and the Confederate States

In consequence of the turn that the war has taken,
the best understanding does not prevail between the
Archdukes John and Charles. The former will
not acknowledge himself wrong in his retreat from
Italy, and has declared himself openly against the
other.

Hospital companies, of 125 men each, arc formed
in the French army. They are to guard the hospi-
tals, and to carry the wounded from the field of bat-
tle ; in the time of peace they are to do duty in the
hospitals of garrisons.
The Archduke Maximilian has gone on a journey
to Transylvania.
Yesterday arrived a courier with a letter from the
Emperor Francis to the Emperor Napoleon.
The bridge of boats at Nusdorff, which had been
destroyed, is again replaced.
It is rumoured that the Emperor Napoleon has,
through the medium of his Minister at the Castle of
Altenburg, submitted some new proposals to the
Austrian Plenipotentiaries, with the view of removing
certain difficulties which have hitherto prevented the
signature of the treaty of peace.
The protraction of the negociation has led to an
opinion, which seems to be founded in probability,
that it relates not to Austria singly, but to the whole
of Europe. peace deciding the fate of particular
States is to Napoleon the s-ork scarcely of a day or
two, as appears from die treaties which followed the
battles of Austerlitz and Friedland. It is positively
asserted, in the mean time, that the negociations at
Altenburg arc in a favourable train, and that within
the last .seek a very considerable approximation has
taken place between the Plenipotentiaries. It is ru-
moured, that, during the further progress of the ne-
gociation, the Emperor Napoleon will make a short
excursion as fir as-Munich ; and that during his Ma-
.Hty's absence, the Prince Vice-Roy of Italy and the
Prince of Neufchatel will have the command of the
Grand Army.

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