Star.
London, England, 1802-11-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

This day the Speaker took the Chair about two
o'clock, and a confiderable number of Member;
attended. In a very Ihort time after the Miter of
the Black Rod fummoned their ittcuclance in the
Houle of Peers to hear the Royal approbation in
the choice they had made of a Speaker expreffed
by Commillioners appointed by his Majelly for
thatpurpofe. _ _ _

The SPEAKCitt in his official robes, accordingly
proceeded to the Upper Houfe, where the cere-
monies ufual on loch occafions took place. On
his return he addieffed the Houfe in a very 'neat
fpeech.
He had, he Paid, to inforin them, that he had,
accompanied by a number of Members, attended
in the Houfe of Peers, where the Lords, audio-
riled by his Majefty's royal commiffiort, had figni-
fied his gracious approbation of the choice they
bad made in the elation of a new Speaker. He
had to ftate to the Houfe that he had refpalfully
petitioned, agreeably to ancient ufage, that his
Majefty's faithful Commons might enjoy, unim-
paired, their long-eftablifhed freedom of difeuffion,
and that they Mould have the fame fecurity for
their perfonal fafety, and for every other ancient
privilege which had been heretofore enjoyed. He
had alto felt it to be his duty to exprefs a hope,
that his Majeily would be pleated to conftrue all
the proceedings of his faithful Commons in the
molt favourable manner. Having enumerated
the fubftance of what he had conceived it neceffary
for him to addrefs to their Lordfhips, he had now
only to repeat the expreffions of the warmeft gra-
titude which he felt to the houfe, for the honour
they had conferred on him by their choice of him
to fill the dignified fituation which he then occu-
pied, and to affure them, that as far as his exer-
tions could go, nothing fhould be wanting to give
dignity to all their proceedings, and order to all
their deliberations. He fhould conclude with
reminding themn that to give effect to any exer-
tions on his part, nothing was fo effential as a
arid attention on the part of the houfe to all thole
long eitablifited forms and orders, which experi-
ence had (hewn to be fo admirably adapted to
preferve the regularity of difeuffion, and to fad-
litate the difpatch of bufinefs. The Right Hon.
Member concluded, by recommending, that

pofe of being (worn, in the order that their names
were called over.
The Speaker himfelf then took the .oaths, and a
great number of Members fucceeded in the order
ufually obferved.
At four o'clock the Houle adjourned; and the
Speaker gave notice; that to morrow he fhould
take the C.h.sir at twelve o'clock, when he hoped
that Members not fworn would make it their
bnfinefs to attend.

LONDON.

THURSDAY; NOVEMBER iS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOR
3 per Cent. Coat& 68—for Nov. acc. 68.

Long Ann. x 9 ii-x6.-omvinin zot diE

This was fettling day in Omni= at the Stock Exchange...-.
The Bulk had heavy balances to pay : contrary to expedtatlon,
there wu but one defaulter.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock ilk rat Shut Ann. 4 7464
3 per Cent. Red. 67 661 Imp. 3 per Cent. 651 V
3 per C. Conf. 671 6 67f kith s per Cents. 97
New 4 per Cent. 31i 34d. Fatcheq. Bills 21. to 3.. pr.
5 per Cent. Ann. rot roof Omnium toy diE
Long Ann. 19 is-i 6 H-16 Englith Tickets 171. de.
Dusts iv. Novastamt r 3 per Cent. Goy. Dcb. 97.
Exchange—Dublin on London roil,.

We have already mentioned, that meafures are
taking to place the Militia on fuck A footing, that
it may be in readinefs to be called out at the iltorte
notice, fhould that be found necelfary. The fol-
lowing copy of a letter corroborates our flatement
TO NIS MAJESTY'S DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS AND ACT-
ING MAGISTRATES POR THE COUNTY Of GLOU-
CESTER AND CITY OF BRISTOL.
Berkeley Cattle, Nov. zt, 1802.

Gentlemen—Having received a letter from hi% Majelty's Se-
cretary of State (Lord Hobart), recommending the railing of
the men for the Militia of. the county of Giutteelter with all dif-
patch, confiftent with the preferibed forms of the late At of
Parliament relative thereto ; I am to requft.your attendance at
the enfuing meetings, as advertifed by the late General Meet-
ing of Lieutenancy, in order that the Militia for the county of
Gloucefter may, as foon as poffible, be put to its eftabliflunent.
BE:Mint!,
ILienteaarlt of the county of Gloueefter
and city of Briftol.

A report was in circulation yefterday that the
Toulon fleet had failed, and effeEted a junction
with the Spanifh fquadron at Carthagena. We
have in vain endeavoured to trace it to its fource,
and we need hardly add that in fuch a cafe, efpe•
cially if fettling day at the Stock Exchange is at
hand, nine times out of ten at lean, we may fafely
father the rumour upon the Bulls or Beam
We have another reafon, however, on the pre-
fent oceafion, for afcribing the above report to the
machinations of the labourers in the fields of
Stock jobbing fiftion. We yellerday received let-
ters from Gibraltar of the 25th and 25th of lan
month, which are entirely filent refpefting any
fueh event. This, of itfelf, would be no proof that
fuch accounts could not have been received by the
conveyance which brought our letters, but when
we join this with another fait, which we !hall
mention immediately, it amounts
,almoft to a po.
fitive proof. The letters which we have now
received are not of fo late a date by two days as
thole we laid before our Readers on Friday laft,
which Rated the Toulon fleet to be in port. We
may, therefore, confider the report as entirely
goundlefs.
Though our letters from Gibraltar, which we
(hall fubjoin, are not of fo late a date as .former
accounts, their• contents are interefling, as they
furni(h tome details rerpeiling the conduit of the
French Miniver at Malta, with which we were not
before made acquainted. It is cuflomary in all
our foreign garilfons; -as well as in this country,
when the air of ",God Save the King" is played
in public, for the Audience to Rand up, as a mark
of refpeft and loyalty to his MAJESTY and his il-
Itattious Family. Even in France lately, when a
Britith Ambaffador was prefent, this mark of re.
fpeet was not withheld. We find, however, that
at Malta the French Mitkifter, not long ago,
thought fit to follow a different line of conduit,
which gave fo much offence to the audience at the
Opera, that the performance could not go on.—
On the fecond night his family was hiffed out of
the houfe. In following this line of conduit the
French Miniller was probably ailing without any
direa inftruftions, as to the fpecific cafe ; it teems
fair, however, to infer from it, what the general
fpirit of his initruetions is !

'One of the letters that has reached us mentions
a circumftance furpeeted to be conneCted with the
viiit of the KING of ETRURIA to the KING of
Spas, lately announced, Which many will, pro-
bably, think well founded. No one can have
forgot, that not many mapths ago BoNAPA T 1,
on the appearance of a law refpeeling the clergy
in Etruria, which had been enalted it would ap-
pear without even confulting this maker and un-
maker of monarchs, ordered it to be laid up among
the public archives at Paris, as a recorded mono.
mmt of the folly of Kinge."—lt is only three days
fence we were informed that Parma, a part of the
Anse family .aropertr, yak Boned to. France : ,

low we are told, time will tell with what truth,
that BONAPARTE has dropped hints that he has
no farther tire for this King, and has therefore
furnithed him with a pretext for quitting his do.
minions.

GIBRALTAR, OCTOBER 23.
" On the zid the armed fchooner PictLE ar-
rived here from Plymouth, in eleven,days, %yid:
difpatches for Sir;lticHAßD BICKERTON, with whicia
the ihortly afterwards failed in queit ofhim.
" Our laft letters from Malta bring an account
of fome very impleafant dilturbances, that had
taken place at the Opera there, with General Vitt.,
the French Miniller, in confequence of he and
Family refufing to nand up Cr take off their hats
when God Ave the King was played : the riot was
fo great the firit_pight as to prevent the perform-
ance going on ; and on the fecund night, when
General VIAL'S Family went there without him,
the Ladies were huffed out of the houfe, on their
refuting to (land up when the reit of the audience
did, on that tune being played. It appears very
ftrongly from General VIAL'S conduit on this oc-
cafion, that he wifhed to draw fome infult upon
himfelf, and no doubt but ftrong remonfirances
have been fent home to his Government on the
fubjed.

General Vz t. ETT e, who commands the Gar-
rifon, to prevent any future difturbances of the
kind in the Opera•houfe, gave orders, that in fu-
ture no popular airs, or any piece of mufic fliould
be played, except fuch as belonged to the per.
formance.

66 OCTOBER 26.—The KING Oc ETRURIA arrived
at Barcelona on the 4th inilant, after a paffage
of eight days, from Leghorn, under pretence of
paying his refpeas to the KING of Slum, his
father-in-law; but it is generally believed, that
Box A P ARTS, being difpleafed with his conduit, has
given him to underiland, that he has no further
occafion for his fervices as King, and has furnifhed
him with this pretence of quitting his dominions.
,g The KING of SPAIN'S retinue, in his journey
to Barcelona, amounted to upwards of five hun-
dred carriages, and fourteen thoufand perfons in
his fuite, and like locuils their route was marked
by famine and deftruaion wherever they travelled,
as they confumed every thing on the road, and
the expences of thefe Royal vifitaticas are feldom de-
frayed till two or three years afterwards."