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London, England, 1801-04-01 00:00:00

WIEDNESDAT. APRIL ti -

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OXE O'CLOCK.
Confab 37F-hir stoney syl-mOonium 3/ pram
per Cent.96l.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY :
Bank.Stoek Imp. Ann. Is 3-16
3 per Cent. Red. fliut Omnium 3:1 3 4i
3 per C. ConL 37i 38 37i kith Dcb..--
4 Per Com Conf. Oast Bank for Act.
t per D. Navy 960 India fur Ace.
Imp. 3 per CS7ii Conf. for April3Bi 37i
DUBLIN, MARCH 17.—Price of Stocks this day :
Government Debenture. 86--Tsuldivi PAU. pB4. .

The Hamburgh Mail due on Wednefdag raft,
arrived at a late hour raft night. Its contents are
intereiting : it brings an account of our Fleet hav-
ing appeared in the Cattegat on the loth tilt. ; but
the negotiations with Denmark feem t.bave failed;
and Mr. DRUMMOND and Mr. VAN3ITTART; ac-
cording to letters from Copenhagen, have received
pail-ports to return home. Important news, there-
fore, may foon be expected from that quarter.
Letters from Brnnfwick Rate, that in confe.
quence of the anfwer of this Court to the Taft Pruf.
Gan Note, a Pruffian army is to take poffeffion of
Hanover. The territory of Hamburgh, Bremen,&c.
is alto to be occupiei by Pruffia.
There is a report from Vienna of the 14th, that
6000 of Sir Rata t, ABERCROMBIE'S troops had
landed near Damietta, but it does not feem to
deferve much credit..
For the other articles by the mail, we refer to
the foUowing columns.
We have given from the Taft French Papers the
declaration of the EMPtaoa of RUSSIA addreffed
to the Northern Powers on the fubjeft of the armed
neutrality : as it tends to throw farther light on
that confederacy, it may be confidered as of fome
importance.
STATE PAPER.
LEIPSIC, MARCH 8.
It is now known that the Northern Convention,
concluded at St. Peterfburgh on the 16th of De-
cember Taft year, was occafioned by the affair of
the Danifh frigate la Freya. The following is the
declaration, never before publifhed, of the 16th of
Auguft 1800, by which his Majefty the Emperor
of all the Ruffias invited Sweden, Denmark, and
Pruffia, to concert relpefting this Convention for
re-eftablithing the rights of neutrality :
Europe has made known the unanimous appro-
bation it gave to the meafures taken by the great-
er part of the Maritime Powers, for eftabUfhing
the principles of a wife and impartial neutrality,
when, in 1780, a Maritime war between two great
Powers impofed on the reft the duty of watching
over the fafety of the commerce and navigation
of 'their fubjefts. This aft, founded on juftice,
muff have been generally approved; and it was
then only that the bafis of the Rights of Nations
was re eftabliftied. Rana at this time had the
valuable advantage of bringing to a conclufion
this falutary work, and of becoming, as it were, the
regulator of the different meafures to be purfued in
order to conciliate univerfal refpeft. Each of the
Powers which wifhed to accede to it, found in it
innumerable advantages ; and Ruffia took this
arrangement as the bafis of all future treaties of
commerce—univerfal fuffrage had made it a fort
of code for nations, as it was alfo the code of hu-
manity : general interea fecund the maintenance
and execution of it.
But at the epoch of the aiffolution of a great
power, when the fatal influence of that event made
itfelf be felt by all others, when all political ties
were broken, or, received a new direftion in the
war which was the refult of it ; a war fo dif-
ferent from all others, fo fertile in variegated
and extraordinary events, which deftroyed all
preceding combinations, too little care was taken
to give a new fanftion to there principles : when
the public attention was, as it were, abforbed by
events of fuch high intereft, it could not be di-
reeled with fufficient conftancylowards the means
of enforcing a Ittle obfervation of thefe falutary
ftipulations. Befides the equity of the Belligerent
Powers muff have offered means of prefervation,
and Neutral nations thought they were affured of a
futhcient guaranty, which would enfure refpeft
to their commerce, and to their navigation al
lcaft, on the part of the regular powers, whoa
a new event fhewed them how much the is.
dependance of crowns might be endangered, if
they neglefted to re-eftablilh the principles and

maxims; on which the protection and fafety of
the Neutral powers reft in the cootie of this war.
On the t sat and zsth of July, fome Engliflt
frigates fell in, with in the channel, a Danifh fri-
gate convoying fome Danifh veffels bound for
different ports. Though the Dania Captain de-
clared that his, convoy had no contraband rim-
chandi ze on board, and though he refuted to fuf-
ferthan to be fearcheZt, he was attacked and oblig-
ed to yield to fuperior furies. He was imme-
diately condoned into an Engliftt port.
The fist care of his Danifh Majefty, a friend
and ally of his Majefty the Emperor of all the
RufGas, was to inform this fovereign of that event,
and to elk, under what point of view fo manila
an infranion of the Rights of Nations, and the
_principles of Neutrality, the bafis of the Treaty of
Commerce between Raffia and Denmark, was to
be viewed ?

Though his Imperial Majeffy was then perfuad-
ed that this infraftion on the part of his Britannic
Majeity could be only the effee of a miltake, that
he would be as residy to difuvow it as inclined to
,give to the Court ofCopenhagen a ju ft fatisfattion for
tht infolt offered to his lag; his Imperial Majefty
then fore-raw, for the purpofe of preventing ftich
alts in sfutare, the neceißty of re-eflablifiting the
principles of the Neutrality, under the protation
of 'which his own fubjeas as well as thole of all
the Neutral Powers might enjoy the fruits of their
indultry, and the advantagesof Neutral Nations
iri all the Peas, without being afterwards ended to
arbitrary meafures, which none of the belligerent
powers are permitted to exercifenainft them with

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impunity.
As the manifeft intereft of his Imperial Majefty,
both in regard to the navigation of his own fub-
jefts and that of his ports bordering on other na-
tions, requires that the feas which wafh the coafts
of the Ruffian empire fhould be fheltered from fuch
alts of violence, be invites the powers who poffefs
ports in thefe diftrias, and particularly his Majefty
the King of Pruffia, his Majefty the King of Den
mark, and his Majefty the King of Sweden, to con.
cert with his Imperial Majefty refpeaing meafures
which will be fuccellively communicated to them for
re-eftablifhing in their full force the principles of an
armed neutrality, to fecure the liberty of tbe fear. He
makes known by the prefent declaration, that he is
difpofed to employ all the forces of his Crown to
maintain the honotir of his flag and that of his al-
lies; to fecure his fubjeas from every infraftion of
thofe rights refpeaed by all nations ; and to pro-
cure to them, under the proteftion of their refpec-
tive governments, the advantages of the liberty of
commerce and navigation.
His Imperial Majefty declares, with the fame
,:fpirit of candour and impartiality, that in forming
a rule for the esaft obfervation of the rights of
neutrality, he has no intention of infringing
any one ; and that the meafures he will in his,
wifdom purfue, and the condu& of his officers
and commanders, will be guided by fuch views of
rigorous juftiee, that the belligerent Powers than
not be able to deny the neceffity, as well as the
beneficence, of the intentions by which they have
been diftated.
By the erprefs order of his Imperial Majefty,

his Minifter addrefres the prefent declaration to
his Excellency Baron de STIDINI, the Ambafra-
dor Extraordinary of his Majefty the King of
Sweden, with a requeft that it may be immedi-
ately communicated to his court.
(Signed) cowry aosrovstx.
COUNT PANIN.
PETERS/MIMI, MARCH 6.
The trade and commerce being allowed as be-
'fore the War, a new courfe of exchange has been
introduced. According to the Court Gazette, of
-the 6th inn. the ruble was 49 fous.
ststmaua, MARCH 21.
The mon aaive preparations are making here
to °plink the Englifh fleet, fhould they attempt
to fail through the Sound from the Cattegat, by
the Ifland of Anholt. According to fome ac-
counts the Englifh fleet has (offered fome da-
mage by the late norms.
The Englifh frigate the BLANCHE, of 36 guns,
Captain HAMMOND, arrived yefterday morning
with a flag of truce from the North Sea. She caft
anchor in the road, when an officer from the Da-
nn cutter-brig ftationed here immediately went
on board her ; and loon after returned, landed and
went to the commandant of the fortrefs. An hour
after Captain HAMMOND, accompanied by another
Englifh officer, came on fhore in his own boat,
with a flag of truce. They were received by an
officer of the garrifon, and immediately concluded
to the commandant. Soon after the Englifh Lieu-
tenant, accompanied by an officer of chafreurs and
twohuffars proceeded toCopeAagen,anddelivercd
the difpatches, in confequence of which Mr. Dem N•
stoat; had a conference with Count Beasstoave,
and faun after left Copenhagen, togeth'er with Mr.
Van strraar. The Englifh frigate fainted the foil
inf.:, and the falite was, as ufual, returned.
In the evening of the day before yefterday 359
Militia from the regiment of Zealand arrived here,
and were quartered in the town : more are' exi
pelted. The ntmoft activity is nfed here in pre-

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