Star.
London, England, 1805-01-03 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3.
PR ICE OF STOOKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCICt
Conf. for Jan.39i s$
Omnium 14.—Ezelteq. Bab, IS. as.
dif—
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

3 per C. Red. Ann. 58i 38i
3 per Cent. Con!. Glut

Imperial 3 per Cent. 371.1
Omn!um 0,

4 ...
per Cent. 74i i Excheq. Bills, is. 21 dif.
s pee Cent. Navy, thut Englith Tickets 181..14t.
s per Cent. 1797 99E. Conf. for acc. 594,17
Long Ann. 17 t-s 6
Dusum.Deccams 'a—Exchange 81.

At a late hour lag night no further intelligence had
been rtceivedon the fubjed of Mr. Fa es'sreturn from
Spain. It is not true that Government have received
certain intelligence of his having adually failed frton
Lilon ; he, however, continues to be expeded daily.
The Spann A mba &dot continu;s his communi-
cation with Miniaers.

An Order of Council has, it is (aid, been tranf_
mitred to the CommilEonets of the Cußums, for li-
berating the Spann merchant (hips lately embarved,
with the exception of one, which (lands in a peculiar
fituation from fume contravention of the revenue
laws.

Lift night French Journals to the 26th ult. were
received, and Dutch Papers to the 3oth. Madame
BONAPAtTC, the mother of the Emperor, is lla:ed in
the former to have arrived at Paris : LUCtLN was
alfo believed to have arrived there, but the report
has been contradieted. A hint is thrown out, in one
article, that it is the intention of France to occupy
the ports of Portugal. This circumflance is merely
mentioned as a prevalent report ; but fuch reports
are feldo:n admitted into the French Journals, unlefa
on fome foundation.

The Dutch papers confirm the refignation of the
four Members of the Dutch Government %vb.° fup.
ported the fpirited refolution which gave fo much
offence to the French Government. The Minillcr
who fired the decree has alfo been compelled to te-
lly). The order is folemnly retraced, and the note
in which the Members of the Dutch Government con.
fefs their error, is publifhed in their own papers by
command of " a fuperior authority."
M. D'Ousatt.'s condue, during his refidence as
Charge d'Affaires, at Paris, has received the full ap-
probation of the Emperor of Ruilia ; and particu-
larly as he was often obliged to aEt without inflruc-
lions in fome of the moil important circumflances of
his negociation.
Their Swedi(h Ma;eflies were about to make
another effort in the middle of laa month to get to
Stockholm, at which they teem anxious to arrive.
The intelligence from Madi id, in thefe papers,
as recent as the 3d of laa month, and it (peaks per-
emptorily of War. The Yak:, or Government Se-
curities, are reprefented as depreciated to 35 ; the
Courfe of Exchange was arrened, and all commer-
cial bufinefs was at a (laud.

A Dutch Paper reports that the Emperor of auffia

bas written a letter to Louts XVIII.

his detettnination to the no part in the fc:10 e.
which the Princes of the floufe of Bou'bon are

la:ely to have projeeteri for the advancement of th. it
caufe. This letter may not cliff, but there teen e
no reafon to jultify a belief that the Emperor of Rol-
fla is rcfolved to make the caufe of the Honf: of
Bourbon the principal ground of war againfl Fr :thee ;
and if it is not made a very principal point, perhap%
it ought not to be affumed at all.
The King of Pruflia, it is dated, has had a difpute
with the pe,,2le of his new dominions in R`e(li•hali•,,
who wifhed to commute their quota of men to the
army for a pecuniary fine; but his PrufEan Majefty
requires perfonal fervice in proportion to the diftrid.
The letters from Italy fpeak of a war between Eng-
land and Spain as inevitable. They confirm the re-
ports of Lord Ns Lso N'S fquadron cruizing off Bar-
r.,.:luna, and capturing every thing. The Spanith fhips
in Italian ports have received orders not to put to lea
in the prefent circumtlances.
It is afferred in fume of the French papers, that
the two French frigates, i 4 Sybelle and la Didon,
which lately eff ttd their efcape from New York,
where they had been fo long blockaded by two of our
!hips, arrived on the t ith ult. in the Road of Port
Liberte, where they are performing quarantine.

Several letters from vatious parts of Spain have
been received. Thofe of the 4th ult. from. Madrid
fay very little en polities, except that it was mentioned
with great confidence that war would be publicly de-
clared in that city on the Bth.
Accounts from Barcelona of the Bth ult. Rate, that
the declaration of war againft Enhland had been
figned and publi(hed. The Spaniards had proceeded
to that :marine with great reludance.
Advices from Valentia, of the 3oth of November,
(late, that the three Englifb veffels, feized in that port,
had made their efcape, but by what means was not
afcertained. All that was known on the fubjed was,
that the veffels difappearcd in the night, without be-
ing obfelved, and carried off with them the foldiers
put (.n board by the Government.
The fever Hill raged at Carthagena, but had abated
forrsething of its virulence, (ince the accounts of the
27th of November,

Letters from Malaga, down to the 27th November,
confirm our former flaterneut relative to the leisure
of Data vefrels in that port. According to our ad-
vices from thence, the Spanifh Government teem de-
termined to retaliate for the capture of their veffets;
and have already gone fo far as to feize fome of their
own veffels, with their cargoes, becaufe they were
loaded in England. The Mariana, a Spanifh vend
from Brides], was feized on the 25th November, at
Malaga, with a cargo of Englifh produce. The Lit-
tle Amy, Captain LANDER, an EnglA wife!, was
alto embargoed, with two others, laden with cod-
fifh, from Newfoundland.

The vigorous meafures adopted by way of retalia-
tion in Spain, caufed no final' unea(nefs yederday
on 'Change, to the Merchants connected with that
country. Very few letters came to hand yellerday
from the trading cities in Spain, although heretofore
duplicates of all the letters by way of Lilbon came
through that quarter. This circumfianett has induced
the Mercantile Gentlemen who are connected with
our new enemy, to think that the Spanifh Govern-
ment Lave intercepted the letters to this country, in
order to afcertain Englifh property.
Orders. however, have been given to permit Tome
Spanith velfels to fail for the ports of Spain, agreeably
to the licences they had obtained for that purpofe.

A Dutch paper of the 28th ult. lays, that MOREAtt
is fhortly expefted in Holland, but affigns not theleaft
ground for this mon improbable intelligence. It Teems
quite clear that :be rumour is totally unfounded.
On New Year's Day, the Duke of PORTLAND gave
a dinner to upwards of three hundred perfons em.
ployed in the alterations and improvements which are
making upon his eftate at Bularode, together with a
number of the inhabitants. The cloth was laid in
the new buildings. The dinner confined of roan
beef, plumb puddingq, and good old ale.
_ _

The Marquis of HBADFORT has paid the somool.
damages awarded for his crim. con. with Mrs. MASSEY.
'Phis is the dearelt rib bought this Chriftmas. a
Sir GILBERT HRATHCOTE is particularly fond of 1,
bunting, and is now at his feat at Normanton, in
Rutlandthire, enjoying that fport daily, when the wea-
ther
will permit. Sir GILBERT has thirty fix fine
hunting horfes, and three parks of hounds. He al-
ways has five in his fuite, confi fling of two huntfmen,
two whippers-in, and a groom. His chace is fre-
quently joined by feventy or eighty gentlemen of that
country, and the whole groupe are dreffed in fcarlet,
according to the rules of the hunt, which, when the
weather proves favourable, has a grand effee.
Buccarix.—The public feem much divided in their
opinion of the propriety of a late bulletin, refpea-
ing the health of the young Rofcius, but as this teen s 4
the age for Bulletins,we Ihould not be furprifed if the
following melancholy Buletin was (portly to be hung
up at the door of all the Lottery Offices—" Not a
Ticket or Share to be had —all fold."
COVENT GARDEN.—The Iran of the World was laft
night played at this honk to a fathionable and crowd-
ed audience. Mr. Comte perfonated his favourite
chara6ler of Sir Pertinax with his ufual fpirit, difcri.
mination, and effeft, and was extremely applauded. •
The part of Lady Rodolpha Lumbereourt was perform-
ed by Mrs. LITCHFIELD, for the fiat time; the was
very eafy and playful, and fpoke the Scots accent as
well as any of thole who have lately preceded her in
the chamEter.

His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLARENCR, with
fix of his family, occupied the Prince of WALES'S
private box.