Star.
London, England, 1823-02-06 00:00:00

pr, TO THE COUNTRY BOOKSELLERS.
MITCHELL'S HISTORICAL CYCLOP.EDI A hav-
ing been published and delivered, to the London. Whol..
sale Trade on Friday last, January 31, it is considered proper
to apprise the Bookselling Trade throughout the United King_
dons of this fact, in order that misapprehensions may be guarded
against, owing to the Publication having been unavoidably de-
ferred from the 31st of December to the 31st of January.
The following are the characteristics of this Volume, and of
the Series:
1. It is by itself a complete library Or hook of reference on
History, Chemrsiogy, and HietoricalEiographx. - - • • ....
2. There is no Dictionary of the same interesting suliectsli
the language.'
3. It is one of the most beautiful specimens of modetr. typo.
graphy, and equally tasteful in a 1 its embellishments of Maps
and Portrait'.
4. It contains nearly as much letter-press as an 800. volume
at 255.
5. The next Volume will comprise Chemistry, Mineralogy,
and Geology, and be equally complete and elegant.
6. Ten other Volumes will contain other separate branches of
knowledge • the twelve forming.together a Circle nf;he Scietines
either volume of which will be as complete by itself as though, ie
formed no part of any series.
7. Such Cyclopmd la will obviously he the mcot luminous, coin-
' plete, and convenient ever published in our language.
8. The price of every Volume is only tOb. 6d. boards, or
12s. 6d. elegantly bound, calf gilt; and as the latter will be beg
uniform, its preference is recommended.
9. the whole is stereotyped, and the plates being on steer, tk,
last of 50,000 impressions will be ss perfect as the Srst.
N. B. The volume of Scripture Narratives, with 120 Rages,-
ings ; the long expected work of Public Characters of all Nations,
in three volts with 156 Portraits, etched on copper, will be in
course of delivery within the present week; and Dr. Robinson's
Abridgment of Hume and Sntollett, with his Continuation, and
100 Engravings, will be teady at the end of February.
Bridge.street, Feb, X, 1823. .

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- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 189.3.
STOCK EXCHANGF., HALF-PAST TW ETAT_
Consols opened this morning at 761 1, went down to 751
at which price they remain up to the present hour. No business
of magnitude has been done this morning.
An Express from Paris this morning brings the French Funds
of Tuesday at 801. 400.
• FOREIGN FUNDS. ,
Very little has been done in the Market this morning. Spa-
nish Bonds opened at 381, went down to 55i, and rose again.
Current Prices :—CLilian 681, New Spanish 3Si, OW 42, Near
Prussian 75, Old 80, Russian 75, Danish 80, Neapolitan nothing
done, Peruviaq nothing done. Colombian 466 Spanish Scrip 47'
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
flank Stock 2391,4-3 per Cent. Reduced 76% 34...
3 per Cent. Consols 761/4 75% 76 75 th
31/2 per Cents. 88%
4. per Cents. Old 95 94% /8 l/2
4 per Cent. New 951 —Bank Long Amts. 20
India Stock 2391 Q—Bonds 335. 365.
Exchequer Bill* of 1:1,000, 14% 16s.
Consols for Acct. 7614 75% 76.753/4.

- Every day now brings a variety of rumours, and
some of them are so absurd that we wonder they
should for a moment be credited. Among other te.
ports that were in circulation last evening was one
that press warrants had been issued, as if the British
Navy could not be fully manned without resorting
to so odious a measure, at a time when so many
thousand British Tars are longing to, be employed oa
their native element.

The following is an extract of a letter- from a Met•
chant of Portsmouth to a respectable House in the
City, received this morning :

A PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY S.

" Orders have been received at this Dockyard to
prepare seven sail of the line for commission, and is
complete the full complements of the crews of the
guardships. The magazines are putting in proptr
order, and shipwrights are employed stopping up the
air holes of the VICTottY, arc: made while laying
in ordinary to check the dry rot.
" The complexion is ce,rtainly warlike, but it ij
evidently attempted to put the face of peace upon it
as long as possible ; for certain it if, that such lITIC
paratidns as these would alwatifria,w a declaratioa.
of war. This disguise cannot continue long, andiii
the meantime you must use your own discretion."

A private letter from Paris, dated Tuesday after.'
noon, states that the'French Funds had fallen three
per cent. in consequence of a proposition having bees
made to the Chamber of Peers by the Minister, of
pacific tenonr,. which was rejected.

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The French Papers of Monday state that "Pigi
Hilt," as one of our cotempOraries has aptly enotigli
named the Duke of Awooutame, will not set outlet
the Army until the Ist of March; and that all the
troops will not be in line before the 15th. This as*
will afford an opportunity for our Government ye
continue its mediation, and enable the Spaniards ID
make the preparations necessary for their defence.-r
The Speech of our SOVEREIGN and the proctediftp
in Parliament must inspire Spain with great cool-
dence, and we trust that the whole will be trandead
into Spanish, and widely circulated throughoptal
Peninsula. In France, too, the decisive woe of*
British Nation must create a powerful sensation
the minds of all who are not blindly infatuate°,
treacherous to Lours XVIII. whose only chattte4
keeping the Throne,e,en fora few years morel!' hi!
family, rests on his avoiding War:.'
The accounts from Madrid; which are in the *,h
Papers, bring the answer of FittmtiAnn t0,;414414.
dress of the Cottes, to-which we referentr ,Readhea—
If it May be saidi that can be plate
the declaration of a Prt9ce,Wlio has morethah
deceived-his people, the
to the Holy 'Allies,' who h now threstitittersiotatriti
Constitution they had sanctioned by
This-Answer, and ;he onlyother sirtickr
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gcnce in the trench ritliep T.,AziOtappupg.i,
tOlUidriniepteeedieg-eitlowishi • •fi zozlll.- t JOl6B
The following, account of the reCrintie)iiiltigitt