Star.
London, England, 1809-04-06 00:00:00

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THE EVEVING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, APRIL S.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Coosa", for nionoy, —Ditto April 67H—Omatum 44 pr.
Exchequer Bills, 6a.71. prem.
TRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
S per Cent. Cons. 6744 South Sea Stock 72f
4 per Cent. shut Imp. s per,,Cents. 660
S per Cent. Navy 9811 Excheq. Bills, 6s. I. pr.
Long Ann. shut Lottery Tickets 221.45.
Indus Bonds, los. 121. pre. Consols, for ace. 67111

It was yesterday stated with confidence in the Of-

ices of Government, that accounts had been received
from Rotterdam mentioning the receipt there of No-
rite:ars to the 28th ult. announcing hostilities to have
commenced in the Tyrol on the 17th ult.
Notwithstanding the high authority •on which this
report has been circulated, we still doubt its authen-
ticity ; and we are borne out in our scepticism by
Rotterdam papers to the 4th instant, which we received
this morning.
These papers say nothing about actual hostilities
between France and Austria. They contain various
articles which shew what has for some time been
manifest, that a hostile mind exists between these
towers—or rather that the wolf perseveres in charging
the lamb with having disturbed the purity of the
stream ; but they still speak of an approaching Con-
gress to be held on the banks of the Inn, for the pur-
pose of accommodating all differences, at which both
NAPOLEON and FRANCIS are expected to be present.
That some scheme of this kind may have currency
given to it by French procurement, will not excite
wonder in the mind of any who have watched the
progress of French intrigue. To the moment when
NAPOLEON is ready to strike his enemy, he always
talks of forbearance, conciliation, and the happiness
of nations. But these professions can impose upon
none but fools brought up in German Courts.
It seems true, as was stated by former accounts, that
Count STADION, the Austrian Ambassador, has quit-
ted the Bavarian Court to proceed to Vienna ; but
another fact is now mentioned—the other persons be-
longing to the Austrian Embassy still remain at
Munich.
But though we cannot believe that the French and
Austrian armies have yet had a battle, and though
the relations of amity between the Courts of Vienna
and Bavaria have not been suspended, we do not con-
sider war between the two Emperors as less certain.
—lt is long since we exposed the views of NAPOLEON
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• in respect to the Austrian power ; and every event
that has since occurred has tended to confirm,what the
Imperial French Edit( r then affected to deny. The
opposition his armies have met with in Spain, has only
tended to postpone, not to avert the execution of the
project NAPOLEON has formed, not to leave any one of
the old dynasties of the Continent unsubverted. This
measure of extilpa tion has been pursued, is and will
be pursued till he shall have rendered the BONAPARTE
dynasty the oldest
..on the Cmntinent of Europe, and silenced
for ever the taunts of those who have nothing to boast
but ancestry.
NAPOLEON was to assemble the Senate on the Ist
instant, end the general expectation was, that some-
thing would then transpire respecting the war with
Austria.

DUPONT, who with his army surrendered to the
Patriots in Andalusia, having been tried by a Court-
Martial, was sentenced to suffer death. The sen-
tence was executed by torch-light.
• An article in the Madrid Court Gazette, of the 18th
ult. states, that Marshal Souis had entirely defeated
the Marquis of ROMANA on the 7th, on the frontiers
of Portugal, and that 5000 prisoners were taken by
the French. The official details are promised in a
subsequent Madrid Gazette.

PARIS, MARCH 5:8.

The day before yesterday Baron Strogonoff, Rus-
sian Ambassador to the Court of Spain, and Prince
Wolhenshi, Adjutant-General of his Russian Majosty,
were presented to the Emperor by Prince Kurakin.

Letters from Vienna advise that Count Walmoden
has been sent to the Russian head-quarters in Jassy,
t enquire into the reasons of the movements cf the
Russian troops on the Austrian frontiers.
The staff of the late Spanish garrison of Saragossa,
consisting of five Generals, and seven to eight Adju-
tant-Generals, arrived in Bayonne on the 15th inst.

PARIS, MARCH 29.
His Excellency Marshal Bessieres, Duke of Istria,
arrived here on the 26th.

We are assured that the General of Brigade Mont-
brun, who is now at Strasburgh, has been made a
General of Division, and will command the light
cavalry attached to the Duke of Auerstadt's division.
The galliot Jean'Bart has arrived at Marseilles from
Guadaloupe, with a cargo of coffee, sugar, indigo,
and cotton.

Count Fuentes died at Saragossa Ifter a lingering
illness, brought on while he was confined in a dun-
geon by the insurgents, during the siege of that place.
General Thiebaulthas been appointed Governor
of Old Castile. The division of General Morlot is
occupied with the siege of Fort Jaca : the General
himself died suddenly of a burning fever, at Bayonne,
on the 22d, and was buried on the 23d with military
honours.

Great numbcrs of English pr isoners continue to

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