Star.
London, England, 1802-02-23 00:00:00

110 L L 4 N D.

LEYDEN, Ftc. 14.—1 f the plan h-.. purfued of
felling our EaR India returns before their arrival
home, the holders of AlEgnations (,n the Spring
and Autumn tales (which ale always drawn for
monies previoufly paid into the Company's theft,
at a lofs of 13 to 14, and more, per cent.) will
lofe all their fecurity, and of conkrilicnce great
obflruttions and dicerecrt be occafioned in the
trade to our Afiatic pollen-ions. But it cannot be
expeited that our Government will take fo unjuft
a Rep with regard to individuals we flatter our-
(elves that a provifion will be made for the holders
of there A(ignations in the Loan of thirty millions
recently decreed, and the credit of our Eaftern
commerce remain nndiminifhed.

I !ACV a. FEB. 3 s.—lt is well known that there
is a fort I,f clafhing in the Government of State,
but the caufes which led to it have been hitherto
concealed from the public. There is fo far a divi-
lion among the Members of this Board, that two
pit-ties can be dillinguilhed. The one conceived
that the newly projeCted plan of Contlitution ex-
ttnded to them the power of aging at their plea.
fure : the other, being paffive with regard to this
opinion. refolved to wait for the declaration of the
full, who, hearing that fome emiffaties of the fal-
len party, as well Patriots as Orangifts, had re-
Bpaired to Paris, and were paying their court to
ONAPARTE. undertook to reprefent to that great
Perfonage, the deception, the danger, and the
prejudice, which might be expeCted from a per-
feverance in Inch a line of condud. BON•PARTE
wrote to the Government of State on this fubjea;
the above party then propofed either to call in, or
to cleft a Supreme Head, by which means the
afcendan:y of the French would be curbed, and a
greater (hare of independency obtained. This not
on:y met with oppofition, but gave birth to atual
differences. Pr MAN declaimed manfully ; but his
opponents urged, that as he had a (hare in danc-
ing the puppets with ANGERIAu and SRMoNVILLe,
it was but fair they fhould have their turn. He
underwent reproaches, and was fligmatifed as hay.
ing made ufe of artifice to throw them, his oppo-
nents, into the ()lade. SPOORS, another celebrated
Member of the Government of State, Lffered him-
felf as Mediator, and a Secret Committee was ap-
pointed to reconcile thefe differences ; hut, as yet,
nothing has been effected. This is attributed to dif-
contents which are finothering in Azdterdam, and
which are confidered of fo ferious a nature that
the military arm is judged neceffary there ; the
Provifional City Governments kern afraid to a 8;
the interference of the Government of State has
been viewed as indifpenfible ; and orders are ac-
cordingly iLfued for calling in the aid, not only of
the Military and the Armed Burghers in the city,
but alfo that of the troops quartered in the neigh-
bouring places. The exilling difcontentsitreafcrib-
ed. and not without reafon, in the firß place, to
the plan lately publifhed, of a Voluntary Loan,
by way of Lottery, which is regarded as tending
to the intereft of the monied men, and to the pre-
judice of the lefs affluent, fince it is pretty certain
that the whole furn thus t squired will not be furniffl-
ed, and that the inferior claffes will be obliged, by
way of don posit, to contribute the reficfne ; fo
that the firft, by their intereff, will acquire the va-
lue of their advances, and the latter nothing. The
other exifting grievance is, the monopoly, lately
fanaioned with refpea to coffee ; and a report
that the tea, to the amount of 15 millions of flo-
rins, now lying alfo in the Company's Warehoufes
abroad, is alfo to be difpored of in the fame arbi-
trary manner.

PARLIAMENTART PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 2s.

The rebus Rills before the Houfe, which, in genera],
Rood for commitment, were forwarded in their refpedtive

*ages.
One private Bill was bromght up from the Commons by Mr.
Dickenfon, which was read a firit time, and force private bufi-
ads difpofed of.