Star.
London, England, 1801-03-20 00:00:00

MARCH 16.

The fleet which f:Likd from Coil. the zsd Jer.
was on th:. i zth Feb. in lat. 20. long. 2 1.
The A6tive, HORNSY, from hence (or Well fr.
dies, left Studwell's road the 4th i:Ut. w.tl, a 1-4;r
wind.

The EMFRALD and CCRAFPT'S frigates, failed
from Co; k for the Well ladies ra the 8111
with 6 Eul under convoy.
A rrivcd-I....c.lNcifon, Sanderfoh from !lima at Simi... I;
Fanny, Irvin, fmm Afnea at Ditto ; John, Par, fi om : •
for London, of Exmouth; Sally, Murphy ; Bora
Betty, Cile4; and Prinni of id'ales, Chadian; and Mar};•:.:
and Jane, Brown, from hence at Dublin; Slir,•;twa,
and itacelifoh I.ee from hence at Cork; Cali or, M•Nliihut,
from hence at Cork, in 48 hours, and joined the Welt India
convoy.

A Cabinet Council was yzderday held at Mr.
ADDINGTON'S Honk, in Downing-tireet, at which
were prefent the Duke af PORTLAND, Earls WEST-
MORELAND and ST. VINCENT, the LORD Oi4ANC IL.
LOR, and Lords HAWKSSBIIRY and HOBART.
Boards of Treafary full continue to be held
daily, in order to get through all the bufineA of
the Old Adminiaration, not yet csmplctcd. Mr.
DUNDAS is alio Rill occupied in his oflice, finifhing
what remained unfettled. This is the rcafon of
his not having yet formally reigned.
Lord Fliwit Emmy has adopted a different
mode of communicating with M. Orro, than that
which was praailed by his predeceffor. Mead
of employing Mr. HAMMOND to write his notes,
Lord HAWK ESBURY wrote a letter in his own hand
to M. Orro, acquainting him of the furpenfion of
the previous order for capturing• French tithing
veirels. M. OTTO has mentioned this attention to
his Court, and has declared his perfonal gratifizaa
tion at this inflance of civility.

Yetierday a Court of Proprietors was held at
the Bank, for the purpofe of declaring the Half-
yearly Dividend.
That being done, Mr. Tit:mares addreffed the
Meeting, by obferving that there remained the
futn of 582,0001. Navy 5 per cent. Stock, which
had been funded in the hands of the Bank, which
it was the intention of the Direelors, if agreeable
to the Proprietors, to divide with the Halt-yearly
Dividend on the Ift of May next ; this was tmani-
moully agreed to. The divifion will amount to
51. or 5 per cent. Stock en every hundred pounds
Bank Stock.

A defultory converfation enfued on the motion
of Mr. HESSELTINE, that the Bank fhould pro-
duce the Statement of their Accounts, whenever
called upon. He Paid he had the opinion of Mr.
MANSFIELD of its being the right of every Proprie-
tor todemandthe prodation ()fatly paper he might
call for. This motion was generally oppofed. Mr.
Ptacr, Counfel for the Bank, Rated, that it was
only a Court of Proprietors who could demand
papers. Mr. HESSELTIN a's motion was rejeaccl,
and the Court broke up.
A letter received from an Officer of the in-
fhore fquadron, off Breit, dated the 13th inaant,
at noon, Rates, that there were feven fail of the
line, befides frigates, cruifing to watch the mo-
tions of the French fleet. On the t ath the guard.
boat fell in with and captured a Spanifh boat be.
longing to a frigate of that nation in Brea. They
informed our people that there were now quite rea-
dylfor fea, in Brea, for a fecret expedition, on a
plan of efcape fimilar to GANTHEAUSIS'S, fevee
fail of the line and four frigates and corvettes;
they were alfo to take in troops, and try to get out
the fira N. E. wind. In confequence of this im-
portant intelligence, a very arid look-out is order.
ed to be kept throughout the whole of the Britifh
fquadron.
The arrival of the !aft Hamburgh Mails has
brought over a very large Order for the Purchafe
of Englifh Lottery Tickets, from all parts of the
Continent ; for whatever may be the general po-
licy of Foreigners, they feel it their particular
intereft to look up to the long.tried faith of this
Country, as the heft fccurity for their invellments
either in Funds, or Lottery Tickets: this, with
the great influx of Irifh Gentry at prefent in the
Metropolis (who, by the bye, will have no Lottery
of their own in future), mull confiderably increafe
the demand, and of courfe. the price of Tickets.
CAL/TIMIS S►ECVLATION.•--Thofe Rho never
fpeculate but on the greateft probable ground of
fuccefs, are now induced to come forward in the
pureiafe of Lottery Tickets. They argue thus :
—lf Tickets were worth 171. los. on the com-
mencement of the drawing, when there were but
feventeen large prizes in favour of the purchafer—
what mutt they be worth now when there are four-
teen large Prizrt Rill left, (with a Thirty Thoufand
frorndrr at their head), and with little more than
about three weeks drawing in the wheel ? Why—
That Tickets are worth, at lealt, one ti ird more
than their prefent nominal value, and that by fol-
lowing this plain example of the Rule of ?Ira,
they have- difcovered the rule of right.

»ir•.n.

At Pi Alin, on the 4th inftant, after a Mort illncfa, nntverfan,
rtgre.ted, John lioward Kyan,ot thc County of Wickiow, Efq.
on whore caatc thc immcnkly Copper hlinco of
pallynturtare.

MARILIETs.
On the t ;eh ilia. at Liverpool, 1,4 r. 'thronas Roehefter, of
London, fhip owner, to NUN M..r,',l),tkenfon, of Sundertand.

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