Star.
London, England, 1802-03-08 00:00:00

MOM THE PARIS PAPERS.

RATIIIION, Fla. 16.—We now know poll tively
that the conferences relative to the Indemnities
will take place in this city. We expe& every day
M. de HUGEL, Imperial Co-Commitrary, and M.
le Count de Got LT Z, AMballidol from the Elec-
tor of BRAN DF BURG. The Emperor has ap.
pointed M. SCH MAUL, Counfellor of the Empire,
Sub. Delegate for Bohemia.
Amongfl the number of conjetinres which arife
upon this fubjed, there is one which is generally
agreed in,that the King of PaustlA will exchange
tin Principalities of Aufpacb and Bareutb.

Mita', Fes. tB.-.Our new Government has
commenced its operations. The Legiflative Coun-
cil, which yet wants feveral Members, has divided
itfelf into as many Seaions as there are Minifters.
Butte, Fes. 17.—The definitive plan of In.
demnities has arrived, as was expeaed, in the
courfe of this month. It was brought by a French
courier, who arrived here two days ago. General
BZURVONTILLT, immediately upon receiving it,
waited upon Count HAUGWITZ, our MOLT of
Foreign Affairs„to whom be communicated it.
The King was alfo informed of it the fame day.
That projet will be very advantageous for Pruffia
and her Allies.

GLARIS, Fes. tB.—The prefent is a moment
of anxiety, and of une concern for die real friends
of their country. In a Canton, which for four
ages has fo much diiiinguifhed itfelf by its manner
of thinking and aging, continual alarms are excit-
ed, which difirefs the people, and prepare their
minds to expeft the moll fatal confequences. Not
only the Conftitutional Authorities are difobeyed,
but even the Cantonal FunBionaries are intuited ;
on which occafion, the people take the opportuni-
ty of (hewing their hatred to them. Already re-
alion is talked of, and an indemnification to thofe
people, who in the beginning of the Revolution
were confifcated at 13afle and in favour of whom
it is tuppoted the Cantonal Treafury has been a
third time pillaged.

BASLE, Fes. s3.—Letters from Zurich give'a
fatisfaaory account of the interior fituation of that
Canton. When Toicia„ BLit/Lilt, WUNKM•IIN,
and BILLSTAL returned, the agitation of the pub-
lic mind was very great, and an explofion was
feared. They, however, went round to the dif-
ferent Communes, and reprefented that any armed
refinance to the order of Government could have
no falutary effea, and they intimated at the fame
time, that the 7 had found the Chief Landamman,
the French Miniffer, and many Members of the
Senate, to entertain the molt favourable fentiments
towards the people, whore grievances there was
every reafon to believe would be remedied. Thefe
efforts had the defired effeet ; tranquillity was re-
aored, and the payment of the 'faxca was no
longer refined.

ROLLAND. •

HAGUE, MARCH t.—The inftallation of the
High National Tribunal, of which J. A. RE ov ENS
is Prefident, and of the National Syndicate, being
by a refolution of the Government of State fixed
for to-day, a magnificent proceffion accordingly
took place to the Treves Chamber, where, with
clofed doors, the ceremony of the firft was per-
formed. The latter was inftalled at twelve
o'clock, in an apartment of the Government of
State.

Our Minifter at the Congrefs of Amiens has
made the molt preffing reprefentations to the
French Ambaffador, for the re-!hutting of the
Scheldt, in order to fuflain the declining com-
merce of this country; or if this should be found
impoffible that then, for preventing its total ruin,
it might be made a law, that the trading towns of
Brabant and Flanders be rendered fubjeft to an
impoli of three-fourths on the tranfits conveyance
of their merchandife, and thole of this Republic
to one-fourth ; offering, at the fame time, to
place Middleburgh on a footing with Dunkirk,
and thus one-fourth higher; by this means, he
propofed throwing obflacles in the way of the
Englith merchants in Brabant, and to deprive
them there of advantages which might be found
here, and thus to procure the French confiderable
gain to the prejudice of the Engin)). Our
Mimi-
tier has alto propofed in the Congrefs the abroga-
tion of the famous, and to us fatal, Aft of Navi-
gation palled by Cromwell ; an Alt which gave a
mortal ftab to the commerce of this country and
at the conclufion of the peace to form an entire
new Commercial Treaty with Great Britain.—
Theft two points, in the prefent pofture of our af-
fairs, are of the higheft importance to the well-
being of this Republic. France, without being
too liberal or too grateful, may fafely accord the
one, and England the other; for it would be dif
ficult to fay by whom we have Coffered moll—our '
friends or our foes; and, among all the indemni.
fications talked of, we hear of nothing that is to
come to our (hare. How far Citizen Sol isms'.
has fucceeded, or how far he will fucceed
time muft determine ; for as yet we are ignorant
of our deftination and our fate.

We hear nothing as yet of the Report to be
brought out by the Committee of the Government
of State, for a folid union of parties. New
difficulties, and new uncertainties have probably

arifen. But we have lefs than other nations to
exped from unanimity within, time our profperity
and even our very exifience depends on Foreign
Powers. By unanimity, indeed, we might, in
procefs of time, replenith our exhaufled finances,
repair and replace our 'battered and ruined navy,
give new life to our conimerce, revive our droop-
ing manufadories, and thus at length be enabled
to alien our independence, and to re-aflame our
rank among nations.
A Briti(h Senator, fince his late defence of the
liberties of the prefs, is become the fubjed of
negyric among our political writers: they profel
thcmfelves glad to obferve, that the liberty of the
prefs is maintained as well in England as here ;
and to (hew that this •liberty is extending itfelf,
the following extra ft has been given from a
work, called a Illumination," which has been
five times re-printed at Berlin, without the fmall.
cd notice or interruption on the part of the Go-
vernment.

" Goo (lays the Author) gave Sovereigns no
right to convert the inhabitants of their States to
blockheads, or to render their fubjeds ; none
for tinting commands to which convidion mutt fa-
crifice its better reafon; none to fay to ration ' and
candid men—be diffemblers be villains !"

Whatever our writers may, however, alTert •or
imagine, we are lirangers as yet, with all our new
importations, to an AR of Habeas Corpus and a
trial by jury.

ROTTERDAM, MARCH Z.—There has been a
great run lately on the banking houfes, in confe-
quence of the avidity which men of property
have fhewn to fubfcribe to the late loan, the whole
of which is now finilled. There begins to be a
fir in the trade of this city, which, it is fuppored,
will lofe much lets by the approaching Peace than
Amferdam, moft of the bufinefs of which will be
gradually transferred to Antwerp and other places,
should the Scheldt be Coffered to remain open.