Star.
London, England, 1804-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4.
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE ITCLOCII s
Coofois for looney OH —Ditto for ea. se+
Olds pa CAW. MI.
MARC. 31.
31 pw Cad. Get. Deb. 64—s per C. Gov. Deb. poi.
Greed Canal 6 pa Cent. VS.
Isckange, Dublin ern Leaden i6l.

Yeßerday difpatches were received at the Admi-
ralty from Lord blusom. A report bas been fence
very current in the bell informed circles, that the
French fleet have made their efcape from Toulon,
and that his Lordfkip's ditpatches contained an ac-
count of this event. We do not think the report
improbable, u we know, from unquellionable autho-
rity, that the Toulon Fleet was ready for fee
Come time ago, and only waiting for a favour.
able moment to elude the vigilance of our gallant
Commander in the Mediterranean. If they have
aelually failed, Sicily, no doubt, is their declination,
as the only thing which has hitherto prevented the
French troops from entering Naples, has been an ap-
prehenfion, that if they did fo, the Britifb would im-
mediately take poffetlion of that ifland. If the French
fhould be able to land there a few thoufand troops,
they would find themfelves under no reftraint, and
would relpat the neutrality of Naples as little as they
have lately done that of Germany.

If the arrell, trial, and condemnation of the Duke

d'Eacetaw, by the orders of the Tyrant who now
rules in France, has pot/need the fame Ilona indig-
nation in other independent States, which it has done
here, the Flair Cossui. will have no reafon ulti-
mately to rejoice in the fuccef. of his diabolical ma
china' inn. Such an outrage again( the general laws
of civilized Europe, midi excite the irdignation of
. every Sovereign; nor can their fi,lijed. fed indifferent
to the quellion : If flee men are, with impunity, to
be carried away by force from their habitations, and
from the country which gives them proteaion, and to
the laws of which they are fubjell, there is an end
to all cider, to all fafety, to every thing worth con-
tending f.r among civilized men.
The Duke d'ENontels, who is the PrinceGurures,
of whom the AfvoUnor talks, had refided at or near
the iIiACC where he was arreßed for f.me time pan,
on a property which he received from the Cardinal
de KONA , Prince Bifhop of Stranuirgli, and part of
whole sciritutics lay on the German fide of the Rhine.
The Duke d'Escat.s, therefore, does not labour
I under the furiicion 4:C haring been engaged in pl

from his being found fix near the French territories.
'A
Prince of the Blood Royal of Frauce has thus been
kidnapped from his adopted country, carried back
to hit pative country, and there doomed to die.--by
a man who was not born a Frisch fu►je&, and yet
has the infnlcnce to treat the defeendants of Henry
IV. as aliens, when the, an to be tobbed of their
inheritance ; and fubjelts, when they are to be mar.
dered. Such are the vkifGtudes of human affairs.
The Duke d'ENoasaii is. we are afraid we mutt
fay wai, the moll accomplithed of the French Princes.
He fought in his grandfather's corps during the war,
and greatly difiinguifised himfeif. It was natural,
indeed, that the Fu asr Cowsur. Mould be alarmed at
his neighbourhood.
The letters from Strafbargh, in the Paris Journals,
take it for granted that application was made to the
Esecroa of ISADIN. for his pertnifrion to enter kit
'territories. We doubt this very much. If any ap.
plication had been made to the Exscroa of BLOM
at leaft be ought to have been at liberty to fend the
accufed out of his territory. He had no right to de.
liver up the Duke d'Eroui as to the French Govern.
mcnt, both becanfe the Duke was refiding on his own
property, which by the plan of indemnities, it teems,
had been annexed to the State of Baden, confequently
entitled to proteSion, and becanfe the laws of hof.
pitality are more tiered than the decrees of Confuls
or Kings. The Duke d'Esomilia was not a felon and
a criminal whom the laws of all eivilieed focieties
deliver up to a common juftice. If the MAIMRAVII
of Bass yielded to the fuggeftions of Bo AAAAA ra
on this occafion, he is afoul murderer. What though
ufurped greatnefs had folicited him as King JOHN did

I WI tiwe what, my Friend,
He lo a very finest in my way.
And wberefoe'er tai, foot of mine ddb tread,
He Sea before me. Daft than anderttand roe
Thew art di; dopy%
Yes, the Margrave of BADSM was hit keeper and pro-
tator too; and by every facred tie of duty—by every
feeling of dignity and honour, he was bound to Ihut the
door again ft the affatE nt ; or unable to defend the
he Ihould have warned him to fly. He timid have
Ihrun k at once from the partnerthipof a crime in which
he was to flare the infamy without the profit. 'Tis
true that the Margrave of Banta owes his Eleaoral
crown to BONA PASTE, but be was not to thew his gra-
titude by confenting to this bloody deed. It i► impoP
fable he Mould fo far forget the honour of a Prince,
the humanity of a man, and the indefeafible rights of
misfortune. It is impotable. The German Empire
mull have been invaded by open force; and, when
the thing was done, an infolent nodes of the fait was
probably the only acknowledgment of the Eleaor's
fovereignty. After this, we Amid not be furprifed
that the Flair Couto z thould fend a regiment of
dragoons to feize Mr. Setacza SMITH at Stutgard,
and carry him to Paris to be hanged as a fpy. Some
thing like it has been threatened. The Doke d'Es-
-0111111 never was a fubjea of Bo ; and no
majority of the French could, by any ntetaphyfical or
legal &lion, render him smenable to the Confulate.
If he was praaifing againft Bo AAAAA Tit it was natu-
ral that the latter fhould demand his removal from
a neutral territory front which an attack was medi-
tated, but he could have no right to break every
facred obligation of public law, in order to obtain
potTelGon of the perfon of his rival. Boraraars has
levelled himfelf to the rank to which he degrades
Gammas. He is a low, bale kidnapper.
The performance of fo vile an aa, is a proof of
defperation. The nest' Cortut Teems to have loft
all the qualities which at hat dazzled the vulgar
with the taudry fplendour of generofity. He is poi.
fried like Seim., by an evil fpirit, and Teems wholly
defected by his better genius. Should the Duke
d'Eso HISII be murdered in purfuance of the fentence
patied on him, the people of France, weary of the
prefent reftlefs and precarious Rate, will naturally
be turned more thong!), to the caufe of Royalty,
from pity of the Royal Youth, his amiable qualities,
and the truly tragic fpeaacle of " chance and change
in human life" exhibited in his melancholy fate. By
his blood the fentiment of loyalty will be revived and
firengthened.

That any of the powers of Europe will inllantly
thew any public or fpirited refentment of tke outrage
committed on the independence of all nations we
doubt. The effect, however, will not be 1011. Wrath
will be laid up againfl the day of wrath; aod, in the
mean time, Bo AAAAA vs, though for the moment he
may Teem more fecure by fuck deeds as this, will
find, that he is but entering on the path of blond, in
which to retreat, and to advance, equally leads to
dellrudion.

Yefterday morning his MAJESTY rode in the
%toss's Riding Houle.
Yeßerday, about one o'clock,the Loop Cniiacst..
snit had in audience of his Marirry. Soon after
one o'clock her MayslTT, and the Princeffes ELIZA.
IF TI4, MART. Sorties. and Ammo*. attended by
Ladies C and SEDAN r, took an airing nn the
Croydon Road The Dukes of Ksor and Cast.
SE IDG I dined with her MAJESTY.

Yellenlay, at half pall elaven o'clock. Si- LUCAS
Parts had an interview with Mr. Auatara tom, atter
attending hi% Melssrv.

The At. ratetar are expelled to remove to
Kew in the cour:c of a week.

Yellerday the SWIDISII A•ipAssatai bad au midi
ence of L'rd Flaw uuvar.