Star.
London, England, 1805-06-11 00:00:00

ISLII OF N•lI.

Mr. CREEV EY rule to remind the Houfe, that he
had, form time fence, moved for an Account of tke
Balance in Hand of the Colleaor of Cultoms in the
Ifle of Man, and the rea;ons why the faid Balance,
were not paid into the Treefitry. as by law required.
Ac order was then made, from a return to which it
appeared than a balance had been accumulating in the
hands of the Colkaor-for three or four years pail, the
amount of which, on the 7th of February lA, was
near 20,t001. and the reafon pleader: for dot paying
it in was a letter from the Secretary of the Treatury,
dircaing the Collator to hold over the balance. He
therefore fignifted his intention td move for a Copy
of that Order; with the Name of the gccretary who
figned it.
Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON. imnterNately rok,
and faid, he was glad that be happened accidentally
to be in the Houle when the Hononrable Gentleman
fignified his with ; and as the order alluded to had
beet ailed while he was Secretary to the Treafury, he
to the belt of his prefent recollation, explain
the chow:Rance. In the autumn of 18,)1, thortly
after the previous change of Adminiftration, the No-
ble Duke (of Athol) prefented a memorial to the
Lords of the Treaftity, upon the ground of his claims
cn the Ilk of Man, which memorial had been referred
to the Law Officers of ►he Crown ; that Ihortly, af-
terwards the Noble Duke had called Upon him to re-
ap& that the Wands of his memorial might be ex-
pedited, as much as poftible, through the hands of
thole Oftieeri ; and at the fame time made a requeft,
that an order might be fent to :he Collator of Col--
toms in the Ilk of Man, to .tv.,iJ over tile balances
then in his hands, and which then amounted to no
more than 40001. In compliance witk the requeft of
the Noble Duke, and not apprehending any interfer-
ence with the letter of an Aft of Parliament, which
directed the Collators to pay in their balances, from
time to time, into the Treafury, he did write a letter
to the Colleaor to retain in his hands the balance he
then had, until further orders. He hoped the t : sure
would acquit him of having written that letter with
any wrong intention. It oficii happened, of necellity,
that the Secretary of the Treafury did doe letters on
fereral occafions, without ..vaizing, a regular order for
that purpofe, but he never could have flippoied that
:he Collator would ufe that letter as an authority for
retaining in his hands the iliceetfive balances of four
years, htherwife he would certainly have reprefented
the matter to the Lords of the Treafury, who would
doubtlefs have recalled that order. _

Mr. CURWEN bid, it would be dirally e-ntrary
to all he had known of the Right Honourable Gen.
tlein.tn, to tuppofe for one moment that he could be
voluntarily privy to any finifier tranfeaion. The eir-
camilance, however, was another tlrong proof of the
necetii ty of enquiry into the affairs of that Oland with
the otmoil minutenefs. He concluded by moving,
That the Committee on the Duke of Athol's Peti-
t inn be revived, and that the laid Collator he ordered
to .;tend the fame."—Ordered.—Adjourned.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JUNE
Sr. BAR N A 2Alo.4iGlidaY•

A report was eireul.ted yefterdAy that the Corn
biped Fleets had bees teen on the igth ult. off Ma.
Beira. It was, however, intorrea, and arofe from
the following circumfianee :
Con. tain Bermes, of the Roebuck privateer, arriv-
ed at Pottfmouth, tell in with five fail of die line on
the i;th of May. He was then under cafy fail I
It.:;ues N: W. of Madeira, and the (hips, viz. 4 two-
41:titers, a three decker, and a brig, were fern (leering
Vt. S. W. under all FA Thefe veffels were ken Cue-
r.cfCvely, not in fight of each other ; and in company
only fo far as may be fitppofed from their (leering
Cie fame courfe. Captain BROOKS followed the three-
decker five hours faud was of opinion they were all
toemy's Ships. In eonfequence of this opinion, Capt.
Bemis, as foon as he made the land, forwarded a
elifpatchtoGovernment, from the Start Point, liming
the particulars.

Yeaerday he attended at the Admiralty and gave
wbat infortnatiop he was able refpeaing the (hips he
bad (en. But from all the circumflances it appear-
ed very probable he was in a millake refpeaing the
Nips being enemy's velfels, and the general belief is
thAt they were a part of Lord Isist.sou's fleet which
.11..d;.r0m Cape St. Vincent on the s ttb ult. fol the
And diaance correfpond.

The Weiimoreland privateer, Capt. GOODA , ar-
ived at Liverpool from a cruize, failed from Madeira
two days after the Roebuck, and law nothing of any
fleet ; nor was any feen at Madeira prior to the 16th
May, the day that the Weamortland failed. This,
however, proves ncthing againft the direet tellimony
of Capt. BROOKP, and his fhip's company. The only
circumflance that feems to throw any doubt on there
vcffel, having been a part of Lord Nscores fleet, is
their fuffering the Roebuck to pats without endea-
vouring to obtain information of the combined fleets
at the fame time, this remark may be applied
with the fame force againft their having been ene
my's (hips.

Lettersfrom Lord NELSON exprefshisLordfisip't full
confidence that the intelligencehe has received of the
enemy's definition is fatisfaftory. He firmly expeils
that he (hall be able to overtake them, as they have
more than ont point of rendezvous to touch at before
they reat:h the Welt Indies, which Lord NELSON be-
lieves is their objea. His Lordlhip, notwithltanding
•iis inferiority, (and he has only ten fail of the line,
the Royal Sovereign being left behind) is determined
to give the enemy battle. His Lordlhip will do fo
with his native beroiim. and we have no doubt will
conquer. We.wifh, indeed, and all England joins us,
that Lord NELSON, thongh he might have had only
five or fix !Lips of the line, had fallen in with the Tou.
lon fleet on their way to Cadiz. Lord.NExsou would
not have hefitated to attack them, to maintain at leaf
a running fight• with them. Lord INIELsom would,
probably, have lb mauled a feet of t t fail of the line,
ill manned and equipped, and encumbered with
troops, that they would not have been ahle.to put to
lea again for at leaf three months. Nay, had his
own !hips been grievously injured and difahled, fill
to have defeated, by retarding the expedition of the
Combined Fleets, would have been one of the molt
important fervices that could be performed by a
Naval Commander.

. .
'Though there be many plaulible reafoos to fhew
that
,the EaR Indies or the Brazils may be the ob.
jed or tlte enemy, the balance of information, imper-
fed as it is, and of probability toe, at this moment
feems to be in favour of the opinion that they are
gone to the Welk Indies. Should Lord Nax:son fall
in with AdmirAl CO.CHRATit Coon After his arrival,
and probably he has fent him a rendezvous, he would
be a full match for the enemy. Admiral Cot 1-1-
[UNE, if aware of the enemy's intention, would, if he
were to form a junelion with the other naval force in
the Weil Indies, be able to keep them at hay, and
prevent them executing any enterprize. We fear,
however, that Lord NELSON is too fangaine in his ex-
pe&ation of overtaking the enemy before they arrive
in the Welt Indies. He was a month behind them.

A letter ct lye(' in tGwn yefterday from Batt,
by a refpettable hcufe in the city, Rates, that the
Swift, (a runGing (hip) from the Weft Indies, is ar-
rived there, and brings an account that the Combined
Squadron had arrived off Barbadoes on the 1/3th of
April. This intelligence obtained very little credit
in the city, as it vas fuppofed, that the informant
had been deceived by the arrival of fome other (hips,
and becaufe there was barely time fnflicient,tfince the
failing of the fqu drons, to allow them to have reach.
ed the Welt Indies at the period above mentioned.
We have been favoured With the perufal Gf letters
from an authentic fource, dated off Mara, the ill
inflant, by which we have information that cannot
be queltioned.
The Nice lugger reconnoitered the Charente, on
the 27th ult. and found in Rochefort, one (hip of
three decks, five two deckers, three frigates, two
brigs, and fevetal gun boats.
In Ferrol the enemy have twelve (hips of the line,
betides frigates, which are watched by Sir ROiIFRT
CALDER with fix fhips of the line only.

Admiral COLIANOWOOD parted with the Channel
fleet on the 23d ult. with nine fail of the line and the
Es DYMION frigate. Five other (hips of the line were
to have accompanied this fquadron, but were detain-
ed in confequence of the return of the French (qua-
dron firm the Welt Indict.

Our fleet a Brett h fuperior to the French, not in
numbers, but in force, confifting of twenty-one fhips
of the line, of which no les than eleven art of three
decks, betides frigates. The enemy has the fame
total of the line, but orly three three deckers. Our
(hips are in daily expedation of their coming out. as
they have rbooo troops embaried, and their !hips of
the line appear full of men.

Govenment rilerday morning received difpatches
from Liibon, which are Paid to reprefcnt the Porta-
guefe Cabinet in a very embarraffed fituation refped-
ing certain demands that have been made on the
part of France, the objei of which is the exclution of I
all Engin flips and merchandize from the purls of 1
that country.

By extracts from the Monileur given in the Dutch
papers which we have received to the gth ion. the
Expedition under General Came is reprefented u
having been compelled, in confequence of the united
remonarances of the French and Spanith Mininets
to the Portuguefe Government, to quit the Tagus
within forty-eight hours. The Paws Ratner is
Rated to have ordered the batteries to be prepared,
in cafe the preremptory order he iffued ihould be
refined.

The faa is, that eveiy polible indulgence was ex-
tended by the Tortuous& Goveramtnt to the Englith

forte which took Shelter in the Tagns, and that the
Prince Regent was relueatt I y compelled to announce
to the Commander of the expedition, the hard ntccf-
lity under which he was obliged to alt.

Some private letters have aim been received frem
Holland. The following is an exttaa from one of
them:

" We have for a length of time been perplexed
with reports of peace, to no purpofe ; but if the ac-
counts which daily arrive here from different parts
are to be depended upon, that happy event is not far
dillant. Since the eltablithment of our new Confli-
tution, our Grand Penfionary is almoft in the daily
receipt of difpatches from France, and he (peaks with
the greaten certainty of a negotiation being on the
eve of commencement, but as for its ending in pace, ,
he lays, that will principally depend upon England.
Whild Tome of our merchants were in converfation
with him the other day refpelling the new code of
laws, to prohibit all commerce between this country
and England (now pallid into a decree and officially
announced), he expreffed a fincere hope that there
would net be long any occafion to enforce them, as
the Emperor of Ruffin and his Pruflian Majefty had
taken fame pains to let on foot a negotiation for a
general peace, and were likely to fucceed, with the
conc•rrrence of England. He united their good in-
tentions would not be fruarated by the obflinacy of
that• Power. Should, however, that prove the cafe,
the Emperor of Ruffia has intimated that he will
break off all connexion with the Britilh Cabinet, which
he would be forry to do whilft it aded confifiently. ,
g, It is confirmed to us, in varions ways, that his
Imperial Majelly has (through the interference of
Pruffia) granted pafTports for. M. NOVOSILTZOFF to
proceed to Paris, which he has done ere this. This
circumilance has caufed an unufual fur, and infufed
a more general joy here than .has been felt for tome
time." ,

On the preceding letter we need hardly remark,
that nothing is more eafy than to procure the receipt
of fuch letters from flockjobbing Correfpondents for
flockjobbing purpofes.

By the Gottenburgh mail, which arrived this day,
we have received the following letter:
STOCKHM.M, MAY 27.—The King, Q2een, and
Princtfs Royal, fet off on Saturday for the camp in
Schonen, which is increafed to :B,coo men.

44 Count FUSPN, it is laid, is going immediately
to Vienna.

" The Protlian Legation will leave this capital to.
day or to-morrow."

The limo goes to-morrow to the Bank to view
the new improvements. .
Difpatches have been received at the Admiralty,
from Lord GARDN KR, dated the sth inft.—all well.
Two Meffengers have been fent off from the Se-
cretary of State's Office, for Peterfburgh with dif-
patches of importance.
Yefterday morning, about eleven o'clock, as Ad-
miral MILBANK was leaning over the tfanniUers of his
aireafe, he unfortunately fell down into the veftibule.
A furgeon was ;pliantly fent for, but before he ar-
rived the Admiral had expired. He was in the 84tlt
year of his age.
STAra LOTTERY—Eighth Day.—No. 15,683, a
Prize of eol. being the firft drawn, this morning,
was entitled to 30,0001.
At an early hour yefterday morning his MAJESTY
left Windfor, efcorted by a party of the Royal Horfe
Guards, in his travelling carriage and four, and pro.
cettcled to the village of ledfont, where his nod was
in readi:lefs to receive him. Notwithftanding the
rain, his Mai erre mounted and rode four miles
over ti.e common, to the place whete the troops
were drawn out, where be was joined by their Royal
Highneffes the Dukes of YORK, COMBER LA ND, SUS.
SEX, and CAMBRIDGE, and feveral Noblemen and
Gentlemen. The Regiments confifted only of the
19th Light Dragoons, commanded in the field by
Colonel Maws. and the 14th, commanded in the field
'by Colonel HAWKINS ; the whole under the com-
mand of Major-General Sr. Lerma It, fecond in com-
mend of the dtaria, under his Royal Highnefs the
Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who did not officiate yefterday
in his capacity as Commander in Chief. After the
Royal Salute, the Regiments paired his MAJESTY
three times, ra in ordinary time, fecondly in quick
time (trotting) and lafly in open files. Having taken
-up their original grouol, they proceeded to mancenvre.
The whole line, which was upwards of a mile in
length, there being more than repo horfes in it,
advanced to the 'Attic, and retired in quick time.
They then formed in rear of the right troop of each
regiment, and deployed into line to the left, the lead-
ing troop of horfe in full wallop. The manoeuvre of
changing the front was much admired by the belt
military judges. and was executed with fuch rapidity
as to caufe univerfal admiration. The line now re-
tired to the very extremity of the Common, and
took a pofitinn (the I-Inuntlow Powder Mille in their
rear) fur a charge.. They advanced in the different
Bagel, and came down, within a few paces of his
Marasee, in full gallop; the whole line then halted,
and retired, fronted, marched up in ordinary time,
and (alined his MAJESTY, who foon after difmount-1
edt got into his cartiage, and drove to Windf a- to
dine. His MAJESTY was in the rain for upwards of
two hours, and was wet through. He wore the dreti
of a Field-Officer, as did the Dukes of YORK, Cast-
▪ and -CUMBERLAND. His Royal Highnefs
the 'Duke of Sussex wore the Windfor full drefs
no:form.

The 9th Regiment of Dragoons is quartered in
Hoodlow Heath Barracks, and the town of Hounc•
low; the 14th Dragoons are in cantonments in
Meek% Richmond, Needham, Haruptim Court,
and places adjoining. The ground for this Review
was kept by the Egli= Regiment of Cavalry, and
the Royal Speltbornc Legion. This Review will be
repeated on Friday next, with the addition of feve-
ral regiments, bode and foot, from the Camp GO
litimbledcm COMM.