Star.
London, England, 1802-06-15 00:00:00

411i1ERICA.

On the :7th of April the following Mefrage from
the Prtlidei:t of the United States, was delivered
it; the two Hanle& tsf Congrefs :
" C. •': tt;t lthe Smite wed ofie Neale sr Reprefixtafives.
" Commifforters who ware appointed to carry Into ez-
tenth., Cie 6th area.: of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce.
a lid tit'.vi,7..rion.b.tween the United States and Great Britain,
differed in their ennitrudian of that article, and fcea-
ratcd iu confequence of that difference, the Prefident of the
States took immediate measures for obtaining Conven-
caplanat:ons of that article for die government of the
Cummilloriers ; finding, however, great difficulties oppofed to
a fettltwvin in that way. he authorized our Minifler at the
Court of to meet a propofition thlt the United States.
by the pays ant of a fixed furs, Ihould difcharge thernfelves from
their ref priAbility for flab .debts as cannot be recovered from
the individual de,ltors. A Convention has accordingly been
ii:oed,fizing the fum to be paid at Soopcol. Raring, in three
cereal and annual inaahneuts, which has been ratified by me,
sei:h the advice and content of the Senate.

•' I now tmnfmit copies thereof to the two Honks of Con-
rrcfs.indling that In thi. free exercife of the authority which
Use Conftltution hail:lv= them on the fubjret of public expen-
ditures, they will deem it for the public intereft to appropriate
the Awn neccirary for carrying this Convention Into exeentlon.

" TH•JtIFERSON."
In confequence of the above Meffage (lays a let-
ter from W4hington) a Bill has paired the Con-
grefs for appropriating 2,6' 4,000 dollars, for the
purpofc of carrying tnto efica the Convention.—
This till met with no oppofition' the Conflitu-
t;onalifis voting ill favour of it from a principle
nfjultice • and the Minifterialiffs (or Wrginians)
agreeing :hereto, becaufe it was providing for the
payment (alma exclufively) of their own debts."
SAM vaL CAaor, Efq. has been recently Wiriest-
ed by the Prefident of the United Sates to repair
en London for the purpofe of fettling bufinefs with
the Board ofCommillioners ailing there under the
7th article of the Britifit Treaty.
A petition to Congrefs from THOMAS Came,
convicted of fedition, praying for a remit ion of his
1:.1e, was, on the motion of Mr. Gores, pollponed
t:1 November.

Congrctl, doled its feaion on the 4tlt of May, and
aJi.lurricci to the firtt MondAy in December

In feveral eleCtions, particularly at Bolton, the
Federal intereft has prevailed.
In N:atfachufets the Governor, Lieutenant Go-
vernor, ar.l a majority of Senators on the Federal
life, hive been chcfen by a great majority.
ft appears, that in the event of the French Beet
coming to Am.:: ica, it was the intention of Pi c ox
the Cl..oge d'Affaires, to requeft a loan from the
American Government!! We copy the follow.
ins; ex planation from a Philadelphia paper called
the Aurora

It is true that the French Charge d'Affaires
had the intention to apply to our Government for
nflittance, though he did not make the application;
Inn many confidential converfatiobls took place on
the fub.jeB. That difpofition in the French Charge
d'Affaires was produced by the informa;ion of&
cially received by him, that a large portion of the
St. Domingo fleet would put into our ports, and the
utter inability of the French Minilter to provide
for it by his bills on France.
" It being underflood that the Executive was
incompetent to And relief under any %lupe with.
out the interfet ence of Con.gi eft, M. Pic Hos wait-
ed on feveral Members et both Houfes to know
their fentiments on the fulsjee. Gentlemen of
different opinions in politics evinced a difpofitkon
favourable to the application, under the conviaion
of propriety and necellity—while others alto of op.
polite fides appeared averfe to it."
Letter: from Havannah, April is, fkate, that no
Americans are permitted to enter. Flotu 35 to
an doll-trs a barrel.
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A letter from 13ofion, dated May 11, lays—
“ Late acconnts ft :sin Cape Francois (peak very
unfavourably of the tituation of the French troops
in that colony. Seven engagements are (aid to
have been fought from the tit to the t sth April,
in all which the French were confiderable fuffer-
ers. Provilious are raid to be cheap and plentiful."
A letter from Cape Francois,dated April 4,fays,
6' The Americans here are mach alarmed, in con-
fequence of the conduit of the French towards
them lately. The Commander in Chief has or-
dered our Conful, Mr. Tomas LEAR, no longer to
execute the function of Conful in this Colony.—
Captain JOHN Roo E RS, of Baltimore, and a Capt.
DAVIS, were a few dAysagn arrefted, and thrown
ioto mate dungeons. -Rocsas, it is fuppofed,
fir having fludien difrefpctifully of the French
Government ; DAVIS'S offence is not known or
fufpcited "

A letter from Norfolk, Virginia. of the 3d of
May, Hates the arrival there of Captain Ross, who
left Cape Francoi; on the i Sth. He confirms the
ill tr..atment of the American Captains. The
Government Likes fuch cargoes as they want, and
will not allow the Mafters to fell to any other than
we Government, ai:d that at a Rated price.
A lever lrnm Norfolk. Penfrlvania, May 3d,
fays, " / h4ve no news, only that the Negroes
made an attempt to rife lad week, for which fix
of them Prc condemned to be hunk."
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"The Negroes 11111 emitinue their nightly depre-
datitins burning and dearoying all the property
they fii:cl"._ - . . -

lltto from IV.4fliington, of the 7th f.tys, that
Mr. I.IAR has returned there, as Lect.see told
Xirn that his powers did not authorife bias to re-
c. ognite :any Cupfuls whatever.

PARLIAAUNTART PROCEZDINAT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUNE 14.

Lord Surrota rote to call the attention of the
Houle to a paper which he held in his hand, and I
which was the account which had been prefented
to their Lordfhips of the amount of the fide of old
naval (lore', in purfuance of a motion made by
him on a former day. He was Corry to obferve,
that this paper did not give him the infornAtion
he cleared; it only Rated that the money arifing
from the Pale of naval Rom amounted to 53•0001.
and that the penlions chargeable thereon amounted
to yoooi. ; but it did not Rate the manner in
which the remainder of that money was appro.
Foliated; nor whether this money arofe from the
Pale of fibres at any particular port, or in all
the different ports throughout his Mefty's do.
minions. It might be a return of the (ales made
in Great Britain only, whereas it was well known
dast there were naval arfenals .in Ireland, in Gib-
raltar, in the Weft Indies, ate. where-naval fibres
were fold. He wanted therefore to be informed
by the Noble Secretary of State oppofite him, how
the +6,0001. which appeared to be unaccounted for,
was applied : .he would therefore move for a
return of the money arifing from the fale of old
naval fibres, fence the year iBOO, in all the arfe.
nals in his Majefty's dominions, fpecifying the
places where Rores were fold, together with the
quantity fold at each particular place.
Lord PELHAM faid he did not mean to decline
giving an anfwer to the Noble Lord, but he did
not with to interrupt him by doing fo while he
was addrefling the Houfe ; now that the Noble
Earl had fat down, he would inform him, that
the Account on the table was a regular return to
the Addrefs of that Houfe, purfuant to the mo-
tion that had been made : for his own part, he did
not know whether the account took in all the dif-
ferent places which the Noble Lord withed to
have returns made from ; but that could be foon
afcertained by an enquiry at the Offices. With
refpea to the application of the 46,0001: which re-
mained, after the granting of penfions to the
amount of yoool. he had only to obferve, as he
had ftited before, that it was regularly account-
ed for by the Treafurer of the Navy, and was
applicable to the public fervice equally with any
other fund.

Lord HOLLAND faid, if it was not confidered a
kind of culpable curiofity in him, he would with
to know how the money granted in penfions was
applied. The more he examined the fubjed of
penfions, and the greater the number of motions
for the produilion of them was, the more he was
convinced that-Mr. Burke's Bill had been grofsly
infringed on. By that Bill it had been intended,
that all penfions fhould be paid out of the Civil
Lift. The attempt to exonerate the Civil Lift by
paying Penfions out of other funds, was, in his
opinion, a fraudulent evafion of the fpirit of Mr.
Burke's Bill, and he would hereafter take every,
opportunity of moving for the amount of Penfions,
none of which, in his opinion, ought to be granted
except (ram the Civil Lift.

Liord PELHAM ftid he had no objeltion to com-
ply with the Motion of the Noble Lord.
The LORD Casecassos obferved, that if the
Motion was put in the form in which it Rood, the
fame return might be made as that of which he
complained ; he would therefore fuggell, as an
alteration, that befides an account of the furns,
there fbould alto be made a return of their appro-
priation.
Lord Suvrotit thanked the Noble and Learned
Lord for his fuggettion, which was adopted, and
the motion was agreed to.
After receiving force Bills from the Commons,
the Houte adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Innkeepers' Allowance BM was read a fecond time and
committed for to.morrow.

The Amendments in the Englilh Militia Bill were refeetedta
a sdea Committee.

'rite Houle went into a Committee on the Mutiny /4111.....
Claufes were moved for enabling his Majeity to order Comte
Mntral in Ireland and Gibraltar. The Houle returned, the
Reinlotions were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a
third time to-morrow.

Tht Itcport of the Committee on the London Wet Docks
Bill was agreed to, and the BM ordered to be read a third time
to-marrow.

lie Hackney Coach lnereafe Bill, the Dutch Property Bill,
and the Britiih Hillery Bill, were read a third dme.
The Report of the Committee on the Oil Duties was receiv-
ed, And the Refolutions agreed to.
The Report of the Committee on the Pilchard Curing Bill
was agreed to.
The Report of the Committee on the Neutral Trade Adt
was received, agreed to, and a Bill ordered.
The Report of the Committee on the French Pottage Bill
was agreed to.
The Report of the Committee on the Bookfellers' Petition
wa, received, agreed to,and a Bill ordered on the Refolutions.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was received, and
the Refolution forgranting an Annuity of wool. to Lord Hut-
ehinfon agreed to, and a Bill ordered.
*1 he lrim Chancellor's Salary Bill was read a 4csal time, and
committed for to-morrow. _

The kith Coffee Duticiißlll went through a Committee, and
the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
The Bill to reftraln the Proceedings under the Statutes of
Hcnry VIII. and Elisabeth, againft Clergymen, was read a re-
cant' time, after which the Houfc went into a Committee' on
the fame Bill, the blank for its continuance was filled up with
the words " April 8, 1803." The Report was ordered to be
received to-morrow.

The t,soo,cool. Loan Bill for the Service of 1E43, was read
• fiat, and ordered to be read a (wood time to-morrow.
Mr. VAN SITTA AT prefental a variety of Public Accounts,
which were ordered to be printed.
The Poit Hark Duties Regulation Bill; the BiU to encou.
rage the Trade and Manufaeture of the ille of Man; and the
National Debt Bill, wcrc read a Mt and ordered to be read a
fecund time to-morrow.

Ordered, on the Motion of Mr. WICK UAW, that the Houk
&mid to-morrow refolve into a Coenmittee on the irifh Mili-
tia Ads.

Mr. A tax A NDER brought up the Reports of the Commit-
tec on the Smuggling Pn..rentioo Bill, and the Foreign Offence
Bib. Agreed to, and the Bills were ordered to be read a third
time tmnioorow.

Mr. ALexANnaa brought up the Report of the Committee
on the Tile astaking Drainage A& The Re:Solution was agreed
to, and an inttrudtion ordered to the Gentlemen prepar-
ing the Excite BM, that they ihould make provifion purfuant
thereto.

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A Bin for the Relief of uncertificated Bankrupts in Ireland
was prefentc4l, read a Brit, and ordered to be read a feeond
time to-marrow.

Mr. VA 51 1 TA ft T, after fome remarks on the nceeflity, with
a view to reienue, of providing the molt accurate inftrumtv
far nicer:wing fpirita, adverted to an hydrometer Invented by
on Was Revenue Conker, ibc fuperiachy of which was muck

rpoken rif. He therefore Mowed for kave to bring in a Din to
Authorise the Lords Crum& flic,oers of the Treufury, fora time
to be ihnited,to order the Ifylrotnct,rs now in u.e to be vala-
drawn. and to fubftitnte another in their ftesl I .eave givtn.

Mr. Vansivraer obtained leave to bring in a Bill to fupprefs
certain Games and Lotteries not authorifen by Law. The Hon.
Gentleman dated that the objed of this Bill wr.i. to render per.
font pradifing the games called Link Coes, and loch like, fob-
t.dl to the fame penalties as thole to which perfons dealing in
illegal Lottery Inluranee were now liable. The Bill wt. brought
in, read a &it, and ordered to be read a fecond tisiie to-mor-
row, and to be printed.
The Houfe, in a Connittee, went tbrourh the Trial Parlia-
ment Houfc Bill, and the Stamp Duty Bill. The Ri ports were
ordered to be received to-morrow. _ _ _

On the Motion for the committal of the Guernfey Corn Bill,
Mr. VA Ntl R T OlgtrVed, that dui meafure originated in the
recommendation of a refpedahle body of Nierchanti. who
were now of opinion that it woulti be better to fallen,' it for
Come time. He therefore moved, that it be commit red this day
month.—Agreed to.--TheTortada Trade Bill was read a feceod
time, and committed fur to-morrow.