Star.
London, England, 1801-04-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. BultDON prefented a Petition front the Ship-
owners of South Shields againft the Coal
eGge from the Lords clerked the attendance of
the Houk to hear the Royal Affent given to fcvc-
Tal Bills ; after which fome private bufinefs took
place, and tke Houfe adjourned.

LONDON.

MONDAY, APRIL so.

'RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :

Coutols 610--Confols tor time 64.
Red. per Cent. 974 1
.1. I—New s per C. 9sti-••
Oninium rot
PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY:
3Per Cent. Red. 6o scton _ eo p Loi. 941
3 per C C.orf. 601 6of Long Ann. rBf
4 per Cent. Conf. 79}78} omnium 9,1 'of 9 TO
per C. Navy 97i ConL for May 6tS4 6161 i

We were at A lofs to underftand the meaning of
an article in the Monitszr, infertec(in the STAR on
Saturday, refpefting news of a veffel from Lord.
Kriries fleet having reached Cagliari in Sardinia.
We have the myflery now explained by the arrival
of French papers, the contents of which incline us
to believe, that the intelligence they contain was
known in Paris when the former Journals were print-
ed, and that it was thought expedient to prepare the
public mind for the arrival of news from Egypt,
by a notice almoft unintelligible. Be that as it may,
the leforsiteur, which we yefterday received tp the
tsth inft. inclufive, contains official intelligence o f
the landing of Sir RA LP H AHERCROMBY'S army at
Aboukir on the Sth of laft month.

It appears by the details tranfmitted by LE Roy,
the Maritime Prefect at Alexandria, that the expe-
dition appeared off the coat on the tft of March,
and the weather did not permit a landing to take
place till the Bth. The French General Fitts or,
the Commandant of Alexandria, was by this cir-
cumftance enabled to affemble the force in his
neighbourhood, and to difpute, though not pre-
vent, the debarkation. The enemy vainly attemp-
ted to oppofe the landing, which our troops effeCt-
ed in good order, notwithftanding the ()Mules
they had to encounter. •
After a revere anion our troops got poirellion of
the heights of Aboukir.—The French retreated to
Alexandria, as they fay, in good order. They
admit the lofs of three hundred killed and wound-
ed, and are no doubt guilty of a very grofs exag-
geration in Elating that we 101 l two thoufand killed
and wounded. Between the Bth and I 3th nothing
very important took place; on the t 3th our forces,
according to the enemy's account, to the number of
twelve thoufand, advanced to the attack, which
the French received in front of Alexandria. Their
own number, they Rate at four thoufand. A very
hard fought aftion took place that day. The
French do not admit that our efforts were fuccers-
ful.in carrying, or at leaf in retaining any of the
outworks of Alexandria. The battle was very
general, and mull have been attended with great
lots on both fides. The French, from their own
flatements, it is evident, muff have been feverely
repulfed. Down to the 25th Ventofe (March t 6)
nothing further had taken place.
By the account tranfmitted by Le Roy, it ap-
pears that MENOt/ had been apprifed of the de.
barkation of our forces ; and on the tith he had
arrived with his head-quarters at Rhamanie, about
fifty miles from Alexandria. There he was con-
centrating his forces, and was expeScd at Alex-
andria by the 2,a of March. He would, no'
doubt, bring with him the p?incipal part of his
forces, particularly the divifion of REGNIER and
Leaussz. There, with what he had himfclf at
Cairo, were lately dated to be 15,000 ; (an exag.
geration), and of there a confiderable part muff
have been left in garrifon.
The French accounts give no authentic details
of the number of our troops, nos have we any
pounds of conjeCture whether all Sir R. AIBEIL
ctossev's army landed at the fame fpot. Not a
word is mentioned of any Britith force having ar-
rived at Suez. Some letters from the Fall men-
tion however that Sir R. AIt&CROMBY had heard
of the arrival in the Red Sea of the force from
Bombay before he failed from Macri. It would
be of the utmoll importance to the fucceis of our
s*perations if any confiderable body of men has
advagy arrived on that fide.
The French Rate that on the 2cl Match, while
our blockading fquadron was driven off Alexan-
dria, the frigate Regenerec had entered that port
with 300 picked men, and 3000 murqueu and
other bores for the army. The Regenerce had
failed from Rochefort, in company with the Afri-
Caine, which we know to have been captured.
Several other velTels from the coati of Italy, to•

gether *ith an aid-de-eamp of General MURAT.
had arrived at Alexandria.

The Praia LE Rov affeEts to fpeak with con-
fidence of the refult of the contell. He affute,
Bow A PARTE that the land and fea fervice are equal-
ly refolved to defend Alexandria to extremity, and
that oui troops will never re-embark, if they do not
before MENOU'S arrival. The Monitestr, however,
talks of the itruggle as doubtful, and in a tone by
no means very fanguine.

As to numbers there cannot be much difference
between our army and that of the French ; but,
ours are all Britifh! while that of the enemy is
partly made up of a mixed rabble of natives of
every defcription, on whore fidelity furely Mt Nov
has but little ground to place implicit reliance.—
Befides, MENOU rnuft leave a part of his troops in
the firong places, inflead of bringing the whole
againn General ABERCROMBIE, whore force may
be animated at about 20,000 men in all.

The eyes of Europe will now be upon Egypt,
and the intelligence from that quarter will for fume
time to come excite the molt lively intereft. We
may expett advices from General ABERCROMBIE in
a few days.

The French Papers contain nothing elk of im-
portance. The Ter, Confolides arc 53 f. sc) c. The
news from the Baltic includes averyerroneous view
of the engagement off Copenhagen. The Journal
du Commerce reprefents Lord NELSON as having fail.
ed, and having propofed a fufpenfion of hoililities.
Other letters mention a report that Copenhagen
was to be blockaded, while part of the fleet went
in quell of the Swedith and Ruffian fleets. Thefe
flories, we need (carte add, deferve no attention.
Not a word is faid of GAN THEAUME.

His MAJESTY, on Saturday, rode on horfeback
to Blackheath, to vifit her Royal Highnefs the
PRINCESS of WALES, and the PRINCESS CHAR-
LOTTE.

The KING has made a prefent to the Palace of
WALES of a molt beautiful white Hanoverian honk
for a charger.
The KING has been plcafed to grant the dignity
cf an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, to the Right Hon. ALEXANDER
Lord Loughborough, and the heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten, by the name, Ryle and
title of Earl of RossLya, in the county of Mid-
Lothian, with remainder to the heirs male, law-
fully begotten, of the body of Lady JANET ER.
SKIN x, deceafed, filler to the raid ALEXANDER Lord
Loughborough, and widow of Sir HENRY ERSKINE
of Ava, Baronet.

The KING has alto been pleafed to declare and
ordain, by his Royal Sign Manual, that Maley
HENRIETTA ERSKINE, daughter of Lady JANET
ERSKINE, deceafed, fitter to the Right Honourable
ALEXANDER Lord Loughborough, and widdw of
Sir HENRY ERSKINE of Alva, Baronet, (hall have,
and enjoy the fame place, pre-eminence, and prece-
dence, in all affemblies or meetings whatfoever, as
the daughter of an Earl of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland ' • and his MAJESTY has
been pleated to order that the fame be regiftered
in the College of Arms.
The Gazette of Saturday night contained two
Orders from the Lords of the Privy Council ; the
one diretting the Archbithop of Canterbury to
compofe a Prayer of Thankfgiving for the recovery
of his MAJESTY from his late dangerous illnefs ; and
the other ordering that this Prayer be printed. and
read in all places of divine worfhip throughout
the Empire.
The Court Mourning for the late Duchefs Dowa-
ger of BRUNSWICK terminated yellerday.
Yefterday a Cabinet Council was held at Lord
HAWKESBURY'S Office, at which the LORD CH•N.
cat.Loß attended. .

On Saturday M. Orro had an interview with
Lord HAWICIS BURT, on the fubjed of the difpatclt-
es which he received from France.

The laft Hamburgh Mails brought letters from
Conftantinople and the Levant, which mention
that Major General BM o, with eleven thoufand
Sepoys, had arrived in the Red Sca, from India,
for the purpofe of co-operating with the Britilh
troops in Egypt.
The late overland difpatch from India has
brought accounts from Delhi, to the 17th of Geo-
bcr, announcing that Zemann Shah, the enterpri-
fing Sovereign ofCabal, had taken the field againft
the Meek Tartan, who threatened his country
with invafion. _ _ .

The laft accounts from India fay, the Ameri.
can (hip Franklin, containing fpecie to a very large
amount, is Rated to have been loft, during the
month of November laft, in the (traits of Sunda,
with the greater part of the crew. A few pct.-
lons, by means of the matt, floated to an unin-
habited part of the coati, where, for three days,
they experienced the greateft difirefs, till picked
up by a vefel from Batavia.
Laft week, as Mr. STURT'S honnds were run-
ning a fox on the cliffs, near Lulworth, in Dor.
fet(hire, by a fhort turn the animal gained an earth,
and in purfuing him, three couple and a half of
the leading hounds precipitated to the bottom, and
were dallied to pieces.
On Saturday afternoon a powder mill at Wal-
tham-Abbey blew up with a horrible ex plofion. We
are lorry to hear that feveral men peri(hed by the
dreadful accident. The report was heard at a
vall diflance, and all the windows in the neigh-
bourhood were' (battered.
I.aft night, about ten o'clock, feventeen perfons
were arrefted under authority of a Warrant from
the Duke of Poert.ano, by Mr. SWAM, a King's
Mellinger, with a party of the Bow-ftrect Officers,
at a Publiamufe, in ForeAreet, Cripplegate, on
fufpicion of being affembled there for certain
tious and Treafonable purpofes.--The Prifoners,
for fafety, were immediately taken to Newgate.
Some papers of a feditious tendency were found
upon fume of them.