Star.
London, England, 1807-04-03 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

A letter from Dominica, of the 27th January, was
yelterday received in town, which Rates, that a very
coofiderable French force had been concentrated at
Guadaloupe, and created much alarm at Dominica,
where martial law had been proclaimed, and from
whence a requell for reinforcements had been fent to
Barbadoes. Whatever credit may be due to that part
of the letter which fpeaks of the alarm, and the con.
fecinent precaution of the inhabitants of Dominica,
it is not believed that any formidable French forte
can have reached Guadaloupe. Letters from Mount
Surat of the 6th, and Antigua of zd of February,
have been received, which make no mention of any
extraordinary arrivals from France, or any unufual
preparations at the ifland of Guadaloupe.

We have heard it from fo many quarters, that it
is impoffible for us to doubt the fa& that Mr. CAS.
unto was negociating to form a part of Lord Gitys•
VI tts's government, and that it was on the point, of
being carried into effeet, even after the Catholic Bill
was brought forward. In that cafe, he would have
been a fupporter of that meafure, (as indeed, he al-
ways has been) and now in oppofition ; whereas he
now fits on the Treafury Bench, and milt be coq-
fidercd as an enemy to the claim of the Catholics.

Of Lord SIDMOUTH'S refufal of the Duchy of
Lancaller for life, when offered to him in 1805, we
had never heard, till it was Rated and commented
upon with fuch well deferved panegyric, by Lord
HENRY PETTY and Mr. SHERIDAN in a late Debate.
The reason given for declining it, was no lefs ho.
nourable than the aft itself ; namely, that it would
he unbecoming thus to deprive his MAIRSTY of Is
valuable a piece of Royal patronage. This fingular
aft of difintereflednefs was the more laudable, at
Lord Sinssoufn's eminent fervices in the Chair d
the Houfe of Commons, for twelve years, had been
unrecompenfed.
Lord MaLvitta's influence in the new Adminiflta.
lion, is generally underfiood to be the prevailing oat
We find that both fides of the Houfe ape& the
fupport of Lord SIDMOUTH and his Friends, on the
important queflions that are to be difcuffed when Par-
liament meets again. For our own parts, from a
recollation of their pail political conduit, we can
hardly believe that they will be found in decided or
position to any government whatever ; and, on the
other hand, that they will not be induced by any
confideration, to give their fupport to any meafurct
that may appear to them objeflionable.
EDWARD MORRIS, Efq. Member for Newport, in
Cornwall, has been appointed a Matter in Chancery,
in the room of Sir WlLLiats WALLAH PANYS, Baru
who has refigned.
Yeflerday Lord FITZHARRIS and Mr. Haltom,
entered on their funftions as Under Secretaries to
Mr. GEORGE CANNING.

Lord MULCRAVE tranfaSed bufinefs yeßerday, fat
the firft time, as Firft Lord of the Admiralty.
On Wednefday Mr. PERCFVAL was re-elated for
Northampton.
Tuefday morning his Royal Highnefs the Duke
of KENT, Sir G sotto II PRIVOSTI Major LIGERTWOOD,
Captain GRANT, Aide.cle•Camp, attended by feveral
other Military Officers, went from Portfmouth to
lk Gofport, in Admiral oteractu's barge, where his
Royal Highnefs reviewed the troops Rationed at
Gofport. His Royal Highnefs afterwards landed on
South Sea Common, where he reviewed the troops
of Portfmouth garrifon. In the evening he dined
with Admiral Mottracu, and about nine o'clock at
night, let out on his return to London.
The Earl of CHOLMORDELFY had a large Dinner
Party yeßerday, at his houte in Piccadilly.
It was the BISHOP of OXFORD preached the Sermon
on Eafter Monday, at Chrilt Church, before the Loin
MAYOR, Aldermen, &c. and not the BISHOP of ST.
Davit's, as erroneoufly inferted in molt of the
Papers.

Yeßerday the Knights Burgeffes of Weßminßer
*trembled at their Guildhall purftiant to their Char-
ter, and appointed a number of Citizens to Terre on
Annoyance Juries and other public offices ur•thin the
City and Liberties of Weihninfter for the enfuiog
year.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PENZANCE, MARCH 3f.

Since my hit, the following veirels put in here,
windhound, and failed again on their refpeEtive del-
tirtariong, viz.—the Cygnet, JONES; the Mermaid,
BLANCHARD; the Bedford, NtcHoLLs ; the Harford,
WATERS; the Speedwell, Lama ; the Nancy, PRE-
VITT ; the Sufannah, JOHNS; the Hendra, MILL
HuisH; the Charlotte, BAKER; the Darcheller, LAw•
DER ; the Mariner, BANKS; the Pomona, WILLIAMS;
the Rofe, STRIDE; the Louifa, BROOKES; the COM-
Melee, HEATH; the Fountain, WILLS; the John and
Mary, HARVEY; the Cleveland, BARBER; the Union,
MILLIARD; the Mary Ann, BoND; the Foreft, HAw.
KINGs; the Mary, DIAMOND; the Ferran, BIDDER; the
Friends, DAVIES; the Betfey, THOMAS; the Wilfon,
DAVIDSON ; the M...ry, MADGE ; and the Fortitude,
jLrittvrts ;—the Catherine, Dayiss ; and the Furly,
Rows, bound to London, are both fall by the keel
in Penfitnce Pier, where they mull remain, till Satur.
day next.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2.

Arrived Psis MAjeily's fhip NEMESIS, from feeing
the outward-bound Mediterranean fleet clear of the
Channel ; EVILYALUS, from a cruize ; Devonfhire
Eaft Indiaman, from the Downs; and the ACTIVE,
--, with troops on board, having taken them out
of the JUPITER, Fs s rtram, which veffel ran on board
the brig RufTel, coming from Guernfey hither ; great
fears are entertained for the fafety of the Jo/ITER.—
Sailed his Majefly's brig LIBERTY, on a cruize.—
Wind N. E.