Star.
London, England, 1802-12-04 00:00:00

TONNAGE DUTIES.

General Gascotca prefented to the Monte a
Petition, figned, as he faid, by two hundred of
the moll refpedable merchants and (hip owners of
Liverpool, complaining of the fevere injuries fur-
tained by their trade, under the operation of the
Tonnage Duty A 9; and praying for a repeal of
the fame. The Petition was received ; and the
Hon. Member faid, that for the prefent he fhould
only move that it do lie on the Table, for the per-
ufal of Members, as he well underftood that other
Petitions were coming forward from all the prin-
cipal merchants and (hip owners in Great Britain,
to the fame purport, and might, when received,
be altogether referred to a Committee.
General TARLITON faid, he had read many,
though not all of the names, figned to the Petition
juft prefented by his Hon. Colleague : and fo far
as he had read, he knew the names to be certainly
thofe of tome of the moll refpeaable merchants
and !hip owners in the town, whole reprefentation
he had the honour to participate. Any Petition
coming from a body of traders fo truly refpeaable,
was certainly entitled to confederation ; and he
doubted not that his Majefty's prefent Minifters,
who certainly had his confidence and fupport,
would pay to the firbjea of the Petition every at-
tention it fhould appear to deferve.
The CHANCRLLOR of the Excl.+ EQyER role and
obferved, that it would be premature to difcufs at
this moment the fubjea of the petition ; at the fame
time he could folernnly allure the HoUfe, that
there was no man within or without its walls, who
had more fincerely at heart the intereft and prof-
pqjty of that valuable and refpeaable defcription
oMen from whom the prefent Petition proceeded.
They had truly ftated themfelves the Manufaau-
rers of Britifh leamen—a manufaaure which mull
ever Rand high in the eftimation of every man
who valued the honours, the glory, and the fecu-
rity of the Britifh Empire. If any proof was
likely to come forward in fupport of the allega-
, dons made in this, or any other Petition, afrerting
the decay of the Britifh Shipping Trade, inward
and outward, fence the conclulion of the war, there
was not an individual in the Houle, who would
more readily acknowledge, that fuck proofs ought
to operate for the repeal of the Duties alluded to.
But though he would not deny the poMbility that
a material change might be felt in fome ports, in
confequence of the Peace; though the entries in-
ward at fome, and outward at others, might have,
in a confiderable degree,.fallen off; (and that this
may have been, in tome degree, the cafe with that
reputable port from whence this Petition came, he
would not alTurne to deny) but, taking the Britifh
Import and Export Trade generally, and together,
he would affert that no reprefentation was ever
more unfounded than that of afferting its decay,
when, in fat, its rapid imprtbvemett and increafe
was every where felt through the Country. For
he could confidently aftert, and he hoped he fhould
not be mifconceived or mifreprefented, that the
capon of Britifh Manufaltures had increafed to a
very important degree j awl that from tin fat of

London, inftrdartil outward, fince the tertit
tion of Ithe War, the Tonnage of Bridal finpp:
had moll confider:tidy increafed, and that of reign (hipping has confiderably tlitninifhed:
therefore, for him to content to abandon fog
portant a part of the resources for the yearas eimfe Duties, before the Houle had an opportunity cf
fteing the irrefragable proofs of what he now
at
f. rted, fo loon as the returns of the year could he
made up, was not to be expated.—Adjourned to
Monday.

L 0 ' DON.

lCiavripta in CANDI/MI6'S Second Utter, in the STAR of
the id—for orders, read order. H.s Third Letter will ap.
pear the firft oppomnity.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,

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Venice st Livres Pieolc &relive per 4.1 fterl.

A Dutch Mail arrived laft night, by which
we learn, that Citizen Hu LT MAN, lately Batavian
Ambaffador at the Court of Berlin, had returned
to the Hague on the 25th ult. Our letters from
the Hague confirm accounts before received, fiat.
ing, that Sevenaar, Huyfen, and Malburg, are to
be given up to the Batavian Republic. A Conven.
tion to that effeEt was figned on the 24th oh. by
Citizen HULTMAN, on the part of the Dutch Go.
vernment,and Count Vox HAUCWITZ, the Prof.
fian Minifter, founded on the previous Convention
between France and Praia of the 23d of tail May.
The Batavian Government will take poffeffion of
them after the boundaries fhall have been fettled
by Pruffian and Batavian Commiffioners, appoint.
ed for that purpofe.

General VICTOR, appointed Captain General of
Louifiana, is daily expeaed at the Hague to fu.
perintend the embarkation of the French troops
now at Helvoetfluys, and the civil and military
officers who are deftined for that Colony, who
will fail the firft opportunity in a Batavian fqua.
dron, and 42 tranfpotts.
While no inconfiderable degree of uncertainty
prevails with refpea to the new indemnities to be
granted by the interpofition of France to theGaallo
DUKE of TUSCANY, a new fubjea of remonftratice
and complaint, on the part of Auftria, appears to
have arifen, by the annexation of the Duchies of
Parma and Placentia to the territory of the French
Republic. It is even confidently Rated, that the
Imperial Ambaffador at Paris has already made
very ferious reprefentations to the Flasr CossuL,
on the annexation of the Sovereignties in queflion.
From a reference to the Treaty of Aix-la•Chatelk in
the year 1748, we find that they were compre-
hended in a principal condition of the Peace then
made, and it is undeniable that the Houfe of Auf
tria poirefFes an eventual interefl in them,ellablifh•
ed and recognized in the clear& and moil fatif.
faaory manner. The a-ticle relative to them de-
clares, " that the Duchies of Parma, Placentia,
and Gnaßalla, (hall be ceded as a fovereignty to
the Infant Dote PHILIP, and the heirs male of his
body ; but that in cafe he or his defcendants than
fucceed to the Crown of Spain, or to that of the
Two Sicilies, or die without male ifFue, thofe ter
ritories shall return to the prefent pofFeffors, the
EMPRESS QUEEN of HUNGARY and the KING of
SARDINIA, or their defcendants."

Here then is a reverfionary right of fovereignty
to the very territories of which the FIRST CONSUL
has taken poffeffion, by virtue of a ceffion made by
a fecret Treaty with Spain. Aufiria contends,
and certainly with the greateft jufticc, that the
Court of Madrid had no right whatever to make
conditions, which fhould preclude it from all Did•
mate claim. The eventual fuccefrion of Auftria
to Parma and Placentia, fecured by the faith of a
folemn Treaty, it certainly was not in the power
of Spain to annul by any fubfequent convention,
more particularly as it was in conformity to all the
conditions of the treaty, that Don PHILIP acquire('
the right and exercife of his Sovereingty over them.
We are, however, far from thinking that the re•
monftrances which may have been made upon this
fubjed, by the Cabinet of Vienna, will be fire'
nuoufly and decidedly fupported, yet fome cont.
penfations may be required and obtained. The
Etas? Cossui. may find it expedient to yield a
little to the eftablithed rules of Courts ; and ip
the additional indemnities which arc to be made,
either the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, or the EM'
mot himfelf, may find fome beneficial refults,
calculated to counterbalance the claim fo indifpu*
tably vetted in Aufiria to the racrtionary Foal;
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r.ter NON TROVO, L NON NO DA lAD OIIZIDA.

Nor War, nor Peace, affects my fevered foul;
To Heav'n I foar, yet creep on earth's sbyfs;
I bum, though colder than the rigid pole,
And grafp at villonary keno of blifs. .
No dungeon holds me, tho' in fetters bound,
I die, yet drag along the heavy hour;
Fled it my voices yet vibrates to the found
Of tender plaints the amaranthine bower.
Though fails my tongue, though dim the vivid eye,
That murmurs Rill, Rill this retains its fight :
}or heal:h I pray—yet, yet I with to die—
At forrow laugh—yet dread its fpea'red night !
To live or die, is equally the fame—
I-low cruel, LAURA, Is a flighted flame !
Nrr• :9.

An accident of rather an unpleafant kind hap-
pened to the new Richard, on Thurfday night, at
kury.lane Theatre. In the battle of Boiworth-
Feld, Mr. C. Ks mats thrnft his foil into Mr.
Tu lot ERIS face with fuch force, that had it entered
cye, inftead of lacerating his cheek, the conk-
(pence might have been fatal. But this is not all !
by a fecond accidental thrutt Mr. Kamma laid about
lour inches of Mr. Tutuila's breall.bone bare.—
Had this fecond thrull been a few inches lower, it
mutt have buried the blade in Mr. TURNER'S
tody.—" So much for Richmond .1"
• Blood will have Blood"—thus doth our Shakefpeare fay,
And this accounts for Richard's Weed in play.
C. Kemble, of Item vengeance was the Fadior,
And thus swirled himfel( a ST RIKING Ador!
• TOTTEN HAM.STRE IT THEATRE.--Laft.night the
Play of Kiag Henry the Fourth was reprefented a fe•
cond time at.this.Theatre, chiefly by the fame Gen.
tlemen who perfOrme4 ;t before. Some of the parts
have been differently ea ft-Aring Henry, we will venture
to fay, never had a more able reprcfentative than
Mr. Frrzoiaa to, a Gentleman not only well
m)
100 to the Literary World as the Author of fe-
Taal excellent Poems and fuccefsful ProlOgues,but
who at various public Meetings has difplayid his
kill in recitation,and knoivledge of elocution, to the
treat.inftrudion and entertainment of his hearers.
The anguith of parental feeling at the cutting mif-
contlue of a Son, the dignity. sif a Monarch, and
the warlike inttepidity of a ireferan,were accurately
difcriminated and emphatically remarked; nor did
Mr.. VITZGRiAI.D'A , exertions go unrewarded, 211
the loudeft plaudits attended -him through the
performance.
Lady Percy received a very able fupport in.Mifs
NORTON. Her fine figure was well tutted to the
eharaaer.
$ . ,
The ';v, Prince of Wake, and liof#er were moft
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of the

characters

elegantly &ed. and the whole
were very chariaerinically attired.
...•
The ginthellßf Dsiosiulas, the Marchionefs
of Town Su sun, aidbetween two and threehundred
perfons of &Mon aid diftinaion honoured the per-
fo With their Prdence.
•
The Duchifa of Davoustisea gave lan night a
grand (upper to a large party 0-fathionables.
The &meals; C..ciiiistefi of Bat,tttaii died at Bath
on Wednefelai
Yellerday liaising, at to °Woe*, M,, QTro
and his Nit; At
~off from. his Bong: in Portman.
have, on his Wig to Paris.
• Was for
The Datet-of CLIMIIIRLAND. irc T,
Oval hvi4.o6 the Bunch, to witnefs diet aloha
tiss;Nl. Bodo.
din .
en t r
4n, P2nd ne • • er
&Owe; the Wen& ambaudor and his Secre-
tary ; Lord Putative, Lord Hawasespar, Lord
Baum Mr. Abisairrow, Ittatati Lord.
Ciataimi, Mi. IL Tisitu; Rtbsa, Mr.
Illissioun,
beta 4 &now. with Lady Oncinnuie
in her fnite, is it the bait of*" ff.4ol,lisilituti*
at Paris: they. j• hale Madame Boitailarrt ist the
;ebb?' of the Opera Ordain. di!, idea of a
vifit to St. Cloud. They have probably; departed
by this time for Viettnii, where they :ire to be met
by Lord Hinciiiraiona' :Sub from
thence in the cliscadler ofßeiledia ifs triseried. Was !
Lbr4 and I.Acii.HOLLiati arrived at Barcelona
in the beginning of UR siicibth; and intend paffing
the winter there; . ,
A note to a prorinciil advertifenient fays, 88 the
ireti,.herfe in the liable yard, and the tew in St.
Bridget's Church; will be difpcifed of fly."
We are enabled to allure our Readers, as the
Walt of enquiriei which we have thought it tight
to make; and On Which they depend, that the
French Gentlemen who are fuppofed to be coming
over here, and force of whom,, we. believe, are
arrived, calling theitifeltes Confab for Cannnerrial
Per*, are wholly unaccredited by our Govern.
ment. We believe, indeed, that an application
that they might be fo was peremptorily refuted.
They are therefore no snore than common French.
men, whole Paffporis mutt fectire thei!t admiffion
into the Country ; but who are fubjed to the
operation of the Alien Laws, and liable to be at
any time tent away for mal-praaices. . . .
On the reported batty difmiffal of Count STAN-
mums from Paris, a Morning Paper of this day
gives the following paragraph ti--N We obferved
with tome furprife, that the Papers of yefterday
not only treated with dilbelief, but The Time:,
certainly (with the exception of The Morning lie-
-44 perhaps) the worft informed Paper in Lon-
don, ranked as N among the wildeft and moll ri-
diculous rumours of the day," the information
which we gave on Thurfday lift, of Count STAH.
11.1111111ao,in his route from Vienna to Paris, having
received orders from the French Government to
quit the French territory within twenty-four hours.
Mat the public may not be milled by ignorance
Alt!! refumptiou, we re-Rate the ciretunnance,
"'h.we psfitivt ors to is a fail, that Count
Srsassussso id aaually receive the order,
*hid we on Thurfday Rated him to have received
km the Fr u& Goverament.".ol True Brig.

UNFORTUNATE BEAUTY:

Tax CILISRATID EMILYO-+-Thefa!e olthis dif
tinguithed votary of illicit pleafure ought to be • a
Warning to, the • unhappy fifterhood of fathionable
impures. The name of EMILY &emcee has, for
the haft so years, denoted a perfon of the moll ex-
quifneheautr. She was of plebeian origin,iiiinced,
or, more properly ruined, almoft in her infancy,
and at that early period configned to the care of a
famous procurefs in King's•place' where the became
the admiration of many perfons of rank, by one of
whom file was foon.taken away, and who gave her
a fplendid eftablithment: At this time, and for fe-
veral years afterwards, theheauty of her face was
confelfedly unparalleled ; and the was prevailed
upon at different timesto fit to the late Englith Av.
PELLES, when he was defirous of delineating on
canvas an idea of a molt beautiful Angel. After
paffing through thofe fcenes of youthful diffpation
and folly, which generally mark the progrefs of
women in that unhappy (late ; after having been
repeatedly transferred from one noble profligate to
another, and run the gauntlet of proftitution, intent
only on prefent pleafure, the became warmly at-
tached to a perfon in an inferior Ration, and had
two children. She was compelled, whether
through unkindnefs or inability, is not faid, to lie-
in of her fecond child in a Work-koala : a circum-
fiance fo !hocking to her feelings, that it con.
Randy preyed upon her mind, and induced
her to have recourfc to dratn•drinking, by which
the foon became the feeble reprefentative of
a beautiful ruin. She again, however, became
pregnant, and a few days ago, expired in child-
bed, at not more than thirty-fix years of age.—
Thus, and thus early, terminated the life of a per-
fon who for feveral years had fo much the com-
mand of perfonal fplendour, and the poffeffion of
perfonal beauty, as to be the envy of all thofe female
lathionables and frequenters of public places, whom
education had not taught to know, nor fentiment
to feel, that an hour of virtuous domellic felicity
is worth more than in age of levity and folly—

" Let coxcombs Bitter, and let fools adore,
" Here learn the leffon to be vain no more."

The thanks of the Comrhon Council were on
Thurfday voted to the late Lord Mayor. At the
fame time, ioool. was voted fot the gradual re-
building of the Bluccoat Hofpital, and fool. per
annum, in addition to the falary of the Chamber-
lain and his Clerks.

SPORTIA G.—The affairs of the turf have of late
years been nearly in a dormant Rate from the
middle of November, till the publication of the
Oatland Stakes force time in January ; an event,
which is waited for with no fmall degree of anxiety
and impatience by the fpeculators in long odds.—
Almoft the only public betting is on the Derby
Stakes, and on the match between Mr. FLITCH act's
Highland Fling and Mr. DAwson's Quiz ; there
horfes are matched for iOOO gs. each, to run the
Beacon courfe at Newmarket next fpring ; High-
land Fling to carry eft. 71b. Quiz SI It was 2 to
t on Q2iz till about three weeks fince, when it
fuddenly changed to even betting. (tii has been
fired.

The Bate of betting for the. Derby is nearly as
foUows to t aga Sir F. Smuntsm's brother
to Stamford 6to z aga Sir H. T. VANE'S c. by
Patriot, out of Coheireis ; 7 and 8 tot agff Lord
GREY'S Sir Peter c.

A new match between Velvet Horn and Jack
Chime having been erroneously Rated in tome of
the papers, we give the particulari, which may be
relied on.

• Mr. 01141i1TO!S Velvet HMV, 811. 71b. aga Mr.
WAIiItINOTOI'S Jack Chance, 111. 21b. to run the
two middle miles, on the firft day of the Newmar-
ket Craven Meeting; for 2cogi; h. ft.
A new Silver Coinage has jufl been Wiled in
France. It is very plain, and of a defcription com-
pletely Reptiblitan. We have feen one of the pieces
of five francs. On one fide the figure of Hercules
is placed between thofe of Liberty and Equality,
with the furrounding infeription—. Union et Force.'
On the reverie is merely.the value of the coin, vie.
5 iiimic.r.'-And underneath-.-1 L' An. I t,' neatly
encircled with a laurel Wreath i legend, a Repdt-
pubfique Round the edge are the Words
g Garcintie Natioitale.'

Some alterations . have occurred in the New
French Court ilheatnaci, which appeared a few days
ago.. The 16th of Augult, inllead of being con-
reamed to St. Roth, as formerly, is to be given to
St, Napoleon.. This event carries more or mean-
ing Wit than fuperficial Readers-I*MM be temPt-
atiximegine. The pr.ecedirig .day, the tsth, is
the reftiial of the Virgane.the Birth day of Bons-
i'Alt+l2 and the Anniverfary of the Concordat.—
It is one of the, great feftiials of the. French year.
On the isth of Auguft, is the fillival of st. Louis.
By joining, therefore, the &filial of St. Napoleon
in immediate fucceffion to the fellival of the Vir-
gin, the birth day of Bosailarra, and the Anni-
verfary of the Concordat, taro (hits of high cele-
bration, meet fu clofe upon the heels of the fe Rival
cf St. Louis, that the latter, will not attract much
notice, and probably Coon fink into oblivion, or be
abforbed, after the example of the fellival of St.
Roth.
Tlsurfday the Coronet's Jury
affembled at the White Horfe public-houfe, in Pop-
lar, and fat on ti'e body which was found in the
Weft India Dock on Tuefday. From a bill and
receipt found in ode of the pockets of the deceafed,
he was traced to a houfe in Eaft Smithfield.—The
perfon to whofe houfe he was traced attended, and
Rated that the deceafed's name was Ogilvie ; he
came frOm the North Country, and lodged in his
houfe feveral weeks, while in London on Tome
bufinefs.--On the 4th of lall month be paid him a
bill, and he gave the deceafed a receipt, which
bill and receipt was in his pocket when he was taken
out of the water. He had not heard. any thing of
him face the 4th of laft month, when he left his
Louie. It could not be afcertained how much
money or property he had about him when he left
the houfe in Eaft Smithfield.
The Jury brought in a verdia of Wilful Murder
spina four,: perfon or perfods unknown. No forpi.
esos bas yet fallea upon say - •

• 1•

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

• • • •
• ' • PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER s 4
All this day it has blown a very heavy gale at
S. E. with a molt tremendous fea running, which
has forced many !hips to take shelter in this port,
among which are the Datch fhip Border Welvaa-
ren,Taolbsors, from Amfterdam, bound to Dema-
rata, laden with fundry merchandize ; the Dutch
ilhip Dolphin, Ours MATNYSR, from Amilerdam,
bound to Surinam, laden with fundries, and having
on board 170 Troops; the Danifh fhip Conferentz,
Capt. ROT 4 BAK, from Buenos Ayres, bound to
Altona, laden with hides and tallow ; this fhip has
loft her, mizen-maft, having been run foul of at fea
by 4 Dutch fhip, which latter loft her bowfprit,
but is not arrived ; the May, of and from Jerfey,
Capt. Rotra aTsm., laden with cyder and fruit ; the
Eagle and Ranger revenue cutters, from a cruize ;
the thip Endeavour, of London, from St. Lucie,
lalt from Cork, Capt. HALaINCTON, with troops,
bound to the caftward, part of the 85th regiment.
The lasoLatyr gun-brig,, of t 4 guns, during the
ftorm drove on the Devil's Point, and was very
near being loft.—The BITTE ars sloop of war, from
Ithe weftward, is anchored in Cawfand Bay.

The Officers of the Cuftoms here have feized
four boats, laden with iron ballaft, which came
out of the DIANA, frigate in ordinary, in this har-
bour : in this theft ten people are implicated,
among whom are the gunner, boatfwain, and car-
penter : the former having difclofed the whole of
the proceedings, it is generally believed that the
confequences may be very fatal to feveral of the
perfons under confinement: the ballaft is lodged in
the Dock Yard, is in quantity about fix tons, and
was to have been landed at Torpoint.