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London, England, 1801-01-19 00:00:00

LONDON.

MONDAY,

FANUAAY 19.

3 per Cent. Red 6i{ 6tg 6: Short Ann. t 778.9 5 5-16#
3 per C. Conf. bof it Imp. 3 per C.
59i
4 Per Cent. Conf. 79fl Imp. Ann. 'I 3-tbf
5 per C. Navy 931 kith 5 per C. 92.1
5 per Cent. 1.41`. 94i Itifh Debentures 731
18. Long. Ann. ill x. 46 India for the open. so3I
Genf for ditto 614 61 64 div. in.
No buftnefs done at the Stock Exchange this day.
.DUILIN, JAN. 13..... Price of Stocks this. day :
34 per C. Gov. Deb. 694-5 per C. Gov. Deb. 4H-
-6 per Cent. Grand Canal Stock 934.

Every thing now teems to announce the ap-
proach of a bloody naval campaign. The Nor-
thern Powers mutt have made up their minds to
hazard all the confequences of a naval warfare be-
fore figning the league. The part that PrufGa
may take is not yet known ; but we would not be
futprizcd if, following the farsie.policy that feems
to have aftuated the Court of Berlin for fome
years, the Prufrian Monarch fhould endeavour to
remain neutral—if the threat of his neighbours
will allow him.

France prepares to take a more alive part
than the has done in naval affairs for forge time :
with this view all the privateers have been called
in, and the hands, as they arrive at the different
ports, are marched to Breß to man the navy.
The part that America may take will be of
much importance. If Mr. jErlellSoll be elelled
Prefident, which letters by the Mattis, Notts,
which arrived yeflerday, Rates to have taken
place, there is no poßibility of Paying how far the
French interell may fucceed in that quarter.
At all events this country will have many foes
to contend with, and, notwithllanding our naval
fuperiority, all the abilities of the kingdom will
not be more than fufficient to defeat their machi-
nations.

We underftand that Government has applied to
the Directors of the Earl India Company for the
ufe of fuch (hips as are not taken up for the com-
merce of India this year, and fuch as the Com-
pany has no occafion for. Thefe !hips will be em-
ployed in different ways. Such of them as are fit
for it, may be ufed as (hips of war, and even fuch
as are no longer able to perform the voyage to the
Earl, may be ufeful as a fort of guarda teat for
the defence of our ports, rivers, and bays. 'lt is
Paid that a great number of veffels will be put upon
this fervice.

Government have alfo direeted the immediate
equipment of every chip of the line in a !late for
fervice. At Chatham the fhipsvrights have begun
to work two tides extra by candle-light upon
the BLENHEIM, of 90 guns, which is to be cut
down to a third rate; the IRRESISTIBLE, THE-
SEUS, and ZEALOUS, of 74 guns ; UTRECHT,
of 66; ASIA, DE RUTTER, GELYKNEID, LION,
and STANDARD, of 6+; and BATAVIER and Bs-
scarausa, of 56, are alto under equipment at the
fame port ; and, in addition to the like energy in
other of his Majelly's yards, contra Els have been
concluded with the owners of private yards for as
many 74's as they can immediately build.
In purfuance of the order in Council for feizing
all vellels belonging to Rullla, Sweden, and Den-
mark, nearly one hundred !hips of the two latter
nations have already been detained in the River,
Downs, Dover, Portfmouth, and Yarmouth.
The United, Parliament will certainly meet on
the sad, when his MAJESTY will go down and
open the Seffion, but will not communicate the

fubjedts on which he calls for their deliberations
till the Members are (worn, the Speaker chofen,
and the ufual formalities on the meeting of a new
Parliament gone through. It is underftood, how.
ever, that qualifications will not he called for anew.
The firft five days being occupied in there preli-
minary Reps, the fa day of bufinefs will probably
be Tuefday the 27th. His MAJISTY will then de-
liver a moll gracious Speech to both Houfes. In
contemplation of the difcuffions which its various
topics may produce, Minillers have fent round cir-
cular letters to all the Gentlemen who ufually fup.
port them, earnaly requeiting their attendance.
There letters are Paid to be in a very preffing Rile.

The amendment (a thing of courfe) will, we
nnderlland, be moved in the Commons by Mr.
GREY, and feconded by Mr. Tissasy. In the
Peers we believe it will be moved by Lord Hot.-
LAND.

We have already Rated the fauling of an expe-
dition from Bombay for the Red Sea, and that
kind failed of fuccefs, in confequence of the pro.
toiled co-operation of the Sheriff of Medina being
greatly deficient in the Ripulated force. Our late
advice' mention, that the greater part of the de-
tachment had returned to Bombay, to await a
more favourable occalion to renew the enterprize
Admiral B r, in the Fox frigate, with the
An sorsa brig, continued off Suez; and la Foes.'
and ALNATROIII were Rationed between that and
Perim. The Bombay Courier of the 28th of June
announces the arrival at that Prefidency of the
thips Psioics and Js lIASGFR, with part of the de-
tachment which had been employed under Colonel
, Muss tr in an unfucccfsfnl expedition againfl
Suer : the officers by thde vdels were—by the

Paints, Captain HOAXER and Lieutenants BUD.
GAON and MACLAUGHLAN, of the 84th regiment ;
Captains CLIFFE and BLACHFOILD,of the Engineers;
aid Lieutenant MORSE, of the Artillery. By the
JEN ANGER, Captain W. Ince, of the Artillery ;
Lieutenants COCICSURN, Horrox, SORRELL. and
TATtoa, of the 84th regiment; Lieutenant CAR.
PINTER, of the Artillery; Lieutenant BROWN, of
the Engineers; and Mr. PHILLIPS, ilsrgeon.

The Rev. Dr. Gcassx, Chaplain in Ordinary,
read prayers yefterday to the ROYAL FAMILY, at
the QUEEN'S Houfe.
This being the anniverfary bn which her MA-
'Ernes Birth-day is kept, when the QL.IFEN en-
tered into her 57th year, it WAS obferved as a
Gala day at St. James's, and her MAJESTY received
the compliments of the Nobility. The following
Ode, for the new year !Sol, written by HENRY
JAMES Pre, Efq. Poet Laureat, was performed in
the Grand Council Chamber :
From delug'd earth's ufurp'd domain„
When Ocean fought his native bed,
Emerging from the iluinking main
Redd many a Mountain [(kits bead; •
Eileirell with a billow'y sone,
Fair Freedom markl them for bee own.
" Let the calk Continent obey
" A ruthlefe miter's iron foray;
" Micheal by tight from Pole to Pole,
" Where &warn Ambition's torrents roll,
" Thee feats to Tyrants I reign:
" Here be nay bleft abode, the Mand reign be mine."
tG
Hating the fane, when Freedom fat enfltrinl,
Grafping at baundlefe Empire o'er Mankind;
Behold from Sofa's diliant Towers
The Rattan Defpot fends his mighty powers,
°recta, thro' all her rocky cash,
Aftoniih'd views the giant haft 4
Not the Caned Straight, by bleeding heroes bared,
Nor ceerop's Walls, her hallowl altars guard ;
While each bold inmate of the Ides,
On inroads bailed effort (miles
From every Port,with sheering found,
awe& the vindidive Plan round;
And Salamis' proud, from her Sea-girt &ore,
Sees o'er the bolt& fleet the indignant (urges roar.
DL
Fiercer ILn Per ti's feqterod Lords ;
More numerous than th' embattled train,
Whofe thirfty fwarms the is broad rivers dna,
Lo ! Gallia's plains difgorge their maddening Nord !
Wide o'er Europa's trembling lands,
Vidorious fpeed the murderous bands;
Where'er they spread their powerful Tway,
Fell Defoladon marks their way :
Unhurt, amid a warring world alone,
Britannia fits secure, firm on ha Bland Throne.
IV.
When thunders war, when lightnings Ay,
When howilng tempefts &Jae the Dry,
Is more endear'd the &tiering dome,
More tweet the facial joys of home ;
Fondly her eye, lo ! Albion throws
On the tried partner of her weal and woes :
Each tie to doter anion draws,
By mingled rights and mingled laws;
Then tome averfe from Gallia's guilty field,
And tears, with vends pride, the lilies from her &kid.
V.
Albion and Erin's kindred race,
Long as your Sifter lies the Seas embrace,
Long as the circling dies your Mora that lave.
Waft your united batmen o'er the wave;
Wide thee' the deep, commercial wealth SD fpread.
Or burl deltration on th' Opp/oar's had
May Hll'oo%l. on each uncerquer'd stain, &ow',
Eternal concord, and decreeing power!
And, as in Hlitory's awful page,
Immortal Virtue &all proclaim
To every clime, three every age,
Imperial Groaca's patriot fame;
That parent care mall win her mimic* (mike,
Which reaed, mid Ocean's reign, the Empire of the Mee '
Letters from Rhodes have been received, of the
lath and 16th of October, and of the 1 ath of No-
vember and from the army of the GRAND VI-
ZI Eft to late as Nov. 1.
By thefe it appears, that the various accounts
of the Turkifh army having marched againft the
French were erroneous. His Highnefs continued
encamped near Jaffa, and though he profefed an
intention to fpeedily cross the Defart, and attack
the enemy, circumftances ftrongly indicated the
reverie.
The army had received numerous large bodies
of recruits, without being augmented, as the de-
fertions kept pace with the fupplies; but the cir-
cumllances molt important, not merely as indica-
tive of the purpofes of his Highnefs, but as caulk
of apprehenfion for the health of our gallant troops,
now avowedly gone to Egypt, is, that in conlb-
quence of the expelled rains, when the country is
molt noxious to ilrangers, the Turkifh army had
made trenches in every direftian round the camp
to carry off the water.
On the arrival of the TIGRE, of 74 guns, at
Rhodes, Sir Slimly SMITH, and almoa the en-
tire (hip's company were ill, 150 men being afflifted
with the ague, and several with fore throats and
violent pains in their bones. During the unavoid-
able repairs of the (hip, however, her Captain and
crew materially recovered; and as fools as the
exertions of Mr. &easy°, Ihipbuilder to the
Porte, enabled her to put to tea, Sir SIDNEY pro-
ceeded for the Gull* of Maori i upon which Mr.
SNORING was fent for by the Captain Pacha, who,
in high approval of the Englifh fyftem, direeed
that he Mould follow him to Catantinisple, to for
perintend the equipment of his [hip, and the build-
ing of forte others.
Whiff' the Captain Pacha was at anchor, his
Majefty's (hip PEN Lora, of 36 guns, with the
TERMAGANT, of iB, arrived there, all well.
Dr. 14,Lsan, who went to Conftantinople with
Lord ELGIN, for the p of afcertaining the
nature of the plague, anurl:nfedeavouring to find a
remedy for that dreadful difeafe, was daily tape&
cd at Rhodcy on his way to England.

' The Staff of the both
ed on board the Simon

Famaica.

It is Paid to be determine
Brita, and 3d non-cr
principally from the 7t
goons, to Syria; each
his equipment ; and es
rank of Captain, and
.
his pay.—They are mt
and from thence to pr9ci
GRAND VIZIER, CO '"

,
pean taaics.
There was on Frida]

men, to aililt in mannini
Yefterclay the Park-
company, exhibited .
The carriages and eqi
and Piccadilly, from
rally fo crowded with
as to render a quick
The difplay of kayo
nating in the extreme, till
the balfiboot: and fifralterefejtee,
ny a taper ancle, on -
of limey eini h !
The century has

nearly as many copies
elapfed in the courfe
Ghoft of the £0 Century
with the pniast fastery,
The latter, though not
nwrihfis yet promifed
fays the &agree/ Century,
Genius of FREDERICK 111.

The practice of giving New-year's gifts has
been traced back td Tarsus, the King of the Sa-
bine% the regal partner with RossuLus, in his new
kingdom. That Sovereign having been &mil:
ful on the &ft day of the year after a prefent made
him of Come branches cut from a wood dedicated
to STIU N NA, the Goddefs of Strength, ehablilhed
the pradice which has fine continued of making
prefents on that day. As a proof of this, the
French word Etrarset is quoted, derived from
&rams, by which name the Romans defignated
them.

SALE or • Wirr..--Lawrenee Stephenfon, of
Weft Luttosi, in the Eaft Riding of York, fold his
wife Jane, to William Servant, of Hovingham,
for five shillings, (who returned two fhillings and
fixmee tb the former hufband), in open market
at New Mahon on Saturday feinnight, and deli.
vered her in a halter on Monday, a the Market
Crofs there.

At the Canterbury Seffions on Tnefday, W. Scat.
for exciting to riot, was fentenced to two years
confinement in the Honfe of Correfiion, and to
find fureties for his good behaviour for two years
more ; and T. Bomber, for inflammatory fpeeches,
was ordered to be imprifoned one Tear.
The Norfolk (tarter Seffions, rn oppofition to
the decifion of three Juffices ailing individually,
laft week decided, that a declaration made by a
pauper to his wife, as to the place of his fettle-
ment, is not admit able evidence to prove fuch fet-
dement, if the pauper himfelf is alive, although be
cannot be found and he is not in fuch cafe to be
confidered goal taueous, in order that hearfay
dente may be- admitted.
WEST INDIES, &c.--By the Maria, IN its, from
Charlefion, which on Friday arrived off Dover.
the following letter from Singftun, Jamaica,
Nov. It' rSoo, was received
" On the ad infL we had a fevere gale of wind,
which continued the whole day, and did confider-
able damage, Five or fix men of war returned to
port, fame of them damned.
" Five days poft arc now due with the North-
fide mails, the roads being rendered impair.ible ;
the rivers are higher than ever remembered, and
it is feared the fltipping on the North-fide have
fuftainedireat damage:"
Lord Howl Say noun, fame time fume, failed
from Jamaica, in the ASSPNION frigate, for Cora-
coa ; e was followed by the Ma Laaosa, of 32
LIOSILE, of 24, and Mutton, of so, with all
&en:sarines belonging to the fquadron on that
Ration, to ftrengthen the garrifon of the new let.
Clement. _ _

A very fevere inundation has lately taken place
in the plain of St. Marc's, in St. Domingo, by the
overflowing of the river Artibonite, in vhich up-
wards of 1400 perfons have periflied, and feveral
valuable plantations were entirely deftroyed.—
Tranquillity was perfally reftored throughout the
I land.
During a late norm at Jamaica, the top-maft of
the YORK, of 64 guns, was buck by lightning.
and falling on the deck, killed five men, and ft-
veal,' wounded four others.
AUGUSTIN RIONUD. brother to the Malatto
Chieftain, lately the competitor with Touissaisr
in the government of St. Domingo, and who was
reported to have been hanged at, Cumcoa as a fpy.
is now in confinement at Jamaica, having been
taken at lea by one of out cruisers. AUGUSTIN
executed molt of the defperate enterprises of his
brother, and is reprefented as a man of uncom-
mon daring.
Several Danilh vefels have lately been cap-
tured in the Weft Indies by our cruisers. Some
late letters from Jamaica announce the arrival
'there of feveral prises to the SANS ?ARBIL, TISI.
PHOIIII, LAU, &c.
The Mufquito Indians, in Auguit laft, attacked
and reduced the Spanifh Settlement at Black
River, ts leagues from Trusilla, on the coal of
Honduras, and were preparing to advance againft
Trusilla.
Every mall from the Weft-Indies brings new
accounts of the daring and faccefiful cruises of
the privateers from Guadeloupe. With an irre-
fiftible naval foperiority in our hands, how does
it happen, lays a commercial corredOsmikent,
that
that ;fiend is full:red to iffue (warm of eras'
tors againft our trade ? We wave the masa in
which we loft it ; but, if it is now
am
bie.
oa
why have not government adopted tie cl
of the midi salve and experienced `this
country, who engaged, with five frigates and a few
cutters, to prevent the failing of any vete' from
that ifland f

NAUTICAL 11

poth regiment is now embark.
non Tayler at Spithead, for
ermined to fend eight officers,
commiffioned ditto, privates,
7th, igth, and (Bth light dra-
ch officer is allowed 3001. for
each fubaltera is to have the
d tgs. per day in addition to
ntended to be landed at Jaffa,
proceed to the army of the
inftruCt his cavalry in Euro.
day night a hot prefs for fea.
nning the King's (hips.
rks and Gardens, in point of
all the fplendour of rummer.
iquellrians were innumerable ;
two to five o'clock, was lite
It gay pedeftrians of both fete
march impraCticable.
may in Hyde-Park was facci-
w, tiu dle aye was direded to
rterafeilm, ithich deformed ma-
i the important confideration
been uthered in at Berlin by
es of verfes as there have years
: of it. In one of them, the
my is introduced converting
an infant in the cradle.—
riot imp nzah allow**. in it:
Li a haply termination, which,
turf, will be produced by the