Star.
London, England, 1805-01-10 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JANUARY to.
PRICE OF S COCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK'
Conf. for money 64—Reduced 57t
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock— Short Ann. 2 r a-t6l
3 per C. Red. Ann. c/3:1 India Stork,
.; per Cont. Cad. Oil India Bonds, ts. a as. dif.
Deferred 3 per C. Conf. S. Imp. 3 per Cent. 571-ii-
-4 per Ccnt. 7Si 751 Excheq. Bills, par is. dif.
5 per C. Navy, spi 49:1 Omnium, to •
5 per Cent. 1797, rent Englilh Tickets in 17s.
Long Ann. 17 3-t6! Conf. for Sec. 591 fro 591
DUILIN. JANUARY 4.-5 per Cent. Gov. Deb.ll9i.
Excl4ange-rDublin no L9ndao, 9 a 91.

Yefterday a Court of Dile/tors washeld at the Eali
India Houfe, when the Molt Noble the Marquis
CORNWALLIS was unanimoufly appointed Governor
General of India.

A tingle French Paper, of the date of December
25, has been received, which fpcaks of the mon. vi-
gorous preparations making itt Spain to carry on the
war againU England. A voluntary fufeription, it is
Paid, has been fet on foot, which promifes a powerful
fupply in aid of Government. An attack on Gi-
braltar, it is Hated, will certainly take place early in
the fpring.

Some private accounts are raid to have beet re-
ceived from Holland, which (late, that the meditated
change in the Batavian Conllitotion has been delayed
for a few weeks, in confequence of a reprefantation
made by the Minifter of a Foreign Power. Mean.
while the plan is t 3 be fubmitted to the revilion of the
prefent Conflituted Authorities at the Hague. We
know not how far this liatement is correß ; but we
fhould not be furprifed to find, that the Republican
Body Politic will be allowed to drag on a feeble ex-
Mance, fo long as the Public purfe is enabled to fee
the Dator at Paris !

Letters from our fquadron off Ferrol, dated the
ift iuitant) havc been received. By them it appears,

that on the 3tft ult. all communication with the
;bore was flopped ; and on the fame day Admira
Cocoanut fent a flag of truce into Corunna,
which returned in the evening. On the following
day the Admiral ordered fignals to be hoifled for
the detention of all Spanifh Thies.
The following was the firfl order for the making
reptifals upon Englifh property, iffued by the Prince
of Peace, upon the 29th of November. The effect
of this order, it will he obferved, is totally fuperfeded
b., the Mandell°, in which the King of SPAIN pro-
miles to condemn every capture in his Courts of
Admiralty, upon the mere proof of its being Englifb
property, and abandons the Royal claim to the ufual
pal ts of it :

" The conduct which the Erglifh have obferved fine the evert
of the
.ith of Onober, is almoft ittfufferable. They attrck CU!
Mips of war in whatloevtr fituation they may appear, and deta'n
our commer velLis, obliging them afterwards to return to the
ports from whence they eatue, In that the (Mien of their voyage is
whnlly fruffratcd. Thefc hifUle proceedings hare corfinine.
his Nhjelty to abandon the pacific fentiments which he has cot,tii.
dead heretofore troft conducive to the happinefs of his beloved
fuhjecii ; and be is th,:refore driven to the neeellity of procuring
fatisfaetion for tilde inlults, by making reprifals en Foglith pro.
perry (as is done with refpcdt to Sparith property in England.)...
His Majcfty, however, requires that the feizures confequent on
this arrangement should be proceeded in with fuch method and
regularity, that the effets may be preferred entire, and uninjured,
until Cie further plcafure of his Majefty be made knows refpeift.
ing them. The command for this purpofe, which this paper con.
veys, is to be immediately obeyed, under your direction, and you
will confider the Peeps proper to be taken refpeeting fuels commer-
cial traufaetiems as are yet in progrefs, in which fuch ef.
feels may bc concerned.

.; Ey order of the Cofulado. Cadiz, 17 NOl. 1804."

We have received American papers to the 6th of
Dec-mber.

Thcy contain a very long account of the bombard,
meat of Tripoli, by the American (hips of war in
the Mediterranean.

It appears from documents laid before Congrefs,
that the American finances cantinue to improve.—
The rum atually exceeding the %opal expenditure
ariling from the various articles of taxation, was
greater than the whole of the furn to be paid to
France for the cellion of the valuable province or
Lou:liana. The enimate of the expenditure for this
year is not more, under the different heads of Civil
Lin, Miliellaneous Services, Expenses of Intercourfe
with Foreign Powers, Military and Naval Ellablifh-
ment, than three millions three hundred and feventy-
five thoufand, tour hundred, and thirty-fire dollars.
It is, at the fame time, calculated, that there will be
paid before the dole of the year, feven millions, four
huddred and fifty thoufand dollars, applicable to the
extinction of debts miring out of conventions exilling
betwiit France, England, and the United States.—
such is the cheering profpeft which the Americans
have before them. Such is the contralt betwixt the
expenditure of ,he United States, and that of the fag.
tious, turbulent nations of liurope.
Letters from Baltimore nate, that Prince Jsaome
and his lady left Baltimore in the beginning of De-
cember, went on board the French fi iqate le Pre&
dent, which conveyed the French Ambaffador to
Annapolis, with the view of taking their paffage v.)
France. But it is neceffiry to acid, that the motions
of this frigate were clofely watched by the I:cvdo-
tionnaire, an Engin frigate of equal force, which
anchored in Hampton Roads a day or two after the
Fi each frigate entered the harbour. It is much to
be queßioned, whether, under theft circumflanceb,
Bro:her jiltOrdil would riik a pairage to Europe, and
on that account, the report appears the more proba-
ble that he went on board le Prefident on the 31
of December, but returned to his country fiat on
the sth, either from defpair of eluding the vigilance
of our blockaah: frigate, and confcioufuefs of what
would be the refult of an engagement.

There papers (peak of the capture of a French fri-
gate from Guadeloupe, by one of our cruizers, which
carried the prize into Barbadoes. The frigate is
Paid to have been taken after a fevere engagement.

The Captain of an American veal, arrived at
Be ton about the end of November, from Martinique,
Rated politively, that for fome time previous to his
failing, the blockade of all the principal ports of that
illand had been diccontinued. Great numbers of
American veffels patted through our cruizers with-
out moleliation, and even where an appearance of
the blockade was kept up, they fuffercd little or no
interruption.

Congrefs, it appears, is about to frame a variety
of regulations refpeeting the mode in which the com-
mercial intereourfe with the black empire in St. Do-
mingo is to be carried on. The advarvages which
the United States will derive from this trade mull,
for a confiderable time, at leatt, prove very eaten-
live, and no doubt all pains will be taken to render
it as lucrative,and as little dangerous as potlible from
any bidden difplay of caprice or cruelty on the pan
or the Black Government.

The Upper Canada Gazette of the 3d of Mr:ern
her, contains an account of a very dillrefling (hip-
wreck on the lake Ontario.

Yefterday at noon, a Cabinet Council was held
at the secretary of St rte's Office, in Downing-fireet,
at which the LORD CH ANCI•LLOR. the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, the Duke of MoNransF, Earl
CAMDEN, Vi count MELVILLE, Lords HAWKESBURY,
Mutcative, and CASTLEREAGH, were prefent. the
Council broke up about tour.
The Members of the Houle of Commons arc com-
' ing to town very fall. They with to know, in pro-
per time, what fide they Arc of.