Star.
London, England, 1806-09-27 00:00:00

GENERAL MOREAU.

The cireumllanee refpating this General men•
Honed in the fubjoined letter, if eorreft, may pat tly
explain the caulk of the late orders iffued in France
refpeaing the roads by which alone ftrangera are to
be permitted to enter Fiance :

' Greenock, September 33.

" Arrigni, on Sonde,. the Adgel, Mattafacc, from Lillwn ; left
the Earl of St. Vincent. with as fail of the line, and a frigate. His
Lordetip was living on Lore at a feat near Daum Cattle. It la
not true. a• Rated in hane or the Eng Papers, that be had drawn
out the Portuguefe into of war, and la as rigging them ; one Por-
tutu,* (hip of the Hoe, however, had failed a few days before the
Agri and Pomona for Agiers General Moreau. under the cha-
racter of a N'ell lottia planter, an Iticl.de Camp and fqvart,
lauded at Liftwo ..0 the or teth of laft mooch. To the Cap.
taco of the [hip (a laid& vela) that brought him there, he re
pettedly (aid, den"( the Pagbie,thit the Tato of Ik)urfte would
pfg be of bag dultkoe

FOREIGN JOURNALS.

We have received Hamburgh Papers to the tyth t,
Come of the (mailer French Papers to the tpth, and
Dutch to the 24th infant.
The military preparations of both France aid
Pruffia go on with fo much vigour, that we &null
confider war between thefe Powers as inevitable, if
we had not had many pr.?ofs of the vibratory politics
of the Litter. Both the German and Dutch accounts
agree, that the Pruffian army is very ftrong, and that
the different corps would have reached their &Infla-
tions by the middle of thi. month. On the Sart n
frontier they amount to upwards of one hundred
thoufand men, exclufive of a relieve of forty thou-
land, which is affembled at Calais Prince Honig.
Lour, who is to command in Saxony, lett Berns tor
she ars. on the 13th inflant. Refpeeing the pro-
ffrefs o the Ruffians, we are not fo well infringes:Fr
perhaps all intelligence refpeeting them is purpnfely
(uppreffed. We are, however, et:red okay are af-
fembling in Silefia. The Saxon army is alfo is reit-
dinefs to march ; and the khans, it is to be pre-
fumed, are not backward in their preparations
In the mean time, the conferences, both at Berlin
and Paris, are continued. Count Havowira. and
L•IrORIST,TALLRYRAND an4Gencral KIIOIIkIADORT,
have frequent interviews with each other ; and this
farce may perhaps be carried on until the intelli-
gence of the Sift action (hall have reached the French
and Pruflian Capitals.
The Swedes are dropping down into the EJt&o.
rate of Hanover. It is very likely Cone arrange.
went has been made, by which they are to cooperate
with the Pruffians. Their force is net very great—
twenty-6•e or thirty &inland men at moll—but it "
would afford incalculable benefits to the Pruffiane
in the quarter where we believe they are weakefk.

King Le yin returned to the Hague no Saturday
1411. Ibe movements of troops and tranfpnrra of
ammunnion are incetfant io Holland. Preparations
f r the rceepticio' 01
II•oikls ; but ii is it* likely he will take that diree-
ti..n on quitting Paris, particularly as we findlluaar
had pal Test through that town on his way to the
French capital.
The accounts from Nat Its come down to the end
of Auguft ; but they are fo confuted, exaggerated,
and milreprefented, that it is imponle to extraa any
authentic information from them.
Mott of the Auftrian prifoners appear to Lave been
really retlored by the French. The French, however,
continued in poffeffton of Branum) on the 4th intlant.
without any apparent preparation for furrcodcring
it to Auftria.
We cannot avoid direeling the attention of our
Readers to the heroic conclitt of M. PALM, the Nu-
remberg Bookfeller, who was murdered by a French
Military Commiffion at Brannan. This brave man
was offered his pardon, upon condition that he gave
up the author of the obnoxious work, which he
dauntlefsly refuted, eren at the place of execution,
exclaiming, di that Jie he would rather die than be-r
tray the author." A fubfcription has been opened in
Germany for the !widow and arty diklorst of Os
fortunate man ; and we doubt not that it will Le loc.
cefsful to the full extent of the means of eharityexift.
login that exhautiedcountry. But the cattle ref thiso' oter
man and his widowed family, is not tint caufc of thp
country which gave bim birth aline. Thee; is not
a nation which enjoy., or can appreciate the advan-
tages of a free pros, which isnot bound to do foams.
thing for them. We are perfuaded this hint will be
enough to the noble ardliheral difpofitiun of flip:ma.

Ye 11 erday Lord Howicie entered on his official dory
at the Foreign Office. His Lordffiip continued there
from twelve till two, during which time all the For
reign Miniflers at our Court wafted upon him.
Friday fehtnight a dpel was Vught near Two miler
bridge, Dublin. bet %seen Lieutenant K—ss, of the
Royal Artillery, quartered at Clonmel, and /11—t.
P—a, Efq. of that town. when,' after the difcharge
of two Abets each, the affair was amicably termirrated
by the interference of the feconds. Captain Ai—ch,
of the Artillery, was friend to Mr. K. and Mr.
O'D-a-s, of Clonmel, was friend to Mr. P.
Fears.—At ten o'clock on Tuelday night. the
Admiralty Telegraph, lately crated on Holston, near
Eseter, and which communicates with Plymouth, by
.tome accident caught fire t when the whole, together
with the glafTes, &c. were entirely defiroyed.
Sunday morning about two o'clock, a heap of aim.
berm which lay in the call era pro jefling portico f be
great tooth front of the New flank of frelsnd, its
Calegetreen, Dublin, was difcovered by a .pc,o.,n
paging by to be on fire t—he itottantly gaverhe also m
to the officer commanding at the barracks in George'
Moot, and party of the military war dititatctod
thither, who very actively began to rearm the op-
pirtnon part of the timbers, which bad not yet gush,
the dames ; the alma) became general. and Mc en•
sines were quickly upon the (pot and began so play ;
but what vrds much more effeetual, was the Witter
conveyed by buckets from the new ref-emir which
was luckily contiguous to the and had th: de.
tired rffect of entio ely and fireedily statinguileing the
&Tea in the early operati

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There can be nn doubt of the matter hating P?""
ceeded from a malicious inteotim, frnm the ei,curtu. 1
'lance of pitch, tar, and other combuflible in titer
having been futtrui among the 'Mince s, which matters
were not then in the beceffary work. now carrying
on in the building.
The injury done by this attempt is nut of much
enniequence ; the tri,,it material injury 14 that s.l •he •
three great c..lumits neared the CAW, 111 ring, Into
are fu much calcined, as to render their being taken
down and replaced with new MOM, a 11141/SE of
difpenfoble heceffity.

NAUTICAL ^7 iLLIGENCE.

It it with pkafure we announce the fare arrival of
she Leeward Wand fleet. confifling of upwards of
sou fail. under convoy of the Aomaamaor and two
Wyk..

GREENOCK. SEPTEMBER 24.
The Ariadne, WATT (a running (lip), arrived here
laR night from Demerara, failed thence on the 19th
AlignlF, in company with the Harriet, THOIIIOII, of
and for Lamatier, parted with her in lat. 0. long.
38. all well. The Europa, Oaa, of this port, arrived
at Demerara three days previous to the Ariadne's
failing : Spoke thebleaosato frigate in lat. 3t. long.
53.48. all well. Captain WATT palled through the
Leeward bland fleet, on Wednefday laR, in lat. p...
long. 24. 14 all well. Saw a French frigate, and alto
a corvette, on Thurfday, in lat. 54. 6. long. at. The
•rvette gave cline to him, for a few hours.

'FALMOUTH. SEPTEMBER s 4.
Came in the GANNETT Soap of war, from Ply-
mouth, to give inftruaions to the wails bound to
the Mediterranean, &e. and failed with the Phoenix,
Sumo, for Smyrna ; Fox, Laarry, for Gibraltar;
and feveral other edits, to join the ROTEL Gwaos,
of Ito guns, Vice Admiral Sir J. T. DUCTWOILTN,
who paired this port to-day with the outward bound
Lisbon, Oporto, and Mediterranean fleets. Wind N.

TORBAT, SEPTEMBER as.
This morning was landed here by one of the Tor•
bay Sating boats, a Gentleman and family frum the
Nip Boddington, Capt. SOIL, who left Tortola on
the td of Aoguft left, with about two hundred fail
of flaps, under convoy of his Kijelly's fhip AOll.-
if 11111011$ all of whom had arrived Cafe in the Englifb
Channel, and all in pedal health.

PLYMOUTH. SEPTEMBER SS•
Came in the Trafalgar privateer from a eruiae ;
Itellona, &situ, from Porfground ; Norway Lion,
Ivaasow, from ditto; (Dane) Haabet, Capt. Swain-
SON, from Alieant, bound to Tonningen, with bran-
dy, detained by the Indefatigable privateer. Sailed
the Hamburgh 4hip Dido, Captain Mota.sa, from
i4amburgb, to St. Thomas's, liberated from her de-
tention. Game in the (Ruffian) Zandainir Welfaart,
Captain Gaoana °Liao'', to Riga, with fair, detain-
ed by the Indefatigable privateer; Hoffnung (Olden-
burgh) Captain Diasa Pass...ans. to Varell, with
taly detained by the Hero privateer ; Benniniob,
(Bremen) from Bourdeaux to Tonningen, detained
by the Trafalgar privateer ; Johan Margarette ( Bre-
Men) Captain Dates, from Bourdeaus to Peter!.
burgh, with wine,detalned by the Trafalgar privateer.
WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 26.

Arrived the Greyhound revenue cutter, R. Witt's-.
Son Commander, from a cruise ; Rover packet boat,
T. (ty as, from Jerky and Guenafey, with mails and
parengers ; Nelfon pilot boat, J. Somme, from off
Portland, and paffed throegh the Weft India fleet laft
night, and landed here Sir J. Glass and Mr. Wit.-
saga, taken out of the Renewer, Captain Owns, s a tr,
from Barbadoes ; his Majefty's gun brig Locusr,
Lieut. from a cruise.