Star.
London, England, 1807-05-01 00:00:00

SPRING F.ISHIONS.

As repainted and deferibed in LA BELLZ A .._sscsasstv•..or Bites
COORS' and FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, rthillhed this day.
ENGLISH COSTUME.
No. i—AN EttNINO OR BALL PRESS.
A round drcis of !oft white fatin, with fhort train, (lathed fleeve,
and (spare bofom, Made to fit cleft to the form ; embroidered
round the bottom and bofom with a delicate border in filver. The
thawl drapery, formed of a large rquare of pink patent net, em-
broidered in correrpondent border of Giver; wbica, by eroding
the back, and being confined with a broach on the left (boulder,
farms the tunic drapery (now fa much in eftee.m) 'by the aid of a
Engle pin only. Silver cord arks' taffels, rufpended from one fide
of tke figure. Large diamond broach in the centre of the bofom,
continued in a chain to the bottom of the waift. Drawn tucker
of Mechlin lace. Hair3n difhevelled curls on the crown of the
head, flowing in ringlets towards the left ear. Bandeau of dia-
monds finithed in the centre in the form of a cockle-(bell. Ear-
rings of a Maar form—armlets and bracelets of blended pearl
and hair. Pink ratio Soca, trimed with Liver fringe. White
kid gloves, ruched.
No. 3 •,..WALICINO, OR CARILTAOR COST:alt.
A French coat of imperial Patin, or twill rarities, of a lavender-
bloffom, or fight lilac colour; bordered at the writ, and entirely
round the coat, With a brocade ribbon! of the waded jonquil's
colour. A plain alking deers of the fineft French cambric, or
jaconet main, fcolioped at the feet in the form of Ikeda ; two
rows of open hems, or work, at regular diftances, immediately
above it. Habit bin at &nibs material, let in with rich point
bee in front g with treble. high cellars of late and embroidery. A
road breach of bright amber confine► the (hint at the throat, and
cos of a larger file ornaments the gown in the centre of the
Worn. A fads, the colour of the coat, tied immediately in front.
Indian turban cap, or bonnet of correfpondent materials, worn
'totally with a veil of Bruffels lace. Hair cropt behind, and in
&spit curie in front. White (mince parafol, with Vandyke &ars
fririe. York tan gloves, and kid aloes, the colour of the coat.

A FASHIONABLE PARTY,
• AT TX r fit KATI IN TARIII.
Farr LAD: —ln a round dref.. of Italian crape. of a bright
lason colour, over a white farina flip. A fhort full Been, and
mod bcdoin,eut low, with a tucker of French net. Converfation
bonnet of chip, ornamented with lilac ribband. Hair curled on
tie forehead; and in ringlets on the moulders.
SZCOND Leroy.— A round drefe of plain India mull muffin;
with long waif, full Ileeve, and frock back. A deep fall of Mechlin
lace quite rased the boffin. A Sort fads, of bright morone tied
bellied. A turban her, of morone,fatin, ended in checks, and or-
namented with field Soirees in front. Necklace and earrings of
mocho Rose hacked with gold. Hair cropt dole behind, and in
diasevelied awls in front. Long Angola !bawl, of a bright amber
colour, with a rich and variegated border. Wham kid gloves, and
loci of morose kid.

'3 DRESSES.

A MORNING WALKING DRESS 70i GENTLEMILN.•IS COM-
pied of a dark brown mixed coat, !appalled, with flat plated but-
tooriand collar bf the fame cloth ; or grecniOu mixtures lappalledr
IN pasted buttons, and collar of cloth ; and the coat mult be hilt-
tamed clefs op. Striped toilinet, or plain kerfcyntere waiftccats,
We brealked, and bound with filk; and drab-coloured kerfcy-
sere gontaloons, with Heikan boots.
burins Foxe 12rn ass FOR Clwrxxmax.—Confifts of a blue
coat, happened, fiat gilt buttons, and black velvet collar—a dark
glens got. 'appalled, flat gilt buttons, and black velvet collar—
or, a dark ofive brown coat, Lapelled, covered buttons, and collar
of the fame cloth. Thefe threat are literally the only coats that
are worn at prefent, and have generally the two or three bottom
buttons huttoued. Waittcoata of She white M. reifies quilting,
fingle-bre.fted—drab kerfeynicre breaches, with Wit ftrings at the
bare• Snow white narrow•ribbcd filk ftockinp, with flat es in
ftring.

iItNERAL 01111ETATIONS ON GENTLEMEN'S DRESSES,
FOS MAT 1807.
Evening EOM, wbich we bave already defcribed, are generally
blue, dark-green, or dark olive-brown; the two former have a
Lib button, and molt generally a black velvet collar. The morn-
ing coats arc mealy of dark mixtures, and arc, in general, made
luuble•brcafted; but :be fiegle breathed coat is confidcred the molt
f•dbionahle, and will undoubtedly thew its preponderance in a very
Mort time. Drab colour milled kerfymere breeches or pantaloons,
with licfliau or brown top boots, are coortantly worn.

Mrs. Smoot; s's Lady Mullah had loch attraftions
Le: night as could not fail of producing a refpettable
audience. She played as admirably as ever, and re-
ceived the loudelt plaudits. COOK I'S Madietho al.
though here and there he dilcovered the genius oldie
actor, was much inferior to his firft (lyle.
Ws. POW ti 'S 13Ensrrir—vris Lift night Ratter-
itlgly attended at Drury Lane Theatre. The chief
perfot mance was a new play, iutitled AL:4444..whia
"at very wsll received, and Mrs Powast.,2Mrs. H.
Amonss, Mr. Es:Agri:rat &c. sic quittcd then*Drei
" ith the vtiv.t ft commei;dation.

AFFAIRS OP TURKEt.

'CORR:

WITH THE PORTE.

" Off Prime's lead, on hoard Ids Wiefty's ffdp
the ROYAL GEORGE, Feb. so, 1807.
Nutw•irhfthnding the fincere and reiterated ef-
forts of the underfigned to prevent hoßilitier, no car-
refpOnding difpofition has been manitefted on the part
of the Sublime Porte.
" The Porte has not returned any anfwer to the
reprefentations which the underfigned has made by
order of his Government. in the conference that he

had with the Ottoman Mini(ler on de 25th of Ja-
nuary. Not even the leaft attention has been paid
to the reprefentations, though for the fake of the
Rrifteft accuracy, and in conformity with the re-
'Tien of the Reis Effendi, they had
,been delivered
in writing, in a letter addreffed to this Mini(ter on
the 26th of the fridmonth.

The underfigned, indeed, received, tome time
after, a N to from the Sublime Porte, but it did not
contain a tingle trait by means of which one might
judge with certainty of the fentiments of the Sultan,
relative to the circumilances which had given birth
to the late difctaions between the underfigned and
the Miniliers of his Highnefs.
" In fait, fo little zeal has been (hewn to preferve
the amity of his Britannic Majelly, that it was in vain
that the underfigned made repeated attempts to enter
into a negneiation with the Captain Pacha, though
in the propofitious made by him; the underligned
took upon himfelf to awed his inlimaions. The
Captain Pacha was evidently inclined to accede to
the pacific propofals of the nnderfigned, but the
orders of his Sovereign were not of a nature to afford
any hope tht: objea moll defirable, the prefervation
of peace, wuuld be effdled.
It only remains, therefore, for the under figned
to declare once snore to his Highnefs the Captain
Pacha, that the &kith fleet would avail itfelf of the
fir fl favourable wind to proceed towards Conilanti-
nople—fuch being the orders that the Admiral has
received from his Government. But being conflantly
determined to (pare no effort on his part to prevent
hollilities, the under figned a lfured the Captain Pacha
that. notwithaanding the menace of difputing the
palfage, not one Englifh veffel fhould fire a (hot till
they had reiterated proofs of the hoflile inclination•
of the Tusks—and he further promifed, that on his
arrival before Confiantinople, he would leave no rea.
fon to doubt that the pet manent objeet of his Sove-
reign was to defend the Ottoman Empire in lieu of
attacking it.

" The wind having changed on the [soh, the Eng-
lifh Admiral w rs upon the point of executing the
duty enjoined to him, when he WAS fent to there feas.
In palling the firll batteries, each of his Majefty's
vctrels had to fullain the moll terrible fire—but they
carried their moderation fo far as not to return a
tingle fhot.
44 It was not until tome time after that the A.
miral feeing Englith blood fpilled, had recourfe to
the means of necelTary defence. • The refult ibknown,
and the arrival of the fleet in it prefent flation, with-
out the !call damage to any of.the (hips, ought .o be
taken as a convincing proof, that when orders have
been once given to Br itith Officers, there are nc dif-
ficulties, no danger, than can retard their execution
a tingle moment.
• Hoflilities having beet thus commenced by the
Sublime Porte againtt the naval force, of hii Brim)
nic Majefly, the underfigned was at liberty to pat an
altual period to his iniffion, and to fignify to the
Commandant in Chief, that from that moment he
was at full liberty to profecute the war.
• However, the under figned will Hill give onemore
flaking example of the moderation and the defire
which his Sovereign would feel to the tall to be in a
fituation to confider the Sultan as a friend, and no
longer as an enemy.
The Sublime. Porte is already informed of the
conditions upon which the continuation of friendlhip
with Great Britain depends. It will therefore be un-
neceffary to repeat here what has been amply detailed
already ; but the underfigned will not content himfelf
with limply declaring that the Ottoman Government
is again invited to make its choice, to decide in a
word, whether this Empire (hall henceforward be
joined with France, or whether the engagements with
his Britannic Majefly, and his augufl ally the Empe-
ror of Rah, are to be renewed.
a The onderfigned has every poi3ible motive for
defning that the Sublime Poste Ihould renew theft
engagements. Great Britain has always had a par-
ticular predilation for the Ottoman Empi4v ; thefe
two Powers have fought together, and with fuccefs,
againll the prefent ally of the Sublime Porte, at a
time when this ally had Vied with.* degree of perfidy
which excited but one fentiment through the whole
extent of the Ottoman Empire ; and the diflinguith-
ei, though ill-applied bravery, which the Turks have
recently exhibited in their fruitlefs attempt to oppofe
the progrefs of the Britifh fleet, will prove to every
Englifliman an additional caule for regretting the
failure of the negociation, propofed by the-under-
figned.
" But it cannot be too clearly expreffed, that there
is not a moment to lofe. To accumulate proofs
of the pacific difpofition of his Britannic Majefly,
and thole to whom the execution of his orders are
entrulled, the Admiral need not urge that he has not
availed himfelf of the advantage afforded him by the
wind continuing favourable, and that he has con
rented to remain with his fleet at a difiancefrom the
Capital, during, the time neceffary for receiving an
anfwer to the underfigned.
In cafe this arrfwer fhould arrive to-morrow be-.
fore runlet, and that it contains firfficient and une-
quivocal affurances that the jug and moderate de
mends of his Britannic Majelly are granted, all hof.
tile demonflrations on the part of the Btitifb fleet
(hail immediately ceafe. But if the anf•ver (ball be
diElated upon other principles, *the underfigned will
have-to declare with regret, that his million is ter
minated, and that the Britifh Admiral will conform
himfelf to the orders which his" Government has en-
tru fted him with the execution of in the event of a war.
44 Requefling the Sublime Porte to accept the
affurance of his moll diltinguifbed confederation, the
under figned reiterates his atoll ardent wilbes, that it
may yet have the wifdom to regain the amity of the
two powers. whole generous efforts have been lo often
•empl y• in its favour with faced's.
(Signed) CHARM 41110111THSOT."

•
No. 11.
6..ard the Gym. Ounces, tit Prince's Mod, Feb.
Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Vice Admiral ofj
the White, and Krigbt of the Blith, knowing ;fiat
according to ars ankle in the triple alliance, the Sub.
lime Porte is engaged to grant the free paffage of the
Dardanelles to the (hips of war of Ns Sovereign; and
M. Atbuthnot, his Majedy's Ambaffador, having
informed him that the Sublime Porte, from partied-

lar eircurnliances, had conflantly exoreffed its defire
that this treaty timid be proceeded in, and that it
Mould be happy in feeing the moment arrive, when
they might be able to enter upon it without any in-
convenience; had given the flrongeft affuranees, that
all the conditions of the Paid treaty fhould, in the
mean while, be looked upon as remaining in full forte.
In this Rate of affairs it is impotilible for the Vice-
Admiral to exprefs the extent of his chagrin when he
faw himfelf attacked the day before yetterday, in a
hollile manner by the nuterrndi cables of the Sublime i
Porte, when he was performing the duty impofed
upon him, of pairing the Dardanelles.
" But though his Majetly's veffels had been (truck
by the (hot, and Mme of his fuhk.cis loft their lives,
tbe Vice Admiral, to give a proof of his pacific feAti•
meats, defined from filing upon the CAI" of the.
Sublime Porte ; but he felt 4 at the fame time, that
.if he experienced the faineliollile difpofition from the
other caales and ba!terieultis duty would then oblige
him to repel force by forte.
" It was with pain that he law himfelf c,impelled
to have recourfe to Allis difagreeable duty. But if
;tic-Sublime Porte bad not ma.le rife of other means
of refinance; the Vice Admiral would Rill have
flattered ininfelf that what had triken place was the
effee of .f.,me milundernand,ing, lift confequence of
infufficient explanation on each fide.
" But this idea very Gino vanifired ; for after hay.
iug palled the two cafiles tikbydos" and Sans, he
found a 11044 h-on belongijsg to the Sublime Porte,
formed in line of battle, and which began to fire upon
his Majeny's lquadron as fonn as they strived with-
in cannon flint.

" The French flag being hoifled upon the cattle
nF Abydns, the detertninotion taken by the Sublime
Porte to throw Hell-into the arms of France, could

no longer be doubted, norwithflanding the perfidy of
that natiGn ; of which the Sublime Porte had experi-
enced enough in Egypt.
Thc.Vice Admiral then law liiinfelf under the
neceflity of &Jiro) irg thole notst ithtlanding
the inflittairms he had recei-..,0 from his Sovereign
to afford the I'or;e, to the lafl moment, proofX of his
amity and unwearied patience.
" After having wirneffed a change fa aVolnte ia
the difpoliiions of the Sublime Porte, and his Majef.
ty's Ambalfador having afterwards fruitlefsly exliauf-
ted all the means of pacification, the Vice Admiral
finds himtelf under the nectility of &dating to the
Sublime P. that having it in his pgmer to defiroy
the, capital, and all the lutkifb veil-els, the plan of
operations %chic% his duty prcfcribes to him, is, in
confequence, very clearly milled out. But con-
' winced that the pia -and humane lifpcfr.i.,n of his
Sovereign induces him to punifb the guilty only ;--
' petfustded at the fame time that the Sultan and his
people are very far from willing to gi to war with
Great Britain ; and that of cootie the prefent mea-
tuses can only have been eccationed by the bafenefs
and the intrigues of the French with tome of the ad
vifers of hii Highnefs,'the Vice Admiral will feel
the utmott reluetance to render to many perfons
completer* miferiable by the horrors of war, and the
deltruetion of all the obitets of their attachment and
enjoyment.
"To avoid fatal a cataflrophe, the following is
the condition he propofes—' The Sublime Porte (ball
deliver up its (hips and veifels of war, with means
raki,:Kit for their equipment ; • and the Vice Admiral
will, in this cafe, engage not to mole( the city, but
to withdraw immediately, beyond the Dardanelles.'
" The Vice Admiral grants the Sublime Porte
half an hour after Ili.; tranflation of this note into the
Turkifh language, to determine upon this propofal,
protelling that if he is resift• d to the difagreeable
necefEty of feizing the Tor kith (hips of war by force,
and to commence the work of delltuelinn which he
has the means to accomplifb, it will be the fault of
the Sublime Porte, and not that of the King his
Matter. (Signd) " J. T. DUCKWORTH."

•
No. 111.
On board his Majefty's chip the ROYAL GEORGE,
" !war 'Prince's Mantis, Feb. at, 1807.
" SIR. the Frit Dragoman—This morning, at
day break, we fent a flag of truce with a note, on my
part, to the Reis Effendi, but the officer was not per-
mitted to land. I now fend the note a fecond time,
to make another effort, in order that it may arrive at
its dettination.. The objedt of this note is to 'demand
whether the Sublime Porte will be the ally of France,
or that of Great Britain and Italia ?
" As the Admiral muff a& in an hofiile manner
againa Conitantinople, in cafe the choice of the Su'
blime Porte Ih-bold not incline to car interells, but
to that cf. France, he has alto fent a note, the fub.
fiance of whi.h is, that he will (pare the capital, if
the Turkiffi Blips of war and the naval Rotes are
• delivefed up to him. The anfwer to the Admiral's
note muff be delivered within half an hour. The
Sublime Porte muff be refpon fible for the confequences.
1 have the honour to be, Sir, the Firft Dragoman,
yours, Scc. (Signed) " CHARLES ARBUTHNOT."

ro. IV.

" On hoard the Roe At. GEORGE, at Midnight, between the
21/1 and 22a of February.
" As it has been difcovered by our glaffes, that
the time granted the Sublime Porte to take its deci-
lion is employed in warping the fhips of war into
places more fufceptible of defence, and in confirue-
ing batteries along the coati, it is the duty of the
Vice-Admiral to loft no time. Confeqtrently Mr.
Arbuthnot is obliged to apprife M. Me Bey, that if
theft meafures of defence do not immediately ceate,
the Britith !hips of war will a& in the m-nner which
(hall be judged moil convenient to the intereft they
would with to defend.
His Imperial Highnefs may briefly give his
w•ird, in his own band-writing, that the engagements
with Great Britain and Ruffia (hall be immediately
renewed. The celerity with which the Brianh fleet
has paired the Dardanelles; is a proof that the determi-
nation already announced will be put into execution."
No. V.
" Fill, Oft Board the ROYAL GEOROZ, Feb S 3, lao7.
" The Anibal:factor was yederday unwell; to-day
he is fo ill that he cannot quit his bed, and is utterly

incapable of attateling to harmers. I have aril&
qoently'opened the letter Which -ydd have addreffed
to him, and eonfeft to. you, that its Eontenis are of
fuck a nature as to offend me. To tell a Wainer of
Great Britain, and a Bilitifis Officer, that the tug' oci-
ation they have opened Is nothing but a fcherne to
gain time, is a thing we are not accußomed to hear,
and Which, from our national chars her, we did not
taped to hear. One EnglA frigate only has been
'thin the Dard.rnelles, to cone& the boats that were
employed upon the coati when we were attacked in
a hoßile manner. I have every reafon tri believe that
this frigate will remain where the is till the receives
sr4, interior orders"; but when the joint me; or even
when my fqoadron fhall be j•,;ced by ail our naval
force, even that (hail not occalluti any alteration in
the rms 1 have propofed, and by which lam blond
in honour rigoroutly to abide. Betides, we have no
occafi .n foi any reinforcement, for the iefels Tod
fee before piu have Been fufficient to effeß that with,
out any damage, whith had been regarded by every
perfon here as completely impraCticable.
6' I declare to you Rill once again, both in my own
name and that of the Ambatrador, and 1 declare it
to you upon my honour; that we with for peace,
though we are prepared for *sir. The Sublime
Porte ir acquainted with the Conditions upon which
it may prefer ve the 'amity of our Sovereign ; and if
you immediately accede to them; the negnciatinn
may be terminated in a fatisfaCtory manner, in half
an hour. But I mutt sell you frankly, I will not eon.
fent to lofe any more time. I owe it to my Sive.
reign, and to my own honour, not to (offer myfelf to
be duped ; and thole who are capable of thinki,sg fn
meanly of others, Pliny become themfelves the ob.
of fulpicion.
" You are putting your (hips of war in motion k
you take every method for increafing the means of
defence; but if the Sublime Porte really vales to
Pave i,s Capital from the dreadful calamities which
are ready to burl} upon it, the thought r f which is
(hocking to our feelings of humanity, you «i 1 be fent
here very early to morrow morning with, full powers
to conclude wish me the work of peace, which Mr.
Arbuthnot would have, by this time, teL out to eon-
chide on (bore, if he had not been prevented by a vet y
ferious indifpnfition. .1 now declare to you. fir the
latl time, that no contideration whatever 'hail induce
me to remain at a dillance from your Capital a tingle
moment heynnd the period I ha% e now affigned ; and
you are fuffidently acquainted with the Englifh cha.
reCter, not to be ignorant that in a cafe of unavoid- '
able neceffi; y, we a-e left difp ;fed to threaten than to
execute. But underhand me well. Our °Weft is peace
and amity; this depends on you. I therefore ear-
nefily intreat you not en fuller yourfelves to be led
into an error by the infintraeir' ms of thole patent,
whole inlet ell it is to excite falfe alarms, and tedttska
which are the confequnces of them. .•
" As loon as harmony {hail be re-eflablifbed be-
tween us, you may recktm upon the affittance of the
forces under my orders, for the fopport ; f the Go-
vernment of his Impel ial Highnefs. and the protec.
tion of his Capital. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " j T. DIJCIEWOP.TH."
No. VI.
" SIR, On bozrl the Rot.“. Oeoaor,
" I have this moment had the honour of receivins
your letter of this morning, in whien it is Rated that
the Porte is inclined to enter into an irnnieJiate nego-
tiation, for the' put pore of concluding a definitive
arrangement ; and it is propofed that we on our part
fhould ar point a Plenipotentiary to meet the perfon
chofen on the part of the Sublime Porte.
44 Coufidering the very great importanee of this
affair, not only as it regards the Sublime Porte and
Great Britain, but the whole wi rld, I have come to
the refolution of perfonally condufling it, and I
therefore propofe to the Sublime Porte, that in order s,
to obviate any difficulty rr inconvenience, a Minifter
he immediately fent on its part either on board the
Englifh frigate aftually at anchor hefwe Conftanti-
nople, to which I (hall repair myfelf, or on board
my own veffel,. the Royal George, if that appears
more proper. In cafe this arrangement thould not
meet the ideas of the Sublime Porte, I propofe that
the conference fhould takelplace in any of the Prince's
itlands you may think proper. From what you
mention to me of the 'degree of ferment which pre-
trails among the populace, you.muß be nfible how
injudicious it would be to expole our negotiation to
be intetropted at every moment ;—and Kachtoi,
which you have mentioned a. a convenient place,
being on the Afiatic fide, appears expofed io the
double difadvantage of being remote from the feat of.
your Government, as well as the anchorage of my
(hips.
" In cafe the Sublime Porte thould accede to the
propofal which I make refpeeting the place of confe-
rence, you will perceive how neceffary it is to give
orders that all further hottilities ihould be difconti-
nued within the Dardanelles.
" I have nothing more to add, except that it is of
the utmoll importance I thould receive an imme•
diate anfwer. I have alto to requefl that one of the
veffels belonging to the arfenal (a fandal) fir mad be
ordered to remain near me, with fume confidential
perfon, for the put pole of cerrefponding whenever
it may be neceffary. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) "J. T. DUCKWORTH."
14 P. S. It cannot efcape your obfervation that
there is no precedent of an Admiral, or Commander
in Chief, quitting his fquadron. But the Ambatra-
dor not being in a fituation to condo& this important
negotiation, and no perfon but myfelf being autho-
rized to treat, I have determined to repair to what-
ever place we may mutually fix on as the molt pro-
per for arrangingan affair of fuch great conference.
I mutt obferve, in the mean time, the eight new cm-
btafures that have been fuddenly opened in the wall
of the Seraglio. This is another proof of a hoßile
difpofition, and I feel myfelf called upon to declare
to you, for the fall time, that if fuch meafures are
not immediately difcuntinued,• I (hall be under the
neceffity of commencing hoßtlities. If you are there-
fore fincerely difpofed to negotiate, it is become more
neceffary than ever, that the conference with me
thould take place without toting a moment, in which
cafe the truce' I have before propofed is limited to
two days. (Signed) "J. T. DUCLWORTII.."
No. VII.
44 On board the ROTA!. Groans, Feb. 24.
Slit—Your letter, dated yelterday at fun !et,
arrived here, at midnight, and, as well as the prece-
ding one, was opened by me on account of the indif•
pofition of the Ambaffador.
64 In reply, I have not a fyllable to add to the let-
[Town over.

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7 which I addrefTed to you on receiving your Era,
except that we are fill ready to negociate upon the
ci)ndiiions propofed in the Note tranfinitted to you
by the Ambaffador arid tnyfelf on the evening of the
22d of this month. I have the honour to be,
(Signed) " J. T. DUCKWORTH."

No. VIII. .
" On board the ROYAL Groacia the 14th Feb.
at five o'clock in the evening.
" Vice Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth being a con-
Rant witnefs of the preparations which are uninter-
ruptedly purfued, of the works which are continued
on the fame batteries, of the deigns manifeded to
ellablifh new batteries nn the fide of Scutari, and of
the bailie among the (hips of war, infids upon.being
informed without the lead delay, if there be an incli-
nation really to negotiate, or if it be meant to impofe
upon him. If the latter be intended, he gives the
Sublime Porte warning that it will not fumed. He
laments the dreadful cpnfequences which are likely
to refult from it, but he can at lead declare before
GOD and man that it will not be his fault. His mea-
lures are taken, and he only dues his duty. If a fa-
tisfaltory anfwer be not received within three hours,
commencing from eight o'clock, according to the
computation of the Franks, he will begin by feizing
all boats and reffels freighted with provilinns for the
Capital. and will put an end to the navigation of the
fea of Matmora."

No. IX.
" On board the ROYAL Grottot, Feb. as, den.
66 Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Knight of the
moll Noble Order of the Bath, and Vice-Admiral of
the White, has received and opened the letters of this
date, which have been addreffed to the Britill Am•
haffador and himfelf, by his Excellency the Reis
Effendi, and by the Dragoman of the Divan.
66 It would not be proper for Sir J. T. Diackworth,
as Commander in Chief, to repair to a place to diflant
from his Beet, as that mentioned by the Sublime Porte.
Rear-Admiral Louis, who is already fo well known
to the Sublime Porte, will therefore be ready to meet
the Ottoman Plenipotentiary when the Sandal of the
arfenal thall be fent to accompany him to the place
of conference, and will be veiled with full powers to
negotiate and conclude the work of peace, which is,
and always has been, the objeta which his Majeffy
has had molt fincerely at heart.
" In acceding fo readily to all the propofals of the
Sublime Porte, the molt complete proof is given that
notwithflanding the important advantages already
obtained, the Vice-Admiral feels the ilrongell defire
to re-eflablifh a gnmi undertlanding between the two
Courts ; but it cannot be too forcibly impreffed upon
the Sublime Porte that he will not lofe a moment;
ter, notwithftanding the unexampled moderation
which has appeared in the conduct of the Britilh
fquadron, all kinds of hoffile operations have been
profecuted on Chore with unremitted aElivity.
" The Britith Ambaffador is too much indifpofed
to reply to the letter of the Reis Effendi, and in con-
fcquence requires his Excellency to accept his excufe.
(Signed) t. T. DUCKWORTH."