Star.
London, England, 1802-10-23 00:00:00

on Wednefday the 171111TORIllts of 18 guns was
ra
direaed to fail froth Plymouth with fealedor4iss,
which are*not to be opened till the is so I
Weft of &illy. On the fame morning the e
tir ,
1:011111, of 14 guns, failed' withldifpatches and W
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fimilar fealed orders. In the afternoon the Niis-
ILL cotter was direaed to take in provifions for
four months, and to get ready with all poffible
teed to receive difpatches. Orders were received
at Plymouth on the fame day, to get ready three
fail of the line now in order for comniiffion.
This aaivity in the different departments, (hews
at haft, however poffible it may be,- by proper
remonstrance and firsinefs, to avoid the neceffity of
an aetual.rupture, that Minifters *are not without,
apprehenfion that the prefent crifii may lead, in
fpite of every effort, to fuch an iffue.
We have alfo to call she. reanUeetion of but
Readers to a circumfiance which we Rated font
days ago, and which Come of our totemporarieitli
who have not the means of acquiring informatics
on any point of *importance till unavoidable ac.
companying circumftances make it known to every
one, have fence had the temerity to contradia.—
We mean the notice given to the Renters of South-
fea Common to quit, in cafe Government should
deem it necefary to form a Camp.
. We again repeat that fuch orders have been
given—and more—that an agreement to that el-
fea has fine been ligned by the renters ! of which
thofewho have eontradiaed us may eafily fatisfy
themfelves by an 'enquiry upon the fpot, which
would be a much more cornet line of condua than
to give anonymous information as if from adhere* i

DUTCH M4IL.

By this conveyance we have received a few par.
titulars Tell:teeing the preparations now making
by the French to enflave Switzerland.
*Letters from Amfterdam Of the 15th, and from
Brnffels of the nth intl. hate, that according to
intelligence from Luxembourg, the General of
Divifion NIT, at Nancy, has received orders from
the Fren;h_Minifte.r at War, to-repair immediate•
ly to the frontiers of Switzerland to airtime the
command of the Friacktroops deftined to enter
Switzerland, for titeiforpofe of reftoring trasquility
h .
*that country -
This General, in confequence of there orders,
has already probeeded, with two Aides-de-Camp,
to Huniogen. Before his departure he fent notice
,to feverssl corpse forming the gmxifons in Luxem-
bourg, to proceed to Uppei Alface by forced
marches. We learn alfii that ten battalions of in-
fantry, and fix fquadrons of cavalry, from the
banks of the Nahe :and the vicinity of Mentz,
have been likewife ordered to proceed. to Switzer-
land, and that a gieat part of them are already on
the way.

A FRENCII itiflL
Has-aro arrived; but die iimitiant Do the solh
inchstivc,
.the only .jouriL4ls itai"ViaChed us, are,
:at titbit, entirely Went refisaing the Swifs—Lta
proof however that no anfwer, fatisfaaory to the
Coustm, has"been yet received from the
ikitriots. •

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Thefe journals re Welly occupied with Ails of
Government ntkAray interefting, and with long
official details of the proceedings of the French
Army in the Weft Indies, of which we have al-
ready had the fubftancis aoimiiits before received.
We however fnbjoin enrols of whatever appears
new or interefling. The per cents. $3 fr. 20 C.