Star.
London, England, 1803-01-22 00:00:00

s.t'illanAv, JANUARY :2.

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o.r.riurn 411 tor Fe.l:. 7i 'II;
PRICE OF Si OC.
?Ink Stock C 864
prr ('. 7C.:!!
cr C. cx-s. 7c;
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• ret C. Au,i. IC" Fl
5 per C. 1797, r:::C7.;
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Oninium 4
Eng 'I !ckc.t. I -1.165.
Co:.f. for acc. 71j

Ifette-d.t; was feto!ng day at thc Sto:k Exchang:; hut tho'
the tire in ;h.: Fun:, has been great fince the former fettling
e. r•, the fatinr were few, and of no importan:!. The eff• ct
r f t`le nrer.aions of the market vefterday, wa; to make the
r.t!,,r b^'tr at thc dole than at the opening ; and we
Lcpc tlila is only the commencement of a confide-able advance,

f OURSE OF EXCHANGE.
I Amid, 'dam, 36 •2 U. Cadiz 35 die& N:ples 41:
Do. at fight 3i 8 Madrid— paper Genoa 44
Rotterdam, 36 I 2U. Ditto 331effi.dt. Lifboii 67;
Hamburgh 34 3 tdell. I Bilboa 35; effedl Oporto 68
Alton 34 4 ail'. Ltghnm so Dublin 73
Park. I day's date, 24 8 4v.—Ditto, 14 12 2D.
IBourderaux, ditto. 14 t 3
1%1.0 o .I.3arik of Holland s per Cent.
DUBLIN, JANUARY 14.--STOCIL EICIIANGt.
Gotatirtusent Dcb. 4 pa. C. 49--
6 prr Ct nt Grand Can. Lean, dated I '9R, 1011.
Royal Can .1 Stock 3 a}—Diao Loan, 6 per C. 91.

We have rcccived Paris Journals to the zgth
infl. which prefent fcveral details d fume im.

portancc.

The affair of the Indemnities teems now to be
drawing to a conclufion. All the votes teem to
be in favour of the general Concluftim.
The projected tour of the FIRST CON S U I. through
Belgium is 11111 talked of, and preparations are
making in different places for his reception.
Theft are of a fplendid nature, as triumphal
arches, and fimilar demonftrations of rdeeti.
The Krac of Pausst• too means, it isrcported,
to vifit tome ofhis territories on the Rhine ; and
from this it is inferred tome convenient place will
be filed on for an interview between his MAJESTY
and the Purr Consul. ! The neighbouring States
will have no caufe for joy if fuch a meeting aEtually

take place.
The People in Switzerland feem far from being
fatisfied with their prefent fituation. They are
taxed to pay for the expences incurred in enflaving
them, and the arfenals which belong to them are
applied to the ufe of the French army, with as lit-
tle ceremony as if they had been furnifbed by the
ntl'ular Government. Some of the Swifs terri-
tory is alio propofed to be united to France.—ln
the prefe.ut complying temper of the reil of Eu-
rope, wintt can be expeCted but that BONAPARTE
fhould feize upon the whole ?
The moil important article however, prefented
in chile papers is given in the form of a letter
from Steugard, dated January 7, as if merely re-
porting the ltatements of Come German Gazettes.
It is not the fie ft time, however, that we have leen
recourfe had to this method of introducing new
Wewr of topics, which were afterwards infitled on
as etiabliffied p•inciples in the French Official Jour.
nal. The following is the article alluded to :

~If we can believe feveral of the German Ga•
zettes, very important negociations have been for
(ome time carried on at Paris between Lord
WHITWORTH and the French Miniller TALLEY-
Thefe negociations relate in part to the
evacuation of Malta and Egypt, ard to the iiffaiis
of Parma and Etruria. England requires a pro-
wife horn France that in no clic it will fend troops
to Malta or Egypt : but the French Government
kas rejetled this propofal, became no mention was
made of it in the treaty of Amiens. In regard to
the affairs of Italy, Lord WHITWORTH received
alfo a negative animer, and the more precife, as
France does not think itfclf hound to treat with
England on the aff-iirs of the Continent, fince that
Court, in the negnciarions of peace with Auftria,
took no part in the affairs of the Germanic Em-
pire or of Italy."
On the aLove flatement we Call only remark.
that, if trot, and we do•ibt it is more fo, nous id:
(landing v.-ay io sel.:ch it Appears, than many
of the 0:E, I einC: .1% of the ilfomitcaL ;
tiers Thouid give a vrry fh'irt anfwer to e‘ cry rt•
monllrance niade g our (till continuing
to of cagy t' ec= places. It ow..hit to he, I).1
w.l.vt.acc ; for otlicissifc we CAA L, vet
ur, till y. ,u renounce the u
base r ::• i,lll ir.ti ii.trclite in the
of air• f .": ••.:rt " On this fohjat, we
believe. -hat ut,ic one we .1J he:az:n.l is :l,e
Biatith

On ihic fuhicEt we prtf. • •• in the ti.llowir7 en-
Itunr,[442e FcForks how a mt:r rig riper tf this

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T( PT AIM MALTA.
(FE;O,I THE TRUE BRITON.)
No pei tons can will more anxioufly than we do
for the continuan:e of Peace.—The quellion which
now in,.erells us is, the nrdure of the conditions
on which we arc at liberty to preferve it. Mea-
lures taken on the part of any other Nation which
touch our Honour, or endanger our Independance,
tnaft be refilled by every energy and every effort
%rill()) the pcwer and refouices of the Nation
Lan f:t in motion. We may differ as to what
d:ts our I listony cr Independence—but thefe
tiiii)gs agreed upon, there is no difference in any
patty, as to the necernty of maintaining them,
at all hazards. It becomes a nicer queßion, and
one in ssll,l, P-lioy as well as Right is involved,
Cit!ln'tninc what meafures ought to bc taken in
opposition to a.!ls Acyted by any nation, which
aff.:4l our Interyh—though even Mr. Fox, wedded
as he appears to be to Peace, fought through the
nadiam of fubniiilion, will not deny that Reps;
say be taken which threaten fn decidedly our
feraial intereas, that arms ought to be refurted
to in their defence. The point in dilpute upon
fuck occafions will be this— whether thole inte-
ref's which are endangered, are of fidficient im-
portance to render it prudent and politic to have •
recourfe to arms for their defence f—The thing in
queflion may in itself be unimportant, but the point
to confider is, whether, if it be obtained by another
Power, the potreflion of it may not endanger Tome
great and effential intereft —and in determining
this, the general difpofition towards us of that na-
tion which attempts to deprive us of any advan-
tage, or to place itfelf in a liable fituation with
reilarel to us, is to be taken into confideration.
The poll;:llion of the Ifland of Malta is of little
ufe either to the Briti(h Empire or to France, ex-
cept in cafe cf War, when it is of great importance
to either, as affording the means of attack. It is
on this account an objea of jealoufy, and it was
very wifely agreed at the Peace, that it fhnuld be
placed in a Rate of Independance of both Nations.
Such is the fpirit of the Article in the Treaty of
Amiens which relates to this Ifland. To attain that
objea, the different points to be attended'to, are,
the guarantees which are to fecure its independent
poffeffion, and the appointment of the Grand
Matter of the Order of St. John, who is not to be
under the influence of either. Whenever thefe
points are effeaually fecured, (and his Majefly's
Minifters will ufe their fair endeavours to adjult
them), it would be a dire& violation of the Treaty
of Amiens, not to furrender the Ifland—but until
they are Co fecured, it would be unjuß on the part
of France to require it, and prejudicial to Britifh
interefts to relinquifls its poffellion. We do not
Rate thefe things as doubting the intentions of his
Majefty's Milliners, but with a view of fatisfying
the Public as to the line of condua which it is their
intention to adopt.
France mull chiefly defire the poffefflon of Malta
as a Rep to Egypt ; and Egypt, as affording the fa-
cility of attack upon our EaR India poffeffions ;
for Malta can never be very effential towards any
other ()Ned, and can never pay the expence of its
maintenance; and a French colony in Egypt though
it might produce objeas of curiofity for the Sea.
vans, would never furnifh any important article for
the commerce of France. The oppofition, there-
fore, on our part, to French afcendaney either in
Maltaor in Egypt, has little reference to the value
of thofe places abitra:tedly, but to the confequences
which may be derived from them, and from the
certainty, that unlefs France looked to there confe-
quences, the would not trouble herefelf about ac-
quiting thole poffeflions. It is for fimilar reafons
that we look with jcaloufy to any interference, on
the part of Fiance, in favour either of the Bcys of
Egypt, or of the Ottoman Porte. We do not deny
the right to intetfere, but if the obica and end of
fuch interference, on the part of the French, be the
obtaii::ng a footing for themfelves in Egypt, the
fueeefs of fuch a projea might junify and require
refinance on the part of this country.
The Parliament will, we hope, in this Senior,
be as advetfe as in the LA, to :he low and fuhmif-
ve tone of Mr. For. He may, if he pleafes,
again proltrate himfelf at the feet of Bon APART',
but he mutt not be permitted to proarate Britain
at the feet of France. The FIRST Cousuc,he has
told us, is not more ambitious than the BOURBONS
—perhaps not—but he has more means, and per-
haps more difpofitirm too, to obtain the objeas of
his ambition ; and it is a good deal more to the
purp,le to tell us how to counteract any holt&
proyas of BrIN AT AR no than to drfcribe even inj
du molt atiiiriatia; colours, the dangers which
threatened ns in ti;c ietn Louis XIV.
A firm and decided tone,free from inlblence and
hanglitinef., and accomrar:ied with conciliation,
where cot.c::,ation can he admitted, us that alone
which becomes Great Britain at all times; and it i,
pecti!:atly e.Cled for et the prcfent moment. With•
out ba• born ing tir.juir fufpicions, without nitreafon.
ably anticipating dair;;.l,, explanations lhohld be
required tTen thole v.lirch, if .n, use
finm!J ct m:Jci is mat,: id;!:- .11.,:ting ns. Such es
the condua h %ye fir:r,:y :relieve his ttajcly's
2.liLt.lcr, will put fir , at d g :t tl.ey 7.11

preferve unimpaired our efential interells, anj
afFord the nation the beft chance of eflablifhing and
prolonging that which is In much conne&cd with
them, a real and fubflantial Peace.