Star.
London, England, 1803-09-22 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.
His MMIRIIITT.SC ma—Holiday at tie NAG aloft

An account was received at Dublin on Saturday
!aft from Cork, that a •clfel arrived at that port, had
Ipoken a Gip of war on its way to England, with
difpatchcs announcing the capture of Martinique by
*Ault.

It gives us much pleafure to be able to confirm the
intelligence we communicated yellerday,of a number
of valuable prizes having been tent into the Forth by
our North Sea fquadron. In the Caledonian Mer-
cury of Monday I.Q, received this morning, we find
the following article on this fubjcd :

4, The following •tails, prizes to the Evwaztons
Cmorronos. and Cams!, arrived in Leith Roads.
on Saturday afternoon, laR from Braffay Saud t

- beech Sip & Has, from the himeritime, lades with weep.
esteem, pepper, &c.
"Imbed) French bey/arum America. with csetem sled Memo,
• La Pendulum and is Deity% two Frank rash. him
Iceiend.

" Zeeheft Dutch sip, from Surinam, wiM &gar, Nem awl
Mika

• NET/tunas Date' flip, from dk to, aidt ditto.
▪ Mariana, thdnelassa, of Liverpool, retakes.
▪ jobs. d Workington, frays Norway, makes."

In the preceding columns our readers will ind va.
sloes carats from the Hamburgh Mails which we
were yefterday prevented from giving by want of
room, and we fobjoin feventl other articles received
by the Linton Hail, from Leghorn, Madrid, and
Gibraltar.
It will be teen that the accounts from the two lan
mentioned places, bring a piece of intelligence
which !embed us form days ago through moths,
channel, namely, that Spain luta agreed to pay to
France a Ripulated fum of money as the price for her
neutrality, inllead of the naval and military aid
which. by the treaty of 1796, Ae was bound to far.
ai& to IPrarice, is cafe of the latter Wag involved
in a war with any power. A pecuniary castrated,*
of this fort malt virtually and elreati4l7 owl"'
iris fags a moral into as bofik power. U 114

familial a the flume of war," which is all that is
wanted by our adverfary, &toms, Vary's., and
com,mos fenfc, muR all agree that Spain can no lon.
ger Ricker bola behind the Alicia of a pretended
neutrality.
As to the "Ilion reported to have taken placn be.
tween Lord Nassos and the Algerines, though we
think it our duty today the accounts that have reached
us before the public, we alfo think it our duty to Rate
that we have ftrong reafons for difcrediting the ac.
counts in tom, They arc thefe.-.The Leghorn ictter
does not mention whet; the asaionlaappened,nor ;be
veal that carried dancers to Gibraltar twenty days
before the seth of Angnft, L e. on or ahout the 23d
of July t and the account of the Aim; was Paid to
have been brought in there by a Greek 'Orel form
days before. Now, we know, by letters of a later
date than any of the above received from Gibrahat
by the goats frigate. which arrived three days ago
with difpatches from Lord Nitsow, that on the zoth
of Auguß the Ameatos cotter arrived m Gibraltar
from our fleet off Toulon In 28 days, and that this
vela; bad heard nothing of any fuch engagement.—
It cannot therefore be true that an anion, fuch as
has been reported, took place in July. Indeed, had
it happened, it would have made part of Lnrd NsL.
son's difpatches, and would no doubt Pave beet'
officially commu-icatcd to the public before this
The letters received by the lloats, to which we ha
alluded, fhall be Lid before our Readers to-morrow.

.. X.EOI-113RN, AUG. is.

g• An engagement lately took place between an
Englifb frigate and an Algerine flotilla, in which the
former was obliged to efcaps to Malta ; from whencs i
two (hips of the line and two frigates proceeded
againfl the flotilla, and ftranded feren of the veffels
belonging to it, Anil confidexably damaged the tar
maining fix. The confequenee of this affair has been,
that the Dar of Algiers, as foon as he haarcl of it,
caufed all the Englifh rending at Algiers, to bs
thrown into prifqp, and their property to be con
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cited. The news face reached the beet of Ad/M.
ral Miaow, who immediately fat fail to AlgkP With

revel; frigates; when he appeared before the harbour
be fent a flag of wuce to demand Immediate fatlA
failion. The Dar would give no aafwer to the
mange t—but canted the veffel to be foiled. Lord
Ner.sou, after waiting a confiderable time for the
taunt of the ve&l, at LIR gave orders, about
midnight, to bombard the town of Algiers. A tre-
mendops ruing of booths and red hot balls thin en.
fued, which fpread terror and devaiiation through.
out the whole place. ;hidet there clreginflances
the Paw feat a Rag of won. Lord Nettou infonne4
the perfoos who came, that be meld give ;heal no
enterer for fame hours ; and, in the mean time, by
ordered the firing to continue. The bonthardmegt
had already lafted so hours, when another veffel ar-
rived, with a declaration that the Del was willing
to give up every point. provided the bomberameet
on the part of the Engin would code. Lord Nst.
sou is Paid to have. propofed the following tame,
namely—That all the Englilb lhould be let at liberty,
and their property rellored ; that all the Raves at
Algiers timid alto be let at liberty,without dillinflima
of any nation ; and that they Ilsould be delivered pp
on board the Englith thips; that Algiers should give
an siftwauce, that in future no Neapolitans or Tofcans
!Mold be made Oaees.l4l Ala that the Pet thoul.4
immediately pay socoots fequins.7,l

MADRID, AUGUST sy
" I have the pleafure of informing yen, that thq
intelligence which I lately communicated is eon 6
beyornl the riGbility of a doubt. Our Neutrality.
during the prefent war between Trance and I:ingland.
is now completely fesmnit two difpatches arrived
LIR night from Par one one to M. Zoo auouvtsts
the French Ambalfsdoi, and the other to,' Or On.
Terms/at, containing the happy news."
[Other letters Rate. that general Pluminations took
place on the inyful omens ; gad tint a fktntlar cow
munieatioa had been difpatelsid by the Frsech
vernment to Portugal, confirming alto its Neutrality
for the payment of One Million and a Half &alibi
per annum.]

01111LALTAIL AM UST 7.
" On the ad the convoy for this plugs and Mute,
confining of twenty-eight fail, with the Simmers.
Aalow, and Paavovaistr arrived here in twentr
one days from Portimoudr. They captured a priv
teer and a Spinals (hip with French property on board,
which they brought In here.
" On the 4th Admiral Gummi. fkiled in the Ca.
morns, to juin Lord Neceou of Toulon ; and tit
Tampa, Sir ROW? BARLOW, being now cow•
pletely Spoked, Will immediately fail alto to join
the gees. _

" By a veirel from Leghorn sra are balanced. that
fives Algerians had fallin w wilt oft of our convoys
is the night. sad fired upon them. and that as ac-
tions had in conatmenee taken place. itt which fonts
of the Algerian were lank. and others taken, This
Rory is not iselprobabh. as we bow to a certainty.
that the Alserimes had already taken four Malaga
vefels vadat Eaglitk eolo i, sad with Will Po*,
as board. sad carried tbqui iota Meer%
staking naves of the crews.
" There is ao doubt. however. hada she news
pewee MI. that the insolence o( tbeh tiros "111'
'fob be haaablad by toed Nat.soir, ar his Lordhip
bas received orders to had Mr. Tasctia• 'dor Ccarul
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&mita -lately) with a fufficient naval force; to
oblige the bey to receive him again, and to libernte
the Mahere he has taken.

The condua of the Spaniards is Hill doubtful,
they are bufy railing men for their army.
" The MEDUSA, Captain Gots, has juft arrived
from a cruize, bringio in the French Weft Indlaman
I'Aiman, from Martinique, with fugar and toffee,
bound to Marfeilles, goo tons burthen.
" Arrived alto this morning the brig Margaret,
from Civita Vechia, in 24 days. The Captain reports,
that a body of French troops had palled through the
Pope's dominions towards Naples, but that they af-
terwards retired from all the Neapolitan and Roman
territories, except Ancona.,
He alto lays, that he was convoyed by the
Now frigate from Civita Vechia to the north end
of Corllca, and that on the page the Nosisa's
boats were fent to attack two French privateers, but
were repulfed, having 12 men killed or wounded.
.4 The TRIUMPH, PRIVOYARTZ, and two naval
ftorefhips, have juft failed for Malta or Toulon.

" tellerday morning the convoy failed from this
place for Malta, confißing of ten fail of merchant-
men and ftordhips, with the SeaHoass and ARROW.

" The MiDU SA failed on a cruise to the weftward
in the morning, and in the evening we were alarmed
at feeing her returning into the Bay with every fail
tet, firing guns, and making fignals of diftrefs. She
thortly came to an anchor clofe to the Mole, when
it appeared the had (ruck upon a funken rock, in
attempting to work out of the Gut, which occafton-
ed her to make a great deal of water, and will oblige
her to be hove down, as the has made a large hole
in her bottom.

44 It is generally believed here, that France has
contented to the neutrality of Spain, on condition of
that country paying a large fum annually during the
war; in which cafe, the FIRST CONSUL will derive
infinitely more benefit from the money, than he would
from the arms of Spain.
_ _

" Notwithltanding all the Spanith profeffions of
neutrality, they have lately !hewn fuch a decided and
unjuft partiality to the French, that it can hardly pars
unrefented by our Government.
" The Spanith ports in this neighbourhood (warm
with French privateers, who receive every affiftance
from the Spaniards they require; they are (offered
to carry their prizes into all the Swab ports, where
every French Conful takes upon himfelf the right to
condemn them. Every Spanith port has feveral pri-
vateers conftantly cruising at its entrance, and fo near
that our men of war cannot take them, being within
gun (hot of the Forts ; but they make no fcreple of
capturing every Eighth veffel, that offers either to
go out or in. Several of them are conftantly on the
watch under the guns of the Wand of Tears, in the
Gut, notwithftanding the repeated remenftrances of

the Officer commanding the fquadron, againft the
injullice of fuffering them to cruise under the guns
of the Fort. But the negle& with which that Govern-
ment has treated every refitouftrance made by ns,
has long been notorious, and if tome very prong
meafures are not adopted by Great Britain, they will
Puffer all the inconveniences of a Spaniffi war, with-
out any of its advantages. Had our Government
taken a decided part, and blockaded Cadiz the in.
Rant hoftilities commenced with France, the whole
Treafures which have been colleting all lad war in
South America, mull have fallen into our hands.—
Within theft three months, upwards of Te t err Mir.-
mous of dollars in fpecie and effeas, have arrived in
Cadiz from their colonies, and fifteen more are daily
=pelted, after the arrival of which, we than perhaps
know a little more of their fentiments.

" The infant the Spaniards heard of hollilities be.
ing renewed between France and England, they fent
a man of war fchooner out of Cadiz, to warn all the
French (hips they met of their danger, and in conk-
quence, eight rich French Well Indiamen took &eller
in Cadiz, which would otherwife inevitably have been
taken in palling the Straights.