Star.
London, England, 1803-04-06 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
3 per C. Conf. 624 4 F—Etltto, for May acc. 63i•
3 per C. Reduced Ifni ex. div.
Old S per Cent; Ann. 971 cx. di,.
New s per Cent. 96 ex. div.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

3 per Cent Conf. 61 6z 62i Imp. Ann. 111
611 62 611 I Conf. for May, 63i 63 64 63:
5 per Cent. Ann 96 961

Yefterday was Setting Day at the Stock Exchange. Several
failureewere declared, hut only three of any great importance.
Of there three, the Gentleman whole delleicney wal the molt
confiderabic, has time expreiTed a confident capcdetbq 31at
his principals will come forward, and enable hint to pay fi'tecto
(billings in the pound. °Me two great previous (adores, one
of which was declared on Monday, and is the fubjeEt of gene-
ral regret in the city, their account is laid to be very complicated.
It conitlts of what is called, in the language of thc Stock Exchange,
Pets and Cull, The Houfc, we underitand, has declared this
an illegal dealing; and a doubt is entertained whether the claims
under it will be allowed. The day was not by any means fo
difaftrnus as was expected. The 3 per CelliJ opened et 61, and
left off at 62,i.

We this morning received French journals to!
the 4th infant. The Monitrur does not, however,
prefent a fingle article of intelligence—the fmall
papers have not arrived.—Funds, 52 f. 3o c.
We announced yellerday that on the 29th ult.
there had been an extraordinary meeting of the
Senate at Hamburgh, occafioncd by a demand
made by M. REINHARD, the French Refidcnt, that
a certain Coufular Manifello againa England
lhould be printed in the Hamburgb Corrcl)adenten,
and that it would appear in that Journal on the
following day.
This important intelligence was fully confirmed
in the evening ; and we have received a copy of
the document in queftion. It relates to the prefent
difputes with France, and is not only highly lute.
telling in itfelf, but rendered peculiarly fo from.
the citcumftances attending its publication. It is
well known that the prefs at Hamburgh is under
a Cenfulhip, and that 'what appears in the newf-
papers publifhed there is fill fubjeded to the revifal
of the Government. M. RssNMARD fent the article,
of which wethis day give a tranflation, for infertion
in the Lorrefpossfesten. The Syndic confidering feveral
paftages of it as offenfive to England, Truck them
out, but the FrenchAinifter malted that the article
fhnuld be inferted in its otiginal fate. In cafe of re-
fufal he intimated that he Should quit Hamburgh.
The Syndic, embarraffed by the magnitude of the
affair, applied to a turgomafter for advice, but the
latter told him that he could do nothing but con-
yoke the Senate. An extraordinary meeting of
the Senate, as we before mentioned, was accord.
ingly held, when, fearful of giving any pretext
for the vengeance of France, and confident in the
liberality of England, it was refnlved that the ar
tide Should appear. It is inferted, however, with
the notice that it is by " defire." It is evident,
therefore, that this paper is in reality an official
Manifefto, and fome even think it is [tom %he pen
of the FIRST CONSVL himfelf.
The Rile and matter of this produaion, indeed,
are not unworthy of the official charafter which
belongs to it. The great objeft is to throw upon
this country the difgrace of a breach of faith in
not fulfilling the Treaty of Amiens. It is pofitively
aliened that there were no naval preparations in
the ports of France, except thofe defined for the
colonies. The King's Meffage is fpoken of as a
meafure that can be afcribed only to perfidy, to
enmity to France, and a defire to obtain advan-
tages which France ought not to give up. Threat,
ate held out that if war is to take place, the naval
firength of England may not be fufficient to defend
her. Laft of all, we have a detail of the fpeeches
of the FIRST CONSUL to Lord WHITWORTH, at the
Drawing-room, which it is clea'r Bowataare bad
premeditated. The document is important in con-
taining an official account of that extraordinary
incident.

Some of the obfervations are very curious. Thr
people of Holland, of Switzerland, of Piedmont,
of Lombardy, mutt (mile in bitternefs of foul, to
hear that France, if a war were to enfue, would
be fighting for the liberties of Europe ! The allu•
fion to the Treaties between the Vandals and the
degenerate ROMAPS is every way unfortunate. If
we are to compaie the parties to the Treaty di
Amiens (or to the other Treaties of France since
the Revolution), with the Vandals or the Romans,
which is the party that buys peace, and who is the
Vandal that appeals to his (word ? Have the Eng
boa tt a peace, without getting their money's
worth, as the degenerate Romans did, and are
the French the Vandals, who fell peace. and won't
deliver the commodity ? Or, are the Englith the
Vandals that fell peace, and won't perform, and
are the French the degenerate Romans ? The f.et
ic, that the author had Come confuted remembrance
of buying and felling Peace, and of the Gauls that
put the !Vora into the (tale, and down he clips the
companion, without refletling whether it was to,
the put pole or no. This affords a (Irong confir
motion of the fuppofition that the Pras•r Coxaut
is the author.

point to which all the argiments of the
Ft each Government go, is, that this ccotaary has

been guilty of a breach of the treaty. TM% „
facie, is the cafe, becaufe the treaty is not executed ;
but were there not reafons in the condud of France
to ju(ify our delay ?
The temper conspicuous in the Hamburgh :!a-
nifeao, is that of peevifhnefs and difappointment,
more than that of high fpirited fenfe of wrong !
From the whole of Bop:APAR-I'oi conduit in tills
affair, filch feelings feem to predominate ; he does
not go to war willingly ; that is, Miniflers urge him
wan explicit declaration before it is quite convenient
for him: he thought he could have gone on cajoling
Mr. ADDI mcrow ; but, being unexpededly flopped,
he findsthatr.:fpedablc Gentleman, as authorot the
meffage, perhaps a ,‘ lunatic or a fool." What
he may do in fuels a temper, it is not eafy to fee.
Had he received the news of the menage with a
lofty and indignant faience, we fnould have thought
him more prepared for war; At prefent he betra)s
impotence in every (cafe of the word. We do not
believe that BONI AAAA will give np any part tf
the Treaty of Amiens, any we do not knew that
our Miaillers call for any thing fa, the in the was;
of acquisition. We apprehend that it is fume
curity againft the farther projects of France th.,t
may be requircd. If Bonaraarr agrees to thc.l-,
the Treaty of Amiens is not cancelled, but con-
firmed.

Letters from Berlin of great credit Rate, that
one of Dortoc's objefts was to prevail onthe KL:g
of Pruffia to feize Hamburgh, for the purpofe ct
completely excluding the commerce of England
from that port, and from Germany ; DUROC faid
too, that if the King of Pruffia would not do fo,
and (it is added) likewife feize on Hanover, the
Fiasr CONWL would fend troops to do fo. To
this it is Rated, that the Cabinet of Berlin replied,
that Ins PruffiAn Majefiy was refalved to oblervc
the molt perfe& neutrality, and, if neceffary, draw
a cordon of troops round the former line of demar-
cation, and defend the neutrality of the North.
Other accounts of a more doubtful nature Rate,
that Bowsrsava has declared that, if a war with
England takes place, he is determined to have none
but friends or foes. This mull be only a rally of
paffion. He will not attempt to blotter with Rut•
ti.s and Pruffia. He knows whom he kicks..

On the whole, the afpesft of affairs has certainly
become more warlike, and the apprehenfion of
hoftilities increafes. For our own part, we very
much fearithat the tenting difpates will not be
accommodated, and that France, in the pretest '
moment, aims principally at gaining time, that,
as we obferved yefterdey, the • produce of the
French. Dutch, and Spanik Colonies may be gat
fafe home to Europe. She will rhea have the
means of war, laugh at oar tardinefs, and ex*
is the &cask of her own chicanery. Kleinert
cirght to bring the matter to inftant iffee, and not
allow tbemfelves to be cheated out of a portion of
time, valuable in itftlf, and doubly fo when, by e
fyftem of procraftination, they lumina the enemy
with the very limits of war. Is paint of found
policy, we very much doubt-whether it be'jnot the
duty of Minifters, as the heft means for ultimately
fecuring the peace of &trope, to fweep the ocean,
and bring every French, Spanifh, and Dutch (hip
that can be met with fife into Britifh ports.—Not
however as prizes, but as a Pimple duty of fell, pre.
fervistion. If the French be really defirons to main-
tain peace, they would then come fpeedily to an
explanation. Can any one who reads the following
document, publifhed by the authority of the nisi.
CONSUL, doubt of his ultimate intentions ? Should
we hefitate then in adopting that line of condu&,
which is belt calculated to frufirate his views ?

FRENCH MANIFESTO.
?lOW ?HI HAMBURGH CO RRRRR OHDINTII.

Pais. March 15.

• Fur Come Mouths, a war of Newfpapen andtqf the Preis hue
been kept up between France and England. nth fawned
m. re'y the dying ambers of an eatinguilted conflagration; the
lait coufelatloa of a ddperatc patty; the food of Come low
pawn and a few hungry &Mahler& The French Government
was far from attaching importance to Each matters. Notwith-
!landing fame skilleoltles in the complete awake of the
Treaty of And they Rill believed they might rely on the
good faith of the 11e.t.i& Government, and &reed their at-

tention folely to the re-edabliOunesit of the Colonies. Relying
hken the &mem& of Treatics, they fecurely difperkd the
remains of the Preach naval knee, which had best /Nevi a
prey it. the Ingallb Fleet. In that fittration, leadenly appeared
a rolemn Meese' Atm the Cabled or Squares, sod hemmed
all Europe, that France was making • cordidemble prepaer
t ons in the Ports of Holland and France; an Added' was
°Ad by Parliament, vomiting to the Moo of EN0....
curb estraordlamT means of defence as the tenuity of the BA.
tith Empire, and the besot: r of the Three Crowns might erqult
" Prom the Mho appearance of this bidelraerit
wham at SOW the gaff 1 beey, gleamy, or 4' weeiwfis Lat
any one care his quaver the ports of Finset and Hoßand, where
he will And only detached Naval preparations ddlined for the
Cotenant ; arty of one or two line of battle (hips
' and a few On the other hand, let him Inot at the
porta of Ragland flied with a formidable Naval force; an fuch
review one might be tempted to believe, that the Mcßae
the KING of ENOLAIID was mat ireay,if loch a farce
were not unworthy the Majdty of a Government. If one con-
the Iniluesicc of Failions in fo free a Country, one might
frppofc that the Ktwo vl Euo taxa had only had the weak-
hers to yield, if weaknefe were cumpatisle with the Arta quad!
.4 a King. In Mort, no ratilual motives remain to which it
•au be scribed, except bad faith—except a (worn enmity to
the French Nation--escept perfidy, and the &rim of oval,
lartakirg a [alma Treaty, for the fake of advantages err. cat

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wyg be molotabral, and de faerlice el which the boor of
France and the faith of Treaties forbid.
When a man reads this Maar, he thinks hinsfell tranf-
lortgd to the times el chafe treaties which the Vandals made
wish the &genet= Romans, when force ufutpad the place of
tight, and when, with a hefty appal to arms, they infulted the
artagorat dig mew to sock. In the pretest fate of drill-
',grim there is a refped which a great Monarch, which a po-
Biked people owe to themfeives, were that refped no more
than to trek a plaudbk pretest for an unjuit war. But in this
Whoa every thing is precipitate, and repugnant to decency
and to jetties. An eternal war would famed a dreadful con-
ceit ; and the mere unjuit the attack, the more irreconcilable
would be its anlinelity. _

Seeh a novelty will doobtlefs excite the difapprobation of
Europa While even the Englifb, whore national pride had
not eon,* Winded them, fished at this profped, did the
Tons call the Peace of Amiens an Armiltice, and in doing
63 pared the fevereft retire on the Government it defended;
and the rapid fall of the National Ponds is the firft prelude to
the misfortune which may follow as the revenge due for the
wound given to all coda rights.
01-he French are lets intimidated than irritated by the threats
of England. They have neither been &Spirited by their re-
vcrks nor elated by their vidtorles; in a war to which there ap-
peared no terminetion,theyfavr all Europe confederated ag,aink4
them. Their cockney, their courage, and the prompt acti-
vity of the r Government, brought it to a condufion. Thu
war would have a different object. Nonce would contend for
the liberty of the States of Europe, and the facrednefe of their
Treaties; and if the Englifit Government be determined to
make it a national war, perhaps her boafted formidable naval
arength would not be follicknt to deeike the refult, and to fe
•
cure the victory

•
" The French, ftrong in the Janice of their cads, and In the
ethildenee they rcpok in their Government, do not dread the
sew caritas and new facriices which fuett a war might render
mmedfary. llseir fyincm of Seance It more amok and left arti.
1411 than that abandon, and fo mach the mare folkL It all
Sea in their foil and in their courage.
"Os *viva namottbelinglith mirage an eyes were rented
In the Cablest et OW Thelikrier. As mad trilling motions
smeduel s aimoillier d impertanee, its mon unpremeditated
wards wasargetpernght op. Every one-impatiently mooned

Ns ism* der trtsprdentsdae of foreiguers. which Madame
*mots both onto a month. Every one was prepared t 6
Into fosse haleranos boot it. It was as fplendid to ulnal.
TheFtr*Canfnlmolelags appcarame, and fad on his entrance
amballasilib Asithafador, who was banding beide M. Mark off,
Velma bus at war kr melee Team The Xing of England
brim hand, meldniimentsfe naml preparations. He Ms
Ipso led bewail www. Is the French ports there are no prepara-
tions of anputagoltutie. The whole Beet is gone to St. Domingo
mad the Caries. Wltittegerd to the ports oilloilard, to which
the meßs flaw & alludes, there are only the preparations for
aka ispedition *liar asweral Perron and all Europe knew
ds theloadon Ss Bar Lositana. The King rays farther,that be-
•wain the Cabinets of Paris and Laudon differences continue.
Uwe stone. le Is misethet England ought to haw evacuated
Pei* ad Malta isnot owsensted , end as his
hishmuldhimidily the molt Neon Treaty ever enter-
* *Dolt shwa* Is doubt tithe fpeedy evacuation of this
hoar Comm.. !• thole who would
lOW* ft *shun *a heath Peoph Budd know, that it is
~ileMb hot masa hdneMme
" &MN lb awed, of the oreelng. whoa the ham Con-
,* bruit to be sear M. Maass*. he hid to kWh bait
afig. 'ells the Drift Mbar, wig to Imo Mahe far eve
fins mew Ea* a premed was lathing. sad no haulm
lIMME be ontarod Into which it was oat TAMA to obferve:—
• tha onsdolut birth, Aim** whoa the Ugh& Molts&
Mw was shout ft **Rho ham Comm. fall to Mai., M.
• dose. ths Delhi of Doris* has lose the onplesfant
• paw et he yaw et Pm* It hasp loam ill& that to may
•a* ilpmd the weals Gahm Bet Pit basil happm that
• we really End go so War, the rafpostihility h
• with Ode who dory the validity of thdr own eastradMinct
• they teak ss abhrve Treader whieb they had anotiod:

`Theft wore of the !Naar Collura require no retest.
Tbi impish. coorkedy his preket opinion, his pat mei"
and Us whistles he the tome. It h ascot to eemare
theta with the otreverfedone, the &picky. the evelkok'sad
the Meths* of the loglih Oovaturocat. Is order is be enabled
to deckle an the JOIN if the Ante

On Monday night a Msfenger let off for Paris
with difpatches, which are reported to be of the
higheß importance ; and yeflerday the Cabinet
Council fat twice, once in the morning, on dill
patches received from Lord WHITWOKTH, and
again in the evening, on the French Manifeflo.
The report is again revived that Mr. Pyre. is
to come into power; but it is now laid he refutes
to come into the Cabinet while the queßion of
Peace or War is undecided. One thing Rated is
however fo extremely difrefpalful and improbable
as to render the whole very doubtful : His Ma-
parr, it is (aid, has not yet been eonfulted on the
change! only a association is on foot with the con.
feat of Mr. PITT and Mr. Anoint:row ; and Mr.
PITT and Lord hist.vitt.a are to join the Cabinet,
and Mr. ADDINGTON alto to remain in it.

This morning we received the following ac-
counts from Gibraltar :
CHRRALTAR. MARCH 14.
. " On the lath the liscroa failed for England,
and the wind having been eagerly almoit ever
&cc, an ignmenfe number of vale's have pated
the Straits to the Weftward.

14 It was extremely cold IA night, and this
niorning the whole rock wits cowed by a fall
of foow nearly two inches deep, a phenomenon
hardly ever remembered here before.

" On the t lib. the Bth or King's Regiment,
were reviewed by his Royal Ifighaers ; they were
eitremelY weak in numbers. there not being :so
men belonging to the regiment bere—bat in point
of difeipline and good behavioor, they are one of
the fiefi regiments in the garrikn. They went
through part of the manoeuvres in a very interior
kyle, but the badnefs of the weather prevented
:tea firing on the oeekfies2"

CORN MARKET,MARK-LAAVR, APRIL 6.

There have been a few arrivals of Wheat, &c.
fence Monday tail. Sales are dull, and the prices
on the decline.

BREAD.—Yefierday the LORD Mean' ordered
the price of Bread to be continued the fame as lad
week, viz, cid. the Q2artern Loaf.

Yefterday morning his MAJESTY, attended by
General Gwyws, Equerry in waiting, rode to the
right of Afcot Heath Race Ground, and there met
the Earl of SANDWICH and a number of Gentlemen
Sportfmen. At half pat ten o'clock the Royal
Deer was turned out of the cart for the day's di-
verfion, and the weather proving fine, the (port
was as good as any hunt this feafon.
Her MAJESTY and her Royal Highnefs the
Princefs AUGUSTA, attended by Lady CAROLINE
Doel4 ea, and other attendants, walked to Frog.
more, where her MAJESTY and the Pat/scams
amufed themfelves in the gardens during the
morning.

Her Royal Highnefs the Princefs ELIZABETH,
attended by Mrs. DILI: Gitosysmoa, took an air-
ing in a phonon in the Great Park, accompanied
by their Royal Highneffes the Princeires &masa
and AssiLta, on borfeback.

Yefterday about one o'clock the Princefs Malty
took an airing in the neighbourhood of Fulham.
Yefterday morning Sir W. Perron very hand-
fomely decline& prosecuting his petition againft
Mr. HAMLYN WILLIAMS, the Sitting Member for
Carmarthenthire. It feemed by the fpeeches of
the Counfel on both fides that it was a meallire
univerfally approved by all the Gentlemen of the
County.
Lord Caatincrom fet out yefterday for Deal
Caine, of which he is Captain, in order to infpeti
Come additional works that are ordered to ftrength.
en that fortrefs.

Monday the We(tern Battalion of Eden Militia
were embodied at Chelmsford, under the command
of Sir W. &corn, Bart. and the Eaftern Regiment
affembled at the fame time at Cokhefter, under
that of Colonel BULLOCK.
The South Gloucefter Militia affembled on
Monday fe'nnight ; and the fame day the North
Gloucefter were embodied at Cirencefter.

The Royal Pembroke Fufileen were embodied
on Wednefday laft, at Haverfordvred.
On Monday fe'noight the Chelhire Militia were
embodied.

Tvio Troops of the 6th, or Ennifkillen Regi-
ment of Dragoons, that have been Rationed in
Derby for a confiderable time, marched on Wed-
nefday for Loughbro', and Araby de la 2onch,
where they are to remain until further orders.
The magnificent colofll Ratue of the Marquis
Cosiswataas has been (hipped on board the Com-
pany's (hip the EARL How, for Bengal.
Mr. WILLIAM WOODVALL is again a Candidate
for the office of City Remembrancer.
The Petition of the Counts& of 'Lc 'sterile to he
admitted the guardian of her infant children, the
Earl. her huthand, having died in November lan,
came on to be heard before the Loan Cuenca'
.ma, on Monday. His Lordthip declared, as his
Hon. and Learned Coadjutors wifhed to weigh the
point before he deaded, he Ihould take time to
confider of it.

WHIG Ccus.—Yellerday there was a meeting
of the Whig Club at the Crown and Anchor. In
the abfence of Lord Tetanus., Mr. Fox prefided.
The malts of the Club being drank. that of Mr.
Fox was propofed by Mr. Curroso, and was
drank with three times three. and the greatefi eu-
thisfiafm.

Mr. Fox returned his thanks to the Company,
and obferved that it was now four weeks Race he
had alluded to that menacing Rate of affairs which
then had jolt been announced by his Majelty's
Mriage to Parliament, and every thing relative to
that fubjea was as much in the dark as ever. He
could therefore fay nothing upon political affairs,
except that if this country Ihould be driven to war
by the ambition and injußice of France, as none
would be more ready to make every facrifice which
the honour and fafety of the State required ; Co,
on the other hand, if we were involved in a war
unjullly, or in a war which could have been aimid-
ed, none would more deeply lament the misfor-
tune, or more feverely confute the authors of it.
The health of a number of abfent Mernbets was
drank.—The next meeting was appointed for the
3d of May.
A Court-Martial was held on Monday at PortC
mouth, on Capt. Recces, and his Officers, for
the lots of his Majeay's (hip Dersassoras. of
Jerfey. The Court unanimoufly acquitted them
of any mirconduft.
Yeßerday a ballot was taken at the 1111-India
Houle, which.terminated in favour of the retain-
tions of the Court of Dire/tors, exonerating the
Owners and Commanders of the Hianosran and
Panic is. AMELIA, from any blame in the Ids of
thofe Riips.
Lail week 'a Court Martial was held at Chel-
fea College upon two Ca rains in a dißinguillied
corps of infantry in his Majelty's krvice ; die cafe
is thus Rated :—While the regiment lay at Cha-
tham, Tome time fence, one of tbefe Officers de-
clining to drink more wine at the met, after din-
ner, was afked by the other the reafon To
tell you the truth (replied the former) I have as
aggiatiew with jaw wife io sigit, tad as a Man of
Honour I am refolved to keep it l" Capt. en-
deavoured to pats this off as a joke 1 but the other
, alluring him that he was in earnefi, received a
glafs of wise in his face, and a manual fitirmifli
enfned, until they were feparated by their Brother
Officers. The Cammanding Officer arriving two
days after, and having heard the eirciontiances of
ibis extraordinary cafe, with the addition that no
further Rep had been taken by either party, put
them both under arvel, and reported their conduit
to the Commander in Chief, who ordered them to
be tried by a Court Martial, which doted on Fri-
day left, and the report thereof is now before die
Lao.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHATHAM, APRIL S.

Notwithtlanding what has been afferted to the
contrary, I am informed from a quarter, on which
you may rely, that orders have been received to
undock the VICTORY on Saturday next ; that all
her (lore' are ready, and it is thought about three
weeks will equip her.
This morning Capt. Dam, a fubaltern, and
6o Royal Marines, marched for Woolv ich to
embark on board the SCEPTRE fitting there.
The Commanders of the ARDENT, THU N DER E R,
and UTRECHT, have received orders to join the
fquadron in Cawfand Bay as loon as poffible : it
is expe6ed they will leave the Note on Sunday.
The Iteraavin was paid off this day : the men
have a proteaing ticket for 14 days. The LEO-
PARD is eXpEaCd to be paid on Thurfda y. An ivied
the GREYHOUND frigate to be paid off.