Star.
London, England, 1803-03-31 00:00:00

MALTA, JANUARY 26.

" Neither Sir ALEIC. BALI. nor General JiL•
Ltrrs have received any orders whatever refpeB•
ing, the evacuating of the Hand: on the contrary
Sir ALEX. BALL has been ordered to raife 2000
Maltefe troops, of which they have already embo
died 800 ; they defet• railing the remainder till it is
fettled whether we are to keep the ifland or not.
" The orders for evacuating Egypt were dif.
patched from this on the gth of January, In that
we exped fome of the Egyptian troops here about
the beginning of March. Our lei letters from
Alexandria mention, that General Stew/our was
extremely anxious to leave that country, as the
plague had made its appearance at Alexandria,
and the neighbourhood ; and the hoftility of the
Marnelukes and Turks fo near the army rendered
it extremely difficult to preferve a neutrality be-
twixt them.

g, The Mamelukes had been uniformly (beech-
en!, and had given the Turks a complete defeat
in one tin's.

A certain French emilTary who lately per-
formed an Eaftern tour, which, if it has not al-
ready made fome noife in Europe, cannot fail to
do fo when the objeas of his million (hall come to
be better known, was, among other places, at the
Viand of Zante. It is pretty well known here that
he endeavoured to excite difcontent if not infurrec-
tion among the natives, and it was (perhaps with-
out authority however!) very generally circulated
among them, that, its cafe of fuch an event, they
might promife themfelves the fupport of a great
Nation 1"

We have alfo received accounts from Gibraltar
which come down fo late as the 7th inglant, at
which time the Garrifon were all well and hearty.
Letters from Genoa mention, that they were
obliged to difarm the Polilh brigade before they
could get them to embark for St. Domingo.

The Lords of the Admiralty have given direc•
lions for all proteetions, that are allowed by At
of Parliament, to be immediately ifrued.
The Hon. Captain Pacts- is appointed to the
crm:-nand rf the ENDYMION frigate, at Portfmouth,
and the Hon. Capt. EL? untrromis Plasmic to the
EGYPTIENNI, at Woolwich.

Lieutenant Dr wstrap is appointed Lieutenant
of Greenwich Hnfpital, in the room of Lieutenant
ANTHONY FORTY!, deceafed.

Lord Was. Frrziov is appointed to command
else FAIRY Hoop, at Deptford.
The Q2idnuncs are as much at a InCs as ever to
divine the iffue of the prefent negocietions. Dif-
patches were received yefterday from Lord WHIT-
WORTH ! a Cabinet Council fat on them, but no-
thing was Coffered to tranfpire! ! This was omi-
nous. The French Ambaltador was afterwards at
Court, but (laid only a few minutes! This was Rill
' more ominous, and afforded as much ground for
political conjecture as the journey of the young Duke
of Doassv to Paris to fee his mother. The rage
which many people feel to pry into what is palling
between this Government and that of France, and
their impatience for the decifion, are incredible.
It feems a fpccies of infanity with which the land
is afflifted. The paffirm of (peculation is like jea-
' !nay —4, Trifler 1,,* a: air, are caersaatiosu jirong a:
proof: of bolt cora." We have not the leaft doubt
that much money will be loft or won by thofe who
fpcculate on no better grounds than the yonng
Duke of Doassr's journey to Paris, or the gravity
of General ANDRROSSI's countenance, or the cut of
his whifkers yefterd.ty,at Court. But to he fe.rious,
the extreme fenfibility of the public on this occation
is unmanly. It exports us to the derifmn and
contempt of foreigners. as a nation of wretched
Stock Jobbers, who think nothing of events that
may iuvqlve the independence of the State, bat
the effeEl they may produce upon the price of
Stocks for the next fettling day.

The prefent general difpnfition to invent and to
believe, is unprecedented. The labour of the Jour-
nalifl is thereby not a little increaled. liis expeCted
of him, that he (hould notice thefe rumours, trace
them to their fource,feparate the probable from the
improbable, and guard his readers as far as he can
from tieing the viltims of the deftgning• His talk,
It eel thinly not an city one. :With all his caution,
h. will frequently find, that he is no match fur
cunning ; and, while he is endeavouring to un.
mails the deceiver, he will fornctimes himfelf be-
come hi, dupe.

A Private Letter from Paris, of the 27th inflant,
lays a—" All the military men in the Britifh ler-
vice are hallening to leave Its, and to return to
England; the other Englifh fay that they will not
depart, but in company with their Ambaffador, if
matters fhould come to a crifis. The general be-
lief however here is, among thole who are bell
informed, that the difpute will be fettled, if it be
not already arranged, without producing any feri•
ous confequences. What has given much addi-
tional Itrength to this opinion is, that at the lall
circle at the Tuilleries, the• FIRST Coast L, ad•
dretling hitnfelf to Lord Witirwoartiovith a (mil•
ing air, and rather a cordial manner, raid, Lb
bog, my Lord; you fee the fair feafon has return-
ed, and the clouds have difappeared l'—As it is
not the habit of Bowapars to eke out his conver-
Cation by obfervations on the date of the weather,
there was no perfon prefent who did not under.
hand him in a figurative and political fenfe. You
will recollea that it was by this image that Botsa•
PARTS WI eaprelied biota(tepeaing the dawn
lof the difputo."