Star.
London, England, 1803-01-24 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

Riau!, JAN. Ill.—The long depending loan is
at length cart ied by a majority of one, there being
fourteen ff.r it and thirteen againflit. The Dutch
funds on this, not only maintained their prices,
but they have aCtually rifen. The Batavian Re-
fcriptions, payable after the peace, left off yeller-
day in Am fierdam at 6a}; old three per cent. Na-
tional Bantle at 48i, and, new ditto at 471.
The following is the text of the law relative to
the Loan, which is confidered to be of fuch great
importance to commerce in general :
The amount of the Loan (bars net exceed the deficit in the
revenue of the year zsoje for the expenditure of the State
during that year. The annual rent of the capital is not to ex-
ceed Lanocoo florins, and the obligations which are to be de-
livered to the creditors, Hall bear but an intereft of 3 per cent.
Thole who Gall fubfcribe to the Loan one Batavian reknit-
tion, of the nominal value of loco florins, payable after the
peace, Mall, by adding too florins to it in fpccie, receive three
national obligations of loco Sarin. each, bearing three per
cent. intereft. Thole who (hall fubleribe an obligation of the
raft India Company, payable with Roo florins in fpeeie, mall
alfo receive three national obligations, each of moo florins. at
three per cent. The Interefts in arrears due in the year 800
Mall be made good to the Subfcribers, and paid out of the Eno
florins, which they are to add to their obligations. All the Ba-
tavian refcriptions payable after the peace, which mall not be
fubferibed to the new loan by the 2241 of next September, Mall
be converted into perpetual flock at four per cent.
The above-mentioned India ebligations, which Gall not be
fubfcribed during the year 1803, Shall not be payable (,aLyZaar),
and Gall be confidercd as if their numbers had not been drawn
out of the Lottery. Some further provifions are to be made,
by which certain other funds may be fubfcribed, which bear an
intereft of a} per Cent. An obligation of 'coo florins at per
Cent. will then be delivered in exchange for an obligation of
More funds of the nominal value of 700 florins, but 200 florins
in fpecie mug be added.
To infure a capital neaffary to pay the intercll of this loan.
there is to be an increafe of a mth, or to per Cent. upon all
Duties on the following articles: wine, vinegar,dißilled liquors,
mineral waters, tobacco, beer, cattle, homed cattle, butter,
fait, foap, wood, coals and turf, !tortes, feeds, coffee and tea
confumed, fcrvants, and articles of luxury.
The increafe of to per Cm:twill he only for two years; after
which It will be replaced by gene; al tripoGs. The new tax is to
take place front the flrft of July.
The tax upon the net produceof fucceiliona is to beincreafed
10 per Cent.
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On the 4th init. the Government of State pallid
a Proclamation fer the bolding of a day of general
thankfgiving and prayer on the 2d of March en-
fuing. The following are amongft the chief paf-
fages of this State Paper :
" It is true that the deftroying fword of war,
raging not only on our frontiers, but alto in the
heart of the country, has devallated our fertile
fields, and drenched itfelf in the blond and tears of
our fellow countrymen : it is true, that foreign ar-
mies have covered our native ground; that we have
been plundered of the ereofure: of our commerce; that
our colonies and poffefflons, as well as our valua-
ble national fleets, have fallen into the hands of the
enemy ; that all the fources of our profperity have
been flopped or impeded : and that the immure
difburfements which arofe from fuch a pitiable (late
of things, have compelled the impofitions of almoll
infufferable taxes on the fhoulders of our impoverifh.
ed inhabitants. It is true, that floppages occafion-
ed by ice, and inundations in feveral diftrids, have
brought on us innumerable difafters; that tempefts,
the fury of which were before unknown to us, have
waited our coals and our dikes, and given the
critical water Rate of the country a Rill more dan
gerous afped. It is finally true, that in the micift
of all there 4/Wafters, civil divifions and party rage,
far from having been extinguiflied, have flamed
with renewed violence, and that too in fpite of the
conviCtion eftabli(hed by fo many inflances, that
this Republic, grown formidable by unanimity,
can only be fared by union.
" But who, having ferioufly contemplated on
all this, can withhold his alloniflrment that we have
ftruggled through thefe manifold difafters, and that
after In many calamities, this Commonwealth may
be called a good and privileged country. We are
not blotted out from the lift of nations, and are
Dill recognifed as a free and independent people
by the moll formidable States of Europe. Our
commercial credit remains unimpaired in the mid(
of the molt de ftruttive [hocks ; we are Hill beloved
and refpeded in the eye of our neighbours; and
in the height of civil broils, we have been perferved
from fcenes of cruelty and inhumanity. Each fuc-
ceffive year has been diftinguifhed either by ferti-
lity or abundant harvefts ; want and famine, in
times of the greateft fcarcity, have never (talked
over our frontiers; no uncommon epidemical ma-
lady has fpread devaftation among our families;
and that fcourge, the dillemper among the horned
cattle, kerns fuddenly to have ceafed from char.
tiling this country.
" Onr wounds, however, are not entirely healed:
the national debt is at inch a height that, without
wife management and frugality, the moll fearful
profpeds would be opened to us. Our commerce
is undermined or impeded by formidable rivalry ;
our fabrics and manufaltories arc fallen into a
mortal Rate of inadivenefs ; the number of our
penurious citizens is daily increafing and the
deamefs of the neceffaries of life, which- Rill con-
tinues, gives redoubled force to the afoending la-
mentations of pallid necelfity."
The Proclamation comprifes a retrofped of the
left twenty years; from the events of which period
our Legiflators have difeovered fond for a day of
general thankfgiving, and fubjeds for general
prayer.
By the fudden and rapid effects of the freft in
this country, five or fix (hips oppofite Dort, are
locked up in • nations which may prove dangerous
when the ice ate.: to give way.
As loon as a courier returns from Paris, whom
General Vicroe has difpatched thither, the 141
hand will be put to the Louillana expedition. The
troops to be embarked confill of fix battalions of
infantry of the line, t9O dragoons of the 13th re
giment, a choice corps of Luides, and a detachment
of artillery.
A letter from Conflantinople, dated Dec. to,
feys, a Colonel Saseatteat, who was received by
the Pacha of Cairo in the molt diftinguifhed man.
Ecr, has embarked at Damietta, on board the
French frigate Cornelie, to go to Syria. He will
vitit ail the principal ports of the Levant.
" Yelterday Gleams Er' sum. our late Ambaf-
foclorMtaorelitidr • -Pali., ar ived here. and
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concluded between Vranee and the Porte. The
number of troops, as well hfamelukes as Arabs,
which the vi&orious Beys in Egypt have with them
in the neighbourhood ofAlcnndria is about4oco."

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