Star.
London, England, 1803-09-30 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, IEPTEMBRit
PRICK. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON
3 per Cent. Conruts, for money. 5211 -.-Ditto. for Oeltober.szi.
025 per Cent.Bsi zot I

It would appear, by comparing the different ac-
counts which have reached us, that the attack on
Calais ceafed with the caufe which gave rife to it.—
A number of gun boats were known to be there pre-
pairing to fail, and accounts had been received by
our cruisers that a clinch greater number, route fay
150 gun boats, were about to leave °fiend. Of
courfe it became an object of moment to prevent, if

poilble, any kind of co-operation, and an attempt

was made to deftroy thofc at the former place.
- The attack commenced on Tuefday, as we have
before informed our Readers, but we have fince
learnt Tome important particulars not yet flared.—
A cannonade was firil made to the Eaftward, at Dun-
kirk it is believed, to draw the attention of the ene-
my that way, and this manoeuvre fucceeded fo ef-
feaually, that when our fquadron bore in upon Ca-
lais the cannonade and bombardment was fo fudden
and unexpeiled, that the enemy could not get their
gun and flat bottomed boats up the harbour out of
the reach of our fire. It was even a confderahle time
before they recovered fo much from their furprize
and confution as to be able to fire a fingle !hot ;—fp
that our velTels were able to do them a great deal of
anifchief. They afterwards opened a fire upon our
fquadron from every point of the (bore, but we are
happy to Rate, that on that occafion not a tingle in-
dividual was killed, or even wounded, on board our
vetch.
The greater part of our filet's were fees to fall
among their gun-boats, where they could not fail to
do a great deal of damage. None of them fell !Dort
of the boats, but Tome went over into the town,
where they did much mifchief, efpecially in the.Eaft
quarter, which was fet on fire in different places.
Whether the enemy had the temerity to imagine
they could face our flotilla, or found themfelvee Co
much annoyed where they were, that they thought
they would be as Cafe to endeavour to (kin along the
(bore to Come other port under the proteition of the
numerous batteries which line the and in eon-
fequence ventured to quit the harbour of Calais, we
cannot take upon us to determine. We are however
rather inclined to attribute their movement to the
latter motive, which would elks be Rrengthened by
the confider:don that, byquitting the harbour, they
would draw away oar fire from Calais, which was
(offering feverely by the bombardment, the town be-
ing in a blase in different quarters. But whatever
was the inducement, it is certain, that on Wednef-
day morning, from as to 30 of the gun bones. were
(ten to come out of eattis harbour, as we yefierday

hated.
?bey appeared at firPt to have an intentiop to pro-
ceed to the Eat}ward. bot coon after, probably in con-

liqueur of perceiving Come of our rails too-moth
in &ore to allow of their pafGng, without snore rilk
than they were willing to encounter, they changed
their courfe and proceeded along fliore towards Bou•
lope. Our flotilla perked them keeping op a brifk
fire, and failing as near (bore as the depth of water

would allow. The gon boats could be plainly
feen from pos***tensea our vetch and the there.
Ow of the frigates and a gust brig wire sonaantly
eteireloped in *ob. • The whale of the French waft,
extending lace► thsi.eliffs at the wellward of Calais
to t>c. eetrawas into Bouksne Bay, wits oat onninotd
line of fmoke, and the wiad •bciapto the EaftWard,
alma every gun was beard ea the opporste Englifh
los& Some of the damsel boati were driven on
Gore, but the gratet peat, itis believed,• ?wade their
way into the Biy bf Boulogne, whiihetterfiett was
ken to be chafing thews shoot half pa& tart►, o'clock
ea Wednefdm, am taping up furl Uiresueedous
fire, that they molt have (offered yew" feerssky:• •.
It would appear, however, by the atcounts that
bare reached os this morning, that they are likely to

experience as little eivritio from our fquadron io their
rprefent quarters as in thofe they lad quitted; for,
-with the dawn of day, a treat cannonade and bom-
bardment commenced again yekerdsy, and condon-
ed till between three and four o'clock, when it be-
came molt tremendourly heavy. The French matt
being covered with a heavy fog our fquadron could
not be feen from the road about Dover, but from
the found, its direBion plainly appeared to come from
poegogne, whither our brave tars had chafed the
enemy the preceding day. Next pod we expea will
bring us time intereaing particulars re peeing the
attack. In the mean time we fuhjoin the following:
MITTS& 1110111 • NATAL °MCI* TO • SOILS1111•111"Of
DISTINCTIOO, DATED

HI Mtjeltre 04 Utrecht, Wednefday Evade& j •'cloth.
et My Lord—The bornb.vellkls and gan-boats were
bombarding Calais all yederday, and fet fire to the
town. The objet was to deftroy the boats that had
lately entered. They have again been bombarding
this morning, and WIC of the UT, Ica r's Lieutenants
this infant arrived. He le* Calais when the
enemy's boats were coming mu. He fuppofes the
iahabitanu forced them out to Cave the town. He
Caw the LIDS frigate ■nd our each in clofe anion
with them for twenty minutes. He was ordered over
arab the difpetch. I hav* fees the anion from the
an* read for two hours. It appors by gbe finoke

they are running along fhore towards Boulogne. It
is moft probable that tome of them will be taken or
deftroyed before they can reach that place. I write
this in great hafte, thinking the intelligence may be
,interefting."

Days'', Stn.. 19.

It appears that another attack has been made on
Boulogne i for the violent cannonade, which we heard
yeaerday, was continued at intervals during the
greater part of thisight, and feemed to proceed from
that quarter. It has been very violent during the
greater part of the day, and at this moment (si r. as.)
is more violent than ever ; fcarceanintervalcaobedif-
cerned between the firing of (hut and !hells. Report
Pays, that the inhabitants of Calais, fearing the total
deftruaion of their town, forced the gun boats to tea,,
which were purfued by our fquadron to Boulogne,
and where they are throwing (hells to deftroy them.
Nothing, however, has come from them with any
certain intelligence. The launch of the lIIIMORTAIITI
came in kilt now for powder, but was forced to go
without, there being only fufficient to fupply the
garrifon.
Firs o'ciocs.—A Hoop of war, cutter, and lug-',
ger, are jua come out of the Downs, going to the af-
Mimics of our fquadron ; it teems as if their orders
were preffing, as they have every inch of canvas thoy
can fpread, and boats ahead towing betide, with the
men (tripped to the flirt. The jar of the bombs is
very anfibly felt here : we arc all extremely anxious
for news from them.

♦NOTNER LITTER.

Doves, Si,?. $9.

During the whole of this day we have heard a
mat tremendous firing off Boulogne. It has been
fo (harp, as abfolutely to (bake the windows in this
town, although at the dillance of 3o miler: Report
rays, 13 of the French gunboats were dear y d yeG
terday, in endeavouring to pars from Calais to Bou-
logne, but we have not yet received any certain ac-
count.

Judging from prefent appearancts, we are likely
loon to have warm work in this quarter. as all ac-
counts from France agree that they are making great
preparations, and aie determined to rifque the trial I
—lf you wilh to be at the poll of houour. you mull
repair to Dover

ANOTHER LITTER.

Down. Sept. 29th. ao3. 6 r Id.

. - -
At dawn of day this morning the attention of the
inhabitants of this place was excited by a heavy can-
nonading on the French coat, which continued till
between three and, four in tht. afternoon, when it
became moll tremendouily avrfal,and atthemeettent
I am writing. nothing is heard but one incelfant roar
of cannon and mortars. As the little wind which
prevails blows dlredly tram the French coat, thei
concutrion is fo mudh felt in this quarter, that the
haute: near the harbour are iltaktn by, the reparts.+
So violent a cannonading has not been heard here for
many years; lad, if may judge ham the (pink
with which the firing has been kept up, there can be
no doubt that the enemy taut have &Rained a very
confiderable loft. Wet are all here an ibus to know
the refidt ; no difpatches have yet arrived, but the
fpirk by which our brave tars ken% to be animated,
gives us a well grounded hope that every thing pof-
fible has been done to annivtthe -esejay, ind to Ike w
thole who threaten to invade .o 4 that neither their
fortifications nor batteries tau pet" 4 their gun boats
even in their own harbours. hell iivi-vengelnee
cf the Bruits thunJer. The .Froode• coati has
been obfcured by fog the whole day, and therefore
We can judge only by- the diredion of the found, as
to the quarter in which the 'attack has been made.--
There hems great reafon to believe that Boulogne is
the plait, sad as feveral large veffels failed let night
from the Downs to reinforce the fqoadroa, we may
foon exped-to !mar Of foinething decißVe.having
been done.

./,•.0.

We have not received any farther &comas iirpec-
tins the bats repotted to be preparing to quit °Read,
but allowing each of the tjo idrry 3o men, the
whole will be little more than to,csoora *umber not
very formidable we fhould think tb an armed people.
It' may 6i poffble enough for Boataraara to bring
them over, bat if there is tt tamable diltribution of
otir naval force, is there any probalsility that he can
affemble his beats at one lisot add take advantage of
a favourable opportunity f The Wind- and weather
will not fuit the whole line of his Cask and there i 3
always the armpit probability that our navy will
deltroy Tome part of the armament. Any thing
left than 3*" 40,000 men in England would make
no impreffson whatever, and we are confident
.that
the fate which awaits even fuck an advaneed.guard
as this, will be furl as not to cleourage any more of
our kissers to croft the Aid of Dryer.
Major MACKENZit, who has been detained in
France as a prifocer along with the other Engbib
ever fince the hi caking out of the war, arrived in
Town on Wednefday laR. He was one of the Gen.
tlemen feat to Fontainbiean, not on their parole of
honour, but confined is the molt irregular way, merc-
y becaufe they were fubjeds of his Britannic Ma-
jetty. About a fortnight ago Major Mac Kay zse fet
off for England by the way of Broads, Antwerp.
and Holland. He had an opportunity of teeing the
Rate of the preparations for a defeent on England in
the different Forts of Holland and handers. He
Fan dint in every river and upon every canal they

are actively employed in the building of boats. In
the Seine their chaloupe, cannorsieres are veffels extreme-
ly flight in their form, about fray feet long, nine feet
broad, and about four feet deep in the hold. Thole
built in Holland arc aronger and more lea worthy.—
In the latter the men would be completely protcaed
againa mtaketry•by the height of the fides ; but they
are very ill adapted to the finallea grapple. There
are a great number indeed on the flocks, but very
few ready for lea. In the opinion of Major MAC-
WV!, the French certainly cannot now hazard an
attack upon England.
The following are Paid to be the number of Gun.
boas, &c. in each of the following ports of France
Dunkirk :Oa
°Rend iSO
Deutogne -

Calais so
Dieppe, Ircsaatp , and Dlank:eabers - so
Dating aad die Writ &habit
.10
Daft Scheidt, Ooree. Helvoctffuya, and the
160
Mouth of the Made
From an authority which may be relied upon we
can (late, that about tso vac!: are now building at
Rouen, of 6o tons each, to carry ; or 3 twenty-four
pounders, and 14 to 3o oars. Each vete% is to have
12 tailors only—the reft are to be lanciftnen. They
are deep 'deli, very flat in the bottom, and riling
about 4 feet above the water line. The French make
no doubt of carrying England when they dill make
their grand attack. Basereeas laimfelf is expetted
to head the eaterpriae.
They labour inceffantly in the building yards to
fini(h the requiftte timber of boats ; and they talk of
having built 36 vetch of a peoliar eonftrutlion, and
of loch a-fize, as to be able to carry so large guns
each, to proteit their fleet on its pave to the land V'
pronnfi. The whole river at Rotten is reprefented as
being covered with the craft intended for our de.
firuftion.

It gives us much fatisfadion, however, to be gbh;
to nate, that the public at large certainly feel no dit
may on the profpea of BOn•IPALTeII coming. The
rumours ow the fubjeft caufe no trepidation, and have
no other effea than any other comfiderable and lau-
relling affair is ealeidated to produce.
Whell the fignals were hoilled. on Wednefday on'
the coat of X.st of an wsetnes force being at few,'
the drums beat to arms along the soak and at Do-
ver, Folkawie, Hytbe, and other ewes, the people
turned ont with an alacrity that did them much ere-
dit, to prepare to oppofe the enemy. There was
much bale, but no ether Itidd oUdann than the
nature of the 'circumnanee regalia; for it would ar-
gue limpidity or foolhardinds to be insitive at (Deli
a meatiest. The Volunteer Artillery and Sea Fen-
cibles, with as ardour that imam* be too highly cr-
ushed, and which ferves to thew the determined refit-
twat that will be oppofed to an invading enemy
wbereyer they may appear, repaired immediately to
their Amaral alarm polls, and continued in their na-
tions till eetiiig, when they learnt that Each of the
gait hiat‘isiiish bad oscafioned the fignals, as bad
cfcaped being driven on atone had been chafed into
Boulosee hay.—We hope the bombardment of yet
terday will have defiroyed, the greater part of them.

More alarm kerns to have been excited at the
Stock Exchange than any where elk, by the bunk
of boadities which have marked the three lan day&
The 3 per tent& have fallen to yd, and =alum to
tot direct's& This, however, is what might be ex-
paled. It is the buanefs of certain men in that quar-
ter to excite fluiftuations by every mean in their
power'; and the only thing furprifing is, that they
have not yet been able to &Iry eariftd, even for half
an hour, or to laud so,coo of them:my, and fit them
as their march to the Bank.

As no particulars are generally known refpefling
the injury (attained at Granville, by the attack of Sir
J. Smirmaaas on that place, it is with great fatisfac-
don that we Hate the following cireunallance, which
we have received from very refpeßable antbosity :
The Meifenges from Granville, who was difpatched
so St. Malocs, after the firll attack by Sir J. Sai:MA.
au, Paid, that the (hells had fallen among the (hip-
ping and the gun boats, and had done confiderable
inifchief. They bad likewife demolilbed the barracks
for the foldiers. A Manager alto came to St. Ma.
Ines after the fecond attack, but was forbidden to
communicate what damage had been fallaioed : he.
however, (bragged sap his (boulders, and Paid, it had
been etsalkowst terriltle.

Yeas day morning his Majasr; attended by Lord
WaLsioloirats,Sir W. PITT, and General Forzaor,
took an airing on borfeback in Windfor Great Park.
Her blajasry and Princefres Avon's.* and Est.
:aura; with their dual attendants, took an airing
in a Sociable in the Long Walk.
The Prineefs Asstata, attended by Lady STAMINA.
and Mifs Yrs, took an airing in a Sociable by
Shrubs Hill 'and Virginia Water, and returned lhon
after to o'clock.

Yellerday being the kink day of the Duchefs of
Wiaratesoto, the belk of Windfor were rung, and
in the evening their Maiisilas entertained a felea
party at the Lodge oa the occafion.
Sir TUOMIS C :No is returned from Ireland.
A wager, laid by Mr. Jennies. of CitenceSer,
that his horfe lhould travel from that town to three
miles beyond the Crofs at Glouceller.'and back again
(a dillanee of above 46 sow) in Mar hours, was on
'fuefciay decided in favour of Mr. J. the boric per.
forming the t*& with great eats is ten minutes under
three hours. He went the frit t 7 miles (notwith. Rending the roadu bill mid bad) at about as bog
sad fives minute&

CORN-3t IRICET. MARX-LONE, stPr.

We do not think any article with ns has materia:l.
varied in price face Monday. There has been
britknefs in the (ales of Wheat, Boiling and Grey Pea'
and alfo of Beans, both to-day and on Wednefday.—
Oats may be confidered precifely as our la!} (tat
ment.—Winter Tarerare particularly heavy in fai
Rape Seed is dearer.