Star.
London, England, 1810-08-31 00:00:00

COMMERCE.

Letters from Ostend to the 48th instant state, that
one hundred new licences have been signed and sent
to different French ports. Ten of these are for she
port of Ostend. The only alteration in them frott
the late French Decree is the addition of indig2
and Cochineal ; and that coffee and sugar will be
permitted to be imported in American bottoms only.
In future ships it} ballast will be permitted to sail
without the necessity of a special licence, which was
formerly required.

The French papers, alluding to this regulation,
ask, ,g whether the British Government, with an equal
spirit of concession, will facilitate the commercial
intercourse between the two countries r' This clues.
tion is very easily answered. The British Govern.
ment only retaliated; and when the cause shall bs
removed, its measures will be changed; but if the
question means :—Shall we abandon our maritime
code to please N.trotsme ? we may certainly reply,
that no change whatever will take place in our system.
The following is a copy of one of the letters that
have been received.

K OSTEND, AUCUST 27.

e, The new licences are now signed, and ten are al.
ready distributed for Ostend. It is doubted if more
will be granted for this port.
44 Bourdeaux, La Rochelle, Nantes, Havre, and
Ostend, are the only licensed ports, to the exclusion
of every other port.
66 These licences are, however, of little or no use
for Ostend, as by the obligation to export wines and
brandy, the thing becomes impracticable."
Another Decree has been issued by the Danish Go.
vernment, for the purpose of placing additional fetters
upon commerce. The following are extracts from
our Swedish letters :

AUGUST mi.

" About 4000 French have left Hamburgh, to
march to Stralsund. It is thought that this measure
is owing to orders received from the Emperor of
France, that such a force shall attend the Election
of a new Crown Prince of Sweden.

" It is now understood, that Bernadotte will bs
chosen Crown Prince, and it is conjectured that this
military detachment is to enforce his Election."
Another letter assigns a different occupation for
these troops :

31, AUGUST 20.

" The 4000 men advancing upon Stralsund from
Hamburgh, are gone for the express purpose dais,
ing all the English property in the former."

We have been favoured with the annexed copy et
the Instruction: transmitted from Paris to General
MOLITOR, and by him to the Directors of the Customs
in the Rivers Elbe, Weser, and Jade. The 6th ar.
tide is important, inasmuch as it allows vessels pro.
ceeding to Prance, under licences from that Govern.
ment, to touch at an English port, and even land part
of its cargo there, without danger of being prosecuted
for the same :
1. Every vessel must be provided with a licence, beady die
number and series of the port, and the number date licesondr
livered In each series.

Ist series, liamburik ; 24 series, Branca ; 3d series, Lobs&

To these licences wilt be aSsed the signature of the Empir I
those of the Ministers of the Interior, and of Marine ; a:ul albw,
that of the Director Oesoral of the Customs, who wdl truant
them to the Direckors of the Customs at the ports aboormondoood.

The Director of the Customs at each of then ports, 'nest
instantly send advice of the arrival of these licences to his Rajas•
ty's Charges d'Affaires aid Consuls in the Hanseatic Cities. He
will notify to the Consuls the applications addressed to him far
licences. The Consuls are to fill up, in their own hand ersitie,s
the number of the licence, the name of the vessel, the amount I
tonnage, and the cumber of the crew ; the name of the Captain,
the firm of the Commercial Home under Wad for the vessel, acid
the port of destination in France.
They will also inscribe on the licences a motto, with the cypher
which they have front the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; this
motto to be different for each licence.

S. A minute will be drawn up of the delivery of each licence to
be signed by the Consul and the Director of the Customs ; aodse•
tiled to the Military Cotnmandants at Hamburg!, Bremen, sad
Lubeck ; who will report thereon to your Excellency. 'lbis ml
note, besides the desaiptionsk the body of the licences, will car
taint a specification of the packages of all the ankles of inertias.
disc composing the cargo of the vessel.
4. The sane day that the vessel sets sal, the military cow
mandants must apprise me thereof, and also notify the same to
your Excellency. The nuliury commandants will thus captious
to notify the departure of every vessel sailiug from any .f these
ports.
The destination of the vessels will be for Dunkirk,Nantes, and
Bourdeaux.

For every licence there must be paid at the Port of Departure.
and to the Treasury of the Customs, the sum of 60 francs for
each ton of the bunhen of the vessel for which the licence sisal
have been granted.

6. The vessels provided with licences may proceed direct to
their port of destination in France, without being liable to be
quesdoned for having been .
vateers. They may even land
or such part as they may think
being questioned for having

7. These vessels will be
eit►er in ballast, or with such

North as are useful to the marine

of the soil of Germany and t .
France, conforming nevertheless

clone relative to the French

S. Licensed vessels, entering
tloned may load, in return, •
French manufacture, and all

dustry of France, grain and

9. Each licence will be .
chiding the going and returning.
parture, a fresh licence may '-

10. The master of any vessel .
Hansburgh, Breasts, and Lubeck,
elusively of all other merchandise,
other articles tithe North,
manors My apply to the Directors
of ?ranee respecting the disposal •

11. The Iwo relative to
pi IS toll faros is the 9to*

It state, that
ied and sent
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them from
of indig2
gar will be
moms only,
itted to sail
which wat
regulation,
►ith an equal
commercial
This qua.
ish Govern.
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but if the
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tour system.
letters that
UCUST 27.
Id ten are al.
lilted if more
Havre, and
the exclusion

Ln rrence, witoout mu% --
t visited by English men of war or pre
land in a port of England the whole,
.hink propel, of their cargo, without
g touched in England.
admitted into the ports of France,
uch articles of the merclisncliv of the
marine; and also with the produeti..es
Poland, permitted to be imparted iiito
!mins to the laws, cants, and r.gulse
customs.
,tering the ports of France *bonnie&
rn, wines, brandies, merchandise of
ill other productions of the soil or in-
-1 flour of every description excepted.
in force only for a single vovsge.i.•
-fling. On re-arrival at the port of da-
y be obtained on the same conditions.
vessel inclined to sail from the portset
Lubeck, with a cargo, misgiving
:handier, of timber, spore, haft, sag
1, proper for the service al the Freed'
Directors of the Customs is the polo
isposal of his cargo.
the embargo must be repobishedessa
ft pens biters losetialeil.

NATAL Inn=mica.

FALMOUTH, AUGUST O.
Sailed the WAisingham packet for Lisbon.
PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 29.

There are no artivAls ttiis day.—The GLEANER
ketch is gone out in chace of a French privateer that
appeared off this port in the forenoon.--, !'here is now
a fleet in the offing endeavouring to work down Chan:
nel; but there is not the least breath of air stirring.
It is either the fleet that was off yesterday, or ano-
ther from Portsmonth.—The Margaret, of London,
arrived here yesterday, and landed a which was
forwarded to Town ; she is from Guadaloupe, and
was blown out of that harbour in a heavy gale, with
the loss of two anchors and cables. On Saturday
last she was boarded by the FAV •URITE sloop of war
in the Channel, and shortly after saw a French cutter
privateer engaging an English homeward-bound
Vest Incliaman ; the FAVOURITE made sail immedi-
ately after the privateer, but the latter escaped by su-
perior