Star.
London, England, 1803-04-14 00:00:00

THtfRSDAY, APRIL 14.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 per C. Reduced 621 630, 63f.
3 ler C. Conf. 631, 641 1, 631.
Ditto, for May acc. 641•
Old s per Cent. Ann. o.—New ditto 97i.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY!
Bank Stock 27* S per Cent. 1797 931 j 0
3 per Cent. Red. la 654 Long Ann. 161 g -
3 Per Cent Conf.62, 63 631 Short Ann. 3- 2546
New 4 per Cent. 87f Ownium tit 13
S Per Cent. Arm 97* 93 971 Cot& fee May, 63 621 641

We have the pleafure to announce the fafe arrival
of a rich Eati India Fleet.—See our Port Letters.

Private accounts from Paris, received yederday,
furuilh the ground-work of a molt extraordinary
fpeculation relpeEling the objeet of Bowavarrs's
vilit to the ci &yaw Netherlands, which, it is aid,'
is to proclaim the integrity and union of the ancient,
Belgium, part of which now forms the Batavian
Republic, and part has lately been attached to
France. The v hole to be denominated the Belgic
Republic, and Antwerp to be declared the feat of
the Executive Government, which it is evengvodi
will be placed in the tinny hands of one of the
brothers of BOMA AAAAA

Extravagant as this (theme may appear prima
farie,the alarms of the people of Holland are worked
up to the expeBation that Come great political'
change is about to be wrought is their favour, as
was lately for the people of Switzerland. Thefe
alarms are not a little increafed by the very recent
• a of the Chief Conful of the Great Nation, de-
claring the Dutch t)wn of Flufhing in a Rate of
liege ; And by fielvoetfluys, the Brille, Goree, &c.
having been occupied by the French troops origi-
nally deflintd for Louilana.

General Vicros and the other French Officers
of note, who were to fail with the Expedition for
Louiliana, have thought proper to fell their flock
for the voyage, and this at a confiderable lofs.—
This tranfadion took pIACe laft Thurfday at Rot-
terdam. The flag of Admiral Haarstoicx was
flying ha Saturday on board a thirty-two gun
frigate in Helvoet Road, waiting for a favourable
wind. It was thought his orders were fur the
Mediterranean.

Th:, day we reccireJ the kis Journals of the
i tea. They are entirely fluent relpeeling the fra-
ternal conduel of the FIRST Coasut. towards the
Dutch, whole independence he pledged himfelf to
caufe to be acknowledged and refpeEted by all the
world—except himfelf ! Even the decree, putting
Flufhing in a Rate of liege, has not yet appeared
in the Alonirru►.

Upon a reference to the Treaty of Peace be-
tween France and Holland, we find France is au-
thorized to place a garrifon in Flailing at any
time, in war or peace, with the defign, we prefume,
of fccuring the free navigation of the Scheldt.—'
' We know that fuch a permiaion confers the real
foveicignty ; but the placing a town in a (late of
tiege, is a civil as well as a military aa; it is an
At.:l nit authnrifed by the Treaty alluded to, and
one which fhould have fprung from the Duteh Go-
vernment alone. But after pettifog the Treaty of
Peace between France and I Tolland, all idea of the
Ara. jundence of the Republic of Batavia vaniflics,,
even though it is in that Treaty
,{•:!artorted by
France. Holland makes a defenfive and nifenlive
Stith Fiance aEainfl Great Britain fir
ever fitall enter into no treaty without the
confeut of France, and (hall be included in any
Treaty ttf Peace Fiance may make. In cafe of
hollilities Oil the tide of Zealand, French gart don:
ailnutted into Brzda, 1) .is le-Due, and
op Zoom France is now awing a., if Lc.;

tilities on the fide of Zealand had taken place, and
is occupying thole three towns. This Treaty,
which was the work of the Dire.flory in May,
1795, and was recommended at the time by the
Dutch Legiflator s as a meafure of necetlity, Hol
land being conquered, was palled by unnoticed by
our Miniflers at Amicns. It was a eapitulatirn,
not a Treaty between two Independent States ;
and Minifiers, by fuffering it to call, acknowledg-
ed the right of France to hold Holland as a con
quered province.
In the Monitcur of the 11th, we fin,l no lefs than 11
four columns and a half, occupied with a long and
pompous account of the. ceremonies which took
place at Confiantinople when General BRUNk. the
French Ambaffador to the Porte, was introduced
to the GRAND VIZIER, and to the Sultan SELIM 111.
to prefent his credentials. As a fpecimen of the
fpeeclres on this occafion, we give the following of
the French Ambairador to the GRIND SAIGNIOR :

g 4 Molt high, mutt excellent, mull powerful,
molt magnanimous and invincible Emperor of the
MufMmans, refplendent with honour and virtue:
The very great, molt powerful, and molt
magnanimous Bow APARTE, Firll Conful of the
French Republic, fends me to your Sublime Porte
in quality of Ambalfaclor. Here are the creden-
tials by which he invelts me with that eminent
charader. In prefenting them to your Highnefs,
I am charged to congratulate you on the happy
conclufion of a Peace which re-ellabbibes ancient
amity, and to tally how much the very magna.
nimous FIRST CONSUL of the French Republic is
interelled in the glory and profperity of your reign.

" It is this Republic, this great Empire, of which
I am the Ambalfador,that offers you through me as
its organ a delve of the molt perfes amity- Since-
rity, and generofity, are virtues of the Ottomans
and the French. This refernblance of charalter
is a firft bond formed by nature. Long habit had
llrengthened it. All interefts concur to draw it
clofer. I receive the more fatisfaelion from the
million which has been entruned to me, as I daily
fee that the jultice and magnanimity by which your
Highnefs is amimated, have been transfufed
into the enlightened minds of thofe to Whom you
have entrufted the different parts of your immenfe
power. Happy in having tefli6ed to your High-
nefu fentiments of the unalterable friendfhip of the
very magnanimous Plass- Com s 1., lam more
In in being able to inform my Government, that I
have been a witnefs to the sefpeeful love which an
the faithful Muffulmans entertain for you, and that
I have experienced from your Highnefs and ki
nine's, that great goo will, which proves how
much you have retained in your hearts an attach-
ment for the oldeft and the moll conflant of your
friends. I beg the At/41011TV GOD, that for the
happinels of your people, he will prolong your
days free from pain and trouble, and that he will
make your glory and wifdom to thine throughout
the whole oniverfe."

The reply of the Ottoman Minifter is in the
fame Rile, and probably may be confidered as
about equally fincere ; but our Readers would not
thank us for filling our columns with fuch
Th:fe journals do not give the price of the French
funds. tits preceding day having been Sunday.
A Hambargh Mail alfo arrived this day.
Reports refpeding the new Minifterial arrange-
ments continue to be circulated with unabating
indufiry. Before the clofe of the Stock Market
yefterday, tlic prices were up a little, on the Air-
lion that Mr. PITT was appointed Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, with a Peerage; Lord
Hoists, Governor-General of Bengal ; Lord
Mssvet.t.s, Firft Lord of the Admiralty, vice
Earl of Sr. Vtacisr ; and Earl of Ronne, Pre•
fident of the Council.

On this fubjea a Minitterial paper of this morn-
ing prefent's the following paragraphs :
" One thing we can venture pofitively to Rate,
and for which indeed, through us, the Public have
for fame days been perfeelly prepared,that a change
at the Admiralty is determined on, but who is to
be Earl Sr. Vtricastr's fucceffhr is not yetofficially
announced.—For the profeffional charaiter of that
Nobleman we have ever, in common with the whole
Country, entertained the higheß refpeft; but corn
mantling a fleet, and condtteling the public bufinefs
of the moll ertenfive and moll important Depart.
men[ of the Public Service, are two very different
things. His Lordfhip proved, by his firm and de-
termined conduel, as well as his vietories, that he
was well qualified for the one ;but his officialcateer
we apprehend, has brought equal conviCtion, that'
fomething more than mere profeffional knowledge
is requifite for a proper difcharge of the high and
momentous dutics of Firft Lord of the Admiralty.
This we believe is the chief reafon which leads to
the retiremem of Barl SAINT VINCINT from that
Board. Several fuhordinate changes in it will of
coorfe take place, but to what extent we have not
yet heard mentioned.

LorJ Mt ssit.Le has been very confidently
named by rumour as the perfon that is to fill the
Office whicb Sr. Vises we vacates. Such an
appointment we think likely enongh. but we pre-
f.ime it sill ha:4 be finally Exed, tit .t is certain

that Mr.Pt TT comes into power. We have already
Paid that thefe two perfonages, in conjunetion with
feveral of the prefcnt Minitlers, would compofe a
thong, vigorous, and popular Adminittration. In

laying thus much we are confident we only echo
the public fentiment upon this important fubje6t.
When we fay too, that fuck an arrangement has
our willies, we only join in the general wifh. It is
from a warm regard for the principles, and a high
approbation of the conduet of the prefent Admini-
aration, that we ardently &fire to fee it firength-
ened, in the new and perilous circumilances of the
country, by thole talents which all the world con-
Wes to be preeminent, united to thofe principles
with which alone the principles of the prefent Mi.
nifters were corgenial during the whole of our
arduous fituggle, fince the commencement of the
French Revolution to the prefent hour. Such a
union as we defire, we are quite lure would have
as much effeCt in deranging the fchemes,and damp-
ing the hopes of the enemy, as it would gratify,
invigorate, and rejoice the whole Britith Empire."
True Briton.

In the fame Paper, the following paragraph is
alio given:—

i, Notwithilanding the affertions to the contrary,
in the French Official Paper, we believe that we
may venture to afTure our Readers, that neither
the EM►aloe of Russia nor the KING of Paussia
have as yet confented to go,irantee the arrange.
ments relative to Malta, according to the Aipula•
tions of the toth Article of the Definitive Treaty
of Peace."