Star.
London, England, 1803-03-26 00:00:00

flit WAIFSTYPS PIeSSACR.

The nonce having refolved itfelf into a enyn.
mittee to take into confideration his Majefty's moil
gracious Meffage, relative to fettling an annuity
on Sir James Saumarez, and the fame being read
from the Chair,

The CHANCELLOR of the Exclitozite addreired
the Chairman to the followingeffeß s---1! Sir, /
am fore-ireitlMlß birliertlity for me to lake or

the time of the Committee in ufing any argumer.t.
trrimitrereerniernen to accede to the retommen.
dation contained in his Majelly's moft •graeions
Meffage to this Houle. Tile diftinguiflied charaaer
who is the obje& of that Ideffage, mutt be a CA •
cient recommendation to every body in the leak
acquainted with the nature and importance of his
Cervices. The nuns itfelfvf Sir James Stunsarez.
and th; fame of his'atchieleemcnts mull fuggefl re-
fleitions highly giatifyingaud animating to every
man capable of appreciating real merit : to every
mattirho contemplates with pride and fatisfaainn
the unexampled fucceffes obtained .by the Britifh
Navy in the courfe of the laR war ; and whenever
we refer to there glorious atchievements, we (hall
find that in thole which were the moft brilliant and
decifive, Sir jamei Saumare: bore an alive part.
He participated with Lord Howe in the ever mtr-
morable Viaory of the itt of June; he fought
with Lord St. Vincent when- the great and deci-
five viCtory was obtained over the Spanifh lest ;
and he was afterwards with Lord Nelfun at the
glorious battle of the Nile. Ido not think it ne-
ceffiry to enumerate his many gallant- exploit%
during the late war, and the war which irecedeil
k. It, will be fufficient for me to call the attention
of the Committee to his condtuft in the month of
July idol, and the aftonifbing Need's which at-
tended his attack upon a fqoadron of the enemy
double his own force ; an attack which ended in
a decifive advantage gained by the gallant Admi,
ral I am peaking of; and was produaire of the
moft important benefits to tfiii Country. Prom a
command in which he acquired. fo much honour.
this diftinguifhed Officer returned Taft Summer.--
His Majefly having aftervrirds learnt that the ac-
quifitions he had made in the murk of the war
were comparatively (mall, and were difpropor,
tioned to the fupport of his rank and the due attain,
tenanee of his family ; has been induced, from a
dare to reward diftinguithed :nerit, to knd the
prefent mot gracious recommendation. .1 am
confident that the Houk will readily concur in this
recommendation. lam furetbat the Houk will
feel, that the public money cannot be more ore.
fully emplolied than in rewarding the brave De.
fenders of the Country; and that ex amplerof gra-
titude ' and Janice, like that which we are now
about to adopt. mutt ferve to route and animate
the future exertions of Officers who (hall have to
fight the battles of the Country. On thefe grounds
Sir, I move that it is the opinion of this Commit-
tee, that the annual fum of land. be granted out
of the Confolidated Fund to his Majeftft in order
to be fettled on Sir James Saumarex, Bart. for
life; and that the fame annuity do commence from
the day of the aaion fought in July glor, off Al.
gefiras. '
Tile motion was agreed to unanimoally, and
the Report was ordered to be-received on Monday.

LOAN OF FOUR MILLIOMI.
The Honk having refolved itfilf into it caw
mince of Ways and Means,
The CHANCELLOR of the Excl. guys& obterved,
it mu be recolleeted, that previous to the Chrifi•
mas recefs be had given notice of his intention to
move, in the amok of the SeGlon, for Exchequer
Bills to the amount of t t millions. Government
had, fince that time, received authority from tha
Houk to raife five millions by Exchequer Bills;
he mould now alit for authority to raife four mil.
lions more ; a great part of which were to enable
Government to fund other Exchequer Bills that
were outllanding. He then moved. " that towards
railing the Supply to be granted to his Majefty.
there be granted a further (urn of four millions,
to be raifed by Exchequer Bills."—The refolution
was agreed to, and the report ordered to 1?e re-
ceived on Monday.—Adjourned to Monday.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH s 6.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCR a
3 per C. Coot. mammy, 63,14. 6444, 634, 64.
Ditto, for April ace. 6414 644.
Olds per Cent. 9111-omnlum zli
PRICE OF STOCKS YESI EitDAY:
3Pa C. Conf. 64 63f 1 Foe! Tickets 111. 19$.
Omnium zzi 14 Cost for Ap. ace. 65i 63164 i
COURSE OF XCHANOE.
Atnlterdam, 36 4aU. I Cadiz paper. I Naples
Do. at fight 35 so Ditto 344110&Genus 45
Rotterdam, 36 sa U. Madrid 354 ate& Übe*
Hamburgh 34 to sill. Balboa 36 offs& Oporto 67
Alton& 34 It sill. I lAselsons 494 I Dublin 24
Paris, t day's date, 24 16 lio..—Ditty, aS o s U.
Ileurdesaa, ditto, 25 t
Aigo oo the Bask of Holland, si per Cent.

There was a little auduation in the Funds yd.-
terday after the hour of our daily report of as
prices. It was not greater than frequently takes
place, without any caufe for it being difcovetable :
feveral rumours, however, were circulated to ac-
count for it.—Mr. ADDINGTON had an audience
with the Kula before his Majelly fet off for Wind-
for ! This, however, is no uncommon thing ; for
difpatches hay ing arrived from France in the morn-
ing, it was natural that they should be perufed by
his Mayssrv. To this was tacked a report that
General Awnitiosst had been recalled ; and
another, that there was to be a change of Minillry.

The price of the French Funds was alto men•
tioned in proof of matters wearing a more, holtile
aped ; but without any ground, for the price
quoted, 56, was ex•dividand--a half year's intereff,
or If per Cent. which began paying oa Tuefday
lift.

None of the reports circulated gaifted much
credit, nor do we think the public will al)ow thcm•
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culated without authority, and without a poffibility
of being traced to their fource.
It is the opinion of many, that the negotiations
will not be brought to fo fpeedy a conclufion as
might be deftred. As Egypt is now certainly eva-
cuated ; and as, in all probability, the Cape is in
the hands of the Dutch, the principal point of
negotiation, at leaft immediately connefted with
the very conditions of the Treaty of Amiens, is
Malta. It is Paid, but we know not how truly,
that on this head the French Government tell Mi-
lliners that, if the guarantee be all they want, they
may look for the bell they can find, provided the
EMPEROR of RUSSIA ftillrefides to interfere. Thus,
our Minifters would be left to Peek for what it is
impoffible to find in Europe. If this be true, the
negotiation may be protrafied for many months,
and while this country is loaded with the expence
of warlike preparations, France, not %riffling to
pufh matters to open war, may go on without any
confiderable addition to her eftablifhments. Every
thing proves that BONAPARTE is determined to
wage war againft our finances, and he has done
it with great fuccefs.
A Mail from Holland arrived laft night. The
Leyden Gazette of Tuefday laft contains an article
upon the preparations in England, in which it is
`Rated, that France has demanded of the Batavian
Government, that the necefi'ary preparations (hall
immediately be made for the maintenance of a con-
fiderable corps of French troops, which are Paid to
be already on their march for the Dutch Frontiers.
This force is to be diftributed in the principal
towns of Holland, and is, according to the Leyden
Gazette, to make part, in the event of war, of a
general Expedition againft England. The fame
Gazette Rates, that General Duaoc, who lately
fet out for Berlin, is charged to require of that
Court the moll prompt meafures with refpeft to
the EleCtorate of Hanover.

A Rotterdam Paper gives a Letter from Paris,
which, though of an older date (tile 16th inflant)
than the French Papers already received, contains
feveral particulars, which were not to be foUnd in
the latter. Orders, it is laid, have been difpatched
to 41 the Sea Ports of France, to haften the equip-
ment of Ships of the Line and Frigates, and to
get in readinefs a eonfiderable number of gun.
Hoops and flat-bottomed boats, at Cherburg and
Boulogne : scsooo men are to be drafted from the
interior to march to the lea coals, which, with the
number already there, will, it is Paid, form an army
of szo,ooo men. It was reported, that Jossrn
BONAPARTI was fhortly to fet out for London,
charged with a miffion of the higheft importance.

In the preceding column our Readers will find
the articles we allude to, and tome others ex-
traeted from the Dutch mail. The fubjoined article
comes to us through the fame channel.
MADRID, FraauaaT +—This day the Panics of
PEAcr, Generaliffimo of the Pea and land forces,
received difpatches from Lieutenant General Don
J. M. de ALTA, Cominander of his Majelly's fqua-
dron in the Afiatic Seas, dated April 6,18 oz,
which came by the way of London. Thefe dif-
patches Rate, that the faid Lieutenant General the
preceding day, April 5, had received intelligence
of the conclufion of the general peace in Europe,
by a difpatch from the Viceroy of New Spain, to
whom the account had been communicated by the
fbip la Argonaute, which had arrived at Vera
Cruz. Lieutenant General de At.va immediately
difpatched the Fama frigate to China, to commu-
nicate this intelligence to the Commander of the
Britith (hips of war, and he entertained the greater
hope of Peeing this meafure attended with a happy
refill', as he had learned a little time before, that
the news of peace had not yet been received there,
and that t'se Englifh were employed in .1. •ing out
an expedition to dire poffeffion of the Portugurfe
fettlement at Macao.

According to letters from China, dated April 33,
the Fama frigate arived at China time enough to
prevent this fettlement from falling into the hands
of the Englifb, who in confequence of orders if-
fled by the Governor General of Bengal, were
already on their way thither, with one Rip of 7+
galas. and feveral tranfports, having on board tsoo
troops. The fpecd with which the intelligence of
the peace was conveyed to China is almoil incre-
dible. It was tranfrlitted from Cad: r. to Vera
Cruz in 46 days, and was fent thence to the
lippine Mandl in t: days, fo that in the cootie of
ten months more than r ',COO miles were travelled
over from the time the intelligence was fcnt out till
' the period of an anfwer being reterned.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 21.—Littters from New
Orleans, the capital of the province of Lonifiana,
elat;Ll December the Bth, 18ciz, fay, The In-
tendant of the province, refiding here, has received
I n a Letter, from Don Da Sotza, Minifter for
Foreign Affairs at Madrid, ezprefs orders to de-
liver op I.ouifiana to the French Republic."
Goma, Fria. 26.—The depot of the P• liai;
brigade, ennfißing of 250 men, and which was
embarked in order to proceed to Toulon, hiz
eeived orders to difembark and to remain here for
the prefent. The Englifh frigate the TERMAGENT,
after lying about a month in this harbour, failed
again the day before yeacrclay.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

TORBAY, MARCH 24.

This morning his Majety's !hip HAZARD, which
has been here on the imprefs fervice, failed with
a number of impretred men. Arrived this morn-
ing his Majefty's frigate la BLANCHE, and at pre-
fent remains, though the hath not come to an an-
chor, but continues ftretching off and on. Our
fithermen are jealous that the is come on the im-
prefs fervice, which has dithered the fifhery very
much indeed, and no protedions are yet granted
them.