Star.
London, England, 1803-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON.

The rank of Sir Jac°, Arnett st. (Mond Ittawoon, fe
defamation, which is inferted in this day's Paper, was tried
on Tuefday at Thetford. Belng a califs of great mediation,
we have procured an early and faithful report of it.

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Major• General STV ALT, who fucceeded Lod
CAVAN in the command of the Britiflt troops a
Alexandria, arrived in town yeßerday, and im-
mediately waited on Lord HAWKSSIOItY and his
Royal Highnefs the Duke of YORK. He came
through France, and his reception at Par:: was by
no means fo favourable as he had reafon to expo%
The arrival of this Officer renders it highly pro.
.bable that Egypt has at length been evacuated by
our troops ; an event for which, indeed, the laR
difpatch of Lord Esc ix, infered in the Gazette of
Tuefday, muR in a great meafure have prepared
the public mind.

LA night pother Mail arrived from Ham.
burgh. The only thing worthy of notice which
it brings is a repetition of the intelligence we
laid before our Readers Come days ago, of the
French meditating a defign to form a militiry
depot in European Turkey and the Levant. The
affair feems now to engrofs Come attention fron;
the Courts of St. Peterfburgh and Berlin ; and it
is extremely probable that there Powers, as our own
Government has dose, will refufe to accede to the
do trine that " Great Britain has nothing to do
with the affairs of the Continent." Is France to
interfere without refervc in the affairs of Italy,
Holland, Switzerland, and Turkey, and the only
country which can effenually oppofe her in mea..
Cures, which require maritime exertions, to be cut
off from interference ? Other powers, it would
feem, begin to have their eyes opened to the conic.
cinenc;s that would refu:t to the European States
fuch pretenfions were tamely aequiefced in.
We have taken the more particular notice of
this French meafure at the prefent moment, from
finding by acounts received by the Lithon mail of
this morning, that every meafure of that Govern.
meat feems direifted to the fame fyflem. Previous
to the failing of the packet, accounts had been re-
ceived at Lifbon from Spain, that BONAPAILTS
had iniißed on the Spaniards immediately fending
7.::c0 troops to garrifon the Mend of Minorca: alio,
th.d a number of Britilh troops had landed on the
11).and of Sardinia.

That the Spaniards have a right to fend what
force they will to Minorca no one will deny. It
has been given As to them, and they have a right
to occupy it as they pleafe ; but that BOIN•PAIVell
lhould i ffuc his fisend.or for the meafure is the higheit
prefumption I
To the intelligence, relative to a number
of Britifh troops having occupied the ifland of
srdinia, we cannot give implicit belief till it
(hall receive farther confirmation. Oor Readers'
however, will recoiled, that a rumour was fome
time ago circulated, that this country h.i
purclialeJ from the KING of SAaDIIIA the 14
vereignty of that Itind. A confufed account
was at the fame time circulated of a naval battle
between a French and Britifh fquadron near that
quarter, and which has fine been entirely difcre•
diced. It is poflible the report, though unfounded.
originated on the Continent, from a knowledge
that fome arrangement of the kind alluded to was
aaually intended, and from a belief that the French
`would refill it.
If, however, this country has aftually purchafed
'the fo%ertignty of Sardinia, can France offer any
argument againß the meafure that does not apply
with equal force, at lean apiall every thing

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Malingers arrive daily from France,but nothing
is allowed to tranfpire. There was a Cabinet
Council yefterday on the matters under difentfion.
We are unwilling to Rate all we have to fay
upon the fubjed of Violations of the Treaty of
Amiens, becanfe Negotiations are (till pending
which may yet poffibly end in Peace ; but we con-
tend, that if the Conditions of That Treaty refped-
ins Malta, have in vain been attempted to be car-
ried into effdt, and that his Majefty's Minillers
then fay they (hall keep poi& (lion of the Ifland till
new ftipulations are agreed upon—and the CHIEF
Comstri replies, by infifting upon the immediate
evacuation of the Ifland—if this is, in fubflance,
the Rate of the cafe, it is not Great Britain that
violates the Treaty in this refped, but France.
There is another point alto on which we (hall
venture to touch, becaufe in doing fo we implicate
no perfons, and becaufe it Cannot have efcaped the
notice of thole who have watched the progrefs of
France fence the Signature of the Treaty with this
Country. We were in poffeffion of the Viand of
Elba at the time of the Signature of the Pre.
liminaries—it was sot ceded by us to France,
--but as if the CH Its. Consul. was determined to
exclude us even from the chance of obtaining a
Port in the Mediterranean, France has fence an-
nexed that !nand to her dominions. Now we
silk, by what principle has this been done which
would not equally apply to the annexation, on the
part of France, of the Cape of Good Hope, of Su-
rinam, of Demerary, of Ifrequibo, or of any of our
conquells which were ceded by us at the Peace,
Est set ceded to Feenee P We have teen it Rated in
?Ix Modena', In a manner fufficiently arbitrary,
that we have no right to interfere with France on
the Continent of Europe ; but we have never yet
heard fo monfirous a propofition as that we have
no right to maintain thole Powers in poffeffion of
our own eonquefts in whole hands we have thought
fit to place them. If it were otherwife, it would
have been afaree at the Treaty of Amiens to have
ceded any conqueft except to France—hut the
diftindion of a cdfion to France, or to Holland or
Spain, was relied upon by the French Negotiators
themfelves, and relied upon alto, and with great
propriety, by his Majctly's Minifters, in their jußi-
lication of the terms and conditions of the peace.
In the event of war, and whenever the fubjed
is tally dices:fled, we have no fear on whom will
reft, in the opinion of every impartial man, the
breach of the Tomo of Awing. Any infinuation
that Minifters have taken advantage of the abfence
of the French army employed on the expedition to
St. Domingo, to enforce pretenlions which they
would not otherwife have urged, will be completely
difproved whenever a full difelofure takes place of
the cirenmaances which have led to the prefent
critss,