Star.
London, England, 1803-02-07 00:00:00

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t
3 per Cent. Red. 7c4 71 701
3 per C. Conf. money. 704 ii—far ace. 701 71 704 71.
New 5 per Cent. 1034—01 d s per Cent. moil.
Osmium dif.
TAME OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY
Bank Stock Short Ann. 1778 44 3-1
3 per C. Red. 711 yr Eisheq Bills. par. Is. dd.
3 per C. Conf. yoa• 4:Minium 41 dif.
4 per Cent. Conf. 8i44 874 Lottery Tickets 1,1 z6s.
5 per C.Anu. zooif Conf. for ace. 71 •••0*
5 per C. sny, IV* Imp. 3 per Cent. 6944
Long Ann. ao 7-1 g Imp. Ann. 114 3-16
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The Holders of Omnium,dreading the approachingpayment
of 30 per cent. to the Bank on the 18th inn. on filch of the Om-
niunn as is pledged ;which will amount to about two millions
(haling), are preparing two Petitions to the Bank, for a farther
indulgence, Rating the difficulty of railing in large a rum at the
time required, and daring to have the whole of the payment
poftpancd until the July D 'Wends are paid; but ihnuld the
Bank refufe that, humbly imploring them to accept of IC per
cent. inftcad of 3 on the 18th init. and add the remaining 20
percent. to the lath payment in April neat.
Various arc the conjenores whetter the Diretlors will
comp y with tither of the requefts: if they ~o, Stocks will at
heath have a temporary life; if they do not, there is fcarczly a
doubt but Stocks will fall.
To prevent (peculation as much as ',fallible, the Balk have
came to a determination not to difeount any paper which con-
tains the name of any perfun publicly known as a Si ockjibiser.
The Settling Day in Omr ium is the t Bth Mit int, and Confols
the 23th. The fettling day of Confols for April is hard for
the stb of April.

We underfland that Sir SIDNEY SMITH and
another Gentleman, are shortly to be fent into
Egypt with a Special Commitlion, of which the
candour of the Commercial Colonel SIBASTIANI
renders it fuperfluous to conjeCture the objefts.
No perfon has co much influence, or Co fully
poiretTes the confidence of the Turks, as the Au-
thor of the Treaty of El•Arifch.

We yc(lerday received Paris Journals to the 3d.
The elfoniumr contains an article intended as a
contradietion to a number of idle reports. It is
writtte.i with more temper than any compofition
of this kind ufually has been. It alludes, but ge-
nerally, to the ftwies about Bos•vaeri affuming
a new title, and even to the reports of the fpeeches
which LANG UIN•IS and Fovcm s are laid to have
held on the fubjeCt. It is fingular that no fpeeific
contradiftion is given on this head, fo that the
matter Hill remains open, fhould the FIRST CON-
SUL afpire to a higher title. The Nemirow contra-
diets the rumour of an increafe of taxes being in-
tended. The accounts from St. Domingo have
evidently produced a very unfavourable effeet upon
the confcripts in many parts ; nor is it furprifing.
It is almoll impoffible that any fentiment can im
prefs foldiers, old or young, to undertake with
cheerfulnefs the campaigns of St. Domingo.

The Pots has created feveral French Cardinals,
among whom is the uncle of the FIRST CONSUL,
one is kept in perm
The Paris Papers copy from the Arm a ntoft
atrocious paragraph, in which Mr. WIND 11•14 is
expreftly accufed of having been privy to the at-
tempt to afTaflinate the FIRST CONSUL, in Decem-
ber 1799. This Raiment is fupported by a mif
reprefentation of an expreffion uttered by Mr.
Wisaitast in Parliament. We were prefent on
that occaiion, and according to the impreffion wei
received of that fentiment, it was perfeCtly inno-
ccuz. Mr. \WINDHAM merely Rated what every
. body thinks, that BOUPAITS'S fituation is one of
!danger. ;I was kart the fentiment of Joys wet.,
that few - cl 4 in a whole &in. It was
the fentiment rf the Flaw Consul, himfelf, who
on occalion of the plot allucktd to laid, that the
Chief Magiftrates were placed as in aide/Omit.
It was, as to the poffibility of fuch a contingency,
I and by no means as in approbation or statcourage-
Ment of aaiffinatioll, the Mr. WIND11•1i tattered
the expreffion on which the infamous accutetion
of the Englifh renegado is founded. Whether
it was difcrect in Mr. WINON•aI to utter a fend- ,
ment liable to fo much mifreprefentation is a
thing with which we have no concern.
The French Funds are (till riling. They are
58 f. to c. !

Our Commercial Readers, we doubt not, will
thank us for putting them on their guard againß
a deception which is now in train to be praSifed
againd thofc in particular who are engaged in the
Levant trade. We pledge ourfelves for the truth
of the datement, which comes from an authority
not to be greftioned.
In the firfl or fecond week of December laR the
WIAZLS hoop of war, Captain Dolmas:, on her
paffage from Oriflan Bay to Gibraltar, met twelve
large French merchantmen, bound from Marecilles
to Smyrna, with a numerous French Gam on
board for that place. The fhips were almoll
folely loaded with Well India Coffee, to the value
of upwards of half a million herling ; by which,
as Capt. Duan•st, who boarded them, learnt from
fame of the people, they carpal to clear goo per
cent. by again Ihipping it from Smyrna for the
London market, as Mocca coffee, after being pro-
per/ foraged prepared at Smyrna. He alfo learnt
that they meant to purfue this honefi kind of traf
' he in future, as the moll lucrative branch of the
Turkey trade. They alto told Captain Duamast,
that they had every reafon to believe that, in three
:ars time, from ti,c mcafurcs which had been

taken, they fhould con.plctcly engras the w 11,4
Levant trade, to the exclufion of the Euglilh.
We hope this timely notice will be the means of
preventing the &ALI s in coffee from becomn.g
the dupes of the iyfteru which we have jull
fcribed.

Among other important articles received Ly
the Gibraltar letters, which we annotiriced on
Saturday, we cannot help particularly ta,:ictr.g
an Hofpital Return, which affords a firikilig and
convincing proof of the beneficial effeas of the
fyllem introduced by his Royal Highnefs the 11t.!,e
of Keay. From the return alluded to it clearly
appears, that from June 1796 to December 18°2,
the average number of deaths, for five years and
a half previous to his Royal Highnefs's arrival,
amounted to 14.6 annually; but that fince he has
affumcd the command, they have decreated to 13
for the la( lix months, being at the rate of only 25
annually.
This remarkable difference is chiefly to be af-
cribed to the regularity and difcipline introduced
by his Royal Highnefs, and to (hutting tlp the
wine•houles, by which he facrificed one half of
his income, upwards of 30001. a-year, to preferve
the health and lives of thole era:ilted to his com•
:nand, looking for his reward in the confcious in.
tegrity of having faithfully difchatged his duty,
neither biaffcd by interell,norfwayed by popt 1 rat}.
We know, from undoubted authority, that no
meafure or reform introduced by his Royal High.
nefs, excited fo much difcontent among(l the
foldiers as (hutting up the wine-hotifes, and obligirg

them to drink in moderation at their ow•n canteei,,.

Such unthinking beings are foldierc, that it %%.,.;
thought the greatea pi-41;We hardfhip to be de-
barred from getting beanly drunk with bad nine,
whenever they had money in their pockets, though
thee excefres generally brought them to puni!h•
ment and difgraee, and often hurried them to an
untimely grave !

After fuch a fait as this, (hall we ever hear his
Royal Highnefs's humanity or difintereflednefs
called in quellion
For fome other details from Gibraltar we refer
to the fubjoined letters: