Star.
London, England, 1803-11-07 00:00:00

PARIS, OCTOBER 23.

The departure of the FIRST Coamt. for the Army
of England ;1;11 remains in fufpence : but, in the
mean time, the preparations for the expedition are
carried cm IA i:h the greatelt aftivity. It is indeed
by this expedition, and the fuccefs edit, that the views
of the French Government can he accomplifhed.—
Englanel," fays a late official Journal, "(hall cer-
tainly retain nothing in the Mediterranean." There
are tome, however, who, notwithflanding all the
hoffile armaments and revere exprellions in the ItIa•
'dim., dill venture to entertain hopes of an accommo-
dation. The following extraa from the lad number
of the iWercure de France, will (hew under what view
things are reprelented at Paris :
" Some Nrioas have juflly remarked, that the
peace lately granted to Portugal is entirely to the
advantage of England. France, by abandoning
that eat.), cosigned, has given up to the Englith
the principal factory which they had in Europe.
—This trait alone confitms its importance, a facri-
See of money would not be a fufficient indemnity
fur the injuries which have been done to France,and
for the advantages which are left in the polfeffion of
England, if the refult were not an evident proof to
all nations of our indulgence towards a feeble enemy,
and of our ardent defice to maintain the peace of the
Continent.

......
" Portugal was not the only country which the
Englifh fpirtt had placed in a hoßile attitude. Spain
was at the fame time excited. But letters from Ma-
drid announce, that the little pacific PRINCE of PEACE
has quitted the Minittry. His being fucceeded by
M. Heavas, is a happy pledge of the harmony,
which fubfißs between the two Governments, which
aothing in future can interrupt.
~e interefts, agitated by the prefent contefi, are
filch, that the three mediating powers have been able
to divide, and diaribute them in a proper manner.
It is to Aultria as principal proprietor of the Adri
atic, that the queltion refpatiog Malta naturally
belongs : it ough tto weigh in its wifdum the
means of enfuring the independence of that ifland,
or perhaps the dangers which might arife to it
from a Britifh ellablahment in the Mediterranean.
The Court of Berlin mutt be occupied wi:h the
blockade of the Elbe and the Wefer, the prefent or
future fate of the electorate of Hanover, and thole
sneafures of prudence which may be diElated by the
prefinee of a French army in the Nnrth of Germany.
Raffia. on its part, after taking under its protection
Denmark, alarmed at the vicinity of large land and
naval forces, has rendered itfelf the organ of the me-
diating powers : it has conveyed to France and Eng-
land propo4itions of peace.
" If any credit can be given to public reports, the
preliminary and immediate cordition of it, was a
Hate of armiitice. It is added that according to this
Aipulation, and on account of this ftipulation alone,
England would not accept them. It may be pre-
fumed, that the Britins Cabinet would not, in the pre-
tence of the formidable preparations of France, accept
any conditions that might make it have the appear-
ance of thing from the impulfe of fear. Nothing
Mews that the grounds of the propofitions have been
rejeded."

OCTONIA 24.
At the diplomatic audience of yeflerday. Chevalier
el'AzzAseat. Arnbaffador from his CATHOLIC M*Jts•
TT) prefented his letters of credence in quality ofl
Minilter Plenipotentiary of the Q2een RAGAN? of
ETRUAIA

Tl.erc were alfo prefented :
By Count Coesirrast, Ambalfader from his Ma-,
jetty the Emrsecia, King of HUNGARY and Botts.
41I1A—His Highnefs the Eleftoral Prince of Wtays Of•
RIM General in the Imperial Army. He bad pre-
vioufly been admitted to a private audience.
By Cardinal CAPRARA, Legate a latere from the
Holy See—M. ANDRE,COUnt MALACARI, of Ancona.
By Citizen SCHIPAMILPENNMCR, Ambaffador of
the Batavian Repuulic—Citizen Shirrs, Secretary of
the Batavian Legation.
By Marquis LUCCHISINI, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minifter Plenipotentiary hum his Majelty the
King of Paussix—Count DE BRUNE, Chamberlain
of his Pitt/SSIAN MAJESTY; Batun DI RHAMINI,
Canon of Magdeburgh ; M. DE WERDECR, Privy
Counfellor of his PRII,SIAPI MAJESTY ; M. DC KOT-
sesta, Member of the Academy of Berlin. and
Canon of Magdeburg.
By the Count DI Rust-, Minifler Plenipotentiary
of his Royal Highnefs the Eleelor Arch Chancellor
oldie Empire—Count DI GR•NOCOVR, Privy Coun-
tenor of his Royal Highnefs the ELECTOR Aacti•
CHANCELLOR.

The Moniker of this day gives the articles of the
Convention between the Courts of St. James's and
Stockholm, and makes a number of obi-emotions
thereon, as well as upon the exploratory Conven-
tion, concluded with Ruffla at St. Petorfburgh, on
the Jodi of oSober, snot ; refpeeing which it Pays
—44 The third Article of the 101 l treaty excepts ene-
my's property from the exempticn IliptilAted in 14-
vosir of merchandize under a neutral flag. Thos,
with one &Oh c f the pen, has been thrown into
oblivion the moll important of the principles pro-
claimed by the Convention of t7Ro, and confecrated
by the general alfent of the continental nations. The
fourth oriel: fithj:lts convoys to the right of vifit,
and regulees the details of the mode in which it is
be est:facet.

" Swedcp and Denmark acceded, in •RO2, to the
Convention of iith June, *Sot. The Est PEROR ad-
hered to it by the 71h article of his Declaration of
the 701 Atiguil la:i.
• It is lamentable that the Powers cf the North
Gould 11: obliged to abandon a principle, which hi•
therto had appeared to them importune for the
istereil. ci mmeree, and the travigation of neutral
eater—that by which tkef elvers the rireclattekst.
• We may luppore, that when their Powers con-
di, ted to the viliting of convoys, they rcililved or
Irr ger to f nd their (hips of war to efcort the mer-
chant .•f their lohj:Ela. The effort being in
filch .1 pr. t i that 0 e scads it protetils have nothing
that i• prolii:Jited by the treaties and Tepii.
lasi i s, it wctil.i coottary to the dignity of thole,
Fowe,:, nto li:tanding this guarantee. Fio-!
Geedirig from themselves, the conveying fhips thculd
be fobr a to being sifited, and that a mere Engion
floop of war fhould be able to aop their (hips of the

line as long as it pleafes to protraet the 'silt of their
convoy.
" In permitting the Englifh to feize the property
of their enemies on board neutral (hips, they have
neglefted to referve, in favour of the latter, a right
which was fecured to them by the Colfglota de! Mare,
the only law which the Engin can cite in favour
of their pretenfions. This law, which originated in
times of ignorance and barbarilm, while it declared
enemy's property found in neutral veffels good prize,
enaeled, that the captor thould pay the oat-fitter the
(lipulated freight. At prefent the Englifh feize ene-
my's property without paying the freight.
" England, however, did not think that the advan-
tages given her by the Convention of the 17th of
June, 1801, were fufficiently great ; and Sweden was
compelled to grant her an additional benefit, by au-
thorifing her to retain, according to her caprice, a
part of the maritime fupplies which certain States of
the Continent might endeavour to procure by the
channel of Swedifh veffels. This is the refult of the
Convention concluded between England and Sweden
on the asth of July lift."
The Moniteur having then given the text of the
Convention with the Court of Stockholm, concludes
its animadverfions in the following terms ;
" England thus exercifes the right of pre-emption
with refpeet to the referved articles of merchandize;
that is, retains them for her own ufe, not only when
found in veffels bound to an enemy's port, but alfo
when found in fuck veffels bound to neutral ports as
appear to be in danger ef falling into the hands of the
enemy. From the eftablifbment of this hitherto un-
heard of right, the new creation of maritime def.
potifm, it is evident that the merchandize fttbjeCt to
pre-emption cannot arrive on board Swedifh velfels
in the ports of the Continent, but at the plealure of
the Englilb. England has crafted this new treaty
of Sweden, as the price of the tardy and partial jut'.
tice which (he is pleafed to give her, with regard to
the value of the convoys detained for five years, and
for which the at length pays her 6000 crowns of
Hambnrgh currency. Not having the fame bargain
to make with the other Powers, England will proba-
bly not obtain from them the fame conceftions ; hut
there can be no doubt that fhe will make every effort
to induce them to adopt the Convention of the 17th
of June, tBol. It does not hitherto appear, that the
Court of Berlin, that of Naples, or even that of Lif-
bon, have departed from the principles of neutrality
univerfally received in 1780. Betides, a few varia-
tions in policy cannot alter principles. There are,
doubtlefs, fituations in which governments are influ.
eneed by combinations which, depending only on the
calculations of the moment, fuggeft only a ditpofition
according to circumftances, and thus produce no-
thing more than temporary conventions. We cannot
fufpea the Northern Powers of being indifferent upon
queftions which interelt the civilization of Europe
and the liberty of the feas. Every (ate muff fee that
thefe quellions depend upon the event of the prefent
war ; and in this view alfo, as in fit many other re-
fpeCts, the caufe of France is the cattle of all nations."

. -
Ocr. zs.—Letters from the Hague, of the tgth,
(late, that Tome Engli(h tailors having, the preceding
week, landed during the night, near Co} kap zee,
on the coati of North Holland, they pallid feveral
days in concealment, amida the land-hills, commit-
ting the greatelt cruelties on the farmers and the
inhabitants of detached hamlets' whom they all
robbed of their moll valuable effaAs. A fmall de-
tachment fent againa them from the garrifon of Alk.
maer, furrouuded them, and took them pritoners.

The following is an extraft of a fetter horn the
Hague, dated the 18th inftant—.4 The Legillative
Body met this morning. The moll important objell
of difeuffion was the continuance of the annuities to
the widows and orphans cf the foldiers killed in the
' late war in North Holland. They have been ordered
to be paid until the next year. Citizen VAN Hoor,
appointed a Member of the LegiflatiVe Body by the
department of Batavian Brabant, has not been ad•
mined, his elelion having been declared illegal, as
his name had not been infcrihed on the lift of voters.
The Department of Brabant has been ordered to pro.
teed to a new eleCtion. The decrte of Government,
' prohibiting the exportation of cheefe, has been lane-
tioned by the Legifltfive Body."
The day before yesterday a detachment of the
Confular Guard, and a detachment of feted Gens d'ar-
merie, marched from this city. The CHI tr CONSUL,
IL is (aid, will fet out next week. Before he pro,
seeds to the coall, however, he will fpend (-erne days
at Fountainbleau, where be will infped the military
fchnol.

General LEMANOIS, Adjutant to the FIR3T Cow•
sue, has been intruded with the inipeaion of the
crud from Breit to Concalle, and a iineilar charge
has been given to General Saaasviavt, from the
mouth of the Vilaine to Brell.

Letters from Malaga (tate that an infatious
dif-
cafe has broken out in that city.
A convoy of 18 pin boats and other veßls, which
failed a few days ago from Havre have arrived fate at
Boulogne, and joined the flotilla : on the loth a flo-
tilla of twenty fix armed vedeis and tranfports arriv-
ed at Saint Main from Brett. They were rowed by
the foldiers, amidfl warlike longs. and numbers of
the inhabitants of Saint Main flocked to the hat boor
to fee them enter it. The flotilla at Saint Main
united to there veffels will proceed to its farther def.
tination.

Two thoufand men are daily employed at Bon.
logne in improving the harbour, which will Coon be
fecure from any hoflile attack. The troops on the
coalk will be embarked in fucceflion. in order that
they may be accuitomcd to nautical manoeuvres.
In order to accelerate the failing of the verfcls
def-
tined for the invasion of England, a new kind of
rudder has hcen invented at Parr:, it can he applied
to both fides of the vet Tel, and tends to increafe its
velocity.
The Futsr CONOVL teeing l..tely at the Cafile of
St. Cloud four young ladies, all clad in wlrite, he
a(ked tliem who they were ?—the firil implied, that file '
was Viaory ; the that the was Fame ; the
third, that the was the Mtle of }Lamy, sum! the
four th,that the was Immortality. Thefe four female
deities, with whole compliments Jim:APART F feetned
to he much pleai. J, were the daui;htcrs of C.
TA i'n, a f i!.

he Camp at Ce mpicgne vt ill contill alone of ea•
rally, of shich .. great numhtr are alread)
They were lately vele icuecl by General
atHILLIP RS. The drk:,.)ons inameuvreJ on loot.—
The regiment commar.iited by Low: BOMMALTIII

diflinguithed itfeif in a particular manner. The t ith
regiment of French dragoons arrived here the day
before yefterday from Hanover.
The Ruffian Ambairador, M. MARKOFF, was
again not prefent at the lag diplomatic audience.—
Citizen Vas VAN STUNWYK, the Batavian Envoy,
gave in his letters of recall. The 18 gun boats which
arrived at Boulogne from Havre de Grace, met with
no refinance. name Englilh cutters, which endea-
voured to prevent their junAion, could effeet nothing:
they were obliged to keep at a diflance from the bat-
teries of the wafts, and a diflant cannonade which
did little damage coi either fide, was all that took
place. The balls of the Englint flew over our !hips,
and the land troops (hewed great courage.
OcToBER 26.—1 n confequence of a decree of Go-
vernment, dated the t ft, a column. between 6o and
7o feet in height, and fimilar to that meted at Rome,
in honour of TRAJAN, is to be ereeted in the Place
Vendome, having on the fummit a pedcfirian ftatue
of Charlemagne.