Star.
London, England, 1803-03-21 00:00:00

precaution for the fafety of the State, ice."

d. There is certainly no difference between call-
ing for the redudion of an ezilling force, or pre•
tending toprevent the creation of aneceffati force ;
but there would be a difference with refpat to the
Governments which would hold fuck language,
and France might alledge motives, which would
sot, perhaps, meet the approbation of the Britith
Government, for we might repeat, it was the
French who wilted for, and who aaually made
and commanded peace ; it was you, Brain; Go.
vernment, that willed for war—k is you then who
are to be fufpceed, and who arc calculated to
awaken alarm.

14 England is borne down by an enormous debt,
and fhe wifhes to make us pay the intereft of it, a.
well as the capital, by the means of a Treaty of
Commerce, drawn up in a certain way—it is verl
good natured of her to make dupes of us !—Wc
think, however, that if Europe has no right to
confider ns as cowards, fhe can adduce no reafons
to prove us to be fools. After having conquered
with our arms; after having negotiated with equal
ability, forefight, magnanimity, and refolution,
it mull be fuppofed that a Government which was
capable of fuch achievements, would have greatly
degenerated, if it conknted at once to pay, irdi.
redly, the expences of the war which was waged
1 again a us, and to cumin' the means of renewing it !
The period mull come when Governments, as
I well as individuals, will do each other juftice, and
confent, through their own exertions, to extricate
themfelves from their embarraffment, however
great, and into which their own imprudence
plunged them, under pain of falling into a worfe
and more unenviable predicament.".—Joarna/ do
Commerce.

The French funds on Tufilay IA fell about
per cent. They were at 58 f. se c.
What the Preach Journals have not dated to
tell, we have been informed of by numbers of
private letters, and we can affert, on the molt
queftionahle authority, that the account of BON*.
PARTI'S behaviour to Lord WHITWORTH, which
we, left week, laid before our Readers, was in all
the it:upon:int circumftances coma. Thole who
witneffed the fcene agree that pallon was never
exhibited with greater caergy.-4t may be the fub-
jea of difpute whether the conduit of the Prase
Cowsua was an ebullition of sage, or whether it
was the refuh of a premeditated deGgn ? If the
latter be admitte I, he mull have intended to give
fuch an elm to his complaints as would induce
every public Bitnifter at his Court to communi-
cate the occurrence, *ith the reafon of it to his
Court. The manner, it mull be confeffed, was
highly indecorous, and was unworthy of the Gift
Magiftrate of any Country; but in a parties-
hr manner of the Reprefeneative of a Nation
that ranks Politenefs among its peculiar qualities.
But whether it was premeditated or not, there
was fo much of method in the madpefs, that coo
is at no fors to draw from it this coaclufion, that
the Fiasr Coesus. is incenfed beyond, seafarer at
the condua of this Government.
The following ftatement however has bees crane
mitted to this Country, from perfons high is the
confidence of the French Government, and as the
French account of this curious tranfaaioa. Otte
Renders will perceive that it materially differsfren
our former account with refpea to the temper
which is fuppofed to have aauated the patty chief-
lr concerned

Thy, FIRST CONSUL being prefent At dse
Drawing Room of Madame Boearaxxs, wMeh
wok place on the (aid Ventofc), 13th Marsh,
and having found Lord Werrwoarn and $. De
MANCOVP (landing together, faid to the •We
' have fought far fifteen years, and it teems there
• is a norm gathering at London, which may pro•
4 duce another War of fifteen years more. The

▪ Kiao of ESOLANA bas raid in his &lease to the
'4 Parliament, that France had prepated offenfive
▪ Ang?aSnents he has been Mirtahees there is sot
• in the ports of France, ;fly confiderable fort*
• they having all yet out for Saint Domingo. He
• faid there esifted fame diffairces between the
4 two Cabinets ; Ido not know of any. It is true
4 that His Majesty has engaged by Treaty, that
4 England thould evacuate Malta—lt is potable to
• kill the French People, but not to intimidate
them.

44 At the concluGon of the Drawing ROOM. the
Englith Minifter, being near the door, the Con.
stn. laid to him, The Duchefs of Doassv has
4 paired the moil unpleafant feafon at Paris; I molt
4 ardently with fhe may pats pleatant ooe allb;
4 but if it is true that we are to have War, the re.
• fponfbility, both in the fight of Oon and Man,
• will be on chore who !hall refufe to execute the
• Treaty.' Here the converfation ended.
The French papers now dirt, that the Fiasr
Comity,. has notified to the Court of Si. Peterf.
burgh, that be would comply with the wales of
his Imperial Majeßy with regard to Make. tat
we mull have this information from Peterlburgh
itfelf before it will become entitled to much con.
fideration.

The Ditch, not being ander the fame rellra;nt
as the French journalifts. have ventured to fpeal:
out a little refpelling the preparations now carry-
ing on in our ports. In a Rotterdam paper it is
obferved, that there is not much reafon to fappofe
that the expeditions preparing in the ports 4
France, are deßined for any other fervice that;
that which is avowed. namely. the colonies. " wheri
hereafter they may be of more difervice to Enr
land. than in the event of being employed at
home againik her ;" it proceeds " it is more pro-
bable that England feizes this pretence of arming.
in order to accelerate the pending negotiations. for
it is well known that it has long been the pim et
the French gore:omens to keep the &glib is

uncertainty and alarm, without feriouily meaning
to ftrike a blow. The vropriate time for this is
yet arrived." How far the Dutch Papers may be
iu the confidence of the French Government, we
do not pretend to know, but whatever may he the
plan of the French Government," we have no
doubt that His Majelly's hliniflers will purfue
thole effe.Elual meafure:, which are the moll likely
to defeat the °N-el of any plan formed upon a
principle hoilile t this Country, and to make it
recoil with tenfold effect upon tbofe by whom it
was conceived.

Capt. NrAw.; H•S, Of thelrtnerxe frigate, whofe
arrival in Town we announced in our Paper on
Saturday, brought difpatches from General num

nAs, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. ft

appears that, though the veffel which had failed
in Oflobe; from England, with inflru&ions for
that Settlement to he evacuated, had been dif
mailed, and confcquently had not arrived, the
Governor, in conformity to the Article of the
Treaty of Amien.s,which flipulated, that the Dutch
troops fhould be put in poIre(Bon of the Cape, on
their arrival for that purpofe, had, on the tit of
January, admitted the Paid troops into poffeffion
of the out-pofis, and embarked a eonfiderable
body of the Britifh troops under order; for !ndia ;
providentially, however, the Imoo ENE arrived on
the night of the I ft, with counter inflru&ions to
the Governor not to evacuate the Capt till further
orders from England.—He immediately landed
his troops, fent notice to the Dutch Commander
of the counter orders that he had received, and
tropofed in confequence that the troops of either
Power fhould remain at their then polls, without
any commencement of hoflilities, till mutual in.
firations fhould be received by them from Europe.
This propofition was immediately acceded to.—
The Englifh troops out-numbered the Dutch by
only 300 men, but the Britifh naval force in Table
Bay was fortunately much fuperior.—C ape Town
was full of vifitants from the Continent, who had
come in to fee the fplcadid eerettonial of the Dutch
reftoration.

Our (hips are the TRTINANDODS, of 74 gnns ;
LANCASTAR (flag ihip: of 64 t Juriria, of 5o ;
DIOMEDE; of 5o; HINDOSTAN; Of 50; BRAAVE;
of 43; and two Hoops.—The Dutch force by lea
is, Bato, of ya guns ; —, of 68, armed en flute;
—, of 54, ditto ; and three (mailer. Several
French officers and foldiers were among the Dutch
troops. A regiment in Dutch pay, tompofed of
foreigners, wanted to enlift in our fervice. The
Covernor-General of Batavia wason board the Bato.
The IMoosN left St. Helena on the 16th of Ja-
nuary, at which time the NOaTNAMTTON, from
Bengal, BAITANNIA;GINZNAt STAN/ART; and AD-
ssaaat. ATLIN; from Madras, had arrived there,
and were to fail for England on the a 1 ft, under
convoy of a frigate. Some troops, which it is
Slated had reached St. Helena, on theft return to
Europe, have been ordered back to the Cape.

The HENRY ADDINGTON, the °came, the
CASTLE EDEN, the SUTFOLN,RIId the LORD DUN-
ceps, from London, are arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope.

The following is an extra& of a letter from an
Officer on board his Majefly's (hip BRAAVII, dated
Cape of Good Hope. Jan. 3 :

On Sa:urda left the Dutch were to hays had poffelßon of
this place. it bring New Tear's Day; and on Sunday f was to
have faired for Frigknd with the Jupiter and Tremendous, but
the linogene arrive.' a little after noon on Saturday, and has
deranged all our arrangements. Her difpatches for keeping
p,•Ucffion of tilis plane were landed about a quarter before nee
n'aiscle A: five the Dutchstrere to have been put in poffeffine
of all thoguards, previous to their Bag being hafted the neat
tosrning. Thus the place was only laud by about five hours;
:t will be confidered as a very extraordinary event,. as one
k..if of our foldirrs were embarked on hoard (hips for she &B-
indles, and th 7 ether half were ens:A:sped about 8 mike out of
town. We bad only about so men in the cattle, as a Matter of
fo in, to korp p iffeffion till the Dutch entered.
" The Dutch have about 1 boo excellent troops In toles Isere,
and they might with the great& cafe have taken the tank, as
cie report of the place being to be kept got all over the town
!onk before tneafures could have been taken to lease it. by Al
to the afternoon we had landed a thoufand troops that were
emOssked, and marched t►on into the rattle. The Deitch are
to ifounded and difinayed. Are we going to loggerheads al-
ready again ? or, is this place, according to fame reports, go-
to be purchafed? We wait for further orders, which I dare
fay muit loon tome. We ►ave about 1700 or 1500 troops herr

This mot ning we received the following accounts
from Gibraltar s

GIBRALTAR. FEBRUARY $4.

" The two French line of battle !hips that have
been fu long behind the Rock with troops on board
for St. Domingo, are now paging Europa Point
wish an eagerly wind.
•"I'he weather has been uncommonly cold thefe
ti tee weeks tuft : during feveral following morn-
ice a quarter of an inch thick was found on
thr. Liglier parts of the rock : all the crops in the
re•gl.hourhrocl, that two months ago were aile'
tut:: ir,c!•es high, are completely defiroyed ; and
the Sr.tnith f irtners are now ploughing their laud,
t' f,wit ag Adis.
" The (..,I,l:acts mountains in fight of this have
Leen cus j with fisnw there fit weeks.

" No accounts from Egypt or Malta lately...-
tie Garrillou arc all healthy AS awl"

COR MiIRKET, MAR 71"-LANZ, MARCH 21.

There was got a large fupply of Grain to-day,
vet the trade has been extremely heavy in general.
Wheat has, with fome difficul y, maintained the
terms of la!I week.-Barley has fallen from
6d. to is. per quarter.-Oats are a little cheaper.
Bears have no •ariation.-Peas, Rye, and Malt,
do ❑ot appear any way altered as to price.-
A very large arrival of Red Clover Seed from
Fiance, has cattied a particular duilnefs, With the
probability of a great reduftion in that article-
'White Clover much the fame, but Trefoil is almoil
a thug, and confiderably lower in price.
Engl ills Wheat, per qr. sos. 58s. Fine 635.
Superfine 645. 655.
Fine Dantzic Wheat, sos. 565. 6, s.
Rye, 345. 38s.
Barley, 24.5. 265. (Very Fire) 275. 61
Malt, 425. 465. 475.
Oats, 15s. 20S. 227.
Horfe Beans, New, los. 325. Old 34s 361
Tick Beans, New, 277. 295. 307. Old 325 34. r
Hog Peale, 325. 335. 6d.
Boilers, 465. sos.
Carraway Seed, 365. to 413. per cwt.
Coriander, 235. to 30s. per cwt.
Ited Clover, 7os. 945. 98s. per cwt.
White ditto, 9os. r iss. 1265. per cwt.
Trefoil, 36s cos 64s per cwt.
Canary, 725. to 74.5. per qr.
Rape Seed, 341. to 361. 11,:r
Flour, 455. 48s sos. per lack.

. _
At Warminiter Market, on Saturday 1.0. the
prices of Britifh Corn were as follow : Wheat, by
the quarter, 21. 18s. to 31. 3s. Barley, ul. 4.5. 6d.
to il. ys. 6d. Oats, 19s. to IL is. Beans, al. i6s. to
21. os.

On Saturday hit the Princc of WALES gave a
grand dinner to a felert patty of the higneft per-
fins of diftinflion in this country for rank and
talents. There were prefent—
The Duke of Northlk Lord Granville Levifun
Duke of Bedford Lord Statile),
Duke of Deyonfhlre Lord Morpeth
Duke of Leinfter Lord Portebeßer
Earl of Derby Mr. Fox
Earl Moira Mr. Sheridan
1:4r1 of CarHe Mr. Eriklite
Earl Ecremont Mr. Henry &Rine .
Earl of earnarvon Mr. Tierney
Earl of Stair General Fitzpatrick
Lord Cawdor Mr. Adair
- Lord Robert Spencer Mr. Caleraft, Ste. Re.
The dinner was in the garden apartment below
Rairs, the grand dining•room and Rate apartments
being Phut up. His Royal Highnefs left the table
about ten o'clock, and placed the Duke of Not-
1-CLK in the chair, who kept up the conviviality
of the fcene to a late hour.

It is now generally believed that no change in
the Admiralty will take place. At leaft it is cer-
tain that Lord St. Vtacamv remains at the bead
of that department. His MayErri's wifhes that
Lord Sr. VINCINT fhould continue in office are
fupported by the confidence of all the refinelable
part of the nation. Lord MEtvitLei intrigue
has failed; and it is now Paid that he has gone to
vifit Mr. PIT+ at Walmer Cafile.

A regulation has taken place in the impreffing
of feamen. Orders have been givett that no man
irnpreffed (hall pats the regulation, and be put on
the (hip's books, unlefs he (hall have been at tea
for two years during the late war, or (hall agree
to en er as a volunteer.

Encampments are to be formed, as foon as the
Militia arc organized, in the maritime counties ;
Lord Count/alms, it is laid, in the event of a
rupture, will command in the Eallern Diitriet.-
134rham Downs is to be the Head Quarters of the
Kent Millet. Lords MOIRA, Generals LAKE,
MOOR s, Coors, and others, are, by report, no-
minated to commands.
The Duke of MARLBOROUGH. as Lord Lieute-
nant of Oxford, has iffued orders for atfembling
the Militia of that county, on the 3oth init. at the
Town Hall.

The Rutland Militia were on Saturday embo-
died at Oa{atm.
The Denbigh!lfre are to affemble at Wrexham
on the • tth.

The Flint hire at Mold, en the 18th ina.
Emit Kent this day at Canterbury.
Weft Kent ditto at Maid!lone.
Suffolk, at Ipfwi h and Bury, the 213th inn.
Eaft Not folk, this day, at Yarmouth.

Weft Nnrfolk, ditto, 'at Swaff ham, Etc.

A meeting is to be held at Leicefler on the 26th
init. for filing the number of Militia Men to be
railed for the hundreds of that Borough. All per-
flu under 5 feet 4 inches high, and thofe who
hare certificates from furgeons, as unfit for let.
vice, are ordered to attend, before their names
can be ftruck off the lifts.

The Tower Hamlets Militia are ordered to at.
fcmble ; the Firft Royal Regiment in London
Field, at Hackney, and the Second Royal Regi-
ment in Bethnal Green, on Friday the 25th intl.
precifely at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
The Militia for the Eaft Riding of Yorkfisire
were to affemble at Beverley this day in order to
be embodi:d. _

The Norfolk Lieutenancy have agreed to allow
pl. to all fuch perfons, not potreffing property to
the amount of pool. as may be drawn to terve in
the Militia, being half the fum now paid for a
fubftitute.

The recent Militia regulation, by which, when
a man's family becomes burthenfome to the parilh,
he is to be returned to it, and a fuhftitute pro.
aided in his room, is one of the moll rational and
falutary ; the firft expence being infinitely fmaller
than the continued weekly drain. Judicious at-
tentions of this kind would render half the poor's
rates unnecefary ; at prefent they aft only by
patching up mifery to hold together from day to
day, intlead of effeeuating a radical cure, which
would prevent the return of the difeate.
On Saturday came on at Coventry the eleftion
of a Member to ferve in Parliament for that City,
in the room of Nam J s, Efq. declared
not duly elated by a Committee of the Houfe of
Commons. At the dote of the Pall the numbers
flood as follows:
Pow Moire, Etj. s 7 G. F. Sumas, Eft

NAUTICAL LvTELLIGENCE

MAILS TiiiS IMY.-WIND N

ARK Tyr. D.
• DColin
I IV t Ford
• Dutch
• Jant..ica

U. S.

TAINTOt: 1 ii. NIARCF-I IR.

Yeaerday arrived the Lof!, CHAKLFS FPINCER.
Capt. RORER'. COTESU oR ro. with Nf !Ostrom the
Leeward Iflands: the left Tortola on the i..-:h of
February, and found lying at Barhadocc, on the
alfi of January, his Majell)'s flops BLENHL:`:. of
74 guns, Commodore Hoop ; ExcELLI•NT, of ya
grins, Capt. NASH ; ZaA LI), of V.; gook, (24;)E.
OTRYAN; HULTREUR,Of 26 guns, Capt. 011!...wirr:
and HORNET and CYAN E {loops. On the aid of
January, the Packet failed for Dominica, and in
paling the ifland Martinique, fity: a ii::p of the
hole and a frigate at anchor in Fort Royal Bay :
on the 4th of February, the arrived at St. Kitt's,
where the found the CASTOR frigate and DRAKE
I,lig : and on ti:e 7th February, failed for cola:
on the l tth loft. fp,sl::. the hr Lark, of Pooh:,
from You hall, bound roNewfuundlaud,in lat. 0.•
45. long. 19. 45. all well.
This day arrived the LEICESTER packet, SHARP,
with the mails from Jamaica and Baihadoes : th.•
arrived at the latter place on the ith Januaiy, And
round lying there his Majefty's Chips BLENr El H, Of
74 guns ; CENTAUR, of 74.; Excri.t.chr, of 74;
THALIE, of 36; GCACHAPPIN brig, and NETLF V
fchooner : and on the 13th January arrived at Ja-1
maica, where the found his Al:jetty's (hips LEvi A-
THAN, of 74; DELLEROEHWi, of 74.; V•NCL'ARD,
of 74.; ELEPH AN T, Of 74; la DEI.IALE, of e.o ;
SHARK, PELICAN, and R Aeon', llovs. NIA.
jetty's l'aip DE Ru YTr.K, arrived at Jamaica on thet
17th January, with the 87th Regiment, from Cu
taco:. ; and on the 21ft January alto arrived then el
his Majefty's (hips CUMBERLAND, Go-
LIA H. and bANGEI,Of 74 guns each, from a cruize:
on the 13th infi. in lat. 48. 03. long. 19. co. Well,
{poke the brig Fox, of Bolton, from Liverpool,
bound to Bottom out fix days,, all well. Fallen-
gers by the I-zicL.srsit are, Lieutenant Colonel
Huom ES, (late Governor of Curacoa) of the 87th
Regiment ; Lieutenants UN ETTS and RETIL ITTRR,
and L. N. KiaN ea, Efq.

Arrived th:s day the PRINCESS AMELIA Packet,
Capt. Sr-scams, with ditpatches from the Cape of
Good Hope, at which place the arrived on the toth
January, and failed again on the 14th January :
(he carried hence duplicates of difpatches fent by
his Majefty's fhip IMOGENE, which arrived at the
Cape 15 days before, and juft in time to prevent
the evacuation. The Britith troops, excepting
Soo, were aEtually embarked, and the keys of the
Arfenals delivered to the Dutch Governor; but,,
by a well executed plan, he obtained the keys,
and, by private fignal made, the whole of the troops
were relanded, and fortunately regainedpolreflion.
—His Majelly's fhipS LANCASTER, TREMENDOUS, li
JUPITER, DIOMEDE, HINDOSTAN, BRAAYE, and
Pswouaw ; alfo the LORD DUNCAN and HENRY
ADPINGTON Indiamen, and two butch line of hat-
tle (hips and a frigate, were lying at the Cape
when the packet failed on the 24th January : the
failed from St. Helena with his Majcity's (hip Oa-
THIVI, with the BRITANNIA, NORTHAMPTON,
Hamar Exciter, and Nlicsantsss, Eatt Indiamen,
for England.