Star.
London, England, 1803-03-16 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, MARCH i 6.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
SPerC•ConCoosei• 63111411 it 1.
Ditto. for April ace. 631. 64. 631, 644, 631, 644, 641.
Old 3 per Cent. Ann. 98-omniont 141 dl
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
3pa C• Conf. 634 6.4 6344 Exch. Biu•, so. to 6s. dif.
5 per C. Ann. 961 971 Omnium 141 13 t4l dif.
India Stock aos for opt. Engrath Tickets t7l. as.
Imp. Ann. xol 1 Conf. for April63l; 641 631

Adviees of a very fingular nature were received
this morning, which, if true in all their parti-
culars, will require no common degree of ex-
planation. Thefe advices (late that a large French
wird, forced into Cork by (refs of weather,
or (fronded on the neighbouring coon, was
found to have ten thoufand (land of arms on
board, with French Colours and Irifh Standards
of Rebellion, betides a quantity 9f warlike (ores.
What degree of credit is attached to this account
we know not, but fuel' news have reached the
Admiralty.

The converfation which took place laft night he•
tween the Earl of CARLISIA and the Loco CHAM.
tILLOR, refpeßing the prefent Miniftry, will be
read with much interea.

Reports of changes in Adminiftration are afloat,
but whether they have arifen from the Debate al-
luded to, or are entitled to any credit, we cannot
determine. Indeed tome of the llatements are In
direltly at variance with themfelves, that few will
be inclined to give them /nifty belief.
According to force, the change is to be a very
partial'one. Lord MOIRA, it is niid, has accepted
the office of Mafer•Gencral of the Ordnance;
lard PILHARI refigned his fituation in the Home
Department in favour of the Earl of CH AT 111 M
and Earl Sr. Viscosity is inflantly to retire.

According to others, his Majefly ltas exprefirsi
a defire that his government lhnuld be fircni;thened
by the aceeffion of any one, rr of every one, oldie
different parties into which the State is divided,
with exceptions to two individuals only, and thole
tyro individuals are Mr. Fox and Mr. Purr.

That men (horrid with for (licit arrangements as
may Wit their particular views h nothing new, nor
are the mean► now retorted to new. Reports are
often propagated, not only to found the public
mind, but to prepare it to hear of a change when
dole who fabricate them think the times favours.
ble to their views. The Public, however, mould
he cautious how they receive rumours of the kind
alluded to.

The Proclamation iffued by the Dotch Govern•
meat, and which we yeflerday laid before our
Readers, is highly interefting to commercial men,
and if peace continues uniiaturoptcd, will demand

the ferious attention of this country. By the mea-
fure alluded to, the whole trade to the Dutch Eaft
India Settlements is to be laid open to the Citizens
of the Batavian Republic. But this is not all.—
Holland is in eft& made a great free Port for all
Eaftern commodities. Permitlion is given to bring
all the produdions of India, with one or two ex-
ceptions, to Holland, on payment of duties, fo
that the objet of the Dutch Government evidently
is to render Holland a depot for India commodi-
ties, a meafure which, if realized, would be of the
utmoft prejudice to the commercial interefts of this
country. Nor could it fail of (*tweets unlefs fome
wife regulations fliould be adopted to encourage and
to fecure that traffic to this country, as the grand
emporium of it. At prefent a very conflderable pact
of the trade of India is driven to foreign countries,
and obliged to be carried in foreign bottoms, as
if it would be highly injurious to Great Britain to
be the medium by which the reft of Europe fhould
principally be fupplicd with Eaftern produce ! It
cannot be doubted, that if peace were to continue,
many perfons would avail themfelves of Dutch
flags, and of Dutch privileges, to carry to Holland
that furplus trade of India, which by the ftrange
impolicy of the Court of Diredors,and the rapine-
nefs of others, is prevented from coming to Eng-
land. Since the French Government has allowed
the Dutch to adopt fo liberal a policy, it is not
improbable that they have refolved to follow the
fame fyftem in France, by which fill more this
country would be rivalled in the fupply of the Con-
tinent with all Afiatic produce.

The veffel by which we yefterday received the
Paris Journals brought over alto Mr. Maws, one
of his Majefty's Meffengers, with difpatches from
Lord WHITWORTH. A French Mcffenger likewife
arrived yefterday with difpatches for General
ANDRLOSSI•

The paffengers who came at the fame time all
affirm, that not the leaft fufpicion was entertained
at Paris of any probability of a rupture. This
(hews how completely State fecrets can bee kept at
Paris. should we afcribe this to the virtue
of B she's Council, or to the fear in which
he is held by all who are about Wm. Be that as it
may, the motive which keeps them from benefiting
in the Stock market, by the knowledge which their
fituation affords them, mull be a powerful one ;
for we have no doubt of the French Government
having been officially informed of the King's Mef-
rage before the Taft Meffengers came aw 47.
Indeed, it is pretty.well underftood, that the
Cabinet Council which met yelterday was fain-
mooed for the exprefs purpofe of taking into con-
fideration the difpatches from Lord Wit rrwoam,
announcing that he had made the official commu-
nication to the French Government. We have
reafon to think, however, that nothing decifive
on the topics in difcuffion has yet been received.
What thole topics immediately are, we do not pre-
tend to Rate, but our Readers have long been
prepared for the crifis which has now arrived. We
have long feen, and have not failed occafionally to
notice the irritation and ill-reftrained hoftility
which has prevailed in a certain quarter, towards
this country, ever fince the fignature of the Defi-
nitiv: Treaty of Peace; and the extenfion which
has been made of the French power fince that
period, though perhaps not a fufficient ground for
the renewal of War on the part of this country,
yet could impart no very fanguine hopes of the
probable duration of peace. Every change in the
I relative fituation of France, fince the Treaty of
Amiens was figned, was a virtual infraltion of that
Treaty, and it was only a fpirit of forbearance and
Peace, on the part of otir Minifters, of the molt
fincere and confiftent nature, that could prevent us
fi om endeavouring to arreft, by force,the ambitious
career of the CHIEF CONSUL. The Spirit of this
Nation blazed up indignant at the violation com-
mitted upon Switzerland, and would have fop-
ported the Minifler in any meafure calculated to
avert the fate of that devoted Country; but it was
wifely determined in our Councils, that the circum-
fiances of Europe were not favourable to the fuccefs
of fuch an interference. The period of retribution,
I however, may foon come. The reliefs and gigan-
tic ambition of Bo feems likely to provoke
a renewal of War, which, in the prefent fituation
of Europe, mull, we have no doubt, be ultimately
difaftrous to the French. If we are to wage the
War frisk banded, we make it a Naval one, and,
under Peoviosaca, the Are mull be glorious to
the Britifh arms. But will the oilier Powers cf
Europe tamely view a conteft which involves the
independence, and even exigence of thole that can
dill claim an exemption from the yoke of France?
Will they view with apathy, the glorious exertions
of the only nation that has the fpirit openly to re-
lift French encroachment, and to difregard French
threats? The Estraamt of Russia we believe to
be folly aware of the true objeas of France, and
to be alarmed at the danger which they threaten to
all Europe—in this cafe we are fore of his neu-
trality, if not of his aetive co-operation—and the
Ebert Loa of Galina"! v we may fuppofe to have
no great affelthm towards the Freock .interells,
when we taiga how moth his was difresarded ia

the arrangement of the indemnties. The brave
and indignant S‘%if. too, whol.: free and ardent
fpirit cannot yet be wholly labiltt.:d hy the ft.; ter s
of the livery impofed upon thLin, %%;i1 leize with
avidity, the fir( favourable mitzmitt for throwing
off the French yoke. Under all thcfe circumflances,
if War we mull have, 'ap rlidp, we could not com•
mence it at a more atiipichmis moment than the
prefent. At.g.l events, whatever may be the iffue
of the pending Negotiation, we may reit anred
that hottility has not been provoked by the intem-
perance of our Minifters on the one hand, and that
they are properly alive to the Honour and Interefis
of the Country on the other. They will draw the
Sword with reluCtance, but, if forced to it, they
will draw it with fpirit and effca.
With refpeEt to the caufes of the prefent difpute,
as we have already Elated, all that is known for
certain is, that the difficulty attending the adjuft-
ment of the affairs of Malta forms one of the prin-
cipal points of difcuffion. The tottering Rate of
the Turk Empire is, however, alfo underftood to
be another material caufe of difference. Private
letters from Paris nate, in confident terms, that
the Frosr CONSUL has actually formed a plan for
partitioning that unfortunate Empire between
Ruffia, Aultria, and France, in which he propofes
that Auftria (hall have the Turki(h provinces in
Europe, Ruflia thofc in Afia, and France the
country of Egypt, &c. Auftria, it is Paid, has taken
time to confider of the prudence and expediency
of the projed ; but Ruffia, indignant at the Con•
fular intention, has honeftly rejeeted the oToiture,
as altogether unprincipled, difgracefnl, and p,:rfi-
dious. The anfwer of ALEXANDER, in which he
thus virtuoufly expreffes himfelf, has of late been
handed about in the political circles at Paris, and
a copy of it is hated to have been fent to the Bri-
tifh Government by Lord WHITWORTH. If this
ftatement be correCt, it affords an additional illuf-
tration of the danger to be apprehended from the
infatiable ambition of the Confular Chief; and
while it (hews how little dependence is to be placed
in any treaty formed with him, proves the preffing
neceffity, on our part, of taking the mon vigorous
precautions againft his dark defigns to humble the
greatnefs, if not to annihilate the'power of Eng-
land, in every quarter of the Globe.
After the Council yefterday, Lord GARDNER,
who is to have the command of the Channel fleet,
was at the Admiralty till (even o'clock at night,
when he fet out for Portfmouth. His departure
had, perhaps, no connexion with the proceedings
of the Cabinet, but it certainly took place fooner
than was expelled; for he was this day to have
been at the Levee, to prefent a Gentleman to the
KING.

Sir E. PtiLaw alto left town yetlerday for Ply.
month. .

Greater buftle was not known at Woplwich
during the molt furious part of the late war, than
in the courfe of yetterday. Orders were received
for fending forty-fir field pieces to the Southern
Coat, and Taft quantities of military fibres of all
kinds in the ordnance of that place, were preparing
to be (hipped for 'Malta. The fame energy pre-
vails on all our Chores. Tl.urfday night there was
a very fevere prefs at the port of Leith. Every
(hip was ftript of her hands ; but thofe belonging
to the veffels about to fail for the whale fifhery
were liberated again.

The QussM, with the Patmcissts, took an air-
ing yellerday morning along the Edgware Road,
and viewed WEIRS'S pleafure boats on the Grand
Junction Canal at Paddington, as the=. palled by.
Several Admirals, among whom were Sir
HYDE Palma, Sir R. ONSLOW, and Admirals
Knialer and NUDIST, attended yeOerday at the
Admiralty, as did alfo the Hon. Captain EL:
►HIMITONE.

His Relcal Highnefs the Duke of YORK held a
Military Levee yellerdav at the Horfe Guards, at
which upwards of fifty Officers were prtrent, ten-
dering their fervices. The next Levee will be on
Friday.
No time, we find, will be loft in calling out the
Militia. That of the county of Gloucefter are
ordered to be embodied on Monday the 28th inn.
the South Gloucefter Royal regiment, commanded
by the Earl of BERKELEY, Lord Lieutenant, at
Glouceller ; and the North Royal Glouceller Bat-
talion, commanded by Col Rowse° r, at Ciren-
ceiter. The Snmerfet Militia are ordered to be
embodied on the fame day.
Orders are received at Plymouth for the imme-
diate embodying the South Devon Militia, on
which account Lord ROLLS is expelled there
The Earl of GROSVKNOR has given notice to the
Gentlemen forming the Volunteer Corps of St.
Margaret and St. John, Wellotinth.r, to hold them
felves in readinefs to be embodied.

The following Circular Letter was yefterilay
fent by Lord AMHERST to the St. James's Vo•
lunteers:—
Star—Yoa are requelted to attend Parade on Wednefday
seat, tie t6th of March, u la o'clock in the evening, at the
putkniar regoeft of Lord Aeolian.
March te, slog. Jonas Pica, Sec.

The obje& is to put the corps in an immedia! e
Rate of preparation, and the example will, no
doubt, be followed by all the other Corps in town
and country.
Many offers have already been made of railing
regiments. Among others, Sir CHARLIS Bassi,
SYLDI has offered to rade a Regiment of Infantry
' for general fervice. His letter of fervicc was tea-
Idercd to the War Office yefterday.

CORN :f K ET, rYR li IG.

Not h.tvilcf any aT:I,-.!: fi:cc 'an,
Sales which tr,(4: pl..cc tbi, duy v••ci,t off it.l,-
)itt Any :theration r: ic:.
Y,:flerd.ty the 1.00. NIkYOP. arrer 'taper :ling the
Ntea!wj:,;hcrs' p-irc 1.; 4 C:1 ti
(0 continue at yd. the Val ter a loaf, •vhe.a.,...n, :tad
houfauld at 74i.

NAUTICAL IN7 FLLIG&NCE.

.PI:VNIOU cra, NTARC!r 14.

Came in the It Evni.ur Lost( ia E, ut gunc, Cr.7lr
LocK, from the Weftward, with leamen for the
(Lips fitting out here : (he went immediately up
Hamnaze.

The ATALARTF, (4.18 guns, Capt. MANSFIELD,
is gone to the Wellwarci, to tow the Calico flo.ip
of war from Motints•Bay, where fhe lies difmalled.
Orders are this day received for the Revenue
Cutters to be put under the direaions of the Port-
Admiral, to be in readinefs Gtr any fervid fur
which they may be wanted.
Came in the Love and Friendfhip, of Cork,
Capt. BLAKE, from Cork, for thii poz t ; the Ran-
ger Cutter, of 14 guns, Captain FRAZER, from a
cruifr, with a leiAllrC of 220 Calks of spirits ;
the Eagle and Reno%n Excite Cutters, from a
cruise.

Sailed the Dutch (hip Amicitia, Capt. C. REY.
MENS, from Surinam, bound tthAmiterdam, with
fugal- and cotton.
The SIKIUS, of 36 guns, is removed from
Cawfand-Bay to the Sound, and this afternoon
nude the fignal for failing : the is bound abroad
with fealed orders.

The Husirrit, of t 8 guns, is come from Ha-
mosize to Cawfind-Bay, to wait further orders.
Sailed the Dutch 'hip Drie Gebroders, from
Gucrnfey, for Amilerdem, in ballad.
Came from Hamoaze to the Sound the Boat:1;-
m%, of 38 guns, Captain MAITLAND.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH is.
Arrived the Chance, Mu., fruni Liverpool,
bound to Newhaven; the Eager, SILVER, from
Burfelton, bound to Liverpal ; the Governor,
POUND, from Lynn; and the Morrifon,TarmyNE,
from Plymouth. _ _

Sailed the Endeavonr, Tv 'sox, for Sunderland,
and his Majelty's (hip Jv ?to, for Ireland.
Went out of harbour the Ay loss frigate.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 15.
Arrived at the Note, from the Thames, the
AMELIA, Lord PROBT ; and Altercates, Capt.
MAN.? I—from Sheernefi, the Idussaa, Capt.
WILKINSON ; and the,Ers&LloN, Capt. STUART.
The three latter have been paid two months ad-
vance this day. The ItArsoNceLe, Capt. Ho-
THAN ; and the MINOTAUR, Capt. MANSFIELD,
are both put in commiffron, and ordered to be fit-
ted with all pable expedition. The DILIOINCI
iloOp, Capt. KER., arrived yefterday from the
Thames, and is ordered to the mouth of the river
to imprefs men from the Mpg coming up.
A hundred and feventy regular troops are ar-
rived at the Garrifon here. The men in the Dock
Yard work from daylight in the morning till dark.
and every exertion is ufed to equip the fleet. Ad-
miral Sir JAMES SADMARSZ is arrived here, fo that
the place now airtime, a warlike appearance.

DOVER, MARCH is.

' Lail night, about twelve o'clock, the Dueness
or You, C. WATSON, arrived here from Calais
with Mr. Masow, King's Meffenger, with 41f-
patches from Lord WHITWORTH : and MCMG
DRAGON,
A. French meffenger, with difpatchcs for.
General HDRIOSSI : they both fet off for London
in a poll chaife and four; 39 cafes of foreign
money came alfo by raid veffel; this Charlotte,
French packet, came alfo with foreign mails, L.
Gowsa, and nineteen paffengere.
Thirmorning, about eleven o'clock, a French
open boat landed Monf. Cruz al., Chef des Couriers,
with difpatchcs for General ANDRIOSSI : this laft
appeared a perfon of more confequence than the
ufual Couriers, and has been with Bo AAAAA is,
it is laid, for twelve years, in all his campaigns,
and is never fent, only on bufinefs of great impor-
tance. Lord IVirrriroarit, it is underilood, has
received a very haughty note from M. Tatter.
'attn.—Sailed the Duchefs of York, Capt. War.
sow, with 24 palTengers for Calais.—The
Capt. SMITH, and the TARTAR, Capt.Woarniwo.
iroN, both conk in their guns, and failed, to put
themfelves under the Admiral in the Downs.

The following communication from Mr. Patna,
Jeweller, of Brewer-ftreet, will be a proof of the
benefit to be derived from Dr: fate's's Powder,
in the prefent Epidemical Diforder --
To Mr. NEWBERY, No. as, St. Paul's.
Sta...Obferving a Paragraph in the Papers, of the efficacy
of James's Powder in the Mimosa, and my Wife having bum
face attacked by that complaint in fo violent a manner as to
become in a very Ihort time delirious, I feat for Dr. James. of
George-ft:vet, who uftially attends my family, a• d who, by
means of his Father's Powder, removed the delirium and the
fever in 1 few hours.—if you think this fat can be of any
fervice to the Public, you are at liberty to relate it w tk my
name. I ant Sir, &c. &c. PHILIPS Patna.
No. t 7, Brewer-ttreet, Arfarch 12, iBo3.
To ADVENTuaLIM—The prefent State Lottery
begins drawing on Monday, April 4, and, from
`the Scheme being upon the old cftablifhed princi.
ple of tiqating Prizes, affords peculiar advantage
to the pit:chafers of Tickets andShares,the fmallef
Price is 201. and there are four of Twenty Thos.
(ands—Three Ten Thoufands--befidesThrcc Eve
Thou/ands, and others to a large amount. It is
therefore highly probable the Tickets will rife con.
fiderably before the Drawing.—Meffis. J. Jonas°,
and Co. ever grateful for the preference mith which
they have becn honoured, b.g leave to reccom.
mend an early purchafe to their numerous Fliers+,
and inform Lb.= they have on file, at their Old
Formate Licenfed State Lottery Office, N 0.,,//,
Pope's Head Ailey. Corrhill, Ticket,, HANS.
Q,carters, Eighths, and Sixteenths, in a great Va.
iicty of choice and /ilea Numbeis.—This Office
has been remarkably fortunate ;n and fiear..l
in g Capital Prizes, being the only one that ever
'fold two Twenty Thoafankh drawn on one day.

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MILITARY PROMOTIONII,

Fran the LONDON GAZETTE, March is.

Commillion figncd by his Majefly's Lieutenant for
the County of Carmarthen, dated Mitrcir3o 803.
David Saunders to be Deputy Lieutenant.
WAR OFFICE, MARCH Is.
Major.Gcorral Miles &reeky, from Half p.l of the late ,Bth
Light Dragoons, to be Coloncl of the 4th Regiment of Dra-
goon Guards, vice General Ward; dcccafed.
STAFF. __ _ _

Ilajoe-General Robert BroWnrigo to be Quarter-Matter-Ge-
neral to the Forces, •ice General Dundas, who is placed on
the Staff at a General, and refigns his Of!Lc of %arm-
?Jailer-General.