Star.
London, England, 1803-11-03 00:00:00

HA MAIIIIGH MAIL.

Hama vac tr. Ocr. aB.—The Officers lately fent by
General Moor Ist to pay a vifit of condolanee to the
Duke of MICELCNBUIGH, have complained that the
horfes and plate of the Ktwc of EiscsmiD have ken
f.tved by being fent into Mecklenburgh, and embarked
at Roflock, and have required that the Duke (hould
pay the value to the French. To this ridiculous de.
mand the Duke replied " It was no concern of his
what was embarked in his ports. provided the duties
were paid ;" and he has fent an exprefs to St. Pe-
teriburgh on the fubjea.—lt has been reported here
that 2000 French troops have entered into Mecklen.
burgh, but this is not confirmed. It is certain that
the inhabitants of Mecklenburgh are in much appre-
henfion of a vifit.

ANSTBILDAM, Ocr. 2Z.—The Batavian frigate
Aurora has been launched at. flaring, without wait-
ing for the arrival of the CHIEF CONSUL. An Eng-
lifh collier, captured by a French privateer, belong.
ing to Dunkirk, has been carried into Flaring.—
The number of the French troops in this country
amounts ro sz,ooo men. A French foldier,arho was
out (hooting ducks, not far from Flufhing, Riot a
Dutch p-afant, but was immediately arreßed. Ci.
tizen A rosTOOt will remain in England as our Com.
mitrary for Prikiners.

CO►ENHAGEN, Oct. 18.—The Englifh frigate the
CLYDE, of 38 guns. with Lady WARM on board,
has pared through the Sound on her way to St. Pc-
teriburgh. On the 14th a fleet of Englifh merchant.
men of too vefrels failed from the Sound ; on the tsth
arrived in Ellineur roads, the armed thip A coNao,
of 16 guns, Captain Feu aaaaa , and yeflerday the
CLYDE, Captain Laamoue, and the MALLARD of i 6
guns. They had altogether sac) flips under convoy
from London, Hull, Neercaffle, and Leith.

OCT • 22.—MT. LISTOII has gone to meet Mr. Aa•
■UTHMOT, the Englilh AmbalLidor, who is returning
heare from Stockholm, in order to hare a coact ence
with him.

The orders for the purchafe of EAR India goods,
as well as of the produce of our WeR Indi.t Colonies.
having much increafed fine the blockade of the
Elbe, the prices of many articles have tires cools-
rably ; coffee la particular is very high ; of raw
(agar, noterithlkandibg the great importation, very
little it on hands as foots as the roger is unloaded. it
is re-loaded into other drips. and forwarded.
The Dircaurs of the Dania Eatt India Company
Lave publicly declared,•th it cue affertion contained in
the French papers, and from them repeated In the
Imporsigel C.rrriponhss, that the • Emilia
Eaft India Company had foid t? tjts Dati:h goods to

the amount of tgo millions, for farther tale, is total.
ly devoid of foundation.
STOCKHOLM, Ocr. 18.—We have received by ex-
prefs along with the Convention between the Engli(h
and Swedilh Courts, explaining the Commercial
Treaty of 1661, intelligence that the Englilh Go.
Imminent have depofited the full value of tha firft
Swedilh convoy captured in 1798, in the hands of
Mr. &sent ai cam, and have promifed alto to rettore
the value of the ficond convoy.

CONSTAIITIMOTLE, SETT. 26.—The Porte has juft
tranfmitted a note to all the foreign Minifters refident
here, in which it declares, that it is firmly refolved to
obferve in the prefent war between England and
France, that Met neutrality which it oblerved eleven
years ago, on the commencement of boftilities be-
tween thefe two powers.
ST. PETERESURGN, OCT. 7.—The Engli(h Ambaf-
fador, it teems, will remain here, and expels his Lady
loon from England. Prince Con scoot. la lis bufily
employed in forming a new regiment of Hulans.
OCTOBER to.—We have received the melancholy
news of the death of the Great Duchefs Fine traPaw-
Lowma. The Est PIROR immediately drove to Gatf-
china to the Emprefs Mother, who, overpowered
with grief at the lots of her fecond daughter, was
taken very ill, and though now fomething better Rill
keeps her bed. The Court is gone into mourning for
four months; the Play-houfes will be flint for fix
weeks. A tea Officer here has difcovered a method
of walking over rivers and lakes, and will loon make
a public trial of it. Mr. GoLL, an Artill, from
Dantzic, is arrived here with a new olifeovered per-
petual motion, which ha applies in various ways, to
all kinds of mills, fo as to fupply the place of water,
wind, men, and bodes.

Profeffor R 0111123011 has been uncommonly well
received here; all his effees are admitted duty free.
Our city is now expofed to a very great flood. A
•iolent form from the fca has forced the water into
the canals; in many of the ftreets boats are aanally
plying, and the alarm guns from the Admiralty are
firing inceffently : the form has already !ailed fix
hours—fhould it continue with equal violence for
eight hours more, the damage will be immenfe.
General Count Burrito's' a is appointed military
Infpe&or in Livonia, Efthonia, and Courland, and
Military Governor of Riga, in the room of Prince
GALLITZIN, who has requefted and obtained leave to
rcfign.
At the latter end of September arrived 133 Eng-
lifh (hips, under convoy, at Cronftadt.
HANOVER, OCTOBER 21. The day before yefter.
day two perfoas were accufad of recruiting for Eng-
land, but as this recruiting was before the eublica.
tion of the late decree, it will not be applied to them.
A French Colonel of Engineers is gone to Lanett.
burg, to examine the Elbe, and the &eeknitz, and
has demanded all the plans and charts from the Ar-
chives of Luneburg.
Next Friday the Rags, caught on the Dieter, s 8
in number, will let off for Paris in eight carriages
with fix horfes, made on purpofe.
Yeflerday 5o cannon, 3-pounders, were fent to
Holland; they are molly of the manufallure oft 793,
and have been kept in the Arfenal here, without car.
riages, till the prefent period.

MILAN, Oer. s.—The combined French and
Italian army now in Italy, which fome of the jour-
nals made to confift of tall,ooo men, amounts at
molt to somoo ; about nine or ten thoufand are Ra-
tioned at Verona and Mantua. Though the Aultri-
an army in the Venetian territories is in confider-
able force, the prefent friendly difpofition of the Court
of Vienna leaves no uneafinefs in regard to that
quarter. The army of General Sr. Ora, in the Nea-
politan and Papal dominions, amounts to about
36,000 men, of whom 2000 are in the States of the
IChurch. The negotiations of the Court of Naples,
by remonftrances to the FIRST CONSUL, and the in-
terkrence of foreign powers, in order to induce the
French Government to make their troops evacuate
the Neapolitan dominions, have hitherto been attend-
ed sith no !Incas.

Yeaerday his Maissry, Primers SOPIII4I. and the
Dukes of Kee? and CAMBRIDGI took an airing on
horfeback in the Great Park as :foal. It being the
Anoiverfary of the Birthday of his Royal Nighties
the Duke of KINT. their MAJTIITIVS received the
compliments of the Nobility at Windfor on the occa.
(ton ; and in the evening her ?Aware had a filed
party at the Lodge.

Sir Evan NSPIAII, we are happy to ante, is fo
much recovered from his late indif don, uto be
ble t o attend the Admiralty

YeScully the Sheriffs of London. in State, Wt
Cards of Invitation for Wedneftlay next, the 9th, be-
ing the LORD MAYOR'S day. at the refidences of
their Royal Highnefes the Palace of Watts, the
Dukes of Cu atialtLellth Kum. and Call.
BRIDGE.

The let dlfpatches front General Gammas, re.
picketed to Government the inadequacy of the mili.
tart form in the Leeward Mends to accomplint the
objeas of the kveral expeditions that had been plan
ned Nokia the enemy's fettlemsnts in that quay.
ter. In confequence of this reprefentation. the
t6th, 46th, and loth • nts Om two former of
which are now in I ), have received orders to
proceed immediedy to the Wefi ladies. The (mod
battalion of the id. or Old isfs, that of ;he alb.
and the full battalion of the Army of Referee, are
under orders for Ireland, to replace the troops wbo
are about to fail from thaw to miegotte ;ix ow of
Central °Alaimo.