Star.
London, England, 1803-04-25 00:00:00

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.

MADRITI, APRIL 2.—While England and France
are making preparations for war, our Government
is caufing all the !hips of war at Carthagena to be
difmantled. Five (hips of the line, among nhich
there is one firft rate, have undergone this opera.
lion : a lath has failed for Ferrol, where it will be
reduced to the fame [late. In the magazines of
Cartbagena there are neither proviliona, fails, nor
cordage. Notes, which fell for half their value,
aregiven in payment to the feamen for their arrears
of wages.

RATISSON, APItIL 13.—1 t is worthy of remark,
that the Envoy of Malta did not propofe that any
mention (hould be made of the Order in the con.
fervatory claufe of the conchifion. There was the
more reafon to cape& that this would not have
been the cafe, as it was ezprefsly mentioned along
with the Nobility of the Empire, and the Equel.
trian Order, in a note of the Imperial Plenipontiary.
Two Deputies from the Merchants of the Duchy
of Berg arrived here lately with inflrwYlions which
Rate, that they are to make tome reprefentations
in regard to the pafage from Mentz to Cologne,
and to demand the demarcation of the Thalweg,
which is to regulate the new frontiers between
France and Germany, in order that the navigation
and commerce of each nation may be carried on
without any retrain.
Letters from Vienna Rate, that Citizen Owe.
pansy, the French Ambaffador, in concert with
the Ruffian Ambaffador, has prefented to the Firft
Minifter of State, Count Cossarzsc, a note, in
which he invites, in the moll preffing manner, the
Imperial Court to ratify fpeadily, the preavis of
the Empire, decreed by the laft ectschires of the
Diet, containing th.e. General Reces of the Deputso
tion. Theie three Minifters have Gnce bad feveral
conferences. M. Coss ars rL. offered to ratify every
thing that concerns the indemnities, feparating the
difpofitions relating to them, from thole which
relate to the male votes ; but according to the
difpofitions of the two other Mini fters he gave rra•
fon to hope, that his Imperial Majefty will accede
to the other arrangements of the conektuir. The
Emperor went himfelf a few days ago to the
Chancery of State, and caufed the Ads to be ear
hibited.

Vinous, Amt. B.—A fecond courier has arriv.
ed from Count STATHIUMBERG, our 11finifter at
the Britiffi Court, with difpatches, which give us
the more hopes of a reconciliation, as two great
Powers are to interfere in order to remove the
difficulties which fill ezift.

M. Da jusrs, who has difcharged the funitions
of Secretary of Legation at different Courts, has
been nominated Minifter Plenipotentiary of his
Imperial Majefty, to the King of Etruria. Mini-
(ter: to tie Italian and Ligurian Republics will be
appointed alfo.
Rows, Aram 2.—Lord ELGIN arrived here in
the begining of this week from Naples, on his re-
turn from Connantinople to London.

MILAN, APRIL 6.—Within the !aft fortnight a
great number of French troops, both from Swiffer-
' land and the interior of France, have arrived in
our Republic. We exped alto othcr corps accord-
ing to an order of General Muaar, the Corpman.
der he Chief, thefe troops, as well as thofe which
are already in Upper Italy, will form in the courfe
of the month different camps.
FRANCK/011T, APIS& B.—Great movements are
remarked in every part of Italy, which is occupied
by French troops. Great reinforcements are very
&only expeded.
General MURAT has expedited feveral cobrien
to Rome and Naples, and we are allured that be
demands a paffage for a body of 30,0ci0 men,
which, if war breaks out, will proceed to Sicily,
to effed from thence an expedition againft Malta.
Every body difapproves highly of the condu6 of
the Englifh, who, under vain pretences, obftinately
refufe to evacuate that ifland, which the Govern-
ment, however, promifed in the molt folenin man.
ner to place in the hands of the Grand Maffer.
The latter thf. de Tnostast) has attempted in
vain to obtain the confent of the Englifh Gowen-,
ment to deliver up Malta, and to take porellon of
it in the name of the Order. The Neapolitan gar-
am, which is now in that ifland, may be called
prifoners of war to the Englifb, who occupy all
the fortreffes, and who do not (offer a fingle Nea•
politer' foldier to enter the town of Valette. The
artillery of the Neapolitans is in the power of the
Engliffr. Their Chief alone refides in the capital
of the Wand with his Etat Major, but be is in a
Rate of furveillaace.

The EngLi& Officers announce, in a high tone.
that their Government has made eats for
the keeping of Malta. and that it will lead thikt
conliderable reinforcements. They expeit
Englifh garrifon from Alexandria, which. in an
infurrettional movement. forced General Sru ART,
the Englith Commander in Egypt. to fign an en-
gagement, by which be promifed to depart with
them from Egypt, in the coutfe of the month 01
March. This event is fpoken of in different ways:
it appears neverthelefs certain, that the reps
which was fpread, of a battle between the Engliat
and the Turks, is void of foundation. The moa
authentic advice: inform us, that the ravages of
the plague, and the difagreements to which the
English were daily expofed on the part of the
Tui ks, wh,t did not with to Puffer any longer the
Clay of thole whom they called infidels. indoc,..l
the Englills to force their General to quit Evl''
in fpite of the orders of his Court. which had en•
joined him to remain then Come months

LONDON.

MONDAY, APP.IL ts.
Be. MAR:.--Holiday at the Bank.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OWE O'CLOCK
13 Per C. Conf ?limey, 6465—Ditto, for May, 65.
PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY.
busk Stock 168 5 per Cent. 1797. 984 9741
3 per Cent. Red. 654 64 63 Long Ann.lB 1346 ISt
3 per C. C0nf.6.01 65 641 64 IndiA Stock 305
Flew 4 per CCM. 8t it Coed: for May,64165f 631 64
3 per Cent. Ann. 991,981
VIILIK, nit St.
Scilent. Government Debentures, 9444 93-
of Exchange—Dublin on London is.

We have received Paris Journals to the rift in-
clufive, from which we have prefented tome Ex.
traits in the preceding Columns. We have alto
inferted more ample Extra is from thole received
on Saturday.
The Monismr denies that Mt de BUSY, the Lieu-
tenant of M. THOMAS!, the Grand Mailer of Malta,
is a Frenchman, and confequently, that his ap-
pointment was any infringement of the Treaty of
Amiens. On this fubjed, a Minifterial Paper of
this morning expreffes itfelf as follows--,. The
Moxitear Pays, that M. Le Commandeur Ilai LLt
Lurt, (the changing s for a is not unworthy of re-
mark), belongs to an ancient Italian Family eftab-
lifhed for tome ages in a town of the Papal States,
diftant nine leagues front Rome (what Town the
Moniteur does not condefeend to inform us), and
In that city M. BAILLI Boat was born." Now it
happens that by means of our private Correfpon-
dence, we are enabled to contradi& this affertion
of the Moniteur, and to Art, that M. La BAILS,'
Boar, or BUSY, is a Frenchman, that he was one
of the French Fadion in the Ifland, and that he
was one of thole who traitoroufly contributed to
deliver Malta into the hands of the French ra‘that
he is now completely in the French intereft, and in
Ihort that he is,in every fenfe of the word aFrench.
man. So much for the veracity of the Mositivw."

A private letter from Cape Francois, dated the
6th of March, Rates the difembarkation of a body
of feversl thoufand men from Leghorn, which had
re-animated the courage of the Colodißs. The
campaign was expeded fpeedily to open. The
rebels had retired to the diaance of two leagues
from the Cape.
_ _ .

According to theintelligenee from Germany,the
Courts of Vienna and Berlin have refolved to pre-
!erre the Itridefi neutrality in the event of hold•
ties between this country and France.

Preffing reprefenuttions have been made by the
French and Ruffian Ambaffadors to the Emperor
of Germany, to induce him to accede, without
delay or referve, to the terulefere of the Diet re-
fpefting the Indemnities...-Five per cents. 53f. doe.
A Meffenger arrived on Saturday at Lord
Ilawat ssuat's office, with difpatches from Lord
Viruirvroaru ; and yellerday another Mellinger
arrived with further advices from his Lordthip.—
Mafkagers have alfo been fent off with Difpatehes
for Paris on the important points under difeuffion.
Indeed there has been an univerfal baffle of this
kind for there two days, as our Readers will fee
from our Port Letters. Nothing, however, is yet
allowed to tranfpire, and all the laboured predic-
tions of thofe Journalills, who, if the Public will
believe them, know all that paffes, have vanithed
in fmoke. The akiwetues of which they are continu-
ally talking is Rill a nonentity.
The Public may depend upon it,that the reports
which have been circulated in Tome of the Papers,
of arelaration having taken place in the armaments
in preparation in fome of our Sea-ports, are totally
untrue, and owe their origin only to that fyßem
of fpreading doubt, hefitation, and uncertainty, to
which the reports of changes, and the charges of
!Inanition and incapacity, are indebted for their
birth. The Vtcroar. of tto guns, which it was
aliened. with confidence, could not be ready in
fits weatia, this day failed for Lavßeaeb. whither Ote
would have fallen down on Saturday, bad not the
fquallinefs of the weather prevented it.
In the Dock Yards the men are Rill employed
on Sundays.tto batten the outfit of furl men of war
as are molt behind in their repaint and every
thing thews that it is Rill a matter of doubt with
Government, whether the country will be able to
remain in a Rate of peace.
We are enabled alto to Rate, by letters received
this day from Gibraltar, that the French are in a
greater Rate of preparation than they with us to
believe. Indeed. from the complexion of the Paris
journals, is looks as if isyfreitienr had been handed
to the Editors to rappers or deny that any pre-
parttime are snaking in their ports. The public
may, however. rely en the contents of the tub.
joined letters, and be allured that in the Mediter-
ranean they are tiling every exertion to provide
naval Rotes, and be prepared for a Rate of a&ual
warfare.