Star.
London, England, 1803-04-28 00:00:00

THURSDAY. APRIL 2S.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s
per Cent. Reduced 641ifilt
3 per C Conf. money, 6s 4.
Ditto, for ace. 6541.
New 5 per Cent. 991,1-01d4litto soot
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock tyo} Long Ann. spif
3 per Cent. Rod. 64 Short Ann. 4 1.'6
3 per C CunL 65 India Stock soy/
New per Cent. I Exchcq. Bills, par is. dif.
5 per Ct. Ann. 1 tot Englith Tickets 26L
5 Pe:Cm-1797.99H ConL for May,6it 66 651 i 66

In confequence of a Cabinet Council having fat
yefterday, the rumour is revived that Mr. PITT
is coming into office. We do not find that it has
had much died at the Stock-Exchange, the
prices being much the fame to-day that they
were the day before. People begin now to learn
that they Should not liken to every report.
In the Norm which we two days ago hated to
have done fo much mifchief to the Ships defined
for Louifiana„ we underhand that one of the French
frigates has been entirely loft,and the other driven
on fhore with almoft all the tranfports.
A Minifterial Paper, of this morning, gives the
following hatement refpeOing Holland :
"The occupation of Flufhing by the French, and
the march of fo many additional troops into that
Country, arifes chiefly, we underhand by very au-
thentic private letters, from an appeal made by
the Batavian Government to the EISPRILOR of
RUSSIA and the KING of PRUSSIA, for their inter-
ference to prevent Holland from being involved in
the war between England and France, Should war
be the refult of the prefent Negotiations. A requeft,
we underhand, was at the fame time mado by the
Batavian Government to ours, that their Neutrali-
ty, in the event of hollilities, Should be refpeaed.
The anfwer of our Government was, we believe,
equally jutt and generous, viz. That the Neutra-
lity of Holland Should readily be refpcaed, provid-
ed all the French troops were withdrawn from it,
and that country left independent and free.
" That the French troops will not in any cafe be
withdrawn, we may eafily conclude, for fo unani-
mous are now the people of Holland, and fo im-
patient and indignant under the French yoke, that
the moment an opportunity prefents itfelf, we be.
lieve they would to a man facrifice their lives in
their ba ditch, rather than fubmit again to French
Fraternization."

We have received Paris Journals to the 25th
infant inclufive. Our Readers will fee by the fub.
joined Extratils, that Egypt is at !aft leg to shit
Cosustry. Thus, by the fyftem of procraftination,
which has uniformly been followed on all matters
where explanations were definable between this
Country and France, the latter has fucceeded in
obtaining another great point.
The detail is accompanied with a remark, that
fince the Engli(h quitted Egypt tranquillity feems
to prevail! Who firft difturbed the tranquillity
of Egypt ?
The French boat too of the way in which their
Commi(lloners of Foreign Relations have been re•
ceived in the different Ports of the Levant !

Pants, Arai'. 25.—1 n confequence of a decree
of the Colonial Government of Sainte Lucie, dated
February ia, and which is to be in force till other-
wife ordered, the permilLon granted to foreign
veffels, which bring to Sainte Lucie goods not pro.
hibited, of exporting raw fugan, is extended to all
the other predations of that Colony, cotton ex-
cepted, which is referred Hely for the French
commerce. Foreign veffels are to pay fix and a
half per cent. ad valorem of the colonial produc-
tions which they export from the ifland : thole
exported by national bottoms to France or to
French poffenions are fubjeft to no duty on leaving
that colony.—Five per cents. 54 fr. 10 c.
Tonto'', tB.—Rear.Admiral Lsis.
amass has anchored in thefe roads, with the di.
Tifton which carried General Bann it, the French
Ambalfador, to Connantinople. He returned by
Saint Jahn of Acre, where he met with a favoura-
ble reception from Dgezzar Pacha. He left
Alexandria the 3oth of March. The Englifh eva-
cuated that place on the t7th of the fame month :
after their departure tranquillity teemed to be re.
Bored in Egypt. The Mamelukes were canton•
ed in Upper Egypt. He anchored at Malta in
the middle of the Englifh (quadrat, which confined
of ten (hips of war. The +ono men returned from
Alexandria were performing quarantine at the La-
zaretto. In all the places of the Levant, where
he touched to inftal the Commit loners of Foreign
Relations, the latter were received by the Turks
with fentiments of particular eßeem and every
demonftration of joy.—Mswitrer.

Bausso ea, Ants. as.—A French courier from
Paris pallid through this city yelterday, on his way
to the headquarters at Breda. General &Less's),
who commands the s4th military divifion, is now
infpeding our coals, and particularly thofe of the
ci•devant Dutch Flanders. He began at Sas-de.
Gand, and will continue his tour by Halt, AM.
ithe Ilk of Cadfand. and Antwerp. He has every
where given orders for the moa proper mesas of

defence : all the ports will be fortified, as durir.g
the late war. At the Ifland of Cadfand entrench.
ments and batteries are formed with every potTible
difpatch, by a great number of pioneers who are
employed on them.

We are informed from Flu(hing, that every
Point of the coati of the Ifland of Walcheren which
might be espofed in cafe of a war, as well as the
furrounding heights, are furnifhed with entrench.
menu and batteries. A great number of the pea.
rants have been required to work at there works,
while their horfes are employed in tranfporting
tillery and warlike gloves of every kind, from Mid-
dleburg and Fluffing.
VIENNA' Aran. to.—An Englifh Officer has
arrived here, being charged by the Englifh
net to requed permiffion of the Emperor to take in.
to its fervice a part of the corps of bombardiers.
which enjoys fo high reputation in Europe. Con-
fiderable funs were offered to obtain this permit-
lion, but our Court has formally rejected it, and
declared, that, under the prefent political circum-
fiances, it could by no means conform to the wifhes
of the Britifh Cabinet.—journal der Defenfiurr..

RA7111014, APRIL 16.-11 e ratification of the
laft coorlsifigas of the Diet is expeded on the soth,
at which time the Diet will refume its Sittings.—
What has principally retarded the ratification is
Paid to be the difpatching of a courier to Peterf-
burgh by the court of Vienna, which has thought
proper to enter into tome explanations with the
Emperor of Ruffia, before it gives its faation to
this decifion of the Empire.

A Hamburgh Mail alfo arrived this morning,
by which we have received the following article.,
Tome of which are deferring of attention :
On the morning of the 14th init. Prince Wis.
maw of GLOUCISTIII left Hamburgh for Berlin,
after having received from the Senate all the =ea-
lion that the thortnefs of his Ray would allow.