Star.
London, England, 1803-08-17 00:00:00

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.

Bias. OF vat Marx, Auo. B.—A kind of coali-
tion. or union, has jolt been formed between Botha,
Sweden. and Denmark ; its obJeft is to oppofe every
attempt to ()bawd and cripple the commerce and na-
vigation of the Baltic. and to fhelter their fubjeas
from the vexations to which they muff be erpofed, if
the molt impoftng meafures were not adopted. It
is evident that this coalition is at lean implicitly
direfted againft England, beeaufe England is the
only belligerent power that violates neutrality, by ob.
(hating the freedom of navigation. We are afforest,
that in confequence of this new concert between the
three powers of the North, Sweden and Denmark
are immediately to fend out of their ports a propor
tionate number of (hips of war, to that which the
Emperor ALLIANDFII will fend into the Baltic. As
this maritime confederacy can leave no doubt refpeet•
IT.g the difpofitions of the Cabinet of Ruaia. it is to
he hoped that the Court of St. James's will at length
pay hone regard to the propofals that have been made
to it both on the part of Botha and Proflia. Some
perfons pretend that the courier who is the bearer of
the alien' of his Britannic Majttly ought, by this time,
to have arrived at Peteriburgli. A congrefs will
therefore be held, to ttltich the principal Powers of
Europe will fend Minillers. The cio, of Hamborgh
has been propofcd as the moll favourable place (or
holding that Crngrefs, being fituated between Loo•
don and Petertbuigh.

Not only are the caufcs of the prefent difpute be-
tM•een England and France to Lc fttticd at this Con-
grecs, but several other 'Mirth ate to be taken into con•
fideration, which may tend more precitely ro eflablifh
the balance nt Europe, more efprcially as to what re•
laves to maritime and commercial concerns. It mall°
priffible that the prefent (Late of the Ottoman empire
'der Ifi.lcr •-• in, as liken ife the even•
,:lopred in tale that im.
:‘; to a catailrophe, in
lends and allies may be
'event its dilfolution.+—
'to 11{..W squat tluuu&h•

LONDON.

WEDNFSDAY, AUGUCT ti.

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Mr. FISH E R, the Mcfrenger, arrived yeaerday with
difpatches from the Court of Peterfburgh.—He came
by the way of Paris. Mr. Lucas the Mefrenger ar-
rived at the fame time with difpatches from our mi-
flitter at Conflantinorle.—Mails alfo arrived from
Tonningen, and Gothmburgh, which brought fe-
veral important communications: the letters however
were nit deliveredout, tillafter our paper was at pref.-
Oar letters ft orn I lamhorgh, which appeared only
in a part of our impreffion, we have again in-
ferred, with a variety of other communications which
will be found interetling. We may alfo (tate, that
the general tenor of the private letters received by
the commercial houfes in the city, tend to corrobo-
rate the opinions that have been from time to time ad-
vanced in this paper, refpeeting the part which Ruffia
would probably take in the prefent contea.
. Our own letters mention that ac,coo Ruffian troops
are on boaid the Ruffian fleet that lately failed, and
that Pruflia has been required by the Emperor ALez-
ANDER, to affiti in driving the French from Hanover.
Whether the fad may prove to be ezaetly as here
(Fated, cannot eafily be determined ; but the very cit.
cumftance that renders this difficult to be afcertained,
tends to make it fo far probable, at leaft, that wemay
confider the movement as in favour of this country.
Our Readers could not fail to obferve, in the entails
from the French papers yetlerday, a kind of com-
plaint " that the correfpondence between the Erays•
Rot of RUSSIA and the Krwc of Paussta was carried
on without the medium of their Minifters, by letters
written with their own hands ;" nor can our readers
have forgotten a circumftance that • made much
noife, not long ago, of fame difpatches having been
kept from the knowledge of a certain potentate for
a longer time than any good reafon could be af-
figned for. Whether the Machiavelian policy that
rendered it neceffary for the ESIPIROR and the KING
of Ptussr♦ to manage their own correfpondence,
could be laid to our charge or to that of France, need
not, we think, be doubted; nor, confequently which
of us is to be ferved by it.
The view we are decidedly inclined to take is far-
ther corroborated by private letters received 'react-
day from St. Petedburgh, which Rate, that a nett
of French (pies and agents, deteeed in corrupt prat.
vices there, have been feized and fent into Siberia.
This is affirmed in fo many letters that we cannot
doubt its truth, and it is neceWarily regarded as a
moll aufpicious circumaance for this country. Some
accounts lay, the EmPeROll of RuSIA, in confequence
of dikovering the bare defigns and treachery of the
French, has declared in favour of Great Britain, and
is forming an alliance with Sweden and Denmark
againft France. That fuch may be the with of the
Emperor we doubt not, and that it would obvioully
be for the real interefts of there powers to accede to
fuch a propofition is undeniable; but "heavy bodies
move fiowly," and we cannot think the period for
the interference of Sweden and Denmark, fo near as
we could with it.

Some of the private letters go fo far as to hate,
that in confcquence of the detefted machinations and
intrigues of the French, the Emperor of Ruffia has
ordered the immediate departure of all Frenchmen
from his dominions.—That zneafure may not yet
have taken place, but we have no doubt it foon will;
for we know no country on earth which, like our
own, permits the fubjeds of its enemy to range at
large in its territories after hoffilities have alually
commenced.

The contents of the difpatches from St. Peterf
burgh have not tranfpired ; but we can Rate, on very
rood authority, that before the end of OE'ober a
Ruffian fquadron may be eape.led in our harbours.
for the purpofe of co-operating with our navy. The
reports in the City ought, however, to be mentioned.
Some politicians affert that the difpatches related to
a Congrefs for a General Pacification mentioned in
the Paris Papers received yellerday ; while others ri-
diculed fuch an idea fo long as BONA AAAAA continued
to avow his hollility againft this country, accompa-
nied with all the aggravating circumllances of intuit'
and invafion. That the Northern Powers may indi-
cate a with to renore the peace of Europe humanity
will readily allow; but that thefe efforts will prove
fucccfsful, we very much doubt. The report, how-
ever, of a Negociation for Peace through the me-
dium of the Northern Powers, and the general com-
pletion of all the accounts from the Continent, had
a favourable effed upon the funds. With refpei to
the difpatches from Turkey, it is highly probable they
relate to the fuppofed defign of France againil Egypt,
with which the formidable military preparations in
the ports of Italy, we have no doubt, will prove to
be intimately conneeied. The refractory Beys arc
Paid to be now in potfetlion of Grand Cairo, and it
is forpeaed, certainly with much 'talon, that an tin-
derltanding fubfals between them and the Govern.
inent of France.

• HAMBURGH MA!LS.
LoRIO; Auctrs-r I.—This forenoon the Rtnlte
(hip, Qt. 74 guns ; and the brig, of 24. guns, which
lay atftrevemunde, failed away : the firtt was
tined to take on board her Imperial Highn.:l; the
Hereditary Princefs of MECKLENBUR.G, vas tc
make a voyage on account of her betith ; bt'L be*
continued indifpofition will not admit of it for the I
prelent.

Luw EBURG, AUGUST Hanovci lan Officers
and foldiers here have been haffily fummoried by ire
Magitirates to give an account of their intentions as
to remaining in or quitting the fervice.
The French Officers gave a fcw days fence a moh
elegant entertainment.

HANOVE R, A uc. z.—lt is reported that Soo° men,
from the French army of referve, will fhortly rein•
force the army in this quarter.
The Royal Stud, which has been till this time in
Mecklenburg, will now be tranfported entire to Eng-
land, and not fold here as was intended.

General MORTIER has ordered the fifhing boats of
the Embden Company to be particularly refpefted.
WISTPII•LIR, JULY 3o.—The French are march-
ing in two columns through Munfter, to occupy the
diftriet of Gottingen.
BERLIN, Auo. 2.—His Excellency Count &HU-
LENBURG is arrived from Munger ; Col. Kaossi.s-
DORFF, Pruffian Ambaffador at the Ottoman Porte,
from Conflantinople.
Corte:macaw, JuLv 26.—1 t is fuppofed that the
Englifh Ambaffador, Mr. LISTON, will fhortly pay
a vifit to the CROWN PRINCE at Louifenllnd. Major
General WALTERSDORFT is returned from the Weft
Indies by way of England. I.aa Saturday M. Go-
MOFF, a Ruffian Mellinger, arrived here with dif-
patches for the Ruffian Miniller.
Our troops in Holltein approach nearer to the
frontiers on the Elbe. The blockade of that river
Rill continuing, the trade, by way of Tonningen to
England, is extremely brilk, and it is fuppofed that'
buoys will be laid in the Road of Tonningen, to make
the entrance lefs dangerius for flips.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 30.—From the ald to the
agth, 24.5 (hips have pallid the Sound.
Yeflerday the immenfe number of (hips, which
have fo long waited for a good wind, at length failed:
' the Englifh, to the number of 400, under convoy of
their (hips of war.
HAMBURG H, Auo. 3.—A1l .he letters from Hano-
ver contain daily accounts or frr(h taxes laid on by
the French fcr the fupport of their army, which is
now nearly new cloathed and armed at the expince
of the EleCtorate. There, as in tome pars of the
countries invaded by them 1 ill war, the fy tern of
plunder is carried o r methodically, and without any
kind of truffle, to an ex:int h irdly crediole, by the
Government itfelf. An exaa I:ff is required from all
Magiffrates of the Hanoveri.ru Officers refiding in
their dill rills.

We have here the ftranzeft reports imaginable : itl
is confidently affirmed, tbdt the great Ruffian fleet,'
which has failed, has 20,0t0 troops on board, and
that Ruffia has peremptorily required the Keno of
Paussia affift in driving the French from Hano.
ver. What all this may end in we cannot conjefture,
but things cannot remain as they are.

THI Isvastom.—A private letter from France,
dated Augua to, fays—" You may reit latisfi-s1 the
propored Invafion of your country, which we ail cz
peeked would be very fhortly carried into execution,
will not take place during the year 1803 ! The plan
is abandoned for the prefent, and fo far I can !peal
with certainty; but what has occatinned this fudden
alteration in the mind of the FIRST CONSUL remains
to be explained. I cannot hazard a conjedure, and
therefore (hall only add what are the reports of the
moment. It is laid that TALLITRAND—(who, by
the bye, never was friendly to an ;ovation of Britain)
—had difcovered the feet et Emitraties of the ci-clevant
Princes, whore cautions in diaributing a late Mani-
fell° throughout Paris have occart ,ned very confider-
able uneafinefs. The plan for a Counter Revolntion
in favour of the Bouttantss, it is raid, was decpls
laid, and the ramifications fo very estenfive, that
TALLErRAND thought it prudent to difiiiitch a fpecial
mc(Tenger to the FIRST CONSUL, requetling his im•
mediate return. Another report (fates, the Ewer-
ROR'S very formidable preparations have been confl•
dered as a certain indication ttf another Continental
War. A third rumour, to which fume credit is at-
tached, goes to impeach the Minister- It is laid that
Tat-carcass:shad been deteded in a fecret correrpon
dcnce with the Englifh Cabinet, and that BomAratxx
was privately informed of this treafon at Br uffels.—
Thefs, and a variety ttf other reports, are now on
the wing ; but no dependence can be placed on any
of them. All I can fay to you with certainty is—
" that your country is fecure for the preflnt."

i.e Mercwe de France, condufted by M. Filers,
treats the conquea of this country as a certain event,
.provided fifty thoufand French troops fhould make
good their landing. If the public lhould with (Lays
the .ifercurr) to know our opinion on this point, we
would not hefitate to affect, in cafe fifty thoufand
Frenchmen effelt s dcfcent upon England, that the
volunteers, the militia, the troops of the line, the
array of referve, and the levy in mars, than not exift
for three months without being conquered. The
univerfe would be furprifed at the facility ssi.h which
all this idle machinery, embairalfed by its own move-
s menu, would k thaken and overthrown. It would
be ailoailhed at the quicknefs w,th which the whole
people, palling on a (ridden from the fentatinns of
rage to thole of gratitude, wonlj find deliverers in
thole whom they had before confidered as enc.
min, and toast-ail nuith am an 4.71081 e foiguti 41 in the
clerical lift of de liberties and rigins of ail.'
We wort cordially agree with the iferrwre that both
theft evcntb wutlld, indeed, allunith the urtiverle !

may Collie undcr cemildcrAtion
tual •nealitres that rmisilt he A,
mertf, (late thonld he expored
fp:te of the efforts which i(.l-0,
di3Onfed to cxer, in order to ill,
ich atr, the political run liar