Star.
London, England, 1803-04-11 00:00:00

MONDAY, APRIL Tt.

E•srea-Mornay.--Holiday at all the Publie-Offices.
PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY.
3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 6tl}} t per Cent. 1797 961
3 per Cent Conf. 42! t. 1. Ann. is-in}
New 4 per Cent. 7Y} 77 o:nnium.l tI d
S per Cent. Ann. 970 I C'nof. for May, 631 63

DUBLIN, APRIL 3.
Ceurfe of Etch:Loge—Dublin on London t 21.

Since our Lift a Mail has arrived from Lifbon.
When the Packet failed it was reported, that the
French fleet, under the command of Admiral In-
ants, originally (fated to be intended for the Fall
Indies, had failed, but that its real deflination
was to take poffeflion of the Nazils. This is
certainly not impoalble ; but, when it it recoliated
that the idea of a rupture between this Country
and France has fpread a very general alarm
throughout Portugal, the new deflination of the
Fri:nth fleet may have no other foundation but
glut rells on the fears of the Lifbon Merchants
We ought, however, to guard ourfelves in time
aga;iiß the mifchiefs which would refult from fuch
a capture.
A merchant velTel, which arrived at Yarmouth
yellerday, brought intelligence, that when fhe left
Haniburgli the Seism.: was debating the quellion ,
‘Vhether they (holdd prate° the city themfelves,
nr allow the Pruflian troops to march in for that
purpnfc ?"—Our letters from Yarmouth do not
mention on what day the vet Tel left llamburgh,
from which we fhould have been inclined to believe
that this is merely an erroneous Ratement about
the Sitting of the Senate refpeOing the Mandell°
which has already made fo much noife ; but we
rather think, in confcluence of a letter received

bt:fore.

from Hamburgh by the lair IsTail, that ti:: :senate
has fame new matter before it.
The Letter from Hamburgh, to which r-e have
jUR alluded, Rates, that the French Refident in-
fills on inferting another official article in the Car-
rt./pantheon in which BONAPARTE lays, that he
is determined, fhould war take place, to recognize
none but friends or enemies. Does he mean to
i force Denmark and Sweden to join him ? We do
not believe he will attempt fuch a piece of violence.
Neither is it likely that the KIND of Pius si a will
lend himfelf fo entirely to the FIRST CoNsuL's
pal-
lions, as to commit ads of injuftice that are Amor!
too extravagant for the Cabinet of the Thuilleries.
Other letters exprefs much apprehenfion, that
in the event of a war between England and France,
Hamburgh and its territory will be occupied by
French or Pruflian troops, in order to prevent the
introdultion of Britilis manufaftures into that part
of Germany. The Senate has jullified itfelf to
the Bran Refident, Sir G. RumSOLD, for the libel
on this country, inferted in the Hamburgh Papers,
by communicating the order which accompanied
it from the French Mintier, in which Hambnrgh
was threatened with the aftive refentment cf the
Curer Cortitn, if the publication was reface'.
We learn that General BOURNONVILLE, the
French Ambaffirdor at Madrid, has demanded fop-
plies, both of men and money, from his CATHOLIC
Map STY, in the event of a war with England:
the Marine of Spain, douhtlefs, will alfo be put
in requifition, and that feeble Government will
again be involved, by stile pernicious influence of
France, in the miferies of war.
German letters reiterate the repents communi-
cated by the heft Dutch Mail, that fhould a war
take place, Praia hss engaged to occupy with her
troops the Banks of the Elbe, as far as Cuxhaven,
and the whole EleCtorate of Hanover. There re-
ports were fo far credited in Hamburgh, as to in-
duce a fall in the Courfe of Exchange upon Lon•
don.—Duanc, during his flay at Berlin, had fe-
veral interviews with the KIND, at all of which
Count Hatrawrvz was prefent—one of thefe con-
ferences bated four hours, when, it is laid, the
plan fuggefied by the FIRST CON suL for the °cell-
p4,ion of Hanover, was agreed to.
It is, on the other hand, affierted that both
Pruffia and Raffia are diffirtisfied at the abfolute
afcendency which BoNararrs has affumed over
the German Empire, and at the difregard with
which he treats the in:fettled claims of the Elator
of Bavaria, Saltzhurg, and Wirtemberg. The
Emperor of Russia has further occafion of of-
fence in the oppotitinn with which the CHIEF
CONSUL encounters his willies for full indemnity
being granted to the King of SARDINIA. BONA.
PARTF indulges perfonsl diflike to that unfortu•
rate Monarch, and profautes it at the facrifice of
hit intereß. It is a quellirrn, too, how far the
Cabinet of Peterfburgh, which has fo feduloufly
employed itfclf in the ,eitablifhment of Peace in the
German Empire, would admit the violation of
that Peace by the threatened feizure of Hancver.

Yefterday we received Paris Journals of the 6th
infant, and this morning the Muniteur of the 7th
The Motile:Jr of the 6th Rates, that Difpatches
have been received from General Rocriassaaao,
of the 7th of February. A fuccersful expedition
is laid to have been executed againa Miragoane,
in which the infurgents were routed in every di
reCtion. The Southern part of St. Domingo is
reprefented to be very nearly refcued f'-om the
horrors of war, and the Weftern alone remains to
be tranquilized.
It appears, however, from the American papers,
received to the 3d of March, that little credit is
due to thefe accounts. The Cape is again threat-
ened by a numerous force. During the ablence of
General Rocu•statatr, while engaged in the ex-
pedition againft Miragoane, the Negroes colleCted
in great numbers, and kept the whole of that part
of the corny in a continual Rate of al-um.
The French papers air() Rate, that an infurrec-
tion of the Swirs troops at Berne took place on the
' :6th ult. which for fume time wore a very alarm-
ing appearance. Our Readers will hod the parti•
culars and tome other extrafts in a prece.l...g co
lumn.
There is not only a fteadinefs, but a rife in the
French Funds, which little agrees with the (pinion
of thole silo think that hollilities will be refumed.
The Five per Cents. were lag Tuefday at 54 : nn
Wednefday they were at 55 fr. 7o c. It is poMble,
however, that this price, grange as it may appear
to fome, has been brought about, at a trifling ex•
pence, to produce an effat on the Englifh Funds,
a (mall rife on which would loon enable thole in
the fecret to repay them:elves amply for the fmall
hazard run in the French Five per Cents. The
Pari iian fpeculatorshave mere to do with our Stock
Exchange than many are aware of.
The return of General DUROC from Berlin is
announced. Ihe immediately let out fur Malmailon
to report to the FIRST CIoWSUL the relish of his
nwth'n. •
The yourna: dF, D.lats announces that the Spanifh
Government has iflued orders for reßoring the re•
latious of its American CiAmies with the United

St.itcs to tLe fame tuotii:g cn wh:cn they were

The articles which deferve moll notice in there
Papers relate to Malta. The Moniteur of the 7th
prefents a copy of the correfpondence which paired
between Captain BALL, the Britifh Commander
there, and thc Officer fent in the name of the newly
appointed Grand Mailer to demand poffeffion of
the place ; and it is a little remarkable that, in the
fame Paper, under the head " Beatatt," a para.
graph is infealed, (lacing, that—
" liis Majefty the Emperor of GERMANY, and
his Mikity the Emperor of Russia, guaranteed
a. long time ago the independence of the Nand
and Order of Malta. Pruffia was the only Power
which hitherto had not replied in a peremptory
manner to the requeft which had been made to it,
but under the prefent circumflances his Majefty
the King of PRUSSIA thinks he ought to guaranty
as felon as poffible the independence of the ifland
and of the Order of Malta."

The paragraph which we have
_it'll quoted, is
added bit he end of a letter from Berlin, dated the
22d of March, from which however it is feparated
by a line, as if to make it more confpicuous. The
Alonitear, as every one knows, is the French offs.
cial paper. Is this article fo We confers we can-
not tell whether it is a Pruffian official.document
or not—lt is plainly meant to produce that inl-
preffion, but that proves nothing.
The following is the correfpondence refpedling
Malta, which appears in the Mardian. :
PARIS, Antis 6.—ln virtue of an agreement en,
tered into between the great Powers interelted in
the order of Malta, and acceded to by his B&►ram.
NIC MAjIISTY on the Bth of June Otos, the nomi•
nition of Grand Mailer of Malta was referred for
t'lis time to the Holy See, on a prefentation of the
Priors of the Order. The Holy Father and the
Priors acceded to this arrangement.

In eonfequence, his Holinefs nominated, oaths
gth of February tBo3, as Grand Mailer of the
Order of Saint John of Jerufalem, M. le BAILEY
de THOMA SI, who has accepted his nomination.
The new Grand Mailer has thought it neceirary
to fend to Malta the Commander Busy, whom he
named for that purpofe his Reprefentative and
Licimenant. The Chevalier arrived in the gland
on the 28th of February. The following docu-
ments will make known what bas hitherto bees
the refult of his million :
'ATM OF THE COMIN•NDSIL DS BUST, TO TOS

LIIGLISH kIINISTSIt AT MALTA.

" Monlieur die Minittrr of England,

I had the honour of explaining to your Er-
eelleney this morning the objet of the miffion
which his moil eminent Highnefs, the Grand Mat-
ter of the Order of Saint John of Jerufalem, has
charged me to fulfil at Malta.
" To this explanation your Excellency replied,
that you had no orders to evacuate the Wand of
Malta with the Englilh garrifon, and you gave
me to underiland, that the Grand Mailer would
do well not to repair thither.
" After ladling on this anfwer of your Er-
cellency, I have thought not only that it was un-
fatisfadory, as your Excellency might fuppofe, but
that it required farther explanation.
a As the anfwer of your Excellency teems to
contain a refufal to furrender the Ifland of Malta
to the Order of Saint John of Jerufalem, agreeably
to the loth article of the Treaty ►f Amiens, and
As fuch a violation of this Treaty of Peace may
be attended with the moll important confequences,
and I may even fay confequences fatal to the repofe
of Europe, I cannot reit fittisfied with the verbal
anfwer which your Excellency was pleated to
give me, and I thould be wanting to the confidence
f the Grand Mailer, as well as to the duty and
dignity of that charadter with which he has invell-
ed me, if I did not invite you, Sir, the Minifter
Ilenipotentiary, to explain openly, and in an au-
thentic manner, the motives of a refufal fo unex,
petted.
" I therefore have the honour to remind your
Excellency, that agreeably to the fourth pan•
graph of the toth article of the Treaty of Amiens,
the forces of his Britannic Majeßy were to eva-
cuate the &and and its dependencies in the conrfe
of three months after the ratification, or boner if
poffible.
" This period has long ago expired. The
Treaty adds, That iflani (hall be delivered tip
to the Order in the !late in which it is, provided
the G.and Matter, or Commiflloners fully audio-
riled according to the Ratifies of the Order,
be in the laid ifland to take poffeffion of it, and
that the forces to be furnilbed by his Sicilian Ma-
lay (hall have arrived.'
" Thcle forces arrived long ago : Nothing then
remained to he fulfilled but one condition, namely,
the prefence of the Gran 4 natter, and his Com-
miffioners, to take poffeffion. I have the honour
f obferving to your Excellency that this condition
has been fulfilled by the circumilance of my arrival
,n the Viand. His Eminent Ilighnefs, the Gt 4;1
Mailer, has deigned to give me the quality of it
Ambafrador Extraordinary and Plenipotent+a*• .v
come in his name, " to treat of, negotiate, t' "u-
-state, accompla, and concert, with the L •_.

ra-
Tie
rif

" Stitt

COMMA/MIR it'SY.

bee
elf.
Den-

tios
ilia
and
P:11

and French ikflnitlers Plenipptet.tiary, it Vita as
with the prefent Englith Government of the ;11.tod,
on all the articles relating to the return of the re-
ligion of Malta, and particularly on that the objea
of which is the difembarlcatirm, and entrance of
religion into the itland, as well as the furrender of
the place, &c." Such are the terms of the full
powers of which I am the bearer, and of which I
have the honour of fending your Excellency. acopy.
Accoi•ding to the tenour of there full powers,
and the accomplifbment ofthe different conditions
flipulated by the Treaty of Amiens, for the de-
livery of the ;nand to the Order of Saint John of
jerufalem, I formally demand of your Excellency.,
the execftion of the 4th paragraph of the loth
Article of the 641 treaty, and I beg you to give
me on this head a precifc anfwer.

I beg your Excellency to accept the afTorance
of my high eleem. (Signed) "'um"
ANSWIIII OF tHI MINIS FEE OF ENGLAND TO THE

Malta, March a. tBo3.

" I have received the letter which your Excel-
lency did me the honour to write to me yeflerday,
in which you exprefs your difTatisfarlion with my
verbal communication, on the objen of your mil-
Eton, and in which you require me to give in writ-
ing my reafons for refuting to furrender the
Government of there iflands, on the arrival of his
eminence the Grand Mailer of the Order of Saint
John of Jerufalem.

gg In anfwer I requeff permiffion to ()Verve, that
as Tome of the powers invited according to the
Germs of the mat Article of the Treaty of Amiens,
to fecure the independence of Malta, have not yet
acceded to that meafure, I do not think myfelf
authorifed to put an end to the Government of his
Bit:TANNIC MAIRSTY, until iw receive fpecial in-
firudions from my Court.
Your Excellency obferves, that I with to dir.
fuade the Graml Mager from coming to reside
here. Your Excellency may recoiled, that I
(poke on this Cubic& in the following terms :-
4, On your obfetving that the Grand Maier
depended on hating immediate polfellinn of the
Palace of Government in fort Vallette, I informed
you, that under the prefent circumßances I could
not accede to the delire of his Eminence, for it is
abfolutely neceffary that his Excellency General
Vitturrs and myfelf fhould continue to occupy
this palace, on account of the official affairs of our
refpedive departments.
go I requeft leave to remind your Excellency
alto that I offered you, at the fame time, the palace
of Bofchetta for the refidence of the Grand Mailer,
a fituation which I (hoold conceit,: to be in every
refped proper for his Eminence, until the time
when he (hould be able to airtime the diredioa of
the Government.

" But as the palace of Boracite is not at re-
ran furnilbed, I took the liberty of fuggelling, that
it would be more proper for him to remain room
time in Sicily, efpecially as his refidence there
would keep his Eminence only at the diflance of a
day's journey from the ?Rand.
" To conclude, your Eminence may tea efrtir.
ed that at the moment when I (hall think myfelf
authorized to furrender the Government, I (hall
acquaint you of it. I have the honour to be, with
the higheß confiders ion, Sir, your Excellency's
moR humble and obedient fervent. (Signed )
" ALEXANDER ■ALL."

Lord Sr. VINCENT'S Family have all left town
for his Lordfhip's honfe at Brentwood, in Eder,
excepting his Lord(hip.
Mr. Purr as: ived on Saturday at Mr. Li-ma's
feat at Bromley, in Kent, where lie will remain
during the holidays.
On TlturfJay tall, died,at Wrexham, in the yqth
year of his age, IVILLIAM WILLIAMS, Efq. coufin
german to the late Sir Waretri WILLIAMS Wrma.
Bart. and brother to %Varela WILLIAMS, Ertl. of
PenbeJsv, in the county of Denbigh.
Yeller Jay evening Difpatches were received in
Town from the Earl Indies, but their contents
have not tranfpired.
Yeßerday morning a King's metrenger :mired
at the Sectetary of State's Office, with diiPatclics
from Lord Wm-moss-it, at Paris.
The Mail for Dunkirk was, by mitlake, fent to
Dover along with the Englillt Mail on Friday
night ; and was on the porir of being fent to
Lon-
don, when a letter art used from Calais dating the
error. The inhabit.:nts of Dunkirk would, no'
doubt, be in great alarm, in conferprence of the
Mail not rtrtiving as ulital ; they would not receive
it limner than lad night.
A packet, which 1:61,11 from Dover um I Yrs!.
nefday, tell in with 3 French tranfport, with troops
on board, coppoled to have come out of Dunkirk,
lion' which place, it is laid, liVCEAI if AlirpOliS have
(Ailed within thefe few days.
Letters from Jerky, dated on Wednefday, flute,
that Ft ench troops were daily arriving on the op.
polite coaft, and that flat-frotinmed boats were
collecting at la Hogue, Cancale, St. Malt), Scc. A
letter f Guernfey, of a later date, reports to
the fame effeel.
All due caulkers that were dirt:large,' latelyflorn
Portfmouth Yard have been invited to return to
their former fititations.
Haller Hospital is ordered to be put on the fame
eflabliffiment as during left war.
On Saturday fe'nnight tog Out-Perifihners of
Cl ellea arrived at Abetdcan from lova nel;, and
marched for Edinburgh.
The floating.batteties at the Nore are to take I
their stifere2t itatious isnwediateir•

N41.171C.11.. INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, APRIL P.

Arrive:l the outward-hound 11.4 India Blip
Lady Jilin, Capt. GKEIG, from London for Ja-
maica I the brig Recoil.), Capt. TURTLE, from
Dartmouth : the Brighton, Bo; rov, from New-
haven ; the Redbridge, CUMMINS, from South
ampton ; and the Du RR OF. YORK packet, DraK.E,
from Lithrtn, which Biz left on the zilth lilt. at
which time there were lying there his Ntajetly's
Ihip VICTORIOUS, of 74 gins, la SVBILI.F. of 44,
three Dutch line of battle 'hips, a fehooncr, and
a {loop of war of CO guns.
Palfengsrs per the 1)u. 'IF Volt K packet are—

Lieut. Col. Shaw, of the 74th RegimAit, fin the Eaft
Indies; Mr. Lufliiii:ton, of the Eaft Indi.i Coin boy% Ser-
vice; Mr. Clay; Mr. Nlouchet; Mr. Drinina ; and Mr. !n•
k Iby.

At the time the packet failed it was laid at Lill '
bon, that the French Fleet, under the Command
of Admiral Limo's, rAd to be intended for the
EAR Indies, was aCually failed for, and to take
pofretTion of the Brazils. The idea of a freth rup-
ture between this country has occationed much
alarm with the merchants in Portugal, fearing that
that country will loon fall a prey to France.
Sailed the brig Recovery, Pa r2aa, for Swanfea ;
the RESOLUTION cutter on a CTUIEC ; an,.! the Prin.
eels Royal, Ow SNS, for Liverpool. Wind S. E.

YARMOUTH, APRIL. to.

Friday evening arrived the Pitim ex OF WALES,
Capt. DEAN E, from Cuxhaven, after having landed
her Mails at Cromer : the Paffengers, about t 5 in
number, were landed here : the failed this morning
fur Harwich, having on board about 3o calks of
foreign coin.

Saturday morning early arrived here from Lon-
don anAdmiralty Meffenger, with Pealed difpatches
for Capt. BROUGHTON of the frigate, in
confequence of which the LEDA frigate, Captain
Hos sy maw, got ender way to crude, as is lup-
poled hoe, off Goree.

- Sailed the MARINER gun brig on the imprefs
ferviee ; also the Hosts* and REPULSE revenue
cutters.—Paired through a gun brig with imprcifetl
men for the fleet.

This morning a merchant Ihip from Hamburgh
landed her pailingers here, by whom it is lined,
thAt when they left Hamburgh the Senate were
then fitting on a very important debate, viz. whe-
ther they thould protea the city themfelves, or
allow the Prualan troops to march in and protc.t
it for them ?—Arrived from the Not thward a gun
brig, name unknown.