Star.
London, England, 1803-12-29 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM SWEDEN.

" You may depend upon it, that the EMPEROK has
sefured to fend another Ambaffador to Paris in place
of Mattor-, and the coolnefs between the Courts
increafes. The Danes are much afraid of a vifit
from the French. If they don't invade Holftein, it
is the general opinion that they will take pofeffion of
Lubec. BottaruTC muR difpofe of his armies,
whether he drowns them in the Britifh Channel or
otherwife."

We look with anxiety for farther accounts; for
with the information that has hitherto been received,
it is impo(lible to form any thing like a corral opi-
nion. We can only suers at probabilities—and, only
prefnming to guefs, we fufpea the Fiasr CONSUL
has been fuggetting to the Northern Powers, ova a
has of signore, the propriety of Shutting out the Bri-
-01 from the Baltic. His condua refpeaing the
Tabe gives countenance to this opinion. It can
hardly be fuppofed, however, that thefe Powers would
agree to deftroy their own commerce to gratify the
enmity of the French againft this country. If the
demand has been made, (and we think it has,) molt
probably it has been refuted. The refufal may have
drawn a threat from Boravaara, which he has no
way of executing but by an attack upon Holftein—
for that an attack may be made in that quarter is
much more probable than that one fhould be even
meditated againft the capital itfelf. The account
received yefterday, though it teemed to carry the
laft mentioned inference, probably was only intended
to exprefs the fears entertained at Copenhagen, that
that part of the Dana dominions which lies expofed
to an attack would be vifited by the French in an
honile manner during the winter.—We may expect
loon to hear fomething farther on this fubjea, with
which it will probably turn out that the levy of
troops ordered in Ruffia is intimately conneaed.
An attack upon Holftein could hardly fail to hurt
the pride, and wound the feelings of RufGa.—
Holitein is the hereditary dominions of the ancef-
tors of the Emperor of Rossi*, who were all Dukes
of Holftein ; and that duchy was only ceded to the

King of Dtsraas by the late Emprcfs CarKauas
the lld. in exchange for the Duchy of Oldenbourgh
in Waphalia, of which a relative of the Emperor,
and a younger branch of the Dukes of HoMein, the
Prince Difhop of Lussc, was made Sovereign
The greater part of Denmark, including its capital,
being fafe from all attack unaided by a naval force,
if that power be arming, it moil be in defence of
Holflein. in which the Loth], the capital of the
Prince Bithop of Lubec, is iituate. That Prince is
the coals of the Emperor of Russia, on whom there
is therefore a double call at the prefent moment to
exert his power to retrain the houndlefs ambition of
the diaurber of Europe.

This day we received letters from Gibraltar, which
we fubjoio :

GtBRALTAR, DECEMBER B.

~ On the 3d, the convoy, of 47 fail, got under
weigh for England, hnt the wind coming to the
wcftward before they had got clear of the Got, they
were obliged to return to the Bay the following

morning.
" This mornipg a Nall cutter, with Englifh colours,
was obfer red coming through the Straights, when
two French privateers immediately came out from
under the Ifland of Tariffs, and attacked her warmly,
and would, probably, have captured her, had not
the lvlsuusa frigate, Capt. Cost, which was lying
off the New Mole, inflantly flipped her cable, and, in
lets than five minutes, was under weigh, with every
fail fat in chafe of them.
The privateers immediately flood fur the Spann

lhore, to get under tile protelion of their batteries ;
but the Manus*, loon getting within gun Mot of
them, after a few broadfides, obliged the largell to
fluke her colours, and drove the other on fhore, near
Cabrita Point, with the lots of her mizen man, and
otherwife much flattered. The one he brought in
proves to be the Efperance, of 4 guns, and 70 men,
the privateer which captured the Flora tranfport, and
which treated the crew and paffengers with fo much
inhumanity. Capt. Goaa's fpirited conduit is highly
approved of on this occafion, and a few Each leffont
will loon convince the French privateers, that if they
violate the neutrality of Spain, when it faits their
interefts, they, in return, (hall not be proteCted
by that neutrality, which, on every occafion, they
totally difregard, when they can by doing fo preju-
dice us. The cutter, which the privateers attacked,
was from Plymouth, in 13 days, with difpatches for
the Governor and Lord NILSON. Lieut. Patel, of
the navy, commands ber : fhe was hulled by Come
large (hot from the privateers, and had her fails and
rigging a good deal cut : the will fail for the fleet off
Toulon whenever the is repaired.

" DEC. 9.—The Spaniards are now fitting out 18
fail of the line in their different ports. We learn, by
our accounts from Spain, that this circumftance has
alarmed the merchants not a little, as they entertain
no doubts of being loon engaged in Ritual honilities
with England. in fpite of all the facrifices that have
been made by the Court of Madrid, to preferve its
neutrality. The prefs for lumen is Rill carried on
in the Spanifh ports. The fever at Malaga continues
much the fame as when I lag wrote you. We are
extremely cautious, to prevent its introduCtion here."

Yeflerday morning his Majesry, attended by
Generals M , MANNINGNAM, and SPINCIR,
took an airing on horfebock in Windfor Great Park.
The Hon. EDWARD HARBORD is appointed by the
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk one of the Deputy Lieu-
tenants for that county. _ _

Captain FBA ROM is engaged to perform a few nights
at Drurylane theatre.
Nine hundred and fifty pikes, each nine feet long,
were landed at Lancaller ha week, and were depo-
fited in the Caine.

Latt week, the Battalion of Army of Referee list.
tinned for tome time at Monmouth, marched through
Gioncefter on their route for Portfmouth, there to
receive further orders.

Lord Kure has fitted up his refidence at Ealt
Cliff, near Margate, in a very elegant and combo.
dious Ryle.

The concerted trial of the fignals eftabliftted in the
county of Roxburgh took place on Thurfday laft.—
The day fignal was made by fmoke, at noon, and
anfwered remarkably well; the night fignal, by fire,
was fixed for feven in the evening, and although the
weather was very unfavourable, being wet and hazy,
the whole four appeared in flame, nearly at the fame
inftant, and continued burning for a confiderable
time. The appearance they made, which was very
beautiful, gives every reafon to believe that they will
fully anfwer the obje& they have in view.
A mode of bayonet exercife, we underfland, has
been fubmitted to the Duke of You, which is high-
ly approved. One hundred of the Guards well 'killed
in the exercife are immediately to be appointed to
inftrue the Volunteers. The Pimlico Corps have
made great progrefs in the art, which gives a fur-
prifing fupertotity over thofe who are unacquainted
with fuch a mode of defence. The advantage is
equal to that which a fkiltial fencer has over a perfon
who never was taught the ufe of the (mall fword.—
The inftrumeot with which the men are inftrutted, is
made of wood, and the bayonet refembles a tragedy
dagger, which mark the bit of the affailant without
injuring the perfon hit.
Letters were received in town yefterday from Phi-
ladelphia, Li(bon, Newfoundland, and the Baltic.
A letter from Copenhagen informs us that two
merchants of that City having, in difobedience to the
I.ws, procured for foreign veils pairports and other
papers, have been lately tried by the Supreme Tri-
bunal, and condemned, not only to a heavy pecu-
niary mul& but alfo to the lots of Citizenfhip.
During the late war, the French Government fold
by audinn, or difpofed of by private contra& up
wards of t.soo merchantmen, captured by French
privateers, from England, Holland, Spain, Portugal,
and Naples. Moft of them were bought by foreigners,
who obtained poltelfion of them upon the fecurny of
fome French houfes, which bound themfelves under a
forfeiture of col. per cent. of the purchafe money,
to reftore the veffels, upon demand made by the
French Government, upon three months previous
notice, within the (pace of ten years from the date of
the contra& ; or, if loft, to fupply (hips of the fame
burthen in their places, Government undertaking to
refines at the fame time the money advanced in part
payment. In the (unmet of 1796, when the expedi-
tion againft Ireland was in agitation, thefe (hips were
demanded by the Direaory ; but, by a partial rent,-
ration and large bribes, particularly when General
Hdeu t failed in that enterprise, the Direttorial order
was laid afide. Shortly after BoN•ratisr's late re•
turn from Boulogne, the Minifter of the Marine
Department font notice to all foreign Confuls in
France, and to all French houfes bound in fuch fecu-
rities as we have already mentioned, to fulfil their
engagements before the eft Germinal next (aid
March, t 804); or par the fines into the National 7 rea-
fury, under pain of military execution. Many of
thcfc (hips were paid for by foreigners in mandats
and aflignats ; others took them in payment for pro-
vifions, military ftnres, timber, &c. furniChed for the
fleets or armies; and thus purchafed them, for perhaps
one ballot one fourth of their real value. The toper
cent. therefore, now demanded, will amount in Come
cafes to nearly one half of the original purchafe mo-
ney. There latter circumflances have been commu-
nicated in a private letter of the r sth inft. from Paris,
and we mull piefume that Government are well ap-
piled of them. We do think that they open a view
to a fyflem by which lic AAAAAA a might get into his
poffeftion many vcifelt now Or his s, aCtually and
avowedly neutral, and known ns sch IWO" OW Ma