Star.
London, England, 1804-10-19 00:00:00

LONDON.

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PPSDAY. OCTOBER *9.
PRIM O! 'TOLE! THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCII:
110661mitakey p4—ditto. bran pplf—Ovealum 6.
Deaus,Oevalea es —5 per Ceut. Goe. Deb.—.
I. -.Deem al Land= :At.

We waioritoad the Spanifh Government has not '
bxa taken by ferrite in the capture of the three
frigates k Fame, la Medea, and la Clara. We are
Weaned that it was long fines apprized that until
fame atnicribre adjuftment, or tome fatisfaftory
&Maim bad taken place, refpcBing the important
points in tfifpute between the two Government% no
Slips of war, and particularly thole fuppofed to be
freighted with trader', would be permitted to enter
the harbours of Spain. This notification we under-
land to have been made Come weeks ago to M.
AUDUAGy the Spanith Miniflu at our Court ;
and there can be no doubt but it was duly treat:
mined by him to Madrid. The detention of the
frigates, therefore, cannot create much unexpefted
Ceded= in the Span& Cabinet ; and it is poffible
that the recent occurrence may not lead to a con.
Nuance of hofiilities, though it is much more pro-
bable that a war will mine. No dccifive anfwer
has, we believe, yet been received to the ultimatum
font by our Minifters to the Court of Madrid.—
Should the anfwer be fuch ae we have a right to et
pee, the reiteration of the three veffels, and a coin.
penfation for the one blown op might petbaps reflore
a good underianding between the two Courts. But
it is to be feared, that were Spain difpofed to meet
per willies, French influence will prevent an adjuft.
meat of the quarrel. It is mush to be lamented,
thole our efforts to prevent injury being fultained
bubai country from the unfettled date of affairs be-
ware dw two Coons, one of the Frigates fhould
bow blown op. The number of people on board
was about poo, not one of whom, it is feared, has
bus fond.

L the engagement with the Spaeifli frigates, no
Irian Ofseer fell. but we ars forty to learn that
we loft eleven of our brave tars. In one of the fri-
gates were t5.,000 feel &ins, in another 9000 dol.
lam; the third enirely loaded with bullion.

Difpetehes were lett aisle fent off from the Admi-
ralty to the Commanders of oar Squadrons, with
frefh orders in refloat to any Spanifh Ships they may
fall in wick.

MAIL

A mail arrived this morning, the fi, II of the four
that were due. The accounts from Holland Rate,
that for tha wiriest the preparations for invading this
country have been fufpended. They alto Hate, that
to a certainty, the Form of Government is about to
undergo fome changes in that country ; but what
heft may be, is not will, known.
CONSTAUTINOPLI, AUG. a7.—As the Janifaries I
have not received their pay for fcveral weeks, we are
in fear of an infurreftion. Yellerday the Aga of the
janifaries was deputed. In cos,cequence of the ex-
treme hot weather, many perfons have been taken ill,
and died in a few days—the weAtLer, however, is
now become cooler.

As the greater part of the foreign Milliners here
have not yet received initi unions Item their relpec•
titre Courts, relative to the n.zsir Fi-neli Imperial dig-
nity, they have been prevented loom being piefent at
feveral feta given by the French Amb..didor, Mar.
Thal Banos. At the feLlival of the t4th of July only
the PrulEas and Batavian Charge: d'Affaires attend-
: at the fête on the 16th of July, the Neapolitan
Claris Ar .Ifairu, U. MARINI, was prefent.
It has been reported, that Acre is taken, but this
wants coafirmatios, as dos safe the report that the
Beys in Egypt, and the Bedosin Arabs who had
joined them, have been entirely defeated by the Ar.
DUD to

VIINNA, SEPT. 12.—Mr. At gut it so; who goes
as Engldh Ambaliador to Contlantinople, is gill
here. but will loon pro, eed on his journey to Turkey.
The Coon of Drefden his acknowledged the new
title of Emperor of Auflria. M. Von Raurtascm-
WALD, who condoili here the affairs of the Swedifh
Court in the abfence of Baron VON Atm rainy, has
tranfmitted to our Court a note refpelling the new
hereditary title of Emperor of Aullria, which is fimi-
lar to that which the Swedifh Ambaffador at Ra
tifbon, M. VON BILDT, laid before the States of the
Empire.
ST. PITIRS3VIGH,SEPTERIBFR 14.—His Imperial
Highnefs the Grand Duke, CONSTANTINO PAULO_
VITSCH, fee off the day before yefierday for the Li-
thuanian Provinces, to muter the troops of that di-
vifion. Yeflerday the Academy of Sciences, in an
extraordinary fitting, propofed a premium of Soo
roubles f r the bell Etfay on the nature of the matter
of light. The Academician, &Timm, has been fent
by the Academy to Finland, to explore that pro-
vince; the natural binary of which is fo little known.
Ilacut, SETT. 29.—Tile changes in our Coodi-
tution and Government are now prepared. The per.
Cons of various parties, who were formerly at the
head of the Government, have come from the pro-
vinces to give their opinions on the projeaed changes.
The different parties will, if poffible, be concffistsd.
A (late Procurer, or according to others, s PrOdese,
will be placed at ihe head of our Government. It*
generally expelled that this new dignity will be coo.
(erred on the Ambaffador Scutuststrsamiacw. It
has been declared on the part of the French, that'
our government will have a perfectly free choice *
t►e changes to be made in our Conftitution.
AIME/MASI, SEPT. 19.—Letters from the Texel
Elate, that the tranfports which now lie in the Road of
the Helder, have received orders to return into the,
harbour daring the winter. It is hence concluded
that the army of General Malmo:iv will not be as-
'larked fo loos as was expelled. No more prepare
Lions are now making here for the expedition again
England.
ENVIRONS of MALAGA, SRPT. s.—From the nib
of Augua to the 4th of September; 2954 perfons have
died in Malaga. .The greater part of the phyticians
and apothecaries who did not leave the city are dead,
and the difeafe unhappily begins to fpread in the con-
tiguous villages, where many of thole who had
efcaped from the city, have died.

The lall difpatches from Sir Jona DocKwoarn,
Rate his having appointed Lieutenant S. CH •14 at MI,
to the rank of Commander, and to the command of
the PCLICAN Hoop at Jamaica.
A letter from Dublin appeared in an evening paper
of yefterday, Rating that a feiions plot has he d if-
covered at Leighlin Bridge, in the County of Kild lie.
We have only to remaik, that it is dated the 13th,
and to add to this, that we have received the Dublin
papers of the 16th init. and that thcy are entirely
lent refpeBing any fuch event. The County c 1• KU.
dare is within fifteen miles of Dublin.

Yetterday afternoon, the remains of the late Lieu-
tenant LECREY, who was found dead near the Jew's-
Harp Houfe. Lail week, were interred in the burying-
ground of St. Mary-la-Boone.
The officers of the Grocer Regiment of Glargow
Volunteers, have voted a handfome piece of plate to
Aecittaazn Partition, Efq. their Major,in tearmony
of their attachment to him, and fur his patrulic
zeal and unexampled exertions in promoting the ella•
blithment and diteipline of the Corps. The noo.com.
tniffioned officers and privates rf the Regiment, from
the fame motives, have alto vore," the Major a fabre
and a pair of piaci'', of t value of fifty guinea'.

A beautiful kith n. whom Lucian BOVA.
PAkTE has met at Millll .; report Frye, about to be
added to the Imperial Fa:nily of France.

The Sciarcer and fine /fru fecm to he peculiarly
honoured at Bath. We read in the Bath Lhronicfr an
ad vert ifemcut from a Gentleman who delignates him-
&lf a Dancing Pry-I:for.
EXPLOSION Macau; RY.—The moll formidable
engine of this defeription perhaps ever conflroacd.
was that ufcd to dearoy the bridge of boats at the
liege of Antwerp, in 1035, which an author of that
period Rates to have been a flip, flrongly timbered,
containing a vault or arch of none and mortar, filled
with 2C,0 barrels of powder, over which were placed
large Hones of all forms, cannon-fliot, iron chains,
&c. fufficient to dellroy a whole city, that were es.
ploded by a fecret fufe, contrived lit as not t let fire
to the charge till the velfel came in contadt with the
bridge, which it blew to atoms.
One of ottr cruisers on the coati of Flanders
looked into the road of Floating loft Saturday, and
counted there three praarn-, nine gon•boats, and
about twenty other aimed reacts and tranfpotts..—
According to the report of a neutral Captain, who
failed two days before from Middleburg'', Boma-
PAR IA Commander in Chief in Holland, General
MAIMOOT. had ordered the releafe of the French
General Poinsor, the late Governor at Middle.
burgh, arreacd by his fuccelfor, the Bat avian Ge-
neral OsreN, for his estortions, pleader, and op-
pt./Sion. Initead of a well-deferred difgraca. tied
pinithment, Poor sof has obtained a command in
the camp near Zeya, and General OSTIM has been
reprimanded for daring to imprifon a Commander of
the Legion of Honour, which rank Pour 110 T enjoys.
On board the neutral veffel were twenty trim Bata-
vian families from Zealand, bound for New York,
driven away from their homes by French tyrants.—
They Rated, that 'ince the prefent war, two.thirds
of the inhabitants of Zealand had been breed, by the
ftagnatinn and uncertainty of all trade, and by the
continual cppredions of the French, to emigrate to
different foreign countries; and that in Middlebergh
one third of the bottles were uninhabited and to be
fold. Before General MOIIIIIT. the FICACh COTO-
wieder in Zealand, permitted them to embark, they
were obliged to pay from so to too ducats for a pals,
according to their prefumed wealth.