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LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK'
Cone for opg. s 6 to OJT-Reduced 541—Onsnium 31 die
4 per Cent. 70-11-I—New s per Cemt. 914.
Long Ann. is 13-16—Short Ann. 5 .
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY I
Bank Stock 1461 Short Ann. 34
3 per C. Red. 344 India Bonds, is. prem.
3 per C. Cunf. (but Imp. 3 per Cent, 53;
4 per C. 'NI 70 Imp. Ann.
5 per C. Navy shut Omnium si 6 dif.
5 per C. 1797 9c4 1 J.; Enatilh Tickets 171.95.
Long Ann. 134 is-16 Conf. for opg. 55th
D17111.1N, DEC• 24.
5 per Cent. Gov. Debentures, 8941 90.
Comic of Exchange—Dublin on London O.

This day a mail arrived from Lilbon, by which
we have received letters from Lifbon, Madrid, and
Gibraltar.

Thofe from the latter place are not fo late by fix
days, as the letters we received yellerday. They
!late, that by the latch accounts from Malaga the
mortality appeared no way abated. The deaths
amount to 130 on an average daily. The &fear; had
Dot fpi ead beyond Malaga. The men of war which
were to convoy the homeward-bound fleet, were the
MONMOUTH, CHARON, CYCLOPS, and AMBUSCADB.
By the IA accounts received at Gibraltar from
Lord NELsoa, he was off Toulon with eight fail of
the line, all well. The French had feven fail ready
for fca, but very ill manned. At Toulon there is a
great want of naval (ores of every kind.
The letters from Madrid (peak with confidence of
the neutrality of Spain having been agreed to by
England and France ; but they fpeak of the Court
being entirely under French guidance. They men•
tion the fubfequent arrival of a Courier from France,
fuppofed to have brought fome very bad intelligence,
as the Meffenger, to prevent any thing tranfpiring,
;,ad been kept literally in a (ate of confinement.
'The accounts from Lifbon fpeak of the neutrality
of Portugal having alto been acceded to by France.—
On this point hardly any thing new has tranfpired ;
but as the intelligence now received lines to confirm
former accounts, we Inbjoin the following :

" LIMN, DEC. 17.

" The negotiations between this country and
France are concluded definitively ; the terms are
faid to be fuch as it is hoped England will agree to.
as they include no aipulation injurious to her com-
merce or navigation.
w The main point is money. (this was of courfe
expelled;) by Come it is whifpered fix millions of
lures Tournois are to be paid annually ; others carry
the furn much higher. Three millions are to be paid
in advance; our treafury is but ill calculated to meet
this demand—but what means do we potters of re.
filling it? Spain. it is uncleritood. pays a much
greater futn for her neutrality..—Our exchange has
rifen to 64."

Some of the Morning Papers minaking the term
gi eldiatisks" in our Plymouth letter of yefterday. have
inferred that the VILLA Di Pasts was bearing away
for Wham, when Peen off the Lizard. Her old
Ration was Torbay, and there, we believe, the is by
this time anchored in fafety, as the was fince Peen off
the Start by the Boaoic ea, another (hip belonging
to the Channel fleet, and which has fince arrived at
Plymouth. The VtaLr DS Pasts was accompanied
by two other flips of the fleet, but their names, are
aot yet known.
Of this fleet the following (hips have come into
port: The Maas. MINOTAUR, CONQSAILOIt, PLAN-
'1•0111111T, ST. Jour, FOUDROY•N ri ROYAL SO.
•aastow, Istrwrtrturt, and BOADICLA. The VILLI, de
Pasts and two others are alto, by this time,probably
in port. The following, excepting thole along with
the lan named (hip, and which are probably two of
them, are Rill at fea : The SPARTIATI, CULLOM'S,
DRIADIIOIIOif T, MALTA, SPENCER. DIIII•MCI, DIA-
CON.NORTHUMBIRLAND, VENYRABLI. and COLOSSUS.
The weather has been fn very tempelluous, that
we may daily expek to hear of more of them coming
in; and indeed we ought to confider the news of
their Cafe arrival after fuch forms as very pleating
intelligence.
If only a few of our (hips can keep their flation,
we need not fear the enemy putting to fea ; for in
that event we thould loon hear of their being at fea,
end our (hips, injured as they have been by the late bur.
tisanes, would loon be nut again to pay their refpe%
to them. From the exertions made in every depart
mint, we loon expeel to be able to announce, that as
Aron a fleet as ever blockades again the pout of Brett.
In fa& the Lords of the Admiralty have an
ticipated the poffible temporary return of the Chan-
nel fleet. There arc two fqoadrons ouT the Ira
(Galt, each fully adequate to meet and challife the
French fleet, (Lentil it offer to put to tea ; arid the
(hips of the line in referve at Portfmouth and Ply-
mouth, which have long had their inutruetions, will
probably loon replace the vet is that have been forced
to quit their flatuan cff

Mininers, it is raid, are in point:lion of ailvivn trim
Tarib of the 18th and 19th initant, lilting, that th-
attempt at invaion will immediately be made, and
that the Fiasr Consul. was on the point cf felting
out for tlie cnaft. Shiiuld this intelligence prove
well founded, it is pnllble that the departure of 80.
Karaite*. from Pali, may have been banned by a

cireumllanee mentioned in a private letter from
thence, of a very recent date. It is pofitively
affert-
ed,that the Generals appointed to command the army
defined to invade our fhores, have intimated to the
Cosset, that the foldiery under their refpedive
commands are fully determined not to embark in the
expedition, unlefs BOKAPA&TE takes the command in
perfon, and accompanies them to the " land of Pro.
14." Such is their confidence in the FIR sr Consul.
as a General, or their &trail of him as a man !
It is alto abetted, that on Saturday morning laft,
an Officer of rank, who arrived on the night preced-
ing exprefs from Holland, gave Miniflers the impor-
taut information that he had himfelf Peen 25,000
men embarked on board zso veffels in the Maefdeep;
and that r 6,000 more troops were expelled to com-
plete the embarkation. The veffels are thofe which
have been permitted tocome intoour ports under Pruf-
fian colours, though known to belong chiefly to Dutch
merchants. They are from So to tlO tons burthen,
and are well calculated for the purpofe defigned by
the CHU, Coustm. Many of theft veffcls are in the
herring and white fifhery, and continue in the boille-
rous Peas of the Orkneys for many weeks together.
It was the artful plan of BONAPARTb to have eluded
the vigilance of our cruizers by the neutral flag, and
to have endeavoured to make his firft landing on
the coat of Norfolk, in hopes of withdrawing from
the Southern counties the very formidable force now
embodied there. The information, it is Paid, met with
implicit credit from Miniflers, as it coincided with
the reports which they had previoufly received, and
the molt adive exertions, we underhand, have been
made to prepare for them a warm reception.
Such accounts may from time to time be expelled
to arrive, and prudence fays, we ought never to
difregard them, though there can be no queftion
that often the reports will be found to reit on a very
flender foundation. The weather and other contin-
gencies mull alto often derange theplans of the enemy

The Royal Family come to town next week to7re•
fide till after the celebration of her MAJESTY' sßirth
Day.
Wednefday evening their MAJESTIES had a fele&
party at Windfor Lodge.
Yeßerday morning his Majisrv, attended by Ge-
nerals MANNERS and Mann:woman, took an airing
on horfeback in Windfor Great Park.

Letters were received in town yellerday from Muf.•
cat, New York, andiMalta. The orders of the Prefi.
dent of the United States, for taking poffellion of Loui.
liana in form, according to the treaty of Ceffiln, were
difpatched from the Senate Houfe, on Monday the 7th
of November, and were candled to reach New Or
leans in eighteen days.—The Treafury of the State of
New Jerfey has been lately robbed of 10,914 dollars.
By a letter from an Officer of la Ciursciewa frigate,
Captain CHARLES ADAM, dated Cromarty Bay, the
soth inftant, we learn, that that Ihip has arrived fafe
in that Bay, alter being on (bore for nearly two hours
on a ledge of rocks on the coal! of Norway. The
ffiip has fuftained confiderable damage, and it is
thought (he will be obliged to proceed to Sbeernefs
to get repaired.
The Ladies of Durham have already made nearly
',too flannel waiQcoats, for the tile of the Volunteers
of that City.
A (bort time after the Stewarton Volunteers were
embodied, Mrs. Cu NN INGH AM a of Lainfhaw, and the
young Ladies, her daughters, not only purchafed
flannel for an under vell to every individual of the
Corps, bin with a patriotic cotidefcenfion peculiar to
themfelves, undertook the talk of making them with
their own hands, which, with the utmoll difpatch, as
well as unwearied perfeverance, they have actually
accomplilbed Tome time ago.
By the A& which received the Royal Affent on
Monday fe'nnight, the Volunteers are not exempt
from the ballots for the Militia; but are to be enured
ferving fo leng as they remain Volunteers. On their
refignation or difmiffal, if they have been previotifly
ballotted for the Militia, they will be compeiled to
ferve perfonally or by fubflitute. . .

Government, we underhand, has fent three thou•
rand pounds to France, for the prefent relief of the
Englifh prifoners, fo unjuftly detained in France,
contrary to nfage and national right.
The molt pofstive orders are iffutit for an unre-
mitting attention to he paid to the different recepta-
cles of priioners of war. Not only the ntmoll vigi-
lance is to be obferved refpeEting their fecurity, but
an accurate defcription of each of them is to he taken,
and the places of their nativity to be refpatively re-
giftered.
Estoctsu Palmists to FR ANCI.—A letter dated
Fort Bitfch, Metz, Dec. 9, Rates as follows I
arrived here yellerday, with forty-four of our coun-
trymen. The caufe of our removal from Valenciennes
was the defertion of feecral of our felts-..-prifonere,
who threw up their parole, as looking upon them
(elves detained contrary to the law of nations. The
neighbourhood of Brabant, where thepeople deteft the
French, procured as mary as had the will and meansto
efcape, almolt daily opportunity to break their fetters.
Our fituation is fhc.cking ; and in our match from
Valenciennes we were treated ascrin,inals, and walked
the whole way between gent d'armes. I offered to
pay for a horfe, but was rehired, if liwould not con.
lent to hire honks for the whole party. For the two
firll nights we were lodged in cold and damp
churches, and the third in a common goal. At lall
we were forced to agree with our efeort, and to pay
each gent d'armes Ilz here' in the day, for permit.
ting us to fleep in inns, where they cheated us betides
in a molt ticandalons mariner. The people in the
country we marched through behaved well enough ;
but the Piefeets, Commilfaries, and the Military,
abufed our country and intuited us perf,nally every
where. In tin, filthy hole where we now are thin up,
Aullrian Jt fetters were, during thelaß war. Within
the narrow limits of dd. (mall fort, we are permitted
to take air only for two hours each day ; for the re•
mainder we a-c lout up in gloomy, damp, and dirty
dungeons, where few have been able yet to procure
for money a roamers ; and the Rraw given us is, a.
well as the slungeon, full of Tornio."