Star.
London, England, 1804-02-02 00:00:00

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY a.

V' !eV. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIEs
• •.er Cent. Conk,la, money . 55ii
Ditt,,, for February 36 a s6l
Reduc.,l - ' ' S6t
O own. • 1 ! 85 tiaL
t•RICF. OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Ban% itlIC.l 15P 15;4 Slum Ann Al 3411
.1 per Cent ked Ann Ott i Imp 3 per Cent. 3Sj ss
• prt Cr. t Cad. sitit Imp. Ann. 9 9-26 i
4 per ( .n: 7:iil Omnlum 111 clif.
3 per Cent. N.ory 89 8141 I.ottery 'tickets. sp.
s int. Cam. 17.'7 9111 i I Coo!. for act. 333 361331
Lot.g Ann. if, 9-t6i

The Houfe of Commons met yekerday parfuan•
to adjournment. Mr. YORK, gave notice that he
would on Wednefday next move for leave to bring
in a Bill to crinfolulate, amend, and explain the fe-
veral A&s relative to the Volunteers. We have al-
ready Rated that a Bill to this effen would be one of
the fire matures of Parliament. Wednefday was
fixed upon, to give time for the deeifion of the Court
of King's Beech, in the cafe of Mr. Dowxer. The
ilifctarton en this fuhjen will be extremely interefting.
We hope it will be condoned with coolnefs and mo-
deration on all fides, but we can hardly help depre-
cating any innovations at the pretest m ment, when
.•llterations and amendments may tend to unhinge
the u hole fy Rem.
The Coancaxxoa of the Excnacqpia gave notice
of his intention to move this day for the appointment
of a Sekft Committee to =quire into the flats of the

Civil Lift, ana likewife for tnother Committee to
enquire into the (late of the Joint Account between
Great Britain and Ireland.—The Houfe exhibited a
much more numerous attendance than we expetied.
Not fewer than zoo Members were prefeat.

The private letters from India (peat in the molt
defponding terms of the fituation of the Englifb at
Ceylon. The conteft with the King of Candy, into
which the Government plunged itfelf, has hither-
to been produftive only of difaftrons events. The
climate bad fo minced our troops at an inland fort,
that the Commanding Officer, Major Davie, found
it necelEsry to propofe a capitulation, which was
agreed tot but no fowler was it carried into tile, .
than a body of Malays in our fervice, joined the na-
tives and murdered all our Officers, except one who
efcaped. Among the fulferers were Major DAVIS,
Captains Gassy, PLIND , MILIAN, &C. &c.
Serious fears are entertained for the fafety of the
Settlement.

Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the
Bth October, fent by a !lave (hip, by the way of the
Weft Indies, mention the unpleafant fituation of that
colony in confequence of the intelligence of the war.
On the firft arrival of the news, all the Englills inha-
bitants there were ordered to keep their houfes, and
their property was put under fequefiration, but this
order was afterwards taken off in confequence of a
very fpirited remonfl ranee on the pare of Mr. PRIMO t.s,
the Agent of the EaR India Company, to whom
the Batavian Government was under very confider.
able obligations for pecuniary affiftance, without
which their garrifon would have proceeded to a ge-
neral mutiny. It Was very properly hinted to the
Jacobin party in t►e Government, that neither Hol-
land, nor the nation to which it was Chained, could
prevent England from taking pnffeSon of the Cape
whenever it pleafed, and that any intuit or indignity
offered to its fubjeas might one day be retaliated.—
This remonftrante had its proper effect, and the Eng•
Mb merchants fince that time have remained unmo-
leßed ; but the Dutch inhabitants are daily expecting
and ardently praying for, an Englifis force to appear
'before the town, which, there is little doubt, would
forrender without firing a !hot. The ftrength of the
garrifon is syoo effective men ; the Hottentot corps
is dilbanded and difperfed in the country ; and they
have not a tingle (hip of war on the Ration ; but fe-
vers' privateers, !kith there and at the Mauritius,
are fitting out, ender the idea of intercepting our
homeward bound India (hips. No intelligence bad
arrived at that time of die return of Ltaois's fqua-
dron to Mauritius, from which place, as appears by
what we Rated yefterday, it certainly failed for In-
dia. The (mall garrifins of the Cape was in Inch a
(late of infubordination when the intelligence of the
' war arrived, that the Government thought it necet.

fairy to increafe their pay and double their rations,in
order to kccp them quiet ; and it was making s
feeble effort to call out the Burgher Militia, who.
however, had declared themfelves to a man unwill-
ing to oppofe their bell friends the Englifh. There
letters mention alto an idea generally entertained at
the Cape, of Mr. PattioLv being entrufled with cer-
tain overtures from that Government to his Majef-

ty's Minitlers, with regard to that fettlement. Mr.
PRINGLR, we underßand, is on board the Exited.
mem, which arrived a few days ago at Cork. •
We have feen other letters from the Cape of Good
Hope. dated the 29th of Odober, which Hate, that
immediately on the receipt of the intelligence of the
war in Europe having been -cnewed. the Governor
of that colony ordered teals to be put on the whole
of the property belonging to the EAR India Company;
and on the 101 l rving day (September 29) a Prods•
mation was gad, forbidding, under any pretence,
the transfer of any fpecies of property belonging to
Englilh fubjeas, tinder penalty of the whole value of
the koedh and commanding, that no debts due to the
fubjeds of his BRITANNIC MAJISTT timid be paid,
under penalty of three times the value of all pay-
ments fo made. Sn harlh a meafure as the feizing
of all private property, naturally threw the Englilk
inhabitants into the utmnf Rate of alarm, and a meet.
ing was in confecmence called, at which it was agreed,
that a Memorial fhnuld be prcfented to the Governor
upon the fubje3. A Committee of the Britifh Incr.
chants accordingly waited on his Excellency with a
remonfirance, on the 2d of (Maher, in which, after
calmly teprefenting the injußice of the meafure, and
cnntrailing it with the mild and liberal proceedingi
of the Britifh Government, on ("miler occafions, they
reminded him of the encouragement held out to them
to remain in the fettlement, and their peaceable and
indußrions defacanour fince the re•eftablifhment of
the Batavian Government ; and concluded by declar-
ing their readinels at the fame time, to enter into
loch obligations for their future propriety of coodts
as his Excellency might think proper to esaa, con'
latent with their trot allegiance to their King and
country. This remonarance, we are happy to end.
produced the &fired effect ; for, in a few days, anti•
thcr Proclamation was itlued by the Governor. rr
yoking the hat& mature complained of in every for
fpea.

A Gentleman, who left Paris upon the t4th
(hates, that, in the bell informed circles of ttlat
it uAI confidently expteted an attempt would be
nude upon Ei.glAnd l.etore the sgth inltant, but that
B ACTS would not command the CipediliCii

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perfon, his ee►ps lAA alrciabling at Anal, not be
ing yet organifed. It was thence (impaled, that the
enfuing attempt would be only a feint, to try the
temper of the people of England, or a divertion to
favour a real attack upon Ireland, by the army of
Avoaaeau. So ignorant are the French people and
the French foldiers of the fentiment and feeling of
the inhabitants of Great Britain, they think that if
they could only efcape the Englilh fleet, they will
tenet but little oppofition. This is the recta' of the
artifices by which the FsasT CON3OL has endeavour.
ad to abufe the credulity and milked the judgment
of his flares, who vainly flatter themfelves that in
England they will meet no enemies bin the nobility
and gentry. Our failors they have long fince fet
down as incorrigible arillocrates. Bank notes are
not the only fabrications preparatory to invafion.—
Guineas of bate metal are coined in great abund-
ance at all the mints of Paris and Brads. They
are worth about t t livres, and are full weight. The
Jews loon deteeted them, and have put their corref.
pondents at Hamburg!), and other places upon the
Continent, upon their guard againft this new money-
Thefe guineas are many of the years 1797 and 1799.

In an article of a late date from Paris, given in a
Dutch paper, it is admitted that the leek news from
St. Domingo is very unpleafant. Gen.Rocuamseau
u reprefented, after embarking all the whites code/sad
efcaped safqtre, Tome for Old France, others for
America, and Guadaloupe, as having himfelf failed,
with the remnant of his army, for the latter place, and
Martinique. So loath are the French to Rate the
'real fags which have reached Europe, refpefting the
rank of the Domingo espedition.
It now appears that the (mall fquadron, with
troops, which lately failed from Toulon, is com•'
inanded by Admiral Garru Baur a, but its &Rios.
tion is not known.

The Bata►ian Government have difpatched an or.
air to Ferrol, for the jendion of the Oldbarneveldt
Dutch man of war, with the French frptadron lying
In that peit ; the dellination of which, it is added,
will not long remain a myltery.

One arrived laR night and another this morning.
The former being the Mail of the 13th, brings hard-
ly any thing new, the Mails of the tyth and soth
having arrived before. One paragraph from Mentz
is, however, important. It mentions the return
of three Freneh Naval Officers, who went LIR
Auguß to Ruffia to purchafe Naval Stores.—
In fall Autumn fevers' Ruffian Merchantmen
were hired by France to carry the Rares fo put..
chafed ;—rut the Enrsaoa being informed of the
eireumffance, declared that as the cargoes were
contraband by the Treaty of Commerce with
England, if they fhould be captured by the Englifh
eruLers, he would not interfere for their renovation.
This defeated the (peculation, one objea of which
was to embroil us with Ruffs*, and has no doubt
eaufed the fudden return of there emifaries of 80.
serums. Some late French Papers have, however,
thought fit to announce the arrival cf Ruffian (hips
with naval flares at Brefk and St. Malo. As the
former has been in a Rate of clofe blockade, this muff,
be a falfe Ilatement, artfully fet forth to make our
cruizers exercife more feverity in their virus of Ruffian
fhipa, with a view to excite difcontent and differences
between the two nations.

The articles by the Mail of this morning are given
in the preceding columns.
The Hardier:6 Corr.:tartan', which has hitherto
affetled to deny all reports of warlike preparations in
Ruda, prefents the following :
" Letters from Peterlburgh fay, that the troops in
Livonia, Efilsonia, and Coorland, have received or-
ders to hold thensfelves in readinefs to march at
sweaty-four hours notice, and that the contras for
tranfporting the baggage, &c. of the army are al-
ready concluded."

Yelterday morning his MAlrsrt went in his car.
vine to the Riding honk, attended by Generals
MA RRRRR and SPLOICAIL, and rode on horfeback be.
twecn the hours of eleven and twelve.

At a quarter before two o'clock his MAJESTY
arrived at St. James's Palace, and in a few minutes
after his arrival gave a private audience to Mr. AD.
toIIICTOII. After Which his MAJESTY went to the
Great Cooncil Chamber, and held a Privy Council,
for the purpofe, we underftand, of pricking the She-
tiffs for the enfuing year, and other bufmets. It was
attended by
Their Royal Highneffes the Dukes of York. Kent, and Cam-
hrielse, tbc Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. the
71okr of Port Land, Marquis of Sallibury, Earl. Chatham Hat-
,‘^rton, and PAlikt. Vircouot Caßiereash, Lord. C. Soinerfet`
I ,oberbory, Somerville. Falmouth, and St. titles's. the Mail,r
o the Rol tic Judge of the Admiralty, Sirs C. Morgan, W.
r. ant, S. Cutterril, G. Ofbeeo, General Ports, Meer*. Curry,

Yo'lL. A. Price, Smyth, Villie;s, Husata:, ;si 11141147.
The Council fat upwards of an hour, after which
Majarry gave private audiences to the Loao
CHAwcalLot, Lord Hawassavar, Earl CPATOAM,
nld Sir C hloacau, who laid before his Ma-
: ESTI' the determination off I Courts MArtid.

Soon after five o'clock. his Maixlry left the Pa-
lace for the Qyltilet houfe. to dinner.
Hit MAJISTT appeared in excellent health and
f; i:itt. and went through the bufincfs of the day
s. 411 h;s accuflorned cafe and grneJ humour.
About twelve o'clock,het hlAtr !Tr, and the Prin-
et,rcsAvuesv•s atzaatt H. M %RI, and SOPHIA,

c nal c J by theCntintefs of 11t At 0111lT and Lad;
• • t, as, took an Ai: ing to Mac:heath, and honoured
: Pala( Ss of VALI S with A till(' at her honk us
:.4:ltott; and a!:cr 11A:taking of ft;nl,; If ile.lmur,
IrucJ to the (4,2ccu'. !souk.