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London, England, 1803-02-19 00:00:00

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19.
PRICE OF SIOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK,
3 per C. Conf. money, 71W—for ace. 711}i.
3 per Cur. Red. 71f--Onmium 31 dif.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERD.kYi
Bank Stock '9O Bank L. Ann. ao ta-161
3 Pce C. Red. 72 71} 71 India Stock 2114
3 per C. Conf. 544 Etchcq. Bills is. to 24 dif.
4 per Cent. Conf. 870 Ornnium 3, lair.
s per C. Ann. lot it Eiiglins Tickets 1174 t7ll.
$ FA' C. 1797,1041: Conf. for Feb. acc. 7111+

Thirty per Cent. was paid upon the Omnium yelterdav, and
the Funds remained, tolerably Ready. The fears which the
Omnium holders er.tertained of the coofequences of the Bank's
proved to have been unfounded. The Omnium-holders,
aware now of the work are determined to keep their pro-
perty, and but little was brought to market yelterday.

We have received the French Journals to the
16th, Which, however, bring no news of any im•
portance.—Five per cents. 58 fr. 8o e.
P%a is, Fll3. :s.—The Court of Vienna has
formally acknowledged the Kino of ETRURIA.—
The SpAnith Ambaff4dor in this capital has tranf-
mined to Count de CObEwTaat., Miniaer of Fo-
reign Aff4i rs, the letters of notification, announcing
the accelfion of the King to the throne of Tufcany.
Thefe letters had been feveral t:mes prefented to
that Minifter,w'lo hitherto refuted to receive them.

Gettoa, JAN. 26.—The intelligence from Flo.
rence, refpeAing the health of the KING of ET&U•
ern, who was indifpofed, continues to be favoura-
ble. His 11/41.titsr ris to much recovered, that the
QUEEN, on the 23.1, went to the Theatre of la
Pcrgolla, where (he was received with the loudeft
teftimonies of applaufe from the audience.
In confequence of an order from Lieutenant-
General VLrvoiti, the Commandant of Florence,
all foreigners, of whatever country or rank, mull,
within the period of twenty-four hours after their
arrival, prefent to the Military Commandants of
his Majefly in Florence, Leghorn, Pifa, Sienna,
and Piltoia, their paffports and certificates of their
perfonal qualities. All military men of every na-
tion, whatever be their rank, are comprehended in
this order.

Letters from Naples, of the txth infant, Rate,
that on the anniverfar7 of the Kates birth•day, his
Majefty caufed to be publifhed an edid, which re-
news and extends the meafures of clemency al-
ready ordered in favour of thole who took any lhare
in the late political ditturbances.

American papers up to the tsth of January
hare arrived.

They bri.ig no iotelligence from St. Domingo
of which we were not already in poffeflion. They
comfit m, however, what has been Rated, ref-peeling
the fitvcurablt afpen which the accellion of Ro-
c Has MAU to the Cli;rl Command has given to
the French cattle. At Port Republicain, where the
Negroes were in the greatea force, the reinforce.
ments from France had enabled the Georral ccm•
manding in that quarter to refume offentive ore-
rations. A number of engagements had taken
place, and It the time to which the latch accounts
reach, which is about the miJdle of December, the
inhabitants of the town conlidered themeelves in a
are of perfea fecurity.
On the fubjesi of the (hutting of the port of New
Orleans, nothing new is Rated in thefe papers.—
Every Aft of Conies, however, proves that it
will be confidercd in the molt ferivus manner, anJ

that the Americans will be fatisfied with notking
(bort of an unconditional revocation of the order
authorizing the (hutting of the port.
In the Houle of Reprefentatives a Motion was
made on the sth of January, the objefl of which
was to call on di- Prefident to produce all docu-
ments in his poffeflion relative to the ceffion of
Louifiana to France. This motion gave tife to a
vcry warm debate, but it was ultimately carried
on a divifion, in which the numbers were very
nearly balanced.
Though the difpute with the Spanifh Govern-
ment at N -Ar Orleans at prefent appears to engrofs
the attention of the American Legiflature, it is
evident that the ceffion of Louifiana to France is not
contemplated without a great degree ofjealoufy.
•I'he American Government fees clearly that this
meafttre will introeluce a very important change into
its relations with France, and the Members of Con•
grefs difcover a very commendable anxiety that
the nature of there relations fhould at the cutlet be
fpecifically defined. The fuhjed has been referred
to a Committee, and a full Report will be exhibit-
ed to Congrefs, and will form the fubjed of future
dilcuflion.

In the fpeech of the Prefident at the opening of
Congrefs, it will be recollefted that the commer-
cial fyftern purfued by this country was mentioned
in terms of high approbation. The modification
of the counter-vailing duties was mentioned as a
regulation peculiarly calculated to give new facili-
ties to trade. From the Report of the Chamber
of Commerce in Philadelphia, it does not appear
that this meafure has been received fo favourably
as was expeCted. In this Report it is indeed ex-
prefaly complained of, as giving to the trade t.f
this country advantages againa which the Ame-
ricans could not contend with any profpat of fuc-
cefs.—This fubjeCt is to undergo more minute con-
federation.

Yeflerday morning, about half pall eight o'clock
His MAJESTY, and at twelve o'clock Her Msj ES
y and Pit t N c css Ps, fet off from the (teen's-houfe,
with the ufual efcort, to Windfor, where they will
refide until Tuefday next. Their Royal Highneffes
the Princeffes SOPHIA and Avoursa, on account
of indifpolition, remain in town.
As one effea of Galvanifm is to open the eye:, it
is hoped the experiment will be exhibited before all
66 the crowned heads of Europe !"

A paper was read in the Royal Society IA week
on the eSfialis of the tongue, a fubjeft which will
probably account for many tofitizal as well as
phi/VG/ducal tranfaftions.
The papers inform us that the witnelfes in one
eleaion caufe filled or hundred and freest, carriages,
laden with " the whole truth," and " nothing but
the truth."

Yellenlay the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and revere!
Aldermen, went in Rate to Bow Church, Cheap.
fide, and heard the Annual Sermon preached be-
fore the Bifhops, when an excellent difcourfe was
delivered by the Right Reverend Father in Goo,
the Lord Bilhop of OXFORD; after wl;ich the
Loan MAYOR gave an elegant dinner at the Man-
ton Houle to the following Learned Prelates, &c.
—the Billions of Lownow. DURHAM, ELY, WIN.
CHRtTIR; EMIR, BATH and WILLS, OXFORD.
The procelLon was cosduded to and from the
Church by the twe City Marfhals on horfeback in
full uniform. This was Mr. NALDIR's brit ap-
pearance on public duty Race he was (worn in as
Under Martha

The LADY MAYDAYS, has fixed the nth of
March for her route.

Lord Pat.Hou gate a Cabinet dinner yefterday
to the following Noblemen and Gentlemen :
Lord Hobart, Sir Eyre Coote, Mr. Elliot, General Cra 'dock,
Vikount Caftlavagh, Mr. Cooke, Lieutenant-Colonel Clintor,
Sir George Sher, Earl Camden, Lord Lode, Mr. Wallin, Genf
Dalrymple, and Col. CanspbciL
The Duchefs of GLoucarraa had a (mall party
Loll night at Gloucefier Honk; among the com-
pany were :
Earl Stair, Ciainteres of Ely and Liverpool, Leeds Glendore
and Morton, Ladies Charlotte Lindtay, Cecilia Johnloss, and
Charlotte Jenkinron, Sir Janet Pidtcncy and Coked Clutter,
Miftnffcs Johnfon and Chalker, km

The Earl of STAIR gave a very fumptuous Din.
ner yellerday.
VOCAL Cord clay—This popular and fathionable
Inflitution opened for the (talon lag night. at
Willis's elegant Rooms, under the management
of HARRI3OII, BARTLIMAN, and GRUToas x, who
relented a judicious and well varied feleaion.—
The room was crowded with titles, beauty, and
fafhion. Among the company werc-•--
The Earls of Uabitige. lortekue, and DarnieT.(Direelors
of the Ancient Mirk) Effingham, and Gower Least. Mg.
ham, Lucas, Grantham, Belton, R. Boughton, I...rman,gb,
knurl!, Ford, Ileathecee, Nam. Langton, Maier,

It was une of thiittoitisrillrant atiembiages we
have witneffed this feafon.

Mrs. litt.t.imeroa continuing indifpofed, Mrs.
HARRISON ag.sin came forward, and gave a fine
the compofition of Anuarozzt, which fbe
executed with filch talk and exprefiion as called
forth reiterated plaudits. In the beantiful glee,
51.,p6,,,b, balm 19 my Love. h.armonifed by Mr.
Giitaroasz, the was ;Ailed by blifs
HARRISON, and BARTI..I4•N ; and a genaral metre
enitied. A concerto for two French horns, in
which zn echo is produced, that has the elfe.9 of
appearing at an immenfe ditlance, was performed
by the PFTRID&S, which at once allonilhed and
tichghted the audience; HARRISON fang a fine
fong uy Paisia ;Am, with an accompaniment obit.,
gato for a balloon, which was generally and de-
fermily a; planded. 1-looas.s's accompaniment
was excellent. BAILTIA NAN treated the audience
v a fine Fong from l'urcell's Works, in which he
always gives univestal fatistsZtion. Tile band is
kle.9 and very complete. CR ASI S I is the leader,
and Mr. CRS.% MR Si tie COAJuaut.

FIY,INCES.

(FROM THE letVE DRIT:N.)

" If we were difpnfed to enter into a Paper XV,”.
with 7,e .1/olliteur, we know no topic on rhich
we fhi7uld more readily have taken up the gauntlet
than that of ou.. Finance. In truth, the extrava.
gaol and foolith :reticle, which lately Appeared m
that Paper, on thi, interefting
us a temptation whiLli was aimort Pr.t
the very circiinittanet which made it fn teniptin;:
'an objea of di:Cutlion, determine.] us to a,114;„
from noticing it. Every line of it carried with it
its own refutation. It was neither ingenious fal-
lacy, or plautible mifreprefentation ; but direCt
faliehood throughout. Not a tingle flatement in
it, but what the melt friperficial proficient In the
Rudy of Finance could readily refute, wi:11....t
affularice.

o What mil h.:ve been the 01,j,:a of the per.
I fon who deliberately drew up t..r the French
Gazette this notable Patement is another queftion.
The fair prefumption is, that it originated from
, the fame matterly head, which not long ago pre.
tented to Ent ripe, in the fame paper, C. fl ittering
an account of the slate of the French Revenue.--.
Was the motive of the well informed, intelligens, and
dilinterelled writer of it to depreciate our Funds, and
Ito rail thole of his own country ? On ours it
could have no poffible operation, except by the
impreflion which it might make on the opinions
of farcibners, who had been in the habit of confi.
dering British Security the bell in the world ;
for we will not libel one individual amongft cur
Countrymen, by loppoling that a flatement, how.
ever fpecious it might have been, from fuch a guar.
ter, could on his underftanding have produced the
fmallell effed. The prefent (late of our own
Funds, however, is pretty conclufive that they are
proof againft any fuch ridiculous and childilh at.
tempts; and if thofe of our neighbours have a
more favourable appearance than they have had
for time time pall, we fee no reafon to be impreff.
ed, either with envy or jealoufy, let the caufe of
their improvement he what it may.
Thefe carnal obfervations might lead us, were
we inclined to purfue the theme, into fnme more
general obfervations on the uniform tenor of the
language of the French Official Paper, almoft ever
fines the Definitive Treaty of Peace was figned.
That many of our Journals have regularly indulg-
ed themfelves in afperity, hoftility, and even per-
tonality towards the French Government, is per.
fealy true. But is it poffible that that Govern-
' ment can be ignorant, that the Editor of a Brains
Journal is free to exprefs whatever opinions he may
entertain, provided he keeps within fuch bounds as
the Laws have prefcribed to him ; to which only
he is refpnnfible, and to which alone he is under
controul ? If we have (with the exception only of
the events in Switzerland) abftained from giving
vent to fenfations which many circumftapees have
excited in us, we own that we have been retrain-
ed only by confederations of prudence and proprie-
ty. But, without jullifying the exceffes into wUch
Come of our cotemporaries have been betrayed,we
cannot be infenfible to the abundant provocation
which the infulting language of the French Ofßeial
Journal has repeatedly, and almolt uniformly,
furnifited them with. Polfibly we may be fingular
in thinking, that, however it may have been sal.
culated to excite in the brealt of every Englillx-
man diffatisfadion and difgult, it has experienced
more public notice than it was perhaps entitled to.
When we fee Mr. WINDIIIII4 and Lord Gato-
rs:As (whole politics we are the lag to admire).
land even the great Minißer, the qualities of whofix
heart and head are equally noble and tranfcendent.
charged with deliberate affalfination, our natures
revolt from a calumny of fo foul and diabolical a
complexion. Where, unlefs in the cells of the molt
relentlefs bigotry, does human nature itfelf afford
the grounds of Co balk and detellable a Bander?—
And this is a charge not made once, but Teems to
be the favourite topic of the French Gazette. We
will not !loop to retort by Cuppofing it credible,
1 that thole who bring forward this chafe, have
' confulted their own breath to dircover pollibi.
lity of any thing Co atrocious entering into the
mind of man. On this ground Mr. WINDHAM,
againli whom it has been more fpecially directed.
Bull ever find in us as (hardy champions, as in
any of his profeffcd adulators. He has nothing to
thank us for. To him, in 'fact, it is no compli,
ment.—lt is not even the jullification of our coun-
try—but of mankind ;dell.

4. When the fword was fheathed, we had flat-
tered ourielves that the hoQile fpirit with which the
two great rival Countries had long been inflamed
againi each other, would be Theatbed alto. If it
has been Rudiougy cheated, and even fuel ince,
faintly furnifhed to fan the flame, who will prefume
to fay, that Great Baitain, as a Nation, or as a Go-
vernment, has fet the example? The language of a
fmall Party is not that of a great Country.—The
fame difpofition,both in the People and their Rulers,
which pointed towards the return of Peace, could
not fail to he accompanied by a with to preferve it.
AVith this with the prefervation of nxtional animo-
fity was incompatible. We are pet feellyfatisfied,that
' when the Olive Branch was mutually exchanged.
the univerfal fentiment of our countrymen was--
1" Forgive and forget." If our neighbours have
not thought proper to fympathire in this pacific
fentiment, the blame can hardly be laid to the door
of a Government, which took the earlia oppor-
tunity of reßoring to us the bleffings of Peace.—
. Theft bleffings will probably Rill be preferved.
notwithflanding the rude tune of authorized publi-
cation& It would be well. hon ever, for their
Editors to recollea, that in proportion as their
efforts are calculated to excite a hollile mind to-
wards Great Britain, by miliitprefentations and
• cAlumiiies, on one fade of the water. they cannot
fail to produce as indignant and cordial unanimity
.on the other.

Saturday laft,lachy Delany, Efq. Amender-
ea 'timid( in the Court of King's Iknch, Dublin,
to take his trial tor having ailed as an °dicer with
the infurgents in the county Kildare, daring the
Reb:.ilion,-1 le Wac 10,17e,1 in the New Pt iron, auJ
is i 4.1 be trantinitted to Nags fut tlial

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

LFGHORN, JANUARY 26.

Letters from Cagliari Rate, tl: .t the Englifla
cquadrcsn, which fince the month of September
WE had lain at anchor in the gulph of Otranto,
quitted that place with fuch precipitation on the
arrival of two frigates which joined them, that
they left on fhore a great quantity of provifions
of every kind. The route they have pnrfued is not
known. •

PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 17.

Lail night and this morning it blew a dreadful
gale of wind at S. N. with a heavy rolling fea
to :he Sound ; but the gale abated towards the
•:xcnonn, without any material damage. Letters
,n 1 the RENOWN, of 74 guns, received here, dat-
ed the 3d intl. at Gibiahar, nate every thing
was quiet there, the feet and army all healthy and
sell. Letters received here from the RAVEN, of
IS guns, dated lath Dec. at Malta, mention that
tranfports were expeeted fhortly to fail for Alex-
andria to take in the Britifh troops in that quar-
ter, in the event of Egypt being evacuated.—
Letters received here by an officer, late of la De
IMIGNEOCE, of 38 guns, Captain SHORTLAND,
who came paffenger in the INTRk?ID, of 64 guns,
arrived at Spithead, dated Madras, mention the
very extraordinary patTage, and different quick
voyages of that frigate fince the left England, in
the beginning of Augur} 10, when the failed for
the Cape of Good Hope, with difpatches for
that fettlement, from Barnpool, in this port.—
La has been fcarcely abfent eight
months : the remained ten days at the Cape : the
failed from thrice to Madras with difpatches, lay
there three weeks, after which fhe failed again with
difpatches for Trincomale, where the remained ten
day, and is to remain, and the Officer above-men-
tioned then left her, took his paffage in the IN.
TIEPIN tick, and was abfent from Plymouth, to
India and back, only eight months. Came in
from a cruize againit the fmngglers, the RANGER,
of t 4 guns, Captain A. Fttzsis ; and from Ex-
mouth, the Ann, SR saes; and Dart, CUMMING•