Star.
London, England, 1803-10-20 00:00:00

THURSDAY, OCTOBER se.

PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Coufola, for money, pi 53.—for ate. 53. H.
Reduced St} 52--Orari.ura yi

Letters from fome refpedable merchants in Hol-
land Elate. that the propofition of the French Go-
vernment kr railing a loan in that country has totally
failed cf fticeefs. An intereft of eight per cent. was
offered, and every exertion was made to induce the
monied part of the community to accept of the terms.
The merchants continued obllinate in their refufal,
and the meafure was at length abandoned. Difap-
pointed in this means of railing the fupplies neceffary
for defraying the expence of the prefent vall prepa-
rations, the French agents were under the neceffity
of having recourfe to other expedients. It was as•
cordingly determined to levy contributions to an
amount eqital to the fum to be railed by the propofed
loan. The mode in which thefe contributions are to
be railed is by a tax on property ; a meafure, the hint
for which has probably been taken from the Minikes
late Income Tax. The Tax as eftabliflied by the
French Government will, however, have this advan-
tage, that it will be carried into efrea with the utmolt
rapidity. It will be in vain for the unfortunate Dutch
to murmur at there exactions, or to reprefent the im-
probability of their fuftaining loch an accumulated
load of taxation. Bow♦ PARTeII hoft of military col-
leEtors will loon fettle this bufinefs, and if the money
is to be found in the country, it mutt foonbe folthcom-
ing. When we confider the repeated pillage to which
Holland has been expofed fines its firft fubjugation
by the French, one cannot help being aftonithed to
find that means are ttill to be found to fatisfy French
rapacity.
We underftand that intelligence has been received
from our cruisers off Oared, that an unufual bugle
was olsferved on that part of the matt on Friday lag.
Large bodies of troops were fern marching towards
the Port, and, it was fuppofed, that an embarkation
would very fpeedily take placer The number of
'ads at Offend is believed to be greater than at any
other part on the cos&

The plan of 'the Royal Review of the Volunteer
Corps of the Metropolis has been altered; and it is
now fettled that all the regiments eaftward of Temple
Bar are to be reviewed by his Maims. in Hyde
Park, on Wednefday next • and thofe of the Wei
end of the town on the Friday following.
His Royal Highnefs the Prince of WALES, the
Dube es of Davoissiae, Lady H. Caws's'', Lord
Duncan now, and the principal Officers of the Roe.
hampton Volunteer Corps, of which the Earl of
Bassi:motto it is Colonel, dined yefterday at the Earl
of Bassoarrucli'S beautiful feat at Roehampton.
On Sunday laft his Royal Highnefs the Duke of
CUMBERLAND and Staff attended divine fervice at
the Briftol Cathedral, preparatory to his leaving the
command of the Severn Diftrift. Dr. RANDOLPH
delivered an energetic di(courfe from s Cor. c. x.
v. it." I (peak as to wife men, judge ye what I fay."
After fervice, his Royal Highnefs, attended by his
Aid du Camps, General GAITH, and Colonel BatL-
Lts, proceeded to Qyeen's-fquare, where the Bed-
fordthire. Wiltfhire, and Rutlandfhire Militia, the
Royal Briftol Light Horfe Volunteers, the Royal
Briftol Volunteers, and train of Artillery, were drawn
op. His Royal Highnefs walked along the front of
the line, the bands of the Regiments playing " GOD
Save the King," as he patted. Afterwards the Of-
Scers of the different Regiments formed a circle
round his Royal Highnefs, in the centre of the (quart,
when Colonel &twit delivered a very handfome and
energetic Addrefs, expreffire of the thanks of the
Royal Briftol Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and
their acknowledgments to his Royal Highnefs for
his great condefcenfion and marked attention towards
them. His Royal Highnefs returned a fuitable re-
ply, and on Ms leaving the fquare, the fpetßators,
whofe numbers were immenfe, joined the regiment in
it general (bout of acclamation.
General Gascoices arrived at Briftol on Sunday
to fumed his Royal Highnefs in the Command of
the Severn Diftri&.
A few days fence a Deputation from the Innhol-
ders' Company went to the different Inns and Livery
Stables in the city. to infect the provender, examine
the meafures, &c. The number of defaulters was very
htconfiderable. Two or three of them were furnmoned
before the Court of Affiflants on Wednefday fe'nnight ;
but as their offences appeared to proceed more from
inadvertence than intentional fraud, they were dif-
sniffed with a fuitable admonition.
We have authority to-contradiß a paragraph in a
letter from Margate, copied inadvertently into the
STAR of the t3th, from a Morning Paper, Rating
that the Officers of the (hips Rationed off that place
complained that the half of their crews confifted of
Greenwich penfioners, old and unfit for fervice,
—The veffels lying there are all completely manned,
and particularly the MEL, the crew of which con-
lifts of aoo fine fpii iced fellows, all ready to meet the
enemy, and to fecond the es,:rtinns of their vigilant
and atßive Commander, Capt. Brito.
Within theft few days, a great number of slims
have applied for certificates at the Qyeen fquare Of-
fice, agreeable to the AR. Many of them have re
Tided upwards of fifty years in this country ; they are
from all parts of the Continent. Six Gentlemen of
rank fignified their intention of being naturalized on
the meeting of Parliament. Amongft them "was a
Nobleman of the Bourbon Family.
As the coati. near Holum, is found to he very
dangerous and of difficult approach, a Correfpondeur
fuggefts, that the port of Lyn, in a (mall iflard.
ituated about (even German, or fmty.two
miles, farther north, would be an eligible place f.r
the reception of the rackets which convey the mail.
to the Continen:.