Star.
London, England, 1803-11-08 00:00:00

LONDON.

Vs es midi obliged to our very refpediable Correfpondast at,
Aatafpta. far hit bind favour received this morning; bot he
will be W tba lista of yefterday, that his friendly intentions
. two anticipated. We requeft a ecatinuattee of his Corn-Mon.
doom

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER S.
WIWI Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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Old 5 per Cent. S7i--Loog Ana. 'S 7-16 i
Sim Am. 3 3 1-1108011111111 Si} da
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
India Stock s 63} e 63
India Bonds par is. dlf.
Exchequer MM. is. a se. prem.
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Englifb Tickets 171. 3s.
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3 TO' ONO Red ssill
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Legg Ana 25i pdi

Some time ago, we took notice of M. MARROFF,
the RuMan Ambaffador, having been abfent from
the Confular Levee. We find the fame thing again
inentioned in the Paris Journals which reached town
yellerday. It is evident, that a confiderable degree
of toolnefs has taken place between the Courts of St.
Peteriasurgh and St. Cloud. Indeed it has been long
pretty well known in the diplomatic circles, ever fusee
boltilities were renewed, that the condult of our go-
vernment has of, on the whole, been approved by
ALMMDER, who has laboured not a little to induct
the Ftarr Congo L. to follow a more pacific line of
conduit ; and who is believed to have obtained the
rf/jito for Portugal fo much boated of in the Kercure
de Fromm We know, however, that the French
took care at the fame time to extort from Portugal a
large fum of money as the price of her iafecure peace.

Rullit and other Powers may look on, or even talk
of mediating—they will find, before a very difiant
period, that romething elfe is neceffary. Italy, Ho!.
land, Su itserland, Hanover have been plundered—
win and Portugal are now/pen:4, and mutt part
with tp.:4 IA piece of money, if fomething be not
&ear by other .State. to rave them ; and France, which
dwoitg„ c„,ll' ale Britain, will foots find out
cb vialmt to (mist) Iscr rapacious foldiery.
la @be mean time, eset-K`ons are making to give
dee away a proper ..• option, !wherever he may ven
tore to thew himfdi—Wlietber at' the coati of Eng-
land. or Ireland ? 0 Jett were yei:',Nrday fent to the
dilFereat fea-poct towns, so ioort.li f, OM ll trateriO4/
aad likewife to imptef. ls.h at tea and on faint! fuch
reran% as from their purfnits and habits may be
betook any wait utcful oa board a thins

Orders were at the fame time fent to Woolwich and
Deptford for every fhip fit to put to tea. loheatte soon-
pletely equipped o► not, to pored to the Nose without a no-
esettt's loft of tine.
We underhand that Government have received
fuch accounts as induce them to believe that the in.
vafion is inftantly to be attempted. Indeed the above
movements thew that the enemy is looked for as Loon
as the wind will allow of his departure from his own
ports : sod this is farther confirmed by orders iffued
to tome commanders of corps, to hold themtelves in
readinefs to march at a moment's notice.

Lail night the profs comminced Eaft of London.
Bridge, all down to the Nore, at fix o'clock precifely;
and, before eight, Capt. Rten iLL, the Regulating
Officer at the Tower, had received and fent on board
the Tender upwards of Soo men. It is believed, that
ere midnight this number mutt at leatt have been
doubled ; and, should the fame aaivity have been
obferved down the River to the Note, we may natu-
rally conclude, that the total number thus collated
amounted, in the eourfe of a few hours; to Come
thoufands.

It is an obfervatinn of ?iterate' Sax', in his reve.l
ries, that England cannot be attacked with any
profped of fuccefs but by the river Thames. The
vigilance of Government, however, has rendered
filch an attack altogether impracticable. by the ad-
mirable and effatual manner in which the mouth of
the River has been focured. The following plan will
give an adequate idea of the floating battery, which,
as we trull, defies the utmoft effort of the enernyorith.
out impeding the commercial channel of the River.—

Heroine. 14 swat
Lieut. Coa. Cotten.
40 BUDS, Iriat 14 Pus,'
Capt. Woolmore. Captains Eafterby
and Huddatt.
Modefte, 24 guns, Retribution, 34 guns,
Capt. Burton and Cars Parr and
Feder. Dull.
Quebec, 34 dun% Veß.al, 14 guns,
Capts. Calvert and Capts. Reed and
Lateran& Lug.
&bleb's', 34 guns, Dadaism. 14 guns.
Capts. Travers and Carta. Sir R. Prelim
Curtis. and Clusposan.
Refouree, 34 gums,
Capts. Brown and Sealy.

A naval force, under Commodore W. Hortfau,l
in his Majefly's fhip RaisoaslLS, confining of the
Yota, feveral frigates and bombs, are anchored off
Dungenefs, and form a central forte, ready to an
with eater of our great naval nations.
Should the modern Xerxes be mad enough to at.
tempt to invade this happy ifland, which is now the
only afylum left for liberty, we have no doubt that
he will experience the fate of the Afiatic invader, who
though furrounded by millions, was obliged to retreat
with flume and confulion before a handful of men,
infpired by the love of true liberty, and deterrais.
ed, rather than fubmit to a foreign conqueror, to
bury tbemfelves under the ruins of their country.
—The fpirit lately manifelled by the inhabitants of
the Britifh Emp re, in voluntarily coming forward
with fo much alacrity to arm themfelves in defence
of e very thing dear to virtuous and magnanimous
minds, is worthy of the moff fplendid periods of an-
cient Greece or Rome; and mould they be called
into the field to repel a crud and implacable foe,
we have the fullers confidence that their exertions
will be crowned with complete fuccefs. Let the Aaf-
conading defpot advance wish his mercenary horde►
—he will revert the famous fpeech of Caessa, which
his fervile flatterers have fo often applied to h'ns, and
be obliged to fay : I came, I law, and *4lruined."

We announced yeflerday the arrival of Lieutenant
ROISEILT HOULT and his Lady at Dover, in a Danifh
veffel from France. They had been detained there as
prifoners of war, but being in pofTeffion of as old
paffport, which they had obtained previous to the
commencement of hoflilities, Lieutenant Houvr al-
tered it, and paired as an American Officer. Having
fucceeded in getting into Switzerland, the inconve-
nience of going through Germany at this feafon of
the year induced him to mu; n into France, and en.
deavour to teach Come poi t, whencehe might take his
departure in a neutral veffel and get to England.
The Asset-it= tali was Co neatly altered, that no fuf.
picion was entertained of the frame by any of the offi
cial people throng'iout the whole of his journey, and,
sr a Citittn gibe Uaited States, he reached Dieppe about
three weeks (ince, whence he failed on Wednefrlay
evening lA.
The intelligence brought by this Gentleman is re-

tremely interelling. During his (lay at Dieppe, he
mingled with all clafres of the people, and being ge-
nerally received as an American marine Officer, be
had accefs to every part of the town and neighbour-
hood. About ten days ago, he law the fquadron
of armed veffels equipped at Dieppe, amounting to
about IS fail, lets; the port, &dined for Boulogne,
and was informed, previous ta his departure, of their
fate arrival. The coati, he declares, (warms with
troops, and th.it in many eonverfations be had with
the Officers and private men belonging to different
regiments, he observed they ail entertained a perfeet
convietion of their being very Ibl:flay ordered to em•
bari for England. The fuppored American became
frequently jocular with them on the rubjerft of the
invation, but in feveral inflames hinted at the deliroc•

tion that mud await the meu employed on fo dan-
gemos an expedition. Their conduit anfwer was—
'• Very well. i: zoo.coo of us perilh. France vrai be
jud where the was, for (be can fend another sconems,l
Fwd annthPr oft-r that • but if we vet 00 &OM k&

England, we will do the bufinefs." The indiffereate
expreffed by thefe people, even at the moment they
feemed convinced of their being defined to certain
deftruetion, our informant declares, furprifed him
exceedingly; but Inch was really the cafe through-
out every department of the army he had accefs to
during his flay on the malt.
Tliis Gentleman, who teems to have examined the
fituation of affairs on the oppofite coati with a more
than ordinary attention, death* that he Was well
fatisfied of an Invafion from France being attempted
very (portly, as he can be of any circumftance that
has not already taken place—every man in the French
army now on the coati expels the Confidar order for
embarkation, when the Marine Officers report the
whole of the feveral flotillas being in readinefs ; but
he lays, it is no fecret on the oppofite fide, that Bo-
N•PAILTE will not command the firft expedition ; but
that MASSENA and Beirrntsit are to be the principal
Officers. If they fuffer, the PRIMIII CONSUL is to
try his fortune; and fuch is the general converfation
at Dieppe, and on the French malt, although they
view every day our chips blockade their ports fo ef-
feElually, that not a veld can put to lea, without
being eapturei by our ct uizers.
Thefe accounts, as they are recent, aad brought by
a Naval Gentleman we underfland of credit apd
charaEter, merit notice ; but the converfation of mi.
litary men on the oppofite coaft deferves no more
attention on fuch a fubjefl, than ours would do were
they to pretend a developement of the feeret move-
ments of our Cabinet. The French foldiere) we be-
lieve, entertain an opinion that very ()wily they will
be ordered to embark on the expedition to England:
but how can they be certain that Bomararra in.
tends to difpatch fuch an order ? Or that an afrem-
blage of troops on the coA of France, at this time, is
not for purpofes, only known to the Cabinet of St-
Cloud, and which they cannot, no Mould be made
acquainted with. Ina word, if the French attempt
to leave the harbour of Boulogne, which is the great
rendezvous of their flotilla at this period, or, indeed,
from any othei of their ports in the Channel, they'
ruth on certain deftruition ; and as this cannot be
unknown to the Corlicza, it would be abfurd is the
extreme to imagine he would facrifice an army, and
the whole of hie tranfportiftet, merely for the purpofe
of grater rid of thew. The former, we believe, he
could very well (pare, kut the lots of the amok
Jew would befoul to leis&

Friday there was one of the grandeß military
fpeßaelec exhibited on Porto Bello Sands, near Edin-
burgh, that was ever witneled in' that country. It
Wal% compofed of feveral regiments from the camp at
Mulfelburgh, the 2 regiments from Edinburgh Cattle.
all the corps of volunteers, artillery, infantry, and cad
valr yin Edinburgh,Leith,and neighbon rhood.the royal
artillery from Leith Fort, and the 3d regiment of
dragoon guards from Piers Hill Barracks. Before
eleven o'clock in the forenoon they had all arrived on
the ground and took their Rations, and were brigaded
as follows—

°copal the garl of Mona. Ceamtaader fa CHd.
Naar eau:ape.

3Rdtagoa'n Guavas
144" 6e"-Zzr- Edinburgh N. B. Mikis
St. Clair Mid-LotlasuValuntrer Waspy
Purfarthire N. L Militia
Thu 1110AIIII.
Camel the Esti of
I/team/oin N. E. Milk%
Dumfries N. B. Militia
Dalkath Mtd•Lotbian V. Cavalry
999999 211 ICIA*L.

R. E. V. Artillery
Caked run Camp- Araylegiire N. R. Militia
E. R. Highland Volunteer Reg.
o at Regiment AL V.
111 COMP 111111Allt.
Ift Lat. ad Reg. IL E. V.
Royal Leith Volunteers
Ertgadtar nafttrat Earl ad Bat id Reg. R. E.V.
Dam& I lith Regiment oftoot
R. AL L. Vol. Artillery.
About t a o'clock the Commander in Chief arrived
' on the ground, when a falute was fired with all the
h now> due to his rank. He was attended by Lieu.
tenant-Gen. NITS& and the other Officers of the Staff.
Beginning at the right he went along the whole line
to the left, and (Anted the officers as he paired. He
then returned to the centre, when, upon a fignal
gun, the whole line commenced firing .rom centre to
flanks by compatles; this was followed by two rounds
from each corps filing by wings ; this was fucceeded
by two volleys from each battalion; and the whole
concluded by file firing fur a cunfiderahle time. His
Escellency then took his amities on the right, upon
which the whole line broke into open column by a
wheel of companies on their left backwards, and
marched pall the General in ordinary time, officers
faluting. Each corps then marched to their relpec-
tive qitArters. The whole tctminated about two
o'clock afternoon.

The number prefent on the field was eltimated
fully to,coo. The fight was magnificent beyond
dekription; and, with the profpee before us of an in-
vading foe, was calculated to eahilarate every heart,
and to infpire the moil timid mind with ernfidence.
The weather was remarkably favourable, the inn
(bona with a comfortable degree of warmth for the
tialon, and the (Icy was fetene. Thefe attraAions,
together with the novelty of the fcene, combined to
call forth fpellators beyond calcul.di ,n. A grzat
number of ladies were prefent, who feemed highiy
delighted with the fiAbt ; and the finenets of the day,
with the he.ilthtulnefs of the fea air, produced that
lively hue of roly health %%Well gave additional
to their native charms. From an earl) hour in the
morning, the avenues from Edinbuixh. wets throng-
ed with eqsetttians, pedearians, coaches, chaiks,
!gigs, ke. &c. fo that in the foreoron that city teemed
almoß defence), and thole few who remained experi-
enced a kind of lonely melancholy.
We have not heard of any accidents materiels
among the croud ; but a private in the Royal Irith '
Regiment had an arm and his face materially Lee-
rated by the bottling of his piece.
Sir Wuuasa Kam is the only one of Earl Mosta%
a • a a. n

NAUTICAL INTELLIGSNCE.

MAILS THIS D AY.--Wiad S. E.

ARR. DUI. ARR. Cr:t.
Dublin o a Harnburgh 0
Waterford o 2 Gottenburgh r 0

PFSZAPCI4 NOT. 4.—The INntrarioasts failed
yefferday morning, about fix o'clock, with a (mart
:braze at E. N. E. in order to join the fquadron off
Brell.—Arrived this day the Swedifh chip Friheten,
• GNSTAF LINDE matter, now from Brillol, in
ballet, in order to load pilchards at this port for the
Streights. Jull arrived the Venus brig, DAVIS, and
the Birmingham, GILL, with coals•from Wales—the
latter is bound to Plymouth.—Sailed this day the
Pbeebe, of and for London ; as the wind is Rill too
much a-head, is likely to gain little advantage by it.
PtvraooTH, NOV. 6.—Orders came down !aft night
for the Patwcs of Wales, of 98 guns, Vice-Admiral
Sir It. Cat's*, Bart. now in Cawfand Bay, to be
vidualled for the coati of 'lreland, as Vice-Admiral
Sir R. C•LDsa, Bart. is to be appointed to command
the fquadron formed and forming there under the
orders of the Right Hen. Lord GARDNER. for the
proteilion of that pan of the United Kingdom. The
force in Bantry Bay is already (even fail of the line,
and fevers' heavy frigates, and will occafionally be
increafed'as circunsflanees may require. The Moo-
gaol los, of 44 guns, Capt. J. Baouo If Tom, failed laft
night for Kingrond, Briftol, where the is completely
fitted for and is to be moored there as a floating bat-
tery or block (hip. The orders for foreign ferries
for the Hossaa, of 99 guns, Capt. P. Wixatssoar„
are countermanded, and Ste is ordered for Channel
fervice, or to join our fquadron off Corunna : the
felled this morning, and is vietualled and ftored for
4411. soonthi. The FONDROT ANT, of 8♦ guns, Car.
• wip ge into Cawfand Ber to-morrow, anil
from thence to reinforce the Chantkilleet,ias the has
received orders for that porpofo. •

Potersuitrris, Nov. 7.—Arrived thy' 'AilittBto
and Alto° frigates, and Peru rt. I. (loop of war, front
*min. The GO$01&14 man of air, of 74 gun%
has made a fignal fitr the Mediterranean. Jail as.
rived a cutter from the Streights, and remains at the
Motherhank,ruppoAd to have an Admiral on board,
as he vim talutedtyo iris arrival with fir guns, which
was returned by Ls. Attired the Wittosoit Cssrtt,
of 98 guns; Captain &writ, from lying guatclibip
at the Necdles ; Ihels to be paid, andlhen join the
Channel Heat. Dropped down to St. Hahn's) the
Sornit (loop of war,. Captain Rositthrionst to Se
as guardiltip. The-fiotii Regirr.ent, for the Wi b In.
dies, did not cmhark this morning, oialpg 'to the
wind blowing hard. Captain T. Starts has &par.
feded Captain J. 0. Hamm in the command of*
Cooaanavx.

Dias, Nov. 7.--I have not heard any thing far►
ther refpeißing the .Rion mentioned in my ktter of
yellerday, except that two gun boats were denroyecti
Another velll4 arrived from off Boulogne this mora-
-1 ing, but I cannot learn that the brings siny news.—
About an hoer ago, one of the espies cutters from
the Teiel hove in fight, but the has not yet anchored,
and of course it is impolLblc to fay whether any thing
new Ilas occurred on the Dotal coati.

Came down from the Nwe, the FORrunte ("Tiger
land AUTUMN &op of war. Soiled the MA RIM gtm
brig, and Taara.a Revenue cutter, on a cruize. Ate
rived the VuLruar Hoop of war, and HICLA bomb,
from a cruife, and remain. Wind S. S. E.

CHATHAM, Nov. 7—Docked the Inn.sztaxs of
64 gums: the is ordered with the Teurry of so, to
be fitted for the reception of troops.—The Tama is
commitGoned ; the laconsTaer has been undocked,
and the contrast riggers are expeaed onboard her in
a few days.
Yes:woven, Nov. ;.—Arrived the Cuat.sw (loop
of war, and lima gun brig. This day arrived the
PIIIILOPII frigate, from the Note, where file has
been paid; and Beam (loop of war, from a cruise.
Sailed the SNIP, gun-brig. The (hips of war in the
Roads, are the CaLvsnettr, of 68 guns, Admiral
Roust.; Rosy, of 64, Admiral Tstoananeouon ;
CIItbCINT a.,u l'eati.ore Frigates; Cues.sw and
1311111811 (loops; FllltatTil and VIM, gun brigs;
and one cutter.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

OIATMINIII istwtts, Wrfght. rid
the Beergard Riddell/118461e P lia , Backhumfe, Smith. ter Africa;
Kitty, Len,, for Libre teaming, Plug t Vrar Jae*, Whim t
Veit Ocbraders, Modes. and di: Uris Oefetters, kg:ker, tte
Latham

Yefierday a train of artillery, confifting of twelve
pieces of ordnance, drawn by four horfes each, be.
fitter a number of howitzers. and an equal number
of ammtin.tion waggons, palled through town on their
mote ro Tynemnuth, with the Freateil expedition.--
A eortliderabk quantity of artillery pallid through
St. James's Pat k the preceding day for fie Well.
The new entrance into Drery Lane Theme from
Brydges-Ilreet. was opened fait night. The pallige
from the Ilreet leads by a fiigist re ceps into a .ighe
and agreeable anti room, and this room coot:mini•
catp with a very elegant faloon, forming a feg-
men t of a circle, ornamented by a great number of
pillars, which are painted in imitation of marble.--
This falonn eummttnieates by a I' iir cafe at each
end with the lobby, at tie back of the firfi tier of
boxes. There are compartments in the falorm which
we underhand confot. of little flops, which are to
be opened for frost ant.l confeltionary. The falcon
is at present hardly: lightea enough. and. at tl c
fea-
fon advances, it will. probably, aced a fire, iv lets it
Ihous..l be warmed by the gallant circles, who h will
moil probably be formed in it. The whole of this
Dew pa= very great improvement :II point
af cda e, and is a& so ossament to the