Star. — London, England, 1804-12-20 00:00:00

• . 79 . TILIUDITUR OF THE STAR. Sot-Atiffaiitilintimo is were to rife from his grave and vifit the oppofite coatis of the Channel, his re marks upon the fyilems and condition of the Eng lills and French armies would, I doubt not. excite fume interest. But if the information to be derived from a comparifon of thefe is not to come Irons the dead, I fear there is as little chance either of obtain ing it from the experience of the living, or of con eying it with any inripreffion to their minds. I have collated abundance of detached anecdotes, the in ferences from which appeared to me obvious and ir vefiftible, but I could fcarcely troll my own reafon when I faw that the very individuals who related them, and who had been in the fcents of anion, drew no cunclulluns Similar to thole which I formed, and had felt the effeas of the mode of war fare which our enemies have adopted, without enter taining a doubt upon the fitnefs of the difeipline by which we are prepared to combat them, or a reflec tins upon the propriety or neceffitv of Tome altera• tins. Is it that freedom of thought is interditted on this fabjea alone in the only free nation of Europe ? Or as it becavfe our 030 S accompliflied and liberally atintated young men deem all conliderationa of pru dame and Cafety incompatible with their (pith, and sot to be indulged without impeachment of their cou rage t while the older chiefs of our tinny will not •eiieve that their (ciente admits of improvemeat, or elindlakesd to learn what champ of circumstances dune sad prafike have recently introduced ? Be the tanks of our obllinacy what they may, I **kilt. igunortal General of Britain, whom I pre hale 118 being again opals the (cent, would be !hock °unit allemblhomat *bear fuck Statements as there ; ihm hit any essegmhents of the left war, large bo. • s ail* French forces have advanced to meet our Isetalions, its order equally clofe and regular, till they had nearly gained the firing ditlance, and then, to ufe a phrak I. have beard in the defcription, 8 4 barb like a hell," and (catering all around, pre. fatted nothing that could Coffer defeat, but nearly certain deftrullion to our officers, pointed out by their area to the hill of the =Aurae% and danger to all is oar ranks, which no other troops would have Rood and faced : That on other occafions the French bane waited our attack, fpread in this man ner behind every cover and hillock ; That many dsoefitade of the enemy have been found to fight Cthin in one field of battle : And yet to learn .. . our army in general is Bill without this fyttern. r: Wm a Single man who fought in the lab war would ' fail to fay, if quedioned on the point, that regular . manoeuvring in Solid bodies may as well t • .. =T a with the lightnings of Heaven, as take ven . ...ramie 'on the featured tirtakore ; nor could the ge sins of blaatmutotro re need this to be told. As lit- Eat Would it be requifite to Rate to the conqueror of limy Ramilies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, in this look mode of fighting . every foldier mutt be the General of his own operations, and poll him felf Co as not only to have aim at his enemy, but to be covered and ready to form again in fofid body 'with his affoeiates upon any emergency, whether for defence or atrault ; or that to attain this &ill and promptitode mutt require teaching and drillizt very different from the manoeuvres of clofe lines and co- Innans. To our hero of the loft century, at leaf*, it 'would be very plain, that thofe who are taught th is Apia of warfare al one could petite it, and that gramme moor to attempt to meet them in their own wan without hmilar preparation of dilcipiine. he would but kill mute betray his incapacity, and in tees& his danger. Upon the other hand, however, the Saviour of Europe and Scourge of France would behold five hundred thoufand of his countrymen in arms—Five times the number with which he would have met and Itbdued on their own ground all the legions.not lets brave and well trained. and confident from fuccefs, which &meted the pretenfinns of Lours the Fou a via ern to univerCal empire, than thofe who threaten to import the chains and defpotitm of the Corlican tyrant upon mankind .1 What prefage would blaat 00130C010 draw from foch an armament ? In my bumble conception his firSt enquiry would be into the change in our principles and modes of thinking and sifting which could render it necellary. When be heard the detail of our Volunteer ellablifhment, ' would the number of that defcription of force recal to his mind the example of the conquering or of the fubdued nations of former times ? Would he dirt°. trer in it the policy of the Greeks or rf the Perfiallin of the Romani, or of thofe who fell under their yoke? I The.i are very ferious queStions—hut, waving the anfwers, let me hippo& a minute examination of the tallies of this defcription of force to follow—even to Mai ;sot:von, to change front in the face of an enemy never, I dare fay, teemed ear'', and without hazard. What would be his fur prife to behold the grocer of our village and the banker of the next market town daily commanding, with equal dif tiaanefs and accuracy, the performance of at lean five or fix manoeuvres, by which this may be atchiev. ed. Certainly lie would admit that prodigious pro grefs had been made in military fcience among us Since thg days of his glory. There is one Ripe& in which he would recognife the genuine defcendants of his fellow fi.ldicrs and compatriots—universal and ardent love of their country, deteftation of a foreign yoke, and deterrni. nation to repel at whateser price of blood the foe whom be Subdued. It is only as to the rr. ear s and method duo perhaps is force refpeas he might difagree with his followers ; and, for one, I would will, it were pollible to know from the great Captain, whether, inStead of the un ceating round of the eighteen manccuvres, it would not be better to devote • portion of the time (pent in drilling, rzclulively, to ball pratlice, and the Litres 1 of look fighting ? Whether Sixty days in the year, which is all that the Pruflian infantry, as I am in formed, devote to it, is not as much time as can he I 'irefully employed in the fs.nner ? Whether both the minds and bodies of all ft ldiers would not be re lieved, animated, and endowed wiffi new powers by varying their exereifes ? And in particular, whether all defcriptions of volunteers (ntr whole difpofitions no man can think hotter than I do), are not molt 1 fatly to be rendered &eft.' as light ;scrips ? Thefe are quellions which 1 humbly propofe to agitate in my next, certain as I am (tom conilant es. wince in the ranks, with the exception of the (hen and pctiloas period of delufive peace, ever luxe the, Jacobin traitors of France fira induced the deluded and polifhed focicties of our countrymen to frater nize vrith them, that novelty, variety, and progrefs are not lets effential to keep up attention and prefer,e ardour in the ftudv of the art of war, with volunteers' at leak than in all other human purfuits. I beg leave to acknowledge with gratitude and re my obligations to your Correfpondeat 4 ' A Friend to the Army." who has confirmed my opi nion by claffical military authorities of the firft rank, not acceffible to • If IOPF•M or •Tlllllltil. IMMBURGR Meta. Cants, Nov. t a.—Nothing could be more unexpec ted than the intelligence we received yeaerday. of the capture made on the sth of Otlober, not far from CaJiz, of four Spanillt Blips of war, richly laden, ' floor Buenos Ayres. We deemed this occurrence the more impollible, as an exprefs had arrived here from our Court, with orders fur the one or two (hips of war in nor Bay to be difarmeJ ; and as even the few gun boats here were likewife difarming. The Engliflt (hips in our port, whether laden or empty, continue at anchor unmolefled ; nor does our Go vernment make . any warlike preparations as yet. Nov. ts.—The intelligence we received yeflerday from Malaga. of the capture. by the Eng:ith, on the sth of Oduber, of the four rich regiller (hips, has canted here the molt lively fenfation. All bufinefs is entirely at a (land. The walrr (Government paper), which 101 l 18 per cent. on the 9th init. are now at 45 per cent. chfcount. Meanwhile, it appears to us un accountable, that ranee the sth of Oaober the richer? merchant Blips from our Colonies have entered our ports without moleltation from the Englifh : nay. a rich vellel, the Did°, from Vera Cruz, worth 800p000 peen. arrived three days ago ; on her palTage the was flopped by a Briar frigate ; her papers were examined. and the was immediately permitted to pro ceed on her voyage. Howe►er, the hopes of prefer ving peace with England have vanifbed here. The epidemic dittemper has not yet entirely crated; but is declining fo fait. that we hope Coon to fee its termination. MA Darn, Nov. is.—To this day no declaration of war between Spain and England his been made.— They (peak, however, of an embargo on Britt& (hips in our ports. PARIS, Dec. 3.—According to advice. from Ma drid, the Briti(h Charge d'Affaires has already gained that capital, which puts an end to the hopes of peace being preferved between England and Spain. journal do Paris of this day contain the fol lowing fetter from Mar Gilles, Nov. 23 : " Yefterday an advice yacht arrived here, fent ez prefs from Barcelona to die Spatial' Coati] at our port, to carry him the intelligence, that the Court of Madrid had declared war againfl England. This veffel immediately put to lea again, to carry this in telligence so all the ports in the Mediterranean. " Advice yachts are fent from Cadiz and Cann na to the Spanifh paranoia in America. The Uri tilh cruizers allowed them to proceed, bet declared, they would nor infer any (hips with ammunition to fail."—Nee of eke fraotbro' lanai.—(Compare the Cadiz and Madtid articles in this paper.) STOCK Notre, Dec. 4.—The Ruffian General CHlT any, and Count PVICHKIN, have arrived here from England, by the way of Gatenburgh, and proceed. ed to Rrafira by the way of Lapland. The navigation to our ports may now be confider ed as flopped by the frofl. Hasisuaon, DEC. B.—The Britifh (hip of war, the B took a Dutch pi iveeer near Heligo land, in the night of the 26th of Nov. by boarding. The privateer had fired upon an Englifb boat, and loft two men, when the Englifh boarded her- -five more were miffing, fume of theft are laid to be drown. ed. The Englifb had not a man killed or wounded. The Dutch privateer was fent to England. COPEN ilaG SW, Dec. 8 —Our Government has al ready fent remonarances to London, to reclaim the Dutch (hip lately taken bythe Britilh near Heligoland. His Royal Ilighnefs, the Crown Prince, has fent an order to Mr. CW7IE/IN for two of the famous linglifh life-boars, one fur Copenhagen and the other G,r Ellineur—a precaution to which many will pro bably owe the prefervation of their lives. Lr ',sic, DEC. 6.—The Hereditary Prince of Sase Weimar has declined, in the mod gracious terms, the prefent of 10,000 dollars, offered him by the provincial States of Weimar-Eifenach. The sco,coo rubles being half the dowry which the illutirious Grand Duchef. liioug!.t will her from Rums, are &poked in the Ducal Chamber of Finance, at Er fort, upon tlic fi.ciitity of the Diflrift of Thuringia. PETERSBURG It, NOV. 23.---1 ince ZIZIASSOY, of whom no accounts had been received for a long time, has returned with his corps to Tears, without lots, from his incurfi.n into Perfia. Theie has been a violent form at Odefra, during the night of thl 12th of 03ober, in which two large Ruffian llo!,s, font- trantports, and 12 barges, were wrecked. The crews of all there velfels were laved. except Go Bulgarians, who had come in one of the voids from Contlantinople. V1E1116.1, DEC. t.—According to a patent, con tained in our Court Gazette of this date, his Imperial Majelly has resolved ti• rsy all the debts dike by the late King STAN ISLAUS AVOUSTUS, and by the late Polifh Republic, in date bonds, bearing an inte ref of per cent., and the debts conflated with the elates of the Ironies of TEIf[R,CABRIT and &mime. at ‘Varlaw, in calls. An EngtiOt fligate has anived at Trick which will carry Mr. ARBUTHNOT from that port to Con ll.4nt;nople, whither as if wall known, he is going as Amha &dor. A foreign (hip, in which tLe contagious diforder has made its apper.rance, and which had put into Triell, has been obliged to leave that pert. For force days palf workmen have been employed in the metrepilitan church of Sr. Stephen, in making preparations ter the re Rival on account of the alrump tion of the Anlaian hereditary Imperial dignity, wh:ch will now be celebrated or. the Rth intl. and to attend which, many perfons hays already arrived tom the pros irces. As the - accounts from Tufcany and Rapti, rela tive to the prog•els of the inletlisms diltemper, are continual!) , mote alarming, hefide. the rcritnet.t. of infantry, which are already co their march for Italy, to enforce the cordon, the 4th regiment of arttllery has alto received orders to break up for the Ault, i•ss coatis, iflansh, and !miscues in the Adriatic (ca. • LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER so. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK § Coorols, for opt• 3911—Reduced 5711. OEolom 841-4 per Cent. 74/. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bask Stock 1671 any Shutt Ann. a I t-I6 3 pa C. Red. Ann. 3;404 Invest.' 3 per Cent. 3641 4 per Cent. Conf. list Imperial Amt 91 5 per Cent. Navy 741 frith 5 per Ceuta 861 5 per Ctnt. Navy Otut. Omnium af prem. 5 per Cent. 1797,991 . Engligh Tickets AL itt Long Ans. 191 Coal. fee opt. 39i S9il Dvauw. :ccusga 14 ioa London zoli. It is now very generally believed, that orders have been fent to the outports, to detain all the Spanifh vcffels in our harbours, and to prevent any Ilfitifh 'Ails from cleating nut for Spanifh port , . Mr. Fara& has nor, however, arrived, nor has the Spa nulls AmbaffAclor left town. Yetlerday the latter had a lcng interview with Lord Mrivit.s.s, at the Ad• tairalty. Yeflerday Earl Mora A arrived in town, loon after which feveral letters paired between him and the Mi flitter, with whom the Noble Earl had an interview about one o'clock. It is faid that the Secret Expedition, of which ru moors have appeared in the Public Prints, is to be undertaken upon a larger fcale thanwas fuppofed.— If we may troll report, there are to be employed in this ferrite 800 artillery with battering cannon, the 9th, loth, and 13th regiments of caviar'', a brigade of Guards, and a proportion of regiment: of the line. Letters from Gibraltar of the ,4th November Rate the number of deaths for the week preceding not to have exceeded five daily. This &dement may be de pended on; for it has been corroborated by Lieute• nant.Colonel Hostess's letter. publilhed in this paper on Thurfday lag, and which brought the lift of of. errs demised down to the t zth of November. Colo nel How e's Rated the deaths at two or three a day. By our accounts yefterday, dated tzth November, every houfe had by that time been vifited with the fever. and few remained who had not gone through it, which accounts foi the number of deaths being lo much reduced, though the fever had not changed either iu its virulence or contagion. Yetlerday morning loon Oct nine O'ClOCk“the ROYAL FAMILY IA Windfor. Her MAJESTY, the PRIAZESSIS and the Duke of Sussex, attended by Lady C , proceeded to 14 Queen's Houle , where they arrived about half pill 'twelve o'clock. His MAJASTY (lopped at Kew Palace, where he was met by the Duke of Cuss n. HIS MAJESTY, after viewing Oa prngrefs of the works, and par taking of Come refrefhment, proceeded to the (Lien's Houfe in his travelling carriage, attended by his German footman on horfeback, and a party of the light honk, and arrived at the Qeeo'a Houle about half pail one o'clock. In a (hart time after his Majerre's arrival, his MAJESTY gave audience to the Dukes of YORK and GLOUCESTER, and Sir CHAS LIS POOLE, who bad the honour to lay before his M• I sex the proceedings of the Naval Court of Enquiry. The Lott. CH•Nces... Loa and Lord HAWIEESSURY, had likewite private audiences of his MAJESTY; in a (hors time after which his Mai Ivry held a private Levee, which was attended by his Excellency the Rutllan Atnbaffador, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex cis lope, the Secretaries of State for the War and Home Departments, the Judge Advocate and Mar tial General, the Duke of Mosiraosa, Vifcount CASTLE ;UCH, ;...nrds MFLviLLF, SostEavitx.e, and thwEassuax ; Sirs C. B. W , Moacmi, S. COTTEAELL, and IL B. NE/ILE, &c. The following prefentations took place :—Sir J. B. W , on his return from his embaffy to Raffia, by Lord SOMIIIUILLIt ; and a Ruffian Gentleman, eminent in the law in that country, by Count Wo• PO/420W. After the Levee had doled, his MaltEry held a Privy Council, which was attended by .11 thole of the &hole, who are of his M•Jksty's moll honour able Privy C0ur..:.1. After the Council, his MAJ ESTY gave private au diences to Earl CAMDEN, Lord hILLA ILLS, Mr. PITT, and Sir CHARLES Motoas, who laid before his MAJltir the prt , ccedings of fevcral Court Martial,. Lord Som.. It VILLE was Lord in Waiting, and Sir HIMRY BURRATII NLALi the Groom in Waiting. Tire lion. Mr. W , the fon of the Mar. gills, had the honour of being introduced toile: Ma 'sir y, and kifGng her hand, by Colonel Dasaeow, her Mapirres Vice Chamberlain, upon paying his Father's dutiful refpclts upon profaning the ratify Chairs fent by the Noble Marquis as a prefent to her MAJESTY. Yeaerday morning the Princes Soma of Cl i°. cures, and fereral of the female Nobility, viked her Majetly and the Pnncclles. Yeneralay about three o'clock the Spann fador had an audience of Lord Mr Lvit.t.t, at tbe Ad miralty, which billed for a confiderable time. - --- The Chancellor of the Exchequer had yerferday an andience wi•h his Royal Highneii the D•,kc of Yoe', at the Horfe Guards, where his Royal High. nets tranfaeled bufireiS till 7 o'clock. Yeflcrc!4y m• d.fra•cl;el were received at the Admiralty Sri the filed ::•!.mean, which were fent to his Majelly, at :he Q . :2;:ci.'s Houle. Sir Horst Pc ►HAM et tired reftcrdav morning in town. fr,m Ma!, a-,d :.1.1 a lung interview with the Lords of the Adin•talt!. Government, it is lA, aware that the Emperor of France will endcavi !:r to force Portugal into the War againfl this G. miry, has rent General Moos t, i n a tan tailing cutter, tiietiable them to Judge how f.r Any tinpnl ibis t• f,:e which we cnvld lend In the 4...1 nl r rut Ally, nii:Jit In adequate ; with that of the cAintsy, t rciel tech g,fAcks. THEATRE. Covswv GAIDEN...-I.4it night, the Royal Fancily honoured this Theatre with a vifit, to fee Mr. fib Dim's new Opera of Thirty Tboufand ! and the Farce ul 7he Guardian. Mr. Est say returned his place in the charaiter of Clump, and was warmly greeted.— The performers exerted themfelves to the amok and the pieces went off with the happieit elle& Mrs. H. Sinnott s, in the cliaratter of ifarrim, was extremely interelling. The Royal Party were received with reiterated'plaudits, and God Save the King was played and fung on their entrance and departure, alfo Rule Britain/, between the Play and the Farce. His MAIIIITTIooked very well, was in excellent fpirits, and much delighted with the mnlic, and the allocions to the navy, ice. with which the Opera abounds. He wore blue and gold. HER MAirs rr....Was dread in white and rid, a very hand. Pone cap, and a proforma of diamonds; white tippet, muff, and gloves. Parnarss ACCOSTAA mulberry mend heft, diamond ban deau, end four drooping white feathers, white :Ippet, muff. and gloves. Pursers ELI —A )ellow crape drefs, white and Cr.!: Beeves. with Wash velvet bands, richly °tumuli:ed. aad ['odd. with diamonds; a very becoming eap,with a quantity of diantoad, an inunasfe plume of beautiful white feathm; a mulberry hand kerchief. thrown candefsly round her neck. Her Royal Highncts waa delighted with the mune particularly the overture. Palmeri. Malt r—Wore a mulberry robe, Ml white fleeces, diamond neck lace, full lace frill round her nee'. and a white tip pet. On her bead a broad black velvet band, and three white re clining feathers. Psi/mess sessaia—A dui robe, diamond feather, ktlaek velvet band, and a green (pray feather; white muff, tippet, and gloves. PILIbICIII AMILIAWINS foperbly dreted in white and gold Breves, embroidered in ftripcs ; a (cadet robe, &mond necklace, nrings, Re her hair elegantly dread. encircled with bands of diamonds, and ornamented with three (mall white fhatlaers Her Royal Highnefs looked beaoti•oL Among the other perfuns of diftinition prefent s we noticed, their Royal Highneffes the Dukes of Kans., CU/4 AAAAA ND. SUSS/Z, CaMaa,DCI, MOMS/SUR, bro ther to Louis XVIII. f I other foreigners of high rank, and the Earl and Countefs of Mouournoatts Counters of ROTH tS, Li/die.; CALTKORTE, Hay. &C. . The Marquis Of tiERTFoID. Earl Of DiITMOU . Eilfl ON SLOW, Lfildb Slum ST. MO‘TOPII, Son ram sv, Sir H. B. Haase. Ladies G• Bums 'Lay, Smear s and Otstay, were in waiting. The audience was numerous and elegant, but owing to the unfavourable Rate of the weather, and the fel , ties' teafon of thq year, the Honfe was by no means crowded. Yellerday Mr. Neap; gave an elegant dinner to a (ilea party of friends, ar.d admirers of the Youwo ROSCIVS, among whore "were, Lord Muscseave, Ho noorable E. BOVViIII,HAnourAbIe T. Lima, Sir Gaines flemporsr. G. Vracear, A. PHIPPS, H. P►iest, R. HIATIIICOTE, &C. &C. Many Gentlemen belonging to the Original Vac cine Inßitution, not finding it ebnvenient to amend the weekly boards, and the annual meeting being or. copied in bearing the report, it has been fliggefted that it would be agreeable and ofefol to meet at's Writer once in fix months, to read the new obfeivs tions and communications entered in the minute booli ; to receive remarks upon I hefe minutes ; to hear frefh t•ccnerences concerning Vaccine Pock Inocula tion, and to notice the new publications no that (tib ial. This plan has been approved. and the firft meet. mg of this kind was held on Monday laR, at the Brj- Coffee-houfe, Cockfpur-fireet. After the minutes had been read by the Secretary, the company, which was numerous and refpetlahle, fat down to an excel lent dinner, and the evening was (pent in great har mony and conviviality. It is at length fettled that another fquadron is to be formed for the proteltion of Ireland. Admiral Lord Gainsiaa, who is now•on that Ration, is to have the command, and is to hoill his Rag on board the Fliasamia, of :to guns, now fitting for fea in Ha innate; Rear•Admtral DIWRI is to be fecund in command on the fame fervice. The following Mips arc already detached (rem the Channel Fleet for Cork. OT Bantry BAT, viz. THUNOTItiII. 74, COLO A 11, 74, and Pa ',miss RovAL, 9R. In Mort, if a SpAnith war take• place, Ireland will be ib a Rate of naval as well as military fecurity. The Swedifh agent, Di i• Tout, was releafedon the ilt in R. from the Temple, with orders to leave Paris immediately for Sweden. All his papers arc, however, detained. According to accounts from Harnburgh. letters from Conflatitinople, of the 28th ult. (late, that the Tutkith Divan has advifed the Grand Seignior to fend an Arnhafftior Extraordinary to Pails, with an acknowledgment of the Imperial dignity in the perfon and Family of B..MATARTS. A corps of 40,cc0 men, dif,iplined in the European manner. is henceforward to do duty in and about the Turkith capital. Since the latter end of left month, all the French emigrants arrefied on the asth of March, silos, at Ettenheim, Kehl, and Offenburgh, and detained as Rate prifoners, have been releafeJ. The Dose diEs ci lees fait were concluded by gene d'armes to the right bank of the Rhine. They are in future to keep at a certain dillance from the French frontiers. All their effects have alto been ranted them. The Abbe d'AIMAR being ill, has been allowed to flay at Paris till he recovers. General Dr ssov, and three other Rate prifoners, are, however, flirt in cußody. A letter from a Gentleman in New York, to his friend in Glafgow, dated November a, fays—u The French fri . g ates have at leng t h c f cape d t h roug h Hell gate, to isicape deitruilion by the CAMBRIAN and Le- ARDIII. The French are very unpopular here, ai,.l the cowardice of the Imperial frigates execrated-- Don't crouch. Yon have the heart's will of the pen plc of this country—the French the reverie. " The Mayor, the day before yeflerday, ailed a prrslamation, ordering all reffels t r perform ytar.t3- ttne which may arrive at New York, from Cadiz, Malaga, and any pl ice to the Mediterranean leas. f.dlowit. m.riveintelli g ence will, no doubt, be of intrrell to (.me of'y -ur friend , . :—The Ihip Lavinia, 13 days from Philadelphia. for Gree nock, was fp , Jke with nn the isth Oni•ber in lat. 42. long. so. by the Philanthroptil, arrived here from Nam:. The Sarah, Baowx, from Greenock, arrived at Norfolk on the 6th November. The Sarah, Bow- DIN, for Greenock, was cleared at Charleilown, on the 27th o. 4 tober. The (7ornelia, HALL, and the Sufannah, WA L A PR, of Gicenock ; and the Britifh (hip Hamilton, fir weeks from the coalt of Attica, ar rived at Charlcton on the to November."