Star. — London, England, 1804-12-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ST.IR. Ste—The pay of the Britifix Officers having lately been much the topic of converfation, the intereion of the few following obfervaticns will pctlibly oblik ['Tile of your Readers : • It is unneceffary to obfcrve that when the prefent nay of the Britiffi army was firtl eflablithed, even the fubaltern ranks were by it enabled to live with comfort and refpedability ; neither is it an objeft to enter-materially into the pay of fuperior ranks. I wiU limply Rate that of a Lieutenant Colonel of In fantry, a Gtuation which, out of a Lire proportion of men who enter the fervice, very few compara tively arrive at ; and if dependant on their pay, am not certain that thole who do are not to be con fidered unfortunate, as their rank introduces them to the firft fociety, unlefs they feclude themfelves f:om the world, a deprivation to which long habits i I prepare them to fubmit—thtlr et.mmand caules an extenfive intercourfe with profeffiunal men—they have in every fbape to fupport with dignity the poR they fill—and all this mu@ be done with fifteen (bil lings and eleven pence per day, or ssiol. 9c. 7d. a year, dedufting one [billing in the potmd for income tax. Having begun with the head, I need but to fay that the fubalterns are paid in the fame proportion. I will venture to affirm that, military excepted. time are not five members in tither Houle of Parka pent who are aware of the fcanty provifion made for men who are eapofed to all chmates, and are wil ling to brave every danger in defence of their King and Country; but there glorious weeds now altnoll die upon thetonpie that ventures to gi v e t hem utter . ance, and in their dead we hear of debts unavoid ably castrated, and of the inability to difcharge Should this true Ratement tend to caufe a very ne ceffary inquiry into the pecuniary fituation of Bri. ,Officers, it will dopbtlefs contribute to the pre vention of frequent, and pet haps general pointed re nionaranees, to preclude which is my particular Or ica• z. z. • J."*" The Abt know sPin appointed His Mask iising his I winch the of more th Temple an terday to a alfo eh at a fembeas of ed this Atm Oar Am at Congas 'Minder w the Grand La Ken ;few days of the ere' it leftist making, ii firdired t ;rifles 'fr 67.50ci ft angliged is number of is not Am come of 4c The SF with. a la vigilance Letters) Gs thip t a s The A prayers in fecration c fcribed, " Provides Moe me sod foveae ,Lilted by I may dery les pa. ; any swarth the fed to Ide do be ever Wt thege ht the sad Si. Ma is alto to behind th Arnbafftu meet M. Nov. a oath Niarz, di the Sena' The b tainbleau Empire March are coral Bon 1. , morning cont.:era twat, of 8 what, haying .itt at ti Anti day thr , Paris, I /dam difagrec at Ctitl acting I Accc lity at of the to the 1 parkin: FRANCE. PAWS, NOVEMBER so. The Abbe Dlllllll, of Twin, author of A' Revo ke**, elate," and fermi other wot ks, has bows appointed Librarian to the Emperor. His Majelty the Emperor being dcfirous of fiver - his fpeedy coronation by an atl of clemency might draw down upon him the benedietions more than a hundred families, the pants of the Temple and Abbaye St. Germain were opened yef ' - to a great number of prifoners. Lt'is announced at a greater number. comprehending feveral of families detained fur debt, will be liberate week. ne•lYalt 21. Arnbaffador at the Sublime Porte was fill Confiantinopie on the loth of Oeteber. This older was tarrying on a dire& negociation w;th Grand Visit?. • Fiensontaife frigate, of 44 guns, was launched days ago, at St. Maio. Her officers and part crew were en board. mfuits from a notice publifhed refpdling watch making, in the country of Parent' that about licyc , x) flyer watches and 3000 of gold, are roanu *direst there annually, and that the net pro.lace arifing 'from them, is t,6z0,g00 francs (about .67.5001. !lading). The population of the Commi.res angagedia watch-making, amounts to rg,oco. The somber of workmen, including women and children, aboie aoo, which gives an average annual in of4os franks for each'. srursrasta :e Swint frigate la Sabina, frnmVera Crnz, . a hiding of pialires, has happily efcaped the iilance of the Englifh, and arrived at Vigo. LeUersfrens Italy. dated November s 3, Rate. that a Chips of the line, and force frigates, of 4dmiral Witatioti s Cquadrori, are now repairing at Malta. NOVIDIPER 26. The Arehhifhop of Paris has ordered public prayers in his Dincefe, on the oecalion of the Con fetration of the Emperor. 'Pim form of prayer pre fcribed, ctioncludzd with the following pelage : Provideses door Goo ! May thy hand dire.% an Emperor ; Ass saw IhMil tit woke abortive ohe darn of his enemies, ad Made their shutsto inlore him; confoonded, attardtbd. dead by the bildby and attachment which we fwear to him may they bombs tbendelves to tight, and abandon their win pro felts: may thy mercy sod troth accompany blot. and his name dated& than by fro as will as by land; may the aldades oppo. WI to his ddre of pore rand like bode may his sopa [poufs ever his confolmloo, the delight of all around her, and the re ': dike onfortanate t may Ida penalty inherit his ran pun sod deb fidgets far ever pre& thy holy name." Mssaa, Vice-Prefident of the Italian Republic, tifo to come to Fontaiubleau; be travels three days ind the Sovereign Pontiff. M. MAItiSCALCHI, lbafrador from that Republic, has left Paris to M. Mst.v. iov. a7.—lt is raid that the Emperor will take oath on the yth of December, at the Champ de rti, dine at the Hotel de Ville on the 7th, and that Senate will give him • fete on the gth. The Minifter of Foreign Affairs is gone to Fon. Ibleau. The Princes and Grand Officers of the ipire are &lib gone there. 4arlhal Aucsts•ti and Admiral GANTHLLUIII coming to I)...tis to aflift at toe Coronation. {OULOGMF, N• v. 19.--Marnati SOULT ict Out this ining fur Paris, to affifl at the coronation and &Iteration of his Mesas' the Emperor. The Ge ials of alivifion AndreotL, tit. Hilaire, Vendatnnw, :belt, and Hautpool, let out Alf° fm Paris, after ring received private letters from his Majelly to af at the Coronation. Awaits, Nov. at.—Admiral BRUIX pafTed this • through Amiens, on his way from Boulogne to iii, LO Alit at the corrnation of the Emperor. Matsui", Ocr. 26.—We have received the fagrecabie intelligence, that near t xo galley-flaves Caithagena have made their efcape, after mur ring the guard. According to an accurate Ikatement IsT the morta :f at Malaga, and its neighbourhood, the number the dead, from the commencement of the epithrly the latter end of September, amounts to 25,G00 skins. PROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. PETIRSBURGI4, OCTOBER 28.--The cold be,gins•to l ' be felt, and there ate frequent falls of form. The Court Gazette has poiblifbed a letter. addrefTed to the ' Academy of Sciences by the Minifter t.f the Inte rior, which confirm 4 that an eruption took pl.tce on the 4th of July near the fortrefs Phanegoria 6it continued an hour and a half. It announced Well by flames, and a detonation like a clap of thunder ; acmes were thrown up to an immenfe height. Since that moment a part of the lake kilned dote to the mountain was found dry. HAMBURGH. Nov. 112.—As the lift of deaths at Copenhagen for this year contains ten perfobs who died of the natural (mall pox, the vaccine commit. fun have again recommended to the inhabitants the ;wake of thh falutary method for which the benefi cence of Government has formed a zealous and ac- tive ellabliflunent. Feats it FORT, Nov. a9.-,-Reports have been in eir culation refpating come mifunderflanding between the Courts of Berlin and St. Peterlburgb. Petrifia thought it right to flrengthen its connalion with Ruffia, as long as that power was difpofed to main tain the peaeg of Europe. But when (be faw her in dole emulation with England,lhe renewed to her the determination to preferve a (trio neutrality. Ruflia Chewed-Come coolnefs, and explanations followed be tween the two Courts, which have not been fatisfac tory. It was even reported, that a body of Ruffian troops was to be all-- abled in Ruffian Poland,and that Prufla was forming magazines at Warfaw ; but the laft accounts Rate, that the two Cabinets are recon ciled. and that the neutrality of Pruffia has ceded to be offenlive to Ruffia. The Germanic Diet not having hitherto taken into its confidetation the fuprort of the Imperial Cham ber of Wetzlar, this fuperior tribunal of the Empire, ending itfelf menaced with approaching diffolution in conicquence of this inattention, has taken the refo latimfof 'truing decrees, by which it condemns a great , number of Princes and States of the Empire to the payment of fuel) fums as are due by them to it. The Count d'Anco is now inßalled as Governor General of the Eleaor of Bavaria, in Supbia. His refidence remains filed at Ulm. The Germanic Diet is now in full aaivity to treat of divers objals, which have been already carried to the Dieature. On the i ith of November there was a yea long fitting in the two fuperior Colleges of that Aliembly, at which all the Ministers who have votes were prifent. The day before, the Baron de SECRINDOKF had remitted so M. d'Asat ills the Direftorial Minifter. his letters of credence in quality of Minifter of Baden, in the Eleaoral Colleges, and that of the Ptinces.— Moniscur, Nov. 27. Views*, Nov. 5. --We daily fee troops and artil lery taking the route to Hungary, where an impofing force is collating. under the command offrince lotto of Lichtenflein. The death of the Grand Seignior, who is laid to ae dangeroufly ill, would probably lead to events ofd c higher. intercft. BMX., Nov. ,7.—The reigning Duke of Brunt wick has been unexpeaedly fummoned to Potfdam, where he arrived on the itth of this month. The Islittifler of State, Baron Ham:maniac, had been fummoned thither at the Cane time. ROTTSRDAM. DEC. I.—The Batavitn Legiflative Body, in their fitting on Friday lag with doled doors, after haying heard the report of the Committee of Finance, refolved not to fanaion the proporition of the Government of State, as it is at prefent, contain ing an eftimate of the wants of the State for the enfti ing year 1835, on the ground of a difference which has arifen refpeeting one of the financial irticles of the congitution, and which is to be decided by the colorniflGon of 27. HA6U., Noy. 22.—The Government of Statp has demaneed of the I.e , tillative Body. authority to re ceive a million of florins, for the expences incurred in 1803. for building and equipping the fhips of the Republic. Gen. Maamoscr has left Atnfterclam to affift at the coronation of the Emperor of the French. Sync, HnLM, Nov. 3.-lefterday the melancholy intelligence arrived here, that a dreadful conflagra tion has dearoyed ready two-thirds of the city of Chrininehamin; a place celebrated for its annual fairs of iron. The faun granted by the States of Pome rania to the King of Sweden, amounts to 200,000 Maituersa, Nov. 16.—The Duke of Wurtemburgh has fummoned the States to meet anew at Stutgard on the auth inftant. The Univerfity of Erfurth is to be abolifhed. This morning a clergyman from the environs of Celle, was brought in prifoner here, by five gene d'armes and buffers. Aeinssoe.o, Nov. 15.—Private accounts from Ra tifbnn, relate by a iticipation. the principal bates of the New Concord et for Catholic Germany. con formably to what has been concerted, as is Paid, between the Eleaor Arch Chancellor and the firfl States of the Empire. and afterwards propofed to M. de Taoist, to be communicated to the Court of Rome. If we can credit there accounts, Catholic Germany, with the exception a the Auftrian States, and the countries united to the Pruffian monarchy. will be' divided into twelve bithopricks, to each of which will be attached an epiceopal chapter, compotes! of twelve Canons. His Eseelincy the Eleaor Arch-Chancel lor, in his quality of Pt imate of the Catholic Church of Germany, st:11 curt a Cuperintenlance over thefe twelve bithoprie , confidered as his fuffragans. The Bitbops will be nominated by the Princes in whole States they hold their fees, and will be fubjeft to ter ritorial fitgetiority, a: well as to the jurifdiaion of thefe fovereigns, and a:l fecular affairs. The bifhopric of the States of the Eleaor Arch-Chancellor will have its See at Rati(h and enjoy particular pre rogatives, relatively to the nomination of the Bins° p. —A fixed revenue w;11 be afligned to the Bithop and glares of habita::oi, where they mull refich...— . 11ofe Gred upon (or t., purport, are the marl; of Saltzhurg, Frcyfino( .•, itambn:g, Kempten, "Elle• •ang:n, C•mllance, - Brifichal, Arintperg, Src. W: know not .n What foundation Clara, 0.: report r,rculatcd, tux:, in the new ciatiors of the C•mc , •rdar, the quellion of the marriage of the Pridi will be Jon brought forward.—raf t !fir, Arveee• d., 25. SWABIAN OF IRELAND. COPY OF A LUTTIR FROM LICUTIVAINIT COLONIIL MAC DONAGN REMDING AT PARI3, TO THIS MAYOR Of 14111 WWI AILIOUDISSIMINT, "Citizen Mayor—l have the honour to fend. you 36 francs as a patriotic gift towards building %rani port veils or flat bottomed boats, in order to m ake a de c ent either in England , ar Ireland, my unfor tunate country,oppreffed by the Englith for thefe two hundred years pall. " Scarcely will our troops fet foot in Ireland when they will be joined by three millions of Roman Ca tholics, who wait only for an opitortAnity to hake of the yoke of the Engfifh Government, whicob flinately salutes to them both civil emancipation and the enjoyment of the rights of roan. The Mellor of Hanover • • • • • 4 ', has declared, as well as the Bi fhops and the majority of his Council, that he would never confent to the emancipation of the Roman Ca tholics of Ireland ; and ft was this determination which engaged Mr. Purr, according to his own con feffion in - Parliament, to quit the Miniliry. " If then. Citizen Mayor, we can be able to fepa rate Ireland from Great Britain, which is very poi% fible, without a formidable navy, the Englifh Go vernment will for ever tole the power of laying flacks in the way of the commerce of France, Spain, Holland, and other Maritime Powers, and we (ball inevitably mint from it the empire of the leas, in as much as we dull deprive it in an inliant of to,ooo failors, whom it forces on board the Britifh (hips, in in ite of themfelves ; together with f millions of h a bitants, 30,000 foldiers, and the our means of vic tualling its fleets with Itith beef, pock, butter, and, 1 cheefe, with which it now fupplies its marine. " The greateft evil which can beat a nation is that of being governed by weak men, with whom the general interefl ever gives way to the private one.—. If twenty years fence, when the French and Span& fleet obliged the Englifti to fly and leek °teller in the pal of Plymouth, the Miniftry of Louis the {6th I had poffeffed energy fufficient to cattle 30,000 men to be landed in Ireland, inftead of thteatening England with a decent, France, as well as the other Powers, might ere now have freely enjoyed the commerce of the fear in the four quarters of the world, and the' Catholics of Ireland would have been emancipated. " In reading the Hiftory of England by How 1 41 that of Ireland by Dour Cum, and the Works of SWIFT (works to be met with at the National Library at Paris), one perceives the vexations and metres exercifed by the Englifb over the Roman Catholics within thefe two hundred years pail, and which are Rill perpetuated by the moll revoking fanatieifm.- CIOOIWILL and King WILLIAM argot more than ;ono frith families of their property : I doubt whe- ther even the Hiftory of the Turks offers many ex., amples of Co ftupid a tyranny. " I have likewife the honour to addrefs to you,' Citizen Mayor, 200 francs in order to be diftribeted amongll the firft company of grenadiers er fufileers who flail plant the French fiandard in England or Ireland, provided that it be permitted me to make one of the number ; I call upon my fellow country men to follow my example, milers they prefer he t i% (laves of the Englifh, aud to thew themfelves decry- Mg of their fetter.. • I here declare upon my honour, that no motive l of ambition or intere(t has diftated thefe reflation*. l'he lot of a generous people who has groaned for centuries under an opprenive and cruel yoke, has I alone fondled them to me, and it is another tribute I pay to their virtues, their courage, and their mit fortunes* " I have tranflated this letter into Englift; and fent copies of it to Ireland. 1 have the honour to wain*, with every fentiment of refpal, ts Citizen Mayor, your fellow Citizen, Paris. (Signed) " macoosacip." P. S. To ftrengthen still more the obfervations I have juft made, I conceive it may not be ufeldi to add the oath of the Orangifis ; " I do hereby (wear, that I will exterminate, as far as 1 am able, the Catholics of Irelando." Thus, at the prefent moment, when not one oth,er Power in Europe oppreffes the Roman Catholics, do th uthorize every atrocity committed 9gainfl them, by thefe fatellites of deipotifm. • nits is a molt rob and wicked Edichood. LONDON. There were be (reties in the liT•lt of the Eth or 9th Nozember,of the kind Rated in a letter front Bath. Thofc ut on tbs }ea were the firft. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. PWCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK Cantole, fur Jan. 5941 —Reduced 5/311-01nni.an csti. Bache+ Bills, par to di(.—Short Aun. a t t.t6i. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAYS Bank Stock 16/1% 569 Long Ann. S 7! 3 per C. Red. A...ssio Imperial Ann. 9 9-16 3 per Cent. Card. Ann. Ibut Iren 5 per Cal:. S7l 4 per Ccnt. Coui 7Si 74i 7$ Onaninen 91i pren•. 5 per Cent. Navy Gaut Eitel& Ttzlets tEL tor. 3 Ott Coil- 1 797 9 8 1} Coat for on. !9, i A Spanilli frigate from South America is hid to have been taken by the fquadron under Sir JOl4ll Ocot. lalt night we received a complete relies of Paris Journals to the sBth ult. and Dutch Gazettes to the ad infant, from which we have made a few extracts. The Rotterdam Mercury contains a letter from a Lieutenant• Colonel MA Coos to the Mayor of Paris, accompanying a patriotic gift of 36 francs (about sos.) for building tranfport tbips, or fiat but tamed boats, for the purpofe of making a defcent on England and Ireland. We have given a place to this letter, not on account of its importance, but to chew in what manner the French People are deluded by the falfeboods and enifteprefentations of unprincipled adventurers. A letter has been received from Madrid, by a re :pelLtble Houle in the City, da;cd the t 3th of Novem ber, which fully confirms that Mr. Fasts intended to quit Madrid the following day. He %vas only waiting for the arrival of Lord and Lady HOLLAND, who were expelled there every moment, and vtith whom he was to proceed to England . A,fdRKLANE. COIN EXCHANGE, DEC. 7. Our Gent arrivals of Grain in general to-day, arc few in number, though laft prices are alcd ; the feu (ales effelled, are noted rather cheaper—not mud: Dantzic at band—good old Rye sss. per quarter — Barley and Malt are likewife a trifle lower—Beans and Peas of each fort have little fate. The Oat trade may be noted is. cheaper, and few at our top price. The buyers of Flow bring chiefly full flock'd, that article is a trifle lower. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER. Wheat. Us. 100.1. 1105 per qr. Grey Peak 48µ to sits. Floe Ditto. rm. r sp. od. Deans, sos. sss. od. Rye (new). 5 6 . 39& 0d- Tick Ditto oss. Sl4 od Rader.4ll443L od. Oats, re. 330.3 p. Matt, So& Sys. od. Poland ditto. 36:. 375. oil White Peale, 365. 616. ode Rape Set& 421.10 441. rer t, !- PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine Flour nos. to oss. Seconds Sis. to eos. psr rack. This day the Royal Family removedto Windfor. Wednefday morning, the Ruffian Aanbaffador &radiated bnftnefs at Lord Ha%IOW'S Office, from two till three o'clock. Lord Haaanwer is much betler, and was remov ed this day to his Lordfhip'shoute.in Grofvenorislace, Two Meffengers are expelled to arrive from Spain, but Come doubts are entertained for the fafety of the. veffel which is to bring them from Lifson. The Earo Spanifh taken and fent into Ply. month, laden with grain, is ordered to be given up. and will proceed on her voyage to Spain. The Resumes. of 74 guns, is ordered to be im. mediately contasirioned it Portinsouth. Difparches were yefierday received from Admiral Rosssz.l., off the Text!, which (late, that be intend ed to return into port. leaving part of his fquadron to watch the motions of the enemy, during the win ter feafon. Sir J. B. Wataam, our )ate Ambaffador to the Court of St. Peterlburgb, accompanied by Lady Waziaw.and Count MUIISTRIt.the Hanoverian Mi. ' nifter, with the whole of his ;bites !Strived in town yefterday. His Secretary, Mr. Paton, had previ. oufty arrived at an early hour at the honk of Lady CLAVlallia, the mother of Lady Warman. with the intelligence of the arrival of the ex-Ambaffador and foite at Harwich on Wednefday. Sir Joint and fuite left St. Peterfburgh for Cronfladt, where the Ant rim* rtigate lay, which carried out Lord G. L. Gowsa, and was defined to convey the Baronet home. But the paffage being interrupted by um frog. the party were obliged to proceed by laud to Revel, a diftance of two hundred Englilb miles, where they remained for three days before the Asia -llvar could be cutout of the ice, and was able to join them. They were a fortnight upon their pal age from Revel to Hofely Bay, where they quitted the frigate, and embarked on board the Citeanaa gun brig, which landed them on Wednefday at Han with. Sir Joins was received with diftinguillied ho nours on his landing. The Pio esti, frigate fired I falute of fifteen guns, which was returned by the CHaacia, and the bells of the town rang a merry peal. After having taken tome refrelhrnenr, the party bet out for town, and ftept on Wednefday night at Colchefter. They were expected in town Went day, at three o'clock, at Dvaenv's hotel. Albe marle-greet, where a party of relatives and friends, including Lady Cues Lama and her niece, attended to receive them ; but their anxious expeftation was not gratified until feven o'clock in the evening, when the worthy Baronet and fuite arrived. We underhand that the pub! • entre of Lord G. L. Cows,. into St. Peterfburgli was one of the molt fplcndid exhibitions of this kind ever witneffed in that city. The moment his Lotdfhip's arrival at Cronfladt was known, his Secretary of Legation at St. Petertburgh difpatched all his carriages to meet him, with the whole of his retinue. The carriages were fix in number, each drawn by fix honks moll elegantly capatiforied, and ornamented wi h ribbons, ice. and filled or attended by his numerous fervants, in hate liveries. The cavalcade entered St. Peterf: burgh at fix o'clock in the evening, and his entre Was announced by the ringing of bells sod a discharge of artillery. The military were drawn up to receive him, and every greet through which Le hatted (hew ed demonitrations of joy :•rict fatisfaelitas. Ti l de circumftances are of importance, as they prove the yealnus friendfhtp of the Cabinet of St. Peterfburgh for England. and alio the popular feeling in that ' city. His Lordlhip and fuite occupy the Cam: noble hotel in which his pied:Tell - or 7 efided. It is fifteen years lilt Monday lince the inhabitants of London witneffed fo thick and dark a fog as came on yefterday morning, about eight o'clock. It con • tinned to inereafe to fuch a degree, that candles were Obliged to be abed in Annul every houle, brim half pa:l eight till nine o'clock. Soon after nine o'clock it began to clear off a little, but a Confiderable fog continued till night. Owing to the fog, feveral acci dents happened among the craft on the river. Two or three watermen had their boats Rove, and one man was dreadfully bruifed. Several Tads under fail were obliged to drop their anchors. Exvi.osion.—The inhabitants of America•fqtiar and the Crefeent, were much alarmed yellerday ; in • • ing by a fevere flock, which, on enquiry was I,„+ to proceed from the following circa mltance—M r gun-maker, in the Minories, has work (hops, v:!:. part of his bufinefs is carried on, in Vine llrec; the morning, it being very foggy and dark, a y( lad, the lon of Mr. I'. Rea. having occafion to foe an article, lighted a candle, and unfortunately went 140 Dear a place where there was tome powder, which, it is fuppofed, by a fpark, caught fire, and in antif caphided.—The poor boy's cloaths caught file, and he ran dcwn into the freer, hair and all his body flaming; a bricklayer paffinfeaught him iw that perilous (late, and taking him to a liner citlern in the (table-yard, plunged him in, and thereby estinguillic.: the flumes. He was moll slreadfully buint, partici:- Lily round his neck and face. The large window on the firli (lorry was completely blown utit, with a par: of the brick wcrk, and all the windows of the rat of the building (hivered, as were thole of Mesh s Welshers glafswarehonfe facing, and thole of an .. jo ning chamber ; no pctfon was injuted but the although feveral men were at work at the Watt FAL .lefty'' or 14 Malta, from COTE, Prince Lifbot packe board difpat hourl Wai den VOU crui 7lc Jae ca tail la i tha fro