Star. — London, England, 1811-08-13 00:00:00

.seed by ale', ins to sea-faring in they will , say, We hiVe indueuie territories open for your re , AlthOugh The Heir Apparent permitted no public ;11.=01.11 ceptioo;--fiae lands which wait only for hands to cul eelebran of yesterday, his natal day, at Brighton, ' FaLLOW Cirtzews,—ln a former address I made a tivate them. To such of . them is do not incline to and e ven. the usual festive assemblage 01 his Royal remark of this kind; that Gret Britain, pressed by emigrate into the wilderness and become farmers, Ilrusehi Id was -dispensed with at Carlton House, a war unexampled in the annals of the world—all but remain attached to commerce, navigation and people of tee British capital could not be restrained Europe being leagued against her, Spain and Portu- the fisheries, they will say—Trade is oat of the from their • dernonsr - ation of British leyelty on this , gal excepted, which she was defending with h e r blood question—but the British merchent Ve s s els mono p oe Joyful occasion The morning was ushered in by the ; and treasure-ewes extremely unwilling to have the lizing the commerce of the worTd, over the oceen : dis L[ of the Ro • yal Standard from St. Martin's I United States added to the number of her enemies ; Fit out privateers ; we will give you commitsiono— steepleiand the - Merry peels of bells from all the twin- and that, partly frigm a consideration of her interests, Make your fortunes if you csn—and by your prizes cipaf Churches in the Cities of London and Westmin- , and partly from the just contempt her Government supply the habitual wants of the people. By prie a ster. The several Coips of Volunteers paraded in I must have felt for the men who so ruinously and dis- tegring too, you will show our petriotisre : for the Hyde Park and various other grounds, and fired three gracefully administered ours (although it is impossi. duties on your prize goods will furnish the quantity vo tes in honour of the day, which was celebrated in I , hie the British Government should feel for them mor e of revenue which will be indisper.sibly necessery for a private manner at Windsor. In L o n don the Thee- ! contempt than the French Emperor has expressed and the public service—to wit— to maintain the public ! t re s, his Royal Highness's tradesmen, &c. bad their dashed i n their faces ) she shut her e y es a g ainst, or officers, and pay the Members of Congress their ', customary illuminations. did not think it expedient to resent, their glaring par- wages. • IBS RUMMY BALLonx. , tialities towards her formidable enemy, and amid Thus it appears, that for the contemplated fierritie • Mr. Sadler, the Aeronaut, also ascended in his hal- i multiplied ptofessions of amicable dispositions, their quiff no funds will be necessary, not even our ordi- , loon, in joyful celebration of the day, from the Green : marked ill-will and injurious acts towards herself.— nary peace revenues. 1 at the Mermaid, Hackney. Some time has elapsed These provocations on one side and forbearance on If a war with Great Britain should take place, I since an exhibition of this description occurred in or the other,' have served only to encourage their aggro - priveteering will he the only mode of annoying ow ! near the metropolis, and public curiosity was raised to vated repetition, until, at length, our Government the part of the United o nl y mo d e fortunes are al thigh pitch. The Five Fields and the Hackney-road .have ventured to commit a direct act of war. I know ready enjoyed, in anticipation, to arise from the cap appeared thronged at an early hour with pedestrians, that our administration will say that the action be- tures of British vessels and merchandiae ; but this equestrians, and carriages. It is impossible to describe . tween their frigate and the British sloop of war took will prove a vain exeettation. During a greater in terms adequate to the scene,the innumerable groups : place in the dark, when Commodore Rodgers could part of our revolutionary war, when Greet Britain of persons flocking from Greenwich, Deptford , Wool- ' not know what ship he fouht ; their newspapers hid to contend with the fleets of France , t hen p ow. wich, and ()t g hee parts contiguous to London. By 12 have alread y made their apology, or rather their 'us- erful, and finally those of Holland and Spent , priva o'clock, the road was completely b locked b y carriages, ti fi cation,. ii We understand (says The A'otiona h. teering was carried on successfully ; but for the last 1 and many, families of distinction could not approach telligencer) that the conduct of Commodore Rodgers, year or two, more fortunes were lost than gained, i within a qoarler of a;mile of the Mermaid. The corn- in repelling and chastising the attack so causelessly Experience had taught the British a mere effectual 1 pang began to 'assemble near the balloon, which was and rashly made on the United States frigate Presi. mode of securing their commerce. Our privateers rites fell into the hands of the vi stationed within a fence on the Lower Green at the dent, by the British ship of war the Little Belt , has and their p Mermaid, about ten o'clock. The appa ra t us had been the approbation . of the President of the U " and more nitedStates,owerfnl British cruisers, and ptivateering proved a le p y' fixed sing g the SP anish navy is on the side of ame. At the present time, what previously' for supplying the gas, and workm e n and therefore it was that I went into so minute an i were employed about that hour, inflating the aerial examination of t he Commodore's official report of Great Britain. Fleets of France and Hollind have i ever remains of machine. The gas was conveyed to it thr o ug h tubes this affair; and I trust it has appeared that the action I in the usual-way, and, by twelve o'clock it was more with the Little Belt was not accidental and by mis- been destroyed, and the remnants are kept shut up 'than half full. It was covered by net-work, and con.. take, but the consequence of special orders intended in their harbours—while the alined ships of Britain fined by ropes held by about thirty men. The balloon, 'to produce, not indeed precisely the action with the far out-number those of the whole world beside.— which we have before described, made a very hand- Little Belt, but an action with a British ship of war; With such ample means at lit r command, Great Bri. some appearance. The Prince's crest, motto, and cy. ite be brought en, however, in such a manner as might tain can sweep the ocean. And it' she had desired phers G.P.W. were conspicuous round its greatest cir. enable them to justify it to the great majority of the th ur own ve t destruction of our commenemi erce, as s among carried on ho by t umference. In other respects it was the sameas that in people, whom for a series of years they had found ols, which her es u(w which, Mr. Sadler ascended some time since at Cam- ready implicitly to believe their assertions. if Corn- are the real enemies too of our ownm co have uetry des ) tr poy re- ed iS. o'clock it was nearly furnished with modore Rodgers had met with the British frigate tend, t. she, long ere this time, t bridge. About a sufficient quantity of gas, and at 20 minutes past Guerrier, instead of th e Little Belt, thee he was to two the car was brought out. The strings of the net- demand the impressed Americans, and if not deliver- I have just remarked, that in the projected war work were then a ffi xed to a hoop, or cornice, from ed up, to attack the Gnerrier, and if successful (as with Great Biitain Ist ivaieering will be the only which the e nd hung by gold cords. The latter made expected, the frigate President being of force greatly mode of annoyance on the part of the United States. a most splendid appearance. It was painted sky-blue, superior to the Guerrier), then the Administration But shall we not take possession of the British domi with acanthus leaves and stars of gold, lined with yel. story would have beet', that after waiting near four nions on our northern and eastern borders i This low, and in every respect fit for the occasion. At years to receive satisfaction for the attack on the fri. has often been threatened : it is a part ot the bully this part of the exhibition every eye was fixed on i gate Chesapeake, without obtaining it (although pre. ing system in regard to Great Britain ; but it has the aerial adventurers. Mr. Sadler was cool, and vented solely by their own misconduct), they had I never been seriously contemplated ; and such Mem bersin spirits ;he superintended the tilling of the bal.' now taken satisfaction for themselves; but the action of Congress as I have heard mention it, only loon, and the various aresagements, with activity,: of the Little Belt will serve their purpose just as well. made themselves ridiculous by the grave face as conversed with his friends, and furnished them with Connecting the long chase with the circumstances of -mimed for the occasion. It was repeatedly intimated every information respecting his intended elevation. the actin, the proceedings on the part of the Ameri. in.in the earlier part of the Session which commenced He said he had ascended fil teen times on aerial ex- can frigate admit of no justi fi cation. It is impossible lBO7, after the attack .on the Chesapeake, when cursions, and of course he felt no other sensatirn .it should pass over without a demand, on the part of- Mr. Jefferson had made a great bustle about prepa than the idea of perfect security, and the pleasure Great Britain, of an e xplanation satisfaction; and rations for a war with Great Britain. .This bustle of amusing the public. As an experienced Aero- las satA4ction will be refused, war will ensue. was kept up in Congress, which teemed with hostile naut, he knew that the dimensions and formation of; e But what madness (it may be said) to provoke propositions towards that Power, especially when the the balloon almost precluded the possioility of clangor. aa ar with Great Britain, when we have no fleet— special mission ot Mr. Rose was known, and his tw it contained near one hundred thousand gallons of no saany—no money in the Treasury—but a remnant rival expected to make that satisfaction for the at gas, and when perfectly billeted, the altitude was . of revenue from commerce, and that to be annihilated 'lack on the Chesapeake which the conducc of Mr. about thirty feet. Lieutenant Paget, related to the ,as soon as war takes place—without taxes, or the r Jefferson had prevented being given in London. It Noble Lord of that name, and an Officer in the , courage to impose them—and without credit to bor• was weakly imagined that this notice of war would Navy, had solicited a place in the car with Mr. Sadler,; row, as any Government must be which is destitute make an impression on the mind of Mr. Rose. and for 100 guineas he was accommodated. Mr. lof funds to pay regularly the interest, and ensure the General b ttlith, in the Senate, said, , t if the Bri- Sadler appeared in mourning with a hat-hand. Lieu-1 payment of the principal I" .. fish Minister arrives, and sees the is s ireor of prepa tenant Paget wore a blue coat, and on the whole I These, to be sure, would p r esent, to o r dinary' rations for war, his language possibly, and very e l -o wes gaily-chid. After the car had been fastened to' Statesmen, strong and insurmountable objections to • hably, will be very diiterent from what it will be it the balloon two flags were brought out, on which were i war, but none to our wise and economical Rulers . . he finds us reclining on the hopes of a continuance of embroidered the Arms of England. In thie state of pre. ! Ours,will be the most simple and easily conducted peaFe- V;ithia a week I expect a resolution will be partition Mr. Sadler was called by severalfriends, who i war that was ever waged since nations began to quer,. brought i one house or the other to raise 30,000 shook hands with him, and wished him a Pasant Toy- , teL This will be its fashion. • The want of revenue ! men. I nto h the new Minister who is coming may age. A Gentleman then gave him several letters to cast ' will make it necessary to lay up our vessels of war, t see shit we are prepared for war. Such a resolution, out of the car, during his ascent. He was also fur- Ito rot in the warm fresh water of the Eastern Branch or a bill in form, was accordingly laid on ear table, nished with an excellent weather-glass, charts of the lof the Potomack at Washington •.—The smali band ' and there, with other similar abortive projects, slept different counties, & c. blankets, two bottles of water, :of troops called the army, will necessarily become through the Session. The conquest ot Canada, I spirits, two grapnels, with cords a ffi xed to them, hal- still smaller. If the States, possessed of sea-ports, have said, was never seriously contemplated. The last, and other articles too minute to mention. The wish to defend them, the respective legislatures must southern leaders probably imagined that the t threat luggage being properly stowed in the car, part of the ', provide for the expense. It for want of an adequate s oul invasion invasion of that country might influence fence which surrounded the scene of operations was defence they should burn !—why so much the better. British Councils to . yield to the demand of our broken down, and Mr. Sadler's son, with assistants, Mr. Jefferson, the enlightened oracle of democracy, Government ; and unquestionably they supposed removed the balloon some yards to the northward of: when objecting - (as he formerly did object) to the their partizans in the Northern States would be its former position , in order to clear the trees. Dur- 1 establishment of manufactures in the United States, flattered by the project. But the Northern States ' ing this movement the spectators and assistants hung; and considering them as the means of producing the may rest assured, that it will be the last thing at on the • ear, and prevented it from rising. The mo- i condensed population which forms great cities, sagely tempte.d by their southern friends, or rather masters. tion of the balloon at this period was grand, and a ' remarked—that " the mobs [meaning the war: of the The men who now rule the United States will never shout from an immense multitude hailed the appear- population] of great cities add just so much to the ; willingly take any step which will add to the popula ance. Curiosity at the instant was doubly excited, support of pure government, as sores do to the I tion and power ot the Northern States ; and Cenada, hundreds pressed towards the object of their admire- strength of the human bodyf." Great cities are of i being on their borders, would, if conquered, natural- tion. The grenadiers of the Tower Hamlets, and , course great sores ; and for great and inveterate sores,' lY unite with them and add to their weight in the des the guard appointed for the occasion, did all they i cautery, or burning, is an effectual operation. The cisions of great national questions. could to restrain the pressure, and to keep the balloon j want of revenue will also prevent the further payment But the folly of attempting the conquest of Canada clear for the Aeronauts; that interval was chosen byl of the public debt, or even the interest of it. But 'public faith can be felt by the men who could deliberately do an Mr. Sadler and his companion to enter the tar. Mr.' necessity has no law. The Government will profess act by which some innocent foreigners have, in effect been de. fraudesi of four hundred thousand dollars ? Every body knows Sadler entered first. Jeieutenant Peeet followed, and ; extreme regret ; and satisfy the people, (except that arr cher having again shaken hands , and return ed the good fieir inability to e artizan r 's ijneffLeel Jefferson Congress. he vehemently cabinet, an o d eposed r. is let esta a b n li d shm his e o the public creditors) by ascribing t nt of wishes of their friends, all was ready , an d the balloon pay. to the unjust war waged against us by Great the Bank of the United States, under the pretence that It would ,mounted from the grasp of the keepers with grandeur Britain," whose power (as Mr. Jefferson says) on be a violation est the Constitution. In the Cabinet, Mr. Jtffer .and velocity. Lieut. Pager, in a most spirited style, the ocean is so ascendant as to render commerce, our sens sophistry was swept away by one Imams of the masterly • stood up in the. car when at the distance of about 50 l only material source of revenue, impracticable. Miry h cw an ' d ur o e f i up and gro . u i p .h ed e ic t o g g a e l th b e a r gb t r o ar a l la w rn h l ic th h e th p e ur f e orn ol r d ba o d f lards horn the ground, and waved his flag. Mr. Sadler ! zealous partizans of the Administretion will not think WI ahington, who was not a lawyer, were dispersed by the light sat in the car, but soon after both waved their hats and : any apology to be needful. They will not hesi- of truth emitted by Hamilton, f orgot a morning fog before the lags. It wanted exactly 17 minutes to three o'clock } tare to say openly, that the public debt is due chiefly rising sun. This deteat was neveten by Mr. Jefferson aud when the balloon ascended. A light air from the Ito Englishmen—and let them lose it, or wait until a his . partizans ; and the first airoppotunity was seised to destroy tins institution. And this was the time when the term ot the westward carried the aerial travellers slowly due east. peace shall enable. the country to fulfil its oblige- charter expired. But the United States, originally possessed of Five minutes after, they bore from thy Mermaid tionst. To the inhabitants of the sea ports who have stock in the Bank to the amount of two millions of dollars, re- Gardens, east and by south. The balloon continued=Med when Mr. Jafferson became President of the United • Four or five y ears ago, a Gentleman who had been in our l. i ascend during twenty minutes, after which it en- Navy in 1798 or 99, being at Washington, went to see the Navy States, the proptiete s rs BB ol 2120 .0 1 shares at . 400 ie. dollars .l ea ch, . prime 'ered a cloud and disappeared, but was shortly seen Yard. Some Members of Congress were present. The Gentles- more co am than "li n " pe ng r to cent ' a-ye* d . Not' an d y I di r g g an which,terten* t o s ::ga n, and visible at Hackney twent y -ei g ht minutes man ma Memr ee observati o nsme a s n o dfrom Massachusetts unfavourable toomad to e i an t. aw Aem eedroheartathiee than a year and a half (viz. June 30,1802 ) w h en the revenues of atter the ascent. When at a considerable hei g ht preferred that place to all others, because our vessels of war the United States were rapidly increa sin g , and amply sufficient fram the earth, Mr. Sadler and the Lieutenant waved w ou . cl no where else rot so soon!—Another democratic Member fo u r b t li he d s e urert of r Gov ernment i.er and the the s r b egular ares o faym n e k nt st o ork fh t e e their flags together, and produced a fine effect. One of Congress, but from a Southern State, within two years past, Public cold T hei r . ?Ile Mid ' tutio r tn n evi a se u d ft by Hamilton, so wisely footed ° o f these bore the arms, &c. of his Highness the Duke thus expressed himself to me :—" If all our frigates and armed and so faithfully managed, gained universal confidence, and its vs o s i e d is p were out the collected fue, together , Iwod and t st in e' Gloucester, and the other those of Me Earl of Hard- etnardesise'baitnidetbryiltiste'Tn-I stock rose in price, so that a share which cost the Uni ted States but 400 dollars, would sell for 580 dollars, or 45 per cent. above wicke. At 10 minutes past four they descended at Ta- ber will recollect this declaration. Ido not mention it as any re par. Then it was that Mr. Jefferson ordered the shares above bury Fee, on the Essex side of the Thames—allwell. proach to him because I entertain for hint the most sincere mentioned to be sold ; and the sales brought into the Treasury The feeling experienced by the. spectators when the esteemfaslsankhonesthand amiable man. But u such was really lia of the United States the sum of 1,237,600 dollars. The purcha ow erroneous ly, m . y c ow-cattseus lu the balloon rose can be better conceived than expressed. wa y com son were Enuffshnten, who by the dissolution of the Bank of the commercial an d States wall judge. The loudest s houts followed the adventurers , u n til United States have thus lost 400,000 dollars—or to be p erfectl y i Notes on Virginia, answer to query XIX. etact, 390,600 dollars, the difference between the price they paid the plaudits could no longer be heard in the azure 1 Mr. Jefferson sod Mr. Madison, when they became Pad- to Mr. Jefferson for the United Statesand the price to which the expanse. dents of the United States , se verall y made p rofessions of their po- shares w e re reduced by the dissolution of the Bank, or the non- We did not hear of any seri ous accident. Lord Yar- W ea l creeds, one article of which was, the exact fulfilment of renewal of its charter; an event which no :1144 who regarded the mouth, and several•persons of distinction, were among the national engagemeins to pay the public creditors. But the public interest and the public faith, and stall less foreigners. could who originally opposed, and afterward execrated the estab- have expected—but which the circumstances I have stated leave the spectators, and about three thousand persons were men who of the system devised under the administration of Wash- no room to doubt was contemplated by Mr. Jefferson and cous in the Gardens of the Mermaid. Hackney church was ington tor the honest payments of the public debts, cannot have parry, when they sold the United States shares in the Bank to Covered by men, women, and children ; and in short, any love for It ; and will therefore not grieve overmuch for the these Nlnglishmen; and wbiclit teseetsire will be considered as a Seery house that corumanded a view of the exhibition. Robin iinWiths i e &nary those debts. What rush regard ta the d e lib e r at e kito. ?RAW REcEmrs AINV 19,11: MR. PICKERTSOS ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE QP THE UNITED STATES. '•...•• • a • . . , would be equal to the difficulty of achieving it. Frog the fliltish power *in that quarter, we have nothing to apprehend—but if Canada were to fill into the hands of France we 'should have every thing to fear. And if the 4 . 6iiquests were to be made by the United States, the country, either by farce or treachery', would he transferred to France. To maintain the possession against the attempts of Great Britain to re-conquer it, would require an army a.id expendi tures far surpassing our whale present military estab lishment. But it would be in still great T dangerfrom France, who might slip out a force sufficiett to wrest it from our hands—if under such administrations as have governed us for the Last ten years any resistance should be made. The reason impreiensly urged hr. the French Government to that of Spain, in the year lark, for the retrocession of Lc.uisiana, was, " that Louisiana was an ancient possession of France." So was Canada—and were it once in our hate's, its res toration, to France would he as imperiously demended of the United States, as was the province of Louisiana of Spain ; and would such an administration as Mr. Jefferson's or Mr. islad;sait's, which h ive se long :en cringing at the feel of Bonaparte, resist the demand t Certainly not. Bat let France preaesS hers"lf of Ct. nada, and t!•ce what addition it demand; would be made The northern ports of New•Yoik, Cie wes tern parts of Pensylvania, the State of Ohio, the ter ritories of Indiana, Michigan and Illineis, the Steel of Kentucky, and Tenuesee, the Mississippi ter, itory, and the whole of Louisiana westward of Mississippi, would also be in like manner demanded, for ie ail these vast regions France once hid military posts or settlements—and she would claim and demand all of them as o her ancient Fossessirns ;" and with as good right as she demanded and compelled the Spa. nish Government to re-grant Lonisianabut Canada remaining in the bands of Great Britain, she will keep fast shut and bolted that northern door, by which the French would enter and repossess her ancient territo ries, and then, by the joint operation of intrigoe, core ruption and force, attempt the subjugation of the whole United States. Instead, therefore, of oar at tempting the conquest of Canada, sound policy would require its being kept in the bands of Great Britain. But although our southern raters will never, by conquest or otherwise, voluntarily add to the strength of the northern section of the United States ; they will not hesitate to increase that of the southern sec tion, with or witheu: right. llence the measure as base as it was unjust, of taking possession of West Florida—a country to which, as I shall take occa sion to shew, we have no tide, and which we auld not have attempted, had not the distressed and bled condition of Spain, oppressed and overrun the armies of Europe's tyrant, rendered her ;- ble of sending thither an adequate military for( its protection. With the like unrighteous vie , conquest of East Florida will be undertaken, the very men who for so many years have been ing a hue and cry against Great Britain for • the surrender, and on refusal, for taking the fleet, to prevent its falling (as it would imme, have fallen) into the hands of her imphical formidable enemy. The British, at war for the , istence, took from the Danes some et) ves.sele and the rulers of the United States, while we a. peace with all the-wold, under a flimsy pretentre title, seize one Spanish-province, and. even • - that pretence, of any other which will bear the appear to be preparing to seize, and by force - to take possession of, another. But the taking of East Florida will coincii and render more complete the grand object projected war with Great Britain, the fruiting al! commerce and intercourse with the British clorninic, , consequence with the French Emperor's sys destroying the only power which can effectuai trout his march to universal empire. By tef , session of East Florida, whose waters unite_ea of the United States, they will prevent the ta that traffic, which, during former arLitrary tions imposed by Congress on our commerce, advantageously carried on by the citizens of British vessels entered the Spanish harbours to St. Mary's, and there received the cotton 1 the Georgians so much wanted a market. Another most important object and etre( projected war will be the cutting off of all Sk grain, rice, flour, beef, pork, and fish, from Si Portugal, fur whose calamities, inficter French Emperor, our rulers manifested no 5) but, on the contrary, they and their gem herents appeared to anticipate with pleasure jugation of those countries by the universal and which has been hitherto prevented by and effectual assistance of Great Britain. cious 'whim, with -Messrs. Jefferson and at their head, have formerly believed that States, by withholding their supplies of could produce a famine in the British dos Europe and the West Indies; and I do not experience has yet cured them of this folly. as it may, they undoubtedly suppose that Portugal, for several years the theatres of structive war, ravaged by the French armies, avoidably much exhausted by their brave will be incapable of further resistance if sul the United States be withheld. French crus already captured and destroyed our vessel with provisions and destined for dui ports and Lisbnn ; and those captures, as well the most horrible French outrages on ou rights, find zealous advocates among the of our adnsinistratinn_ Thus it appears that a war with Great calculated to produce all the effects which Emperor could desire, is the full expectat will hasten her downfall, and at the same the United States to beggary, and leave fenceless prey to his insatiable ambition. servieney to the views of France, of which the course of these addresses giver. amp! as it respects Mr. Madison in particular, firmed by Robert Smith, late Secretary his pamphlet just published in vindicatiot sigoation. And if a great majority of the poop► their blind confidence in their rulers (Mr. and his partisans, with Mr. Jefferson at such will be the fatal result of the measur. planned and will pursue. Toonsa FlCljaaag. July 1, tatt. •—•••• by ver, itrengds s ; they ern set. 'sure as A Wess e occa. should d enfee. nun by incapa. orce tor iews the ,and by ' :en raj*. asking Dan;sls lediately 'hie aid their cz. al war ; , e are at ten of wit ; lout the light, :of arms aide with :t of the 1 • an end is sinicorr, in rstem for wally cone 'king pus. with those .enewal of 7 was so Georgia. • s adjacent for which ect of the supplies of Spain and ed by the sympathy; enuine ad. re tile sub.. r sal tyrant y the great Our saga. d Madison the United provisions, II 'minions in L know than y. Be this t Stain and a most de. ies, and un. e defenders, applies from 'misers have :ssels laden rts of Culls as others, our neutral e adherents :at Britain is h the French tali' a that it : time reduce them a de. Such sub. ich I have in ale proo!'s, is, ! [ar, now con- of State, in .) on of his re. pie continue Mr. Madison ' t their head), irzs they have .1 Plcuituna..