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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR: UTTER 11. Sir—Boundlefs is the field of fietion ; of mitre prefentation there is no end. No- fooncr has time begun to heal with his foothing antidote the poifon fhed by a Lover of Truth and Decorum from Read ing, than frefh venom is poured into the doling wound by a writtz in Cqsam's Regifler of the 6th init. calling himfelf J.TILTENSOR) of the fame place. By intrinfic evidence, it appears, that the former knows nothing of the town ; and no fuch perfon as the latter is "an inhabitant" of it. I am not afraid of being contradiaed, when I affure you, Mr. Editor, that there is no " Inhabitant" of Reading, who does not venerate the public charaaer, and admire the private condua of Mr. ADDINGTON, bccaufe that charaaer and that con duet have been long examined by their motives, and tried by their effeas, in that neighbourhood. It would be fair to fay, that no credit can be given to a perfon, who has once deceived; yet we will allow thefe Gentlemen to enjoy their laugh at the credulity of (hangers, and proceed to expofe the illiberal abufe contained in the attack made by the former, and the infidious defence by the latter, if indeed they are different writers, by a plain re cital of faCts. During .o years, a monthly Club has exifted at the Crown, at Reading, compofed of. Members of both Houfes of Parliament, and of Come of the molt eminent perfons in Berkfbire. At the fir( mention of Peace, which, abliraatdly confidered, always diffufes a Emile of chearfulnefs over the face of the civilized world, fome Members of the Crown Club propofed to exprefs thofc feelings in a manner congenial to the Englifh eh:wafter, a Ball and a Supper. Whatever thades of difference might exift in the opinion entertained of the terms of Peace, the propofal was unanimoufly adopted.— During his refidence at Woodley, Mr. ADDING TON bad been a Member of the Club : it was na tural to fend him an invitation, and to pay fome attention to his convenience in fixing the time.— On the anniverfary of the Preliminary Treaty, the Ball was given to a felea, though a very numerous party. When Mr. ADDINGTON'S health was propofed, in orders by the Stewards, he replied to the com pliment in a (bort fpeech, which merited and ob tained the applaufe of all parties, of every indi vidual, except Mr. Coss eves two Correfpondents. Of himfelf he (poke little, and that in the language • of fimple modefty. The affettionate manner, - in which he expreffed his concern at the neceffity of quitting a County fo peculiarly endeared tea him, was at once the caufe and the effelt of thofe fenti ments of efteem for his public and private worth, which were fincerely felt and pathetically manifef ted by the company. To the firmnefs of Parliament, to the valour of our fleets and Armies, and to the loyalty of his countrymen, he fhortly adverted in anfwer to an allufion made by the Stewards. Fewer or different expreffions he could not ufe. On this part the writers in the Political Regiller, and in the iforising Pe, have emptied their quiver of the arrows of inveeive. But the fhield of truth, of candor, of good &ac t has repelled them, and would make them recoil againft thofe who ufe them, if they were not proteilted by their obfcuri. ty and infignificance. When. Mr. COIPETT darts the artillery of his arguments againft the effeas of the Treaty of Peace, we admire the force of his ftyle, and are convinced by the ftrength of his reafoning, and the authenticity of hit fans : but when he appears to liften to the voice of perfonal fcurrility from anonymous inventors and obfcure retailers of mif reprefentation, we are tempted to fufpend our af fent to his general conclufions, apprehenfive that he may not airways fcrupuloofly examine the foun dation of the hiftorical information on which he builds his political deduaions. In a fubfequent letter I flail make one obferva tion on his letter to Mr. Fox, and return to the confideration of Mr. ADDINGTON'S public charac, ter. I am, Sir, &c. CAWDIDUS. Reading, Nov. iB, doz. PARLIAMEN TAR r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, DEC.!: - - - Mr. Adam was heard on behalf of the Appellant in the Ap re:aomas Graham, Efq. of Calcutta.. !label and Ann Hen alters and executrises of John Henderfou, Efq. late Lieutenant-Colonel in the Crevice of the Eait India Company, &c. After Mr. Adam bad doted his argument, the further bearing of the caufe was adjourned to Friday. The Marqtlis cf Sort, Lord Snaasoans, and Lord Too sown. took the Oaths. Two or three Petitions for Naturalisation Bills were pre (mtg.!, and, upon order, Bills were brought in, and read a tuft feared, time. A variety of Petitions in Appeal Caufes were prefented and read, and, after interrogation of the agents at the Bar as to the reafons for praying that they might be beard on particular days, their prayer was complied with. A petition from his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Clarence, as Earl of Murder, in Ireland, and another from his Royai Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, as Earl of Armagh, in Ireland, touching their right of voting on the Medico of Id& Peels to fit in the Parliament of Great Britain, was read, and ordered to be referred to the Conunittetrof Lord WALSINOIAM moved," That during the continuance of the prefect Sefilon of Parliament, nb Bill for naturalizing Foreigners, or Perlons not born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &all be read a fecond time. until the Petitioner than produce a Certificate from the - Secretaries State. of his orderly life and conduet.. Ordered to be eons dereil on Friday neat, and the Lords fanlmoned. Mr. Robinfon, from the Landon Wet Dock Company, pre tented at the bar certain Accounts /dative to the recdpts and difiturfements of that Corporation, from the sit of June, dot, to the ph of May, dos, inclubve ; and all. a Report of cer tain Surveyors :Attlee to the propels sf the works carrying on. The Duke of CLOILDNOD, after a few prefatory words, moved, That a Committee of all the Lords prefeGt this Seflion be appointed to takt into confultration the State and Condition of the Horde ' and by what means the fame - and the ad jacent Building.; may be rendered more commo. ';offs for the reception of the Members.. `llte Loan CIipIiCSLLOIL, before he pot the inn, begged leave to offer one ohfervation, tell he thous 4 ht the experience of nine months tomrrant him in making, namely, that he in which the Houfc abounded. The queftioa was then put, and the Committee was ordered to be appointed accordingly.—lt was afterwards order ed, on the motion of his Royal Highnefs, that the Paid Committee do fit on Monday next, and that Mr. Wyatt do have notice to attend theirLordfhips. NABOB OF ARCOT. The Earl of MOIRA called to the recolledion of their Lord(hips what he had Rated towards the dole of the lat Salon relative to the trantaCtion which had taken place retpeding the Nabob of Arcot, and the notice he had given of his intention to come forward early in the prefent Seffion on that occafion. In purruance of the latter he now rote ; and though the events which had fince taken place rendered the objet for which he had princi pally intended to come forward unattainable, yet he thought a confideration of the fubjesa might Rill prove of public utility. In this view, he then gave notice, that on Friday next he fhould bring for ward a motion for the produCtion of tome papets relative to the fub)ed, particularly a copy of the orders tranfmitted to India by the Court of Di redors, fince 1797, relative to the fucceffion to the Mufnud of the Carnatic. With refped to thofe Noble Lords who fo worthily filled the highelt official lituations in India, and for whom he had great perfonal refped, he had obferved, that he by no means confidered them as Refpondents in the prefent queßion ; in his opinion they aged merely as inftruments. Alluding to the abfence of Come Noble Lords, who teemed to take an interea in the propofed difcuffion, the Noble Earl teemed to fay, he did not think it, in the prefent intlance, fo very material ; and with refped to what he fhould have to advance on Friday, it was In much narrowed, fo plain, and reducible into fo fmall a compafs, that he deemed it fuperituous even to move to have the Houfe fummoned on the occa fion. However, it was competent to any other Noble Lord that thought proper to move for that proceeding. This not taking place, and no farther bufinefs being before the Houfe, an adjournment, on the Motion of Lord WALSINGHAM, took place till Friday. quell wbicl trod! HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. SPLA Kill took the Chair st half paft three o'clock.— Several Members were fsvorn, and took their feats. Mr. Alderman Costae prefented a Petition from the Pari &loners of St. Giles in the Fields. paging leave to bring in a Bill for the enlargement of their Burial Ground.—Referred to a Committee. Petitions complaining of undue returns for the following places, in the G.:neral Election, were prefented, and referred for confideration on the days annexed : A Petition from Eaft Grinftead, to be eonfidered on the fame day with the other Petitions already prefented from that Borough. • A Petition from Cirencefter, to be coafidered on Thurfday, March the loth. A Petition from Bilhop's Collie, to be considered on Tue day, March xsth. A Petition from Evefham, to be coafidered on Thurfday, March t7th. A Petition from Bedard, to be confidered on Tuefday, March 21d. Mr. I. Hawmas Baowne prefented a Petition from the htaltfters of Shropfhire, praying to be relieved from the ope ration of the Malt-wetting Atft.—.Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. VANSITTART brought up an Account of the Riche quer Bilb hued in purfuance of the Ad of laft Salon, at pre fent unprovided for. Ordered to lie on the Table. The Report of the Bin for fufpending the Ads of the xtth and 17th Geo. 111. refpeding Protniffory Notes, was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. ARMY ESTIMATES. , The SECRETARY AT WAR prefented the Army Eftimates.—Ordered to lie on the Table. The Right Honourable Gentleman then gave notice that he should move a Vote to the above effect on Wednefday in the Committee of Supply. It was not ufual, and it was in fome degree found obje6tionable to print accounts of this nature. He did not, therefore, intend to make any motion for the printing _of them ; but an abarad, which would anfwer the fame purpofe, ihould be printed and laid before the Houfe. SVPPLY. The Houle, in a Committee of Supply, ordered that the Accounts prefented by Mr. Vanfittart be referred to the laid Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcatopEit moved, " That a fum not exceeding 2,7884321. 155. be granted to his Majefty, for paying off the out (landing and undifcharged Exchequer Bills of the loft year." He explained, as his pnrpofe, the taking out of the market that dais of Bills which paid an intereft of 3id. per day.—Agreed to. Sir PHILIP STEPHENS moved, " That sckooo Seamen, including 12,000 Marines, be granted to his Majefty for the year 1803." Alfo, " That a fum, not exceeding 1,202,5001. be granted to his Majefty, for the wages of fuch &amen, for thirteen calendar months, at 11. 75. per man per month." Alfo, " That a fum, not exceeding 1,235,0001. be granted to his Majefty, for vianalling fuch Sea men for thirteen calendar months, at 11. 18s. per man per month." Alfo, " That a fum, not ex ceeding 1,950,0001. be granted to his Majefty, for the wear and tear of (hipping, to be occupied by faid Seamen, at 31. per man per month." Alfo, " That a fum, not exceeding 162,5001. be granted to his Majefty, for ordnance fea service on hoard Tech (hipping, at 21. per man per month."—\Vhich feveral motions were agreed to, and ordered to be reported to morrow. COMMERCE. General Gascoiciic role, and after alluding to that part of his Majelly's Speech, which related to the flourifbing Rate of our commerce, raid that many doubts were entertained refpeaing that pro fperous Rate in which ourcommerce was now fop. pored to Rand. To clear up thofe doubts was the objea of the motion with which he intended to conclude, and to which he had adverted on a for mer occafion. It was alto his with to anticipate the crellion (a qtteilion in which all the great commercial towns of the country were deeply in teretled), viz. that ref - pelting the duty on tonnage —the repeal of which they were prepared almoll inanimouily to petition for. But on there topics it was not his intention now to . dilate. He should herefore content himfelf with moving, di That there be laid before the Houfe, an Account of the , lumber and the Tonnage of Ships, and of the I 'ail:niter of Men employed in themohat have en- of 011obet.doo, to the toth Ottober Out, and from the tab October 18ot to the toth Oaober 18w, diftinguifhing Britifh from Foreign Seamen, as far as the fame Account could be madeup." The CHANCELLOR of the 'EZCHEQUER Paid, that it was his earneß with to furnith every poffible. in formation to the Houfe on the important point referred to by the Hon. Gentleman; but a variety of circtunftances obliged him to repel, for the pre. fent, the Motion, of the Hon. Gentleman, which could not well be complied with till the 5 t h of Ja nuary, at which period thole accounts were ufually made up. If he withed only to have the Entries of the Port of London, to the period alluded to, they might indeed be thortly made up and laid upon the Table. He did not underftand that the Hon. Gentleman had contradicted the general ftatement of the progreffive increafe of the trade of the country ; but that his objetlions came from a particular quarter—while he acknowledged that our manufactures were dash improving, though our port trade was rather on the decline. He (Mr. Addington) had the fatisfaaion of entertain ing a very different opinion, and withed that an accurate statement of the trade of the part of Lon don might now be laid before the Haute, as it would fully juftify the expectations that were held forth of our commercial profperity ; but it was well known that thefe accounts could not be regu larly made up before the sth of January,to which period he might venture to refer the Houfe for the molt fatisfaaory information on tl2is head. General TARLETON was of opinion that the commerce of the country was in as flourithing a conditon as could he expee.ted after filch a war as that from which we were now extricated. He was in daily intercourfe with his Conftituents, and had heard nothing of the complaints now preferred in their name by his Hon. Colleague. As to the queftion of Peace or War, his conftituents were, no doubt, anxious for the bleffings of the former, as more favourable to their immediate interefts, but they at the fame time had too much difinte reftednefs and loyalty to with to embarrafs the meafures of Government in that refped, and were as ready as any other clafs of his Majetly's fubjeds to expofe themfelves to the burthens and the dan gers of war, whenever the wifdom of Government pronounced that alternative advifable and necef fary. In the mean time his conflituents were anxi ous for peace as moll conducive to their interefts, and he was at a lots to know upon what grounds his Hon. Colleague proceeded in preferring the complaints on which his motion teemed to be grounded. Mr. VANSITTART Paid, that as it was obvious, from the declaration of his Right Hon. Friend, that the motion of the Hon. Member, as it now' Rood, could not be complied with, it was there fore neceffary lie thould either withdraw it . altoge-1 ther, or modify it to fame other (hope ; the returns for the port of London for' inflance. + General GASCOIGHE declared himfelf ready to alter his motion, agreeably to the fuggeftions of the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He did not with to proceed on the idea of the trade of Liverpool alone, but would add four or more of the principal ports of the kingdom. As to what had fallen from his Honourable Colleague refpea ing the intentions of his Conftituents, he had only to fay, that the Honourable General fcarcely vifit ed them but at the time of a general election, and might confequently be ignorant of their fentiments on the points he had adverted to. The Honoura ble General would, however, be loon intirated to prefent a petition to the effect of his intended mo tion. As for himfelf it was by no means his in tension at prefent to stir the queftion of peace or war, but merely to make out to the country, and the Houle, that our commerce was not in that very flourithing Rate in which it was reprefented to be by His Majelly's fpeech ; and moreover, that he had in view to obtain relief for his Conftituents from the tonnage tax, which they felt to be very oppretlive, and in procuring of which relief he ex-' Felted to have the concurrence and co-operation of his Honourable Colleague. Hon. General then concluded with making the following amend ed motion, viz. " That there be laid before the Houfe an account of the number of (hips, their tonnage, and the number of men employed in them, that have entered inwards, or cleared outwards, from the moth Odober sBOO, to the toth Odober 1802, from the ports of London,'Liverpocl, Brit tol, Glafgow, and Hull, diftinguithing the Britifh from the foreign feamen employed therein, as far as the fame could be nude out." Admiral BERKELEY wifhed to wait for the gene- ral return, mentioned by the Right Hon. Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, as the belt ground of form ing a coned opinion. Any general idea formed 1 1 upon returns, which could now be made, mull be partial anr: erroneous, as it was highly probable there would be a greater falling off in the coming three months. The CHANCELLOR of the Excl.' ECVER could not agree even to the modified form of the Hon. Gen tleman's motion ; hecaufe it would only, tend to lay before the Houfe impeded information. He there fore thought no inconvenience could poffibly arife to the Hon. Member's purpofe, from pollponing the return for the short period of time he had men tioned, when perfect information could be had. + The queltion was now put ; and General Gas- COIGN E'S motion negatived, without a divifion. IRISH MILITIA. The Houle then refolved itfelf into a Committee upon the Irish Militia Bill; when Mr. CORRY rote, and obferved that the fitivtion of Ireland had been fuch under the fubfifting laws retpeding the Militia, that it was deemed necetfary to alter them at different times, in order to con form to the preffure of the exilling circumftances.l But now it was judged expedient, for the more eafy enrolment of them, to authorife the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to make advances out of the Treafury of Ireland of fuch a liim as might be neceffary for the above purpofe—that turn to be railed by an affetTment on the diffe rent counties, and to berated by the Grand Ju ries of each county refpeaively. It was his inten tion that the Bill he meant to bring in purfuent to the above_ intention (bold be printed, and that for it. complete and fatisfaetory difcnflion. He wifbed the Bill to be in force only for fix month ' . The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving, 46 That the Lords Commiffioners of his Majefly's Exchequer of Ireland-be empowered to iffue the fum of 40,0001. towards the enrolment of the Mi. litia of Ireland, to be at the difpnfal of the Lord Lieutenant, and to be reimburfed by the ;dreg. ments made by the Grand Juries in the different counties of that country."—Th e motion was agre e d to, and the Report of the Committee ordered to be received to•morrow.—Adjourned. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. . PRICE OF S . rocKs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Conf. 67k—for time 68t. New 5 per Cent. toot 1-omnium tot it dit Long Ann. tol. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY : Bank Stogie sox, 201 Long Ann. 19 9-1617-16 3 per C. Conf. 67167 } 3 per C. Imp. 65 641 3 per Cent. Red. 66t 1 Ditto Ann. t I 7 - x 6 New 4 per Cent. 82111 India 038 tB7k 5 per C. Ann. lot toof i l Ornnium tot tri . S per Cent. 1797, 9 . 9 in conc for opg. 684 67! 68 Yeßaday another Petition was prefented to the Bank by the Holders of Oinnium, playing that the arrangement made for the redemption may be fo far altered as to divide the paymet t of 40 per Cent. in Januar ) . into two payments of 20 per Cera. each—one to be made in January, and the other in April. They further requeß, that, inftead of the payment in january being made on Friday, the 2 t it, it may be either on Saturday, the 22d, of Monday, the 24 th.—They juftify this application to the Diredlors n the ground that by this time the -HANCRL• Loa of the Eitg uEqy Lie may have act:ruined that hev,ill %ram no new loan, or at dealt a very [mall loan, for the fervices of the year; and • hat therefore the Directors, without any charge of caprice or indecifiuu,ntay fafely give the Holders of Ontraurn this further indulgence. The Supply for the Navy was voted Taft night by the Houfe of Commons. The number of Sea. men and Marines to be provided for the enfuing year, is 50,000. The War Eitablilltment was 120,000. French Journals to the 29th ult. have arrived, but without bringing any thing of importance.-- A Hamburgh Mail has alfo arrived, which has brought us the following articles : B s , Nov. s 3 Englifh Ambaffador, Mr. JAcKsox, this day had his audience of in. troduition at Potfdam. Fot the relief of the poor inhabitants of this city, the K. NG has ordered cheap rye bread to be baked by the Royal ViCtualling Office, and diftributed by Commiffioners named for the purpofe, at 51b. for four pe?ce. According to this year's account, the population of Pruffian Silefia, and Gallicia, exclufive of the foldiery, amounts to 1,947,563 perfons. COPENHAGEN, Nov. ao.—Baron KRUDENER, Ruffian Secretary of Legation in Berlin, who was feveral years Secretary of Legation here, arid has married the daughter of the Brigadier HALLINO s has now obtained the favour from the EMPEROR, to fill his former fituation, and is expected fhottly to arrive. - _ STOCKHOLM, Nov. rz.—His Majefty has jua taken a meafure of the higheft importance for the welfare of the kingdom. At the Meeting of the Diet, in 1800, the States of the Kingdoms had, on the gracious propofition of his Majefty, re folved upon the liquidation or realization of the notes of credit (credit mynt) for which purpofe the funds were pointed out, and a plan offered and agreed on. The States, however, left it to the King to carry this plan into effed, with filch modifications as future circumftances should ren. der neceffary, and alio die determination of the epoch moft proper for this operation. This epoch being now arrived, his Majetly has refolved, that in the prefent fituation of affairs, an alteration in the manner of the liquidation is abfolutelyneceltry. On one fide it has been confidered as too burden• Tome for the State to procure fo great a capital all at once in filver as was neceffary, according to the firft plan propofed, with only one-fixth der:Whorl; on the other hand fuch a trifling dedudion would, at the prefent low value of the Notes of Credit, have allured an exorbitant gain to the poffelfors of great capitals in this currency,while the public, on the contrary, would lofe on the price of all goods, which would be diminithed in Bans° value only in the fame trifling proportion as the deprecid. don. The King has, therefore, refolved, that the liquidation, shall take place at one third, or 33f Per cent. on the Notesof Credit, by which regulation the depreciation comes nearer to the true proportion of the Notes, and the prices of goods are brought down to their prefent low Banco value. As Ibis occafinns alio a diminution of the capital of raver, his Majelly has found himfelf enabled to give his fubjedts a fpecial proof of his gracious care, by fully and entirely excufing the payment of the laft half of the Tax on Property, which preiied very hard on perfons of fmall fortune. As perience proves that the commencement of fuch operations of finance is generally oppreffiee r 1 ,3 individuals,the fubjeas of his Majefty w ill not fat' to remark, with the molt lively gratitude, this facrifice on the part of the Government, uttlea.d of any facri fi ce being required from them. Th is liquidation, therefore, is of the following fingular complexion ; the lofs falls on none--the onus. bution on few, and the advantage to all. [The State Paper here alluded to, which is of econScleab li knob, walls biti Veers out Reacts to uterrevra _ _ g k 3 I fr LI t;