Star. — London, England, 1802-07-09 00:00:00

In - to )-e borrowed by the "French merehatlts, at - ..”terr!it of 2; per cent. Fir month. Receat private Letters from Paris uniformly ff.[ ;old), that BON A PAR rE is at tht: eve of lAng "Ertifrerix el the &auk !" That fome plan of great n.ttional moment is at prefent on the tapis is moil certain ; and the Public mind is prepared fot t by thefronurite Official Paper of BON APARM Rullefin dr Paris." We give the curious ar ticle t..-antmitred to us, and without a cont. merit : "GENERAL IDEAS 04 POLITICAL USURPATION. " Srme Writers have given the name of Uflirper t" the kern of ancient Germany ; for my part, I t!::.n!. the expreffion Ujiirper has hcen often, too eien, ufed by Authors without bring defined. " What is ten:l:d Uprpotion always leaves im. pre:l'rd on the mind the idea of a general over throw in politics, brought about by violent means. " It was an l'Arper who caufed the unfortunate HENRY VI. to fall from the Fnglith Th i ev e; an d that fame U . /la:per placed on his own brow a crown which had been enfanuined bra civil war. The Aliatic Annals fometittles thew us an audacious Slave atcending the throne of.his Mailer, whom he either butchered of immured in a perpetual prifon. Such revolution% at vile and ignoble in their origin as atrocious, in the refult, bcar the odious (tamp of Ufurpation-i-but can a political ad which, far from proving deftruditre to fociety, tanks harmony to take the plaie of confufion and anarchy—a political net which, far from being 'violent, brings back the focial fyllem to ideas of Moderation and of jutlice—be degraded by the odious name of Ufirrpation ? to TI we attach too eaten ire a meaning to the espreffion, there will not be found upon earth a folitAry Government, which—in its - otiginwas tot an U . /tope:it& Experience compels us to own, as an bitloiiral axiom, that the belt framed Con flituticals are as mortal as the Legiflators who com bined their parts ; and the Dynallies, which boafi Molt of their antiq.iity, have alfo their decline. should we therefore impeach the tortdatt of an Ank let?, autio, availing hineßf ?lan opportune occeon,fhoukl rear a A'e , :tr Ldffice on the Aof Ale and ruins on old Fe rn's, the hand o f Time had dilapidated ? " Shcachl we call that Great Man an Ufurper, who, ajler recording his claims in the glories: Atchievernente of inunortehty, tale: the place that has ken vacated 17 a Jejuna Djnajiy? is it not at honourable to be their:ll of ore's family ar to pet& of it ? " Arminine does noi defcend from a line of Mo. narchs ; but the day will come when mighty Po tentates will, with pride, reckon him as the firft of their Anceftors. 4 , It would be indecorous to prove, that all Go vernments draw their origin from Ululation; but it is an unpleafant truth, that nothing arias in na ture which does not imply Rendition as its primary cat& " call by the name of Riisalstion thefe coda= verous honors which precede a political re-pro dation. There is, however, album of cenfolo. lion flowing to poor humanity from all thefe images of deal which furround it—the conclulion of onrznortal exiftence is for us the principle of Ont. immortality —an Empire decays only to make Teem for New Cities—and Hillary then fees with ailaniihment the bloom of youth (nand the tie. crepitude of old age. Thus has the Osterman Power fprung Irons the wreck of CONSTAIITINZ'S may Empire. " It becomes here efrential to obferre, that the periods which feem to bear the &amp of Ufa/arias are thofe at which Nations pats from a Rate of tor. por and humiliation to the higheft degree of power ' ind of glory. Let us call to our reeolleaion thofe celebrated men whom hiftory (which is not unite qnently giddy in the fentences the pronounces) has branded with the unfavourable appellation of tifiirpers, and we !hall find that the greater part of them were aflonifhing mortals, whom Nature created by intervals for the purpofe of remedying Tome 2,70fs errors in the order of Society. Com pare the political circumllances which preceded them with thnte which their fhperinr genius called forth, and you will perceive that their exaftence has been the molt fortunate event for the people whole delliny they corrected. " Who ever had the prefitmption to arraign the memory of DEJocss ? The Medes, his Fe tizer.s, having adopted the Republican fyikem, had been long a prey to the tyynating rage of Democracy. —Dttocts, who often had led them to viaory, fubmitted them to wife and prudent laws. Refeu lug them from the dangerous Murton: of Liberty nirh ihg arver pied, he bolSjand hont . ftly proclaim ed impf the Fie! Xing of the Medee—furroutitkd ieY with a brilliant Court—mod appeared to his new, uljee, in the tnicy of all the pomp of Royalty ! ! I " He knew how to give power and add fplen dour to his Government ; and be therefore became the founder oldie greateft empire in •Ija. " Was Hisao, that wife Icing, an Uf: V The peopl e ofSysaerfi laid their tumultu o u s • hire at his feet t they called him Father; when he died, all the Sicilians became orphans, and wept over his tomb !—H a d h e rema i ned in the order of private citizens, Sicily, a prey to the consitlfions of anarchy, would not have been, during 30 years of hit .L- I- • Of • • • mzir PARLlamsmt. MEMBERS RETURNED. AtlaburtonaL.Sir Hugh Inglis, Walter Palk. Efq. Appleby—John Courtenay, Efq. Philip Francis, Elq. Andover—Mho:ton Smith, Efq Hon. Newton Feitowea Aylelbury—James Dupre, Efq. Rob. Beet, Efq. Bath—Lord Johd Thynne, John Palmer, Efq. Beverley—John Wharton, Efq. General Burton. Brackley—Jobb Wm. Egrnon, Efq. Sam. Haynes, Eft. Bridgewater...iGeorge Pocock, Efq. Jeffety Allen. Efq. Chetter—lord Beigrave, Thomas Grohenoe, Efq. Chriftchurch—Right Hon. George lore, Wm. Sturges, Efq. Calne—Lnrd Henry Petty, Jofekh Jekyll, Eft. Harwich—John Robinfon, Efq. MI6 Myers, Efq. Hereford—John Scudamore, Efq. Thos. P.Syntonds, Erg. High Wycombe—Sir J. Ildliwood, Sir F. Baring. Hindon--Thoa. Wallace. Efq. James Pcdley, Erg. I.teggerlhalt—Earl of adkrith, Thor. Everett, I*W-id—Sir John Wrottraey, Thos. Ado'', Erg, Kdron--lityan Cooke., Efq. C.L. Dundas, Erg. Portfmouth—Hon. Thos. Ertkine, Capt. Markh.:m. Prekon—Lord Stanley, John Horrackn, Efq. Tanivorth—: ir Robert Peek, General Loftus. Totm.fs—Wm. Adams, Efq. John Berkley Sullen& Efq. Tiucrion—Right Hon. Dudley Ryder, Hon. Rd. Ryder. Whitcf.urch—Hon. W. A.Towndtend, Hon. W. Broderick. The Pile of Wight EleCtions have paired over witho'it the fmallell oppoiition : Sir ROBERT Baact.ar, Bart. Thr3gmorton-itreet, and CHAS. CHAPMAN Efq. of Somerfetlhire, fit for the Old Borough of Newton, and J. BLACKBURN, Efq. of New Broad-fireet, an 3 G. KERR, Efq. of Ire land, are to reprefent Newport. Ctri. —A the dole of the poll yefterday in Guildhal, the numbers were as follow - - - - Alderman Condi. TBs9 B. Traver), Efq. Price - 1743 Sir W. Lewis Gatti - 16ot W. Liathington Anderfon 1333 SOVTIIWARII ELECTION.At the dole of the Poll yeilerday the numbers were : - 733 ' 3 8 9 1 - 90 Mr. liorntoa a 1607 I Sir Thomas Tart= x '33 Mt. Tierney - 5345 At fix o'clock laft night Sir THOMAS Tout rom declined giving the Eleaurs any further trouble. Mr. Tammy. and Mr. TIERN IT were then de• dared duly eleaed, amielft the acclamations of the populace. The two fuccefsful candidates re turned thanks, and the Borough was Lift night filled tvlthloy .at its triumph, in having been able to exercile its voice, uninfluenced by any fpecies of corruption. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. —The infant the clock ftruck four, the entertainments of the Sep tennial Covent Garden Theatre, again com nienced ; the three principal performers came for ward on the Rage, and the farce of the UPHOL STSN alt was repeated to a very crowded and (inv_ lady brilliant audience, particularly in that part which formed the pit.—The fymbol of caftigation,l which one of the company had amufed himfelf with shaking in front of the Rage, on the two for mer days, was withdrawn, but inftead of it, there Rood up one who towered above the ref a full head or more,and after vociferating " take care of your pockets"—" Don't Rand fo near them, Cher/.7!" —exhibited, not a whip or a fword, or a mace, but an implement of more unequivocal lethiferom fignification—an hempen halter. This he threw on the Rage, but neither of the Candidates for po. pular fame was diverted from his courfe by this infidious ftratagem—they all avoided the fatal prefent, as though it had been a rattleinake hurled among them. A man with a broad pair of thou'. den, and a face as black as Vulcan's fmithy, up lifted his iron hand, and clenching it, exclaimed, 44 Charley, my boy, we, the Majefty of the people, defire to know immediately, whether the poll is doled or not r'—Mr. Fox, in obedience to the commands of that defpotic Sovereign, in whore name he had been appealed to, replied, it was clofed, and that the numbers were as frilow Mr. Fox 876 I Lord Gardner 753 I Mr. Graham 343 Mr. Fox faid, the fupport which had been given him, had made that impreffion of gratitude on his mind, which it ought to do. He had only to re peat what he had flirted yellerday, that it was the Inter& of every one, that the contea thould be put an end to as loon as poffiblc, and there were no means fo effeelual for that purpofe as every voter, whoever might be the Candidate, whore caufe he efponfed, coming forward, and giving his vote without delay. • Lord GARDNER elfayed to fpeak, but his words were drowned in the lea of popular clamour. The Noble Admiral had no command whatever, over fuch a mutinous crew. Mr. GRAHAM laid, he (hould Se the molt infen fible man alive if he did not know how to fix a jun apply:Oat& on the favour of his friends, who had one him the honour to uthold him. He bad no way of filming that gratitude, but by remaining at his port and giving every one an opportunity of kidding for articles fo dear to them as their elec tive rights and privileges undoubtedly were. It was not, however, 114 with to difturb the peace of the City of Wellminiler. He had offered to clofe the poll on Saturday, and Mr. FOX in the moll handfome manner bad confented, but Lord Gard ner bad refuted (bravo I bravo ; cane forward Ad miral, and explain your mien): It was impolTable that he for one moment could have thought of fu perfeding a man In eftablilhed in bufinefs as Mr. Fox was ; he protefted he never had a thought of taking any one of his cuftomers from him. He had no fuel' defire now. His defire was to join in partnerfhip with Mr. Fox, whole oratory, he con. felled, was even fuperior to that of Mr. Chrillie. of Pall.mall (infant peals of laughter). He walled oisut to 'oin him under the firm of Fo x an d G ra h am s, (laving of hands, and loud acclansatiosu).— intention was to beat Gardner, if he could, and in fad he had no doubt of his fuccefs. He concluded by entreating his opponent might be heard. Lord GARDN ER was proceeding to (late hiscon fidence of being at the head of the poll, but the hides of that many headed Hydra, the mob, fi lenced him. Mr. GRAHAM (aid, he hoped to have an ample Catalo g ue of Votes to-morrow. The Candidates were cheered to their refpeetive Head-quarters, where the enjoyment of the gifts of Bacchus and Ceres terminated the third dasy. Esssx.—At the county meeting, holden yeller. day, oppofite the Shire Hall, at C..helmford, the SLutrift J . • . At koinderable length, and, renpitulated the A vefal liana of his public addrefs.; but doted it, by 'hand ells declaring. that he fliould abide by the nomination Of the refpellable gain.* the'. pre fent. Aftet i Mr. Rimy, of Witham, and tome other perforis, had fpoken on that tide, R ALP H KNIGHT ALLEN, Efq. in a recommendoryfrech, propofed Mr. BuacorwE to be put in nomination, which *ai feconded by Mr. TODD. BAILIT Efq. here offered lartifyilf as a Candidate ; but as he was not feconded, his name was afterwards omitted by the Sheriff in n')mi. 1 nation. Mr. MAJENDIt, after expatiating, in handfozr.?! terms, on the tried public, and private merits of Colonel BU LLOCK , propo fed him to be put in no mination, as a Gentleman in'every relpeet worthy of being re-ele/ted to ferve the county in Parlia ment. He was fecnnded by Mr. R. B4KE.K. Sir H. Mt Lntaity then came forward, aid after an elegant eulogium on the public fervices, and family claims of &tail HARVEY, Efq. propofed him as a Candidate every way qualified to fill the important fituation which he now folicited. Mr. Hounion, after an appropriate addrefs, fcconded this motion. Colonel By Ei.bc K now advanced, and in a fliort, but very neat, and impreffive fpeech, replied to tame allufions that had been diteeted againft him, on the fcore of negleeting his parliamentary duty, afruring the Meeting, that he would how to their decifion, whether it might be, that he timid con tinue in their fervice, or retire into private life. Mr. HARVEY next cattle forward, and in a con cife, energetic fpeech, declared his pretenfions, and principles. Mr. BRA MSTON now advanced, to return thanks to this refpedable body of his conflituents, for the honour, and repeated marks of favour which he hal fo flatteringly received at their hands, for four and twenty years; a term, he Paid, which, without vanity, he believed might have been prolonged by their kiadnefs more than his defects, had he not felt it expedient on private confidera tions, to decline. The Hon. Mr. HINNIKSR Majoa, in a neat fpeech, mentioned the principles on which he bad addreffed the County by public advertifenent ; but added, that he was happy at all times to concede his own fentiments to the general opinion. Capt. CONYERS now addreffed the Sheriff, and Paid, that 'WWI the indifpolicion of his father, he had been authorized by him to declare, that if the nomination went in favour of Colonel But.- LOCK and Mr. HARVEY, it had his approbation. ' There was now conliderable confttfion, from feveral Gentlemen attempting to fpeak at the fame time in different parts of the waggons drawn . up inconveniently as !tunings. At lati the %cliff put the feveral Candidates M nomination, after which he declared the Thew of hands to be in fa vour of JOHN BULLOCK and ELIAB HARVEY, Efqrs. Mr. BURCOYN E here addrelfed the meeting again, at the clot - , of which he declared. that he thould tell fatisfied with the appearance of numbers at that meeting, which he law was not in his favour. The elediou comes on neztAonday, at Chelnuf ford. • 4., Members of Parliament ftibuld be aware that ; their privilege of franking does not commence till • the 22d, (4o days before the return of the writs for the new Parliament.)—The Pott Office now not only charge the inclofure of a Member, but the franked cover as a feparate letter. On Monday, at an extraddinary Meeting of the Lord Provo ft , Magiftrates, and Council o f the City of Edinburgh, it was unanimoutly refolved to ered a Statue of the Right Hon. HENRY DUNDEE, in an appropriate place within that city. The York Huffars are at Cowes, waiting cnn• veyances for Germany, having been difbanded agreeably to flipulation. The men have uniformly refuted to enter into any other foreign Corps in Britilh pay at prefent, or into any of the batta lions of the both regiment, though they are molly compofed of their countrymer. Yefierday the LORD MAYOR, accompanied by the Recorder, Sheriffs, and Town Clerk, went to St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, where they held a Court of Confervancy and received the report of the Jury. They held likewife a Court for Middle. fez, at the Thatched hole Tavern, St. James's, where they afterwards dined. • Colonel . GREVILLR had his pocket picked on Monday 'an, at Lord's Ground, of calls to the amount of 301. By the Hamburgh Mail of yelterday we learn that the Archduke Came Les, we are happy to find, has returned to Vienna in perfeit health. Five thoufand Turkifh troops had, on the 7th ult. reached the neighbourhood of PAswAN °CLOD'S quarters in Wallachia, and a decifive battle was foon expe!tcd to take place. Letters from Italy mention that the King of SARDINIA has fallen into a Rate of complete ins. beeility.—He has laid afide every fymbol of royal ty, and has takeh up his refidence in the town of Subbacio, where he propofes to fpend the remain ' der of his days. Letters from Con (Lan tinpple Rate that the Turk. ifh troops are at prefent prevented from making any exertions againll the Beys, by the dreadful ra vages of the plague. This diforder, by the latea accounts, had not in the leaf' degree abated of its virulence. Letters from the Hague of the 25th ult. obferve, " The Members of the new adminiiiration of the Cape of Good Hope are all affembled in the Tele', together with thole who are to be employed in the civil and military departments in that colony.— The troops of all defcriptions, amounting to shoo men, will be embarked by the 3ot h o f ,tune, and the fleet will be all ready for fea by the ill or 3d of July. wind and weather fervi n g. Th e f qna d ron intended to take poffefflon of Surinam, Demerara, and Eifequibo, will fail immediately after. Not withflanding the great force which the Govern ment is fending to the colonies in the Eaft and Weft Indies, Baron STSIRENDACH continues to recruit for its fervice in Germany with aelivity.--' The prafent Government is refolved to keep up, CORY MiIRKET3. CORM INSPiCTORS RETURN FROM OXIIIRiDCI. JUL 8. taeat. per Load, from 161. Jos. to 191. Barley, per Carter, from 11. los. to 11. 14s. atts, per Qoarter, from 11. to 11. 6s. per (Zo . arter, from 11. I 2s. to It t6s. Pea::, per (Z2:trier, horn 11. 18s. to 21. 2f. MARIC•LAR6, JULY 9. We can note no material alteration in the Wheat Trade from ha Mond ty, nor do we think an? other Ipecies of Grain has materially varied— hnich will depend on the we:Wier for oar furore fltittuations. We quote our prices of th:f s:h, and refer thereto for particular information : Englith Wheat, per quarter, 465.545. 665. to 645. and 7cs. Foreign Ditto, 6os. 665. Fine Dantzic Whtat, nominal. Rye. 325. 345. Barley, 20S. 265.—(Malting) 305. 335. 345. Malt, 465. sos. 515. 0.125, 16s. tys. 2 is. Horfe Beans, (New) 3 05. 335. Tick Beans, (clew) 265. 295. Hog Peafe, 305. 345. Boilers, 345. 38s. 395. Carraway Seed, 365. to 435; per ewt. Coriander, 265. to 295. per cwt. Canary, 745. to 78s. per cwt. Rape Seed, 31.1. to 361. per laft. Flour sos. 535. per fack. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY. WIND S. W. LIRIVID. K PORTSMOUTH, TtJLY 8. This dayarrieed a man of war, but the weather being thick and hfl i could not learn her name kin time for po e Alexander, MaxWeLt. ; and the Lord DuncAti, 'Norma, were this day releifed from quarantine. The Albion, Hool, has got nnder weigh for Barcelona, but it is doubt. ful whether The will be 'able to get away, the wind being ibutherly. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. nEALi JOLT 3..—Salled the Wooltrich, Itorefhip, for the Wcit Indies; Tottenham, for the Fat! Indies ; and the Dart, for the South Seas.-. Wind S. W. GOAVCIEND, JOLT 8.--Paged by the Unit is, front Martinique; Lady Parker, Boag, front Arti k , ; Phenix. T ' Baird, from Tobago,; Wafhlngton, Scott, from Cit.trleatawli; Commerce, Fowler, from Dantzie ; Dolphin from Savannah; Nile, Fifher; and Comet, —, from Demerara ; Rot:al Ad miral, Wilfon, front China ; Comet, Tait; land Le viathan, Bryce, from Trinidad; Cygnet, Farr; Lord Ros,l - Turnbull; Salt's, Dunn ; Thetis, Lowry ; Claren d on, Fled ; Reward, Leech; Sir Godfrey Webiter; Skinner; tt t id Willoughby, Lovett, from Jamaica.—Sailed the , :•zkel , on tle, Pittman, for the Ealt Indies; Favoiirite, for Genus; Venus, Barret, for Hamburgh ; 'Union, Stnalea, for Newfoutoi. land; and the Graff Van Beroftoff, —, tor Marki:h.a. Off Dover—The Harpooner, Kentfhaw ' from Qurbee. At Briltul-a-Lord Ndfotr, from Dporto. . . At Hoylake—Sir Sidney Smith, Patridge, from Patti& At Clyde—Recovery, Camphtli, from New York. At Auerpuol—Charlotte, flushes, (turn Surinam. At Cork--Fame, Freeman, from Virginii. At Hanaburghw4.lbe, Landfltalls, from London; and the Nymph, Gratbam, from London. At Gibraltar-a-John and Ann, from London. At Chatlefton—Mac, Hill, from Clyde. At Nantz—Eagle, Parker, from New Balton!. . At CadlO—Rebecca, Sinclair, from Liverpool; and Triton, from Jerky. Yefterday a Court of Direaors of the Ea a India Company was held at the India Houle, which ad journed to Wednelday next. The Devaynes, Cap tain ADER La r, for Bengal direa, is under difpatch. The Rofe, Herr N STALL, from St. Vincent's to London, fprung a leak three days after failing, and put into St. Kitt's on the aBth of April, ant unloaded to repair. The Mercury, Bicaan, from Bolton to New foundland, is lolt. The Mother Ramfav, -, from Milford to Madeira, is put into Scilly with damage, and the cargo landed. The Leda, Avatigsms, from London to Hondo. ras, was loft near Honduras, a4th April, part of the cargo Caved. A letter received by the Royal Admiral from Canton fays, « Monfieur IsIicNOLAS Jossva RAUx, the Supreme of the French Miffionaries, arrived in the City of Pekin, in China, on the 3d of Sep tember kit ; and has received the Emperor's per million to purfue his facred fundions in any part of the Chinefe dominions. CRlCKET.—Wednefday was played a grand Match of Cricket, at Swanley, Kent, between eleven Gentlemen of Bexley, and eleven Gentle men of Swanky, for Soo guineas which was won by the latter by IT runs. The race upon which fo much was betted, be tween Co&kr (Mr. Pars's), a brown horfe, aged, and Mr. WHALEY'S MO, a brown horfe, four years old, half a mile, eft. slb. each, for 200 guineas each, p. p. was won by the latter, by near a length and a half, or not quite fo much, on Tuefday, on the race courfe at Bibury ; young Cutraty rode IVilla in a mallerly manner. Both parties, vie. Colletior and Ifrilir's friends were much difappointed, owing to the heavy rain ; the Welch Harper not attending as was expeCted to welcom e in the .former boric if he won ; and the Irith Bag-Pipes the latter. GolleSer had many Wel% friends, and the Man of Middlefex as many hint. —The purfe of one of the Welch gentlemen wat lightened a good deal ; Colktior has fcarcely ever been a beaten horfe, as he wen all the plates, the fweepftakes, and hunters plate at Carditr lan year n Wilke won for the firft time, by which he ationith ed many of the knowing ones, no horfe being more abufed than he was at the Epfom Races ; he tra velled lout days journey from thence to meet his antagoniil at Ilibtiry. We hear Colletkr challenged urn..... " I I. I Is :r '; r. be t- Is