Star. — London, England, 1802-12-03 00:00:00

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PART IL—Three Cheers, The Harmony of the Alktlions, Th< Three Sifters, The AA= Hasp, Joitcring °MO . & SW*, The Barber's Shop. pAR'r ill. The Wind and the Rain, The Parachuti, The p e va Outwitted. Tbe Union of Lam and Wine, A Haw! ei the War, Moss VATS& Tbe whole is written and competed, sad will be fpoken, i s ni, and aecontpanied by Mr. DIBDIN. Bole , ss . Pit 3.. Gallery ,s. —Doors tobe opened at Seven, sad to begin canal/ at ' Books of the SAW to be fold at the noire. Maces for the Beam to be WM es and at Laitarg sa i muci lage, where . m ai be had all the Articles in Mr. Dellibil a ge proper& for the pnblieatioa, by Mteription, of his Pro fegeoel Life, with the Words of Slat Hundred Sonp,and with sem Plata from their Babied*, is aguseinta. ~ Th e Ladies." " The tweets et Love:" The Parachute," *The Toaft,"" The Sapling." Harmony of the Affix rms, " One," The Devil Outwitted,* Water Cafes," • The Wind and the Rain," " Wet Cheers," Deily of tha D a b!' The Poet to hie Pen," . o lekering Giles," " The Unite of Love and Wine," " The Barber's Shop," " The RAW , Harp," • and " The Three Sifters." arc publithed. On Venday-willbepubliihed " The !triable Pig." And' a difiltrait Song' as every Thurfday and Monday ening thoWintri,- a! well train the New Entertainment, as Heron from tfaofe Seaga misaipoted of tinging and recitation, which lam hitherto remained sa npsabibed. The above Entertainment will be repeated Mondays, Thud days, and Saturdays. The futon will dare on tie dila of De o:Aber. Tbe Pamir* are to be let or fold, poi telion to be given at arißmas. • . RENT. • •-J. • ..• • TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 1N OW' LOT, • it the Saracen's Hraillon, in Alford, on Tudday the 701 day of December neat, between the hours of Twelve and 00 ; 4v • .• THE. following FREEHOLD JESTATES, knee in the Farina of Skadiehutft, tboist. (oar miles Sam the Town 0 Albfratit• , • , - • • • AM that parcel of Woodland, called Great Turfs Wood, colorising by climatical .sco Acres. more or Ids, abundantly teed with gnod • adrift Timber, and the Underwood in pod condition, tit farm* /diets of tot: years geowtb ; and all that One otherPartel elf Woodkild,fituated near the above, aged Stone Wood, containing by Aron 23 Acres; more sekk, the Timber and, Underwood whieli was felled lad you—The Awes if Menem ;reel ih coteplete , . It is rated to the Lad Tat at at and to the Pete at iBL per Mews. • For farther paftieniare enguire.of Mars. jemmett and Son, Anomie& at Lair. Affiford, who are autherifed to treat for the de car the above by Priiato Coma# toge gams. sha ikkaaratelj , . • or Zca l kapiag . • It s = SOLD TIT.AUC'hON-.By T. YORKE; • Aids eh aillbithin Muddily, on YseMoy.the yid dist Of Detemberifilles..arid foilkiwing day, A VALUABLE Coßeeioo .:ot gABINET PICTUIPUL by F. ifeLs, C. Ban., Otn Fuse's, Vettiv Batociapc, Tames% Rosalie, nd other &Were; ingther with BMW, PRDITSair.c. Property of a.den denim leasibg the Uniebrilty; Arotiotft tilde Mures h a link by Boungoyneme, one et tiatiew.red Mures by that Maker at meat is tbi kingdom ! . Ti which will be added,, a creat, number of Medea POOMAITS, chiefly of noble and Elsitiims Perrone in the Bettie air Henry Bth, Edward 6th, Mary, and Eligabeth, which wine milimitedhy an ernineni An tiquary about thebegbining of the century ; intone thde ire PieZtares of die Bari of Arundel, Catherine. Comptes of Pembroke, Lord High Admiral Cantos?, the fampus Sergeant Geed% tee. of, wlioni there are no .other appientie Portraits bows. Catalaei mai be had at.* Place of -Sale ; of the delimiter ; at the Rainbow Cistee-houfr:, • - . , iitIIEHCiI.D. ESTATE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. 4sitipriT Os M•nday, Deeembei 13, gat, between the Wirt of ' dx and eight in the evening, it die Croirn Inn, Gallwart, in dif- VERLass, Y Delirable FRiEHOLA Oblate at MILTON, in 'the Piwith of lavaltoke, and within bait a wile of the Town of Garnet, now m to Mr. Bury Widiear, Whore Term eipires at Miiiiiidnias nest; 1103; &lidding ofa Fartaattinfe; Barn, Stable, Cart-Honk, sod Yard, Facto-five Cn*.anary Actcs . and Thirty-Ave Poles 4 Rich Ambit and Meadow Ladd.—Tbe fituation is (nth as robe worth, the *tendon itt any Gentleman.dthrono oto re &knee near Otigort ot Partfinenth. ai th u c at Cett p art the Load —athatay Adios . ihe load ' : and Aliaftokt to the LandogitontiotiMeh,With a Houfe-b ßerrl oUt: th—nuNweild command a mat Sul hew of the Towns ciPolooth and Odpart, the Dock Yalrd,Portfmnota Hap, ken the Ilk of Wight, tageeker with a Maple:trans ;warped% at Partition' end tie areseent Coinstm Tkeneighbotirkong_ is very passel, skidoo rii‘o estrattelt Omia- Thel•soiXatte rokasted , / * animist" amp ha bed the Crown Inn, Cktfport ; the " w it PortfmOodti Blea r • ; Dolphin. Soaks/op us; Mr. Mann, at Pasitans; bat*" TitchAarli Mr. Woodwaid,' Primer Porde. I. and dt Mt. Witteer, the to wilt, who Will 6m%* Preialko: ivoicurtiistititE. CAPITAL FREEHOLD MANSION HOW*, At /kaki*, with immediak Potting& TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, On Monday, the 13t h f i er of top l apper neat, at the Crown Inn in Ems, Woretherili . re, between the Haim of 3 and 5 in t'ac Evening. &Mod. to Conditiont of Sale, which fluil be then and these produced . (voids prevlogly difpofed EihY Private Contrat,of dal& Reliant notice Will be given Innis Paper ' ) AL L that fpac inns and taiiital FREEHOLD NuiNsioN 116USE,fubitAntiallY built and in complete 1 914, eligibly (ltasca hi the centre of the Borough of Evefham, t'g laic property and reglente of Charles Welch, Efq.dreelfed; which cocclpriks admirable room, Arched cellars, a veftibule, WI) sting and drawing-rooms, of lame dimenficep, midterms es:client airy bed-chambers, corrteatatt fervants' apartmenu, two *dee% hitw-bonk, wadolouk, laundry, liable, granary, sod all otter Oath! buildings, together *kb a garden, plant frekhoeked with huitptrees, behind. which eatends from the neck near to the bob of the River Avon, and commands luso. riant views ',the forrou n din g ach vale of Evdhato ; the whole f2egng a fingularly complete and truly defirabie refidenee hr a Gentleman of large family; the houfe might at a (mall esPence be converted into two bodes, each of Adds would be Mandy well eakuleted for any trade or bands which re fights a shop in front, and roomy warchoufes behind, and the ,_ l4 dee, from its commie* filtration to the Avon, is a very de mr3, Mt fps for a yard, of fur ending vratehonfes, and as the 7°W. eter Of theft Prendfes win be entkkd to a right of road ye , * the ad honk, a confiderable part of it might be U Plratul frown the withost the fmalleil inconvenience. etther Particulars may be known at the Office of Lomond sole• Sandlots, Tiptop apse Severn, Woreefterfldre.. L ... nt.Plrebster eras weasnaolintal with rot grobirget SHIP OWNERS. A T General Meeting of SHIP OWNER S , I—IL held the bay of December, zitos, at vie Landon taian, td receive the Report of the Coniniittee of Ship 04u era far the Port of London, r 'putting "the Duty on the Ton " nape of Ships, and on Oil and Skins, tile Produce of the " Bridal FlEacries," and on other Bands of great Importance to the Shipping bstereft ; Mr. HILL,, in, the Chair, The Chairman diced the verities important objeas relative to the general bawd! of Shipping, whit!' during the WI flu mosplis bad been febetitted to the confederation of the Com mittee. The Reftddthiiis of the Special General Meeting of the 3cth Da, of September tall, were then rtad and cotifitmed. The Secretary afterwards read Cenral Letters from the bin ports rdpating the Tannage Duty, which were referred tb the Committee. . The Chairman then impeded the refuh of the (ceond inter- vievi W the Committee with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of I the Eadtactuer. and Rated that they had been tumble td convince 1 itifti of the impolky and injurious tendency of the Doty on the , .Tatausc of Ships,. and, on Oil and Shins, the Produce of the 404101beriet, and eonfequentlg of the urgent needlity of ; 4 , 03= the , raw. • cd ananimoony, That the Ccimniittee be inftrudied 141:dit on the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and to requeft his 1404 to pare= to 66Mo°. the Houle of Commons, the Pillitton of the Ship Owners is: the Port of London, for the ... ifiliked .of the Dsity on the T 'of Ships, Mid on Oil and , • , the Produce of the Britt& . unanimoully, That the Committee be inftruded to requeft the other Members el Parliament for the City of Lon don, the Members of 'Parliament for the Borough ef South- Vieth, end for the COunlies of Middldex and Surrey, to attend in the Houk, of Commons, to rapport the Petition when pa rented by e Right Hon: the Lena Mayor. addvai Inanimmalahat.it be tusominended to the Coln. midge , previeus to the Petition betas parented by the Right the Lord Mayor, to the Houk of Commons ' to wait upon, not only the feetral Membeni of Parilamerit for the Oat-Ports, who have :vedwid Petitions from their Ciotti teems, fur the repeal of the Towage Doty, but likewik updn thofe Menthes whci have been requefted to fupport the appli cation for the Gime. Refolved unanithouffr, That the Carimiitee be requested to adopt fuck farther means towards obtaining the Repeal of the Tonnage Duty as they may think proper. Refolved Onsoinundly, That the following Gentlemen be added to the Committee for the Port of Loodon, for the current Tear, six. Mt. Ralph Zeddey, Mr. Thomas Old, and . Mr. Robert Chapman. K having been Stated to the Ship Owners parent at the Meet , lag, that many Individuals bad experienced great inconv ni emu from the adieus which had been comb: need againit them for net returning in o the Admiralty the Miditatanean Palls of their repedtive Ships; Rdoived, That the Committee be inftrueted to take! Into their immediate Coedideratios the pre eat Situation of many Ship 1 wool', with refpeet to Mediterranean Paffes which may have granted for their rerpedire Ships, and inadvertent , . ly loft Wend.' • ed tmaniasoney, That the Thanks of the Ship Owners prefent at this Meeting be given to the Committee for the Port of London, for their conitant and inddatigable attention to the feveral important Matters ;dative to the Shipping laterelt, which have been febmittad to their anfideration. Refoived unanimously, That the Thanks Of the Ship Owners prdast at this Meeting be given to the Chairman, for his un wared allidaity and attention to the general intereft of Sbip Owners. I Refolved,Tbst there Refolotionn be printed, and tranfmkted I to the Ship Otraies at the'Out-Peethod lamed io the kteral Ills j). 10 41 figt. acd btr ey 4n blel t a* of hei- m t artree the 1191 we mom! le Mar.: wat re. for the he per, itn xnd ught_ he las vas the Ti. LidgAte, alinured Ineflions ncuccefil et- :tge wlcdg c d lilt into prifon. lth Mrs. a debt his fel: to the Lich tiler, fet and foci. is fcarce of mar: told bet her ant his maa; They. 1 he was' le &condi lent, "a , as MIN roman Cl ery inde. be jut' In of the Fletcher? Fletcher? 'her, al l 4. wlettgink ticks, ins. wed AA . morning nth from Idiadaeoti, nis% c bode o I , hitedi Ists nee: guilt 10. n . Mutit is apiPl. in the in- As them . night ?Or_ • guilty . ci • Ince psis- R, for Real• an Cooper.:• s Aram till ethe of Chicheftgro • n Payeeel PaTfie tin4 :r oP.Patr i Tleged.O . tk s :koti2JlW., 4 1, Efq. to mrs. itrect. as of *bcl [-court, Grace s, lifter 3 11444 , captain Jaw di Ir. IA in. Pod. ntnel Hastert cy, Lliagshirs. 4 Siriaeris s4 'need NO. V re4 She heft 6 . 1 ° 81 trolY airiG" Eft Of A ve. I . 0 44° t er ' ter ;1431,A r Al Pllerqn rd !T_ 2a . P. 3 hicik.4- 111, F:11,113.41; DECEMBER s, Tito* . .- . . ;-1 BANNARELSTQN; who tefided at gout! Stitlecin the County of Durham, previOns to the Rebel lion in %lib& (anti who it Is bellered *tarried a foLiier and went yofrebsed at the connnehcement of the kebslikta) be living, and wlit ap*to Mr. Maftennalt ? of &allele?: YotirJhire ; or Mr. Carey-fttvet, Lincoln's ion Loudon, tie will hear of foniething to her advantage ; or, i f be dead, any perfon ing information of her death to Mr. Matt:groan or Mt • will be rewarded for their troablso—Nov..as, sfot• • 7 Rim WHEEL. • 4. • SIX DAYS of the prefent LOrl'E air to draw. i Prize of - X. 25,006 s 50,006 ' 3 • •.‘ ,' 4 3. 000 '5 - •t. 409 etabie. 14. ; Price oft ticket A: IS' " Half - L 9 9 • MOO d 28 6 Quarter - 4 16 0 asSessids - 14 6 SWIFT and Co. Oki State Lottery Ogee, No. li, PouLT sr. CY The Ticket PR 452-1. drama YefterdaY a Priseo f One Thoufand Poutds e *Ss IsktAt Astro at this OP* _ • -Y It Errigisim OP' TIffIrStARIREY IRON RAU:WAIN' AT a Meeting of the Committee for the Exton fon of the Surrey Iron Railway through the Counties of Surrey,Sulfex and Hants, to the Sea Coaft, held at the Spread Eagle Inn, in Wandfworth, on Tuefday, the 23th day of No vanber, GEORGE TRITTON, Efq. in the Chair, The Chairman reported, that he and foam other Members alended at the King's Arms Inn,in Croydon, on Tuefday laft, as a deputation from this Committee, to meet the Gentlemen of Landed P ! uptray in the vicinity of Reigate and Goditone, for the fpecihe purpofe of receiving the Survey, Eitimate, and Re port of Mr. Jeffop, on the heft line ibrextending the Iran Rail way to London. That the Meeting was accordingly held, when Hylton Jot liffe„Efq. was called to the Chair. They had fearcely proceeded in the , bufinefs of the day, when a number of paws, cosmeaed with or employed on the Croydon Canal,propofed a fet Of Refolutleas which they bad previeully drawn up, and which were totally irrelevant to the bafineb of the day. • By fuperior numbers they carried their Refolutions againft the unanimous opinion•of the Gentlemen who had contributed to she . Survey, notwithitanding the repeated caution of the Chairman, thit they were ailing in apparition to a Refolution entered into 6y the Cunkinen of the County, at a Meeting held at Reigate, on the vh,initant, and which had been con vened by Public Advatffemene. In siorequenceof this Report it was Refolated unanimoully. That the Refolutions propokd and carried by Per ko= interefted in the Croydon Canal, at Croy don, on Tuefday the 23d inftant, are totally kr leant to the obj;ft for which the Mectingwas held, and ifierefore, That a Medial& aftbrComanittee, and other Subkribers to the extenaen of the Surrey Iron Railway be held at the King's Arms Inn, in Croydon, on Tuefday, the 7th day of December net* .t eleven o'clock in tbc forenoon, to receive the furvey, eftimate and report of Whirrs. Jeffop's, for the extenflon of the fame to London and Po &non& That the above refolutioasligned by the Chairmaikand Other, Members of the Committee, be printed in the Publih Papers. GEORGE tiutrop, Chairman. Hylton idle& Richard Maio : li at 7 14ar ed ItIV- ood • Robert Were, Matthew Kenrieh J. P. Reynold! Martin &eon Reynolds Rd. Barnq Richard Ginter ohn Moore Thomas Stith Johil Hilbert • - *M. B. LUTTLT, gecietary. Woodworth, Nov. as, dos. • L . t: PRICE SIX-PENCE.* LijarßirrrAk reR o CZED MOS. that threaten us, let us confider the maritime Rate - of Europe : When we look at Ruffla, in the &ft 14 0 012 OP annA ollll , llloo -SD. AY•DEC• inflance, we unfortunately find a thong partiality A Petition Waapreated ansiektiocilloftion for Newcaltio• • • In tnat power towards the views of France, at lea% nder-Line, which was oirdecal tobsttakttn into confalcration nn die aeth of March. • for fome time back, though from the moderate • ' Mr. As.ex Ati 021 beaten up ele itkport of the Committee charader of the prefent Emperor 'and Col* late on the Irith Tae Refolatinas were feveralli read circumllances, there maybe a limit reafon to hope andlegreed to. '! i '• • ' • that a different policy - loon prevail, and that . Mr. Cour moval.that It be an inarnetiOn to the (aid Com our former relations of cordialfriendflip -with that mince. tp *lag In it NW purfuant to the (aid Ft/Solutions.— Cabinet will be re-eftablithed. lam aware that, ' pil. alias prereated a Petition froth the Maititen or Lei- ha adverting to the Northern Confederacy, I am 'eeftee,•*laylog the tcpcal of the Malting Regulation A. Or. about to tread on delicate ground ;!tiut I mufteli • • . . : S ki t 780144frI4outtiesTanable'wa' on the j aws , b Mr. Burden, ferve, that in my opinion, what is called tak Con rad ladrd dar*gl, Paged. • ••• • vention, didalot fatisfaCtorily fettle the Ott in • . •e 4 l.aVir ISIIIMULTi • • difpute with that ConfedeKacy, audit/hit the hob,* Mr. Attxistess brought up dtwitiport ofthe Secretary of State termed the explanatbry Cosa. Committe of, gitpply, mid, on the motion-thiehbe vention, involved the matter in Rill greater pre- Refolutiou for rin ' thig schooofeametr far the - plexity. However, my principal reafon foe Au& likes of th e i n yeart•beread icfekobd time, mg to that Confederacy if, to take notice of sin • • Mt. irGakitviu.s rote, and fpbke to the fol. preffion made ufe of, on a foreter oceafion, by the lOwing ere Isl . l rife, Sir, to exprefs my aftonifh- noble Secretary of State, to whom I mean no dif- Ment at the mode of proceeding which is now pro. refpea. That noble Lord raid, that the vidory of poled--a mode which places the Houfe of Com- Copenhagen created an obttacle in the treaty with mons in quite a new fituation. The Minifter de. the Nqrthero Confederacy, which rendered it the mends' an extraordinary fupply of (cameo, without molt difficult negociation in which he had been condercending to give the leaft explanation of the ever engaged. I mutt then remark , thlit reafons which induce the neceflity, or the purples tifls Statefman who could experience i difficillty in to which he means to apply them. I cannot hell. , his.negociation with an enemy, from one of the tate to obferve, that the condiia of the Minifters, p molt glorious vidories ever obtained by the Britilh whore duty it was to give this explanation, is novel, fleet, and over that very enemy, of 'odds_ no very unprecedented, and unconftitutional ; is difrefped- flattering profped of the confequericee likely to ful to this Houfe, and this Honfe will fubfcribe to enfue from his dextrous management at the Court its own difgrace, if it fhould affent to this propofi. of Peter(burgh, or at any other Court in Europe. tion until the tieceffary explanation (hall be given. But to proceed to a review of the maritime powers When I came down yefterday, 1 confers I felt a i of Europe : In Holland , no one can be ignorant that good deal of aniiety;eariofity , and expedition , to I great and unparalleled exertions are making to re hear what lineag e Minifters fhonld employ. I bore their navy's that a confiderable 'etfreber cf had fome hope of - hearing from them Come expofi. large veffels are now building, and that Many have tion of their motives and - views, fome allufions to I been launched (Mee the peace ; and Rill greater the Rate of Europe, fome idea of what the country I efforts are making to recruit the fleets of France. had to look for; fomething different from thole 1 don't mean by this Itatement to exprefs any ap. indefinite terms they haveheretofore nfed—terms prehenfion of the fuperior power of the Britith equally full of firmnefs and humility, and implying navy ; in the event of an engagement with any no fixed or regular fyttem of policy—at one time fleet, even with a difparity of force ; but I with the adopting the dignified language which becomes Houle and the country fhould keep in view the the Government of Great Britain; at another time rapidly increafing maritime Qrength of that nation, chiming in the tone of fubmiflion which iffued from whole gigantic power and influence is fuch , that it the oppofite fide of the Houle ; but I was difap- mutt be underttood, that when we fpeak of the pointed—Minitteis were utterly fluent, and the navy of France we fpeak of the navy of Europe. vote in the Committee pallid, without a Tingle ob. Before, therefore, we undervalue the naval force fervatiOn. I was glad of the opportunity that pre. of France, we thould confider the extent of the fented itfelf on this occafion for Minitters to (peak , whole naval force of Europe; and more, that every out; I Was glad, becaufe I thought upon fuch a acquifition the makes is a deduction from to, ; that fubjed iewould be impoffible for them to hold un- it tells doubly againti us ; for every aceeflion of decided or equivocal language; but they have territory to France is an exclution of England. Ii evaded it ; they have not thought proper to tell the event of a war, the influence the has eftablithed es any of the grounds upon which they have deem- on the Continent would be fufficient timely to ed it expedient this to deviate from the practice exclude us ; for what affiftance could we hope to of former times; thus to demand a large difpofable derive front Portugal ? that country dare not, per. force, produCtive of great expence, without inform. haps would -not interfere. Let us only confider the ing us what danger we have to dread, and hoW Rate of the Portuguefe—from the heat recently far the force demanded will tend to avert that ' offered to a Britiffs Officer in the port of Litborf, danger. I have looked in vain for fome conimu. in the prefence of our Sovereign's fon. Perhaps it nicatton from them to fupply the complete defici- may be hated that fome fatisfadion has been had ; entry information in his Majefty's fpeech, and but I would afk, could fuch an indignity have been 3h the debates upon it. To the addrefs, in anfwer offered at a former period to the Britith flag while to that fpeech, I affetited, becaufe I could riot con. Portugal had the power or the will to refped us ; Intently refute it, for it was drawn up In fuch a was it probable ? I quote this event only to thew way as to contain nothing exceptionable, and yet ' how differently the Portuguefe are difp ofed to us to want that which was molt e ff entially neceffary, to what they formerly were. The fubfervieney of intelligenee as td our prefent Rate with refpat to Spain to France no man cats doubt, and the endea the Continent. The fpeech, in fad, contained not yours of France to exclude us from every port in a fentiinentwhichtvasnot applicable twiny perind of the Mediterranean; her infatiable ambition and her Our hiftory; it was a collection of truifrhs—without hoftile views are equally obvious ' • her pretentions Any opinion, or ftatement peculiarly referring to in Africa, and every place where the can interfere the prefent times. How different the condo& of with the inter& of our navy, mull excite the atten- Minifters in former intlances ; how different at the tam of every man who feels for our fecurity. The peace of 1763, and at that of 1783 alto ! On the Morea and the Republic of the Seven Ines, are foimer occafion it was • hated, in his Majelty's i not even fafe from her attacks ; day after day adds fpeech, that from the difpofitions !tunnelled by fomething to her conqueft ; and if the WI rumour the powers with whom the treaty had been con• can be credited, it is in contemplation to add Tut . - eluded, there was the fulleft aerance for the con- cany to her dominions. The French Govern tinuance of peace ; and in the fpeech of 1783 his ment takes poffeflion of what the pleafes, under Majefty expreffed the happinefs he felt in being the delnfive and infulting pretence of interfering, able to inform the Houle that there was no reafon to tranquillife, and make other nations happy. to doubt the difpcifition of chore with whom he had , On the fubjed of Switzerland I cannot help laying concluded peace, to preferve it inviolate. In both a few words as to the conduit of Miniflers. Their there fpeeclies there were the moll intelligible and flrange and contradictory language, their affec fpecific declarations of the opinions of Minders as I tation of dignity, and Waft of not having corn to the Rate of Europe, and they were on both oc- mitted the honour of the country ; but what is the cations equally explicit in debate, as to the views' fad ? Within the laft two days I have been told of policy they meant to purfue, and the force they that a gentleman, holding a very high fituation Ln thought neceffary fot the defence of the country. the Secretary of State's Office, was a confiderable But now, for the firft time, a Minifter opens a . time during, and previous to, the difturbances in Seflion in time of peace with a fpeech compored of Switzerland, 'refident at Couftance, and held fre general terms, and• applies to Parliament for a , quent conferences with the principal diredors of vote of so,ooo feamen, without attempting to de- the Swifs infurredion. If this anecdote be true, fcribe to us the neceffity which calls for fuch a it does not tally with the affertion that Miniflers force, or enabling us to judge how far this force have not committed the honour of the country. To may be proportioned to that neceflity. When the return to the Mediterranean : the French Govern- Minifter, in June la% propoled a vote of 70,000 ment have fucceeded in completely depriving us feamen, he was afked by an Hon. Gentleman. not of every port in that fea, except Malta, and I now in his place (Mr. Tierney), what would be his fay, if Government do their duty, they will re• probablepeaceettablithment? and he replied,about tarn that ifland. It is, I underftand, retained 30,000. Why, then, does he now require eo,ooo ? but why, lam ignorant, and fo is the Houfe.— what is the reafon of this excels? what change has This forms a part of the explanation I defire taken place in our pofition ? what new and unex- from Miniflers, together with the conditions peeled dangers have arifen? what event has oc- upon which it is to be given up, if fuch a fur. curved fence the Minifter made this reply, and render is now intended. It is only held until the which his great political forefight could then sal- Court of Peterfburgh agrees to guarantee it ; and ciliate upon,• to render this excels neceffiary ? does that Court decline to advance her money Has this vote reference to a peace or a war eta- to join in that guarantee, notwithaanding the pO. bliihment ? If to the former, Parliament and fitive all'ertions of the Minifter, on a former day the counts y may think it endive ; if to the latter, that fire would ? I fhould be happy if that power fuch a force may be deemed inadequate ; at pre- perfeveres in her refufal, and then, of comic, then fern this Houle is incompetent to judge.; and be- i will be no apology for abandoning that important fore we fubrtit to the obloquy of affenting to the , fermis, which we ought to hold. Indeed, I have pmpofition now under difcutfion, I truft the Mi.' no hafitation in laying, that it is incumbent of Wet will be compelled to prefent fuch materials Miniaers to retain alt the places covenanted la for our confideration, as may fully qualify us to ; treaty to be given up, which are ftill in our loaf. i decide this queftion. The queftion upon which I lion. In the prefent citcumftances of Europe, an, we are to determine is this—what is the danger that from the condnitiko(Fnusce fence the peace, " • 4 e d e .e ky 11. ,