Star. — London, England, 1802-11-11 00:00:00

INtPLLMBNCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—..WIND E. N. E. Ammar , . out. Dublin, i 3 Waterford 2 0 Dutch o i French 0 FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBet 8. Arrivel his Majcity's cutter Nimble, of t 4 guns, I.ientenint c og bian, front Plymouth, to wait for orders as to her furthe r deftinatior ; the brig George and Francis, Captain Hooking, from London, with groceries, for this place and Penzance the Chip Na t gation, Captain Robinfon, from London, to load tin, fie. for Malta and Smyrna ; the brig Sally, fr o m Pourdeat:s, with prunes, &c. for London; the Dana brig Xorth Star, Captain Nathrigg, with timber and deals, for this r 'a:e. from Drum.--Alfo arrived the French national ketch I. Camel, Captain Jean Louis Bourgeois, from Brea bound to };:rte de Grace, to load timber for the French navy, put in by contrary winds ; this vcffel is one of thofe built for the Invafion of this country, the is too feet long, very (hallow, is of a great width. and noes admirkbly adapted for troops and running Into fhoal water.—Sailed this evening the Princefs Elizabeth ru b d , Captain Kidd, with Mails of the 3d init. for Jamaica and Barbadoes; and Lady Arabella. Captain. Porteus, With Mails of the fame date for New York and Halifax ; and the b r i g Nst±gation, Captain Lalaehem, with pilchards, fob Naples: the only paffenger by the Princefs Elizabeth is, Mr. Ham mond, a Planter of St. Vincent's.--In the Lady Arabella are, Mr. Notnaglc, and Mr. Vanderfcock, two German Gentlemen on their travels, Mr. Enfden, Mrs. Burr, and Mr. Davis, naval. lore keeper at Halifas.—Wind N. E. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 9. Arrived the Revolutionnaire and the Alcmene frigates Rom Portfwenth. Sailed the Ranger, Indultry, Sul, Renown, and Ea* cows on a unite. LIVERPOOL. NOVEMBER S. Attired the Bridget, Thomas ; and Jacob, Ptolootays, with wheat, &c. from Dantzig; Hunter, Hatdafwell; Jane, Haters; and Northumberland, Brown from Memel ; Ann, Otway, tar, amp, from Archangel; At o, Craurford,timber ; and Affil. met, Pitcairn, fromßiga;brazball, Byron, hemp, iron, and tal low; and Margaret, Parry, beats, &c. from Peterfburgh ; Math Margaretta, Lawton, timber; and Margaret and Ann, Watt, flock 6fh, from Norway. The Jane, Owen, was well in Gambia river about the *6th of . June. fhe Peace, Weftlake, from hence at Lifbon. The Hasty, Meek, from hoes at The William and Charlotte, Printoa lle ro b m ec henee at Nam. The Brothers, Flyne, from hence at Memel. The Sufannah, Bcauman, from hoses to Colerain, is put Into Larne, leaky. The Neptune, Griffith, front hence at Belfaft. TIN Cunningham Boyle, M'Connell, from hence at ditto. • FROM LLOYD'. urn DIAL, Nov. rc.i—Arrived the Galatea frigate, and la So phia Soap of war from the wdtward, and remains. Gitavesum, Nov. to.A‘Paffed by the James, Honernan from Memel ; Neutral, from Norway ; Added*, Rit: chic, Enterprise, —, Silky, Kent, and Yrogrefs, Nichelfon, from Petailliwrgim.Salkd the Sim on and Bella, Moll, for Barbadoes; Duke of York, Perry, for St. Michael's ; Hamburgh Packet, Thompfon, for Hunburgla; Prow Henrica, Roblin., for Antwerp; London, Goldfinch, sod Charlotte, Kent, for Jamaica. ARRIVED Off Portfmouth, M'artha. Lewingten, from Dubin.- At Limped, John Adams, Wood, from Bolton4—At Dublin, Iftbernia, Towers from Peteriburgh,At New Verb, Two Friends. Vole, and Thomas, Wocd, from London; h Maras, from Hull; Howard, from Clyde; Hop l ent hp, from BMW; Liberty, Morse; Brothers, Hall ; Two Brother, —; American Eagle, Logan; Columbus, —; Samuel M ieama, Nob ; Shanno n, —; Mary, Bunker; Co& ; Throe Sitters, Ruse'; and New Turk Packet re egi bb, from Liverpool—At Savannah, Becky. Irhinsalrd, from Bahunas.-4.t Virginia, Warren,' Everett, from At Baltimore, Amazon, Brown, fr om London ; VAlarez ander, Wefton, from LivrpooL.—At Clianalton, Soft, Adams, from Liverpool.-4t PWBafphta, Rkhusord, Hathwuy, from London ; Brothers, Wish', front Clyde; Roebuck, Kelly ; fflanklyn, Tucker ; Prudence, Bury ; and John sod Mee, —, from LiverpooL—At Bottom , Packet, 'Trott ; Warring too, Delano; and Venus, —, from Liverpool; Minerva, 0-- ; Galen, Hindi ey ; and Merchant, Bartlett, from London. —At Smyrna, Weywouth, Weldon, from London.— At Cadiz, Moto tion,—.. , ,from London; Ann Robinfon. from .yoa ; Ceres, —; and Nancy, Fleming, from New York. EAST6INDIA SHIPPING. Yenerday a Court of Direaors of the EaG India Company was held at the India Houk, when the following Commanders attended, and were (worn into the command of their refpeaive (hips, viz : Captain Eow*RD C. BIADSVID, of the thip Gardner. and Captain Gamine Goocn, tithe Otip Sr Stephen Loihingten, (smelly tottigoed to Coaft and Bay. The Court have appo rued thorium ihipsto Mafiosi on the Isthiaft. and to be in the Dowss is the 14th January nest, what they will be dually dilitaesisd. The Hindoitan app ointed au carry out a detachment of loyal Artillery, to Ctyloa: Of the forty-one [hips taken up this Woe by the Court of Diroftan of the Eaft India Company, eighteen are of the har shen of two tans, mafigned to Bombay, and Bombay and China. The remaining twenty-three are chicly of the bar- Ora of Soo tali, essfigned to Madras, Bombay, and Bengal. The under•mentioned extra !hips were thus aa ticned, via : For St. Mena and Bengal.—Neur fhip, building by Mr. Williams. Coalt and Harriot. Bombay —New tbip, building by Mars. Taylor and Co. St. Helena and Bombay.-.-New Blip, building by Mr. Wool was. Madras.—New thip, building by Mr. Hamilton. The Earl Howe was taken up for Ca& and flay. The Brothers, Blacklock, from Leith to Eiverpool, was loft mar Stromnefs on the isth of Odober.—•Crew raved. The Hillitheroush, Sinclair, of Lath, from pantiles Is On tore on Fallterbo ; the Nelly, Holt, of Whitby, froni,Manel, *1 on b lore on SanJhannner Red, and it is feared both will be The Alexander, Duncan, of London, is on those on Sted ding Point, near ElSn ore , a nd' will be loft.. Part of the cargo and materials arc 'tweed to be faxed. The Odavia, Baugh, from the Casa of Spain to London. Is Wally Lit in die hiodhesnasm....Crew faved. The Betfy, Staff, bent London to Vadee, is loft in the Corot Taretoo—Crew fate% Arrived at Lolth, Dub& of Bocelevik jam Clyne, "'afters %he the Dim, Capt. Barak, front Liverpool to Melina, in lat. 311. long. a :. all wet The Ship Samuel, Capt. Vloot.sy ' from Arch angel for Amile r d am , was entirely deftroyed by fire, together with her cargo, near Drontheim, on the 19th of September. Of 409 gripe, which entered the ports of Ma deira laft year, 228 were Brit& The total ex- to Ills EDitoit eP esruk Sia—fo your Paper; dillinguiflied by in difference to Party, I beg your permifftori to con fign a few remarks o n Mr. CO/15E1'T% Poktical Re gßer. You will, I truft; obferve in them that impartiality which will recommend theth to your approbation. That man is a mixed charaelet, a compound of good and bad qualities, is an obfervation confirm ed by daily experience. The principal difficulty in forming a juft eftimate arifes from the *ant of a proper difcrimination of both, of !kill or incli nation to obferve the preponderance of either.— Writings, proceeding from the charader of their author, are fubjed to the fame difficulty of judg ment. When it is confidered what importanCe Mr. COSIETT'S political works have acquired, what influence they have on the public mind, I fhall not be accufed of beginning my remarks in a ftyle too formal for the fubjest. I have, fence the pub lication of his Political Regyler, obferved minutely its merit and its defects ; and I muff acknowledge, that the former confiderably outweigh the latter, a concedion which muff infure his candid attention to the obfervations which I am addreffing to him by your favour. _ _ . Mr. Cotner-es public fentiments cannot but be diOated by a high fpirit of independence, a fin cere loyalty to his King, an alive affeetion to his Country. The report that he receives Alli ance from fome public chandlers of exalted genius and deep fagacity, is rather a proof of his merit than a detradion from his abilities. His fenti ments on the terms, and on the confequences of the Treaty of Peace, however at fizff reprobated by affedation, are now embraced by conviaion.— When I inform you, that they have been not only followed, but preceded, by my own—when I afure you that I have confidered that Treaty, in the words of a Gentleman of this town, at a Meeting to addrefs his Majefly, as merely " a fut . - penfion of arms, obtained by Bonaparte to deprive us of our conquefts, and to confolidate and extend his own," you will conclude that I mean not to cenfure Mr. C.ossir is condua on that fubjet, or oppofe the. pultrac cattle in which he is engaged. His expreffions are violent, but I can " forgive his tranfports on a theme like this." What I cannot fuller with patience, what I cannot behold without indignation, is his perfonal abnfe of Mr. Army o TOW. With an illiberal partiality he ob. ferves aaions, and fancies and proclaims them all to be crimes. If ever he throws a veil over that Minifter, it is that of contempt. But pub lic candour will remove that veil, and difcover his features alfuming, on clofer infpetlien, a re gularly increafing power of commanding love and admiration. Mr. ADDINGTON left a &nation in which he was at liberty to tulle the fweets of domellie, and the charms of focial life, for which the qualities of his heart are fo peculiarly adapted. In that fituation he enjoyed, without danger of oppofition, that univerfal confidence, that unqualified fupport, which the qualities of his mind fo forcibly de mand. In that lunation he could fear no rival; but he was induced by the moft difinterefted mo tives to faaifice his private happinefs to his public duty, at the relate of his King, at the call of his country. Could that King or that Country, confiftently with gratitude or juftice, fuller his family to incur the danger of Ipfing the honour able reward of his labours by thofe Cabinet Re volutions which precipitated even the Fir/1 WIL LIAM PITT from that eminence to which the public voice had railed him ? When an atilkilful pilot had almoft :lathed the vefel of the State on the rocks of defpair, and taken to the - long-boat to avoid the impending wreck, Mr. ADDINGTON refolutely took the helm, and by his judicious manceuvres,. proved himfelf to be indeed "the Pilot that weathered the Storm." —Soon after, a place of honour and emolument became vacant, and was conferred, after many ftruggles on his part, upon his family. Is this a fabjed for cenfure and invective ? If fo, let all places be in future bellowed according to' the chances of the Lottery wheels in Guildhall ! The eldek fon of Mr. ADDINGTON is a young man • but the Warden of Winchefter College, who Las concluded him in the career of literature, and who admires the ftrength of his genius and the extent of his abilities, will tell Mr. COBBITT that he is not " teen playing at marbles under the cloillers of Weilminfter Abbey." With equal delicacy and truth the Weekly Politician informs I his Readers, that the 66 Simpletons of Reading have bellowed on the new Clerk of . the Pells the honorary title of Captain of Volunteers." You may, Mr. Editor, allure the Readers of the STAR, that it at was propofed to Mr. ADDINGTON, who has aided during the whole war with the moll ex emplary zeal and punatiality, as Captain Com mandant of the Woodley Cavalry, to compliment his fon with a Corsetey in that refpeaable Corps —a Corps compofed of the moft ;Hilarious cha raaers for property and public fpirit in the neigh- bourhood of Reading: you may %afore your Readers that this offer was declined—that Mr. HisltY ADDINGTON was propofed as a Private, and that the ballot will molt probably confirm his admilEen at the next meeting of the Woodley Cavalry. Thefe are fads on which I will make no comment. I cannot (loop to the ufe of oppro brious epithets and unmanly invedive.—ln a fu ture Letter I (hall trouble you with tome obferva dons on the attack which has been made on a Ball given by the Crown Club at Reading ; and per haps with a fliort 'ketch of tome of Mr. ADDING TON'S public fcrvices. I am, Sir, your molt obedient Servant, Realm, Nov. 4, 1802. CANDIDUS. We are Informed that the Bank have it in con templation tb ifne Bank Notes of 31. value, when thofe of a left defcription are called in. From a natementlately made of the number of Banhiag the re appear be y 4 In the k4Li' P 1& OPNCERi M• it. EDltOlt..---Perinit me,through the Medium of your widely circulating Journal, to Make known the grievances of a body of men who; in conjunc tion with their brethren of the Navy, hive brought peace and profperity on their Country, but poverty and diftrefs upon themfelves : and as the period is fag approaching for the meeting of a new Par liament, it is hoped that the knowledge of their lunation will induce lime liberal and humane Member of that auguß Affembly, !which alone can grant relief, to intereft himfelf in their behalf, and endeavour to obtain even a (mall addition to their prefent fcanty pittance. It is not now my intention to difcufs how totally inadequate even theft!! pay of the Subalterns of the Army is to fupport the increafed expence of every neceffary of life, but to confine myfelf to a few obfervations on the dial-elf ed and melancholy fituation of thofe officers, Whom the late rednetions have placed on a nothinalkaY, but which aetuall y does not amount, in Come ittances, to one third of the full pay. This is particularly the cafe in the Cavalry, the half pay of which is extremely difproportionate to the high price of the Corn millions : for in fiance, the half-pay of a Lieutenant of Dragoons, who pays at lcaft One Thoufand Guineas for his Commiftion, does not amount to three (hillings a day ; that of a Cornet is titian in proportion : in the Infantry the allowance is no lets wretched, and in neither, although the purchafe mor.:y is funk for ever, can a tingle thilling be legally railed upon it. What can be more diftreff ing than the fituation of an Enfign, who has to fupport himfelf, and perhaps a wife and family, on thrrii pounds per annuni, and this alas ! is the cafe of many. But what Rill adds confiderably to the hardfhip of it is, that this paltry (Upend is never paid for feveral months after it becomes due, fo that thofe who have no other dependance, are ac• tually without the means of fuppoi t for that period, unlefs affifted by friends, fliould they be fortunate enough to have any—a refource truly mortifying to fuch fentiments as a Bt itiffi Officer Ihould ever poffefs, but which neceffity will often compel him to adopt. And this, Mr. Editor, is unfortunately but the brighter fide of the pieture, for numerous are the inflances of individuals who, after having facrificed ' fome of the belt years of their lives in the fervice of their country, braved war, peltilence, and fa mine in her defence, now find themfelves reduced to a Date of abfolute want, with impaired confti tutions and broken down (pinks, perhaps deprived of their perfonal liberty, and doomed to drag on the remains of a wretched exifleoce within the gloomy walls of fome dreary prifon, their fufferings and their forrows often aggravated by the pretence of an amiable wife and helplefs offspring. This is by no means an exaggerated piEture of diftrefs, but , what may be found at this moment through every part of the United Kingdom, and which mug in create unlefs fome remedy be immediately applied. It is furely unworthy of fuch a generous nation to confign to want and oblivion, thofe lons, who in the hour of danger and neceffity did not hefitate to face her foes to the extent of the Globe. They look for relief with confidence, not doubting but the enfu ing Seffion of Parliaknent will be as confiderare in augmenting the half-pay of the Army, as the late one was in railing that of the Navy. November 9, 1802. BELLISARIUE• Orders were received by the Agent Vidualler on Tuefday, at Dover, to difcharge all extra Clerks, Labourers, and Supernumeraries, of every defcription, who were employed in the yard in confequence of the war, and to reduce the whole Vidualling Department exactly upon the fcale of the laft Peace Eftablifliment. Mr. VOCHEZ has been detained in London, waking the arrival of the French Ambafrador, from whom he expels to derive the means of enabling him fhortly to difcharge all his engage ments in this country contraited on account of the French Prifoners. Tuefday marched into Canterbury from Dover the &ft divifion of the fecond battalion szd regi ment of foot, and yefterday morning marched for Chatham Barracks. Yefterday a Court of Dire !ors was held at the Eaft India Houfe, when GSORGE HILARO BAR LOW, Efq. was appointed to fucceed to the Go vernment General of India, upon the retirement of Marquis WELLESLEY. The overland Difpatch, which arrived laft week, brings accounts from India only two or three days later than the chips which reached Eng land fome days fence. By this conveyance, a letter of the 2d of June has been received I but it does not appear by this, that the quarrel between the Mahratta Princes had either been adjufted, or broken into aaual hoftility. The Peithwa had requefted the Nabob, as loon as his levy of 50,00 d was completed, which it was thought a few days would effect, to fend immediate intelligence to Poonah, that the funnuds now occupied by Holkar might be aued in his favour. Holkar, it is faid, has rendered himfelf extremely unpopular to his fubjeds, by various ads of op preffion and injuftiee. Haffain Buklhi, a particu lar favourite of this Chief, and who had been railed by him to the higheft and moft emolumentary of fices in the Government, has, in confequence of oppofing a war with Scindea, been fuddenly dif graced, and banithed the dominions of Holkar, naked and deaitute ; and an edidt was iffued pro hibiting any affiftance being afforded to him under penalty of corporal punifhment and confifcation of property. Bukfht's great offence, however, was poffeffing immenfe treafure, which Holkar wanted. We hear from Bombay, that the defeat of the JEYPORS RAJAH by DOWLVT Row SCINDEAH, is attributed to the judicious condo& of Major PoLH -14&31, who held a command in the Prince's army. At a critical moment he formed into a fquare his fix battalions, of which his brigade confined, pre vented the enemy's cavalry from furrounding them, which was attempted without fuccefs, and the brigade, by am inceftint and well dire!ted fi re _• was NO - 14MBEk erri iorr . &Meeting of the Lord Mayor;,Aidermen, and Common Council, was yeflerdaY- held to confider the Reps necelfary td be taken by the Corporation, upon the fubjea of a charge made :spina an Al. derman, of drinking as a Twit, the Health of " James Napper Tandy, General of Diiifion,"-- 7 - and " fuccefs to Freedom," when the opinions of the Attorney -General and the Recorder, that.the crime was punifhable by indiament, were read.—:- As the former part of this bufinefs was condu&:d in private, we deem it tinnecelfary to (late more of the. particulars, than that the Alderman ac. cufed having appeared in the Commons Room, and made a full fubmiffion and ample apology for his mifeondua, a general difpofition feeined to prevail, of letting the matter die away ; but the Papers upon the fubjet were referred to the Law Committee. Yefierday morning Nield, the maniac, who went to Buckingham-Houfe on TueiUay morning, was removed by Townlend, the Bow beet:officer, fromTothilfieldS Bride well to Bethlehem, by virtue of a warrant figned by Lord PE L H AM. The following comprehergive account of cafualties in or near Mancheder, appeared lately in a Provin cial Paper : " A woman killed in a coal pit ; a child fcalded to death ; a man killed in a coal pit ; a child burnt to death ; a man killed by a hnrfe ; another child burnt to death ; and a man killed by falling down ftairs." On the morning of the sth init. a mot} melan choly and unfortunate circumflance took place at an inn, in Wrexham :—Major GOWER of the Ma rines (a brother of Admiral Sir ERASMUsGoweR) having been for a week or ten days exceedingly indifpofed with anintermitting fever, retired toreft on the night of the 4th, far better in health and fpi rits than what he had appeared to poffefs for fome time before. But between one and two o'clock in the morning he awoke, making a great noife in his room, and calling for a light. Upon the fer. rant maid bringing one, he declared to her that he was lure there were thieves in the houfe, who were come to rob and murder him ; and though she endeavoured to perfuade him to the contrary, he (till perfitted in his declaration, and begged the would go and drefs herfelf and return to him.- 1 Unfortunately the fervant did not properly confi der the Major's ferious fituation ! Poffeffing no ap prehenlion. herfelf, the was not once troubled with the refleetion that this unfortunatelGentleman was fuffering under a high delirium, aril:rig from the great degree of fever he mutt have been in, and therefore quitted him for 'the night to his own unhappy meditations. The confequence was, that the delirium mutt have increafed—he might have even fancied thieves forcing his door ; he was heard to call out,— ,, I am Major Gower! I am Major Gower !" and about fix o'clock in the morn. ing this unhappy man was found dead in the ftreet, having precipitated himtelf out of a window up two pair of hairs, under the unfortunate imprei. floe of an alarm that exifted only in his own ima. gination ! SHOCKING MURDER.—Mr. Steele, proprietor of the Lavender Water Ware houfe, Catherine ftteet, in the Strand, was yefterday morning found murdered on Hounflow Heath. The deceafed went on Friday laft to Belfont, where he had a plantation of lavender, for the purpofe of giving fame inftruetions to the people whom he there employed, meaning to return home on the follow. ing day, it having been previoutly agreed that his wife's birth day should be celebrated by their re. fpeetive relations on the fucceeding Sunday. Not having returned at the appointed time, his family concluded that he had been unexpthedly detained by bufinefs ; and this confideration prevented any alarm for his fafety, till Monday morning, when they fent a rneffenger to Belfont, to enquire the caufe of his delay. The information there receiv. ed was, that he had let out at feven o'clock on Sa turday evening, and being unable to procure any kind of carriage, had refolvedto proceed to town on foot. Since that time, the people at Belfont had heard no intelligence whatever of him. This circum (lance naturally led his relations to con. clude that fome fatal accident had befallen him, and his brother in law, with fome other friends, determined in confequence to let out in fearch of him. For feveral hours they continued in vain exploring different parts of the Heath. At length they difcovered at a short diflance from the road a piece of blue cloth. On laying hold of this, they found it to be the skirt of a great coat buried in the turf, and which, on examination, proved to be the fame that Mr. Steele had taken with him from home. Proceeding a little further, they law near a bufh a foldier's hat, and examining the butte with care, they perceived a quantity of blood ; this appearance led them reafonably to conclude that murder had been committed near the fpot, and on examining the bullies minutely, they found their fufpicions unhappily realized. They beheld, beneath, the (hocking fpeetacle of their murdered relative, nearly covered with the turf, and for fe veral minutes were loft in the horror of the fcene. Upon infpation, they difcovered that the deceafed had received feveral wounds in the top and on the back of the head, and that a part of his forehead had been entirely cut away. Round his neck they found tied a thong piece of belt, by which it is fuppofed he had been ftrangled. The wounds on the head appeared to them as if inflicted with a bayonet, and this circumftance, as well as that of a military hat having been found near the fpot, naturally excite a firfpicion that the horrid deed has been perpetrated by two foldiers who were teen walking acrofs the Heath the fame evening. The packets of the deceafedwere entirely cut away,and his boots and hat had alfo been carried off. The molt diligent fearch is now making for the abmi nable murderers, and there is reaton to hope they will not efcape the punifhment fo jai y due to their crimes. Mr. Steele was a young man of very amiable character, and his fate is fincerely lament. I • , . i' i, i i 1 I I I I , 1 1 .1 1 • i i ' 1 r t, 4 1,1 lie 4 - 11 I• , ' ti . •••1 I "i 1 • 1 1i f 1 58' . 4 1 , J 1, 11. 1 1 / , ...3-