Star. — London, England, 1802-11-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. DUBLIN, OCT. 27, 1802. You will oblige me by infzrting iit your Tepee. t.sh:c Parer, the following ()Wei vations on my tl:e late bill' rebellion : A number of idle and feandalons libels, refieeling on my cha. and the authenticity of that woik, have acarcd in magazines, n-wfpapers, and reviews. .ks to my charaaer, I hope that the loyal and re. frzaable part of the community, of whole efieem ni good opinion I am pond to boat, will not t:.ink it necetrary for me to lay any thing in its de t ncc, but as the veracity of my hillory has been cached by the atithni. of laid lihac, in loin,: iein g point s , in no will; affeaing its general an .I.enticity, I think it neeefrary to lay fomething in tts %indication ; as the materials for that hiflory were colleeled with the greateft affidnity, the molt 1 . 4 ttpulous enquiry and difcrimination, and the ,iacti regal d to truth ; and as it was written for 1!:e rnipole olgiving the l3ritifh Cabinet and Par -I;.,mcnt, at prefent, and poßerity hereafter, an ac •.iratc narration of the late rebellion, and a fair ;.:pt :foliation of the Rate of Ireland many years 1 ,1,n-ions to that dreadful event. Three editions of that work, confilling of no lefs than 3850 co ries, have been circulated in England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and anxious for the eflablifhment truth, I made the following appeal in the Pre face of each : ‘. Though the Author has made truth his polar thr, in the courfe of this work, it is poffible that fome errors might have occurred in it ; he hopes, therefore, that if the Reader fhould difcover any Inelt,he will be kind enough to communicate them to him, and he will amend them in the next edi tion." I hope the Public will confider the follow ing declaration, as a full and fufficient anfwer to the uthors of thofe libels—" That no perfon whatfoever has fucceeded in invalidating the au. t:lenticity of my hillory, in any one occurrence re lated in it ; and I defy any perfon to do fo." On tl)e contrary, I have received the moll flattering affitrances from the officers who campaigned in the late rebellion, that the military tranfaftions have been faithfully Alefc ibed ; and I have had the fAme taimony from the Civil Magiftrates, and from thole who were competent to decide on the o:her events : and to them I appeal again. To the few feeble attempts which have been made to queftion my veracity in Tome trifling points, I have written an anfwer, which has been publilbed by JOHN STOCRDALE, Piccadilly. lam Rill open to conviCtion, and fhould any perfon come forward, and piove to me coolly and difpaffionately, that I ha re committed any one error, I will immediately ackowledge and corredl it..—l am, Sir, Your moil obedient Servant, • RICH. MUSGRAVE. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3. PrtN«ss semi* 10111. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. pc' Cent. Cool. 68I—Ditto, for time, 613 i.- Olds per Cent too}—New s per Cent. 99if— Omnium 91, :o dif. PRICj OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock do Short Ana. 4i 3 per C. Red. 67} 67 India Stock 203,E 204 3 per C. Cott 63i 671 ;4d. Excise* 31.45. prem. New 4 per Cast. Wit Ncw ditto, par ts. pre. I per C. Am. soli tpoil Omnium sot so diL c per Cent. 1797, tool 994 Englilb Tickets 174 aut. long Ann. :9 s t 46: Conf. for Acc. 681- 3 / 4 671 68* COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amite:dam, is 3 2U. Cadiz 36-1 effect. po at fight is t Madrid paper Rotterdam, t t 4 lU. Ditto 361 &ea. I lAmburgh 33 3 24U Bibs. 36 elk& Alton f 33 6 stil. Leghorn 51i Palermo 90 penal:v:os. Par!b, z day's date, 23 i 6 lie.-Ditto, 14 3 1 U. Boordeaus, diva, 24 3 Venice 54 Lines Picnic effeetive per 4. fterL Naples 43} Genus 47 Lithon 68 Oporto 68 Dubliu is The following Circular Letter was yellerday fent round from the "creafury to many Members of the Houfe of Commons : Downing-ftreet, 3d Nov. SIR—As opal - the meetin of Parliament, which is fixed f. r the t6th of t'is month, the Houfe of Commons will im mediately proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to the coofkler.ni.ln of other matters of Importance, I take the liber • t, to .Icqurint ypu that a full attendance .sly defirable at tats °pain( of the &Son. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) HENRY ADDINGTON. Lan night the Paris Journals of the 3oth ult. came to hand. The intelligence they contain ; roj,efiing Switzerland, for they prefent nothing el le worthy of notice, is hill confufed and contra cant y. A letter from Bafle (fates, that in confequence or a reprefentation from Count MARCOFF, the Ruffian Ambafl'ador at Paris, the FIRST CON . SUL had been induced to fign conditions, by which it was agreed that no French Troops fbould enter Switzerland ; that the Helvetic Government fhould repair to Berne, and after fettling the accounts of their Adminiftration, fhould give in their refigna tion ; that the patriots fhould likewife repair to Berne, there continue the funaions of Government, and fend an Ambaffador to Park, who fhould be recognized; and that Deputies fhould be fent from each Canton to Paris, and there, removed from ail influence, form a Conflitution fuited to Switz- kerland. It ig not eafy, however, to reconcile this with z,ccou:lts from Balk of a later date, which Elate nerd) troops are entering Switzerland on pg);lts to :educe the patriots. Either the Rate ro..nts that have-been given in the Paris Journals of the patriots having fubtnitted, were mere fabri cations of the Frcucb party in Switzerland--or, not even fo fanaioned, they were fabricated in Paris, i with the hope that their being circulated might prove a mean to perfuade other powers, that their interference had become unneceffary—or wishing to take advantage of circumfiances they hoped by fuch fabrications to gain their purpofe, and render foreign interference too late. A clue is Rill wanting to guide us with certainty through the labyrinth which preknts itfelf. In the mean time, the Helvetic Senate appears to ex ercife the fonaions of Government, as, by a De- cree of that Body, dated the 25th ult. the National Prefeds of the Eighteen Cantons are charged to convoke the Citizens of thole Cantons who have been Members of the Cantonal Diets of 1801 and 1802, for the purpofe of eleding Deputies, ac cording to the terms of the FIRST CONSUL'S Pro clamation, who are direked to repair to Paris on or before the 15th init. The Deputation of the Empire has held its 17th fitting, when the Minifter of Saxony acceded to the New Plan of Indemnities ; but the Minifter of Bohemia, and the Grand Mafter of the Teuttinic Order, fill deferred giving their Votes, and no Conclufatm was adopted upon the fubje&. Our port letters fill continue to announce war like preparations. EXTRACTS FROM THE PARIS JOURNALS. Bar.s, Ocr. 24.—The courier difpatched by General RAPP to Schwitz to fummon the Diet to diffolve itfelf t returned to Berne on the 2111, at 11 at night. He brought back an anfwer from the famous ALors REDING, who, as Prefident of that illegal Affembly, wrote in a very laconic manner to Citizen RaPP—" that having received his dif patches very late at night, he had not had time to convoke the Diet to notify to it his fummons, and that the courier being t anzious to return, he could only acknowledge the receipt of his letter." This dilatory anfwer having been immediately commu nicated by Citizen RAPP to the Aide•de-camp of General NEY, who was waiting at Berne for the anfwer of the Diet, the latter immediately pro ceeded to Geneva, and a few moments after his arrival in that city, General NET fet out for Berne, where he arrived on the 23d in the morning, Having been made acquainted. with the bad faith of the Dict, which, inflead of difbanding its army, and difrolving itfelf, has again organized the counter-revolution in tome of the cantons much inclined to fubmit to the authority of the Helvetic Government, he difpatched couriers to the French Commanders Rationed on the frontiers, with orders to them to cam& the French troops to enter the territories of Swilrerland immediately. The unexpetied arrival of General MY at Berne, which was publicly announced by the difcharge of fifteen cannon fired from the ramparts, by the order of General RAPP, fpread terror throughout Berne, where it was believed that this firing an nounced a new revolution ; but the PrcfeEt was charged by the Landamman DOLDER to tranquil. line the public by a proclamation, which was if fued the fame morning. General Nsv is invefted with military and di plomatic powers, and will be affifled in his impor tant fundions by General RAPP. The fuperior Authorities of Zurich, Schaff, hau fen, Soleure, Bale, &c. compofed of the zealous partifans of BACh MAN, REDING, and WATTIN• WY L, have hitherto refufed to fubmit to the procla mation of BON AIP•ILTE. They have protefted again( the Helvetic garrifons which had been an nounced to them. At Bale a part of the citizens openly declare their defign of oppofing by force the Helvetic troops. A new meafure of the Diet of Schwitz has increafed the public agitation : it has fummoned the Cantons to fend their contingents once more to the Cantons of Zurich, Saint Gall, Turgovia, &c. where the partifans of the Helvetic Gove , nment have for fome days had the upper ban'. This fummons, which has been favourably received in the ci-devant fovereign towns, has met with oppofition in the country. The French alone are capable of at length putting an end to this an irchy. They are entering SwiiTerland in ;very point. The 16th demi-brigade which for fome time paft has been in the Frjekthal, is on its march for St. Gall. BALE, OCT 22.—A1l the Helvetic troops under the command of General Vomozawtto, who hi therto carried on war, and oppoied refinance to the confederate army, have advanced ; they have re occupied Fribourg, Payerne, Morat, &c. and are daily filing off by Berne to repair to the other parts of Helvetia, and to remain in garrifon in the principal towns of that country, fuch as Zu rich, Lucerne, Sokure, Bale, &c. In regard to the Confederate Army under the command of General BACHMAN, it is true that as an anny it is dillblved, but the particular corps of which it is compofed are far from being dilbanded. It is thus that General Au r-rosa-Mi It, one of the Chiefs of , the Confederates, whole conduit, un worthy of a military man, has excited aguinft him univerfal contempt, has repaired with the contingents of the Petty Cantons to Lucerne, whe.e he waits for new orders from the Diet of Schwitz for his future deftination. A battalion of Zurichers is fill at Zofingen; in Argovia, and the armed peafants of Baden have occupied the difiria of Brugg, where they com mit every kind of violence and excefs. The town of Brugg poffeffes, as is well known, a great many commonalties ; •the peafants affembled the Magif tracy, and fummoned them to give them the ttfe of that property, threatening, that in cafe of a refufal, they would fer fire to the town and affaf finate the inhabitants. All the remonfrances made to them, even by their chiefs, were of no avail. People in the eafieft circumftances have left the town and concealed themfelves in the neighbourhood. Great apprehentions are enter tained for the fate of this interetling Commune. The town has fuffered a great deal from the paffage of the peafants, making part of the levy en male, and whom their Officers, almoll all an cient patricians, had infpired with prejudices againft the inhabitants. The firm condo 9, how ever, of the latter, and their energy, has preferved them from the exceffes committed in other corn munes. Scarcely was the difFolution of the confederate army known there, when the emblem of the bear, which had been erected before an the houfes, by orders of the Bernefe Authorities, was deftroyed. The latter thought it prudent to decamp and to entruft the protection of the town to a corps of Soleure troops, who, on hearing that the Helvetic troops were on their march to Argovia, immedi ately betook themfelves to Right, though the na tional Prefea, who had refumed his funaions, Aimed them that they might quietly wait for the arrival of the Helvetic troops, and that no hurt would be done to them. VIENNA, OCT. i6.—The EMPEROR has prohi bited M. de Costa TZEL, Vice-Chancellor, from receiving letters addrefed to him by the Chiefs of the Armed Affemblies of Berne: His IMPERIAL MAJESTY has manifefted a defire that tranquillity fbould be promptly re-eftablifhed in Switzerland, and thews a full confidence in the part taken by the FIRST CONSUL, to reftore repofe to that unfor tunate nation, to place it in a way of enjoying its independence, and refnming, at length, its rank among(} the Powers of Enrnpe. The correfpondence continues to be very aaive between our Court and thole of London and Pe terfburgh. The changes which have been made in,the Miniftry of Ruffia are here, as at Peterfburgh, the fubjed of general converfation. It is more important to obferve, that the EMPEROR, in aug menting the authority of the Senate, eftablithes his throne upon the molt folid balls. His IMPERIAL MAJESTY has charged his Inter nuncio at Conftantinople, to demand from the Porte the free navigation of the Danube to the Black Sea. MADRID, SEPTEMBER 29.—Citizen HERMAN, the French Charge d'Affaires,has fet off in all tulle for Lilbon, in confequence of an order which he has received from Paris. He did not announce the object of his million, but only that his abfence would not be long. Several perfons think that he is charged to prefent to the Panics REGENT a let ter from the FIRST CONSUL, relative to the cir. cumilances which occafioned• the departure of Gen. LASNES from Liibon. It is Paid Prince ltu sro Lis has refufed to accept the office of Grand Matter of Malta. Her Grace the Duchefs of MARLBOROUGH has lately erected a fine range of Alms-houfes near Woodftock, and endowed them with a handfome fum of money. The benefit the poor derive from her bounty is very great, as the poor done parifh in the feven, that furround Blenheim Park, are daily fed and maintained by her generofity. Lord HAWKESBURY arrived yefterday at his honk, St. James's-fquare. The Hon. Col. BURTON, brother to the Earl of CONYNGHAM, arrived in town with his Family on Monday from Ireland. Col. VeLEKIR, who at the head of the Limerick Militia checked the progrefs of the French Army when they landed in Ireland, and who is now Member for that City, is arrived in town. Lord CASTLEREAGH arrived yefterday at Mil ler's Hotel, St. James's. Lady FORD arrived yefterday at the Royal Ho. tel, St. James's. • The Marquis of %mummy arrived yefterday at his houfe, Arlington-ftreet, from Aldborough. The Duke of YORK fet off laft night for Wey borough. The Earl and Countefs WARTNEY arrived on Sunday at their houfe, Curzon-ftreet, May-fair, from Ireland. We are forry to Rate the death of Lieutenant St. 1110SIY. of the Honourable Company's Infantry, at the Moluccas. He belonged to the Madras Eflablithment, and was treacheroufly fhot at and kille4 by a Malay Chieftain near the poft at which he commanded. Geberal MOOR a has fucceeded General HULSE in the Military Command at Chatham. - The troops dilbanded by Passwari Oc Lou have occafioned new diflurbances in Bulgatia, in coßfe quence of which PASSWAN has been applied to by the Porte to extirpate them. According to a Lettei from Ratilbon, dated the 18th njt. the Deputation of the Empire was ex paled to vote a Coadvfigon on the new Plan of In demnities in the cootie of that week. CORN MARKET. MARK-LANZ, NOVENA/It 3. The only alteration we experience this day is in Wheat, which is from is. to 2S. per quarter cheaper, and hardly any Buyers at that price every other article hangs heavy on fale at th e prices mentipned in this Paper of Monday la Yefterday the Lord Mayor, having infpeaed the Meal weighers' Reports, ordered the Price of Bread to be continued the fame as on the preceding week, viz. sod the Qt_rartern Loaf Wheaten, and 80. Hou feh old. DUBLIN. OCTOBER 30. Thurfday laft the mail from Ballinafloe to'Cal. way, and the mail from Philip(town to Edenderry, were both robbed by bands of armed ruffians. • At her own expence the Countefs ofHatknwiccE has introduced into the Liberty, looms and other implements of trade of a fuperior and improved confirudion, encouraging to the ufe of them, and exciting by frequent premiums and fiiperintendance, an emulation to profjt of thefe advantages, and prove the quality and encreafe the value of their different fabrics. Her Excellency has alfo fet on foot efiablifii. ments fnr the Education of the Poor Children in the Liberty, and for their inftruetion in the ufeful Arts; there, at regular periods, are vifited by the Governeffes and other Ladies of the Vice-Regal Houfehold, and, not unfrequently, they have the benefit of her Excellency's own infpeaion,at which time the is careful to bellow fuitable rewards on fuch as peculiarly dillinguifh themfelves by atten. tion and improvement. Yetterday Bond-greet and St. James'slreet were fuller of loungers than they have been fince the fall of the leaf. The Duke of CUMBERLAND was among the fafttionables. Mr. KING, Mailer of the Ceremonies of the Lower Rooms, in Bath, has commenced an aaion again( the Proprietor of them, for having refufed to open them this feafon. The cnrricle horfes of the much lamented Mr. HEATHCOTZ were fold at Tatterfall's lall week for 140 guineas. They were knocked down to Mr. Mot LAND, of Walthamilow. On Saturday a Life Boat, built by Mr. GREAT. HEAD, of South Shields, was brought to Liv er p oo l on a large waggon, for the purpofe of being tranfported to the Ifle of Man.—The name of the boat is, The Duke of Abel, of Douglas, and is a prefent from his Grace, for the tile of that Ifland. Mrs. SIDDONS is arrived in Dublin, where flit is laid to be engaged for the Winter feafon. Mrs. JORDAN has cleared upwards of toool. by her fhort trip into Lancafhire, where her charming talents have made a lafting impreflion. DRURY-LAM—Lail night the Mufical Farce of The Poor Soldier was performed for the firft time at this Theatre, principally, we believe, for the pur pofe of furnifhing Mr. CHERRY with an opportu. nity of appearing an the charader ofDarhy,of which he gave a very fpirited and humourous delinea tion, exhibiting the more prominent features of novelty, as he delivered the dialogue in the Irilh brogue; his diminutive figure alfo added to the general effed of the performance ; we cannot, however, rank it equal with the Darby of the other houfe.—The fongs of Petrick were fung with fcience by KELLY : the fine air, Tho' Leixfhp proud of its &May bowers, was omitted altogether.. IDIONLIM difplayed his ufual powers in Dermot. Mefdames MOUNTAIN and BLAND particularly ex celled in Nerah and Kathk,ne ; the reft of the cha raiders were ably fupported. COVENT-GARDEN.—Laft night a numerous and elegant audience were again attracted to thisfloufe by REYNOLDS'S Dtlays and Blkndert. When the curtain had dropped, Mr. FAWCETT came for. ward, and fpoke nearly as follows : " Ladles and Gentlemen—The Epilogue was advertifedtobe spoken this evening, only through the miftake of the printer, as it did not meet your approbation it was withdrawn. Mrs. MATTOCKS therefore hopes, that you will indulgently difpenfe with her undertaking the irkfome talk of again attempting to recite it. The audience received this apology with fuch expreflions of latisfaCtion, that it was evident they were rather gratified than offended by the orniffion We are happy to cones a ltatement in a late publication, relative to the title of Athenry, which we find to be perfectly erroneous. The honours of that premier Barony of Ireland are now in abeyance between the two furviving daugh ters and Coleireires of the late Earl of LOUTH, Baron of ATHENRY. On his Lordfhip's denrne, in 1799, without iffue male, the Earldom became extinct—but the Barony being infer, is tranfmitted in the above-mentioned channel. In fucli a cafe, it is in the difcretion of the Royal Prerogative to invelt either of the Co-h.tireffes with the dormant Peerage ; but no fuch determination having taken place, it is to be prefumed that the honours of that ancient houfe are referved for 'Eaomas BEKNING• HAM SEWELL, Efq. the natural claimant of thefe diftindions, as being the only fon and heir appa rent of the Lady ELIZABETH, Wel daughter and. co-heirefs of the late Earl of LouTH, Baron of ATHENRY, whole other daughters have no male ifl'ue. We are the more founded in this fuppoil - r Lion, as it appears that all the regular forms authenticating this cafe have been palled through by that Gentleman fince the death of his Grand father, (in confequence of an order of reference from his Majetty), to the entire fati4aCtion of ti:e Crown Lawyers—and that no other claim had fufficient weight to be brcught forward to the 1,10- Lice and decition of thole learned Officers. occasional airumption of the title by the lately d:- Leafed JOHN BIRMINGHAM, Efq. of D a lgin, mt . county of Galway, who pretended to a diltintr.:- lationthip with the late Lord by the male line, proves to have been wholly unwarranted, as the creation dates from a period long antecedent t. the in(litntion of titles by patent, and the defcen, by heirs general is inconteltibly proved on re" a " l to exit} in the Co-heileffes above-mentioued. IP 1