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70 7HE EDITOR OF THE ST AR. Veeeffity alone has prevented the admifflon of the fubjoined 1 t tier. We with to lie underflood as Petting a high value on finular Communications; but t! :c time of infertion depends on eircumflance•_, which we cannot alwa) s counnand. AMERICA. Sia—The late report of an au?mentaiion of pay to Military Office's of all rarks, has excited a fenfa tion in the Ai my which cannot he readily allayed; it has i.de ed probed to the r;u:ck a wound which of ficers have long fevcrely felt, and which needs a heal ing halm that the Chancellor of the Exchequer can alone adminiller. They have home in filence, with the molt patriotic difinter4lednefs, an accumulation of the marl cruel embarraffments, in confequence of the p r o g reffive depreciation of th eir very limited in• comes, and the proportionate rite in the value of all the neceffaries and conveniences of life. Their lot has become peculiarly hard ; no perfon who has not experienced their flotation, can have an .Jequateidea of what it is to feel the preiTore cf undeferved and toursoifha pecuniary difficulties. In civil lite extra vagance or negligence often occafion embarraffment ; in the a:my, the molt moderate and provident Offi cer, ruo'ro has nothing but bb par, mill always be necef titou,, never independent in money matters. Is it politic, is it worthy of a generous nation that this Mould be fo ? Surely not. The :pinion of every li beral man in the Britifh dominions loudly calls the attention of thofe in power to the conlideration of eircumflances which have long claimed their fyttspa thy ; but it is now to be hoped, not in vaM. I will venture to :lain, that if a propefal for the increafe of Officers' Pay were made in Parliament, not a fingle Member would raife his voice againft In fo ne cell'ary a invafure. What arguments could the molt inveterate Oppofitionift advance ? Not the increafed burthen to the nation, for on the fame principle he molt confillently argue againft an augmentation of our difpofable force, which all parties feem to agree is neceffai y for the general falety, and particularly for the vigorous prolecution of the war. I fay con lihently, becatife- the new levies mutt be paid at the rate of one (billing daily for every priVate man ; and if it will be acknowledged that the privates thould have that inflead of their former allowance of lix pence a day, ought it not to be admitted, by parity of reafoning, that the Officer fhould receive, if not a proportionate advance, at !call fomething more than the felffame number of Ihillings which they enjoyed in the days of good Qeen ANN& ? a period when living was two-thirds Cheaper than at prelim. It molt be allowed, that private (..Idlers live now better than their brothers at the plot 3 h and the loom, who work hard every day, and that they have betides, from a peculiar advantage, mote money to (pare than they generally make a good ule et. But can the fame be Paid of the Officers ? men of liberality and educa tion, who have probably expended confiderablefurns for the mere honour of bearing a Commiffion ; for who ever dreamt of making a fortune in the Army ? How few are the prizes in a military Lottery ? How very (mall a number will be fo fortunate as to equal a LAKE in riches, or a HUTCHINSON in title. A Spanifh war brings no galleons to the imagination of an Officer—it might bring the idea of an increafe of the lax upon Insane, if Mr. Pori. was not in office.— His more fortunate brethren on the Ocean mutt reap all the benefit, and often all the glory too. The Ar my, it is nue, reaped a goisd crop of the fall article in Egypt—but. alas : with other antiquities they did not find the cornucopia! It may, and perhaps has been attested, that Officers for the Army can always be procured without railing the pay, and no doubt plenty will at all times offer their Cervices. But of what dais will filch officers be comp( fed ? not of throe who have any flake in the prefervation of the Britifh Con ftitution, and feel fcr the honour of their King, and the glory of their Countr y—frem holding defervedly the firft rank in Europe for patriotic zeal, and devo tion to their profeflion, Englifh Officers will be de graded beneath the level of thole in the Pruffian and Aubian Cervices; for it appears that the Emperor of Auftria is going to fignalife his new dignity by an increafe of pay and reipeltability to the inferior Offi cers of his armies. The inevitable relish then to the tritifh fervice will be debasement and dithonour, by the neceffary admiffion of improper perfons to corn millions, if the condition of officers be not fpeedily and effeaually ameliorated. Should the generous ardour of tome young men of family Rill prompt them to embrace the proleflion of arms, it cannot long continue, for what prude nt parent fume ' , eats hence will Coffer his fon to indulge fo ruinous an idea —what guardian would allow his ward to enter upon a plan of life, which would, to commence it, require hot only the expenditure of a large bum, without h. inging the interefl, but alfo would occafion con ant drafts on him to enable the young man to live in .t ftyle becoming his rank and charafter. In faa, the public Iwo now to be convinced, that an Officer without private fortune mull fu'omit to every pollible deprivation, and the tale of Subaltern Commiffions has confequently fallen to lets than half the regulation price,whileCompanics and the higher ranks were tome time ago bartered for incredible turns, merely becaufe monied men wifhed to obtain military. -ank. The late falurary regulations from the Horfe Guards have given a final blow to this very detrimental traffic ; but no regulations can raife the value of what is every day falling lower and lower in the eflimation cl the Public. Every lover of his country mull thelefore with to fee effeflual provilion made to coon waft fuch fatal difcredit. _ I am, Sir, &c. A rttts'a TO JUSTICE• of the aforefaid Aft, intituled, ' An Ad to eftablifli the Judicial Courts of the United States.' that the NEW YORK, DECEMBER E. laws of the leveret States, except where the coattail. jeneor. CHASE. tion, treaties, or Ilatutes of the United States, (hall On Friday Sal. in the Houle of Reprefentatives, otherwife require, or provide, (hall be regarded as U. S. the Committee, which had been appointed to the rules of decilinn, in trials at common law, in the confider and repert upon the cafe of Mr. CHASE, Courts of the United States, in cafes where they prefented the freitiwing Report, which was referred apply : And whereas, by the laws of Virginia, it is to a Committee of the 'thole Houfe, and was to have p r ovided, that in cafes not capital, the offender Null been taken up on Monday. not be lucid to anfwer any prefentment of a Grind REPORT. i Jury, until the Court next tea:ceding that during Articles exhibited by the Houie of Reprefentatives of the United which fuch prefentment (tall have beeti made—yet States, in the na m e of ttienifelues and of all the peo k le of the the laid Samuel Chafe, with intent to epprers and United Statoi,againa S4a.uel Chafe, one of the affociate Justices of the Supreme C,,,,ri ci tt., United States, in maintenance and Procure the convidion of the laid Jatiles lincimpfon fui port of their inve..:;..m...: ~goinft him, tar high crimes and Callendar, did, at the Comes forelaid, rule and ad.- reialenaenors. judge the raid Callendar to trial, daring the term at Al-T. I. That, tur.rnins'.f.il of the folemn duties of which he, the laid Calendar, was prefented and in his office, and contrary to the leered obligation by dieted, contrary to law in that cafe made and pro which he flood hound to difcharge them'` faithfully vided. and impartially, and a ithout rerped to perfons," the VII. That at a Circuit Court of the United States, laid Samuel Chafe, on the trial of John Fries, for the dittrid of Delaware, held at New Caftle, in charged with high tieefel, before the Circuit Court the month of June, iBOO, whereat the laid Samuel of the United States, held for the dittrid of Pennryl. Chafe prelided, the laid Samuel Chafe, difregarding vania, in the city of Philadelphia, during the months the duties of his office, did defcend from the dignity of April and May, one thnufand eight hundred, of a Judge, and (loop to the level of an informer, by whereat the faid Seiner' Chile pleaded, did, in his refuting to difcharge the Grand Jury, although en judicial capacity, condi:CU liiinielt in a manner highly create.' by feveral of the Jury In to uo ; and alter the arbitrary, oppreffive, end tii.j ilt, viz. laid Grand J ur y had re g ularl y decared, through 1. In delivering an opinion in writing, on the their foreman, that they had found no bills if indid queftion ef law, on the conltiu'ii sn of which the de- meat, nor had any prefentments to make, by °bray fence of the accufed materially depended, tending to inn to the faid Grand Jury, that he, the laid Samuel prejudice the minds of the Jury againft the cafe of Chafe un derftood " that a highly feditinus temper the laid John Fries, the pi ifor,er, before Counfel bad had manifefted itfelf in the State of Delaware, among been heard in his defence. a certain dale of penple, particnlarly in New Cattle 1 2. In refirieting the Counfel for the laid Fries county, and more efpecially in the town of Warning from recurring to fuch Englith authorities as they ton, where lived a molt feditious printer, unrellrain believed appoine, or from citing certain (latutes of ed by any principle of virtue, and regardlefs of foeial the United States, which they deemed illuftrative of order—that the name of this printer was"—but the pofitions upon which they intended to reft the de- checking himfelf, as if (enable of the indecorum fence of their client. which he was committing. added " that it muff be 3. In debarring the prifoner from his conftitu- affuming too much to mention the name of this per- Lionel privilege of addreffing the Jury (through his fon ; but it becomes your duty, Gentlemen, to en- Counfel) on the law as well as on the fad, which was quire digilently into this matter," or words to that to determine his guilt or innocence ; and at the fame effed—and that with intention to procure the profe time endeavouring to wrett from the Jury their in- cutiun of the printer in queftion, the raid Samuel difputable tight to hear argument, and determine Chafe did, moreover, authoritatively enjoin on the upon the quettion of law its well as the queftion of Diftrid Attorney of the United States, the neceffity fad, involved in the yerdid, which they are required of procuring a file of the paperri to which he alluded to give. (and which were underliond to be thnfe pnblithed In cor.fequence of which irregular condat of the under the title of Mirror of the Times aid Genoa! Ad laid Samuel Chafe, as dangerous to our liberties, as vertifer)," and by a ftrid examination of them, io it ie novel to our laws and ufages, the raid John Fries find lonic patrage which might flint& the ground was deprived of the right, teemed to him by the Bth work of a profecutinn againft the Printer of the raid article amendatory of the conftitution, and was con- paper—thereby degrading his high judicial fund ions, destined to death without having been heard, by and tending to impair the public confidence in, and Counfel, in his defence, to the difgrace of the cha. refped for, the tribunals of juftice, fo effential to the rafter of the American Bench, in manifeft violation general welfare. of law andjullice, and in open contempt of the right, VIII. And whereas mutual refped and confi of juries, on which ultimately ret the liberty and dente between the govern ment of the United States fefety of the American people. and thurfe of the individual Rates, and between the 11. That, prompted by a fimilar fpirit of peifecu- people and thole governments, relpedively, are high- Lion and injuftice, at a circuit court of the United ly conducive to that public harmony, without which States, held at Richmond, in the month of May, one there can be no public happinefs ; yet the faid Sa thoufand eight hundred, for the diltrid of Virginia, muel Chafe, difregarding the duties and dign:ty of whereat the laid Samuel Chafe preluded, and before his judicial charater, did, at a Circuit Court for the which a certain James Thompron Callendar was ar- diftrid of Maryland, held at Baltimore, in the reigned for a libel on John Adams, then Prefident of month of May, 1803, pervert his official right and the United States, the raid Samuel Chafe, with intent duty to addrefs the Grand Jury then and there al to opprefs, and procure the conviction of the (aid Cal- fembled, on the matters coming within the, province lender, did over-rule the oblation of John Ballet, of the raid Jury, for the purpofe of deliveringeo the one of the Jury, who wilted tube muted from ferv- Grand Jury an intemperate and inflammatory poll ing on the laid trial, becaufe he had made up his tical harangue, with intent to excite the fears and mind, as to the publication from which the words, refentment of the faid Grand Jury, and of the gond charged to be libelous in the indiament, were cx- people of Maryland, againft their Rate government traded ; and the raid Baffet was accordingly (worn, and ionftiturion ; a condud highly cenfurable in and did ferve on the jury, by whole verdict the pri. any, but peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in a toner was fubfeqnently convited. Judge of the• Supreme Court of the United States ; 111. That, with intent to opprefs and procure the and, moreover, that the laid Samuel Chafe, then and conviction of the prifoner, the evidence of John Tay- t h ere , under p retence of exerciting his judicial for, a material witners on behalf of the aforefaid Cal. right to addrefs the raid Grand Jury, as aforefaid, lender, was not permitted by the laid Samuel Chafe did, in a manner highly unwarrantable, endeavour to be given in, on pretence that the faid witnefs c ould to excite the odium of the raid Grand Jury, and of not prove the truth of the whole of one of the charges the good people of Maryland, againft the Govern contained in the indietment, although the raid charge went of the United States, by delivering opinions, embraced more than one fact. which, even if the judicial authority were compe- ART. IV. That the conduct of the laid Samuel tent to their expreann, on a (unable occafien, and' Chafe was marked, during the whole courre of the in a proper manner, were at that time, and as deli laid trial, by manila injuftice, partiality, and in- vered by him, highly indecent, extra-judicial, and temperance, viz. tending to proftitute the high judicial charader with 1. In compelling the prifoner's Counfel to reduce which he was invefted, to the low purpole of an to writing. and fubmit to the infpedien of the Court, eledioneering partifan. And the Bode of Reprefentatives, by for their admiffion, or rejeflion, all ;mealier's which prntelta the laid Counfel meant to propound to the above tion, raving to themfelves the liberty of exhibiting, I named John Taylor, the witnefs. at any time hereafter, any farther articles, or other 2. In refuting to pollpone the trial, although an accufation , or impeac hment, a g ainft the faid Samuel affidavit was regularly filed, Rating the ebfence of Chafe, and alto of replying to his anfwers, which hel 'material witneffes on behalf of the accufed; and alrho' Mall make unto the laid articles, or any of them, and of offering proof to all and every the aforefaid. it was manifeft, that, with the utmoll diligence, the attendance of fuch witneffes could not have been pro- articles ; and to all and every other articles, im-1 cured, at that term. peachment, or accufation, which than be exhibited' by them, as the cafe (hall require, do demand that 3. That the ufe of unufual, rude , and contemp the faid Samuel Chafe , may be ptit to anfwcr the faid tuous exprellions towards the prifoner's Counfel , and in falfely infinuating that they wi ( hed t o excite crimes and mifdemeanours, and that fuch proceed the public fears and indignation , and to produce that ings, examinations, trials, and judgment, may be had and given, as are agreeable to law and jnttice. infubordination to law, to which the condut of th e judge did at the fame time manifeflly tend. Extra(! of a Letter from Wallington, dated 4th 4. In repeated and vexatious interruptions of the December : " The Houle of Reprefentatives have faid Counfel, on the part of the faid Judge, which, been engaged yelterday and to-day on the articles of at length, induced them to abandon their caufe and impeachment againft Judge Chafe. their client, who was thereupon convided and corn " JEROE S E and Madame Bowerseze were yeller- demned to fine and imprironment. day at Dumfries, thirty miles fouth of this place, - on e. In an indecent foiicitude, manifefted by the raid their way here." Samuel Chafe, for the convidion of the accufed, JUDGE CHASE.—On Monday and Tuefday the im ra. unbecoming even a public profccutor, but highly peachment of Judge Chafe was taken up in aCo mince of the whole Houfe of Reprefentatives, when difgraceful to the charader of a judge, as it was fubvetfive of juftice. the articles were agreed to. Air. V. And whereas it is provided by the at of James Thomprim Callender has been arrefted by Colegrefs, palled on the eth of Se }ember, 1789, order of the Prefident, to take his trial, fot writing intituled 'An Aft to eftabl 4 ifh the Ju dicial Courts of "The Prot-peel before us ;" which is deemed a grofs the United States,' that, for any crime or offence libel on the Prefident and the Congrefs. againft the United Sates, the offender may be at- Capt. HALEY, of the fchooner Sally, arrived at relied, imprifnned, or bailed, agreeably to the ufual Charletton, from Havannah, brought with him as paffengeri two French foldiers, being a part of thole made of proccfs, in the Rate where fuch offen der ma y be found : And whereas it is provided by the laws who were on board an Englifh cartel thip from J a. of Virginia, that upon prefentment by any Grand maica, lately put into the Havannah in dillrefs, 'and Jury, of an offence not capital , the C ourt (hall which funk in the harbour. Every American vette' order the clerk to iffne a fummons againft the per bound home, mull take two, of there foldiers on fon or perfons-offending, to appear and a nfwer fuch board, before the Spanith Government will perm it prefentment at the next Court — yet , the l aid Samuel her to clear out,. The maters are furnithed with a Chafe did, at the Court aforefaid , a w ar d a co certificate to deliver them - to Come French commer pies p e en C a t. vial agent, on their arrival in the U nited States. againft the body of the fame James T hom Accounts from Richmond Rate. that Jeutotes Bo lender, indiled for an offence not capita l, where- Accounts and Lady, arrived in that city on the 3oth Bo upon the faid Callendar was arrefted , and c ommitted . to dole cullody, contrary to law in that cafe made ult. from Norfolk. They had adually taken their and provided. • pair -Age for France in the French frigate Prefident, VI. And whereas it is provided by the 24th fifties 14.4 guns, and Were purfuing their voyage, but hla- dame BOliAlkaftrt being ttAen riere.T:r'y a Coon ter they had got to Cea, the frigate returned, and land ed JkitUNIK and his Lady at N-Itoik. A tranfport has arrived at New Otkans from Ja maica, with 200 troops on board bel"ngio7 to the. late army of St. Domingo. She was bound otigi flatly to Havre-de.Grace : there men ttysk poff(Aon of the Chip off the Baliz.e, and condutied her to quentin, where they landed, and were proceeding to New Orleans, along the banks of the river. ft was amnia that the introdo6lion of thefe people v, - ould Increafe the difcontents that prevail there. Mn This day wa% publifbed, price Is. B ONAPARTE, a SVIT C ; His CORONATION, a Vifi-n. Filinbursh Printed by pines Ballantyne, for A. Conftable aryl o ; and Lid by Longman, Hurt!, Rees, and Qrrne, Pate:- softer-row. wA NTED by an Officer goin to one of the moA healthy Melds in the Well Indie4, a Ready young or mid. dle aged Man. etcher bugle oi tn-it.ed of tmdetu..b:e ch-tao'ter, and who writes a good humid, moil In; wc.l vetted iu accompt.s..l peen ufed to Rtgitneutal /look -keeinv, aad fp.lha French or Gellman, will be greatly preferred, he %I:! ;auk as Serjeane in the Army; and Could hi; ehar....Azt prove fati..faA ;Ty, ho will lit it berally rewmael by his trojdor.r. A hue arld:eired in their own band writh,g to the TaYiftock lTctel, Covent-Garde, (poll µoil) to F. 11 or wait in ?taloa any time between the hdurs of tw_lec and two MAL 7A, NO ,VE R We are in daily erpcßation of fume expeditiol. being undertaken, as transports have been preparitr; here for fome time : but whether thefe are to receive troops from our own gat rifon, or as only prepara tory to a general armament in this quarter, is Lot generally known. The regiments of this place are fume of the Cinch is the fervice, and feafoned to the ciimate, which in the event of active operation:,, would be an important cunfideratiun. The contagion of Spain has happily not reached us, though we are in danger of its approach irons more channels than one, as our oppofite neighbour. of the Barbary (hone, perfßing (Jill in their reNgious fuperflitions, admit no precautions. Our accounts from Egypt reprefent that unhappy country as the vielim of civil difcord : revolution fucceeds 'evolu tion; while the want of fyllem or energy in the Turkiffi Government feems to leave it without any vi fible means of controul. Amid ft all the ruceelllnn% and changes, however, of faCtions, it is Battering to us as Englithmen, to be informed of the refpeCt (till paid there to the Britifh charaBer. We (peak of it here with fell approving fatisfattion. The natives them (elves compliment us upon R I and draw the happiefk auguries from it for their own Bland. The same of Englifhtuan is Rill revered with gratitude in Egypt, and whether Turk, Matnelnke, or even Al!ianian, is the fuperior of the day; every right and every privi. lege, ellablithed for the C.hriftian inhabitants by Ge neral Sruattx, on the withdrawing of the army, is inviolably obferved ; even thofe Franks who are fub jed to the Porte, Sill claim the right of exemption froth all injurious diftinftions, under the faith of that General's proclamation before his departure. ELI! Brit is now in high favour with the Porte, who, we underitand, are at prefent perfeely recon ciled to his late miffion to England, which has been folly explained by our Court. HUREEHFD PACHA, the Vice-roy, remains as be plcdged hi m felf to be come, when he took leave of General STUART, the warm and grateful patron of the Engin. Mean time, between the troubles of Egypt and thofe of Syria, where a new viper has fprung up from the afhes of DGEZZAR, the authority of the Porte feems tottering on the verge of difffilution. LONDON. FRMAY, JANUARY PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE C'CLOCKs Conf for money 64I—R deal S Crrrnn •PRICP. OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Binh io 172 i Long Ann. ty 5-16 i 3,pir C. Red. Ann. 58+ 59 1 ti India Stock, zga 3 per Cwt. Conf. 581 59i, S 9 imp. Ann. 91 4 per Cent. 75i-g t it Otnniurn, 5 per C. Navy, .9c3l}} Englifh Tickets zBl. sys. 1 5 per Cent. Om Loofa Conf. for axe 591 6oitt We have received New York papers to the 9th of December. They contain little news of any intereti, and none of importance. The attention of the Con grefs is occupied with the impeachment of Judge CHASE, whofe trial is not expeted to be over until the end of March. A copy of the as of impeachment is given in the preceding columns. JEROME BOAAPAR re was on the 7th at Dumfries, within thirty miles of New York, after having made an unfuccefsful attempt to return with his family to France. The accounts from Jamaica reach down to the 18th of November. The Houfe of Affembly met on the 23d of Odo ber, and the greateft cordiality fubfifted between that body and the Governor, althccgh it is imagined that the fupplies will not be granted to the full extent de manded. On the 24th of Odtober a Committee of the Houle of Affembly was appointed " To inquire into the Reps which hive been taken in the Par. liament of the United Kingdom, for an Abolition of the Slave Trade—into the meaft.res adopted for equalizing the Duties on Sugar imported from the Eaft Indies, and from the Bridal Colo nies; and the Additional Impofts which hive been laid on our principal Staples—to confider the Elfedts which there Meafures have produced, and are likely to produce, on the Agriculture and Commerce of this Colony ; and to report the Fads, with their Opinion of the Condit which ought to be ;maned by the Honfe, in the diltreffed f.tuation to which the Wand is reduced." It is worthy of remark, that all the papers fubfe quent to the 24th of °etcher which have reached us, and we have teen many, are totally filent on the re fult of the very important fubjeds committed to the deliberation of the laid Committee. Prudential mo tives probably induced the Affembly to enter upon thefe difiuffions with shut doors, and the total exclu fion of all ftrangess. The Report has the refore not been publifhed. The Commander of the fouadron on that Ration was apprized by difpatches, tranfmitted to him from England, and received at the latter end of Odober, of the probability of holtilittes with Spain. The veffel which carried them out, failed from Plymouth on the 22d of September. A letter of the tyth Rates, that trade was very brills, and that the apprehenfion of hoflilities with Spain, having, in tome degree, fubfided, the trade with that country had returned all its former ativity fince July laft. A letter from St. Domingo fays--" The unfortu nate white females, who efcaped fo many maffacres, appear to have been referved for a (tats ; of Qavery