Star. — London, England, 1806-01-24 00:00:00

DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. LETTER. It. • 81,014 In 11111M0 eft toed mania adds, we pad ina4 06111011 A ‘ 4 ALLIAM riaai.capfte arms frequents," Tit. Lk. Hid. Lib. sto. Sta—ln the prefect crifis it well becomes every Briton to refierff, that 2 few hours of calm or of wind, adverfe to our Navy, may bring to our Mods that army which has defeated the Autirians and RoF fims. The well.proved fuperiority of our heroic fat. men can then afford no protefiion—we mull fight for their homes, and our own, upon Britilh ground. With a fuppofition fo ferioua, let him contrail that of a fecond hollow peace, offered by the foe, to gain time to confulidate his recent conquetis—to rear Mil commerce tinder a monopoly of the Continent of Europe, fecured by the meafures he purfued aftertba lasi treaty—finally, to colic& a fleet more numerous than oars from the materials of all its forells and ports—Of Poch a peace accepted by us, to Cave us from meeting the immediate danger, and try our fate while we .are entire, unaninsuris a s t o our natio nal mule and unvanquithed. In either of thefe alter natives, I afk any rational man, what poMble hope &here is of preferving our independance and exift epee, as a people, but by means of armies as firong, as well-trained, and as well commanded as thole with which France may invade ? I alk any rational man, if fubjugation by the (word of the foe, in the fin of thefe alternatives, or a more debating and irretriev able renunciation of our liberty and honour, in the latter, can be avoided by any other means f I hovel but farther to afic him, if thefe means are now pre pared as they ought to be; and if, at the fiaternent of the quellion, he is fatified that much retdains to be done, will any one, not a traitor or a foul, refute to. invefilgata what mull be done to Cave our Country? The review of the WC events upon the Continent leads to one conclufion only. Maria has been fub dued by saantauvre, h afar., and grnerallltip, with out event great battle for the defence of theEss tot a, which lately, alone of all the European States, bore that title, and 'Which flood as high in warlike repot*. don as In rank. One battle, ratty and unfkilfolly fought, broke the confederacy for her proteelion, and forced her magnanimous and mighty ally to leave her to her fain. All this has taken place in two months. Such is now the power of fuperior military fitill in Europe—Who, for fifty years before, bas beard of a great army of Europeans taken captive like wail/illy managed barna' in the game of Chefs. merely by movements and combinations ? Who before ever faw the thength of Empires in Europe, sielatiod to deftrudlion is a fingle engagement ? If we (hut our eyes to this example in the fate of Powers, heretofore fo fuperiorto us 10 Military forms if, with the carafes of their calamities folly in our view, we, from the vilenefs of fervility, the virulence of fatlion, or the fupinenefs of infatuation, refute our joint and refolute co-operation to remove the mutes from our own fyfiern, it is we who betray the Sritith eonflitution, our native land, our Sovereign, and our felves. In fuels circomflancts the Reprefentative is falfe to his troll, who can be retirained by any refpea from a fair avowal of all his fentiments. May the coward, in fuch a caufe, experience that there is yet fpirit and patriotifm enough to make him feel his in famy I To the Senate we look for the wifdom, firm nefs, and exertion, which only can operate improve anent, and reforms of value. It is treafon to doubt that the whole weight of the fupreme Executive power would be ufed to give fuli effea to there. We know the generous zeal of our King, for the welfare and fecurity of the State, and h it not then the duty of the whole of his people to bear their part in the work In the revolutions and conquells which we have witneffed, wherever the mafs of the population of a large territory has been excited to take up arms with enthufiafm, fuccefs has eventually followed, even in the wall of cedes, and with the moll profligate lea. ders. Where, on the contrary, the people have re mained indifferent to the fate of their Government, numerous, brave, and difciplined armies have proved infofficient to protea it aping an enemy paroling the advantage now mentioned, and have been worn out phyfically by the mere repetition of attack.— The eflablifbment of the prefent French Government is an inflame of the truth of the firll of there obferva- Lions—the fate of Aullria of the feeond. But I do not think that the fubjell has been dole :), enough attended to, in the reafonings I have Peen .pon the propriety of training the whole male mu : ttion of a Liam to the ufe of arms in the vigour of ::.eir lives. Invafion is now a calamity to which eery Rate would do well to look forward 1411 too probable. When it arrives, wh.lt enorfe is left for an unarmed, unw.trlike multitude: It has often been' obferved, that the heti cure for fear in the flock of war, is to be attively engaged. Thole who are not fo, if well afreaed, mull cucumber and drarad their GovernmcnL and puteenrs by theii peinict, tuf. fe~ings, and complaints. But the needy and worth. lefs of ah nathkos will recruit the forces of the fpoiler, to (hate in his booty, if nut otherwire piovi lel with employment and'recumpeace. And their number is iivireared by cent) , operation. and by the mere continuance And walls of via.. I am. there. - re, alma iuclined to Jaw the poifibility of any flats being defended againik an enemy ftrong enough to maintain himfelf within its country, and ufing the French Revolueonary fyftem of attack fi• any confiderable length of time, unlefs the whole people are engaged in felt defence. In our cafe, the permiffion and the arms, with the arrangements on ly, are wanted to call out the hearts and the bands of the whole nation. Extremity would ptodoce, 1 truft, the impulfe, without any natUtil Dr arrange ment. But if the people were to rife otherwife than by the forms, and in the array of the Conftitution, according to the appointment of the Legiflatare, not only is defiralion to be feared from the foe, but from themfelves, to all that is worth contending for. From that moment we are in a Revolutionary Hate, and we have feen that horrors may follow. One of the Sri objelts, will, I hope, upon thole grounds, be the arming, or preparation immediately to arm, our whole effeitive male populatioh. I am far from thinking that their difcipline and efla blifhment ought to be matter of very nice and formal regulation. Of thAt we have enough, I be lieve, in the Volunteer Syflem, to the exclufinn, in no flight degree, of more valuable acquifitions. No man is more fenfible than I am of the ineflimable value of the habits of obedience, attention, and good order in a foldier. But if be has feen no danger, ex cepting from the eye of an Infpeding Field Officer, and knows the alarms of war bat in his anxiety that the Guidon a tat r ave of the parade shall be per termed pox let reglei, I mull be pardoned for doubt. ing if he can reckon upon his habits acquired and praftifed only on the bowling green of •a review, when be CMOs to the rough field of battle. For all home-bred foldiers, it has ever teemed to me effential that if poffible the idea of an actual enemy—of real fervice—of real offence and defence, fitould accom. pany his training, at every flop. It is this which it is molt difficult to give him.-- But is the Peatant, who only learns to take a deadly aim, to cover himfelf, and fecure his retreat, when he &Gila the foe ; and to feparate or reunite with his affociates, as occafion f , without lines, pivots. or pates-w-likely to have lets of that idea than the Volunteer, who has never teen or learnt any thing of the art of war out of the form, time, and meafore of the regulations 'The quefiion, I think, is of im portance, and I mean to difeurs it in the comparative , confideration of our prefent fytlem of difcipline with that which it is underflood that the French pratlife. CAMILLUS. Lord HWY PETTY, Lord As.enoatr. the Hon. Lawaseca DUNDAti. Lord Ro►srnat, and the Mtn. Sr emcee PlactvaL, art raid to be Candidates &elite Uni►crllty of Cambridge. Yefterday abouttwo o'clock the Lord Mart went In his Rate coach, accompanied by the ufttal attend ants, to the parifb church of Abchurch, Cannon•llrcet, where he held a wardmote for the EleCtion of an Alderman for the Ward of Candlewick, in the rena l of the late. Alderman Perchard, when John Peter Mulkey, Efq. was elated without oppofition. The Rift hint of his regal dignity was received by the EleCtor of Wirtemburgh while he was hunting, on the fuperfeription of a Letter conveyed to him by a Courier, from Bo AAAAA re, in theft words I—" To my Beloved Brother, his Majefty the King of Suesta, &c. &c. . DRURY LANt.—The new Operatic Drama of The Travellers ; or Mujic's Fofiinatioa, was laft night re peated at this theatre. It has undergone many ju dicious alterations and curtailments ; the reprefenta tion was IA night finifhed about half pall ten o'clock. firfl Ad now concluder in the Prefence Chamber of the Emperor of china.—ln the (econd Aft, a whole fcene, a Chorus and a Dance, are fwept away—in the third Aft, the dialogue is much con traaed, and, if we millake not, a Dance is here fnr rendet ed up.—The fourth At was too Ilion for am putation, but the dialogue in abridged, and the Fifth is wholly tranfafted in one fcene—namely, the Q2ar ter Deck of a Man of War. On Wednefday fe'nnight, as Mils Hayling and Mr. Toldervcy, of . Leominster, were returning on horfe. back from Hampton, the lady's horfe took fright at fume jack-alTes on the road, and, letting off at full (peed, the (addle turned, jail oppnfite Mr. Edwards's gate, of Broadward; in consequence of which, the fell, and broke her thigh She was conveyed into that gentleman's !untie, and fergical afliltance was immediately procured from Leominfler, when her thigh was (cc, and, we are happy to add, the is in a fair way of recovery. John Wiggins, a corporal in the Cukethorpe Loyal Volunteers, commanded by EDWARD SHIRLEY, E(q. having keen difcharged for difohedience of orders, and refuting to deliver up the clothes belonging to the Paid volunteers, provided by voluntary fubfcrip. tion, was convifted before the and Rev. FRAN. cis KNOLLIS, of having forfeited the furn of fixteen pounds fourteen (billings, which he was tenable to pay, and was therefor e on Tuefday fennight commit ted to (Mord Callie fur the (pace of fiz weeks, ac cut ding to the !haute. A mull melancholy and fatal accident happened on Wednefday fenaight, at Ferss-liiiiife, near Bath, she feat of Thomas Grove, E(q. muffin duels of Mils Mary Ann Grove, an amiable young Lady, thirteen years of age, fourth daughter of Mr. Grove, by tome accident caught fire, when there was no one in the apartment with her but a younger Idler, who WAS incapable of affilling her. Terrified by her alarming fitiration, Mifs Grove ran out of the houfe, but unt.l ttitiately no one was at that instant on the (put, and 'ellen flue again entered, and flew to an apartnient, in which Mr. H. Banker, of Salifbiry, was on hulineh, the was entirely enveloped in flames: Mr. H. Bankes ufed every pollible ecettion, with the Alliance of two fervants, to estinguith them, and was much burnt in theft laudable firm s, but they welt unavailing, till the young lady's eioihrs were neauly confuntcd. She lansuithed until Tu.tiJoT, and then died. Niftl*C.lL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind N. W. A* a. Dublin Waterford 0 '6°B l . Gottanburgb 41 0 a. II"; I. 3 Humburgb 9 3 o POurauttntru, jdte. 33.—Arrived the Caascs Cut• ter, from a cruize.• , —Wind. Wellerly, Deal., Jaa. 23.—a Put back the Pitt, for Jamaica; Remittance, LAW, for New York ; Perfe verance, —, for the Earl Indies ; and the reit of the outward bound, which failed under the Paosr sac bomb. Sailed the AacNaa gun brig, on a ertlize off Calais. Arrived the HOT/I frigate, with a convoy from Portfmouth ; MsaLle floop of war, with a con voy from Gibraltar; and Bruiser gun brig, from a cruise, and remain in the Downs with the Edgar, Utrecht, and Trnay, men of war; Venus frigate ; Profpero and Devaftat ion bombs ; Otter floop of war, a fleet of gun brigs and tranfports. Wind W. N. W. • FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gacvitaano, JAN hr the Heart of Oak. Virgin ; Riga Packet, Waterman, and the Peace, Miler, from Lifbon Sailed, the Coat, Wyatt, fur Tobago; Perot* Anna airs, Jana, for &adds. ARRIVED. Off lover, the Two Friends, Mac Nick, from Charieften ; Prefident, Lynch. from Teneriffe; Princes Royal. Walton; Queen. Diamond ; and the Britanonia, Brow n, from Lilbort—At Ford mouth, Neptune, from ditto; Barralla, Willmott. from Gibraltar • NtUoe, Peacock, from Patera:meg; Nereid, Wilkie (on: —; and the Fleece, from Oporto—At Hoy late, Cerm, Bentley, from ditto—At Briftel, Jain and Mary. from ditto; and the Mary, from Lilbon—At Liverpool, Difrach, Barlow, from the Havannah ; Rmabtion. Sedgwood; Charlotte, Priddla; Plebe, Findlay; and the Aacoltorfe, 1 front LifborsAt Bahian. Adive, Slitter. from Pateriborg—At Pipers. Daphne, Bally, from Newfoundland—At Charleftea. Prime William. —, fr om Africa : and the Juno, Malcolm, from Liverpool—At Africa. Governor Donal, sad the Alexan der, from ditto; Mary, Adams; AMMO. Mathews; and the Flying Fifh, from London—At Tenerife, America, Jafferd, from ditto. The Nimble, Cunt, from Oporto for Liverpool, is on (bore in Carnarvon Bay. The Mary, MORRISON, and the O'Hara, from Ja maica, arrived at Charlefton, nn the sad of Deem her; failed with the fleet, confliling of about so fail, and parted on the t ash December, in lat. 2+ long. 70. - - The William, Soucsay, from London to Malta, is captured by the Spanifh gun boats, and carried into Algeziras. The fleet which failed from Pnrtfmonth on the 17th of November, arrived at Gibraltar previous to the t ith of December, all well. Advices from Madeira, of the sath December, Rate, that Prineefs Mary, Ganges, Perfe 'trance, and Union, from the Well Indies ; Herald, from Newfoundland; Hope, bound to Oporto, taken bv the Rochefort fquadrnn, were carried into Teneriffe, there unload ed, and difpolid of. The Hope was purchafed by fume Pi.rtuguefe, and fent for Lifbon. The E m frigate is to be repaired for imme diate fervice, at Woolwich; at which place the CLYDI frigate will be commiffloned in a few days. The Weymouto frigate, Captain Meru, which failed with the convoy for the alt Indies, when the Abergavenny Eaft Indiaman was wrecked off Port land, and for whole fafety ftrious apprehenfions were entertained, has joined the fleet under the command of Admiral Sir E. Pr ace w, in the EaR Indies. Admiral RUISIL'S flag (hip, the Majeflic, has ar. rived at Yarmouth, and the Prince(' of Orange, of 74 guns, for whole 14fety Tome apprehenfrons were entertained, has alfo arrived at that port. Sir Samuel. HOOD is appointed to the command of the Centaur, 'of 74 guns, at Plymouth. Captain PARINDMII is appointed to the command of the Sparrow (loop, at Chatham ; and Captain &mecum to that of the Contiance (loop, at Port!: mouth. CHATHAM, .7/IN. 24. On We.inefJay the Glatton was taken into Dock to be repaired. She is to be fitted with all po(llble difpatch, as a (lore fhip for the Downs Ration. The penfioners of the Cheft of Greenwich, are to receive the money doe to them At December, in the cootie of a (hors time, and the payment will be made at Chatham. On Wednefday abont 26 horfes and men of the German Legion were landed at this place from the Pallas tranfport. They had been buffeted about in the North Seas, for three weeks, and the honks from fo long (landing in the tranfport, laid themfelves down immediately the flings were Incited from their bodies, and were got up withgreat difficulty. Their legs are generally in very bad condition. On Wednefday an inquifitinn was held at Ro chefler, before J. PRALL, Efq. Coroner fn. the City of Rocheller, on the body of a feaman, who was picked up in the river by fame men who were drag , ging for a rope. They brought in a verdid—Acci dental death. More property has been difcovered among the gentry whrde hooks have been lately fcrutinized.— On Monday a quantity of wearing apparel, and fundry other arti:les were difrovercd at the houfe of Huelcilep and S) fleet. The articles that have been flolen by thefe men, have been removed from one houle to .nether during the night, and have, by that method, eluded the fearch of the officers. Their hiding places are how ever now fully dilcovered, and we hopc that the neigh boui hood will be rid of loch han,:till nu dances. Yefierday, as four men were at work on t Rage, caulking the tide of theWhart, near the fecund Dock, the ropes fuddenly gave way, and they were plunged into the river. Two of the men almoll immediately recovered themfelves, and got afhore ; the other% were fated with much difficulty, and are extremely in confequence of the volt quantity of watr that had entered their bodies. "Wednerclay night as Mr. Heburni of Walling heel, was returning home, his hntfe took fright, near the Horns, at Kennington, and after ront.hig a cnnfidyrable dillance, fell with him, by which Mr. H. received Come flight contufions, but was able to remount and ride home. LAW 4 7. • INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF Kaki's BENCH, JAN. 63, tt 6. This being the firlt day of Hilai y Teem, the Judges came down to Weßminfler Hall in the uhial proceffion ; the Chancellor in his Hate coach, with the Officers of his Lord hip's Court taxing the lead. The other Judge► following accordingto their prece• dence. The whole of the cavalcade, King's Coon lel, Bre. collated in Wellmintfer Hall, and after the accultomed ceremonies, the feveral Judges repaired to open their refpetive Courts. The proper Officer attended this Court, to make the ulnal returns, upon oath, of the feveral convies under (entente of tranfpertation, who had been re- moved from the various gaols throughout the king dom, on board his Majelty's hulks, Rationed in the harbours of Woolwich, Portfmouth, Plymouth, itc. reprefenting them to be in a Rate of good health, kept to hard labour at the King's works, and Dock yards, and prevented the ufe of Itrong or fpirituous liquors, except in a medicinal way. 14•MDAMOS. The Souctrna G pplied for a Rule to thew caufe why a Mandamus, direeled to the Bifisop of Oxford, enjoining him to fettle Mr. Ifitac Knight, as Curate of a Pettit within the Ri _ht Re*. Prelate's Diocefe, fhuuld not be quashed on the ground of in. fulficiency in the allegation ; no Ipecial right, of whirls Mr. Knight bad been deprived, having, as was ne edam been particularized. It was only Rated that he (Mr. Knight) ought to have been included, and that be had been appointed by the pari(hioners. It was not however dated, that the Living had been endowed, without which fuch an appointment was not good, without the confent of the hector; neither was it al edged that the Rector had given Inch coo fent. No caufe bad been Ihewn agatinft the Rule when it was obtained, there baing then.. doubt, even fuppofing there had been no simony in the tranfac lion, whether the Crown or the Whop had the ri7ht. The Learned Counfel had no objedion that the Role again fitonld be brought on, he having an oppor tunity of (hewing caufe againtl it—Rule granted. stassas COU'US. Mr. Jsavls moved for a Rule to thew cattle, why a Writ of Habeas Corpus, obtained for a perfon of the name of Crerar, fel ving on board a flip of war. &mild not be quailed, it hiving been granted no a, miliatement, and inifreprefentation of fags. The perfon WAS impreffed in Oa. t 834, and the applies• non for the Habeas Corpus, was not made to the Court till IA term. The apology for this was the conilant abfence of the flip at fea, fince the period of Crerar's being impreflid. On inquiry, however, the faa was found to be, that the flip had 'not been out of port more than three months of that period. But, in addition to this, it was afeertained that in 58c5, Crerar, being then one of the car penter's ..rew, applied for, and obtained, the rank of carpenter's mate, by which he received an inereafe of wages to the amount of feven (haling. per moods, in confequence of which appointment he had alto , drawn a confiderable additional furn of prize money. This, the Learned Counfel fubmitted. was a pattas of his right, to claim the benefit of the Habeas Coe. pub—his receiving additions' wages, wiling from a place obtained on his own application, being tanta mount to a voluntary entry. Mr. Juflice Le BLANC aflard, if the Learned Conn ie' contended that the Raiment in the Rule did nut warrant the iffuing of the Writ Mr. Jervis confeffed that he could not. Lord ELLswaoaouoit" Then how can it be Paid that improvide rrnanavd ? You had better at once put the axe to the root of the evil, by anfwering to the Writ, that the perfon did enter, by which means the queflion will be fairly tried." This being eßeemed the proper mode of proceed ing, Mr. Jervis wok nothing by hi► motion. MISSY SP. Mr. Gaiter's,/ moved the Court, that the Defeo dant, who seal a foreigner, might be difcharged, up on filing comman bail. This WAS an atlion of uover, brought for cool. to recover the porefGon of an annuity deed, and a large pocket book, the property of the Plaintiff. Upon agreeing to depofit the deed and pocket book, in the hands of the proper officer of the Court, and to pay colts, the Court granted the a pplication. A. COX Mr. PARKE obtained a Rule to Shew Caufe why the Defendantld nut be diftharged un filing Common Bail, on the ground that the name was materially mis-gated in the affidavit to hold to trial. COURT OE COMMON PLEAS. The Judges, Sir ALAN CHAMaat, Mr. Mike HILITN, and Sir Guteas Bonita. t.‘uk their feats with the ufual formality. Sir JAMAS MANSNIALD was not on the Bench.—After heating bail jullified, the Court atttnded to Motions. WORDSWORTH V. WILLAN. In this cafe Mr. Serjeant Blur moved for a Rule to let elide the verdia, on the ground that it was given againft evidence.—lt was an aaion tried b e f or e Mr. Jutlice ROOKS, to recover damages for an injury follained by the negligence of a coachman. The plaintiff was an Attorney, and the defendants, Meffis. Willan and Co. proprietors of the Northampton Stage coach. It appeared that when tae injury c entred, the coachman was driving on the wrong fide the road, and the paffengers within dated at the trial that he pulled the reins of his fore.horfe, and occa flailed the aniaLd to run again!' the plaintiff, who was on hurfcback. The coachman had left a ditiance threent yards for the plaintiff to pale, and the JuJte left it with the Jury to decide whether that seas a fur . - ficient fisace; they were of opinion it was not, and returned a verdia for the plaintiff. It was contended in fupport of the motion, that as thole perfons within the coach had rt., means of ob fervin2, the coachman's condue9, their teliimony on that part of the cafe was not to be believed. The coachman was defcribed to be a careful man, who had fpirited hnrfes to manage, and it was dated that the accident was occalioned by his endeavour o ter flraitt them, during whiih there was r.,orn for the plaintiff to have avoided the danger which threat ened him. The Conte granted a rule hO. Entre rum I 1 f. 14 1 . j 1 i f # 4 '