Star. — London, England, 1803-06-17 00:00:00

-ammt .s t • w 001.3 the heft interefts of the Country be td. The lion. Member concluded with moving cr•py of the minutes relative to the abuf.a the k Yards. in terms of his fj eech. The CHAWL o f the EtettEQple edified the picaion, as not ceiling on parlirmetitary grritinds.— He thought that the I lint. Mover, inftead of waiting for objcelion;, thould flate,l fume reafons in fa vour °fits bein? entertained. No one could fed a V.-her int--A than he did in any thing eonneEted v..i:h the chat icier of the Noble Lord at the head of the Ada tralty. No one had a more thorough con vi&ion that the charaEter of the Noble Lord flood for above all trial:gnant calumny. He was, however, a: the fone time, lefs anxious that the Marion of the Gem:cm:in fhould be perfilled in, as be was convinced that the talenr; the foundnefs, and the t;sliJity of the Noble Lord's conduit did not at all it and in nee i of any fuck fnpport as the motion wascal colaicd to a /Card. In this view, therefore, he thought the motion traally unnecerfary; but, in another point of • view, he conceived that it (till lefs relied on parliamentary grounds. The Houfe had inverted Com rmaionet s with full powers to inquire ihto abufes cai.ling in the Navy, and there was no reafon to think that tit:) , had not employed their powers with affi cluity and zeal. If it was meant to be flared, which h"wcver the Hon. Gentleman had nor infinuated in the moil distant manner, that the Commiffionetsbad been deficient in their duty, then there might have been fair ground of interference, and a motion of the natare now offered to the Hou fe might have been highly expedient. As, however, no fuggeaion of this kind had been made, he mutt contend that the motion of the Hon. Gentleman was at leaft prema ture, atui mild tend only to anticipate a judgment, which could he given with much more advantage whrn the whole Lies of the cafe were fairly andfully lubmitted to the Houle. As the moil convenient way therefore, of difpoting of the motion, he mould fit down by moving the previous queftion- Capt. Maze nap, on behalf of his Noble Friend at the head of the Board of Admiralty, as well as for his other colleagues and himfelf, was particularly anxious that every part of their conduft Mould be made the fubjeet of the molt rigid inquiry. The more rigid the inquiry was, the more he was foie it would turn out in favour of the meafures which they had thought it their duty to partite. In many of the common journals of the country affettions applicable to their proceedings, of the moll degrading kind, had been employed. Even in the Houle nfelf countenance had, in Come degree, been gives to foci reprefenta tions. Unlefi a Reap was put to reprefentationsoffo tinj..ftifiable a defenption, it was impoffible that the bulinefs of the naval department could go on with that energ7 and fpirit which the prefont circum. fiances of the country required. His opinion, there fore, was, that the papers for which the Hon. Gen ' tlenian Rad moved, ought to be produced. The !honer they met s the eye of the public, the more ad vantageous it would be for the country. The exift . knee of delinquency of a molt flagrant kind had been eftablithed, and he did not fee how it was necerfary in wait for any additional reports from the Commit . - (loners, with the view of bringing the delinquents before the regular tribunals of the country. Whenever profectiticts were commenced, he was confident they would terminate in a way which would fully confirm cite propriety of the Reps which the Board of Admi ralty had conceived it to be their duty to adopt.— Called on, as the country now was, to make the great: eft exertions for the public fervice, no time ought to be loft in making examples of thofe who had been guilty of flagrant breaches of public duty. On there grounds he fhould fupport the motion. Sir Wm. Etmets had no °Whom to the general (pink of the nastion, but thought, as it now flood, it did not comprehend a fofficient variety of fubjeas. No man had a higher opinion than he entertained of the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty, the Hon. Gentleman who (poke laft, and their colleagues in office, in their military charatier. With regard to heir conduill in their civil capacity, he entertained, however, a very different opinion. He thought that many of the fleps they bad taken on the principle of reforming what they called exiling abufes, were pro- dmllive of confemiences the :nod injurious to the public fervice. In feveral inflances they had them felves been obliged to confers that their conduit had been precipitate, and they had accordingly reverted to the fame fyllem which they had condemned as affording faeilitizs for abide. He condemned them alto I.w having, by their extorts decifion,don' • injtatice to individuals. Sir C. Foal, adverting to a hint thrown out, that injustice had been done by tatting on e.vparre evidence, Rated that this evidence which bad been complained of was evidence obtained from the mouths of the de linquents thensfelves. Sir A. HAldmono firmed to feel indignant at any lnlonuations againft the Navy Board, the Members of which were fir attentive to their duties, as to fa fix or (even -hours every day. The Comnsiffioners on abides were Rill continuing their enquiries, and all that the Admiralty could give was a copy of the proceedings. It was impoffible to form any judg ment, till the report &wild be properly laid before the lionfe. As to the Navy Board they had a Tight to expel a liberal condo& from the Houk. They had a report now ready, but the Houfe could not well determine, till they bad the whole of it before them. Mn, Cove dbfervcd, that nothing perfonal could poffibly be meant; the Miniller himfelf had defenied the condui of the Noble Earl at the head of the Admiralty. The motion only went to the pro cikition, which could not, after the declarations of the Miniller, be confidently rehired. There docu ments would, he nnderlioesd, (hew many skulks which never had been checked before. Every one mutt ad mite the wonderful !alms and Cervices of that ilia ttious Officer, who did and thould ever maintain (Isom re aternnribile mattes Gov rt taukunt quad nnhra prnderat arltt." 11dYniral Bs • (poke againft the motion. The &erne% a-Gr.a ekat. ably !Imported the ma lion of :ha Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer. He • as rea.ly to give the higheß credit to the Noble Le - 1%! at the head of the Admiralty, and the Hon. Cattleman, nix), in his name, courted the j.•.(4.:a:firai of the papers, for their nice and honour. able trelioas. I:: thought, however, char there feel. jags r the mean time to give way to public con rideraticns, sshi:h all fug;efted the expediency of al I-w;ria the Commiffinners to finals their inquiries be. fort ":75 any Parliamentary interherence. Raced co the notion would be to anticipate their decifsou. - and to imply cliffatisfailion with their la. hours, which they had tonduded with the grand alliduity and teal. Colonel BAETARD was in favour of the motion and Mr. H vvvvv ■gainh any thing which would in volve R dilcuffion of a charader fo illuftrions at that of Earl St. Vincent. Sir FaaNcit BARING confidered Lord St. Vincent as one of the grestell Officers that ever flitted. and was proceeding, when he was interrupted as digref• fing from the queftion. Mr. SHERIDAN oppofed the opinion advanced by the Attorney-Oeneral, and argued in favour of the motion. It was unfair, eery thing confidered, to wait for the final report. The molt manly and libe ral Mode would be to form the infinnations againit the Fitt Lord of the Admiralty, and bring them openly before Parliament. By the prefent tyllem, the matter Would be left in a very unpleafant hate. and in the prefect important fituation of affairs, where there teemed to be a competition between two Boards, thole who deferved the honour of having done every thing to eorred stipules lhould receive it. Sir A. HAMMOND explained, that what he alluded to in refpea to the Board of Admiralty was not meant as any imputation, but that the Navy Board could not, under the prefent tyltem, go on as plea fantly as k might otherwite. Mr. WIIITIRIAD, in reply. obferved, that after what had been (aid, he did nut Mean to milli in his Motion. but to be dillinftly informed, before he reline quifised it, at what time any motion on this fubjeet would be brought forsVird? The CHANcILLoC of the Excoskyst (aid, that it was certainly his intention to bring the abufes alluded to, and the report of the comnsiffm, under the con fideration of Parliament, in the coarfe of the prefent fe fflon, hat could tpecifyno particular time for doing fe. The Houle then agreed that the Motion fhould be withdrawn. mrirtgA. Sir JAM es SINCLAIR ERSKINE prefented the Scotch Militia Family Bill, which was read the firlt time. Mr. B.towsi.t. expreired his warmell approbation of the Bill, and his fincere vrifh that a fimilar Bill fhould be brought in fat Ireland, which at this crilis I would be not only defirable in a high degree, on the ground of humanity and benevolence, bat extremely important to the public fervice. There had been a finular Bill enafted by the Parliament of Ireland during the late war, which had expired, and which law, or fame other for the like purpofe, it was ex tremely defirable to tevive. In Ireland more efpc. dolly, where poverty fo generally prevails, and Poor Laws do not exist as in England (nor did he ever derive they (hould) the ficuation of the wives and chil dren of thofe men who devoted themfelves to the publit fervice, was truly deplorable. They had no other reroutes for livelihoW when the hu.thand and father entered the army, ant went on foreign fervice, but an appeal to public benevolence ; and to this was it in a great meafure owing, that the areets of every town were crowded with wretched women and chil dren, begging for food. Even chore Militia foldiers who in the ha war had volunteered for foreign fer vice, the very moment they bad done fo, had the mortification to behold their poor wives and infants (truck off the allowance to Militia men's families ; and thole who accompanied their hufbands with a with to go abroad with them, had the mortification, at the moment of embarking, to be torn from them, and left to beg their way home, when the wives of Englifh foldiers were fent with the means of carrying them to their refpeftive parifhes ; and even to this moment. Ireland was crowded with the begging widows and orphans of men who had facrificed their lives in the fervice of their Country. He fincerely winted that Tome provifion could be made to alleviate chore la mentable circumaances, and hoped the Gentlemen who compered the Government for Ireland in this Country, would bring forward Tome meafure on the fubjeft. Mr. WICKMAN laid, that certainly the extreme dif trefres of the Poor in Ireland was a rabic& which neither ercaped the notice, nor failed to-intereft the feelings of the Government in Ireland ; and no man would be found more ready to concur than himfelf in any well digetted meafure that could be deviled for their relief. If the Hon. Member would himfelf fay that, he was now prepared with any eligible plan for afreffing upon his own County the means of relieving his poor, he would find him ready to fupport it. At - pi dent, however, be fa* no immediate plan eligibly prafticable for the purpofe, though there was one in contemplation, m hich fo Coon as it could be properly matured and digefted, would be brought forward for coalideration ; but he could not confent to entertain any plan but one which upon the fulleft deliberation (bould appear eligible. Mr. Maumee FITIGIIIALD entertained an opinion .direaly,contrary to that profeffed by an Hon. Mein ber near lum (Mr. Bagwell) upon this fulled, and fincerely deprecated the revival of loch *law as that to which he had alluded, the affelfinents under which were felt with femuch feverity. He trulted the Right Hon Secretary for the Irith Government would not bring forward any meafure upon this fubjed, until he (bould have bra confulted the general sentiments of the Gentlemen of Ireland. Mr. WiLisaroaca rofe, and was proceeding to fpeak on the fame fubjea, but was reminded by the Secretary at War, that the converfation was irrele vant, as not upon the bill before the Honfe.—The bill was ordered to be read the fecond dose to morrow., 111/LAND. Mr. Coast moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue and amend an Aft of the otb of his Ma jelly, refraining the ifuing of notes for (mall faros of money (called Silver Notes) in Ireland. He Rated that that country was deluged with Notes, called Bank Notes, for fums as (mall as nine, (even and even live (billings , and that fdver had consequ ently in a manner difappeared. The refpeitable private Pro vincial Banks in Ireland had long difcontintsed this pranice, as one infinitely lets lucrative than trouble- Come, and it had been taken up by au infinite variety of pet-14ns in different trades, for wilt& ultimate re. fponlibility the public had no fecnrity whatever. Colonel BAGWELL confidered that it would be very hazardous to refrain this paper circulation until they could foldlitute Come other io the place. In the part of Ireland he livcd in, there was really no filver to be ' t in. A fret tome few obfervations from Mr. Corry, Mr. W:rl.ham, abd Colonel Bagwell, leave was given to In. , ng in the NlL—Adjourned. • fiLiket, PARK JUNE dr. At eight o'clock yelterday a part of the Confular Hoak Guards let out for Bruffels. The Department of Tarn gives a Frigate to the State, and that of the North, a Ship. A commiffion of Three Americans has been nomi nated bY the Miniflers of that Nation, at Paris, to li quidate the debts due by France to the Citizens of the United States. This Commiffion,is compofed of Mr. BARNET Commercial Agent for the Port of Antwerp, dr. Macxuar, of Maryland, and Colonel MERCER, of Virginia. Jima t z.--The Confervators of the Public Health at Marfeilles hate, in a letter to the Minifler of the Interior, that the plague which the Englifh brought from Egypt continues to make the greateft ravage at Malta. They have, therefore, fent the mole poittive orders to all the Officers within their jurifdieticrn to double their caution and care, to prevent the propa gation of this fcourge.—Monitier. The Sub-Prefed of the Arrondiffement of Saint Malo has canted to be arrefted and conveyed to Rennes, a perfon named Vise, called Sans Facon ; widow Dasemastrs, the mother of two emigrants, who have retired to Jerfey ; and anotl.er woman, ac. etzfed of favouring the exportation of our provifions, end Of carrying on a correfpondence, which proves that the Englifh have not renounced their old fyftem of hollilities. It is obferved that the name of the CH is r CONSUL has not yet been admitted into the London Almanac, among thofe of the Chiefs. of other Governments.— It may happen that the French army this year will take upon it the taut of fupplying this omiffion : and what would be hill more curious, would be to fee the battle of his Britannic Majelly obliged to rehgn to another, the place which it occupies In the Lon don Almanac.—Goaewe de France. THE GENERAL COMMANDING IN THE /SLIS OF FRANCE AND RE-UNION, TO THE FIRST CONSUL OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. February 4. Citizen Firft Conful—Of all the Colonies, that. of the Ides of Prance and Re-union are mod indebted to you. They proclaim you to be their faviour ; and the dzy on which they heard of the Magill:my being conferred on you for life, was to them a day of rejoicing and enthuSaftn.—The affairs of the Engtllh in India have taken the moft unfavourable torn. Having too much territory, they are unable to maintain authority In every place; and their feeptre, which is poWmous in proportion to the wept of their Empire, has inamfed the dlrcootents or the people. They have *teem defeated in an engagement with the fraris. The antes taro are re-kindling; and the alfaffinatioo of the Pallas Am at Bombay haz done than, the grinned injury, in the opinion of the people, who were given to undeidand that be had bees feat to demand, in the name of his dompoign, the funs of money which the Emelt Govern:dent had undertaken to pay bias, in swelters doo of that Prince having promifed not in favour the page of tie Army of Egypt.—k is not for me to referee future meets. But Ism warranted in giving it as my opinion, from every annum I have heard, that th't era is approaching, la which the cruelty of the Englith, the ufurpatiotts they have committed in India, the balk of the power and poifeffions which they have accusaukted i the weak ode of their phySeal means to rapport themfelves in rich' an utast of country, molt bring about a great and fpeedy Revolution in that part of the worid. (Signed) - SIAGALLON•LAMOILII as. • J UNE 13. DECLARATION OF THE RING OF ENGLAND, AND THE OFFICIAL TAPERS PUBLISHED BY HIS MINISTERS, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS THEREUPON. " It is well known that declarations of war are not appeals to reafon and to juftiee. Among the alledged motives in thefe kinds of aas are frequently claims which are more or lets hazarded 3 grievances are urged, and complaints exaggerated, for the purpofe of giving a ftrong colour to fats ; but we think jt was never before dared to collet] together, in a docu ment fanaioned by the name of a - KING, a greater number of alrertions that are pofitively falfe, unfound ed accufations, and forced induftiens, than are to be found in every page of the long Declaration of the Kim° of ENGLAND, of which we have given the tranflation.—When hiftory !hall have no other means by which to enlighten ponerity upon the true caufes of events of which we are witneffes, than the fame pieces deftined to juftify the allegations of that Mandell°, they will fillet for its underftanding—for the under (landing of ages to come, to Phew what has been the gravity, the folemnity of engagements contraeted and inolated—and who have been the violators of pro mifed faith. Yes, that recital, by which they have thought proper to juftify their reproaches, (ball rife in judgment ugainit themfelves, and (ball accufe them of all thole acts of injuftice which they would charge againft France. Let us proceed to follow them in the Ratement of theirgrievances, and in the developement of their anterior proceedings. We will fucceffively examine the Royal Declaration•—the official conduit of the Minifter.—the correfpondcnce of their agents ; and we (hall flop the reader not upon all, but upon the molt palpable proofs, which the Englifh Govern. ment, by the publication of thcfe pieces, gives us of its perfidy, its pitiful policy, and niameful duplicity. If an thole who read thefe obfervations there be any who find our judgment too fevers, let them look forward : let them view the profpeatve of thofe evils which may , which malt tenth, from this war. - Commerce, perfeeuted on the fees, diforganized upon the Continent; the chain of its conflation broken; I its adivity paralyzed ; towns deßroyed ; fields rm. vaged ; rivers dyed with blood : in fine—two nations, almoti out of the reach of hurting each other by the ufual means of hoftilities, forced, in order to attain the end of the war, to conceive and to execute again!' each other extraordinary enterprizes.. . .. Here we behold what every friend of humanity ought to de precate with fenfations of horror, before to terrible, and fo near a profpell—what man is there fo infen fible who can dived himfelf of a fentiment of violent indignation againa that abufed or perverted Govern ment, which after having formed a determination from which may refult a great calamity for nations and for ages, thinks to atelier itfelf under the judg ment of its contemporaries, in fupporting the motive of its deeifions upon its impoftures 1 But if offended humanity authorize, in its name, and for its defence, the language of a juii reprobation, the interefts of truth demand a calm refutation. Notes plain but pofitive, added to the Dcclaration and to die Corref pondence of the Minifters of his BRITANNIC MAJRATT, will (*office for this purpofe. England has declared war, becaofe (he willed for war; and becaufe (he mutt alledge grievances, the has fabricated them. If France had had «catkin to do fo; if the had salted to found them on lite' colletied and tranfinitted by her diplomatic agents, we (hould have fees very dif ferent motives, and very different grounds, from thole of En land ; but the French GovernMent has already made known that, in its opinion, what isfufficient to conftitute a &Ned for a duel is not culficient to kali 1./ a war. rra Pee is driven to tsar net by tnotives of choice, not by views of her own determination ; IL: is not at war even for the evacitation of Malta,- hut folely to repel an unjuft aggrelEon. The whole ex planation of the conchiei of France is contained in this rim* proFrafition : The French Government has can• last& demolfiratal it, &ire, that a wooed anilediaseling Jima tale plate, anartrance hat &es attaciett" " Let us fee how the Englifh goventritent explain: and defends its concfo6t." [The different ;mirages in his Itlapavv's declara , lion are then given, each followed by a comment nd *ay remarkable fut honefty or candouf,- To givd the whole would tire the patience of our readers we therefore confine ourfelvesto a few extraas—r " The difcliffions between France and England commenced at the epoch of the Kisu's Meffage, the Bth of March : the firft as which conftitstes on chi( part of England, a five of Negotiation, is a hue" of Lord HAWRISSBUIT, of the rsth of March. From the period of that Note, to the 7th , of April, Ike French Minittry received three Laconic Notes, of which two had Pimple incidents for their objea. Orf the 7th of April, Lord WMITWOIITif announced the alternative of his departure. " The Isis of bit Ma7aser for the maintenance of Pram are reduced to a vague and indolent Negotia- tion, which on the sift day, loft the appearance of a pacific difpofition. Fifteen days afterwards, the Englifh Ambaffador peremptorily demanded paff ports ; fifteen days after that he quitted France.— Such have been the dram of hit M ayEstr for the main tissue of Peace. " Relpeaing the Commercial Agents.--.lle Mini. tiers of his BILITANNIC MAJeSTY are, in this circum• fiance, ezyllcit beyond what one bad aright to mpg& from their prudence. A peace without a Treaty of Commerce, a peace without unlimited liberty for the confumption of their produce ; a pease, in Mort, which did not leave them the exclufive privilege of introducing every where the produce of their indattry, and of profcribing amongit them foreign indullry, is not a peace. We mutt either renounce the right of ettablithing Cottons Honks, and difcourage National Manufaaures, or make war. " This fyftem is grange. What ! is there no ge. nerd Laws of Commerce ? Can we not trade with England without a Commercial Treaty ? Can we not have Commercial Agents if there are no fpecial flips. lations in Commerce ? Well, be it fo; let as have no Commercial Agents in England : But why mull Eng land have the right of interdiaing accefs to her ports, whillt France cannot exereife the right refpeaing en tering upon her territory. Wby mull not that reeio procity take place here as in other things? the rule admitted and recognized amengft equal nations.... What hinders you from profcribing the produaiona of French indußry ? What Power on earth can con 'train us to confume Englifh produaions ? And is it not the height of arrogance to tell us peace will not be profitable to our induary ; therefore let as break the peace ; let us injure and dellroy French induary let us arm to defend Englith ioduftry ; in (bort, you null pay us dearly for our manufkanres, or you than have war. " We know not whether the EnglaTi Covcrniaeot, in profeffing this tyrannical and audacious doarine, had in view to render ,the war which it had and taken popular in England. If it is fo, and if by fuels means it-obtains the fuccefs which it defines, it is foe the Nations of the Continent to decide what dere, of importance is attached in'England to the opinions, the rights, or the interests of people who have not the happinefs to navigate or carry on commerce undar the flag and the anfpices of the Government of Great Britain. It is for them to decide whsther the War which England now makes upon France, like all rho& which the has made for a century pall, will not be l$ cenftant and neceffary confequence of 'a fyftem uni formly hoflile on the part of F.eglifir induftry again& all other induftry. ' " If it be fo, the future quellion between England and Europe may be reduced to this double alterna tive : If England has public fpirit, and if Europe is without public fpirit, woe to Europe. t , In the hypothefis, that Europe will not be pith out public fpirit, if the Englilh Government canner render the prefent war popular, woe to it : if it care render it popular, woe to England I " The Englifh Minifters brave ridicule with akar. dihood unexampled. France has fent to England, as the fent to every country in the world. Commercial Commiffioners. Of eighty Agents of this clefs whom the Republic maintain abroad, a great number hay. ferved both in the late war and the preceding. It was difcovered, that amongß thofe appointed for England, one had ferved in the Republican Armies, and all on a fudden an alarm of the Cabinet multi plied him into Military Agents of France : thus it has happened more than once on the coatis, that the ap pearance of Tome fithermen has been taken for the ad vanced guard of a flotilla defined to' ake a defecat e and fpread terror in the country. This foolifh ex: aggeration might be displayed in an Englifh Gazettes but it Teems to us contrary to all Militia:us to intro. duce it in a Manifefto. " The fecond fubjea of alarm with the Britills Mi nitiry is Rill more ridiculous. Quell ions to be anfvrered refpeding the Rate of Commerce, fuch as haw. beat publillta in the Journals, in order to fpread thee more eafily and more generally, were addreffed to a CommiSoner of the Republic. For tso years the* ferias of queitions have been the fubjett of open in flrodions toCommercial Agents they are of a nature le little calculated to excite dillroft, that thole Agents tranfmitted them to Sub-Agents, who frequently Merchants conneaed neither by intereft or dependance with France. In (bort, thefe inftvultions, prepared without any other intention than that of obtaining in formation, which in the places even where it is col leCed, it is interetling to fee extended and propagated, are written and addreffed without any milestone form, and it is thus that they have traverfed Eogland in ollenfible chara&ers. Is it then through the me dium of the Poi Ofice that this great ferret has been difcovered ? It Teems to us that the only thing that remains proved, after the ids given to thefe infrac tions by the Minifters of his Batrameic Martyry is. that the (terns of Correfponderice are not religioullr refpetted at the Englith P ft-Office. and that letters are opened by the Agents of Government. " The Frew/ army Is. nos ronsiarif is Haase is * awe ejlitalatisse, het an eosforsity aitielei heh iftefisiatistis a neat, with the Government of As " Of the independence of Switaerlaod—we will venture to afk the Eaglifit Gortratuan, if it is the ff