Star. — London, England, 1803-02-02 00:00:00

N.IUIICAL INTELLIGENCE. YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY t. Sunday failed for Holland the Dutch fchnym which brought over paffengers.—Yeilerday ar rived the CLYDE frigate from a cruize, and re• mains, with the LYNX (loop of war and two re venue cutters.—Sailed the Yare, of this port, in ballafl, for Oporto for wines.—The Hope, of Hull, with brandy, which drove on our beach in the late gale, is likely to be got off with very little damage : the greater part of the cargo is raved. —Paired through between 4 and goo fail of col liers.—Wind N. W. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 3:. Came in the Vrow Anna, Capt. M. H. Torr, from Seville, bound to London, with fruit; the Thomas and Sally, Capt. PURCHASE, from Lon don, for Alderney, with fundries : this veffel be ing leaky was obliged to bear away for this port ; a Bremen veffel, the Urania, Captain Greitson, from Philadelphia, bound to Bremen, laden with coffee, ice. ; the Friendfhip, of Bolton, Captain Gt.ovan, from Philadelphia, bound to London, laden with bark, fkins, Ste. ; a Portuguefe veffel, the St. Jofepb, Capt. JoHN I r IARRe, from Bilboa, bound to London, laden with nuts, Etc. Sailed the Pandora, Captain BIENVINUE, from Philadelphia for Guernfey, with tobacco : this veffel in going out went on the Rocks at Mount Edgecumbe, but the tide foon flowing, the was got off again without damage, and proceeded on her voyage; the Dempfter, Capt. COCHRAN, from Faro for Hull ; the Favourite, Capt. CoutascH, from Newfoundland for Jerfey ; the Purfuit, Capt. Joao sow, from Valentia for Goernfey; the Union, Capt. Icsmoso se, from Barcelona, for Gnernfey; the Syren, Capt. Borate, from Mogadore for Lon don, laden with wool and other goods, failed un der quarantine. The BILLEIsLE, of 74 guns, Captain Warm, came from Hamoaze to Cawfand Bay, this morn ing, and is about to fail under fealed orders. Several light Newcaftle and Sunderland colliers took the advantage of a North Weft wind, and proceeded to their refpelive deftinations. C4me in from a cruife againft the fmugglers, the Raptor a, of 14 guns, Capt. Faszza, and the EAGLE, of is guns, Capt. WARD. COPENHAGEN, JANUARY L Of the 12064 Sips which paired the Sonnd left year, 6o came from the North Sea, and 6120 from the Baltic :-3 1 76 more (hips paired laft year than the preceding.—The navigation is now en tirely flopped by the revere frog, which we have bad for foot days. IN OF FUZZ-MONET. The sloop Jalook, for the capture of the Broth :wadi and the Neptunus, will be paid at No. 70, Great Ruffcl-ftreet, on Thurfday, the loth init. FROM LLOYD's LIST. The Dadslos, Mailed, treat Mob for Lemke, was led in the Orkneys on the t ttb nit. The Daley, htorpa ; and the Geed Friends, from Jerfey for Labradors, was let in the &nights at lands, in Jwe laft. The page Hendrick, Thomptan. Men the mak of Spain to Amftcrdam, Is Aressded an the cm* of Barbary. with kneral edam veal.; one a Dane, with wine and oil. DEAL, FE & —Caine down and hihd, the Admiral Gard for. India. Arrived the Leda Nye; from Portf mouth, and failed Ice Yarmouth l Vlrm and Illeadhoend gas add& from a ends& Sailed the Thetis frigate, far Itheensdn Wind N. W . 011AVESIND Fes. I..—Paffed by, the Mann* Scott, from 141m-Ba:id the Magdalen. for &diadem I Betfey, Thariby, for Fiume ; and Fortinttle, —, for Londonderry. Gd , t e ntaair g.—We have beefy had tome very fl ormy srestber , and tome accidents have happened. The nglith brig Jahn, drove on Gore to the foothward of Alga nee, but (ince got off. The American brig Amphitrite, drove nil More at Alpaca'. The Anwsican Gip Gera. ig are under Mosseoles Bataan Aentedelm kiamenelaile. elm on Nora as We Mani Grand. The Mania tee Mari roam. is Initinthe Mick af eks Note 11016.1 n• BOW& go mire limidilheM de la Wed, is lot winder de into tilta •We. A nuersteiodarie silo et Irma P Yefierday pared by Portfatouth the City ..trndf..3, Laßosa, for India. The 3hips Ws 117/14 Aet end Was t now at Gravel - end, wiil fail in a few days, it); a.Detschisants of the Royal It /wr tgi meat Of o , jot Carp of Royal Engineers, fur the CWT. omen( MU. Ift Vaidiallh -tientAMmer Delbriliby.CuplebeGoisbesee ' IMlFWatillesitLiensesettesOrant, johnilekondasplienni tl thßliare Ateleary ; Captain !Ana, Limeenegas Ills. ir4 Wade, Oahe Royal gagineera. Per. CoMed Depdges. sad Liiimments GS S 4te • albs Royal Ilingh• yet Capsules Regiment! - 0 4 8 ffre ant Llimediams Cowper, dim Gordon, and hfre ket.ofere MOM &den ; and Mr. /UM.. IMlllitary Dade -11/111r1061, lbw mtelkladi &Sr& Littera naleived yeflertlat orrrhind, Rate the iteetictilas relative to the EAR India pan thstf d :— . &wed Mon Mustiest arrived at Miens cei the MA. solltillotilst Inapt on thi nab jay, when they as , rim/ the syeh 4 to. The Cireseefkr, Perfennunce, and the AlawiekCaille, failed Bon Madras he China on the sea July. The Maraleside of Rim, failed from Madras to the Northers Per the a of The Thaws, Wilmer faak rid Owed tailed from Bom bay to Chine the odeh MP& The Mr &loud Hocks end Ind It. Vincent arrived at Bombay tram Frgiond. the keener no the nth, and the latter eta the inth Asp!. The Company% Gip (Cornwallis) and the Earl St. Vincent, are to b e keg down to Amelogo anal Tdliclerry, foe pepper and pireeiends, sod to be difpetcbed to England, from Bombay, on the up* Deeentber. The Mr Edward Hughes and Travers are to be difpatched to In hen the Panama the had of Jausaary,and from whence they will premed so Eagisal The Herndon arrived at Bombay on the 6th of September, sad, Winn maiden, will be kett to &riga • MEETING OF SHIP OWNERS. Yelterday a Meeting of the Ship Owners of Lon don took place at the London Tavern, for the purpofe of taking into confideration the Report of the Committee appointed to invelligate the va rious circumftances calculated to thew that the Tonnage Duty is molt oppreffive in its operation. Mr. HILL was in the Chair ; and by his defire the Report was read by the Secretary. The CHAIRMAN then addreffed the Meeting in a very neat and appropriate fpeech. To the Corn mittee the higheft praifes were due for the diligence and activity they had difplayed both in their col. !alive and individual capacity. They had fre quently had interviews with Mr. Addington and his confidential friends; they had laboured moll affiduotifly to convince him that the Tax was of the molt ruinous nature, and that, in imputing it, he counteraaed all the maxims of policy which had regulated the public meafures ofGovernment from the earlieft times of our hiflory. They had endea voured to imprefs on his mind the neceffity of giv. ing every encouragement to the Shipping Intereft, at the time when all the Governments of Europe were adively employed in encouraging commercial enterpnfe. They had infifted more particularly on the neceffity of this encouragement, at a mo ment when the Firft Conful of France was ufing every effort to revive that fpirit of commercial ac tivity, which the horrors of internal commotion, and the dangers of external warfare, had fufpend ed. After illultrating thefe points, the Chairman proceeded to allude to certain expreflions employ ed by *n Honourable Baronet (Alderman Curtis) in the Houfe of Commons, refpeCting the increafe of the fhipping intereft. In alluding to this fub jal, he was abundantly fenfible that it was not, at that time, his province to refer to what had been Paid in the Houle of Commons. He had too much refpea for that Honourable Body ever to entertain a with of infringing any of their pri vileges, but the expreflions to which he refer red had been, he underllood, repeated in other places, and therefore they were a fair fubjeft of animadverfion.—The Honourable Baronet had laid, that the fhipping intereft had filled their coffers during the war, and it was but fair that they fhould now difburfe a certain portion of the gains for the public. If thefe were not the Ho nourable Baronet's exprefs words, they fully con veyed the meaning which he meant to convey. It was hardly, he conceived, neceffary for him to Rate to the Meeting, what was a matter of knout ex perience, that very little money was obtained by the (hipping trade, and that this little was gained at the expence of great rifksand numerous dangers. But it was not nece ff ary to put the matter folely on this footing. Without meaning to call any im proper refleetion on the eonduCt of the Hon. Ba• ronet, without meaning to throw out the flighted infinuation that the fortune which he had acquired during the lad war was not fairly and honourably acquired, he might be permitted to fay, that the Hon. Baronet's own expreflions applied as thong ly as the Ship-owners, to the eircumflance in which he was now placed. The Meeting were fufficiently aware that the Hon. Baronet had very confidera bly increafed his fortune by the loans and contra.% which, Curing the war, he had .obtained from the Government. Here a letter from the shipowners of Hull was read, Gs the fubjeft of the Refolutions of the Chamber of Commerce. From thefe Refolutions, which tended to countenance the idea that the Tonnage Duty was not oppreffive to the trading intereas of the kingdom at large, and of Hull in particular, they had found it necefrary to inaitute a correfpondence and co-operation with the Ship. owners of London, and, in coming to this deter mination, they had met with the concurrence of the whole ( hi pping interell, with the exception of a few individuals. In corroboration of there general ftatements, Mr. HILL took occafion to adduce tome very important fads. He Rated, that while every article employed in Shipping had, within the lad two years, in• created in price upwards of 72 per cent, the in. create of freight had not been more than 20, to that there was a lots of about so per cent. for which there was no profped of obtaining an equi valent. After the Refolutions of the laft Meeting, held on the IR of December, were read by the Secre tary. the Chairman adverted to the manner in which the Petition had been prefented to the Houfe of Commons by the Lord Mayor, and paid his Lordfhip louse very high but well merited com , pliments for the alive and zealous part he had taken in this bufinefs. A Motion for a Vote of Thanks to the Com mittee gave rife to a long defultory converfation refpeeting the expreffions which had been em ployed by Alderman Curtis on this fubjeet. A Gentleman, whole name we did not learn, contended that the Hon. Baronet had included in his flatement the (hipping of the EMI India Com many, and this was followed up by others, who I argued, that the EaR India Shipping never was *included in an enumeration of the general (Lipping of the private Merchants. Several letters were read from Ship builders of eminence, which certainly did very materially in validate the Honourable Baronet's Ratement.-- There was one from a (hip builder in Rotherhithe, Itatinic that fince the stk of Oftober, only one (Lip had been built in that yard, whereas in about the fame period after the American war there was no lets than five completed. Other letters mentioned that no (hips had been built fine the peace but filch as were previonfly ordered. A letter from the Dock Yard of Mr. Perry noticed that he had not fince the peace built a tingle (hip but for the EaR India Company. The letter of Jofiah Young was, if poffible, Rill more explicit. It alerted that there was sot a tingle (hip building in the River but !hips for the EaR India Company, with the exception of one fmall veffel. Mr. HILL produced additional fa'ls, all tending to the fame °Wee. It had keen Rated by the Minifter, that the Britifh fhirping of Ana greatly exceeded that of i the preceding year, but that the foreign (hipping i had confiderably diminitheil. The explanation of I this lattercircumfiancewahhoweverobvious. The increafe of the foreign 'hipping in spot arofe from the number of veils that entered the ports of this Country with fupplies of wheat. There was ann. ther circumftance likewife to be taksn into confi deration, and that was the law paired in 1786 for - regiflering (hips. By the regulations of that Ad, our (hips indeed immenfely increafed on paper, but this was not the fair method of afcertaininF the aftual amount of (hipping. He concluded with a few remarks expreffive of the importance of pro teeing and encouraging our (hipping, at a time when our trade was the protedion of the commerce of the civilized world. The Vote of Thanks then paired, as alto one to the Prefident, and the Meeting adjourned. PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. (FROM THE TRUE BRITON.) We fume time fince intimated our intention of offering to our Readers fipmeobfervations upon the prefent hate of Parties, which has to many perfons prefentcd fn fingular an appearance, and has led to fo many curraus and ungrounded fpeculations. This we (hall now endeavour to execute; and, in the courfe of it, may perhaps find it difficid, to' avoid fome curfory obfervations on the public con du6t of a few of the leading perfons who conftitute them. After haying for fo many years been accuflomed to fee the two branches of the Legiflaturc pretty regularly divided into a Miniaerial and Anti minilicrial Party—into two diftina claffes, namely, thofe who fupported, and thofc who oppofed the Meafurcs of Government, much of what has of late occurred, efpecially in the Houle of Commons, cannot have failed, at firft 117 ht, to appear extra-, ordinary, and almoil unintelligible . iVhen the •_ prefent Adminillratio❑ was fi r frcalled to power by their Sovereign, they avowed their approbation of the general principles on which their Predecelfors had afted, and were warmly fupported by the GRENVILLE!, and feebly oppofcd by the old Op. pofition. In the avowal of the fupport promifed by the former, a few of Mr. Pirr's friends did not join ; nor did a few of the Leaders of the latter, amongft whom we reckon Mr. Ti ERN ay, Sec. feem difpofed to concur in any hoftility againft the new Government. Mr. PITT gave his cordial fupport from the firft, and has continued it without inter. ruption to the prefent time. We have no reafon to furped that he has the Icaft difpofition to withdraw it. Since, however, the period to which we have above referred, Tome confiderable alterations have taken place. At the prefent time, we find the whole Gasavicts Party, headed in the Houfe of Commons by Mr. WINDHAM, embarked in a vio lent, determined, and fyftematic Oppofition,which on Tome occafions might, not incorrectly, perhaps, be called a factious one. Amongft their Allies, though not yet fitting on the fame bench with them, may be reckoned Mr. CANNING, and his imme diate friend!, who declared himfelf only in the prefent feffion of Parliament. On the other hand, we find Mr. Fox regularly attendin the Houfe, and declaring (as has Mr. Sots:nay his unequi vocal approbation of the conduct of is Majefty's Minifters. Mr. 'num has been filent—Mr. Gaily has not attended. Meas. MAITLAND, Hos -1 mouse, and others of the fame fide, have openly and decidedly joined the Government Phalanx, as have tome of the Country Gentlemen who were in habits of oppofing the laft Asniniftration. We believe Mr. ERSIIINIL to be very friendly to the prefent Minifter, though he has not publicly avowed himfelf fo. In the Government itfelf; we mean the Cabinet, there has been no change whatever fence its firft appointment, excepting in the valuable acceffion of Lord CASTLIRIAGH to the Board of Controul ; and a more united and confially•connetited one, we believe, never ferved His Maissry, notwithlianding the idle reports of oceafional difagreements, wholly unfounded, and, lately, between two individuals, of all others the lean likely to difagree, 'we mean Lord Hawaii* BURY and Mr. ADDINGTON. This being the outline of the prefent Rate of Parties, if it may be properly fo called, we can hardly be furprized that Speculation fhould have been pretty bufy, and that Politicians lhould have fancied they faw the ground laid for De iv, important changes, and new political alliances. No uscon fiderable part of thefe theories tnight perhaps have been precluded, had Mr. PITT'/ Rate of health enabled him to attend the Houle at the beginning of the SelGon ; as we fincerely hope it may admit of his doing after the Adjournment. Had be been prefent, one defcription of his Friends would per haps have hardly rifked their declaration of the abfolute neceffity of his return to Power, and another, of a Rill more inveterate character, might polfibly have abllained from thole expreflions of perfonal rancour, whole diretction and motive Item. ed to be, as they were indeed univerfally under. Rood, to difunite two great Public Charafters, whofe friendfhip has . . I. Grown witlitlicir growth, and ftrengtbeted with their &with ;" and which, at the fame time, was calculated to in jure the reputation of one of them, which for tunately flood too high to be affeaed by firth con do& by inducing a doubt of his teal feelings, opinions, and intentions of the 6.1. e meafures of Government,and towards the ir,dividuals who con flituted it. Such declaratiows, language and con. due, ow p a rt tit with the of —o.e whom Mr. PITT had aged for o many years, and with whom he prekrves a perfonal inlimacy, naturally excited in Come brealts miftrufl.s and anxieties that he was about to depart from that manly, generous, and public-fpirited line which has marked his whole conduit fence he ceafed to be Miniller, and for which he has fo jultlyexperienced the applaufe and admiration of the Country. Speculationsof another defcription appearto have originated in the fupport given to Government by the leaders of the old Oppofition. It Teems to be the falltion of the prefent day to be ever looking out for Come fecret and fclfifh motive, by which the con.lua of all public men is direard. In many cafes this way undoubtedly be jail : hut to .tdopt it univerfally, would, in our opinion, be an tin warrantable !awl on human nature. In the prc fent cafe, what claim to common continency could the Gentlemen, of whom we are fpeAking, have maintained, had they perfined in oppontion to the prefent Miniaer ? Thcy had for ten years been crying out for Peace—He has obtained it—They had deprecated itsbeing interrupted by Continental confederations.—He has prcferved it. But does it neceffarily grow out of this approbation, fo ex preffed, that a political union mull take place be tween the Adors and the Approvers ? Does it follow that thofe who fupport one leading line of conclue, have abandoned their old principles, as to other Meafures; or that thole who experience fuch fupport, have adopted them ? And it neither were the cafe, we fee very great obflacles in the way of fuch Unions, as come Papers have amufed their Readers with the reports of, but to which we nes er for a moment gave the lealt credit. Not that we approve of a profcribing fyftcm, and have read and fern enough of the State of Parties in this Country, and know enough of Mankind, to be fully fatisfied of the nonfenfe and abfu r di t y o f i t . H a d the Go vernment been weak, thele rumours might have made fome impreflion on us; being prong, and daily increafing in ftrength, and therefore in no want of fuch alliances, we dobelieved them. The ne,Vity of fuch an Union, we can only in one cafe anticipate ; and that is one which of all others we the moft deprecate, but about which we are quite at cafe. Whilft on this part of the fiibjat, we cannot help noticing, with aftonithment and difgult, fume animadverfions which we have heard made kiy in. difcreet and bigotted Partifans, on the Milliner's arerpiiriz (as it has been firangely called) fuch fop. port, and on his not Handing forward on all occa. lions to repel the inceffant attacks which have been made on the meafures andcondua of his great Pro. deceffor. Thefe are charges equally foolifh, inn dious and cruel. To the fire—we would only llThcre did ever exilt fuch an idcot of a Mini fier as would refute to erupt fupport, from what ever quarter it might be tendered ? Where was ever yet to be found an individual at the head of an Executive Government, fo befotted and fo fuici dical, as to refill and to difclaim fupport fpkta neoufly offered to him, unclogged with conditions of any fort, and by doing which he might rilk the failure of meafures on which he thought the wel fare and fecurity ofthe Country depended,and,however remotely, the permanence of his own Government? On the fecond part i of this charge, we (hall only ()Verve, that we are, and ever I hall be, quite - fenfitive to any calumnies that m a y b e uttere againn the late Minifter, as any of thole can be Who may be ranked amongft the number of his perfonal friends. Mr. Pure is (thank Con) not deftitute of numerous friends in the Houfe, men confequence,rank,and talents, abundantly equal to the talk of anfwering and repelling fuch attacks as may be made in his abfence. The event has fully proved it. When prefent he wants none. Mr. AD. DINGTON has, on every occafion that particularly called for it, and on a great many that did not e terrified in the moll unqualified terms his admira tion of the meafures, and his devotion to the priss• ciples which marked the condo& of the Adintni ftration which preceded him, and has no lets ge neronfly than jufty attributed part of his own foi eds, to his having toned up to the fame printiplps and the fame fyitem. Had we not witnefled it, we could not have conceived it poffible that any ex peltation fo barbaronfiy and extravagantly uarea fonable, could have been formed, as that a Wiailker who has quite enough on his hands to jellify .aid defend his own meafures, however mentotiors they may be, mull have the double duty insppfed on him, of individually undertaking the inftificasion of all thofe of a preceding Government. On the conduit of the Oppofition, now properly fo called, we cannot help obferving, that it appears to us inexplicable. Soon after the change in his Majefly's Councils took place, Lord Gazavisse promifed his cordial, sails,, :rod &give Support to the new hEniltry. Ageing slum kfiniftry he has, for the lafi year and a half; direaed his cos' s 4 soaker, ad aaive ophiri. • and according to his own fiatement, becaufe the ' ', had been gushy of the Convention with the Northern Powers, which re lieved Great Britain from the formidable holtility of four great Continental Powers : and afterwards of the Preliminaries with France, which reflored Peace to this Country and to Europe. To thofe two . great meafures Mr. PITT gave his molt un equivocal rapport and approbation. And yet this coyfiget Statefman tells us , that Mr. PITT if the o y perfon, at the profait triir , capable of laving the country. To the great talents and fplendid Cervices of that truly continent Satefinan, we molt readily bow :—but is be to Cave the country by aa ing up to thofe meafures which he has fo decided. ly approved, or by attempting to undo them ? By which line of condo& would Mr. Pirr become en titled to the confidence of Lord Gager est., and his affociates? This corifiloot Statefman, and hist-ea/Am affociates will be punted to anfwer this quake. To funs up the whole—we fee bot one courk fpr the prefent Government to purfue, which is, to all Steadily up to the line which they appear to have , chalked out for themfelves. The .prefent Elate of parties is the belt comment on, and the toren tett of the public approbation of their pat condua.— They need not deprecate the continuance of an Oppolition which has fo recently Stigmatized itfelf by its refilmee to a mature for the reform of abufes, which was Co loudly called for, and the meaty of which has been fo long acknowledged and by a defperatc attempt to flop the Suppjme the Houfe of Lords—an attempt, we believe, new in the annals of that part of the Legidature. The meafures of a Government may be very wife and highly falutery to the country, whore affairs a re intrufied,to its management, though unaccompa nied with the difplay of extraordinary oratorical talents. Like the powers of Mechanifm, the affairs of State may generally be confidered as going on the molt correaly and fatisfaaorily, when there is the leafi appearance of effort: " &OA throne Oft watcr faired inrodcrers, and the bird That flutters WA is bur gra as fat wi-g." 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