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21. red 11 1 ill never lets courage,, *oar"; sa t al unrewarde moreover to hope that neutral ships will vigilance of the English cruisers ; the - of the coasts of the etttpire will favour enterprise& resources ought not tO, be undervalued, nothing. Trantie will submit to a situation, which can only change with , new exertions : but her enemy shall of the main basis of her prosperity, communication, her relltions with the 1 she no longer sees any but friends or will not be less fertile, her industry will I n ot maintain itself the less, though deprived of some materials which it is not impossible to replace. e To this last proposition I am rather anxious, Gentlemen, to direct your attention. You have ad vice to give, and examples to hold out to commerce. y o u must already foresee the effect of the privation of certain materials, more especially of cotton, and o f ingredients for dying. cotton, of which a quantity h as been gored up in France: . that which we shall * r i ve from the Levant, and that which , at a more., ean . t pe r iod, we - . shill real" !ions our indigenous topic, liitsoF4ssfUlly essayed, will suffice to ' supp ort , in a great measurer our manufactures ; but is the expectation that some of them may experience : i t i eat i o ns, we must have recourse, as far as possible, to bow and fin, in order to provide occupation for' t h ose m anufactures who would no lcinger he employed with articles of cotton. It were desirable that we could circumscribe our consumption within the pro ducts cf the materials the growth of our soil, and re strain the unhappy effects of habits and taste con tracted for manufactures, that would render us de pendent upon foreign countries. The materials for dying may become scarce, but many of them may be replacedtby the productions of our soil. We will dispense with the rest by a slight sa crifice of some colours, which may please from their apparent greater beauty, without adding any thing to the intrinsic goodness of the article. Besides, no small reliance is to be placed on the genius of our manufacturers o it will triumph over those difficulties. "The channels, which in spite of these usurpations, Will remain open to importation, may not suffice for the consumption of sugar and coffee ; these objects of a secondary utility may become scarce; but the great mass of the nation will not suffer from this temporary privation : habits of indulgence too widely indulged will be counteracted and restrained by the rise in the price. " And besides, is it to be supposed that the Great Nation will allow itself to be intimidated by the pri vation of some futile enjoyments ? Her armies have endured, without a murmur, the most pinching wants: that great example will not•have been held out in vain; and when we have in view to re-conquer the independence of the seas ts when we have in view to I rescue and redeem commerce from the ruinous acts of ' piracy that are juridically exercised against it ; when , we have in. view the vindicatloi of the national ho- sour, and the breaking down of thoie lures carding; which England is attempting to erect upon our coasts, the French people will support with the dignity and the courage that belong to their great character, the momentary sacrifices that are imposed upon their taste, their habits, and their industry. The com merce of Europe will seen, no doubt, be rescued from oppr?stion. The interests of nations ; the honour of Sovereigns ; the magnanimous resolutions of the most powerful of the Allies of France ; the power and wish of the hero who rules over us ; the justice of a cause to which Heaven will grant its protection ; every motive concurs to decide the contest; nor can its issue remain uncertain. Accept, Gentlemen, the assurance of my sincere esteem. (Signed) " CRETET." • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY v. feel some Apology due to many of our Friends, for the late boar at which the Sraa was published yesterday, and which occasioned many of tour Country Readers to be disappointed in rectitirg the Paper. We have only to state the real truth, and we are co:lli...lent our Friends will forgive the disappointment— One of the Pages met with an accident while carrying to press, , and was necessarily recomposed. PRIM? OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Couols, for January, 414 H—Reduced 63H—Omnium 1 1 pre. Exchequer Bills, Is. dis. ••11, • • 4111 raris 3o semis to the 96th* Ult. arrived last night. Their contents.ire of considerable importance. Na*- sumo,' has rdnrned feeds Venies.to Milan, and from. the latter place .has. issued a Decree, dated the 17th ult. and which was published at Paris on the 24th, I imposing new and severe restrictions on the trade of Neutrals. This Decree is followed by a Letter film the Minister of the Interior,' calling on.the Feopirof the Great Nation to bear with the privations brought uPon them by the war of blockait, and to turn their st:tntion to the use of substitutes for those articles of which France may for a time be deprived by the eperation of the °oder of Council issued by the British Government. The stile of these documents is curious. Napo- LEON'S Decree of Blockade is kept in the back-ground I st° the share it had in producing the present de rangements in commerce ; the Order of Council is held up as the tyrannidal act to which all the evils ill fitcted on the industrious pursuits of enterprising ma- auftettrers and merchants are to be attributed ; .and the ship: of all those nations which iubriiit to the re: strictions of the Order.of Council .are declared to be dersittimented ! ma -therefore gota and. lilvful in the French ports, or .when captured by French ships of war. Against this Decree, there is no appeal on the ground of a vessel having been compelled by twee to go into a British port, or to submit to starch—On the contrary, for that very reason, all such vessels art to be condemned ! - • The motive of this Decree cannot be ascribed 'w the hope of profiting by the petty seizures to which. its execution may gi •.! rise. N.4I:POLOON pays a dpeper game. He wars against the present system of:com merce, because it gives resources to the only Covent:. meet that has dared to stand out against him f.lle knows the Mconveniercei to which this lystern, will subject the people under his Rile ; but this is a sacri fice called for by the devotiOn of patiiMisM, and they are reminded that the antsy has suffered greater 'psi vaticnii, without a Mrutnur ! In other words, every remonstrance, if any shall be hardy enough to remon strate against the measure, will receive its answer from. the point of the bayonet. Thil, he knows, will secure submission at home, and therefore the system Is to be undeviatingly pursued for the grand object 0f .4 ruining the commerce of England. Let no Briton misunderstand the terrb—the cont. mercg of England !—the tyranny of England !-the. crimes of the . Englisk Government,!. and similar . 1 , .epi theta, employed from time to time in the French ,01E- , eel Paper, have all butor.e tneaning , —ENG4ND itself ! American Papers to the 7th uh. have been received. The debates in Congress seem to breathe hostility against this country, although the more moderate party are still sanguine in the;v hopes of an amicable adjustment. Ample extracts from these Papers , will be found ih our preceding columns. . . Private letters frOm France, ofd 6eiy recent date, were received yesterdiy. They mention an extraor dinary movement pf.trours in every direction, .the im mediate object of which: is not stared. By an American vessel which left Bourdeaux about 12 days ago, we learn that Or report is current in the provincial towns on the coast, which we mentioned a few days ago, that the august Jossentrit is to exchange her Imperial Crown, as consort" to thelmperor, for the Iron Crown, which she is to wear on her feminine brows, as Queen of Italy. Her place is' to he occu pied, say these same French repo7ts, - ,by a Russian Princess, the sister of the Emperor ALEXANDER. Somewhat less improbable than this tale is ano ther, which concerns the projecteif change in the South of Europe. NAPOLEON is so Anxious to secure the co-operation of his brqther Luctrx in. his plans, that he has offered him, as the price and reward of a reconciliation between them, the CrOwn of Spain.— Thus both of the BovazsOy thnines will support a Bo; NAPARTE! In the mean while the Prince of 'Ant% RIA3 is to be indemnified by the Crown of Portugal. We have some time since heard that BONAPARTE, on appointing him to the command in chief of the combined Spanish and French troops, intimated that " he was hereafter to govern the people he via% to conquer." We suppose, that in exchange for this, NAPOLEON might require some of the provinces of Spain adjacent to France. While we are disposed to consider all such reports as of slight importance, we cannot deny that the conduct France is pursuing in Spain justifies any suspicion whatever. We are ja i formed, that, sine:. the begin uing of December up_ wards cf one hundred and fifty thousand troops have marched through Bourdeaux to Spain and Por i tugal. This is a force so 'vastly superior to all that an be necessary for a conquest which must be yielded without a struggle, that we cannot but btlieve the ul timate view& of the Master reach much further than is yet publicly known, or is, perhaps, even definitiTely . resolved by himself. The Gazette shortly contain some instructions to our Merchants iespedting the mode. to .be pursued in the trade to he carried on between this Countiy and the Brazils. Liberty is to be given to ship and export such articles of traffic as hive heretofore seen usually sent and admitted into the Portuguese mar kets ; and a iegular Commercial Treaty will be con , clude:d with all convenient Speed. Lord STRANGINA6 is making preparations for his departure, and many► of our first Portuguese houses are alreafly preparing , to establish their firms in Brazil.. . • • - Dr. PARSONS, Master of Baliol College, is elected Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ox ford, in the room of Dr. RICIIARZS, Rector of Exeter College, de ceased.' .The new Pantomime at Covent-Garden is likely to meet with as much approbation . as the famous one Of last year. The action of the Pantomine at Icrurplane is . greatly improved, and wa4 last night *attended by a crowd of spectators. • 11 That useful hints are frequently conveyed by fabu. lous history, is universally acknowledged. We learn ' from it, that Fortune's Temples were particularly crowded at the commencement of every new year, ' under an impression that her earliest votaries would Ithereby gain her smiles throughout the year. What a seasonable hint at the present moment ; when the wealth-giving Dame will soon have to bestow above 350.0001. in the State and City Lotteries which are now depending! w ane which Ile talent go unrewi We have mo elude the vigilant incase extent of t 1 and protect their 0 These resou t ug counted for temporary situat time, and with n not deprive her o h e r internal corn Continent, Where allies ; her soil wil f re 48 Di ▪ w K a( mks r] iii ▪ In of s ( m wi ca Wig PS tOi kin N a be • sad al wee s ad • !roe icb • ng • a, hat b l I :b b C' SOO srAurreAL IX i LLIGBNCB: . •: .a, , • MAlLl.—Wind S. W: mit:En I I I.Glttenborgh Waterford 0 .~~ • •• ' II P vs-. •••••11 LOSS OF THE AXISOPI FRIGATE. Pt:MANCE, Dec. 30.—1 informed you in my last Of the ihipivreck of the Anion frigate, of 46 guns, about nine miles to the eastward of this place : from , the best information, I beg to acqUaint you that out of' . ,out three hundred men (inchiding Capt. Lvectitz), about two hundred . and fifty happily escaped a watery grave. I exceedingly regret; however, to in; form you, that smongst the number of missing is Capt l lin LTDIARD ; also- the First 'Lieutenant, the Doctor and his Son, and _several. Midshipmen and Petty dificers;.. who,. with .the Foremast-men:and , Marines, amount to about •fifty persons in all, who are missing: for the sake of the friends of those who arl, saved, I should be glad if I could give you their names. The vessel held together till three o'clock yesterday P. M. when she separated, and to day there is scarce a vestige of her to be seen. • Captain LTDIARD was a very distinguished Officer; he served at the taking of CuriCoa last year, and was particularly noticed in the dispatches from COMMO-1 Ore BIUMIANII, for his conduct when commanding the Seamen and Royal Marines on short: He was the, bearer of dispatches home, and had 00y _ resumed the' command, of the Anson on her recent arrival frOm the, West Indies. • FALMOUTH, DEC. 30. Arrived the George, Captain LOGAN, and . anpther , Vessel, (name unknown) part of Sir CitAnLvs COT. TON'S fleet, from which they parted eight days since. MILFORD, DEC. SO. Last night the ship Aniope, a transport, Captain MoLLE.billy, with part of the.Stith and 90th Regiment on board, from Portsmouth, bound to Cork, was driven on shore and totally lost, in St. Bride's Bay— wren of the :people were drowned : she parted from the convoy' on Chrisunas Day, near Cork, in very thick wiather. On the '27th they saw two sail of the same convoy ; and, on the same night, heard several gu:is. PLYMOUTH. DECEMBER Came in the schooner Nancy, of Dartmouth, Cap tain HARVEY,' from Newtimndland for Dartmouth, with fish and oil : she was captured last Sunday by a French cutter privateer, and retaken by the Dragon, of 71 guns, same day. Accounts have been re ceived here to-day, that the Anson, oE4Q guns, Capt. LTIMARD, is wrecked near the Lizard ; and, melan choly to relate, that near ‘2tX) of the Officets and crew are drowned—other account , ..state r that the' Captain, _: • .• . . Ist Lieutenant, Surgeon, and 138 .9( tbe, crew are drpwned. A gale is again coming on the Southward, And the sea is making very fast. 5 P.M. The Fama Portuguese ship:, from the Bra zils, is in great distress ix' Catwater, ;ad it is feared she will be ashore if the gale contindez: The Con fiance and . Ivlillbrook sloops of war, are Aring for as sistance for her. Several other vessels in.Catwater are iii great. danger. PORTSMOUTH, /ANUARY:I. ". Arrived his Majesty's ships . St.Albanificini-Ote East Indies, andlgteady, frqm Monte Vide9. Sailed his Majesty's ship Halifax, with a convorforthie Downs. DEAL, JANUARY I. Remain in the Downs the ships asTerlast. Wind S.W. DOVER, JANUARY 1. The wind blew alm . osi a hurricane all last night and the greater part of this day, but at present it has rather moderated. We have just heard from Romney, that the ship Zuleme, of and from Philadelphia, Cap tain HOWARD, Which brought up in Dungeness Roads yesterday, to wait for a pilot from this place to take her to Rotterdam, where she was bound with a cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton, ecc. unfortunately was driven from her anchor.; this morning, on Romney Flatts, and suck ; heirrew were saved, but the cargo, it is ap prehended; will be quite iost.,-Wind S.W. GRAVESEND, JANUARY 1. Passed by the - Royal Charlotte, PATTERSON, from China ; Slencer, HEMMINGS, fnim Bombay ; Pers'evv:ince:: G4rtokEn, from the South Seas; Sci. encr, . from New York ; and the My*, HAYNES, from Quebec.. Sailed the 'Sarah King, GAIIDNER, for'St: Domingo ;' Hibbert, I•Vd.sun, for - Yucaton ;•anJihe'Venus, VAUX, for Malta: •• • • • "f'. The Beaver, BRADY, from Africa, for -the !West Indies, is-captured and 'carriedinto•Cub4 : = 71 . Otir crui'zers are acting on the recent Orders, of Council. The ship Othello, from Neer York, to. France; has been detailie4 and sent intc.Plymontla. • A lette; dated' It oy:il George East-Indiainan, lat., 26..10ng'..24. I 5; West, 25th Atigu IRD7 says, I embrace r.he opportunity of the St. Alltln's 64 quitting the conVy_for the Cape of Good Hope, to inform you, that the troops on board, viz. the 14th and td BattaliOn of the,sth Regiment, have been very 116104 singe t4ir embarkanop, not the smallest eiviipternof a,riy•flisease . hiiing appeared on board oiof the sfiipi in Which. our regiment (the 14th) i s • em barked. . •' " .the seat and demesne of the late Mr. MIDDLETON, near Southampton, has,. it is said, been purchaied by dovernment, as the national estate and residence of the family of Natsom. A General Court-Martial commenced. on Wednes;, day, for the trial of the Paym aster o f a R eg i ment o f Dragoons, for having overdrawn the Regimental Agent to a very considerable amount. THE OLD YEAR. At a late hour on Thursday night, old Tow. by its annual motion, added another to the many years already consigned to oblivion The properties of our kind Friend Thee however, may well be compared to those of the Pisaie, the offspring of which is no sooner consigned to dust. than another, more beautiful, is said to arise from its remains. Hence the coming year has for many ages been celebrated with more than ordinary expressions of joy : by some it is hailed. with dances, songs. or other innocent amusements, whilst the more thinking Oi of man kind, who scarcely suffer a moment at this season, so replete with incidents that require their most se rious reflection, to piss unheeded by them, will readily place the important moment amongst the fist: of those celebrated by us Christians at this awful period— surely none can strike us more forcibly than that of the close of the year, when we reflect, that, whilst our constant andbe n evolent friend' Tone has been showering upon us. his. invaliable *blessings during its annual course only, no less than 30,000,000 of pour mortals having suffered an erinction of the vital fire, have left their , g earthly tabernacles,"— and joined the spirits of the millions who had pre ceded them. Each day of the' passed year has seen 86,400 leaving the mortal stage—each hour 3600 each minute no loss thin 60 ; and even during the short space of every seeinict While* we reflect on the subject, one of theinhibitants*Of . tAit globe is just de parting to that world from whose bourn no traveller returns." The employment - of the talents given us by our good friend Time will afford the moralizer a subject no less speculative and alarming. l'Xis world, says Epictetsis, is a theatre, 4nd our part in the drama of lite is determined by one who gyms the part, and chooses the actors ;'se it is, who,assigns to each his particular part, the acting a whieh must entirely depend on himself, and although to be unemployed and idle, is 4 sign o not Only. of a weak head, but a bad heart,; yet how many "pf us, were we, with Ves pasian, to call ourselves to account for the actions of the day past, would, be. ready with him to exclaim -44 Diem perdidi;" . Tiine ought indeed to be used to the noblest purposes, nor should we ever forget the admirable admonition of Juvenal— " Carpe Diem." Siesta says, " We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet act as though there would be no end of it." This would not, however be the case if, with Alfred, we assigned to each hour its peculiar business. Scipio Africanus, says Cicero, was wont to say " that he was never less idle than when he was entirely at leisure ; nor less alone than when wholly by himself." He was anxious not only to employ time in the best uses, hut in subserviency to his inter• nal welfare, that is, with a constant eye to the glory of GOD, and the good of mankind—wherein consist' our duty, and for which end all our 7i:ne was given us. The vast collection of shipping at the Cove of Cork, was on Friday last augmented by the arrival of a fleet of eleven sail of transports, with different detachments of troops on board, under convoy of the Moselle sloop ; and on Saturday an order was to expectedly received at Cork to disembark all the in• fantry on board the tr.in.plrts in that harbour. The following is a list of the troops on board these transports. They arc said to consist of nearly 5009 men. A detathmmt. of the Royal Artillery, corrimande by Colonel Srawrcn . • 6th Dragoons or Clrbineer by Major Moab:a ; 9th Light Dragoons, by —; 17th Light Dragoons, by Lieutenant Colonel LLOYD. Fifth Region,lnt, commanded by Lk utenant C DAVY ; 36th, by Lieutenant Colonel bnuice ;- 38th, by Lieutenant Colonel Neciar ;, 40th, by Lieu. tenant Colonel Bitowm ; 45th, by Lieutenant Colony GARDit ; 71st, Major Tour. The 3d Garriszin Battalion, under the command _ Lieutenant•Colanel NEDRAM, proceeded on Mo the 28th ult. from Dungarvan to New Geneva. At a Militia Meeting holden at Wingham in Kent on Monday last, the enormous sum of MOTT -TV. guineas was given for a substitute; the highest boun..: we believe, ever paid on a similar occasion. .* • Wednesday and Thursday last, the Royal Cheslti Militia, commanded by Colonel PAnKiot, marchej two divisio; s from Lewes barracks, on 'their route Portsmouth. A letter from the Master of a privateer, cruising Bourdeaux, states, that in the beginning of the mon , of. December, upwards of 150,000 French trooi passed through Bourdeaux, on the way to Spain any Portugal. This statement is not however credited its full extent, by the following extract, with whi we have been favoured by a Gentleman of high spectability !EXTRACT ?ROM A LZTTXR DATXI) owacuts one or xi MSTY'S SKIPS O.TrIOVIEDIAIII,VOTR 13E0mill/it, 1807 . . ", We boarded an American brig: yesterday afternoon from Bonrdeaux to New Orleans ; by her we have received the int genee from the Paris Gesette, dated Paris, Dec. 14; of the arri, of the French army at Lisboa, and'the depitetire of the Prince Regent for the Brasil,. There are only tyro frigates in the RE of Iltiurdeaux, befides the goa;a-ship ; and / do not think there .any chance of their sailing fur some time to come." The same Gendeman has ,also furnished us wit following intelligence from Jamaica : , ZITRACT PACO* A LlLT7telt ILICCINVI? Iltao3l JAMAICA, , • • ' IPACICILT, DA 'PD. Tint Alff Ili 29, 1807. . The seireitglaskwtnter, .crivingto the drf weather, and ei Xes 26 " since of i gar with' 4pierica, occasioned more t its onto be paid to the eqltivacion of. provisions, and • fine taint Mk four *or 54*Montitiliat,likie beep favourable to so that should the Americans relent the-Measure of putting an , p their carrying for, our tnetnics. (which I imagine our G ov , • went is now at last about to adopt)„so as to go to war with G 1 Britain, we shall meet it in this island with plenty, at least, of necessaries of life." • ' • The last China fleet furnished, us with accounts 'the safe arrival of flee Warley and Wexford East. Indiamen at the Cape Sept. 2Yd ; in the former - - Sir EDMUND Chief .Justise of Prince Wales's Island, whose arrival_at l jhe litter place be most anxiously exppctel, from *the prospsct of mild and judiciousadministration of the la*s t havin; the best effect in that island ; and Ave trust tffsluviri gratified the wishes of Government in accepting office will lead to a higher situation in tliat Co uitry Lady'STA.taay, we understand, proposes gcbag, in the spring. Her Ladyship has resided at Twit) enharn hitherto. • e • F, 0 is ly r- at . is s. of al at ht.! 11- !se 00 ed ael lo- eu- ne.l of y viu ...y, 1 lil to nth map: and 1 to T T. from 'rince [fiver ere I, with , ILA id the d t!..2 to it, n er.d orerr.- 4* C. • is of ?An- e or w... f his ving win thi; atry.• vick•