Star. — London, England, 1803-11-17 00:00:00

■ ily )c• Fief Ise to an- Ez• I by rent ally uth da- nine :11 - r s. tor ktllg Sea 11.— a pd for• Ike ANTI-CORSICAN ; cr, R cf LIBERTY. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE. LETTFR VIII. Aft thou a friend to peace ?--Suhdtte the 'rya. The fsvord, the vengeful lword, mutt d - I in away This boiling blood, that thus dilturbs the nations! Talk nut of terms. It is a vain attempt To bind th' ambitious and now ft by treaties: Theft- they elude a thouf,ir.d Inecious ways; Or if they cannot find a fair pretext, Uhey butt not in the face of HE.%VL N to break therm Curiolanus. A& IV. Scene 11. If we were engaged in a common war, fuch as any if thofe which nations feel and repent of, one might x ercufeable for lending a ready ear to the reports -if mediations, and of an approaching peace. But the elements of difcord are too deeply concentrated in the nature of our prefent quarrel, to allow the fuppofi. • tion that they can be difperfed without a trial of power, and without a great and convulfive !hock of rms. In the ordinary competitions of rival nations, we may hope, in lonic inftances, to difarm the aa gry pafiions of jealoury and envy, to inftill into the breads of Belligerent States, fentiments of can dour towards eAcli . other, and to infpire their rulers . w;th a difpontion to humanity and jußice. But in ! n war of saty . firife on the one part, and for exig ence on the other, it is vain to expel`.' that we can give or receive peace from an infatiate, m(levolent, --, and reanorfelefs enemy. What is the kind of peace which now exills be tween France and other Powers ; The moll gloomy - pen can give boat a faint idea of the deplorable anxie • ties of one half of Europe, and the defnlation of the other. It is in a wort . * condition than Italy at the time of its invalion by the Huns and Alans—it is • the fpirit of Carthage at the end of the fecund Pur.ic war—it is that combination of terror, inftabilit y, and • irrefoluti iny which has always been the precurfor of '.* great and awful catatlrophes. Would you have a - true piaure of the Continent f—Conceive miferable millions buried in the flames of an earthquake, amidit the ruins of edifices, which an horde of ruth- lefs mifcreants are ranfacking, and in expedation ; every minute of another and more fatal (hock, and you will form a : jolt idea of every people incorporated' with or conquered by France. In the next place, conceive the neighbours and fpeetators of this con • vulfion, fenfible that they are devoted to a fimilAr : fate, yet, from the dread of being overtaken by it, remaining panic. truck and mor:onlefs, in the midft ' of their confufinn, difeord, lamentation, and dan gers, and you will have the image of all Germany. From Naples to Berlin, every one perceives the thunderbolt ready to fall, but fear it much lets than the application of the means by wtich its ftroke may be intarcepted. The wretched Continent, by its ;apathy, is inflrumental in diveiling itfelf of power , and refpetaabiliry. Whatever aas been predifted and brought home to their fenfes ; whatever experience ,and the flagitious career of the Corfican freebooter •have detannarated in charaCters of blood; all that -they feel, and all they are on the eve of (offering, 'have sot been fufficient to make them fhake off their • grocindieh timidity. The Confular wand Teems to "have confined them within a magic circle, in which :they turn upon an invariable pivot, without being able to quit the path that bunks them on to the 'precipice. Placed between a ((ingrained peace and a necelary war, they flare in the dangers of both, 'without having the common advantages of the for mer; or the chances which might wife from she -latter. his remarkable, that the incertitude of their :politics is the principal fource of their mifery.— Never have the horrors of war prefented a more de. , plorable afped, nor the dangers of peace been more manifea ; for in negotiating its reconciliation with :! e tremendous Tyrant Republic, no State can deter- Minn 'whelser by fuch conduit, it has committed a intl. ea idled with prudence ; whether there be lets `xi& in braving the hatred of B011•PAILTI, than in to. 'licking his friendthip. Can this condition, which thus excludes the pre .fetvative principles of independence and tranquillity, be called a Rue of peace I If it be, let the world ceafe to mourn over the ravages of war; if it be not, let the people of this empire no longer hearken to the fyren tales of mediation, which are intention ally circulated by France, to bony up the hopes of .her bankrupt merchants, and tranfmitted to this country, to allure us from our invincible attitude of vigilance and defiance. TAO war was not occafioned by any difpute concerning the boundaries of a dif triCt, or the right of poltelfing a conceited province; it originated in our determination to maintain unim paired thofe fundamental principles, without which our fi , cial union would be dellroyed, and life itfelf become hateful and burthenfome. Neither was it lightly conceived, or ralbly undertaken; every effort was exhaufled to convince the reafon, to awaken the juftice, and to allay the ungovernable ambition of the enemy. It was not until we were all convinced that no reliance could be placed on the faith of the tyrant, and that his inia6ons during peace were more deltruaive thin his arms in war, that we re curred to the lail meafure of an intuited nation; and as we drew the (word with reluttance, let us not think cf fheatbing it again until it has been fully drenched in the blood of oar perfidious adverfaries, or until they have changed their eonqaering maxims, - , od adopted others conductive to genital fafety.— Oar Itonour demands Gitilaaioa, and fatisfadion implies tick pariameat. We Ihould never lore fight of the animating principle, that the c,SaraOrr of a nation is of greater importance than its extent; and if it be honourably upheld by virtue and prowers, the whole colleted force of malignant paflions may be condenfed and poured again(' it, but without effea. Nothing contributes fo much to increale the arength and vigour of a people, as the contemplation of their relative power and charafter. For there is a wide difference between national vanity and na tional pride ; the former, generated by the foppery of the imagination, flourifhes in weak minds only, which cannot penetrate beyond the flievry furface of things—but the latter fprings from that confcious ele vation of mind, which every individual feels when he reHeds that he is a member of a community. not lefs renov ned for its valour than for i:s love of juf tice. The one is oflentatious and frivolous, and, hke drefs, impofes on the fences; but the other is folid and invariable, and, like a cultivated intel'ed, rens its pretenfions folely on realms and refiedion. From thefe diftindive marks, by which the French and Bririfh people are charaderiCed, we may form a cor red judgment of the degree of their refpedive public fpirit. Ever fince the age of HENRY IV. the fpirit of true patriotifm has been declining in France.— During the monarchy, its place was fupplied by a lets commendable, but nor lefs propelling motive of anion, and Frenchmen, under the fentiment of be aver, often blindly fought for their monarch's glory, at the expense of their own happinefs. In the course of the various wars in which France has been engaged fince the period alluded to, her martial policy, what ever may have been the impulfe of her ambition, was, with a few exceptions, confonant with the gene ral pradice of civilized countries. She fought and conquered, but Rill refpeded the religion and the laws of nations. Hence, though her civil wifdom was condemned, her military fyßem rarely fickeaed human nature, and was often the theme of admira. tion. Her generals and warriors were fkilful, brave, and generous, and the principle of honour feemed to have compenfated their want of public virtue. But now, and ever fince the commencement of the Revolntion, there has been an interminable void, a dreary charm, out of which nothing honourable or praifeworehy has emanated. With the downfall of the Monarchy, expired alto the ancient mode of legi. timate warfare; the gentlemanlike honour, fpirit, and charafter of the French foldier deferred him the moment he was transformed into a machine of the philofophical republic. His former principles being totally eradicated from his breaft, the wildeß pdfions 'framed their Ration. Thenceforward, ha. tilitics were carried on without any relpeet of things, human or divine, and without any difcrimination of age, fez, or condition. Their GOD abjured, their fovereign murdered, their hands imbrued in the blood of their fellow citizens, their little flock of private morality vaniflied in the abfence of law and public l i Office, their homes and the tweets of donsenic life hateful to them, from wanting the incentives to ho. nett induflry ; with confciences thus hardened again(' r color fe, the ravenous and felonious legions of afar fins which France collefted, went ford% to lay walk the fineß provinces of the world ; and what is worfe, to fpread the penitence of their native abominable inßitutions. In there new and hitherto unheard of deltroydt of their fpecies, we recognize the features neither of the blood-thiray ravage, whore epheme ral fury is (abated with revenge, nor of the unfeeling executioner who maffacres in heaps the 'Mims of a tyrant's rage. They are a monllrous, horrible, and non.defctipt afembhise of difciplined robbers, and cut-throats, under the legiflation and guidance of fwindlers and cheats, whom the revolution has eleva ted to power from among(' the lowa dregs of the rabble, wretches devoid of honour, even ignorant of its qualitiea, and veterans in blood and rapine. Com pared with filch ruffians, the devaßating route of the fierceß Mabratta tribes is a march of honour and mercy. The locußs that poifon and defiance the moft fertile diftrifts of Africa ; the whole collated fum of evil accoraplifhed by ferocious men and favage animals; the earthquakes which have fubverted whole cities, the plagues which have (wept thoufands from the face of the earth ; the war of elements with which this world has been fmnetimes vifited and ehaftifed, have not collededly, Since the creation of man, produced calamities equal to thole which thtfe =curled agents of athcifm, anarchy, and hypotrify, have brought upon mankind. There concuflions of nature, for ought we know, perform a portion of good, while they diftribute evils. The true and hum ble fpirit of philofophical invelligation has affirred us that in Come of thefe fports of nature, fo fearfully fa tal to man, the order and objpfts of creation are con fated and fuftained. A pious refignation in the in fcrutable omnifeience of that ETSRNAL NINO, the reafbn of whofe dirpenfations is moo properly with. held from us in this Rage of exigence, fortifies the belief, that thole which remain obfcured from the higheß reach of intelleftual inquiry, ate allowed for providential ends. But it is the morel atmofphere, which there villains have infefted: they have poifoned the happinefs of this world for twenty generations to I come. The wholefome in*itutinns of met, religious, , moral, and political, have been Outten to their foun dations; and even our children have been contami nated in a greater or Idler degree with this contagious influenza. If the latter were becoming convakfcent face the conclufion of the Inte war, by the pendent adminifiration of lenitive, and connitutional medica ments, the needlities of obi: war have braces their nerves and rendered them whole, firm, and vigorous. At a period when the hearts of the virtuous are on trial, and when unexampled dangers almrd confound the i uudcrflandings, let us not be unthankful for this !biking ditpcnfation of Divine favour. The degenerated portions of Europe may now dir cover and learn to value that genuine !pi n t oipatrio. tifin which beams with fo much loth e. On yon, nol,kft Whore blood is fetcht from fathers of wzr proof. The cattle which animates and hurries us to the field of battle, is the fame for which we have often taken up arms, and for which our forefather., at the fira fignal, buckled on their armour. Dosing the long revolution of a thoufand years, we have never forgotten the Lova or ova COUNTRY. This faered principle bears no affinity to that obnoxious abortion of a rmichievous philofophy, which, ur-ler the name of univerfal benevolence,combineethe worn elements of fdlifhncfs and ambition, and excludes the pr.Olice of thole duties which we owe in a paramount degree to the land which gave us birth. Neither is it folly on account of her velvet favannahs, and her fmiling landfcapes, that we cling to our country with an af feßionate attachment, which Arangers, who have never felt as we feel, deem romantic. Thank; be to Goo l ova love of country derives its exiftence from a more malted origin. The foil is dear to us, becaufe it is the abode of Juftice, Freedom, Induftry, and Heavenly Light ; becaufe virtue alone is honoured here, and every man among us, confcious of this in poffdlion, is proud of his name, and lives op to the dignity of his nature. The glorious pre poflason flows in the blood of our kings, as well as in that of our people. From the firft foundations of our empire, the immortal ALFRED declared, that ir is RIGHT THE ►EOFLI OF ENGLAND SHOULD ■E AS FREE AS 7 Milk OWN THOUGHTS ;" and nine centuries af. ter, a patriot king, flrong in his people's love, opened the career of that reign of greatnefs and of goodnefs, under which we live and profper, with the proud fentimenß, that . 4 SORE ♦ND FRED IN THIS COUSTRYI HE ci.or.rxs 111 THE NAME (IF BRITON." Slls.li is diftindlion between national vanity and national pride, between the vietims of ambition ‘vithout one honour' able principle, and the foldiers of liberty infpired and aft.rated by the Lova or C.• -:Nrtv ; and I will add, between the fqualid fkelerr . 7 bent on blood and ra pine, and the manly port r: freemen contending for their hearths and for le;.; cimate power. The effeas of this oppofition of ebarader were vi vifible during the late war; and tliey have allonifhed mankind in the ou:fet of the prefent. Their grand And final difplay of greatnefs mull depend on you. While the revolutionary tempeß has fwept the Con tinent, and daily broken down portions of the ma chine of fociety, Europe has witneffed what can be effected by a legal Government, and a people armed with that freedom which gives Iltength without vio lence, and energy without atrocity. To refill •tows an enemy, before whom all Europe has grounded its arms ; to diflipate with fuccefs an alarming rebellion, and to overcome it, by the force of laws, national nour, and confidence in a rigorous authority ; to appal the (bores of France and Holland, and to im. prifon their naval power; to maintain public credit at home, and our poffefflons abroad ; to abforb nearly the commerce of the whole world.—Such are the fruits of that Lova or Conover, which has enabled us to difplay moral and military refourees that have excited the aflonilltment of the civilized world. The Tyrant of France is now contriving for our benefit, the glory of a triumph, which (hall deliver one part of the earth from oppreffion, and the other from anziety. But the means by which this happy event (hall be enfured, mutt be thclubjeet of another letter. O.IIL.G•CUIL The following circular Letter has juft been ifued to the Lords Lieutenants of Counties:— My Loao, Wilhelm!Ayr to. A. great inctutvenience is found to arife from the frequent pro. 'DUI. of alterations iii the eftabliOunents of corps and companies or volunteer.. I am under the necclnty of apprising your l.ordaip, that I Assn think it my duty in future to decline fabmitting any propoutiost of that nature for his Majefly's approbationositkh has fur its aloft the reduction or divilion of any troop or company into troops companies of fanner ftrrngtb. wads Rrooplocal or ot'ser can be given for filch redudion or &wilts. I take this opportunity of r-viiictlieg, that is More, wheel yaw Lordlhip may leave acclaim to mcornmend any Corps or cowpony of volunteers far ►is lklajelty's acceptance, the proporcd anent thereof; complete IN every particular, may be Wetted in one at tSe blank returns which accompany thin letter; and that the retorts fo Med up, may be tranfasittal to me at the aim time with the saw. It may be convenient that I estinid apprise year Lerdalp, es this maim that there will be so abJedien en preen permanent pay to an Adjutant who ban ferved fear yens st lead as a menelf (need Olen In the rqdsn, embedied eiYda. Ilindblee, or Bak India Company's ferries, for a carped son &save rank and Its if infantry, or 3.10 rank sad Its If cavalry; er to a Ilatjamt Mar, who fall have lined three yews is fame of W ittptity's farces armhole et the Raft ladia Company, far a corps of atm elfeltiv rank sad Its If Infantry, or 1110 rank sad Ile if analry and that to a corps of woo rank and file of infantry, sr doe et analry.bedt an Adjutant and &Oran' Major will be aiketwed es pets aliment pay, if qualified so shove deferibed ; prodded dist Is ell Inch cafes the carps re which tbdit half often ate se be snubs* as permanent pay.full agree to be astellad 11$ dam st lwl vele ta the year (Iv*, the number d days whisk din aid mem af is. bantam, ne wham Minoan have keen Mewed oder the rm sulatkes d Jaws MI, me espeasi to atoned a camels). and the ass Commanders of the erns ritiodtrety.l6l. at the sod of mob , year, earn smut Maw ths umber at days as mildrslio mops Mall have aessity attiodsd media Maar thek hotitstiseee sod coodisisoo. row Lodi* oill bo always et liberty to recce...' &dm ea Seelefort Ms- Jon, echo*, as the cafe may require. obit lON corps is of the force required ; rid that the ea. Akers tosomfoodell hove the wareiery quillestioss; sod thot the asps sod erewasolsg Mere stem to she coodbleso probelied. 1 hem she hisour So M, ary Lord. per Lemildee molt ebediust WNW Went. To she Lad Lionson of tbs CositT at e. resale. E4STBOUIIN, VOVL:3l7)gat z 6. Lientenint-Cineral Sir J..,rees Pus:rawer *lived d.ty. and is to take the coma:And of the tmops Clatirmed on this part of the coif. The infantry are 1111 holy throwing ne intrencl.:mnts. Ninety four 24 pounders are to b- eretc.lei l'n this part of the coati. Two be.talions of ti,.: 46111 foot march into Pevenfey Barracks to.m,,rrow. CITY LION? ITORSE.—Yelierti sy morning fritween nine and ten o'clock, the Regiment rt City Light Horfe muttered at their 1ie.0.! Trainer., the top et Gray's Innlane, for ti.e i•p•i'r• b:ing in liviJu. ally infpeded by colon,' 3, 7, 1.0014. The orders given on the nee wc-e, tl It no lkfenther would be pet mitted to atifent bin-reit*. in any account what. ever, excent by fp:ci.l Niro:4ll,n of the Colonel, or Mod's; arvi that they were to be provided with every thing necelary fit attotalf:tv::e. The fix troops of Horfe muftered with their great coats, in white cafes, bei:indtbern.and their haverthc k‘. The 7'1•,13 hood sith troops of difmounted, who are to aft as riflemen to the regiment. repaired firft to the orderly r.a•m, where they were furn'tbsd with a necefrary leather hag, or portmanteau, and inlttuaed by fej.tants attending for the purpoli to fling them on their backs, Y. itli leather flraps, in a foldier-like they were then ntuf treed in the Ridinghoule, to the number • f a ;o ; the fix bode troops muttered in their field at the back of the Foundling Wit - pita], to th: r.umber, f abau: 400. —Ah nit eleven o'clock Colonel Jii PI i sOll arrived : he was met at the top of Gray's Inn.l.4ne by Col. HERRItS, the Commander of the Regiment, who concluded him into the field, where the troops of honk and foot had formed a line. The Colonels paired each rank, and infpeeted them in front and rear. Col. Jsmeossote then took his Rand near the entrance of the field, and the Corps paired him in tingle file, with their Iworcli prefeeted. flow time.— The three difinounted troops then followed, with -a band of bugle horns, by companies. with their (words leaning on their ihoulders. and their rifle pieces in their left hands. A line was again formed, and Col. fee 'trestle took an account, from the Captain pf each troop, of the flare of the troop, and infpeeted the rifle pieces, (words, &c. The infpedion being concluded, he paid the bigheft and moft deferved compliments to the Corps, for their excellent (tate of difcipl•ne, and truly martial appearance. LOYAL LONDON VoLVNTEaas. —The third Regi ment of Loyal London Volunteerc, accompanied by Capt. l'assi.ovs's Company of Sharp Shooters, er. tinvaled at (even o'clock ye(lerday morning, at their parade in Bridewell Hofpital, and at nine o'clock proceeded to St. Paul's Cathedral, in order to be in fpeaed by Col. liaanac a. Alter the infpealon had taken pllite, they retired to the parade, and were dif mori:d. They were complimented in the mod hand fame manner on their foldier.like appearance, and the good mitt in which they keep their arms. On Toefday, :he Buckinghamlbire Cavalry, com manded by Lord Gr FNViLLP. had a grand field day in Stock Park, when his Lordibip gave orders for the Corps to hold themfelves in readinefs to march on the (hotted notice. Tuefday fe'nnight, the ceremony of prefenting the colnnrs to the Lanceßer Volunteers, took place there. After hearing an excellent difeourfe from the Rev. Mr. Tnonas, their Chaplain, from Neliemi.th iv. the corps was marched to Dalton square, and being formed into a circle, Mr. Timms: returned the co lours, which belonged to the former corps of Lan ca her Volunteers, to Casette G egos, Efq. of more Park, who, as Commandant of that corps. Fads at the conclufion of the late war, depofited them in the parifh Church. Monday fenaight, Lieut. Colonel Tootle son in. fpe&ed the Loyal Knowfley Volunteers, commanded by Capt. Heaver Wateur, when he was pleafed to exprefs great fatisfaaion at the appearance of the Corps : notwithhanding the inceffant rain, they con tinued upon the ground three hours. We underhand the Colonel direUed Captain Waltzer to fee that We men were provided with a knapfack and two pak of firong (hoes each immediately. A company of artillery under the command of Captain Drsa, are now on their route for Hull with four light fix pounder brafs guns and two sf inch howitzers, intended as a reinforcement to the prefeat park of artillery. A meeting of the Commiffionets of the Pilot and Balla Office at Hull, was held on Friday. at tinier. (lance of Captain Curnaitar, commanding the foe feneibles, in order to afcertain whether the owners of bandit lighters would permit them to be fitted I and. in cafe of need, armed for the defence of the How ber and port. Offers of about thirty valets of that defcription were made; and they are to be fitted up at the expeoce of Government with one carronade each, on a Elide, and manned by the fea fencibles Several (hip owners attended the meeticg, and made en offer of the long boats of their (hips, to be fitted out upon the fame plan. Six pilot boats are alreadt equipped with two guns each, and ready to aft in cafe of emergency. On Tuefday, Mr. Coast. applied to the Magifirates at Bow-flint. for a warrant to fearch the premifes of a pawbroker, in the vieiaity of St. Martin's.' .ae.— It appeared. that a perfon late in the employ of Mr. Gitseay., fi lverfnaith. of Cockfpur.fireet. had de camped, after embezzling a very conlderable groats. tity ef plate. By means of letters finer received from bin% the property bee been traced to various pawn. brokers, all of whom had farrendered it up, except the one in quellion. who detained upwards of tool.'s worth. On the conflable going to execute the wet. rant. the fiiopman treatedltio with contempt. and threw every obliaele in his way, fo that the officer was obliged to leave the pretnites without obtaining his 040.. Ia the evening the tiopman attended, and stades-west a One examination. The Mattifbates *allot upon him to declare where the prope. iy was saiscealed 3 which he declined to dot in which his commitment was made out, as an acceffary to the 'obbery, which induced bin to motets that the pro. party was removed to a relation's in the neighboen. bend of Illington road t feversl of the toilette wets difpatched to t he hook defer-wed. and I uni toe pro ' party. This .a. be Paid, he was advitd to by hie miter's attorney. In coniegoence of his improper behaviour throe t the whole bitfinefs, the tram c • him for further exareseatioe.