Star. — London, England, 1803-02-03 00:00:00

SHIP OWNijiS. / 4 \ T a nomer'ua and relpc't.tble rf Ship -k CW! . . by Public A‘lverintni , ..A. art held I ltdo 15,2.:,at the Lonlon Tavet a. to take t! I.,tr •I matter; int:pert:ince to the !r:L:fl. aud in particular fuch furthz: nteaferes, t. fccifary to adopt to give exact to the fc , I t . hcaf.on% to Par;i:mcnt ter the repeal of the Outi-s on t Tonnarc of Ship, ar.d on Oil and Skins, the produce of the Erit.:h iffncritts; JOHN HILL, Erg. in t'ac Chair. Th R. l.lutiouc uftt, i a Gut.rial Meeting were read and corhrmed. _ . I he Seerctari then read the Report of the Committee for th. Port of London, cortairing f:vcrat ftatement , relative to th, wefent Rate oft! r shipping Irt..rett of Great Brita;n, Ltd Zna a let L,r front the Chairman of the Committee of Ship Owners at containing the Refolutions. recently enterea ir!o there, r ..preffiv, of the determination of the Ship OWtlerE et that P-it to fuppert the applkatiaas to Patliament for tit.. • the Duties. Refolv.:l t.nanimouf!' t the Lett era received by the St.• et , 1,-.1 the 13,1.2 e rs R.ver Thatref, re:pc:l ing the nutnb,r of S:apt. built in t. c Port of London fies: e / tare. be read The Secretary then read the fame accordingly. Refolved unanimoully,That the Thanks of the Ship Owner, trefent at this Meeting he given to the Committee of Snip wrier, for the Port of L tarn, for their coattail! and Mdefatt gable Attention to the general interc ft of Shipping, and in par ticular tor the 'I rouble they have experienced in their it.vetii gation of the feveral fulled!' relative to the Tonnage Duty, and that the Committee he ,nftrueled to ore firth f i nder Which may appear to than molt advifable to be adopted, to obtain the repeal of the Tonnage Duties. Refolved trla ireollfly, That ANT IION• CA L•ilT, Efq. he added to the Committee of ship Owners for the Port of Lon don, for the current Year. /Waived urtnimeofly, That the Chairman he requefted to correrpond with the Chairman of the Committee of Aip Own ers for the Port of RA and to communicate to hint th. Infor mation referred to in his Letter. Refolved unanimoufly, that there Rtfolutions be ink rted in the Ne,fpapers, and aUo tranfmitted to the Ship Owners :.t all the Out Ports. „.... Refo'Ted unanimoully,That the Thanks of the Ship Owners prefent at this ?dieting be giver to the Chairman, for his Cmitiudt in the Chair, and for his great Attention to the general Inter& of Ship Owners. (Signed) J. HILL, Chairman. STATE OF IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir--I am encouraged by the general impartiality of your print, to addrefs to you a few oblervations on the prefent hate of Ireland,the fubjeftoffn mrch soineprefentation, the viaim of ignorance, and de famation. When I fee the prints of this city cm fcribing, as in a Rate of infurreaion, that member of the B. it; th Empire, only fecond in importance; when I behold the high political complexion which they impart to partial riots, and local jealoufies, and provincial antipathies, which have always exided, not in Ireland alone, hut even in this land of boafled law and civilization, I would feel inclined to laugh at the credulity or invention of the writers, if I did nn: know the very form us mifchief, which, unintentionally I fhould hope, they effea by their vansifhed tales. Indeed, when it is confidered how much in all fituations, and under all circumltances, truth is facrificed to views of party, or individual profit, I am nit much furprifed that the London prints, fo numerous, and now fo devoid of Continental fubjeas. Mould eagerly ferve to the public what is eagerly lwal .lowed; but if their readers are fo indifcriminate in their tape; if they are fo very open mouthed after news, is ft then politic or Konen to adminiiler to them poifon in them food ? I am but a few days arrived from Ireland ;—I -think I know the country well, and have not lived _in if...without obfervation ; I may therefore be al lowed the flrength of evidence which fhould juiily attach to an eye witnef.. The violations of the peace which have lately taken place in one or two fbuthern counties, are no snore extraordinary. nor more arifing out of political motives, than thole twifturnal affociations which I remember from my infancy. That part of Ireland has been Isis aftodn pon by the influence of commerce and civi lization than moil other partsof the ifland,theculture of the pound is there the only refouree of a very increafed population, and attached to the foil, which every peafant regards as his inheritance, and without enterprise, knowledge, or capital, to cultivate auxiliary arts, it becomes a natural de• duaion, that the refident farmers and day la bourers, look with jealoufy to the arrival of gran gers of their own defeription, whnfe rival' y may tend to :auk the price of land to the one, or reduce the price of labour to the other. The intruders, thus In obnoxious to the hatred of the lowell or ders of the counties of Limerick and Tipperary, (the county of Waterford cannot properly be in cluded, as it was affeaed only in its frontier near Clonmel) are Kerry-roes; poor itinerant labour ers, who quit a more Revile and uncultivated track to gain employment where more labonr is exer cited, and where nature is more bountiful in her prod.laions ; having to Ilrive againli prejndices, and the influence of residence, they wink under the current, or combinated price of labour, and are neceffarily preferred by the fat Trier, and hence proceed thole nigkly meetings of the native 11. b•oirers (if I be all wed the espre(lion), and hence thole floggings, croppings, &c. which, by writers at this fi de of the Channel, are (welled into political ma g ritude ; and this ragged. bafe, mot- Icy, and inconfillent tiffue of ignorance, jealonty, and local crime, i, by partizan, dafign, or love of the Mat VLI1(111 , . envrinved in the green mantle of trealon ; diFvined into ailianc.: with f.;:rign en rni:y, and (apple(' to receive all influence and motion from the Star of St. Cloud. This is the faa, Sir, co mmon;-..ated to you by a man who would “ nothing extenuate, nor let down aught in malice :" It is true, Sir, that the accounts which hat occalionally appeared in the provincial Irilh prints and in ionic of the Dublin papers, may, in a grea. vocal - me, have jiifli ied the lan : l.l.l;te of the I.on• 4.1 .. prints; but in pre poeurn as lice f ce „,. ~i. ..0 tion i, remote, fhould he tlie cao:ionc belief n: flatcrnents pade by intereflcd parties. A I.nn,:on Editor Gould feel himfelf as in the feat of iccoi.l tog Police, not cieduloutly accepting, n iihou: diiiinaion, all that lie hears, all that ii told him; bast whh a head and liCalt abilmaed from p,i , , dice, lie fhould coolly weight and ei:ctiir.: tii: yotKie bpd Ir . fridcnce, and reject the milt or n- . - . i i ii y a Ue to,Athto, h. ‘.-ould r . 1 .. If ..„..1.4‘ .. v abl turbulence of 1 O ', ...: AMii —. ''. - t ' .es 711 it Z ..: ••"- ..:4% . ..ik .1 tetiV.4 . li" . , a few county Limerick Day-labourers has no po litical fpring of adios; ; if it had, would it not he more general ? or could any but a d :wntight ideot fuppofe it would lead them to whip and cudgel each other? If political, why have not thofe outrages extended to the North, the Eaft, the Weft of Ireland—why not to the immediately adjoining counties ; or, narrowing the queßion within the limit of truth, why are they confined only to a few parifhes ? The fait anfwers the quetlion ; and political motive and conneaion can only teem to appear to the microfcopic eye of alarmed credulity or difeafed judgment. Indeed, Sir, Ido not remember, generally (peaking, Ireland more tranquil at any period than it is at prefent ; but I will endeavour to expl tin why it is repre tented otherwire—There are in Ireland a defcrip :ion of men whole prejudices and felfifh interells are advert to the quiet of their country—men who, until the late unhappy rebellion, were not known beyond the parilh in which they raided, and who, without genius or talents, without li beral heads or honeti hearts, role in the turmoil of the times into temporary notice and import ance. Reamed peace and tranquillity have fent back thole men into the bofom of their native ob fcurity ; and power, if it can corrupt the hearts and weaken the underaandings of men whom their fortunes have led into the feats of Kings, it is not grange that an ignorant, prejudiced, bigotted, Irilh Country _lattice of Peace fhould yield his integrity, judgment, and patriotifm to the clan gei offs inn aence. Men who have had the whip hand of their countrymen, finding themfelves funk into the mats of quiet lubjeclion, naturally with again to rcfume the rod, and run about the country " reek ing whom they may fiourze ;" with this view, they magnify and mifreprefent every trifling offence aiding out of the ordinary Rate of fociety ; and, it is not improbable, are accelfary to thole offences by their own ft:pi:let:els, in order to acquire again, under the infurrcaion tka, powers which would , arm them with a " Vii.,our beyond the Law."— I Many of thole very men hare a property in the provincial Newfpapers, or poffels over them the, influence of patronage ; and nothing, there. fore, can be caller than to reprefent the Rate of the country in the colours moll likely to I promote their private virus. Fortunately, how ever, for Ireland, its prefent rulers would not accept the charaaer of the country from fuch men. lifting upon the wife and generous policy of Mar quis Coativraaets, and the fuggeftion of his own numerous and exalted virtues, Lord Haanwices has banifhed prejudice and intrigue from the Cattle ; he Rands independent of party fpirit and party cunning, and truth and juflice have their feats at the Council Board. Mr. WICKHAM has not had esperience without profit ; he has not Peen the feveral countries and Courts of Europe, without reading the volume of human nature ; and he does not give up his eye: to the Phankif magorics of Tarty juggle, or his ears to the decep tions whifpetings at iivifible evil. Mr. MAlsnam, who (hares the civil labours of the Irifh Govern ment, is a Gentleman of cool; Rroag, and diferi minating judgment, and a heart found and bene volent. From Inch charaaers, intemperance iir precipitancy of conduct is not to be expelled, and the repofe of Ireland is tale in their hands: they have examined perfonally into thole ~ tales of wonder," which are repeated here, with fiaional embellithrnent, to the gaping, fluting multitude, and they have found them " full of found and fury, meaning nothing."—They have found that the exifling evil is only fuch as an attire Magif tracy, emulating the worthy condua of a Do Nouo H MOR a, can eafily fupprefs ; and tinfchooled in the politics of the Pelf-ordained Patriarch of the " /Pl:,'?ern Farridy," they have not difcovered loch charms in the military fceptre,although decorated with the Regent or the Pitt Diamond, asfhoula an duce them to fubflitute it for the common law of England, and the tact td and protehing thield cf the Britith Contlitution! There will be no Martial Law in Ireland ; there -will be no need of it, while its Government is adminiiiered by men, who will not Coffer the delegated (word of jtillice to become the (port of madmen, knives, or fools! I have been thus dance on this fubjea, becaufc I with to remove from the minds of my Britith fel low-fubjeas imprellions alike inju: ions to their own fpiritolcommercialenterprize,to the improvement of Ireland, and to the general profperity of the em pire. lam one of thole who have hailed the Lc giflative Union of Great Britain and Ireland as the day-gar of imperial fit-engem eloality, and happinefs : I law in it the extinpion of that vile policy, which founded rule upon weaknefs and di vilion, which made us contribute to the Exche quer of our own corruption ; which made genius I and talents the purveyors of vice, and public fitu- I atinn the grave of private virtue and patriotifro : ' I law the phylical Alperin:4y of Ireland over Bri• tain ; her capabilities of improvement, and that the wanted hut tome communication Of the moral ltrength of Great Britain to become exalted her fell, and to exalt the empire to an elevation of power and glory, which, bat through the me dium of :maid, the nev..r can truly and perma- ' nently artive at. I expeaed the introduaion of Britilh capital, knowledge, and indullry into my native die; bat I feel that my hopes cannot be , realized, while the !tate of the country continues to be mifreprefemed. The man of property and i incluflry will naturally look for fecurity in the prolecution of his tilecidations, and he is led to think that he will nit find that fccurity in Ireland. I befeech him to rcjea the faife and i»juiious fop- ! pofition. There is not a part of Ireland wherein he will not be as life as within the cities of Lon don or Weilminfler. Let him employ the poor, and multiply the objeas of labour and tonnes of wages, and he will be fenced round by the refpea and the affehions of the people. If he will but he informed by his experience, he will find that fr_land is not the country which it is clefcribed to be ; that it is not the vantage ground of foreign ambition, and that thole men are not only impo li•ic but lIIIiII3, who give it a charaher which they would befitate, nn the belt evidence, to apply tn the 41 mil of Jamaica, or any other fugar.can: I sol-my.—l am, sir, your vc:y humble fervaat, London, Feb. 1,1803. MI IRISH AL•X• LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK , 3 pet Cent. Conf. money, 7c —for Feb. a= 701. Omnium 5. It appears from the American Papers, which have arrived to the 25th December, that the cellion of Louifiana has occafioned a very general alarm.'. The (late of Kentucky in particular has prefented to the Congrefs an addrefs of very (trong remon. (trance againft the meafiires lately taken by the Government of Louifiana, in violation of the faith of treaties, to Phut out the fubjeEts of the United States from the navigation of the Miffiffippi. The meafure principally ailuded to was a Procl.t• mation ilfued by the Intendant of New Orleans, depriving the Americans of the right they held by the Treaty of I 795, to depofit there the merchan diae which comes down the rivers Ohio and Miffif fippi, until fold or exported to the Weft Indies or elsewhere. The river Miffitlippi receives the whole of the navigable rivers which fkirt the Wettern Boundary of the United States, and at its out let into the Gulph of Mexico Rands New Orleans. The river has a very quick defeent, and confe• quently a very rapid current, which obliges the Americans to fell the rads or rafts in they bring their goods down to New Orleans, and to depofit the goods for fate or exportation at a cer tain per centum. As this river is the only outlet of the %velem parts of America to the Atlantic ocean, and it is utterly impoffible for the inhabi tants of thole parts to bring their pi odnee to mar ket by any other channel, the Kentucky Legit]. cure have prayed th. Government to take prompt and decifive measures to redrefs the grievance; upon which, it is raid, the American Government has made a very fpirited remonftrance to that of Spain. When it is recolleeted, that Louifiana runs from thei point oppofite to New Orleans, up towards the Come of the Miinffippi, until it meets the American territory, it will ferve to explain the jealoufy which the Americans appear to entertain of the French acquiring poireffion of Louifiana, and even of New Orleans. This latter event, the following extra& of a letter from New Orleans, taken from a New York .Paper, thews to be in contemplation : " There is no doubt whativer but that the French are to pads this country (New Orleans); this event will, in all probability: take place in the courfe of the Spring." Thus Spain, at the very moment the rem:pines her territory, draws upon herfelf all the odium of a difpute with America ; in which the can have no intereft, and of which France will reap all the advantage. Thee papers contain alto intelligence from St. Domingo fo late as the a9th of November, near a month after the death of General Ltet.sac.— By the reports of American Captains it appears, that the warfare between the French and the Ne groes continues with unabated fury ; and great cruelties are laid to be conftantly committed on both fides. Every account from St. Domingo Rates expli citly, that the grief occafioned by the death of LEC !ARC was of very Oxon duration, and that ROCNAMBEAV'S arrival to take the chief command had infpired the troops, as well as the colonills, with the greateft confidence, and had revived a hope of ultimate fuccefs, which the impolitic meafures of his predecerfor had extingualted.— nut, though his pretence has relieved the courage of the troops, nothing but large reinforcements can enable him to make head agaioa the negroes, with a view of reducing them to obedience. He may fucceed in routing and deftroying particular bands of the brigands, but he can effea nothing towards the reftoration of the permanent tranquillity of the Colony. Every account which appears in there Papers, indeed, fully demonarates, that the work of refloring tranquillity mua be a work of infinite labour. What line of policy be may think it proper to adopt remains yet to be teen ; but complete and abfolute extermination was clearly the fyftem of his predeceffor, and a total change cannot in the &ft inftance be adopted. A letter from Cape Filncois, of the 29th of November, cuter, that about three weeks before, the Brigands were nearly in po(fehion of the town, but an engagement had fubfequently taken place which terminated'to the advantage of the French troops. N.) lea than 2,000 of the Blacks were taken prifoners, who after being tied hands and legs together, were thrown into the fea at a frnall aiiiance from the town. Another letter, d.tted about the i ith N 3 ;ember, fpeaks of a fcene much more atrocious, and attended with circumflances of (lilt more barbarous cruelty. On one day no left than 6,0c0 Flacks are defcribed as having been hitt bayoneted, And then thrown overboard with out ceremony. A garrifon, confilling of goo Blacks, are reprefented to have been carried off by poifon, admintac red by the agents of the French Centrals.—Some letters go even fo far as to alentlonithat the French have employed particular ven'els, called Syn.:, into uhielr mithitudzs of the Blacks are throwil indifcriminately, and dc ftroyed by means of burning blimilime. We mention dick reports not as entitled to im plicit credit, for they are evidently greatly exa lt . gerated ; but with every fort of allowance for this exaggeration, it is impotlible not to fee that the fyftem purfued on the part of the French is no. thing fhort of total extermination ; and alting as they have hitherto dune, on principles of me t e force,they cannot hope for fuccefs from any thing but adherence to the fame condu&. The Blacks are indeed driven to that Rate of exafperation that no overtures of conciliation will now be linened to, and it no longer appears incredible that the Whites fhould in the market place ere& a gallows for t 1.2 execution of the Negroes, whilft they, on the op. polite hill, exhibit to the Whites the mangled vie. tims whom they have facrificed to the manes of their flaughtered companions. The Journal of Captain SLOCUM, who left Port Republicain about the end of November, exhibits details of the audacity and fuccefs of the Blacks, which clearly announce what have been the effeo: of their refinance. At that place he defcribes the fentinels as being daily fhot by the brigands, and even within piflol fhot of the town they were guilty of every excels with impunity. Letters of the 27th of November, from Cape Francois, mention the arrival of twelve or fifteen velels from France with reinforcements. The number of troops on board was, however, inconli derable, and totally inadequate to any purpofe of a general attack on the Blacks. Their number is not Rated to be above ;Soo; and on their anis a l they were immediately difpatched to Port Liberty, which the Brigands then occupied, but which it was hoped might be recovered without much op, polltioq. • THe Kiwn's Levaa.—His Majefty yeflerday held a Levee at St. James's Palace, which WAS numeroully attended. The company prefentmere, his Grace the Archbithop of CANTSASWILY, Si; Chops of LONIVII, BATH and WPLLS, ELT, RO CHESTER, HFRETOAD, ST. Asapu, LITCII,ItI..) and COVEKTILY, WlwCHesTet, the Dean of Warr. ISISISTER, the Rev. C. Moots, the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the Excx Kyle, the Sacas- Tail IS of STATE, the Imperial, French, Ansericag, Porttiguefe, Swedifh, Neapolitan, and Dutch hfp nißers, and— Dukaa—Poolaad and ilezbargli. Idarguliks—Sakibary, Larne. aod Douglas. Earla—Moira, Wertmarcland, Sandwich, Cluninno, Hit. dorm, Dartmouth (Steward of the Hanfahaid), Filre,grouter i Quito.field, Selkirk, and Galloway. Wecninto-nAgkrien, Sydney, &lades, Andover, sad M. mouth. lads Pyre. Cathcart, Wedekoora, Mountworris, &Ma, Calthreasb, Cravat, Gardner. Gwydir, Gr aa , s tow e &merle% Arden. Sadicy, G. L. Gower, P. . - worth, sod Stoprord. General..—Sir E. Corte, Harcourt, Leland, Phinu,Drindas, Hertoff, Mahon'', Pawns, Eliot, and Murray. Admiral Sir H. Parker._ - - Ooloisehi--Oalvest, De Grey. Stank?, and M 01,06 Sirs—F. Wilke, T. Trigge, T. Ciro*, S. Coaled, C. Kd lowly. andJ. Orde. Robinfon, Rigby. Elliot, Welt. Williams, Broadhead, Walla, Hon. De Grey, Hon. W. Broderick, Bev. C. Moore, Manning, Catdfield, G. Pitt, Stratton, N. Bar+ Penn, Wynne, W. Stanton. and Fitzgerald. Qeiatiernep introduced to ails Majestic were-- General Herren, by the Pruffian Envoy; General M , by hb Excellency tie Neapolitan An. bander; The Hon. Major Mtreastyoarn, by Lord Molefroorth; The Rev. Dr. Go , by the Chancellor of the Huhn. Per: Mr. Rostmon, by the Marquis of Lorne ; Captain Foarraan, by the Earl of Moira; Mr. C. Moots, fon of the Arckbilhop of Canterbury, cc his return from France. _ _ It being the Purification of the Virgin Mary, the Noblemen, who were Knights of the Garter, &c. appeared in the infignia of their rcfpeaiste Orders. His Grace the Archbi(hop of CAMTIRIVIT i at tended by the Bi ( hops, prefented the Addrefs of Convocation, on the afTembling of Parliament. Lord WILLIAM BANTINCII killed the King's hand on being appointed Governor General of Madras. The Rev. Mr. TATTERSALL, killed the King's hand on being appointed one of his Majefty's Chaplains. General Si4, 4 T. Taloa' took leave. on going ont to Gibraltar. The Bithop of WIRITOILD 14d homage before his MAigsry. on being sprinted to that See. Mr. Ectaor took leave on going to Naples. The KING, after holding a Council, gave an• dience. The Levee clofed Coon after three o'clock. His ?Laic:Tv then gave_ private audience to the Svre difli Minihr , Lord HAWILIIIIIVILY, Lord ?sums, Lord CHATHAM, and Lord Fara. At five o'clock the King returned to the (been', Houk. In the evening their MAJISTILS and three of the Panto sits went to the Concert of AnciG% Murk. • _ _ Yetlerday, at three o'clock, Mr. Hours', Nit MA) ssr v's Mellinger, left town with Governme4: L Difpatchei for Sir . BORAIII WAIRRIN , Rear. Admiral of the W hite, and Arnbaffadoe At St. Peter (burgh. Bacon's admirable flame of the Marquis Colts- WALLIS is executed in Carrara marble; the height of the pedeßal is (even feet, aad the perpendicultr measurement from the ground to the extremity fifteen, making the Ratue itfeif eight feet high. The (porting bets are now Soo to rto arid Lot d Ca ar's colt for the next Derby Rakes; 9q againd Sir H. Ws LLIASISON't colt, for the fame; 7 to 2 again(! Daxlmtry for the (Wands; Soo to f that Pipylia, Gallrmr, and Waken, do not win the three claffes of Oatlands ; and coo to 5 again* .tyis, and Wakes, for the Lune. Z oil joi 101 of