Star. — London, England, 1803-12-14 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INT'ELLIGinCE, MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind E. S. E. ♦ll. nut. •lill. DOt• Dublin o o Hamburg!' o a Waterford 0 3 PLYMOUTH, Dac. 12.—Came in the Vautour French lugger, of 16 guns, and 8o men, from St. Domingo, which place the left 45 days ago s the was captured the 25th ult. about so leagues S. W. of Cape Finifterre, by his Majefty's fhip BOADICEA, of 38 guns, Captain MATLAND; the has 101 l her main mall and bowfprit : came in the Britannia, of Lon don, Janes MILES metier, from the Southern Whale Fifliery, bound to London, laden with oil : the was taken on the 16th tilt. by the Bellone French priva. teer, and retaken the tft inft. by his Majefty's (hip Imrseinuse, of 36 guns, off Cape Clear. Came in the following tranfports from Jerfey, bound to Ire land, in ballaft : the Mercury, Captain Lssoner ; Betfey, Captain CAITHNESS ; and Hope, Captain CORMICK ; they failed with the FEARLESS gun brig, but parted from her at fea : the Gullava Sophia, Captain Feats, from Stockholm, with a cargo of deal, &c. bound to Tunis, as a prefent for the Em peror of Morocco : the Swedilh galliot Clsritlina Re. gina, Captain MALCHEN, from Ipfwich, in ballet} : the Lawrence, of Jerfey, Captain Aosen, from Jer fey, bound to St. Michael's, put in for a new boom : and the Magnus, of and from Porfground, Captain SMITH, with timber, &c. &c. for this port. PORTSMOUTH, Dsc. 13.—We are concerned to (late the lots of the (loop Swift, of this port, JOHN Bateau metier, which failed lately from Southamp ton for New Haven: this veffel was teen on Saturday laft, about one o'clock P. M. and about two o'clock, fame day, was loft fight of, then blowing very hard, and rather hazy ; was foon afterwards perceived to fink; feveral things drifted on (bore, off Elmer, to the eaftward ; among which was a boat marked— " 101411 Beasis, Swift, of Portfinouth :" Great doubts are entertained of the fafety of the crew, con gaing of the mailer, one man, and two boys. The lots of the matter will be feverely felt, as be has left a wife and fiz children to lament his lots. There is alto a brig on (pore, near Ringfton fignal poll, eaft ward of Hampton, name as yet unknown.—Sailed the SPEEDY and PHEASANT !loops of war on a cruise. His Majefty's Chip Mont.°, which is appointed to convoy the thip Ceres, Capt. Jona Ricaanoson, to Cork, is erpeBed to fail to-morrow..-Remain the ontwatd-bound Weft India leer, under convoy of his Majefty's (hip CAIURAGEADS, amounting to at leaft sio fail—Weather thick, hazy, and foggy.— Wind variable. DEAt., Dec. t-Arrived the EURTALUS frigate, Kingdoms, yvith the United Tottenham, Lord-Net fon. Atlas, Minerva, Baring, Batavia, Lades's Fa mily, Ball Insihunen, under convoy, from Ireland alto the RAISONABLI man of war. from off Dunge nefs ; Oevasus frigate, and CHAKEorrs fchooner, from a crnize ; and remain with a fleet of outward bound rails. The Maltase gun brig has a fignal for a convoy to the weftward. Wind S. W. A rumour prevailed yefterday both here and at Dover, that his Majefty's brig LAIR was loft on the night of the late dreadful . gale, which I think was Saturday the toth. Previous to the gale Captain Towne anchored in lover roads, and the Reward was fent on &ore to purchafe a few neceffaries : on his return to the boat he found, that the veffel from the violence of the gale, had been obliged to weigh and put to lea. The veal was Peen by feveral people on the Pierhead, fteering for the back of the South Sand bead, and next morning Tome pieces of wreck were picked up, in confequence of which it is apprehended that (he mutt have Bruck during the night and been loft, but it is not impoffible that the may have been driven into the North Sea ; if fo we (ha ll nu doubt hear of her in die courfe of a day. On Saturday or Sunday morning, a man was picked up frozen sluiolt to death, on the road from Sandwich to Deal, and notwithßanding every means ufed for his recovery he died yelierday. The wea ther is confiderably milder, but the horizon Rill looks difmal and gloomy. Several India (hips are coming in. Several refits are Paid to be on (hove on the llFrench coati : they are fuppofed to be homeward bound merchantmen. The late tempenuous weather to drive in all our cruisers from the enemy's Ind indeed the Downs make a formidable sp ice. .MOOT 11, Dec. r3.—The Down, ROSIVIT from Wells, bound to London with corn, Iken by a French privateer, and re-taken off by the Sea Fencibles, and is brought into port : the prifemers, live in number, are confin. t this place.—Arrived a French privateer, with feveral (mall arms. and pikes, and 35 '‘ken by the BADGiII Excite cutter, Captain ioara. The privateer left Offend on Sun Jay and had made no capture.—The noted pirate. .M.4):31, has captured in the Wold, a brig and ‘• laden with corn : the hoop has been recap. by the Winterton Sea Fencibles.—Sailed for ibden, laden with herrings, the Verandiring, &- Apter,( matter.—li,.veri o'clock, arrived the t Excite cutter, with French in iiimers on . the prifoners are expeeted to be landed here', afternoon.—The Mips ot war and ttaaporta re pc r . DISTRIBUTION OF PR IZE.MONT.Y. diftributloo will be made to the crews of the Foudreyart, Sumbcdand, Audacious, Aiewinder, buceets, and a Coda, 1 capture ot the Val, de Ntadeilles, at No. i 3, Bernard's Ina, on Thoirfday, the 19th hat. to the Partia, sod on day to their...scream FaoM LLOYD% LIST. :seen, Die. 33.—Paffed by the Ham (a prise) from r e of Go od Hope; Mary. (Nereid, from Quebec ; Chun. lobate, from Hamburg\ ; AbiSal. Faber, from Rotterdam; r, Stiewofor ; and Jane, Idattort, from Memel; Wanderer, wills, from Mimic; King of Denmark, Mcin, from Nei- Three Sifters, Katie; Catharine, Alarm; Neptune, , and Jutfroue jatlkeye, Lubbers, from Earbden.--Sailed .4ault, gall , ter Damara; sad the Lem Pd`Cgoadk ?drag. The AA TI-CORSICAk ; sr, 4 7 .1 R of LIBERTY. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE LETTER XII. Decembers, 18c3. If I turn from the drooping fpirit of the Continent to the exalted feelings of the 13ritifh nation, I fancy myfelf tr.infported into another world, or living among beings of a fuperior intelligence. But we have had enough of comparifons. Let us now make an introfpedion into our talents and qualifications for the arduous conteff in which we are engaged. The ports of France have, for feveraimonths, re founded with the noife of holt& preparations again( this country, and from the inveteracy of the tyrant's hatred, no doubt can be entertained that a defperate and general irruption of his rapacious hordes will fhortly be attempted. We mull not fuppofe for a moment, that the projed has been abandoned becaufe it has been delayed ; its execution is deferred only under the hope of rendering its fuecefs more certain. The idea is in every refpee linkable to the fertile and turbulent imaginations of the French people, and their ruffian Chief is aware that the Continent is nearly drained by the fecundity of his rapines. Some great and convulfive effort mull, therefore, be re. forted to, in order to retain; within the limits of fub ordination, thole brigades of felons, who have not a tingle quality of the foldier attached to them,except a military uniform. Delay is no evidence of indeci fion ; in this inftance, it is merely the tell of inade quate means. Although I have omitted no opportunity of re• conciling your minds to the poPility of an invation by .thefe public robbers, yet I will not conceal that I have occelionallT entertained doubts of its probabi fity. The difficulties of the enterprize, the number lefs dangers of its execution, and the awful refponli bility which mutt accompany its failure, teemed to prefent more formidable obtlacles to the undertaking than even the public fpirit, which anis zvfally beats high in the bofoms of thofe who have taken up anus in their country's caufe. It was not unnatural to (urmife, that all this bugle in the camps of the Cor• Scan, thefe embarkations and difembarkations of his troops in their refpeftive ports, were mere firatagems of war, calculated to diftrad our attention from the real point of attack, and to prefent the world with a fecond edition of that artful manoeuvre, by which, during the late war, an army was colle ted on the coats of France, under the avowed defign of inva ding us; but which, after having drawn out the , force of the kingdom in its defence, Hole impercep. tibly from its quarters, traverfed the Mediterranean in quell of (pod, and bare upon the molt valuable province of its ancient and faithful ally, and was feareely miffed in Europe, until the thunder of the Britith arms announced, from the mouths of the Nile, the objet and accomplifhment of its criminal ad venture. Thus, warned by a fatal experience of the artifices of the enemy, and recolleeing that the fame blood-thirfly buccaneer who condueedtbst perfidious incurfion, is, at this day, the prime mover and direc tor of the one with which we are menaced, it was neither vifionary nor abfurd to infer, that under the milk of an invader, he would revive his former foe cefsful deception; a nd while he gave us full employ ment at home, his Toulon fleet, udder favour of the elements and t he darknefs of thofe nights, Ibould Heal from its harbour, and eluding the vigilance of our fquadron, fail once more towards the Levant; or, by way of a more fplendid frolic of fraud and ini quity, patting the Streights of Gibraltar, carry the calamities of - French aggreffion to the Banks of the Ganges, or make an eafy conqueft of the Brazils, the rich and fertile poffeffion of our ancient ally. With thole who pail's the hardihood of reproving larch an opinion as frivolous, I (hall not wafie my time in ufelefs difcuflion ; but content myfelf with referring them to the events of the IA ten years.— The ruffian whole violence we are firuggling to re pel, is no ideot, neither is his council compofed of fools. They are altogether a gang of the moll ex pert, crafty, and defigning knaves the world ever be held ; and thrice actions which the mil of mankind, and the wifell and moil fober politicians, confider as impralicable from their atrocity and irregularity, are precifcly the actions which they prefer, adopt, le gitimate, and extol. Every age has been the witnefs of great crimes, but none, until the prefent, has beheld the theory of public and private diforders, collated into a fyllem of Rate , and made as univerfal public law. This new fpecies of hypocrify and of fanaticifm, was hereto fore unknown. It required an alliance between the doetrines of the times and the morals of their profef fors, to produce this exhibition of a people, regene rated by atheifm, murder, conflagration, robbery, and facri:ege, whole fucceffive reprefematives and chiefs do not commit crimes in fits of paffica, but dif curs them according to didaftic rules, aflign motives for, and deliberate upon them fcientifically ; extol them with all the powers of eloquence, felicitate each other on the profpeft of their fuceefs, announce them with folemuity, execute them in cold blood, and re ply with bunts of laughter, to the lamentations of their viaims. To a people veiled in the arts of evil who are en dowed with an inglinaive propenfity to perpetrite deeds, the egregious enormity of which appalled the moll confummate rogues of former times from at tempting ; who prefer a life of bloodtbed and rapine to frugal and indukrious habits; the profelEon of a (windier is become at once lucrative and honours. able; hence. tranquillity is their bane and rather than be deprived of the means of gratif ying that co. vetnus fpirit which is the offspring of a wattetul pro. digality, they would turn their arms againif their own country. or put it up to auaion, and fell it to the higheß bidder. Thete (ass were (efficient to warrant a reafonable doubt of the reality of the tyrant's defigns. without referring . tithe formidable potation of defence which our patriotic armaments have enabled us to aiTume. But. it may be urged, that it is neither the interell nor the inclination of the French to provoke the re tenement of thole powers with whom they are at peace. To this I enterer. that Europe has already been deceived by this fallacious argument ; and that there is no probability the career of French rapacity will be arrefted in its mid-wa7 progrefs, after we hare fees thole fovereirs molt ustereiled in the pre. (ovation of the remaining States of Europe, become calm (praetors of the violence and robberies enema. VIVI •1 Os • •• with every nation npon the earn,, except dreg Bri. min, the tvas permitted to dethrone the King of Sardinia, ttitlt as much vile as the obtains a loan that (he never means to pay; and on no other pretext but that his dotninions being at one extremity of Italy, it was Isola he might have entertained the fame in. clinations as the King of Naples, and carried 'n a correfpondence with that Prince, fitnated at the other extremity of it, notwithrianding a numerous French army, cantoned in every chrtrid of the Milanefe,- formed an infuperable barrier againft all coniniuni. ' cation between them ; in addition to which, the for mer was inverted in his palace by French (pies, under the names of Commifffiries and Generals, and the citadel and one of the gates of his capital occupied by the (birri of that groupe of regicides, called the Ere cutive Diredory. We might extend this elucidation further, for the cafe of the depofed Monarch or Sar dinia is not a folitary in(lance upon record, wherein the traitors of France have furpatted Caligula. But let us judge of them by prefent demonftra tion. Have they forfeited the illuftration of their knavith charader by the wanton invafion and tack of the Hanoverian dominions ? Has not the Confti• tution of the Germanic empire been violated by this event ? And what has become of all the contracting parties, the guarantees, the diplomatic rodomontades, the illuminated parchment, drawn up by the jugglers of France, and accepted by the foothfayers and Ni codemufes of Germany ? They lock on with the ftupid infenfibility of mules, and congratulate each other that they have not been overtaken by the (form which has (wept away the independence of that Elec torate. Of what treafon againft the parricide Re public are Spain and Portugal guilty ?. Yet they have been fleeced without pity. Jullice feerns to have abandoned the Continent, when powerful Sovereigns permit their weaker neighbours to be thus robbed without difcriminatinn or ranonflrance. Bat an ap peal has been made to Ruffle, and the is laid to have interfered. But how ? With the arbitration of an hundred thoufand men ? No ! With the talifman of a coramiffion broker, who bargains for a difcount in favour of his employer, in confederation of prompt payment, who contrives to abftraft a few moidores from the bill of invoice; or, like an advocate, pleads for the yaniffion of part of the fine impofed by the mercilef tyrant on his trembling slithers. The plunder of Hamburgh and the other Hanfe towns, under the form of loans, are only facetious epifodes in this infernal drama. Refufing a cheque on the Bank of England, drawn by the Corlican Swindler, they alto have appealed to the juflice and moderation of the Court of Ruffia. The refult has not yet tranfpired. We cannot condemn their policy, becaufe the well known virtues and equity of his Imperial Majefly are arong vouchers in its favour. But if conferences and diplomatic fquibs be again retorted to, the fate of the Continent muft be confidered as altogether hopelefs. For when have they been known to flop the eareeer of revolutionary battalions ; when have they caufed thefe prowling revolutionary colonies to migrate homeward ? A hundred diplomatic notes will not kill one varlet of the Corfscan. Battalions and can nons are the only articles in the law of nations which theft drunken favages refped. Upon thefe confederations, a perfon may be exeufed for not giving credit to the enemy's defigns againft this country. There are, however, leveret etreum. fiances, which, taken together, operate fo (irongly to place the projea of invafion beyond a doubt, that we ffiould incur the fevereft cenfure if we were not to prepare for it as for a moral certainty. In the 6r(l place, the abfolute abandonment of their valuable colonies, the infaUible nurferies of induftry, com merce, opulence, and navigation, is a proof that the French government no longer cherith the hope of inereafing the public revenue by their encouragement, and eonlequently, that their views are &retied to the (hotter, but more perilous adventure of fubjugating this empire, and of fazing, by one fortunate blow, its power. treafures, and refourees. This derperate game is more congenial to the fools of dilciplined robbers, than the flow and certain gains of honell labour. The bean of prey is no annomift of the fpoils which his fiereenefs and voracity have procured, but, -thoughtlefs and !smith, he forfeits his appetite for one hour, and is famiffied half the reft of his days. This is the eharader of the French foldier. In the fecund place, a colonial war would require the inter vention of powerful fleets, and experienced mariners, both of which the French are in want of; and the profpea of creating them is fo remote, and attended with fo many difficulties, that the coiner . ..Ll republic would (logger with the blows which we mould inflid upon it in the interval. Betides which, the penury of the Rate, the deficit in the public revenues, a bankrupt commerce, and a general fufpenfion of i national ndoftry. would unhinge the machine of go vernment, revive the fa Lions which have eonvulfed France. embolden the deprefled royalifts, make the army mutinous, and mon probably tumble the afar per from his faerilegious throne. Thirdly, the armies perceive that notwithltanding they have been the fertile inftruments by which to many nations have been pillaged and drained of their wealth, they have not been allowed to partake even of the refute of the banquet, but are fill enrolled at an fiat a day, to fight for the infatiate harpies who have eonfumed the whole and ftiU defire more. The &variation of Great Britain is, therefore, their ultimate point of attrac tion, on which they look with tranfpon for the elm furnmation of their 'il onies. their labours, their fa erifices, and their hopes. The enterprise is fraught with innumerable dangers ; but tide arc intermedi ate, and do not influence the determinations of their minds, which alt unceafingly and immoveably bent on the aecomplifhment of their flagitious end. Left ly, the Corfican has difeovered that the government of a tyrannical offirper can profper only in feasts of coinbultisin, foreign difeord, and (laughter. He has exhaufted the fertility of his romantic and violent imagination, is attempting fame ad expedient. by which he may fettle in cos yardage, the un ruly temper of a verfatsle and frivolous people, and by which a dazzling Wire might be flied over his atrocities, confolidate his power, and tranfmlt the feeptre of his frightful dynafty over the civilised world. Great Britain Rands in the way of his terri ble ambitions it is spine this point of creation. therefore, that he takes a leady aim. Armed with the (pals and population of (obverted communities, he might focceffively troth Prof6a. Auaria. and RuC fie. tingly contending again* him, but with Great Britain a province of France. be cculd ern& t raffia= allnretrents of maritime advantages, adminilteiing the gilded potion infuicii iit potion. • • fpunges Holland, Hamburgh, Lubec, Bremen, Spain, and - Portugal : he occupies Naples as a wafter flirty againft Great Britain ; he compels Swale, - land to change its form of government, that it may euttar into no treaty aim us; and with re• morfchf3 hatred, he robs and murders every State upon the Continent, which, from ancient ha bits, ellabliflied tleat:es, or natural inclination, is amicabiy difpoled towards this country. In fhort, he violates the law of nations in the face of Gon and man, while lie publicly accufee us of perjury and breach of public faith. His audacious perfidy, his cowardly hypociify. united to the molt open ulurpa tions, threaten at this moment the diffolution of all focial happinels. By nature a revr.Litionift, a con queror by lubornauon, unjuft by initial, outrage ous in viaory, mercenary in his protettions, an ine%. °rabic robber, more terrible by his artifices than his arms, difhonouring true valour by a fyflematic abtsfe of public faith, crowning his immoralities with the palms of philofophy, and his oppreffons with the names of liberty and equality, he projefts our litter extirpation, as the prelude for (eating liiinfelf upon the ruins of the whole world. He would bury this ifland in the lea, or drown it in blood, to prove the cuperiority of his government, and to efface the (barna of comparifons. Our profperity and ;Ow y are vul tures continually preying on the mind of this blood-- chap Prometheus. A brutal hatred, congenial to the foul of a man devoid of manners and humanity; the irritations of humbled arrogance, and a fpirit of wild revenge have fhewn themfelves throughout Iris public life, from the idea, that after all the ridiculous mummeries and metamorphofes of his different mili tary ordinances, otherwife called Contlitutions of Government, he cannot exhibit one that approaches in the remotelt degree to the folid ilruClure of our public policy; of that admirable alliance between a powerful and revered King, a free and high-minded people, and a Parliament, which being the depofitory of the nation's rights, knows how to maintain Its inde pendence, without trefpaffing on the limits of its au. thority. If he poireffed the power, he would pundit us not only in the bitternefs of revenge, but from the tnercilefs policy of fear ; he would entail mifery upon' us by an horrible interchange of injury and perfecte tion. His vanity, fame, power, his very exiftenee are pledged on the iffue oft he prefent conflict. His ambition and imprudence have made it a neceffary policy with him to keep up the blind infatuation of the Continent. If the opinion of his power be once , fhaken, the confequenccs muff prove fatal, and he will be hurled from the dizzy height on which he (lands, with greater precipitation than he mounted to it. The lilac of perfonal fafety, wounded pride,- deteded villainy, ditappointed ambition, and baffled' fraud, have combined to encreafe his barbarous anti pathy, and to goad him on to the molt defperate efforts againfl us. Ignorant of ow inftitotions, and of our financial refources, he (peculated on the Rate of our funds, without calculating the force of our public fpirit. He eftimated our relative power by the rules of the flock exchanee ; and con fi dered the Rate of the three per cent. cortfoir as the thermometer by which the rife or fall of Britilh blood might be after taloa. Before this time he has difcovered his mit take, and doubtlefs he laments it ; but he never re traces his Reps—for contrition is a quality belonging only to magnanimous minds. Although he fees Great Britain exhibiting so a mighty youth, in the mid-day beam of heavenly radiance," and her fee beaten (bores lined with thofc undaunted phalanxes, whole naked (words, like the corufcations of light ning, gleam deftruflion on bienfelf and his Cadmean troops, he will not be diverted from his fangoinary and frantic defign. Who does not perceive, in movements of the tyrant, that inconfiderate boldnefsv the child of prefumption and fuccefs, which often meets precautions, not through intrepidity of mind* but from contempt of thole who ought to be feared ? Neverthelefs, a multitude of circumftances, trivial in cher:slaves, concur to unfold the anxieties and defpe ration of his mind. The prohibition enforced agamlt the landing of the natives of. France, exported from this country in cartels; the attempt to burlefque our volunteer levies, and to decry the nature and extent of our preparations; the elicitation of treating with levity the firing of the Park and Tower guns, in celebration of the conqueß of fevers' of his valuable fettlements, and thole of his ally; the fpleen vented agaiuft fuch unimportant things ascaricatures, and the interdiaion of Englifh Newfpapers, are all evidences of rage, monificauon, and defpondency, and certain prognollics of the decifive influence which the tri umph of oar arms over this vaunted expedition, will have upon the public opinions of the enflamed people of France. oal.l3llCtri. MLITT, the Defrauder of the Bank, has petitioned the twelve Judges for a declaration of their opinion on his cafe (to which he is entitled on fuch applica tion), in order that he may be called up, and receive kntenee._ _ _ _ _ - 1410 N COU ILT OF ADM IR& ITT.--Yriberdaythe Right Hon. Sir Was. Scorr proceeded to the adjudicatton of the following cafes of (hips and cargoes : Tac welter, Beek staaer....Thie Ihip woe feillso seder Doti& tabors, with a earge of Wt. TM Cart is this ale re. Meal the lWp aid cargo es cleaned. thiestifelhap, Scholl mese This ihip Ms older Peg - an oasts, with a our el fait, aid elm Wool eel the greemi of Mesa of bioeitaie. The Coon teamed the 64p awl carp, se eland N.& Scubas de Medd, De Am.) etafter.--Thle was • Poreuroefe sipp.. width was alio felted ea the ;round of br.aels of blockade. The Coen le this safe reftered the hip, but refereed the asehderatise of the cargo. Perteseo•—•- Ekedahl nalber —Tide wee a Swell& valfel, with a ergo of canoes articles, Weed tie a gorge from Renee to 11. emcee, led was brought le ea the greeed of liftable; the blockade of awe. The Onset I. Ugh cafe raised the IMF and tarp as claimed. bet gave the apart their fell /Wettest,. Ilhaphigh seder.—The la wed carp was nabared le this oak eseept • Goal pert that was chimed a. Spew& =, tibia west to Nether peed, and • part that was cas as !reads property. The Court alto decreed hag* an/ ammo of the east& mailer to be a charge swan the ear's Meads Adventure, Pad :oink, Issalter.—Tbe lip end an ge (chimed as dirrewkse proputy) were fettered to Oh elk, het the don allowed the captors their The Paine, Butler, tatter.—This was are ebbed as American pftepaty. Ship neared. The Vigilance, --1454ers, mafter,-Tbis lip was Win a der cameo colours. laden whb a carp of tobacco. ea a "eye. howl Porto Cave/la to ammo. The Court In this cafe cofthowed the Odp,segetbet with the gavistwiteeng to the owner and ere& we thereof. and refereed the sdjodbcadoe of the red of the e --- Chauvin, asatter.—The Coast this We= id a wad of seeds as chime& S•••••• 4 .•. us • WI feems to coaft, AT pearanct YARM , SIN Mail . . was take Cromer this port ed at thi era cwit men, tal Gourna laft, and BLACIIM a (loop 1 cured by Embden ben!. CAI C*DOIR bard: after main as iA diftri Vorthumb r the cap Hoit.xn; .unewiag GRAM *be Cape e Ins Joie& tier, See. sadwurtli. !trio; TI amp; as c rAmaul r 4 0 1 1 . 1 I