Star. — London, England, 1803-03-19 00:00:00

loperty in the , fit of their fer though they expeditions ; the tervices of that the law (mount to pro ich Gentlemen fervicc might :e in their re• :nt Bill would ion of perfons, iy qualification ire could not 'ntlemen from a principle at :onhitutiOn of a dangerous were to be ad mitred, he could almoft with to fee every qualified Gentleman bearing commiffion, to go out of the Militia fervice. If Officers upon half-pay were to he called on at times of danger to tight for their country, let them go back to the line from whence they came, and not to be forced upon a corps formed on principles fo totally different. The Sraterear at WAR made a few remarks in reply. Mr. SHERIDAN laid, that when any man rote, in the prefent crisis of alarm and public danger, to make objeCtions to thole exertions which were making on the part of his Majefty's Government for the public defence, he mull make clearer ob jeCtions, or at leap ufe much fironger arguments to convince him, than thofe ufed by the Noble Lord, that the prefent Bill, on the point to which he alluded, was not juft or neceffary : for his own part he had always been a friend to the Militia ter vice, and notwithllanding the doftrines broached in that Houle within a few days, he was one of thole _who cnnfidered it the moll conftitutional branch of public fervice, and he fhould be ready. if necrffiry, to fupport it to the full extent of its original principle, namely, the fervice of the balloted man perfonally, and not by fubllitutc but he fincercly regretted to fee the Militia fervice of late years to much degraded, by con verting its Colonels into Drill Serjeanit, for the purpnfe of training foldiers to recruit the troops of the line ; and if, as it was not utterly improbable, the time might fhortly come. when we mutt fight the common enemy on Britifh ground, it was as highly effential to the public fafety. and to the very exiflence of our country, that the Militia ihould be as efficient, as well difciplined, and as well Officer ed, as any other troops in his Majefty's fervice.— The Noble Lord had ufed, indeed, a moft extraor dinary affet ;inn, and a moft extraordinary argu ment, in fraying, that if Half-pay Officers, without qualification, were to be admitted into the Militia, every qualified Gentleman fhould quit the fervice ; but if the Government were obliged to adopt this :mature, whofe was the fault ? It the young Gen try of property in the country were to far devoted to their own pleafures as to decline the fervice of their country in times of danger, for the fake of following after their hounds and their horfes, to their owh thine and difgrace ! ( Hear ! hear! bear!) Was the Militia fervice to be abandoned? or was Government to decline the aid of able and experi enced Officers, who, though not men of wealth, were yet ready to devote their lives fo'r the defence of their country—(Hear ! hear! bear!) Or were other Gentlemen of fortune fo proud of their own confequence, as rather to abandon the public de fence in the hour of public danger, than to join in a corps with Gentlemen, who, though not fo rich, may poflibly be•as well bred, and as highly rata ble to the public fervice ?—( Hear ! bear! hear !) Poillbly there may be fome claufes in the bill, Lich might bear ufeful amendments in the Com mittee ; but he did hope and troll, that, at a mo ment like the precept, the neceffary meatures of public defence would not meet with %any captious oppofitinn. Mr. BASTARD fincerely regretted the hate of in difcipline and want of connenion and co-operation which but ton generally marked the Militia Re giments of this country, owing but too much to the negligence of fuperior Queer s. He thought that if a Militia Regiment was not in proper order and difcipline, the bell way would be at once to break the Colonel. The bill was read a fecond time, and, upon the.l motion for its committal, I.9rd FoLKSTOM took an opportunity of reply ing to Mr. Sheridan, in fupport of his former ar• guinea'. He had not laid that all qualified Gen tlemen w3uld quit the fervice, if Officers unquali• fled were admitted, but that he could almoft with they would. It was, he thought, a lirange in confillency in the Hon. Gentleman, firft to profefs his readinefs to infift on the perfonal fervice of the balloted man, anal yet to throw open the fervice to Officers not qualified. The Hon. Member, 'n ar raigning the bacl•wardnefs of the young Gentlemen f the country from the Militia Service, had look. .4 at bin), in making that charge, as if hc•w•ere reprehts.fible on the fame ground ; but he would allure the Hon. Member, that he had ailed the Lord Lieutenant of his County for a Commiffion, though he had not yet the gond fortune to ob. tam one. Mr. SMERIDAV laid, the Nobl4 Lord certainly anifundarilood him, if he fuppofcd it was his with, that the me!: of property and confcquence in every county have the chief:, I even the exclufive command in the Militia. Thcre was no law, how ever, to force then: to accept it ; and, if they chofe to declint. it, the country mutt nut therefore re main undefended, by Office:: perhaps not Co able, but certainly mc.re willing. He really thought the Noble Loid had held a Commit!ion in the Mi. h!ia ; he was glad, however, to hear him fay, that he applied for one, and hoped his example unuld be produdive of more good than his heath of General Tao Ls Ton fupportnd the fame opinions with Mr. She: idan. Colonel Minoan laid down three principles on which he conceived the Militia Eflabliihment thould Le founded. Mr. F;;;etetto fupported the Bill. which was coal:misted for Tuciday..—Acijouracd. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH t 9. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C. Conf. money, 65i, 644 1 : Ditto, for April ace. 66fi, 65 lit. Old 5 per Cent. Ann. 99 mnium t 3; diL PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock 178 opg. Imp. Ann. sots-i 6 r t 3-16ths 3 per C. Coof. 650 631651 Exchcq. Mils, ss. 63. to as. diL 5 per C. Ann. 984 99,1 OMMUM 12 14 114 1 dif Long. Ann. Englith Tickets 171. 1 s. India Stock 210 211 opg. Conf. for Ap. ac. 66164167 Imp. 3 per C. 63f . 66k COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amfterdam, 36 42 U. Cadiz paper. Naples 4 0 1 De. at fight 35 so Ditto 341effea. Genoa 46 Rotterdam, 36 52 U. Madrid 354 erred. Lilbon 661 Hamburgb 34 so 24U. Bilboa 36 effeet. Oporto 67f I ) Altona 34 Is 24U. Leghorn sof Dublin 14 Paris, s day's date, 24 18 kv.—Ditto, 25 2 1 U. Bourdeaux, ditto, 25 3 Aigo on the Bank of Holland, 51 per Cent. DUBLIN, MARCH I .i• 3 per Cent. Government Debentures 95. Coma of Exchange—Dublin on London salt Yeflerday Capt.Vaucnatt, of the Itecto E N I hoop of war, arrived at the Admiralty, with difpatches from the Cape of Good Hope. We underhand they bring accounts that the orders fent out by her to the Britifh Commander to retain poffeffion of the Cape, had arrived about fix hours before the time appointed for delivering it up to the Dutch. Thefe orders were fent out at the time that a rupture was expected on account of the in terference of France in the affairs of Switzerland. We hope that no fubfequent orders for evacuating that fettlement have been fent out. By the Init,c ENE we have received the follow ing letter : " Cape Town, January 4, 1803. " MY DEAR Sia—l have jull time to tell you, a that on the day intend.d for our departure, a " Sloop of War came here, with Orders to keep the Cape until further Orders. " Your's molt truly, &c." A Private Letter from Lifbon has the following fingular article : "General Lassies is arrived. Scarcely had he entered his former Hotel, when he wrote to His Royal Highnefs the Panics Altura r that he came to refume his diplomatic funEtions, but that he could not appear at any Levee before all the Mi nilters, who were in power when he left Portugal, were difmid ! " The Thu wce, yielditig to circumllances, feeing they would not furrender to him, cafhiered his belt friends, and appointed his enemies to be their foe ceffors.—So much for the independence of Por tugal !" The following Extraet of a Letter from an Offi cer juft arrived from Carthage's% we confider to be important : " The Spaniards are hying op and difmantling all the fialps of war that were at Carthagena. Five Canada line, one of which is a fine firft-rate, called the Indian, are laid op as above ; and a firft rate, called the Prime, had failed for Ferrol to be laid up there. The magazines at Carthagena arc without Rona of every deftription ; frame a coil of rope, a bolt of canvafa, or fpar that would nuke • lower yard. The artificers were dif charged for want of money to pay than. Certificates were given to them, u well as to the Seamen, for the balance of the wages due to than, which t bey fold for what they could get, about one half of their Rated value." A Dutch Mail arrived this morning. Our let ters from the Hague, dated the z ith infant, Rate, that the Dutch Government has received intelli gence, that the Colony of Berbice has been evacuat ed by the Englifh, and given up to the Republic. The Batavian Commander, Hors, arrived there with his veffel in good order, and after taking pof. feffion of the Colony and the forts belonging to it, which he did on the 3d of December, left year, received from the Governor-General, AIMAMMA JACOIII VAN JMNYIN VAN BATINEUZG, inaruaions for eftablifhing a provifiunal Government. Official intelligence has been received at the Hague, announcing, that the Dey of Algiers, on the 16th of January laft, little more than five months after the conelufion of the laR peace, de clared war again(' the French Republic. This fad we knew before, but not the date. We have alfo received by this conveyance letters from Contlantinople. One part of the intelligence, fhould it turn out to be well founded, is interefling. It Rates that the French, who have In kindly pro tetied the Swift, by efiablifising garrifons in their country, have been offering a fimilar favour to the Porte, to enable it to maintain its power. This morning we received another day's French journals, thole of Tuefday ha. It is lingular that fibers fcems Ilia to be the order of the day in Pa ris, repeling the points in difpute, whatever they may be, between the two countries ; and it is as fingular that the price of the French 5 per cents. is Hill 6o I. We expeEted that before this time, Come of the Confular writers in the Matti:ear, who have favoured t!te world w:!.1 fo many phillipics on much lets momentous occafions, would have come forward with Cori thing to excite wonder at lean—but all are riient. The Monis:sr does not contain a fing!e word relpeeling Britain—not even in the fhape of an extras from the London papers ! To enquire into the reafon of this is unnecelrary. The price of the French Funds (hews, however, that the general beliet in Paris is, that there will 'be no war. How con' ;is thi to the corn. plexion of Ill,: Jilt-m.l"re addreEd by the CONSUL to Lord WIIITAVOR ru, at. lit::: A PAR FE'S Drawing-Room, on Sunday kill, of widLii we yeflerday laid fume aec , ,iint before our Readers, and which we find is confirmed as to its gcnen accuracy, by letters from perfons who were rre fent. Is it known to BONAPARTE's confidential friends that he only means to try the etTal of a little gal conade, without withing to provoke a real rup. ture ? If fo, it is ealy to reconcile the high price of the French Funds wi:li all that we have heard refpeeling his indifcreet language to our Ambaf. factor. The only articles we have met with in the Paris Papers relate to the affairs of Sstit7eiland, and tome arrangements that have taken place in G2T many. We have given them in the preezding COIUM!!. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM A CERTLE• MAN OF RANK AT PARIS, DATFD MARCH 14. lire have received the unexpedled new here of the Britifh Government having determined to fit out a formidable armament, in confcquence of the expeditions which have for force time raft been in preparation in the ports of France. Upon this important fubjeet a very interefling converfa tion took place yeflerday at the Thuilletie , , be tween, the FIRST Consul. and Lord WHtrwoitrit, in the hearing of all the Minillers, Fr•reign Ambaf fadors, and a brillant afremblage of Ladies. Bo- NAPARTI, on entering the room, perceiving Lord WHITWORTH in the circle, went up immed:ately to his Lotclfhip, and very politely enquired after the health of his Lady, who is fomewhat indiljlof ed. The CoNsut., then adverting to the Britf(h armaments, obferved to his Lordfhip, that he was at a lots to conceive upon what ground .the Eng lifh Government had adopted there menacing pre. partitions. Lord WHITWORTH replied, that his Government had been impelled to take thofe vi gorous meafures in confcquence of the numerous expeditions that had fur fome time pall been fit ting out in the ports of France. The Cutts. Cow su s :—" My Lord, you mutt be fenfible, and your Government mull know, that the expeditions to which you allude are defined for the feseral French colonies, the fituation of which, you and your Government mull be convinced, is fuch as to require Rill greater preparations than thofe which have already been made. Your Lordfbip well knows the Rate of our Colonies, and the exertions that are neceffary to reftore them to a fate of or'. der and profperity ;—nor can your Government fuppofe that the means hitherto reforted to are at all adequate to the necelfity of the cafe."—Lord Witrrworr " Whatever the objett of your ex peditions may be, the motives of my Government for arming are of the purefi nature ; and I cats 11- - ure you, General Coati], that the ardent with of his Majefty and his Miniflers is to preferve the peace, and ftrengthen the bands of friendlltip be tween the two countries."—The FIRST CONSUL " And the proof of their pacific intentions is, an hoflite preparation avowedly againft France ! Oh, my Lord, ferious and dreadful is the refponfibility they incur by fo unprovoked a proceeding." With. out waiting for any further reply from the Ambaf. fador, Bo AAAAA TR turned round, with an affumed air of gaiety, and proceeded to converfe'with fume of the Ladies, who attended to pay their refpeds to Madame Bo .P 1 The Plumes of WALES gives a Grand Dinner this day to a number of the Nobility. On Thurf day his ROYAL HictimEss entertained the Foreign Ansbafiltdors. The prefs for Seamen was 'rely hot on the River lag night. Preis warrants have been fent into all the ports of Ireland, and a multitude of seamen have been thus obtained. Saturday and Sunday a.confider able number were procured in the harbour of Dub , lin. Similar meafures are purfued in the different ports of Ireland. The fhipwrights and caulkers employed in the merchants' yards in the River, have made an offer to the Admiralty of their services, to be employed in any yard their Lordlhips may dire t, to affiß in equipping the fleet. This offer is not accepted, the artificers in the yards being equal to all the dnty ; the bell anfwer that can he given to the calumnious affertitm, of the Dock Yards having been either I (tripped of, of deferted by, the artificers. Official notice has been received from Lisbon, that his Royal Highnefs the Pe ince R torn of P.ATUCIAL has iffued unlimited orders for the ad milLon of foreign flour into the ports ofthat coun try, on paying a duty of forty tees per alquier, or four hundred and eighty rees, equal to (lacy cents per barrel ; and that veffels with clear hills of health, and whole crews are free from any ficknds, than no longer be fuhjeded to quarantine. In our Ratement of the lag Refolution of the Selet Committee, on the Nottingham Eledion, there was an error of a nature which it is material to corral. It relates to a Mr. Fogcatr•sT, (who, as we are informed, was Mr. Coca's Agent) called by millake PINTER. The Refolution was in fubflance as follows : Refolved. That Alexander Foseroft,whoforeited Snbfcrip• dons to one of the Petitions prefented to the Houk. was highly culpable in Rating to the SuLicriftenthst the allegation, it contained complained only of t' , e intimidation of many of the E/ofton from the nercite of :heir tr.nchife, in concealing from the alterations, nettling John Dandfon. John Alien. Jo- Cep\ and Thomas Oldknow, of not having sled any eifeen-1 means to fupprds the riots, and in letting to the petition the names of fiIICCO paves who were not at NatWest= at the tut:e of Elation. NALI7IC.V. Z.VrPLI.ICt'AVE. AR R IVFO. MAILS TIN, Y.--WINI) I 1)114:11 Waterford I Lutch PLYMOUTH, MARCH r 7. Admiral Lord Krn,s arrived here this morn. ing, and his flag was immediam.i.iy homlicd en boas d the CuLt.ootsm, of 74g11n5: DACRE'S flag was at the famc time (truck, a•:, 1 . tenoved to the SPITFIRE, of id gun:, Cap:. Kzss, in Hs. 1110 a Z f. Rear-Admiral CAM ,EELL is holt: l .y etpened at this port, to go Oft ler ice : 1:c is to embark frimi hence on board a frigate, which is t,) b e ar his ti ig. Other accounts fay, that the CANOPUS is to be fitted for his flag: the is commiCionedthi, day, or rather brought down tile ha, hour for thi: purpoic. The Cut LODLS is crl'A.T. ready to lease Hamuaze, •.:nd is t:, taKe the firit orportur.iv thr going out of Ca-,find Bay : the is to he commanded by Cart. ',Asir. The Plenty, of this port, Capt. HAM, :li - rived this afternoon from 'Xales, laden with coal., n.f•er matt reiilotts palfage : the has been driven a long way to the welt ward, and her lams have opened to much by draining, that the crew %sc.e obliged to guff in pieces of pork, old jackets, Sze. to prevent her (wiring. The Trimmer, Capt. HASKFLL, arrive.' here hat everting from Cape la Hogue : he failed from thence on Sunday evening fall, in contequence of the hudie and centution that 'vas going on at that place and Cheilnirgh : he was about to had oy itcrs for London, and was heaving out his bel;a11 for that purport.; but from the warlike aiipearance of things in that neighbourhood, he thought it molt prudent to leave it as early as poffible. It is Paid that tickets were leaving at the honks of all thole conneaed with the army, and this in a way of rcquitition, and that the mural contrition pre- vailed. Thole gun boats which arc in a ( L ite fit for for vice are ordered to be got ready for commitEou Came in from Jamaica, after a pail - age of fix weeks, fur Loudon, with a cargo of rum, &c. the Re- ALLEN ; alfo from a cruize, the EAGLE, 14 guns, Captain WARD ; and the RANr;klt, 14 guns, Captain FRAZER, with a fmuggliug cutter, with two hundred and fifty ankers of brandy.— Sailed for Rotterdam, the Twe Gueed Zufters, laft from Guemfey, with a cargo of fpirits ; alfo for Exmouth, with a cargo of old cordage, junk, bought at the dock yard (ales, the brigs Jane, Port land, Ann and Mary, and Hope. for Gentlemen of that weight and pr country, to give the nation the bend vices at borne fur public defence, might not chufe to . go upon foreign ]tote it was, that in order to fecure t foch'men to the Militia exclufively, required certain qualifications, in are perry, in proportion to the rank whit should hold, in order that the public avail of their weight and confequenct fpeetive counties ; whereas the prefer exprefily go to authorize the admit& as Officers in that corps, without any and property at all. Such a me afut compleatly to difguft qualified Get entering the Militia fervice. Tt was: all times violatory to the original cc the Militia, and at this time really ; one to introduce ; and, if fuch men v PORTSMOUTH, MARCH iii. Sailed la Minstivs frigate, Captain KirTeo (axing) for the Downs; and the Pigmy cutter, Liettt. WHIT', for Cowes, to imprefs feamen. Preparations are making for Admiral Lord GARDNER, who is expeeted liwre to-morrow mor ning, to hoift his flag as Commander in Chief at this port, in the room of Admiral MiLaAn cc. Admiral HOLLOWAY is appointed Second in Command at this port, a nation which the Ad. miral filled in the late war with much honour to himfelf and benefit to the public. Arrived the Del-gamins, of a+ guns, Captain BICH ER, from Cowes. The Isis, of 5o guns, Capt. Loss, is ordered to the Downs. Captain NASH, of Gofport, is appointed Regu lating Officer in Scotland. YARMOUTH, MARCH it. The Badger Excite cotter, Capt. GUNTNORPT, has taken and brought in here a fmuggler, with 690 half-unkers of geneva. A detachment of this Eaft Norfolk is coming here this day—the whole are expetted to be mut tered on Monday next. The prefs fill continues very warm in our road•., and every flip is brought to, and the crew nsuf tered, by which a number of good feamen has been procured for the fervice.--Captain Castrast.t. is appointed Regulating Officer of the Imprefs Ser vice on (bore. Arrived the Mamma gun-brig, and a cutter, and remain in oar Roads wish the PINILOPI an :1 Lso* frigates. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. The Helen, Hanlon, from Liverpool for Rotterdam. ix 1.41. The Swift, Halften, from Leghorn for London, is loft nc:r Sicily; crew faired . DIAL, MARCH 18.—Arrived the Hydra NIUE, from ahe weitvrard, and Vixen gunevetrel, from Dartmouth. Wind S. Vt. GIAVZ/V4/3, MAICE ilL—Paffed bY the Three Siam", Maley, from Philadelphia; Tur, on, Wright, from Cork , Cigar, from Rouen; Harman, —, from Havre; Tortiadt, from Cold,; Linnenhall, Lewthrons and Providence, from DubUtty—Salicil the Matthew, Young, for St. Kites; Cliy of I.ondon, Ew.ng, for Grenada; Lord blelfoo, --Y, far Dublin ; and Pick/tone, Walker, (or Gnerniky. GREENOCK, MARCH is. Yeflerdny arrived at Port Glafgbw, the William, Cmarasit, from Trinidad, in 52 days: the Ben fon, POSTLILTHWAITE, and Eleanor, Caon e, had not begun to load when the William failed ; a kip belonging to Lontion,Tmosssos mailer ) was taking in for Clyde, and would be ready to Gil to da y s after the William.--The Wand was healthy when Captain CAM lay there, and had rece i ved great increate of population fince the arrival of Governor Ft; LLLLL ON. _ _ The Betty, Evans, from Cork, for Belfaft and Greenock, was drove on (bore on Sunday the 2754% ult. about iii miles weft of the Rofs of Kirkcukl• bright, in a violent gale of wind. The cargo, chiefly cenlifling of porter and bacon, is lamle 4 l there, in order to have the edict repaired, the hs.'l being corliclerably damaged. The Trio, AND, RION, Of this port, was WM' Losi about the t 7th ult. on lflay f r on a voyage trot) Lifbon to Liverpool. Cargo espeded to he fays J. The Perfeverance, W HIT • is arrived at L. sCr• pool from hence. The Ceres, G t Lt. rP. and 14Tary. M'A, ran, art arrived at Liverpool, from Port Glegovr. The Carleton, Cum:, is arrives* st Genoa, ' frCm Barcclou‘.