Star. — London, England, 1803-10-26 00:00:00

LONDON. In confe^nettee f the great length of Rt t. /7";'. Trill, and other et nworatc Matt, r, we h.ivc been et!tligcti to pottrone the on tinuation of the tlet3,l , refpcdling Saint Domingo.—lt w:11 ap• pcar to-moz row. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26. flu MAJESTY PROCLAIM tp.—Holid.iy at the Public Oficcs. The Dublin M.iil of this morning has brought ns the trod of the Rebel General Resstx at Downpa trick, on Wednefday laft. He was found guilty,after a long and impartial trial. He was executed on Friday. lic behaved with much fortitude. We learn, that a confixierable degree of alarm refpeßing invafion prevailed in Dublin on Saturday IA A report was very prevalent that day, that a French force was effecting a landing on the weacrn coati near Galway. It was loon afcertained, how. ever, by the following Official Notification. that there was no truth in the report : MANSION-HOUSE. DUBLIN, SAT. OCT. 12, 1303. The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, wilting to prevent the Ci titens of Dublin from bring deceive lor alarmed by report. circu lated by the defigning or difaffeded, lofes no time in acquainting the Public, that he has this moment received the following letter front the SEC2/.1 ART Of STATL. By order, ARC/I. UAMILTON, RTC. COPT or A LETTPIt FROM THP lIITCRT HON. MC P*ICILHAM TO THE RJOUT HON. THE LORD MAYOR: DPELIN CASTLE, SAT. OCT. 22, 1203. My tord.—Ax lettere have proinhly been received in Dublin by this morning's Mail, Rating that three Prtnch frigates bad anchored 4n Muilow-man Bay, near Sligo, I lofe no time in informing you, that the 'cirri, that have come to anchor there are Britifh men of war, that have hem ensiling for tome time off the north welter:a coaft of Ireland .—I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your I,nrdlhip's melt faithful and obedient fervant, wm. WICKHAM. Right lion. the I.OIIID Mwvoa. To the above we have to add, that there are now off the South and South weft coaft of Ireland, four fail of the line, feven flout frigates,befides a number of (mailer (hips of war ; a force fuperior to any which the enemy can fend againft that country. We may expett Life alarms of this kind from time to time, and the country fhnuld lay its account, that this will be the cafe : but it will be Game time yet before any aanal attempt can 1w made by the enemy, even if nothing fbould occur to alter or derange his plans. In the mean time, the preparations for in vading us are carrying on with as much alacrity, as the deranged Rate of the French finances will admit. By a perfon now in England, arrived within there few days from Paris, we learn that BOMA►ARTE was at Boulogne nine days ago, and that he was occupied in reviewing the troops defined for the Invafion of this country. The chief mancruvre confined in entering the boats, putting off to a (mall returning and landing with regularity and expedi tion. Our informer faw a boat, containing about too men, return and land the whole in rather lets than five minutes—each boat drew a a inches of water as near as poißble. and confeqnently came very dole into the fhore. The men were loa.'ed with all the accoutrements and provifions (for three days) which they are to be provided with, when the expedition really takes place. and were full of ardour and entliu. tam. The Fier:. Cosset. was very attentive to the Winds, beßowing praifes ar•d reprimands as he faw occafion. He is fence gone further on the Coati to. wards Holland, reviewing other ports in the fame manner. The fame perfon rays. that the number of boats prepared is far greater than is generally imagined here, being above 4000. and that there is no truth in their not being able to keep the fea. That the accounts refpelling the Rate of the enemy's prepari. rations Ibould darer, can furprize no one. The prevailing opinion among the French. accord ing to tke report of the perfon above allnded to, is, that the boats are to proceed horn a great number of points at once ; and though their dellinatinn nn our coati is to be indicated, yet they are to land where they bell can : that there is to be no w a iting, h u g all to punt on as fall as pollible. and lam' with all the expedition they are aide :—that they will not at. tempt to bring field artillery. but unit to their arms and their courage for fuccefs. An attempt will be made on Ireland at the fame time, with verels of another ennflruelinn. Shops, frigates, tranfports. and (hips of every fize. Fated for a longer voyage, with great quantities of aims for the friends they expea to meet there. That are great numbers of Mgt traitors in Paris who are et - intuited as to the belt meattl i or attacking their country ; but though they are listened to on this had. they are generally hated and defpifcd. The armaments in this country are not altrige:her unknown to the people in France, and it gives us mush pieafure to Rate, that a measure which we hav e often tirenuotifly recommended, :Aid linpe forin to fee completely organized through every pert rifthe king dom, necari an,. the ercmy tismh emealinef.. 'll.e ikre ,2f king r:eirunferrd i men alma with 'cut' rn.re aepr,irlyrou elan all our esker treptvalioru : they fay they make no account of raw foldiers armed o. ith niuferets, whom they can tidily repel, and pene• trate into the interior. 'lke pillage of Loudon is t h e favourite theme ; but, by an imacemin•shle igno rance of Enghth affairs, they r).:iik that at the new year they will find the greatell bnrty, the public Te rmites being then at the Tieaforr, or in the llatiia ! ! All this is lslliog tbr skin of the bear befor he is killed, but neverthelers it is impertast to know, as be ::z the mode of thinking of thole w ho are bent on our The opinion of the perfon from whom the above information was derived, is, that the depth of winter will be the time cliofen for the exped tion, as foldiers little inured to fatigue will then be molt cafily over come. In the Courier Je I 6r,irel of lan night there are two letters, which are raid to have excited a very ftrong degree of intereft among military men at Paris. The one of them is from General bfoas•u to General DUROC, explaining his views of the projened invason of this country ; and the other is the reply of 1)u- Roc, after fubmitting the letter to the infpeaion of the CH trr Cos su c, who had made him an offer of a dillinguifhed command in the expedition. We lay before our Readers the principal part of theft letters, without at all meaning to offer any opinion in favour of their authenticity. The letter of Moarav begins by expreaing the opinion which he entertains generally of maritime expeditions. He conceives their ref u lt to be in every cafe fo uncertain, that they ought in no inflance to be undertaken, except where they are etrential to the prefervation of national fecurity and honour. In the prefent fituation of France, he fees on circumflances ' which at all warrant the rill: of a great proportion of her land forces in an expedition where there are a thoufand chances to one that they will perifb, toge ther with the varels in which they are to .be convey ed to an enemy's shore. He alludes to the pin ligious lois of men in St. Domingo, and contraas the pie. fent (late of the French army with what it was at the cnnclution of the late war. " Then," lays he, "we had the fined army in Europe, the bell materials for u recruiting a force weakened by a war of eleven years , continuance. In place of this we have now corps almoa fnlely compoled of conferipts, among whom veteran foldiers can only be diflinguifhed like ruins which atteft the grandeur and the magnificence ef edi fices defimyed by time. At this moment, if lam to judge by the immenfe preparation. which are going forward by the concentration of our troops on the corals oppofite the reareß Ihores of England, if I am to be guided in my judgment from the declarations made by the Government, and to the reports which it accredits, nothing la's is now in contemplation than a defperate entermize, the pruffibie refult of which may be the ruin of England, but the almolt certain confequence of which will be to make ns a Conti nental Power, and utterly to annihilate our navy.— It may be allowed when this expedition involves In many hazardous and complicated intereas. to con fider whether we were in a polition In critical re lative to England, as to be under the neceffity of (wearing her deltruAion, and preparing our ruin.— We were powerful and rersperaed cin the Continent. We direded (perhaps with too much impettiolity) all its political concerns We were beyond the reach of the Englifh marine, and for a confidcrable period above the reach of the intrigues of her Minders.— In this really Rrnng, energetic and impofing fours tion, what necellity was there for oar tainting to an expedition which could only be author ized by cala mities which nearly confirmed our refs -trees, or by defpair which left us no choice of means. lam far from difapprtiving of the cnthufirdm excited againa a nation always a rival and nut %infrequently an ene my. Ido not cenfitre the efforts and the facrifices which it infpires. I think, however, that to the de velimement of thefe dimmitions the *overnrilent 'night to confine iile:f, and employ itfelf in the redo ration of our mar ine. Tn go farther, to cxpole to the greaten perils our armies, even at the outlet of their reorganization, mull infallibly expnfe us to be attacked by the continental powers, which are jealous of us, and narrowly watch all our motions. It is to bring us back to the difailrous circumllances in which we were placed when Lostarait re, arrived front Egypt, and from which, on the 'Atli Brumaire, he delivered us. We are every day told that we are re turned to civilization, that we have been replaced on the fire rank of literal order. Yet it is at this period that an expedition is announced, worthy in its prin ciples n. thrift wandering hordes which difpute with their neigl.bours the porigrion of the foil they inha bit, or of thole ravage tribes who look to nothing in war but the plunder which they are to obtain, I and nothing in its refult but the deltrudion of the tribe againa which their fury is diresled. But thee are the extranrdinary ideas which arc now circulated among the giddier% to obtain from their avidity the performance of a service which coals) not be obtained from genuine courage. Ido not pretend to difpitte the rights which conquelt beanies, wr to examine whether they might to be extended in proportion to the difficulty and danger with which they are oh. rained. But is it politic to announce than before the ' expedition is under taken ? Is it pendent to prcient them before the eyes of thole who is ill bask forward from Inch reprefent lion% to a valt feene of pillage and ailliaination ? It is dnuibtlefs contrary to the willies of the Fit sr Cu mitre, that. lurch repretenta lions Ihuinlif be circulated—that flich means are em ployed to comipt the minds of taw brave warriors, and to fubilitute the defile of gain for the honour of military gimy. It is to you, General, that I cntrult the honourable talk of huforming him of there in triguirs, and 11,1.!ming him how irallaing they are to all foldiers who coo unue faithful to the laws of hi:nnirr. i have Ipi.keir a itii liberty and confidence, but I believe I have 14...1 nothing which can give of fence. It would be tn entertain a very unworthy opinion of the Chief of the Goveinment to fuppole that any one would eyprrle himfelf to ride by telling hint hut is jtift and true." The reply of Driaoc was in the following terms : " I have jraft Ilibmitted your letter to the inipec: tirun of the Fur sr Cosign. It is with pain that 'I load it back rti yr.o agiesably to hi, orders. The General Fiat Cn,tul irinritas me to inform yon, that he iccognizes in it neither the language of a Ft ench man nor the charaNer of a diilinguiihe.l hiddier.— He (ctn's it you hack, that by soistfalf dabs)) in 3 the witnels tif an error, which lie wilhcs to forgct, you may be alfurud that it is very far from his is ins to tarnifli sour y or ni:frepiefent your intentions. Tit Gcneral hurl) Outdid fin •liar Militias me to in. f arm ) ,, u , liar he , , aaruoits of a private interview .after !mash: iihich hill take place in the aath current." Butt' 'letters ar: d.tted the ttit of E -ptarber. RIPIEIr. This day offered one of the noble . and molt ex:ti heating fpee'lacles that can 1,4114 be exhibited to an honeft and patriotic Briton—the Metropolis of a great, a wealthy, and in thmc retnas, a hum-ions nation, leaving, without regret, all the purfults of gain, and all the fafcinations of indulgent:, ap pear before a beloved Sovereign, all clothed, armed, and equipped at their own expLnce ; making by this folemn public military aft, a pledge before Goo and Man, that they hold themfelves ready. at the firlt warning, to defend their common country and their rightful Sovereign, againft the dilciplined legions of plunderers, of thole who have already di figured halt Europe, and who fee in the wifdom of our Ceps. tilt, and the energy of our .Vat;on, the only remaining check and harrier againti their complete fuccefs. over the property, the liberty, and the happinefs of the civilized world, _ _ . The following are the names of the Regiment which were reviewed, together with the Order of Review, as it had been previonfly arranged under the approbation of his Royal Highttei the Com mander in Chief : Carpi. Cosnoaaave. Loyal London Volunteer Cavalry Linn. Col. Anderfon Honourable Artillery Company CiaL I'. Lc Mi loner aft Royal lEaft India Volunteers Cot. Sir 1. Darell ad Do. Do. Do. - Cu l. Sir H. Inglis 3d Do. Do. Do. - Col. John Robins a R Reg. Loyal I.ond. Vol. Infantry Lieut. Col. Birch ad be. 1)0. Lieut. Col. J. Smith 3d Do. 1)n. EZ Lieut. Cot Kenfington 4th Do. Do. 1)o. 14ent. Col. Price yth Do. Do. Do. I.ietat. Col. T. Sm:th 6th Do. Do. Do. lieut. Col. Wianm 7th no. no. i tn. I.ieut Cul. Ahave Sth flo. Do. Do. Lieut. Ca Canning nth Do. Dn. 1)o. Lieut. Col. Sir W. Curtis Toth no. Do. Do. Lieut.CoL Combe I ath ix,. Do. Do. Major Seddon Bank Regiment Volunteer lArartri Col. Manning Whitechapel : 1), Lieut. Col. Crime" Mile Did - Iln. Major l.iptrap St George la the Lift Dn. Major Splielt Radcliffe - Do. Major &Menet Shoreditch - Do. Major MarOaall Bmmky St. Leonard Do. lilajor Stonanl Bethnal Green Do. Major Carel& St. Catherine Do. Capealn Jenkins. The troops were atrembled early in the morning in their reipeeive drill grounds, from whence they proceeded by different toutea Hyde Park,. where they were all aremhled in dole column of com panies, each in and kbind the right of its own ground, before nine o'clock in the morning, ready at the moment, when ordered rn deploy into line. The right Company nr divifion of each corps. Rood on the ground allotted for it to occupy in the line, and the others in dole columns behiod it. From this lituation the general line was formed by deploying to the left, the whole two deep, in elde ranks : there was an interval of fire paces between each corps, and each WA s formed at dole files ac cording to his MAysr.rv's regulations, twenty-two inches beinz allowed for each file : the ranks then opened, and the officers advanced in front. _ . _ Each battalion of the corps that are compofed of more than one battalion, were affemb:zd in a fepa rate dole column, and from that fituation deplored into the general line :--fuch corps as have guns had fufficient ground for them on the right of each, in addition to the interval of five paces. The different lines formed an irregular pentagon —the right extending along Blickden-hill, from the Serpentine River to the north wall of the nark ; the right centre is a line perpendicular to the Fpil, ex. tending to Cumberland Gate ; the left centre parallel with the call wall of the Park, extendiii towards the Gravel Pits, yritere its left was thrown forward, lining with the gate that leads to the head of the Serpentine River. The left on the fouth rid, of the Serpentine River. and parallel to the road leading to Kenfington Gardens. Under his Royal Hight:eh the Claim in Cater. Cencral the Fart a( I4asarrnrnw camenangled the Line. the Font Divifions of the Line were etsmmanded by Righe Miku-neneral Ilev!amo, R.RCmtee Majnr-General the Hon. Et WARD Faces. Lis Crap, Mainc.Gencral elc Hon 40 • - M:4Or General the Hon. Jo, Pt Lent e. Hip MApSTIC S approach, which t ok place pre aely at ten o'clock, was announced by the difcharge of a txpounder, as a fignal to the different Carpi The whole flood with their arms flipuldered in per. feel order, and the guns of the Hon. Artillery Corn piny immediately and independently tired a royal Witte of 21 guns. When his Nair STY arrived at a central point in front of the line, a frond cannon tired i and the Wink line, at the fame ittilatit (rich corps by command tit its Commanding Officer), pet:feared arms : the officers filmed, the drums beat ; and the milk played God taw the King, once over. At the :bird cannon, the corps in like manner "you/dere,/ by word of command. His MaIt:STY then proceeded to the right of the line, and paired along from right to left : as he arrived near the right of each corns, each were fucceffively commanded to rarer army, and remain lleady. After his MAJVITY paired each corps, arms were fupport ed ; the drums beat, and the =fie played while his Majr.ry paged along the trout, particularly in the corps he was palling. Atter his Maiy s ry had paffed along the line, he returned to the centre of the area formed by the troops. At the (Jura , cannon, the whole loaded, each corps by command of its own Commanding Officer, and the feweral corps doled their ranks. At theffib cannon the thing began by v Oli cs 0 1 battalions tenni the centre of the line to each think ; th e lets divificii of the right centre, and the right di ',llion of the kft centre, began the fire ; when there had fired, the two immtdiatcly to the right and left of them, received the words ready. prelims...fire. and co on to each flank of the whole line ; the interval be. tween the re of one corps and the ready of the next, did not exceed two feconds. The &vela' corps load ed and Ihouldered immediately atter firing. At the jixtk canon's, the fame tiring and loading was mile:lß-41 irnm centre to flanks: At Cite j.wari• cannon, the fame tiring was repeated from centre to Hanks ; but no Nether loading took place ; the firdocki were !bouldered, by command from Coe ConimaadinfT Oalcet4 of It4ttalions. At t h e c three English cheers were yiveli. wring in the air, drum. beat• ing. and mid,: playing Gi.J `.my Ain;. tiring tht the pieces wen: fref..nt...l in arc 4t.s, as i. 0.0:44:.in !II inn a fit: dr,,vt. The whole now railed his MAS7.;TY, for pzlrpolc, on the lignnl of the nisn.it cannon, the whole it•lieel,d by divilions backwirtis on their left : the.' front of the riglit bring condaled by tlies Clt• ieral 0:14-er commanding it, to a point on :o 4 atignenntrY his Itl:t•rsrr, %sliest it wheeled to the followed :,) the yerm:i!:ii , g divillons of tin* line. The clivniors r.t . the right certre line thri marched to the ast , re mentioned in in by the fhottett intite ; the divisions of the left centre line with melee ono:, and remained in that prfitirm until the rear vition of the right centre line hin.l moved forward, when the divillon fiouldered arms, and finllowe.l in fuccedion, wheeling iticcellively to their left, at the point on the alinement in which dip , were to pal's his MajEsyy. As form the line wAs thrown inttt open column, the left, under • the command of General I.Esite, marched in quick time, am! formed in chile column, fn as to he prepared to immediately in the rear of the left °ware line, when put in mt lion, in the mean while Handing M lilt arms ordered. Each Company (an its march) opened its ranks at fifty paces from his Maissyv, and again doled, them after palling. Officers faluting, and colours dropping as they naffed. The mufic which firft puffed his 1 1 / 4 1aIFSTY wheeled nut to the left, and remained playing until relieved by the next hand, and fo of the others. When the line c r -ceived his Maissrv. and when he paid along ir, the Commanding Officers were .on foot at the head of their corps :—when the column marched Pail his NlAissry, C )mmanqing Officers, Field Qfficep,i, and Adjutants, were mounted. After pairing his Mar ssrv, by at leap three hun dred yards, the feveral corps of the right and right centre lines proceeded in quick time to their quar ters, taking the road which leads from the Park keeper's Lodge to Piccadilly gate ; the feveral corps of the left centre and left lines alto proceeded to their quarters, after having paled hit Malts-re at the diftance aboTC•mentioned, niking a direction towards stanhope•fireet gate. No Carriages, excepting chore helonging to the Royss. Farator, and to Foreign Princes or AmbaCe radars, Were admitted into Hyde Park until the Re views were over. and the troops had entirely quitted the ground : nor was any perfon admitted on horfe back within the area formed by the troops, except the General and Staff Officers attending his MAJES TY, the General Offic,rs employed on this occafion, and the French Princes, %% ha, with white coekades‘ and the coittime peculiar to their rank, were on the ground loon after nine o'clock. 615cers in uniforms of the Sea or Land Service were admitted on foot within the area formed by the troops. and Laiiies in their company, and under their protedion. All other perfon - , whet* in uniform or nor, were rearided to the (pace between the lines occupied by the trr Ts, and the Park Walls. Independently of the immenfe crowd of fpeCtators in the l'a: lc, all the ltreets and avenues leading to it, and the windows and balconies in the range of its t;!led with applauding multitudes. CAPE or Goon Hore.—Letters received from the Ifland of St. Helena, by the Country (hip the Cam 4rian, lately arrived. fay, that bah diltirthaticei have broke out at the Cape of Good Hope ; and that the Governor, unable to reconcile the roldiery, had difp.ttched g veilel to the Me of France, to repre fent the lunation of the gartifon to the Captain Ge neral of that ifland. Numbers of the gertilon are Rated to Lave fled into the interior, an 4 to have been engaged by CAUCA. the Caffre Kir,g, to ferve in his army, in a grand expedition which he me ditates againit the Chiefs raiding near the Great Pith Rsver. The conlequence of there defections has been Inch as to induce the Council to atm orders to pre vent any European from paalng certain prefcribe4 bounds, under pain of death. Provilions are extremely fearce at the Cape, and the cattle are generally driveq off. The fupply fur the town is become tb fcanty, ,and fo %infrequent, that the lieople are put under allowance. It is impoMble to trace the origin of the dikontents. Some alledge it to be in the depravity of the foldiery ; others in the imbecility of the Go vernment. The inhabitants are under the necelEty of keeping guard at the feveral paiTes, to prevent further delertion. Several defertets have, however, been taken in the attempt. DRURY-LA.I r.—Laft nigla Mr. Lr I again appeared in the chat after of Carlos.. WP did net difcover any great improvement in his pet formance. He fill dif pl the fame excellencies and deeps. The diamond is covered with its rough coating, except in a few places. whi•h thew indeed that it is of a 6ne water. We are really of opinion that Mr. L. will turn out a good finger ; but tie mull go through astung couric of Iludy and labouil His tones do not 'land more in need nt the muScian, than his limbs of tin dancing mailer. Our hopes of his rapid progrers are rather damped from his awkwardnels being griater . thran his tlithtlence. lie was encored in his fint Conic, and very well received throughbut.—Mrs. lilovirrain was in excellent voice, alnd (sing diyinely. She was warmly applauded. CnVS.SIT CARDCW.—Vefleraay being the anniver. fary of the battle of Agincourt, was properly Come chnien by the Manager of the Xlieatre for the per. (cum:ince the Hittnrical plar of firer, the FOS. in which Mr. KEMAL'', as the hero, was very eon. (pinions ; as, however, it is a part of little difcrirni. nation, there was no great room for the dirplay luperior powets of as". t K : he. however, did what he could to fulfil the prophecy of HINILY V. delivered before the armies had clofed liory thill the good man teach his fen; And C. 111.14 en t•rt n.. rt.ill net r go by From it day to the i toting of the world, But w.• in it :hull be remenibagett, Several of the patfages, drained into an applica tion to the percent littaati , m of affairs. were loudly applauded. Of the glitope of Englith Nt.hles 'di" followed the fortines 1,1 Howe to France, we have only to fpealc of Nuartar, the reprefertative • f tfe Pa: of Ex ter, as .!Nerving of any notice. Da la NT(. as the Deuisiein, was All.ollattti j and MU. Sr. LEGER I n nke the part ni . the Prim...li katlvrin.- very uel). Si se mos: s's w.f.; given m rht hn.idtll Ity;e cerricature: and Bt. NCIf A It D'S Gopt.im in, clutig.. l btemouroolly delineated. wAC hibt The audi -re:. a gond It tinkling or %shish was Co= pi,feti of Volunteers. was 'Allier numerous. IT r • - ••••••• furl, Did, Li of il Lieu ma,- hitt • .:'eY, Iwygg • •.:1c u2d l'i la ear ; ‘• 1.0 at . wsi VW if 1t..1 I Wt to asI•111G lit •iett Vlo 11. Ila ~: "1% g La, Sa tit /3r la : arc Ic V/2I 476 a II ing Sir 1, Thor, Hue L. S.l j.nnt. Hull and war CI C,,,,, give rule,