Star. — London, England, 1803-05-28 00:00:00

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Ann. 1797, salf gal Conf for opg. 58311 L wB Aun. t6i 13-z6 We have to congratulate our Country on the tent per and fpirit which teemed to agnate all parties in the proceedings which took place laft night in the lio•ife. of Commons Mr. Fox's promifed Motion was made rcfpetting the mediation of Rana, and the explanations which followed (hewed, that Minifters had already been following that line of conduit which it was the objea of his motion to make them adopt. ft was creditable both to Mr. Fox and to Minifters, that in a point of fo much magnitude, there had been a coincidence of opinion ; and we never faw the Members of all parties fo ardent in their congratula tions as on this occafion, when a real unanimity and au alma unexampled cordiality appeared. This circumflance fhould ferve as a leffon to thofe N e u fpapers which attach themfelves blindly to party, not to be too peremptory in deciding on the conduct i or motives of individuals.—Only yefterday, Come of the oppofition Prints were crying out againft Minifters for not following the line of conduit recommended by Mr. Fox, refpetting the mediation of Ruffia, and Tome of the Minifterial Prints were as vehement in I n their abufe of Mr. Fox for recommending a mode of proceeding, which, according to them, could not with any kind of prudence be adopted by Mi. , I nifters ! Yet the fait turns out to be that what Mr. Fox was recommending, Government had al -4 ready in view. What may be the Woe no one can poMbly foreleg. yßut that no relaxation in the means we ha v e alread y flp retorted to for th our own l. fecurity . ought to take place, r ~h ~F ti 31 Yellerday 250 recruits from General HIWITT'S 1 / ';I Depot, at Cowes, were embarked on board the Al. ' ligatnr iiore-fhip, for the Well Indies. Thurfday morning the EaII and North Devon U. • giments of Militia marched into Plymouth , and are ! to be quartered in barracks. Orders have been illued from the Lord Chamber 6, lain's Office for a drawing-room on Saturday, the ;0 4th oi June, at St. James's, but no ball in the even- 4.4 ing. After Mr. Fox withdrew his motion yellerday in the Houle of Commons, he went over to the Tree fury Bench, and (hook hands with Mr. ADDINGTON and Lord HAWK ESSURY. We prefume that Lord Seam wort did not attend the reprefentation of Dr. V's. alteration of Nig yak on Friday. He would have been told that " Jetties never will fubmit to France." On the fraristifw and honour of fuch a propofition he has much to hear. Hamar KING, Efq. paid into the Chamber of Lim don a fine of 4001. and twenty marks ye(lerday, to be exeufed ferving the office of Sheriff. This is the fourth Gentleman who has paid the like fine fince the nomination of the Lour, Maron at a Court of Alder men held on Tuefday loft. An order from Government was received on Tuef day by M. Covrasar de Monster, the French Commercial Commiffioner, to leave London within twenty-four hours, and quit the kingdom with all poffible difpatch. He accordingly fee out on his re turn to Paris tall Wedr.efday. The report of the omit and imprifonment of Du sots, the Peeled of the Police at Paris, is unfounded. It aide from the circumfiance of his having been Peen efeorted by a Captain of BONAPARTI'S guard, and a (mall body of foldiers. Yaqui:4 the Commiffioners of his Majeßy's Ho. nourahle Court of Lieutenancy eleited by ballot at Guildhall Lieutenants Bshwa Lt. and Lorsrr, Cap tain Lieutenants of the Eaft and Welt Regiments of London Militia, loco Captain Lieutenants Ayala and NICHOLAS, lately promoted. The Naval Hofpital at Yarmouth is ordered to be ellablifhed for the reception of the lick belonging to the fleet on the North Sea Ration. A letter of Marque failed from Dover on Tharf. day afternoon ; others will be ready in a day or two. The Earl of EQLINTOUN leaves Town tomorrow for Scotland, to vote for one of the fixteen Peers. Lord Momr9osesay left Town this day for Scot. lanaLto take the command of his regiment of militia. The embargo has been ordered to be taken off all veffelx that are bound to Ruflia. Yed i erday the following (hips were ordered into comaugon, and the Captains, whofe names are al flied, Were appointed to command them : Nratee, of 74 guns, at Plymouth, Hen. Capt. STOPTOID. ittlby 6t- °wham, - GAsoNell. Wlfp (Slop) -- Pentateuch, Phew (dia) Plymouth, -- HANCOCK. Lieut. I. E. Ism•st is appointed to La Santa. Lieut. Hutment man is appointed to the command 9f the SANDWICH prifon (hip at Chatham. .C 11440.00101101 MARTIN Is appointed to the CAiteiros; Icc A, CO the Chilleae; PILLT, CO the 000 r ; and pica, IC the Moray. k u t e ssasee..—amonsandLeca,to theDelhambantb; Ostia. to the Defence; WILLIAMS, to the Cosonsand of the Dims& gun-boat; laws a, to the command of the Ceske dkto; &Mon. NIL, COlllO IG. ; MOWIIRAT. to the Beaver. Pllfftrim.4llf. MA Tilt W, late of the Pallas, le appointed to the Alarm; Mr. poor., late of the Marna , to the Maintheent ; Mr. Carat, late of the Magoilecat, to the Dragon ; and Mf. 3A r. late at the Dragon, to the at. George. The Rey. A Ulna: sc ea is appointed Cluiphio of the Prism at Walls. We have to announce the faccefsful termination of the experiment made in New Bood.ftreet, with the swirly invented lamps and refiedors. ip their adop tion by kik lagnottrable the Commitoners for Light . Bk.,GegggF, Hanoret-fquare i and phited-hcidy, oil thus fo ataisafei an improve . 1.• ON THE WAR. We have forborn to trouble our Readers with many obfervations on the nature and complexion of the voluminous papers that have been laid before the public refpeOing the late negociations. To have done fo before we took time to examine and weigh them would have been prefumptuous--to have done fo before allowing our readers alto time, would have been impertinent. We hope that now, however, we (hall not be thought intrufive if we offer Come re• marks on the fubjea. When two great and populous naticns are about to be involved in the calamities of war—Calamities which are too well known and underftood to want ;floatation at prefent ; and when one of them is a free people, who it may be expeaed will exercife their' privilege of inveßigating every public meafure, it be comes our duty to (late to our Readers with accuracy and impartiality, the grounds and motives of the dif pute. This we (hall endeavour to do with as much clearnefs and brevity as poffible, and to avoid that confufion which is the inevitable refult of mingling 1 a mafs of extraneous matter with the real fubjea of inquiry. When the objea of the war is fpoken of in reference to this country, there is fome inaccuracy in the expref• lion. That there are caufer for placing ourfelves in a pofition of defence at this crifis is true ; but when a nation is forced into hollilities by the aggreffion of an other power, it cannot be laid to have an objea, or that objet is at molt the natural fentiment of fell prefervation and felf-defence. We muft, however, previoufly obferve, that the prefeut is a conteft, in which none of the great parties who have unfortunately at different periods divided this country, can find caufe for cenfuring the conduit of Government. The molt zealous friend of the liberties of mankind, of the Rights of Man, as they have been kneed, the molt decided Republican, can. not regard this as a war of Minifters againft liberty, as a fyitem to fupport any particular form of Govern ment, any dynefty of Sovereigns. If liberty ever ezifted in France, under any form or appearance whatever, which will be doubted by many, that liberty is no more. A Government founded upon, and fup• ported by military tyranny alone ; a Government where arbitrary arrefts, imprifonments, and tranfpor tations, without a trial or a bearing, are praaiced ; a Government where the prefs is fdenced by defpotic authority, and the trial by Jury held in deteftation, cannot deferve the fupport, or claim the ap• ' probation of any admirer of liberty, whether he (Lyle hienfelf an Englith Whig, or an American Republi. can. The atrocity of fuch a Government, is increafed when it is founded on ufurpation ; and whether we regard France, either as a Monarchy or a Republic, the prefent Government can only be confidered as a ufurpation. It is fuels without the nfual mildnefs , which governs the conduit of thole, who hold their authority under a doubtful tide. It is a Government neither acquired by defcent, nor conferred by the rut*. ft ages of the people. In filch a comet the two nations mull be :situated by very oppolite fentiments. Britons mutt feel that they are contending for their birth•right—for thde Laws—for that Religion bequeathed them by their Anceßors—for that incomparable Conftitution which has flood the tell of time and experience—for that property which is fecured to them by the Laws of their Country, by the judgment of their equals, by that bell of intlitutions for fecuring every civil right, the Trial by Jury—Frenchmen alas! muft feel that they are contending for I—But we abilain from de, tail, lea the expreffion of truth mould be conitrued into invedlive. It will be a grofs minake to confider the poffeffion of Malta, or of any other place, as the objea, or more properly as the caufe of the prefent war. The caufe is the Rate of infecurity, of difquietusle in which the Nation ell Red from the bad faith, the unbounded 'ambition, the refuels turbulence, the infolent vanity of a cunning and rapacious neighbour. Could Britain i diftsand her armies, and difmantle her fleets, while 1 France maintained on foot an effeitive force of 400,000 men? For what purpofe of peace should Fisch an army be maintained ? And if common prudence obliged us to fupport an equivalent force, in what will fuels. a. Rate be found to differ from a Rate of war ? From the moment in which the Treaty of Amiens ' was figned, there was not a tingle feature in the con. dua of the French Government which indicated a dilpofition to preferve the peace. No overture was made for a Commercial Treaty t and what is more, no overture on that fobje& attraOed attention. On the contrary, every impediment was affiduoufly op. pofed to the fair and honourable efforts of the Britifh traders. Their flips were feized, and their property was confircated in a time of profound peace, and that under the operation of laws enalted during war, avowedly of a temporary nature, and of which the fignature of the peace fbould have been the fentence ; of repeal. That redrefp was not afforded for thefe injuries by the Tribunals of France, might be leis r the rile& of malice than of impotence. It might re. folt from that wretched rya= of jurifprusleace (if a fyliem it may be called) which affords proteaion neither to the Mk& nor to the &ranger. got why were no meafures aflopted to preient the repetition I , of fintilar injuries ? Why no Reps taken to place the , I two Nations on aa Itooottrable footing of eOnftdenee [and fecofity. Let the European Powers feel as they pleafe with 1 refpeet to the ambition and aggrandifement of France, 1 with refped to the feizure of Parma and Placentia, the atrocious violence ezercifed towards the Swifs, or the oppreffion of the Batavian Republics. To us their forbearance is fcarcely a mark of their good policy or wifdom. Other Powers are certainly, to fay the leak equally interefted with ourfelves— but if other men are fo blind to their interek or fo paralyzed by their fears, as quietly to fubmit to every indignity and encroachment, is that any reafon why marara, and fent her for Plymouth : fhe, with the DoL►HIM cutter, has alto taken a French brig from Martinique, bound to Havre, and feat her into Mount's Bay.—Wind Rrong at S. W. PLYMOUTH, May 26.—This morning arrived his Majeßy's (tip Doais, of 36 guns, Capt. Pi/ARSON, from a cruize, and brought in with her a very fine French National lugger, called Leffronteur, of 14 long fix.pounders, and 92 men, commanded by Monfieur LATOTS, Lieut. de Vaiffeau, which fhe captured off Ufhant the azd inllant. The lugger was Rationed between Breft and Ufhant, with in flrudions to cruize not more than fit leagues from the latter place, for the purpofe of reconnoitering the Britifh Fleet, and to make fuch obfervations as the commander might deem neceffary, which were to be communicated by fignal to a perfon Rationed at Man t who was to repeat by fignal fuch communications to a perfon Rationed near Breit. His orders were, not to cruize for the purpofe of making captures, but at the fame time not to allow any infult to be offered to the National Flag without relenting it : however, on the sad inflant, the Frenchman dilcovered the Dom., and immediately gave chase, and it is .faid that they took her for one of their homeward-bound St. Domingo fleet. Be this as it may, the ran up under the quarter of the DORIS, and finding it not as they fuppofed, fired three broadades into her, and fo elole that not a gun could be brought to bear frogs the Donis upon her, in confequence of which the we iliouid willingly fhut our eyes to our own wrongs, and fuffer the public mind to be unnerved by habi tual fubmilfion—the fure precurfor of ruin ? Of all the curfes by which human nature is aflliaed, there is none fo pregnant with mifchief as the pail - lon for univerfal dominion. If fuccefsful, it is fatal to the liberty and happinefs ; if unfoccefsful, to the peace of mankind. If fuch a paffion was criminal, and worthy of being refilled in the perfon of the Four teenth Louts, is it virtuous and commendable in BONAPARTI ? That fuch was the paffion, fuch the views of the Fiasv Cowsus of France, we have no fear but we thall be able fatisfalorily to prove.—But of this in our next. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND S. S. W. Arrived—l Dublin..-1 Liiimix-I Jamaica. ...._ . Fezmourm, May 25.—This morning arrived the Marines were direfted to fire into her, and they en. French brig la Vigilante, Captain Rot:net:a, from ecuted their orders fo effellually, that the Coin. Port-au•Prince, bound to Rouen, 55 days pafage, mender and eight of the crew were killed, and four. about one fourth part laden with fugar, coffee, &c. teen others badly wounded : after their temerity had (being the ohole that remained on the ifland,) fent in been thus chaftifed, they confidered it pendent to haul by the Resozuriom cutter, Lieutenant Gaoust ; the down their colours and fubmit to be captured. We Captain reports that juft before he failed from Port- are happy to fate that no pert= was hurt on board au-Prince, the French fhip la Virginie, Captain le the Doan. It is Paid that the Frenchman bad an in. Mote, from Havre de Grace, arrived at the mouth tention of boarding her; indeed, if it was not fo, of the harbour in the night, and came to an anchor their conduft is not eafily to be accounted for, as one about a league from the city; when she was boarded broadfide from the Mitts would in all probability by the Blacks, who murdered the Captain and crew, have fent the lugger to the bottom. She is exceed. feveral ladies who were paffengers on board they inply well Pored, and has on each, gainer a large raft fent into the country ; and after having taken every of boarding-pikes: thus then hofilities are emnatene. thing valuable from the Ihip they fet her on fire, and ed. The Dolts has alto captured a French brig called deftroyed her : on the day this ?del failed a French le Poulain, from Havre de Grace, bound to Mani corvette alto failed for France with difpatches :—the nique, laden with plantation Bores and marches). French (hips of war were fill at St. Domingo, wait- dine : the is not yet arrived. lug inftrudions from France : feveral French mar. Lath night arrived a Dutch Chip of about Soo tons chant veffeh failed a few days prior to the Vigilante burtben, called the Berbice, of Amferdam, Captain with cargoes for France, and about twelve fail were PROWL, from Berbice, laden with a very valuable then lying at Pon-au-Prince : the Wand was healthy : cargo of coffee and cotton, Paid to be bound for the Blacks, he fays, were full 80,000 Prong, and that Hamburgh ; the was detained two days ago by the the French troops were only in poffeffion of the for Acasra, of 4o guns, and the Ganser, of 16 guns. tified places i—and that fcarcely a night pages but Came in the Ramose cotter, of animas, Captain Tome plantations are fet on fire by the blacks. Fiesta, from the Channel Fleet, which the left Arrived alto the American (hip Governor Strong, cruising in the Bay of Ilifcay ; alto the TRINT, of Captain Cocoa?, 34 days from Norfolk, with tobacco, 38 guns, Captain ilaron, from Jamaica. Sailed for orders, in long. 40. fpoke the American Blip the Dareact cutter, Captain BURROWS, on a cruise. Hannah, from Havre de Grace, bound to Philadel- Cam, Mar 27.—A Dani(h brig, named the phis, all well ;on the soth init. off Cape Clear, fpoke Abolino, Koss wafer, from Bottedeaux to Copes. the brig Sally, Captain Warn, from Charleftown, hagen, laden with wines and Windy, wit handed bound to Liverpool ; and yefterday (poke his Majef- yeferday morning in Chan Bey, on the (outh pan of ty's fhip le ltsvoturtonnataa, of 44 guns, Captain the Ifle of Wight : the crew Caved, let the 'OM Loca, who preffed three of his men who were Britilh having been forced in pieces, A it feared that fit* fubjedts. part of her cargo will be freed: Arrived the tranport flap (No. 119), Anna, Cap- Poarsuotcm, Mar 27.—Thitesornin4 arrived's; tain Bassets, 2s days from Gibraltar, the is gone - St. Helen's the Dios; WI, of so gen* Virg-Admiral into quarantine, a great number of letters have been Sic Roost Coatis;, Jorizaa, of so guns, Captain landed from her. Captain Gowen of the Navy is Losace ; &teen frigate; InDosran ftorettip ; and a paffenger on board, and feveral Officers of the army the Fevouarra and Vonaacm tnnfports, from the from Egypt; a Colonel with difpatches for Govern- Cape of Good Hope ; alfo a French EaR Indiamen a meat, is Paid to have landed to the weftward. which R. Currie took this stoning, and could have The Towufend packet, Captain Dors, arrived lath taken feveral more had he known the News tomer,- evening. Paffengers by her are Mr. PITIORD. Mr. Sir R. Currie was informed of the war by la Ml. Caernsoo, Mr. Llano, Mr. BILISAIIO, Lieutenant nerve.---The Hazlet) (loop of war was Wien by the Avast, Captain Donlan, and Mrs. Paula. This French.. Went out of Harbour, the Garen vs, of 3* packet fpoke on the2oth April, the American Ihip Am- guns,Captain Hut —A flaphoni Boneelemn, bound phios from Charlfton to London, in lat. 43. 4. long. to Amfterdam, laden with brandy, is on flame a few p. 50. ill well ; on the 13th init. (poke his Majefty's miles to the weftward of St. Catharines. (hip CAMILLA, Of 20 guns, in company with his YARMOUTH, Mat 27.•••-• Ll SOPltte 1190 p ill arrived Majelly's (hip AURORA, of 28 guns, in lat 48. 12. here to convoy the trade from this port to Ham. long. to. li. all well, bound to Newfoundland;— burgh: arrived after a cruise, the Meanie, BOLD, and on the loth inft. (poke the brig Prifcilla in lat. and MALLARD, gun brigs, and the Rar visa cutter. 49. t 6. long. 16. all well. Remain one Hoop, three gun brills, the RiPtible and Arrived this evening the Princefs Charlotte pac- Belson Revenue cutters. Arrived from Hainburgh ket, Captain KU, in 5 a days with mails from Ja the Diligence, Captain Mansmtr, with goods : 'smite; left lying at Port Royal, his Majefty's (hips Sailed for Norway in ba n al; the Fortenchold, Gt. LISVIATII4II. CUNIIIMILLIIII, GANOth TN lISIViI, VIDISAR ;—the light (hips which, had been detained and GOLI2II, of 74 guns each ; TARTAR, 38 guns, here upwards of a fortnight by contrary wind, have /Roams, of 32 guns, and Pic as a schooner. On the failed.—Wind S. W. frefts breeze. 28th April, in lat. 34. 35. long 46. 40. (poke the Smallness, Mat 27.—Arrived his Majefty's [hip French brig Nahatta, from Martinique, bound to Asian scans, and Laaa: the former has boiled the Havre de Crake, out 22 days; yefterday fpoke the fignal for convoy to the Baltic.—Tbe Ta a aoa,Z e sea. brig Fanny, Jona Paouremo maßer, 22 days from Psrast, and Hum, have alto arrived from the Riven Lillion, bound to London ; the brig Robert and Jane. and the BATettle and.DICTATOI, from Chatham.-- so days from Naples, bound to Hamburgh ; and the The Aooaassoa has failed, and the Mum and CM AIL . (hip Apollo, 65 days from Jamaica, bound to Lon- on gun brigs. have arrived ; . the former from the Si don, all well. Rangers by the Princefs Charlotte ver, and the latter from a cruise.—The 8019112 will are Mr. Bann, Efq. aisd fervant, Haney helium, s kit with the Amaoscaoa and Baltic trade, and after Efq. of London ; the latter Gentleman died on the it eing them in safety, will proceed to Cronlladt, to voyage between Jamaica and Crooked Ifland, Alfo bring home the feausen lent to the Ruffian veffcls arrived the Waltingbans packet, Captain Rosters, which failed from hence fame time age„—The Fat with Mail from Lisbon, 57 days pafage: no packet at was paid this day. was at Lawn when the failed from thence. Palen. ' PROM LLOTD's LIST. gus t bisdarat VOA GAASIIIT2 (the Dutch Mini- fi f i l i 7 o l ll4" 7 "--AntildB :6 l 7 ll.l fertlelll.l"be lLW. fter's wife) and family, o w , -s, Mar suite by the Charade. --. I d ' Ti. oiCtoca lIT . NIOItT.JIIe arrived.the Dutch ib " i - e ium : k i. i l'a romticr ftl.l " rra tl anua inlik. itav; Bark tailor. Capt. Horses. from Demerara, for ter Rated= ; cbarkos nisa. 5 sod Mu!, ige.e. Middleburg, with fugal., cotton, Etc. taken by the (I "' Gamier floOp of war, add *Acing excite cutter.— MCP"' Pim" 1 " The GAIN IT has alto takes a Drtch thip from De- ' areet, uanbeth rso ir adbe`i tre tr. sb a l or auva ir c ie' lL e nt ,Zret . 141171 s. Carer' of ' ~ k