Star. — London, England, 1803-10-08 00:00:00

r. 6. len to-mor. ror the trig) the Royal S ' s brigade viz—two Subalterns. on Satur itenant Ge much occu 'hiefs of the has not haft ry funElion. and goes to fo deeply is is duty pre ow in Loa ,turn hither, )f his Lord r fome time, antes. to fail !tri mly effea gdom, it is that Major his clinin :peeled here aNTON is to 'Noy of Re. id of reeeiv. ich hitherto d. Leferve, dine ler the corn. 'lts laft Mon- under veryy. 7 encamped. a hem for the yP farmer di mats) a polite err, offering 'kb Hotfeeld compa,ny of stertained in sof a gloomy. comforts of had stiffs the eclined by the encampment. led to Bray.. tents for tb, her proof of vitation from drained with :4 of his fest en, therefore; Med bumpers they had•sz kerday) they eneamppd. Dna v e d owa, fro=by Warren. or Sborneliff:s orbythire won Of the Derby- D. P. Coe', at Mansfield, Pere welcomed hod other 4c 'ern conning =banded by now fit to take this conhtry Loyal. BtiAol ksaANar EL- S Royal High elivered a (tort occaGon. Is :vet, at which or other mili nny, were pre :eived with the of the Royal ards dined with e other officers e Montague.— entertained the le moil popular Its were drank, ted, each well h the day had nined than ever invader to slit ppy 10l Cavilry and of die City of !rata pt Wow e City 'Met ten blood B. at. Li v. c beard of, who ride fplrit emir aowa, pervade,/ whole kingdom t cl that our very fpirit in a vet', t, amaaatietll is OM* their er 7 d e adly —colour a Commander is diAingailled not f eria , but by bis in miniaturc—(a he ma intained y of an eajeriewi r de a no l e ts TO' a Irow• I with very P eat tee alto excellent. Patriots colic fled !lancet Tatioitg 51:11.4 ON THE USE OF THE PIKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. , . . Sia—l was very much pleated to obferva a few days ago in your excellent Paper, a (iron* recom mendation of the Pike, as a formidable inflrument of deftruclion in the hands of brave men.-1* opinion decidedly coincides with your's on this fubjed ; and baenot been heftily or lightly taken up. I had long been convinced of its utility before I quitted his Ma laity's fervice, which nothing but old age flioula have induced me to do ; and fo firongly do I retain That conviction, that were I capable of fervice; I fhould, before this time, have made an offer to Government o raife a battalion of Pikemen in defence of the country. This opinion was taken np, partly from the per : tfal of the writings of the nsoft renowned Generals, find partly from having obferved on many occafions, both in general and partial actions, the uniform and certain %needs of a charge with the bayonet; in the teeth of the moft, apparently, formidable fire of mut - - Cluny. It is an enablifhed rule in fervice, which no Officer of experience will contradid, that where two Corps of equal, force engage, that which referees its, fire, and chaiging with the bayonet, will (cetera pa. s'i'rs) be fore of victory. A charge of pikti would be fill more irriOaible) ' partly on account of its greater length, and partly bccante thole of the third, or even fotarth rank, mutt prove efficient. Oni of the greaten Generals of the Taft century, Marfhal Sets, gives his opinion of this weapon in the fol loWing words : " Suppoft the Battalion to be drawn up four deep ; thetyo front ranks &wild be armed With firelocks, and the two rear with half pikes, about 13 feet in length. In dunging,•the latter are to level their pikes; in which pofition they will extend from 6 to 7 feet before the front rank. The front ranks being fheltered in inch a mannkr will, I am confident, tete a much firer in, and fire with more contacts and refolutimt, than they would othetwite do; and the tear ranks* as they are likkWife eavatd by the front, will eiercife d;heir pikes with more intrepidity , and be capable of iog infinite fervice. My opinion in regard to the bnpaltektibe of this tabu:sent is fupported by the ge. feral concurrence of Men or experience and reffetlion p and the only reatons to be affigned for the dill)* of ate fuels, is have:alto oteafioned The abolition Of Y other excellent 'caftans of the Ancient's, by I mean aegle& and indolence," de. /cc. '1 \7411 int not be feppofed, that I Mean to argue than b.dy of plien*.p, in battle array, would be a flostetAbr sin equal number of mutqueteers ; aids of , their inokmaterial ufes would perhaps be to &Win a third rank ra orerj fools be be rendered our fifths • flank Companies be trained at a mark. , toyer an atta &wild be aceui pidity. All know , foi. the defence paid for comp' The malidal fublifhed b) Managemtnt proper feeling of his own perfotal prowefs, is atten ded with little expence, cannot be much injured by begirt}, and may be trufted, without any poeble inconvenient refult, into tire hands of oar countrytnen at large. lam rather inclined to think that it might roan, by the adoption of proper meats, become a popular, and even a favourite inftrnment. ' At a moment like the prefent, when danger of at tack becomes daily more imminent, and when it is not poMble that the bell.furnilhed ordnance can fup ply fire•arvs for the immenfe mats of volunteers, who are crowding forward with filch genuine Dritifh fpi rit, to defend their King an.l country, I beg leave to join with your's my moll cornea recommendation of this formidable inllrument. It would do credit to thofe refpeaable country Gentlemen, who have put themfelves at the head of their tenantry and pea- Awry, to fct the laudable example of applying for them, where we have been lately allured from au thority, they may be immediately furnilhed to any amount. I can drive, Sir, that a great deal more might be raid on this fribjeet ; but perhaps I have Paid eaough, though I hope you won't think too much. Tbak few fuggeßions have been diaated by the ardent lose I feel for the beft of Kings, and for the Country which gave me birth, for whole fake I would readily Ibed my blood, though I cannot arm in their defence. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, ' and eonflant Reader, •r OLD SOLDt ka. ltmagaiee, °doter Dirpatches were forwarded to Admiral Duca t/01TM, by the Jamaica mail, hill night. A conflant Correfpondent wino.. to obferve, that when we are feriontly threatened with the inrafion of a formidable and -implacable foe. our fleets and Iquadrons ought not to be at fo remote a didance as the North Seas and other places, but kept to guard and premed the coals of the United Kingdom; a fer. rice more really ufefel than surely dillreffing the trade of onr enein'es.at the ague of having oar oars kooes dellroyal while ear ism are allow RETZPRN.TO IN ORDER Or rut Hoy. HOUSE or COMMONS,DATID M*ac■ 21,1803 For " An Account, mewing whet Inereafe gr Diminution has taken place in the Number and in the Amount of the Sa hike, Emoluments and Expcnces of all the Public Offices for the Year , . OFFICES. Increafe. Treafury 4459 IS to Secretary of State, Home Department lot 9 ji Ditto foreign Ditto Ditto War Ditto Alien Office War Office Ordnance Admiralty Navy Office Vietualling Olen Sick and Hurt Office Tranfport Office 7111 Office Statnp Office Polk Office Cullom* Excite Exchequer Brill Office CommilLoners for Auditing Public Accounts 4.206 15 9 Mager Mailer General's Office 97 0 6 Lottery Office - 6p o o .Stationary Office . sit is o Cuftoms, Scotland • 1,244 19 6 Excite, Do. 19.1,31 3 4 Comptrollers of Army Accounts 1,000 0 0 Auditors of the Land Revenue Nil. Barrack Office Signet Office Once for Redualon of the Na - NU. tioaal Debt Hackney Coach Office - Mint Office do o o Surveyor Generale(' Crown Laodsi. NIL Paymaiker General - Auditor of the Receipt of the El chequer • Surveyor of General Woods Solicitor of the Tresfury - Receiver of the t 5.641. Duties on Petitions, &c. Remembrance: of Tut Fruiti Nil. Receiver a Ditto • - Receiver of Tenths - . Privy Seal Office . Hawkers and Pedlars Ones . - . 891 13 3 • 1419 17 10 s6o 15 so - 52 II 4 1,460 1 81 188 9 3 +E•3trB67 to 74 Diminution. 3,650 Z 2 8 4,77 8 1 3 3 SSl♦ 19 2 Total Dares& £. . . 6465 9 Ei 1 A59 7 2 2 ,147 1 9 7 411403 16 3 ,8,872 so} 1 7.946 is 8 2 5,945 9 7 Nil. 903 18 6 as 0 0 79.0 n, LE :if 3067 10..,71 4715* 0 .1 Letters from Amilerdam Rate. that the Batavian Government is endeavouring to enforce with the greatestS rigour the decree fur the exclution of arti ce s of Engin colonial produce b or home manufac ture. The mercantile part of the community. on where Anises this decree bears with the greatell fe verity, have preented a variety of rernonilrances on the fubjea, and particularly requelted a furpenfion of the decree as tar is the intminftion of tome arti cles of primary necetfity are concerned. The Go vernment has not hitherto &cam any Airpolition to yield to their folicitations. A dread of French ven geance:compels them (trialy to conform to regulations which they know to be direly contrary to ressfun. as well as policy. In fpite of all their exertions. Englilb goods continue to find their way into the market. Some of the Volunteer Corps hive been defiled to provide themfelVes With the following articles, pre , vious to infpeaion by the Earl of Hartarearom linaidatk, a k. t canoes of tin or Parer. m go lat. di* kropfack. or Nag, a Load Odra. I pair ditto drawers, I paw Woreed locks or Itoeklap , tangle( sip, a pair natters, I pair task t knife. fat. and (pica. Each readier will alto be permitted to carry the following things:— * razor, foto and brat, a lhoo-brallea, sod eandos, z pipe-claf ball. The Liverpool Meeting held it the Fort on Tuel day, purfnant to public Advertifement, was nume roullY attended, and feveral hundred perfons gave in their names to ,ferve under Captain PIIRRIPONT i as Sea Fenciblesb for the defence of that town and dif trite!. Tt horns to be the opinion, that the number ' of petfons who will enrol thaufelves in this ferrite, will amount to upwards of soots A Meeting has been held at Canterbury, by the Governors of the Kent and Canterbury Hofpital, to confider of an application from Government for the life of the Hofpital, for the reception of the lick fol diets, who are, or may be Rationed on the coati of Kenty during the winter, when it was unanimonfly retolved, that a loyal and refpedful anfwer be return ed, exprellive of the iropoffibility of complying with the reeielt, under the regulations by which the Hof petal was eßablifbed. CovINTGARDINTNsares,—The Comedy fs 801 l attraeted laa night an audience which over w ed in every part. After the play, Mite Moat's"' came forward, for the thin d time on thefe boards, and jodiciotilly transferred, from older. to Marian, the vocal powers and talents which the poffetres in a very fuperior degree. Inci.soow's Hunting Song was given in his happieft Rik, and produced general plaudits. Mon Omar or Aosetaatry.—Yeßerday the Right Honourable Sir WILLIAM SCOTT determined the cafes of the following (hips and cargoes, which were detained for adjudication : Aaron, LkdlnttletaltarTtals was a %eolith chip Laden atli a cargo of arre, eta, kw, sod other snicks. In this ale di• Bit was reltarod sod the cargo refereed PM* Arend, Jade, matter.--Thle kip was failla under Pallas colours, kJ= with ballad. Ship complained. The hank. Witter,. mailer -..This was a oak d breach of blockade. Ship and cargo rearmed. Narde......- Militate; Malior.Ship end ewes condemned. Vrow Anna Catherine, Mats, Maier Thin was • rata Grip bound frnm Batavia to datordams, lades with amp of Nike, and various other merehmedime. Ma alp soodannod tarp relayed. The Hefter. MacLeod, mafter....This woe a vodka tea& leg the =deal chsrader of the delasees,oThe Cool, mr this este, directed father proof to be reads as Mo that point. Thorfday upwards of a hundred Welch girls, who migrate to this part of the Wend in the fpnng of the year, to work an the garden grounds of Batterfea, Fulham, he. he. met together near the end of Pic cadilly, each a knspfack at her back, containing a little Rock for the approaching winter l and after taking a farewell of their friends, who had accompli. nied them thus far, divided into two panics, that for South Wales parfued their rotate towards Hen• fington, while (bole bound for North Wales, Rrock up - Park-lane, on their way towards Bayfwater, and fo on to their native homes.. It is extraordinary the length of ground thefe hardy Wearies' will cover each day, they being feldorn more than five days on their journey to South or North Wales. On their ts s ' o toei their friends,they all began Gaging a Welch cwt coded tan they Are vita est cf fight. 1 mchem, to which Vidonteer Corps might be Nioed. But incalculable fervice might ed by baNalions of Volunteers, of which might be aved with them, furnilhing the panics °DIY istb Am arms: there Ihould tangly to light infantry praaice. to fire Ike. /Cc. who might bisqually nfeful to attack. or a retreat of the wbo aceuflonind to move with ts e = lo ft r e . w too that the pike is an admirabb \ weapon me of intrencbments. for tefilling tevalry, mpleting the deftruition of a routed trmy. al for its bye molt be fimPle, and lhout4 be ay authority. It is tidily proem:W-4n in fond learnt=it gibes the hardy mak . 6. .1111B4Thr, 007. 4. • yehn I P !WA convieted on Saturday laft *of High Treafon, was yefterday executed in Patrick-greet, oppofite to his former refidence. He appeared truly penitent for his crimes, and particularly lamented, that he had abandoned the doarines of the Kirk of Scotland, in which he had been bred, for thofe Of the Church of Rome, which he had adopted fince his, coming to Ireland, He made revere' important communication); to Mr. Sheriff POUNDPN, in confe quence of which that indefatigable officer, Major &aft, repaired to M4lntofh's former houfe, where be difcovered a concealed door artfully formed by bricks built in a frame, plaiftered over to refemble the reft of a wall which was covered with (helves, and turn ing out upon hinges and caftors ; upon opening this door a tier of chalet rooms appeared, communicating by, trap doors and feeling ladders through three dif ferent Rories of the houfe; they were fpacious enough to conceal forty men, and were provided with air holes communicating with the outer wall. In there rooms were found from 3 to 400 pikes of a very pe culiar conftruCtion, having an iron binge in about half their length, by which they doubled up, and' though when extended they were fix feet long, yet by this contrivance, it, was poflible to carry one of them undifcovered under a man's coat. A quantity of fulphur was alfo found, and every appearance of much mifchievous preparation having gone forward in the houfe. Major Sias brought away the door as a curiofity: it now lies at his office in the Cagle. AMong other particulars, M'lntofh declared that there had been no gunpowder manufaftored in the houfe in Patrick -greet ; the explofion was of fix or feven pounds, which had been brought there to make fignal rockets and Wes, and for which purpofe was the machine brought there to pulverife the pow. der, and the raltpetre which was alfo difcovered.— Dr. GAMBL6 mentioned to the man, in his cell, that Emmet confeffed to him a while before he died, that he had but Ito men on the night of the late infur ration upon which he could depend to aid him in his defperate defigns—M'lntofh acknowledged that was a faa, raying at the fame time, ogee of them eighty was I." Indeed every day exports the poverty and weaknefs of the late rabble infurreition, and confirms our confidence in the correaed fenfe and feelings of the country, and the proud, and we may Cay the uni venial predominance of its loyalty. A very melancholy occurrence took place on Tburfday lag, in the county of Caren :—As-Lieut. Kean, of the Portland Yeoman Infantry, was exer citing his Corps, a (hot vas difeharged from the ranks, which entered his body and hesnflantly fell. The aftoniffiment produced by this dreadful dream- Rance may be eafily conceived, as Lieut. Kass was a- Gentleman much beloved b his Corps and highly refoated in the country.— Upon an invelligation it appeared, that the brother of the man who had ' fired this unfortimate (hot had been the night before (booting wild ducks on a neighbouring lake, and that the innocent perpetrator had borrowed his mut: ' quet, and was &fared to fall into the ranks without having had it properly examined.—Lieutenant Klatt furvived but four hours. A Coroner's Inqueft was Meld on the body, and after an accurate enquiry, a verdia was found of Accidental Death ; in code quence of which the unhappy man who canted it was admitted to bail. Government has direfted payment to be made for the lodging of troops billeted in North Britain, funilar to the pradlice in this refpelt in England. Yeflerday about three o'clock, a girl of fourteen years of age, in Plumber's.road, •Virbitehorfe.lane, Stepney, hanging Come wet clothes to dry over the Mantle piece of the fire place, her clothes caught fire, and not having fufficient pretence of mind to wrap herfelf in the wet linen, ran down (lairs in the fanning air, which added to her diftrefs. Her cries brought people to her an:nice, who fubdued the flames, which had already burnt one of her eyes out. Every poffible attention was paid to her, and lb: was taken to the hofpltal with little hopes of recovery. A defperate affray took place on Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, at the corner of Avon meet. Bath, between Come foldiers of the Army of Referee; when the watchmen Intel tering to reflore order, fe veral of the foldiers drew their bayonets upon them, and nabbed one of them to the heart I another watchman was feverely wounded, but it is hoped nit mortally. Scveral, if not all of the party were uppre bended. The quarrel, it teems, originated at a public houfe in Avon.dreet, refpefting Come loofe women. A few days fence a fire broke out in a barn be. longing to Mr. William Booth, at Pentridge, in Derbythire, which happily was extinguifbed before much of the property was confumed. Mr. Robert Martden. a confiderable farmer of, that place, as he was smiling to remove Coate thatch from the flames, fuddenly fell down and expired. Early on Thurfday morning a fire broke out at a Gentleman's hoofe contiguous to Woolwich Warren on the Plumßead fide, which entirely confunted the fame, together with the houfe adjoining. Appre. benison was at firft entertained for this valuable mi. litary depot ; but the drum having beat to arms, and plenty of water and anillance obtained, the &Met were revented from doing further injury. We do not hear that any lives were log, nor how the fire began. It is Paid that between awl. and soot. in bank notes were loft. Jofeph Hnbfnn, orWoodhoufe, near Leeds, is coin. misted to Leeds prifon, on a charge of having mur dered John Littlewood, on Saturday night lalt, in Woodhoufe-lane, by Dabbing him with a knife. Yederday fe'nnight were committed to St. Don. Dan's Gaol, bL I. HINDI, Coroner, James Moody, George Book, and Thomas Wilfan. charged with the wilful murder of George Spark., on board the Levnsa man of war in the Swin. On the tR itill. as Sir Wit. Jeastuonaw was driving Lady BizuworalLn in a gig from Irartnoa h to Norwich, the herfe took f.ight on the high caafe way, near Eccles Bridge, and precipitated himfelf with the carriage down the Beep bank into a deep MATnil below: Sir Wit.t.tan jumped oat on the road, but Lady 8110111401/ILD was thrown with great vio• lence over the bevies head into the water. whence the was with difficulty got out, and conv eyed to a far:slot& near. She tutlained no material iury from the LW, but the prefent delicate Rate o ther Lodyikip's health fills her 6 fends with jolt alarms lea to. daucrsguiLatsigiaLholgu i sa s fatal it iu. GRANVILLE. In the Rion account, which we gave of that t we mentioned the tingularity of the drefs of it male inhabitants. We (hall now prefent our A ers with a particular account of it, which, we tl will not be twentertaining : The drefs of the Granville females is fo fins as to attraa the notice of every /(ranger. It is thy of obfervation, that, in the midi of the vat changes, which fafhion perpetually introduce France, they have retained their origjnal drefs f time immemorial. Their head drefs confiffs o veral yards of the cleareft lawn, colleeed at the of the head into various fanciful folds. Their bo is covered with a (mall double handkerchief of fame ; and from their neck hangs a black ribbon the end of which is moll gracefully fufpended a 1 crofs. An under jacket cf printed calico form their body, with large loofe fleeves, extending to wrills ; and over that, another of cloth of the ligl colours, with fleeves turned up a little below the bow, with a view, no doubt, of dtfplaying the be; of the under jacket. Over the whole they we; cloak of printed calico, reaching half way down petticoat, with a large hood behind. The petal is fluff, tied pretty high, of confiderable dimenfil and gathered round the waift into a thoufand pl, with the moll fcrupulous nicety. A neat flit adorns the feet of the better fort ; the lower con themfelves with wooden fboes. They purchafe it ifland worded Rocking. of Jerfey manufthure kerfies, Manchefter velvet, flannel; calico, cut ware, and other Entitles of Englifh manufaiture and bring, at • their return, French linen, camb provifions, fuch as game, oyfters, &c. It may asked, how they pals the contraband merchant they carry over 1 The method they ado?t is tremely curious. They wrap their goods about th ingenioufly metamorpholing their cloth jackets jackets of Manchefler velvet, flannel, &c. and t fluff petticoats, petticoats of Rocking', calico, ker &c. Thus equipped, they weigh feveral hunt pounds, and fometirnes mull be lifted out of the fel by means of pulliesi and at their landing are vied, or rather dragged, through the town by fi 'of their robuft companions. The Cullom Houle ficers look on, but are not permitted.to (earth t perfons. This indulgence was procured by a whimfical adventure • A few years ago, one of thefe women, whore ns is Beass La Rot, and who is Rill engaged in traffic, involving herfelf in thefe prohibited gm difembarked at Granville. Immedi. tely on her rival, fie was feized by the Cuftomboufe Offic and conveyed to the Donane, where they Ittip her of every thing about her that was illegal, a which there remained nothing bat her caked fel The merriment occafioned by this phenomenon great, and the officers could not retrain from fer unfeemly jells and ludicrous refiettions. BAUR Rot, however, like Marftial Sax,, who, though was worfted at the beginning of the battle of Fa noy, taw clearly. notwithitanding every nnpromil eircumftance, that the day was his own; Baran Rot perceived that, with proper management, withilanding her prefent difgraceful fitoatien, might bring this feenting misfortune to an *deal geous am. Determined to raife a florin of indig lion againa the o ffi cers, the traverfed the whole tc its joaru'reattrralikat. ' Some of the inhabitants laug at the fight; but far the greater part vented bittereft execrations on the inhumanity of thole I had deprived her of the veils of model?. She mediately procured proper recommendations Court : and having heard of the (agility with wl the Queen of France permitted the approachei the loweß of her ftibjeas, the repaired to Fi and procured admittance to her Majefty. She prefented, with a fpirit and eloquence, which In have done credit to a much higher Ration and a polifhed education, the barbel ity with which the been treated, the &emeriti neceffity to which the been reduced, of going through the town will clothes, 'spored to the derifion of the liceotioat the (port of the gazing multitude. She Mutated Majeßy, for the fake of that fez of r hicb the wt bright and fo glorious an ornament, not to leave noticed fuch a fhtm:ful violation of decency ; not to fuller abandoned men to fix an eternal hit on the good name of defenceleli women, ander tence of tufting in conformity to law. • The Qt! fort* affeaed with the relation of the piteous i 1 Wined his Majeftr to iffue an order, prebibi henceforward all his Cullom-boo& Officers I (catching the women. 'Armed with this order, fource of riches and of plenty to her native t 4 Beast to Rot entered the place antidft the pn the bleffings, and acclamations of an inpninel crowd of females, who cenfidered her as their or as the defender of their virtue, and the their rights. CosT0111•NOUSIL SALS..-.-111Urfday, a further tempt was made by the Commiffioners of the Call to deprive the Dealers of Sugar of the accOßti draft which the trade has enjoyed from time iirc morial. A very fpirited reGasinee was lo4d* 04 pan of the buyers, who all remained fins and mai with the exception of three or four retailers after a few lots v e-e fold under the market p the receiver of the 41 per cent. duty, Mr. CaLcm wi h the advice of Mr. Gasc.son ' his aSflant , n mediely adjourned the Sale for the opinion of Majeßy's Consmithoner. of the Cullom& The King's Evil. which derived its name time faith in a royal piece of laver, was a remedy erl carried medicine into Gothic &skinny. Ration Phyfic acquiring a mare refpeftable footing, del ed the belief in charms; and is Charles's reign. refpeaable Wifeman gave a me hod of ca re o l f timbal principles of practice. In the glands Sciog la generally fixes. and chore more efeecially ai the neck and throat, obErvaing the abiurbeat gist and einfe appropriated for the Cilia*. and she of ta , ling. SPlLsautT's As r nava a uric Doors ereafe the glandular *Moo, and foe that reafoab been preferred in cafes of fcrophula. la fc difeafes of the !kin it produce. Co free a cite= the perfpiration, and other neceirary fectetioas, t as a remedy in obantaions ef this kind it is amor led.— •„* For the truth of the Mimic's of the of Scrophula, vide Spilflogry's Treatife and (.Yet Scurvy, Gout, floe. Price p. 6d. fold together e the Drops, No. ts. Soho.fquare, in bottles, imbed