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The prize-master put oat board the re-captured brig Experiment, on her being taken by the Semi!. 'auk. give* en account of the capture of two Ben gal ships by that frigate, he cannot recollect the names, though he mention* their commanders. These circumstances, connected with some others, corresponding exactly to the .11thea and Elizabeth, leave little room to doubt of the capture of both of these valuable *hips. The Cause!! it is hoped has escaped. The loss to Calcutta of the Althea, E4:isbeth, and Ca!well, if taken, is estimated at Ift lees of rupees Information frim Cenjain states, that the ' Csrimersier and L'Adele privateers are both in the bey. A privateer has also sailed for the Persian Gmlph, in quest of British merchantmen in that ,quarter. (Asiatic Mirror, Nov. 23, 1507.) Th. American ship Trace!kr, from Bourbon, the 4th October, arrived at Kedgeree on Monday last, ,*the following ships were safe at Kedgeree en the r3tith Nov. viz.—Cantos, Frump Trite Americas, I brig Telemachus, Alma, Saperwr, grab SoOle, and Yoillecurrins. The Mercu►y Packet arrived at Calcutta the 14th November. (Asiatic Mirror, Wednesday, 2d Dec. 1807.) INTERNAL IJEI'E.NCE BILL. Notwithstanding all that has been asserted and avowed respecting the boasted vigour and decisive ness of the present Ministry, the Bill now before Parliament, for securing the country against mos. lion, has to cited cousiderable surprise, and very general apprehension. This country has too long, been accustomed to look with horror on the con scriptions of the French Despot, to hear without murmuring that similar tune:ores are about tei be adopted in a nation hitherto denominated free. If this feeling be neve, the Government of the country have to thank themselves for exciting it, by that indecent abuse cod illiberal invective which so generally chanicterise the speeches of somc very leading men in oar public assemblies, and the re iteration of these sentiments through the medium of certain public prints. If, all that applause, bestowed by Lord Melville (on a late occasion) upon the Gotnintuider-in-Chief, foe the highly improved smite of the present arms', both in disci- Coe std elective numbers, be deserved, (as we we nedsubt it Is--if the regular army be better mese 'active, and much mere nuine roue, than it has ever been—if the mike force be superior able in numbers and discipline—if the volunteer spirit of the country, which Lord Castle reagh so much respects, and on which he has said he would almost lie inclined to rest the fate of the country, be worthy of contidence—if the trained force he at all.caPable of assisting or co-operating with these troops—if the defence of the southern and rasteru mist of the kingdom be at length completed at a vast expense—if our duets be triumphant at sea, *equine! daily accumulatio n s of strength, contidenee, numbers, whilst that of France can scarcely afford a yearly offering to the angry spirit of the ocean—if such be our re sources, strength, and spirit, that Government has been hence induced to resist every pacific disposi tine or overture on the part of the enemy, though made through various channels--wits it reasonable or consistent to expect, that the rime Goverii meet which thus vaunted of our national strength, and the decided superiority of our military system, should, within the same Session of Parliament. nay, within the seine month, avow the necessity of a lery-en-imacte, and call upon Parliament to ann nearly the whole population of the island ? Cers tainly nothing could be more distant than such an apprehension on the part of the public, and until these representations of the strength mid security of the country be openly recanted and dearly die. proved, the public can entertain but one opinion of the expediency or necessity of this dangerous and alaritung system of conscription. Having said so much of the necessity, let us for a moment turn our attention to the probable ern cacy of the Bill to pro:note the internal defence of the country. A ballot is to take place in each comity, of so general a nature, thnt it must com pete nearly the-wireie e ff ective farce of the coon- try. Of tliis last circumstance, the framer of the Bill seems to he so much aware, that lee includes those within the operation of the Bill who have been hitherto, iii similar legislative acts, totally es:. eluded. Neither the Weis, of occupation, natural imbecility, and di 444 I oo utive stature ; more/et those of distressand indigence, prevail against the provi sions of this drarossie law. Apprentices, articled clerks, persons undersized, and even poor men, who.w families, however large, depend for daily suloistence on their individual Isbanr, are included in the Act, utul compelled to take the field. Even those who have but just found etenstitutes, or paid the tine required by delimiters in the regular mi litia, are forced to abide the rcsult of a ballot for the local militia ; and cvery Iverson hellotted must of necessity serve personall, or pay the title, whirh being preqxutintal to the income. it is supposed will be ermme•milermil.lem Thus the system of substi tution is totally abolishes'. and this ulster the Pee text of coomilting the public advantage. ft has been need by time framer of the Act, that the erste-to ofsubstitsitimi being in gsmeral founded on inissiocace. Weds eventually to levy a tax on the public. This is admitted ; but is it hot evident that if there be any tax less unpopular than ano ther, it hi ssieh as that naiad by this species of in. qa rall Cr. i iincie it iblarrfeetls optional With the in habit...taus camel parish, whether they will pay a small snm to insure themselves, or abide the riAz of tieing ballotted to serve ? 'I lie Bill gueb another step further ; uu person hailliitted to serve, shall be permitted to provide u substitntis even at his own expense. This is certainly miller a Angular pro vision, since it cannot be said, that substitutiou on these terms would be any more a tax au the public than the iiillictiou of the fine for default of persoual service. Nor is it so very dear, that a substitute may not he as 'flee tire a lotal militia-mita as the person ballotted. Thus all means of substitution me completely cot off, whether personal, which is alisolutely rendered impossible, or by insurance, which is considered a must consummate offence, in which all necessaries are deemed principals : the person inuring hieing compelled by a new and unparalleled innovation of British law, to give evidence against himself ou oath ; and thus he not only incurs the penalty. but also is compelled to serve without uny possibility of redemption: all concerned in this criminal act of jammer may, in the same manner, be compelled to convict themselves on oath, and subject thew selves to heavy fines. Au act thus made in the teeth of the law and custom of the nation, insist inevitably tend to corrupt the public morals, by holding. out such areal; inducements to perjury-, in the Sower orders. if it fail of this effect, it will certainly prove one of the most productive financial regulations since the enactment of the Income Tax. It seems to be rather the spurious policy of a Chan cellor of Exchequer than the legitimate offspring of a War blinister. On a late (erasion, when Mr. Windham pro posed in Parliament an increase of local fo ce to assist the oparatiurui of the army, in cases of great public emergency, it was strongly objected by the framers and official supporters of the present Bill, that this ft rce could never heroine effective, from the small space of time allotted for disciplin ing the several corps raised under that system. Mr. Wiodhaut's phut provided that these corps should be exercised at diffeient periods throughout the year, including an aggregate of forty-two days ; but in cases of emergency these corps might be embodied far any space of time deemed necessary fur the ge neral safety. The local militia are to be embodied and exercised for the-space only of twenty-eight days in succession, except in cases of public emer gency and danger. Is it possible to conceive those into, who could not be rendered effective soldiers. by regular instruction at proper intervals through.. out the year, will. in nearly half the number of days, become effective disciplined troops, merely because those days are in succession ? The con trary is the fact. Frequent exercisieg alone can make the English peasantry expert in the use of arms, and perfect in military diseipline.— This novel principle of conscription, it is evi dent, is adopted from the example of France, without considering the extreme dissimilarity that exists both in the manners and political constitution of the two countries. The French are early initiated into the use of arms and the practice of military evolutions; they are, by profession, • nation of soldiers. England is a nation of merchants, manufacturers, and husband. men. Hence the principle of the measure is ex tremely improper, and the practice, if the nation permit it to be reduced to practice, will be much worse. For a country like England, the r e n ever perhaps was proposed a more injudicious, if not dangerons measure. The population of the coun try are called once in each year to head-quarters within each county for the purpose of exercising. The calls of business, the pressing wants of a fa mily, the illness of any of its members, the unex pected and unforeseen accideuts of agricultural or manufacturing life, are insufficient excuses for a neglect of attendance. From each village are seen groups of peaceful, laborious, and active men, separating from their homes, families, aud occu pations, and proceeding to join their respective corps. But a very small portion of their time can be occupied in the ranks, aid it is almost mineces bare to suggest the differe n t s p ec i es of employmeet ant amusement, which men, separated from all domestic eujoyment, and exposed to all the temp tations of a large toms or a camp, will naturally have recourse to for filling tip their leisure hours. Seduced by the prevalence of vicious example, and having contracted a taste for indolence, sensuality, and debauch, they may return a ft er the expiration of their time to their homes ; but they will no lon ger be the tit tenants of the peaceful hamlet; with no traces of the soldier but in his vices. averse to labour, arid prone to intemperance, the conta gion of their profligacy will speedily be felt throughout the country, and will prove .4 a sot upon a vestal's robe the worse fur what it status.' The Noble Lord ham promised much to the country from the (economy of the measure ; as proof of this, we need only select one instance. The Bill enacts, " That the quota shall be raised by ballot;" yet the Bill also provides a bounty to such as shell enter voluntarily; thus, if the pro portion of the local militia of the county (amount ing, with the effective vo!unteer force of the county, Le six news the militia force of that county) be completely made up by voluntary enrolment, the country is put to an immense unnecesspry reponse, in providing bounties for those militisemen, who must of course have been raired by ballot, without any expinuie whatever. But this system of bounty is a complicated evil. There are, b 7 this Act, bounties for entering into the local tailitik, tither from the volunteers, or the mass of the population. There are again bounties (or entering - from the , local into the regular militia, or the regular army ; and there ate alreadv•bounties for enterusg from the regular militia into the flue. This opens an maple field for the ingenious to swindle the country out of a triple kentuty, by entering the local. and trees. ferriag himself from thence to the regular militia, and again to the regiments of the hue. This is certainly a novel speeies of . ceconormy. and worthy of the Noble Lord's acumen. Another part of the Sill provides. 0. that all deficiencies in the quot..s of the volunteer and local force shall be made uo by fresh ballots. or fresh bounties;' thus the mili tia are enticed into the line. The line is contain ally nceenattleting; yet the local force must be Uniformly kept up to its original numbers ; ye, es it is likely, the regular militia will be constuady in creasing by this system of bounty ; the country, a. its popnlation decreases, must provide au increas ed proportion of effective force to the Local Militia. Cuts. THE BRITISH PRESS. I,(INUON, MONDAY. Arm. es. /114. 110463 RETURN. The Strait.. frigate, Captain BRANUM arrived on Friday at Spithead, in is days from the Chesa peake, and landed Mr. Rose, Spacial Envoy to America, and suite, at Lytaington. The newspap ers received by the Statiri, as might be expected, bold contrary opinions upon the subject of pence or war. The result of Mr. Rose's tuissioa conk! not be known in America until after the departure of that Gentleman, consequently the observatio ns in tliAnterican papers'are prior to that event. The IFiudiegtote Federalist asserts, that " the nega t i o n" sonsldfail.” Theelitrora, Mr. Du • a s's paper, sped k in similar language. It asserts, that the repa. ration offered by Great Britain for the atta c k upon the Chesapeake frigate would not he received upon the condition upon which it was proposed, viz. the repeal of the proclamation excludin g Bri.. tish ships of war from the waters of the Unitvit, States, and interdicting all communication with them. It is stated in some other American Papets, that Congress was ab nit to pass a 1 e,olu tion to enable the Paesitterer to su Tend the operation of the Embargo Act after their risiav;, which was expected to take place in the present mouth. It is also added, as farther evidence of the friendly feeling of the people of the United States, that notwithstandiag the severe penalties attached to the violation of the Cllll3.l'gn, several vessels had sailed iu the night from the American ports, with flour and other provisions for the West India islands, where the vessels were sold, and the crews dispersed, to avoid the operation of the act; and, in consequence of these supplies, flour had very little advanced in Jamaica and our other islands. That avarice may have tempted many individuals to engage in such speculations, exactly as the Dutch. have been known to sell powder to the euemywider their own wars, we do not doubt, but the circumstance affords no proof of the temper and feeling of the Govern meot. The above News papers, which speak adifferen t language, one of them front the seat of Government, and the other a payer in the confidence of the PaESIDaNT. appear more worthy of credit. The Federalist states, that the eels. tense on Commodore Beams:, will not be made known till after the departure of the British Mission. Mr. Memnon is about to publish the whole of his correspondence with his Government during his re sidence in London, as Minister to this country. So much we learn from the American papers. Mr. Rose, upon his arrival at Lyntingtoo, wrote a letter to the Minister, stating, that he had nothing further to add to the iuforinatiou his dispatches contained, forwarded by the packet on the 25th of March, from Norfolk, except that he had taken a very friendly leave ofthe Peen o ENT at Washington, on the 30th of . March. Mr. Rosa added, that he was about to proceed to his father's seat at Cuffnells, and should not arrive in town till to-morrow. Mr. Rose, at the time when lie wrote this letter, presumed that the packet, with the dispatches alluded to, had arrived ; but this not being the case, we understand he has since come to town to give the necessary explanations to Go vernment. So far we have been able to trace the proceedings. All that we have learned of the result is, that the affair of the Leopard and Chesa peake hes been settled, and that not only the embargo, but also the Proe'amation, interdict ing our ships of war from entrance into the waters of the United States, still remain in full force. If these be facts, we are surprised that the Ministerial Papers should boast that Mr. Rose's mission has been co,npletely.succeasful; for, admitting it to be confined to the affair of the C'hesapeal e, its success has been only partial. The Americans have accepted oar apology, bet refused us the condition, viz.—the recall of the interdict which they adopted in consequeuce of that event. The Ministerial Papers tory also - add, that the Per.stut.av treated Mr. Ron: with the greatest politeness, and assured him, in one of his private conferences, that the embargo was not to be con sidered as a measure indicative of hostilities against Great Britain, bet as an act for the more effectual security of American property ; but the will never reconcte the people of England to that measure. The master of the ferret may repeat that the animal liked to have its chops sewed up, but no Otte will ever believe that the measure of eraharep originated in a friendly feeling. Be sides, if Mr. Rose's powers were so strictly limited and confined. if he were completely muzzled and rigged, esti* upon the affair of the Chesapeake, we should be glad to know how the embargo be came the subject of one of his conferences with Mr. Jarrensos The Satyr, Captain J o s es, urrived, on Friday, at Portsmouth, from St. Domingo, with letters frert .cut hav4 sail( bon Lev anc this tro n! fr 11