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to will away with a dash of your pen, Conquests
which had been earned at the eypence of the best
blood of Britain, of which millions of British Mo.
ney had been expended in the cultivation, and from
which Millions it, return were calculated to he
drawn, had ynu then declared that you meant no.
thing more than experiment have heard of ,; man
serriv, fire to a temporary edifice for the purpose
of ttying the experiment of eXtinguishing it ; hut
I have nor, I confess, in my journey through life,
met with one mad enough to try the same
.exveri-
in,nt upon his own dwelling, in which were his
wife, his children, his friends, domestics, and trea-
sures—or atrrmpt, at the risk of his whole posses,
sions, to establish a point doubtful in its effect, and
fatal in its failore.-..-Such a Philosopher must fall
under the censure of being Nature's Fool, without
tetidring-the a,,istarice of Mr: 'ActotNGTori's Rat.
tiocivations.—No, Sir, if Peace was an experi.
went, it was an experiment on the side of 80NA..,
TARTR, who ha, succeeded in every part of it.—
He hos gained by it the experience of our Imbecili.,
ty—he has gained all the Conquests and Colonies,
made in the course
.of a long acid successful War ;
he has gained time to make new Continental ac.
quisitiong ; and he has gained the advantage (the
greatest of all, as it respeas the Continent of Eu.
rope) of placing Great Britain in the light of an
Aggressor--convicting her of a 'Breach of Faith,
and !iegradMg her in the eye of surrounding Na.
-dons. -I much fear that the fraMe and nature of
• ourConritution will not stand the expense of many
more such experiments! YOur Friend, Sir-, who
professes to maintain a Paradox (a profession that
was certainly :unnecessary to any person Who
has read his Pamphlet) lathents that we had not_
mole conquests, more acquisitions, not to balante.
onclosses, but that we might have givu them up /
'This savours more of system, Sir, 'than any thing,i
which with the strictest attention, I halve, been able
tei discover in your Adininisirat ion ; fatale prineiMe.
which•ltads you to think the Country better with.
out her Colonies, may be traced in .your conduit
towards the Volunteers : you, no doubt, consi-
der them a more el-Fee:Jive force without arms in
their hands, and !hetefore refaie to supply them
with such useless weapons of defence. The Enemy
is .at' our very gates, and our Volunteers are un-
armed !—" True," you say, " but they arc Vo-
" luntecrs still, and the Country is to be saved by
" the brave Volunteers; we have publicly thanked
" them for their future services, and if we think
" it expedient, we may give them musquets—in
‘f time." .This, I swiped, will be something like
your early naval preparations (though it cannot be
said of either, •Dertrs reprtha pharbit ; and a
•Volonteer without arm is no bad accompanyment
to a Ship without SaiiC)r6
But, Sir, how. ,can you imagine the Country
will submit to be laughed at by your hirelings, for
having credited y.our assertions, and relied on your
promises ? the high authority of Government to
become the stage of a mountebank ? Is the tone,
the charatter of Diplomacy to be employed for the
vurpmes,ol chicsruery ,and deception.? Why, Sir, if
you reA4,ielt the Peace, a Peace a Experiment,. as
you would have us believe, did you not wait the
gradual de veloperrient of its operation P Did you
nbtierve !hot BorrAtAß73 sat down fatigued and
'ittra,sed, like a man after battle, throw aside his

.4111)0L1r, lay by. his swotd in the scabbard, and turn
,his thoughts merely to the acts of peace and to his
domestic duties ? Did he not, on the contrary, stalk
firth, and lay his devastating hand upon the Italian
Repubiic ? Did he not pursue his system of aggran.
disement pending our negotiations with him ? And
yet when the Definitivriteaty w.+4 signed,wes there
a moment lost in dismantling our Navy, or disbanding
40,r Army Did we not outstrip the usual routine of
business to put ourselves in a state to cry out to
Frances• " There see our diposition—see what we
have done!" without once looking to BONAPARTE,
or thinking to regulate our motions by hi.—still
you assured us of the First Consul's sincerity, and
the angry tumult of your soul would have crushed
the daring Libellist who could even sesped the
gentle, tradable, and humble-minded Despot of
France.---Were the People to suppose that men en.
trusted with their Rights, their Properties, their.
Lives.and Liberties, were so • utterly destitute of
ore. sight, Prudence, and Precaution, as to rely
upon a literal Profession, which is all you, Sir, could
1,•1%e trusted to from the Enemy ?—could they irna..
glee' keida time best means. of_information of
what wes actually gcieg forwarde.tbe word of Gm—
vertneetit • was not to be 'relied on 1-•-No, Sir, the
Cetietry has been in the habit of eighteen years
Conti,fc!nce in the Charatter and Talents of Admini-
loration.—They have only now learret,'.and that to
the cost- of the little popularity as a weiboneaning
man, your Friends conceive you once posses.
seal, that rh have been deceived, end that they
are lee;.,,,lied at ler their credulity. They have part.
ed w ith their Conquests
.and theit Colonies, and
now are told they were given up as an experiment,
1.) pmehase a phantom. They are, in abort, 'term-
ed Dtivellers and Fools by those Ministers whose
ads have deceived them-rand termed so, because
they believed what His Majesty's Confidential Sere
vent told them, and trusted in assurances which his
every public at corifirmed.—Whether a people so
treated are fools by nature, or by Mr. ADDlttorox's
persuasion, I leave others to decide, If they-suffer
themselves to be so cajoled again, they Must be
found guilty of the Charge of Folly, from whatever
cause it may arise.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your's, 80.

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LONDON, ocrgnßm 1803.

Spirt:yl4 VesseN part of 'the Jamaica Phil,
are arrived at Bristol, They parte4 the &hips for
Load9n (-.) leagues West of Cape clear), under coo..

voy cf one of the irrigates on the Cork Station, who
f'ell is with the Fleet and took charge of them.

'Furs morning a Mail arrived from Dublin, with
Papers of the isth. They announce the arrival of
Lord CATHCART in that City on the preceding day,
ro assume the Command in Chief of the Military
Forces in that Kingdom.

. •
Monday afternodn NIT trC etc Am Lin took an
airiPg towards He :nil.,
PRINCESS SOPHIA of 'GLOUCESTER arrived at
Windsor on a visit to THEIR MAJESTIES, who had
a select party at the Lodge in the evening.
Yesterday morning the DUKE of KENT arrived at
'Windsor from Castle Barhill, and at half•past nine
o'clock accompanied Fits MAJESTY, the DUKE of
CAMBRIDGE and PRINCESS SOPHIA 00 horseback,
in the Great Pak and vie'wed-the different improve.'
ments.
Earl Moißit, it is said, lissbeen appointect,Com-
mander of the Forces in Scotland, and that he is to
set out in a day or two for that quarter,
Lord EDWARD SOMERSE'T offer.Mmini 11, c..,„,an.
didate to succeed his brother the Marquis of, Watt.
term, now Duke Of BEAUFORT- in the repro.
sensation of the County of Gloucester.
An order has been oceived by the Agent far
Transports at Plymouth'to provide ',provisions and
stores for four months for 20,000 lOW of- shipping.
As the transports generally run from, three to. four
hundred tons, nearly sixty sail .of that description
will of course be vidualled, and stored.
Government, it is said, are in treaty. foe the par.,

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chase of. the Buildings which were, devoted to the
peculation for the manul'afture of Straw,papr.—
!Ilese Buildings are held by lea,froin Earl GAOS.
ITZNOIt.
Orders have been issued by Government, to..pro:
hibit in Ircland the distillaticin ofspirirs from, Oats,
a measure which the failure of the potatoe crap has
rendered essentially necessary. , •
Major General CAmrsELL'has returned from his
inspetrion of the Country between the City of Cork.
and Bantry Bay, for th4illreinfarceinent of which
List mentioned place;
.4 46th Regiment,' and a
Detachment of Artillernwere immediately'ordered
to proceed.

It is rumoured at Cork, that Lieut. Gan. LOUR-
TON obtains a command in England, and will be
succeeded in his appointment is, Ireland by ,Gene.
ral FLOYD, an Officer of high military skill and
experience.
Several Papersscontinue to delude the Public with
,absurd!Rcports relative to the Volunteer Corps, not
only in the Metropolis,. but throughout the King-
dom. We are daily informed of orders issued by
Governthent to Corps of this description to he;,l
themselves in readiness to take the field.' There is
not a single Corps, either Cavalry or Infantry, in or
near the City of London, which has received any
such order.
Monday next is fixed by Lord HARRINGTON for
brigading the Royal Westminster Regiment, the
Queen's own, or Queen's Royal, and the Loyal North
Britons Volunteers, in Hyde Park.
To-morrow Lord HARRINGTON will review the
St. George's Bloomsbury and the St, Volun-
feet's, in the Toxopholite Ground, Gower.street ;
after which Sir JOHN NICHOLS, as. Colonel-Coin.
mandant, will present them with a stand of Colours;
from thence the whole Corps will proceed to dinner
to the Free Masons' Tavern.
The DUKE of CUMBERLANWS Corps of Sharp
Shooters he inspated by General the Earl of
HARRINGTON on Saturday morning next at ten
o'clock, at the Archery Ground near Gower street.
The Countess of HADDINGTON lately presented
a Pair of Colours to the 4th Troop of East Lothian
Yeomanry, commanded by Lard BINNING ; after
which the Troop dined with 1,94 HADDINGTON at
Ty ningham. s'artf!
Saturday 'se'rirdght tl;ebntirilfitigton Castle and
Newbury Cavalry had th4444-datidard presented to
them by CHARLES DUND A.s,' Esq. Member for the
County, who made a very animated and impressive
speech on the occasion.
The Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall,- conformably
to the dots, of his office, which is peculiarly'im_
portant at this alarming crisis, 'represented in very
strung terms to the Admiralty the defenceless state
,of that county, but at the meeting of the Lieutenancy
ots the third instant, was unable to give any satis.
factory information upon the subjr6t, as, heitad not
received all answer. What must be thought of the
irate of affairs, when the most important depart.
ment of 'the national-defence at the-present moment
is truss conduded I •
On Thursday last as a party of the'Loyal Volun.
trete of Braintree and Backing were at,drill, 4n a
field opposite to the dwelling-house of the Right
Hon. Lord CH/1.111.ES ANSLEY (present Dean of
Backing), his Lordship being absent, his Lady,
,with an air of decorum becoming•her een.
descended to step into the field, and saluted ''them
with a congratulatory speech on -their coming'fok.
ward with such promptitude and zeal in defence of
their King and Country, at this most important
crisis. Atter which her Ladyship ordered every
man a glass of spirits, she herself drinking in the'
first place to the success of the Braintree and BOcking
Volunteers, which condescension was received With
the loudest plaudits by all present.
The number of Volunteers returned by the De..,
puty Lieutenants for Sussex, previous to the 114.
tation- taking place, was.:(itUop. This number
has been reduced by GoAmepi,t(l), 4000, which are
not yet all provided willitArM49(Apathing.
The artillery on the 'ectiiii-statilsii have received
a necessary supply of
,ammunition for action, and
orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at
the shortest notice.
Cons4lerable Progress has been made in throwing
up redoubts at Pevensey. .
The new Barracks at Lewes are partly ready for
the admission of troops.
Three of the vessels presented by the Eaet India
Company to Coyernret;nt are, it is said, to be welt
tp Leith Roads,