Star.
London, England, 1808-08-19 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON.
FOR SALE BY AUCTION,

M the Costont-i-latiser in this Port, on Satgrday, the Mk day of
A unust, 1808, at Eleven s'Clock in the Forenooo
11112 FOLLOWING GOODS,
Tor Dealer+ and others.

7i Gallons Portuiral;;;iSP;nish Wise
2 Ditto French Wine.
I?, lbs. pack Tes-170Ibs. Sugar
With two small open Boats and four Oars.
For Private Families only.
Gaßoni Brandy
13 Ditto Rum

IG6 Ditto Geneva
Nr,leh have been seized and legally condemned, and Rlll,be
viewed and the Wine and Spirits tasted in his Majesty's WSW-
ham two days before the S.le.

: • 'C LEMINGTON, itANTS.
1.9.E1f. SOLD BY PRIVATE •
• And early possession g
A .ciattAt. FREEHOLD STR7ll,3i3Tiat-
AIL In of a Mansion fiduse „ *Ora abuse fro- three
g=ts, Stables, Dairy, sal Ntqohlihi togethw with
Ground and caplet EiNdissi-Gercien, Fann Yard, brick
Barn, Granary, &t. and two *needing rich Meadows, containing
about eight Acres and an half, and adjoining is another: it!id on
lease, of four Afros. The premises command a beetle:Wei an I ex-
tensive view of the Sea, Isle of Wight,and Needle Retlis ; a goad
resent Pew in the Church is to be disposed of weds the Ilium,
which is in compleie repair, and mederniy and Lando:wady fur-
niabed, and the Furniture Win be included in the prams&
For further particulars, apply, Irby letter (post Fold), to Oe 41c
Ellis Esq. Solicits's. Ahingtitmetrer.,- , ef er „ma
tickets may be bad weiew the premien.

IMPERIAL JAPAN'IBLACKING.

PATRONISED BY THE ROYAL FAMILY.
HOLMES and LANDERS most respectfully in-
form the Public, that after considerable trobble and expence
they have brought to perfection a superior JAPAN BLACKING,
Which, from experience, they can assert with confidence is far
above any yet offered to the.Publie. The great eicellence of this
Blacking is, that it produces the most brilliaot jet black gloss ever
beheld, and prevents the leather from crackiog; it alsu possesses
the quality of resisting the wet, which gives it a decided advan-
tage over all other Blacking.
Sold wholesale at their Manufactory, No. S, Ship-yard, Picket-
street 'Temple-bar; and at Mr. Landers's, 10, Devereux-court,
Stran:i ; also, by. appointment, by Mr. Welker, perfumer, St.'
James's-street; Mews. Keith and Co. Perfumers, Hayme.rket ;
Mr. W boot-maker, FislutreeNhill Mr. Henson, bootmaker,
Little Eastebeap ; Mr.Chiltl, bootmaker. Fsuchurch-street ; Mr.
Robertson, perfumer, Princes-street, Edinburgh ; and by most of
the eimpettable Venders in the United Kingdom.

THE BLOCKADE OF THE COSTLPIEIfr

- • PROM TIM, SPANISH I'AP744.

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At Continental Blockade of England practicablti,c. -
Were the old and new Continents under the domi-
nion of a single Monarch—were his orders capable of
being obeyed and executed along the coasts of every
country on the face of the globe, and were his sove-
reign resolutions exempted from the interruptions of
necessity and contingent circumstances, in that case
the Continental Blockade might be practicable and
effective. Bat that a single kingdom, (or empire, if
You will, though it does not command the Western
maritime parts of the Continent of Europe) should
require all the other powers, without any regard to
their position, relations, and wants, to deprive them-
selves of the benefit of commerce, to forego the ne.
cessaries and conveniencies of life, to destroy their su-
perfluous native productions, and to dispense with all
the auxiliary advantages afforded by industry • and
navigation, is an extravagant pretension, impractica-
ble with regard to foreign dominions, unjust and ty-
Tannical at home. It is an established axiom/. that
.naaritime ports are the fountains of national riches,
from which proceed the influx of species, arid
:commodities, both of the first necessity and oflqxury..
If this entrance to public happiness is shut against the
human race, men must confine themselves to the .na-
tive products of the sail, and, from . the want of the
precious metals, be reduced to general indigense.—
, Without this resource no nation could• raise ttself to
greatness t armies could not b.einaintained, nor icon.
quests projected andex.ecuted i awl hence. it was al-
ways wisely conceived that that power irouWeem-
wand the Continent which should possess, the. 4,4i*,
Won of the seas, and catty on a flontishiatconsoeree

and navigation. Notwithstanding these undoubted
truths, France, which for nineteen years has in this
respect done nothing but project the most ridiculous,
quixotic, and almost impossible enterprizes, ventured
to declare a Continental Blocicade against the Eng,
fish, and that too before she was absolutely mistress
of the coasts of Europe. The novelty of the idea
surprised all those credulous beings, who admire
whatever is new and extravagant—bin it necessarily
attracted the ridicule of all true politicians, who con-
sidered it as an adventure similar to that which the il-
lustrious hero of La Mancha undertook against the
windmills, which he supposed to be the wicked en.
chanters of his fair Dulcinea. In fact,the report of
Talleyrand, the approbation of the Senate, and the
Jnsperial Decree of Bonaparte upon this subject, are
comic originals, which would have been very fair
game to such men as Plautus, Martial, etc. En-
gaged ins hazardous cantor with Russia, Sweden,
and Prussia—not absolute master of Denmark,
Spain, Austria. Portugal, and Turkey, and even be.
fore he had yet conquered Calabria, and expelled
' from the Adriatic and the Mediterranean the Pope
and the Queen of Etruria, could any thing be mote
tidiculous and presumptuous, than, under such cir-
umstances, to decree that the whole Continent .
khould shut its ports against the English, and sacri-
fice its interests, commerce, and territory, because
such was the sovereign pleasure of Napoleon ? The -
idecree, however, went forth, and the exalted imagi-
nations of French visionaries already beheld the in-
, dustrious Britons expiring under their burdens, and
'left to the mercy of the waves. What a sad picture
did they give us of their situation Great Britain
presented nothing but inactivity, famine, discontent,
and frequent insurrections; and there were some who
already beheld King George on his knees, imply ring:
peace froin the Hero of the age, the Arbiter of the
Edestinies ! So great is the influence of falsehood tin..
der the reign of ignorance l But the Eni-,lish,
though excommunicated by the bull of Bonaparte,
instead of declining, continued ay- advance in riches
and strength, whilst specie was disapjearing in
France and Spain, and the man of opulence wars
compelled to eat the same-breakfast with the porter.
for want of sugar, coffee, cocee, and other cola
Mal commodities. The colonies, both Spanish and
French, were, in consequence of this decree, exposed
to the manifest hazard of being revolutionized, and
proclaiming themselves independent. Those of his
allies, who exist by commerce alone, would h :re
been compelled, as the only means of saving them-
selves from total ruin, to castoff the protection and
alliance of their Lord Napoleon ; and his aiming
would have run the risk of being dissolved and dis.
persed, in consequence of there being no more money
to plunder, nor kingdoms to conquer--at the ,aine
time that having no maritime force to cope with the
British, the latter would continue in the exclusive en-
joyment of the commerce of the Indies ; and the no.
cessity of obtaining the productions and manufactures
of Europe would compel the inhabitants of Amer
to open their ports to the English. Thepsviecr was
therefore ridiculous and chimerical.; and kionaparse --
knew well enough that this was not the 'way to de.
prive England of the dominion of the seas, nor t
deliver the ports of the Continent from blockade, anl
to retaliate in his turn ; for England had a fort.e t.
keep us in a state of blockade, and Bonaparte had
nine to prevent it. But he longed to conquer and
divide the Continent among his brother, and devised
this project to conceal from the French his true inten-
tion, and that he was dragging that nation into the
field of slaughter, for the purpose of creating kings,
after having, in order that they might get rid of
kings, sacrificed three mi.lions of the youth of
France--and thus he disguised the private interest of
his own family, under the pretence of the general in-
terest of the nation. This decree was, therefore, a
political prognostic of the premeditated articles of
the peace of Tilsit, and the division of Europe into
two empires—Bonaparte taking to hiroself, for the
present, all that part of the Continent Web -eitends.
from the Vistula to Corfte, and is bounded by the
Baltic, the Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Adri.
atic, leaviug the rest to Russia—so that this project
copaprithended the conquest of Spain, Portugal,-
OMthaiPapal States, Denmark, and the Haase.
and ultimately Austria, which was the,
only thing wanting to complete his work of dew-.
lation. All were included in his decree of Conti-
nental blockade ; and this was a sweeping expo.
client, in order to furnisha decent pittence for the
entrance of his armies, whose approach would have
been preceded by proclamations, affirming that they-
came only to compel the common enemy to keep
within his own •limits, and to conclude a marttinse
pesee. The French appeased on the stage, and the
performance commenced ; and those who in the first
act performed the parts of friendship aad modera-
tion, in the second boldly threw off the mask, and
represented the robberies and frauds of their leader
and his gang. The English, beyond all comparison
wiser and more sagacious than the French, saw, in
the execution of the decree of Contieental blockade,
the destruction of the monstrous empire of Frances
and the recovery of the freedom of 44r0Pe and the
world. They protected their allies, and hit the other
Powers to be undeceii,

are accordingly
the yoke. They
the English, who
the most -

aids of every
munication,
being srunt-
flourishing
having placed
plain of "

detest any

with shame

they were
tineetal -

and swear

to be undeceived by experience. All of them
n'dingly undeceived, and resolved to shake of
. They open their hearts and their ports to
;list', who are capable of affording them, in
,st generous and energ.tic manner, eopr6us
every description t and on opening the com-
tion, they find dm treat 'Britain, instead of
ink into dejeetiori and poViiity , is Misch more
ing and opulent thin belbre: They. blush for
placed any eonfidetice hi' dke :French, corn.
lius
f their seductive proclima I; inid for air
nd 'abjure their friendship. ' • dipknowhilke
ime the absurd and extravaggn l 'endive whft4.
me pursuing, in lending tisixaul iO the Col.
bloc Ede ; they now liar ie • iiiito rididatt.
:as ocernal friendship to Groat 'Beira*