Star.
London, England, 1805-12-14 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GRATIMEND, the Rene wall, Cromartie,
from Barbadoes, Speedy, Sail!. from Sr. Vineents; and the Ed-
mond, Peterfon, from Liftr.u..—Sailed the Auguftus Czfar, Bell,
fur Jamaica: Mary, Phillips, fer Waterford; Spring, Cummings,
for Cork ; Vrow Agnetba, Bohn= ; Geute Briton:lg, Rink ;
Jonge Peter, Weyer . • Elizabeth, Gruyt, and the Vrow Catharina,
Jacob*, for Hamburgh. _ _

The convoy that was expedltd to take the fleet from New-
foundland, appoint d to fail from thence for Portugal on the woth,
had not arrived there on the aid. fo that all the veffels then wait-
ing these would p:obably fail without convoy.
The llanovcr Planar, Phillip. from Briftol for St. Kites, is on
fhore in the River, and full of u-. ter.
The iiegeutcr., 1 =hart, from 11 ihnington for Liverpool, has
put Into St. Michael's, and is con.'t nuke: there.
The Conunerce, BMW! for Newfoundland, has
put into Cowes with &mg.:.
A letter has been received in town, Dating, that
the Ganges, Capt. RAND. hum the Weft Indies, had
foundered at lea. The Ganges was one of the fineft
(hips in the Leeward Wand trade, and failed from
Tortola on the gilt of July, under convoy of the
Ixt.usratous. She was luppufed to have been cap:
tured by the Rochefort fquach on—but the letter re-
ceived on Thurfday Dates, that he foundered at fea
in one of the heavy gates the tit-et experienced on its
pafrage home. She had a ;peat number of paten-
gers on beard, among whom, it is faid, there were
two ladies.

The fire, which we mentioned in our paper of yet
terday as having happened on the preceding evening,
broke out in the lower warehoufe of Mr. Gtxxer, the
Printer, and is fuppofed to have been occalioned by
a (park flying on Come paper, of which the room was
full. There were from fifty to fifty men at viol kin
the office, at the time the accident occurred, none of
whom can otherwife account for it. From this
lower room it focn reached ;he upper floors, which
were alfo fully Rocked with paper ; from one ware-
bode it made its way to another, and from thence to
the printing offices. The damage which has been done
is as follows: The warehoufes and printing offices of
Mr. Gillet, which lay behind Saliffittry-fquare, and
reached to Water lane, with molt of their valuable
contents, qnite deßroyed ; of the dwelling houfe of
Mr. Gillet (the corner houfe in Salilbuy-fquare) not
a veflige remains ; two (mall Ironies, fituated near
Water-lane, burnt down ; the houfe of Mr. Si. an.
another printer. which lay t. wards Fieet4ii e.t.
for a long time on fire ; the party wall is hut r t dovi rz ;
he had time erionFli to move the 'ehole of his prii.
perty ; the Jenneran Society'. iloufe (a very law
one) n the weft fide of the Square—the party wall
quite burnt through. the upper room gutted, and the
h ufe otherwife fo much damaged, as altnoft to need
la.irg rebuilt; the houfe of Moils. Jones and Greet.
actin nies, next to the Jennerian Sudety—the bade
part damaged : this houfe has foffzred left than any
other.
It is Angular, that at the time of the fire at Mara-
m ilton's,the Printer,in Fleet ft r eet,abou t two years ar,
a very valuable publication had been completed, with
the exception of a tingle filet : the whole edition was con
turned. This work wa. afterwards given to Mr. Gil-
let to print, and he had aaluaily fiiifbed it all but
twofieets, when the unfortunate aceidcnt of Thur Way
a night, in like manner deftruyesi every copy.

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Mr. EDITOR.

LAIV 'NYE f.LIGBNCE.

TO TSE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

It ix,always with the higheft fatisfarlion that
v .1;1 !•clir patriotic warnings to your countrymen in
tn.: ,ur o•nt very alarming crifis of Enrope ; indeed,
intel),:ted mutt thole be who can at prefent entertain
do;ll,ts rar this fu)jeet.
Ivo may remember the words of a eircnmnaviga-
tr.r., who Girl to his torpid and drooping Friends—
.' Li" you fit, you fleep ; and if you 11.!ep, you wake
no more." Among the plans of relittance fo fee-
difcnlred, why fhould we forget the wife and
;;“ oefsful cuilnins of cur anceams, who by their
fu-
...: for 'kill in archery alone maintained for feveral
o :•inries the firft Ration among the warlike nations
a very warlike period of history ? Yet was this
"-ill obtained not by employing the inhabitants of the
....entry in rircfi and manceovres, but limply by en-
regular attendance at convenient timer at Cm.
rooting-grounds, with which every village was pro-
vided—Co that every citizen %Orb little lot; of rime
or ezpence became a formidable foliier and his
cltaraftcr iseing railed by his proficiency in arm.,
partook equally of that of the Soldier and Citizen.
From this fource alone fprung all our 'Works and
fame in former days.

Such a plan at prefent would not only, at a very
trilling coil, infufe a warlike Ipirit throughout the
nation, but fupply the army, in cafe of invafiun, ith
aeleall one half million of combatants. Let tiflcs be
di leibuted to each dittriEt according to it; population,
and the per-Inns to whom they are cot! tilled, enrolled
tinder proper officers, and the Lieuttnantcy of the
County or the Magillrates of Towns.. Let every vil-
lage have, as of old, it, ground fit pr.sait e, and a
room ta ferve 23 a depot for the arms, under charge
of an old foldier. or fome careful perfon.
No other change need be introduced into the cot:-'
*Arne of thefe riflemen except a (hors grey jacket and
round hat, which would have a martial appearance,
at little expence; in cafe of invalion, filed corps of
riflemen might be formed out of thefe nurferies, and
ti efe would, at far leis coil of time or money, be
more efficient than our prefent corps of Vulan-
teerc, t.r nor former levies of pikemen.
Your giving a place to this may do good.
• IiIISOGALLI7II.
December 5, 'Ss 5.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. n.

The Loan Cu NCF LLot informed the Court, that
he (lionld giv,e judgment in the cal: of White and
'Williams, on Monday next.