Star.
London, England, 1813-01-27 00:00:00

Eastern Mustier humbled to the dust, 'he suppli.l
cated peace, on almost any terms, from those Hot-
Landers whom he had formerly treated with so much
contempt and insolence.

The Great HzNnY TV. of France was restrained by
prudence from espousing the cause of the Hollanders
till they had repeatedly,' under Prince WILLIAM
of Orange, proved that they were worthy of support,
and that it would neither be dangerous, nor without
advantage to himself, to support them. He now sup-
plied them with arms, troops, and money ; so also
did our Queen ELIZABETH.
After the capture of General Emma and his
army, and not before, the French espoused the cause,
and lent powerful aid, to the revoked Americans.
It has been the fate of Commercial States, pos-
sessing but little territory, soon to be enervated, cor.
rupted by a mere spirit of traffic and gain, and to
fall under the dominion of some warlike neighbour.
The British are a Commercial Nation : but they pos-
sess very extensive territories. The warlike spirit of
this great Nation has never been sunk and lost in that
of Commerce. Agriculture and Navigation breed
a robust race of meu—the grand materials of an
army. Our army had indeed fallen into a miserable
state, for want of due discipline and due encourage-
ment. With such troops even the Duke of MARL-
BOROUGH could not possibly have prevailed over
the well-disciplined troops, and the skilful Generals
of France. But the British troops, now orga-
nized and disciplined to admiration, and ani.
mated by the magnanimous and benevolent atten-
tions of their country, have uniformly sustained the
character of bold enterprize, and steady valour : nor
have they been at all deficient in military skill and
stratagems of war. They were such troops as passed,
after the death of WILLIAM 111. into the hands of the
Duke of MARLBOROUGH. And they have now, with
our Allies, the Spaniards and Portuguese, been hap-
pily placed under the orders of a Chief, by no means
inferio: to that Great Commander.

It may reasonably, and with much confidence,
be expected, that the victories 'obtained over the
French by the Allies in Spain, and the expulsion
from Russia, and subsequent annihilatiou of the,
Grand French Army, and disgraceful flight of po-
NAPARTE, will be followed by such -a combination
against that Usurper, as was formed against
LEWIS XIV. combination of all the great
Powers on the Continent, even Austria not excepted.
Will the Emperor FRANCIS 11. embrace the dynasty
of the Corsican, though his son-in-law, in preference
1 to the recovery of the independence and greatness of
the House of Austria ? This would not be :Aired
by the Princes of his family, nor even by the rest of
his subjects.
In the war of the succession the Duke of SAVOY,
afterwards King of SARDINIA, grandson of Lzwis
XIII. made war on hi- cousin, PHILIP V. of Spain,
and fought against the Duke of BURGUNDY, heir ap-
parent to the Crown of France, also his cousin, al-
though both these cousins were-married to his daugh.
ters. WILLIAM 111. of England, with the concur.
rence and approbation of the Princess, daughter of
JAMES 11. of England, dethroned his father-in-law.
We shall pursue t his subject on another occasion.

Letters from the French coast, of the 22d instant,
were last night received in town. They state that
BONAPARTE has issued a proclamation forbidding
every Frenchman, who served in the late campaign
in Russia, to return to France under pain of death.
We are also informed, through the same channel,
that a diligent search is now made at the French
ports for English newspapers, which are immediately
burnt. We rejoice to learn that this last precaution
is considered necessary. It is resorted to as a last
effort to maintain, fot a short period, the tottering
dynasty. BONAPARTE has always regarded the Press
of this country as his most formidable enemy—but it
is with this glorious weapon alone that the wounds
inflicted upon him in Russia are to be kept open,
until he breathes out his last imprecation against,
mankind !

By a foreign Gentleman who left Berlin on the
sth instant, we are informed, that a few days before,
the French Ambassador made a demand of 30,01)0
additional troops for a spring campaign in the North.
The demand was made to the King in person, when
Baron HARDFXBERG, his Minister, was present. His
Majesty at first started several objections, and conclu-
ded by positively declaring it to be impracticable.—_
Baron HARDEN BERG then, in a resolute-and dignified
manner, ieminded tl. Frenchman that the whole of
the Prussian fortresses were still garrisoned by French
troops ; although Prussia had long since furnished
the contingent, at a security for which the fortresses
were temporarily occupied by French garrisons. In
the name of the King of Pitussra, therefore, he dc.
rnanded that these fortrises' should be given up to
him in pursuance of the Treaty entered into.--The
French Ambassador artfully replied:-that he had no
instructions on this head, and that the Prussian Mi-
nister must apply elsewhere.—Here the conference
ended, with mutual expressions of dissatisfaction.

We this morning received Papers from Boston, to
the 12th of December, but they contain no intelli-
gence of a striking character. They bring the pro-
ceedings of the House of Representatives down to the
2d of December, but at that period nothing on the
subject o$ peace or war had come under discussion.

They contain various accounts of the rapture of thr
MACZDONIAN by the United States American frigate;
and, as might be expected, they are filled with enco-
miums on Commodore DECATUR and his crew. These
captures of British ships of war have dons incredible
mischief to the interests of Great Britain in America :
even the federalists now t'lk of acquiring a naval su-
periority before they vote for an end being put to the
war. The following are extracts from these papers :

" BOSTON, DECEMBER 11.

u War against America, which has so long existed
in fact, is now declared in form, on the part of Eng-
land. Let us have a war in its true character, rather
than a peace like a- war. Let us leave nothing un-
done to obtain an honourable peace by negotiation :
if we fail we must pursue, and pursue with vigour,
the only course left for its attainment. Let us employ
our resources, and exert our energies where the finger
of PROVIDENOE points to success-..let the war rage
where our injuries have been inflicted—on the ocean,
There our avenging Ministers of justice will continue
to speak a language. and to act in a spirit of honour
that will leave no suspicion of insincerity : they will
display the true genius of America, and command
that respect, without which true friendship can never
exist between individuals or nations."

66 EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED AT SEA, OCTOUR
27, 1812, LAT. AND LONO. 29. FROM A VOLUN-

TEER ON BOARD THE FRIGATE UNITED STATES.
The day before yesterday we met hereabouts
one of his Majesty's best frigates, and Hogged her,
after an hour and an half hard work, though it can-
not be called hard fighting. She proved to be the
Macedonian, 38, Captain Carden, on her return to
England, which she had left a month previous, with
a troop ship, bound to India, under her convoy. She
is a less ship than the rg :asta, in fact, though I do
not believe it would strike the eye of every one to be
so ; her othcers know the Shannon and Spartan, and
say she is. considerably larger than either of them.—
She mounts 49 guns, and one of them she fought
both sides, giving her a battery cl 25 pieces ; she is
only two years old, was built on the river Thames
by Government builders, and not by conuact, as
some are ; is just out of dock, with a full comple-
ment of as tine men as over were afloat.

" The action continued tnis length of time from
their having the weather gunge, and engaging us at
eummous long shot—at a distance I am sure you
never dreamed of ships fighting ; besides, there was a
heavy swell at the time, which made it difficult hitting
so far off. Notwithstanding, our Yankees made out
tip get sight quite enough to fire 70 bro.tdsides in one
hour and twenty minutes. The Macedonian officers
say, and 1 believe, there was not one of our shot fired
a-head or astern of their hull ; and a large portion of
it was sent in amid-ships, where two of her guns were
swept clear_of the men three times.
" You can have no conception, fe,im the exercise
you saw on board the President, of the rapidity of this
ship's fire. I declare it seemed to me to be kept up
with as much life as I ever heard musketry. We had
only 8 killed and 4 wounded, and were so little in-
jured.in our spars and rigging, that we could have
made just such another fight in one hour after this
was over. They had 36 killed and 68 wounded ; lost
their mizen-Mast, fore andbmain.topmasts, and main.
yard. We are refitting her, and she is now almost
ready to commence her voyage for her new home: in
this, if he succeed, I think the Commodore will show
his peculiarity of character more than in his victory,
for we are now at least 2500 miles from home. 1
only hope we may meet your crack ship, my old
friend the Acosta, for although we are 100 men
short of our complement, I have not the least anxiety
about the issue.

" You may rely on it, our men are cool and highly
animated with a spirit of hostility to an English man
of war, that could not be subdued, and trained in
the use of their guns to a degree of skill unknown to
the enemy ; and our guns, notwithstanding their ex-
perience, are fitted and equipped in a mode of which
they are utterly ignorant. It is remarkable, that
during an action of one hour and a half, and a fire
which I believe, and am told, was ntver equalled by
any single deck, that not an accident occurred, not
a deficiency was felt, not a rope-yarn of our gun-
tackle strained, cartridges, shot and wads, nay every
thing was at hand. All the guus on the quarter-deck
and forecastle of the Macedonian were dismounted
or rendered unserviceable."

STAR•OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.

Letters from New York, of the 21st December,
have been received in town. We are sorry to state,
that they mention in positive teams that MADISON
has been re-elected President.

Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL went tent in hip
carriage for the first time since his indisii t
Extract of a letter from Setzen, in Courland, dated 'I
December 17th :--

" The day before yesterday there passed this place
a Polish regiment, the last of those which infested
this neighbourhood. Overcome with cold and fa-
mine, they took up their quarters for the night in the
neighbourhood of Setzen. A whole battalion of 700
men lay in a large cattle-shed, and in the most negli-
gent manner kindled a fire in the shed. While they
were all asleep, the fire burnt on, communicating it-
self to the building, and, according to the report of
some of the soldiers themselves, 400 of their com-
rades were burnt to death; 70 of them were not com-
pletely dead, but were so frightfully burnt that they
expired before evening."

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The SPECULATOR lugger bas arrived at FAlmw.4.
from Corunna,in eight days, with Dispatche, 111,4
the Marquis of WILL9JUTON.

FALMOUTH, JANUARY 24.

Arrived his Majesty's ships BITTIRN
LER, from a cruise ;. SrscuLarcus lugger, from CUT •
runna, with Dispatches, in eight days. Came in a
French brig and three chasse mareest laden v 0..,
brandy and wine, from Bourdeaux, prises to his M.
jesty's ships ARROW and GROWLER. Sdiledaltile i.j:.
zabeth packet, for Lisbon ; and the HinchenhaAr
packet, for Gibraltar and Malta, both with %As.
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