Star.
London, England, 1807-08-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL STAI E OE THE IVEsT.

The Report on the Commercial State of the Weft
India Colonies, laid before our Readers in the &rat
of Tnefday laff, is of infinite importance. Amidst
the fufpicions which frequently arife in the breast of
the Public, that dill:oil-16°ns in the Hodes of Par;
liament are fometimes fubjea to receive the im•
preflions of• Party, it mull be obferved, with great
fatisfaftion, that Ktports, founded nn the bell
dance, are fair, full and impartial. We might on the
prefent occafion call for fume degree of credit,becaufe
our opinions, whenever we have hazarded them on
that fu*6l, have been perlealy in naafi with the
refult of the Welt India Report.
Two Pamphlets have been publithed, which ought
to have opened the eyes of the Public. They con•
tain pofitive and undeniable Etas ; and they have
been anfwered only by vague declamati )n and meta.
rtylical fubtleties, which have fomething of the fpirit,
but nothing of the reafon, ur even the expediency of
Geovius, in his Mare Liberian. A third Pamphlet
has made its appearance within thefe few days—. tr
.nquity into the State of the Indies—which
al.o deferves great attention.

That the American tyllem, which has been called
a fyltem of neuttalitY, i, iu taa the moll detrimental
hoflility to the cleared ittterells of this country, is
clearly proved by thefe Pamphlets and by the Repf.:f
alluded to. Unlefs we tuck to the Maritime C•de
of the war of 1756, which annihilated tt e
Trade and Navy, we thall continue tti have the mi..
tification.of kiting cur C, mme:cial ads ati.ars, rid
f•e;ng thole of our enemies fl mitts aid nvea.e.—
Taat the Americans Le only holding Inc c .tds tor
the French, is death proved, by ()nit Itipnl ti. r to
restore their veffels at the end' o toe y.ar. IMs
circumflance, among others, which Mewed the dt-ter.
initiation of 811611 A PARTE to move Heavrt, E 4
th
to raite a powerful Navy, we nuottioned in t8..)3. In
fa.f, without a feli, us lel; .:u ion to mem. i.l ur
rights, at any ri(k, we may as well
merce and our Independence intn 11-. e 1.0) France.
Will Americs declare war Ag4init u• nor' is
indeed, invade anJ r 'Niter C.:n t•ia ; :•:s1
Life her Trade. Refl. Eti n Wir.t a ife
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of her fober Cittasns: they %it; Ira, cv c: y g
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taken from at, is ail accetri.,n to France ; and that
France will, as we have laid before, be, in the end,
the Arbitrefs of the States, who will then be truly
United, under her compreffive authority.

Yefterday the Claudia cutter arrived at Yarmouth,
with difpatches from the Baltic and the Elbe ; and a
foreign bye•b'at, with Mails and paffengerw from
Tonningen : when the bye boat left Tonningen, there
was not any Englifh veffel lying there, and the
French were within a few hours march of the place.
Letters from an officer of rank in the Baltic Etpe-
dition, (late that the ifland of Zealand was completely
invefied on the loth inilant by 30 fail of the line.—
Nothing was expeaed from negotiation, and the
grand attack was expeaed to take place on the t3tb;
3000 failors, taken from fuch of the fmaller veffels as
had not room to aft, were felefted to join the troops,
amounting to 30,000 men. No doubt was entertained
of complete fuccefs, as the force in the ifland was too
fmall to refill us. In the event of fuccefs, a fimilar
vifit, it was expeaed, would be made to the fleet
and arfenals of Ruffia.

In the mean time, we lay before our Readers the
following article from the Caledonian liercury of the
aoth init. on the fubje& :

" EDINBURGH, AUGUST 20.

66 By a vela arrived this morning at Leith, in five
“ days from Copenhagen, we learn, that the Bran
41 army was ready for debarkation on Friday Lail,
" and that it had been agreed to give up the Danith
gig fleet, laid to be about zo fail of the line, to remain
•gg in an Englilh port during the war."

Rumours have reached us from various quarters,
of thecapture of Buenos Ayres, which we are inclined
to think true. One account flys, that General
CR4IE/TURD received a wound in the leg, and that
another General was alto slightly wounded.
We learn, from a Gentleman who left Flocking a
few days ago, that there are lying at that port (even
(hips of the line, which were lately launched at Ant•
wcrp, where they are building feven others of a flmi-
lar defcription ; and more are expelled to be laid
down, if men can be found in that neighbourhood to
man them.

Yeflerday morning his MAJESTY, Princelies Au-
cussa, Sontra, and AMELIA, attended by Lady
MURRAY, &c. went to St. George's Chapel, and
heard a Sermon by Dr. DODSWORTH, from the 27th
chapter of Proverbs, and tfi verfe ; afterwards went
to Frogmore, where his MAJESTY dined, and was
met by the QUEEN and Princefs ELIZABETH.

We are extremely lorry to announce to the Public
the death of her Royal Highnefs the Duchefs of
GLOUCESTER ; which took place at Gloucefter Lodge,
Brompton, about midnight on Saturday, in the 72d
year t f her age.
The immediate (=Zion of the Duchefs's death
was 30 effufion of water into the cavity of the chef}.
Her Royal Highnef; had been incapable of much
exe'tinn lately, but did not complain of fel ions in-
difpofiti,n until Wednesday lath when her fymptnms
were fuel, as t cccation fame anxiety, but no alarm.
On Saturday morniu7, however, after having flept
nearly fix hours, the Duchef was feized with great
opreffiqn and difficulty of breathing, which conti-
nued, with but little mitigation, throughout the day,
and at length terminated her Royal Highnefs's lite.
An exprefs was fent to the Duke of GLoucusvitt, at
Cheltenham, early on Saturday, but his Highnefs
had not arrived when ths event took place.
Yefterday Captain Ft:massy, of the Etnn Volun-
teers, and Governor of the Poor Knights of Windfor,
was buried with military honours, in Chewer Church,
in the family vault,

In the long depending caufe refpetting the refiduary
property of Mrs. Cam, the LORD CHANCELLOR has
lately decreed the fum of nearly 40,00c1. flock to the
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy ; the intereft
of which is to be applied, one part to poor Clergy-
men with good charaaers and large families, in the
fame manner as Dr. Taylour and Mr. Myddelton's
Benefaeli-n is diflributed, and other part at the dif-
eretion of the Governors of the Corporation in aid
of the Clergy Orphan Society.
A letter has been received by the Gallant fchnoner,
from Monte Video, from an officer at that place,
which contains fome alarming facie, relative to the
Iv file conduct of the Spanifh inhabitants. The out-
rages and ill•will difplayed by the people of Monte
Vidcn and its neighbourhood, and which rendered
necelfai y the proclamation of General WHITELOCKE,
are fait; to have been occafioned by the intrigues and
diffentions of the numerous Englifh adventurers who
have:mived in the River Plata.

It is well known that the Spattifh Governments we e
always extremely fufpicious of the people io their
South American Coltaties ; infomuch that arms and
gimp ,wder could now be obtained without an order
from the G vernor for that purpofe. Na private per-
fon was ever permitted to fell gunpowder, and it could
only be obtained at the Royal warehoufes in fmall
quantities, not exceeding ilb. weight ; and then it
was furnifhed to none but perfons who could bring
certificates of their refpdtability. A number of Eng.
Lib fpeculators, however, who lately arrived in the
river, brr tight whole cargoes of this article, as well
s other warlike flares ; and before any idea was en.
Itttained of the danger of allowing them to difpofe
of fuch articles, they were all fold to the natives and
Spaniards at very high prices. The objet for which
they were purchafed has !ince fulliciently appeared ;
as they have been employed to annoy our people,
*hen in peaceable poffellion of a conquered capital.
--his laid, that upwards of fifteen hundred barrels
of gunpowder have been imported at Monte Video,
from Etgland.
It is Rated alfo, though we know not to what caufe
to aurPoute the circumttance, that all the refpeetable
part of the population of the River Plata, were IA
year decidedly in favour of the Britifb, but a mate-
rial change has since taken place in their fentiments.
Preparations were making when the Gallant failed
fur an immediate attack upon Buenos Ayres.