Star.
London, England, 1814-08-27 00:00:00

FALMOUTH, AUGUST 24.

Sailed the Sandwich packet, with Mails for the Lee-
ward Islands.—Wind variable.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST
Arrived his Majesty's ship SWIPTEUREs from the'
Mediterranean, bearing the flag of Admiral Latio-
HoRNE, and is under quarantine. Sailed his Majesty's
ship BOMBAY, with a fleet for Cork ; ABUNDANCE store
ship for Deptford ; HOPE and CONCORD to blnokade
an American privateer in St. Maloes.—The outward-
bound remain in St. Helen's and Yarmouth Roads.

DEAL, AUGUST Ss.
The ship that I mentioned yesterday was got off
from the Goodwin Sands last evening, and carried
into Ramsgate pier by the Deal boatmen. Sailed
the JASON frigate to kighton. Captain CAkanoN,
late of the ship Coromandel, captured on the ?ci inst.
by the York American privateer, arrived here this
morning, from Crookhaven, in Ireland, with his
Officers and crew, in a small pilot bbat. Came down
from the River the Dromedary store•ship, and remain
with a fleet of transports waiting orders as before.

GRAVESEND, AUGUST 26.
Arrived the Young Detrick, Baste; Rider, t3ontherdewn ;
Vrow Gradina, Masks ; Mioerva, Peter ; Two Brothers, Phil.
lip.; Vrow Ant4ela, Daknun ; huge Garvest, Banker; Jonge
' Peter, Easbeit, from Rotterdam; the Vitiw Catherine, Utter,
from Bolden; the. Walker, Speck, from AMStinlam; .losq*
lams Nov. from Itotw_ at: Zlizabeth..Pambeiton, from Po.
confutes ; Woolfart, Blank • from Memel; Harmon Prim,
Itern-Copmihigen ; Am l4 WA0,64; Rani Inwsons etvp
nada, Clorender, from iirasits.;.Mary Ann, ; and Char-
kite, Crayons, from Enurdseint ; • Jamey Kitty, Solt, and
Hops Benson, from Benno&
Silica the Concord, Brachia, for Boordeaus • Monte Alegre,
Goweelves, for Bahia; Venus, Posid/ston, fir Belfast Penn lin
Canis, °tidbits, for Amsterdam; Minerdas. Taylor, fur Dieppe;
tqd Pebriamta Johanna, Dyk, for. Amsterdam.

THE OLD HUNDRED A)ID FOURTH PSALM.
0 ! when in siekneas 1 as
Play this sweet Anaheim near my bed;
'Twill direr my bogies to be forgiven,
And fia my waft *oughts on litav i lYik
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An individual, who conceals his nan has given
8400 to the Church Missionary Society.

CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 2&.-At a meeting of the
Visitor of Christ College and his Assessors, held yes.
today at Sidney College, on the appeal of the Fellows
against the Master of Christ College, a sentence of
.deprivation of his Mastership was pronounced Against
the Rev. Dr. hitowne, by the Vice. Cii.x..cau.o.i.

Friday se'nnight Brocklebank, Bleastell, in other
montains, near Borrowliridgr, were covered with
saau+. An unusual circumstance at this season of
the year:,
Vauxhall closed list night with a numerous and
fashionable assemblage.--lt has certainly not been one
of the most attractive, althourp it must be confessed
that the conduct of the Proprietor has been distin-
.;uished for judiment, tas►c, and liberality.

1111111161. 1
At the reeillilethollint, if it were asked at Ott-
polhiciame.-Vitat is the object far which our forces
are sett W Amities l-mere disk they would not be
.agre4l in their eisielerto the question : —we do not
i.!iftean with re.speet po the political objects of the war,
but the massy operations by which these objects are
intended to be attained.
It appears that the forces ant, and mending, have
po colninon object. They are directed to different
points; and although they are ao doubt intended to
annoy, no &Make result is expected evidently from
any cepabinpaien in their proceedings after their
asriraL Th lserefore, which some politi-
'cians noightoneWt, that the operations are alto. 8
gather rif a penal nature, and intended to punish and
'chastise. Is el is a proper object of military enter.
prise ? No war tan ever be prosecuted with justice
upon a principle if rearsadon.
Admitting the'Aatkleuns to have injured and in:
suited us, and to-have &ewe, by the time which they
chose for entering into healthy, that they are actuated
'against us by malicious Inalrell, is our Government
justified in departing horn all the hoaourable pun.
ciples which lead to war, by adopting a retalliatory
policy towards America ? We conceive that the poll.
tical object of the war is to establish certain rights
claimed by the one country and denied by the other g
and the object, therefore, of the militaryoperations
shouid be to attain some advantage which shall have
the effect of convincing the American.Goventnient of
the impracticable nature of some of its pretensions.
Now it might be asked—How is tilts to be attained
by fendiqg the greater part of the military force to
Canada ? It is very true that Canada is the point
assailed by the Americans ; and it is no less true that
the facility:with which they have annoyed us in that
quarter, is owing to the vagueness with whiCh the
frontiers of the Province were settled by the Peace
of 1783. The geographical ignorance of the Ititbb
negotiators of that Treaty, has laid Canada in so
great a degree subject to the enterprise of she Ants.
ricans, that it may be greatly aseessary iq our Go.
vernment to wish to redeem the elects of the fatal

ignorance alluded to ; but this can ciair be a secon-
dary object in thli war; and. therefore, the spaiu
force vent to Canada can only be foe duo ckfesce af
that Province. Now we would ask —Mudd sha so.

curiq of the Province not be as eireetnelly eeetrred
by employing that form offensively apieet the Uaited
States, as by leaving it in Canada ?—for we are no;
to believe that any object of conquest is contemplated
in the employment of that division of the army.
It is observed, that a division of our army is d.
asked against the Southern States. We hem of to
loge force having arrived at Bermuda. arid 4 maw
detachments having actually landed in one of the
Florida. Wtiat is the object in view ? Is this force
adequate. to beet the militia of the Southern State/
Is it not sent at a period of the year when the peed,
lent fever of the country always mates its appear.
once ? Is it intended to proceed, after landing, north.
ward ? Does it propose to take possession of any of
the seaports t If of Charkston, or any other, is it
sufficient to maintain itself against the enemy and the
sickness ? For how long ? Because it will not be
affirmed that the force is sufficient for a geperal sub-
jugation of the country : and if the insane s7se se of
a war of paints is to be attempted, it may be asked—
What is to be gained even if the expeditions prove
successful; which, when the season of the year, and
the character of the militia of the Southern States
are considered, is at least problematical ? Those
who have not attended to the difference between the
militia of the Southern and the Northern States, may
not be aware of the importance which we attach to
this difference. In the Southern States the Ameri-
cans, from the necessity of being ever ready to sup-
press insurrection among the slaves, are a trained, if
not a regularly organised military body, of the best
description for the woody warfare of snch a coiling.
In the North it is far otherwise—and hence that in,
feriority which has been manifested in their attempte
on Canada. May we not ask, then, would the oh.
jests of the war be less likely to be attained by direct.
ing the whose force. towards one principal object?
and, if the taking possession of towns be part of the
system already adopted, would it not be more eCec-
tual by being more comprehensive ? If the force to
be employed in the South be for that purpose, would
not a similar employment of the force sent to Canada
send to attain as great advantages as are at present
expected from its operations?
The war in America seems, In our opinion., jar
ink from the imperfect information before the public.
ae to the disposal of the force sent there, has two
objects in view; and as such, being a divided aim,
there is less chance of either being attained. The
effective defence of Canada will not enable Govern-
ment to remedy the errors relative to.the boundaries
committed in the treaty of 1783; nor will it at all
affect the real grounds of the war—because it brings
no interest into the discussion of the question of putt-
'tical rights The force in the Smith will also, to a
certain extent, prove detective in its consequences on
:he general question; for, as we have observed', i s is
not, adequate to effect any permanent co quest, ant
is also inadequate to take possession of any such uu.a•
ber of important points as might be belt, is 611
means of procuring in negotiation a cessiou irons Ott
Untied States of the entice dominion of the Lakes--
without which we shall always hold Canada by
fickle tenure.
In a case ea full of difficulty, any person m
nffer'his opinion. Is it not worthy i,f examinati
whether it would not be better to abandon the id
of em.,,foying a divided force, and to suhstitut:.
war fur a precise object of central conquest—:r
'A a view of holding it, but as the mean.. of ol
tuning the cession of the dominion of the Lakes ?-
For, le Americans havitz shewn that their real of
jeers were the attaining of Canada, and dividing wit
us the Sovereignty of the Ocean, our aim of court
must be ultimately to secure ourselves.
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