Star.
London, England, 1807-09-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDIIOR OF 7fIE STAR.

SI perfons having laboured to diffeminate
an opinion, " that an application to Government on
behalf • •f the Shippers to the river Plate for tempo.
nary aid, would be extremely unpalatable to the
nati.m at large," I beg leave. through the channel
of your excellent Paper, to offer a few obfervations
on the policy and expediency of affording fuch aid,
whenever the prelTore of the necafiun filial/ compel
them to apply to G':vernment for it.
It is an eflahlithed principle with all commercial
(later, to promcte and encourage every fpecits of
fair enforprize tending to open new channels for traf-
fic, efpeci.tlly fuch as at once embrace the profit of
the individual, while they iacreafe the fifcal tefources
of fuch States. This ptinciple is no where better
undetiloocl, or mote happily Pinar-lied than in Great
Britain. Hence alifes that degree of commercial
ardour which flimulates the Capitalill, the Merchant,
and the Manufaatirer to engage in navel adventurer,
and explore new channels for trade, confiding in the
prrtedive influence of the fylletn which has ylaced
Britain in its prefent impoling attitude, and relying
on the aid of a beneficent Government, iktould un-
forefeen cafualties occur.

Under this impreflion, Buenos Ayres was nn former
captured, than an immenfe fum was devoted to open
a dined trade with the river Plate, which prornifed
ample returns to the adventurers, and incalculable
advantages to the State. The effe& which the intel-
ligence of this brilliant atchievement produced on
the minds of all ranks is (till recent in our memo-
ries, and was hailed as one of the moll glorious ex-
Oohs of the war. In that conqueft we beheld anew
and pr,fi:able mart opening to Bildt!' capital and
enter prize, under the aufpices of a Paternal Govern-
ment, faationing it with every folemn and legal
form which the jorifprudence of the country required
to render it a legal trade. In that acquifitiun we
likewife beheld a new market opening to compenfate
fur the loft of there vents, which our inveterate foe
had Phut againa us.
. Under circumffances fo propitinus, the Merchant,
the Ship-owner, and the ManufaEturer engaged in
it v-ith eharaaerittic avidity, the beneficial effetts of
which, would have loon been felt by affnrdii,g em-
ployment for 5',c00 tons of (hipping, and diffufing
the Blirith manuladures over an immenfe track in
South America, which would have returned hides,
tallow, and an innumerable lift of precious commo-
dities to an immenle amount. But, alas! this prof-
pea of a golden I; arvea loon vanifhed. The fi rwer
of our army, baffled and difgraced by a recreant
population barn icadrred in their paltry dwellings,were
not permitted to hurl that deltruainn on their foe,
which their perfidy merited. klow different was the
c,urdutt and o(owefs of the brave Abercrnmby, who
With a force little fuperior to our a: my id the river
Plate, landed, engaged, and conquered a well diki-
Oiled French tinny, enured to the climate, and az-
cuffonted to sietory, fighting, it may be Paid, almod
on their own ground—But comparifons are always
orb ,us—ia the prefent inftance, they become peculi-
arly r
Bit we beg pardon for this digreltun. If the
bop..s ef the Shippers to Buenos Ayres have been
crrithed. when they feemed neareft fruition—if their
jutt expatatinns if remuneration have been truftrated
y events fu unf..rdeen—it their brilliant prolpals
]lave been o!rfeured, and win-lly vanifhed through
the trilcondiret, the errors, or it you pleafe, the mis-
fortunes of the fervarts of Government, who are to
be 100 teed up to—if nut for indemnity, at 'call for
aid, but that very Government Whether the Mi•
triflers who employed filch fervants are in or out of
office, it can make no difference to the claiutants.—
'I lie Government is immutable, and whct'-er one or
sulter let of men adminiffer it, the beneficence cf its
(per. v:ons can never be coraroultl or withheld from
the fubjed, when a fit occation requires its interpofi.
tinn. Up-'n what ground cf p< !icy, or expediency,
we would afk then—can G'vernment withhold its
Pottering hand on the prefent occafion ? We miff
there is not an individual Member of the Cabinet
who would refufe it ; and we can never prevail on
nurfelves to juege fo unfavourably of our country-
men, as to fuppofe that a tingle individual in the
kingdom will withhold that lympathy, which the
melancholy occalion in a manner demands ?
At a pet iod like the prefent, when it is obvious that
Bonaparte has fomething more in view than fimply
difireffing our trade and commerce, our Government
ought to be particularly attentive to the well foun-
ded claims of .he commercial body. The principal
objed of our inveterate enemy is to (ow ditfenfion—
Ipread difcontent, and excite murmurs among -the
trading intereft ; to blow the (mouldering afhcs of
anarchy into a flame ; and then, what may he not
accomplifh—When the merchant is difeouraged,
the manufadurer unemployed, and the fhip owner
compelled to lay up his [hip to rot in our creeks and
harbours. Thefe are his (Nees, and by driving us
tram the European markets, he feeks their :meow.
['Ailment. To countered thole efforts, every encou-
ragtrrient mull be held our, every aid mutt be eaten-
ded to the mercantile interek when jolt and need-
Lay appeals are made for filch encouragement and
aid. Then we (hall Hill be enabled to foil the tyrant :
we (hall evince to the world that what his whole
power could not accomplillt in the field, the machi-
nations of his Pandemonium loan never effect in the
Cabinet ! _ _ _

I may, however, after all, be premature in advo-
cating for a relief not yet required ; but fhould it
ever be folicite,i, I troll the wildom of Government,
whatevzr may be the praffures we may labour under
tr, other refpeas, will readily grant it, or at leap te
turn the twelve and a half per cent. paid by the Su-
percargoes on landing at Monte Video, under an
:dea that fuch contribution was paid to Government
for vermillion to fell, not to nih:p fuch cargoes.
• I am, Sir, Yours. • IntfteAT!jt.
Temple, Sept. as, 11,337.

Two Gentl:men talking on the political principles
of the late Mr. Fox. one of them took occafion to
Aye, but he is now dead," in rather a fatif-
rattory tone ; to winch the other, an Hibernian, re-
plied, wi'h Game degree of warmth, ‘‘ Aye, and fo
!hall you be. if you live long enough!"

Wednccday, as Mr. Paull, fon of Mr. Paull, of
Cattle Cary, aged ab• ut 18, was Efliing in the ricer
rrcnie, At Welt Stafford, near I)orcbctler, be fell
irau the liver, and wai drowned.

. FROM AMERICAN PAPIERS OF AUG. 2S.

" THE GRAND OBJECT.

" Some who glance fuperficially on Democratic
Papers, may have imagined that the hue and cry
they raife in favour of going to war with Great '
Britain arifes from a &fire to maintain certain rights
etfential to the well being of this counti y. Let there
Papers, however, be read with attention, and it will I
be found this is not the grand otjeti- With only bete l
and there a glance at the Chelapeak affair, there is
a conflant fiream cf the moll violent abule on the
Englith nation and Government, and the glorious I
profpeEt is cherilbed of humbling them in the dull, I
and erafing the name of Great Britain from the lift I
of independent Powers !
" France now triumphs on the Continent of
Europe with irrefiftible Tway. There is but one oh-
fiacle left to the abfolute domini-n of Blnaparte
raer this earthly ball—that is the Navy of England.
Let us like good politicians and real well withers to
the profperity and independence of our country, now
mike in, with all our efforts; fhould be In happy
as to difirefs England and render her unable longer
to maintain her war, then (hall we fee Emperor Bo-
naparte fairly blrand the reach of any check what-
ever—the delliny of our own and every other nation
completely fuhjetted to his nod !
" Is not this a confipurnation devoutly to le wilbed ?
Is it not furptifing thet e thould he any American fo
' loft to the interefts of his country as not to aid the
mighty corqueror, in putting his lad rival and check
under his feet

" Ameticans ! let us hetitate no longer. - Ani-
tratt:d by the profreet, that in making common canfe
with Bonaparte againti Great Britain, we may ena•
ble him to *-Adue her, let us cheerfully lend our
erertions .towards ellahlilhing a Power which (hall
defy all prfaility of foccefsful refinance. If we war
with any effea, that is, if we beat England, the is
hvaten likewife for France. Then look at the fnuation
of mankind, huw happy, how dignified, bow free ! !

" Reader! while your heart links within you at
fuel realoning, and you are attempting to believe it
imaginary, a& for the perufal of any printer's mail.
You will find it the rage tf the day, the ridiculoufly
ayled " American ground," in every democratic
paper in the Union.

,g Qtartn.Deus vult per!ere, prius demertat.

41 After all is laid that can be Paid as to the ab
(Ira& right, in quellions which may now be at iffue
between us and Great Britain, the cnurfe to he pur•
fued mull ultimately depend, if we are not infatuated, ,
en the capacity of this country, in its prefent fitua-
tion, to eftablifh rights, in oppofition to the naval I
fuperiority of the Englifb.
" We mull be plain :—we cannot confider that
man who lays, I engage in a hvt'ef.; conteft, even
though he may have (laced an injury, as better
than a madman. But it is laid, did we not gain tan
Independence in fpite of the Engli(h ? Undoubtedly
we did ; and if we could pet fuade England to ferete
the difpute on our own territory, by an army, there 1
i. not a fhadow of doubt but we Ihould be equally
ficcefsful. ButWe (tall not be able to cnax her to
fo prepollerous a meafure.— She mull know and does
know that it would be the height of fnlly to fend a i
force of 40,000, or any force the could fpare, to fuh
jugate us. They would not be a breakfall fc:r one
hundred thoufand militia, and the Amazor,;ao regi-
ment of Richmond. England will not afk wl:crc
!hall be allowed to contend with to. Sf.e will
try lirength %dill us, wbere fh can find us a eak
enough, and wheat (he never has hen hea.en—on
the ocean. If we do not meet her there, we can lofe
by a war, but cairn t gain. It re M'ci her there,
what is our chance ? Let any ni,tt • ake a campara.
five view of the two nav ie.. N• p:i:iciple of honour
requires a party totals. uninepared to (7crend Crell
ariamledged r•i begin A contelt. This is not
laudable fpitit ;it is dolca,Ftinn. If v. fuller in-!
jury, let our G vernme:a fi• t 1 (hew fume profpdt of 1
gaining redrels by ht.fliiities, and we fit.d: fed our-
Irises bound by the tinati; oblig3tians of honour and
interefl to take up arms. There never was a Go-
vernment that In c•Arpletely precluded the propriety
of declaring hottilities, in Itch a cafe as the one
contemplated, as the prefent Government of this
country. Should I up my child's arms, and then
tell him to enter the has with a bruircr ; womid not
the world fay I was a fool or unprincipled ? would
my child deferve the name of being fpit it cd, for pre-
fenting his expofed face and rib; and pick2ts, while
his alms were bound ? No—he our cause good or
bad, let us be placed in a fituation to meet our an-
lagonill. or we certainly contend without an otiaEt.
Abftraft right is one thing ; and political right ano-
ther. Let us not forget this very im put taut, but ton
rarely contemplated maxim—that a ail rights ate
impelled, and not to be alferted where there is not
power to maintain them."
hutratasyrr !—At Georgetown, Difiria of Co.
tumble, Madame Turrean, the wife of the French
Ambaffador, has Leen• for many months, and now
is, in the utmnit diftrefs and mirery, where fin: had
been on a bed 4 (traw, till relieved by one lent to
her. She is left in this deflitute manner, withot:: a
cent, and with two of G.neral Turreau's fmall eitil•
dren, a girl about feven or eight years old, and a buy
not two years old. I inquired if any mircondat of
hers reduced her to this miferable fituation, but
heard that her charatter was without a blemilir, and
her conduit in this country has been fo marked by
prudence, that (he may defy the tongue of calumny!
From the fplendid Ityle of the Ambaffador of the
powerful Government of France, he cannot want the
means of fupplying his Lady with luxuries. inflend
of leaving het to trarve—and yet fhe Rarves! I'n tell
all that the has Inhered would harrow up the heart
of the ma callous. Suffice it, at preient, to f..y,
the wife of the French Ambaffador, and Grand
Member of the Legion of Honour, with his two
children, do Itarve at the feat of Government of the
, United States ! ! !

The late Supplementary Gazette refpeeling our at-
chievements in the Baltic, records a diftingitifhed and
rietorkus action, fought by part of our army c
maiAed by the Marquis of WELLESL EY. Eittine's
votaries not in war, but in the Supp.essentary
Scheme, in the now depending New I,,,tiery Plan,
will have to record, though nht in the aize.tte, the
obtainment of a viClory t,wer that gigantic
Care ; by the acquilition, with. ut bloodracd nr hat,
tcry, of many (bout:lnds of Brittth pouns.lb