Star.
London, England, 1814-02-25 00:00:00

PEACE.

" Every thing has been in agitation for a few days
past at the prospect of Peace or Armistice—but
all the opiuiens and wishes are so vague and interest.
ed, that it is impossible to get at any definitive fact.
The safest way to be jealous et speculators and the
administration, and to believe with one's own under-
standing. Both these classes want to make money,
and where there is filthy lucre in the way, there is a
great deal of self concern.
46 We will venture a few disconnected ideas pend-
ing the present uncertainty. Imprimis— A British
Government vessel has arrived at Annapolis, said to
be laden with dispatches to our Government. Now,
I have the cabinet divulged the purport of these, solely
to a few speculators and their pimps at Washington ?
44 It is said that the Bramble brings propositions of
Peace—and from England too. She is now on the
top of the flood, and too much flushed with victory
all over the world, to ask a peace from any power.
The recent uproar in the world has produced no alte-
ration in her code of national law, or subtracted any
thing from her heaping measure of national pride.—
They may have sent some further propositions rela-
tive to the Cartel regulations. They may also have
given our Government official information, that they
have detected some of their own subjects among their
prisoners, who must be executed as Trait Ors : or it
may be various other communications incident to the
late war of retaliation upon prisoners, which has been
carried on with vigour these few months past.
64 At any rate, have they any new terms to offer
_ other than those proposed by Admiral Warren 2 Has

an ik Month,. *at beaten them oft their Loretta—
of an inviolable right to the services of their own pub-
jects ? As it may always, after now the point is
broached, be a subject of wrangling, it is i durobable
they will wave it as was done in Jay's Treaty.
" Do they propose to accept of the Russian media-
tion ? if so they would send their Commissioners to
meet ours, on the very spot of negotiation ; and the
Prince Regent, a few days before the sailing of this
vessel, would not have told Parliament, that America
had made no offers of accommodation which •, he
could avail himself of consistently with a due atten-
tion to the interests of his Majesty's subjects." And
after all there is yet an insuperable difficulty, viz. has
Russia ever consented to become the mediator ?

gg How can our Government, consistently with a'
due attention to the interests of his Majesty's (Napo-
leon) subjects, now make peace. To be sure they.
are as vacillating and unstable as the vane on a steeple,
and as light and empty as the wind that moves it.
But will they yield the privilege of always qu ir-
rating about • Right of Search, impressments, and
Free Trade ?' Will they sign Preliminaries or an ar-
mistice with a King's Messenger ! Again, their pride
would be touched in being kicked into a peace betore
the grand drama was half over.

" The downfal of their Patron—the ruin of their
credit and resources--the conscious want of military
talent and skill—the ravages on the frontiers and the
earnest of more—the manifold power of the enemy
to linger out the war, as her friends are hourly in-
creasing—and the utter impossibility of forcing down'
Embargoes and direct Tax—all these things may in
no remote time bring about a Peace. But it will not
be till they are assured that all the contingencies have
happened. And if perchance they should now make
a peace upon compulsion, and the people are willing to
give them the credit and reward for doing it—it will
only be to gain time and men, and credit, to begin a
new war, with new causes and old animosities.

" In fine—they have got into a hobble, and this
Bramble will scratch and entangle them still more. ,
" We have had war long enough to entail on our
posterity more debt, probably, than was the whole
funded debt of the revolutionary war.

For this debt, we have to ihew three armies in
captivity—our frontier desolate—our Generals by the
ears—not one inch of foreign territory in our passes•
sion—our commerce prostrate—and the whole world
closed to our future enterprize."

A Mail arrived this day from Passages, brought
to Palm nth in four days.. No intelligence of inte-
rest has been received by this conveyance.

In another part of our Paper will be found some
extracts horn Dutch Papers, received last night. The
most prominent part of the intelligence they commu.
nicate is, that which relates to MURAT'S accession to
the cause of the Allies. The fact has been so often
repeated that it would be a refinement upon scepti_
cism to doubt it any longer.

Parliament will meet on Tuesday next, pursuant
to their late adjournment, for the dispatch of public
business.

Sir VICKERY GIBBS was yesterday sworn in Lord
Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, before
the LORD CHANCELLOR, at Lincoln's-Inn-Hall, and
Mr. Baron THOMSON, as Chjef Baron of the Exchequer.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR held a Court of Com-
mon Council at Guildhall, at which the several Com-
mittees for the year ensuing were appointed. The
Committee for General Purposes presented a Report
for subscribing the Sum of Five Hundred Guineas
to the Relief of the Sufferers in Germany and other
parts of the Continent, which was read and agreed to.
The Committee also presented a Report on the Petition
on behalf of the distressed English Families driven
out of Hamburgh, which was read and agreed to.
MELANCHOLY EVENT.—GREENOCK, FEB. 21.—The
ferry-boat plying betweenCardross and Port Glasgow,
upset last night on her way to the latter place. There
were six men and two women known to be in the
boat, including the two boatmen. Two men were
gut in the boat this morning ; no others have yet been
found. The boat went down with her sails set; it is
supposed just at putting about at the end of the bank.
It is understood that some of the passengers were a
good deal intoxicated. The two men found in the
boat were a boatman and a passenger ' • the passen-
ger's watch had stopped at nine o'clock. The above
is the number which left the house where the ferry-
men have their quarters, but, as the boat had put
back, and taken in some more, it is uncertain what
number ultimately set out in her ; all of which must
have perished.
Monday morning last died, at Belton Honse, near
Grantham, after a short illness, in the 26th year of
her age, the Right Hon. SOPHIA Lady BROWNLOW.
Her Ladyship was the youngest daughter of Sir
ABRAHAM HOME, Bart, and married to Lord BROWN-
LOIN in July, 1810. She-has left three children, from
infancy insensible of their irreparable loss.
IMPORTANT EVENTS.—The ensuing week is big
with those important political events, on which the
fate of nations depends, and with an event of the ut-
most importance to the fortunes of individuals, name-
ly, the Drawing of the State Lottery, which begins
on Friday next.

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