Star.
London, England, 1801-12-08 00:00:00

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In the whole circle of wondeis, which the late
Revolutionary War has produced, the wildca
imagination would fcarcely have believed, three
or four years ago, that in their treaties, France
ihould infill on the acknowledgment of a IC;ng, and
Great-Britain of a Republic. he former forces the
King of Heti-Lit-ha among the nominal powers of
Italy ; nor does the latter appear leis interetled
in the etabliihment of the Seed Venetian Minds
into a Republic.

. It is, we believe, without a precedent in hiaory,
that Grent•Britnin fhould be fending a fqtiadron of
Agates to reduce the Iflands cif Corfu and Zante,
~nd prevent them, by force, from placing them-
felves under the Government of ifigria; no!—Of
Turkey? no!—Of Riga ?, no!—Of France? no!
no !--Of GREAT-BRITAIN ! ! !

But we think the expellee of thh.. armament may
now be fpared. Thofe lflands,
,difira4ted by an
anarchy, which mull be•the conlegnence of an
eflablifhment without a head, without principle,
and without policy, naturally la Rh to place them-
felves under a Power able to proteCt them.—Mil
mil of the Mediterranean by her conquefts in
1 Egypt, by her fucceffes in that lea, and above all,
by the poireilion of Malta, England appears to he
the only Power capable of affording proteetion
the Hands. Be: no fooner will they iee that
England has abandoned the Medizerrabean to her
' enemies, than they will fze[- another ProteCtor of
their exigence, and Monopolizer of their trade.
i We did expel that, in conreqococe of the im
portant Cervices conferred on Turkey by this coon-
try, we fhould have been rewarded by an illand in
the Levant, capable of giving fecitrity and perma-
nence to a trade, which ought now to be freed
from the [hackles of a commercial company.—But
BONAPARTF'S policy, which embraces every part
of the world, has frutlrated even this expeClation.
Asa reward for relinquilhing Alexandria, which
he could no longer hold, he is to receive, by treaty,
the privileges of the moll favoured nation in the
Turkifh Entph e. We have indeed fume hope that
this treaty will not be ratified, and that Esscvn
ALY EFFENDY, who has figned it at Paris, could
not be empowered by his Government to infult fo
grofsly this country—the Deliverer of the Otto-
man Pollefilons from the infatiable imbition of
France:

The Duke of YORK has ordered his efialilifinnent
of Foxhound: in Sorry, to be broken up : the coun-
try is not yet taken by any other pack.
Great (port Is expe&ed at Newmarket in the
enfuing Spring Meetings • the three capital racers
are come out of the North, Cockfighter, Rolla,
and Allegranti. Rolla is matched against Tag for
tooogs. and Allegranti againit Sophia for tooogs.
Several other horfes are Rill expeded but of the
North.

We/king has of late become fo much the rage,
that it promifes to rival Pogififm itfelf. A tra..ici-
man in Mend-flreet, IA week, made a deposit of
300 guineas, in part of a wager of zoool. that he
would walk ninety miles in twenty hours and a
half, being one hour and twenty minutes short of
the time which Mr. BARCLAY took for a fimilar
performance. The fame tradefman, laft year, foi
a wager of zo guineas, undertook to walk froni
London to Hampton Coutt,earrying 3olh. weight,
in a certain space of time, which he performed in
one hour and thirty-one minutes.
On Saturday laft died of a fit of Apoplexy, at
his honk in 'Clifford-ftreet, the Riyht Hon. Sir
JOHN PARNELL, late Chancellor of tfa: Exchequer
in Ireland : a man of the moll aCtive, benevolent,
and honourable mind, and the molt dilinteretted
patriotic virtue. Of the lad he gave.a flriking and
undoubted proof in his condo t with regard to the
Union. After having ferved Government ler
more than Eighteen N ears, with veal and fidelity,
in a very high office, withont ever having folic;•.ed
a jot or provided for one of his family, he chore
rather to setimpiith all prefent emolument and
hope of future remuneration, than to give his fup-
port to a meafiire which lie thought prejudicial to
his country ; and, though his fortune was mode-
rate, and his family large, be refilled the molt
tempting offers of advantge to engage his acqui-
t efcence to the filinifler's plan. He was an affec-
j tionate father, a Ready friend, a ufeful and intel-
ligent magiftrate, and a zealous promoter of every
benefit to the country in which he lived.
The charatter of the late Sir Jona PARNELL de-
; raves to be remembered and ref-pelted, whether
acinfidered as a private or a public concern. In
private life he was an example that cafe and con-
viviality du not require to be vicious or profane,
for in his conthiel he was moral, and in his conver-
fation was always ready for mirth, except when
religion was the jell. How he difcharged the
great duties of foctety, might be ken in the affec-
tions of his family, the confidence of his friends,
the profperity of his tenants, and the gratitude of
the poor ; whole wants, in the county sallich he
reprefented, he relieved, in the bell manner, by
teaching them to he induftrious, and providing
them with manufaCitres. Nor Mould his inferior
qualities be forgot. He had wit without effort,
and learning without pretenlion; and though care-
Ids in the deportment, and impatient of the forms,
which to common obfervers make the whole of I
good breeding, he never omitted that part of it
which is the praaice of good nature.—ln public
life he was aCtive, and able; on Parliamentary oc-
cafions, his elocution was animated, his arguments
ready, and his information comprehcnfive. He
thoroughly underftood the commercial and pPliti-
cal
interests of Great Britain and Ireland, except,
perhaps, in that meafure which was efFeCed to
unite them, and which he oppofed. Always de-
voted to our eltablilliments fn Church and St. e,
he had many years aced in the • fervice of the
Crown, with a fpirit and attachment, which were
invariable, and which he did not lofe with the tors
of office. He was no enemy to the laft Admini-
firation, and he efleemed the prefent. His Coun-
try may regret in him a dig-ants:relied Friend, the
Legislature a uicful Member. and the Woild an
honeti MAII.