Star.
London, England, 1801-09-10 00:00:00

POOLE, SEPTEMBER J.

Arrived flit tinlon, Croft; Harriet, Sabbin; Earl Spencer,
riftirr; Indoltry, Clements; William and Catherine, Pratt;
Cnnunerer, Brinton; Love and Unity, Carpenter; and Patt-
i. me, Racy, from Newfoundland ; and Ride in June, &rand.
L..m the Salads, Doak, for Gibraltar;
n:"T.:,K. Wills, and Ann, Junes, forLontion ; and Brothers,
14. hit•:., fur Lynaington.

YLflerd.l, morning the American fchoaner Ad-
'moire arrived at Cowes in the Ille of Wight.
Gitadaloupe, which place fhe left on the
,ll' of July hit. Captain LILLIBILIDGS reports,
n!?oilt the middle of June lag, General La-
'‘CF arrived at the Itland with 600 veteran
' ' :is, on board the Corneille and Coccade Na-
t- ial frigates, of 44 guns each; the latter of
a few days before his departure, failed on
4 cruize.—Some very politic regulations having
b,cn inflituted by the General foon after his arra-
lA, the inhabitants were all reconciling themfelves
ihe new order of things ; and, in confequence of
' rtif4l and humane proclamation from General
toAsE, the emigrants who had been expeeted
t• leave Guadaloupe, or who had voluntarily
c-tted the ifland in great numbers, were daily re-
urning to live in amity with the fupporters of the
a(publican fyftem. No Englifh prifoners were in
-.inement, and fcarce any there.—About the
July, a fmall corvette arrived fr6m Cayenne;
(.Niters on board which mentioned VICTOR
•- 41;ES as eattcmciy popular la ugw GOYCZA•

ment • the mealltres he is now acting npon, fixing
altogether as lenient, as they were formerly ri-
gorous at Guadaloupe.
The MANLRY gun-vefrel, with a fleet under con-
voy from Sheerners, arc arrived at Cuxhaven.

The American (hips of war at prefent blockade
the (hips bf Tripoli, in the harbour of Gibraltar.

The ALBION, and abort 7o fail under convoy
from Leith, arrived at Ellineur on the 27th ult.
The convoy failed for the Baltic immediately.
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The Albion, ROBERTSON, from Montferrat to
London, is loft at Tortola.

A new fhip of 74 guns is ordered to be built at
Chatham, to be called the HERO.

During a late cruize of his Majefty's (hip AR.
ROGANT off Point de Galle, a very confiderable
bdoty narrowly efcaped falling to the (hare of her
gallant crew. When off the point, the ARROGANT
taw two veffels, and gave chace to one, which
they came up with and took, the other efcaped.
The prifoners reported, that the latter, called the
Don Carlos, was from Manilla with fifty-three che s
of treafure on board, principally the proceeds of
captured property, amounting to 350,000 dollars.
The Speculation, SCHMIDT, with malls, from
Riga, bound oftenfibly to Embden, under Prulliart
colours, the crew and captain all Dutch, pallid
by Bremerlehe on the 3d inftant ; (he was feized
on the zsth ult. off the Vlie, by the Esrt MIA brig
and Fox cutter, and ordered to Yarmouth, but
was re-taken three days after by her own crew off
the Brown Bank. She putthe Englifh prize•maf-
ter and &Hors afhore at Bremerlehe.

A-letter from Naffau, (New Providence,) dated
July fays--14 On the 22d init. we experienced
a moll dreadful gale of wind, which has driven
afhore every veffel in the harbour. The Ranger,
Capt. LEA, which had arrived a few days before
from London, was driven afhore, but is expected
to be got off, though not without material injury.
The Mary, for London, was driven on chore, and
futlained much damage; the was nearly ready, but
owing to the accident will now be delayed.

Monday a Court Martial was held at Deal on
board the You man of war, Captain FERRIER,
for the trial of the boatfwain of his Majefly's Hoop
HOUND, on feveral charges of infolence to his fu-
perior officer, negleft, inattention, &c. and the
charges being clearly proved, he was fentenced to
be broke, and turned before the malt.

Yellerday, a Court of Directors was held at the
EaR India Houk, when Davin SCOTT, Efq. the
late Chairman, was chorea a Member of the Com-
mittee of Correfpondence for the remainder of the
feafon. The Court refolved to employ the follow-
ing number of (hips in further part of the tonnage
of feafon 1802-3, viz. eight (hips for Coaft and Bay,
one for Madras and Ceylon, one for Madras and
Moluccas, two for Bombay, and two extra flips
for Fort Marlborough, with fourteen large (hips
at home, and fonr of the five expelled from China,
to bring home teas from thence.
The eftablifhed mode of performing
.long jour-
nies at the Cape of Good Hope, is in covered
waggons drawn by bullocks. The carriages are
fuffidently commodious to contain all the necef-
facies that may be wanted on a long journey, and
alto a cot or matrafs for fleeping upon • and are
commonly drawn by teams of ten or twelve oxen.
The fpeed of an ox in the waggon, where the
country is tolerably level, and the furface hard, is
full three miles an hour, at which rate he will
continue for ten or twelve hours without halting.
This is more than a horfe can do in Britain. Why
are not oxen more commonly ufed? Their carcafe
would be worth fomething, and they are more
eafily kept than honks.
The Hon; FRIDERIC Formai, fon of Lady
ELIZAICTH FOISTLe, left town a month lime for
Germany. That gentleman is. now at Vienna,
and it is believed he will go to the Coronation at
Mofcow, to which a great number of Englifh No-
bility are flocking.
Tax OM PATIR.—The extravagant and impo-
litic taxes which have been accumulated upon
palm, have indifputably affeeted the manufadure
and circulation of books in this country. This,
with the increaling price of all forts of labour,
threatens to deßroy the trade of the Bookfeller,
and of all thofe conneded with the diffufion of
literature. Within the Taft ten years the price of
books is very nearly tripled. A periodical work,
which was a Chilling ten years ago, is now two
fhillings and fixpence, and fo in proportion. It is
impoffible that the trade can thrive under fuch
difficulties, which we are convinced were laid on
for the exprefs purpofe of checking the circulation
of knowledge. If Bookfellers are reduced to he
indigent fhopkeepers and retailers of old books,
there is no fupport for letters.—Learned men are
difcouraged, activity and adventure in the learned
world, fufficiently depreffed in this country alrea-
dy, where other qualities than learning arc fureft of
reward, mull be extinguifbed, and Letters, which
had been maintained independent by their own
exertions, mutt again fink to low and ignoble pa-
tronage.
Is this part of a fyftem for rapping the founda-
tions of public liberty in England ? Is it a part
of a fy.ftem so degrade the public mind, and to de-
prive it of every thing calculated to comt..inicate
encouragement, fpirit, and energy ? Is it a part of
a iyftem which would leave nothing entire, nothing
cred, nothing untainted, nothing uncorrupted ?
It has been complained, and with too much juf-
tice, that the prefs is venal. But is it not to en-
creak its venality, to render it poor and wretched?
And what is the confequence of fuch venal 1--
Will not the degraded prefs be at the command of
the greateft and wealthier! purchafer? and who is
that purchafer, is not very neceffary to fpecify !
This matter, however, 'tumid be repreC-nted to
thole who pretend to have no objet but for reve-
nue. It can be proved to demonftration that re-
venue will be injured by the effeß of thefe impoli-
tic taxes, while a branch of ingenious manufadure
is threatened with decay and ruin. If no fatisfac-
tion is obtained, it will then be Peen that the object
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is nrefe.ot to procure revenue, but to make war againft
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