Star.
London, England, 1805-12-02 00:00:00

70 THE ;EDITOR 014 7NE 6TIR.

Vtriras in ?wee.- •
Ste—The merit of thole ioellimable men who
:nye managed die affairs and filled the tuhfcriptions
If the Patriotic Foul is above my praiie, for it needs
but to be tamed to he reverenced. In the records

Briiilh greatnef, it will be told to polterity, that
when the Hero of Trafalgar and his gallant afrO.
ciates bled and conquered for their country, there
ere fame men polkaing wealth, and hearts more
ample than their wealth, gave liberally to the living
martyrs of the battle, or to the widows and orphans
of the fain. If the love of human virtue, and fond-
nef. for its proudeß names, null lead the future
fearchers of our hiilory to afk who were thofe mi-
lliners of mercy, he will find in the Committee of
the Patriotic Fund a hit of living anthers, from
14 horn it will be a prouder boatt to be delceuded than
`trail half the Aritlocracy of Europe.
But, in rioting the record of generofity, while he
appl old: the individuals who have fobfctibed
with a funds at once is exprellive of their fouls
and their fortunes ; that fame inquirer will naturally
ail: were thole all the iv( althy men of that wealthy ge-
neration? were thofe all the rich men of England ? or
was it poffible for one owner of opulence to n
'hold his fubfcription from the viflims of Trafalgar ?
Certainly not 1 he will conclude. But the money of
other rich men was not needed; the fund was already
filled; it could admit no more ; fo that thoufands
.who wished to contribute, after the glorious example
of thofe ample fubfcribers, were obliged to retort
'their gold to their pockets, foie the fund was no
longer open. This were to our enquirer his finil
and fair ionjedure ; bat a lift of names comes like "a
.rabble after the cavalcade, that puts fuch conjeCture
:to embarraffrnent. The foldiers and failors of diffe-
rent regiments and lhips, the drummers and fifers,
the powder monkies and the babies that play triangles
in the band of mufic—thefe elle were fubfcribers.—
How came this ? had the rich no more to contribute?
Was the opulence of Britain drained, that the had
recourre to the very fcrapings of her poverty ; to the
day's pay of a cabin boy or a fentry ? Was this cha-
rity, he will afk, meant to be levied from the rich or
the poor ? Froin the rich, undoubtedly ; for its par-
.pofe was noble and munificent. Where, then, were
all the rich ? Does it not (land to the teenfure of the
'age, that, except thofe generous men, the fubfcri-
bers to the patriotic fund, and their fill more laud-
able Committee, there was not another charitable in-
dividual among the rich men of England—No, not
one ?
Such, Sir, I affirm, is the conelufion neceittry to
be drawn from this degrading fpeftacle of railing
fubfcriptions among the meaneft poor, while there is
one rich man in the country who has nit duly rub-
fcribed ? Either it is neceffary for fuldiers andfailors
to fubfcribe, or it is not neceffary. If it be not ne-
eeffary, I alit by what authority of confcience a
Commanding Officer can either encourage or fuffer
his men to diminifh their hard-earned comforts on
any pretence ? If it be necelfary to take from poor
foldiers and failors, what truth does this exhibit ? A
naked and opprobrious truth, that the generous lead-
ers of the Patriotic Fund are obliged to adopt poor
men as their comrades in charity, becaufe the rich
have not fpirit to follow them.
If, in cherifhing fuch reflation. as thefe, the
fearcher of future times, or the fpeculator, of the
prefent, should deem it a poor and pitiful thing to be
Paid of our cotemporaries, that money was taken
from drummers and fifers either from a direful necef-
Cty, or becaufe the rich hadnot pride enough to make
it fupercede that neceffity, there is jolt one clefs of
the opulent community who will Rand in his opinion
exempted from the general cenfure, in bright contrail
to their felfiffi age ; and that is the litbfcribers (11111
snore emphatically the Managers), of the Patriotic
Fund.—lt never will • enter into his head, that a
tingle atom of refponfibility fur the praflice of rail-
ing fubfcriptions where they &old not be railed, is
applicable, by any depravity of conception, to the
laudable men I have mentioned.
If, zealous for the purity of the fund, he should
name that charity, as it is a moll glorious
inßitu-
tution, and call upon the, country to clothe it with
the covering of their wealth, not with the •nakednefs
of their poverty ; if, in fo doing, he should exprefs
abhorrence at the praftice of begging from the poor,
is there a man fo flupid as to interpret that zeal into
language of irreverence for the charitable Committee?
No, Sir. The Committee of the Pattiotic Fund
Rand immeafurably aloof from any pollible connec-
tion with this cenfure. Thole men have given their
wealth, time, and teouble to the public charity, and
they are the only men in the nation who are in fome
degree tied up from animadverting on any fources
from which contributions may come. As individuals
they may give their opinion, but as a body (heir duty
is merely to receive the accumulated money, not to
dietate who (hall be fubfcribers. The furnifbing of
fubfcriptions is a matter of public duty, and the ea.
tnadverfion on improper fourees is a matter of pub-
lic feeling and of public cenfure alone. If any man
!hall then tell me, that in blaming fuch fources of fub-
fcription as delicacy and honour revolt at the fight
of, I am blaming the Committee of that refpalable
foeiety, I (hall tell him that thecharge is as falfe as it
is idiotical ; that he blunders on a difinelion which
the intellefts of a quadruped might ferve to under-
hand.
Such were the views and fentiments I developed in
a former letter, mentiqnieg that the great and ea-
r 1 ,us final of Patriotic Charity ooght to be cherifhed ,
by the rich, and not by the poor ; and that it was
troeful to allow fubfcriptions to be handed in places
where difcipline, if duly maintained, does not admit
the certainty of thofe fubfctibers being free agents,
any more than their poverty luppores them capable
to contribute. This charity is a mite; it is well to
be offered; but the nobleft of charities Ihould be fed
on richer viands.
A man, calling himfelf Verjtas, bas" pronounced
the declaration of this fentinient, to which the bean
of every true Briton will return an echo, Madnefs,
irii.rity, a turbid imagination.—Qaixotifm—•fecret
itt wity to the Fund —detraftion—vild.fire covering
ferret purpofes, and fome other childifh epithets of
Auk, which he prefaces by an day on good breed-
ing.—Sir, I turn from this reproacher with
(Diouf —f write not for lim—Orfipoprours same et
so tee—and appealitig to the cOuir:iuu leak of your

Rea lees, I afk if it he pile for any Man to be an
enemy to the Patriotic Fund ? What purpofe could it
ferve were the heart wicked enough to cherills enmity
at all the world betide, to be a feeret enemy to the
Patriotic Fund? The charge is too laughable to be
treated with difeuffion.
Veritas is not-indeed a (Ziixote, his errors are
the errors of a more meagre afpeft, and he juftifies
raifing gifts from the poor in (trains that would do
honour to Sancho, if they partook of Sancho's Mo-
ther-wit anJ ingenuity.
Verita,s begins by denying that fubferiptions were
ever afked from Colliers and tailors by the Patriotic
Fund, a truth which we knew already fo well, that
all the cloudinefs of his own folemn afl'ertion of it
does not render doubtful or obfcure.-But he con-
cludes by publifhing an exhortation not to the rich,
but to the pooreft creatures of the land, to contribute
their mite at the near day of Public Thxnkfgiving.
In railing, Sir, gifts of munificence, the rich and I
the poor Rand related to each other by the ties of ge-
nerolity, which, are underftood to be aralogical to
thofe exiiting between the weak and the (hong in
war fat e.—lt is generous in the poor man to offer his
mite, but it is pitiful in the rich man to receive it.
It would be fcandalous in men to allow women or
children to Mare the Owners of battle, almolt in
the lett emergency, thaugh in offering to bleed
at the fide of their firoager proteeor, we might ad-
mire the fpirit of a high-minded woman who might
offer to partake of orr dangers. Were the country
invaded—were the fields fl toded with flaughter. I
believe there are innumera:tle females who would rife
above the timidity of their fel, and die with their
brothers and hulbands, rather than live the (laves of
Bonaparte. , The heart of a Britifh patriot would
honour their intrepidity, and nor' the leis that he
declined to avail himfelf of the offer—or fuller his
fweetheart to fhoulder a mulket ; yet Veritas, by
the dirty principles he has avowed, would pack off
his own Mother to the combat, and cheer the poor
woman for a brave old Amazon, who nobly dated
to contribute her mite of aelance.
rt is Mt the fame fpecies of meannefs, if opulence
!Mould avail itfelf of a mite of affiftence from poverty,
unlefs the lag exigencies of neceffity requite it. What
it may be honourable to offer, may be thabby to re-
ceive. When the rich men of this country have all
fubfcribed, let ets•nhen, and not till then, hear of cha-
rities from the main-mail and the (*entry box.
But an expreffion of this fentiment could only be
conftrued into difrefpeft for the honourable members
af the charitable fund—By grofs and abfurd inter-
prerxeiow—l mug be pardoned for faying, that it
could only be fo interpreted by a head of that pe-
culiar defeription, through which ideas are deftined 1
fur ever to appear like oars in the water, in the guile
of cbliquity and diflortion to a man like Veritas,
wbo teems to know nothing of the truth beyond its
grammar•fehool appellation.
Before I conclude let me take leave of Veritas for
ever. Men who are like him, capable of throwing
fags into wrong pofitions, are not fair players in the
game of argument ; their heads are like loaded dice,
that win by the hire weight of their materials.. I have
to (tate, however, to the public, and not to the poor,
but to the rich part of the public, that the call fur
their benevolence is perhaps greater than they ima-
gine—fince h is doe to the gallant 'Altars of Tref al-
gar, not merely to the maimed, the widows, and the
orphans, but to the gallant furvivors—to compenfate
for the lofs they have fullained, in being obliged to
deltroy part of the enemy's fleet, which their valour
had fo dearly acquired.
I am your's refpeftfully, FA$lO3.

Mr. FOX': EPITAPH on the BISHOP of DOWN.

A Monument, ftudialfly plain and unadorned, well executed by
Mr. Rossi, is jutt put up, to the Memory of that truly retec-
table Prelate, the !we BiOtop of DOWN' min the New tiing
Ground (belonging: to St. James's Church)
in Tottenham-mit-
toad. Thu circumftance which chick diftinguithes this trihntc
of furviving affedion to departed Virtue, is the Infcription bpon
the tablet—written by Mr. Fox. Like molt other works of a
real genius, the principal charaiterinics of the compofition are
Amplicity and truth of protrainire. The words are as fillOW:
Under this Stone lie interred the mortal Reniains
of the Right Rev. Wietiitir Dicesom, late Ballots of
Dews and Cousin, whole Memory will ever be
dear to all who were eonne.ded with him in any of
the various relations of Life.—Of his Public cha-
ratter the Love of Liberty, and efpecially of Religi-
ous Liberty, was the prominent feature : Sincere in
his own faith, he abhorred the thought of holding
exit temptations to prevarication, or infincerity in
others,and was a decided coolly, both as a Bithop and
a Legiflator, to Laws whore tendency is to feduce or
to deter men from the open and undifguifed irofef-
Ilon of their religious opiuioas by reward and
.punill•
Mat, by political advantages, or political difaisili.
ties. In private life, fingular modefty, correct tette,
.a molt enga4ing fimplicity of manners, nankin con.
fancy in fnenclfhip, a warm heart alive to all the
charities of our nature, did not fail to conciliate to
this excellent menthe affedions of all who knewhim.
—But, though the exereire of the gentler virtues'
which endear and attrad, was more habitual tit him,
as molt congenial to his nature, he was by noihe'ans
deficient in thofe more energetic qualities of the !bind
which command refped and admiration. When roof-
ed by unjuft aggrellion, or whatever the occaion
might be that called for exertion, mitdoefs did
not prevent him from difplaying the moll manly and
determined fpirit ; and notwithitanding his exquifite
fenfibility, he bore the fevered of all humalt calami•
ties, the lots of leveret deferving and beloved chit.
dren, with exemplary fortitude and refignation.—
He was born in February 174 g—he was married in
June 1773 to HENRIETTA ST/413, daughter of 'the
Rev. JEREMIAH SYMRS.-r-Was preferred to the Bi-
&optic of Down and Connor in December 178:3, aid
diedon the ,9th of September :Bo*, deeply regretted(
by ail the different religious Teas that compoled die
population of his extentive Diocefei by acquaintances,
neighboors, and dependents Of every conditibn and
defeription • by his children, his friends, and his
country : and moll of by his dirconfolate widow,
who has crated this Stone to the Mount+ of the
kindeß hutband and the beg of men. c. t. fa.

A (jugular and awful eititatiOn .fmt.tirred 'fair
days ago at Idebion Bridge,, near Halifax. As The
corpfe of the wife of a labouring roan lay in the Can
previous to interment, the allitted hulhandilfitir telir
to take his Taft well-.;be`fdddinlj'dtlJd4lo It
:and expteed.

From tle LONDON Cif t1'771, Nitvemder so.

MTLITARY PROMOTIONS.
Coniniiitons figned by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Lincoln.
Spilfby and Burgh Volunteer Infantry.
William Perri k. Efq. to be Captain. Dated Nov. 14, des.
Lincoln Volunteer Infantry.
Thomas Mafon, Gent. to be Lieutenant Dated Nov. 14,1805.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
John Wilde, John Milne, jun. and John Wilde, JUL of Broad
lane collieriea, Rochdale, Lancafhire, February as, t 805.
Robert Edmeads and Thomas Pine, of hlaidttone, Kent, paper
manufadurers, November as, a 805.
Elizabeth Msrfdeu, Wm. Madden, and Edward Walker, of
Manehefter, pipe-maker, November 23,
Cornelius Cinder and Thomas Critenley, linen drapers, Black-
burn, Lancalhire, March as, 184.
John Gregfon, James, Gregfon, Thos. Puke, Thos. J. Parke,
and Henry Clay, of Liverpool, bankers, November 25. iBO5.
John Joule and Henry Joule, of Manchetter, coo:Attars, No-
vember 22, !Bog.
Infeph Maud. of Blubberhoufea, and Thomas Buttery, of Hei-
r:thy, both in Yorkfhire eornfaCtors, July is, allos.
GeorgeThompfon, oeThoruer, and larllCSßamfdat, of Wort-
ley, both in Yorkfhire, woollen cord makers, April tx,1805.
William Newall and Charles Pollitt, of Mancheftcr, grocers and
tea dealers, November 5, 1835.
Simeon Conftable, William% Smith, and Joleph Fernyhough, of
' Weft Bromwich, Staffordfbire, colliers, November/, 1805.
err Newland and Thomas Johnfon, of Southamptou-row,
Bloomibury, !nubs-fellers, November at, aos.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
January Is. George Ifaus and Michael (fault, of Sevia Marks,
London, merchants, and copartners, at ten, at Guildhall.
BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Mockitt, of Deal, Kent, miller, dealer and chapmaia, to
forret:der December th, 17, and Jan Ir, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Attornies, Meffrs. Browns and Gotobed, No. as, Norfolk-ftreet,
Strand. London.
Jacob Moles, of Newourket-ltreet,Wapping, Mlddlrfea, flopfeller,
falefrnan, dealer and chapman, Doe. 3, t 7, and January 11, at ten,
at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. A. Ifaacs, Great George 11.reet,
Minorles,
John Mercer, of Uxbridge, Middlefex, and Nicholas Mercer, of
Chatham-place, London, mealmen and merchants, Dec. 9,16,
and January as, at twalva, at Guildhall. Actor:des, Meffrs. Lug-
gen and Smith, Bafinghall facet, London ; or Mr. Hodder,
Urbrklte.
Sinclair Wright, late of White Horfe.lane, Whitechapel,
Middle-
fez, merchant, dealer antchapman, Dec. 3,7, and January ter,
at one' at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Sarel, Surrey-ftreet, Strand.
William Smith. of Globe-place, in the Bridge road, part& of Saint
Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, corn-chandler, dealer and chapman,
Dee 3. 7, and January t t at one, at Guildhall Attorney, Mr.
Ware, Maekman.fireet, Borough
George O'Hagan, late of Buckingham (but now a prifoner in the
King's Bench,) wine and liquor merchant, dealer and chapman,
Dec, 3,7, and January 11, at one, at. Guildhall. Attonda,
Meffi s Smith and Setree, Great St. H.den'a, Bithopfgatc-ftreet.
William Marfdal,'Of Manchcfler, merchant, manufaeturer, dealer
and chapmau. Dec. 17,18, and January 1 it, at three, athe Doe
Tavern, in Mancheßer. Attornies, Man. Haittead snd Amt.
worth, Manchefter ; or Mars. Milne and Parry, Old Jewry.
John Davis, now or late of Oxford, dealer and ettapman, Dee. 6,
16, and January is, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Oxford.
Attorney, Mr. Charles Tomes, Oxford.
James Paterfon of Red Lion-ftreet, Holborn, Middlefer, nphol-
fierce, cabinetmaker, dealer and chaptuan, Dec. 3, 17, and Jan
a a at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. England, Old Broad-
greet, Royal Exchange.
William [sod, late of giteen.ftreet, Cheapfide, London, ware-
koufernan, December 3, 7,'and January a t, at one, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Nicholls, Tavlitock-place, Taviltock-fguare.
Samuel Kendal, of Liverpool, timber-merchant, Dec. so, 31, and
January it, at the Globe Tavern, Liverpool. Attomies, Mr
lack Rock, Saint Mildred'a-court, Poultry, London ; or Mars.
Bardfwell and Stephenfon, Drury-lane. Liverpool. • •
William Cockerill, of Ludgate Hill, London, lftwn-driper, Doc. 7,
so, and January 11, at twelve, at dulldhat. Attorney, Mr.
John Haden, No. 61, Dorfet-ftreet, Salifburpfquare.
Francis Chalmers, of Liverpool, broker, Dec. 30,3 i, and January
as, at eleven.* at the Globe Tavern, John R.rect,
Liverpool—
Attoenies, Mr. James Phillips, Liverpool; or Ma'. WWI;
John-Rreet, Bedford-few, London.