Star.
London, England, 1806-03-21 00:00:00

MILITARY SYSTIIIII.

General TARLETON laid, he role to propare
very Ihort quellion to one of his Majelty's Mufflers,
which he hoped either of them Could anfwer. It was
to be recollected that a Right Hon. Gentleman not
now prefent, (Mr. Windham) was to bring forward
a fyftem for the General Military Defence of this
Country, and as he underlined that hulloes was to
nand for Monday, he wilhed to know if any Minilles
,prefent was authorifed to inform the Houfe whether
that Cubit& was to be brought forward on Monday ?
Mr. Secretary FOX Paid, he did not know how tes
anfwer that quellion ; but as his Right Hon. Friend
had only (fated, fame time ago, that he hoped to be
able to bring it forward on that day, and had not
fence renewed that notice, he fhould rather apprehend
he did not mean to bring it forward on that day.
MILITARY DEFENCE.
General TARLETON, obferving Mr. Windham
enter, Paid he was forty to interrupt the bufinefs of
the Houle for half a moment ; bar as he faw the
Secretary of State for the War Department now in
the Houle, he willied to pot a queftion to him, and
he did fo for the convenience of Members who wiffied
to know whether the Military Syftem of Defence of
the Countri was to be brought forward on. Monday?
He willied to know of that Miniller, whether the no•
tice, or the half notice, he gave on the fubjea of the
Military Defence of the Country, was to come on
on Monday next ?
Mr. Secretary WINDHAM Paid, that no regular
notice bad been given on that fubjet. He lhould fct
far have anticipated the fubjed now put to him, if
nothing had been Paid on the other fide, as to fay that
it was not to come on that day, and he believed that
was all which was necefrary to (late upon it at pre.
lent. It was certainly to be defired that as little delay
fhould take place as poffible, but that did not imply
the neceffity of bringing a meafure forward before it
was ready, neither did lie know of any particular in.
convenience which would be felt by Gentlemen on
the other fide in confequence of the delay. He fhould
not enter on the confederation of the impatience of
Gentlemen whodnanifelled it on this fubje6l,becaufe
he did not know why they fhoold be fo
There had indeed been delay beyond the expedition
of fume Members of that Houle, and perhaps the
general expedation ; but it was not a delay that went
beyond his expeSation, becaule he was fore that, in
the prefent hate of things, upon a fobjeo fo delicate
and fo important, it was highly necefrary to confider
well a fy ram before it was exhibited to public view.
He was thoroughly aware of the difficulty of per.
loading Tome perfons, who did not think of the fob-
jed with the attention it required, that this delay was
proper ; but when a military fyftem had been adopt-
ed by others who preceded him, in which he did not
concur, it mull, on refleCtion, be admitted to be, on
that account, the more difficult for him to digeft an-
other, ftich as he fnould hope 'to meet with general
concurrence. As to general expreffions of delay, of
of inconvenience, they mutt be referred to the im-
pqrtanee and difficulty of the fubjea to which they
applied, and when they were fo, he apprehended
their force would he exhaulled.

General TARLETON laid A few words in expla-
nation, and added that he happened to know, pro.
tellirnally, that great anxiety was felt in agreat part
of the army upon this fubjeft ; and he trulted the
Minifter. who had the controul .would'zive as
ample notice as he could of his intention to Fring it
forwa►d. '

Mr. iiiewetary WIND.HAM faiel, that as loon as
he was prepared to bring the Wadi forward, he
thould name the day. •

Defy. rcd the other Orders of the Day—Adlown,:d:

THE EYE VING !TAR:

LONDON.
PRIDAY, MARCH si.

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DZY;tr)/a O'CLOCK
Coot°ls, for mourn Got—for April 6011.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock 203 op 3. India Bonds, par is. dir. per Cent. Conf. 6olfia Exch. Bill., va. dif. par
s per Cent. Navy otit EnglifhTickets tot as.
Imila Hoods, par is. MC Conf. (or ate. 6nfill

The prevailing, and we believe the bPft founded
opinion retpeding the difpatches brought by the
French boat is. that they relate merely to the bull-
sefs of an exchange of prifoners, and not to any thing
connoted with propofition, for a ncgociation. The
Commander of the boat which brought them had
orders to have no ccrnmunication with the fhore.—
Mont. Boesozrer, a French pilot, who was in the
boat, lays that Boulogne is become a King's port ;
TO merchant veffelt, privateers, nr even prizes, are
(offered to enter, orders loaded with ordnance or mi-
litary floret : there has been a very large baton made
to hold the flotilla, which comics 17 feet water at
high tide ; and the port is Paid to contain ten at low
later ; a large harbour is alfo made at Wymill, and
gt Vimereoz. with iturnettfe fortifications to defend
theta, and the Boti la is again equipping.

Our Readers will perceive, by recurring to our
Report of the proceedings of the Houfe of Commons
night, that Mr. Secretary Winona,* does ow
.bring forward his new plan of Mi;itary Defence on
Monday nett. On Friday the &Unifier will fubmit
pis Budget to ate confideration of Parliameitt.
The Catholic Body of Irefand have decided by a
great majority, at their meeting. on Satutday lift,
in Dublin, that they would ref! the queflion of their
Claims upon the diferetion and kindnefs of the prefent
Government. Tht divillon upon this occafion did
sot fo math arife from any difference of tipinion as
to the main queftiorr, as to that of the appointment
of a regular and Sanding Committee for the fuperin-
iendaoce of their affairs.

A Committee of io Members. including the No-
bility and certain Ecelefiallics of that perfnation, to

proem an addrefs to the Duke of BED►ORD, was alto
chofen on that disk.

Yefterday morning Mr. TAYLOR, the late Minifler
at the Court of the Ele&or of Heffe Calle', arrived in
town, and immediately bed an interview with Mr.
Secretary For.
Yeflerday Carncalx tranfatted bulinefs at
Mr. WINDM AM'S office.

Early yellerday morning the Duke of You ar.
rived at Windfor. and rode on horfeback with his
MAJESTY, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and the Frio-
Iceffes AUGUSTA and Sormiit.
YefterdaT, at one o'clock, Mr. Fox had an midi.
fence of the Panics of Waxes.

Mr. Fox removes into the Duke of 1112/011D'I
bottle on Monday. On Wednefday he will give a
grand dinner to the Panics. Lord Gasavuxo, and
a number of Mininerial Friends.

Yefterday the Duke and Duchefa of BIDFORD left
town for Ireland. They will (lop atWoburn Abbey
all this day. To-morrow they will proceed on their
route to Holyhead, but their retinue is fo numerous,
that they will not reach that place until Monday or
Taefday. A part of their fuite left the Stable-yard,
6t. James's, on Wednefday afternoon for Holyhead.
'lle Hon. AUGUSTUS CAVINDISH BR•DSHAW is
ippointed Teller of the Irith Exchequer.in the room
of Mr. Novit.t.e.. Mr. BRADSHAW is fccond fon of
the late Sir Hamer Coogan/tin, and the Baronets of
iVirAYI ttttt .
Yefterday morning the Earl of LAUDIRDALI, ac-
eortspanied by his nephew the Marquis of Twenties',
fet off from Thomas Hotel, Berkeley-Ignore, for his
that In Scotland, and on his return thence, his Lord-
fillip will immediately take his departure for India.
At a General Court of the Corporation of Trinity
Houle, held yeßerday, Earl SFUICSR was unani•
mouth, elated Mailer of the Corporation, in the room
of the Right Hon. Wu. Pure' deceafed.
By miftake it was Rated in all the Papers of yet-
terday that there are two Blue Ribbands vacant.—
There is but one, that of the late Marquis Coon.
wiLLis, which, we underttand, is to be given to the
Marquis of STAFFORD. The Blue Ribband of the late
Lord LAMSDOWS was given tome time ago to Lord
DARTMOUTH.

Captain BEDFORD, of the PRINCE or WALE., is
expened to command the KENT, of 74 guns, now
repairing at Plymouth : Ore is one of the &it of her
late, and hitherto a flag fhip.
Lieutenant• Colonel Kraamau, an old and expe-
rienced officer; has jua completed a very minute
infpeEtion of the Northern and Southern Brigades of
Volunteers in Devon, fuppofed preparatory to the
new fyflem, which (brae reports fay, will be partly
as follows: Volunteers to be found their clothing.
parochial drills to be dropt, and a permanent duty
of three weeks to he annually gone through in Tome
sarrifon town. We cannot, however* vouch for this
_ .

Yellerday a Court of Common Council was held
at Guildhall, at which were ',relent the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, the Recorder, Sheriffi, and a great num•
ber of CommonerA. The minutes of the laR Court
were read and confirmed.

A letter from Lord Barrington, inclofing a Yeti-
ticm on behalf of feveral feamen, pi ifi,ners, confined
in the Citadel of Valenciennes, iii Fiance, esas read
and referred to the committee for General Porpores,
ti.) confider the belt mole of promoting and affording
relief to cur fellow ft,yr.,:ls, t ho arc prilimers in
France, are to I CV; t t1101:011.
It was refolved, that the tucaittre for imprGring
Smithfield market be again referred to the Commit:Le
of City Lando. with dualions to confider the expe-
diency of removing it tt. louse other place, where it
may be carried into effett at a moderate expence, and
with infirultions, if any pan of the improvement
&mild be without the limits of the City. to have the;
fame incorporated therewith.

Al, •
INK

YeflerJay, portant to notice, a General Court
was held at the Bank of England, for the purpofe of
confidering of a dividend for the lait half year, and
other bufinefa relative to the Bank concerns.
The Governor and Company gave it to be under.
flood, that nn km would be given on this occafinn,
and the ufual dividend of 31. los. was ordered to be
paid.

Mr. Low moss tumefied to the Governor, the pro-
priety of always gyring a few weeks notice to the
Proprietors of Bank Stock, when a bents was intended
to be given, as it frequently happened, that for want
of Ruch necefary information they fold out their
flock at the very eve of a tortur being allowed, and
thereby 101 l the benefit which would otherwife have
accrued to them.

The Governor informed the Proprietors, that he
had received intimation from the CH•riciLLOR of the
xcasossa, that it would be inconvenient to Go-
vernment to pay to the Bark the three millions which
was owing, and would become due on the sth of
April t and, therefore, propofed, that Government
fhould be permitted to retain it, until fix months after
a Definitive Treaty of Peace was figned. He re-
minded them, that there three millions were the fame
which had been lent to Government for fix years,
without intereft, as a cnnfideration for the prolonga-
tion of the Bank Charter for as years. The interefi,
which would be eonfiderable, would be equally
dif-
tributed among the Proprietors of Bank stock. The
propofal was affented to without oppofition.

Eztrad of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope,

dated i nth January; t Sod.

" Here we are once 01Orr, with the Brides flag dying, and I
hope it will never again be hauled down. We had conliderabk,
indeed revere, difficulties to far:nowt, but that. were enemmtered
with a patience and fortitude (eldest, I bdieve, equalled. The
ladies was difficult and the adion dep. I have had thegood for-
tune to command men whore fortitude and perfeverancerote to.
perior to every °Mimic. My Highlanders were ordered to ad-
vance (from the nature of the ground little fupported by our ar-
tiller) ) 'Bakal a Wry beery train of the enemy's guns, fopported
by a numerous cavalry and a large body of infantry. They marched
on at a Ready regular pace, without returedng a that, In as good a
line ea if on a parade, and did not Aso dll ordered to do to. The
enemy, afraid of theft bayenets, began to fly In all diroftiona, and
few, except the wounded, fell into our hands. Two guns were
left en the dad I write In hafte, as lam Jolt arrived in mien.—
General Deresford has marched agate* the Governer, who Rill 11
pretends to hold out, although in a pin degree defected by hi.
troupe We have (offered coolidadde fatigue. My Command
ing Olken behaved nobly. Colonel Grant, of the yid regiment,
though kverely wounded and thrown from his bait, was again
mounted and at the head of bb Men. Colonel Part, of the ytft,
was wounded on landing, and never told me to until all was over.
Wdr was lightly wounded,but Rill went on. Colonel Halket led
on his men with the greateft cootnets and coo rage. Colonel Ho-
nyman, though wounded, did not quit his rank,. With Inch ex-
amples sod Itch men, It was impoffible to do wrong."
Some Paris Papers have arrived, of the tsth ;al
One of them, the Geed& de France, contains a Note,
which feems to fliew that the French ex pea Boma-
PARTes Speech will pave the way for a Negociation
for Peace. It iaa Note upon an article of
intelligence, which mentions that " Mr. Fos Coffered
himfeff to be very eafily perfuaded by Lord GRIN-
viLLE, that peace could not be thought of on account
of the unfavourable circumlances and unpropitious
fitnation in which England found herfelf :"
" SO much the better: at lean fame realm is aligned. But
when Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox doll have read the Speech de •
livered ti the Emperor of the French at the opening of the Le-
illative Body; when they mall have ken that, notwithftanding
the sinfiroorraile eirconfleseee and setretitier: petition In which
England Ands herfelf, his Maietty, who is ever guided by the
principles of moderation and humanity, contents, neverttates, to
take for its bake of peace the Mpulations of the Treaty of Amiens,
there Minifters, perhaps, will be of a different opinion : for, If it
be true, according to the London Newfpspera, that the Eyelids
Government continues the war for no other reafon but beaufe its
ltuation is too unfavourable, as well as too critical, to admit of
making any advantageous peace, the (Orb of moderation evinced
by the Emperor of the French cannot manLfeft Welt more oppor-
tunely for England."

The fquadron under the command of Sir Jolla
Wakes m is deftined to cruise for a certain time, in the
latitude of St. Helena, as by late accounts the French
Admiral Limits was teen hovering about that island.
By letters from Gibraltar, we learn, that the
wounded heroes of Trafalgar are recovering fait,
the climate being, from its mildnefs, extremely fa-
vourable, and the 'Jamul Staff having paid the
greateft attention to them., The greated part, if
not the whole of this gallant body, will be able to
return home early in the fummer.

Mr. Cnenvviv, and the two Cons of Lord Noe-
BURY, after Coffering fhipwreck, and almoft unexam-
pled fatigue and hardthip, were tale, at Conftantino-
nople, on the Bth of November. They have face
'tithed Athens, and are now in petted health at
Vienna.

A letter from Gluckfladt, of the 3d inflant, among
other (Viagra necafioned by the late dreadful form
in the North Seas, mentions that an Englifh (kip of
war, commanded by Capt. Rye, had been (trended
at Freyburg, and had received confiderabie damage.
We preform this veffel to be the PROVIDENCE, of 16
guns, which belongs to the North Sea Convoy.
The tarry 7 lirver was yeflerday rehearfed a third
time at Drury•lane Theatre. The fcenery is moil
particularly grand and beautiful.
The battle between Mendoza and Harry Lee,'
which has excited fo much inttrea among the am,,.
tears of late, took place this day. The ferric (.1
adi in lay on Grit-aka,' Green, near Farnboronp,h, ;n
Kent, the roads to which place wet e crowded at an
early hour this morning with carriages of all defcrip-
lions, from the Nobleman's cl: trim, to the market
cart : an immmfc multitude attended nn font alto.
On W,ditefday morning, between rile and two
o'clock, a large mat's of the venerable remains of the
ancient wall of Rocheller Cattle, gave way, with a
molt dreadful trails, and falling on a Wed occupied
by Mr. Bu rc aft, coach maker, of Rochelier, entirely
defrayed the fame, and damaged leveed ehlifes, ttc.
which were Minding tinder and near it. The mat:
which fell was thirty feet high, and above twenty in
width, and its tall is fimpofed to have been occaliuned
by the Willing fsprins the foundation of it.