Star.
London, England, 1801-10-29 00:00:00

TllRE,lfitiArd Laf 114

We have authority from AdEttitalLordVi. icouttf
gELSOM to publifh the following letter, which has
I,:en addrefred to his Lordthip by a perfon who
Alums the name of HILL. The public will ap-
rlnnl the manliners with which the Noble Lord
the fcandaious compromife of his reputa-
tion, and dares the writer to the indulgence of
his malignity. The Noble Vircount defires us to
fay that he wifhes his whole life, "public and pri_
vide, to be moil rigidly examined."
MY LORD, Ter/day.

I have long auziouny waited four return to Warn. Al-
though necrffity induced me to write to you in the manner I
did. yet I bad no intendon of publinaing.what I fent you, be-
c+ufe I thought you would dther have complied with the terms
of my letter, or have taken no fttrther Dottee of it. But in
ad.:qui:nee of the (telt you took, I have been at the trouble of
writing a itatemeut of your exedat fusee the beginning of
the War

The manticript in too long to copy, or I would fend it you.
I dull therefore merely Rate to you the beads of what it con-
tjer. When you comtnanded the Agamemaou, 64, you nu
from four French frigates. Since that time this Lion,
64, used four Spanids frigates, and took one of them; the
Matta, 64, aged and beat off his French frigates. When
&fared to go down and Alt the maps engaging the Cs-Ira and
Cenfeur, you did not go, and the maihn you gave afterwards
for not going, that your' flopping to board the St. Joreph sod
St. Nadia, land of plain on to !top fonte of the other
flips, was more calculated to acquire popularity in the Newf-
men, than to add to the further fume& of the alien, be-
mute thole Ups vete snaking no reilftance, ser did they even
when you bearded them, and cenfequently would hays been
talon paean of by the &lye *ern of you; that the Want of
(emir at Tenni& Was 'Hefty owing to the manner and
ewe of the attack; that even the mode of attack put in prac-
tice by you at Aboukir was given out by Lord Hood, when he.
meant to attack the Freoeb- [quadrat in Frejus Bay; that the
ad of Tome of your !hips point infide of the enemy's line was
tot in anfequthee of any Oval from you, Immure there was
re loch fignel in the fional-book, but done by the Captains
Utopian:l; the mien why no !hip attorepai to fupport the
Zealous the next morning, &e.; that the accidents which hap-
pened to fn many of the ihipa under your command at Copen-
hagen/ sad the eireumfttneee which prevented to many others
from getting into salon, might and -tat low Mx &wooed ;
the r.tliegreare e 40 amition sf aftwoetaly Which
inhered you to fend the Flag of Truce; Come particulars, in
addition to what I fait you refpeding the attack at Boulogne,
which I have truce learnt from an old Ihipmate wounded on
that oecallat-vwen as, that the &Mona did not get of toge-
ther; that infixed of its being very dark, as you fay in your
letter, and to which you attribute the failure, that the moon
was up; the fpeeth yod make to Captain Somerilik's &Moe,
&e..-Thofe are the principal points I bare treated. Should
.en, My Lord, with the mandaipt not to be publilbed, you
win plate to mete& me, isse iy dopy!, fault men to the Mount
ou may think proper. I leave ft to yourfelf. The letter, I
think, had better he enacted in a fiteet of brown paper, fo as to
look like a parcel, in order to prevent any r* from the ihop-
man, Gould the perfect at whofe hook you will plate to aired
It, be out. The diredtion I wills to be put on it is--Mr.
NM, at Mr. Jordan's, bookfcller, No. zo,Ludgate&M.
Ii you comply with sty requeft without taking any Reps to
lad me out, and you may ihypofe after the warning you have
given me, that I (hall not be fo foollib as to run any rilk, you
ray rtly on It I will burn the manufeript, and never mention
rto any enc. But if I do not bear from you io ewe Ary, I
ball take it for granted that you have no objection to my print-
ing the pamphlet, becaufe you think your reputation too well
eftablithed with the pad/ic to Puffer from any thing I can fay.
But a plain augment of fads fupported fupported by reafoning, the
ritt..ier of fernmen.m4o diferentilbaalyt of the Newfpaperr—
..rd the failure at Boulogne, may perhaps' hare mere weight
HILL.

than you imagine.
Ti the Rigist Hr. Lea Narba.

The LORD MAYOR ordered the City Marital: to
attend at Mark-lane and Smithfield on Monday
Jail, a praCtice which we hope will be continued.
The Corn Market was uneownottly filed with coun-
try buyers. The prices, however, fell !
The Clergy of the Diocefe of Winchefier have
generally reported to Lord Pk L rum, that the far-
mers of their refpeaive parifbes are not ine fitted to
mate the returns of their crops, per acre, as defired
by Government ! We wonder how they ihoule,
without pain or penalty annexed to the requifition,
in cafe of non•compli4nce ; which cannot be done
without the interference of the Legillature.
it may be reafonably hoped, that Parliament
will devote an early part of their time to the con-
fideration of the prefent difproportion between the
prices of bread and wheat. Nothing would be
more ridiculous than the abfurdity of the prefent
regulations, if unhappily the fubjeift were not too
fcrious to admit of ridicule. At Wincheller, the
price of the quartern loaf is 7d. and a fraaion.
Now, as it is well known that wheat is nearly al-,
cheapeft in London, becaufe there the effect
41 the importations is firft felt, will it be endured
I.) the Legillature, that the inhabitants of the me-
tropolis than pay upon every quartern loaf an un-
nixed:try three-pence,and that not to the landed in-
Irma, to the great and refpeflable body, who have
been lo much expofed to taxation and burthens of
every kind, during the war, but to a band of con-
niving millers and mealmen, who thus interfere,
I,cyond every fair claim, between the owners of the
lA, and the confomers of the produce ? The pre-
r.at mode of afcertaining the average price of
c.our, is that which, we undertland, affords the
vreatell opportunity to the frauds under which
'11.: public fuffer. Let Ihis be inirettigated, and
1. mutt ceafe.

ft is with teal regret we learn that Mr. A. a
niff:man whore extenfive concerns are univer-
s
• dy known to the public, has been obliged to
rpcnd his payments. The extent of Lis concerns,
undo Hand, is the principal caufe of this di.
From the general efteem in which this
:; iitlem,in's charaCter Rands, not only for his pub-
woiks in architellure and his laudable and ufe-
' improvements in the favourite purfuits of agri-
rtup-, but alfo from the excellent ebaraaer he
oi inciety, we cannot help being anxious to
that his affairs IA ill ultimately leave au ample
• iloa to himfelf.