Star.
London, England, 1814-10-06 00:00:00

PARIS. OCT. t.

Several Booksellers and Hawkers have been arrest.
ed ; they are accused of having sold and distributed
libels, of which it is high time to prevent the circula-
tion. Seditious Pamphleteers do all they can to mis-
lead the minds of the people; but the people have
been so often deceived, that they will read their works
no more. They neither find readers nor accomplices,
and we may apply this line to them :

" La vertue n'en veur pas; le crime n'en veut plus !"

Attempts have :been made to circulate a certain
Memoir, which the author promised not to make
public :—it is very imprudent in him to publish a
work which inculpates rather than justifies him. To
speak a language which ought to be familiar to him,
we may say that it is a Bomb which will bunt among
thou who have :hot it.

Mr. Bayard, the American Commissioner, left
Paris, for Ghent, yesterday.

Yestcr:lay morning, nt eleven o'clock, the Duke of
YORK had an audience of the PRINCE R►GENT At Carl-
ton House, and afterwards set ofEfor Windsor.

THE WA.R IN AMERICA.

In attempting to give a short sketch of the manner
in which the war against the United States should
be conducted, in order to secure a glorious and ho-
nlurable peace, we think it right to call to the recol-
lection of our Riders the geographical position of
the territories of this now our only enemy.

Extending along a line of Sea-coast from North to
South of not less than 2300 stiles, with numerous
harbours, these States possess only a narrow track in
breadth, bounded on the West by the Apalachian, or
Blue Mountains. Of the American territory west of
this ridge we have no occasion to speak here.

Prom this extensive line of coast and fine harbours,l
the States, evea long before their separation from
Great Britain, had become a great Commercial
country ; and the war, which convulsed Europe soon
alter the declaration of their independence, having
made them almost the sole neutral flag, their ship-
ping and commerce increased in a degree to which
they had no title, under any other circumstances, to
expect.

This favourable state of things brought such an
influx of wealth into the Confederacy as seemed to'
have the effect of turning the heads of their leading
citizens. If we add to this the sudden rise of BONA..
PARTE, the solidity his power seemed to have obtain
ed, and the promises which he gave to the leaders of
the democratic faction to assist them in the conquest
of the British provinces in America, we wll no longer
be surprizcd at the line of conduct pursued by Vie
Government of the United States. Wheiwr this line
of conduct was politically right or wrong, is not now
the question. But it is fair to take it as a beacon to
our own Goverment, and as holding out to their
view the points which, under a different termination
of the war in Europe, would have been vulnerable,
in order that the measures to be taken in future fur
frustrating the designs of the United States against
the vital interests of the British Empire may be ren-
dered more apparent.
It was under these impressions that, in our Paper
of the 19th ultimo, we gave our opinion frankly as
to the terms upon which his Majesty's Government
*tight to make Peace with America : and althoug!l
these terms have been censured by some as too over-
bearing, and although it has been stated by others
that the American Government wouli risk every
thing rather than agree to them, yet we are prepared
to skew that they are neither unreasonable in them-
selves, nor derogatory to the honour of the enemy.

We shall proceed to give shf:rtly our ideas of the
mode in which the war should be conducted; and we
venture to predict, that if his Majesty's Government
should adore a similar system, the contest will be of
short duration.

Our idea is, that a force of 20,000 men should be
well organized and held disposable for operations on
the sea-line of the States. We assert that this force
may be very easily put on foot, if our Ministry are
not too much occupied with paltry savings by hurry-
ing the reduction of our forces, both military and
naval. T!ie first operation ought to be the attack of
New York, where there are at present 1,500 square-
riizged vessels, and at least an equal number of other
craft, none of them less than 150 tons. The capture
of this city would of itself be a death-blow to the
enemy, and would probably bring peace on our own
terms. If it did not, the army ought to take pos-
session of Long Island, which is 30 miles in extent,
rich in corn and cattle, with towns and villages suf-
ficient to afford comfortable cantonments for the'
troops, and with harbours to admit vessels laden with
provisions and stores.
From this centre, Expeditions, of adequate force,
should be dispatched against all the seaports of the
States in succession, the fortifications, where there are
'any, to be blown up or otherwise destroyed, with an
intimation that the town would be Surnt if any at-
tempt was made to restore them. Private property
ashore to be respected, and all provisions furnished
by the country people to be faithfully paid for ; but
every vessel with a privateer's commission to be taken
or burnt.

By carrying on the war in this manner, the sinews
of the Confederacy would be broken—their system of
privateering annihilated—and the States must soon
be obliged to sue for peace on any terms Great Bri-
tain may clause to dictate.

The rumour of yesterday of the American Pleni-
potentiaries, at Ghent, having acceded to the Preli-
minaries of Peace proposed by this country, is not
credited. It probably arose from a paragraph in the
Gazette de France, which rests on no authority.

A letter was yesterday received from Brussels,which
refers to another transmitted from Mr. GALLATIN, in
which that Minister distinctly says, that ht gully ex-
pects to take his departure for the United States in a
fortnight, by the Neptune cajtel. It is added by the
Brussels correspondent, 44 As far as I can judge of the
inuendoes in Mr. GALLATIN'S letter, there can be no
prospect whatever of peace."

Our letters from Havre, received yesterday, refer
to others from Bourdeaux, in which it is mentioned
that very serious disturbances had taken place in that
city, on account of the rise in provisions, consequent
on the exportation of grain. At Havre the shipment of
corn was continoed without molestation or difficulty.
Letters were received yesterday from St. John's in
Newfoundland, dated 12th ult. Five masters of ships
had just landed, whose vessels had been captured by
the Americans, and a few days before, twelve more
of them had been set on shore under the like circum-
.stances. Such was the extent of the maritime depre-
dations in that quarter.