Star.
London, England, 1806-01-24 00:00:00

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DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

LETTER. It.

• 81,014 In 11111M0 eft toed mania adds, we pad
ina4 06111011 A ‘4ALLIAM riaai.capfte arms frequents,"
Tit. Lk. Hid. Lib. sto.

Sta—ln the prefect crifis it well becomes every
Briton to refierff, that 2 few hours of calm or of
wind, adverfe to our Navy, may bring to our Mods
that army which has defeated the Autirians and RoF
fims. The well.proved fuperiority of our heroic fat.
men can then afford no protefiion—we mull fight
for their homes, and our own, upon Britilh ground.
With a fuppofition fo ferioua, let him contrail that
of a fecond hollow peace, offered by the foe, to gain
time to confulidate his recent conquetis—to rear Mil
commerce tinder a monopoly of the Continent of
Europe, fecured by the meafures he purfued aftertba
lasi treaty—finally, to colic& a fleet more numerous
than oars from the materials of all its forells and
ports—Of Poch a peace accepted by us, to Cave us
from meeting the immediate danger, and try our
fate while we .are entire, unaninsuris as to our natio-
nal mule and unvanquithed. In either of thefe alter-
natives, I afk any rational man, what poMble hope
&here is of preferving our independance and exift-
epee, as a people, but by means of armies as firong,
as well-trained, and as well commanded as thole with
which France may invade ? I alk any rational man,
if fubjugation by the (word of the foe, in the fin of
thefe alternatives, or a more debating and irretriev-
able renunciation of our liberty and honour, in the
latter, can be avoided by any other means f I hovel
but farther to afic him, if thefe means are now pre-
pared as they ought to be; and if, at the fiaternent
of the quellion, he is fatified that much retdains to be
done, will any one, not a traitor or a foul, refute to.
invefilgata what mull be done to Cave our Country?
The review of the WC events upon the Continent
leads to one conclufion only. Maria has been fub-
dued by saantauvre, h afar., and grnerallltip, with-
out event great battle for the defence of theEss tot a,
which lately, alone of all the European States, bore
that title, and 'Which flood as high in warlike repot*.
don as In rank. One battle, ratty and unfkilfolly
fought, broke the confederacy for her proteelion,
and forced her magnanimous and mighty ally to
leave her to her fain. All this has taken place in
two months. Such is now the power of fuperior
military fitill in Europe—Who, for fifty years before,
bas beard of a great army of Europeans taken captive
like wail/illy managed barna' in the game of Chefs.
merely by movements and combinations ? Who
before ever faw the thength of Empires in Europe,
sielatiod to deftrudlion is a fingle engagement ? If
we (hut our eyes to this example in the fate of
Powers, heretofore fo fuperiorto us 10 Military forms
if, with the carafes of their calamities folly in our
view, we, from the vilenefs of fervility, the virulence
of fatlion, or the fupinenefs of infatuation, refute our
joint and refolute co-operation to remove the mutes
from our own fyfiern, it is we who betray the Sritith
eonflitution, our native land, our Sovereign, and our-
felves. In fuels circomflancts the Reprefentative is
falfe to his troll, who can be retirained by any refpea
from a fair avowal of all his fentiments. May the
coward, in fuch a caufe, experience that there is yet
fpirit and patriotifm enough to make him feel his in-
famy I To the Senate we look for the wifdom, firm-
nefs, and exertion, which only can operate improve-
anent, and reforms of value.

It is treafon to doubt that the whole weight of the
fupreme Executive power would be ufed to give fuli
effea to there. We know the generous zeal of our
King, for the welfare and fecurity of the State, and
h it not then the duty of the whole of his people to
bear their part in the work
In the revolutions and conquells which we have
witneffed, wherever the mafs of the population of a
large territory has been excited to take up arms with
enthufiafm, fuccefs has eventually followed, even in
the wall of cedes, and with the moll profligate lea.
ders. Where, on the contrary, the people have re-
mained indifferent to the fate of their Government,
numerous, brave, and difciplined armies have proved
infofficient to protea it aping an enemy paroling
the advantage now mentioned, and have been worn
out phyfically by the mere repetition of attack.—
The eflablifbment of the prefent French Government
is an inflame of the truth of the firll of there obferva-
Lions—the fate of Aullria of the feeond.

But I do not think that the fubjell has been dole-
:), enough attended to, in the reafonings I have Peen
.pon the propriety of training the whole male mu-
: ttion of a Liam to the ufe of arms in the vigour of
::.eir lives. Invafion is now a calamity to which

eery Rate would do well to look forward 1411 too
probable. When it arrives, wh.lt enorfe is left for
an unarmed, unw.trlike multitude: It has often been'
obferved, that the heti cure for fear in the flock of
war, is to be attively engaged. Thole who are not fo,
if well afreaed, mull cucumber and drarad their

GovernmcnL and puteenrs by theii peinict, tuf.

fe~ings, and complaints. But the needy and worth.
lefs of ah nathkos will recruit the forces of the
fpoiler, to (hate in his booty, if nut otherwire piovi-
lel with employment and'recumpeace. And their

number is iivireared by cent), operation. and by the
mere continuance And walls of via.. I am. there.
-re, alma iuclined to Jaw the poifibility of any

flats being defended againik an enemy ftrong
enough to maintain himfelf within its country, and
ufing the French Revolueonary fyftem of attack fi•
any confiderable length of time, unlefs the whole
people are engaged in felt defence. In our cafe, the
permiffion and the arms, with the arrangements on-
ly, are wanted to call out the hearts and the bands
of the whole nation. Extremity would ptodoce, 1
truft, the impulfe, without any natUtil Dr arrange-
ment. But if the people were to rife otherwife than
by the forms, and in the array of the Conftitution,
according to the appointment of the Legiflatare, not
only is defiralion to be feared from the foe, but
from themfelves, to all that is worth contending for.
From that moment we are in a Revolutionary Hate,
and we have feen that horrors may follow.
One of the Sri objelts, will, I hope, upon thole
grounds, be the arming, or preparation immediately
to arm, our whole effeitive male populatioh. I
am far from thinking that their difcipline and efla-
blifhment ought to be matter of very nice and
formal regulation. Of thAt we have enough, I be-
lieve, in the Volunteer Syflem, to the exclufinn, in
no flight degree, of more valuable acquifitions. No
man is more fenfible than I am of the ineflimable
value of the habits of obedience, attention, and good
order in a foldier. But if be has feen no danger, ex-
cepting from the eye of an Infpeding Field Officer,
and knows the alarms of war bat in his anxiety that
the Guidon a tat r ave of the parade shall be per-
termed pox let reglei, I mull be pardoned for doubt.
ing if he can reckon upon his habits acquired and
praftifed only on the bowling green of •a review,
when be CMOs to the rough field of battle. For all
home-bred foldiers, it has ever teemed to me effential
that if poffible the idea of an actual enemy—of real
fervice—of real offence and defence, fitould accom.
pany his training, at every flop.
It is this which it is molt difficult to give him.--
But is the Peatant, who only learns to take a deadly
aim, to cover himfelf, and fecure his retreat, when
he &Gila the foe ; and to feparate or reunite with his
affociates, as occafion f , without lines, pivots.
or pates-w-likely to have lets of that idea than the
Volunteer, who has never teen or learnt any thing of
the art of war out of the form, time, and meafore
of the regulations 'The quefiion, I think, is of im
portance, and I mean to difeurs it in the comparative,
confideration of our prefent fytlem of difcipline with
that which it is underflood that the French pratlife.

CAMILLUS.

Lord HWY PETTY, Lord As.enoatr. the Hon.
Lawaseca DUNDAti. Lord Ro►srnat, and the Mtn.
Sr emcee PlactvaL, art raid to be Candidates &elite
Uni►crllty of Cambridge.
Yefterday abouttwo o'clock the Lord Mart went
In his Rate coach, accompanied by the ufttal attend
ants, to the parifb church of Abchurch, Cannon•llrcet,
where he held a wardmote for the EleCtion of an
Alderman for the Ward of Candlewick, in the renal
of the late. Alderman Perchard, when John Peter
Mulkey, Efq. was elated without oppofition.
The Rift hint of his regal dignity was received by
the EleCtor of Wirtemburgh while he was hunting,
on the fuperfeription of a Letter conveyed to him by
a Courier, from Bo AAAAA re, in theft words I—" To
my Beloved Brother, his Majefty the King of Suesta,
&c. &c. .

DRURY LANt.—The new Operatic Drama of The
Travellers ; or Mujic's Fofiinatioa, was laft night re-
peated at this theatre. It has undergone many ju-
dicious alterations and curtailments ; the reprefenta-
tion was IA night finifhed about half pall ten o'clock.
firfl Ad now concluder in the Prefence
Chamber of the Emperor of china.—ln the (econd
Aft, a whole fcene, a Chorus and a Dance, are fwept
away—in the third Aft, the dialogue is much con-
traaed, and, if we millake not, a Dance is here fnr-
rendet ed up.—The fourth At was too Ilion for am-
putation, but the dialogue in abridged, and the Fifth
is wholly tranfafted in one fcene—namely, the Q2ar-
ter Deck of a Man of War.
On Wednefday fe'nnight, as Mils Hayling and Mr.
Toldervcy, of. Leominster, were returning on horfe.
back from Hampton, the lady's horfe took fright at
fume jack-alTes on the road, and, letting off at full
(peed, the (addle turned, jail oppnfite Mr. Edwards's
gate, of Broadward; in consequence of which, the
fell, and broke her thigh She was conveyed into
that gentleman's !untie, and fergical afliltance was
immediately procured from Leominfler, when her
thigh was (cc, and, we are happy to add, the is in
a fair way of recovery.
John Wiggins, a corporal in the Cukethorpe Loyal
Volunteers, commanded by EDWARD SHIRLEY, E(q.
having keen difcharged for difohedience of orders,
and refuting to deliver up the clothes belonging to
the Paid volunteers, provided by voluntary fubfcrip.
tion, was convifted before the and Rev. FRAN.
cis KNOLLIS, of having forfeited the furn of fixteen
pounds fourteen (billings, which he was tenable to
pay, and was therefor e on Tuefday fennight commit-
ted to (Mord Callie fur the (pace of fiz weeks, ac-
cut ding to the !haute.
A mull melancholy and fatal accident happened
on Wednefday fenaight, at Ferss-liiiiife, near Bath,
she feat of Thomas Grove, E(q. muffin duels
of Mils Mary Ann Grove, an amiable young Lady,
thirteen years of age, fourth daughter of Mr. Grove,
by tome accident caught fire, when there was no one
in the apartment with her but a younger Idler, who
WAS incapable of affilling her. Terrified by her
alarming fitiration, Mifs Grove ran out of the houfe,
but unt.l ttitiately no one was at that instant on the
(put, and 'ellen flue again entered, and flew to an
apartnient, in which Mr. H. Banker, of Salifbiry,
was on hulineh, the was entirely enveloped in flames:
Mr. H. Bankes ufed every pollible ecettion, with the
Alliance of two fervants, to estinguith them, and was
much burnt in theft laudable firm s, but they welt
unavailing, till the young lady's eioihrs were neauly
confuntcd. She lansuithed until Tu.tiJoT, and then
died.

Niftl*C.lL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind N. W.

A* a.
Dublin
Waterford 0 '6°Bl. Gottanburgb 410 a. II";
I.
3 Humburgb 9 3
o
POurauttntru, jdte. 33.—Arrived the Caascs Cut•
ter, from a cruize.•,—Wind. Wellerly,

Deal., Jaa. 23.—a Put back the Pitt, for
Jamaica; Remittance, LAW, for New York ; Perfe-
verance, —, for the Earl Indies ; and the reit of
the outward bound, which failed under the Paosr sac
bomb. Sailed the AacNaa gun brig, on a ertlize off
Calais. Arrived the HOT/I frigate, with a convoy
from Portfmouth ; MsaLle floop of war, with a con-
voy from Gibraltar; and Bruiser gun brig, from a
cruise, and remain in the Downs with the Edgar,
Utrecht, and Trnay, men of war; Venus frigate ;
Profpero and Devaftat ion bombs ; Otter floop of war,
a fleet of gun brigs and tranfports. Wind W. N. W.
• FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Gacvitaano, JAN hr the Heart of Oak. Virgin ;
Riga Packet, Waterman, and the Peace, Miler, from Lifbon
Sailed, the Coat, Wyatt, fur Tobago; Perot* Anna airs, Jana,
for &adds.
ARRIVED.
Off lover, the Two Friends, Mac Nick, from Charieften ;
Prefident, Lynch. from Teneriffe; Princes Royal. Walton; Queen.
Diamond ; and the Britanonia, Brow n, from Lilbort—At Ford-
mouth, Neptune, from ditto; Barralla, Willmott. from
Gibraltar • NtUoe, Peacock, from Patera:meg; Nereid, Wilkie-
(on: —; and the Fleece, from Oporto—At Hoy-
late, Cerm, Bentley, from ditto—At Briftel, Jain and Mary.
from ditto; and the Mary, from Lilbon—At Liverpool,
Difrach, Barlow, from the Havannah ; Rmabtion. Sedgwood;
Charlotte, Priddla; Plebe, Findlay; and the Aacoltorfe,
1 front LifborsAt Bahian. Adive, Slitter. from Pateriborg—At
Pipers. Daphne, Bally, from Newfoundland—At Charleftea.
Prime
William. —, from Africa : and the Juno, Malcolm, from
Liverpool—At Africa. Governor Donal, sad the Alexan-
der, from ditto; Mary, Adams; AMMO. Mathews; and
the Flying Fifh, from London—At Tenerife, America,
Jafferd, from ditto.
The Nimble, Cunt, from Oporto for Liverpool,
is on (bore in Carnarvon Bay.
The Mary, MORRISON, and the O'Hara, from Ja-
maica, arrived at Charlefton, nn the sad of Deem-
her; failed with the fleet, confliling of about so fail,
and parted on the t ash December, in lat. 2+ long. 70.
- -

The William, Soucsay, from London to Malta,
is captured by the Spanifh gun boats, and carried into
Algeziras.
The fleet which failed from Pnrtfmonth on the 17th
of November, arrived at Gibraltar previous to the
t ith of December, all well.
Advices from Madeira, of the sath December, Rate,
that Prineefs Mary, Ganges, Perfe 'trance, and Union,
from the Well Indies ; Herald, from Newfoundland;
Hope, bound to Oporto, taken bv the Rochefort
fquadrnn, were carried into Teneriffe, there unload-
ed, and difpolid of. The Hope was purchafed by
fume Pi.rtuguefe, and fent for Lifbon.
The E m frigate is to be repaired for imme-
diate fervice, at Woolwich; at which place the CLYDI
frigate will be commiffloned in a few days.
The Weymouto frigate, Captain Meru, which
failed with the convoy for the alt Indies, when the
Abergavenny Eaft Indiaman was wrecked off Port-
land, and for whole fafety ftrious apprehenfions were
entertained, has joined the fleet under the command
of Admiral Sir E. Pr ace w, in the EaR Indies.

Admiral RUISIL'S flag (hip, the Majeflic, has ar.
rived at Yarmouth, and the Prince(' of Orange, of
74 guns, for whole 14fety Tome apprehenfrons were
entertained, has alfo arrived at that port.

Sir Samuel. HOOD is appointed to the command of
the Centaur, 'of 74 guns, at Plymouth.
Captain PARINDMII is appointed to the command
of the Sparrow (loop, at Chatham ; and Captain
&mecum to that of the Contiance (loop, at Port!:
mouth.