Star.
London, England, 1802-05-17 00:00:00

COUNTY OF SOMERSET.
A T the requeft of feveral Gentlemen of thib
• a- County, I appoint a General Meeting of the County to
I.e lickl at the Town-Han, In \Vella, on hiellitilT the 24th of
May inft. at One &Clock :n the Alto-lona, for 6.: purpofe of
taking into eonfideration an Adtacfs to his Mon.sTe on
tim happy reltoration of Peace.
BENJAMIN GREENHILL, ShesilE
Saone Batten, May it, aos.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT FREEMEN
OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER.
ItOTIIIR
CLLEL) upon by a large and refpeaable part
of r.slir b.dy to reprtfent rot in the enfuirtg Parliament,
it may perhaps be confidant nertifary for me to Rate to you
what pretentious I can claim to fo high and fo dittinguillsed as
honour.
If my pretentious are to be founded upon my awn individual
merit, they mutt (brink before :he fuperior blaze of that Mathi-
eu' eharseter,who hats Lately Wicked your fuffragta. My pre-
tentious :o this honour are founded in the favourable opinion
you are kind enough to entertain of me; an opinion, I truft,
:sot lightly taken up nor inconfiderately rmed; but the refult
o!a long acquaintance with my modes of life, my habits and my
prindples, even from my boyith days." Divelted of this fa-
vourable opinion, any pretenfions in me to this exalted Ration
would be les than nothing.
You have too frequently been deceived by rrofeflions and
gromlks in addreffes of this kind, to let them any longer go
current with you—" They keep the word of promife to the ear,
but break it to the hope."-1 will only tell you what I cannot'
proanfe you—l cannot promife. mould Ibe the ()hied of your
&&m, that every ad/ion shall meet with the approbation of
every individual—l cannot promife to promote any felftftt Joie-
• reit by becoming the penfionary of Government, or the tool of
a faction--1 cannot promife to forward your private views at the
expenee of my public independence.
With .dl their imperfections on my head, if I fhould be deem-
ed nte unworthy of your choice, I will however promife, that
whatever errors I may commit, will be errors of. the head and
not of the heart, and that no freeman (hall blulh •to hear the
name of their Renrefentathe coupled with corruption.
I am, brother Freemen, with gnat cfteem,
Your obliged friend, and devoted fervent,
Roelfter. May z tso2. JAMES HULKEtt.

GERmAtir.

HAMBURGH, MAY tz.

Letters received here Irom N-w-York, of the
date of the 4th of April, contain the following
intelligence :
Cape Francois and Port Republicain are only
open to American fhips. General LECLERC has
fent Comminioners hither, to negotiate a loan of
flx millions of dollars, of which one half is to be
advanced in ready money, and the other half in
provitions for the French troops in St. Domingo.
Several French 'hips of war have arrived at Bal-
timore and Philadelphia to procure provitions and
other neceffaries. Some American fhips in the
Well-Itkiies have been compelled by the French to
fell them their provifions, for which they paid in
Bills of Exchange drawn on BON•PARTE at fixty
days fight. The Havannah is now entirely flint
to the Americans.
Tfie propofition made in Congrefs, that our Met.-
chants Ihoul.l be indemnified for the lolfes they
baveluffered by French prifoncrs,has been'rejefled.