Star.
London, England, 1805-12-30 00:00:00

ID THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

LETTER M.

NO= Newt', abett,fi fit Prindentia ; fed to
Nosfaehnus dam, netting, ciedoque loeamus.--

Sit-With the exertion of real wifdom, this na-
tion has nothing to fear from her great enemy, for
the has firength fufficient to fet the woi Id at defiance;
but if that firength is not properly called forth, and
if all her immenfe means are to be paralized by vi.
fionary and childifb !matures, the rabic of either
felfifhnets or folly, our (late is truly deplorable, for
nothing can Pave us againft there.

Thu; nation poiliffes, in many of its ruling men,
Co much refleeion and genuine depth of reafon, that
we have Gill every thing to expea from the exer-
tion of it, to meet the preffure of our neceffery defen•
five 'matures ; let thefe perfnns only he careful to
keep themfelves free from the trammels of ancient
pradice, and view the world as it now is, not as it
formerly was.—The Generals of France, when they
prepared to cAnbat their enemies, and calculated
the chances on either fide, taw, in the inveterate ha
bits of their opponents, thofr errors which they were
Cure would never be departed from, and which they
exulted to think mutt prove their ruin : they were
not deceived—thofe errors were carefully preferved
amidft defeat and dellrnetion ; and, like Panglnfs,
the Auftrians chetifhed their maxims with their dy-
ing breath,

It is not enough in our prefent crifis that the rou-
tines of office are regularly attended to, we Rand in
need of the inventive force of genius to invigorate
our old refources, and to call out new ones ; we
Rand in need of fuel genius as may be above waft-
ing its faculties on trivial and fecondary meafures—
but which can roar to views of exteufive and folid
ability, and perceive that the fimplicity of every fug-
geftion is a proof of its real merit. initead of being
a fign of its inefficacy. Grand and general plan►
may Rill Cave us—Sic ingen: Caltio.crevit—The adop-
tion of pigmy confirneed fyftems can only hares
us, without the kali chance of benefit. I hope in
GOD, that when the hour of trial comes, we may
not be found like thofe improvident foals, who try
by noire and bale to retrieve what a little manly
japent would have prevented. If we become a
nation of markfmen. defeat can hardly be dreaded,
and mug be loon repaired ; but, if we tsutl entirely
to our exertions in fulid bodies. and in the open field.
we &111 have to contend againft the belt infantry,
and the greateft fkill which has ever hitherto ruled
the deftimcs of the world—and, alas, we inn find
fortune unpropitious. MYSOOAL LUC

Saturday John Addy was fully committed to
Newgate, from the Thames Police Office, charged
with robbery in the dwelling houfe of Edwardßymer.
Ft a es.—Between (even and eight o'clock yeßerday
evening a fire broke out in the lower tier of 'tabling
at the Swan with Two Necks Inn, in Lad.lane, which
for a time threatened deltruaion to the whole of that
great concern and the furrounding houfes. The alarm
was foon circulated over the town, and a number of
engines anived,weil manned with firemen, and tolera-
bly well Cupplied with water,which they plied Co effec-
tually that they confined the fire to the demolition of
that quarter of the Rabies where it began. The
houfes were for the mat part out in the mail coaches;
chore at home were fortunately got out of the Robles
alive, but with extreme difficulty. A part of the
back premifes, which abut on Love•lane, Alderman-
bury, caught fire, but was foon extinguithed. As
Coon as it broke out, the Loyal London Volunteers
attended, and blocked up all the avenues that led to
the Inn, excluding all but firemen and their affißants,
and thereby protected the property of the alarmed
neighbours. AU the books and papers were got out
of the coach-office Cafe, and the injury is by nu means
fo great as might have been expetted from fuch an
accident in fuch an extenfive concern. The pick-
pockets were, as ulna!, on the alert, and were but
too fuccefsful.

An alarming fire broke out on Wednefday evening '
lall, in the much admired and romantic cattle of
R. P. Knight, Efq. M. P. at Duwnton, near Lud-
low, Shropthire, which after raging a confiderable
time, was happily got under, but not till the interior
of that beautiful manfion, with the moil of its ap-
propriate furniture, had been confiderably injured by
the ravages of the devouring element. Owing to the
badnefs of the roads, the engines from Ludlow did
not arrive in time to render any confiderable fervite.
—This calamitous accident is fuppofed to have pro-.
ceeded from a fire, at which fume plumbers had been
at work, not having been properly eatinguithed.—
We underftand the worthy proprietor was Went
when it took place.
EXTRAORDIN ART ACCIDENT.—The nurfery maid
of Mr. Chapman, Attorney, of Warwick court, Hol
born, on Wednefday morning tall, when dreffing his
infant child, of two months old, by the nurfery fire,
fuddenly found herfelf in flames, tuppofed to be oc-
cafioned by a coal flying out of the fire upon her.—
She flew to the (lairs for relief, where her mailer,
alarmed by her cries, met her, and rolled the infant
in a carpet, and alfo the fervant, fo as completely to
extinguilh the flames. Both were dangeroufly burnt;
the maid fervant affording little hopes of recovery,
and in a (fate of infenfibility, in which the continued
till twelve o'clock that night, when fhe became fume-
what fallible. A nurfe and a young lady were ap.
pointed to fit up by her during the night. About
three in the morning, the nurfe went down (fairs tor
fomething : loon after the left the room, the young
lady, who was reading by a fire in the room, being
Truck by a light, looked towards the bed, and law
it in a blaze. She immediately gave every alarm,
and endeavoured to drag the maid out of the bed,
but was unable, and let her own clothes on fire,
, though the was fumewhat proteited by a filk
She now flew to the (lairs, where Mv. Chapman,
alarmed by her cries, met her, and extinguillsed the
fief : he then gave the alarm of fire, and made fa-
vetal vain attempts to approach the bed of the poor
fervant, who was burnt toe cinder, with every thing
in the room. Happily, engines arrived, and the
aißilance given preferved the reit of the honfe. The
rung lady and infant are both eic!efted to do well.
Mr. Honosos, the Coroner, held an inqueit on Thud-
day night, at the White Hart, Holborn, on the body
of the fervant, when a verdia of Aecidaatai Death
was returned.

BIRTHS.
Oa tke ices lath*, * Calour* Hoare. °ahoy:le-pee. Bads.
Mrs. Lionel Lee, of a daughter.
On t %Minas Day, at her 'mute in Soletrfet-Rreet, the Lady of
Robert Mainfoo.Efq. of a daughter.
On the 19th ioR. the Lady of Major Done*. of the yth Royal
Veteran Battalion, Tower. of a daughter.