Star.
London, England, 1804-09-20 00:00:00

BRIO/inn', SEPT, pr.

The weather ye[terday was fo eicefively hot, drat
the Rage coaches from London, which generally
come in before five o'clock in the afternoon, did not
arrive here until nearly eight o'clock in the even-
ing ; and even at that time, though the hotted
had been treated with fo much indulgence. the poor
animals were nearly dropping with fatigue.—The
Steyne, tall night, was unmenfely crowded with pa
deavians. The Prince entertained an elegant party
at the Pavilion. Even after fun.fet, yefterday, the
heat of the weather was intolerable. A divifion of the
Army of Referve. in number about goo, marched
into this town on Saturday, and left us to join the
4oth Regiment of Infantry. at Hafting.. this morn-
ing. Shortly after their departure, another detach%
ment of the Army of Referee, confining of about tile
lame number of men, entered the town, and Is to
follow the former to-morrow. Inltrußions, it teems,
have been given by Government for the complete in-
undation of Pevenfey Level, as loon as poffible after
the appearance of the enemy's invading force being
difcovered off any part of the coal' of Suffix. •
&PT. tB.—The Patrice ye)erday furveyed the
buildings, which are in a very forward Rate, on the
ground recently dißinguifhed as the Promenade
Grove, and was afterwards on horfeback for a con-
fiderable time before dinner. The following accident
has hem the current topic of the day—a Lady, whole
name we could not learn, with two female attendants.
being in a machine, for the pupate of enjoying a
dip in the briny element, had requefled of the bathers
t s put the %chicle into the water as deeply as it could
be placed wigs lately ; or rather, as a dip in Sallow
water Witt unpleafant to her, fn to difpoie of *erns.
chine. that the fru face of the Old Ocean might be
nearly on a level with its floor. The bathers, aough
reltiftantly, did as they were &fired, and the tide
being nearly at flood, the machine was Coon after
afloat, overturned, and the lives of thofe within it
much endangered. The bathers, the Ladies, all
(creamed, and numbers who beheld the dilater on
the Cliff, hurried to the water's edge. reverel of whom
who could fwim, for the firft time, probably without
firipping, dallied into the Tea, and with much labour
and difficulty brought the machine to land, ere "boa
within had (offered much by their misfortune. No
blame attache% to the Bathers on this aeration; even
the Lady moll alarmed does them justice in this
particular.

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SfiLff4R7-T.ICTICi

To THE swot OF THE STII.

818,4 have long expeited to fee thofe opinions,
which I now with to fubmit to public confideratio%
listed by fuperior ability. The importance of the
Cubic& and my convietion of the necelaty that our
attention tumid be called to it, have, however, made
me regard thence as criminal, evert before the Cor-
Scan Emperor of Republican France iffued his man.
dates to the ruffian Aeries% and the fellow offices'
of that Jacobin Martha!, to deltroy theft kingdoms
according to their own pleafure.
It will fcarcely be denied by any one who has
read biftory, that conqueff has, uaiformly attended
the efiablithment of any improvement in 'the gene-
ra fyftem of carrying on war, Co long as the fur-
rounding nations would not adopt the alteration.
The invention of new engines and arms is attended
with fuch evident Wells that there are always imitat-
ed by all Military. powers who experience their ef-
fah and who porefs.the mans. ' But' the progrefs•
ise.taflics is of a vat '4lfferrot elefeription. :The-
Thrlis dweittegtetta yarlaidoni With fubjugation;
*tile their anoiei Were formed itsto, fonteihing
nefendblin_gretala bititalicins. Bit; fineithe-Randing
armies ofßuffm. Penal*, Ind'Atilliia base been direr-
plined accordant 'to the -preftne.fyite ' theft baba- '
beAkit
trans, remaining fiationaiy, have "• • altogether'
defpicable. Ts SDFILICIL the &aft a, reduc•
ad the fatties of cloTe-fighthigio a (sties of inameu,
ores, direfted by invariable riles, and the impreffion
of his focceh remains at this j bout Plots that all
diffimilarities and dotage, of &Wien are overlaillO4
by his followers. Is our (*riles efpieraPT, that
fek the letter of the regidatioss as blindly and utre
ditty as ail their minds were incapable of forming
,another idea: and ca Onitinlied publications (the
•of General •les4rs; which' -keened:4e
eseepeni). Melt as to be foldiers- with
as hide ft the powas. adios', and paffions
of somas we India Odeon of mathematics or che-
Odarr-
Mean while ilia immesh issavaie of avtillery, and
dfillgreatei fmMwoobtsts.in the facility-and Uhrity
or its cooverusees ltam in • a great knearure cbanlid
showery Implenterists of war, and augmented fifty-
.lllM the Means of snoildlating Cow and kid bodies
of men in their approach s and the nature of the
&nes of feverat recent wars, when bith-fightiog
mar could be proeifed, demnnarated to all who
would not Oust their oyes, that the eighteen inanou-
was could not in many cafes be adhered to without
certain defiruftiois. Gail:ills Earl Hows and Sr.at
cos can stork (and their competency to judge CM
Imadmined,) that the belk dikiptined regiments of
Ma army in the American war were totally unfit to
sieunta they were freed from the Shackles of that
exelofive Tyltem of difeipline which they had learn-
ed. Befides. when the manativriog of folid and of
regular bodies has hem reduced to rule, and when all
the eighteen formations to which it is condenfed
spat be as well learned in three months drilling as in
OZwhole life time, no confequence could be more
evident than that to fuperadd the (kill of ailing dir-
est:gaged# and of feparating for rapid motions and
Wag anew, as oecafion required, would give
of. 'at an advantage, as he who plays loofe, in
it, moth have over an antagonift who combats
s he learnt his leffuns.
: revolutionary French, is -war, at leak have
ta
ribund the tomoft benefit from defpifing the
edalirints of efiAlithed fyllem. Whoever has fought
with them, or has fern them fight, knows that they
bye oonfounded, difordered, and fubdued the brava
ibd Readier armies 'by mdes of attack, admitting
of ncitotandefeat on the part of the &Madams, and
'which gore oho all rename, and by modes of de-
fence to which the eat* of their enemies, however
vigorous, never could ripply. They adopted with
that facility which is their charatterillic, the addition
of loofe .and rapid movements, and of individual'
operation, where regular and combined efforts were
out of place, until tklhave peddled this change of
fyttem in a eourfelireTperiments, by which they have
nearly doubled their empire.
Upon the other band, as if the regulatsd and un•
•hionalpiable Order of their lines and cointals• were
Infenarablyconneftedwith the hued principles of re-
Siker% government, laws, and liberty, for which
testy, fought, our late Allies and we have with arairus
iiiamous Ilupidity iacrificed to it at lean soc,ooo men
anilnrany large countries, and, for any thing I can
difenver, are, with a courage and obflinacy of folly,
iticoneeivable had it not been (hewn, prepared to
perfid, till our lath drop of valiant blood (hall be
drained.

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I do not Rate this too ftrongly : The Britifh army
in the narrow flat of land before Alexandria, and
on the beach of the Helder, where difeagaged fight-
ing was iinporible, prevailed, by their untameable
courage, as they and the Außiians have often done
eVewhere, upon attacks of fortified polls and un-
changeable politions, however lirong. But, in or di.
navy lituations, difcomfiture has invariably attended,
and ever will attend, the clofc and flow body which
advances under fire upon an enemy not obliged to rt-
win to k rooted, or which, in defence, cannot vary
its formations with as much facility as the affailants.
At the battle of Bergen, on the tyth of September,
3799, the French had above thirty pieces of artillery
polled along an extenfive range of land hills, which
they difcharged as their all:Lilts approached in co-
lumn with deadly clic.% and left without contell or
order, but, taking care to preterit no folid body to be
fired upon, they then Icattceed, and from every co-
vering around, flaughtered the captors, until there
were not men remaining either to carry off their own
or the French artillery.
So it has ever been ; fo it will be, even in England
itfelf, were the enemy ever to advance into that chafe
country. We thould, nay we mutt, be ambufcaded,
confounded and murdered in our own inclofures, if
we will not apply common fade to our pradice of
dlfcipline.
The nature of that military fanaticifm which pro.
duces fuch alarming confequciicti mull he a curious
Cubits& of invelligation, even with the alifirad [pecu-
lator, to whim all nations, countries, and kindreds
are alike indifferent. Bat thufe who regard it as
dangerous to the lafety of their native land and fel-
'ow (oldie's certainly mull detirc its louvers, maxims
and cleat to be laid open. Chance has put me in
p -Satin of the main points of faith and do6rine of
its votaries which, to the uninitiated, remain as ioeon-
•eirable upon any rational principle as the motive

of the religious patarges of the }rob& X Mentes
in gratitude for the initruflioo r have derived from
it, to make this great difeovery through the m
diem of your paper, unlefs.notwitittianding the' It.
berality difplayed on all other topics, you hoed be",
in the number of thole who have devoted themfelvex
rather to poi& in one of the regular figures which
the plates exhibit, and at the meafured Itep of the
march, than to affail, contioer, and dale/ die ene-
my, as occaflon permits.

• *IIOIIMI Or •Itlllltl.

Lieutenant General Owe juft arrived front
Malta, goes down to Portfmonth at the end of the
week, to airtime the Government of that fnrtrefs.—
Lieutenant General Da UMIUMID fuceeeded him in the

Government of Malta.
Brigadier General Sir C BOUGHTON is,
appointed to the command of Manchifter, in the
room of Major General Blum., removed to Liver
pool, and Lieutenant Colonel HUGH Itait.t.ia, In-
fpeaing Field Officer, in the room of Lieutenani-
Colonel If trrco mow. •

Mmidat, it confiderable detachment of the Foot
Guards marched to Wiodfor. in order to del the duty
of that royal refidence. during the ahfence of the
Staffordfhire Militia, note attendant on the Kato at
Weymouth.

-11 w 43d or Argyllibire regiment of Britifh Militia
were on Wednefday fennighr reviewed by Brigadier
Geneial.Dicalow4, upon WeR Barns Links,. near
Annhse.. The,Ganeral errylled bit entire spproba-
eipp of the corps. Aftei tbe.riview; the General din-
-:ed'vrith the officers or the regitrittlit at the barracks.
the St. Georges --C,Orps. of IdatiChefter, lately
fotamanded by Llisitehint CAbbel Cam, have. by
Qi. GQ.Yerittnettr, .been'clifbanded.
tttetrt, stri nosy, railing in Manehefter, by the
C4loables aind,eitierfeer; agreeably to.the direilions
of thj, tiWkiikifed for the general defence of
thk feaga• • • • • • •

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Tatidairfa'ntiight. the sth BritOh Militia. Com-1
minded by the Eal of CAITHNESS, were reviewed at
Aberdeen• by Major General the Marquis of H
LT. who &spurred himfelf in the higheli degree fatif
fled with she ikeadinefs and accuracy with which they
performed their various evolutions. The Officers of
the regiment afterwards-entertained his Lordfhip and
Staff at dinner in the Barracks.

Sunday fe'nnight, upon Carlifle Sands, a muller was
made of carts and carriager, (for the conveyance of
volunteers, in cafe of invafion) when upwards ofone
hundred and thirty were entered, and a greater num-
ber of horfes.

With a view to afcertain whether any, and what
number of men in the Regiments of the Line and Mi.
litia, may, from age or infirmities, be at prefent unfit
for duty, his Royal Highnefs the Commander in
Chief has dircaed (in Circular Orders of the t 3th
addreffed to General Sir D. DVPDAN &r.) that
a Board in each Brigade in the Southern Maria,
confining of the G I Officer commanding the
fame, the Field Officers, and the Regimental Medical
Staff, lhould proceed to inquire into the eery of**,
men who are not in the habit bribe regillffr
mance of their regimental ditty, or who are con-
fidered unequal to marches or Other fatigues:
The troop of cavalry attached to the Fir& Mies
Volunteer Legion, commanded by Colonel
has irobtnteered to reliive a detachment of the 2111
Light Dragoons,. in their duty on the Ear coati.
Inartunions have been given to fill the ditch
Peienfey, with water, the &ft tide after the
abed of the enemy's gun boats off the roan of Suffer ;
and the whole level as to he flowed fhoulci the enemy
adiance.—Similar orders have been blued as to Rom-
ney Marfb.
FOITtIICATIONI UPOW TN. COAST of
Under the South Foreland, at St. Margarite's Bay,
theVe is a, battery, with a party of troops Rationed.
rot three miles wenwardi the cliffs are tnacceffible ;
then comes Dover Carle, with a very formidable
array of artillery, commanding the fhore, the Cal-
tle itfelf hkving been very -firongly fortified on the
land fide. In the cliffs of the Caftle and on the
Beech ire batteries; there is a battery at the North
Pier, and a battery at the South Pier, together with
a .11rong battery and fort Wenward of the town.
For upwards of twenty years it has been recom•
Mended to fortify the Wenern heights of Dover, and
dud plan is now carrying into execution. 'rime is
a long extended line, it is true, but that, though
very nrong, is merely an out-work. The main de-
fence, the lifting hold, the Citadel, if we may fo call
it, is at the Commit of this line on the highell ground,
near Dover ; and if it be commanded, which we
doubt, by an oppofite range, at lean it mull be al-
lowed to be the bell fituation that could be found, as
it is the higheil ground in the neighbourhood. It
has long been the opinion of military men, that as
this height commands Dover Clink, and much of
the fin-rounding country, unlefs it were well Corti.
!Ir.], Dover could trot be feeure. This important
work is now carrying into effed with the utmnil ra-
pidity. From Dover 'reward to Folkitone, the dads
are again inaceeffible. At Folknone there is another
'battery—two miles further is Sandgatc Cattle, whet e
there are tome artillery—and half a mile further
is a nrong battery under Shorncliffi, the guns of
which are nearly level with the fca, and point im-
meJiately acrofs the high road, fo that it is im-
poffible to pats without feting, without almon run•
ning foul of them. Two miles further, at Hythe,
there are batteries—and alfo at Dungenels. In the
fifteen miles from South Foreland to Hythe, we find
about nine batteries, exclulive of Dover Caine,
and the fortified heights to the wenward of Dover.
Along the man of 'Kent and Suffer, there is not a
hollow for a landing place, but these is a battery ;
there is not a height, bin there is a fiynal poll.
Perhaps it would be defirahle. to have more artillery
and artillerymen; and we make no doubt the defence
of our coach by batteries might be greatly improved;
but no one important point feems to have been wholly
overlohked. batteties on the French emits are
certainly far fuperior to our own; but the lerriet is,
very different. They with to reach far to fem. to
prole& their cruisers we do not wills to fight, from
land, (hips at a dinanee on the fee ; we wifis :o pro.
tat the beach spina a ',lndies. In a few hours,
twenty thoutand men. moll of them regulars, the tett
militia, can be brought to say part of the coa& of
Kees ; and in twenty-four bolts that samba can be
doubled, exclufive of Volunteers.