Star.
London, England, 1805-04-03 00:00:00

Mr. STURGES BOURNE brought op the report of the Ton-
beepers'Ailk width was ordered to be engrofied,and read a third
Owe taw swam
Tbe.Coftont Doty sin was mind a third time and pared.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT psi 1110Ciet of a motion to-marrow,
for the aphdoe of the Attorney and Solicitor•Gmerabi, rafpeeting
the dahlia of the Attorney and Solicitor Generals in Ireland, lu
Set.
The American Treaty Bill, and the Bengal Council Bill, were
read a third time and paged.
Lord DTINC and Lord oaw TSYNNE took the oaths
and their feats; the fanner fur Kmreiburough, and the latter for
the City of Bath.
Lord BROME 'moved for, and obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for the improvement of the Port of Ipfwich.

RADUCTMM OF TNI IRISH MILITIA.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXHEQUER
moved the Order of the Day for the Houle going into
a Committee on this Bill.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT laid, that having already
fully hated to the Houle his opinion on this fuhjeet,
and having found that the fenfe of the Houle was for
Nang this Bill, he ihould not now take up their
time with recapitulating the arguments he had be•
fore offered ; he rote now merely for the purpofe of
fuggefting to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) a
meafure that he thought would have the molt impor-
tant are& in increafing the difpofable forte of the
empire from Ireland, or rather in encouraging thole
Col-diets, who were not now difpofable, to become fo.
The meafure he now begged leave molt earneftly to
recommend, was to mAke Inch a provifion for the
wives and children of thole who volunteered, as
would at lead remove the principal oblation which
now hands in the way of their volunteering. The
wives of the foldiers in the Iriffi Militia and Army
of Referve now receive an allowance of two Chitlings
a week, and formerly received four ; but. from the
moment any of tilde foldiers volunteered fur general
fervice, this alloi.ance ceafed. If this great difcou
ragement was removed, he was fure they would he
much more ready to enter the regular army. At
prefent, the mifery that was entailed on Ireland, un-
der the fyftem which pow prevails, was rooft dread-
ful. The face of ibe country was covered with the
wives and children of foldiers begging their bread.
There is hardly ever any confiderable embarkation
of troops from Portfmouth or Plymouth, that from
Soo to a thoufand foldiers' wives are not turned
bole to beg their way as well as they can to theft
own country. As molt of them landed at the near-
eft hi& port of Cork and Waterford, he had often
been an eye witnefs of the extent of the evil which he
now wished to be redreffed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER al-
lowed that the fuggehicorof the Honourable Bayonet
was of the ntmoft importance, and deferved the
molt ferious confederation. He was not then prepar-
ed to give.an opinion on the fubjea, but he perceiv
ed that many difficulties hood in the way of the
adoption of this fuggeftion. He.was aware of the
dithers which was 'often felt in Ireland on account of
their being no eftablifhed fyllem of Poor Laws in
that country as there is in this ; but he did not know
how Parliament could grant a fpccific allowance to
the families of Iriffi foldiers which was not granted
to the families of the folaiers of the rat of the Unit-
ed Kingdom. He thought the Honourable Baronet
was however millaken in (me point, as he.was pretty
lure there was an allowance given at the time of
every embarkation, to carry the foldiers' wivei home.
Notwithhanding the difficulty that he law in the
adoption 6f this fuggeltion, he ffiould certainly give
it his molt ferious confederation. '
Sir JOHN NEWPORT Paid in explanation, that
the altos ante given to foldiers! wives on embarkation
was a guinea and a half ; this might be barelyfuifi-
cient to carry them to the neareft Iriffi Port, but

they landed completely &Rime, and were obliged
immediately to have recourfe to begging.
Colonel BAGWELL confirmed the Itatement of
Sir John Newport, at to the great degree of mifery
which the wives of not only the Irifh loldiers in the

regular army, but even in the Militia and Army of
Referve experienced. During the laa war, four
(billings a week was allowed to the wives of the Mi
litia, which was rufficient to keep them from the ne-
ceffity of begging ; but fiace it was reduced to two,
that allowance had been infufficient. He thought
there could be no greater encouragement to volun,
leering from the Militia, than granting fome provi-
fion to the families of the volunteers.
The Houfe then went into a Committee on the
Bill, when fome trifling alterations were agreed to,
and the Report ordered to be received to-mot row.

LONDON.

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Yeßevday we Rated that accounts had been receiv.
pd in town of the capture of Dominica by a French
force. They were brought to England by the AILA•
DELLA packet arrived at Falmouth, in 3o days from
Tortola : on the ta of March the intelligence was
received there, by exprefs, that on the isith of Fe•
bruary five (hips of the line, three frigates, and two
brigs, had arrived at Martinique, from France, hay
ing on board 3000 troops, which were landed on the
a tit in Prince Rupert's Bay, after a fruitlefs tea&
atlce on the part of General Pasvom wbo could
only oppofe them with about 300 men.
The French fucceeded in getting poffelfion of the
Tow.., ivhich they fes on fire. Some accounts Rate
that they alto got policifion of Fort Rofeau, the
fttongeft iu The 'Rand.

General PILIVOIT retired with his little force to
the Forts in' Portfmouth, Rupert's Bay, allele he
continued to hold out at the date of the laR accounts
received at Tortola, baying been reinforced by Soo
men from Barbadoes. But it is not believed

that he et:mid (land long againft the force with alict
he had to contend.

A very different account, however, is given in the
following letter from Portfmouth, dated April z :
" Arrived a fchooner, with dicpatches from Commo.
dore HOOD, which brings intelligence of the Rochefort
fquadron having made three attacks on the Ifland of
Dominique, in which they were feverally rcpulfed.—
It is NJ, after this unfuccefsful enterprize they an-
chored at Fort Koyal, Martinique, where the fchooner
faw th:rn lying. Admiral Coce seam was apprized
of their proceedings, and there is expedation that
cre this they have been beaten."
Dominica is an ifland of about :9 miles in length,
and 16 in breadth. It lies at almoa equal dißaace
between Martinique and Guadeloupe. It is extremely
well fituated for intercepting the communication be-
tween thole Iflands, and will greatly facilitate the

intercouife between them, which mutt 14e important
to the French in the prefent circumilances. A cun-
fiderable part of the inhabitants are French ; the
Ifland, though called neutral, having been chiefly
fettled py the French, btfore its ceflion in 1763. The
value of its produce imported into this country is
1788, was 302,0001. Since which it has confidera-
bly entreated.

By tl,:e above packet we have received the follow.
ing accounts from other quarters :

" ST. VINCENT, JAN. 4, 1801.

" Governor BIIITINCK, of this itland, is recalled,
and Major General Gsoaca BECKWITH, formerly
Governor of the Bermuda Minds, is appointed to
fucceed him, and daily expeded here to airtime the
Government.

" We are momentarily in expeetation of a Spa-
all war. Two fine Spanifh (hips and a brig have
beep brought in here by his Majefly's
a Fa s. 12.—The above is the principal contents of
a letter I wrote you on the gth of January, to go by
packet, but was captured in one of the (mall rails
which carry the mails from this country before reach-
ing St. Kitt's ; the mails of Tobago and Grenada,
as well as of this ifland, were taken at the fame time.
" Brigadier General DALRYMPLE has arrived to
take the command of the troops in this Maud until
the arrival of M. G. BrcKwlrn, when the former
goes to the Maud of Dominica.
"Six Companies of the Royal African Corps have
relieved the 6th Regiment at St. Lucia; the latter
have relieved the ad Battalion, both Regiment, who
are gone to IS rena4a.

" The Ertl January mail is now due, and antiouf-
ly looked for.—The WeR Indies are at this time ge-
nerally very healthy.
" Ft's. 13 —There is a report to-day from Barbe
does, that a (tong brig privateer, out of Guada-
louie, named the Madame ERNOUF, and mounting
about 16 or 18 guns, has been taken by his Majeky's
brig of war CURlaux, Capt. BsTraslioarm, who is
.wounded. The lots on both fides is Rated at about
6o men. This quarter is fwarming with privateers."

We have received Paris journals to the 14th, and
Dutch to the 18th ult. Some of theiicontents. which
we fubjoin, are important. They require•po com-
ment.

Lissom, Fla. 4..—The EnglA Minifier at Lana
was fo exceedingly impertinent as to prefent a note
to complain, that our Gazette had publifbed the de-
claration of the Prince of Peace, in regard to 'the
war. The Minifler of Foreign Affairs returnid an
anfwer in the following note :
4 Sir—l received the note which you addreffei to
me, of date February 25, in regard to an article in
the Supplement to the Li/Bon Gaseite, containing a
faithful tranflation of a paragraph, taken from the
Madrid Gazes!: of the 2oth of December WI. After
having.hod the honour, Sir, to explain to you eer.
bally, the reafont Which ailthorifed the infertion of
that article, I hoped that you would ba fully con-
vinced that no folid reafou could be aUedged for re-
quiring the fuppreffion of it. I aril certain that 'the
Paid article was tranflated into all the Gazettes of
Europe ; and I am perfuaded that none of the Mini.
fiers of England have demanded from the Govern-
ments where they 'elide a fimilar exclufion of that
official paper. If pieces of this kind were to be
omitted in political gazettes, what matter could be
found to fill them

" I mull alto inform you, Sir, in order to free
you from the doubt you have teflified on this fubjeB.
that the infertion of the Paid official article In the
Portuguefe Gazette, was with the knowledge of the
Government, becaufe it did not think that it expecd
itielf by muting to be tranferibed any official papers,
publifhed in other European Gazettes, and under
the head of foreign countries. Similar article,,
faithfully copied, and unaccompanied by reflection•.,
have sever proved either the approbation or difap-
probation on the part of the Government which
permits them to be printei
" I confefs, Sir, that I cannot fee how it can give
the leaft offence. The fame article, at a period
fomewhat later, might have been copied by the Eng-
lith Gazettes, in which no doubt it has been pub.
lifhed. Betides, you know, Sir, that After dircuffions
on a fimilar fubjeft, which took place before my
miniftry, his Royal Highnefs the Prirce Regent,
caufed to he notified to you that the official publics
(ions of h: Englifh Government would alto be tran-
' gated iukso the Lilbou Gazette.