Star.
London, England, 1806-02-12 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY is.
PRICE OF STOCKS THE DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK r
Coards. mew 6s4—les seremest 61ff—Reriesed gift
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY
Bank Meek tp6l leas Bads. si p• pro&
Mr C. Red. An 641 Imperials per Cast. 604
s per Cost Corr. iolg Asse. I sit 6 g
4 par Cent 14710 It a lai
spa. Orie. gs
3 per Cast. MI Estiej. Bins so es. prem.
PI C." 179 f. se leglith Thiess 191. sps.
Len Ai& 17 s• s Coif kw ass. 6s id* is

The Gazette of left night contains the Boards of
Treafery. of the Admiralty, and for India Alain.—
They are the fame we bad aanosseed.
There is a report in eircelaties, bet we do net
•ouch for its truth. that the King of Noma was
invited by the late Miniliry to take potion of Ha-
never in cafe the other nseaferes foe expelling the
French were not attended with heeds. Perhaps then
his Pruffise hiajefty may plead Inch& title as well as
the permiffion of Bonaparte; and if he is to make
eeffions if I other quarters in perfeance of the Peace
of Pre(burgb. he may not ►e difpofed to quit pots!
fion of the pledge depofited with him.

Letters from Holland, of the 7th init. were yeller-
day received. They confirm our former Ointment
of a Proclamation -having been trued by the Dutch
Government on the :ft inf. forbidding, under fevers
penalties, the &Netts of Hollanditens bolding any
commercial or friendly interwar(' whatever with the
fubjetts of Great Britain. A Poilimipt to one of
thefe letters, however, adds. 0, that much of the fe-
verity of the revelations which afflofted the commer-
cial interefts of that country, more efpeeially as ena-
meled with England, has been remitted, and a fur-
ther relazatinn of thole rsaraints is daily expeited."
The Dutch letters contain no other news of im-
portance.

For many months pail we have not cesfed to call
upon the country to open its eyes to the real fitnation
in which it ftands—to call forth its energies—to profs
the neeeffity of organising. into &regular fyßem, the
immenfe phyfical powers with which nitwit:mice has
bkEed us for defending oar enviable privileges, and
repelling the mit implacable, vindiltive. ferocious,
and fasguinary fury. that ever threatened the anni-
hilation of the only free people upon earth.

This has been the line of contltuff which we have
followed, though traduced for difcharging our duty.
Thofe who had roißaken their true interefta—thofe
who were confcious that their own felfifli views were
partly the caufe of the imbecility that paralifed the
public mind—the ignorant—the infatuated—the miG
led, have calumniated our motives, and vilified our
patriotic efforts.
We were not, however, left without fupport. The
good fenfe of the country went with us, and the nume-
rous lette rs which we received from men of the greateß
worth and of the higheff abilities, more than corn.
penfated for the reproaches with which we were
loaded by &Rion. hirelings. Nor were we left to
I fight the battle alone. An holt of well informed li-
terary men Rood forward unfolicited, to lend us the
aid of their abiliths in cl:anfing the public mind from
the augetn filth with which it had got contaminated.
To thtfe voluntary contributions we devoted as large
a portion of our columns, as the nature of our pub-
lication would pollibly admit. The authors have
our bell thanks, and what they will value mote
highly, the gratitude of their countrymen. We have
Rill by us a number of valuable communications on
the fame fubjea. The happy change that bibs taken
place in our Government, made a pante in their
publication neceflary. It was proper that we thoulel
fee whether the energies cf the country were to be
called forth by the Government itfelf, before we per.
filled in a line of condua, which previous imbecility,
in moil of its departments, had impofed upon us as
lan imperious duty.
We have now to Rate, and the Public will be re-
joiced to hear, that the fubjea to which we have al
luded, has already received much attention from the
new Minitlry. In fo Ibort a period, where Co much
remained to be dune, where, in faa, nothing had yet
been dune, to expea that a plan fhould already be ar-
ranged and fettled would be ridiculous ; but the fub.
jea occupies the inceffant attention of Government,
and we believe we may allure the public, that the
means to be adopted for our defence will be proper
tioned to the exigencies of the prefent crifis.

The Earl of Marc Lair said) has been pleafed to
appoint Mr. SAIMUYL BARN,. to be one of Ili.
Majeity's Yeomen of the Guard. in the room of Mr.
THIMAg BOYD; and alfo Mr. Iticuaap HALVION;
in the MOM of Mr. JAMS

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Yeastslay Own' his blaissvv, the Duke of
CalleßMllls • Anourra.floritsa.and Awe.
I.la, took an ailing oa borfeback in Viumifor Park.
The Duke of Your tranfalled Wolfs with his
Mai esTT OD Monday.
Ittonday night their Maystries had a fele& patty.
Among the company were Mr. and Mrs. Vii.s.isas.
Mr. sad Hrs. Fa sassamts.a, Colonel and Mn. SNIT").
kup Mlf VITT held a Privy Council to-day, at the
Queen's Palace.
The Right Honourable C Logo is return-
ed Member for the Borough of Weadover.
YeAerday Mr. Fox held his fir& public day, at his
Office in Downinr&reet, to receive the different Fa.
reign Idinitlers tof wham were rcfent the Imperial.
Prnffian, DWI).* fiwedik Sardinian, Ponape& and
Neapolitan.

After the conference Mr. Fox fent of difptches,
under the feel of office, to his Mammy, it Wiodfor.

General FITZPATRICK took polfsffina of the Wit
Office on Saturday, aad bas eostiotted to trattfaa be-
Goat there daily GA

Lord Esesinorrom took his feat yelterday at the
Boatel of Admiralty.
Lord CA &Terme is to be appointed Joint Poll Mal-
ta General. in the room of Lord C &seem.
Commas HLT Erg. Advocate, will be the Lord
of Salon, is Ba:tlead, in the room of the late Lord
bfermese, mid Was? sa Scow, Efq. Advocate, is
to be appointed a Clerk of fiefG7ns in the room of
0. Howe, Efq. who refigns.

His ldayssry has been ideated, by letters patent
ands the feel of Ireland, to grant the dignity of Da
Earl of that ;art of the United Kingdom to the fol.
lowing Noblemen, and to the heirs male of their bo-
dies, viz.
ARTHUR Vifoonnt Comsat), Earl Gosfards of
Mar ket.bill, county of Armagh.r—iLsoasece it•
anus HAULMS, Vifconnt Ozmantown. Earl of Itofs,
with remainder to his nephew, the Right Hon. Sir
LAUIteMCS PARSONS, )}art.-+C s Vifcollllt fro.
MILTON. Archbifhop of Dublin, Earl of Norman.
ton, county of Kilkenny—C WILLIAM VW-
count C ILLS, Earl of Charlerille, of Cherie-
silk Forell, King's county.
His Maims has alfo been pleated to grant the
dignity of a Baron of that part of the United King.
dom called Ireland, to ?STIR Isaac TKILLUSSOM
Efq. by the tide of Baron Rendiefham, of Rend*
Iham.

Nay/ Sneatrrs--Connty of Carlow—Wm. GAR.
aim of Janeville, Efq.—County of Wexford :
Pince NIVITON Kino, of Maemina, EN.

ELICTINII.—A meeting of between
feventy and eighty of Mr. Fox's friends took place
yefterday evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Mr. ?exacts in the Chair. The bufincfs was open-
ed by Mr. D. O'Baraw, in a neat fpetch. He con-
gratulated the meeting on the Minitterial promotion
of the Right lion. C. J. Fox, and after come very
appropriate nbfervations on the fubjed. informed
them, that though no nppofition to the re-eleEtion of
the Right Hon. Secretary of State was intended,
yet it behoved his friends to affemble on Thurfday
morning next, for the purpofe of manifeiliug their
high refpett. and accompanying him in a body from
the Royal Hotel. to the Huftings. in Covent Gar-
den. He concluded by making a motion to that ef-
fee, which, after a few oblervationi from Mr.
WISNART, was carried unanimonfly, and ten o'clock
was the time appointed for the meeting.
Yefterday morning marched from Deal for Bra-
bnnrn Lees Barracks, part ut the Bth. 3 tit. and 9I It
Regiments of Font, being thofe which matched into
Deal fame time (ince from Ramfgate, compofing
part of the Expedition which failed from the D twos
for the Elbe. and obliged to put back, owing to the
badnefs of the weather.

Detachments of the sth, a6th. and 89th regiments,
amounting to nearly 300 men, have been land:d
within thcfe few days, At Whititable, and are now at
Ofpringe and Faverfbam Thele troops
part of the expedition which failed in December for
the Elbe, 11 n d were wrecked on the coals of Holland,
where they were taken prifoners. They are fent
home upon their parole. The lecond battalion of
the Fifa Foot (or Royals), is alfo at Ofpringe bar.
racks. This battalion is juft returned from she Wet

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TO THE EDITOR OP THZ ST,AIL

MMIME.

LETTER PI.
(Gotlvied Net the STAk of pour, so. ISM.)
Sta.--Were all the rematics vitt' ch I have already
made admitted to be jail. no perfon can be more con-
._ _

(dons than myfelf that they are of no Qua what-
ever, if come method upon the whole, fatisfadory,
cannot silo be prcipofed, of collating a competent
force for the prtfent emergency, which, from its
conftitution and nature, (ball be capable of all that
• is required to be done. It is my firm convidlion, that
the more plain and conlifient the principles are upon
which we attempt to accomplillt this object, the lets
Mall we run any hazard of. failure. The fundamen•
t.ll laws of our country, as to the rights and duties
of all Britons, we hold to be permanent and flied.

Thole which hit Ca earna has eliablifhed in the mind
of man certainly are fo. I have therefore never en-
tertained a doubt that upon the fair Ira& of equal duty
upon the one hanit,und adequate reward on the other,
•ue arength may be called into anion now, in the
fame manner as it ought to be in all future emergen-
cie., according to the neceffity of the cafe, and that
all half meafirtes are but tricks of Ratefmen, either
intended to prevent the force and vigour of the na-
tion from obtaining its weight and influence, or re.
doted to paltry (hips, from want of courage, or
power, or consprehenfion to provide for animating
and cherilhing the (pit it of thofe, in all their ranks,
who mull compofe this force.
AS are agreed upon the univerfality of the obli.
gation of military ferrite, under every Government,
where there is no pliyfieal or profeffional incapacity.
This obligation, I fee with pleafure, is recognised,
and about to be tufted upon throughout the United
States of America, upon the moll broad and equal
footing imaginable. It is not a burden here, but the
hell right and privilege of freemen. As to the mode
only of levying and employing our military arength,
can there be any difference t and upon this fubjell, I
difent much from moll of the opinions I have feen.
My notion is, that the whole array 400ld ultimate-
ly tell upon the univerfal obligation nt military ditty.
The fame idea has been recognized in our ((mutes,
sad in expedients the cal conSeent with general

principle, Under this obligation, the duties perform.
ad by all deferiptions of our force at prefent, may
Itintinue u there now proceed, until the new arrange.
silent can be made fyilematic and perfect Thus we
loft nothing, when we need moil, whatever we at
prefent p. trefb, and at the lime time &all be advan
cing in the progefa to the full command of all our
flrength.
Let the whole male population, fit to bear arms,
be either divided, as now, into four claire., or into
more fubdivifions, upon the general principle of age.
If by the Cettfus it appears that the fire clefs is Cu i.
cleat, call out univerfally now all within it, out al.
ready under arms. If there be a chance of needing
more, proceed Rill according to age to take the
neat, and fo on to the whole, if necefrary. My
anxiety is to give the idea here without detail, and I
!ball only c‘bferve, that a confiderable number of

claircs, introducing a much greater fubdivifion than
now ezift I, will be expedient to enable the Govern.
nsent to call its latices out in entire chilies, which it
the only regular method, without unnecciatily en•

cumbeting the finances.
Whatever cl dres are called nut, I conceive, may
be trained tizty days in the year, in peace, as well as
in war, within a limited diflance of their homes ; and
in cafe of invalion may be required to fetve perms-

neatly, until it is defeated, any where not beyond
fees, at the pleafure of our Sovereign, whore prero.
gative fhall enable him, as I conceive it does at pre-
feet, to call out in like manner all the other &ales
liable in fervice, as the meet:Sty increafes, Thia
great force may, in my conception, he at once our
chief home defence, our army of referee, and the
flock from which our regular armies (hall be drawn.
Fur levies to the regular forces, let the induce-
ments of the ler vice be fuch as to procure recruits
from the home army, and when thefe fail, the ballot
struN be the refort, and thefe drawn mull either fit ve
in puffin err by fubflitute. I cannot enter into the
idea, that there ought to be various conditions of
fee vice in the regular forces beyond this, that in par-
ticular climates, and at a great dilfance from home,
befides having c••lonial troops for the greater part of
the ordinary duty. there ought to be peculiar al-
icv.ances and tecompeace f. r there hardlhipc.
l'he inducements which wiM operate with ceraisty
and univcll:4lly, moil be fuch as will render the fol.
diet's life defirabile ow duty, and refpeaable when it
is •ever. _ _

If his pay is now fufficient, add the mull aelive
atteuiion to recognize and promote according to
merit. The common pedant, who rife; by defat,
will make a ini.re honour Able officer than one who
obtains a fubaltern's conimarion a a wretched, and
perhaps profligate dependant of f perfon of in
fluci.ce. Let enquiries and report. AS tU COlldtla be
frequent, and honorary premiums at Lail be liberal.
ly bellowed. No doubt the inipolfe derived from
this ea& of motifes mutt depend upon the ch tidier
of- thole in command of our armies. But :l.e State
can hold out certain rewards, betides, in theinfelvet,
futlicient. Limit the first term of fervice for tae pri•
vale 1,0 li/Cli year;, or to end of any

which the eauntty !hay be engaged at the expiry of
that period, in the regulars. Give him half pay, under
condition only of his joining the home army at the
expiry of this term, and full pay, if difabled by
wounds, for life, or equivalent provlflon in a military
hofpital, when he has no family to retire to. Let it
be in his option to erdift again, or not, for the fame
period, but if he does, with full pay for life, on the
expiry of that term, under the fame condition of
home fervice as before.
In officering the whole, it might be defirable, that
all who hold commiffions fhould belong to the regular
ferviee. Thus the difcipline would be uniform, and
the home army would have the confidence which ea-
.perienced officers alone can give. But this Rate of
things may be approached by making the duty of
the home army a condition of half pay, in all cafes,
and eftablifh:ng the rule, that all who have been in
the regular army iball take precedence and command
of all of equal rank in the home army, and that no
perfon Shall hold the rank of a Field Officer in the
home army, who is not in the regular efirsblifhment;
The manner and tirae in which the Volunteers and
Militia would come to melt down into thi► fair and
general arrangement, are matters of feparate enquiry.
Were it even thought, that either of thefe Should be
permanently retained, I cannot fee bow fuch an NA.
nion could Rand in the way of a more effedlive and
equal fyfiem as to the ref of our force, however
much of it might remain comparatively of little ufe,
in there bodies, were a partiality for either of them
unfortunately to prevail againft confiderations that
better merit the appellation of national.

(I'e be continua )

LAW INTELLIGEACE.

THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.

An unufual crowd attended the Court of Chancery
this morning, to witnefi the ceremony of his Lord-
fhip taking his feat on that Bench.
His LoreUhip entered the Court about eleven
o'clock, attended by his Royal Highnefs the Duke
of CLatt sacs, the Earls of Mona and Stances, Lords
EL non, E t.t.sa aoan u crt, and Mr. WIIION• 14. and was
faluted by the Gentlemen of the Bar riling from their
feats. The Matter of the Rolls held the book While the
Oath wet adininiftered, immediately after which his
Lordfhip retired, attended as before, and the ufual
bufinefs of the Cuiirt then proceeded.

COURT OP K NO'. BENCH, FEB. tl.
•SIIIMIDLY ►R•C•f.
__

Mr. Hu LLOCII :4pplied to the Court, for leave to file
a Criminal information againa two Gentlemen, of
the name of Peter and Duncan Campbell, for rio
tous and violent condu& at an Affembly in the town
of GatellitAd, in the c:.ut ty of Durham, for affaulting
one of tut Company, and fending a challenge to pro-
voke a dutl.

From the affidavit., it appeared,, that the De-
fendants were both Officers in the North Lincoln
Militia ; and, un the night of holding an affertibly,
they went to the Alrembly Rooms. By the regula-
tions of theft rooms, Non-fubfcribers were not ad-
mitted. unlefs introduced by a regular member, and
even then they mull be drelled conformable to there
regulations. There two Gentlemen infifled on ad-
miffion ; but were told by the door•keeper, that
being in boot,, and not introduced by a Stabfctiber,
he could not admit them. They appeared faibfied
with this anfwer, and went away ; but loon after
returned, when the Defendant, Duncan, with his
whip, made a clear piffle, and they both forced
their way into the room. A meffage was fent to
them by the condullots, to explain the regulations
of the rooms ; and the necellity of their being pro-'
perly dreffed and introduced ; to which they an-
fwered, that they felt themfelves very comfortable,
and would not Itir. Upon this they were reqoefled
to withdraw ; but they declared they would not,
unlefs freed to it. Some further words enfued,
when Duncan Campbell fbook his whip, and clench-
ed his fill, in a menacing manner, at the gentle-
man who condueled the ball. The ladies were
all alarmed, and the parties retired into an adjoining
card-room, from which one of the doors cummuni
cated with the lireet. Here the Gentlemen of the
AfTembly contrived to lock them out of the ball-room,
in hopes that they would go away ; but the former
had fcarcely returned to the Affembly Room, when
a moll violent knocking was heard at the door.—
Thefe Gentlemen were dircovered to he actually
breaking it open ; and fucceeded in forcing the pan.
nets, fo as to give them room to pats through : and
Duncan, returning to the room, gave one of the Gen.
tlemen a note, couched nearly in the following terms :

" Cen.l.men —Yon all combined, are fo valiant, that we dull
not now lace yuu; but, we are welting below, iu order re arrange
mattrrs for a meeting to morrow mott,ing "

To this invitatioa the Gentlemen, of votary, gave
no anfwer ; but Peter Campbell, fume time atter, on
that night, met Mr. pthn Hawks, who WAS returning
home with his wife and filler from the Airembly, and
Allied him to lien slide with him ; as Campbell had
!truck that Gentleman in the rooms, he fupptifed he
wilked he would give him fatisfaetion. Mr. Hawks
replied, that it was not then quite convenient, as he
had his wife and litter under his proteeti•nt ; and Mr.
Peter Campbell again laid he would fight him with
(Nord or pitiol, or any other vreapfin lie ple.tf.:d.
The Court granted a Rule to they? caufe.
MAItDAM US.

Sir V Gm! (hewed caufe againit the Rule moved
for by Mr. Wilfon, a few days (ince for a Malidaffll
to the Court of Repells in London, to hear and
determine a claim made by the Chamberlain of the
City of London, on a perfon eaetcifing the trade of
a Stock Broker within the City, for the fum of 401.
being a duty appoinicd by Ad of Parliament to be
paid annually for the ufe of the Mayor and Corp.
ration, by every perfun carrying on the u. d: of a
broker.

The Learned Counf:l cor,ten.led, that tie Court
of Replan', in not fo.laining their own jurifdiaior,
in this cafe, had eaerc.ied a very found dilatation,
sari that their doing fu was highly etes:itable w tbeit