Star.
London, England, 1807-09-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

BOSTON, AUGUST 6.
The Prefident wifhes to afcertain the public opinion
on the quellion of peace or war, and has hence
brought it before the public through the medium of
his intebgencer. The queltion is now in difeuflion,
and the retult can eafily be predicted. If the attack
on the Chefapeake was unauthorifed by the Britifh
Government, and fatisfaeory atonement (hall be
made us, we (hall not go to • ar to maintain the un-
jua claim of a right to proteet Britifh fcamen, de•
ferters, or mutineers, in their own leas.
Your Emmett, Duane', and Cheethams, and all
aPfe who have cfcaped from Britifh real or fup.
pored opprellion, (and there are many in the fouthern
and middle States), will be for war ; but the cape.
diency and juaice of the majority of the Union will
probably prevent it.
Should war refolutions be introduced at the com-
mencement of the next fell-ion of Congrefs, we can
eafily forefee the ground that will be taken by J.
Randolph, and we can almoft already hear his thun.
der, and fee his lightning diretted to thole great men,
ho can as patiently as mules be whipped, cuffed and
kicked by the Spaniards, but who become Hotfpurs,
jealous of honour, if the Englifh do either.
We ate glad to find that the intelligencer has at late
given us Come account of the perfons claimed and
taken from on board the Chefapeake. There is much
reafon to believe they were. feveral of them, native
Americans; we hope it will be fo proved, yet it
Mould be remembered, that Jonathan Robbins was
certainly born in Danbury, ConneCticut' though he
afterwards confeffed himfelf an brifhtnanby the name

of Thomas Nafh.
Anxious as many of onr Rrong patriots are For a
war with England, it ought to be remembered that
loch a war, in the prefent Rate of Englifh affairs, in
all probability, will not be unpopular with a great
part of the fubjeds of that kingdom. While it be-
hoves us to confider the probable pre firs on both fides,
it becomes us to confider the certain injuries on both
fides.
A uGusT to.—There certainly appear to us to be
thong grounds for the belief that war with England
has been determined upon by our AdmMittration
years fince. Why did Mr. Jefferfon dire& Mr. Mon-
roe to break off all negociatiun with the Britifh Go-
vernment, if they would not yield the right to the
American Bag, to proted Britifh feamen in the nar-
row teas, when he well knew they never would do it?
Why did he fend back the treaty without fubmitting
it to the &nate ? And why is this right of prote&ing
Britith feamen coupled with the affair of the Chefa-
peake ? To make war appears to be occationed by
the outrage on the Chefapeake, and not a pre-deter-
mined affair. We hope there is no French influence
in all this.
We are told that Government have fentthe Revenge
to England, to demand reparation for the outrage
on the Chefapeake, by the punifhment of Berkeley
or Humphries, unlefs the Britifh Government autho•
rile or approve the a& ; demand a return of the
feamen taken from the Chefapeake; to demand a,
declaration; by treaty, that no feamen !hall in future
he taken from any villa; failing under the American
Flag ; and ordering the return of our Minitters,
ihould any of thefe demands be refnfed.
Our Adminiftration have long been determined to
obtain, or rather to maintain, the right of fcreening
Britifh fubjeas under the American Flag ; and hope
to fumed, by coupling this quettion with the late
outrage on the Chefapeake. The labials are quite
dill ins ; and even if the affair of the Chefapeake be a
jua caufe for war, fhould that be fettled, the protec-
tion of &halt feamen not only is not a juft caufe of
war, but will not, molt affuredly will not, be fo
confidered by the great mafs of the people.
If it be true that thefe demands have been fent to
England, with orders for the return of our Minilters,
Mould they not be complied with, it is going as tar as
the Government can go, to declare war. The Prefi-
dent well knows that the Britifh will never give op
the right of fear thing American met chiantmen in the
narrow teas, for their own fohjals. It would ruin
their Navy, and their exillente as a Nation; and,
moreover, neither jutlice nor policy demand it.

FRANCIS.

EXPOSITION OF THE STATE OF THE FRENCH
EMPIRE.

RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
To the members of the Clergy in general the
Government has to tellify the higheft latisfaaion ;
never did pure manners, a tolerant piety, great dif
intereftednefs, a conflant application to their duties,
prevail in a higher degree among all ranks of the
hierarchy. Inceffantly occupied in the noble tail(
ailigned them, the amendment of public and private
morals, they are fellable that obedience to the
laws is an effential branch both of the one and of
the other ; and that of all laws, that which has for
its object the defence of the State, is the moil fa.
cred ; that it is a law whofe prompt and complete
execution is moft ftrongly recommended, both by
religious fentiments and the fpirit of patriotifm.
The different religions authorifed in the Empire,
maintain an union worthy of the fpirit which is
common to them all, and honourable to their Mi-

ISRAELITES.
From the departments bordering on the Rhine,
general complaints have reached the Emperor, re
fpeeing the ufury praClifed by certain individuals
profefling the Jewifh religion. An invefligation of
the fads has proved that the fruit of this ufury would i
have entirely confumed the riches and the refoureel
of thofe beautilul provinces. The Emperor found
it necefrary to calm the jult apptehenflom of Co many
Looufands of farmers : but while he applied a partial
and inliantaneous remedy, he formed a, more Tall
conception, and of more durable influence ; he be.
held, in ancient habits, and in the falfe interpretation
of certain points of do&rine, the primary mince of
the evil which had excited theft complaints.
In order to avoid the necefllty of perpetuating
either precautions or punifhments, he refolved to re•
generate the manners of a portion of that Oafs, by
the concurrence of the whole dais, by the influence
of the religious authority to whofe laws it fubmits.
The Emperor knew that among the Jews in his dot.
aninions there arc great numbers of perfuns whole
vpinions arc found, whore Nadal is irreproachable,