Star.
London, England, 1803-11-30 00:00:00

POLUN2 EERS.

This day the St. Andrew's, Holborn, Volunteers
received a very elegant pair of colours from the fair
hands of Lady Es.vow,in Gray's Inn Garden.
Yefterday the Loyal Weflminfier prattifed field ex-
ercife in their own ground in the evening.
The Duke of Gloucefter's Loyal Volunteers were
to have had a field-day in Hyde Park; but an official
notice was (luck up in their Orderly Room, Dating,
that on account of the nnfavourablenefs of the wea-
ther, the drefs day was pofiponed. The bufinefs was
in confequence put of flint die.
The following paragraphs are extratted from the
reguLttions eftablifhed by Sir DAVID DI.INDAS, for
the Volunteers of Kent and Suffer :

" From the time of the enemy's landing, rigorous
difcipline mutt be enforced, and thong examples, if
neceffary, immediately made ; otherwife the country
would be ruined, and our own refources deftroyed.
The marches to the front may be long ; and hutting
reforted to, as commodious cantonments may not
prefent themfelves, nor opportunity offer to pitch
fuck tents as may- be at hand` Great attention mull
be given, and every nerve (trained, to conduit and
bring up the men in good and foldier•like condition
to the prefence of the enemy.
" Too great celerity cannot be ufed to effect the
affembly of the troops. Our &ft great object is to
make a vigorous and fuccefsful oppofition to the ene.
my on landing. To him it is a fituation of weaknefs,
and mull be laid hold of if poffible. It is by the bay-
onet and by a bold attack that Britifh Soldiers and
Volunteers have always (hewn themfelves irrefifti-
ble ; and unlefs very greatly outnumbered, there
can be no doubt of fuccefs. We mutt, therefore, prefs
forward, and gather from all quarters ; and, on this
occafion, even the appearance of a diaant though W-
armed multitude, is of ufe.
" But (hould circumflances prove untoward, and
that the enemy's progrefs cannot be totally arrefted,
we mull never lefe fight of him, but give ground
when necefrary, gradually and flowly ; we mutt ail
on his front, flanks, and rear ; and, with the aid of a
fuperior cavalry and artillery, feiae every opportu-
nity of attacking ; every man mull feel, that even, if
compelled to fall back, his duty and honour require
bim to flop and rally as loon as poffible • that he need
never hurry ; and that he is perfectly fife, at a quar-
ter of a mile dillance from an enemy who has no ca-
valry to make a quick purfuit. On the contrary,
under the peculiar advantage of prote(tion horn his
own cavalry, he can always form, and again advance
or retire. in a cool, foldier-like manner."

The following circular letter bat Olt been ifftied :
November, 1803.
Moulds of t 7 to the Ih. I have to inform you that bullet moulds
do. so of the natures and to the extent
do. s 8 (wilted in the margin, together with
34 an adequate limply of gunpowder for
loch fowling pieces, or ether private armt, as any individual can
or may be difpored to bring forward at this important cdfis, for
the defame of his country, are dtpofited at
loathe of an Inch. I have to requeft that you will make
out, with the kilt poffible delay, a lift
64 equal to 17 to the lb. of the number of fuch arms; and after
6o so afccrtaining the'diameter of their re-pee-
n • else bores, ant defctibing them by fo
St 34 many hundredth parts of an inch, that
you whl divide than into dares, and tranftnit an account thereof
to the nesreft Infpedtiag Field Officer of the Diftridt, in order that
he may make the neeeffary requifitions upon the Ordnance Store-
Itemereller targeting, without delay, a proportionate quantity of
neotooinoo, for a fupply of which you Will hereafter make your
application through him, a occalloo may require.
I have to obferve to you, that it will be nealfary that every Vo.
Imager, who may be difmked to make ufe of his private arms in the
manner aboviewnentioned, hould provide hind& with a horn or
. . .

Bak capable anantaining a 101Se:idiot quantity of gun-powder, and
a pouch or bag in which he can carry a proportionate Ripply of
tilt.—l am, Your molt obedient humble [errant.
Apo' ass to a fmall Cnrps of Volunteers, extraded
from a Sermon preached at Whitkirk, near Leeds,
on the late F.di Day, by the Rev. S. Smallpage,
Vicar of that Para:

" You have &ticked and obtained a pelt of fome danger, but of
much honour.--Thoufands envy your litigation, and would chew-
fully partake your dangers, If they could be fupplied with arts*
to tread with you the fame career of glory.—lt is pollible, your
retakes may Dot be called for ; or, if they Mould, that they may
not be called forth into adlon but if this mould happen,yoo will
remember, that • molt momentous 'Rue Is then to be decided ;
that on you will depend the welfare of your ownfelves, your
wives, your children, your parents, your friends, your country:
.--ithat country, which has hitherto reared, futtained. and dor
flied you in ber tottering arms, and now dales from you in
return, the vigour of your matured arm to protedt bee In her
meaty. Ann yourfdves therefore with undaunted courage
for noble davinp ; and to this end infpire and fortify your
minds with well-grounded confidence. Recoiled, that your
native land has ever (yarned s foreign yoke ; and that the ene-
my with whom you have to contend, has never yet been able
to !attain the mkt of Briga valour. Let it not then be your
flume, os k {Skew& mull be, to be the Grit to fubmit to an adi
fault of Freschmen.—Let their numbers be ever fo great, we

can a/fondly overpower and overwhelm them even sink nuns
bees on our own round ; and where the numbers are equal,
or nearly equal, I appeal a the robes' records of hifiery for the
truth of what I aint, that that has never yet been an inflame of
• Beitifit forte fubdued by a limb tutee, but numberlch infas
eel to the contrary. Your /brethren at fa. never inquire the
number or the It of their enemy, but defire only to be per-
mitteetto begin theattath I and the event Is uniformly anfenrohloto
fuch a noble fpirit.-It has been the fame whenever we have had an
oppommity of contending with the trench by land.---In former
times, when fuck °nations were mere frequent, viffiory was on
the bit of the Zillah, though ambers were en the fide of that,
sting/nes. In has been eve fame in our own days; Egypt last
been wrefted from (speror numbers, and thole their belt, and
choke& and till then • inly Riled invincible troops. It has been
the Woe on many other thesfitini during the late war, aad Hen
during the ream. If therefore you &mild be called to meet the
enem&cru‘ecalira only that be is not able to Rand before you, and
your Iva he as you or ific—lf your Commanders, who are the
only Forejudges, think your force fofficient to oppofe to that of
your enemy, let your only care be to maintaia your ground, or ra-
ther to drive your advedaries from their's. Above all, never
think of providing for your fafety by flight, for then you would
run hate tenfold danger. For &naafi all the lob fattened by
a defeated army is daring the rout ; beeaufe then the affault
is all on the Ode, and the refillann none on the other.—
Always therefore face your enemy, as you value your own
lately; and remember that, when you My, you not only experts
your own lives to a hazard from which it is hardly poffible you
flumid drape:, but give up all that I, deer to you to min irretriev-
able; and Otould you even return fafe in your own perinea, you
return only to meet reprosches, flame and ignominy, from the
friends whom you ban heroes!, and to taped vengeance from
your enemies to whom yea have opened the way. But timid you
return, as I trult you will, triumphaut over year foes,bletimp will
welcome your ratans, your deeds will he had in honour. and you
will menfolk to your children with a becoming pride, the liberties
and the comforts you have fie nobly defended.
In the mean time let me exhort you to diligence In learning the
ark of arena; to a Reiffi attention to difcipline, which you will And
of molt effendi' fervice to you ; to fobeniffion to your officers, as a
molt important pert of that difelpllne; to unanimity and friendiip,
the dna& bond of union among yourfelves k to a regular and or.
derty behaviour to an, as the heft means of infuring rdpeet 'and
them; to fobricty ; and, Wily, to a due attendance on the public
worOtip of GOD, not merely eat of forrn,not even as a part of your
difdpline, but as you hove an intertffi, an eternal intenlh in the
truths of Goo's word, and are Soldicn of Jesus CO fio
may timeliest) of Han be with you, mid corer your beat:s in the
day of battle I"—ANtolocr 34. do t.