Star.
London, England, 1803-06-23 00:00:00

'.elate %s.— Duly ervei o!ijun;•.:ls hare Lien utzr.l
again(! it; that !sVniaers were tardy in bring it for.
ward, and that it might interfere with the recruiting
krvice. The firft is an evident millake—Hiniilers
have brought it forward at the wry paper time. If it
had hen Incnight forward before, it would indeed
have interfaced with the recruiting of the army, as wel
as with the organization of the Militia. The former
of there objeas has been palled with fo much fuc-
refs, that our eflablifhment is now nearly complete ;
and the militia are embodied, and ready to take the
Add.

To the fecond objeflion we reply, that this is only
a tempter., meafure, and therefore as foon as it is
carried into effe,l, it cannot poffibly interfere with
the recruiting fervice, which is a flow and conflant
operation, and which at all limes receives thofe young
men who from circumflances or inclination may be
difpofed to enter into the fervice of Government.—
Betides, as a tenth of this new levy will, as we have
been informed, be permitted annually to volunteer
their fervices, we are perfusded that inflead of prov-
ing an impediment, it will afford an aaltual acceflion
to the regular army.

The Earl of MAESFIELD left Town yeftetday, to
J in his Regiment in Scotland.

The 3d Regiment of Royal Earl India Volunteers
will have a field day to-morrow, when it will be in-
fpeeted by Colonel Rona RTS.

The table of the Coort•of Dii eelors of the Eat!.
India Company is idually loaded with offers of fer-
vice to Government from the Company's Officers,
upon the prefent momentous occalion.
A Volunteer Corps, of five companies, has been
offered by the town of Workington.
Since the departure of the detachment of the 24th
regiment from Cheffer, that garrifon has been occu-
pied by a compan) of the Cumberland Militia from
Liverpool.

Friday fall, General Sir DAVID DONORS, attended
by Major-General Ross and Colonel Ns m, Chief
Engineer of the Chatham Difiria, arrived at Sheer-
nefs, where they minutely examined that Fortrefs
and its out-works; and pointed out to the Refident
Engineer (Captain HANDFIRLD) tome improvements
at this moment highly • judicious and necetTary.—
Amongft many others, they dirated that efpecial
attention fhould be paid to the foil forrounding the
Magazine, and that all the baftions, without the leandelay, fhould be put into the moll perfat Rate, and
kept fo for fervice. On the Ordnance and Gun-wharf
are immediately to be ereaed anew fmithy and gun-
carriage Rorehoufe, both of which were much wanted.
—They infpeeted with minute attention all the cafe-
mates, and bomb proof Magazine, the ovens and
furnaces for heating {hot, and the water-works, tanks,
eillerns, &c. and made themfelves fully nutters of
every point about this very important poll
General DONOR, reviewed part of four companies
of the 7th Royal Garrifon Battalion, under the com-
mand of Major LORD, the only troops in the place,
who went through their evolutions and manoeuvres
with the firm fleadinefs of veterans, highly to the
General's fatisfaaion and their own credit.

The troops being deemed infutEcient, the General
will caufe them to be reinforced without lofs of time.

In their return to and from the Ordnance Stores,
which are in the Dockyard, they examined it, with a
view to the molt effeaual plan of defending it :
while they were in the Dockyard, the Docks Rill
under repair, and which now go on rapidly, fince
the difcharged artificers have been re-entered, were
attentively looked at.

After a fatiguing day of real and minute infpec-
tion, and after paying their compliments to Lord
KEITH, they took Tome refrefhment in Sir Jamas
Matentses Barrack, and returned to Chatham, the
General's Head Quarters.

Lord KFITII, Admirals Rowzsy and Tmozmao-
touom, by their conciliating condusft, thong exer-
tions and example, are calling forth the attire ener-
gies of all defcriptions of perfons, and in the moll
happy and effectual manner are rouzing them to a
due fenfe of the danger with which the Country is
threatened. Lord Kamm had three Batavian veffels,
captured and fent into the Nore, examined very par-
ticularly as to their draft of water, which is very
(hallow, and in all other refpeets nfeful in the defence
of our Shores, they being very Prong and capacious
good veffels, and well conftrulted to pats over (hoals,
lands, and through (hallow waters.—By his Lord-
fttip's activity, mot! of the Block Ships are moved
from the Great Nore to their deflinations ; and with
a like praifeworthy insluftry and zeal, his Lordthip
has in per(on, attended by tome experienced Officers,
viewed and examined, with (crapulous attention,
every eminence and height that can be turned to any
good account, as a Signal Port, Telegraph, or other.
wife, for a great diftance on the Kentifh and rife:
fides of the Medway and Thames. His Lortlthip
has got the Devises, Captain Gloaos HOPI, down
from Chatham to Longreach, when the only waits
for men.--The MONARCH is in great forwardnefs,
and will join her in a very few days.
mon of the Tranfports affembled at the Non were
on Saturday difcharged the fervice with two months
pay, by Captain Youmo, who was at Sheernefs for
that porpefe: foch as were coppered and well armed
are only retained, and they are fent round to the
Wellern Ports to be employed as Convoys : all the
difcharged Ships are gone up the Thames.
Coati ear m-Citst r.—The weather has hitherto been
extremely unfavourable to the encampment, as it has
rained every day fine the troops took thefield. The
foldiers all Teem in good fpirita. It is generally (up-
poled that the Camp will be very ftrong. The raft
Middlefex Militia joins it on Saturday.
On the Bth infant, the occupier of a farm was
fined in the penalty of aos. for not fending a waggon
and borks to convey the arms, clothes, and aceou•
trements of part of the Cambridge(hire Militia, on
their march from Bury to Stowmarket ; and a con-
(table of the fame parifh was convicted and fined 31.
for wilfully hindering and froftrating the execution of
a warrant for providing a waggon and honks ; and
likewife a farmer was fined in the penalty of 31. for
refuting to fend his waggon and bodes, though re-
quircd to do by the couliable.