Star.
London, England, 1804-01-27 00:00:00

TY GALGACUS.

eta—After the Cole= call upon you by the
EDITOIL of the STAR to continue your ufeful and
snoft Important labours, I dare not hope, if that
fails of fuccefs, that an appeal to your patriotitin
from an obfeure individual can influence your de-
termination—Yet I hazard the attempt from con&
derations the Theft auguft and impofing—the love of
my country, a devotion to her interefts, and an ar-
dent defire that the glorious caufe in which we are
engaged thould be held up to the Nation and to Eu-
rope in .a Ilyle appropriate to its grandeur, as alio
that the Subverter of Peace and Order fhould be
szthibited to mankind in his proper chat after, divefled
of thole

• Palk glaring lights
• Wide* eenqueft and recede have thrown around him."

To do jufliee to there fubjees, and to reprefent
them in the molt :strafing and slowing colours, ex-
elufively belong to your penal: adopt then, Sir,
With the fignature you have chofen, the conduct of
the heroic GALGACVs. Perfevere in your endeavours
to render effential fervice to your Country, till the
termination of the coma ; and, confident as you
molt be of your powers to animate your fellow-ci-
risen, in the bright career of glory and of duty, you
cannot fail of experiencing the delights of an ap-
proving confcience ; and, if yes continue to eurite, pof-
tatty will affociate the ancient and modern Gas.-
secys in their tellimonies of applaufe ; but flatter
not yourfelf that the retrocellion of a Briton, at a
erifis like the prefent, from the fervice of the State,
be it in arts or arms, can be made.with honour.
I am, Sir, your humble Servant,
ITANIIICUIe

FRANCE.

PARTS, JANUARY ly

Chiarn MACNAIN, who travels in Spain to continue
doe degrees of latitude, heti terminated his triangles
along the coaft of Catalogtnea. He was ready to
pall over to the Wands of Majorca and Yvica, to
eltablint fignals there, when the Spanilb brig, on
board which be had taken his pafrage, having loft
feveral pinions by the yellow fever, was ordered into
quarantine.
We are affured that of the number of male indivi-
duals born in England, of as, one dies in foreign
countries. which is a (biking proof of the enterprifusg
fpirit of the Englifh nation.
According to a deeifion of the tribunal of appeal,
aria rents ID favour of a clergyman. married lance
the revolution, are annulled by the aft of marriage.
. kis laid that.the tapeftry embroidered by Queen
is engraved in the 6th and Bth volumes of
the Academy of Infcriptions. with an explanation of
'Lancelot ; and in the o R and 2d volumes of the work
called la Monarchic Francoife by Mourraucon,
tin Infcriptions accompany the figures, and by it the
tapeftry of MATILDA explains many obfeure points
of the contemporary Marley. The figures furnifh
envious obfervations of the cufloms, manners, and
dreffes of the age.
According to report, our Government has ordered
the tonftrudtion of new fortifications on four differ-
ent points on the left fide of the Rhine. There works
are to be begun next fpring.
A Military Comrniflion his condemned to fix
nteinths imprifonment, a Clergyman at 'female, in
the Department of Olona, in the Italian Republic, for
baying infulted a national guard on duty, with ex-
'preSons of-hatred and contempt for the Republic.
It is Paid that his Catholic fsla jeily has interfered
and procured the Kingdom of Etruria an abfulute
neutrality.
The excavations ordered by the Pope eontir.ue at
.oAia. A number of Ratites medals, marble columns,
and other precious antiquities, have been found.—
Two columns of the lonian order, upwards of two
.paltnas diameter, and about t 8 palmas in height. are
particularly admired. They are of black marble.
The Government at Milan has ordered a fum of
5,2ci0,000 livres, for the conarullion of two frigates,
twelve gun boats, and for the equipment of thefe
veffels, tic. This fum is to be levied by an extraor-
dinary contribution.
Three hundred men of the firft marine artillery re-
giment have paled through Rouen,for Bieft,dellined
for Boulogne.