Star.
London, England, 1803-08-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A New Writ was ordered to be Med for the eleetion of a
Member for Sc Edmondibury, in tie ruom of Lord Harvey, now
Earl of Bala

The Warehoufing BM, the Tortola Free Port B 11, thesScottb
Afcfed Tales Bill, the America., Treaty Bill, the Bell i.uck
Lighthwefe lidl, the Cnninludatrd Fund BM, the Canada Courts
Bill, and the Stamp Duty Cunfulidatioo Bill. were leveralky read
a third time and pared.
lord Amherft's Annuity Bill, the lrial Glebe Hodes Bill, the
Prlie Wine Bending Bill, the AIWA Taws Bill, the Irith Sugar
Importation Bill, and the Irina Neutral Ships' Bill, were reported,
and ordered to be read a third time tomorrow.

Mr. VAN II preented certain accoonts relative to the Sa-
laries of Public Meets, which were ordered to be printed.
A Menge from the Lords informed the Houk that their Lord-
!hips had agreed to the Receipt Duty Ad. the Acl for redifying
Miltakn in the Audiences's' Duty Ad, blip Tea Importation Ad,
the Deal Pikes Bill, and the Cullom. Duty Rqulation Bill
The Amendments made by the Lord► upoo the hit-mentioned
Bill were ordered to he taken into conkderwion to-morrow.

'The Heute went into a Comedic« on t►e Foreign Notes 84
and on the Houle Wonting, the rtport was received, and ordcred
to be read a third time to-morrow.

The
Debtors moaned i• the CAI.. of Cambridge. Ordered to lie on
the Table.

The Loa• Mama& prafentrd•a Petition from the Prifoners to
the New Compter, London —0 del rd to Lem the Table.
On the motion of the Sac at WAX. the Lunt amend-
ments in the Volunteer Corps bill, were read and agreed to; and
the Bill ordeted to the Lords.

DiFtNCI, OT TN& NATION.

On the 3d reading of the General Defence Bill, fe
veral new clanks were brought up : one for allowing
as. per diem to ferjeants app! inted to drill men by
virtue of the Aft ; two others (or exempting mailers
and mates of trading veffrls, and periiir•.s of the reli
gion: feet called Moravians, fr..rn any fcrvice which
the Aft might otherwife be fuppofed to requite of,
them ; another for the appointment of officers in she
room of thole difplaced ; a claufe to autboviee Lord
Lieutenants. to appoint Deputies to oe for him in
cafe of his ibfence or indifpofttion; and another. re-
quiring that all perfons enrolled %Auld be compelled
to take the oath of allegiance-to his Majeßy.
Some converfation then occurred between Mr. She-
ridan. the Secretary at War, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Colonel Craufurd. and Dr. Lawrence.
refpeft ing the mode of procuring funks and carriages.
if required, and of the removal of them and of all
forts of provitions in cafe of invalion. Minifters ex.
plained that the removal of every thing that had been
mentioned had been already provided for, and that
as to procuring horfes, Ice. for the army. the Aa was
not fa emir:army as that of Intl, as the volaat;ry

offers of horfes, waggons, heats, and other cor.•
veyances from innkeepers, waggoners, &c. were to
fuch an extent as to preclude the =any of having
recourfe to a meafure of Inch rigour.
On the queftioa being put, that this Bill do now
parli
The CH ANCIL LOIL of.ahe 'Eat tray a, obrerve4
thaf a-rumour had gone abroad* and many people
haslbelieved it, that his Right Honourable Frieud
(the Secretary at War)bad expreffedhirolelf extreme-
ly *lorry that the meafure had not been brought for.
ward former. He begged it to be dillirtftly under.
flood that his Right Hon. Friend had only raid that
the Ad for the revival of the Mt of 1798 to that
tired was brought in the very day after the declara-
tion of war, and that he was Corry, qr tege would have
thought it better, ifthe meafure bad 11 brought
forward at an earlier period lag war.
In this he was fupported by the Secretary at WK.
Dr. Lawasmcs then entered into an elaborate des
fence of the poaduit of the late Adminiftration, and
in particular of hi{ Right Honourable-Friend. wlsn
then held the mesa refPinfible fituation,whofe abknes
at the time of Indian attack being made Upon hit
conduit he fincerely lainented: contrafted the
fituatioa of this country, aad the power of theenenty
at that time, with the relative ftrength of the two coon-
tries at prefent, and from thence inferred what
was then extreme vigor and agivity op the part of
this country would now be nothing but inertnefs and
inability. The Army of England, he laid, was only
defigned to cover the expedition to Egypt, and qow
we laWthe moil alive preparations making in every
adjacent port on the coat of the enemy. He la,
talented that Minifters could not diftinguifh between
the different requifites for different cercurnftances
that they could not carry on a war of ingenuity act
cording to the different changes made in the flrength
of the two contending powers, but that they went or}
fearching for the precedent, and weeding the fiatote
books of old laws to forni a teap by which they Might
direct the courfe which they were to purfue. lie la".
mented alfo that the force which the country wouli
now have, had net been inGre regularly divided into
different claffes, fufficiently calculated to liaraft or
annoy the enemy at his landing. The want'of Se*
Fencibles, to a great extent, hg parlicalar.ly regrFt•
ted. The meafure was one calculated to a sire a great
efficient force, and he hoped that tome officer or high
repute would Rep forward to digeft fomething of u
plan by which the chaps which eras now going to be
+brined might be brought into regular order, and
wear the appearance of ryftem. There was another
object to which he called the attention of the Houk;
which was, that he thought Minitters hadlsten par.
ticularly remifsip not having before new conederk
of fending up an Addrefs to that SUFISM! &is
who is the director and ruler of all worldly as we
as Heavenly affairs, bekeching him to look with
benign eye upon the great events in which this natio*
is likely to be ins, lved. This appeared to hini fob
mori. efpecially wanting, as the great new levy of tilt
nation was to be drilled on that day which was de-
dicated by our laws and by our religion to his taviies.
The CNAIICILLOR of the Exotica/au did not'rite
either to comment on the military leatire delivered 6t
the Learned and Honourable Gentleman, or upon 14e
more fakes confiderations with which he thought
proper to conclude his fpeech. As to his obfervittiony
, upon the tendency of the Bill. they Curtly afforded
fome room to doubt whether the Learned Gentletp.ed
had taken the trouble to read it. If he had iced tbd
Bill, he undoubtedly mull have found that it inter=
fered in no manner whatever with that eomprehets.
five plan included in the Bill, on which the prcl4l
Bill was founded. What he principally rote
ferve upon was the revere manner in which the }toy
duet of his Right Honourable Friend (the'Settetary
at War) was reproved, and upon the infinuatioti
thrown out of his having call tome imputations %TOR
the conduit of a former Government. He intends
no fuch imputation, not that he would abflain (tuna
It if his duty called upon him to make it. What htt
had obferved was, that the attack upon his RV;
Honourable Friend came with a peculiar had grace
from the quarter from which it hasbeen
For the Right Honourable Gcraleman ( Mr. Wind:,
ham) who was fo frequent and loud in his charges
of tardinefs and fupineneti on the part of his Maki:.
ty's Minifters, &mid not forget that when he him;
fell was in an official fituation, he was not very foi:
ward to propofe any vigorous meafures of defettc,
though at the time to which he alluded, the country
was placed in a moil perilous and alarming fituatiop.
Yet remifs as he then appeared himfelf, he ern note
apply to Minitters no other epithets than thole of
tame, cold, and formal. Their conduit, he contends,
is dire ted merely by rule, meafure. and precedent:
Still, however, he was bold to a& that Right Hob:
Gentleman and his friends, where was the precedent'
for the revere' meafures of defence brought forward
during the lag week ? where was the precedent kW
the army of referve—upon what rule or meaturi
was it calculated ? He wifhed the Learned Gentle:
man to point them out on the Journals of the Houk;
Not that he took any credit for the adoption of tbeffi
meafures—the circumflances the country was placea
in imperioafly called for them, and in adopting theul
he had done no more than acquit himfelf of his duty.
At prefent he only complained of the injullice ands
ill grace with which the charge of tweet was point-
ed againft his Right Honourable Friend, and in malt-
ing this complaint he was not agitated by any per.
lonal diflike of the Right Honourable Gentleman, on
the contrary, he entertained a very high them foe
him ; but Rill he mutt fay it, and he laid it with re-
gret, that the conduit of that Right Honourable
Gentleman (Mr. Windham) had a great tendency to
produce the prefent rupture, and fence that rupture
has taken place, to embarrafs the meafures which;
Government brought forward to enable the country
to repel the attack with which it was threatened.—
The Right Honourable Gentleman's patriotifm was
ardent in the extreme; but it was much to be la-
' mented that it fhould be fo inaufpicioufly direged. '
Dr. LAWS. alica trotted that the manner of putting
the Bill into execution might remote his oblegions
to it.
Mr. SHUMAN would trouble the Hoak but wide
a few words He, perhaps, might be induced tri
Cap more, did he not obferve that the Learned Gen-
tleman now Rood fingle-handed, unbacked by 'hie
Right Honourable Friend, who ufually fat near him.
The Right Honourable Gentleman was now abfent:
and perhaps after what had paired. be would have
wiffied that his Learned Friend had been &bits' alto.
• •-• • • • • •• • • • *

The Learned Gentleman, on tome occafions, came ,
• forward to the aft with cannon and genius; on others,
`merely as a lawyer. He difpenfed with the farmer
this day, and teemed to avail himfeif only of the
dexterity of a pleader. Indeed he diverged into no
public topic ; but the Tingle point to which the at•
tention of the Houle was direfted, namely, the tar-
diners of Minifters in bringing forward the meafure.
Minifters fay, that fuch a charge comes with an ill
grace from thofe who, when the country was ca-
roled, in their own opinion, to Molt alarming dan-
gers, were more than lupine in propofing meafures
of defence, for they propofed none at all.—But the
Learned Gentleman Pays, the danger that then threat-
ened the country was nothing when compared with
that by which it is now menaced. That, however,
was not the language of his Right Honourable Friend
(Mr. Windham); that Right Honourable Gentleman
did confefs, at the time that the fiturion of the coun-
try was moil perilous—and in truth it was fo—lre.
land was in a ftate of rebellion—the Northern Con-
federacy was forming—the Army of England threat-
ened our coats—yet what did Minifters do on that
occafion ? What did the Right Honourable Gentle-
man (Mr. Windham) who confeffed the danger, then
propofe to avert or repel it ? Nothing—he remain-
ed filent—yet he then held a place among his Majef-
ty's Minifters ; not that he complained of his holding
a place ; all he complained of was, that he held his
tongue, and that he betrayed the fame apathy and
neglect with which he now reproaches others. As
if a Minifter retains his place while he conceals his
opinion, or refrains from acing upon that opinion
which acknowledged the country to be in great dan-
er without propofing any meafure of defence.—
Surely loch a Minifter was far from faithfully per-
forming his duty.
Col. Pit i rrs (poke to order.
Mr. Summit could not well be fulpeiled of a
• difpofition to attack Gentlemen in their abfence, at
leaft he was not very flack at attacking the Right
' Honourable Gentleman alluded to when he was pre-
-1 tent to repel the attack. For all that was now (aid
of his conduCt, that Right Honourable Getitleman
Ind to thank his Learned Friend, who obtruded the
queflion on the Houle.
Col. CR•VFORD was foray to find that a report
had gone abroad that Minifters intended to confine
lite operation of the prefent meafure to the railing of
380,000 men. If that was the cafe, which he trulted
it was not, it would take away the whole foul and
(pink of the meafure, which he hoped would have the
(lied of railing and nourifbing a military fpirit in the
country. He was anxious the meafure lhould be
ailed upon to the full.
The Seca IT•ItY at WAR obferved, that if Gentle-
Mien had looked into the Bill, they would not have
made thefe obfervations. These was nothing in the
prefent Bill derogatory from the principle of the mea-
lure upon which it was founded. It pre poled the
railing, in the firft infiance, of a force equal to fix
time, the number of the original militia, a number
which was as great as could be trained at once—but,
it did not fo limit the number to be hereafter trained
and difcipbned.
The Cmancettoa of the Escutoxsa contended,
that the only ()lien of the Bill was to extend the dif
eretion welled inhis Mink. The ET wac then_paffed.
Mr. SR lILIDAN gave notice, that en Monday next,
he &told fubmit a motior. to the Houk refpeeing
Volunteer Corps, which he imbed would accord with
the feelings and opinions of every Gentlenfan prefent.
The other orders of the day were then difpofed of,
L and the Houle adjourned till to-morrow.

tet them, has motioned the lots of feveral, by their
going into ports occupied by a force direEted by our
enemy.

It is true, we have a ffrong force in the Mediter-
ranean ; and we are happy to (late, that our fleet in
that quarter was well off Naples on the 28th of May;
but the duty we owe to our country lays us under the
neceflity of remonfirating againft our trade being left
expofed in the manner it has been, when a few fri-
gates, properly difpofed, might have prevented the
tnifchief. We hope, that, in the proper department,
meafures will be immediately carried into effed, to
prevent a continuance or repetition of fuch infults.
Thefe letters alfo contain another difagreeable
piece of intelligence. Dillon's Regiment has behaved
in fuch a difgraceful and turbulent manner, that the
Governor at hit refolved to dilband them, as the only
way likely to prevent a repetition of their mifconduß.
This Regiment was in a (late, to which fome of our
letters hardly know what epithet ought to be applied
—We have no hefitation in giving it the proper ap.
pellation of a daring mutiny. Three days were fpent
in haranguing them, to endeavour to bring the
men to a proper fenfe of their duty, but all in vain.
They were at lag told that they mull either fubmit
to the difgrace of being difrniffed from the fervice
for fuch unfoldier-like condult, or take the alterna-
tive of being reduced by force. They preferred the
former, and were in confequence fent in final' parties
into Spain.
We hardly know how to view fuel a proceeding.,
Our letters inform us, that the Spaniards are prepar-
ing for war—they have got home much treafure, and
expe.t more daily from America—and we fend them
foldiers to ;noted it ! In every port in the Mediter-
ranean, where the influence of France can be exerted
to our prej,tdier, there is nothing like neutrality—
they receive the enemy's cruizers and /mixes, and
even make prizes of fuch 'elicit belonging to Britain
as go into them for neceffaries on their voyage—
and yet we Infer Spain to be neutral—till France
can gain nothing farther—till all the rich (hips are
arrived—till the enemy has obtained the real finews
of war. Then we (hall boafl of our moderation in
not having forced Spain into the war !
Refpetling the mutiny, we cannot avoid making
tome obfervations which naturally prefent themfelves.
We cannot help confidering the trefoil difagreeable
fituatic., of the garrifon, as in fome degree a necef-
Lay cor.fequence of the recal of His Royal Highnefs
the Duke of Knit. The lax Rate of difcipline
in the garrifon when he was appointed to the com-
mand, is well known. It is silo well known,
that the mutiny which broke out while he was
there. refulted from the previous indifcipline of the
troops, and the regulations introduced to prevent
thofe feenes of intoxication which were a (land-
ing Rigma on that fortrefs. Was it wife, when the
Governor by fpirit and prudence bad firppreffed the
mutiny, to call him home ?—How would the troops
argue ? " That their mutiny bad been fo fu (needs.
ful as to difmifs a Governor !"—They would give
the meafure no other name, and we have no doubt,
that to this circumflance may fairly be afcribed
the continuance of a fpirit which endangers the
fafety of that important ?Omer*. If turbulent fol-
diets are to be taught by any meafures whatever, no
matter how erroneoully they may reafon, that they
have the power to get rid of a Commander, they will
never be fatisfied under any one whatever, were he
an Angel from Heaven.
Gtartatraa, Just 24.—This goes by the Ml-
roy which takes home the Bth, the 33d, and asth
regiments from this, which were relieved a few days
ago by the loth, Di Roots's, and Ditzon's regi-
ments from Egypt. The 26th Light Dragoons, and
a party of Artillery from Egypt, are alfo on board
the convoy : about fifty merchant Tads are alfo in
Icompany.

. .
" We have heard nothing from. England fence the
arrival of Lord NsLsoa, as we bare been completely
blocked up for near three weeks by the Revanche
French frigate, of 4o guns, which has Rapped every
thing coming into the Gut Grace 'war was declared,
and has prevented a raft number of valuable prizes
falling into our hands, befides retaking feveral others.
The two (loops of war here, the BErrsan and Tout-
TelteLLll, thought they were not able to cope with
her, and did not chute to go out to meet her.
" About fifteen prizes have been rent in here face
the war began.
" There is little doubt but we (ball fhortly be en-
gaged in a war with Spain, as they have begun im-
preffing men for the navy, by the direSion of France.
About nine millions of dollars have lately arrived in
Cadiz, and lava dicyfball haw rankled the eighteen nail-1
Sam wore they/Softly apse, any nvill dmajbeen thonfdoss 1
" The lift accounts from our Squadron in the Me-
diterranean is the 28th of May, when they were off
Naples, nine fail of the line, all well.
" The VICTOILT failed from this on the isth to
join the fleet.
"There fortunately happened to be only one Eng-
lifh (hip at Leghorn when they heard of the war,
which en attempting to get out was immediately
feized, and brought as a prize into the Mole. The
Ligurian Republic, and alto the Gamete, are pref.
fing feameis and fbipwrights for the French navy, by
order of the Cisisr Consul., who Teems determined
that nobody (hall remain neuter."
" Jet. r a.—By the la* accounts from Leghorn and
Genoa, the French colours were eying at each of thee

places, and all Engiifn veff l wzre niade prizes of
that put in there. At I.eg6rn they had taken two
Englifh vefrds from AlexauJii t, one from New.
foundland, and one from this place that had put into
that port. _

" Several French privateers are already cruifing in
the Gut : they have taken one Englifh fhip.

" One of our Privateers took a French Weft India.
man under the Barbary coaft,laft night,worth moool.
Two Weft Indiamcn, her companions, anchored near
Cabreta point this morning, and were boarded and
taken by the boats of the Birrsan floop of war, and
brought in here. The.crews all made their efcape on
Chore with the papers.
" The Garrifon has been in an unpleafizet date this
fome time paft, from the conduit of Dillon's Regi-
ment. And to avoid an open mutiny, and all its
dreadful confequences, they have been obliged to &f-
-lied the whole Regiment ; and to permit fuch of the
men as AO it, to go into Spain by 4o and 5o at a
time. The fir ft party, of upwards. of 5o men, left
this Garrifon on the 3oth of June. It is furely Wilily
impolitic ever to fend a Tingle foreign /direr to this
Garrifon ; and it is hoped the eyes of Government
will be opened to the impolicy :of fuch a meafure,
when they find a Governor of fuch a Garrifon as this
obliged, to avoid a greater evil, to allow great part
of a Regin:ent to leave the Garrifon, almoft every
man of whom will enter into the French or Spanifh
fervice.

JULY 3.—Accounts have been received this
morning, of two more Englifh veffels having been
taker in the Gut by the French privateers, who flop
every thing coming in. I mull conclude, the frigate
by which this goes having made the fignal far fail-
ing.'

The Learned Gentleman, on tome mafiosi:, tame , tea them, has motioned the lots of feve
i 4 • forward to the al with cannon and genius; on others, going into ports occupied by a force di:
`merely as a lawyer. He difpenfed with the farmer enemy.
this day, and teemed to avail himfeif only of the
dexterity of a pleader. Indeed he diverged into no It is true, we have a ffrong force in
public topic ; but the Tingle point to which the at• ranean ; and we are happy to Rate. that
tenon of the Houfe was direfted, namely, the tar- that quarter was well off Naples on the 2
diners of Minifters in bringing forward the meafure. but the duty we owe to our country lays
Minifters fay, that fuch a charge comes with an ill
neceflity of remonfirating againft our tra
grace from thofe who, when the country was ca-
roled, in their own opinion, to Molt alarming clan- expofed in the manner it has been, whe
gers, were more than lupine in propofing meafures gates, properly difpofed, might have pi
of defence, for they propofed none at all.—But the inifchief. We hope, that, in the proper
Learned Gentleman Pays, the danger that then threat- meafures will be immediately carried it
coed the country was nothing when compared with
that by which it is now menaced. That, however, prevent a continuance or repetition of fu
was not the language of his Right Honourable Friend Thefe letters alfo contain another
(Mr. Windham); that Right Honourable Gentleman piece of intelligence. Dillon's Regiment
did confefs, at the time that the fiturion of the coun- in loch a difgraceful and turbulent main
try was moil perilous—and in truth it was to—lre.
Governor at laft refolved to difband them
land was in a (late of rebellion—the Northern Con-
federacy was forming—the Army of England threat-
way likely to prevent a repetition of their
ened our coal's—yet what did Minifters do on that This Regiment was in a Rate, to which
occalion ? What did the Right Honourable Gentle- letters hardly know what epithet ought
man (Mr. Windham) who confeffed the danger, then —We have no hefitation in giving it the
pi-cank to avert or repel it ? Nothing—he remain-
pellation of a daring mutiny. Three dal
ed filent—yet he then held a place among his Majef-
tea Minifters ; not that he complained of his holding in haranguing them, to endeavour ti
a place ; all he complained of was, that he held his men to a proper fenfe of their duty, bui
, tongue, and that he betrayed the fame apathy and They were at laft told that they mutt e
neglea with which he now reproaches others. As to the dif race of being difiniffed Gorr
if a Minifter retains his place while he conceals his , g
for filch unfoldier-like conduit, or take
opinion, or refrains from acing upon that opinion
which acknowledged the country to be in great dan- tive of being reduced by force. They
Ser without propofing any meafure of defence.— former, and were in conlequence fent in
urely fuch a Minitler was far from faithfully per- iv, Spain.
forming his duty. We hardly know how to view fuel a
1 Col. Pie [PPS fpoke to order.
Mr. SH Eames could of d not well be fufpcite a
. _Our letters inform us, that the Spaniard