Star.
London, England, 1803-09-01 00:00:00

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Waterford

DOS.
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The undermentioned flops were yefterday put into
commilTion, and the Captains, whole names are af-
fixed, appointed to them :
Euaus 32 guns, CT% T. TsINFS
PRINCEISS Or ORANGE 74 P.
LEOPARD 50 \
Capt. WaIGHT Is appointed to the CIIIIIIiI4IId of the T,lenuchus
cutter; and

Lieut. R. YOUNG, to the command of the Aetive cutter.

FALMOUTH, Atrourr 29.—Arrived this day the
following vellels, under convoy of his Majelly's brig
ATALANTE, of 16 guns, Captain MAEEFIELD, from
Oporto, after a palfage of 3 t days, viz.—The Mer-
cury, Captain EDINOTOM, General Prefeott, Captain
PROUD, for Greenock ; Malizna, Captain K sire ;
Favourite, Captain BUTLER ; and Phcenix, Captain
TuMßLim,for Dublin; Perfeverance, Capt. STROUD ;
and Brothers, Captain BALL, for Briftol ; all laden
with wine : the remaining part of the fleet, being
about ten in number, have proceeded to the eallward,
under convoy of his Majefty's brig Wasp, of 18 guns,
Honourable Captain AYLMER. Sailed on Saturday
evening fall, the Duca OF You packet, Captain
DRAKE, with the mail► of the 16th and 23d intl. for
Lifbon ; and the RsouLus letter of Marque, of 20
guns, Captain WHITE, on a cruise. Arrived finee
my laft, the MANCHESTER letter of marque, Captain
PAGE, from Liverpool for the Well Indies : the brig
Carr, Captain CALvarr, in 37 days from Wilming-
ton, North Carolina : (poke his Majelty's LsAN-
DER, of 5o guns. all well ; and a cutter privateer, of
18 guns, belonging to Weymouth, in long. t 64. all
well, and bad made no captures ; alfo arrived the
brig Veftal, BARBER, from Peterlburgh, in 64 days.
The Duals or CUMBERLAND packet, from Lifbon ;
land the PRINCE Easter packet, with mails from the
Leeward Wands, may be hourly expeded. Wind W.
PLYMOUTH, Au a. v.—Sailed, with live cattle and
frefh vegetables for the fquadron off Brea and off the
Black Rocks, the ARDENT, of 64 guns, Capt. WIN.
THORP. By the lateß accounts by letters from off
Brett, it appears that the French fquadron in the
outer Road Rill continue there, and in fight of the
Britifls in shore fquadron manoeuvre their (hips daily
in furling, unfurling, and handing fails, exercifing
great guns and (mall arms, and manceuving occa-
*wally with their bompards, or large gun-veffels.—
Went down the harbour, being comp!etely fitted for
lea, la TROMPEUBE, of 16 guns, Capt. Gootiwts
fhe came to in the Sound to wait for orders. All the
(mall veffels, particularly the gun brigs and thofe with
aiding keels, ate ordered to be got ready as fart as
poffible, as they are from their eafy draught of water
fit for the defence of a line of coati, the entrance of
rivers, &c. &c.

Came in the Ardent, a tranfpor, with (cameo and
landmen for the fleet, from the Itdb Channel. Vice
Admiral Sir CHARLIE POLE, Bart. Prefident of the
Board of Naval Commiaioners innituted by Atl of
Parliament, to inquire into all the naval abufes what-
foever, and the refi of the Board, are arrived at Dxk;
they proceed (tiredly to examine the Dock Yard, Vic-
tualling Office, South Down Brewery, and the Royal
Naval Hofpital, to make fuch necefary inquiries, and
reform fuch abufes as may appear to them fit and
neceffAry, and for the good of his Majefiy's fervice.
DEAL, Aoovsr v.—Arrived the Escorr and
JACKAL!. gun veflels, from a cruise, and remain in
the Downs with the Alexander tranfport, with troops
for Jerfey, and feveral outward bound veffels. Wind
North.

POILTIIMOUTH, AVCRIST 3 I .—Sailed the STIRLING
gun vette!, for Sheernefi. Wind N. N. W.

THE BIMINI NAVY.
Monthly statement of the Diaribution of the
Naval Britith Force, to the if infant.
List. ses Prg.Bj..tfte.9'sa
la pert and sWez, & with (aid order, t sst
Gond dips - - 3 6 o is
h tie Ea gll& and Id& Channels 27 s se so 72
le the Dewar and North Sees 9 I 15 13 77
At the We& India Made, and as
the Paine -
Jamaica lades, ad en time garage
America & Newfoundland Retinas
Cape of Good Hope, raft Indies.
lad on the Paige -
Coe& ire Africa
Portugal and Gibraltar -
In tie Mediterranean & as PAL
Kelpital and Prlhn tarps

3 o 10 T 3
7 o 3 10
• s 7

1, 1 o" s s
o s •
II t Is $
70 3 0

Total la Cimailtion - $ a 114 167

Receiving air - - 6
7 7
Serviceable, end repaid,. fee kr- 7
vice . • to I Is s
In pribeary - - Is 7 64 at

• . - - io a 11 10

Total - t 94 13 la 147
'TATE Of TIE OILDISAIT AT BOOM POET.
POrtfaUflith - - - 117 I 2S 7
Plracputh . - • 19 1 16 4
Chatham - - - 29 6 15 3
Sbceracts - - • - t 0 7 5
%Um • • • 2 0 23 8
•

so
393

Is

Total . 9 S 3 $7
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
O.Aineue, AVOVIIT 3t.--Palfed by, the laamorad,(a
Mors* Star, Stewart, from Dort ; Hope. Mater* i Sae
dux*. Boyd. sod !how Aaoe, from Rotterdam..
the Hebe.Owes.for Cart; tfabrlMOreen, far Charieflos ; Wel.
mouth. Wets, for Tricae; sad Two Ganders, DIA; fat
Torsohagen.
Artemis—Of Dartmouth. the Prewar's, Peed*, from St.
Croix; and Myrtle, Huta, from Damon-lb At Fahoroutb, Carr,
Catirert. from Wilmington ; and Waal, Ifiarfrer, hum Pere4.
bomb. At Correa, ByGeld, Crary from Marietta°. At Clyde.
Mahe Odl, Green, from New York; Hero, Sanders, from Now
forandland ; and Marina. Ad le6le, from Arttmartl. At Dobai,
Farmer, Sttirtaran ; and Draper. Hoes. from La don; AIN"
'lwo% from Jamaica. At Cody Poetinsie, Plash:am. from

rise),
3

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New Y°11! ; Petal: Ceverdide ; and Will:ata anal Ann,. Skim.-
from Quebec. At Malt. radce. Conway, froin 1-004(4.
Oporto, Catharine, Toole; and Draprr, Taylor, from Doan.
Swan, Hawkins; Mentor, Chriftie ; and ICfnemill, South. from
I.ondon• Commerce, Batton; and Swallow, from New-
foundlw;d.

The Phenix frigate and Troe Blue privateer have rent into
Briltul the Hannah, Ryan, from New Turk to Havre.
The Vrouw Curnena Frederica. Sct:oll, front Ar.ftertlam to
Brills'', is put Into Mounts Bay leaky, and difchargi tg cargo.

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The Vrouwß ilhelmina, Styntjes; Vrouw Gcertlytte, Hinders
Vrouw Angelina, Poker; and Vrouw Renelyna, s,eaai, each do,
tallied at Yarmouth, have been liberated and failed for Embelen.

NOTICE TO MARINEIts,—Lan week, the Lnw Light
on the Spurn Point unfortunately took fir: in the
night, and was burnt down. A light will continue
to burn on one of the fend hills until a new one is
ereEled.

The arrival of the AMAZON frigate at Portfmouth
was announced yeflerday. It is the more agreeable,
as it was known that the had taken jewels on board at
Lifbon, to the amount of soo,oool. and great appre•
henfmns have lately been entertained for her falety.
On Tuefday soo,oool. was done upon her at Lt.oyo's,
at a very high premium.

We underitand, that on the t sth of May laa, a
French tighty.gun (hip, with a rear.admiralon board,
and two frigates, were lying in Simon's Bay, Cape of
Good Hope, Paid to be defined for India. In the
latitude of 16 degrees South, the Company's Chip the
ELPUINSTONIR paired a line of battle (hip under
French colours: fhehad carried away allher top-math.

A letter from Paris, dated Augurl zo, Bates as
follows Two Bankers were tali Wednefdav fent
to the Temple, becaufe they had give.' Bills of Ex-
change upon Hamburgh and Frankfort for three mil-
lions of livres, deftined for the ufe of Louis XVIII.
and which the Police has found out to have been fe-
cretly fubfcribed by f"me Royalilts at Paris, fince his
refufal to reign his right to the throne of France was
publifhed here. Remember this refufal was only
known here on the intl. and that thofe three mil-
lions were fubfcribcd here only."
General ROCHA/4111Att lately caufed the following
curious article to be inferred in the Official Gazette
at Cape Francois:—
. ....

" The General In Chief gives, In the molt formal manner, the
lie to the letter of the Minifter of Marine, addrcffed to the Firft
Conful. under date ith Roma!, Infected in the Maaitcar of the
loth of the fame month. Thls letter falfely mimes the Go..
vernment Bills drawn on France, and particularly thofe of
Alex. Undo. lam compelled to remove this notorious aalantny,
and I owe It to General Leclerc, who alone with rue has Mired
them, to unmak the falfehood of Itch an affection.

(gne d) D. lIIttU."
It is generally bSielieved, that the iffandtOCllMf Sc.S Do.
mingo is evacuated by the French at this moment,
and that the whole of the marine and troops they had
there have fallen into our hands. This opinion is
not fo much founded on the fuccefsful progrefs of the
Blacks, as on the fraud and fwind:ing of the French
Government. All the bills drawn by the French
Commanders in the Weil Indies, on their Govern.
ment in Europe, have been refuted payment. This
is not all : the French Government has declared that
many of thofe bills are falfe, have been drawn with-
out authnrity, &c. Of thefe bills, there are in the
city of London at prefent to the amount of 300,0001.
which have been remitted by BMA merchants from
the Well Indies. One Gentleman, Mr. LINDO, alone,
has brought home about t 30,0001. of them. It was
t,, authenticate the bills potreffed by Mr. LINDO that
General Roc st arse AU publiflied the above notice, in
cnntradi&ion to an article which appeared in the
Moniker difereditiog them. ROCHAN UM/ diftinaly
avows they were itfued by Gen. Lactlac, and him-
felf, in due form, and on doe authority,for the public
fervice. He makes this publication evidently with Tome
heat, forefeeing the calamities which the difcredit
thrown on the bills might bring on himfelf and his
army. In faa, the ccnfequence of the refufal to
pay thofe Bills in Paris will be, that the French army
and marine in St. Domingo mug furrender. They
are preffed by the Blacks from the land, and by the
Britiffi navy from the fea, without any other means
of fubliftence but fuch as can be obtained from ad.
venturous merchants ; and the redid to pay the bills
of the Generals and Commiffaries, (till more the af-
fertion that they gre fraudulent, will prevent every
merchant, American or others (Britilh merchants
fometimes indirealy fend (applies to the enemy dur-
ing the war,when they are well paid), from furnifhing
even the neeeflaries of life. Under thefe circutriftances
the French in St. Domingo have no alternative left
but to furrender to the Blacks, or to the Englillt.
Royal Exchange State Lottery Office, No. 88,
corner of the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, London.
Nic Henson and Co. refpeetfolfy acqnaint the Public,
that the Lottery begins drawing on Monday next.

Sunday fe'nnight, about half all eight o'clock in
the morning, a fire broke out at the Nunnery-Mill,
near Douglas in the Ifle of Man. It proceeded from
a barley mill on the fecond floor, near the centre of
the building; which, it is fuppofcd, had taken fire
the preceding evening ; but was not difcovered till
the flames burg out. By the very great exertions
of a number of adive perfons, the fire was got under,
in about two hours ; but the damage is confiderable.
HATIRAIt ET THEATI.I.—Laft night a new piece,
under the title of Nicer/um is DOcir, made its firft
and final appearance at thib or we believe any other
theatre in the kingdom. 'We (ball not infult our
readers fo far as to offer any regular critique on a
produelion in every point of view moll contemptible
and abford. We do not ore herds language when we
fay, that even a Farce, in every refpelt fo vulgar and
fenfclefs, was hardly ever attempted to be palmed on
the public. From the opening to the dote there is
nothing brnught forward but the Imre& extrava-
gance, which even the rudeß part of the audience
was albamed of and defpifcd. It is needle(' to add,
that it was univerfaUi limited. Mr. Ewsron ap.
pealed the clamour which it had excited, by an.
nouncing that it was withdrawn fee even

We really pitied the performers v.—their (iteration
was It uly aukward and difagreeable. Several of them
teemed to feel thib (evetely. Mrs. Gies' in particu-
lar appeared much agitated in going through apart
affigned to her.
It has been attributed to a Lady of of tank well
known in the fafkioaable circles. We cannot allow
oorfelves to believe that fuch fluff could be the pro-
dueti,n of auy one acquainted with genteel life or
eler,..nt tale; and we muff, therefore, reject this at-
trmpt to put the public in polfedlon of the fource
from %thence fuck a rhapfully originated.

DEFENCE OF THE c(,11.V7 RT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

in

r•vter,Algift 29. 06,1
As a loyal fuhjed, and a to my coulitt; ,
necellar) to 'late to 300, tl.e y •
feds produced in this gi eat mat:Li:he c•oo.cv, t'
I.l;tent wavering and undecided roc : .1 • t.
jelly's Minillers, refpedin," the Y,on.aci v a,d
lioneers, by which mean:, trey have W.t dtrript
the ardour and fpirit of the ccuatv Dzytin,
have thrown the L:4l Licuteoai.: of the cocr.:
and the Deputy Lieutenancy into the :null per plc:
ing embus-lament.
I believe it would be neecllers for me tl Rate !II
loyalty, zeal, and fpir;t, which has ma:.ilefled
throughout the whole county, and I can fairly elf
mate the numbers offered for enrollment at 75,0 c;
men : out of that number i gopoo have been accepte,
by Lord Foittascua and the Deputy Lientcnanti
and though the Carnation of the Cava] r and Lamar.
was tegulated by the printed inflrudions Wiled b
Government, and Ilridly enjoined by the letters c
tervice granted by Lnrd Foley ESC a, yet the Govern
ment have, by a narrow minded policy, committe•
a breach of faith with the Office+ s and wen who en
rolled themfelves, and were accepted before the 3i
of Augult, the day on which Lord lionarr's circula
letter was dated. The allowance for appointments
particularly of Yeomanry, pay for permanent ler
jeants and ti umpeters, contingencies, &c. &c. wa
printed in the margin of their regulations. Fo
there allowances the Offi -ers pledged themfelves t,
the men, under the faith of Government. But thougi
Come thoufands have been embodied ever fence June
and have frequently affembled, they are not ye:
Gazetted, clothed, nor armed. Lord HosacT ha
checked their ezpedations by his fatal letter. Tht
men are talking of difbanding, and the Officers haw
the melancholy profped of being left burthened wit]
debts incurred by the orders given for the equipment
of the troops. Lord HOBA ter has not condefeendec
to anfwer any letters written to him on the fobjed
and apprizing him of the confequerces. The talk
and the difficulty of feletliug 9072 men out of the
tgooo accepted, is thrown on Loud ForrEscus.—
' They have unfortunately calculated the numbers for
this great county, with a vaft extentive coal], on tax
fmall an eftimate, and only in ploportion to the in.
land counties: and Lally, they have compelled the
Lieutenancy of the Maginracy of De.vonfliire, whc
met on Friday lag, at the Cale of Exeter, to enter
into (hong refolutions and remonarances on the Cub.
jed of their breach of faith, and their Miferable ea>
nomy. Experienced Officers, who are not over-bur:
thened with fortune, and have famides, are involved
•in difficulty, and even the noblemen and kntlemen
of fortune are ditußed. Thus are the fiurited ex,
ertions of this county, and others, likely to be fruf
trated by a little policy, of a pound or two allowance
for appointments, co, tailed from the 6ra encourage,
ment held out by Government. There are fads, Sir,
which you may rely en. The high (pith of this
county has been trifled with, and a deadly blow bat
been given to the nerve of this populous county. l
am a conftant reader of your Paper, and a great
admirer of its principles, and I truft you will make a
proper ere of this information, and apprize the Go.
vernment of their miaaken policy. In the meat
time, we are left in a Rate of fig-pence, and the Lori
Lieutenant has declined the feledion, by referring i
to General Succor, who, I fear, will not End tht
cloys men difpofed to accept the prefent trarrinicas
terms. You will have the goodnefs to accept the of
furance of the truth of this report. The anemia(
you are difpofed to Phew it, will be a great induci
ment for the regulation of my future commoitica,
lions. lam your very obedient bumble Fervent,
OW MIRK.

Earl Mote* is fo much recovefil tltiat ite has to
rived in Town.
The Court Martial held on Captain Ban Lovr,ll4. P
for Coventry, concloded on Saturday fennWorr
We underftand that he was honourably acq o
every charge *Hedged againß bitn. •
The Royal Glouceder Voltariteers are a bwre
general meter on Monday evenidg, in the yard o
Devonfkire houfe, to form Companies, and to after
min the entire &twit of the Corps, and, on dm
a ith are to mailer for the RA time in full uniform.
If the number of the Members of the Sloomfbar,
and Inns of Court Affveiation, are reduced from
taco to boo, the lots of thole Members who mut
withdraw will exceed upwards of rjasool. as tit
expellees each of them have incurred for arms, Sce
is, upon an average, Including their fubkription
171. a man.
The Royal Wellminfter Volunteers are to reeeivi
their Colours on Thurfdey nett at Sc. Clement'
Church, their own being under ttpair.
The City Artillery are to have a Grand Field-dal
to-morrow, on Sydenhaa Common, where they art
to pitch and ftrike theft tehts, and be exercifid in tb
Foot and Flying Artillery.
The tneafures adopted in Mancheller to affiß Go
vernment in the prefent cries, as they race the high
el credit on tke patriotifm of its Inhabitants are not
le .s gratifying to every well•wilber of his Country.
A meeting of the Inhabitants of Manchetler ant
S Mord was held on the itch ultimo, to determum
upon the mot effeenal means of affording affidanc,
in the Defence of the Country s when it was smug
moldy agreed.
That the eflablithment of the Old Vblontter °woe
and the formation ogneur oness wculd be mod facet]
to anfwer the deGred end. and a (obtiriptioo
immeiiatcly entered for their rapport, which ahead]
amounts to near to,opol.

MR* EDIT the eontfe of my reading, I heel
lively met with a palLsge, that is peculiarly applicabh
to ,the prefent important erifis. But one word mote—.
Not the moil bottle, and rcfolute attempts of Ibsen',
my can injure us, ankle we indulge a tooftee/jackrityl
Nothing can ace us, if we are prepared I if wit, we
may be -forprifed, as the following paffige in the 13th
chapter of (lissom's Roman Ilittory, relative to the
Itorafinn of I:ritain by Cowsram Tit,' in the yeant96,
will fufficiently inform us, " Under the cover of a
thick fog, they efc.yed the fleet of As Lrc rus, which
had been Rationed off the Ilk of Wight to receive
them, and landed in &fay on Cum part of the weß-
ern coati ; and rearisied the Brit.', oho afitjerierey
navalfirervb wit ag a'tv.7r ectri rrir P•tn•by fr,• of
foreip ilatseen." • Taus Amami