Star.
London, England, 1803-08-26 00:00:00

ON TRW Air/MON.

From the cninmencement of the prefent cone!,
the arts and efforts ufed u. engage the kinds entbu•
rialto which the French nation to dreajully.difplayed
during their late revolutions, in the grand enterprise
of that very Tyrant who filenced and difperfed their
popular aliCitiblies by armed ruffians, when he
ofurped their government, have been Rill more re-
markkble than the military armaments with which
the Corfican Defpot has covered the (pores of Eu
tope, from the Adriatic to the Elbe, avowedly for
our dellration. _ _ _

Not a public prayer has fine been offered up its the
adoration of bis flares, without execrable fupplications
for the defolation and ruin of thisgreat and happy Em.
pire. There is ant a municipality in all his dominions,
the bankrupt and beggarly traders of which have not
come forward to offer the remnants of their corn-
averts, preferved from our vi&orious Ants, to carry
his fplilers acrofs the channel, nor 6 there a highway
leading to his coafts which does not bear an inferip-
tiou diretting to our fields and treafures. The eyes,
ears, and mind; of the moll unrefiefting and volatile.
but molt lively and alive people on earth, have thus
been turned from the contemplation of their own
thraldom and difgrace, and rivetted upon his attempt
to lay wade the firil and left alylum of genuine in-
dependent liberty. In the Greets, on the exchange,
and at the aln'r, thennghoot the widely extended
dominions of Blnaparte, the uniform cries of his
minions have been Rapine, the pillage of London,
Dublin, and Edinburgh, the fubjugation of Britain,
and the blood of her Defenders." _ _

While we law this devouring flame Toured for our
deftruttion, without (hewing an equal eorrefpondent
ardour. the contrail feemed indeed alarming
Thank H ! the Briti(h fpirit has been but col-
lating its energies, to bora forth with unexampled
anirnvion in a caufe, of the final Me of which it
was impious to doubt. That fpirit is not to be walled
in idle vaunts, nor in reproaches, howeverjuit, againd
the murderer of Jai and Pavia—the 'Min of his
own lick and wounded troops in the Otameful Right
from Acte—and the ufurper who plunders ilplland,
France, and Italy, proclaiming freedom and benefi.l
ceoce I who was title chofen Apoille of Mahomet at
Cairo I again the redorer of the Chridian Faith; in
France ; whom the Conclave of St. Peter's have been
impatient to canonize 1 and now the prefabs Deity of
bis own facrilegious worihippers I

Preens Dives babetittsz
**di. finpraio Britannia.
All this he has been. But it is as our fwnrn and
Mortal foe, the molt ambitious, unrelenting, and
dcfperate of mankind, commanding with alrfolute
fway the greaten military force now in the world,
that he ought to be regarded and pepared fur in
every quarter of the united kingdom.
When the meafure of his crimes ball be full, we
weed not fear that the judgment of the Ar.orc
willovutake and confound prefumption fo atrocioully
daring. But it is our part, as we value every 14e1.
ling of civil and private life, to prevent the fubver.
fun of our Rase front siting added to the number of
his fpoliations.
The danger we ran is not the want of a brave and
generous foul t one fentiment i> heard alone thrtbugh•
out the land, and to Pave his king and Country is
perhaps, to •w more than it ever was before, the prime
concern of every true B, iron. But as a people, we
are arangers to the neceifary rocans—we are unufeJ
to wariare at Nit' own homes as therefore well
c..nader, that to us, on this account, the difciplitte
and actual isle of arms. ilia. much patties of twain.
itng as time and sircumilauces can per Mit, is doubly
tit :ntial. Oar declarations. until to carried into ef.
are mere founds. our emsensents but walk paper;
stay, the swellings of the patriotic heart wooed only
more certainly mark its owner to die foe for death.
The Ready column and rapid charge that mounted
tie heights of Aboukir, in the fate of artillery—that
pioughed the beach and the lea—the drill battalion
that in the plain of Alexandria withßood the alt..r.
tare Mocks of fquadrons and kgions, are not to be
at•ained vrithosit fweat and labour. The 'Morn,
knows well what materials there are here to work
upon. He reeolleas too what the podium of a lefs
favoured realin tan do to defend his wife and laugh.
tete from the neither, his harveft from the (paler :
he remembers well. that in a Tyrolese valley, where
no regiment or ramput oppored hi. assay, Rotated
w•;:h vothxy over the veterans of Militia, the deadly
of she iislitary markfmait From each forrounding
c..vcr felled to the ground every 'lira as he attempt-
s • to lead his dirigow, until she conqueror of Italy.
to . Invincible hero. *rid' his Mr' i la% s'As.
led to give op his n05t..14, awl senora& ars v as
e. en f lie never taw. _ _

lci, dna toiii cbs.ary mcc, ial cvely 4;414, ie&&

how valuable this &ill mnll be to a free itnd gallant
nation, defending their own habitations, and that as
accomplithment lo valuable, though within the reach
of every man that can carry a mulket, is not to he
gained without tail and experience. Let them alto
confider, that no man can fay how near the flange'
i•, and then judge if a moment thould be loft. I
a Liters not him who would (prink from his Mare of
the glorious duty and hazard. If fuels there be, the
higher tank, the more certainly does he mark
and thorn Wor-elf to freak to a traitor and a coward
grave, under the curie and deteftation of every Italia
malt. Such is not the defeription of the Nobility
and Gan; y, to whom our yeothanry, huflransimen.
traders, and moats look fie' the fignal. It is the
ready eve and movement. the perfevering connaney
and vigilance of the foidier. with which alone they
arc yet need:oily unacquainted. AVould to Goo it
were as Cary to revive drr military habits of our an•
cello's. and diffofe through the whole mai. the ge-
nius of our ancient heroifis, as it is to fubfcribe the
name of SILITANAICUS.

POLIOE.&e.

Hanoi! eARDIII...• 'Amway evening a *sung
maw, was examined, charged on fufpicson is? the
friends of a young woman, named Smith, "AO was
drowned on the 24th .ark. in Chelfea Reach, by the
opfettias of a boat, whore body was found inane
time a ter as low down as St. John's Parith, Wap-
ping, where the was buried without any one recog-
nixing her.
It was *danced in evidence that the yam% woman
enjoyed an annuity of 161. and a genteel rum was to
,go to a particular perfon after her demife.
It was farther added, that the prifoner, on the an-
fortunate day, took the deceafed in a boat to go to
Richmond on a party of pleafure. On their return
,to come to town at rather a late hour, and not
returning to her friends, excited great alarm and
anxiety, and it being traced that the was Lill teen
in the company of the prifoner, gave caufe to his be-
ing apprehended.
He did not deny this fait, but Paid that it was en-
tirely an accident, none being in the boat but them-
elves, and the evening being very chilly, of which
the complained, as be was rowing, get up in a hurry
to put his coat over her, the boat overturned, and
he was obliged to fwint for his own life, and further
he raid, he could have no poffible iaterell in the event
of her death, having no expeßaney to arife front it.'
—He was committed for re-examination.

Yeaerday,a fecond examination took place. The
prifonees name is Jacob Sebaflian Kock. a fulled of
Denmark, and a native of HoMein. The prifoncr.
it appeared, had hired a boat of Mr. Godfrey, a
boat-builder, at Lambeth, on that day, in company
with a lady whole perfos Mr. G. could not par-
ticularly defcribe ; the boat was hired to go as far as
Kew bridge that on their way there and back they
flopped at the Swan, at Chatea-bridge, where they
took Come refrefhment. The landlord gave tali
mony that he had heard Come high words between
them in the evening, and thought that tome Carious
eonfequenee might &rife; he declared upon oath, that
the deceated had a man's dote-bodied coat upon her'
at the time; and that the peifoaer had another coat
opoe him. which went again& the affection of the
latter, who Paid in his defence. that when coming
home, near Chelfea Reach, Mrs. Smith complained
of being cold, when be went aft, pulled off his
own coat to put over her, in the ad of doing which
ttsey both fell overboard, when the was Ina, and
flrugzling to lave himfelf he regained the boat,
and came to Mr. Godfrey's (lairs, at Weßminatr-
bridge, without a Goat or bat, and with great &gins.,
lion ut mind related the cafe there, and ordered the
people to drag for the infra tunate lady. but in vain.
Printed handbills, offering a reward of two gni.
near. were publithed ; when tome time after the
corpfe was found below Hermitage-bridge.Wapping.
with a man's coat upon her, without awes or a hat,
but an her patron was found a gold watch with tome
other trinkets. She was buried in St. John's church-
yard, Wapping, after the Coroner's Jury bad re-
turned their verdia. There being fume contradic-
tory evidence as to time, and the prifoner not being
colleaed in his defence, he was committed for re-ex-
amination. In one part of his defence, he (kid,
that he was 34 years of age, had been bred to the
lea, and was meter of a veffel ; he (poke good Eng-
fo as not to be taken for a foreigner, ahich be-
ing rema, ked to him, he laid that from the age of
ten year: he had been mollly in England. where he
had learned the trade of a pocktt-buck maker, noder
Mr. Smith, the hulband of the deccati.d, she did nut
attend the examination.

On Tuefday evening lift, the Coroner's Jury af;
fembled at the figo of the kitty W a public
Ititife, in the parilh of St. Luke's, Old-ftreet, to take
a view of the body of May Carney, who died a few
days (ince, at Hull Place. in contiquenee of wounds
Ile had received from her Indband, Michael Carney,
a labouring man ; when they returned a verdift of
wilful murder againft him.—lie Stands con omitted,
and will undergo an examination at Worlhip.dreet
Office.

The Coroner's ingnell have returned a verdilt of
wilful murder against John Lambert, a farmer nt the
Parilh of 'Renton, in Devonfhire, fur wounding with
a name Wm. Harris, while on the imprefs ferviee,
maks Lieutenant Role. near DawNth, nn the gods
iud. of which wound Harris has fence died.

A baker at Reading lately crammed Anne penny.
pieces into fore loaves of light weight, in order to
deceive the lapeetors. The trick was however do:
covered, and the baker very propetly fined. This
was being pony wife and pored foolith I
_ _

Tuerday forenoon as a Fulham coach, heavily
loaded, was coming along Piccadilly. one of the fore-
wheel. came of. but happily no material injury hap-
pened to any sue.

'lle barn yard of Mr. Ifenderfon, of Lawton. in
the county of Forfar. was nealicioully let fuc to and
fiettroyed on the tub init.
Tue6iat. abnot two o'clock in the shamans. a
barge lying along:ids a brig at Hanover Hnk.
Mall Wall. Wapping/. was dikovered nn ire, which
hid a very threateaing appsaraaee ; the flames were
linwever l.•rtuuately &Weed. The CAlliC of the fire
4f MCC (wan a Calk& bete% left Monier, in the bald at
ten o'clock ea the a►wwg. whoa the men west ea
amis.