Star.
London, England, 1803-01-12 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

Ms Kent hired armed cutter, will be paid for the neutral
Alp Sedalia, an Saturday the tsth of January. at Portfmoutb
he briy, Plink for the capture of tbe V row Lije, Dc Han,
and Augaftioa lie Bruck. will he paid on the fame day.
•nk Oa" co( war fakeer, for the kiaure of a T..:i•boat and
quantity et frints, will be at Yarmouth on Manday the
7:11 inftutt.

CORN MARKET:

MARK-LIMN, Jet). 12.

We have not had any arrivals fine lsionday—
. and Oats look upwards s' other article.
remain without alteration.

BRlAM—Yefterday the Meter and Wardens of
the Bakers' Company attended the Court of Alder-
men at Guildhall, to fet the Affize of Bread, when
after having examined the Mealweighers' reports,
the Court ordered the price of Bread to continuo
the fame as laft week, viz. sad. the Qartern Loaf.

Lord HoirrtitartanD appeared yellerday at the
Bank, and received nearly half a million Ilerling
in dividends, for his various Correfpondents in
Ireland.

The Bilbop of Sr. Davis,',, as Rector of the
rural Deanery of Socking, in Effez, is profecueng
an appeal at the Garter Sefflons of that county,
againft moll ofhis principal Parifhioners,refpeeting
his Lordfhip's affellinent to the Poor's Rates.
A reprefentation having been laid before the
Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh, refpeeting the
infuillciency of Lady Yefter's church, a Jury were
fummoned to infpeet it, by whom it has been or-
dered to be Slut up and taken down.

CITY OF EDIVOIVIGH ELICTIOII.—The Right
Honourable Lord Vifcount Mit.tuLs having
intimated to the Lord Provoß of Edinburgh, in
a polite ktter, to be communicated to the Town
Council, that His MAJISTY having been pleated
to call him to the Houle of Lords, the reprefentation
of the City is become vacant ; the fame was read
at a Meeting of the Town Council, when an anfwer
was agreed to be made, and tranfmitted to his
Lordfhip.
At an alter meeting of the Town Council, Lord
Mstivit.t.s addreffed them nearly in the following
words :
My LORD PROVOITT have been honoured by the receipt
of the congratulatory letter which your Lordfhip has addreded
to me in your own name, sod that of the Magifirates and
l'own Council of the City of Edinburgh. I would have inw
mediately acknowledged the receipt of it, If Ihad not thought
it more refpedtful to wait the codicil opportunity I could Aare
of your being affernbled together in Council, when I might be
permitted to make my perfonal acknowledgments for the very
flattering terms in which you have been pleated to addrefs
on occabon of his Majefty's late marks of favour to me, and
to my family. I can allure you with great truth, that the am
' nutrition of a Peerage was Demean Oiled in my contemplation
' with a view of gratifying any perfonal vanity of my own, net
could I have any %via to change the name I have hitherto borne.
dein:sided as I am from a family, which for ages paft has been
ellftioguifited in the eftimation of its country, and in the courts
of that time bas enjoyed many Grad proofs of the good will
and attachment o' its fellow•lubjeds.—ln my own piston, I
was at a very early period of my life Illeded by the partiality
of my native country to be their Reprefentative iu Parliament.
and their original choice was ratified by many fucteeffiveunani.
mous /leaks& At a more advanced period (Amy public pre.
grefs I was, as you to obligingly obferve in your Letter, 16 years-
ago, called upon by the Metropolis of my native Land to an.
dertake the important end of reprefenting them in Perliament,
and in many faceetSse and unanimous elediens yea haveglves
public teftimon that no part of my condud bad drawn apes
me your difpleafure or difapprobation. Under dick drcum.
Rance, and with a peered conicioutasts to my own lateaft,
that, however unavailing my exertions may at any time have
been in the public fervlce, there had bees no want of seal or
anxiety en my part to difcharge my daty ; I was fully prepared
without further reward, to fpend the remainder of my days is
enjoying the fockty of my family and my Mends and by what
I have laid you will be hushed that the diftinguithed honours I
have obtained are not the tektite( any impoittmate anxiety A
my part; you will not, however, conceive that I value these
the kh on that account—l receive them with the deepdt fends
of gratitude to • gr.clowt Sovereign, who has condefecoded, is
this manner. to mark his approbation of the public coedud
his [meant. I truft that my pofterity to the fated period will
never lok right of the grounds on which there honours have
been conferred on me, nor of the kniments of loyalty and
gratitude with which they were originally received.

Prom the explanation I have given you of my feelings on this
(Wake!, you will anticipate the tatistadtion I have to erprell, on
the grounds and terms of your congratulation. Your letter jot-
Iv detcribes the fentlinenta I entertain on the °teem= ; and it is
no incondderahk addition to the fatisfarlion I have derived, to
be enabled to enter mytelf, that his Majefty's favour Is feeend•
ed by the approbation of thole, whole duty it has been to watch,
and whole province it lass been to wkneta, the Reps of my poll-
tical progreta The times in which I have adted have been ed.
deal beyond any former example. They have been marked by
cirrtunftances for which no pat experience had produced a
guide, and I trot it is jolt matter of confolatton to thole who
have been engaged in the ondudt of public concerns for theta
many years paft, that, by the good Rote and firmnets of their
countrymen, they have been enabled to preferve entire that
Coaftltution which has been espial to (uch variety of unex-
ampled dangers.
Having mentioned the Conftitution under which we have
the happinefs to live, 1 truft I clean not be thought to deviate
very fat from the ()Med of my preterit addrefs, if I perfume to
trouble you with one obfervation refulting from the fituadon
In which lam now placed. J will not trouble you with any of
the particulars of the cutlet of my life, they are too well known
to require any detail from me. I content myfelf with barely
alluding to them. It has pleated Peeving arca to Was my 6•
mlly with fueects beyond say moll linguine ezpedtations.--
While we th,refore continue to refiß the pernicious exacta of
thote frantic principles a>< ideal equaUty, incompatible with the
government of the world, and the jut order of human today,
let as rejoice in date fuhltantial blefartp, the Ml* of real
freedom, and of equal taws, which open to the fair ambition
' of every Brit& tubjed the means of purfuing with faeces that
objedis of honour and tbofe fituations of power, the attainment
of which In other countries refts kitty upon a partial participa-
tion of perfonal favour, and the enjoyment of which refts upon
the precarious tenure of arbitrary power. It is impotEble to
look round to any quarter without teeing fplendid examples of
t►e trut► of this remark.

Before I conclude, allow me to offer you my bell thanks for
the very kind reference in your letter to the interefts and prof.
perity of family, and far thefriendly del re you are pleated
to ezprers of continuing your connection with me, although the
political tie Is &frayed by which we have for many years been
united. I accept your invitation with gratitude and cordiality.
and If. upon any Gamboa, you cone lye that I potrefe either abi-
lities or azperlence that can be of ufe to yam. you .re juilly
titkd to dentinal the aid of their bell cautions in your fervice.
At the fame time,avhatot-r eireumftance‘ of regret I may on
other grounds feel In the reparation which has taken place be.
maw us. I cannot permit myrelf to entertain ftntintents °Nut
kind, from any doubt, of my place as your it epee( aitative be.
kg amply rupplied. You have nude au leer. • aitiongft your
fallow citizens of the mien whom you mean to a.tort as my
fucceffor, and there I, every rearm to believe your choke will
meet with the molt peered approbetkin. It vmpid be affortation
upon my part,confid.ring the ties by which I am conoettedwi
that Gtotleman,if I were to &fp& front you the teal &dame-
tion I derive (rum every infianee of good fertllllC that may at-
t nd his progreft ; bat if I know m)relf, I can with truth d-
rum you, that no ties of friaWilltlp connalion could blind
ate fo tar as to make me wilt for Warw.:eh, 4 I w. re not con-
(dal:handy fatbeed that in every material requifite n' head and
heart, he wag eminently qualified todireharee the duet., of that
I nportant mutt web which it is generally onderfistod yes in-
tend to Invat them.

I will detain you no lamer, but merely to nezr my Amen
player, chat happinefs and prof-parity mai attend you your
'Walk and priva.e cmcans.

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