Star.
London, England, 1803-08-17 00:00:00

MARGATE, AUGUST i 3.

On Thurfday lag Mr. PITT made. a fecond viGt to
Margate, and while at Mr. Cosa's, had the leas-
ftftion of receiving from the owners the patriotic
-.ger of the veffels and boats belOnging to this har-
bour for the fervice of Government, to be fitted at
it. ripenceas gun veffels, &c. and to be ufed in the
genzral defence 'af the realm in cafe of an invaGon.
licides more than zoo Sea Fencibles now enrolled
training to the ufe of the great guns, under the
command of Captain MIDDLPTON, of the Navy,
we have already enrolled, under the command of
Captains Coss, &c. &c. upwards of 400 Volunteers
of different defcriptions ; fo that our little town can '
now boalt of more than Goo of its brave inhabitants,
ready for the glorious defence of our King, our
Country, our Laws, and our Religion
Erclutive of this, our conflitutional and local de-
fence, we have elle two troops of the tgth Dragoons,
and 400 of the Nottinghamlhire Militia quartered in
the town ; fo that Margate, as one of the advanced
potts of the kingdom, is prepared, and on the alert
to refift any attack of our daring and infidious
enemy.

Yeflerday was the Birth-day of his Royal High-
nefs the Duct of Yoac. His tradefmen, the thea-
tres, and places of public amufement, made at night
fplendid

On Saturday WI, the Right Hon. Lord VireMint(
MARSHAM, fon of the Earl of Romerr, was elated
Member of Parliament for Downton.
The proclamation refpeetiog the aliens, which ap.
peered in the Gazette of Saturday laft, has been read
upon 'Change, as a matter of form.
' Captains NEWBERRY and BURRELL, both of the
Sufrez Militia, hare cfcaped from France, where
they were detained with many other Britifh fubjetts„
into Germany, and are now on their way to F. ogland.
Yeflerday another detachment of the Greenwich
Penfioners was ordered to proceed to the Note, to
allift in fitting out the (hips at that place.
The Proprietor of the late Periodical Paper in Mi.
lan (Reforgiffunto). Aligned the following reafon for
difcontinoing it—" I dare not (peak the tar . and I
am athamed to be filling the columns of my Journal
with lia."

The Volunteer Regiment in Liverpool, to be com-
manded by WlLuass EARLS, Efq. is now nearly
completed.
The OfSeers and Clerks of the Cuffoms at Liver..
pool have entered into a Military Alociation for
the defence of that Town.

The Liverpool Volunteer Cavalry aro to be ang.
mented to three Troops, which will finally amount
to nearly 200 men.
On Monday, General Tatcaroa and fuite failed
from Parkgate, for Ireland.
Four hundred Engbib merchammen failed from
Elfineur to the North Sea, on the 29th of July.
Saturday afternoon, abqut four o'clock, pared
through I. hichefier, tforn Brighton in his way to
P .rtfinouth, hi. Royal Highness the Duke of You,
accompanied by his brother, the Duk: of Ca es BRIDOI.
The Royal Dragoons, quartered in Chichefter, were
drawn up on the occafi(oi, on a Common clofc to the
read ;—we confefs never to have fern a finer regi-
ment ; all younx men, and their hones in the highelk
condition, and we iinderßand that the Duke of Yoac
highly complimented Colonel St.aoa, the Command.
ing Officer. on their performance, which, as far as
' we may judge, was certainly in a very fuperior Ityle;
rh4 were extremrly fait, and though the ground
was rough, and full of ruts, not a man was down.—
Their Royal Highnefrrs were greeted by a vaR eon.
courfeofpeople, who were aifembled at an early hour.

Saturday night, about nine o'cicck, their Roya;
Highneffes arrived at Portfmnuth, and proceeded to
the houfe of Major General WMITTLOCZ, the Licata.
nant Governor, where they remained during the night:
At half pall (even on Sunday morning, the fol:
1, wing troops were under arms upon Sourhfea Com-
mon, and afterwards reviewed by Field Martha' his
Royal Highnefs the Duke of Volta—the Duke of
Careaaroos alto on the ground :—The Royal Ar-
tillery, Artificers, Royal Flintlhire Militia, Merin.
nethfhire Militia, 23d Regiment of-Light Dragoons,
and a detachment of the sth Regiment of Heavy
Htule, 23d Regiment of Foot, or Welfh Fufileers,
Royal North Gloucellcrfhire Militia, Worcefterfhire
militia, Royal Carmarthenflite Militia, 2sth Regiment
.If Foot, Bth Regiment of Foot, Purtfdown Cavalry,
and Sea Fencibles :—the latter dote along (bore in
their flat bottomed boats. At noon the review con-
cluded, much to the fatisfattion of the Commander in
Chief, the Duke of CaMBRIDOs, &c. after which their
Royal Highneffes returned to Major General Warra-
Local's, and were waited upon by the Mayor and
Corporation, when the Duke of CAMBIUM:II was pre-
rented with the freedom of the Borough of Ford-
mouth, of which he did them the honour to accept.
At three quarters pall one their Royal Highnelles
went afloat, taking boat at the New Sally Port, in
the Admiral's barge, with the ftandard flying, ac-
companied by the Admirals and Captains, in their
refpetaive barges, in procetlion, and were faluted with
the guns on the platform : when arrived abreaft
of the fnuadron at Spithead, they received a general
(dote, fired by all the men of war at anchor there,
and the MAGNIFICENT, of 74 guns, at St. Helen's.
Their Royal Highnefies proceeded to Fort Monkto::,
near which they found all the flat bottomed boat,.
manned by the Sea Fencibles, drawn out in line of
battle, who greeted the Royal Dukes with repeated
hearty cheers at their landing. They then proceed-
ed to visit the fortifications round Capon, and were
again faluted. On their return, they had a molt
(sumptuous dinner prepared for them at General
IV urscoca 's, and in the evening infpated, with
fatisfaetion, the numerous and very fe'
fpeetable Volunteer Corps of that place, upon South
Sea Common.

COIN MAR EtT, MARR-L•1911, AUCI. 17.4 There
have not bccn any arrivals lince Monday, and every
thing remains without alteration in the prices men-
tioned in that day's currency.
A size or Beam).--Yesterday the Lnao MAYOR
nrdct ed the price of Bread to be railed half an atlizei
or a penny in the peck loaf, to take place to•morroA' •
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LETTER ID.

The ANTUORSICAN I soi,tiPAß OP

The lati of Holland might have been confideled
as a fugitive inflame of French perfidy, if a multi-
tude of other independent communities had not been
involved in i fimilar cataflrophe. But, without ex-
ploring every field- on which the government of
France has left indelible traces of its cruelty, fubor-
dination, and exadiont, I call the public Mind of the
Erica' Empire, to the caufelefs and unprovoked vio-
lation of the independence di Country, from which
the Republic had nothing to fear, and by whofe neu-
trality, her expofed frontier was guarded under the
facred fandion of public faith. Many of the coun-
tries which had relinquiflied the names and chit-
Talkers, in fearful compliments to their fraternizing
conquerors, might be pat cloned this indifcretior., be-
cult the generous flame of liberty had ceafed to glow
within their bofoms, and abandoned to a long Deep
of political inanition, they were incapable of feeling '
Chafe moral energies of patriotifm, by which nations
are upheld and rendered refpedable. Beneath the
mobldering minds of feudal vaffalage, amidft the mo-
,sonsents of ancient glory, inviting thern.to a brighter
cheriihing the lofty fentiment, that they were
the &ft to enkindle the lamp of fcience, and to dif-
ibte the genial influence of literature over the weftern
world, and treading the foil once confecrated to free.
dom and to valour, the modern Italians may Rand
unteproached for having intoxicated themfelves with
the poifoned cup of Gallic fraternity, under the lofty
but delufive hope of feting the days of ancient Rcme
revived. If they have become the victims of French
Cupidity and ambition, the difappointment of their
etpedations mull be afcribed to their own degeneracy
and want of patriotifm.
But, far different mdtives led to the fulwerlion of
the Helvetic confederacy. The people of Swifter-
land, whore unambitious independence, and fober
freedom, nulled in the bofom of a rugged foil, and
cultivated under the tufpices of piety and patriarchal
Virtue, fcarcely afforded a temptation to avarice or
ambition, were betrayed into that vortex of reaction,
1,/hOlit baleful effefts I base defcribed in my fecond
letter. It is Alonifhing what arts, what falfehoods,
what deep trained machinations were purfued to ac-
tomplifh the ruin of this innocent people. Not fads-
Bed with contaminating the wholefome blood of pub-
lic virtue, and unfettling their favourite national opi
*lions, the French perfuaded them that their faithful
magiarates were their betrayers, and the magiflrates
that their fellow-citizens were traitors. Thus, in the
lhidß of a general defpondency and want of coafi
dence, the anxieties, diffentions, and antipathies of
different parties, were made to bear upon each other
in such a manner, as to produce that degree of inert-
nefs and overweening fecurity in Come, and of ire&
(enable stealthy in other claffes of the community, by
which the approa ''es of the invader were concealed
from the whole, until he was in the actual poireiGon
of the country:
The fenfe of a common danger, and the afaults
of an enemy, have been frequently ofeful to Cations,
by uniting their members more firmly together, and
by preventing the feceffions and Ritual reparations in
which their civil difcord might otherwife have ter.
allotted. The gates of Janus were often opened to
remind the inhabitants of Rome of the duties they
owed to their Connery. But the primitive manners,
and uncorrupted fentiments of the Swift nation; had
rendered froth expedients unneceffary ; they were toe
innocent to require any incitements to patriotifm, but
not fufficiently (killed in Machiavelian fraud to be
fortified againft the arts of perfidy, and to forefee
the encroachments of foreign ambition. They relied
their fafety on the pleadings of reafon and of jultice,
at the tribunal of ambition and of force. In the ex-
tremity of their condition, the laws of nations were
tooted, and their finite was alfembled, in vain.
They who compofe a legiflature, may deliberate on
the males they receive from thecnmp or the court;
but if the bearer, like the centtstion who brought the
petition of 011avius to the Roman fenate, Phew
hilt of his (word, they find that petitions Are become
commands, and that they themfelves are become the
rails, not the Territories of Ltvervign power.
This was precifely the cafe of Swifferland. A
prey to the infidiotts manoeuvres of a Mammon, and
to the whining fycophancy of a Bayne, who, under
the garb of friend flip and Solicitation, prepared the
fuel of civil difcord throughout the Cantons:—this
once glorious Republic, the cradle of great Statef-
men and Generals—renowned for its wifdom, prof-
perms by the ma simsof iu policy,illuiltietus by hats-
lour, and in which the footfleps of no enemy had beech
trac:d for many age,, expired through its own divt-
fions. and bled beneath the unfparing (word of 'rut-
fians, reeking with the blood of conquered nations.
It is unneceffary to dilate any further upon this
fuhjed. In whatever direction we turn our eyes,
where the earth has been accurfed with the exter-
minating plague of French vifitants, we find the fame
dreadful accord of barbaric pride, and fubtle weer-
Lon of principles. Terror refutes in one place, cor-
ruption in another. While Come individuals of a
Rate, with felf-devoted apathy, have guarded with
partial care thcir own interefts and neglected the pub.
' lic weal; while others have proved cold and unmov-
ed I—the rabid abettors of tram, ths pupils of

chance, hare {hided the opiate infellgUi of indiffer-
ence into every patriot bream, and retiteled the pro-
grefs of civilization for centuries. Infitad of figur-
ing on the grand theatres of fortune and renown, in
dependent Communities have been fueeeflirely re•
duced to fervitude, until loft to liberty and virtue,
they have degenerated into the vile ftipcndiaries of a
tyrant, who, with treafon, rape, and mur&r at his
heels, and with deeds of black impiety in his front, has
provoked the long enduring patience of nations, and
defied the power of Heaver.
When I contra the fallen condition oCevery coun-
try of Europe, with the unalterable, nubborn, and
unyielding fpirit ache Brittlh Empire, I feel that I
am a Citizen of the only land which frensins with an
immortal bloom of freedom and glory. Here are
known neither the melancholy dreams of irrefolution,
the lethargic defpondency, nor the dinraelion which
harafs the European Continent. Security, repofe,
hope, are not relied on the jujlice of the Corfican, nor
on the faith of hit treaties. A nranger no former
lands upon our fhores, than a different moral atmof-
phere finds its influence around him. If he had but
jun returned from China, he would be lets furprifed
than in palling from Hamburgh to Yarmouth.
On the other fide of the water, a man fufpc/led of
data to the Government of the Corfican tyrant, or
perfecuted by his agents, is the objet of inquifitions
and of infults. Here, the Konen man finds an afylum,
and a country: here, is no neceflity for diffembling
his opinions; no embaraffments, vexations, or pale
terror among his auditors, if he fail in fentiments of
refpeet when the name of BONAPAILT/ is pronounced.
There is no need of any fludied difcretinn, or cir-
cumlocution to extra& fentiments, which freely iffue
from every heart. Here, leffons of energy, ph ilofophy,
and freedom are taught ; confpirators, and the gull.
ty alone are condemned to wear the mafk, which
every where elfe they pull off with the grin of info.
lence, and the applaufe of cowards.
How furprifing was it during the lan war, to the
foreigners who landed on our fhores, to contemplate
the molt terrible conflia in which an empire was ever
expofed, produce a thoufand times fewer tints, trou-
bles, forrnw, and dread, than the charms of peace
among thofe trembling competitors for Gallic con•
cord and indulgence!
The prefent and my fecond letter were written ex-
prefsly for that part of the people of Ireland. who,
unhappily forgetful of their interens and confedera-
tion, propofe partnerfhip with a bankrupt in honour
and fortune—with a country, which, notwithltand
ing its extent of coaft, can hardly fend out a (loop
that our eruizers do not feize. Into that people, ere
Rebellion has handled every trace of loyalty, duty,
and patriotifin, I would hind a few admonitory lef-
Cons of experience. I would convince them, by the
&tate:ample of betrayed nations, that they, beyond
all other men, are deeply concerned in the fafety of
Great Britain ; and that their wives, their offspring,
their religion, parents, country, and laws, demand
their (words—that they have to grapple with thofe
who know not freedom, and defpife its liberal cares;
a wretched crowd, forced from their homes ; a po-
pulace drunk with carnage, who, in peace are difarm-
ed by jealous tyranny, and in war, are the vidims of
their tytaht. I would prove to Ireland, that, in the
event of an unrefined invalion, her handcuffed Cons
would be drafted into the legions of a Corfican ad-
venturer, to fight the battles of his ambition in every
region of the world, and that the rewards of their co-
operation would be contumely, infult, and bondage.
To that portion, therefore, of the United Empire,
I (hall addrefs my next letter. 6111.0411C011.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DI
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A convoy is appointed to fail on the zoth of this
month, from the Nore to the Baltic.
A letter received in town yelterday from an Offi-
cer on board one of his Majefty's (hips lying off Ca-
diz, announces the capture of a very rich Spanitb
Weft Indianian, on her paffage from South Ame-
rica. Shc bad t i,OOO ounces of gold on board, and
was carried into Gibraltar. A French 74 which was
in company with the prise, narrowly efcaped.
Facuorrn, Ana. 4 —Sailed this day the PAIR.
MS APULIA packet, Stooges, with the mails of the
3d intl. for New York and }Wait. The pafengers
by her, are Major Tussicsa, Marrs. Jayne? and
Bursa.—Late laft night failed the Paws of
Waits packet, TODD, with the mails of the 9th loft.
I;siteni. The paffengers by her were Mr. AL.:.
AIWA Mafiosos, furgeoti Marrs. Non's?, Lou.
au, bliCaoLas, and Junto,. Alfo the LORD
CRAILIIII Srawcaa PaCkltj COATIDVIPOILTN, with the
mails of the 3d inn. for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and
Crooked !fiends. The pdkngers by her were Capt.'
Cnz, of the army, Meffrs. Watson, Flt•Z Al, WA.
teas, lastano, Staines, Jones, and Fisca.—Ar-
rived this day the jossrn cutter from Plymouth
with Dotes, &caw. his Majelly's brig Gana at, oft 8
guns, which failed a few days kite on a cruise. A
fleet of coafters under convoy of a !loop of war is now
pang this port for the weR ward. No packet hating
arrived fine my left, it is much to be feared that the
Kano Gamma packet has fallen into Ike banded dm
may.

PLTUOUTiI, AUGUST day the Vat. F-
-I:oavz, Captain T. B. MARTIN, failed for the fleet

IT Breit. Sailed on a cruise the SIRI us. of 36 guns,
Captain Paowst (he is vietualled f,r four months.
This forenoon o French prifours cre landed in Mill
Bay.

Three P. M.—There aie now nearly hull down. in
the offing feveral large (hips ; it is hoped they may be
part of the homeward bound Jamaica fleet, difperfed
in a gait of wind.—By the Vawtaast.e, of 7+ guns,
we learn, that the French fquadron in the Outer
Road are daily maneuvering both (hips and men in
handling and furling fails, exercifing great guns and
fmall arms, &c.
PORTSMOUTH, AIM 16.—Arrived the Amnia
frigate from a cruifc, and Perfeverance (cartel) from
France.

SHEERNESS, Auc. 6.—His Majefty's gun-brig,
ARCHER, under the command of that alive and me.
ritorious Officer, Capt. SHERRIFF, is now lying at the
Little Nore, waiting tide, to proceed to the Downs
with a draft of men for the fquadron there, and with
fome flat.bottomed boats to be ;eft with his Majefty's
Ship Tem., whichl is lying on a floating battery in
Margate Roads. The ARCHER was only docked on
Tuefday laft, and yet is now again in a Rate to face
the enemy, and give him a warm reception, Ihould
he dare to approach the coail.
LANCASTER, AUf.:IIST 13 Saturday laft, we
had the pleafure of feting the firft prize brought into
this port this war, viz. the coppered French thip
polacre l'Harmoinie, PETER PAUL BnNtFACR late
mailer, bindle!' 23q tons, laden with 307 bales of
COMM. 20 bundles of buffaine hides, 985 cwt. Cam
pe ,chy wood, bre. She failed from New Orleans for
Met. ft iiies, on the 14th of June, and was captured
no the 25rh J sly, in tat. 35. to. lorg. 23. 16 by the
P iiagon letter of marque, of this port, Captain
H RT. hehingirg to IVlelrrs. RiALt Y and Doocoa.—
bhe has vet, palfengers, four of whom arrived in her.
They had nor heard of the wat.—The Paragon, on
the 17th alt. in lat. 46. 82. long. :7. 30. fp Ike the
Margaret letter or marque, of Liverpool, boui d to
Africa, out 14 days, with a large French EaR India
(hip in company, %%hid) the had captured fix days
before, off Cape Finillei re. On the 23d, in lat. 28.
a 6. long. 22. 4. fpoke the brig Elife, of Bremen, lag
trim Cowes, out t t days, and bound to St. Thomas.
FRYER, prize-mallet of l'Harmninie, on the
2d inßant, in lat. 45. 38. long. 15. 15. fpoke his Ma-
jcflv's ft igate la LOIRE; out three weeks, and bad
taken nothing.

LIVERPOOL,AVGUST is.—The Watt,KILPATRtCL,
from Jamaica, is arrived at the Bt'nys : the Watt
left 39 fail in company of the Goliah after the gale ;
parted company in thick weather the fecond night
afterwards.—The Laurel privateer, OLDHAM, of this
port, is taken by la Didon frigate, and carried into
France.—On Wednefday arrived here the Kelton,
GLADSTONE, and Richard, PERRIN ; they failed with
the fleet from Jamaica, the 17th June, under convoy
of the GOLIAN, of 74 guns, and the Cacyrso (loop
of war ; parted with the fleet on the 29th July, in a
heavy gale, in long. 28. W. and lat. 41. 30. The
fleet confined of 59 merchantmen, 14 of which were
Or this port. Two days after parting company, Cap-
tain Petit* (poke the Ann, Captain Kutch of Lon-
don, difmalled, in tow of the Trelawney Planter, and
faw the morning after the gale, 14 or t 5 fail with
lots of malls, law the brig Jack Tar running before
the wind with all fail fplit in pieces.

FROM LLOYD's LIST.

DIAL, Avo. 16.—Sailed the Jaloufc (loop of war on a aidze.--
Wind N. E.

" OlAVaaarrb. Abe. t6—.42aired by the Dorothy, from
Hamburg!'; Twe Gcfnites, Martin, from Entbden;
Scotland, and Peace, Hare, from Oawpol ; getfq, Snowden,
from fbebee; Alfred, Bobtail, from Jamaica; George, Collins,
from Cadiz Limas, Woollen, and Two Good Brothers, Vther,
from Dantsie.

Altana, —At Cow% At Dbolt, 110lintle.ftent Philadelphia
At Mild, Trelawrri,.—.; Amon. —.; Jane, —; Hanover
Planter, Pritebart sod nub. Smith, frets illinaka• At Liver*
pool. Watt, KUpatrkk, from Jamaica; Maolay. Cale front New
Odom; Comet, from °corgi, ; and Akmoder, King,
from Virginia. At Clyde, Mary, Reid; Adm. ; sod lEkty,
Now from Jamoks. At Neweaftle, Medway, Parker. from
Virginia. At Dublin, Ranger. Barrows, from Virginia. At Kis-
fale, Ann. Stewart, from Newfoondhad. At Newry, Mary,
Ntopfon. from Nally. OP Corb, 'flak Lawrie. from Jamaica.
At Newfoundland, Merenry, Vakotine, frooLAYeast. At New
York, Gipfey, Wright. from Laudon; and Fedor, Caldwell, Min
1 Clyde. At Amigos, Admiral Pakegkam,—.--, from Cork.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
WILLIAM ELLIITSOII, Efq. is appointed to the
rank of Commander, by au Order in Council.

Llestemasts..Sttaatoa es, red to the MeO
iti n; J. Da-
mirme, se the Pluto; sod .E. !slum, to the None&

Mr. 1•111/11 GAB is suds Lieutenant, and appointed to
the Kent.

Lest. JOIN WOOD is Si=deti to the tepidity Service at
men the Tower, in the of mat Toone.
Captain Ms it ypoioad to tie command of the Sea
Pencintes, from the Feria. to &R ink ; end Lkat. Mims*.
and Lieut. Hods ti mid. anointed to the, tante Ratko.
Captain PIMID is applimod to the Set Fendbhs, trots the ROD
Ned is the badmen; Lida Fowls, to the Gude Auk .

The Minerva, Dacorra, is arrived off Weymouth,
from Oporto, bound to Peterlburgh ; the Captain
reports, he had been boarded by eight different French
privateers, one of whom plundered him of force wine
and cordage.
The Nonpareil privateer, of Loudon, fell in with
la Blonde French privateer, in company with two
large thips, on the sitth of July, in lat. 45.30. long.
14. 30. but having heard that the carried 31 nine-
pounders and 300 men, did not attack her.
The Hollandia (Dutch Greadandrnan ), is taken
by the Mary privateer, of Hafting:, and arrived at
Shields.

A vete! from Havannah is detained by the Thomas
letter of marque, of Lancaficr, and arrived at Beer.
haven.

A letter from on board the Sams, of 74 guns,
dated off Toulon, July 4, mentions that the blockade
of that port is very aria, and that the enemy's fleet
comas of test fail of the line, and tlvee larg frigates,
all ready for fee. Lord Nassom's force blockading
that port is nine fail of the line, including the Vic-
TORY of I to guns, and three frigates.
The crews of the Pittman end Sea/sown have
bee paid two swaths wages la advance, at Plfatoodt.