Star.
London, England, 1811-06-15 00:00:00

The Ist 'battalion, ¢Oth regiment, 1150 strong, 'still
'continues embarl.W At Portsmouth.
Captain Mac :m'aid's troop of Horse Artillery,
which marched iron: Canterbury to be present at the
;late review, are ordered to remain hi the home dis-
trio, in order to be ia readiness, it is conjectured, to
embark for Portugal.
lAmory, those our galMnt countrymen who so
;greatly distinguished themselves at 'late in Spain and
Por; rigid, it is not a little remarkable how many are
Irishmen : Lord WIiLLINGTON, Marshal BERESFORD,
Sir BnENT SPENCER (second in command under Lord
'WELLINGTON), General HAMILTON (s.cond in corn-
'
:mind under Mardi. Bermsrono), the Hon. General
the Hon. General SVEWAHT (Adjutant-Gene-
ral ). General KENIUS. General BUrtNE, Colonel BLAKE-
NICV, and last, though not least, the noble heroes En-
signs and THOMAS, whose names will be
!handed down to the latest posterity.

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tAtr arrei,LlCEArct. - ..
the St tte iseifelthhet bathe. lben tet t fit tri ace up tnehe
• extrernitn Meet eights teh ((iii eilreteer3i7iiiine7"eir ritiirei. : •
niaMlitAl.ll Cotner, Meat so. It might, intim metiers if f whew mete or even to pet
JOlK;N:bcit MI Tilt SHIP Ye; AND ()THEMA. licy unmixed with Any iejestice .te teher Stare 4, to.AVIS
Sir Melees, Seiher—Thit was the use ot an Atter adopted a m -re indulgent rule thah 'tee law 'of
hicen vessel which was taken on the 15th November, nautilus would authorize, though it is
,hot at lifter),
IRIO, on a voyage from Boston to Cherbourg. It is I ever to apply a lierelter rule then that 'hoe Weriente.
contended, on the part ot the captors, that, under the I In the case of the SetediOi convoy, 'which has been
Order in Ciuncil of 26th April, 1809, this ship ane ; enacted lin, no order or instructien Whateeer was is-
cat go, being destined to a port of France, are liable I sued, and ..14 Court therefore was left to find hi wet
to confiscation. On the part ef the claimants it has Ito that legal conclutton which its judgment of the
been replieil. that the ship and cergo are not confisca- ' principles of the 1:r• led it to Actin. But certainly
hie under the Orders in Council, first, became these if the State had iesmie en order flea A 'rule of loss ee-
°Mei s have in fact become extinct, behte professedly vet ity should be :Tidied. this Comfit would not have
founded uponmeasutee which the enemy had retrected; ; considered it as any dell:vow,. front hs duty to act
and secondly. that if the Orders'in Council are to be I upon, the milder rule t.iii, h the prudence of the State 4')
considered as existing;, there "are circumstances of I was content to stibete me in support of its own tights.
equity in the present case, and lit the others that fol- I In the present dice it waited for the cenenunicetion
low, which ought to induce the Court to hold them lof the tact sad the promulg aim) of the rule. It is ,
exonerated from the penal effhet of these orders, its duty in like mature to wait for the teititication of
In the course of the discussion a questien has been . the fact that these netters are revoked in consequence
started, ‘Vhat would be the duty of the Court under of a change in the conduct of the enemy.
Orders in Council that were repugnant to the law et Tee edicts of the enemy themselves, obscure and
nanons ? It has been contended or c.-.e side, that the Ambiguous its their tisu.d langu ige, and most noto-
Court would at all events be beund to enforce the rionely and ficetieutly contradicted by his practice.
Orders in Council ; on the other, that the Court would listtfly efthrd it insetisfectory evielnice of ;toy
would be bound to apply the rule of the Law of Ni.• such 'change having actually and sincerely t taken
tions applying to the particular case, ie disregard of el ice. This State has.pledged itself CO make such a .
the Orders in Council. 1 have not observed, how- nottficetion when the tect haPpent: It is pledged so IV
ever, that these Orders in enure:thin their retaliatory to do by its public declerations—brits acknowledged
character, have been described in the argument as at hue' pteetatiensoftlielewolaations.--byevery aq which
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all repugnant to the Law of Nations, however liable can excite an (injected expectation amid:wand, that
to be so described if merely original end abstract .and li it shall redeem such a pledge. Is sucb an expecte-
thei efore it is rather to coned possible miseppi elien-; lion pi:either to this Court?. most unquestionably' not.
shin on the subject than horn the sense of any oblige- ilt is univers illy felt and uaiversally esntessed.—.
tion which the present discussion imposes upon me : What ate the expectations signified by the American
that I observe that this Court is bound to administer Government in the public correspondence referred to?
the Law of Nations to the subjects of other countries not that ehese, Orders would hecome silently extinct
in the diffeetnt relations in whieh they mat- be placed under the ireerpeetetions of this Court, hitt that the
towards this country and its governmene Tith, what' State %% mild rescind and rev eke them. What is the - e
other countries have a right to demand for their sub- terpectatem expressed in the numerous private letter*" I".*
jests, and to complain if they receive it not. This is ' exhibited to the Court Amongst the papers found on .
its unwritten law evidenced in the course of its deci- board this class of vessel) ? not that the British ttle-
sions, and collected from the common usage of ciei- den had expired of themselves, but that they would
listed states. At the same time it is strictly true, that lbe removed and repealed by public authority.. If I
by the constitution of this country, the King in Coml. ; took upon myself to annihilate themhy inteepfetetione
cil pessesseslegislittive rights ov .r this Court, and lies i I should act in opposition to the apprehension and
power to issue orders and-instructions which itisbound ' judgment of ell parties conceine.l-1•11 the individuals ,
to obey and enforce ; and these constitute the written! whose property is it: question, and of the American
law of !this Court. These two prepositinns, that the ' Government itself, which is bound to protect them.
Court is bound to administer the Law of Nations, and Allusion his been made to two or three cases, in
that it is bound to enforce the King's Orders in Conn- which this Court is said to have exercised a pawl of
cil, are not at all inconsistent with eech other ; —be- quelifying and moderating the general terms of an
cause these orders end instructions are presumed to itheler in Council, as in the case of the Levey, Taylor, •
conform themselves, under thegiven circtinastencet, to !in which the general terms of the order, sithjected to
the principles ef its unwritten l.tw. They are either di-' cotaiscation ALL ships transferred by the ere' te to
newly applicetions of those Principles to the cases in. I neutrals dining the war, and yet this Cotes held that
cheated iii thein—CASCS which, with all the facts and , these general terms did not extend to prile sot, s to
circumstances belonging to them, and which ennsti-itransferred by the enemy. Bur what was the gr ,und
nee their legal character, could be but imperfectly lof that interpretation ? It was this—Tne ruse itself
knewn to the Coto t its-if ;or they are positive rept- •was adopted•from the rule of the enemy, and upon a, .
lotions, consistent with those priticiples, applying to principle of exact retaliation; for it was Jecl (tied, in ,
natters which reqeire more exact and detiaite rules the express terms of the preambie or the Order, that it, •
tns'i these genteel teincipies are Capable till urnishing. I WAS " just to apply the same rule to the enemy which
The constitutien of chi., ("nun. head sely to the le- Ibe was in the habit of applying to this countri ".e-
-eislative poser of the. Kee in Cemicel, is analegousi And when the Court found upon ettiseactory evi-
to that Of the Cele-re of Conti:eel I.lw relatively to l deuce that the enemy did not apply any such lute to
that of the Parleinient of this kingctem. Those Courts! prize ships, but specially exempted them, it would .
have their unwritten law, the approved principles en have pronounced, in direct cotentdiction to the,
n &nal reeten and je trice —thee have likewise the 1 avowed principle of the order .itself, if it had not fol.
wiitten or statute law in Acts of Parliament, which i lowed The enemy in this. acknowlede,ted distinction.
are directory applications of the same principles to It has likewise been urged that cases may be found in
p trticeler subjects, or positive reguiationt consistent which the Court has pi esurned a revocation, though
with them, upon matters which would remain too no such revocation has been promulged. And it is
much sit large if they were left to the imperfect in. :de linty true that where an essential change in the
I eimation which the Coerts could extract trom mere .I circurn .: !rites that eccationhi the order has, in effect,
general speculations. What would' be the doer ot ; extinguished its tebject matne, and that change of
the individual.. who preside in those Coact' :' ::Apiired i circnnstance-sfies been publicly declared by the State,
tit enherce an Act nt P uliament when contradicted I the Court has net thought it necessary to wait for a
tiiiise principles, is a question eietch I presume they i foinial revocation itself. In the case of the Baltic Or-
would Rat entertein a priori, becatise they will not en. I den by which, in compliance with the wishes of its
tertain a t riori the stn position thin env such will allies in the eat, the Government of this country
arise. In Eke manor:. this Court will not let itself granted an immunity from the molestation of capture
loose into speculations as to what would be its duty in that sea; the Court held that order to be revoc,:d
under such an emergency, because it cannot, without when the,State had (teetered that most of those St Fes
extreme indecency, presume that any such emergency to whose applications; as allies, that indulgence had
will happen ; and it is the less disposed to entertain Levi greeted, had changed the character or etlits for
them, Lecau et its own observation and experience at- that et enemies. It was quite unnecessary to wait for
test the general conformity of such nedars andinstruc- such sped 1 revocation when by the general declare-
tinns to its principles of unwritten law. In the pert'. tion of war all lentilities has. been autlioriz-d against
cidir case of the orders andin;ttuctiims which give I them, A-I:nittiug, liewever, that there may he c isits
I rise to the present question the Court has not heard it iof presurnen revocation, does it follow t it t is is,
PLYMOU 111, JUNE 19. I ;It all maintained in argument, that as retaliatory or. with any propriety, to be considercci as oet et those
Arrived the SPARTAN frigate, from the Rochefort : ders they are not conformable to such principles --for, casts ? TOe novelty of these Orders in Ciiiiicii-the
*lotion ; and BLoomint:No gun-brig, wi•4 a small i. retaliatory ceders they arc. They are so declared in i m :finitude —the complexity—the extraordinary na.
convoy from the Downs.—Sailed the Peu.ritioue: ' their own language, and in the uniform language of ' tune of .tht teeth to which they owe their origin—the
sloop of war, which left Portsmouth on Friday last, ; the Government which has established them. I have attention which they called for and excited both at
with dispatches, and a number of Officers to join 1 tin hesiiation in saying, that they would cease to be home and abroad—the pledetts given by this State
the British Army in Portugal ; the VENERABLE. 74, I just it they ceased to be retaliatory ; and they would and accepted by other States, ;ill disqualify this Court
and Acesee Crenate, to cruize ()If Brest ; and the cease to be retaliatory, from the moment the enemy from taking upon itself to apply a presumed, revoca-
ftleeteav, ne. with a large draft of seamen for the 1 retracts in a sincere manner those measures of his (ion in any such case.
Downs. The Dewy frigate sailed yesterday for ! which they were intended to retaliate. The first ques- Supposing, however, that the Court felt itself at
l'intsimeith.—Wind W. S. W. fait still for arrivals ' tion is, what is the proper evidence for this C. to liberty to accept as .setistactory other evidence of a
from the Peniesula. receive, tinder all the circumstances that belting to the sincere retraction of the, French Decrees, what is the-
PORTMOUTH, JI:NE a case, iii proof of the fact that he due muds a bona file u amount of the evidence offered tealthi edict—no public
Arrived he htekety's ship Cwtoctiz, with a convoy froM the 1 retractation of those meant: es. Upon that point it aie: decleration of repeel—no reterences to cases in which
nee nee...halted tus Mafraty's ships CAII.IIDONIA, altira)1011) pears to me that the proper evidence for the Court in l the courts of that ceuatry beet ewe' upon any such
FILMS, at .d DIANA, for the Mcditerrintean.—Wind S.
; eceive, is the declaration of the State itself, which revocation. The only case men:eines] was that of the,
DEAL, JUNE 14. i '
Arrived bit Majesty'sship NTADEN) with about 20 sail or the : issued One retaliatory orders, that it revokes them New Orleans Packet, and• it was brought forwere in
West India set:, who have bailed for the River, among them are in consequence of such a chanee havieg taken place ii. such a way, so void of all authenticity, anti of all nett-
the Granada, Ann, Rio Nova, freedom, Lady Hoed, and the in the conduct of the enure. y. When the skate, in con- Irate detail if particulars, as to make it hardly possible
Debtor& hailed the FURIOUS gun-brig, with the whole of the
outwarcheesee, for Portsmouth '
sequence of gross outrages • upon the Law of Nations !for me to allude to it with any propriety, and much
•
Of war, kolll of Flushing.— Wind S. E.—Arrived the ASOUIDI man I committed by its adversary, was compelled by a tie, i less with any legal Keen Witat the circtimstences of
' YARMOUTH, JUNE 14.
Yesterday, P. M. parsed through these teals, cessity which it laments, to resort to measures which it that case were, in what term, and tinder what autho-
tee tee palm. ' Otherwiserondemns, it pledged itself to the revocation !rity, and.on what account released, did not at all ap.
with a fleet of transports, :'a• Royalist sloop of war.—Sailed the ' of those measures as SOOII as the necessity ceases.— ipear—Wheiher at all epplicable to the present gum
Chanticleer gun-hiig on a crib ac.—This morning arrived from
And till the State revokes them, this Court is bound ! tion, whether a mere irregularity, or what was its real
the Note, with convoy for the Baltic, the Phantom stoop of vrar, i to
presume that the neceseity continues to exist ;—it characters the Court could nut learn. . This however
and will sail this atterneon.—Wind S.W. fresh breeze.
The George and Mat y, —, from the West Indies, was taken '
cannot' wiihout extreme indecency, suppose that they is matter of notoriety, that these Decrees are pro-
by the Adol; he French privateer, 'a retaken by theTanuant, and would et:1161111e a moment `longer than the necessity notinced fundamental laws of the Fiench Empire—
is arrived at elymouth. , which produced them, or thatehe notificetioo that that they are dectered so in their original formetitin—ii
The Frilnciattip, sitaw, (rem Sunderland, Is on shore on South- i such measures were revoked, would be less public and ; and that they !lave been since s : declared repeatedly
wood, and bilge.,. 1 formal than their first eiteblishment. Their establish-land recently—long since the date of the present tren't-
A Norwegian vessel, hound to Cork, was lost on the 4th inst. . .
The Master and lola of the crew drowned. i merit was doubtless a great and signal depert tire from !actions. The declaration of Ole lei son soiling himself
. imports
The Arthur OweovTaite, from the Clyde to Newfoundland, the ordinary administration of • • inetye . a r
le Justice in the .rd • Doke dC. Jo eno revocation ; for that de-
ws. lost to the ice, on the Coast of Newfourdiand, in Apni lag. ; state i•f the exercite of public hostility, but was testi- claretion imports only A conditional retractetii a, and
'she Hannah, Durltan, of this port, sailed trout Lisbon fur fed by that extraordinary deviation from ihe coot this upon conditions known to be impossible to be
NewtoundLtad, 25th ult. ' mon exercise of hostility in the conduct of the enemy. complied .tits. It has been urged that the American
Extract of a letter from an Officer on board one of : It would not have been within the competency of the "Government has consideredtt otherwise, and has err
our cruizers off Boulogne, dated June 11 : - 'Court itself to have applied originally such rules, be- *clued it for the regulation of fl.e conduct of the
~ Egtneeu ot the flotilla have made their appraranee in the
I ' . •
I cause it was hardly
possible for this Court to possess" beople of that country If such is the fact, it is not
outer roads, tut the wind blowing hard from the N.N.W. ea.
reedy on laud, they were obliged to retire within the harbuur.— that distinct and certain information of the tactstte for me to lose sit ht of thet respect which is due to
On Sunday night Boulogne was beautifully Illuminare(l Ibe i' Which alone such extraordinary rules were just, y ap.itheacts of .a frreign Government sre t.! es to gins-
flotilla CASSIA Out in the -otorolog and hued alya dejoid. 0.4 return- I plicable. It waited therefor* for the communication tints, the propriety of any interprenteiort which they
edits the moll* The.* esiseollE• see lesPreecti le 'he """. of the facts: It waited Mica/lie for the prennulgation mar bare. given) (11 sneh 110 it-kraut:neon But we, n
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MIA of oho &Ongoing of iseAtesLof etertse;! • -- "- 'of the- rhiortbet were to bi practically applied.- Foe the Lint of such en h'istrumapt ie...Li/era 'epos' to* •

THE ARM,.

On Thursday, Earl PERCY reviewed the Royal
Horse Guards (Blues) Winkfield Plain ;
wards dined with the Officers at the barracks, &c.—
where an elegant dinner was provided for his recep-
tion. Yesterday'he inspected the stables and barracks,
and breakfasted with the Officers.

Rvvie.w.—Yesterday 30t)0 cavalry were reviewed
on Wimbledon Comm- in by the-Parma REGENT and .
three Royal Dukes. The troops, consisting +•f four
regiments, viz. the- Life Guards, Dragoon Guards,
,Queen's Bays, and the Flying Artillery, with six
pieces of cannon, appeared on the Common soon after
'nine in the mew-Mag. His Royal Highness the PRINCE
REGENT arrived between eleven and twelve o'clock, '
with the Duke of YORK, Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Duke
of Custeent,m4n, the Staff Officers, and a strong '
escort. The Life Guards, and the Grenadiers of -
dle Foot Guards, formed the Staff, and the ground
Was kept by a party of the Drngoon Guards dis-
mounted. His Royal Highness wore the dress in
which he appeared at the late grand Review, except
the cordon blue, and rode his beautiful grey horse,
with rich gold ornaments nn the bridle and housing. t
His retinue made a most magnificent appearance.
The movements of the cavalry excited admiration.
—The different squadrons displayed the most steady
discipline. The tour regiments charged in succession,
in a style that could mac be excelle 1; and after a va-
riety of mance :yri•s, principally under the direction
of his Royai'H.i:liness the Duke of V-tart, the w!.ole
made a gran' A discharge of artillery took
place at the same tie do tae rie;ut and left if the
line; and the Revie-: caled. The PRINC;.: and suite
then returned to The ground in to tit lit the
'troops was taken up by carrk;es and pedestriaos.
IWe save seldom seen a •1 i•re briWain assembiy
'fashicmables. The ladies ccere :attired in all the ele-
gant diversity of costume, and they certainly enjoyed,
on this occasion, the pleasure (it the scene without
the danger and diffLuity aeh ch attend.fd the Review
nn Monday. The Duchess of Yoa,K, Doke of I,eitUNs-
WICK, Duke of GLOI:CEATEIt, and a long list of dis.
tinguished hers •rs were present. Several c the men
fell during tie different charges, but none-received
any material injury.
Ordi.rs, of which the following is a copy, have been
sent to the C•im,ninding Officers of the Regiments,
which were reviewed by Ins Royal Highness the
PIDNCE REGENT on Monday : •

GENLRAI. ORDERS.
" Norse Guards, 1O:b June, 1811.

" The Commander in Chief has received his Royal Highness
the Prince R. r-nt's commands, to signify in the strongest terms,
hiis entire approbatioat of the general appearance of the troops
,which were this morning reviewed on Wimbledon Common ;
and in a most particular manner his Royal Hghness has been
pleaetd to ttpress the gratification lie derived from so numerous
and respectable an assemblage of the Volunteer Force of the
Metrppolis and its vicinity. The Prince Regent desires the
Commanding Ofliclrs of the several Corps of Yeomanry atid
Volunteers will receive his acknowledgments, and that they will
convey to their Officers aed Men h.. Royal Highness.% Thanks,
lot the zeal and perseverance with which they coetinue to de-
vote theasselves to those military pursuits, in which they first
aimed at a perioi of no cennuon emergency. wath a warmth
of personal affectitni to our Seeseregti,and of devotion to the true
Constitutional iiitereets of the country., which has baffled every
attempt to interrupt our iutrroal peace and pro.peritykwhilst,
under the blessing of ?Roes ',INCE, the extraordinary valour and
heroic services of hi. Majesty's Fleets and Armies, have en-liled
I us successfully to meet our Implacable enemy in every titian er of
the globe, art to rucue our Allies from bistyranny and opprr;:ion.
1 "Ly c•etimand of his Royal Highness the Comm:elder-in-dote
(biguatl) • "' HARRY CALVsaT, Adjutant-ClenetaL"