Star.
London, England, 1803-10-13 00:00:00

IiMACATff. OCT. U.

A Prnffian 'del, the Frederick William, bound
from Rotterdam to Gravelend, came into the pier
laft night, in confequence of the Itrefs of weather.—
She is one of thole veffels which ..sere employed to
convey the Aliens from Gravel:ad :the has now got
eleven palrengers on board, and the Captain is bound
under a certain penalty, that any palfengers he may
bring from the enemy's ports than be landed at
Gravefend, there to be examined. They have, there-
fore, undergone no enquiry here (tom the Cullom-
Houle Officers. They are now at Mitchencr's. I
have teen the Captain, and it teemed impollible to
extort any information from him refpeding the
Rate of the enemy's preparations for it vafion ; bet
one of the paffingers who happens to belong to a
nation not very remarkable for taciturnity (he is an
Hibernian) defcribed their preparations at in a malt
forward Rate, and that the foldiery teemed ardent
for the attack.

The officers of the fhips Rationed off here com-
plain that little lets than half the complement of their
Ihip's crew confill of Greenwich penlioners. old and
unfit for effeftive fervice. many with wooden legs,
and only one eye. I have teen fome fuch. Thole
men might anfwer very well for guarcifhips in ordi•
nary times. but at fuch a crifis as the prefent. to leave
our coati to be defended by fuch perfons betrays a
moR criminal negleet fomewhere. It ought to be
otherwifc arranged.

The extenfive ereitions, on the new road, near
Newcaftle, called Egypt, lately employed as recepta-
cles for grain, are converting into barracks lira part
of the numerous forces intended by Government to
be kept in that neighbourhood.
A great number of pikes are now manufalturing
by order of Government, and it is Paid that they
are to be gived to fuch as do not underhand the ufe of
the mufket, in cafe of an aetual invalion taking place.
In the prefent moment, it cannot be wholly unin-
terefting to our Readers to lay before them a calcula-
tion of the diftances between the points of aftailment
from the enemy's coati, and the principal ports in
our own, which have been menaced with a defeent in
former wars .—Diflance from Breft to Galway 180
leagues—to the Shannon • 5o—to Bantry Bay 115—
to Cork and Kinfale too—to Plymouth Go—to Tor-
bay 70—Cherbourg to Portfmorirh 26—Havre to
Newhaven 29—Abbeville to Pevenfey 27—Boulogne
to Rye 14—Calais to Dover 7—Dunkirk to Deal and
Margate ;4—Fluffing to the Note 35—Hclvoetfluys
to Harwich 3o—Texel to Yarmouth 46.

Triefday fe'nhight 250 French prifoners, cfcnrted by
a divifion of the Herefordfhire, Glamorganfhire, Mon-
mouth, and Brecknock regiments of militia came into
Reading, and next morning parfued their route for
Norman Crofs.—On Saturday 250 more arrived ,and
purfucd the fame route on Monday morning.
The owners of a Dover privateer have had scool.
damages awarded againa them, in confequence of
the detention of a Spann veffel of great value.
Yeflerday a Court of DireEtors of the EaR India
Company was held at the India Houfe, which ad-
journed till to-morrow.
A number of veffels for the Southern Whale fifhery,
to proceed to the eallward of the Cape of Good Hope,
will (portly be licenfed.

Wedge day te'nnight, as the Nita cutter was fettl-
ing her guns, off the mouth of Portfmouth harbour,
a double headed (hot from one of them, which had
remained fince her lit crii;ze, entered a honk in
Bath fquare, and damaged the premiCes, but fortu.
nately did no other injury.
On Monday a Court Martial, compofed of the fol-
lowing Members, was holden on board the GLADIA.
TOR, in Portfmouth harbour, viz.

Prefident, Rau,Adialrall HOLLOWAY.
Capt. Yoat a, Capt. WAINVIIIIOBT,
BRISSAINt, FLAYING,
▪ Sou mutt!,
▪ NICHOLAS,
To try Lieutenant J. oxtail tau x, Piet of the
Coo Rao, n x, on feveral charges exhibited againit him
by his Captain (Hmtor) for difobedience of orders,
contempt, and neglect of duty.
The profecution was conducted by Captain J. 0.
HARDY, but did not occupy more than three hours
attention of the Court, who, after hearing the evi-
dence adduced to fupport the charges fet forth, and
paying the molt impartial attention to the evidence
for Mi.. MoxLia 'Aux, were of opinion, that not one
of the charges bad been proved, and that Mr. Mot-
xi nous was entitled to a moil honourable actpittal.
By a cutter lately arrived from off Breit, we learn,
that on taking a peep into that harbour, feveral men
of war pennants were teen flying at the main top-malt
heads ; and the mails of a confiderable number of
(kipping, fuppofed to be tranfport veffels, were dd.
daily obferved. It is &enerally imagined the whole
of this armament it deflated for Ireland. The coati
from Cape Guienea to Boulogne is to completely
fornifhed with cannon, that it Appears as one raft
battery. Some firing was beard on Sanhay morning
to the Eaftward.

The following is an estrad of a letter from Capt.
Haar, of the Paragon, to his owners in Lancatier,
dated Barbadoes, Augnft 16, t8o3:-1, Yefterday
morning, tft leagues to the windward of this jfland,
I fell in with a French fehooner privateer, of t a guns,
and about too men, who lay the Paragon on board
o• the (larboard quarter ; and after • defperate ac-
tion of near an hour, he got difentangled and mad
off quite a wreck. During the engagement he made
fevers' attempts to throw his men on board the Pa-
ragon, but was refulutely reptllfed by our (mall crew.
Our heavy guns on the quarter-deck, with grape (hot,
made dreadful carnage among the crew of the priva-
teer; her decks were aimed covered with dead be-
dies before (be got from along tide, and her feoppers
run with blood. lam lorry to add, that out of our
anall but brave crew, two were killed and (even
wounded."

A letter from Cherieflown, dated the at ft of An-
glin. mentions. that a French frigate of 44 guns had
arrived there from &. Domingo, which had &Wised
the Cotton Planter. belonging to that port for feveral
days, but had releafed her. and the was eapefied to
fail the neat day. The French frigate had captured
the Juno, Arrt.sce, of Liverpool, bound from Li-
verpool for Madeira and the Weil Indies, atter an
aboe of two boors. The frigate was to fail from
Charlatan. is the coeds of two days, for France.