Star.
London, England, 1803-11-05 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

A CONVENTION BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY
AND THE KING OF !WIDEN; SIGNED ON THE 25TH
JULY, 1803.
His MAJKsry the King of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and his MAJESTY the
King of Sweden, being equally defirous of promoting I
the good underflanding which, happily fubfola be-
tween them, and of preventing the recurrence of
thofe differences which have heretofore arifen refpedl•
ing the eleventh article of the Treaty of Alliance,
concluded and figned at Whitehall, on the 2111 of
Oaober, 166 i, have named and authorifed for that
purpofe, viz. his Britannic Majelly, the Right Hon.
ROERRT BANKS Jana:Neon, Lord HAWKISBURY, one
of his Paid Majelly's moll honourable Privy Council,
and his principal Secretary of State for the Foreign
Department, and his Swedifb Majeay, UL-
DRIC, Baron de SitvtatijEtst, his Envoy Extraordi•
nary and Miniller Plenipotentiary to his Britannic
Majelly, and Cnight of the Order of the Polar Star,
who, after having duly communicated to each other
their refptElive Lull powers, have agreed upon the
following articles
In the event of one of the contrading parties being neu-
tral during a war in which the other contradling party may be
belligerent, the veffels of the neutral party Anil not carry to the
enemy two:mantes of the belligerent party, money, arms ear bombs
with their takes and other appurtenances, fire balls, gunpowder,
matches, cannon balls, (pears, lances, pikes, halberts, guns, mor-
tars. petards,grenadoes, mutt refts, bandoliers, faltpctre, mullets,,
naufleet bullets, helme!s. head pieces, br...aft plates, coats of mail,
commonly called entreaties, and the like kind of arms, or troops,
barks, or aiiy thing necellary for the equipment of cavalry, or pif-
tols, belts, or any other inftruments of war, or Mips of war, aid
geoid (hips, roe arty man laelmeeel articles iween 'ably farting fr the
efw?went frLr Awe, under the penalty. that if either of the cot,
trading parties (ball faze the fame, thefe articles Mall be liable to
eta ififcstion.
ART. 11. The cruisers of the belligerent power Cull esercife the
right of bring ng in the fhips of the neutral going to the ports of an
enemy, laden with carrot! ofpnevii;no,or with cargoes of firei,tar,
insep,and ',serail, at wwe.en.plirn foetid, wbateverjervinkfie
gripe. JS.lts 'fell bfiriptiars,•-d lartaile all aewnifitiarere send"
fireiag f r the egt.,,,wat f merchant e 1... (herrings, Iron In bars,
Reel, rule copper, brafs and beefs wire, deal, planks not being oak,
and fear', however, excepted). and if the cargoes fo ezported in
the bottoms of the neutral power, are the g-oduce of the rerr:tories
of the fold neutral power, and going on account of the futspds
thereof, tlic belligerent power &all, io that cafe, extras the right
of purchafing them, uptin condition of paying • profit of ten per
centum upon a fair invoice pri.e, or the fair market price in Eng-
land or in Sweden refpedively, at the option of the owner, with an
Indemnilication for detention and neceffary tiptoe( s.
Arr. 111. If the cargoes fpeelibul in the precedgig article (not
- being tweemy's property) are proceeding w.::1 a profeff.ti deflina-
Hon to the ports of a neutral country, and are broupht in under
tafpielen, that their true dettinatiou is to the porta of the enemy,
and it fisall turn out upon due enquiry, that they wee really hound
to neutral poets, they than be at liberty to goriest: their voyages,
after being indemnified for their detention said ticzeffary expellees;
ankh the Government of the belligerent country, from a re Ikea-
ble appletiC9Goo of their falling into the !Janis of the eneniy,thould
defies' to poreha!, them, in which cafe the full price Mail be paid,
which they would haw obtained In the ports of the neutral country
to which they well going, with an indenusification for detention
and neeeffary ripeness.
ART. IV. Herrings, iron in bars, Reel, role copper, bears and
brat, wire, deal, planks not being of oak, and fpars, fhall not be
liable to confifeation or pre-earption on the part of the lo:ligerent
power, but than be permitted to pat. free in the Ships of the neutral
country. provided that they are not enemy's property.
ART. V. The ',relent Coovendoo Man be rata. cd by his Bri-
tannic Malefic, and by his Swediai Welly, and the ratifications
eschanged at London, in the (pate of two months, or fooher, if it
can be done.
In witnefs wherecf, we, the underligned Plenipo.
tentiaries of his Britannic hfajefly„ and of his Swz-
difh Majelly, have Signed the prefent Convention,
and have caufed the feats of our arms to be affixed
thereto.
Done at London, the ssth day of July, :Bed.
(L. S.} it aWitiallaltY.
(L. S.) ;ORAN HLDRIC

LONDON.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER S.
CuN•Pownel PLo r.--Holiday at the Public Offices.

Private letters from Copenhagen Rate, that the
EMPEROR of ItussiA, having received fume difpatches,
addreffed to him perfunally, and from the hand of
B,NAPARTE, on the prefent Rate of Europe, had
canfed a general anfwer to be written by his Minifler
of Fut eign Affairs, fignifying that he could not hold
any correfpondence on public bufinefs, unlefs it were
conveyed through the regular and diplomatic chan-
nels. Tilde letters alto confirm the flatement that
Portugal is chiefly indebted for her prefent fafety to
the interference of Italia.

We have great fatisfaelion in communicating, in
our Paper of this day, the Convention which has
been concluded between this country and Sweden,
relpeCting what is to he confidered in future as contra-
band of war. It will be recolleCted that this was the
only point of difference which remained unadjufted
after the Treaty of St. Pcterfburgh, of ittot ; and
the fettlement of this queflion was the more impor-
tant, as the difcuflion refpeeting it contributed, more
than any other, to the two Aimed Neutralities; and
as, in the opinion of many able and refpeaable per-
lons, it was the only queflion conneeted with thy
Armed Neutrality, on which (confidering theterms of
the Treaty of 1661) any doubt could be railed of the
jullice of the pretenfions advanced by Great Britain.

By this Convention the Su ecliat Government dif-
tindly agrees, that all manufadured articles ferving
for the equipment of (hi; s of war, if &Rifled for the
ports of an enemy, are to be fubjed to confifcation ;
and all unmanufadured articles (crying for the equip-
ment of (hips of every defcription, and manufadured
articles (crying for the equipment of merchant (hips,
with certain exceptions, are to be fubjed to the right
of pre.emption. The right Of pre-emption is, indeed,
all that this country has claimed, in pratitice, with
refped to thefe articles. As they confti cute not only
the (topic, but almoft the Cole, articles of the produce
of Sweden, it appears equitable and kilt that, whila
Great Britain (tmid not be deprived of the advantage
of preventing naval Itores from being conveyed to
the ports of enemies, the Swedith Government
(hould not, on the other hand, find the principal, if
not the only branch of their commerce annihilated,in
confequence of the intervention cf a war top which
they ate not parties.
The articles exempted from the right of confi(ca.
lion or pre-emption, are fuel' as in their (late, as raw
materials, have nct been ufually coofidered as naval
ft ores.

Early this morning difpatches were received at
the Admiralty from Admiral Cotawaws. They
were landed at Penzance on Thurfday evening from
his Majefly's fhip lantvartoasts, Captain Moons,
which left our fleet off Brett all well on the preceding
day at three o'clock. The accounts brought by the
INDEFATIGABLE (late, that of late there has been
fuch an unufual buftle in the harbour of Brett, as to
induce a belief in our own fleet that they will Coon
venture out, in confequence of pofttive orders to that
effea, however reluaant the French crews may be,
and endeavour to make for the point to which they
Ire deftined, which there is no kind of doubt is Ire-
land.

When the.difpatches were tent cff, our brave tars
were in hourly expeeation of teeing the enemy put
to tea, and were all in high fpirits, wi(hing for no-
thing more earneftly, than that they might loon have
an opportunity of giving them a found drubbing.
There are a great number of tranfports at Brett,
and it is believed, they were taking troops on board
when rhefe &patches were fent away.
Some time ago, we informed our readers, that the
number of French (hips of the line in the outer road
at Breit was feven. On Thurfday an account reached
us from a most refpeflable quarter, which mentioned
on!) two. We have reafon to believe, however, that
there wa, fome miflake in the latter ftatement: if we
may credit the fubjoined letter from Brea, the word
twenty teems to have been omitted in the account of
Thurfday. That letter as well as thole which accom-
pany it, were brought by a Gentleman who came
from France in an open boat. It mentions one eir-
cumilance which partly ferves to explaiti the difagree-
ment in 'he accounts refpefting the enemy's force at
Breit. The (hips of the line are generally in the inner
harbour, and thenumber in the outer is oftenchanging.
All accounts, however, kern to agree that Breft is
the quartei whence we may expea the chief and firft
effort of the enemy, though it is certainly not impof-
fible that a feint may be made from fome of the
ports up the channel.

We may certainly boon look for Tome important
intelligence. Indeed we have heard from a refpee-
table quarter, that the FIRST CONSUL has fixed on
the loth of this month to try his fortune. One cir-
cumilance gives a kind of probability to this. It is
well known that the FIRST CONIVL is extremely fu-
perflitious in his devotions to the fickle goddefs,
and fond of particular days on which he has been
fortunate. It was on the loth of November that he
overturned the French Dire Cory and laid the foun
dation of his ufurped power.
BaxsT, OCT. 24.—There are encamped and in
cantonments within about the space of as miles of
this town r70,0c0. The principal talk among the

foldiers and officers is of Ireland. England is rarely
mentioned. You will be furprized, as I confers I
was when I firtt heard it, when I tell you there are
21 rail of the line and 5 frigates in this hat bon, —but
with my own eyes I counted them, and tranr
ports, flat-bottomed boats very rew, hut a number of
what are calledCatoncers, at kali 18. They are veffels
with oars, about 7o feet long, fchooner rigged, car-
rying a x 4 pounder in the bow and (tern, v.ith fwivels,
and about 8o artillerymen. BR Lux, nephew of him
blown up by NELSON, commands one detachment of
the troops, which are daily exercifing in embarking
and difembarking.—The line of battle (hips keep in
the inner harbour ; feidom more than fix or eight
are feen in the outer. They frequently change. We
are aftonifhed here at the forbearance of your. Go-
vernment with refpeet to Spain and Portugal. Bo-
NAPAILTE has not been here, nor do we exped him.
Depend upon it, our forces point towards Ireland.
Perhaps alfo the Weftern part of England. I fufpeet
AUGER/A.ll'S army has fome connection with the
plans here, but I am afraid to aflc queftions."
" ST. OMSR's,. OCT. 15.—We expesl the FIRST
Cousin. here to-morrow, to make his firft arran;e-
ment. Vawnerests, who denounced his uncle, and
alfo his benefaßor, who fent him to America, is to
have the command of the van, Boro the center, and
Awoaaossv of the rear. Petitions come daily to the
Confular ear, befeeching him not to rifle his facred
perfon. Six hundred flat-bottomed boats are now
ready, the men, so each, appointed and in training;
1400 more are in great forwardnefs, which will com-
plete the requifite number, 2000. We have about
us t 60,000 men. From Spain to the Baltic, 400,000
are to be allotted for the purpofe, of which 200,000
are eonfidered as facrificed ; but with the remainder
the deed is to be done. It is now underftood from
the higheß authority, that however confined in point
of time, there will be three diftind invafions of Eng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland. The Firft Conful is by
no means popular here. Jaffa and Rofetta are both
talked of, and poor KLEBIR often lamented. A
notion prevails here that the invafion will be attempt•
ed after fome ftrong eagerly wind flail have blown
off your (hips from our coati, where the wind has
generally been obferved to veer round towards the
fouth, as after awefterr. gale it does to the north. Our
boats are 25 feet lOng, and will carry so men, betide
the requifite failors; but the foldiers are to help to
row. Dockyard men arrive in great numbers from
Marfeilles and Toulon, and Come failors all° ; but
the latter are very fcarce. The Breft fleet is very
defedive in there, although othervtife more formi-
dable than you imagine. I raw yetterday 7o mortars
of a new conftruetion, by GUILDOT, fent away for
Boulogne and the Coaft. They are to carry farther
than the old one.. and with much furer effect."

" DUNKIRK, OCT. 16.—The day before yefterday
failed an American for Hiverfordwell ; and this day
an embargo was laid on all (hipping, neutral as well
as others. Their Tailors alfo are taken. Something
ferions is about to take place. By the latter end of
next month the attempt will certainly be made.—
From Amfterdam we hear, the Dutch have to fail of,
she line in the Texel, befides frigates, and nearly 400
merchantmen, befides a great .number of Ichnyts,
which are decked, and capable of (landing the Muth
Sea. The army in that country, Dutch and French,
amounts to go,ooo, and are certainly defined for
Scotland. Three of the floating batteries are com-
plete. Several more are building in our ports and
thofe of Holland. They are terrible veffels, and Paid
to be formed on the model of thofe the late King of
Swans* ufed with fuch effeft againft the Ruffians, by
the advice of Sir SIDNIT SMITH. This day Bona-
PAZTE arrived at St. Omer's. Our flat-bottomed
boats carry 18 pair of oars, with fwivels. The men
pradife going in and out of them frequently, jump-
ing in tl.t water up to the chin. A channel is cut near
Dnuay and Arras, by which timber is fent in great
quantities. We have only one 64 and one frigate
here."

" PAIIS, Ocr. 14.—A1l our underwriters are fail-
ing. There is no (landing the frequent captures
made by the Englifh. PIRRIGRAVX, and about half
a dozen others, are the only found ones. He has
36 clerks continually at work, and has handfomely
contributed to the relief of your countrymen at Fon-
tainbleau. Bo AAAAA r t's Garde de Corps confifts of
6,000 men, horfe and foot, a chofen band, not one
of them lefs than flu feet. They have 2s. a day ; for
this country, enormous pay. His condua to the
Englifh is generally difapproved. The foldiers of
the German and Egyptian army fpeak openly againft
him. Would you believe it, he goes to mars every
Sunday, and has ordered a chapel to be built at Mal-
maifon, left his piety Mould cool in his rufticated
retirements.

Is Within there few days, we have had all the old
Giver cried down—that is, filver with the impreffion
worn out. A new coinage of gold is alto iffued. The
principal of which is a 40 livre picce thus embla-
zoned. On one fide 40 livres in the centre, fur-
rounded with a wreath ; on the other, a good like.
nets of Bosarazrz, and round it " N. BoN•rairs,
Premier Conful de la Republique Francois." On
the edging, by way of milling, " Dieu protege la
France." All paper money has difappeared. To.
morrow or next day, BONAPAITI leaves us for St.
Omer's, the grand rendezvous for the Army fpeci6.
cally of England. Mown has certainly declined
the command."

THEdTRICAI.

JERSEY THEATRE.

The pi.T cf King
.7ohn, altered from SHAIMPFARE
by 1)r. VALe r, has been lately brought out at this
Rage. Mr. Poor, who lately appeared in Hamlet
at Drury Lane, prolonged his Day in the Hand to
take a part in it. Since its eilablilliment the houfe
was never fo full as on the prefent occafion. The
ae.tors and the audience feemed to vie with each other
in expreffing and in applauding the loyal fentiments,
which the Editor, our countryman, has put in the
mouth of the charaeiers. None but thofe, who know
the force of a combination of local attachment and
general patriotifm, can conceive the burns of ap-
plaure, with which the following lines were received:

" The foe advances J is invaded;
Bot J never will fubtnit to France !"

A Gentleman, who lately faw the fame play per-
formed at Weymouth, aliens, that in many parts it
was aeled hete in a fuperior manner.

This day, being the anniverfary of the Gun pow-
der Plot, was obferved as a holiday at all the Pub-
lic Offices. At one o'clock the Park and Tower
gulls were fired, and in various parts of the metro..
polis and environs were difplayed different grotefque
figures, defined to be made a facrifice to the Acmes
in the evening, according to ufual cuaom.
Her May esrv, and the PRINCZESFS, have been
feveral days bufily occupied in embroidering the co-
-1 )urs for the Pimlico, or Q2een's own Regiment,
which will be prefented to them by her Majssrr,
fome day next week.

The in, 3d, and 4th.--6th, 7th, and Bth regiments
of Loyal London Volunteers were yeßerday exercif-
e I together as one brigade before the Earl of HAIL..
ILINCTOST, in Hyde Park. They went thros.e their
oitferent evolutions with greater precifinn than could
reasonably be expeCted for fuch young Corps acting
together in fo large a body.
At the quarter feffions, held at Ayr, on Tnefday
fe'nnight, the Lord Lieutenant Rated, from the in-
formation he had received, that an invallon would
very likely foon be attempted ; on which a refolution
was paired, ordering that the farmers fhould be re-
quelled, by the different clergymen from the pulpit,
to thtefh out as much of their corn as poffi,ile con-
vert it into meal, and have it packed up in barrds, or
otherwife, that it might be ready to be carried A
were a necellity to occur for driving the country, fo
as to enfure a fupply of food.
Some Officers of Sheernefs dock-yard have arrived
at Scutt/tampion, and commenced fitting the fifhing
fmacks and other Tech, and boats, to receive a gun
each, and fome two The principle up)n which this
plan is executed, is, that in cafe of an alarm or actual
approach of an enemy, thefe velrels can be eqnipped,
and put in a Rate for action in lets than ten minutes,
and each gun capable of being pointed in any dis ex-
lion, either a-head, or a-ftern, or upon the bow, beam,
or quarter; and when not wanted for fervice, they
can be removed from the veffels in the fame fpaceof
time as before, and the people thereof proceed imme-
diately to follow their ufual occupation of fifbing,
Btc. Near three hundred vetlels of this defcription
have been already fo fitted, under the direftion of the
above Officers, at the different ports between South-
hampton and Margate, lince the latter end of Sep.
tember ha.

We are authorised to Rate, that Mr. BLAIIIN gra.
tuitnus Letture to the Volunteers. on the means of
flopping An effution of blood from a recent wound.
&c. will be immediately publifned, to prevent the
deception taking effelt of circulating imperfeß ez.
trans and letters on this fubjetl in the Author's name.
This little volume will be illtiftrated by eight engrav-
ings. and fold by Meffrs. Loso,mast and ftass, Pa-
ternotier•row, under the title of " The Scu.ntme
Fatsuo."

. A confiderable degree of concern eaifts in the pub.
lic mind no the efcape of the Duguai Trouin from
our &et in the Weft Indies. &fides the Es.srnawr
who engaged her, it is believed that two other Brat
Chips of war were in fight. This tingle (hip had like,
wile the good fortune to efcape from two of our Ibips
of the line on the coati of Spain. This circamfiance
it certainly lingular, and has feldom r.ct.tirred in our
naval hillorj. Yet we doubt not that very fatisfac.
tory reafons will be given for the efcape of this [hip.
It ii to be oblerved that the account of her arrival
in Spain is given. not by her own commander, but
by that of the truerriere frigate. Nor is the date
without fome fisfpicion. But the French Govern-
ment would (car cely publith Cu particular an account,
if it were not true.

At all events, etc are fore that the prefent
admi-
niftration will pot imitate the e.nclift of their pre-
deeeffors, who rewarded with the honours of is
Peerage a m.n who had Coffered a witoLa at.sar tq
efcape from him.

•
A letter from St Vincent's, dated Sept. 4, lays—
" The fleet from Britain arrived a few days ago at
Barbadoes, and the fleet from Cork arrived here on*
ad, under convoy of la Pulpy frigate. A few days
ago Come gentlemen of this ifland were captured by a
French privateer and fent to Guadaloupe; but were
retaken off that aukd by one nf our cruizers. • The
following are a few obfervations made by the Captain
of a Hag of truce, upon the prefent Rate of Martinique.
lately arrived from that Mend: On his arrival at Mar-
tinique, he was conduced to the Governor (V, u.a.
ear) to whom he delivered his ktters; by him he
wastreated kindly, and hadliberty to walk througb td;
town (under guard)) ; every face wore a gloomy .11"
et pe. From the Aril blockade of the ifland no veal
can get in or out ; the greaten fcarcity of prorifions
prevails ;—the once great Commercial Town a St.
Pierre now appears like a wildernefs, fcarce a foul to
be Peen walking the Brett', all brooding under the
prefent circumttances, and looking anxioufly for a
change of Government. Four weektago, there were
1200 regular troops in garrifnn, the remainder of
near as many thoufands ; lime then, the Hue has got
in amonpfl them, which is daily (weeping off there-
mains. The Commander of thefe troops is dcad
they fay he was a brave man. and on him they tour
cipally depended for any defence the Wand cold
make. Their Militia is encamped, expeding each
moment to be attacked. Guadaloupe is susdergoing
the fame (rift blockade. How galling mull it be to
the inhabitants of both Wands t, fee our criiizers
ly-
ing at anchor, out of gun-(hot, saki% every fail that
appears."

77.1 ANTI•COBSICAB; or, WAR of LIBERTY.

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED EMPIRE.

L7.TTER VII.
Is there not
A time, a righteous time, referv'd in fate,
When theft oppreffors of mankind ball feel
The miferies they give ; and blindly fight
For their own fetters too f

Odoba 29, 2/43.

The time which has elapfed fine I 'aft addreffed
you, has been fertile in great events. We have had
an opportunity of beholding the calm, undaunted
fpirit of a brave people, difplaylng itfelf in defence of
the molt (acted rights of human nature, and of con-
crafting it with the frantic and defperatt efforts of an
ambitious tyrant. While the eyes of Europe have
been turned towards our Mend with fearful appre.
henfions, calculating the probable event of a conflia
which mull decide the empire of the world, we have
prefented to our enemies an invulnerable and tremen-
dous front, impervious to the affaults of the collated
world in arms, and alike prepared to flrike, or to
avert a blow. All thefe operations of wifdom, pru-
dence, and courage, have been condufted without
noife or oftentation, by regular and legal nteafures,
sirs filence, and without confullon, amid the ordinary
and uninterrupted purfuits of agriculture and com-
merce. An abundant harveft has been gathered,
and the molt diftant portions of the habitable globe
have remitted their accuftomed tributes, with the
fame facility as if all mankind were repofing in the
lap of peace and fecnrity. Thefe aftonithing events
denote the matchlefs power of our country—they
are indubitable evidences of folid empire, and fun
forerunners of vietory.
On the other hand, behold the 'sparing defpot of
France Foaming with rage, giving vent to empty
curies, and infolent threats, and rendering himfelf
the laughing-Rock of Europe, which fees, that in
defpite of his violence, his injuftice, his forced exac-
tions, gigantic efforts, and five hundred thoufand
armed ruffians, he dares not fend a fquadron from
his blockaded ports, to difpute with the nation he
bates the fovercignty of the fen, nor an armed logger
to intercept a particle of that commerce which the
winds and waves have wafted fafe into our harbours.
With fuch a vifible conuaft, every difpallionate man
may calculate to which fide the genius of Viftory
wings its way ; whether towards the camp of the vain
blofterer, or to the cliffs of this [satin Ifte ; and
unlefs the Powers of Europe be irretrievably loft to
honour and common fenfe, they mull have difeover-
ed, ere now, that the inhabitants of this iffitnel are
indeed the genuine and formidable elekendants of the
heroes of Cray, Agincourt, and Poiitiers.
While thefe confiderations excite the Orange&
conviition of our fafety, wealth and refources, and
leave a molt confoling imprefOon on the mind of
every Briton, the impartial and awful difpenfation of
juftice which has marked the judicial proceedings of
our tribunals in Ireland, are no lefs worthy of atten-
tion. That volcanic eruption, which at firft fpread
confternation, and threatened to renew the miferies
that had fo finely of lifted our filter country, was
viewed by Government with that placid compofore,
which is the invariable charafterißic of honefty com-
bined with ftrength, and of firmnefs founded on the
bafis of public equity.
While the flagitious defpot of France exulted in
the profpea of an approaching defolation,and already
numbered Ireland in the regifter of his feudatories ;
while the Englilh univerfafty deplored, and the hearts
of all good Mamas bled for the Rain which might
fall upon their zealous loyalty ; while every bfave
and virtuous man in the United Kingdom flew to
arms, to avenge our inflated honour and conftitu.
tion, and the force of impetuous paffions might have
obftrufted the operations of even-handed juftice, the
doors of our tribunals were thrown open, humanity
kept pace with meafures of general farm, the need.-
fity of military jurifprudence was difpenfed with, the
reign of the I.aw *as proclaimed, and under the
Providence of Gon, the peace of Ireland has been
reftored.

The beauty and fublimityof this tranfaetion corref-
ponds with our moll exalted conceptions of the nature,
and efficacy of legitimate power. It may have oc-
curred in the hiftory of man, but it has never been
furpaffed ; it is an emblem of an higher order of
juilice than any which frail mortals have witnefred,
and it brings home to the bruit of every individual
i.f this empire, a vifible atteflation of the mighty in-
teitas involved in our country's eaufe ; intereas
which our forefathers undcrftood, and for which they
poured forth their life's blood ; intereas that we feel,
and for which we, their grateful pollerity, are now in
arms, and ready to follow their bright example.
Such a fyltem of diltributive juaice puts to the
bloat the boafted codes of antiquity, and challenges
the comparifon with modern times. In every other
age and country. rebellion has been fupprelfed by a
recurrence to evtraorisaary meafures—to lath as arr
&yowl die !amt the (word of angry power has bathed
itfelf without difcrimioation in the blood of &Nees.
If we turn our eyes over thole bloody fragments,
which contain the penal laws enaeled for La Vendee,
and too rigoroufly enforced throughout that devaaat-
ed province, and compare them with the equitable
arlminiaration clear laws. our fools mull glow with
pions gratitude towards that thou listmo, who,
amid* the darknefs of irreligion, and the trembling

abaremcr.t or nations, has refereed, Ind ecnifeentea
this ifland,—empire, as the fanftuary of juitice, the
loft refuge and hope of civilization, the oracle dz
ained to diffufe I;glit and encouragement to oppreiTed
communities.

When that odious ufurper, whore murderous am-
bition has fummoned us to arms and glory, iffutd
his orders for the fuppreflion of the Royalills of
France, " Go," faid he to General HSDOUYILLS,
" and let me hear in lefs than a fortnight, that they
had lived." Humanity &ciders at fuch a revolting
ediet of indifcriminate maffacre. But the cold blood
ed executioners of this tyrant's mandates fhould re-
member, that as mercy tempers jullice, fo ought juf
tice to direEt the (word, or in the anfwer made to the
foldier by the expiring Kig.WARDLN, who, though the
firft victim of this barbarous infurreaion, in his dying
moments gave an immortal teibmony of the fuperior
excellence of thofe laws, of which he had for many
years been the honoured difpenfer" LET NO MAN
BS PUT TO MATH, WITHOUT BEING BROUGHT TO •
PAIR TRIAL !"

Whether from having been long accuflomed to fee
the wide (imam ofju Rice flow in its limited channels,
or from having overlooked this event in the more
preffing calls of public danger, its full importance
has not been contemplated by the people, I know not,
but the tears of gratitude which bedew this paper
as I write, urge me to remark, that if ever an oc-
carton offered itfelf for every town and village of
the empire to addrefs our beloved Sovereign, in
the language of acknowledgment and congratula-
tion, for the wifdom, fortitude, and jullice of his
Government, this is the time. It is not enough that
we tender to the bet of Kings our lives and for-
tunes, we ought alfo to exprefs our fenfe of that pro-
teaive adminiftration, by which both have been pre-
fined by the affurance of Laws.
Now that the gloom which hovered over our coun-
try has been difpelled, if we turn our refleaions from
the idea of Office thus feated in the full refulgence
of glory, to another, unmixed with any forrowful
fenfations, and behold our Kira palling in review an
Attar or Clymer's, who have voluntarily marfltalied
themfelves around him, to grafp death or vidtory in
their country's caufe, what a well-founded profpea
of future triumphs opens to our view! When the
narrative of the (cents of the 26th and 28th of this
month (hall have reached the tyrant's ear, what tor-
ments will wring his troubled break what fears ap-
pal his guilty foul ? Unith a fuperintending Peon-
pence has, for wirer purpofes, blinded him to his
own dearuaion ; and for the puniflunent of the
wicked people be has collared ; he will at length per-
ceive the futility of his ambition, and the inevitable
ruin that awaits his projeaed adventure upon our
coats: To talk of giving law to inch a King and
fuels a People, living together in harmony, as a
father in the midß of his family, is to fuppoli,
in the moral government of the world, the afcendaney
of vice and flavery over virtue and freedom. Thirty
thoufand men in Reel attached to each other by all
the holy ties of kindred fympathy and focial affedtion,
collet around a beloved fovereign, and rend the
vault of heaven with their Ihouts of generous patrio-
tufa,. Angels of goodnefs mutt (mile upon the &enc.
Ah ! could thefe bold accents of defiance reach the
oppolire chores. could the infatuated crew, doomed
to an inglorious death, be allowed to paufe for onn
moment before they embark, in order to calculate
that there thirty thoufand men are only the flower of
a tingle city, and the fifteenth part of our embattled
population—could they be made fenfible of the fpirit
that animates our fouls, the indignation that lours on
our brows, the refolate ffecifaftnefs and calm confi-
dence with which at the firft fignal we are ready to
march to viaory or death—could there dread warn-
ings penetrate their minds, the fenfe of felf-preferva-
tion would arreft their Reps, and inftead of content-
jag to be oared up in hecatombs to the offended
majefty of Britain, they would fpurn under their
feet the afpiring villain, by whofa mad ambition they
will be facrificed.

It is ampoffible even for a Briton to Purvey onr
dreadful array of men and arms, without fentiments
of mingled admiration and awe. What then mutt
be the feelings of the foe ? I am aware that men dcf-
titute as they are of honour and principle, and bereft
of every hope which in this world incites generous
minds to the purfuit of virtue, are heedlefs of life
and its focial endearments ; but if any thing human
dwell within them, they matt occafionally think as
men. They muff yerceive in our martial bands, the
cords of brotherly love, by which we are held toge-
ther ; they mutt afcribe to Come other motive, than
to a luR of blood and rapine, the principle of our
affociation ; and if they hate, becauk they are too
wicked to enjoy, the liberty which we inherit from
our fathers, they mutt acknowledge its powerful in-
fluence and terrible dials when direifted againft our
public enemies. The tyrant too, while numbering
his hireling bolls; mutt be tortured with the corroding
reflation, that he has not ass volossieff in all his ar-
mies ; not one among them who would be a foldier
if he were not paid. nor fight for his ambition Wise
were not allowed to plunder the defencelefs inhabi-
tants. On our fide, the beacon of alarm null no
fowler have been fired, than an army of volunteers,
equal in number to his collated hordes, will line oar
soak, and after having ezecutcd upon him and hi.
followers the molt exemplary retributive jallice, will
Meath their fworth, and return h% into the Worn' of

their families, enjoy tl:ure bicifingt Which their ralout
and patriotilin !hall have merited. I repeat it—Bo-
NAPARTE cannot produce a battalion of vtluntecrs,
nor even a folitary individual armed in I.i. caure.
who is not his flipendialy. His invading army is
compofed of vagabonds like bimfelf; of villains wbo
have followed his fanguinary route in different parts
of the world, to rob in order to fquander, and to
murder in order to remove the witneffe, of their
crimes. The hellith tnonfter mull know this, and
knowing it, let him advance and tremble !

But the contraft does not end here. The cnthnfi-
aftic ardour of patriotifm in Britain explores every
crevice that remains unfilled, left any rude blaft
fhould obtrude itfelf within the hallowed Temple of
Public Safety. In the fhort (pace of a few weeks,
hundreds of thoufands of pounds have poured into
the patriotic fund, for the reward of our brave de-
fenders. Thefe were unfohcited, not extorted by
force, or mired by the fear of provoking the frowns
of fubordinate agents of Government, but free volun
tary gifts, from the hearts of Britons. In thefe lau-
dable contributions, there has appeared a rivalfhip
among all orders of men. What does France exhi-
bit ? Any preliminary fund for valour before it has
been tried, any provifion for the brave before they
are wounded ? No ! each wretched department, after
its pro-conful or prefed has galloped from village to
village, feraping up a few pence as for alms, fur-
nifhes a little cock boat, and the capital of the great
nation, debated by vice and infamy, launches a gun
vac!, in the prefence of the Tyrant's court, and
amidlt the fickly fhouts of famifbed thoufands. Not
a liard has been given for the brave and wounded—
they are left to provide for themfelves by rapine—
whatever is paid, is for the elance of Government,
wliofe eahaufted finances cannot otherwife accomplifb
the building of a few gun-boats. The largeß
dona-
tion which has yet been paid into the Tyrant's cha-
rity-box, was fent from the extremity of the Adria-
tic, by Gen. Sr. CYR, Commander in Chief of the
French army in Naples, and that amounts to fevers
potaadr, tertfriliew ad teileateflerfrag I Thus it ap-
pears, from their own accounts, that the fcanty pit-
tance which has been railed, has been prefented, not
to thofe who are defined to fight their battles, but to
the Government, as an eleernofynary pauper.
Such a difparity argues either the utmoß indiffe-
rence, if not difgua, of the French nation at this
war ; or it implies a fate of the molt wretched po-
verty, which renders doubly ridiculous the infolent
attempt of their tyrant, in difputing our fuperior
power.

There are the great events which have intervened
!ince my laa letter ; and while they fill every Briton
with fentiments of confcions pride, they are well
worthy the attention of thofe trembling States, who
are in the habit of probating thamfelves whenever
the name of BONAPAILTB and his five hundred thou•
fond cut-throats are mentioned.

As the period of the threatened invafion is faft ap•
proaching, I have again refume4 my pen to record
your own virtues, e►en for your own information ;
for in thefe days, pattiotifm and virtue perform fo
many glorious atchievements, that the agents are
often the loft to indulge in the refleition of the good
they do, from nature, habit, and inclination. Until
the trumpet mall have fummoned me into the field
of battle, I (hall not relax in my humble endeavours
to excite your ardour and refenunent againft our de-
tenable enemies : if the fate of war mould &etch
me lifeWs on the earth, they who (naive me, will
bear teflimony that I have written and lived in the
fame fpirit, with which I was ever prepared to die
for the honour dory king, and the liberties of my
country. CIALOACUS.

SHORN CLIFF CAMP, NOT. a.
The both Retreat, commanded by Colonel
Won v, fon to the late Lord Kt matins, has march-
ed from hence on their route to Portfrnouth, to be
embarked for the Welt Indies. Jamaica is fuppofed
to be the place of deflination.
The troops encamped here were ordered out
day at twelve o'clock, in review order, to be infpeit-
est by Lieutenant General the Earl of CHATIAII4.—.:
The line was formed in the rear of the camp about
half pa& twelve o'clock in the following order :
Fire, the 95th or Rifle Corps on the right ; next the
then
King's own, g.. .ord OUTMAN Regiment) ;
then the 524 and 59 with a party of artillery and
three field pieces. On the left of the regulars and in
the fame line were the EaR Middlefex, Berkfhire, and
WeR Kent Regiments of Militia, the whole extending
upwards of a mile. About oae o'clock his Lordffiip
arrived on the ground, accompanied by his Aides de
Camp, General CAILTWItIONT. and Staff, and Mr.
Parr in his Volunteer uniform as Colonels when
baying proceeded in front to the centre, Major Ge-
neral Moot a gave the word for a general falute, the
whole line prelented arms, mufic ffruck up, Sec. The
Lieutenant General then pallid along the line, ac-
coinpanied by the other General Officers and Staff.
the Counters of Catarmast following in a travelling
poR chaffe and four. His Lordihip then refumed his
politico in front, and the whole Wheeling back into
open columns of companies, marched by in open
order, milk playing and Officers fainting ; after'
which the line was formed again with great precifion,
and the different regiments marched off in quack time
to their relpeetive encampments. His Lordfhip ex-
preffed himfelf highly pleafed with the appearance
and Readineli of the men, though the day was un-
commonly cold and blew violently the whole time,
which prevented him from putting the troops through
the other manoeuvres. The noble Earl and flute
dined afterwards with General Moot a at Sandia&
A working party of coo men is now conflantly em-
ployed exciting a battery at Cop Point, aux Folk flout.