Star.
London, England, 1803-03-19 00:00:00

lIIISK POST-OFFICE JILL,

Mr. Coate moved the Order of the Day for taking loss
confideration the Ameedment M the Lords to the Ida raft'
ears Bill. The Amundsen berg read,
Mr. Broom LM, it was his duty to ape& the Heat, that
the Bill, is wadi the Leeds bed main the Moodiness. Was •
Bill far levying mom by taxa en the Babes of Letters is
Wand, and to maid the Houle, that Loeb an Animals*
made by the Lords is any Mosey Bill, had always been con-
ildered by that Hee& as an leder:nein Igo Its &than Pi*
Imes, to which that Houle had sever thought proper to accede :
It would therefore be hie deity to preside fo dift.nt a day for
the esuilderation of theft Amodments, as would leave tam-
abty of ks Wog talon into eseaderation. On the Speaheep
faggeftion, *actor;
Mr. Co a itv aeoved, that the Oloonlintonta he ealftdataft ells
day fie months. which was egresdto
Mr. Co it ay then ode, and entered into n illgkftlaall of the
nature of thole dorm epos the Mar of 14°1111 bst""•
Great Britain and &dad, which tie anadneents mode in the
Lords were imaginal to own& I be &Wool, tins till wes the
&ft Yoft-oace BM kw Irdes& that was brought Woe the
United Perlionont, but that *Am f &dad had hen Mad
ID the lift and pagans &Goo nerdy andsostion d tat
tales voted by the MS Pspainsost i that It cats** mil sot
be Ids intend," is abaft Y this BM to depredate the Now
ems of this ceestry, even is this very trivial &me, Wall ohs
useedeoests node by the Lards lo this Aa wore bugled to
ambito He had so dc)saionos as pert of !reboil, es eons&
theft antendnows ; but he few k wae lapsable, maNhady
With the forms of Itestaneent. end that Jai and meolley OP.
home which the Hoeft of Conemens always held to its sets
achieve privargee, in nisi:lag s 8 ansendenenes me& by the
other Horn of Pariesoest in the matter of Morey Bldg; bat.
in order to CM tins, wed prevest iseasvenienee to the addle
Winds, be hoped the Hsu& would have as obisaies to his
moving for leave to brag in the BM ass sew lb. std ib after`
wards moving in the Committee to &ape a do& Is es to enr
brace the °Was of thole amendments..—Loses Oviso
Mr. Cote: palmed the Bills it was real a &ft sad Mod
time, end committed foe Mosey.

Read a fecond time, the Militia Olken' Ball
and upon the motion for its committal,
Lord Foacsrows rufc to oppofe the Bill, and
to expel, his ailonifhment, that a Belt Should be
brought forward in that Houk, tending In direilly
to give the death blow to that corps. The Tap
nature of the Militia Law calculated that corps
fairly for home 4cfro.les, and gave so opportosit7

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loperty in the
,fit of their fer-
though they
expeditions ;
the tervices of
that the law
(mount to pro-
ich Gentlemen
fervicc might
:e in their re•
:nt Bill would
ion of perfons,
iy qualification
ire could not
'ntlemen from
a principle at

:onhitutiOn of

a dangerous
were to be ad-
mitred, he could almoft with to fee every qualified
Gentleman bearing commiffion, to go out of the
Militia fervice. If Officers upon half-pay were to
he called on at times of danger to tight for their
country, let them go back to the line from whence
they came, and not to be forced upon a corps
formed on principles fo totally different.
The Sraterear at WAR made a few remarks
in reply.
Mr. SHERIDAN laid, that when any man rote, in
the prefent crisis of alarm and public danger, to
make objeCtions to thole exertions which were
making on the part of his Majefty's Government
for the public defence, he mull make clearer ob-
jeCtions, or at leap ufe much fironger arguments
to convince him, than thofe ufed by the Noble
Lord, that the prefent Bill, on the point to which
he alluded, was not juft or neceffary : for his own
part he had always been a friend to the Militia ter-
vice, and notwithllanding the doftrines broached
in that Houle within a few days, he was one of
thole _who cnnfidered it the moll conftitutional
branch of public fervice, and he fhould be ready.
if necrffiry, to fupport it to the full extent of
its original principle, namely, the fervice of the
balloted man perfonally, and not by fubllitutc
but he fincercly regretted to fee the Militia
fervice of late years to much degraded, by con-
verting its Colonels into Drill Serjeanit, for the
purpnfe of training foldiers to recruit the troops of
the line ; and if, as it was not utterly improbable,
the time might fhortly come. when we mutt fight
the common enemy on Britifh ground, it was as
highly effential to the public fafety. and to the very
exiflence of our country, that the Militia ihould be
as efficient, as well difciplined, and as well Officer-
ed, as any other troops in his Majefty's fervice.—
The Noble Lord had ufed, indeed, a moft extraor-
dinary affet ;inn, and a moft extraordinary argu-
ment, in fraying, that if Half-pay Officers, without
qualification, were to be admitted into the Militia,
every qualified Gentleman fhould quit the fervice ;
but if the Government were obliged to adopt this
:mature, whofe was the fault ? It the young Gen-
try of property in the country were to far devoted
to their own pleafures as to decline the fervice of
their country in times of danger, for the fake of
following after their hounds and their horfes, to
their owh thine and difgrace ! ( Hear ! hear! bear!)
Was the Militia fervice to be abandoned? or was
Government to decline the aid of able and experi-
enced Officers, who, though not men of wealth,
were yet ready to devote their lives fo'r the defence
of their country—(Hear! hear! bear!) Or were
other Gentlemen of fortune fo proud of their own
confequence, as rather to abandon the public de-
fence in the hour of public danger, than to join in
a corps with Gentlemen, who, though not fo rich,
may poflibly be•as well bred, and as highly rata-
ble to the public fervice ?—( Hear ! bear! hear !)
Poillbly there may be fome claufes in the bill,
Lich might bear ufeful amendments in the Com-
mittee ; but he did hope and troll, that, at a mo-
ment like the precept, the neceffary meatures of
public defence would not meet with %any captious
oppofitinn.
Mr. BASTARD fincerely regretted the hate of in-
difcipline and want of connenion and co-operation
which but ton generally marked the Militia Re-
giments of this country, owing but too much to
the negligence of fuperior Queers. He thought
that if a Militia Regiment was not in proper order
and difcipline, the bell way would be at once to
break the Colonel.
The bill was read a fecond time, and, upon the.l
motion for its committal,

I.9rd FoLKSTOM took an opportunity of reply-
ing to Mr. Sheridan, in fupport of his former ar•
guinea'. He had not laid that all qualified Gen-
tlemen w3uld quit the fervice, if Officers unquali•
fled were admitted, but that he could almoft with
they would. It was, he thought, a lirange in-
confillency in the Hon. Gentleman, firft to profefs
his readinefs to infift on the perfonal fervice of the
balloted man, anal yet to throw open the fervice to
Officers not qualified. The Hon. Member, 'n ar-
raigning the bacl•wardnefs of the young Gentlemen
f the country from the Militia Service, had look.
.4 at bin), in making that charge, as if hc•w•ere
reprehts.fible on the fame ground ; but he would
allure the Hon. Member, that he had ailed the
Lord Lieutenant of his County for a Commiffion,
though he had not yet the gond fortune to ob.
tam one.

Mr. SMERIDAV laid, the Nobl4 Lord certainly
anifundarilood him, if he fuppofcd it was his with,
that the me!: of property and confcquence in every
county have the chief:, I even the exclufive
command in the Militia. Thcre was no law, how-
ever, to force then: to accept it ; and, if they chofe
to declint. it, the country mutt nut therefore re-
main undefended, by Office:: perhaps not Co able,
but certainly mc.re willing. He really thought
the Noble Loid had held a Commit!ion in the Mi.
h!ia ; he was glad, however, to hear him fay,
that he applied for one, and hoped his example
unuld be produdive of more good than his heath of
General Tao Ls Ton fupportnd the fame opinions
with Mr. She: idan.

Colonel Minoan laid down three principles on
which he conceived the Militia Eflabliihment thould
Le founded.

Mr. F;;;etetto fupported the Bill. which was
coal:misted for Tuciday..—Acijouracd.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH t 9.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :

3 per C. Conf. money, 65i, 644 1 :
Ditto, for April ace. 66fi, 65 lit.
Old 5 per Cent. Ann. 99 mnium t 3; diL
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

Bank Stock 178 opg. Imp. Ann. sots-i 6 r t 3-16ths
3 per C. Coof. 650 631651 Exchcq. Mils, ss. 63. to as. diL
5 per C. Ann. 984 99,1 OMMUM 12 14 114 1 dif
Long. Ann. Englith Tickets 171. 1 s.
India Stock 210 211 opg. Conf. for Ap. ac. 66164167
Imp. 3 per C. 63f . 66k

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amfterdam, 36 42 U. Cadiz paper. Naples 401
De. at fight 35 so Ditto 341effea. Genoa 46
Rotterdam, 36 52 U. Madrid 354 erred. Lilbon 661
Hamburgb 34 so 24U. Bilboa 36 effeet. Oporto 67f
I
)
Altona 34 Is 24U. Leghorn sof Dublin 14
Paris, s day's date, 24 18 kv.—Ditto, 25 2 1 U.
Bourdeaux, ditto, 25 3
Aigo on the Bank of Holland, 51 per Cent.
DUBLIN, MARCH I.i•
3 per Cent. Government Debentures 95.
Coma of Exchange—Dublin on London salt

Yeflerday Capt.Vaucnatt, of the Itecto E N I hoop
of war, arrived at the Admiralty, with difpatches
from the Cape of Good Hope. We underhand
they bring accounts that the orders fent out by
her to the Britifh Commander to retain poffeffion
of the Cape, had arrived about fix hours before
the time appointed for delivering it up to the
Dutch. Thefe orders were fent out at the time
that a rupture was expected on account of the in-
terference of France in the affairs of Switzerland.
We hope that no fubfequent orders for evacuating
that fettlement have been fent out.

By the Init,c ENE we have received the follow-
ing letter :
" Cape Town, January 4, 1803.

" MY DEAR Sia—l have jull time to tell you,
a that on the day intend.d for our departure, a
" Sloop of War came here, with Orders to keep
the Cape until further Orders.
" Your's molt truly, &c."

A Private Letter from Lifbon has the following
fingular article :
"General Lassies is arrived. Scarcely had he
entered his former Hotel, when he wrote to His
Royal Highnefs the Panics Altura r that he came
to refume his diplomatic funEtions, but that he
could not appear at any Levee before all the Mi-
nilters, who were in power when he left Portugal,
were difmid !
" The Thu wce, yielditig to circumllances, feeing
they would not furrender to him, cafhiered his belt
friends, and appointed his enemies to be their foe-
ceffors.—So much for the independence of Por-
tugal !"
The following Extraet of a Letter from an Offi-
cer juft arrived from Carthage's% we confider to
be important :

" The Spaniards are hying op and difmantling all the fialps of
war that were at Carthagena. Five Canada line, one of which
is a fine firft-rate, called the Indian, are laid op as above ; and
a firft rate, called the Prime, had failed for Ferrol to be laid
up there. The magazines at Carthagena arc without Rona of
every deftription ; frame a coil of rope, a bolt of canvafa, or
fpar that would nuke • lower yard. The artificers were dif-
charged for want of money to pay than. Certificates were given
to them, u well as to the Seamen, for the balance of the wages
due to than, which t bey fold for what they could get, about
one half of their Rated value."

A Dutch Mail arrived this morning. Our let-
ters from the Hague, dated the z ith infant, Rate,
that the Dutch Government has received intelli-
gence, that the Colony of Berbice has been evacuat-
ed by the Englifh, and given up to the Republic.
The Batavian Commander, Hors, arrived there
with his veffel in good order, and after taking pof.
feffion of the Colony and the forts belonging to it,
which he did on the 3d of December, left year,
received from the Governor-General, AIMAMMA
JACOIII VAN JMNYIN VAN BATINEUZG, inaruaions
for eftablifhing a provifiunal Government.
Official intelligence has been received at the
Hague, announcing, that the Dey of Algiers, on
the 16th of January laft, little more than five
months after the conelufion of the laR peace, de-
clared war again(' the French Republic. This
fad we knew before, but not the date.

We have alfo received by this conveyance letters
from Contlantinople. One part of the intelligence,
fhould it turn out to be well founded, is interefling.
It Rates that the French, who have In kindly pro-
tetied the Swift, by efiablifising garrifons in their
country, have been offering a fimilar favour to the
Porte, to enable it to maintain its power.

This morning we received another day's French
journals, thole of Tuefday ha. It is lingular that
fibers fcems Ilia to be the order of the day in Pa-
ris, repeling the points in difpute, whatever they
may be, between the two countries ; and it is as
fingular that the price of the French 5 per cents.
is Hill 6o I. We expeEted that before this time,
Come of the Confular writers in the Matti:ear, who
have favoured t!te world w:!.1 fo many phillipics
on much lets momentous occafions, would have
come forward with Cori thing to excite wonder at
lean—but all are riient. The Monis:sr does not
contain a fing!e word relpeeling Britain—not even
in the fhape of an extras from the London papers !
To enquire into the reafon of this is unnecelrary.
The price of the French Funds (hews, however,
that the general beliet in Paris is, that there will

'be no war. How con' ;is thi to the corn.
plexion of Ill,: Jilt-m.l"re addreEd by the
CONSUL to Lord WIIITAVOR ru, at. lit::: A
PAR FE'S Drawing-Room, on Sunday kill, of widLii
we yeflerday laid fume aec,,iint before our Readers,
and which we find is confirmed as to its gcnen
accuracy, by letters from perfons who were rre-
fent.
Is it known to BONAPARTE's confidential friends
that he only means to try the etTal of a little gal-
conade, without withing to provoke a real rup.
ture ? If fo, it is ealy to reconcile the high price
of the French Funds wi:li all that we have heard
refpeeling his indifcreet language to our Ambaf.
factor.

The only articles we have met with in the Paris
Papers relate to the affairs of Sstit7eiland, and
tome arrangements that have taken place in G2T
many. We have given them in the preezding COIUM!!.
EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM A CERTLE•

MAN OF RANK AT PARIS, DATFD MARCH 14.

lire have received the unexpedled new here
of the Britifh Government having determined to
fit out a formidable armament, in confcquence of
the expeditions which have for force time raft
been in preparation in the ports of France. Upon
this important fubjeet a very interefling converfa-
tion took place yeflerday at the Thuilletie,, be-
tween, the FIRST Consul. and Lord WHtrwoitrit,
in the hearing of all the Minillers, Fr•reign Ambaf-
fadors, and a brillant afremblage of Ladies. Bo-
NAPARTI, on entering the room, perceiving Lord
WHITWORTH in the circle, went up immed:ately
to his Lotclfhip, and very politely enquired after
the health of his Lady, who is fomewhat
indiljlof-
ed. The CoNsut., then adverting to the Britf(h
armaments, obferved to his Lordfhip, that he was
at a lots to conceive upon what ground .the Eng-
lifh Government had adopted there menacing pre.
partitions. Lord WHITWORTH replied, that his
Government had been impelled to take thofe vi-
gorous meafures in confcquence of the numerous
expeditions that had fur fome time pall been fit-
ting out in the ports of France. The Cutts. Cow-
su s :—" My Lord, you mutt be fenfible, and your
Government mull know, that the expeditions to
which you allude are defined for the feseral
French colonies, the fituation of which, you and
your Government mull be convinced, is fuch as to
require Rill greater preparations than thofe which
have already been made. Your Lordfbip well
knows the Rate of our Colonies, and the exertions
that are neceffary to reftore them to a fate of or'.
der and profperity ;—nor can your Government
fuppofe that the means hitherto reforted to are at
all adequate to the necelfity of the cafe."—Lord
Witrrworr " Whatever the objett of your ex-
peditions may be, the motives of my Government
for arming are of the purefi nature ; and I cats
11--ure you, General Coati], that the ardent with
of his Majefty and his Miniflers is to preferve the
peace, and ftrengthen the bands of friendlltip be-
tween the two countries."—The FIRST CONSUL
" And the proof of their pacific intentions is, an
hoflite preparation avowedly againft France ! Oh,
my Lord, ferious and dreadful is the refponfibility
they incur by fo unprovoked a proceeding." With.
out waiting for any further reply from the Ambaf.
fador, Bo AAAAA TR turned round, with an affumed
air of gaiety, and proceeded to converfe'with fume
of the Ladies, who attended to pay their refpeds
to Madame Bo .P 1

The Plumes of WALES gives a Grand Dinner
this day to a number of the Nobility. On Thurf-
day his ROYAL HictimEss entertained the Foreign
Ansbafiltdors.

The prefs for Seamen was 'rely hot on the River
lag night.
Preis warrants have been fent into all the ports
of Ireland, and a multitude of seamen have been
thus obtained. Saturday and Sunday a.confider-
able number were procured in the harbour of Dub-
, lin. Similar meafures are purfued in the different
ports of Ireland.
The fhipwrights and caulkers employed in the
merchants' yards in the River, have made an offer
to the Admiralty of their services, to be employed
in any yard their Lordlhips may dire t, to affiß in
equipping the fleet. This offer is not accepted, the
artificers in the yards being equal to all the dnty ;
the bell anfwer that can he given to the calumnious
affertitm, of the Dock Yards having been either I
(tripped of, of deferted by, the artificers.
Official notice has been received from Lisbon,
that his Royal Highnefs the Pe ince R torn of
P.ATUCIAL has iffued unlimited orders for the ad-
milLon of foreign flour into the ports ofthat coun-
try, on paying a duty of forty tees per alquier, or
four hundred and eighty rees, equal to (lacy cents
per barrel ; and that veffels with clear hills of
health, and whole crews are free from any ficknds,
than no longer be fuhjeded to quarantine.
In our Ratement of the lag Refolution of the
Selet Committee, on the Nottingham Eledion,
there was an error of a nature which it is material
to corral. It relates to a Mr. Fogcatr•sT, (who,
as we are informed, was Mr. Coca's Agent)
called by millake PINTER. The Refolution was
in fubflance as follows :
Refolved. That Alexander Foseroft,whoforeited Snbfcrip•
dons to one of the Petitions prefented to the Houk. was
highly culpable in Rating to the SuLicriftenthst the allegation,
it contained complained only of t',e intimidation of many of
the E/ofton from the nercite of :heir tr.nchife, in concealing
from the alterations, nettling John Dandfon. John Alien. Jo-
Cep\ and Thomas Oldknow, of not having sled any eifeen-1
means to fupprds the riots, and in letting to the petition the
names of fiIICCO paves who were not at NatWest= at the
tut:e of Elation.

NALI7IC.V. Z.VrPLI.ICt'AVE.

AR R IVFO.

MAILS TIN, Y.--WINI)

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Waterford
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PLYMOUTH, MARCH r 7.

Admiral Lord Krn,s arrived here this morn.
ing, and his flag was immediam.i.iy homlicd en boas d
the CuLt.ootsm, of 74g11n5: DACRE'S
flag was at the famc time (truck, a•:,1. tenoved to
the SPITFIRE, of id gun:, Cap:. Kzss, in Hs.
1110 a Z f.

Rear-Admiral CAM ,EELL is holt:l.y etpened at
this port, to go Oft ler ice : 1:c is to embark frimi
hence on board a frigate, which is t,) bear his ti ig.
Other accounts fay, that the CANOPUS is to be
fitted for his flag: the is commiCionedthi, day, or
rather brought down tile ha, hour for thi: purpoic.
The Cut LODLS is crl'A.T. ready to lease Hamuaze,
•.:nd is t:, taKe the firit orportur.iv thr going out
of Ca-,find Bay : the is to he commanded by
Cart. ',Asir.

The Plenty, of this port, Capt. HAM, :li-rived
this afternoon from 'Xales, laden with coal., n.f•er
matt reiilotts palfage : the has been driven a
long way to the welt ward, and her lams have
opened to much by draining, that the crew %sc.e
obliged to guff in pieces of pork, old jackets, Sze.
to prevent her (wiring.
The Trimmer, Capt. HASKFLL, arrive.' here
hat everting from Cape la Hogue : he failed from
thence on Sunday evening fall, in contequence of
the hudie and centution that 'vas going on at that
place and Cheilnirgh : he was about to had oy-
itcrs for London, and was heaving out his bel;a11
for that purport.; but from the warlike aiipearance
of things in that neighbourhood, he thought it
molt prudent to leave it as early as poffible. It is
Paid that tickets were leaving at the honks of all
thole conneaed with the army, and this in a way
of rcquitition, and that the mural contrition pre-
vailed.

Thole gun boats which arc in a (Lite fit for for-
vice are ordered to be got ready for commitEou
Came in from Jamaica, after a pail-age of fix weeks,
fur Loudon, with a cargo of rum, &c. the Re-
ALLEN ; alfo from a cruize, the EAGLE,
14 guns, Captain WARD ; and the RANr;klt, 14
guns, Captain FRAZER, with a fmuggliug cutter,
with two hundred and fifty ankers of brandy.—
Sailed for Rotterdam, the Twe Gueed Zufters,
laft from Guemfey, with a cargo of fpirits ; alfo
for Exmouth, with a cargo of old cordage, junk,
bought at the dock yard (ales, the brigs Jane, Port-
land, Ann and Mary, and Hope.

for Gentlemen of that weight and pr
country, to give the nation the bend
vices at borne fur public defence,
might not chufe to.go upon foreign
]tote it was, that in order to fecure t
foch'men to the Militia exclufively,
required certain qualifications, in are
perry, in proportion to the rank whit
should hold, in order that the public
avail of their weight and confequenct
fpeetive counties ; whereas the prefer
exprefily go to authorize the admit&
as Officers in that corps, without any
and property at all. Such a meafut
compleatly to difguft qualified Get
entering the Militia fervice. Tt was:
all times violatory to the original cc
the Militia, and at this time really ;
one to introduce ; and, if fuch men v