Star.
London, England, 1803-10-06 00:00:00

10 THE EDITOR OF THE 37AZ

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Sir—At a time like the prefent you will pleafe to
'acute me Int dndeavniiring to bring before the pub-
lic eye, through the medium of your Paper, what
looks like negled in tome part of the Government,
'iz. not endeavouring to have as many, or nearly as
man. fault v lids fitted nut and Rationed in the
North Sea and Eng Wit Channel, as our enemies are
fitting and buil ing in thrife places to invade us. We
well know the French have given up the idea of
fighting their way over our Navy has taught them
the futility of that, therefore they have changed their
plan: if we are rightlj informed. they will procure
three or four thoul'and fmall velfels, which may con-
tain a 50,000 men, in the hope that while a few of
them arc aficiog quarter from the (mall number of
thins of war which may happen in the way, the reit
may land and attack the friends of thole their com-
panions are begging their lives from. The bell mode
of oppofing fuch invaders is certainly by numbers of
f nall veffels : we ihnuld have as many, or nearly as
many, as our eneniie : We (tmid procure them
either by purchafe, building, or requifition, we have
- enough of them in the llritifh 'lands at prefent of
from to to 5o tons, and we have more fealaring
men than our enemy : there all put in requifitinn,
and armed in the belt manner, and even manned with
jug men enough to navigate them, wculd be capable
of bringing our enemies in as ptifoners, or at lean
throwing their arms and ammunition overboard ;
whereas our (hips of war, as they are managed at
prefent, can rake only a few, while the reit efcape.
large (hip cannot fail twenty different ways,
though her crew, difperfed in twenty different large
boats, may, and each defiroy or take nearly as
many as a large veal. It mull be obvious to
every perfon, that veffels drawing from fifteen to
twenty feet water, crnizing in the North Sea, which
Is mottly pilot water, and very fhoal near the Flemi(h
coatl, in numbers of abort one to ten, are not as of
featial a kind of armament to oppofe flotillas of (mall
decked gun boars (drawing hut 8 feet, fit to fail over
banks, and keeping in a dote body with oars, and- a
24 pounder in their bows. and which being'attacked
by' a tenth part of their number will difperfe..and
mnfl of them probably make good their Pant ), as
as equal number, or nearly an equal number of (mall
stack r.f nearly the fame defcription. lithe Govern-
ment thinks that the French will &dually build or fit
out +Soo boats, wc fbould alfo fir out +soca oars, or
at lealt sOOO, or even 2000; but if it I. fuppofed we
cannot fit wit that number, we fhould put in requifi
Eton as-many (mall veffels at will make up the num-
ber. Thefe manned with but few wen, and carrying
as many guns as they can, being commanded by
Officers of the Navy, rind liationed as near the enemy
as chturnila ores will allow, will be the molt effec-
tual (and molt comfortable for our friends) means
of defence, as it may keep them out of the country,
. but it is impoffible for a few men of war to keep fuch
a large number from landing. The French depend-
, ing no this, and the knot% humanity of the Engh(h
to prifnners, will be able to perfuade their troops to
embark ; becaufe loch as are attacked, and cannot
make refniance, think they have nothing to do but
elk for quarter, while the ref who cannot be purfued
way efeape and Lind. Ido not pretend to fay, they
would have any fuccefs when met, in the field by
an equal number of Britons: they are inferior in
courage and bodily firength, and always prefer fur-
rendering to (landing to be much cut ; but how much
more preferable would it be to break, perhaps anni•
biiale. their force before they reach the (pore. A
number, nearly equal to theirs, of fmall 'raft's, no
matter how procured, either by requifition or other.
wife in this emergency, well armed and managed by
os tea Officers, would prove a very effectual mode
of defence.

♦ PATRIOT MID lIIIIICIPLID ANTI.OALLICAN.
Limerick, Sept 26, Mi.

POLF: Co WA

liow•sester.—Since the paging Of the late A& of
Parliament, requiring that every lack !hall preafely
bold three bufhels, the firlt uperation.of /which corn
ounces! on Saturday lett, the different Coal-heavers,
conceiving that they thereby incurred a confide:able
allition to their labour, as previous to this Jut every
room of coals was filed and faded according to the
ch3Wron, and not with refpett to what each tack in -
trinfieally contained, determined to infilt upon an ad-
t ince of wai,es, and in confequence, the men work
ing with Ma' s. Wood, of Svo land yard, began t!se
combina' ion, by refufing to wink until their demands
were complied with. A deputati•n, confiding of fix,
was therefore brought to this Office, on Timidity
night, in order that the difference might be fatisfac-
torily adjofled.
Leonard Clerk to Melts. Wood. laid, that
(ince Janteury lad, the filling and lacking a chaldion
of cttals had been paid for at the rate of gd. per
gang, which confids of three men ; that for fix or
liven years previous to that period it was only 70.
and Oa- re that, to long as he could rarietwber, no
1110 ft than 6J. ; that on Monday morning the men
then prefent, Ailthough engaital by the piece, which
they had left incomplete, rerofed to work milers they
were paid It; sb ratq of one (billing per chaddrun.per
gang, being nn advance of threepence.
On the part raf.the Coal-heavers, one of their bre-
thren, named tlicisids, recapitillued the increafed
Lab, .r they underwcat, and fivygeilci that they were
cant-queenly entitled to a propot ;innate advance of
wages.

The Magi:lrate explained to the men, that how-
ever they might conceive themfelves aggrieved, their
attempt at reilrefs was illegal, and merited revere pit-
ointment ; AS. innead of prefenting a tcfpeßful rue•
movial to the Gentlemen who employed them, they
had endetivonted to ace their purport
.by menace,
an?that, therefore, though ever aver* to ponifh the
I Infirions labourer, .it WIN his d. ty to enforce ihe
A, again* Combinations, by committing them to
rifon, valets th-y could find bail to appeal
The men, fenfiitla of their error, agreed to return
to their an,l we tenderfland A electing of the
PrincipalSoal Mc:chants was held on /*acidity even
lug in order to deterronic upon the prof nett of inak
in the men' an advance, in confiJeration of theit
additional exertions.
Tuefday, a J:w was examined befure relosa,,

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Efq. and Sir W. Pamirs, the gain Magiarates at
Bow Arco, on a charge of robbing los mailer, ano•
thee Jew, of a large quantity of wearing apparel.—
The profecutor keeps a clothes thins in Titehbourne-
(tree, and the prifoner w,rs his weekly fervent, lodg-
i.,g in the bottle. On the morning of the 13th of brit
month he abfeonded, taking with him a large quan-
tity of wearing apparel, but being fufpeded to be
gone to Gravefend. the praccutor followed him thi-
ther, and found him at a public houfe, with a confi-
dcrablc part of the Rohn property in his noffeffion.
He was committed for trial, and the parties bound
over to profecute.
MAR mos Housa.—We-dnefchty s lidqvards,
lfrdliaar pm, and 'I Imams Waldeck, were brought be-
fore the Loan MAYOR, charged, the two latter with
(leafing a balket of oils, pickles, and Cruces, and the
former for receiving the fame knowing it to have
been Rolm. One of the partners of Mefrri. Gordon
and Eamett, nil merchants, Fifh-greet Hill, Rated,
that Jones and ,Walbeck were porters employed by
them, and that having frequently fufpeded they had
sobbed them, he, and a friend who confirmed his fuf-
picion, watched them on Traefday morning, when
they Caw Jones go loaded into a neighbouring public-
houfe ; Walbeck followed, and they then raw Ed.
wards come out with a balket, containing varioni ar-
ticles of pickles, tcc. The prifoners were then taken
into euflody. This winters fwore to the articles
found in the balket. The prifoners were examined
feparately. Edwards raid, is his defence, that he did
not know the other prifoners ; that the bottles in the
balket were his own, he having bought them the
fame morning from a mate of a lbip at Billingfgate ;
he paid fifteen fhillings for them, and was fore he did
not (seal them. The otherprifoners denied the charge.
They were all remanded for a future examination.
A great number of quartern and half quartern
loaves were yeflerday brought before the Loan
Maros, by the Inquell Jury of Farringdon Without,
which they found at different atop., deficient of
weight. Two of the bakers attended. and were fined
in the mitigated penalty of two &Wings and fix.
pence for every nonce deficient, and the bread was
fent to the prifoners in the two Compton. The other
bakers were orslered to be fummoned to atteird.—
His Lordtbip commended the Jury for their lauda-
ble exertion.

Woas II Ir•sy a 22 —Ye fterday two mete, named
Barnes and johtrin, were fatly committed for trial.—
They were charged by Peter Foy with running away
with his purfe, containing 291. which he had incau-
tioufly pla:ed ()11 a table in a public houfe, in White-
croft- Urea, whither he had gone in order to dif-
charge a (mall debt, on the 23:1 of September.
The fad of the prifoners making off with the purfe
was folly proved, but no part of the property was
recovered. The prifoners denied the charge.

WMITECHAPILL.— Yefterday three Lafcars were
charged by the landlord of the City of Carlitle pub-
lic houfe, in 119temary•lane, with coming to his
houfe with cutlaffes, and endeavouring to cut every
perfon down, and breaking his windows.
It appeared in evidence that they were robbed of
isol. but could not defcribe where, or in what man-
ner it was done ; they made a miftake as to the
hnufe. A perfon came from the India Houk to get
them liberated, and paid ttie landlord for the da-
mage.he had fitftained. They were put on board a
(hip for their better prote&ion from the women of the
town, who are foppofed to have robbed them.
The following perfons have been committed to.
Yolk Cattle, viz.—yjeph liadfoi, charged by the
Coroner's Inquefi with the wilful murder of John
Littlewond, lying dead at the townthip of Leeds;
.I:yea Robert: and William Graves, both of New
Malton, boatmen, charged upon the oath of Ann
Ward, daughter of Francis Ward, wf Howcham,
with having &Gutted and iavithed her on the rid
ult. in her !other% hnufe, at Hawthorn afortfaid.

A plan was lately laid by two men to rob the
beaoti,Ol mantion of the Ma quit of Amenity, at
B.ton's Court, in the county of Tyrone. They had
concealed thenifelves behind a bed in one of the
apartments, but were dircovered in time to prevent
the perpetration of their plar.
One of the Hammerlunith Rages was on Tuefday
overturned in the Sit and, dote to St. Clement's
Church. There were fix pet foss in the coach, Eva
none of them (offered any injury, the driver only had
a Mg!, bruife in his band.
On l'aerday Mr.. W. Lola. many years a•refpet
able. tradefinan la Bath, was found drowned near
Bath-Eatloo t he has left a widow and family to la-
ment bib Infs.

Laft Monday two Gentlemen and a Lady in a
chalk, coming along Maryland Point, near Stratford,
a coach ran againil the chaife, when the Gentlemen
was thrown into a ditch, and the Lady tinder the
carriage. She was greatly hurt and uken to a
neighboui ing turgeon.
On Tuefday Lill a boy, fun of the keeper of the
North Trade Turnpike-gate, near ',MCI, was run
over by a cart, near hi, father's door, and In terribly
bruited, that he expired in confegoence on the (pot.

Lail week a boy, named Blacketer, who had been
watching fruit at Luddenham, near Faverlham, was
met and defined by a man to carry his coat borne,
but not to touch any thing in the pockets ; the boy,
however, hatched, and in one of the pockets found
a loaded hurfe piflol ; after playing with it fome time
he met two children, each about twelve years old,
the foils of Mr. Cl.au forgeon, and Mr. CLARICE,
whom !fe threatened to (hoot, and intmediately pre.
fented and (napped ; it Brft miffed fire, but
the second time it unfortunately went off, and wound.
ed one in the head and the other in the breaft ; but
it is hripal not mortally.

On Friday afternoon about three o'clock, a Swe-
difh Captain, in company with two others of his coon.
trymen, coming down Comb;ft to attend 'Change;
having an umbrella over his head, was ramified by
a woman with a child in her arms, who begged him
to protect her from the rain for a few minutes. To
this the Gentleman humanely contented s and the
woman pictendmg that the had been travelling for
reveral limo., and was fo much eshanned as to be
ready to fink with fatigue, he contented to carry the
child for a few paces. Pretending in the mean time
to adjell part at her drefs, the wuntan lagged behinct
and contrived to give the Gentleman the flip, late.
it% Film to provide in the heft manner he could
the infant, which was about two months old •