Star.
London, England, 1803-12-07 00:00:00

LETTER TO THE KING.

Sic—A correfpondence has taken place between
Mr. Addington and myfelf, on a fubjed which deeply
involves my honour and character. The anfwers
which I have received from that Gentleman, the
communication which he has made to the Houle of
Commons, leave me no hope but in an appeal to the
jußice of your Majefty. I make that appeal with
confidence, becaufe I feel that you are my natural
advocate, and with the fanguine hope that the ears
of an affeaionate father may (till be opened to the
fupplications of a dutiful fon.
" I afk to be allowed to difplay the bell energies
of my charader ; to fhed the hit drop of my blood
in fupport of your Majefty's perfon, crown, and dig.
nity ; for this is not a war for empire, glory, or do.
minion, but for exiltence. In this conceit, the loweft
and humbleß of your Majelly's fubjeds have been
called on—it would, therefore, little become me, who
am their/t, and who Rand at the very footftool of
the Throne, to remain a tame, an idle, and lifelefs
fpedator of the mifchiefs which threaten us, uncnn.
icious of the dangers which furround us, and indiffe-
rent to the confequences which may follow. Hano-
ver is loll—England is menaced with invafion—lre-
land is in rebellion—Europe is at the foot of France.
At fuch a moment the Prince of Wales, yielding to
none of your fervants in zeal and devotion—to none
of your fubjeds in duty—to none of your children in
tendernefs and affedion, prefumes to approach you,
and again to repeat thole offers which he already
made through your Majefty's Minifler. A feeling
of honeft ambition ; a fettle of what I owe to myfelf
and to my family ; and, above all, the fear of finking
in the eftimation of that rgallant army, which may be
the fupport of sour Majeßy's Crown and my belt
hope hereafter, command me to perfevere, and to
affure ybur Majelly, with all humility and refped,
that, confcious of the julliee of my claim, no human
power can ever induce me to relinquifh it.
' " Allow me to fay, Sir, that I am bound to adopt
this line of conduit by every motive dear to me as a
man, and (acted to me as a Prince. Ought I not to
come forward in a moment of unexampled difficulty
and danger ?Ought I not to (hare in the glory of vic-
tory, when I have every thing to lofe by defeat ? The
high:ft places in Your Majelty's fervice are filled by
the younger branches of the Royal Family ; to me
alone no place is afligned. I am not thought wor.
thy to be the Junior Major General of Your Army.
—lf I could fubmit in hence to fuch indignities,
I fltoold indeed deferve fuch treatment, and prove
to the fatisfaCtion of your enemies, and my own,
that I am entirc4y incapable of thole exertions,
which my birth and the cir:umftances of the times
peculiarly call for. Standing fo near the throne,
when I am debafed, the caufe of royalty is wounded;
I cannot fink in public opinion, without the partici.
pation of Your Majelly in my degradation. There-
fore, every motive of private feeling, and of public
duty, induce me to implore Your Majefly, to review
your decifion, and to place me in that fituation,
which my birth, the duties of my Ration, the exam-
ples of my predecellors, and the expedations of the
people of England intitle me to claim. Should I be
tfilappointed in the hope which I have formed, fhould
this lift appeal to the juftice of my Sovereign, and
the afieftion of my Father, fail of fuccefs, I (hall la-
ment in filent fubmillion his determination, but Eu-
rope, the world, and pofterity mull judge between its.
I have done my duty ; my confcience acrpots
me ; my realms tells me that I was petfedly jultified
in the requeat v.hich I have made, became no realon-
sble arguments have ever been adduced in anfwer to
my retentions. The precedents in billory arc in
my favour, but if they were not, tae times in which
we live, and efptrially the exigencies cf the prefent
moment, terptoe o, to become an example to our
iyaleitt y. other (Alice of relufal has or can be
siligneci, etc( pc that it was Ilse will of Your Majefly.
that will and pIeA,MC I bow wob every degree
of humility and resignation ; but I can never ceafe
In complain cf the lescrity which has I..•ccig trercifccl

again(} me, and of the injunice which T have fufrerecf,
till I ceafe to exift. I have the honour to fubfcribe
myfelf, with all riffible devotion, Your Majelly's
moil dutiful and affeetionate Snn and Subje&,
vßrighton, Aug. 6. (Signed) G. p.“

FROM THE KING.
" MT DEAR SON, Windfor, 7th Anguß, 1803.
" Though I applaud your zeal and your fpirit, of
which. I ti ufl, no one can fuppofe any of my family
wanting; yet confidering the repeated declarations
I have made of my determination on your former ap-
plications to the fame put pole, I had flattered myfelf
to have heard no farther on the (*ed. Should the
implacable enemy In far fucceed as to Land, you will
have an opportunity of (hewing your zeal ; t the head
of your regiment. It will be the duty of every man
to Rand forward on filch an occafion ; and I Mall
certainly think it mine to let an example in defence
of every thing that is dear to me and to my people.
I ever remain, my dear Son,
is Your moll affedionate Father,
(Signed) 41 G. a•
FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES TO THE ICING.
Sin, Brighton, R2d Aug, ,Bc3.
" I have delayed thus long in anfwer to the letter
which your Majefty did me the honour to write, from
a with to refer to a former eorrefpondence which
took place between its in the year *798. Thole let-
ters were miflaid, and fume days elapfed before I
could difcover them ; they have lance been found.—
Allow me, then, Sir, to recal to your recolleEtion the
expreffions you were gracioufly pleated to tile, and
which I once before took the liberty of reminding
you of, when I folicited foreign fervice upon my fill
coming into the army. They were, Sir, that your
Majefty did not then fee the opportunity for it ; but
that if any thing was to arife at home, I ought to be
firft and foremoft.' There cannot be a ftronger
expreffion in the Engli(h language, or one more
confonant to the feelings which animate my heart.
In this I agree moll perfeely with your Majefty—
" I ought to be frit and foremoil." It is the place
which my birth afligns me—which Europe—which
the Englith nation expel me to fill—and which the
former affurances of your Majefty might naturally
have led me to hope I ()mold occupy. After filch a
declaration I could hardly expel to be told that my
place was at the head of a regiment of Dragoons.
" I underftand from your Majelly, that it is your
intention, Sir, in purfuance of that noble example
which you have ever !hewn during the courfe of your
reign, to place yourfelf at the bead of the people of
England. My next brother, the Duke of York,
commands the army; the younger branches of my
family are either Generals or Lieutenant Generals ;
and I, who am the Prince of Wales, am to remain a
Colonel of Dragoons. There is fomething fo humi-
liating in the contrail, that thole who are at a diftance
woald either doubt the reality, or fuppofe that to be
my fault which is only my misfortune. Who could
imagine that I who am the °Weft Colonel in the fer-
vice, had afked for the rank of a General Officer in
the Army of the King my father, and that it had

been refufed me
" I am lorry, much more than lorry, to be.obliged
to break in upon your leifure, and to trefpafs thus a
fecund time on the attention of your Majeßy. But
I have, Sir, an intereft in my charader more valuable
to me than the Throne, and dearer, far dearer, to
me than life. lam called upon by that intereft to
perfevere, and I pledge myfelf never to defift till I
receive that farisfa&ion which the juftice of my claim
leads me to ezped. In thefe unhappy times, the
world, Sir, examines the conduit of Princes with a
jealous, a fcrutinizing, a malignant eye. No man is
more aware than I am of the exiftence of fuch a dif
polition. and no man is therefore more determined to
place himfelf above all fulpicion. In defiring to be
placed in a forward lunation, I have performed one
duty to the people of England ; I muft now perform
another, and humbly fupplicate your Welty to af-
fign thole realons which have induced you to refute a
requelt which appears to me and to the world fo rea
fonable and fo rational. I mutt again repeat my
concern that I am obliged to continue a correfpon-
dence which I fear is not fo grateful to your Majefty
as I could with. I have examined my own heart—l
am convinced of the juftice of my caufe—.-of the pu-
rity of my motives. Reafon and honour forbid me
to yield : where no reafon is alledged I am juftified
in the conclufion that none can be given.
a In this candid expofition of the feelings which
have agitated and depreffed my wounded mind, I
hope no ezpreffion has efcaped me which can be con.
limed to mean the Oighteft difrelped to your Majef-
ty. I molt fnlemnly difavow any fuch intention;
but the circumftances of the times—the danger of
invafion—the appeal which has been made to all your
fubjetts, oblige me to recoiled what I owe to mine
own honour and to my own character, and to Rate
to your Majefty with plainnefs, truth, and candour,
but with all the fubmillion of a fubjea, and the duty
of an affeEtionate ton, the injuries under which I la•
boor, and which it is in the power of your Majefly
alone at one moment to redrefs. It is with fenti
ments of the profoundeft veneration and raped that
I have the honour to fubfcribe myfelf,
a Your Majefty's molt dutiful,
" Molt ob:dient Son and Subjed. a. p."
" MT MAT 111011111, Bright" On. 2, tBO3.
" By the lalt night's Gazette, which I have this
moment received, I perceive that an extenfive pro-
motion has taken plate in the army. wherein my pre.
tenfions are not noticed, a circumftanee which, what-
ever may have happened upon other occafions, it is
impoffible for me to pals by, at this momentous cri-
Its, without obfcrvition.

" My (binding in the army, according to the moll
ordinary routine of promotion, had it been fdlowed
up, would have placed me either at the bottom of the
lid of Generals, or at the head of the lid of Lieute-
nant-Generals. When the younger branches of my
Family arc promoted to thelighellmilitary fituations,
my birth, according to the didinetions ufually con-
ferred on ;t, fhould have placed me first on that lid.
I hope you know me ton well, to imagine that
idle inaftive rank is in my view; much leis, o the di-
reCtion and patronage of the military department an
objeA which fobs my place in the date, or my incli-
nations; but, in a moment when the danger of the
count' y is thought by Governinent fo urgent as to call
forth the energy of every arm in its defence, I cannot
hut feel myfelf degraded, both as a prince and a fol-
die', if lam net allowed to take a forward and didin-
guilLed part in 0; defence of that empil e and rrown,

of the glory, prorperity, and even exiftence of that
people, in all which mine is the greateßgake.
"Tobe told I may difplay this zealfolely andfimply
at the head of my Regiment, is a degrading mockery.
" If that be the only fituation allotted me, I (hall
certainly do my duty, as others will, but the confider.
ations to which I have already alluded entitle me to
expect, and bind me in every way to require, a fito.
ation more correfpondent to the dignity of my own
character and to the public epalittion.
" It is for the fake of tendering Lily cervices in a way
more formal and official than I have before purfued,
that I addrefs this to you, my dear Brother, as the
Commander in Chief, by whole counfels the Conflitti-
tion prefumes that the military department is admi.
niftered.
" If thole who have the honour to advife his Majef.
ty on this occalion, foal! deem my pretentions, among
thofe of all the Royal Family, to be the only ones
' fit to be rejected and difdained, I may at leaft hop('
as a debt of juftice and honour, to have it explained,
that I am laid by in virtue of that judgment, and not
in confequencs of any omiflion or want of energy ots
my part. &c. &c. &e. (Signed) "c. r. w."
" His Royal Higinicts e Duke ofl'oaK, &c.

" MARKET BOOT UZI, " Hark Guards, Oa. 6, 1603.
" Nothing but an extraordinary prefs of banters
would have prevented me from acknowledging fooner
your letter of the zd initant, which I received while
at Oatlands on Monday evening.
" I trult that you are too well acquainted with my
affeaion for you, which has exiled fime our molt
tender years, not to be aired of the fatisfaaion I
ever have felt, and ever mull feel in forwarding
when in my power every defire or objet of yours;
and therefore will believe how much I mull regret the
impoillbility there is, upon the prefent occafion, of my
executing your wifhes of laying the reprefentation
contained in your letter before his Majefty.
" Suffer me, my deareß Brother, as the only an-
fwer that I can properly give you, to recal to your
memory what pallid upon the fame fubjea loon after
his Majefty was gracioufly pleaded to place me at the
head of the army ; and I have no doubt that, with
your ufual candour, you will yourfelf fee the abfolute
necefrity of my declining it. •
44 In the year 1795, upon a general promotion
taking place, at your instance I delivered a letter from
you to his Majefty, urging your pretenfions to pro-
motion in the army ; to which his Majeßy was pleated
to anfwer, that before ever he had appointed you to
the command cd-the toth Light Dragoons, be hat
caufed it to be fully explained to you what his fend-
menu were with refpea to a Prince of Wales enter. •
ing into the arm', and the public'grounds upon which
he never could admit of your confidering it as a pro-
feffion, or of your being promoted in the fervice.— -
And his Majefty, at the fame time, added hi: poftine
command: and injunaker to me, never to mention this
fubjea again to him, and to decline being the bearer •
of any application of the fame nature should it be
propofed to me ; which meffage I was of comic under,
the neeeffity of delivering to you, and have conftandy
made it the rule of my conduit ever fine, and indeed
I have ever confidered it as one of the greateft proofs:
of affeetion and confederation towards me, on the part
of his Majelly, that he never allowed me to become
a parry in this bufinefs.
44 Having thus Rated to you, fairly and candidly,
what has paired. I mull truft you will fee that them
can b.: no ground for the apprehenfion exprefred In
the latter part of your letter, that any fur can attach
to your chandler as an officer—particularly as I recol-
led your mentioning to me yourfelf, on the day on
which you received the notification of your appoint-
ment to the loth Light Dragoons, the explanation and
condition attached to it by his Majelly ; and therefore
Purely you met be fatisfied that your not being ad.
vanced in military rank proceeds entirely from his
Majefty's fentiments refpe9ing the high rank you
hold iit the State, and not from any impreifion un-
favourable to you.
" Believe me ever, with the greatell truth,
44 Deareft Brother,
44 Your molt affeaionate Brother,
(Signed) 44 vasosatcc."
4. Ni, Royal Highneft the PRINCE Of WALIS.
"MT DRAR IROT RIR, " Brigittaa, Oaaber 9, MI.
„I have taken two days to confider the contents of
your letter of the 6th Want, in order to be as ac-
curate as panic in my anfwer, which mull account
to you for its being longer perhaps than I intended,
or I could have wiffied.
" I confide entirely in the perfonal kiadnefs and
affection expreffed in your letter, and am, for that
reafon, the more unwilling to trouble you again on
a painful fubjea, in which you are not free to aB,
as your inclination I am fore leads you. But, as it
is not at all improbable, that every part of this tranf-
aftion may be publicly canvaffed hereafter, it is of
the utmost importance to my honour, without which
I can have no happinefs, that my conduit in it (ball
be fairly reprefented, and carry:Hy underflood. When
I made a tender of my fervices to his Majefty's Mi.
Miters, it was with a ;oft and natural txpeaation,
that my offer would have been accepted, in the way
in which alone it could have been moll beneficial to
my country, or creditable to myfelf : or, if that
failed, that at lean. (in juilice to me) the relifons for
a refufal would have been diflinaly Rated ; fo that
the nation might be fatisfied, that nothing had been
omitted on iste part, and enabled to judge of the va-
lidity of the ri.afons affigned for (itch refuraL In the
fiat inftance. I was referred to his Majefty's will and
pleafure ; and now lam informed by letter,
that before 44 He had appointed me to
of the moth Light Dragoons, He had i
fully explained to me, what his fentimi
refpea to a Prince of Vales entering inn
" It is impollible, my dear Brother,
know all that paired between the Kit%
I perfealy recollea the Ratement yin
converfation you had with his Majel
ftrialy cot refponds with that in your lei
me. But, I muff, at the fame time,
memory my pofitive denial at that doll
dition or Ripulation having been made,
coming into the army ; and I am in ;
and complete documents, which prove
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munications I have found it necefrary
make, have ever difclaimed the exilic!
conapoomile at any period, as nothing
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Wm. Pit.), I have not the molt flight recolleaion of
its having taken place between us. My dear Brother,
riar ,tate is tight, you mull be millaken in your
et .c teems, nr, at lean. in the conclufion you draw
rr i. ; for, in the intimacy and familiarity of pr:.
va.e converfation, it is not at all unlikely that I
th .1);,1 have remembered the communication yon
mole me the year bef.re; but, that I fhould have
'tenni Iced in, or referred to a compromife, which I
never made, is utterly impoffible.
" Neither in his Majelty's letter to me, nor in the
cnrrefpfindence with Mr. Addington (of which you.
may not be fully informed), is there one word. nor
the moll ditlant allufions in the conditions Rated in
your letter; and even if .1 had accepted the command
of a regiment on fuzb terms, my acquiefeence cou:d
only have relation to the ordinary lituatinn of the
country, and not to a care to completely out of all
contemplation at that time, as the probable or pro-
jetted invents!) of this kingdom by a foreign force, fur.
Indent to bring its farm into question. When the
King is pleated to tell me, " That Asould the enemy
land, he (hall think it his duty to fet an example in.
defence of the country ;" that is, to ;vole the only
life which, for the public welfare, ought not to be
hazarded. I rennet and admire the principle which
diantes that refolution ; and as my heart glows with.
the fame lentiments, I wills to partake in tae fame
danger, that is, with dignity and effect. Whenever
his Mikity appears as King, he ells and commands;
rat are Commander in Chief; others of my family
are high in .military Ration ; and even by the last
brevet, a conliderable number of junior Officers are
put over me. In all thefe arrangements the Prince
of Wales alone, whore intereft in the event yields to
none but that of the King, is difregarded, omitted ;
his fervices n jetted.. So that, in fa& he has no poll
or Ration whatfoever' in a contell on which the tate
of the crown and the kingdom may depend.
" I do not, my dear brother, wonder that in the
hurry of your prefent nccupation, there confidera-
lions should have heal overlooked. They are now in
your view, and I think cannot fail to make a due
impreflion.
" As to the ref, with every degree of them poi-
Able for your judgment of what is due to a foldier's
honour, I mull, be the guardian of mime to the utmoli
ifs my power, ice arc. (Signed) 1, o. r.
His loyal Minnie the Duke of York."
my OWL surresa. " Hods Guards, Olt. Is, rBo3.

" I have this moment, upon my arrival in town,
found your lettere and lofe no time in anfwcring that
part of it, which it appears to me highly neceffary
DOuld be clearly undaitood.
41 Indeed, my dear brother, you muff give me leave
to repeat to you,dsat upon the Melt confideration, I
perfealy regalia your having yourtelf told me at
Carlton Houk, in the year 1793, on the day on
which you was informed of his Majefiy having ac•
quiefeed in your requea of being appointed to the
command of the loth regittant of Light Dragoons,
of which Sir William Pitt was then Colonel, the oaf-
fage and Condition which was delivered to you from
his tdajeily t and which nis Majelly repeated to me,
in Ehe yeir 1795,as mentioned in my letter of Thurf-
day Taft And I have the fulled reafon to know, thit
there are others to whom at that time you mentioned
the fame circuottance; nor have I the lead recollec-
tion
of your having denied it to me, wh-n I deli-
vered to you the King's Anfwer, as I Illotild rer. Ainly
have felt it incumbent upon me to recal to your me
'story, what you had told me yourfelf in the year 1793.
No convey-felon whatever paired between us, as
you infily remark, in the year 1796, when Sir Wil-
liam Pitt was promoted to the King's Dragoon
Guards, which was done in eonfequence of what was
arraned in 5793, upon your firft appointment to the
roth Light Dragoons; and I conceive, that your
mentioning in your letter, my having Rated a con-
verfation so have paired between us in 1798, mull
have wilco from fome mifapprehention, as I do not
tind that year ever adverted to in my letter.
I have thought it due to us both, my dear brother,
thus fully to reply to thole parts of your letter, in
which ycu appear to have millaken mine ; but, as I
am totally unacquainted with the correfpondence
which has taken place upon this fubjea, I mull de-
cline entering any further into it.
" I remain ever, my dear brother, with the great-
eft truth, your molt affetaionate brother,
(Signed) rammees.

" MT DIAI 8888888 Brighten, Odober
1, By my replying to paw letter of the 6th intiant,
which contained no fort bf anfwer to mine of the ad,
w•e have fallen into a very frivolous altercation upon
a topic which is quite foreign to the prefent purpofe.
Indeed the whole importance of it his in a feasting
contrAdietion in the ftatement of a fae ; which is un-
pleafant, even upon the idleft (teem.
" I meant to alert that no previous condition to
forego all preteufions to ulterior rank, und;r any cit..
cumnances, had been impofed upon me, or even fub-
'flitted to me in any &ape whatfoever on my firil
coming into the ferric., and with as much confidence
es can be efed in maintaining a negative, I repeat
that affertion. _

" When I firft became acquainted with Ms Ma.
jefiy's purpofe to withhold from me further advance.
issent, tt is impoflible to recollea, but that it was fu
yearly as the year 1793, I do not remember, and if
your expreffions were Ids pofitive, I flsould add, or
believe ; but I certainly knew it, as you well :now,
in 1795, and poffibly before. We were then engaged
3n war, therefore I could not think of refigning my
regiment, if under other circemftances I had been dif.
voted to do Co ; but, in truth, my rank in the nation
made military rank, in ordinary times, a matter of '
little confequence, except to my owe private feelings
This fentiment I conveyed to you in my letter of the
fecond, laying exprefsly, that oat ;elle, issattive rank,
was in no fort my objea ; but upon the profpeB of an
emergency, when the King was to take the field, and
the fpirit of every Briton was routed to esertiqp, the
place which I occupy in the nation made it indifpem
fible to demand a puff correfpondent to that place,
and to the public expeaation. This fentiment I
have the happinefs to he alined, in a letter on this
occafit,n, wale dirk isiarcffickn soon rb ar;nd, and.
award sir refisa and adnuration of one very high in
Government.

" The only purple of this letter, my dear Brother,
is to explain, luxe that i, necefary, that my former
ones meant not to give you the trouble of interceding
sts my advocate for mere mama in the army. Urging

further my other more important claims upon Gr.
vernment would be vainly addreffed to any Nein,
who can really think that a former refufal of mere
rank, under circumflances fo widely difcrent, or the
mod ezprefs waving of fuch ptetenfions, if that had
been the cafe, furnifhes the flighted colour for the
anfwer I have received to the tenders I have now
made of my fcrvice.
'4 Your department, my dear Brother, was meant,
?t* I mutt repeat it, limply as a channel to convey that
tender to Government, and obtain either their mew
tion to it, or an open avowal of their refural.

di G. p.in

dec. dm.
(Signed)
" To hla Royal Hlgtutera the Doke of York." ,
" MAR BILOTHZI, Mork Guard% O& 13, 1803.

4, I have received your letter this morning, and
am lorry to find that you think that I have mircon•
ceived the meaning of your fira letter, the whole te-
nor of which, and the military promotion which gave
rife to it, led me naturally to fuppofe your Mire was
that I thould apply to his Majelly, in. my official ca-
pacity, to give you military rank. to which might be
attached the idea of fubrequent command. •
44 That I found myrelf.undcr the neeeffity of de-
clining, in obedience to his Majelly's pointed orders,
as I explained to you in my letter of the 6th intl.—
But, from your letter of to-day, I am to underaand
that your objeCt is not military rank, but that a poll
should be allotted to you, upon the prefent emer-
gency, fuitable to your fituation in the State.
"4 This I conceive to be purely a political confider.
anion, and as filch totally out of my department ;
and as I have moll carefully avoided, at all times,
and under all circumflances, ever interfering in any
-political points, I mutt hope that you will not call
upon me to deviate from the principles by which
have been invariably govern:d. Believe me, my dear
Brother, your moil atfettionate Brother,
(Signed) " FItBDIMICK."
" His Royal }fiends the Prince of Wales.
MT DEAR BICITHII, Carlton Heide, OR. 14, 1803.

" It cannot but be painful to me to be reduced to
the neceflity of further explanation rin a fubjed which
it was my earneft with to have doled, and which was
of fo clear and dilline a nature as, in my humble
judgment, to have precladed the poffibility of either
doubt or mifunderftanding.
" Surely there mutt ionic grange fatality obfcure
my language in flatement, or leave me •fomewhat
deficier.t in the powers of explanation, when it can
lead your mind, my dear Brother, to fuch a palpa-
ble mifcmiftrudion (for far be it from me to fancy it
wilful) of my meaning, as to fuppofe for a moment
I had unconnected my object with thf:ient *filar,
Rani, and transferred it entirely to the view of a Po-
ktical Swim, whet you venture to tell me " my ob-
jet is not Military Rank, but that a Port mould be
allotted to me, upon the prefent emergency, 'likable
to my fituation in the 6tatc."—Upon what ground
you can hazard filch an Alrertion, or upon what prin-
ciples you caa draw fuck an inference, I am utterly
at a lofs to determine. For I defy the moll fkilful
Logician, in torturing the Englith languagev to apply
with fairnefi fuch a coeltrudion to any word or phrafe
of mine, contained in any one of the letters I have
ever written on this, to me, molt interelling fubjed.
di I call uponyento re-perufe the correfpondence.—
In my ktter cif the ad infi. I told you otsepivocally
that I biped you knew me too well to imagine, that
idle Matti,' rank was in my view, and that fentiment I
beg you carefully to obfcrve, I have in no indance
whatever for one tingle moment relinquilhed or de-
parted from.
" Giving, as I did, all the confiderations of my
heart to the delicacy and difficulties of your fituation,
nothing could have been more repugnant to my
thoughts, or to my dilpofition, than to hare impofed
upon you, my dear Brother, either in your capacity as
Commander in Chief, or in the near relationthip which
fubfills between us, the talk, much lei's the expeea.

•
tion of caufing you to rifque any difpleafute from
His Mikity, by ditobtying in any degree lii, com-
mands, although they were even to militate againft
m} fell. But, with the impulle of my feelings towards
you, and quickly conceivink what friendfhip and af-
feaion may be capable of, I did not, I own, think it
entirely impoffible that you might, confidering the
magnitude And importance which the objet carries
with it, have officially advanced my willies, as a mat-
ter of propriety, to military rani and 'Worm c0a11.11114
through His Majefty's Minillers, for that dired pur-
pofe ; efpecially when the hrnour of my charaaer and
my future fame in life were fu deeply involved in the
confederation. For, I muff here mephaiically again
repeat, that irl& inaarde rang was in my view,
and that military rank, with its confequent command,
was teacart oat of it.'

4, Feeling how orders, as well as ungracious, con-
troverfy is, upon every occafion, and knowing how
fatally it operates on human friendihips, I mutt en-
treat that our correfpondence on this fubjett 'hall
ceafe here; for nothing could be more diftreifing to
me, than to prolong a topic on which, it is now clear
to me. my dear Brother, that you and I can never
agree, &e. (Signed) " G. r."
Copy of e Letter from the Right Ilan. Hatter Aacontarett,
• silt, • Dated Mellowed Park. Oa. ag, dog.
if In conCequence of Coyne intelligence which has
reached me, I am impelled by a fenfe of duty to your
Royal Highnefs, and to the public. to exprell
cornett and anxious hope, that you may be induced
to poßpoue your return to Brighton until I (ball have
had an opportunity of making further inquiries, and
of Rating the refill' of them to your Royal Highnefs.
I have the honour to be, with the outwit deference
and refpett. Sir, your Royal Highnefs's faithful and
mon humble fe44,pt. (Signed)
...The Pain of Waive **

" Sir—By your grounding your letter to me upon
Intelligence which has jolt reached you. I apprehend
that you allude to information which leads you to
expeft Come immediate attempt from the enemy. My
with to accommodate myfelf to any thing which you
reprefent as material to the public fervice. would of
comic make me defirons to comply with your requeft
but if there be reafon to imagine that ;ovation will
take place direaly. I am bound by the King's precite
order, and by that honest zeal which is not allowed
any fitter (Owe far its idiot), to haften inftantly to
my regiment. If I learn that my confiruftioa of the
word intelligence be right. I mull deem it necefary'
to repair to Brighton immediately. &c. he.
"Welt Hue kiwi A4dingtva. (O ozed) G. P...

LONDON.

WEIAMSDAY, DECEM3FR 7.

PRICE OF STOCKS 11419 DAY AT ()NS. O'CLOCK.
Conf.°lt fur opgo SY---Ralueca 54! 6i.
4 Per Cent. 7o;—New 5 per Cent. 9t—Old Ditto Ibut.
- • Long Ann. t 6 131 ts-16.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock 1461 147 India &lAA Its 1704
3 Per C. Red. S.t S 4 Y Imp 1 pa Cent. t3t:
3 per C. CunG ant low. 'AIM 9 3.1604
4perCent.7t.l • •
st zeheq. 3‘.
3 per Cent. Navy_alet Omniutn sit dif.
nitso £797 91;x-! Lottery Tickets, 171 6t.
Long Ann. 16 1-16t6 f Coo& foe 0pg.56.}56

The authentic correfpoe..!cnce, given in the pre-
ceding columns, has been known to the high poli-
tical circles for fume time ; and we confefs we were
not anxious to introduce to the notice of the Public
a fubjeft in which fuch exalted Perfonages are con.
cerned. As, however, it has found its way into two
of the Morning Papers of this day, we _think our-
felvesabfolved from any refiraint which we might
otherwife have confidered as impofed on us by th,
peculiar delicacy of the fubjtEl.

Lall night, at ten o'clock, an eyprefs was fent
from the Navy Office to Deptford and Woolwich-
Yard, with orders for all chips at th•de places, that
are in a diffident Itate of lorwardnefs I, to pro-
ceed to the Nom immediately.
Difpatches were this morning received from Lnrd
GARDNER, dated on board the TRENT, in Cork har-
bour—all was well.
The WASP, SOP RIR, and DIAN arc ordered to
take the convoy to the Mediterranean.

We cannot pretend to afcertain what degree of
credit is due to the Ip.culation in the following let.
ter ; but we think it worth communicating, as it
comes from a citizen of Amlierdam, well affedled to
the interefts of Great Britain :

" Amfterdam, Nov. t 5, igc3.
It is now fail that the Dutch Divilon of Bonaparte's huge flo-
tilla is deftined for the North of England and the Firth of Forth,
while his Breit divifion will make an attempt upon Ireland. That
from the Southern ports of France and from Spain is dcfigned to
carry out troops for Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, and Brazil,
while the Conful, with a few of what are called gun boats, con-
tinues to mantauvre between Calais and Boulogne, to keep the
naval and military force of Omit Britain between London and
Dover Cattle. lie coaft North of Flamborough-Head, Canada,
Cape Breton, and Brazil, are the points that demand the particular
attention of the Englifla Govrt nment. The projects of Napolcone
Bonaparte extend far beyond the ordinary routine of your political
(peculators."

The la% French journals mentioned the return of
the FIR ST Cos sut. to Paris, but were client as to the
fads mentioned in the following private letter from
that City, shich prefents Come very important infor-
mation :

" PARIS, NOV. 22.

a It is raid here, that Bo AAAAA ra's late :meal:reed
return was in conferprence of an information from the
Grand Judge, and Minifter of Po:ice, that feveral
negleßed or difaffeCted Generals held nofurnal
meetings, at e which ....ARNOT, CHRNIER, TALLIES,
and other notorious revolutionary chiraders attend.
ed. Other reports Rate, that the arrival of a courier
from Ruffin obliged him to return to Paris, as the
cavitation which he fent to Count MARROFF, to vifit
him in his wooden bode on the mall, had been de-
clined. Upon his arrival, he ordered TA:Amax°
to call upon Count MARICOFF, who went with him
Afterwards to the Thuilleries, where they were
clofeted with the Foist. Consul., for four hours.
On his return to his hotel, the Ruffian Ambalfador
fent a courier to his Court ; but it is, however,
generally believed, that he will am remain here
until the time he can have an aufwer to his tuft
difpatehes. The uncommon dearnefs of the firft
neceffaries of life, makes the mifery and fuffer-
ings of all the lower clanks of the people very
great, and the with for a peace is general, even
among the military. At Bonaratres appearance
at the French theatre, the day after his arrival from
the coati, the cry of pais &se, la prim, was heard
amidll the applaufes paid by the police, and offend-
ed him fo muehl that he left the play in a pal Eon
before it was half aver. During his ablence, when
the news was Spread about, that the Ruffian Am•
baffador prepared to depart, the mob affembled be-
fore his hotel, and Tome Papeete, and other per-
font of their,defcription, wilhed to force an entrance
with intent to prevent his departure ; and though the
municipal guards difperfed the mob, they did not
ceafe to call out, La pia, wive Alexandre, live l' Am-
prow, and even fame cries were heard of V eve le
Rai et la prix. The pairouille have beets doubled
ever fine, and every thing continues quiet. Ru.
moors of peace, and of a Congrefs for a negocia.
tiein, hate revived Since the return of the FIRST
Conant, but thefe are little credited, becaufe the
police agents and coffee.houfe orators are traced to
be the only Source from which they originate. As I
have an opportunity of forwarding this Setter, which
feldom offers. I will tell you, that a manufaaory of
forged Englith Bank notes bas been eftablifhed at St.
Cloud; and that millions of them have already been
fent to the different camps on the coaft, to be diftri•
buted among the troops, when obey can ere a latartiez he
ZetzlasteL At prefent, theta notes are failed up in the
commifferiat of each column of the Army of England.
IA Cootafaire Oreloaseatnirfleetwel ore loft wend, axes of one,
'WO, dllidiMpts/Ithi.w.'ing. dry well exaliat and, as far
as I could conclusie from his converfAtioo, they have not

yet any forged notes abo7'2 twenty pounds. four
goveinn:cnt c.innot, therefore, be tno earful in its
11:arches itprin French prifoners, fhould Bop/sealers
etre& d I.:niing ia England; nor hi its precantiohs
to p: even: the citruiatio■ of thefe notes. If I alb
not the paper of chef: forged, notes is fat
7::ifefo wi.se as that of the rcal ones. IF is friid. Bo•
NA,PARTE intends to return to the coati earl i in the
ne::t

NAUTIC.IL INTELLIGIINOR.

MAILS THIS DA'
AIR. DUZ.

X,—Vk'had N. N. E.

Dublin
Waterford o a

Hantbergb

AIL SCR
0 3

PLYMOUTH, s.—Came in the New Draper,
Captain Huomas, from Newry, to London, with
pros iiions, put in for convoy ; the Union, of Whitby,
Capt. Sr VAK r, from Peterfburgh, laden with hemp ;
the Content, of North Shidds, Captain Tworasost,
from ltiga, with hemp; the Guilavus Adolphus,
Captain Ramp r.s, from Stockholm, with tar; the
Thomas, of Plymouth, Captain TwENT, from Porf-
gtound, all for this port; and the 11.micaa cutter,
Captain Faazaa, from the Dolma.

PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 6.—Arrived a fleet of
outward '
wound velTels from the Downs. Sailed the
MINERVA cutter, on a cruise. Yelierday failed the
Pssouts (loop of war with the Afti‘an Convoy.
P-AL, DECEMBER 6.—Sailed through the Downs.

•17nin3, Cameral outward bound Wei India.
men. Itemain u.:'is Down: his M./jelly's Mips, u
per laft. Wind E. N. E. fqually.
Sli asap gag, Dsc. 6.—On Saturday Lift the Royal
Weftminftcr Rdk'ment embarked on board tranf-
rscrts,and went from hence to Harwich I—and on

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the following day the detachment of Weft Isfid&lefer
marched away to the Bremanlees Barracks,near Mb-
ford.—This day the PEGASUS frigate wa4 paid, and
received orders to proceed to fel. The Bannsascar
Floating Battery, we underhand has been found nn-
fit to lie in the Svc in, and is to be removed to. a lest
dangerous fituation.

Frow ate LOAIDON G4Z6TTE, December 6.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

WAR OFFICE, orcrianek 6.
south I..?nnos Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry.
linakaid to he Captain ; Comet David Dabie to
be ; Pend- tntyne, Gent. to be Lieutenant;
; Janirs R .7 t fon, t ;wt. to be Cornet, v ice able.
it ve Centlemea and Yeomanry Cavalry.

3.a cow', El+ to be ; Tliontpftn, Gcnt. to be
t Samuel Gent. to be Cornet.
sttnuuti !‘: Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cat Airy.
John IlelthrOOke E(q. to be Captain ; George Brikoc, Gent. to
hr 14 Men-tar% FT.IIIICiS Homiray, Gent. to be Cornet ; F. W 4
k •r, Gent. to be Adjutant.
Stirlingthire Sq•aadron of Gentlemen and Yeomanry
Cavalry.

Captain Murray to be Major Commandant. •
Twyb,rJ Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry.
Couley Savory. fen Fig tube Captiin.
Uttozet r Gentlen..n and Yeomanry Cavalry.

.Hein. Ba. 'a to be Captain ; Bryan Hodgkin, Gmt:to be
ueursoa,t ; Juin, Smith, lkut to be Cornet.
Yarmnoth Gen-lernen and Yeomanry Cavalry.
Reverend Samuel Levick to be Citified&
William Taylor, jun. Gent. to be Sdrgeon.
Bating doke Company of Volttiiteers.
cient. to be Eniign.
Blickl;ng and Gantone Volunteers.
To be Captain--Stephrn Luthlngton, Efq. lieutenants James
Hunt Holly, James Huntington, au I Robert enpanan.
To be Lieutenants-141,0 Dixie Cherchill, James Gage, William
Barber, Thomas Kackham. and G•argeWeight, Gents.
Bithop Waltlunt Volunteers.
Identenant Robert 'Budd to be Captain; Emir John Henry
Cleaver to be 11 myosin, vice Build; H. Aubrey Veck, Gent.
to be Eniiga, vice Cleaver.
Balinghnorne Volnnteer Infantry.

William Cowling, Ertl. to be Captaio; Stephen Cob; Gent. to be
LiLutenaat ; Arthtr Butterfithi, Gent. to be &Agri.
Switb of the Rape f &amber Volunteers.
sai.im Stamford, Gena to be Lieutenant.

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