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war. The part of the silk on which the name of the battalion should have appeared has been cut away. Other inscriptions refer to the affairs of Velingen, of Langhensalza, of Villinghausen, of Minden, and the dates of 27th June, 1743; 1st June, 1758; 1st August, 1759; 15th February and 16th June, 1761; and 24th June, 1762. The remainder of standards and colours appear to belong to the same epochs, and to have been lost in the unfortunate actions which followed the battle of Rosbach. Thus they recall the war of 1755, begua by the English without any previous declaration, and signalised by an assassination, that of Jumonville. They recall successes very little ho nourable to the enemy, since they were in a great measure owing to the perfidy which violated the Convention of Closterseven. They recall the weakness which then reigned in the councils of the French government, and which at last consented to the ignominious treaty of 1763.In the very beginning of a new war, undertaken to avenge the faith of treaties, to punish perfidy, and to wash out the many insults offered to the French name, we see the monuments of our antient misfortunes changed in our hands into monuments of glory. We may now place, with pride, these colours which we have recovered, in the midst of those taken from the enemy, with which French valour has decorated the dome of the invalids. More than one veteran recognising, with emotion, the standard under which he had fought, which he had perhaps stained with his blood, will bless those who have made an ornament of his last asylum. The new trophies, added to those which ten years of victory had accumulated, are the presage to Frenchmen of the fresh successes promised them by the justice of their cause, the heroism of their warriors, and the genius of him who commands them. have the honour to propose that government shall order the colours sent home by General Mortier to be hung up in the Temple of the Invalids, with the following inscription:Signa nostris restituit sacris Direpta Parthorum superbis Postibus.—Hor.

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DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPERS.

HIS MAJESTY'S PROCLAMATION FOR CONVENING PARLIAMENT ON THE 22D OF NOVEMBRR, 1803. GEORGE R.Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the third day of November next: We, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, That the said ParJiament shall be further prorogued on the said third day of November next to Tuesday the 22d day of November next: And we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a commission for proroguing the same accordingly. And we do further hereby, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said 22d day of November next. be held and fit for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Bargesses, and the Commissioners for Shires an Burghs, of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly at Westminster on the said twentysecond day of November next.Given at our Court at St. James's, the twelfth-day of October, One

Thousand Eight Hundred and Three, in the Forty-third Year of our Reign.

GENERAL ORDERS for all the OFFICERS appointed to the battalions OF THE ARMY OF RESERVE, and the SECOND BATTALION of the regimens of the LINE. Tɔ JOIN their regiments before the 15г. OF NOVEMBER. Dated Horse-Guards, October 13, 1803.

It is his Majesty's Command, that all Officers appointed to the Battalions of the Army of Reserve, and to the Second Battalions of the Regiments of the Line which have received men from that Corps, shall forthwith join their respective Regiments. His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief will lay before his Majesty the names of Officers belonging to these Battalions, who shall not have joined before the 1st of next month, (whose absence is not satisfactorily accounted for throught their Commanding Officers,) in order that they may be superseded. Officers, on being appointed to any of the Regiments above-mentioned, are required immediately to report them selves to Lieutenant-General Hewitt, at his Office, No. 6, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross, from whom they will receive further instructions.By his Royal Highness's command, HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant General.

INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN. The Albanians, who commenced the revolt in Egypt, have, since their junction with the Mamelukes, submit ted themselves entirely to the direction of the Beys. The mass of the people in Egypt is favourable to their cause; and, from the great success which they have already obtained, there can scarcely be any doubi thất the whole province will soon be brought under their authority.The civil war in Arabia still continues: Medina, it is now said, is in possession of the Turks, but Mecca is held by a Sheeriff under Abdul Wachab, who has retired into the desert to re-inforce his troops.Accounts which have been recently received from Amèrica, corroborate the rumours which lately prevailed in the ports of the Mediterranean, that some acts of hostility had taken place be tween the subjects of the Emperor of Morocco and of the Dey of Algiers and the citizens of the United States.--Great alarm prevails among the English merchants at Lisbon, in consequence of the hostile influence which France has obtained over Por tagal. A meeting of the factory was held for the purpose of considering what mea sures were necessary to be pursued;" and it was determined that all British property ought immediately to be embarked. Private letters state that his Majesty's Consol had formally recommended that every thing should be in such state as to be ready for an immediate removal; as it was probable that it would not much longer be sad to remain there. Gen. Lasnes, it appears, has

dined with the Prince Regent, who with his consort were sponsors to one of the Am bassador's children, who was christened at the Royal Palace on the 29th of September.

The foreign papers continue to speak of the existence of a negotiation between some of the great continental powers for restoring the free navigation of the Elbe and the Weser; and some of these papers assert that this negotiation has also the pacification of England and France for its object. The anniversary of the French Republic was celebrated throughout France, without any splendid shows or extraordinary festivities, either in the capital or the departments. The prefect of the police at Paris has reported to the Grand Judge, that, during the last year, four hund-ed and ninety men and one hundred and sixty-seven women comitted suicide in that metropolis; eightyone men and sixty-nine women were murdered; six hundred and forty-four divorces took place; one hundred and fifty-five murderers have been executed; twelve hundred and ten persons were condemned to the gallies, the pillory, or chain, sixteen hundred to hard labour and imprisonment, aud sixty-four marked with hot irons: during the same period, twelve thousand and seventy-six public women were registered, and paid for the protection of the police; fifteen hundred and fifty-two kept mistresses were noted at the prefecture; and three hundred and eight brothels were licensed.

DOMESTIC.- -On the 5th inst. Redmond, the Irish traitor was tried and condemned, and on the next day was executed, as were, also, Mackintosh and Keenan who had been previously convicted. They all confessed their guilt, before they were executed; and Redmond acknowledged that he had held an official station under the provisional government.- -A commission was opened at Downpatrick on the 10th inst. and another at Carrickfergus on the 13th. On the 12th a proclamation was issued by the Lord Lieutenant offering rewards for the apprehension of the following persons accused of high treason:-W, Dowcall, J. Allen, N. Stafford,, T. Wilde, and J. Mahon, of Dublin; W. Hamilton, of Enniskillen; Mc. Quigley, of Rathcoffey; O. Lyons, of Maynooth; T. Kerghan, of Crewe-hill; and T. Frayne, of Boreen. Quigley and Stafford have since been apprehended and lodged in Kilmainham jail, where there are now about thirty persons confined on suspicion.In consequence of the promotion of Mr. Justice Downes to the Chief Justiceship of Ireland, Mr. Baron Dally will go to the King's Bench, and will

be succeeded by the Solicitor-General Mr. Cleland, whose place will be filled by Mr. Plunkett. Lord Cathcar', who was appointed to succeed Gen. Fox, arrived in Dublin on the 14th inst.-Gen. Tarleton has left Ireland, and it is said, is to take the command of the Severn district in the room of HR. H' Prince William of Gloucester.

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-Lord Moira is appointed to the military command of Scotland. - A grace bas passed the Senate of the University of Cambridge permitting those students who belong to Volunteer Corps to be absent during the ensuing terin.------ His Majesty has issued a proclamation for convening parliament, for the dispatch of business, on the 22d of November. The Mameluke Chief, Mahomed Bey Elphi Morat, accompanied by his suite, has arrived in town, to claim from this country the fulfilment of the promises, which were made to the Beys, when the Bris tish army in Egypt solicited their assistance.——A printer in the neighbourhood of Tottenham-Court-Road, was taken into custody on the 14th inst. on suspicion of having printed and distributed seditious papers :: some of the papers were found in his possession, and he was sent to the Secretary of State's Office for examination.--The General Fast was respectfully observed throughout the metropolis and its vicinity, where the different Volunteer Corps attended their respective churches in full uniform.-The Lords Lieutenant of the county and of the city of Edinburgh have issued a proclamation recommending the inhabitants to supply themselves with a stock of flour, oatmeal, and biscuit; because, in case of inva sion it may be necessary to break up the roads, and the horses may be put in a state of requisition, and regular supplies, of provision cannot then be obtained.

MILITARY.Of the military preparations on the Continent it is almost impossi ble to give any satisfactory account. The intelligence from there is so irregularly received, and so imperfectly detailed, and, at the same time, so uncertain and so contradictory that no accurate notion can be formed of the number of troops which are collecting, of the precise places where they are to be assembled, or whence they are to be embarked, or of the generals by whom they are to be commanded. It is is said, however, that the French troops who occupy Hanover so far from preparing to retire, are fortifying themselves in the different posts in the Electorate, and particularly on the banks of the Elbe; that great numbers of French and Batavian troops are spread along the coasts and southern borders of the Bata

vian Republic, and that farge bodies are stationed at Bergen-op-Zoom and Breda; and in the islands of Walcheren and Cadsand where large detachmen's are constantly arriving, and where considerable preparations are making for defence; that the organization of the army forming between the Scheldt and the Lys goes on with great activity, that troops are marching there from the interior departments, through Brussels, Namur, en Charleroi, and that by the middle of the present month the number of troops between Ghent, Deyuse, and Bruges will amount to eighty-thousand men; that the division stationed between Dunkirk, Nieuport, and Oster d is in a state of complere arrangement; and that the army of the Pyrenees assembling at Bayonne, under the command of Angereau will amount to sixty-thousand men, to which will be added an immense park of artillery under Gens. Avril and Ducos.--It is also said, that the French troops in the Italian states bordering on the Austrian frontiers in the neighbourhood of Venice are daily increasing, and that the Emperor has directed some Hungarian regiments to join those which he has already raised in the Venetian territory; that the Gallo-Italian army is very powerful on the borders of the Adriatic, and that measures are taking to transport a large force over to the Morea. -The military preparations for defending the British coast proceed as usual.

NAVAL.- -The French privateers La Caroline of eight guns and thirty-five men, and La Sophie of ten guns and forty men, which were fitted out at Harburgh in Hanover, descended the Elbe on the 18th ult. and on the 20th. came out of Cuxhaven. Captain Griffiths, who was stationed off there in his Majesty's ship Constance, got sight of them, and immediately dispatched all his boats after them, under the command of Lieut. Napier, but the wind and tide would not suffer him to attack them. The next day, however, Capt. Griffiths captured the Caroline, and sent his boats against the Sophie, who had got on shore, she struck her colours, but the sea ran so high that it was impossible to get the people out. During the night the wind changed, and she succeeded in getting off, and reached Cuxhaven.

SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

NEGLIGENCE OF MINISTERS.-After carrying their forbearance to a degree hererofore unheard of; after having silently borne thousands of injuries and insults, any one of which would have called forth their remon

strances against a ministry worthy of their confidence; after this long night of popular torpor and baseness, the people appear to be awakening, if not to a sense of their shame, at least, to a sense of their danger. The dawn has opened in the North, and it is to be hoped, that it will, in a little time, reach from one end of the country to the other. The County of Edinburgh have held a meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration the means of obtaining from the Government the force necessary to the protection of their coast, which they openly declare, in printed publications, to have been "shamefully neglected by the ministers," and which they represent as in a state of absolute defencelessness, their "only

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means of security consisting of a forty"four gun frigate, and she lying in Leith "Road." In consequence of this, it was proposed to the meeting, by LORD MEADOWBANK, to present an address to his "Majesty, respectfully stating the defence"less state of the coast, and expressing their "hope, that his Majesty would take it into "his most gracious consideration." It was proposed to modify this proposition, so as to wait for an answer from the ministers, previous to the presenting an address to his Majesty; but," the meeting unanimou ly "agreed in the necessity there was of mak"ing a representation to Government on "the subject "*This charge of neglect of duty has constantly been denied by the ministers and their friends; and, most people will remember, that Mr. Windham and Colonel Craufurd were most outrageously assaulted, because they, even in the month of June last, represented the coun try as in danger from the invading powers of the enemy. Now, one would naturally think, a little more attention would be paid to the representations of Mr. Windham and his friends; but, no; still less, perhaps? for, there is, in the mind of the coward, a perversity unknown to the minds of other men. "Seeing he will not see, and hearing "he will not hear." The time, however, must come, when the people of this country will feel what it is silently and basely to yield to the sway of the Addingtons and Hawkesburies; and, as feeling alone will have any effect on them, as feeling alone will goad them on to those exertions, by which alone they can save themselves and their posterity from indelible infamy, the sooner that time comes the better.To return to the subject of the proceedings at

* See a sketch of the whole of the proceedings, page 554.

Edinburgh; we find that a memorial was, long ago, presented to the ministers, relative to the defenceless state of the Eastern coast of Scotland; but that, even an answer had not been received; so that, the capital of the North, an object next in importance after London and our naval arsenals, has, with the utmost indifference, been left in a state of perfect nakedness, for no better reason, perhaps, than that Mr. Addington, hist family, and his colleagues, happen to have nothing to lose in Scotland. The truth, however, is, that these ignorant men begin most sorely to feel what it is to be put systematically upon the defensive in war. Naturally confused, because they are weak. and altogether destitute of those talents, which rise in proportion to the demands of the public service or their resources, they are inextricably perplexed and distracted with the multiplicity of the objects around them, and the numerous applications of individuals and public bodies in various quarters, each seeing his own immediate danger and anxious to remove it from himself and from those who are dearest to him, while the ministers, who should hear, consider, judge, arrange, and combine all into one consistent whole, having nothing prepared in their own minds, having formed no general plan, and being incapable of forming any, look, like the rest, only at the part which is directly before their eyes, and contemplate London almost alone, because on the credulity of the monied men and the humour of the populace in the capital, hangs not only their continuance in office, but, perhaps, their very existence on the face of the earth.-LORD MEADOWBANK very properly exposes the indecency of the excuse for wanting arms, that government did not expect such a spirit in the country.* These are the men, who "follow the people!" and who anticipate from the people, whom they follow, and whom they calumniate while they attempt to flatter, nothing generous, nothing manly, nothing worthy of themselves. When, therefore, they profess, to follow the people, they, in fact, tell 'the' world, that meanness and pusillanimity are to their own taste; for, they, at length, avow, that they expected to find in the peo-. ple nothing but what is mean and pusillanimous. It was the ingenious MR. SHERIDAN, Who discovered for them this notable maxim of following the people. The measures for the defence of the country were not sooner adopted, said he, because 'the " people would not sooner babe BORNE them." What a fearful truth, if a truth it were!

Sce Mr. Yorke's Letter, p. 497.

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This argument was distinctly repeated by Mr. Addington; and, it has been still more amply dwelt on, it has been swelled quite into topic, in the pamphlet, which has lately been published and circulated under the direction of the Treasury, and at the expense of the public. "It is true," say they "that "Mr. Pitt and the Grenvilles thought a great deal more might have been done, "and a great deal quicker. But this is the "characteristic failing and misfortune of "their family. For they would have had it "their measure, and not the nation's; it "would have been their act, and now it is "the people's!" These are exactly the sentiments of all those ministers, in all countries, in whose hands the ancient governments have fallen to pieces. And yet, these are the sentiments, this is the maxim and the rule of conduct of the men, to whom the honour and the very existence of Britain are now committed!-But, what excuse, as to the want of arms, can be grounded upon the eagerness of the people to come forward, when every one well knows, that if not a single volunteer-corps had offered, the number of arms necessary for the training under the general defence bill would have been, at least, one-fourth greater than the whole num ber of volunteers? The volunteers, supposing the corps all to be complete, cannot contain more than seventy-five for every hundred that were to have been brought out and trained under the defence bill; if, therefore, there are not arms enough for the vo lunteers, and, it is well known, that there are not, even now, more than half enough, where would arms have been found for the drilling under the defence bill? To state, then, the unexpected zeal of the people, as an excuse for not having provided a sufficiency of arms for them, is an attempt at imposition, which might have been looked for in the Addingtons and Hawkesburies, but which one cannot help lamenting to meet with in Mr. Yorke. As to the reproach of tardi"ness," says the Addington pamphlet, "it

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for it." This is another assertion of that doctrine, which is fast democratizing the British government; but, suppose, for a moment, that the ministers could not have brought in a bill to arm the people, till the people themselves called for such a bill, most certainly no such apology can be pleaded with regard to arms? The providing of arms required no bill; required no call on the part of the people; an order from the

very little more secure. Essex has a consi-
derable number of troops in it; but not half
enough. Sussex and Kent are in a better
state of defence, and this is principally owing
to the exertions of the Duke of Richmond
and Mr. Pitt. But, generally speaking, the
situation of Scotland is full as secure as that
of England; and, if we take into considera-
tion the anxious desire, which the enemy has
to reach London, Scotland is more secure.
We are, all round our vast coast, in absolute
want of gun-boats and craft of that descrip-
tion; and, after the repeated representations
of our own naval officers, we are Now begin-
ning to hire packets and fishing vessels,
which we are soon to begin to fit up with
carronades, upon a plan approved of, and
actually adopted, by the late administration,
which the present ministers, therefore, in
their own way of making war by precedent,
are inexcusable for not having long since
copied; which they have, at last, chiefly
thought of carrying into effect, on the Ken-
tish coast, at the instance and importunities
of Mr. Pitt, who is Lord Warden of those
ports and shores, and who has been indefa-
tigable in his exertions, within the limits of
his jurisdiction; and which, after all, will
not be ready for service, before the French,
with all their want of naval means, will
have completed a much larger establishment
of the same kind from the very stocks.-
Let it not be said, that this is giving infor-
mation to the enemy, and "inviting inva-

ordnance was all that was wanted to provide, in the course of six weeks, arms for two hundred thousand men; and yet, nearly, if not quite, one half of the volunteers, are, to this hour, destitute of arms of any kind, while many of those who are armed have only pikes, that is to say, sharp pieces of iron fastened on to the end of staves, instruments very little better than pitch-forks, wherewith to meet the balls and the bayonets of the French. To provide weapons like these required no call from the people; and, if a call had been necessary, every one will acknowledge, that it was by no means wanted; for, that the people have been continually calling for arms, from the time that war was declared to the present hour.-The answer to the Edinburgh memorial is represented, in the ministerial papers, to have been, that "Lord Keith commands on the "Northern Station, and he will send what "force he may think necessary." Thus all the responsibility is miserably attempted to be shifted on an officer, who, with a most extensive scene of operations, both offensive and defensive, from Boulogne to the Elbe and the Weser, and from the North Foreland to John o'Groat's House, has, probably, under him not half the force, which he may think barely sufficient for half the objects of his manifold duties. Add to this, that the want of cruizers is not the only, or even the principal, complaint of the people of Edinburgh. The memorial, if we may trust Lord Meadowbank, represented the superior" sion;" the example of the Edinburgh utility of merchant vessels, fitted up as gunboats; and, to that part of the application there does not appear to have been any answer at all given. That is, most likely, left, as every other part of our defence has been, to the public-spirit of the people, or to chance. His Lordship does, however, appear to have been misinformed as to the situation of the coast of England, which he seems to regard as in an impregnable state; but which, defenceless as is the state of the Scotch coast, has, in general, nothing to boast of by way of comparison. Norfolk has in it one regiment of militia and its quota of volunteers, and that is all: not a single company of regulars in the whole county, and the volunteers, who had no arms served out to them till since the beginning of this month, must, of course, be in an admirable state of preparation for a meeting with the legions of Buonaparté. Accordingly we see, that the people of the county are looking out for the means of flight. Edinburgh is laying in provisions for a siege;, but the people of Yarmouth are preparing for the removal of their valuables and their persons, In Suffolk the state of the coast is

meeting, composed of gentlemen, clergy, judges, and lords, and presided over by a Duke, may surely be an example sufficient to ward off the charges even of the formidable Mr. Archdall. This gentleman, who thought proper to make a public accusation against the editor of this work, because he had, five months before the war broke out, and two months before it was known that there was any dispute existing between this country and France; because he had, even at that time, represented the state of Ireland as exposed to an attack, the patriotic Mr. Archdall charged him with conveying information to the enemy, while we were at peace, and with inviting to invasion, while we were suffering Frenchmen to come to our shores by thousands, and while the French ambassador was constantly attending at the levee at St. James's. It would be curious to know what sort of sentiment this gentleman entertains of the conduct of the meeting at Edinburgh, where an exact description of the defenceless state of the coast was made and published, and yet where it does not appear that the persons making such description wished to invite the French to their shores.

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