us hope, that, if he should again come into power, he will discard a system so injurious to the harmony and welfare of the State. Another error, which it is to be hoped Mr. Pitt will correct, is, that superabundant caution, which prevents him from clearly and unequivocally stating his object and his resolution, which leaves the public mind for ever in a state of uncertainty, and which has, in so many instances, proved injurious to the country. To this very error, and to this error alone, the French Republic owes all its successes. The British Parliament never, at any one time, knew the real object of the late war; and how, then, should Europe know it? From an over anxiety not to fail in any enterprize, the British minister acted in a way in which he never could be said to undertake; and, therefore, he was never cordially joined, either at home or abroad. No man voluntarily embarks to be drifted to and fro by the tide, or to shift his course with every change of the wind; but, tell him his destination, and he chearfully braves the toils and dangers of the sea.-Mr. Pitt's fort lies in the domestic rather than the foreign department of politics. Having, from his very youth, had one eye constantly upon the Bank and the other upon the Parliament House, he has never been able to look abroad into the great world of politics. Without, therefore, at all detracting from the powers of his mind, we may venture to say, that he has discovered no great degree of penetration as to the conduct, the interests, and views of other nations. This is a science, however, which he must now apply himself to. The career, on which he is now about to enter, bears no resemblance to that which he has heretofore run. The present peace has laid the foundation for an entirely new distribution of power, the effects of which must be felt in a very few years. We must then have war; and it behoves him to consider how we shall be able to resist the confederacy, which France can, and will, form against us. It behoves him to consider, in time, how the people of this country are again to be roused to arms. Husbanding our resources" will not save

selves; and that is, that his preference of low-churchmen has excited great jealousy and suspicion in those who are sincerely attached to the hierarchy, amongst whom are certainly to be reckoned a vast majority of the clergy; that the project, imputed to him, for rendering the clergy pensioners of the state, has greatly strengthened this suspicion; that, in short, the clergy do not regard him as a friend of the church. While Jacobinism was at our doors, while all was in jeopardy, the clergy supported him, because the existance of the Church and State was, in some sort, identified with his administration; but, now that the danger of commotion and rebellion is past, the minds of men will return to considerations of a nature somewhat more private, and, he may rest assured, that the attachment of this powerful body, powerful by their numbers, their talents, their character, and their local situations, is to be preserved by nothing short of unequivocal testimony, that he harbours no intention of invading or undermining the established Church, to effect which was, as many persons believe, the sole object of the establishment of the Board of Agriculture, a belief which has been but too strongly corroborated by the proceedings and publications of that board. We also beg leave to tell him, that his partiality for young and new men, for persons of his own creation, to the almost total exclusion of the old nobility and gentry, is a subject of complaint with a great number of very good men. In the present state of this country a minister might set the nobility and gentry at defiance, if the ill-wilf excited amongst them could be confined to their own breasts; but it cannot; the people, we mean the better sort of the people, resent the neglect and ill treatment of those whom they have been, from their infancy, in the habit of respecting, more especially when the honours and favours due to them are conferred on persons of mean birth. Il vaut mieux qu'une cité périsse qu'un parvenu la gouverne, is an old Norman proverb; and, though the age of chivalry is certainly gone, men yet retain soul enough to dislike the power that places them beneath an upstart. This upstart system naturally grew out of the peculiar circumstances, under which Mr. Pitt came into power. It was adhered to, with some exceptions, from the first moment of his administration to the last: be appears never to have voluntarily and cordially given the hand to any thing great, whether of birth, character, or talent. Let

us.

France has neither "commerce, capital, nor credit," yet, at only six weeks notice, she ships off an army of thirty thousand men across the Atlantic. She has, in the whole, sent 45,000 men, and more are preparing. This shows that "commerce, credit, and capital" are not essentially necessary to the power of France;

and we hope, that Mr. Pitt will no longer regard a contest with that power as “a war of finance." Men are very apt to attach the greatest degree of importance to that science which they best understand: "You may," said the currier," think what you please about stone and oak, but, if you "have a mind to have the town well fortified, take my word for it there is nothing "like leather." We have opposed money to a military spirit, and we have failed. Let the eloquence of Mr. Pitt be employed to create something more efficient than wealth; something that France cannot rob us of; then will he acquire a renown more lasting than brass and marble.

The length of these remarks has left us but little room for other matters, and, indeed, there is nothing very important to notice. The dispatches from Guadaloupe, notwithstanding the unfavourable accounts lately received and industriously promulgated in London, state, that the French have completely succeeded in restoring order and submission in that island. An article in the French papers informs us, that Toussaint, the famous black hero, who was to maintain a war everlasting, is arrived, in high 'health and spirits, at the port of Brest. 'If this be true, the English philanthropists may repair thither, and give him the fra

ternal embrace.

The

The United States of America is, at this moment, the most interesting scene. people of that country are, at last, seriously alarmed at the prospect of seeing the French in their neighbonrhood (vide p. 38). They even talk of preventing what they so much dread; but, their resistance will be confined to words, though we shall not be surprized to hear, that Bernadotte, if he be not very rapid in his movements, has met with some annoyance at the mouth of the Mississippi. Bernadotte will have about 7,000 French soldiers, to which will, probably, be added 4 or 5,000 blacks from St. Domingo. If the Americans support General Bowles, either openly or secretly, the French General may have some trouble, but we think he will finally triumph, and, from 'that moment, the American States are at his mercy. So much the better, says Sir F. M. Eden," this will create a jealousy of France, "which will attach the Americans more

"closely to us." This doctrine has not been very fully exemplified in the case of Holland. If we were ready to lend the Americans aid, then, indeed, the cession of Louisiana would have been a happy circumstance; but we want peace," peace and a large loaf," as the

base rabble of Norwich replied to the arguments of Mr. Windham. Should there be any attempt, on the part of the Americans, to resist the French, the English ministry, so far from lending them aid, will be the first to protest against their resistance; nor should we be at all surprized, if His Majesty were to be advised to issue a declaration to that effect.

TO THE PUBLIC.

On Wednesday last CHARLES BELOE (son of the Rev. Wm. Beloe), a clerk in the General Post-Ofice; CHARLES WAGSTAFF, another clerk in that Office; and JOHN HARWOOD, an amanuensis to the Rev. Wm. Beloe and to the British Critic, were tried at the Sessions at Clerkenwell,

for a riot committed at the house of Mr. Cobbett in Pall Mall.-They were convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine, the two former of £30 each, and the latter of £10, and were bound to keep the peace and to be of good behaviour for the space of two years. This brief notice would have suf ficed; but, as the proceedings of the trial have been most shamefully misrepresented in the London Newspapers, we think it our duty to publish a faithful account of them, a duty which we shall discharge as soon as possible. In the mean time we think it right to observe, that, it appeared from the evidence of the Deputy Comptroller of the Foreign Post-Office, that neither of the two clerks had been for a moment suspended from their places or emoluments, since the commission of the crime, for which they were several weeks ago, indicted; and that a letter of Lord Auckland was shown in court, for the purpose of proving, that that crime bad in no degree injured the character of the criminals. We do not say that his lordship so expressed himself, but the letter was shown to the prosecutor's counsel with a view to convince him that such was his lordship's opinion; and it does, we confess, appear somewhat strange, that men who had been committed to gaol, and who were afterwards indicted by the Grand Jury, should, nevertheless, still retain their places in a government office, under the controul of a nobleman, remarkable for his

attention to business. Nor is our surprize, in this respect, diminished, when we contrast the conduct of his lordship with that of the Commissioners of the Excise, who instantly suspended an Exciseman that was taken up at the same time with Beloe and his associates, and who kept him suspended, 'till his innocence was ascertained by the decision of the Grand Jury.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1802.

Whitehall, July 10.-The King has been pleased to appoint his Grace Hugh Duke of Northumberland, G. to be Custos Rotulorum of and in the County of Northumberland, and of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Letters Patent bearing date the 12th day of June last.

The King has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Evan Nepean, of Loders and Bothenhampton, in the County of Dorset, Esq. and to the beirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

Jy3.-The King has been pleased to grant the digity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of GreatBritain and Ireland to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Baker Littlehales, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

Walter Birmingham, from half-pay, to be Licu vice Bamford, who exchanges. Lieut. Rob, Birmingham, from half-pay, to be Lieut. vice Tandy, who exchanges.

40th Ditto, Ensign H. John Macquarrie, from the 77th Foot, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Fyffe, promoted in the 1st West-India Regiment. 41st Ditto, Sam. Hughes, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Colthurst, promoted. 42d Ditto, Lieut. Fred. Campbell, from half-pay, to be Lieut. vice Simon Fraser, who exchanges. 43d Ditto, Capt. Lieut./Rich. Elers, to be Capt. of a Company, without purchase, vice Philpot, promoted in the 59th Foot. Lieut. Adrian De Yonge to be Capt. Lieut. vice Elers. Tho. Lawrence Hen. Delamain, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Imlack removed to the 3d West-India Regiment. 55th Ditto, Ensign Martin Macpherson to be Licut. by purchase, vice Evatt, promoted.

60th Ditto, Lieut. John White, from the 11th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Teale, who exchanges. Jas. Nethery, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Blacker, whose appointment does not take place.

62d Ditto, Major Wm. Myers, from the 15th Foot, to be Lieut. Col. by purchase, vice Fisher, who

retires.

77th Ditto, Lieut. John Law, from the 10th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Anderson, who exchanges. 90th Ditto, Capt. Jas. Lord Ruthven to be Major, without purchase, vice Vigoreaux, promoted in the Royal Garrison Battalion. Capt. Lieut. Wm. Austin to be Capt. vice Lord Ruthven. Lieut. Rich. Butler to be Capt. Lieut. vice Austin. Ensign Benj. Martin to be Lieut. vice Butler.

ARMY PROMOTIONS.

War-Office, July 10, 1802.

Reg. of Dragoons, Cornet Lawrence Craigie to be Lear by purchase, vice Murray, promoted in the 8th Light Dragoons.

15h Peg. of Light Dragoons, Lieut. Walter Natha. Len to be Capt. of a Troop, by purchase, vice Mansfield, who retires.

1 Date, Lieut. Geo. Home Murray, from Half, to be Lieut. vice Frewren, who exchanges. Dio, Capt. Jas. Macdonnell to be Major, by prese, vice Gore, who retires. Lieut. Jo. Werge abe Capt. vice Macdonnell.

for Ditto, Sargeon Ch. George, from the 2nd Light Lagoons to be Sargeon, vice Robinson, who retres cpon the Hal pay of the 22d Light Dragoons. Her. of Foot, Lieut. Alex. Anderson, from the Foot, to be Lieut. vice Law, who exchanges. F Massey, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hip, promoted in the 9th Foot.

Ditto, Lient. Geo. Teale, from the 60th Foot, to Lirat vice White, who exchanges. 15, Lieut. Wm. Mackenzie, from the Macard Fencibles, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Clarion

Do, Ensign Wm. Dennie, from the 20th Foot, Darley, placed upon half-pay.

be Ensign, vice po, Laut, Rich. Egerton, from half-pay, to be It. vice Seymour, who exchanges. Lieut.

Hawkesworth.

8th Ditto, Lieut. Wm. Hen. Raikes, from the 3d Foot, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Cummings, who retires.

10th Ditto, Wm. Skipton, Gent. to be Adjutant, vice G. H.Skipton, deceased.

Colonel Broderick's Reg. Col. the Hon. John Broderick to be Col. Commandant. STAFF.-Lieut. Col. Hen. Clinton, of the 1st Foot Guards, to be Adjutant-Gen. to the King's Troops serving in the East-Indies, vice Crauturd, who resigns.

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Lieut. Col. Miles Nightingale, of the 38th Foot, to be Quart. Mast. Gen. to the King's Troops serying in the East-Indies, vice Gordon, who resigns. Memandum. The Appointment of Lieut. Fred. G. Carmichael to be Capt. by purchase, in the 10th Reg. of Light Dragoons, vice Macdonald, who iеtires, as stated in the Gazette of the 224 ult, has not taken place.

Lieut. Jas. Bid, of the 9th Reg, of Foot, is super

seded.

BANKRUPTS,

Banks, Thomas, of Hill-house, Sedgeley, Staffordshire, Carpenter.

Barrett, John, of Wakefield, Gardener.

Bonsor, William, Red Lion Street, Spital-Silds, Sijk

weaver.

Bulfield, William, of Lancaster Shopkeeper.
Carter, Thomas, the younger, of Waltham y
Cross, Essex, Corn-chandler.

Chilcott, William, late of Lamb Street, Spital-fields, Plumber.

Collishaw, Charles, of Wych Street, St. Clement Danes, Cabinet Maker.

Forbes, Colin, of Chichester Rents, Chancery Lane, Baker.

Formby, John, late of Newburgh, Lancashire, Blacksmith.

Hope, Peter, Liverpool, Merchant.

James, John, of Hatton Garden, Dealer.
Jenkins, Walter, of Bristol, Broker.

Lambert, Thomas, late of West Grinstead, Sussex,
Shopkeeper.

Longfellow, William, of Horseforth, Guiseley, Yorkshire, Clothier.

Parslee, John, of Holt, Norfolk, Bookseller.

Smith. George, of Barnsley, Yorkshire, Grocer. Sunderland, James, of Sandall Magna, Yorkshire, Corndealer.

Yeates, John, of Portsmouth, Coal Merchant,

BIRTHS.

Lenox, Maj. Gen. Lady of, on Saturday morning last, in Harley Street, of a son,

Mason, Col. Lady of, on Tuesday last, at Nashhouse, Gloucestershire, of a son.

Talbot, Countess, on Saturday the 11th instant, at Ingestree, of a son and heir.

MARRIAGES.

Hudson, Chas. Thos. Esq. eldest son of Sir Chas. Grave Hudson, Bart. to Miss Pepperell, youngest daughter of Sir Wm. Pepperell, Bart. Parker, Wm. Esq. of the Civil Establishment, to Miss Catherine Jane Seton, second daughter of Dan Seton, Esq. Lieut. Gov. of Surat, on the 14th February last, at Sir John Anstruther's, Bart. in Calcutta.

Trotter, B. A. Coutts, Esq. to Miss Margaret Gordon,

youngest daughter of the late Hon. Alex. Gordon, Lord Rockville, brother to the late Earl of Aberdeen, at Hendon, Middlesex.

DEATHS.

Bleamire, Rich. Esq. of Penrith, Cumberland, father of Mr. Bleamire, Police-magistrate of HattonGarden, a few days since.

Hawtayne, Mrs. wife of the Rev. W. Hawtayne, lately at Bristol Hot-wells.

Howell, his Excellency Richard, late Governor of New Jersey, lately at Trenton.

Jay, Mrs. wife of His Excellency John Jay, late Governor of New-York, and daughter of his late Excellency W. Livingston, formerly Gov. of New Jersey, on the 28th of May last, at Bedford, N. Y. Munro, Geo. Esq. of the Custom-house, Kingston,

Jamaica, second son of the late Sir Harry Munro, of Fowlis, Bart. on the 22d of April last, at King

ston.

Smith, Miss Eliz. sister of the late Rev. J. Smith, on the 26th ult. at Downe.

Spry, Lieut. Gen. W. commandant of the corps of
Royal Engineers, lately at his house in Howland-st.
Turnbull, Jas. Esq. advocate, on the 6th inst. at his
house in Hill-street, Edinburgh.
Washington, Mrs. relict of the late Gen. George
Washington, on the 22d of May last, at Mount
Vernon.