The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-02-20 00:00:00

rd roc be :he stteratienewre seeeesary. If the lireemeralge tie.utlemao had a desire te take the tease of the house he my it app:isred to hits', that the ree ve fat takin4 the sense of the /tease neon the s estet ei4easten 1114 i b., thit the Honourable t oduca l.s.l, looking at the strength of the House, sl ay dank, from the thinness dour benches. that a tiat a t ib would be are to him. Mr. PONSONIIY explained, and denied any such v otive. Mr. BIIAND and Mr. Davies scary were fey uK . HENS/ MetterMetter thought the measure was fdr f inch paranteuat delinquency. that every op 'repottaaity should be taken to expose its venality sad inimitiela tie wits surprised at the iusinuation dirowu out by the Right Lion. the Chancellor of the Eicluequer against MB Hon. Friend. who he k is s "no tucapabls of the motive attributed to ide was satisfied the Right Hon. Gentleman meld wards! Ins troops with inns.* more celerity than eotdd be etfactod at this side the House. On dub the question was loudly called for. end oranges ordered to withdraw—when a division took place. and there appeared Fla the postlsooeineat Against it Majority — ea When strangers were re-admitted, we found the CasecttLoa of the EICHEQUES en his legs, as surin,,,, the Right Hat. Gentleman (Mr. Pensonby) that the division had convinced him, that he was mistaken in the induustion he had previously made with respect to any wish of taking on unfair adviiiitao. /Hear ! hear ! front the Opposition.) . The Report of the Bt.l on the Orders of Council was then ordered to be received on Monday, with au understanding that a farther discussion ,should take place ou the re-committal on Tuesday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, after which the House adjourned until Monday. ..118 32 FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCR. GOTTENBURGH MAILS. JTTENDIMOH, rte. 211. Yesterday nrrived at Cladaholm, a harbour. to the n o rthward of this, His Britannic Majesty's skip Vertgaard. The Nassa4 and Stately, of 64 guns coach, to4ether with the Quebec frigate and L o si.r biorta. yet remain here, ilk well as several wroth Luang. vowels of war. Dimmer four ttsan English merchants have ar rived has from St. Peteraburgh, wito, with great difficulty, obtained pan ports to depart from thence. They state, that passports were refused to the pentane remaining, of whom there were ve ntral. There is muiriderable descend here for colonial produce. A number of foreigners have arrived to purchase sugar and collet, which articles bats rixii to AO per cent. in Hamhnrgh and in the Baltic ; a large quantity, it is said, is (in the pre sent difficulty of navigation) going 'wetland to Russia. Accounts received this day from Stockholm an nounce, that a Russian army of 93,000 men is ou the frontiers of Finland. There were at tint 50,000, brit as it Was *mod difficult to provision so many, six regiments were marched home again. ENS. 12. IrEP- 1. The Stockholm post, of this dav, hashrought the important intelligence that RCSStA has DE CLARED WAR AGAINST SWEDEN; and some accounts state. that the Rusoians have al ready entered Swedish Finland. Both Mons. Alopens, the Russian Minister ; and Count Moitke, the Danish Minister, were about to leave Stock.- honn. The Officers and Staff of the Swedish army in Finland, had received order* to join with all possible- expedition. A Danish utan of war (a 74) has been cruising off this port for more than a week past ; but such Las been the state of the winds, that, although three English line-of-battle ships are lying here, not one of than halo been able to go in quest of her. The frost set in yesterday very intensely, and there is now every uppeanuice of a severe winter. _ u*Novasa, Jan. 24. The fortresses of Hameln, Fort George, and N icu burgh, will be dismantled. The demolition of their fortiticatious a as begun the day before yester day. STOOIOIO WI, JAN. 5. The statue of the late King, Gustavus ILL. wag Wavered on the _4th tat. It w erected on the spot where, *her the peace of Werela, the King landed from the bat which had obtaiued the vic tory wow SweaskmalL JAN. 25. Her Majesty. ilea Oaten, sod Their Royal Nigh ties'', the Priam( Royal smd Princess Sophia Wil. helinins, arrived Isere Last Friday, front Oripeho His Majesty the King manased from the above Royal country seat the ind instant. COPSIIIIA GEV, JAN. 23. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince set out, yesterday. foe Kiel, with his Highness Prince Christian, of Howe, and Suite. Prince William of Prussia, brother of His Prus sian Majesty, is arrived in Paris, and has had a long private audience of the King. Sen-eoel, fire-wood, and coffee, are extremely sea: cc in this capital. Accurdieg to a notification published by the Re racy of Norway, by order of the highest authority, the late Ordinance relative to foreign privateers is not to be in fonee when the prize is English. The principle laid down.-. Free Ships nuskeil'es Goods," is to be observed with respect to allNeutralShips, and those of friendly Powers, which may put into the ports of Norway, and the cargo shall not he opened er broken into; but if as English cargo be found in a free ship, whether discharged or transhipped, or a ship so laden be stranded, it shall, with its car go, be treated as enemy's property. Id, an in ou 1011. lent 'do tu led- gab! Bill so that fiery the inst rri. 6. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived at Kid on the 4th od last month. LEGHORN, DSC. 26. The inhabitants of all the towns aad prorinoes of the former kingdom of Etruria have now t a ken the oath of allegiance to the Emperor and King Napoleon. The Evasions are 'unrolling ► o Upper Italy, and Otis place is occupied Ity a eunaereus French garri 3071. In the tort, which covers the etty and port, prepannions are ins':ing to receive the Eiglialt with red-hot balls, in ease they should attempt an attar tc. Whether Etntria is to be in corporated with i'miter, or whoher Lucien Bona parte into be our Sovereign, is tint het decided. BRA%DENSURSiII, JAW. 45. On the 16th instant, their Prosiiiin 'Majesties re turistd to liouigsi,urgh, from Alernel, iu perfe.it health, on which occasion the capital *was illumiu attd in the evening. maw FORT. J 21. The French General of ihriaiaii, Michaud, ar rived I.cre yeataidin. The uu.ulper of Swims troops in French pay amounts 110* to 13.223 men. Brent exerlious are nuking to precuts the `.1.600 still wanting. NAPLICS, JAN. 3. According to letters from Sicily, King Ferdinand lives in a eery reined manner at Palermo. The Prince of HMSO Philipstahl commands the Royal troops, which do not amount to more than 6,000 men. The English cud the. Germane. in their pay are not more than 3,000 Inch The English have, in Sicily, •ne ship of the use, three frigates, two corvettes, and five or six gun-boats. raen, we are nr longer at a loss tolears frail whence they have derived their morefity: Their notions of vigour, of valour,' of modesty, and truth, we now find are all borrowed from the character of Sir John FolstnlT nod his companions.— But it is Not more fair to read garbled extracts from the First Part of Henry the Fourth, than from the dispatch of Lord lICTCRINIWN. Why not quote the fat Knight's soliloquy upea honour, in justification of the attack on Copenhagen Why no quote the scene on °within, in the same play, in vindication Of the seizure of the Danish navy ?—The two cases, it is true. are not exactly parallel.—The Prince and Pules set ou Feastafir, Bardo/pk, and Pete, to rob the travellers, end afterwards rob the robbers 'of their booty.— In the business, however, of the Danish navy, the new morality falls short of the school of Falstaff and it id mutter of regret that the new performers di3 not at up completely to the scene ou Gads hill, To effect this, they' ought to have let Bo- NAPARTE steal the Danish fleet, and then rob Do- NAPARTE. The •xeso morality would then 'be as complete as the old, and the country would have to boast a real victory over its enemies. • The long-talked of regulation of abolishing the individual Army Agents is at length settled ; they are to cease on the 25th of March, and a public office few that purpose is to be established, at the head of which Mr. GIMENIVOOD, the Army Ageut, is to be appointed.—Paymasters' bills, after the 26th of March, are to be wade payable at the Pay Office. On Thursday morning,_ the Duke of YORIL ate rived at Windsior from Hampton Court, and was closeted with His 3lisasser the most part of the day. His Royal Highness stopped and dined with the 4 s teExam sod PKINCEADIS, and in the evening returned to Hsiniptou Court. The brig Phcelm, Waists, from London, for Hull, was all well, in Ltesestotf Roads, on ibth inist. after hissing been blown over to the Downs, its the late gales. The Deputy Governor of Riga has been die missed, on account of the negligence and inatten tiou of a hilt he rendered himself guilty, in carry ing into tried toe eentissrgo usi Engliah ships. - A .goldsmith, at Copenhagen, luis been employ tetto snake a diadem, the price of which is to be 14,000 Sir Sanest. HOOD arrived in town, on Thurs day,. from Plymouth, end had a long ioterview • • with Lord Mu letia4vt, at the Admiralty. The Wenderiagrauut, Boer, from StoOkholus the Dublin and Liverpool, is captured, nut carried into Bergen. The Amid:Atli, WALKILD, from London, for Bethke ; suel the Pivrideisce, Surrig. from Lon don, for Madeira, were driven net" of the Dotes, - is the gale of the istth hut. and leave not since been heurd of. Mr. SKEIIIOAIet motion relative to the state of Lielan I, is postponed to Tuesday next. A letter from Helsiiighorg, dated Feb. 5. nays, The British ships which twit into Carbliam re- Ruin there yet, it tact mug possible for them to Pass the Sound, without a very strong cowry. The building of gunboats and privateers, at Copenhagen, goes on with the greatest rapidity ; and by secoousits from thence, to gureboabi are already complete. A Danish privateer, of 46 gnus, has for several days been cruising in the Sound.' Tile number of Swim troops in French pay . mounts now to 13423 men. Great exertiovs are to tkiiig to procure the 1,600 still wanting. A dret.dtul gale come on in Dublin Bay on.the night of Thursday the 11th instant. The Olympus. float Cadiz and * Cork:. the Mercator, Fats:sue, from ithilacielphie ; the Ante of Killough, the 4'l. Michael from Wexford, the ODOM. CRA 10E, frota Whitehaveu, and the American ship ,Dione, from New-York, all drove on shore, but are expected to be got off. A ballast lighter, and a fi shing vessel called the John of Rude , b oth souk, sad two of the crew o•Pthe latter were drowued.—The Packet from Holyhead landed her passengers with great difficulty at Deulsary. having carded away her bowsprit. • The Sights's, of 74 guns, sailed yesterday, from Portsmouth, for the Mediterranean. The Orion, of 74 guns, Sir Azicutmain Mama ; slid the Ajlica, of 64 guns, Captain BARRETr. which are fitted out for sea, at Portsmouth. are ordered down to St. Helen's, to wait for orders, which they are to be in readiness to put into execution at a mo ment's notice. Our port letters contaiu nothing elite of any interest. ' Freehold Estates. segued from .e2e,000 to * R3,ooo.—The Grand City Lottery, consisting of Rouses, in Skiunereereet and IPicketearect, with the !And-Tax redeemed, begins drawing April siti. Tickets sod Shares are selling by Swtrr and Co. _lll, Poultry, and 12, (,'haring-crow; who aid, iu the last Lottery, No. 11,070, the only Prise 01 £lO,OOO, which was sold to the Public, besides se veral inferior Capitals. Extraordinary instance of Resuscitation, by Mr. Snew, surgeon at Halsfax, on the I ith that.. which was the coldes t night experienced this winter : An industrious man returning house to his nusiter on, family near King's Cross. suddenly because insensible, end sank to the earth, apparently a lifeless corpse. About two in the morning, the above Gentl•enan, with his servants awing on a • professional call, observed him lying by th e med. side ; they conveyed the body to the nearerit house ; no signs of life, howerer, were visible. Mr. Sliest employed the usual methods; but it was n •t till after several hours that signs of retarning Life ap-: peered. We are happy to say, that the unfortev: nate sufferer g• in a fair way of complete reeoverye, /Halifax Jerrwal, the 13th of thla month.) We re commend the above to the Humane Soeitty, so that the Armorer! Mselal may be obteieed as a eerseeweet /re:aerial of Mr. SDAW'S scat, skills and pAi/etathropy. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY. Freimfore RUSSIA AND SWEDEN. • Three Gottenburgh Mails arrived yesterday, including the Mail due on Wednesday. They bring the important, but not unexpected, intent- puce. that RUSSIA has DECLARED WAR AGAINST SWEDEN. It was reported, at Gut tenburgh, that the Russian troops had actually •otered Swedish Finland ; but the rumour, we think, is premature. The Rusaiasi force, in that quarter, in the month of December, was e't),ooo ; bat it was found necessary to reduce it to 35,000, on account of the difficulty of procuriug provisions. The defiles, and the poverty of the t ountry nu that side of Sweden, oppose a very formidable barrier to an invading afmy. If well supplied with ships, money, and provisions, the Kin.; of SWEOLN will be able to make a stand even ag:tituit Russia. We do not believe that Ministers will send a single regiment to his assisteuce. This may appear ex traordinary, when it is considered that on the vigour have censured their predecessors for not seotiteg an English army to defeat BONAPARTE upon the Continent, when Russia and Pi cassia were found unequal to the task. The majority which the Opposition displayed in the Hove of Lords, w Thuredify .004 on Lord Ciazsvit.it's nonion, has sorely vexed the Minis tete' JoUrnals. With the total disregard for all trail thiit daily distinguishes their columns, they assert that the flotue use taken by surprise,' and that it Was " a dextrous inaLteuvre of Oppoeition, taking advantage of a thin Roux, and an early hour."' To refute this impudent and lia:efaced. falsehood, a short answer will be sittlicient.—ft was Lord HAWICESIWILT, who, tint :ilatting victory. loudly caleil for the division ; and the question was not one casually arising in the course of debate, but a formal, regular mo tion, of which long previous notice had been given by Lord Gassaysts.a.--So ouch for the inisreprew abalone of the rotten and corrupt part of the public prom, which has long since bartered away any little credit that it may have possessed with the public. Oue of this fraternity, and by far the most bear and disgusting, adds, ' , Expresses were• seat sR, we understand, to different parts, and the scene between Falstaff and Pistol, at Master Shallow's seat in Glo'stershire, after the death of lister the Pot RTII,. did not betray more exaltation than the party being once again in a majority;' and this observation it follows up with a quotation from the play.-- Expresses, we admit, were sent off, but by whom ? Were they sent by the victorious party ? No; every Peer in die House, every stranger who attended the debate, knows, that the expresses were sent by the defeated party to bring op his friends, and secure a majority against the motion that followed. This is a notorious fact ; bat if any proof were ne cessary, the increased number of Peers oa the Ministerial side of the House, in the sub-' sequent part of the night, would he an answer. We come now to the quotation from the first part of King Henry the Fourth, the scene between Falstaff, Pistol, and Bardolph, at Master Shallow's seat in Gloucestershire. We have observed, in a former paper, the facility and fidelity with which Mr. CAN N I NG'S Parasites adapt themselves to the tone and manner of their em ployer. Indeed the copy is so perfect, it might pass as the original. It is dif►cult to discriminate between the pupil and the master, the slave and the employer. A q'uotatinn from Lord H UTLUIN• son's dispatch by the one could not fail of drawing forth a quotation from the other ; and here we are promoted with one from /fen the Fourth. Now that we knew the favourite study of these Gentle- -... VOCAL CONCERT. • Mkeill. HARRISON, ISLITI.SMAN, an oßgi's Vocal Concert counme;fced, last the New Rowns, armorer-square, and tended by seven hundred persons of The Rooms were Most auperbly lighted, arrangement made by t the accomniodet company. The Concert opened with 77 !iv* Anthem. The beaatiful terzetto, Darin* bids, 114sarr, was most ineuti sated by Mrs. Itttiitiros_ l , Mr. HARP Mr. BARTLEY/IW. Mr. HAMMON WO most unbounded applause iu the chsriniii See I fox the silent ;rove Alexis flies. vourite glee of Donald, us given by Mrs. roP, Messrs. H•carsou, Goss, and BAI was received iiitb rapture, and loudlj The whole selection afforded the greats There were present— Their Royal Highnesses the Deka °Entebbe+ end Cambridge; the Man-inmates of Nieto • Braberi ti ne s ii Altarnent ; ladies Dryden Dar lueiti r Mailer, and R atings ; than testae, the en. 111 La Stahhopr; the Hoe. Rev. the km. Ni. Armstrong ; the two Mims At lt4...lloPift.oattr Ti rE MARCILIOVESS OF SAIL' EMS!' GRAND ROUT. The Marchioness of SALISILURT gut grand Rout iastevening, at her brine io r rcet, which war .attcwied Lt 'veer Nobility end Faabionsbles. The gran apartments, of which we have on s',lssilis give:s a full destri tested with Um hearing lights. Her bee vow middle roofs, w ss%base iv • II gilt brass chisdelier, 0 1 dome. Refreameir, ellmildiles tar, &c. wee' weed to the asuipsoi shiVs sweat style of elegem& ANSI, pony were It ryal Highteres the POMO of /rills Highnesses the Dukes at SWIM Mil end Duchess He Castries ; the budicess es t i l set, Leeds, and Masetiesters the lisrvetre Alma" Wellesley, and Lasslows ; the lb Stallard, Den intake, Heedful', etserware. and Bath ; the Ears i f EASCX. 011111101,1010 deity, Csodrarend Harmsen ; the Curets Dowager Sefton, Essen, Dowager trot, hantplan, end Clirtaruleley • Vlsecients P Warne, Ressler* red esetlereagli ; Verev barns end Cut lever* ; Ladies G. reel H.Car Mute, M. Bernick, Calk-mkt., aril tin Has. ANCIENT (:OACERT The second of these elegant Concerti on Thursday night, at Hanover-cis under the directiwi of the Earl of LI, the Esrl of CHrSTEaFIiLD, W 110.44 a Derbyshire. The selection was win H•WDEL. Mrs. 111.11.1.1KarrOlf, Mrs. Akinfnmen biAltlttielli. W. Krivirrrt, as is Am, sagg . the beautiftit tasthrterfe-. , A ogrei core,' with all the tustellipd seien liskirshie parfialriefn possess. ..rdr , . I gave the beautiful air from Eacu, urnlai vagoodo," with the happiest e sewed the most rapturous applause, venally encored. •• Angels erre bril 11 , 1 k• also divinely given by this L Crooke's favourite_ eliat.trial of " raasaft I f May," was given in the tine BiLLutteros, Aleuts. W. kiIIYVET' wad BAIIISLIMII/4. .. . The Concert was very well ettene. part of the season. There were pre: The Hayed Highnesses the Dukes of beklst. The Dtchess of Dorset. . The Marchlooess of IklasefiOd. ' Coaitsta,--Oatt., tt, Manslieta, sad Hatt Lacro , -Alrealt.y. .E. Mootatise, Wilk Dleaborostett; Dreesker Dario, Head, Ha C. Hants, Gibbs, M. Bentiack,saot,Weat. Nieroper—Veen4, :Medway and 804 elfieres-s•Wt Wyss , Gibbs, Hodso. ass Zeris—Dastitouth, Man-tie1, , ,, , :i . 0:1 iierovile- 6 11 - aistodell arid RlLlhaagla. . Bishop of 4otlik and WePs. leirm-41aedisesid art Arden. Sirs—P. PAIS% his Jaw', D. D PrPYlv Uses,ais—Weight, Lome% tad the Ils Mean.-Vas iforthaff, Mordnost, Om Hoddisgom, Lambert, tad Milford. Thursday, the [hike of CLASH to Their MaJnYtt.s and PRINCES and in the afternoon returned to 1 Last morning, Ili* MAJESTY, P and A MELIA, accompanied by the 1 TON, General FITZROY. and C took an airing on horseback in Windsor, and returned at twelve. tier 'MAJESTY and Princess EL: airing to Frogrnore. The new Opera of Knit increase your; oti Thursday, it W a rl folios PAS'S Lady Racket; and last nil Ella Rosenberg. We are requested by the first , tradict, in the most positive nano an intended marriage between Al and Miss BRISTOW. Lord CHARLES TOWN/HERD It Jay, for his seat at Holm Bush' ' S Lord PAIIRT arrived, on ‘V house in Upper 8r00k..-street, fl Litchfield. . The Countess of TALBOT tel • day, for Staffordshire. , The Countria of CLARRRA parry, on Thtuaday, at her h, ~. ' street, May Fair. Mr. Is utter's performance, the Strand, attreda every eveut select company ; be perfe:med the benefit of the Poor of S -Clement's Danes. There we. who very much applauded .'.I libriums on the she: k wire. ;rands worth of br•qpi will di rooming to the Poo. of the alit