The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-03-28 00:00:00

MIMI *spaded to go% Pomerania. Aceattatow to whitl , we cto give credit, state the Swedish army to •mount to 44,800-14 z. in Finland, under Ge neral Klingspor's command, 17,000—in StAtia, under General Toll, s,ooo—in Gottenburgh and the neighbourhood, under General %egasak, 8,000 —aod is the provinces beyond Stoeliliolni, a corps of about '2,700—a reserve of 5,j00 in East (hotli hind—and a second reserve in the Noitherti pro *nee* uAtievecit, mem H 7. Yesterday. the Prince of Polite Corvo relic%%ed the Freitch and Spanish troops, amouothia to lu or it,oeo. imcuiiliatrh after the review, the Spa- Isiah division received urdcr► to march to the late of Hagen. BELSINGIIIOVGAI, RAUH 19. Testeiday, a Courier arrived from Elsineur, with aeconate of the dyads of the King of Dentuark, •Isih teak place suddenly, on the 18th of this mouth. On the gills, the Crown Prince was pro etti sued King, by the title of Frederick the With, oat Hie t acute, bit there was not the least ecclesiastics* soy appeerative of joy es the occesion. Beraadotte wus at*Copeeliages, but, it is said, that four thousand French troops had got over to Zealand, and that more were daily erossiug the' Belt. SWEDISH DECL.tRATION. - That the RUSSIIIII troops on the ti tst of last February, In. timbal Ylialowl, was tirA mule known to His Majesty by a telegraphic dispatrAh n sod run after maimed by a Peoria mama, issued oat Hie Nit eif kits Imperial Russian Ma ,stesty, and profusely bestowed through tie liwediph Pro vinces, iirntiog the people to mslition tlatl revolt. A rupture suede without any declaration of war, nay, with out ties giggle grievance being stated, commenced with tree ttlwry, and led so by a traitor to his native conotry it, is an event of which but fry precedents maid, sad which cannot 4 &oat ewctte isdigsation and disgust 4M the face of the trans action. lint if the late relstioas between the two Courts be taken consideration, if this proceeding be examined, as far as it is dawetad whet ally. who always conducted Unmet, in • faithful and honnuraide manner, it is dillcnit to Web the Itqinunts deed with the tens it deserves. It will Oland single on the page of history down to the latest times. M a period when His Imipersal Ila/..ty seemed amnion to feline oppressed Redoes and Countries ; w Len he seemed ourself tint danger which threatened all Europe ; His Ma jesty, Intimated by the same sentiments, continued with him is elms allimme, placing implicit confidence in a friend, a relation, sw irdepene:. ai Slonareh. The Russian Emperor bad tutored isteengarmentshenefirial to the general cense, end .0 din* the destructive ambition of Fraser ; tit was sufficiently p•osrfal to &l&1 those engagements. His ltnyii Majesty therefore joined him as a Mend, animatril by the sane sentinsests, and is now invaded by him because he was his . Pierer could a Prince ester into similar engagements with umber Power with stronger hopes of their being sacredly fall/bd. The Emperor had been pert rally ealumnisted by the Prowl Goverauseat, the Hannan nation bad been retain s:natal and proe!ainsed as wears and hirliarians. Al that is sacred so • people was altereste.y interwoven with the e.anto., int-mon if , . a ties @raid ray interest or suspicion pos. Orly L r.', .I,:n the Emperor expressly declared, rej-rt any oilers of peace, however adven t . .•ci ons t •.t or, which could sot be reconciled • 0i..• of tee Itresisa mire, the security of the • • • • . - teleits of his allies, and the general tranquil. I " How far this Dimly:nine q is consistent with the peace of Taut, Ins already been decided by the p.vs,nt age, aid posterity will affirm the doom. The King stated on the tli-aire of u; r , semi was not acquainted with the negotiation for an armistice and peace until the latter was concluded, contrary to the impress itipnlation of the treaty concluded between Sweden and Russia, the lath of Jan. taw, Art. IX. The intelligence of this usespeete.l event was follyeed by an elfer to vont, iheste to the conclusion of peace••,whicli induced &lie Algiers, to renew Cie demand of an armistice (w bieh was stipolaSed is the Treaty of but met wills a de nial, nod OM learned to appreciate the value of ti.• co operation of Ituois The King beetle now unahle to defend awe lot:get his German denim:nes, was obliged to sutiendei *lwo, Afore this his, occasioned byl th" secession of Russia, His Royal Niaji•dy left the theatre of war, and weeds en deavereired to inijoy fn bis hinitiluin that tranquillity which he was entitled to expect from his situ/tient. He had fulfilled Lis engarnarute with Russia, and now curetted to learn what eiso,ierartialieedszseconsiould be done in his faeour. The King Lid supine tc.l the Russian oreri.e.ona with his ships of war, had opened to the EmperOr his roozsrines of wirlikf stores, bed wire told atoll hardly cute: t 4 the tetras %fired to bids by the Frew h traversal/eat,/ t on: of wh,clo was, that in etre of a rupture with Cassia, in the unit of au, when the Aware re:netters and the capital eselfliregeirrfecey def.:l(.omi, .11 the Pros sacra hest he the reign o Oman XII. should be se cured to geredca, and time bratiles any pact of the Roseau prorered le the kin: which he should • bytrossSpreiWit'rectril: kThe Eton ar.s. ninth, from Ik. Lrharity of its as so to, and gra of life. must be univets.rdty abhorred. (Gear eel Orders, Vienna .2nd Itrosnaire, year a, No. tsras.) TIVAr setae.. horSes, ohow are:stasee will for the last time be claimed ht the G u t efttfilet•&:ll ..1 Enrope. (eathllatletanuf the Grand Amy, Noserstaber tn. Ito.' Wert the Gerrit tenets allowed to be dti,ased between the Baltic sod the Illediterranren, we shookl sown see our prininces attacked by Goverein.nt, Rnsioao .‘lam:,sto if Auv.2o " test. ~ m: harbariao.;' a Trueramatioa pahhalird at head euart...s. tilarv.r, the rpth Jaasory, Da/. a. bon.parte. •• Geser. lbsttraeres letter to !Loon Weths , tadt,Tritsei e pal Fyn...tarry Forete• Affalts, of the lt.th of !sly, istr.: tt Goo. - r.l asaJ- otter of Norway 13 a Swedish t lerwri. • ktb was t.t..ea i.otter. Tht ttnekter Poorsessne.torenri ta the Sa-tuln:t Charge d'Alkir.s, b r im, the b o th o ne..e c oobee, loot:, and GesoTal Grand:wan to t'olota-1 r..reet Titer/. the 11;th of Airy, ta• , 7, any eaten of the 3.edirls frehttets thot afraikt he &sired, la taw of a torture st:th amnia. requ'ee. 1T Royal Majesty is far from claiming any praise for haling rejected melt offers, but his right of expecting humourd,le procestlinp tom' the paver spared, was strengthened by his conduct. • 'lhe tendency mud helically of the secret -ectieles of the treaty of Tibdt, %bids-were first sluivisctcd to mist, sad af terwards ackuonleilgedby the Hussies Ministry, began to appear. This terrific menaces of Franee to heti in the whole Continent of Europe, and shut it against the EiKlieh trade, emensenced to he ear.ned into effect, and to spread misery end want from port to port, and througienit commented Eu rope; Gum State to State. The Government was wrmdted to act acuordiug to its oun judxrocitt and exit:vie:ace, and no medium aeltsowledeed between vassal* and foes. Peace • Pews meant confederacy, confederacy suliertioa ; and prin ciple, laws, mid systems, were dictated by France to her ea styled Independent Allies, who humbly received teem from Paris, unmindful of the wounds they should inflict on the common welfare. Preparations for a rupture with Enemad were made in Pe tersburgh as early as last .4iitionie, aid iner.ly a emireuient season was waited for to entry then, into executioo, when, by a note of the 6th of October, it was proposed to His Ma jesty to co-operate iu the same manner as in uso, in an at. tempt to shut the Baltic against foreign ships of war. His Royal Majesty returned for answer, leader date of the ooth Ntmenalier, that as long as the Freneh Government was lording is over so considerable apart of the southern parts of the Baltic, and praehano; its Irxrlistling system, there could 'be on tranquillity in the Baltic, wherefore His Imperial Ma jesty most first littoral] on the Freerli to quit them; and Cs, the ahoi e elentsod was repealed the 27th of the said month, and compliance was required as au obligation arising hum the fourention of the year 1780, it was fully stated in a reply given the tot Jan. last,thet ti the Convention coacluded be ha F.nesia and Eugiaudin the year isot, and to which Swe den ativesied, by the es.prru desire of it untie, 'and under her owe riaratime,tbeformer armed neutrality was perfectly done away, that His :Majesty then entered iuto direct engage ments with England, which he could not in justice violate, as lons, as that Power continued to fulfil them on its part. That along with the furiner armed neutrality, the stipulation to shut the Baltic naturally fell to the ground ; a stipulation which sag the less fitted for the present ciecumstauces,ss the runner Danish iiry then reckoned upon did so longer exist, Kull as Ragtimd had besides opened a passage through the Great Itch ; but that as Posee'eli was not at liberty to costri bite, with an seined fame, to preserve trenqadlity in the Baltic, she would endatalreinr to obtain, by negotiation with England, that the latter should send thither no ships of war, unless some t+tlaer power rrittirred that measure necessary, by hostilities committed in that sea. That Sweeten should serve llamas for a bulwark since she bail been pleased to provoke England; that Sweden should sacrifice her fleet add her trade to protect Croistadt, was certainly asking too much. Hostile preparation were int medial -ly comme.ieed upon the Russian frontier. His Royal Mojesty, however, still looked with iudifferroce on them, so Wag as nu grievance had !heels stated to him, and no cliini preferred. The offer to obtain, ►y sego tiations, the tranquillity of the Baltic, ozened prospects of pence and profit fur Russia, and fur the whole North of Europe, and therefore, appareatly, eyelid sot be refused. The pots of Russia could thew have continued t►eir trade usiltstnelied, sad this trade could nut nut prove extremely desirable to Ilia Imperial Majesty, after an unfoctunate wet, and a still more ufifoitunsie peace. The offer visa made on the soppos.tion of Engliii.iVe consent, which there acre strong grounds to expect, and ifs Imperial Majesty hoped to obtain it before the Enelish fleet, which wm so much dread ed, s►ould be able to reach the Baltic. A direct answer to this offer being avoided, His Majesty's Ambassador visa directed the Pith February, to make remonstrances on this subject, when at once all official communications witli.6we den were broken off, and the Hearten troops entered Finland with the following proclamation. [These Proclamations, addressed to the Swedish soldiers of the army in Fished, tad to the inhabitants of that country, have already been given at fall length.] Every lawful government, every manly and honourable soldier, every faithful subject, essidessois the proceeding This sudden invasion of &friendly country, cominenced with treacherous attempts to eta: up revolts, is unprecedented, even in our times, utherwhe so tich in Instances of the most unwarrantable acts of violence and despotism. The Remise Empire, allied Stith France, is not sufficiently power ful to overcome flee reentance of a province, which, on account of the sairsur, is entirely left to itself. Trea ch►ry and rebellion must be called in for assistance. The Government endeavours to boy the people in a mese, unit seduce them by offers of happiness and liberty i the Commanders Cl..ef *WIC MOW' to hay soldiers by the piece, •ho had net hen able to boy serfs is the 1111ifkaill of Pete. sh:, sod R;za. Fa:41.1.A inhanitants of Finland, respectable people, tour King, since the binning of his rvica, has constantly en d:.- oared to donne I.nowledge and prosy. lie through your country, a treaeherous Guild is one aticiiiptiog to distort. plUr repose, and throw you bark int , the dnitness deceitful titan 11,:. sword is unsheathed neer poi( hearts, his 1.1.1,1. stailvtl hands are enteneed to rill:Th.le yuur rain ; du out re!' °mho trrartwri.us ti-ortrises, "icrh tend to unaervc the isrui of iu.alty, and decoy you n •in year attaelinsent to yarn. Kieg and ( isintry. root...yard at the misfortunes at tenth's. on Aar, hot couvineiel that he has not prevol.eil them, your King tlels satisfied that your ittaehmeat to his prrtosi remains uriinpaired; sod that you may di on h.s the ittirned exertions, assisted by a pose) fol ally, to ynotott and swear )uti Stirkbilet, Alarck it, taus PRIVATE colt R r_s PO ti DIENCFs. corn:met tl. An embargo taaa ebtree.a7 on all Prlaaaisa visor ; the tilhavrin t : nrt here. rtz.— Jams Retsertean ; Allart!ina Matiasa, !tlobait ; ruder uttelnu.e, tt bode ; mai the Nike, Hamm, Lum,,, i for Meru!; Maria, Aseh'eng, (rum Preface, Itailasutaa. for ; and Ow Fe..,n.,.11ip, Re. ulau, Guru lauldast Cyr hta,i aud tau I thr,a : also M leo at lnircurd, wilt. the ita.lolvh al.;1 the rata -.-Twe whey. raika, bet alll eu. , t4 hkely be hortgla hark. Oa tltr a,,th, Nis) alett?..l. ;e Taaieuned,lttate4, Nassau, ttactree, Fak..nt, Wit Coast/mat, skied be the LOIN DON , BIONDAY, NlArecu 28. Th.! Gottenhurgh 51M I, (tithe mat last, arrived on Saturday, one day before it became due. The packet had one of the quickest passages in the re cords of the Post-Office, having reached England in 4s hours from the ►moment it set sail. Cnats- TIAN the Vlith, KILN; of Denmark, died suddenly, ou the Lith instant, mid the Caows Panics was proclaimed on the iGth, by the title of FREDSRILIL the N'lth. Ilia MAJcsTT was brother-in-law of our revered limo, having married, in 1766, the l'iinede CAROLINA MATILDA, whose unfortunate history, ,generally attributed to the enmity of her Step-mother and the weakness of her Royal Hus band, has been long a subject of regret in this country. The Declaration of MS SWEDISH MA JESTY against Itussia is given i❑ our preceding columns. It is characteristic of the spirit and energy of that PRINCE, and at the NAME time dis plays a great deal of address. It eettaialy will not augment the esteem of the Russians for their new French Ally. The Swedish papers state, that a battle has been fought in Finland at Tavastchus, in which the Russians were defeated ►with the loss of MOO inen, but that the Swedes, although they only log 1700, retreated. From private letters, however, received by the Mail, it way be presumed, that no such battle was fought, and that she Russians at time latest date remained inactive in their fonner position. Count WRANGEL came over in the packet that brought the Mail. He is the bearer of dispatches front Stockholm to the SWEDISH . AMBASSADOR at our Court. Saturday morning 47 sail of French Rafting boats were brisiv 4 ht *tilt° Port-mouth by the Boadicea. Capt. MAI - lA.4Np. salad 11rdasa, Duo. Capt. Bouvuetc, takeu off Ilarrir.—Their capture is said to be iu retaliation of the French Prohi bitory Decrees. The Fleet destined loathe Baltic, in support of the King of SWEDIO., will consist of seventeen ships, welt.; the command of Sir JAIIIII Si UM ILMME.-•-•Tile Fit . tUry, of luu guns, Lord NgLinnes lag ship in the vuernoraLle battle of Trafalgar, is to carry the flag of Sir JsaaP.a. She iii nearly ready fur sea, and ha n ill hoist his Rag on board of heg in a few days. The Stately, of 64 guns, is one of the ships ordered on this expedition. Ca p t. Hui is appointed Cap tain or the Fleet. The Nee-York Papers, to the 25th, received last week, contain the Report of the Committee of Commerce ■ud Manufactures, to which was referred the Memorial of the Merchants of Phila delphia. We cannot insert•it on account of its great length. It concludes with rejecting the prayer of the Memorial, after a long argument, in which it *hews that the Embargo was a pacific measure, and for the very purpose of preventing hostilities. " Congress;" it says, .‘ had in its op tion either to permit the continuance of commerce, or to resort to the secure and precautionary mea sure of an Embargo. If the continuance of com merce had been preferred, Congress. from the exist in state of things, would have been compelled, with an adequate marine force, to afford souse sort of protection to it, or to allow private ships to arm for their defence. If such a step had bet n taken, war must hare ensued, it resistance to the execu tion of the decrz:e of France, bearing date the vat November. 1806, or of such Orders as should be issued by the British Cabinet, in conformity with this retaliating power contended for is the mote of Lord llowtel to Mr. Mumma, of the loth of Jsnuary, 1807. and of the Proclamation of the 16th of (Metier. 1807, could produce it." About 39 mil of Marairatts irme:oci Saturday. °Meted, at Portaaouth, to sail immediately for the Downs. There are about 170 rail at Shithead, ready fur malice. The 11/iivotaur arrived, on Friday, at Spithead, from Sir CNARLES COTTON'S squadron, which .he left about ten days ago, so much in want of water, it was feared the gallant Admiral would be obliged to raise the blockade of Cadiz. We trust, howe ver, that he will not be driven to this extremity, as the Coquette sloop sailed ou Friday from l'otts mouth, with four ships, containing • supply of water for his use. Several instances have recently occurred in which persons detaiued under the cruel system of BoNs- Palma have effected their Millie from Ihelland, and reaelied the opposite coast of this country. Ac cording to their report, the situation of the peoplo 4,3 the Island of Walcheven. is truly deplurahle,, Meknes continues to prevail there to an alarming slegree. said their misery is farther anreested by the total stagnation of trade, the frequent drafts of Mel) for the army, or of money to peo„,, substitutes. ' The English craft which we st reinuved to Camphor, have been recently or . dered to the other side of the miter. Th, crews are not actually inapriesoned, but their situation is so miserable, it has inducitd wavy of them to attempt their escape, in which, ram by the long continuance of the wind iu the m ward, they have generally succeeded. They , that there eve sixteen line of battle Mips ready for sea, with • two-decker, a frigate, and a slo sh) war, nearly finished at Flushing. Great apprehaa. stone were eatertainedof an attack by the Engli,!,. his m a j es t y ' s s hi p his, with the fleet antler her convoy, for the East ladies, arrived at Macki n ou the 47th of February, uud sailed again ou the tetsh. The Lord baptist, BALL ' wailed from 'Aiatlein t fur London, about the Ifttla of February. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Ad miralty from Bear-Admiral BERLE:A Y , dated the Bth of February, off Bermuda, all well. Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the Ad utiralty, from Sir CHAIM'S COTTON, dated off the Tagus, the 13th instant, but we do not under stand that they contain any news of importance. Admiral RowLEY, who is appointed Commander iu Chief at Jamaica, takes his passage in the Mel penteme frigate, Captain Pats& Psasea. Ile wilt leave town in a few days for Portsmouth. A Convoy was appointed, yesterday, to rail from Spithead to the West Indies, on the 3d at April.-- It will . call at Madeira. In the course of& few days a Convoy will be *l3- pointed to sail for New•foundtand. Our letters from 11...kird Coit.tNowoCoo's fleet, by the Irate Mails, inform us that the Turku, under the apprehenai .... of a renewed attempt on the pan of the En%liah to miter the Bosphorus, bad drawn lin usetwe chains across the Dardanelles, and station ed a considerable number of gu behind them, .senstructing, at the same time, some new batterks for threwiug red-hot shot, 'lleac works are repre sented as being of such a nature as to prevent the passage of say vessel of war, without the co-opera tion of a band force, Sir C. Goats, commanding at Malta, has re ceived some communication from the Beys iu Egypt, containing, it is said, au invitation to seed a body of British troops to Alexandria, sled pto iu that event, efficient co-operation. The Turk* have tailed in some of their engagements with the Bey% and the overtures iu questiou are re presented as the consequence.. The Euphrates, Swordtails, Northamberlata, Lard Castkrsagh, and Sir William Bensky but ludiamen, ore arrived at the Motherbauk, from the River, to salt for convoy. Letters from New York, received on Saturday, state, that on a question moved by Mr. I)va. , in Congress, the Government was in a minority of one, and in another-which immediately followed ftweeting an additional force to be levied, the Government gained the question by one: The Embargo has lost Mr. JEFFERSON a qmailser of friends in the South, who have been seriously affected by it. The ground the Pnestorter has lost, and is likely to lose, is stated to be the best se curity for his remaining at peace with tine canary. The Melpomene frigate, of 36 guns, will sail on the 3d of April, with dispatches for the li'est Indies. Lieutenant JOHN H. BAY LEY is appointed to the command of the Sea Felaribles at Liverpool. On Wednesday 300 of the 20th Light Dra goons, commanded by Colonel TAYLOR, embark, d at Portsmouth fur Sicily, where the other part of that regiment is..—They are about Goo strong. They well sail with the Mediterranean convoy. Major-General Lord Foals, and family, the Honourable Brigadier-Genoral Lum LEY, aid cap. tai,, A'Cormr. go out in the convoy for 311.1ta. BUN APAILTE, accordini to the German Jon rna towards the close of the last year , sent a to China, overland, announcing to the Emer.noa the recent event. in Europe, his intended opera tions in India, and exhorting_ him to break otr all cominervial initercounie with England. The Committee appointed ho the House of Commons to try the merits of the Penrhyn election. bare declared Mr. LEMON duly elected, and the Petition frivolous and vexatious. The Report will be made to the House this day. The Election for the Bornugh of Mallon. in tae room of Lord HEADLEY; whom election was de clared void, took place sin Thursday. Lay ss Comm, Esq. and Major Boweut, were the cash dilates. At the final clove of the poll, at four o'clock. the returns were • Soo ....... • . • al9 ajur Bu B. COUKC Troia rrturuoil aevordirmlv." The Loon Arivoa has appointed • Court of Coinumou Council for Thursday, to conaider a mu tton, which wii -postponed from the last Court, mi account of the length of the debate on the auldre-4 : " Fut Pet itemize bath Monies of Parliament, earessioe their es regret that the Ritt for preventing the razities :f Place" ia Reversion y re , which the the Ent stop , towards a RefundailOß of ',doin g A 6.4, etieehi have bi‘u rejected, aad praOtry that lemmas es !oaf be adopt , :d fx c.st rFtwevu beiC , Sary sea Lioetteivi a Intl into erect, and etc foe cara t { • ite&riw of Above., in the recipf, orrogameet, and esipendature of the putriie moue!, es well as for &bunk.- ing all enneeetssry places arid possums, to a ratans uf soli &hag the strinigth of the Empire, sod rifling fu. eh the united energies and excetturts of the people at this itepottatit juncture." Thu Minotner left Sir CIIARLLS Corroir off Lisboa, on Monday m'onight, with the following ships :—Hrberaia, Sir C. COTTON ; loogcs, Rem Admiral Oxwwe ; Hercule, E,limalret , Conqurrer. PlaatagCbci, Alfred, Kaki, Nymph( ' Lirely, mud Sulebay. The Delmer, 71, C,apt. Earns, had left the -quadron for Barbadaes. The 3.000 troops which parted from Sir C. Corrox, and arrived gat (Akimbo:, had staled Sicily t under the Photo , and Ramon/tee. • The :11er:di:tots at Gibraltar com plain grievously of oar trade an that quarter oerac Mill extremely iDjurecl by what they consider av a usistresen and erroneous rilubstr.ict:on put upon the Orders is ColinciL Protest fn: damages to Oa amount of 70.00t01. have bees se:d home in ti,e THE BRITISH PRESS. lie pa Cl •11 wi V Ti Oc (rafts /tu !e We n The their ay of rote(' ea,t. state iy for op of thin. gluh. !r her Int ent 11)14 r Ad- tl the Ad. f the utter- e. ender will froth e fleet, under pdrt frown aloe- thew, feria. reprr- ot pers. as re. VII i ) teed pro. The meats ire re- k.'ast tram irday, li., in city of lowed 1, the The Xl' of iously T has rst w- intry. rail on udies. to the arke d Urt of ti 00g. tarot. ', the Cep- a. urns Fp