The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-12-04 00:00:00

!or"' "" • . • oceffeffneet The Mandarin who was to sit in aw ful judgment, required. thatthe Chjet of 41e Com • party, the Captain of the Lien, aild the griotemodore of the Company's ships, should not be permitted to sit in his presence during the trial. Tbis was not acceded to, and threats were uttered on the part of the British. The Mandarin was equally obstinate, and the business assumed a very serious aspeifl. As the Mandarin could not come himself, or send one of high order, he sent one whn:wel willing that the British should sit at their ease in tcepd.elbow chairs. Thus arranged, about the 6th instant, the trial commenced, and of 52 sailors, 11 were seleiled as the most guilty, and laid over for further proof.— On the 9th the eleven were again brought up for trial, and two were seleaed as the guilty persons, who were again laid over for further investigation. On the eleventh the two were again brought for ward, one of them adjudged guilty, and ordered to be kept in possession of the Company until the pleasure of the Emperor shall be known. 'fhe Bri tish ships are now loading, and will sail in about a ttatnight. 'What fate tawaits the sailor retained is one-train ; but it is probable that the Mandarins would rather touch a few of the Security Mer e:tants' dollars. and keep the affair from the Empe ror, than retaliate the outrage against their coon ti man, In this case, not less than one hundred tironurnd dollars will be necessary to patch up the affair." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, Dccthiseit -P. WAR Wl'llll SWEDLN. During the last fortni;rht great apprehensions had been entertained for the safety of Mr. Ps Tut t 7o: s r, our Minister at Stockholm, his Secretaries, suite, and two Messengers who accompanied lii.n, amounting in the w tole to IQ persons. Goverc rnent Fad received *deices, that they had sailed in a large sloop from Stralsund, and it was siipposod, that they carte lost in the late storm. The.e appre hensions, we are happy to state. were unfounded. Mr. TIERIAPOIt•T arrived nn Monday morning in Leith Roads, and irnmeshately, on landing, set out for London. He sailed from liehinghtng 12 days ago i the intelligence he brings has not transpired, though it i: 'urn oared that a Rondntion has taken place in Sweden. He received a salute of t 5 guns from tithe Admiral% ship in Leith Roads. D - ..is ac count is extraaed from 7ke Erliglwgb Courant, re ceived in town yesterday. If any revolution has taken place, it has, no doubt, been fomented and effetsled by Fre ich intrigue. and French parti sans. The agents of MIS AreatTiAave been lung labouring to bring abortt a revolts:inn in that coun try. To this end the writings in the Afiviitear have been uniformly diieCted. It has never ceased to urg ', that the lintiCAS of the people are at variance w.th the pursu is of their Sovereign, and that their welfare has been sacrificed to the misguided policy of a weak and romantic Prince. The efre& of these praetices has been long evident. Ii• shewrd itsell particularly during the siege of Siralsund, on te..irli occasion a large purlieu of the inhabit:alit; betrayed much dircer.ent 'at the condo lof the KING. We fear, therefore, that the retool of a revolution to Sweden is wrll-fousided. A' all events, war with Sweden is certain. Were the K ion able to main. lain hintsrli irp the thinne. he mils: follow the forttute of the other Pdtrers ti k soa the ,Continent, now leagued against Lr.gland. —.... e5 ,—. . One cf the Ministerial Prints of yesterday, gives the following acconnt 3f the wants and privations to nhich Bo NAr A a It his doomed the Continent, by tie success of his plan to cut oa . Europe from Vie three other parts of the world: e " By she cut ting id all intercemi se with us," it says. she has at nine prevented the working of the ('otters Malufae -I,,rci in F.arica, which, in the boasting Expositions .t the Minister of tge Interior, were to make op fur the declining Silt Ahrestfirdertt of Lyons and other places—between eight and nine hundred thousand Isuinan beings are thrown out of employment r _but past i I hiese are men, land the jaws of the Conscription Liars are always *pen to devour them. Briscoe A RTC has ptej.q . ls, no doubt, against China and Japan, and the farthest Indies, and they may be sent to attempt the execution of those prcjeas. In France, and generally throughout the Conti- Trent, they are in want of five, / drug almost that is necessary to the cure of disorders incidental to our sickly and shivering nature.—Rbeliath is 'AI to have readied the enormous price of seven or eight guineas a pound at Paris. Bork is pro portion:ltaly dear—all other orals the same.— But supposing thousands die in the Hospitals of France, what does 800 APA ars care? He who knows of so easy a method of sending the sick to their lord account. The then Manufat- tnrei in lssia, ani other pits of Glrmany, arc in civil misery and distress, for w:int of the I AV? m Ihe withdrawing of English capital. w:iicn, like mercy, .• blessed him that gave, and h:m that trick," has throws thousands out of em ploy i s Portuzal, and in other puts. Btu what does I'•N AAAAA a c4flt ? Yet he wraytasa. Pati ent: has its limits, and there is a piing beyond which despotism, teasing to create terror ) tnrf I Islandr. From the arm ' ' lay tor Clue nerves _ tetengeance." Such is the catalogue of woes which Continental Europe is doomed to endure from the success of a system that cuts it off frOm all the rest of the world. A scarcity of bark, rhubarb. and other drug", and a diminution in the spinhem-jer.na, and the cotton and linen manufactures of France, con stitute. certainly, a very serious, but not a very fsightfd pietere of a country so long steeped in misery. St rely the paper to which we allude cannot mean to make light of the ctlarnitous state to which the Continent is now reduced. Upon this subject, however, as also the crisis in which this country is now placed, we wall make some observa• ticns to•morrote. Two Russian nu* of war, accnrding to report, have been t.tken, and were carried on Wednesday night ir.to Spithea,l. They surrendered without any resistance. A frig tte, for some unseat Ports mouth, under orders for the MediterraneAng is detained by the Ledr frigate. The f01i0.% ing intelligence was communicated, yebter dAy, irons the Admiralty, to Lloyd's r-- ithniralty-()Pc. Mr. 3. Extiact nf a :titer from Captain Efate?, of His Majesty's ship Vanoard, doled off Copenhagen Roads, Nryreeilier 19, The F.asi.ily wi n ds, which hate preaailed for .001Dtb days past, have brought down a great number of merchant men from Petersburg and Riga, and al..rr many foreign alai" laritn with helm', spars, Sc for the English ports; the num ber now In ilelsingborg Reads, win-re they are assertided, AMMON to one hundred and thirty sail, including twelve tail of Hattie ships, which went up under convoy of the Gen net, bat returned again, as I had foreseen, being informed that an embargo was immediately to tale place at St Pt tersburgh and all the ku !nail ports; upwards of Slit sail of Rogli•h ships have arrived, and gnt safe through the Cknends, netwith standing the repeated arid PRIIII3/It attempts of Ihrt Danish privateers, gun boats, and many laige row-hosts, to dote ceps them, when mail! within the gamin( the Vanguard; but t'.e vigilance and activity of Captaiu Plid:ittiore, of His Majest.'s ship I trite, which, with the Safeguard and Tigress, and king guno sloop, form a communicatlon from rilsterbro' te the Middle (.;round, have, in a treat measure, rendered their at tempts abortive; lam exceedingly sorry to add, that I under mild Sense Enehli %mods have 'seen captured off Eartholm, and two or three to the Southwest( of Falseerisso', and rout on shore in King. liar, though attacked by the Tit ms and Safe gourd ; Captain Stains. of the Cane, who i. at Ile'sinchorg, with the ()testes and Ships, and occasionally passes down with the lidos as the' arrive, • has formed, wish the assistance of the Fpithre, f'orrhienee, and fiche, armed ships, a semicircle around the fleet avisendalerl at lietsinglaing. The I.lrveleiice iarmed ship has the charge of the If ull ships, and those to the North Coast of England i and the S,yritfrre 'loop of war, thorn fot tie litlvet Thome. AM parte adjueent Considering, haw. evvr, that une mad iv not staeicut at thi. veavon, and watt • Lovejaeonanv, to g.ve them loot , vm ,, n, I have thought it aheolotr•lt neee , oaty to add .• gon•bry t. each : got Cha•Yer to the P•otidenc•, sod the St ,toe to the Spit hie. r have de- hired Cesium Mains to send off both convoys the moment a favourable opportunity ewn to make Gottenburgh, relatre they condi at least remain 41 safety, nut,' an - Easterly wind pe red them to proceed again. Lll,Ol k r e s , m y um, till the last moment direct. d by my orders, should the setting-ku of Site frost not prevent mc, anishall takes the charge of the homeward-bound trade then here. the lithe armed shy is a.so its I lelsisigborg, and is to remain as long as the wets the. wlll permit. to collect the shipping fin Leith, Liverpool. the lush Channel, and those to l'Aularid Firth. The 1,-d., of and Co Louden, from Petenbufgh, ram wes shore, en the I lloth instant, tan the Msdile Ground, when She reinaireul thirty-six hours . the Dana/ showed a disposition to attack her, but the berge'et the Vanguard, and her launch, with a carronede, supported by the Quail, Leo tla. in in check ill she get lofty 14.1 of tench aallc4 trum Cton•tadt, the 4th of Novegulnr." Mt. MA vsrz, the Austrian hlcisenger, who left Doves on Motufay night, in a fag of trot•, sass landed at C. 1.63 on Tuesday afternoon. The sloop in which he sailed returned to l)nver The Master reports. " that the rtuntwr of easels in Calais harbour was so great, and they lay so clots to each otker, it was impossible to form an estimate of their masher. They were ail lyirg with their yards and topmasts struck, and so thit.k, they re sembled a wocd at a distance." We stout in a former Paper, that Admiral ICIATS will not accompany the squadron fitting out et Portsmouth. At present Captain Fla t ;ix rr, his Captain on board the Gavin, is the ostenchle Commander, as Commodor4. The "Alfred, 74, Captain Susan ; the Aliwstar., 74 0 Captain BAa• aIITT $ she Agewwwrca, 64, Captain Rosa ; and the 64, Captain De•rsil $ compose part of the squadron, and bare displayed great atlivity in pre. paring for sea. The military part of the expedition consists of from orris to eight thousand men. They are to be all assembled on Monday, when the emberketion will commence, under the command of General &Ponces. Brigadier- Gencrals Aston and &Prig LANs will serve under him. In the military part of the Expedition are two Brigades of Germans, and by their capita ',awn with this country, it is stipulated that they are not to serve out of Europe. Copper bottomed %oats Navin!! been ordered for the sera sire, a cane: urn arose, that the Expedition was bound for the Bra.l.;!S or the Danish We:to-India, DOUltlf LANE. Last night Mr. Kramer's favourite Opera fit Faße AZarms i or. Mu COntio, was perfotrned, h: the first time this season. ft retains all its osigirral cast, and never did the several performers acqxi themselves with more spirit. Mr. SitAli•M, in th turd aft, introduced a eery beautiful song, co posed by Mr. Aontsom, which he sang without accompaniments. It displayed his fine voice an exquisite science, to the greatest advantage, an was most rapturously encored. The Snide and Tear" watieceieed with enthusiasm, and was also encored. Signora Stosace was in fine voice an spirits. Mr. &tains:rut was encored in his comic song. Miss DUNCAN looked admirably well, an played with great vivacity. This Opera post:sa so much life, hustle, and business, that is may he considered a Comedy with soap,., rather than a modern Opera. The audience hes:owed en it the loudest plaudits. Lila &wider:. whose aurae/ion increases with each performance, followed, and re ceived its usual tribute of applause. Yesterday morning Has Madam► rode on horse— back in Windsor Park, for tie first time for a fort night, accompanied by Princesses Aueststa. and 1 ,Issu.sa, Lady %%Nara's, Generalv 'm matey, andi Colonel Dow. Her Marisa and Princess ELIZA UT* toot a airing to Frogmore, and inspeard the alteratio anti imprcveatents that are making there. Viscount MA YNARD has been dangerously his house in Grosvenor-square ; we are happy t state, his Liriftlitp was rather better yesterday. The Marquis of HuoisLev returned, yt.attsclay, to his house in Grosvenor-square. Lord A MTH ea Swim LP arrived, on Wednesday. at his mother, house, the Duchess 'Dowager of 13eat.sua r, in Lower Brook -street, Grosvesor- Ware, from Yorkshire. The Countess of BARRY woes entertained a seleet party. lest corning. at her house in Seekville-street. Sir thins , and Lady Woke bare taken elegant apartments at KtAKHANCS hotel, for their daugh ter, Mrs. MALI so. who is lately arrived from the East-Indies. Mr. MALisca is shortly expefted in town. Lswd and Lady FORLev left town, on Wednesday., ern a visit to Lord HSI: a Y FIT AGAR* L• an i Lady Di House. at their seat, Hoyle Fenn, and fe tus:led to their house, in Hill -street, yesterday ; in the evening her Ladyship entertained a seleft parry. Newcastle Theatre opens on Tuesday next. Mr. H. SIDDONei OM Comedy of 11.41 's a Tell I ale, will be performed, for the first time, to morrow, at the Bath Theatre. As the season is now so far advanced, there will be no more public days at Alnwick Castle, the seal of ihe Duke of NORT NUM see LAND. The Proprietor of the Windsor Theatre has en gaged Mr. Ca areEtt )311010Ne, a very excellent performer ; Miu floury, a pupil of Mr. Coast, who sang at Vau-.hall last season, and who is said to sing nearly as well as Ku LYON; and Mr. DAL.. con, who performed wish such success, for two sea sons, at 'Brighton, will be the ailing Manager. The DLAN and Cll4l/TER. of Ovarian, with a munificence worthy of their exalted station, at their last tealing-day made a very handsonse addition to the salary of the singing men of that Cathedral ; they also doubled tl.e salary of the boys, and pro. posed a considerable reward for those who stay s catsin number of years io the church ; one of them i already in possession of that emolument. The elegant and interesting Meler-Llrema of Ella ReirovSerg. is preparing for representation in all the provincial Theatres t and will amply repay the at tention and industry of the Managers, It will be performed ales the new Play of Fadiwr. now in preparation at Drury-lane Theatre, which will be foil Ayes' by other novelties, immeJiately after the Iholidayi. The Non-commissioned Officers and Parrots of Captain Timm rsiara's troop of Cavalry, belonging to the Loyal South Tyne Legion, have presented him with an elegant silver cup, value fifty guineas.— `On one side-is a dragoon, in the ad of charging, with the patriotic motto of " England expels every lean to do his duty ;" and on the reverse the follow ing :—" Presented to Captain Timm •s Tnomisow, of the Smith Tyne Cavalry, by the Non-commis sinned Officers and Privates of his troop, as a tee airway of their regard and esteem for his inde fatigable perseverance in their foil:nation and dis cipline. Nov. 23. 1507." Tuesday, the DireClors of the Eagle Insurance Company had a meetiag at their Office, in Corr.- hill, for the purpose of electing a Deputy Chairman, when Mr. Alderman Pitt ais, and J•I4ES Bacwss, EN. were put in nomination, and the latter gen tleman eleEted. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, was held at Hetling-house, tne anniversary of the Bath and West of England Society, for the en couragement of Agriculture, Arts, hlanufactures, and Commerce; which was attended by Benj. Hob hous.t, Esq. M.P President; the Right Hon. Earl Poulett ; Sir Richard (hare, Sir J. Cox Hippisley, Sir Charles Mallet:, Barns. ; T. B. Lethbridge, W. Dickinson, Esqr.. Members for the County ; W. Gore Lingtun, John Billingsley, Richard Bright. Chas. Gordon Gray, Rd. Astley, R. W. Hall, Johts White Parsons, Robert Barclay, M. Birkbeck, Benj. Roach, Esqrs. and Messrs. Ransome, and numerous other gentlemen, farmers, am. from various parts d the nation. The chew of cattle, both fat and lean, was not large, hut the samples were excellent. Different kinds of useful articles in the agricultural line of mechanics were introduced with approbation ; par ticularly a valuable chaff-cutter, and some newly construfted plough-irons. Large exhibitions of super fine cloth and kerseymere, made from the im proved Anglo-Merino wool, were distinguished, as highly creditaWe to that species of improvement. Much unanimity of sentiment for the promotion of puuiiic ohjeas prevailed both in the meetings of business, and at the White Hart, where the cornpAßX, dined together each day. o. this cireurristance, however, we 1 t" 3 ,41, ilia( this eonjedure is iu-aandipt. ! ak . yen Islands, is, proSsiely,,lba objet , 1 , '7 su.' I I , .._.—... 1 1. been received at 1..1.01' ON from ' I THE., TRE. lecember 11. which state, that t6• l ..........-..-- ina y cor elude, , Sicii y, or the Sevel of t.ie E.zpeditioo. Letters have Hull, dated December Maas of that port is captured, and that it is feared eleven other v,sstls have shared the same fate. We are cgocerned to alinotsace the loss of the Barre+, of 21. guns, Capt. Scuvr, on the Jersey sta tion. She ran upon a sunken rock, nem- that island, and sunk immediately. The Captain, Officers, and crew, all perished, except two Offizerav and be tween forty and f•ty risen. On Wednesday. previous to the communication being sent by Mr. Catarina to the LORD NIA root, Of the circlaratron of war by Russia. a Messenger WAS iiiispatchedto His Kok •rat Windsor, with the intormatiun, who arrived there about 4 o'clock. Cotonel I AVt.olt being , on a visit to the Duke and Dnchess Of YOK K, at OAtlands, was sent for express to attend His MA.I CST y, while returning answers to the dispatches. Extra& of a letter from Hull, dated Wednesday morning, December 2, 1807. (By Express). 1 5, yell, Ktrby ; and the friends' Goo4wtll t Anderenn, (tons the /Wile, ate in the Humber. 'the following mode sailetl in eurapii , r with them (tom Heltingtung, oil the 110th ult. vie the Symmetry Aeteott, ; Mu tent, ; ; Cox ; enereble • 1).a4- 11141; Weill Sinop ; ; end the Boynton, tie ITS. Hiisemnbe, CA1...1.r; Traveller, Wtiherfotert. awl the Lord to ;wenn, for London. Ti e efoteson, Br az Lev. frcrm Petersburg for Ply mouth, has been raptured by two Freoch privateers. oft the Isle of Wight, tutisken by His MAJESTY'S ship Gclimene, and arrived at Pottertmeth. 'the s'opihia, WA USER, from New Soath Wales for I.6ndon, is los: off the Cape of Good Hope. The Bar/ere. 14.1 E AV. from Aberdeen, was lost on the 20th ult. near that place ; crew saved. The Mary rho, Hoer, of Wbisehaven, is lost near The Ha:crd. Jontssov, of Maryport, and the firirnd.hip, Woon, of and for Whitehaven horn Dithho, are lost near the Isle of Man. The Pawrll, Holsoussrorix, of and from Wl.ite haven, was lost on the 20th ult. 'l'be fleet which sailed from Cork, on the 1 Ith inst. for the IVest Indies, was all well on the 14+, in hit 45. long 14. having been joined by the John 13 11. —, the Laasaatsr, —, and another vessel. The Juno, --, horn Lima, is captured by the Ptrserrrassre South &ermau, Capt. &TAPIRS, and is arrived at Portsmouth. It 1 , 41 been soh./ of the late Earl Gear, that he was the only surviving °dicer who fought with Ge neral WOLlg At Quebec. This statement is errone ous. Ensign CHARMS BURPETT. of Aberd en shire, then in the Fraser Highlanders, was in the battle in which W °tea fen. and is still alive in Aberdeen, upon the halt-pay of that corps. At the vet y advanced age of nearly 90 years, he re mains without any other provision than the miser able pittance above-mentioned, which has been his. sole support since the peace of 1763. 'foe whole cause of the river logos, we under stand, is now fortified from Lisbon to the See. The batteries on this line ale mounted alas 1300 piece.i of heavy ordnance. A letter from Port-an-Prince. dated the 15. h of September last, states, that Pa a sort had a force these of 11,3t3 men, and char the city was stv.ngly Sco t fled. CHIttSTOPtIC is stated to have mad.: two at tempts to match again.t him, but his forces became so elntinished by desertion, tht he was glad to re turn, The utmost confidence is expressed, that Ps.rtos would ulnas .t ly succeed in ohiaining the sole Government ..1 t..e island. The Proclamation of Co a storm e, ststing. that the British Govern ment had acknowledged him as Chief of St. Do ming°, is created pith gnat ridicide. and the state ment co,sisfered as unte At a meeting of the Jute ices of the Pease for the enonty of Somer. e:, at Langford Inn, en Monday, eh , 16:h November, Mt. Jost,ll Mae, son of Mr. WILLI** Hyper, of East HATIVIT, Yeoman, on the Att 1 Geo. I. c p 13, sec. 29. subjealag Roman Catholics who ref use or neglett tot three months, to take the Oaths of Suhreruavy, Abjuration, and Al legiance, to certain dui. b lities and penaltieejn case - they ester or serve, even as commoicsoldien or svi:ors. in His W I LI.TY'S armies or navy, played the Hoopla/dr!: B itch, that, being • Roman Ca thnl:c. he might be exempted from being bal lotted fOr the Omni y Milli ia i.whereupon the re speaable Magistrates, leaning some fraud sr deceir, first required of the Pit nailer to bring a certificate from the Raman Catholic Priest whom be attends, of his being of that religious persuasion ; hut on Mr. Jo . Huor's declaring that he, his father, and mother, were all well known Roman Catholics, without fur.her demurrer they erased his name from those who are liable to be ballotted, as being forbidden by the laws of the realm, es they now used, es serve His Manner in such capacity Thtre has not been so much snow in the Isle of Mann, in the memory of any person living, as at the present period. The roads from Douglas to Castletown and Peshoown were completely blocked up for several dap, and were not thornighly open on Tuesday last. From Douglas to Ramsay. the wow did not lie so thick, except at Laney, where it was drifted to an astonishing depth. and effean idly cut off all communisation between the two towns. The Isle of Mann is lane incommoded by snou-,norms; the snow rarely lying upon the ground more than twenty-four hems, except near the summits of the mountains ; this is, therefore, n very remarkable epoclia with the inhabitants of that Isle. On 'nuts lay se'nnight, between seven and eight o'clock, while a elidi,e was going from Belfast to Donaghadee, with a gentl:man and his servant in it, owing to the gri:und being deeply covered with snow, they mi•sed the road when within about three miles of Donnghader, and the whole fell into a deep moss-pit. Tile gentleman and his servant fortu nately got out at the windows of the chaise. but the driver and horses unfortunately perished, notwith standing every ma Wen made by the geatlemsn for tbeir pi eservatioss. 's CO to a notil DO C Mlle' w. IK NI an