The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-12-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GOTTENSURGH MALLS. 4TonilloLM, DEC. E. No intelligence of a Liter date than the 20th of Iramonth has been received from our armies. It remains, r:tore, as vet uncertain whether the armistice proposed • by; t.;eneral Kleclier will he grained by the Emperor of Russia, or hostil;ties recommenced at the expiration of 14 days, within which the Russian General-in-Chief has engaged not to begin any operation against our troops. DEC. 11. The moat vigorous preparations continue to he mode in nil the Royal dock-yards, and in particu lar at Caelscroua, for the continuance of the mari time war. Recruits are also arriving in great num bers to consolete•the regiments which have suffered arvott duriog the compa4u in Finland, although it will hardly he possible to increase our armless in each* manner as to citable them to recominvoce offensive operotious against the Rii.,aiasia, on at-- . coma of their vast superiority in 'mothers. Our exertions, therefore, for the present, ntitit be con awed to defensive measures, and in this point of Meg the effJrts made by our Government are as great as the urgency of the ease clettgatitl.. We remain still without from our armies. DEC. 1.1. Out last letters freln Berlin advised, that Gene. ttr<lSt.llilairt left that city with the last French aesiment on the 10th of last month, and that the Psliice is fitting up for the reception of the Loyal Fannly, who are epeetc,l Otero in the (curse of this *malt. (Stark/1014 Ca:me, Dee. U.) clorrvfnutt.:..tt, DEC. 16. The first ship of the new Big India Comilany, toiled the Hope, anti commanded by Captsin Au drew IFlosiberg, set sail the 12th instant nuclei lEagti.li convoy, Wand for Bengal.-I , 4Gotienhurgk Came, !he. 16.) - Sl'.4lN AVD AMERIC.4. • Mr. Smith, the Editor of The National/we/h. arer, iu the following paragraph, vindicates ikiruself •ud the Administration, in relatiou to Prole : '• Au impod.at tittesipt it, making in the federal pipers to t.npreas the publu with au opiiiion that the ',riots friendly to administration, as well as the ilthainistration itself. aft hostile to the Anigigle nr SOlSibli patriots. The diarge i• Iwiut+dl? wade, among utlier.prints, against The :latemial In- ttlfigerte?'r. AVe hare lwretofore perm we,l The intriLigeworr to speak for ittixt. tital have I treated the eitionmy, ne we hare clout n thousand tolev.rv, with imattiapt. It way however he staafai toot?, that IN) far as it applies to us, it • trgutely usfsruoried. Our wishes hare been, from the counsieneemelit of this contest, and ore still, Most friendly to the successes of the Spanish pa coots. IVe have telt in the highest de :t ree gratified with their triunsplis, and we do nose most sincerely hope that they will be eventually able to sistobli,h ttie independeoce of their country. 'Wretched as sse know the old system to hose been, we believe gnat the work of reform, to be ettoctual, ought to accomplished by thr,tirrives. .11 - r• believe likewise that Napoieon's vitiwr being vntirely personal, the cougnest of Spirit, hy 11111 anus w orld issue in the exchange of ono cfropotistu for another, chile it would be but to consolidate • power already too gigantic for the liberties of the world. These are DO new opinions relative to the French Emperor. They were entertained be us when he was the idol of the federal party, and we hold thew still. We have rushed at troy elllbrt of the oppre.srd to throw otf their chants, and with such fueling; we would not Let exult sit prosiwct, that the Spa niards, once brave and nobie, should again retrieve the lofty character of their ancestor.. Such were one (reline towards them ; tc,warils their inraders they were directly opposite. As uothing can jus tly the invasion of a friendly mid iitioliesidirg nation, we viewed the invasion of Spuiti Ia France as an act of the EMS( un.errautable am bition. '• It is trne wr hare not raisosi *clamour on tl.ls bead, or eutleavourud to make it a party topic. We have not snidetaken to pronounce the eslati rot:ration t.. the Spatted' rause. Eire if tiler were iudiitslual!y so, such iutsrferenee in us would be highly reprehrusible.and would hare been denounee2 most bitterly hy the federalist them- , selves. As as adininistnition, tt would he worse than ab.ii for theta loony in! thing *boat it, as it wsght trod svontiii.!y to eosnniit the prate' of the iiatioo. But we (It Ircatid to know what niem,aire of theirs %stores their hostility ? demand to know tine Washoigtou acted sat the commencement iriftlie French revolution F. And whether his prods. %nation of neutrality, defended chili so snitch spirit by flarailtoa, us inced his hostility to the revolatimi? We demand to know phether the high whig senti ments, invariably entertained by every member of tie ealmiet, is not a sufficient pledge fur their at- taehtneot to the cause of liberty wherever it exists? A candiJ answer to these inquiries will expose the pitifulness of this attempt to serve party pur poses by means which ought to be totally discon nected front them." THE BRITISH PRESS. I A)N DON, TUESDAY, DECLIIIIER 27. Two Gottenburgh Mail► arrived last night, with letters and 'misers to the 17th instant.—Great acti vity prevailed at that date in tho naval and juilitury departments of Sweden ; bat from the great Rupert ity of the Russiatisoud the losses sustained by the Swedish arms in Finlund,it wassupposed that all the preparations making were intended for iletimee, and not for the renewal of off. isive operations. Mr. Persons, the Messenger, cattle over in the same packet, with one of the mails, with dispatches for tiovernment. She was attacked on her passage b} a privateer, which,after a sharp action, struck to On packet, and has been lininglit by her into port. Dispatehes were also received at tile Admiralty, last night, froiu Advairal Letters and papers from Ifniland to the 17th in stant, were received yesterday. They were brought by a fishing vessel which t 1 3" , literally blown or es by the strong North Last winds from the Dutch (1.4,4. The Paris news which they contain has nothing from Spain of a let. r date that. the lath Bulletin ; and the Multiyear announcing the clii tulation of Madrid on the ith ; all which is already before the public. The city of Bayonne rontinnes to be all bustle with the constant passage of trunk from France into Spain. Reports, which. it is pretended, are received. thiongh Holland, here been circulated during se veral clay s past anion the upper circles of this Inv stating that some outrages or acts of polio 14r violence, had broken out at sarie, in a rich the statue of BonAVARTE was defaced or destroyed. We wish that these reports were entitled to (Told, as symptoms or manifestations of the pittilic opi nion and detestation in France. But we Gar that those persons who consider the French nation, or the l'Arisian people, as in a Lowlition to express by aetions their feelitigs of di.aperobation towards .trot Corsican Ruler, ilitplay a very erroueous emi eeptiou of the present organization. of France.— Never, in any petind of time, was a devoii.ts talaliahed on more solid fultudatioas. as far as ability, armed with power of every ch-teription. era estubliillthele. than NAPoI.F.O7I hits done ! The nation may in fact be considered as a maniac, exhausted by its own henry, awl chained down to the floor by a rigorous keeper. Like Giihner iu Lilliput, that vast mass is tketi and rriersticitst liy a itemiser of cords, invi.ilde to an ordinary rye, but collectively most chifiritlt to be broken.— iitery c. Cominnite" ha. its internal tereshinery, emistructed on pristeiples which eanuot easily be deranged, and whiehpreserie complete tranquillity, tecuedst the most inflimusable, us well a, 4.scordmit materials. A police that never sleeps, and whose agents or.spies, like the familiarsof the loilaisitiou s disseminated over every part of Freier, mix in ail, societies, transmit ititelligenee, thrau r tii a thousand channels. to the Minister, Few cow. Prisons, mul tiplied over the surfitee of each provitice.emitilie the suspected or the refractory. Civil and military force combine is restrain insubordination. Elicit'. 017, rapid, awl severe peitisOntent, awaits the slightest attempt to overturn the est a loh• I te.1 goveru meat. An usurpation, propped nod sitstaitied . by snch means, and in the hands of a man lika Botta• PAKTE, cannot easily Is% shaken. Bnt, let its not ileet r sl The he iicao tut, a jut collect of moral atillorren7e. of dread, sod of reprobstuni, most true. To t!.e French, he does not,hower rout-senthi.nself under coloterssooilions. '11147 have Iceen too long habituated to crimes of every *snit, to feel any stroaq emotions of mural indigssation at his perfidy, his remotes. Of his tur pitusk. Toes couspare him with his revolutionary prederessor N and they rewird hiss like the heresies ho has destroyed the monster .Stormy. lie has, it is true. snlittottvetl in its place another domici liary fiend. scarcely kiln odious, Conscription. Bat his victories, his astonishing porgies& from (hie extremity of Enrolee to the other, his uniform suc eess, his ix ramtaii - 4Ctivity, courage, and exerti 111 l WO contempt of danger, aud,alsove all. the energies of his mind, which appears, like the Bird of Jove in " wide +termite- tletteinitta, Through the weer (Step of Am.,- to look down upon, and to motlatv the Lite of the globe ;—the‘e qualities of NAPIII.I ON, twon through the medium of national v.usity and Pelf lore, captivate, dazzle, utul :dime the mows of a profligate, en.;.ived, :Ina innuoral people. Ile is never:helmt mortal, and it is difficult to calculate the covets that might result in France, to Spain, arid to the world, from his sudden disap pearance. The crowd of diprnitarirs. Dukes, Mar shale, C Nlionsters, and functionaries of all descriptions, alio have sprung front his usurped sceptre, must, and sill, iicerwiarily endeavour I. perpetuate their own ofti.,‘ or acquisitions, by manual ttttt that orJrr of el etil. a Lich gave them larth. flow, or in what hound. it might be vested, neon his decease, no 1111411 can venture to predict; but lie must be Mimi, or higotte..l indeed, oho can ever rationally hope, that after siich • total trans mutation of property as Frai,er has undergone, any convulsion or revolution can ever metier Louts the EIGHTLEATIL Tle omit rank w ill: the JAMES the lid's, the Stadtholtlers, and the Landgraves, who hate tied Mils their Ilt:nans os capitals, instead of remaining to &feud and to pe rish with their dignities. N Arol.Voll u iiimiurs tinttAbly sensible to the defect pevsoually attaching' to his want of issue ; and ha certainly has snore thau once mitcrtuilied ideas of repudiating Ma_ dame Bo a i tesaTk, fur the purpose of espousing u Princess of some Royal House. It is a fr:t, that in one of the interviews on the river Niemen, in July, 1807, with the Emperor ALEXSDEP., be proposed to that Prince his marriage niih the linind Duchess • .... ITHARINS, thou iii the bloom of youth, being just nineteen years of age. It is equally true, that the CZAR, het brother, did not dare Prl refuse etunplumee with the proposition of his Corsican Conqueror. A letter WWI Britten to the incess by him, stating the demand made, his own assent to it, and the fteeessity of her itequiesceure. Hut the GRAND liucHesr instantly replied by the Messenger, and wrote to ALEXANDER in the low nig terms :—" 1 our IMPERIAL MAJESTY nutty loran or contract whatererengagrinents you think prover ; but I am the Grand-thughter of CATMA RINL the lid, who gave sue her mime, and was my Giml-mother. I know what I owe to myself, :rod rather than submit to such All ripproloMm as to become die wife of NAeoLtort, %ill die." This' anccli:tc is asuquestionable, and in a hutescr way it s, a - communicated to. Boooesiter s it terminawd auk fnUierr progresa iu the proposed marriage. The lion. Adm. BramEs.tv was expected to !sail yesterday from Portsmouth, ou board the Coa rsen's:, of 74 guns, Captain Ftl.Low Es, to ttske the couinsitud ou the Coast of Purtugal.—Sir C MARA. E. CoTroy, we understood, mill proceed in the Con queror, how Lisbon, to the Mediterranean, to succeed Lord COLLISICIWOOD; his Lordship, if4l.• iug no prospect of the enemy tooling out of 'Fun k's', has 4 let.triniurd to retire from the comilasitl-- a here his hi avery„ indefatigable zeal, B;itleOnsitsis asswe ability, Imre ken in exercise, to the hossuur and advasstsige of Isis country, upwards of four y VMS. Lord rattacsaT. Commander-in-Chief in Scot. !awl, unit Admiral Sir Salm at. Horsy, lately took a survey of Ardrassan harbour. Its imlr'rtnnei• in a military paint of view, as eounected with lre1.1:41, has already keen under his Lordship's coaNivier ation. The Treasury Journals stale, that the object a Sir rtitvika 1% / eLctscrir's visit to Ireland it to arrange the business of his office of Secretary, pi e parratory to his resignation of thiterinploynitut. The Liverpool Paper, received yesterday. says— •' We understand that there are America!, new's. papers in the town, cootaining the particulars of an interesting debate on the gricsaitin of the Embargo, ' which was asiented on the fourth dry after the delivery of the PitiOaDli:ll . 6 'speech. Ti* guys two was married in femur of the embargo by a lAN? majority," This, we apprehend, must he a rrnstielte. The Message was delivered on the 7tll, arid the tieleste urn nut to take place uutil Mon day. the 11th last. Captain Nrcvort, of the fleeter, who is arrived at Scilly, in fuhrtrra days front Lisbon, states a rumour which prevailed in that city, when lie left it, that the Swish troop. anal SpAtiiartis united, had gained a vsetory over the French. We noticed lard week similar report •aught to Plymouth Iry a vessel in fifteen days liens Seville. We give no credit to them rumours. The convoy of transports, which left Pottsmouth on the istli instant, welt. ile.persect I,y the. North- Wein storm of the 17th, and SI.IIIC of *mu trael.cd Falmouth on the Igih, mid inhere on tire dy.t, 42' 1 . and 'ad. 'Pliers is lade doubt that the convoy which left Fabisouth ou the 15th, were,ou the in Spain. It is said that a regular exchange of prisouers between En•la.iil and Prance is about to take place, and a cartel is expected to nail from Ph mouth early in the present week. No farther intelligence respecting the East India ship. ha. hemi received. The Cornelia friipete. Captaiu EDOCLL. is expected to sail on Wednesday for India. Captain INUAII, Royal Navy, goes oat by this opportirnity• irs Vommissiimer at Mxiliiis„ and Captain Ilimaas, Royal Navy, ',Commis sioner at Bombay. It is wit!. plewsiara we observe, by • letter from Sir .J. DAI.II.IrXPLE. dated Mesiiiies, ()etcher that the account of the regisiteist of Malta loving bribirrell improperly at Capii. is without fountla , t . Sir J. Ilit.:;x3tri.t limeys, lie has received " t te• nowt noryisivocal testimony of the 'bravery aisl Kota' conduct of the Maltese *Libbers." At x .read dinner lately given at 'Newharyport. America. in compliment to Clisef Jos.tier PURER. , rya, the followiii 4 were among the toasts given from the Chair : t. " The heelless of the rstited Stales: His pr0m . ....• sere, 114 he sow MIGISITY ; bat his pzrinrasamee, as be moon Wilt be, orethear."..... Lnapaates Marsh ) s. " ttsr essialr, is a leprosy be the Fatillarro-..aray she tr theorems, aiiil be kevles."--"Rd.• Coleroi,l .1. " motels:lga is prastscur to the foe, your wens elarglater-boust, yule stsillteS Cancells4, urd user ter eoire spent—sod yontler is the Is olftlezt sash. • this spoil. lum hcht in itestire ; then in God's muse be v.thatit."— , •Ipast tr.to arrive haver. The 4th So iss Regi►aent. ahoot 870 strong. which recoiled from the French service, ■t the evacuation of Lisbon by Julio r. a:id arrived at Portsmouth, have been engrafted into our service; the Swiss into Ile itt►i.t.ifs Regiment. and the into the Sicilian Regiment, at Sicily. The Lirsioa, East lodiaism, the arrival of which, at Portsmouth, ufter encountering a h. av, gale. we mentioned last wv41,.. W 314 durine. the i.torta, &lien over to the French coast, where her Mittllll.lol wan VI p..rillous from the continuance of the gale. 1.. d -she Irrittg leaky. that the crew ipri.a i h all y Lsscar►) hes came refractory. because Captain Ci u Lt. Aan au.nl. l a , •t run her on shore, as the 4004 =eater. they da asi ►t liVca. , ?; THE LAn EARL OF LIVERPOOL. HIS WILL. The Earl of Liverpool co n ti n u e d in She pooe.. *ion of lair faculties to the last encitirent, though re wino to...pulite of rioapg, or moving. without assist ance, for stone years pseviaus to his decease. He has left to his eltrr - st son, the present Eiirl, 16,00 4 1. ver annual, of whit-h filly about 2,59V4. per suliam is in land.. To his widow, the Coouteas of Liver. pool. only 7001. per eilligion for life. Ws aidelliirol her fofiner jointure, us Ludy Civet of ioutil. lase 111111:411. But the pre%witt Lai Our witted wore per annum to his frither's• taaprest ; and it is understood !list the Ltuchess or Dorset * her dim*. ter, arlcir 3001. per :tritium wore. To toe jeuknefon, hie second son. he less sett ha.... per moaners. in adciftiou to an estate at sear n, rer annum, of a hieh Mr. Cecil Jenk,nruir is I d. reedy in pomearrion, by the death of a relu:iou. Lady Charlotte Griot -lone, now Lade Eqer ea r e , : , lie ha i left only th e 7n a l. per attains bequeathed to the Counter, of larerooul, otter her ilecciesi. The funded property is minder' to all the foarily of the Jenkinsons, in tAil tivile, to a great (Item. The late Earl of Liverpool, - though rroi• of tfit west unpopular Aliiiittai and men of the 'grout reign, was nevertheless a own of ptittartud 1141111 y. He Mlle froui very uorow tregiuntogs. though or 3 geoJ family. 1H: pur....rethrl to tiie ...state title of Sir Bunks Jetikiirsaii, titian after he w e , wired to the Peeruse, by Mr. l'itt, I 7sti. Aaa. S! . ‘ealier. he was correct. but ow eitapient. Hir compared him to a dark isotherm...a re.inoblaiii.e to which his figure, manner, and deportment, hoi r as nitwit analogy as the ;maim li4ore (pail at,, tie that machine. For wan.- yews .p.i.t.• a debility in his knees prevented him frome riding without assist once. The present Earl is his son he Wert.. whore inmlier is still Plite. Lora laver - mar t house at , AddilicotubP, Oral . Croploo, aro only It•aoritoSi property, which gotriaway at his decease. HIB i.oaDsiiirr Yesterday utormatz the remains of the Earl pf wt re rktumgett 40/1& Wit I,,Ord.h.it * * 14ht Hertfertl-atieet, A31).-fair, for ilotriaoroo% oh Coe faruil) likouct sterdaire. pew ces-jt, , iwovuri hi the fit - fett‘in g •a: •n oo horstbitet, lasting a t7or.d.aa on a erin.• , * A plume of Nue Mark fearwrs, deno. at,' with 4...cutchtuia., repietenlin t : the falai. ) grins. Tu city bunt men, a his 41. t hat-losuls and glovta. THE Drawn 11 bis horses., covered wail. lick black ..hct truppogs inJ covut:lgroo.. fool. stsouruisig • vach, a and Tile family r nu.ap, drawn bt four Nom., witkiwo mraatir Ix:bin - 41; dreased in Jerp on.utnlt:g. The procemuun war cln,yd kry tl,ut.••u Noblemen and t;esitleareu'b carriagr., w a il prucreded through • - The A.r.iitrivitop of CAN Ramsay arrived a un Saturday Mr.. liasa•lP if composing a new Opera for Dru ry-Lye Therein, which is to be produced ut the coon* of next otelOth. Mrs- MOUNTAIN 114111returopli fra.n Bath wo►hin tiitse fre da)v s where she has heel) ha girt recovery of her health.. • - Mr. Nizt.vto iv engaged for r few nights at Manctierter Ti:mut. He WA, .to wake his debut on Monday last in the part of aarpioli in the Comedy or The Bury bod The kart Cuomo.. of Cattxtoa.c aid fain;ly are expected to leave Castle Howard, io a few kiwi,. fur Leindoa. , The 51ertiois and Ilarelsioneos of HAlRTlrnilla Re lived, last %trek, et their boost: •sta VatActiester- Nitwit, froth Kegley Usti, Mraiymkshice. he Earl of Cuutaionast.h.‘ wall lath tight much better. • The gou.se,s of Essr.s. wire iambfett . eit op to dim. ye.terdg), for the Brit tifie olisce her Ili. new. • • Lord FOLEY eht,rta . metl* relent piety , at dinner, yesterday, at his lions! to flill-stretta Writeley square. A new Comedy is forthcoming at iirriry.toott Theatre, of which the Green Om report is fa. 'minable, and it ts one gam; Garen, that the pee. Anisiers who are to be eowersieil in it, pre all plvti.nid with their character,. Lady .Muse Curie, once the biaubt and the taut of the reign. of Garraua IL heat surviving daughter of Jona Duke of Astir La mien, lira dangerously ill at her hooae iu fterke7 Ivy-square: she is near So years of use. Her la dyship is the widow of the bite Visenusit Coos, sou so the F;arl LiteKsTSl6 She retained meets a the brainy of her penwsii, and all the simnel . ' of lire hat inialerstaitilitig, down to the pessaut ti 111 l The conipiiitiou is still eager for the new Potent of the Eilitilitsrgh Theatre, which 1.11111.111191614 in Septerather nest, and which is to extend to twenty- One years. The daughters of the hate Mr. JACII.• lioN, who ore the l•rorietora of the Theatre, ore thought t.l hove the beet vlunice of sueeesnon. Mr. Lowitast has recently beeo to Both, io order to support the concerts of RAUZIth I ; and STO- Ract. though bhe Mud retired frciu public lie. came (Orr/lard ou tiara neeinuon, fir the lon tune. eloaing her career in brlnalf of a .0. , veterun. who hub rvbided in this country; Anil certainly eniitrihiste.r, in no small degiev, to uuprute its inubieut ta.te, particularly to the vocal depllrtinent. A woodcock wa: lately shot in the neighbourhood of Lisheord, which bab perfectly white ; there wee not a siogle coloured feather en tt. This beautiful bird, we utiderstned. Itms Meru , 411 i as to prrbeut to his litichnesi thee Prince of WALE.. Pi at" !trAr that some day% ainre a atatcl Ir.y. inYottlanil, in a f.eld. otaaef.cd dug 11d.111.41 With him to I e..nriiiug aud h. I. at a hole or mime place of couce.ditierit, u though he had made a &waver . The timid wrist to the plaer. and draw adiantlacrelituf,' to which were Stqina: thouran.l duller. of 4:ounterfeit bank chiellt for ta,rtall *ilia., Ila a Via varlet) of Leok,..—:-Dastao