The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-01-09 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS• LoNON, SATURDAY, JAN. A Prochuhation, for et:omens' Fast, will appear in this night's Casette, to be obeerved on Wed. uoiday, Feb. the 17th, throughout England ; and on Thursday the loth, in Scotlaud. We under stood it is also expected that Casette will shortly display many Addresses, approving of the conduct of Miaisters. The recent movements in . Yorkshire {pd Laacashi.o - will have thus afforded the ground for these proceediags. lied Mr. Keocu azted under the sid . ..iee of DT. DITTLIENAN and Mr. Puoctcat, he could not have taken a litter course to defeat the Catholic Question. The recent move ntcttt for teaceOp Yorkshire and Lancashire, via an, offectually answer the end. of Ministers, that one might be almost tempted to think they Ore of their procurement. We vannonneed, so to back as Wednesday, a r...p0,t that Box trans had returned to Paris, but at the same time discredited the cause assigned Pw it, we mean a conspiracy in that city.--Tire Dutch Papers, according to the account of per sons lately come to this country, from Holland, confirm the report of Bon sesairs's return, with some circumstance of suspicion.—His departure from Milan was bo sudden, that u very few hours entice was given of his intention to quit Italy. —His arrival at Paris was equally unexpected : no preparations whatever were made for his re- ception. flowartaTell journey to Italy was certainly un dertaken with the v'ew of accomplishing some great otiyact ; but we find that he has suddenly re turned, without haring done any thing, except creating one of his farourites Duke of LODI:. We do not know whether it be one of his Generale, or the Vice-President Metal, that has been pro moisti to this dignity. At the sane time, for the benefit of those who are prone to speculation, we mast admit that BOW AP ART t'S departure fur Italy was oniOtuneed in two lined, in the Monitewt, with at much 'simplicity sad indifference, as if he were oily going to Fonti.nbleau ; and that his return ass announced for the end of December, at which Oise it tippets te have taken place. The tailcoats organ of Rebels and Revolution• its now become the loyal obsequious Print of the 111hnieter, in its number of last erening, contained the following article tills* Country la placed in a new situatiou —A Cams is 'primed of umexampir 1 &Akan) , and danger." " A Cadedeeselr is formed silliest as, of all the POWer , of the Coatinamt, under the ivitiote sad catboat of an Army screatooted to footteeet,aod Ihiehtd wit% victory-MID*, die 'taw* and matron' of a 112112 of signal talents, and of slat Cuter good totems." " dui h a crisis de' arls all the energy, all the coestsacy, and all the fortitude of the British character " " It has thereat* surprised us, that at mock a asoewid, say sass ehuald thiak of petitioning Hi , majesty's Gowen wee ta wake Peace, which to obviously impracticable, upon tenni of re-arity and of holiest !mates& of petitiouilat Ws Majesty's Goven.ement to make Peace, it is out duty to show to Europe, that we are weirdly of our 'test name, and are atilt coarlaced that the Testiest of the Seas is the Sceptre of Ow World. It is the duty of the people of the. British umpire, it pryer was so eresale the duty of every County, City, sod Corporatism thesughout the kingdom, TO ADDRESS THE. THRONE, in the language of roufidenee—.43 ono , Hu Majesty that we are aware of all the Dangers of the Crisis, hat that we kase the emission . and the browns to meet them—nut whilst we feel the ravoitude of our &arm we are not in anadde to tlar glory of Long the °At power that yet nsists Use otilmMioiss of France; of benn the an LC Power that stand* betters Framer and ("annul Emplre--tha LA.' hove of Europe, the LAST asylum of permeated free donew-that we we tight*, not for coaquest, not for 'WA nos, but fur Wert) and fur security, fur our famili, .1, for our frierri, fur orr country, for oar kiad—sthat we are sure us honmerable and ware Peen can be obtained, but by the chase sad per nenact of oar nertionrand that we are tbeteniimed to anodes fall with our Hunoar mad oar Inie• The above is a true Copy. As to the words, we vouch for its accuracy, but as to the manner in which it is displayed in the sairival, we do tint pre tend to a likeness. We have seen the same I'aper announee, in common with its contemporaries, the battle of the Nile and Trafalgar, but they were stolen into its coMatus, compared with the splendid - style with irliieh this hint agititist a disposition to ,petition fnr pence, is displayed in the branch of rotten part of ,the press to which we allude. ti lLsiag pritotr, leado.and canonti,with all the einbel l•shments of asterisks and italics, in short, .11 the variety of the letter-founder's stores, have-been es haustea to rive to this stale subject the appearance of novelty, and render this thread-hire idea strik ing dad iinposing. In one I Aqttillar. lUdoed. we 1111104 admit, that the article h.ui some pretensions to no. eltj. We mean the model which it Rives of • lit and proper Ad Ire to the Throw, suited to the taste of the 31inister.... po, . . . . To. all th ossewhe have not eel& the fable of the frog and the ox, this must app ear a monstrous piece of lon and vulgar cleorlatnnissr. Tare is no member of Administration, we believe, capa ble of dictating to the free people of England the very word, which they must use in the free exercise of one of their hest and most undoubted rights, the right to petition the Throne—the right of the child to address its parent, in every case of adver sity and suffering. If then this impudent dictation has not originated in the overweening vanity and ex travagant self-conceit of the Journal from which we have copied it, we are confident that it cannot be traced higher than some miserable underatrapper of the Treasury, whose zeal outruns his discretion ; who, in his anxiety to please his employers, forgets every principle of liberty and liberality. These few observations have been extorted by the wretched eltarlsrauisin by which the subject is sought to be brought forward now, as quite a new thing, although some of the prints of Loudon have rung with it for several days- s ok/lough several meet ings have been held upon it in Yorkshire and Lancashire--although there was a grand meeting upon it on Thursday at Glasgow, and the Treasury Journals long since advertised.a meeting in the city of London, a notice moat unaccountably unat tended to, and which neglect can only be attri buted to the peculiar character of the first Cor poration in the Empire—which appears still to retain something of the sturdy spirit of our an cestors. But here a question fairly occurs ? Where have been the Editors of the Treasury Print when all those things took place ? Have they been gagged and chained, and only recently let out to exercise their senses ?—Or, have they just awoke from a profound sleep of several weeks, and now invoke the Genius of Printing to express their sense of the wonders that have happened during their long and sound slumber ? The truth, we believe, lies something deeper. The voice for peace, as we observed in a former number, is not loud nor general, and has been chiefly confined to the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire. And here we must again notice the Mean falsehood and calumnies of such of the Tee/a llay Journals as took up the subject from the beginning. In Yorkshire the voice of Lord Mu.- !OS has been everywhere raised against these Meetings for petitions in favour of peace, and yet they have been imputed in the Treasury Journals OD the intrigues of the opposition, with a view to embarrass Ministers ; while it is notorious that:his Lordship is the only Member of opposition who has interfered directly or indirectly in these meet ings.—Falsehoods and calumnies like these, are unworthy of any good cause, and no generous ad versary will ever resort to them.—To return, how ever, to this model of an address, for the continu ance of the war, which a Treasury Journal of yesterday proposes to cram down the throats of the public, awl the free people of England must not depart from to the extent of a single letter—the fact is, the zeal of the Treasury Journals had taken a wrong direction, the hounds had got upon a wrong s ent, and it became necessary for the Ministerial whipper-in to call them off, and put them upon •a right train. The glorious attack upon Copen hagen—the rigour and energy ofMinisters—their wisdom in effecting the migration of the House of Baaaseza—these high-sounding epithets have been echoed and re-echoed in the Treasury• Jour nals—and Ministers, who feel shat they will not bear the test of argument, are afraid that they may be introduced into the Counter-petitions against peace. It is our sincere conviction that England ought not to purchase a peace by the sacrifice of a single particle of her maritime rights, or her honour ; and that these Meetings are not calculated to accelerate a peace worthy of her acceptance. ft is a is., therefore, in Ministers, to reject the fulsome and disgusting flattery of their sycophant scribes, to restrain their real, and to place the continuance of the war, not upon the alluring hopes which it holds out of glorious conquests, and splendid migration., and expeditious, but upon the ex travagant demands and deep-rooted malignity of our implacable foe. This is the secret of the model of the Address to the Throne, which we have copied 'from a Treasury Print, and of the new instructions which they have received for their guidance, in speaking• upon this important subject, now become wore interesting from the near ap proach of the Session of Parliament. tint while ..Nlinisters place the necessary continuance of the war upon tie true ground, the implacable resent ment, and inordinate ambition of the enemy, it is matter of regret that they should not be able to justify without sabiettiagthemselves to the charge of incon sisteney. If they were sincerely impressed with the idea that a safe, honourable, and lasting peace is not attaisable, end as some of their Journals inform as, that there is no chance of such i peace during the life of BON A.mtirt, they shout have acted accoedi igly. They should have practised a cold aad rigid economy, and huthanded our resJurc.is Al' tif i We. The reverse , how -1 ever, is the itacte' Sp little is economy to their taste, it ha; been* favourite subject of their con tempt and ridicule. The economy of the late Mi nisters is with the present a standing joke, a fruitful source of mirth, wit and laughter. glow much ribaldry hasbeen expended upon the e,0,0001. sent to the King of Palma*, is fresh iu the recollection of the public.—The coffers of the Emperor of Rcs- SIA, they say, should have been filled with British gold. British gold ahonld have flowed in a stream into the pockets of every Petty Prince in Ger many, and then they would have been loyal and brave—they would have proved themselves patriots and heroes, and died iu defeuee o their country, their family, and their friends. — The present Ministers, since their entrance into power, have been resolved not to subject them selves to this reproach. In politics, as in every thing else, Fashion appears to bear sovereign awe?, ; and the new Minister, like a new Belle upon town, wishes to mark his entre into office by some display of fancy. The Belle 'thews her taste for expense in new caps and bonnets, the new Minister, upon the present occasion, has displayed his in a variety of expeditions. Expeditions are the order of the lay. There is Sir Sanwa. HOOD'S Expedition, Sir Sine Nay SMITH'S Expedition, Admiral Corron'e Ex pedition, General Mooax's Expedition--Expedi tions sail from all our ports, in all winds and wea ther, with all the activity of a Christmas Panto mime, and with some, we are sorry to say, of its crossing and jostling too ; ezemplitiCd in the re turn of Sir JOHN hlooag's force from Gibraltar, at the moment Admiral Co'tton's Expedition, in its way to that point, has been scattered over the seas. This keep-moving spectacle is well calculated to catch the gaze of the people ; but it cannot be got up, with all its scenery and deeocatious, without great expense ; yet even all this activity may exist, Ivan in a greater degree, and the system be deatitute of energy and vigour.. If these observations ap pear to bear hard upon Ministers, they owe it to the fulsome and disgusting flattery of their Writers. The Expedition to Copenhagen may have been necessary to our safety, sad is, therefore, justifiable; but to call it glorioat is as unworthy of the tuitional character, as it is absurd to consider the marching and counter marching of troops through the south of Eng land, and the mere sending out of ships, belbre we know their object, or can form an idea of. their plan of operation, irrefragable proofs of a vigorous, and able Administmtion.—ln the same spirit of truth we admit that their predecessors, for we are not the tools or retainers of any party; did nothing to make a strong impression.— Strangers to stage effect, their works were more useful and solid, than shewy and stik ing. We will do them, however, the justice to believe, that they calculated upon a long pos session of power, and that if they had foreseen it would be limited to a solitary year, instead of laying the broad foundation of a new system, which would require years to finish, they would of necessity have turned their attention to objects more calculated for eclut and immediate effect. We lately stated thnt fears were entertained for the safety of Lord HUTCHt, sioN and his brother, the Ilon. eIInISTOPIIVR lIL TtUINSOY, one of the Representatives for the city of Cork. A Pruitt of yesterday states, that they and Colonel Earsais ce have been taken on hoard n packet, rind carried it'll Norway, by a Danish vessel. An article, dated Aim , burgh, 1 lth Dec. in the foreign news iu our Pape! of Wednesday last, says, 4. We learn from Norway that the Norwegian sailors have taken rind carried ` , en the western coast, an English packet-boat, harilit ou board a person of distinction." In the soW, Paper, however, on the same day, an stelae,. dated Copenhagen, the 16th, announces the rap ture of the Pashas, with the English Ambassador Mr. G tal.tar on board, ott his return to England, and that the prize arrived in that harbour ow the preceding day. We are still not without hoipe, that the two articles relate to Mr.fitAittlit,' arid to one and tl.e same prize, and tha!the statement of the capture of Lord iiLTCHINION and suite rests solely upon the Hamburgh article. The funds continue to rise. Some attribute the change to a prospect of peace ; others, to the great quantity of money in the market, occasioned by the dividends, which commenced payment on Thunsday. The Amu, a Danish prise, which . parted com pany from our fleet in the Baltic, vationererai of the crew of the En ish brig Clio on board, and which was su to have been totally lost, has, w e understa , put safe into a port of Norway, where the crew have been made prisoners. Dispatches were received yesterday from Ports- ' mouth, from which it appears that there are thirty one ships waiting at that port for convoy to the lArgitteernuielm. following is a list of ships tinder convoy of His MAJESTY ' S chip Skorpshooter, bound from portsmouth, to Guernsey :—Nelson, of Ports mouth ; Primer of IVoks, of Sunderland ; Sophie, of Leith; and Union s of London. t i ,+ i ! 1 i 1 f ' ', THEATRES. DRURT-LANE. The lisineed Tower, lust night, produced t h e combined powers of Mr. BRAMAN, Signor* Ste- RACE, and Mrs. 111ouNraitt. Mr. BitAtitaa'.l " Spirit qf wry *elided Sire," is not only udmi •ed for the execution, but for the inimitable acting he displays. Signora STORAGE'S Adele' is rich in bu limia and variety. The whole performance went off with great liOrit_e There was a very elegant audience. The Earl of Frrata, and Countocu Dowager Stswcba, were present. VENT-GARDEN. Last night Mrs. HEART JOHNSTON Mine for- ward, for the second time, this season. The play was Mrs. Cow Lar's lively and elegant CoMedy of The Belle's Stratagem, in which 'Mrs. JOHNSTON filled the part of Letitia Hardy, the fascinating he roine of the piece. Mrs. JOHNSTON, on her first appearance, looked moot interesting. She 'sore an ' elegant and becoming moming dress, was very pale, and much agitated. She had in her hand an es sence bottle, which proved extremely useful. She was received, as on the former night, v. ith a tumult of applause and bisect , ac co mp anied with • oy; o f." —r. Go on, g o on, go ors." A chair was placed on the stage, which Mrs. JOnN STOW availed herself of, and was supported to it by Mr. CLAREHIONT, 0110 played the part of fillers. The uproar increasing, she advanced to the front of the stage, in the most beseeching attitude, bathed in tears. This only increased the nolo& At length an universal cry of " Hear her," hear her," prevailed for a moment. The fair suppliant took advantage of it, and said, we believe, " That she coald ;tot bear ditappro bottom from any voice;" here there was hissing. and * Of! of! turn them oat! go oat" resounded' from alludes ; when she again spoke, in brokeusen tences, of" macho's:merited reprose4 uadesereedre-• probate's'," lie. This produced another clamor,whivh ended M a universal cry of "No niore"-r" Co on, go on," and the Play was suffered to pro*eed; but ou Mrs.MsrroelS, in the part of 3fri. Racket, saying, a Bat pray, what is die martin of all this '•' i the hissing and noise were renewed, though only in I. slight degree; and all was good humour until . Latina Hardy, speaking of how she would act by a belived bled and, says, " wilt' Lim in the eye of fashion, or, in the shade of tenement. elinageway column the last - sentence was caught with avidity. by the unfriendly part of the audience, and 'the effect of that interesting and elegant scene' was entirely lost. After this detail, we should' think it very unfair to criticise Mrs. JOHN.. WON'S performance of one of the most difficult psrts in elegant comedy. and which the Au-' thiness describes so Justly in the following lines " Shall t I,e an English wife ur,.breaking from the MEM of nature and ednratton step forth to the maid ht thin captivatiag glare of furt:ign manners'" • Mrs. Jouxerom was not happy in her musical attempts. The miuuet De la Coer she danced with grace and elegance, and was much applauded. We do not think her acquirements equal to the line of acting she has undertaken. She is a very flue woman, and fills some parts with much excel lenee.—Mr. Law's did not look well in Dorieoert,. and did not potarss his usual ease.—Miss BRISTOW looked the woman of fashion, and was a most interesting portrait of the amiable Lady Fram ers Totechtectod. Mrs. MATTOCKS and Miss A WArtny were very spirited in Mrs. Racket and Miss Ogle. Mr. Musoew, as Old Hardy, was ad mirably dressed in the Maaqserade scene, and was very humorous throughout. Mr. W. MURRAY, in the very trifling par' of Dick.the servant, displayed a degree of comic humour, that drew down an uni versal burst of applatise. Mr. Jonas was very successful in the part of Flatter ; he both conceived and executed it with judgment. The house was ,nice full. Mr. and Lady ELIZAMITH Wilt7llllle4rl laivetheir seat, in Bedfords'aire,:oo the inth for their town teditirtice, in Down-otreitt, for the reason. '- Sir ABRAHAM and Lady Buser are expected at their house In Mill-street, Berkeley-square, next rack, from their scut atiVonnleybury. 'lite Earl of Los oox ;maim. arrived at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his house an Grosvenor square, from Ireland. . Viscount and `f neonates* MORPETH are ex- B oned to-morrow at their hour; in Park-place, from N'orkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of STAFFORD will come to town, for the season, on Monday. Viscountess BaciLav had a select card party, last evening, at her house, in Dover-street. The Marchioness of 4aI.ISBURY, and the Ladies ecru., will come to town next week, from Hat field, to attend the Court on Her Marzyrv's Birth- Day. Mr. SHERIDAN arrived in town, yesterday, from a visit to Mr. and Lady ELIZASSTII WHITIBREAD, at their seat, in Bedforashire. Mn. Boox is indisposed, at her house, in Berk' - ler-square. Mr. Davroa's benefit takes place, this night. et Windsor. The entertainments are, The .13,11:1 Bafgaith Lover's Quarrete, and Red Roy ; with a variety of Comic Songs. Lord HEATIIFILLIVS coscisman, on Thwwlar, was breaking in a pair of young horses in a currick. break, as be was going up Upper Grosvenor. street, one of the horses plunged, and broke the pole of the carriage; by the sudden shock• the coachman was thrown off the seat, and fell be twixt the horses and the pole, and was for a considerable distance; he was dr= hruised; some hones es wern last night <intertwine.' of has recovery. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held M the East India Moose, when the un dermentionerl Cap tains were sworn into the command of their re spective ships, viL :—Captain P. HERIII,RT, Es• teV', for Madras and Bengal; Captain C. rim. Lord Cardereagit and Capt. W. Cm - wrote, Esrtor, for St. Helena and. Bengal.—Thr Court adjourned, at six o'clock, till V 1 ednesday next. LAD' Sir 1 ig t to volt el of the --- 14 l!:tu rent 1 ina,te ind I pen-, kreat t.vit3 s!itet 11 dr :kw Cirk Mr. L•4a Mr caw d]all Is