The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-07-29 00:00:00

.\ Me PRIZES Of TWENTY THMTSAVD porNas, IN THE PRESENT STATE_I,97TERY, SOLD IN SHAIIIA BY RicHARDsO;s, i;001;Lt. (K. arid Co. Stack Broken, CiclICT of Bank Baildniga, Cutnhat aid fading the Date of the Kr. i s e.".Moie, London. No- 10097, Sown Nth Jo' , fa a thazr ter, an EiglatlKAt.'s lea Sixteenth Ab;ea a ; No- Q s "Braja" , a 11th July, Seyoool. in Tao Quartur and CigLi Sixteenth naves. Tickets and Shares, warranted nialaawn, rc hone on S-le by RICHARDSON, io toootlcK, 1,,4 There are yet hi the N bra 10,frot 5,0001. .:,void and a gri at Prnyw o i• --. a eine kr Pr'lf Tic nod Hey of Drawing wii. L NEXT '1 t• 1.141 the dd of Agging, and the cutlery w.il Guidon the lath. of MVO'. LOC4L MAUTIA. The Prince of Wales's Loyal EfTinl argh Volun teers, velum untied by Lie%tenant-I. have transferred their services to tII.- Luc Militia. Oat of ti it hundred and rimy present, Utter dred sad rusty come voluntarily - fnrevaid. The abe.teen LiKid Infantry Regiment, com manded by Lieuteumit-Colonel Tower, have •o intttct:red their services under tl,e Lees' Militia ,►.:t. The Mearns-Ciire battalion of Volunteers, cam niaiselcd he Livideamit-Colonel George Rohertson Satitt, ihise uirered the:: ~ e rvices as Local On Monday se'tiaight, the Whitby Royal Artil lery, conitionaled by Major bruchiat, paraded on Whitby Smiths, for the purpo,e answering a pro which had liven put to them, to trad.fer their services int.: the Loyd Maitia, why* huff of the men voluateeroi heir services, a ith n Get of the of6.!Lre. • Oil Tisisiday eveniug,the LoyttlWhitby 'Volunteer Ipfuntry, Johs Jto!t, Esq. Culduiti Couninaiwisitit, pond:Ltd Cse S sui 13 for the ' , Jute purpobe. Witvu stkolit one-third ouertd their services, toge. ther with all the Ofiicers. At ir po , :i!le of the WoAriKrton Volunteer;, on tlw rith r very hunterously attended, for the tiltrrro-e of v lig intoconsideratioo the propriety of thtir orriceii to the Local Militia, Lieute tviet-t urwen mole an appropriate speech It ;a a the occ-Liiiou. The regiinent, much to their ere l t, uttuaat alaetity, volunteered to a tem. 17 BRITISH PRESS. lA)N DON, FR/DAY. JULY 29. 3 letter front Gottenburgh dated the !ads ist . cantinas the report of e negociation having been entered .nto foe th • e•itagusion of a peace between Russia aiill Swede,i, the result of which, it is ad ded, was most anxiously expected ; as, since the depn•ture or the Engli.ii fleet, considerable appre hensions were entertained of the Norwegians ad- ; wincing to Gottenhurg, and obtaining poseisssion of the immense quantities of English goods with which the King's warehouses are filled. The spe culations in celoniel produce, which had bees made to the Baltic by American vessels, bad turned out very unsuccessful. Of forty vessels that left Gattenhnrg, only two, it appears, reached their ports of destination. Ten were cantered by a small French privateer, and carried into Dantzig, where both the ships and cargoes were immediate ly condemned and sold. The rest were taken or destroyed by the Danish gun-boate--a species of force which, to the disgracer of this country, has hee•u suffered to commit the mitt extensive depre dations on our commerce. A mass of papers was received yesterday from Oporto, consisting principally of officiuL addresses and proclamations issi.ed by the Patriots, for the purpose of calling forth the energies of the coun try against Bottarascre. They art in the style and spirit of the documents issued by the Spanish Patriot*, with which the newspapers have abound. ed these three weeks past. The other articles in the ()porta Papers possess neither novelty nor in terest, being mostly of old dates, and relating to evcnts already before the public. tilt last accounts left Sir A 'ITEM.' Ws LLESLILIt'II expedh:;,:i of Scilly, steering for Spain. By as ejt press arr. r d yesterday at the Admiralty, accounts have been received frost• that gall:t►tt officer.— They are dated the Vlst instant, on whirl► day the trail:Trots with the troops were off Contemn, all well. Ile had bell, ashore at Cantinas, and found the people were in the beat disproition, sot at all disheartened by the late reverse which General CuEars had itverieneed wear Valladolid. The French had sudered most severely in that action.— AaTIMil was received with the greatest reviort. After being a-shore • short time, h.. returned to his ship, and proceeded for In destination. From the commencement of BON APARTF.'S atro cious attempt, a.ter deposing his Alliex, the Kings of SPAIN, to transfer that powerful Mr:mare:ly to his 'brother Joaern, we have considered nod repre sented it as OpellitlK a I:tn, volume in the history of the eventful period in which we lire. As euch we continue to regard it, because we rely with confi dence on two grounds, namely, the national cha racter of the peOplc willow lee hat thus attacked withont provocation, and likewise the natural im pediments opposed to his progress beyond the li mits of. france. These latter obstacles are such es Nrirtneoa has not hitherto encoentered, either hs his African or li:s European campaigns. The 11111 sat:de of . Egypt and Syria, box ever deep tir burn iug, pri...eated only an espainissof plain, destitute of oattr :, 1 of prow . :,ionA. Whets he penetrated to V Itt3l4il, 1U 1 V osi, and to lic iiiii, is lOW, he had not the Pyrenees to pass, as he has at prro.eid.--• Such is the difficult• of makirw any impression on the Sluttish Monarchy. by iuriuling it upon this •tpiarter, that the French Princes have been fulled in their attempts at every period of nuniero time'. FRANCIS the FlasT, who. in the course of his long ware against Cissatts the FgtTH, pt at all aleratti . armies into Navarre, by the vei.• route which Na. POLLOX has now chosen. through Painpeluua, was always unsuccessful. Once, Luker!, about the year 1521, the French, site: I n ning over-run Na rsrre, ventured to cross the Ebro. They tittered Old Chile, and laid siege to Imp ugn °. s t own situated en the southern bank of that river. Hut there their progress was arrested. They were at tacked by the Castilions, routed, and cut to pieces. The Cardinal Rtc flute, who struck the severest blows at the Spanish Monarchy, under Piaui. the Fouttyn ; and who laid the foundation of the French greatness under Louts the 'FIIIRTILENTII, contented himself with attacking the Spaniards in Itaily k ittid in the Netherlands. He never attempted to recover Navarre, uor did he ever venture to send an army into Catalonia; thongli the Catalans, and the city of Barcelona itself, had risen in rebellion against Patin.. Even under the feeble and imbecile reign of CHARLES the SECOND, last Prince of the Austrian line, between 1665 and 170 n, when the Spanish Government and Monarchy were sunk into debi lity ut home and abroad, this frontier still remained impregnable. The campaigns of NOAILLES, in Ca talonia, 'thew the incredible difficulties with which he hud to struggle at every step, when he attempted to penetrate towards Girona. Though he was only opposed by theorised peasantry, surd by the " Mi quelets," a species of Highland Militia in the ral lies of Urgel and Campredon, he lost the greater part of his army, and made no progress. Notwithstanding the prodigious advantages which the weakness of the Spanish• Government, and the perfidious policy of N Aeo Leos, have afford. ed him on the preieut occasion, yet we confidently anticipate a similar rniult. He has not conquered, or reduced, ether Biscay, Navarre, Catalonia, or Madrid. His troops were admitted into those pro vinces as friends and allies ; abusing the good faith of CHARLES the F•URTH, and of hie Son, he has rendered himself master of the capital. We trust, however, that such treacherous and flagitious arts will meet their just punishment; and we fauna doubt that an enterprise begun in violation of every moral or honourable principle, will be finally at tended with ignominy, and terminated by disgrace. If 77w Morning Post, as the Editor asserted yes terday, has really received the Dutch Papers down to the Uth, coot:tieing intelligence from Paris es lute as the 19th, and from Bayonne of the 14th it is much to be regretted that he should bam withheld from the public sue% interesting comma- Mentions. They would beee impressed his readers with a deeper conviction of the prosperous state of the adieus of the Insurgent Patriots, than any ex. aggerated, or disavowed Ministerial Bulletins ; tend they would have certainly inspired more ani mation than the raving rhopsudies of Spanish ladies. We lament that the Editor of a p a p er , i n „possession of such original materials, should lock slkia up; while he tills whole columns with his own reuse gs or reflections en this foreign intel ligence. Aseurning, however, as authentic, the informa tion erkiehrtre states to have. s. en in the papers from Pariiknf fhe.igth, we consider it to be highly im pertarat. If an attack was destined to be made epos the city of Saragossa, as late as the sth of July, that fact of itself would almost prove, incon testibly, that precedies attacks had been made, and had failed. Nor is the circumstance of ten thousand men having been sent to reinforce the French army on the Ebre, which was to attack Saragossa on the sth, without additional interest. They have advanced, it woald appear, by Parnpe lima, through Navarre. it is by that middle road, from St. Jean Pied de Pert, through the Valley of Ilestevalles,eso famous for the defeat and death of ORLANDO FCRIOSO, the nephew of CHARLIE wont, early in the ninth century, whose siploits have been immortalized by Aatorro, that NAPI: ARON has contrived to pour in his troops. This is, in fact, the only practicable avenue condacting from Bayonne into the province of Arragon. The track leading from Barer through Huesca, direct to Saragossa, being impervious, even iu Jul, ex cept to Multeeers. That Saragossa itself should hare withstood so many assaults as the French ap. pear te have amide on it, is another extraonlinary circumstance, which seems to prove the deter mined resistance of the Arragunese. We venture to assert, that there are no fuentieutions whatever roam' Saragossa, except the ancient embattled walls, constructed mar five hundred years ago. which were noxlernized and repaired duriug the war of the Succession, early in the last cen tury. A ditch of no consideruble depth extends rum:Othello, which may be lilled with the water of the Ebro, but which, iu summer, is Usually dry. N'altootia, before which Sit, we have reason to be lieve that Murices' has been repulsed, is far less defensible than Saragossa. Tine walls scarcely de serve the.naine..and there is either no ditch, or none . of such breadth and depth as to impede an asseil ;lig enemy. Acre, before which BONAPARTE lust to many oleo. and to much time, was a dace of sisusber description. it was the valour, coostaacy, end .ieterinittation, manifested by the besieged, not the strength of the works et Acre. that compel' ••• NAPOLEON to raise the siege. Den JOSSPII, a,•- .cerdiug to these accounts. bed not procctilotl youd t'ittoria on the 12th inst. Our nest iafotina tisit from thence. as sell as from CuESTs, m Leon, mid from I'ALANa.I. at Santgoasa., will be most in teresting. We must he content to suspend our curiosity till their arrival. An Order of Cotvicil to expected to-morrow• which shall abolish the Comtnission that has so long held in suspense three millions of property belong ing to the Portuguese and Brazilian merchants, who, attached to .their ROY AL FAMILY, and (un fitting in the integrity of Great Britain, had that property conveyed to this country. It is expected that the Order of Council will afford satisfaction to the claimants of this property. There is at length some serious prospect of a regular official communication being about to be established between our Government and the Pa h:nits of Spain. It is said that Lord WILLIAM BENTINCI goes out as the accredited Agent of our Goveniment to the Supreme Council, or J mita, of Seville. Mr. Deer, who has been, for upwards of 30 years, the Resident Consul at Cadiz, will set off for the same- point, in order to manage the commercial, whilst his Lordship has the conduct of the political relations between the GariTriluient of Spain and this country. We have repeatedly noticed the infraction of the American laws, interdicting all commerce with the colonios of Great Britain, by the inhabitants in the vicinity of Lake Champlain, and that a very brisk trade, notwithstanding the embargo, was carried on in that quarter, Its extent may be appreciated by the following article from aNew-York Paper, dated flay " We learn by a Gentleman from Vermont, who resides near Lake Champlain, that the raft preparing to go down the Lake, to Montreal, was near hull a mile long, had a regular fort built upon it, ball proof, and is manned with between five and six hundred men armed. The raft is represented to ccntain all the surplus produce of that State, raised the year past, such as wheat, pot-ash, pork, beef, &c. and said to be worth rising of three hun dred thousand dollars. Governor Smith, of Ver mont, has ordered out the Militia to arrest its pro gress. It is to be feared that Mr. Jefferson's cruel and arbitrary policy of forbidding intercourse with our neighbours will cost the lives of some of our most valuable citizens." It is said, that a third expedition is actually or dered, consisting olin,Sciti, the flower of the reserve /your tinny, with which. his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK will go forth, and assume the command in chief of the whole of our troops sent to the assistance of Spain and Portugal, as soon as a footing has been made in those .countries. No man ever doubted the courage of his Royal Highness; it is is him an hereditary quality; neither do we question his judgment ; but we re gret to say, that his good fortune has not been equal to his courage or judgment. The Romans, in the choice of a General, always considered whether the Candidate was fortunate or not. If he could not plead his good fortune, it was to little purpose that he boasted his military talents. The following veviels from Jamaica were with the fleet, mulcs convoy of His MAJESTY'S brig Sparrow, on the I ith instant, in hit. 43. 30. loug. 43, the Jonah, Cummings ; Trwity, Crosby ; Duke of Kent, Reese; Kitty, Read ; Venus, Lowther ; Dorothy Forster, Se den ; Mansion, Ford ; Caribury, Driscul ; Lady Cre moray, —; —; and the Lavinia, Howlaaid. The fleet attempted the windward passage, but after beating u fortnight, were obliged to bear up for the Guild). The Imprrial, Dorothy Forster. Makina, and Carlbury, have since beta spoken with on the 18th, in lat. 49. long. 24. His Royal Highness the Duke of KINT has re ceived llis MAJLSTY'S letters of service, to raise two Battalions at' Highlanders, to be added to the First Regiment of Foot, commonly culled the Royals, from its being originally established is England, under the immediate patronage of King JANET the FIRST, Ilia 11AJ66Tlf having been Colonel of it, in inerehetai, previous to his ascending the thvone OT throe reulins. The troops which embarked at Ram_ spate, awl sailed from the Downs on Friday lust, under con voy of the St. Alban's, put into Weymouth, on Tuesduy, And 'wiled again for their devaluation on Wednesday morning. The Expedition might have sailed from St. He len's, ua Wednesday, had not the wind come round to the Southward in the afternoon. By a Spanish gentleman just arrived from Bilhoe, who ass some time ut Bayonne, and which he left on the 9th in.t, is learnt, that when the account of the surrender of the French Beet at Cadiz, to the Spaniards, arrived at Bayonne, the rage of Bo SI A PARTE w.ts ungovernable, and beyond all hounds : lie stamped round his apartment, foamed at the mouth, and rail chalet the house, swearing venge ance against the Spaniards for the trick they played him. This Gentleman raw the Fat:rich EMPEROR review five regiments of foot, and, while reviewing them, one of the Colonels being rather nukward in unteitruvring his battalion. BON APARTS war so en raged, that he reduced him from his rank to be se cond Major, and promoted a Captain of Grenadiers to the command of the regiment, declaring he should not be reinstated in his rank until he was &hie to manoeuvre his regiment in a better style. 4 A l t ;t3(41. 4N-'47 1 / 4 \ Ns ) ei ELOPEMENTS. Oil news, circuital uews, why the world dates to al , . Thai the ilup Club has misled on the town bat a Tho fortune tied rant had most circuitously niche -:•• To make Wkipe the tau, yet 'ti. nuw superseded. •s • •• Then what, pc) thee mak , conk, this local cut atualte. Sines. Duke*, Lords• and 'Squires, gate eihrt to the *sider ha pluiss, the euigtha list suite if you're atilt, Why Senate and drawi..g•rootn's swept fur the stable • The answer I state, without stretching the tours, Finpopornt 's the rage 'to bit the town and then , cruse; No aze, rink; or sex, Itr.re enrap'd the ichietion, Nor cure emu a‘.l;l, out Jnierian petfectio4. The Foottnati, the Coachce, tke Lawyer, WWI Clerk, The .1141 0z.:4 Per r, aye, Peeress--but stunk, Then all ctesses it runs ; if not stopp'd is its rtiuuds, The dantazts cannot he balanced by pounds. Perhaps that a cure, or a patcut prescription, Could be thought of at Lluyre, in the nay of subscription Patriotic 's the plan, sod a national gala Superior in worth to the riches of Spain. Altho we ad ' e the Mare Spaniards resistance, And airh them IItICCL'I.J, aye, and British assistance; Vet elopement se look for to Di distresses, And elopement to ull who pre►ent their redresses. Au elopement to pensions, and places, and wily To sinecures, parasites, s.,cuphauts, devils ; Elopement to petticoat intinence too, With these scut adrift, then the nation will do. I've toms er'd the iporsCous, deny it who tamp All other prescriptions are qui.Ozing and abase; Dirstes all these parties (ruin see That the recipe's right of W. J. D. July u 6, 1.01. Lady MONSON, we are happy Lo state, is mush recovered from her indisposition. The Countess Of ihRILINGTON hod a s-le , t party, last evening, at her house, StAle-yard, :w. James's Palace. The Earl of BARRYMORE returned to town, last night, front %%Indoor. The Marquis and Marchioness of ABERCORI rume to twin, on Wedlitsday morbing. Cow tit Priory, and returned yesterdal. The Marquis of Sausnuay left town, yesterday, for Hatfield. The Countess Dowager of Serrom will leave town, next week, on a visit to the Marchiones., of SA Lissuav, at Hatfield. Viscount CAIITLEREAGH returned yesterday to his seat near Summer. Our Agriculturists Lout that our crops will stow down the ranks of the enemy. Lady COLLINGWOOD let the Royal Hottl, iu *Pall .Mall, on Wednesday, for Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Essex will give a grand dinimr, this day, at eashiolsurry, to a large party of friends. . • - A paper of yesterday gives a list of deaths under the head of Bankrupts, very improperly, the par tied havisigpoid thr debt of nature. The Lari of t ANIIAMPTON'II house, in Bru'on.. street, is undergoing a tliorough repair ; the g drawing...room is to be enlarged. The Countess Dowager SFENCEIL is gone to pAss the au tttttt er at her beautiful scat, near St. A11an.... —Viscount and Viscountess MORNITII, and I..adi H. CAvitstorsu, are gone on a visit to her L 5.1 3 .. ship. Our army, as anears by the crops, is in a MO state of cultivation. Viscsuot and Vi,countevs ANSON will return to town, to-morrow, her Lad3ship's accusichemesi be ing daily expected. Wednesday last, the Right Ulu. the Earl of LANSDALE, Lord LOWTHER, and the Ladies Mx- RT, ANNE, and CAROLINE LOwTHER, (with their suite), arrived at the Castle, Wintehaven, flow Loather. The Bight Rey. Dr..GoonEantieta, Lord Bi shop of Carlisle, arrived at his seat at Row-Castle. on Saturday se'rinight. The Duchess of INaitsvr has at length sold her house in Whitehall to tiover 1111 l eat, and laira taken a house its (I,rosveitor-place. The principal ob ject in ribta• • g her Grace's house, ie to snake as Office for the Secretary of State for the Howe Department, which is at preseat on the fourth story or garret of the Treasury. Bier Grads house contains upwarus of lid rooms. Arrived, last week, at Dumsasm's Hutch St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh— The Marquis of liietifie ; Lord anti lady Keith; the Hun 3/ipaa !Apt'Mason and hlereer; Colo,el and Vrt Pi leek ; Nituaro, of kileairo, Lat. and the two Missal Mourn; trolond, Mrs. arid Miss Armstrong; lames Mac- Donald, Esq. ; Colo:rat Strcart Niebohnru; Dasel Munro Binning, L.N.; and tut" Mr. Pi iugles, of Washed. Bath arrnvals— Part Ellen, entinten of Inthee, lord Bolton. tally Lid dell, 'Md.; l d urluul ll4o.ll sod family, Sir Win. Elfutut, nese Admiral Buller, Major C% Alajor irdliatus, Mle jur IVAitsuals, Des. Crool, Rev. Mr. soil his. Glam. Rer. Mr. Bowles Capt t'ouckeorie, Crpt. J.L:Lbsoy, lout Kanto'', Mr and Mrs l 4 ,rry, Mr. :mil Moi. .1. H. i,Jira.Jra Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Vr and Alrs. Cole', Mr awl Nis. arandilb, Mr. and Kenyon, Mr. and MIS Fropkiar. Mr. and Mrs. Psi-. • Mr. Huddirsioe, • .A:r. St in:, bir. Donavan, Mr. Moot, Mr. Maw, lir. livv, Mr. Jot+ , a. is 3lr. &waders. Mr. tbalrrit. Mr. Bowles, Mr. Cryirie, itr4 Grant, Mr. 13unuell, Mr. Boat), Mr. Bran, ;dr. R adroitly Mr. Hay, Mr. Carper, Woulcut, Mt. Arbuil,tot, etr. liaultes, Mrs. N. Andrrdon, Mrs. I.:dainty, Mts. 8.0..ke. Mtn Coates, Mrs. Ps}ne. Mrs. Mahon, Ms. Cat so, Mrs. Pijun, Miss Montgomery, Atlas I4utLam, hLas Foot, a Mel Potlucks, Atka Rattil:Jr, Miss Hart, tic. ace. Anived at Peterhead-- _ Mi." Vi'hite from Ireland; Miss Setvadersou Crisp data; Cam uod ?.Ir. slitebell, Aberdeen ; ?firs Vieni.s, do ; M. :Winne', ditto; Dr. aud Mrs. Robertson, dig ;lb liana Forhes, E:.41. of Felt; ars. Ftlti3V, of Miss Robertson, of Process ; Jetties Booth, Emi. deem; Sir Alen. Renrsy, of Enitr."in ; Lefty its tcelp vt ditto ; SS r. Ramsay. of ditto; Mr. ILUtrord Rvinsa?, Mr :11sriliedul:e retosay, of ditto; Mr. tis•itiorio Rio! , - ie.. of ditto; Mr. said Mn.ii !teeny Teityuor, of Kri'. ~; ' i Miss ririssel• of Lloektoill ; Miss Fenny OtIV!PI, it ea." , i Miss KCjell9lllo, of Der ; r. Wicli:•rts Hari von. fr"l°, Loudon; Mr. Ward, fro.. ; Mrs Caro", I*, O• Craig('; Dirt Caroegie of di:to; Miss Liebe Hoy try g of ditto ; the nefibt Hun. Lord NIA: voa ; the Hon. J Melville; Mr. Avid MI,. Aisc i iiierson Groot, of Lich ; the !ice. Mr. Fen:, frorn At,rotrrit Doe:or E.-rin 4 ak :mdittci and Mts. itente-, Lewin Edaenargb, 1 Ass, hei net • r co' 1. , ), 1101 Ilat mu dui /Nal 111 by eh( the pro aCel 0,3 thr rho -