The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-11-24 00:00:00

?RE ss ?d IL irriveci et F. reci.l., l l N,„ SIIP 44d 4,4, e t4th, linviry Vork, ng have Leu.ji It board a bijm . 4r4, Naidi te jultell St 4t e , tq beau Io the-•,. 9N with rem •- uf its exisicw,. it nitt at is as!ipebeci I,i ten taken it,te JEtits , disposal of fa and it is me-e eld to orrori 4e Congress, si c its 7th instant, sr of the wid,"e :o had propokd to the SpaniA stoney that hes iart. The ele. ibargn weep üblic Afidas,e4 feeling. The nit s and, fi lm yet agent:note, mind. n that has Una the Ilth, rum' ecteral Ahl , We are tho, from the thtl present circuit. ointoon anxiety, editated an v,- ear reports oriii(h ly taken pilif ithout foun , f of Floratzso:. es, that after the sth, urea cut off part of he was Maw 'f my, and, eft,. 10 Lurie. / Awed card a gentrst from Vella t. to have taken with the loss of srt of tlw Svs mined is snid is liards retreated they thought ih cavalry ; hut id considerably Arra ards, col persed, cud 011 strong both ke 's force at 11,•%- iere is nn f.:r irmy is Nikki to I are to inotiiisl hare retired t or of inquir:, site so lavely solicitude, a s ill, or will not, is, who. from mess the Inf and form rtt Imlieve that he •nave. Though' in that 'lenti l., the ground re owned, that, rid plausi r. not actuatt-t niaion suid io• • ck of Sprin rellexion, thong!) lie thil of die F,cc,d, • and thone, e hopes to obi:- ch Kings ; Usurper, in the dynasties. 1-Ic I to overt;:ri coletiona - y In his row nn: I already wore Do we not sec 111 Naitoietws• A Dilly ? lile Proms on years. Dela- mark an d Sweden will be Melted ,town at plisitiue! i!h,,,,„ er neilile. He considers Russia end Anti. At•tr:.R. as the Roman C/RSARS regarded Partkia,. emiot re beyond the limits which he wishes to t , h,s e.upire ; belonging to Asia, rattier than • to e, ; enpe, arid whose Sovcreigos he may allow ko reign on the Neva, or on the Volga, without dread. But, while Spain remains ansubdued, he is not safe nor secure, though Master of all the Coatinent bes;4es. The Spaniards, (who include the forts- ' g ,,,.,, ) , together with their immense Colonies, if c aported by Great Britain, may, he knows, not on ie Isitame and defy, but may check and even ‘ , / ,;rturn his power. It was not enough for him that CHARLES and FERDINAND were both butiser- .ient to his purposes. They were still BDURRONS of the ai:eient stock. Nothing short of a complete Continental Revolution can secure NaeoLene.— Having first, therefore, by arguments, or by mad tai:lstion, gained ALEXANDER. and having over used Austria,. he returns from Erfurt, and an seamees to his Legislative Body his determination tc crown his brother at Madrid, and to plottit his Eigirs on the fortresses of Portugel.' Vl iien he pronounced these wonls, lie hail already prepared all the instruments and means of executing them. Illearrinnt, on the 3d of this month, as nc know, at Bayouue. Troops. money, provisions every requisite is ready to cater Spain at the same time that he crosses the Ilidassoa. From Vittoria he has not more than ~ !ca rani s to Madrid. Having gassed the Pyrenees, he has no other mountains to encounter. except that narrow chain, deno whetted the Passes of the Guadarainci, which se parates Old from New Castile. If CASTANOS and &silt venture to meet him in the field, they must be vanquished. If they retire, he will reach Nla di id in sixteen days, without opposition. His men evil carry portable soup and biscuit, for that time, on their backs. The English tro-ps can have nothing to do with the business. If Moose is at Salamanca, or at 'Valladolid, and if BAIRD should reach Benevento or Palencia, as much as they call do by the time that Boesestreeentets Madrid. Our Ministers have, in fact, lost Spain by their in capacity in the first instance ; and our Generals have completed. by their tameness and want of resource, what the Cabinet left incomnkte. If the troops sent to Lisbon. in July, had gone to St. Andero, the French mast have been driven not of Biscay before BONAPARTE returned from Erfurt. Or if Dlooaw's force had been sent, in September, by sea, to St. Aridtro, and to Tarnigona, while BAIRD'S corps proceeded to Biscay, instead of going to Gal perhaps Ter might have been oompletely routed.. before NAPOLEON reached Bayonne. But that time has been irretrievably lost, and we must now look to hear of d0513.11', Coronation at Madrid. It is tree Cast the Spanish nation is not satin.. gated. bemuse the Cai.ital is in the enemy's But the arts of the Corsican are more terrible (Teti that' his arms. Success, aided by corruption, and all the revoltitionar;• weapons that he puts in action, will intimidate, or seduce the Nobility. Among the Clergy he has many concealed partizans ; and aldiough the maseof the people are loyal and patri otic, yet what can they du agaiust such a leader, and such troops, in possession of the Metropolis, and of all the keys of the Kingdom It is to be flared that Spain is lost." Such arc the arguments adduced by those who believe that the Corsican will carry all before him in his invasion of the Spanish Monarchy. Un questionably, they contain facts deserving of re flection, aid pregnant with matter. We are not, however, so overcome by their force, or so intimi dated by their apparent weight, as to lose our con fidence in the courage, constancy. steadiness, and resonrcea of the Spanish people, government, and soldiers. They are not Austrians or Pruarians.— They love their native country. They abhor the invader, and they despise his brother. They re spect religion, and they love their kings. They are the descenclauts of the Saguntines and the Nu maistious, ao famous in Carthaginian and in Roman annals. Their ancestors expelled the MOOTS in the middle ege., thottOt those Mahoinetan adventurers Lad subjected nearly all Spain. 111 BUM•PARTE the Spaniards behold, not a conqueror, but a ruffian and a monster, stained with crimes, and degraded by perfidy. Such men, we trust, though they may be vanquished in the field, cannot be re duced to slavery. if any stronger proof could be adduced, than is to be found in the experienee of the last five or six months, how narrow are the views, how contracted the estimates, and how inefficient arc the abilities. of Ministers to conduct a war such as the pre tent; these proofs would ire fount( in the deposi tions and disclosures made by the Court of Inquiry now sitting. However Sir Airtime and Sir Hew may disagree upon other points, of inferior import ance, it is evident that' the primary object in th► miaistevial contemplation, last July, when the ape dition sailed from the port c!' Cork, was not, as it night to have been, the emancipation of Spain, brit the liberation of Portugal. " Hac taste derivata elides, la rttrisro, populonae emit." Instead of perceiving that fro,n the tucHaent of the Spanish insurrection, J oT's position became a forlorn hope, cut oti frqsu either extending or re ceiving succour; instead, therefore, of directing atreitgth tnivartis I!)iset, ncr."olll , l ll lo4trhere)' in A ngust and September, it . mtlslit hake e•greted • the explecnii of the French, they ;alit' oOily Jottot at the•eial of their n lescnpe. No mei will, indeed, deny, that if 'the French forces cou.d lave been e!-. pelted from Porta;vil.sii thout lr ing iut,oedistely sent . to act agaiost Spain. a most benetientt otbject would have been ettainea. But, on the Tagvii, they . were, to all active or offensive porposes, completely On the Elero, tht;y will be found most perniciously employed n , ,f, , aitist us, and against the Spaniards. Sir Aaruua seems desirous to prove, that they naig:it Lute retreated atlessa the Tagus, and marched to join B ESN East, across all , Spain. AVIcIt ! without magazines, through a hostile coantry, fur a r pace of six hundred, or six km- dr.%l end fifty mites, encumbered with bagivige, un.l p lunder; fsillowed by thirty thonsund British force.? We believe, it will be fouled suf ficiently dillieult to transport the army of General NlooßE, Irvin Lisboa to Burgos, though the Spas, niarils are friendly, and every fin ility is afforded tol Iris passage. JUNOT might pretend, and KELLER MAN would naturally threaten, in case the the terms demanded were not granted, to destroy Lis bon, and, in the last resort, to retreat across the Tagus, through Spain ; but he well knew, though our Conimande3 did not, the impracticability of executing such a menace. We do not agree with Sir ARTHUR, and we be lieve his country will not agree in opinion with him, that •' Spain enjoys the co-operation of thirty thonsaud British soldiers, while not a single mail of the French army, which, under JUNOT, had eva cuated Portugal, has, or can yet have entered Spain." On the coat rary, we /apprehend, and we Ratiopport ed by information not easy to invalidate. that the army under Gen. :lionise, tho' it may have entered on the Spanish territory, and though some divisions may have reached Badajos, Aletintara, or Cividad Rodrigo, places on the frontier; yet cannot pos sibly reach the theatre of war, or be instrumental in checking the &ogress of the. French, befare the middle of December, at soonest, perhaps not till January. Anil even then, iii what state will they arrive? Etenuated, Ulla disheart ened by fatigue, privistiaii.:, or sick ars: of every kind. On the other hand, es we know that J V NOT'it division landed hefo:e tie I VII o..to'nr, at Ro chelle ; rind as we k now that place to he only miles from Bayonne; what impediment is to vent JUNOT'S troops fmin formes:;, as the French newspapers inform 114 that they are meant to " the van of the army of Portugal ?" From Qui heron, likewise, we see, that the second division, which had been there landed, soon after the had reached Rochelle, W 3•4 preparing to set out Biscay. It is we only, by the Convention of tra, who could have afforded them the means their re-appearing nn the seem of action. by tree • porting them to France. They will do BORA.. PARTE good service ; for they are inured to the cli mate, language, manners, and Mode of subsist ence in Spain and Portugal. Nor is there any parallel, as Sir ARTHUR wishes to prove, between the Convention wf Baylen, and that of Cintra ; we mean between the circum stances which led respectively to each, and winch cons-quently form their respective justification. At liaj le.i, the French were on Spanish ground, and within 150 miles of the capital of Andalusia, from whence they would have had only an incon siderable distance to Cadiz. It wits therefore of vital consequence to stop their progress. But, at Lisbon, JUNOT was stationary, precluded frozn flight, del, or supplies of any kind, and must even tually surrender, however he mig•ht protract the pe riod. It is true, as Sir ARTHUR asserts, that" in the Convention between DUPONT and Csstanoes the French defeated force were not prevented from se►ving again against Spain, on their return to France." But though the terms nominally re sembled, the effect and the results were completely different. We furnished vessels for conveying home AMOS'S trtiops immediately, while we left our own soldiers to trod their way to the theatre of way by land, as they could. The French army of Dupont was, and, we believe, still is, detained in the forts of Cadiz, Malaga, and other places of Spain ; nor can they return at all, unless by our pertaiminti. Never were two cases more essentially dissimilar. We repeat what we have already said, that the evil which originated in the Ministerial incapacity, was compkted by the want of re source, enemy, and enterprise, in the Generals. Ministers.are become witty upon the disclosures made at the Court of Inquiry, at Chelsea. In one of their favourite organs of . yesterday, they facetiously observe, that the opposers of the Cons veation of Cintra are ashamed of their condtsct.— Nsao fiddled ekes Rome honied ;" and it was not to be expected that the men who risked a civil war, by their senseless and delusive rry . of " No Popery." would hesitate to make light of the Convention of Cintra. Mr. StitainAti's Connuissiou of Inquiry into the Prison Abuses in Ireland, is at length wp peieteals and it to commence its sittings.timaorrOw, ut the Scsi,ioistintise. in Greau.street, Dub lin.— It is composed of the Hun. Justice ID I SLY.• of the King's Beovii ; Surgeon Res Ky.* or Ow Our dicall l,sllor W. Piss £7# JswM ijoLos‘ Esq., x.ul rhs ffer. Mr. N'Euictl3r Lt. Members; Ssxuat Rootisottobou, Secretory. I 111 E cUUtt%: Yesterday, about twelve o'clock. Their MAJES. ITCS and the PNINCESSEs arrived at the QUEEN'S' Palace from Windsor, where they wee received by the Dukes or Vt. KENT, eItdCUtiIIEREAND. In a s!;ort aft er Mid the Pius-. EESSES honoured Lady CSIAltl.llTrr. F taeu with a visit, at her apartments ist tit. Jame... Palace. At half past three *Witch Her MasEsTr, the . Thu "(cuss sa, the ICIIARLarrE of WALES, the Dukes of YONE, liR'ST, CUSIER. , :LAND, and Suista, dined with t' Duke Of Cast mutton, at his apartments in James's Palace. At two o'cloek His MAJESTY held a private Levee at the Wits's Palace, shiCh was attended by Tins dtsolibisbop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the First -Lent of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Seere teriesof State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the First Lard a the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Excite goer, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, • the judge Advocate, the Bishop of Ely, the Recordee of Lon. &am, Viecouat Deerhunit ; Lords Heathfichl (geld stick), St. Ilektes, (in :waiting); Colonel Walker, 'Copt. Boy lea, and Messrs. Coventri, Fawkener and Greville. The following hail the honour of being presented to His M AJVSTY Colonel Wadies, of the soth Itgritssest, upon big return from Port --' Viacom) ”..tristirst, upon his being appointed Lowe Lieu balm forllie Count, et Worcester. • ' . Captaiu Boyles, Royal Navy, epaulet beiag eppoiated a Colonel iu the Marines. Dr. DAMPIER slid herbage before His MAJESTY, upon his being translated from the Bishopric of Rochester to Ely. His MAJ ESTY held a Privy Conocil, at which Viscount thulium' was introduced, and swore into the Lord Lieutenautcy of the Couuty of Woos erster. • Another Council was held, to receive the RE CORDER'S report of the felons capitally .vaoicted at the last Sessions in the Old Bailey, when we un derstand His NIAJESTY was graciously pleased to respite them all during his Royal picatiuri., except a Plan of the name of Neighbour, found vile, of a most ue:..stable crime, who was ordered for exe cution next Wednesday. His AI AJssrY gave audienc” to the Duke of PORTLAND. and the rest of the Minister* present ; DER, the Judge-Advocate, who laid be fumbierthe prom:bugs of some Courts-Martial. -rpodentler five o'clock tke ROYAL FAMILY left town firWitnltor. THEATRE. Lord Dotismas attired, yesterday, M his house in Bruton-street, from Bothwell-castle, North Britain. The followini Bulletin was issued, yesterday, at the house of the'Counteas of Ess : •' Her Ladyship Is not worse titan yesterday. (Signed) " VAUGHAN and BAILEY." Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined wiih the Duke of lutri.irin. Yesterday, N iscount DEERISURSY was led into His MAJESTY', Levee, by his ton, Mr. CuvLlSTalr, his Lordship being blind. Lady ELIZABETR and Mr. Noausa returned to town, yesterday, from their seat in Kent. The Duchess of Sr. ALIAN's left town, yester da)_l, for Brighton. The Rev. Dr. GLASSE is so much recovered, that he returned. ou Monday, to his house in Sackville-street, from Wanstead, in Essex. _ The Countess Dowager of Essex arrived, yes terday, at licr house in Curzon-street, from Leices tershire. Ae a countryman was lately gazing at a jeweller's shop, in the Strand, a person, from a window, ex claimed, "friend, do you think you are in heavem r' to which he answered, " No, Sir, butt might, had I not looked up, and men the Devil iu the win dow." _ The PORTUGUESIC AMPAIDSADOR entertained a select party st 'limier, yesterday, at his house in Mouth Audley-street. Amongst the company were Ludy Art HAIIILTON, the two Misses DLLs,- FOXD, Chevalier re It CAINE, Count CELLI, and Messrs. Suct.tims and Roam's. In the evt ii itt g his Excellency had a music party, which was at tended by Messrs. *NALDI, AIIIIOLI, and several musical amateurs. ..... A woman, lately 1)1.0117,1d Leforc a Country Ma gi.trate, and behaving with much confidence, was told by him, that she - hud brass enough in her face to make a tire gallon kettle. 4. Yes," ■hawerrd she, " and thereis sap enough in your head tt. till it." As Lord and tardy Geoocr. CAvutorsli were returning on Sunday night from the buke of De vernatttnes, at Chiswick. in their carriage and four, they had not proceeded far train the DukaN house when the coachman and footman, who sat in tbs. :dickey, were thrown off, by a madam jerk, in cum sequence of a dent in the road ; the wheel horses became very restart, and, had not the postilion checked them in time, the carriage must have !won upset, it being a very dark night. The foutman is very much hrnisefl, but the euaciituan did nut re mire ally Instsiirl ;,.:04y. Beard. 'I he following times were fixed for the lately taken up, viz. • Croats, for China - Sarre ! and Metcalfe, far Nadi Beopl ; the Devonsire, tor Ceylon and Bengal Marquis Wellesley, for Bombay ; to las Whist the tat sty, *BO9, sail to Gravesend 31st, stay them se days is He Downs 9th March. The times of the following were tins alter City of iLocdon, Dover Castle, and Castle Eihre afloat the tit January, sail to Gravesend 13th, 21 3O dap', and be in the Downs Slit February. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, morrow. Accounts from Gibraltar, dated the 15th tober, state, that five French frigates and on port, with troops, have effected their escaq Toulon roads ; but subsequent account* by the Parikian, on the 17th, add, that I blocked up in the harbour of St. Florists*, sica. Their object was to throw supplies celona. When Toulon was last reconnoitred, the lying there as follows :--Seveu sail of the 1 eluding two Russian ships, iu the Outer five sail of the line in the Inner Roads, a gates, two corvettes, a brig, and several ar eels. One of the Russians, iucludett in tl statement, since went on shore on the Si near Cape Secie, mid has, we believe, been Ipst, I.ord Cosa.' vimaoq, with ten sail of and the Spaitatt: ass off Toulon. The Princess flicabeth is arrived at Pi with Nlailti front Lisbon, which place she It I.sth Institut ; and the next clay apnlse Jksirv's shipi Hydra, Ilreynsanth, east Pre with 17 sail of vessels, under convoy and Gibraltar. the Rock of Lisbon dtativit nine leagnes. The Speedy, ARM/11“. from Malta, i lost near St. Clair Point, Cornwall. The .Hanset, Canclott, from Ovorto ft has been takeit, retaken, and aimed in its His MAJESTY ' S ship Hydra, with a A Purtsmoutli, arrived at Lisbon en the iCti The Princess tlizabeth packet, arrivei mouth froai Lisbon, spoke on itth lust. t ricaii slep Nem Gairle, of New Orleans, C e..iit for Lumina, having parted with th Cool Gibraltar ; had sprung a leak, whit her_ to bear up for Lisbon. It has been very erroneouvly • stated. coiciiiiian, who was prosecuted for critn versatiou with hismistrte, bas, been set free, *ad that sho bee paid the and costs. --- " - -- THEATRE. 170 .• .- •;. • --sm..-- The Loan MAYOR has refused to cave DRURT-LAttli. Common Hull of the City of Loudon, to take Pre- Libtaight the lively Comedy of The Chances cons ider a ti on th e l a t e Convention iu Voting each iiiiuryijirTsuined for the first time this season. Mrs. The following is an extract fain his Loral ) do. Joastgas ia the Second Constantin, displayed all answer to the requisition for that purpose ;...,... • Qui- her.usitakleeivacity, playfulness, and good humour, .. The Lord Mayer menet bat observe that aim s i„, anst , weeeived the moat rapturous applause. The .due of thekeris' 44oll l , Court of Inquiry i 4 4-• bomb 4 ' Phiy Went. off with great spirit. A new Ballet, • it2, l 2l ll rtg aciat e"r e 1 .: 1 1 , fir d tr a r i ....t_. ll l L first coasposjit by Mr. D'Envit.t.s, called Love in a i . ' It for gag seeb twiteiTy. nth. Asa _produced after the play. and executed is Tr= m a ,,,.i sti e ot ,,,,a„., t h at a m ed i a* Cin; by bis.innoraparable pupils. Miss CLAYTON never Livery of Leedom, to Coaamott Hal, on t h e subject pe ins of danced with more grace or agility. The music, by t he IROVIWall•PeDief oack Pa?* 4 aolefirlo , mmimsdminaw; umwmpammhim, muiliseporim, mew M t. Bisgsp• was very pretty .? and the figure w elt ion ORA.. adapted to it: We however &Mille the MR gems" ii houi to ta r iri "r istii scaga. " " tlemau to remain in the tnb till the coronet drops. refusal assigned b y his Le i we canny e di- Mr. Kvirteit's admirable Melo-Drama of Elle Ris- the , of s, Y r kA approve conduct the Lion° invroa. Insist- sembere followed, with its usual oxeyes. sense of the City of Loudon has leers air*: 14 °' 11 °Y° 1 H i hnese the Duke of CaliniUDGE ' ficieutly expressed upon the subject. riches and L a dy NUGENT, and Miss °Lives, Yeaterday, a Court of Directors was held and a great ausubar of Fashionables, were prevent. East India Wow, when th e undeoacrem and . oriammusnami-• Captains were sworn rum- Thg Earl of RADNOR left his seat, Ringwood- .. s r espective snips. Az. into the contmod el is :,i c h house. in Hampshire, last week, for Lougfor d Capt. E. C. Beadhod, Lord Duacao, itatialatoid I ation. Castle, near Satisbnry. C ap t. W. P. D'E s t err e, Coiled Xagarlwis, St. ilaii Lund Flntliil.4.ll arrived. yesterday. at his house Hem!. 'LAW iNfattr:t.St . S.'' teem. OF . COANCEitY, Wesixt',wren, Nth... Th Couit wag rnguged Ist bearing arguments exceptions, until t%% o'c:oek, wilco the L..rd Ch cellos rose for the purpose of artendiug His A jesty's Levee: COURT OF IC -77— iirtING B I.F.Yrla P. /401111A N and 1110011611. The Arrows I.RAI. stated, 'that owing the proper notice u..t having been gives to Mayor and 'Ardertuen of Carmarthen, the an i n f a r tn uorria, which he had obtained seats; abuse of authority, Most necessarily standll ti l next term. hole en!arzed. I RttnERT tiOULTON. • Mr. Serjeatit LEN'. moved the judgment of Court upon this Gentleman. an officer in the no who had been tried at Wells, in the county of tnerset, before Mr. Justice Bailey, and coma, of an assault npoit Mr. Charnpneys. and for gas provocation to tight a duel. The Defendant made his appearance in Ca. when the whole of the evidence ors read, fi which it appeared that Houlton had heen shoot upon - Mr. Charnpney's grounds. without hag j mission, and s upon bent.; challenged, hunched into the lowest abuse, and the twist violent thl without 'hitting ritStived ally provocation whey from the Prosecutor. Ali affidavit sus also I on the part of the Defendant, in which ha presaed his sorrow for having. duriu4an stride rememihr, hero led to use expressions clerogritor ; the _chart.cter of an Officer and a Gentleman. • Mr. Jelas.t.. '111i:• Putt., and Mr. Couarl who had been Counsel for the lisle!alant at Assizes. were 'beard in ntitigittion of purtir.limei Mr. Serjeant [Aso and anotle" loilowed for prosecution. They were sorry to tied that Defendant had expressed no contrition for 'abusive language and violent conduct towards Clusenpneys, and that every thing: chewed assault Mee premeditated and tualscionr. Ut such circumstances, they trusted the Court wr inflict a proportionate punishment. The Courr accordingly adjudged Mr. Ro Houlton to be imprisoned six calendar mos and, at the expiration of that time, to give sett to keerrege peace for lire years. himself in and two anteties iu 2301. each ; and to be in aoued till the same be given. couar OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Aisi Prius before Lord Chic, J's AlJoartitt.n. There were only three undefended mles, c public interest; the Court ru'.e at one o'clock. ,