The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-10-15 00:00:00

PRISONERS IN FRANCE. 111 any complaints nave recently wade their ap p respecting the ill treutaieut of the English pr its Vtauce—it appears, however, that those persons who possess poorrty are well treated. as err respect. The following is an extract of &let ter lately...received (rout Versoilfeti•—. " Viola the enucurystlea or unfortunate circain_ stances, we have seen detaitse4l . here Nitice the coin t rtietiretnent of the last wsr, and, t much tear, sous wait the concluNsaa of st, heft ire we use likely to be Set et Itherty i howevea, we tire treated ,With great civility sod kindness h 3, the Authorities "as• well us the itinuln•unts—we part.ike 4t .till their ee— tttetstss and an re. tired tail entertained as if we werstanot strainers, or, is other words, prisuaers a ... 4 ,,rthein. “ %Ye are the only English family who have been peretniteel to stay wt Veiwailles, for us it is so near Pans, and tawny of the tnnuer \obilih reside here, they do not choose dulalkarviipters in general should Lc eu near them. •' Mir T. mill Lally live at Paris ; be has late'y ...,it his sou to Englnisti to be placed at I lur row—hi4 Tioahtela ate °U. - school lit F. (her nial°. Lord B. his .on art- at llotiliks, where. lam twit (alth ) o,!1 i' a co; try,) no t o - es ootico own, thev are coineepientls uncomfortably. I.ord no I tally S. and Ludy B. left this country I tat I et. Mr Lord, fmtn his age :old iutirulitirs, had iterusiadon to eeturn to Eogiulol. There are manly other English fartsilieu at Paris, n, it is easier to h.tve perettissiott to reside there than at Versailles ; lint us Paris is unoleutialit to milk lie is. mummer, we prefer Venoiilles, where we have an excellent boos,. vt Ith II very pretty gHt den, &t.. &c. for about eiltit 1t U 1111 l - plete ueotienian's !loose, and •iii II rs is the Mlle your i);:o.f. of Ele4111:1CI. tiny WOlllll ,• .- pert lot. or 151. a o tor. faro. is astonish'''. 4- ly imoroved a Itllla t10...t. 1444 four or live Veep. ; non Irnihhngr are la oAttitirent, Nod aiitto,t I.•t , -Cootiopot has yontrituted to the t.q.thlso.ll imit, in stuturs, picturt*, uud curiobitics of basitms " The Court is now tlw niost splendid, the :nod intigitilicelit ears ghntr that possibly CLiI be cone •w,-I ; iu short, it wow, a few ,nniith.. so w .. an assemblage , f Kings. Qmwms, au.i Prise:vs-es, Some to plead for vital tliev have hist, others to as k f or mor e . I saw here, in October last , th.• Queen of Prussia's bi4ttr, (niece to the Quei If of 111 / 414114)o a MOM beautiful woman. •• You hare rubbed us of 31:..lanseCatalaiii, but I am told many in England prefer Kant': and hi lington's singing. Their siliging, in general, :it the Opera at feels, it detestatde ; but the ..an, deConitliins and drusses, are very snaussilic•Ent. They have at the Opens. I -!could think, it hundred good daneers—twenty equally good ‘‘ it h Vestris; s.• that their Ballet.., are the most enchanting thine I ever • They alsd pay great attention to their Theatre. and have annie capital performers, both in the tragic and comic line. They keep up so exactly the ancient rosin:nes in their iirri.ses, that it earries on the deception or illitsion, wu. h snore than on the English • stages. Every lady mii4 b dressed in the Greek or Roman manner ;and those aim have taste and some knowledge of drawing, visit the Galleries of Statues and Pictures in the morn ing, to fancy a dress and ornaments tar the even ing ; many succeed wonderfully." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, Ocrusza 13. ' I. Gavin maim( yesicitioy rceeived dispatches fions Sir JAMES SSUMAIII.7. mod Mr. TwitsTost, our Ambassador to the Court of Stockholm. They were brnitglA by ellptlfl4 M A MTIM of the I mr h,- cable, 74 gine., which tow h distinguitheil 1.. the late action with the nintdron, in the Daltic, m which a Rus4aii yielded to the joint exertions of the ntylore ble and Cehlokr. e stated in a former paper, that Mr. THOR/. FON had left Stockholm, on a sisit to our &Art, and a. he WAS on board the ship of Sir JA>t►S S4I • ttixi, when Cr.ptain M tRTIN came away. we vontionr to torewione, that a neaoriation is in train, iivnit oh rots rit greater extent. than the nicer a iihou.al bil 11 ender of the Russian squadron, in l'urt Ilaltie. Capt. 114AiaTtori &patches, hot• vcr. bare not trap-pireol; arl thi. eirmenstaiwe, combined with the bilei,kir of list late (liittroiliser 4 li mails, to the 14 in4siiit, strengthe..s the prolialnlity of a ptualiug C at un. Several passenKers have ar.ihtAl from Gotten burgh in the Musa throu g ht the wail* to the Ist tusteet. Among th:tn urc Itirritt the sten , Swedi.li Envoy Extruorrts nary to our row t, op:minted to Itihron ADLIESOLD", isiin is rcesriril. Mr. Ti. slte Engineer, calla has for some time h..ea pioyed Ivy the King of SWEDEN, in surviyhi L ; and making out the lithe of en inland 'navigation c iiroit:•h the valleys roil Lakes of that Emus te4hur,{h, 1.14,31111 Or the river (kitha, and the works at l'rotiwintt , t. there is alremly • trivigstion from the North tie• to Coe 1-al.c %V•ihrrth, shout shit miles iu lesei,tli, which is beiwticisl to the puLshe un.l tarnlitalge to the undertaker"; hat tt cotunsuou eat' oa. still wantinz from the W'euerii to the other a real lake Whiten), ahiels is shoot 2 muss in length, a n ti from the' et to the Hattie. The iin portentr of this his long been evit.ktit, soil s it is said, Mr. Tat.ethath has beets aisle to mark out e tr.it k l iartiralarly fsvoihrhilhle fora siacigatioti, upon s sir w!tieh c.lll inLisit of vesst•ls fit en - itaXigiitit titese ....it I ,Les, and also tiw tioitiew • Thi• atu pr:volon. undertaking, lwisides tieing die :heaths of to that . country, will open a more direct 'Lite:course with the inesc haustible forests of Sweden. and afford anotliar communication with the Baltic its the time of oar. Among the principal and reading objects in that flagitious and gigataie cnterprize ntidertaketi by Bo N se.taTK, the seizure and transfer of the Span isli moue/x:11y, must undoubtedly be reekomil the occupation of the Spanish colonies. In fact, how ever the conquest or subjugation of Spain itself, with her ports, arsenals, navies, 'unties, and popu lation, might hare *ambled Idiot to gratify his views of ambition, or of vengeance, against Eng land ; much would still have hero wanting, while the vast possessions of CUA!tI.I.S the Fro:tern, ill both the holies, had eluded his grasp. • To propel the whole energies of the Spoiti.li nation, which were ouly reltactantly, a aril as partially exerted by the Princes of the House of BoutatioN, and to direct their efforts against Ireland, trout Commie, Lisbon, and Cadiz, was the first object of \ ern- LEnN. But another, lint le., aux . lv smight after by him, was to appropriate to his ON II use and profit, the commercial resourees of the Tuts-At +/antic and other settloineata of Spoilt. flow nearly tlsis okiret 'tressed upou his mind is best evinced by the 'pateireal exertions moil itarrferetice which he displayeatiu eadeavaturiog to Meditate end accele rate every measure that mould brit:g the `'tarnish colonies wider his coutroul. Nut only the dis patches sent out to s parts of the American pcssessious and islands, were draw it up by his espe cial direction, under his ow eye, and signed with his hand ; but the aviso., oar packets, on board of which these orders wens forwarded, quitted Bay onne, St. Sebastian, and &lima either in May or Julie last. o Ship., colonies, and commerce," those great desiderata of the Corsican l'surper, appear to haee ocettpiell and agitated lois I nO less its Mit, than by his own avowal they did in 1805. It probable that his own reflections on the consequetsces that had resulted from his intem perate and injudicious prescript' of the family of liasio.tioaS, its Portugal, impelled him to adopt a line of conduct more artful, guarded, und trea che:ous, towards the Kings of Spain. He had seen that his sentence of deposition, issued against the PRINCE lIEGENT, had precisely operated to in duce hint to transfer the seat um' fusel' of the Monarchy bey I the limits sr the French power t i South America. %%lade • Bo %PARTE derived from th;s callous and unprovoked act of ferocious violeuce, only the plunder of Lisbon, and of a de serted country, England hail conveyed the Royal Family, the fleet, the most preciolia effects of the Croon, and a considerable portion of the inhabit ants, together with their property, to Rio Janeiro. It was obvious, therefore, that while lie, by grati fy Mg his savage anal toeless insolence, had obtained only a slender part of the spoils of Portugal, Eng land would eretitually reap the csseutial advantage, by ope • the commerce of Brazil to her subjects. The Patact; REGENT, for shove future residence and privet lie had, no doubt, already destined a Valency, or a Compeigne, hating thus escaped, and defitat his power, be rectos to have imposed lituits on Ins on it violence towards CHARLES and FLaDIX tan, till he Ina secured the person of the former at Bayonne. Having effected this object by a series of perfidy, baseness, sod atrocity, of Melt history afford, few, or no ilistatices; and %Melt, whatever may be his future success oil the Theatre of Europe, will render his name prover bially hateful, as well as vile, to all future times ; he then closed the scene, by proceetlinga so flagi tl.lo,l us to supersede the powers of language in describing. But never was ally project, begun in violation of every mond feeling, and cemented by blond, less productive of advantage to its perpe trator. Not only have the Spanish colonies indig,- [saintly reretid or repulsed his emissaries. In Sir t tt t his 'holm dile armies have beim defeated, hi, es 4 les taken, his brother driven from Aladrid, and lenerals, after being put to flight by an armed peasantry, rather than by disciplined troops, are tor. scarcely five mouths after his seizure of FeetoN tuft VII. contending for the possession of Navarre, and Cataloma. It is antler these enruntstantes i that this beaten and Ininabled trait surromeleil by the accom plices of his rises, the Saysav as the Tat.t.ttr- Rtxn , , and the C•ttitscourrs. f.et, eat for Er forth ; there, as we are told, in (Inert rt with the Craw, of Miiscovv, to partition mot, liv new acts of tisitripiatimi and lawless vinkowe, thy Ottoman, and, perhaps, the Austrian Empire. But till we shall see some proofs of such II coincitleitte no the p a rt of At.►:atvnue, as well as ramie acts den 1111 l - stoats e of their joint iutentiont to attack Austria or Turkey, we must withhold our iwphcit belief of 0 thew asserted pro: l olls. IA it, il: fact, credal-le, that the Emperor of Hiss, vit a e st know that his Catra,:ati Ally is almost expelled from Spain. or in , whom conotry he at It :Ist maititains only a very pre carious footing, and w aiitatt wait to lie in formed. that Jcsoz 1/146 equally teen 1:01111WIled to evacuate Portugal, will now, iii coutrailict . to his eau honour, interests, woad all the dictates of consent to Mend. as it were, the lius.iati and French empires,. by underbokiiag the demoli tion of .t he reinitiating fihre of ancient Europe We cannot credit it.—ls meets an tiles practicaLle 1 Would Fenice, with her tlependesat States, even if joitard to Bowie mad Deunratik, able to vaaquish Crcat Brituin, S l w.in, Portugal, Austria, Turkey, and SMACII ? In ticlober, 11140. each &conception is no longer solid, nor capable of being effectuated. Penis may easily he occupied. if necesaary, nearer borne. We suspect that the Tyrant, whatever he may ineteml, better appreciates his own actual position and future prospects. Ile ituticipMes not oody, as we believe, his expulsion from Spain, lint an attack to the North of the Pyrenees. Already, we see that Ilse Spaniards meditate it. and hope to realize it. If ever their armies enter Cmocony or Iliimiltron, the Corsican dynasty may be soulklessly• r'tinguished. That plans of offensive hostility niay, form the ostensible subject of the conference at Er- Furth, we have no doubt ; but we isocline to think, that the secret and real object of MIN APARTI appear, within three months, to be the attainment of peas:e. Ile has ;mowed his meridian. anti may set in a dark cloud. Presburg and TOl,it hare hems obliterated by Ilaylen still Saragossa. l'erliaps, like S/ty/ork, he will now be content with l'ratiee, and holly, and Switzerland, and 11'estphalia, and Hol lered, and the Netherlands. No one disputes his penetration, mid the juncture may demand ALEX- Axone. interference. We stated on Ilitinlay, that Admiral Tr t.r.rt, be iiig apprehensive that the Russian Admiral might endeavour to rSillipe f. St. I Hen's, rather than strike his flag, had eb need his ship fur net puu this paragraph the leading print of Gi.verninent, The Snn, of Wednesday, made Cie fal!owing ob s.rvation :—" It has been repeatedly stated, that Admiral LE tieing. appr.•hensive that the 1ti04.. 4ians might endeavour to r.cape, dented Idt drip fur ortiatt. A British moan of war, iu COMllitssloll uud iiatlat, is dituys rlrut .I%s. action. The insinuation is therefore alioly groundless." Our statement went to slicw the tone And titnqwr of the Russia)) Admiral, that he anchored at St. Helen's a ith his colours Hying, like a con• queror, and not like a man in custody ; awl that he had been taught by the Convention to hold It !it self so highly, Admiral Tv LER having reason to ar. prelim(' he would refuse to h hie himself to the orders, requiring him to strike hi; flag at aan-set, had prudently clenrr•d his ship . fir action. This was the substance of the statement ; and the answer, to he complete, ought to have been as broad as the charge. The Sun, however, does not choose to meet the question in that way. It blinks the essence of the charge, mid, fatx•yiuq, that it has (accreted an error in u single point, it relies upon that alleged defect, as a triumphant proof that the whole statement is a groundless fabrica tion. It says, a Britisi- man-of-war is always clear jar arenas; awl, therefore, the whole of the state ment, in which it is averred, that .►thuiral TY LER's ship wa• not in that state, before the Russia•) Admiral reeri‘eil orders to strike his flag, must be groundless. The logic of 'he Sun is not very con clusive, and we believe its naval knowledge is not much more accurate find profound. To this triumph ant answer of The Sam, then, we reply, an English line of battle ship is sot always clear for action, and almost every land lubber well knows it takes nearly ■n hour to clear for action in the best disciplined and complete vessel of that description. We advise the EDITOR of The San to go again to the Office of the Admiralty, and take another lesson from the able seaman at the hewl of the department. A long and laboured article was yesterday insert ed by blinkers in their favourite Morning Print, which cointneneed thus : " Thefiron and dig:n . l,4l reply made by Ma j, sty to the City Address scat yesievlay, (Thur.- day). the theme of UNIVERSAL EULOGIUM through out the Metropolis !" An assertion so palpably false, and so gross a misrepresentation of the public feeling, neser be fore disgraced the cohsirms of a London print.— With all the influence of Ministers. only one I • t could be foisail caprible of giving circulation to so manifest a falsehood. All the other Ministerial Prints either tasseled lightly upon the subject, or passed it over in silence. It is not in human na ture that a repulsive answer, such as the City of London received, to a local and dutiful Address, could lone been the theme of" universal eisloginin" in that tnarnpoli% which had received that answer. The very paper nhich makes the assertion. boasted, on Thursday, that " Nis :11.tirsyr bad read the Citizen* of London a lesson, a huh it hoped they will never forget," and yet it is not ashamed to say, that this lesson was the theme of istiiversal tubs gums among tile very.men whom it represented as smarting airier its severity. After this, it will not be ezrected that we should take the trouble of dissecting an article that thus brand* the word falsehood upon its own forehead. The game which ,Ilinisters mean to play M now tolerably obvious. Slr CLLESLrIf lege been gra ciontdy seerireil at Court. Ile steered in the le vee-romii, sit the reading of the City Adams*, in full confidence elf his own innocence and safe ty. Ile has heels tried and aegnitted ; and, us the l lini.terial Paper asserts, after settling a few thiags in Ireland, (Sir Annie!' understands u he i. to return to the Continent to resume lois command. Sir AlMtlllt. nicotine, Inn been tried, .tul h"nouralily acquitted. Sir Ibis 111 —ALarwris, when last heard of, was at Lishois„ at the head of the British forces, aids fag power to make a few Court:num: with any other Get.esal Bt.)!: rtTE May Se:: , l luta Sluc t i or ro,tr, but he, twu, sill he tried and iolinuted time, owl built hack to resuspe hi. lint %slim to be is,f,rreil fi . 1.10 this ettraor,h; conduct en the part or 111Cli ;aming theuho to go before the public voice in their ze .,l r potty ? Why. that they feel WI iutpoiry of sort wust place, mud Ilse conscience, snakes cowards of us all, says to them, would be cruel to others for ofr en „ whielt.they sire thei!thelses secomplie r s; •ialtness so,upsts, that at 14 be:ter that the 4,j, guy )I'ool tiArbt upo.l any bends than their Tile following emtret of a letter, from a rah Cormspontlesit throws wane NW upon the of Ministers in this isnportni,t atittir Ttie laineti•alite Convention in ports Swing mill the wig. • t topic, every f0111111*11: ilOll. 1101% CVVI b.{ VIA. that trials to tlimw light a suliject, revved's.; which the public is s e t much its the dark, itt-t he acceptably. y„„ perceive by the uutkrwntteu extau:t from the lk ter of an experieaced Field Officer iii our *rot. a mail of r modesty, that the true aiu., that disgraceful Treaty appears to have arhen if hut ....lc, froen the taplit atatiorr which the co:mu:mil passel from baud to lauut. result uaticipated iu (me of lour ',ably wherein you eitileaeourtal to 2coeistit fur the arrival of inte:ligeoce from Portugal, which , public reasoaably expected to receive iumierii4:er subsequent to Our uif.ir of the ervermitr,: a possible cause. that time 'night have lwro to Jouot to secure hiu.srlf, after his defeat at m.ira EIT R A CT- 5 Our advance from ITondrao I :drd on the tot, ous slow, as uourishuont fur so 13,:e hotly of troops ow; difficult to he procured. llootta, the 17th, we heat buck the advanced post of G a Jr army ; and on the sand, at Viinvira, he attached as is prren with Ins united force, where he gut a eumpkte drublik.g (in the slay of the action, Sir Arthur Wellesley am saint• soled in his command by Sir H. Ittirrard from Coeland, Lc, the utat day, by Sir Hew Dalr3mple, from GI ilno, perhoi 1111011441,111 Were Nog ruff So sp.. In improct offr lltere.l, e. might kr' e berm--bat al aII e►tull En tech hare agreed to retire to France; 6.-c 41/46 i‘ By this time you have, no doubt, wit many communications from Portugal,more copious; ) 1 will venture to say. uone min-e authentic, or which more is contained in so few worth." We understand a requisition, signed by a number of Liverymen of the City of Luador,, delivered yesterday to the Logo 3ltvott, for ing a Common Hall, to take into consider.itio3 Answer to the Address of the City to His praying au inquiry into the causes that led to die lute disgraceful Convenliiiii in Portugal. The Port Admiral, at Portsmouth, has receive' orders to treat the !Li...shin Admiral, Officers, sol sailors, with all attention and politeness. The ships are to be taken into the harbour as soon si their powder has been lauded. ThIA work has be.s delayed in eonsequicuce of the irant of casks to store it in, as it is at present principally made up in cartridges on board the squadron. A report has been in circulation some day., that intelligence had been received of the dertructiuu ui the Russian fleet in the Baltic. It is a inere specu lation, upon the probability of such an About 20 sail of the homeward-boon:I a fleet are arrived iii Dover !toads, with Chit Okort. They remained there on Thursday, the 'War of the wind not permitting them to proceed fur late liner; some others of the fleet hare arrived at Deal. The elicerfiel Putter arrived ou We.ll.l4Jay pit Plymouth, from Gibrul•ar and Cadiz. She led from the former place oil the 20th lo4t, rah d:.- patches from Atloniml PURv.S. 1.0. d CuLLING wont) hod left 4tiihruitor on the tit lapt, for 'foulou• Ills NI Asterv's br g f:allirsit arrived at Sheeni-to ou Thai-silty last, with the Ofinitapic and Pare fr.olu Heligoland, „hick place the% lelt on sol in company with is sail. and parted on the !fill, od the Dogged/oink. The Mary inn, I.alsaa. from Jamaica for Lon don, has foundered at sea. The Elisa, lA'ut:svt.v. from Quebec; and the Nally —, from Halifax her Ilarbadoe., are ruptured and carrier' into Alartilimue. The William, Patca, front Jamaica, forllalfat, !S captured and burnt. The French schooner privateers La Illow - hr, one rill and GO semi, and the loargrite, „f one 4 11 " and NO men, were ',raising between Tobago awl Trinidad on the :4th August. We yesterd a y m entioned the arrival of Lei(' livanttaasn from Portugal. Lordship sailed from the Tagus, we believe, on the 2:td ult. bet was forced back by contrary and violent Ile sailed again on the 2gth, umd reached ins 0. on Thursday, about. two o'clock. At the tiiiis Lordship's oleparture, three divisions of the Fiend. army had sailed for France. One olitibiOD of them ha been stationed at DMA, which they did not appear to be overt% filling to evacuate. Sir H. DA tat however. sent a letter to their Commander, ordel iult the place to be evacuated : hut the French I hrteer demurred, observing that the letter presented to' mein lee a forgery, 1w not knowing Sir IlEy's be talking, and that lie alight be ramie responsible yield - um ton implicit obedience to an, orderof amt. This hesitatioa,on the 'gni 3f thcCounnaode the Frevichiliv 'pion, created some surprise in them , of the liritish Command Met', and not less dignatinn in that of the Spanish trans who still Kleiner' in Portugal. The latter, in their Tar, said to have thrown some -hells into the place; the Fortner ordered Generalllowe to march his glide to enforce the surrender of the place. 00 appearance, however, of a British Otlioer. it generally expected that no farther ohnieel: to rendering 'Le town wouhl occur. wi"' „Aniut purchusi yap 01 &WU •ere 131 Covent liirnit slime by till Am eip4 or Pr.ltrzsl tied it, comm a , , entraordi, thetntr.r. it zeal flr • THE airy of lacitmce, t k, to tler a , ladt b e rest :M; MIIII r wit emuty: At the ui 0w ...0at in their ,„ purehaN o.ut - out as v—l. Laiimectill:lill:(111111.1°t1;1:411. and lat die is tet ulu+e of % Mr oar, Ai MAL" from tilt t 3 111 OUT ler. lee, I : l lc .... w * eire 'rut' bl Mr. Ta re mitts pr . , mita tlt :41 mende r IN that %1 to WA. A imblicatiort, to h a s: fur th e esp. vi—hich 11, whi c h tit rompl iumettiteni any arsirotio ; as tied a ' Melt d:l":tat at I'w named Covent o nay, *km telhu4 It fur A lute $ ;NA 1;1 llowthv, Is se:.il or a lied as tia limas utlrr. c rte drubbk.s c hltyr sky sale sort• mem, a &loud, a d that hi Gus (Awaits. ; oils ; Hit; ';..l3le:ail •ould at all sews It* 1 1 °U" .3 & C. seem many the hi copious; h u t their theiltle, ur cs IYrnil meth." ostne !VW. Led by a large rival Loattor., sat br ti" eon, for call- istdcr..t.o.l Ilia :11.‘Jrcrt. hat lei to Lite ;al. To 1, has reerived Tot 0 Ificers, as teness. The Wi our it+ $OOll lir work has bees tan him h owl- . Ca e for nal tbm lerot for mina h. II re- ski urc cudat ,hr. 111 a the ü bi t wt• C4l .ttt- L as