The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-08-27 00:00:00

•".•• ' - '••••7 , 47 - col Elegisise, may find an amusing contrast to thes ealnions in almost any of the numbeta which have been published for the last sir months. For the benefit of those oho do not see that Journal, we shall tetrad a tees passages. It is needless to quote any thing which he say. in Lis laboured and peed nacioas defence of the patrierie Baronet on occasion of his rupture with Mr. W. its-need ; in the course et which. be compleins bitterly of his old favourite John Bowles. for having used • the most false and 'scurrilous exnrestions relative to Sir Francis.' In vol. xi. p. 433. he is reereseet-d as having been uniformly hated by every party which had existed in his time, because t'...y were all be t open fatten ing on th- public moo y. and knew that he would oppose them. In p 871, of the same volume, ..e says to the Eleders of Westminster, if you sIIC ceed in cawing Sir Francis Burdett to he returned to Parliament. v)a will have done more for t. e musky in fourteen tfays. than has been done for it eluting the lest hundred years.' At p. 990, the e 'is this unequivocal confession of faith, We, the rople of Eiigiand. feel that Sir Francis Burdett is ear beet frienJ i—we pm tictpete in his principles ; we rely on his talents and inteerity ;—we approve of his deelar atiens;—w • mimetic the circulators of the a-hundred-ernes refute! eilurreties at ernst him, a re a look leeward. with con fi dence, to the day when those e Amon es will bedrowned in the en inienous appleuse pi a ao.longrobosomed people.' After this, it can not surprise us to find our exulting author congra tulating the country upon his being able to (Teo a new volume with an account of • the chairing of Sir Francis Burdett,' which he is pleased te eteissider as the memorable sign of au era in polities; and after wards stating, that when the worthy Baronet's ' head became visible *beet the crowd, the air rang With a shout. in which, had the King been in town, he would have braid the voice of his people—the eoend of that voice weich be will, ere loag, hear from all his suejeas, the voice of lore and adMino Lion of thugs who are the reel friends of the country, and of indignation at those whet are its real ene mies,' lee This. we believe, is encingh for our purpose ; though it would be hard to withhold from our readers that spirited and liberal paragraph, in whist' Mr. Cobbett, in expressing his indignation at the idea that the mime of the ignoble Lord klowick should ever be ceneeded with that of his darling pool*. is pleased to say, that if any man had told Bias OW such a cnnneaion had been hinted at, he would almost hose been tempted to spit in his facer "Now. we should like to know in what way Mr. • .Cobbett. or Mr. teobleett's admirers. can reconcile **se panefes "they will scarcely venture se say, dies Sir Franco Suedes, has abandoned the princi plea Womb he held in 1808. Whatever may be his errors or hes demerits. the worthy Baronet is enti tled, at /east. to the petite of comistency ; and his late potitical addresses are at least 1115 cAbOOZIOIIB to maims loyalists sod antijaeohins, as those which emitted Me. Cobbeu's indignation at the first of those pent ele But the times, it will be said, have ceanged a—they have come routes to Sir Francis, lied have Wile.' 'Jr Cobbett along with them Thus will not do ; is noises' in his Knits woo will say, that in 1802 there was more CO be appree headed from Jacnbinisin :has in 1807 e or that there was less need 10 clamour fur a reform in paella meet, and a check to corruption. at the former than at the latter period f It terniiins, dime that Mr. Cobbete himself has changed. We cannot help it ; Vor do we think there is any great team is it : the change is perhaps tor the better ; for though we can by no means go aloe' with the repos:on , en comiums which be now bestows on the caeca of his former ditestetioo, vie really felt quite as much disgnated with the abase which he then Oared - open Lim. We never thought that the Constitution was in any great danger from tee worthy Baronet's plan of universal suffrage, aced anneal parliaments; and certainly are not of opinion. that his return to Parliament is the most propitious and important event which has happened in fenglithd foe the last hundred years. Both upi- Moos appear to us to he stoneehr absurd and era - tional ; but we cannot help think ng it a little ex traordinary. that they should both hare eeen seal. ously maintained by one and vie same individael, and that this jedividuel should take it into his head to value himeelf upon his political consistency. The merits of Ace. C bbett's new cried, we shall take oc• cession us appreciate by and by ; vs think it already pretty epparent, that it bears no teem resemblante to his , old one; and way pereaps be pet aiitted to hinteu his admirers, that it might he as well, if one whose faith is so liable to be unsettled, did not per secute with such intolerance all who ventured to op pose it. Bet his eondud to Sir Francis Bet-Jett perhaps •i; iefleenced by some pt ' , cue attachment, and his judgment of other public men is more temperate and eenatitent. We can see no proofs of this; all are treat ed in the same Way—praised extravagantly to-day— ablseed outregeeuiy to-morrow. We eo not recol lrel any one (except perhaps Mr. Windham) of his ofirnat favourites, upon whom he has nut heaped the ordure of his ignoble abuse; and scarcely one whom lie reprobated at the beginning, vihu has nut been compensated et last by the must preposterous encomiums. Mr. Pitt, at the beginning of his career, was the greatest of the great, the saviour of Europe, the most magnaninic is of statesmen ; lately, his readers have only heard of him under the appella tion of • that shallow. breined boas:ere—teat pa tron of peculation—that Foot, Ltillow, bnnibestic declaimer, isc. Of Mr. Fox, he said. in 1402, that he never thought him a ptoson u: any political importance, or one who could eve: i. ye any weight in the entire ifs t tee aation, (t p. $3B) ; I.e is even guilty of te: ante:tees einerdity of averring, with all the serionscen ,J Animo. sty which he cal DHOW for the cetasiore that he believes the only ohjed of that illumine's pet sen's journey to Paris, in I 801. was to make hie:elf Mi nister of this country by the help of Lienapitte. (p. 341 ) He thanks heaven, that of all his manifold sins, teat of ever heaving, either in thou" !.t, %void, or deed, been an edheient of Chalet leen is it it among the number end that Le only breaks ethough the silence rot disdain, on Account of the consequence which ha derives from tl.e friendship of the First Consul.• (p. 714). He mere than insinuates his affedion for rebels, regicides, and trasien. ; IVATta his • loath LIMP calumnies' on -able et &a Names of Strut. had Lis • . mistral !Inapt* to defend tke eharsaters of Rossel anti Syalotty and concludes with aiking. Where. Sit, shall I find. in all the cumbrous volume• of harangues which you have utterel during the last ten years of treasons and conspiracies ngsms• the throne and the life of your Sovereign, one sing), sentence or phrase expressive of yens abhorrence of those diabolical machinations r' (p. 719) To this despicable, disloyal. detestable statesman. Mr. erth bett has himself stated (vol. vi. p 515) that h. afterwards went over; he calls him, repeatedly. ' public-spirited an.' msessanimous,* and declines, that, out of the five great qttestions to which his life had been devoted, t'.erc never hal b-en but one on which ti ey disagree. I. In a nunWer published since his death, he speaks of the departed statesman in the following terms: ' He who was in his nature kind and indulgent to a fault ; who was wonderfully gifted in the faculty of perceiving and of jodging, whose he at and misd were always d'spc , :ed to the right side; and who only wanted, as Major Cart wright observes, th • resolution to say nay to had men.' (vol. xi p. 593 ) fhe truth of this charac ter might atone for much hastiness or error ; hut rotbiug can expiate the base scurrility with .whir it stands contrast.td ; nor was it fit that alt enco mium on Mr. Woe ahnsild he pronounced by lips polluted with libels .vikh only atoned fur theft ma lignity by their gross and contemrible ai,suidity. " The minor chat aete.rs are treated in the same manner. Mr. Sheridan is a very eloquent and patriotic person, wr.ile he is opposed w Mr. Ad dington ; when he stands against Sir Ft tnet Burdett. he is a peculator, a PI yer . and a tool t• 1 corruption. Horne Tooke is hnin.Jed throu many volumes, as a republican, Jacobin. and dema gogue. He is even accused pretty distnialy t t having been guilty of high treason ; and yet we find, in a late number xi. p. 812), a m•st gracious and polite invitatinn to him to come f it ward for the public service ; nor do I believe,' says Mr. Cobbet, 'that if the gentleman who is re presented as having such absolute power over Sir Francis Burdett were once more to stand forward in public life, he could in a short time hence meet with any of the prejudices which have heretofore ex sted against him.' Even Mr. Bowles, who is now tar constant objeß of Mr. Cobbett's scorn and de rision, was once considered by him in the light of a respeflable coadjutor. In the second volume we bear of his valua'ile pamphlets, and of Mr. Cob bett's entire acquiescence in the sentiments they contain. The sentiments of Mr. Bowles, for which we ceryainly entertain no great respite, were always, we believe. the same which be now pro fesses. di Now, what is it that we infer from this strange alter natinn of praise and blame in the pages of Mr. Cobbett ? Why, dear nobody should care much for either ; that they are bestowed from passion or patty prejudice. and not from any sound principles of judgment ; and that it must be the most foolish el all things. to take our impressions of the merit of any iadividua/, frem a man whose ewn opinions have not only varied, but been absolutely reversed, withia these four yeah. The consideration of this versatility in Mr. Cobbett's likings and dislikings, has, we will confess. been a cocsiderable encou ragement to us in the task of reviewing his lucu bration*. When we first felt it to be our duty to paint out the pernicious parts of his tenets, we were a little appalled by the prospea of the weekly abuse with which we lay our account with being reward ed ; but when we discovered, in the course of our reading, how kindly he repays the vielims of Li: occasional reprobation, we grew quite easy upon that milk& ; satisfied that, it he should abuse us fur a month or two to come, he will make us ample amends in the long-run, and end by being :he most devoted of our admirers." Again—'• There is only one other inkjet, we think, upon which Mr.Cubbett used formerly to enlarge with such trequency and seal as to make it one of the fair chara.fteristics of his peculiar epinions ; we mean his ardent love and veneration for the person and family of the Sovereign, and for royalty indeed in general. In his earlier volumes. there is much fulsome cant and disgusting raving of this sort; but since he has embraced the creed of Sir . Francis Bur dett, this fine spit it of devoted loyalty seems to be pretty well evaporated. In his number for 24th Match, 1807, he defends the toast of • Our Sove reign the People,' given at one of the worthy Baro net's dinners, and says, he has no other ohj.ittlion to it than t!:at • it is not of plain unequivocal mean irs.' He nests with considerable derision a loyal correspondent, who had 'aid, he trusted every true Englishman would shed the last chop of his blood iii support of his King ;—tells him the King has about two hundred thousand gentlemen in red and blue jackets whose business it is to support him. and that he is able to take . care of himself ;—and that pi , SUC I 4 views of devotion ,be reasonable and manly when we see the Kind ring up any point wh atever , however loudly called or, or from whatever quarter. After this he proceeds to justify the part 7 at the said dinner for omitting to drink the King a health ; contends that this is merely a voluntary expression cif admiration of his conduit—and that, for his own pan, since the introdußion of so many Hano verian soldiers, the exemption of the King's property from the income tax, and one or two other sus pi, anis things et the same description, be has not felt quite so much of that admiration, and doe. not choose voluntarily to come forward with expres sions of that sentiment, Re. (vol. si p. 4.:G.) Is it too much to say, that the scalp:is advocate of the Bourbons. and of all their connexions, might have been expeited to speak of the Sons of his own Saw!, reign in terms of less contempt and acrimony ? His ob.ervatione on the Dukes of York and Clarence, though we had no great ohjeeion to their substance. are certainly too much in the 2'oer:A Inc prislessed enemies of royalty. "We have dwelt on this subject too !mg ; but we conceive that the charge of inconsistency is made out completely r nod though we do not by any means marvel. as Mr. Coblsett is moved to do on a similar occasion,' bow a man can hold up his heed, or even east, under the proof of such glaring tergi. venation,' we do think ourselves entitled to say, that dr proof which we have now detailed should disable his jisdinssot, and donna from his autho rity, upon sU the =gees to which that proof is up plieahlr. infloosce or reputation he may have acquired by his earlier writinr, should s p r y er* against the do*rirsos which he is ow snspleied in z_a~._ - 7 - -.- promu!Rating ; and an the effect whit's hi, menus has , - produced oat his admirers. shoed tam to the prejud.ce of the maxims to which he now ret quires their assent. A man who had never lorti zealous for his {flirty or his opini .iis. mar deser Mem without much reprlach ; but it must alway• he 13 awkward evolution for o to wio had been dis tinguished for cinfilence and cl.tm .or. an !wiu no sooner m tde the tranbition, th in he re.iewi tae violence and abuse which ha had formerly ram ted nn the opposite side. By the nriehrifitsil., sti..fs a Till will always he regarded as 4p. essl..nal pu lip, without priviple or sincerity—whri e .ersizes miy be boug:.t by any one who will pay their ;nice to his avar ice or other passions; and the m •t liberal mist consider him as a person w:thritit any steadi ness or depth of judgment ; accu toured to be IA away by hasty views and occasion ii impression; ; entitled to no weight or authority in questions sf del.cacy or importance; and likely to be found in arms against his old associate on every it.- rial change in his own condition, or that of the country." 1)A ,H NAV Y. STATEMENT OF THE 1).4.41511 NAVY. OI JULY lit, IPA. FIT FOR si:RVICE. SNIP/ Or TM[ LIS/L. 1 Neptune . G•nuell4 13 Odin . Gum 74 4 V.,dernar . . 44 II Skio . . . 74 3 Deutnerk . . 74 14 Three Crovni . . 74 4 Note., . . 74 13 Funen . 74 5 Pf&ICC Rowel . . 74 14 Noah Star . . 74 6 Prinre.i Rnval . . 74 11 Princet.L•eislUgust , 64 7 P. . . 74 16 V. tory Pitneo.Sr.p•.o . 74 17 \tars . 9 *VIII iCIS . 74 18 Dinn,mken ON T I ST.,eiCt /1114111.1 19 C.lnsilad the S,,ctiLlt 9 1119 NA u sknow3 . .rt Freya 21 Rate . 2 Mermai4 • 24 T.,eu: IritiG•TtS . 4r 41 lis . 44 • 411 V , 7) :441.44 . . . St 7 . 44 Is 6 A filet* upwa etence.:.s) Off Tllll STOCKS. 34 hyla . 31 01'), 34 ras It r t,kr 11.0011 . 24 ISO A ditto 4111C211 39 Uele , ickstecn . 28 .9) Irmo.) . . 24 31 The Little Belt . 44 $ A sloop of war . 24 . in 187 The Letter Carrier . ii 42 Olam.nee . . . IF 3 4 Fame . . . 23 43 Fr1 ) 1.. , Feb. . . 16 39 1.4.1i70 . • . IS 44 A 1,n4 u,. The St , e 94 2.1 40 Sargyel . . . I 14. 42.1,:zie, • • 14107ef . I 0 41 Nr4 rave* . .131 46 b.11‘...:1 gun 5A.111 . 1 , 2 Total .. . . 2164 UNM , :ltV!!_nr.ARI.r. FLIPATISCI LAI rCkiti. 47 ft Theiias . . . 24 149 Sather* lu 43 SaC . . .241 5 1 No. 1. 51 A fl.ating battery S 1 A .ii.tarve 94 . 24 . It ON Tlll STOCC/. . 21 157 Ihtt SOM 11. . thagnn, xebft . . 20 179 Total THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, At Gusr 27. Summonses were issued, on Tuesday evening, for a Cabinet Council to meet this day, at two o'clock.—So long previous notice is vary unusual, the principal Members of the Cabinet being pre semed upon the spot, or in the immediate vicinity of town. A few hours notice has been accord ingly considered sufficient. The departure from the ordinary routine, upon die present occasion, in duces a supposition that the Council is called upon some business of importance, and it is tweeted that every Member of the Cabinet will attend this day.—lt is now very well known, as stared yester day in this paper, that two Messengers arrived in town from the Continent in the course of Monday night, and that a third Messenger, Mr. Peony- MAN, arrived on 'Tuesday morning. Mr. o a n- TOM, our late Minister to Lower Saxony, also ar rived on Monday night from Tonningen, which place he left on the 18th, and Colonel SLATIA• with dispatches from Lord Huscniesom.—Ot the contents of the dispatches brought by all these persons, nothing has transpired. We have learned nothing from these arrivals, but reports picked up at Tonningen and Heligoland, of the sur render of Copenhagen and the Danish navy to Ad miral GA:I use, and these reports we do not find announced upon any substantial grounds. Silence, in such cases, is generally considered an unfavoura ble symptom, and some persons, though not of the gloomiest disposition, may have been inclined to fears las the secrecy in which the contents of so many dis?atches . have been involved, that our plans in the Baltic have not succeeded to our espe•'.a:ions. To dissipate all despondency and alarm, however, we an told, that the Messen gers having been detained by century winds, their dispatches are all of an old datis s ' ‘ tied that 13 days elapsed between the battle of Copealtagen, and the arrival of dispatches from Lord Nicene, announc ing the gloticus result of that encounter. This ar gument, however, has ceased to be of much weight. We are now 17 Jays without any acknowledged ad vice, from Admiral GA/4814a ; the left acknowledged dispatches, from thatoificer, being dated the 10:h. But if none of these dispatches from the Continent bring any news of importance, we are totally ate loss to &moat for the full Cabinet Conical summoned to meet as this day, astbere does not appear to be asp other ground-week for it, except the dispetobes received on Moody night and Tuesday morning. ,Ti.ere is, no dos*. stroll: reason to p r , that they de not come frost Admiral c„ a , but that they relate to the prolf-r• d media[:, Russia to bring abont a Peat! bwa:a and Prance. Ministers, we understaa arrangements in *contemplation of pro f; coming to an issue; and Lord F&TZ.IA kals understand, in readiness to set off at a stirr t W e believe, however, that, in'inch event, hi; Lion would be to Paris, and not to St. Peter 1, , ,., as we stated yesterdly: The Wahing ism packet is arrived at Fa 111 , 0 ,1 with a Mail from Lisbon, from whirl place e t ed on the 13th inst. The lette.s were davit( yesterday. One of them, dated Oporto, th e 7% says—" Our Consul has been informed by C I 1 4 BAKU', of the Trab.s.e, that there are three Niq u ,;‘, vessels cruising off ,Cape F aisterre, arld upOn !i y coest of Portugal, for the pu-pose (they sly) a(,,. arn;ning the passions of all mercha-,t ves el. c.! . ever. Their names ate as fallow : , guns, an I 10 men; &voice, of IS gu is, and /... melte, of 22 guns." The Cont:st, of 16 gas ts, has had a sever• Ste with some chasm marees, from a hum pltt n't.tt L'Orient ; she succeeded in capturing tsT, 2-.1 sunk two, and would hare captured or destro)e. more, had not a large body of troops, a ith anili-rt • marched down and lined the beach ; hoc the he fire of the Cotetert mows I duwo their ranks, dun I she at last was obliged to Leal off shore to rest, as she had her sails and rigging much cut up. and .t. viral of her men wrunded. Yet;erday. at twelve o'clock. His MAJUTT at. rived at the Qu•cies Palace (run Wi'ldiot. and held a CJurt soon after two o'clock. which was E. t. r..1 , %1 by— _ _ Tr Lind l'retalent of the Omuta. t►e Fint Lent of t Treo.ory, the 1.011 Privy Seal. the Sevetarses of State the Howe an 4 ► , .rirgn D..itat Latins, the Chase:ller of uu .rah-ques, the Master General of the Otalnariee, the estary at War, Lard' (I.,:it'sectil and ro,llfts 36/ S. Cettre.., (.3mt:rala Sir J Craig anti OrtiarJ, and Cairn:el Luton. The following had the hon?ur of being prestat.d to His bfalevre : General Decried, upon hi, return firs Calvo liftirirl. Colonial Barton, of ties Lilo Gaud*, opal his prom...is!" • Geneasi Sot Janie/4 Craig took lever of His Majotty, prim, ;s to lila Iftvidg England ;Ir &dim. America. His Si AnIT T held a Pt;ry Coaneil. 2nl gate audiehccs to the Duke& POATLAND, Lirls Cay. naps and CHATHAM. L-ird Itiawatsauar, M.. CANiertte. and Mr. PARCETAL. )a.) .Tier five o'clock, His MAJUTT let off for Windsor stcretr, Sir JA rs CRAIG, aPer taking Imo n: as M A Y. transa !led busiacia at Lor s t CA s r Legitimates atce. Sir JAMBS wil' szt od nit his j mrney mit Sand iy. '1 he Triasory Prints are endeavouridg to prove. hem some tr.tn. port aeeounts laid before the Kane of Commit. Is, thit there has been a great increase of capper sheathing and copper Pan,. since the ac. cession to power of-the pressor: Ministry. The sloop of war, with a fleet under convoy, which sailed ft-cm Par: mostli, on the 26th Jane, for the West Indies, arrived at Madeira on die 17th July. A Spanish Packet, with dispatches from Carm an and lineal' Ayres, has been taken and mot into Plymouth. Her dispatches were thrown overboard during the chase. That strenuous Irish PaPiai. Donor Tose KehNA, puffed of in some of the papers of yes terday, enjoys, we understand. a Pranai of two hundred p..unds a year from Goicreafral. '1 be Loyal London, the St. Andrew's and St. George's, and the Loyal North British volunteers, were inspelle I yesterday, at six o'cloek in the even ing in G:ay's Inn Gardens, by Colonel Jame. es° x. who was pleased to exptess his great satishation at their appearance, and state of their arms. On ir.- r e eding this last corps, the Colonel paitictilarly in timated a wish to ye it raised to its full establish rant. oit Account if its peculiatiy soldier-like ap pearance. We and tstind that that estahlithmect was originally lini.te.l by Government to 400 ; which number, on account of the late regulitions and inattention to the viluateer system, bad con siderably d..cliaed. A title corps has since been attached to it 8 and it is twitted that the 101 l onto. ba will he raised without delay. Tuesday, the G.l ads changed quarters, accord ing to an:-ual custom; those iliac quartered ois the puhli:mis went into barracks. There was a change among thosz i.s barracks, and samba bat talion was sent to quarters instead of those that went into barracks. I Tuesday the Festival of Sr. Lours was cele brated by al4the Fr.meli in this metropolis. At tm o'clock in the morning they assembled at the Freud chapel in King-strett, Portman-square, where Hi .`a MASS wee celebrated i and the chapel. with the 4-• dition of some decorations for she occasion, had e grand and solemn appearance. The service : 0 performed by-she Bishop of Don., as iced by , Abbe Bounstr, and tl.e otner C:err, aeon ..t l• ~- Chap!l. Among use congrey,a!ion weie Re4: l Y -. 1 the Hodes of Sofia ion s hl5 ft >y ai i-ligharess M.A.-- sinus, the Duke Ds bass:, V.01)0102 of OR V.** I. Lid Prince Da CUPIDS, togetver C:1:11 4 rum:ser o: the French Nobility, the Chief Meets. and severat Kaights of the Orders of the Holy Gnost. and or Sr. Lours. with the crosses and other insignia .‘t their revel:tire orders and stations, several military officers of all ranks, Are. Dolour to Rscirs.—Lemon juice end salt or sorrel, or what is called salt of lemons, are whet are ordinarily emplo e.l to di ethane ink spats from i e linen. A German - • . edited by Sr. 3csirat. explains another me , less expensive ss4 equally effeaual ; it is by using ersefirte. Woe or two drops are sue:lent to entree a large epee, and no injery will be does to die Wee, II thaw. to which . it is applied he first seed with water.inil tinned afterwards. . 46 . 76 12. 11.2 9 , s tlef Wales mT in he ; • ..A1 3'3 11110 ro'.l 11*• 1 4 ; e sa i. t: ' l ' tar: fri e 7 e .;unte 1 4 Ittre e ' loli and tl. y he.t n h ch . !, t:•!. . dreg (tool Ittr, t.... plan *Jru cum if du and 11 0 rr beau 3 ' : e ye role: the I iii -r;, Coo. Hat he •: t• f..tr rnna: r ;1 st, rent ct nd err ire - 1 t'at tT '. and was E. S 3 t V ilate I r r of .44 tfC.. 1 1 tent .d gios gate Ca v- al ' for kite Lor s l ont Hutt.. Icren4 he ac. cenvoy. June,