The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-10-14 00:00:00

M,10.••..... has nail:eta another flower to es, . Lbw!. the American flag From its ports, and hay lined u very rigorous tirtnun itgaiion the .Enilistt trade, on all occasions where attempts were made to introduce Engl . :hi' goods. 411 w new Ministers adhere to the system tv:tich hat been adopted by the whole Continent against England. COPENHAGEN, SEPT: 20. Atieonling to Intelligence received front General Kritgh, Commander in Chief of the Bishop. , of Drontheirn, dnte►t the of lust mouth, tow diviiiuda of slur troops are wine on nil expeili titin against the two Swe.liidi provinces of Fennylund land Herjechilett ; and but little doubt it entertained of their rendering themgeliree masters theretif, FROM THE GOTtENBURGH MAILS. STOEI[IIOI.II. SEPTA .5 His Royal Majesty, attended by his general Ault oral all other persons belonging to the head eptarters, *ill etahark to-inorrint on board the al yacht Aatadis. for Granhoda. I,ititler dote of the lath inst. His Majesty has re ealied his Envoy FAtraordinary at the British Coati, Baron Adlerberg, and appointed in his c..a.1 Baron Brinkman, His Majesty's Lite Envoy I:\traordivary to the Royal Prussian Court. (Stockholta Gazette.) SUPT. 30. His Ro)si Nfojewty's .•lit nia.b s , at suction • off(ratibtida, Sept. .25. His Royal !Majesty ...ailed yesterday from Gral4l. it two o'clock in the afternoon. wool arrived wt five (!'clock in Gronlnits. At half-inot five o'clock this morning, IThijcs:y wiled again fur Little Sottausay.—.(ide . _ tkud-quarterA, Cralsby, Sept. el. Maje%ty fret ived the following, deport from lbijor-Genural Count Lantingliauzen, doled the l!itl. " ty 14.1 rep .rt, of the 17t1. ihst!et, I I:u•nhy ht. *wooed your Nlap sly, 'but the corr. muter my COMltia.lll were ready to dlst whatk. The bat ta.sou ut gu.:ols, and tbe charms o , the mimeot of auotorg, imsbeil on as far as the chapel of Lakolse, and formed there the admired posts. istollirner ran soul after reveited, that the enmity had zascalitta in eonswlr:••hie steragth in the s icinity of Pio& and that his noloaace aroottertet4 to shoot to piece. of cartoon. At six o'clock oar tutiaoced posts war attoeleJ near Inkulux They eonsitod of :on/ elimemoirs, ems otanded int Captain Earle) Lagertzu:..e, of your Eft-pools, mini Captain &Aback, of tlw rod/neat of Krone berg. The evenly was from t to sco mem strong, sod had ton `pit toe of commis sect nee howitzer. The action taste.: ontti eight o'clock, when the fall of the night pat aa rod to it, the when, posts retuning their position. The battalion of guards, and thr regiment of Kronalizrg, with the rigeadroo of hone, rewired orders to advauce to [akahut. The pis. moms or Wank were ordered to repair the road hetwees the plat at 41hieraturkatiou sad Lakoks, which was in a very hod esimilOse ; it was, however, so speedily put into a taigaillia stalk that early la the miortsiag of the tell, Isor 16plieritee ladved he Lai& or Wen thearieweit wee ordered to take post err the weft alinit 4i.llll•Ahe, WyeatA. sad Hering. The whole iliglikillaarierfiltilit \sad Nelda" at his batteries, sad at ens Vele& b She aiming eav advanced pots were attariwid. The ersaty.eimett Use la ateedier, with tin pier,' of ruinon sod two bawltzers, eadvereaved to tan our right flank, midi by wan of his numerous eriillery, favoured by thr uetsre oi . t, , e ground, no-ceded io leveldag try lire, hat he was ancralwkwi n pale4 by the sapariar gallantry of the troops sear ariermanri. A. LANTIIVGHAKSEN, teral-in-Chicf of tbc Second Divtinoi of the Sotsttns-s Fianna Army." THE BRITISH PRESS. LON LAIN, FRIDAY. Ocriluma 14. • Two Cutteulnugh wails arrived lost ni , 4 lit, with letters and papers to the Ist instant, from which we have ;wide extracts. They have greatly pointed our expectations. IVe do nut find in the slightest allusion to the Russian isjultdrun, in Port Baltic. Baron A 011.ERCMG, the Swedish Minister at our Court, is recalled, nod Baron BKINRMAN,IIIte Sae dish Envoy to the Prns.i.tii Court, is appointed in his place. The litt'.• ivarfurc still rages in Finland, without any event of inipo...sniee on either sod'•. We ibis chs:.• resume our or open the Answer to the Andress of the City of London to His IIAJESrv. praying au impair" , into the causes that led to thr late Convention iv Porto;;.,:. It is a fruitful field (Ur coin:rent, and the conduct of the Ministerial Prints is not calculated to render it less proihutive. (Jae of the most devoted of this class, in its rusialil.: of yesterdly, after expressi ng its approisitio n of the firrawand diguoVed An swer" to the Address. H 4,1, 1:1 a tone of exiilta thin, "iris :14 Li care has indeed read to the Gentle men of the Common (.*otincil a lesson on the nature oeitapartial.tirsfire, which we trust they will neicr forget renal, having assured its reader., that Millis are eager fur inquiry, informs theta in a subse gond paragraph That ti.r ARTlltla WET T.F.‘I,I:Y will leave tos I in a few days for Ireland, to re turn to his ministerial fatictions in that country ; mad that attar liming *Mange(' dm business of his office, he will proceed to SpaiA in his mili tary cal. icity." A liiiigvending u lectnre to the first city in his dominions doe•• not present a very dignified idea of Majesty ; and wr tire mirry b, Gad our venrra hie taxi august Sovereign thus represemed by th e eetoiners of Ministers. As little consistent) do we pLiveive in the announcement of !jir .I.IVEL- LeStElf's return to Spain in his military capacity, coupled with the ati , llr3Vre of an eager deo' a mid firm ou the part of 3.linistea, to in ilptuie an inquiry into the coniud attic authors of ,t)Ae late Convention in Purtu .4 at." The man s ittre-• lyi who laid the basis of the Convention; .a basis mitch more vicious awl disgraceful than the isui,er structhre, urty he fairly considered one of the authors of that measure ; yet, at the moment the country is promised inquiry into the offence, and the punishment of the guilty, one of the pi in ei pals among the accused and suspected, is prejud ed, and honourably acquitted, without .bial ! it is impossible to reconcile these contradictions. We miscalculate, however, the spirit of the City very much, if it remain satisfied with such a lesson. The more frequently we peruse the auswer given, in Ilia MAJESTY'. name, to the Address and Peti tion carried up on IVednesilay to the foot of the Throne, the more deeply dues it inspire sentimente of concern, disappointment, and surprise. We believe that %itch will be the emotions excited by it, not only throughout every part of the British empire, but equally so beyond its limits. in Spain and in Portugal. Never, since the resignation of Lord NORTII. in 17 q 4, has language, so little congenial to the common feelings of his people, so ungra cious and repulsive, been pin into the mouth of a Prince, justly venerated by his subjects; the mo del, in his private life, of every private virtue ; and between whose aged knees, as between those or hie Royal grandfather, near half a century-ago, Vic tory may be said to have erected her Altar ! Well may Ministers shrink from the cotisequences of such a measure, equally unwise, as it is little ails lo;,,sous to the principles of the English Constitu tion! Well del they select, as the organ of such al answer, the Secretary of*State for the House Department, son of that man whose name is always connected with the most mincipular acts of the pre reigu; the very penioual representative of se cret influence ; and whose elevation to an Earldom, whatever ma • have been his abilities or application, will never io honour to the memory of Mr. Pt ! It was, indeed, in Lord FIEWEE.IIIII2IIY, an appropriate reply ; 'bin we venture to believe that it was as repuguaat to the opinions of the Sovereign for whom it was comixe•eil, as it most assuredly is to those of the city of Leildnie The asperity of I that unqualified condemnat ion , wl.ich it does not mer. imply, but which it plaiuly expresses, for the ground and principle on which the Address is framed, appears to be peculiarly erroneous and misplaced. • How has the City of London merited the reproach of" having pronounced judgment with oat previous investigation ?" On whom does the Address pass sentence without hearing the merits of the ease?—On Sir HEW DALnYoott.E ? Cer tainly nut. As little does it accuse Sir ARTIDIR WELLENLEY. On that " ignominious Conven tion," by which, " besides the restitution of the Russian fleet, and the sending hack to their coun try, without exchange, sn large a number of Rus sian sailors ; British fleets are to convey to France the French army aid its plunder:" it certninly does pronounce the public opinion. On decency and incongruity of making " the full re cognition of the title and dignity of Emperor of France," in the person of a mum, whom Ilia MA JESTY:3 own Secretary for Foreign Affairs denomi nated, only right weeks ago, in a public document, " the atrocious Usurper of France," the address undoubtedly does likewise state the seutirnents of the city of London. Was Mr. CANNIN.:, we would wish to ask, behind Hi/ MAJESTY'S choir, when his colleague delivered this most cousisteut reply ? (lad he, we will not say, any participation in composing it; for we will not suppose that he would submit thus to censure and condemn his own minieteriel acts; but had he any knowledge of its 11:01111' and contents? If he had not, lie is only a nominal not aim effective member of the Cabinet : and if he had, we congratulate him on his snbserviente and sithmiesion. Those con veoient qualities, though they will not elevate him, in a moral point of view, may raise him in a Conn. But it a the conchision of the Address, mere than any other part, which seems to have awitheued time ministeriul indignation, and against which the auswer Is obviously pointed with more than common acrimony. It is " such an inquiry into this dis lirinoura'ole awl unprecedented transaction, as will lead to the discovery and punishment of those, by whose misconduct and incapacity the cause of the country and its allies has been so ehansefully sacri ficed:" this is the improper demand which is so severely stigmatised, and to produce which, " interposition of the City of London could not be necessary." In confirmation of " the readiness to institute inquiries," allusion is made to the trials of Sir ROBERT CALDER, and of General Wirt c- Lots e. Rut are those the only "occurrences" where inquiry was loudly demanded, and either refused or evade.' .? Were the calamitous and disgraceful cam paigns nt 1793 and 1794, ever made subjects of fir vestigation ? Was not the same Co 11111 l ander again selected in 1799, to consummate our military and notional humiliation at the Redder P And would not Nlmisters, at this hour, if they dared, repeat the same experiment in Spain, which succeeded so ill in Flanders and in Hulhu,d ? ‘Vns the present SECRETART at WAR ever celled to rieeount for his exploits before Ferrel?—we mean by a Military Tribunal. This extreme irrilahi:itv, this soreness' at the bare idea of a reluctance to anon " due in spiny," leeks, it most be owned, exceedingly sus pickles. That Ministers will not venture openly j refase, or to deny it, cac am thorotighly l'erstiaci ed. But that th.'v will endeavour to shirt at blame of the'Conventiou from their own shdulders to those of Sir hate, we,strangly suspect. If he is restrained from- producing his instructions—.if, tin' der the idle pretence of disclosing secrets of State, lie i denied the right to clear his own character, no man will he at a loss to distinguish the real cul prits. In the selection of such an Officer, to sit pereede a successful and an enterprickg qetieral, Miaistcrs have given ►ufficient proof of incapacity, and total want of jadgment. But if their instruc tions were of a nature to have disarmed and incapa citated even Sir ARTHUR NVELLESLEY himself fittest completiug his own work, so well begun ; then, to what subterfuge or evas.ort will they have recourse for shelter against the national resentment? This is the secret which the inquiry will elucidate, iii defiance of any efforts, on their part, to confound, or to conemil it. We shall return to this subject l'ogruteful us it is, the public atteution will be fixed upon it. W e have received Dutch papers to the ;tli, con teiniog the Paris urea to the ad inataut. All the French troops, beyond the Rhine, and all these which NAPOLEON can influence, from the confines of Austria to the shores of the Baltic, are in actual motion, or preparing to march. Three distinct ob jects present themselves within the range of specu lation, fur the application of this i tttt &tense Grace we mean Turkey, Austria, and S t avin. Of theme three, the last tqwears to 03 the moat probable— Austria *wins oily secondary, and to force that power into a participation of his views, or to place her in a situatioi in which she *ill not be able to obstruct them, we have more than once stated as an tinportunt part of the business to be settled in the meeting at Firforth.—No fivsh French troops had tittered Spain so late as the ,24th of last month. The troops that were encamped on the glucis of Bayonne, only began their march conduit day. \ev commands the army in Spain. and MONCEV is under him. &sorties is said to have removed his heed-quarters to Burgos. The Spanish troops :it Billion, :and those advanci..g to St. Sebastian, would be thus in the rear of the French, and the movement to Burtos might be pmhably made in prosecution of a plan to cut the Spanish division al. If the operations of the several Spanish divisions, which were pressing round the French, have been well combined, this movement would probably bring on a ;•.:eneral engagement. The Expedition which sailed. on Sunday, from Falmouth is very dedcient in cavalry, but it is said that as adequate proportion of that species of force is is follow. After our recent dear-bought experience iii Portugal, Ministers would be with out excuse or justification if they were to err again upon this subject. We know from Sir Aa rnea WELLESLEY himself, that his army was ex tremely deficient in cavalry ; that it was the want of this species of force which prevented the victory of the 21st from being so decisive as it would otherwise have been; and it has been said, that even the small hotly of horse attic!' he had with him, he bad embarked ut his own discretion, after his ap plication for cavalry had met with repeated refusals front Ministers. It is also said that our army was not sufficiently provided with heavy ordnance—and this we notice, because we have heard that it was impossible to besiege the fortresses, from the cir i etiontaikee of the army having nothing but field pieces. A deputation of Spanish and Portuguese Mer chants had, on IVednesday, an interview with Lord BATHURST. upon commercial business; when the following important communicatiou was made to them, viz.—" that all articles, the growth, produce or manufacture of such countries and their eq. lonies as are in amity with Great Britain, may be imported either in British ships or in ship. belong. iiig to those countries, and re-exported either directly to countries io amity with us, or through the medium of free porta, without payment of the daty imposcd by the Order in Council Act. This order i. to be retrospective, so fir as extends blo the time at which the countries alluded to have been declared in a state of amity." It is expected, that the substance of this communication, winch is regarded by the mercantile world as completely official, will appear in The Gazette to-morrow. The Ministerial Journals of Wednesday contained .e paragraph to the following tenor:—" It having been us.etted iu one of t'ae Papers, that the fleet which brought the Russian Squadron from the Tagus. dill nut display the British ensign. in conse quence of express orders to that of eru—we have authority to state that no such orders were given from the Admintlity." Now we do not believe that any paper, morning or evening. contained the as sertion stated by the Ministerial Journals. But this is not the tirst instance in which they have talc•it the trouble of contradicting statements that welt- iteter made. We stated. on Mon day, that the itii.sian Admiral continued to wear his voices at St. Helen's, until sunset, when lie sti tool them, and was informed, that he not hoist them again. Ilt•re is the point velure we are hurt. 'lloilo is the gi ievance of which we complain. An hostile flog has been seen flying in the principal naval atia.o:. of Great Britain, in thy face of a British Admiral., in the presence of a Uritirli deet, within the t eac h o f our gum and fortresses , . wit hin hearing of the lamelitstions our soldiers aml sailor'', at brin g doomed to witness such degradation, tool within roll view of the in dignant iriliabitunts of Portsmouth, whose were never tr:frre o.leroled by s uc h a ap eeh o e :" As soon us Ili:listen. 'ranted the fret of the Romig Hag beiwg kept they sent down orders for tie .li.,onitinuaitee of it : These are the orders to whi r l ; we alluded on Moiolay ; the substance of which se may not brae ectireetly stated ; hilt that they isete rleiieute t o consilutory too ards the riltis.iao.,abd that, nu tar, ue did tint tuisrepreseut their meter, we hove no •reason to apprehen d ! Why was the anotneut of Nightfall chosen for sr• *tog the flag ? I .Vs-herwomen, we know, are: looted to take in their linen at night from hedges. Were the Admiralty afraid that thief might emsi over ut night from and ateal the Itti , ,ian colour:, Or it usual, we suppose, to strike the Mo.: at h . * . the Russian ailp: %HS of courac aittf,Thl to cis . time the whole of the clay on which the Wen, arrived; and it w. v only hinted to those aho h o d sailed under it, that it should not he hu:4. ed again next ntaraing. The Martha Brae, Cote ; Diana, 140114 c; Ann, J as ; mid the Elites, ; part of Bert front Jamaica, are arrived at Bristol. His aiEsTv 's //,‘4lra, at Portsmouth, u appoitittsl convoy fur the Mediterranean; th e Dra:rit ib to accompany her to a certain latitude, and then prock•ill for Ca t li t , a 'al,. btxh y eiyels a are hound to thut port. The befionce, PACE, from Londonderry; the Princess L i tio is ; and the &poised, frotn Belfast. for Chester; Bee, Ttniersus, for Plymouth ; Set/stuns, Moat; t t ; king Ceor:,-c, M'CAitTilY ; and the Ardioiti,lllmw IN, Imien coals, for Ireland, were driven on bhOre, Ilea gate, during the late gales. Lord ButtntlEasH arrived in town, from Portti o !, yesterday, but us his Lordship left the Tapis itt the same tune with Sir AnTlitta WELLESLEY, I has brought no fresh intelligence. Letters from Iladeira were received in town terday, dated the 30th of August. On the : August the 3d regiment of Buffs sailed from , island for Portugal, with Major-Genet-411km* FoRD, on hoard the Lierkimated frigate, Caplan! M A LIN G. The uI t'a regiment were expected CAJJ4 to follow ; and the garrison and forts at Madeira were to be oerttnied by veteran!, from Gihralt.r.— The outward-boun I Afriea. Brazils. 11114 - India convoys, had touched at the island, • for their destination. The Emperor A LEK/AMER we find, On I. sage through Koningsberg, condescended to notice of flis Prussian M AJESTY, the and abandoned FREDERICK WILLIAM. The licaryi Captain FRANKLIN, is arrived . Halifax, ufter u pine-ige of twenty-eight dins. the Captain, and two intelligent passeiners, are arrived in town, we learn, that three Briti h Re giments were then at 111 , 114*ex; two of wheil, consig ing of about 3000 'nen, had been o..dercii for eta. isarkation, and transports were its readiness ias cor. vey them to Bermuda, where they were to be by others. They had taken on board provisions he eight mouths, but their destination was unknown. Boston Nei‘spupers had been received it Hali fax. down to the ed of September. They state, tilt all the sea-port towns it, America were foilosing the example of Ilosto:i, and were all holding for preparing and presenting Petitions to the FRESIDLIST, for the removal of the embargo. A requisition for (-ailing a meeting of the city if Westminster, to consider of au Address to His M...- JESTY, praying an inquiry into the causes that WI& the late disgraceful Convention in Port ligul lis , Ls es proposed and sanctioned by a great number of signatures. The abseuce of the eligh Bailiff, at Cheltenham, is the only cause of delay to itsexe cution. Government has received dispatches from Mr. DUFF, dated the ifith Sept. by which we are hap py to learn, that a wide and most extensive oast ket is opened for the inatinfacture4 of this coantni, which were formerly coat-al-anti, is Spain. The Junta of Seville have counnunicated their mole• thin upon die (angrier of several gritimili ships which have entered the bay of Cadiz siiire the peace betwixt this country and Spain ; awl they line permitted all British goods on board these r sea, that were formerly prohibited, to be imported upon paying l 3 per rent. ditty, and farther 5 per cent. if for internal consul:opt:on : those goods are then to be regarded as Spanish goods, and mac ba exported to all their Colonies upon paying 1 cent. royal duties, and such other imposts as igiin• ler foreign icoods pay ; and it is stated, that there is no doubt but all other cargoes nig be received with similar indulgence. The Governor of Cailit received this communication from the Junta of Seville, and by him it was transmitted to Mi. Dun Major, now Sir Gone: °MIST, is the sewed son of the late much respected Rafru Marv, Esti. of Limerick, and, we imtlerstand, that 03 ma: it of distinction from his Sovereign has beta granted in consideration and apprOnition o: bis run (lntl iii India, during a residence ofseventeen yea, the latter port o f w hi c h he serve d as Aid-ti t ) and Confidential Secretary to his Highness the N A.• Boa Vizi ea, Hereditary Prince of 0u.1,, at Lac slow, wirli the countehance, approbation , 'ad esteein of the Governor-General of lodia, the Noble the Marquis Wtttzst EV. On Sallaglay last, at llerwitl, there Was heavy gale of wind, which did conqiiberalile dat to mans honors, by stripping the tiles froau roofs and breaking clown chiannies. The on riot's iniNfoituite occiarre4 in Church street ? ' u stuck of chiinniesfell on ►►nd broke in th• and buried a woman (the wife of 317. HALT, binder), in the ruins. She was afterward.' ro hut so ninth brui.ed, and with one ieg beak two plates, that she is deemed to be in great gee of her life. A schooner, laden with hale, Sninierlatid, was driven on ;bore ',ear Scram mill, and soon went to pieces; forth' ..tely th, were cited. All the new lainps on the bi.dgf curried off !,y the vicltnce of the gale. or gnus tor t teatatioos of ed to wittiest w of the i n , whahe eve , rtht Ituataa )tde tt f or t i t fere t o o v itil of whith tr J?ir yet At they 'tete Lafi listssidi,s, ao d I their clot. hap Ipprelienal.-- DON fort wen for aril . Sir or, are ecru,. pert from off toy shit d that i ; om . cell Port am cor 1 r it at ni i; f,t, hot reit-El to ugh 41 the orders Co GEI :03.! Who had per Le h u:4 . a, TameAt; part of i,, e ph: tol. t ir o r tstuonth, a tow raileatir ; pit tern lain inn., mei mit vamels 4 MI for Dr - rile:7y ; the C. F..tperiar,a, eu 1. 1: 91 1PSON, Piing litilen wu6 for r, near Part, utu Porttigel, th 4 the l'agus at LLULET, he 311 em in town yes. 1 41 n the 17th of ed from that Ca torrid Mitt i• Ti ate, Copland xpected Roos ar Madeira Gihraltdr.— ant! Welk. id, and sailed ler on his pas- wi to teke unfortunate ut arrived from 3t dale. fir s seuxers, who DI lint) h i off, coent. Po Teti for ern. sti anew a 0 con. to be jonaui Po rovisions for Si unknown. at 1, and lio,t a very lamage of tele nly se- here 1.• roof, , nook- ot out, ,ken a t ea 3 foot [lmo%) he me ,;e