The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-05-14 00:00:00

. • . 144 Law lilt •:.getlce, see last pages THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, M•Y 14. The Direttors of the &lAA IRCIIA Company have appointed Sir Canons HILARO BARIUM. BAr• . Governor of Madrss; and, we ondelqtand, he is to succeed Lord MINTO, as Governor. General. A Member of the Society f,r promoting Chr , Knowledge, has' printed a letter or two in a morn ing Paper, addressed to Lor 11 0 GREsvt L LE. is pleasant enough to see the clumsy efforts at'raillery, in this pions and zealous promoter of fadion. He affeds to deride Lord GRENVI I. Le fur writing in Newspapers ; and laments, that a person, who has A" MO, ifiros, shnol<f clNodeseend t, indulge himself in the live den: of the press. Perhaps ,elll Ministers m ty, as on m oty other more important occasions, turn their back on the arts by which they have risen ; but we susped that more than one of those P►otestant Chompsonr, whom the Promoter of Christian Knowledge is bound to ad .mire, has lowered his high charader, and con taminated his pure and Iffirtal pen, in the dirt of news• paper controversy. Same Anti-jzcobins might. perhaps, inform this gentleman, that it is by pad dling in such puddles, that they have learnt to fa thom " all the depths and shoals of honour ;" and, when we recoiled the service which has been ren dered them by another pre/et/ant writer, we are stir. piled to find the partizans of the present Admini crevon, condemning the praBice of making ap peals to the public, through the medium of a news papr. The public have been too long insulted with the say:inuring boasts of one of the Daily Papers, on the sobjeft of foreign news. Whether it be an ac itroset of tee battle of Austerlitz, or the battle of Jena, every article of foreign news, however nli or common, is ann-iinced by it as err/wive intelli rine, Of intelitzence by earn iptiol I. Pursuing this system of gasconade, it gave, a few days since, seine common-04ex paragraiphs, which it called An Anticipation of the fiusum Mlal ;" yj the very time the Mail. which it boasted to have so antici• rated, had art ired•at tl.e Post-Office, and its con tents were given in ever♦ other Daily Morning Paper. An exposure, so palpable, appears to have excited a violent degree of irritation; atickin an effer ireszerce of passion, the Print in question, very un- g u deol y contested, on Saturday, that the content, of the /futon, SlAil had been offered to it by the ?oat-Office, but that it refused to give a gu nea for the intelligence. Upon this foundation, it has made an attack upon tie Pow Office, charging it with eegleft and extortion is every &Tarnow, and vireatessing every ptrson ccrnnefted with it, from the P0...-Nksttr-Glneral down to the Porters, with ex posure and punishment. Of this, however, we do not ciimpLtin. If that Paper has suffered from the nrxhit and extortion of the Cen:lemen of the Post- Office, we do not wish to become their advocates. Fat we complain of is, the unwarrantable liberty which it has takes, in affefting to make com mon cense with the ether newspapers, and putting itself fern-art as the Champion cf their common ri2hts. We will venture to assert, that if the Daily N. w! pa pers were to vie% an adsq.cate from among themselves, the Paper alluded to would be the very last ; for it ever there seas a Paper that aged upon purely mlfith principles, regardless of the common a.,LI ready to bir.:ak through the established usage and cus.om (f the public press, for ia ptiv.tte purpose, it is that Print. Tlse value of Aka indria is most inconsistently depreciated by the Tre.ssury Newspapers, who af •tat to steer by Mr. PITT'S maxims of policy, and who look up to Lord HAIWKLIIII:AIt and Mr. CAN. estric„ as their living guides. For our own part, we have aiways thought that Mr. Perr rather over. rated the importance of Egypt. Mr. CANNING as. setter., that . dse prospeft of its being taken from it, would rnak• el BONA r *ITS UMr on ha 7 7:." Lord HAWKILSYSAY i in his first speeds, told us that Egypt was the key to India; and 41% A: e• kl us against leaving it in the way, not of the l;:ettcb, but even of the Russians, whom he, at that time, suspated of some design upon our Lartern possessions. But now, h7our.e the late Maastra have secured ilus important military station, cod ep•ned to the Q.u•s•ry one of the most promising et mro.sc , al Wei, it the world, Egypt has lost its velar, it i , nt, longrir a formidable acquisition in the eyes r 1 Li."".• It Alt'. S. Nay, our gaining pus a-souo cs it, Brill n•s:!t his 'themes ! 'rise Rus • 'liens, in 1;2 1, were to have taken the way of Egypt to lads, 'Ai ir:r.g to Constatitinopk.-- The trench are gdo• to take the way of Tetkey to • lorria% . withoct goirg t:anuiti Egypt, oe MUM!. in oidet to be sea the ilus.t.tut! la 1799, Dome. rases had not the comma. - 4 af the Adriatic. yet be attempted the route to India. through Egypt. Now. he is ntmter of that sea, and we are to leave Alexandria open to him! But. " the troops sent to Alexandria, - would have been more advantageously employed in taking the forts of the Dardanelles." What good could possibly have resulted horn this capture, we are at a loss to imagine. They could net have been taken without an assault, at a very considerable lois, as every one must admit, who is acquainted with the strength of Turkish troops, when placed behind walls. But, could they have been retained? They are commanded by the heights in the neighbour hood, and miserably fortified on the land side. A few only of the multitudes who might instantly have been brought down, would have sufficed to recapture forts so circumstanced. Nay, the posses si,,n of them, whether for a long or a short time, could, in no resped, further the objed of the enter prize entrusted to Admiral DLCKWORTN. That °hied was to secure the Turkish fleet from falling into the enemy's hands, in case the Faure should continue resolute against acceding to our proposals; and to enforce the just and politic measure of giv ing up an alliance with France. How far the failure of this plan is owing to a defel of judg assent, in its formation, or to the conchs& of those entrusted with its execution, or to unavoidable ac cident, will be perceived, when the whole details of the transadion shall be laid before the public. But it is evident, in the mesa time, that the assistance of land forces, about which so much has been said. by ill-informed persons, could hate served no earthly purpose, but adding to the comparatively trifling loss which has been sustained. Those land forces were most advantageously employed at Alexandria. Retort states, that the secret Expedition, now fitting out, will consist of 13,000 men. By the SjIA brig, we have received intelligence that the following ships had arrived at China, in October last : Elptunstone. Capt. Craig; Winehelsea. Moffatt; Ceres, Dnnsford; and Widmer Castle, Dodds under convoy of Hit hda,evy:s ship Grampus. Alnriek Castle. Prescott; Steen, Monlirn ; and Divid Scott, Locke; seder eaavoy of His Maje.ty's snip Sir Ldeasti Hughes. The Te&berry, Botany Bay ship, was lon on a reef, in the Mindoro Sea. The Witham Pits, Bo tany Bay ship, arrived in China I7th September. Yererday, a Court of Diretters was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned Com• manders took their leave of the Colin, previous to departi.tg for their respetlive dest in ations, viz.— Captain W. A Montague, Warky ; C. W. Gribble, Royal George; for Madras, Ceylon, Boinb.y, su.d Chine. C. terhard, Wexford for Malta., S.:Teton, sat P.ombay. J.. Stewart, Windham; A. Murray, Earle Howe; for Ma drat and Bengal. The Court adjourned at 7 o'clock. till to morrow. The Lord Cochrane privateer arrived, on Monday, at Plymouth, from a cruise off the coast of Spain, in con:palsy with the Mars. In the Bay of Cape Fini. steno, they attempted to cut out some Spanish vessels from under a battery, but failed in the attempt. with the capture of two of their beau, two officers, and 16 men. A numerous and highly Teapot:table meeting of the friends of Mr. Wikazaroece, met yesterday, at the New London Tavern, when it was resolved to open a subscription to defray the exwases of his Eleftion, which must be enormous, in the case rf such an extensive and populous county as York. The enemies of the Slave Trade are pecu liarly called upon to support this great and success ful advocate for its abolition.—w(Sre Adoertisasent is She front of ibis Paper.) The Aid, Captain Hueontsson, of Hull, from London to Plymouth, in the dreadful gale of the 18th February, was driven out of die Downs, and after losing her masts, anchors, and cables, was carried upon the French .coast, near Dieppe, and taken posession of, together with about twenty six sail more, by twenty armed boats. The crews were snatched from Dieppe on the Ist of Marco, for Arras, where they had arrived all well. Among them were a Capt. NEfIITT, of London ; Captain LAWS. of Sunderland; and Captain Marbly, of Greenock. They were very well treated ; but all communication with this count, y, by letter, was forbidden. They expeflei to be marched to ver don. Provisions were _cheap, so that they lived very comfortably. The rumour of an existing nerciation for a gene ral peace, was revived on Tuesday with increased confidence, upon the alleged authority of private letters, received by the last Hamburgh Mail. The overtures were stated as having been made by NA. locus to the Emperor ALIMAAPtit, who was of opinion, that they should be submitted to the Allia. The inaaivity of the armies in Poland has been also urged, as evidence of a subsis:ing negociation. But it is confidently asserted. on the other hand, that all hopes of an amicable arrangemeot had va nished before the Emperor of Russia left his capital. As in the latter cue a battle must have been fought before this time. these contradifiory reports have greath; increased the public anxiety for the arrival of foreign papers. Three liusum Mails are now due. It was currently reported, ova Tpesday, that Buenos A yres had again fallen into the hands of the Eng- LA, without any loss on the part of the captors. This report was brought by Captain Mix 1. an, of the Chathoe, who is arrived in the river from Te netiffe. He states, that on his passage he spoke an English cruiser, the Captain of which informed him, that he had fallen in with. and boarded a ship bound :tons the Brazils to Lisbon, from the Master of which he learnt, that Buenos Ayres had been again taken by the English tro..ps ; that the conquest was effeited without any dtfficulty, not a gun having been Srrel. nor a man lost; but that, on the con -1 trary, our troops were received with open arms by tit- n.habetams. N.) data is mentioned. nor /as i.;seernment 'cecina any advice: upon the subjeff. i~ 'P . . Au/ " 'W.' 4 4 si " - 4% %".'"'Ne• Rona. SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. The Sacred Opera of The bfeasiab was performed at the New Rooms, in Hat.nver-square, last night, for the benefit of decayed Musicians, and their fa. milies. This excellent Institution is under the inn• mediate patronage of 'l'lleir If • I IST t as, who, unt il this, and the last season. always honoured it with their presence. Thl vocal performers were—Mrs. VAUGHAN, Mr. HARRISON, Mr. BARTI.FIRAN, and Mr W. KNYVETT. Mrs. MOUNT•IN WAS to have lent her powerful aid, but was ot.liged to perform at brut y-lane Theatre. Th• perform• ante, chorn.ses, &c. were given in the finest style, and the visitors were most highly gratified by Ma. dame CA T AI.ANI having, in the most Aliging and handsome manner, offered her assistance en the oc casion. She gave the favourite scene and air from the opera of Semiramide, in the most enchanting style, and received the most rapturous applause. Beauty and talent never appear to so much ad vantage, as when volunteered in the aid of 4 , meek eyed charity." Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of ‘V lam and Duke of Ca man iso ; the Earls of CHISTRZFIRLD, DARTMOUTH, and WILTON, and near four hundred Nubility and Fashionables, were present. YORKSHIRE BLBCTION SQUIBS. A STANZA. As suagby the Wet Nurse lately hired by Lord litew.—.ll—ns, for die forams Candidate. Poor little Fits, Has lost his wits, And eana't tell whore to Rod them; Let him stone, Till F—wk—im cornea home, And brings his votes behlud him. TIM. TRIMMER. ANSWER. Little Fits, little Fits, Has vastly snore wits, Than those who attempt 'to oppose him; England's friends [nod', sty; This none will deny, If the person applied to but knows him. But knowledge and Lawlles, Are two different parces, Such difference can ne'cr be cembited, And poor little Fitt, Will show by his wilt, That he'll lease dull Lamelles behind. DRY NURSE. THE CITY ELECTION. Oh! strive, ye Candidatcv for worldly fame, le Stephen's Chapel to enroll your name, Strain every nerve, and all your skill employ, To gain what hell forth, honour, pow'r, and joy Ilardtey, rest l—tho' check d was thy career, Y.•u nce l ne more limo- vs of rivets fear Thine heart unsullied, and thy virtues pure, . Have made thy (alai and elsdiert sure. Orford, May 7. Her MAJESTY had a sele& party of twelve. last night, amongst whom were, the Cruntes s e s o f C AIN Dusan and ELY. Viscount and Viscountess SID- Ley, and the Ladies CHARLOTTI WYIIIII. BILLA. syst, C•110L1111 WALDSGEAVL. and C•1110LINg Her Royal Highness the Princess of WA Las will come to town this day .from Mack Heath to War. wick House. Her Royal Highnesl, it is exp ec t e d, will be present at Her MAJZSTY'S Dr4Wing•rool/1. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Lord C•StLIMAGN. On Tuesday, Mr. COLDSIII o sent two vet y large Passover Cakes to St. James's Palace, as a present to His MAJKST V. The Countess of CARMAP/PTON'S rout, in Bruton street, last night, was numerously attended. Mrs. Wecoxi.t. gave a grand rout, last night. at her house in Upper Brook• -street, which was attended by upwards of 300 Nobility. The Irish Establishment Society will have a grand dinner, next Sunday, at PA a&i.ow's Hotel, in St. James's-street. Lord Soul uaste cos is Presi dent of the Society. We have the pleasure to state, that Miss Duo- CAN was last night pronounced out of danger. It appears, that the bird Cerlvane has just return ed to Plymouth, after an ansuerestial cru:se. This sounds rather emineut for one of the Weaminster Candidates. Earl Pase• arrived yesterday at Northumberland House, from Launceston, in Cornwall. and imme diately left town for Northumberland. Mr. and Mrs. LANC/0111 Simone arrived. a few days ago, at the St. James's Hotel, inJermyn street, from their seat in Cheshire. . -. Mitt SUITH plays Belvidere to-night for her own Benefit. It is one of those parts in which she se eminently excels; a very crowded house is expelled in ccmpliment to this LaJy's public and private charaeter. Prince Wirrocrisraiii was prescnt at the Mar- chioness of Heau►oar's Conceit, on Monday night, stud was introduCed by her Ladyship to His Royal Highness the Prince of WALKS, who received that Nobleman with his usual politeness a'd affability, and introduced him to his Royal Siothen. Lord Cat:maws, derling that he sewn on the Hustings, reminds us of an anecdote of the Rev. Hat. WASS, of facetious memory, who was brought before a Magistrate for beating a man, and pleaded, in mitigation of his offence, that theman had charged him with rivearieg; " Whereas, my Lord," said he, uttering a horrid oath, " every body knows I never *sore in my life." Parson Toorta's attack upon Mr. Paula, has produced a violent fever, and serious apprehen• sions for Ilk were entertained last alight. To attack a mai, in ihe situation of Mr. Pasusa, was au at worthy only of Parson Toots. THR COURI'. ' • • Yesterday sternly the Prisee of Watm, the Rotr•L Duass,tltsited nkilit MaJettlati aro c- e PIII PCIIIII6. LHer MAJZITV aid the Pain:cents ho::nerzi ady Cs 41ILOTTI FINCH with a 'Wi t .* h er memo in :it. James's l'aLice. At tws o'clock, Ili, l i t , laJa.rir held a prier. Loves. at the Quite's Pal tended by The Moro Princes el lin:stern 01.1coler 4 h, sod suite ; Prince Cssert•reaq ; Latert•uy ; genstein ; the, ti.,pellei.cips the Faalerna n , tan A„. Danio.,}l/4„rorrese, • • t.ei 40. P 01,1411, b1.t.,r1. arils tt inb,it sd.“. ; Count§ MR4444, ant Pal& ; "swear') and It... g e a f. i t; tap t., it s v . calm, elm Lord Preqd..nt of the Counrc. Ihb Lifid the three Staretdetes of State, the Is.tef-- n Illeri. ante, the Chancellor of the taelwitte r , the First 1., the L.nd etta.nberlairt, the Jed za of i , ol A • ratty, and the Recorder 41 Loedust l tine Diner 91 the Mdlurs www.tilis ; lads Warells lard, Aylrsc, ..„ ', m ap Caw-arty and Kathor m ; and Guernsey ; Sir. W. sc , 4l, R. nulasro.ll, dud J. tow; Arlmtrsi H. Whitstr.,l ; Cupid.") Blacks sed ; Fawkes's, Prete, and Susw.rtnn. The follown.p had the honour sit being nr.3e, • to His MaJasnr, and had ividtencea uyezi occasions : Prince %Vitrgenatein, by Mr. Caneing, and Sit sulpha/1 Cratere!, the Milner of the Cerem.niies. Si; Bolacrt Kingsnidt, upon coming to his title, Mr Prete, upon his being eNwentec Secretary to Lori vc.on Gower, upon his Embassy to the Conn of Petehbc.: and, at the same brae, took leave of Ha Majesty, prtrici..i) his departure. Baton Jacobi, by Mr. Canning, and conducted by F..r phen Cutterel, the Master of the I:ereniones, 1 ; appointed M ' Moor and Plenipotentiary from tit. L o , it or Oa. Hit Excellency had art audience nt His y 3l; livered his Credeattal-, which were mast graciously reeeitt!. Mr. Sineletosi i upon h.s being appointed Storekeeper to el Beard of (Johnnie. The Morphs Cornwall'', epees his being appoi.:l4 Master of the King% Stag Hounds. Vice-Admiral !harking Whitshed, upon he Lehi appoior e t to the command of the Fleet off Cork. Cara. Mackerel!, of the Itlal Navy, Lyon his retina from the D.rdanelles, by Lord Mutgraire. Earl of Clanearty, upon his being appointed one of th• Jciat Postmasters in Ireland, and one of the Members of the bora of Trade. Lord Gummy, by hi, father, the E.,rl of Ayiesr.rd, CIA! his hahsc appointer! a Cornet in The *-Varwickst.:re Yenna Mr. Barruigt.m, mien hie being aKointed an Irish Jeep, when Nis Majesty was pleased to confer the h , near at Lay .,. hoof open him, and he 1/1 new Sir Jonah Barr.ligroo. The Earl of Pellaloss had an audience of lit Mai es rv. and took leave, previous to his departs:4 upon his Embassy to Vienna. Lord Limnos, Gown had an audience of iin &tansy v, and took leave, previous to his dein:. Lure, upon his Embassy to Pctersh•dtgh. Sir Wat.t.t.ot Sewer bad an audience of His MA. Jesry and made a Report cf th e trial of Forward, and the other three pirate., found Owl, at robbirt a ship in distress, off Ramsgate, at the Admiratti Sessions before last, and stealing a :able, value 3 1 „ This being their first offence, and they having 41 ex. elkin charafter, it WAS 54:3 Hit NI/46%TV hti been pkased to commute their punishment for nat. portation. _ _ Atter the Levee, His Nastily held a Nil Council, at which the Earl of CtJtrCaRTY Was .4* traduced, and sworn in a Member, and took tis seat at the Honourable Retard accordingly. The R scones' of Lemmas was admitted to th Cessna and made his Report of the Consitt, CA. phony cowrie/4 at the two last Sessions but oat, and four of those convicted ■t the last ; wises His MI. I MTV was pleased to order the following six it execution next Wednesday Wm. Fresher, fur ruirmy ; Wm. freeman, ror ditto Je , i Hayford, Juhn Fordhant, JMut 'Limey, ■nd •Ym. Itri ige, tut robbing the hole 01 Mr. Spencer, of Ponder'. Lod The Cabinet Mini,ters had audiences of His Pak. JEST Y. It was mar balf•past six o'clock before the Court broke up. On Tuesday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Could was held at the Duke of PORT LAND'S house, w;.ica sat gill near four. An attempt, it is said, was Made upon tl,e life of the Gaga,. Semmes, during the late Dego ciatien with the English. Not more than 8000 of the Volunteers have re. signed in consequence of the military errangemen.i' of the late Ministry, by which the annual sum of 1,300,0001. would have been saved to the nation! The French brig privateer, I,' Ales!, mousing guns, with SO men, out three months from hou'• deaux, arrived on Monday, at Plymnoth ; sa• Lid captured one English vessel only, the Lear?, ^c London, from the West Indies, which she sent in France. L' dlert was captured by the Palls. frig:.:, in the Bay. When she parted from Cie /'Yids• ." latter was left in chase of a schooner, soppus,,i ID be one of the enemy's privateers. It is reported, the Princes, Reva/,•three-dr'''' is fitting at Chatham, to be guard-ship at the N i?, in lien of the Zralatd, the latter ship Irti.ig tbowilit too snarl' for that service. The Por.rimussaArieasraoort Rave a grand'rtiv• ner, yestaltday, at Iris Italie in tionthAntitey.stre to a large party of English and Foreign Nob . (' The table was set oat in the parlour fronting ilLe Park, and decorated with the rung undo' 0.. e menu. Porrhyry and marble temple', of eerrir workmanship, were tastefully displayed, ibterni.r , wi:h the most beautiful flowers. Alagelfic antique lamps lighted the . apartments. At o'clock the company sat down to dinner, which served on r'ch gold plate, and consiste I of eve" delicacy that could be procured. The tie,e t most splendid s and the pastry ornaments be !.i.traly executed, under the dire.ttion of Mr. Gust! Amongst the company at dinner were Print WITTGINSTIitIe, EVI of Wince Clem a Countess Oseuisciscri, Sir JOieri War. Wda . Ga si am, and soma foreigners of dirtinainn. After dinner, a seleel company of Nobility ran the party, to pass the remainder of the e vening amongst whom will the Duchess of ' bt. A 1.11 h:i Lid,' Preen, Lady HAxttLeos, the flan All Deem sloe D, and several others of tankard • It seldom hapi.ens that the last i.agcs of a Let tery contain sufficient interest to induce such us we unsuccessful is its earlier stages to .enew their At tei.tutes: a very striking insi i price, however, cent at this moment, of each as inlicement, no kw that of every g.eat floating Capital being still In , Wheel, though the diavrion ' s k is Saturday s nights with, moreover, a Prize of 10,00 0 1. to kat-drawn Number on Satuid.y morning. cami 0 , , 0 004 . C % li on , ' Cosi r...rlder . W H. Lrur p ..,•0, --L* r l "` ° .tic 14 s i ,••• e ,-ft—s , ff ,• , I‘„..e: 4 ...,•,,,v—Ln4 • ~ ri Co:,n11 locilard Tod h __,Nalgre • 4--S.t .1 II --.E song fd,cll; isproaDi Gen. 4145il R ,L,r 'Gc la La.bi rarqu Hmt. T 1a Hun. Mr. Mr. Lord gem Ur. Senl‘ j..ck The nu pre,tnt w tonna cis The if Puha! yesterday aum%ors sr At.l Ald The to festively it .upt, Ate for tz , , Ike :lc that i did ni away this g Th Sherd • A iasarib RI yestct Km; :maid hitn no ho roach v) hit uiical it , ngt Wait, 1411 tl law Lay 3 pm the c arta after et.tta yet t the 1001 Prix wh• 11,(