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A 41". ‘%, .."0 4 CaWOO "akr, DISORDERS OF THE .VINISTERS. Ma. Earraa-7be Courier, a violent Treasury Journal, last night contained an article, irons which the following is an extraft "The Opposition Paper:, kindly unlocking the door cf the Cabinet, inform us, that disputes ran high upon the subjeft of tile dispute with America. and that Mr. Ruse's instruilions are not yet pre pared. It is not improbable that at the very tune we are writing this paragraph, Mr. Rose may be embarking at Lythington, on board the frigate appointed to carry him , n America; he would hard ly sail, we scarcely need say, without his iastruc tilos. Hu, the feet is. that the poor dismissed and disgraced Men ben of the late Ministry must try every expedient .0 keep up their spirits, and to pre vent their supporters from being quite chopfallen. At one tme the Ministers are quarrelling. at ano ther they are d-in. —the other day they dealt out, as hopes to cheer. party, that his Grace of Portland was dyinfT with the stone, and Lori Castlereagh of a compl /in. in has Over. To complete the ingre dients at their cauldron.' they throw in some la mentations esout the eye•sight ot an Illustrious Per sonage For mutely we are able to say to them in the wards of the French poet, Ler gear gage your gore se portent a-I-3 hien.'—Bat that will not deter them irons predieting disease and death to other Men. oers of the Cabinet, and we have nu doubt that in a day or two we snail have Mr. Perceval tapped for the drossy, and Mr. Canning af!lieted with toe gout i.s cit stomach. In the Meals time, they are getting rid of some of their own bile, by inseigbing against the selelion of the son of air. Rose to proceed upon a special mis sion to America. He is with them a perfell novice, witnoot talent and without experience." Being in the daily habit of reading The Avery' C,:roiricloandotoar Primer not only of Loudon, but of the Waned Kingdom, considered Opposition Prints, o; any degree of respeitalaility or charader for Wheat:a:, , and not finding any thing to the above alleti; we were surprised at this piteous ac count of the ream'. Zlii.istry, given in Ibe Courser of last right. 'huh reip_slt to t e detea of ey— e.% t„ that tcpc has.lotig since uitappeated from newspaper discussion ; but it is welt worthy cat the inveterate habits to: the J. cabin Corer. not t!.e less a Jacobtn, because it wears the Mu n'sietial Livery, to unnecessarily revive it. Leav ing tespeit and loyal!) , out of the question, in common decency and delicacy to the great and Illusei too: Personage, thus wanto broui,lit for ward, an.. hodd.ed thgether with his Ministers, in on , common and ti,d,scriminate mass, we must, so far a. iespea, that eaaltesl Personage, permit the 'menet of / sir CJiirice to pass without further no tice. Caifining ourselvea then to the disordered state of the as represented in that Pap,r, we may ask, 1\ hat could toCuce tech a state merit in such a Print ? The fad is, that, with out attacks, rial or pretended, against Ministers, in the public Prints, The Courier should be ruined its occupation would be gone.—As the servile tool of , te Treasury, if it has no opportunity of dis playing its z 'al in the defence of its Employers, it can have no el tim to thanks or remuneration. it is, therefore, the tannest of the Treasury Journals to terrify the Ministers with accounts of the malig mot hostility of the independent part of the puolic Pleass to represent it as aranated, to use their cant phrase, with " the base spirit of fedi= ;" and sable there are no real attacks made upon Ministers, to set their fancy at wash, and assure Ministers that they are assailed on all ides. In this sort of stioxiebia, as it was called by the disputants of the Grecian school, for this fighting of shadows, this cenjearing up of arguments for the pleasure of knocking them down, is not a new invention, there are none of tlse Treasury Journal: so well versed as Tde Courier. Day after day have we seen its co lumns filled with laboured answers to alleged charges agair st Ministers in the Opposition Paints, net one of which charges was in existence ; and cf this desception is the article from which we have made the above eland. We shall now proceed to notice it, with the exception of the Illustrious In dividual, in favour of whom we have laid claim to silence. Mr. George Henry Rose, who is going out as Special envoy to America, for which place he has probably sailed before this time, in the Politer. is the first in the series given by lie CVO, ; and the charge stated to be brought against him is, that lie is _yeas,, and anthem: exi.niei,-e. A low and vulgar weel.ly libeller, we are aware, is continually crying out " Old George Rose, George ROA," as if to be advanced in years was a crime and a ic proacb; but from this charge of old age again t• the father, it does not necessarily follow, that soli is "a s ripliog , a use,, novice. without expel ience ;" and admitting that such inference did follow, the charge would not inculpate the oppJsiticn pints The Weekly Lihelier is of no particular patty or piinciple, but serf even) party aal tray lead to promote his sordid purpose of filthy lutrc , or gratify his malignant passions. Besides, the cha•ge pf extreme youth, as urged against Mr. George Heavy Rose, a man advanced is life, and who, 17 years ago, as The Courier admits, was em. ployed in a diplomatic situation with Lord Auck land at the Hague, is quite ridiculous, and, as such, we have never known any person absurd or ignorant enough to make it. Considering his experience and diplomatic address, we should much sootier have expefted to het. - him described in the language of Stertire, woen she thus speaks of eikxander : " Nut the suit breezes of the genial spring, " The fragrant violet or op'irilig Rosa " Are hail s° sweet " Then ho will talk—`cod Gods how he will talk ? " lie speaks thu kindest words, and looks such wings, " Vows with such passion, swears with such s grace, " That et is heas'n to be deluded by hint." The Lest in the series is the Duke of Portland.— His Grace has not enjoyed very good health fur same years, and lately he has been seriously indisposed, and therefore there is no fals,:hoosi in the statement ; although we admit that, in the excessive anxiety of the Opposition Papers, they may have sometimes overrated his danger. But as to Lord Castlereagh's lice, complathi, Mr. Per ceval's pre-disposition to the dropsy, and Mr. Canning's to the gout in his stomach, The Cour.ir has the sole and exclusive merit of ori ginating this account of their diseases. We are sorry, that, in cunrmenting upo.; this suhjel,we did not claim one ether ex:epLion i:t favour of the Duke of Portland. The Portland Stone, so facetiously in troduced by The Courier, is too grave a suojtet to be treated with levity, and here stir drop it; but was it in ridicule of Bit other pa.i: nu, that Ike C6arzer has selected for them these peculiar disorders ? Lord Castlereagh lately exhibited his peewit in as eatire suit of green, from top tx toe, and thewhs have not failed to say, that his LordsOip had put chased the wardrobe of the Brighton On to Mao. He had also a u 'position towards e.at coktse formerly in Ireland, although he has biliZe turned to Wing*. In ransacking (11:15 the whole : 6 lateria . Melted fur a liver c ,rttplai.tt t3r Lo; d Castlereagh, we do talait the r of (he d.sease meant to re ptuacn ins Lordsh p vii;ll ,:ad halite, for it is the nature of a liver cosepl ALA to give a green and orange lint to the patient. Mr. Pe.cevai's drys's, 1.; a still gts.a Zr effort of fancy. Had the oppo sition been abused for having Ahmed him with a biliuuc complei:vt, or a disposition to a consuray lion, appearances would have given a degree of probalolity to the charge; but to represent a little and dry nlin, is swollen and bloated with the drop sy, would be a foolish device that must defeat i self. and could never have entered into the mind of the Opposition Writers. We repeat then that the whole article is an invention of /he Courier, to enable it to thew its seal for Ministers : and that foi this purpose it has, in contempt of all truth and decency, represented the Cabinet as an hospital of incur aole , , with a patient in eve, y wad. Yours. BIGLIAOi Q GA LN THE BRITISH PRESS. ' LUN DON, THURSDAY. Novamact 5. We announced yesterday, aIICLOSIVILY, that at a Council, held on Monday last, it MIS determined to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisals against Denmark and the Italian States, under the dire!! and immediate controul and influence of Frame. We can now add, that this determination yesterday received His bisiaarrv's approbation, and that instructions to the above effeift will be issued immediately. With Tempe& to Denmark. the measure is a matter of course, that Power having already declared war against us. Indeed, before our fleet had left the Baltic, she had begun to St out privateers to cruise against British commerce. Every thing, we admit, was done by our Commanders to soothe and c!)ft-..11 the wound that they were obliged to iota upon that nation, and we v. - ere not among the last to give credit and currency to every fel:est r.f their svcceu. But, from she nature of the attack, and the address cf cur invetzrate enemy, an angry feeling towards England will be long cherish ed in the breast of Denmark. As evidence of this, we have learned that the M a ksira c of the ADMISALTY has found it necessary to a; ply to Lord I lawaasec v for a military guard over the Danish prisoners, on the ground that !heir enmity was so great, that if the guard was refused, he could not hold himself responsible for the con• sentience:. This request was communicated by Lordship to the Duke of Your., and his Royal Highness was pleased to order a guard accordingly. With tepid to tt.e Italian States under the ins. mediate cor.troul of Iranee, it certainly became Mr. Paac IV AL, whn so stoutly contended that the Late Mini.t es did n'•t no:ct 73:.? e &re. blockading 4ofteirw , L.--7=; decrees with corresponding energy, to give a pi-Nil of his own kxtraordistiery ♦'goer. The declaration of war against the Italian States, is, therefore, only what Mr. PERC EVA L owes to his own consif.tency.— The States to be included in it are, weundeDtard,Tus cany, rectntlyoccupied by French troops under Gm. Miol.r.ts; Ragusa, lately attached to the kingdom ni Italy; Naples; the Republic of the Seven Isfard,, lately ceded by Russia to France ; and ail the newt. States in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, in po!- session of France or her Allies. The Treasury papers state, that the states of the Pl. E vln be exempted. They are equally under the influence of France as Tuscany, and we really know not why the benefit of clergy should be extended to the States of the POPE. unless it be in deference to the title, which amounts only to a nominal distinClion. By the fleet which left Oporto on the 16:11 ult. letters to that date have been received from P 4 ,1111- g.ll. It appears by them. that the Prince de BEIRA, son of the PRINCI RICENT, was to embark at Lis - bon on the 12th for the Brazils, but whether the cm barka:ion afluaty took place we have not learnt. The Portuguese squadron, from the Mediterra nean, had arrived in the Tagus, it consists of two sail, and as many frigates. Lord STILINGTOID and the British Fac:ory were to sail from Lisbon on the 16th. General BiIIEIFORD, who has the military corn man/ of the Expedition fitting out at Cork, having been sent for by Government, arrived in town on M. nd4y, and has since had several interviews with Ministers. The accounts respeEling the place of abode of LowsXVlll. during his stay in this country,are con tradidory. Our Yarmouth letter of Tuesday, and another received yesterday state, that he set out on Monday. ferHolyrood-House. The Ministerial Prints state, that he is to occupy Goss&ld-House, a seat of the Marquis of Buctts:owass, in Essex. Another contend., that he is to come to town, and will reside with his relatives, in a house which has been taken for him near London, for a few weeks, upon the ex pi►ttion of whic't he will return to the Continent in the same frigate that brought him to England, and rrjoin his family at Mimi). The Hon. Cna.azzs 134(.02 and Mr. Ross, who went to Yarmouth, on Sunday, with instrudlions from the SLCILTARY of Starr, returned to town, last night, accompanied by .11:. Duke De &am Alt the time of titer dr part,n.k., Nto:tsi lea, the Prince DE Cony', the Duke D'ANcoutLatz, the Doke Dc Bona BON ' and a the other Members of the nutrition Family in this country, remained with the King of Fa A NCI. Some persons, :truck with the absurdity of the supposition, that Lours the X Vlllth is come to irrigate this Government in a new plan'for the res toratson ot the boualloslll to the Throne of France, are ot opinion. that his objal is to consult our Go ya, amen' about the propriety of abdicating his claims as the Throne of France, and accepting of sums indemnification, which, it is not altogether improbable, the present Ruler of that country may It lye proposed to him, through the medium of the Emperor of Rthsi 4. Yesterday, a Court of Diredors was held at the Loa ludis House, when the undermentioned ships wet- taken up, and thus stationed, viz : Estscrmais. 400 — trans, Captain Alesandes Campbell; Har. rine. bll9 leflS Willi AM Lynch; Sir William Itesis.er, fi47 tons, ti. Hever; Euphrates, 391 tau, P. Hrgbart i for Ma dras and 13 rsfal. H•iidart, Sol mos, Wm Nesbitt, for /lumbar ding*. Air:ander, riC'i inns, Th.d.Pr•c,, Madeirl and Bombay. Woven, I 0 twas, Stephen Hanes, Madeira, Madras, 'llwinilowing Captains were sworn into the corn s,' sod of thew respectivt snips : . _ Car ten Was. SimilLtt, Itudd^i. itna'any dime. R. it &moo, f) , rberabirc, Ch taa direct The Omit adjourned at six co:clock. till Wednes day next. 'lrhe Ih n ehni i e arrived on Tuesday afternoon at Portsmouth. wit o dispatches from Lord CoLL•No w000 and Sir Airtime Pager, which were received at the Adtairahy yesterday. Their contents have act yet transpired. The five sail of the line now fitting fir sea at Plymouth, for a secret Expedition, are expefted to be joined by seven sail of the line from Ports mouth. They will be accompanied by a consider able number of the ttoops and the copper-bot tomed transports that were employed in the Expe. ditioa to Copenhagen. A report prevailed, yesterday, that Bo AAAAAA c had arrived at Boulogne. for the purpose of review ing his troops; and also t•lt the Brest fleet had eluded the vigilance of our blorkad , ng squadron, and put to sea, with a con iderable number ut troops on board. No sa..t.i tholitgea:e was received at the Admiralty, nor do we believe ti.r repot t. At a General Assembly of ti e Aeadem;cians, held on hlooday last. Messrs W. I).ss: ct, A. J. ()Lives, and Jamas WARD. were elected Associates of the Academy... 'hie Reimers: Tatosirgois. from Riga, hag been captured, recaptured. and is a•ri Td dir bridiMg;Dll • (.tit Friday evening lair, a Frc - scn Coluilel, ♦ pri soner at Ch e w: livid, was riiubtil by Nis companion, a French officer seen, of a laige i m ins O r money. The latter, being clitfrete.i, svadoved po:son ; but thaunot operating immed.at..l ) , kr stanbeJ hinisdr, sad died. An was liehi on the body on Thesd.q. 'the Jury tou.lucd a verdat of—Jr/f Abovier. :,;;" 4t9 • ; t34 - • -;L .Ira • 7 !ThATRE. b NOIR AMP. Last night, Mr. SMERtDA lI'S Cofflie ()P 1 ell f nuenne was perfor me d. to a very ete,a.t crowded House. Mr. BR All AU was hi 6 ne and gave the beautiful airs of Ca,lor with all taste, grace, and execution. he so el iuetttl y . sesses : he introduced, in the second ad, the he tilul air of Ave hie 10t4 ; and was most rapturous' ',aped in Al) after a Pa r, and 114711 I a Marl Ed...hoed fraarral,, twa airs VIZt must he &way heard with delight. Mrs. Mot;eir ix WAS a rim interesting Clara. and was loudly earne e n in rldvo ikon dreary 1 1 th. Miss Pore and Mr. Dowro were inimitable in the G, T r e f nett and haze. Th whole piece was well got up, sod received the m unbounded soplstise. Toe very comic Farce of Divans was revived, after an ativence of tw. nt yeses. Mr. Joitrisrooc. in Dona 1 . 10”4,0,, displayed great humour and ella.tei,e , c, an d w admirably supported by Mrs. Stases, i n 3, distaared. Mrs. BLAND and Mr. Paster, ' Biddy and Tem, were truly comic, an d w . earored in their lively duet. Mr. Russe t t p more effeft to Sir Bar." Tryfe, than 41. y ch ar we have seen him in. Mr. nlarrriews'. Qai .1 • *as also well given; and the whale performs. went of with great spirit. His Royal Highness • Prince of WA LIU was in his bcx, and Icois:d ct tremely well. The Duke of PORTLAND was prevented from V. tending His &tutor v yesterday, being confiiieu at his seat. at Bulstrode, with the g.'ut. It is said, Dr. Vcitwom, the Bah p of Corlide, is to be translated to the Archbishoprick of York. Viscount CATHCART left town, lost ziAlit, fcr Edinburgh. The Bishop of Lottnoie is indi.posed at San. bridge. His Lordship is i better I:1AD he hos been . Mass CHET WOOL, daughter of Sir JOHN CHIT. woos, Bart. grand-daughter to the Earl of ST A stro aD. and grand-niece to the Doke of PosT. LAND, will in a tew days bestow her fair hand co F. Bova's , Fun - cuss, Esq. of Aquelate Mere, Shropshire, and only son to Sir TH0:141.3 YLLTCH La. Ban. of Betley, Staffordshire. , . !here is a grAr.,l company performing at the Harwich Theatre, they play Tragedy. Comedy. Aida-Dram( ' and Pantomime. The Earl of DUNDON•LD is seriously indisposed; His Lordship is father to Lurd Cc.castaar. M.P. for Westminster. Lady Four ictends returning to Leieestersl,in as soon as she recover*, and it is not yet mtled whether the christening will take place is Limbs or Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess of Jaastv w ail lean tls. terley Park. to-morrow, for then seat at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. The Earl of Emma entertained a seleta party at dinner, yesterday, at his house in Park-lane. Sir Hatter and Lady Pearson lett town, Fitter. day, for their seat in Oxfordshire. Mr. MZTC4I.F. M.P. arrived on Tuesday at his house io Hill -street, Berkeley-square, from Strutton Park, and yesterday gave a grand dinner to a lAv party of gentlerr.c.. Tile Duke Da Beast gave a grand dinner, yes. terday, at his house in Ceorge.atiert, Portman square, to a large party of French l'iwiAvre. Lord and L tdy Moasow ate g me to Lincolnshire to pass their honey-m:11m. The E.:11 of 11 , sex is on a visit to the Earl and Countess of IiaIUGEWATEI, at their seat, at Ash. bridge, Hemel Hempstead, Hens, and will return to Cashiobury Park this day. Madame CILTAL ANt, we understand, insists on 5001,1. from the Managers of the 0131:14 House, paid before hand, for the season. The Do4tor and Mrs. Hume have arrived at their house, in Grosvenor-street, from Cheltenham. The Margravine of ANspAcu has returned to England, some time, from the Continent. The Duke of N1WC41111.3 and the Hon. Mist CYST, the eldest daughter of Lord Bitow, s Lew, opened the stuff ball at Lincoln, of which we g lee an account last week. The ladies were principally d Jin orange, in compliment to the Earl of BUCLINGHASSIIIIE, who was a zealous friend to Lord Al t LION. F - aday se'nnight, Sir John Cox Uteruses'. Baru Recorder and M.P. for the borough of Sud bury, with his Lady and Family. arrived in that town, and afterwards gave an elegant catcalls:- mem to the Corporation and numerous friends, as well as a donation of 1001. to the poor freemen. A Mr. Cusirr has made his dant at Cr , ydrn Theatre ; he is son to the late performer of rAt name at Covent-Garden Theatre; his liise is mu sical. Mr. H. Su:mom hat; been attacked with mercilets fury by the Native, and Peetashrs, on account: el the song which he introduced in his Comedy of Tine.", a Tele Tale. These angry Gentlemen, via'a relentless rage, tax the Author of the song wilt plagiarism, though it was avowedly held forth a. an imitation of one of the Poetical remaics of antiquity, like the imitation of Ariacaeos, wh:rii Mrs. INciteatto introduced in her Farce of Le Wedding Dal. It might be hoped that a tarn so uno&nding, and indeed so estimable in privre life, as Mr. H. Sintiosts, so malous and respeSaVe in his profession, might have written a sticce-sfo Comedy without being exposed to so much plum& and persevering hostility. Lary Fair, and the theatrical amusements thereof, closed on Saturday evening, when Mr. Bows to, in the name of the Managers, rturned thanks for die great eixouragement they had received, in a brief appropriate speech. Line day last week a shooting party, at Brede. Lewes. unseated a hare, which seas so hard pressed by their spaniels, that the timid annul Me for pro teßion, with great violence. betwixt the legs M Mr. a farmer at that place. and nearly forced his pedeetals from the ground; Jlr gm', how ever, with difficulty recovered the stock, mid st eered pus., to the ao small dukspwitentect of her pursuers.