The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-01-21 00:00:00

I This Say are published, ben 4 B4.* preui.a. in Ton Vie lumes, °Nero, price in boards, Ifs. A NECDOTES of LITERATURE sad scarce BOOKS. By the Rer. WILLIAM SELOE, Translator of Homeions, kc. Printed Int F. C. and J. Newington, Me. 62, St. Paul's. Church-yard; sold also by J. Hatchard, No. 191, PictisdNi7: Of whom may be had, by this ono Author, MISCELLANIES : connoting of Poems, Classical Flanks, and (Mental Apotogun. Elegantly printed in Three Pocket Volumes. Price, in bards, 10s. 6d. On Tueoday will be published, in Two large Volumes Oc tavo, rice a bands 17s. the Second Edition, with Correc tions and Additinns, se A DISSERTATION on the PROPHECIES that have been fulfilled, are sow fullilling„ or will here arum be fulfilled, relative to the greet Period of 1260 Yeas Me Papa sod MobannanienApostacies, the Tyrannical Reign of Antichrist, or the Infidel Power, and the Restoration of the _ _ _ _ By GEORGE STANLEY FABER. B.D. Vicar a ItoekamebegiorTees. ?rioted for F. C. and J. iiirioston, No. 62, St. fault Chateh-yard ; mold also by J Hatehard, No. 190. Piccadilly. Of whom may be had, by the game Author. 1. A SUPPLEMENT M the brat Edition of the Work eoweeseatleaed. wore ee. I. A DISSERTATION es the MYSTERIES of the CA IRI Ir. Trio Is tee Volumes. Octavo. price in &vents 16s. Ltey is publtshed. in Three N'olutnes Octavo, pe 11.711. tie Second Edition of PORATR ric AITURE of QUAKERISM, as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs Religious Principles, Political and Civil (Economy, and &ratter of the Society of Friends. Sy THOMA S CLARION, M. A. Author of several Essays en the Subject of the Slave Trade. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rest, and Orme, Paternoster- Elm K.B. The Public ere respectfully informed, that the Author having sequinned hi. Friends that he had undertaken this Week, the Demand for it was to great, that the First Edition of V „SW Cerise, was sell almost a. last n n could be got ready, to sender the Advertisement of it unnecessary, and thet ilia is the Reason why they see this Linnet adveatterd witliont having seen the First. IMPERIAL PARLIAMLNT. HOUSE OF LOR OS, Jas. 20. At three o'clock the House met, pormant to ad journment, and proceeded to the hearing of an appeal cause, from the Court of Chancery in Ireland, D'Arcy v. Irvine and Wife. Messrs. Adam and Steevens were heard in behalf of the Appellant. When they bad closed their case, and Counsel had withdrawn, The LORD CHANCELLOR submitted to the consideration of the House, that as, in the case of the Appellant, there was nothing to justify his ap plication to their Lordships, be thought it his duty to state his opinion, that it was not necessary to go further into the consideration of the cause, or to can upon the Respondents for their defence. He should therefore move, That the Decree be con il-med with the largest costs allowed by the usage of the House." After some observations from Lord BEDE& DA LE, the motion of the Lord Chancellor was car ried, and the costs were fired at 2001. The Bishop of Durham and Earl of Limerick took the oaths and their seats. The Right Reverend Dolor Moss, Bishop of Orford, was introduced by the Bishops of Durham and Norwich. and, having subscribed to the neces ss-v tests, took his seat as a Spiritual Peer of the realm. The Malt Duty Bill went thsough a Committee, and was reported. 'l'he further consideration of the appeal cause. Chantey a. Lord Dunsany, was postponed until Monday neat. Adjuurued until to-morrow (this day.) HOUSE OV COMMONS. This being the day appointed for a ballot for a C , mmittee upon the borough of Malden Elellion Petition ; the Speakercame down at half past three o'clock, and began counting the House at a quarter before four, when there being upwards of 100 Members present, the ballet was proceeded in. The House having resumed, a little before five o'clock, the Order of the Day fur resuming the debate upon the Newry Election Petition, was read, and the time for returning the usual recognisance' was enlarged The Older of the Day fur resuming the debate upon the City of Dublin Eleftion Pttition. being also read ; upon the motion of Mr. Sturges Bourne, the time for returning the usual re:ognizances was enlarged to Friday the 6th of February next. AMERICAN TREATY, RUSSIAN SUBSIDY, AND BUE.SOS AYRES. Sir THONIAS TUKTON rose, and observing the Noble Lord (Howick) then in his place, said, that not being so fortunate as to be present when the Noble Lord lately answered some questions put by a Learned Friend of his (Mr. Perceval) on the subject of the late treaty with America, be begged leave to know, if be was to understand the answer of the Noble Lord to be, that His Majesty's Ministers meant neutrals should be treated by this country, in the same manner as they suffered themselves to be treated by France? If it was otherwise, he wished to ask whether there was any thing contained in this treaty, which could prevent His Majesty from exercising that power, as it was very probable it would be necessary to resort to such a measure ? He was induced to ask this question, from observing the very artful understanding, which appeared to subsist between France and the United States of America. 'fhe second question he wished to put to the Noble Lord, was with respect to the late issue of money, which had been sent to the Conti nent ; he begged leave to ask, under what vote of that House, such a sun; had been issued ? The third question was upon the report of the re-capture of Buenos Ayres ; he begged to ask, whether His Ma. j:sty's Ministers had recived any real information relative to that place! I!: tt .ta tkc more induced to ask this question, because lie was utterly unable to ascertain any one authentic fact upon the sulject, or what had given rise to the various and contradictory arcootus which had been spread abroad. ll:admit ted that this was a question sot altorther tegulat, in the absence of the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Admiralty, (Mr. T. Glenville) ; from the various reports, and the letters sent into the city, which he could by no mans reconcile as a mutat or necessary proceeding—/Hare a L.y of /de'! dude I.•sersapted the Heil. Ber•mei I lie e. ; stiened—and uts..erved, that he selitetly del!, he was gds a kw Vitt of order, MO, thought it Ye iiity to ask these questions, as it was highly ne. wow to know the real state of that colony. Lod HOWICK, in answer to the Hontiatable Diwanati obitionsi, that tepee the first question be Illakeilly gift thussane exploitation he had given 164 Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman bk. PerceVal) on • preceding evening, namely, Treaty with America did not prevent from aging towards neutrals, hie sopa tto Farm in any way that might before bet .1111.1* am • . As to how that pielleder 4111 is he in the Treaty itself, it was not dot kw Isnaplain, nor could that Isestion vale before the House, until the ratillastion of the reaty by the American Govern able first twit place. That was a question, he was 4Miliaced, the House would not now expel him to inewer, and such a proposition as the House would I. very little inclined to accede to. With respell to the right of blockading the enemy's ports, that was amatteraltogetherdepending upon the Executive part of the Government; and, with regard to the Hon. Baronet's question, respelling the issue of money sent to the Continent, his Lordship begged leave ito answer, that certainly such an issue bad been made, and the money so sent was the balance of a subsidy due to Russia, under an existing Treaty with that Power. With resped to the last question. which certainly was not quite regular, the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Ad miralty (Mr. I'. Grenville) not being in his place, all he could say was, that the information relating to the re-capture of Buenos Aytcs, which bad been communicated from the Admiralty to the Lord Mayor, and from his Lordship to the pablic, was collected Isom the various letters and other infor mation which Government had received upon this subjed, he thought it was not nee sssss y for him to say more at present. than that no further informa tion had been recorci by His Majesty's Ministers, than had already been communicated. Sir THOMAS TUR FON, in reply, thanked the Noble Lord for the candid and manly manner he had answered his questions, but he' was sorry again to trouble the noble Lord on the subject of Russia. as he considered the Treaty alluded to not to be in existence. Lord HOWICK, in explanation, answered. that the late issue was only a balance far services per formed in the year 1805, pursuant to the then ex isting Treaty. Mr. PERCEVAL rose, and declaring that he did not mean to provoke any debate upon the ques tion at present, said he merely rote for the purpose of postponing his intended Motion relative to the order of Council respelling neutrals, from Thursday the 29:11 inst. to Tuesday the 3d February. under standing that it would be more convenient to the House to go into the discussion upon that day. Mr. JOHN SMITH informed the House, that having been returned for the town cf Nottingham. and also for the borough of Midhurst, he had made his Eledion to serve in Parliament for the town of Nottingham. ARMY ESTIMATES. The Secretary at War brought up several Papers, relative to the Army Estimates, pursuant to the Order of the House, which were ordered to lie on the Table. Lord CAS ELEREAGH proposed, " That the pirating of those Papers should be postponed until after the consideration of the Army Estimates." Mr. JOHNSTONE suggested to the House, that where Papers of an extraordinary magnitude, like the present, were presented, and could not be printed in time for this discussion, the House might order a second copy of them to be panted, as had been done upon a former occasion. The SPEAKER observed, that the House should coma to a right understanding upon this sutliett. Stich a Resolution as the present had been adopted in some special cases, but not universally. Lord HENRY PETIT said a few words in acquiescence with the Motion, and the second copy was ordered accordingly. NEW WITS. A new Writ was ordered to issue for a Member to serve in Parliament, for the Borough of Mid burst, in room of John Smith, Esq. who being returned for the 'town of Nottingham, and also for the said Borough, had made his election to serve for the former place. A oew Writ was also ordered for the same Bo rough, in the room of the Right Hon. Wm. Wick ham, who being returned for the said Borough, and also for the Borough of Calliogton, had made his elation to serve for the latter place. Mr. VANSIITART brought up various Ac counts of Public Offices and Miscellaneous Services, which were ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. HENRY THORNTON presented a Peti tion from the Sierra Leone Company, stating the state of their fuads, &c. and praying relict. It was ordered to be referred to a Committee. bk. JACOB moved, " [hat there be laid before the House, a List of such Ships as have been captured, and afterwards, without re-capture, admitted to Bri tish Registry." He observed, that in many cases, British chiles had been captured and carried into the enemy's ports, where they were purchased by neu trals, and, without being re.captured, were admitted again to British Registry. This he considered as holding out a premium to the enemy, to capture our shipping, and such a measure as should be pre vented. After a few words from Lord HENRY PETTY, in favour of the question, the Papers were ordered to be laid on the Table. Mr. White, one of the Clerks of the Hcuse, at tended at the bar, with the Return of the Members to serve on the Committee upon the Malden Elec tion Petition, which were as follows : Rich. ManseL Plsililrt , Lsq. Hen. Henry Caulfield, Love Parry Jones, Esq. Lord Viscount Forbes, Hon, E. W. Eden, Stich Benyon, Esq. X M Biddulph, Esq. Jas. Macdonald, Esq. Benjamin Hail, F•q. Sir Wm. Lesson, Bart. Win. Lewis Hughes, Esq. Harvey C. Combo, Esq. Lord Clive, John biamon,Esq. Sir Gilbert I leatlicOte, Bert. The Irish Militia Volunteer Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. Tbe Annual Qualification Indemnity Bill was read a third time. and paused. Mr. C. W. VI ynne presented a return of the num her of lunatics confined in the suveral madhouses. gaols, Om which was ordered to lie on dlit Table. The other orders of the day wart AS disposed of, and the House adjourned. THE BRITISIf PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY fl. It appears from an answer of Viscount HowICK, last night, in the House of Commons, to a question put by Sir TOIONAS Tuition, that Government have retei-ed no farther intelligence respeCting Bue nos Ayres. The homeward-bound West India Fleet arrival safe, on Monday, in the Downs, under the convoy of His MAJMY'II ship Seine. The Dada of MarthorergA packet, Capt. Butt., arrived on Saturday at Falmouth, in 30 days from Tortola, with' Mails from the Leeward Islands.— The letters and Papers will be delivered this day. A Mail from New-York also arrived ; with letters and papers to the 23J, but they contain no news. Government is said to have received dispatches from Lord KEITH, which were ttansmitted to his Lordship from Yarmouth, by Rear-Admiral Rus set t, who commands in the Norte Sus, and from whom a Naval Character is said to have received a Note on Monday in nearly the following Words : " 1 have this instant di-patched to the Commander in Chief goad news from the Texel, which you will soon " hear ...stratiaparte Is nut on a bed of toses.—Rely upin it, " if Austria prove but firm, there will soon be an extinction " of the eery phantom of the day ! YOIII . S, &C." The good news is supposed to be an account of some advantages gained over the French in Poland. —The sickness in the French army is attributed chiefly to the unwholesome stagnant water, which they were obliged frequently to drink in that country. We yesterday gave a sketch of the Third Re port of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, in which Mr. A LIZANDIiII DAVISON makes a conspi cuous figure, as a Contractor for Coals, in the Bar rack Department. Seven honourable men have subscribed their signatures to that important docu ment ; but whatever opinion we may have formed upon the case, which they have Midi nit; aiatect. ing Mr. Davison, we did then, and still do, decline to state it in the present stage of the business.— From some of our Contemporaries, however, we did not expect the same delicacy. Recollecting Lord Mztvi Lt.*, and the Tenth Report, we looked yesterday into The Moraiaz Chronicle, fearing to find Mr. Atexamosa Davison denounced, in terms not less furious than those in IS:lneb Mr. AI. BI• K nelt Titorrea was lately held forth to public in dignation.—With the clamour and outcry raised in that paper upon Lord MateiLts, and the Tenth Report of Naval Commissioners ringing in our ears, we dreaded nothing short of universal uproar, as the result of the explosion of Mr. D and the Third Report of Military Inquiry. The Morning Chronicle, we had found, had not merely displayed, in its ge neral condu6l, the circurnspenion of Alio us. Its vigi , lance was not merely dißated by the sense of duty, which refuses sleep to the eyes of the centin-1 upon guard. The shrewdest old maid that ever infested a country village, never displayed a more outrageous virtue, or enjoyed a more sanitified delight in the de teition and exposure of afoot pa in a neighbour.— From this pure source were lately derived all its jibes and jests against the Meter t Las, the TROT- Valli, the St 110 Is, and other Dramatic Persona in the Tenth Report. How great then must be the earprise of the public to find Mr. Davison, and the Third Report passed by without stricture, comment, or animadversion. What will Mrs.G CU uDe say to Mu/ Is this indifference to be attributed to a conscious ness of Mr. D•vtson's innocence ? Lord Mat.- vttta was acquitted upon trial, by his Peers, and must, therefore, be presumed innocent ; yet his in. nucence did not save him from prejudgment and condemnation ; but, perhaps, to derive an interest from the use of the public money, although not one shilling of the principal is lost to the country, is a grime, while to charge the country at the rate of 11. a chaldron for coals, above the fair pt ices, and put the surplus into one's own pocket, is a laud able economy. The Courier lately suggested another reason for the trance . iato which The Morning Chronick has recently fallen. The Coarser has more than insinuated, that those delectable treats which the readers of The ALirai :g Chrunscle used to enjoy, were pick nick entertainments, the contribution of various guests, who have since lost all appetite for such fare, and left the table of The Moran Chronicle without even a grain of salt or pepper. It is with concern we admit a construdion which would represent the very able Editors of that rospeCtable Paper, as a brace of jackdaws, strutting about in borrowed plumes ; but it certainly is not a very unnatural way of accounting for the change which we have lately witnessed. And now for that other guardian angel of the public, The Courier, how shall we account for its indifference to the case of Mr. A tax•noaa D•vtsog, and the Third Re port of the Commissioners of Nlilitary Inquiry ? No paper ever knew better ho* to enj.)y a mg political dance than The Courier.—. 4 Hands aeon, change sides, and turn your partner," ie a fi, gore with which it is perfealy fam liar . Hem ing changed places with The Meriting areal els, we espedded to me it prodigal in its corn ments upon the coals in the Third Report, and catching fire from its subject, fanning the publi c mind into a blaze. In The Courier, however, so eager to catch at every thing that can afford the slightest pretext for censure upon the persons nay in office, no: one word do we find rellealng apse the parties in the Third Report. On the comer; we find symptoms of an attempt to operate a diver. sion in their favour. Bueno. Ayres and Sir Hom e POftlAt4 are the great aukiliarios of which Th e Courier avails itself upon every emergency. If Co vernment is praised for the wisdom of any :mann,, out comes an attack upctt it by The Courser, in th e name of Buenos Ayres and Sir Home POPHAtiI,-. And now let us be permitted to speak one word upon this delicate question. The value of that co. looy, and the gallantry of t!:at officer, we are read, to acknowledge, hut we think his condott in nada. taking the expedition against South America, vs reprehensible.—His success has nothing to do with the merits of the case. They would have remained the same, had the result been the reverse. The en. terprise was not within the sphere of his command, nor could by any possibility have entered into CI contemplation of Government. Iliad Sir Home POPIrAte a force competent, not only to achieve, but also to maintain his conquest, it would be a cir. cumstance in mitigation. But by creating a ne cessity for reinforcements, he has put himself in the situation of dietating to Government, and derang ing all their plans at his plearare.—General CNAVrf URD'S expedition is now understood to be destined for the Mauritius. Neither Sir H. Pistillate nor The Courier can say, that it was not the is. tention of Government to send the troops that were diverted to South America against the Mauritius, and to supply their place at the Cape, by part of the troops under General CRAMIPUILD.-411 every use where system is necessary, confusion must be she result, when the subordinate pan leaves lee place, and assumes the funaions of the saperior.—. Let there then be an end of the clamour and abuse of Ministers, in not correaing the nears of Sr' HOME Poen AU, with a celerity that may satisfy is . impatience of The Courier. The friends of that aim have too much sense to feel gratitude for this of& ohms interference. They know that at the present moment Sir Hone Poen Api is the Grew which The Courier would divert the public attention (tom the Third Report of Military Inquiry. Two French fishing vessels, brought-to by one of our cruisers, on the French coast, on Saturday. stated, that the report of a general anion between the French and Russians, was prevalent in France, but that the result was not known, no Newspapers having been published since the 10th. This appears to be only a repetition of an old report. His MAJINrY will hold a private Levee and Privy Council, to-day, at the Quastr's Palace. The Itr‘oantir of Lonnoor is expeaed to attend to make his report of the convidts who received sen tence of death at the last Sessions. The Honourable S r Munn, Wat. SWAY, L. B. is returned to serve in Parliament, fur the Borough of Midshall, in the room of Sir Cu a tsropuza Bart. who, being chosen a Burgess for that Borough, and also a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Grampound, and also for the Borough of Penryn, has made h.s Eleetioa to serve for Grampound or Penryn. A Letter from Gibraltar, dated 31th Dec. 1806, says—" Since the Decree made by Bosae•ers, relative to neutral vessels trading to Great BOW*. eight or nine American vessels have baas carried into Spanish ports; and a number of embers are now at sea, with a determination to detail all MN eels they fall in with." The Diti,genre sloop of war, with a last amilar convoy from England and Gibraltar, is arrived at Malta. The Vaulting, of Liverpool, is taken off Old . Calabar, by tv. French frigates and a brig. The Rigby, M.Don t, from Liverpool for 96 Kitt's ; the Swift, from &Outdoes foe Surinam ; and the Gearrni Hinkratb, s free Newfoundland for Lisubadoa, are captured and carried into Guadalonpe. The Pauline., CHOATE, from Baltimore for NW' castle, is on shore on the Heard Sound. Sir ARTHUR Weld. essev's Brigade, on its arri val in Dublin, on the Sth instant, from Liverpool, was broken up. The Bth, or KING'S Own, pro ceeded to Newry, where they arrived on the 101 h ; the Fluffs, to BHT; and the 7th remained in Dublin. The other Brigade. consisting of the 9th, 91st, and 14th, marched to Fermoy, near Cork. Eetrattofa Istter from St. Kitt's, dated Dec. 14, 1806 A sloop belonging to GRAHAM, HAT LSI and Co. of Liverpool, from the Windward Coast of Africa, was taken and carried into Guadalonpe, on the 30th ult. The Trio, KOSENTSON, from St. Bartholomew's, was cut nut of Sandy Point, on the dth, by a French privateer, and carried into St. Eustatia, from whence two or three small privateers are out, which do much damage, and we are fearful will harrass the trade to this island, during the load ing of ships. 'the Mail Boat, with the letters from the Southern Islands, is not yin arrived, and we are fear ful some accident has happened to her, and that OM Mails teal nut reach the Packet." Lai Tara crow Pz 11 zous i Her ►~Hi Cage pa& ttlwo C 'um Coot reCr f V wi:l part' Pr Thei T 1 war YI W.I Thei Yi bony beta n with incr in G 4 bit own the Eti !trot N ma L !fir M MA; fro eiaL ♦NS saw, lass lis t lisp Jut se el Cu Mw M Me relit tend Bird the 1 and turd T Wen and of E, brow I;,t Ti • smut next Fare Mrs. V be ~m