The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-10-02 00:00:00

~~~~. of conduit for all. To give our full co•opera ro the measures of the Executive. we should ab. n from any ad of violence or injury. this might tcrease the animosity which the occasion has so liy etched. Toe Proclamation of the President. almost/ other ircomstances, is remarkable fee its dignified Inn teration. No hush refer:bon is made on the British nation, the President disclaims a belief that the government of that country will justify VI aa so atrocious. In this , vay an appeal is made to the raids and honour of the British nation at large. as well as their Government. and. we may add, to the whole world. It is. we think, impossible for any refloating person not to approve of the condua of , he President in this particular. It would have been as abstird a, 'von-ritieal, for the Executive to is • r"treh• eparatTon oeenciat;no, and. at the same time to have loaded the nation and govern. mr t with reproaches and vblaqtsy, that would not sus.. ,sated tiuw:xer wrong the original aft might have been. The President's Proclamation contains an hc.. eourable and digniSed appeal to the people, as well :o the government of England, Nothing could have been more judicious ; it will we doubt not in &ace a powerful movement in the people of Eng land, who, with a voice that cannot be resisted, will in. , rt on the government rendering ns justice; but should we be mistaken, and the Ministers of England resolve on war. the advantages of a party in our fa vour in England. must be well appreciate,' by those who remember our revolutionary war. Our fathers ad.fressed the whole British nation, in terms so im pressive, that a powerful party was created in our favour, and it has been much questioned whether our battles were better contended on the American plair.s, or in Sc. Stephen's chaps!. There may be some who imagine that the voice of the people is wholly disregarded in Eagl an d ; than which there is nothing less true; among other in stance, we would cite the force of public sentiment, in ohliging the King and Ministers to acknowledge our country independent. The party formed origi. nal!y in our favour, seized every occasion which was prt,ent t by ill success in the course of the war. to demonstrate its imfrolicy, and finally that party tri umphed, and peace was the result. It the British Government should sanaion the condua of Admiral Berkeley, or refuse es punish biro, war must be the consequence ; and surely no nation could ever go to war on more honourable and lost grounds than ours will. It depends very much on ourselves. to determine the sentiment with which that war shall be prosecuted against as.—Frnm twitives of interest there must and will be a powerful party in England opposed to a war with America ; and who, if it takes place, will seize every occasion to terminate is, provided that we, on our parts, do not make demands which the honour. and perhaps the existence of that country canrot cristiply with. There is a material distinction between a war undertaken in defence of our own ho moat and independence, and that which is undertaken for the purpose of destroying another nation ; of the former character, we hope, will be every war in which America shall engage. With justice and honour. then. ranged on our side, el: enemy must respect as, the more so when interest aids the sentiments of sloped. Among those whom we are to account as our advocates, are the great and for midable mannfaanring interest, all the merchants e. gaged in American commerce, the West India merchants and planters, and a portion of the pru dent and liberal of idl cl f men. We ask then is it policy in ns to deprive ourselves of such aids ? Surely not. With sentiments such as there, we have thought that the inveaire with which the what British nation has been loaded by many of the public meet i and some of the public prints,was neither just, as api.licd to the Adl:oir nation. or wise on our part. If the sett time .ts expre.ed by the meetings and in the papers we allude to, betaken as the public sense of America, the conclusion will be, that it is not the particular outrage cnmmitteli on our flag, and the impress ment of our seamen, that have excited our reams ment ; but that these circumstances are seized to ex po/6s our general sentiments of hostility and abhor rence. The people of a nation who are stigmatised With the epithets of pirates, murderess, assass'tis, &e. must have long been the ohjeas of detestation, and AS such ought to be eat'rpated. Viewing the subjeft iu this light, instead of our making friends to our 81111:0 in El3land, we aaually invite the lst.le Auks' to rise in arms against us. Seeeiter is r o ede,fe.t:t e r in re. Intemperate abuse, violence, and inversive, cannot aid a bad cause. they may injure a good one. That there are assassins, pirates, Sm. of the Brithis nation, we have too many abundant proofs - nation of bar b..rians, 'meet denies. It is not -ms of reproach and 'e it el s but we feel for tharofter. The duties of as Editor o: a Newspaper necessarily cause him to peruse the papers of hi, own and those of other estuaries, by whiz]) he acquires a mote accurate knowledge of tbe style in which those of his own country and foreign journals are conduCted, than any other class in the community. The French journal: rarely contain any gross abuse of the English nation, though they examine us policy with the utmost severity of criticism.— limo ate a few of the English papers that deal out much coarse abuse on the Francis nation, and purti euhirly •aa its present Chi-t, but they are not classed among the respeaahle papers. Candour obliges us to confess that the American newspapers are unri valled in asperity. Cnbhett, (who we are sorry to acknowledge was patronized by federalists), carried personal invellive beyond any extent before known ; he left us, but his pernicious example remained be hind; he attempted the same plan in his own coun try, and contempt and insignificance, as an Editor, were the rewards of his efforts.—After this digres sion, we return to our su!ljedt—By a calm and iig. nified coarse, let us command the respell of the world, including the nation we may contend with in a few words, let our maxim be, mender in mode, red foriihr in re. A more apt, and, to our feelings, a more accept able illustration of what we have advanced does not offer, than that which is presented by the condun of the citizens of Norfolk on the late occasion. By a happy union of firmness and moderation, the citizens of this place have acquired the approbation and re spei of all parts of the Union. The same condo!! will always be produllive of the same effelt. WU%I. JaiULAN R'a lIKVC COO to drlll4t j but that they are a ri.tatierN It:. onr cf.alor judgm far thin.* to whom these ten inveiftiva are applied that we Lin dinky of our satiesal cl IWYPT. Extra& of a private letter from Alexandria, dated June 16, 1807:—'" All has been very tranquil here since we (the British forces that went lately from Sicily) arrived, and the Bedouin, who h rye a large Camp beyond Marabout, bring us in plenty of provisions. The Turks had detached a body of three hundred cavalry round Lake Mariotis, to cut off these supplies; the Bedouins, however, told them they were determined to make their way to our market, which has induced the Turks to leave them to their own course, and retire again to Ro setta. We occupy the whole Isthmus to the East ward, as far as the Cut at Caravansera, have a gar rison in Aboukir Castle, and have opened she cut made by the English in 1801, from the Lake Abou kir into Lake Mariotis, which has now been running most rapidly for the last seven weeks, so that our position is completely insulated, besides being covered by several gun-boats, which are spread over the two Lakes. To the Westward, our petition extends no further than a picquet, half a mile in front of the lines, running across the Lthmus, in the right of which is Fort Des Bains, and immediately in the rear we are strengthening the heights by five additional redoubts, so that we may be considered as entirely secure. We cannot ascertain the strength of the enemy, as their troops are dispersed about in all dire Lions, and are constantly varying in numbers. Their army at Rosetta, in which their chief strength lies, is estimated at about ten thousand. While we continue in Alexandria, and venture no more de tac:iments to the Delta, tinl2ss in sufficient force, we can never be driven from our position by all that the enemy can muster against us, nor will they beable to approach us at this place, except from the West ward. When the second detachment marched to Rosetta, the sight must have been horrible, as they approached the ground where the first detachment, tinder General WAVCIIOPC, had suffered in their re treat. Dead bodies were spread all over the ground, the heads were cut off, and other marks of ravage violence appeared. One of the Mato( bikes, who came with propositions, is named Its AN. He is an adopted son of Els' Bay, who was in Fngland, and highly esteemed among the hfamelukes, having, once, with one blow of his sabre, killed both man and hor,e." FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PAIR. $l,?. It. Letters from Holstein, of the list August, state, that the preparations for the reception of the King et Rendsboing, net being yet finished, His Majesty has been forced to defer his departure Irons Gold ing. It is expeacd, however, that he win set out next week. It is said, that the Court after its return from Rambouillet, will pass some time at Funtainbeau. N. X. de Camboni, the Patriarch of Venice, re ceived, on the sth instant, before his departure fur Milan, a letter from His Excellency the Crud Marshal of the Imperial Palace, informing him, that His Royal aad Imperial Majesty has decorated him with the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, and presented him with a gold song-box, with his portrait set in diamonds. Tile last of the terics cf Ettraordioary Grand Filet at Tivoli + after 10-g &Lib is filed for the 19th instant, when Garnevin will make his second imams:al aerial voyage in his Milan balloon. In the Sitting of the 11 th instant. the Legislative Body converted into a law. the priyja which axes the H l / 4 1.1 . 41:1U1n of the pensions of Ministers, Grand Officers of the Empire. and their widows, at 20,000 francs. DIMDEN, ♦UG. 27. His Majesty the King of Saxony will shortly pro ceed tl Warsaw, to be inaugurated there in his new quality as l)uke of lVarsaw. The equipages for his journey are in prepar.uion. The French troops, forming the fifth and sixth corps of the army. ate arrived in great part in Silesia. 'Within this fort night, about twenty-five thousand men have been at Breslau and its vicinity. These troops will set out upon their march about the middle of next month, in small columns, for the Banks of the Rhine, passing through Saxony,Bareuth, and Wurtzburgh. They will be succeeded by the corps of the army of Marshal Davouq, which is still in Poland. This will evacuate Silesia at the fixed time; and it is thought that it will pass a part of the winter in Sax ony, until the Saxon and Polish army shall be or ganized upon a suitable footing. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, FRIDAY, MT° ite 2. The French An g us contains the following obser vations A declaration of His Majesty NAPO* I. Low Louie. dated the of August, has been published in Holland, which recommends to all the authorities, the rigorous execution of preceding ordinances for the prohibition of English merchan dise, and the interdiction of every kind of commerce with England. We recoiled, that after the I hpe rial Decree of the Ist of December, 'h./6, all the Powers in friendship or alliance with France, lost not a moment to adopt its principal dispositions in their States. They bad felt the utility of a measure which tended to spew to England the real depend enc e in which her commercial avarice places her, with respell to Continental nations, and so great, in fad, was the terror spread through London, at the first news of that Decree,the most respectable houses threatened failure, and the Goscrnmcnt felt it self obliged to support public opinion, by hold ing out a hope of same accommodation.— At that time, when the importance of the Conti nental war absorbed attention, and divided interests, vigilance could not be so alive; but, at present, when a glorious peace has left us none, upon the Continent, with the exception of a potty King, ba nished to the ice of the Northern Pole, but Allies and friends of France; the moment is arrived for giving a more vast development to that measure. If it hurt some private interests, it secures the fu tu.e prosperity of the industrious and commercial mass. The application of it becomes more easy to France, and more baneful to England. The English Government will complain so much the mere as they will suffer more from it ; and yet, in adopting it. nations will only exercise a right in herent in their independence. None of them will !egret the alliance of a Government, which ads like like a towards its friends. The example of Denmark' proves sufficiently, that moderation, and the most scrupulous observance of tre.tzie.s, cannot save its friends, when it considers their destruilion useful to its interests. The rigorous suspension of commerce with England is a measure decisive against the unjust dominion of the seas. It conse quently interests all the Powers of the Continent.— It interests even America, whom it will enable to derive increased advantages from her neutrality." In our enralls, yesterday, Isom the Gottenburgh it was stated, that a report prevailed in that city, that the Owen Purees had refused to ratify the Capitulation of Copenhagen. We cannot conceive the ground of this refusal. We have gained our obj-ft, in the possessi,n of the Danish Navy, and the Cams Paiscs cannot pre vent it-from being carried off to England. The pan of the capitulation that remains unerNut , A, we meaa the evacuation of Zealand in sin weeks, etc. is entirely in favour of Denmark. It is not England, then, but Denmark, that would lose by the refusal of the Caows Pounce to ratify the Con- Tension. Besides, many are of opinion, that the possession of the Danish Beet will not fully were all the purposes of the Expedition. The Fsench want men more than they want ships, and the Da nish sailors, it is apprehended, may be vooployed on board the fleets of Bon aaaaaa . A hostile spirit its Zealand will also survive the departure of our forces in silt weeks, and to what new measures, revenge, aided by French force and French intrigue, may drive the Danes, it is sot easy to anticipate. This apprehension appears so strong and general, it is even said Government are of opinion. that our Commanders ought to have stipulated for the men tion of the Cos* of Crasher& until a peace, as as.. ...a ai ..4...* usury to preserve the free passage of the &mod to commerce. Any deetia4, however, of this kind, would be upm our part a violatio n of te Capitulation, and consequently the refusal of th e Crown Pwxca would have the farther 'WO of en• tabling the British Government to exalt new sten. frees, and provide for cases unforeseen at the time the Capitulation was agreed to. Mr. MeNRY, we undetstand, %ill set out imme. diatc•ly to ascertain the final determinatio n ot the Danidi aivernment with respell to the cinestion of Peace or War betty en this Country and Unimak. 'lle following infot mation is said to have be.. received upon th:: or - 3i unquestionable authority : " On the :2)th of July lAst, the C4irkttr, of guns, armed en _pt. made an attack on Bieraena. a stttlennent on the S. East end of Cuba, in theta. pet:Winn of cutting out of the harbour two W,, t Indiamen, which had been recently captured, and also of destroying the privateers within i:. One Captain, two subal•erns, and 100 men, werelanded: the whole of whom were either killed or taken, and His Majecty's ship escaped with disclll7, vriql five feet water in her hold, having been hulled between wind and water by the batteries, two of which fired under French colours. The troops were of the 99:h Regiment. Thtre are at the above place and at St. Jago, close by, t2'; stout priva teers, mostly manned by Frenchmen, emigrai from St. Domingo; and it was by Frenchmen tf the formidable resistance was made at airracoa." We have copied from the New-Y( rk P.4•e•s a well-wtit:en article upon the dispute I,..twten country and America. Extra& of a letter from Halifax, A ig. ifi , la , : " Admiral BERKILY is making great preparations with his squadron to eorreft the Americans ; a-d Horst fs for.ifying every veinerdo,la point of the Peninsula of Nova Scotia, clearing the grounds, laying in large magastines of ammunition. military stores, and provisirns, against their be ing 'tucked. The Niaj.ir-Gen. is going to take the command of New Brunswick, the British-American frontier ; and Major-Gen.Sx ta a ETT is to comm;•., I at Haiitax. British-America feels perfat security in being blessed with the serv:res of the old General. The British-American Army lark up with coal:- dence to this General, whore coniuft in the Arte:i. can contest was one display of courage and judi;• ment." Among the Offifets and passengers on board the Bins& im and /me were the following Rienheint—Sir T.Truerbridge, Captain A.lexanier Grew and Lady, Captain Lieutenants Minn, 'home. Pan, Whitehead, and Cr:riy, Mr. Martin, Master of the Itleitivni, Lieutenant Lamas., Mr. Finlay, Secretary to the Cs.iserod of Penang. Jana—Captain Wright, and Lieutentin Thomas Dena% 94th Regiment. Count BILNTINCIL, to whom the Knyphaosen Rag belongs, and whn Arrived in a Dutch port some days ago. was not suffered to land by the Fren:h Direllor of the Customs, and Executioner of the late Decree, though he hai a passport signed by King Louts. The French Dire or probably used to the Count something like the language of Tow:- cab—" Louts may be King, but I am the Viceroy over him." Althoug!) the Nlarquis of DOUGLAS'S diplmatic mi , sion to the Curt 01 Russia ceased on the arrival of Lord GRAi•VULL LZVCSOX GOWEA at St. Pe tersburg!), the Noble Marquis (lees not intend to re tura this year to England. but will make a tour cf Russia. He is supposed to be at this time at Moscow, where he will remain some time, viewing the wonderful produtflions of art and nature .n that place. The Noble Marquis will proceed fr,:al thence to Siberia. to examine the wealthy mines of that extensive country, and from thence go on to Archangel. Lapland is not expeaed to e.cap a biro. The Marquis of Huntley, JACQUES. from Qarbec. for London. is on shore in the Oi kney, and bilged. The Royal Westmorland Militia snare ed from I.andguard Fort, on Saturday, the I'2h ult. ant arrived at Norman• Cross Barracks the 19th. The garrison consists of the Rois-sture, Royal West morland, and East York regiments of militia. Brigadier-General WILLIAMS is the eomniand.i,g officer. The number of prisoners is about six thousand. A Gentleman. arrived from Gottenhurgh, who was at Christian:sod on the lOth tilt reports. that Flcckcr was then in the hinds of the Enghsb, and that Chrittiansan4 was threatened by two slips of the line and a cutter, and he hi., no doubt of its being in our possession before now. There was in that port two ships of the line, one of them as 118. g an ship, and also several British •.ssels detained there. These vessels were uarigged, and th-ir crews had been thrown into prism. The brig Joints, of Ste•:: - haven, is in the number. _ _ The latest letters from St. Petersburgh. receia 1 by the packets from Goetenburgh, are of the ti : e of the 4th ult. They mention, that the greatest Sc. tivily prwatled in the different war departmmrs.— The cor.jalares were various, as to she o! , j of these preparations; but the prevailing opinion was, that they well! intensted against France.— We can. however, discover nothing in the condufk of France which indicates the expe!t slims of a rue. tare with Russia. With the exception ct" DA •OiliT . division, stationed at Warsaw, and the deteclurrrn which re-entered Yoningsherg. the whole of M French troop, have evacuated Poised. Under :tr apprehension of hottilities. it is likely that DON Paste would choose and pre-occupy the sa military theafre upon which be appeared to sue advantage last campaign ; but we cannnt learn el his armies are in motion towards the gregel of Ni men. It is stated. we unde-etand. in seine of ev• letters, that Isl. BUDDING. the bfin;ster for F rev Affairs. had been displaced. This permn 1014 , e ploy-ti in vegnciating the Treaty nt Tilsit. ant generally supposed to be attached to the ire interest. Mid to g thi ; of th e of the of e e . tam. to tim e nt the 'on of unak. e be. rite;— of !4 area. a the tr. ) Ole ended; taken, with [MeV% d above naive. IV' at !II If )a." ir.e•s en 11.0 rAttont I ; a-d ler.o,la ng the nition • air be- tke thi leticAn PCUril enet.e. cont . , - tr.e7t. and dui :my ear! Nn., i..werewr Dena%