The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-01-30 00:00:00

Tits sios of u issafretsd batistes," in the State is user censideratir. tro Irrtral, aidressed to Mr. Perceval, is too ia a Newspaper. lottg ihr THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATCRDAV, JAW. 30. Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the Ad miralty, from Admiral Lord CotList:wools, dated the 19th of November, off Toulon. We under stand they state, that the Noble Admiral had re ceived intelligence of a meditated descent, by the French, upon the Island of Sicily ; and that the force to be employed in this expedition was ex pected from Brett sad Rockfort. Recent reports are favourable to this account. The Moucherom French privateer, from St. Maloes, captured in 12 boursafter her departure from that port, and carried .into Plymouth, reports, that during the time our fleet was last blown off Brest, part of the Brest Beet put to sea %rah troops ; and it is added, that the Rachrest squadron had also troops on board. The dispatches, we further understand, state, that the Toulon squadron consists only of 5 sail of the line. Lord Cebu owoo a, it appears, has adopted the plan pursued by Lord NELSON, when employed on the same service. He has taken a large offing, out of sight of the enemy, leaving some frigates to watch their movements. The Toulon fleet were in the habit of chasing these frigates, but they sever ventured sufficiently far from port to af ford an Opportunity of ititeecepting their retreat. It was generally supposed that the French did not know our squadron was off the oast. Lord COL LISGWOOD proposed to proceed shortly to Cadiz. His squadron were ult well, at the date of the dis patcher. It had captured five Danish ships, of considerable value. We stated. in former Papers, that the Antelope+ Of 51 guns, the Milbrook schooner, and several transp ,rts, full of troops, bselonging to Admiral Corrozei Elpeltion, which was dispersed by adverse winds, had put back into Falmouth. This force. amounting to shoat forty sail, received or ders to sail, on Monday, and was expected to put to sea on 'lfuesslal. Its destination remains a se cret. It was nrigiway destined, we believe, in the first instance, filOyetreights of Gibraltar, se veral vanes hackie waked orders to join it . . there. - V r e sallalleilisllSOlOsiay , the receipt of intel %raft "fitting, that King Louis has heilemil Mt. IfifilWt Sweden. The Decree Ihr that pinth. is given in oar last page. Hal loo& as 11111,11111184 of France, has been virtually at Ise with Sweden for some time, but this is the first animal avowal of it. All the late severe measures adapted in France, against neutral now extended to Hollaad. !, are His MaJtart's ship Le ?ogre, of SO guns, Cap.. tan Hat.t.nwstt, arrived on Wednesday, at Ports mouth, from Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar. She is come home to be docked, having had a long and *dive service in the Mediterranean. Capt. HAT: Lowtta, commanded the naval force from the landing in Egypt to the evacuation of that country by the British troops. Le Tigre has brought home dispatches from Sir H. De'Atoms, Lieutenant- Governor of Gibraltar, from which place she sailed on the 11th instant, and spoke Admiral Puovis's squadron, all well, off Cadiz, on the 12th. Extract of a Letter from the Cove of Cork, dated Jan. 23, 1808 :—" Five sail of the line were seer► of here, this morning, and the Admiral has sent out a frigate to see what they ire." This force cor responds exactly with the number of the Rochfort Squadron, the Jentappe having returned to port.— Our Readers will alto recollect, that according to the Torbay account, Admiral DUCKWORTH'S squa dron consisted also of five sail of the line. By the Frenkfin, Captain EHRZNSTROX, which arrived at Charleston, on the 24th of December, from Buenos Ayres, which place he left on the lath of October, it appears, thin, about a week prior to his sailing, an order had been issued by the Government there, for all neutral vessels to leave the River Plata within forty days, from the date of the order, loaded or unloaded. The Por tuguese and Americans were generally consider ed as spies of the English ; and no neatest' whatever would be allowed to enter any of the ports in the River Plata for two years, even if they should have a Royal License. General LI %MRS had entered into a new Treaty with the Commander of the Braid' squadron, cruising in the river, which consisted of a frigate, a sloop of war' Sod a - cutter: The Britis4 were not to molest the deer trade between Buenos Ayres to any ports above Monte Via..o. The Spanish Government art to supply liar lishfilisliiplo4lrOnt kla A/ v 0 at their nation, which may psi in there, with what supplies they may want. Maldonado was appoint ed the port of their rendezvous, and this was to continue in force six months. On the 17th, the Fran/dim :vas boarded, off Maldonado, by the Bri tish frigate Nereid, Captain Confirm., who took oat the chief mate, he being an Englishman, but otherwise treated them politely, and told them that they were determined not to molest the river trade, as the Spaniards supplied them with every thing they wanted ; and also informed them, that he expected war to take place between America and England, and that it was likely he j would be taken before he got home. The latest American Papers state, on the autho• rity of a letter from Charleston, a report, that Spain bus ceded the Floridas to France. A suppo-ition has, in consequence, been hazarded, that the Hoch fort squadron is destined for that quarter. The Juliana is arrived from the Mediterrinean ; she passed the Gut of Gibraltar on the 7th, with 31 sail. A Convoy was to sail from Malta on the Ist February. His MAJESTY'S ship Ulysses, with her convoy from Portsmouth, is arrived at Jamaica. The Ceres, GODFREY, arrived at Dublin on the 24th instant, saw live vessels captured in the Channel, and was nearly captured herself. 'rile embarkation of the troops, intended to form the expedition under the command of Lieutenant- General Sir GEORGE PauvosT, is going on W,tb all possible speed at Portsmouth. The 7th regiment, or Royal Fotilarra, commanded by the Honourabk Colonel Pakenham and The stb, or King's Regiment, commanded by Colonel Houghton, have already embarked. The 13th Regiment, rommand.ll by the Nondurable Colo nel Colville, comes round from Plymouth ; and The sth Battalion of the both Regiment, commanded by the Hama Rottenbergh, from Cork. Colonel Ds IXL Hovel:l7oN, and the Hon. Colonel COLVILLE, it is supposed, g o out with the rank of Brigadier-General to North America. All the men of war in Cawsand Bay are ready for sea, and were to be oil on Thursday. It'appears that all the leading Magistrates in the Eastern part of the kingdom are decidedly against the proposed measure of Ministers, for altering the mode of assessing and collecting the public taxes. --(Gloucester Journal.) His Grace the LORD LIEUTENANT has been pleased to appoint ARTHUR MEADOWS, of Her mitage, Esq. High Sheriff of the county of iVex ford, for the ensuing year. Government have received ado ices from Botany Bay, dated the 18th of March, which state, that a plot to overturn the Government had been disco vered to have been entered into by Dwyxit, BT ANL, and others, who had been transported from Ireland for political offences. One of the instructions ;iveii by them to the slaves or servants who were con cerned in the conspiracy was, that each, upon the breaking out of the insurrection, should murder his master. Private letters front.Copenhagem Oates that Ge aeral PRY 51 AN, arbd the Officer second in mousmand, remain close prisoners. The Court-Martial have sat on their trial, but no judgment btu, yet been given. ' The 2d battalion- of the 78th regiment, (High . hinders) lately returned from Egypt, are arrived in Canterbury, and are stationed in the infantry bar- racks. The sentence of General ST. Jona, late in the East Indies, has been signed by His Al AJLSTY and the Commander in Chief. The General is to be broke. The concourse of military officers arrived in town to hear the important trial of General WHITE.. LOCKE, is very great. We lately stated, that much damage was done at Flushing by the late storms, which were so severely felt at Itaiusgate and Margate, and that se veral persons were drowned. More recent accounts from Flushing add, that the tide rose in several houses in Fleshing to the height of twenty feet. The damage sustained at Iteculver, in Keot, in dependent of the angle of the public-house, which was, on Monday, begun to be taken down, is con fined to the North-West corner of the wall of the Church-yard, leaving the wall, in every other part, in its former state. It does not, therefore, appear that the Church of the Two Sisters is in immediate danger. but from the inroad made by the force of the waves to the Northward of the cliff, it would seem that the elevated point of land on which the church stands must eventually be insulated. In consequence of this danger, a vestry was held in the said church, on Tuesday last, con sisting of the Minister, Churchwardens, and prin cipal inhabitants of the parish of Iteculver, and Borough of Hoath : at which, after due consi deration, it was resolved unanimously, , e To send up a petition to his Grace the Archbishop of Can terbury, praying for his Grace's Fiat to empower them to take down the said Church, in order to erect auother in a more eligible part of the parish." Prior to the late high tide, it had been in agi tation to attempt to preserve the church by em bankment*, &c. and a survey had been made by Mr. Rennie, for that purpose whose report and estimate of the sum necessary, amounts, we ea derstand, to 82771. It was noted, by those whale observations are made from experience. that as the tide on this part of the coast, previous to the late high one, was uncommonly low, the sum quent consequences might be expected. It is alsi to be recorded, that only two tides, equally high, have been remembered within these fifty years. Dining the last week, and the week before. 400 gallons of bread were distributed to the poor of Strood, Rochester, St. Margaret's, and Chatham, by order of Janes Routes, Esq. being his annual charitable donation. A vary lendable spirit of enterprising adventure to the Beasik already distinguishes the conduct of our merchants. There are objects, hooever, for spirited enterprise at home, which not only claim, but now exteesively engage, the attention of a, cou siderible portion o { the community. Among there may be justly mentioned, the richest Scheme that the astmls ofaate Lotteries ever produced. TIIEATILLS. OPERA-HOUSE. The new grand sericite Opera of Diderte, was re peated law night, and gave Maclaine CATALB Br au opportunity of displaying her wonderful power of voice and theatrical talent, in the fair heroine of the piece ; she was most rapturously encored in the sane airs as on the first night, which she sang, if Voissible, With increased effect. Madame Dtmssx displayed more self-possession than on her debut, mid Was of course more successful ; she sang the airs with great taste and sweetness. The lialkt went off with geld eclot. The house was quite full. There Were present, the Mar chioitesseti of WFALESLEY, HEADFORT, and DOWN sin RE. the Countesses of CARDIGA.I4 and BARRY MORE, Lord and Lady G. CAVENDISH, Lord GEORGE. BERESFORD, and Mr: and Lady ELIZA BETH WHITERLA D. . , . DRURY-LAitr. Last night Cutely/ 4 s Musical Drama of 47w Trarellfrs Was performed, and attracted a very elegant aLdience.. Mr. BitsuAu gave his beautiful airs with all the judgmvnt, science, and taste, he so emineatly possesses. Miss Trerearem. played the part of Ahndores, in the absence of Mrs. POWELL, and the whole perfbrutanve received unbounded applause. Alla Rsenlierg followed. The in terest of this elegant Drama increases with each reproseotation. Amongst the Nobility present last night were, the Earl and Countess CHOLSIONDE Lay, the Earl of DARLINGTON. Lady and Miss FORTESCUE, Viscount CARLETON, and Sir WU... LIAM and Lady MUSE. COVENT-GARDEN. SHAESPE ARC'S Tragedy of Weida was performed last night, and Mr. KIMBLE again appeared in the part of logo. which we have heeu accustotned to see performed by Mr. COOKE with such eicelleuce. Othello is one of Mr. Pore's best perfortnauces. Mies SMITH was impressive and interesting in De-sdelsofse. The play received much applause. The new Pantomime followed.—The House was filled with an elegant audience. Sir M. W. Rini.ey, Bart. M.P. arrived, yester day, at his house in Poilland-place, frotn his seat at Blagdon, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. h is said of Lord Say and Sele, that his Word is as good as his Dalt it is only sag and sign with him. The Hon. Everest. MOIFCITON, WT. is arrived at his house in Portland-}'lace, from his seat,- So inerford-Hall, Staffordshire. A young lady, bound for Gretna-Green, in a fly ing leap from a back parlour window into the gar den, on Wednesday night, at the West end of the town, unfortunately fell, and broke her leg. Curtsy, the Brighton Shripbetd, has undertaken to run two miles in eight inmates, at eight differ ent starts, and five hours to be allowed him to perform it ; it will take place at the next Epsom Meeting; . tie odds are s. to 1 triad this wonder fultrFormance. The Marehioness of SALtSSVCY and the DWl's ' Crete ere tweeted in town next week from Hat field. I t Deal being famous for smagg • ; the Captains of the Preach Flags of Truce thou zit it the proper port for the secret correspondence ween the two countries. . Very few Ladies have, as yet, made their appear ance at General WHITE Locxes trial. It is thence concluded, that there was neither plot nor intrigue in the bnoinests. The Blind Boy will make his debut, at the Hall theatre, on Tuesday next, for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Kt:tune. Mr. FAWCETT, one of its many reputed &there, has given his sanction. General Ltxtsas was, a few years since, a maker of portable soup, at Hammersmith. Viscount. Gees is indisposed at his house, in Arlingtoe-street. , The nose, whose appearance in America was so anxiously expected in Deccniber, it is much ream] will come ont of season. . . The Eat, isf UXBRIDGE took an airing, yester day, in Hyde Park, accompanied by the Countess, who arrived in town, on Thursday evening, from Wales. Mr. Burr. roe's Company are still playing at Whiteha►en. On Wednesday last, Mr. Byrtsit- TON was to play Voting Roped, in the Comedy of A Care for the Heart-Ache, for the benefit of Mr. CaiPPINDALt. Mr. BASCLAT. of liry, has lately declared, that he would go fifty wiles a day for twenty successive days, and his friends in town are ready to back him for any sum. In that case, the whole distance • would be one thousand miles. The Americans are sorely perplexed between England and France; but, it must be obvious, that it is better to have a Monkey than John Bull upon their backs. The ill-health of General Baownatoos, Quar ter-Master-Geeneral, we understand, renders it necessary he should go to Bath immediately. TuoliAs Srzaca, of Paisley, a person SO years of age, ran upon the ',:aitsgow road, last Tuesday, from Paisley to Glasgow, with a box upon his back, ittilb. weight.—The distance is seven wiles and a half, and he ran it 41,57 minutes. Oh Wednesday, a meeting of the Renters of Drury-lane Theatre was held, Sir Josses ALEX ANDY* in the Chair; alien a long investigation of the Proceedings ender the Trust Deed, and the present state of the concern, took place. A motion was made by Mr. 11101111E114 one of the Trustees, and seconded by Mr. Stexatosts, the Proprietor, to appoint a Committee, invested with full powers, to examine more minutely the affairs of the The atre, since the establishment ..f the Trust, and to report to a future Meeting. This was agreed to, and a Committee of 15 Gentlemen was accordingly appointed. On Wednesday last, the anniversary meeting of that excellent instittitim, the Master Maliners As sociNion, was held at South Shields; when the members present, (upwards of iSui, marched to church in procession, preceded by the band belong aft to the Wiltshire Militia. .SEGOI4II2O PAY: Ths Court met yoarday. morning precisely ,teu and-the Mirtninatino of General (sower wee resume& The .priueipal part of his ifoitthysey has halt yet coattail to the operations pprikui td the attack of .the.tith July, on the city posesits Ape' ~At abouLa quarter to taPtive he tiaodaded 11111 narrative• of the Operations of this army; from .11e period of the sailing of the Expe.. ditiou from Moute Video, to the night of the 4th. The Judge Advocate ten proceeded id it train of exainalation arising out of the narrative he had stated. An obj - ktiop was taken by General WhitelocLe to a suevtion, when the Cuurt was cl e ared to consider the objection, In the course of twenty minutes, the Court was re-opened, and frata the line of examination Ming continued, it was evident that the objection totxn by Gen. Whitelocke was over-ruled. The exami nation of General Gower then took a dtsultory course, the questions being deducible from the different operations in which that Officer len en gaged, as Commander of the &thawed gutird, from the embarkation at Monte Video, to the night previous to the attack on the city of Buenas Ayrze. This day ban* the anniversary of thlt Mar tyrdom of Charles the First, the Court adjdumed until Monday. The Court was extremely crawded with traitory teen, anti other neuthasent _ MJ lottg TI lairs the owe efavi Fret tow red are Fre Lou Alit() flee fee the Thi the line the on out wat GREENWICH PARK. 1 Goscworteo, ;AL a. MIL Eotroa—Haring observed, Sir some tllw yogic tie gnat dritrdctitoo made in felling the trees is fAbostssieb path, to tte uo small disappointment and iscutorettielMr et those persons in its vicinity, who ware iq the habit of retnisi to that beautiful retreat, to shelter tlsoasstres *Ord tbs. seoroboot beams of a summer's raw, 1 should be gild to be informed, through the needinin of your intelligest Paper, by what right or satlsurtty there trees are eat down, and wbg , Government are not to have the benefit tithe timber, by. Lavin it mot to tlie Duckyards A CONSTANT READER. PRIVATE THEATRES. • Of all the rinks of vice and corruption with which this metropolis abounds, some of the places calkd Private Theatres - are perhaps the grestest....... A few particulars of the • internal ecouOiny of oaai of these schools of infamy, will spew the daytime( ibliorrence iu which they ought -to be heti{ met how necessary it is become for the Police to *Wit these nuisances, and disperse these vile Associations: House-rent, lights, door-kr:epees, See. being elk articles of expense, it may be opposed time rue. Mauager must be a man of properly.--The invoreee however, is generally the fact. Hess some Witmer). low paltry schemer, without either money or Credit: But it may he asked how is such a fellow to defray the expeame of a theatrical h ment ? No thing-is more easy. His business is to learn the names of all the stage-struck clerksend appreatices, to make up an acquaintance with all the-unfortu nate boys and gide who have a propensity to the stage, wild to seduce as many more as he can.— Possessing this valuable fund of knowledge, the Manager announces a play, for iwtance, Rowe*. sposelsMist,"r awl nil - the candidates foe:Theatrical fame are iininodiately apprised of the emsefieled performance. They all dock to the list inxioneto enact a favourite part; and hem Elm; merwee the Manager harvest. A gsocer's appellate tine in the Set:and solicits the honour of. Romeo, but he is assured by the Manager, t play has been met several days, and Ong - Roam it promised to a neighbouring tailor, nodetta penalty of 31. The' young grocer is d handsome your* Man, the -ledies sr.- all ih love with him e sned what • youth of this description wouldlielt give. aortiereeer to play Romeo? He renews his solacitatien. The Manager at length yields with 'greet reluctance to his request, and receives St en cover the forfeiture, 'and the affront Mimed to the tailor, in depriving him of his pert. In the same way ell the young ladies woidd. be 'elides ; but there is only one Jolliet in the piece, and she has beta un fortunately promised to a young lady of diming- Lion, at the west end of the town, who had sm. gaged four boxes for her friends ',on that express condition. It is not, therefore, a, trine that meld compensate the loss which the Manager must *obtain by offending a lady of her rank sod con nections, and the fair candidate must pay aecord. iugly. But it is not the her, and the heroine alone that must pay for their parts. All the sub ordinate characters must produce, according to their degree of estimation, down to the candle snuffers; and there is one recent instance of • very pretty girl, a milliner's apprentice, who actually robbed her mistress, and pummel her dotii. 0, to raise money to purchase leave to play Jenny Mater, in The aegger's Opens. Here then the play is strongly Cart, admirably got up, without any ex-. pease to the Manager. lie has a flue Company, and insteed of paying his peiforiners, they pay him. All the wages they receive in the via, all the pricketArsoney derived from their ,pa rents, or their friends, are thus diverted into the coffers of the Manager. The Play be.. ing,. now ready for representation, it ally re mains to provide a full house; but this basis*, i 4 managed with eqnal success and ingenuity: II" Manager must have some friend, some colleague, to assist him in the affairs of so weighty and es tra in's! a concert. This worthy coadjutor is generally . a clerk in some extensive establishment, who has an opportunity of reeommeh Mg himself to the nstomers by his civility end attention. The Ploy is accordingly announced for his benefit. Be' has sustidued some loss, and the customers cannot re fine to take tickets. Here, then, is a hand-mae sprinkling at once, Aw, with the adslit on of chalice visitors, the curtain fre.raently res, s to a bumper. In this way two fellows of this el- scrip tin., have been known to divide 1001. on eniakt when the Theatres-Royal were playing to half the money. The &Mises and intrigues mammary to create and uphold this system, crest vile u they are various. Swindlers are introduced to girls as young men of fashion;—Cyprians are introduced to bids as young iadies of ham-ter sad fortune..- The piece pleartresewith Ali/roar and Gears* Ben - erdi'4.—Therters are robbed by their se:viinis. and parents by their children'_ the ooralatiesio of 80. tatiy Bay s inci.eseii; and the Ca:easier overawe at Hicks't Hall awl the Old Baiisy. -1