The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-05-20 00:00:00

• T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 19, is just "arrived. Printed (or Archibald Constable and Co. Ealinburch ; and Murray, I.l.et..tretL, Lnndnn. It u sold alio by every BOORIOUSI ►a tows and coa..t,y. THE NEW OYEKA. On MAnduy will be pub %shoo, pricy 2s. 64. 'DETER The GREAT ; or, The WOODEN 1 WALLS; WI Operatic Drama, to Three Attr, perform. to crowded Audienci,, at tio- Thvatre-Ro)ai, Berne,. Br A. CliFit NY. Filq• . . . . _ _ _ Author Of The S , odure* Dvtgkiter;Tht rr.teel:ets, Vnotei for Rtetta , d Pect•ps. N. G. H.i . g•-swet, 131.tck friat•-. ant to he hid of all 14. Tim day is eu.nt.hed, par. WHIS 11... E FOR IT g an Operatic Piece, in taro act., as perineum,' at the Theatre. Ruud, Covent 0.11111.11 Hy tile HAIII. G. LA "rotted fo , Lonemtn, Horn, Rec., and Orme, Paternoste. • rota ' Of whom may b had, Ott pubii. , •ed. and COUN Ay; a Comedy to tire met., a, Upada/newt et the Th -hweAty l o, chhh:t ganlea . •rhunia. Unarm, L.q. • Pelee AMIN'S A ANUAI, R4VIEW, letni Tint day ispubliotrd, in Reyd U aw, the Flflh Volume, jiri,c (hue Gino-a in title leard•, of T HE hitINUAL KEVIEW and HIS'I'ORY of LI rElt ATUntr., for the year IiSUG A. AIKIIN, Punted fur Longman, Hur.t, and Oren., Paternoster ro .y. Of who n may be bad, the Ist,ll, 11, and ath Volunies, rioier tuvuhr; or separate. nicotine Guinea each, in extra la wed, •.• This Review compost, in one Volume, Accounts of all published darleg th • Year, including a Variety Of Valuable Pahlicatto:is;rfhich neva hoJ • Place in any other liggleo, arr}ngel into Cillp”l , l4 agreeably to their re. s i t ilive ,uhleCl., and precede.! by an Ifutiwieal Introdutlion. It is particularly adapted for the I..t'rary and (or Exportation. This day is published, pike Is Gd bound, •INHE BOOK of MONOSYLLABLES; or, An Introda,tion to tilt: Cittld's Monitor, adapted to the Ca• . . - - - . pacitiei of yniing Children. In two parts, calculated to Mullet theta by laminar Gradatmns in the Fon Principles of Education and 144m.dily. Ity JOHN HORNSPT, Author of • A short G Amor it of the Eliglish Laming,' liitteduction to Antli-r.etic;' and • 'flas Child's Monitor; sr. Parental iristriict.rn ' Printed for Longman, Hunt, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster. row , mad, W dwo arid swence, York Where may be hart, T• c CHILD's NtoNrrua ; or; Parental Instruction. In IF tee Parts; containing a gre.r Variety of Prng , essive LAIIIIOII4 adapted to the Cidtipiehttit-tnii no . Children ; calculated to in. attract thew m Rea•ling, in the Use of Stops, in Spelling, and fu diesding Word.. wove, Syllables; and at the same tithe give them some Kir.rwledg. of Natural Hotory, of the Scopturrs, and r,f several otter Sublime and Important Sub jeers. Price Ss. tr.m.,d. '• This is ene of the best conceived and most practically w Poulications for Children, that we have seen. The Title. Pneesullicrently explains the Intelligent Author's Plan aril D. ; and we can safely assure our !trader, that he has ••cae.stnil the, with great skill and hielay.".—.Antilaciibut, Dercettrher. GEN ERA L ELLC I'ION. WESTMINS fElt ELECTION. Weaves Hum, May 19, 1107 rINHE COMMITTEE coodelting the ELEC. tees of Mr. Slit!. ItIDA N, flora the report of the Cameo triad.: in hie farJur, end havnie e!-1 lost allet.rnlined Colonel Lllicstie resignation, are mow than ever deteronnett to per bear,. in the coitte•t, and they ”delve thetnaelves t., continue Pub to the lasi hour; not dolueley, is honourable coy, tine. ars 01d , , of tiqimatt wee's; and therefore 1:,e7 tra•neetly request the (newt& of Mt. SlteTlitin to come early to the Poll awd iu,ure that suceen. • W. A. DOWNS, Chairman. MI D i)LFSEX ELECTION. THE FREEHOLDERS ia the Interest of Mr WILLIAM MELLISH are informed, that CA VII AGFA vri:l be ready every Slanting, during the ELECTION, at Seven **Clock, to convey thus if. and from the POLL, at BEEN TEORD, at the under-tuerniunrd p' .c. s, via •••• St. JaITV:II%, Citireh, Piccadilly. P.. Ithe...n, (hilted 4,141 t. lip ~.site Chancery-lane, ILilliorn. Si. ' Cl;ntrnt's Clitioch yard, sta.% site of Tem plc-bar. PiLce•vard.Wortaimater. Near Paradise roe, Chelsea. Nea- the Square, Kensington. CI. rlcenvellireen. 14,niton• rein. fl...hripsyare Chvrefi. Shnred , tcli Cborch. WinteehaneL Limeittntse Chorrb. St Ge,rge's in the Ea.t, near th e Ternpike. Shad+cif Church. I.itile Tower hi:l. Applications f. r Cor,..ges ate requested to be male at the White Hatt Tavern, oppnatte Chancery-lane, Holborn, voh,ch vitt be iroinediately storoded tea TO TIIE GENTI.E4EN. CLERGY, AND Vitt:V.llm. ERN Ur THE CUIJNTY UV MIDDLEsEX. IW.IS inclined to ufUr myself as a Candid a t e t o meowing you in Parliament, by a Arm convierton that my goineiples, with recird to the ll.areat Quotion ail witch out 0re1 , 11.1 SOidfeiga Its. impeded to His People, would be honivired with your Approbatin, rather than the principles arty Parliameotasy conduct et Mr. Syne, hi whom I consid , r mytelt paoicitlsrly (sop s-d. niehing, as yet, to shako ray ,I.in .0,1 in that riei.oes; for the timelier' oho have alreadr p,14, bear a very •nial ;polo mOll indeed h. the great body of Kioctors. All I dew c is, that the aimsio of thi• County may t- fully and anecosvoc.dly exiresseili aoil as, in that 1.4 r, I • moot doubt of the result, I am determined i 0 land e•rty I.lrtnr an opportunity at coming toward to declare his ten. tiny/rt. I h.l v., the hop sat to be. Goldessen, Yaw g4 , ,,,t ss:l:dient, Upper S-ynsnunst:e.4, Faitlifid. humble Servant, May 1,, ISO?. CHRISTOPHER B.t YNES _ _ riIHE comNIITTEEs for concluding tile Elec.. A tows oi Alf Christopher Baynes, will meet at the fellow ," Places, Va. , the e kit, 4 'a Arms, Welldoce-square; Memo. Hunter and B;ekard o. 3,Charlntue M. r0w,.0.0n-lluese; and No. 10, Lincoln Old Sluato. At erbilliliketea, ss4 at ar. Anibr..se flume/trees, Harpur , street. Illeinnisbury, al C0MM1111144110119 calculated to promo... Sir Christopher laymen's Success, will be most thankfully ie. ' strived, and where all necessary infbtmation will be given. ' Carriages will b' presided at the undermentinind Places, . THIS, and every 1iner:4...11,g Morning, at Seven o'Citick, • dorm( the Elea ion, r:a. S tint/antes** Chiireh, Piccadilly. ~ P..ntherin, Oxford-ern-et C., , putite Chancery-lane, Holborn. St. Meares Church ystd, West Fide of Temple Bar, Prlice yard, Wertininster. Cleolt.mweli Green. Is!enema Green, NI aorkelds. • Itillrivtaate Church. Illiorelitt h 'church. / Whitexhapel. Shaderell church. Little Tower-hill. pt ea Head, Hackney. I Care of Goo I H-. 1..., P0,.11r. Sines Aries, Vlreltclo4-,,....,. Geroge an/ Vulture, Tottroilisin. A pol,catinus for CartiAges are trtitte.tdd to be 1114.;.: to NO. IC, Linei,ln's. Inn 1 1 M-square; 0, at Me. Se.linieraes, Blue. boar, Whito.clai,el. • 1 t . I FOREIGN lATELLIOENCR. HUSUM MAIL. NAPLU. MIL 17. The English having withdrawn the greatest part of their troops from Sicily, and the Royal Napoleon army being daily incre4sing, from 8 to 10;000 French troops, which were hitherto stationed io this country, are now on their march to Poland: ♦PRIL 24. At present English frigates appear but very sel dom off our coast. As the neighbouring Isle of Capri is still occupied by the Ertglish, 3:00 men were embarked at the beginning of ibis month, to surrrise the enemy's troops in that Isle. But the changing in the the expedition, which was already insight of Capri, was obliged to return to B.tia. _ TLORENCE. APRIL 24. The Spanish troops, quartered in the kingdom of Etruria, have received orders to march by Verona to Augsburg, where they are to arrive on the 2.oth May. We regret the loss of those brave ts oops, which observed the strictest discipline, and brought much money into circulation. ritAhKroxt ON THE MAIN, MAY 5. A letter frorn the Turkish fwntier cont.uos tht following passage : "The Mussulmen will certainly at in this war a more honourable par: than in all former wars. French Field Officers are attached to all their corps, who guile their movements by the rules of European tactics. Most of the Tu: kish troops have already taken post on the northern or left banks of the Danube, and the Russians have evacuated a great part of M ildavia. Public prints state the army of the Servians to amount to 91,350 men, 18,000 of whom are cavalry." WARSAW, MAY 4. According to the last accounts, Dantzic had not yet surrendered, but that event was supposed to be near at hand. STETIIPt. ! , lAY 5. Letters from Lenzcn, of the 2Oth of A ;5:11, advis., that the divi.,ions of Generals and Molitor, are expelled on the banks of the Elbe ; the former on the 12th or 14th, and the latter on the 20th of May. Each division ccnsists of six regiments, attended by a numerous artillery. A strong division of Spanish troops is also on its march far the same point of des tination. MAMBURON. MAY 11. A report is current that His Majesty the Emperor and King has formed an army of observation, and that his Excellency Marshal Brune has been ap pointed to the Cummand in Chief of that army, which is said•to be sufficiently strong to cover the observation of the grand army. Down to the 4th instant, nothing remarkable has taken place in the French Grand Army. LEIPZIC. MAY 5. A report was in circolAtion here, yesterday, that Neisse had capitulated. O.ir fair, which is row over, resembled rather a market, in which the si lence of death prevailed, and where no business was done, because the Greek and Polish Jews had not arrived, and the streets which they animated by their presence were deserted. BANKS OF Till FLOE. tr•T I I. The positions of the French and Hessian armies have not changed, properly speaking, these two months. They have been considerably reinforced during that time, but the bad reads and the season are insurmountable obstacles to any military opera tions. This inaCtion has, however, been interrupted by an at:ack which the Russians have made by sea on cf which. the result is not yet known. The garrison of Dantsic, informed of this, nattered itself that the enemy would be obliged to raise the siege, which, however, had not taken plat:: on the 30th ult. since the city had been briskly bombarded till that day. The last intelligence from the camp of the besiegers, gives reason to exited that it must soon surrender. GOTTENBURGH MAIL. BULLETIN. MALMO, MAY 3. According to a report made by Governor• Gen eral Von Essen to His Majesty, dated April 26, all the gun-boats, even the decked ones, have safely at. rived from Uckermuade as Wa'grit, on tht '2lth in stant. Colonel Carden also arrived with his corps at Las• sahn, by sea. Some men of war are ordered from Carlscrona to take on board 10,000 Prussians, who are to be landed in Swedish Pomerania. These troops are to embark at MemA and Dant:ie. P. S. May S. Deports have been received here to-day from Stockholm ► and other places, that a general action has . been fwght between the French and the Allies, which lasted three days, and ter minated in favour of the latter ; but I cannot trace them to any authentic source. Negotiations for peace are at the same time said to be going on. 11:: King will le:ive Malmo for Stralsund to morrow, accompanied by Mr. Straton t.Eaglish THE BRITISH PRESS. •LO N DON, 'WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. The (;ottenburgh M.rils, of the 9;h and,llth inst. and a Danish 'Mail of the 12dt, arriv:d last rii.thr. They contain intelligence to tde sth, from and to the 11th. from Ham burg!). Thv ar:oi.s on the eastern side of the Visruia had hen considernhly reinforced ; but no cliangc. had taken ;lice in their positions for two months, nor had any thing rem akable oc curred during that interval, ezcyt an attack upon Elbing by the Russians, with a view to draw cif' t! - e besieging force from Dantzic ; but it did not answer the purpose, and it was ezpeeled that Dantzie must soon fall. The Gottenburgh Paper nntices a report of a bat. tie, of threl days, which ended in favour of the Rus sians, but it deserves no credit. 'Ube same Papers are silent upon the Armistice. We lately noticed the attack made upon the Post Office, by Tie 7 Ones Newspaper, and now take this opportemity to correet an error in our observations touching that subj.& That Print stated, that a translation of the substance of the Husum which had arrived at a late hour on a preceding night, had been sent to it by the Gentlemen of the Post Office, with a demand of a gui;.ea for the ac commodation; but that the article was returned, not being considered worth the sum demanded for it. In an accusation, comprehending every Officer and Department of the Post•Offtce, and charging them with a general system of extortion, this was the only fad set forth ; and, well knowing that the terms were the same that have been uniformly acquiesced in for these ten years past, we did not hesitate to consider the charge of extortion as an unjustifiable attack upon the Post Office, provoked by the disappointment which The Timis sustained upon that particular occasion. We have since dis covered, that we had a very narrow and , rl;,.rEft view of the real case, and that the disuppwr,..ment. spleen, and vexation of The Times, have a much deeper and wider source than we could have possibly conceived. The public must remember the boasts and vaunts of The Times, about six months ago, in its pretensions to exchuioe Foreign Intelligence. In these boasts there was some little reality and a great deal of quackery. The quackery we some time since took an opportunity to expose. Vs'ith rave& to the Reality, we must observe, that the same packets which brought over the Ham'+u►gh and other German Papers, for The. Timer, also brought them over for all the other London Papers ; but the Papers of The Times were sent by the coach, or such other conveyance as might best suit, from Harwich to town, dire& to the Office of that Paper, while the Foreign Papers destined for Tut BRITISH Paass, 71.:e Morning Pael,7 ke Chremiele, &c. came cir cuitously through the Post Office. The consequence was, if the Foreign Papers arrived at three or four o'clock in the morning, there they remained, locked up, while the people of The Times received their parcel, stopped, or affeded to stop their presses, set to work upon the papers, and puffed the contents through the town that same day, by their horn boys, as ere/wive intelligence, or aidiei:altion of the Mails ; while, in fad and in truth, the Clerks of the Post•Otfice had it in their power, by using due diligence, to send the same intelligence to all the other Papers. The Gentlemen of the Post Office, become duly impressed with the advan tage obtained by The limes, and the injury done to the other Papers, at length consented to apply the proper remedy, by supplying the intelligence to the Papers at a later hour than usual. The consequence has been, the puff. of erclaiiee intelligence have, in a great measure, vanishisi from The Times, and all the Papers have been, for some time, in that particular, upon a fair and nearly equal, though not precisely the same footing; for The Times may still occasionally oh. taro earlier news than some of its rivals, and they may still have oceasionalle an advantage over The rims. Ili; was the case yesterday: Passs and Tbe ..tforniv Chnsside bad, yesterday, Paris Papers to the VIE:s. whereas The Times had none. That Paper may have in its turn the advan tage to-morrow ; but while this system of equality , continues, justice is cd,ne to all parties, and nine has a right to complain. The reader has probably now seen the source of the vexation and hostility of The Times to the General Post Office. Encou raged by the senseless cry of " No Popery!" it has cried oat "No negleft, no extortion !" and with just the same truth and sincerity. A charge of extortion, upon a system of ten years standing, now for the first t;me brought against the Post Office, i; rather an obsolete recolle.hion ; but to represent ihs matter of negleCt the increased energy and altivity of the Post Office, to do away the assumed mono poly of The 7imes, and mete out justice by the same measure to all the public prints alike, is, if pos.i still more senseless, impudent, and orrava, —lt " out-lievods Herod," and is cad:Weed' brand as a fool every one that suffers himself t the dupe of such imposture. non much we no: hesitate to say upon the mere simple f a q it is nut of the neglect, but of the lsitdrbls trued afttvity of the Not Office, that 76r T newspaper complains. Stich inj !vice, a n i sn'srepresentAtion, may well deserve contemp t reproach ; but in what terms shall we describe cocciud of a newspaper, which flatters i•st:l, its emtempotraries will assist it to cry c r, w , Post USN., becan.:e the Post Office has Sti , ,{ I their (fiend to prtteet their prnperty and cI.4NCI from the artifice and tricks of 7:ie 711170.1. T. not the extortion, but the fairness of Office—it is at t the reglea, but the d7hrnc, that departtnent—wh;ch have induced this merited attack. NOT is this all i—we have beer formed, and in our authority we hare full co • deuce, that an application was made on the part the Prcprietors of The Times newspaper, so t Geollemen of the Post Office, to chrecr.t.7.',c tt new system, and permit The Timer to resome t. unfair advantage which it formerly possessed c its contemporaries ; which application, w ith all temptations accompanying it, was rejtded by Post Office with becoming scorn and indignatio We do not state this lightly, but upon good grou and we challenge The Tim:: to deny it. Such the would step forward, as shocked the abr f the Post Office, and ready to vertu life an imb to corredl them. Such is the Pri that would puff itself off as the honest and di-i terested advocate of the common cause; a Pi . n.t, r ,, toricus for its selfish principles, and ever ready to sacrifice the common cause to its private intents:. The Lord ll4nrt Packet, Captain Ida m itr-v ateived, on Saturday, at Falmouth, witn from the Leeward Llands, its twenty one d. 7 passage from Tortola. She brings an ac:cu of the arrival at B srbadoes of the Dult of 11.4 lorovsh and Window. Cattle Packets, with Februtr , nd March Mails. The former Packet fell in, .1 th wildward of Bartaadoes, with La Covfolve Frene privateer, 14 guns and le9 - - nen, from Guadalnupe which made ee attempts to board the Packet but was gAlan:ly repulsed each time with gre • loss, and from the injury she received, made sad for Guadeloupe to repair ; the Packet had seven wounded, among ~ vholu are the Captain (J 'tars) Master and Mate slightly, two seamen badly, an. two slightly ; the Packet only carries 6 guns and 34 men ; she had sailed again from Barbadoes [or Jamaica. Ro, upo sisc 101 Mi Pr we CSI 1) . t:.t ? ' Mr. ELLIOTT, ye,terday, declined all farther contest for Westminster. The Candidates Are now reduced to three, and the Eleftors still have it is their power to •indicate their rights, and manifest to the world their iidgment and their independence, by re•elefling Mr. Suentoam. Lord KIITM ha; been ordered to strike his fitg command,Airal t which a r t es p o r ! es t t to re d a i: h ite s his the 11° d extensive of from the Baltic to the Isle of Wight, into three se parate commands, as hetex.fare. The arrangements for the Secret Expedition are nearly completed, and the embarkation will speedily take place, at Ramsgate, Margate, and Portsmouth. L'Trd CATHCART. it is said, will be entrusted with the chief command, and will have under him Ge nerals Lord PAOLI', SYINCAR, BAIRD, and M‘Fae. The Acosta Isigate, o ith the fleet under convoy which sailed from Cork on the 23d February, ar rived at Barbadnes en the .sth April. .1 he Martao • BA act. A Y ; and Simon Cori, Boom, from London for Surinam ; and the Argo A w, from Ply mouth for Demerara ; joi ned the iteosta on the g9th Mira, and parted on the CI April, with the ships bound to the colonies, under convoy of a sloop of war. The Bth Regiment, or King's Own, has arrived in Dublin. and AM settled in the barracks there. Mr. Pat.i.s. was considered in a dangerous stall last night. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was under the ne cessity of raising the price cf bread half an assize, which wi:l :a ke place t VW, wham tha. spartr:* loaf. wheaten, will be sold nr Is. and homebred 101 d. Last nigh 's r; it Ile contains an Order in Peen cil, :t lass tul 1t r the Governor of the Carr of God Hope ti levy a duty, nor eereeding 1.5 per cent. on goods, wares, and merrlistndisf, im ported into that settlement from any part of His MAJESTY% dominions, not of the produce. growth, or roanufaigure of Great Britain or Ireland. TM Genetic also contains an Order in Council, making some additional regulations relative to the trade with Newfoundland, in skiqs, horns, wool, WIWI', Jez. kc. The English prisoners at Verdun are said to be treated with orosu.l lenity. Their limits have beet enlarged, and they are permitted to be absent for three, or even four (days, without a personal ap pearance at the Town-house. A curious reason Is assigned for this mitigation. Some of the NATai and Military Officers are said to have adopted the singular expedient of soliciting the intercession rf the Archduke Car sorts of AUSTRIA ; and to hzve addressed a Memorial to him, as ro the Bravest Soldier in Europe, the Acknowledged Heed of the European Militar y. This Memorial is said to have had its expected success.