The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-10-27 00:00:00

••••I•M•MM., • Fe s • IMERICI. • • ['MAC? PION • NEW TORS PAPtil WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN. • The Jacobin' are extremely desirous •af engaged is a war with Great Britain. Navei was a poor country so totally unprepared for such no • event as is ours at the present tithe. Not a single city or town in the United States can be said to be fortified. Our navy hos perished by the hand of violence. Of this 44 iitfint IM- s tifles" little reinaigs except gun-boats .and twvt-ketches ! And what reiisua, we liSk, can nalf):411 beings place on such plastlengs ?—'d'cre the whole extent of our coast, tewiu the Main to the Mississippi. lined with theta, it is crer►t'to he doubted whether they untold present our , ! ipexclr to a fleet consisting of al.niut a dozen • ul.i•fa,uioned 74's. . But, say the Jacsbins, in case of a war with Great Britain, the Canada* is It open to us a field for splendid achievements...lt t.cu t impossible, to the zvent of such a war, that se siviuld be able iowshew the Canadians what Mr. Jcder.on calls a " bluudg preati." But is it not proba' , ite, in the 16ertn time, th it. a British fleet would prewnt woor view,. pleas desolate 4 by the ray.iges of will.— places where toss's had flouri,iied, and uhere cities had once reared their spires Admitting, however, that thi , fortune of war should, at thii expense of much blood and trea • sure, put the Canada, in our possession, of use, we yak, would they be to us? Had we not tirritory enough privions to the pureliivie of Loui siana? /Live we not now a great deal too much? And are we etlll greedy for mom? Our cities and hangmen, are defecierle , s ; the sources of our revenue are continually diminishing; the tereopiir policy bur nearly broken dun n the energies of the pewple ; and, in such a condition . , without it nary, and without resources, with a 071- Li44:04 foe our Commooder s imChiel, maid with Digages to head our reginteilts. in this so pitiable state of things the.Jacobius are striving, with might end main, to . p!nitga 124 into the dieadful wirer .t.ntity of a war wish Great 13ritain ! Engaged in such e war, under such cireumstaoces, and with sticli • Centred. and inch Colonels, nee pro spect before us would indeed Lie melancholy. lee such en uwetpial contest, there would he no !au ntie to Ire required. Dufeet and disgrace Would iiseSitahly be ours. But the moat awful consideration remain., to br iregge.sted. A win. with Greet Britain, at the pre sent crisis, would, of enure, involve us in alliance with France! and it i. too nhvious to require Instration. that American liberty could uvt Wag survive such an event ! A.trly 'Mete month of August last, n meeting lift% held in the town of Lexington (Ken)), at *lima the following was one of the litltiolut:miswhieh were adopted :-- " Rooteed—That whilst we disciples tlse preteuslaw of proaeribiog to our Gowernmeeetlo . ewerse itlitylr ought to be parsited, ender exist tog eerearateocse, we de nut hesitate to oruse our oP s taion , that the Prealre annanorce4 as the sue.. resew- of Mr. ErsLiae, or Imp Giber resaledt Mivaµec *Qua Great Drama, ought nut to be rreemar . • • FOREIGI . V INPELLI6ENCE, FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARR!), OCT. 13. According to letters from Gerona of the 48th General Blake hud, two days before, made an unsuccessful attempt to introaluee a convoy of sup pliiW into that fortress. On flits occasion be lost a number of men k lled, and Soo prisoners, besides 606 Inules,•and 1000 sheep and oxen. This corps had come foci Biscay, but was forced to snake a precipitate retreat. OCT. ifi. Ilia Exrellenry the Grand Chancellor of the Le gion of llonnur,excrcibing prorisimially the bloc tions of the Grand Chancellor of the Three Golden Fleeces, haw notified, in consequence of orders which ILa Majesty the Einperor, and jiing has deigned to communicate to hint in • letter, dated Schoen brimn, October 0, that no Frenchman, of whatever degree or Loodition, may receive or bear any, of the orders of the Golden Fleece, such. orders he- Mg incompatible with that of the Three Golden Fleeces, created by Ilia Impeiial and Royal Ma jesty.— ( Moniterr. Oct. 17.) ILOTTERDAI4, OCT. Is. Thee are adricrs from Constantinople, uhitsti Initiation, that the Porte had rejected the proposals of the English Ambassador Mr. Adair, resp.•cting a free passage through the Dardanelles; and that he would most probably be ouster the necessity of task ing his departure, should he continue to insist that certain islands in the levant. should be occupied by English troops. The same lettersilay, that successors had been appointed to certain officers of high rank. MAMOURCII. OCT. /3. The fortresses of Mattftehin and tiirezorro ear. render . . .A to the Russians the former on the 17th, anJ the letter oo the of August. In Molts chit; they mode 3,000 Turks prisoners, audio Girs %. n 1,000. STAVIBI'ILGH. OCT. I I. The French and Bavaria° troops are posted ',Dug the Tyrolean frontier, and ure in sufficient force to pveverre the peace of the neighbouring Steles. In limier Swabia, Geo. La Grange has adopted the requisite measures to frustrate any at- LONDON. FRIDAY, oi.Toug 47. We have retired Moteiteurs to the 19th, and Welt Papers to the .d 2241 inst.—They contain nothing tending to confirm thew:count of the eon clnsion of peace betaeen Fiteuel and Austria.— We continue to think, that BONAPAUTN reserved that important intelligrocr, to giVe edit to his re turn to Paris ; which. from the firing on Monday, on the French coast, and tl.e tenor of the news in the Paris Papers, probably did not take place us til the 20th. Three Gottenburgli Muds arrived yesterday, with letters and papers from Sweden to the 18th inst. Minivters have beeossippointed.hy the Sw . edish And Datii%h Governments to negociatr. a pose* between the two coostrieo. They are to mget at Joidte ping, a town of Sweden; in th•Trovinte of Suns. - kW, add it is ripectelltbei the' peace will lie cue elude,' before the end of next month. The aqua droll, tinder the conunand of Sir .1 A cs SAVIIIAREZ. lbws urriveti at Cariserona, where it experiences - u friendly reeepti . iin. The Swedish imperil contain nothing else °luny interest. The Jubilee is pow over, and file populace have conducted themselves upon the to:Lesion iu a milli ner that reflects the highest credit upon their &sod sense and loyalty. The riots at Covent tiarden, which have been too lonA Nufftred to dis -giacis the Metropolis, have nearly subsided. We are, of course, now become anxious to learn what new delusion is to be brought into play, todivert the attention of the public from the great and essential interests of the country. It is a fact, however in credible, that Otis mighty empire has been, for ■ length of time, without evcii a complete Nominal Ministry ; and that we know little wore of our af fairs, than that Mr. PERCEVAL is promoted to the rank of First Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Czotsz to that, of Secretary in the Admiralty. This new Lord of the Treasury has certainly derived great benefit from the riots at Covent-Garden ; a scene that ought not to have been suffered in any . country, possessing a competent police, even fur a eight. It will, however, require• something more piquant, to tickle the piddle palate, and pre sent every trash be his rank and station ever so (ow, from asking where is our Nlinistry, and of whom is it coin itosetl, and how are our affairs to be managed in future ? The IN'estttinster Sessions commenced yestere day. The Grand Jury. we understand, did not .go into the cases of the Covent-Garden rioters, which are before them, and formed the subject of Mr. MAISWARIM.:•S charge. In this, t h e • Learned . Chairman gave a very cleitr nod 'well-considered explanation of thelaw upon the question ; which, upon reference to nor report, iu a subsequent • coltnnii„ will he found decidedly in favour of the Mauageis.—At the coinnieueesoeut of the Coveuts Gardon riots, the stock.jobhers' city Priat was most foriout in ite encouraii t ment of them ; then i. %hipped rimud to. the Munagerii.-.and, now, it is with the rioters •gaiii. Such Protean versatility anal barefaced disavowal of all consistency and principle, are unexampled in the history of the public prtsa. The following paragraph is copied from an Even ing Print of 'ye.teiday : • " A report, which was cireulateJ more than a wet k since, boos been revived in the City, and with more centidelice than et tirst—that rouse kind of ne4rociattoil has been carryin4 on, through so indi rect cha sssssss s between the British titiveriament and that of Ffl 111CP, the obit-ct of which is the re-esta blishment of a general Peace. The Alacciuir 11' Elr LESLEY, it it P4 . 1(1, is nhout to proceed to Paris, in further pursuit of this viand (object; the way to which. it is understood. has been smoothed by the mediation of a great Northern Power,. and islitw.e interference was the chief cause of the prulougation of the eirgociattious at Attonburgh, which are now entirely dosed. The evacuation of Spain is said to be the simple caudate*. on *Melo Etigload is to he admitted a party in a Gem nal Co.itoess of Euro pean Powers. The diaisns of I'ortu 4 al, as an in • lept-titient State, to Lebonte suttitct to future dui. cusaitni." 1 lir Valiant, 4, Capt. Stloart.atter, arrived tit P 1 mouth, on Tnetaiiiy„ frow the cone. of Crunce, with 14 fret wat,r in her hold, Itutii k c strlick no rock oil the (Ikon:sits, on Sunday last, the sLtil inst. ilia MAJ Ohl!) Sl, nor:1140e, 3S, Cold. Sir (koar:: C01.1.1%ft, come home with her, to protect the t.;•ew, iM cast ET any lucher It has oftcr itoacesiintnlele, while this country is at e•;.eu sar with Itiise,il, that our Go vernment should lee V .rte i)g ItlVltlftill that enemy, owl weer make aay eirrions attempt to uu- Roy theme although we [aliment a force of such power in their own seas. 1;y a letter, which wt have seen, frog an Engiis:i L;entkinsti, dated at Peterieliurgh, in the con of august lest, the Ike surprise at our seems to be entertained there ; while, from the saute letter, it would appear, that there is tty no 'neater thst stagnation Or trade which, we have beets often told, has created such discontent aud dejection anion 4 the principal hotly of the people. After ruentionints, the complete/ controuf which How SPASTIC isosse,srs over the pee. Nies of the country, the Gentletniiii writes to his friend here : The English Gover t ttt rut scent not inclined to take any steps to let the Batsman* fel that they are at war with /hem ; it appears the strangest sewt of warfare Ilia' perhaps was ever car ried on. Higher prices stem never paid here for Itaislan produce than this summer; trade gems en almost as brisk as ever, to the total excluiiim Of the Iffantlishiawd to the very great profit of foreigners, which is not a little vexatious." The followissieu — aysl promotion hos taken {shire Fifty Captains are.ino.le Atlmir.tk ; 54./ Commanders mode Post ; b 0 Lieutenants mode Comm linters, and 30 Midshipmen ilitade L.eatenants. This will make 'four vacancies of Com tnissioners of Dock-yards, nod soar of Colonels of 'Atrium, provaleil they accept the promotion. The Hon. Commissioner tiltuT, at Portsmouth, and Sir R. BARLOW. se Chatham, sre two of the Commissioners included in the arian4e mi-nt. Extract from a private letter, dated Lisbon, Oct. 10:—w Lord WELLINGTON ea arrived. Ile was received at the Commercial-apiece with all the pomp of a Sovereign, under a salute from the castle. Our Dragoon Guards. the Portuguese regiments of voltinterrs, horse and foot, militia, &r. were all under wring. A royal carriage a /sited him, but he preferred riding en lionteliack, stud was acco - mpaiiied Marshal BaREStiONIS, who, with Sir Roaaar WILSON, is now here. It is currently reported that our troops are iitiriog front Spain, towards this country, and that Portugal is to he defended, if possible. A brig of war, just arrived from Cadiz, brinp an account of a :leafy gained by *DIALS aver the FICII4I, seer GOMM.' - • 1,, TA, tuft c - by • 0 • tempt of the enemy, should they he still kohl enough to venture thenittelyes in the .plajits. Tha Voritherg remains tranquil ; the coasentlndiug of- . beers there have takeiriuch positiovis.ai to luelft:ctual all the tfroets 'who cons-; inands in 'the adjoining district of the 'llyrol. In Upper klavaria,.(leneral Beaumont eommands the troops posted between the Inn and the Leth. The different battalions era quartered in strong detach ments along the Tyrolese- frontier, and ut such points as to achnit of their concentrating cud sup porting each other, at a moment's notice.' In the Duchy of Salzburg, the 13:ivaritin divisiiins of the Hereditary Prince and Genetul Ueroi, occupy their former"positions. The Salzi.urg mountaineers are extremely well disposed. lend totally disinclined to any tuinultuous proceedings. The divi.iou of Getieril Itusta, in Carinthia, has received considerable reinforcements, and 'wilds ad vanced part r 1 as fur as Liruz in die Pustheithal. snut.tri, star. 4. • The Russian army, whirl' is besieging !swatlow, -consists of :;0,000 wen. The Turkish gnu riton, which is numerous, makes the most cisnrous de ft new. Au I:4ary ut obsorr•atiun covets the siege against that orate (Irand Vizier, which has advuitoed to whi:e alint:w: 4 says is tiroceedi AA g along the.coust of the !Peck Sea, upon Varow. It is pro .bahle, that the two 11111W:ett will hut be long before they cotue to On Cog : tiger:ONO. . VI! •NEFORT. OCT. 11. A detachment of We.tvhahen troupe brought in here to-duy shout 50 _pr:emwrs of the troops of the Duke of Orli,. They are aluwout all wounded. (Mogiteur, Oct. Ig.) • 'A,IIATERD OCT* 421* On the 25th inst. the T;,.rolese itesiorgents . at• tacked the Regiment of Foot Guards, whit occte pied a position at Ltfstersoteiss and in its environs, and compelled it, after a vigorous. resistance, to hill back to Hullein. They were, however, 'at: tacked in their turn by a corps of French troops, Ileum:het I for that purpose by the 13iilte sof Dal matia. under the orders of General Mositmarie, and consplettly defeated, with great loss ; 300 were mink prisoners of war, and six pieces of anima taken. PULLIN. OCT. 10. Her Royal Prtvotinn l'itlajestF was on the 4th inst. safely delivereitof a Pewee. in Kuniogeberg. GOTTENEURGII MAILS. GoTTiNOURIIN, OCT. 13. The Danish Government have aPpinoted Ba rna RtiSEMILBANTZ to Inrt.•t ti.e Soudish. ADLEKRVItti, eat Jisokoping as early 11.1 circuits- . stances • alto*, to settle the preliinitisrieg of peoci between the tam countries, which, It la topposed. will be coin:betted hy the end of next mouth. Tor fleet under the command of Sir J.+nes 5411/ clltiTet IMP artier(' at Carlsce. when: it experiences the moot friendly reception. OCT. 16. The 'American Colonel a unit returned trim Stoclsh..lon alsout a mouth asO. and left this yes. terilay, for Copealin i zeii, which place he will leave as soon es he has obtained his passports to proceed to Purls. Daring his stay here. he lived in the rno‘t recluse way. and hi. spnearaisce is very de jected. It is said his receptino at Stockholm did not meet his expectstron.—Gen. ADl.Ensr.taim expected Isere to.nsorrow great preparations ore snaking to receive _ A son of the renowned General BLUCItIII ar rived here this morning, frau England, whither he was sent with diapatehrs from the Arolitloke Lie set off imnsediuttly for Carlserons, from whence he wtll hr coare)eti to the Continent, by a sloop of war now on that station. OCT. 17. We team from .Storltlinlen, that the Peace Christi•lu Angustus, of Schleswig Holstein, Suu• deoloirgltulienhiiburg, wl:o has bran c h ows , succetsor to his present Majesty, hits returned for *mower, thk, impressed deeply with his duty to wards his native country, he could not *strew the high trust committed to him, till the timelslien .peace shall have been restored in the north, but that he would readily join the brave Swedes, who sur round the throne, and,express to thews the high sense he entertained of the cordideoce placed in his per►on. THE BRITISH PRESS. KILKENNY T:IIE.4TIUG'ALS. • On the lith instant, the filentleMen of the KA k-on% Company performed the Comedy of The enh the Fame of Tim Jilayor of Garrat--Tbe charartera were r. fukow WEST INDIAN. Stockwell, Mr. Rothe ; Rrkunr, Mr. R. 9wit4r; Disj +r trriskerty, Mr. crasooton Captain Dudley, Mr. Curry ; Charles Dudley, Mr. Gum . ; Yarlsod, Mr. Oltctlty ; Stoke., Mr. T. Cooke; Fuidaer, Mr. Waller.—L3dy Ru.port, M rs . I I ItclKock ; Charlotte Ruriswt, Miss ‘Valstcdt , 'Amiss Miii poke . ; Mrs. Vouluset, Miss Dyke) Lucy, Bliss E. Dyke. MAYOR OF GARRAT. Sir Jacob Julep, Mr. Becher ; Major Sturgeon. Mr. riche; Jerry Speak, Mr. Curry, Drain, Mr. Cur e; Mr. 011teilly.—Mn..Suesk, Alias Locke ; Mrs. Drain, B. Dyke. We hinted, in a former Paper. that Mr Pon y k 'y talent lay more in the personation of the suasive, insinuating lover, than in representio g the forceful characters in tragedy. He certainly shin e! , more in genteel comedy than in any other walk of the drama ; and it may be therefore eu.ecluded, that his fie/coar moat hav e been a Masterly per. formance---s ell:fool:0.r. sprightly, full of soul awl sentiment ; we had only to lament, that he wa, p ot sh well acquainted with what is technically called stage-trick. as Mr. ROTHS appears to hi.. Thi,, however. may not be conside red a deflcit by th ir lovers of pure natural actieeg, in hick rl e. Nw Eft excels. On the whole, it is only IA TALCOT that could surpass him. &tr. Wenn; gave that interest to Steel:leek p ith which his extraordinary powers can ins tat any chum... ter. He 'often lends* spirit, not sts own. to the repre iiviitation of a tatior part, nod a hi re the Ai-Mosel a Poet seems to have eagxed, the cieidn vie Guinea of the Actor supplies the deficiency. This i. not the exagceratian of . tdittery—let him be seen dy the judicious and eaadirl critic, and he will uelsnow led:re the justice of our firaise--Vide et creole. Mr. Crampton appearril in .11ejur*O' klnheety. He was extremely anfiesing, and kept tie Lipper Gallery in a roar the -.shale night.. POLT4Y. I M Pit OM PTV. •N Tllll X ALURIAGIt OF CAPTAIN Htlliarltt TO NII3S DuIN C The Captains retied from the toils of the camp, Erma the roaring ofes.nion, with the angry trews; Ile now ceases to sleep on the green tuft that's damp, But slumbers is comfort, on ■ bed aloft Dome. Yeiterday morning, His Al AJKSTY, the Duke of Ctrunnat.ann, Prince,Nes AUGUSTA And SOPHIA* accodspanied by Earls El ancoutir and WINCHIL-. 61 1 4 Lords Aaomr and ST. ii6l.E%'2, Ludy ELT, Count MUNSTER, Generals FITZRoY owl C•RY.. COloods STEYR, TAYLOR, ay. Sce. tack then u,ual ride in Windsor Park. Atter room lag, the Doke of Cusistetaistr, .Earl SEA, General CAKTWRIGAIT, and Colonel ST E Y want i.tto Kichelors'-Aere, to we the Bachelors' hull baited, and sobs. tilled a handsome awn of money to the Bachelors. Co:onel Dg+tiaow; Her kissarres Vico-Chans be. lain, attended Il r MAJESTY 10 ries , the tie stud sheep rimming whole, on the Baehelors'-Acre, an Wednesday, and received the pihtes, wait the shees of tin. of and sheep, front the Bachelor , , and presented tlivni, on silver plates, to Her .Ililkatsrs and the PRlNek:o+Es. The Doke of Yung arrived at Windsor early on Wednesday, from a t.i.it to hii Rolla Sisters, the Princesses NlAltY and AMELIA, at We) mouth, for the purpoie of bring prudent at the celebratanot of the Jubilee at %%Jainism.. W s h a r e g r ea t satisfae. holt In toeing able to announce, that the Duke of Youe reported to llie ROTAL FAMILY, that the Plineess A;11t1.1.1 was in a fair way of recovery, and was spotted to survive at VViattsur, in a few olooro, in a carriage belonging to the Pointe of Wats., which ha, the C/111VellietWe ova toed. Alter the ROYAL. PASTY partook of the roat.ted ots„ at IVIII4IIIOr, 4,11 Wednesday, .he 11114 decapi tated, and the head hoisted up in triumph to the Imam finin nitwit the Eil,cree had been sus pended, whilst doe mnitit►tde rent the air with ►hoot. and arehitnat.,ons. Hi. Royal Highiies the Duke of Cl.4ltanCit Pet off, yesterday. for %Veyinuisili, on a visit to his Royal .51t•4.t, HI tied place. The Earl of CHEmTBRVIELD Rowe, on Wednes— day, o grand dinner to the volineteers of Bredby. Derbyshire. The innrising . was ushered in by tits ringing of bell., and oilier demon.trations of joy. The surrounding poor were pewiileil by lint Lord• ship with a gno I dinne►, eniisicing of roast-beef old plum-puitsiing, with a goo d su p p ly o f a le. to drink 111. AJCs I If's h,utth. End Cuot.mtionLt.EY entertained o 'tire( rorty. at d r. uu IVeclart.d.ty. ut hi. ituuw, in Picea-. SALKVII.II.V., Lord and Ludy CH•ttLIS BKKTIKCK. Nir.N AUUILA e,and.llr. SILPIIIII, %'ere .uauoutpt the company.. The Earl and Cou..tess of Elazz intend to re turn Ihi. tine to Casittnlitary: The Mat . chiouess of Lirrsonwa had a select party, lust night, at Imusduteri-licosse. The Duchess Ds:Cast-am had a rer,i-party, fast ought, at her liotiSe in Thayru-streo • au, attended by the Countess of BA aRY110::'-, Cocottes of Cons, Bte. The Counter* of CHATIIAM Nos so W . /veneered front her late Mors*, us to be enabled to leave toms mr Tues4l.iy for Witslsnr. Mrs. JORDAN rooms 41, on Tuesday, to Busby, front her salt to Liverpool nod Chester. Mr. Jung Daum sump stare Witrilll(l dinner, r w. .ut, his hout.e, iu Chirlys-street, Lerluteleys square, to the Earl and Cowoutesa of East t, Gene.. rakaierl Mrs. Russ, anti several other Fulltionahles. Dls.Smtru pe:fortior Hae put of EirpGraiaiiiitt the trugedr of The Gut iart batisrifier. tried r. cites Coffins's tide on the Paisifm.f. nt the Bath Theatre. to-onorrow teight, for her ono lensfit, sod Lee list al:yetrMnve• Were this brilt.oll. Moor or the Nobleborn'y Intnreo r st the west eloti of the town, were, on lVecitteirdwy !is:ste.! ny wit:, flambeaux. ena r✓.l litt ion m t.a j" el I