The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-12-28 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS. LoNuor, SATURDAY, Dewier' We this day invert a small part of the evidenc for the dTfence in the case of Sir ROUIRI CA LI)En, unavoidably omitted yesterday. It was all that was wanting to tender our Report As complete as possible. When sentence was pronounced, we un alerstand Sir ROURT CA LOZil se-ired to be deeply afF.:ted, azi.l retiryd wilinut speaking a word. He w.is ,tc,:otnp.thietl by a great number of friends. and. on dc , cendiog from the deck of the Print? of Wales, into his barge. scarcely lifted up his bead, which was apparently bowed down by the weight of the sentence. Sir 12 o sear CAI DLR is upwards of 60 years ofage, forty-seven he has spent in t ic service of his country. Fits courage, sse bel.r%e, never heen doubted; and hi. error upon the preseil occasion appear, to have originated in excessive eau- Won. Of the justice of his sea - ence, few, however, will be inclined to doubt. On the 22d, he brought the enemy to action, with fifteen ships of the line to twenty, of which captured two. The damige of the Triad,:r C.2.:/c, the only English ship reported unable to rent -v the fight, may be set off ag.tinst the damage stiff.. Ted by the remaining ships of the enemy. It is in evidence, however, that she was still able to maintain her place in the line. Tlve retult of the •ictory of the 22d. was, these- fere. to reduce the disproportion between tl - e two fleets, and leave on the and 44th, fifteen British :hips to meet eighteen French and Spanish, The naval glory of England is now raised to so high a pitch, we do not think any achievement too difficult for nut gallant tar,. Admiral C A Loca knew that Lord Nct.sots, with ten sail of the line, had chaced the Combined Fleet, amounting to double that number, over the Western hemisphere. He therefore ougit to have known, the country would have expeaed that he shoal .I court an en gagement with fifteen. The the fl !et from Ferrol might come out and fall upon him, was a remote (astringency. Ila i the affirm been renewed on the :13.1 or 4 24th, it wsuisl probably have been decided in six or seven h sure Ferrol WAS PI !eagues dis%tnt, and it seas not likely that the squadron (rim it caul ! join during the engage.neat. That the Ferrol sq ;Aron might come up after the engagement, and attack him in a crippled state. was more pro bable; but then, had he not a right to c olate spon casual assistance? He was aware that Lord Ne L ute was in pursuit of the enemy, and had hr not A right to reckon upon the chance of his arrival. Beside>. if this argument he gond for any rliMg, he might not to have brought the enemy to afliiin on the 12J. The danger from the Ferrol squadron was as great on that day, as on the 23d or 24th. Sir Rosser Ca ante admits the charge, that he did not do his utmost to bring the enemy to aaton after the 22J. He goes farther, he says, he never at tempted it. lie contents himself with saying, that he did not avoid a renewal of the engagement. I-k has declined a dire% defence, and pleaded a justification. Part of it, we mean his apprehen sion arising from the proximity of Ferrol, we think cannot avail much ; the remainder, we mean his anxiety to preserve his prises, aid se cure the full fruit of tie vinory of the 224 ap pears to carry snore weight, but it cannot pre vail against the loss of the glorious opportunity of destroying the Combined Meet. In co, Sir ROIBIRT C A LnEll proved himself tart cautious, too prudent, for the present day. No great •i6lory can be obtained without great risk ; and too studious a calculation of probable danger will not gratify the enkkusiasm of the British nation, where its navy is the subjea of its expetiation. We stated vesterday, that a boat had been sent the day before from Boulogne. with an Argats of the 17th instant, announcing the conclusion of an Armistice It has been erroneously supposed. that Government are in possession of a series of French and Dutch Papers to the 18th ; they have only, we believe, a .11o•.irerr of the 12th, Dutch Papas of the 17th, and The Are* of the 17th. The .41" s was nut sent over from Boulogne by any French Oiicer to our Government. An o p boat, vr;th.nt any person on board, drifted on Wed. es,l4! into our fleet ; on board of it was found a pared, containing Me dejas, diteaed to Mr. Tim mAS Honer 1., merchant, Hastings. It was imme diately forwarded to Gov:rnment IVhether there be a gentlentaa of the name of f tae c t. t., at I Listing s, we know not. "Ilse paper is a Serplement to The Ar ius of The I 7th, and contain' the 30th and n Bulk tins of the Grand Imperial Army—Tbelaat Bulletin is dat.nl born Austerlitz, of the sth. We un lerstan.: that it gives the paiti.:tthits of the bank of the 2.: only: it states, that the battle on that day had ben most furious, ob.tinate, and bloody-- and that Ow Rus►ian army had been reduced to 4 1,000 men. I consequence of that battle, says The .Iriees, the Ern- pe or or GUI 3f N V solicited Ai Armistice, for the perpos: of ncgociJting a aeprrate Peace...—Borra raarr granted an Armistice ; the terms are not sta•ed, but one of them is, that the Russians shall return to their own country.---The Bulletins occupy four columns of Re Argiii. As far as we are able to form an opinion, we do not hesitate to pronounce the intelligence in The to be a forgery, and one more likely to have been fabricated on this side of the water, than in either France or Holland. The boat might have been carried nut to sea frnm our own coast, and then sent adrift. The .411;tic ton, being primed in the English language, could be imitated here with more facility than a French paper. T4e eirsate lays, that in consequence of the bat tle of the second, an armistice had been concluded . Th.tt we know, from every aecount received from the Continent, to be fake. If the battle of the 2d had led to an armistice, would there have beets fighting on the Id and 4th ? Yet we know, for a faa, that, on those two day•, there were the most obstinate and furious conflias. The last Bulletin is darted the fifth the armistice was sae Ito have been concluded nn the hth. How comes it then, it did not reach Paris sooner than the 16th, eleven days ? It might have reached it in sir or seven. The road from Vienna to Stra,hurgh was not interrupted, and surely the Messenger would be dire/led to make the grr.ttest haste with in telligence of such importance. M. Donna/tot re ceived his dispatch on the I ith, three days before the account is stateil to have rea , hed Paris.—An other circumstance to he considered is, that the Bul letin is dated from Austerlitz. If the French had gained such decisive advantages as to have forced the Allies to solicit an Arniist:ce, how comes it that they had not advanced further than Austerlitz ? A decisive defeat generally prodiccs a retreat (1 the defeated army, and an advance of the vic torions army. But here is no ground gained, though the Russians are stated to have lost between 30 and 40,000 assn, and the whole Allied Army to have been nearly cut :o pieces. We have been assured that M. e o al, the Pros slan Mi , later, has not received Ally account from Berlin, of military operations in Gztrmtny, subse q•senr to the bottle of 2i, AS stated in some of the paper. For the Authenticity of th • .! foilowirg letter, we will not vouch. k is capi2d from an Evening Paper of yesterday, in which it is stated to have come from a person of great respeßisbility, at Berlin, addressed to a General Officer in His MA, :Nsry's service:— .. Berlin, Dec. 11, 1805. " Ge sera)—On Sunday and Monday we were in the roost .rmlent agitarion sod uneasiness with re.pet% to the r,suit of the b.ttleswhizh took pace oil the 2d an.l WI instant, the details of which were doadvanugtrins to the RiiisLails„ and which hail endange:erl the Emperor's person, who charged at the heart of ii t Guar Is. We were two days without receiving any intelli gence. The centre of the army whir:h he commanded was broken by a masquedbmteir of 18 guns, which mote a shock ing massacre in that point-r-rlitYl men of the Emperor: (:noel were killed; but, on the 4th, General KUSIIWW, the brave Pangrathion, and Prince Lichteuidein, turned th,, right woig of the. French, restored the fortune of efairs, and the Rum• 'nails, animated by the presence of their brave Emperor, and by the linger to which lie was exposed, cat up the notch, an:l obtained the most e - Ltiplete vitlory ; they retook the ar. tillery and prisoners, which the French had taken en the 2,1 and rol. We expect the dm•ils of these affAiri, which must neces sarily discourage the French, and send their Chief to the " The Court was in the grratevt alum ; bat the Queen re ceived yeste,day, at eleven o'clock, ■ letter from Count II sugwitz, wh , ch has quieted all apprehensions. We are as• mired, that orders have been given to the Prussian Army to attack the French." _ _ Yesterday a Court of Diredors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took their final leave of the Court. viz.— Einhinnnne,Cri.t Craig—Bonibar and China. The Winchei.ea, Captain 1V Uu n Moffatt—Bombay and China The Perseverance, Captain James Tweedale--St. Helena, Ben • tq1en,.5041 China. Tne following Captains were sworn into the com mand their respeitive ships : 1., iv Rule.. CaniAin T W. Swinton—Madras and Banal . L.nd M. vdle. Captain lwnuue—\ladra► and Bagel. foLowing alierations were made in the sta tions and times of the undermentioned ships, viz.— . 1 . 4 e Molar:la and Alexainler—.Madras and Bengt', instead of I:Solana, and Mene.A. The Yasuo to be aft at on the fool of Deeenib.r. The Sovereign and Alexander to ire allqat on the lath of J,r•ra V. Toe Expatiate ,t to be afloat on tint lath of February. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Tuesday next. A raspeetable Mercantile House at Birmingham received the following intelligence by the ll.tmburgh Mail, which arrived an the 20th instant : " Funstort, I), 4, 1805. " T.ie French h?v3 hat, in the lett Weedy bailie, 25,00 man, and ei , re °Mist:4 to miceste I reams u. • greet keriy. thanit the Raglans paid .teer fur their yicar y: their lac; is eat hated at 16,500 in it." A pawnorr lately arrived in the AO'red, Capt. Anorasos, at Belfast, horn Tenerife, states, that he left that place on the 26th of Onober, and the Canary Island. on the 11th of November, at which time thrre WAS no account of the Kochfort squa dron, nor of any prixes having arrived there.— Tisis account contrachas an article, which we in serted some time since, from Bordeaux, sta ing, that ?3 vessels had been carried into Tenerife by the li..chtort squadron. * • 1.4 • sm , - THEATR LS. °MIRY-LANK. The Seifoo: i r F. Mid', and The St (plug !Traci", attrAßed one of the fulleu houses n't the reason last night, and were receivcd with loud and conti nued plaudits. COVENT-04411MM. Last night, for the first time this season, Master &Tr v performed the part of Hone°, in the tragedy of Romeo and. lu/ier. Ve have before expressed our opinion of this actor, in this character ; and we have now only to adJ, that he has not improved since the last time we saw him. In the love-scene, which ;Ire so numerous in this play, he WAS tiosucce.sful. He till possesses a degree of coldness, a want of feeling. which deprived Omni of ail inter. st In some oF the either scenes, he. however, received considera'ale applause, particularly in that with Friar Lawrence, after he had slain Ti6ait. His death, io the tomb-scent., also received very ge neral approbation ; but the well•knowil line the beginning of that scene, of " Sh- I , vcs, eallws, and we s!ri!l I! passed by, almost unnoticed by the audience. 5.1 i rss was the J../ire. In the scene in the tourth ad, where she drinks the contents of the phial given her by Friar Lar.e. , e, she spewed much ability, and during the whole night received eon,iderable applause. The house was extremely There was a party of musical saints in the two shilling gallery, who sang favourite airs, gra:r.,, almost without itnerniissinn, the entire night. Yesterday morning, Ifer M ajr-s Iv, Princesses ELIZA IGTII and ANI rt.' A, to. k an airing in a coach and fnur, isnd honoured Mr. De !tart with a visit at Bidwell. Princesses AUGUSTA. MARV, and So. psis, took an airing on liorsebqck. in NVinlsor Park. His 's AJI'ST v did not leave the Castle. Their Royal 1-li!thnei•es the Dakes of Cum er t•s o and KINT dined, on Thursday last, at the Marquis of A stse.ori's, at the Priory ; and, in the evening, the second performance of U h , ..tlr 4r it, was aged with double eel 4. In addition to the company who were there last FriktAT, wrre, the Earl and Countess of Eyre. Earl of &CT ITP, Lady Malty TAT LOS, I'HOSI AS BUT. Esq. and his Lady; and ANACUtJN Moose. Esq. MI. Glt AST, who has been playing trith so ranch success at the Edinburgh and, Liverpool Theatres. is t' e Str Preiieur Meereeopitart of the Dublin st ige. E icl Ns:suss. accompanied by hi, soft, Lord Viscount Niel Tom, is arrived at his prebendal resi dence, in Canterbury Cathedral precinct. On Christmas day, J. Peat. Esq. of Upchurch, K.eut,accorciing to his annual ensunn, distributed a large tin:unity of meat and ale to the poor of tbat ?as ids - Sir Gix an? and Lady HEaritcorr weexpc , fled in t•Iwo, next Monday. trom Carnhridgeshir..., Duke nt MANcutsrst %via leave Kimholton to-nu.now, on a visa to Lord Viscount Bitoaix, at his seat. Brume Hall, Sof/41k. ROlitft r Gttle Rars:'.•non, Esq. arrived yester day at his brother's house, Sir TH.,MAI GAOL. in Edward-street s Pot tman-square. from Bury St. Ed mund's. Sir RICHARD NI Vr, Rail. gave t grand dinuer to a large ratty of fa.diionables, nn Christmas day, at his ele^tot hous•, D ,, gman Park, Essex. rie Duchess of GoutN,a and Lord FitaNcis MonvAriux, arrived at the Duke of NIA MC NES litlt'S seat, Kimbolton, hat Thursday. from Cariicoo Cottage, Scorned, and came to Meson's e-ght o'clock last accompanied by the Duchess of MA RCHIST from Kimbolton. A Miss SHERIDAN ery young lady. has mule her data on the Dublin ;•iage in the charactets of Aluminise and Maria. She was vrry favourably re ceived, and m o st liberally applauded ; but has much to learn. A Rosciur, only nine years old, will make his d,lut, on Monday next, at Wal.all Theatre, in the part of Sir john te.,,, 0 r; in Ki•"g Henry fie ronith. Captain WILSON left town ye,terday, for Wind sor. Lady LOUISA MANNERS arrived at her ho.sse, Pall Mall, at seven o'clock, last evening, from Nloulsey Grove ; and at half-past eight the Duke and Duchess of Sr. ALBAN*, paid her Ladyship a visit of condolence on the irrreparable loss of her amiable daughter, Mrs. Dcre. The Play of £he Stoops to Conquer, and the Farce of Nate Abbe,,, was performed by the Gentlemen of the Apollo Society, on Tuesday night last, at Cork, for the benefit of the Schools at Industry. The receipts of the house exceeded 1501. The brave Tar, who appeareJ on the stage at Covent-garden Theatre, last Thursday, was with Lord NELSON at the battle of Teneriffe, and like wise at the battle of the Nile: hi, name is 'ritual is JACKSON. He lias been many years in the navy. The last arrivals at Bath are.— Lord and Lady Ilawkmbuav, Lord Melville, Lind and Lady Ileitis, Lord [tonally, Lord Wades, Lord Lindiaav, Lady Neknn, Lady Clerk, lion. Mei. and Mi.' St. I..aer, Sir Wilmot Pri. cloaks*, Sir Wdlum Barium, Sir J. Giffurd, Sir Francis riird, Col. Wynche, Col. Falkiiiir, Cid. luid Mra. Warnermd, Col. Ff. a.id Mr. Cunningham, Lieut - Col. Smith, Main, Spearman, M..,jor Cr infuel, Maio, Sulam, Major and Mrs. Malkin, and Major Tay , . On Friday se'nnight, a Post Assembly was held at the Exhibition Room, in William -street, Dublin, for the purpose of voting an Address to the Lord Lieutenant, upon his resignation of the government of Ireland. The address was moved by Mr. Sw one of the city members; after which, the question being pm by the Sheriff; the 'address was carrird with a most cordial unanimity, and voted that it should be presenten to his Excellency in the most respectful and distinguished manner. The Hon. Jona .'ictirx, son of the Right Hon. the Loan CISAIICILLOR of England, and Mernher for Boroughbridge, died on Wednesday last. Mr. Scour was one of the most amiable young men of the age; his manners were engaging, and his ta lents of a superior order. He had an unfortunate hesitation in his delivery, which would hive pre vented him from shining in public, but his attain ments and judgment made h:sa Oily dear to all rhs knew l i D 1-4 • Ay letters received horn &mbar, dated the ;Inter end of May, we learn, that the China voyage of the ships lately arrived there, has this year proved particularly advantage-us. Sugar was dear and scarce, owing to the faiiure of that crop in many pans of the country, and little of that article has been purchased. Cotton and opium sold at treat prices. It may afford some consolation to those desponiing plaice! tr,unentiq., who foremld t'.at China would speedily swallow up the greatest part of the specie of the West, to learn, that this year very great quantities of specie, both in sliver aed gold, have been brought from Cantoio: The truth is, that formerly we had few commodities toe 5..-std the Chinese, which they wanted, and the bANnea against us seas obliged to be disCliviged in bard cash. The great increase of the cotton and opium trade, with the diminished dnantity of sugar pur chased, has produced a co:iv:doable change; and this season has turned the balance in favor of fo reign merchants. Should a similar circumstance conti:me tonwerate for any length lf dine, i: might perhaps produce 31 4:: thee dinainutidrt in the valdd of the precious metals in Europe. The following is from the Ceylon Gesenuart Ge trtts, of March ti, 1805 : Intelligence having been rev - lye& that the enenty was colleiiim in force at 'lmamate, and in its neighbourhood, Mai ir 11ui kin; of Hii Majesty's 5I sA regiment, W3ll di , patched to shit place, on 'is turday the 22d ult. with a force, consisting of 1110 &clocks, with a proportion of artillery. Rrigade-Major Colebrook, of the Royal Artillery, drew up the River, at the same time, two gun-boats, carrying, the one a five and a half inch howitzer, and the other a thtee pounder. The Commander of the lose., being desirous to see that. part of the frontier, lett Colombo, attended by his Staff, on 'll.lndey morning, the 25th alt. and joined Major Durkin's detachment, at Sellasrack, on the 44th ult. That detachment reached Rnermelle*, without op position, on the 2.5 th ult. and the gun-boats, without any molestation from the enemy, hot considerable impediments from the lowness cf the water in the river, on th-• 26th, at night. The Candians had already evacuated nricianellee; and fallen back to the mountains, between that place and Candy ; hut Major Durkin, by a night march, succeeded in surmising an advanced post d the enemy. at the distance of about ten miles from llosanellee. Mr. Ewer. the Governor of Fort MarNW, wAs expeded to he recalkd from that settlement, when the bar ships lett that island. as Mr. Parry, a civil servant on the BengAl rstabirsbment had, it was :c -port, Al, been appointed to that station. I'he spice plantAtiiin, at Fort Mailbro', by the fittest accounts, were i t a high state of cultivation and lusoriance; and it was expeCled, that in two yeas-s. At fartiv.ct, there srould be a sufficient mum tity of niPmer, S:c. in perfeftion. to export from thence to this Country, which might be sold at it. very moderate price, and prevent to nee-nary an article from being inenopoiised by foreigners, with a view of enhancing iis value. in one the Banda islands should erer continned in possession of the The Mir& of the expedition being thus answered. by driving' the enemy troth our frontiers ; the army returned. without any loss. to Columba., on the Yd :nwant ; and we trii,t, lrom the excellent care taken of the soldi.rs, and their he4lthy appearance, that few of them will suffer from the fever. which is p- e ralent this season in the inteikm of t h e com p ly , but not by any means with the same tioknce as in the two iast years. The Duke of YURK will anted His Ma.mrro this morning. en some military arrangements. His Majesty's' frigate, Hobe, Captain Maumee, arrived f•fl Corer, on the Clst of November, all well. Th e .lays•ix, from Stettin, for Oporto, has been takes, retaken, and carried into Viana. The unusual interruption which has lately taken, place in the communication between this tour:try and Holland, is, we are informed, thns yr he ac counted for. The Batavian (or rather the French) Government, who have the supreme direetion of the affairs of that country, are taking uncommon pairs. at this moment, to prevent any intercourse bctwei n Holland and England. The Packets, which have been allowed to pass freely between the two coun tries, during the most rigorous and unaccommodat ing periods of the war, have been lately gypped. Th...last of these vessels, on its arrival at a Doter port, was immediately seized, and the Master put under arrest. Ameticans, or persons belonging to any other nation not at variance with Trance, are not 4110%. ed to quit Holland but by the way of Embien. Thirty Americans, with regular passports, in en deavouring to obtain a passage to England from Rotterdam, were taken into custody, and detained for some time at Helvoetsluys. On the 15th in stant. t.n of them, by means of a bribe, obtained permission to proceed to sea in an open boat. in the hope of meeting with a vessel that they could en gage to proceed with them to England. Af t er buf feting the winds an d wares f or a length of time, at the imminent hazard of their lives. they had the gno.4 fortune to fall in with a Prussian vessel, the Captain of which they prevailed upon to take them-. to England. Before they left Helvoetsluys, they were furnished such intelligence as had dale transpired at Rotterdam. Nothing beyond the was mentioned from the Grand Armies, at the tiro they sailed. _ On the Isith. an American vessel sailed from Hela vactslitys, the Master of which (Capt. L.) states, that, in consequence of fresh orders lately r?ceived Rom Pari!, no passenger;, in futore, will be permitted vi sail shred fur Eugland, or suffered to come hum thence. He heard the Rotterdam papers r f the 15th read to him. befnre he took his departure. 'lnc details of the battle of the 2.1 were contained in them. It was stated. that the Alli-s were com pletely defeated on that day; but 4,Marissinerc std r were mentioned to have been taken. Nothing was stud of an armistice. About the 12th, the greatest exertions were made to called all the troops that could possihly be spaced front the garrisoned tosens, and the armed ships, in order to sand them to the army with all possible dispatch.