The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-10-05 00:00:00

U EAST INDIA SHIPPING. LONDON. THURSDAY, °crones g. I . 1p • %- "Nrw.5.1.... . —AL Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India House. ►hen the undermentioned ships were thus stationed and timed, viz. The Wexford, Earl Camden, tad Arniston, fur Bombay and China ; to be afloat the 2Sd last. sail to Gravesend the 7th November, stay there 40 days, he in the Downs the 23d of December. The Wiuchilsea and Elphinstene, for Bombay and China, and the Ocean, for St. Helena, Beucoolco, and China; to be admit the 7th of November, sad to Gravesend the 22d, Its) there 30 days, he in the Downs the troth December. The .11fred and Woodford, for Madras and ,China ; to be afloat the .2.2 d November, sail to Gravesend the 7th Deem her. stay there Iu days, be in the Downs the •7d Jan. 1010. N. S. Prince of Wales, Hugh Inglis, Ceylon, and William Pitt, for Madras and Bengal; to be afloat the 7th Decem ber, sail to Grave.eud the t tat s etay there to days, be In the Downs the 27tbJanitary, !too. The Preston and Phoenix, for Madras and Bengal ; Ci►ca cester and Surat Castle, for Chloe direct ; to he afloat the oth January, Into; sail to Graveseuil the zMb , stay there so days, be in the Downs 46th February. The David Scott, Aluvrick Castle, and Coates. for China ; to be afloat 20th !savory i sail to Graseseud, the ad Feb. ramp there to days, bc i n the Deans 12tkIllarels. The Earl St Vincent, tor Bengal ; and Ezeter, for Ilona bay; to he afloat the 'oil) February; nil to Graeraena st► March; stay there JO Joys, be to the Downs i itb April. The Thomas Grenville, fur Ceylon and Bengal ; to be ■ttuat lath February; sail to Gravesend nth Nlarch stay there ;rn Days, he is the Downs 11th April The flucidart, tiorthumb•rland, Tigris, and Euphrates, fur Msdras at.d Btnial. Alexander and Sir Stephen Lush intuit, for Buiebey ; to be sleet the 41st Dec. teen. The S.•creign, !edits, Dittos, mid Ann, fur .Madras sad Bengal ; to he &Moat the Jd reb. uto. The Il . arriet, for :tladras and Bengal , Sir William Bees ley, fur Bengal ; Lord LWoit, for Madeira and Bombay sad Carnterthen, fur Iturnhay ; to be stunt the sth Mari', 1110. Capt. 11. I. SA)I64IN VIJ, 51,011 . 1 il4to the cote eland of the Earl Cenvien, colisigeetl : to Bombay sod Cltitla. THE BRITISH PRESS. The concourse or people attracted, ) tsterday, to the Quiat.'.-house, by the report that the new Miiiiarr. would be declared, and the anxiety ex pressed by the crowd, were gsester than any ever witnessed upon a ►imilar occasion. An each car riage arrived, they ran up to it, eaprly 4. I. it Lord GaAs hit Lord Gitcv's?" Nor did this crowd consi.t of idlers, and the lower sort of people. No, it consisted of respectable looking men, of the middle and higher order.; of so ciety, of toeu who appeared to have a solid interest and stake in the country. When they found that neither Lord Garr nor Lord Gann min was present, they went away with mauife•t signs of dis appointment in their countenances, and many of them murmuring sorrow and discontent. A great concourse of people assembled yesterday iu St. James's Purk, near the (413re:id's-house, in eicaectation of seeing the new Nliniiityrs. Mr. reacimsr. war, however, the uuly one announced. This Hight Honourable Clerk of the Irons kissed hands on his appointment to the place of First Lord of the Treasury, rice the Duke of PO ST I. A II D and it is extiected, that, in the interval between this and nett Wednesday, he will be able to fill up the Ministry of ankh he is thus placed at the head. Such is the result of the little intrigues and jealousies that have sis long distracted the Cabinet. Mr. CANNING . S vanity ban overleaped itself, and the dissensions, of which he was the prime mover, have closed, with driving him out of his place, and be stowing the prize upon his inure artful rival. All the fulsome udulation hitherto bestowed by the hireling Potts and Couriers upon hire, will now be tronsfertid, of coorse,;to the new Premier. , Th e VtlLUes of this goo.l foutily-man, his inveterate hatred of the Pope sod Popery, sod his sincere love of the Spanish Papasts, his parental fondness, illustrated by his inordinate love of places and peusions, his flippancy and pertness in debate ; all their qualities, with which he is gifted in an extraordinary degree, will tin doubt constitute the subject of their daily puffs and praises. But these are not the qualities that -make a states man. They are trot o n ly foreign from, lint inconsistent with, every quality essential to that character. We might appeal to the whole history of his Parliamentary life, to all his speeches, and they have been neither few nor brief, and surely challenge the most acute of his sycophants to point out a single trace of an enlarged and luminous mind, a single sentenee that displayed originality of thought, expansion of intellect, or depth of judgmeut, upon any coustitutinual subject, or any question of foreigii or internal politics. It would be curious, if, while the east end of the town is in an uproar about • dinner on the ju bilee day, and the west on account of a trifling and alisolutely-necesaary rise in the price of *admis sion to Covent-Garden Theatre, the public s'muld feel indifferent in a rase of such vital importance to the cotiutry. Our would think that it would reqeire the shoulders of an At lag, to tom- the weight of plac,.. Lod pensions with /shirk this little Citentlem•ti iv loaded. Ile is now Surteyor of the Alit..go, sig,l Clerk of the Irons lil the 33:nt—Chaarelitir '.f the Dorby of Lancaster-- Chancellor the LAC:ICIIUtf —I Ira Load of the lkai Treasury, with the reversion of Registrar of the Admiralty, on the death of Lord Aftiserv, the pre sent occupant; including the highest, and wine of the must lucrative offices in the power of Ilis MA• to bestow, and amply sufficient to reward e dozen men. of twenty times Mr. PeneviAL's value. The difficulty of .uirporting en inconsistent cause, is so great, that we have rather pitied thou exposed to ridicule, the violent writhing!' and con tortions which the agony of their situation has ex torted from those persons who litre otteinpteil the impossible lulour of recounting their support of the /we AilministrAtion with their determination to support the new, patched-up, or, indeed, 'soy Ad ministration that is fort 1111 l ;,,,.„, or in.i) hereafter be formed. With • little spattering on their old friends, it is wontlerfid with w hat Eli dity these gentry con turn a compliment to the Powers that be. A Morning Paper, of yesterday, most celebrated for logical acumen, end a genies for extracting good from every evil, tells us very gnively, that," sincerely as they deprecate the late schism in the Cabinet, yet it will be pro-ter/Me of, at least, one advantage, in proditeing snore unanimity of sentoueist and cordial co-operatiou in the business of Government." So, then, it is at last confessed, that the hue Admini stration was deficient'', nisoninity of sentiment and cordial co-operation in tile bu.iosess of Government. No wonder our arms bare been disgraced on the Scheldt--no wonder our gallant heroes have been starved to death on the Tagus—no wonder disaster and mismanagement have been every where tem spieuotui—fOr, mark what the sane Paper. in the very next sentvuce, pronounces are the horrors of a Cabinet composed of warring elements :...." it is impossible (it adds) to reflect upon the conetito- tion of an Administration, where the component 'tamest in . /towed by separate views, and conimbed by particular interests, without being alarmed at the injury the ',oldie service might, in such case, be liable to sustain. Their talents, probity, and fuerience, however eminent and couspicuosis. be ll!) - e lust to the constounity." &c. i e 'hat a utelaischolppicture is this! and how Jif f nt from those we hare for the lust two years been accustornesi to contemplate, front the same Artist. Then, indeed, there were no dissensions, no difference of opittiret. ao. stperato aims, no 4 , particular interests."—AU was harmony, unwni mitt, concord, and cordiality : Stith a Cabinet ! it was completely dove-taikd! Hod it been other wise, The Morning Post would doubtless have been the first to feel the alarm, and warn. the country of she dangers to which it was exposed.. from the wont of uoion and cordial co-operation among its mem bers. Averse, however, as this partitan is from an Ads" li ll istration socoustructcd, he yet, with an incre dible dexterity, lavishes utiliounded praise on Mr. PERCEVAI., (N. H. He is to be tiro Lord of Me Treasury, so well as Chancellor of the Exchequer.) for endeavouring to form an associatiou with Lords GENT and flowevti.t.E; thus, as he says, " sacrific ing the repugnance which he, and every patriotic and liberal-tuaided unto moat have felt, at an ausalgame ?inn with socb stubborn, refractory, and unyidd ing matte'', too' generous desist of estineuiabiug. in this greet &Isis, every principle of internal diesel,- sion."—Surely this is madness without method. 1 We never beard of such a thing so asuelgamating stubborn, refractory, and unyielding mattet..for the purpose of extiuguishing internal disseusioit ; and, iii our humble opinion, the clashing of these refractory unyielding substances would be the very cause, source, and perpetuation of dissension. The whole of this story strongly reminds us of the fable of the fox and the griper. When Lords GLIM and thtertvrtax were invited rri. the banquet of haves sod tidies, and sordid and selfish men thought it uncertain whether or rut ilffty •wsiuld accept the invitation, The Courier, aod The Morn* , Post, had a good deal to say in favolt.ipf thew Noble men. Their dislike to them had beet, wearing away, in consequence of the dignified c:milust of the Nuble Lords, on a late memorable occasion. They were in hopes they would lead their talents to the public, is the present trying wish'. Ste. but now, when the Noble Lords here deelioed, ab ! I curse the grapes, how sour they are ! I We see, with as much satisfaction as the native of the subject will allow ns to feel. that Lord Wtt -1.111(17011, after Lis late most improvident and un fortunate irreptiors• into Castile.. for it merits no other epithet, has conducted the remains of his array back, nearly to the point from which he ori ginally started, and which a General of more pru dence would never have quitted. He Now occupies a sensicircidar line, between the Goodiena and the Tagus, covering equally the provinces of Alentejo, and of Sorithern Estremedans, er rather Andalu sia. protecting Lisbon from invasion. by the road of Iledajna and of Elva*, while he slickers Se ville and Cadieliost.auy attack throsgh Truzillo and Merida. two extreme potable his posi tion, are the city of Merida to the East..and Porta legre, or Villa Portugal. to the West. The enemy. it splicers. on the o her hand. acs drawn up, or contour.' in New Castile and Estre inadura, front Talavera, through Oropese, arid Plaseneia, round to B:deviance. Thus situated rPlatlveto each other, it is intimated by some of tire romp Juveoal., and it would by no means surprise es, du:lol%4d Rodrigo either is, or may *von Le attached by the knee under SOULT run/ 4 t- . I .e o l 1 i NET. The position of that city, near the frontiers of Spimio and Portugal, and uliiiod equilistant from Plavencia and Salamanca, renders it import ant; as the garrison may greatly disturb and inter rupt, if not absolutely cut off all communication between the two last-mentioned French Generals. Though the fortifications of Oviduct Rodrigo are old anti weak, yet is it capable of making very con siderable resistance; and we may see, by Sir JOHN Motion's account of his reception. us well as treat ment there, Olt his march from Lisbon to Sala manca, la►t November, that the inhabitants, un hke those of inaimy other cities and provinces of Spain, displayed some character, loyalty, sod dis position, to resist the invaders. IVe• may coiase quently hope, that, if attacked, they will not now Open their gates, us Leon, Valladolid, Astorgo, and almost t• vcry pluce ii,4l4lfill, or Old Castile did, out the appearance of the French, without oppositior. The army which was so long under the command of the Mancini* DE ICUM•N•, is likewise, if we can trust the Portuguese ac counts. in a condition, and in a ritnation, to take a part in any efforts that may lie tamde to succour Cividad Rodrigo. Tins burly of troops, amount ing to 21,000 men, is stationed at the little town of A Icatiteraz, in the province of Leon, near time her-' dery of Tras-ris-Montes. about half-way between Zamora su4 Ilraganra, in Portugal. Nor is it by any means improbable, that. in such a case, Lord WILLINGTOS himself may again re-uppriir cm the scene of action, and may march to the assistance of Ciridad Rodrigo, or of the Spaniards. We trust, that. if he does,he will make very different arrange ments, and take somewhat better precautions for his suliaistroce. and the security of his rear, than he did on his late march from Coimbra to Talaveru. The inure maturely we weigh and consider the nature, as well as the probable results, of that at tempt to penetrate to Madrid, the more iujaditiorts dues it appear to have been ; whether the plan ori ginated with Lord CABILLakAwa, mot was enjoined lion, hence; or whether it sprang from the 'adroit and intemperate spirit of enterprize, 'which charac terises all the military operations of Sir AitTIIVIL, in Asia, and in Europe. To da..11 at once, with. a force of scarcely 9.8.0 h men, into the heurt of New Castile, without previously kaowing that the pass behind him were guarded ; without ascertaining that magazines were, or contd. Lie, provided ; anti without any concerted plan with CLla.t, really exceeds any of ALExerinErt's sidilime acts of temesny, recorded by ARRIAN, or by QtitbITIJS Cutcrtus. CLIAIILLS Xii. could have done no more, when contending against Muscovites or Poles, a hundred years ago. lied Sir ARTUUII, then, profited so little by Sir Junm Moon's ex perience and information, us to expect from COMA, efforts of firmness. op W41'001.11001 of skill and discipline, !ritual to repelling the attacks of Vteroa, Misicrien, and SLOASTIANL' (Jr did he hope, with a little band of foreign auxiliaries., un supported by the Spaniards, to drive before him the veteran armies of France, far soperior to him in. numbers, and drawing their supplies from Ma drid ? Iti as. be, or could he lee ignorant, that the country, from At/fit:l7 avid Oropesa, to Toledo, through winch he must ot ucct ssity march, was out only in general sterile and depopulated, hat hid been already devastutr d and devoured? Surely these consJeratroloi might to have arrested his im petuosity; or would have fully justified his depar ture (rum the sliders of the Cabinet he..; if, alter all, we can suppose any Mini-tors so besotted, or so destitute •C reflection, as, while the accusations end charges of Sir June Moose were singing in their ears, to enjoin Sir Aar nen WELLESLEY to attemptastill more impracticable enterprise, than Mr. Fates, or Moat A, proposed to the British General, last autumn.. But, even if Lord. WELLINGTON had really vanquished the French et Talavera ; we mean, as Bun ramrishes ; mot !cueing his wounded, three days afterwards, to the cure of his vanquidad enemies ;—if he had been able, without mules, or carriages, or provisions, to pursue the flying foe, and to entt r lladrid ; a hat than x Could he pare maintained himself in that capital I Would not the four armies of Vu von, MONTIAR. NEV. and Sim" antountiug to 65,000 men at least, inde pendent of the garrison of the various towns of A r. r:igon and the two Cestiles, hart surrounded him ? Ilbght he not,.precluded.from any possibility of re. tre:it to Bads*, or to Alcaotani, and plunged into the very centre of the Peninsula. here been redueed.tw surrender? Ditl he rely nn CVETTA end Vtaktus to repulse the troops of Nassui.koi P Or woo it on the torero end enthusiasm of the Castilians. that he reposed his confidence? Or did be loolsto the exertions of the t'teiprerne Junta, to the abilities of their Secretary'. MAaTI V DN. GA. RAY. and to the impulse which his arm brother, the Marquis, was to give to the Spanish coos...ruined All these were broken reeds, as he moat. or saght to have keown. The measure of marching on Madrid, was. al, iniris, and d. priori. wrung. flu subject is fall of natter as run be seen *hemmer Parliament meets. Letter. end Paper% from Holland to the 2tith ultimo.. have arrilod It appears by the fortn.r that the emhargn ha, heen taken olf wll in-smut treacle in the porta of France att.l Holland, 'limn the rapreas coleht , cm, however, that none of them shall enter an FAl L :bah port ; and that if wart heti by our cruiser*, they ..hall. if afterwards captured by French crimes cutindored en Waal prises to the capterl. - __ 4s,z s %, Tuc COI,RI' Yesterday, nlmut t I VIL o'clock, Ilia MAj tsir y came to town, from Vt indoor, end wee received a Elie (,lawn's Palace by tae Dukes of Xtwr um' CESIDERLAND. Soon after two o'clock, fins ib.fnr.srt Lei(' a p... vete Levee, which wasi offended 'n— i*, Lord Chancellor ; the First LwJ of the Trearorl and Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Lord President of the Connell ; the Lord Privy Seal ; the Secrete], of State ker the limos peril-tomtit ; the 11 aster. General of th e Q,A, trance ; the First Lord of the Admiralty ; the l'resideLt 4 the nowt of Trade; the Pres:dent Of th e Bused ut eotitrual the Cuormunder-ia• Chief ; the Judo Advocate ; the Artie hishop of Caitterhiley ; the Bishop of Bangor; Earls bid. house sod Cutudry ; lords Arden (in waiting ; il ea :Mi t t& (Rohl *tick), and Deerhsirst ; Generals Sir Julat Craslort and Stewart ; Colonels Torrent' *ud Nichols ; Major Moots,. landiert ; Copt:Liu roarer, it. N.; Ms. l;st (gloom in swatting). Tut following hail the honour of being prescotd to Ilia :11.tJe.STY : Mr. Perrevol, upon his being appointed First Lord of 1111 Majesty's Treasury, in the room ui the Duke of Porthiad, resigned. blit;or-General the Earl of open his being a p.. pointed to the comminid of the bt It Garrison Battalion Liena-Geweral Sir .bohu t:roduck, wpm ties retort. front Gibraltar. _ The Curl of Coventry, ■po coming to KA title, by Vo count Drei-Lunit. Lieut.-Colonel Torrent, upon his being appc.i.ted tary Secretary to the Cotniaaiiiirr-in-Chist, by Sir Darla Dumdum, the Curnentiter-iii-Chia. The lieu. Mejur-tientrat Steuart, upon hie return kiwi Zealand, and upon his being appointed to the t.:ulutielcy of the 34.1 Ilattation of the 97. th I:ri/neut. M.jor Nlcentalainbert t Permanent .Assistant-Quarter-Mas- ter-General, upon tins return front foreign eeee ice. Capt. Beaver, K P upon his return front the West Licut.•Culuael Nichols, of Ilse ieth Regiment of Fotob 111/(41 his return from %Vali:litres. Dr. MAJENDIK did homage before His MA -IV.STY, upon his being translated trent the Bishop ric of Chester to the Bishopric of Bangor. • llis MAJEsry gave annirrices to thr Low CRAY CRLLOR, kr EWTHOttLA ND, LIVERPOOL, CAN CRATIIAIt, and ii•Attownir ; Lola* Mot - (MANE and HEATIIIIRED ; Sir DAI , I1) thniDes ; PERELVAL and ; the latter ot wht ln Intit liefore Hid MAJLere the proceedings of several (:tiiirtii-Martial. HIS ;NW EbTY dirt not holds Privy Council. Seim ufter fox o'clock His MAJEnTY net ud un Lis retort' to Windsor. The LORD CHANCELLoR went yesterday to the Levee, in the Earl of LIVERPOOL'S Carnage. He arrived there about a quarter to two o'clock. tart CAMDEN arrived at half-peat two. The Eck of CHATHAM and Al'esvaiout.aan accompanord each other. They were followed In the EIA of HAI- InWalr. Lord Metnaavudid not arrive until half-past three o'clock. There is untruth in the report, that a King's Measenger We* sent off hist night to J.cl.ind, with a message 140 Dr. DUICERAN, larding tuna to aci.tpt a sent in the new Cabinet. The F..isrl of CHATHAM slid not r:-.turn lust ertn ing front the Levee until nix o'clock. It u generrJly supposed, that Marquis WELI/1- Lit will decline the honour of serving in Mr. Ptla cceAt's Mnartry. Ills Lordship is , a flirt's(' Noll tici.w, and probably consider it a shunt-litcii buone,s. None of the Ministers gave a Cabinet chimer yes terday. thy Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, after the Lifer, yesterday, set off fur Addington, where hr etiturtoinefl a party of Nobility at simper. The Duke of Yon: has been on a eisit to• Sir .fAsts.s Pt; s.Tutar, at his seat, near Brandon,. in Norfii:k. From thence, Isis Royal Highness pre crtded to the Duke of ItuTLANtis, at Cheveley. His Royal Highness will go from the Duke-of livrt A N D'S to the Marquis of Desercoatt's. The Duke of POITLAND %fli* conviderrd la a very dangerous state ye%terd,iv. Mr. Hose, elle aucteou, and Mr. %%MILER, the apothecary, wore with hie Grace till two o'clock in the morning. The Duke and Uktteherro of IlftuNswiLi hove yt to ltusemosao ler their profiles, to lre prtbenttd to Their MAJEsTiLit. We untletratand that the City of London moan to invite His MAJ MY to dinner on the 2.5111 of dot penitent month, the grand day of Jubilee. The following operas. we understuuri, are in preparation at the Dulditi theatre, to display di,. Itnnvallvvl talent* of Mr. ISRANAII gig vis Fatst Alamo; T. thoDim's Family Q ; The haunted Tower; The Siege qf Belgrade; Lionel end Clarissa ; and The Canner. _ _ During the disgraceful fracas which took pl:n r at. the 13,,t Coom ttttt Councd, a party of the 6.14- triers' Company seined the aisportinnty to smite the windows, We forbear to otter any comments on so pray-ful a subject. A geatlrmsn's servant beinx refused entrance into Guildhall, yesterday, czclaitned—•• This is too• had, to refuse admittance to one of the Livery." The Skiip.—Oile of the late in his aa dress to the Common I 1011, assured them. t h an their vote of thanks would act as a retainer on hit heart, and engaie• lsie „ for their future servisl.• N. U. lie is ass attorney. • Minus Tutimax.eim•atsir-sravre.,Sta.i r r —We onderitand this little Thiistre never betom experienced such a brilliant and erwi,led audience. as ottetnied at the opening of it, on Tuna:lay Out and, by the applause, the EmP.uog of all CON JUKSIIIS evil his meritorious faintly received, we think this snug hale Theatre will become one of the mast fashiooable lounges. this season. in that .part of the metropoliu—(See /141,crtisetrate is the ft-sot of this raper./ A state of olootsbt has often been ii • the RlOtt intolerable of sensation.: if ins lie true, the preso:nt l.nttcry. at Jere, rritin% All t) as to time. for. by 'lnuring the whole in one thiv...:l (1V excuses fo., delay, all the saetila..nnA of uncer tainty lire resolved into a prtetniotoqy Are nr N•; the Ayes, which form 111.04 ity, ore liudly invited to No. 8. Chnriote-Cross, win oe the Lottrey loaves end fishes nre dole ontstoi.soted. with Knott faith and gratitude, by t h e ralati.'4 devoted Ser i want, 1444:u • the dud itsel *pm the cow 110 I dug •fFr the the Pi•, SO ; fon the wlv strt for. rr)v Wi' or do ;~.~+ ...~