The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-04-24 00:00:00

7 11191 " , ' r.. - . THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDQN, ft . ►MONDAY, A Pal L 4. CONIMENC FNI ENT OF HOSTILITIES. IRRUPTION OF THE AUSTRIANS INTO BAVARIA— BONAPARTE'S ARRIVAL AT STRAW KOH.. We have received Dutch papers to the 2i bt inst. containing the Paris news to the 17th. The Aut.- triaos, under the Archduke Cuss Les, hare ad vanced into Bavaria, and BONAPARTE had on the 45th reached Strasbtirgh, on his way to place him self at the head of his army in Cermany. The die is thus cast, and that act, which in its consequences, mutt, 'acCordiug to all I. moan ieusoiting and calculation, either sweep the fuee of Europe, the remaining dynasties the noticed-line, or set souse limits to the further 1..0.4re5s of the Corsican destroyer, is eonimitted. Low, end, fin doubt, relu . etant hesitation, the lioll4e of Austria has preferred the chances of open resists o re, to the humiliating endurance of further i nsa I ts, e4oions and outrages, cu the part of NA• 101.ros. (hi the magnanimity ofthat determination, there t enonly be nee opinioa, but, true imignanimity must he ureter the control,' and gold:nice of iris or it eon ooly precipitate on misfortune. We must, however, incline to believe, that in the ;resent Maumee, it is an effort, nol of despair, or impatience, but a .ysteniette measure, dictated in deed by necessity, yet embraced from pokey and sound reflection. If any thing could conlirtu us in this conviction, it is the tt proclamation of the Archduke CitAakes to the Austrian to my." We are not onrprized that it has roused the tiger from his den. IIori•PARTE, with laiFlialacteriltie velocity, will be soon net the lan, or on the Danube. The Elector of BA, ARIA, on the other hand, abandouing hiutsich, has fled to Dillingen, while the ARM DUKE will probably press forward towards Lands but. or Stranbieg. :c his Proclamation, that Prince has touched eerly chord, and moved every string, which can awaken the energies, end east the courage, or the loyalty, of his soldiers, and his countrymen. Let those who read it as a mere common Address from ai Commander to his forces, erstapare it with the E.:Toenails or Manifestos of the Court of Vienna, in 17. N, in 1800, and is 1805. The Archduke's aKtial •.sill be fell, not only throughout the Au t.um fi.ate,: it is intended and calculated for eiser meridians. It will he received and cherished .: Constantinople, at Kola's/slat rg, at Dresden, sod u:Stittgard. Even st Petersburzh and at Moscow it may produce impressions. Who does not be li TV@ that at Naples, at Seville, and at Lisbon, it wilt operate? Perhaps, even at Madrid. The in vocation to their tt Brothers in Germany, 3 et in the rank. of the enemy," will not be lost on them ; nor will the expression of ts conquering a lasting peace." se, often prostituted ill die manifesto* of Nesperiens, be without itsdue impression. Lastly, thessissuranee that tt Soon wilt foreign troops, in strict union with us, attack the common eneinive." Whatever ins terpretetion we may give to thme mysterious words, whether they regard only the 'Turks; or whether, as we are to believe, Prii-sia, Saxony, and even cf...., may ereiltaally he alluded to in them, a short tine will fully deinmistri.e. We received Latt night Po..ni.oc,e papers to the 6th ise4. announcing the arrival oI t .ciperal HILL's force at LlAlloll.—They also tanorai a Pm:lrina tint' of Graeral llaesroat► to the-Portuguese, sti mulating them to extraordinary exertion. In this article, which is dated Head -quarter*, Calharia. Acrd Y, firiverul BLUES l'Ottn eolith:mils the sur *ronder of Oporto, as the result of insubordination and destanio3 arm the part of the Portuguese.— " The great city of Oporto"—General BERES FORD says, in this proclarnation,-4 , defended by 2 1.000 men, with treucliew and redoubts, furnished with more than 200 pieces of artillery, thus fell an easy conquest to an enemy of little more than half the number of its garrison." This is certainly a very pretty sample of Portuguese valour and calm 'Man. We participate in common with every British subject. to whom the glory of his country, and the honour of the Navy is dear, in the meritorious and fGrtunate result of the attack made ou the enemy's squadron lying in Basque Roads. Far be it from either to diminish or to depreciate the merits .tr that daring, judicious, and successful enterprise ! Bat, while we thus gladly recognise and coinme niqrate its merits, we cannot, Ou the other hand, rank it among those iwtm which are correctly stiled moral eictories. Tlic ships of France which struck their fists, were sot viper, nor could be removed. It was necessary to hurts them where they lay ; t. r was the destruction of the squadron by any means approaching to total. That a Ministry.which • bed the Tower and Park guns for the news of the Castration of Cintra, should cause the same deinoustration of national joy, for such an event as the present, cannot excite surprise ; nor do we blame it. But, whether it merited • gf , a"ral ,illuniimitino, we have some doubt. The certainly was thrown out, both on Friday mid Saturday night, at all the Pubbe-Olg ees .- 1 'my indeed, and the public were given to underMaisd, th Nfisii sters expected a general illumination; but the City or Westmin ster. although justly proud of its gallant Repre sentative, who arrived in town just in time to in crease the eetee. did not catch the enthusiastic spark that bUrialt in the breast of M:siistiers, and there was no general iSloinimation. 'rise puldie, we think, in this *hewed their good sese.r.—Throe tertitnoilies of exultation should be spaiingly ex hibited, lest, by extruding the circle, we 'scam' its effect on the mind. While speaking on this subject, we cannot pass without comment the expressions in Lord (lam- Dick's letter, relative to " the Ursine Forma sheen towards the. King and us," on the present occasion. We think that, in all mention* of the interpo sition of the DEITY towards particular kings or nations, great judgment should he observed. Lord GAMOIER Pap, " The Almighty's Favour to Ills Majerty and the nation has been 'strongly marked in the success he has been pleased to give to the op eraions of III.: NIAJESTY'd fleet under my command." So BON PACTS regularly says, when • executing the most utrochma or flagitious enter prises. fie order* his Bishops to 'render thanks to God, for the battles of Tudela and 01 Madrid, gained by him over his allies the Spaniards. Be sides, it is very well for Lord lionxtie or Lord MLitt:4, whenju flees-us 1709, sem HOC they enaijuished iu adios a fleet of the enemy, and took or killed the French Admiral, to render thanks to God iu their letter, as the giver of victory. But it is a different matter, to boast of "the Almighty's favour," on having burnt four ships of the French line, including as such the Cakutta, which is only a 36 gun ship, loaded with flour and military stores. We never can confound these actions, so dissimilar, under the same deonininsition, nor af fix to them the same expressious of public joy and gratitude. The King luta been tilkase.l to appoint James .sedgwiek, James Jacknoo, and Samuel Hose, &qrs. to he Commissioner* of Excise an Semlandi m the room of Jarn.ls Stooldart, Hobert Kora. and S,r Jultaa Stu:art, Bart. removed. - The Right llonooroble CnAnt.Es Altilt:THNqT, nue of His MAJE,iTY . II Moat tiotiouralde Privy COsancil, is Monica to serve in Parliament, for the borough of Eye, in the room of the Honourable lIr:aas‘VELLIGSLLIGoIIohos accepted the Chiltern HuorlreM. The Gazette, of Saturday night, contains the appointnic.o of Mr. SE:nowica to be one of the Commis•inio•rs of the Excise in Scotland. This gentleman wrote a pamphlet to ddence of Lord .Yleta.rtt:t.F. The Gazette of Saturday night contains en Order in Council, desiring all ships coining from the ports of Stockholm and Carlscrona to perform quaraii . tine, iltlieFi it shall appear, after the usual exami nation.. that the crews of the said ships Ore in a healthy condition. All vessels also, which shell be laden with goods of certain kinds, coming from any of the ports of Sweden, are likewise to submit to examination, and each goolls to andergo the usual prra•ess of smog for 15 days. An • •fections disorder haviug broken out iu Sweden. is tits cause of this order. On Saturday, the Duke of YORK, several of the Ministers, and a select party, dined with Mr. DENT, at hie house in Ilertford.street. A meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Dublin was fixed for Thursday last, to return thanks to Mr. Vt'sancr, in pursuance of • requi sition, at the head of which are the signatur es of the Earl of Mears and Viscount MOUNTJOY. The NI AY oft of Lynn has refused to call is Meet ing, f ur the gl4tPll.4lbie , purpose of returning thanks to Mr. W t ROLE. Sir FRANI:II BU*DFTT was prevented by indis position from attending the Livery of London dim suer on Friday. The Election of a Temporal Peer, in the room of the late Marquis of SLIGO, closed on Friday se's.- night. Tlw muntiers were, For Lord Nloaatjoy Earl of Leitriai is ... Lord Rosally - - ---- , - Whereopoo the Cl e rk of the Crown and Hana per declared Lord Viscount Moult - mit duly elected. The Ceres, GRASA74 ; J4lll sad Ann. SMITH ; and the Throe, from Portsmouth to the North, were captured on Monday last, near Beachy, and the two former stink. Thursday morning last, shoot six o'clock, as some Ittruuer.u . oleo were watering their horses in 4 pond at Fawley, Oxfordshire, they discovered the body of • person geuteelly dressed,- lying in the water, .sliieb nii examination, we •ire sorry to state, proved to be Pnit.te LYtint; Powys, Esq. brother to the very Reverend the Dean of Canterbury, and fathe.r-its-law to the Rev. E. Conran, of Ilainstal Ridware. Turn following account of this most melancholy neciderit may he rehire! on: Mr. Powys had beret to the Quarter Sessions at Oxford, end was returning home, uccompanied by THnldas COOTrIt, Fay. When they got to the lose leadi n g from Assendon to Fawley, Mr. Powys got out 01 the chaise to walk house, lint amt was then gettiog dark. alr. ('ouern wished him to permit the chaise to gn round, or else have some one to attend Trim home. but he refused both, say lug he could Mill his way hhndfnldrd . Smite person wilh a lantern (slow by itt%t strtertraruls, rod sherruti him by by the sprttig at Assendon, *Heti is Mir very high, and Mr. Ponjui gave hint is shilling, sod said he did not waist him any (sinker, hut as it was getting very dark tne man lunch wished to see him home ; this he refused, telling him 41.41th:it he could And his *ay Nitidfolded. It is general). thought be must have been overegine by fright, us the water scarcely covered &mould there appeared tot brtui , es of consequence about him ; his watch, ensue gold, rte. was fo,ud out him. Nn TOO could he more eiteemeil, or sincerely lamented. In him the poor have lost a valliside friend, and • iicii4ty-a man of the most 'onside disposition. . / .s ~- (41 POETRY. THE DISA ITCH NTII ENT. AY THE •111T1101. 0/ NILO REXTAIT. • —••••• Who. all alone, amid th , . tit ;ne t t &ear, O'er the lun Bee, in riimi”atoin, sits; And scowls, with wrinkled hr...., and visioo blear; And stirs the Are, and ribs 'smithies, by fits! His wig, by fidget fingers pull'd awry, Owns he astray he sr-use, ,th c , solly care That U.CU to 'taco its killing lot 1 tr Awl Nafi . the powder sad polonium there ! wifht ! by hope sod Hymen spurted, 'Tie bury, imperial love ! thy brain mid wig has turu'd ! Alas! what boots it, that silk. liedight, And boots, by Martin Idacied, thou wutest the fear ! Useless the stroll a ithin the fair ewe). sight, The lesseted gait, and meekly pensive air ! Intlifrreoce, chilling as the .',.tees Leese, Views, ar.coacem'd, thy piinaufss and thy pains Then shoe the thsiskless task, the fair to please, And doff thy silken vest sad golden chains,— Aml claim sgalo thy Eacheturian wa,s-- Unkempt the r. or 4 leas wig—nocualed the graceful phrase! Blisaftil as were thy :,it, with each a nrort. If to thy. waning year. her heart teethed; A•dgrateful m would prove her tender nod, • Whet, sicLues. MHO, tie cares appeess'il the mud ; Trost Dot the calm of lures deceitful sea, In sncli n skiff, as erery-agnall might mar, — bet thy frail hark ts fore the storm should flee, Or sink itsatd the eleruental war , Hat held thy wind, on shot es which fear no eta ice, And scud the stnnsid lake ufsileut, sisi;le life. Alt, see be yields to his rehrotler. Cute; And pride lights top the eye., which love had part' The jet nag waiter's talrd, the reekuoines straight, A sixpence soma the tongue., that sland'ams rain& With re n d up skirts, beteg* the streets Nowa, On rueful nag, auvirited by corn,— And leaves, with transitory sigh, the tow", lhity and deear--ooperfutri'd and unshorn; But clieerly 'basks, as slow he homeward rides, &Mee Oilier fair may prize the heart that she 111S1110:148LE 41111.4N0R MEN IS THIS ITI.EIf. TOW DAY. Messrs. Brabant, Minton', and Naldi's concert, Wdlies Rooms—Masquerade at the Pauthcoa—Douseer Deedless of Newcastle's (mad rout, Charles-street, Herkek).square-- Lads Blatket's grand rust, Port ntan.squara. so.uoanon Mrs. Jaelsson't grand root, Manchester-square. wrnsir.•naw. Mini. Nam cm of Hertfurirr giAllti rout, Manchester-square. --Ana 'rut Mu.ie, Defter' slue". /111..RiD A Y. Lady Heatheote's grand rout, Grosvenor-square. FRIDAY. 1 - Tarrisolis concert, Hanover-suit:lre NATIIRDA Y. Mr. Denis diaper, Dertf.nd street, Mayfair. FJBLLIONS FOR NAY. (trim " At-Jerome. &plenary if Ares," 4e.) SALT. OR .a. made • White satin slip, under a crape dress, ... to it the flzare very 'Rattly, ent op, n an front, and hound all' tumid with white milli edition and a row of beads, linked together is frost with hands of betide loosely ansperided• M separate distances; short sleeves the same. Fall richly spangled.— Pearl necklace, nith diamond clasp in front ; eat'-rings and bracelets to suit. White shoes striped In scarlet or blue. Hair in rineets on the forehead, and lightly timed up be hind with a 'diamond comb. Petticoats very short. w rut Rif tell. Dress a wLte Scotia washing al. Biship's mantle of sage or olive rein striped nit plain silks, made entirely without seams ; border of the same colour. Hal to Nitre ste%J, akeel deareated with set:Arial dowers. Shoes sage or • iive-v sea, also to t orrespood. cr SSSS L . tiIIsIRVATIONs. Spanish hate, which ham been worn all the winter, with feathers, tor Nil (hest, are now coeverted hit,, 'Mk mg hats, substituting flowers instead of froth's , . klron hats and bonnets, ortiam• • with dowers, aud white silk liars, are making their a ppe3rance for the season Light silk mouth.*, of all colours, are much worn. Spencers, of a beautiful grey, oinanientril with silver, slot louttoned, bat tied loosely at the neck, form a must elegant 'drew. The. Scotia silk, which we introduced in last aumbei is MOM in great request for dreams, as is also the spotted ruoelin. Colours vary with the taste of the individual i silver grey is uu.piestionably the most elegant aud the must fashinnah‘.. The Untwist to in troduce long waists has completely failed; they have not, nor will they rest, become fashionable. The full dress of this Dumber is the present standard. 4; S N LLLL IN's ORIONIS. Under this head ar have lie other alteration to record in the present mouth, except that Witber breeches, of a very deep colour, appioaching to brown, aud hoots, are much worn by gentlemen It will be recollected, that, in nor huoiber fur March, we announced the proliability of such a change. • GRAM, tidPl'iS.l/. On Saturday, the Wont Sun of the Earl and Countess of JERSEY was baptoied, at his Lordship's house in Berkeley-square. The preparations were iu the most spleurini style ; at seven o'clock in the evening, the ceremony was performed in the grand back drawing-room, by the Rev. Mr. Ramis.: his Royal Highness the Prince of WoEss, w y tl , erson, and Lady Pomansav as proxy for Lady ELIZA. 111.:TH VIELtEss, who was prevented from attending by indisposition, were sponsors; the child was named Gaming FaxoEstcx At: ciEsrcs, after Ins Royal Highness the Prince of W• 1.111. A mast sumptuous dinner wain:yeti up, of which the Sponsors and the following company partook—. Marchioness of Dowasbire; Fads Westmorland and Yar mouth ecount sal Viiienonatsa rhsueansou ; Lords Burgh es& sod Poem/04 Colour! Bioamaeld, sad Mr. Gauge Yellers. Yesterday mor iiiii K, 1* AJESTT, Princesses AUGUSTA and MARE, accompanied by Lady Its.. SELLA TiivstiE ; the Honourable Mrs. Douai': Generals de BUDE and Owen ; and Colonel l'syl no ; rode to St. Georgia Chapel, and heard a Sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Cousstia„ froin the Gospel of*. Mrittliew,chaw. 15, wrest.% 36 and 3i. Jr... took the sties loaves sod Sloe fishes, and do - s Ih oh*, an.l WA( them, and gave his Mmtplat, ati..t the di.rioles to the multstetle, and they did 411 eat, sea *ens Afterwards, the Royal party return.sd to the Pa lace. On Saturday their Royal Highnesses the Princess of WALE, and Princes. &won* of Utoucurrin visited the exhibitioo of the Suciery elf Painters iti Water (Wolin', open at the Great Rooms, Spring garden., lately removed from Old Mind-street.— Their Royal Highnesses expressed themselves highly gratified at the paintilags, and remained about two hours. It is the Intention of her Royal Highness the Ptifltrte4 of Wsir ES 15 inspect them &gaits after the exhibition closes. , . , seeerree'Sfererist.,.‘ • -. JOHN BOWLES. . • . , This Ilyal end religions gentleman, 14 ho maims such, a coimpieuous li4ure, es one of the /oesois '. knew, and disiaterested Dutch Couittitibieiers., ;m -gaged. about the year leoti, in a weekly neer.- paper, called t‘ The 'lista-Jacobin," with Mr. t 'Ate- NING, the present redoubled and highly ennoided Secretary of State, and Mr.Jo•N (loosens letiaar, a relative, we suppose, of the celebrated dipitunatic hero who had instructirms, no d..ubt, as a nose versed in the disposnion of columns, to eriturnatu I the late lamented Commander-in.ehief,Geu.'Sir JqElll - t Alooet, in Spain. Ur. CLONING, being a light 4 artillery gentleman, and Mr. Faces:, whose fancy . . was *leo of tinder-like inetreinle, and easily set in a blase, were, we are assured Ly a weekly writer, hi conjunction with Mr. Gemini Eests. the pnnelpel f.ibrientots of the articles published at the Anti jacolan shop ; hut, in setting the thing os futil e they were nnalde to proc eed without the experience of Mr. Jon"; Bow Les, who, from what 'entree the reader may e icily judge, (we quote Convert.) 6 mud . . , t, the means of settilig all the machinea in motion.. But, whether the three-persons, Itefore mentioned. thou g h t that JOHN'S weighty 'meter would be apt to he tee helvy for the wire-drown work in which they escclled, or whether they were afraid that he ...., - -4 , I would, fame his superior abilities, aspire to be rte ~,- : head of the li rm , th ey soon jost l e d him emit of the i . . 1 . concern, for whi c h, i t i s en d, t h at Jose nets? +. ... cordially forgave them. Messrs. CARESS.' and Co. being engai;eil in other branches of business at the, same time. were , h owever , compelled to • have assista n c e ; mi d, not liki ng to take an ad ditional prettier into the h ouse ,. t h ey got a re spectable j ou r ne y man to superintend the busi ness for them, a M r . Ch rrono; b ut his 11 F ' powerful abiliti es cou ld on l y support the totter , ' g fabric for a while, and at the end of ell nurnbe.• it died a natural death. Report states, that ti.iti melancholy catastrophe was amply cempensatid to Mr. CIFFOED in places and pensions, of which, as we kilo , * nothing, we shall mike no titeotinti ; but however great, they did not induce if this hero to withdra w ent i re l y I mu the field ; f u r we dud hint shortly after. i n ronjenetion with the redoubtable Mr. C o s ner? , then just fresh Indite& . I (rem America, engaged in th a t contemptible pilot , I , ‘ The Poreupise, which, thou4is *tipi4 •.l 4401;1y ) front the Treasury, aud a id e d by Illr. Girroslieis . t talent*, certainly not inconsirle•atille, fell to-'shi' . , ground :; the premature age of.three months and three days. Mr. CORBETT, having flirt' exhaust. ed the pn)slic treasury as far ILO it woidel, inner • i t to be cheirted by him, turned patriot, and set up i his Weekly Register, upon exactly the plan of Cu. lone) Guano e's job at Chelsea, charging the pub. ' ' ..;.' lie twelve pence f or n i ne - tent h s o f the minter pre. viously detailed to them in the daily newspa l iers, at the rate of lid. a piece. So g r ea t a l i t erary p i rate v and impos;or. as far as regards en. daily Newepapers, i ' i ' ,-. • which are the original sources of all intrthr-stre, I r and the parties that bear wit the expe nse , hat can- - i 4. not avoid being plunde r ed by suc h seep us Consort, t tweet perhaps existed before his time. • Bat we have waudered from his ei-rleewna fellow l a b ourer , 1 t June Bowers. Now to return to that gentleman. . He is the very man, who, after the Loth of the lute 'i linke of BEDFORD, wrote a Pamphlet, iii which that amiable and most valuable enaracter is de- .1 noiniced as unworthy of christian burial; because he did not frequent in winter at Woburn, a church that had no roof, and because his servant* in ins it'.. sauce happened to clean a 6.h-pored in his Josssaii., • on a Sunday. We may venture to say, that seen-d -ing to their own profeseione, there is i.ot a more virtuous man than JOKE Bowies, nor a nto eche. interested Gentleman limit Mr. Vt .. • IREIAII Con- .1 SEW. 7111011111CIIMILIGIli The preparations tins I vei,i,, at the Pui,the-,n are very grind—it is said, it null be the mot F.:1.• pert, thing that has appeared for a giant outalm r t f years. Amongst the illuminations on Satarlay night, in honour of our recent naval sucresees, that eycell , et Institution, the Warehouse at t'lisrisig i. • o s, tar the Distribution ef the 1 allow Fever Iteniedy, sae' particularly bruin-int and appropriate. Only two days to draw, and the capital Prizes of 40,0001. 5,0001. 1,31/01. :,001. &c. mac now i,e gained by adventurittg before next biursday morning. The attachment of Dame Fortune to her favour ite agent. Sir J. BRANSCOME, was never it ore cot.- apieuous than in her partiality last Friday, April 21. Ire sold in shares that day, in additinn to hi s former r sucsee, a on,unul. a 10,0001. a 5,0001. a soul. lie. and, no doubt, hes to dispose of the remaimil Capital Prix •s of eO,OOOl. 8,0001. 1,0M,1. soot. alts. now in the Wheel, which must he drawn either on Thursday or Saturday next. On Thursday, after the election of their Direr tors for the ensiling year, the Members of the • ' ',': , Atoneable Society for Lite lissom's" held their ' 1 Amtiversary Dinner at Freemasons' Truett. 'fhe day was spent with that rational convivially. bare tnonv, and teettisionies of loyalty, arid trim pee • • triotosiu, which ar e congenial with the Inedable purpormas if the A...minium, and by which It flll4 ileeli always eli ,, tiliguished. The, Insteittitti may ar, be Cellist the Parent o f Lif e bisisionre, hinting re. • ceived the first charter of incorponition from I t Queen Aesa ; a u d thousands of (empties, of all ranks and deriesiptiess, of the generations which - 1 4 hare since pawed away, who would otherwise have beau destitute, hare hound support through the providence of the husbands - parrot. who have l i' ' ' died inembersof it. For more woefully exteerl nig the benefit% and adapting the pear of the so /ii curt,. to the convenience of the pohlre, Ilia M 9E.Te 1111% lately been pleased to rant his further prowess lion, by. new charter. _-____..........a1i