The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-06-19 00:00:00

. . IMPERIAL PAIWAMEIVT, ~... i • MOUSE Or LORDS,,Satpoiniane‘JunitilT. . . ~.. . —.— i , •oi,, At four o'clock the Loritlia t icellair , ,e•ma doWn to Om Howw, and, safe players nave ki w i; • i • • The Jodie*: Salaries Autiaiatition Bill Inhiced tlirotiklr a Committee of the wLole 114iiiit, and ass reported witholit • ails asucniluicnt. ~. . • ri• .. I, 'The Relevant Standing Or;lirs . weee ordered.to ha,l4lten into eonsideration, on Newsday tiitei, AV; a, eie ttpp their being di:praised with, as far as rehtetid to t fbed and Kent Water-soils Bill It was I indered, on the motion of Lord Wat.spnissAmr, - that the Ceininittee to whom the Leeds atiA Liiirerroul ..:..„.... ..... . . ~. Lrx , Cants Bill referral, do make a report on Monday „ ~ -. t. Some pi irate cad itali",al business was disposed of; Orr , . — t the woe adjuarned ti lltwit,. u ' cloek on MMday. . —_ ..... . FOREIGN I.NTE.LLIGENCE. -......—... INENCH AND DUTCH PAPZILS. . —.. . CAIIIIIM, MAY 28. Our lloniteur, or yesterday, contains an official B n vomit of the retaking of Fott Donaits, by the *.Vestplialias General D'Albignac. The robber, Scholl, left a garrion of 1550 men in the place. A • e.onpaily of gronailiers, who landed at the foot of ! .. -.• . t:c-' wells, coder a well-directed fire of artillery', Is . re su ffi cient to carry the fort, and to pat this ban - - .. deft to flight, with the loss of 400 killed, 300 pri '. . z ..,3 amens. end a great her wounded. By this event, re) Frenchmen, lVestplialitine, and several couriers, who ha I fallen into the halide of Sd,ill, have Lieu *et at liberty. ALTON ,t, ii NE 6. It appears, that some I !reds Of Sehill's corps have effected their escape to the lie of Kugen. --Lamag die prisoner:4 that have fall:a auto the hands -411 f Gen. etatiell. are four of Schdr. officers. His Slajesty has given strict orders to our 1. - • . cruisers and armed vra , sels in the Baltic, to prevent , - ' 'tiny of the rebels in the Isla of Itngen from getting . - ne by means of neutrals. sieve, axe -46.. • ln the night of the 24th, Capt. Tritillier, of the French engineers, passed throligh this place, on his way to the Imperial Ilead.quaiters. Ile lauded at ' Ancona. with ilaiiinit dies from (ienerol. Gardenia, the French Ambassador it) Persia. teseaux, NAY TS. • Gane f .' Wrath., in his address ton general. Ass trembly of the iistiabitains 4114 city, Mille use of tame memorable exproaiosta 'Afitiw piailitig the conduct of the greater—pert of the cititees, ,who took but a very iacoirnltrable share is the jeeill^. 'moue', he cast his eytea amen a Culuit. oboAstaa among the.a. and saidees" 1 beer a list of - dime who misled the, people; your name hat tlte : heid of it." The Count tamed paia*mai dilitie.4 (*at come excuses. "You are aiKestll•putiizited," observed the General, ',, the rebeity,Waseuragal by the per son styling himself Gs. Liewlelse, stussiseed to ilefewl Scliwitets ; *at tow*. chich 1 14 . 9 g0d to you, your homes, and your Imitates, are completely destroyed." T. , e people repeatedly exclaimed, " Lang live King Maximilian Joseph !"—But Gametal Wretle said. " [Jo not oxcleitts. a llog liiathe King;" this exclamation sloes out yet vane from your heart.; whet), io the coarse it a few years i lseace, you leave become better - actliniiiited with km exrellent Primer, thew ..will r)ou esolehoil avah sineority, " Loot; lire the King." .ffplku thirst+, multitude, with one v l uikA, shouted, " lire General W r•de." it ‘ •,,e.4 . .s.. wi-it Alllinap s loft 9l. Tte Gazette of this city eallahm - Ittre'fOlberiss article : ~•.. in •' It may be considered sa ("skein, in the present state of things, that the Imperial De cree. of the 16th of September, 1808, will not only he 'scented with the utmost rigour, bin also that its influence will be extended to all the allies of Fronee, on the Continent ; for if ever there existed a morneet for vitecessfully giving a death blow to the industry' of Great Britain, it is the present. Almost all the crews of Europe bclor.K to France, or her frienda and silica. Trie,te, and Finnic, end Sweden elan, are lost to EngblOri. and the 5110;'et of the Baltic will speedily be furnished with o numerous *tiny, which will must effectually prevent the overflow of prohihited productions. But that. iii the present state of thindc, no other smarm duet that hitherto pursued, ran Lie admitted, nithout operating the ruin of commerce, and par ticularly French manufactures—that the proonis... I "'"so of enter . wit "or port ender the American 0r.4, shottl , t entirely cease—ere propositions, with Cm. both of Allele, all the Om:lobe's of COM 'nt•ree to Franc-, and particularly the Councd .if C'ommeree in Paris, are fully and deeply illicre.soll. 1 o Of the rest:into with ninth our sillies will adopt this system, we may be enabled to front an reenion, from the coosieleration that an Antencati earco, consisting chiefly of dye-stuffs. landed at Tas b r,l i e.-,vn, Ls, been depooked it) the royal ware. homier of Denmark, to swan the deenion of the ' Government; and also, that Keene alemaiuls of 'ivreilen, as ow: of the conditions of peace, that she. s hot s h u t h e r ”oro, z . t.,minst Eugh.h wros....:A. From all the.e ••,:u. , der-itions, it follows that neither c-e- ' Inri:oi prieiin te. nor any other articles of coinnsetee nod amainfature, :rill fall in price ; hist. on irieson- rrary, that they .c ill ripe the moment flet.dWipialelioi viLich arc especial from the earoiy titel.‘tisdiatict the Emperor are :nude known. - TtevoNere wh were al Vieaug, a little before . the entrained of the ~. .1' . , 7P• • -•• :. •••• ~ au i i 'J.., i irs d - 21 c 1,14 i .1 Trench nits that capitol, assert, that the price of Macedonian cottons had then risen from SIM to J6O I, florins. It is said that all that remains of them in the warehouses of Vienna consist of about lu,oeio bales, principally of an inferior quality, and wholly unfit for the purposes of the French and Swiss ma nufacturers. Those of the best quality have been bought np by the English, at Smyrna and in Ma cedonia, and their re-importation to the continent of Europe is prohibited. • In general, the convener- ciai policy of the English kohl theiu to the most scrupulous utceation with regard to this product; its order that o r pu l osewieso of the sow materials may es much as poimiblo favour the sole of their own intunfoctures." ~; torieittilitNt gums O. The following American vessels huge been car ✓ied into Christians:ma :—The Bark . packet, of Marblehead ; Ann, of .• hloston ; Ifewry Edward,. of Gloucester; Good Thetas, Captain Thom nson; of Philadelphia: Bararrumr, Leek. of lseve, ley ; a brig. commanded loy Captain I,?rinkivtiter„ and a ship, twine unknown ; all laden with tir, tobacco, and eottou, from America, for Otitteisburgh. All American ship, in ballast, hoistod for St. Petersburg)), has been captur. 1 by a Danish pri vateer, and carried into f ur. NAPLES, MAY Y.S. Several I,rrnu. I,T.e been apprehended here, under suspicion of their maintiiiiiing a correspond ence with the Court of l'Alermo. A coin inibsion has been appointed to examine their papers. . azimut, MAY 47. On the 22d instant, Nl.,d'l'squijni presenter' his credentials as Charge es of Itis 'Catholic 31.siebty. A Week ago seeeraqorr arrived here, %firm other. Live set out forthe,shores of the Oder, with a :tart of their artillery. • . •" No Governor has yet been noSoitustetlin the place of M.tle Lestocq, who is emporia - 4 hcing en aceorn plke with Schill.., , Geueral Teutonic), who, accord ling to souse papers . , had been arrested, is, in the mean while. Governor. Other arrests are spolti•ii of id Krinhigebteg. It is said, that in posuance of a reusention agreed upon between Alexander and Napoleon, the neutrality of Prussia hos been teens nixed. 4MERIC.4. BOSTON. MAY 3. Defer., we learn, have issued from the Navy De partment, to dsvniande and put in ordinary al: the gun-Loot. on this station. The seamen, excepting two to each guu•he.it, are tinned over to the fn gates, which, we expect, arc to be retained iii coin owsion. The detachment of 0,1 9 ,4 made rtrintineeof smartie, of Government. hits beep also iufortued. Unit it is no longer rejoined to he held is rradinelis fotaetual servu e. PiIII.4DELPIII•. MIV 16. Yesterday arrived the brig Cho, Renegan, Iti dart from St. Jitgoile Guist ; brought with him 416 pliesengers, chiefly women and children, being pan nt the. French inhabitants ordered oil by the 3,000 of whom had sailed for the awl iu vessels hired fur that purpose. lie i n fo rm , MK business was dull, owing to the emigre • of Ihe French ; that fluor was selling at 10 dollars. *pr of duty. MAY le. A letter to the Editor, dated New-Orleans, .4sril 41, says We are all in a considerable „ kindle here—troy!pa flowing ill from all quarters.— The General ciaitatted himself yesterday ; and re ports are aflout.: - that. he is to proceed immediately to bike the Fiewidai ; but tins•ifl aCeortle with his hitting tutieliedit( 4 At. Auguitinc, Pensacola, and lievenna, on his jeuwage hither.. The trisopsliere are extremely sickly ; of 51,04 et, st least. 500 are aew oil the sick 6.4, and the unifier daily tiag usenting." L1..11 .% WV LIB F.L. 771 r linter Journal, of giriafdity.colit4iora a have end malicious libel upon Tait Ileums Eases, des predating its sole, and niisrepreseating •its whole a n y it s : te w in zi d h co i, n e d u n i c. ii t r.rra Vril y l a rancour e i henitte ri.....i t T o A d e t ri nalits . whether conducted by the fatheror the son, the old lug or the young log, it has dared to anderseate the circulation of Tue Battien Payss, almost so much as to defeat the object of the calumny. We ibledg.• the character of Tilt Baguio Petit. a paper never yet perverted to base end villainous uses, either upon the Stock Exchange; w agriast private character. that the Nseri: increase upon the IMale of TIM BntrteM Paalll, within the lest row months, is greater than the *stoma at %Awls The Tian has stated its whole nirealvtion.—This is OM , vein boast. We probably vhall'be called upon for sand of our assertion, istiltrtltrefore cannot Ix to make it lightly.—Aad• kriris4he true ' ace of . the rsge and malice of ISe Tam.' It is ainviouli and jealows of the preepeiktrOtThe liat- MIS Patti, and itiesittittinrty every de leartnsent that consiitcdaii . a newapaper-Look to the debates in Parfianiegtohey are mangled, abridged, and dist , oeil at T he riores; while they see given wit't atnd at length in Tut llitettsu Patti. Look t•• oink local matter,the reader scarcely Ands 1:6 trace wf ii iri TA, Times ; and, as to priority of In qt•igr: ititinigence, on which, backed by a art of :, ° sPockirdstsers, it used to puff itself, until di readers r". • it were sick with nausea, even that feather lt is be:ti long *Mee blown from its cap. This empiric in the Public Press minted upon its abaw.buard the word ezelasiaely, until the town began to hiss sad hint the impostnre, and the letters from " the Banks of the Elbe," and , i the shores of the Bay of liiiseay," those vile and fraudulent i nospositions, tnedicuted in a garret, upon the beaks of the Thome", have, for the same reason, disappeured from its eel irinns.—So far, indeed, from pope ssitig • priority in be-rigor news, it cannot boast erect an equality ; for, of the fourteen Bulletins, detailing the operations alike present most important war in fiermany, it will be found, on reference to the co. Immo of The Times, that it copied the twelfth from THE BRITIsH Pass., and the greater number of the rest from Tue Gian i , The Courier, and other evening , priaiii.—This is no vague and elle chargi.— &era script. causes/.—Let the Editor of The Times Itn,k to his /e„,.-Look, and dirprove our reckoning if be eau. The next imputation thrown upon T H E Jim visa !.'sass. is, that it Is e 'weird of the mat ter of The noes, .net fiir that ,unrtiose Is de layed until that paper is published, in or.i.r to adopt its columns.—'t here is not an VA- Ins, or a Compositor in Loudon, who reels THE BRITISH !'sass and The Thaws, that dues not know this charge to bc a vile and infa mous falschensl, such as no mass, possessing the slightest claim to the character of • Geetleiniiii, world dare to utter.—The concern, of which THE BRITISH Paeu forms a part, in one and the same property, is the largest of the k nil ii. England. and youserineistly ice the world: and there is not, perhaps, in this city, a daily newspa per that has not iu its establishment mile one compositor who formerly belonged to Ties Barrisn PRESS; yet in the face of so many persona do we assert, distinctly, licit never, ill a single inssance, was the publication of THE BRITISH Passe pieta poised a single mouielit in contemplation of evader itself of the 'natter, or ratchiog intelligence from any cootemporary print. The charge of such ig system is, on the face of it, a falsehood ; for it is welt and universally known, that Tue BRITISH PeEsis is published uniformly before The Times, and indeed every other paper that pretends to giye the debates in Parliament. This calumny will, ' however, in duce us to make one change in our system. We will in future state the hour of our publication, and also, as far as we came ascertain it, the hour ante publication of Ike Times, to show how much the former it earlier than its rival. But, %opposing that THR BRITISH PaEss had de parted from the regular system, recognised among Newspapers, we ask, bow dares 7%e Times to com plain ' Only a few years, we think three or four, have elapsed, since seam of the Papers published the Ghost of The Times; mini how has it siuce con trived to revive, and appear clothed .with any thing like assils about it? By the assistance of a set of stock jobbers, upon 'Change, who ea I it the City Piper, by scheming and shifting.—One day it is a mi. • g pup er ; the next day it holds back its pub lication, to avail itself of the port letters, and take the ground of the evemag papers ; next day it breaks in upon the Sabbath, and strives to usurp the side of the Sunday prints. No sense of de cency, or liberality, or respect for other peo ple's property, restrains it within a particular sphere.—lt feels no impulse but its own con venience, and is governed only by • sordid selfishness. How omit the public be disgusted, alien a isoterions poacher complains against a mall for shooting upon his own manor ? But this is not all.—lt hue been the uniform practice of The Times' office, and all whom it could influence, to abase and depreciate Tat BRITISH Peese.—The latter was scarcely established, when The Times en tered iii:o *mobil:taboo against it.—lt even was base enough to offer a bribe to a person in the es- i tablislenent to purloin an article coininitted to his care, which otter was indignantly reject. , 4 by thes: honest sereaut to whom it was made, and the pre. sent Editor of The Times has, in total disregar4 . of every frelitig and principle that eharac arise , not only a gentleman, but a fair ftselenium, in one instance, 'seduced a person from the em. ploy of The Barns,. PRES% by the offer of a. larger salary; and in another actually coutractud witil a person to break an existing and positive is. gegement. Th 4 recent libel upon THE Bet rise Perm appeurs, tinder all these sarcisinstalices, to be an open declaration of a system of envy and jem leery long Inlet' upon by The Times, and which the incressieg prosperity of Tut. Bettlint Passe, acting upuu a had heart and a week head, hell forced lute avowed warfare. On our first Pyramid of it, we were so forcibly tarifa by its malignity and falsehood, as to be iiiduced to take legal Aldine, upon the proper coin'e to pursue iii the case of so atrocious • volumes,. The malt of that advice has been to inculcate that we could obtain ini legal re dress until November ; and that the villainous at. • tempt, IF any blow, struck by so base And foul 111 hood, could injure, must have produced its effect before that time. It has limit therefore deemed the most eligible course to make this flair and candid . ' statement to the public, reserving to -tunsel yes, its we do, our right to appeal to the law. of the country, in the event of any injury that may possibly arise from the rile, atrocious and unfounded libel in The 71rus . . . ;. 4 • - • . Ti i E BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. MONDAY, hive to. We hove received efflie De& ul Frielbli pa per.; lint none of a later date than those eland, Before the public. The latter coataia au article dated Autt.erp, tl,e sd instant, from which it sp. preres there is no foundation for the report received iii ski. country from America, that the French De cre s would Ise relaxed in favour of the Uuited State.. It is indisputable that the arts of BON A P ARTE have coot , and do still contribute, to ea firtu hi. supremacy over the Continent, and to rivi•t its cnsins, um less thou his arms and tactics lint: ef. it* subjugation. Nev..r, at any proud of timeolid Nature unite iti one luau au :0.1113 fliorteri. L014:013t4..1 to übta , a NMI too peroetitice ills dominion over the g10be...- While Lis victorious armies, us in ISO s , amid ti... three a iecesdieg yeent, overran, rt ith comosrath e fae;lity, all the countries that he attacked or vd , 1,• , 1, the necematy for circa's:venting, and deceiving those whom he had previously subjected, was not so urgent. Hi, sword, like that of BIIEN NOS, in antiquity, at once turned the scale. sod dispensed in some measure with any other effort or weapon. But the case is nuneriallp altered in iseo. This awful and rapid coutteror, hitherto irresi..tible iu person, has been enema fully opposed. From lieisig programme, be is b. conic stationery, The Danube lots done that which no other river of Germany. of Italy, of Po land, or Soule. could effect ; while the Austrian :mines hare manifested, that in courage, conduct, fir els. and even in tactics, they C.OU meet, and even repel, the troops of Naeoteops, led cm by himself. A cannon-ball has at length carried qff owe of his Dukes and Mars/eels, hitherto mum gible in tae held. This ruffian, who made and unmade kings, by his sole nod or fiat, and whose iniseci billy seemed to be acknowledged at least by every continental power,liss been soddenly cimicked--ske instead of dictating his insolent mandates (rein palace of MARIA TREIVIA, he. coodesceode to occupy himself in the island of IrseletsLobso. or at Ebersibirff, ohile his troops ere employed is drising piles, or iu constructing floats, bridges, and teteehr poets, to subject the rela Alines river to ots COW trout, as [tenon° rus tells us, Newts!' attempted to do by the Hellespont. It is 'material to carry in our recollection this change of position and of fortune, if we would ap preciate justly the Bulletins, Proclamation,, and oilier moral weapons of lowermost*, by Thick .Ise may be said to stupify or to intimidate eke human underatiindiag. As his diflicubies augment, so do his artifices, seductioas, and delusions. It is only . by coolly atialyziog and comparing his own admis sions, that we eau detect-arid espose the fallacies with like an Euchanter, he imposes on cre dulous and prostrate nations. Conscious that Eu rope must perceive he has been chained dgwel since the loth of May, alien he entered Vienna, up to the let of June ; a space which to him is of incal culable length—and aware that Prussia, Saxony, Hay Russia, may begin to entertain holies of his carrier being stopped, he redoubles his vociferatioas, and multiplies his protestations. His position jua tines, nay demands, the adoption of every anal hairy aiol ; for it is become obviosaly 'critical, if not perilous. Hence his whining complaints again* the people of Vienna, who, as we find by his own rellact.nt confeaaion, are greatly and moat disagree ably changed towards him, since 18O& Hence his rage against the Archduke MAlatalalAAlt, who it fended the capital against him for three days.-- Hems:, ton, originate his coarse iavectivea against the Archduke JOHN, who, as he unwillingly ems lessee, tus brought beck by army from the Piave sod the. Tagliamento. to the vicihity of the Danube and of Vienna. Hence his loud outcries against the jecskinises and terrorisin of the Princes of the II louses of lo Rita I , Who, he exclailes. a.th horror and indignation, are becoming Saar Orlattes, and are usiog his own revolutionary art* to delimit* tele., the only ecwrcer of anarchy, and the sublime dispenser of felicity over the earth. Hence his parental admonitions to the inhabitants of Vienna, whom he affects to love and to cherish. not dining to nissuiere. or to oppress them, at the present mo scut. All these symptoms prove his difficulties, and the awful nature of the situation into which be Imo iiliauged himself. In fact, Ilk.: A LIMAN PLR before Tyre, Napo- LION 110 eager advances, but has commenced a sort of His operations seem to have even as sumed rathor a defensive, than an offensive cheese tun. For whet is his Me-dm-post, constructing by LUZIWSKII, but a regular fortress, meant as much, at least, to protect his own army. es to an noy the enemy ? It embraces neer an English mule and three quarters in extent, by his own account, and is surroulirlerl by a trench full of running wa ter." liow could he better describe a fortification than iu these words?--foe Deriul,e is still hostile t c , a r i rri;:s AsT azay his bridges ; but he hie hum fl as he has seut fur ln li etnr t t o o c t u u rr re t4 h i il ' friend Lass 11 , 4 ; rod, as little porous,. But it seems that, oil the the bridge/