The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

* FOREIGN INTEL, ;EACE. --- rortTuGuESk: P4rERS. 4 o GRVIADA, NOV. Ift. The French army, which occupied the Nlauclia, continues to retreat before our advancing army. All Sierra Morena is now completely fortified. A great number of batteries have. been constructed, and are still constructing, and the miners are inces santly employed in erecting new works.—(Lisboa thary , 1 November 25.) TRIIIII.LO, NOV. 16. The Frenclievactrated, on the 13th instant. the post 01 Arcebispo sad Tal de la. Reyna; our troepl hare already occupied the above pOtAti, a n d /11.11 their advanced. parties as far as Oropeva. The head-quarters of this army will this day be tratisrerred to Pereleda. It is said that a corps of the army, commanded by 'the Duke del Pimple is in Talavera de la Reyna. The guide of. that part of the army of La Mancha, which arrived yester day, was dismissed at Dos DODOS. one lewgue from Ocana.—(The saatr paper of Aoc. 23.) LISBON, NOV. 23. The Spanish Papers, which were ye.sterday re- et:iced, state, that the Spaniah armlet, continue to whinier against the French, who hwe ahandooeti the position which they occupied. The arrival of his Excellency. Marshal- General LAM Wellington. at his army, affords new hopes of plary to the arms of our allies.—/Lisboa Diary, of November II.) DEf REE OP THE PRINCE nr.GENT Of PORTU: GAL, DATED RIO JANEIRO, JULY ti, 181.9. " 40ViaTORII Of Tilt IL IVaPOW Or PORTUGAL AND TR? ALG•RTES, FRIEND*! " 1011 c Prince Regent, scud unto you greeting, as unto theme whom I love and prize. It luring my principal care to secure, by every mean* pos iblc, the independence of my tio minims*, awl to deliver them completely from the cruel ene my who Ito inhumanly, and contrary to the gond faith of treaties, lass invaded the States ut my CrOtlll w r:tlrllpe. and his tierce remelt making upon 014411 the most unjust war; and a it is, on the one hand, a^knowledged that, is such a ditH'idt chair, nothin can more contribute to the defence of the king.lum than a Government cum. • -plead oft small number of Writ:Winds; sad og, on the °fine, it is isidispe,:satile to • preserve, with my ancient and faithful ally, the King of Great Britain, nut wily the beet understanding, but likewo.• to prove to him, in the most evielentsaanner, that my intentions are wit different from those .tof wbtels i.e M animated in the prinn4tioo of the coot ies* cense, that His Britannic Majesty slay continue, in the •• Mac efficacious manner, to Wet II Or Portugal and the shale 911111fistmlis; and so it catiout bat doubted that this glorious impose, which rpp ardently desire to effect, can only he at- Mailed by the most eitensise, firm, and reciprocal confidence; sad His Britannic Majesty haviag made known bet principles en -tbiessubjert, and whist he judges will most contribute to a happy result, and is most essential to the dehisce of the hiugslum and of the peninsula ; I have seen fit to order that you shall be sminAliately reduced to the nurnher of three Of two (larcener', having &deliberate vote oat all objects of the public administration, awl that these shall be—the Patriarch elect of Lisbon, the 3farquis das Sums, nail the Marquis Monitor° Moe, President °Elbe Board sio CUI At I,Ciel r fir s;rmr, Uun riaors Xavier do Cunha e Menexce, periminsli; this finictiing of President of the Privy Cou..cil, to which place he is appoioteil by the present decree. It Is further any pleasure to direct you to acknowledge Sir Arthur 1% leaky, as Marshal Graeral of my armies, as long as he shall coutinee in the command of the allied Portnuese and Eng lish f.reert, tsliang thou hut rank over Marshal Beresford, as Commander in Chief; and soon as he shall Imre been toengoiserl as such, you will' itself, bins to all the sit 'lsis of Government, in which matters come under discus. mon which co:ourn the organisation of the s. my, or import airs deseraunattons, whether finanelal or others, *lnch it may lw narrowly to adopt for the defence of the kingdom and of the whoh peninsula ; ttlone his opinion and advice. on al: subjects of that nature ; and shaubl he be absent in 'orb (WWI, sod net be able to assist at your deliberations, yaw are to apply for his advice in ',rising, if possible, giving lino full information on the subject under discussion, in ofticr that he may Ise perfectly aespiaiiited with your die. evarion. and determination of matters of the allure de seeiption. In this manner the affairs of Government shall be conducted with the utmost energy and ha.auony, as long an u.tattly it shall DISI be pussihle to coaclaile a per manent sad general peace. His Britunoic Majesty will thus he convoseed, that it is my earnest wish to eradicate the general rite of difference of opinion between the powers slur make coiwrinii manse; soil he will be toad- perfealy acrinaiuted with the orders which I have given, and shall continue to give, that the insist streenous efforts shall he made to attain that safe anal permanent peace, which is nuivi. easily desired by menus of • grated display of all the forces and re -pourers of any k mg dOM, hich I eau linty flatter myself completely to rectorr by the Roost powerful means and exertions. Palace of Kin Janeiro, the Gth duly, taint ; The PRINVE " the Governor of the Kingdilna of Faring.' and Algarve." (Luba% o.t.tt, .t ow. 11.) ►RENCH PAPERS. PARIS, DEC. 4. OTEIESNO OP THR LEGI , LATIVE BODY, AND SrE,LtH OP THE ENPNROII ♦ND KING. Yesterday, at six in the morning, a discharge of artillery announced the solemnities that were to take place. At half-past ten the Emperor left the T:iuilleries to proceed to Notre Dame. Ile was in thruoronotion coach, with lino 1111 4 ajesty the h mg of Westphalia.—The King of Naples, the Princes, Crand Dignitaries, :Ministers, and Grand Officers of the Emp.re and of the Crown, preceded Ills 31 aiesty. clergy rrceive,i His Nraiesty at tne entrance of the church, and he was conducted to the choir, under a canopy. The. Tribnhals of the Choir were occupier! by Her :14.j0.ry the Einprese, the !aroma! Family. the Kitiv of Worteutberg awl Saxony, and the Queen of Westphali;. ()Deur the Almoners or 11;• Maiepty 'aid the maim Ms Eminence Cardinal rect.'', Grand Almoner, celebrated Te His Majesty. .reconducted under the canopy, as on his entrance into the Church, proceeded to the Palace of the Legislative Body. . The Empelor being seated, the Members of the Legislative Body, newly elect, took the oaths; after %Inch the Emperor made the fo lowing speech : 4 * Gentlemen Deputies ti Departments to the Legislative Body, . . " Since your last Session, I have reduced Arra- WM and Castile to submission, and driven from Ma drid the fallacious Government, formed by Eng land. I was touching upon Cadiz and Lisboa, when I was under the necessity of treaditig boric my steps, and of planting my eagles on the ramparts of Vienna. Three months have seen the rise and ter mination of this fourth Puiiic war. Accustomed 'to the devotedness and courage of my armies, I must nevertheless, under these circumstances, ac knowledge the particular proofs of affection which ruy soldiers of ( /errnatry have given tor. " The genius of France conducted the English array—it has terminated its projet•ts in the pestilen. bid marshes of Walchereis. In that important period I remained 400 leagues distant, certain of the new glory which my people would acquire, and of the grand character they would display. My hopes have not been deceived—l owe particular thanks to the Citizests of the departments of the Pas de Crisis and the North. Frenchmen ! Every one that shall oppose you shall be conquered and reduced to subMisston. Your grandeur shall be iocreauted by the hatred -of your enemies. You have before you loag years of glory and prosperity. You have the force and energy of the Hercules of the ancients. " 1 have united Tuscanysto the Empire. The Tuscans were woithy of it by the mildness oltheir character, by the attachment their ancestors have always shewn us, and by the services they have rendered to European civilization. " llistory poiuted out to me the conduct I ought to pullbe towards Rome; the Popes, become Sove- reign% of part of Italy, have constantly ',hewn them relves enemies of every preponderating power in ►he penittrula--they have employed their spi ritual power to injure it—it was then demonstrated to me that the spiritual inflnence exercised in my States by a foreign Sovereign, was contrary to the ihdependence . of France, to the dignity mot safety of my throne. flowerer, as I acknowledge the ne cessity of the spiritual influence of thy descendants of the first of the pastors, I could not conciliate these grand interests but by.anntilling the donative of tht French Emperors wiy predioessors, and by uniting the Roman Slates to France. " By the Treaty of Vienna, all the Kings and. . . Sovereigns, my allies„• who have given me PO mee.y proofs of the constancy of thtir friendship, .hr.ve acquired and shall acquire a flesh increase of. ter ritory. " The Illyrian Provinces stretch the firoa4iera of my great Empire to the Save. Cooliguunt to the. Empire of Constantinople, I shall find myself in a situat to watch over the first interests, of my commerce is the Mediterranean, the Adrlatic, and the Levant. I will protect the Porte, if the Porte withdraw herself from the fatal isiamencts of Eng land. I shall know how to punish her, i f she offer herself to be governed by miring and, perfidious counsels. • " I have wished to give the Swiss 7 srutinn a new • proof of my ester et, by annexing to na y titles that of their Mediator, and thus putting an end to all the uneasiness endeavoured to be spEe4, among that brave people. " Holland, placed between Englanil and France, is equally bruised by them. Yet she is the de. bail hi of the principal arteries of ray Changes will become necessary ; the safety of my f lice, alid the well-understood interests of the countries, imperiously require them. • " Sweden has lust, by her alliance with England, after a disastr o us war, the finest and most import ant of her provinces. Happy would it have been for that nation, if the wise Prince that governs her , now, had ascended the throne some years sootier ! This example proves anew to Kings that the alli ance of England is the surest presage of ruin. " My ally and friend. the Emperor of Russia, has iinited.to his vast Empire, Finland, Moldavia, Wallachia, and a district pf (MUM.. I am not kdiOUll of any thing that c in ptoduce good to that Empire. My s,:ntoneuts fur its illustrious Sove reign are in unison with my policy. " When I shall shay myself beyond the Pyrenees, the frightened leopard nil! fly to the ocean, to avoid shame, defeat, and death. The triumph of my arms will he the triumph of the geniis. of good over that of evil, of moderation. order. and marahty, river civil war, anarchy, and the bad passions. My friendship and protection will, I hope. restore tran quillity and happiness to the people of the Spring. " Gentlemen Deputies of Departments to the Legislative Body, I have directed my Minister of the Interior. to lay before you. the history of the le gislation, of the administration, and of the finances of the year just exp i red ; you will see that all the ideas 1 had conceived for the ainclioratioo of my people, have been followed with the greatest acti vity—that in Paris. as in the roost drstaut parts of my Empire, the war not produeed any delay in the public omits. The Mesuber• of sny ceetacal of State sill t to von diTereist pruji•cts of law, And e spe c i u tly the 1 0 ,ts npoirfivances you , wptl see in it their prosperous condition. I demand of my people no ooesiticr, , though • cireumasucto have obliged roe to double my military means." THE BRITISH PRESS. LOIN DON, • WEDNESDAY. Divsyssi 13. We have received Portuguese Papers to the 26th of November ; the Spanish news in which is of a favourable complexion. The• French had eiacuated Talavera de la. Reyna, which was occupied on the 13th, by the troops of the Duke DEL PARQJJE, who had pushed forward a corps to Oropesa, and ■II the other Spanish armies are represented as advancing. We understand, however, with regret, that Go vernment have received dispatches from Seville, which. in some measure, reverse the picture. Ge neral ARESAGA has fouud it necessary to abandon his :woject of marching to Madrid, on account of the formidable numbers which he had , ascertained the eneruy to have in that capital. lie has ac cordingly fallen bark ; on which movement he Mai not pursue.' by the enemy. The Portuguese Paperit contain time Decree of the Prince Regent of PoaTti.tiat, foi• rednciug, the number of the Members of Governsneat, and ap punning Lord WELLING rom Marshal General of the Portuguese armiett, with a voice in the Council, and a charge that his Lordship skull be consulted upon all °minions. . , We announced on Monday, exciarieely, the arrival of a Fag of Truce, near Dover, with the Austrian Messenger, Mr. MAYBE, charged with dispatches from his Court, for the Austrian Ambassador Prince STAIIREIZIERG. By this cosiveyance, L'aris Papers have hewn received to elute date, including the illuniteur. of • the 4th instant, containing an ac eutint of the opening of the Legislative Body, and the Speech of BONAPARTE upon the occuaion.— This ceremony took pbree on the 3‘l„ the anniversary of his Coronation as Etteettoa and Kirin, eked not on the Ist, the day originally fixed for the purpose. The •speech, although of natrow limits, embraces a great' variety of subjects. Every point of Enrope is toe:flied upon, wad a clear view is given of the in tentiams of France, with respectsto all its foreign re- !stamps. Spain claims the ficat notice, and the Legis lati7r Body are told, that at the moment when he, was marching upon Ceiba and Lisbon,. he was un der the- necessity of treading back his steps,. and planting his Bag/es on the ramparts of 'Vienna. —This is no .win boast.—The result of the war with •Aust.art is unfortunately too true ; hut the character which he gives .to the war with that Power might have been spared. It is deno- minated the Fourth Pnaic %Var. a phrase which 'dandy ini:snates the . fate which is reserved for her. Our Expodition to Zealand is next. mentioned— " The Genius of- France," he rays, " conducted the Erglish army. It• has terminated its projects in the-pastilentialmetaites of Waleheren:' Here Itoo we have the, tnortifiestion.of yielding an inve lentary assent to the assertion. The Ministers 1 who have advised the evacuation of that ' , lands purchased by so great, a loss of mete and money, confess that the ( ienius of our- bitterest enemy could not have led us into a more disastrous euternrise.—The succeeding passlges inform ~ us of the union of Tuscany mid the Komar, States i to Fratice.—lt is curious to observe the total dis regard for all plausible pretence. or even consisten cy, evinced in the ceineeassigued fur these usurpa- tious.—The mildnessof-the Tuscan character, and the restless ambition of the Poireal.:4l33Cs totally distinct and sliffereut, are mute to produce one and the same eirect.—'[he POPIt is• stript of all temporal. power, and his territories are an nexed to Feiner., because hie spiritual influ ence was exercised to injure his neighbours; and Tuscany shares the mine fate, on account of the mildness °fats character, and the services rendered to Europeau civilization by its virtues. Thus are reward awl punishment, vice and virtue, all blended its coafitsion, and the ambitiori of the despot is made the only standard of justice.— Tido specimen of the new morality is followed by a boast, that. by the treaty of Vienna, "all the Kings mad sovereigns s his allies, hare acquired, and shall acquit., a fresh increase of territory." That they ' have acquired such increase is certain ; bat how are we to interpret the prophetic part of the "sentence Bavaria and Sammy are the allies particularly al- Ihided to. They have recciard an increase ofterrii ory, at the expense of Austria. From whence is the pro. allied increase to come ? Ia it to be the result of a Fifth Punic War with Austria ; or are we here to understand that he meditates the dismealberincut of Turkey? This latter intention is almost directly avowed. The Illyrian Provinces. nb:aitied by the Trraty of Vienne, he says, stretch the froutiers of his empire to the Save, and thus become cont'.,aous to the Turkish empire ; he will be able to protect his rninmeree in the eastern part of the Mesliterra neau. and to punish the Pereee, should she per severe in her connexion with England. Our re cent acquisition of for of the !maim Islands is not a little increeeed in value by this threat; maul will enable OS, with our miter ineatia, to defeat his commercial prospects. but we fear that tlp Illyrian . Provigces will greatly firth:etc his deign' irpou . . • the territories of Turkey. Their execution, altho' Certain at no great di,talice of time, probably will not he immediately attempted. The reduction of the Tyrol, and die orgartis.::ion of the new state of things, ordained by the Treaty of Vienna, must be lirst corn. pleted.—Spain evidently claims his earliest care. The Speech begins and ends with it. 11 When I shall chew 1113 self," says he, 44 beyond the Pyrenees. the frightened Leopard (meaning England) will fly lo the ocean, to avoid shame, defeat, and death."... It is melancholy to reflect, that the glorious golde n Opportunity, which, if improved, might have ren dered this threat abortive, has been lost, through; the incapacity of the British Ministers; and Opt s prezipitate evacuation of the Spanish peninsula, by the British army, is too probabh% a consequence of their want of talents. BON APARTR's movements are never slow *hen impelled by ambition, revenge, and hatred of England. Ilia promise to appear once wore, in person, on the theatre of war, in Spain, is probably, before this, in process of execu tion. With respect to t.'!e other foreitn relations - of Frame, he announces his assumption of the title of Mediator of Switzerland, preparatory, no doubt, to its being annexed, 'urine time, to the French r:•n pire; and although his design, in Uolland are not distinctly declared, it is tolerably obvious that part, if nut the whole of it, is to be incorporated with the French Empire. The term, "frontiers," and, in deed, the whole contiist of the paragraph, in which !billiond is mentioned, favour this sup;anition.—• The speech concludes with observing. that Irede mends no new sacrifice Irma his- people, though circumstances have obliged him to double his mili tary force, and is further remarkable only fur its total silence with respect to America. At no point cf time. assuredly, since the ill. digested, precipita:e, and, as the evelit has i;ii(b ciently proved it, ruinous march of Lord ‘VEI.- LINGTosi, into CJSttle, lost July. have the utlliirs of the Pyrenean Peninsula assumed so critical and interesting an aspect, as, by the most recent se. counts, they now exhibit. We shall enduacour to thFow the sarioaefeatures of tins political lactase,. into a collected Acids, resting our assertions or conclusions on the moat irreproachable, or itound‘ information, which,'we believe, is attainable in this capital. Not that we would thereby mean to in. -animate, in the most distant manner, that we cam. obtain accest to • the hidden aotoces at Hyde. Park- Garner: Sources, at whisk only the initiated ofp, that Cabinet, whose wisdom, union, and mietgre were s° well pourtraysd three days ago, at Guild.. hall, are allowed to slake their political thirst, and... to draw knowledge front the fountain head.of diplo. • initic ability. Our means cf attainment are less* ostensible: but, as Bora observes, ." If Queensberry to su ip , thee.:s uo compellog, from her handmaid we meat take a Melee. • tirville und the Junta claim our primary , Poems' tint). It is - not to be denied, that in the • fesni" addressed by this body of then to the Spi nel' nation, on the 28th of October, there are many passages, which, if we could lend implicit faith td them, would warmly impress as in favour of , the individuals invested with the supreme au. thorny, in the present awful positiou of the coun try. After stating the exerti , ins which they had wade to resist the atrocious, lewfithous, and for midable Italian, by whose flagitious violence. arts and arms, Spain has been converted into a vest cernetry, in order that another Italian, sprang from COSI/I.Es BONAPARTE and LETITIA BAG NIOLINI. in the Island of Corsica, may reign at Madrid, over realms whose very extent he probably does not know; they alTectingly exclaim, " have, without doubt, committed errors, nail we would willingly, were it Possible. redeem them with our blond. But, in the confusion of event,i, among the mountains of dirlicultiei which surrounded us, who could be certain of always being in the right ?" This apology, we are sure, if it were sincere unit well-fulinded, would find un advocate in every bosnin. Srd, multura ahhoht Imago. In opposi tion to the protestations of the .pinta, we hare, un happily, the almost concurring and unentmous tea tiniony of every letter from Cadiz and from Seville, dctalaig, in all their deformity, the faction, the narrow views, the delays, the procrastinations, the miserable intrigues, and the utter incapacity this Presisional Cowcruineet. 51::re glaring in-. aptitude, and more consummate want of those ta lents •williels alone wan save or . extricute a great , country, nisi dby a foreign inftnier, could net. wear, be found even in the British Cabinet. . we believe, that the Marquis of ASTOROS. Presiiloat of that Administration, would hold him self justly insulted by any comparison in ability, with the President of this Administrution ; and we are quite sure that any one of the Spaiiish Grateful, would disdain a rivality with the Master-General of the Ordnance, after his victorious . retarn frosts . ----. "' . 9`.1 . It must be iiilinittert, that the Republican Govern ment ()lane:via Rome, like the Repubtstim 'Revolts. tionary litikrs of modern Frasier, repist.eil their enemic•, and ever-ran the surrnitinling State•, in the . midst of auanhv, proscription!, and inovast:rn at - hotur. tint each of those assemblies were either enuiposcil of energetic. rpirit., rleri til lir educa tion, minks of thinking, wad bite/otiose. above nit Grain:ivy coneitleratinik ; nK sereSin•lsiur4 by use ie 4 impel ior in discipline, tactics, ami le.olers, to titOes. of Ill': eortny. ti i run n, if alee I . ....t.::•ir+';y - even* the