The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1810-02-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLI.IMEYT. ItDUSE OF LORDS, WeDscsoky, Fu. 1. 1.4•4 Met.ca••• r re•ente.t • entity of the Letter from Ore Admiralty to Lord Cochrane, aitsred for ott a Cotitior Jars Ly Earl Gross-rum% Also, • cup sync.• Letter trent Lord lifadwrr to It S..rrrirtryuflhe Adadfalty, And other Papers, cutittiami:g cormivesnleate between tbe Aslotinilts and Lord Cuelaropro•--therre4 le be laid °Atka taLlc —Adjourned. nousE oi commogs. The !Watt eta baring token the aukit at kali past fuse o'clock, a lumber of prorate Bills went thro•:db the h, watte . Mr liewartit; hunt Use thtcht quer, Inert-84W ao aretsuut thesurflus of the Cousoloiated Foods, up to the tat of Jaunty), Irlo. Me Poirot presented an Aceouut of the Diahersenteuts paid to the !is 'wetter-Generator the Forces fur ilbu Lott year . Mr H TRORNTOS brought up a ttr.port of the Cowing tee ea lb.) fterersiou OW, the autemitoents of which were agreed to, end enticed to ►e eourtracd. The Bin was or dered to be read a third timaeo.sworturr. Mt. Bs Nati sensed fee •a Acturist of the Increase and ditainallaa of salaries sad entalutueuts in l:ic.o Britain, trdaud, sod the Colonies, winch I.A triltrit place la the course of the Mat six years. enJiug with the tells of is t.uti y last. Oa Oft notion of Mr Wm inTer, the Malt Duty Bid nes rend a first ad attired time, I.l4dt..derail to be coattnittrd to niner..n • 11... SPRioirm hammed the House, that, u Fri Jet. next Ito the tut d.iv for receiving Private Petitions, he 'hooka coin, to the. Water Footle t.s.ntorrow and Friday, at three o'clock, that each :teenthere as hadaus to present might have Ortnieuity of IP. Joiog. COIII*.IITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House bating rests:ved itself tuto's Committee of Supply, so eral res.dutions were proposed sod agreed to ; offer which the House resumed, the Clir.iroma reported pro• gress, and •slt,t I t ett again un h itley —Greeted. 'Gat Cowper. of %Vs)* and 31( an* wee lerstpoued to Friday next. Me F twkener (Clerk of the Privy Council) presented Co• pies of :le. Returns of the Itisbnirs and Archbishop., rcla• toe to the Air t fur reeol.diug the residence .4 t livery. Papers cotttaituo‘ Ni.stitmejt correep le.n a re kt,re to the trepettstion to the Scheldt, war kid Itrittic the House, by •Mer a [IL. .1114eitty. Ot tiered to be rioted -..-Adjuututtl. S I'4 'y IsJI AilikRICA. The following if' gulations, respteting neutral trs(l-. •er• ot Sualos Aytc ou the 7th 11.0 ret►tir.-r must t.nharn the:native" , ttt geaoish userebaota The etrisuptee must prcst..it a taatavat ot; car g o ga tifasui.la to the Atitti,atitratatto or am Custunallo.o.e, ,14 lwlka otter nval _ _ _ All gaols are admitted, eseept those prolibited, sad s►all pay the circular duty a:triable to the Calif; aad suc► goods as may not lee to the tarot', shall be valued at the pekes of Lampe. Goudu simile to those maurifacturea to the country shall pis ■ duty el 1s! per ceut. ,tour mut abun.: the circular iltb. ties. Ox and tow hides Finn pap t►e war tax, or clearanee, of 14 Per Malt. A. far a. rap..eta the patriotic duty, stall betictiogoithetl. Vicaweit wool, btu k, sheep's wool, tallow, cocoa, and hair, at certain .pecitied pc Nth, to pay ashlar of ito per cent. The exportation of • Ober gold or silver is out allowed. All reiarus idua be mo.k in produce of the coantry, and au take away the saute. V.-locks way curse in ballet, sad way bring bitch goad. cos ore permitted for the neg►o trade. The Spanish Coarnignee roost become booed for the duties, and to pay a fourth iu Galata c:ayi after having. made the thspateb,aad the tetriainiag t►rce-fourths in the three follow tog mouths, th-it at, oue-fuurth in each month. .111 v. tailA (cicada aud acettals, shall be ad.:lit led, and most teeter a tuatan•huuse tallieer on I,.•2rft, a itieusteof ail with oth.: vessels, and shall deposit their papers 'if the yi s c r e .rood, l G,.ter,,,,ea ochre, soul a visit is put foe sail• log. 'The Sp toibli Ironio,suce shall sot sell lay retail oo ac count of :toy foreigner. The interdiction of wine, oil, vinegar, and &vivaria,- (slurp( taws), is prohibited. INDIAN NEWS. t• y. •. the Fluuve of CoomilMll, upon Mr. Sagiunie motion respecting the exclusion of strangers during the inquiry into the IValcbcren Expedition, of which exclusion the necessary result must be to hide from the public all the proceedings of the !louse upon that calamitous public case, except such dry and meagre detail as may be laid before them in the shape of minutes--not of the speeches, but of the mere evidence given at the bar. This measure of exclusion, suggested by Mr. You!, found, as might be expected from the character of the man, if *BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TRURSDAV, FEBRUARY R. We re., yroterdny, u fall report .1 the debate in Some of the papers have Mt so mach hint at the public press, they, 1) revenge, suppressed his most sire:mous advocate in Mr. I.VINDLIAM. speech ; but we think that they would hove inflict ed upon him a ae'•erer puuishment, by puhli.hing it, in eDIOO3OII with 114, at full length. Sure we Iberty which this Gentletnan has taken with the a►e. that any, the slightest punishment, will be mere than commensurate to any injury. of which, on the present occasion ; we have a right to com• plain. Wit, we are told, is • ilstigeruus quality, as it spares 'wither friend nor fug; and hence some orators, who spare neither friend nor foe, are induc ed to fancy that they passers wit. His insulting speeches upon the volunteers, a body of men to whom, as a good and loyal subject, however he might co:ideinn the system, he ought never haVe *tamd himself to give personal offence; his in discreet and erratic effusion•, so much dread ed by his party, with whom he professes to act, whether in ur ost of place, called by Mr. 81111MIDAX. in his good-humoured way, the Right Honourable Gentleman's " honest indiscretion," sod which once reduced Mr. PITT to the alter native of muzzling him, or turning him out of Ace ; all these troiti io the Right Hon. Gentle man's charaeter sal conduct. mike the public thick very lightly of Mr. it'tNnutit's abuse, whe ther leve:led against the public press, the within. leers. or his own parry whether employed in sr tITRAGT OF A term FROM MR. 0.1,10 r.ostmsosi. Dams PORT osAor, 141,V. 8. O n t h e 4th of this instant, u howl inerts.of the tribe, consisting of bye mill and four wo nt.. .1, crossed the Missouri river front the mirth-east side ; they were surprised by a party of the lowers, who killea one man and two women, end auotlier man is missing, supposed to Ire killed some di..- lance .frum their camp. Nest morning. Captain t7lenison, with a detachment of fifteen men, Dr. Murray mid myself, were conducted to th e fatal spot, by sonic of the party that had escaped. We found one Indian and two women, butchered in most bai herons manner: we boned the dead, awl mimed. On the folloaing dry. a Missouri Indiao, from the lows' , village, called over the liver, for a canoe at the garrison ; one of the de feated party knew him, and raid he shot at Mid chas-d him in the attar's. upon which he flashed his gun at him oo the 5 And bar. Copt. Clemson asst for tltr Iliasouri Italian and interrogated him suspecting bias is a Spy ; he said, be bore flag from the hoorays to the Wager:, acknnwledg. , ing the guilt of the tanner, in the murder atone of the latter, recently on Blue River ; be fetid it was the wish of the Inver to cuter the grave of the dead with presents, and lie at peace : the Captain ordered hint to the guanllinisse, waiting for farther information. noel to i.ve his life. There is war oel all s des with the Indians among themselves. and we are informed the Sons are now nn the river, not far from this, and we doubt their frieudiship to the white people. /EXTRACT OF AROTMER LETTCR FROM TUB sates IPLACZ. There leas been another 04ege k.llyd a fey miles above this, shout two weeks ago, said to he done by the Otters. From every iolormation I . con re ceive. and from what I can sec. I do nut hesitate to pay, the., with a very few excepto a, all the Indian, OD the Nll6llOllll are at the prinient tune in a state of warfare. raiguing Mr. Fox. when he recommended peace, as 4. a pander to the bore passions of human na ture," or Mr. SIISRIDAN, siren he would maintain the liberty of the press. as a candidate foe puffs and eulogies in the newspapers. This unmerited attack upon Mr. SIMIDAN, only proves the value which Mr. WINDHAM seta upon newspaper puffs; for the whole history of Mr. SUERIDAN'S life, ',roves, that, whether in or out of office. lie has pursued the same uniform course. and that neitheo pl tee nor pen sion could divert him from his consistency. But we need not this involuntary confession from the Right flun. Gentleman. No unto ever courted it ' more. or paid more dearly for newspaper fame ; and, therefore. we must make some allowance for his abuse, considering it as the wailing cud regret of a disappointed lover.—lf report speak truth, he spent not lea than 3,0001. bat of whose money we do not pretend to bay, in an attempt to set up a Loudon paper, its which two military officers. placed an d pet,,io n ed by himself, were converted into Re- Ow Wednevley morning. bring the la;t day of Shit shooting season, r titooher ar gentlemen ns•ein bled sit Vlretirttrilliall, in Norfolk, the r.,...L0ce of Lord litesatio. esumv4 wituitt wit. 4,r fiLotet.c Woltows..t., Hart. of iircsalangtoft-holl, to Suf folk ; wh-n, daring the diversion, a bird std dolly rising, lord KtottAten fired, and thos..gli She ilistuour of in;erly. IS yards a part of the ....lot from Iris g ,, n Lidged in the telt eye and foreherol .1 Sit Wove sleet 1., who, it is greatly frared, will foie the 1101 t of that rye. but hi: life, we are ha;.py to learn, i. %hct also No.. red his .idr. Ile o.ts taken to Wrellotat hell (wh..re li.• the twat me dical ‘• 7%,...)1.• Lori 1 .3% ever smr:r r , that ext:-ior irlit. regrrt irch iv? /k. ./mr.• Called Forth on r.4;11 vu uoful :Lwate ,r'y means of cultivating bankrupts and men of desperate forth nes, ut iglit be prestinietito hair.: the great =and them in their service; Fail yet the great strength of the pressis with the Opposition. BON •P.MTE surely could not have in much dreaded an eng . ne wielded by ►uch hands; for, with all his are and intrigues, he would have found the Wane of softening the linotility, if not of winning the affettioas, of men, so lust to all honour end principle. Partial as we are end have been, and honestly and disinterestedly so, to the party of which the Right Hon. Qentlernan professes iiiinself a member, we regret his conduct more fur their sakes than our own. IVe doubt, whether all the exertions of his life, if devoted to their service, will be able to repair the injury which his unpopular speech has inflicted upon his frieuds. People will ask, if this be a sample of the putty, whit are we to expect from their return to office, hut a continuance of tho.e prejudices and petty posisous, which they reprobate in the present Minke -1 ters But, in truth, to elusive, party attached, the Riet Honourable Gentl.•msn has ever proved a very troublesome and unprofitable companion. Sel dom moving in unison with the other political planets, in. their proper orbs, he resenibito the comet, which threatens, in its erratic course, to de stroy the harmony of the system. We ere every duy more confirmed in the opinion which we hove already udi,anced, tLit L'uniscAur is no longer progressive. The prbofs on which this belief is founded, may, and, doubtless, will appear to many persons. peculiarly to such es have been long accustomed to wpmd all his measures, mili tary and civil, as models of consummate policy and wisdom, deserving only of incredulity or deri sion. But it will. neverthrlcs., be admitted, that there are limits, which he eitl.er cannot, or ought not to pass; as there are enterprizrs, in which, from their nature, lie cannot succeed ; or in which SUCCeat i lOW will finally produce misfortune, de clension, and subrer .We are strongly inclined to think, that, at this moment, he is engaged tco far to retreat, in two attempts, both of which will, in different ways, prepare the seeds of his decline, and arrest his further advances. BONAPARTE, at present, actually reigns, from the frontiers of Hun gary and Turkey ; in other words, from Croatia, Dalmatia, and Etbiins, across all Italy and France, to the centre of the Pyrenean peninsula. If these were the acknowledged boundaries of his empire ; if it was understood, that at Spalatro, Cutts:Nand Corfu, to the east as It • Soragn•sa, Madrid, arid Segovia. or Toledo:to the 11 eat, he had erected the termini of the French, or the Wester,' Empire; for we are not dispctaed. to qtkarrfl about a outw— it' this Conqueror would, like HADRIAN. adopt a system calculated rather to retain sad to protect his :stupendous acquisitions, thou further to enlarge and extend them ; we by no means venture to as sert, that his present military machinery is not ode qttate to the retention and preservation of the vast portion of Europe now subjected to his arms, But, he seems, happily for mankind, to carry with him . the remedy for the calamities that he inflicts. Every acquisition only.appears to increase his inse tiahle ambition; which, if not under the rebel,- *rime restraint of the sonride,t judgment, and se. companied with sortie degree of moder;ition, meat . . Godly overle4l, itself. That TA I. LITIMIIP clomp proved, oot morally, but politically, the attack of Spain, we know. And we have no reason, hither. to, whatever military sinters muy have attended hiaromsou's arms in the field, to applaud, as a wise, and a well-matured prnject, that most flagi tious invasion. porters, and iustrueted to mount guard over the Right Hon. G•utleinan's speeches, with special orders to marshal his tropessud figures, his sophisms and conundrum*, in proper army. The paper al luded to. with all this patronage and support, for the Right Hem. Gentleman was then SECNETARY at WAIL met, netwithstandiug. a very premature death, at the early age of a few mouths. Surely, Let us contemplate him, as he stands, by the then. he could not hare derived anY benefit from most recent accounts ; even those of French mann experience. or seek-a from his own knowledge, &dare. Of what province is he master ? Of when he reprobated the Proprietors of the London none; 00, not even of Blew, of Navarre, or of daily Illoroing Newspapers, fur, it is with them Old Castile !We find in each of these, dell I. free the reports of Parliamentary Debate ezelatvieety orb- bootees;' or insurgents, rise in every district, mo♦ gloat', es ban kro pie. and men of desperate fortunes. mere hie troops, avid oppose perpetual resistance to According to the present scale of expense, a news- his arm,. Look at Cataloais. Though, by the viler, of that class, must pay to Government, in base subserviency of CHARLES the INtb, who coin stomp and other duties, not less than 15.0001. a- witted treason against his own Crown and dignity, year, before the Proprietors derive one shilling of the French were actaally put into possession of the profit from it. la fact. to set up u daily new sp a _ two keys of Spain oa that side, Figurres and Bar ' per now. is to embark in a canal or a mine. A for. • tiloaa ; yet is NAPOLEON in no degree toaster tithe must he spent before the speculation becomes of that most important maritime province. So productive, and the chance is tea to one that ever lately as the 16th of December, we see by the pro it will arrive at that state. Within these live years,. dental" of the Marquis Da P _ ORTAGO, dated five or bit new daily papers have berm vet up. but from Naomi's, in the centre of Catalonia, that he are now oo wore, though assay thousands were tat- reutaitted at the head of a Spanish argues animated !retitled in their support, along with powerful interest by implacable hatred to the invaders. At Loran°, and patrotmge. How, then, bankrupts and men of at Vial's, and along the course of the Ebro, dirt desperate fortune, by which we veto presume men sous of patents scour the country. Securr's pro without large capitals, tun arcomplish these wider- clametion. dated from Saragosea, the Bth of De takings. milers bought and fed by a party, we leave ''ember. offering an amnesty to the Arnie:mese re tothe Right Hon. Gentlenitia's ingenuity to disco- voltem. who will lay down tlwir arms, mol acknow ,er. An unsuccessful wen of that description we ledge JOSEPH B.: Tx ; while he menaces them ewealready non. ed, and COo it no antibt the Hon. with the severest pun;-liment, if they persist in their Gentlettiati lire derived his prejudiees and °phloem, resistance ; moot sloepewitly proves bow precarious against the public pie's. To a f.i n that de lights is the Frei,. h elemiroon in Aesop:on. Before, there in extravagant position*, such a mode of argument I fore, the armies of ); A !MIXON attempt to penetrate ,any I,e 14-it:srdetrfili but it is neither heetcal nor l into Andalusia, tranquillity should be established jtet. As well might a man who was never out of in the nominal!}-conquered portions of the peniu de„y t e„ t owe,. was either sirtuc sous. It is not a sic:ory. however brilliant, that or modesty in Londen. But wh e w h e would produces The Spaniards, Lke represent the Proprietors and Editors of News. Lore, undo, by night, the croak of day. papers io this degraded light, it is strauge Butt, it iv notably beyorot tie Pyreesees, that the that it never occurred to him to ask how t Loren tin Emperor still bluely toll employment, leiopens that the public press i. so formidable ? l'ithstinaiug lie " I "^i•'-'" or r°4l4(tan o f 1:". According to his statement, Mintstevs, who have tii r DEAIE WI I. a I ton, aq,l Ot Aid% N uLa. In defiance •F Ljr eft.rta to prtknt Ive'y 'pee:vs, s, t info frog/latching tye-laa compelled to (I. , 11. a heertlatrwre-Italuttet - O F Tyro!, .titati lo os . %Ye learn, with pleasure, but nist with ter. Kip) tlet this camp:trot. who humbles, lb/1,. mid ilethroues Emperors, cann o t re e dtee t o hie obedience, the moautainters of the A 1,,., (i ,. metal Rteca seenii to have nudergone g 'tape , hardly less culatuitous than DUPONT'. surre s d e; at Baykal, in July, 1808. A French army, or, al it is denominated, cams, but comisting of s e .„ or eight thousand men, has been repelled; and two battalions have beeajovorpowered and di.a rthe .i . There accounts are given us even from Inspnick, as late as the 4th of January. It would appear that a total change of system has been adopted, in rot.- sequence of these disasters, since we see that BARI. AWAY sl'ilstuxas is sent to replace &Ka; net massacre is superseded' by measures of humauth,. Hurratt, it is admitted, has neither been killed so; made prisoner. At Brixen, at Bolzano, x, wall in the Venetian territory, at Piave di Cadore, th e whole country swarens with formirlul.le bands of armed insurgents. Esc° at Vienna, if we they form a judgment from tint tt Address of the Ern peior FRANCIS, to the battalions of the landurlir, or militia, on the 3d of January," these evehti have not failed to produce a btroug sensation.— Thaugh that fallen, and, as we must relu c t ant l y . pronounce hint. feeble Prince, does not Aare to lea at any/stare occasion which he, may have for the, services; yet the eocrominms end acknowledgeneat i which he lavishes on their courage, loyalty, and exertions io the lest campaign; hi. half onppre.b , 4, hot intelligtlAe allusions to the provinces of th. Austrian Monarchy, that lie had reluctantly ceded at the late peace; iu a word, the spirit alai tenor of this paper, in every line, indicate, that, pro s t rate and fettered as be is, he still has not Let the lo r e of emancipation. if BONAP•lilli should fail 14 subjecting either Spain, or.the Tyrol, Amalie :64 spin attempt to break her fetter.. Under these cireinuitunces, we confess that se rather incline to think Naroutost will sot quit France. Nu indications of his immediate depar ture were known, when the latest accounts fric Parts. la Holland, matters are ciitical, uridite mind both promptitude and force. Tooard, tie Americans, tic measures seen to be ob.crecd Ly the French Coverunieut. la the West Indio, Guadeloupe is about to be attacked. A central position; on the Seine, is best adapted to regular, superintend, and direct his vast tuachinery. li probable that at such a moment he will plunge into Andshisia, abandoniatr to his Alististers, liollaud, Germany, and the Tyrol f Yrterday, a Conrt of &moms was 6t14 et the East India Ursine, when Capt. C. a %Ist ass Priurm into the commune( of the *hip - Capt. A. lianivrost into the cosantand of the ship Bombay. That Loan MAYOR will load a Court of COMMIS Council, this day, it twelve o'clock, at The Cabinet Ministers atttaded llis Ms.turfs Levee, yesterday, at two o'clock, with the exceie Con of Marquis Wettitstre, who did not arose until half past three. All the Ministers had left the !solace , by four o'clock. The troops embarked at Portsmouth, for tar, under convoy of the J.siseka frigate, are ordend to wan for farther instru ctions. The Victory, of 100 gins, has been lately tads into dock, e t Portsmouth, and is under repair, suit the Munareh nutl Elephant, of 74 guns each; the Lively,•Sentimatptan, and Aquilan, fngates. 'l' tie Dahlia Currespontkut of the 3d inst. says— " Yesterday a Common Council was held, at sah another attempt to rekindle the expiring bigotry of thut Body, was as unsuccessful as that %hick ii lately called forth no enlightened and gencrui Resolution. Notwithstanding fOnif dextrous con trivances to entangle the Common Council is ran• trarlictory votes, and to hold men out to the puLlic in ridiculous inconsistency, the majority of that Body stood Gnu to their lite Resolution. The at• tempt to obtuin their consent to oppose a Counter. Petition to the Petition of the Roman Catholic, ef Ireland, miscarried by a majority of 39 to ::6." We hear that a Petition. signed by a nuraln r the Magistrates and Gentlemen of the Eastern wie of the County of Suffolk, is intended to be int•••;.t. ed to Parlianitist for the purpose of obtatoing Law to briu4 in a bill fel- the removal of the Arms c that rowdy florin Bury to Ipswich; a mature that will Iny etrtuuvusly resisted on the 11W":+ side of the Cowley, es • gsnison town (from all• the military must sectstattly be always removed re those occasions) is certainly a most improper plots for the admiuistratiou of co vilinrispmdence. On the, lath Feb. 1809, His Majesty's schooner Fiore sailed lions Cirlie for Gibraltar, and, sr sorry to say, hoe twos., NMI" been hretti o r, cow's . qtwritly, all hope* of her safety are now at an • In this vessel went passenger, ROPIER? ARSI7TIi S• • Esq. lute Chief Secretary to Government, island of Cep lon. the loss of whom is deeply 1•••:.• • ed by his relations and friends. If.Seut.t:teT. Member for Lewes,'lts.; her: , to prevented, by indisposition, from altrudit:4 I.• Part nmentary duty this Se.sivii ; but he is be considered in a convale-cent state. The sale of fen land*, on l'hur.fl iy ni r ho. fetched at Boston, was writ sari:tied. :ma tip: ho. fvti.hed high prices. -637 acted wen' of t ! East Fen. and 093 of the West, hic:i fof L he.lt., sum of 6•,040:. The fanner sold for ~;0 9le; arerseing 3111. 1.01. per acre ; the latter far 47,1 u. avrrogius 67t. 3s. per acre. Mr. Th"l r" , tr well-known friend of Lord MEL% 11.15. ssha a I" chaser to the amount of nearly :io,cufil. , A Tunnel tinder the Severn, at Nvs ":i tided on, Dud the estimated ruin fur same is already subscr.bed. It will arty ts , f.eilitate the intercourse bet sstea EnJaryi South Wales, and mast prove bighl! Lcarl c' the letter.