The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-10-02 00:00:00

I 1,1)1S.1 )N, MONDAY. OcTsyka,,.2.: THE BRITISH PRESS 7%e Tremor, Joarnsis butt. tveCk assured the public. that Government had received an account . audio cooclusiou of peace 'worm] Sweden "and Rusaia.—:The mine Pain r:< now a4sure int, that the occoutit is false. So much for the Government in. formation tu The Treasury Journals. We announced, on Saturday, the arrival of un offi cer. with an account to the Duke of BRUNSWICK or the renewal of hostilities between France and A ti. trim. It wiv, reported. last night, that Govern ment had received, io the course of the day, u sisailar account. There were seeml arrivals from Lisbon. last week, at Portsmouth, hot they did not bring tiny news. Lord Wat.t.tva - ron's army was hutted —the llead-quarters at Bodajus. eonvs les rent sick are at Elvais--the worst eases are rent to Lisbon ; the light cavalry is at Vino Viciosa and the weighbeerhood. l'he army is in bad health—nhont 7000 are sick, wounded, Re. The light cavalry is almost dismounted ; a remount of burets, fur the lath and Kith, arrived from Eng lan, under Mojor A MAIM. That tine regiment, the ht, sr Royal Dragoons, commanded by Gen. SLADE, landed, and marched into Uric's (ten day,. (into Cork), 700 strung, in high order. There were hut few transports in the Tagus—the Bar **, (Admiral IlsamELEy's gaz-tthip) cud Semira mis. were the otrly men of war there. Lord GRENVIL“ left town on Saturday morn in.; for Dr:vinare. Ills Lordship sass several of his political friend* iefore his departure. To others, who reside at a distance, he sent letters. Among the litter etirrp, Earl (hey, who remains is North avid NIT. l'ousosur and Sir Jous Isieweouv, who are both in Ireland. They will, undouoteAlly. in txmouon with the applaud • his Girdsbip'sdigoilieil refusal of the insidioas pro posal of Mr, PERU:VAL, for a coalition, equally 0.101,11 i sod absurd. •fhe Pr.accvau and HAWKEll hustesi.judging of the world' by themselves, stud pre otsioing chit pin:wide and patriotism +retold readily yield to place mud power. cannot conctiil their rage sad disaiiiionittirent. They soy now. that they did•not want the assistance of the Gutirs GIIIENIII.I.IES, that they will rise like giants refreshed. that thy will meet the Pstliament, justify all their rainniis tueasures, sad do not fear the consequences. In truth, they appear quite desperate ; and, as drown ing men will catch at straws, we are now told, that they have seat for the Duke of Ititumuso, the Earl of Cuteueseee, owl the Marquis Wer.t.t.o- LIT, to keep their heads above water. Waste ful, and impolitic measures, have %brought them to this, deplorable state. The history of Marquis WrLLESLEY't exploits in lodic his childish pomp, and restless vanity, prove; that, of all into living, he is not the physicist) win can btu! the wounds that the folly and incapacity of Ministers have inflicted upon the country. For a caulking with the presild Ministry., if they may be aoeall d, he is the identical man to timalganitite with then' ; and why trot also avail themselves of the Jashitig talents of the Viscount LIN GTUN ? —What un admirable Junta ! %Vv do not recollect, in the modern iii, ets of Europe, any ni timely or disorder, since the memo rable plague at %tamelles, in 17tn, " When nature indicted, end each gate was death," • ihete the havoc was more nniversn!, and the effect more rapid. than his leeen the destruction among our troops and Offiters on the Isle of Walcheren.— Not that death is, perhaps, in the present instanre, as inevitable a consequence of the distemper, nr as hate as may have been experienced at Phila delphia, during the reign of the ) entre fever, or in some of the South American and %Vest Indian set at parlitular periods. pot, if less app.4- rriatly malignant, it is not less essentiAlly ride tnitons. We have beard the moat accurate and itlrretnig details of this scritirge. front (Pikers pf ompiestionable verieity, recently returned from IValenerrti ; who have s anew,' its daily ravego s, end who exhibit, in their extenuated' bodies, or emaciated countenances. the melancholy effects of the disci's , - that they describe. The accounts which they giro, excite void CRIVCOIII and astonishment. So sudden and so violent are the manifestations of the tconplaint. that, nut of a regiment drawn op on the parade, mare than fifty have been seizcd at it time. while ander arms; twiny %%lions drognietl, or sank. as if brought down by a shot. The stoutest, hardiest, sod most robust individuals, have ormilest felt. and seem first to succumb, under its premise*. The soldiers themselves ire generally impresser/ with a belief that the water of the island ism been reistroed ; but its putridity, and intermix levee. in consequence of cutting the dykes, with the all water, well sufficiently account for its delete rious and fatal effects. It is an ascertained filet, that out t.f 15,000 men, who were, left there in the uittl , lle of August. more thus 80u0 are either clew!, or in 11;eir beds. and wholly. inespahle of duty.-. 4wrr•il toonths will he requisite to resto►e the strri44th of those who survive. Even the few who ►ave«itherto escape 4, remain is despeadeacyi expecting to become victims in tars. ltothi: the actual state of %Vateheren. while the neighbouring islands, and in particular South Bertland, arc (lady •becoutthic repositories of Vreueh a n d U u t c l t troops, stomuiiition, cud every thing requisite for au ot tack. • Those who are advocates for retaining this con quest, Overt, that the evil will suspend, or wholly cease; with the advance Of . ‘he season, and the ap proaches orwiliter. But, another inconvenience is theft to be dreaded—the want of fuel. Through out all the Dutch Provinces, this want is flt ; and there is no country of Europe, where the economy of firing is carried to so great an extent as in Holland. Only small boxes, containing li4lited charcoalesre commonly used far warming the feet ; and few of the houses, either in Middleburg, or in Flushing, have any fire.places. We may, however, vu. ply them with coals from Newcastle; and it has been proposed to Government, to furnish water likewise from this country, for the soldiery ; as Lord NORTH sent out hay, strew, and oats, to Americo, in 1777 and 177vt. If that Minister did not lisitate, it is said, to send these articles across the Atlantic, why should we be reluctant to employ vessels in carry inq over water, so inconsiderable a dirammuee as from our exists to those of Zealand ? Ilut, setting aside the expense, it is much doubted, whether it tristitit) mid•quate to the consumption can, by any he regularly furnished from heave, in winter; mid it in ty be much more questioned. whether any orders, or punishments, however severe, can re strain the soldiery from drinking the water of time i•laud. 11'e know by experience, that ntither pe nalties, nor the certainty of consequent disease, and perhaps death, can deter troops from gra tifying their appetites, and no vigilance, on the part of their officers, can altogether prevent it. That Ministers never would have ordered, or et tempted the reduction of Walcheren, if they hod believed the testimonies laid before them. of the dreadful insalubrity si the island, we must suppose ; for that they knew) it, as far as the concurring in formation of all the military and navel officers who were consulte I, could impress the cosiest:non Oil their tandem* 'dings, the► will not veutuie to deny. But was Lord trueness iustructisl to consider Wel therm and Flushing, ai s priwary objects of attack, ■nd of arquisiviou ? It would seem an, both II his language, if we are rightly informed, amid by his conduct. Lk has, we believe, once his return to Ei.glau 1, and while at Ld►, where he lauded, ex pressed his surprise at the diwatisfaction manifested in the newspapers, relative to his not having accom plished the great stud important objects of his eaperli tton, namely, the destruction of the enemy's fleetest the Scheldt. G.uld he, or would he, have PO SpOkeil, if Lord CAlTl.6tEiutt's orders were to regard every thing as seco:nla .y and subordinate to tiles sittempr' upon Aubrey ? Surely he would not. But that he, in point of fact, did not look to ascending the Scheldt, and cutting out or hurrying the adopt them stationed, as the lending antlfradaareatal iuteutinn of the urimutent which he commanded, we must presume; since, if the skips of the line, whi c h bat tered Flushing, had be en carried through the chan nel between Walche►rn and Cahoot], in the first days of August, as they were later in the month, au attack on Lilo, and nu the fleet of BON APAKTK • might hare preceded the siege of Flushing. Every ,ling turned on this point. Even while we were besieging Flushing, ho less than seventeen thonsand of our troops remained wholly unoccupied, on South Be velsisil, as dial all the ships of the haw, down to the I ith of August. After the surrender of Walchereu and of Flashing, we are assured, that the Noble Commander-in-Chief never mice set foot upon the island of South of Beveland, though so large a part of his force remained there, down to the e.id of last •uontla. Whe.i these things are con sidereal, how VIM an in, into the failure of tlOs ill-fated, and most unfortunate evpedition, be re (USIA or ovoidal ? If Al ticri:Litcat. and Dot- KV sir Lic, were considered its just objects of national iLsupprobation or condeistiatioti, can Lord Cu %S -HAH lie less so? We Cannot doubt, that, as soon as Parliament meets, whoever are Thuisters, the first dem.ol of th.• Representatives of the People sill be, to ineertait, on Whom the blame reins, or not IlltulOptbg to attack the mienty's facet, and either capturing or bunting it. The /Gas, 74, Clip% l tTme Ar, Oat on Saturriay attuning ordered to sail immediately from Ports mouth, tor Ciidiz, and from thence to join Lord CoI.I.INOW9OD all TOlll,oll.—The 'laic* frigate, C.ipt. J. A. GORDON, it nwpoiuted to lake the filediterraneAn convoy t and the Fylle, Him. Capt. Hon:try, the couvoy fi r Portugal ; whici, 1 , !ill re main itiml-bou n d.—Mr. FS 111:. A X, Master Attend. alit at fhillfaN, is gotug out in tit.- Maim. The KiNt; has been pleased t• appoint 1.0111, CASAMAJOR, Esq. to be Hi* MAJESTY'S StUrlOry Of I..eptti.ut at Lisbon. . . Th"e brigantine Easy, of Sunderland. T. Pi'e. son, master, on her passage from Sunderland, with a cargo of coal for Po: trinouth, was captured on the With fait, by a log-soil privateer of 16 guns, from Calais, called La Perseacra.see,, thy North Foreland then bearing W. by N. at about tour leegnes &waiter. The master and crew were taken board the privateer, Except the mate and a prixe.master, and friarnthers, put on board the brig to conduct her to France ; but us the prize. muster and Men were Faissiaoe and panes, they, with the opinion of the mate, preferred a British port to ime in France, and took the vessel into Harwich. The privateer that made the capture sailed from Caleie the same afternoon with tafteea vase% oue of *bads molested :Ai guns. • • * r '4! - 1)3 SALES BY AIJCPION. • CAST Hogs Es, TUX TIOTTILTT OT CEUTA= CITXTLEMEN ALTINLINO MOW OFWICE. SAXON D DAY. %wig inikey, a dirty cream-coloured colt. This, like the Vicar qf Wakefield's colt, has been upwards of seven year' in the family. He was matched, in the !est century, against Sens - Culotte, in the cele brated race to I'aris ; but. paid forfeit. At the Tranent Meeting, some years ago, in which many people were killed on the course, he 'hewed some blood ; and in the Sweepstakes on the Westminster turf, after the death of that celebrated jockey, Mr. BILL PITT, he ran off with the famous Goose of the Citniue Ports, to Widmer Castle. Young Jenkey is very deficient in bone and sinew. He was got by Ploughboy, slam by Courtier, out of a Sycophant mare. Yelper, this is a little, bitter, hard-monthed, hard-bitten, hardy poney, soutt.thing like a Scotch Galloway. lie is a cowitaut goer; but the crea tureis scarcely equal to a feather. lia was got by Debision, dam by Mai-pope. grandam by Old Ono, out of a Qaiz mare, own cuter to Lurd Egremont's celebrated cart-horse Reversioner. imeteeri peace half-penny, a wall-eyed *ld horse, in very low but, pishopped lead jgged, may make u Aunty appearance. He is very well know,' in Westmorland. Genera!, own brother to Sweet William, by the erithrateil horse Chatham, out of a Great:ills mare. Tiiis is a horse of es good blood as any in the king dom, but he was spoiled in the training. He is a remerk.ibly dull mover. When he started lately for the Antwerp Stakes, he was nut able to strike a tr.,t, and was druwu to save his diatoce. Just re covered bout the sleepy staggers. Apsley, a br. h. got by Bathurst, won the Claret Stakes Lest year, beating Bumper and several others. The following lot to be disposed of at the Name titre, to the first bidder: blaster, a cart horse, gut by kistler's Earth, he is a horse of good carcase, —riot warranted. Treasurer, late Cheesestipper, got by Purser, nut of Old Rose. A very service able hack, but long past mark of month. Secre tary, a fresh hark, by Defaulter, out of Scotch Kate. dam by Altivalle--uvoll brother to Who wants ewe? Nee —la our description of Duelllo, CIUc of the east bosses advertised on Salle4jay, we fullebe to wiewlion that he is an exact likeness of the Vicar of Wakersekt's horse i horwleriy, also, Doctor Goldsmith snyv, rutted a tail. IVA ‘'TE u. A plaister for a weak-backed ricketty Administra ti 1111 l which has lost its. two eyes, and also the use of its limbs. • Doctors Grey - and Grenville are al lowed to possme au iul•allible cure for this shocking malady : but they insist, that the whole subject is bad, and that the remaining me:lllKr' are, in fact, as peccant as those that have dropped i,ff, being link better twin prom/ flesh, without ally vital principle. am! as such that they ought to be cut away. The poor patient, now quite exhausted, we fear has not spirit ■nd strength to undergo the operation ; and as the disorder admits of no other cure•. a few days of miserable existence are all that remain. The case being, therefore, desperate, his best and aii.cerest friends now ardently hope that he may be slam released from his suffering.; a hope in which they are cor.iiiiily joined by every frieud to his country, and humanity. Yesterday moruiut lino MAJESTY,. Princesses A Ut:IYSTA and SOPHIA, sec patitell by Lade IHY N NE, General Firstor, Counsel DASHROW, NIA Major Pettcs, toile to St.t.leoro's Chapel, •snd heard a sermon preach d by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Muusu*H, from the stti chapter of Grlastiotts. 17th verse; and afterwards returned to the Palace. I.nrd ELnott iirrised Et %Vintlvor, yesterday, a n d had u confcrrw•r with Ilse MAJESTY. The Ertl of lionet.ew came to town within these few .lays, from 4 VI.It to Lord litoor.s? Sestmitu, at his reit, St Medhorst. in Su.,es. On Friday. Lords Ganatrit.i.a and Stomourn, and Mr. TrIONAIs GII6NIFILLa, we►e nalkisig, ama in-arm, in Berke Earl Cnot.timittsr.i.rot rrtsirneil, on Saturday morning, from Thames Dawn. his Lordship had a ennferrner. of Li hour-and-a-hall, with his Royal Highness the Prince or WALKS, at Carlton hnusr, The Duke of Davensuize remsined in town, on Sourdny, and yesterday returned to Chiswick. The Connie., of Essex returned, vesterilay. to her house in Berkeley..quart.. front Worthing ; and us the evening her Ladyship joined a select. party of Fashionable% at Mrs. Aanuoa STAISMOPK . S. la Tilitey-street. The Comae-is of s select pa►tc. last 'vetting. et her. house in Hill-street. Berleley square. A certain sprightly Actress is now in that Btatc, in whirl, lathes like to be who lose their lords. 11• r husband hes certainly sever been beysiad titer plaster _ _ _ Alva. Susness is engaged for fear niglits it the SOU ihimpress Thretre. fire dna p•rb.rmsnce will be nas Wednesday, es Mrs. Beverley, in The Gaillpt arr. Mr. MaVIEWS has rirrwrea to twerses at Pott.maatit. fat the Iteartit of M. ler.le Is. Ills encial %maim rileilrermi Wm • iirtat favaustta these. WORCESTER MUSIC xsarixd. mum) DAY--0111111111DAY. The performances of the second morning corn measced with the recitatives, airs, and atomism*, la the first pencil' the celebrated Oratorio, Tie crea tion." Those who have onlyheard this moat exquirite production of the great Haydn, within the hunts of • theatre, will hardly be able to form au idea of its effect beneath the lofty roofs of a spacious cathedral. The trio and atoms " The Ifeatams declare," with which the act is concluded, had iu it, even from the very place in which it was per.. formed, something so grand and sublime, that this imagination might easily have conceived it to be such music as will be beard in a higher Mate of • felicity. Of the airs and recitatives, so often h e . teamed to with pleasure in the metropolis, it cannot be necessary to make particular mention: Every one, referring to the names of the principal 'Wivs 'who have lent their aid to this Charity, will know they must have been sung in a way which would have gratified their Author, if, happily, be could have been present. The Overture to Saniptim in troduced a selection from the works of Handel ; in which " Deeper and deeper still," awl." Waft her Angels," by Mr. Brahmin, mud " Farewell ye lim pid Streams," by Mrs. Billington, were the most conspicuous. With regard to the latter, it seemed as if the hearers could have listened to the delight ful strains " Frost ;nom to moan, horn noon to dewy eve." The Concert, in the evening, NI the College. hall, opened with Mosait's grand overture to the opera of " The Zauherflote." It is the hued overture that ever Caine troth that eminent cons. poser. There is not a *symphony of Haydn's that exude it. It was executed in a very spirited style. The glee, " la the merry etoece of s play," by Mrs. Billisigton, Mr. Goss, Mr. Vaughan, rind Mr. Bor. Homan, was much applauded ; it was • most ea. livening subject, and was charmingly sung. The recitative and air, " Grazaa al trade," by Mrs. 13il lington. was her Isrincipal effort this evening: this is the air in the serious opera ofSeruirmaide, in which Catalani was wont to be so much admired. It lu s t nothilig or its effect by the execu'inn of Mrs. 1.311- brigtois ; and, certainly, if there was a comention between these two ladies. which was etatit:tel to the preference, and dos was to be the song fur tr:i rug their respective merits, the judges would be divid ed, and the victory would remain in suspctise. A very beautiful quartet. 0 0 Toni ae dir," by Mrs. Bislington, Mrs. Vaughn', Mr. BralsanWand Mr. Eartlemase, was introduced: it was in manuscript ; and, it seems, was composed for Mrs. Millington. by Signor Nicoliiii, at Milan. It was a first-rate compaction of the kind, and was heard with rep. tare. There were many other delightful airs and glees ; it would he tedious to advert to them all; but the hen was" Mad lieu," by Mrs. Billingtoo. It was wonderfully well sang, sad was, like the former air, received with plaudits of long confine. once. We had nearly omitteit to mention the " Death of Abercrombie," by I.lr Brsthson every note went to the heart; It was unanimously encored In the course cf the evening there was • concerto ou the clarionet, by Mr. Mahon—end another on the bassoon, by Lr. Holmes; they were both played in a very masterly marine!. The Concert Room was this evening filled to its utmost capacity, but the company were not quite so select as on the preceding evening; the lathe, were, however, very superbly dressed, itt least sc. cording to the notion which appears to prevail in this pert of the world. The belles here do not. as in the Metropolis, set off their beauty by a judicious combination of ornament, in which simplicity and neatness are studied ; they have no idea of elegant simplicity of dress; hurry is their sole object. rod thus they are covered from head to foot with tin. gelled muslin*, gilt flowers, heavy satins, spangles. beads, and other superfluous and gaudy appen. rlse,es, which dazzle, without plea,iiie, the eye.--. Tile ladies of Worcester would do well to send * deputation to London. to Smug them down the fashions. Ou Wednesday the Right Reverend Father in God, Jolts, Lord Bishop of London, was, by His MAJESTICII Commend, sworn of His MAJI.IITY'S Most Honourable Privy Council, end task his place at the Board accordingly. The euriTUGlll..llr. A M BASSADOR returned to town lot night from 11 wain,* Tne Countess of BARIRTUORE leaves town, to morrow, on a visit to the Countess Dowager of SEFTON, at Hampton-Court. . _ . . _ _ Earl of LLAIIDAIFF arrived on Saturday in Grafton -street, llonal-street, front Ireland. The last arrivals Rt Bath are The Pri.iee of Omni., Lurd Gnudry, Lord Portchestee. Lord 3I arra), Lady Alumslcy, Sir .12/10411 Fitzgerald, Sir J. Gifford, Admiral and Mrs. Boger, Col liii', Cul. Wale, Col. (a)nn, Col. and Mrs. &soft, Lieulersosi-Coluael and Mir Berbosnos. At Lewes Sheen Fair, on Thursday last, upwards of '25,U00 sheep and lambs were penned ; ue irly all of which were sold at the following prices, six. ewes from SU. to 4Us. wether lambs. from 30s. to ..?,50. a few superior ones as high as 2 9 . ewe lambs from !Os. to •264. a few cults, from lie. to 19*. The principal hovers were from Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex. Herts. Middlesex. Surrey, Kent, and Hants. The Karl of DI; n uo N• L D has engaged a worsted mill near Canterbury, fur the purpose of intro. doting a new manufactory. Frosts au address cir. misted by his Lordship it appears that he has formed the laudable design of enabling the COMM' of Kent, by working up its own smot e to tiro', in the worsted hosiery trade, the counties of Leicester. Nottingham. part of Warwick, and Derby, to whirls that branch of trade be. hitherto . Lima coo. fitted. Notwithstanding the eontinned indisposition of Lord Mossna was. aa might be expected, a draw. bark from the enjoyment and splendour of the Lincoln races (in the promotion of ahich his Lordehip has 'generally Leto consptivous), thy course each day had to boast of a distinguished a-petribly. • A gst the eimmakoy, we noticed— Tbe Earl and Cassius' at rackitirtunsbirc, the Earl mai I:ovt.irre of Mr%burough. Land 1 erthwurll., sad thr Hon. MM. eslharii *tic HMI Mr /And MI • reiiass, ll.e Rea Sir Charles Asiskisiat, bir Moltaglor l'lm4sortry, Mr ( hapira. Mr. Y. Chaplin, Mr. Tomlin', Mr Prtrertrnu, Mr. Mrs. and Mies Banelserell„ Mr. awl Miss lie. Sas* na..l Mar ErrSl4l, INr. Mts. sal II ems Cracroit, ‘s. Sac The Stewards appointed for next p.40' . 11 races arr. Sir TUOMAS IV W.usuctr. HAM 1114 U 4.IIIABLIS rriaow,