The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

MI STATIC OF EUROP E. AT THE CONIRENCENEN F OF.THE TZAR tile. (Centiessal fro. oar Paper of &doubly.) There is so feature of Napoleon's militerr,cha meter mere transcrinlently iippalling and wonder ful, then hii.velocity in the prosecution of every ad vantage winch his arms have acquired in war. Pi- r hope. in . the degree of perfection that he has at tained, and, iii ull the variety of arrangements r... rejoisite to enalile him thus to surmount those im pediments by which victorious armies are commonly arrested. he stands without a rival in modern. or in eneieat history. In fact. if we compare tli-1 most il• Impious of the ceiumenders whom Europe has been accustomed to regard as models of the mastery Art and Science ; if we place the greet Conde. or Torreon', or Marlborough, illoasslde of BOIIII• parte, how bodied were their coutiiiests, how slow their progress, and how narrow their circle of gdiry„ es viewed in competition with the wide extended circle of this flagitious Conklin ! Who, except thi. ebseere native of a neglected hes berried desolation mind subversion to the 1:1H4), the Danube. the Vistula. and the Nieman ! Wt.() else has entered the capitals of Spain, of Austria, and of Prussia, as ALZIANDRIL did Babylon. and • Tyre, and'Persepolis ? In the rapidity with which he has performed these eat reordinary actions or achieve ments, he may be even said to have surpassed the Macedonian Couqueral. In the seventh sum . Mer after his passage r.f the Rellespont," says the Histmian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman golpire, 44 Alexander erected the Macedonian trophies en the banks of the lit photo." But Na poleon, betweew Nocamber, let*. sod November 1609. has twice niade hinisclf master of Vienna ; has been recrivtil into Berlin. Konigsberg, Dresden, mad Madrid ; has reduced the Emperor of Runes to become his vassal, and the instrument of his viragsaisce, or of his ambition; has crested six evilintary kings by his sole mandate ; has annihi !Med the Germanic Empire, which had solotisted rear a thousand 'years ; and, after suyetiug Surepe, from one extremity to the other, has given it a New form, and character, and denominations. There it. indeed. no has, considered as such, and founded solely no success in war, without regard to kirtae, to justice. to faith, or to moral obligation, which can compete, with the fame of Napoleon.— From the giddy sod the guilty etnineace, to which his talents and hie crimes have conducted bile be fore hie fortieth year, he may. look down on all tyrants apart ages, as lust in the effulgence of Isis saimeriar lustre. Bat he has not yet attained the termination of his sanguinary and unparalleled eamies, end be may yet r ails., the observation of Juvenal. when he slays, 0 Ail gesersam eau* slow ceded vetoers peed likspeusiews ewe, et sees murk grunt^ I se raivetwen am the character ■nd exploits of ti. Usurper, who. from the Beaks of the Seine, coatrenis, end desolates, and regulates Europe, are isvoluaterily excited and elicited by the portion of his history imosediately under ear consideration. Scarcely was the battle of Auerstadt gained, than his vkiritisoe,forees pursited the flying Prussians io overydirectioa, while Napoleon himself, passing the Vitals, in defiance of every impediment, after re wiring the submission of the Elector of Saxony, appeared is person at Warsaw, the ancient capital at Allende Those armies, which, aside; Frederic the Great. had resided, during seven years, almost ill Rerepe, who had venquurhed the-French at Sor bed), sad the Anstriens et Prague, at Lisa. at Lignite, and at 'Forgets, were dispersed, Cut to pieces, or taken prisoners. Magdeburg, the streagest fortified city of Germany, never besieged dorisg the course of the eighteenth century, re tarded es impregnable, escept by famine or by treachery, opened it gates. All Bratidenborgh and Poserenia submitted ; nor did the unfortunate Frederic William, driven from his paternal dome skins, consider himself secure till he reached the Banks .f the Pregel, at Konigsberg. Bat that resistance, winch was not made on this side the.Virtula, was attempted iii Prussia ; where the nemaies of Warr armies, which had once given law M 113ermaay, joined and reinforced by the Russians, under Alesentler, undertook to stern the tide of Iltinapiwie's snit crag. 1/antsic sustained a leo, sod an obstinate ore. Bennineen seemed, ,• at sks Battle of Kyles, eves. to Wince, atilt to rru • der doubtful for a moment, the Corsican's progress. • Timm „illusory and transistor, expeciation. werr, however. mew extinguished by the victor) of Fried land, immediately followed by Ilse Peace of Tolait. The very plume where Bonaparte has signed his tree. ties will Austria and with Prussia, Pmbu►gh, Til. sit. and View's, by their local position on the globe, eullkieatly indicate Who was the Cooque!or. Alex ander submitted, not only to every demand, hot dis honoured the Majesty of the Throne and the Impe rial Dignity, by receiving from the polluted hand, of on atrocious Italian, covered with turpitudes, a part of the Polish provioces of his ally. Frederic William was rather a spectator of, than so actor in, or a party to the conferences held between the French and Muscovite Loperors, in the stream of the Niemen, where his destiny was decided, and his future tonalities) we. irrevocably fixed. In his pity, or in his contempt, Napoleon restored to him Sile- nia, and snored him to return to Berlin: biit these prebento welt only specious, and calculated for par. destruction. The Elec►or of Saxony, wbona)ie conferred the part of !Mend, deneini.. wad thpi Duchy of Warsaw, placed as a sentinel over Silesia, guaranteed its future eansquest, when ever an order front Paris should be received for its .secntion. Jerome Bonaparte, elevated to the rank of a King, and endowed with the Circle•of West phalia, to which was added Hesse and Brumeitc, to gether with the Fortress of Msgdtburgh, enclosed the captive and fallen mouarch, at the ether extre mity of his dutninionv. Humiliating and severe as these conditions seem, iostcure and precarious as the position of the pre sent King of Prussia must be esteemed, they con stitute the least of his calamities. After exhaust ing by contributions and exertions, every portion of the Prussiao territories. and after compelling Fre deric Wilhata• to pay immense sums, .as the price f peace, the Corsican finished by shutting all his ports, aunihilating his commerce, and psasiug a sentence of confiscation and perpetual poverti on his subjects. If he did not deprive his vanquished enemy of every communication with the sea, as he has done by Anions, in the late peace, he herme tically closed ssi sealed all the rivers and harbours. of Pruslia. Memel, Konigsberg, Colberg, and Stettin, enjoy no mote voitonerce than Schweianits, or Breslow. The manufactures of Silesia can hied nn mart, nor vent. Even for permission to ml°. ciate a loan in Holland, the nephew of Frederic the Great is reduced to send to Paris, and to receive the consent of his Master. To consider munch a country, or arch a Prince, as free. would be a mockery and a delusion. Frederic William is only 'the vicegerent of Napoleon, existing by his plea sure, to be extinguished at his will, without army, without finance, without volition, and destitute of all means of resistance. It is not from so feeble, extenuated, and ruined a quarter, that we can en tertain any hope or expectation of immediate or of future assistance. (To be eentineed.) INDIA. . • BY GOVERNMENT. FORT T. GEOII.OI, ♦VG. IS. GENERAL ORDERS. The Covernor in Council has received intelli geui e that the troops at Chittleilroog, consisting of the find baltalion of the 6th and 13 , ,h regiments of Native Infantry, seized, in the latter cm! of July, the public treasure at that station, deserted the post eutturted to their care, and, in obedience to orders which they received from a Committee who have usurped the public authority at Seringarstans. Marched. on the tith instint, to join the dimlfected troops in that garrison. plundering the villages on their route. The British Resident, end the Oflicereoremand ing in Mysore, prohibited, in the most positive trans, the advance of the troops from Chit dedromg, sod demanded from their Europese Where a cola. ;diaries with the resolution of the Governo► in Council of the ttith alt. by tither declaring that they would obey the orders of Government, accord ing to the tenor of their Consini.sioes, or with drawing for the present from the exercise of autho rity. The Officers having refused to comply with his requisition, and having persisted in adraucing to- wards Senngapatant, it became unavoidably neces sary to prevent by force their entrance into that garrison. In the contest which ensiled, a detachment from the British force, under the command of Lieute. mint-Colonel Gibbs, sided by a body of Mysore Heise. and one battalion of the 3d Regiment of Native Infant►y, e..tirely defeated and dispersed the corps from Chittledroog. - During this affair, a sally was made by the garri son of Stringapatant, ou Lieutenant-Col. Gibbs's camp, but was instantly driven back by the piquet 51144 sth Itegitneut of Cavalry. under the command of Coptain Bean, of His Majesty's 25th Dragoons, iu charge of that regiment. Nearly the whole of the rebel force was destroy ed, while only one casualty was sustained by the British troops ; Liedtesmat Jefferies, of His Ma jesty's 25th Keginicot of Light Dragoons, having zealously offered his services to carry a flag of trace, winch Lieutenant-Colonel Gibbs, anxious to pre vent the effusion of blood, was desirousof . dispatc h- • ing to Me rebel troops, was slightly wounded in the execution of that duty, by a volley tired under the express command of an European Officer. While the Governor is Council participates in the feelings of sor►ow that must have been experi enced by this British forces, in meting against the rebel troops. and deeply laments the unfortunate bat imperious necessity which existed for that pro ceeding, he considers it to be due to the coadoct of the British forces, to express his high admiration and applause of the seal, firmness, mud patriotism, which they displayed as that most distressing oc casion. Their conduct affords • further proof of the superior influence, in their minds, of the principles of virtue, honour, and loyalty, over every other con sideration, and eminently entitles the.. to public approbation. Lieut.-Colonel C;ibbs, Lieut.-Colonel Main, Major Carden, Captain Bean, and Lieut. Jefferies, availed themselves of the opportunitivi offered to tbem on this occasion of serving their country. The Governor in Cooped is also happy to dietin• gaish the zeal mid loyalty displayed by the Stit re giment of Nettie Cavalry, the ist !Natation 3d rest' Opera Native Infintiy, and the Mysore, troopi4 who all manifested an eager desire to perform their duty. The Mysore horse, ou one occasion, poi the column of the Chittledrosig trellis to flight, ant. took two guns and both the colours from one of the battalions; a memorable proof of the weakness of men acting in the worst a causes. That a body of British Officers should deliberate ly disobey the orders of their Government, seise the public treasure under their protection—abandon • the post entrusted to . their charge—mtrch to join a party of men iu open opposition to authority—plun der the dominions of a British ally, sod finally bear arms against their country, most excite grief sad astonishment; but the conduct of these Officers, in arging the innocent men under their command, who had the most powerful claims en their humani ty and care, into the guilt and danger of rebellion, constitutes an aggravation of thei► offense that can not be contemplated without feelings of the deepest indignation and sorrow. The Governor in Council is very far from wishing to aggravate the misconduct of these deluded and unhappy men ; but he earnestly hopes, that the ekample of their crimes and their fats will still im press on the minds of the officers who have joined in their plans, a sense of the danger of their situa tion, and the propriety of entlwavooring, by their early obedience and future zeal, to effect the deep stain which has been cast on the honour of the Ma dras army. In announcing to the native troops the distress ing event described in this Order. the Governor in Council moat express Isis concern. that any part of the native army should be so far deluded by mis representation. and so lost to a sense of the oblige• tions of fidelity. honour. and religion, as to act against the Government which has so long support ed them. The General Order of the 3d instant, and the conduct that has been observed towards the native troops at the Presidvaci, the Went We'lore, BellaryGooty. and Bangalore. must convince the whole • native army of the anxiety of Government to praggte their welfare. and save them from the dangers into which they were likely to 1 / 4 1 plunged. The Governor in Council still places the greatest confidence in the fidelity sod zeal of the native troops, and is coujinced that they will. Dot willingly sully the high replitatioo which thvY have an long enjnyvd, by joining in tIVe exe cution of plane tart moot end it their disgrace sod ruin. The. Governor in Council trusts the unhappy fate of the Chittledrnog battalions. who allowed themselves to be engaged in opposition to their Government. will have the effect of prevailing on any other part of the native army f►om snfrering thennwlves. soder any circumstances. to be placed in • situation adverse to their duty sad allegi ance. The Governor in Couricil avails himself of this occasion, to express, iit the most public manner, his high belose of the zeal, moderation, energy. and ability d‘playei by the Government of Mysore, and by the British Resident and Comma.lank Officer, during the transactions that have recently occurred in that country. The British Resident and theComokanding Oil cer in Mysore did not permit the adoption of coer cive measures. until every Isamu of expostulation and forbearance had been exhausted, cud until they were compelled to embrace the alternative of employing force. in order to prevent the must fatal evils to the cause of their country. The Governo► in Council requests that the lion. Mr. Cole and Lieut.-Colonel Davis will he pleased to accept the expression of his highest approbation red tiuniks, for the sooderatinn,firmuess, and ability, which they manifested on this unprecedented and distressing occasion. A. FA ICON Mt. Closer See. to Government. IV GOVERNMENT. Fort M. George, Ato Furl 9. t 409. The Governor in Council himisig tritest into con sideration the whole of the transactions that have occurred to the garrison of Meanhottest', and being satisfied that the port borne by the men in those transactions is to he entirely imputed to the toiire presentattons and seduction of their European Officers, is pleased to proclaim a full pardon to the European non -cmirmissioned officers and pri vates. and to the Native commissioued officers and non-cousmissioaed officers of the garrison of Masulipatani, who were concerned in these im proper proceedings. The Governor in Council en terming a confident persuasion, Use this act of le nity will produce a proper effect is the naiads of these turn, and induce them to manifest in future that fidelity to the Goverement. which constitutes the first duty and highest praise of every soldier. The Governor in Council prohibits the march of any body of troops from the garrison of tato. without the orders of ‘lo . issr-Generrl Pater, commending the Northern Division; and directs, that any troops who may have marched front Massa lipatain without due authority, shall return forth with to that audios, on pain of being considered to be is • state of rebellion to the (Sovernme,st. A. FaliellAN Chief Seit.fet•ry. pow of cktp Tli E BRITISH PRE... , 1 .................,„„...... , _k. LoillsoN. , 7 ' . MONDAY, -1 II -ANUAT tit. t V -.-.... m......... - .... ~INIPORTAAT NEWS FROM INDIA. Tins pine "The Winne, country ship, from Bomb s . ... oirseti, rived off Plymouth, the 17th instant; mew . ' - r . ef l i ' l e,:7, Bombay on the I3d of September. Ca pe o f . of ii Hope on the 19th of November, and St. IQ . , .riot pm on the' Ist alt. She was obleged to three , . sho o C•Llteoll'il i , Admiral 811111.111'11,, am, m, j v i a l vl ,„".„I' Pate• Le's dispatches over board, last ki ~,.„,,s. A day, the 15th instant, in the Chop, a t . 4 ror £'rl SA m Channel, being shoed to be. boarded by a pro . • Hssur, i lie earn —Major Bias, however, mate home in die o•-• m outeru hem, and arrived on Saturday at the India-11 ..., - with dispatches, containing the official . The Earl as Col mud 4 given in our preceding columns ; fro m w hi c h it ..% woo t:" .. ry; L . pears, that • pardon bad been grant e d to ctolwow the privates and subalterns engaged in the Ills pro; mutiny. With respect to the acts of e - , ties, ail to which they had resorted, we find that t battalions of Native troops, under Ca . MAcKINTOIN, intercepted some treasure bets Seringapatam sad asittledroog; they were d - Tho otter wards attacked by the Osth King's troop', '. what a by some Native Troops and Mysore Hone, . I ;pletely entirely routed the losurgeots. Their Comm. , t (thi s ' MACIIINTO , III, (rank not known) wounded . °Jed.' .k taken prisoner ; the consequences wer e , t h at . leer ,tic ac s Committees at Seringapahun and Hydribm DISAGNIED AND swami-rims to GOTEILININT. ' Fi t ial m i i n d t a h t i t i l Lord Misr° arrived at Madras the 11th " Mrs lon comber ;he dispatched the Ganges count r y , I ,7 at reiyeelk he oW the 17th, with the dispatches ; she 'wired at weal Ms ki ti Helios ; sailed from thence the 49th Neretaber fai ej aa s as 1 and is daily expected. It is understood, that things are going oe bet l i m p i l l - since the Ariers disfrotch, received from t , t a, heat is e MAITLAND at Ceyleo. er. eke ; w meet II 4V Letters from Bombay, of the 19th end gist ' . etker, as/ 1 leather, contain the moot satisfactory aisersuets ler ":".„ the loyalty and attachment of the Olken d or - cove " Army, belonging to that Presidency. Nellall lertitios oi The Lord Castlereagh, Koos', arrived it Be ostiii sod $ s o sl4, hos cooks too the 40th of May. la se, ssa ~ l i fid Lord Duncan, Baaaeoaa, and Bering *A leas C•aniatt. had arrived at Bengal.. ins • t •and i belies The Tswana Cantle, Tisaset.t. ; Dever Cook e e s tetael Elial•IlD•0111 ; and, Afiilligillielle* of &neer, Sala: : 7 , 17, laid arrived at Bonthat.; the two former as t' onions s r adds. and the latter en the 19th of September. by setatom Nebel! The 'Cieffeells, W11.L8.11 NI. bound to ' meet me cooks, paosed the Lady Castlereagh, in lat. 56.9, fried sow Illafil 1016 g. 71. E ; ad, flan The Lady Costlereagh, HAsuiivets, used 81 mid ago Beard on Ilse 19th of August. WilaN is The Ardoeier, country ship, Mend us . . p 5, sad il ara, hes s was burnt by accideat oo the lath September. dna De -......e.., • The Mastrioas, of 74 gum. Capt. 8101111fIT9 ambitr was espected to se) , l. yesterday, from Portmout =tee , for the East ladies, having ander cow coy the . Sorb, dei Cantka„Araistoa, fr4shilsea, Iresford, and() *NM th Bost &Wittman, for BOMbay. - The ed battalion of the 4th. or King's Osn, . fences Som theist battalion of the oath; have received orde a a Tar sat e to march immediately from Cokhester to P leorge's taavalt,ltWenibark for Gibralter. ly the fl Three troops of Horse Artillery will embed Is the pa Portsmouth, in a few days, for Portugal. The I sad BrigodiereGeneral A. C ali rag it. being recto Lad h of the wounds he received at the battle of T. m h oatis oho a were. is arrived at Portsaavuth. to take his pa . The B in the Clyde frigate, Commodore Owen, fcr is HOW host, from whence he will proceed to the army u Ec4. I . SVIT der Lord Witt.t.tricrom. to resume the comma' timo:4l.l3 l 4 hee.y:ty ; , of his brigade. The Clyde takes a great ewe. , of dollars to Lisbon. —....... from IA We have received Hamhurgh Papers to the; The II C ifis; 1 1 0 1d: I L .; 1A : instant, but their.contents are nut a importance. • .-........-- . It would not be Jifficult to form a tolerrli!r . reel conjecture with regard to the leading tiot.cre the docuito tat which will be delivered as the iil" Sir . .11 Speech twouorrow to both Houses of Porlinsru Won las The flourishing state of our Finances will, se Earl I deratand, constitute a prominent frown.. . a h:u p ge ton i e what the Speech ought to be the public perk , ' Fence ve understand ; and we haves no extraordinary .h. ,, " ford Ha anticipate what Ministers may please to recolury An el to His MAJKITY.-A very strong Atnetabois t , otanovol the Address sill be moved int the COIIIIICA. of the CAMEL. Earl Gaeta. eldest KW of the Matilllll. GIS: , •tte.iitei roan, and will be seconded by the 11.:.4 3 ' A had Mr. W Altu. A must interesting debate is r‘pe ,, oviti-T and the result will probably he decisive of '`i• « boil Fi gave tt 'etteuce of the present weak and iricapsible )1 , . 1 ..1 . *aids h o 'flit I It appears from The Gazette of S r itur.lay .. melt ing that General Fox is appointed Governor of I' . lire mouth. in the room of the late Sir Witr.rAv I't' Portqui --,...m....-- on sucl The Loan MAYOu will hold a Ciotitno - II The tot Wednesday 11.•70, at twelve o'Llo..k. to i. • -.,. the tam 11-pore of the Sitantis,titcouseqiiriii eof thi •« ' •a* fin Roars / tees again denied an oushernse still i . r I\' IC , ..irt itThundiy a Court of Comm.., V7.i.itir« ,«• • Cali:.i. 1 1 lirTl . held an . riertitus bovines". .. , Y• • • =-.-.--t -----1-... porn 4, * 1 - PWarel• of two :iti,lliertd (it .I'r 1 • • to the Opposition, sic to tutotii :- ' " ' Ciotti. Possoesv's born?, Ai .t . ,llT*lttit -.... . oldie