The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1809-04-01 00:00:00

e intart ed. 1 that the , (maul of the earliest I it, fallacy, , tile Com rd the it tier.tril nine to the The D. t inn her direful here, than, I,t6tEr;l6 NI (.'ourt-- 11,Iirly up). 2 7th. inerl !pate:,, IN, ahro, in t him; the ;ontempt of challenged formordt, neal to the WORKii A X II the 290 ) MASY, Lieutenant t Preto Mae.. we go on— Mill, it hiels a foreign ihuerl eerier "2!—•••• tE S S. zeived from be immetli rar in Spain ITO} rorry 541mi/ions of ilry,ore un. sty, for ton- Ilan 13.000 00 infautry Duext- I been left the course un to Co- 100, or at 'eon as that cooeisoled, ' so, by this the Brit ,h ,lIILEY IS to bout to be ie in Ands. matted his nd also re- Ireland, in tight. Hon. ither make , tr, or coin hoe the et. riven out of e declared ; too fur wi llow about erinth. In t oil, too on the re d, that the ey have not Gijon, with understand , e in great re Marquis head•quar 'odor of his )on PrDno Bence that Dt trkeu oft FOX i% alive something and Dutch :hat gallant ated ter, arrive , l Coron. , s. ie seot in is Radom., to I regiment, :h Marshal ► retort) to that if the to in three I sent f'o► IQ r. Twelve me in the . Ney. The raunts.and had com a, Captain rota Gijon, tote of As- vigeav aa4 energy ; its force is said to Amount to atone vita, a part of which has entered and pentirat ed to Maldonado, on'the high road to Corineita.— Marshal Nal", division being stationed at Commie and Ferrol. while Scuvr marches through the in terior of Galicia, and the French force that hod ad vanced to the Miuho, is retreating in the direction of Orange; every part of that province luny be coo 'ordered as covered with the enemy. It is sold, not withstanding, that not less than 6000 Gallicians have united. and that the spirit of insurrection is general its that quarter. The Address or Manifesto, published by the Duke of SUDERNIANIA, on his assuming the reins of Government, dated the 15th of March, two dAys subsequent to the Kt Re's arrest, if it he not imauswentble exposition of the state of affairs Sweden, mud if it does not completely justify tke transactions that have lately taken place, is at I'ast an elite and judicious production. As far us ve have hitherto any information on which to found opinious, there is no reason to believe that Bo- SPARSE has produced the proreut revolution, except inasmuch as he must rejoice at the deposi tion of such an opponent as GUSTAVUS. The REGENT may therefore calculate, with a mural cer tainty, on the Corsican's support. But, ally de gree of alienation of mind, (a charge which, if not asserted, is implied in the Duke's Proclamation), is of itself a sufficient reason for depriving a Sove reign of his authority, and even for confining his person. ERIC the KIVU), Kiug of Sweden, was, on this very pretext, wised; dethroned, imprisoned, and finally put to death, by his brother, Joffe, Duke of FINLAND, in 1568, who succeeded to the vacant throne. It is not, however, insanity, but mal-admittistnition, followed by its natural conco mitants, national disgraces, losses, and misfortunes, which constitutes the reason now assigned to the Swedish people, for seizing on their Sovereign.— Guersves is undoubtedly our idly, and we are bound, on every principle of public honour, as well as of public interest, to sustain, as far us we can, his Royal rights. But we mast not refuse to listen, with candour, to the statements made by his rile , mies, nor to. put ouraeltes, as much as we are able, in the position of the people over whom GUSTAVUS reigned. Let 114 * lwo, without prejudice, weigh the accusations preferred by the uncle ii,guitist his ite:diew. It is only by such a review that we can lie rumbled to form any just estimate of the proba ble results and effects of the late revolution. That Sweden, from her formulae grognipliical situation, might, as the Duke of SUDERMANIA observes, claim and euforce her neutrality, while the Continent of Europe was over-run. and deso lated by the ambition of NAPOLVON, it is difficult to dell. IIII•fact, Guresvus joiund thietonfee denary of Austria and Russia, iu 1805, against the common destroyer, not as Prussia s melt to have done, from policy, and even nectleiity. Ile was placed at a distance from the revolutionary confla gration, and he was impelled to mix in the conflict from the magnanimity of his mind, his hereditary übliorrenee of she Corsican Usurper, and his desire of maintaining the aucient order of things, menaced with complete subvention. These motives were, unquestionably, noble mud elevated; but whether , they were prude n t an d j u di c i ous i n a Ki ng o f Sweos:N, may certainly he matter of doubt. A great commercial loss followed of course, though 110 territorial invasion or defalcation took place.— In fact, so long as Russia and Prussia continued t., he at war with France, a double buckler was ex. tended over the doeniuions of Gl:restive; RLEX• *OMER protecting Fidonlisi, while FREDERICK WIL• I.IAM covered Poorrania and Ragas. But, from the moment that dime two Princes went to meet their conqueror on a raft in the Niemen. and that the Treaty of Tilsit was signed, ilothiusg could, or ought to have induced a King of Swvoitx to COll - the war against Ilressrawre. His fall, the ruin of his people, and the loss of his provinces be yond the sea, were all infallible, though they might I not be immediate. If, under these circumstances, our Ministers exhorted, or even encouraged, him to refuse the propositions made him by lION•PARTS, it is They who have deposed and dethroned him.— Let Mr. CA XXI N G look to this matter; for Nasio ',roe will bring it home to Ur, if lie can ; and the charge is serious ! itt consequence of the line of conduct, for we cannot as; of policy, pursued by the KING. Sul& !loud was besieged, end taken by BRUNE, • who even incurred his minter's resentment, and was sent prisoner to France, for not getting pcesessiou of Geersvus's person. The province of Swedish Po merania, and the German possessions of 'Sweden, the hot remains of the conquests of GUSTAVUS RDOLPINUS the GREAT, were lust. Stralsund has been since dismantled, and the fortifications razed to the ground, by order or NAPOLEON. Those only who know the Swedish nation, can conceive rise enthosinius Mt for the memory of GosTsvue Anomie,, and the affection with which the small resomot of his astewsive acquisitions in Germany mks esoneled. Stralsund was to then, in the niutteesith century, what Catais woo to os, in the I It reminded every Swede of the most ►honin g period of their annals, whets Europe trembled under Gionvovpb as it does Dow moire Itieremsoe. The Ramie poem nosily em this • V • . ^ tender 'Unite, *lnch, lie well knows. trial vibrate ott every pattintie heart. Still, Finland remained, np to the rivcr Kymeo, covered by forqessees--llelsingkire and Louisa, which seemed to guarantee it from Russian iura riots. After losing Cards, lugna, E.thonia, and Livonia, conquered by PETER the GREAT, or by his successors; this fertile province was inestimable in every point of view ; Petersburgh shelf nun inst. cure, while the Swedes might, in a few days, ad vance, as they did in 1789, to within twcuty•Cve leagues of that capital. At.exss nen has nut oioly annexed it, together with the city of Abu, to, his he reditary dominions; but has exteisdeol his conquests North, almost to the Arctic Circle, and menaces to descend by the Western shore of the Gulf of Bothnia, to Stockholm. Yet, in this desperate state of things, Guersvus remained inflexible, " and refueed," rain the Re gent, " to conclude a Peace with the present Go vernment of France ; without which, however, no reconciliation with Denmark and Russia could take place." Can we wonder, then, that he has been arrested If me, after losing India and Jamaica after sacrificing our colonic, and our commerce ; after exhausting our resources, and draining our population ; when " universal ruin was spreading wide and far," as the Duke of Suot:nMAxt♦ as serts to be the case iu Sweden ; if we had the mis fortune to be governed by a well-iuteutioned, but impracticable and violent Monarch; no doubt, Parliament would interpose to prevent the last ex tremities. Such, we fear, will be, and is the as pect, under which, "every honest, pato Sufic Swede" views the lute acts; as to he deplored, yet as ne cessary, and leading to Peace. That the REGENT must and will look to NAPOLEON for support, we anticipate ; nor will Russia, though she should dis approve his elevation, consent, in all probability, to restore Finland. Perhaps, however, /30N,V. PARTE may give up Stralsund, now an open town, together with its territory, to the new Govern ment, in order to ingratiate himself with the Swedes. Our next advises from Gottenburgh, which, as the winds now blow, may be hourly expected, will enable us to form some conjectures on the per sonal fate of the unfortunate GIISTAVUo, tii well as on the political consequences to Great Britain, resulting from the late resolution. We have given, in our preceding columns, some further extracts from the New York papers, re ceived in the course of the usek. Among them is au article which slis , ms the state of the A merican Bar, and may be interesting to Eng Lawyers'. The trials of Judges, and disputes ainwig Barri,- ters, have, for some time, formed a prominent feature iu the American Newspapers. Dispatches have been received from New South Wales, which bring inteHiptsce down to the middle of September. Lieut.-Governor Fovaavz arrived on the Seth July, and took the command of the place. Mr. Bunn, who lyid been superseded by the Officers of the Colony, was living in the State Douse, under arrest. Lieut.-Governor Forum:lt issued the following Proclamation : aloof., Fevpaos. ".As the Gower/eel of this Wm" lees been upwards of sin mormin oat of the hoods of Wilkes Ugh, Em. sad as the eiresimmaeare attmedieg his sespossise have bees fully submitted, to His Majesty's who ahem see comps. tent to iieride, Liretesset-Gotrenter tdeassa emissiess It to be liepeed his authority, to jetty listareee Ceptale Bligh sad the Olken whom he band be the MGM essesesad or the Gamy. " Is seemede, the Admiwietrati , HI Hie Mejarty's piessure man be knows, Licaio.— renew Feweees is detsrmlued to adopt sorb museares es he deems tb be most ellhetsal for the prcarrentita of tholablle tranquillity, and the security of public and peiwelit lospeety, and to follow, is the truirksrte of the arduous &Hee imposed on him, a system tithe strictest ems-my, sad the meet im partial justice between persoes of Marry deseripdon. " All reports, eeetmooleatiorm and ether eorreeprmdencr, relative to public besiuma, are to - be temmeitted to James Fiameant, Esq. who is appointed Secretary. July do, one. " Goo CA is THE KING." There is little news of any interest in The .S'idiery Garages. Richard Mortoorthy and John Hopkins were convicted in the Court of Criminal Jurisdic tion of an abominable crime, and received sen tence of death. They were afterwards reprieved. seues - r 28. Revere! persons, •ho have been prisourla in the Colony, having obtruded theineelves into the Courts ofJustice in the character of Counsellors end Ash vomiter, orders have been hooted by Lieut.-Gover nor Foy sAtitt, forbidding any person from presum ing to interfere with canoes pending before the Court., without a special license from him for that !menus.. ; anal imprisieg those who have been con victs, thin a disobedience of this injunction will be punished in the most exempliiry miket. The Dundee, COMINGS. bulled from hence to Prince of Wales's Island, was tort at the extreme of Mister's River, on the 15th instant. Two Se po)s, who haul joined the *hip at Penang, were drop lied. The rest of the crew were saved. of the Governmest •s- Ti way. nn Thitriaisy,ortis intently nmerterl, that the Austria'. I/eclurstion of 1%. ar head been received. It is setrl to commence with en enumeration of the r ilitrerient enormities committer! by Doss e inert o aitice the coriclesion of the Peace efl 3 rieliuncli; —it ,hest c.tllw on the different Princes of the Colifetlern- Won of the Rhine to abandon their pernicious eon limners with the Tyrant of France. and make cyan- Igtoa cause 'with the Honer of Aastriaolgotinat en hiticiny who meditates alike the deetrllletsery of all " istahhabed sod lavitimaaa - ' tri.i. c _ r _ 4 .. 6 cir 9: - - SUMMARY JUSTICE. Tut BRITIIIII . PaIiSS Newspaper was yesterday turned out of Piewgme, and The ilfontins Pest introduced in its stead. Cootiary to the usual practice of the place, we understand that the culprit did not receive a fair trial, nor was the case even suffered to go lu a Jury.—The crone imputed, was a paragraph tied appeared in the paper, stating that a certain General had relieved a brother Officer, who had been five weeks on July, and had amounted guard iu his place.-- - -Thir lis t cut ent Ives considered an atrocious libel on the face of it, and Tat: liarrisu Paters - was accord ingly ordered to be kicked oat of the Prison.—lt bus. however, no right to complain of injustice-- It is fortunate, thrt it - ars not ordered to be burn ed by the hands of the common hangman. Tb is notice, therefore, is merely tyrant as a caution to the numerous visitors of that safe retreat. We should be sorry that any Gentlemen, who might hi tempted to spend their leirure hours there, by the exp.er•tation of mousing themselves with THE BErrivu Petits, rimuld experience a disajipoint went. - Yesterday being Good Fviday , in the morning ilis NIAJESTY, the Duke of CAMERILWE, Prin cesses AUGUSTA and MARY, accompanied by La dies ALBINIA CUMBERLAND cud TMEN EL, Gene rals Gwyn VI E. MANN RES, and Iv irzaor, rode to St. George's Ch:tuel, cod heard a sermon, by the Rev. Mr. COOksoN, from SI. PAL: L'.4 first Epistle to the Corinthians, chap. ii. verse st 4 : "This is toy Body which is Witham fir yo.: This du in ye iorinbrance ut me." Afterwri i ,:s they returned to the Palace. The Quarts and Princesses SuPHIA and AMELIA are in a fair way of recovery from the violent cold , with which they have beau afflicted, but are not yet„able to pout. Earl TALBOT has taken Lord MONSON'S house, in Seymour-place, during his Lordship's stay at Bath. The Countess of Essex is expected iu town, this 1 1 day, from Cashiobury. The Countess of CIIESTILILEIELD has returned to town from Winthsor. Mr. CooKsa, we stre assured, is very ai:xious for an introduction to Mrs. CLARKE, but he L-au get no Parson to do I • that favour. • Colonel and Mn,. BEACMoNT gave a grand dinner yesterday at their Noose in Portmaii-wpiatr; to the Earl of Lfstimicit, Lord and Lady E414/14-, TON, Lord MACDoNALD, L u dy MuNTuolie.lllll, Lady MACQUEEN, SirJolll4 and Lady Jousbrosg, Sir JOHN SINCLAia, and Mr. CHURCHILL. Visconnt cud Viscountess DUDLEY and WAED arrived iu town yesterday fro:n }flunky-hall, Staf fordshire. Tim Hon. Tiio.lllll Knox left town last Thurs day, for Ireland. Ouc of the provincial prints received yesterday classes its list of siewilis, births, and 'marriages, with that of arrests, executioes, and escapes from prison. A new Farce is in preparation at the l'riv de Theatricals at Westboorne-glare, intitled, Mrs,. Clarke outwitted; or, The Intriguing Bookseller. Sir WILLIAM slid Lady SMITH left Wan, oti Thursday, for th-ir seat, Essex. Mr. Ho - .raw WA , to perform Rolla. and his daughter Cora, on noolair last, at the Edinburgh Theatre, for the benefit of Nlr. 11011.11111. The Newcastle Theanr • re-opens on Monday Lied, with the Tragedy of All for Love; Mr. Cott- WAY and Miss Macsutev, will be the principal performers. Birmin,Aam Theatre opens , on Mond a y nex t, with the Opera of Love in a Village. Mrs. Cus ts wet!. makes her first appearance there in the part Rusetta.—Mr. INCLEDON is also engaged for a week; and Mr. Coast's pupils, who delighted the public so itinCli in The Siege of St. Quintus's, form part of the company. It appears from the New York Papers, that one of the most important of Mr. CAI MING's ktters was fora long time considered a forgery. The reason was this : the diplomatic epistle was so extrera gnat& long, the licoaic people of America could not he persuaded that an English Secretary of State could affoid time to write it. Several Ladies, ceder protect in theneighbour- hood of Beker-street, have called Meeting r take Mrs. CLanas's cit,e into consideration, as measure likely to affect their bread. The Drury-Lane Company having found t their Taylor suited them welt at his house, t have a great desire to share his cabbage. Among the Spring Fash i ons, we firtret to enn..l aerate the CLARKE trimming of the PRIMEVAL Spesicer...-It is quite the eat. It appears that only the Body of the Parlianieot remains in town, as all the Members are said to have gone to the country ; for the holidays. A monument iv about to be erected, by the ()S -eers of the 9th regitneut of foot, iu the cathedral of Canterbury, to perpetuate the memory of the much ' esteemed Hod ever-to-beduinented Lieut.-Colonel STuA„.T, who fell at the head of his regiment, at the battle of Holeis, in Portugal, on the 17th of Attwust, 1808. TOOMAA SMITH. Esq. died • few days ago, at his house at Talekhroek, Warwickshire, in the 101st year of his age. Ilia benevolence todhe poor canietl him to be sincerely regretted .41 those who knew Mon. lie retained his bee itionsent, awl to superintend hi. farms, an., ous task iu the week preceding , Sett tus.—A Mr. 11weroaD, in the service of Lord FOLEY earning, at his • 'rLit. Grasse therms le tossoisot is l r ♦ ! N /. .. 'I P a* ; i ! .• . ' 4ENT .. ~, . . • • •r' ' ' itAtDsitottg, air, Kau., , i ISE' ZINO. re tintitirr. • • O• This was an mdietnienitaigaiket the Defoodoots - "'in thlaicer•hi the , Lender kfkiital, reading INekeels• ich, for a libel uprise a Mreitest, as 1 reasuser of e GovernuAi'LlittstPoerodd Greenwich. • The !Mel was miaowed in • paper printed and stributed by a Mr. Martin, a sibertenillis in the . eau of Greenwich, previous to au election of Gro omes of the Pour, upon the resigliaAms of Dr. nig and Mr. Eriderby. This paper stated, shot e election was about to be held, sad recomiessod ' t h e penehioners to vote for a list of names, most them of the must respectable perfume in Urneu ich, but warning the parishioners tent to vote far c bat supported by the parish officers. To this list was melded a note Garr, that the per. ' us supported by the parish-officers had permitted e Treasurer to keep his uceuursta unsettled fur yea& : that the perilous recounneuded ity them the hand-bill bud been iiistrumeutal 111d1.1•111101. - ? the Poor Hates, but that the other list had per tted the Treasurer to receive au annuity of 161. ' year, payable to a Mrs. Items or liobeou, and or arge the parish with it, although no part of the ' • nt7 had been paid over, and to receive the anis ity even for three years after the annuitant was ad. The paper also stated, that the Treasurer • been allowed to keep large balance* is ins ids. Mr. GARHOW stated the-care to the Jury, and • , . aced evidence to prove the publicatidu bribe bel, and ahm evidence to elphisa the nature of payment of Mrs. Itorra's annuity, sod why it was t peel to her, although the 'Gooey resaansedie the reasurees hands, which was owtag to this cirvum. stance : The parish wished to burrow tummy, a bill • . they could only du by the Treasurer giving his Dena bond for the payment of the auouity; and altftessigh she was entitled to the money, she beiug a Winne, could give him no discharge foe the retzipt uf.it. The putiliention of tier libel was proved by the Ye readmit deliveriug nue of the papers to a pariehionet, who was reading a copy pleated up in a "shop-Ain dow, and telling hies not to waste his time by reading, but to take it home sad read it at hu leisure. The Learned Counsel in his speech admitted that the Defeudaot was not a loivislwred men, for, to take his own accomit, he had thrillet pedigree of .any one in England, except those 4ISS befogged to the Ilimstri ? sis limos If Brweemialb .44 6o , 4ll !NI $ descendant of the Rope! Haase if Siteart I bet le moo as of libels, thy more lemourable the per sona who were the Whetters, the worse be and would, be the -effikt of thelibel. , Mr. SerjenttreDdit, for the Defendant. ~end. Ow this being election, she Delltailoat hod light to pubtoWthiAtiiitieb he really bilialredle true, and proceetledito state evidences 141! t h should eliew`th a t Ifit balances in the ef . Treasurer bad increllid from Wirt. a gamer ' 1.7 ill. during the *0 years alleated to; hot is 'e year leuti, by the patriotic . ateflases ref the '•fendinit and his friends, these hakreica had been - rikliiced - to al. There age an avermeot in dps indict ment; That Mr. Best had truly and daily osrounted for ail sumo of money in his prom wins, and be should ucgative that averment, et at hut allele such au a as to snake it error asl . fair fair far the e a Pai Defosteart ." published the paper in question, eitko belief Aid it was true. Upon the subject of a gratuitous of &wont+ as the Treasnrership was repenunted to beolheitearned Serjeaat compared it el: shop 'of* Bank e r, s uc h as Messrs. Childs, •• were very happy gratuitoisaly to held the Mimeos* of their costumers ru thilithusik. and ti, make large fortunes by doing sos.:4lli lamented, thal s , in th a t , hood of belbhip, It should appear th at neighbour : diets amte.ii tive as to become the oh- ' sigoariti4MlNlA iminissi mg, like ass at foe a ogio iir rnmpas. :13pos prin le tall evidesee, the Lose tar BAROXIIII•011100 bear testimony is pleat of truth of a lid. 'god said it 'could sely go in 'ligation ofpauidaseet. Upon which Mr. Serpent Bur stated, that be uld reserve it till the term, whim be should have stated upon affidavits, in the Court of King's inch, end should have the books of amount so. , bed by the 31uster. ',. Verdict—Gritty. THE $l5O v. IMARTIII. in this case, for the same libel, there was also a ict of Grihy. Although there were so many prisoners in the lender, yet Mr. Justice HEATS finished it in tfe roe of this day. There is no case of any import ance ; scarcely one worth reporting. Benjamin Lod:awed, a Captain in the Sorry Mi. litia, was cupitully indicted for maliciously wound mg John Curtis with Iris sword. It appoured, by the evidence, that the Prisoner had the charge of the baggage of t h e regiment, which was pacing is the Queenborough ferry-boat, and he got into a contest with the ferryman, about their washing to take some -other store! in prefer trice to the baggage, and the Prosecutor sweratkat the Prisoner drew his *weed on the &films* ; but several soldiers of die regiment deposed. tha t the conduct of the be:dines had been exessilot violent, and th a t th e y assau l te d the Prism*, se struck at them with his sword, having the , Rabbets! - on it. The LEARNED JI:DOt said, this was not a case • within the statute ; here was clearly is apiabble, and a scuttle among all the parties. The Jury found the Psisoner at GaAs. The business being finished, the Judge premed the senteireep. Ilubert iLiarke, dr deserter, conekted of stabling John Ashdown, receives! scuts:net. Af eras& mad it rely regretted by, all those is expected will be left for execution. slued hii Acuities to the The Home Circuit liuirh. r hvre. o walk twe n ty miles arise All the Siiranire. are no the point of and performed that arda- openiu t z—so is that of Cooper's Hill is the.eity. :ceding his death. Its first performance, stykt " Tun A net mi tvkaws." - 1111/011D. late a coachman w ill e,,,ame,,e, a t wedbeiday aaaisitlot west ; Otte, cut his throat, hut when many will hail it as the oseelmitittento Übe/ in Adam's Mews, Charles- . On the Prieteließ ewe' cementation maisnenests. it oil Pliegee 4 . 10 0 11 e t" L er e r heard; since, in a fere swhaptit Why the re. 1 Y good health. •He *elm a gift sif•Ode4llmannd Lineup 71110110itlirds bary I" "Olormakted s mot • ~NT •: *olio% with arisy lisitessiatir of • . • • '4