The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-13 00:00:00

TOUNG ROSC'IUS. Scarcely had the talents of this wondetful boy. loudly proclaimed through every part of the country, received the sterling stamp of a London audience, when, amidst the general enthusiasm, one feeble, angry, and dissentient voice was heard. Th, Courier, a Print notorious in the annals of Jacthinism, and which never had an ides of its own, upon the sub jell of the Theatre, but daily copied the critiques of the Morning Papers, as caprice or partiality direLled its choice, set up at once as the arbiter of public taste, and the supreme judge of theatrical per form ance. In contempt of public opinion, of until, and every generous principle that regulates the condua of man, it declared, at the very moment when the whole town resounded with his praise, that this idol of their worsl.ip " was totally destitute of feeling ;" that he had ■ot one " spark of genius ;" that he was " a mere puppets" And not only " below medio- crity," but absolutely contemptible." We own, that we felt indignant at such an outrage. To rob a r...uth of his fair fame, of his talents, and of his prospects in life, appeared to us as ciiminal, as stop ping him upon the high road, and, with a sword at Ms throe, divesting him At once of life and fortune. The civil law, we know, calls one of these offences murder ; the other it calls by the less criminal 11/111C of libel ; but religion acknowledges no such distinc tion. It considers the taking away of a man's cha- raeter equally criminal, in the eye of God, as the taking away of his life. The sixth commandment embraces both these sorts of murder ; and, we fear, the man who could glory in the one, would not feel much remorst , in committing the other.— Enamoured with the extraordinary merit of the Young Roseiut, and fire.. with indignation at this scandalous attempt to injure and degrade him ; we lost not a ntemeat to expose the malice and the views of the miserable scribe by whose foul pen he was thus assailed. Notice was given, that the attack would be renewed from day to day, and we were fi:mly resolved, and had pledged ourselves, to repel it daily, when, to our astonishment and surprise, we found the same paper that had thus vented its abuse upon the Young Roseau:, announce a series of letters in refutation of its own falsehoods. If the first as of the abusive farrago in The Courier excited our indignation, this second aft excited our disgust. It coat not be considered in the light of an aniendir homareke, for a reason which we shall shortly as gigs s or, however complete our answers were, did we flatter ourselves that the chastisement, which we had infliAed, a old larva worked a con version in the breast of an incorrgible Jacobi°, and wrung from him a fair and full confession of hi, :rime. The praise and the disprai,e, the attack and the defence, .t-e the conjoint parts of a pre meditated plan to deg! Alt this pride of England, this ornament of the are, in public estimation. A set of laboured, ate led pedants formerly were in possession r:f tar stage, under the title of the Old School. GARRICK appeased, And dcthrow'd these pretenders. What G A at c K was to the Old School, the bousz Remiss r, Another favourite child of Nature, threatens to pt ave to ;he present lords of the Theatre. All the old parrots and peature-masters are alarmed, and terror prevails throui,h all the egiJna of the Green Room. The press has thereto' e been resorted to in aid of private scandal, to uphold their tottering thrones, and resist the legitimize claims of this wonderful boy to t h e theatrical e: own and seep- Ire. The pretended defn_c in r‘e Costri, ris only a ruse de gaterre, an underplot in the piece. An apology, when fairly made, is always as bread as the offence ; but in the present ease, the attack is ge. nei al, while the defence is confined to a few points cf minor importance If a man be Cll.: ged with many crimes, ought his advocate to be contem with accpaitftwer him of one ? If he be charged with a ca- pital offence, would he be sufficiently defended by 'hewing him only guilty of petty larceny? Such are the defence and retributive justice afforded by The Couree to the Tering Reo vie. The charge represents him as inferior to even our third-rate afters ; and the defence,while it removes a few aspzrsions,ingeninissly contrives to leave him in the same relative si:u.3:3;:. —Having said thus much for the Fotteg Racist, we hope we may be allowej to say a few w, :Js for our- ,rives. For the fidelity, t::e impartial. , and the Isvinainatiou of theatrical c:;ti.7ue., as given in the Newspapers, see JJ not !near, to c• ,itend. The writers may Se ignorant, private irieildship may tarp their judgment ; but, whatever may be their Jeres, they have Ovr.sys p7ofessei sincerity, and .lartieJ to be uniform. We know oo instance of a Newspaper abusing Mr. Karessa's likviarrt one :Lint. and extolling it on the nest; although he perforated the pan, on bo:;1 in ezaaiy the vine v. ay. It was reserved 4OT Thr Courier to anemit to introduce this system 01 wheeling and turning, of blur:log fru and blowing colsi with tr-e Jame breath into the theatrical 17.paninent 04 4 news. paper. This is rank jacobinism, frrin wh.ch the The.r.re has been hithenn free. Ir, Itzarever, it :an 7.=ia a fn:Jeng, ther thee:intl vostacy will i be as common as political apostacy.• The glor will be hunted by the critic, as the Minister is by the paragraphist. The praise or dispraise of a news paper will not be considered as any proof of merit or demerit in the performer. There will then be the opposition critics and the ministerial critics of the Theatre ; and the public will read an account of a hew play in the newspapers just as they now read a report of a new budget. They will be sure to fiad it praised in one print and aOused in another. It is disgusting enough to see a paper, that used to rave against Mr. PITT, now loading him with every praise. This, however, is an abuse of long stand ing. A change of political principles may also be effetted without a corrupt motive ; but men can not be allowed to change their moral principles without reproach. How great then must be the degradation of the Press, if a critic shall be at liberty to eat his own words, to change and to retratt at pleasure, to assure his readers this day, that all he said yesterday was false—that all he avers this day, will be false to-morrow, and thus throw the merits and demerits of plays and performers into revolu tionary confusion All faith in Newspaper Critiques will then be completely done away, and the public will read the Theatrical accounts of The Courier, with just as much confidence in their truth and candour as they now place in its political speculations. TILE BRITISH PRESS• LON DON, THURSDAY, DECLUBSk IS. His Most Christian Majesty the King of FRANCE and NAVARRE, has appointed M. D'A Noss, Fs Oharge ar Af,ires to the Court of Stockholm, in which quality he has been acknowledged by the King of Swann. Louis XVIII. has besides made other diplomatic appointments to the Courts of St. James's, of St. Petersburg'', and Constantinople We have heard. that Count D'Esca as, who, with so much honour, loyalty, and ability, has hiv-er to trans acted the .affairs in this country of the French ROUII/ Doss, is the nobleman chosen by the King of FRANCE, as his representative to the King of GREAT BRITAIN. It is said that the Duke of is nomi nated His Most CHRISTIAN MAJESTY'S Ambassador to the Emperor of RUSSIA ; and that the Marquis DE BONNAIS is only waiting for the departure of Bois AAAAA c's emissary, BRUNII, from the 'Turkish capital, to assume the same chars ter to the GRAND SIGNOR. At the Courts of Vienna and Copenhagen, the Usurps has only Charges d' liraires, and if our in formation be accurate, there, as well as at Berlin, rebellion will not mach Langer insult Royalty, by its dangerous and scandalous presence. This is only the beginning of a system of policy agreed on by the Sovereigns of the North to put an end, if possible, to those atrocwus outrages which Europe has experi enced Com the French Revolutionary tyrants, and to crush a r:volutionary dynasty and usurpation which threaten the destru'lissi of ail hereditary mo narchy. and the anni.lilation of all lawful so vereignty. When the season approaches nearer for armies to take the fiid, an address from the combined powers to the Freud; nation will fully ex_ plain the motives of this political, 'lora!, and mili tary league. We will only aid. that should the Negotiations, now carrying on, meet with an issue almost regarded as certain, Louis XVIII. as King of France and N.trarre will be one of the Sovereign Princes of this league, and put in a situation to raise and support an army of Loyal Frenchmen. Vendee is not pacified. as the official print of has represented it. Four respeetable in7sons from that Cream , were sent to Calmar, is assure Louis XVIII. of the fidelity of the Ven deans. hut they Ai rived after I lis MAJESTv's depar. t" re for Riga, whither they have follovied These circumstances will no doubt interrupt the joy which the Corsican puppet would otherwise feel during the fetes of his sacrilegious Coronation. He cannot be ignorant of them, having spies every where. A Private Letter from Hamburg.•, ~ f the 30th ult. states. " that, hum the stagnation of all trade, but mote so, from the repeated extortions of mo ney by Bo bandittis in Ilanover, the Burghers, at a general meeting, had declared to the Senate their incapacity of paying any higher conti :billions, and therefore would not submit to any et the plans of taxation laid before them. The So3re, in consequence, determined to diminish the expenccs of the military establishment of the city, and to make up by it the defi, it in their expences, required by such cruel circumstances. All the for tifications are to be immediately demolished and the city to he only surrounded by a wall ar.4l a ditch. All the artillery, with the exception of .51) pieces, are to be sold, and all the ground gained by the demolished ramparts, &c. is to be disposed of for hguse., or planting gardens. Many per sms arc, however, c. :pinion, that, evca ....ill there sacrifices, money enough cannot be obtained, to pay the last loan, or rather requisition, imposed upon this free and neutral city, by the French marauders, whose vicinity to Frankfort, in 1800, forced the Se nate of that neutral town, from the same causes, to resort to the same expedients." A Dublin Mail arrived yesterday, with letters and papers to the 9th inst. They state, that the Commander-in-Chief has set out fur Athlone ; that on the sth inst. three regiments, which had been embarked at the Cove of Cork, for foreign service, were suddenly disembarked, and marched into the interior ; and that a vessel of considerable force, supposed to be a French or Spanish frigate, was seen off the North-west coast. These circumstances gave rise to various reports. The particulars will be found in the last page. Yesterday the PORTUGUESE, RUSSI AN, and NZA• Pour AN A taBASSADORS, transafled business at Lord HARROWIY'S Office. A Court of Direetors was yesterday held at the India House, when ALECANDIR GRAY, Esq. was appointed Second in Council ; and Capt. N. Mac •Lisrea, formerly of the Bengal Establishment, Third in Council, of the New Government forming by the Diredors for Prince of Wales's Island and its dependencies. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till to-morrow. Yesterday the Purser of the Morning:on, Cap tain Kelso, arrived at the East India House, with an account of the safe arrival of that ship, in com pany with the Anna, off Dover, late last night. The Mornineon and Anna left Bengal the 6th of July, in company with the Prince s Mary, Northamp ton, and Maria, from which latter ships they sepa rated off the Nicobar Islands. These ships had not arrived when the Aforainglun and Anna left St. He lena the 16th O,lober. Private letters received by these ships state, that the war with Holkar was not concluded. Great preparations had bees made to crush this hostile Chieftain. Lord Evelyn Stuart and Mrs. Hunter are passen gers in the Anna. Mr. and Mrs. Auspini are passengers on bcard the ilfernington. Yesterday, being the day fixed on for the Election of Common Council for the Ward of Bishopsgate Without, for the ensuing YLar, the undermentioned Gentlemen were unanimously reelected to that office : Sir W Raw l,l.s, gut. I Edward Clarke, Esq. John E-q. I Satnuel Nash, Esq. The several other Ward Officers were ele.2ed at the same time. Atter which, an eleg.ust cold collation was given by the Common Council, at the White Hart Tavern, Bishapsgate-street, to their coustitu- ent s. Government have exchanged the Dutch Captain Buts V•N "it'SLONG, late Comm tiidant of the Dutch Marine Forces, captured at Surinam, for the Hon. Captain C.m.vit.t., late of the &marl; and as a cartel for the exchange of prisoners has been open ed been the two Governments on the mos: libetal footing, there is no doubt that the British now in Holland will very soon be restored to their country and friends. The partisans of the late General HAMILTON in particular, and indeed almost every description of people in America, appear to have been extremely indignant at the open contempt manifested by Col. Burrs, for the laws against the pra.lice of duelling. That Gentleman, with an indittment for murder found against him in one of the States, took Lis se.o in the city of ‘Vashington. as Presidar.• ct the Senate at the opening of Congress. If the accounts that have arrived from Madrid be true. we shall not be surprised to hear that the mi sery of civil war has been added to those evils which have for some time atlliCted the kingdom tat Spa;.i. His C•TI101.1C MAJESTY i, it Is said, to retire from the fatigues of Government. and a Regency is to be established in the person of the QUEEN and the Prince of PLACE. The idea of excluding the Pr;nce of Asruai AS and his brother, and of vesting the So vereign power in the hands of a subjset, has pro duced the greatest dissatistadtion, particularly among the Grandees, to whom the Prince of !laser., raised from obscurity to his present eminence, has been long obnoxious. Bos•T AZT' had lcrtg ago destined the Palace of Lutemburgh for his brother listen. because it was formerly occupied by the elder brothers to the kings of France. At his return from Meats, hearing that is not yet occupied by do because the Chancellor of the Senate, LA Pus A. had not yet any house to lodge in, he became very angry, and ordered I.A Pi scc to evacuate this palace in eight days. This has causal a great coolness between him and the Senate ; a body. which many think will won be declared unnecessary is the French Empir e. In the late minor French Papers, tilere is an a-ti de on the subjea of Sir G. Rum Nocia's arrest, evi dently fabricated at Paris. but inserted under the ti de of Lel es die 1e Hamiturrf. It contains a VA! icty of futile speculations on this atrocious measure. Amongst others, it is said. "It (the at-rest of Sir Geo e. t!: s. perhaps, tided to punish Sir .1 A MIS CRASIL an% want of gond faith, and the tra.-7rj iii pudtrce (as they scurrilously term it) of the British Government, who have received him with every mask of consideration and regard." The Assn! jay of such a speculation, in the face of Fouc et's ,ute ntent, contained in his letter to Marshal BessA DOT -re, is sufficiently evident. Substance of the answer of Baron llAanz s s i.o, the Prussian Minister, to the Note presented by Mr. JACKSON, to the Court of Berlin, on the subjea of the seizure of Sir G. Rt.: se so LD : " That he took the earliest opportunity, in obedience to His M as LS y's commands, to express the astonishment nnd re grrt with which His MAJESTY had received the in telligence of this attack upon the rights of nations, in the person of a Minister accredited to a Circle of whisla he was DireCtor. In consequence, His Pau.- , St AN MAJESTY did not hesitate for an instant to comply with the request of Mr. J•citsos, and he had dispatched a courier to Paris, to the French Go. vernment, by whom he required the immediate 1.- berauon of Sir G. RUNIC'S°. Hi, MAJESTY had reason to expelt a favourable and satisfaetory result from those proceedings." THEATRE, COVENT•CARDM The new Opera was received last night with in creased applause ; almost evapit song w as encored, and we may consider it now Is full posses'sio n public favour. The Comedy ogee Child ,f Malone followed, for the purpose of ilabducing i young lady in the charaaer of Arnanthis, to a London audience. It was not a very promising deb t . The Lady appeared to be about twenty-rive, tall, slender, and genteel ; but she was so completely overpowered by her fears and the novelty of Ler situation, that tOr the first aa she was scarc e ly audible, and in the second, we in vain looked fur that irresistible delicacy and feeling we have seen dio played in the charatter. Mrs. Stoootis, Mr. KeraßLE, and Mr. H. Sr 'DO as,were in a private bor. ROYAL RUNT. Tuesday morning, soon after eleven fine stag was started from the right at 1 ; ;• Race-Course, by order of the Earl of for the amusement of His Ma.;Lsr v. At be ran with great sw&ness to the right of tl:e kennel, making a double back by the wood and through the inclosures by Winkfield plain, ing his course towards St. Leonard's Hill, where he made a turn back, crossing the plain, dnd went through the ith.losures by the Race-ground, to Sunning Hill, where he was taken, after a run of about two hours. The stag ran very hard during the whop hurt, but he could not be got far from home. There gielc v(iFy numerous field of sportsmen. ALDERM4N • Yesterday morning died, aged 86, Mr. Alderrr.,n BOYDELL. His dei , th was °cc:ukases! by an it.- flammation of his luls, brought ea by a swore cold, caught last week in the conscientious discharge of his official duty, at the Sessions ilouse in the 013 Bailey. Thus society has lost, full of years and full of honours, ore of its most respectable niem bets, both as a man and a magistrate, and Amine,' by all mankind, to be the father of the fine arts in this Country. This gentleman filled the office of LORD MAvos, in the yeas 1790, and it was expected he would succeeded the late Alderman Haat s.v, in the Wa. 3 of Bridge Without, it being a Ward where no duty is required ; but Sir Waa KIN LEWES having filled the Civic Chair in 1780, succeeded to the Ward by seniority; and the Ward of Lime -street, which Sir Wayeist represented, was declared vacant at the last Court of Aldermen. These are two Wards now vacant, one of them, we understand, is can vassing for Mr. J. BOVDELL, nephew to the late worthy Alderman. FASHIONABLE ARRPiAI.S. Lord !Inhere Seyiwitir fintzt his seat I.lAndillo, in Wales, to his house in Portland Plane. The-Counter citßoislyn fnun Ellyties, near Salthill, lucks, to her house in St. Jarneerrsynaro. Sir John Stanley and Lady irniii their v.mt in Cheshire, to Grosvenor P!ace. Lady Aylmer fr•ra Bri,tol to Albrmar:e.atreet. Lady Caroline And Mr. Hondas from the North, to their haus in Tunterdeo.strovt. Yesterday morning His MAjLstr, and the Prin cesses Soma and A MEL/ a, took an airing on hors* back by Cumberland Lodge. His MAJZSTY has fitted up a very elegant library at Cumberland Lodge, to which place His Ma- J Sit V'l books from the Upper Lodge have been re moved. Mr. PITT gave an elegant dinner yesterday, to the Earl of CA 1101 , sdp:j Viscount CASTLEREAGH, 1 ord MstvitLz, a sesc...al other Ministers, at his house at Putney. 'lbis day Mr. PITT will give a grand dinner to a party of about twenty distin guished personages. The Right Bev. Lord Bishop of WINCHEST I is rdtarned from the North, to his scat, Faruhs::i Cas:le. It. FOOTE Esq. left town yesterday from lrall• Mall to Charlton-place, Canterbury. Mrs. MORTON PITT and her daughter 1e... Arlington-street yesterday, for K ington-house, near Dorchester, where they intend passing the Christmas holidays. Lady MARK KERI.. has takes the elegant house of Colonel RICHAR MON, in Devonshire -street, Port laud Place. Hanoverian Minister, Baron Ltamee, has taken ♦ house in Golden-square. Counteu.s of CA %DEN, and Lady Fit PRATT, left town yesterday, i.l" the Wilticri.c% • Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Sruw and family, left their how.. in Saville -street, yesterday, for Langton House. Donut, for the holidays. The Earl of Laski UG c. and the younger part of his family, have gone to Plasnwydd, Anglesey, fee the holidays. Lord and Lady G. H. Cotavoisit and fatni:r left town yesterday, for their beautiful seat Moline, in Lancashire, the bequest of his Lordship's uncle. the late Lord F. CAVENDISH. There will be a grand ball at Sherborne Thursday. Yesterday noon, the remains of li. Goanos, Esq. (7 Percy-street, were removed with all the funeral pomp imagiaable for interment, at St. Gore New Burial ground, nuldingtos ; the funeral pmw cession being one of the grandest known in Lonavil for some time, moved in the following order, TM. Eight Mutes on Horseback, with Black Scarfs. L.catclieons with Ribbon +, and Si•tee.. Pu.ters,Caps, Scuts, &nit:, kr. A Po , tsr wan a Lid, •rith various Plumes of Feathera, Ik tag le - Arm. a.id laments' of the Gordan at the North, lowed by ...Pristc.pal Insignia Pos t:rs, robed. A HEARSE, ' With sot lioness , completely covered and ornamented with hi Antis, R.lll,Wr• and Instin.a, with alegaaty rit haven? Fisp, Banners, &c. 'retire Pall Bearers. Attend tr.M. Sundry Horsemen two and two, watt !wads, an Seven Mourning Coact's. and S.K. each attended ty lk nen f d:ovred by giro Moms, on Horieback• The Family ' Csmage, and et re/ Sestraate, sa liguoNs • e The Prqttalio.l du, d with fourteen pr•wte Carrgag- JOHN Pun tins. Esq. of Hanbur,s, has pre,r the Loral West Worcester battalion with an cit. - set of colours. which. after consecration by Rev. Mr. Cawoon, the Chaplain, were deltycie.: aiat Corps on Monday last. tc mil PIA of 11 fICI ‘4% I.a