The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-10 00:00:00

■ ■ I something mere of the ar t _ down as a ptinciple— ,se " Prisieso 4 ,. siei" " The tem. who would make his audience feel. west himself feel " We appeal to the thousands who have seen this astonishing boy in Nee eat. whether they did not feel—whether the starting tear did not soaves their feelings ? Is then this great and esta blished p rinciple to be set aside for the purpose of prosousocmg en unjust and illiberal censure upon the - rem ltoorim? But we are told, that the audience •were not competent judges. . 4 Thoteigh.or M. may sew Lich Lady Randolph and Gleaalvon, • Wee Dare r ,failed. Not that he went horithow op yeast: he neeired st p,ofmwt4. The aiufiever teemed oteoteOitog to tbseci:er wohrrc dr / alight applaud, not Ware thew sneak itijwtare crisp esect ; ar,drur4 , change of VW!. "Mich Master BCTr r Ma4de etc, lookoroed one mom." This is modest. The praise of a London an thence is then no test of merit. But mark the stupidity ef the choosy Critic. After this censure upon the etehnsiasin which the A. had excited, he adds, Notwithstanding this, I must affirm, that in none of the beautiful or impressive passages did he pro : duce foie epie." Thus. where he does produce eget% it is proof of want of judgment in the Audience, and where he does not produce Ore.,. it is want of merit in the Aetor Consequently, whether he ple.tses or • displeases, he must be, in the opinion of the candid kit, always wrong. ceneresne me >eriwil, one life : " These ase the sale p‘...se.w,fis of poet Venal.- " The first half line was not given sufficiently high and vehement, nor was the last line," says the critic, "given in a tone of trffetest Atiorelity." We appeal to the recollection of the audience, whether the last line, thus censured, was not given in a tune (suffi cient humility. ‘Ve will be hold to say, that it was given with mom than humility, that it was given with melancholy and dejection. A writer ‘s ho .ip• pears so regardless of tlbltil is disgusting. The same unfairness pervades ail Ins observation.. AU his arguments may be reduced to this. Such a pas sage ought to be given with spirit. Such a passage ought to be given with humility ; bat he was not spi. Third nor hiimble, therefore he was wrong ; and in aa this never Mee caring, if the eonritisioa logically follows, whether the promises were true or not. Of nearly thc same quality is the ce:.:use .0 lavishly • bettowed upon the scene with Cileeslym (lensed... says. " It Foupresuree " T. WWI , as Suidi;ers these d Lta,;: .‘,., ~• Wo-at wi; become of ve " During this speech." says the Critic, " EN, N 's.- • iteishouTJ have been standing steady, erea, trownirg Gletaliva with disdain and indignation ; instead r' the' ... . . rHE YOUNG ROSCIUS. --........_ . The Loarader o f Norval was performed a se ectur tune on Satu r d a y n igh t , at C oweat - gar d en , by this wonderf u l b o y. Hi s attradioti was in. unary greater than upon any preceding night. At one part of the evening the crowd and pressure wen so peat, a body of neatly one hundred carried the house by 'tam bore down all op• position, and poured promiscuously into all the 1 lchbies. No box-keeper attempted to open a door without the assistance of a constable, to prevent the tide frees rushing in, but even this Dew precaution was not in every ease found sufficient. This increas. ing curiosity is some proof that the Touts &friss po -1 senses merlins merit, and is not the parroted plaything 1 of the stays as malice and envy have describedhim. I To our Swifter account of him in this charader, we 0 can may acid, that every beauty which he thin i diolajed, shone with increased splendour, on Saw.' I day night; and that the applause which he received i was mere enthusiastic than ever. The little space, themfore, which we can this day afford, shall be de -1 voted to an exposure of those insets of the press, who live by Minder, and. like their kindred maggots, 1 Wee the sweetest and faipst flow!, s for their prey. ' That abjeft hist, ref Career, of Saturday, par. suing its Irises at sous-, alluding to a former pub. beams, says, " what I have hitherto advanced,. werll only/et/era observations; an . in such cases, Several observations amount to little more than ' 'Metes. My opinion is, that his vcice is IBMs' and husky. Whether I am right or wrung. fads only can decide, and the fads which I appeal to, Are the circumstances of his ading " It has been uniformly admitted by the mo;t enthu siastic admirers of the roans Reiciar, that he has a hetshimes, such as might be expelled from the break islg of the male voice at his particular age. This dis gooey was not reserved for the refined Critic in The Clarion But because he is natural, is he, therefor* delseive I, The observation is nearly as wise and as ' jdst as that in a paper of yesterday, which says, he is pot a. fell ileum flower. Shall we not therefore admire Aid praim a beautiful blossom ? Some forty years hewer he wail, no docile, be a fuil blown Bower, per trafaded flower, and then all t hese jodicious COMM ndoise him ; then, perhaps, his huskiness will haws ched to a raven's sepulchral croak and z whist, the delicate ears of The Carrier Ceviie will wledge its strength and sweetness ; bat, ' the censure in this particular ju,t, does the o seribbler ie the Car. it. expect to be able to let hltesdf dews dais softly ? He asserted on Friday *N the young Rewire was " wholly destitute of kaki; that he dims not display a spark of genius—. diets w e ed eeere poppet, and that all he does might be by any boy of quick talents." Now, Oil isle the same Critic on Saturday, who pro.' 4=d this universal condemnation upon th e d a y 4. His succeeding speech," SIVS he, mean. *the celebrated speech beginning with 4 4 My noose is Norval !" beautiful piece of deci* yes quite fau:tless." We critic in The Courier to recess. character givelf of the Yuwig 1 is 4 comfortable hearing, U blown flowers who fear a . blossom. They have only schooled by the Preceptor of 1 season they may be expelled - " .....•••••••••••••••••^ _ purpose of irtitatieg int sidling Merit. The angry conversation has proceeded so far, Giese:vim has already desired him to suppress his " pride," that his pride is " excessive," that he must not thus " swell" at high-born men. And yet the judicious critic says, Norval should have been all this time standing ered, steady, and frowning at Gienolvon. Such an attitude would become a veteran duellist, of chastised feeling, standing upon his measured ground ; but we appeal to our readers, whether such aging would become the blood of Doweie,?" a youtO, full of generous fire, and smarting under the most biting taunts and sarcasms.— We are sorry we have only room to add, that the ignorance of the critic is rendered still more con temptible by his vanity. His opinion, he says, is every thing, the public opinion nothing. Horace or Loaginub could mit speak with more contempt of newspaper criticism than this;pitiful scribbler, who is himself a newspaper critic, not permanently, we admit, but taken up as a kind master would hire a hack horse for a hard and dirty journey, to spare a more generous steed. TO THE PUBLIC. The pressure of Foreign and Domestic Topipmary Matter has obliged us to postpone the insertion of several Advertise ments until to-mortow. Aas o f r Dipimiute, and several other Interevemg Articles, are neeesiartly excluded by the same cause. THE Bi PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY, DECIUItk 10. We yesterday received the Hamburgh Mail due last Wednesday, with letters and papers tip to the lot inst. As we supposed, the French intrigues at Constantinople gain ground. Our Ambassrador to the OTTOMAN PORT,, Mr. ARBUTHNOT, who in tended to pass the winter at Vienna, hat received orders to set out immediately for his place of desti nation; whilst, on the other hand, the GaANn SIGNOR has demanded the mediation of Prussia in his difference *ith Box AAAAA E. Austria, as well as Prussia, has made representations against the seizure of Sir Gamma RUSESOLO. That these would, however. have been of little avail, had Fact:melee WILLIAM IV. remained silent, the issue of the Russian note against the invasion of Baden last spring evinces. A paragraph states, that the troops on board the Toulon fleet are des tined to attack Gibraltar; it should have added, with the permission of Lord NELsox. Our go vernment has sent fresh orders to our blockading squadron off the Elbe, to be more stria than ever, which chews the falsehood of the report in Ties Afurni , g Chronicle, that ships of certain descriptions were permitted to sail up that river. The embargo on all Swedish ships in France, which we were the first to announce, is now made known, officially, by the Swedish government. We are sorry to add. that the fever at Leghorn continues to increax. At Cadiz, however, it is rather on the decl:ne. A private letter of the 2Uth, from Rotterdam, says--4s Several ships from London have *peed here. and unloaded their cargoes, and I thinklßings will b. better than was expened. I am informed that t h e ho use of will be allowed to land British goods en payment of a little extra duty. Indeed we never had a doubt but that colonial pro duce coming from England would be admitted un der some restriclions. We have also received, at our Customs, printed resolutions of our Governs ment, dated the 32d, desiring, that we shall not resped any orders in that department, except those of stir own (the Batavian) Government. These orders are striftly adhered to; as a proof of which, a French officer went, the day hcfore yesterday, on board a vessel that was unloading, and desired the crew to desist ; bat a Dutch officer, who was on board, aid, he sl.ould ohey no order hut that of his own governmer, and threatened to shoot the French officer th- -, ogh the head, if he dared to ohstrua the landing cl the cargo." The universal prohibition of F.uglish merchandise was to have been laid on upon the 28th. From the above letter, and others of the 30th, which, we understand, have been re ceived, and are silent upon the sobjee, we should presume that it has not been carried into execution. Some interesting Indian News will be colind in our subsequent columns. On Friday, the Bishop of Litscota visited Mr. F:rr, from eleven till twelve o'clock, and atter wards visited Lord CA move, at his office. Oa Friday, a Cabinet Council was held at Lord tliaitoway's office, at which the ItussiAN ANIAY sADOR attended. Mr i; T I g.tve a grand dinner on Friday, to the Cabinet Ministers, and a number of others. On Saturday, the RI1111•1414 AIeIIaSSADOIL trans sled business at Lord Hartaowsv's office, trots half past one till three. La Peelle sloop of war, with a convoy from Ire land, are put into Scilly with several other vessel,. The E/yrrir, from Belfast for Bristol, was captured • 161 h oh. of tbe Saltres, by a Fresch privateer, captured three brigs. a Court of Al,:ermen will be held at 11, when the 1.01110 P 414 VOR will declare the of Alderman of the Ward of Bridge With ! on other bathe*. , • - • -I 1F 7 77` ,, 4 "Asir! filet/pea wasbetter attended on batuida night thati it be, been this season, though it certainly had the al•pearattee of a seraglio, as most of the Lad lee heads were rolled up in scarlet, rosioon, and different coloured stiawls, with similar ones clo•ti to the throat. But indeed it was se intensely cold, that every• one, from being much wrapped up, did nut appeal vs ai.y ad vantage. The Duchess of Leafs, Countms of Aylesbury, and Countess of Ely, were among the faahionables, but indeed the ladies lend their boxes so much to each other, that we can hardly ever tell. The fur cap► are much wuru, bu t have a very had effect; we noticed several ladies in long scarlet Cardinal cloaks bound with black, with large scarlet slouched hats, turned up very broad before, with black feather; these were an exact imitation of Cardinal Wolsey's dress ; they certainly had a more weipie than elegant appearance. We have to regret that ladies of fashion du not think it worth while to dress for the Opera; as their own natural beauty dots not shine so conspicuously in sn spacious a pla.:e, elegy should study e ►e area of dress, as it quite destro y s the appearance of the house, which, !instead of being all chew and gaiety, has an air quite triste. Formerly, when the French Noblesse well to pr_ chase for the Opera or Comedic, tea Ina .ri:isioirr ties mutes never r udied what became them, but gave every thing that would have a chersvante edit in so large a place. hint.Billington looked very wel she was seised on Saturday morning with a violent cold mid hoarseness, and we were deprived or her most beauti ful songs. She exerted herself, however, very much, and went through some very difficult passages, with wonderful execution. Deshayes was noise himself, and danced divinely ; an.b , ._ particularly in Castor's Dance. His attitudes excited the i admiration and applause of the delighted audience. —__ ROTAL HC.VT. Saturday morning, soon after ten o'clock, His Maitsrv, attended by Lord Rivets, General FITZ- Ito y, and several others, left Windsor Castle on horseback, and rode to the Dog Kennel on Ascot Heath, where the Earl of SANDWICH and a great number of Gentlemen were waiting the arrival of His MAJESTY fora day's diversion of hunting. As soon as His MAJESTY and attendants arrived, a very famous stag was started from the cart, by order of the Earl of SANDWICH. At starting he ran very swiftly towards Swinley, taking to the right through the inclosures towards Bracknell, and ran through that town to the great amusement of the inhabitants. He took to the left down a lane, where he ran with very great speed, taking to the right by Workingham and Bill Hill, towards Reading, making a double back through the inclosures, near Bill and Bear, towards Benfiekl, and got into a pond, near Wavell, where the hounds came up with him in a short time, and he started again, apparently much refreshed for the water, and seemed inclined to shew much sport ; but in the first field he leaped into, were several farmers and their men, with two shepherd's dogs, and they joined in the chare ; an d the shepher d dogs pursued the stag with viccess, seized him, and got upon him ; but they were im mediately got of ; and thus ended a most ef.cellent day's diversion, after a run of two hours and a half. This fine stag was made a present to His MAME r, a short time since by Mr. Pov rz. On Friday morning. about nine o'cle.ck, tiii MA- J rat If arrived at Windsor Castle from Kew. As won as His MAJESTY had taken otf his travelling dies, and put on the Oxford IThies wiiiorin, he came out ei the Castle, mounted his charger, and, attend ed by General Frrzaor , the Equerry in waiting, rode to the right of Snow in Windsor Great Park, where the Oxford Blues had formed a line, and were waiting to be inspected by I 1111 MAJ csr v. Af ter the officers and the whole troop bad received His MAJESTY with the 'Rural military honours, th,y commenced their manoeuvres, and performed skir mishing and a most excellent sham fight. kiis M /ES r Y was pleased to express himself highly pleased with the whole performance. The whole troop then .marched to the barracks with His Mucsry at their head, and His MAJESTY inspected some of their young horses at the barracks. His Mari-bra is so extremely pleased with the appearance of this handsome regiment, that he has been pleased t signify his royal will, that in future, one of the troops be called the King's Troop :—the men and horses ate to be picked troth the whole regiment. Saturday morning, the Princesses Sor In a and Ateetta took an airing on horseback, in Windsor Great Park. 'fhe Earl of Moia• is expeeted this cloy at his house in St. James's-place, from Sac - Aland. Mrs. FITZIi ' Miss !CIF AILS, and several of the Nobility, leave town this day 1.4 Bright,n, where they will iemAin until after C!.i.,tmas. Among the late numerous arrival, at Bath, are a Mrs. Mr, and a Mrs. r..vrie,. They both set up at the Gre:lhourd. The Dowager Duchess of Re (LAND will not en liven London with her presence until spring. I ler Grace is going on a visit to Belvoir Castle, the seat of her son, the Duke of it uTLAND. The Earl and Countess of Cast/toms, the Coun tesses of Ei.• and A vcssus:ar, leave town thi t s week for Windsor. Lord Filling it cc :kiss T 'tont continues very much indispo•et!, e his mother's, t!:.' Duchess Dowager of Islisic ;::'s house, in 13:-rk`ey-square. Mr. I); espeaed to leArc town in a trtr days for Bath, for the winter. A young lady is announced to make her debut at Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday next, in the interesting character of Amato': in Tide C4:11 ej Nature. Lady SYTtrs left town yesterday, for Maidstone, from Penstone's Hotel, Cork-sweet. Drury-lane overflowed with elrrrnt company on Saturday night; bliss Ouse A S ' S iho Ms &vette is allowed to be a chef el'advre. From a cause recently tried, it appears, that while poor JACK Assn contemplates on the l. , yr of his Gumeat, the Bath White-Hart H.wmuniz Society feel much for the loss of his Notes. Lord klastaowsr is declared out of dar.ger, and on this day he will be removed from Park-street to his own house in Grosvenor•9uare ; he was yes terday so well as to be able to sit up and converse with Lady Haaaowar, who, ever since his acci dent, has constantly remained with him : his Lord• ship also conversed with several el his private tr.ends. I !" 43 t . R(etf MA:L.4 t . 441 A lf. Mr. Arbuthnot, Arrb.isydos front Grea a t Britir to the Porte, has received dera ft °nights Lour, hasten his journey. He had intended to pis greater part of the winter at Vienna ; but he now, we are assured, embark at Triest, on Lew . an English ship, and thence proceed to Corti. The Count of Bentheim Steinfurt, hitherto ••. pernumerary Majorin the regiment of the Arch-1) 4 Maximilian, has been appointed by His Ishi• aEtual Islajar in the regiment of Kerpcn. Pv-)v. Our Court has sent a note to Firis, relative in th.« arrest of the English C4arge Afore:, Si. cre ate ,. Rumbold. Count Ells, Imperial Ambassador to the C01n.,/ Spain, and Count Lodron, Imperial accredited k:;,. Toy to the Court of Sweden, have arrived bete. On the 4 tlth inst. His Imperial M ijesty rive audience to the Foreign Ministers, at r, sic the hi. Toy from the Eleaor of Wurtsmberg gave in Le new credentials, recogni..ing the hereditary inipti.si dignity of Austria. Count Kaunitz, our late Ambassador at C. 55 `en, is going in the same capacity to the of Naples. A Spanish ship of 6 guns and 117 men. has 'rived in the harbour of Fuerne, and an b of 18 guns and 120 men has moored by its side. 11• NILS OF TUE MAINE, N0v.14, According to advice% from Sirabia, M. Vehuo.r. bale, has been sent to the Hereditary Prince uf Wurtemburg, at Naples, to invite him to mum !c Stutgard, with the offer of a yearly appendage if 60,000 florins, arid free residence in one of the ele;- torate palaces to be chosen by himself. The report of the death of the Lady of the Count Artois, at Clagersfurt, on the 14th of Chflober, is us. founded. They write from Venice, that in the etuoir 3 spring an Anglian camp will be formed at tile Piave, which will 'tse visited by His Imperial Ma jesty. GENOA, SOF. 6. The Government of the Italian Republic has tap. pointed a deputation to attend the coronaiina of tilt Emperor Napoleon, at Paris, consisting of the Coun sellor of State, and the other Counsellors, Meralse:s from the Legislative Committee,. two persons trorn each of the three colleges, and one from each of the civil departments. The Vice-President, Melzi, has been invited to foe coronation by the French Emperor ; it was, how ever, believed that the feeble stare of his health will prevent his undertaking a journey to Paris. 'env. 9. Admiral Villeneuve is arrived at Toulon to take the command of the fleet lying there, on board of which a strong body of troops will be embarked. which are, probably, destined for an attack on Cite raltar, where the gariisou is greatly reduced by Le yellow fever. Nannies Nov. 3. According to accounts from Cadia, General Mo reau has happily recovered from the yellow fever. and is now a: Chiaveruir, a country' place in the entity of Cadia. The epidemic distemper has soread to Cord or about thirty miles :rorn the use, but wi• being very destruffive. In general it is teats. that at a certain distance front the coast it ass a less viiulent character. A rain, during two . At Cadiz, has greatly diminishes'. mortality. )1A I. 40A, OCT.: Several persons having come to this city fror country, they have most of them been atta by the disord e r, and have died. The prohibition against any person from country coming into the city bas been renewed in the striCiest manner, and the cordon has been reii inforeed. At present, however, the deaths amount only to four or live persons daily. _"~ glo. 011EIGI rtottmcs, sov. 10. Leghorn on the 9th inst. was not free front the epidemic disorder. On the sth and 7t h ordonnances were publishei by the Governor Lavilette, prohibit ing iiay person from leaving . the town witi.ont pass from the committee o f health. This con . ..- in:nee, on the 7th, likewise publishd a notice stating the measures they had taken in the establish ing of hospitals, etc. sti:rsu, woe. M. The day before yererday did Count de Lire at rived here from Calmar, and is now mats r 44 1- Ye,terday afternoon ahout ha./ past roe, T.,e Swcdish /slajesties went on b.sari a ton bout bad convey:a them to the Royal Yacht .I,estli.. Iring in the road : a ftrourahle hrevse carried the itiustriou, pair out of the harbour ; but the wind :on:: after changed, and ta-day the Yacht Amok, tra• seen at sea about two leagues from this port. 11.0W[rt b 1.111,, NOV. 30 The Commandfrs of the Estasn blockad.. ships, en/4 ng at the mouth of the Elbe, hy:-• • ceived the stridest orders to suffer no vessels tu the Elbe, except such as ate in immediate cia tg of shipsvi eels. aguLtx, Nov : 27. We learn, that the Turkish Envoy here. 11. giropulo, ?- as received orderi from Cm19 , ..1.+ by the last courier, to request the PrUsti/ft court, for the restoration of a goad standing between France and the Po. to The Austrian Envoy here, Count Metternich, has received, by the last courier from Vienna, orlsi to communicate to the Prussian Cabinet the coniekte approha.tion of the Roman Inverial Maj..sty. With respect to the active and decisive measures a loptel by our Court, relative to the arrest cf S.r G un hold. and at the same time to declare, that 1i . Im perial Maj:sty has directed his atubassador a: Count Cohentscl, to co-operate with the M imps Luccbesini, to procure the release of Sir G. :lan bold, which, as is Imown, has a'aeady bred ob tained. "Ile day before yesterday, M. D'Oubnl, the late Russian Chyle d' Affeires at Pans, arrived here from Frankfort, accompanied by M. M. Raykoff, stern, and Wolf, and this day peccenied s journey to St. Petetsburgh. " My name is " wei a very uaaffeited, I sualea, quite faultleu, yin ! leads it to the eandtd critic i I de this praise with the ehara ~ &oast on Friday. his a I however, for those full blot bIW from this young blase to le parroted and schoole rum Romero, and next seas , ps semis oat “ quite faultless.' ' As author who knew ism , lins Tie Cdpurerr, lays it douse at Glei.d.va with disdain and indignation ; instead di The Err. which Nfaster BCTTT was in the front corner of on the 26th the stage, throwing himself about as if in fits." which had Never were ignorar.ce and presumption so cord- To-mon platefy czpowd, as in this remark. From the be- Guildhall, inn,ng of the scene to the aSove moment, Gisa,alr..on vacancy of uses every " contemptuous term" for the express out, and o: • • S