The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-03-21 00:00:00

At half-past one o'clock yeasierday, their Graces and suite set of from their house, in Stable-yard, St. James's, for Woburn, in three carriages and four, attended by four on-riders, and two servants out of livery. In the first carriage were, the Duke and Duchess of Minuets, Miss FOUDVCF, and the Hon. Captain Possoiiav, son of the Earl of BEs aosonan. his Grace's first Aid-de-Camp. le the second, Mr. Fluor, his Grace's Secretary, and Dr. YArLS. The third was a barouche, with at tcadants. Her Grace was dressed in a scarlet Hussar dress, trimmed with gold, and a cap to corrspond. Her Grace looked beautiful ; her charms were heightened by the tear of sensibility glistening in her eye, at the tears and blessings of her don:estics. as well as of the speaators. The Stable-yard was filled with her Grace's trades-peo ple. all anxious to catch a last look at their Pa troness. The lion. Mrs. Tacvoa arrived to take leave of the Duchess, but her carriage could not get through she c: owd, and she patiently sat in it until she saw ber fair !vend drive off. Their Graces intend to re main at Woburn this day, and to-morrow they will sec est on their journey for Ireland, where the affability and elegant hospitality of Lady CHAR• LOTTIt lattot, the Duchess's sister, who resided with the General, st the camp, near Dublin, pre vines to the rebellion of 1798, live in the remem brance of every person honoured by her society. . Yesterday !nothing, the Duke of YORK arrived at Windsor from town, at halt past eight o'clock, and af-erwards rode on horseback with His MA JESTY, Dukes of YORE and CI:MBERA•ND, Prin cesses AUGELYA and SOPIDA, accompanied by Generals MANNERS and Ft vzsov, Colonel TAY -I.oa. &c. The Duke of Susstx was expeetled at Windsor yesterday aftei noon. Tt - ts Hon. Crlonel MEADE arrived yesterday, at S: James's Coffee-house, St. James's -street, from Ireland. The Earl of Dtasv gave a grand dinner yester day, at his boars,. in Grosvenor- • goare, to the Mar quis of Dot . slAS. the Earl and Countess of Sc,. TOP., Earl and Countess Coweta, Earl of Jensey, Viscousness ANDOVIR, Lords A. HAMILTON aid Ossut.vor., Sir Jen“ Snetty, and Sir STEPHEN GLYNN. During dinner, the Earl of S E E EON wa s taken ill, and obliged to Titre to the Dia*. ing rown ; hut, we aro happy zo state, his Lao dship was so muc'i recovered as D/ join the company in the evenin.e. 'On Mt nelay. Mr. Fox will remove into the Luke of llsnsoan's !mow, and on Wednesday he will entertain His Royal Highness the Peirce of WALES, Lord GRENVILLE, and a number of Mi. nisterixl Friends ♦t dinner. M r BLITT performed ThrearP, last night, at Covent-garden Theatre, to a very elegant audience, and was much applavded. The • Duchers of Gostoon left town yesterday morning, on a visit to Mrs. I - ousts, at Twicken ham. Viscount 11fouarrov arrived yesterday at STPE c.t:'s hotel, Clifford street, from 'teland. The TI4 e Ilers have taken up their abode at Old Drury, and are determined "to rainy no more mimed," chile they can attract such an audience as that of last night, at home. The last Bath arrivals are— Rar.tn Hownwarh, Lady Matthew, Hon. and Rev. Mr. Mewl, Sir Jnhn Treat.lvan Sir R. and Lady Bkkerton, Gener.i Leslie, Gen. and Mrs. Diacto, Gen. Barclay, Col. Matthews and family, Cul. Searle, Col Harevy, M. Chi the-tar, Motor Moore, Rey Mr. Menstle, Rev. Mr. Crumb, Am Mr. Riv.ett, Rev. Mr. Powell, and Rev. Mr. Irvine. Iris sail , that Her Royal Highness the Princess of WA Lts intends passing the susnme: at Dasslish ; and that the Duke of Gioucesrr► has taken, for one year, Mamhead, the beautiful seat of the late Lord Lisacast, in Devonshire. Lady G. CAVENDISH gave a Grand Rout last a:plat, at her house, Saville-row, which was nume rously attended. The Countess of Bastarranat's first Rout this seasra, took place last evening, at her house, Sack vihit.srreet, which was attended by upward; of three hundred of the Nobility. Her Ladyship's suit of dtsgring-rooms was brilliantly lighted, and the me dalkicns with which the ceiling is irterspegsed, had a beautiful effeet. la the the brilitant assemblage were-- lig koest Highness the Notre of W the Dukes of ?loot•rof, De 111,,ti. and DP ; Ou,:hime• of Der set 31:4 Dolt.n; the MatChitaltle..es •t: Heletfor , , Do.trol, and Sahnour, ; the Couateit of ewe tha Pasusuese Atnbass.t. dot seve+at of the F.nrigo The Duchess of I/Ivo:43min s had a small supper Par:T, last 'Wednesday ; and at half-past one, on Thursday resigning, her Grace was taken estremely al. Sir WALTER FARRESIAII, Drs. BLANE and nitxxv were immediately sent for, and remained with her Gra, e till hall-past three, when they left her much recovered ; and we are happy to say she w2s hem r yesterday. Mr. Tug hi AS HOPE Will shortly lead to the Altar of Hymen, the beautiful Miss LnttsA BEI ESTOND. ?oungest daughter of the Archbishop of TvAsi. flits young lady's mind is as amiable as her person is Irriely. We are happy to inform our readers, that Mr. C aaaaa ix, and the two sons of Lord Notes:ay. vier suffering shipwreck, and almost unexareFled fatigue arid hardship, were safe. at Constaral3o- Pk. oa the eth of November. They have since *"lied &bens, and are now in pestee health at Th. rand dinner given last evening to the Mar tnis of Wit LLSLLY, at Witt's', Itoorns. by the gentlemen who were resident in India during th.e Admin:stra.ion of the Marquis, was attended by n...ar two hundred noblem-n and gentlemen. The tables 'were Lid in the ball-room, and wore dec-rated in a ■magnificent style, and covered sOth every delicacy th.t could be procured. The second course was served at nine o'clock. The room was most br,l. bandy lighted with wax lights, in diamond cut lass chandeliers. This splendid entertainment, it sand, will cost three thousand pounds. dichis?s , , , e..." stt- : #_•;/- PA 4'" TIM DUKE AND DUCIinS OF BEDFORD. WI 48$ ye' 1$1! THE NEW OPPATION. We lately Stated, that the report of the death and burial of the Xew Opposition, %%as only a feint, a mere ruse dc guerre. The shallow artifice was not likely to impose upon the public ; and it sea etely required our warning voice to tell them, that this pretended death was borrowed from the example of SU. John F.titn9*; a stratagem, diaated by coward ice. and imbecility. The E4itor,of the Jacobin Print, appears, however, to have been the complete dupe of this shallow manczuvre. On Friday last, he was convinced that the New Opposition were dead and gone, and that none but "fa tile," men could sup pose its possible existence. Had he been in the /louse of Commons on Monday, how must this simpleton have been surprised, on beholding the C•STLEREAGIIS, theCAsNlscs, and the PERCIVALS, the ver► Opposition which ire fancied in its grave, looking quite alive, and frowning defiance in the flee of Mr. WINDHAM. Beholding this usexpeeed resurreaion, he would have probably exclaimed with Hamlet, when he sees the Ghost of his father— " Let me rant burst in ignorance ; hut tell Why thy canonised ones, hemmed in death, laws hoist their cearmenti) Why the sepulchre, Wherein we sew thee quietly Hemmed, Hath npe'd its pondeuo.as and marble jaws, To cast thee up spin! What may tin. mean, That thou, dead cone, again on cemplete steel, Resiiiist thus, the glimpes of the Moon, Making 'right hviebus”' We fear, however, that to suppose the Print, to which we allude, the dupe of the party, is too cha ritable a construilion of its condua. A more ready tool for the propagation of falsehood and slander, has seldelm made its appearance. Upon the first tot nettion of the present Ministry, it was represented as a paltry scramble for places and pensions ; a mi serable struggle for bread and cheese ; a little mer cenary anxiety te provide for liangry dependents. How the turned-nut Ministers could think that they were serving their cause, by diclating such language to their creature, we cannot conceive. Are these the sentiments with which the CA<TLERE•SHS and the Ceesimos came into those Offices, from which they have teen lately driven ? Perhaps Mr. Ca a sittc was asleep when he kissed hands, on his ap pointment as Treasurer of the Navy ; and Viscount CASTLEREAGH was, no doubt, half-hanged, or well Bogged, to extort his consent to become President ' of the Board of Controul. But, if the CASTLE REAGHs and CANNING, accepted places with their eyes open, aed high and important Offices of State afford such temptation to reerdid avarice, never, surely was a Ministry that 'had so little right to complain as the late one. Twenty years of place and power were surely sufficient, with only ordi nary care and diligence, to lay up something for old age, and provide for hungry dependents. It is the stale trick of every Jacobin and agi tator, to represent an ambition for office in this sordid light, divested of every generous mo tive. But, for the falsehood of the suggestion, we need only refer to the care of Mr. Prrr. Ac cording to the reasoning of the Jacobin Print, Mr. PITT must have died as rich as Creams, yet Mr. Pier diet 50,0001. in debt. It is a fan, that Mr. PITT'S salary, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Lord of the Treasury, with the addition of that valuable sinecure, the Lord Warden .of the Cinque Ports, was not adequate to a dignified sup port of his official rank and station. The same may be said of the salary of First Lord of the Admi ralty. Unless then, Mr. GALT, or Lord Hagar PETTY, had ample fortunes, is far from feathering their nests by the profits of office, they must draw upon the purses of their friends, and run in debt, like Mr. PITT. It is impossible to reprobate, in terms of too great severity, those wicked and ma licious misrepresentations, the objeß of which is, to degrade the Government in the eyes of the people. We will lose no opportunity to expose them to pub lic contempt; and, therefore, must not now pass over unnoticed some new observations of the same class, which hare appeared in the Jacobin Print. Having exhausted its vocabulary in a series of inveßive against places and pensions, it open ed a new source of abuse on Saturday. That we may not be charged with misrepresentation, we will quote its own words. " It is really cruel," says the Jacobin Print, alluding to the new Minis ters, "to attempt to interrupt them in their career of enjayment, and to disturb that hermeitious in. terchange of feasts and dinners, the accounts of which, fill the celurans of the Ministeriel Papers, to the great edification and joy of the people. We inserted yesterday, a list of four Cabinet Demers in one day, to convince our Readers, ' hew merrily ..relive, that Ministers be.' And thus far we think it nec e y to say in their defence, that it was highly indecorous and unreasonable to expect, that the first thing they would do when they got into place, would, or could be, to pre over plans and dry details. As if a man who had thrown by a thread-bare coat, and put on a new oue, thought at all, in the first instance, of going to work. Nes--se ; he must go about and shew it, visit his friends, and junket with them ; ask them how he looks in it ? and whether they like the colour, the cut, and the cloth ? After having been so long condemned to the bleak and barren regions of Opposition, can we complain that the new Ministers, cow that they have got into the fertile and produeive fields of patronage and power, feast and make merry." Every man who reads this passage will see, that in its style, its sen timent, And its mode of reasoning, it is addressed ex clusively to the populace, its favourite readers; and that the kV:4er studies to avail himself of the pre judices, and to abuse the ignorance of the lower orders. This is the argument with which the Ja cobins wrought upon the passions of the Parisian Pertsardes. It was with the same weapon the Ja cobins of England sought to produce a revolution here. Men placed at the very b mom of society,whate minds are without cultivation, ald whose hands are daily employed in procuring food and raiment, will be too apt to examine a Prime Minister by their own wants. They will be apt to place his ambi tion in a fine suit of clothes, or a good dinner ; and make the Minister exclaim, in the titords of the hero in the farce of The Tailors, • If Fate but favour us, our future dam Shall roll in peace, and luxvrv, and wee, Awl all be crowned w,CI punch, with pork, w th pen " This revolutionary c int must not, however, be dis milled thus lightly. Th- Writer says he h.ts read a list of four Cabinet dinners in one day, and from thence he infers, that the life of the Ministers is one round of feasting, gluttony, and dissipation, to 'the injury and neglect of public business. %Vhen Member of the Cabinet invites to dinner a party, generally including stone of his colleagues in office, it is called a Cabinet Dinner. There are, we believe, eight Cabinet Ministers ; and we gra it it very possible, that four of them may have entertained some friends upon the same day.-- But is any man, the efire, to insinuate to the poor and hungry, that the Cabinet Ministers dined four times in one day ? or, that a Ca binet Dinner is a nt pity area of luxury and glut tony, blunting ad the mental faculties of the host, and totally disqualifying him and his guests fcr pub lic business ? If a Cabinet Dinner be, in tea, only an ordinary dinner, we see no crime, unless it be one to dine every day. The new Ministers have not been sufficiently long in office to have committed any po litical sins, which they are called upon to expiate in sackcloth and ashes, in penitence and prayer.— We see no good rossaoss why zbay should .at a good coat, or enter a Cabinet as they would enter a Convent, solemnly renouncing all the good things of the world, which they possessed before. This ene my of good dinners, in the Jacobin Print, this advo cate for cucumber times, is probably a pupil of Mr. RITSON. " Flesh-eatings," says that Gentleman, " by clogutg and cloying wens' bodies, render their very minds and intelleCts gross likewise ; for it is well known, that wine, and flesh-eating, make the body strong and lusty, but the mind weak arid feeble." We question, however, whether Mr. RITSON, if he be a loyal man, would not forego his regimen in the case of the present Ministers. It has been objeeed to Mr. Fox, that he is too pacific and mild ; that he will tamely bear the insults Of RON•PARTX, and lick the hand the: strikes him. Now, according to the advocates for vegetable diet, animal food makes men furious, and fond of fighting; and, con. e quently, a good dinner of English roast beef, mist coffee, in the case of Mr. Fax, the over-tameness of his disposition ; it must inspire him with military ardour, and make him despise all the difficelties in the way of a march to Paris, of a revioareat enter prize, or of any other valiant scheme meditated by his predecessors in office. The Townsbend packet, Captain Roams, is ar rived at Falmouth with a Mail from Lisbon, in four days passage. The letters will be delivered this day. The Cam: brig has had ■ most gallant aetion yri.h a ship of surerior force off Ferro'..lasks-t under the batteries. She peppered the enemy so well, that she forced her to run ashore, where she bilged and sunk ; the crew were saved. Letters from Deal, dated on Wednesday, state that a ten-oared galley arrived there in the court* of the moruing, in which was Mr. Joeurror, who commands the Si:e lugger, accompanied by a French Officer of rank. Upon landing, they pro ceeded to the inn, the Three Kings ; and the Offi cer, after having taken some retre,hment, waited upon Admiral llostorrav, at his office. The let ter adds, •• We understand he was taken out of a lugger, of Gravelines, by the Nile cutter. He was waited on by several Officers. both naval and military; among them, Latrains Owes and M•r son., A writer in an evening Paper of yesterday. meaning to convey a censure upon the present Mi mvers, says--•. The Loan was negociated.tbe Bud ge: opened, and the new tares brought forward Last year, or. the 13th of February. upwards of a month before this time, and all the sew tax bills had been alibcuased, and passed last Session, before the Loan will have been made, or the Budget opened this." (i.e ceedi t ...titer of !bisexual& ought no: to have forgattea, that the last Session I commenced long betare Cntistmas, and that the present commenced after it. . . TN B LOAN; The intimation re .• - 2-7 !Ann on Wed nesday; was commtnic..tea la ;he f0110wi...7 ner. :—Mr. Haves, the Deputy Cashier of CA Bank, went to the Stock Exeh.nge, and read, from a paper in his hand, a Message to the follocrirtg pun; port The Governor and Depute. Governor of the Bark thin it peeper to acquaint the Gentlemen of the St tic h %rhinos. tl..at they have reason to exrect a communication tub the RAJA Honourable the Chancellor of the Etchcipier, intimatti l it* he eta be ready to see the Gentlemen eon may be inrLited bid for the Loan, for these'', cc et - the oui . rerit year, iu Dusan ieg-street, on Tuesday morn next. This intimation w.is the result of an intervi:ne which the Governor and Deputy Governer had had with Lord Ellgt4ltY PET Iv, in %hie'. we under stand he stated to :hem that Ise should he ready to settle the preliminaries on 1 liesday, Ova the Candidates might prepare to meet him this day sennight to bid for the L , ian. It is understood that they advised the Noble Lord to raise the Loan chiefly upon Three per Cent. Con , olß, and not upon any new or speculative kind of stuck. Th. Loan rill be for a large amount. Some think 23,000,0001. It had been generally supposed, that)t'svonld nut have been neuciated until after Easter. HOME CIRCUIT. MAIDSTONE, MAROS' 19. James Danes was found guilty of privately steal. ing in the dwelling house of Mr. Andrews, to the emenne of forty shillings. Ile was one of a gang who entered the house with crapes over their faces. and was identified by Sarah Pearce, a servant maid, who got a glimpse of his nose, which was la:gonad acquiline. PiViam Severs was indiled for manslaughter, in killing and shying John Dilhridge, by form/ hires to drink four quarter .s of spirits, called gm, by which he was choaked and siifFncated. Thee witnesses were called, but their evident* amounted 'o no more, than that the deceased was drunk, and begged the Prisoner to give him some g:n. The Pris ,ner ordetel Lim some more, which he drank voluntarily. He was seized with an apo plrzy, and died. The Learned Juone directed the Jury to emit the Prisoner ; observing, that he gay they given by the Prisoner was not surfizi Int to cause death ; rani it wa; the deceased's own fault that he hal di odS more.—Verdict hot Gully. Mantis Green was in acted for rrandattgl,t- -, a killing and slaying John Cla.k, in the palise of AA'onlwit b. On the list of August last, they were b work on board the same craft, and ba t 3 quarrel, they went on shore to bot it tar In the third round the deceased received a blow on the temple, which in-ta , tlv killed him The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, hot in can- sequence of his having bieu tmpt iso .ed from Au- g.s; la.t, he was fixed one shilling, and ordered to . be discharged. The bill against Captain Teinplem.n, • f Ole murder of one of his crew, was thrown our. De will therefore be tried to-mcriow on the Coroner's Inquest. '1 hs causes on the Civil side were very daft, end stew w -1 - -.--- The Egyetienoe Ligate bas snot into PlymnutN a beautiful French frigate, almost mew, which her boats cut our it a rung gallant style, close in with the Isle du Rhe. She is called the Aleide, and has made lint one voyage ; she is pierced for ES guns on the main deck, and 10 guns on the quartet age forecastle: him was refitting for sea. Lamossasat klaortE:.l3 commanded the boats by which she was • cut Out. The French, it is said, have not yet got entire pos. sermon of the kingdom of Naples; for the PRIPCB ROYAL, upon the appiotch of the French, retired into Calabria with ab.mt 17,0n3 regular troops, and the leg en ma le, who are commarded Ey General llamas. They have taken a strong positicn a that province. A Letter from Whitehaven, dated &larch 18. s ars, - " We are sewry to announce the loss of the Prnpe. to :, Cap:. W. Henn, of this port. This fatal ac cidert ;,by which all on board perished) happened in a violent gale of wind, varying from W. N. W. to N. by E at seven o'clock in the morning of Monday! the 10th inst. about two miles to the N.W. of Also with in the Isle of Anglesea. The vessel went en tirely to pieces within fire minutes after the time of her striking. The aames of the vessel and the master were ascertained by the stern of the beat drifting on shore. No other parts of the wreck had appeared when the intelligence was d 'patched to the Colleßor and Comptroller of this port.--Ina Protptrour was in ballast, from Dublin." Several Mem'aers of the St. James's Corps of Vo.unreers were summoned yesterday to flnw.street, and fined in mitigated penalties, far non-attendance of duty, particularly upon field d a y s . Pansst al •si Watt a . —Mr. T. J—t.t—te, lately undertook, fora trifling wager, to run a m il e i n fi ve l ' minutes, which he performed, apparently withimt much exertion, several seconds within the time ` I prescribed. He has since engaged to run the 'erne distance in four minutes, and leap a given height at stated intervals. There is no exaggeration in the stated weight of the great Mr. LAMBERT. Wko is expelled in town . t soon from Leicester. He really weighs 50 atone. An unpleasaat accident happened to him some time , •, ago, which had nearly been attended with serious consequences. He is a sporting man, and was .. genies! into a pnit.chaiie, to attend tome hots.- races in the neighbisurhond of Leicester, when, in ! atteraptine to pull himself up into the vehicle. hi s great ;weight drew it o ver upon hi m, and his head t.il went oat at the opposite doer. He was a gcod ! deal bruised, and, with some difficul , y, extricated how) the strange and dangerous situation. On Tuesday fast, the Pontefract Volunteers were insp.-del there, when Witt !AM Moos'. a private . in the said corps. was discharged from the AUER* by t Colonel Lind Msxaosovnet. fer insolence and ill ' behaviour to his Captain ; and afterwards having . refused so give up his clothes, accontrerneats. ice. when demanded of hint by Serjeant J•ccson. he i was apprehended by a warrant, and taken behwo the NI. von, who convisted him in the penaltie s in that case made ; and not being able to pay the same, be was committed to Wakefield House a --- 1 Corredion, for seven days.