The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-05-12 00:00:00

I 1• I. iir id a ive n. L 4 :~i li'. of and the LT A• rich ho laVt 3rtit- Sun nriper- nel T. hlo• non• Re )ten- I said, 29. r cIT. ncipal 21. h the rd 't. so ittil.b ch lad I,lli\ !.; 0 \MAY. MAy 12. outage Id Y 6. iftate , Ler pith die' tport ci itaI.CCS; , u tnimi ! ral CO7 , !rntttent• sionr! n o f OA , bear"; NIL 4 . l ef CAII - I two of 1 14 ' 4 ' ww' I )f I fl. es 2ndeJ, ibility, be HIM f t rtifiCAU Ons be have w' --1 Wag' , 12116 - -- TH7 Mika - PR E We have received ea r s,rs to the 4th, and Dutch to the 9th insta,t.— Fne Wenitreir of the 3d observes, that it t e possession of the Mouths of the Cattaro by the Ru.siatis, having retarded the • return of the Grand ArrrPy, the great festival ap pointed for the month ot May, is necessarily post poned until the absence ot the Grand Army is no longer requisite." The Editor states, as hii opi nion, that this delay cannot well continue longer than six weeks —A hoer from Rotterdam of, the Bth, asserts, that the Ifaltival is postponed until September. e According to leste pe ufa Augsburg, of the 23d of April, the French enmi their labours to ~-1 r.g•hen the furtificatious •of Braunau ; several ~e‘e redoubts have, oen forra.d. Newhaus, near Passau, has likallfillitseen fortified. The accounts•these journals, fr,m Naples, are to the 15 h Apt at which period Gaeta continued to Min a resolute defence. Jnstro BON A P•11,T1 had 106 Naples, wigs large retinue, to join the army of Masstra e la Calabria. Loris Esoio end Yaescourx. and some other English gentlemen, had, on the 30:h ult. arrived at Itatis, preparatory, as was supposed, to their libera- tion. A letter from Rotterdam, of the 6th, mentions, that M. FILANEIM had Arrived At the Hague, from Paris, with dicpstches, which, for three successive days, we. e the subject of secret conferences amongst the Members of Government, who, on the 4th, re turned their aiiswer by the same messenger. Gentle! IC ALsatura hu sent detachments of troops into the towns of Anclam and Menin, with direaiitns to watch the Swedish troops encamped beyond the Nene s and a Prussian detachment un der General Su rou has taken possession of Gana burgh. The Mot,iterr hu published all the papers which have been presented to Parliament relative to Prussia, with His MAJUTY'S Declaration, without say commert. Admiral Vitttssovs committed suicide, at Ren um, at the Hotel where ne lodged, in the night between the twentyireend and twenty-third last. The Admiral, it is said, All called to Paris for the purpose of being tried bptiourt Martial. This is supposed to he the once et his laying violent hands • atp-ss him.elf. Boa or* arz remained at St. Cloud en the 3d. His stay there had produ:ed 4 p - amOse of Decrees, civil and military. " in per cents. 62 ft. 60 c. The present Adminis ration was scarcely formed, when we perceived stroqt symptons of an opposi tion. consisting of cashiered placemen, and disap pointed pretenders to office Considering an Op position a thing not objetlionable even in the best of times, and with the best of Ministers, we treated the present Opposition with as much reined as an Opposition so formed could possiby deserve. But to our great surprise, we had scarcely • oticed it, when some of the Papers, under its influence and eontroul, actually denied its ex stetter; and, with matchless effrontery, assured the public, that there Was no Opposition. .the policy of this proceeding was too shallow to impose upon the most credulous and superficial. It originated in the conscious im becility of this infant Opposition, and amounted to an avowal of its fears, its doubts, and its pre carious existence. So poor and impoverished was the seed, and so misetable and scanty the soil in which it was sawn, these political husbandman feared, that a rude blast, from the Ministerialßench, would tear up and destroy the embryo Opposition Crop. They were in terror, lest Mr. Fox should put his foot upon it, and at on:e destroy all the hopes of their harvest. It, therefore, became se; cessary to dissemble, until the seed had shot a little out of the grou-A, and the blade had got a little head and strength to withstand foul weather. T'AC Opposition Bench wore sit the form and aspet et Opposition ; but when Mr. Rose stated his objec tions, we were told that he was become an iso lated country Gentleman ; Mr. Cissistso, and •otkers of his rank and class, whose interrogatories broke in upon every occasion, we were taught to regard as political students of humble capacity, who sought to learn the history of the times, by the simple mode of question and answer. Some Mem bers of the Opposition may have al-o flattered themselves with the hope of a return to offs, e ; and, while a chance remained of their once more re posing upon their "bed of rows," it could :tot be pru dent to avow their hrotility. As evidence of this their policy and motives, we need only refer to theit Paper of Saturday night, the ci-downi Jacobin, lately Ministerial, and nosy Opposition Print, 76e Crieriee. la its cbservations upon the Debate in the House of Commons upon the Pig Iron Duty Bill, on Ftiday, it says, " there was same little sparring between Mr. Fox and Mr. CANNING" Sparring between a cock-sparrow and an eagle I The spar. ring between thesis two gentlemen, who are thus re presented as two contending Chiefs, did not exceed five lines, as will be seen in our paper of Satur day. But this is not all; Mr. Ross, we are told, " made an allusion, which produced loud and repeated bursts of laughter." Mr, Rose. no doubt, is to be the SIMI bas of the Hew Opposition, destined to keep the House in a roar, with his deli cate and deleCtable wit. And what is the specimen given of it Mr. Rose told a story from the iron manufaClory, in which, if the ore is not opened when ripe, it bursts out, and then there are more "pigs them !ea.." But this wit, adds The Conrier, is not intelligible, without the aid of " a political caricature lately published, in which the Ministe rialists are depleted as so many pigs, only half of which can find teats in the sow to sock." Draw. ings and mechanical devices have been lately in troduced into the Courts, in illustration of the eli}- quence and argument of the Bar ; and the Opposi tion ora•ors, no doubt, following the example, re quire Governor Pim:Ws picket, and the whole furniture of the caricature shops, at once to torture their wit, and exhibit its distorted features in their true colours. But now that Mr. Rose's abstruse wit is rendered intelligible by that able commesta- tor, The Courier, we are not disposed to deny its force. There certain! : are not places for half tat triends of the Minister. And why so? Be- cause, in the immense patro sage of England, the change has scarcely extended farther than the heads of the principal departments. The same observat6n applies to Ireland. It has received a new I.ord Lieutenant, a new Chancellor in the Court of Equity,* new Chancellor of the Exchequer, four new Lords of the Treasury, a Muster-Master General, and two Joint-Postmasters•General ; but all the other offices in that country remain in *Wu quo. Does Mr. Bon really wish that a general sweep shoe'd take place in all the departments under Government? Does Mr. Wt nom A n's quotation, &Amen eniseris social hahtliue doloris, really accord with his own feelings? It all Mr. Rose's old Ministerial friends were turned out, an extremity which he seems anxious to court, there would hr :eats enough for the Ministe• rialists.—The strong Minority which appeared in the Haute of Commons, on Friday, against Use mo tion for committing the Pig Iron Duty Bill, has obviously encouraged The Courier to tecnyat leng'h the existence of an Opp.isitioo ; but its joy is pre mature.—A question of th;s kind affords no proof of the strength or weak-less of the Minister.—Mr. Pi re, is the zenith of his indluelcst and power, was left more than once in a minority upon the Slave Trade. The Alice, WILLV, cf London ; and the Laurel, Hume. of Liverpon!, svirh thirteen other vessels, were caatured ou the c .ast of Africa, previous to the 26th of January, by a French squadron ; the mhoe is arrived at Waterford, as a cartel. She states, that Senegal had been reinforced by the ar rival of a numh. r of French troops, and it WI, sup posed, that th. v would make• an attempt upon Goree.—The French squadron, by which the above ships we• e taken, is supposed to be that which sailed from L'Orient on the 3th of November, con sting of the Rearafe,, of do guns ; Prezio/tat and Sjelaile, of SD each; and the &veer/lenge. An account has been received from the East Indies, of the capture of the following ships : —the Co.nmeree. Din:DAS; WRidtgr/SOr ; -••• ; and boded, W AT Us, country ships, from China, by the Caratne large French privateer, in the Bay of Bengal. 'rho Afrxamd, e, i'rench man of war, of 74 guns, taken in St. Domingo Bay, by Admiral Duca wortell, put into St. Mary's Road, Scilly, oe the 4th, under jury masts. Great apprehensions bad been I entertained, that she must have foundered, and all her guns upon t: -lower tier were thrown overboard. She now, however, in perfect safety. The Ponten6y, BROWN; friviras, BA RY ; and the lVrla Heciars, from Liverpool, are captured en the sonst of Africa. The fifer wk. —, from Guernsey, for St. Se bastian, is captured by some Spanish Row-boats, and carried into Guarda. Tao High Court of Parliament met on Saturday, and proceeded upon the trial of Viscount Mai.- •11. t. c. It had been supposed, that the whole of the evidence for the prosecution had been finished on the preceding day; this, however, proved to have been a mistake; for Mr. WHITBREAD informed their Lordships, he had further evidence to offer.— He then called witnesses, and examined them re sperfting alleged balances in the hands of Lord as Treasurer of the Navy, in 1784, and the years immediately subsequent. He also exa mined witnesses to prove the Noble Deli:edam's sources of emolument as Lord Advocate, Keeper of t 1 e Signet. kc. Several formal allegations in the e• arges were also proved, and the Managers closed their evidence. These proceedings occupied the attention of the Court, until near one o'clock, w..en Sir SAIIIL Lt. Ro mist. v b ,;an to sum up the whole of the evi dence, and concluded a little before four o'cl(ick having spoken about three hours and a guar ter. The Court then jou. net until to. morrow, At ten o'clock. Th. atte-daoce of Peers and Peeres.es was more numerous than even on an, preceding day. The Prince of \VALLS And ROYAL DUICLS were in Celart the , hole nf the d v. The adj• urnment until Tuesday, is to give Lot MLLVILLS an opportunity of stranging his deteuce •••• i r • C 9 • . • 41P' y GRAND MUSICAL P.4R7r AND SLI.'PER. On Saturday evening, MILt3 Prrat Arroacws, Esq. gave one of the grandest Entertainments of the season, to his Royal Highness the Prince of %Vat ss, and a large party of Nobility. principally his Royal Highness's Friends. The whole interior was brilliantly illuminated, and decorated with pots of odoriferous throbs and flowers. The grand drawing-room was appropriated for the music ; in the centre hung a most brilliant diamond cut glass chandelier ; round the room were elegant bell lights. The Concert was vocal, and concluded by Mr. KNYVETT, senior. At ten o'clock, the PRINCV, accompanied by Mr. Joust Marsrices, arrived. His Royal Highness having declined his favourite amuse ment of the Opera for that evening, when a number of the most beautiful Trios, Songs, Quartcttos and Glees, were sung by the Miss GUNS. the Miss Aso ••• ASIS, Mersrs. KNY•ETT, Sli/ELD and HAIIIIISON• At twelve o'clock, the PaiNCZ, and two•thirds of the company, sat down to a most splendid supper. His Royal Highness sat between the Duchess of Goirocora and Lady Hs socasros. There were thre! long tables, cover...! with every delicacy of the season ; at the Op; .r end of one of the side tables, near the Palace, the vocal Ladies and Gentlemen were pl_ced ; ami aft r supper en tertained his Royal Highness and the c ,mpany with the performance of an Ode and Slog appropriate to the occasion. Some of the m.' t beautiful Glees were also song, in which the Pn Nce, with his • al affability, joined. At two o'clock he retired, lard the company immediately followed —amongst whom were The Marchioness of Salisbury ; the Co.. ntesses of Dannsouth, na , t•ley,Chultsionde!ev, Essex, and F...te•cue Vocount st.d Viacoontess St !Louth ; Lord and Lady Ittloubor .u4h ; Firs D4rtniuuth, Chohnondtley, Eees, Darnley. and Forte-cue; Vim-nunteage, Caatlereazh, and Korth wick ; the Lord Chan cedor and Judge Advocate, and Lord and Lady Vernon. Saturday morning His Nlaassr•, Princeases Au. OUST* and Soeata, accompanied by Gen. Gwv eat, Colonel TA viols, Sc. took an airing nn horseback,'. in Windsor Great Pae. Her MAJ EST v and Petite sssss took an airing io. a carriage and frwt. by Er.gli•field Green. The ROY AL FAMILY went to Frogmore aftet dinner, and warned to the Castle at eight o'clock. Yesterday morning the Duke of Yoe arrived at Windsor from town. His Mama. v, Duke of Yu, Princesses Au flint*. Starlit 4. MARY, and A watt a, accompanied by Generals Frrzauv , GYFril a, Colonel l'a v Loa, &c. walked to St. George's Ch Tel, and heard an excellent sermon preached by :be Rev. Dr. Cook sou, from the 3d chapter 2d epistle to Ilmorhy aad 16th verse. After divine service Vie Royal Party took an airing to Froimare. The Trial now pending in Westminter Hall, has produced in the Pastry tn.;ks' shops, a new arti cle, entitled, " The Mriaille Seed:v.4." Hyde Pak was numerously Attended yesterday. The Eat; J Countess of Dr tia , were in an ele gant phaeton and pair. Viscount Ca RILEY. Lord Fo: ay. Sir Jona Lena (wish bins Lady on the boa), Mr. MELLISH. five Honourable Mr. (.oi ;ts, and Mr. livero4 !flea th 1r phamdm, fair us head, with great dexterity. C; a MC.T, Esq. will give a grand dinner, this day, at his house in Upper Grosvenor-square. The Marehin ess a S•LISIERY's pm', last evening. was num-rnnsly attended. The o, i- I Grand C-neert will be held neat Wednesday, at the P .chess of GoaooN's house, in St. James's Square. The Get,ett of Saturday contains a letter from a Cep..ain, who makes his mark. The Earl of BARRY MORE. Lord Fou eat, and Mr. Mxt.t.rsis, arrived in town last Saturday from Newmarket. P•MCTC A t. rs, Esq. and a large party of Nobility, dined yesterday with Viscount Wear worra, at his house in Edward-greet, Portman-square. Master BETTY played Raid, on S.sturday night, at Covent-Garden Theatre, with great <ucceis, to an elegant audience. A he try shower of rain fell suddenly last night, which did great damage among the white•muslia robed Belk: on the Promenades. Kenstnron Gardens were crowded with com pany yesterday. The Countess of CLARK. Lord Kattsiriorou, 'nd Sir Job's Gi , were among the Fashionable. Mrs. THOM rsoll had a small Mesie Party, last evening, at her house, in Grosvenor-square. The Tailors have struck, because some females are admitted to assist in the trade. " Their wives," they say, " must not make the breeches, and also wear them." The last arrivals at Bath are— Lord Newark, Lord Somerville, Lady Cabir , Lady Mor daunt, Sir W. Malmo, Sir W. Lawson. Sr a and Lady Sul livan, Count Zambia, Rrar-Adeatrai and Mrs. Gen sad Mrs. Nichols, Col. Brooke, Lieut. Col. Doyht, CoL Mad den, Col Sentra. Cal. Math.., and Major Bolden. Mr. Fox appeared the Managers' Box, on Sa turday, with a large white favour in his hat, on ac• count of Lord Kinsman's marriage with Lady Ft tzesitatio, the daughter of the late Duke of Lit NIMBI. The Misses Itta A us are performing at Watetford with great success. On this day te'ennight, their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Baornate, attended by their re tinue, Ina& an excursion to the county Wicklow, to view that much admired romantic place, the Seven Churches, at Glendalough; and on their re turn were to din- with the Earl and Countess of POW tIIIbCOI.IIIT, at Power-at:mart. The Earl and Countess of DLItIY gave a grand dinner, yesterday,at their house in Grosvenor-square, to His Royal Highness the Pi ince • f W • Las, the Marqiiis and Maichioness of Sr•eroito, the Earl •and Countess of I) , Earl Mote a, the Earl and Countess of Ross Lai sNiscount and Viscouniess Met.soyarsa, the Lost) Cleaves:lA.oa, and Lord lorcniesors. lhe company dined in the ball nom, and the table was set out with the greatest magnificence ; elegant gold branches with wax 'a ,sera ieuigned alter those of His Royal Highness re Prince of Wa Las) were placed on the table , also superb gold vases aad gold ice-pails. - --T LAW 17ITELLIGIN6E. -- - COURT 1 ''T CEKI --SareaD.r, MAT W. The Lou, Citat.i.aLisoe informed the few Gen tlemen of the Bar who attended, that be should sit at ten o'clock on IK ,nd ay, and devote the day to the businebs of the Court. COURT OF V Its G's BENC!I Tit , . Court sat to justify bails ani hear common / 11 motions. It we: intimated tha• ihrir 4 ups would proceed with 114 ordinary business M ar day, as their attendance would not Lots .eq in the Court of Parliament. Notices to a sirmiatr effect were amen is the Com mon Picas and Exchequer. SNOCKINB ACCILISti T. An alarming fire broke out about nine o'clock on Saturday nigh., at the hr.use of Mr. St-pod, a butcher, in Bear-alley, Fleet Market It hap pened in consequence of the maid sc want baying left a candle burning on the second Lor, in the toed-chamber of the three children of Mt. detwee, after she had put them to bed, and hadgene out to • order some beer tor her master. On her regain. she found the room in a blaze, an imbrues ely gav e the alarm, when every exerting was m die - to rescue the children, bet in vain. The ap pearance of the fire, at the early part of its career, was estremely awful, and awned to thee toe ' adjoining bowies with destroB ow ; but from the timely assistance of the firemen, who emoted theta selves in a becoming manner, it soon berm to lose its alarming aspect —The bosses on each side were much silmags.f.particoleale Mr. Lines's., who has lost a considerable qsamity of his fornitute...... Cho wife of Mr. Steptoe fora. conveyed from the shop in t' r market. to ner mother, in a state of in seeeibilny, havinv fainted when she heard of the mordent. The V tanorns ,were allied out, who *were of infinite service to .be inhabitants, as they affirded them an easy isteress sad egress, and pro. waled their goods. The hodi.n of the three chit dren were not found until daylight yesterday morn ing. That of the eldest, who was nine years 4 age, was in a shacking eate.—Those of the two ' , longer, the one soma and the other two ae.d a half years old, were not mach disfigured. they were conveyer ro an nariertakees, at the corner or Brazier's Buildings. The Gazette of Saturday night comities His !Wait/- les Proclamation for a tiew Copper CMnage. ohl 50 tons of Penny Pie.-es, 4-?7t tons of Halfpenny Pier es, and 221 tons of Farthings. The Penny Pieces are I to be in the proportion of tweary.fout to the pound 't avoirdupoise of copper, and so on with the others. It is provided that no one shall be obliged u • aka more of such Peony Pieces, in one payteem, th eo shall he of the yahoo of one shilling, or More ef tech Halfpence and Farthings than shall hoof the wake of sixpence, after the aforesaid rate. The Earl of Dostooonstarta has been wen of His Mainly's Most Honourable Pettyeras cil, and h.% taken his seat accordingly. Loots 831111 pa miss. the intended Kies of Hots land, is now dangerously ill at Paris. Lord G asa•l ;Az. according to report, has oils ciaally written to Ceineral Da L•sther, dleedting him ro pay imp thb flank, within three days, the 93,0001. which, according to the Report bf the Army Commissioners, it appears he has retained of the publicrrieney. The Lively Frigate, of 36 guns, Captain Has'. motto, arrived l llmrtday at Plymouth, with din. patches from Admiral Cotussaysooo, in she Medi terranean. She has bro.lght boom General Carrico, in a bad state of health. Orders were sent off on smerday night to Plymouth, to release the La+ 'frigate from qoarantinc, and petal& Sir Jarts Ca aro. and his suite, to go oo shore. On Saturday last, Engstrom Dace', Esq. Citizen and Draper, by virtue of the late order of the Court of Common Council. paid inter the Chamber of London, the sum of four hundred pounds and twenty marks, with the usual fees, to he discharged from his nomination for the Mace of Bheriff of the City of London and County of Middlesex. This day the animal Election commences at Westminster School. It lays with the Dams of CHIIST CHUICH from Oxford. Rev. Dr. Hata, from Cambridge, Rev. WILLI/re MAMMA, and the Rev. J. Davisi. The late storie.rge of a con s id e rabl e , H ome is t h e City is said to lute when from MOW being wish held from it by Government, es esteemat of a vic tualling contrast; barrels of beef haviog been re turned to them to that' meeinst, on a charge that they were made rap of new, instead of Oct beef, as stipulated by contrail. Some of the dealers in iron, in contemplation of the proposed tax on that article, have already ad vanced their prices. An additional shining a thou sand has been charged on nails, ice. At the date of the late overland dispatch froth In dia, HaLKAII had sent a V akeel to 04ieng for the pur pose of signifying to the British Readmit there. his readiness to eater into terms of accommodation with the India Government. He proposes to place every thing on the same footing as 'before the war, both in regard to himself and his Allies. A long depending cause has lately been decided is the Court of Requests, Guildhall, having been (Dried there by isindanius, from the Court of Log's Bench. A number of Sworn Brokers had refssed to pay into the Chamber of the City, the mm of 21. per a. DWI), which they conce.ved they had no right to do. The Court determined in favour of the Chamber, and compelled the Defendants to pay the money. • Jen Klee, the Bankrupt, late linen-draper in Cold Bath-fields, who failed to Vie amount of 6,0001 un der.. rtit an examination at Saturday at Guildhall and was egoist :emended to Newgate, until hr car. satisf tancy account of twe state of his affairs wo young gentians-. named Roosts and Loom Ittimate friends, helougin ; to the I .rrack i Dublin, fought • duel on Monday last. The, wood at eleven paces distant. and f-ed at the mow tim , t, when Loth fed. Mr. Rosales rec-iyed ball th• .ugh h- .rt and ever spoke. I'h tithe was of thr.-ugh both thighs. A C row?. Jury het ign: in a verdict of W4fssl Mae*, against th err ViVOT.