The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-09-26 00:00:00

1 7'7_ . • • t .-- - '-' . v . • - • . .. .. 1 ,•. . . • . - ... - ell.' iiiIIADOZI, ono. 12. • . . By the glees ffigate, !strived this morning from , Teetola, wlLlearn the riling of the homeward " troth from theme* on the 3 d inst . consistin g . tlodlt under convoy of the Agamem non and i Orb , - Admiral Cochrane, for their promaion, in rt. . Ike NardblakrlaNal, with the klephant and Canada, wt. homeward - and four frigates, sailed with them, and would see rem them far to the Northward. and Sir Richard Strachan's squadron, consisting of with the Cesar (flag-ship), Relleisle, Terrible, Ifellona, i 4 r Audacious, Montague, and 'triumph, of the line ; the 22 and Melatoptu and Decade frigates, sail from Car-• an the lisle Bay this day. They have been constantly em- Govern, ',hayed, since their arrival, in receiving stores and ships. provisions, and gave an unexampled instance in We watering, having completed 1101 tons in 72 hours. canto The Admiral seemed particularly anxious for the Oue' ships to weigh, and visited each to hasten them ; Go and it was imagined that he had received some intelligence by the Circe, which occasioned the f great bustle that has prevailed all the morning. This, however, is all conjefture, although some ac counts have been received in town through other channels, that Almantz's squadron, which we lately stated was expefted at Martinique, is mo mently looked for there, advice' having been re ceived by Villiret of their having left Toulon on the 20.11 June, for the purpose of forming a ju , ltion with Guillumais. off the coast of America, as they insinuate (no doubt as a stratagem to mislead our cruisers), although there is much reason to believe, that not only Almantx is expelled at Martinique, but the return of Guillomais also ; it being understood hew, that moorings have been Laid down in Fort Royal Bay for a large Sleet, a general requisi tion of bread imposed on the bakers, and consider. -i able depots of provisions formed for them. General Bowyer, Commander of the Forces, yeli terday visited Sit R.. Strachan, on board the Caw. I and was received with every attention due to his rank. GRNFRAL MIRANDA. 'Accounts received here from Trinidad, yestorrlai. inform us of the sailing from thence, on the 24th ult. of this bold and enterprising Chieftain, on his long-projefted scheme of revolutionising South 411teriya. by breaking the yoke of Spanish oppres sion in that extensive and valuable coentry. His form has been considerably augmented sat Trinidad, where, besides upwards of 300 Voluntmts who j,,in ed his Standard, he obtained several lesperiencesl Officers, and carried on such a communication and intercourse with hit adherents on the Main, as give sanguine hopes of his ultimate and ample success Miranda has assumed the title of .. General in Chief OM. Army of Columbia." and issued all his com-.. missioos under it. The British sloop of war, Ldps and brigs Express and Attentive, with the Prevost, Tittaantbirse, and Trimnstr schooners, and three gun boats, constitnte his naval force ; and when the last accounts left Trinidad, they had arrived at Calera. within the Gulph of Paria, from whence it was 1 thought Miranda would march across to Comma. and from thence to Barcelona, expelling the coun try through which he passed to joiii him, as be was assured of their being well affesiled to his cause, and was anxiously eapotled at Caraccas. ALGUST 16. His Majesty's brig Obseroateer, Captain Crafton, Ammon days from Bermuda, strived here on Thursday last, and from intelligence received of an .Atnerican brig which she spoke, gives some hope that it has haen reserved for the goad fortmie of Sir John b. Wariensaia triumph over C;uillomais, and check the young asiiiant, Jerome. This American iMaxmad, that on the 26. h ult. ten leagues to the Southward of Bermuda, he fell in with fifteen sail ad the line. apparently in two divisions, under a 'great press of sail, standing to the Northward ; that two frigates hauled out from the sternmost division In chase of him, but that as soon as he sheaved his colours, they retained into the fleet. This he stared to have happened four days previous to his speaking the Observerenr, and was confident of the number of ships of the line. whidi, :hough in two divisions. were not far apart, but he could not distinguish of what nation they were. From the corresponding numbers of this fleet with the hostile flying and F ursuihg squadrons ; the period at which they are stated to have hem seen ; their position, and appealing in two divisions, as far as any reliance can be placed on American ve racity, all tend to favour our uniform opinion that the enemy could not ultimately escape; and we may now fairly hope, has rewarded the vigilance of a gallant Officer who has so clo-ely pursued him. It has been comnmv.ic.tted here from St. Lucie, that a rcr , rt, corroborative of what we stated on the '2d instant, cl an aClion having taken pace on Point Espasfa, in the neighbourhood of St. Do mingo, bc.,veep a British and a Frencl. squadron, has been is c.aved at 11Iarti: , ique, from St. Thomas, but not in a swore autliciitie share, although it is it generally credited. As late eslhe 10th inst * t, does not appear that thet * ezra, as has book r•T ported here, any freskna I eat Mania }w 1. ilk is the return of Giallchseis tensed of. An arrival this morning from Dominica, informs of the capture of the ships Afgsrune, Rat Ford ; Britannia, Nicholson; and Johanna Charlotta, Bor rowdale, from London, bound to Surinam. They were of the Alexandria's convoy, but had parted company, and were proceeding to the Southward, and arrived off Marawiny River, when they fell in with the French privateer schooner Pune Addle, of 14 guns, and 123 men, which captured them on the 22d ultimo, and carried them into Guadaloupe on the Ist instant. The Neptune was laden with Government stores, and they were all valuable ships. We are also informed, by the same arrival, of the capture of the ship Doke of York, of this port, from Quebec, bound here, which arrived at Basseterre, Guadaloupe, on the 4th inst. Thus, while we are anxiously expelling the de feat of the enemy's fleets, his petty privateers are despoiling our commerce ! THE BRITISR 1113.E$S. LONDON, • FRIDAY, Szeraresett t 6. An Evening Print of yesterday, hostile to the present Ministry, in the rage of disappointment at not seeing any of its patrons noticed in the nes, arrangement, gave vent to its spite in the fol lowing paragraph—" It is said that the Duke of gebrolo has been recalled from the Go vernment of Ireland. His Grace was sent at the special desire of Mr. Fox ; and his recal is another symptom of the declining influence of the FOILITES." A more gross, or a more malicious misrepresentation is scarcely to be found in the columns of the Paper to which we allude. The Duke of BEDFOIII3 was not sent to Ireland " at the special desire of Mr. Fox ;" nor is his recal, sup posing it a fa& " a symptom of the declining influ ence of the Foxier's." Among the vatious ohjels which occupied the enlightened and liberal mind of the late Duke of BEDFORD, it WAS his wish, in case of a change that should bring his party, that is, the Faure party, into power, to be placed at the head of the Government in Ireland. In this in tention he was not influenced by the rank, the salary, or the patronage attached to the office. — His fortune and his tharaCter placed him far above the suspicion of any such unworthy motive. His ohjeet in preferring that situation was the most disinterested and laudable that could imluence the mind of man. It equally evinced his humanity as his patriotism, and was equally creditable to his heart and his head. His attention had been occupied by internal policy, and particularly by agricultural study, in an extraordinary degree; and he hoped and flattered himself, that as Viceroy of Ireland, he mild serve his country and mankind more eft ickntly than in airy other situation; that ba pasessed that knowledge and temper of whieb Ireland was must in need ; and should hi able to impart to it the benefit of all those ht. ;mat improvements, to the study and experi mental praftice of which, his life and fortune were devoted in his native land. 'I his is well known in the wide circle of his Grace's friends s and it is equally well known, that it has been the ambition of the present Duke of Br: rote to tread in the footsteps of his honoured and. lamented brother. AU the plans and improvements. in which the late Duke was engaged at the tiros of his death, the present Duke has pursued, to the full extent of Isis means, as a man whose pride and ambition, combined with fraternal affec ting', and a pious regard for the memory of his deceased relative, to complete what he had devised, ant to resemble him in his ptinclples, his purseits, and c haraCter. In short, it has beery his wish to identity himself with his brother; tas.' diminish, as far as in him lay, the loss of his brother ; and fill up the precise chasm which his death had left in society. With this view, and in purse rote of this system, the Duke of Breironts tore him self from his country and friends, and accepted the Viceroyship of Ireland. He was not sent there at the special desire of Mr. Fox, nor is his recall a symptom of the declining influence of the Fox 1T15.--He went there from tespeel to the memory of a lamented relative, as the a.lniinistrator of his last hopes and wishes, and in discharge of a sacred duty ; not for the love of power and patronage, or any objett of ordinary ambition. Since his arrival in Ireland, he has direded the public mind to inter nal improvements and agricultural pursuits. He has endeavoured to disseminate and inculcate the principles and feelings of himselt and his lamented brother ; and having thus discharged the duty which be owed to that relative, he may naturally wish now to return home. We were early apprised of the motive and purpose for wh;:h he went to Irelenda and were or course prepared t 3 hear that be.welltd :If tape Totilowayin that country,. His speedy .reliorn!bas court* been anticipated for sonie titre ranettlong befAre the death of Mr: Fox; he understood that his Grace might soon beexpeEled here. The Duke of lieoro xis may be upon his re turn to Englund ; but, if so, we are c ortiJent that it is his own choice, aid that he has not been recalled in consequence of the declining infiiicnce of the F..xtxtr. It is wurt h y of the Jacobins to find out such an unworthy motive fot the Dii:ze of Bsotcrun's return to England. It has been their labottr and study to endeavour to sow dissension among the Ministry, and to abuse the public mind with the absurd and ridiculous notion, that the death of Mr. Fox, like the death of Mr. Prtr, had extinguished his party. The n ew ministerial *ar rangement we thought most have deterred the most consummate audacity from even insinuat ing such an idea —They must he most ob stinate in error, or have faculties of a most perverse and extraor dinar y nature indee who can see a decline of the Foxyre party, in the appointment of Viscount Howie to the place of Secretary of State for the Foreign Department ; and the admission of Sord liot.i. AN n into the Ca binet, with the Privy Seal. With such broad and strong fiats before them, the British public arc in no great danger of being misled and abused by the impotent malice and shallow ObSiTVALiUGIS of a venal and selfish print. The Expedition for Sicily remained still at. Pl ymouth on Tuesday ; and though the wind was suf. ficiently favourable to carry the transports down Channel, and the signal tor sailing was flying at the Admiral's masthead, not an anchor was weigh ed, nor was there any preparation made for putting to sea. An order was also received at Portsniouth, on Tuesday, for the recall of the KIN o's German Legion, which sailed from Spitheaci on Sunday. This relaxation or pause in our warlike operations was eagerly seised upon yesterday, and construed as a pacific symptom. A report was circulated that Prussia had settled her dispute with Fiance, and that all idea cf a Continental war had vanished. The Funds, in ennseqiience, maintained a height which the news recently received from the Conti nent, did not justify. Tile 07171:1USI: left off at 74, and the Consols at 631. Some intelligence however, was, we believe, re,: ceived in the course of yesterday, from Holland, encouraging the idea of a reconciliation lietwed France and Prussia. • - .VeJave received Dutch Papers to thW 20th. They announce military movements, all in- 1 dicative of immediate war between France and Pt us. six. The surrender of Cattaro to the French i; again mentioned, but the report never was intitlel to less credit. • We may }tautly eerie intelligence of the arrival of the homeward-bound Leeward Island Fleet.— The Neeitellss, V iicttrat, from St. Vincent's, is ar rived at Briaol Sbe parted from it on the 18th instant, in lat. , 51. long. 16. in a heavy gale of wind and thick weather. The reinforcement destined for Buenos Ayres consists of the 36th and 88th regiments, now em barked at Spithead. They are to be convoyed by the Aides', of 64 guns, Captain Dotsxxxv, and se veral other vessels. • --- Mr. WAGST•Fr. the Messenger, received yester day orders to hold himself in readiness to set out for Vienna. Admiral Louts, who sailed from Plymouth some time ago, for the purpose of intercepting Admiral V ii.i.xnublEZ'S Squadron, on the supposition that it was returning to Europe, has arrived at Falmouth, where he will remain till he is joined by the Expe. dition, which is expelled to sail every day. • Sir Gamma Ptievosr, who has been sent for to town, it is said, goes with six regiments to the West Indies, on a p.m ticular service. It is not true, as stated in a Paper of yesterday, that Mr. lotlNson, the Messenger, arrived on Wednesday from France. • minster is expeifted this day at the Crown and An- I chnr Tavern. We understand it is Mr. P•uLL's in tention to propose Sir FRANCIS Buiint.iz. His MAIISTY S ships Thalia, Plenum, and Ca milla, bound to Newfoundland, &c. were well on the ltith inst. in lat. 47. 46. N. long. 31. 29. W. wilt the following vessels under convoy, viz. the Russia ComPanY, David, Commerce, Hippacampte, Ro bert, 7ositti and Mary, lembistro, and the Waissi. The Neptune, RE/FORD; Britannia, NICHOLSON ; and Johanna CAariotte, llualowna LE, from Lon don for Surinam, were captured off Stiritem,on Nu 22J July, by the Pune Alen' French privateer, of 14 guns, and 125 men, and carried into Guada -I,ht).se. The Date af reek, from Quebec, for Barbadoes, is captured and carried into Guadalonpe. The Argo, Thompson, from Liverpool, is lost on the coast id Africa. The ilarriat, Tt10114,1014, arrived at Lancaster; sailed from Demerara on the 'l6th August, in corn pany with the Ari”dae, WATTS, for Greenock, and parted on the 12. h Sept. in lat. 45. 21. N. inn. S. ss. W. On the 14:h, fell in with the Ama &sod Ah", from Trinidad, for Dublin, in lat. ' 47. 61. lon. 97. 43. ; she had parted horn the fleet on the 10th—then all well. LINES ON TM?, MUCH LaMENTI.D I 7 O I/kTH Oi Tin RIGHT HON. C. J. FOX. .1 else of bitOest grief my eountry'weats; The smile of pleasure has forsook her brow r Aotl every British eye is drencled in team; And eery. British bosom bleeds with woe ! What r.v.ians this dee;i distress? this aspect pale? w il y Inol' our Isle m wretchedly forl irn A lew ssd word: reveal the (lima! tale, And tell for whom the Nation's heard to mourn. Fox is no more! tlt:iir best, sincereiit rriend. That &need on whom they ferveutly rely'd; Whose anions prov'd be sexed no end, To secs his Country was his Only wino, • Ile scori'd to court, by mean dint ttablirig ark; What he piusest, the love of all mankind; ant unshaken virtue warni s d his heart, And wisdom's brightest tay hie mind. Relentless Death ! why didrre tint Murd'rotts heed, The fail blow at Firgland's fav'rite aim ! Why didstlhou snfteh, gins Tyraistirrnin our lead, The greatest Statesman in the lists of sow And why, Oh Heaven ! were thou thus severe? S.ate %was thy will the arrow sito,ld he Wou'd that thou'aret closed some other mart', And anted the Patriot that admm'd the world. Whilst weeping ,nem'ry holds her scat or earth, And fleeting time Shall spread his pinions lure, Fame's loudest clarion shall resound Ills worth, it.id Safest worlds his deathless name revere! Sept. I?, 1506. I Yesterday„ rimming, He MAJESTY. Pi ince,sos Aunt:yr A and SOPHIA. attended by Lady Tilt r , ir, Lord W A LIIINGH MO, Generals Ft Xatriov and Mi.:. trtsrewsra, took a ride to Winkfiel t Plain, ()an. bourn, through the Great Park, and retained a: - half-past twelve. Her 116 J 6STY, Princesses ELtteaticTl and • MAR v, took an airing to Salt Hill, Stoke, slid re turned to Windsor, at two. The Cabinet Ministers Wilf dine this day witit Lord Hanky PETTY, at his house in Downing street. Roane-E. VY NM Esq. and Lady Tit ronost A s dr; rived, yesterday, at their house, in Diver street, front their seat at Gautby, Lincolnshire. Racti••o Wthson„ Esq. telt W sea's Hotel, yet. terday, for his seat, at Kendal, Westmoreland. HIVE Y SCOTT, E.Sq. left tosrn, at ten o'clock, last night, for Brighton, and will return next Wei. nesday. Lord and Lady GattIVILLL and the Hon. Tsu As Gaateintte, lett town at five o'clock, yester. slay afternoon, for Wimbledon. Mr. Su aittnAn left tows At five o'clock, yester day arrernobn, for his seat at Richmond. MX. BA HNISTILM'S indisposition obliged the fake, at Drtny-lane Theatre, last night, to be chanred from if Hann to be Sold, to The Vi,siti Lfnmasfid. Earl SPENCE* gave a grand dinner yesterday, at his house, at Wimbledon, to Lordiand Lady Get e- V ILLY...the Ham Mr, Gamest La, and several other Nohility. The Bishop of Etv arrived, at four o'clock yes terday afernoon, at his house, in Dover-street, hidiX Catiltorragermrs , The last t rials at Beth ate, • Lade Elisabeth Drummond, LadfDowager, Lady, and Mioß Lidin Lad)/ Long and Tamils, Mon.Col..rnel Seem ur, Sty j. Lind, Sir R Biome, General l'oliatt, Admiral and MO Cm:" tie, Coionol Patt.n , m, Colonel Crew, Colonel Wt,o i a n,l rally, Major Brad, Re , wend Dr awl Mrs Gle.se. Ca. 1. , Currie, Captain Pritchard, Mr. arid Mrs u'Donnoghue, Mr. and Mrs. Collett, Mr. and Mrs. Pyrie Thr! Right Honourable Lord Viscount Diu" nee and Family returned to Lowther Hall, near W..ite: haven, on Wednesday se'nnight. The Earl and Countess of DARNLEY, GE"" MATHEW, k:sq. his Lady, and the Hon. Misses MONKT•fr, Sir CHARLLS, Lady Asoix x, and partvi arrived, on Sunday last, at 11.UMBURCR's Hotel, Sti Andrew's-square, Edinburgh. Mr. Maxi, is, the favounte cotpedian of the Volk Theatre, comes forward this night at Covent•gar . den Theatre. Mr. *mutt has escited gre. - 3 ex peftation. Lord and Lady Attu/tie Somtesst ate expel: l in town, in a few days, from Badminton. Lord Posso N IIY was rather better yesterday t' rtn on the preceding day ; his Lordship has, for thco three nights pas, dept more comp:tied. Mr. Rica ARDSON continued yesterd a y in fair way of recovery. The dramatic Piece which Messrs. Townie and Aulletwirree preparing fir the'Public; be-"zg Opera. It is to be brought forward at Covent-gat den Theatre. The former writes the Predogue, and the latter, of course, the Epilogue. Liar night, the Comedy of The Wet Indian w P:•• performed at Drury-Lane Theatre , to an over- Bowing house. Mr. Et...isrow bustled the .ol o' the part of Bekaa,- ; he makes it a pleasaoi perform' mice, but not an elegant one. Miss Du echo made Charlotte flusport extremely interesting. Lord Mintiest, Colonel of the St. James's Vo lunteers, will muster that fine body of men for th lit tune under the new Regulation A d, on the 2d of Odober, when the several clauses relative to Vir lunteers, will be explained to the ;itemisers, AO certificates will be delivered to such as claim ths es' emptions. The remains of Mr. Fox, which at the trout drawing-room of his lase James's Palace, have been put into at which has been inclosed in a leaden one, ed up. li.e elterior coffin is not yet meeting of Ms. Fos's friends took place atoars's house, yesterday, to fix upon / arrangements for the funeral ; which, will not take place till the 1 0th of tier His Royal Hightivis the Prince of W. pc'teJ in town until to-nu:crow week. i; 4 . 00" - • • 1 e f ORIGINAL 1-'OE . present liz I house, n ~n oak cot' ne, And solder a finis:led. me At Mr. Sol a the seeessAr , it is expeee eat muntb, • 'ILLS is not L The twe lve ship• I minim Th• pr u p the We IA Fan , ' yin I go Dri His Lo Thi In The IJ I a 1444 I •• . the too pr fuu W O O o