The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-07-21 00:00:00

"",•, 1 robj!&, eeesiderations of suchiesportance, 4113 o . uld not be hastily decided ; and especially in so thin a House. Their Lordships may recollect. that a notice was gives of a nantinn this day, for taking the &lauding orders, N. 26 and 135, on Monday into consideration. with a view to 'their suspensinn. Were such a proceeding ordered by the House, and the Bills alluded to not to be forwarded a sin gle stage this day, their progress wouLl. in conse quence of the saapension, not be ultimately affect ed, at Enure than one stage might then he gone through on Monday. His Lordship concluded by elsorisag. “ that the above standing orders be taken in'oconsideratiea on Monday, with a view to their IllOtreetion. with rano& to certain dills." The Earl of MOIRA Gook* in explanation; as did the LORD CHANCELLOR. who seemed to approve the suggestion of LO RD W ALS ING 14MA g and after a few words from the Earl of WESTMEA TH, the LORD CHANCELLOR put the question for taking the said standing orders sato consideration on Monday neat. with reference iso the three Brits in question; which was ordered allgerdioglV: mid the Houie immediately adjourned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. il la) ' iikAUKIIIGH MAIL. sAfdltUl4lll, SUZY 12. perm of Germany has endued four camps _ . be formed in Ise Austrian dominions in Septem ber, ' Wog his army : one is to ise pitched near Wells, Upper Arastria ; one near Grant, in Inner Au ia ; one near Pest, in Hungary ; and the fourth in eon*. General Bellegarde, with 4000 Austrians , h as entered Cattuo, and received possession of the place /Maths Russian Commander. • Several Ptassian Regiments. including those of ' retrain% Orange, and Knhishcim, have advanced o Pomerania: and part of the garrisons of Berlin land Preaelaw are under orders to foliose. In the i'arsenals of Berlin, the people were employed both day and eight. The preparations of his Swedish Majesty were !lararked with equal activity' and decision. On the 4th inst the greater part of the garrison of Steal . sand. comprising the td brigade of infantry, part of the 4'h end 6th battalion of artillery, had been 'ordered to the frontiers to -make room for fresh ":nroesps expected from Sweden. The Swedish army &ad °cloyed a new .pesitims on the rivers 'Preehel and Kiri. The firstline, consisting of theist and 3d iseigades,was, on the 3d inst. stationed between 'Free blemana Gsiefswald. end the artillery at.Grirnm. The • teemed Aine, seder the orders of Generals Hamm' and Monier. comprising the Dragoons of Scania, ih• Helium of Moeller. and.the Horse Artillery, was ~ rued between Raddebas and Benkeehagen. with soitsrlt of Artillery at Riehtenberg. l'he advanced extending along the Peene end Treebel, were iiader the roma-sand of the Adjutant-General Count G. Loewenthielm. The heed-quarters were about to be removed from Griefsweld to Franzburgli. Tbe.Qoeen of Sweden was amefted.in Pomerania about the middle of this ma eat h . t Count Cedustroern, Presider* of the War Ds- penmen'. bad, on the Sit arrived at Stockholm, sloe the purpose of evsediting the reiaforeemenu ordered to Pomerania. . On the 6th hie. hostilities hadacit commenced.; and it wits understood that the Prussians would auroral the war until the return of Major Kruse• amok from St. Petersbergh. The Swedish flotilla has sailed from Fresendorf, yge the*.Peeee, to Grunchwade. Several Russian vessels have been .prevented entering Pillau; and .one ;which attempted to violate the blockade, has been seised by the Swedes. The P f ince of Orange has arrived at Berlin, to .solicit the interference of his Prussian Majesty, to .prevent the seizure of Drilenburgh and other ‘ pos. sessions ,granted by the Treaty of Luneville to the House of Orange, but which, since the death of the • late Prince, are claimed by Prince Joachim Meru. The King ci Prussia is said to be mutt offeaded :by the language used in the ling of Sweden's last letter to him. . We are armed that Bonaparte has ordered' Marshal Bernadotte to march his corps into the' 'errantry •of Hesse Cassel. The Molter haviog re. 'fused ten swaths ago to lend five millions of lie-. .dollars to Framer, and Napoleon being in want of -that 11411111. Talleyratid has advised that measure, as -the only means to moon it from that Pripet. How. -ever, its atieCtlO is not n0...e certain, as it is very well hanw:•.l that the Elefto:. who has never been . 6 friend to Bonaparte. has guarded against his ea ,pacity. by sending his treasure to B e rlin. .In the.same manner. the Eleflor of Saxosy has fp 'been summoned to lead six millions of rix.dallars co the French- Ernpever ; and as he has also refused sthe loan. it is eppretwoded that Bernadotte has been .direfilesl to pay a,voit to the Greve 4etvab, who.is scow at Cres.hrn. . The sew Coostinotion of the German Emeire is ,daily rape' Ired et R.ati.hoo. it is already known . .that the three loriterel canes of Hamburgh, I.e. , :,„„. and B re men, will be umlev the ienroedia:e pro • .....i.iresontroul ct Bonaparte. . I _ • weAte furn.thed wax 3 mod., of cor.uus articles, ohm% vitt appear immedrately dtat the close of the Session. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON„ MONDAY, Jul r 21. Mr.. SHAW, the Messenger, arrived yesterday morning at Mr. FOZ'S Office in Downing-street with Dispatches from the Court of St. Petersburgh. Be was ten days at sea, and only nine hours on his journey from Harwich to London. A Cabinet Council, we understand, will sit upon the Dis patches this day. We believe Mr. BAIILICO still remains in town ; but it is not improbable, that dispatches may have been sent to France by another Messenger.—The Funds, on Saturday, were in an improved state. We repeat again, that Sicily is the present point of difficulty in the negotiation ; our Government re fusing to acknowledge it as part of the dominions of ' the new King of Ms rigs. Estra& of a latter from HUH, dated July 17,1806 : "The arrival last night of the ships 4&o'i and Hunter, folly confirms the rumour that prevailed some days ago, of two enemy's frigates being at Greenland; an harpooner, belonging to the "Mess, boarded an Hamborgher, on the '27th June, who said, he bad seen two Dutch 44 gun frigate:, and had been twice very near to one of them ; he further said, that the preceding day, he went on board a Blown ship, the Master of which said, he had been 411, board one of the frigates, the Officers were Fiona and Dutchmen. and that he saw 18 sail of English ships lying near the frigates, as if captured. Cept.itoss, of the Ifseter„reports, that he saw the Old.dienehester, in company with form ships, on the 27th June, about a mile from .one of the frigates the ships were scaling, andbad then boats out, but made a signal for all their boats to return to the ships, which were taken onboard ; the ships hoisted top gallant sails, and stood into the ice, appagently as though they had intelligence of the frigates being en enemy, the frigates then tacked, and run along side of the Dingwall, of London, and captured her ; the three and the Howler, left the Ice on the 29th June, and on the 11th July, ,met the Thames frigate and.two aloops, in latt464. who said they had got Capt. Si:W.2l'e affidavit of the above circumstance, and were going to .Greenland in pursuit .of the enemy." The whole of the India fleet are now safely =- Awed in the Downs. Saturday, all the Pursers reached the India Rouse, with their dispatches and papers. During their passage, the following sin gular circumstance occurred : A French 10 gen frigate was discovered in the body of the fleet when off the Cape of Good Hope. She did not appear:to be acquainted with her si..ua tion. Captain Ossoas, in the Tremendout, bore down upon her, and considering her an easy conquest,sbe tfid not fire s shot, or open her lower ports, until became within hail of the frigate, who immediately got under the stern of the Tremondou , , opened a broadside, and wounded the rigging, so as to put it out of her power ,to prosecute the chace. The frigate got clear off without any da mage. 'The iCheelette Indianan afterwards pur sued her. The Tromendeasswas near enough to dis cover the name of thefrigate; she is called Le Ca. "mint ; sbe sailed originally from France with , the.raleareire and out Bow APART'S'. squadron. No lives were lost in the the Treuendass. When LaCononiort got to a cetwonient distance, and found that the Tremendous was in no condition to put sue her, she fireda single gun by way of bravado. It was the general opinion at St. Helena, that Jumble BeaMAassi squadron had i t ine to the East Ist dies. The For frigate arrived at Bombay in lebruaty last. from the iiland of Bait, where she had been naively employed against the Pirates, and had suc ceeded in making them restore the goods and ves sels which they had roomed during the•last season. Capt. Douce had stationed a part of she Com pany', marine, so as to blockade Bait, PritUtroo, Goomtee, and Arahntro, and all the piratical inlets, dining the fair 'mum. In consequence of this ob jet being attained, the trails to Guterat was ea petted to becnme , very great, particularly in the goods exported by the.East.l Oh& COMplity. IA ikeir settlement of Amboy. id our subsequent edemas we-have glom a fall report of the raw of GUI War reeler Messrs. Lona. Ht a. r, Rees. and Os as a, argued in the Coon of Chancery oa Saturday last, and sbeiLaser Crua- CILLO I OI jUs.lOllll ll . &Crwting CO ae.liaailea e i g h t i n the Plaintiff to publish the tf.al of Viscount Mat sit ta, a which Tit Unitise Pooh is caravan, with every no..spaper in Europe. has long since tree ; rlstt. Ater tLe coututy has igooe to die elpenee q 5,0001. t, At up aceonsmndation: for the public in Westminster Hall, to tear Viscount ,NlELvit.Les trial, it must strike them with not a liulesurptiee, to be told slat the immense popula tion who were present. may report the proceedings , VS WI yore, wherever they go ; but that none, esrept a particular favoured individual, shall presume to publish it %I print. Upo n this ground we questioned the 'wisd om or necessity of the order, prohibiting the partial publication Of ' the Trial, from day to day, during its progress ; but 1 what were the arguments upon which that prohibi tion t was o th f e ou p n u d re ed :d m NI: t e tis a t r e a r t e i o t n el d of th ) a u t st i i t c w e, as tk n a e t ce n s o - partial account should be given, and that the charge and defence, the bane and antidote, should go out to the world together. This order, suspending the publication during the progress of the Trial, is a di,. text avowal and tacit permission of its publication after the Trial. lithe House of Lords And Lord ERS 4 INE thought a report from a common pen vrould be literary poison, and that a report by Mr. Guacrev, at a perscn specially gifted, was the only infallible nostrum against error and misrepre sentation, theorder in the first instance should hare been absolute in favour of that Gentleman, and other persons would not have been amused with the expedition that every man was at liberty to publish the•trial as soon as it was over. We admit that the Lords have a right to appoint a short.-hand writer of their awn, to report any trial that comes before them us their judicial capacity ; but we deny that such appointment supersedes the right of any other individual who chooses to undertake that task at the risque of punishment for error, or misrepresents. don. By such appointment, the Lords do every thing necessary to substantial justice. 'The report ' authorised and sanflioned by them will be con sidered the only authentic report, and we do know that is the present case this was the opinion of many printers and publishers, who declined to pub lish a report of it on that ground, and not from any apprehension that they were not at liberty to do so, if they thought fit to enter the lists in com petition with such odds against them. By provid ing an authentic report, the charafter of the Lords, and the interest of the parties are sufficiently pro teßed ; but, by contending for an exclusive right, the liberty of the press, and the privileges of the subjeit, are impaired. The right claimed in the case of Lord Mat-vit.t.r. if it exist at all, must exist in every other case that comes judicially before the Lords. and if they can limit the publication of their proceedings to an individual, they have it in their power to entirely suppress them. —The ,case being circulated through the world, al ready, to a greater extent, perhaps, than any that has occurred for a century, this proceeding comes too late as a measure of justice to the parties. The l value of the right to the House of Lards , and the profit on the sale to Mr. Gustier, are now all that remain to be secured. The value that the Lords ' set upon the tight can only be judged by their prac- . toce. .Every man who has visited the House of .Lords must have perceived the .difference of their condua in their legislative and their judicial capa city. In their legislativz capacity, a stranger dare not take a pinch from his snuff.box, or read the back of a letter, lest be should subject himself to the sus picion of taking notes. The golden fruit, in the garden of the Hesperides, was not watched with more vigilance than the door-keepers of the House of Lords watch every word that drops from the lips of a Peer, and take care that the windfall shall not .find its way into the note-book of a Re porter. But the moment the House resumes its ju dical funeions, the scene is changed. The space below the bar resembles a Scrivener's shop. Every man who chutes, takes out his pen and ink, and writes a this ease. in face or the House. lf, then, the House of Lords, as a Court of Justice, has a right so interfere in one case, it has a right to inter fere in every case, and if it possess such right, so does the Court of King's Bench. tbe.Court of Com ego meas. and every other Court of Justice in the Flom t but that, we believe, will act be con tended .for. A time was, indeed, when Courts of theca prevented their proceedings from going dinned ; but few will be inclined to bring us back to tie ignorance. darkness. and despotism of that period. So moth then for the right of the Lords. No new comet° 'Mr. Q 's proics.---A more etrepearable, or a sore competent person for the apse, we admit, Lord Eisele@ could not bare Amen ; hot let us see what strong claims be pos sesses to as exclusive right .to publith the trial.— Had Mr. .GviviaT hem eneentraged by Lord Easter to undertake this labour in contemplation of the great profit which be should derive from an exclusive sale.; and hod Messrs. Love*** and ot h ers ra r e in fn a share, he might with jetties. complain of oitsetlnpers ; but that os not the lA.- , Mr. Grai.av is paith cot his trouble by the public.: amply and liberally. exclusive of vay profit acereiesp i from the Arils of she 18 . -.11. it's ' Mr* dill dal bear a hi g h .price, are betieve, three guineas a price which many who buy Messrs. Lots ~ ....11 0, Jf report would not encounter. 4 Roman tyrant thought he kept his salsjeßs sufficiently in the dark, by proninlgating hie laws its A eel 'small pri nt , • and posted too high to be legible be a;t ordinary eye. The mass of the public would know notbi nz of this great cause, in which their interes:e are* deeply involved, if they had no source but the co,. luminous work of Mr. Guarcy. The importance of the subjc&, and our good wishes for Gnrera_ meat, will induce us to revert freqergtly to 0 4 question. The present Ministry was formed i f public opinion, backed by the public press; the Newspapers were loud in its praise, save a few, and even they threvi out hints to shew, that thi only wanted a little court and attention. It scarcely, however, in adivity, when prael:tioler, iV a certain Court of Justice assumed a temper ant tone unfriendly to the public press; and notice given in the House of Commons of a b&, eskrch, if prosecuted and passed, would have reduced it to state of abjeft slavery. Some of the. Prints hcv,:e to the Minister, have not hesitated to as:en, that these attacks are encourage/ ;by the :oar and temper of Governsnent, and represent ./.4 Minister as hostile to the liberties of the pre* —,They express their doubts and feare•-, Whether it be the fault and glimpse Af.nemiess, Or whether that the body public be . A hotse, whereon the Governor dolt tide, Who, newly in the seat, that it May know lie can command, lets it straight feel the spur ; v We trust that the Minister will disappoint the ma : lice of his enemies, and the wolfish views of pkc : tended friends, by continuing to evince in power the same regard which be professed when out qf power, for the liberty of the Press. What it slicithli be perfehly purged of slander and calumny, is rxtt to be expected ;but, with the exception ef some fesr infamous and malicious publications, respeditipg, certain delicate and important case, the Press pas never .conducted with more Propriety, and freat from licantibuilesy, ,than it is at the presca - . moment. The Hamburgh Mail of the Bth arrived yeatet day. We have also received Letters and Paper ' s from that City to the 12th instant, the substance 4 which is given in a preceding column. It appear" that the Austrians have been, at length. pat into possession of Cattaro, preparatory to its surrender tp the French, in manner and form prescribed by 'Boar N AAAAA E. serrieweenosemimetwo Mr. Fox, we atot happy to say. was much letter yesterday. The reports of his being in an alarmiqc state, have originated in the mat brutal malice. Yesterday morning. Sir E. Mittman:rote ar wed at Mr. WINDHAM'S Office, from Ceylon ; he like wise brought dispatches for the Doke of Yo eF Accounts from Ceylon, by the lately arrive!! fleet, mention, that Leuac - ILaccuasi a, the Atli gar, who attacked the English in the neighbourhos of Columbo, during the truce, had fallen into dis grace with the Knits, who, after confining him fat three months, erderedhim to be publicly executed. Mr. HANCOCK, an Extra-messenger. is undg orders for Vienna with dispatches. Baton JAcoat has at length received orders tp leave this country. His furniture, etc. is now 04 - ping, and he is expeccted to take his departure Abe* the latter end ef next week. The VC/tient, A Spanish privateer, from Montt. video, in the River La Plata, mounting 30 guiti (IS and 32 pounders). was .eaptured on .the 7t;'• May by His Manytv's ship idoliser. The priva teer had been out thirty-three days. but had r.c. taken any thing. By letters brought by the Bengal ships, we !nog. that the late disturbances among the refrafloV Chiefs on the coast of Sumatra had subsided,; ors. of the ringleadershad been. secured and sent to Bel coolen. The ,Cothatiee. Toots, from Dublin. forjamOviliat is captured and carried into L.a Gnira. C taptain Ga r r ITRS is appninted to the Topirse.l`; 38 grins, and is succeeded us the Coititattre trigatit of 24 guns, by that meritorious officer, Capt. ALL? artnse Ssuntisesum Beatowits. Captain ,13itt mown is a native of Cavan. and cousin of Mt. S•ulioaasox, one of the Representatives of chit: county. Letters, dated the 10th instant. have been t=' ceived in town, from the squadron a iinciteto , : , . It comprised, on that day, the Crita ,, r, Prima f Wider, Comperror, Achille s Illimarek, Pelypeew# ol,l l: Pallas, hukfatigaik, Ark, Rapli, and Pilrhadi 4 1 1 well. The enemy 'a fleirt.in Basque Roads.consisll of five sail of the line, five frigates, and three Isqt , .. besides a new ship of Su guns, lately !snitched, Aittl fitting for sea. It is rumoured. that the troops . who are to 141 from Ramsgate. towards the close of the week. AD to be employed on an enterprise in the neighhoia• bond of our own coast. Other reports send One with the expedition preparing at P u ttsitiouth ,, W the Mediterraneau. Letters by Saturday's post from lb. Coast mitt Lion, that (slams has lately been d ` ,Od homahvirde avr ern tl ers on that station. It appe.srs. that Commodore Owen was clamming some vet which had ran within the French shore, be *as on from Calais; on which it is added, be sent Gag of truce, declaring that he h a d been resirs by considerations of humanity. from Breg Cltilt town ; but that should they persist in their want/ attempts to annoy him. he then!d be compete d retaltate..••A letter firms Dover observe., that R" molting answer having been. retornsd. the Co mP O Ire oed nsd two gun-brigs to play upon, he ..w eight hours, and that a great p art 01 .Y r a' S • COCNIVIESCE reduced Sc