The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-09-28 00:00:00

1 ON DON.
THURSDAY, SarrLmema

We have received New York Papers to the 20th
last. Accemling to the latest accounts from Wash-
ington, Mr. J KSON 1111.1 lint arrived at the sent
of Government. The conferences which lend taken
place at Washington, between the PRENIUENT and
American Secret:lntel of State, on the one pact, and
our Nlitsisters, on the other, had been ended. Mr.
.11,JVCRSOSI had set out for his country seat in
Orange County ; the Secretory for the Weer De-
partment, for Boston ; and the Secretary of the
Navy, for South Carobs..

Nothing transpired, yesterday, et the K Le-
vee, respecting the new Administration. A. we
have already stated, no progress can he made in
that I-mishit-as until the arrival of Lords Gamy and
GRENTILLE. Iu the mean time, the public voice
lorenines, every moment. more loud for their return
to of ee--• vs,ice re-echoed from the graves of
%Volcker...is and l'alnvera.

Whatever sentiments of affection and of venera-
tion are universally felt towards His MAJESTY'S
person and character ; and never, we believe, st only
period of time, has the Sovereign been more justly
the object of national respect, than at present ; yet
it must be confessed, there is something in the ac-
tual state of things, peculiarly unpropitious, and
almost repugnant to idi as of Jubilee. In the midst
of foreign disappointment or disaster, and in a mo-
ment of internal discontent, dissentiun, and almost
suspension of all Government here at home ; with
what propriety can the country manifest sentiments,
only applicable to periods of serenity and accurity ?
We do not indeed, during the forty-nine years that
I pis MAJESTY has held the sceptre of these realms,
recollect any moment, when • darker cloud over-
hung the capital and the empire, than in Septem-
ber, 1809. Three Expeditions, fitted out at an in-
calculable expense, sent against Antwerp, Madrid,
and Naples, may all he said to have failed. No
man, we suppose, will attempt to assert, or to prove,
that the reduction of Walcheren, and the capture
of Flushing, were the pnruary, •r ought to have
constituted the ultimate and final objects of an ar-
mament, unquestionably meant for the attack of
BON SPIELER'S naval force in the Scheldt. Sir A.
Wut.s.astEx's precipitate, rash, and ruinous march

into Castile, whether it was undertittcn in compile
once with ilirectiiins from borne, or whether ,it eiri.
gloated only in the boiling and iskjudictrim, buy
of the Commander himself, is (Noisily ui itit«r-
regret and cf condemnation. It form,, in tr, ry
feature, a striking contrast to the temp-rase, let ii-
tutu! unit cool spirit of practicable euterviise, that
characterised Sir J. Mooaa's march Irvin
cc to Sahagiiii ; and not less his retreat to Curtin-
na. Of the expedition from Sicily, spinet tho
islands in the Bay of Naples, what coin we. what
must at- say ? The gallant and distinguished offi-
cer alio commanded on that most unfortunate en-
terprise, is t.,0 deservedly dear to his country, and
has displayed, on other occasions, too much ability,
to be suspect, of having either !dunned, or ad-
vised, so weak and ill-concerted an attempt. It
completes the measure of our foreign disgraces,
and secures Italy to N: i• fT, a, el., r;tt ry of Ta-
lavera confirmed the eroa is of ;*..cii me the
Of JOSEPH BONAPARTE ; acid a's
achievements in Zealand, hire djmc iiiat of
Holland, to his brother Louts.

If, from these inglorimi-, saigiii;lart , MIA un-
productive Expeditions, we hook to America, it:-
stead of conciliation, or of Ni4V Ilrolpeet of recon-
ciliation, and of ret g interemir,e is. t‘reeis that
country and Great Briton:, only now $401111!tit of in-
terminable dispute dmd iiibsigrvestie•it huce 116.01..
Tie di.;<IVOWIII of Mr. ERSKINE. rveu though we
should admit it to be foamiest in jogice and in rea-
son ; even though it sl i Id appear that he lidu
mistaken, or acted in violation of his instructions,
yet does not less operate to awaken all the eumitiew
of the trans-Atlantic States towards this
BONAPAILTL will probably avail himself of the pro-
pitious moment to renew, awl to cement, his friend-
ship with them; and the invaluable occasion or
healing all past differences between us and Ameri-
ca, appears to be ii recoverably lost. Iu India, on
the coast of Coloraandel, dimientions and rivalities.
of the most alarming nature, produced by a con-
flict between the civil and the military aathoritiss.
have rendered Madras a reeve of inteatine confusion.
We have seen letters of very recent date, brought
home by the Virginia from thence, which say, that
nothing similar to the present animosities, and acts
of violence, has been exhibited at Fort St; George,
ricers the seizure and detention of Lord PIGOT, in
177 ti. The subject is a very delicate one, our
shaii we at present state all that we may have seen.
or have heard, upon the subject. It will, doubt-
le,. ti.aet, as it welt rocrits, the early attention of
l'avlnnuLt:t.

It is hat to the continent of Europe, amidst these
gloomy and ticketing accounts, received from Asin,
and from America, chat we tan turf our view for
eoinodation. Our slionsterial Inraperiiy, which
sent armies to conitiat Boxaratei r. ,:4ere he Ira/
not, while no efforts were made to check Lr layt de
his progress where he was, bare left him master of
Vienna, and of half the Austrian Flocarchy. How
can such an Administration hope, or expect to
electrify the Continent, and to rescue Gertio.iny
flow can they look to Petersburgli, to liossigsherg,
or to Constantinople, for aid, who have let slip the
opportunity of emancipating those courts and go-
vernments, by a vigorous diversion in Carniula, and
in the Tyrol? It was there, and not at Talavera,
that British valour might have been usefully dis-
played, and that Lord %VELUM:TON might hare
justly earned his title. la it, then, here, at home,
that we can find unanimity, plenty, concord,
energy. or security ? Coder the best of Sovereigns,
we have laboured nutter almost all the evils incidette
to the worst of times. A feeble, headless, and in-
capable Cabinet, destitute of talent to concert, or
of ability to execute, any project of public benefit.
—A Cabinet, which, with adruiralde discrimina-
tion. writ Lord CHATUIN to head an enterprise
demanding promptitude and decision ; while they
selected Sir ARTHUR WI:U.IEIII.LT for as expert.
mein vrlsich required the utmost deliberation, and
the coolest rellectionr.A Cabiuet, of which the two
members holding the most active, important, and
respousible situations, instead of opposing the fo-
reign enemy, turn their weapons egaiust each other.
Happily, the farce, or rather the tragedy, is over ;
and, after scenes such as we have viewed, we May
look forward, with some confidence, to the selec-
tion of men for public offices, in whom the public
can repose some trust. This is the first preliminary
step, ~,,freedent to all others, for the national ex-
trication, stud CVen for the maintenance of the ho-
nour, dignity, amid tninquillity of ti,•• throne. A
few days may protrably enahle u-, at once In in-
form, and to felicitate the cotrutry„ in a coasts:moo-
firm so necessary to onr security, *schism, and cc-
pose.

That exrellent rrgitoeut, the 1-2:11 Light Dra-
goons, have received orders to hold t:,.:te.rlves in
readiness for immediate vrtvier. c First, or
King's Own Dragoon Guard., expect a similar
order, as they are in the InAltest star 11r elhviplinv.
The Prince Ernest pin krt i.urrivrrt at Falintitith.
Sailed from Malta on the 10th Angus!, .hid fruit'
Gibraltar on the 10th inst. The Mails will he di-
livered this day.
A letter from Middleburg, dated Sept. 17, says,
" That One corps the sth have nnly one Wine,
eight sub.dterns, and 300 rank and Illefit for duty.
The 36th are in n similar state. The 6th cannot
mount a corporal's guard, 700 being rick., The
13d are hers de combat, the C.-11onel has trot even a
servant. The Royals, after all their fatignk. are the
strongest corps iu the hisitait," • •

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