The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-04-24 00:00:00

NEW 771E4TER-R0Y411., COVE.VT-GARDEN.

This presritt TUESDAY. April 24, lets will be acted,
MACHSTII.

MacYslh,Mr. Keasble ; Maeda', Mr. C. Bauble; Bangisog
Mr. Murray. Lady Macbeth; blis-Soldons ; her second up-
pearauce ibis season.
To *bleb will be added. ibe Paatorannical Ballet at
DON JUAN.

Dom luau. Mr. Egerton; &mamboed., Mr. GlinisMi;
Douaa Anna, Mira Bristow. _ -

To-morrovi. The Wheel of Foam* —Ors Thum 1117. The
Grecian Dautter.--0a Friday, Kiag Hairy the Founts,
part 1.-0. writer. The Gamester.

A New Niftier% A orpires a lu rehearsal, arA will very
sour be produced.

LITCEUM THEATRE.

[Under the epeeisl license . 474.11; Loral Chaatleetaiel

Their Alajrsties' Syysants will, this present TU FSDAV,
Apsil ts. ISM, perform the rewired Comedy of
TAE CONFEDERACY. -

Gripe, Mr. Mathews; Mosey-trap, Mr. newton ; Brass,
Mr. :Delete ; Dick, Mr. Jones (by pennissiou of the Prisprie•
in of the heatra-Royal, Corent.gardes) Clarissa, Miss
Duncan • Corlett*, Mrs Rawls; Flipp:vita, Mrs. Oie,r.
Ead of the Play (14 tune), a New Citric Ballet, Walled
Tll IF VIl L 4GII . DOCTOR.
. .

Cataptwed by Moustear Fraueereo dwtooin Moutisnasi,
• celebrated Hanle aad Principal Grotesque Deicer, kolas
the Theatre at Lisboa ; hie ad app. seance la England.
Ts which will be added, the "'MVO of
THE WKATHERCtI K.
_ .

Tristram' Fieltte, Mr. De Camp ; Miss Kelly.
Tu•imoretrir, Thu Cabaixt.--Om Thursday, 'tidies;
The Wife mud lictiiker.r.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Aram 24.

The next advice" from the Spanish Peninsula
will probably bring au account of a general action
between Lord WELLINGTON and tll.l French on
the Portuguese frontier, or in the Spanish
province of Stlainaoca. The rum rrmtittucti
maintain their position, o'i the ed instant, in the
city of Silausaiira, where they appeared desirous to
couceutrate Choir whole force; and the vau of the
British army was expected ott the same day at Sin
Felice*. From the proximity of the respective 'arnica
a battle wiay be confidently expected to speedily
ensue. The intelligence of the positious of
the British and Freud' armies on the 2d, is de-
rived from Portuguese imperil to the 104 received
yeellerilat. They elm einstaiu some wttisliset.iry
I accounts from the North of Spain. o,t the iota.
last, the Fttuch were obliged to evacuate Oviedo,
to which they had retie lied. after an action on the
19th, iu which they were defected by the Spa-
niewsis; and, et the stifle date, it is said, there was
not a Frenchman within a considerable distauce o.
COMA&

The Report of the Lurk Committee of Secrecy.
to inquire into the C4IIIPI which produced he Or-
der of Calmed, of the itith Feh. 1797, re"l"6"4
the Bank of Eugla.►d, has Leen published by order
of the House of Commons, made in the prestnt
Session of Pediment. It comprises 130 folio
pages. iscluding nu:totes of the miden a adduced,
accounts. paper,. and conclusion ;—JI' Virpe Ke
give the euue4..o-e, being a summary of the ;rut-
cipal points mating to the cause. of the Onitr, us
resulting from the es,lenee the .tccoatits.

The LoaD MAYOR'S dinUtr, at the Man‘iiiti-
House, yesterday, from the critical ife,.lll-ta:iees
of the times, demands peculiar itt talon. Not
one Minister attended the Clef( 11 Tite din-
ner, however, was excellent, and the cotnp.iny
of the first and best rank in society. From
the urbanity end pohtrness of the LORD AlAVOtt,
we are confident that there was no negl.ct
on his pert ; but we fe.tr that, at the present mo-
ment, there is something in the air not very
grateful to the feelings or the appetite of Mi-
obters.

A letter from ou Isoard • trensport in the harbour
of Messina. dated Feb.Crth, says--.. We have had
dreadful weather here, and at Malta sine ships sunk
in the harbour. On Friday night lost, three ships
moo shore here, and were duped to pieces: there
were 200 women ow board one of these ships. who
were going up to Ceuta to their husbands: fortu-
netely they were all saved."
lay letters from Shetland, of the 11th of April,
we are happy to find tbat the accounts of the lowa
the Experiaseat t3reealaad-ship, of London, lately
circulated. are not true; but we sure sorry to bear,
that three Danish vessels had been wrecked there,
supposed bound for Ireland with timber, vis.l-the
Doraltee, of Arundel!, crew saved. and the Gar-
ner/v., of Drew, only three met saved out of 21—
the other Mine k siollll..

We stated on Thursday, that a Reqiii.ition had
bees signed. requesting the klaxon of Hall to call
a get real meeting of the isladitasts, to take into
aim der 'lien the condos:tat Alieisters, in plunging
and executing the Lite Expedition to Wolchecto
A counter address, signed by a grew numlwr of re-
spectable names, has imbsequestly been forwarded
to the Mayon, who, we anderstaud, has declined
to call • meeting.
Major-General lqoacantr left Hall on Wed-
nesdny, for Ipswich. haring been removed, to Like
a commcol io that district. Billgidier-Gentrol
Sir MONTACMI: BUILSOYFIF., Bart. succeeds Ntijor-
General Mascot Er, in the command of the Gor-
illa' at Hull.