The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-10 00:00:00

Falmouth, with a mail from Lisbon, The papers
received by thin conveyance are only to the-19th,
iend do not contain any matttr of importance.—
"The French evidently ineditizte the siege of Ciudad
...Rodrigo. A comil of artillery, destined for that
purpose, had fallen into the bonds of the Patriots.
According to private accounts, every thing seemed
to he in a state of suspense in Portugal. Lord
WELLINGTON'S army was understood, to he still
otithe Portuguese frontier on the 24th, when the
packet left Lisbon. The sick and coovulesemits
were supposed to amount to oue-thi.d of the whole
of:oy. A private letter states them at to to 1.2,000 ;
but this is perhaps an exaggeration. The opinion
now become general in Liiortand, that the point•
sula can neither be saved be Enghshhssistance, nor
%%idiom it, is _also gaining ground, we are told,
among the more intelligent Portuguese and Spa-
niards.

The 'letters between Lord CAITLEREAGII acid
Mr. CANNING, which preceded tile late duel, were
published is a paper of Siluday last, from winch
they tvt•re tor I into some of the nupers of yester-
day. With their otir readers are alre.tidy
acquainted, and we now give,the copies of thesis,
at Ins th. in what is generally e•msitlered au au-
thentic shape. We lire not among Lord CasTt.t:-
Rt.:states admirers, hut we have always niaitutsitted,
that, in the rresent eiser, Ife wesju itij tired mom and
we think the correspo4delice supports our opinion.

It is now ncknowl,dg.ll, iu the Ministerial
circles, that Mr. PlittETA:. written a letter to
onion;; to .his Lordsliiii
the phase of Secretary of State for foreig.
in the room of Mr. CANNING. The Loci Ventle-
inaii .111 dei.ter up his seals of nffire at toe Levee
to-morrow, when it is expected they will be trans-
ferred to Earl BATHuniT, who is to be the Foreign
Secrets. y, until the return of Margolis Ai'
.11r. CANNING'S friend:4. however, are confident
that the Marquis will refuse the (.tier. Mtanwhilc,
we had that Mr. Pt:it,:krAi, has hot lost a moment
to Cultivate the friendship of the Marquis, and
render himself arniahle in the eyes of his Lord-
ship. It apiears, from Ike Gazette of Saturday,
that one of ht. first acts, as Pietnier, was to make
the lion. and Bev. GERALD VALERIAN WELLES-
LEY' his Lordship's brother, the new Canon Re-
shlentiary of. St. Paul's, Should, however, Mr.
PERCIVAL be disappointed to his speculation, an
even which inaay persotis cousider not improbable,
the Treasury Joarmil. are prepared to assure as,
that the country will su•tain un lobe, and that Earl
BATHURST may h••lil the Seals permanently, with
great ud• dotage to toe p00h.% rhe.Coorier. par-
ticularly, that miserable reue ade print, says... The
talents which that Noirle Lord has displayed, sod
the general satisfactioit
.which he has given in the
office he has lately held, as Pre.ident of thse Board
of Trade, and the distioguislied part which he has
taken in Parliament, pectilim ly qualify him for a
situation of such importance."
Titus prompt sod eager do we find tile Treasury
Journals to transfer their homage from Mr. Ca s-
NING to Lord BATHURST. One would think, from the
facility with which these sous of Proteus assume all
shapes, and —3lll themselves to all purposes, that
they despised even this semblance of honour and
consistency. 1V hetlicr it be the case of a new theatre
at Covent-Garden, or a new Cabinet in Down-
ing-street, they are alike iliseusitile to the voice
of truth and justice, and curried away by base, self-
ish, and degrading passions sad motives, prpiaing
this day what tin. remoliated yesterday, and now
treating with contempt the man whom only a few
hours before they worshipped as

Whether BONAPARTE has or has not been •t-
-tarke cl with a fever on the brain—R report, to which,
however possible, we do heel consider the smallest
degree of authenticity as attaching--yet, the more
maturely we reflect on the sudden and total sur-
peuc•.on of all military operations, which has suc-
ceeded the battle of Wagram, the more are we
compelled to attribute such n patine to causes, that,
however not obvious, are ue►et theless efficient and
imperious. It is, indeed, the dist example, in the
history of NAPOLEON, since the battle of Marengo,
when he iney be said to have ceased to be pro-
gressive, and has consented, or subusitted, to- be-
come stationary. By the niost recent advices, 013
we stated yesterday, froni Vle:1114, It appears, that
the •nmstice had again been prolonged, though
only to the .!Otli of ...eptecrilicr, awl though little
expectation of en ultimate peace seems to have
been entertained. What is this usiaseertained, bat
pottarful, cause, which has thus restrained the up-
lifted hind of u revolutionary conqueror, whom no
man &aspects to he accessible to remorse, or even
attaceptade of moderation ? Of it we may say,
with the traeapositie- of • at ir4le word,

"Oa AattraiA hills, the lord asr
Moo theck'd the fery of his ear,
" And dropt biro thirsty lane, at tSg Ammand."
We shall endeavour to state those leading sea-
lens. for they are doubtless many and coercive,
which have swayed in this determination, so
little 3aalAgouslo his character, or to his ordinary
modes of orOree,;lllg tow•rds vanquished titillates.
In the fire/ place, then, the preterit campaign,
though brilliant and v;etorious in its leading fei•
tures, bas beet, chequer/A with accidents or re-
verses to which no similitude can lie iminti. e4lier
ID that against Austria, of 184/5; or is 1906,

1807, when he eontended with FIIRD£RICIE
LIAM and A lAZAIODEK ; or, lastly, in that of 1808.
beyond the Pyrenees, when, after annihilating the
stretched. assembluges of hull-•armed peasimts, int-
properly denounuated. armies, by the Junta, he
drove the English out of Spain, at Coronae. At
the battle of Awern, he was defeated ; and we are
yet to learn, from what inexplicable cause it arose,
that NAPOLEON, repulsed, irrad driven, with im-
mense loss, from the Northern bank of the Da-
nube into the island of In-der-1411m, was not there
attacked by the Austrians, end finally compelled
to retreat, or to fly. Even, when, after an interval
a... weeks, he re-appeared at %Vagrant, and gain-
ed the'victory of that day, it dill not e 9 i Q, or re-
semble, those with winch he low estonialied, ter-
rified, and subjugated Europe, on the Po, on the
Niemen, and on the Ebro, as well as in Moravia
and in Thuringia. The victory of the 6th of July,
it c, rtainly ought not to be assimiluted with
that ;;aired by Sir ARMOR, at Talavera, on the '27th
and 2etli of the same month; and though lioN A•
PARTS did not abandon his wounded, to the mere•
of his vartquideed enemies; y. t was far inferior in
extent and in effect to those iiiem which his usurp-
ed throne, and all Isis Imperial power, are founded.
ILA it been otherwi►e, and had it laid the Austrian
Monarchy at his merry, we may be well is,sured,
that, far trona consenting, six days ulterwaids„ to
are armistice, he would have dictated It peso, that
must have lilicruted him From all further appre-
hension, and have ad -tinted him TO transfer his
energies to Spain acid to the Nein Hands.
It may, however; be asserted, or asiiiitned, that
he expected to complete, by negotiation, by cor-
ruption, acid hy the flugitioue arts of his Machin-
velian policy, the effect which his military supe-
riority had produced. la a word, that, as at Tilsit,
and evett subreqoent to the battle of Austerlitz, he
had moulded, or fiseinuted, or intimidated, the So-
vereigns with whom he had previously contended,
so now, in comet-ming to a au-pension of active
war far a few weeks, only four at Gast, he bad confi-
dently relied nit bending FRANCIS to his will. If
such, in fact, was'his calculation, tire event has de-
ceived him. No personal opproxinsaiion, no in-
terviews, have followed the termivatiem of hostili-
ties. It would even seem, that the spirit and tem-
of the Austrian Cabinet, far from being
broken, as it was before the Treaty of Presburgh,
remains firm and itiisutxlued. If we cannot say
of it, that

" Per &tom, per (-ivies, ab ipso
threit upes, atiicauouptc faro
yet arc we enabled, ur impelled, to conclude, by
the langnar of its public acts, by the prolniigiston
of the Armistice itself, and by the irresistible evi-
dence of every progressive k, that, however they
may desire to avert a ienewal of the contest, by con-
,iderable sacrifices, they are equally tieterinined
not to submit to ruinous and iziminitiious terms.—
The present war,•uolike that of ISOS, appears to
have been maturely weighed, cud at length com-
menced. from a necessity, dictated by prudelice,
and confirmed by despair. Triougli marked by
defeats, it is nut characterised.4 acts of imbecility..
of treachery, or of insanity, such as MAck di--
played at Lilm, or as Prince A DERSPERG commit-
ted at Vienna! True, NAPeLCON is master of
alitio.t all the proving:est° the south of the Danube,
which river he may lie said to bridle, and to hold,
frotu Passau to Preiburg, inclusively. He occupies
Vienna itself likewise, though that capital, as we may
see by his own rtvent account of the dispositi ai of
the inhabitants, is liy no out ans, as he would per-
suade u., In-conie almost French." Even of the
countries to the north 01-the Danube, the French,
hold some portion of Moravia, a Small district of
H a4ary, and the whole of Austria. These, it
must lit admitted, are prodigious acquisitions, and
place the Corsican Emperor on a commanding emi-
nence : but they do not, liy any means, enable
hint, as yet. to crush the family of Austria, or to
transfer their dominions to one of his brothers ; as
he has done in Spain. in Holland, in Westphalia,
•nul in Naples. Much yet retnaias to be accom-
plished, before he arrivp at so decisive- a point of
superiority. The resource., armies, territories, and
fortresses of Efts:sus, ire still IIIItUtIVIIS and for-
midable. He has even allies, a' Live and passive,
etvowed and concealed. Among the former, we may
probably reckon, mint only the Turks, but, how-
ever strange it may seem, the Kasstinis and the
Prussians.
• - -

Lord JOCRLY/ ei I candidate to represent the
county of Loath, Ireland, in the Imperial Parlia-
meld, in Pm room of ins uncle, the lion. JOHN
JOCELYN, who lies acceptedit place.
The General Committer of the Catholics of Ire-
land is positively faxed fir the nth of November
next, when a full attendance is expected in their
Committee-room, Dublin.
ss, , s
s%cpart states, that Earl POWSs is to me s,,orriA
Lieutenant of Ireland ; and that Marquis Wx1.1.0-
, LEY and Lord Mumitt.s; are destined by hlr.P.it
cum, to be the eveatual Secretaries of State, 1.1
the room of Lord CAST RI%RAGE and Mr. CAN-
NING.
Captain Genitor Stxmotta is appointed to com-
mand the frigate, lately launched at Wool-
wich.
VsSriLPERCEVAL and co. remain in place,
they have a chance of some good-things, although
the country may have nothing to. expect. They
Iwvs .received an account, that on Saturday
die,l, at the Draun ry-bouse. tlin very RCS. TROIA,.
POWYS, D.D. Dean of Centerbury.

ft
41"
• ,
(1:0 to
KILKENNY THEATRE.

OCT. 4.
This city is the residence, once inure, ot gaiety
and elegance, of refined pleasure and useful dissi-
pation.
List Monday. our Th.,„tre opened to a fashion-
aisle, though not a crow/skit house. with the Tra4c-
dy of The Siege of Darnaccus, and the Maslen{ En-
tertainini.nt of The Ord, ,tf Andalusia, cat down
to au After-niece. The characters. of which the
fonowiitg are a sketch, were well supported:

. .
SIEGE OF DAMASCUS. ,
Christimou.—Euulenrs, Mr. Cum ; Heads,. Mr. Dolma ;
Pliucias, Mr. Ilteclu-r ; Al to•smuo, Mr. Filssittuu,s ; strji"
Mr. Tallow Eaducia, 31iss Vt'skleis —Sor.iet
Mr. It Power Abudab, Mr Hoop ; pa:ne„Mr. O' tcilh,
CASTLE OF A NDA LUSPA.
Dun Scipio, Mr. 1711216111.1f1i Rausilwl, Mr Purer:
nand°, Mr. Datum; 'Mu itittn, Mr. (1•1;,il r I
Corry; Spark, Mr T. Moore; 1111111111., Mr. Teaser,
tons, Mrs. Cooke; Isabella, Mrs. Hitchcock.
The Prologue was written' and spoken by T.
Moore, Earl. in his own intere,ting wanner. •
• . Alias WHlstein displayed all her soft rind winning
powers in the character of Endueia. Mr. Baker's
Phoeias was a most. grand ett4t ; indicious, fnri-
Lle, and spirited. Mr. Corry's tasnanes was d.o
very successful ; sitd, indeed, all the neriortrn!rs
;:ciaiserl to have employed themselves in neli to then.
advancement in theatrical amusements during tip:r
recess.—ln the after-piece, Mrs. Hitch, ock's Isa-
bella was much applauded, and Mr. T. Moore's.
Spade, and Mr. CCU ry's Pedrillo, were intVinParsble.
We unilerqtaiiil that no Melo-Orem** will be
producLd hero this season, which we regret very
mach, as Mr. Crampton*, wltoir pantomimic powers
are so very necessary to such a piece, is at pee-
wit in London.
This evening will be performed Shakespeare's
celebrated tragedy of Julia: Casar, with the
farce of Peeping Tom ; and, rid Friday next, theplay of The Mouniaitseers, with a- musical enter-
tainment.

a=nooma=ase
His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE is
expected in town, to-morrow, from Bushy-hits,.
His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK returned
to town, on Sunday evening, from Windsor.
A letter from Weymouth, dated October 6, says:•
The health of her Royal Highness the Princess
AwEt.tx routiones to amend; and the tineney
of the weather, it is thought, will induce Indli the
PRIECESSEi, us sell as the itst• of the company, to
remain here a considerable time longer."
Her Royel Highness the Princess of Wirt:).
and their Serene Highnetseathe Duke and Ditches,
of Ban asttica, honoured the Lyceum Theatre, last
with their presence, to see the Couittly of
The Jealous Wife, and the Musical Farce of 17n' •
Deserter. Both pieces went off' with great spint,
and received unbounded applause.
It is somewhat singidar, that, not withstauding. all
she merriment in the boxes ut Loveet-(gardien,
every person' in that part of the house should he
seen ifi Sites. and that though there is a great out-
cry alitritst private boxes. there ahoOld be ao strung
a &ionisation to have f. priente Los in the pit. •
The NliiiitiTyrs of the intended celelmitioli of the
Jubilee at Sktitton, are Most active in their peeper-
ations. The followiog is a sunlit order given for
the dessert :—three thousand veal:int, three pecks
of filberts, four bushels of pears, and two ilittis of
apples.
It is very well known, that the Duke:A Pow,-
LA ND'S Cabinet I hollers were the hest parts of his
Administratiou.—Siteh was the quality, or quanti-
ty, of his wines, that we find two of his gees.,
obliged to issk hint to rewind them of what parlor)
at his table t -
Arrived, last week, at Edinburgh, Lard JAMES
MIIEDAT.-4eS off, from the Nome place, hi.i Cfrace
the Duke of Mom moss, Rtoto.ET STSWART, Esq.
and Mre„'SyEwawsr, of Aldershot, and Mr. and
Mrs. Palmas. .
The Stock:Jobbers. in their favourite prints, have
• killed BONAPARTE with a brain fever. Uufortini-
ately for England, none of our Ministers are Liable
to that disorder.
Arrived at Swansea—
Mr. Greufell, M.P. Colonel Peacock, Mr. erozdru, M.P.
Mr. Wood, Major, Mr+. nod the Miura Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs.
Drew, Mr. fireestwoott, Mr. Illakenonre, Me. Loftus,
Mr. i Minn is allowed to he an excellent r. ,t-
-ler, since he threw Lord CASTLEREAGH over h. 4
shoulder..
Mrs. JORDAN was to perform the parts of The
Widow Belmont., in the elegant coreirdy The
Way to keep Him, and !Yell, in tt farc of
Devil to Pay, for her own benefit, at the Liverpool
Theatre, last night; being the last night but tow
of her engagement in that town.
We understand, that Mr. liarim.r, of this .1.1 e-
ntre, has got on engagement, for three years.- et the
Lyceum, in thi• Strand, London. His salary to be
eight. nine, and ten pounds. per.eieeL—f ik-
vertiser.)
- Mr. IfetraY Joansvom has announced his in-
tentian of openng his Royal Amphitheatre, Dub-
lin, on the 30th instant, under His Marks-re's
Patted. We extract the followitAs ac. odut km,
his hill of fare !
" The M:etieses, department Will be cros4tott•A be :w•
Lurie:, who has already t uaarail soma of tire moat esibtakewt
proftssional perfoimere .—Mr. ists Vsaster
Palk t Vaster of the Kin's tondon—Mr....4,Ms•
dune 1..pat,..-I.,gether with Mr Venue,
leader at the baud, $ll4l the vein vneratiral sod srriews balk!
• cimnpany, consisting of tl.. Twainley, Davie,
Toone, Greene, Pet.,, 1' lict.t.rt. G. Derthet, L.
Lave, E. Tivamley ; Messti nolirrts, Dourdieu. Nutdr, awl
°quit. eminent perform re are ehrapsi Fire Wet Ls, et
the cormehrtieethent of the lesson, loader the direction of
Mr D'Errille.
Mr. Ni•ANToN'S (otnpully sill open the Stock-
port Theatre, uo Nlowlay nest, with the Cowed% ,1*
The Sotfier's Dau.elster, and the Farce of tint
5* eothercork.
Mr. STI.PHEN Klass.r is engaged for te o
nights at the Shrewsbury Theatre. Last night lie
10.1,4 to perform his favourite part of Fade: He
will elbow hiartsgagement to-morrow.
Mr. Eseisrois, it is gait, proposes to take all
his successful Istobliahluelit, belonging to the. lio. ii
CiA:ll5. to Edinburgh and other parts of `catmint,
far the winter season.

TRIAL TOR $

James Asquith, til
charged with utterin;
dictnieot consisted of I
the Prisoner with uit,
intent to stir up Its
and hatred of his pu
second stated the won
tempt of flit Majettty'
William Brooke, 1;;
putt' Lieutenant, so
the Prisoner oppearei
house at Waketield,
rolled in tt.e Local 11
the oath to him, he rt
the Pri.emer
when he had ant to
once to llis Nigiesty.'
King George." Tlii
expression, !nod dawn
ing with the Ciroth
Prisoner was comini
appear to Le in lapse
rotely, and appearei
cross-examined by th
the word dams ifs

after Majesty, as th
lesgianee to Ilia Ma
Mr. Brooke iiiadrer
the above word., an
after Min. "l'his nits
which the Citstast)
witoess said, a great I
some reluctance agai
Colonel BMV,OII,
nant, deposed to the
Mr. Flarwoon,C,
a great deal of paint
worm. Two Justie•
potty Lieutenants, at
prosecution the great
mike his testimony
the word•down, and

the words Pere woke
the point ; the issue t
tention with which t
be with an intent to
the Peace, dud Ile pu

person and governir
course be laid out of
second, he thought i
man was out of hum
having got it into
persons nad done, tt
to he for a soldier.
very indecent; and
selves witk the week
ed, at Wekelieliirit
}unto usakeitthe so
ridiculous. Tnis pt
try 2001. which they
he considered the
week at the head of
nation. thia was not
wood adverted to

aihieh had appearei
all tendinie to previ
having a fair trial ;
thane paragraph,, w
dote to their inJligi
eplally 11115111 A, it
giabiJiitlit.r woe a oti
said lie, "that some
guilty, not only of
treason, during tin
tati&r, and that the
Ity of owr ertutes t
C
to eswittt prsjottiee,
the trial; hut I aan
Jury had the good i
writings with the
and, uninfluene,d
would give an hoot
and the Priaotier at
M. 4. TAYLOR,
words laid in the
proved to have be
question, and the e
tiou of tie Jury, re
they werenspokro ;
tug the eneutitstan
out of their cattattl
indictment. winch
with an intent to et
of His Majesty's CI,
to the second coup
tion ; which *tetra
tempt. To judge
were spoiceoi the
ocearion, where, al
used. it wss duet,
fo,rr ctat aaacustdv oh
even into the o.ith

tikitnavattnit
the tim.tiftinify of I
pity Li:mien:int, I
to be la. a p.iuiou

with apparent del
from these vireo's'
(said the Cnnieinin
used the words In
be your dots to fin
of tete indictment.
*ord., were tlw ref
or spoken thought
you wal Oleo tine
words were
there root' he or
memento' debber,
4iirt he we
I)uvid Jolly,
breeches, in the it

was also senteoce
appeared from
W 1.14,11.44, 111401 011
look been in the
dating robberies
Sherburri, Castle('
boorine villages.
.'I them to be out
■hnnlri write to tl
teat they might t
.is

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