The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-06 00:00:00

LORD CARRINGTON AND MR. BLACKBURN.

We hare authority to insert the following state-
ment :-- Axe 4r h. lAN.
_

In consequence of the statements which had been
given its the public prints, of Mr. Blackburn's Ad-
dress to the Company at the dinner at Merchant
Taylors' Ball, on the Seth ult. LnM Carrington
wrote the following letter to Mr. Blsckhnrn
g. Wycombe AbbeF, Thursday, June n, t SOS.
" the arrival of the post or Turylay, I was
wholly ignorant of the mature of your A dike,. t p the Com-
pany, atlm sty departure from 51erehart Taylors' Hall,
ou Saturday musing, or that you Lad addressed the Com-
P4.!/.•an* . . .

"-I have bees unavoidably detained by persons in Nay
honor, but I brow to be in town early to-nowrow.-wl bre
TUG wilt I. t nu- know at what hum Lord F..ien may do
iiiiuself the ho.loor at waiting upon you. Please to direct
your a:rawer, coder tower, to Franci. Horner, E.q. Garde/s-
-cour., Temple.-el am, Me, your moat obedient Servant,
(Signed) •
. .
_ _

Lord EiSCX having in the course of Friday even-
ing chine 3) waited on Mr. Blackburn, he deli-
vered to Mr. Cliciobtas, a friend of Mr. Blvd:-
heir 1, to whout he was introduced, a paper, of which
the fo:lnuine is an exract:
" 1.4E4 'arrinwi on was posre3trrl, l,y iNutrstie elreans-
ttencrl from applying fir a Ticket of Adin.usioa, daring the
than 4ticls was ollowed for that purpmie, sad 3:* the teemi.
aati,o of which hr was i;nora.it On Tltursdoy, ttot
he wrote 1., Mr. Ehmkr% one of thr Stewar.is, to centre a
pl.lre fur Li. 3 ; and after hie arr 4-11 in town twat Joy, be rc-
eritc,: the followieg lett..r from Mi. Danko::

" Di: to (AMU NOTOS am extremely army to
is a.iy of obtaioina t ;
the thimar is transferred to lien:hi:at lityluts' lIaLJ, aa4 the

tonober Ninited to tettseen goo and goo ; Sir C. Price* pro-
mises to SPAM one to yJor house In ease of a Ticket lying
gtren op; 1.!:. 31c1101) applied, a.. I told you, to Mr R 144-
bur; hut w:thou: soce.-ra Maltittides are disp7oitte4.
Your'e, very on!y, 11. It R re."
Srreral friend., Lord Carrinrton, °vide's:ending that he
had been tun latein his app•l•2ltiou, scut itiot t.cketawhfcb
they gut fur eweinut whom were Mr. Scott, a
Member of the eioh, with whom the idea of the doper
originet,d; and Mr Sommer, fur Surrey. Mr.
Belies also of oiTtned u t.cket. The one •liich
Lord Ca,ringtun gore at the ' ior Lau his name inverted
Mr. liaakes called on Lure Car ted Lim
In his eurrincte to Nlerchaut Hnll ar.l in the room
Mr. Henke% applied to several of the other to pm-
cute i aeat fn. him at table. Lord Carringtou was at ieegtb
plated in the one ictended for Lord Dynewor, situ was pr.:-
vented front atteudiag.

Lord E‘se:c, at a Meeting, this dly. delivered to
Mr. Lhautheni a paper. of which the foilowiag is a
cop!: :

" This ticket, Ns. 711, war one of three, (the other two be-
ing Bombers immediately following or preccdiar„) which were
seat for sad received by Mr. &trawl, fur knase!f and two
other Gentkmea. The othe- two tickets were sent Mask
after the word admit ; and one of these was tilled up with
Lord Carrington's name, and used by him. All the three
tickets were signed and waved ...I the annexed ticket."

The followin; stute:n:at was then signed by Mr.
Blackburn :

"JUNE 4, ISO°.
"An explanation .hating take* place between a ft ieud of
Lord earriairton and a friend of Mr. Blackburu, on the stilt-
jeet of his Lorthihtp's attendance at the slimier at Merchant
Taylors' Hall, Ott the 44114 ultimo, Mr. Blackburn stated his
recollection of the woe* used by hint ou that occasion to
he as follow :

"Among et the Noble Lords present, there was but one
who did nut obtain his ticket through my watts, he liaviui
applied after the period fur issuing then was palmed, sad
could aat have obtained our fosse ene.••

Mr. Blackburn having since leariwt, that Lord Carr ng-
ton mac to the dinner with a bake, which load been honied
by his to Moak to Mr. Esteuurt, which Lord Carrington re-
ceived front Mr. &getout, and the ticket when dclivia ed at
She door being tilled w;t with his Ltiertabip's nainr was them-
fore u nvolar an any other ticket which had been nosed by
Mr. Varkoorn.

Mr. Blackburn dam not hesitate to admit, that, had he
be aisure of this fact at the time wheu he addressed the
Company, he would not have es, tt the expres.itia above
stated; as it was out his intention to wound the prate
feelings of Lord Carrington.
(Signed) 3011,1. BLACKBURN." .
• Sir C. Price was one of the itawasir.

lOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GOTTENBURGII MAIL

STOtILMOLM, MAT 21.
On the 14tb inst. His Majesty returned thanks
oa the parade to Commissioner Area, for his loyal
and spinted conduct, in collecting and beading the
muss in Oland, oil the occasion when all the Hus-
but.. sin that island were made prisoners. His Ma-
je,.l) i'srther _authorised the above Commissioner,
by gr...z.e, orders of the•lsth instant, to wear in fu-
ture the sword-knot and cockade of a Swim:bah offi-
cer of the but. •

The Rer. Mr. Gommerer, who also greatly di
tinguiArd himself oo that oamstoo. has been iiu-
minuted Chaplain to the Royal Family.

EXTRACT Flu A LETTER, DATED Tlit; 6th APRIL.
Bernadotte is and to have in his conference
with the King of Denmark complained of his re-
missness in conx,,letiug the warlike-preparations in
Zealand, td,fins, that as he did not find any tnea-
ires car:led into effect, which were indispensably
required for the execution of the plan with which
he was char4t4l, he should not only gait Zealand,
bur giro Fuuen, and retire to Co!ding in Jutland.
—lSteckkoine Gazette. May 40.)

His Royal Majesty ws• graciously pleased to
hold, on the i9th instant, an extraordinary Chapter
of the Ro)•al Grier of the North Star, and to make
his Excellency Hama Charles Gustavus Adlerberg,
Swedish Envoy at the Court of• Great Britain, a
Knight Commander of that Order.

LIIOIIOIIW, IWARCII 19.
Anollicial letter from Palermo, of the 19th of
February, states. that the Court has ordered all
Danish ships to be sequestrated, and the rudders
unshipped, after the necessary search had been
made. The masters and crews obtained kayo to
come on shore; the former were left at liberty,
and the latter sent to the e.t.idel. The Danish
Consul haring inquired after the cause of that pro-
ceeding, received for Answer, that it waA found ne-
cessary to adopt that measure against the Danes,
on account of their being in alliance with France.

TURKISH FRONTIERS, MARCH 8.
According to intelligence rec'Aved from Con-
stantinople, such large quantities of coffee and
cotton, have been lately imported there from
Arabia, that the prices of those articles must cape:
rience a very comideruble fall in the European
countries, which border upon Turkey. A letter
from S.nyrna states, that large parcels of enerchan.
dike have arrived there, with the caravan from the
Turkish provinces in Europe.

GOTTENEINIGH, ?1•Y 27.
By advice* fromflelsingburg we learn, that the
Swedes have made priootiers of war the Russians
(said to be 4000) in the island of Gothland ; they
have also been successful in Finland, and have
taken some of the Basilan magazines. &c. contain-
ing a great quantity of stores of all kiwis. Sir J.
Moore, as ve II as most of his Staff, is in lodgings
here ; the troops remain on board the transports ;
the whole expedition waits the return of Colonel
Murray from England. This morning arrived
here the Earl Leicester packet, having nn board
Baron Jacobi and suite. A number of Engf sh
Merchants have arrived at Stockholm from St.
Petersburg; great rejoicings took place there when
the news arrived respecting Swesborg. A great
number of letters for; England arrived at the suttee
time.