The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-30 00:00:00

c

he G►es in the vicinity or tine 711 -Cre. should
prefer the new plan to the old, the MVO price to the
al. l price, whereas ifhe lived at a distauce. hi. leaning
',mold be the other way. we are totally at a loss to
conjecture. The inference. it any, it might bo
suppoocil, would lie the contrary. The riots, how.
ever, hiving now happily subsided. we do net wish
to preys this subject farther. We wish, South, ere.
viit of the metropolis, that the whole Ma wee hu.
vied in oblivion.

Genera! F.tNe, whu reached town on . Friday
night, from Pug tii42l, is reported to bare brought
dilpittches of itupottance from Lord Wm.Litio.
TON.

• It is reported, that, by an article in the treaty be.
tweet' France and Austria. an opening has been
kit fora negnciation with this co,ititry, which R,,,
sic haw rigiiined Lief readiness to forward by media.
tine.

Mr. RoscoE has been elected • Correspondent
MetaLer of the hotel Institute of Amsterdam, in.
stead of the late Jona Di MutiLait, a dig. iiignislo
ed Swiss writer.—lt pleasing to obsi•rii., snit the
hostility which divides the nations of Europe. hoe
not vet invaded the domains oroeienee.
M. 11111111. TON, who !ism sneer:l4A Mr. Bitter,
•s one of the Under-Secretaries in the Foreign lit:
flee. is cousin to Lord If sttunway.

The office of Minister for the War Departmett,
after being husked about for is month, it is aid,
has at. length been offered to Mr. iiTDeli• the
Judge Advocate. •
Mr. HAMMOND is about to retire from the Under-
Secretaryship in the Foreign Once, and is to
succeeded by Mr. Timis Fox, formerly CAarte
d'Affaires at /lensburgh.
It is confidently reported in the political circlet,
that the sentiments lately expressed by the Merqus
Wst.r.ese.ev, on the subject of the recent changra
in the Ministry, are not secordunt with the wish
or the escpectstions of Mr. PritcseLL 41, 00,6
is prevalent. and in a degree warranted by sa
ex/ire...inns in a particular dnsrter, that the Ms
finis War.t.est.tv is to be hint Lord of the Tree.
story. and that 31c. C 4111•1 NG is to resume the pert
folio for the Forum,' Department, and is to take tht
Ministerial lead in the House of Commons.
Mr. DONDAS it is Slid. will kiss hands at the
Levee on Wediterday next. Ile does. not soeceed
Lord CANTLRIMAGO Its the War Department, hot
Lord 111AIROPIBY in the Board of controo ; the
health of the latter being sn indifferent, that he is
tit:der the neceasity of retiring from all poblic
ilesS. •
The Porn, whom virtnes and whose sufferings
entitle him to universal sympathy, it is said, has
been ordered close confinement at Avignon,
and been denied all intercourse with the few at-
tendants who had been allowed to follow bent into
France.

Government have received Official Copies of the
Pont.% I....xcommunication of fionartares--they
arc in Latin, with Italian trensl3tas, and are ot
considerable. 1.-14th. The sn',/t.ince Las already
been K:vett to rite, public. Mmisters have ordered
this important Paper to be translated into Spanish,
Portuguese, Freitch, &c. and have directed that
many thousand copitai be immediately prepared, fox
the purpose of being circulated throughout the
Continent.

The livid h,w be, n pleaied to constitute and
appoint the Right Honourable Ileum Juua Vis-
count PaLuicasrins to be His MAJESTY'S Secre.
tAry at %Var.
His MAJESTY has been pleased to order, that
the 86th Regiment of. Foot shall in future be styled.
,4 the 86th (or I.rinster) Regiment of Foot."
The Kirin has been pleased to !ippoint Sir
CHARLES lIAMILToN Bart. and the Honourable
Hexer Cusses, to be Colonels of His MAJESTY'S
Royal Marine Forces, in the room of CHARLES
BOYLES, Esq.; and Sir THOMAS WILLIAMS, Knit.
appointed Flag Officers of His Mmasee's Fleet.
NAVAL APPRINTIIVITS.--Capt.S. BALLARD, IR
the Sceptre; Capt. Awes, to the Intrepid; Cupt.
Tows', to the Carona; Capt. PRIORY, to the
Iris; and ('apt. Flee, to the Cesium.
About 400 troops, who were taken at Walche-
ren, and confined on board the prison ships at Ports-
mouth, bare entered into oar service.—They are
principally Germans.
The Channel and Western Ocean are swarming
with French privateers. These marauders come
cline in-shore, and into the dit: -rent bays and
creeks of the Channel.

On Sunday se arrived at Plymouth.
a large Spanish brig. from Gibraltar, for Lon-
don, with cotton wool, dec. captured by a French
privateer, off the Lizard, and recaptured by
the Plever, of 18. Captain Baowst. During the
time Inc S'paniard we.: in possession of the French-
man, the French Captain rowed ashore at this Li.
surd Point, and staid ashore en hour, looking up
and down.Channal ants his spying glass. and then
very coolly went on hoard again, and made sail far
France ; but tilling in with the Plover, she when-
dontd the Spaniard, dnd made off witb all sail set,
for the ennui of France, and escaped.
Accounts from lialboa and Gjon, of im late a
(lute as the 17th and lath, communicate the kaput..
tent fact of the enemy having evacuated Bilbon.
af:cr a smart action, and that the Patriots are amiss
in possession of that place.

A gentleman arrived at Hull, on Wednesday
se'nnight, from Russia, by way of Heligoland. He
left Petev.burgh on the 14th alt, at which period
there were near 300 vessels there, and 100 at Rigs.
The reports then preveleet, were, that the French
influence was declining; that the Nobility were
daily remonstrating with the Emperor to break of
with France; and that BesserAite had requested
Ai Eitsxnea to give ep Russian Poland and
Condom!, the latter of which was to be erected into
an indep •ndent kingdom.
A per,en, who left • French port on Pillendly butts
stares, that the heavy tiring heard en the French
coast in the morning of that day, Ives lejoieing
in consequence of the peace with Austria: this
Tarrson also states, that the flotilla of gen-beets
which have been so long at Boulogne and Calais.
are removing to the Scheliit, preparatory to an at.
tack on Walclieren. from South Bereland and
that the French entertain the must cooadent ex-
peetatioas of its speedy subjugation.

el "N. • 1
ak
IsCr"