The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-19 00:00:00

111.4LTA AND GIBRALTAR.

The arrival of the babe/la paeket, with Mails
from Malta and Gibraltar, enables us to announce,
that the garrisons of both were well and in high
spirit at the end of last month.
At Sicily Sir John Stewart was ready to embark,
at an hour a notice, 10,000 troops", in high disci-
pline, and eager for combat. The Kingdom of
Naples was brliei ed to be the destined scene of
action. The people are represented to be anxious
for the arrival of the moment in which they may
Ay to !time, in imitation of the Spaniards, to eman-
cipate themselves from the fetters in which they are
now hound.
The oulryrnple Convention, according to the
accounts that have reached us, by this mail, from
the South of Spam, has excited great disgust in that
country—nor will any attempts that may be made
to varnish over the disgrace ever change its agree-
ter in the e.timation of the Suanish leaders. We
subjoin such of the letters received by the Mail as
possess any interest :

MISRALTAR, SCPT. 19.
" This morning the King%svisher sloop of war
arrived front 31.11 u, liavisig Her Highness the
Princes, o. Orleans on board. Her wade
her rte pt: with great difficulty from some viilage
near Barcelona, oil its being attacked by the
French, and armed at Malta about three weeks
.. " SEPT. 10.

" This day a mail arrived from Li.hon, with the
first certain iiceounts of the terms of the Conven-
tion agreed upon with General Junot for the eva-
cuation of Portni,rul by the French army. The in-
telligence has prodnced a Ter) different sensation
to that of Dupont's surrender to the pliant Cow-
tinos. Listend of the usual rejoicing. after a vic-
tory. the utmost glno.n and dissatisfaction prevail
in every countenance the garrison. After hear-

inn of the glorious victory over the French en the
214 or August, great preparatsons were making
here and at Algeziras for a splendid illumination
and rejoicings. which were to take place on the
uocondstionsil ssureader of the French army, which
was daily expected. Now not a gun will be tired,
or a rancho lighted un use occasion, either here or
in •CPT. 21.

"This day the Caoriovo, a Spanish line of battle
ghip, of NO Komi, urcked to the bay, from Malaga,
ou her way to Cadiz. She saluted Rear-Admiral.
Purvis's dam u. she passed, which wus immediately
r..turard. " scrr. :!"2.

•• The uneket from Malta arrived this morniiig,in
axl•rn thip. ibas‘age. lingudier-General Disney
and his staff are on board. By the packet, we
team that Sir John Stewart anil ten thousand of
the finest trays of the army at Sicily were ready
to enihark at an hour's notice; and it was es-
petted that a powerful diversion would soon be
made is the kingdom of Naples, where the natives
were n l anxious to follow the glorious example set
tlwm by the Spanish nation.
...Thr Fame and .ipellu wiled this day to join the
fleet off Toulon. SUPT. 23.

" The letters from every part of Sunni speak in
the most indignant terms of the ignominious Con-
vention cow:lurk-I with the French ut Lisbon. I
inclose yuu copies of two of them, received by pco

ple of the hi,,,liest respectability here, and written
by persons who, from their situations, have every
meatus of being well informed. The British Go-
vernment, 1 am happy to add, escapes censure.
but the evils expected to result from the Conven-
non are not the lass regretted on that account."

" CADIZ, SI,PT. 17.

" Yestenlar, a Russian Officer arrived here ex-
press Irons Liibon, by way of Badajoe, on his way
to Trieste, with dispatches to the KIIS*1:111 Govern-
ment. By lain we have learned the authentic ac-
counts of the extraordinary terms winch have been
granted to General Junot and the French army
under his command iu Portugal. It is impossible
to describe theanumensent and indignation they have
excited in this country., where they are reckoned
fur more degrading to the Brinell' national honour,
thin' those which Liniers dictated to Gen. White-
locke, at Buenos Ayres.
•"Fhe same opinion respecting them prevails at
Madrid, where they are reckoned in the highest
degree disgraceful and impolitic, as by this means
between twenty and thirty thousand of the finest
French troops will lw bent back to France, from
whence they will soon enter Spain again ; so that
with respect to the tinal issue of the gneud con-
test in which we are engaged, they will do us in-
finitely more mischief by being sent out of Por-
tugal to join the grand French army advancing
agaiinst this country, than if they had been suffered
to remain where they were, till the fate of this
campaign was decided." MADRID, SIFT. 15.
44 The Gazette Eztroortlimary of yesterday an-
nounced the grateful news of the deliverance of
the Marquis e 1 Humana and ten thousand of our
gallant countrymen from the jaws of the enemy,
through the zeal and intrepidity of the British na-
vy, winch diffused the most universal joy in this
capital. The same Gazette also contained a com-
munication, by order of the English Commander-
in-Chief in Portugal, of the capitulation concluded
with General Junot, for the evacuation of that
comitry by the French army, in consequence of the
victories of the 17th and .21st ult.
" I do assure you, it required the first piece of
news to render the other at all palatable, as the
idea of mending Junot's army back to France, at
such a moment as this. is universally condemned,
and souse of our leading 'nen have expressed their
opinion of the terms of the Capitulation in much
stronger language than .1 choose to repeat. Luckily
we have no tears for the result of the glorious
struggle in which we are engaged, and the enthu-
siasm in favour of England is so great, tha: we
cannot suspect the Government of tmt country of
any intentson of sacrificing the welfare of this to
Any temporary partial interest of its' own with re-
spect to Portugal, and we attribute the blame
solely to the Commanders of the English Army,
who must have been 'sadly duped by Junot in the
negociation.
Colonel Doyle has been uncommonly uLtite
since his arrival here. has knowledge of the
lepanish language and his abilities give him great
weight, and no meusere of any importance is de-
termined on animist consulting him.
" Mr. John Murphy, one of the partners in the
principal English house here, at his own ex-
pense, raising, clothing. and itrinisig • regiment,
(idled the Volunteers of Spain, composed of their
battalions, each 'assisting of sok town, and o Inch
is now nearly cosapleto.'

•„• A wastes and ueprovoked attack was lately made
upon Tits BRITI,H Paris, by a paper professing the same
prinsiples, sad the advocate of the same cause. That at-
tack THE lllRtrisH PRFsS WWI forced to repel_ The as
ewer was cosraplete, and there the matter rested. The F.di-
tor of TIII BRITISH PRESS has Millet CAM with regret, le
the paper anodes' to, an mistily wantoa and unprovoked
attack apes the tendert of the Opposition, in the manage-
ment of the debates in the last Session of Parlianseet. He.
ins also seen this unseasonable stricture since followed up
by a still more unnecessary and unseasonable renewal of the
Catholic Question. The Ministerial Journals have eagerly
seized hold of these minas, and turned them most success-
fully to their advantage. Now, if these things have bees
dune through the stupidity of the Opposition Print is num-
tien, they furnish a melancholy illustratiou of the adage
" that • foolish friend is worse than an enemy :" but if they
hare beta done ie concert with the Ministers! Prints, so .
language can adequately describe such baseness. Tan
Batrt.o PUBIS haying taken a distinguished part is the
subjects they Nought, must oneeasueably and 4entanly,
forward at the present moment, the Editor is hosed to
protest against this extraordinary proceeding, on the part
of a paper pretenilia-; to be a coadjutor ie the same cause.
itlien in the course of baisinear the subjects those injured
come properly before the public, he will not be deficient in
hi. duly.