The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-09-01 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The trenches are oprtoed tx tere Alme;tla. The
English army renvun lteetator. of our operation,.
It outwit he sod that Lord W.llingtou has uo other
object thou I. make his 'row tar a lea•uo as to
the mode of bealeging and taking the place.

General ltegicei; hrs pna.tesseJ hun.rlf of Pens-
matwr and Monsanto, which ,e 111/0 lints of nu-
pa/toner. Ile (Ald them mounted with tiftru
pieces of eannon each, and well supplied with pro-
visions. Tt.r fort of Alontainto, iu partiewlar, was
reputed in the country to be impregnable. The
Spaniard* almildinted them at the approach of the
Fiench troops. " Where ie the use," say they,
" of shutting ou.selers up in the foriseuwa, Wneu
the Eiglish are abandoning nor

AV 0. 2i.

A telegraphic chap .tcli. tran.ruitted at ti o'clock
in ate evel.ios uu the 13th imit. nee annonnced to
the Prince tceroy, that General Count Melton.
Govern 4, of Venice, died there that ututulug, alter
an 0111'11 of fifteen days.

Nu :11,sivstj took the diversion of shooting yes.
terd.,y, i.i the forest of St. Germain*.

IMPERIAL CUSTOMS.

The Decree of the 3th inst. increasing the duties
on the Cul,mial goods therein mentioned, to to be
put iu force at the moment that it is oilicially is.
The duties are motile without soy ex-
ception whatever. . .

The regulations formerly establishe..l respecting
the imptirtatiou of Colonial ['emitter, remain in full
force, without any change whatever.
According to the informitirin of persons who
have lately arrived Gans Spain, the principal road
from Bayonne to Madrid is now completely free
mid secure; sad trate:lers. taking merely the
usual precautions. are not exposed to the slightest
danger. There is no want of provisions meat.
bread, vegetable*, and ajar, are to be had tit *bon-
ds:ice, and at • very fair charge. There is very
good accommodation iu the inns, and the troops that
are billeted on the iuhabitents, now inert with a
favourable reception. Assassination are no more
heard of. It is remarkable, that f...r about • year
past, a number of Frenchmen and Italians have been
settled in the towns, along the great roads. as inn-
keepers, restaurateurs, &C.—For the rest. in the
the north of Spain, the gendarmerie are very active,
mid take effectual measures for maintaining the
liable peace: the brigands are pursued, aid ever.
lions are made to exterminate them in rrrry guars
ter. The most perfret trommil!ity previnis in Ma-
drid ; the theatres are iiitiurroso.l) attended, and the
people purmie their ordinary rot:atoms. Torre have
beLo several bull-tights there smite the beginning
of July : the Spaniards take infinite Pk scare in
sreiiiA this die far which the French have no
sort of relish. Srver,tl persons lust thew lived upon
the OCC:1140116 alluded to.

A outuber of hoililings ere going on at Madrid.
end the city is daily erniwlli.hing. Inconsequence
fit the opening thnt b..s been made about the castle,
there will bee very fide public promenade iii front
of the wiser. The owner 4 of the houses that here
been pulled down will be indemnified. Though the
rirroom of Madrid is very numerous, the national
guard take. the ditty both at the public edtfices
■nd the reaiderices of the merals. Ministers. &c.
A core. of Polish Nipper. I.ttely •.rrtred there : they
err employed en the am le. of she mallet.
. .

• Or. the 15th iort. a ship of Si) guns was launched
at Alotwerp. ♦uo. 33.

H.,yal Highness, Madame, the Emperor's
motile., hiss retained to Patis feu u Aix•ls•ChA-

pelle.
Wr hear front Germany. that the jmu►ney of
Count liotturp Masted tullrely to family affairs ;
stot II- their decision roust come from Stockholm.

hr t3a, _olle to Watemberg. in Sasody. ether* he
will wait its arrival.
O. Tuesday the Emperor held a Council of Com-
merce at St. Cloud.
Oa the 3d inst. H:s Maje.ty imbued the following
Decree from tfo• Palace of 'rrosuon :-
1 “1. There shall be ugly out jotornal in each a the
ie-
p s sub the exorption of that of the Seim.
• ">a This journal 1111411 he touter the authority oldie Pre-
fect, awl cannot be pablithed but a ins hi. noplooatoin
i 3. heeerilat'em, the Preform say provialui,ally as-
thor.ze iii our great cities, the puhlicatiosi of paprn coati:hit-
, hut ,ilaretrieluenta ha the nature of pristine bitle, or band-
reistore to males of articles of no nitaielnec and
is-
mos.-able y01).4 ; awl journals, treattug esalit,,,raly of la-

PRICE SIXPENCE-HALF VENNY.

*trainee, the 'wiener', arts, and al,m'eullisre, Ihr anid pub-
lic:mous inuet convitt, it. articles rarely& to their object.
. .

6 4. Our Minii.ter of the Interior staatl. on the ixi of Sep-
tembrr next, male 4 rtpnrt to no union the a.ud iidrertising
journals, that the publication of which may be definitively
determined."

General Wontllemont, Comenandif of the de.
pertment of the Upper Pyrenees, has addressed a
letter, on the 4th inoant, or which the following is
an extract, to the Prefect:—" My position in the
valley of Aran having been threatened by some
troops who had collected in the tisigh•nitiriug
ley of Esterry, I determined to attack iltesu; and
on the night of the 3 tst ult. I began my march.
Nearly the whole of the advanced guard of tie
enemy was put to the sword; the re.r, after sill.
toiniug considerable loss, was thiv.n hack more
than three leagues in the valley of &terry.
The Dutch Guards are circled oil the 49th at
Versailles.

Remain, AVG. s.
The English appear to he more than ever fright..
ened ■t orri prepays ions. They have collected be.
tweets blesions and the Lighthouse all the w►al
force they have got in the Tyrrhenian I;Leur. We
lately counted as many es fit.. sa I of the liner tea
of them tin.gun ships, aiiehnreil in the sett• !Wm.,
with syringe on their rattles. Font brit:. of ati),
and a slumber of frigates and corvettes, ends
mantle cruizing on the 100 k., ni„ between Reggio
and Bot all these considernhfe nicielisres
of defence do not quiet the fear. of the •English
merchants settled at Messina. Their in. Ft triunity
there scarcely fetches airy price, and lotto tJrd vessels
are almost daily leaving it to go in quest of a mars
ket less exposed. . . . . .

Their Eirelirneie% the Ministers of the Interior
and !Name are ,4111 at Reggio.

" ROYAL CAMP (f MALE. AVIV 5.

Q Our flotilla has, this day, °Wonted a ►re•h
success, is impossible to conceive the timidity
of the eutmy's aotilla, which, thought so consider-
able is to force, is daily beaten off by our KOU.
tents. Since tl,e •ffair or the Ist of July, the Eng-
hsa no longer litre to approach our hrttrnes. 1 lity
content therorrlves with bruiting over, front tine
to time, ■ Ito bomb-vessels, which uniformly sheer
off orlon seeing any of our gun-boats standing to-
wards thew.

" Tins aramointr. flis Mak.ty h.eio•t ordered a
junction of the divisions of Part 11111 l raux and Le.
marque, the enemy. eh,' observed this movement,
sent forward ;brew boob-rewsls to the Strait, sup.
ported by 30 gun-boats. His Majesty then went 10
attack them, the alivieiewmf Boman aid two whet
divisions, from the tight of our line. At the feat
shot, the bomb-vessels put about, and tools .heiter
in the hue of anchorage in the rear of their he.vy
ships. Our three distorter. however. con:intie !to
advance towards the eneniy'acoaad, anal in the heat
seder. Oa their re.sching about mid-ch. I,
the enemy opened a tremesdons tire upon them.
The flletdiwarnes *koala,. thet.the halls kit to .re
than 100 tomes iwstern of our gun.bcrits. Ail the
batteries of the coast of Sicily played at the some
time upon them. They in return kept up a steady
and well•dtrerted tire. with this advatat tge. that not
a shot was lust, as every one struck either the bat.
teties on shore or the enemy's vessels. They sia
kneed the Ire of all the enemy's gun-boats, though
two frigates took part in the aciion. The enemy
must certainly have suffered much, for we saw se.
veral of their gyp-brats considerably damaged, and
taken in low; and, notwithstanding this shower of
balls and shell., nut one or our vessels was touched.
" We know, duct Wiser the affair of the 41st, the
enemy's seamen are completely terrified: ours ere
now become familiar with the parade and bustle
which the &Wish make in no purpose. The crews
of our transports were. daring the tiring, triagialily
Winning themselves at play in the caverns whirrs
they have deg in the beach, he the rear of their res.
seas. They have covered the entrances to ►hese ex.
cavations with branches of the aloe. and consider
themselbes to be as secure there as so the best case•

" The state of cheek in which our flotilla holds
so large a force of the vireo). is truly inconceivable
on the part or the Eagiisli. They have from 23 to
30 square-rigged vessels, upward. of 100 gurb-boalh
or small armed and yet they dare mot quit
their saehonsge under cover of the twit. In Si.
ally, Colllll3Cfle is totally suspended."

'MU!. •UGU4T 8.

The ei-devasii King of Sweden has not hale his
sitpratance at Berlin. It is not even certain that
became this way. It is said that he took • circui.
tous route to the banks of the Oder, "'hence he
directed his course towards Ditutaic, from w hit It
place he proceeds to Koniogsberg, and thence into
Russia through Courland. None of the Prison
or great Officers of State in the Prussian terri-
tories saw Mai o• his passage.
The report is revved that his Pelejesty has cone
to a irsolution of 'dieting • redaction in his army.
The King, it is said, will disband about 20,01.t0
wen. thus leaving on foot a force of only 30000.
which, joined to the notional guards. whose services
will be reudetod general. will he fully sufficient for
the duty of the interior of the country.

• LI 111:9T 9.

The King has at length renounced the project
of retirbig finally to Sems•Souci. and there Ira, ing
totallt iltsengaAed from hu-iness. Those vitt°, had
been int tied to the presence of His Slsjesty. haws
determine., hoot, though not without sonic dill. tit-
ty. to return to Berlin and Cnarlatenburgo, and
to place him.. If again at the head of
Prince Willram, the King's brother. who was at
Hamburgh. and Piihre Augu.in. Ferdinand, isbe
was some nine at Topliii, hate retianed

VISNNA. Ate S.
We learn by letters frma Constantinople. the
standard of 11inhornet has barn Tatlird therm;
_ that
the Ural Signor hug &dared, thnt the Empire
oin in deli r; that it was the duty of re, ry MINI&
Man to tat:: up aim. to its dcfrore ; and thathe
could put hstas• 11 sa the 6(.64 of Me beava old

tiithril soh"; errs. the people, d 0 thir. 141etlgtti•
themselves t; bhed the last drop of their blood in
defence of the anemia glory Of the Empire. The
was received there. that the Emmaus
had railed the siege of Warns.

♦te. b.

The march of the Austrian troops towards the
frontiers of Turkey still continues. It would, hal-
ever, be iropractrot to publish say this with re-
gard to their destination, of which, iWibed, the Su-
perior officers ore themselves iguorasst. Bat, placed
as we are in the vicinity of a power, disorganized,
and whose provinces are a prey to all the thsorders
of war, it is of importance that our territory should
be in a situation to Command respect.
The last accounts front Turkey inform us, that
the-heiti-ciarters of the Itu..ians ore already at
Bujok-Kidickschad;on the other ,ide of the ittoun-
tains, and that a stogie decisive battle may open the
gates of Constantinople to the victor.
tEanoust. LUG. 6.

The last letters from Marseilles inform us, that
the English fleet cruizing before Toulon has been
reinforced, and that it now consists of 19 sail of the
hue, several frigates, brigs, &c.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 7.

The Members of the Secret Committee of the
Dirt, who are to deliberate, in the first plaice, on
the choice of an Heir to the Throne. are. of the order
of Nohlity, Count de Weeds,. Baron Adlerrimare,
and ti. Solverstwlne; of the Clergy. the Bishops
ullt.isensiain and Nordin. and Doctor Wyckinan ;
of Stockholm, M. Itothost; and M.Arredsou. mer-
chant, of G0tt.4.116U1 gh.
CONSTAN JULY 3.

The accounts of the success of the Ittissiaus have
thrown the inhabitants of this city into the greatest
consternation. It was the less expected. as the
highest confidence was reposed in the talents of
l'ehlivan Aga. The Sultan, however, is not de-
jected, but makes every possible effort to reinforce
the army of the Grand New commissaries
have been sent off to procure fresh supplies of pro•
visions for it. The fleet, which consists of Id sail
of the line, has received orders to proceed. with all
possible dispatiii, to take on board the troops that
UM rooting from Asia.