The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-05 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

LONDON.
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Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East-India House. ►hen the undermentioned ships
were thus stationed and timed, viz.

The Wexford, Earl Camden, tad Arniston, fur Bombay
and China ; to be afloat the 2Sd last. sail to Gravesend the
7th November, stay there 40 days, he in the Downs the 23d
of December.
The Wiuchilsea and Elphinstene, for Bombay and China,
and the Ocean, for St. Helena, Beucoolco, and China; to
be admit the 7th of November, sad to Gravesend the 22d,
Its) there 30 days, he in the Downs the troth December.
The .11fred and Woodford, for Madras and ,China ; to be
afloat the .2.2 d November, sail to Gravesend the 7th Deem-
her. stay there Iu days, be in the Downs the •7d Jan. 1010.
N. S. Prince of Wales, Hugh Inglis, Ceylon, and William
Pitt, for Madras and Bengal; to be afloat the 7th Decem-
ber, sail to Grave.eud the t tats etay there to days, be In the
Downs the 27tbJanitary, !too.
The Preston and Phoenix, for Madras and Bengal ; Ci►ca-
cester and Surat Castle, for Chloe direct ; to he afloat the
oth January, Into; sail to Graveseuil the zMb, stay there
so days, be in the Downs 46th February.

The David Scott, Aluvrick Castle, and Coates. for China ;
to be afloat 20th !savory i sail to Graseseud, the ad Feb.
ramp there to days, bc i n the Deans 12tkIllarels.

The Earl St Vincent, tor Bengal ; and Ezeter, for Ilona-
bay; to he afloat the 'oil) February; nil to Graeraena
st► March; stay there JO Joys, be to the Downs iitb
April.

The Thomas Grenville, fur Ceylon and Bengal ; to be
■ttuat lath February; sail to Gravesend nth Nlarch stay
there ;rn Days, he is the Downs 11th April
The flucidart, tiorthumb•rland, Tigris, and Euphrates,
fur Msdras at.d Btnial. Alexander and Sir Stephen Lush-
intuit, for Buiebey ; to be sleet the 41st Dec. teen.
The S.•creign, !edits, Dittos, mid Ann, fur .Madras sad
Bengal ; to he &Moat the Jd reb. uto.
The Il.arriet, for :tladras and Bengal , Sir William Bees-
ley, fur Bengal ; Lord LWoit, for Madeira and Bombay sad
Carnterthen, fur Iturnhay ; to be stunt the sth Mari', 1110.

Capt. 11. I. SA)I64IN VIJ, 51,011.1 il4to the cote-
eland of the Earl Cenvien, colisigeetl :to Bombay
sod Cltitla.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

The concourse or people attracted, ) tsterday, to

the Quiat.'.-house, by the report that the new
Miiiiarr. would be declared, and the anxiety ex-
pressed by the crowd, were gsester than any ever
witnessed upon a ►imilar occasion. An each car-
riage arrived, they ran up to it, eaprly
4. I. it Lord GaAs hit Lord Gitcv's?"
Nor did this crowd consi.t of idlers, and the lower
sort of people. No, it consisted of respectable-
looking men, of the middle and higher order.; of so-
ciety, of toeu who appeared to have a solid interest
and stake in the country. When they found that
neither Lord Garr nor Lord Gann min was
present, they went away with mauife•t signs of dis-
appointment in their countenances, and many of
them murmuring sorrow and discontent.

A great concourse of people assembled yesterday
iu St. James's Purk, near the (413re:id's-house, in
eicaectation of seeing the new Nliniiityrs. Mr.
reacimsr. war, however, the uuly one announced.
This Hight Honourable Clerk of the Irons kissed
hands on his appointment to the place of First
Lord of the Treasury, rice the Duke of PO ST I. A II D
and it is extiected, that, in the interval between this
and nett Wednesday, he will be able to fill up the
Ministry of ankh he is thus placed at the head.
Such is the result of the little intrigues and jealousies
that have sis long distracted the Cabinet. Mr.
CANNING.S vanity ban overleaped itself, and the
dissensions, of which he was the prime mover, have
closed, with driving him out of his place, and be-
stowing the prize upon his inure artful rival. All
the fulsome udulation hitherto bestowed by the
hireling Potts and Couriers upon hire, will now be
tronsfertid, of coorse,;to the new Premier. , The
VtlLUes of this goo.l foutily-man, his inveterate
hatred of the Pope sod Popery, sod his sincere
love of the Spanish Papasts, his parental fondness,
illustrated by his inordinate love of places and
peusions, his flippancy and pertness in debate ;
all their qualities, with which he is gifted in an
extraordinary degree, will tin doubt constitute the
subject of their daily puffs and praises. But
these are not the qualities that -make a states-
man. They are trot only foreign from, lint
inconsistent with, every quality essential to that
character. We might appeal to the whole history
of his Parliamentary life, to all his speeches, and
they have been neither few nor brief, and surely
challenge the most acute of his sycophants to point
out a single trace of an enlarged and luminous
mind, a single sentenee that displayed originality
of thought, expansion of intellect, or depth of
judgmeut, upon any coustitutinual subject, or
any question of foreigii or internal politics. It
would be curious, if, while the east end of the
town is in an uproar about • dinner on the ju-
bilee day, and the west on account of a trifling and
alisolutely-necesaary rise in the price of *admis-
sion to Covent-Garden Theatre, the public s'muld
feel indifferent in a rase of such vital importance to
the cotiutry. Our would think that it would
reqeire the shoulders of an At lag, to tom- the
weight of plac,.. Lod pensions with /shirk this
little Citentlem•ti iv loaded. Ile is now Surteyor
of the Alit..go, sig,l Clerk of the Irons lil the
33:nt—Chaarelitir '.f the Dorby of Lancaster--
Chancellor the LAC:ICIIUtf —I Ira Load of the

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Treasury, with the reversion of Registrar of the
Admiralty, on the death of Lord Aftiserv, the pre-
sent occupant; including the highest, and wine of
the must lucrative offices in the power of Ilis MA•
to bestow, and amply sufficient to reward e
dozen men. of twenty times Mr. PeneviAL's value.

The difficulty of .uirporting en inconsistent
cause, is so great, that we have rather pitied thou
exposed to ridicule, the violent writhing!' and con-
tortions which the agony of their situation has ex-
torted from those persons who litre otteinpteil the
impossible lulour of recounting their support of
the /we AilministrAtion with their determination to
support the new, patched-up, or, indeed, 'soy Ad-
ministration that is fort 1111 l ;,,,.„, or in.i) hereafter be
formed. With • little spattering on their old
friends, it is wontlerfid with what Eli dity these
gentry con turn a compliment to the Powers that
be. A Morning Paper, of yesterday, most celebrated
for logical acumen, end a genies for extracting good
from every evil, tells us very gnively, that," sincerely
as they deprecate the late schism in the Cabinet, yet
it will be pro-ter/Me of, at least, one advantage, in
proditeing snore unanimity of sentoueist and cordial
co-operatiou in the business of Government." So,
then, it is at last confessed, that the hue Admini-
stration was deficient'', nisoninity of sentiment and
cordial co-operation in tile bu.iosess of Government.
No wonder our arms bare been disgraced on the
Scheldt--no wonder our gallant heroes have been
starved to death on the Tagus—no wonder disaster
and mismanagement have been every where tem-
spieuotui—fOr, mark what the sane Paper. in the
very next sentvuce, pronounces are the horrors of a
Cabinet composed of warring elements :...." it is
impossible (it adds) to reflect upon the conetito-
tion of an Administration, where the component
'tamest in./towed by separate views, and conimbed
by particular interests, without being alarmed at
the injury the ',oldie service might, in such case,
be liable to sustain. Their talents, probity, and
fuerience, however eminent and couspicuosis. be-
ll!) - e lust to the constounity." &c.
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'hat a utelaischolppicture is this! and how Jif-
f nt from those we hare for the lust two years
been accustornesi to contemplate, front the same
Artist. Then, indeed, there were no dissensions,
no difference of opittiret. ao. stperato aims, no
4, particular interests."—AU was harmony, unwni-
mitt, concord, and cordiality : Stith a Cabinet !
it was completely dove-taikd! Hod it been other-
wise, The Morning Post would doubtless have been
the first to feel the alarm, and warn. the country of
she dangers to which it was exposed.. from the wont
of uoion and cordial co-operation among its mem-
bers. Averse, however, as this partitan is from an
Ads" li ll istration socoustructcd, he yet, with an incre-
dible dexterity, lavishes utiliounded praise on Mr.
PERCEVAI., (N. H. He is to be tiro Lord of Me
Treasury, so well as Chancellor of the Exchequer.)
for endeavouring to form an associatiou with Lords
GENT and flowevti.t.E; thus, as he says, " sacrific-
ing the repugnance which he, and every patriotic and
liberal-tuaided unto moat have felt, at an ausalgame-
?inn with socb stubborn, refractory, and unyidd-
ing matte'', too' generous desist of estineuiabiug. in
this greet &Isis, every principle of internal diesel,-
sion."—Surely this is madness without method.
1 We never beard of such a thing so asuelgamating
stubborn, refractory, and unyielding mattet..for the
purpose of extiuguishing internal disseusioit ; and,
iii our humble opinion, the clashing of these
refractory unyielding substances would be the very
cause, source, and perpetuation of dissension. The
whole of this story strongly reminds us of the fable
of the fox and the griper. When Lords GLIM
and thtertvrtax were invited rri. the banquet of
haves sod tidies, and sordid and selfish men thought
it uncertain whether or rut ilffty •wsiuld accept
the invitation, The Courier, aod The Morn*, Post,
had a good deal to say in favolt.ipf thew Noble-
men. Their dislike to them had beet, wearing
away, in consequence of the dignified c:milust
of the Nuble Lords, on a late memorable occasion.
They were in hopes they would lead their talents to
the public, is the present trying wish'. Ste. but
now, when the Noble Lords here deelioed, ab !
I curse the grapes, how sour they are ! I

We see, with as much satisfaction as the native
of the subject will allow ns to feel. that Lord Wtt-
-1.111(17011, after Lis late most improvident and un-
fortunate irreptiors• into Castile.. for it merits no
other epithet, has conducted the remains of his
array back, nearly to the point from which he ori-
ginally started, and which a General of more pru-
dence would never have quitted. He Now occupies
a sensicircidar line, between the Goodiena and the
Tagus, covering equally the provinces of Alentejo,
and of Sorithern Estremedans, er rather Andalu-
sia. protecting Lisbon from invasion. by the road
of Iledajna and of Elva*, while he slickers Se-
ville and Cadieliost.auy attack throsgh Truzillo
and Merida. two extreme potable his posi-
tion, are the city of Merida to the East..and Porta-
legre, or Villa Portugal. to the West.
The enemy. it splicers. on the o her hand. acs
drawn up, or contour.' in New Castile and Estre-
inadura, front Talavera, through Oropese, arid
Plaseneia, round to B:deviance. Thus situated
rPlatlveto each other, it is intimated by some of
tire romp Juveoal., and it would by no means
surprise es, du:lol%4d Rodrigo either is, or may
*von Le attached by the knee under SOULT run/

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