The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-07-24 00:00:00

NEW-kURIC, JINI 5.

Napelenn's hireling press in America very plan'
sih!y idleds to have p-ace for its objet that is
to say, peace with England, as well as with every
other country. It nee;leets no opportunity, however,
to exasperate the people against that cresetry.—
That peace with England may be its ()boa is not
unlikely ; for it knows that America would cuter
by a war—int the kind of peace which di tt press
inculcates, is one that would gratify it in a two.
fold way—injure England, and serve the tyrant that
pays it—serve Bonaparte.
If the President. acing up to the doarine laid
down by Napoleon's minions, should precipitate
this country into a war with Great Britain, the jes.
tice of his pretensions will come to be canv.'ssed
severely, when the evil effills of the war shall be
fele. But before that event (not to Ire recalled)
takes place, it may be worth the whit: of Ameri-
cans to consider what it is they are to struggle fur,
by the advice of Bonapart t's minions.
The first thing is (according to what may he ex-
pqted from the new Cabinet of St. James) the
right to cover the Colonial produce of Britain's ens-
min, by which they were the bones able to carry
on the war against her.
The late Ministers, by the Treaty which the Presi-
dent has rejeAed, put that point upon an amicable
footing, and a favourable one to America. 'Though,
at that time, Napoleon, by his Blockade Decree
put the trade of Nentrels under the ban of inter.
diSion, the late British Ministers bad the good
sets+e to see that t!e Decree was likely to be in its
very nature a ntsil;ty as to 'flea, and they accord-
ingly treated ramie ica as if no such Decree had been
snide. The present Administration (then the oppo-
sition) raised a clamour against that relaxation in
freour of America ; and there were many sober
worthy men of the former who thought that in her
present contest, Britain ought not yield up one
atom of her former principled usages—not becaose
she could enforce them .as against America
—but because in such a rugged trial as that she
is engaged in, every splinter broken off Irons that
great pillar, her honour,endangeresl the whole fabric
which it supported. The British nation was made
to feel tkis. And the Ministers who gave the gener-
ous terms weie compelled to qualify it with an
after-note, that if the French Decree extended to
the iliterrulpti,m of the usual commercial relations
between Britain and America, Britaia could not
be expiAed to golfer the commercial intercourse
between France and America to remain twister-
rudted. The French press would bait it other-
wise—and the °agar minion and every minion of
France in this country, thought and tasted like the
French press. The treaty, encumbered with this
note, was not sufficiently favourable to Napoleon's
views upon England and upon this cituntry. and it
was according:), rejetted, or rather smuggled away,
Gad knows where, like the Two sett.t.tons or Toll
DEM

So much for one objeltion to the Treaty that
was proposed— and was rejefted.
The people of America will no doubt feel great
pleasure in going to war upon such a score. Many
enterprises have been ridiculed as Quixotic, but
hitherto all so ri.ticulcd have been marked with
rashness. madness, generosity, and courage; but
here is Quixotism of a new kind—Quixotism mixed
up of canning and cowardice, meanness and ma.
lice.

Now for the second objeftion
To the impressing of her sailors by Britain.
That America sh ,uld go to war with England
on this.scOre, will be enforced of course by Napo-
leon's agents and hirelings.
Now these men own the inability of America to
go to war ; they pretend to wish for peace, and yet
they would have America become the champion of
every dastardly deserter from British ships.—They
would have laid °pin an asylum of sedation to
draw away from Britain her very strongest sinews,
during a contest on wilich her existence depends.
This is natural enough for the slaves and mioioas
of Bonaparte, whether brawling from the press, or
poisoning in the cabinet; whether driving the nation
as ambitious demagogues, or driving drays, as cart-
men ; whether wearing red breeches or wearing none
at all ; whether they be Frauch Sans•culottes, or
Virginian buckskins.
War with Ameri2a would be a considerable evil
to England ; but compared with the kind of peace
the French minions of America would have, war
would be an advantage to her. She has to choose
between two evils, no doubt; but she cannot hesi-
tate which to choose. Unluckily for both countries,
America has Counsellors whose ears are shut by
corruption and by jacobinical principles, against
reason and virtue. We lament it, we wish that Bri-
tain had Counsellors in her Cabinet, will, like her
late ones, knew how to yield enough without yield:
tog too much, and who had magnanimity to run a
glorious hazard for a beneficent purpose.

0/101t1), JuLv IS.

The number of Regents in the As this year was
eighty-fuur ; thirteen Do&ors and seventy-one
;A:A..lns.

Alter the AEI on Tuesday. the Rev. Townsend
Forester, of Pembroke College, oad the Rev.
Charl,s Worsley, of Wadham College, B.A. were
acli.-4ted Masters of Arts.
Last week, the Rev. Edward Edgell, of Doulting,
was preserted to the valuable vicarage of West-
Allington, in the diocese of Exeter. by the Dt4o ao d
Chapter of Salisbury.
ureeemvenerammaie
The following melancholy accident happened at
Winderroere Lske, on Mondry se'nnight ; as Mr.
Benjamin Brown, surgeon, of Ansbleside, was adjust-
ing the ropes of a new-launched boat. not having a
sufficiency of ballast, it upset, and he fell into the wa-
ter and was drowned. His remains were not found
till the following day.