The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-27 00:00:00

I A)N DON,

TUESDAY, DECLIIIIER 27.

Two Gottenburgh Mail► arrived last night, with
letters and 'misers to the 17th instant.—Great acti-
vity prevailed at that date in tho naval and juilitury
departments of Sweden ; bat from the great Rupert-
ity of the Russiatisoud the losses sustained by the
Swedish arms in Finlund,it wassupposed that all the
preparations making were intended for iletimee, and
not for the renewal of off. isive operations. Mr.
Persons, the Messenger, cattle over in the same
packet, with one of the mails, with dispatches for
tiovernment. She was attacked on her passage b}
a privateer, which,after a sharp action, struck to On
packet, and has been lininglit by her into port.
Dispatehes were also received at tile Admiralty,
last night, froiu Advairal

Letters and papers from Ifniland to the 17th in-
stant, were received yesterday. They were brought
by a fishing vessel which t 1 3", literally blown ores
by the strong North Last winds from the Dutch
(1.4,4. The Paris news which they contain has
nothing from Spain of a let. r date that. the lath
Bulletin ; and the Multiyear announcing the clii-
tulation of Madrid on the ith ; all which is already
before the public. The city of Bayonne rontinnes
to be all bustle with the constant passage of trunk
from France into Spain.

Reports, which. it is pretended, are received.
thiongh Holland, here been circulated during se-
veral clay s past anion the upper circles of this Inv-
stating that some outrages or acts of polio-
14r violence, had broken out at sarie, in a rich
the statue of BonAVARTE was defaced or destroyed.
We wish that these reports were entitled to (Told,
as symptoms or manifestations of the pittilic opi-
nion and detestation in France. But we Gar that
those persons who consider the French nation, or
the l'Arisian people, as in a Lowlition to express by
aetions their feelitigs of di.aperobation towards
.trot Corsican Ruler, ilitplay a very erroueous emi-
eeptiou of the present organization. of France.—
Never, in any petind of time, was a devoii.ts
talaliahed on more solid fultudatioas. as far as
ability, armed with power of every ch-teription.
era estubliillthele. than NAPoI.F.O7I hits done !
The nation may in fact be considered as a maniac,
exhausted by its own henry, awl chained down to
the floor by a rigorous keeper. Like Giihner iu
Lilliput, that vast mass is tketi and rriersticitst liy
a itemiser of cords, invi.ilde to an ordinary rye,
but collectively most chifiritlt to be broken.—
iitery c. Cominnite" ha. its internal tereshinery,
emistructed on pristeiples which eanuot easily be
deranged, and whiehpreserie complete tranquillity,
tecuedst the most inflimusable, us well a, 4.scordmit
materials. A police that never sleeps, and whose
agents or.spies, like the familiarsof the loilaisitious
disseminated over every part of Freier, mix in ail,
societies, transmit ititelligenee, thraurtii a thousand
channels. to the Minister, Few cow. Prisons, mul-
tiplied over the surfitee of each provitice.emitilie
the suspected or the refractory. Civil and military
force combine is restrain insubordination. Elicit'.
017, rapid, awl severe peitisOntent, awaits the
slightest attempt to overturn the est a loh•Ite.1 goveru-
meat. An usurpation, propped nod sitstaitied. by
snch means, and in the hands of a man lika Botta•
PAKTE, cannot easily Is% shaken.
Bnt, let its not ileet r sl The he iicao tut,
a jut collect of moral atillorren7e. of dread, sod of
reprobstuni, most true. To t!.e French, he does
not,hower rout-senthi.nself under coloterssooilions.
'11147 have Iceen too long habituated to crimes of
every *snit, to feel any stroaq emotions of mural
indigssation at his perfidy, his remotes. Of his tur-
pitusk. Toes couspare him with his revolutionary
prederessorN and they rewird hiss like the heresies
ho has destroyed the monster .Stormy. lie has,
it is true. snlittottvetl in its place another domici-
liary fiend. scarcely kiln odious, Conscription.
Bat his victories, his astonishing porgies& from (hie
extremity of Enrolee to the other, his uniform suc-
eess, his ix ramtaii -4Ctivity, courage, and exerti 111 l
WO contempt of danger, aud,alsove all. the energies
of his mind, which appears, like the Bird of Jove in

" wide +termite- tletteinitta,
Through the weer (Step of Am.,-

to look down upon, and to motlatv the Lite of the
globe ;—the‘e qualities of NAPIII.I ON, twon
through the medium of national v.usity and Pelf-
lore, captivate, dazzle, utul :dime the mows of a
profligate, en.;.ived, :Ina innuoral people.

Ile is never:helmt mortal, and it is difficult to
calculate the covets that might result in France, to
Spain, arid to the world, from his sudden disap-
pearance. The crowd of diprnitarirs. Dukes, Mar-
shale, C Nlionsters, and functionaries of all
descriptions, alio have sprung front his usurped
sceptre, must, and sill, iicerwiarily endeavour I.
perpetuate their own ofti.,‘ or acquisitions, by
manual ttttt that orJrr of el etil. a Lich gave them
larth. flow, or in what hound. it might be vested,
neon his decease, no 1111411 can venture to predict;
but lie must be Mimi, or higotte..l indeed, oho can
ever rationally hope, that after siich • total trans-
mutation of property as Frai,er has undergone,
any convulsion or revolution can ever metier

Louts the EIGHTLEATIL Tle omit rank will:
the JAMES the lid's, the Stadtholtlers, and the
Landgraves, who hate tied Mils their Ilt:nans os
capitals, instead of remaining to &feud and to pe-
rish with their dignities. N Arol.Voll u iiimiurs-
tinttAbly sensible to the defect pevsoually attaching'
to his want of issue ; and ha certainly has snore
thau once mitcrtuilied ideas of repudiating Ma_
dame Bo aitesaTk, fur the purpose of espousing u
Princess of some Royal House. It is a fr:t, that
in one of the interviews on the river Niemen, in
July, 1807, with the Emperor ALEXSDEP., be
proposed to that Prince his marriage niih the
linind Duchess • ....ITHARINS, thou iii the bloom of
youth, being just nineteen years of age. It is
equally true, that the CZAR, het brother, did not
dare Prl refuse etunplumee with the proposition of his
Corsican Conqueror. A letter WWI Britten to the
incess by him, stating the demand made, his own
assent to it, and the fteeessity of her itequiesceure.
Hut the GRAND liucHesr instantly replied by the
Messenger, and wrote to ALEXANDER in the
low nig terms :—" 1 our IMPERIAL MAJESTY nutty
loran or contract whatererengagrinents you think
prover ; but I am the Grand-thughter of CATMA-
RINL the lid, who gave sue her mime, and was my
Giml-mother. I know what I owe to myself, :rod
rather than submit to such All ripproloMm as to
become die wife of NAeoLtort, %ill die." This'
anccli:tc is asuquestionable, and in a hutescr way it
s,a- communicated to. Boooesiters it terminawd
auk fnUierr progresa iu the proposed marriage.

The lion. Adm. BramEs.tv was expected to !sail
yesterday from Portsmouth, ou board the Coa-
rsen's:, of 74 guns, Captain Ftl.Low Es, to ttske the
couinsitud ou the Coast of Purtugal.—Sir C MARA. E.
CoTroy, we understood, mill proceed in the Con-
queror, how Lisbon, to the Mediterranean, to
succeed Lord COLLISICIWOOD; his Lordship, if4l.•
iug no prospect of the enemy tooling out of 'Fun-
k's', has 4 let.triniurd to retire from the comilasitl--
a here his hi avery„ indefatigable zeal, B;itleOnsitsis-
asswe ability, Imre ken in exercise, to the hossuur
and advasstsige of Isis country, upwards of four
y VMS.

Lord rattacsaT. Commander-in-Chief in Scot.
!awl, unit Admiral Sir Salm at. Horsy, lately took
a survey of Ardrassan harbour. Its imlr'rtnnei• in
a military paint of view, as eounected with lre1.1:41,
has already keen under his Lordship's coaNivier-
ation.

The Treasury Journals stale, that the object a
Sir rtitvika 1%/eLctscrir's visit to Ireland it to
arrange the business of his office of Secretary, pi e-
parratory to his resignation of thiterinploynitut.
The Liverpool Paper, received yesterday. says—
•'
We understand that there are America!, new's.
papers in the town, cootaining the particulars of an
interesting debate on the gricsaitin of the Embargo,'
which was asiented on the fourth dry after the
delivery of the PitiOaDli:ll.6 'speech. Ti* guys-
two was married in femur of the embargo by a
lAN? majority," This, we apprehend, must he a
rrnstielte. The Message was delivered on the 7tll,
arid the tieleste urn nut to take place uutil Mon-
day. the 11th last.
Captain Nrcvort, of the fleeter, who is arrived
at Scilly, in fuhrtrra days front Lisbon, states a
rumour which prevailed in that city, when lie left
it, that the Swish troop. anal SpAtiiartis united,
had gained a vsetory over the French. We noticed
lard week similar report •aught to Plymouth Iry
a vessel in fifteen days liens Seville. We give no
credit to them rumours.

The convoy of transports, which left Pottsmouth
on the istli instant, welt. ile.persect I,y the. North-
Wein storm of the 17th, and SI.IIIC of *mu trael.cd
Falmouth on the Igih, mid inhere on tire dy.t, 42'1.
and 'ad. 'Pliers is lade doubt that the convoy
which left Fabisouth ou the 15th, were,ou the
in Spain.
It is said that a regular exchange of prisouers
between En•la.iil and Prance is about to take place,
and a cartel is expected to nail from Ph mouth early
in the present week.
No farther intelligence respecting the East India
ship. ha. hemi received. The Cornelia friipete.
Captaiu EDOCLL. is expected to sail on Wednesday
for India. Captain INUAII, Royal Navy, goes oat
by this opportirnity• irs Vommissiimer at Mxiliiis„
and Captain Ilimaas, Royal Navy, ',Commis-
sioner at Bombay.
It is wit!. plewsiara we observe, by • letter from
Sir .J. DAI.II.IrXPLE. dated Mesiiiies, ()etcher
that the account of the regisiteist of Malta loving
bribirrell improperly at Capii. is without fountla-
, t . Sir J. Ilit.:;x3tri.t limeys, lie has received
" t te• nowt noryisivocal testimony of the 'bravery
aisl Kota' conduct of the Maltese *Libbers."
At x .read dinner lately given at 'Newharyport.
America. in compliment to Clisef Jos.tier PURER.
, rya, the followiii4 were among the toasts given
from the Chair :

t. " The heelless of the rstited Stales: His pr0m.....•
sere, 114 he sow MIGISITY ; bat his pzrinrasamee, as be
moon Wilt be, orethear."..... Lnapaates Marsh )
s. " ttsr essialr, is a leprosy be the Fatillarro-..aray she
tr theorems, aiiil be kevles."--"Rd.• Coleroi,l

.1. " motels:lga is prastscur to the foe, your
wens elarglater-boust, yule stsillteS Cancells4, urd user
ter eoire spent—sod yontler is the Is olftlezt sash. • this spoil.
lum hcht in itestire ; then in God's muse be v.thatit."—
, •Ipast tr.to arrive haver.

The 4th So iss Regi►aent. ahoot 870 strong.
which recoiled from the French service, ■t the
evacuation of Lisbon by Julio r. a:id arrived at
Portsmouth, have been engrafted into our service;
the Swiss into Ile itt►i.t.ifs Regiment. and the
into the Sicilian Regiment, at Sicily.
The Lirsioa, East lodiaism, the arrival of which,
at Portsmouth, ufter encountering a h. av, gale. we
mentioned last wv41,.. W 314 durine. the i.torta, &lien
over to the French coast, where her Mittllll.lol wan VI
p..rillous from the continuance of the gale. 1.. d -she
Irrittg leaky. that the crew ipri.a ihally Lsscar►) hes
came refractory. because Captain Ci u Lt. Aan au.nl.l
a,•t run her on shore, as the 4004 =eater. they
da asi ►t liVca.