The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-02-21 00:00:00

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Letters beer been received Ikons Cadiz, of
bite a date as the 9th iestost• Some of thew amft"
tron th Jit the enemy have not got beyond Set i.lt
others, with more prohtsbility, assert, that they nave
taken Lehrija, Xeres, and Port St. Mary. opposite
Catlin. At Cadiz every preparation is asking to
reps I any attack that may be made aped it. All
the male inhabitants are 'twilling themselves for
the defence of the place. Batteries are erecting,
an.l every preparation corking for vigorons resist.
mire.

Adiniral Peso's has been appointed Cenutandat
of the Spotsh test, which has been removed belts*
the Brit:4li. Vessel+ of elfin description hare beet
hired to convey females to England and other ports.
Bills upon London are in great request. The
Junta of Codas have limited their iotention of
dividing themselves into three seetions, Mattson*
Political, sod Fiaancial ; for the purpose of for.•
ward.ag, with greater dispatch and facility, the
measures necessary for the defence of the place.
Ceuta, a poseengoa of great importance both to
and to us, oe the African casot, re probably
in our hands. A force of 1300 men sailed soma
time ago from Gibraltar, to take poosessioa of it.

Lord OUTMAN'S 0101111411 e is given in ear pre.
ceiling columns. Hie Lordship cearives that the
navy did not do its ditty, and that the ulterior o►.
jrcts of the Expedition were defeated, by the want
of preps.- dispatch in that deportment. Dere thee
we have the Coninsander-in.Chief, himself a
&later, admitting wet only that blunt actseily
exists, hue also declaring where it atteeb•s.—
Did Ministers ita'sve all this when they dictated
His bLuiterv's Answer to the city of Loses,
praying inquiry into the COWIN of the ?ANN et
the Expedition to the Scheidt ? And, Wins, hog
de they mesa to account for their igoonteee ? Laid
Outran, the Censtaanderin-Chiaf, was tbs.,
u hew now, a Member ef the Cabinets

Thome persons who are accustomed to coesidee
all the plans of Bonersers, as matured by ales
suoserste ability, sod who regard his • •
as the decrees of fate, will unquestionab derive.
from Vie recent eveats is the South of Spain, AIM
resorts foe esefireitog their opinion. Lt miss be •
speolltamod, that themeeemats ere Sat tfersitsous, endi
seem fully to justify the Corsican Emperor% treaw
quil stay at Trianon, or at Paris; since Moraine,.
like tat of Avourros, eau pentads, umpires reed
conduct his victorious troops through all the Smite
nesses of the sett ragged. desolate, and insporvie
ous portion of Spain, to the gates of Carlos,
Seville, and almost of Cadiz, before sir were pews
I red to bear of his having passed the 41•11101 Of the
Sierra Mop ens. Incapacity abuse, however roe
co.v.ited, yet, if directed by loyal lied patriotic err
tentionq, could not have produced such rapid and
calamitous results. Treachery; mod aboodoanseet
of all public et patriotic principle. eta slap. wisp
fectoelly explain them. U • formed es we are of
the greater part of those facts, which Might, and
which must regulate our judgment. we yet do oat
regard the Spanish Monarchy es lost. Tim estinc.
lion of the Junta, who have evidently betrayed their
country, rosy awoken dm suspended energies of die
Government, and animate the people. The
lord position of Cadiz, the prineocit and exertions
of a British gent. the vicinity of Gibreltar, sod the '
a-mies which yet exist coder the Dukes of Aust.
eusseus amid del PARllyno have, we say cool.
fleetly hope, arrested the progress of the invade*
These, oevertheless, we are sensible, offer only pre•
carious grounds of expectation ; and it is by n•
mess impossible, perhaps not even insprobabisi, "

that the same Monitear may coavey tow the he.
formation of the capture, or occupation of the
Hague sad of Seville. of Amsterdam sad of Cain,
nearly at the raise mo:nent of time. Perhaps the
in ignited,. divers ty, and widely-divergiag objects,.
which the capacious mind of this most formidable
tyrant. embraces and combines. may 'mimed fee
and explain his remaining fixed on the lm..ks of the
Seine, when we looked for hint on them of the
Guadalquivir.

Let us for an instant contemplate his position, eca
cupations, and avowed plena of conquest or of ac.
qtaibitioa, at the peesent juncture. ?lever, since ho
*viol on the sisprenie authority in France, were
they more complicated, vast, or detaszwilag ;mister
resource,, menial, military, and financial. than is
February, 1810. lie seems to have arrived in his
eventful career, at that point, where he must either
atop, or at which all further continental Amgen
and opposition to his will must cense and d,tetinine.
To the sant'', his arrnie.„ reinforced by the tenni*
that have Kira 14w to Anatria, coverthe Pasiswils.
he. out! the 11) rrneta. After a resistance of tweet,
months, two,h,•ut a Sovereign, without • 6.441.•
ment, and ,vittiolit the mr.lioary weans of deresdi
thestiseives, appears ready to state'

at ftelv and of Germ may. lint, while he

teals his irmpiie towards the Atlantic sad

tants n. while he insiastes VAI iike

thagesa. CaSix, end Cornataa, so well so of

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