The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-09-26 00:00:00

STATE OF SWEDEN.

While the final results of the aegociation carry-
ing on in the vicinity of Vienna, still remain in
suspense; and While Minister% here at liorneoie
expiring amidst their own weakness, dissensions,
and unpopularity ; it may not be uninteresting to
take a snort survey of the great events which have
recently taken place in the North of Europe.
Though more remote, and of less Immediate in-
terest, than the transactions in Germany, Spain,
and Holland, they nevertheless bear the tame revo-
ltitionary stamp and character, which distinguish,
throughout every part of the Continent, the com-
mencement of the nineteenth century. 13ataA.
rearm, iudeed, the scourge of so many unties.,
has Rot been the instrument of the deposition of
GUT ties the Fourth, which appears to have been
elected altogether by internal and tuitional causes.
We may u Juspeseioaate the individual (Ate of that
unfortunate Prince; but we mist impartially clue-'
fess the urgency and force of lint political nett'.-.
city whisk produced his fall. It was not,
ouch the utilities of his uncle. the Duke of
SUIPLIIJI AN lA, es the series of errors and Mbonities
that marked Guseavas Governrhent, whir 4 have
placed CUAIIII.O the XIIIth on the throne of his
nephew. History does not record any revolution
which has been effected with is little violence, op-
position, o► resistance. The nation, weary of the
mal-administration of its Sovereign, seems unani-
mously to have withdrawn their allegiance to his
person, and to have called his neck to astatine the

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first place in the state. Cvsraits, universally
abandoned, is already forearm. "Sri completely.
indeed, is he destitute of supporters, friends, or
adherents, that it is probable, ill him, t(se use.
Lion of the prisons and graves—of Kings being; al-
ways contiguous. will not be 4611(41, or realised.
His insignificance secures hini: Cram further perse-
cution, and will induce the States of Sweden to
alio., bins to reside, as en individuel, *about the
limits of the Sweslish dominions.

If. however, CHAILLES the Xllfth has found it
so easy to ascend the throne, he seems to hate ex-
peri e nerd , and be is likely to meet, the most seri-
ons ohatneles in maintaining the Prerogatives of the
Crown, and still more, in extricating the country
from that abyss of misfortune, into which the im-
prudent pertinacity of his predecessor has plunged
it. Even the succession to the sovereignty it-elf,
is. up to the present time, unaacertaiaed and foyer-
tain. The new King. declining in years, and des-
titute a i 5..., may say of the States. us Macbeth
&N or the witches—
" llpeet my head Obey Owed a fruitless crows,
" Add rot a harm were in my gripe."
In order hi remedy this extraordinary evil. a Prince
of Ileum ItsAv onvcce souse, collaterally rs laved
M the reigning Swedish Iles*, has been solemnly
100101 lo swept the Crown. on the demise of Ilia
present lIIAJESTT. CIIILISTIAN AUGUSTUS, on whom
this choice bas fallen, is only a soldier of fortune,
in the service of Denmark; his elder brother,
FREDERICK, the reigning Duke, having married
a sister of F ICI( the V Ith, and a niece of
Groans the 1I id. Nor does it yet appear that the
Prince, who is Viceroy or Governor-GG•ueral of
Norway, has given other titan a qualified accept.
ance of the dignity and kingdom thus tendered
hitu,referring hi. complete acquiescence or consent,
to the time when peace shall be re-established be-
tween the Crowns of Denmark and of Sweden.

That peace cannot, indeed, be in all probability,
tither very remote, or impeded hr any serious dif-
ficulties; but • far more arduous and painful task
for the new Swedish King, is, to obtain froiu Ruse
fie such terms as may jrave to him, and to his
people, any shadow of security or of independence.
Sweden, in 1909, presents, indeed, only the-ema-
ciated remains of departed poia cud gremlins&
Scarcely a twittery ago, in 1709, before the battle
*1 Polinen. CM4IILLI XII. possessed not only Fin-
land and Carclia, but all the rich provinces that

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Strrastsgs 26.

We have received Spanish Papers to the 7th,
and Portuguese to the 17th instant. According
to the latest accounts which they contain from the
armies, the Critish heati-quarters were at Batlajos,
and those of the Spanish army, lately under
CuEves, at 'lsmaili°. The army of the Marquis Ro-
st so •, estimated at 30.000 Mil, Waq deliertllding to
the Tagus, in the direction of Zamora and Ciudad
Realrigo. As the division of NET was posted in the
same quarter, between Salamanca and Toro, the
latee► would probably make na attempt to obstruct
Rusistrs's progress. The French, under SOULT,
had gone into cantonment, at Plasencia and Coria,
and both parties appeared to await the issue of
affairs in Germany. A Rot al Decree has been
published by the Supreme Junta at Seville, abo-
lishing certain imposts, oppressive to commerce and
manufacture. If this be intended as the com-
mencement of a system of reform, it is matter of
deep regret that it ass not adopted long ago.

Exactly, as az foresaw, the sitting. part, which
tile Cabinet Duellists and Invalids kft behind
them, %shell they ran away from their bed of roses,
has proved unproductive. A Council was held on
Saturday, at which it was determined that the coun-
try required the art-vices of Lord GRF.N VILLE and
Earl GEL Y. This opinion was communicated by the
Earl of Ely F.RFOOI. to the KING, on Saturday after.
noon; and Ilia 11,Lueicrr having most graciously ap-
proved the advice, two Messengers were sent off from
Windsor, in the evening; one to Lord Demi LLB,
in Cornwall, and the other to Earl GREY, in
Northumberland. As his Royal Highness the
Prince of WALES arrived on Friday, at Windsor,
and the Duke of YORK remained there both on
Friday end Saturday, it is supposed tbey con-
curred in advising His MAJESTY to send for
Lori) GRENVILLE and Lord Date.—. Tis this
complexion, it has been long announced, things
must come at last ; and it is quite amusing to
recollect the ridicule with which the suggestion
was treated, within these few days, by The Courier
and The Meriting Post ; both of which now ap-
platil the wisdom of the determination, and declare
theaiselves ready to forsake their old employers,
and to eater into the service of the new into.

" Eat," say these Para Ate?, " the invitation to Earl
Lord Gap vi L Lit,•is not to arrange a to-
neyt 3Lmstrv, htit to wake a coalition with the
.Ministers who have not run away."—To give weight
trolhis'iiniertion, they estimate the sitting part so left
behind; as consistin 4- of six Members, viz. Lord EL-
DON, Earl of OUTMAN, Earl BATHUitiT, Earl of LI-
VEIWOOt.. LOKI Mt: LGRAV 6, and Mr. Pcnimma L; al-
thongh, as is well known, Mr. PzacciraLtewsleredlits
resignation ; the Earl of CHATIIIM stands in a dill-a-
/Ma light ; and, in fact, Lords ELDON,
situ MUI.GRATS, are all that actually remain of the
Cabinet. We do not pretend to say that Lord Gas e•
vt Lt.e and Earl Gage may noifind some corner for
these people, et least bar ;I I i),14 most assuredly,
if they do return to office, they will form, in system
and practice, a totally new administration.

By the shutting up of Covent-Garden Theatre,
two hundred innocent British subjects, and their
families, are deprived of bread. The devtructien
of the two ‘linter Theatres had thrown the whole
theatrical corps upon the world ; but the rebuild-
ing of Covent-Garden Theatre, it was hoped,
would restore oue half of them to their former cbm-
forts. Scarcely, however, was the cup raised to
their life., when a base and selfish intrigue dashed
it to the ground—for the inquiry and report which
the Proprietors have proposed, must occupy, not
days, but weeks; and, in the mean time, Bri-
tish genius may go and starve ut leisure.—
We have already stated, owl again repeat, that the
present disgraceful and degrading humiliation of
the Theatre is the result of a miserable intrigue,
set on foot, not by the friends, but by the secret
enemies of native genius. Mr. I ng,:ani, one of
the rioters of Saturday night, was, we suppose, a
patron of native genius ; and those fellows who
assaulted Mrs. LISTON sod jlrs. DICKONS, oil
Saturday night, were all admirers and patrons of
native genius. Thaw patrons and protectors of
native genies, who, we see, are already spiriting up
the populace Of Dublin to degrade and disgrace
themselves, by shouting their doors against CATA-
LAN', will of course attend the Opera-house in the
Haymarket, and take care that Jelin Bull's money
is not wasted there upon foreigners, en muse; but
that it shall be all rest rved for native genius—
Oh ! no, the Old Tailor of the Opera-house may
fleece and cut up John Bull at his pleasure. He
may charge half-a-guinea for one of his pigeon-
holes, where the Proprietors of Covent-Garden ask
ally one shilling far similar accommodation. He
say give io,oool. to any Italian dancer and singer,
sad he will be applauded by the Fagnanis, and
ether patrons of British genius, for his liberality.
It is melancholy to see many good sod well mean.
ing people, the dupes of this base artifice, aiming
a mortal blow at native genius, while they fancy
themselves its best friends ;mad supporters.

The Amelia frigate, during her late cruise of! the
coast of Spain, took two Preach tuggers, isitoone
of which she put Mr. La CORNEY, the pilot.
and four men ; and a master's mate and the like
nuittluer of men on board the other. When 01l
Gijon, being in want of water, they tell iu with
Spanish th • pet.oide in which iiiiorin-
ed them the place was in po..session or the Sim.
niard=, which induced them to go iu ; wlrru they
were 01l captured by the .31Ctil!
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Letters received from an tfilicer of cm. of 11
regiments with Gen. Cftsurt!tits, dated Au:;.
on the frontier. of Sp:1111, that, all the
of Gen. CILAUFI,I;DIP brigade. they were order'::
suddenly to halt, and were titre hutted in a ero,
and olive grove, and well snimlied with fresh heel,
(though, by the bye, from their own exert ), us
the Portuguese, geiwrallj speaking, drove off their
cattle 011 the approach of Ceti. C.'s little urmy ;
which our soldiers, by some stray bullock. georixl-
ly fount out. That the heavy baggage was ship.
pet] on the Tagus for Liason, and that this little
compact army had been joined by the I.t battalion
of the 11th regiment. from Madeira. Au officer
end two privates of the Seth regiment of foot had
been drowned, battling in the Tagil., by the rapi-
dity of the current. General Caacreno was in
hourly expectation of being joined by Marshal
BEII6IFORD.

The Princess Elisabeth naCket arrival, on Fri-
day eveniow, nt Falninuei, in eleven days from
Lisbon. Private accounts date, th.if Lord IVEL-
LINGTON had arrived, with the British army, at
Ahnintes,sbout BO English miles from Lisbon, and
halted there.

Abets, tww•Mmdred and fifty of the 3d Regi-
ment of Guards, arrived in town, yesterday, from
Flushing.
The frigate that carried out Mr. J scatost, was
spoken with by His Majesty's ship Paosper, within
two days sail of the Cisesapeak. The Antericau
sloop of war Wasp, had sailed from France with a
Messenger.
Our Falmouth letter of Saturday, 'announced
the arrival of the Augusta, from st. Thomas's,
after having lost Capt. ST. AVIIIN, and several of
her crew, on het passage. by fever. Among the
victims to this disease were—
Mr. John Melhoish, (mate,) Hears Gandry, (gyarier,)
Haar, Williams, (cook,) Joe. Thesoas.Martau Webber, Wit-
ham Parkes, Nich. Butler, James Melhuish, W. Wastrel,
Rabert,Thomaa, and John From, mamas
The Baronets of Ireland a•nount to about 191)
only, while those of Euglainl exceed four times
that slumber. An aagtnentution is shortly to take
place, by raising to that order the heads of the fol-
lowing families;

Richardson and Brunelow, both of Arntazhalurr I.a-
fowler, of Carlow ; liageuall,liareell,Savale, of Do rtuhire ;
Laureates, of Yllkeany ; Butler, of ditto; Ford, a it.
county DOwn ; Canaan, of tiores'a County; ill, Fits.
getaltl, Vereker, he.
The Feeding packet arrived ou Friday. at Fal-
mouth. in 40 days from Jamaica. 'llse hurricane
of the hit 'August did not reach that Island ; but
one of our frigates that was cruising had beat
dis-
wasted by it.

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