The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-03-13 00:00:00

On the first, for minding arniv,d or unarmed ships
or vessels belonging to great Britain, from the
ports of the United States, the noes were 92 to
22.—Fur excluding those of France, 97 to, 9.4.
. And for e4cluding the mannfacturesimported from
any place in the posse lion of either power, $3 to
W. The division having been taken on the whole,
it was carried by SI lo SO. Another Resolution,
referred to the wine Committee, for immediately
placing the country in a more cun•plete state of
defence, was carried unanimoitily.
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The noose of Representatives, on the 90th of
December, received the Report of their Commit-
tee, for raising 50,001) Volunteers, ald ordered a
Bill on the occasion. after *owe opposition from the
Federal 3lembers, who considered that the raising
of this force war for the purpose of war.
The Embargo continues to be strenuously op-
, posed in different parts of America. Deputations
from Vermont, and other states, have waitonai the
PLIF.SIDENT. praying some relaxation of that inju-
rious measure, but without effect. It is, however,
supposed, that it will he modified. The New York
Gazette, of the .sth January, says—" A Gentle-
man arrived at Boston, from NVashiagton, heard
Mr. GALLATIN, Secretary to the Treasury, say,
" the Embargo must come off before Congress
rises, as commerce is the only support of the Trea-
sury." The Journal of the 6th observes, that
" General SUM', who was among the wannest
advocates for the Embargo, had, ueler that Ac!,
mule four hundred thousand

A report prevailed on Saturday, that Austria
has demanded of England a loan of six millions of
money,aud an auxiliary force of 60,000 men, to en-
able her to carry on war against France. if there be
any truth iii this Statement, it will shew, as the fact
is, that Franee, not Austria, is the aggressor. Hail
Austria meditated a renewal of brsstilities, she would
have prepared the necessary means, and not waited
until the sword was drawn against her to so!Wit our
us-tstance. We can state, upon good authority,
Clint %dile BONAPARTZWai prosecuting the war in
Spain, he never, fur a moment, last sight of Ana-
tiia ; and that he retained a furmitlable force to
be employed as opportunity should otter in Ger-
maay, at the very time when the London Minis-
terial prints assured their readers that all the
troops which he could eninamisrl were collected
111 the Spanish. PetinidUla. ihni it will be said Bo-
WAPALTE left his work in Spain incomplete. and
this is evidence that he was taken by surprise, and
was called away by an unexpected luuvenient nn
the part of Austria. This aremment is illusory.
If ItuNAP►RTE bus l.•ft Lis tours in Spain incom-
plete, it to because he is persuaded that be has
given a decisive turn to its fate, and that his pre-
sence is no longer necessary to finish the basilic's.

Neither the apparently imminent war bete:ren
Austria and NAPOI.LON, tliatigli iL 'nay, by possi-
bility, ellauge the face of Europe ; nor the peace
recently signed between Great-Britain and the Ot-
toman Porte, which, if it continue permanent, will
open new prospects of the most important descrip-
tion; nor the changes speculated upon, as nut im-
probable, in lirissia, Saxony, and Yru..ia ; not- the
rumoured fall of Saragossa, which, it true, we can
never suffieirutly deplore ; nor the refusal of the
Similar& to admit our troops into Cadiz,— none
of tite,e moistentotts and interesting events, on

which ise lately fixed all our attention, any longer
attract our primary anxiety and consideration. A
domestic transaction has swallowed tip every fo-
reign object; and Box APaate hinniell; though lie
overhangs Spain and Austria ut the .same moment,
like a dash cloud, is lost and forgotten in the Duke
of Inat. We are not astonished at this fact.
Sitter time Accession ol• the noose of Hanover,
no domestic incident, or rather calamity, for
such it tiny too justly be deilmninated, has
taken ',lace in the bosom of the Royal Family, at
once MI painful and so awful ! Its ramifications
extend far beyond our power of calculation. !Its
NI 4J LSTIf '!‘ illness, iu 17sk, severely as it was felt
through this country, had nevertheless its consola-
tions, drawn Irons siakasisaion to the dispensatious

of Provi.lence; and his recovery diffused a general
jay,.cnininensurate to oar preceding distress. But
the present subject of attention offers no soda ullc-
vistimis. It is humiliating in its nature, and every
viay 'Missions ia its consequences. Parliament, by
not inig:cally confining their inquiries relative
to it, %%lan,' their is..n aulls; by es:sunning evi-
dence at tile Bar of the lionise of Commons, in-
stead of referring it to a Committee ; have given
it a notoriety and a publicity, a hurt' it other-
ave never mould have attained. They have
in fait wade 1.11,.! ha • and time consinunity
at large, an efficient party, as Jades and
Jurors, in the transaction. Those, indeed, who
riiiisider either one or the other [louse of Parlia-
ment, us the ultimate Tribunal befiire a hieh the
1J Ike of 1 URIC/ ease will be tried, have taken, in
ow opium:., a most erroneous and contracted
view of chi.' Ile is flow up his hand,
at the her of the English Peopk, and by their sen-
tence, still more than by a vote, or by a tnajonty,
he must stand or fall.
This is ao Jscobinical Conspiracy, originating in
sedition, or io democracy, and fumed by the
agents of a Corsican Csurper, the scourge of the
civi:ited earth, who exates fur wore abhorrence

by his crimes, than lie awakens admiration by his
victories. It originutes hi no disaffection to the
reigning Sovereign, or to his august House. We
do not think so ill of Mr. Wanotr, as to believe
that he is either the accomplice of Mn Caaaae's
revenge, or the tool of incendiaries and levellers.
As little do we believe that men of minds so ele-
vated as Mr. Warren:Au, or of intentions so up-
right ai Lord FOLKSTONE and Mr. Ilearees, would
lead themselves to subvert the fabric of the British
C'enstitutimi. It is, alas! the Duke of YORE him-
self, and hie conduct, it is Ili, injudiciona advisers,
ministerial, and others, who have snowed
liiin to precipitate himself into his present most
unfortunate situation. Who was the adviser of that
most weak and ill-conceived lettt r, sent in his
Royal 11:gliticss'ena me to the House of Commons ?
Nothing so imprudent has been thane, or vire at-
tempted, towards that bri.tieli of the Legislature,
siiice the fatal measure of Clain Les the hest, in
eieleavouring to seize mi the live Members in
1641. •
IVe do not pretend to say that Mr. Nutt:var.
dictated it, but he has, certainly adopted and
approved it, by converting it iuto his proposed
Address. Mr. BARNES, in his excellent !speech,
most truly observed upon this subject, that ass Ad-
dress to His MAJESTY was commouly un reho of his
speech, but that it would betray a degree of adu-
lation revolting to a free people, to adopt an address
which should he a mere echo of a Duke of Yuiti.'s
letter to the House of Commons. To demand a
trial was fair and wanly, and so far we must ap-
prove the letter ; but the grounds on which the
demanded request was made, and the conditions
with which it was accompanied, we must coutletain.
In these time*, Princes cannot stabetitute as-
!walnuc in place of facts, nor hope to artest the pro-
gress of legislative deliberations and inquiries, by
protestations of ignorance and innocence. They must
stand or fall in the public estitnation, by their actions.
Yesterday sun =MTV, Princesses
SOPHIA and AMELIA, accompanied by Linty
THYNNE, and Gelb.. MANNERS and Fl rzuev, rode
to gt. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon preach-
ed by the Rev. Mr. Noternev, from i
mans, S chap. 17 verse—" Pray, without ceasing."
They afterwards returned to the palace.
Friday morning, His Materre, Princesses Au-
nt/17A. SOPHIA, mid AMELIA, accompanied by
Lady ELI, General FITZROY, and Colonel TAY-
LOR, rode in Windsor Great Park till 12 o'clock,
cad then returned to the Palace.
The QUEEN and Princess ELIZARET:I toot an
airiug to Frogmore.
General CAMPIELL, who has been appointed a
©roan Of His IMIAJLYTY'S Bodechernber, in the
tocien of MR•BULRELEY, was, some years stoke,.
one rif His Meet:area Equerries. IIesMAJESTY
OftpOilited him without ass application, mid a let-
ter, announcing his appointment, has been sent
to she Geuerel, abroad.
The Duke of Vogue held a public day at his
office, in the Horse (;.surds, on Friday, arid
gave audiences to a number of militery officers.
About nes an o'clock Oil Saturtley looming, His
Royal Ili:times, left town for Wiselsor, upon busi-
ness with Ilia MAJESTY, and, in the evening, re-
turned to !melon, and had It select party to dinner,
at his house, in the Stable-yard.
Intelligence from St. Petertiburgh to the sth ult.
has Lela received. A change ails shortly expected
to take place in the Rusalan Ministry. Celia
Soartirore, also had listen alinistar for the Fo-
reign Departuient for a few weeks after the peace
of Tilsit, and who held the PortVeuillc of Count
Itostastaomr, during the absence of the latter at
Erfurth and Paris, was about to resume his former
situation. Roataeaore was wholly devoted to
BON APARTE.
That brave and valuable offieer, Capt. Canna,
who (detained his promotion by a aeries of gallaid
conduct in the Gut of Gibralter, is appointed to
the Leyders;alf 04 genet, which is to lie iis the Belt,
for the protection of the trade to the Baltic, against
the Danish guu boats. Capt. Usiinen is to have
a squadron of small vessels under Isis orders.
His Excellency Doil JUAN REIS DE APODACA,
.tothas,a(lor and Moister Plenipotentiary from His
Catholic Majesty Fettote IND VII. has beets pleaa-
eil to constitute and GHOR6E Pitman,
Esti. Vice-Coosa! of Spain cud the Rlies, tot the
port of Portsmouth and its vicinity.
His MAJESTY has beets most graciously pleased
to grant his permission to the five companies of the
Royal Corsican Rangers, which composed part of
the force employed under the order, of Lieutenant-
General Sir JOHN gTUART, on the 4th ink, 1806,
to bear oil their appointments (in addition to eel
other badges or devices to which the regiment may
be entitled) the word •• Made," as an honourable
and lasting testimony of the dirtingnialied gallantry
displayed by those companies, to common with
certain other corps of the British mny, in the as.
tion fought on the Plains of Maida, in Calabria.
on the day above ineistioneol.
Lord AMHERST. Ambassador to the King Of
NAPLES, Lady AMMERST and family, are urrited at
Portsmouth, to take their passage in the Tortoise,
to Sicily.
We ere requested, by a Naval Officer, whose
mind ha, beets hurt by the eiremilatance, to state,
that the Monument bade erected on Poritelown-
Hill, to the 'urinary of Lend Neesoe, has been
much defaced, by some weak mischievous persons—
in the hope that it will meet the eye of the Officers
deputed by the Trafulear Fleet to see the bunts
properly completed. and that they will cause u rail-
ing to be put-towel it.
A letter from Captain Cer.vca ten. of the ship
'Cieernor Itottareell,.Lited Stith Devember,
legates, that it was straggly reported that the Vulture
land the Scorpion, from London, for the South Seas,
were caatmed by the Spaniards, round Cape Horn,
and the Captain and several of the crew of the latter
ship, killed.
The Neptnne, Samar, from the Clyde. for the
South Seas. was all well on the coast of Peru. on
the 10th July last.