The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-09-29 00:00:00

AVERICA.

" NY,W-TOll.ll. AUGUST 19.
ovn coutarsroNDLNT AT NEW oItLEANS:

"Since my last, we have little news her.. French
emigrant., mulattoes, and iregroes, continue to
pour in upon as. A few days ago, the number that
had arrived was about 3.500, of which about 1700
were negro slaves, who had been permitted to 1.411.1,
earl are delivered to their owners by the Governor's
orders. One half of the remainder nt treat are
mulattoes, and the rest chiefly privateers' men, who
have been preying on our commerce fur years.
There are 1500 more in the river ; arid, if the• (:o-
vernor is to be believed, the number expected iu
all will he about IS,OOO. Moametir I),,.fort;ue•s,
the French Consul, when some difficulty was at first
made respectiug the landing of the slaves, offered
to give the Emperor Napoleon as security to the
United States for the whole of them. A IthonAlr mat
of the planters of this colliery have no objetti iiii he
the.itnportation of slaves, and think this hairless of
emigration will afford a favourable opportunity of
importing negroes from Africa by way of Cuba,
yet they are much afraid of the Mulattoes, among
whom are many of the worst asolssins of St. Do-
mingo, who have been recognised iu our streets by
those whose friends and parents were murdered by
them, and were themselves fortunate enough to
escape from their hoods. Such, however, is the
partiality of the Administration of thus country to
foreigners and
.incobins, that almost any persons
of that description are immediately provided for,
and places of trust, honour, and profit given them
on arrival, without its being necessary far them
even to state an intention of becoming citizens.—
As a proof of this, 1 shell give you • few names of
diameters invested with the first offices, awl assure
you the subordinate ours have likewise their full
share of them."

It is reported, that ?,Ir. Enikine'A justification of
his coudnet, relative to the late arriattrisient
tweet) lona and oar Govertunrut, is in circulation
is private circles. In thug 31r. Erikuie ocksiew-
ledges his haviug exceeded his instructions, but
that be had acted up to what he the
spirit of thew ; and that he hoped ow to tnake it
appear to his Goveranieut.

THE BRITISH PRESS.
LONDON,
.% FRIDAY. gams's* 29. •

Three Gottenburgh Mails have arrived with
letters and paper, to the 13th ivatant. The
Russiariarmy contiuseil its retreat northwards iu
West Bothnia. Ou the 28th last, it reached Skel-
lefty., from whence it pursued its march to Pitts.
The next accounts will 'probably inform us of its ar-
rival at Tornea, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia.
The Stockist)lnt Gazelle states, that nothing had
transpired on the subject of the negotiation, but
it expresses a hope, that the country will be 1111011 at
peace, not only with Russia, but also with Den-
mark. Two Swedish Noblemen have been sent en
a mission to Paris, t' which considerable import-
ance is attached. They arrived at Stralsund on
the 27th.

Government yesterday received dispatches by
the packet from Gottenburgh, st.iting, that peace
has been concluded between Sweden and Russia.
The retreat of the Russians f • West -Bothnia, is
thus accounted for satisfactorily. One of the con-
ditions of the peace. as we were taught to expect,
is the exclusion of British ships from the ports of
Sweden.

The packet which arrived on Wednesday from
Gotteninirgh, has brought a report that the Aftllll
bee between Austiir and France had been put an
rind to; and a battle fought, in which the Austrians
remained masters of the Arid.

An express from Lord GRENVILLE, at his Lord-
ship's sent at Boconnoe, in Cornwall, addressed to
Earl SPENCER, was received on Wednesday, at his
Lordship's house, in St. James's-place, from whence
it was immediately forwarded to his Lordship, at
Wimbledon.

Lord GRENVILLE Lad not arrived in town at ten
o'clock hoot night, but lie way hourly expeeted, said
his servant b were in atteaultuice to receive him.

Mr. CANNING continuer in a fair way of reco-
very. lie is preparing to give up his house in
Bruton-street, and to retire into the country.

A fleet of transports has arrived in eleven days
from Lisbon, with several Officers from Viscount
Wsl.t.taorox's army. They report the following
particulars, respecting the British army under his
Lordship's conuninnt:—t• The army are hutted.
Head-tpiarters at Ilailajos SNERBROOILK.II
division extends from Lobaii .o Merida; a brigade
of German artillery is at Lobito ; a troop of horse
artillery at Merida, and also some cavalry ; Grit.
CRAUIPURD'S light brigade of infantry is nt visa
and l'ortalegre ; another division of the army is
near Campo Mayor and A Ibiniucrir ; the 400 i
garrison Ball4lNjelS, and the g7th is at 11.1,4110;i ; a park
of artillery (four brigades) is encamped near Bis-
dojos. The convalescent sick are at Elvis—the
worst cases have been sent to Lisbon; the light caval-
ry is at Villa Viciosa and the iteighbourlitsal. The
army is extremely sickly---aliont 7000 sick, wound-
ed, &c. The light cavalry IN almost dismounted ;
a remount of horses for tur lath and Ititli arrived
from England, under Major Auctutt. That fine
regiment, the tat, or Royal Dragoons, commanded
by that excelent officer, General SLADE. landed
and marched into Belem (ten days from Cork) 700
strong, in high order. Scarcely a transport iii the
Tagus, and oily the Bar.lienr and Semiramis ships
of war."

Of the Daily Prints, recently devoted to Mini-
sters, some, with Parson Trulliber at their head,
have already transferred their ditty and allegiance
to their probable successors ; *bile a few, which
fear they have made themselves ton contemptible
to expect farcur, still climz to the wreck, and nut-
ter themselves, that a plank or two may wea-
ther the storm, and attird them a chance of safety.
These are the men who cry out for coalition, and
assert that those will be deceived who expect " an
entire change of men." We do contend, that
Lord CASTLEREAGH mud 3lr. CANNING have, by
their recent conduct, disqualifir,l themselves to sit
in a British Cabinet. either now sir hereafter. The
DUIteOfPUILTLANLI is driven out by infirmity ; and
a coalition between Lords Gab/ and GRENVILLE,
and Mr. Pesci:vac. we consider impossible. Of
the rest of the Cabinet. there are none of sufficient
weight and importance to stand in the way of an
entire change of men and measures.

That Lord CASTI.EiIItATM was the original pro-
poser and author of the attempt against IValcheren
and the Scheldt, is well known to every man who
has had access to learn the real hi'tory of the last
live or six years. As early as 11404, and he
ardently and pressingly recommended the very
attempt which has now been unsuccessfully made.
It was then debuted in the Cabinet, mid abandoned
by the good sense. discernment, and superior
judgment of Mr. PITT, salon the very ground of
Waltheren being sostenable, on account of the insalu-
brity of the diusate ; bat, above all, of the seater.
It war ►tated to that Minister, by officers of the
first ability and iiitelligcnce, who were called on to
give their opinions, that, though we might probably
reduce Waleheren, we never could retain it, except
by so enormous a sacrifice of lives, as would reader

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It, an the eye of iventasity, to his titan et true
policy, too dear an sequiaitios. They expressly
represeuted, that the French would infallibly est
the sluices, end inundate all the country ; the eon.-
sequeoces of which must necessarily be the destrizts
lion of our army. by diseases of the moot inane.
mountable kind. Couviuced by them's:moos, aid
yielding to the force of these objectious. Mr. PITT
firmly resisted, and finally renounced, a measure,
which, however flattering in promise, he perceived
was calculated to produce the most calamitous
results. For the accuracy of these assertions. we
may wifely pledge ourselves to the public. Lord
CAtiTLEILEAGM will not dispute them. Mr. PITT
however, unfortunately no more; and the present
Cabinet possessed neither the sagacity, nor the
sound discrimination, which enabled the first
Minister of the day to detect the evil, and to reject
such pernicious counsel. Already the Administra-
tion is lalsourim„T under the consequences of their
own incapacity and error, in sending au armament
to the opposite coast, which has not effected the
only object of rational contemplation, and hes pre-
cisely achieved a conquest, which can be injurious
only to ourselves. They tremble to retain, and are
still more afraid to evacuate, an island, which, they
well know, ought never to have been invaded. It
was not Flushing and Middleburg. but the Corsi-
can's fleet, mid dock-yards, and magazines, in the
Scheldt, which should have constituted the sole
object of Lord ell ATH Ale. enterprise.

The Ministerial papers, conscious that the failure
of the lute Expediti to the Scheldt, must neces-
sarily produce an inquiry into the causes that pre-
vented its success, and aware that culpability
must rest somewhere, appear to be most anxious to
clear Lord CASTLERCAGS from any other blame,
or responsibility, except that portion of it which
must full to his share, as a .Member of the Ad-
ministration. They attempt to support this doc-
trine, or assertion, by asking, 4. Was Lord CASTLE
SIKAGD to blame, inure than Mr. Cametea, or any
other Member of the Cabinet? Was not the Expe-
dition, the Expedition of the whole Cabinet ? Was
it not arranged, discussed, and settled, at meetings
of the Cabinet? Could it have been carried into
execution, had it not received the approbation
of the Cabinet?" These truisms, nevertheless,
though theoretically indisputable, are, in fact, and
in practice, altogether dour away. Every Minister
of State is peculiarly mad indiridually responsible,
or accountable, for the acts done by his order, and
authenticated by his signature, as the heed of a
particular departineot. We consider that principle
to be law. That the other confidential servants of
the Crown are made siequainted with, and that the
majority of tlicni agree to, or approve, of the mea-
sure, we admit. But this positive, or virtual parti-
eipatiou, by no meal's renikrs them as much the
authors and framers of it, as the Secretary of State,
in whinii! office it originates, imil through which it
moist of necessity pass. Time British Constitution
knows and reengiiir•s no Fisch word, or body, as
A Cabinet. It admits Ministers and Pricy Corm-
; out of whom Ilia :114111sTY linty select, for
ties confidential servants, any number that lie
chooses, greater or smaller. But an Cabinet was
ever yet impeached as such; thougli the separate
members posing it might all be liable to
impeachment and prosecution for their separate
arts. lf, after stating the matter, as we con-
ceive, in a legal point of view, we reduce it
to the standard of common sense, and of r;glit
reu b ; surely no use rim suppose, that Lord C•Ii•
DEN, or Lord IFLSTMOSLAND, that the President
or Privy Seal, who form rather the ormimelit mill
decoration, than the esseuce and substance of the
Cabinet; men who, perhaps, never assisted at the
deliberation, our were possibly present at the adop-
tion of the very measure in question, the expedition
to Zealand: No our mi, without a sort of injustice,
attribute to such negative agents, the seine degree
of affirmative blame, us attaches to the Secretary
for the War Departitimit. Let us go a step fur-
ther. Undoubtedly, the First Lord of die Trea-
sury, whom we very often, by error, denominate
First Minister, ought to have no active partici-
pation in every measure, domestic or forei4ii ; be-
cause the Treasury, over which lie peculiarly pre-
sides, constitutes the life-blood of the state ;
and it is for this reason that the badge of the Lord
Treasurer is a shaft'; vhile the Secretaries of State,
the Chancellor, mill other ministerial officers, have
only seals, or patents, to distinguish them. Butt
the British Constitution, in point of fact, no more
knows the office of tarsi .Minister, than it does the
existence of a politieal board, denominated A Ca..
bind. These err merely names, affected in mimic-it
nines, to certain meta or measures of the Privy
Council.

That, at certain periods, certain individuals con-
centred in themselves that whole energies of the
government, to a great degree, and consequently
might be justly regarded as entitled to the exclu-
sive praise or blame of many measures, is true.
The first Mr. pier directed the whole innchine. as
Seeretary of State. in 17.59 and 1760. Su he did.
as Lord Privy Seal, fur a short time, in 1766. flas
sou, the late Mr. fire, during every part of his
administration, frum 1,04 to lstul ; and again,
when hr came a secnnd time into office', as First
Lord piths Treasury, and Chaucellor of the La-
ckey:ter, its 1804, assumed, from the vigour of his
solutl, the opteudoue of Isis abibtr, and the activity

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of his ezedimes. • propmilersting iiiitserreo.
war esteemed and considered II the rittiuss o.
Minister ; sad with reeseal though. in strict lay
and fact, no such office doss exist. But what anal
logy, what compariaoa can there be made betweeri
the late Premier and Mr. PITT f None, ex.
cept a name. The Duke of PORTLANIbt as being
a Peer, could not be planed at the head of the Ex-
chequer. though be was First Lord of the Treasury.
And, neither his capacity, •.r his state of bodily
health, allowed him tea/name a preponderating, or
a domineering weight. From this very circuiii;,
stance has originated the calamity strider which we
labour. The debility of that office, which shotild
contrail, coerce, and, if we may ism the ixpres.
sion, retain in their official orbits, the Wavier mem-
bers of the system, has allowed a fatal sod perM:
cious latitude to the Secretary fur the Afar De.
pertinent ; and not less, perhaps, to the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs. They became indepeudent,
each iu his own sphere, and they base li:tidied, by
going out to cut each other's throat

Whether Lord CUATUAII is more culpable for
the non-execution, than the Minister is for the de-
fective, confused, or impracticable plan of the ex-
peditiou, forms quite another question, and can
only be fully ascertained by an inquiry. That the
late Commander of the armament which was seat
to Zealand, conceives Wilma to have fully ex,.
cuted all the practicable objects of it, we kilo*.
Perhaps, the country may be of • very different
opinion, and WI insy a Court-martial. But, that
the Ministers who employed kin,, consider hint to
be without blame, is clear; since, if they thought
hint culpable, dilatory, or to have, by irresolu-
tion and procrastination, let slip the favourable
opportunity of attacking the enemy's Meet, they
never could have allowed him to be presented to
His MAJESTY at the levee. As far, therefore, as
they can decide the question, they have already.
done so, by their conduct, and pronounced him to
be blameless. But, both he and they, whatever
sentence they may pass on themselves, must hold
up their hands at the bar of their country. The
period of their trial, though it may not take place.
like Lord Nlxt.etxxes, in Westminster-hall, can-
not be very remote. Let Lord CASTLES/L/14`
look to it.

A mail from Malta and Gibraltar arrived yciter.
tenthly. The !utters from Malta are of the iltth
August; from Gibraltar of the toth int,t. The lat.
ter contain nothing important. The followitig is
an extract of a letter from Malta—

" ?SALTA, AVIS. IS.
" I have only time to tell you, that we yesterday received
letters from Fiume of the 5111 instant, dawn to which date the
French had not made their appearance, our were they expect-
ed The Armistice 111111 to expire oil the tall. , and it was `e-
'frilly bcluvcd, that hostilities would recommence, r im-
mense levies h.d been directed to be made, iaclerliag all
ISICII capible of bearing arias, up to the age of 45. It 4
added, that the saute measures base bees adopted tbroq►oat
France and Ita4."

Tisza Parliament will' meet in the month of No.
veinher, and at Cu early period of it, there
can remain little doubt, as the pecuniary ember-
rassnients produced by the enormous P.expenwes of
the expedition to the Scheldt, and the WELLS*.
LEY campaigns iii Portugal and Spain, hare pro-
duced a necessity fur new grants of money. All
those also, Crum *hottest., cuttor, are in any con-
nection or relut;on with the Exchequer, elm fun.
'willful proofs of the exhausture in that de-
partment. Such a deficiency alone would, iiiderd,
induce, or radii r compel, IFS MAJZIEVeII Minis-
ters to ssnemitte Path:mew, as they fully foresee,
and greatly deprecate, the account to which they
will then be called.

Wednesday morning. soma of the Gentlemen inte-
nt Aterl in the Foreign mole, waited upon the Coun-
cil Board, in order to know whether Government
would allow any more Encases for vessels to clear
for French and Mitch ports. The answer returned
war, that Licenses would he granted for three
1111 l nth% from Thiarsilny„ permitting the exportation
of British nuinalortured goods and &Aid) colonial
produce, and that tlar ves.s..ls would be allowed to
11111101 rt earn and bar atones.

On Monday ho.t two of the Messengera• belong-
ing to the Oilier of the CNAYCCI.LOR of the Ex-
t.:WA/13tCR. Nle:nr:,. 'rums La and Nl.GitArit, were
sent ott in great toast.. and IWlrrlfey WWI letters, one
to the North, the other to the West. Whether they
ware the hearers of further communications to Earl
( ;act and Lord (iRF.N VI LEE. we know not. These
Alesibengersivere iinmediately on the con-
eliimon of nit audience which the Earl of LIVEUPOOL
Ntr. likatsvvi. hull on the PIVIIe silty With MO
NI .t.ms ry, and which was of very considerable dare-
tiiiii.—(4l/ortiirst Herald.)
'We hear that the profits of Covent-Garden Thea-
tre turn out, on a more to investigation by
the Treasurer, to he about mix-and-a-quarter per
cent, ; a dreadful Wittig off from what the public
thought the value of the concern.

Monday, the electiou of Magistrates and other
Municipal Officers of Bath, for tlie ensuing year,.
took place at the Guildhall, as follows:

John Palmer, Eaq. Mayor. •
H Parry, Fag John Hodes, Earl. Was Anderilon,
R. Hariagtuts, 11.1). Job,' Symons, 1.:119. Ch.rlea PLilh. t,
Esq. Harry Atwoo.l, Erg Su W. Watwu, Just.rra.
Henry Wailers, Eaq fhaminrlain.

G. S 'Crook, E.q. 4rarce I r, Esq She' iffs.
W. J. W. Taylor, Esq. Joseph Spry, Esq. Constahles.
Tiir Body Corporate, Clergy, and a select party
of friend•, were sumptuously enterteMed by the
MAYOR elect, at th.! White-Bari, where the erns.
triviality of the eve ii iss g was kept up till a late
hour.

The new Sheriffs, Al.lermen ATISINS Om! Wow,.
were yesterday sworn into otnce, at Cui:dhall, in
the usual rureu.

On Friday, as Lieut.-Coloucl BELL, of Berwick.
was ',hooting on the Loyshoug'hi, near that place,
with a double-barreled gun. haring fi,ed at a bird.
owl loading again, the other barrel, which was
charged. went off, and lodged tlnk touts's:* tat his
body be espirttl souls after.

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kc. in Downing-street, without reserve,Alse
ing horses, the property of certain Cleolensen,
going out of office :
Premier, a dark Are), home, aged. He is the
only horse of Dutch pedigree, of any note, in the
annals of the British toil. lie formerly ran, under
the tome of Pottbilyl, for the Whig Stakes, and
was theft thought a horse or some bottom, although
of very poor perfortuant:e. Being now quite broken
down, he hiss hien used for some time, merely for
/hew, in the state Cartarldil that drives weekly be-
tween Dowtoni4-st met mid Buckingham-House.
.4ibuirai, formerly a troop horse, but lately used
us the leaner of the team to the British Neptune's
en% He is but a sorry sort of an animal, and has
an habit of going round and round, as if he had
boils accustomed to turn a mill. A eat and dog's-
meat Irian, however, who was in distress, might
think liiin worth his attention.—To be seen at the
stable in the Admiralty.
Chancellor, a dark hr..wn horses Sometime, be ia
a Stott; others, that he was bred at Ithmenutle.:..
When a colt, he was reckoned good at a Bar leap;
cud on the Chancery Course not a bad misuee,—
He wan, however, 'lever well upon his haunches,
and dishes confoundedly.
Duellist, a hrown colt, bred in the North of Ire-
limn. Ile is cat-hummed, goose-romped, and ewe-
necked. Yet, with all the-e &lick of shape, he
was a horse of considerable performance, and excel-
lent wind. He won the l7ii on Cup tit Ireland; but
in running lately for the Walcheren and Madrid
Stakes, he broke down most miserably. He can
never be entered for a King's Plate again ; and, fur
many reasons, he will nut answer for breeding. BA
as a hack, to rim iu a chaise, or the like, he is still
of some value.
President, a hay horse, aged, dam by chief shiw
gee, grand-dam Patriot, great grand-dam by
Liberty, out of a Wilderness mare. His sire was
the famous Camden, aho won the Magna Charts
stakes, distancing 17 others. President is a strong
bony punch of • horse, in good condition, very
steady and quiet in liminess, but a dun mover. For
the plough, the curt, the dray, or the team, he
will be found serviceable, as he is sound is limb,
Isis constitution is good, and there is a good deal
.f hard meat in his belly.
Squib, a bay horse, originally toed in a gig, or as
• imlfrey or pleasure-horse, by the late Mr. Pitt,
who bred him. He is, however, by no means safe,
as Ise is skittish, and as fidgetty as a colt fresh
Jfkred.—lu 1808, he was matched for the Commer-
cial Stakes, against the rumour American horse Pre-
sident, rode by Jefferson. most the Jockey Club at
Lloyd's pronounced it as dead heat.—lt ia, however,
now well known, that there was a great deal of CM..
sing and jostling on the part of Squib, end that Pre-
eideut had the advantage by a full head. Ina late
snatch ow Putney Heath, against Duellist, he receiv-
ed a hart in one of his quarters, iii consequence of
which be was drawn, and, it in supposed, he never
will be fit to cutter the lists agate. We know
nothing of his stock, either dam or sire. We have
examined the Racing Calendar, but can find no
trace of his pedigree.

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