The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-16 00:00:00

TH BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
'TUESDAY. JANUARY 16.

.
The official dispatches, containing au accoetut of
the capture of •be kill and tekrn of St. Paul, with
the shipping in the Isle of Bourbon, will. we (maw-
stand. be published in this teeming's Ga:ette.—lt
appears that. early iu the morning of the gift.
about 350 of our brave soldiers, slid 200 of our
Royal Mariner, were landed before day-brealt,ind
ste,t, carried three of'the forte. The squattest went
in, and tired their broadsides, and then hauled out
The Sirius frigate, Capt. Pali, stood in again, and,
anxious to take advantage of the (silty opportunity
hat presented itself to 14vigilant eye,
.he
leave. and was permitted, by sigual•from the Com-
' mulore. to abchor--and aeCordingly; in the most
gallant style, carried his little ship in: and placed
her within pistol shot of the beach, and half musket
.hi't of the Cardiac French frigate, the two'Emt-
li.diamen, and the•Grappter French brig of war;
and opened so heavy • tire upon theth. that, in 40
minuets, (the troops et the same tune charging
through the town), the whole struck their colours.
Both army and navy join in praise of this bril-
liant enterprise; declaring they had never seen or
thought it potvi ble fora ship to keep up so tremen-
dous a fire as the Shins exhibited ou that occasion :
and we iinder,tined it was. princivally owing to the
very great exertlobs if Capteia PIM, his Officers,
and crew, that the two lodiainen were waved from
being hurnt ; or th.tt any of the stores and goods
from the shore sera taken off aad put on board tile
Sierra/tors.
•

The following werillisiships Bud vessels taken=

CUM. TOW.

Caroller, Frearl. Gigot', about 11 years old .... ati toCO
Streatbum, lodla Company'. @bop .... 10 811
Earopa. ditto, ditto
.919
Grappler, Forst h brig, ooppoted I. . 180.
LS Foamy, ditto. ditto •• • 1 140
Tires Vi rod., din*, ditto So
t •
Gipary, AllleflC3ll brig

We give, this des, at leArls, the French Decree,
or Commercial Henn:anon; with respect to imports
and exports In and him Fritice and her dependen-
cies as published in the Dutch Papers to the 10th
lenient. containing the Paris news to the sth. It
will be seen, as we stated. more clearly from this
document, that its great ohject is to establish •
system friendly to France, Holland, and America..
and more injurious to Englatel than the present
ender of things. The Berlin and Milan Decrees
bad reduced the corn and wine growers of France
to the greatest distress. as ;hey had uo foreign sale
for their commodities; of cause, their granaries
sod their cellars must be onerstuclied„ or they
mast cease to grow these articles; and, in either
case, ruin was the inevitable consequence. The
present Decree is obviously intended as a mean to
prevent this crisis, and we beliefs it is one • hich
Ministers, in the plentitude of their wisdom, have.
unintentionally we admit, encouraged. Whether
any apprehension of a scarcity of grain in our own
country has induced them to permit the 'imports.
tissue that of France. recently so freely imported.
we know not ; nor whether, in realty, anew at.
our manufactures and colonial produce Wee been
admitted into France, by connivanci,ia return.—
But if the state of grain at home would at all
allow it, we shmild ',slit the introduction of that
of France, as a most powtrfiel means of distress-
ing the enemy; we fear it is too certainly proved,
by the disappearance of specie from circulation,
that French corn bias been paid fur, not by English,
manufactures and colonial produce, but by Eng-
lish goitteas--smr 'urine circulation being this,
distressed. mad our paper currency endangered,
to brackt French fanners and landholdern.--
Amoug ether prop..sed inquiries, in the ensuing
Session of Parliament, we trait. that this settij.-ct,
• sad thealsiro.t entire disappearance of specie from
erre...Wiese. will receive early siosite.—lt is sub.
ins of the highest importance to the guardians of
the politer puree. It is believed that snuck of our
gold cuss has lately be. n drawn ago France, by
vessels coming with gain and other conmendities,
which bare refused to take colonial produce or

Stitish manufactures le rtitatii,,lectibiog all II
Went otherwise then by specie.

la conseqaencis of the Frecch Decree, a pqt
nunaher
of vow's hove, witkilethere three,:
erriveil at different ports of this kingdom with LP,
batter, cheese, and other articles, all of which
be paid For in specie, as the partial cannot rim
British or colonial produce or unwurocture, is%
change, except a few.raw *elides, of the first st,.
shy.

We have received Spai isle Papers to the 3
last, and Lisbon Gigots.s to the 7th inst. T
accounts from Banjos. in these papers, are to Ng
31st. and give a much more favourable view of
affairs of Spain than we had reason to.expett.
French have riot area able to follow trp the victory
Ocuna. Some ineffectual manoeuvres, with met
to stsrronscl the defeated liftlly% end some u
cessful skirmishes. are the whole of the *perste.,
which they have attempted in that router, so,
that event. On the other hand, bon Ptssa
ECUATARILI has succeeded AsAssus io the res.
mead of all the Sprints/1 troops is the pr, tort
of Cuenca. shich were in high spirits. and 044
receiving re:l:forcemeat* end rn;bplies. Mean twat
the F.rencb, after adv.ucilig south to ttre

den of the Sierra Morena, have stopped Mria,
and commented their retreat, wuile their trot%
which bad adrauced on the side of Portugal,
Almarez and Ascebispo, have abandoned
positions sud were falling hack, in the direetiobil
Iludrid. But it is not merely on theSoutlee;,,,,„4
Western sides we see the tide tii the F r.rr.h any
upon the ebb. King ,lustre, it was said, wary
set out, early in the present minith, for 3ladrs,
with 111,000 men, mid to march aorthair dis tie
d.recpou or the French frontier. But eve, tk4
route was not perfectly free and open to his,.
The fire of iusurrection spreads over the Noah d
the Peninsula. A corps of patriots, posted at l; aalr
rams; had set at liberty the tint division of the po.
sorters tabesi in the battle of Ocoee, who rim
on their way to Frillier. The: Duke Dot, PAW
was, ea the 24th last, near Peraks LA sp.
• peared to be directing his Tatateh towards Estre•
rondos; to imstperate with the Duke of Aut-
omations. - Thus all the Swinish armies atipearts
be on the advance, while those of the Freud' .en
• ori their retreat; but this retreat,-however true, a
only preinliptive evideuee of weakness or
lity to advance. They may wish to retire from ti,l
districts, exhausted by the leog-contioard preselect
of cuntendiug armies, and to fall lick upon Mint
own supplies, hoping to draw the Spaniard, arts
them, to a ground where they may be attacked sin
more advantage.
The British bead-quarters were. oo the Viet
at Coimbra.'

Oue of the Portuguese Papas contain's*
instrument, giving ut the name of Pope Pns 111.
a detailed account of the peocisedaisgs of ilie Freiki
in the Papal territory, and entitled "
Letters:" in form of a brief, by which the autii,ns,
executois, and abettor, of the asuilasiiaa of us
state of Knew, aed other states appertain:nig is tat
Hely See, are declared excommunicated.

Brandy fell yesterday sispeace a gallon. in ern-
sequence dl•the supplies already received, sod tLa
expected freak faiace arid
,liellarrd, ander the ace
regUlations. •

A private letter, dated Gentosiburgit. JAIL !,ears
—" I am sorry to inform you I much fear ibe
time is fast approaching when we 4411 be yam
*hut out from all intarcoarse with England. 'fne
other day an officer arrived here, who called hinuel
a Lieutenant• Colonel in the Dutch serrict, bet be
is straggly suspected of being a French officer of
high rank. to WC the ports dually dom.,. Great
preparations Are making here to receive the Puy:6
of AUOUITIKBURth who now takes the title Of
Crown Prince of Sweden ; he is expected here 'he
gth lust. A great many of the Baltic Beet are pat
beg k to Carlscraaa and other ports, being duns*, di
the remaining pan of the fleet is arrived here, a.. 4
will sail the first wind for England. The II
sloop of war. Capt. CRISPIN. is game with a as,:
truce front Gottenburgh to Norway, with
-prisoners of war."
Accrordiag to the Dutch Papers, the exiled Gta
?ATVS ADOLPIIVS and his family proceed (no
Stralsund, where they lately lauded from Fla ev
to Baden, in Saitzerland. and not to till,. '3
Germany, which city previous reports ussigued
their future residence. •
The Earl of Hsatiownit sod Mr. PfllC:Vit
had a loon walk, yesterday, in St.l.lnes'rel'Ark.
Lord flota..suo and Mr. Tasainzt had a ,y 1;
conversation yesterday.
Capt. lloicoisit's company of Itnyll Ar•
tillery have nearched into the barrat Ire st P,:—
mouth. vacated by Capt. Ouzo's couipal”, ".
barked for Portugal.
The Inverness regiment of Mil n is si.rie.••!!!
doithe duty jointly with the artillery of t'a• h• -6
German Legion, aver- the French pilioneis, a:••••
they occupy Porchester Castle.

Lpst liorning. the first-battalion of 51
ginoent. lately rett♦rocd from %Val, hem. Pt
Irani barrack•. for H4otioev, theee

coain.—The Ita battalizi es still at .Silerh

rr.ekv.

The 77th regiment began their march lir'
ing from Chit heats* harrat k., for those of Ii

The sth foot, from Walcheren, ha‘' 'e
into Sestiiii barracks. The 14th foot lot u 'I
la Stry tong bterrat ks. - . t

. ,
Froday, Samuel Birds-. of the Impla«.i
inotllll, IN of snare:ow-a to TeCtiVt Vtito

o,urt:Motuel, larld .ou Word the Sat.*.

elltft aud desertiou.