The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-11-05 00:00:00

TILE DOWNFALL OF MINISTERS.

Mies beggars die, dierdiereee comets seed.
iide.daitr.ddr..--liens!
Id an ogee of the world, the human race have
put MOTO Of lee* faith its einem i and though, in

our timer—tittles it tnay Ire inverted, of presumir
non awl ocepticiasu—ne do not go to the onnse

*steed of belief in portents mid jorognobticationv
that the ancients dill, who divined by the flight of

mar, and augured from the guts derives ; yetb
ou a reference to that tnost authentic source of

pretktion.Nloort's Alosausek,•fid an sttentite ex-

ammatiou of the mysteries of fortune-telling, as
practised by him:rant gypsies in the country,

sad settled conjurors in the Metropolis, we must
be ready to confess, that the Fates do, even to ibis

day, asinetinies give little hints and intimations be-
fore-hand of what they are abo.it....Many of thew
indications of what is to come to pus doubtless
escape our observation, as it is not upon every °c-
aption that Scotsmen and Edinburgh Reviewers
(who are the only mortals acitnowledged to be legi-
_

timately pemessed of the second sight) are inclin-
ed te exercise their faculties, and enlighten the
iberkling world. but some are 3o very• obvious
that every man who runs may read, and they require
merely to he noticed to be understood. of
this description is the direful prognostic which por-
tends the cal:unity under the head of which

thew tiuservistions are written. On a dismal

'sight of the last week of the utility month
of October, ■nd on a dreary blasted heath,

were the tun Chief Ministers of the British

Empire overthrown.—O! where are thy Lachry-
male, Brit& iiii is pails will sin!—then weep
them full—empty them, awl fill them again
with the tears, while it is told unto Thee, that thy
Lord Chancellor, and thy Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and First Lord of the Treasury (two great
offices in one little person), were, upon Hounslow-
Heath. on their return from Regal Windsor, tum-
bled from their carriage, and thrown into the mud !
—0 ! where were thy goaWlien angels when this
shocking mac rimhe took place ?—They must mealy
have beets busy cn some other spot, and looking
after the safety of some other persona; else never
could they have suffered thy chiefest Ornaments
and ino.t mighty Directors to be so uncerestiohieue-
ly filthifiad and bedraggled !
flat what Las the accident in itself to the fearful
forehodinie pith which, as an omen, it must till
euey ! The coachmen's reins fulling from
his trembling hands—the wheels of the vehicle
stopping-show like the wheels of en Adininistra•
tints statidiug still ! The springs breaking—how
like the failure of the Cumberland springs on
which the state machine is hung ! The pole
snapping---hew like the (Wellesley) Pole giving
say ! The whole overturning !—how like a com-
plete smash and downfall of Minister, ! —No won-
der that the !shock struck their tip/tolled senses with
dismay and terror ; and that they should, Ike Rid-
tabs:gar of old, apply to every probable source to
have the sign explained, and their fears either con-
firmed or dispelled. In this dilemma, there being
now no Daniels, or Soothsayers, or Magicians ; and,
iudeed, very few Witemen or Conju. ors, to whom
they could have recourse ; they were fain to
consult with the Cunning Men, and therefore im-
mediately called a Culotta Council. But hence,
after much witchcraft, sorcery. and incantation.
they were ulitiged to t!apart as i4ooraot ati whets
they entered the mystic chamber ; fur they Gwrul
that the more they stirred in the mysterious caul-
dron. they were the more
Double, To:I and Trouble !

Compelled therefore to wait the natural issue
sod result of the nnlios (,retold by the Hounslow.
heath simiti sunk and countenances
wee.begotie, they s'ite the same in fearful roper-

trifles. Well 110 th .y know that no magic arts can
now •rail them—•w•li do ti.ey kn„x• that they can
raise uo opell on deep, liar utter any invocation so
potent. (on, not even the cry of No Popery !")
alto turn the coot roe or events ; fur it is now evident
that the I)e,tiiiies have ft aril the end. and what
the De:Ail-Ivo dratre 110 human power. however
gre .t, that possibly avert.
then the will of Hearers to he clime. as
we .11. ith re.ipatioss. we briefly proceed to rimier
some of the terrestrial eireumstances flowing from
that at ertlirow.

Nu vonlicr r 1,4 the forlorn Premier, and the Head
of the Lao, Lind theniselve. safely and softly lodged
is the mud. than they exchanged mutual clusgratus
lotions. ins hariag so well escaped from their elevat-
ed intention ; and the former being tinctured with
religious aeritiments. expressed s wish (for which the
of Canterloory is not much indebted to
lien !) that the Ilea.' of the Church had been with
them. in order to have retoriir.l thanks to Prnvi.
*lmre for their great preservation; yet hi. Grace will
not partitilnite in that wish, auJ no doubt rejoices in
the thought that the elevation of the pulpit is net
liable to such topsy-survey reverses as those eapes
rienced on legal sod political eminerseec where tweet.
however high their carriage may be, are in danger
every hour of being overact. The Archbishop not
being at hand to utter up thank.gwings, our tea-
' tellers prayed as well as they conic! for themselves;
sad after clearing each other from the Flthwhat
adhered to their clothes and persons. they left
the chariot tit charge of the servant% and
journeyed oe very lovingly together on foot. with

LONDON,
MON DAV. NovEvina s.

We hare received Paris Poitiers to the !itßh last.
They contain some furious Decrees of BONAPARTE
against British matinfoctures and Co'onial produce,
lie ascribes the lite failures in this country, and the
depression of the funds, to the operation of his
anticommercial system ; and thus comely, d of its
efficacy, he now appears dettrinined to !milli it to
thr licit extremity.

e regret to state, that the Bulletin of His MA•
Janea health. issued yesterday. doer not promise
a speedy and favourable change. lit this situation,
the eye of every subject must he directed to the
August Personsgerlestined to discharge the functions
of the Executive Power, is tl:e event of His MAI-
JMICS protracted illness. The mind will, of
course, be carried hack to the conduct of Parlia-
ment in 17,48, under the wavier. of Mr. Pi rT ;
hut there is hardly any similarity between the cir-
cumsrances of the present day NA those which
marked that period. At that time the Heir Ap-
parent was not stored with that mass of expe-
rience which he has since acquired—that kn.m.
ledge of the world, that might enable hnn
to snake a judicious choice of servante, bed
had nut arrived at its full maturity —amt.
ahuve all, the restoration of the Sotereign to health,
■nd a long continuance of his beneficent reign. wes

anxiously lonkrd for by ail ranks of people. It
ems therefore conceived necessary. not roily to
insist on the power of flarlistrien: to appoint a !to-
rte, bat also to Gout the authority of the Regent
by certain restrictions, which were set forth at the
time.... Wow, however. the some necessity no lon-
ger mists. The whole face of affairs is changed,
almost es much as the face of Continental Earope
is disfigivr-.4. Stich is the weight of public bor.
then*. is d iv, pviiitical spendthrift can now 'Tern.
late on repairing • shattered fletune by getting
into place. Ile might as well think of rep•sri•g
a shattered conaitu• by going into ■n hosittslv.
The roan, who will sentare to take mina him,
the adinsuistration of ewe affairs. must 'be a rigid

econosalate as *en to r.n40.14
caw. the essitaise;33lls, MI, 11;. 14,es
aiussaid vt taresicr,lsmafstrs, is no I.s. re( .
All sum, slus;cr ;
r;:ctiusi at once wise. tigitatit. and eaccrui4 i.
diaprioabiy Ileceibintatterve ns from &emit t;
the belos ett Slonarch, who as for vpsarslaaf
yrars tuted'7llltLiteldittvd.itnt, iodep,tidtift
of
calamity thitAirrecently befallen liirn, is wrio
it that stage of ilfri in sris:oh the ei4„0,43

so necessary to Meet :he 'ctifilvulties of the tit
it sirs Jouger to be expecteit. The sat:l en
Ilint ate continually Apaoaing around us, ejt
▪ Pyotem of direction greatly d;ffereut
whet we hare hitherto experienced. la 4.,
we want tutu who will sure p„tiiiind
ronquese,l, tuinrfi, and enslaved ; and
orris by investing the Pante of Ws! i.v,
it he deetutd necessary to appoint It Iteg.•:ic:.,
1/11Wer to turn alt the energies of the ituu
their best uses, thut we tan hope for the -
tion of our independence or existrure.
lungs to that distinguished ludivirliipl

of wrilerstauding. u fund of knowledge, and
tress of character, which eminently qualify I,ia
the atation he may shortly have to till; 11111 j

honour, as well as the good of the kingdws:
quire that no attempt shall be made to fitte
its the exercise of his poster.

The Nairtd„ Copt:7ll:a, for Ironies,
the Composite, for Ustrliodues, expect to nil
few drys from Portsmouth, with the Il'e•t
convoy. The Malabar store-ship, fve
proceeds with them. The .Hyde, Cants's W,
with the convoy for Put itige!and the '
mils tin. tiny.

The Euro/Jerk, for Madras and Beard:
Cambrian, for Beenhay ; and iht Cope Packet,
tit. Cape of Good Hope. will aril
in -
the Afuline tad couvoy for Zhu Brazil',
mouth.

Private kikre from Harnisurgh.
rigorous amititrteva lately adopted for thr
Cows ColessalisituWee and Eaglish
goods. state the qsaticity I... Saxony to
us tipwards.of at vets hividred waggons had
constant etntelby for soap itnonthe to tr
•Aftlier from tise coosteptAhe Bakic.
liegotiotioss are pending between
Room and Denmark, ties precise object
has Mit tmeitsivittsd ; butt considerable dross
importance is attached to it at
some degee, perhaps, from the
issterchnsige of couriers. It is certain ih,,t
is deterintleeto terminate the war sit!, the'
'oven alibis telittis less favourable than time
she lately deyktied.
In The Colette of Saturday lest there is an
tier of Combed, for all vessels, cotaintt from the
vsonah, to be compelled to parfaits a strict yea
tine its the porta of the [baited huldoni
neighbouring bilande, in conmquence of •
grime that the yellow fever has raged CI
violence io the Wood of Cuba.

The French Minister at War (Duke of Fla
off4etly, entitled to the Commander
French.troops in Germany, that Goo mil
drafted from every regiment of
frum each of the cavalry ; and that they
special favour, Ise permitted to retuin to
lad from thence proceed to Spain.
plaices from Bourdegpx, of a
lste te,
Ow the want of seauseq, to man the ships of
mum fitting out at Axton, and other porn.
occasioned the trantnumoon of an order
commanding the forwinding from thence of
seamen as could be spared, 'NI that ut c
several battalions ,%ere 014 their match
country do,,frasswerp.
The Grand Duke ef FRANKFORT
that from the let of Jailuary.nevt, there shall
only one newspaper published in his domir'
is to be intitleil TAr gazette VIA( Grand
Frankfort, and to he edited by a person
by the Minister of Paine. and adder his
ship.
The apprehensions of au attack upon
we learn, are again revived among the.
of that, ss we suppored, impregnable Otto'.
formation, we understand. hat reached i.. tlot
clefs had bees received at Cuxhaven. about tile
ter mid of last month, to seed from thence
troops and twenty pieces of cannon to Newark.
the montheith of the Elbe.
not far from Cation
battery a ten guns was completed, and swill
creett awe. nearly finished. A small corps,
iSO to )11.1$1 men was assembled at Dunes.
also bait been given by the French to buoy op
shallows in such a manner, as to make the
nit-shoe preeticuble by night. In cooseip
these toos'ements and preparations. the Ho'
and two or three other ships of war had
to the mouth of the Elbe.
We ore happy to hesr.that the fri
Ctltt.titt WAitli am, was nut run doi.n,
perirhe.l. as WAS stated last week; moss'
enatain of one of the ships in the convoy.
ported it, saw the accident 1 She was run foul
tht• Btater !loop of war. but him been
imvee, v..-ry much damaged. . .
sentence of the General Court-Maitoo
at 4.1.. r Itteracks, on the 17th of SePleitt"
ti
Cai aptn florets. of the Sid Weal York
been pram alacted. The Court at-guinea
tier:mit of all the three charges (neglect
mid using wrong and offensive lenguage t
Tunnel. The Court. however, itt sect"
Ia
Capt. fhteerit of the third charge, Mill!.^t
tin invittatifin (41 the testimony a Lout..
Twits,. the Procreator ; but suriltatesl the ,1
enet,:of 4eatitnonv teethe eireassetaure of
Twits Meting the misfortune to be
Court extlteimeil their regret that an -
l
high character such testimouials ha
prodswed. wet, erten had sew sisch,e''
shawl,: so tar forgo, him.,4, as to hue'
• eu
' the espressineo ;AbetCopt. iloterti @taus 1
defence to Lai c dace.

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