The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-01-09 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS•
LoNON,

SATURDAY, JAN.

A Prochuhation, for et:omens' Fast, will appear
in this night's Casette, to be obeerved on Wed.
uoiday, Feb. the 17th, throughout England ; and
on Thursday the loth, in Scotlaud. We under-
stood it is also expected that Casette will
shortly display many Addresses, approving of the
conduct of Miaisters. The recent movements in.
Yorkshire {pd Laacashi.o- will have thus afforded
the ground for these proceediags. lied Mr. Keocu
azted under the sid...iee of DT. DITTLIENAN and Mr.
Puoctcat, he could not have taken a litter course
to defeat the Catholic Question. The recent move-
ntcttt for teaceOp Yorkshire and Lancashire,
via an, offectually answer the end. of Ministers,
that one might be almost tempted to think they
Ore of their procurement.

We vannonneed, so to back as Wednesday, a
r...p0,t that Box trans had returned to Paris,
but at the same time discredited the cause assigned
Pw it, we mean a conspiracy in that city.--Tire
Dutch Papers, according to the account of per-
sons lately come to this country, from Holland,
confirm the report of Bon sesairs's return, with
some circumstance of suspicion.—His departure
from Milan was bo sudden, that u very few hours
entice was given of his intention to quit Italy.
—His arrival at Paris was equally unexpected :
no preparations whatever were made for his re-

ception.
flowartaTell journey to Italy was certainly un-
dertaken with the v'ew of accomplishing some great
otiyact ; but we find that he has suddenly re-
turned, without haring done any thing, except
creating one of his farourites Duke of LODI:.
We do not know whether it be one of his Generale,
or the Vice-President Metal, that has been pro-
moisti to this dignity. At the sane time, for the
benefit of those who are prone to speculation, we
mast admit that BOW AP ART t'S departure fur Italy
was oniOtuneed in two lined, in the Monitewt, with
at much 'simplicity sad indifference, as if he were
oily going to Fonti.nbleau ; and that his return
ass announced for the end of December, at which
Oise it tippets te have taken place.
The tailcoats organ of Rebels and Revolution•
its now become the loyal obsequious Print of the
111hnieter, in its number of last erening, contained
the following article
tills* Country la placed in a new situatiou —A Cams is
'primed of umexampir 1 &Akan), and danger."
" A Cadedeeselr is formed silliest as, of all the POWer, of
the Coatinamt, under the ivitiote sad catboat of an Army
screatooted to footteeet,aod Ihiehtd wit% victory-MID*, die
'taw* and matron' of a 112112 of signal talents, and of
slat
Cuter good totems."
" dui h a crisis de' arls all the energy, all the coestsacy,
and all the fortitude of the British character "
" It has thereat* surprised us, that at mock a asoewid,
say sass ehuald thiak of petitioning Hi, majesty's Gowen-
wee ta wake Peace, which to obviously impracticable, upon
tenni of re-arity and of holiest
!mates& of petitiouilat Ws Majesty's Goven.ement to
make Peace, it is out duty to show to Europe, that we are
weirdly of our 'test name, and are atilt coarlaced that the
Testiest of the Seas is the Sceptre of Ow World. It is the
duty of the people of the. British umpire, it pryer was so
eresale the duty of every County, City, sod Corporatism
thesughout the kingdom,
TO ADDRESS THE. THRONE,

in the language of roufidenee—.43 ono, Hu Majesty that
we are aware of all the Dangers of the Crisis, hat that we
kase the emission. and the browns to meet them—nut
whilst we feel the ravoitude of our &arm we are not in-
anadde to tlar glory of Long the °At power that yet nsists
Use otilmMioiss of France; of benn the an LC Power
that stand* betters Framer and ("annul Emplre--tha
LA.' hove of Europe, the LAST asylum of permeated free-
donew-that we we tight*, not for coaquest, not for 'WA-
nos, but fur Wert) and fur security, fur our famili, .1, for
our frierri, fur orr country, for oar kiad—sthat we are sure
us honmerable and ware Peen can be obtained, but by the
chase sad per nenact of oar nertionrand that we are
tbeteniimed to anodes fall with our Hunoar mad oar Inie•

The above is a true Copy. As to the words,
we vouch for its accuracy, but as to the manner in
which it is displayed in the sairival, we do tint pre-
tend to a likeness. We have seen the same I'aper
announee, in common with its contemporaries, the
battle of the Nile and Trafalgar, but they were
stolen into its coMatus, compared with the splendid
-style with irliieh this hint agititist a disposition to
,petition fnr pence, is displayed in the branch of
rotten part of ,the press to which we allude.
tilLsiag pritotr, leado.and canonti,with all the einbel-
l•shments of asterisks and italics, in short, .11 the
variety of the letter-founder's stores, have-been es-
haustea to rive to this stale subject the appearance
of novelty, and render this thread-hire idea strik-
ing dad iinposing. In one I Aqttillar. lUdoed. we
1111104 admit, that the article h.ui some pretensions
to no. eltj. We mean the model which it
Rives of • lit and proper Ad Ire to the
Throw, suited to the taste of the 31inister....

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To. all th ossewhe have not eel& the fable of the
frog and the ox, this must app ear a monstrous
piece of lon and vulgar cleorlatnnissr. Tare is
no member of Administration, we believe, capa-
ble of dictating to the free people of England the
very word, which they must use in the free exercise
of one of their hest and most undoubted rights,
the right to petition the Throne—the right of the
child to address its parent, in every case of adver-
sity and suffering. If then this impudent dictation
has not originated in the overweening vanity and ex-
travagant self-conceit of the Journal from which
we have copied it, we are confident that it cannot
be traced higher than some miserable underatrapper
of the Treasury, whose zeal outruns his discretion ;
who, in his anxiety to please his employers, forgets
every principle of liberty and liberality. These
few observations have been extorted by the
wretched eltarlsrauisin by which the subject is sought
to be brought forward now, as quite a new thing,
although some of the prints of Loudon have rung
with it for several days-sok/lough several meet-
ings have been held upon it in Yorkshire and
Lancashire--although there was a grand meeting
upon it on Thursday at Glasgow, and the Treasury
Journals long since advertised.a meeting in the city
of London, a notice moat unaccountably unat-
tended to, and which neglect can only be attri-
buted to the peculiar character of the first Cor-
poration in the Empire—which appears still to retain
something of the sturdy spirit of our an-
cestors. But here a question fairly occurs ?
Where have been the Editors of the Treasury
Print when all those things took place ? Have they
been gagged and chained, and only recently let out
to exercise their senses ?—Or, have they just awoke
from a profound sleep of several weeks, and now
invoke the Genius of Printing to express their
sense of the wonders that have happened during
their long and sound slumber ? The truth, we
believe, lies something deeper. The voice for
peace, as we observed in a former number, is
not loud nor general, and has been chiefly confined
to the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and
Yorkshire. And here we must again notice the
Mean falsehood and calumnies of such of the Tee/a-
llay Journals as took up the subject from the
beginning. In Yorkshire the voice of Lord Mu.-
!OS has been everywhere raised against these
Meetings for petitions in favour of peace, and yet
they have been imputed in the Treasury Journals
OD the intrigues of the opposition, with a view to
embarrass Ministers ; while it is notorious that:his
Lordship is the only Member of opposition who
has interfered directly or indirectly in these meet-
ings.—Falsehoods and calumnies like these, are
unworthy of any good cause, and no generous ad-
versary will ever resort to them.—To return, how-
ever, to this model of an address, for the continu-
ance of the war, which a Treasury Journal of
yesterday proposes to cram down the throats of the
public, awl the free people of England must not
depart from to the extent of a single letter—the fact
is, the zeal of the Treasury Journals had taken a
wrong direction, the hounds had got upon a wrong
s ent, and it became necessary for the Ministerial
whipper-in to call them off, and put them upon •a
right train. The glorious attack upon Copen-
hagen—the rigour and energy ofMinisters—their
wisdom in effecting the migration of the House of
Baaaseza—these high-sounding epithets have
been echoed and re-echoed in the Treasury• Jour-
nals—and Ministers, who feel shat they will not
bear the test of argument, are afraid that they may
be introduced into the Counter-petitions against
peace. It is our sincere conviction that England
ought not to purchase a peace by the sacrifice of a
single particle of her maritime rights, or her
honour ; and that these Meetings are not calculated
to accelerate a peace worthy of her acceptance. ft
is a is., therefore, in Ministers, to reject the fulsome
and disgusting flattery of their sycophant scribes,
to restrain their real, and to place the continuance
of the war, not upon the alluring hopes which
it holds out of glorious conquests, and splendid
migration., and expeditious, but upon the ex-
travagant demands and deep-rooted malignity
of our implacable foe. This is the secret of
the model of the Address to the Throne, which
we have copied 'from a Treasury Print, and of the
new instructions which they have received for their
guidance, in speaking• upon this important subject,
now become wore interesting from the near ap-
proach of the Session of Parliament. tint while
..Nlinisters place the necessary continuance of the
war upon tie true ground, the implacable resent-
ment, and inordinate ambition of the enemy, it is
matter of regret that they should not be able to justify
without sabiettiagthemselves to the charge of incon-
sisteney. If they were sincerely impressed with the
idea that a safe, honourable, and lasting peace is not
attaisable, end as some of their Journals inform
as, that there is no chance of such i peace during
the life of BON A.mtirt, they shout have acted
accoedi igly. They should have practised a cold
aad rigid economy, and huthanded our resJurc.is

Al' tif i We. The reverse, how-
-1
ever, is the itacte' Sp little is economy to their
taste, it ha; been* favourite subject of their con-
tempt and ridicule. The economy of the late Mi-
nisters is with the present a standing joke, a fruitful
source of mirth, wit and laughter. glow much
ribaldry hasbeen expended upon the e,0,0001. sent to
the King of Palma*, is fresh iu the recollection of
the public.—The coffers of the Emperor of
Rcs-
SIA, they say, should have been filled with British
gold. British gold ahonld have flowed in a stream
into the pockets of every Petty Prince in Ger-
many, and then they would have been loyal
and brave—they would have proved themselves
patriots and heroes, and died iu defeuee o
their country, their family, and their friends.—
The present Ministers, since their entrance into
power, have been resolved not to subject them-
selves to this reproach. In politics, as in every
thing else, Fashion appears to bear sovereign awe?, ;
and the new Minister, like a new Belle upon town,
wishes to mark his entre into office by some display
of fancy. The Belle 'thews her taste for expense in
new caps and bonnets, the new Minister, upon the
present occasion, has displayed his in a variety of
expeditions. Expeditions are the order of the lay.
There is Sir Sanwa. HOOD'S Expedition, Sir Sine
Nay SMITH'S Expedition, Admiral Corron'e Ex-
pedition, General Mooax's Expedition--Expedi-
tions sail from all our ports, in all winds and wea-
ther, with all the activity of a Christmas Panto-
mime, and with some, we are sorry to say, of its
crossing and jostling too ; ezemplitiCd in the re-
turn of Sir JOHN hlooag's force from Gibraltar, at
the moment Admiral Co'tton's Expedition, in its
way to that point, has been scattered over the seas.
This keep-moving spectacle is well calculated to
catch the gaze of the people ; but it cannot be got
up, with all its scenery and deeocatious, without
great expense ; yet even all this activity may exist,
Ivan in a greater degree, and the system be deatitute
of energy and vigour.. If these observations ap-
pear to bear hard upon Ministers, they owe it to
the fulsome and disgusting flattery of their
Writers. The Expedition to Copenhagen may
have been necessary to our safety, sad is,
therefore, justifiable; but to call it glorioat
is as unworthy of the tuitional character, as it is
absurd to consider the marching and counter-
marching of troops through the south of Eng-
land, and the mere sending out of ships, belbre
we know their object, or can form an idea of. their
plan of operation, irrefragable proofs of a
vigorous, and able Administmtion.—ln the same
spirit of truth we admit that their predecessors,
for we are not the tools or retainers of any party;
did nothing to make a strong impression.—
Strangers to stage effect, their works were
more useful and solid, than shewy and stik-
ing. We will do them, however, the justice to
believe, that they calculated upon a long pos-
session of power, and that if they had foreseen
it would be limited to a solitary year, instead of
laying the broad foundation of a new system,
which would require years to finish, they would of
necessity have turned their attention to objects
more calculated for eclut and immediate effect.

We lately stated thnt fears were entertained for
the safety of Lord HUTCHt, sioN and his brother,
the Ilon. eIInISTOPIIVR lIL TtUINSOY, one of the
Representatives for the city of Cork. A Pruitt
of yesterday states, that they and Colonel Earsaisce
have been taken on hoard n packet, rind carried it'll
Norway, by a Danish vessel. An article, dated Aim,
burgh, 1 lth Dec. in the foreign news iu our Pape!
of Wednesday last, says, 4. We learn from Norway
that the Norwegian sailors have taken rind carried`,
en the western coast, an English packet-boat, harilit
ou board a person of distinction." In the soW,
Paper, however, on the same day, an stelae,.
dated Copenhagen, the 16th, announces the rap-
ture of the Pashas, with the English Ambassador
Mr. G tal.tar on board, ott his return to England,
and that the prize arrived in that harbour ow the
preceding day. We are still not without hoipe,
that the two articles relate to Mr.fitAittlit,' arid
to one and tl.e same prize, and tha!the statement
of the capture of Lord iiLTCHINION and suite
rests solely upon the Hamburgh article.

The funds continue to rise. Some attribute the
change to a prospect of peace ; others, to the great
quantity of money in the market, occasioned by
the dividends, which commenced payment on
Thunsday.
The Amu, a Danish prise, which. parted com-
pany from our fleet in the Baltic, vationererai of
the crew of the En ish brig Clio on board, and
which was su to have been totally lost, has,
we understa , put safe into a port of Norway,
where the crew have been made prisoners.
Dispatches were received yesterday from Ports- '
mouth, from which it appears that there are thirty-
one ships waiting at that port for convoy to the
lArgitteernuielm.
following is a list of ships tinder convoy of
His MAJESTY'S chip Skorpshooter, bound from
portsmouth, to Guernsey :—Nelson, of Ports-
mouth ; Primer of IVoks, of Sunderland ; Sophie,
of Leith; and Unions of London.