The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-07-21 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
FRIDAY, Jui.v 21.

Dispatches were received, yesterthiy, by Govern-
ment, from Jamaica, by the Malabar, which is ar-
rived at Spithead ; she left Purt Royal on the tifii
of 'May, in cunt:usily with the Dinntond, and her
coyiNo, from which the ported on the 2401 last, oil
Newfaumllantl, iu o fog.

It was reported, last night, that Government had
received !maw unfavutiraido intelligence from the
Danube.—lt was stated, in corroboration, that •
fras-de had been heard in the direction of Bon-
login!. —That the grand blow, which Bo •APARTIE low
been so lung meditating suil preparing, has been
struck before this time, there is every reason to pre-
sume; but we trust that the result has been far differ-
ent from anything that could warrant even the affec-
tation of rejoicings at Boulogne. At the mime tune,
we must admit that tit- passage of the Danube
must have been contemplated by the Corsican, as
the passage of the Rubicon was by CARSAR: That
BuNAPARTE must hare considered it as his last
stake, and have prepared himself accordingly fur
the issue.—Whatever has been the result, it is curl-
(l Us to observe tow ser•ilely our Ministers have copi. d
the policy of the Emperor At.Vll% ucit. BonAt•aara
has probably been looking as long for a diversion
in his favour from Russia, as Austria has been a;.
similar assistance from England. The
Russians will probably have reached the Danube.
and the British E?.ptdition will probably have
made a descent upon the Dutch or French coast,

Eland • week or ten days atter the fate of the
Continent ha, been decided in the neighbourhood
of Vienna.

We gave yesterday the substance of the Twenty.
fourth Bulletin of the Frilich army in Germany.
This.day we glee it at full length. Its prevailitig
feature is an account of the means which Bona-
PARTS ti.ss con,tructed for the passage of the Da-
nube, consisting of three bridges thrown into the
island of Luba.", him grand depLt, sad thence con-
necting, by alum; tr means, a ith the northern bank
of the river, with tneir heads strongly fortified,
to a considerable extent, by pulisudoes,
filled with water. We do not think that the
grai.d battle could be delayed much longer,
nor does Bun •rIItTE Ippear disposed to seek a
pretence for Ilastioucli been his intention,
it would have berm t&N to .ng4est the nectr.
city ai- new bridgeti,Vtiit souse defects in those,

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which lie has just finished, respiring repdr.-Ire
do not, however, think that the blow, when struck,
will decide the fate of Austria, in the sense intended
by the Bulletin.--Ifluteit will resolve, throne!, the
universe, and that the result, if adverse to NAPOLKe
ON.will be decisive of his fate, we hope and believe:
At. a distalice of 400 wiles from his own frontiers
pressed by a victorious and amidst nations,
rising in arms against him, we can see no
memos by which he could extricate himself
from his difficulties; while Austria, although de.
(*rated, still possesses in:mouse resources in the
spirit, popidation, and loyalty of Hungary. The
osition of the Archduke CIiARLES, as laid down in
the Bulletin, is precisely the same as before the
battle of the •2lst and dof May. Ms army
was encamped on the 3,1 iastant, un the field of vic-
tory and of glory, in order of battle, and covered
with redoubt,; its left, as on that great dat , at
Enzentiorff, and its right at Aspens, with its front
to the Danube.. The expectod battle would pro-
bably be fought 011 the same scene, and it would
appear, from some movemeuts on the side of Pres-
burgh, and. the recent occupation of an Island near
that city, that BONAPARTE ineuns to throw a force
over the slyer, at that point, to take the Austrians,
ou their left flank, while the moan body of his army
udvances from the island of Lulwan. This, however.
and every other movement, will no doubt be fore-
sqen, and provided fur by the gallnut Archduke
CiIARLRA. Thy military history of this gallant
Prince, and above a!l, the wonderful skill, presence
of mind, aml promptness of execntiou, displayed
in the limo,: of Avert'. are a sure pledge that un-
thing in this great and eventful trial will he ne-
Jected, diet can be achieved by the most splen-
did talents, industry, awl courage. The Paris Pa.
parr, from which we have extracted the Bulletin,
contain SeVer.,l other articles of iunior importance.
it appears from them, that Capri, on one side of
the Bay of Naples, had been summoned tO
suf-
render, at the time Bart l.chis, on the other, was
attacked. 'the Russian army was in the Palatinate
of Cracau, on die 28th of lust mouth.

Some of the troll's embarked at Portsmouth,
Margate, Deal, aid Iltainsgate, sailed on Wed-
nesday fur the Down,. The three* first divisions,
destined, us we stated in a former paper, against
three several points, are said to be thus arranged :
Admiral ()MAY and Sir Evas Coors, go with
the tirst division. The Marquis of 11UNTIA, with
the second ; General Hors and Capt. 111.4111P1N,
uitli the third. It is reported the Earl of Rummy st
iv to command the reserve. The Earl of CUATII.I34
arrived at Deal late on NVoliiesday slight, mid to-
morrow tnorning, we understand, the grand Eit-

pedition will leave the British coast, to whiels„ we
trust, it uiri return, crowned with glory.—
Lord Ni LI 'Ail& A YE, and sonic other Members
of Adiiiiiiistoition„ will set off, this moraiii4, at
Moe o'clock, from Whitehall, in the Gower tt tt ent
Icirges, for Deptford, where they will go on board
of the Royal yachts, waiting there to carry them
down the river to the Downs, to sec the departure
of the Expedition, which is e%pceteil to take place
to-morrow. It is coutideutly stated, in the
riot circles, as the opinion of those who planned
the Expedition, that the object, though not single,
hut combined, and cousistioig of several points,
will he completed iu the course of a month from
the present date. .
We mike no question that the Govern.
tuent will feel itself roinpelleil by policy, no less
than impelled by just indignation and a sense of
wounded honour, to repli, fully tool pointedly, to
the assertions tnaile by BON PA ItTE. iii the con-
cluding part of the e.ill Malkin'. They are lahri-
inited with that cunning, contempt of truth, ambi-
guity, and audacity, which characterise all the pro-
ductions of his ham ; and by which publications
he hopes to supply the chasm in his military ope-
rations. They form, however, • poor substitute
for victories, such as those of Austerlitz, or of
Agierstadt ; and will neither repress the :iisurrec-
tiolimiy spirit of Germany, Mir supply his own
troops with provisions, nor recruit Ins Bavarian and
tVirtemburgli auxiliaries, nor enable loin to pass
the DAuube, nor accelerate his entomcc into Co-
mom or Presburg, nor impel the march of tho Bos-
sism, forces through Poland and Moravia. Writh-
jug, nevertheless, under the effects of the battle of
Aspern; chained down to the south of the Danube;
sad, unalsta to resume his offensive nsovements

against the Archduke CHAats.s, he exhausts his
rage and his spleen, by menaces, ussinuatioos, fal-
I dries, and exclamations against the Emperor Fa 4 m-
eas. the young EMPRESS. the NIINI4TIIII4 of Atm-
TM A, the English, and CII4STIELLAR. A rumen,
who has violated every compact. who has made of
Marone a vast charuel-house, in order to gratify
his iiisatislble anabitiois, and who prosecutes hi% CM.
rear of crimes, or of outrages, unrestrained by con-
siderations of any kind, unlslu•hiugly arena•., to
Austrian Genera/ of infringing the laws of hums•
nity„, and of war. in the plenitude of bas power,
aml in the alit Idl patina of new triumphs, he ventures,
on the Stli of \lay, after having obtained ...rims%
advantage% over the Austrian Commanders, to pro-
scribe, and to denounce one then'. The iao-
gorge of this order sufficiently destionstnste, the
sot oxicution ut mind, which could alone have dicta-
ted such a paper" The person, named enas-
val..% it, adding himself a ( iriserui in the service of

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Anstiia, shall, upon being made preteens be car.
(led immediately before a Military Commissions
mid, if adjudged guilty, be shot within twenty..
four hours." Happily, the defeat of the gist sod /
%Id of May, intervened ; and, on the gsth, the
Emperor FRANCIS, in his tarn, commands that
Dettoseet, and Foututs, captured at Aspern....
shall be. kept as hostages, to undergo the same
fate as CII4STLLAIL shall be made-to suffer." We
feel, all ties act, a participation with the Prince who
promulgated it; and who, here, for the first time,
veutures to assert his u.►n dignity, and to extend au
adequate protection to his subjects, engaged in
supportiiig his throe'. indignant, its the Corsican
is, at the vi•~mar mill determination manifested by
the CaLauet of Vientia, li' eusowa how to modulate
nail to 'restrain the imeoteace of his auger. The
affected seizure of Prince CoidLoatoo, mid three
other Nublenuni, is only an artitice, played Mt for
purpos.ts of delusion and intimidation. flit •Inidge
and his flotilla, destroyed at In-der-I.olmo ; his
-49,000 prismiero and wounded, left on the held of
battle; Isis diminished hopes, mud his defeated
troops;—these are the engines that have operated
ou his annul, and have reduced him to the level of
humanity.

--" Sed nilnuit &totem
1.15 tins swipes tutvis 56 ignibus
Alentertigne !prophet:ma 'Mucci:Ain*,
lirdegit In verus tuatara Cars: "

The Corsocun has, therefore, recourse to a Depu-
tation, co:optima of the very Noblemen whom he
had affected to arrest just before, and whom he un-
questionably compelled to execute a mission, the
impractieatoility of which he well knew. But it
serves him for a new subject of theatrical declines-
bon,' and as a trhiela for those assertioim or exag-
gerated de.criptinus, which ocviapy the place of the
victories, that filled the pages of the Mu-
aiteur, in former eitinpiig.ss. Truth and fact are
indecently sacrificed, in order to imprtss, voids Wens
of his iscierr,uf the extent of his ;um the
terror of lin arm,. The Depariers are made to re-
mind the Emperor their Sovereign, 4. not to ex is-
, perate an enemy, who is the Master of Croatia,
Carniols, Carinthia, Styria, Upper and Lower Aus-
tria, the Capital of the Empire, and a great part of
Hungary; since it is iu the p over of the conqueror
to render inure heavy the evils which press ou the
half of the Nlonerchiy." Happily, a great portion
of this statement is not merely fallacious, bat gross.
ly contrary to recogniutal facts. Ile tiever ha, even
catered, as far as we know, the province of Cronus.
Carlstadt, the capital, to a fortress of very consider..
aisle strength. That AI A RMONT and Eeecag
litt•cusitsois, at the head of the Dalmatian
and Italian armies, have marched through, and
were, daring a short period, masters of Ceruiefa
.and Curio/no, is admitted. Jut the very Bullet's
SLOW before as state*, that NI A MOO T hail marched
to (Irish Z ; in other cords, that he had evacuated
Carniula ; and Enortic, the. Viveroy, has long ago
quitted Carinthia. N APO U1:014, however, we allow,
occupies Styria. Upper and Lower Austria, toge-
-1 her with VireMill; bat, so far from having subject-
ede. a great part of Ifuszoro," he only holds, as
we demonstrated ins former Paper, a little district,
including Raab and Oeflenhorg. We repeat, de-.
ceptiou a. •I ißusiau form the ground-work—intimi-
dation, the object, of Isis publicatious. They e
nut nude to stand examination.
The puerility anti despicable details of the yosing
EMPitkiS.II COI istertilitioll, and tears, and altered
appearance, us well its her entreaties to the Depu-
ties, to speak to the Emperor lariats, in favour
of peace," inauitest the Corsican's wishes. He
puts into her month, the upitatiorts after that
peace, which. lie already foresees, may soon be ex-
pressed by linoself; uud which his augaienting
liarraemients may dictate. But how came this Prin-
eess, we would ask, to be at Baths P We under-
stood, from a preceding Bulletin, that, no sootier
had she heard the dreadful intelligence of the sur-
render of Raab, titan she immediately quitted that
city, to fly to the frontiers of Europe. Site has,
then, returned, it seems ! We have no doubt, that
her flight was just as true, as 'het.* the conduct of
the A rchdu ke AI %%MIMI (her brother), had
been disowned, and that the Estes:arm had sent
him into the Interior of Hungary." These iliven-
lions may deceive for u short tare—hut truth alone
can defy mot:imam and investigation. bi A POI. LO
must compose other Buffett's,. and gaiu new victo-
ries, or ha will soon find hi• position moot critical.

A Sleinenger was dispatched. on Wednesday
evening. to Ilyirsonth, with ittetructietto for thy
troop. prepariug to rod from that port.
Ad.nindSTANnorr. left town, List evet,i„,, „, -
Purtwi•matli. to atreud the trial of Admiral
it a dl be -ce•i. oil refereare to our navel cal .
that the transp,i,ts with trout,. soiled on Wetiittati s
front Portsmouth, Itaiosgate, mud Margate, for
the flown*.
Gell.tteit MURRAY ia, Ire hear, walled from Por-
tii4al, for refusing to take the-conlinand of a Por-
tuguese corp..
"%Verities/lay being appointed for the settlement of
()outlaw.. the fertility of invention of the persons In-
terested to the public fonds ass exhibited' in a ea-
-1y of rourours of nand unit military operations.
beneficial or pernicious to the interest of this erran-
try. Among these was re report that Sir JAW*
Sex at taxi, in the Gull' of Vinland, had captured
tire HINSIIIII ship.. of the hue. But to reports of
chi. nature, of course, ie. credit is due or cJii iv
gtveu.