The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-07 00:00:00

MORE FRENCH BULLETINS.

We have received the 17th, ISth, and 19th lil-
!Kiwi of the French army in Spain. They were
eo.iveyed to this country in the seine manner as
the three ;,receding Bulletin-, untiouneing the cu.
pital..:ion of Nladeid. An empty butt having been
towed wit to. Boulogne, as far as the French sailor
enn!el salei‘y venture, advantage was taken of
the innaient when the tide was beginning to set
iii for the "English coast. The Bulletins were
then put l;iie the empti Lout, winch, being set
nil. ift, tattle ashore near Folkwciie, where it we,:
picked up, on Thursday, awl the Bulletins ware
n it, and transmitted to Government. If

these Bulletin* be not fabricated for the express
purpose of deceiving and misleading our Ministers,
they ertabliali the fact of the actual entrance of the
French into the city of Madrid. It is stated that
BONAPARTE reviewed the corps of the Duke of
DANTNIC, oo the 9th, upon the Prado. Now dui
Prado is the great public walk in the easter.
quarter of Madrid, about three quarters of a
league in length, traversing it from the gate Re-
collet° to that of Atoelia, and having its alleys
crossed by live of the principal street. That the
French were in cosnplete posseasioa of the town,
upon the 9th, there cannot then be a doubt, pro-
vided the Bulletin speaks the troth. It is a cu-
rious fact, however, that although' the two succeed-
ing Bulletins are slated Madrid, the 14th and 1301,
this review on the 9th is the only circumstance re-
lated in them of what pausal within the city during
that interval. This suppression of the many iu-
teresting scenes that must have taken place, wears
a very sisepiriotts appearance. We find, too, from
the 19th Bulletin, that BONAPARTE resided, at
that date, in the couutry, a full league from
Madrid. There appears to be something is the
air at that city uufriendly to the constitution
of the family. Don Jossen found it too hut for
him, and sought cooler climate." Naroismstr
now tin& that it is December in Madrid, but spring
at a league distaaee, and wishes to enjoy the mild
air of the country. Yes, no doubt, Madrid pre-
muted to his view a cold, dreary, end cheerless
aspert. It exhibited a stormy and boisterous scene,
in wh ch uproar ruled far and wide. He found
the hearts of the people frozen against him, and if
any fire glistened in their eyes, it was not that of
joy and !dadness, hut thelightnire that illumines
the tempest, and the flashes of indignation flint
markid the path of vengeance. Yes, in every
loyai Spaniard, NAPOLEON dreaded an execii-
timier, and in the coantry he Lesed to be safe
from the stiletto. We wish that in this suppres-
sion of the passing scenes is Madrid, we could
see any corroboration of the reports of an insurrec-
tion against the French, and of their expelsiuu, with
great slaughter, 114 stated in the Spsoisli letters and
papers. Bit although from this silence we may
fairly presutne that many things have happened
which NAPOLEON is desirous to conceal, we mum*
flatter ourselves that such has been the result...-.
The corps of Won, which he pushed forward along
the Tagus, arrived at Talavera on the 11th. On
the 13th, SEBARTIANI** division marched on the
same route. The Duke of Iszaia has been em-
ployed in scouring the country on the side of Gus-
dalaxara, and on the 13th, NAPOLEON reviewed
setae troops on the road from Madrid leading to
Segovia. These movements aid proceediug% are
inconsistent with the idea of the rout and expulsion
of the French, with the lose of one-third of their
force, from that capital, at least up to the I sth last.
The Bulletins announce no military event of any
importance. except the fall of Rosin, which is said to
have surrendered by capitulation upon the Gth last.
In every other respect these reports are made up of
mere common place and heterogeneous matter.—
The I sth Bulletin is a curious model of this species
of compositiva, and deserves notice only for the
spirit which it betrays. The oldest and most legi-
timate government that ever existed could nut
soeak with more contempt and abhorrence of no
volut• and upstarts titan this most atrocious of
upstarts and revolutionists, speaks of two of the
leading Members of the .'Jpretne Junta of Spain.
Annexed to the Bulletins are several Imperial
Decrees east intercepted Correspoodence. One
Decree grants a general pardon to all except a few
persons. The Members of the Council of Castile
are branded as cowards, and unworthy of being
Magistrates of a brave nation. The Inquisition is
abolialotd-osad the number of cuuvauts reduced

to owe-third—feudal rights are also aboh.hed. The
whole cldses with

A PROCLAMATION,
Signed by BONAPARTE on the 7th. In it he l.ays.
I shall soon drive the English from the Penns-
sula."—And he concludes with the following re-
niarkable expressions
4, But if all my efforts be useless, and you do
not merit my confidence, it will only remain for
torte to treat you as coaquemd provinces. and to
place my brother on another Throne.-4 will then
place the Throne of Spain on my own head. and I
will cause it to be respected by the wicked, for
God hay given me strength and will to surmount
all obstacle*.

" Wren in our Imperial Camp at Madrid, Dee. 7 i
(Signed) " NAPOLEON."

Now, upon this Proclamation we must observe,
that it is a volume of evidence to skew that N APO-.
/. iiON has met with great difficulties, and is in a
must embarrassed situation. It is uotoriolll/ that
tie has exerted ell his stieugth, 31141 dru..l
out nll his resources, to establish JOSEPH upon
the Throne of Spain. Failing iu that, we desire to
know by what weans be can succeed for lum :II
We suppose he thinks that the Spania►ds consider
JUSEPII a Log, and that by threatening them with
a Stork, they may be intimidated and induced to
accept King Log.

A Mail from Cantonal is arrived, with Letters
and Papers from that city to the :grill lust. In one
instance they corroborate the rumours brought by
the Joseph hired cutter. We mean the rencontre
between a British regiment of cavalry, and a supe-
rior French force of the same description, in which
the latter were defeated with the less of 300 men
taken prisoners. The English regiment which thus
distinguished itself is,however,said to have been no
the 15th, but the 7th Dragoons, mlti. Lord
GET. With respect to the reported massacre of
the French nt Madrid, and the state of that ca-
pital, the Corunna paper of the 29th contains
an article, entitled, "OlicialAdvice to the Priblic."
This article will he seen in our extracts. We fear
that it is unworthy of credit. The late Portuguese
Papers sated, that the Supreme Junta were at
Trusillo ou the 10th. From this article it ap-
pears, that they were on the south of the Sierra
Morena, at Cordova, on the hrth. The latest
accounts received at Lugo, up to the 24th,
from the army, state, that Sir Joule
Moose had determincd to advance to Burgos.—
His whole force, we are concerned to thud, is esti-
mated at only 46,000 men, iucludiug a division of
10,000 from Romans's tinny.

•We havcreceived letters from Bartsidoes to the

ltitti 'of October, from which it appears that the
yellow fever rages there with great violence:. Delany
persons have fallen victims to tt. Not less than
twenty surgeons, or assistant surgeons, in His M 41.•
JLSTY'II service, have died in a short time of this
dreadful disorder.

It is in the Speech of the Minister of the In-
terior, addressed to the Legislative Cody, fat more
than in ally other counnuuiration or state paper,
issued by the Corsica!' Emperor, that we must
seek for the rest iutentions of that subtle, deep,
and artful tyrant.• His " Bulletins." fabricated in
haste, and intended to serve a temporary purpose,
by spreading in every direction his own fallacious,
or exaggerated picture of advantages and victories.
gained in the field, are only to be regarded as the
efiiisions of a camp. The Speech pronounced on
the 2d of November, at Paris, bears all the marks
of laboured composition in its style, as well as in
its contents. It is a cubinet production, which un-
qnestionahly had been submitted to the rye of the
Master before it was produced in public, and which
probably received its finishing touches from his
own hand. It unveils, as far as his oracular and Ma-
chiavelli'', policy permits investigution or inspec-
tion, the arcane by which he means to regenerate
Europe, to excite animosity against Great Britain,
as the pretended Tyrant of the Seas, and to jus-
tify, or to palliate his own atrocious vi.lations of
treaties, and of every political or moral compact.
" The object of this war," says the Minister of a
Foreign Usurper. whose ambition and whose
crimes have alreutly ted by turns every por-
tion of the Coidinent, 5. is the *level of the world.
by the exclusive possession of the seas. There is no
doubt, that, by subscribing treaties of bondage, dis-
guised under the holy name of peace, nations nisy
obtain repose; but thin shameful repose would be
death." A h mg arid severe exposition of our asserted.
system " to humble or destroy France, by keeping
the people ofthe Continent constantly under arms,"
prepares the way for a panegyric on this worthy
native of Ajaceio. who was sent by Providence, in
its bounty, like another TITUS or TRCIAN, to
Close the wounds inflicted on mankind by Geuaei•
the TIIIRD, and his restless Ministers or subject,.
—" It is impossible to foresee wf.at might have
been the consequence of se much audacity" cola.
tinues the Minister, " had not Faunae, on our
part, raised up a snail of a superior order, destined
to repel the evils with which England threatens
the world." That BORAPARTR, more than any
other individual, lies greet and almost immeasur-
able oldigations to Follow. his return from Alex-
andria to Frejus in 1799. his victory at Morello,
and the history of his whole life. onflieieutly evince.
But unless moderation impose some baits to aos.

bition and to crime, Fortune may not always ac_
company him in his enterprise. This fortunate
Usurper may yet, before he has finished his san-
guinary career, exemplify, in his own person, how
truly the poet of Venusiiiin has described that
goddess, wheu he says,
trine apicem raps:
Fattens cam stridine aceto
Bustaht, hic ptimitsc gaadet "

Englaml, however, we are told, unable to en-
slave the Continent by her arms, .hopes to effect
her object by monopoly. " They thought," says
the Speaker, " that if they could no: cuter the
territory of the Fiench empire by their anus, they
might penetrate its heart, by a commerce now be-
come its most dangerous enemy, and the :triunes-
lien of which would have exhau,ted its most valu-
able tesources." Mote the Corsican Ruler unveils
the fatal secret ; namely, that riot our monopoly,
or our tyranny, but our superior isolostry, our
commerce, our manufactures, and our capital, pea%
tested by our navy, have, in fact, eilatAd se so
supply the prostrate nations of the Continent, awl
even France herself, in &fiance of all the inter-
dictions of the Tyrant who governs it with a variety
of articles necessary or convenient to human life;
thus eluding or surmounting Nattoteou'r edieta,
and anbjectimeto the empire of trade rite slaves se
a revolutionary Emperor. Hine i/14e /ad/rpm.
This is the real source and cause of all his phi-
lippics against u nation, whom he can neither in•
wade, nor subject, nor revolutionize. Sensible, ne-
verthelesss, that his Berlin and Milan Decrees have
provoked nod produced the very evil, as a measure
of defence and retaliation on our part, which he
affects to treat as an act of wanton aggression, he
exerts all his sophistry, in order to impute to us
that ibiertlid, as lie terms it : " The English na-
tion is. separated itself front every other nation."
" All her social relations with the Continent are
sii‘prsidcd ; she is smitten by the excommunication
whieli she herself provoked." And what i. the
remedy, dues it appear ? A sin..ular one :—" The
war will henceforth consist in expelling. front all
points, the Etigl sh commerce, mod in employing
all the meats calculated to promote that end."—
It is difficult to couceive a more complete admis-
sion of the inefficiency of the flotillas RIO hi, in-
vasions, on which Ita affected so long to rest
his confident expectations of suc,..esi. To re-
pel our commerce, forms now the 'urinary,
he might have added, the ultimate object of his
edicts. The *vassal, from such an authority, is
at least consoling. Rut, we trust, that, before Ow:
time. lie may have had other opponents to repel,
than commercial .4. The veil which covers
Madrid surf Spain, mu-t soon drew up. We shall
thirst ht hotter enabled to judge, whether, in pene-
trathrg to the capital of a country, which he has
eriminallr and wantonly isavuderl, lie has second
the final smoggiest of that kingdom ; or whether he
way not have prepared the meat:, of his own even-
tual destruction?

The partisans of Ministers, and the puffers of Sir
ARTHUR Vs'att.tstee, have now the hardihood to
come forward, and assert, that the Board of In-
qmry, which lately eat at Chelsea, was a competent
tribunal, and that the country is bound to acquiesce
iu its decision, acquitting the three Generals of CM-
vit. From tins general charge of adopting en at-
gnineut, fa'sc in its premises, false in its conclusion,
and betraying equal iguorance, folly, and subser-
vience, we must, however, acquit The Courier, for
the few last days, in which, recanting and abjuring
/tit former ~rrors upon this subject, it has come for-
ward to amino the Board, and censure its decision.
What new light the conductors of that consistent
Print may have seen, we do not pretend to know,
but we Lave seen too much of its affectation of in-
dependence upon particular points, ther it may
serve the Treasury wore effectually in its general
-sypinet, to give it credit for sincere reformation.
As, however, the semblance of a virtue is the next
thing to the reality, we are not disposed to
treat The Cetirier harshly on that account. We
have been prit,cipally induced to notice this in-
ataace of affected independence, by a boast which
preceded it, as empty and as foul as ever polluted a
piddle print. Not content with affecting to deli-
ver its sentiments candidly upon the Convention,
at had the barefaced effrontery to assert, on Thurs-
day, that it was the Ara to arraign the competence
of the Board of Inquiry, whereas, in fact, and in

truth, it was the List: We hale not s file of

The Coarier, and therefore cannot point out the
precke nuiubei ; but it is notorious, that, at the
ksomtueueement of the Sittings of the Boaid, this

saws Coiner, stitch now utleCts to deprecate sad
despise it, was so appalled by its dignity, its so-
lemnity, and its power, th.it it yielded a ready obe-
dience to the order of the Board, prohibiting the
puldication of the proceedings from day to day, and
invoked its reingeunce against THE G 11.0112,
Eat rtsu Pa PAS, soil all the °titer papers, which, con-
sidering the Board as a thing unknown to the laws
and the constitution, had the spirit to publish the
proceedings, in defiance of the prohibition. This is
;a ?ACT i—We ci,ai;enge The Courier to contra-
di :t it.
Yestenlay, a Coda of Directors ruts bald et the
Eavt India House, when Captain Groans Rt-
'luaus(' ti was sworn intu threunimand of the ship
Doerr Castle, con.igue•d to Bombay direct. The
Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Wednesday '
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