The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-21 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. Ocreasa $l.

We little thought, wtsen we were making, on
Sunday, a few observations upon the Proclamation
in
The Casette of Saturday, that we were throwing
the milts of the Treasury Journals into confusion,
and putting them all completely to rout. Such,
however, now appears to have been the misfortune
attending the petformance of our duty, as fair and
impartial Journalists. They Sad fault with es,
for asserting, "that the Proclamation is to be can-.
sidered as any adjustment of our differences with
America ;" and would insist that it is merely what
it imports to be, a Proclamation for the recal of
British seamen in foreign service. Now in all the
Papers in London, daily, weekly, morning and
evening, in Opposition, sad in favour of Ministry,
we find they are all of one opinion as to the import-
ance of this Proclamation. They all agree that it
is a most interesting and important State Paper ; an
admission, that they distinaly feel it to be something
more than it imports ; for certainly a mere Procla-
mation, recalling British seamen to the service of
their country, cannot deserve that high and distin-
guishing charader. Where the present Proclama-
tion touches upon seamen, so far from professing
any thing new, it is couched in the almost obsolete
phraseology of centuries past, and consequently
in language so very old-fashioned, as to render it
the stabled of ridicule to some of our modern fat-
tidir.us Critics; the squeamishness of whose stomachs
revolts against the use of such rude and vulgar lan-
guage, however technical and proper. As a no-
tice then in the old co-nmon-place jargon of centu-
ries past, requiring British seamen to return to their
duty, and as übjed, as such, of ridicule and reproach,
it could not deserve the charader of importance
universally attached to it. That charader can only
be applivd to it in relation to the other new and
important mater which it contains; we say new
and important, because it is the first officiirl light
thrown upon our discussions with America, and at
the saints time announces the adj.-tau:runt of the
material points in dispute. NJVI to call a document
embracing such important matter, and to whicir the
name bears no analogy, a Proclamati in fur the
recal of Banish seamen, is a complete misnomer, and
we sld suit exadly as well for a title to Li:. Ma.
sasrv's Speech, at the opening or claw of the Ses-
sion of Parliament. To legal Praditioners, oas of

whom is at the bead of the present Ministry, a
writ of latitat, an alion of :rarer, &c. are
names perfenly familiar ; but these names are
mere fiaions of law, for the purpose of introducing
the case, and have no relation to its aitual
and existing merits. To all such, an official
declaration upon the main points of our long-
pending dispute with America, a Proclamation
for the recal of British seamen, may appear to such
legal minds a very appropriate name ; but we fear
it will not stand good in the plain unsophisticated
language in which the people of England exi-eet
Government to speak when it addresses them. We
contend, then, that the recal of the seamen makes
a very small part of the present Proclamation, and
that the name appears to be only used as a cover to
an indite& declaration upon a great and important,
hut irrelevant ma:ter, which Ministers either had
not candour or firmness to bring forward direly
and openly, and place upon its own proper grounds.
ne Courier of last night has written two long la-
boured columns upon the subjea, and never was
labour so foolishly thrown away. It complains
bitterly, that " the Proclamation has been viewed
as a concession to America, and an adjust.
meat of the differences with that power." And
it adds—" This Proclamation is not by any
" means to be considered as an adjustment of the dif-
" (cremes with America ; if it were, if the American
" Ministers had thought it so, why have not long
" ago the negotiations been brought to an amicable
" conclusion in this country ? It were impertinent
" for us to pretend to know any thing of the pro-
" gees of the negotiation ; or of the state in which
'• they are; but as Ministers ►ere no doubt ready
" long since to have communicated to Mr. Monaco
"or Mr. Pt means, their determination not to claim
" or enforce the right of searching ships of war,
" the negosiation would have, ere this, termi.
" na:ed, had America resolved to content her-
" self with that deterrnination. Besides, if the

" Proclamation could be considered as tante-
" mount to an adjustment of the difference be-
" tween the two weenies, why, it may be asked
e. is Mr. Rasa going nu a special mission to America ?
•6 Of the nature of that mission we cantor, of course,
know any thing : but surely it requires no great
•' sagacity to discover that it must have some relation
" to the points in dispute between the two cootnries.
" That the Americans will not hazard a contest, we
" have always been of opinion ; but we do net think
" by any means that the Proclamation is to be con-
" sidered as any adjustment of our differences with
" them." In calling the attention of our readers to
these words of 7be Courhr, we request them to bear
in mind the cause of quarrel with America. It is
fresh in every man's memory, and notorious to the
world, that it originated in the attack made by the
Leopard. upon the American frigate, the Chroapease.
Now, it has been already officially known, that Ad-
miral &attests- has been recalled, and that Sir J.
B WARRIN is appointed to succeed him ; and the
Proclamation renounces the right to repeat such an
attack ; and further enjoins the utmost poss;ble mo-
deration and decorum in the search of merchant.
men. Is not thee this making the swede honorable?
What more could America ask, if we were at her
mercy, and entirely in her power ? Does The Cou-
rier mean to say, that this is not concession enough
to satisfy the most clamorous Frenchman among
the Anierican mob ? Is it not triumph enough for
the kidnapper and decoyer of our seamen, to see the
British Admiral degraded who punished his crime,
and a promise made, that, although England shall
continue to be abused and insulted in the same
manner, she never shall offend again by in/lifting
summary punishment upon the culprit. Measuring
then the crime with the punishment, which has been
voluntarily suffered, we see nothing more for Ame-
rica to demand. Do the Treasury Journals mean so
say, that the Americans question our right to search
their merchantmen ? That they mean to go farther
and assert, that the neutral flag corers the cowry, and
that all the commerce of America, though illicit,
may sail all over the world, safe and secure from the
British navy, under the protection of an American
gun-boat. The first of these principles has been so
long acted upon, and is now so well settled, we can
' scarcely conceive a degree of humiliatioa on the part
of England, or of fatuity en the part of her Minis-
ters, that could encourage the Americans to shake
it. Under the late Aiministratiln, they certainly
dared not to advance such claim. As to• the se-
cond claim, viz. that the neutral/fig rovers tbr (en-
voy. England distinftly disclaimed it in the memor-
able case of the Sweilieh convoy, carried it;to Mar-
gate Roads by Commodore I. aurae°, and she also
met and discomfited tw s Northern Confederacies.
These are r;glits, in dofence of which it is well as.
certained the people of England are determined to
nail the flag to the mast, rather than surrender them.
If then Mr. Rosa is going u,s-sn a special mission
to America, let us ant be told. as insinuated by the
Treasury Journals. that he 4s going in treat upon
6 points which we Gamut suffer to be called in gun-

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tion, without degradinz our Country.
York papers state, that the In-Trois end T
pinambos, and some other Indi,ins is
settlements, meditate a war ag tinst the
rims, in contemplation of ar.ittance ft3-N
land. Let then Mr. Rosa set out, full
with Proclamations to discourne th,se
and instructions to settle the dttsil of
principles conceded to Ametica i r the p,
mation ; but with respea to the race; t rn;st,
standing, we must consider it as settid,
cause Ministers have upon that sujta so tdr
sacrifice and conceuion a generous enemy amid
mend even from a prostrate fee.

Dispatches were received on Monday Ir
and sent off immediately to Lord NIVI.GiA
The contents have not tr.respired.

We communicated yesterday some ir•r
particulars respeeling our army in the Po
Plata, brought by the Read. Which arrived en
turday, from Mon'e Video. lire hss
brought the Spani.h version of the it.t:s
pitulation, and an account of the attack no
Ayres. They do not Jiffs from the officisl
published by our own Government, except s
the numbers killed by the Spsniards, and as to
Gonda/ of the English troops on their fiw
tering the town ; whom they accuse of ho;
excesses, and say, that they broke into hon
they advanced, and put men, women, and
to the sword.

Yesterday morning. His Masisrv,
Auouara, Snt+Nie. and AMELIA. Au by.
G. WNW* Y. Count Mussrsa. G.ner. Pim
and CARTWRIGISI r. and Col. TA IMO/. rode
horseback in Windsor Great Park, and retort
the Castle at twelve o'clock. The ROYAL FA NI
are expeSed in town this day; the Kirin to hol
Private Levee and Privy Council, at the Qua,
Palace; and the Quits and Paincessrs will
geed to Blackheath. on a visit to the P-*
W Las and Duchess of BeoNswicz.
Yesterday morning His MAJZ:TY's
were taken to Maiden Thicket, by or,
Marquis COINMALI.I4 the Master of th,
for the diversion of the Duke of CUMIIIIIL
His Royal Highness arrived at thesioove place .
ten o'clock, accompanied by a numerous patty
Gentlemen, when the deer was turned out of
cart for the day's diversion.

Yesterday, the Duke of You held a public
at his Office, and gave audieaces to—
Colonel buff, upon his arrival front Burnot Ayres.
Colonial I.l•Quarrio, upon his arrival Irani India.
Colonel Cadogaii, upon his ortival hem South A,.
Captain Whittingharn, upon hia arrival (rota Mont:: ,
His ROYAL Hu:times, likewise gave audiences
a number of other Dicers.

Monday an account was receive' by s
of the arrival, at Portsmouth, of the Dian.
from Vera Cruz, with a quantity of specie cm
to the amount of between 7 and 800,0901. sal
It has been long known that this Spanish
was to be brought home, under license, in I
ships. The mon quantity on board the
cannot be ascertained till the letters arrive this d
but we hear that Mr. ANGCIIITRIM under
600,0001. some time ago. as on board the !)ii :a
It is certain that the Guards are IMlTl:didl
coming home from Copenhagen They are the
troops as yet recalled. Provisions are gene out su:
ficient for the subsistence of the remainder till the
middle of December.

The payments into the Ex:limner during the last
week amnunted to upwards of 4.500.0001.
The &wage, in which ship it was formerly stated
Mr. Montane was to take his passag- for America.
has sailed for France. with Mr. Sutra, and another
gentleman. The former is permitted to go for the
purpose of bringing away his daughter, who has
been detaiued there since the comme..cemeut of the
war. The latter, we understand, is Cie bearer
dispatohes from our Government. on the subjea
an exchange of prisoners.
Barracks for the reception of 3000 men are shortly
to be ereaed on Clapham Common, near Arundel.
A considerable force of artillery is also to be sta-
tioned on the coast between Brighton and Little
Hampton.
By a Letter from Captain ROBIRTSOPI, of the
Surat Castle, East Indianian, dated August 16, that
vessel had got her leak stopped, and was to sail
from thence in the course of two days, on her toy.
age to Penang and China.
The Nasty, KUGULY, for London, is lost on
Archangel Bar. Crew saved.
We hear that Mr. %Visite al VellNeß intends to
offer himself as a candidate for the cot nty of Mo.
naghan, and is expected in Ireland imnrdiately.
This gentleman. we Wire*, is the son of him
Walesa, Esq. of the county of Antrim.
Yesterday, the Loan Algoma ordered the price
bread to be reduced half an assize, or one penny is
the peck loaf, to take place to-morrow. when the
quartern loaf, wheaten, will he soli for 11d. and
household 91d. •
On Monday, His Manse v's household, in the
Lord Steward's Department. commenced paying at
tie Office, in St. James's Palace, to hiWisuminer
Qqarter.
It hav'ng been represented to the It too, that nn
Sa.tirday night, the 5.h instant, about eleven o'clo:k,
some p nen or pe.I.JIIS !AO .ly killed two cows.
the property or \ir. 'Names Ratoots, of the Han-
sued It .Id, be s sbhiiig t, cis in the neck, in a
held, at tile newt., end of Somerstown, in the parish
Yst. Pancias, Ifs ‘l•iesirv. f• r the oatt.er
ore') nding and bringing to justice vie persons ens-
cern 3, pronstses ha, mostpracio.ts Pa. don to any
one of them (exc. tit the pe•son or persons vr.o. ac-
tually stab:.e.l sl.t• cows) who shall .-tisrover lis
aecomplw•. so IPA lie ni sy he ai.pielie..ded sal
cony tted.— And, As a twe.:l- et:celk
Reward of One 11'245/rest tou..sis ts oflered 10 Any
pers4n making such I.%Lovcry, to tie p 03 Olt
convinion of airy on., or mole Q 1 tall ogendors, t!
the said Mt. 'l. lino:. LS.

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and returned
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Kota to hold
at the QUERN
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the Princess
T'S stag-hots
sy order of t
of the Elwin
Custetas All •
aove place tb-•
rneroua patty
rued out of t
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Ayrel.
India
inutlt Amencs;a
hest Mont:: V
;are audience:
ti by telegrap-
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specie on boar
voeet. werliag
Spanish TOW
cense, in BIM
sand the Ilia,
arrive thi. d ty
sits underwiet
ird the Dis
are insets:diets!?
'bey are the only
ire gene nut suf.
meinder till the
r during the last
0.0001.
,s formerly stated
g- for America.
re, and another
ted to go for the
giver, who has
leocemeut of the
is tile bearer
on the subjea of
D men are shortly
, near Arundel.
s also to be sta-
ghton and Lithe
1111lTSON. of the
August 16, that
end was to sail
says, on her voy-
Won, is lost on
MINER intends te
e eotnty of Mo.