The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-20 00:00:00

SPANISH MONARCHY.

Whatever movements may take place in some
of the towns or ports of Spain, ',maid by indigna-
tion against the foreign enemy, who has so treech-
erously seized on the kingdom, it is not, we fear,
very probable. that any efficient and successful

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resistance eon be made. The artful machinations
of NAPOLEON, aided by the tame subservience of
an incapable Goverement, have placed Spain un-
der his power. Their beet troops being seat, on
distant metrics. to tits extremity of Europe ; the
Royal Fatuity basing spontaneously, as it would
saes, put thasinelves into the hands of their per-
fidious Corsica* Ally ; and a great body of Preach
forms being stationed in the capital ; how are we to
expect a disarmed nation, destitute of leaders Sr
concert, to expel their uew tyrants ? A people
ahrugcling for constitutional freedom might easily
effect it, but a cnnotry so 111 administered, and
so meanly abandoned by its native Princes, can
lose nothing essential by • change of sovereign.

MURAT knows this well. In his Proclamation,
or Address to the Spanish Nation, dated at Madrid,
the Yd May, though every line betrays his appre-
hensious of resistance, yet he most ably states
every ,notice which can terrify, convince, or wince
the people, to acquiesce in his usurpation. To
those possessed of rank or property, he bolds out the
loss of both, by confiscation, plunder, or attainder.

To the military, scattered in the provinces, he pro-
poses, " the conduct which has been observed by
the troops of the royal household, of the garrisma of

Madrid, and of the Spanish military quartered in
the Court. as a model worthy of imitation." After
this candid ari.wal Joacntx. we need not in-

quire how the wretched Princes that lately reigned
in Spain have been betrayed, or tamely surrendered
to their enemy. The Pretoria!' Betide might isave

acted more ferociously, but not more basely.
To the Spaniards, at large. he offers and
guarantees, in the name of His Imperial Master.
:hat most tempting bait, the preservation of the
mr!vilibility and integrity of the monarchy. He
engages that not even a village shall be dismem-
bered, from it. nor any war contributions raised.
flow well NAPOLEON and his agents have studied
end understand the genius of the Spaniards ; how
Nell they can address their declarations to the
chameteristie pride of the Castilians; and how
weil they are versed in the past history of that
rometry, is obvious. It is not from the office of
Mr. CANNING, that such State Papers as that of
Waal- are issued. The desire to preserve in-
violate the integrity of the Spanish Monarchy, it
is well known, was the principal inducement to
Cnasi.es 11. the last Prince of the AL iTRIAN fa-
mily,
in 1700, to call to the succession the Buts-
' WIN hole. He dreaded, that, by leaving his %est
tiolaitoolas to tilt A MIRIAM branch. the Monarchy
would be dismembered by a partition treaty :
whereas. the power of Lot is XIV. (like that of
BOXATAINEO) coold, he justly conceived, surmount
all opposition. Such are evidently the leading
causes that appear to have effected this great re-
.olotiou, which will probably transfer the revenues,
'refusals. Sees, std harbours of Spain, to an in-
..eterate and active enemy. If that country should
net. remain ender BOX *PARTE'. authority', it will
wholly change the character of the present war,
:itiltiply the points from which we may be at-
t and infinitely liniment the dangers by

whinis. from every qaarter, we are now assailed.

How, with such blimatmu as the present, we are to
repel the united Aorta of so many nations, con-
ducted by energies like tho►e of BONArARTE, may
well appal the most confident. and excite the re-
flection of the most unthinking.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
MONDAY. iONN. 20.

The 111ntorca brig, whiLh arrived on Thursday
night at Pct.-holm Ji from off Cadiz, with dispatches
from Admiral Puavis, was Dot releasod from qua-
rantine until Saturday. In the interval the public
were of course at the mere• of mere rumours and
reports, but we are now able to afford something
more satisfactory and authentic. The following is
an extract of a letter from on board Admiral Po a-
en's fleet, dated the 30th last :—" The Minorca is
about to leave the fleet for England, with dispatches
—the unfavourable termination of the aegociations
with the Governer of Cadiz, will reach you by this

conveyance.-.eFor the last ten days, Col. BATHuitsr,
who was deputed by General SrEncin, has been at
Cadiz ; and we have had four and twenty transports
at anchor off the harbour's mouth, containing about
2,500 effective men. The arrival of the troops off
Cadiz, we understand, was in consequence of an
invitation from General Marquis SALERNO. the
Governor, through the medium of General Cana-
Nis, the Governor-General of Andalusia, pro-

posing to put the British troops in possession of
the principal forts, and Spanish ships, on their
arrival off the port. The ships were to take
to Spanish South America any of the Nobility
and others who chase to emigrate, together
with their moveable property. It seems that this
business happened at the critical moment when the
Prince of Assuan.' came to the Throne, in the
interval between the abdication of the old King of
SPAIN, sad his restoration. But it appears their
sentiments underwent a change on BON AAAAA
walking Or with the Prince of AST.; RIAS, making
him a prisoner. The party that wei.7 attached to
the old King and unfriendly to the Prince of As-
TUaIAS, being relieved from all fears on that ea-
count, hare dispensed with the services of the
English.

COLLINGWOODIS off Toulon, blockading
the whole of the French force in the Mediterranean.
The Spaniards (five sail of the line) arc still at
Port Mahon, Minorca. Lord Coculuse, we un-
derstand, has proposed, with five sail of the line
sod 5000 troops, to take Minorca in fivabours, or
forfeit 5000 guineas—so much for the noble Cap.
tain of the Imperiemse. It appears to me that
Minorca ought not to he overlooked at this mo-
ment ; the inhabitants have always been attached
to the English, and we should get possession of the
enemy's ships as well as the Island."

Colonel Tolima', Military Secretary to Sir
ARTlllat WE LLesutY, left towa, en Friday night,
to join the Expedition at Cork. Doctor Hums, of
Lower Gresvenor-street, gees ont aY Phypician to

the Forces, which will amount to about 10,000
men. The Expedition is eurtainly destined for
Spain.

The following is an extract of * letter from an
Officer of His MAJErry's ship Dofienre, dated off
Ferrol. June 6, ItfOs :—.• Yesterday a messenger
from Spain came on board, with a letter for the
Commanding Officer off Ferrol, humbly entreating
his assistance against a small French squadron.
which they think want to seize upon 40,000 stand
of anus they have in a small port in the neighbour-
hood of Ferrol. He at the mine time produced
letters from the Eaglish Agent for Prisoners of
War, and from several Grandees of Spain, with a
printed declaration of war against France, by the
provinces of Asturias, Leon, and Biscay. Asturias
alone has raised 150,000 men; the other provinces
hare not yet declared. He informs us that an Am-
bassador has sailed for England to implore assist-
ance. Time King and Queen are close prisoners at
Valency.—We sand. a frigate (the Swim) with
the news. and expect an Admiral here with a large
squadron. Time French Captain commanding the
Spanish ships in Ferrol has resigned, glad to get
away as fast as possible.—Their force at Ferrol is
four sail olthe line.—Captain floras* commands
the squadron liere, consisting of the Defiance,
Gibraltar, and two frigates.

It is to be hoped that some Member of the
House of Commons, who is coluptkut to the in-
quiry, will put certaiu questions to Mr.
on the present state of our military affairs in the
Baltic. Su much has our attention been attracted,
for some days past, toward* Spain, that we scam
to have forgotten Sweden. The most inexplicahle
and alarming stagnation of all operations has
taken place in the last-mentioned quarter of Eu-
rope. It is fur the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to
explain the cause. That full information, which
was, perhaps, most properly denied on the business
of Spain, in its present state, ciansot, as we cons
ccirr, he refused in relation to Sweden. Au expe-
ditiou fir the attack of Norway, jointly with the
King of SWEDEN. is sent from this country, an-
tler the command of a most distinguished officer.
Never was a season or a time more favourable for

effeeting that conquest. But, no sooner does our
naval and military force resell the scrim of action,
than it instantly becomes frozen, as if iu the midst
of winter. Neither Norway, net Zealund, nor
Finland, are atta.:ked. Tioi armament remains
in the port of Gottonburgh, and no attempt what-
ever is made against the enemy. Frets what cause
arises this suspension ? We hope that Mr. C.
N (NG will be found ahle to mistier sad to espies.' it
satisfactorily. Tbe resent Steretary at War, when.
in ieoo, be made his memonsole non-attack of
Ferrol, was called to a severe account in the House
of Comtions for that failure. We trust, tort be-
fore Parliament is prorogued, a similar investiga-
tion will take place relative to the expedition seat
to Gotteuburge.

Forty sail of the homeward-I>cm Ad Leeward
Island fleet passed Portsmouth on Friday.

Yesterday mortiiiig His MAJESTY, Princes,es
AUGUSTA, MARY, and AMBt.IA, accompanied by
LordAYLEsPoito, Marchioness BATH and &Ugh..

ter, Ladies ALBINIA CUMBERLAND, and Caio-

LINE WALDEGRAVE, GCHMIS GARTH and FITZ.

Hoy, and Colonel DEsatow, rode to St. tiettrge's
Chapel. and heard a sermon preached by the Rev.
Dr. DODSWORTH. from Exodus, chaµ xx. verse

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; afterwards rude to Fragnuore, Therethe KING,
dined, and returned to the -Palace at three.

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The QIJ LEX, Print ewes Soros• and ELIZASETII,
heard di►ine service in the Palace ; afterwards rode

to Frog pore, ready to receive the fits G.
Several more transports hare arrived at Dover, to

take in troops.
it is said that a confidential person, who has
been frequently entrusted with high diplomatic
commissiiins, set off on Thursday, from the Secre-
tary of State's Office, on a special mission to a
Northern Court.

The Spanish Deputies had an interview on Satur-
day tnortaug with the First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Rom Brig.-Ceneral Meade, who was dan-
gerously wounded in Egypt, is appointed to sue.
teed Gen. BraEsroan in the command at Madeira.

if. takes his passage from Portsmouth.
The lion. Admiral Grabs ea hoisted hie flag. eta
Wednesday, on board the Bellerophon, in the
Downs. to comniaud the squadron off Flubbing-.
Government are purchasing large quantities of
oats, supported to be intended either for the supply
of our cavalry in Sweden, or for the use of tbe pa-
triots in Spain.
Administration is said to be dissatisfied with Ge-
neral Sir Joss Moose, for having given an opi-
nion, in his dispatches to this country, that nothing
could be done in Norway. and having in come-
quenoe remained inactive at Gottenbtugh. Never
did any expedition appear to have been more lulu-
diciously !dunned. or to have more completely
" hung tire," than the armament sent so long ago
to the Baltic.
The French force in Spain is now understood
not to be so considerable as it was at bast repre-
sented, and it is dispersed is garrisoning VOTIOdS
forts and cities.
The Asturian, it is said, were in patisseries of a
proclamation from Commis the IVtli, dictated no
doubt by the Corsican, appointing his brother,
JOSEPH BON•PARTE, King of Spain.
Three hundred theusand pounds, in dollars, wu
sent from the Bank on Friday last, to be shipped
off to Spain, for the use of the Provinces in revolt
against the French.
Government, it is now well understood, are in

possession of very few (sets respecting the nonme-
tal in Spain. Whatever asse►tiuws may be ha-
waded in the blinisterial Papers, relative to Biscay,
the Asturias, and Gallicia. if the Administration
were under a necessity of publishing any thing on
the subject, it could consist of little except opi.
ohms, hopes, and eostioetores.
AU the revenue cutters at Plymouth were, last
week, put under the orders of .Wmiral Youan, to
be at his disposal. It is supposed they are to carry
home the Spanish prisoners (about 2U00) at that
part, as lists of all the Spaniards, natives of the
four Northern maritime provinces, are ordered to
be made out for the purpose of being sent home to

assist their countrymen.
Letters were received in town yesterday, from
Gibraltar, to the .24th ult. brought to England
by the Minorca. They contain the following ex-
tract of a letter from Tangiers, dated 10th ult.--
" A powerful army is now fitting down before
Ceuta; but whether it irs meant to attack is not cer-
tainly known; Nisch will depend on what Eng-
land may do by pea."
In the reports circulated upon the alleged autho-
rity of the Spanish Patriots, lately arrived in this
country it is said that the Bishop of Sr. JANO DE
Costrorrat.L4 WWI among the most zealous opposers
of BONAPARTE in Spain. The plate from the
churches was, if neuemary, to be converted into
dollars, for the purpose of carrying on the war, and
the Patriots were already. in possession of a fund
for that purpose equal to eight millions of dollars.
If any speech, pronounced in either House of
Parliament, on theCatholicQuestion, was ever cal-
culated to produce conviction, it seems to he that
of the Bishop of Nonwics, given in this paper of
Saturday. Those who take a pleasure iu perusing
sentiments of the mast enlarged policy, blended
with the true spirit of Christianity, will there see
their esemolitication. The manner and language
in which the Bishop his handled the words of the
coronation oath, merit peculiar attention. We
have only to regret, that a prelate, whose mind is
mat once so expanded and so enlightened, should
stand alone. Nor can we sufficiently lament the
circumstances which stern still to place at a dis-
tance the time when the Catholics of these restart
shall be admitted to all the civil and political
rights of fellow-subjects.
The Denbigh Militia have taarched from Ina-
ba:unit Lees to Fort Pitt, Chatham. The Rad-
norshire Militia have marched for Bopre? Bernie kr,
near Hastings. The Middlesex Militia have
marched into Horsham. The td Dragoon,, or
Queen's Bays, tOth Dragoons, and the East Kent
Meitia, are at Chichester. The lath, or Maid* re-
girnimt, a part of which marched to sclera bac-
racks, a fortnight since, being afflicted with the
ophadatia, %e are happy to state. are fast sccover-
lag.

7ADIO SALTOU.V'S BRAND BREAKFAST.

This Lady gave a grand public breakfast, on Fri-
day, at her elegant cottage at Blackheath, which was
attended by upwards of live hundred Nobility and
Fashionable! ; the arrangements were in the great-
est style of elegance three bands of musk sere
stationed in different parts of the lawn; in four ele-
gant apartments table were set out for the accom-
modation of the company. There was an elegant
display of carriages and four.
Amongst the company were—
Her Royal Highness the Princess of %Vales and Duchess
of Brunswick ; their Revel Highnesses t►e Dukes of Keut
Gloucester ; Earls Radnor and Limerick ; Coautemes
Warwick mid Radnor; Lords Erskine and JIIII3IIEO Murray ;
Ladies Perry, Glynn, and Clark ; Sir A. Clarke, the
Slit Yaps, sad Mrs. Heamment.