The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-07-24 00:00:00

bane, 3111.! 21. t Rongary they eselOgirofilliVilt ins ;a *
The transports mentioned yesterday to ham been I Mowed. as Zolin,tlsorniese pride t Omar ostrat
t Mete anion from the Westward, are stillbesting.. lotwowed, is he the ' - rich eirike'peeeitteei
air here, the nisei being yet apitert them. Thar* _
are shout str, and are rupposed to be those which "4' the heed'lttert4l4" Vrimilia tbt 11111‘
were expected to have taken troops in here, via.— I rensainetlet Wolkeralod, the hessileareatis 4 the
the'2Otit,aHth,sodgydßegimentofHighlanders, Archduke Cactus,' begins the creasing Of
with the bat and 241 battalion cif the Gentian Legions. the Danube by Lite French. Il'hen, its the bat.
but which troops marched through here, std are the of .
ns HMI BON APAATO was drives memos
now waiting at Deal ; some of the militia, which
marched from here, to make room for them, ore the Danube, and the Archduke CliAlt.l.lia Petunia.
returned. et/ in powession of the field. we promesuced the
Last night, Ma Captseini, of vessels, with* Wreath ilieteey in favour of the Austrian. By the move
person, "Id to be merchant, was out of rule, we mist now prouounce that the battles of
the Excise cutter, vtatiolied here, Capt. Labures;
tIK
which cutterisicked them up as they were trsolvio,?; t;"ztEsdu"l7d Witilreu` were ill "us' of
their recipe. having been prisoners at Valenciennes.' Fiend), but that the leer of Waisson Moon. ou both
They tb not briug troy partiatillar news. They side., bears sitter proportiou.'aird that lletll
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state, that the couseripti are dully forced from their toles lire dreadfully cut up. we may fairly pro.
Ninnies, alter a notice of 'nay three cloys, which, it
sun)e. The hies -wo thevide
ve. the French, it
will
appear*, is the only time they have for training, prior
to their being soarelwd MI, to joiu the Grand Array. bit oboe:cell. is greater than the French, from their
It dors nut appear they have limed any of the Wilt, usual Style, Might be stoppered to admit; and it
communicated to us toAas by ineaus of a Ilisk 1i i. twister observable„ that, of this great contest.
Purlieftear which WI" PickL'd 013 Yester"!. "41 whirls was to decide the fate of the Austrisn Mo.
lauded hereto the PVlrililk4 from one of oar cruiser..
tvarchy, it is now only mid. that it mum invisme the
It was thrown overboard by a Sclionne'e privateer.
while our cruiaer was in the act of cloning her, bet Emperor of AVOTRIA to accept ternm'ilf peaces
which afterward* made liar eacapt.. We hove lied some onportutrities of comparing
The 'lunettes uie said to ethitain an account or our owl" items relative to the east esebarkatiors
the defeat of the Austrians, with the loss of .25.000 sew eriheti met heed,. completed, with the
men, beside prisoners to a very great amount. This
of y
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is said to have taken place Olt the ; but :1,4 there Pre e mteittut-trittle'le tle'ettigu"'"'lt. ttb-
set eau itabuire be reseeded as a secret of State,
hove been other accounts, Ire the way *of I lolland,
which du riot make any minotwor, of it, snit no report or even as row whielv it eon in any drape be 'trio-
having hem-heard font' the month of the cannot', Am" freely to dimwit, and to diruige. We shalt,:
we hope ut this tune it is orgy meant to rniileail us. therefore,
state, with brevity, but without reserve,
—The Doted" say. why are the Ertglimh so homy is
coining t It seems they an in anziona expectletiots. , th'ele le"h°44 P°4" which appear to "to 13"°46-
tool mender it •as certain we Hie to, put' dell* a tote the priaciples and buses. on which so prodi-
s isit.—Shentiftlas he the care, it is to hr hoped we y giou4 a naval 'sod 'unitary force rail or ought to he
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scut to the Continent ; leaving to time to correct
any such errors either 4 speculation and policy,
or of face. as we notiY coniusit is the investigation of
the subject; proimarrig, 'redo. taco/nide* the
present Cabinet, or at lea,t the Majority alibi bleu.
heri, as utterly unfit. inadequate, and ignereu4 of
the steps by which the Empire can alcinetse
in,Usitained, or Europe- extricated and saved ; we
shall endessoerte placer before our readers the po-
sition in which Great Britain actually stands ; and'
the measures which Weconceire to be judicious or
+wee:rutty to adopt, •It will then be for the oration
to decide, after the aceorspaishovent. or the fuilure
of the enterprise, whether the Administration has,
or his not, determined ell the wisest and most µmi-
neable inode of attockiug BoeAPASTE in his pro.
sent 'irritation.

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To *oppose that dest►uction is the sole, or even
the p►rincipel object in our contemplation, whew
sending out the whole disposable fince orthe king-
dem ; to imitgine that we shook" merely limit our
efforts to the demolition of forts, se the capture and
coniligeution of the enemy's flezts and arsenals et
Flashiag, or in the Scheldt, or et Antwerp ; ap-
pears to us to be altogether inadequate to the para-
mount necessitt• which has dictated, and winch jos-
tifies such an attempt. In otl►er times it might
soflice to buns the duck-yards and ships of
France, while we levelled the fortiric diets with the
ground. plat, in 'soy, when the tyrant of the
Continent may be said to contend,' not for *sir,
or Austria, or Germany, or Holland, but for the
doeiwims of Europe collectively, othor retwedies
must be tried, cud deeper wounds must be inflicted
on him. A new national policy, commensurate to
his, must be adopted. It' will not he sufficient to
cover the ocean with our fleets, and to block his
squadrons in the ports of Holland or of Flanders ;
for iflie prove eventtelly victorious on the Danube,
if he aunihilate or subject Austria, he will resume
every thing on the Ebro and on the Tagus. Eu-
rope wilt act by his impulse, and the porta, fleets,
and re•ourkes of every country will become his.—
Nlaster of tl►e Continent, he will, after eselutling
us from every port, finally summed in the invasion
of Ireland or of England. We may survive the
dissolution of the ancient fabric of Europe, but
we shall equally suit infallibly perish., either by
arts Of by violence. In order to meet the destroyer
on equal 4(touutl, we must assimilate ourselves to
, twin., mid hecioue, in mime measure, ea klegral
portion <if that Costliest, which he !attempts to re-
duce to his obedience. But bone is such au object
to be edected, nod isitere
At elisions periods of our history•, we bare, as it
is well kruswii. °liniment and retained possession of
the keys of Feiner. of Holland. and of Howlers;
thimich for neer one hundred and fifty yeses, last
post, Hogland has ern held any such in her power.
During successive centuries, Calais opened to on;
Sovereigns s 'fass►ge into the heart of Picardy.
&Assamt receive', as a mortgage from the I)incli.
the 4• three cautiolinry towns," Y they were dews-
mirseierl, Itatww►erkrnt, Terreer, and the Britt,
w!iich her successor sold, and which rendered the
English masters of Lastly, eitowsiLLL,
in 1637, got possession of thenkirk, cototnauding
a passage bib) the Nethe►lands, and even lute
Framer ; but which Charles 11. alienated to
Louts XIV. soon after his Restoration in' 1660.
If such stepping-atones. or points of coniircouti,
with the Contiuent were conside►ed to be objects
of ambit' ~,,, of policy& or of utility, iu pest age*,
how u►linitely mare so are they now We may
eay of Ito N A PA RTC; as CATJ does, In Luct It, of the
supreme 'weeding power of Nature,- Jepireeest
vsoekroopre odor, eproeitelve *weir. The coun-
tries of Europe may, it is true, retain their unities,
hilt their esseni..• is lost. N A Patent, dn•tates. c.nl•
scribes, destroys, and re-cmati,. from tni•• cc►re-

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pith Sir* jlrAteri mais et ssestersci
sag a..ithmilliii. uses geia seeders oregano
pseiliel dilates& Psasse, se Madera. A territory
sesligssook ad ism dissivssorl, which, once taken;
rag Isspostedisd sod adideled 'spinet ill his mili-
tia, issue by oar naval superieehy; tut island,letwa •
to, Tit Seta part of, the ekeio lead ; such is the de.
sediment,.
All then guanine as resealeilie seem to meet in
the his tte Waldman. its lain gesitioa, oak, it 4
Miles frost the Nom. mind set ArmW from the
Hoods Foreland ; its asagaitade. fertility, and fa.
cility of scene to es, during spring tides; above all,
! its situation, projecting Wpm. soy Maar part of
Unruh and lying midway between the Latch. she
' Masse, aid the Scheldt ;—how weft Memos.
stances of nomad, impowalife to be bead mind
mulled elsewhere ! Never was say janglers so pro.
pities. for the attempt. Holland has been drained
of troops. to tight tho Corsican's battles. .ITbe
people are 'disc/mm[lnd, interdicted from 'll eam.
mare. pluadered, and oppressed. Loins Sem A.
PART'S possesses us resources of character, .ltd
Nssoixes is far off. Middleburg, Floelting,
mad Tamer, may be gerrisoood with British
forces; while a flea is unhealed there, which, at
once. hermetically clean op the Seheklt. litre,
then, we conceive, might to be our first attempt;
end its object should be permanent possession, so
long as France and Holland remain in their present
enslaved state. The seam/ enterprise might be. to
destroy his tiny and has arsenals in the Scheldt.—
if those two objects can be effected. the Continent
may be nagastind and re-vitiate!. We *limes
in fact, a part or*., Ke must lastithilieliwiltdo
even though he has recovered his reputed,. is gni.
ther battle, end defeated the Austrian fos& We
may snatch the prey frees his grasp, and; es the bell
Pm said of conquering America in Germany. so
may we rescue Austria in the Low Countries.
It has been reported, that the 47th French Bill-
letie has been received; stating that M 4.sk • 6•4
oeyitaibeikthe Austrians is their retreat from Zuraiin,
in thediieetioo of Bohemia, defeated them, and
made the Archdake Cnatues prisoner.—lt his
been also stated, with equal coofideami, that the
Archduke JOHN, taking advantage of the uoprm.
tested state of the right hank of the Disrobe, lid_
suddeuly crossed that river at Presbergb• sta., by •
rapid moventent,taken possession of Vienna...Bo*
thesereports, we believe, are without any &nudes
boo.
Intelligence low been received from Holland of
so Lte a date as 'Flarsday. It enables us to cos-
nradict the moon that has pkvesied of ea ember.
go in the Dumb ports. The easel diet has swirled
Fry alsiuswide the mon of war in the Nit.*
Diep for tive day. before she sailed, during which
time they sever fired a gen, or *hewed their ce-
lesta. • The ObVIONII conclusion, therefore, is, that
no act:touts of the late successes on the left bank of
.the -Danube had reached Holland, or that they
were not considered, sudicieutly important and
decisive to werratit such &extensiveness it joy.
Nothing Wl4lll known iu Flotiond of the neharges
in .the British ports, nor was any thing mid about
the expedition, although it war suspected the Dutch
Government had seine appreheosion of its being
possibly directed against that country, as two ships
of the line, nearly new, were ordered up to ideslss-
Wk. a few days ago, under pretence of waiting
repairs.
The Cl:este:Alit packet is arrived font the eat
lA., bat the mad will not be in tows roil ebb day.
The ontwanl.bound packet (the Ildiati) MONA at
Rio de Janeim on the 14th of May. The Maims
.field's journal, informs us, that His filsaiser's
ship Brahma*, with seven *ail of merchantmen hen
Madeira, arrived at Rio de Janeiro the 4th Asia
Oil the 15th inst. the Chesterfield passed the fleet
from Janette', 70 or 80 sail; Uw Sisassss's ship
Pkeasast was Reenmpany.
As we stated, on Saturday, Mr. CANNING, the
Poetaster ant Secretary of State far Foteign Af'
fairs, and several other Ministerial Gentlemen awl
No"deineu. wrist dorm the river, to their guAs
destined for the Downs, to see the
grand expwlitiiisi wifely of& with three cheers.—
A* ere stisted, rho. ow Aationhay, a sort of murmur,
of 1111 nufavarable kind, had reached towel on Fri-
day ; but it lad not araiinted a sufficiently defioise
shape. nor was it sufficiently autheeticated, manses
their. departure. The news of tint II alletins, how-
ever, reached thetii, an Saturday, on their voyage
down the River; .lull. on Saturday night, they ef-
fected their inglormmmui retreat to IVbiteliall Sours.
where they Ima,mmtei iu perfell Safety, at te.11441M .
It is 110 i a very digisified evectacke to behold the
Mi ry of England mining obedient to tlw com-
mand .r BON AP4R ni On time Danube. But thisis not
thew hole of the slisi{raceof which we have ta essatp!ain.
The g. 5111 email 16th Bulletins were picked np at Seel•
They beano roue kof embank-ay but the paper and
the character of the type. They may be fabri-
Catinn•is They may be a foreign' hostilefirssare to
inisked our Ministers, and prevent them from
*ending their expedition to the Consianat.—
They may be a domestic preuuiary ilitesow„caticu-
latest for the Stuck Exchange, on which wis God
they have bad a greet operation. We de not
.41, star do we believe, thus tli. WO. ea ; 6111
taloa s..iiredly it is frigleftit to think, that

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