The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-05-24 00:00:00

• bill-, Anti the ernel and unconstitutional practice
-a sending men into seditarvonfinement, twigged
lease to propore the health of an able and elognerit
Friend of his, who had distinguished himself
late occa4inn before the 'loose of lowls• lie rhea
proposed 6* The health of .1/r. C/;_tfirrd;" which
was drank Is it 11.1011
(:t.tri-rnto returned his thanks in a forcible
speech.
G. moor Carheright and the Middlesex Freda,*
ere" was then 'kook with vothuotaii.„
Major A ItTWILIGHT retitriled thanks for himself
stildwhe Mitttlksex Elector-, to the meetii.t, who.
had so hii:itly•hliioureil lie concluded by
proposing As a
The Cminties, Cities, and Towns, that have recently
declared their conviction of the ',tensity of Parliameatary
Reform, partmalarly such as VA ii-commended the 'dup•
flan of the f.plesulid example of the City of Westminster."
It wits drank with great upplaase.
Lord Erskine, and the liberty clif solitary eon.
ji',rmeill," t.h drank. After which, Mr. Fin-
s cart', in a 11101 and el.iiineitt speech, proposed
.. • Pie health of 411 r. Whiti».rad," which was drank
enthusiasm.
:sir 13uvlett and his friends then retired.
Nlessrs. Dignom. Jones, &c.far-iired the
company with ensay appropriate song; in the
of Of, eteitintro_

THE iIkAiTISH PRESS.
LON DON,
wi-piNcsmy, ai.r 2s.

RECAPIURE or OFUIITO.

The A'oupa►eil schooner. Lieutenant Du iuri-
iJN, is arrived at Falmouth, with au accounts
tinit Sir A1:1111.1* WELLESI.LY took pte~.esion
of Oporto 011 the 14th instant. Sir Alaimo hart
wiitten to the Capt. of the Setuiraa.i.•, desiring
that an Officer might be soot to Head-quarters
.to (wry his dispatches to Englvitl, but the
westerly winds blew so strong till the 17th,

that no "Orel could pars the bar; upon which
Captain Gsarrjtß dispatched the Nonpareil with
the ilaportant fact ab....e-mentioned. The Nau-
tilus, it is supposed, will Lc dispatched with
the particulars, as soon' as she cast ;Nam the bar.
The intellionee,by the Nonpareil, t*r
been ascertained, seelree to he considere4 urea,l,-
factory, sines it is conceived to imply that, thougn

we have entered Oporto, let that :se Ft era 11, eq..

der So tt LT. have retested into so,
the 11: or up4).io is, in itvelf, nu xreat
o!,ivet calla• of military fotne, or of se.,ti move.
qiteisee.

We give this dm, id conformity with our pro
wive, ti bill and faithful report of the trial of dear.
Advniial HO TS:Y.—While we admit the jostle' of
his sentence, we must regret that the volintry has
lost :he services of so valuable and meritorious an
OFficer.--We regret it the more, because it Is lint tile
Officer, hut the Minister, whom we un,ht to bluish-.
T 4 the same spirit that produced the three sa per-
itediogGenerstaat Vimeiru, arid the trial of Sir if EW
DANI:TNTLE, may be traced the appointment of
Lord COcilltANE to auperreile one of the gallant
Heroe• of and hia disgrace, in the trial
and dismissal of the gallant ILativEy from His
bluje,ty's service.-1 he people of titghewl, the
world, in bhorti have been taught to believe, that
the idea of 'destroying the French squadron in
Basque Honda, by tire-ships, originated with Lord
COCIIRANZ ; whereas it appears in evidence, that
such ems She advice mud opinion of Admit-ill 11AI
•&y. Why, then, my Lord Mum:maws, did you
NOS allow Admiral lit ewe to execute that which
he vule the first to cone' ive ? Wby was he, .!ii
the ether, gallant Olneers in Lord Gsama's
fleet, indirectly datiaird incompetent and %us.
tit, by committing the eaterprtae to an inferior
°Rica, totally unconneeted with the sepnwiron, and
%ALA ins for the express purpose ? The history of
Admiral HARTET shews that he would have done
the busincis as well la I.Ord CuCHRANE, and was
as ready to do it. I'lle crew of Lord NELSON and
Sir JnIIN 011 n. does not apply ; and Lord atm-
maga will, iu vein, plead the example of the Earl
of Sr. VINCENT. Ministers, lineerer, it must
he • confessed, have succeeded in their politice...-
They disgraced an Onoffemling General, in the
person of Sir Hew DALRTISPLE ; they have now
disgraced a meritorious Admiral, in the person of
Sir ELIAS lIIARTEY : rad they have carried their
point is screening Lord CASTLEREAGH from that
punishment, to which public opinion bail most justly
and necessarily devoted that noble and magnum-
moos %lemon nt.

His MAJESTY is expected in town, this day, to
hold a private Levee and Privy Council at the
gi:ELS'S Palace.
l'e.teriday morning, His MAJESTY, Princesses
Auouers and Soros, accompanied by the Mars
•ipii+ VORZIWALLIS, Lord+ Riven* and Attottif
__eitera.+ .. r;AETU and'.
Idoly C. W•Losultave,
FITZROY, and Colonel TAT LOA, rode on horseback
in IVindsor Great Park, nod returned to the Palace
at twelve o'clock. Tho Qu tee and Princess ELS.
ZAIIIIIII took an airing to Frogaiore, and walked in
- the garih•us. The Prowess Ax►.t.ta took R n airing
in a carriage, in the Little Park, her Royal High..
mils mit haviiig sufficiently recovered her strength
to ride on horseback.
Monday, the Duke of CAMIIIIDOt reviewed the
Royal Illoriw Guards and Ste:Tort! Militia in Wind-
sor Great Park.
Account+ are re^eived by the Genfrerl Anode,
of • plot having recently Lim discovered, thrilled
by the Negroes of J11111:11e3, to .et tire to the towns
of that Island, and aftersards to murder the white
inhabitants, to effest a revolution, prerisc!i similar
zo that which has so fatally prevailed iu the
sseighhearing island of St. Domingo.

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