The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-04-14 00:00:00

Toot is'on is an engineer, had setved udder tON k-
PARTE in Egypt, and was personally beloved by
him. Like NAPOLEON, AN DREAPSSI was by desceut
an Whim, though Lis family had been naturaliiied
during three generations in France. TALLEY=
RANO long opposed his nomination as Ambassador
to London ; andl when he was ordered by the Fta.T
COttsbL.to make out a list of persons fit for that
employment,' he omitted AN PREOSSI'S name.
Surprised and indignant at the circumstance, 80..
APARTE remarked to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs 4. Je n'y vois pegs le nous d'Andreessi. Flutes
le inserer." He then selected ARDREOSSI for the
mission. Bat TALLEYRAND took care to accom-
pany him with a spy, in the person of PORT A its.
Secretary to the embassy. ANDaLosst was a Mall
Of plain sense, frank, open, rough in his manners,
and destitute of all finesse or artifice. He had
even a republican rudeness about him, ill-adapted
to raise him in Courts. NAPOLEON nevertheless
continued to employ him at Vienna, down to the

present time.
Com Jimmies is the most celebrated of the three,
and has played a most important part in the court
and history of Russia. His name will be handed
down with execration to Im,terity, on account of
the part which he performed in the tragedy of the
Duke D'Emosims. Assuredly, it was impos-
sible to do any act more calculated to consign his
memory to the abhorrence of future ages. Yet,
justice demands, arid truth exacts the avowal, that
CAULINCOURT, far from courting that commission,
endeavoured not only to avoid it, but to execute it
in a manner that should have allowed the victim to
escape. We know, from the best authority, that
CAULINCOURT, when he arrived at Ettenheiin,
where the Duke D'ENGHIEN was, far i: ni•at-
tempting to surround the house in w!, • • !, resid-
ed, gave notiee of his approach, '7 ini..ntion
that the Duke might quit the tuna. A 4411iiiig at
the head of a party of car dry at the door of the
house, he entered it; and, nrossint; the hall, met
the Prince himself. Affecting ignorance of his
person, though lie knew the Mike well, he ad-
vanced, and said, " Je Aida enrimi ici de la part de
L'Emperear, pour iue swish de In personae du Due
IY Eaghica ; Lc comagissez-cous?" The Prince
had only to have disavowed any knowl.nhie of-his
person. But, whether from want of sufficient pre-
' seace of mind, or disdaining to deny his name, he
replied, " Cat raoi qui nit. It Dec
—" In that case," said CAULINCOUKT, " lay orders
are to arrest your Highness." The rest is known
to all Europe. No act of Boa AINIRTIeI life, none
of his crimes or warder., have made so odious an
imprei.bioa on Europe, us the execution of that
magnanimous Prince, performed by torch-light, in
the Fosses of the Chateau de Vincennes.

That the capture of Vigo, and the French garri-
son, is not an event of sufficient importance and
magnitude to compel, or to mince, SOULT to
abandon his attack on Portugal, we believe. But
it iss nevertheless, a piece of success, calculated to
operate strongly on the insurgents in the North-
West of Spain, to quicken their operations, and to
impel them to pursue the advantage. SouLT had
i pushed on, as it appears, to Braga ; but we are yet
without any information of his having reached
Oporto. And it may be doubted, after the low of
Vigo, foltosted by the defeat of the French who'
marched from Toy, how far Sou,/ would plunge
deeper into Portugal, leaving Gallicia, Conning.
and Ferrol, to the protection of Nay, who is not
understood to have more firma 5000 effective troops
wider his command. The situations of affairs in
Portugal, both on the Douro and on the Tagus;
towards Oporto, and towards Elves ; is most criti-
cal ; and our next accounts that country must
be proportionably interesting. The capitulation of
Vigo differs materially from the spirit of the comm.
vention of Cintra, and prot•eeds on such bases as a
British Commander need not blush to sign.
The Cork illercas=h7=surk contains the fol-
lowing article Intelligence is said to have been
received from Washington, a duty later than the
date of the American newspapers, which mention
that Mr. Gittes had proposed a resolution, by way
of rider, to time Non-lutercourse and Embargo Bills,
• putting off their operation till the mirth% of the
new Congress, in May, which it was thought would
not be rejected. We do not see any reason for
treating this report with much respect."
A Requisition to call .‘ a Meeting of the inha-
bitants of the town and neighbourhood of Shrews-
bury, to consider the propriety of votieg their thanks
to Mr. WAIIDI.U." dtc. gas mr Tiirmlay presented
to Mr. SMITH, the Chief Magistrate in the absence
of the Maros': the consideration of which. he 1s
requested may he deferred till the return of the
MAYOR, who is expected this day.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
Fuel India House, when the Six new Directors took
the usual Oaths and their seats.

CNAL GRANT and Wx. Aarr Lt., &qrs. were
elected Chairman awl Deputy Chairman.
The Court atlourued at Wx o'clock WI %%redoes-
vtay next.
The Pomona, T►:swt.t:x.tn, from Lisbon for
London, was captiare,l on the 11th Dec. The
crew W arrived at Sinitr.

the Royal Charlotte, Moans., is arrived in the
Clyde, from Grenada, which place site left onthe
2d ult. in company with the Eglittivton, (ituttm-
iml, for the Clyde--parted, on the rilte, oft* St.
Theresa's. The Sovereign, —, for London, and
the Heeler, for Liverpool, put into Grenada
tu February, leaky, and din-hinged part or their
cargoes—the former sailed again on the 11th Feb.
—and the latter was to sail about the middle of
March.

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