The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-16 00:00:00

FS R6T NOTICE.

John Pierer, otheraiae Pieara, late of
Moutgat farmer.

Government, we understand, have already dis-
charged upwards of 700 sail of transports. a large
proportion probably of which will enter into the
coal trade, and thereby, in a slwirt time, eaum a re.
&settee in thee present high price of that important
arch ie of consumption.

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POLICY OF BONAP,IF:TE.

One of the great intellectual features which cha-
racterise the prevent period, and which distitiguish
the revolutionary wars by which Europe is actually
desolated, from those of all preceding times, is the
constantand systematic appeal made, by the Rider
of France, through the medium of the press, wit
only to his own subjects, but to the States, and
People, mid Goverutnents, against whom he is car-
rying on hostilities. Louis the XVth and XVlth,
content with communicating laconically and offi-
cially. to the Freuch nation, a victory or a con-
quest, whether real or supposed. and ordering Te
Deem to be sung; never attempted to inflame, to
persuade, or to seduce, the public opinion of the
British, or the Austriaus, by insidious mid urtful
addresses to their understandings, or to their pas-
sions. But the moral tactics of the Corsican Em-
peror are hardly less to be dreaded than his arms.
With admirable sagacity he tries to dissever the
people with whom he contends from their Sove-
reign or their Administration. His revolutiouary
weapons, dipt in a subtle poison, and prepared
with consummate art, are calculated to terrify. to
deceive, and to bewilder, those whom he cannot cou-
vince. For this purpose, the Moniker is ordered to
select those salient passages or remarks, which,
from time to time, may appear in our newspapers, to
criticise, to examine, and to expose them, by argu-
ment or by ridicule. Thus he directs his envenom-
ed shafts from Paris, to Petersbargh, to Vienna,
or to London. Whether, as The Courier is pleased to
tell us, these articles " appear to be the production
of BONAPARTE illtntel,' we may be allowed to
doubt, notwithstanding the respect due to so high
an authority as the paper in question. It is rather
more probable, in Our opinion; that NAPOLEON,
whatever he may do while he is at St. Cloud, or at
Rainbouillet, in times of repose, is at present too
fur removed from this part of Europe, and too
much occupied in negociations, or reviews, or pre,
purations for the possible renewal of hostility, to be
able to compose paragraphs for the Moniker, at
Schoeillosinn, or at Raab. Leaving, however, this
point unaseertained, let us see what either lie or
the able expositors and composers whom he em-
ploys, have said on the principal events of the late
campaigns or expeditions, ou the Danube, in Zea-
land, amid in Castile.

That NAPOLEON was stung by the observations
made in Tuc Gtout of the 19th of August last,
relative to the different conduct observed by the
Emperor F'itArtos, after the battle of %Vagrant,
from that line of action which he adopted after the
defeat of Austerlitz, in soEciting or accepting au
interview its a windmill, it i.r.% iniparsible to doubt.
In the reproaches which he throws out agai;•ist
FRANCIS, for his want of gratitede towards his Cor-
sican Benefactor, and in his declaration, that " if
there has been no interview, it is because the gru-
peror NAPOLRON would have none," we perceive
how deeply the arrow has entered the flesh, and the
pain that it excited. In order to oblitrrate or to
efface the impression, which he conceiv.A *sigh
remarks might make, he commences a laboured
discussion, in order to prove that Austria possessed
fay greater resourcee.domestic and foreign, in 11306,
after the battle of Austerlitz, than she does now in
1809. Nor can any man fairly deny his premises,
though the fallacy of his conclusions is evident ;
fur, it is not the state and condition of the Austrian
provinces, or armies, or foreign alliances, winch
will by say meatus deride the fate of the Moooreby,
as BUNAPARTR well knows. It is the spirit, tlier-
gy, and deternsimetion, which animate the Sove-
reign. the councils, the armies, and the people of
Austria, on which every thing must depend.—
AV hen II A Irlr 19 A L thundered at the gates 'itt. Ituwe,
and when, after the battles of Tbrasymen*, and of
Canals, he exclaimed—
." Artsm, igait, aihil eat, nisi Pero milite portal
Fraugitam, et media eexilitin peso Sabana;"
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Rome see' ned to be lost. But .hey repelled the
Carthaginian invader, because they were deter-
mined to perish, or to conquer. T.e same de-
generate Romans, when ALASIC, or Onoscea,
appeared before their walls. instantly snbmitted to
the conqueror. If the vigour of the Monarchy be
indeed extinct, NAPOLEON may crush the form of
it. If, on the other hand, FaaNcts is prepared to
realise liis late declarations to Europe, and rather
to hazard the Lot extremities of war, than to sub-
mit to ruinous or ignotninious terms of peace, he
will find resources and allies ; though not, we fear,
in Great Britain, while her councils are conducted
by the same imbecile Ministers, who sent armies to
Castile, to Naples, and to Zealand, which ought to
have been directed agaiust Germany. It is here,
in London, we repeat, that Box arallTK has found,
in our incapacity, Iris best security, and his surest 'nip-
ped. When, however, he assert., as he does in the
Moaireur before as, that "all the Austrian armies. all
the Austrian fortresses, have been attacked and van-
quished," he wantonly violates fact. Are Comore
and Olmutz taken? Are the armies that extend
from Prague to Buda. annihilated ? These asser-
tions may amuse the Parklike", but °Whet no real
wound. On the state. of the Tyrol, on the co-
operation of Russia, as well as on Prussia, the
Corsican is silent. We shall. however, pass from
this part of his declamation, to Lord CIIAIRAM,
mid to Antwerp.
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It was doubifess well weighed by the persona who
composed the passage* in question, whether it
would be more politic to accuse the COmmander-
in-Chief of that Expedition, of incapacity and want
of all talent or decision, in not attacking Antwerp,
and the fleet in the Scheldt; or, whether it would
be wiser to exaggerate the impracticability of such
an attempt, on a city so admirably fortified, as well
as defended by so great a military and naval force.
They preferred the tatter alternative, because it was
most honourable to the French Government, to
have it supposed. that they had rendered the Scheldt,
and Antwerp impregnable, or inapproachable.—
Hence, the pompous and inflated enumeration of
the batteries, and forts, and redoubts, and inun-
dations, and armies, with which the providence and
vigilance of their Corsican Master had covered his
Flemish possessions. Hence, too, the sarcastic
and contemptuous reflexions on the insanity or folly
of the English, in attacking, taking, sail attempt-
ing to retain, a sickly Island such as Welchem),
only fit to be the grave of our devoted troops. But,
in all these philippics, both upon the errors com-
mitted, affirriptive or negative, and on the con-
dnct of Lord CH mum in charging himself with
a senseless operation ;" the vital point, tapes which

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all hinges, is studiously kept opt ta, sight. We
ils not deny, that, after Ins I)tikes of Ptitere
(;nano, FsfaiA, Nod Cogriv.tAtvnic, hail been al-
lowed to assemble their forces round Antwerp, it
would have been greater temerity and imprudt nee,
than even Sir ARTOUR himself displayed in march-
ing to "Madrid, if Lord Cus•rnasi had then at-
tempted to taoitot the Scheldt, awl to carry Lam,
together with wx or seven other torts, either by
storm, or 13) regular approachet. But, the object
of inquiry, and of accusation that, before all,
or any of these ineivis of del; lice were collected,
is the first days of .lugust, without laying siege to
Flushing, or landing on Walehercn, he did not, as
that flue, try tile experiment. if the Ministers, in
their instructions, positively ordered him to heti',
with Flushing, and to make no attack on- Aottvei p,
till that fortress hind surrendered, they ore godly,
and must answer to their country for such
pock. If Lord Cif ATHA4, having full or diserts
tinnary powers, delayed the attempt, from his oiosi
indecision, or ignorance, or procrastimition, It
must he brought to trial. But all the laboured
panegyrics of the 411anitettr, on their ty ram'.,
transcendent wisdom and precantirm., arc oily
waste of words, fur the purptee of dweeptieti. e
must here pop; hnt aill take an carry
of restuniAg our further 000iinents on these etiliao,
papers.

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NAVAL lATiLLIGENCE.

IPUICTSMOUTH. OCT. 13.
Sailed for Halifax, with convoy, the Opuerww, is
gene, CaPt. I;yatti; and Vyriae, on a cruise.
Came into harbour. the Challenger, bd guns,
Captain Ryder.
Went out of harbour the Der'ren►, 18 gene.
Arrived the Dapper gnu-brig, from a ci uise.
PLYMOCTII-DOCK, ore. le.
Arrived, this day, the Aarernis. :12 gone. Hon.
Capt. Aylme►, from • stu:se; end Syhalu, Love,
front Martinique.
Sailed, last evening. the dewha, 44 guns, I I In.
Capt. Irby, to the westward.
ft bed lokoitat a gale from the eastward these titre,
days.

DEAL, OtT, 13.

Arrived this day. the Swallow (titt;r, anCi
Nulk-
afetse lugger, from ; filarlborov; is, 74,
from the westward; and the Diana frigate, from
• eruilte ;.wt rennin' with the Print-eel it/On/183'e,
Vice-Admiral Campbell ; Sea Domingo, several
goo-brigs, transports, tkr. are.
Sailed the Dunmore, for Now Providence.
C9TIK, rice. 6.

Ye:tyrelay His Majesty% ship I)rnid, emit:tut.
Sir W Milton, strived at Cove from Plymouth

raom s.LOYIYS LIST.
Gni Vestry ta, ('ct. ta —Arrived tke Britannia, Clow-
ten, front Cuttitaburo ; Scarf; ,Searcb, from %irk.:
anti tke IlinA .loop of war, front Flnaitietz—Sail ail tie Her-
mit& Lewis., for Malta; Atalanta, Botcher. far ditto; LLD-
dun Packrt, Holman, for ('ork ; Eliza and Afargaral,
for Newry ; Catitatins, Iriarstron, awl Providentia, Sows, fur
lititteitbuet..

MEETINGS OF Ca Ef)l FORS AT U (LOB ALL,
- TO-11104 "Lbw . M. 11.
Thomas Mown, nimicil-stresl, Bernsomlsey-street,
r 3 II
sflabert Barber, %Vatting street, Loudon, merchant 3 io
James Pru:wer, Sloant.strest, Chelsea, Middli is
grocer • - 3 10
John Ellill, Qacen-street, Cheapish-, London, lead-
inert bald -
George Pearson, Frklay-atreet,Cheapirle, warehouse-
man - - - 2 10
Joseph Bail!, Long-aere,fringismarmficturci - 2 t
William Ihaidca, Cranhouro-alli linen-draper - 2ln
James Mason, Mouldable, Wilfordshire, victualler - a I.)
William Lowe, Coventry, suap.holler - to
Joshes Metcalf, New Loudsvi street, Crunched-Prises 2 14
John Gale, of the sane place, twercbant to
William :Boileau, Cheats, Surrey, builder - I
Hobert Taylor, Blythe's-yard, Ilthite-crassatew
el tir-maker

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