The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-07-29 00:00:00

LOC4L MAUTIA.

The Prince of Wales's Loyal EfTinl argh Volun-
teers, velum untied by Lie%tenant-I.
have transferred their services to tII.- Luc Militia.
Oat of ti it hundred and rimy present, Utter
dred sad rusty come voluntarily- fnrevaid.
The abe.teen LiKid Infantry Regiment, com-
manded by Lieuteumit-Colonel Tower, have •o-
intttct:red their services under tl,e Lees' Militia
,►.:t.

The Mearns-Ciire battalion of Volunteers, cam-
niaiselcd he Livideamit-Colonel George Rohertson
Satitt, ihise uirered the:: ~ervices as Local
On Monday se'tiaight, the Whitby Royal Artil-
lery, conitionaled by Major bruchiat, paraded on
Whitby Smiths, for the purpo,e answering a pro-
which had liven put to them, to trad.fer
their services int.: the Loyd Maitia, why* huff of
the men voluateeroi heir services, a ith n Get of the
of6.!Lre.

• Oil Tisisiday eveniug,the LoyttlWhitby 'Volunteer
Ipfuntry, Johs Jto!t, Esq. Culduiti Couninaiwisitit,
pond:Ltd Cse S sui 13 for the ',Jute purpobe.
Witvu stkolit one-third ouertd their services, toge.
ther with all the Ofiicers.

At ir po,:i!le of the WoAriKrton Volunteer;, on
tlw rith r very hunterously attended, for the
tiltrrro-e of v lig intoconsideratioo the propriety of
thtir orriceii to the Local Militia, Lieute-
tviet-t urwen mole an appropriate speech
It ;a a the occ-Liiiou. The regiinent, much to their
ere l t, uttuaat alaetity, volunteered to a
tem.

17 BRITISH PRESS.

lA)N DON,
FR/DAY. JULY 29.

3 letter front Gottenburgh dated the !ads ist .
cantinas the report of e negociation having been
entered .nto foe th • e•itagusion of a peace between
Russia aiill Swede,i, the result of which, it is ad-
ded, was most anxiously expected ; as, since the
depn•ture or the Engli.ii fleet, considerable appre-
hensions were entertained of the Norwegians ad- ;
wincing to Gottenhurg, and obtaining poseisssion
of the immense quantities of English goods with
which the King's warehouses are filled. The spe-
culations in celoniel produce, which had bees
made to the Baltic by American vessels, bad turned
out very unsuccessful. Of forty vessels that left
Gattenhnrg, only two, it appears, reached their
ports of destination. Ten were cantered by a
small French privateer, and carried into Dantzig,
where both the ships and cargoes were immediate-
ly condemned and sold. The rest were taken or
destroyed by the Danish gun-boate--a species of
force which, to the disgracer of this country, has
hee•u suffered to commit the mitt extensive depre-
dations on our commerce.

A mass of papers was received yesterday from
Oporto, consisting principally of officiuL addresses

and proclamations issi.ed by the Patriots, for the
purpose of calling forth the energies of the coun-
try against Bottarascre. They art in the style
and spirit of the documents issued by the Spanish
Patriot*, with which the newspapers have abound.
ed these three weeks past. The other articles in
the ()porta Papers possess neither novelty nor in-
terest, being mostly of old dates, and relating to
evcnts already before the public.
tilt last accounts left Sir A 'ITEM.' Ws LLESLILIt'II
expedh:;,:i of Scilly, steering for Spain. By as
ejt press arr. r d yesterday at the Admiralty, accounts
have been received frost• that gall:t►tt officer.—
They are dated the Vlst instant, on whirl► day the
trail:Trots with the troops were off Contemn, all
well. Ile had bell, ashore at Cantinas, and found
the people were in the beat disproition, sot at all
disheartened by the late reverse which General

CuEars had itverieneed wear Valladolid. The
French had sudered most severely in that action.—
AaTIMil was received with the greatest reviort.
After being a-shore • short time, h.. returned to his
ship, and proceeded for In destination.

From the commencement of BON APARTF.'S atro-
cious attempt, a.ter deposing his Alliex, the Kings
of SPAIN, to transfer that powerful Mr:mare:ly to
his 'brother Joaern, we have considered nod repre-
sented it as OpellitlK a I:tn, volume in the history of
the eventful period in which we lire. As euch we
continue to regard it, because we rely with confi-
dence on two grounds, namely, the national cha-
racter of the peOplc willow lee hat thus attacked
withont provocation, and likewise the natural im-
pediments opposed to his progress beyond the li-
mits of. france. These latter obstacles are such
es Nrirtneoa has not hitherto encoentered, either

hs his African or li:s European campaigns. The
11111 sat:de of. Egypt and Syria, box ever deep tir burn-
iug, pri...eated only an espainissof plain, destitute
of oattr :, 1 of prow.:,ionA. Whets he penetrated
to V Itt3l4il, 1U 1 V osi, and to lic iiiii, is lOW, he had

not the Pyrenees to pass, as he has at prro.eid.--•
Such is the difficult• of makirw any impression on
the Sluttish Monarchy. by iuriuling it upon this
•tpiarter, that the French Princes have been fulled
in their attempts at every period of nuniero time'.
FRANCIS the FlasT, who. in the course of his long
ware against Cissatts the FgtTH, pt at all aleratti.
armies into Navarre, by the vei.• route which Na.
POLLOX has now chosen. through Painpeluua, was
always unsuccessful. Once, Luker!, about the
year 1521, the French, site: Inning over-run Na-
rsrre, ventured to cross the Ebro. They tittered
Old Chile, and laid siege to Impugn°. s town
situated en the southern bank of that river. Hut
there their progress was arrested. They were at-
tacked by the Castilions, routed, and cut to pieces.

The Cardinal Rtc flute, who struck the severest
blows at the Spanish Monarchy, under Piaui. the
Fouttyn ; and who laid the foundation of the
French greatness under Louts the 'FIIIRTILENTII,
contented himself with attacking the Spaniards in
Itailykittid in the Netherlands. He never attempted
to recover Navarre, uor did he ever venture to send
an army into Catalonia; thongli the Catalans, and
the city of Barcelona itself, had risen in rebellion
against Patin..
Even under the feeble and imbecile reign of
CHARLES the SECOND, last Prince of the Austrian
line, between 1665 and 170 n, when the Spanish
Government and Monarchy were sunk into debi-
lity ut home and abroad, this frontier still remained
impregnable. The campaigns of NOAILLES, in Ca-
talonia, 'thew the incredible difficulties with which
he hud to struggle at every step, when he attempted
to penetrate towards Girona. Though he was only
opposed by theorised peasantry, surd by the " Mi-
quelets," a species of Highland Militia in the
ral-
lies of Urgel and Campredon, he lost the greater
part of his army, and made no progress.
Notwithstanding the prodigious advantages
which the weakness of the Spanish• Government,
and the perfidious policy of N Aeo Leos, have afford.
ed him on the preieut occasion, yet we confidently
anticipate a similar rniult. He has not conquered,
or reduced, ether Biscay, Navarre, Catalonia, or
Madrid. His troops were admitted into those pro-
vinces as friends and allies ; abusing the good faith
of CHARLES the F•URTH, and of hie Son, he has
rendered himself master of the capital. We trust,
however, that such treacherous and flagitious arts
will meet their just punishment; and we fauna
doubt that an enterprise begun in violation of every
moral or honourable principle, will be finally at-
tended with ignominy, and terminated by disgrace.

If 77w Morning Post, as the Editor asserted yes-
terday, has really received the Dutch Papers down
to the Uth, coot:tieing intelligence from Paris es
lute as the 19th, and from Bayonne of the 14th
it is much to be regretted that he should bam
withheld from the public sue% interesting comma-
Mentions. They would beee impressed his readers
with a deeper conviction of the prosperous state of
the adieus of the Insurgent Patriots, than any ex.
aggerated, or disavowed Ministerial Bulletins ;
tend they would have certainly inspired more ani-
mation than the raving rhopsudies of Spanish
ladies. We lament that the Editor of a paper, in
„possession of such original materials, should lock
slkia up; while he tills whole columns with his
own reuse gs or reflections en this foreign intel-
ligence.
Aseurning, however, as authentic, the informa-
tion erkiehrtre states to have. s. en in the papers from
Pariiknf fhe.igth, we consider it to be highly im-
pertarat. If an attack was destined to be made
epos the city of Saragossa, as late as the sth of
July, that fact of itself would almost prove, incon-
testibly, that precedies attacks had been made,
and had failed. Nor is the circumstance of ten
thousand men having been sent to reinforce the
French army on the Ebre, which was to attack
Saragossa on the sth, without additional interest.
They have advanced, it woald appear, by Parnpe-
lima, through Navarre. it is by that middle road,
from St. Jean Pied de Pert, through the Valley of
Ilestevalles,eso famous for the defeat and death of
ORLANDO FCRIOSO, the nephew of CHARLIE-
wont, early in the ninth century, whose siploits
have been immortalized by Aatorro, that NAPI:
ARON has contrived to pour in his troops. This is,
in fact, the only practicable avenue condacting
from Bayonne into the province of Arragon. The
track leading from Barer through Huesca, direct
to Saragossa, being impervious, even iu Jul, ex-
cept to Multeeers. That Saragossa itself should
hare withstood so many assaults as the French ap.
pear te have amide on it, is another extraonlinary
circumstance, which seems to prove the deter-
mined resistance of the Arragunese. We venture
to assert, that there are no fuentieutions whatever
roam' Saragossa, except the ancient embattled
walls, constructed mar five hundred years ago.
which were noxlernized and repaired duriug the
war of the Succession, early in the last cen-
tury. A ditch of no consideruble depth extends
rum:Othello, which may be lilled with the water of
the Ebro, but which, iu summer, is Usually dry.
N'altootia, before which Sit, we have reason to be-
lieve that Murices' has been repulsed, is far less
defensible than Saragossa. Tine walls scarcely de-
serve the.naine..and there is either no ditch, or none.
of such breadth and depth as to impede an asseil-
;lig enemy. Acre, before which BONAPARTE lust

to many oleo. and to much time, was a dace of
sisusber description. it was the valour, coostaacy,
end .ieterinittation, manifested by the besieged, not
the strength of the works et Acre. that compel' •••
NAPOLEON to raise the siege. Den JOSSPII,
a,•-
.cerdiug to these accounts. bed not procctilotl
youd t'ittoria on the 12th inst. Our nest iafotina-
tisit from thence. as sell as from CuESTs, m Leon,
mid from I'ALANa.I. at Santgoasa., will be most in-
teresting. We must he content to suspend our
curiosity till their arrival.

An Order of Cotvicil to expected to-morrow•
which shall abolish the Comtnission that has so long
held in suspense three millions of property belong-
ing to the Portuguese and Brazilian merchants,
who, attached to .their ROY AL FAMILY, and (un-
fitting in the integrity of Great Britain, had that
property conveyed to this country. It is expected
that the Order of Council will afford satisfaction to
the claimants of this property.

There is at length some serious prospect of a
regular official communication being about to be
established between our Government and the Pa-
h:nits of Spain. It is said that Lord WILLIAM
BENTINCI goes out as the accredited Agent of
our Goveniment to the Supreme Council, or J mita,
of Seville. Mr. Deer, who has been, for upwards
of 30 years, the Resident Consul at Cadiz, will
set off for the same- point, in order to manage the
commercial, whilst his Lordship has the conduct of
the political relations between the GariTriluient of
Spain and this country.

We have repeatedly noticed the infraction of the
American laws, interdicting all commerce with the
colonios of Great Britain, by the inhabitants in the
vicinity of Lake Champlain, and that a very brisk
trade, notwithstanding the embargo, was carried on
in that quarter, Its extent may be appreciated by
the following article from aNew-York Paper, dated
flay

" We learn by a Gentleman from Vermont,
who resides near Lake Champlain, that the raft
preparing to go down the Lake, to Montreal, was
near hull a mile long, had a regular fort built upon
it, ball proof, and is manned with between five and
six hundred men armed. The raft is represented
to ccntain all the surplus produce of that State,
raised the year past, such as wheat, pot-ash, pork,
beef, &c. and said to be worth rising of three hun-
dred thousand dollars. Governor Smith, of Ver-
mont, has ordered out the Militia to arrest its pro-
gress. It is to be feared that Mr. Jefferson's cruel
and arbitrary policy of forbidding intercourse with
our neighbours will cost the lives of some of our
most valuable citizens."

It is said, that a third expedition is actually or-
dered, consisting olin,Sciti, the flower of the reserve
/your tinny, with which. his Royal Highness the
Duke of YORK will go forth, and assume the
command in chief of the whole of our troops sent to
the assistance of Spain and Portugal, as soon as
a footing has been made in those .countries. No
man ever doubted the courage of his Royal
Highness; it is is him an hereditary quality;
neither do we question his judgment ; but we re-
gret to say, that his good fortune has not been
equal to his courage or judgment. The Romans,
in the choice of a General, always considered
whether the Candidate was fortunate or not. If
he could not plead his good fortune, it was to little
purpose that he boasted his military talents.

The following veviels from Jamaica were with
the fleet, mulcs convoy of His MAJESTY'S brig
Sparrow, on the I ith instant, in hit. 43. 30. loug.
43,

the Jonah, Cummings ; Trwity, Crosby ; Duke of Kent,
Reese; Kitty, Read ; Venus, Lowther ; Dorothy Forster,
Se den ; Mansion, Ford ; Caribury, Driscul ; Lady Cre-
moray, —; —; and the Lavinia, Howlaaid.
The fleet attempted the windward passage, but
after beating u fortnight, were obliged to bear up
for the Guild). The Imprrial, Dorothy Forster.
Makina, and Carlbury, have since beta spoken
with on the 18th, in lat. 49. long. 24.
His Royal Highness the Duke of KINT has re-
ceived llis MAJLSTY'S letters of service, to raise two
Battalions at' Highlanders, to be added to the First
Regiment of Foot, commonly culled the Royals,
from its being originally established is England,
under the immediate patronage of King JANET the
FIRST, Ilia 11AJ66Tlf having been Colonel of it, in
inerehetai, previous to his ascending the thvone OT
throe reulins.

The troops which embarked at Ram_ spate, awl
sailed from the Downs on Friday lust, under con-
voy of the St. Alban's, put into Weymouth, on
Tuesduy, And 'wiled again for their devaluation on
Wednesday morning.
The Expedition might have sailed from St. He-
len's, ua Wednesday, had not the wind come round
to the Southward in the afternoon.

By a Spanish gentleman just arrived from Bilhoe,
who ass some time ut Bayonne, and which he left
on the 9th in.t, is learnt, that when the account of
the surrender of the French Beet at Cadiz, to the
Spaniards, arrived at Bayonne, the rage of Bo SI A-
PARTE w.ts ungovernable, and beyond all hounds :
lie stamped round his apartment, foamed at the
mouth, and rail chalet the house, swearing venge-
ance against the Spaniards for the trick they played
him. This Gentleman raw the Fat:rich EMPEROR
review five regiments of foot, and, while reviewing
them, one of the Colonels being rather nukward in
unteitruvring his battalion. BON APARTS war so en-
raged, that he reduced him from his rank to be se-
cond Major, and promoted a Captain of Grenadiers
to the command of the regiment, declaring he
should not be reinstated in his rank until he
was &hie to manoeuvre his regiment in a better
style.