The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-07-07 00:00:00

OF TIIE NATIuM.

\I" W•l!','4ltE..ll) role, and thus addressed
•i,e —•• "tr. Speaker, Sir, I am not alto.
.':et nitecu,:•lmed to address this 1-14 Ise, for.
I•ing the number of years I have had a scat its
Puri 'quilt, I Irtve proro,ed several measures for
enttr'rtcvnn, some of which have met tomb •
f.roartble receptioa t but, for the most part, my
owing to certain eirataistances. have been
r°l'9ed. I hive not hitherto thought it intim.
lent up,:e me to transgress much upon the patience
the House fur what I submit to you. I have
thought it most proper to rest my motions upon
°4l. merit,. Bat, Sir, upon such an occasion as
th'§, tro:n whatever cause it may arise. wheNs-
h.,ll the irsereaiing diffidence of the public .with
ItiPeS to public meg. whether from the nature of
the dellate4 which have lately here taken place,
being stets as do not tend to raise the character of
tics the importance of the sobjelt, the dis-
Ltrres cri.is in which we live. en whether it be
frgra a combination of aU tinge circumstances.
eft 4t 110,s to determine. but I must preface what I
to state, by raying. that I sever rose
r:e with greater sensations of ilifidesoles than
item this prawn, occasion. I have, Sir. to
,pox to you a mode or roceediog, which anal
ant to restore the gravity of dein% bring us back
altercations, mutual charges, ctittunatimh
'1 r.crimins:ior.s; I have to propose, that the
6:1141.-: proceed to take into collide, wino
!,;hng niories of the British Empire!"--
,"ir Whitbread had proceeded only this length
ty ;ocrtuo,eci.
1:;'•7. 1:Z ;Is SRO Wh:E rose and spoke to or-
' ''Y "•:)/I,,st. " that strangers do withdr•w."
(•c—..uned an alii.•-!st universal 4.14 y of
• • -••front th, Crp.,,itino side of the ilourr.)
• ran? cr_accor,iiiiily nclisded tot the r'' ceder tf, .5 .

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUE.SDAV, Jut.? 7.

Yesterday, we rtc..ive.! the 3/04itear, and some
other Paris Pip •r.. t•• the 20th last, and Dutch
to the ..),c1 ilia'. An t.ele. slated Berlin. June 23,
states, that Ge cat, the Governor of that city,
had received .t-pat;hes fa am Wehlati, of the 16. h,
stating that :slat tLel >uU 1 T had entered Koningsherg
•
en the mauling of that .14y. 4,141 that the Russians
seemed to be re:rea:iag to rth,i, upaa the Nie-
men. It is also sta'el. that on the tilt suing of rise
French, 3:lasscri• had defeated the Russians on the
12th. on the Nicest ; and the thr,i/eee of the 23th
adds, that he had penetrated to Intersburg on the
Pregel, to the rear of the Russians; but this latter
accault. deserves no credit, as it is improbable that
the French, win twre nit the Narew, oe the 12th,
could teach the Pregol befar.! the It u.sisns, who ea. re
on that day upon the A:le. The same num-
ber of the k'evitere contains the ?Lb Bolletin (erro-
neously called in that of the 24th the 7:lth Willetin)
which, in substance. contains no more than the parti-
culars and ohservations published in Tie 1 e4rapi.
and stated to have base given out on the parade
by G.-neral Ccalta. Garainar-Omeral of Berlin.
That acconat we gave on the let instant. front The
Havehrolo Correspandentra, and is almost oriboOrs
the same as that given in the .Wasitair. The only in-
terest which it possesses.arise•ont ofthe circumstance
that we now know it is the Freoch ofEcisl ace sant.
ft concludes with the following remark It ap-
pears thu the Emperor Ate:saw:a left the army
some days beetle the re-,:omenencetnent of hosti-
lities. Several persons contend, that the English
faAinn caused him to witndraw, tnat he might not
witness the misfortunes of war, Aid the disasters of
his army ; for, even by those in•itPd t'e Ro—
st els In the renewal of hostilities. fears were en.
tertained. that such a "easels neigh real to his
mind the true interes's of his country, and canoe

him to listen II the Advice of wise an.: disinterested
men. and repel 'ht. pernicious, influence which En-
glish corruption hu hitherto exercised over him."
Among the fee part ciders that have transpired,
respelling the battle in the 14th, it is said that the
I•nperial Russian Guard was almost cut to
pieces.—Accounts have been received at Trieste
and Legho►n. from Eg►pt. which state, that the
Esialish bad for evacotod shot country, but resweia.
ed upon the coast, in erpedation of reinforcements.
The Torks had tint made any attempt upon Ale:.
ander*. General Michelson is stated, in hitters from
Vienne, to have evacuated Walhchia.

The Tonaimen Melt, doe on Wednesday, as-
rived last eight. 'kith lenses sad papers from
Altana and Hamburg's to the Seth. lhey as-
soonce the retreat of the 'tension army to Tilsit,
upon the Niemen, about half way between Koninge-
berg and Memel. The revolution in the Turk-
ish Government is stated in a letter from the
Elbe, is the same terms in which it was re-
pored las► with. We have also e drafted from
the liamboreh tpers. a farther account of the
defeat of the Neapolitan Loyalists, under the cum-
mend of the gallant P. ince of Heist Nos ge4r AHI
in the north of Italy.— the Danish Paper, of the
221, mentirins the report of the loss of an English
ship of %v.-tr. in the North Sea, but without giving it
as certain.

The Princess Eligibetb Packet arrived, on Foiday,
at Falanowh. in twenty days from Liaison. She
Wogs inteiligence. that on the evening of the 6‘h
,la‘t. that city felt a violent shock of an earthquake.
which lasted about ten seconds. and. during the
time. was nearly es violent as the dreadful one in
1755. Fortunately, however. the damage was not
so grcst as might have been espefted. Three
houses were thrown down. by which two men were
killed. and about thirty persons wounded. Several
persons al.o bad their arms and legs broken. by
jumping nut of the windows. wire the apprehen-
sion of the houses falling upon them. The shock
was also felt at St. Übe's. Oporto, and generally
throughout Poitugal. It was felt on board the
kteds frigate. then about eight lenges' of the
Rack of Lisbon. The ifshiashaa Packet was
left at Luber+. _

Mr. Watts's/at% promised motion, upon the
State of the Nation. yesterday, excited great ex-
peastion. and the Gallery of the House of Com-
mons was crowded et an early hour. The House
also boasted a full attendance of Members ; and
the part of it soda the Gallery, to which the Sons
of P. era, anJ titber privileged persons are admitted.
was filled wi•lt mangers of that description. Mr.
Wait as►AO ro..e about six o'clock, but bed Not
been up more Coon a few minutes. as may be seen
in our repqr,, when au Lists Geotlemsn, Mr. Des.
5.15 llsowss, one of the 'Aesthete lot the County of

Mayo, roes and moved 44 that the Standing Order of
the Hons., for the exclusion of strangers, be. en-
filmed." A Standing Order is imperative in its.
oaten, and admits of no discussion. Not one word.
can be said agssinet its but immediate compliance
follows of course. The Stesotea instanly ordered
the Gallery to be cleared' the strangers were
turned out, and the does were locked This pro-
ceeding was totally unexpefted on the part of the
public. The motion being one of the most peeeral
in its nature that can possibly be discussed, and in-
volving nothing personal, n It the least supicion was
entertained ihet the doors oT the H w .•11,1 he
eased, and the people n x suffered to know what
passed in :1. For a coitsiterable time atter Cie d
were loi.iced, the strangers contiitueJ to hog-. to 11)..!
Lohhies, in exo•istion of beim: re-cfrnotte.l i•
was in vain that the doorvlteep4r; assure I then th it
the G gllery would not be opened again during the
debate ; several refused to depart, 'roil the SerkAnt
at Arms came up with some constables and turned
them out. The constables wore then stationed in
the Lobby, to prevent them from loitering about
the doors. The wisdom of the Staoding Order of
the House we do nx presume to questinn ; but w.
may venture to assert, without any disreip..,a, that
if a Member were to exercise all the power.
which he po.,esses, of .lividmg the Hottsl a: often
as its fotess allow him, and of enforcing it. StanJ-
ing Orders when he pleaseJ, he woolJ not w.f•
cause mach inconveizience, but embarra.s, if n...
totally prevent the p•tblic business. We reenetnher
on a debut 04 the I)efeoce of the Nation on tit.
.101 h of June, ISM, this Stiaidios Order for tire
exclusion of Strangers sirs% enforced, when General
Caituruao rose in speak, by the Secsursity
‘t'se, upon the ground that the Hon. Otii:fr was
going into Military details, which were impeeper
for the puh:ic car. The alarm of invasion was
then concilerahle, aa.l the General's speech might
covain from which ties enemy mix'ot
,e.advantage. The peon: iety ol enforcing die
Order upon that occasion was obvious to every one
In the same way, when the debate takes a turn, the
pablicity of which would prove injurious to the
dignity of the House, or the interest. set
dual, as in cases of personal attacks. hove t 11: 5•... 1
priety of suppressing what has passed, is apparent.
It is only in such cams the Order has peen of late
years enforced. It has not been an arbitraty exer-
cise of power. bat a proceeding founded upon
special grounds. In justice to the Ripht 11.11.
Gentleman who moved the enforcing of the StanJ-
ing Order, last sight, we must presume that he .li4
not aa. or enforce the order, without mature Je!i-
beration, and for good cause. If Mr. Wort set AD
were to run into any personalities, is he were ro
throw out any thing improper for the
-public ear, it
would have been time enough to have moved the
Standing Otder, when his spegeh bets eyed a ten..
deny to points improper for publication. In the
present Case, the Standing Order was entiniced
before Mr. WHITSZBAD had shewn any such dis-
position, or rpoken many sentences. It resulted
from a determination that the debate, whatever it
might be, should not be reported to the putlie.
—lt would am, indeed, be a difficult ta.k for
any man, conversant with public affairs, to anti-
cipate the various topics of Mr. WHlTllitr AD'S •
speech, and to presume that he would endea-
vour to chew that the state of fse nation de-
manded abler hands than those now at the helm ;
that be and the Members on his side would exert
all the powers of eloquence and argument, to re-
present the present Minister as wholly incompetent
at the present crisis, and that a change of Ministry
was absolutely necessary to the salvation of the
country. That such would be the drift and obj-Et
of the Members of Opposition. in the course of the
debate. all the reilefling people of England are
aware, without any assisrauce from the Newspapers.
Of the charge, then, which Mr. Weil. as It AD and his
friends meant to make, the public are in possession.
Of the defence of the Ministers they ere deprived.
by the exclusion of strangers from the gallery.
No v, no power can prevent people from thinking
and speaking. and they will probably reason thus :
They will say the Ministers could or could not give
a triumphant answer to the charges of Mr. Wale.
ansiao ; and if they weld. it is very mange that
one of their friends and supporters should have Je•
prived them of the benefit of publishing this ttium-
phaat defence to the world. They will say, that no
Member woul.l be likely to put them in such a lilt:se-
dan without their consent, wad that consent wiU he
contused into a consciousness of weakness, and ad-
mission of she charge of Mr. We 'swan. Of
that Gentleman's speech we know nothing ; but es
we have already said, every person convetsant with
public business, looking to the course adopted upon
'Sala motions. by that great man. Mr. Fox,
will suppose that Mr. %VISIT SIBOD took a general
view of toe politics of Europe, contrasted the rela-
tions of Great &knits and her allies with the in.
creasing r of Francs. Neat adverted to the
'flea *inch such a modem e.f •

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upon ove,.iftest sad East India poessw;oes. Th,
recent disturbances ansooget the native
,nwe-e ant
amongst thenitine troops in the Company'. servile,
most have considerable ejFe& in ex,sosing tee in-
sitiKty of a system, which has given to the Ent
• India Company tie power of allion 1 at the same
• tinnetkat it has subjesfted the Board of Concrete to
no responsibility. Ireland. as eonneEted with sue
glee Ministerial elkariges, and as an important breath
of the British empire, must hare been a prominent
topic of discussion. Mr. Wats me saw pennies
that liheral view of the supje& which would depre-
cate a division of national strength by the propaga7
re: gilos ani deusive nineties. The pnwec
,4 France must have oh-ru.ted itself upon any dig"
iits:on of the ritee of tht Nets m. N. 4 only •
t tie a'vtnciag inril titer ct that firm:4l44le enemy.
tint the en:nettles an.l a:kihties of those wba are
tv enndul the it:soar:es of this great empire. in
the .•dews strtitTgle in which it is riga artf, list
n-en al, vi. ['nose con .titypinta al qv,' inns.
.chi:'. deny to. siltytry principle of !'t re-
sp which irreverently draw altos acre.!
name Nis:eity i•to Jiscussinn. w 41,1 arraign I
nd as Ise has ever indulged the hope • and done et ,
peace, he could see en hope of its accomplishment
*sy men whose declarations were alw tys fur war, an
43..5e principal exertions agaList the sir:rancho:lg
power of France were eviii,:td in a bare., of any v
riling irk the shape of nerciation, neut villa:it de-
tinnei.•tioas against the enemy within the walls cf
that Rinse.

Mr . o spike -shout an boor and a
halt. Mr. Mits-.1 fol!rpff .1 in a s;:ereb of ..bout
half an how. Mitrom irweAr::.l.
t ay. in a tpTech of g,-v. force aril
•t• tnllnvred !.Ir.l3:Assis Bar:wrist. Mr. Id. ,y wOS.
AfilUE. Mr. !lemur SliliTll. Sir II f HUG
Mr. iiratiaar, Mr. doer. 1.• r ..c..
Gen.-ral TALE COS. C.i:aae• DJC4.• r, 1) • 'hir
1.411.11101C.T. Mr. B. BaTNURST, Sir JONA
roar, Mr. Citoiraii. Mr. WM. SA aid IL!
CIIANCIfLLfiII of use Excwageaa. Lard Monica
and Mr. WNI • /READ shortly replied.
At Flier o'clock the House divided. when t:sa
number; -p,,ar-d as follaw :
For Mr. Whitbrea i's Marion - - • - 133
Agaiiist

Mainvity against the Motion - . - - ISS
At HA LF-PAST FOUR o'clock, this Idornioto
ti :e II mse sdjiurned to this clay.

The atriv4l in the river of the ads frigate, w7tb
Het. Ito. y4l Ugliness thc tekirss if BagotewicA as
bo4rj, anitnunt-J day at the Admiralty, •
by .1 telegraphic commuaizattos frosts Sheerness.
Try.: Hops. Rive MOLDS, from Jansaiea, arrived in
the C ydr, on the ltd inst. in 35 (lir.; she Pwel
from the let Ave says a'ter sail:-.g The Mary,
StrosEss, arrived in the Clyde. from Savannah.
spoke on the 11th ult. in 14t G. 56. long. 63. Hie
&Wass' v's ship .ivion. one of the convey to t e
homeward traind Jamaica fleet; she had missed the
convoy. put into St. I)orningo fi..r water. acii WAS
then in pursuit of the fleet

.
It is supposed that Partiantert will be ptcroturd
in the first week of August.

In the Cann of King 7v lknch, yesterday, twelve
Specid Lay Causes were appnintosi for trial, and
twirl., eleven u'cluck in the fisren•un, the wh of
them ,very disposed of ; hit nathing of any pubic
interest whatever tran•ioirt-d.
The /140. Revco. os, arrived in the Clyde,
sailed from .1 1111.11C4 on the IGth May. and p.. 1
from the fist till 2d lunf, in Ist 2.ti I .0 27.
The cotter ffArd, of Guernsey. is arrived at
Cuernstiy, from Monte Video ; she sailed on the
Aptil. Cannot learn she brings any news.
A letter from tizilly, of the 30th tat a: t! at
a h tench liittg.-r privateer Lad captured two vessels
near the 151.0. d,, both of a:Lich had been retaken by
a ship of war, and as it arts nearly calms hey.es
were areitain-d the prie.iteer wined tak.n."
A letter from Cant in, dared Sept. 7. 1506, save
l'he Pirnt‘a frigate has Mr.% no a sank', an I
returned, a few days slice. with • s
Iriund to Aeapulci,, the cargo ft iv.lich, report
says, is valved at a mil:tr.:l of dollars."

Nis Jilt Y° 11111 p e1,7191f. C 'raid% RAltttlll.
arrived at e+ince of «•air.'s Wand, in linember.
with her prim, the aitcl. litigate Mow, last frt.'s'

~.

"The Pa:i4 pipet. The 47ars. of the !nth nit.
whidt rewhed us yestertfq, gives toe following
account of the late dimstr• us expedition 4. last Re..

" Lee!' •rn, Mar, 23 —lnstm•di terly aftet the Lak ng t,f
Alraaterra,the wutt.a,tm•n.a,.h.tnwn t 4 Rosetta
yet•ender, Yea* acceoted ; v, •i•vertheleer, s—tt
3 , 0 mrn, elm erre mint a.. •ti rutin '...m the t..etta -.
prines,a4 enhatatatit., chatged to preterit the key.; but I eta,.
had they muse** the gates, when the Inept* taw uotet
a ow tuJerable ball 4 Atrtn, en tiometakk„ came up ne.el
began a bilo Iv fight *rah eh- KNOW., who eode itroured to
get not of :he • two, but th..q met a woad bah of gibs,
who preitalted the,: .steal, mot commented Jeatiser *epee.
wallet tet:ll theta ; Isoo E.,tg 'abates roomier d ow the fi,in
battle, smith,. neat h: teacde priewaers. Rri .forcea.rntspe
expected it Aletian'tta to as said, that 11.10 awn where
DatChed from Malta tor that deeteamtidat This 111-1.4 eat
brewed is Ott. pert by die Carats of as Assure:l C 1.,.-
arrived tem iota " _ _

a. Taantai: near, She State Lettere begins
Drawing. Tairty 'thousand Pounds must fal to
t^e lot of Knee one. There isi ocly vo., Ou
Turns. Hutton's and Co. solicit the tasours of
the Public on the present tweaks@ ; and bug leave
tahasjimiat that the demand foe Tickets and
31.1feig at their has Mistimed ciirrid-r
within these few days. blaiienraT and Co. sn
11 present year, IPi sae at gO,OOOl. ; 201 5 000 ;
of 1,0001.‘ and 4of 5001. 'nay were the tint
to sell g of 30.0001. Prizes paid un dens.a.4. at
;.$5l, Coating-gross; utdSt. bias 44.1:11.i

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