The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-02-08 00:00:00

INDIAN NEWS.

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the Fluuve of CoomilMll, upon Mr. Sagiunie

motion respecting the exclusion of strangers during
the inquiry into the IValcbcren Expedition, of
which exclusion the necessary result must be to hide
from the public all the proceedings of the !louse
upon that calamitous public case, except such dry
and meagre detail as may be laid before them in
the shape of minutes--not of the speeches, but of
the mere evidence given at the bar. This measure
of exclusion, suggested by Mr. You!, found, as
might be expected from the character of the man,

if *BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TRURSDAV, FEBRUARY R.

We re., yroterdny, u fall report .1 the debate in

Some of the papers have Mt so mach hint at the

public press, they, 1) revenge, suppressed his

most sire:mous advocate in Mr. I.VINDLIAM.

speech ; but we think that they would hove inflict-
ed upon him a ae'•erer puuishment, by puhli.hing
it, in eDIOO3OII with 114, at full length. Sure we

Iberty which this Gentletnan has taken with the

a►e. that any, the slightest punishment, will be
mere than commensurate to any injury. of which,
on the present occasion; we have a right to com•
plain. Wit, we are told, is • ilstigeruus quality,
as it spares 'wither friend nor fug; and hence some
orators, who spare neither friend nor foe, are induc-
ed to fancy that they passers wit. His insulting
speeches upon the volunteers, a body of men to
whom, as a good and loyal subject, however he
might co:ideinn the system, he ought never haVe
*tamd himself to give personal offence; his in-
discreet and erratic effusion•, so much dread-
ed by his party, with whom he professes to
act, whether in ur ost of place, called by Mr.
81111MIDAX. in his good-humoured way, the Right

Honourable Gentleman's " honest indiscretion,"
sod which once reduced Mr. PITT to the alter-
native of muzzling him, or turning him out of
Ace ; all these troiti io the Right Hon. Gentle-
man's charaeter sal conduct. mike the public
thick very lightly of Mr. it'tNnutit's abuse, whe-
ther leve:led against the public press, the within.
leers. or his own parry whether employed in sr-

tITRAGT OF A term FROM MR. 0.1,10 r.ostmsosi.
Dams PORT osAor, 141,V. 8.
On the 4th of this instant, u howl inerts.of the
tribe, consisting of bye mill and four wo-
nt.. .1, crossed the Missouri river front the mirth-east
side ; they were surprised by a party of the lowers,
who killea one man and two women, end auotlier
man is missing, supposed to Ire killed some di..-
lance .frum their camp. Nest morning. Captain
t7lenison, with a detachment of fifteen men, Dr.
Murray mid myself, were conducted to the fatal
spot, by sonic of the party that had escaped. We
found one Indian and two women, butchered in
most bai herons manner: we boned the dead, awl
mimed. On the folloaing dry. a Missouri
Indiao, from the lows', village, called over the
liver, for a canoe at the garrison ; one of the de-
feated party knew him, and raid he shot at Mid
chas-d him in the attar's. upon which he flashed
his gun at him oo the 5 And bar. Copt. Clemson
asst for tltr Iliasouri Italian and interrogated him
suspecting bias is a Spy ; he said, be bore
flag from the hoorays to the Wager:, acknnwledg.
, ing the guilt of the tanner, in the murder atone of
the latter, recently on Blue River ; be fetid it was
the wish of the Inver to cuter the grave of the
dead with presents, and lie at peace : the Captain
ordered hint to the guanllinisse, waiting for farther
information. noel to i.ve his life. There is war oel
all s des with the Indians among themselves. and
we are informed the Sons are now nn the river, not
far from this, and we doubt their frieudiship to the
white people.
/EXTRACT OF AROTMER LETTCR FROM TUB sates
IPLACZ.
There leas been another 04ege k.llyd a fey miles
above this, shout two weeks ago, said to he done
by the Otters. From every iolormation I. con re-
ceive. and from what I can sec. I do nut hesitate to
pay, the., with a very few excepto a, all the Indian,
OD the Nll6llOllll are at the prinient tune in a state of
warfare.

raiguing Mr. Fox. when he recommended peace,

as 4. a pander to the bore passions of human na-
ture," or Mr. SIISRIDAN, siren he would maintain
the liberty of the press. as a candidate foe puffs and
eulogies in the newspapers. This unmerited attack
upon Mr. SIMIDAN, only proves the value which
Mr. WINDHAM seta upon newspaper puffs; for the
whole history of Mr. SUERIDAN'S life, ',roves, that,
whether in or out of office. lie has pursued the
same uniform course. and that neitheo pl tee nor pen-
sion could divert him from his consistency. But
we need not this involuntary confession from the
Right flun. Gentleman. No unto ever courted it
' more. or paid more dearly for newspaper fame ; and,
therefore. we must make some allowance for his
abuse, considering it as the wailing cud regret of a
disappointed lover.—lf report speak truth, he spent
not lea than 3,0001. bat of whose money we do
not pretend to bay, in an attempt to set up a
Loudon paper, its which two military officers. placed
and pet,,ioned by himself, were converted into Re-

Ow Wednevley morning. bring the la;t day of
Shit shooting season, r titooher ar gentlemen ns•ein-
bled sit Vlretirttrilliall, in Norfolk, the r.,...L0ce of
Lord litesatio. esumv4 wituitt wit. 4,r fiLotet.c
Woltows..t., Hart. of iircsalangtoft-holl, to Suf-
folk ; wh-n, daring the diversion, a bird std-
dolly rising, lord KtottAten fired, and thos..gli
She ilistuour of in;erly. IS yards a part of the ....lot
from Iris g,,n Lidged in the telt eye and foreherol .1
Sit Wove sleet 1., who, it is greatly frared, will foie
the 1101 t of that rye. but hi: life, we are ha;.py to
learn, i. %hct also No.. red
his .idr. Ile o.ts taken to Wrellotat-
hell (wh..re li.• the twat me-
dical ‘• 7%,...)1.• Lori 1.3%
ever smr:r r , that ext:-ior

irlit.

regrrt irch iv? /k. ./mr.•
Called Forth on r.4;11 vu uoful :Lwate

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means of cultivating bankrupts and men of desperate
forth nes, ut iglit be prestinietito hair.: the great =and
them in their service; Fail yet the great strength of
the pressis with the Opposition. BON •P.MTE surely
could not have in much dreaded an eng.ne wielded
by ►uch hands; for, with all his are and intrigues,
he would have found the Wane of softening the
linotility, if not of winning the affettioas, of men, so
lust to all honour end principle. Partial as we are
end have been, and honestly and disinterestedly
so, to the party of which the Right Hon. Qentlernan
professes iiiinself a member, we regret his conduct
more fur their sakes than our own. IVe doubt,
whether all the exertions of his life, if devoted to
their service, will be able to repair the injury which
his unpopular speech has inflicted upon his frieuds.
People will ask, if this be a sample of the putty,
whit are we to expect from their return to office,
hut a continuance of tho.e prejudices and petty
posisous, which they reprobate in the present Minke-
-1
ters But, in truth, to elusive, party attached, the
Riet Honourable Gentl.•msn has ever proved a
very troublesome and unprofitable companion. Sel-
dom moving in unison with the other political
planets, in. their proper orbs, he resenibito the
comet, which threatens, in its erratic course, to de-
stroy the harmony of the system.

We ere every duy more confirmed in the opinion
which we hove already udi,anced, tLit L'uniscAur
is no longer progressive. The prbofs on which this
belief is founded, may, and, doubtless, will appear
to many persons. peculiarly to such es have been
long accustomed to wpmd all his measures, mili-
tary and civil, as models of consummate policy and
wisdom, deserving only of incredulity or deri-
sion. But it will. neverthrlcs., be admitted, that
there are limits, which he eitl.er cannot, or ought
not to pass; as there are enterprizrs, in which,
from their nature, lie cannot succeed ; or in which

SUCCeat i lOW will finally produce misfortune, de-
clension, and subrer .We are strongly inclined
to think, that, at this moment, he is engaged tco
far to retreat, in two attempts, both of which will,
in different ways, prepare the seeds of his decline,
and arrest his further advances. BONAPARTE, at
present, actually reigns, from the frontiers of Hun-
gary and Turkey ; in other words, from Croatia,

Dalmatia, and Etbiins, across all Italy and France,

to the centre of the Pyrenean peninsula. If these
were the acknowledged boundaries of his empire ;
if it was understood, that at Spalatro, Cutts:Nand
Corfu, to the east as It • Soragn•sa, Madrid, arid
Segovia. or Toledo:to the 11 eat, he had erected
the termini of the French, or the Wester,' Empire;
for we are not dispctaed. to qtkarrfl about a outw—
it' this Conqueror would, like HADRIAN. adopt a
system calculated rather to retain sad to protect his
:stupendous acquisitions, thou further to enlarge
and extend them ; we by no means venture to as-
sert, that his present military machinery is not ode-
qttate to the retention and preservation of the vast
portion of Europe now subjected to his arms, But,
he seems, happily for mankind, to carry with him.
the remedy for the calamities that he inflicts.
Every acquisition only.appears to increase his inse-
tiahle ambition; which, if not under the rebel,-
*rime restraint of the sonride,t judgment, and se.
companied with sortie degree of moder;ition, meat

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Godly overle4l, itself. That TA I. LITIMIIP clomp-
proved, oot morally, but politically, the attack of
Spain, we know. And we have no reason, hither.
to, whatever military sinters muy have attended
hiaromsou's arms in the field, to applaud, as a
wise, and a well-matured prnject, that most flagi-
tious invasion.

porters, and iustrueted to mount guard over the
Right Hon. G•utleinan's speeches, with special
orders to marshal his tropessud figures, his sophisms
and conundrum*, in proper army. The paper al-
luded to. with all this patronage and support, for
the Right Hem. Gentleman was then SECNETARY
at WAIL met, netwithstandiug. a very premature
death, at the early age of a few mouths. Surely, Let us contemplate him, as he stands, by the
then. he could not hare derived anY benefit from most recent accounts ; even those of French mann-
experience. or seek-a from his own knowledge, &dare. Of what province is he master ? Of
when he reprobated the Proprietors of the London none; 00, not even of Blew, of Navarre, or of
daily Illoroing Newspapers, fur, it is with them Old Castile !We find in each of these, dell I. free-
the reports of Parliamentary Debate ezelatvieety orb- bootees;' or insurgents, rise in every district, mo♦
gloat', es ban kro pie. and men of desperate fortunes. mere hie troops, avid oppose perpetual resistance to
According to the present scale of expense, a news- his arm,. Look at Cataloais. Though, by the
viler, of that class, must pay to Government, in base subserviency of CHARLES the INtb, who coin-
stomp and other duties, not less than 15.0001. a- witted treason against his own Crown and dignity,
year, before the Proprietors derive one shilling of the French were actaally put into possession of the
profit from it. la fact. to set up u daily new spa_ two keys of Spain oa that side, Figurres and Bar-
' per now. is to embark in a canal or a mine. A for. • tiloaa ; yet is NAPOLEON in no degree toaster
tithe must he spent before the speculation becomes of that most important maritime province. So
productive, and the chance is tea to one that ever lately as the 16th of December, we see by the pro-
it will arrive at that state. Within these live years,. dental" of the Marquis Da P
_ ORTAGO, dated
five or bit new daily papers have berm vet up. but from Naomi's, in the centre of Catalonia, that he
are now oo wore, though assay thousands were tat- reutaitted at the head of a Spanish argues animated
!retitled in their support, along with powerful interest by implacable hatred to the invaders. At Loran°,
and patrotmge. How, then, bankrupts and men of at Vial's, and along the course of the Ebro, dirt-
desperate fortune, by which we veto presume men sous of patents scour the country. Securr's pro-
without large capitals, tun arcomplish these wider- clametion. dated from Saragosea, the Bth of De-
takings. milers bought and fed by a party, we leave ''ember. offering an amnesty to the Arnie:mese re-
tothe Right Hon. Gentlenitia's ingenuity to disco- voltem. who will lay down tlwir arms, mol acknow-
,er. An unsuccessful wen of that description we ledge JOSEPH B.: Tx ; while he menaces them
ewealready non. ed, and COo it no antibt the Hon. with the severest pun;-liment, if they persist in their
Gentlettiati lire derived his prejudiees and °phloem, resistance ; moot sloepewitly proves bow precarious
against the public pie's. To a f.in that de lights is the Frei,. h elemiroon in Aesop:on. Before, there-
in extravagant position*, such a mode of argument I fore, the armies of ); A !MIXON attempt to penetrate
,any I,e 14-it:srdetrfili but it is neither heetcal nor l into Andalusia, tranquillity should be established
jtet. As well might a man who was never out of in the nominal!}-conquered portions of the peniu-
de„y te„t owe,. was either sirtuc sous. It is not a sic:ory. however brilliant, that
or modesty in Londen. But whew he would produces The Spaniards, Lke
represent the Proprietors and Editors of News. Lore, undo, by night, the croak of day.
papers io this degraded light, it is strauge Butt, it iv notably beyorot tie Pyreesees, that the
that it never occurred to him to ask how t Loren tin Emperor still bluely toll employment,
leiopens that the public press i. so formidable ? l'ithstinaiug lie "I"^i•'-'" or r°4l4(tan of 1:".
According to his statement, Mintstevs, who have tiir DEAIE WI I. a I ton, aq,l Ot Aid% N uLa. In defiance