The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN lATELLIOENCR.

HUSUM MAIL.
NAPLU. MIL 17.

The English having withdrawn the greatest part
of their troops from Sicily, and the Royal Napoleon
army being daily incre4sing, from 8 to 10;000
French troops, which were hitherto stationed io this
country, are now on their march to Poland:

♦PRIL 24.

At present English frigates appear but very sel-
dom off our coast. As the neighbouring Isle of
Capri is still occupied by the Ertglish, 3:00 men
were embarked at the beginning of ibis month, to
surrrise the enemy's troops in that Isle. But the
changing in the the expedition, which
was already insight of Capri, was obliged to return
to B.tia.

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TLORENCE. APRIL 24.
The Spanish troops, quartered in the kingdom of
Etruria, have received orders to march by Verona
to Augsburg, where they are to arrive on the 2.oth
May. We regret the loss of those brave ts oops,
which observed the strictest discipline, and brought
much money into circulation.

ritAhKroxt ON THE MAIN, MAY 5.

A letter frorn the Turkish fwntier cont.uos tht
following passage : "The Mussulmen will certainly
at in this war a more honourable par: than in all

former wars. French Field Officers are attached to
all their corps, who guile their movements by the
rules of European tactics. Most of the Tu: kish
troops have already taken post on the northern or
left banks of the Danube, and the Russians have
evacuated a great part of M ildavia. Public prints
state the army of the Servians to amount to 91,350
men, 18,000 of whom are cavalry."

WARSAW, MAY 4.

According to the last accounts, Dantzic had not
yet surrendered, but that event was supposed to be
near at hand.

STETIIPt. !,lAY 5.

Letters from Lenzcn, of the 2Oth of A ;5:11, advis.,
that the divi.,ions of Generals and Molitor, are
expelled on the banks of the Elbe ; the former on
the 12th or 14th, and the latter on the 20th of May.
Each division ccnsists of six regiments, attended by
a numerous artillery. A strong division of Spanish
troops is also on its march far the same point of des-
tination.

MAMBURON. MAY 11.

A report is current that His Majesty the Emperor
and King has formed an army of observation, and
that his Excellency Marshal Brune has been ap-
pointed to the Cummand in Chief of that army,
which is said•to be sufficiently strong to cover the
observation of the grand army.
Down to the 4th instant, nothing remarkable has
taken place in the French Grand Army.

LEIPZIC. MAY 5.

A report was in circolAtion here, yesterday, that
Neisse had capitulated. O.ir fair, which is row
over, resembled rather a market, in which the si-
lence of death prevailed, and where no business
was done, because the Greek and Polish Jews had
not arrived, and the streets which they animated
by their presence were deserted.

BANKS OF Till FLOE. tr•T I I.

The positions of the French and Hessian armies
have not changed, properly speaking, these two
months. They have been considerably reinforced
during that time, but the bad reads and the season
are insurmountable obstacles to any military opera-
tions. This inaCtion has, however, been interrupted
by an at:ack which the Russians have made by sea
on cf which. the result is not yet known.
The garrison of Dantsic, informed of this, nattered
itself that the enemy would be obliged to raise the
siege, which, however, had not taken plat:: on the
30th ult. since the city had been briskly bombarded
till that day. The last intelligence from the camp
of the besiegers, gives reason to exited that it must
soon surrender.

GOTTENBURGH MAIL.

BULLETIN.

MALMO, MAY 3.

According to a report made by Governor• Gen-
eral Von Essen to His Majesty, dated April 26, all
the gun-boats, even the decked ones, have safely at.
rived from Uckermuade as Wa'grit, on tht '2lth in-
stant.

Colonel Carden also arrived with his corps at Las•
sahn, by sea.

Some men of war are ordered from Carlscrona to
take on board 10,000 Prussians, who are to be landed
in Swedish Pomerania. These troops are to embark
at MemA and Dant:ie.

P. S. May S. Deports have been received here
to-day from Stockholm► and other places, that a
general action has. been fwght between the French
and the Allies, which lasted three days, and ter-
minated in favour of the latter ; but I cannot trace
them to any authentic source. Negotiations for
peace are at the same time said to be going on.
11:: King will le:ive Malmo for Stralsund to-
morrow, accompanied by Mr. Straton t.Eaglish

THE BRITISH PRESS.

•LO N DON,
'WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.

The (;ottenburgh M.rils, of the 9;h and,llth
inst. and a Danish 'Mail of the 12dt, arriv:d
last rii.thr. They contain intelligence to tde
sth, from and to the 11th. from Ham-
burg!). Thv ar:oi.s on the eastern side
of the Visruia had hen considernhly reinforced ;
but no cliangc. had taken ;lice in their positions for
two months, nor had any thing rem akable oc-
curred during that interval, ezcyt an attack upon
Elbing by the Russians, with a view to draw cif' t!-e
besieging force from Dantzic ; but it did not answer
the purpose, and it was ezpeeled that Dantzie must
soon fall.

The Gottenburgh Paper nntices a report of a bat.
tie, of threl days, which ended in favour of the Rus-
sians, but it deserves no credit. 'Ube same Papers
are silent upon the Armistice.

We lately noticed the attack made upon the Post
Office, by Tie 7 Ones Newspaper, and now take this
opportemity to correet an error in our observations
touching that subj.& That Print stated, that a
translation of the substance of the Husum
which had arrived at a late hour on a preceding
night, had been sent to it by the Gentlemen of the
Post Office, with a demand of a gui;.ea for the ac-
commodation; but that the article was returned,
not being considered worth the sum demanded for
it. In an accusation, comprehending every Officer
and Department of the Post•Offtce, and charging
them with a general system of extortion, this was
the only fad set forth ; and, well knowing that the
terms were the same that have been uniformly
acquiesced in for these ten years past, we did not
hesitate to consider the charge of extortion as an
unjustifiable attack upon the Post Office, provoked
by the disappointment which The Timis sustained
upon that particular occasion. We have since dis-
covered, that we had a very narrow and ,rl;,.rEft
view of the real case, and that the disuppwr,..ment.
spleen, and vexation of The Times, have a much
deeper and wider source than we could have possibly
conceived. The public must remember the boasts
and vaunts of The Times, about six months ago, in
its pretensions to exchuioe Foreign Intelligence. In
these boasts there was some little reality and a great
deal of quackery. The quackery we some time
since took an opportunity to expose. Vs'ith rave&
to the Reality, we must observe, that the same
packets which brought over the Ham'+u►gh and
other German Papers, for The. Timer, also brought
them over for all the other London Papers ; but the
Papers of The Times were sent by the coach, or such
other conveyance as might best suit, from Harwich
to town, dire& to the Office of that Paper, while
the Foreign Papers destined for Tut BRITISH
Paass, 71.:e Morning Pael,7 ke Chremiele, &c. came cir-
cuitously through the Post Office. The consequence
was, if the Foreign Papers arrived at three or four
o'clock in the morning, there they remained, locked
up, while the people of The Times received their
parcel, stopped, or affeded to stop their presses, set
to work upon the papers, and puffed the contents
through the town that same day, by their horn-
boys, as ere/wive intelligence, or aidiei:altion of the
Mails ; while, in fad and in truth, the Clerks of the
Post•Otfice had it in their power, by using due
diligence, to send the same intelligence to all
the other Papers. The Gentlemen of the Post
Office, become duly impressed with the advan-
tage obtained by The limes, and the injury done
to the other Papers, at length consented to
apply the proper remedy, by supplying the
intelligence to the Papers at a later hour than
usual. The consequence has been, the puff.
of erclaiiee intelligence have, in a great measure,
vanishisi from The Times, and all the Papers have
been, for some time, in that particular, upon a fair
and nearly equal, though not precisely the same
footing; for The Times may still occasionally oh.
taro earlier news than some of its rivals, and they
may still have oceasionalle an advantage over The
rims. Ili; was the case yesterday:
Passs and Tbe ..tforniv Chnsside bad, yesterday,
Paris Papers to the VIE:s. whereas The Times had
none. That Paper may have in its turn the advan-
tage to-morrow ; but while this system of equality,
continues, justice is cd,ne to all parties, and nine
has a right to complain. The reader has probably
now seen the source of the vexation and hostility
of The Times to the General Post Office. Encou-
raged by the senseless cry of " No Popery!" it has
cried oat "No negleft, no extortion !" and with
just the same truth and sincerity. A charge of
extortion, upon a system of ten years standing, now
for the first t;me brought against the Post Office, i;
rather an obsolete recolle.hion ; but to represent ihs
matter of negleCt the increased energy and altivity
of the Post Office, to do away the assumed mono-
poly of The 7imes, and mete out justice by the same

measure to all the public prints alike, is, if pos.i
still more senseless, impudent, and orrava,
—lt " out-lievods Herod," and is cad:Weed'
brand as a fool every one that suffers himself t
the dupe of such imposture. non much we
no: hesitate to say upon the mere simple faq
it is nut of the neglect, but of the lsitdrbls
trued afttvity of the Not Office, that 76r T
newspaper complains. Stich inj !vice, ani
sn'srepresentAtion, may well deserve contempt
reproach ; but in what terms shall we describe
cocciud of a newspaper, which flatters i•st:l,
its emtempotraries will assist it to cry cr, w,
Post USN., becan.:e the Post Office has Sti,,{ I
their (fiend to prtteet their prnperty and cI.4NCI
from the artifice and tricks of 7:ie 711170.1. T.
not the extortion, but the fairness of
Office—it is at t the reglea, but the d7hrnc,
that departtnent—wh;ch have induced this
merited attack. NOT is this all i—we have beer
formed, and in our authority we hare full co
•
deuce, that an application was made on the part
the Prcprietors of The Times newspaper, so t
Geollemen of the Post Office, to chrecr.t.7.',c tt
new system, and permit The Timer to resome t.
unfair advantage which it formerly possessed c
its contemporaries ; which application, with all
temptations accompanying it, was rejtded by
Post Office with becoming scorn and indignatio
We do not state this lightly, but upon good grou
and we challenge The Tim:: to deny it. Such
the would step forward, as shocked
the abr f the Post Office, and ready to vertu
life an imb to corredl them. Such is the Pri
that would puff itself off as the honest and di-i
terested advocate of the common cause; a Pi.n.t, r,,
toricus for its selfish principles, and ever ready to
sacrifice the common cause to its private intents:.

The Lord ll4nrt Packet, Captain Ida m itr-v
ateived, on Saturday, at Falmouth, witn
from the Leeward Llands, its twenty one d. 7
passage from Tortola. She brings an ac:cu
of the arrival at B srbadoes of the Dult of 11.4
lorovsh and Window. Cattle Packets, with Februtr
,nd March Mails. The former Packet fell in, .1 th
wildward of Bartaadoes, with La Covfolve Frene
privateer, 14 guns and le9 --nen, from Guadalnupe
which made ee attempts to board the Packet
but was gAlan:ly repulsed each time with gre •
loss, and from the injury she received, made sad for
Guadeloupe to repair ; the Packet had seven
wounded, among ~vholu are the Captain (J 'tars)
Master and Mate slightly, two seamen badly, an.
two slightly ; the Packet only carries 6 guns and
34 men ; she had sailed again from Barbadoes [or
Jamaica.

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Mr. ELLIOTT, ye,terday, declined all farther
contest for Westminster. The Candidates Are now
reduced to three, and the Eleftors still have it is
their power to •indicate their rights, and manifest to
the world their iidgment and their independence,
by re•elefling Mr. Suentoam.

Lord KIITM ha; been ordered to strike his fitg
command,Airal t
which
artespor!estttoredai:hites
histhe 11° d
extensiveof
from the Baltic to the Isle of Wight, into three se-
parate commands, as hetex.fare.
The arrangements for the Secret Expedition are
nearly completed, and the embarkation will speedily
take place, at Ramsgate, Margate, and Portsmouth.
L'Trd CATHCART. it is said, will be entrusted with
the chief command, and will have under him Ge-
nerals Lord PAOLI', SYINCAR, BAIRD, and M‘Fae.
The Acosta Isigate, o ith the fleet under convoy
which sailed from Cork on the 23d February, ar-
rived at Barbadnes en the .sth April. .1 he Martao•
BA act. A Y ; and Simon Cori, Boom, from London
for Surinam ; and the Argo A w, from Ply-
mouth for Demerara; joined the iteosta on the
g9th Mira, and parted on the CI April, with the
ships bound to the colonies, under convoy of a
sloop of war.
The Bth Regiment, or King's Own, has arrived in
Dublin. and AM settled in the barracks there.
Mr. Pat.i.s. was considered in a dangerous stall
last night.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was under the ne-
cessity of raising the price cf bread half an assize,
which wi:l :a ke place t VW, wham tha. spartr:*
loaf. wheaten, will be sold nr Is. and homebred
101 d.
Last nigh 's r; it Ile contains an Order in Peen-
cil, :t lass tul 1t r the Governor of the Carr
of God Hope ti levy a duty, nor eereeding 1.5
per cent. on goods, wares, and merrlistndisf, im-
ported into that settlement from any part of His
MAJESTY% dominions, not of the produce. growth,
or roanufaigure of Great Britain or Ireland. TM
Genetic also contains an Order in Council, making
some additional regulations relative to the trade
with Newfoundland, in skiqs, horns, wool, WIWI',
Jez. kc.
The English prisoners at Verdun are said to be
treated with orosu.l lenity. Their limits have beet
enlarged, and they are permitted to be absent for
three, or even four (days, without a personal ap-
pearance at the Town-house. A curious reason Is
assigned for this mitigation. Some of the NATai
and Military Officers are said to have adopted the
singular expedient of soliciting the intercession rf
the Archduke Car sorts of AUSTRIA ; and to hzve
addressed a Memorial to him, as ro the Bravest
Soldier in Europe, the Acknowledged Heed of the
European Military. This Memorial is said to have
had its expected success.