The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-25 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 0.5.

A Gottenborgh Mail arrived yesterday, with
letters and papers Irmo Stockholm to the 4th inst.
We are concerned to state that the Swedes are
retreating from Finland, ■nd have suffered a se-
vere defeat. The action took place on the 14th
last at Orawais. It lasted fourteen hours.—The
loss of the Swedes is stated at 1400, including 100
widener'. After the action the Swedes retreated to
New Carleby. They are said, however, to have
obtained seine advantages sukequent/y, on the
:16th and 427 th , but they do not appear to have
been of importance,.
Baron RoJE is appointed Comosander-in-Chief
of tine Southern Finnish Army.
There is no notice in the Swedish Papers of the
Russian fleet in Port Baltic.

The Africoine frigate, of 36 guns, arrived on
Sunday, at Portsmouth, from Lisbon. The French
General KELLEamas and Suite came over in her.
The Olivine had sailed from the Tagus with the
third division of the French troops, but put back
in consequence of orders which acre received to
stop the sailing of the third division of the French
troops, until it was known that theTmnsports which
had carried the two other divisions had been per-
mitted to quit the Freud, ports. IVe do not knew
the object of General KELLERMAN'S visit to this
country, but it probably has some rrferenee to the
ulasse circumstance. We are happy to find that
General !loons has contuseneed his march with
his whole army for Spain ; it was at first intended
that they should have gone by sea, but the weather
was so very tempestuous, that it was thought snore
expedient to march over land. The Scorpion, Capt.
STA/41,11:ED, also arrived from the Tagus, ut Ply-
mouth, on Saturday. By these vessels we have re-
ceived Portuguese papers to the 9th inst.

Private letters from Barcelona, contained in these
papers, describe, in moving terms. the distre:4ll suf-
fered by the inhabitants of that place in conse-
quence of their still remaining under the controul
of the French. Animal food is described as veiling
at 16 reals ve'en (nearly eight shillings) per pound,
and bread in proportion.

)tight French 6:211efIll$ had ached at Pampe-
Inns oboe% the middle of September, from France,
to take the cotatamid of the French army collected
there.

♦ letter from Soria, dated September te, states,

that General TAMMUZ had been attacked by the
Spaniards near Vent* del Puer, and suffered a
considerable loss. He had been forced from hi■
position, and had left eight or tell horses in posses.
lion of the enemy.
The Spanish General commanding the army of
Estrentadtim has issued a Proelagiation to
.his
troop., exhorting them to treat their Portuguese
neighbours as brethren. It is dated pal:o7, Sep-
tember 47.

The Estremadurian army seems to he in full
march, to co-operate with the rottligitese in guard-
ing their frontiers from any hostile uttacks. We
leant by The Lisbon Gazette, of the 7th, that tl:e
Portuguese are busi,xl in the organization of their
urmy.. The I.:Mowing appointments hove been
made, subject to the approval of the Junta of
Oporto:—

To be Governor of t 6• Pro►ince of A!euteje—Lienti uatit
General Francisco Paula Leite.

Tu be Counsellors of War—ruuut Monteiro Mur, General
of the Arra,. of Sul ; and Lieutenant-General Mande! tu
Getout de Sepulveda.

To be Livuteuarit C,:nersd—•Geseral Bernardia rreirc do
Audrada, Wmwnandin:lle Arm) of Norm

To be Uthi- Marshals—Manuel Piuto Hari liar, entutuantt-
ing the Army of Observation of Norte ; Null) Ereiw• de Aii-
driuda, commanding a division of the Army of Norte ; Mi-
chael Pereira Foejaz, Adjutant-Crucial to the same Army
!ad Joseph Lopes de Souza, commanding the vanguard of
the army of Std.
lobes Bripdier—Framisco da Silveira Pinta da
Kea, commanding a division of the Army of Nixie.

We are happy to announce that the Portuguese
are conaitsg forward. in great numbers, with liberal
contribution, for the defence of the countr►.—
Lists of the (10111446m0 are published in The Lisbon
Gu:ette.

On the 13th of September, we gave an account
of the loss of His m awl^ •'s frigate Meleager, of
36 guns, in the West Indies, officers and crew all
saved, with the exception of a midshipman, and 3
or 4 seamen. This account, which we copied, in
common pith all the other papers, from THE
GLOBE of the preceding day, in which it appeared
EXCLUSIVCIA, was much doubted, as no account
whatever had been received of the Ines at the Ad-
miralty. We regret to find it now confirmed, by
letters and papers from Jamaica, to the ioth of
August, from which we have extracted an account
of the loss of the frigate. She struck on Bare-Bush-
Key, on the coast of Jamaica, and her masts went
by the boartl.—She soon afterwards bilged.—The
crew were saved, except three who were drowned.

A Morning Print, of yesterday, notorious for
puffing, and also for a narrow and malignant jea-
lousy of its contemporaries, indirectly stated that
I'n► Bauttsu PRESS of Saturday did not announce
the arrival of Messengers from Franc: with a Pa-
cific Overture. The insinuation is lithe, as the
readers of Tux well know; and
' with this simple and plain assertion we shall take
leave of our very worthy and candid brother
journalist.—The two Foreign Messengers, whose
departure from town we mentioned yesterday,
I reached Deal about eleven o'clock on Saturday
night, and Mr. SHAW in ten minutes afterwards.
He immediately proceeded to %%diner Castle with
a dispatch communicating the nature of the over-
ture from France to Lord Hangs:saver, together
with the answer returned by the Cabinet Council.
The foreign Messengers slept at the Three Kings
Inn, and einlinrked in Adm. C 011.11 ELL'S barge at
eight o'clock on Sunday morning. They went
first on hoard the Princess of Orange, where the
French Officer who had accompanied them-from
Boulogne had been detained. The whole then went
on board the flag of truce, which immediately sailed,
and was seen from Dover at 10 o'clock, steering
across channel for Boulogne. Some of our con-
temporaries have been led into erroneous specu-
lations upon the presumption that the twoforeiguers
whe came to London were Russians, and that the
third person detained at Deal was a Frenchman.
This marked difference of conduct they censure as
a narrow policy, and a partiality towards the Em-
peror A i.tA N DLR. which he does not deser►e, and
could alissll no good purpose. Now the fact is, there
was no such distinction made between them. The
two foreigners who came to London were, the one a
Russian ()Dicer in the army, the ethers Frenehman,
a regular Courier, well known at our foreign-offiee.
The other Frenchman. who was not allowed to be
on shore, but was sent back to his vessel, was not
refused liberty to accompany his fellow travellers
from any disrespect, but upon examination it was
found that he bad nothing to do with the ostensible
object of the mission, and confessed that he came
with his companions merely from motives of
cunosity. It is suspected that he is an able
Eligine.s, and that he came to male his ob-
servations upon the state of the country.

Nothing ri•rtitin has yet transpired, eitiier with
respect to the dispatches, or the answer returned
by our Government. A Ministerial Paint of last
evening. however, states as hearsay, that the former
consist of two letters dated from Erfurth, and ad-
dressed by M. DE CHAMPAUNI, the French Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs. and M. Ds Rostaszow,
the Russian Minister, to his Excellency G. CAN..
Nitro, Esq.—that the two letters are in substance
the same, stating, that Ills Majesty the Emperor
of oil the Russras, and Ms Majesty the Emperor
of the Fscxcu being equally animated with a de-
sire to putaa end to the calatuities of a.r, be (the

Minister for Foreign Affoint) has it in tot,
from lily MaararrY to re pleat hid Excel'env,
communietitc to HIS Beiralltile MAJILSTY
sire, and if His RotrAsste MAJESTY Ise influe,
to, asimilar desire, to propose that Plealipet
shall be immediately named, to pioeetd.
Mat may be tin til upon, .to open a ht
with the PlealpotAtiuries of Ills hitrtal
am's, for the co lesion Of a Maritinn
—Awl the away, to this propo.ii
corrli:ig to the same print, states, that
TANNIC hi AJLNTY vnb 51$ ratted by the de
lie had always e arni r :itch kas W,
to all Europe, to jut no. etrii_ to the edam
:ear, wheuever he ennui do iwt eousistentl:
security of Ids dinoioiosis, the honour of hi,
and the good faith he owed to Isis Allie.s--tbsit
wits rrittly to enter into a aegtniation
those Allies, aid that be would imtaalisteli
municate the overture that had Isvera madi
to liir Majesty .the King of SWITE:,
PRINCE ILEUM:Sof PowruuAL, and to tl
and Supreme Junta is Spain, goy:trait
online of Ills Catholic Majesty Et MMUS
The epithet " maritime" clearly express,
terniir.atioa that Englaad shall have natio,
with the Continetst; owl if the overture
character and. descriptiou, tile answer
what might he expected, its it 11111111 CS a
tion on our part that England shall have
the Continent, and is, consequently, a
the offer to negociate upon the proposed I
We yesterday endeavoured to trace some
obvious motives which impelled Busty
have 'recount to the interview at Erfurt,
mission which has recently reached this
ludilamdeutly of any expectation or eveti
success from a propsition of Peace, the
is one whick a subtle tyrant, deeply read
works of MACIIIAVEL, and 'always -
face with violence, would naturally adopt.
embarrassed situation of his affairs, the
prospect Wore hire, and the necessity, not
reconciling his Ittissiau ally, but of prepare
French nation fur more serious sacrifices
kind than they have yet made ; these
would, of themselves, be sufficient to diet,
an expedient. It is meaat, in the
for the meridian of ,the Continent—but
knows, arid TALLETRAND can suggest.
other reasons, applicable to Great Britain,
signed to operate on the minds of the
this country.

The tyrant intimately knows all the
evils under which we labour. An .
whom nothing, except the patriotic and
rious, though ill-timed and injudicious,
their predecessnm, to enlarge the I
toleration, could ever have brought into
The Treasury committed to the &pose]
and infirmity—the Foreign Department
at a moment like the preseht, to an
smell in the epigrams of MARTIAL, or the
HORACE ; of a c!assic mind, eloquent in'
of Commons, and convivial at a public
but completely destitute of all the local
ledge, information, and acquaintance vii'"
tinental languages aid states, indispen,
situation. The Admiralty directed by a
forms o contiast with each of his four ,
predeeersors in that department—the other
similarly filled ; while tl.e nation, however
and even

in its abhorrence of
won tyrant of Europe, yet suifers tinder
of protracted her, interrupted commerce
•ere taxation.

With these facts before him, can we won,la
NAPOLEON adapts his machinery to his
and endeavours to throw the apple of
into the lap of Englund ? His capacious
doubtless embraces likewise America. and i.
forgetful of his faithful Ally and steady
the President JEFFERSON ; Who, it must lie
fessed, well deserves, and dearly earns, the
of his Corsican blaster. A proposition of
ho-lever illusory, iustlmissible, or evidently
lated for purposes of deception, would be t card
importance in JezriliSPN'S hand at the
meat. Nor would he fail to play it against
Federalists, who expose and stigmatize his
loth:misty principles. his servile' devotion to
Scoury of Europe. and his shameless
went of all -those political, or even moral feel
on which American emancipatiou was origiiiii
founded. To him, therefore, Boom. tares
At.xxsooxa's mission may be a copioub theme
praise, and of declamation.
With respect to the propositions or oilers th,
selves, we Live offered some remarks ; while se
not pretend to be informed of their precise pi
port, we believe that we may resume full as tat
credit with the public for our sources of knot
and information, as any of our centesapono.
That even a discussion of them could not 11
been admitted, without a previous communicatt
of every article to the Spanish Euro)s in
th
coantry, is unquestionable. If iIowAPARTt 0011
by these overtures, effect or produce even
slightest jealoJsy between us sod our allies,
mission would have been most soccessfal. It
the anion of Spain. Portugal, sod England. '
ther with their colonies. that can alone county
lance, and will, we doubt not, esentnally arre.t,
colossal power of thc Corsican Tyrant.

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to Exeellenci
JAJILSTY that citify
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if that His
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It M finally determined to hold a Court of
Orr upon Sir HEY/ DALRYMPLE. This proem
t windy the country. A Court of Inquiry ih
a mere Jitott of pet SOW*, C:106ell by Ministers fro:.l
„,,,aapc their friends, to inquire and report upon n
partcular rase submitted to them. The members
ate not upon their oath, and the acquittal of Sir
lic, kLayart,E, by a set of men ao constituted
yid appoiated, would not avail either the General
ir the Milligan.

The accounts from the Brazils, by the Alban
cotter, which arrived last week at FalenoJth, arc
Dot so aatisfactory as we could wish. A coldness
'mists between the English and Portuguese Enn-
grai its • but which, we understnnal, has not arisen
so touch from any particular acts of offence which
either party has committed against the other, as
(-sin the uneninfortahle situation in which those
;.rtints nod themselves placed, ttseir longing
r hme, and a hope of returning. A knowledge
real state of Spain had not reached the 8r0x"...
x"... They lia.l heard of the commotion, at Madrid
'he id of May ; but conxidecing them as tempo-
‘... and unavailing, were coming on feeble hos-
t , against Buenos Ayres, by imprisoning those
fatoi had arrived from that country for the purposes
of iside. M'e are sorry to find that Sir S. Smism
e.,joyed but an imperfect state of health.

Jgal TYSON, Esq. late Secretary to the ;mat
Nctsoa, has resigned the otter of Clerk of
the Siirvey at Woolwich. W. R. COIM AY, Ed4i.
trrtgaV to Lord Cut.t.taowoon, is mentioned as
StleCeSSOr.
A e•-cac:i privateer captured a sloop and two
i.:mn Deeps, on Friday afternoon.
1.10! Yievettle, LOPEZ, from Gottenhurch, for
Oteu.o ; 'errs' W ii,Ll All% from London, for
Ar.. )(lei ; t:ie Helena. BELNUIII N ;rutsditto,
Lr Übe* ; and Coto, transports, have put into
1,.:. 4ate, witn much damage.
• Sisemnah, %V INsßr.o', from Teignmonth,
f .erpool, has put into Scilly, with damage,
I 'writ on shore, and thrown part of her cargo
s. a rd.

t` nu l'wo Sisters, ; True Briton, BAi
Sari( si, HILDCLIFF SaAttt7Soll, ; and the
Jate,s, HONEYSIAN, were driven on shore on the
It col Sand, near Newcastle, on the 15th instant,
bet have since been got off without much da-
sine.
His Alaarspr's ship Success, with her convoy.
from Portsmouth, arrived at Gibraltar, and sailed
spiel for Malta, osi the 38th September.
His MAJCSTY'S ship Redwing, with her convoy,
fr,on Portsmouth, arrived et Gibraltar on the 30th
Septenilier, in seven days, from Falmonth.
The Active, Kowt.v, from Sunderland, was
it-”ekeel on the Kentish-Knock, on the Bth instant.
—Crew saved.

The Cygnet sleop of war fell in with a vessel
belonging to Shields, supposed to be the Ceres
Slurs, water-logwed, about the loth instant, std
took out the Master and crew.

The Neagh Castk, FERGUSON, from Sunderland,
tins been on shore at Bridlitegton, but got off with
image.—The Endeavour, WOOD, of Shields, has
ken ou shore near the same place, but got off
without damage.
The Milliner. from London, for Carmarthen.
that sank near fiutigenesti, is towed into Dover.
The Dawson transport, from Quebec, for Halio
fax, km been on shore in the River St. Lawrence.
but got off, and put hack to Quebec to repair. •
Ott Thurday next, the 27th inst. the St. James's
Voliuiteers ate to muster at Dufour's-place. Aa
'Lis is to be the last field exercise for the seasonowsd
lithe maiiestercs will be differeet from those In
io Hyde Park, on the usual field days, a
strong mustier n expected.
The e.iry great advance in the price of candles,
owing to the difficulty in procuring tallow from
P.ussia. is likely to prove highly beneficial to the
whale fishery. in which the port of Hull bears so
Pectin"' C Part ; wily families being induced to
use lamps in their kitchens, halls. &c. in which
isbide oils Properly refitted, is now chiefly burnt.—
The disagreeable smell arising therefrom is in a
pest measure removed by dippiug the cotton-wick
it iioegar, and driing it well before used.
The Cotr..et‘:r an.lComptrAr-s of Customs. at
Hall, bate given onti,e to the merchants, that the
Lords of th Treasury !lave authorised the sarehous-
and beach ag the several articles enumerated in
TableE. Act of 4.351Ge0. IlLels. 132. in warehouses
to be approved of btl the Officers of the Customs.
The folloosog are.e prineipal ar.icies enumerat-
ed. six elinotids, barilla, bees-wax, bristles undress-
eanthandes, clover seed, cotton yarn. and wool.
weraots, feuthers, figs. gum anahic and sentga, je-
suite bark, indigo. Juniper berries ; linen, plain of
all sorts. eaccpt sail cloth; oil of olives, Palms eat-
Lid. and turpentine ; prunes, raisins, 'malts, &C.
Ca* Bconcltrit, lately stabbed by Mr.TOltalta.
a Portugnese, at Ph mouth, is cOnsiderell to be in
n very dange:mas state, and the only prospect his
in...liesl attendants nave of f.aviiig his life,' is by an
a•iiputatioti ; a mortification bating taken place
fro'll the knee downwards. Mr. TOR4IO was
taken at Falmouth. and is now in Plymouth gaol.
The Albany papers state. that di.turlsauces had
liken place. in conieqrtencsi of the erufearms, at
(l *ego, Vbitere several boats had been tired into,
*kale catering Sacked harbour. enc.., the tire return-
ed. Sritne lives were hut. Mr. Übe r. the Collec-
tor. though reinforced with fifty militia-men. was
alder
tion!ppreheasioils he should be obliged to quit
kis da.
Out theist off the present month was published,
1/9. of e Sporting 3lngazine, and which
completes the 32,1 Volatile. The CooperPtatei
gisru in this Nnmber are-1. Milo. Frontispiece .1
"IP Volume: 2. Vignette Title Page to ditto; and
Nis 11.uttstvs cream-coloured Charger. from .a
nicotine by CHALON. Among other+, in the LI"
SerorY ..eps"---rtiment, is an article, to be continued
(Vv.y mouth. entitled, Disputes awn Cent/avert
lPetals of .loom, Ste. Coinpitte Sets, with
.esards of 40') Copperplates. on Sporting and
.ob;eets.er , may be lint.—N.B. The Work pro'.
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