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TILE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. JvNg et.

A Gottenburgh Mail arrived, last eight, with
Letters and Pspers from that city to the Uth inst.
Government, at the same time, received dipatches
from General Moonn and SAUMAREL.
Our• Expedition remained in stag pa in Gotten-
burgh Roads, but as Colonel Mu RkAT had return-
ed with the expected instructions hens England,
its destination has been probably decided Wore this
time. In our Number of t:ie lidth inst. we stated,
u a prevalent report in the city, that Sweden was
negociating a peace, and that to this circumstinice
was to be imputed the inactivity of our forces. A
rumour to the same effect, we find, prevailed at
Gotteuburgh, on the 10th, and it derived not a lit-
tle consistency from other contemporary reports
and circumstances. It. was said that the Swedish

army has been withdrawn from Norway, and that
M. Atesmcs, the Russian Minister at the Court of
Stockholm, bas been sent home in a Swedish frigate.
M. ALoerus was charged with having violated the
sacred character of an Ambassador, by degrading
himself into a spy, and his arrest was one of the
prominent grounds of complaint, as wet as a prin-
cipal cause of irritation. on the part of the Em-
peror his master. his liberation is, therefore, a
matter of great importance. and we may conclude
from it that some progress has been made
towards a reconciliation between the two Go-
vernment,. General MOORE. accompanied by
Colonel Muartar, and some other officers of his
staff, was to set out from Gottenburgh on the filth,
for Stockholm, to concert a plan of operation MAI
British forces ; but if the other intelligence Ottbsis
Swedish Papers be correct, the expedition must re-
turn home. The news from the theatre of war is
confined to some trisial affairs of posts in Norway
and Finland, in which 8 or Its men were killed, and
60 or 70 made prisoners, and a mortar and a few
muskets were taken.

By the United Kingdom, JAMI130?1, arrived in
the Clyde, Halifax Parezni have been reccivtal to
the 20th of May, from which we have made some
extracts.—Congress concluded its Session on the
25th April, and will meet again on the 7th of No-
vember. Among the Bills which passed shortly
before it rose, was the Supplementary Embargo
Bill, containing a clause 1. expatriating all citizens
of the United States, commanding ships or vessels
of the United States, who shAl be convicted of
voluntarily accepting any license or paying any tat
in conformity to the British Orders of Council of
the 11th of November."

Some of the papers of yesterday stated, that the
expedition under Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, sop-
posed to be destined for some part of the Spanish
roast, had probably sailed before that time. This
is a mere conjecture, founded upon a paragraph is
the Cork paper. stating that the embarkation of
the troops would be completed on the 17th instant.
Sir ARTHUR WELLIIILZT <nd not leave town until
the night of the 16th, and some of his Staff did not
follow until Monday and yettertlay.—Under any
other Administration, but that which sent a formi-
dable expedition to Gottcnburgh, where it arrived
on the 17th Qf May last, which remained there,
net knowing what to do, so late as the toth instant,
it would not surprise us to hear that the Cork expe-
dition has been suspended, or bits received a new
direction. We stated, on Monday, on the authority
of letters brought by the Minorca, that the Spa-
niards at Cadiz had refused the proffered aid of our
troops, althrm 441 that assistance had been expressly
solicited by the Governor-General.--.This, which is

the ouly authentic reildrt that ha= appeared in the '
public priuts, has, we understand, been roufirmod,
by accounts received by Government, arid yet the
Ministerial Prints in general talk as it the whole
population of the country were in arias against the
Invader, and determined to perish sooner than
submit to a foreign yoke. One of them admit 4,
t, that although the Governor-General of Andalusia
has acknowledged the authority of General MISR 41.•
and circulated his Proclamation. yet when these
transactions took place in that Province, the Go-
veroor-Getieral and the inhabitants were totally
unacquainted .with the determiaation of their
countrymen in the North ; and though they
might not think it prudent to oppose themselves
singly to the power of BONAPARTE, it by no
means follows that they would not join their
countrymen, if they found the spirit of resistance
general." Now the paper to which we allude
does not deal in rant and ,bombast to the extent
of some of its coadjutors, but its arguments,
perhaps, are not more coneyisive. If the Spaniards
of the South are not to rise until the Spaniards
of the North are embodied in arms—if earls in-
dividual iis to remain passive until Ite" MIS the
spirit of resistance become general, it is easy to
calculate the result. The love of liberty and
true patriotism, where they really exist, disdain all
cold and calculating policy. The horrible mas-
sacre of Madrid might be expected to operate
like a coal of fire in a magazine, and to have pro-
duced u immediate explosion from the Rock of
Gibraltar to the Pyrenees. It would be es idle to
expect that a barrel of gun-powder should take
fire by degrees,. as that a general spirit of success-
ful resistance should arise in a country where each
man sits quietly waiting to see the course which
his neighbour may adopt.

While our Ministers arc occupied in sending
expeditions to the Baltic, which they are after-
wards unable to employ, and which they are ab,iut
to recall, NAPOLEON is proceeding systematically
to lay the broad and deep foundations of a new
empire, such as Europe has not seen since Clue-
LLMAUNE. He means to erect it on the saute
feu•lel principles as that Emperor of the West did,
in the beginning of the ninth century, in the same
country, France. It is now known BONAPARTE
intends to complete the number of Stares great
Peers, eithrr Dukes or Princes, of his own rreation,
to each of whom he gives establishments in land,
to au immense amount. ..xlmitsur, Beam ADOTTE,
WAYOUST, JENOT, KELLERMAN, NIZNOU, and
several others, are, as we see, already created
Dukes by the Corsican Emperor. Estates in
Poland, Italy, Germany, Portugal. and, the Low
Countries, arc conferred on these Generals, as well
as iu France, which are to descend with the dig-
nity to their heirs, and ore to be inseparable from
it. Even the titles Cieinselves are wisely intended
to commemorate and to immortalise the actions
which produced their creation. Dantsic, Auer-
stadt, Valpy, and many others, are thus selected.
When we consider the profound and subtle policy
of Nkrot.sote, his vigilance and unremitting ap-
plication, sustained by such military talent as he
has exhibited—when we reflect on his time of life,
activity of body, and energy of mind—and when
we contemplate his adversaries, we unity well begin
to suspect that a new order of things is at hand ;
and that threes families which, during many ages,
have governed the principal European Continental
States, may be succeeded by an iron race, fashion-
ed by the creative hand of a Corsican, who, at forty,
sees himself without an equal or a competitor for
the dominion of the Continent.

Mr. PAImER's per mange Bill, we are concern-
ed to state, was thrown out last night in the House
of Lords.

Extract of a letter received on Thu v, in
Glasgow, from * respectable Merchant in Gotten-
burg:---

'4 Gottenbnrg, 61k Jeseo we.

Our little army in Finland deem rounders. The Rus-
sians bees been defeated in four vivgagements. We have
taken a great many pieces of caution, colours, and an their
provisions, and they are iu full retreat. Our army in Nor-
way lies inactive at present ; and it is thought they will un-
derteke authiag till the English force, under General Moore,
go there to en-operate wit h them. Meantime the Norwegians
are always (watts as often aa they return to attack ear
troops. On the t7th of May, sow Norwegians were beaten,
with the luss of their artillery, by Cola., I Brandstruin, with
only his own regiment, loon strung. In Oland nod Geth.
laud, all the Romans are taken prisoners. We are now
raisilq, 60,000 sew troops, so that we era perfectly tran-
quil. It mum' that a Colonel Rjertiog took the command
at Sweaburg, and detends the plaits with great bravery. I
tanned ray what credit is die to this accoast, but if it is trete,
we have lest very little as yet by the campaign."

Mr. LUSHMOTON, it is said, yielding to the
wishes of the Hanson° Family, will shortly retire
froin the representation of Great Yarmouth, in
which he will be succeeded by Mr. Jecon.
His Majesty's ship Belle Peale, with the fleet
ender convoy for the Mediterranean, sailed from
Portland Roads nn Monday.
Letters from Surinam state, that the Auto and
Candair, French corvettes, of 2011gurts, and 160
men each, sailed frees Cayenne on the With of
April, in com,any with the Ikeade and Minerva
schooners, full of men, belonging to Guadeloupe,
direct for the Brasile. _ .

Yesterday, the Lord MAYOR, after evimining
the mealweighers' returns, onlered the pnce of
bread to be reduced half an which will take
place to-nwrow, when the (inane: {I loar, wheateu,
will be sold for Is.; and hou,eliold, 1(1,1.
A Common Hull will be hell nu Friilly, for ttie
election of Sheriffs, Chamberlain, Itriligeniasters,
and other °Seen, simuully elected on litlaum-
raer-day.