The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-28 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, &MN SIM 28.

HIS M.LIESTY.

The public mind bas beca for some rims agitated
by a report, announcing that the operation of couch.
ing was to be immediately performed upon His
Marasr e's eyes, by Mr. Putt Ps. Some prepara-
tory reg;rnen of diet, is, we believe prescribed in
such cases; and as His Manse y continues to live
according to his usual habits. this circumstance
might be sufficient to invalidate the report. Is has,
however, been urged and repeated with confidence
and not receiving a contradiaion. has been gene-
rally regarded as founded in truth. The reptnt
added, that couching is a simple and safe operation.
and affeaed to make light of it. We believe, haw-
ever, that it is a very delicate one, attended with
great pain and no inconsiderable peril. The Rove..
FAMILY, we uaderstand, have fAt mach anxiety
from this rumour, and we are credibly informed,
that several of them. particularly His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Crimea ar.aort, have visited Mr.
Niers, and demanded an explanation upon the
subject, and they have been most positively assured
by that Gentleman, that nothing of the sort was
in contemplation. His M*JRSY Y'll eyes are, we
larnear, very defeaive, but in bodily health he is as
well as most men at his age. and fortunately a glass
has been discovered. which greatly assists Ms sight.
But if his sight were more delealve, he possesses a
firmness of mind, and goodness of temper, which,
combiued with a very strung sense of religion,
would enable him to bear the infirMty with
a degree of cheerfulness and resignation to
which very few indeed of his suleas could aspire.
That the operatics bat been performed with sac.
cess upon men of greater age, and who possessed
neither his strength of constiuniun. nor had the ad.
vantage of his temperate habits. we admit. and that
if necessary and advisable, His Mitasser would
submit to the operation, aad bear it with all his
charafteristic fortitude, is minally certainl; but the
law and the constitution have made a great distisco
tinn between His MAJIITY and ordinary men.
Whatever the opinion of Mr. Pas see may be, and
howcier great his professional skill. be would
be a bold man, indeed, who should venture to
perform such as operation, without a previous com-
munication with the immediate relatives of His M a.
J CiTY ; who, in addition to the duty which they feel
in common with the rest of his subjear. possess also
ail the claims of filial stallion. But not only would
the immediate relatives of His Majesty be consulted.
as would be the case in any private family sot blessed
with one-tenth of the filial love sad affeaina
which animate the breast of his loyal offspring. His
Majesty's Ministers besides would not remain si-
lent and indifferent speEtators, and the sense of the
faculty would be taken upon the subjea, under
the sanction of the Privy Council. Thus much, we
hope, is sufficient to chew. that the rumour is un-
founded, and to remove the apprehensions so uss-
necessarily excited in she public mind.

The Leeward Island fleet, amounting to about 50
ships, arrived, on Saturday, in the Downs, no.
der convoy of the Natiormlo riga, of 76 guns.—
&lost of them got pilots at Dover, but very few pas.
bengers landed there. Signals were flying, for a
considerable time, from the signal station, near the
South Foreland, apprising the feet that some French
privateers were out ; the latter were unable to pick
up any thing. The sa=e arrival of the fleet was
announced by telegraph, at the Alhniralty, on Sa-
turday. In the afternoon, the following letter
was sent from the Admiraky to L&ovo s Coles-
house : •
" Mr. Poht presets hh nimpilesents to the blotters of
LAO'. CoSe-honer. sod Weans them. that • nvesine ti
the teleirrors, unimposing the arrival of the Nerthurobertarid,
oath the Leman Wand dem, in the Dmiras, hi, jest been
re *viol"

TA, lac fsom Jamaica is daily tweed, baviog

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Dispatches have bee* received at Lord Carus.
acseit's Office. from Monte Video. They were
brought by Colonel Brawiar. wbo mote over in
the rectums sloop of war. which arrived at Ply.
ntneth on Thursday. The dispatches are dated the
Sikh of July ; at that time the whole of the force
which had been employed is the attack of Baeoes
Ayres had arrived at Monte Video. Gen. WIIITIF
Lollar was employed ,in making preparations foe
the evacuation of La Plata. is cosiormity with the
Convention, or rather Capitulation, coacladd at
Buenos Ayres. A part of the troops which were
wade prisoners under General Baaseroaa had ar-
rived at Monte Video ; the remainder. who had
been marched 900 miles op the country, were es
their way for that place. The day before Colonel
St twain. cants away. General War TeLo4llle. re-
giment (the 89th) arrived in La Plain. frail Eu-
rope.

The Pheasant sailed front the River Plate about
nine weeks ag/. Colonels Pact and BTUAITe
and Captains DAMMAM and Cocasuast came pas-
sengers, and are arrived in town. It was supposed
that the whole of our troops would sail to Eng-
land the 7th September, provided the 7lst
meat were all faithfully deli• ered up at oar head-
quarters, according to the tenor of the treaty with
General Liaises, which it was apprehended world
not be the case, as some of the 71st regiment were
1600 miles up the country, sad mach dispersed in
different places. The driest, 74 guns, was to sad
for St. Helens, to take to Europe any Indiamea
that might be homeward bound. The Plaseteet
brought duplicates of the last dispatches.
The accounts by the Neaseet give a very
gloomy pidlure of our affairs its thai

Spaniards, although in want of our
and knowing that we are about to
rica, perhaps for ever. cannot be
purchase a singl a ankle. Mel
people with great indignity and inst

'Etas of so ill-coodeaed so apedi

sequence of all this is. that our
speculators are obliged to look ow
mediately. foe another market ; but
may go. whether to the West Ind'

the market must be overstocked,
the adventurers to the River Plat

bended the merchants will await
50 per cent.

A Gettenbargh Mail arrived
with letters slid papers to the
We have also received Hstubergh
the 11th and 12th. The Geuesheelth
seanicates an estraordisuuy and
of intelligence. It states that the
in Poland imtreparing for military
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been left, on the SS .h ult. on the Banks of New.
oondland.
The 4,...s loop of war, w'iich sailed from Tor-
tola, with the ships from Demerara and &dice.
for England, parted front theta on the 29:11 ult. in a
violent gale, having sustained damage to her rudder.
On the lath instant, she was spoken with, bearing
away for Ireland.
_—........._
Our accounts from Sc. Holism, by the East India
ships recently arrived. come down to the 11th July.
In consequence of Governor PATTON'S departure
for England, Lieutenant-Colonel Lame, the seat
in command, succeeds as Provisional lilting
Govern3r. Lieutenant•Colond Ca: succeeds as
Ailing Lieutenant-Governor, by the special ap.
pointrnent of the Court of Directors. Mr. Dove.
toe condense as third Member of Council.—
Governor Patten has dinged much of his at.
tention to the Ordnance department ; his improve..
ments have excited the admiration of every prates.
clonal man who has lately visited the island. The
rapidity and accuracy with which red-hot balls cal
be discharged from the heights, astonish those who
have witnessed the St. Helena Artillery pradice, and
add most considerably to the strength and deface
of this most important colony.
The volcanic substance, well known by the eame
of tars 'wageless. has lately been discovered us
abound in this island, gad ie found extremely no.
fel in the conutredion of blooded', water courses.
Sc. by which several large trees of the island will
be rendered improvable, that now lie waste..
The miseries which the inhabitants of St. Helena
suffered from the measles, which have been already
noticed in the public 'prints, gave rise to the most
alarming apprehensions of still more fatal conse-
quences from the sleds of the natural smallpox.
To avert so calantitons an evil, the Government, is
order to obtain the vaccine infedion, in a fresh and
pure state, lately sent six healthy boys to the Cape of
Good Hope, one of Thong was inoculated there, and
oe the passage back Olt. Helena, the other See were
imiculated in succession. The wing being thus brought
to the Island io a high state of pethition. it has
been glace cominenicated to Europeans and natives
with the greatest saccese.

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