The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-22 00:00:00

attu's ',quadrat. TAleh we" Stain of die
Bar of Lisbon, warning any shipsVillich may s
tempt to enter..the port. Sir Assiut and his suite
landed at Portsmouth on Saturday molting, aid set
off for L7nden. They bare only slept an shave
too nigtas since they left England, which was oa
the sd of June.

The Their spoke a Portuguese ship, bound to
the Brazils ; she was in company with fee mere
ships, which appeared to be a Portuguese squadron:
but it blre so hard that the, 'Thetis cenld not dis-
ci sOly hear the reply, after she had hailed her.—
(Mottles': Poreireouth Poper.l

Some' Dutch and French papers have been re-
ceived, the former to the 116, and the Latter to
the 13th irstent. but they are totally destitute of
interest. Eau remained at Venice on the
ir.stant, but none of the objects of his •isit to
I.aly had transpii rod at that date. The three Elec-
toral Colleges of that Kingdom :retired orders to
assemble en the 10th.

I
Dispatches were fereive4l, yesterday. from Ply-
mouth. giving an Account of serval captures, the
particulars of wbirh will appear in this night's
tidratir.

Mr.Garaataa arrived at half past eleven o'clock,
on Sunday, at the Admiralty. He lefit the Tagus
three days prior to the departure of Lord Sraatto.
roam.

Expreues were sent off on Sunday from the Ad•
miridtj to Ponimeuth. Plymouth. and Sheerness.

Captain M 4 wino, of the Danlepe. arrived at
Glasgow on the 15th instant, from Quebec, states
that he saw the Sect from Quebec, bound to Great
Britain, acc. off Cape Chat, on the 13,h alt.
consisting of 24 sail, under convoy of His Majesty'a
ship Holifez. an again saw nine sail of men of war
on the 45th, on the Banks of Newfoundland.
The Mar, ASA, 3/111,1111.1. from New Yotk,
for Naples, the natl. —, from Boston, fgr Leg-
hors, also another American ship, and a schooner,
wet, captured by an Algeriee frigate, of 44 guns,
in the Mediterranean, the end of 042Ober t the for-
mer vessel is since re-captured by the Captain and
people left on board, and carried into Naples the 4th
of November. _ - • ..

ittrotmtugues.—Captairt L. W. H•LST ED VII
be Captair. of the meet under the command of Vice-
Admiral Sir Cm antes COTTON' Captain A. Mac.
(sax's. to the Presids4l; Lieutenant HICKS, (late
.t the /evil,* cutter) to be a Commander 1 JAYA.
!Catmint', Esq. to be. Secretary to Sir Cu Alit ES
CIIITTOM j Captain T. B. Mamie, to the ear

L'AdelpAe Preach lugger, captured by the Lae,
was floated from off Bembtidge Ledge,.on Monday
last, by cutting away her masts, and brought into
Portsmouth harbour.
The Suraißange, Sir Georme Coattea, with the
Elphuslo;ie, lirinekelsta. tuts, Welton? Cast'', and
rbfreir, East-Indiamen, for St. I lekna. the Cape
of Good Hope, Bombay, and Chino, will sail
im-
mediately from Portsmouth.
The Russian Officers of the Spiesboy frigate, arm
gene from Portsmouth on their parole, tes Andover.
Captain Kuovaats is come to London.
The 2d battalions of the 14th, 35th, and 9,th
regiments, sailed, on Saturday, from Portsmouth
for Cork.
Several intelligent Officers of the Customs, from
Cornwall, are gene to Plymouth, to consult pith
General EVIO4IIOO upon some new iegulat.ions for
the suppression of smuggling.
Such es the general prejudice of public opinion
against the disinterestedness of public men, that
any aft of honour or pride which seems to profess
it. is sure to be ascribed to a different motive. Mr.
Sassatoree's resignation of the office of Receiver-
General of the Duchy of Cornwall, to Lord LAE e,
it seems, is only to be accounted for by his having
received a large pecuniary remuneration from his
Lordship. To those who know Mr. SfitlIDAN, a
eontradittion of such a calumny is unnecessary, to
those who do not, we positively assert the insinua-
tion to be an impudent falsehood.
It is said that the Quest' of Pottrooot, whose
mental ailments are so well known, experienced a
very great improvement in her state of health, after
having been a few days at sea.
A Bull has been received a shots time sine* by
the titular Bishops of Ireland from the POP.,
'strongly reeronmendatory,on the part of his Holiness,
that they would instrutt their Clergy " to incite in
the minds of their respoitive Congregations a zeal-
ous attachment to the views and interests of the
French Emession, under whole proteflieg power
they might expo" deliverance, hc. This curious
Papal Document was accompanied, on the part of
Nevoteors, by a solemn promise, as a douceur to
the Bishops, '6 that it was his firm determination
to make the Roman Catholic the Establidied Church
of Ireland."
Advice of the above mitt, we have been inferm-
ed, was given to the Duke of Poertatio, at Bid-
'node, by Dr. Morton, titular Bishop of Cork.'
Mr. Ge•NT, the Gentleman who has taken a
leading Fart at the several meetings of Russian
merchants, relative to the trade wit') Russia, hail-
ing signified bin wish that their proceedings (which
do not properly belong to the public) should be'
suppressed in the public prints, we do not feel
ourselves at liberty to give publicity to those
which transpired on Thursday last at Barson's
Cofffe-house. Bat thus mucb we have autho-
rity to state, that every point has been sec. dee'
to by Government, for which the merchants
were at all solicitous. An Circler of Council has
been signed. and will shortly be published, to the
purport, that all Russian merchant ships that have
sailed, or may sail dire& loon the ports of Russia to
this country. preyious to the first of January next,
will be permitted to discharge their cargoes to
then re.pective consignees. and return to sat port,
not blockaded, without molestasiou on the plt of
British ships of war. . •