The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-18 00:00:00

TEE 33R11.11511 PRESS.
. LoNDoN,
WED:Vs:SIMI'. JANUARY IR.

The Session of Parliament ail; commence to-
morrow. \Ve uuderoand, that no amendmwt to
the Address will he 'nor, din either !louse. The
Member-;, not under the immediate influence of
51:onsterNstroot tothiak that the timer. are fficient-
I y critical to speak for themselves, and at such a
moment they are ow:ions to avoid the suspicion of
a wish to efitharros, 11:4 MAJr.otrv's Ministers. It
h..s been held out to them, that NJmisters mean to
move for x,,i.onatury of their conduct in
relation to Sp.oin. u prominent and press-
.stilijett fur the CUil:•;llCrati 4444 of Parliament.
blinister-, out the produetton of suet'
papers as aeees-ary to u rouiplete view of the ease,
evidently hesrak a prorokiiion of a delmito! %you
the aubjvct.

We have received Dutch Papers to the 341 inst.
NILbTAPIIA BAIRACTAII ilia Pot blow himself up ip
p.dace, as the ',receding papers stated. lie ef-
fected his escape, carrying the reigning Si LTAN
withbiro, W the Turkish fleet in the harbour ; from
whielt, at the date of the latest accooods, lie was
battering and bombarding such parts of the town
as were (occupied by the insurgents. Th.. Paris
news in the Dutch Papers coulee Joan to the Qstls.
it app►e:►rw front them, that the two of Marshal
MORTIFIL had reached logrouo oo the lith, and
that he ass to be before Saragossa on the 13th ult.
The evacuation of Berlin by the French troops
has pot tempted MS PRUSSIAN MAJIVITY to revisit
that capital. lie is gone to St. Petersburgh, we
suppose, to crave the protection of., Atattaseaft,
and remind hiin of the oaths of eternal love to welt
other, and of hatred to Boa►t+ua-e, they took
aver the toii,b of URNS/ERICK OM GRLAT.

During the present awful interval of anxiety and
suspense, relative to the fate of our army iii Gal.
heis, sad relative to the thud destiny of the Sco-
ttish Monarchy itself, it is interesting to cast our
eyes over the Continent of Europe, however lime
it may afford of hope or of culisolution—
yet some faint subject of corigratalstion is involun-
tarily derived from the escape of SII:STAPHA HA I-
RACTAK ; if,after all, we may venture to lend im-
plicit credit to intelligent'e transmitted to us front
Victims, through the ssitslium of Dutch news-
ropers. All these mediums of inforitottion are only
wires, played on by the Ruler of Europe, and of
whit h he *veils himself, to dime. or to arrest and
to controul, according to his interests, the human
mind. Yet, as MUSTAPLIA HAMM:TA R is unques-
tionably adv erre to she tuaehiliatione of France
and Russia, for the motif and extinction of the
Ottoman Empire on this toile of the Bospho-
rus—mini as his escape from the seditious fury
of the insorgent Janissaries is on event which
must be highly displeasing to ?into:Aux, it
is not probable that such s fact would be pub-
lished or admitted, if it were not iiithentie. Per-
haps there is not any foreign individual at this time.
in whore personal safety and preservation we are
more deeply interested, t han iu that of MUSTAIMA.
The energy of his character alifords some pet:open,
that, under his guidance, the Turkish Empire may
yet be extricated and renovated, without passing
through the crucible of Bosaestrra. and being
melted down, like so many other Stales sod Mo.
narchies. The new SULTAN being likewise under
MUSTAPHA'A protection, and both having fouua .•
refuge on board the ships in the harbour, we may
Amend anticipate the eventual reduction of the mu.
tinous soldiery, who, li lie the Praetorian Bands wader
V sr si trs, antl under sonnitsy others of the Ciassas,
involved in ram+ ge and in fauna the ancient capital
of the world. So long as Bstascssa survives, we
shall still look toward* Constantinople with hope.
Nor is Austria altogether erased from the map of
Ed rope, till Turkey sink under its. own. weak oasis,
and the arts of NAPOLLON. We repeat it: the
resources of the Turks. if they were sustaitied on
the hood liy Austria, and on the sea by Great Bri-
tabs, are prodigious, and would astonish mankind.
It is on the coast of tlw Black Sea that we 'must
puitish A tEXA N ORR for his brow dereliction of the
common cause, and for his inroads committed on
the shores of the Mettle. (inland mail he man-
qncrcil in Ms Crimea. Why have not Ministers
already turned their attentom towards this portion
of Europe ? It is thew, and there only, that
Russia is easily vulnerable. Winter is in itself
the best protection in the litilfs of Bothnia, and of
Finlaiid. But•Chisson, fer.ikow, and all the ports
of the Crimea, sro assnilable at veil ry sca•on of the
Rear. Accustomed as Nseiiixos has shown him-
self to trample on Al treaties or tillialices, he never-
theless eitimot, without incurring the strongest ab-
horrence, abandon A tismissinen, who hiss maid-
rested so complete s subservienee at Tilsit and at
&forth. It is in the person of the Czar. that we
MINK pursue awl I • Is she Freuge Usarper.--
Whatever may hue the fate of Spiiin, whether it
sink wider the ittm Icr, or a tether the eicitest shall
lau protracted, we I; list that our fleets and our ex-
ertions will ere long Le trousferred, iu part, to the
Adriatic, nail to the Levitiit. There we shall find
ample subjeets for our nav mid the most important
01.jects of acquisition. Au enlightened Govern-

raent will not despise these hints, chid', assuredly,
are net made in a spirit of hostility.
If the unfortunate FRED6aII: 1V111.1.1.01 should
visit Petersborgh, as his letter, addressed to the
inhabitants of Berlin, positively affirms ; such a
journey can only be undertake.% and executed with
the approbation, we awl• say with the express per-
mission, of BONAPAIAI E. Witillint hit *auction, the
nominal Sovereign of It ussia would neither date to
invite, nor to receive Ills I'itI.SSIAN .MAJTSTY. 'co
obtain some relaxation of the terms jimmied upon
hint, and to give in return new proofs of his deter-
rence or submission to his Corsican Muster, can be
the only probable object of FnEnuate ‘VI lAM'S
visit. ALEXANDER may render the chains of his
ginner ally less severe, by representing to their
av,auunu tyrant hi, devotion. CAV 1.1 NCOURT will
take sufliciunt care that no treasonable or rebel-
lious practices tied entrance. From Prussia, as
she is at present situated, we tint neither expect
nor derive the least assistance. But Austria
• will be finally swayed and ioupelled by events.
_ If the Slasni•h struggle is prolonged, and it• the
Turkish Government, after reducing the rebel-
lious Janissaries, Shull cuter into ugly treaties with
Great Britain for innittal defence, then we may
confidently expert that the Cabinet of Vienna will
intake one more effort to emancipate itself: and
Germany, even Saxony, may j * in that last at-
tempt to liberate the Continent. 'i heo.! specula-
tions can however only ►erve to neenpy the mind,
till the fate of things is &cid' d h. onil tile Pyre-
nees. Nevi r did a Parliament a,seinble under more
anxious and aw ful circumstances. A few days, or
even a few hour., may disclose the most interesting
events. :should they prove auspicious, we 'nay,
whet% we consi.:er the gloom :mil depression of all
ranks, justly exclaim,
Glatssupervenist, qua mon •perahitw Lora."

The rtreuxhotri picket is arrived at Falmouth
from Ifio Janeiro, which place she kit on the ed
of December. She brings a confirmation of the
accounts of the. stagnation of commerce, and the
difßcuiries experienced by British merchants,
ronnitunicated in the letters from Rid' Janeiro,
Tax nRITI‘Ii Paco% of Monday. The report,
11.,wever, of the seizure of two vessel, in, the river
which we then noticed, requires confirmation.

A Military OfEi•er arrived yesterday iu Downing-
street, wii4 *Dispatches frnin the NI rat ladies. it
was reported that he had brought 1111 account of the
capture of Martinique. That, however. is not the
fact,. but, we understand, he has brought as, 1,1(!(111(1,1t
..1 the arrival of Sir George Prevost, and the pre.
rnirations by him, for an ettark npou that
mid the other French West India Llands.
The Flora, Laaosta, botiml to Gibraltar, put
into Penzance, on Saturday lust, leaky. She part-
ed from the fleet (which sailed from Falmouth ria
the id instant, under convoy of the 'Hirt) an the
rtth instant is a gal..? The day lwfore the Sarah,
MA I. LET, for Malta, bad a signal of distrew
The billowing vowels of the fleet from the
Leuward Islands, under convoy of Ilia AJESTY'S
ship Galatea. are yet unaccounted for, viz.—
The Ades, Hill; Flora. Hardy; and the David, Lambert,
from Drunistra ; Hradec pacl...t, /Wirers, from Bethke ;
Douro, Stephenson, from Surinam; Herr ona, •Dracars,
(mot St. lorto ; and the Two Smell! Note, faun Grenada,
all for lAonnor ; lodiana, ‘Yallare, film Demerara, for 'lir
el)ite ; Lord Coiliagwod, Muttn, from St. Luria: Ulna-
tall, Allen, (roan Tortoni ; Falmouth. Cattenunah ; and the
Three Brothers, Martin, from St. CM:. fur Lit-41,00t.
The !hear (;riNder,—, from London, bound
to Portsmouth, is on shore near Poole.
The Heron K ELNAN, is arrived at Dart-
mouth. from Quebec, after being captured and
abandoned by a French privateer.
The Lroaidas. BLACILOTON E 4 from Prince Ed-
ward'. island, for London, Purtsrl from His M 4.
JINTV4 slap Witte* on 4th inst. in latitude 49. 49.
long. 15. ‘2B._ . _

Ministers lately received an account of the loss
of part of the baggage belonging to the Light
-Horse under the eto iiiii and of Sir Joics 110oag.
•We understand that the muleteer's who hat) been
hired to carry the luggage, took fright on the ap-
pearance of the French cavalry. cut the bands
which kept the packages on the backs of their
mules, dropped mid left them to be picked up by
friend Of foe, while they iscampertsl oil, and took
shelter in their native mountains. It was not ou ing
to trreelwry or theft, but to personal fear, that the
British owe that Ins.; for those muleteers ore pro-
verbial 14 their honesty. We are sorry to say
that our °Ricers had in general too much baggage;
and this may act as a levson tit them in futipe.
Last week, a meeting of persons interested in the
establishment of a rail-road through the forest of
Dean, from Lithsey to Lic!brook. was held in Ikre-
ford, when it appeared, that the proposed line
would open a direct communication between Lid-
ney and Lidbrook, through a large portimi.of the
forest, anomiding with coal, sod hitherto very lit-
tle explored. The consent of the Crown to the
proposed measure was signified in a letter f
Lord GLEPtai.avm, as Surveyor-General of the
Woods and Forests, and the necessary steps sill
he taken immediately for obtaining an Act of Par-
liament.

A tradesman from London, whose shop !was
broken into in November last, and gold seals and
jewellery stolen out to the amount of nearly asool.,
on Monday went, in the course of business, into
the shop of Mr. AAA !starred, of the Ilia's-street.
Portsmouth, (is Jew, wfm onakea a very respectable
appearance in that town) when aeon.' ttttt er
to come in and asked for a ‘eiol ; a .drao yr' of
Oasis case was accordiogly taken out fur him to
mike choice of one, mooring which the trailesarin
recsa;itisrti several a hid] lINII lwris stolen flora 16116.
Hr immediately left the shop, mill laid an iofurnua
firm against Mr. ZarAarich, whose sloop and house
.were afterwards evnisitwil, and a very cur-itle•ulale
nut abet or the articles which wet— stolen out of his
shop were found. Mr. Zachar•oh “w• taken iuto
custody.—sHe says he bought them in Loudon.