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in the East or West Indies. And it will be ono
1 say, to consider the aftwegolug questions most
maturely, before we proceed to St. 4 the emherg, 611,1
to re-kiudle the flame of ear iu the North of I.u.
rope ; before we•embark in au caerprize as r,,,4
and as dangerous as the wars of the giants a.yaiwa
heaveu ; before Sweden becomes so etivelopvd oa
all sides, that she will not :waits have the 0p7,0,,
tnnity or alternative of muking any other pia.,
thou such as her enemies may ideate to dictate t
her as a conquered and ruined couutry. For se
should consider, that, although the people of that
country are naturally brave, and are governed hi a
King, who is lo pattern of unexampled fortitude stet
magnanimity, still they never can be able, with
force with which it will be in our power to assist theta
to etaud against a torrent which has overwhelm,
every thing hitherto in its wey ; and partietilarir
as this torrent is become more irresistible as it
rolled along, by receiving the form of auxiliar;
its own original strength. If Russia could te:
stein its rapid course, bow can it be po-sthl,f
row Swedes to cepect to succeed iu east
an undertaking ? How can this Govertimeut
be so incousidenste sad cruel. as to satritise
a country which evhy thinhiug mart must coo.
elude win Eiji a victim to 'that sword,
has disarmed every Power on the Contimmtl
And do Ministers consider all this while to %Lot t
degree of resentment they are rousing the posmos
of the ltussians, instead of endeavostring to &nu,
bate them ? Little do they know the nature of
mankind, if they suppose such conduct a ill prow
favourable to England. Have they been educstA
in the Works of the Romans, only for tie
purpose of filling their minds with that oar,
like rage which marked the character of that
people ? and are the principles of Christiar.it
be entirely slighted, and looked upon as alien%
only to our private meek of life? Such nelti
could have been the sole intention of them, sad
unless some stop is put to this horrid system cf
warfare,. the SUM misfortune we must expect to Is.
fall us must be the veegeatice of hearten. L. toh
therefore, endeavour most earnestly to conclude
peace, as, if upon the terms offered when Mi. Fa
was alive, I do not see how it can be dishonour
able.
Miceli et, me.

Your'o,

FAties.

BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
VIRMSDA)", blunt 31.

• ,
it is unelcessary to dwell apse the hopertarvo
at the Debate in the House of Lora's; 'en Tuesd
night, of which a correct report was given, excite
sit*, is Tat BRITISH Pans of yesterday. We
feel it, however, a duty to explain the dream.
stances under which that Paper was lett without
competition, and permitted to enjoy so great an
advantage over all its contemporaries. The duty
so impelling is not a selfish consideration, hut
arises from an honest regard for the Liberty of the
Press, is support of which we have never bees
among the least forward. We do, however, f d
that we have almost forfeited our delta to ths
title, in not having broken silence sooner upon s
subject which presents one of the most alarrarl
arid frightful symi,itotas ever exhibited by a fret
people. For some weeks past, the public hale
read, in almost all the papers, that there were foie
deludes iii the lisuue of Lords, upon the Oe
ders in Coward, the case of 'Denmark, Pie
toga', &e. ; that the House sat until a Toe
late hour ; that the Members most distingui.e
l•eti for e%perieure, eloquence, and talents, oil luta
sides, muds lung speeches; and that on a di‘l,:ca
the numbers were so and so. Such were, in
er-
nert►l, the reports of the important debate* in 1'.,-
liament in the daily newspapers. At the seine tine
might be read, in the saute papers that thus leek'
noticed' Parliamentary- debate, whole colonist.
the must contemptible trash, upon the meutirst act
most puerile subjects, and more space was givot t,
a boxing snatch between two pugilists, than to t!
attack upon Copenhagen or the Orders in CuO.W.
But they were not satisfied with thus markiiig then
contempt of the debates in Parliauseut. The.
openly branded them as the wrasglings slid brat.-
hugs of faction, and disappointed Luau; and ages

them, The Cmrier, actually complained of it J a
viemace, a must intolerable nuisance, th:tt
tip
MAJESTY'S Miniqt•Ts should be troubled uitl: • I‘ji

things as debates in Parlitoticut. Snt h bit: I,
the lang-inge of the prints devoted to the 31i..1-0
who felt that their patroivi were completely
out of the field itt argument, and tuttu.ally
to hide their defile. The htagtuige of the c,,,

tion and neuirsil prints w3s ; but Ito

f !end uet beeAlot, to toe so iiitic:i us,iwilated to
of the Treasury Journak, we will
By n Stwplinig Orsh!r of the 11.)J,e of 1.

estrungem uro prohibit:A ti' t;t:s.• nntc.i. If

mous P.l,t. .t , warlubcred cvcry

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but

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trail at liei;id from Iris arrival at utatiititv to
hi. old age. were lie might curry off Corti the
Lords every thing that noised in it, but

not ant• word enuld he coastitutionaliy take &aril
in his note book. This Order, however, has
of late years a little relaxed; and is the time of the
late Ministry, a totrAnger, by a little management
and traation, mi4lit take, a sly note without any

great danger of le•Mg sent to Newgate: In the
presciit Session, scarcer• had the Opposition begun
to:arraign the co:ula•t of Ministers, when the Order
taking notes was most rigidly enforced, and
a complete stop was put to the practice. A good
memory, however, supplied the want of notes—
the debates still went out fuirly to the world, and
a new difficulty, by whom made, or for what pur-
pose, we do not pretend to say, arose. Upon one
or two occasions, the Gel-Amen who report for
the neutral and opposition papers, on {ring down
to the Ilouse of Lords, were refused admittance in
the usual way. l'iseywere told they must have a
Peer to introduce them, but before a friendly Peer
could be found to perform the cerentoily,the debate
was considerably advanced. Upon these occasions
too the Reporters belonging to the Ministerial
Journals appeared to have notice of this obstacle,
for they might he found is due time in their Threes
below the bar. In addition to these difficulties, a
combination was formed, ninong the Ministerial.
Prints, to stifle the debate-, and this etna-
liatMn among those Clentlemes, who ustially
report them, was almost done away ; and even the
Opposition and Independent l'apenv Buttered from
the contagion of this evil example. This eombi-
•nation, however, is now fully exposed, and it is
and shall be our study to uphold the Liberty of the
Press against it. A little perseverance, we are
confident, will enable us to accomplish our pur-
pose. Already have we made one Proselyte.—The
Courier of lust alluding to the debates of
Tuesday, days, "the Danish Expedition and the
Otders in Council were again the aubjects of de-

bate in the two Moores of Parliament, last oi;•ht.
We Asti deternsiaed to take no sore notice of these

discussions, It) or L.() of which are yet understood
** be Is recto. ,Bet the debate upon the Orders in
CNntcil disclosed something importuut with respect
to oar Mk' ifs with America." We pledge ourselves

that we will make many more of these obstinate
getstry change t'acir determination as well as Tie
Cer:rier.. Should we not succeed, however, we
shall have the benefit of being the only Paper to
be looked to ' *IT a faileaful report of Parliament-
ary Debatt. Thin statesamd wooid, perhape,
be safileMet ts chew the nec,:ssity of some k-
g:maned spirt and energy on the part of those
entrusted with the conduct of the public prear.
But this would be a narrow view of the question.
The baleful iudnenee of the corrupt port of our
contemporaries has already spread to tho remotest
quarters of the realm. As evidence of this asser-
tion, we copy the following extracts from two :\ ea s-
papers from Ireland, received yesterday :
.4 If our Senators coidal steal a day in the Se,_
ions from their virulent altercation about trifles
that would be unworthy of a vestry debate, pea-
haps they would not ill empty themselves in read-
lug what llama Sorra has spoken."—(Dublin
C'errespandeat, Mara 24.)
" Our Circuit and Domestic Inselligesee are of
too lunch public interest to be postponed to ma few
squabblin Debates which took place iu the House
of Commons on Tuesday and Wedsseaday last."—
(Limerick Paper, Illareh 22.)
How fades mast be a nation, once so jealous of

its liberties, jealous, particularly, of the Liberty of
e the Press, iii which such language can he supposed
grateful to the public ear? We want no revolu-
tion in this country ; we have already gone through
that process, when the Great Council of the Na-
tion is represented as inferior in dignity and im port- •
ance to a a Parish Vestry," and " Orders of Coun-
cil," which agitate the whole world, and ins
be decisive of our fate, are regarded as of
minor importaace to the petty larceny tricks that
constitute the business of • country assizes.—
When BONAPARTE comes next to treat with
England, lie need not stipulate for gagging and
muzzliug the public press. The intrepidity and
integrity of its conductors need not alarm him. Ile
will find them as obsequious as his slaves in the
Meniteur of France, or the Monitevr of Italy. He
will find them ready to surrender their best rights,
and commit a suicidal act to please the Minister of
the day ; that identical Minister, who, in his an-
swer to Bow APARTE, assured the tyrant that it um
not in the power of the King Of ENGLAND to
ntwidge the liberty of the British Press.

'rare Groat of lag night published the follow-
its.; article in a Second Edition:—
" (hose (Vice, Fear i Clerk.
" Private Letters from Holland, of so late a s!.ite
:us Monday lag. were received in town this day.
They repeat the report of an engagement in the
Mediterranean, between the Isritssh and the Com-

billed French and Spani.li Squadrons, in whicL,
it is the encaly lust 9 sail of the line, and Sir
Rtrissito STnLuIAN was The eAseiny's
force tvusisted of bail of the line, besides
fng.tcs, &L.."

" It i. 4 not extraordinary that such intelligence
should he received here first from lloilau.l. A

Vessel from the Mediterranean must be, owing to
the prevalence of the ea,teily wind, a lung time
beating up Channel."
TM., paragraph was rcatl from Tun faotiE, last
night, by Mr. Basusu, daring the performance
of rite okatori3, at Covent-Gsntlen Theatre, awl
produced a great sensation. Of the correctness of
the statement there is no doubt. Mo.ulsty nas the
.nth.—The same report is mentioned in letters of
the .2tith awl .27th. Upon the anthentirisy of these
letters we are not, however, competent to decide.
\Ve can only say that the report is not itu, roluible.
The force of the enemy is about the ants nut of the
Combined Roehfort and Toulon Squad:mit.—
. There never was an officer more fearless of chimer
or more ready to expose Ins person iu battle than
Sir 11.1;:usan ST ISACIIAN.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY
arrived at tue Quatu's Palace tram \kindsor. At
two si•riock a deputation from she Corporatism of
the C•tv ',onion arrived with the Ad:iress voted
last Friday, to Commoa Council, upon the state of
public aittiii.s. deputatina of—
Tbf Lord Mayor, who maw in his full rubes, mud in the
state .-nrriar,e, accuinpaitied by his Cli...plana, with the mai e
and sword of state ; Aldermen Fanner, IS4Th. i4rier, Shaw,
Per:taz, Fluster, Dunnville, Hinder, Ittn deli, Mid Glynn ;
the Sheriffs ; the Retied. r Deputies Ituniatt, Wrench,
Brickauod ; a-. wam.s, Harper, Bute, Pinchbeck,
Greenaway, Witt.., nisch, Pearce, box, Hensley, Hicks,
Leigh, Rusk, Dankley, rcc. ; the Cuunnini Scrieunt ; the
Rcineintstarirer ; the Secoodary four lincisters ; Mr.
Buliand, and three others; Mr. Shcriti PhillyesCliaphun ;
the Town Clerk ; Cie Ceder-Sherilt, Lee ; the Halt-Keeper.
On the acpucatiou tieing intrn;luced to Hiii MA-
' JFATT, the its:co:twat read the Address; to which
Lord IlawaT Gamey, as Secretary of State for the
Home DEIIIVIIIIetIS, read His MAJESTY'S anon
gracious answer.
Alderman Limn was introduced to Hi. MA-
JESTY, by Lord IJAwaaseuaY, uposi his election,
and had the honour to kiss His Mais4Tv's hand,
as had:sill the Aldermen, andlinost of the gentlemen
eoininsing the Deputation. Mr. Sheriff I'lllll.l.ms
had She additional honour of Knighthood con-
ferred upon him by liis MAJESTY.
After this Hi. MAJESTY held a private levee,
whiel, was Ate' del iiy

The Lord Mawr:lot, the Lord Prelideet of the Cooneil,
the Lord Prii y Seal, the Three Secretaries of State, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the • Firet Lord of the
Ad-
wirwhc, the 31,11ster-I:rneral* of the Ordontn•e, 416 C Jouge
Advocate, the Lord Mtewnrd of the Houselt..l4,, the Doke
of AtedtroNe, Judo. Learcite,, 'Earl Cavan, V.scouut I.alc ;
Loeb--Napier, Redesdrle, qoeterville and 11, athneld ; Ad-
"pirate-44w .1. sAnitiarro and S.I a cr • (le.terals--Campliell,
Beret, and Vase; (:«Aond Tre:ort EdUIOIIII.IIIIC
wed R. Cottrell ; Captutisilop ; and Mr. Hefted.
The fsitdoriq thv ~o,lour of beitit; presented
to Hie AI eJettv

liitsetr-Grwriti-; rtettattil, troon hi. Win erpointed U. the
commend at thr .thtiortaua itattithuo, and berm rritioved
to Ste Staff.

Geo, Bettie, opals Atli 'wing it,ipnii.vd Colonel of the
uot'. :Zegineent, iu th: fovea of Guo
'loge La‘vrettee, upon Ids hi ing n Ju lge of the
Court or C..iorno.. Pleas, in toe ~•ont of Judge Kook, de-
cent,., hv Coe 1..., d Clvaistilou
heat Admiral Se-a h.s
.1 :Mind is..• Juni. i Salllti,C,•, upoe his Lein appointed to
▪ r.. mush. , Ivy lota Athpuve.

Clyttil.l II 3pe, :spun linijcing appointvil First Captai.i to
alta
Admiral S.l .. &WC! Saillnallli.
Brisadirr-G. arral 31,
command at Nearoanall.l
LIA ',Apter, up..../ • appointed His Majesty'l
1.c.... Hitt CUMIIIIiIIa
~.. to the ueueral Amemaily of the
( hurch of Seidl , .
Ifiscuant Lake, 'ng to his tole.
I.6..itritux Cohn eh, groat his promotion and ap-
poiltment upon the 800 in /toes tea.
g.r Challis Edinunstone, upon coming to hie title.
Earl Caton, upon lih.lbe..ing iwponcted Culuuel 011ie 77th
Hogiineot of rum. - • •
Lord Redesdalt., epos his being appointed • Lord of
Tract.

Lin Lein; appointed to the

Ills Nlanste held a Privy Council, and gave
andicaciom to the Cabinet Ministers and the
ADVOCATE, who laid before MA...mime the pro-
ceedings of ft Court Martial.
Soon after sic o'clock His AIAJESTT set off on
his return to Windsor.
Lord BAVNISU is chosen thigh Steward of Yar-
mouth, iii lieu of the late Marquis TowNsitEND.
It is reported that a treaty has been lately
between France:and Denmark, for the man-
ning of the French fleet with Danish sailors, hut
that the latter refused to tight under a. foreign.
power. IlostAtanTit will. probJbly and uteune to
make them change their mind.
Private advice., by the lust Cottenhurgh
state, that a letter had been received by Baron
D'Aastrektve from the Relation Mininer Count
Hostas gory, offering him a bribe of a lar:e sum of
money. and extrusive priucipality, if 'he v null
betray his Sovereign, and effect as insurrection of
the people in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, in
favour of the cause of Russia. It 1111411•11, that the
Baron, on receiiiug this letter, immediat,ly Ital.l it
before the King, who has amply rewarded the loy-
alty and fidelity of hit: Mmister. .

Vesterila% R Court of Directors was btld at the
East India House, when Oil/Mill GEOttflik; WELT..
DEN, Of the slip faitul, took his final leave of the
Court, previonsto del iart in for Niudrits and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at ti 0'014104 till to-morrow.
The Forrester, sloop of war i 3 arrisol at Yar-
mouth, with twelve sail of market etult laden with
merchandise, which she captured oft. the coast of
Holland.
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the (7..ntrt of Chanevry. ye4er4ar, in the
Cifit• of F.,tanyv r. Titustes CtIVI %TRY,
a pri.:oner in the Kine'.4 l3r n. h, a rerc:ivei.
appointed, on the part of the 1 it:film-Lite. fo recenc
the reiit. of an est.ite to tie
Plaietitf. It was sworn that the 'oil-
ing to give to tit.. PlaintifT, his .:oillident
an annuity of bath conveyed to tiiNloll..n ei.t.tte
supposed to I,r worth only 9001. a-iiv4r,
an annuity of soot. but that ;:ac e-t..t0../lottn fact
worth 1 tool. a-year.

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ORATORIO.

A grand selectiorwof was performed, last
night, at Covent-Carden Theatre, to a most bril-
liant and crowded audience. Nir. BRAHIM and
Mrs. LtlcKusis were most rapturously encored in
she beautiful duetto of Fair Se/iota. A trio in
the seeoudact, by Mr. Ilasnssiu Mr. BELLAMY,
and Mrs. Dicaotts, was also received with ti.
must unbounded applause. In the last act, M:s.
BLAND and Miss Itot TON were ratitgromil
encorrd in a Letoutiful anthem, which they unit
with the happiest effect. Mr. 13nriusst intro:ince ti
in.uotifol song, cotti:msed L ParzziNl, which
was received with raoturc.--At the close of the se-
cond act, u Secotol FAlitiOti Of Ter. GLORY. News-
paper was bawled to Mr. lift•HAks, when the au-
dience culled upon Iritn to read the news aloud.
Mr. lin tirsm inst ntly complied, and was hailed
with the loutletit acclamations by the audience.
Witt), unit our voice, culled for " Ittile Britannia,"
and God 'are the King," which were both sung,
the audience stsindinic, aud joining in thorns.