The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-08 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, ivies s.

A new expedition is now in a state of consider-
able fotwardnevs. Fifteen hone traitsports
day from Deptford for the Downs, where. with
acme others, they wit: receive one thousaad easelry
on board. SIM), troop-ships accompany them ;
and, WI Sunday, a transport arrived at Dever to
take on board part of a ritle.corps. The military
fort*, it it: said, a ill be of con•idetable magmitude,
but of its de.tination there is no conjecture.

The last (lottenburgh snail brought several let-
ter. from Sadden. One of them thot our
egpedition, which a!rived on the i7til last, at
Gotteaburgii, Ma. to proeeed immediately to
Mum. (a town itS miles Smith of Christivi:n:s., in
order to effect • diversion in ravens of General
Aaisaatz-r; "chile others filbert. that the King of
SWILDSX wished for its co-operation with his own
troops in Finland, hut that the English Officers
did not think themselves at liberty to concur in
such a deviation from their original purpose, and
that this was the e•YN Of Colonel MVIIIIIAt'S Voy-
age to England.
We learn also. through the same channel, some
particular. respecting Russia. The Government.

far from relaxing is its rigour aguilist this coun-
try, follows the i npulse given it by France, with-
out any mitigation. The intelligence from St. Pe-
teraburgh is of the 10th of May. At that date
great apprehension was entertained of tl:c Justine-
tion of the British fleet ; an army of i 5,000 men
was aswinbling at Revel, and a large body of
troops orderiA to Archangel. To secure Cronstaft,
a number of vessels have been sunk, from Hog.
land up to Croastadt.

We have received some Hamburich mad Altoua
Papers, but none of a laser date than the 14th Isq.
They state, that the union of Hanover witli the
dam of Westphalia is gamily determined upon, and
will be speedily carried into effect. Buttarsare
is expected to visit Twlan before leis return I.
Paris, for which '•ity King Louts is preparing to
set out.—General SKS/LIMAN! is making a tour

through the Turkish provinces. On the 24th of
Apra he was expected at Old t hsowa.

By a vessel, which left Cadiz on the 19th last, we
have received Madrid Catena. The Captain
*bites, that, on the 13th, General SPENCILI, with
ahout thirty transports, joioad the blockading squa-
dron. Tie French and Spanish men of war imme-
diately slipped and ran into the inner harbour.
Soua after a flag of truce was received from the
British squadron, offering the inhabitants the utmost
aid in support of their religion and eountry against
theincroaehinents of the French; and proposing to
take the French and Spanish fleets, with such of the
inhabitants a, chose to emigrate, to South America.
It was generally u• dersteed, however, at Cadiz,
that this offer had been refused. General Sets-
caa's force uu►ount. to three thousand men. Had
a sufficient force been on the spot to take advan-
tage if the first moments of consternation at Cadiz,
the result might, perhaps, have bee:. favourolito.

It may Ice seek, by the late letters from Genoa.
mid other Italian ports, published in the French
papers, with what exultatieu the fortunate es:peti-
tion of Get4THVALIVIN has, :bet without realm,
inspired Bo e Ara stet. It is to be hoped that Lewd
Mu Lettere. will account to the public for the inex-
plicable passage of Gentsteacate twice mina
Sicily, while our fleet lay inactive, or uuinfornied
of the circumstance, off Martinis°.
The Spanish &nasty of the hue/Moe Sovereigns,
which may now be considered as at an mid, had
reigned one hundred and eight years, since the
decease or CHABLEs the Second, the last Monarch
of the AUSTRIAN liar, in 1700. Four Kings only
have swayed the sceptre during that period;
namely, PHILIP the Fifth, his two Sons, Faint-
as.sa tbe Sixths and CliaaLts the Third, followed
by the late unfortunate essences the Fourth. In
his fhte, the Emperor of Avenel* may beheld, as
in a mirror, his own approaching destiny, and cer-
tainly at no remote period of time. The King of
PR1.4.51A can scarcely be considered, even now, as
other than an individual not yet deprived of the
Royal Title.
IioNAVAILTV, like CROMWELL, finds in his owe
family the strongest apposition to his ambitious
projects. His Empress is known to nourish is her
• id the warmest respect and affection for the
&MASON Family. She was inemmolahle for the
Duke fYE.voiriets, and vainly exerted her efforts
to meet his execution. In Luctste 80% /Wean
the Corsican Emperor meets, at every step, a
severe and inflexible Monitor, who despises his of-
fers, and will not wear any of the Crowns that ho
so lavishly bestows on his relations and his Ge-
nerals. Even his mother LiTtTle, though she has
been declined a Princess, and is ordered to be ad-
dressed by the title of " Imperial Highness," io
said to accept with reluctance end regret these
honours conferred on her by her son.
It ma le w understood that Dr. CORNWALLIS, the
Bishop of Liielitirkl am! Coventry, is to be trans:ateil
vi the See of Worcester, through the interest or
Lunt Hair seat, the Duke of Cs:mammas si re-
commended Dr. MAJEN DIE, Bishop of Cll. st
The new Bishop is to be 1)r. MANIC!, N:a.ter of
Trinity College, Cambridge.
•The Fanny, Eiew•atis,sailed from Southampton,
for the Bristol channel, on the 140 March last,
and has not since been heard of.

The Island of Aland, from uhiell it appears that
the Swedes have expelled the Russians, is the
largest of all the numerous Archipelago, scat-
tend met the Gulf of liothnia. It lies nearly
midway between Sweden and Finland, and,
couw-
drring its high latitude, is nut unfertile. Towards
the conclusion of the reign of CRAILSS the Xllth,
about the veer 1717, when that Prince and his an-
tagonist, -PETER the (411 AT. agreed to form a
Treaty of t; ream, the Isle of Alaud was chosen for
the conferences. There, the fatuous Bonin Goers r.
CUAILLBIest First Minister, and Count 01TLILIfi AN.
Parses Ambassador, met for the purpose. It h.ti,
since remained unvisited by the calamities of wai.
till the present time.
Mr. It. zanies's Bill, for tnakiag it felony to
commit depreilatioos on oyster beds, pots the
oyster under the immediate protection of the law.
TtLatiltillA, in The Critic, says, that "an oystcr
may be crossed in love," But if this bin passes.
they cannot be attacked with impunity. It Is
tlse: Ilse Romans, Rho highly valued the
oyster, made severe regulations fur their protection.
LV(111.1.011 and Pott.to were at an incredible es.-
pense in their lakes of es water for fattening
oysters. The former, at his villa :tear the pro-
montory of Mirenusn, on the shore of Campania.
fed and kept imiuouse quantities of them. The
famous epicure, APICILS Cattus, who lived us der
Atit.trres, in his work, De Al Coptimerie, or.
The C'illimary Are, treats particularly of 'the
oyster. They were even conveyed to Ro.ne. front
the coast of limit, under the (:.essas. These cir-
cumstance*. which seem to make the eviler s
classic shell-dah, may justify the British 1 ev.:A-
tute iu enactirg laws for their preservation.