The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-26 00:00:00

EittAl THE FRENCH AND MIMI' PAPERS.

assoc.., m4v 17.
The King arrivri here last n7gh., in gt eod
at hi: Palace in the WooJ, from t!-.1 lcver;al Pis
lace tit LseLlea. ti• It Is 1:1.41* is that
`:lajesty will ~ho:tly go with A part of lit. CAW
to Ilse Cistle of L,' Gael:keg. S ant of his
Gnarls htse alter-I.y s..t nut for 6.1! plice.—Our
Q,,sess, it is sail, will go with h- r m ithei, the Ein-
pres• J Jsce.itt.., to P.tris, from Gaskets.

C..PIINIIIAOtti, MAY 9.
It appears, by letters froqi Wapiti, that thy: K.lnz
entstiiines his j wiasey. fie WAS lately at
where he viee‘P•sl the barb ntr, ,)nCe sn Glrn•nle 1110
13414ntlitli. hnt now in a reLiee,l enniitiuo. and re-
solved that it be re "re. 'o its former state.

PARIS. MAT 17.

The retnnr;tl of the sword and decorations of Fre-
derick the tirat. together with the colours taken
from the Prussian army, to the lint Plot the Invalids,
tool; plicethis clay, with great pinup and solemnity.
The sw;od of the Peussian Monarch was borne by
BLicaltal Moarey, on hovehack, preceded by several
earri.sges. drums by GU /f hibei, hclOtagir.g. to the
Coieflhgtntaries of the Empire. Ilse colours were
into four parcvli, and were placed on an
elevated far, surrounded by an escort of meinntril
tear-el'arrots. Their arrival at the Place of the In-
valids was ennounced, at half pist two o'clock, by
err -ral salutes of artilteiy. The day was hJlatiftli;
an immense crowd of people covered the Espl.tnade,
nod filled the groves of the Icvalids, as well as the
eiljoicing Bouverards. Tuis ceremonial took pace
in the leo 17 or ea. eititch. The di,CO3lSe oa the
occasion was pronounced by M. Fontanes.
Iwo large cases. en:running the antiquities of Bee-
lio and of Paola's, with the chariot which crowned
the B. aerie:one/tate at Berlin, have been disem-
beta's', the gutty of St. Nicholas. Phis cargo
dt.er slat include the 150 case's which had already
attired et toe I:4poleuu Museum, and contain the
Ilesgssilitent pinery of pinions originally belong-
ing en the Peirce of Hew Caisel, as well as
5,- Most preeimis aitir-lee of those of Brusawitlt
Ilhalad..aliiin and Wolfenbende. It is said, that the
iiiiretial I,;or.wr has already` teceived the curious
:or eesed is that ol Wolteabotde. and

LONDON,
TUESDAY. M•• 26.

The rumour of 'a great battle in Poland. in the
beginning of this month. is now universally ex-
plAeti, as a mere specalatson. and the idea of an
existing negotiation. for a general peace, continues
to gaits ground. We have received Paris Papers to
the 20th, Dutch to the 23d. Copenhagen to the
10th. and Stockholm to the 12th instant. horn
which we aye made some extraas, hat in none of
them do we find any notice of a general atlion. or
any circumstance to warrant us to conclude that a
general aftion was likely soon to take place.

A Morning Paper of yesterday has math an
attack uion the c•andu3 of the City of Westminster
in the late Eleftion. Among the positiln; which it
ft is !Ali Ll-wa, it state', that net above one-third
of the Elel•trs polled ; that the Ministers did not,
in the r.r)st remote degice, interfere, bat left the
disposal of the Itepreszotation of tke City e.-tirely
to the Eleflor,, and that the Elators 4, let it go to the
dogs." To appreciate these charges truly, it is ne•
cessary to refer to the General Eleaion in Novena•
bee, and compare it with that which has just
closed. The number of EleaJrs in Westminster
bas been variously stated, sore carry it so high
as 16,000, others so low as 11,000. It seems then,
to be the fairest course, to take the median), and,
therefore, we shall set them down at 15,0•.00. 'vow,
the number of votes riven on the Eleftion in No.
',ember last, amounted to 11.717, and the number
on the late occasiol, to leaving a m ij why,
in favour of the farmer, of only 821. If then we
estimate the undivided votes at one-third, it will be
found, that the number of Eleftors who polled, was
not a small minority, but a very considerable m ijo•
city of the w:iole number. We think we ate rather
under the truth, by stating the undivided votes so
low as one•third, for it is well known, that such
was the zeal among the supporters of Sir FRANCIS
BURDITT, a great proportion of them did not
divide their votes. Mr. SHUMAN also had a great
many plumper'. tinder these circumstances, ti en,
although the ataal number of votes in November,
exceeded, by 821, the number on the late occasion,
we arc confident, that the atual number of Elec
tors, who voted in November, was considerably
leas. It is also to he considered, that November is
the month of the year when the town is fullest.
Vide it begins to thin in the middle of May, parti-
cularly if the weather be very fine, such es it has
proved during the greater part of the late Elation.
Now, we have never heard the late Ministry
charged with indifference in the Elation of No-
vember. On the contrary, they have been charged
with using every possible exertion in favour of Mr.
StigalDAM, end Sir Se watt Hoop. If, then, the
amass of votes and voters, as we have .hewn,
were nearly equal, upon these two several occasions,
there is no ground fir the chalet of apathy or
indifference against the body of the Eleaors of

Westminster. It is still Ime deeormia to charge
•hone Eleaors, who did come forward. those Eleanrs
to whom the charge of apathy and indifference does
not apply. as the lowest class in rank, property
and , certainly tl.e lowest in principle, if, iodate !,
they can be said to bait! any principle at all," while
those who did not come forward, throe who did
shew aprhy, and in liff.rence. are complimented
as e, the great majority of the Eledors. containing
all the property. all the respeliability, all the gond
principles, and al/ the honest feeling of the City of
Westminster." These are the words of the Print
to which we allude, hut they admit an inference di.
r-Etly the reverse of that which they meant to con.
vey. It was never before asserted, that the Eleetors
who only come forward at the command of some
minion of the Minister, to vote as the Minister pleas-
ed, were the mast respereable class. We contend,
however, upon the equality of the numbers, that the
Ministers did interfere as much upon the last as on
the preceding EleCtion. But supposing that they
have net interfered, in the slightest degree, we can-
not see what merit they can claim for their absti-
nence; for if Lord COCHRAN' his come in upon in-
dependent grounds, they have sustained a double
defeat. The most unpopular Administrations have
brew able to carry one Member for Westmir rer.—
The attack then upon the Eledors of Westminster.
we contend, is unmerited ; we wish we could say the
sameof the observations upon Sir FRANCIS BURDSTT.
The Eli Sore reed open ■ right principle, they
KEW in a spirit of liberty and independence ; they
wished to mirk their detestation of the wicked cry
of 4, No Popery," and their disapprobation of a
feeble Ministry, by 'letting a man, of all others,
most obnoxious to it. But even so, Sir Faaacer
Byenerr could ,not have succeeded, had he not
been confined to his bed, and taken no part in the
business. An advertisement degraded him in the
County of Middlesex. Had he been upon the
Hustings, and delivered, as a speech, the atrocious
advertisement which he yes erday published in all
the papers, the populace who hissed Lord Coc u a •ts s's
attacks on Lord St. Yummy, would have hissed
and hooted the Bc ones from Covent-garden, and he
should have been degraded and disgraced still lower
in Westminster than ever he se4l in Middlesex.—lt
is an ungrateful return to the Eleft-ws of Westmin-
ster, who chose him for their City, to represent
themes having, by his Election, loudly pronounced
their approbation of the wicked and rcandalons
sentiments and princ:pes to be foeni in that
&city produßioa. Tee Gentlemen who form-
ed his Committee, those who were his most
aEtive frierds, are called upon, in justice to their
own char* ter, to mark, by some public aft, their
disapprobation of this foul attempt to vilify them.
Among men of all parties, we are happy to find
but one opinion upon this subjera. Nothing more
vile, gross, or wicked, ever issued from the mouth
or the pen of the lowest tufilan, in the most san-
guinary am of the French Revolution. Upon the
motion, in the late Parliament, for the expulsion of
Colonel Caw ritolose, a Report was made of
the precedehts of uses of expelled Members.—
We have read that Report, and we pledge ourselves,
that all the cases of libel which it contains, if con-
solidated, would not equal, in atrocity, the single
Advertisement of Sir FRANCIS BURDITT. We are
further confident, that if a motion for his expulsion
should be made upon that single ground, that a
House of Commons must 'declare, by their vote,
the man who maintains such principles and senti-
ments, unworthy to sit among them.

By the ships ffirbadtes, Capt. Lewis, and the
Max, Capt. Kersott, from BarbadJes, arrived at
Liverpool. we learn, that " the haws frigate,
which sailed from Portsmouth on the 9d March,
arrived at Barb.,does on the 15th April, with 83
sail under convoy, and sailed from thence on the
18th, with the ships for Grenada, St. Vincent's, and
Jamaica. Twenty-four sail for Demerara, Surinam.
and Berbice, parted on the Sth April, without con-
voy. Three of the fleet were missing; one of them,
the Tar) Friradr, hound to Honduras, was captured
on the 19th April, to Windward of Barbadues, re-
captured on the 15111, by :he Sedate schooner, and
carried into Barbadoes. The General L. raeef Fit uch
privateer was seen to capture a brig to Windward
of Barbados,, supposed to be one of the 7 hameer
missing vessels."

--
The Bishop of Ba isroi. is translated to the See of
Keeler.

The Helena stoop of war, with a fleet under con•
voy from Cork, is arrived at Demerara.
The Deo, Puce, with t 6 sad, [turn f.msdnn, is
arrived at Surinam. II

His N 1 &rase v's ships Adantafai and Arai. wit!) the
Ravola , Bedford, ---. ; ?a-hod, B. AC K•
team ; Little Pat, Laura, Rt V George,
!swims and the Ares, Evsatre, from Africa,
under cnnvny, are arrived at Barbadmet.
Saturday moreng, a ptrs-an of Dover was
taken into custody, by a party of 85w-street OA
errs, attended'hy some Light Dragnr.nt, and ifltint.
diately pew into a pnst-thatse and four, and escorted
with a Board of Cavalry, for 1.0nd00,-.4be pre-
clic cause ul the attest is not kaolin.

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FUNERAL OF DE. DOUGLAS, inSllop
OF SALItifJUEr.

Yesterd ty, about twelve o'clock, the remains of
th,. late &shop of S 1.132 U v were removed from
hi: house, in Windsor Castle.yard, to the West.
door of the Cath?dral, where they were received
by all the (3mitemen belonging to Cie Church.
The Gentlemen of the o.oir sang a Funeral Ser.
vice up the Middle Aisle into St. Gen.ge's Chapcl.
The procession proceeded in the foil—eing order :
Tt o Pater of the Cothalral, with he, stair, coverqd
with black silk ;
The sia pow Havel ()'Peers, who hare an esta'Atshroent t
Windsor, two sod two ;
The twelve noor Itir.ghu, of two ant two;
Ton sidling boys, ;
Tasks Ligroin Clerks, two and twit, .06..1 the service;
likewo.• arretorwa ;
Sim Minor Ca.torr., two rnsd ie., ;
Ths Verger, with hi. salver .raq, covet., wort Olich sal
Six
Six C4ltlll, ton ..d tw., ; ;
The two Porters of the Chts-ch ;
Plume of Uslthew ;
fH akmy ;
The Rev. Dr awe and 14nrwiting held 0,, the front of
pall;
The Rer. Mr Dvitrarliev an*, the Rev. Mr. Tew held up tirl
and of the pall ;
The Chief Mourner was tl.e ducealed'is son, the gee. Wnlisin
;
He AU followed by Col. Hooke sad inn, Dr. Lind, and Nf,,
Hat serriih ;
The Servants of the !family, Sec. tee.
After the terrine was performed in St. George's
Chapel, the body was brought nut in the same or •
der, down the middle aisle, and up the side aisles,
and the burial service sung into Bray Chapel,
where the body was deposited in the family vault.
Mr. W. DOUGLAS was so affeAed that he fainted,
and had very near fallen into the grave, had he not
been caught by some of his friends.
The funeral service was performed by the Rev.
Dr. Ceaserours.
The l)uka of Sussex attended the funeral, and
sat in his stall, in the chapel, daring the sery'ce.
The Service and all the Music were the same as
performed at Lord Net.sow's funeral.

Yesterday tn3rning. His MAJESTY, Princesses
SOPNIA and Asset.' a, at:ended by the Han. Miss
&sterna. General. GARTH and First.or, Coln.
/leis TAYLOR And Dasaaow, rode in the Great Park.
till twelve o'cln:k.

Her MAJIIIS/Y, and Princess ELIZA DEM took 12
airing to Frogm ,te Ledge and Genitor, sad re-
turned at two o'clock.

Sunday evening, His MaJcsrv, the DA, of
Sasser, and the Paisroesses, walked oa the Ter-
race, for the first time this season, till eight o'clock.
The comp my waseatretneiv numerous
Her Royal Flinhnets the Princess of WALLS
gave a grand breakfast, yesterday, at l.er house t
hiac'eheath, which was attended by a large party et
Nobility, who left town at an e .rlv hour. Lady
Pt!:TN an: the lion. v.iss DitCllllol4o arrived 2:
Blackheath, at twelve o'clock, io an elegant landau,
drawn by four greys.
The Duchess of Citaubos gave a .gran4 root,
last night, at her house its Grosvenor-squara, which
was numerotply attended.
Viscountess Duseraessoss had a grand party, last
night, at her house in Grafton.street, Bond-street.
The Earl and Countess of Jaassv gave a gran,l
dinner, yesterday, at their house in Berkeley-14112re,
to the Earl and Counts of Decay, Lord ST•M•
Lay. and several other Nobility.
Mr. and Mrs. MOUNTIIIII, and Mr. BRAMAN,
are already engaged fur the Choral Music at Or-
ford, on the 9:p and I Oth of J
Lady Ei,i.arislaouan will have a selea Card
Party this night, at her house in Bloomsbnry•square.
The Mequis and Marchioneis of Lampoon
entertained a selea party of ft iends, Ott Saturday, at
dinner, at their house in Bet keley•square.
The last arrivals at Swansea are,
_ _

The Rev. W. and Nh.. Stroup, Miss Gough, Woe sad
Mrs. IMeriferlr, Mr. an.t Mn. Sturie.su, Mrs Du wars, Mrs
Feeilan, Mr. Davi, Mrs. Roberti, Mn Jack,ua, Cu:ouel and
Mrs. Pcmene:c.

The Duke of Gonoos, and his son, 1.,-ad
DON, have arrive4l At Ch.-Iteoham

The new Theatre, Swansea. will span the beg:l.
sing of July, under the management of ;.Ir.
Co ea tr•, of Drury-lan.. Theatre. When fini:ll2.,
it sill rank among the first edifices of the kind out
of London.

The I.,eds Theatre will open the Ist of Jur;e
The Misses ADAMS, now at Lis erpool, are e.;•
gaged there for five nights.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Sr srroso
gave a gran.' dinner, on Sandoy, at their house in
Cleveland-row, to the Earl of Esse:, and silage
piety of Niihility.
A matrimonial alliacce is on foot, between Sir
Joan Stutter, Baronet, and Miss WINILLT, A
rich heiress of Pre,ton, Lancashire.
The Con teas of H aai vuroii arrived es Frith!
at her house in the Stable-yard, St. James's ?slam
from Itel And ; his Lordship is expeSed in town tii•
morrow.
The Earl and Countess of H a aowrcas ar;:vci
yesterday a: their House in St. Jctues's-square, tr,.(5
Cambridyeshirt.
Lord HOLLAND arrived at Southampton
Thursdoy with his retinue, having taken tLe •
gravine of Asispach's Mansion, at West Plug;
two nioht? s.
The lhird of the Ladies Concerts. under the di•
reetion of Mr. SALOMON, was per-formed at Cie
Marchioness of SA mimosa v's house. List night. Mar
dame CATALANS was in fine -r:oce, and sang a
Ceratial, by MASCVS, a Scene, by POWroGALLO. and
a Deena with Signor Room, in her very fine.'
stile ; Signor Nat. OI and Rlaarme BIANS:Ut wc:e
extr,mely happy in a Duet, and wire Inadly
applauded. A beautiful Trre4te wzr adortrabl:'
given by Madame Bs *emir, Signor Raoul, aroa
signor NALL'''. The whole performance was frilt
rapturously applauded. and atteirded by more that
Eve hundred Nobility.—Amongst whom were—
Ha Royal liihneeathe Print of Waes; the Dt.rheees c•
Moithiiielern.inet and Ruston; the Mareitiones es a Suf
One seer Rath at d Oner.‘sh:re ; she Cau.tte•ses of Casdnlar,
Rolt.ai, and I.A.wager Es ea; Led,ea G Cagreu.h.O, PA
ty.^. . P,reas. Y•wk, Dundas, add iseeacissesy_i
eri
and Mn. ,s.attisispe, Mr. and Mre. Langton! boss"
Lon of the For Neellity ta lava.