The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-28 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28.

The Official Dispatches of Sir Hosts Porn :la
and Cc-4°nel Bacanotist, respefling the re-capture
of Buenos Ayres, and the capture nt the f'rtress• of
Maldonado, with the island of Gown. whic., farms
the harbour of that place, v the mou•h of the Ri. de
la Pla•a, were ruhlished in Ibe G.z•tte of Lod
night, and are given in our preceding
They State that the rerapru•e of Buenos Ayres
was principally e fly Cted 1;i. a general conspiracy and
insurreCtion if the inhabitants oc the place. —Sir
Flossy Nen sat more than insinua•-s, that by vigi-
lance and severity, the plans of ti,e insurgents
might have been defeated by Ge•,eyal Be lirsi "ID.
We s,all make some i,bseivations upon this part
of the dispatches, on the first opportioniy.

The f•h•eign int Iligenc.. produced yesterday,
corroborates the acenunts seemed by Governalent
of the detest of 1.,e Fre• cis in the in•ery •1 h •teecn
the 27th of Dec:envie. 4 -.J this 21 •it .1411(1,r%, Ffie
Areea tyga e, whch o arried ow Lord Hut-owns
sow, arrived at y o Month, OA Sunday night, trom
Copenl agen. S:ir lest that piaci• on the 2011, at
varile;i date it was cerrently sep-rted, that u,e Rua
shuts hai deleted tha French with the h as or 110.04 u
m• n. The Scotch papers Tecate yesterdays akt
colhairt the following intellig nu, ttom To.. Inge .
wile: is two day's later than the private letter t.
the same effect, it m that place. hroligrit by the
last Mail:. Lord HurCillt• ON is at K ningsbei
and dispatches from him Ate hourly and anxiously
expelled by Goveinnient; but the unoibcal accounts
would probauly reach us first from Copenbagt:n,
'Foniungeo. or Husum. The fallowing are the
lert..rs from Scotland to which we allude ;
Eartect of a helve from a Ge ,1114144., in Leith, in a Mercan-
tile acute in Ulaaror, dated Leith. Jan.
His Majesty's sloop Arxhrtagelt, Captain Wiikin-
son, has just come up from the syder, which' he left
on Tuesday. Captain Wiliti•is••3 informs me, that
Captain Mott, of His Maje•ty's aimed ship lying
in the Eyder, on the ,tta, a. gummed him, per
signal, of the defeat of the French, with the loss
of 80,004) men ; and 1u it, ca going on board for
the particulars, he inh•rmed loin, that 11. (Captain
M.) had a lettcr frnm the Consul, advising, that that
day's Mail bad brought the accnuats of ttie Rus-
sians Isavitig defeated the French, who lost 110,000
men, and retreated to Berlin. Capt. M. left the mast• r
of his ship to firing him the flees that the nest day's
mad brought, but he had not gained the ship when
Captain W. left the tyder, on account of the frost
setting in, oft Tueshay the 20:h. Perhaps the Mail
May not have arrived which he was ordered to wait
for by Captain M. This, I throe, in some measure,
throws some light on Admiral Russel's information
to Admiral Keith, copied is to-day's newspaper,
and hope it will prove true.
" Captain Wilkinson informs me, that the Rus-
sians had met with several defeats, lost many men,
and from CO to 80 pieces of cannon, and retreat-d.
The French had advanced considerably k.yond the
city of ‘Varsavr, and had gone into winter quarters.
The Russians, after coiiefting all their forces, at-
tacked them in this situation, and the battle Above
alluded to was the result. I: was also reported, that
the Emperor of Russia had created Con.tantine k:i•ig
of Pola.id. The last accounts from the Austrians
were, that the Archduke Charl:s was ready to strike
the blow in Silesia."

ANOTHIR LaTTER. 3.011 OAT&

" A great battle has beers luitght between the
Russians and French, in which the latter were corn•
pletely vidorious. Two says after, the Russians
rallied, having received a reinforcement of 40,000
men, when they attacked the French, and coin.
pletely defeated them. with the loss, en the part of
the French, of 80,000 men, killed, wounded, and
prisoners. The Russians were driving the French
before them in full march to Berlin." This inteUi.
gence w.is also received from Capt. Wilkinson.
The above letters are pettedly in unison with the
French Bullctio, and the advice. received by Go-
vernment. The victory claimed by the French was
prior to the rth. The great victoly which the
Russians ate said to have achieved, was subsequent
to that date.

We have received New-York and fins:on Papers
up to the 30th of ifeo:nibcr. inclusive. Letters from
1 New ()gleam, of lb. CS al of Novew.ber, !mica the

arrival of th,, Ametican C.;%4-allV:i.rt‘rsori in that
city, with a small detachm_r.t 443 artiiicers, but
with 890 men close in his rear.
The Spanish force which Lad crossed the Sabine
against the Americans, is stated in ihe Official In-
tellence of the American General, to amount to
1500 men, mostly mounted militia. The Spanish
force at Pensacola, Mobile, and Baton, was esti-
mated at from 500 to Cs'). There wer• tlO appear.
ancet whatever of an amicable adjustment of dif-
len-flees between the A m-ri,zans and Spaniards.
The pubic npi• inn in America is in general fa
V .in able t, rLc innocence of Colonel Buss ; no
pro .fs have been as yet obtained against mof a:'y
thiog like treasonable or seditious pratlices.
The New IS,,gire.d Pay uhia'a, of the 2;)th u't. con-
tains a paragraph, siating,that intelligence had been
brought, by a vess•l from the I lavanna, of the re-
c pure of Ilueoos dies,_ on the 12th of August, by
the Spania,d., and also of the surrender of Monte.
V, fro to the arittsh Arms. The first part of this
i .telli,;e ice we n-sw know to be correct, a strong
presumption that the latter will also prove so It
i. eatri-meiy probable ; 11:.d, if so, we doubt not but
Rue.vos tyres is by this um_ in the possession of Its
Mai ist y's troops.

The latest report of the proceedings of the House
of Congreii, boars date December 19. The only ar
tide of ger ei al interest is, the Bill to prohNt the
Irnportaion of !slaves. It has been reported, with
arnenlments One amenii.lent provides the pu
ni.hment of death for being concerned in import-
ing .14v. s ; another, that slaves imported shell be
forfeited in those states only where shivery Is pr
;Awed.

Great difficulties had arisen, when the Bill was
before the Committee, as to the line of conduff with
regard to such slaves as should he imported in fu-
me contrary to law. The questions agitat id were.
whey, .r they should :se sent back to Attie*. or be
set at ',hefty
A Bill is about to he brought into Congress, in
AnNSISCA, imposii.g a Tax on all Bachelors ab ive
—it,. age of Y 5 The preduce of this tax is to he ap
,i-d to ri e tor !Ale purpose of educating natural
,n.: urp CO chlldrer.
H s MaJtsie is expeqed to town tn.dav, to !-old
.t ptivste L-vee and Privy Council, at the Quasn's
Palace
the Kr• o has been pleased to recommend to the
President and ('ha t-r of the Cathedral C utch
Leshfield, the Reverend Josses CNA pees Wools-
House, Clerk, .taster of Arts, to be chosen into the
Place of Dean of the said Cathedral Church, void
by the death of Donor BarTisv racier, late
Dean thereof.—/ Gast Ire.)
The KING has been ',leased to constitute sod ap-
point Tisou AS Too, Esq. ‘dtocate, to be one of
the Four Commissaries of Edinburgh, vacant by
the resignation of Arrow ew BA c roue,
The IS. too has also been pleased to nominate and
appoint ANDREW Duse•H. Jun Esq to he Pro-
fessor of Medical Jurisprudence and M •dicAl Police
to the University of Edoiburgh.—(/did./
Accounts have been received fr .m G,enada, of
so late a date as the 27rn of Dec rrstser, at which
time the isla• d a,,pi ars to have been in a stare of
perfect tissoquillity. The rep irt of an insurrection
having broken out there, probably orig:nated in
the conduct of a few negroes, not exceeding too nty
in number, who, some time since, rn *attested a
refractory disposition, but were aeon Gaited to re-
turn to their duty.
The following copy of a letter ree-ived in
Port Glasgow, form a mercantile house in St.
Thomas's, dated D emits, r 8, 1806:—•• We have
again to announce toe pontui news of a fire which
has reduced all our •t res to ashes Between twelve
and one o'clock of the morning of the 4t:i, it broke
out from a ruin retailer's shop, kept by a Mts. CON•
nearly to the store where the tire corn-
menc.id m Jolt. The wind was northerly; and it
communicated with great rapidity to the buildings
on both sides of rue street The house of Messrs.
Haoaar and 'Ai Beate • led the progress of the
ft ones, after they had consumed All the stores im
fifteen water lots, occupied by the principal mer-
chants in town, and all the rich shops on the opp,s.
site side of the street They also destroyed upwards
of ISO houses ; in short, this fire, in its devastation
(hilt for the fortunate circumstance of so many peo-
ple being insured by the Phoenix Compans ), would
have been more calamitous than that of 1804."
A part of Mr SRERID %IS'S reply to Viscount
FPLESTONY., in the c inversation, in the 1-10.11 e of
Commons, on Monday night. upon the Oude
Charge, was, through mistake, omitted in our Par-
liamentary it p•ot yesterday. Mr. SHRRIII•N
said, that, did he think it worth wird, , he
should claim the right of g iing much be•
yond explanation, as the Noble Lord had indulged in
the most extraordinary latitude. He heard. however,
nothing worth his nuticitig. but the Noble Lord's pre
sunning, contrary to all parliamentary order and sin
curum, to ascribe to him motives for relinquishing toe
Carnatic qtr-stion ; and the motive assigned was, his
fear of losing h;s office, had lie adhered to i.. H-
wished to ask the Noble Lord, what tide or right
he had to venture to ascribe motives to hem ?or wh it
ad of his political life he would have rote rashness to
state, as justifying his coarse insinuat can, that either
desire of gaining office. or fear of losing it. ha..' ev, r
yet influenced his political conduit isle N • bie Lord
made great professions of the p..rity •sf his own mo-
tives on the present occasion. He ( slr. s ) under-
stood too well the orders of the Howse, a .d trie
rules of good breeding, to question his si ity I
bet he would advise him, as a young beginner, io
an arduous situation, teat the awest way of ga”.inz
credit to his own proiessii us, was t abstain from
I,resualptuous instututioas ogeuna the motives of
otlsors.

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KING'S Tliff-ATRIs.

Ile Opera of Semi-amide was again
last night, to display the astoniseing powers
dame CATAL AM. MIS fascinating syren
vexed from her cold and hoarseness, and
unrivalled sweetness, taste, and delicaq.
ceived the most rapturous applause. A •
Ballet, called composed by Monsieur
was performed for the first time. The scene
in South America. The interest was ervited
d:ffereot renconlret of the Sr...oiards with
tires. The •c-nery, sou ic, aed dancing,
eszcuted ; and the whole performani
ceived the toy, t unbound-el
was splendid atod...frowded with fassLion.
. w.r. present—
Hi R r,l Higline.k the Doke of G!rateerter sad
Duchess of Northumberland aid the Lodi-. reser

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qui, awl marchi„mi. a star/04 ; the Marquis
.11i new of LAnsd .wa the M. Chinetlll4lPlß Wellesley,
rwt, and th• li.ti .nJ Comiarai as
more; Lida:. M iSalitiour anJ Ta la; .nd a/I the

Lard Hos.Lar.o, we are extremely sorry
is indisposed. at his house in 11.11-M 43.
ship had issued cards for a grand dinner last
day, which were obliged to be counter—
account of his sudden indisposition.
Tle Cogntesa Dowager of Iktroo received,
eight o'clock last night, an Express from Bela.
the death of Mrs. asetris, Mrs. I; orzirteari
mother, whitb prtvented her ladyship from gor.g
to the Opera
His 'oval Highness the Duke of Aussex entered
into his 314 h year. yesterday, which was celebrated
by His Koy.l Highne,s's traidosmen, who displayed
splendid iltumi ations on the joyfill occa. on.
Mrs. Sol rn, mo.h..r to Mrs Fri anteater. died
nn Sunday last, at her house io With, nniversaity
regretted. Mrs. Ft had nut returne.: to
town, la* night, at a late hour, from paying the
last sad duties to her vmera le morns., who was
hale-ester to t..e late Earl of slutoig
We are g.ven tv understas 1. that Jae' belch. of
Ne.s*ate, has applied to the Monakers t Covent-
Ga, den Theatre, to be Lana, ieeer of The .loeutasta
of th. Forest.
The sßect.-ful Respmdent a the Holm of
Lordi, in the apdeal IYdVacir against feriae
and wife, ,s Colonel leers., of Cowie Itenw. ,n the
county ot F who owned tne helms of
Juno' D'A.cv,
Ste RICH A :,1) -Ad Lady Nto•it rrived, last
. day. at their tit•U Albem 4e-street, from bag-
nam Pat k, for the season.
1,4 and Ws. Jolty. Drys- Will give a grand
•dinne n the 23 nt nest m nth, at t ,rift hoarsens
Her f dd-istreer. M.y-firie.
Their R - yal Hieseeses the Dukes of Ctwasu.
L•r4o, SMSZ, C•stostooes sod 0. fttirC Si as
naid • min nrng whit. law !-aorday, 1.1 the t.,g, of
1), acrrsrsat, at his Oriole.- it P k-I Me.
•rhe Hon Mn ELL toe arrayed in town. on
Sunday, from Corns" II
Her lstra.aisill. .Nave vv, CorttOrt to 1-1.5 M ••11-

Tv rt.e auit lit ail the Itussias, was
iivere3 ut • Grand Duchess, on the !Sib or No.. T...
bet 'ay.—lt/a:ate
Carleton h..use is to undergo several great ins.
privem-nu. An add e..t .irrig is in en ieJ to Ise
built toward. Co. k re: t, .c.cl par of .Varvrick-
house is to be pact down ; the Surveyors ma.s.
bored the pound on Fro.i•y.
Tae. large marhie pili•rs, of grrat v•lnet, are io
he placed in Ole Eirl soo.'s Gr.nil
Fl.u,rn„ at his Lurdst.ip% h use in Old illuernzion-
:beet.

CH 4 RI. is Btonusrts, E,q. entertained at dinner,
last Nanday. a Wee pry of friends, ioe:odintt 11:4
And Mr.. utal DA 11. 41 1.11 house in it: lward-s-reet.
Mc"; Aso *Ji/issos, Esq will gere a grind din-
th Yd of nez: month, At his hmvs in Lincoln's
Inn-dads

F i. LLOYD. Esq and family, left town, last
hurs lor their seat, OakeOd-h(.1.114e, Ger far .'s-
cross, Bucks.
La y Louisa M • arrived in town, last
Tuesday. fir the ►earo
T lion. Can. r Asa, sr let na
Fri-
day. for his seat At R lid
Lor t and Lady Russo sic arrived a• their house
in Great George's-steer, Wsstminaer, Min Oak-
ham,Suirrey .
rhe elegant suit of blue silk hanging., hirh w•as
pm up at Carle•un-huase for Her Alajisrv's
:ay, ha. ►een taken down.
His Royal High,ies, the Dike of sir °vs:Lir-Sit
will give a grand dinner, us-morrow, at N.J.ey-
house, to several Military Officers.

The Eat! a. d C•ktures. S• 4 ammo T enter-
tained at duller, last Sunday, a se .-t part!• of
twelve, at their house to Great Stanhope-sire:.
Mayfair.
M. s. Arictmi ami Mt. HILL are perfuming in
The Laismq, : our an a rtilarre, an /he tax
Fleet, with great seta!, at the I'l—reat le I Aram..
rho Wu... of Conlin:ins v. ill go to S'. Pito g 4.
ret's, Wes. mr liter, on ktiday, the 'flowerier! of
King CIIAIII.Eb'S Martyrilort, to LeAr Divine Se:-
vice ; tll. Sc. mon do be preaci ed by .heir own
Chaplain, the 1t.,. F. ISaIN s rlt bring the first
time that ceremony has i‘een a:retided to sine* the
Sesitou 1793-1794 -
Ile new fheaire at Tette,. in the South of Ire.
land, which has been Air SOME • doe. u r •
manaseinent of Mr. CI /;, ILE. has hitn rto ei e•
rieneed mist liberal %limo. rt. CM Countei, f
GLAND AL • , Eaiw•ito Oren ri And fTI .0 of
E.-hi nab:es id tne I.e.gbbour mid of Trisliv, are
anion • th.• nunsuer of us Pd't-.lls and Patronesses.
The house is fitted up iii the most eleg.rd st.y le, ai.d
atlowrl ti be the &um commudiiies pr
Thitaire in .11 41.,x4ea

Frost. the eshosCsdiaary rich State at the Lotteir
Wtt,el. and tit cet ut the Fast-J. tw.. I icket.
oa W •cin• witty next being in i 1.11 to 30.0001• are
b oefi iu lair or ..t t..eutircha. r. Omit never be.
flirt SSW. d. flaws.' and bri.te, are Ileilatt. war-
rantaJ lit...trawl'. at Ho sssss anJ Co 's Scat* Lot-
tery Offices, 24-s. t 6. Combat. 52, Cliamitow
aad bc. Margops:aisal, Surough. . .

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