The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-19 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON, -
NI EDNENDAY, Ocresca 19.

We have rereived Letters from P • •ir Ed-
ward's island, in the Culpli of St. Laarence,
to the nth last. All accounts received there
from the United States concur in the opinion,
that Jeret.asox is determined to persevere in
the embargo; MIA that it is feared he has •a
majority iu Congress, as long as he continues Pre.
sident, to support him. This measure promises to
be as beneficial to the British colonies in North
America, as it has been ruinous to the commerce
of the United States. Prince Edward's Island
particularly has derived great advantage front it.
The demand Au lumber there has been very con-
siderable, and far exceeds the most sangaine ex-
pectation.

Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the
2d instant. They mention the following movements
among our tmops :—The 6th regiment is gone to
Almeida, and timid to Elva.. The g.stli, Ist and 9d
light battalions of the German Legion, and the 52d
regiment, were to proceed to Evora, supposed for
Elves, together with General Hors's division.—
Elvas is on the south-eastern frontier of Por-
tug:.l, Dear Badajos. We thougbt that the Bri.

tish tmop.; Were to be tent to the north sr!.
assist the Spaniards. Why then are they
south, whoa they should he iu the north
surely is not stipulated iu the

One of our private kttere from Lisbon
that the Coverument is to remain br r
until orifices are received from the Par
mil.. The market of Lisbon is -

article of provision Lod fallen more thau
cent. since the opening of the port.
ao►sa, who betrayed the Spanish troops
gat into the hands of J NUT. has beta

so great WKS the isidirintion his treachery
cited. Ise Stu. with difficulty protected
veugeunce of the multitude.

Letter?: and Papers to the 10th inst.
received from Holland. They state that
LEON and the Emperor ALEXANDRA bath
at Erfurt on the .2 7 h ult. The former
that city first, and, understand:lig that
perial Brother had arrived at Wenner,
ed his horse, and proceeded towards
011116 way lie met ALEXANDRA. The ,
reigns embraced each other, and entered
together, escorted by two regiments of
two of intantry. The Emperor of Russo
rompanied by the Grand Duke COMMA(
NAPOLEON by Iris brother JSZOME. ,
pert cossti.in nothing new respecting Auctria
is any thing particular said relative to '
Troops, however, continue to pass
for that country. An armistice has been,
between the Turks and the tierrians, for
finite time, and peace may now be considered
stored in that quarter.

The Lady A►abela Packet, from
Gibraltar, is arrived at Falmouth. She sailed
Malta on the 6th of September, and from
tar on the 2tjth. The Belle Peale, %Weil
from Poitsmouth on the lith of June,

Malta on the 9th or August, with a NOVI
England.
The accounts from Sicily mention,

gremest discontent exists iu Italy ; but
rinin:Ts have yet taken place. nos *PARTE
Tiered a proclamation to be published, strictly
hibiting the inhabitants of that country'
lag upon the affairs of Spain—what a
n..t prohibit them to think.

Of all the enlarged and beuefieent
a patriot mind, intent on public good, could
devised or pursued for the benefit of bra
but a hid,, till within the last four months,
be considered as the moat hopeless and
by any efforts; wits the arrangement of .
cial treaty or agreement, by which the .
and the eolaiiies of Spain should be opened .
manufac•turs and trade of Great Britain. At
period of time, since the discovery of
has any such intercourse been established
mitted, on principles of reciprocal benefit
the two Crowns or Nations. Under the
PHILIP the lid, and of ELIZASETN, for the slime
of forty years, hostilities, either °pee or ow
celled, always subsisted between them; and those'
that heroic Princess repeatedly inflicted, by he
maritime expeditious, the deepest wounds ea the
distapt possessions of her enemy, beyond the it•
lantie, yet site never could °Mahn any participaties
in the commerce of those remote countries
iug the seventeenth century, under Pinup do
II fd and IVth, the most severe and jealoes pi•
bitions interdicted all trade with the Spanish M
or any pert of South America. Even ander
CIAAMLES the lid, last Pnnce of the Ammo
line, whim the closest political ties united the
Colette of Madrid and of London, at a time when
the English and the Spaniards contended antler
WILLIAM the Hid, ageing Louis the Xl1•th;
yet no commercial treat•, by which so desirable ex
object might be effected, was ever obtaioel After
the termination of the war of the succession under
Queen ANSE, by the peace of U tr‘cht. in the i;ter
17 ; a treaty, which, like that of lootsinhiese,
in 1762, did not correspond with the success dal
had preceded it ; certain stipuhitiens wereeitoriel
from PUHA, the Vth. tending to ore" the trade
of the South Sea to Englatiti. These article, were
subsequently explained and defines: by the " Ass"
ento treaty," in virtue of which, a vessel 0r sox
thousand tons burslens laden we
British growth or manufacture,
minify to visit and to trafl►c wi
lollies on the Pacific Ocean. But
soon became the source of new
sensions. In fact, the whole reit
lit, and all the former part of the
from G2ORGIC the lld's accession
the year 1733, was a series of
warfare between England and
the mntual pretensions anti Animosities
nations, relative to the colonial
1739, these reciprocal causes of
war, which was concluded at
1748 ; but down to our own to
systematically and severely tact-
tercourse with the Spanish possessions
in America. Even the nght of
the Bay of Honduras, though
ceded to us by successive treaties,
fruitful canoe of perpetual disput
ponied with bloodshed.
Such was the state of gin cowmen

MI
tin
till
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(nth of
are they ei
e north
Comm.,
Li 1634 etc.
to 1 mei
vs.
Patart R.
glutted--ere,
'e than ;,0 to,
. (enera. Gt,
loops in Porta.
oeell arrested.-.
acliery law it
ected from t,l
inst. hftre Ists
ite that N. es.
to
both suit,'
former retrh.4
g that Li, la.
mar, hr tier—.
steels that tot..
The tea Sore.
eutered Edit*
d of cars/ryas'
RUSSIA 14.4,
SITAIITINt,44
111 E. 'flee
ig Austria; 04
re to Span,.
throng Pas
been eoiicl.ele4
,as, for au iis!r.
:ousidered a rt.
ions Malta mil
She mild fres
Id from
hich taihd
I one, arrived
A convoy fr
atio
:rAbn, h
auit
Etthat
s :
stnctly
until from 114.
It a pity he es•
it objects whir'
ad, could hat•
of IS country
months, mig
ind unattai
I of a com
h the kingd.
e opened to
Britain. At
f the new
strliehed of
benefit brie
er the reign.,

with commoditie'
?, was permitted sa-
rith the SpsuMl
But this Cooreuti°°
nv dispute* and di
reign of Gtoauttf
the succeejiii* fella
ion iu 17.7, down t
indirect, or .r^l'e
id Spaini caused i'-
itiotosities of the to
nial intercourse. I
d discord produce.
Aix-la-Chotreik'
times, we hare Ix'.
minded from any in
f c,""i
isst.c:it lo
i
utinns in Asi3,
reagutz hastee prodorredco
spute, nut Luisa*
c'Eltuercitil *whin

from Spain and her possessions, in both 10-Ini.
spheres,
when BON•PARTE attempted to appro-
priate to himself, by au unprovoked act of vinieece
and perfidy, the whole Spanish Monarchy. The
imprudence of his enterprize exceeded, if possible,
its flagitious atrocity. For it is clear, and ad 'lifted
even by CEVALLOS himself, in his narrative, that
FERDINAND VIL conscious of the state of wrali-
nese iato which the subservient iinbeeility of his
father, aided by the treasonable practices of the
PRINCE of PRAC.E, bad precipitated Spain, would
bare submitted to almost any coadittons dictated
Narotzos, rather than to have hazarded a
rupture with France. In fact, the unfortunate
FeaDINAND, animated by the desire of averting the
evils that impended over himself and the Mo-
narchy, consented to an act of personal humilia-
tion the most severe, by agreeing to take to his
throne and bed, "a Princess of the Imperial fa-
tuity." In other words, he offered to give his hand
to a planter's daughter, a Creole cousin of Jon-
PUINE, Mademoiselle LA PAGERIE, seat for edu-
cation from St. Domingo to France, five years ago,
alitl adopted by the Usurper into his house. The
necessary eassequeues of this union would have
been to ingraft the Bocatiox race on that of 80-11APArre,
11APArre, and for ever to have subjected Spain to
a new "family compact," more hinding, and far
us repernieious to Great Britain than the one made
between Louis XIV. and PHILIP V. which had
subsisted from the year 1700, down to the disso-
lution of the French tuonarc.• y, in 17g2. From
this misfortune, and a greater one to a commercial
country, suck as Great Britain, it is not easy to
imagine, we have beet saved by the intemperance
and errors of our enemy, whose mind, intoxicated,
and rendered intractable, as well as ferocious, by
prosperity—
Qsidlibet impoteua
"Sperare, Fortunaquc duki
" EEays
planned and executed a project, which at once
electrified the Spanish nation, awakened all their
eaergies, and compelled theta to have recourse to
England for assistauce. We have extended it, as
we were bound to do by every principle of wisdom,
necessity, and self defence. The first boon which
Spain has accorded in return, is to open her ports
to our ships and goods, on payment of a fair and
moderate duty. It is the earnest and the fore-
Tanner of greater concessions, if we know how to
estimate, anti to improve them. A commercial
treaty, founded on the basis of impartial aad reel-
proral benefit, may, and will follow in due time, to
the incalculable advantage of both kingdoms, and
of the world. But let Ministers beware ! lf, mis-
led by sordid and narrow calculations of gain, on-
ward"' a great nation, they attempt to profit of
the distresses of Spain, in order to obtain unequal
conditions from her Government, then shall we in-
deed beeeme contemptible. NAPOLEON will then
stigmatise us with reason, as a " nation butiti-
ipticre," " a nation of shopkeeper." who only aid
when we can pillage our allies; and who convert
the most glorious of causes into a vile bargain of
interest. Any treaty which has not statue, benefit
for its principle and basis, will assuredly be
broken ; and instead of cemeating, will hifallibly
disunite the two contracting nations. This subset
will engage oar future attention.

Yesterday morning, His MAJESTY, Princesses
Ainsuses and AMELIA, accompanied by Lord
liVALststistau, Lady G. MURRAY, Count MEN.
STEIL, Grit. i'ITZEOY, and Col. Tar Loa, rode in
Windsor Park, and returned to the Palace at noon.
His Maserre is not expected its town this day.
A Spanish Gentleman arrived at Plymouth in
the Sprightly cutter, front Comtism. Is COMAS"
&ward to contract for ten thaassandmilitary saddles.
This Gentleman reports that a Spanish army, con-
sisting of 70.000 men, wus in the vscinity of Vittoria,
and in sight of the French army, with whom an en-
gagement was daily expected to take place.
The Ityle.tibk, of 64 guns, which was under
corders to curry a large quantity of powd.:r to Ha-
lifax, is gone down the River to Long Reach,
where it is thought she will remain until Spring,
the season being too far advanced for her proceed-
ing to her deitinatieu.
A Court Martial, for the trial of Cot FLurctst:e,
Commandinit of the Woolwich Division of Marines,
sit Charges preferred against him by Lieutenaid-
Geneind BANCLAV, will commence at ten o'clock,
tit-morrow, at the Ship-tavern, Woolwich. It is
composed of the Alllowing ()Rivers
Majur-Ccilerat Elliott, President; Major-General Bright,
cal. Strickland, Col. Lewis, Cot. Mered:th, Col Berkeley,
Lieut.-Col. /dater, Linut.-Col. Foley, Col. Anderson, Col.
EOl.
Cu!. Williams, Col. Tench, Col. Hallingall, Lieut.-
Col. Cute, Litton -Col. Bldlake ; Captain Ketoptater, Deptl-
ty-Judge-Advocatc.
There lacing no Court of Aldermen yesterday,
the Luau Mavon, after inspecting the returns, or-
dered Bread to advance 2d. par peck.
111 r. II us a a 'Foos s continnes considerably better.
Ile eats mid sleeps well, and his friends have great
hopes of his recovery.
On Monday night, a most daring robbery was
committed in a rodleittg house in Curzon-street, the
comer of bevies-street, belotigi.o4 to Mr. Lieut.,
who keeps the Sou Punch-bowie, in gun-court,
Carzon.steem.• The robber, forced their war into
the house by kuockiag in the door posts and pan-
nets ; they toot sway unnoticed a quiiiitity of rip-
ped new furniture, which had roily been I)l.o,l'J:fit
in on the mooring previous to robbery. The
loss is estimated at upwards of 5001.
A Isl, fourteru years of age, was run over, yes-
terday evening:au Edward-street, Portinamaquare,
br a can, the wheel of which went over his belly.
•he boy V."t up and nit near twenty yank, when
lie droppwl down. He was taken to Mr. Desirt-
SON'S, linoth,cary, in Davies-street, and now lies in
a very dangerous state.