The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-12 00:00:00

TO THE. DIRECTIN:: SKNATF..

" ()trio:: to the present circumstances of the war, we find
it necrio,try that the foreign goods imported into Russia
should hare exact certificates of their wit bring the produce
of those c.writries, with which Russia is at war. Its coolie.
wienec of which we cous:nzunl—•

" t. Mtoe blow of the. Ukase of Aprit q, li 17, all vrs•
ads bocid to Itusa:an p,rts from forties cautaries shall have
&dale:ars veriijitog thew cargoes, sheumg theta Out to b:•
the produce &Island nt• Sweden, anal above all, produce of
thew eipletai •s. A I those tt.ools must he boot $.64 a ith the
rout csrtificatts, that are inaitoated over out frantic*" by
hula.

"2. These certificates ninst he granted by Rasslan'Con-
sets, where these are any, but where there are tiotie, by the
Magistrates of those places Gum which the cargo is emaireteil.
If there are Russian tlissiotis in those places w►ere there
are 110 Itissaiito Consuls, the certificates of the Maipistri.trs
most he revised in the (Mice ur th,

" 3. Without dirge Certilit.at.,, no 1.0114% 130.111 1111,111
filter tin Russian territorses. but Se sent ow srlfbl!f the lislit-
ed titnd, nor shall any Russian peculate be slopped ins bow d
of vessels and twin: such Each.
" 4 Freak these ers-eal paucities are to tr* excepted—
the Turkish produce countries, All Asia, imported iu
the parts a the Sleet Ses, the Sea of .11 the Caspian
Sea.

" 1-1... e measure &hail be pat la force frJui Ore la of
illammry, of the twain.: year, low),
" St. Petersham July ii, I SuS. "

LCIFT MASKS OF THE RHILISE, SEPT. 16.

All thr roads loading from Mentz to the inte-
rior or l'ranee are now covered with troops cornimr,
from the gran l army, aid gram; to Spain. They
follow qrseeki , one corps alter another, and wag-
gons are in readines4 to traos:,ort them, to prt (Nit
heir being (let:duct!. Thole who march through
Mentz, pro.-eed in four ditieraut roads. The tirst
cohost r through Trevrs, LitzemSurgh, Sedan,
Paris, Orleans, and Bourdeaux. to Bayonne. The
second through Alzey, Metz, Rheims, Blois, and
Rose-Beaux. The third through Landau, Lune-
rifle, Chalon:. Bourdeaux, and Buyo:ine ; and the
Marti' through Worms, Spires, Strasburg, Colmer,
and Pervignms. The troops marthing though
Wesel go Mtn Belgium, and them like the rest, to
Spuin.—riNerte Zeituoug.)
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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. Orroaca 11 .

We this, day resume our extracts from the Ham-
burgh paper heaught be the Heligoland mail, the
arrival of which we mentioned yesterday. They
state positively, that the Emperor of ACSTIMA *ill
wit attend the meeting at Erfurth, ■nd that the
report of a preliminary triple alliance, between
Austria, Russia, and Frain*, does not deem vets-edit.
Cassel is ant the only German city that lies evinced
a spirit of resistalice to Frende domination. A
similar disturbance has broken out in the city of
Brunswick, in which the French weir wonted; but
frrnh French troops have been elided in, who will
art fait to inflict civet vengeance upon the loyal
inhabitant*. The Illamburgh Papers are tilled
with accounts of the march of troops front Ger-
man• to the South-West. All the roads leading from
Menu int• the interior of France are covered with
troops, proceeding to Spain with all possible expedi-
tion. Itilarshals N CY. BC4SIERE.,NIORTICII.I.assEI.
MASSINA,JoraDam. and DaVOUST, are mentioned
arum% the superior officers who are to have com-
mands tu the immense army with which o the per-
fidious Usurper of France" hopes to overwhelm
Spain.

From every part of the civilized world matter
presses on our attention at the present moment, and
from the inability of discussing so many subjects
deserving of considcratiott.•we can only cast a sort
of bird*s eye view on the pedlitical landscape. If in
vsine parts it presents a gloomy asiwet. in others it
is bright aad exhilirating. The Convention of
Portugal dr not excite more hunailia time orewligs
nation, tiled am. prospect in the iirinh,eust plovintces
of Spain awaken* hope and cou.hdence. If tho con-
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sequences anticipated, or apprehended, from the
interview at Erfurt, inspire alarm, the systematic
preparations of Austria to meet the impending
storm, cot merely by regular arnica, but by gene-
ral levies and appeals to the population tbmughont
ull the lwreditary states, held out a rational
pcctatioo, that even if ALEXANDER were to lend
himself to all the rapacious projects of his Cor-
sican ally, they may nevertheless be tact and frus-
trated. Should we, after thus contemplating the
principal European feature% extend our view be-
yond the Atlantic, tarry dine,: now seems to favour
the cause of justice, loyulty,wel rids, opposed to
violence, perfidy, and crime. M hide the French
colonies labour wittier the severest privations, caused
by the continuance of that war which their scourge
and tyrant has iutlicted on hie sulijects ; all his
chimerical and siefarious views upon the vast pos-
sessions of the Spanish Crown in America, and in
the West Indies, are become abortive. The vile
Adventurer, whit, after plundering Madrid, and
robbing the Palaces of the Catholic Kings, is now
wandering, as an obscure fugitive, among the towns
and villages of Navarre, has beest universally re-
jected, or rather spurned, throughout the new
world, by every clad of men. Neither the Arras
gotiesc, nor the Asturian% can have rheas! inure
unanimity and affectiou to their Sovereign, or to
their country, than has betas displayed in Cuba,
Purtu Rico, Cuinana, Florida, Vera Cruz, mid
along the Speuish Main. Nor need we question,
though we cannot yet know, that, on the shores of
the Pacific Ocean. in Peru and Chili, as it'd! as at
the extrenuties of Asia, in the Philippine Islands,
the Dynasty of Ajaccio will be treated with con-
tumely mat abhorrence. Even to the Americans,
and to JEFFERSON. alliance of BUNAPARTF., hos
friendship, and his connection, will, ae veuture to
predict, produce only general dissatisfaction, disap-
pointment, poverty, and commercial stagnation.
Already tit? bitter fruits of that einbarwt, which.
though nominally general and impartial, was cal-
culated and intended to operate against Great
Britain with far severer force than against France,
have dideseil, from Boston to Sarantiali, fro:u Mas-
sachnsets r.wl Connecticut, dust, to Candle* and
Georgia, universal al:mantel. The Aniericau Go-
vernment, wfh n, flu :a its secret a ish to fatour Bu-
s: Ar.int E., it adopted that ri4orotia mid hazardous
ineasure,doubtlesa did not foresee, nor even sus-
peet, that in the course of a few mouths, all the
Colortir. of the Spniiislt Monarchy would be, in
some 'season., thrown open to England, and closed
against NAPOLEON. As little does Mr. Jet.-
Fr asox appear to have calculated On the vast com-
mercial effects that may be justly expected t.. 'v-
eldt from the voyage of the PRINCE REGENT to
Brazil, and *le teniptiniry or permanent trausfer
of the Portiignese Goveritineut to Rio Janeiro.—
That beautiful, rich. and estensive portion of
South America, comprehended between the n-
vets Oronorpie and I.s Pima, now for the first
time visited by its Sovereigns, offers an Minotaur
ibundance, and at far iuferior prices, ofal moat every
production or commodity exported from the United
States. 'Flats, beyond the Atlantic, as here in
Europe, all the vindictive and violent interdic-
tions, issued by the rage and Matbitioo of NAPO-
LEON, wens to hate been overturned by himself,
and may finally, as well as shortly, retell upon their
author. When be undertook the fla:otions and
ill-concerted attempt en Spain, he eon .... itteil to
hazard all his past acquisitioas, untnitelful of the
mutability of fortune, and of the fate of tyrants in
every age. The tnore attentively we contemplate
the actual state of his own and his brother's affairs
on the Ebro, the mere critical do they appear. if
the Clinician mut), toasters of &lima, eau %droner
' to St. Sebastian and Fontarabia, those places must
inevitably fall into their hands, unless the assailants
are there met by a superior military force, from the
itaterior of France. We repeat it, there are no for-
tresses,
iliswt Mg the muse, in Biscay, Alarm or
Guinuscoa. Ho possesses only three, by
which lie bridles Spain—Figueres, at the entrance
of the Cataloutius Pyrenees ; Morality, which coin-
maals Barcelona ; and Painpeluna, capital of
rasa re. Vet none of these can protect or corer
an army acting it, Old Castile, between Logrogno
and Milagin, which must hate a free communica.
lion with Bayonne, by means of the great road
throm;li Alava and Guipuscoa. as well as by the
less frequented and more perilous one that couthicts
through Navarre. In Catalonia, it is clear. Wl'
withstanding the pretended advantages of Ge-
neral Dunr.stts, detailed in the Mimi/ewe, that
the Frec.ch, far frolt being victorinus, are con-
' fined in a 'great degree to the two forts of
Moutjuy and Fienerws. Even of Gerona, situated
between them, DI:IIE4AIE has not been able, by
the most desperate efforts, to gain po‘session. Un-
der these circumstances, which, it must be owned,
are Hot very promising, the embassy sent by Jo.
seen NAPOLEON, in the person of a Grandee of
Spriti. the Duke DE Fitts% to BONAPARTE, at
Paris, is rather calculated to excite ridicule theta
apprehension. JOSEPII. driven from Ildirauda del
Ebro to Logrogno, from logrogno to Calahorra,
and finally sheltered in some unknown village of
Nu‘a..re, mita doubtless envy the happier lot of
JuActtea N1111.1.T, who is quietly receivio; the
homage of Jost en's late subjects at Naples. We
trust, however, that J04E111%4'8 turn will come,
and that la will not ,sissy lie. mew Crown even as

long us his predecessor. Boa APATTE Leal
peditiously whatever is to he effetied at hi
view with ALENANDEtt, repeat,
io
and not iu Thuringia, that his i:reiczce •
gies are wasted at this time. •

Since the calomel:mm.la ef Ilex %PARTE.%
volutionury career. no poper cleseriptir
appeared in Europe, ealetilated u p„ tee
neral and so deep an impression upon neiakil4
the "Narrntive of Centllvo." Even the
and documents given t. the world by Plus
only a few mouths ago, though they
impious and brutal violence, as eel! us his
and outrages towards the Reed of the
Church and Religion. yet do not present a
of such turpitude and perfidy as his cou.luer
wards the Kings of SPAIN. hi the treattnte
of CHARLES and of FLAW N•l4 D, tio lees tilt
the unfortunate MARIA LOCISA, %tire a tb,
end mother of the other of those Princes, •
Leue seems to have trampled oa the MOa
rights of human nature, maid to have Wasted
• the charities of father, son, and loother,”
we couceire that his very crimes a... 1 el:
were in some measure necessary to produce
own cure. Never %%mild the a bele Spauidi
hare risen, like our men, agitiest this scour,
disgrace of our species, never would the were
that great nation have burst forth us they
done, if the obdurate atrocity of their roe":
not kitidled in every bosom the sacred done
loyalty, pit!, and piitinitislis ! But Bus/
hour of trial and account evidently
though with sloe• mid measured steps:
always maintain d, teen w lieu his
most toicontroluble, that he was to be
much by snore' as by military weapons; liy
pen no less than by the len mitt Now
be considered us far less formidable that
was before hi, utteinct on Spain, the
detail* of CET:LEOS will tied a ready MAN,*
every heart and to every enders:audio*
cannot be too much disseminated over e.ery
of the Coutineut. or translated line t
languages. If our !ill:listen hal leisure L.
tend to any thing except their miserable
utilities. their vile struggles for place
trouage, or their supercessiou of a
Cinuitimuler, by the substitution of an officer
out any pretension to his talents, they- emi:d
theinselvesto spresul, in every direction, the swrii7
tire in question. Translations into Freud' mil
German should be instantly seat to Ilallsod,
Switserlaud, and Germany ; even in Des'
'nark, Riessia, amid Turkey, their effect will la'
incalculable. Now that this awful Usurper sm..'
Conqueror is 4. • shorn of his beams,-
very literati of Leipsic, who, not two years ago,
rowed into to divine honours, and p! iced Lia
among the constellations, will lie the first to pre
reive their own degradation, as well as to epees
eime the Corsican Emperor. CS* ALL°, will p:e-
sue biro wherever he moves, and attend lam
his r xpeditiot.s, like the envenomed shirt of M.
UPI. That it will be interdicted in fraoce,
penalties net short of deatt, we wake no queen....;
nor is it froin that country. or from that Impale, we
expect the redemption of Europe. Mir!). creas
and reverses, we fear, must yet happen, to share
the edifice constructed by this revolut:o.iary Usurp-
er, before the French venture to resist his fertile
pree;rese. Those who, from ocular inspection, or
from the best information, are se:quanta& with
tine Ineeireninw by which they are chained to the
earth, know, that, like a maniac. exhausted by
his own awl*, the French people are now tea:-
pletely precluded from making attempts at
vitiation. la every district, tout in every cora-
Inoue, Boa %PASTS may be said to preside,
by his emissaries. his spies, and his eoosti-
tuted authorities. Not a leaf stirs without he
k' nut ledge or his permission. Au army. habituated
to plunder. rapine, violence. and disorder, re-
presses the slightest tendency to resistance ; while
a crowd of accomplices. civil and military. deco-
rated with cordons of honour, enriched with the
spoils of palaces and altars, nr denainineted Prise",
Prefect*. Dukes, Marshals, and Nobles of every
gradation, are arranged, twenty deep, round the
throne of their master. interested, by every possihie
motive, to protect and to proton( his greataro.
and the traits of their own crimes. Under such
circumstances. a nation which considers even
despotism as preferable to counter-revolutioo—
or to anareliv arid civil war, will not easily be
nwakeised to action. Yet, though late, we
believe, that even France will altix some limit
to her own subjectiou, nailer a monster. odi-
um, to every home** being. in whom all moral sense
is not extinct. sad whose excesses germ to reproaeh
the patience of mankind. Ceti...Luis will pene-
trate into the toost secluded provinces of NAPO-
LEON.* doinitsions. in defiance of every punishment.
While BLAKE. mad CV ESTA. awl PAL trol.
tam the cause of FERDIN AN D the nth oa
Ebro, this virtuous awl iticorrept Minister, who
i.isilted with toe iiira.nous appelletion of 44 traw
for usaiotaining leis loyalty anhapeached
menaces and bomlage, will deal the heat
moral blows :I: L.:o r mac. It is not :it
fart, or from the aid of As.axasaia, that ire
find a reined; for those evils. We r- en tel
that his tier:: might have been m. :e profitably

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