The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-10 00:00:00

CHATHAM, Sari it 8.

Yesterday week, as an *id shipwright. 74 years
of age, was at work on the Leonedes, prepara-
tory to her bring lau shed. he slipped from the
place on which he was standing, and fe:l a greet
distance ac►oss some timber, by which his back was
broken, and ne expired a few hours after in great
agony.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Baker. horsholder, an
aflive officer, apprehended two Frenchtuen, named
Jongnires and Loijic, supposed to have broken out
of ptison scone time in August, with a number
of others not yet apprehended ; they were dressed
like bricklayer's labourers, and had, when taken, a
great deal of money ; they were examined by the
Commissary and sent on board the Sandunch prison,
ship as Gillingham. •
Arrived lest week the etarrow44wk, a Grip new
brig sloop, she is to 'be fitted for immediate ser-
vice.

The Trident. tiS gnns, went into dock nn Saw.
day last, to have a thorough repair, preparatory
to her being fitted as a receiving ship, to lie at
Malta.

The farming is a list of the passengers arrived
in the lest from India :
Rit TIC EARL Sr Vericarte.--.Colnitel Charles Reynolds,
koryeeor-General ; it kit int twin, senior merchant ; Mrs.
Ann Twrm ; George Ileown, kyr; rector merchant; Major
George Williams. Company's service; Mrs., Belk Gomm ;
Limitenant Arthur. Company's Menne ; Colonel kulstrode
White;ocic Capiara A. V. Browne; Lieutenant and Adju-
tant Hand, Limiter:mists Herint, M'Keil, Pi4Cf. Ills Majesty's
77th Regiment ; two kd ad Nis, ; two Misses
Dement Miss Retienech ; Mr. Rebeneett ; two Masters
Brown, two Masters Kennedy Mr. Corsellis; Mr Young.
FIUDDA•T—CoIoneI Arulerwout.C..lemasi, Molar, ; Ma-
jar Tanoglas altd,h,tdren; Majors M. Grogort and Caylor Can-
tel., Leightoo, Mr. GtICIPO, Mr. Dente; Lieutenants Luilwitli
and Lorimer ; Captain and Mrs. kudd and cninfira; Cat,-
tams Travers and Singer; Masters Cambodia*. MsWingan.
and Armstrong
WALTHARIATOW.Getaf.I, Lard Lake, Hew. Mrs. 11.•Yey,
Miss Lake. G. H Lake; Captains Haney, inimmii D.'•
stn., M`Kaight. rayon, SVC., i Mr. Harris, Mr. Darcy,
surgeons.

Yuen lanais —Colonel and Mrs. UsMina. Colonel and
Mrs. Wilton, Mrs. rattily, Mrs. &leans, Miss lessors, Mrs.
Bent, Mr H. C. Ploy:bon, 2..1 ten children.
Mossascu —Mrs. Plowdva, Mrs. Nniiso.an istna Tat.
locks, Mmior linens., Captain killantama, Mr. Lloyd, Capt.
James Campbell, blot
GAjicias....C..ilbfAl Oliver Nichols, Cetwiel 772%
Rezlrae..;; Cnlnnel Gant; Mrs Maastimon Mr-. ;
Wier sad Mrs Green and Major at.; Mrs. Pore arid
family, Maas Cape, Mr. lienalmaW. Mr Law, Mr. Runes-
eon Kea. Mr. HatloCaptain Acheson, Capt. Lvel, Lieutenant
Crio;dyer, 651.1 t ; Lieut. Howard, 76th ; Lieut. Law, 77th
Ennis Coekledge.
Dorcas.—Dr.Balfoor' Dr. Dick, Cape Preset-as, Mr. Row.
a'th, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Miaow, Mrs It qberu, Min Smith,
Marissev, Cot. Hatton, eight chad.en.
11-6..sastas—Col Nightingale, Mrs. Nigktingole, Mrs.
General Smith:Miss Fowler, Col. Cunningham, &la,. or Camp-
bell, Sir H. Mg:Sewall, Captains& Bradford, Trani, Sharpe,
Simpson, and thirteen children.

A *** .—Celonel Bums. Mr. and Mt.. Willend,
Capt. Johnson, Capt. Cullen, 42.1 Regiment, Lieut. Wroght,
Lieut. HU:fl3,4 Mr. and Miss Beachcruft, Mr. Maker and
family, Mr. W11k1115.111, Mr. Crmuenden, Mf.,efeffliilll,
Bums, Miss raperson, Miss Juhousn, Miss Manisa, and
Mist Stealst.

Haman., —.Cap* and Mrs. Blunt and font children, Mn.
Dowell and top. Auto, Mr. Abrahams, Miss %open and
MIMI delta, Me. Itolosen, Me. Jar's; Mr. Crukat and ate
ditto.
#1,51 A and Mn Dife, Dr. and Mn. Miiler; Mrs.
Irannonn; Mr Brown Cnt Itarenuet, Grarihrei, Captain
Robin..., Capt. 19th ; Major Danko% Capt. -
Acheson, 77th
De`be..4l al.l family, Capt. 1441,ean,
loeut. M' Lachtm. 7:th ; Capt
..ingdwii, both; Lieut. Kelly ;
Lacasiin,7bth Captain Cernpbell, Vith ;
CoNelea. Coseases Selma.

MASIIESTO.

Or 11111 OICCFMLIINCY THI ♦ICMYOT OF Piny, ON
TYE CAPTUIZ Or ZUZIMOS ♦V nth IT TIFF
SNULISH.
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• (Fmtn The Peruvian Miwrect.) 1
" Although I am convinced, the perusal of the
three proclamations, published at the city of Buenos
Ayres, by the English General Beresford, must have
filled with indignation the breasts of all His Majes-
ty's loyal subjeds, and particularly of those who en-
joy the happiness of inhabiting this metropolis, so '
much favoured and distinguished by our Sovereigns ;
yet I cannot refrain from indulging myself in point-
kg out to my countrymen, the venom, hidden under
the hypocritical professions of the enemy, therein
contained ; for which purpose, without recurring to
any other arguments, I shall confine myself solely
to a retmsped of the recent atrocious conduct ob-
served by that nation in every quarter of the globe.
Years after years have set in and passed, during
which all Europe has witnessed the English Govern-
meet using every means it can invent, for cement-
ing and propagating its detestable tyraany, availing
itself of every circumstance favouring such a pur-
pose ; stooping to pradices the most vile and infa-
mous; setting aside the most sacred principles of
the rights of man ; and trampling upon et:
the usages and customs, for many age, uer-
vetsally received and observed amongst civi-
lized nations. Far from proceeding, either in
carrying nn war or negotiating peace, with that
noble frankness and Rood faith, the cheraderistics
of nations generous and brave, it recurs to dark
artifices of &lion and sedation, to dazzle and cor-
rupt the unwary, who are weak enough to trust
I and confide in its perfidious promises. Such is
the objed of the three proclamations which I have
mentioned ; to lull to sleep the uncle: stanchng of
the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, with hopes of an
imaginary happiness ; to blindfold them, that they
may not perceive the abyss of evil which surrounds
them ; to cover, as with a garland of flowers, the
iron chains which their oppressors have prepared
for them ; to stapily the native energy of those
alive Spaniards; to alienate from their hearts, if it
b•e possible, the love, the fidelity, and gratitude they
one to the most benevolent and jest of all Mo-
narchs; to prevail upon them, fu: ever to lay down
their a: ms, nor think of aveug:ng theniselves and
retrieving their lost honour, but solely to aspire
to the felicity of being numbered among the vilest
sieves of the Tyrant of the Seas. From these
motives, they speak of the great advantages which
they pretend would result from an alliance with
Great Britein : under that Government, they say,
oppression is unknown ; they promise immediately
to free their commerce from the heavy duties and
imposts to which it has been sus jeeted. to respell the
Catholic religion and its holy miaisters, and that
the local laws and national customs shall remain
untouched ; and they conclude with stating, that
their only objeet is to proud theca-tern coasts of
South America, and render it the country the most
prosperous in the universe. But where is the man
of sense and incitement, who does not immediately
discover, under such affected expressions, the vile
language of hypocrisy and fiEtion, so foreign to the
intrepid soldier. and natural only to the cowaldly
legions of those sordid islanders ? Where is the
man whose blood does not boil, on hearing the sacred
names of protection, humanity, and benevolence
pronounced by a Government, staked with recent
robberies. perfidies, and murders ? —by a Govern-
ment which does not cease sowing the seeds of dis-
cord and rebellion every where ?—by a Govern-
ment which has so lately, before our eyes, kindled
a fire in the fairest part of the globe. (alluding
to Europe), whose Provinces we have so re-
cently seen inundated with streams of the
blood of its inhabitants ?—by a Government. which
has sn basely forsaken its allies, by hastily withdraw-
ing its troops from all those parts where any of the
invincible battaliihs of Bonaparte made their appear-
ance?—by a Government whose friendship has
proved so baneiel and ruinous to so many powerful
Princes, and covered with mourning and desolation
the immense countries situate between the fertile
banks of the Adige, and the frozen lakes of Bohe-
mia ?—by a Government, lastly, which has so long
endeavoured to et:a the throne cf its tyranny upon
the spans and tombs of all other nations, and which,
of ~,,„1 .e years, has not even shrunk, in the lace of the
wholll world, to adopt, as a !sails of its Mechiavelien
system of polities. the elan of perpetual war ; a
plan at which humanity shudders; a plan which
posterity will record and hand down to our remotest
descendants, as a memorable monument of the fe-
I rocity and barbarity to which egotism and a thirst
' for monopoly can precipitate a nation which lent its
ear te no voice,' but that of its arrogant and unna-
tural avarice ?
" Generous men of Lima! Let us fling far
from us, with that contempt which they so well de-
serve, tee., infamous proclamations, with which
the English C;enetal pretends to surprise the innate
fidelity of our countrymen, who inhabit the banks
of the river Plata. Let us look upon them as an in-
; suit to our honour, as an attempt against our 14.14-
I ness, and a plan direfted to the destrultion of our
' native land !
1 "I Merchants! The same men, who now pretend
to have possessed themselves of Buena Ayres, solely
with a view of proteding your commerce, are the
same who have precipitated it into a state of ruin.
so prejudicial to your useful speculations, and to
which you see it reduced. They ate the same who
commenced the present hostilities, by capturing
three of the King's frigates, and blowing up another.
They are the same who seized upon your defence-
less ships, peaceably navigating the seas. under a
confidence that the Spanish bag, which they dis-
played in the air, would protei them against all in-
juries from a nation with which we were not then at
war. A general indignation was manifested by all
the Cabinets of Europe; but even this was insuffi-
cient to induce these avaricious and cruel islanders
to restore the treasure which they had so unjustly
taken, with the blood of so many innocent victims.
o Spaniards! 'Filet perfidious nation, which now
Ipretends to appear to the inhabitants of Buenos
Ayres as, of all others, the most humane, is the
same which, not six years since, sent a squadron
• and an army before Cadiz, at a time when the
plague reigned within its walls, spreading horror
and destrudion. The English Admiral, who, from
his cabin windows, could feast his eyes with the
' spettacle of mountainb of corpses yet sabarieJ, and

the gloomy light of the fereral piles, yet had the
courage to challenge our valiant chief to surrender.
or prepare himself to infer all the rigours of war.
The commander of a Moorish corsair having fallen.
in with a convoy, carrying viduals and medicines,
at the eipense of the Pope. to the city of Marseilles,
then infested by a destrudive plague. not only
refrained from capturing those ships, but spontane-
ously convoyed them to the port of their destination ;
and the English Admiral. on a similar occasion,
threw balls and shells in Lo Cadiz, with an intent of
reducing it to a heap of ruins.
a Spaniards! Those who now publish a law
at Buenos Ayres, eripining stives to obey Antir
masters, are the same who f mented, and still con-
tinue to encourage, in the island of St. Domingo,
the most atrocious rebellion recorded in the annals
of nations. We have all viitnessel that, while the
sanguinary Dessalims, at the head of innumerable
hands of assassins, marched along the coasts, wit'i
the murdering steel in one hand, and the incend...i y
torch in the other. with tire and sword, spreading
desolation, destrudion, and death wheresoever he
went, an English squadron vigorously blockaded the
capital, in order that no one solitary vidim might
escape the African fury.
a Indians! You who are such interesting objeds
of the lender care of our most amiable Monarch !
That nation, which has taken possession of Buenos
Ayres, has ever treated the Aborigines of America
and Asia with the most :nhuman cruelty. When, in
the course of the last century, they fonnd it imprac-
ticable, by force of arms, to subjugate the brave in-
habitants of the iloridas, they concluded a specious
peace, and, during that peace, regaled them with
poisonous liquors and clothes, which caused deaths
without number. Their East India Company has al-
ready extirpated the greater number of the mild inha-
bitants of Malabar, Bengal, and Coromandel, and
would extirpate them all by one single blow, if they
required not their labour in the manufadoties of
their richest and finest stuffs. The terrible famine
is still recent in our memory, when millions of In-
dians perished, and which being foreseen by the
English fthoi.ies, they timely stored all the rice and
other provisions, which the scanty ha tof that
year had yielded. Indians, wheresoever the Eng-
lish nation has gained a footing, yuur's hzs been en-
slaved, reduced, and destroyed without mercy.
4, Alt you people, inhabitants of Peso I let us, on
this important occasion. display all our loyalty and
courage. let us speedily wash away the foul stain
cast upon the arms of Spain by the surrender of Bue-
nos Ayres. let us instantly Ay to arms, in the de.
fence of our holy faith. and of our beloved Sove-
reign ; and let us plunge into the deep currents of
the-river La Plata, those outcasts of smugglers and
pirates, who having by surprise possessed themselves
of one of the most interesting parts of Airy-lea, dd..
fident of the power of their arms, and in dread of
our just vengeance, now attempt. by means of the
detestable artifi. es of sedsgtinn, so induce us to
forego the perturmanee of out meet sacred and in-
violable duties, and turn deaf ears to the pathetic
and penetrating voice with which our country aow
calls upon us for assistance."

Meurer, Act; USW. A 4
Lear Natwu —Ol4
Mr Mr. Dame, I
deteur. 116th ;
rams Ations, and 11.1'40
letutariatits Alien sal C