The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-08-30 00:00:00

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, Abausr 30.

A Gottenbnrigh Mail has arrived with papers,
from wipch we have made the following extract :
SIOCKHOLII, AUG. 10.

We have not received any accounts from our army
and nav), nor has any thing transpired of the
sent state of the negociati 111 l s for brace between this
country awl Russia and I), now
lettem from Marseilles and ilienott state, that the
French Core.ul in Algiers, Dubois Tainville. has
lie«ti arrested by order of the De), and that war has
been declared against France.

Orders have been received at Woolwich to pre-
pare artilltry for another Expedition.

No intelligence from the Earl of CILITIIAM was
received by Gov' romeat, A. far as we could learn,
when this paper was lint to press. life Lordship
Furl collected ill him dtsposeable force in South
Ile+elJuil, where, it is geuertilly supposed. he will
wait for instructions from England, before he pro-
reeds to the ulterior objects of the Expedition.—
The great difficulties which the enemy have been
able to throw in his way, by breaking the dykes,
obstruettng the navigation of the river, and
inereeeng the military force at Antwerp, are sup-
posed to have t auscd this hesitation, bud induced

the necessity of fresh instrucli-ms. -Ile enemy, it
is sail, are also assembling a considetable force in
Cudsand, from tvheuce it is tilippOSNl they meditate
a drscent upon IValcheren, with a vi W to (Alt off
the retreat of our army. It has been consequently
deemed expedient to leave ❑ strong corio behi7.l.l to
the latter island, amounting, it is supposed, to not
less than 9.000 men.

Government remain without any advice' from
discount Grow, since the arrival of his dis-
patches, dated Waver* the tit inst. This long
ut this critical moment, has induced an ap-
prehension that his dispatches, *rot off in the
interval, may have miscarried, or been intercepted
by the enemy. In the mean time Government do
not appear to think that hie Lordship will be
under the necessity of evacuating the Peninsula.
—Preparatiohs are making at Plymouth for the re-
caption of several thousand troops from this Mid-
land District, who are to proceed to Plymouth to
embark for Spain. The ttd battalion of the 3d,
(or Old Buffs) is also to embark there: detachments
of that corps are now doing duty as Marines on
hoard the prison ships in Ramose.—.The first bat-
talion of this fine corps is already in Spain. Monday
se' 'gilt, at to o'clock, p. m. General FLoy
Commander of Cork, received on express from the
Castle of Dublin, with en order for the immediate
embarkation for Spain of the lit regiment of Dra-
goons, or Royal., at present quartered ui that dis-
trict. This tine regiment, which iNconimanded by
the Lion. Colonel De Gamy, i. uearly 800 strong.
The transports for its reception were already in the
harbour, and the embarkation has prohubly since
taken place. _ _

The more we consider the critical state of affairs
ou every part of the Contineut, the progress which
BoIAPAItTe has already wade towards its complete
subjugation, and the short period which may, not
improbably, elapse. before Austria and Spain are
laid level with the other conquered, or enslaved
States of Europe; the more attentively we revolve
these awful facts, the more do we feel it our duty
to call the public ;Attention towards the individuals
who have been entrusted with the national resources.
That they should be generally' recognised as worthy
of sneh a selection, and as capable of directing the
vast means, naval, military and pecuniary, with
which they are liberally furnished, to counteract the
plans of NAPOLEON fur our disitraction, will; no
doubt, be readily admitted. That such abilities
are not to be found in the Treasury, or the Exche-
quer, we imagine, Lord Wet. BENTINCK, or Lord
ARDEN, themselves, would not dispute. As little,
we conceive, can any measures be expected to
originate, front which permanent benefits ate to
arise, front the inexperience and igilorame which
characterise the Foreign office ; or from the in-
structions sent to those functionaries in foreign
Courts, who are to conduct, and to direct the armies
and fleets employed by Great Britain. That Mr.
CANNING cannot translate, or answer a dispatch,
addressed to hint in any other language than hi►
own ; that he should Le compelled to have recourse,
on all such occasions, to the assistance of Mr. EL-
IA'. or of Lord BoRINGDON, to interpret a French
Manifesto, or a Bulletin ; if these thing were not
matters of notoriety, and siihjects of common ridi-
cule, they could not obtain belief. What shall we say
to the selections of Ministers, at a moment like the
present, when Spain and Portugal deinanded men
of the most approved caution, wisdom and temper?
Have we forgotten the obligations that we owe to
Mr. FRERE, whose indecorous, sanguine, and perni-
cious exhortations, eminently conduced to the cala-
millea of the retreat from Sahagun, and to the 4--
reparable loss of the Commander-in-Chief ? It is
the enemy alone who derives benefit from such se-
lections, and from him only that His MAJESTY'S
Ministers are entitled to acknowledgments.
Shall we then be told, that the Admiralty is bet-
ter conducted? is our commerce protected ? Are
our magazines and arsenals replenished 1 Are plans
for the security, augmentation, and glory of the
navy encouraged ? Is union and public spirit main-
tained ? Have those been the objects of Lord Mr 1.-
GRAVE'S attention and systematic care? Let the
public judge. Where, and hole have these qua-
lities been displayed I Was it in the invidious and
most unjustifiable choke of Lord C3CHRANE, to
make the attack in Basque Roads, to the exclu-
sion of so many other meritorious, intrepid, and
highly accomplished officers, his seniors ? A choice
which lighted up the torch of discord in the ser-
vice, dishonoured and disgusted the Admiral com-
manding, and produced only a Court-Martial, as
its neceaharf consequence. Is the protection of
trade evinced, in the dereliction of our homeward-
boand merchant fleets, and in the captures made
every week on oar own shores? Will the Under-
writets, who are now smarting under the recent
losses sustained oft Beachey Head and Dungeness,
where not less than seventeen vessels, mostly from
3 to 4 and 500 tour burden, coining from Oporto,
end from other places, have been captured by
French privateer., under the very signal-houses ;
will the Underwriters at Ltoeo's bear testimony
to Lord Motoalins's vigilance? Is it in the cold
rejection which the plan, so replete with public
benefit, for constructing a harbour in the Scilly
Islands--a plan patronised and recommended by
the Heir Apparent—met with from the Board of
Admiralty, that we trace the eulargetneut of Lord

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Muy.ettiresi mind ? Or is it in the
nod apathy wall which (at 111 time• when all the
vorts of the Baltic, too WWI than CiUse of North
America, are shut rigniust is.. and, *lira many of
the most esieutial article* of navel equipment we
watitiiigr iii our stores ftt P01:511101101, at Chatham,
and ut Plymouth) the offers tran►mitted from tier
own Governors awl Colonies iu Asia, have heen
treated, that Lord MutottAvE expects to lay claim
to stational gratitude? These facts and charges
well merit, and, we doubt not, oil% ►ouatT or
later, obtain a ',oldie investigation.
No man, we iustegine, questions, that in the pre-
sent hand:, the Great Seal of England combines
talent■ and integrity. but " the. keeper of His
MAJESTY'S conscience," as the Chancellor hoe been
denominated, may be, however eminent in West•
moister flail, utterly unfit or unable to direct His
MAJESTY'S foreign counsel.. We do not believ 4
that Lord ELDON is competent to decide nn print*
connected with great colitiumatul questions; wiilt
expedition's against Antwerp, or marches to Madrid
though, to our misfortune. it is well kinrou that
one of his predecessors, iu the *sine WO, employ.
mem, in 1793, we menu the late Earl of ItossEetei
then Lord LouneermouoN; was the author and
adviser of the famous march to, and siege of, Dun.
kirk. It is not from the long rube, nor From juris-
prudential knowledge, that BOILLIPARTied resistless
arms and machinations can meet an adequate, or
an appropriate apposition. We must couutera• t
him, both in the cabinet, and in the field, by other
weapons than justice, or probity, or legal ability:
We will notes far waste our own time, mid thepub-
lie patience. asto examinethequalificationsof the re-
maining Members of the Cabinet; even though, as
we are assured, Earl FIAIROWUY ta, in quality
his new office, as President of the East India Boards
to have a seat in it. These are not the men to
whom, in August, 1809, the safety and the existenc-
of the empire ought to be, or Cllll be safely emu state
ed. Of this truth we believe the nation is con-
vinced. We trust that the conviction. though it
has net yet reached the Throne, will finally pene-
trate thither. Above all, we ardently hope that it
may not be propelled and rendeved irresistible, by
the operation of misfortune, defeat, and public
adman). '

The prisoners which arrived iu the hlonstosati,
from Flushing, were landed, nn Mouda),
mouth, and marcher! for Stilton Barracks, timr:er a
detachment of the Royal Berkshire Militia.

Colonel MU DUE hms.be,m appointed Lieutenant-
Goverm:i of the Royal .Ntilttary Academy ut Wool-
wich, in the room of General Twist. promoted.
It will be recollected, that Colonel Illioun is ce-
lebrated as having conducted the trigonometrical
survey of England, in a matinee which retle.cts the
Itighcst credit on his talents, as well as on the
state of motlitanutienl science in this country.
No certain iinelligeoce has as yet been received
whether hostilities between Austria end France are
likely to he renewed, or whether a peace bur been
concluded. Had the accounts formerly received, of
notice having been given, on the 3d, of the rupture
of the Armistice, been true, they must have btca
long since confirmed at the cannon's mouth.

The fortificatiiius of Flu.hing are in a snort deplor-
ablestute indeed ; itsehieldefeitoe upon the land side
Is now found to have been the surrounding ditch.
There were only two pieced of CllllllOll at radii of the
salient angles of the batteries on that side, and if
we mean to retain the island, we must begiu with
layiug, most from three to four hundred thousand
pounds in putting it in a proper state of defence.
The 94th Regiment, now in ,garrison at Aber-
deen, have received orders to hold themselves in
readiness to embark.

Adlillral oll'lb AY has hoisted his flag on board a
man of war at Flushing, and kb to remain tittle as a
guard ship.
Mr. ALLEN, of Cresselley, haring withdrawn
from the contest, Mr. LORD {Oh* sutvrrdh to the
name and estates of the lids Sir Herin OWEN,
Hart.) conics in for the contributory boroughs of
Pembroke, Tenhy, and Wistou, without opposition.
We understand that His MAMMY has been
',leased to establish an uniform dress for the Lord
Lieutenants of the ail:ere:it uousities of Great

Britain.
The KING has been pleased to rant the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kindgdoin of (ire it
Britain and Ireland to Sir RUPERT GEORGE, of
Park-place, in the county of Nlnltlle,ex, and of St.
Stephen's-Green, in the (aunty of Dublin, Knight,
First Commissioner fur cmidatting the 'Transport
Service, and to the heirs wale of hia body, lairfulay

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begotten.
His :MAisare's Letters Patent have passed the
Great Seul of Ireland for translating the RIO
Rev. the Loan litsuor of Leighlin and Ferns to
the Archhishopriek of Dublin and Bishoprick of
filluvrielagh, in the room of the most Rec. Father
in (knit CHA41.1% lEirl of filiormine Ull .•••••11.1,1hiVa
Gazette.
His Alszaszt's Letters Patent Wit: aim missed
the Great Scut of 'reined for promoting the Hon.
anti Rev. Dot-tor Pract .10CFLYN to ti,e *united
Bishopricksef and Feribs.—(V.id.)
The MASTIC and 11.' ISDEII9 of the link rs Com-
pany waited on the LOkD MAT° it, yes.entay, to set
the assize and price of bread. Nis Loidship, after
examining the Mentweighere Report, was pleased
to order the prices of bread to continue the farness
last week ; viz. wheaten, Is. VII. and housohold,
Is. ltd.
The sale of Ryclarid Merino ram lambs, the pro-
perty of the Earl of ST. VINCE?: r, which took plate
on the 24th instant, at his Loril.liip's tannery, near
his seat at South Weald. was not attended by many
of the great patrons. er Agriculture; a number of
respectable fanners, Must...cr, ro.serntileci, by wheats
the lambs were purchased at low pd et.. 'the Ng!,
est price given was O. 16a. 6.1. and the toe- le 31. 11.
The '25 lambs product-it 671, .Is. Tao gentoon
rams were shorn, far e
had been offered 1040