The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-04 00:00:00

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Lard WaILIPISTOW remained at Lisben au the t3d.
The Russian 74-gna ship, which was left behind, in
the Tagus, lately took first, and was burned in that
river. Gerona is the great point of attraction in
the Portuguese aml Spanish Parrs. General
BLAKE, it is said, after having effected its relief,
meditated an attack upon the Preach at Olot, to
which they had retreated from the immediate vici-
nity of that gallant city.
The Carrier or Seville contains • diary of the
siege, for the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th days
of September; sad observes, that the situation of its
brave defenders had been not a little injured by the
exaggerated and false accounts of the events of the
siege, which had been published Ly certain indiscreet
writers some asserting that several convoys anti
strong reinforcements hurl repeatedly entered the city,
and others affirming that the siege had been raised.
From such falsehoods, it says, may have in part
resulted the cruel privations the citizens of Gerona
suffered. Where is the money, a here ore the con-
voys, where the succours these papers talk of I—The
only succour and conve: which hail been received,
is that which arrived on the Ist instant, under
the cotninrud of Dun Lyme. GARCIA ; but the
supply of provisions. considering the increase of
mouths, cannot last many 'lays. A Proclamation,
which was published on the I ith of September,
by the brave Governor Don A LVA REZ, declare,
there is a Searvi!y of meal, WIWI' Canna now
be supplied by the ordinary means, the enemy hav-
ing long since cut of all the water winch was requi-
site to drive the wills. Several regulations and ar-
rangements are, however, directed in this ordinsace,
which, it is hoped, will remedy,, at least in a great
degree, this inconvenience.

The French evacuated PlAsencia on the Ist of
October, leaving behind them the English sick and
prisoners, u bout they found there.

• Some of the Papers, which wage a personal
wader- against the Proprietor of Covent-Gardeo
Theatre, have thought fit to publish a list of the
names of the Growl Jury, at the late Westminster
Sessions. The avowed object of these miserable
agitators, in publishing this list, was to incul-
cote an idea that it was a packed Jury, composed
of men not sufficiently respectable to perform the
functions of Grand Jurors, as being -all *elected
from the same district, in the vicinity of the
Theatre, and consequently under an undue in-
fluence. We stilled, in a former Piper, that this
was a false hoggestion ; respectable shopkeepers and
tradesmen being the class of men who usually
coin pose the Sessions' Grand Juries of the Metro-
polis; and it being also the custom to choose them
from one and the same immediate district, in
turn. In confirmation of this statement, we give,
this Jay, a list of the Grand Jury of Middlesex,
now sitting at flicks's-Hall, ; from
winch it will he seen, that they all reside within
a circle of :zoo yards, in the vicinity of the Straud,
and are precisely of the maim description of persons
as those who foutni the Rills at Westminster, against
the Covent-zarden Rioters. But let us suppose
the coot rary.—ls it not most disgusting to hear the
misersible remains of the Correspooding Society
treating respectable tradesmen cud shopkeepers
with contempt, as totally unworthy to sit as Jurors
in a Court of Justice; and wretches really to perjure
themselves at the beck of ti.e Managers of Covent-
&mien Theatre ?—Every man of sense—every man
of respectability—must detest, as far ati detestation
is compatible with contempt, such base aud studious
ailumity !

The Marquis of ELI,. and th►e Earls of CONVIIG.
atul Rwiss, are sever ally spoken 4411 the %tic-
crwor of Lord CLIIIICAAVV, as Pust-Alabter-Geue-
ral.

The lion. enctx JRNILINSON, Linder Secretary
of State to Lord LI VJIRPOOL iu the Hume Depart-
ment, removes with his Lord►hip to the War De-
partment, in the room of Mr. Corms; and Lieute-
nant-Colonel UUNIIUKY is also eppoioted Under
Secretary for the War Department, in the room or
the Hon. FacosaßA Roatasow.
Lords GOMM LLI and ELDON are the two com-
petitors for the Chancellorship of Oxford, the others
having declined.
The Rev. Doctor lIAISLLY succeeds the Rev.
Doctor nod the Rev. Doctor Neer?. or the
Rev. Mr. RAINES, it is said, will succeed Dr. 111AIN
LEY. at Oxfool.
On Saturday last. the Rev. JOHN LESIPIIIIIIIE,
D.U. was licensed by the Lord Bishop of the dio-
cese, of Exs:tea, to the Free Grunmar School of
that city. on the noinination of the President and
Governors of St. John's Hospital.
' On the 47th ult. a dispensation parsed the Great
Seal, enabling the Rev. WILLIAM STADISACK. M.A.
Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Earl HAN.
*ow OS, to hold the perpetual Core of Mariatisleigh,
in Devon. to which he was presented by the Mayor
and Chamber of Exeter. with the Rectory of St.
Clethcr. in Cornwell.
A plan was Some time ago delive►ed to the Ad-
miralty. for defending Walchereu spinet any at..
tack of the enemy, with a military force ampere-
tively small. but with a strong naval forte.
His Al AJZITY, in addition to the %owl. given
for the liberation of prisoners confined for small
debts, bas also given 1.0001. for the relief of those
sisdarly circumstanced in Scotland. and the some
sum Fur those in the prisons of Ireland.
he gth regiment of foot. at present stationed in
Canteibury, have received orders to hold themselves
is readiness fur immediate embarkation.

At the Anal else* of the pail. cu Thursday. at
Drapers' Nall. fur a Coluaton.Coaisciluten. in the
room tof the late Mr. Jolt* UPWARD. the numbers
were. for Mr. eIIOCCATt, 91—Mr. CLAIRE, 4L,;
when MG CIAMIATT was declared duly drcted.