The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-14 00:00:00

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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, M•Y 14.

The Direttors of the &lAA IRCIIA Company have
appointed Sir Canons HILARO BARIUM. BAr•.
Governor of Madrss; and, we ondelqtand, he is
to succeed Lord MINTO, as Governor. General.

A Member of the Society f,r promoting Chr,
Knowledge, has' printed a letter or two in a morn-
ing Paper, addressed to Lor 110GREsvt L LE. is
pleasant enough to see the clumsy efforts at'raillery,
in this pions and zealous promoter of fadion. He
affeds to deride Lord GRENVI I. Le fur writing in
Newspapers ; and laments, that a person, who has
A" MO, ifiros, shnol<f clNodeseend t, indulge
himself in the live den: of the press. Perhaps
,elll Ministers m ty, as on m oty other more
important occasions, turn their back on the arts by
which they have risen ; but we susped that more
than one of those P►otestant Chompsonr, whom the
Promoter of Christian Knowledge is bound to ad-
.mire, has lowered his high charader, and con-
taminated his pure and Iffirtal pen, in the dirt of news•
paper controversy. Same Anti-jzcobins might.
perhaps, inform this gentleman, that it is by pad-
dling in such puddles, that they have learnt to fa-
thom " all the depths and shoals of honour ;" and,
when we recoiled the service which has been ren-
dered them by another pre/et/ant writer, we are stir.
piled to find the partizans of the present Admini-
crevon, condemning the praBice of making ap-
peals to the public, through the medium of a news-
papr.

The public have been too long insulted with the
say:inuring boasts of one of the Daily Papers, on the
sobjeft of foreign news. Whether it be an ac-
itroset of tee battle of Austerlitz, or the battle of
Jena, every article of foreign news, however nli or
common, is ann-iinced by it as err/wive intelli-
rine, Of intelitzence by earn iptiol I. Pursuing this
system of gasconade, it gave, a few days since,
seine common-04ex paragraiphs, which it called
An Anticipation of the fiusum Mlal ;" yj the very

time the Mail. which it boasted to have so antici•

rated, had art ired•at tl.e Post-Office, and its con-
tents were given in ever♦ other Daily Morning
Paper. An exposure, so palpable, appears to have
excited a violent degree of irritation; atickin an effer-
ireszerce of passion, the Print in question, very un-

g u deol y contested, on Saturday, that the content,
of the /futon, SlAil had been offered to it by the
?oat-Office, but that it refused to give a gu nea for

the intelligence. Upon this foundation, it has made
an attack upon tie Pow Office, charging it with
eegleft and extortion is every &Tarnow, and
vireatessing every ptrson ccrnnefted with it, from the
P0...-Nksttr-Glneral down to the Porters, with ex-
posure and punishment. Of this, however, we do
not ciimpLtin. If that Paper has suffered from the
nrxhit and extortion of the Cen:lemen of the Post-
Office, we do not wish to become their advocates.
Fat we complain of is, the unwarrantable
liberty which it has takes, in affefting to make com-
mon cense with the ether newspapers, and putting
itself fern-art as the Champion cf their common
ri2hts. We will venture to assert, that if the Daily
N. w! papers were to vie% an adsq.cate from among
themselves, the Paper alluded to would be the very
last ; for it ever there seas a Paper that aged upon
purely mlfith principles, regardless of the common
a.,LI ready to bir.:ak through the established
usage and cus.om (f the public press, for ia ptiv.tte
purpose, it is that Print.

Tlse value of Aka indria is most inconsistently
depreciated by the Tre.ssury Newspapers, who af-
•tat to steer by Mr. PITT'S maxims of policy, and
who look up to Lord HAIWKLIIII:AIt and Mr. CAN.
estric„ as their living guides. For our own part,
we have aiways thought that Mr. Perr rather over.
rated the importance of Egypt. Mr. CANNING as.
setter., that.dse prospeft of its being taken from
it, would rnak• el BONA r *ITS UMr on ha
7 7:." Lord HAWKILSYSAYi in his first speeds,
told us that Egypt was the key to India; and
41% A: e• kl us against leaving it in the way, not of the
l;:ettcb, but even of the Russians, whom he, at
that time, suspated of some design upon our
Lartern possessions.
But now, h7our.e the late Maastra have secured
ilus important military station, cod
ep•ned to the Q.u•s•ry one of the most promising
et mro.sc,al Wei, it the world, Egypt has lost its
velar, it i, nt, longrir a formidable acquisition in
the eyes r 1 Li."".• It Alt'. S. Nay, our gaining pus-
a-souo cs it, Brill n•s:!t his 'themes ! 'rise Rus-
• 'liens, in 1;2 1, were to have taken the way of
Egypt to lads, 'Ai ir:r.g to Constatitinopk.--

The trench are gdo• to take the way of Tetkey to
• lorria%. withoct goirg t:anuiti Egypt, oe MUM!.
in oidet to be sea the ilus.t.tut! la 1799, Dome.

rases had not the comma.-4 af the Adriatic. yet be
attempted the route to India. through Egypt. Now.
he is ntmter of that sea, and we are to leave
Alexandria open to him!

But. " the troops sent to Alexandria,- would
have been more advantageously employed in taking
the forts of the Dardanelles." What good could
possibly have resulted horn this capture, we are at
a loss to imagine. They could net have been taken
without an assault, at a very considerable lois, as
every one must admit, who is acquainted with the
strength of Turkish troops, when placed behind
walls. But, could they have been retained? They
are commanded by the heights in the neighbour-
hood, and miserably fortified on the land side.
A few only of the multitudes who might instantly
have been brought down, would have sufficed to
recapture forts so circumstanced. Nay, the posses-
si,,n of them, whether for a long or a short time,
could, in no resped, further the objed of the enter-
prize entrusted to Admiral DLCKWORTN. That
°hied was to secure the Turkish fleet from falling
into the enemy's hands, in case the Faure should
continue resolute against acceding to our proposals;
and to enforce the just and politic measure of giv-
ing up an alliance with France. How far the
failure of this plan is owing to a defel of judg-
assent, in its formation, or to the conchs& of those
entrusted with its execution, or to unavoidable ac-
cident, will be perceived, when the whole details of
the transadion shall be laid before the public. But
it is evident, in the mesa time, that the assistance of
land forces, about which so much has been said. by
ill-informed persons, could hate served no earthly
purpose, but adding to the comparatively trifling
loss which has been sustained. Those land forces
were most advantageously employed at Alexandria.

Retort states, that the secret Expedition, now
fitting out, will consist of 13,000 men.

By the SjIA brig, we have received intelligence
that the following ships had arrived at China, in
October last :

Elptunstone. Capt. Craig; Winehelsea. Moffatt; Ceres,
Dnnsford; and Widmer Castle, Dodds under convoy of Hit
hda,evy:s ship Grampus.

Alnriek Castle. Prescott; Steen, Monlirn ; and Divid
Scott, Locke; seder eaavoy of His Maje.ty's snip Sir Ldeasti
Hughes.

The Te&berry, Botany Bay ship, was lon on a
reef, in the Mindoro Sea. The Witham Pits, Bo-
tany Bay ship, arrived in China I7th September.
Yererday, a Court of Diretters was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned Com•
manders took their leave of the Colin, previous to
departi.tg for their respetlive destinations, viz.—
Captain W. A Montague, Warky ; C. W. Gribble, Royal
George; for Madras, Ceylon, Boinb.y, su.d Chine.
C. terhard, Wexford for Malta., S.:Teton, sat P.ombay.
J.. Stewart, Windham; A. Murray, Earle Howe; for Ma-
drat and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at 7 o'clock. till to morrow.
The Lord Cochrane privateer arrived, on Monday,
at Plymouth, from a cruise off the coast of Spain,
in con:palsy with the Mars. In the Bay of Cape Fini.
steno, they attempted to cut out some Spanish
vessels from under a battery, but failed in the
attempt. with the capture of two of their beau, two
officers, and 16 men.

A numerous and highly Teapot:table meeting of the
friends of Mr. Wikazaroece, met yesterday, at
the New London Tavern, when it was resolved to
open a subscription to defray the exwases of his
Eleftion, which must be enormous, in the case rf
such an extensive and populous county as York.
The enemies of the Slave Trade are pecu-
liarly called upon to support this great and success-
ful advocate for its abolition.—w(Sre Adoertisasent
is She front of ibis Paper.)
The Aid, Captain Hueontsson, of Hull, from
London to Plymouth, in the dreadful gale of the
18th February, was driven out of die Downs, and
after losing her masts, anchors, and cables, was
carried upon the French .coast, near Dieppe, and
taken posession of, together with about twenty-
six sail more, by twenty armed boats. The crews
were snatched from Dieppe on the Ist of Marco,
for Arras, where they had arrived all well. Among
them were a Capt. NEfIITT, of London ; Captain
LAWS. of Sunderland; and Captain Marbly, of
Greenock. They were very well treated ; but all
communication with this count, y, by letter, was
forbidden. They expeflei to be marched to ver-
don. Provisions were
_cheap, so that they lived
very comfortably.
The rumour of an existing nerciation for a gene-
ral peace, was revived on Tuesday with increased
confidence, upon the alleged authority of private
letters, received by the last Hamburgh Mail. The
overtures were stated as having been made by NA.
locus to the Emperor ALIMAAPtit, who was of
opinion, that they should be submitted to the Allia.
The inaaivity of the armies in Poland has been
also urged, as evidence of a subsis:ing negociation.
But it is confidently asserted. on the other hand,
that all hopes of an amicable arrangemeot had va-
nished before the Emperor of Russia left his capital.
As in the latter cue a battle must have been fought
before this time. these contradifiory reports have
greath; increased the public anxiety for the arrival
of foreign papers. Three liusum Mails are now due.
It was currently reported, ova Tpesday, that Buenos
A yres had again fallen into the hands of the Eng-
LA, without any loss on the part of the captors.
This report was brought by Captain Mix 1. an, of
the Chathoe, who is arrived in the river from Te-
netiffe. He states, that on his passage he spoke an
English cruiser, the Captain of which informed
him, that he had fallen in with. and boarded a ship
bound :tons the Brazils to Lisbon, from the Master
of which he learnt, that Buenos Ayres had been again
taken by the English tro..ps ; that the conquest was
effeited without any dtfficulty, not a gun having
been Srrel. nor a man lost; but that, on the con-
-1 trary, our troops were received with open arms by
tit- n.habetams. N.) data is mentioned. nor /as
i.;seernment 'cecina any advice: upon the subjeff.