The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-04 00:00:00

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY. JANUMY s.

An American vessel, which latch• sailed from
this country for Amsterdam, has returned, having
been refused permission to land.—So great is the
severity with which the Dutch decrees against com-
merce are eaforceil, that not the slightest comma-
nicati was allowed between her and the shore.—
She has, of course, brought an news. The frost
having set in, she was obliged to cut the ice, and
warp out of Amsterdam harbour.

liir Mwartor'sship Mews arrived in Yarmouth
'oads, on Sunday lust, from Gottenburgh, which
!dace slie left nu the 19th tilt. The (Mutt arrived
at Gottcarburgh the day before Irons Curbst•rons,
wills considerable damage, by • g down the
Triton, KVANIP, from the Baltic, for Losoloo ; her
coovot was dispersed, bat forty-three of them had
arrived uhf Wing* ; sailed from thence on the 1st!),
under convoy of the Alaart and Vesueins. Eighteen
others of the fleet were iii charge of the Sakette,
Magnet, moil Fame. and eleven or twelve others
were with the liatruest. Captain Luaus, of the
Marx, suptioses that the first division, under con-
voy of the A/age: and resttrims, mug lie oil the
coast.

The Jtrailland, Rom 40( NE, arrived at Falmouth
on Saturday last, hailed front Rio Janeiro 011
tlw; 13th of October, in cowpony with the 11/e/eille
end Jason, for I,lnotloii. The pii,let sailed three
days befure. The Ana. MoaaAa, for London,
was to soil on the 14th of October.

We this day rt smite our extracts from the Co-
mma papers to the -2.7 th last. There are various
and undefined rumours of the French having. been
driven out of Madrid, after a series of severe
tightnig, in which they sustainer) considerable loss.
%Ye fear that there is no more foundation for these
rumours, than for those concurrent reports which
assert, that op to the tralt the French had not en-
tered that city. The latest accounts f the Su-
preme Junta left them at Truxillo, iu Estremadura.

When we reflect on the composition and con-
tents of the three last French Bulletins, winch
have reached us, it is itnpossible not to perceive that
they are fabricated with skill, mill calculated lac
dispersion and fOr deception. The manner iii
which, when seta to Paris, they were conveyed
across the Channel to this country, leaves no room
to doubt the intention of the fabricator, er the
theatre on which they were mesat to produce their
greatest edict. But, more than all ! the silent e
which has followed this gratuitous disclosure on
the part of NAPUI.I:O,4, is pregnant with natter of
%involution, and authorises illUlly conjectures.
Why shied.' the Corsican Emperor, who has
evinced so obliging a disposition to itifut in its of his'
entry into :I.latiiiil, so long sego as the .sth, 7th, slid
Foil of December, now withhold from us the de.
tail of thuw resents, still-more interesting both .to
Into and to us, which followed that event ? 'I be
question almost answers itself, and leaves little
1 heictation i:. concluding, that' he hoped to derive
the greatest advantages from the communication
to us of his having received the sitlenissiou of the
inhalatatits of the metropolis. Let us, however,
examine even the *count which he himself pub-
lishes of this submission. It will afford ample
subject of consolation, of astonishment, and.
wo had almost said. of exultation. Sure
we are, that it bears no analogy to true events
that took place in the Austria's or Prussian ca-
pitals, to which we naturally compare it. It may
even excite some surprise, that Box iPARIE should
choose to divulge certain particulars, us they
indicate a national character of the most decided
and iuflexible description. If ever any people ma-
nifested, its the most perilous situation, not merely
loyalty, courage, and conattincy, but en witi-rcoo.
botiomery nature and disposition, it is invontertitsly
the inhabitants of Madrid. Those of London,
snider similar circumstances, might, and we trust
they would emulate the Spaiiisrds; but they could
not easily surpass the Castilian character. We
most nut forget that it is NAPOLLON him-
self who speaks. .. They had intersected the
streets, erected parapets ou the houses, barri-
Moles of bales. of wool, and lif cotton, had beau
formed, the windows had been stopped with
mattresses." If these are not indications of deeps+,
rate resistance, we are at a loss to know what can
be so demo ttt i t tatted. Bat, a feature most remark-
able, and which merits Iles:Wier attention, as well
as admiration, is, that, unlike the sillier nations of
Europe, where the middle orders, and the indivi-
duals possessed of property, have tistially adhered,
from obvious motives, to the established order of
events ; while the lower classes, whose tudigence
rendered them indifferent to, or desirous of, any
change of Government, have joined the invader,
or aides) the revolution ; here the case was reversed:
si The people of property," says BORAPARIT,
~ ileinatided that the inhalitaists should not ea-
pose themselves to an assault. Those who were
strangers to the towu, or who had 'whin Soles.,
were for a defence to the last extremity, accused

the troops of the line of treason, and obliged theta
to continue their tire."
It is difficult fur language to convey a higher
cm any people, thin is included in these
words; those who have nothiag to lose" by con-
quest and revolution, kart every thin; lu gain;
mid if we may credit the testimony of the invader
I self, the Spanish people must be invincible.
But, let us ask ourselves, what motives, or what .
impulsions, can actuate the human mind, under
poverty and all its accompanying train of privations,
to oppose a. cunning and a crafty Conqueror, who
has already over-run Europe, who is sustained by
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immense anuses, and who holds out to them a
golden age under the new order of events, when
JOSEPH ie once seated on the throne of FERDI.
N•ND What Cal sustain man ilk such circum-
stances, except principles of religious belief, of at-
taelittient to their kings, of love to their native soil,
of affection to their priests and 1:: their altars : sup-
ported by steady force of charaezer, and prim:tive •
simplicity of manners The people of Aladrici
form a eontrast to the corrapt, find dissolute, and
depraved population of Paris, where incredulity,
and false philosophy, and universal relaxation of
morals, had opened the good-gates to revolution,
plunder, and massacre. Such as we &writ's., we are
persuaded, their Corsican enemy will find the Casti-
lians. Such the Romans found their Cantabrian and
Celtiberian ancestors, w lio resist ed fur ages those con-
querors of the earth ! Happily, the present race
of Spaniards do not wind allies, And those allies
seem to be at length advasteaus towards Madrid.

If ever the fortune of NAPOLEON I:411 he arrested ;
if ever it has seemed to approach a crisis, it is now.
In the midst of winter, in the centre of Spain, sur-
rounded by a nation in arms, opposed to un army
of En4lists, and finable to retreat, as he did when
repulsed before. Acre, he statists at bay. If Austria
and Turkeyeould ever make an effort to save them-
selves, and to rescue the Continent, this is the
moment. But we must not look for help to Vienna
nor to Constantinople.—Non tali arsiihn, ace dc•
fessuribus istis! It is exilusively to the Spaniards
and to ourselves that we must confine our expec-
tations of extriea•ion. The moment is most aw-
ful. We wish neither to disguise it from ourselves,
nor from our countrymen ; it is nevertheless illu-
minated by hope, and strengthened by the very
declarations of the enemy himself. The year IbUti
may, hoot improbably, present the Corsican de.
strayer, under other situations, and in very different
positions, iron, those in which we have been emus-
tinned to contemplate him, since he seizes on the
supreme authority in France.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, which was the first
general meeting of Ministers that has taken place
since Thursday se'nnight. The public lominicss
that has occurred since, necessary to he laid before
ilia 'MAJESTY in OSUMI!, to he holden this day at
the wr,EN's Palace, waa arranged.
Yesterday, the Duke of YORK held a 'midi('
day, at hi, Office, in the Dm-se Oirtrd,, and gave
audience to a number of Military Officers of die-

tosavtiou. Lunt CASILEEII.IOII had au audience. of

His [lops! highness, after the Cabinet Council,
broke up.
Captain Goons LL, High Admiral of His Impe-
rial Black Majesty of Hayti, CIIRISTOPHE the Firat,
is arrived in town. The gallant Admiral and His
Sable Majesty are snid to be grtatiy enraged at the
eoutliiet of the itritoth vessel *Lich !eel violent

hands upon Admiral GOODALL. ?slr. P. his Sable
Illajesty's Alinister at our Coact, is preparing a se-
tnonstrauce against this insult to the Ilayttan flag.
The Clorintle, Captain liatnus, now at Spit-
head, is appointed eoavoy for the Cape of Good
Dope and Niacin's.
Our letters from Deal and Dover make no far-
ther meution of the report of yesterday, respecting.
the Flushing squadron having put to sea.
A private letter from Stockholm states, that au
':nice h,,d helm conelinled between Sweden and
Dc:uuurk, which, it was stipulated, should not be
broken by either party, without giving fourteen
days previous notice.
Letters from Lisbon to the 19th, state. that the
whole of the British troops at that city had march-
ed for Spain. This recount is satisfactory, as it
affords sin argument in favour of the state of the
public: mind in that capital. It would be melan-
choly indeed, the presence rife British forc.! were
necessary its that city, to preserve the inhabitants
against themselves, instead of being employed
ugaitot their enemies: As' 'par feeling, we ma.
derstasid, prevailed at Oporto, f which a
combined British and Portnguese force is said
to have, min-died on the 14th fur Spniit.—
Letters front the latter city mention that several
persons of the first respectability had been arrested
that morning, sin suspicion of being parttime'
of the French. They also state that the effects of
the ettergy latterly displayed by the IP'ortiquese
Government, began to be felt all over the king-
dom. The disaffected and suspected a ere every
where taken into custody.
A letter has hem received by the Colonels of
Local Militia, stating, that Ills MAJESTY lies beeu
pleased to direct, that from and after the 24d8
December, one-half of the non-commissioned offi-
cers and drummers allowed on the estobli.hruent of
each regiment of Local Mibtia, together with the
etruns-major, shall be placed on perusaneat pay
and that from the aforesaid period, the pay of the
Adjutant shall be increased to Bs. per lieu.. Also
that the allowance for elothine, vpmified in the cir-
cular letter of October 27th last, nut having bees
deemed sufficient, as far as regards the drummers
and private men, His Ma.terte bas been pleased
to direct. that it shall be issued to the Command-
ants at the rate specified as follows :—Serjentit-Ma.
jor 11. 10s. Sericaut :ft. los. Drum-Mae 41.
Is. 9d.—Corporal C. Ditititlik 31. gO. Pir
vale 11. IM. lid.

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• DRURY-LA Nr.

• Mr. SHERMAN'S atliniraede
School pr Scandal was percormol loot teight. Mr 4.
JORDAN, in Lady Teazle, looked extremely well,
and displayed all her usual vivacity and taste.—
in the scene in which she cozens Sir Peter of the
CAP., the house rang. with applause—nor wits she
lire 11311py in the screen scene, where, with :ill the
natural ingennonsoless of au artless inisullied mind,
• she colocesses her faults, and seeks the forgiveness
of her husband. Moo. Evitr, for the first time,
undertook the part of Pint. ('andour. She is a ter)
pretty woomm, with a chaste .111A1111l.r. sweet cone,
xnd g 0,141 ellUlh'iathblie I ler performance was ex-
tremely correo•t, And displayed good sens 2 and
jaulginent. Miss BOYCE wit, an interesting
.1/arta, and Al vs. IlAnt.nivi: a very good Lady
Saterirell. Mr. RUSSLLI, tilled Mr. RtnavmoitE's
part of Joseph Slalom. It certainly was not a ju-
dicious choice: this g,eittlemun is mneli better
adapted for such parts as. Too Sh.tfiletmt, Jerry
Sneak, &e. :1/4c.; he gave hut efiect to the
cold uufrrtiug French-plate morality of Joseph
Su!fare. Nlc. DE CAMP, DI Trip, was quite at
iplate, mid displayed his usual excell,nrc. The
other parts were tilled as last iwitson, and were ad-
mirably supported by the several performers. The
play went oil with all Cie anre eSS whirl?, when
adequately supported by the pertiornoirs, it most
always ennoitiand. The home was fall Her Royal
ili;lmetx the priumos of C, A
s,,,,,rEsr, the Ai.irellinurs% of DF.ADTORT, CeOnteNS
Of LIAARYMONE, and Lord N .410. D, were present.