The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-05-21 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY. MAY 21.

French Papers have been received to the Jotli,
and Dutch to the kith *meant. Their principAl
contents respect Turkey, on the frontiers ofwhich an
army is forming, under the command of Gen. Mall
MONT, fur the avowed purpose of cotnpelling the
Porte to break her connections with England, and
to impose on her the Continental system of commer-
cial exclusion. The intelligence in these Paper-,
from Spitin, is wholly unimportant. The Maniteurs
of the nth and 9th, give. in detail, a continuation
of the jourivil of the siege of Cadiz, from the tith to
the gist Match, bet it dues not present any new
fact.

The Terrible, 74, Lord 11. PotiLET ; and the
lwrinia, filtrate, Lord WILIAM" STUART, arr•ved
off Portsmouth, Friday afternoon, with 60 u oiler
from the Mediterranean. Se;reral of the
convoy put into that part ; the rest are gone by for
the Downs. Lady BALL, from Malta, is ou board
the Terrible.

The Meteor Iwrols arrived ou Friday night at
Portsmouth, having on board Captain LEAKS, of
the ftopill Artillery, employed on it special mission
in Turkey, and Mr. lionit.sow, King's Messen-
ger. with important dispatches from Constantinople,
who howled from the Afettor bomb, sad immedi-
ately proceeded to town, wherelhey arrived on SJ•
torday. Their dispatches relate to the Intrigues
of the French, which hate been hitherto success-
fully opposed by the British influence, and to the
nail tary operations of Hunts against the linrkish
Empire.

The Hope, PERCY, for London, arrived on Fri-
day slight at Portsmouth, from St. Michael's.—
Mr PAYXTEIR. late M.u.ter of the brig Charlotte
Aim, of London, came issenger ; who reports,
that, en the girl of March last, whilst he was lying
at St. Mislead's, a gale of wind came on, when al-
most every vessel either drove to yen or on shore;
his vessel, with eleven others, drone to sea, live of
which afterwards returned, but the Charlotte Ann,
with five others, had sot been since heard of. Capt.
PATINTEa was 00 shore at the time. His vessel
was laden with fruit, bound to London.

By the Goshawk, Capt. Litan ea, which arrived
on Amorally. at Portansouth, from Oporto. ac-
counts have been received from Lord WELL' NO-
TO X'S army to the 6th inst. ; which state that his
Lordship had moved the army from Vivien (which
had been his head-quarters for some time) with the
intention of marching upon Ciudad Rodrigo. which
place was threatened by Mar.hal N ET ; but that
he had suddenly halted at Celonco. The unex-
pected approach of • strong French reinforcement
is said to have been the reuse for halting. His
Lordship's force is 24,000 British. and 14,000 Por-
tegneise troops.—Generill BERNIFOND commands
the Portuguese. The G.ahawk left Oporto on the
10th. A convoy was to sail on the 15th, for big-
land. Col. D . a Member of the Legion of
Honour, who was takes at Oporto, arrived iu the
Goskowk, to endeavour to effect his exchange.
We annouaced. last week, the arrival of the
Lively, Captain M•lita try, at Portsaturtuh, from
Cadiz; to which place she carried Sir CNA ILES
COTTON, who arrived there on the 3d. On the
same day, Sir CNARIAS sailed in the Sea Jiisrf,
with the Novellas and Minstrel, to take the com-
mand of the fleet off Toulon. The Asia and Al-
gesiras, Spanish line-of-battle ships, arrived from
Vera Cruz on the 2d, with six million of dollar.,
and valuable cargoes. The Spanish fleet at Cadiz,
us the outer harbour, consists of twelve sail of the
line. On the night of the gd, the Spaniards made
a very spirited sortie on • battery which the
French hail thrown up near the Spanish out-
posts, at Isla. They succeeded in destroying
the fort, and driving the French heck. The Spa-
niards had three men killed aid twenty wounded.
Our Officers speak of the attack in the highest
terms of praise. High Mass was performed at
Cadiz on the itd, to cougnemorate the entrance of
the French into Madrid, and the horrid massacre
of the inhabitants that then took place.—The
church was hung with black. The Bishop

of ToLsnoi; Carranos; gir Conon,
General GRAIIAM, Admiral l'lcanotte,.sint Ati
the °dicers of the fleet, attended. The Frendi
had net oilened their batter e, front Matair.
do, when the Lively sailek They were erecting
mortar batteries along the coat, with the imentnin,
it u supposed, of opening upon the rhipping. Ceti.
BLAKE was training the Spanish troop. at Ws.--
The Spanish pi ople ince a toiled hatred to the
French"--the mountaineers harms them at ow,
point. All their couriers from Madrid, to the
neighbourhood of Cadiz, me obliged to hr escort.,(
by seven hundred men. The ifesirroser had aimed
from Cadiz, with a convoy of Sptiaidh troops fur
the defence of Cxrthagena : the French were ila,:v
expected to make an attack on it:—Two of the
Spanish line-of-battle ships from thews., hid ar-
rived at Gibraltar, with the Hibernia and Noaltrno
only one ship remained there, which wis
aboutber/ao d;
to
sail fur Mahon. The Hibernia and .Co,.
tAusiberland are coining home; the former has bees
ashore twice. The Undeunted was to sail on the
sth with the Doke of Axatigutiourt, for England.
Admiral PlClildUltli commends at Cadiz, with +Me
sail of the line.

Viscount Melville ugsio appeared in the
of Peers, last week, in opposition to the /1.111.
cure Abolition K.II ; not Out this cireutustows
gave us any surprise;—The fact of hi. ono listing
the REVRRSION OF Nis SUN'S PLACE sufficiently ac-
counts for this conduct.—lt may hare escaped the
recollection of our readers. that Lord Melville held
the Situation of Keeper of liis M iiesty'a Signet is
Scotland, a large and comfort tble sinecure, the
fees of which do net fall morn short of 20001. per an-
num. with the right of ilia .sing of the office of
Sheriff Clerk in every county in Scotland, the ave.
age price of which is from ~ne thousand to fifteen
hundred pounds. Upon the death of Mr. Stuart
Mackensit,he resigned this office to his sou, the pre-
se.t Presidentisof the Board of Controul : sal'e's.
appointed to the recant office of Ke per of t'ie
Privy Seal of Scotland, with a a slaty of 30001. lie
did not keep both offices, as their donee are iticm-
patible. When First Lf,rd of the Admiralty,
found that the Wiry of that offe..e was insuffiLien:,
and by a pant from the King he got fifteen hun.
dyed per annit;ii added, not to the situation of Firet
Lord of the Admiralty; but to his sinecure of Put,
Seal. ID addition to this, he secured the reversing
of his son's place, which he himself formerly held,
and resigied to his son, on aecoolit of the igeow.
pallidity of the same person holding the olives of
Keeper of the Privy Seal and Koep-r of the Sig-
net.—While this was going on, the other branches
of the family were not idle. Lady Melville was
appointed Chamberlain of Fife, with • grant 40'4
the nioni.:s which had be .n paid into the Scotch
Exchequer by her predeceasor in the office. Ilia
Chief Bolin Pitudas, who has a ratify of 10001.
per annum, also had the reversiva of his sinecure
of Register of Suisun, granted to his brother, the
Right Hon. William Dundee. After these foes,
are we to be su-prised•at Lord Melville's itrenuous
opposition to the Reversion Abolition Bill ?

Ou Mr. Battles's motion, on Timid*Y. Mr.
Parts Muciae enter.d at some length into
the discussion. He said he had, early in the la,t
Sessions of Parliament, owned the doctrines of
economy and reform, so imperiously ealled for be
the necessities of the county; and he was happy
to observe, that it was in sonar measure now become
fashionable, and that there was, on each discussion,
an increasing number of couverts, bath io and out
of the lionise. As he had declared, on several for.
men occasions, he now repeated, that he shoal&
not be content with any resolution, short of an entire
abolition of these sinecures, and therefore should
oppose the present projected modification. Hs
said, an argument had been urged, that the Mita•
ence of tic Crown had not increased in greater pro.
portion than the wealth end population of the
country, from the year 1782. which was stated in
the ratio of three to one. Mr. Moore said, if tl,e
House would examine the public accounts, or re-
collect the declaration made only last night by a
Hight Honourable Member (Mr. Rose), they
would at once detect this deception, as the Vigil
Honourable Gentleman had declared, and the
public account of last year, delivi red only yester-
day. testified, that the expenditure of the country,
which increased the influence of the Croon, hail.
in the same period, regularly increased from ten
millions to eighty millions per annum, which ergs in
the proportion of eight to one, without reckoning
the increase of other some« of patronage, borrows
titles, ate. Mr. Moore said, the people petitioned
for retrenchment, and they ought to have it, pa
the burdens were exacted from their industry.—
lie said, there was, on this account, and the al•
!eel-ft misapplication of puli;ic money, a generdl
discontent pervading the whole country, and tha
House must adopt measures to appease it, since
they knew it was well.lounded, as the state of tuatios
and the reports on their table manifested. Thee
discontents, he said, were like a tire ready to at-
tach itself to a match, a piece of paper, or a trret
of muslin ; as had been lately seen, though the ef-
fect of a widely dlifireut cruse. -But what alarmed
Lim e than any thing which lie lied 11,111 sir
beard. was, that, comparing
uniform
recommendations from the Throne, to relieve vac
liurdens of the prop!. smith the pars.vt c.mr.tor-

of Ministers, to every scheme of retrent h-
and reform, however moderate, and their late
' to suffer the constitutional addresses of the
to reach His Majesty, that there was a sp.-
plan to keep from their Sovereign all
dedge of the present calamitous condition of
country, and the distresses, and reasonable
• of the people; and he thought it now be-
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their first duty, to take sack steps as should
full information to the Throne, of the
alarming condition to which the empire war now re-
- in order to insure His Majesty's paternal
ioterposition, to apply an immediate salutary rams-
,r the preservation of the Throne in atl its
iplentloor and dignity. the tranquillity of the corn-
` the stability of the nation. Mr. Moore
sourluded with declaring, that his only object was
• the Empire front the dungen which threat:

live cartels sailed last week frcitePortsmouth,
lorlait, with invalids and the families of several
n,pe(lshie persons who are prisoners in France.
Three officers and 100 men, of the 79th ret i.
eat, have marched into Cumberland Fort, from
Clorlieste, to embark for Cadiz.
- Spitfire. Copt. ELLIS, is appointed convoy
Tiouorlbuid.—The Blussuse, Captain BIAV•
Ath the 111.41. fix convoy, remains at Spitlinad.
Gazette of Saturday night contains am Older
:nailed for permitting the importation of probi-
into Newfoundland, from America, by
!meow:, which shall not be issued after the 30th
Se4tember next, bat which are to be in force fur
• months, from the period at which they may

:granted.
A private letter from Cadiz sayb : " A Spaniard,
farmerty of considerable note, and who some time
we, a Magistrate of Madrid, has been rite.
here, for treachery. Supposing himself in
security whilst his friends (the French) were
___r, lie had retired to his country seat titer
Arsotrus; but although the French are in posses.
the line of road between this place and that,
of Spanish cavalry, which arrested him,
him here. VA they spcak of seeding Lis
matters bact again, as a present to the ens-
FsaPINAND VII. ! He had been very ac-
aiiiiug the designs of the French ; and, with
hands, signed the order for the execution
nearly 100 of his countrymen. whom he
',rebels I This extraordinary fact is a greet
that although the French are in possea:•inn
principal towns, high roads, Sec. they are
roasters of the country. This genuine rebel
brought here to be tried, and sutler the men-
of the law."

much to Inc regretted that the debate on
Mr. CRAWS/es Motion should have comineticed at
so lit an hour on Friday night, as to permit only the
Rizlit lien. Moser, and Sir JOHN Col lIIPPLSI.EIr
the secooder, to deliver their sentiments before the
at?iiirnmeat. We regret it the more as the latter,
is the extmeove views oho h he took of the subjer t.
cited from the highest authotitier, what is under-
stood to have beau a complete re-Citation of the
asistatements of Doctor Dome's aN oriel his disci-
ples. Of his able and comprehensive speech, we
regret we have hot room even for a satisfkctory
sketch. lo it the worthy Baronet strongly urged
the writs of the Irish Catholics, and their services
is the srmy and the navy, osentitliog them to a full
participation in all the nghts and !inviter, of their
fellow robjcets. lie then went into an history of
the creed and tenets of the Catholic Church, mind
exposed the mistaken notious which ignorant rind
tiered men hare attached to the doctrines of
isoofemion, penance, and absolotion. In illitstra-
lion of his moment upon this rrt of the subject,
lie read a great variety of quotations from the pro-
ceedisgs of the Cathodic Comment. Upon all these
grounds he contended, that It was not only matter
of right, policy, nod justice, but of nbsoliste neces-
sity, to accede to the claims of the Irish Catholics,
if ae wished to employ the strength and energies of
dot couutry in the defence mid support of the
Erii;,ire. We hope to be able to give a ratiefactory
report of this learned and able speech, conceiving
thst great weight must attach to the sentiments of
▪ man who has had many and superior advantages
of information upon those point., which are coney.
hal to be understood by those who wish to acquire
full and complete knowledge of the subject. At
all gents, we trust that the friends of the Catholic
cause will preyed upon him to give it to the woi Id
ire an authentic shape.
An impleautat of or has taken place at Chicheri-
Itti between a party of winery, and some of the
Inhabitants of that respectable end patriotic city.
Fortousteiy no lives were lost. The affair is under-
tome the yrimest scrutiny, and the result will he
kW before the Commander-ill-Chief.
Extract of • letter from Bath, dated May IP. 114Ys.
" 1 am happy to acquaint yore that the storm we
'fronted has past quietly ore 114. The hoar men
belonging to the Mendip Leal Militia, who were
berated from pri•oo by their comradee, were taken
arid imprisoned after the arrival of the Royal Lan-
(aidlirt rind baring expressed their regret for the r
PIO conduct. they were this morning forgiven by
the Colonel, and liberated. The regiment then
Thlrehed to Clarertnn Down, and the ringleaders
°f the party who broke open the prison doors were
tied at • drum-head Court-martial. and one of
ilom was sentenced to receive 50 lashes. The Co-
!foe' made • long *peter to the regiment respect-
time impropriety of their conduct, exhorted
"'ln to /whine better in future, and to pay num-
ten to their officers ; and, dually. pardoned the
l'Or fellow w ho • as preparing to receive the pri nish-
snot allotted him. Colonel Rogers observed ern-
rnsticsily. that he imputed the conduct or the
turn more to theill advice sod hese persumions of
to of the lower claps of the town's-people, than
soy disaftectinn Sr want of zeal in themselves,
SW that was Lis principal reason for ecting with ye
much lenity. The Lancashire Militia sod the
lf.pto Comity were on the Downs the whole timer
rd the both Infantry were tinder arms in the
Nip
la lren-`9"ure ; hi fact. every or 'caution was taken,
h military, to keep the tone pert; c• ly quiet;
in the florist this scene, we were gratified
ft.the midst
the 7th Light Proven., and the
St-Iliood Cavalry : I tree, therefore, tha'
11'111 villein • tratiquiL”

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a respectable perso
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swot, have moan
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The
' spitfire. (
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Solt, aith the 111
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The Casette of
:o i, council for pe
ig swat tato New
r. ',maw, %Foch a
;e seprember 0"t,
nine mouth., fr
d be granted.
a A private lette
le formerly of cotoi
rt. since an a Meg
4 cowl here, for
perred security o
r.
so
near. be had
o Araavens ; buts
rt moo of the line o
r- a party of SPal
t 7 fiuitl,t him here
II
41 four quarters bai
mw, 01 Fitting'
le lira in Sidling the
t- hi,. ova hands, 6
of nearly 100
deemed rebels
S.
1. proof, that shirr
of the principal
Ft not masters of I
7 tra, brought her
a t. net of the law,
It is much to