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London, England, 1809-11-23 00:00:00

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TILE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, NOV6bIII3I 23.

Dispatches from Lord Cot.umcwpon are hourly
expected at the Admiralty, but none had arrived
when this paper was put to press. So strong, how.
ever is the presumption thata battle has been fought,
tao ships of the line, the Rrpalse, of 74 guns, the
lion. Capt. LEatIF, and the Mc/or:ions, of 74 guns,
Capt. 11AMON D, have been ordered to the Mediter-
r,..ilean to reinforce his Lordship, and sailed onTues-
day from Portsmouth for that destination.

The nulet, Capt. DARE, arrived at Plymouth,
in ballast, On Monday last, from Boston, in Ame-
rica, not b ing permitted to load a cargo for
England, it consequence of the enforcement of the
Non-Intercourse Act.

Dispatches were received last morning from the
Ceesar flag-ship at Flushing, Outing, we under-
stand, the preparations made for the immediate
abandonment of the Wand.

It will be seen, ou reference to our report of the
proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, yeal. r•
day, that nine men received sentence in a case of
a unit a;id rescue at Liverpool. From the affidavits
made in tuite,.ition of punishment, it appears
that they are all journeymen ropetstakers, with
large fatuities, depending for subsistence on their
industry and labour. Sir Sinop! LE 111.ssic, in
passing judgment, observed, id that a spirit of riot
had gone abroad, and a disposition to carry every
thing by force and tumult, which left it not in the
power of the Court to shew any lenity," and the
Prisonels were aecordingly sentenced to TWELVE
MONTHS. imprisonment. The scandalous proceedings
which have so long disgraced this metropolis, are
here evidently meant ; and to them it is owing that
these nine men are, with their families, doomed
to misery for a whole year, who would otherwise
Mtve probably escaped with three months, or, at
the most, six months' imprisonment. Those miser-
able intriguers, who seek to excite these riots, and
care nut what misery they cause, provided they
can force themselves into notice, are deeply re-
sponsible to the government and the country.

In continuing our review of the individuals who
constitute the present. Cabinet, we ore stopped at
every step, not only by the inanity and want of po-
litical talent, which avowedly characterise many of
them fur who can seize, or who can descrbe,
that which is not tangible, or which has not any
existence ?--We are likewise averse to enter into
the examination of the aptitude of men to till em-
ployments, which it is known, or generally be-
lieved, they are to relinquish, at any moment, to
others. Such is commonly understood to be the
tenure and the situation of the actual Secretary of
State fur the Foreign Department. The Minis-
ters, from the. turrets of St. James's Palace, with
outstretched necks, are looking towards the Atlan-
tic, iayatiently utiticipating the .t.ris al of that great
Asiatic, no less than European Statesman, who is
on his way from Seville, to their aid. Anxious to
receive the tvenctit of his vigorous, prompt, and
ardent counsels, they deprecate every wind that
can prolong Ins voyage, mid invoke the western
breezes to !pet 41 his course.

" 01)atractis alias procerJapyga."

In the at”.ence, lonacver, of this illustrious pa-
son, the Foreivit (Me is lichl by Lord liaTituas.r.
His 'Janie naturally awakens ina.iy classic recollec-
tions, and carries u• back to the Arguslan Age of
English Poetry, as well as Literature. It WAS of
his grandfather. the first Lord lisTituftsT, under
Queen Atora. that Pori olP.erves, as of the cele-
brated Earl of BUKEINGTON ;

u tt ho thee rtieud, or who improve the sail
ho plsots like Bathurst, ur who builds like Boyle ?",
Box xratui r, it must be °word, has greatly cur-
tailed the patronage, diminished the tamers, and
contracted the sphere, of the Secretaryship for the
'Foreign Department, within the last ten years.—
Listrin.l of a place of 4.4. i first., if is become a spe-
cies of sinecure. In 1792, the person who tilled it
often saw it his levee near twenty foreign Envoys ;
and he named to more than that number of foreign
li ~ ions ; from the embassy at Paris, down to the
Agent to the Haase Towns, and to the Circle of
Lower Saxony. But these transitory glories are
nos dwindled down to fire or his, including Ame-
rica. Portugal, indeed. Its been divided into two
distinct nominations; one to the PRINCE Reamer,
in the Ilniails—the other, to the deported Mo-
narchy, at Lisbon. Seville and Palermo have re-
placed l'lbulrid and Naples. Constantinople still
receives, and, we believe. ventures to retain, our
Ainhetwador. But the few surviving diplomatic
appointments here enumerated, evidently hang by
• slender thread, and may be extinguished on the
shortest notice. It may, indeed, be asserted of the
Secretary for Foreign affairs, in litso9, IS JUVCN AI.
does of the Roman People. under nomitiati--

MOM dalsat Olila
" Imperials, fasces, Irgioses, aania ;..ores
" C.Hitinro ; akin, duns tastes res amiss optatt

" Palma et cireenses."
The *entice of plate. the salary, and tb• Calimit
alsoorm are Dearly all that remain now of the vo.

rions and important fanct;ons once annexed to the i
office. •
' Not that we mean, on that account' to underva-
lue its importance, or to imply that it may be, with
safety and propriety, committed to weak and in-
capable hands; on the contrary, the greatest, most
perplexed. and most weighty questions of state pos
hey, which the present convulsed state of the globe
can originate or can 'present, are about to arise in
that very political quarter. To their discussion,
agitation, and the final determination upon them,
.the experience, caution, and abilities, of Lord
GRENVILLE, or of Lord GIIEY, are, assuredly, not
more than equal. The present Secretary, however
estimable and respectable in his private character.
and however competent he might have been, at
certain periods of; this reign, to hold his office, will
be, we are persuaded, universally pronounced un-
equal to its duties, in the present awful crisis. Na-
!GLUON, we may be assured, as soon as the state of
his health will admit, or the objects of his imme-
diate policy, ambition, and gratification, are accom-
plished, will instantly attempt to complete the
subjection of the Continent at its two extremities.
The Ottoman Empire, un this side the Bosphorus,
and the Peninsula. beyond the Pyrenees are the
only portions of the ancient Europe, which can
be justly considered as opposing any obstacle to his
unlimited power. That either of these tottering
fabrics, attacked from without, and undermined
within, can maintain the struggle more thus a very
limited time, it is difficult to believe. That they
must ultimately succumb, is too probable; we had
almost said certain. But, out of the ruinsof those
gigantic masses, what awful chauges may arise I
what new situations, and questions for a British
Cabinet to weigh, to discuss, and on which to de-
cide ! In the East, the More*, the Archipelago,
Candi*, Cyprus, Egypt, Rhodes, besides the pro-
vinces of European Turkey ! In the West, the
city and harbour of Cadiz, Gibraltar, Major-
ca, Minorca, Ivies, end the Cauaries ! What is•
to he the fate of the Philippine Islands ? What the
destiny cf the immense possessions of Spain in the
New World ? By whom, and under what form,
are they to be governed ? I-low are we to meet,
anti to counteract the plaint of the fierce and subtle
tyrant, who, after nearly subjecting Europe, looks
forward to coerce Asia and America ? Can we sub-
mit to abandon the vital interests, and the last re-
sources of Great Eltituni, to the conduct of men,
whore incapacity, we might say imbecility, is re-
cognized ? to the men who sent Lord CHATIIAIS
to attack Autwerp; and who, up u, this hour, after
losing an army in iVulchcren, neither know how
to retain. or how to abandon it ? To the Ministers,
who, when they mi6ltt have attack^ci lioNatraitTE
at Trieste or in the Elbe, and wilco they might
have attacked Josmau is; Catatonia or in Biscay,
sent one army to perish in Castile, and another to
moulder away in Ischia. and at Procida ? The
proposition is absurd, and will be found impossi-
ble in fact. Such an Administration tiay be en-
dured from October till January, but will dissolve
as soon as the sense of I'arliameut laud of the na-
tion can be heard and expreised.

An account iv said to have been received from Ca-
diz, that 11.trq. 1Vi.1.1.1.51.EY lies prevailed ispou the
Supreme Junta to allow Cents to be garrisowed by is
britisli force. Ceuta is a seaport • promontory, on
the coast of Africa, opposite to (.ibraltar, trout
.which it is not distant above live leagues.
A cartel arrived at Plymouth on Moods), front
Ntorlait--while there, a brig was brought in. called
the Wiiliaat aad Jame; worth bow/. with earthen-
ware, Etc. for Plymouth, belonging to several trades.
men of that tawn arid Dock., Who will be great suf-
ferers by her capture; she wet taken by a famous
brig privateer, of 1G guns and 170 men, command-
ed by the celebrated Capt. SERCAU e; slit .awls like
the wind.

The letters by the last Gottenburgh Mail con-
tain some satistactory information -respecting the
disposition of the Swedish Goveronieut towards
this country. Notwithstanding the article in the
Treaty with Russia, which• stipulates the ex-
clusion of British vessels from the Swedish ports,
the packets, we understand, will be allowed to en-
ter Gottestburgh as before. As there was every ap-
pearance of au early winter, the trade was preparing
to leave the Baltic as soon us possible. Sir JAMES
SAYSIAREM was expected to sail about the begin-
tiiitg of December with the last convoy,
Mr. PIIRCLIVAL has granted the Chiltern Finn-
dreds to Sir Yeoman Bost( en. to enable him to
stand for-A bingdou, in the room of G tin RUE K N APP.
E.g. because Sir Tneorutuus MeTcat.rc, being
Sheriff of the County, could not stand. Sir Tinto- .
rut Los is to stand for Malniesbury.
Lord CASTI.ERFAGH,it is Mid, means personally
to institute a Parliamentary liigniry into the con-
duct of the late expedition to the Low Countries.
as the most direct and effectual means of rindicat-•
ing the state pone), or that unfortunate measure.
Yesterday, the Archbishop of CANTaKIIVILIrs
after attending His MaJeirre, went to his seat, at
Addington, to dinner,.
On IVednesday last, the executors of his Gram,
the late Archbishop of Dublin, paid into the
Stamp-Olnee, 1,7331. 6s. Al. for duty upon the
lest %sinful(' testament of his Grace. Ile is said to
have worth nearly 400,0001. The hulk of his
proprety-sleeeendis to Ins son, the Earl of Nott-
NANT•II,-• Toting Nobleman of great talent, sad
who has visited ever 7 part of F.nrope not within
, the influence of the I, retteh'Monstrch.
Some irks of the extent of Norfolk farms may
be formed, when it is known that woe occupier, in
' the Western district, last year, expended-mere than
11001. for only oils sort of numare, (brought many
miles) notwithstanding the immense quantity made
at house, and the great number of *beep antionlly
&Idea so the greowde. On another farm, 45 awes
are consumed is roads across the lauds.