The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-11-05 00:00:00

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DISORDERS OF THE .VINISTERS.

Ma. Earraa-7be Courier, a violent Treasury
Journal, last night contained an article, irons which
the following is an extraft

"The Opposition Paper:, kindly unlocking the
door cf the Cabinet, inform us, that disputes ran
high upon the subjeft of tile dispute with America.
and that Mr. Ruse's instruilions are not yet pre-
pared. It is not improbable that at the very tune
we are writing this paragraph, Mr. Rose may be
embarking at Lythington, on board the frigate
appointed to carry him ,n America; he would hard-
ly sail, we scarcely need say, without his iastruc-
tilos. Hu, the feet is. that the poor dismissed and
disgraced Men ben of the late Ministry must try
every expedient .0 keep up their spirits, and to pre-
vent their supporters from being quite chopfallen.
At one tme the Ministers are quarrelling. at ano-
ther they are d-in. —the other day they dealt out,
as hopes to cheer. party, that his Grace of Portland
was dyinfT with the stone, and Lori Castlereagh of
a compl /in. in has Over. To complete the ingre-
dients at their cauldron.' they throw in some la-
mentations esout the eye•sight ot an Illustrious Per-
sonage For mutely we are able to say to them in
the wards of the French poet, Ler gear gage your
gore se portent a-I-3 hien.'—Bat that will not deter
them irons predieting disease and death to other
Men. oers of the Cabinet, and we have nu doubt
that in a day or two we snail have Mr. Perceval
tapped for the drossy, and Mr. Canning af!lieted
with toe gout i.s cit stomach. In the Meals time,
they are getting rid of some of their own
bile, by inseigbing against the selelion of the
son of air. Rose to proceed upon a special mis-
sion to America. He is with them a perfell
novice, witnoot talent and without experience."
Being in the daily habit of reading The Avery'
C,:roiricloandotoar Primer not only of Loudon, but of
the Waned Kingdom, considered Opposition Prints,
o; any degree of respeitalaility or charader for
Wheat:a:, , and not finding any thing to the above
alleti; we were surprised at this piteous ac-
count of the ream'. Zlii.istry, given in Ibe Courser
of last right. 'huh reip_slt to t e detea of ey—
e.% t„ that tcpc has.lotig since uitappeated from
newspaper discussion ; but it is welt worthy cat
the inveterate habits to: the J. cabin Corer. not
t!.e less a Jacobtn, because it wears the Mu-
n'sietial Livery, to unnecessarily revive it. Leav-
ing tespeit and loyal!), out of the question, in
common decency and delicacy to the great and
Illusei too: Personage, thus wanto broui,lit for-
ward, an.. hodd.ed thgether with his Ministers, in
on, common and ti,d,scriminate mass, we must, so
far a. iespea, that eaaltesl Personage, permit the
'menet of / sir CJiirice to pass without further no-
tice. Caifining ourselvea then to the disordered
state of the as represented in that Pap,r,
we may ask, 1\ hat could toCuce tech a state
merit in such a Print ? The fad is, that, with-
out attacks, rial or pretended, against Ministers,
in the public Prints, The Courier should be ruined
its occupation would be gone.—As the servile tool
of ,te Treasury, if it has no opportunity of dis-
playing its z 'al in the defence of its Employers, it
can have no el tim to thanks or remuneration. it
is, therefore, the tannest of the Treasury Journals
to terrify the Ministers with accounts of the malig-
mot hostility of the independent part of the puolic
Pleass to represent it as aranated, to use their cant
phrase, with " the base spirit of fedi= ;" and
sable there are no real attacks made upon Ministers,
to set their fancy at wash, and assure Ministers
that they are assailed on all ides. In this sort of
stioxiebia, as it was called by the disputants of
the Grecian school, for this fighting of shadows,
this cenjearing up of arguments for the pleasure of
knocking them down, is not a new invention, there
are none of tlse Treasury Journal: so well versed as
Tde Courier. Day after day have we seen its co-
lumns filled with laboured answers to alleged
charges agair st Ministers in the Opposition Paints,
net one of which charges was in existence ; and cf
this desception is the article from which we have
made the above eland. We shall now proceed to
notice it, with the exception of the Illustrious In-
dividual, in favour of whom we have laid claim
to silence. Mr. George Henry Rose, who is
going out as Special envoy to America, for which
place he has probably sailed before this time, in the
Politer. is the first in the series given by lie CVO, ;
and the charge stated to be brought against him is,
that lie is
_yeas,, and anthem: exi.niei,-e. A low and
vulgar weel.ly libeller, we are aware, is continually
crying out " Old George Rose, George ROA,"
as if to be advanced in years was a crime and a ic-
proacb; but from this charge of old age again t• the
father, it does not necessarily follow, that soli
is "a s ripliog,a use,, novice. without expel ience ;"
and admitting that such inference did follow, the
charge would not inculpate the oppJsiticn pints
The Weekly Lihelier is of no particular patty or
piinciple, but serf even) party aal tray