The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-05-25 00:00:00

Assn Is proposes to realise his ussuntnee ? That
the national expenditure has risen, within sixteen
year., from eighteen millions, annually, which
cou-
atitated its amount in 1713, to above seneirty mil-
lions, iu istsJ, is Mileed ail Jovial and ail appalling
until. ?.or Ohl rither the increase upon every ar-
ticle of life, great us it -is; nor the magnitude of
our naval and Military establishments, necessai, to
our raMiy, wh•-n Europe is overrun by a revolu-
tionary tyrant, such ar N PO I,SON, SICCOII tit for an
ininiense an mitAntentation. Inquiry • et and
will force itself upon Nlinisters,-let them procrasti-
nate it as long as they ple.ise. The times, the wir,
and the severity of public burdens, ■re irresistible
levers. It it by pre-feuding at leiht to alleviate the

oppressionssiistioneil by tile lower orders, by abo-
lishing slimes, and by promising to the conquered
states a comtitution, that BONAPARTE coelirms
and consolidates his acipusitions. 'the roaquemr
and the usurper covers his crimes and his outrages
with the mantle of reform. IVe waist no new
coostitution, presented at the point of the bayonet,
by a ruthless But a temperate, preen-
%Me, and inewlerate renovation, must, we conceive,
be the wish of every honest and virtuous citizeii.
is difficult to deny the fads, and it is still
niorirdilleirlt not to agree in the conclusions, of
the Begent Duke of' SUDERIIANIA, is they :ire
stated in his imddress to the Legislative Assembly,
convoked I,v hint at Stockholm ou the 10th of
May. We may pity and regret the fate of the un-
fortunate GUSTAVUS: but unless we can disprove
the allegations and charges made against him by
hi. uncle; charges, of which the truth cannot will
tie donhted, as every individual in Omit kingdom
ma) ;,/,i,Ecciate thew ; mm e most adinit that his de-
position had heroine necessary, to save Sweden from
outset-sal hunkroptcy and submersion. We mean
internal buliverbion; independens of the external
calamities, losses of territory, and menaced invasion,
by the Russian;. The subsidies received. from Eng-
land, protracted, but could isot avert, the impend-
ing ruin of the country. IVe see that of near three
millions sterling, which GUEIATUS contrived to
rune.., and c hide he expended io the course of 1808.
little more than a third part was furnished by Great
Britain. Those ouly who know the paucity of pe.
cindery means possessed by Sweden, more espe-
cially after the loss of Fie.land, and her other pro-
viuces, can conceive how prudigicus an exhausture
such demands and expenditures would occasion.—
Yet, the N.J.: appears, demanded of his people.

F)r the wants of the ensuing year. 180, nearly
double the stem exacted iii the year preceding.—
In vain did the Committee of Finance represent to

their Sovereign, that
circulating capital of the whole kingdom, and
made
.at Irma 23 per cent. of the logqr-date pro-
pel ty of the whole couoiry, iu money. etr,ots, sod
testes of every de.cripiion :" Cusrieus com-
manded the Committee to Pi:esent him, within 24
hours, a plan for raising the money.
Such a King, it i. clear, whatever private merit
or personal virtues he might possess, could not
continue to reig.n.. But, unhappily, the irritalsi-
lilies of his temper. and, the.ebullitions of his re-
sentment, rendeied him' dangerous even to his
allies. Sir Joint Muoac expelienced these eccen-
tricities of Utuvrart;ex character in their fullest
extent, as we all remember. On the recent r. fusel
of our Ministers to unginent the subsidy alloned
him, he even proceeded to• lay a general'enobargo
mh all English shipping is Swedish ports ; and
though it was almost instantly raised, iid• reliance
could be placed on such a Prince. A regency be-
came indispensable. Even T.sr: must approve, and
cannot even lament it, except as affecting the hi-
dividuid. Ilia future destiny awnkens curiosity,
and the most painful interest. We believe, how-
ever, that no measures of personal severity will be
adopted Nome. a Prince. whose intentions were
noble earl elevated, though his measures were per-
nicious and mistaken. GVIITATIM as we are as•
snred, hail even voluntarily offered to abdicate the
throne, sod to retire into a Lutheran convent or
abbey, in the province of [martin, under the domi-
nions of Saxony. 11'hether this proposal will be
seceded to by the REGENT, and by the states of
Sweden. tune Slone can determine. It appears from
an article in a preceding column, that he has been
formally deposed, awl his issue have been declared
incapable of succeeding to the throne, which is to
be filled by his uncle.

It was reported best night, that Marshal StrutT
had been overtaken in his retreat from Ainaraute,
and defeated by the van of the British army.
Too lo•ntletiteti, lately prisoners at Arras, arrived
in town yesterday; after having effected their escape
by Flusiung.--lt may *third a proof of the horror
is which the eonaeriptiou is held, to ante, that they
travelled through France as conscript deserters,
and, as such, were protected. and received o itli uni-
form kindness and hospitality. •1U their kioriley,
they widows saw * young. imam all the youth having
been carried off to the armies. The marks of iio-
Yen); and discontent were every where risible.
Stret au. appointed IA Middling.* and Lore
rfon, before the Rudd 11nn. Sir3Avrra M A N4Plk. i•u,
Kist. Lord Chief Justice of A.' naves Court
of Common Pleas, at Westt ll tt ster, in and after
Trinity Term, lat) : •