The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-06-19 00:00:00

4MERIC.4.

BOSTON. MAY 3.
Defer., we learn, have issued from the Navy De-
partment, to dsvniande and put in ordinary al: the
gun-Loot. on this station. The seamen, excepting
two to each guu•he.it, are tinned over to the fn-
gates, which, we expect, arc to be retained iii coin-
owsion. The detachment of 0,19,4 made

rtrintineeof smartie, of Government. hits beep
also iufortued. Unit it is no longer rejoined to he
held is rradinelis fotaetual servue.

PiIII.4DELPIII•. MIV 16.

Yesterday arrived the brig Cho, Renegan, Iti
dart from St. Jitgoile Guist ; brought with him
416 pliesengers, chiefly women and children, being
pan nt the. French inhabitants ordered oil by the
3,000 of whom had sailed for the
awl iu vessels hired fur that purpose. lie inform,
MK business was dull, owing to the emigre • of
Ihe French ; that fluor was selling at 10 dollars.
*pr of duty.
MAY le.
A letter to the Editor, dated New-Orleans,
.4sril 41, says We are all in a considerable „
kindle here—troy!pa flowing ill from all quarters.—
The General ciaitatted himself yesterday ; and re-
ports are aflout.:-that. he is to proceed immediately
to bike the Fiewidai ; but tins•ifl aCeortle with his
hitting tutieliedit(4At. Auguitinc, Pensacola, and
lievenna, on his jeuwage hither.. The trisopsliere
are extremely sickly ; of 51,04 et, st least. 500 are
aew oil the sick 6.4, and the unifier daily tiag-
usenting."
L1..11 .% WV LIB F.L.
771 r linter Journal, of giriafdity.colit4iora a have
end malicious libel upon Tait Ileums Eases, des
predating its sole, and niisrepreseating •its whole
anyits:tewinzidhcoi,nedunic.
iitr.rraVrilyl a rancour
eihenitte ri.....itToAde trinalits.
whether conducted by the fatheror the son, the old
lug or the young log, it has dared to anderseate the
circulation of Tue Battien Payss, almost so much
as to defeat the object of the calumny. We ibledg.•
the character of Tilt Baguio Petit. a paper
never yet perverted to base end villainous uses,
either upon the Stock Exchange; w agriast
private character. that the Nseri: increase upon the
IMale of TIM BntrteM Paalll, within the lest row
months, is greater than the *stoma at %Awls The
Tian has stated its whole nirealvtion.—This is OM,
vein boast. We probably vhall'be called upon for
sand of our assertion, istiltrtltrefore cannot Ix
to make it lightly.—Aad• kriris4he true
' ace of. the rsge and malice of ISe Tam.' It is
ainviouli and jealows of the preepeiktrOtThe liat-
MIS Patti, and itiesittittinrty every de-
leartnsent that consiitcdaii. a newapaper-Look to the
debates in Parfianiegtohey are mangled, abridged,
and dist,oeil at The riores; while they see given
wit't atnd at length in Tut llitettsu Patti.
Look t•• oink local matter,the reader scarcely Ands
1:6 trace wf ii iri TA, Times ; and, as to priority of In-
qt•igr: ititinigence, on which, backed by a art of
:,°sPockirdstsers, it used to puff itself, until di readers
r". •
it

were sick with nausea, even that feather lt is be:ti
long *Mee blown from its cap. This empiric in
the Public Press minted upon its abaw.buard the
word ezelasiaely, until the town began to hiss sad
hint the impostnre, and the letters from " the
Banks of the Elbe," and ,i the shores of the Bay of
liiiseay," those vile and fraudulent i nospositions,
tnedicuted in a garret, upon the beaks of the
Thome", have, for the same reason, disappeured
from its eel irinns.—So far, indeed, from pope ssitig
• priority in be-rigor news, it cannot boast erect an
equality ; for, of the fourteen Bulletins, detailing
the operations alike present most important war in
fiermany, it will be found, on reference to the co.
Immo of The Times, that it copied the twelfth from
THE BRITIsH Pass., and the greater number of
the rest from Tue Giani, The Courier, and other
evening, priaiii.—This is no vague and elle chargi.—
&era script. causes/.—Let the Editor of The Times
Itn,k to his /e„,.-Look, and dirprove our reckoning if
be eau. The next imputation thrown upon THE
Jim visa !.'sass. is, that it Is e 'weird of the mat-
ter of The noes, .net fiir that ,unrtiose Is de-
layed until that paper is published, in or.i.r
to adopt its columns.—'t here is not an VA-
Ins, or a Compositor in Loudon, who reels
THE BRITISH !'sass and The Thaws, that dues
not know this charge to bc a vile and infa-
mous falschensl, such as no mass, possessing the
slightest claim to the character of • Geetleiniiii,
world dare to utter.—The concern, of which
THE BRITISH Paeu forms a part, in one and the
same property, is the largest of the k nil ii.
England. and youserineistly ice the world: and
there is not, perhaps, in this city, a daily newspa-
per that has not iu its establishment mile one
compositor who formerly belonged to Ties Barrisn
PRESS; yet in the face of so many persona do we
assert, distinctly, licit never, ill a single inssance,
was the publication of THE BRITISH Passe pieta
poised a single mouielit in contemplation of evader
itself of the 'natter, or ratchiog intelligence from
any cootemporary print. The charge of such ig
system is, on the face of it, a falsehood ; for it is welt
and universally known, that Tue BRITISH PeEsis is
published uniformly before The Times, and indeed
every other paper that pretends to giye the debates
in Parliament. This calumny will, ' however, in-
duce us to make one change in our system. We
will in future state the hour of our publication,
and also, as far as we came ascertain it, the
hour ante publication of Ike Times, to show how
much the former it earlier than its rival.
But, %opposing that THR BRITISH PaEss had de-
parted from the regular system, recognised among
Newspapers, we ask, bow dares 7%e Times to com-
plain ' Only a few years, we think three or four,
have elapsed, since seam of the Papers published
the Ghost of The Times; mini how has it siuce con-
trived to revive, and appear clothed .with any thing
like assils about it? By the assistance of a set of
stock jobbers, upon 'Change, who ea I it the City
Piper, by scheming and shifting.—One day it is a
mi. • g pup er ; the next day it holds back its pub-
lication, to avail itself of the port letters, and take
the ground of the evemag papers ; next day it
breaks in upon the Sabbath, and strives to usurp
the side of the Sunday prints. No sense of de-
cency, or liberality, or respect for other peo-
ple's property, restrains it within a particular
sphere.—lt feels no impulse but its own con-
venience, and is governed only by • sordid
selfishness. How omit the public be disgusted,
alien a isoterions poacher complains against a mall
for shooting upon his own manor ? But this is not
all.—lt hue been the uniform practice of The
Times' office, and all whom it could influence, to
abase and depreciate Tat BRITISH Peese.—The
latter was scarcely established, when The Times en-
tered iii:o *mobil:taboo against it.—lt even was
base enough to offer a bribe to a person in the es- i
tablislenent to purloin an article coininitted to his
care, which otter was indignantly reject., 4 by thes:
honest sereaut to whom it was made, and the pre.
sent Editor of The Times has, in total disregar4.
of every frelitig and principle that eharac arise,
not only a gentleman, but a fair ftselenium,
in one instance, 'seduced a person from the em.
ploy of The Barns,. PRES% by the offer of a.
larger salary; and in another actually coutractud
witil a person to break an existing and positive is.
gegement. Th 4 recent libel upon THE Bet rise
Perm appeurs, tinder all these sarcisinstalices, to
be an open declaration of a system of envy and jem
leery long Inlet' upon by The Times, and which
the incressieg prosperity of Tut. Bettlint Passe,
acting upuu a had heart and a week head, hell
forced lute avowed warfare. On our first Pyramid
of it, we were so forcibly tarifa by its malignity
and falsehood, as to be iiiduced to take legal Aldine,
upon the proper coin'e to pursue iii the case of so
atrocious • volumes,. The malt of that advice has
been to inculcate that we could obtain ini legal re-
dress until November ; and that the villainous at.
• tempt, IF any blow, struck by so base And foul 111
hood, could injure, must have produced its effect
before that time. It has limit therefore deemed the
most eligible course to make this flair and candid.'
statement to the public, reserving to -tunsel yes, its we
do, our right to appeal to the law. of the country,
in the event of any injury that may possibly arise
from the rile, atrocious and unfounded libel in The
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