The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-03-03 00:00:00

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the mildest and inset beneficent of Menarche
After having beheld* Madrid and all the surrounire
mg provinces converted unto a charnel house, or
desert, in order to rifinte the ambition, or the
rapacity and vengeance:of Id. creator, Nssoauos,
he is now only soli• •to diffuse peace, tran-
quiliity, end repose. He adjures and invokes the
Deity to witness the purity mid sincerity pf his ia-
tentions, wink occupied in +Jawing felicity ours
every port of his dominions.—'the substance of the
foreign pipers are given in our oast page.
One of the keeling Ministerial Prints of yestei
day eontaitis the following chservations:—
.• Mr. CANNING acid with great propriety on Tuesday
night, hi the notice he took of some reittari:s that had lima
made relative to Shale. It has been the moat complai..t
of the Opposition we bate no allies. That we have eu few
is net the fault of Miosteis. lint do nut let iss rat eh,
rack of diminishing the small number we bare, by any Ai%
that may excite theirjealonsy, Or welled tiros feelings.
(muse of the Sicilian Gureriantimt may not please the Oppo.
sienna—bet is it either politic or gencruus to irreigh
irgainet it, in thus its loser of butternuts. as.d esielsposse ?
We perfectly well remember the violent eatery raked ' epos
lbe.nbject of into*, ins in the internal asks eiffrasce t is
It wished that we should do that tewmde ear allies which
was viewed with such horror when it wan attempted spigot
oar enemies ? The Sicilian Government lass proved itself a
faithful ally, sad no greater proof could be alfewikd of the
cordial atutersiandin that animists between as, than the fact
stated by Mr. Callitic, that the Sicilian Goverooseet had
determined, in cam of danger, to put the who e of its farce,
neither trifling to somber. nor in discipline, under tlae con..
mend of the British General."
The above observations made by the Ministerial
Print are false and insidious. The Mesning
Chronicle, it is true, has been for some time under
prosecution fur a libel upon the Gov...rot:seat of
Sicily ; but what has that to do with Opposition,
or the views of Optiositiou ?—lf. according to Yid-
gar understanding, it be the snails object or Oppo-
sition to work the Ministers out, and to fence
themselves is, we wish to know how this tied is to
be obtained by a gross libel, or a silly libel, opus
the Covernmait of Sicily ? It is a common prac-
tice with Mr. CAN Nils G'S prints, schooled in his
system, and under his aitspires, to single out a
newspaper supposed to he in the confidence of Op-
position, and to impute every folly awl falsehood.cf
which it is guilty to his political opponents.—
When Mr. CANNING COGlGlenceil his political ca.
veer as a paragraph writer in the newspapers, this
may have becu t;,eir common practice. The Right
lion. Centleman ma, also be able to answer for
the prim, which he has io pay; but it is a gross
libel upon the liberty of the press, to assert that
every thing which appears in the newspapers, not
in the pay of Ministers, his been written or sots-
gested by Opposition. We wish to know under
what undue influence the ostensibly free, pure,
and independent part of the public press eau
labour, in order to subject itself to this charge
or suspicion ?—lt calumet be said that in the
event of a change of Ministry, they can expect
places or pensions. In such event, the free sad
independent part of the public press would speak
and act exactly as it now does.—lt would continue
to look to the country utid the constitution, and
consult the public feeling, and the puLlic interest.
—The present Ministerial Papers of Mr. CANNING
and the Earl of Itvearoos, we mean The Morning
Post and The Coarier, would Le the eulogists
of Lord GRENVILLE and Mr. PONSONIST, as. they
are now the eulogists of Mr. CANNING and the Earl
of Lie Enrooa. Would say man charge us witba rails
assertion in this statement ? If so, let him examine
the files of the two papers which we have men-
tioned. Ile will find that when Lord Ihuas
PETTY came into office, The Morning. Post, ft.e
late enemy, hailed him as the'deliveter of Europe,
audolrawing a picture of Athens in its purest times,
insisted, in the language of the Prytaiseaut, that
Lord HENRY PErry might to be considered
• a child at the state, and maintained at
the public charge." 'That Lord Hamm Parry
is a young Nobleman of great merit, and au
honour to his comatry, ere admit; but that• this
language in Vie Morning Post was most disgust-
ing, its present readers 'must admit. That respect-
able print, The Courier, at the same time assured
the public, that it was in the same vein, and must
support Mr. Foz, and Lord GRENVILLE, both of
whom it has since found it convereisiat to calum-
niate in the foulest and basest terms. It is
very well for such prints, that are a disgrace
to the pre.., to reduce every part of it to their own
level, and should they catch a free newspaper out
of the limits of their own servile herd, to persecute
it as the tool of a party equally as themselves,
but not so tortnnate or competent, to afford it pro-
tertian and reward for its prostitution.

. Mr. C. W nYNNL guve noce light in t,e
Hotiseof Commons, of his intention to resume, this
day, his intended proceeding with respect to Cc-
neral Ct./SERINO, upon the subject 01 hie evideoco
on the charges against the Duke of York/tors
Commander-in-Chief.
The escape of the Brest squadron into Basque
Roads was communicated to Lt.orp's, in the fol-
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halving Notice
" Admiralty Office, Merck 1, 1809.
" Isfornistion his been received of the squad:as, w►ich
lately willed (rata Brest. having entered Basque roods us t►s
amorshia of the soda wit."
Among the private advice. (rote Paris, it is
mentioned that mice lass been piped between
England and Turkey : und this ateamastatitt is
assigned by same as the came of Balt.UPAßTfi's
hasty departure from