The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-02 00:00:00

IWYPT.

Extra& of a private letter from Alexandria, dated
June 16, 1807:—'" All has been very tranquil
here since we (the British forces that went lately
from Sicily) arrived, and the Bedouin, who h rye a
large Camp beyond Marabout, bring us in plenty
of provisions. The Turks had detached a body of
three hundred cavalry round Lake Mariotis, to cut
off these supplies; the Bedouins, however, told
them they were determined to make their way to
our market, which has induced the Turks to leave
them to their own course, and retire again to Ro-
setta. We occupy the whole Isthmus to the East-
ward, as far as the Cut at Caravansera, have a gar-
rison in Aboukir Castle, and have opened she cut
made by the English in 1801, from the Lake Abou-
kir into Lake Mariotis, which has now been running
most rapidly for the last seven weeks, so that our
position is completely insulated, besides being
covered by several gun-boats, which are spread
over the two Lakes. To the Westward, our
petition extends no further than a picquet, half
a mile in front of the lines, running across
the Lthmus, in the right of which is Fort
Des Bains, and immediately in the rear we
are strengthening the heights by five additional
redoubts, so that we may be considered as entirely
secure. We cannot ascertain the strength of the
enemy, as their troops are dispersed about in all
dire Lions, and are constantly varying in numbers.
Their army at Rosetta, in which their chief strength
lies, is estimated at about ten thousand. While we
continue in Alexandria, and venture no more de-
tac:iments to the Delta, tinl2ss in sufficient force,
we can never be driven from our position by all that
the enemy can muster against us, nor will they beable
to approach us at this place, except from the West-
ward. When the second detachment marched to
Rosetta, the sight must have been horrible, as they
approached the ground where the first detachment,
tinder General WAVCIIOPC, had suffered in their re-
treat. Dead bodies were spread all over the ground,
the heads were cut off, and other marks of ravage
violence appeared. One of the Mato( bikes, who
came with propositions, is named Its AN. He is an
adopted son of Els' Bay, who was in Fngland,
and highly esteemed among the hfamelukes, having,
once, with one blow of his sabre, killed both man
and hor,e."

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

PAIR. $l,?. It.

Letters from Holstein, of the list August, state,
that the preparations for the reception of the King
et Rendsboing, net being yet finished, His Majesty
has been forced to defer his departure Irons Gold-
ing. It is expeacd, however, that he win set out
next week.

It is said, that the Court after its return from
Rambouillet, will pass some time at Funtainbeau.
N. X. de Camboni, the Patriarch of Venice, re-
ceived, on the sth instant, before his departure fur
Milan, a letter from His Excellency the Crud
Marshal of the Imperial Palace, informing him, that
His Royal aad Imperial Majesty has decorated him
with the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour,
and presented him with a gold song-box, with his
portrait set in diamonds.

Tile last of the terics cf Ettraordioary Grand
Filet at Tivoli+ after 10-g &Lib is filed for the

19th instant, when Garnevin will make his second
imams:al aerial voyage in his Milan balloon.
In the Sitting of the 11 th instant. the Legislative
Body converted into a law. the priyja which axes
the Hl/41.1.41:1U1n of the pensions of Ministers, Grand
Officers of the Empire. and their widows, at 20,000
francs.

DIMDEN, ♦UG. 27.

His Majesty the King of Saxony will shortly pro-
ceed tl Warsaw, to be inaugurated there in his new
quality as l)uke of lVarsaw. The equipages for
his journey are in prepar.uion. The French troops,
forming the fifth and sixth corps of the army. ate
arrived in great part in Silesia. 'Within this fort-
night, about twenty-five thousand men have been at
Breslau and its vicinity. These troops will set out
upon their march about the middle of next month,
in small columns, for the Banks of the Rhine,
passing through Saxony,Bareuth, and Wurtzburgh.
They will be succeeded by the corps of the army of
Marshal Davouq, which is still in Poland. This
will evacuate Silesia at the fixed time; and it is
thought that it will pass a part of the winter in Sax-
ony, until the Saxon and Polish army shall be or-
ganized upon a suitable footing.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, MT° ite 2.

The French Angus contains the following obser-
vations A declaration of His Majesty NAPO*
I. Low Louie. dated the of August, has been
published in Holland, which recommends to all
the authorities, the rigorous execution of preceding
ordinances for the prohibition of English merchan-
dise, and the interdiction of every kind of commerce
with England. We recoiled, that after the I hpe-
rial Decree of the Ist of December, 'h./6, all the
Powers in friendship or alliance with France, lost
not a moment to adopt its principal dispositions in
their States. They bad felt the utility of a measure
which tended to spew to England the real depend-
enc e in which her commercial avarice places her,
with respell to Continental nations, and so great, in
fad, was the terror spread through London, at the
first news of that Decree,the most respectable houses
threatened failure, and the Goscrnmcnt felt it-
self obliged to support public opinion, by hold-
ing out a hope of same accommodation.—
At that time, when the importance of the Conti-
nental war absorbed attention, and divided interests,
vigilance could not be so alive; but, at present,
when a glorious peace has left us none, upon the
Continent, with the exception of a potty King, ba-
nished to the ice of the Northern Pole, but Allies and
friends of France; the moment is arrived for
giving a more vast development to that measure.
If it hurt some private interests, it secures the fu-
tu.e prosperity of the industrious and commercial
mass. The application of it becomes more easy
to France, and more baneful to England. The
English Government will complain so much the
mere as they will suffer more from it ; and yet, in
adopting it. nations will only exercise a right in-
herent in their independence. None of them will
!egret the alliance of a Government, which ads like
like a towards its friends. The example of
Denmark' proves sufficiently, that moderation, and
the most scrupulous observance of tre.tzie.s, cannot
save its friends, when it considers their destruilion
useful to its interests. The rigorous suspension of
commerce with England is a measure decisive
against the unjust dominion of the seas. It conse-
quently interests all the Powers of the Continent.—
It interests even America, whom it will enable to
derive increased advantages from her neutrality."

In our enralls, yesterday, Isom the Gottenburgh
it was stated, that a report prevailed in that
city, that the Owen Purees had refused to ratify
the Capitulation of Copenhagen. We cannot
conceive the ground of this refusal. We have
gained our obj-ft, in the possessi,n of the
Danish Navy, and the Cams Paiscs cannot pre-
vent it-from being carried off to England. The
pan of the capitulation that remains unerNut,A,
we meaa the evacuation of Zealand in sin weeks,
etc. is entirely in favour of Denmark. It is not
England, then, but Denmark, that would lose by
the refusal of the Caows Pounce to ratify the Con-
Tension. Besides, many are of opinion, that the
possession of the Danish Beet will not fully were
all the purposes of the Expedition. The Fsench
want men more than they want ships, and the Da-
nish sailors, it is apprehended, may be vooployed on
board the fleets of Bon aaaaaa . A hostile spirit its
Zealand will also survive the departure of our forces
in silt weeks, and to what new measures, revenge,
aided by French force and French intrigue, may
drive the Danes, it is sot easy to anticipate. This
apprehension appears so strong and general, it is
even said Government are of opinion. that our
Commanders ought to have stipulated for the men
tion of the Cos* of Crasher& until a peace, as as..
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usury to preserve the free passage of the &mod to
commerce. Any deetia4, however, of this
kind, would be upm our part a violation of te
Capitulation, and consequently the refusal of the
Crown Pwxca would have the farther 'WO of en•
tabling the British Government to exalt new sten.
frees, and provide for cases unforeseen at the time
the Capitulation was agreed to.

Mr. MeNRY, we undetstand, %ill set out imme.
diatc•ly to ascertain the final determination ot the
Danidi aivernment with respell to the cinestion of
Peace or War betty en this Country and Unimak.

'lle following infot mation is said to have be..
received upon th:: or-3i unquestionable authority :
" On the :2)th of July lAst, the C4irkttr, of
guns, armed en
_pt. made an attack on Bieraena. a
stttlennent on the S. East end of Cuba, in theta.
pet:Winn of cutting out of the harbour two W,,t
Indiamen, which had been recently captured, and
also of destroying the privateers within i:. One
Captain, two subal•erns, and 100 men, werelanded:
the whole of whom were either killed or taken,
and His Majecty's ship escaped with disclll7, vriql
five feet water in her hold, having been hulled between
wind and water by the batteries, two of which
fired under French colours. The troops
were of the 99:h Regiment. Thtre are at the above
place and at St. Jago, close by, t2'; stout priva-
teers, mostly manned by Frenchmen, emigrai
from St. Domingo; and it was by Frenchmen tf
the formidable resistance was made at airracoa."

We have copied from the New-Y( rk P.4•e•s a
well-wtit:en article upon the dispute I,..twten
country and America.

Extra& of a letter from Halifax, A ig. ifi, la, :
" Admiral BERKILY is making great preparations
with his squadron to eorreft the Americans ; a-d
Horst fs for.ifying every veinerdo,la
point of the Peninsula of Nova Scotia, clearing the
grounds, laying in large magastines of ammunition.
military stores, and provisirns, against their be-
ing 'tucked. The Niaj.ir-Gen. is going to take the
command of New Brunswick, the British-American
frontier ; and Major-Gen.Sx ta a ETT is to comm;•., I
at Haiitax. British-America feels perfat security
in being blessed with the serv:res of the old General.
The British-American Army lark up with coal:-
dence to this General, whore coniuft in the Arte:i.
can contest was one display of courage and judi;•
ment."

Among the Offifets and passengers on board the
Bins& im and /me were the following
Rienheint—Sir T.Truerbridge, Captain A.lexanier Grew and
Lady, Captain Lieutenants Minn, 'home. Pan,
Whitehead, and Cr:riy, Mr. Martin, Master of the Itleitivni,
Lieutenant Lamas., Mr. Finlay, Secretary to the Cs.iserod
of Penang.
Jana—Captain Wright, and Lieutentin Thomas Dena%
94th Regiment.

Count BILNTINCIL, to whom the Knyphaosen Rag
belongs, and whn Arrived in a Dutch port some
days ago. was not suffered to land by the Fren:h
Direllor of the Customs, and Executioner of the
late Decree, though he hai a passport signed by
King Louts. The French Dire or probably used
to the Count something like the language of Tow:-
cab—" Louts may be King, but I am the Viceroy
over him."

Althoug!) the Nlarquis of DOUGLAS'S diplmatic
mi,sion to the Curt 01 Russia ceased on the arrival
of Lord GRAi•VULL LZVCSOX GOWEA at St. Pe-
tersburg!), the Noble Marquis (lees not intend to re-
tura this year to England. but will make a tour cf
Russia. He is supposed to be at this time at
Moscow, where he will remain some time, viewing
the wonderful produtflions of art and nature .n that
place. The Noble Marquis will proceed fr,:al
thence to Siberia. to examine the wealthy mines of
that extensive country, and from thence go on to
Archangel. Lapland is not expeaed to e.cap a biro.
The Marquis of Huntley, JACQUES. from Qarbec.
for London. is on shore in the Oi kney, and bilged.
The Royal Westmorland Militia snare ed from
I.andguard Fort, on Saturday, the I'2h ult. ant
arrived at Norman• Cross Barracks the 19th. The
garrison consists of the Rois-sture, Royal West-
morland, and East York regiments of militia.
Brigadier-General WILLIAMS is the eomniand.i,g
officer. The number of prisoners is about six
thousand.

A Gentleman. arrived from Gottenhurgh, who
was at Christian:sod on the lOth tilt reports.
that Flcckcr was then in the hinds of the Enghsb,
and that Chrittiansan4 was threatened by two slips
of the line and a cutter, and he hi., no doubt of its
being in our possession before now. There was in that
port two ships of the line, one of them as 118. g an ship,
and also several British •.ssels detained there.
These vessels were uarigged, and th-ir crews had
been thrown into prism. The brig Joints, of Ste•:: -
haven, is in the number. _ _

The latest letters from St. Petersburgh. receia 1
by the packets from Goetenburgh, are of the ti : e
of the 4th ult. They mention, that the greatest Sc.
tivily prwatled in the different war departmmrs.—
The cor.jalares were various, as to she o!,j of
these preparations; but the prevailing opinion
was, that they well! intensted against France.—
We can. however, discover nothing in the condufk
of France which indicates the expe!t slims of a rue.
tare with Russia. With the exception ct" DA •OiliT.
division, stationed at Warsaw, and the deteclurrrn
which re-entered Yoningsherg. the whole of M
French troop, have evacuated Poised. Under :tr
apprehension of hottilities. it is likely that DON
Paste would choose and pre-occupy the sa
military theafre upon which be appeared to sue
advantage last campaign ; but we cannnt learn el
his armies are in motion towards the gregel of Ni
men. It is stated. we unde-etand. in seine of ev•
letters, that Isl. BUDDING. the bfin;ster for F rev
Affairs. had been displaced. This permn 1014, e
ploy-ti in vegnciating the Treaty nt Tilsit. ant
generally supposed to be attached to the ire
interest.

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lifserate di:cussion. It is my business, sitting here,
to administer, to the best of my ability, the law as it
stands. I have aiways done so, and should the Le-
,gislature alter the law, 1 shall then, as I do now,
=lst to administer Wig in its wisdom it city
beneficial to the country. Frehog they. fors
as I do. that it would be unbecoming in mz to state
my own opinion, I shall not, Gentlemen, obtrude it
upon you. But this surely I may say : it dues not
follow, on the OW band, that Jury Trial must he
useful in Civil Causes, because it it so its Criminal;
neither, on the other. is it sound argument. that
Trial by Jury in Civil Causes will not do good, be-
cause it has not been tiled. _ _

" With these observations, Gentlemen, I take my
leave of such of your number as have alreaJy done
your duty as Jurymen ; and I have only to add, to
those who still remain in town, that 1' expo", while
they continue here, they will do maths honour to
cumisier my table as their home."'

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PEIBLES, SEPTIIOIIII 15.

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Yesterday, Thursday, the 21th inst. the rettnxint
of the Rev. Dr. William Dalisliesh, who died hero
on Sunday. the 20th curr. deeJo and universally
regretted, were r,corfed from the M lose to :he
grave by a most respeCtal‘le assemblage of com-
pany from the town and couatry adjacent ; amongst ,
the numbers were. Lord Elibank, Lord Lieutenant
of the county. Sir James Montgomery, M.P. for is e
county. J. IT Murray, Esq. Sheriff' of the county,
Mr. Williamson of Cardrona, Esq. Colonel J Dion-
ton. late Milliary Auditor-General a. Madras. I'.
Young. Esq. who was chief of the Medical St4fF
with General Abercrotrabie's army in Ezypt. M:: .e
Dunsmereilate of Nis M..jesty's 75tii iegimort. t e
naiglrb''urillg Clergy. &c. lltc. The siete•ssed I. 0
ing•hesn Chaplain to the Peebles It:A:tot-etc, ,-
tain Rae,eommanding the company r f sharp so . •
err here el% pernsanettt duty, politely off,reil • :
service of Min:lmpart? on this atelasKlcily ncc4,i
which was modesily declined try the Irierds
drowsed. Dr. Williant Dalgisisit Was orti.issal
Minister of Peebles in 17111.

The American papers 110111MItICO 'lll ersii 1 11.
New-York. of Mr hates But.i.ce. se A plae:ll4sr
in the Weymmte f.chooner. Mr. But.Le ,t !ker. (10. ,

he was carried of in the charrAeo 0r a pih •••
unary last, by ttn! Frencil 74-4 n ,ship
and that tlm c,rnrnsu i-r rbesr4 treat,,j ~1 Op: ,
fallowinz noel and inlaid manner. • v;z•
him in !Sur, a COUilit) far &MAW from f QV,
with the trilling .on of forty Joila;-s for it' i> A.•;-
vices, and that he was rend.tred in a
..t.:. reretstil
linable to support Ws, owing to a st• eve c-ld
be caught wh•le.s” b .4-d Sall th:p.** '
can pap-rs ab urnd with m
ill treatment received by 111.,:i'-te:
States ; and yet we do nr,t one
plaint against the French (;:,vcinor.nt
A private lettcr from an Otfict!, at C.:cy,!),
in Orßober la%t, say: YOU %Ai! Ici.',').+Z"

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about tour years since thirteen Offiter,
the Civil Department of 0: do tract; frtiri s, . t,
kind of fatality this number is nose so r:Jur -.! t!...-. ,
only five of them can be reckoned elFeci.ive. , A .
Condigtor, of the name of Abel, nal Atdottai.,,,
in a fit of intoxication, kilieJ another, n it., Sri-

vacs ; the former being apprehended, died .
another, perhaps ego illy unt •ith ti se, 46
at present, in a state of delirious, and is tot csr:..4‘
to survive many days."
We hear that the House of K r v 6, *.e represe-n-
-ative body of Cie Isle of Mann. have Air. ed to
provide funds for raising five hundred rneis tor
MAJESTY'S service. This ad of puLlic spirit does
credit to that body. and to the Island, and
but afford satistaftion to every pa:fiotie
man.

The Royal BoothGlocceitai regiment, having vo.
lunteered their complement of men for the it .e, we
congratulate the, 50th and 6lst regimen's, t • which
they have mostly gone, on the acquisition they will
receive from a draft from so well disciplined gild ex-
cellent a regiment.
On the 221 last, aout nine in the moroh,g a fi e
was discovered in the new-ere.sted L !g.• hta is 4 to
the sett of Marquis COHNIVAL!. is, Calf 'Tti.../Alk.
Suffolk, the whole of the interior a:iJ rout of
which was destri.led.
Friday last. Gwerntaelnd, the seat of PHILLIPS
Ltovo Ft. trent'. Esq. and the village °, Overton,
in Shropshile, were illunianated; and, at the latter
pl ice. five sheep were roasted, bonfi es, and eat ry
other demonstration of joy exhitiit.-1, in honour of
the birth of a son and heir to Sir ail sea tag Rae HARD
GLIMIC, Bart.
On Tuesday last, Mr. THOMAS STANDUIir
SMITH, of Berwick, unhapp ly pa: ptr,u.l to his
existence by cutting his throat an di m shoes rig
manner. He had for some time p.st ben in a At.
sponding state of mind, and for a tee dry. bttute
this unfortunate event had betrayed ma: Its 'of ina-
nity. The Coroner's Ingots' brought their yenta
—Lena y. It is a remarkable. but 3 lanseniwile
circumstance, that although he hes Lit behind him
property to the amount of nearly ten tha•usa•ol
pounds. yet he appears to have been in a great mea-
sure driven to this desperate aft from the diced of
his being dragged to gaol for debt, w..ich bad no
existence but in his disordered imagination.
The President and Governors of the Salisbury In.
firmary held their anniversary meeting on Friday.
Having. with the Members of the Corporation, al.•
sembled at the Council-chamber, they walked in
procession from thence to the Cathedral, where an
appropriate and admirable sermon was preached ur
the Bishop of Sastre. After divine service, a col-
leetion was made at the church doors, which amount-
ed to 871. The Governors afterwards dined toge-
ther at the Cross• Keys Inn ; the Earl of RAI/NO*,
Viicount Foca moot, the Bishop of SALISRI:ItY,
and many principal gentlemen of the city and neigh-
bourhood, were among the company. The benevo-
lent purpose of the meeting enlivened the toast, and
gave a zest to the wine; thus the afternoon was
passed in social and unalloyed harmony.
The memorable Lottery Scheme of the Piot ilia-
mend, though consisting of 20,000 Numbers, and
una:companied with any other Price, was found
sufficiently aftraeive to induce a purchase el evict',
one of the Tickets. But what was the Pig-st
mond, in point of real value, to the 40,000 pounder
alone, in the present New Lottery Plan ? wi
though containing bat 80,000 Numbers, pnsses his
likewise three Capitals of 20,0001. each, three of
10,0001. ten of 1,0001. &c. &c.
We hale much pleasure, in addition to what was
stated in our Paper of Thursday last. says The tab,-
harsh Courant, to notice another distinguished Co..
ratter, whose exertions on the f.tal day of the 6.h
of September were highly praise-worthy. While
Sir J A MCS HALL and his tenantry were occupied in
saving the crews of those vessels which were wrecked
upon the coast near Dunbar, the Duchess of Box-
au Roo exposed herself the whole I:renoun to the
icicle:llmq of the weather, stimulating the exertions
of her people in saving the crew of a vetel which
was driven ashore immediately below her boom
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