The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-07 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, Nevus's& 7.

We have received German Papers to the ?Alla
alt. the snlistaace of which is gives in a. Ruby,.
spent column. They state that 1.0,000 of the
Grand Army will proceed directly to Spain, and
that the Officers of the Imperial Girard, deitttiteri
fur that service, have liven iufur,rted that they will
bey allowed to stop only three days in Paris. The
other moiety of the Grand army will remain in Aus-
tria until the emiclo•ion of peace, Joules being lir
tertatineJ that Russia will refuse to guarantee the
treaty. To reduce the gallant Tyrolese to subjec-
tion, will j 1 t t render the preNenee of a French force
rwrossory is tleit roorter.—A report prevailed, that
the. Toulon fleet had sailed, and that the British
were in ptirsoit of them.

The more we conteins late the Treaty of Peace
recently concluded between France and Austria,
through the medium of obscurity and uncertainty
in !which it *till remains enveloped, the more do we
incline to Isriwife, that it is only a short pause-4
moment of respite, to he speedily followed by new
convulsions. This opinion we could sustain by
facts. So long, indeed, as Austria remains a Con-
tinental Power, peessessing Hunger'', Bohemia, and
their dependencies; old while the Tyrol. Walchea
fen, Spain, and Sicily, still present to KOPIATAIITB
objert4 of attack or of apprehension, it cannot be
' said of him, as Juutwa6 does of ...._Ar-seaNDtai:
" Luau iaktia ammo Matto saisali."
He will suou, we doubt not, re-appear, either beyond
I•the Pyrenees, or, perhaps, more proliably, in the
vicinity of Flushing. Lei us, :Nevertheless, avail
ourselves of this trausitory interval of precarious re-
. pase shroud, to tiller our eyes homeward, and to
proceed In our review of those Individuals to whom
the Souereixii has delegated the ardisons ti 0.14 in
this critical permA, of repelling the rdurts of the
Corsican for our d-struction or sobver.i.m. Lord
LititaroJt., if not from priority of rank, or of age;
yet,unqucstionahly, from his talents and considera-
tion, merits our lust attention.
It hats fallen to the lot of this Member of the
Cabinet, at en early period of his natural, as well as
politie.il tile, to have tilled more offices, and to have
undergone more tramformations, than, we believe,
any Minister or Stutesinsii, wove the elevation of
tile House of Hanover to the throde, has ever ex-
perienced. In the course of between eight and
nine years, he has successively appeared at the head
of the three <kiwi tments, as Secret/it). of State.
itiving begun under Mr. ADoincaon, with the
fureipg, he was- removed backward by Mr. PM'
to the Home, and he is now thrust forward (Mart-
••••ly, as it is said, on his own part) by Mr. Pica-
t.TVA 1., to the War and Co/oases. We should,
nr,Trihrlev% grossly err, it we attributed to versa-
rail or lieeituhty of talents, that change in (Ace,

wirick result s, aitibitilist CIA the 10,.•
of place. Yet is the precedent, we are sure, sinique.
JUNIUS, 111 1769. when addressing the Duke of
Gas F lON, then First Minister, says—" Your
' Grace has now completed the revolution of the
political Zodiac, from the :4i'corpion, in which 3nu
stung Lord CRATUADI. to the hopes of a Virgin, in
the house of Bloomsbury." But, the revolution,
which, in the Duke, WS3 only metaphorical, or In r-
sonal, has been politically realised by Lord Listen-
root. Not that our history is deficient in illustii-
ons instances of similar nietainorphoseb. DRYDEN,
in his poem of Absalom *not Achitophei, describing
a Secretary of State of that period, a member of the
C'abal," we mean the second VI Li.tcas, Duke of
Bt'CIIINORAM, characterises him as one—
" Who, in the course of one rliVUltillg
Was poet, statesmuu, fiddler, and buffoon."
Nay, even in more modern times, and since the
commencement of the present reign, Omicron.,"
commemorating the versatile parts of Dr. am,
whom the late King of SWEDE* made a Knight of
the Order of Vasa, exclaims—
'' For who so well can grace the motley list,
Actor, Projector, Doctor, Botanist !"
It is evident, therefore, that Lord LIVERPOOL
may plead some eminent examples, though not
precisely analogous to his case.

•
If colistitutioual coldness of character. if habits
of reserve, silence, and cautiou, added to an heredi-
tary knowledge of all those arts of compliance and
of utility, by which the hue Earl of Livearoot. rose
from obscurity, to occupy the non-deseript situa-
tion abaut the Throne, which he so long filled—if
these qualifications entitle to office, the pp sew Earl
is abundantly provided with them. He gave, in-
deed, as long ago as 170, nuffifestations of an
early and a premature political ragout, in that Mt.
tnoruble G. March to Paris," by the plan of which he
commented hi. Parliaineutary career in the House
of Commons. As he is no* placed at the head of
the War Department, he may have so opportunity
if reducing to practice this youthful vision. To
him, toy, we are indebted fur another work---the
signature of the late poste, in 1801; or, rather, of
that precarious itispeusion of hostilities, which it
was found impossible to titaiutein beyond the pe-
riod of seventeen =Oath, I Thus displaying on
equal aptitude, either fur measures of offence, or
for pacific negotiates:l.
Strongly as it would appear that these qualities
have recommended him to the selection of the
Sovereign, it oil!, however, &mud other sod
more solid elidowniciits. to notilitain him in the
opinion of the country. at the present moment.—
lie has to contend with men, who have risen to
their revolutimiary situations, by the greatest tow-
.:es of niiiid. Lord CAIITIMMAGII and Lord
Cllr ril.tx have projected. and accomplished, the
reduction of Walclittei.. Lord ‘VELLIIIGTOK has
accomplished nothing, stmept the ejection of Sooty
from Protiegat. it'd the destruction of This own
army. by the sword, or by disease. But the retest-
boil, or the evacuation of Walcheren. and the con-
tinuance, or the abandonment of the conteat in
the Peninsula beyond the Pyrenees these ques-
tions will soon come berme the British Cabinet,
and they peculiarly belong In Lord Lsirsitrooes
Department. We elucerely wish, that, in their
discussion, and, in the resolutions that may be pro-
posed and adopted, he may display judgment, as
well as vigour. Deprived, us the present Adminis-
tration hes recently been, of its two luminaries—if
not iii Mr. PERCEVAI. and in Lord Ltvaaroot,
where shall we look among them for a ray of its-
tellect ?

lITRACT OT A LLrrut FROM AG OFFICES OR
BOARD Ttu: .SOLI., FRIGATE, TO alll FATHER,
IN GLASGOW, DATED, MALIFAI, SEPTEMBER 27,
180.9 :--

A serious mutiny took place, lately, on hoard
of Ilia Map atr's brig Colowebiae, while lying at St.
John s,
• 1,
iNew-hromorirk, in the Bay of Fundy ;
but, IA the goad conduct of the Captain and Offi-
cers, the mutineers were overpowered, and the brig
taken poasessioa of by a party of soldiers, snit sent
round here. 'f hey were tried two days 4gn. Six
of them, sinolig whom was the boatswain, were
hung up in c;iitius, on gibbets; fourteen were *en-
tented to hr transported for 14 years, flogged
thruub;ll the fleet, and to serre, as convicts, in
chain., in any of I lis Majesty's foreign dominions
—the carpenter was one of the number. The plan
of the mutineers war, to murder their Officers, to
tarry the brig into America, and to desert. St.
JOile y New-Britu.wielt, is close on the America.
lines; therefore, they had but a short thatante to
run. • Admiral Cochrane and squadron are here
from Barhadus—he was President of the Court-
Martial."

The following ettrart of a letter. received by the
last packet from Listion. under date of the 1.4 of
October. confirm. the opinion that the BrAisb Go-
vernment has revolved to defend Portugal
A peat namlow of transports arrived here yesterday from
Engtaad, wittiatores and • train of artillery. Lord Visi-
ble:Ml and Cameral Reresford are still heir l but will join
their respective arsine, in the beg-hitting of sail week.
—Oar Officers. who are here on have of aborner, coo,-
plain much, and are completely tired .4 the campaign
laird Welliuglon is making ever preperotioa to art us the
defensive, by erecting forts in difterent paste of the cowntry
and our troops are daily recovering fne their sickness -.
Small bodies, as feat as they recoser, are, seat op the coun-
ts" to join the army ; bat a west orally ..f them died here
The rupiah ground is fell. and they have heel'
otelip.l to turn accent convents into husyillat fur the
wow..rted. We bare nothing respecting the or,vements of
this enemy she last accounts 'Lead 114 they were in peat
force at Salamanca. Bat Lutliiug decisive 11111 expected to
lake place during the winter."
Vie utaiernta;td that orders have been given for
an immediate attack to ire mark upon the island (.1
Guadeloupe, of the success of which no doubt is
enter,itiotch