The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-09-11 00:00:00

POR7V(.AI..

The ful!oain; Ad !real from ilattersa, intendel
to he generally circulated amung trip. native troop,
under the orders of the Britivh Commandet, has
heen received from Lldunt:
.. INHABITANT! OF P 01170044

" Fll4 Majesty the Einpernr of the French has pat
main my (Inlets an army of I io.ogo wen, to tale
pt.ss of this king.lom, in.l to exp-I the E
lish,yonr prett tided f.kttds. I s.q, pretended friends,
becauta in sin one instaace have t!.ei proeed pour.
ben..faciors. Ag dust you li.s j sty the &apes
rnr hes lie animosity. On the contrary, it it his
highest wish to promote your happiness: owed=
first step to secere it is to di...nisi, from the conutry
thus. locusts Mho consume your property.blast Issue
harvest, and palsy your 'Hurts. &Isere me, he
oppos.nA the EinFror,yoo oppose your true friend:
•• friend who has it in his power to render you •tits
happiest people in the world. Were it not fur the
insidious counsels of Englend, you might now have.
enjoyed peace and tranquillity, and hare been put
in possession of that happiness. You have blindly
rejected offers calculated only to promote your
benefit. and have accepted proposslswhich will long
he the curse of Portugal.
I Fa, .I-sty has commissioned me to conjure
you to a V:1;.,: to ykmr true interests ; to awake to
those prospe. smelt, with your consent, may be
quickly realised; to awake so as to distinguish he.
tween friends and enmities. The King of England
is actuated by selfish and narrow purposes she
Emperor of the French is governed by the ptsucie
pies of universal philanthropy.
" "rts true, the English have put arms into your
hands ; arm. which you know not how to use. I
will instruct you. They are to be the instruments
of annihilation to your foes. Who those foes are
I have alresdy shewn you. Use them as you
ought, rind they will become your salvation. Use
them as you ought not, and they will prove your
destruction.

•• Resistance is vain. Can the feeble army of
the Eritish General expect to oppose any banter to
the *motions Irgunis of the Emperor ? Already a
force is collected sufficient to overwhelm your
coulitiy. Snatch the moment that mercy nd ge-
nerosity ofrr. As friends you may resptet us, and
be respected in return; as foes you must drcinl us,
and in the rol.flict mu't be subdued. Tnr choice
is yrorr own, either to meet the horrors of a bloody
war, to ere your country desolated, your id.
loges ill Barnes, sod your cities plundered ; or to
accept an honourable and hasp. p-ace, well
obtain for you every blessing that by reststune• you
i‘ould reign for ever. " Masser: a,
" Fria& of Ending, and Cumukander-in-Chief
" Ciudad Rad/ hro, A upist 1 4."

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with lui.stary and the t.uitp:y or proviia•ine.
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Mr. are c.rtain thri sS > Isr.'n up fair this
tht th •,•4iit of ta,.ill pi,eetiou of 014 ktos.
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'1131:E BRITISH PRESS•

LON DON,
TUESDAY, SEP-raises" 11.

We blve received New Tort Papers to the 7th
la-t. Ti it of the6th says, "We have jitit received
accounts from Norfolk of the appearance of several
ships of war off :the Capes. The Viiied States
frigate. with some smaller vessels lying in that har-
bour. have bees ordered down to prevent their
entering the waters of the United States (according
to the late Act for excluding all armed vessel.;.
It was feared there would be something serious."

No farther icroanto was receited yestertlay from
Wetttstrtox's army. The opiisiun which we
expressed several weeks op, that the present would
be a campaign of posts and maurearres, and
tbat there would he no general action bus guineti
eousiderable round within these few d 0,.. tont
Wilms oven is not to be tempted from his strong
positions, and UAisENA is afraid to attack him at
Midi die ..lvantage. His sick, who were aitmerout,
hate been sent WI to Salamanca. This appears to
hare given rise to a report that he was retreating
upon that city.
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The Primers: Attest(' packet. Capt. Form, ar.
tired on Friday at Falmouth, front 'Alleusiue„ which
she Irft on the 24th July ; touched et Mat a, m,41
left Gibraltnr 16 days ago. Captain Fr Ran was
honoured by an interview with !in. Jots' tit t: tat.
the Hero ✓f Mende, at Messing, and inliarined,
that the Fr ehth army on the oppr.ite al.ure
remould, it to 47,0041, of wit..in 14,0 int wrre silk.
The .shrlls thrown by the lb itish frequent') tell
iota the meal's coolly ; and liter. ly a night

Missed that some of their boats did not come over
to us with deserters. A boat, with fourteen men
and two very tine lows guns, came over while the
packet lay there.—The French Geueral is in the
habit of sending over his Proclamations inclosed
in the hollow of canes, and set on float : bootie thou-
sends of his threatening and csjohog papers have
been picked up on the fol.Orrb of Sicily. The
French army expect the Totilim fleet to come and
convoy them over to the ishmil.—The British
ships of war there on the -2,4 th ofJuly, were. the
Canopus, C'simbertand,Victorions, Warrior. Thames,
tincress, Termragant, Wrath, Swallow, Pilot, tilts-
turd, Halcyon, Slid Orenzet. Skirmishes are lie-
queist with the French gun-boats ; nut in every
instance the enemy has been be-itch or put to
flight. (Jii the list of July, the Engli*lt and Si-
cilian gun-boats made a general attack upoii the
French gun-boats and batteries; the enemy re-
treated ausung.the rocks, and hauled up their boats,
of which many were knoektd to pieces. We lest
four melt killed in this affair, and seventeen were
wounded. IVlitle the siseltet was hit ettgliati, a
vessel arrived front Messina, mitt, a report, that the
Thames frigate hue! I.llen in with it ghat number
of French gnu-hunts on their way flow Naples for
Scylla, mod of which she had taken and destroyed
titr. It is ascertained that eight of their largeist gun-
boats were sunk, by a divi.iosi of our boat., on the
10th of June; that 14 more, Iseleti with starlike
stores, 'were captured /shout the same time. In
these affairs we had one Sicilian gun-boat sunk, and
one captured. The S'Necels and Ceptio/us attacked
another division or them near Cutter°, on the i4th,
took 30, and destroyed a great twiny snore. A third
division. of 4u sail, were untie-kid on the 18:1s, off
Squillsce, by the Resista•ce f.igste, which look and
burned 17 of thrtn, and dispersed the remainder.—
The British soldiers and i:eameis ate iu high health
an.l spirits.

It will be seen in our accoant of the opening ,:f
the season at Covent-Garden Theatre last nig!it,
that an attempt was made to revite the O. P. war ;
but it was a feeble effort, and subsided entirely be-
bre the commencement of the farce. This was
exactly what might have been anticipated. It was
nut to be expected, that the lovers of merriment
would suffer the night to pass in perfect tranquillity.
On the other hand, nothing of the serious nature of
the con test oflast season could be apprehended. Last
season the public acre tang:at to btlieve, by artful
and designing demagogues, that they were iusu:ted
by the Managers, and innovations had been made
111 construction of the Theatre, which were felt
and considered as great grievance. List night,
however, exhibited u retlr, as of this g►ievance, in
.perfect conformity aith the treat!), of I.eace which
concluded the 0. P. war ; except in the modi-
fication of the a►ticle respecting the precise
muddler of the Private !doses, a tircurmtance per-
fectly understood and acquiesced in on the part of
the public at the close of time last season. '[here
was therefore no substatitiitl ground for discontent.
The good sense and propriety of the audience of
course prevailed, and the uppositiOn, finding itself
not in unison with the sense of the houseol:ed away.

By letters from Memel, dated td Angust, 4 de-
cree has been passed by the Court of 2rUsil.d,
eluding all American vessels from her ports ; in
consequence of which, freights of neutral ships at
Leith experienced a very considerable advance.
Mr. Powat.t,, the American Secretary of Lege-
tins:, sailed at eight o'clock on Sunday itinkiiinz, in
• Sag aunts?, from Dover to Calais, with dispatches
for General A 'mum eG.
EXTRACT of A LETTlill TIIOI4 CATT. ORICRIISTOOO,
°lf THE WILLIAM AslltoN, bATED LANCASTER,
2D SEP A, TO NIS UAVNLIIO IN LANCASTER.

s• I am happy to inform you of our safe arrival
here this clay, after a narrow csrape from rapture.
tVe left St. Croix the .7tH July, single ship, and
on the 111 ult. at day-light, fell in with a strange
5111 on one weather quarter. which, ou ikerctiviclg
u., bore down upon us; at half past seven we
a gun. and sheared our colour., which She took no
notice of; at eight we fired a shot, when she huiet-
ad French colours. we made ready as quick as pos-
sible, took in rtuddieg sails, Scr.. and waited to re-
ceive her ; found her to by a lung low ship, pierced
for 10 gnus. y.llo* sides, and white figure head,
but did out appear to have guns in the two bow
ports. She commenced action with mikketry,
and then her grail guns, bat did nut do us any
very material damage : after this we begun, and
continued engaging an hour mud a little more, and.
through God's assistance and bur own exertions. we
beat her off : after the second broadside she wore
round with intent to rake us; we did the same, and
passed under her Ire. giving her the other broad-
sale ; we towed rich other on different tar ks twice,
still within mmiket shot, and we must have done
her snore material damage with our grape-shot, or
she would tint have left its co soon, as she might per-
ceive what we were. A little after tell, we then
lying-tr., a ship sea. 1/1110lIly; Ile to windward, at
which we tired a shut, and she came down Imisting
Spanish colours; as the privateer etas then in sight,
and in the direction she was steering, she would
hate lc en taken in half an hour, but fur oar pro-
tection. She proved to be the Gerower from Liver-
pool fur New York : the Captain tens very thank-
ful fur his sod kept company with us till
eveiomz, when he Stood to the southward. (In ex-
anti 1111 l g our damage, we found our fore-top mast
badly ..minded by a large shot ; but it stood till
e gut it fishes, and another made : we had another
shot betsreen wind and water, which we secured as
well as we could. hot we were so leaky as to re-
quire pumping every hour ; and our rigging and
sails a good deal cut. principally by market shot,
but piovideidirlly not a manor boy hurt; we were
only .24 iu number alt.vilicr."

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VAUXHALL.

Last 113.4 ht these delightful Gardens doled fbr the
season. A wet and gloomy aftelmoon threatened to
destroy et splendid Rural Fete promised by .the
Proprietor ; but a heavenly evening succeeded, and
the Gardens were Soon tilled with an elegosit and
numeral:. aisieniblage. The endeavours of the Co.cal! and in,trinnental performers were crowned with
the happiest Kneen,. The concerto on the violin
I'v Mr. COBHAM, and that on the oboe by Mr.
Ness. were particularly well received. Alter the
Mr. Dinsium addressed the Collyally ►.early
as 111110W11

" LAMPS AND GrN7l.l7llEV,—Tbe Proprietor of these
Carvievos,long sesisvhle of sour vlselvitgent patronnze, in the (tidy
pg.' of this season planned, nt n ousioterable csiovse, those
vhecoui ions and those sinprinv .v evils whith, throvevzh the
season, have hero fot t a••:n.•ch ow I. tam, rt yoor appronval
Amnia: r sear rimy pee 5,v4 provlosee c:ty. At
present hr tsa only org leave most letivh:y and must sine, re-
ly to thank yaw for ail your pro out:idiom to him —Vu the
5,115 of 103.eleallgi the other r•rfoenvets, I here to C 71.1,14
'Mr 11,10101 grat nude for the repe.vfrells kind re tVpi1,...11 ue
113." C .16p6.114.111.1.41; sell althonclv for the pres-nt we are
shout to take our ter 4EII. Ise hope ot a fetua eta atal 10
inset a rein Siam of your 1.;11.:ne...."
Thic a Itiress tea. revel. e,l with lona marks of
approbation. Ali elegant tlo !slay of fireworks sue-
teethed; moll. wilco we left sire seeise. all sun jets
owl festivity.

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