The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-24 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

lattN-Tom start. g.
'The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the
Tee/miry have rammed to the city of IVashington.
Mr. Erskine, the? British Minister, arrived there on
Aloinley enordisig.
SEPT. I.
Jackson (Copenhngen Jacky:lli) we learn has beets
treated with the most deserved contempt by every
gentleman of worth at Annapolis. Nu gentlemais
paid any attention to him ; mod at Norfolk, it is
*Rid, his effigy was burnt on the beach in his view."
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The above paragraph, from The Baltimore Wing,
is copied verbatim from The Public Advertiser of
this morning. Should any one be at a loss to know
who are meant by the "geetleurea of worth at An-
impulii," he is reminded that this form of expres-
emo i. intended to include mine but Jacobins and
I reach agents. Nose hut such miscreants could
isi- prevailed ispou so far to violate the laws of na-
-1 and the rights of hospitality, as to treat may
lerberredor (be he en Englishman or a Frenchman.
on Algerime or I.lottemiut) with such marked ',Wig-
uity uud open contempt.
lf, as is above stated, the effigy of Mr..Tackson,
'•burnt on the beach in his view" oit Nadia,
wet greatly pity that weakness which can remain
airy logger iesioreer as to the real views of (hoax
Jacobins wh a committed this outrage, as well as
4 those, who, with an air of triumph, have pub-
lished the trausection.—lt will heist vain to pretend
that they wish any thing like • treaty with Great
Britain.--Should they ever so gravely assert, that
any thing abort of open and direct war with that
-notion would satisfy them, this very outrage will
give this lie to such assertion.
seer. 15.
Ma. JaCutON.--Our Madcap will recollect, that,
as mem as Mr. Jackson's appointment, as Minister
to this costutry. was 10111141U1ae.41. violent efforts were
made, by The Armes, as well as by the miner
prints of the French (actinic, to pretest his seerp.
tiou on the part of our Hovernment. Clicieha-
gen Jaebou meet nut be meeeivcd," up the cry of
the old cur Copenhagen .litekgmn ;awl cot
be received," was echoed and re-echoed by every
village whelp throogliout the country. In di-
rect coutempt, however, of the denunciations of
these noisy creatures, Mr./de-Lea seas been received,
and by the superoxide( toadied politely. It is said,
to he sure, that he was insulted by the joresMai of
toinospolis—and that, at Norfolk, his effciy was
burnt before his face ! This may be very true.—
Such cosidaet, fran jos:veins, might neutrally
enough be expeetell.-14 is perfectly in diameter.
More proll4ary.,—The two following paragraphs
are from The Baldauwe Whtg, of Tibraiday last.
They require no comment.
N 1 'utterer. are ever afraid of Orions ; this ac-
conuts for .Jackson's mounting guards mid blun-
derbusses behind his carriage. He may be haunt-
ed by the rentemlnance of Copenhagen.
Does Jackson's salary enable him to maintain
servants by the dozen ; or does his quota of the
plunder of Copenhagen make np all deficits ?
Francis James Jackson, Earl. Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Bri.
tannic Majesty to the United States, was, on Moo-
day hut, received by the Seisretary of State, as
snecessim to David M. Erskine, hja.)
The Baltimore American, of Wednesday last, says,
—" We use uuthonseil to .ay, that Americans ves.
sels, permitted by the BritisliGovernment to go to
Holland, under Erskine's arrangemeut, will not be
permitted by thut Goverinneut to bring return
cargoes."

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BRITISH DES CRTERS.

CAIC of the meta arrested as deserters (rim the frigate I:A fri-
clams, by Jobs. Hunter Esq. Sheriff of Baltimore, At the
request of William Wu:4, k:4l. British Causal fur the port
of Baltimore I
An Imbrue Corpus was applied for to Judge
Scott. late on Thiiniday evening, on behalf of seven
men, arrested and held in custody by the Sheriff,
at the reivie.t, and oh the stateineot of the British
Consul that Biel were deserters. by their Counsel.
The ilabens Corpus way issued as payed for, re-
turnable the next morning at nine o'clock. Ac-
cordiogly. this moriiinu. the nice were brought up
amidst so iruitiewor nurse of eitisens, who tilled
the court-home and the iteig.hbouring street, nod
the Sheriff moat, return thut he had arrested and
detsimol the- Invit ut euetady. in virtue a 14 fig-
turfing, from the Briti‘ll Cmt.nl !
•• 1111111111 CONIIVre orrice, PALTIINISS,
star, G, mg.

- - -
Joan iivMeva, Esc. •
Sr a—lltoing enema tithemot;rn Hat 131 steletal base
ote•ortod from L'Africause frigate, alga lot lialr at Marti% I
love to request tloot pm wilt be warted to mem. them Mt
the) eon be sent os boar, —.I to, W3l. WOOD."
dy virtue of this authority. t Mons arrested and
put in prison the following persons. to wit :—Joha
Newland. %Villiers' %Visoites, I)enis Murphy.
l(,eitard Hersey, John Earp, Joins Burwell, dud
Jacob Louth.
The Judge mill, that he lia.f conceived it his duty
to give notice to Mr. •,the WADI, Conant)
of the application, a) Om: hr migiit appear and
Amer ensue, if airy he had, why the men should be
.la
lit the entirse of a few 'Mout,* Mr. Wont! came
into Lauri. and the Courewl foe the Pt/wimp.,
Mews. tikale sod J. L. Douraidson' moved the
Court that the tore be dieettairel. ats4Ficient range
fur Wet? detention hot on the returii,—
Mr. %%snafu Couirerf. Mr. Welter Dorary, re.
mucAotl to i•e ailtuaed time to ingutte limo the las.;
end said. that INI Viollia i.e reedy to prove that
these men were deserter. from Hie Britannic Me.
jeaty's ship. 'ilte Counsel for therrisoners objected
to the delay. The Chief Justice stated, that the opi.
Mon of theSecretery of State had astistiad him, that
deserters from Britiuli reverie ought not to be arrested
or detained under the authority of the Goverument
of the United States, for the purview of delivering
thefts tip to the officers of the British Government,
he therefore ordered the prisoners to be immedi-
ately dischisr4rd. The audience expensed their
spprolestion of his decision' by three loud and tu-
tu hum.% and execratious of the Tories, and
curried off the deserters in triumph !
carol IC. REPT. S.
The British *frigate dfricaine anchored io Hamp-
ton I turs6 this looming, returned from Auuspolis.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY. °crones .4.

A letter from Dover. doted on Sunday, says:--
" Last night there was a great deal of heuvy firing
un the French coast : it is supposed to be a rejoic-
ing on account of Peace having been signed be-
tween France and Austria."

IVe yesterday announced the arrival of New-
York papers to the 19th last. containing an account
of the arrival of Mr. Jscason at Washington,
where he was received by the Secretary of State,
RS successor to Mr. ERSKIN E. Mr. JACKSON
is said to have been treated with indignity by
the populace at his landing, and on his journey
to the seat of Government. Another question has
arisen respecting British deserters. Several sea-
men having deserted from L'Afriraine frigate,
they were apprehended at Baltimor,! by Mr. She-
riff flutcrEa, at the instance of Mr. Wow),
the British Consul, and committed to prison.—
On the sth last they were brought up by Ha-
beas Corpse before the Chief Justice, who de-
cided, that deserters from British vessels Ought
not to be arrested under authority of the Ame-
rican Government. for the purpose of delivering
them up to the officers of the British (govern-
ment, and they were accordingly discharged.
-.This case excited great interest ; the Court was
crowded, and the Deserters were carried off in
triumph by the populace.

A vessel arrived at Falmouth from Rio Janeiro,
has brought a report, that a/evolution has taken
place at Buenos Ayres; that the people had de-
clared their independence, and driven away all lir
reign vessels.

It may be truly asserted, with the most perfect
regard to historic fact, that all the changes, con-
quests, and revolutions, by which Europe has been
afflicted, since the fall of the Western Empire of
Rome, in the fifth century, down to the present
lime. have been insignificant, when compared with
that awful and complete subversion, which we have
witnessed since 1792. Nor did the destruction of the
Western Empire bear any resemblance to the rapid
dissolution of the modern European fabric, which
IIiONAPARTh has etrected. More than eighty years
elapsed between the death of the Emperor Taco.
1:10,1119 the GMBAT, in 393 of the Christian era. and
the final .leinalition of the Roman pi, • er, in the
West. under AUGESTV LOS, in 476. The annibilA-
ti., or that' republic of Sovereignties. great and
small, which eonstituted modern Europe, has listen
produced in about seawater* years. A succession
of gene barbarians. following on the heels of each
other, accomplished the demolition of Rome.i•
Axiom, Gansuatc, and 0110ACEIS, were followed
by the destroyer Arelr.x. But one man may be
said to have over-run, and subjected to his con-
trout, all the states, from the frontiers of Russia
and Turkey, to the Atlantic. Ilia moral influence
limy even be considered as at once more awful
and more formidable than his apparent military
power ; because Use latter is visible and tangible ;
the former is dark and undefined. In France and
in Italy, where his presence, his armies. and his
energie., maintain submission, we can calculate
his force ; but who can ascertain the extent of his
command, or the limits of his intimidation, at Pe-
tershargh. Copenhagen, and Constantinople.

These reflections derive double force, and act
with doable impulse on the mind, since the fall of
Austria : an event which, however it may be dis-
guised. and whatever nominal exterior of royalty
Nan/Lyon may still leave to the possessor of
Hungary► or whatever other portion of the Aus-
trian states Fitsscts may be permitted to govern,
completes the subjugation of the continent. That
Botiairaaes so considers it, his measures and his
acts strongly evince. He has already arrogated,
and assumed the right of creating arid conferring
titles. taken from countries over which he has had
ou claim nor supremacy. except that of temporary
occupation by the sword. Dantzic, Abrantes,
Neufchatel, Auerstadt, and a number of other
Ducal dignities. bestowed by this revolutionary
Usurper. sufficiently manifest that he consideis
Portugal, Poland, Germany, and Switzerland, as
constituting only portions and provinces of his em-
pire. The Cfrinoinen of Aran. A scs, of Barraw-
wteus, or of Ganismitcvs, assumed by the CON-
SULS, or by the CASARS of ancient Rome, could
not more forcibly or more contionselmudy denote
the uspreasocy of the Republic. or of the Empire,
over Africa, Germany, mad Britain, than do three
creations of the Case' of the loth century display
bis pretensions to distribute honours derived from
every country to which his arm. have penetrated.
Since the battle of Wagrain, arid the Armistice
by which it has been follnesed, these iodic:idiom* of
irresistible, or of unlimited dominion, are multi-
plied and extended. As if Austria were already
merged and oink in his empire, he has given to his
Generals, his Marshals, and his Dukes, new awl
higher titles, taken from the 'places where his ar-
mies have recently triumphed. Thus, I'Vagram,
Eckmuhl, and every spot signalized by his late
successes over FRANCIS, have been selected fur the
reward of those, whom lie considers as having most
eiumently couttibuted to the advantages obtained

in the course of the late campaign. In order, mere
thoroughly, as he expresses it, to identify the
achievement with the reward, and to make one a
perpetual memorial of the other, he is Dot content
with bestowing rank and dignity. He institutes
new Orders of Knighthood, symbolically iuttuded,
not only to announce the extiuction of the preced-
ing orders of Austria and of Spain, but to declara
their resuscitation and re-creatiou by Lae The
two most distinguished, those of " The Golden
Fleece," originally *relish, as having been first
created by hitter THE GOOD, Duke of BuRGUN-
DY, in the fifteenth century ; but which had been
conferred both by the Austrian and Spanish Sove-
reigns, as equally the representatives of the
founder, from whom both dynasties descended—
these, BONAPARTE appears to have selected and to
have appropriated, as an exhibition to the world of
his paramount elevation and supremacy. It is im-
possible to carry further the rights of conquest ; or
more painfully mid contumeliously to make the
unfortunate Emperor of AUSTRIA feel—if any such
Prince, so entitled, still exist—his own downfsl and
humiliation. We shonld not be surprised, indeed,
nor would Europe, at seeing FRANCIS deprived
at once of his Imperial dignity, and precluded, or
inhibited by treaty, frosty ever, in future, conferring
the " Tuisoa d'or." It is probable that Nero-
time, though he may allow a demi-Asiatic Prince
still to denominate himself an Emperor, will not
permit a German Sovereign to designate himself by
that august epithet, which seems still to piece him
on a nominal equality with his conqueror. FRAN-
CIS has already, by BONAPARTE'S command, laid
down and renounced the quality of Emperor of
Germany. He may now descend another step, and
only henceforward be recognized as King of Hun-
gary and Bohemia.

Finally, to render, as far as human power, ability,
and profound policy can render indestructible, the
new aristocracy which he creates; this Mach iavelian
tyrant cements the edifice of titular greatness, by
solid endowments of territory, of castles, or palaces.
Thus we see him distributing amongst his Generals,
or hie Ministers, the crown lends and demesne of
the CAPETIAN line. Chambord, the magnificent
residence of FRANCIS THE FIRST, in which he re-
ceived and entertained the Emperor CH 4111. ES the
ith, on his pa.sag.e through France, in 1:.2.9, has
been given to Massex .1. How and in whet lan-
guage are we to express our astonishment, when we
behold an obscure adventurer of a half-wage Me-
diterranean island, the scum of Italy, after plac-
ing himself en the Throne of Louts the lath, and
subjecting Europe to his confront ; conferring on
another ferocious Italian, who was once a serjelint
in the guards of the late VICTOR AMADEUS, King
of Sardinia, the title of Duke and Prince, by virtue
of his usurped Imperial power, and accompanying
the dignity with the donation of Chambord I—Nor
let us suppose that it will stop here—Noiod.on
erer progressive.

The wants of the Spanish army in clothing are
still considerable, and an order for i 5.000 pair Of
shoes, fur the supply of the native army, has been
received from the commercial Agent of the Junus.

" The dirties imposed upon article* imported
into [diem' are as follows:
"On *mulish trines per tuu of 2 pipes—s florins on 1111.
Foliation, ond 2 tiortus un exportation.
On brandies per puncheon-3 florin, on impurtatiun ;
exportaiion five.

'4 autos per paucheon-3 stivers ou importation i export

" Tobacco iii leaves, per cat —1 florin on importation,
sad t sliver on exportation.
" Tobacco manufactured in rolls, in rola, of too dorins—
▪ donna on importation, t done on exportation.
" Coals from England, per fluidram of is sacks-1 Soria
oe importation; ♦ dim • OU eapentatuni.
•• These duties have been impoved, by order of
Sir ETRE CoorE ; others are upon the point of
being introduced upon various articles, of which 1
shall feud you information."
A Court-Martial was held at Portsmouth, on
Moods}, on George Dogherty. seaman, of the En-
eyafsis, for stabbing and cutting PHILIP Toatn.
seaman, of the same ship. He was sentenced to
receive 200 lashes.—On the same day, John Heron,
alias Hermit, private marine, of the &Ilona, for
robbing LILAC FRANCISCO and JOSEPH STONE, of
•the Bellone, was sentenced to receive 300 lashes.—
Sir JOSEPH SIDNEY YORE, President.

Sittings appointed. in Middlesex mod London,
before the Right Honourable Emerian Lord Et.-
urannacrvars, Lord Chief-Justice, &c. in and after
Michoi•lrma Term, 18.9:

IN TISK.

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