The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-26 00:00:00

LONDON.
THURSDAY. JA suaAv 46.

Our army it returned from Coronas-150 sail
of transports with troops-s-seven said of the hue,
xud stveral small vessels, have arrived atrymoutli.
About los wail have arrived at Portsmouth, and
several at Falmouth.

The Osborn, hospital ship. arrived. on Monday,
in seven flay, from Lisboa. She sailed in company
with several other veaselr, ender convoy of the Jo-
wait:a frigate, and carted in a heavy gee of wind
st the month of the Tagus. The 0.1:10r4 is
crowded with sick end wounded soldiers.—
When this s'aip let Lisboa, every Pteparetien was
making for the immediate evacuation of that place
by the Br;lish, tNo regiments (t.!”e t7th sad gth
'Get) were to have embarked 'that day in the
Tiver—Oar trooops ware cecalletl from the frontiers
—The Prvetugnese seemed to he in a state of the
utmost alarm.

If th poblic %1ei,...) judir of the disposition of
Dliariters, fr,,an Ole Lniguogrof taet ewspiipersth,-
'stool to thair st.-v.:ca, it would groin that they're
ambitions of odiwn, ani, with suicidal mini, defir-

wined to woik their own ilt,stroetion. When
the late galluist and deeply-lamented Sir JOHN
MOORE was sisktd -on his death bed -whether he
swished' to he brought to England. he ahswered,
•. where the tree hells there let it lie." We
wish his dying words had not been eoriairned
a:rietly, Ulla that his country hail In e' honoured
with the possession of all that rentaini of this gal-
lant soldier. We find, howeter. that he has been
buried along with his companion itt sans. the brave
General ANSIIIWTHEIL. in the citadel of l:ortiona,
and that a foreign country piaisebeis that treasort:
•f which England would be t 9 nrenni. *But little
did we think, that before the grave haticioted over
this garaint Chief, a man would Le fouutl itt Eng-

land, who, in the language of Lord HENRY
lAA iv,iuld dare to snatch the laurels from
his brow," .tild cuts' a stain upon his IXICIIIOry.
We Will take nu early °ppm/unity to return to this
aut.jeet, but atspresent we sltafl content ourselves
with a general view of the nature of the attack, *4,1
. the Ammer, as i;imen in the following extract from
*respectable Evening Print of yesterday It
appeal' says /Ise Print to which we allude.
40' front The Ertrikedisitry Gaate, msblislind on
Tuesday, that General Hort =wit no attempt
110 Follow up bis victory, but f.rrteeeded to carry
into Of:-et the rneasuies of iiis 'gallant and
la:seated prfdeeessor, whose " axed and presi.e,,
determination it was to withdraw h;s army." The
circumstances winch induced this his liehireli no-
tiou are not ritalitioned, but trirtlf :if them fee
ob"ions. Our array was (Aim iiletely worn
down .ritli fatigues and privations, and bad
lost at least one-fifth of its origival five* by
sickness and the sword. [Lord Grenville, ia the
I]rrc, ,f Lords last tti;ht, eitiatated our lost at
titae-fimilt.l The leading print of Government,
however, laments that, instead of adhering
" fixed determination" of his predecessor, 6 o•erei
Hon, on whom, ja consewie-ace of the wound of
General BAIRD, the to uporny command devolved,
did not follow the dictates of his own riotous
mind," persuaded as it is, that the signal overthrow
of the enemy in that dirty :ion might have been

elected, Now let u: auntwse, that our handful of
troops had advanced and gained .auotlws vianry.
what must have been the cous«queoce ?---
Sy me victory more it would have been ourlone.
Tile French, whose numbers were constantly ac-
cumulating, would have overwhelmed it. lu
the same moat criminal seal to shift the h 3.1

of public calamity, from •the reel author, the
Ministerial inillloll+ if so splendid s sic-
tory 21 that of the Pith has been obtained by
our army at the tiid of a long and harming

service, what might not have been expected from
more early active operations. when they were all
Tin high condition ?"—!Jere it is directly charged,
that Sir Jolts Mouth was to blame, in not
marching sooner front Salamanca, and wracking
General SotiLT ; a liereas Lord Ptr., r, who is
fall as compete:A a jiule as the Editors of the
journals, as we stated )e.tenlay, makes
on 147rup;r of declaring, that if the British army had
advanced one day's march beyond the point where
S J. Moots oalore.l the retreat tor aomnicticeb
every mon must inevitably have been surrounded
and made prisoners, or cut in pieces. While, bpi,-
ever. the adcovates of Ministers would thus sarrilice
tha sail Lary fame of Sir Join Mooßit to their
own bee And selfish views, in the precipitancy of
tlieit SIVA they defcat their own -iburpobe, and
Caen' weapons moil upon themselves. If Sir
Joan Moos% could not bring his oraty non
the field " fresh, and in rum cosidition," who is to
blame?—Who Ministers, who sent hint to Por-
tal:ail, instead of liiiibbic4 him in t i ttt near the
theatre o.f war.—lf he voted ant prosecute the ::ar
in the hart of Spain, because he foicid that lie
was 1, I. ft to his own resources," sdso is to!blam:•.?
Ministers, c.bn inisestirulate.l the strength
ROft co-riperation of the Patriots. If a second
victory at Ckoruntia could mot lead to any
•Ind-