The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-02-24 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Issaumm 24.

A report has been prerabmt for wane days, at
the west end of the town, that the SIDSOUTIII
party is again coming into office.

Last might, in the House of Lords, Lord ST.
Jona deferred his motion for an Address to
His MAJESTY to sunpend the operation of the
Orders in Council, until to-morrow.

Mr. WIIIITBREAD, last night, in the House of
Commons, expressed himself with great warmth
against the for prohibiting the exportation
of Peruvian Bark. There is a great scarcity
of this article in France. and a sickaeas. it is
said. prevails among the troops lately returned
from Poland, for which bark is usually iimcrilled
as a most potent medlcine.

We hare received u M---oaitntr of the Huh inst.
from which we have made some eatracts. but they
are sot of much importance.

The last set of Paris Papers contain more scan-
(talons matter than we have seen for some time in
the French Journals. It is exactly such as might
be e'cpected from the child and champion of Jaco-
binisin, arrived at plenitude of power, and, at liberty
to indulge all the passions of his nature. Its
grossness. however, defeats its object, and it is not
dangerous, merely because it is Itliegut,ting. In any
other paper such language ought to be passed
over rt silence, but Cie Mrai►eur is the Gs-
:ens ul the French Government, and its lan-
guage, when addressing itself to a foreign
country, if official. This vulgar abuse, themfore,
of the English pecrile and their King, must be

considered the language of DOWLPAITE. M such
it afford; matter for serous convider3tion. in a
former nogociation he urged the abuse Leaped
upon him in the English papers; as a sufficient
reason for destroying the Liberty of the Press
in this Country'.—The Engliah I'opers now sel-
dom indulge its any license of that kind ; and now
BONAPAITE, without any provocation, Indulges in
the most rush scanialous, and atrocious invec-
tive.

'We noti.:ed yesterday several instance* in which
BONAPARTE'S deviationec:ing and blockading de-
crees have been carried into effect upon American
vessels, with all their E..verity. These cases are all,
however, of recent date ; and the Papers respecting
America laid before Parliament furnisb\the answer
and defence which BONAPARTE will probably set
up. Ile will retort, that his Decree was intended
more for terror than for use—that it remained a
dead letter until the British Orders of Council
called it into life and action ; and that instead of
our measures being acts of retaliation, his are, iu
fact, acts of retaliation upon us; and that, at all
events, our pww.eadings restrictive of American
commerce, were premature. Such, no doubt, will
be the mode in which Borsararra will attempt to
justify his conduct to America, and he will have
this great advantage, his argument cannot be,
questioned, for it is that upon which the American
Government has rested its case with this country.

His MAJESTY is expected in town, this day, to
hold a private Levee and Privy Council, at the
Qu sues Palace,
Last night's Gazette contains addresses from the
Noblemen and Gentlemen Heritors of the county
of Fife, and the Provost, Magistrates, and Town
Council of 'Fain, assuring His MAJESTY of 'their
cheerful support during the present war.
Yesterday the Loan Mayo' ordered the price
of bread to be continued at Hid the qnartern
loaf.—His Lordship will hold a Court of Common
Council to-morrow ; and a Common Hall, for the
election of a Bridgemaster, on the Ist of March

next.
Sir SANOWL 11900 will leave town, in about ten

days, to rejoin his squadron.
A Board of Assistance was held, yesterday, at
the Admiralty, for the management oi the business
of Greenwich Hospital.
The Elliker, KEARNS. from Messina, for Lon-
don, is captured and carried into Calais.
The Edward. NICHOLLS. from Savannah ; the
Clyde, STEW&RT ; and the Dart, AUTRUTHER,
from St. Michael's, are arrived in the Clyde.
A French privateer. of ifi guns, captured a loaded
brin,,, on the igth inst. off Flainbro' Head.
Orders have been sent to the Custom-house,
prohibiting for the present the exportation of Peru-
vian bark, and all sorts of cotton.
Satuttlay sennight, the retail business of Dublin
was thrown into the utmost confusion, by a sudden
depreciation of dollars from ss. 6d. to fis which ap-
pears to have been merely the result of some inter-
ested speculation at the expense of the Public con-
venience, rather than the consequence of any thing
either prudent or necessary.
The Loan LIEUTILN•PIT of IRELAND beg been
pleased to appoint the following Gentlemen to
be High Sheriff, for the ensuing year :
Sligo—Thomas Holmes, at Ferri BA Esq.
bregford—Daniel Murray, of Cloneallurf, Esq.
Kerry—Robert Day, of Castmain, Esq.
nippers, gi—Heary Langley, of Castle-Brittes, Ttq.
Feragme—J+bia Madden, of Manur-aster-base.
The storm of Thursday se'nnight, extended to
every part of Ireland, particularly Waterford : Se-
veral houses in that city were unroofed, and the
great window of the Cathedral was forced iu.
Oa Wednesday week, the detachment of the
77th Regiment, which escorted the French pri-
soners to Pulley barracks, returned to Lincoln.—:
One of the
_prisoners attempting to escape from the
party, at Peterborough, was unfortunately shot.
He had got to the top of the wall within which the
prisoners were confined, when he was observed by
the centinel on duty, who repeatedly called upon
him to come down ; but, persisting in his attempt,
be was fired at, and killed on the spot.
The Right Hoe. Earl GREY has appointed the
Rev. Wm. BAYIRATOCK, Minor Canon of Mi..
ham, Vicar of Billingham, in that county, and
Chaplain to Col. Mowwaav's Volunteer Cavalry.
to he one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
Extract of a letter from Stoney Stratford, Fe-
bruary 41, 1908 :—" On Friday morning last, the
inhabitants of this town were thrown into the ut-
most consternation by inforniation which arrived
from Wolvottoo, that the large aqueduct whiles
under the immensely high enbankment for carry-
ing the new line of the grand junction canal across
our valley, about a mile below this term, had fallen
in, and that the river Ouse was so dammed op
thereby, that this town must shortly be entirely in-
undated to a great depth. I hafted to the spot,
where my fears were much allayed, by finding
that one of these arches, which had been propped
up underneath with ti,nber, soon after the centres
were removed, was still standing ; and that this one
arch, owing to there being no flood in the river was
able to carry off the water as fast as it came Sown.
—On examining the other two arches, I found that
about twenty-two yards in length of the middle p(rt
of each had fallen in, and blocked up the arches,
laying the canal above in complete ruins, emptying
it as far as the nearest stop-gates on each side. and
exposing the remains of live hundred quarters of
coke or cinders, which the contractors had laid on
the arches. The ends of each of the broken
arches were found standing in • crippled state.—
Most fortunately for the public, as well at the
Company, the old lineal' canal and locks across thi
valley are still reuttining, and in sufficient repair
immediately to convey the barges, and prevent io-
term ption to trade : but the lama 4001. per month.
which I am told has of late been the amount of the
extra tonnage received by the Company for goods
passing over this embankment, will be lost to them
oaring the period of rebuilding the arches and re-
pairing the canal over them".