The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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THE BRITISH PRESS.

.LONIX)N,
TUESDAY, AtMurt 1.
We have received Near-York Papers to the 17th
last, hut but astir mitten.* are destitute of iuttreat.
We Mare received Prove Gittettes to the 13th
July, but the *bury movinueuts and operations,
which they notice, have bona divested of any inte-
rest or importaiu•e to whieh they could ever make
a claim by the Armistice of Z 1141114 of the 11th of
July.
•
• The van of the Expedition, which sailed from
kainsgate an Friday, was only the Ist ulivisom, and
did lint consist of two divisions, as hos Iseult stated
in mat of the papers.—The 2J division slid not sail
from Hainsgate until six o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing flee Harwich division sailed oil the stow
The third division sailed from the Downs al. Sun-
day. The wind low uontinued favourable, and we
understand'that Government ex peetto receive some
account of the progress tit the armament iti tie
cour►e of this night, or early to-mot-low morcim4.
The nerri.mtrx means fur facilitating early commu-
nication from the wene of operation have been pro-
vided, among which are a series of cutters, statien-
ed as signal vessel=, Po far as such a plan is practi-
-tathle between the English and Dutch cua.ts.—
• We mentioned, y e•ti- relay, a report at Dover,
on Soturday, that iiitelligeoce had liven re-
caved of the surreoder of rhistinig. without
°pooping.), and that this rumour was nut cre-
dited, as there was not time for any part of the
Experbuoil to have reached that point, so as to be
able to pot us in possession of the result. Our Dover
Correspoodent, in his letter of yesterday. mama."
this objection, by suiting that it was the naval force
previously employed on that station which was
engaged in this operation. This lettesi bays, that
the three ship* from the Downie,, sent do reinforce
the squadron off FloPhing, having anima op Tues.
day last, the French SqUiall mit whit:Mud come dawn
the river returned up the Scheldt. Sofas pilots then
came out of Flushing, and assisted our ships to
enter the harbour, which ►hey did without opts°.
sition. the French auu their party having previous.
ly left the town. if this statement be correct,
we way presume that the English 'army is io actual
pospiersio of the place. It is certain, indeed, that
►he Lard Nebo* packet arrived on Saturday in
the Downs, with an account that the French
ships haul returned up the Scheldt. Two Me*.
stagers also arrived in town o:i Saturday, from
the shoal-Alps in the Downs, with, we believe, a
similar account to that brought by the Lard ft.hos.
Accorling to another report, the French had eva-
cuated Walchereth and returned to Autogiro,
• threatening the inundation of the country, on the
arrival of our armament off that place. It was

also added, that the crew* of the French vessel► had
deserted them, and gone into the interior. We
may believe, that all these reports are premature,
and foundA upon the retest of the French vessels
up the Scheldt.

If Fortune, in her utmost malice, had contrived
any event, calculated to display, in the strongest
point of view, to the undemanding' of the people of
this country, aIA of all Europe, the utter incapacity
and inability of the present Cabinet. to extricate as
from our actual embernisamenta ; it could not have
been accomplished so effectually, as by the Armis-
tice just concluded between France and Austria.
So extraordinary, assisted, so provoking. and so op-
portune, has the isteltigence been of this Conven-
tion, and its transsimisso from Boulogne to us, at
the moment when nine armament seemed ready to
proceed to its slestinalfses ; that. ostwithstanalin
our experience et BONAPARTE'S velocity of action.
we hive not yet recovered from our astonishes's%
at the fact. Scarcely cau we even now believe it
real, or consider the House of Austria ;as altogether
crushed, because the battle of Wagratii was lost.
But, how, let us ask ourselves, has this Comecon
Commander, whose paramount abilities challesige
our admiration, so less than his atrocities and crimes
excite our abhorrence ; how has he, in three mouths
time, overturned the Monarchy, and dispersed the
armies of Austria ? We reply, and we undertake to
demonstrate, with the clearest evidence, that he has
effected so arduous a task. by precisely an opposite
line of policy and of action, to that which character-
'ises the counsels, and dictates the plans of His MA-
JESTY'S present Ministers. In order to set this
troth before our ilea with mathematical precision,
it is only necessary to review the great °utilises of
NAPRLeoe'a campaign just terminated ; and to
contrast it with the imbecile, as well as ruinous
plan, pursued and pursuin4 by the British Cabinet,
in every quarter where they . have directed their
aims soil operations. The conclusion will be irre-
sistible.

Almost from the period of our expulsion from
Spain, in January last, it was lialpatfle, and must
have been known to Ilia M&SESrlr's confidential scr-
sints, that Austria had determined once more to
take up arms. In fact, Lux AAAAA K quutted Cale.
tile early in February, to return to Pans. The
imperial Guards were rrealled /is March, and scut
to Stramburgh. All eyes were fixed on the unlitary
preparatious au•l movements of the Government of
Vienna. In the tirst days of April, war commenced;
aad NavoLioa et out from the Tuillerie., on