The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-04-07 00:00:00

LUN ATICS.

Mr. C. W. W. AV y 'it: rose, ac..roriling to untie'',
to remind the nous.: of the wretched and unp..or sled
stat.• in wine', many inindreds of the moat unhappy
au•l of of the human race in these emititrie3
hod been left by the inattention of the Legislature.
On toe list of l.rrs.•ils described as pani.ers arid cil-
mina' lunatics there were now :those i son, all of
whom were confined in work-houses or priaom,eniii-
fortless, and without either that au•die.ml or Lwnauc
aasistancc that might conduce to the rests.rarimi of
that beat of hem en'a giftp.—reason. The intention
of the Bill he intended to introduce into that
Holm on', to procure for thew unhappy outcasts
of sori.•ty a permanent and adequate eatabildi-
ment—a salutary and kind modi of treatment, aml,
if possible. such as Wight render them again aor-
thy inentbera of s+••iete. Ile had the hon•lur to
move for lease to bring in a lasi for auiendi•ma the
state of criminal a,,ml pauper Iona; throat;laint
this kin4dont. To this al,. I, :sane
atneitilmenti fur the relief of ,1::),Iar per.• :4 111
Ireland, %%here he a as infortne.l they were, iwrhapc,
more in need of it than even in th.s eoantry, sin: c
they hail no estatilialmient there, similar to our
Poor Laws.

Sir .101174 Nrwroar said, it had once been
intention to have introduced •ucti n 'etw
kw'. Ile had, linwcvPr, failed in I•us wit
through a:.y ilen:iency :nuc;&

tegrettefl the cirottastance then, and he earnestly
recominewled the matter to the lion. Member,
who hal so humanely takeu the cause of the
helpless and "retched into his hands.—Leave was
then given.
'llia SOLICITOR-GENERAL Of SCOTLAND pOSt-
vottud the Lord Advocate's notice to Friday nest.
,Ir. FO►TER bruilght in a Bill for restraining the
of Irish Proluissory NUL:K.—Read a
first-tinie ; orJerad to be read. a second time to-

mirror.
The I louse went into Committee on the Irish
Duties bill. After sonseconversation between Mr.
FOSTPH and Sir JOHN NEWPORT. the report was
brought up, and oillered to be rveeived to-morrow.
The CHANLLI.LoR of the EILCIIIEIKER brought
up a for inelivling the Duties on the-Shooting
of amongst the Assessed Taxes.—Read
first
th-ninovi.,.l" That the Order for going intos
no the Orders in Canova he postpiined
from Thursday until Monday next."—Ordered.
Sir .tun x N IMPORT moved. fur further papers
respecting the Linen Board of Ireland.—Granted.
Mr. rOSTER brought in a Bill for fixing in the
possession of incumbents of livings, in Ireland,
hinds, %Inch may have been held by theta for six-
teen years.
On the sugqestion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, th,:i

Bill was then read a first, and ordered to be rea I
a -econd time on Monday nett.
The [louse %eta into a Committee on the Bill
fi.r preventing the Exportation of Wool into Ire-
land without bowl.
In the t'umtnittee the several Resolutions were
read slid agreed to ; the report mut brought up,
anti ONirreJ to Le received to-morrow.
The I-101'x then adjourned.

E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY. APRIL 7.

The list accounts from Gibraltar repreeented
Sir SION/A SMITH taking in supplies at that
place, preparatory to his sailing fur the Brazils.
The Lev :tut, however, and not the Brazils, we now
find is his destination. Dizpatches were sent oil
last night from the Admiralty, addressed to hiui off
the Darthinellei.

The Treasury Prints lately announced, in their
usual vii:,oui'ng stile, tl:at a large military force
would be sent to the assistance of the King of
SWEDEN. Ministers we believe have chasiged
their mind upee this subject. We do not learn,
that any aid of that sort iit to be furifshed
from this country. Should this be fact, it
affords a new proof of their unfairness to-
ws Ceir predecessors in office. They have
never ceased to reproach the late Ministers for
not having sent troops to the Cors6ivent at a sea-
son when ships could nut sail; under circtini-
stances in which troopseould be of no avail ; and to
places from which Lord tivrcutasaa has declared
not a single man was likely to return. We can
sear( think it poosible, that men who have held
such languae.•, will not insist upon sending a mi-
litary force to Sweden, if it were only for the sake
ofcons;steucr.

Mr. 11;:sktssos; stated, lust night, in the House
of Commons, that the unpins of the Consolidated
Ftt;nl, last !car, utanttutesi to near 4000,0001.

No d;sputelies ha‘c Laren received from the Me-
diu:ll'4nm', and yet the wind has contiuued fair
..,ioce Sunday. The report of a victory iii that
quarter, so often repeatvd, begins, of course, to

The Dicila frigate, of j 3 gnitA, Captain GRANT,
laZely fell in with a French flotilla, consistiag of
tO sail of chow-marces, from Bounloaux. The
Diann 1104 a smart action with the gun-boats, its
hick she hard one man killed,. and sevens' a mantled.
Two of the French flotilla were sunk, and seven
captured, of which two have arrived at Pl)mouth.
The gun-Loat., anti the retraiitsilcv of the ettent.:;,
elli•eted their ebvsia,.

The Preane schooner arrived at Portsmouth on
T.ir uitli di patchra from Sir JOHN WAEREN ;
kft li, rtiimla on the lith of Alurch. Sir Joust
Dychm cr. rn ii.l r.-at the Demerara from the
es.t. 14siiP%to Bernititia, to announce the ens npe
of the Ittehloct bquarlmn. The state of affair*

between America and this country. according to
the at:comas tacni4lit by the Bream, wure a &mid-

appra►u:lee.

We etatr.il yesterd.” that the Worcester It4,1:1
man, Captaio S. Woou, elid the Lord Duss,ai

Captain BR Di ottu, %%.ith troops and store*, had

sailed frtnn Nludia4 for .Prioct: AVa!es's

;.ir ED-

Wand') upon a be exia.ditum, under S
NV %RD PELLiw, but that the Lard blincan was
nbinzed to return by contrar %%Ind. anti would pro-

bably require b) be ,b.,ked.

Giree, it AN

f4rther, rot,i.t, lof font me-n of bar, six cola-
rail:lei of Europe :tn., to yield' %%as to he added an

European rew,iniciit, 011 the arrival of the expedi-
tion at Penang. A report esterday .tated. that
Manilla, one of the l'hilippine na, the:
object of ova, k ; but tin. tor., limit: Sir EM% tRU

PELLEW dor,' not apt to hit, atirtiO.Ltt• ter

that nttrutyt Otitvt •tr.e, tbat It lija

destined against Batavia. They add, that the ships
from Bengal, destined to call At Madras, proceeded
direct from Calcutta to the island of Ceylon ; in
consequence of which, man: persons who were wait-

ing ut Madras to eml ark for England in these
ships, and who had actually secured accommoda-
tions, u.!re disappointed of their passage.
A system of reform has been adopted and pur-
sued, under the Government of Mr. PETIME,
which the expenses of the Company have already
Leen diminished bY the annual sum of six lacks of
pagodas, or 240,0001. and it is likely, with the con-
currenct of the Commander-in-Chief, General
MAcwouatt., thut a further reduction may yet ht
effected.

The season, according to the accounts received at
Fort St. George, predicted excellent crops, and a
correspondent produce of revenue, and the defalca-
tion, from the recent famine, was likely to be much
less than had been expected.

Yr4terday, at two o'clock, His ATLJEsMY he'd a
private kvce, at the QUEEN'S Palace, which ao
attended

The Archbishop of Canterkury, the Bishop of I.imerirb,
the First Lota of the Treasury. the Lord President of tlof
Collura!, the Lord Privy Seal, the Three Secretaries of Stine,
the Chancellor of the Pecheqwer, the Master General of
the Ordnance, the Lord Steward of the Ilicioscliold, the CUp-
lain of the Gentlemen Pensioners, the Duke of Neaciistic ;
Earle—Bathurst and Harcourt ; Londe—Hentbfield
stick), mud Anthem (in waiting); Sir S. Cottrell ; Ginera's
Cotton, P.que, Maxwell, and Gordon (grown is waitint
The following had the hoaour of being preened
to Hit MAJESTY ;

31sater George Allen, by the Earl of Hammer', upon h
being appointed • Page of Humour to Her Majesty.
The Bishop of Limerick, upon his promotiuu to that
Bishuprit k.
The Duke of I.\eweastle, upon his marriage.

Majue-Cenral Cotton, upou him proututioa.
Lientrunnt-Gentrul Maxwell, upuu Lis being appoiutill
Cmikael of the ad Veteran Battabor.

Major-Geueral Payne delivered to His Majesty the order
of the Bails, worn by the late Lord Lavinia's.
His MAJEsTY held a Privy Council, sod ;are
audiences to the Cainnet Ministers present. 'rile
Duke of Poast. twit's audience was the first Ile ills
had for these eight Weeks past, owing to his ;rtg,
having been severely afflicted with the gout in
stomach, of which he is now recovered.

V esterilar a Court of Directors was held it fa
East India ilouseewhen Captain ECK Folio, of the
ship Lady Jane 'Janda:, took his final Imre of tae
Court, previous to departing for Madras arid Bra-
Captain (l.
.HT.IIING was sworn into the com-
mand of the ship Earl Spencer, consigned to Mit-
dras awl Bengal.

The Court adjourned at wiz o'clock, till this
Extract of a Letter from on boarJ the
Capt. STEPHENSON, one of the fleet of about tlt
sail, which left Cork oil the 17th of January, for
the Wtst Indies, under convoy of His MAJi erv's
ships Thissar and Mose/k, ',His MAJESTY.* P;11,
Dryad'. to accompany them to Southward of Y..-
&Lira.) dated off the Deserter, Madeira beam%
N.E. 7 or 8 kagues :—" We arrived off her:- on
the 27th ofJan. airy to iuforin ou that e I sel.
and roost of the fleet sere di,pf-rsed on the mit::
of the Itltit, in a very heavy yule froth N.E."
The Sasaimah, Capt. TUOMPSON, from the 7,!e-
-diterranean, one of the shipe that sailed under con-
voy of the Sirius frigate, arrived, ou Tuesday,
Plyrrwuth. She was taken by the Prince d .Is-
turiu Spanish privateer, and retaken by the
nose, of 41 guns. She hrim;s en of:count of the
capture of the Caroline privateer, of Plymouth, by
the Prince cr,lst:tria4, on the 16th alt. of a
smart action, in which Capt. Joses, of the C'arei:'r,
the First Lieutenant, and several meth were kid J.

The following extract of a letter is copied from
The Liverpool Advertiser of 'Monday i.t.t :
Extract of • letter frota a Gentle/nazi at babes to 1.. s
Brother in this town, dated reiweary fig, ISO/ •
English Elect appears ott the Ilse every Jay ; I stand at lay
window, from which I Lave • fell view, wishing I vs. 0,
bused, but to no purpose. Last night it was very r 34,a'ad,
illuminated ; and news has arrilied is the city, this inoruiL.,,
that the Rochefort wpsedrun is entirely destroyed."
The Leyden, 'and the victualler* which earrihi
out provisions to Sir CHARLES COTTON'S Ficet ON
Lisbon, left the fleet oo the Myth e# last
but brought no news.
\Ve make the following extract from a Iczter 1
dressed to Al:. StExt., of Tower-hill,
N I La, in the East-Indies, dated May I, S,/.7
Tlw Dutch frigate Java foundered in sompany s,th
Blenheim, of the island of Itoderique. It is supposed at,
ran foal of eacL other in a heavy gale."
Admiral li.ovet.xv left town yesterday for l'o•!'-
iniottli, to take his passage on board the :IP;
mere, Captain PARKIN, as Commander iu
on the Jamaica station.

The Allicatur, GRAINCER, and the Licci:t
CoavaN.fruin the cape of Good Hope,

West Indies, were left at St. Helena.
The Lords Couttuissiorbers of the .tdrairalty !

been ',lensed to direct Crti.titin THOMAS 1 e •
Itnyitl Marine,. (who so eallelittly distiii;:c•
himself on board the late Lord NE-14CON's
the I.attle of the Nile, anti in relcninsr the 1
mid Fuinily of Naple.,, from tlx hands ot. t
French), to be emplop.d ON full pay ou the .