The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-08-03 00:00:00

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The English newspapers never were so fall of fat
false news as they have been for thew f 3 days past: heart; big
the reason is, that the Eoglish peopli- were never
you come
more uneasy ; that the English Government never
your own.
stood more iii need of deceiving them respecting
the interests
tie mid iNstein which they follow, of wishiog to forget that
struggle alone on the continent with France ! The
second towards
good sense of the English nation en ttiles them to those even
fore.ee the dishonour and destructiwi of their army
to you. come
in Purtugml ; they are convinced that the most for- Their I,
Innate event which could 1*(01 that army. wonld at the Palace
be a catastrophe like that of Moore. The English nu, end ;
are too much accmitomed to calculate chances and some data.
events not to know that. slow against France, they Hia 1,g4 M.
can, in such a contest, meet with only /Evaders. harvest,
end obtain only disgrace. Men of sound judg- to be distributed
'neut. like Grenville or Grey, are numerous in tore,. in
England, but they are at present without any in- into prtaoneti
fittence.
Ministers, titerefoa. not being able to change the The seolli io divided into
„politic opinion, endearoar to deceive the people,
ttodeinse df General
'Tor iilat4oQP, it is said that General Sebastieni has !
aspitulated : this report is soon comma:wird ; but
it r out the leas repeated in a thdusinad different
rays : at one time it was a mule-driver, at another
it was the master of a ship which had arrived at
Cadiz, who brought these rest news! ! !—They
also wish to occupy the minds of the people about
the army of Lord Wellington : this army. it is said,
amounting to the &coif& number of i4/000
Eur-
fish ! 'hos arrived at such a state of disciphoe, end
the soldiers have so mach confidence in their Com-
mander-in-Chief, that they will be able to heat
70,000 Frenchmen ; for it is proved thit a British
solder is, for courage, worth at lea**. four French
grenadiers!
The French army mays nothing; hut it has in-
vested Ciudad Rodrigo, opened the to-euchre, and
is bai terms in breach. The cries of the inhabitants
of Ciudad Rodrigo are beard in Lord Wellsogien's
carnii, which is only sic leagues distant; but all
ears are .hut szoi,•st them. It was thus that the
inhabitants of Madrid endeavoured to move General
Moore by their remit; but he also shut his ears
against them, and Madrid was• taken in his sight.
Acid it was thus that very lately the inhabitants of
Seville and Andalusia called their most faithful
allies to their assistance. and that Wellesley ans-
wered them, acrordiug to the constant custom of
his couutry, GO out of the scrape the brit way you
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The following particulars respecting the affars of
Spain arc vn•itive:—
That the French and English armies are in sight
of each other on the frontiers of Portugal:
That in this situation the French are besieging
Rodrigo :
Fu it the Elighais do out ettemot any thing
towards giving iliCeirsit Its that city; that after
all their boasting, they will be the ,laugning-stock
of Europe, if it is captured within the reach of
e4IIIIOIZ.

" The editors of the English newspapers turn and !
twist thenvelves in a thousand different ways: tnry
intercept letters, copy libels on the insurrection,'
and *Mil themselves into every possible shape. in
order to induce the nation to believe I hat the French
armies in Spain are but a confused crowd without
disopline, discouraged or incapable to act as mole
titers, arid commanded by chiefs who are igno-
rant and without say experience ; that the only
good troops are these of which the English. Por-
tuguese, and Spanish armies consist ; but while all
this is proclainitaile by them, the French armies are
in it;ght of the English Willy. capturing Astoria.
besieging Ciudad Rodrigo, Bidsjes, aid Cadiz;
capturing in Catalonia and Airagou, Lends, Me-
quinenza, and hosts• len; the French army in Ar-
ragon is be-ieging Tortma; and that iii Catalonia.
Tarragona. The Preach armies are carrying on five
great sieges. and have just terminated five others;
they occupy the provinces of Spain from the North
to the South, and from the East to the West; and
they every where repress the robberies which are ex-
' cued by the intrigues of Englard.
This necessity felt by the English of deceiving
the public respecting the reel situation of things,
leads them a great way: they published pretended
letter. front the Emperor Napoleon to the former
Queen of the Two Siciltes; ridiculous letters, in
wivch the Emperor Napoleon is represented as mak-
ing uninberless spulogies to that furious woman;
and while they are printing such absu►dities, their
cannon of alarm is resounding througnout Sicily l
and the Neapolitan navy are ct,vering themselves
with glory in the presence of their King. by beating,
the Anglo-Sitilian feet.
Respectingthe affairs of the Continents they pub-
hsh, at one time, that they are going to haw peace
with Hassle; that a war between France and Rus-
sia I. smug to break oat, sad that a new coalition
is about to be funnel : tit another time, that the
Emperor Napoleon is forming noels or steels a lit.-
lee' agrsin•t the triturate] of &,:.
The great Powers of the (..m.tii,eist are daily
droning tighter the knot by wtii. h they ere‘bilited:
they are daily hero lung more convinced of the folly
of fighting fur the English. IVhen Ciudad Rodrigo
,a captured. the catastrophe will be wore imminent
for England. and it will then he necessary to call to
the helm of the state. men who are more prudent.
■lid b►tter acquainted with the nature of the re-
sources and strength of their country. sod titerfore
more moderate. Such men will be setts.l.:e of the
tte.ze•at necessity of Itopudating t►e notional debt. of
cal ;stag their ;sinuous, mid of giving peace to the
world. Eat never will slices resu'ts be ob•aiaid
from presumptuous soil tgenrsost ,n n, who ini--
t+lee what is well known by eve►t. enfier-lent-e w:n•er
in Europe, v r. ►he isilunest of the Larlah at veg.
and 'licir scram:, mr lead!

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