The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-13 00:00:00

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11.311 body .f
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had actually

dash luta aril
must rctri.:t
ipreliewi that
follownil in
I. rtish troops,
vets CoruunA,
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1/retire b, St.
inpracticalik,
lise tircuit•.ur
1.1 its di6icu'-
and
pa forward iu
Te the British
, we are conii-
ring our arm•
that a Lamle
British army
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be achieved
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contrary to
the coast. we
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we fear, roust
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we disdain to
are admit al-
their Journals
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er quarter of
advautage•—•
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h into the: sea.
Id be idle to
Andalusia or
Is the opiisimi
informed IDCII
til to fear that
: will be gen-
e British army
nisi he dreads
and atrocious

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idently predict
tremity of the
Hine derive no

and opiniu
erised the pro-
f" say they.'
I have opposed
1, it was Spain.
it is canoes:l..l
cover, and tie!
; the character
a ; thy central
to prejudices of
'ruin a general
I these circuit,-
hope. But a
eve overturned
iish any rational ,
olutiuctiry con- I
arreudered, and 1,
tot sold the Mo-
have made him-
IN and of l'am-
uuld ha►e ►riven
nim to repel the
lefeiwe made by
•auld out Bar-

'glens and Paaspelana hare done? When the imbe-
cility °fen...atm produced at length its. own cure,
by compelling him to abdicate the crown, it devolv-
ed ou a still weaker Prince. FERW NAND VII. was
not constituted by Providence of that stuff or of
those materials which save and extricate empires.—
If he had resembled HLNRY IV. or t.t.'ti.t.inm 111.
he would not h*ve Lit fuel.le reign be goi.ig
to deliver himself into a :evolutionary ruffian's
hands at Bayonne, Who had caused the Duke

D'Erinima to be seized and murdered, and who
evidently meant to subject or to Mete on S!/;1111.
Such a King, like Louis the SIXTVAIN ru, may
awaken compassion, but excites no respect. A pri-
son, if not an axe,intiAt be his liVel•wAry
The throne thus vacant, and the /1111..111y in the
heart of the kingdom. yet the energies of the
uu-
tinu, 'titled by England, might bar.: saved
140, leaee hue., gloriomily
r ited ; but the jealimAies, inefficiency, iiiid
ocm-timitiosi of the provincial Junta-, :tilled
tu ra far more flout hi, own elforts.
spore than three month-, Le alas coini.Al.4l to Allitll-
d0I) Spain ; u period of time, its which, if t ie Phig-

lisli awl Spanish armies bad acted to a common
point, and if, iustead of an expedition against
Portugal, NE had directed our joint farces against
the *mealy in Binly, Navarre, and Catalonia,
ICAPtir.coN's interview with Ins Muscovite Ally at

Erfilith, might 1145'4! Lech productive of no ....lll-
rioo, or iouportwit re►ults. But that interval

tt.ma wel4 WA, The Corbieun Emperor rerottt-,I„
uld,n'ith fri.4 characteristic dee:slot', entered S

whjleOmer. uud BAttto, prneerditig by ditre ut

routes, ail vaite,d, the USW to Astorga, the other b.. Sa-
lamaneit. We arc now actually in flight ! and even
tho' we should be able to re-stn' ark, all the aortli-
western cn los and provinces of Spain musts ibusit
to the cuiniaernr. We way try our fortun anew
iu An,Unsia—luit the conflict is ton utieri ial ever
to be successful. It is a war of incapacity, vaccil-
latuni and combined form's, aLtailist unity of (Its
si4a, profoutul abliity, rtivl irresistible ye °city of
triivement. The result may be foreseen, without

the el of prediction. Lord CstsTLEaoAt a mod
Mr. CA:Its:INQ. opposed to Cti•MPAGNY and Tat.-
Lt.:tra.tsts st Supreme Junta its :tail Spa-
ni•it armies, betnlyr.l or 1.1 C I.l(l.lCtra —ouch
pte-
ro.ies twist tot! ra tertninat;
Though we are far front illoptitig, and till far-
eller Iliom int:ideating, these assertions or Cis ts,
aderess:tisg complete concurrence, yet it is impel-
tesis, not to admit that the resent.enusileut it, peen-
Iltt•til to favour their reception and operation
on ths• to e•!. great degree cif alarm for the
',stilly M. the army in Spain, we repeat, purssules the
Ministerial departments. Elmsl unerrtainty is
said to prevail. relative to the theatre of its f.sture
appenvanee and exertion.. Great ditletettee of
opinion is mild to prevail likewise among the :Mem-
bers of the Cabinet, on this point ; one pasty lasing
for transporting the forties to Cadiz ; a second
opinion naming Catalonia ; and one of the Secre-
taries of State being, it is believed, for landing them
at thlboa, and inarslinig to attack Pampelima, or
St. Sebastian. We Lt previously, honever, know
of their re-embarkation.

A Spanish schooner is arrived at Falmouth front
Gijon, which she left on the 3d.—At Gijon it tekth
reported that the combined armies and the Freneh
had been frequently engaged, and that the French
had been defeated. These reports alluded, per-
haps, only to the frequent skirinishes with the
enemy in our retreat from Salingiti..
Lieutenant CAKROLL, Aid-de-('anon to Sir SID-
NEY SMITH, has arrived with dispatches from Rio
Janeiro, wisieh he left the be inning of Novell',
—lt appear., by the account of Captaiii Ssti en,
(whom Sir SION rir had sent to Burins Ayres), that
the French dispatches, scut out from BONAPARIT.
and Jossiest, in Miy last, had been intercepted,
and the French Officer pot in iroitfitiensent.—
Great sithserintious were making at Buenos Ayres
for the cause, and Si' SION oiftred
to convey them to Spain.
On Friday was scut from the F. ‘elsequer to the
Bank about In,nnu,itool. to pay the Dividends on
the Consols for the last sit mouths, which com-
menced paying to the public at the Bank on Tues-
day.
On Monday, a meeting of the Privy Council
teak place at the Council office, which was garott-
ed by the MASTER of the Minns, S.r Et AN
1i E-
PEAN, and Mr. DIINDAS, UlOllll PilllTUtlllll Appeals.
Their Lordships attention wit: principally called to
the cause of Sir ‘litnt.tast Von ac; v. Srtwaar,
arid &ammo v. the East India Company. The
proceedings of their Lordships were adjourned,
taw die, upon the first cause, and the latter was
adjourned to next Monday.
iesterday inorning as the workmen were clear-
itt.z stway the ruins of Covent-Oardeis Theatre, at
tar Piazza-door, under the place where the Plitainx
engine an.. so unfortunately destro:,ed, with the
firemen attending it, by the falling in of the
arch, when they came to the charm, they Numl the
body of a mint, not burned, but mach bruised.—
r. Wcae, of Tottenham-Court-Road, missed
his oisly soil since the snifortutiate catastrophe of the
tire, lle had made every inquiry, but in vain—ad-
vertised him, but to no ef'f'ect; he flattered himself
and his anxiousfamily with the hope that lie had been
tinpressed into the navy, or trepausie.l int., a rest-
orient of the bite. As soon WS the body was found,
word was sent to Mr. Wass, he arrived its about
teu minutes on horseback, and exclaimed, if lie
he any sou, lie has Need boots on, arid * silver
watch, cleans, and seal, its ills pocket." This de-
scription was correct, and the parent appeased lost
in afflietion. The hotly all* teellnteti In a shell, at
o'eloek, to Covent.. 4 uO4lNa watch house, where
it Wis.' ',ea. An inquest Kill be held oa tt this day.