The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-05-09 00:00:00

FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

RUSSIAN BULLETIN.

Head-tputrters, Lisboa, March es.
After the orrupation of Helaioefors, ue the loth February,
the army pushed forward to Hililac whea the enemy fled,
partly towards Sseaborg, the rest too Tawastehens, where
they threatened to make a stand, but tl.ey esti-smid only a
feeble resistance. At Orimattila nod Moirlookom, the affairs
Were Mee serious, and we took from the enemy a Culotte', a
itsjor, three other Officers, with two hundood men, and two
pieces of caution. Oar victory on the last measion would
Imre been more important, had nut the state add nature of
the countr preserved the tugitives. Our troops were obtig,d
to est a passage through the ice, while rocks of grauite, and
lakes eiwereil with snow, prevented our forming more than
foie men a-brand. The chasomrs performed wo.nsfers, dr.*,
tog the enemy from their ahettts, and by the vigour of thek
charge, reuilevong their artillery of no iujory to us.
At Tawastcheus era' at Ockeroes, General klingspor
sought to oppose our progro. sa,lnit the resell threw es pocsa
of cannon k five of which were loaded) and cousideridite
storms ~ provisions and ammuuition, tutu oar baud., with
2.10 prisoners.
The provinces of Heinols, Nyland, (with the exception at
Sacsbeug,) Tasweinlaud, Also, being the whole of tioliond,
and the greater part of Cast Botlioda, are now in our hands,
dud a few weeks will possess us of the remaioder. We have
to this day made about ono prisoneos, independent of armed
peasants, who have been dismissed to their homes.
We jo.d hear, General Muller, with a division of the ad-
vanced guard, has forced the per at Cnianaborg, and taken
Ave pieces ore:maim and 154 Omens.
!W' AZAR U RIIA, A PIL 18.

The Grand Duke Constantine doe; not go to

Paris, as was reported ; he resides almost wholly
at the plesure-castle of Stretna MIAs, devoting
himself with great assiduity to military sciences.

LIOTTRKBURGII. APRIL .10.
Gen. Annfeltit, who eounnauda the expedition
ty,railot Norway, ia reviling. forward over the Mau-
Wuataitai towards Christiana. and in his pro-

grew, has o:ttaitied itntortant althottgh warmly-eon-
tnited adrantagcg. The enespy collected *bout
Coo° torn, jut-hiding the Bar on of Youprenger.

nu the !maks of thif whcre they threw
up works to (lefeild the prissily. Toe ,wades, un-
infoymed of their strength, ittackeri the works with
shout 1.500 uteri, nutter Baron Atikersvard and
Isa'pr Hari, and tarried tLew, leaking abort jUO

LONDON,
MONDAY. MAI 9.

The Gazette of Saturday contains a comprehen-
sive Military Promotion, in which we do not find
auy of the principal Officers in the late attack ou
Buenos Ayres, except General ACUMUTT.

An Order of Council, in The GazeUe of Sutur.
day, places the Island of Leyland in a state of
blockade.

We have received Swedish Papers to the 30th
last, and Dutch to the Rd inst. extracts front which
are given in the preceding columns. The intelh-
gence from the theatre of war in Norway is later by
several days than that brought by the last Gotten-
burgh Mail. The Swedes continue to advance into
that country. I faring taken the fort of Xonvin-
ger. they pushed on to Glomaaen Lake, where a
shaip action took place, and the Norwegians were
defeated. A detachment of the Swedish troops
had, in the mean time, taken the fort of Blackiers,
which is the inlet to l:hristiania, to which place Gen.
ARMTELDT meant immediately to proceed.
There. is no recent intelligence from Finland.
The Russians having ceased to pursue, and the
Swedes having fallen back upon Ulesborg, military
operations have, of course, ceased in that country.
The Swedish Beet has retuned to port after a
cruise in the Baltic, leaving some ships off Born-
holm.

The Prince of PoirrL Coseu, with his wife and
son, were at Odensee, in Fuhoen, ou thelßth ult. ;
the French troops in the island amounted to about
four hundred. There was not at that date any ap-
pearnuce of the early transport of French
troops into Zealand, and the passage of the
Belt has been rendered of increased danger by the

appearance iu it of numerous gritials cruisers. TR •
frigates, a brig, and the captured yacht, whirl h.
been tit* for sea, were stac;eaed off Spray...,
where the English landed and destroyed the signal
post, and afterwards made a lodgment, the
iubr-
bitents basing Sod to Nybourg,

Admiral KrArs, its the Mart, with the Atidations,
also of the line, cud the Spareatchatake Ranprr,
T'i'res. Hearty. Zebra. Pie►cer, cud upwards o!
100 transports, on Friday tuoruin3 arrived at Yar-
mouth, with troops from the Downs. At the de-
parture of the po.t. they continued in the roads,
but tvere expected to sail, early on Saturday won..
big, for Norway. ,

A vessel arrived at Harwich, on Saturday, from
I loHand, with several passengers. The Captain
states, that he had taken them, together with some
females, from a neutral port, with the intention s‘
landing them in Holland, their native country ; but
the Dutch Government would pelmit no person to
land in the first instance. After great intercession,
how ever, in favour of the ladies, they were allowed to
join their friends on shore. The Captain proceeded
with the other passengers to England. While the
segue! was waiting the pleasure of the Dutch Go-
vernment, an Austrian Messenger found his way on
board, who was charged with dispatches from his
Government to this country. The Messenger
brings a report, which was current ut Itotteraam on
the preceding Sunday, that the British fleet and
the enemy's combined squadrons, bad met in the
Mediterranean, and that the former tad gained a
signal triumph over the! tter. No particulars are
stated, but the intelligence was fully believed m
Holland. We fear that this is only a reverberation
of the old report.

A gentleman, lately arrived from Reiland. re-
ports, that all the permnits who assisted 111 the r•ooLapo.
of the Hon. Cum 31,881,10 N, have been coin.
mined to prison, and it is feared will suffer death.
The Shad, sod Nassau, on Friday, arrived at
Yarmouth, hum the Baltic. to refit; they have
brought home some sick and wounded seamen.
Sir Hone POPHAM is appointed to the Vemern-
He, of 74 guns, Lord DUNCAN'S sag-ship in the
battle of Catnpenlown.
An order has been tamed to increase the number
of the Royal Marine, *erring in the Navy, as rot-
lows :-115 to a ship of the Brut-rate : en to a seesed
rate ; 15 to a thirti-rotte; 10 to a fourth-rate and
larg! frigates, and in proportion to souther ships.
W. Dawn., Esq. Commissioner for ascertaining
the State of the African Colonies, is arrived at
Portsmouth, to take his passage in the text con-
vey_ for that coast.
The LORD MAYOR will hold an Especial Court
of Common Cooncil, at twelve o'clock , this day,
at Guildhall, to consider the Militia Bill, said
other business.

The ;Inch regiment of face halted at Southamp-
ton, on Monday and Tuesday, on their route to Gus-
port, for Guernsey.
A letter dated New York, February ‘..1-2, from a
respectable Actress, belonging to the thentrie corps
in that city, to a friend in Bath, contain) the :/l-
lowing information :
Though you may he well acquaiuted with the pri seat
state of um world, you eau them hot an impel feet idea ei its
present dulness. The streets of New 'folk, which 1;41,1rii.,
used to have a brisk appearance, mid every fare tei.4
full of business, are new the sad reverse, doll, melsitelsolv amt
dispirited; trade in a stale of stagnation; sad must of the Is.
booting elms reduced to the utmost distress. S.. great as at-
tention have a frw week, made ! for it is not noes tlist
saves or eight works rime the embargo war laid ow ; when it
will he take's off remains to be told. The goicrel wish is
amity with F.uglan.l. The people begin now to feel that
the mother country is their sheet anchor; snit, like the
prodigal, wish to return to the embracer of so offer-
, 'Waste, them& offended parent. Oar professiosal
mem in New Yak, previous to these commotium, 111111
ir•dead—..the theatre was opened tart Ilfednesday, after being
clused 1101110 week;; our present piesperti are tarok hat
drilostriug."
An Officer belonging to the East India service,
on his return to this country, was captured Ly La
Semillanie frigate, in August last, and was carried
into the Isle if France ; from whence be writta to
his relatives in Bath a Letter, of which die folios.
ing IA an extract :
o Wilt you not he greatly surprised when I tell roe,
that we have twenty-eight' oleo of war is this roatthr,
and the frigate has heea upwards of two luoutlo is the
Bay of lkngal, hes captured the ship I woo a Ino•
stager in, another in cumpauy wilt us, and two the
day brae? The volute of these ships amount to marl
tea lochs s.f ropees, er upwards of a boneresl and
theorised pounds sterling ! So much fur the eiortims
at
our navy in the East lushes !"
A letter reeelictl from a respectable merchant
at Gotteuturgh, by Lis friend at Salford, Asa-
chester, says—tt There is no truth in the report of
the Emperor of Itussta being dethroned. The
Russians are retreating init of Finland. There
are 35,000 French troupe in Jutland, stud Hclsz.:,o
is in a state of insurrecti...n for want of nect/sarns.
The Swedes are in great spirits."
Dispatches were received on Saturday, at the iv!•
miralty from Sir SAMUEL ll,:nn, dated from it.:
Baltic, the 25th April, but they bring no nes/
importance.
"Various plans of finance have lately been nil,-
witted to the consideration of (invert:went ; bit
that which is said to have met with most upprobr-
tion, and is likely to be adopted, is founded era
the principle of life annuities.
According to this plan, Government will greet
annuities to the amount of one million per annur.:,
which are to be purchased in stock. The sum
Magary for such purchase is estimated at tote..
millions, to the full extent of which the pul.‘:•‘:
r debt will of course be diminished. We a^ "...'
however, pledge ouneves for the truth of this •,-
port. There is nothing new in this plan of gnwt-
Jaz annuities for lives ; and it is subject, ast
to this great objection—that the number of threc-
, tors and clerks that will be found ordeetned
eery for the conducting of it, will form a cotnidv—
addition to the ins:reactd arnival bunlcu of
t o 3
minim