The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-09 00:00:00

BONAPARTE.

It was formerly the custom to amuse the public,
at least four times a year, with an account of the
death or revere indisposition of Bonaparte. For
some reason or other this practice was laid aside,
and he was allowed to enjoy uninterrupted good
health, and to'have become fist and sleek. The
Tripoli** Gentlemen, who had so often dispatched
him in '(AC Timm and other assassins, loyalists and
Vemleans, had also laid aside their poisoned howls,
their ilaggtrei, and thole infernal machines, and he
was soffered to travel where, and as he liked, in
safety.. In the course of last week, however, for the
first time after this cessation, a report prevailed in the
city, that he WAS dangerously ill. Whether such be the
fart or no is not now material, as, by the same report,
he is dto be now perfectly recovered. The
fallowing iieeount of the business is extracted from
is paper of yesterday : " A gentleman, who left
Paris so short a time ago as Saturday, the 30th ult.
lies brought some important communications. Ile
confirms the rumours which have readied us from
various quarters, of the indisposition of Bonaparte.
His malady was a violent fever, accompanied with
delirium, brought ri I,y an imprudent exposure of
his person to the air, while in a strong perspiration.
It occurred towards the latter end of August. He
had bees.trecupied during the whole of the fore-
noon of a very hot day in reviewing a corps of the
army, and directing some manoeuvres, and had
just returned to.Schoenhrtum, when au atultassa-
dpr extraordinary, with a letter from the Emperor
of Russia, arrived. Without resting himself, or
seeking corporeal refreshment from a change of
' clothes, he desired the AinbaFtador to he intro-
duced, and having read the letter, he withdrew
witb him into the garden M. the palace, where he
remained for more than two hours iii conversation,

the whole of which time, according to the report*
at Paris, his head was uncovered. lu the course
of the night he felt himself indisposed, and, before
the dose ofthe following evening, he was considered,
by the physicians in attendance, to be in so dan-
gerous a state, that expresses were sent off to Paris,
for further medical assistance. The strength of his
constitution, however, triumphed over the disease,
and before the end of the month he was declared
conrilescent. The at my, for obvious reasons, out
'kept ignorant of his indisposition. The hasty de-
li:lnure of the medical men first excited any suspi-
, don on that head at Paris, where, we understand,
so far iss an opinion could he formed From words end
s chews of grief.' the people in general were much
afflicted by the iiitelligence9' Whether this was
the prevailing sentiment iu other pia' of France,
our informant had not an ropporternity of judging."

DUTCH hh:CREE.

" LOrTs WAPOL►OIf. IT TYR GRACt er SOT •Wl. THE

tiIieIIITUTION Or Tilt KINGDOM!, HIND or HOL-
LAND, AND CONSTABLS Or FRANCS;
" Upon the Report of the Director of Ways and
Means afloat, of the 14th September, 1809, we have
deemed, and hereby decree,

" I The transport of Coleetal goods, manufactures, and
eimaidered in the loth Article of the Law of
the 314 May, lair, an English commodities, coming from
the Department of Zealand, or the islands of Overflakhe end
emedereede, and proceeding to the other parts of the king-
Mom, is proliilmed until further orders, under pans of con-
hse idiots of the goods conveyed in violation of this prohi-
bition, and of the weasels employed in conveying them,
" II The inhabitants of the Depamnieet of Zealand, end
the i.lan,le above-roentioned, shall, within g 4 hours from the
time of il.esi being summoned thereto, deliver to such per-
'MlS as lOa\ be appointed to receive the same, an account of
the quantity and descriptions of colonist goods, and reputed
British manufactures and ocrelissidixe, which they had on
livid. at the period of the enemy's invasion, together with
the quantities soil sorts attach goods imported by them or
bought of nth-rs, since the invasion, under pain of the eer-
twin confiscation, for the benefit of the National Treasury,
of all snch articles u shall, upon ?imitation and inspectiou,
appear tint to hare hero completely or truly accounted fur.
" 111 rrOM the obligation ofiteliveling these lICCOUII 19, are
exempted all those inhabitants, who bare no greeter stuck of
the staid produce or goods than necessary tor their domestic
cornett opt too.
" Iv, 'l-►. Director of Ways and Means afloat, is
charged with the execution of the present Decree, and shall
rep•a t to as open the diseoveriis made in pursuance thereof.
o Given at oar ,rya! Palace at Ilarlr m, the 'gm Septem-
ber, of the year tOO% and of out reign the 4th ;
" LOUIS."

On Saturday week, Jon!. HARRISON, of Kigh-
ley, aged seventy--,even, went from that place to
I.l"..ketieltl, and, after delivering a letter in West-
gate. mem ned to Kighley, • divance of se miles,
it, the 4hort space of seven lionft and a half. The
only sifstenance he took daring his journey was
two draughts of spring water, and 4 bit of bread.
Gloucester Barton reit commenced GO Thor,-
dny hut. The supply of cattle and pigs was plen-
tiful, and the sale Vsit. Of horses the show was
'tolerable. but they went off dull. Onions and
'cheese, the staple articles, were an great abundance
—the former '4,4 lied from Ja. 441. to 0. per bushel ;
the latter, best from 31. Ws. to 41. 21. per cwt.;
two-oseal. from 91. 1644. In 31.

THr BRITISH PRESS.

tONDON.
MONDAI, °cross' 9.
We hare received Portuguese Papers to the lgth
September, but their contents are not important.

Three Gottenburgh Mails have arrived, with let-
ters and papers from that city to the 27th last. A
Stockholm Gazette, of the 26th, has been also re-
ceived, from winch the following an extract :
I;STOCKNOLM, SEPT. s6.—Hr. Royal MAJESTY
has received intelligence, by a Courier, arrived from
Frederiekshain, that, on the 17th instant, a Treaty
of Peace between Sweden and Russia was signed
by Baron STEDINCE and Colonel SKOI ()BRAND, on
the part' of Sweden, and Count ROISANZOFF and
Baron A LOPEUS, on the part of Russim."—(Stoek-
halal Gazette./
It was also reported at Gottenburgh, that the
ports of Sweden would be shut against Englund, on
the lath of November.

A great variety of foreign intelligence has
poured it, upon tis. Besides the three Gotteithough
Nlsils and the Portuguese Papers,-we have received,
via Gerinau Papers to the 16th, and
also Humburgh Papers to the i3d last, containing
intelligence from Vienna to the 10th. It appears,
that, about the beginning of the mouth, the hypes
of peace begun in decline ; but the difficulty, of the
particular nature of which we have no intelligence,
must have been surmounted, as subsequentnecounts
inform us that the negociatiois was continued with
activity. The armistice was prolonged until the
ioth, the reason assigned for which extension wiss,the
distance of Rust a, and the necessity of giving that
Power an oppe. tunity to participate in a proceed-
ing materially istlretiog her interests. The general
complexion, however, of the German Papers is
warlike. They abound with accounts of military
reviews and movements of troops.

Never did any event give more general satisfac-
tion than the breaking up of the Portland Admi-
nistration. The scene of petty intrigue, of under-
mining artifice and duplicity, which has been die-
eloeed, is viewed with universal contempt and in-
dignation. All rational and disinterested men
agree, that Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. CANNING
have utterly disqualified thetwelves for ever sitting
in a Cabinet; but, justly unpopular as his Lord-
ship is, be appears iii a less odious light than his
adversary. Mr. CANNING. petulance, evinced iu
his general manner, but particularly in his perso-
mil attacks upon Mr. Ponsoene and Lord Fot.e-
rrons, upon 'the ground of descent and family,
himself a mere upstart, gave all good and honoura-
ble minds offence. But what we principally con-
demn in his conduct, is his habit of disavowing all
the unpopular acts of his colleagues, and throwing
the whole odinni upon them, while he slaved with
them in the fruits of their actions. Thus. upon
the Catholic Question, he disclaimed the cry of
•4 No Popery," but he had no objection to be ele-
vated to office by it, with the assistance of Mr.
PRIMEVAL ; and we now find, by his own conies-
sMn, sod the confession of his friends, that, at the
very time he was aepporting Lard CASTLEREAGH
in the House of Commons, he was Ishutning to un-
dermine nini in the Cabinet, and root him out of
office.--Lord CASTERIE•GH is, perhaps, the worst
Minister that this or any other country ever saw;
but his conduct appears manly when compared
with the spirit of duplicity which characterizes Mr.
CANNING♦ ai.d which has defeated the grand object
of his saltation. by placing his rival, Mr. Nock:-
vat., in the place of the Premier ; thus illustrat-
ing, by his example, the truth of the precept—
. .

Nec lexjuatior ulla
" Clam necks artifices ante perire sai."

• With respect to the superior pretensions of these
two several candidates, or their relative ability to
fill the office to which both aspired, we shall be si-
lent. No man will, however, pretend, that, in conse-
queuee of the removal, or resignation, of the two
Secretaries of Slate, and the concentration of the
Treasury end the Exchequer, in Mr.
any strength, or intellect, or accession of talent, is
gained to the Administration. lf, previous to the
present rupture, their measures were ill-digested,
injudicious. and uuiformly unfortunate or uosuc-
cessful. in Spain. In Italy, end in Holland—what
are we to expect in future ? Whatever parliament-
, cry, or continental, or general ability, existed
among the Members of the Cabinet, was
Letween the two Secretaries for the War and the
Foreign Department. To have expected energy
or to have looked for any extrication, under our em-
barrassments, from the Duke of l'tiatessin, or
Lord CAMDEIf. or Lord WESTMORLAND, would
excite dension. LS it, then, to Mr. DIJNDAI SAVS-
DIARS, and to Lord flanitowav, that, we will not
say, the nation, but the Minister,. really direct
their eyes, for the display of such talent, as, even in
ordinary periods, it is thought indispensable, that
men, invested with such offices, should possess?
Of the former, unless it is sufficient to be the son
and representative of Lord MaLvitat, what can
we say ? What proola of capacity, information, or
of eloeutioia, has lie ever exhibited? Even when
he exerted his eloquence in the defence of his fa-
the►, whatever filial piety he might display, he