The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-05-09 00:00:00

NEW MR TRR-RnY Al, conmr.c.amm
Tii'• prising WEDNESDAY, Mee g, tato, will be ark*
, LINO HENRY THE PAkT.I
Aitrr.
'Remy the Fourth, Kier of &resod, Mr. Motley ; 'Mary,
PfliiCo et tatairs, Mr. C. Kesible,. Hotspur, Mr. Komble;
Sir John Foktijf, Mr. Cooke. Lady Percy, Mir/ Briiiirrir,
To which will be added; the Mimics, Farce of
THE POOR SOLDIER.
Capt. Fitzroy, Mr. Bellamy ; Patrick, Mr. Taylor •' Der-
mot, Mr. locleilon ; Darby, Mr. Muudeu. Borah, Mum
Holten; Kathlane, Mrs. Liston.
To-morrow, hula Henry the F.ighth —On Friday, The
Merchant of Vence.--On Saturday, King Jobe.
A Nrw Musical Afterpiece is in rehearsal, and will very
Goers be produced.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY. MAY 9.

Mr. II tie, yesterday, read a letter in the Stock
Eu•Minge, from the Citaacat.Loa of the Etc'''.
1113v11. 10 &sire those Gentlemen who intend bid-
ding for the ensuing Lean to go up to him. on Fri-
' d.ty, to know the particular; and the time when he
will receive their bidding*.

We hare received Puns papers to the 3rl
They state, that the siege of Cadiz is co ttttt tencerl,
■nd that the batteries play upon the town. We
lately noticed that tl►e sanguinary Matsgu♦ Was
on his way to the Pyrenees, to assume the chief
command of the French army in Spain. Other
fresh Generals, ►ir. MACUutILLD. MONTSRU
tad Doaskamil, are nlso hastening front France
into different parts of the peuitoula.

The Petition of the Cis, ry of London nos pre-
sented, yesterday, to the House of Commons, by
Sir WILLIAM Cystic. The motion, that it he laid
spun the table, was supported by I and the other
City Members. It wax, however, strongly opposed,
nod, after a debate of considerable length, the (pies-.
tiros ws. adjourned to this day, upciti the motion of
Mr. WILIBLIaIIICS.

We congratiilate our readers on.l the country,
upon the open, mauly,and statesman-like speeches
of Lords Gail( and Garaott.t.o, in the Howe of
Lords., on Monday night ; and cannot but augur
'ost favourably of the effect which it will have upon
the public wind. In proportion as this will operate

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throughout till the ilitoking claws of the commis-

pity, nr the same degree will it lower and dissipate
the momentary influence which may have been ob-
teined by the two parties, who are now striving, in
concert with each other, for the destruction of the
Constitution of England. We mean the present
fklinisters, under the conduct of Mr. Pcacls•at.
and Mr. Your, and the Berrdettites, under the
guidance of Sir FSANCIS BUIIDITT. Mr. °Von-
' eon, and Mr. WARDLE. The two great Whig
Leadei s, *coining forward, and stating themselves,
(as they have ever hero,) to be the friends of mo-
derate and practical reform—the friends, however,
of the restoration and preservation of the Constitu-
tion, not the supporter. of its overthrow—must con-
vince the peopleof England how false and unfounded
the insinuations are, which hare been cart upon
them : Insinuations which have been dealt out with
equal liberality and industry by the Ministers and
the Burrirttites. Influenced by the tame motives,
actuated by the same views, and driven ou by the
same selfish principles, they have proceeded in their
attack, hand is hand. and, in their hatred to that
great body of talent, experience, and consequence.
in the nation, by whom the plums of both have been
oppos►d, they forget their mutual jealousies, in or-
der, of posinhle, to accomplish the destruction of
the,,, without which their attempts must be for
ever vain and impracticable. Alike the enemies of
all true liberty—elite the enemies of all moderate,
and, therefore, all practical reform—alike hostile
to every thing, which has for its end the preserve.
tion, and existence, and well-being of the Consti-
tution of England, they, with equal zeal, and by
the same artifices, endeavour, with all their power,
to support and defend the present Administration.
and its ruinous system of politics, both foreign
and domestic-, in order that the country may
be reduced to a situation fitted for their &signs.
In no part of their conspiracy against the rights
and liberties of their conntry do they seem to have
come to PO perfe.•t an agreement ; and, indeed, none
is better calculated fur the r mutual purposes, than
the absolute necessity of endeavouring to persuade
the people, that the Leaders of the Opposition are
tint the friends of reasonable reform, in every de-
partment of the State. We can, with confidence.
call upon the people, to examine into their conduct

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during the whole course of this Session, and of
livery other, and to ask them, what proposition, that
has had for its object the detection of abuse, or

the correction of extravagant expenditute—which
bee not been supported by the Whig Party in Par-
liament; nnys not merely supported, bnt,wecall
upon them to my. whether every proposition of the
sort has not been brought forward by individuals
of that party? And yet they are abused, as the ene-
mies of all reform. by the Ministers. who oppose
every proposition tending to this point; and by the
Bardetrites, who in Parliament withdraw their
siipport from such Worn.. and, nut of Parliament,
ni.4.ly pref.- the Ministers, and their system, to

"7 wholesome and salutary correction of the evil.
In addition to the a ii.nl of the Whig Party, to
the How of COMMOIIII, in bringing forward and
ISlPlstrtin every• plan for the overthrow sad