The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-11-19 00:00:00

LIISWARD ISLAND MAIL.

' umptaanosi, sErr, 3.
The Americana are giving us tile most practical
evidence of the oppressive operation. of tiwirEin=
barge Laws ; for, pro loo.er uhle to codure theut,
they are. ib detiatace of°knis-boats unit reyetiiik-
oaken, breaking them in almost every Mite;
bringing to detintible•eirppliea, wider the iodul-
g•ence and eacouraorneotsf eur'Orders olCowt-
cil, which have so wisely • Mused the Narilistitivi
• Laws in tilers favour. No leas thee '3340 barrels
of Sour listyetesolifesiglit into iseinOisdiwitisin the.
preiwitt wick, and'er Wipplindleiletanw.cou.
awn* be looked Tot.
sell2cshaltP.
Within two days, Vie 4&h and eh.) din
Jerylerstrke, L'llidalte; and PA/ ,afaiii • and
Await Addle schemer', 'with cergees assess-
ed provisions, iYnvld et Bay Mahout and Point-a-
Pore, Gtsadati ailed iiadi that confidence
boob there opirild l'brthigisep of esitoreiditsiftee•
end wife r ; dm three are
Dow leading is tble fatter Olen% and • tint it Ode-
&loop& • -.seat .
It re not, houtrer; to this -ogle* of .tit
tio.t the enemy now codling his enterpritel:'
• teraingal " retrieve" (as the Captain-MR*OW'
• intoraf valephitically expresses it) .thelbt*4 ,r
ldpiegirlsate,. he has thrown-into it reinfortt inflow
•'.o.trasfer •notillery, and ainnussition. Oh 'the
NMI tell. &Int 450 emu were inehnektd in canoes
ASS*. AM'S. Pllllllllllolllllli virekidoriog a hazy and
dloopeeteme MO*. pod sitar' Ifarlegalente. The
'Wee which Gm hooded there, and were defeated.
esealiltiag the beets', at Grand Bourg, re-
imidoloot the shore ratio/ in thelastnesses of the
ititesiats
SIPtISSSItt 10.
•
IDiepattheo hoe!
esui4cey been re-
seined brie, giving the account*
-of the primrose and metes *trim the foray, ;he
panicalors of whit* he ley isegth
'• public. by ausherity

Jr

•enapelled t.
Mat. with tin _ _ : Akers, ._ _
Ale, takes pnaoners ; one Wes Geld piece, 450
• amid of arms, and a considerable proportion of
mulawanitimp. The exertion of the troops of every
• deearatioh was exemplary, and the fatigue they
wasessirot usettoually great. The lost or the ene-
my is billed. wounded. and sick, had not bean as-
nertainad whets the Marie schooner left Marina-
- has a the evening of the 4th, nor is their precise
hem NNW from Guadeloupe correctly known ;
• they aseceedad 200 men, and were composed of re-
gular artillery and infantry.
• The detachment of the Ist West India had two
• men weaseled, one of whom is since dead.
.. It is with great regret that these accounts con-
. • s het, that Mr. Brown, a respectable gen-
-I=llas Antigua, who was prisoner in the
• the enemy, being placed by them in the
sear of their picket, when attacked on the even-
ing of the led instant, was unfortunately mortally
wander'.
Colonel Cansbriels, wins conducted the French
troops from Goadaloupc, thought fit to abandon
thou before the surrender ; whether he has escaped
to Odadaloupe, or is concealed in Mariegalante, is
Desistertained.
Up mission of the Spanish Officer, embarked
M lated the Eireribeih, is said to relate to a prepo-
sitiallar obtaining a naval force to co-operate with
.demoedition projected by the Spaniards for sub-
Vaeit,
. the French part of St. Domingo, which, on
on, they will guarantee our Joint posses-
t with themselves.

'arr. IS.

His Majesty's schooner Elisabeth, mentioned in
emir last to be expected frost St. Thomas, strived
. here ou Sunday morning. 140 brought the Spanish
Officer, whims we stated tele, od board, charged
with dispatches to our Itiind Commander. This
Gentlemap is Don de Chatillon. Colonel in the
Spanish service. Ili* mission is of • confidential
nature. and embraces s verymipottantehjeet. •
The whole of Spanish South America (Continent
and Islands) has adopted the spirit of the Parent
State, and throws off all fellowship and fraternity
with the French. At Cuba, an animated and loyal

THE BIitITIRL"PftESS.

LONPOV; •
SATURDAY, Navin's% lg.

. ,
The town was agitated,. last aight, by a rumour
of an action in the alviliternmean; Letwecil ten
Euglisb rail of the liar, under Lord . COLLING.-
WOOD, *Sid a combined French and Rossini' fleet,
of fifteen sail. The enemy, it was said, had ex-
perieuced their usual fate. The Russians, accord-
ing to report.Weve all sunk, and the French were
all taken, while iu the dreadful conflict against
• soch superior firree„lho English fleet pinchased
this victory with the loss oftwo ships of 80 guns.—
Something in this efleCi is mentioned in The Co.
raislO:Ggeette of :the ld hist, blit we.have pope,
from that place to the ifth, and letters to the 19th;
in which no farther notice is taken eiit, This vic-
tory is also annouticed upon the alleged authority
of a Portugnese ship, of 74 gees, Whiiib, re4e.gid,
had heen'ta'itising of the Streighti• of •dibraltar,
where she met a vessel • frmu the Mediterranean,
tlcit gave• her this information, and immedi-
ately proceeded to Commit with the gratcfnl.,
news. But this vessel bore. known our
friendly relations with Portugal. sad we may
aik, why did she not stop oif Abu, Tape or
Oporto, to communicate the inteltigelti6el It lits
been also said, that a letter .has beau -received at

Portsmouth, from an Office of the RESEW, of
*PO in the blediterranessa, to the same otiect, hut
mr bast sot boat able to trace the report to any
sigierixi. • There was; we believe, a Russian
fa.rffir's threSor four sail of the line at Trieste, ands
eitiAiiikr Amin was today felt thete, they, per
simb444 ; avoid its visihrness They say oleo
hive joined die Toulon squadron, end have pet to
etra together, and been met and defeated by Lord
Cottiscwoon. This is the only probable way of
accounting for so large a hostile force m Oftspenepil
of the line being at sea in the Mediterraism* ,
Private accounts have been receirod *►mili-
toryry operations in Spain to the 6thineSsiffis-,• 'They
confirm the report of an action of grim import-
mice, on the sth, in which BLARE was victorious.
The pudic-Mars are gives he our preceding columns.
There art ao official accounts from the Centrj
army, radar General CASTANIOS. either in the Ma-
drid Gazettes or in those of Commis, n Itieli ure so
late as the gth. It is stated that his head-quarters
' were at Calahorra on the 28th, and it aiqicars that
the advantage which the French obtained at Lerin,
sad which was so much vaunted of its the Putts
Journals, was very trifling. It is said. that, aeronl-
ing to the last accounts from St. Ander(); Marshal
NET remised at Bilbos, with only $OOO men, the
remainder of his army having marched to co-ope-
rate WI so attack on General Cates sus. but
there SIM' mete suspicion that this movement
was a stratagem intended to induce (Sentra!
IlLami6 *advance and attempt to retake the place.
It will beam considerable time before the army un-
der General BAIRD can arrive at the theatre of the
war. It appears from an ndvertisement in the Co-
runa& papers, that our troops wire to have canton-
ments at Lugo, Villafranca, and Aitorga. Persona
are invited by that advertisement, to contract for
supplying the British forces at these places, and
during the whole of their march from Caroms to
Burgos, with provisions and forage.

If any success attend■ the French arms in Spain,
it is expected, Icy 111inisters, that the first accounts
of it will be received through France, as BONA-
PASTE being now with the army, the eliquelte
established is, that regular Bulletins shall he issued
by the Moniterr, as being the Court Gazette of
the country. We may therefore infer, with some
degree of certitude, or at least of probability, that.
down to the 12th—that is, a Meek after Box araterr
is asserted to have been at Vittoria,which way on the
sth, nothing very great had been effected. Be-
cause, if any great event had happened, down to
the 12th, it would have been known at Buyoone
on the 14th, and communicated, by telegraph, in
a few hours, to Paris. From thence it would And
its way here in two or three days, as the news of
Austerlitz and of Auerstadt did in 1805 and 1806.

It is not believed that BAIRD', army can get to
the theatre of war before the lit of December, ft,
in order to be enabled to find provisions for the
troops, they are necessitated to march by two
widely diverging roads.
The Proclamation of the Supreme Junta, nam-
ing the brother of General PALAIVIL to visit the
armies, in quality of a Field Deputy from the Go-
vernsamth has excited apprehension that jealousies
might•triae from it. But no appearances or symp-.
toms of such a sentiment bad arisen among toe
Spaniards, by the latest accounts received from
Spain.
_ _

The present aspect of affairs in Spain, the re-
lative position of the armies contending in Biscay,
and 'along the course of the Ebro, down to the sth

of this month—above all, the arrival of Nato-
.l.Ecite in person on the scene of action, exactly at
that period of time; all these circumstances awaken
deep as well as serious matter of reflection. They
prove, indeed, too demonstratively, the incapacity,
' want of rlilarged views, and total defect of judg-
ment, in those who have conducted Hia MAJESTY'S
Councils. We arc animated by no spirit of fac-
tion or of opposition to Government, in passing
this sentence on the conduct of our Administration.
Truth, misfortune, and the duty that we owe to
' our common country, alone impel us to assert, as
they will enable us to prove, the facts that we al-
lege.
It must be obvious to every man who reflects,
and it is self-evident,
_that BON AP•RTF, when he
marched an army under JUNOT scion; Spain, to
Lisbon, twelve mouths age, counted on the com-
plete acquiescence of the %Spanish Crown and Go-
vernment, prospectively, in all his measures of 4io-
lelice, ambition, or stioliation. If be had then
expected, or if be could even have foreseen, the rl-
sistance and patriotic insurrection of the whole
ua-
.tion against inui, which took place since his inva-
sion of Portugal, doubtless he *ever would have
engaged in such an- enterprise. .Thus, the act
which, when undertaken by fflol, was justilleil by
the cotia-48g circumstances, we mean, in thitesti-
Mate of atetiacinus Vaarper, who triunples en all
Marti ties eF treatiev basest street fatal and
• ritinikiesiperatien, fr6sb 91e)notilit *lt the Spa-
niards rose in 'tp:wiii:isalkSit him. -itrwoy, and
41s0 itil-netit^rait *clops. cent pletely isolated, were
'hut Itp ilt[tholairts aleig the-Tagus, without a
hope or a piisaibilitpor••escipi:'•• They might, it is
true, fer-i eiert 004 ilti* (Spews, or pillage
the Portiglese ; heft .081' Oeuld steititer extend
any aid to tlieir Rulerrsir could they even sinus-
mit to France the-fruits-Of their rapine and plun-
der: Woad any suerelyfor the object
of emancipating Perter 4 a few

i q which losiiiiiiiiiirpollod,BAsst cat,. film - Alava,
, •
pidelir,... . milk
40411004.1 . Joitird tot the Spanish
...
pima% us. 1011 Old Castile; nredoubt elm
-Insenein, that, before the Ist: of Norefcialgr,. the
'Preach inight, and must have kern Arica's baclrie
thejkluswia. • ' St. Sehaitiak tbk weakkst and least
',defensible of four keys of Spaiss held lay BIWA-
. UTZ, must have been recaptured.. Consequent-
- , tbe great road, mull all thepaases of the Pyre-
mob between Irusi and. liittoria, leading from
iliYinine to Burgos and Madrid, would have been
acupied by the patriots before the commencement
of winter. Ye have seen that the Corsican, baf-
fled in his projects of conqueit, was unable to
send any reinforcements of magnitude to Spain,
during September and October. He was even Ise-
cessiusted to repair to Erfurt, aiid there to induces
ALexo soca to form new connexions of policy.and
of friendship with him, before he could venture to
transfer his forces from Polcncl, Prussia, and Ger-
many, to the countries beyond the Pyrenees.. And
when he should at length have arrived in person,
he would have found the access through Guipuscoa

and Biscay completely shut against him. He
might have perhaps attempted to enter Navarre or
Catalonia, but by the direct road to the capital of
Spain, lie could not have penetrated.
facts, and this reasoning, are so oleo, as
contradiction or evasion.

That which the incapacity of Ministers
the pusillanimous or timid conduct of our
rals consummated. As WWI as Spain was in arm.,
throughout all the provinces, what must have been
the printery wish and object of Bonararcrs ? To
recover and to liberate an army of veteran troops.
cat of from all assistance, incapable of giving or
of receiving any succour. What must have been
his second wish ? To have thnt army sent back to
him in British transports; together with all their
ammunition, arm., and • good proportion of the
plunder that they had amassed. Above all, to in-
duce the enemy to trausport his troops to anal
places in the 'French dominions as might enable
litins from thence speedily to march them back into
Spain ; while the enemy, by thus employing their
cruel. to convey the French to Rochelle and Qui-
heron, should, in fact, local-curate their own army,
and compel them to traverse all Spain, in order to
join their Allies on the Ebro. 1I e must admit, that
such would have been BoNAVIRTIt's wishes. But
who could have supposed that any British Generals
would have realized them ? Yet this is precisely
done by the Convention of Cilitra. It would

have been far better that we had
compellel JomoT to ntarch .cross 5;x646., .
we tent our own troops, Septenebvr,;
St. Andero and to Tarragra,a, or.s if 6,v
sand men had been lantle.l by the ath of
bee, (on which day Juno/ senchid-41,,'
St. Andero, and 8,00.) ut Tarmoui, *bat
not have been done to expel Nay. lietteeN,
LEON bad arrived at Bayonne? illness ei„
stances are not incontrovertible, we c.t!l
nq
ter* to repel and to expose thew. But they
better, and they will not attempt it. Let
nevertheless, prepare, when Parliament meets,
render sone account I It is not a Couit of
at Chelsea,. interdicled, as fur as the Jenne
GATE can do it. flout publishing its
that will satisfy the country. if the
are culpable, Ministers are critniou!. ha*
that event, must be b..0ta,4111 to trial.

We announced yesterday the arrival of
ward feland Mail. It hue bro.,ght accounts
Hathatioes to the 14th Sept. which are ot
atice.., It appears that the Fre:.ch attempted
retake Mariegalante, but the watt/prise
abortive. They were forced to antrewler to 'a
tent against them from Barbados&
An Order of Council was agre!d upon, on W
nesdey, to be issued, and which will app ar in
evening's Gliseje? Fpnbeitpipg the,ditfirrent •
.to offerecinet Rio" s d laradnieu, „
voluntarily- enter; Into, tbiAqui.Navy, during
year 1800, vie.— .1 ••
*Wit -bodied Scsimp.pt a
Ordiaary Seiaumk.. la
A Proclatnaton wilPill* !appear ip 11w
of this evening, fur continein the pm
in an act of Parlionnent, plied in the last seisiou
Parliament, for rehibitieg the distillatioe of
rite froui core or grain to the 31st slay of "
until Sam da3 s after

.411. M Mandeb
eta Alooeiation of Glenna,
intention of Hie MAJCITY'
nit to In* MAJIOTY is f.
iofeentianing, for the',
`eat Seaton of Parliament,
Prohibition on the
om or Galin."
t night, that a Ruteian
diepatehes of a

started fir
viz. Mr.
—theirnsTon.
_ 4 Rib; 11ony. AROUSAL,
Killerniout end Clrthit, Lard
Aland, •Wetl iv-elected Lord !teeter
Ilse- Inivrsity of Glasse*, for the ensui,i4 yew.
Thursday Turning, the iirst division of tie
Otagptitii arrived in Exkter, where they on
&Ririe orderer: Their route is for Falmouth, ti
whenoe4hey expect to embark fur Spain, with
16th Regiment of Light Dregoomi as soot as
freest:offs are provided for their receptinc. '
• It is atitionottralik trait of the coolness and the.
cipliue of CaptAinxttoutt and his ship's etaupsay;
limit late, the Thai: struck. and was taken pews
session of, a large ship, afterwards found to be the
"r 541144.; Sir 74;Captitin 'l'. Went, hove in
sight, when the .Amethyst' company, sup-
posing her tollelht -coupon of the Pietro, ggre
three cheers, and cleared ship far a steocd bath..
When the YlontsAysi, of St twine,
went tip the harbour. on Wednesday night, to teed
her wounded men, cod to be walitteri, she web hem-
tilt' cheered as she petrel tire' Hoe, the :Narrow: of
I/evil's Point and • Mount-Wlse tratteriei Chest
numbers of spectetnnOts-ere
The Neenteh, frorq ttinidad 'o otiltifoo
and the Sweets:, Bat.!., belonging to •Serinas•
from Ilatisenees, do M. Sivrthohnnew, pielakeue
'and carried into Unadahtitipe. • ' :
Intelligenest hai been* receitedlbit'Vilben to
,the 85th hut. At that timetlietteri4Aewns con-
tinued there, hat was expected to follow :11* army
•in the course of a few dace. The isthefoi erns of the
northern provinces of Porthgel, we are why to
learn, have.refinied to oticy the Urgency *at Lisbon.
The fellow/414 is the Anpwer of the - FICRETAKT
Of SrATt:, to the Atidrers of the county of Mid-
dlesex •

~K

40
OR

. L.Aslssw. dim, jogg." 3.
'.. 'llse army sehisoosk MEAN unit' ed 3,itirnfik.'
..from MarisgollsistVilidi 'the 11114sigiog ' tnielji-
' genre --
• ;,„„ ...„,„,..,,.,...„. L,, , ~„_
The three compastOsarrlldr litrwellt 100 Re'
JilicgtAssfitr ; the voiliniMiti of LientL-trOlonel
I, Mitch' proeliedei iron ev.ogijltiy on
,
. .istio night of Satarda 14' eft* filillgeAu kr.
iiiiinu-
r. 24
jestv's ship Cepiaio4 we44l' ' ed at Mariegiite,
: ou the egth follownig;:ind reinforced- by the
naval garrison, they 'attack hil
ta
rnevof on the
fillown=f the 30th ; and, eh" tiressing him fro
frioalllhig to another, during the course of live
• htiip• in all of which he made fi - soreor
epeisseckw,''p:ceorrting to eircumstancel, fie' was
• eoatibelleil to 'arrest& r at discretion ou the 3d in-
stant, with the loss of twelve Akers, 103 rank and

wry.. NAP.= or grans LU LIR
.
of entatimpatrog Ilortog‘i a few months, }whets tier, and fresn that period ow
•have Seat their *sylinte •thilitary strength-to the Tor ineeti4% of Partiomont.
ges,wheptit thouldhase...betto4llo4iit notification wen,
'SOW*: to Ebro, to .111fitfelifetiel, 'odAlary the West India do
Mist vet Pirtogadlog#R That it is the intention
whether it be. prcupeicilioNsowskikei? If the. Sp- Government to submit to II
nietde MI to &Ise the invader, and experliencyofeentinuii
viiiiiiithedonist we not of coarse abandon Lis- by am Act of the Mt seam*
boa. and evacuate Portirl,ml? If, nn the other exviii; See. ad. the Prohibit
hand, as we equally hope. end believe., the §pe-
flier& triumph ; musenot Jteiit,. if he bed *ever lion of Spirits frims Corn
' • been' attacked, have equillistapitlated, -or* I.la litivnytieposted, list night,
en 41 .
bees forirdie „,reba„ ?okapi. A cAs- !eager had arrived with diva
raltary of Spain, a meet of :the, tbertint nature'
, Peninsula, Ptowsiohde the acme "0 Two new coadidatas have si
'honours of an **pendent usenorehi I-, • *1 w:ll„ta_am
Let vs • aim mippese; that *pistol a seMling COTSunai: motet o
Kilir _
p;
thirty-four thousand men, id tti he
:July Lust. to Lisbon, a L ugh) V, of Kilierniout Hoi
and
ye had scut finis .to St. /rider*: they ott.ta !eats of Scotland. • vie ve-01
-bays east' kr-06
.101Miii Idtiavot Alsgust.or- . thes-Unisfrsity of Glassy*, Is
We obOtllitylll44o7lWo months and w hair,. I'l"!r"d67 1.27"1"K' the
in which id;.tireinorontt..a.m..........i. L_ • ~ . • ti rttokki% attired io

hen far better that we had alto .1
JUNOT to march actoss
tent our own tromps, in Septentler, •
ero and to n.,, Loy sea. If Yes
n had been lontle.l by the tacit of • ''
which day Joao, vereited•-lbtehek. •
ero, and B,UJJ at Tarrajolitt, *eat
e been done to expel ST. hefureN • eh,O18:
ad arrived at Bayonne? if these dr; v""I
are not incontrovertible, we rail nu • 'inejillit!
epel and to expose thew. But they berbi
slid they will not attempt it. Let • • aka to
!less, prepare, when Parliament,e% • 1:111
role account ! It is not a Cotta of
Car interdicled, as fur as the Jeoct c
n do it. from publishing its pr
"VP
I satisfy the country. if the C.
,able, Ministers are eritniorai. Bok
Pit
mt, must be b,laute,lit to trial. ` '
the lit
,nnoonced yesterday the arrival of , is his
laud Mail. It hue brought accounts
,bpgvi
tea to the 14th Sept. which are of ie. greet
it appears that the Fre:.ch atteliiptei re!'"
Mariegalante, but the enterprise p • theuu
They were forced to surrender to $ ,
peels
them from Barbados's.
reels
rder of Council was agreed upon, on w Duel
to be issued, mid whitish' app Sr u.s
GaiejF.f Ffln!diOlg th.rdieKrent hi, • • The
'ireitto otiose*. aid- Widow% elite ' but
11 enter into. tboAllynt. Navy, during , .
diet
1
boaolov ro stelleifirgoetVi: L 5 a • est
diary Seaeum6.4..toet::•.• 9 111 Lot
ta4modied la:tor— • ..-•••••• .-.• • • 1 19 IL9I
rawiiitoa W 1119., appear in fht G.., the
rening, for motioning the pnwerseentaa . to !
of Parliament, pploidip the List seeetou,
cot, for gittabibitiog the dittillatice of ep.
core or groin to the 31ar slay of Derr de)
[keen that period until fang days after tb dal
of Parliament.
notification wore re Moan. weir sls
he West ladle Association of Glasgow i.e.
it is , the intention of His MAJESTY. 'we
tent to submit to His MAJirtY in Coma
tporliencyofeentinuing, for the time lintitt M
,ot of the lest Seslost of Parliament, Ca afi
sti
ec. ad. the Prohibition on the Distill. in
Spirits from Corn or Grain."
iepotted, list night, that a RllBll4ll Met te4,
ad arrived with dispatches of a favourable
to
ew ceadidetes have started far Hampshire
he Hon. W. Haaasex, via. Mr. HLAI9.•
d Viveoirot Pausrearoa.
let, the Right; 11on,. AROUSAL, Cin
, of Killetruout sod tlethk, Lord Adr
Scotland, ••was re-elected Lied hector • u
ogrsity of tidaegiser, for the enouiog yror.
day onorning, the first division of ripe 14th
hllgokkih arrived io Exeter, where they Is ai
Irderit' Their route is for Falmouth, Itots
they expect to atuhark fur Spain, with the
egimeat of Light Dregoonal as soot
fs are provided for their receptimt.
n,honourahle trait of the leonine:at sad dies
f CaptAlkvatoutt and his ship's cemploy,

Tilt Se V .4 Grrrt.r.re, NOW 16, tem.
" I have laid before His IMekety the Petition *bias I n
to dd:y c_Med from yens, yemerelay, as Mimi& et Lemke. ead Mu
1-7,-TrUnt ffinteethe of tYt p at Mos Coes')
began, Middlesex, 'whim rixelney, ea* I sir tisis isssatls.
Imo, Gaddissous. *
Gene- YOU/ meet obedient humble etweeet,
• 46 To the Write . " HAWKIHIBURY."