The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-12-20 00:00:00

E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Wanton' so.

A vessel is arrived from Waleheren, which she
left last Saturday. The whole of the British troops
were embarked, except the rear-guard. about 200.
The eneuty in South Beveland were about 4000—
they were continually tiring at us, but without any
effect. The troops were to sail as 30011 as the wiu.l
was fair. The Gio:rtie of last night centains sonic
details upon this interesting subject. They are
given in our last page. They boast that, by our
labours, Flushing is rendered useless to the enemy
iis a naval arsenal. nod that the basi❑ is, for the
present, effectually destroyed, and can only be re-
stored by great labour, and at immense expense.

We this limy continue our extracts from the
Dutch Papers to the lath instant. They relate
principally to the Tyrol. The French and Bavarian
troops have penetrated to the heart of that country,
and reached liolman, between Botzen anti Brixen.
It is, however, far front that state of subirrission
which the papers of Bon APARTE would hate us be-
lieve. In those spots which the enemy have con:
veiled into deserts, there, no doubt, there is tran-
quillity; anti where the sword is to the throat of the
loyal inhabitant, without any means of resistance
uu his part, there there is submission ; but, wher-
ever the spirit of the people has an opportunity
of chewing itself with any chance of success, there,
we may presume, the invader meets opposition.--
This much may be inferred from the Procla-
mation of the celebrated ANDREW Illorrsa.—
In this article, dated the 15th of November, this
gallant leader confesses that, yielding to bad advice,
he had felt inclined to lay down his arms, but was
DOW determined to resume them, and calls upon
his countrymen to persevere in 'the struggle; en.
nounciug, as an incentive, that the enemy had bleu
defeated, on the preceding day, with great loss.—
A Proclamation by ELGENR BEAUNARMOIS, dated
Villerh, the t2th, furnishes a similar inferemee. By
one of its article', every person, who, live days af-
ter its publication, shall be found in the Tyrol,
with anus in his bands, shall he arrested and shot.
If the snhmiesion was general, so snitch severity
would not be necessary. To annihilate a people
is the last mode that an Invader curs have recourse
to for reducinz, a country to subjection.
Besides the army of reserve, consisting of the
3u,otto conscripts lately called nit, the last division
of which ass expected at ISsyorine ors the tith last,
it is said that reinforceruents, to the ansourst of

100,000 men, are oil their march from Germany for
Spain, which they will enter by Bayonne and Per-
!Moan. The Prince of N Ei; Ft Marshal
BERTH! F.r., is appointed Chief of the Stair; and
we moy presume that Bottaeature waits only
for the whole farce to be collected in Spain, in
order to put himself at its head, as preparations
were making at Bayonne fur hie reception.
It; then, the army of La Mancha, the prinzipal
army of Spain, has bceu totally defeated, what
dreadful reverses may we nor apprehend, when he re-
appears on the theatre of war, with the overwhelm-
ing force of that army which 'lately conquered
A.tArits, newly equipped and flushed with victory ?
We are V. di aware that the enthusiasts fur DON A•
PARTE, by which term we mean only to designate
those who believe that he will continue to sueceed
in all his enterprises, it milting irresistible physical
force, to smierior intellectual combinations; we
know that they consider the fate of Spain as de-
cided. What avails it," say these persons, a to
eull 11;,a itimrdrrer, a Mash'. or ruffian? Do these
epithets kill ? Can they rail/ the seal front of the
bond?' As little does it aid the cause of Spain,
when the Junto promiets the people, dial the
! God Arotics, fur whom we fight, will protect
us, and will finally conduct art to independence.—
Lou at. artee. derides the futility' of these appeals
and iiivocitions. Ile invokes only the bayonet.
'Tis by that compass, and be his ability, that he
steers. Spain will be reduced, and Portugal too,
before the Ist of. June. lalu. The imbecility
of our Cabinet. aided and powerfully supported
by the temerity, or incapacity. of our Generals,
in Spain, and in Holland, have facilitated the
destruction of Austria, and will accelerate the
complete subjugation of time fragments of the
Spanish Monarchy. Gut the dye is thrown. We
shell assuredly hear next of the enemy at Cor-
dova ; and, when he has once passed the Sierra
Morena, Seville and Cadiz will submit. To what
purpose should they resist ? Gibraltar, indeed,
like Curia, may defy him. But Spain is lost.'
Our hopes and wishes, ardent as they May be,
would not so hood-wink our reason, as to induce us to
dissent from these assertions, if we considered them
to be true. But we see Spain, truly or falsely, as
time will Phew, through the other end of the • tde-
seope. To us, it appears, that she is not sulideed ;
because her courage and spirit of resiatauce are
nut overwhelmed. On the 21st of November,
when the Junta published their Address to the
Spaniards, they had received the intelligence of the
disaster at Oeana. Vet do they manifest any
terror, or disposition to conciliate the Conqueror ?
Ou the contrary. they dram; the SWUM, and throw
away the scabbard. Will, or can Nmenimto
ever forgive the terms iu which they &sig.

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nate him? Ate of the 'tate of Spain, end of
its resources, what do they ay? •' With 00,000
%mops less than we saw have, we began the
war. It was begun on his aisle with eOO.OOO
more. The experience we have obtained in
two campaigns, sad our very desperation, will
consign these hordes of banditti to the same fate
which the former have suffe►ed I"—They add,
" Our connection with America is daily drawn
closer." The apostrophe to the heroes and warrior.
of Spain, their sacestors, who perished in expelling
the Saracens, is calculated to awaken similar mfr.
gies, and " the destruction of their holy religion"
is not forgotten. Either the Junta do not knout
the Spanish people, or that people is not yet subs
dued.

Those who have incautionsly or hastily adopted
a belief, that because an Adi ll ill istratioo is unfor:
tunatein all its expeditions, unfortunate or cult*.
hie in the selection of its Generals, decried in the
public opinion, and exposed to public dislike,
even by its own Members, for vacillation, intrigue,
and the vilest love of office; those who suppose,
that, because these facts are incoufestible, such
• Cabinet is nearer to its extinction, will see some
reason fur altering their opinion, by a pereaal of
the debate and divisions that took place, on Wed-

'lmlay, at Guildhall. Those persons, likewise,
who, led into error by the recollectien of certain pe-
riods of our city history, under Janus If., and
under Germans 11., expect from a Court of Alder.
men, and a Common Council, constituted like the
present, either dignity, indepeedence, or consist-
ency, will equally perceive their error. It is not
from the overgrown and unwieldy wealth, produced
by contracts and loans, on the holders or under.
takers of which have been appended titles of hos
uour, that we are to look for opposition to Coerts
and Ministers. Men thus elevated above their fel-
low citizens, will always support the existing go.
vernment. They Dt:ther ask, whether the Expe-
ditions to Walcheren and to Ischia, were well or ill
planned ; nor desire to inquire, whether every
principle of common prudence, and of military pre-
caution, were lint sacrificed in the rash itivasies of
Castile. As lade do they feel for the diszraccful
exhibition made by the late Secretary for the Fo-
reign Depurtinern, of the inanity aad weakness of
the Cabinet in which he sat so long. We own,
that, n hen we consider these Guts, we see little rea-
son to expect eny beneficial result front the pro-
ceedings in the city.
The present Administration, however incapable
and inefficient it is admitted to be, even by those
who support it, possesses an incalculable saps-
riority over those of 16157 and ef 1737. JAstas If.
was un object of general conifer/mature, to give it
no harsher an epithet. Eire Groane 11., a Ha-
noverian by birth, and ill ass milated, by as resi-
dence in England, to the manners, modes of feel-
Mg, and predilections of his subjects, wet sever
popular during the first thirty years of his
To the change of Ministers, produced by the dis-
graces earl disasters which, in t 737, brought for-
ward the first 'lr. PITT, in known opposition to the
personal wishes and prejudices of the Sovereign ;
to that mrspicioits and criestitutiosal set of energy.
in winch the City of Loudon then led the oily,
GIVIIIIGE 11. was indebted for all the glory and fe-
licity which crowned his declining age. We are
far from reel:timing, 11,1 Alderman SAWBRIDGE did
lii the 'louse of Commons, when speaking of Lord
N o ern, a Minister who, if private benevolence and
worth could obliterate public error and misfortune,
possessed every claim to respect ; we are he, how-
ever, from saying, with Sawatitneit,
Curse on his tillers undone his eorntrl"
But we nevertheless lament, that the justly.
earned, and universally-p..id attachment, as well as
veneration, felt for the KING, should draw a son
of rampart round those whom he has selected to
condo; t the public affiiire.
Vie wish to ask if any motive, except necessity.
and the absolute inability to find any ether Com-
moner, who would uudcrtake the office, could have
dictated the choice of Mr. thriven. for a Secre-
tary of State? Let it not be said that Mr. YEOMEN
would have accepted it. Ile could net. as Mr-
SVAt. well know*, have been re-elected fur the
county that he represeuts. Lord liminntc••
would not have supported him.
The Duke of MONTRtI4II is now only Master
of the llorse: but, for the consolation and cons-
foet of the nation, in this crisis, when talents
are so much wanted, we can assure them, front
,:oorl authority. that if shame should compel
Lord CAMDEN to resign. or the broad hints given
to Lord WESTMORLAND should have that effect
on him, there is strong reason to hope, that the
country may enjoy the inestimable advantage
of the Doke of MONTIWIE'I talents in the Ca-
binet. Ile most, indeed, give up lira present office
for it: bin as Mr. Par, who never forgot his
favourites, took care to make the Duke Lord Jus-
ticiary of Scotland for life, he is well able to lay
(low. one office, in order to take up another. As
Joati, iary, , let it be understood, lie does not adrift-
ulster justice; the dignity being without a func-
tion : but if it has no soul, it has a body, eoasivilog
in near 3,01)01. a-year,

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We are happy to find that the report of the loss
of the Hussar, IL'aptaiu Skrau, i• unfounded.-
111.pattohea were received, last uorning, at the Ad-
'mushy, from Admiral Yot;ous at natiputia, too-
tothlieting the teput t.

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