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

On, evitttlgyi lorbiiiii-bitv &nth:kited, e,•,..1,3
or remedied, them. Oat what is t., i,e „:,.0..4
room omen, who 'Cleo in 11* pee* .1 Eat'. 4.,T s
~,a
aid at. portugal, our/ charm of patronage um of
essolomeat ? Who, not content with sertlies
Lord lyittises BB NTI NCK, at a great expense, mi.,
airier to Seville, now dispatch Mr. Feist, whit
still larger appointments, to Illadrid ; and yaw
though Lord Sestina roots is Envoy to the Pat*
Itioswr of POnTuottL, tame Mr. Vitus:est
C.e same capacity to Lisbon, though the Govtr
ment there is coafcasedly so feeble, or raithr as
extutrott, as to stand in need of 10,000 Brit.
forces, in order to ri•proluo iusubordittuft.u., awl
restore obedience to the civil poW'rer.
Whether BONA PARTS: will or will not put him'
self at the head of his army, we do not pretend t
give a decided opinion, though we have certain'
*awed one on no mean authorities. It May its
armed w-ith certainty that he will not pass the B.
demo, uor commit himself on the soil of tips,)
unless ha eutertaius a well-founded assurances,
being dile, at the head of at ieuut ninety tlivinan
men, to advance straight to Madrid, heariag du%
or vaaquishint
,all opposition: Atm 'Witten*
Durango, to the capital of Spain, be 'has not me
than 00 to me 'nada; not through rade or ddE
ode provinces, but by the grand road frost Pan
to Madrid. His troops, habituated to every spe.
cies of exertion and endurance, under his coia.l
mond, carrying each man, on his back, a packet q
portable soup for sustenance, and unincumber
with baggage, may march from Alava to the rue
tropolis in seventeen or eighteen days. They may
therefore, it is possible, be at Madrid, and he may
as he menaces, crown JOSEPH NMI', before Bata
arrives at Burgos, and before blooms ma nee
&dojo: or Valladolid. We mato these things 0
hypothetical, but certainly as passible.

Letters and Papers from Spain to the tat instal
state, that the army under the command of Sir I):
vtu BAIRD began to disembark on the 96th all
on which day two regiments, t/r 23d and 48d,
landed, and took up their quarters for the might i
the barrack. of Coruuna. They were to premed
the following day to Betanzos. The same proporti(
of the .troops were to be landed on the e7th, rt
so en progressively till t:le transports wee =fait

Ais Mssesev's brig Sparwaso sailed fines cc
on tha 3d instant, with a convoy for the WI
ladies.

Yesterday, o Court of Directors
East India House, when the i
Captains was sworn into the command of their
apective whim vit.—
sad Capt J. Email d, Admiral Gardner ; Modeire, Mad
1012.1.
Qapt.P. thoorhoo, Dole Cull. I Men at.o Be*
The following ships were taken up, in addit
to those en
Dw ed for this season, viz.—Coins, X
, Surrey, and Marquis Welled
e' Court adjourned at seven o'clock, till W,
nesday next.
Six troops of the 16th Light Dragoons hal
in town lest night, en their way to Falinsatb.
The Aired? Goodwill, SPIIKGE, front Swan,
for St. ?daises, floundered on the 3d inst. nest'
Land's End.
The John, Daysnsts,front the Clyde for HI
goland, struck on a reek near the latter plan, en
dbth ult.—soon after drifted to ear-even MP
and on board the Diewace, SAMIGSTON.
The Akiviniler, from Gottenhurgh
London, has been ruptured, and carried into DI
kirk.

held wt

The Friendship, Benue, from London, A
Lisbon, has put into Cowes, with damage, soil mu
unlopsl to rveir.
Captain Duncan, second son of Lord Viscoar
Duncan, is amointed to the Mercury frigate.
consequence of hie active exertions in the bled
ternumun.
The Freeholders of the County of Kilkenny he
unanimously addressed His MAJESTY express''of their grateful acknowledgments, soil thanks N
his Royal determination to make cause with th
people of Spain, against the tyranny of Freaer, 6
The Address was moved by the Hon. Colonel PSI
amiss-. M.P. (brother-in-law of Earl Crites); sa
seconded by Groans BRYAN, Esq. and to wh'c
IBS MAJESTY has returned, through bit GmTeth
LORD LIEUTENANT, a most grcrioas Ansver.
BON APAIITE'S speech to the Legislative 1304 It
been very inaccurately translated in the Hot six
pers. He is made to say, that in the present year. I
has laid out more than a thousand elks of ma
whereas the text simply says, that withiu the Is
year he has travelled more than a thoustand leap
is farther on supposed to say, that Eugha
abandons the defence of the sews that is, Eve
to attend to her maritime seprernecy, and
length brings forward her land forces in Spsiai
contend with those of France. The Spetth dr
not mean to say, that we abandon the cle!';mre
the seas in that sense; but that we nt ;ewe.; lure
the protection which the sea affords us, rind t'! It 4
to measure our strength on land, with the I
troops of France.
Sir ARTEUR WELLESLEY is arrived in town A'
Ireland.
The Hon. J. Vit.t.ler.s is appointed Rs
JESTS'S Minister to Portugal.
Had Bon APA ars; conquered Portugal, be we
not have conceived it necessury to leave more t
10,000 men in it to keep the people in subject
We have delivered it from its oppressors au
would seem that 10,000 t Bri_ish troops are requi
to
TrehceonLcoilnecitoline t
British and i.viorthetib4euirsidhelleivesrze.
have written to the Sheriff of Flail. effering
and Testaments for the prisoners; in the gaol; on
quiry being made as to the ability of these unha
persons to mask- use of such mew). of instruct
it was, found, that of eight felJus (six women
twrimen) four cannot read at all, wild t‘se
little.