The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-03-21 00:00:00

THE NEW OPPATION.

We lately Stated, that the report of the death and
burial of the Xew Opposition, %%as only a feint, a
mere ruse dc guerre. The shallow artifice was not
likely to impose upon the public ; and it sea etely
required our warning voice to tell them, that this
pretended death was borrowed from the example of
SU. John F.titn9*; a stratagem, diaated by coward-
ice. and imbecility. The E4itor,of the Jacobin Print,
appears, however, to have been the complete dupe
of this shallow manczuvre. On Friday last, he was
convinced that the New Opposition were dead and
gone, and that none but "fa tile," men could sup-
pose its possible existence. Had he been in the
/louse of Commons on Monday, how must this
simpleton have been surprised, on beholding the
C•STLEREAGIIS, theCAsNlscs, and the PERCIVALS,
the ver► Opposition which ire fancied in its grave,
looking quite alive, and frowning defiance in the
flee of Mr. WINDHAM. Beholding this usexpeeed
resurreaion, he would have probably exclaimed
with Hamlet, when he sees the Ghost of his father—
" Let me rant burst in ignorance ; hut tell
Why thy canonised ones, hemmed in death,
laws hoist their cearmenti) Why the sepulchre,
Wherein we sew thee quietly Hemmed,
Hath npe'd its pondeuo.as and marble jaws,
To cast thee up spin! What may tin. mean,
That thou, dead cone, again on cemplete steel,
Resiiiist thus, the glimpes of the Moon,
Making 'right hviebus”'
We fear, however, that to suppose the Print, to
which we allude, the dupe of the party, is too cha-
ritable a construilion of its condua. A more ready
tool for the propagation of falsehood and slander,
has seldelm made its appearance. Upon the first
tot nettion of the present Ministry, it was represented
as a paltry scramble for places and pensions ; a mi-
serable struggle for bread and cheese ; a little mer-
cenary anxiety te provide for liangry dependents.
How the turned-nut Ministers could think that they
were serving their cause, by diclating such language
to their creature, we cannot conceive. Are these
the sentiments with which the CA<TLERE•SHS and
the Ceesimos came into those Offices, from which
they have teen lately driven ? Perhaps Mr. Ca a-
sittc was asleep when he kissed hands, on his ap-
pointment as Treasurer of the Navy ; and Viscount
CASTLEREAGH was, no doubt, half-hanged, or well
Bogged, to extort his consent to become President '
of the Board of Controul. But, if the CASTLE-
REAGHs and CANNING, accepted places with their
eyes open, aed high and important Offices of State
afford such temptation to reerdid avarice, never,
surely was a Ministry that 'had so little right to
complain as the late one. Twenty years of place
and power were surely sufficient, with only ordi-
nary care and diligence, to lay up something for
old age, and provide for hungry dependents.
It is the stale trick of every Jacobin and agi-
tator, to represent an ambition for office in
this sordid light, divested of every generous mo-
tive. But, for the falsehood of the suggestion,
we need only refer to the care of Mr. Prrr. Ac-
cording to the reasoning of the Jacobin Print,
Mr. PITT must have died as rich as Creams, yet Mr.
Pier diet 50,0001. in debt. It is a fan, that Mr.
PITT'S salary, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
First Lord of the Treasury, with the addition of
that valuable sinecure, the Lord Warden .of the
Cinque Ports, was not adequate to a dignified sup-
port of his official rank and station. The same may
be said of the salary of First Lord of the Admi-
ralty. Unless then, Mr. GALT, or Lord Hagar
PETTY, had ample fortunes, is far from feathering
their nests by the profits of office, they must draw
upon the purses of their friends, and run in debt,
like Mr. PITT. It is impossible to reprobate, in
terms of too great severity, those wicked and ma-
licious misrepresentations, the objeß of which is, to
degrade the Government in the eyes of the people.
We will lose no opportunity to expose them to pub-
lic contempt; and, therefore, must not now pass over
unnoticed some new observations of the same
class, which hare appeared in the Jacobin Print.
Having exhausted its vocabulary in a series of
inveßive against places and pensions, it open-
ed a new source of abuse on Saturday. That
we may not be charged with misrepresentation, we
will quote its own words. " It is really cruel,"
says the Jacobin Print, alluding to the new Minis-
ters, "to attempt to interrupt them in their career
of enjayment, and to disturb that hermeitious in.
terchange of feasts and dinners, the accounts of
which, fill the celurans of the Ministeriel Papers, to
the great edification and joy of the people. We
inserted yesterday, a list of four Cabinet Demers in
one day, to convince our Readers, ' hew merrily
..relive, that Ministers be.' And thus far we think
it nec e y to say in their defence, that it was
highly indecorous and unreasonable to expect, that
the first thing they would do when they got into
place, would, or could be, to pre over plans and
dry details. As if a man who had thrown by a
thread-bare coat, and put on a new oue, thought at
all, in the first instance, of going to work. Nes--se ;

he must go about and shew it, visit his friends, and
junket with them ; ask them how he looks in it ? and
whether they like the colour, the cut, and the cloth ?
After having been so long condemned to the bleak
and barren regions of Opposition, can we complain
that the new Ministers, cow that they have got into
the fertile and produeive fields of patronage and
power, feast and make merry." Every man who
reads this passage will see, that in its style, its sen-
timent, And its mode of reasoning, it is addressed ex-
clusively to the populace, its favourite readers; and
that the kV:4er studies to avail himself of the pre-
judices, and to abuse the ignorance of the lower
orders. This is the argument with which the Ja-
cobins wrought upon the passions of the Parisian
Pertsardes. It was with the same weapon the Ja-
cobins of England sought to produce a revolution
here. Men placed at the very b mom of society,whate
minds are without cultivation, ald whose hands are
daily employed in procuring food and raiment, will
be too apt to examine a Prime Minister by their
own wants. They will be apt to place his ambi-
tion in a fine suit of clothes, or a good dinner ; and
make the Minister exclaim, in the titords of the hero
in the farce of The Tailors, •
If Fate but favour us, our future dam
Shall roll in peace, and luxvrv, and wee,
Awl all be crowned w,CI punch, with pork, w th pen "
This revolutionary c int must not, however, be dis-
milled thus lightly. Th- Writer says he h.ts read
a list of four Cabinet dinners in one day, and from
thence he infers, that the life of the Ministers is
one round of feasting, gluttony, and dissipation, to
'the injury and neglect of public business. %Vhen
Member of the Cabinet invites to dinner a party,
generally including stone of his colleagues in
office, it is called a Cabinet Dinner. There are,
we believe, eight Cabinet Ministers ; and we gra it
it very possible, that four of them may have
entertained some friends upon the same day.--
But is any man, the efire, to insinuate to the
poor and hungry, that the Cabinet Ministers
dined four times in one day ? or, that a Ca-
binet Dinner is a nt pity area of luxury and glut-
tony, blunting ad the mental faculties of the host,
and totally disqualifying him and his guests fcr pub-
lic business ? If a Cabinet Dinner be, in tea, only
an ordinary dinner, we see no crime, unless it be one
to dine every day. The new Ministers have not been
sufficiently long in office to have committed any po-
litical sins, which they are called upon to expiate in
sackcloth and ashes, in penitence and prayer.—
We see no good rossaoss why zbay should .at a
good coat, or enter a Cabinet as they would enter a
Convent, solemnly renouncing all the good things of
the world, which they possessed before. This ene-
my of good dinners, in the Jacobin Print, this advo-
cate for cucumber times, is probably a pupil of Mr.
RITSON. " Flesh-eatings," says that Gentleman, " by
clogutg and cloying wens' bodies, render their very
minds and intelleCts gross likewise ; for it is well
known, that wine, and flesh-eating, make the body
strong and lusty, but the mind weak arid feeble."
We question, however, whether Mr. RITSON, if he
be a loyal man, would not forego his regimen in the
case of the present Ministers. It has been objeeed
to Mr. Fox, that he is too pacific and mild ; that he
will tamely bear the insults Of RON•PARTX, and
lick the hand the: strikes him. Now, according to
the advocates for vegetable diet, animal food makes
men furious, and fond of fighting; and, con. e-
quently, a good dinner of English roast beef, mist
coffee, in the case of Mr. Fax, the over-tameness
of his disposition ; it must inspire him with military
ardour, and make him despise all the difficelties in
the way of a march to Paris, of a revioareat enter-
prize, or of any other valiant scheme meditated by
his predecessors in office.

The Townsbend packet, Captain Roams, is ar-
rived at Falmouth with a Mail from Lisbon, in four
days passage. The letters will be delivered this
day.
The Cam: brig has had ■ most gallant aetion
yri.h a ship of surerior force off Ferro'..lasks-t under
the batteries. She peppered the enemy so well,
that she forced her to run ashore, where she bilged
and sunk ; the crew were saved.

Letters from Deal, dated on Wednesday, state
that a ten-oared galley arrived there in the court*
of the moruing, in which was Mr. Joeurror,
who commands the Si:e lugger, accompanied by a
French Officer of rank. Upon landing, they pro-
ceeded to the inn, the Three Kings ; and the Offi-
cer, after having taken some retre,hment, waited
upon Admiral llostorrav, at his office. The let-
ter adds, •• We understand he was taken out of a
lugger, of Gravelines, by the Nile cutter. He
was waited on by several Officers. both naval and
military; among them, Latrains Owes and M•r-
son.,
A writer in an evening Paper of yesterday.
meaning to convey a censure upon the present Mi-
mvers, says--•. The Loan was negociated.tbe Bud-
ge: opened, and the new tares brought forward Last
year, or. the 13th of February. upwards of a
month before this time, and all the sew tax bills
had been alibcuased, and passed last Session, before
the Loan will have been made, or the Budget
opened this." (i.e ceedi t ...titer of !bisexual&
ought no: to have forgattea, that the last Session
I commenced long betare Cntistmas, and that the
present commenced after it.

. .
TN B LOAN;
The intimation re .• - 2-7 !Ann on Wed-
nesday; was commtnic..tea la ;he f0110wi...7
ner. :—Mr. Haves, the Deputy Cashier of CA
Bank, went to the Stock Exeh.nge, and read, from a
paper in his hand, a Message to the follocrirtg pun;
port
The Governor and Depute. Governor of the Bark thin it
peeper to acquaint the Gentlemen of the St tic h %rhinos. tl..at
they have reason to exrect a communication tub the RAJA
Honourable the Chancellor of the Etchcipier, intimattil it*
he eta be ready to see the Gentlemen eon may be inrLited
bid for the Loan, for these'', cc et- the oui.rerit year, iu Dusan
ieg-street, on Tuesday morn next.
This intimation w.is the result of an intervi:ne
which the Governor and Deputy Governer had had
with Lord Ellgt4ltY PET Iv, in %hie'. we under-
stand he stated to :hem that Ise should he ready
to settle the preliminaries on 1 liesday, Ova the
Candidates might prepare to meet him this day
sennight to bid for the L,ian. It is understood
that they advised the Noble Lord to raise the
Loan chiefly upon Three per Cent. Con,olß, and not
upon any new or speculative kind of stuck. Th. Loan
rill be for a large amount. Some think 23,000,0001.
It had been generally supposed, that)t'svonld nut
have been neuciated until after Easter.

HOME CIRCUIT.
MAIDSTONE, MAROS' 19.
James Danes was found guilty of privately steal.
ing in the dwelling house of Mr. Andrews, to the
emenne of forty shillings. Ile was one of a gang
who entered the house with crapes over their faces.
and was identified by Sarah Pearce, a servant maid,
who got a glimpse of his nose, which was la:gonad
acquiline.
PiViam Severs was indiled for manslaughter, in
killing and shying John Dilhridge, by form/ hires
to drink four quarter .s of spirits, called gm, by
which he was choaked and siifFncated.
Thee witnesses were called, but their evident*
amounted 'o no more, than that the deceased was
drunk, and begged the Prisoner to give him some
g:n. The Pris ,ner ordetel Lim some more, which
he drank voluntarily. He was seized with an apo-
plrzy, and died.
The Learned Juone directed the Jury to emit
the Prisoner ; observing, that he gay they given by
the Prisoner was not surfizi Int to cause death ; rani
it wa; the deceased's own fault that he hal di odS
more.—Verdict hot Gully.
Mantis Green was in acted for rrandattgl,t- -, a
killing and slaying John Cla.k, in the palise of
AA'onlwit b.
On the list of August last, they were b
work on board the same craft, and ba
t 3 quarrel, they went on shore to bot it tar
In the third round the deceased received a blow on
the temple, which in-ta,tlv killed him
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, hot in can-
sequence of his having bieu tmpt iso .ed from Au-
g.s; la.t, he was fixed one shilling, and ordered to .
be discharged.
The bill against Captain Teinplem.n,• f Ole
murder of one of his crew, was thrown our. De
will therefore be tried to-mcriow on the Coroner's
Inquest.
'1 hs causes on the Civil side were very daft, end
stew w

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The Egyetienoe Ligate bas snot into PlymnutN a
beautiful French frigate, almost mew, which her
boats cut our it a rung gallant style, close in with
the Isle du Rhe. She is called the Aleide, and has
made lint one voyage ; she is pierced for ES guns
on the main deck, and 10 guns on the quartet age
forecastle: him was refitting for sea. Lamossasat
klaortE:.l3 commanded the boats by which she was •
cut Out.
The French, it is said, have not yet got entire pos.
sermon of the kingdom of Naples; for the PRIPCB
ROYAL, upon the appiotch of the French, retired
into Calabria with ab.mt 17,0n3 regular troops, and
the leg en ma le, who are commarded Ey General
llamas. They have taken a strong positicn a
that province.
A Letter from Whitehaven, dated &larch 18. s ars, -
" We are sewry to announce the loss of the Prnpe.
to :, Cap:. W. Henn, of this port. This fatal ac-
cidert ;,by which all on board perished) happened in
a violent gale of wind, varying from W. N. W. to
N. by E at seven o'clock in the morning of Monday!
the 10th inst. about two miles to the N.W. of Also
with in the Isle of Anglesea. The vessel went en-
tirely to pieces within fire minutes after the time
of her striking. The aames of the vessel and the
master were ascertained by the stern of the beat
drifting on shore. No other parts of the wreck had
appeared when the intelligence was d 'patched to
the Colleßor and Comptroller of this port.--Ina
Protptrour was in ballast, from Dublin."
Several Mem'aers of the St. James's Corps of
Vo.unreers were summoned yesterday to flnw.street,
and fined in mitigated penalties, far non-attendance
of duty, particularly upon field days.
Pansst al •si Watt a . —Mr. T. J—t.t—te, lately
undertook, fora trifling wager, to run a mile in five l'
minutes, which he performed, apparently withimt
much exertion, several seconds within the time `I
prescribed. He has since engaged to run the 'erne
distance in four minutes, and leap a given height
at stated intervals.
There is no exaggeration in the stated weight of
the great Mr. LAMBERT. Wko is expelled in town . t
soon from Leicester. He really weighs 50 atone.
An unpleasaat accident happened to him some time , •,
ago, which had nearly been attended with serious
consequences. He is a sporting man, and was
..
genies! into a pnit.chaiie, to attend tome hots.-
races in the neighbisurhond of Leicester, when, in !
atteraptine to pull himself up into the vehicle. his
great ;weight drew it over upon him, and his head t.il
went oat at the opposite doer. He was a gcod !
deal bruised, and, with some difficul,y, extricated
how) the strange and dangerous situation.
On Tuesday fast, the Pontefract Volunteers were
insp.-del there, when Witt !AM Moos'. a private .
in the said corps. was discharged from the AUER* by t
Colonel Lind Msxaosovnet. fer insolence and ill-
' behaviour to his Captain ; and afterwards having .
refused so give up his clothes, accontrerneats. ice.
when demanded of hint by Serjeant J•ccson. he
i
was apprehended by a warrant, and taken behwo
the NI. von, who convisted him in the penalties in
that case made ; and not being able to pay the
same, be was committed to Wakefield House a ---
1 Corredion, for seven days.