The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-11-25 00:00:00

LONDON,
FRIDAY, Normals& .25.

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•- DISASTROUS NEWS FROM SPAIN. .
We have been, for some day's. preparing the pub-
lic mind for the reception of isafevortile intelli-
gence from Spain. If Nix was able %a maintain a
footing in Spain, and fo contend with doubtful
sueems against the whole of the Spanish forges, it
appeared to us snore thou pro able, that. when
*Bed by liesiraare, and the reinforcements
pis" ,f4vek Ftseye. Germany, and Italy into
: lieleMieted.testintr.r.; he would be able to advance.
/lie sevehe principle of our reasoning, and we
tiatilcillrettiti that it has proved well founded.
" "te:slitiiiicket. arrived on Tuesday at
meiriwelh:spails frsts Corunio, which place
t
alloe4iff eerthe 19th instant. It appears by the
1711-141I0tr- shit date, brought by her,- that the
"hiss re-mitered Burgos, sad were pushing
"64 NOineGlid stmight for 111adrisk. The armay
44440046 m was acivaiseirig torweet them, but
' e ditieiediaftsipsue, which• had pleated forward to-
' Inallia tette it -is said, las met and defeated
' aliciut A.... ' gigues south of that city. So far we
hare etia`u4ority.of the public journals, that the
reptcli 41.4 .ept only passed through Burgos, but
advanced considerably beyond that place towards
Palsocia. Private letters from Logo, uated the
litit. carry dean ' the whole., operations of the
Amp* etOik;furtber. They state, that BLAILN'Ii
1107.11fter repeated attache, had been completely
imperiedoaltelithat the French, having passed Pa-
kiwis. harttirEred Valladolid, and were pushing
on rapidli,;t9:-Mairid. Government. it is said,
have received dispatches to the same effect;
but, indeed, if it he true, as stated in the Co-
runna papers, that the French hold passed beyond
' Burgos. we do not see any reason to doubt the
account, even though it had not received official
confirmation. The French could not have ad-
* tra Barges without having encountered
I:zeled allaillia BLAILR't army, unites they con-
11.11111Mit.nrek.of sufficient moment to delay their
IStiirsltg the same time this reasouing is not
. 11. ,Q more cautious Central than Bona-
1011ette we might be assured would slot advance.
4Litig ll'ilboa and St. Andero in possession of the
yiu his rear ; but we know that in the late
war be did not adhere to this regular system of the
rid school..but pfessed forward into Poland, lee,-
tair:ry gulag fortresses occupied by the enemy
hint. ' BONAPARTE felt that if he gained
lire' main oli,iect, their fall must fellow of course.
XII lklrast, .he may have left ,Bilbott and St.
illoderieta sDad behind him in the eagerness of
to:lselin to gratify his ambition, and realise his
of re-establishing his brother as a King
tit' that es.pita4 from which he lately made
is escape ea a guilty fugitive. favoured by
the darkness of night and covered with disgrace.—
Assuming thei that the French have arrived at Val-
ladolid,or even at Burgos, and that they are within a
feW days march of Madrid, as all these places have
been mentioned as the only probable points of in-
tended unison hetween the forces of General
Moose and Sir Davin Began. we wish to know
whirls to be done by these Gemerats. By the arri-
val of the French at Madrid before them, their union
will• be rendered impossible in that point, and at
Burgos or Valladolid, the French world be inter-
posed between them, supposing,. as vie have a right
to premium. that Sir DAVID BAIRD'S army has
made a considerable progress towards Biscay. -hi
any of these cases, we see only one safe coarse that
ow. troopecan pursue. General BAIRD must en-
detrour to measure back his steps to Coiunua,subd

I it Joite Manes must make the best of Ilia way
Issisit•en Liaison. At the latter place our army
wnettl'fie cOf a while, and we understand that
there are .tietiiiiiorts at Commie ready to receive
the force imadosskikorred Dawn. the only 111Staillet
of widow and due precaution which we have seeu
the tee:duet of from the time of the
{aiding of the first man iu the Iberian peninsula.
These views.may appear ton gloomy ; hut ivlien
it is consi..;tred that we hare Comma papery to the
aggii awatant, and that they do not afford one cheers
lag ra. but, en the coutr-ays that the intelligence
which they hint i is dirk and dismal. and that in
them we Gila Oa accounts of PALM el and C AST A.•
0% tylast tighh have we to eueourage stn6ruine ea-

jtectatilim? It is true that SeasioanTr. tt4ight oc-
cupy the capital without possbalitig the counts!.—
All Spain is not Madrid ; alter beating the
Spanish armies he has still to armpit. i'ii?-Spa-.1
nish nation. But mai swirosing that the Spa-
nish nation should eventually come victorious
we are appalled at tlw prospect of the borrows
and sufferings by which the victory will be a-
chieved. Horrors and suffixing., rendered still
more painful by the reflection of the facility,
which, with ordinary wisdom and energy, might
have been avoided. Had Ministers sent our
troops to the point where they were waisted and
welcome, instead of to the points where they were
not wanted nor weicoine : Had Sir D. BAIRD, Sir
A. WE:A.B,4IAI', Sir H. BURSAR', and General
ANsTRUTHER, landed at St. Anders, instead of at
Commis and iu Portugal, the French must have
Been loag since completely expelled from fipaia .
and the passes of the Pyrenees would beams. in
the possession of the English and Spanish fermis.
To this complexion, howzrer, haveM Misters brought
our affairs ut last. The only glorious gokrleii oppor-
tunity for the deliverance of Europe, that ham oo-
curred since the commencement of the Preach Be-

volution, chance threw in their way. It is horrible
to think that they hod not ability to avairthsiuselvs.
of 'it.

Part of the evidence produced in favatir pf Sir
ARTHUR WSLLISLEIi, yesterday, Wove tile:olHW

of Inquiry, at Chelsea, was a conversation between
hint, and Colonel To assns. We- 'never• thought
that this Court could possibly satisfy 'the public;
mid we are now convinced of it. Evidence of this
kind before a Court, or, perhaps, more properly
speaking, a Board of Inquiry, may be very pro-
per; but it would not be allowed in any other
Court, however, humble in the most trivial and
and paltry case that fancy can conceive. Let us
suppose, for instance, that upon the trip' of a maw
in a Criminal Court of Law, for steeling a pewter
pot, his declarations, professing his innocence; in
conversation with :A friend. weie evidence to go to a
Jury, be must be a very silent and friendless man,
iadeed, who would ever he found guilty. Any thing,
there Fore, that Sic ARTHUR WEL I.SsLEY ever urged
in his own defeuce, in the abeemeoflletserals Bu a-
RAE and Sir D. DALRYMPLE; we mutt leave
cam-
pletely out of the case. There is only one other point
disclosed iu the examination of yesterday, which we
' have room to notice. It appears, from the evidenee of
Gen.FralaUSSO N. that the heaviest artillery a hieboar
troops could have brought to batter down Lisbon.
and the forts upon the Tagus, were nitre posuoders
What a type of Ministers ! ! Niue pounders are
exactly of their own calibre. •

The Hampshire Nomination took place on Wed..
nesday, at Winchevter. A brief account of the pro-
ceetlings is given in a subsequent column.

The Priam/ Elizabeth packet, the arrival of
which, at Plymouth, we mentioned yesterday, .bas
brought letters from Lisbon to the 16th instant.—
By these we learn that 6060 British troops still
remained in the iimAitbourliond of the capital. under
the COMOMMII of Sir U. BIJIMAILD; who, although
rumour stated him to have been recalled, had gives
no indications' of his departure fey
Twenty-four transports or upwards, with FrosaFti
troops on board, remained iu the Tagus, and there
seemed no prospeet of their sailing, say!) prepara-
tions were waking for that imepole.
The tt7th and Slst Itegiments; from Corunna,
had arrived seine time ago atl,i4bon.
Yesterday advice were meaty& at the East Indio
House, that the underihhitimaid dips. outward-
bound, which sailed frtim Madeira etas the 3d Octo-
bet last, were all welt on the Toth of tbsit mouth,
in lat. 43.50. N. loirg. 11. ln. W. via. '
Asia, Captain Tiemeiglifere; Wattlisapoto.i, lows; Tot-
Isobar, Hughes Gemara Swart/ Jerome Demotes.
lionsapd 00ras. littplbeit Lothiiqristi.
J. ; aid Urios,tiarr.Mi.
Extract of a letter from Madeira, dated Oct. 96':
—" Passed by. to the north-west, a Portugsiese
line-of-battle ship, tax frivites.and a brig, to
cruise against the Algerima. . . .
ptrThe LORD CRAIIICIILLOR bas beenirleased to
esit the Rev. Joseeg. ellow and
Dimin of Saint John's L'otlege,. Cambridge, to the
Vicarage of SwalTb,eii Itulbeck. -
"1141.4h/eta prat Sir .N... 11.01A.AND; wise
support Mr. 111:11TFICQT1i; .metre 111144 C Baronets
by Mr. PITT ; the former in 1795, and the other
iu 1800.
Captain I.Lewita, of the George, arrived at
Portsmouth, from Malta, states, that two or three
of the teat. ur.der convoy of His MAJErm's ship
Standard, from the Alediterranean, have foundered,
and, he fears, their crews are lost, as the weather
wuso bad no boat cool,' render them assistance.

The Elise Hamilton, DAVIDSON. from New.
ll'ork, for St. Cs oix, is taken by a French privateer,
carried in St. Nlartin'4, and condemned.

Extract of a letter from Captisiu Bras, of the
"emir, from Suriiisim, arrived in the Doan.,
dated off the Isle of 'Wight, Nov. 2t :—•` We
sailed from Surinam in company with the TAarriet,
Capt. Witsoa, and panto" from her on the nit
October; on the 17th October, is lat.. 14, 47. N.
shoat ti leagues to the eastward of Barbadoes, we
fell in with, and hem off, 'after a random action of
two hours and a half, a French privateer schooner.
It was perfectly calm, at she would have bee*
prise to as, as Capt. was, at the same
time, 11l company, otherwise we should have cea.
lenity been captured. From the information of
some prisoners we bare 011 i.lo4lTti, I 4.4111 She is La
Petit Atielegh.of four sic-poouders and one twelve,
with sixty men. We did her a deal of damage, and
we received so-vevol liout, which completely da-
maged the mizen-mast, Lid we received a few
crape bliiit among our lower rigging and sails.—
The 015eers and men isehared extremely well."

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laughable situations,
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for the lest tune. for

last. at the Edinburgh
duce the Shawl Dauce :Opera.
conclude with 4, God time the Inter Millais
I.Carsi..sai was to play at Newcaatie to-in,,Nrow
night.
• Lady and Mies Warta hare left Tnuusi:s
'Hotel for thrir new residence in Welber.-street.

Lord and Lady GEORGE CATENDIfiII left toss,
at seven o'clock yesterday intoning, for Laaca,l,r..
Lord HENRY FITZGERALD, Lady Dc HOU, sal
their family, are gone to Brighton, where they im-
pose to remain until after Christmas.
Lady Am" HAMILTON and the two Mimes %a:-
FORD left town yesterday for root-hill.
-rho Counter of Essex was last night comaidatd
rather better.
The Whitnhaven Theatre opened nn Wedneserq
night, with an occasional Address, spoken In Mr.
14. K mum The interior has been greatly im-
proved during the vacation.
Lieut. JONI. FRINIANTLE, of thc Coldstrws
Guards, is appointed Aid-de-Camp to Sir Joni
t:atA [soca, and left town on Sunday for Pmts.
mouth; to embark for l'ortugal.
• The two M hoes Jou% sniu will have a greed pee!'
on Sunday evening, at their house in Minot.-
, square.
Lord CMOrtGE EERLsIPORD was married on Tu. •••
day at Mary-k-bonne church, to Miss flsitait;
, SemuTZ.

Ou Friday last M. V ESTllliand AIiGELINI land-
ed at Portsmouth front Lisbon. They are titre'
for •the season at the Opera. They are expected
to town this eveaing.
At a late Public Meeting, the Chairman,
collecting the opiriona a those present also.
question pre:roiled, was stigmatised by a guar/. -
some mensLr as a fool; when he repted. ti '1
the accusation was very improbable, as he Lad j,::
taken the erase qj the co—pany.
Mr. Coons is engaged. for a few nights, at t 't
Bath Theatre, and was to make his &bat r‘i-t
night in Macbeth. To-morrow he is to pri fora
Silt/lock and Sir Archy Mac:imam, and on Tilt.'
day Richard.
On Saturday, Sir Satinet. HOOD art"olopan.c • 4
the Duchess of Goanuir to the EdtnharKh theatre.
The raoment the so/hence recltni,..ed the
Admiral, they testified their approbation bi
loudest plaudits; mud the bind ern, k up God
the king. Risk Britannia, Britons strike home,
Ou Friday last the Kiss's househoid, in
Loses depart/cent. cotton.,
paying op to last Cbrintinas, and, although

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Wiwi three quarters in arrears, o•pence to
pound was stopped for prompt payment.
On Tuesday afternoon, at three o'clock,
Royal Highites• the Prince of Wstvs lett tni
his travelling carria,te, ocirtoniantetl by f.:!.•
Teatime, and Sir Peluso FICAti(Ph for Brigi
His Royal H•ghness returns to town on Satu
or Sunday, and early in the ensuing week prat
to the Lower Loglee. at Wind-or. there to ret
for a few days. 1S e are heavy to %tote, tlw'
Royal Highness) has rot !octal so vis:l for t 1.4
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Weduceday evening. Ili, Attie es re's Court,.,,' OAP
Queew'e Palace, it so happened, coiteithleei :, Willie
tine enotigh for Trig carriage to precede Ilil '; short
ii•:•rr'l4 a short di.tarice. %%lice it came toll- and T
harp Green, from the derbies. of the night, of Sir
the great speed the horses were tr.velling at, . Mend
of the leading horses, on which the postilion Sir
fell, threw his rider, and rolled upon him; a.% 31r. I-
course, three the other three hones iii great eat,i and 4
bion, and it was expected the &senate, with deerll
NI Al Ler( in it, in teat liav e hero overt u rued; line, their
by the exertions of the other poi:Wien it was mom
vented, and an inhabitant of Turnbull-green, re, rani
happened. to be ou the spot, hastened to the as eeslie
ranee of Hi* MAJeIiTY, and got him out cf there thou:
eiage, without receiving any injury ; he ea., 11,,,, Mr. I
ever, under the disagreeable necessit, of •als, veer,
through the must, ',birth was unfortanately e., right
lected to a considerable depth, and wait,J ta neat
Her MAJZlrren ferriage came up, in trhich react!, whet
M•aerry, the Princesses At'ausee and Luz elodi
SETE, and, Lady ATIMISURY. TI
Princess EL IZAIII.TH. on learning what was Dait,
matter with her Koval Father, instantly jumped lii
of the eMinegerineei.illsaiMaseenv teak her pi , begs
The .Prienes was 'esieliged to walk for a 0, • frau
deraide distance through the mull. is the ray, rev
camas... ea which were the. Princesses Mtn..: pert)
PULA, and AMEIJA.. and Lady eII.SisLLT. 'f Sir i
then proceeded on their way to .Wiad.or. eli. si Si
senv's carriage followed, empty, with a Inn A
pair; the. fore horses bein„o too initell injured Al
proceed. and the rider. of the name of Con, a fore
so mach bruised that he was uiLeze to the e '. the I
Hone Inn, sad put to bed. the
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Dlttlre-11.11L last,
SWAIISPRARE'S interesting Comedy of As y. sate
Ake It, was performed last night. The only uor . thee
ties in the performance were Miss MCLI.OIe, ill tl ci.sie
part of eloulrey, and Min RAY, in Cern. 31
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Mes.LoN, although following such an a.teess
Alin Pore, we, by no meuns deficient in berth: me
neation of the simple aukwardindrey—ebe, hoe eritt
ewer, wanted that vacancy of couottaance wen,. Drel
Alias Poet so admi-abiy pourtrayed. Miss Die 1"
tall played /tontine/ with much spirit, and a ban
encored in the Cuckoo State The Comedy Nl' eke
well received throughout. The Renner of e:..s era.
Beard followed with its usual success. The boat tie
was qiiite fu11.
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The new farce of Tie School for Authors, is , lire
performed at the Haymarket Theatre on Monday a,,,
next, is said to poesese much point, sod some ~ I an,
laughable situation*, which will afford Mr. Just.. um
Mr. Alusoes, and Mrs. Glass, au opportitaiti of Eta
displacing their comic talents to great advantne. del
Madame C•ret•nt was to perform, positive,' sine
for the last tine. for her own Benefit. on Wedoes4eY eve
last. at the Edinburgh Theatre. tile was to blur so
duce the Shawl Deuce in the Opera; the whole to "

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