The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-10 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, Octoosa 10.

We announced, on Saturday, the arrival of Ad-
-Iniral TYLER. on Thursday evening, at St. Ileleii's,
.from the Tagus, with the Russian squadron which
surren.lered t!, Sir Cu 111. ES COTTON. They came
op to *timid! on Friday inorning.—The terms of
the Conirentioa allowing the!Russian ships to wear
their colburs on the passage, order was given by
Admiral Ts LER, when they arrived at St. Helen's,
to strike them at son-set. Admiral TYLER did not
weer his colours when he came up to Spithead, iu
compliment (arising from delicacy) to the Russian
Admiral, SESIASIN: they were hoisted when
they got under weigh, but not kept up. Admiral
SLNIATI!.'S Rag was flying when he came up ; but
it was striirk at sun-set on Friday night, and all
the other Russian ships hauleddown their pendants.
The Russian o;ficers have leave to come on shore;
the crews of the ships are to be sent home imme-
cl;atcly. The slips are to come into Portsmouth
harbaur to be kid up. They are in so bad con-
ditirei, that they never will be serviceable ugain.—.
They are, its fact, worthless.—Our sailors say
they arc mere handles of boards; one of them is
actnally tied together with cables; two others arc
leaky, mid die two left at Lisbon must be bmken
up. Their crews are ordered to have the same
allowance of bread and beef as our own seamen,
until they arm sent home. Sixty bullocks were
or:kred to be killed for their use on Fr Oily. It is
a singular circumstance, that after Admiral TYLER
had given Admiral SERIATIM intimation that he
must not wear his colours any longer, and that his
arrival at a British port was the fulfilment of that
part of the Convention which allowed him to do
so—it was generally apprehended that he would
make au attempt, however rash it may ap-
pal:l., to get away from St. Helen's in the
in the night. Admiral Tv lAA received the orders,
by thedlat schooner, at four o'clock ; and he, iu con-
sequence, informed Admiral See !Alin, that when
lie struck his colonrs at son-set, he must not hoist
them again. Such an order might, no doubt, give
a spirited officer offence, as his squadron had worn
their colours till they had nearly reached St. He-
len's. The Ettrflemr, Admiral TY Lelia ship,
under the appr:theusion which we have stated,
actually cleared for at W, after she anchored
et St. Heleil'is, on Thursday night. But if the
Ric.sien Admiral meditated any resistance to

the order, he rehuquifihtd that iotention. Ad.

miral TYLER, haa ever, could nut come en shore
until the Russians had struck their GaAs ,aid pen-
dants, and did not land until Saturday moraing.
From the wretched coediting of the Russiao ships,
it is certain, that, had an action taken place in the
Ta;us, they must have been all captured or sunk.
All toe British Officers, who came home with Ad-
milal Lim, are of opinion, that Sir CHARLES
Cerro a had instructions from Governtneut to grant
easy terms to the Russians. Admiral SENIAVIN
said, he fully expected that there would Le peace
between the two nations before he arrived :.1 Spit-
head. They cannot account for the favourable con-
ditions which the enemy have obtained in any caller
manner. They all lament the Convention. They are
literally ashamed of it, and reget their fate, which
made them, as it were, silent abettors of st.—One
Captain mid, the moment he lauded, 6. Don't the.
talk of trying us ? We ought all to be tried ; Sir
COARLES COTTON, for signing the Coin ention,
and we for carrying it into effect. I hope nu one
will kuow that we have been in Portugal." The
names of the Russian Shills arrived at Portsmouth,
are the raperdy, of 74 guns, Vice-Adin. San r •t.tn,
Capt. MALATON, Skorug, of Go guns, Capt. SUM.-
LI/10 : St. !Jolene, of 74 guns, Capt. BITCHENaIiOY
Rafael, of SO guns, Capt. 131 rcitxx SKOY ; JllNOy,of
74 guns, Capt. AI tI.T ta/ IN : Matehnoy, of 74 gam:,
Capt. ItAIVOSOFF Kuloi:an, of G 6 guns, Captain
RAISItEIIOe'P ; mid the Keldyn frigate, of 2G gulls,
Capt. Dauexoee. The St. Comet. of 74 guns ;
mid the Furowstavai, of 74 gulls, are left at Lisbon.

An order has been received at Portsmouth, to
ascertain whether the Stately, of 64 guns, and se-
veral other ships at that port, can be fitted to re-
ceive troops. It is supposed that they are to carry
the Russians home.

We noticed, last week, that the report of the ap-
pointment of his Royal Highness the Duke of
YORK to the commend of our troops in Spain and
Portugal, gained ground. We can now state, upon
good authority, that the report is without founda-
tion. It is supposed to have been revived and cir-
culated by persons unfriendly to his Royal High-
MSS.

Saturday morning, the Marquis Romano, who
commands the Spanish troops which were rescued
from the Dauish islands ; Colonel O'llassEtt,
Aid-de-Camp ; Mr. LAS Heats, Intendant to the
Army; and Mr. CACIIAPERE, Secretary; Mr.
FREISC, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Supreme
Government of Spain ; and Mr. FacaE, his Secre-
tary; arrived at Portsmouth from London, to go to
Spaiu in the Sentirastis frigate, Captain GRANGIIt.
A million and a half of dollars have been shipped
on board her fur the Spanish Patriots. The ap-
pointment of Mr. FiltEltr, as Ambassador to Fen-
DINAND VII. is announced in The Gazelle of Sa-
turday. He is to reside at the seat of the Central
or Supreme Junta.

By a vessel from Oporto, we have received some
Portuguese papers, from which we have extracted
a series of Balkans, giving an account of the early
part of the late military operitious of the French
in Portugal, published by orderof General JUNOT.
They very prudently break off before they come
down to the actions of the 17th and '2lst, the latter
at Viineira. The French General, in these Bid-
!tans, boasts the cruelties inflicted by the French
on the loyal and brine Portuguese, whom he styles
rebels," in every part of his relation. Private
letters have 01,.n been received from Oporto to
the 9.146. last, which state, that the Spanish troops,
which had advanced into Portugal, had commenced
their march hack towards Badajos ; and thit the
Spaniards, who had been confined on the Tagus,
were about to take the same route.

The more deeply we reflect on the great events
which have taken place in various parts of Europe,
within the last six month►, the more strongly are
we impressed with that conviction, which we have
so often endeavoured to minim 'cite to our
readers. that Bost APARTE attained, in the spring of
the present year, his highest point of elevation. and
has been ever since rapidly tending downwards, in
an oppobite direction. The attempt to transfer the
Spani►h Monarchy to Ins brother Joscris, is now
gone by into the volume of time. Near four
moathe have elapsed since it was acted, and it may
be viewed, like other atrocious, but more successful
enterprizes, of the Corsican Despot, "in the mild
light of calm philosophy." Considered in that
abstract point of view, iinlependent of its come-
(pence', merely as a measure of ambition, aggran-
dizement, and state policy, we think that we are
authorised in usserting it to be oue, which, though
Casa& B011,4:1A, might have meditated► yet MA.
CUIAVEL would not have sanctioned Of approved.
In confirmation of this opinion, it is well known in
France, that the Mscetsavet. of the nineteenth
century, whose counsels have so long guided the
Bosnia of our own tunes, through a labyrinth of
crooked negociations, usurpations, and crimes, was
either not consulted, or was decidedly adverse to
the attempt against Spain. We see, in fact, that
though Ts I.Lt MILAN CO now re-upp►eara on the pub-
lic scene, and is to act a part in the conferences at
Erfurt, he was not sent to Bayonne, nor had any
share in the transactions there carried on, unless
that of furuishing a prison at Valency for FEM..
*awn VII.

11e might almost incline to think, when vse be-

hold the astonishing contequeucee, and tinevi4,,
ityceues. whit have flowed, itimut y unite
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deviatiou, fr m that impure scnce, that
deuce, which out of evil produces good, and ithiej,
for reasons inscrutable to us. pennirs crime
is
range the earth unchecked to a certain point, bad
as it were. abandoned Mugu:oil, wheu he miters.;
Bayonne. It is clear, that he did not se:, in
with the rigour, prudence, and alnliq, that do:
racteriztvl liiin is ldu. nod NOG. ft:ouquest, dun.
ger, and unlitary glut.., decorate tare the most un-
just or criminal enterprises, with so flinch lustre
that their enormity is portly lost in their spiciideur'.
But when, from his lurking plaice on the Baukb of
the Adour, he sei.t Mee iT, slid DUPONT, HA
MoNCLY, tneit.ly to take parsguion of the sp.,.
Monarchy, when he .it once outraged every
sentiweid of morality uud justice in the prison
of tie.: King of SPAIN ; while he trampled
un
the nation, as !oily lit fur Loatiage, and dtstitete
either of pity, or seine of ithlitirlS*
dignity; when, con.iiltiag inily lawless lw.Nrr, lit
had the impudence to declare Nimbi and her ,o.
monies the property of uu obscure adv.. utuiri,
Ills brother. When be Warl so Intoxicated be 1115
past prosperities, us to venture on such u intmore,
he was obviously 1.011011i.e1l by his tutelary genial,
by his customary caution, c •g, and soundoesi
of perception. As little of that transcendent
which enabled him, auecessively, to over-tuna,
and to subdue, the greatest Empires of the tout,_
neat ; to enchain, or to crush in tarn, FRANci,,
and FREDERICK WILLIAM, and ALEXANDER ; ;Id*
he manifested in the conduct of the enterprise upon
Spann Precipitation and procrostinatiou, enemy
and relaxation, audacity of menace, contrasted by
ineffieieucy of real means or force, to carry into ex-
ecution those threats, have succeeded each 'odicr
in rapid progression : 'While the Spaniards, al.
ready inured to arms, rendered confident by their
success at Baylen, increasing in numbers, pro-
gressive towards the frontier of France, animated
by the profanatioas and excesses of their enemies,
and modulating their military ardour by the dic-
tates of prudence, have already driven the legions of
the revolutionary tyrant, with immense lost of men
and of reputation, from Andalusia, Valencia, Leon,
New Castile, and Arrugon. They hare done more—
fir they have outflanked him, and are even got
into his rear. In consequence of the -!aptnre of
Billows, we see that he has precipitately evacuated
the capital of Old Castile. Nor should we be at all
surprised to hear that the French Comraander has
been reduced, abandoning the whole liue of the
Ebro, to retire under the cannon of Painpeluns.—
Even in that position. he is neither inattecksble,
nor can he, after the close of the present mouth.
maintain any certain communication with France.
It is near seventy miles from B..yonne to Patupe-
lune, of which more than two-thirds lie through
the defiles of the Pyrenees, in particular, throueh
the valley of Roncesvalles, so memorable for tie
defeat of CHARLEMAGNE, a Prince whom the Cor-
sican has so frequently desired to emulate, hut
whose irruption into Spain was not the moat fortu-
nate portion of his history.
Others may fix their attention on Erfurt, and
predict or apprehend the most terrific consequences
from the interview about to take place in that city.
We are far from considering them as matters of
indifference or of contempt. We will even assume,
though we by no menus are prepared to admit, that
the destruction of Austria may be there matured
and determined. So was the subjugation of Spain
at Bayonne. But we do not look primarily to
Germany for the decision of the destiny of Europe.
We consider it as at issue its Spain. If BONAPARTE
have not ulready strongly reinforced his army there,
if hehave not completely provided for the protection
of Guipuscoa, Navarre, wad Catalonia, during the
whole approaching winter; if ha cannot, at all
events, maintain that refugee Monarch, Don Jostra
NAPOLEON, in some obscure town or village be.
yond the Pyrenees, where the " Iffurritettr" may
depicture him as exercising his virtues, or display-
" his majestic attitudes ;" in a word, if BONA-
PARTE is driven out by the Spaniards, A Lela,. nxis
cannot save him, nor can Burgin reinstate
The Corsican is no longer at Presbur;. nor at 'H-
it. Already the stories of Samgosse, of Baylen,
and of Madrid, arc disseminated over the Contineut.
Impunity does not always accompany crime
"Rani antecederitent seeksterm," says the Poet of
Venusium, deseruit pate pane elaudo."

We have received flamburgh and other German
Papers, to the Ist instant. They are filled with ac-
counts of the military preparations of Austria. A
fresh levy of between sixty mid seventy thoesand
men has been ordered in the Austrian dominions,
upon the same footing as the Militia lately orga-
nised ; they are to be called the Militia of Reserve,
and arc intended to supply vacancies in the former.
The people have been invited to enrol thauselse,,
and thousands have in consequence done se. There
ure thus two armies of reserve, consisting of needy
ISO,OOO men, besides numerous core of driwer-.
&c. The regular army, comprising upward* of
450,000 men.
A New Council of Conferences has been insti-
tuted by the Emperor of AUSTRIA, for the Home
Department. The object of this establishment is
to give activity and effect to the measures adopted
for consolidating and realising the geaend recovery

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