The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-03 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. 'Wavy!' 3.

We fear that the expeilition, which sailed on
Sunday morning from Portsmouth, has not made
as rapid a progress as we rook! wish. A trading

stssel, arrived cis Monday at Portsmouth from Ply-
mouth. states that In the rooming she passed thro'
the expedition, which was then stretching. over for
• Portland Roads, the wind !wring shifted to the
south-west. and coissequriitly renilcrisig the trans-
ports usist.ble to proceed (loam Channel. Our Ply-
mouth letter states, that Cell. ANSTUTllElelidiviSiOia,
COntiiiitifig of the St. Albeit's, of 64 guns, and 18 sail
oflrallsports full of troops, sailed on Sunday, awl
was, hs. 12 o'clock, completely out of sight. A
large convoy had passed down Channel in the
morning, and was supposed to lie the Expedition
from Portsmouth ; but that was a mistake, as it
was only leasing Spithead at that time. The re-
port, therefore, of its having on Monday put iato j
Portland Roads, is probable correct.

We stated on Monday that the Dnke of You is
appointed to the Chief Command of the forces des-
tined for the support of the Spanish Patriots. and
that his ro3 d h-other, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, is
to ha►e a cowhand wider him. This appointment
is a 11111 l unced in so m.inv concurrent reports from
numerous awl taspectahle quarters, ass are com-

pellet! to credit it. We an not, however, without
hope that the business will be derided before the
arrival of his Royal Highness: and here again .we
repeat, that the courage a his Royal highness is
undoubted, and that to his talents we make no ob-
jection. We object merely because he has not
been a fortunate General, and as such not the
best calculated to excite that enthusiasm and
confidence an necessary to success, and which ars
so peculiarly desirable in the present important
eritria,

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We endeatOurad, in our Paper of Monday last,
to prove, that, in the present arduous contest, the
Spaniards must look 'for their principal' resources
within themselves; and that, except from England,
they could not count on any ►peedy or efficacious
continental aid. Of the inclination existing in the
Austrian Government to make common cause with
the Patriots beyond the Pyrenees, fin. their extri-
cation, no man doubts. NAPOLEON is perfectly
awareof it, and, for that reason, lie spreads the re-
port of his arrival at Strasburgh, in ord.r to inti-
midate the Court of Vienna. But the ability of
FRANCIS 11. to inaiutaiu another struggle, so soon
after the defeat of Austerlitz, ■nd the peace of
Presbargh, however we may wish, we must be al-
lowed to question. A Ministerial Paper of yester-
day, iii its patriotic ardour for the cause, asserts
that the Bohemions and Hungarians, who, in 1805,
saw with indifference the subversion of the Austrian
Government, are now changed, and will rise, like
the Spaniards, ea masse, to expel the Corsican in-
vader. We ardently wish that Mr. CANNING mar
be right in this assurance; but we are sure, that it
is not born the information which lie received either
from Lord PEMBROKE or from Mr. ADAIR, that he
can authorise such a conclusion. lu the absence
of further attoonts from Seville, or from Gijon,
this dn•, it may not be uninteresting to inquire
how far the Spaniards can expect any effort from
the other retuaiiiing Continental Powers. Prussia
tiaturally presents. itself first to view in such a dis-
. Cliasion.

Previous to the fatal campaign of 18n6, that
kingdom occupied an eminent place among the
European Military Mo►►arcbier. The reputation
which so many victories gained by the great
FREDERICK over the Austrians and French, M the
seven years war, had established, still accompanied,
in some measure, the arms of FREDERICK WIL-
LIAM. Those who had just witnessed the defeats
and disgraces of Austria, yet reposed some confi-
dence in the discipline, spirit, and numbers, of the
troops of the House of Brandenburgh. Even a
single day before the battle of Aucrstadt, the illu-
sion still subsi►ted, but it dissolved on the first
toutli, and—
s Like Ibr budruis fabric of a ♦i.ies,
" IRM out a •revk behind."

History can produce no instance of a great stute
so suddenly and so completely overturned. The
moos were obvious ; but it is not our object here
to relate or to examine them. It is the effect which
we wish to state, and wiiiish is principally interest-
ing at the present moment. The trossian
smugly. whatever may have been the inherent de-
feu, of its composition, udinimistration, or of its
Sovereign, yet contains in itself so many sources of
resit:citation, that, however severely it had suffered
by the late wur, a very short time might have
enabled ICKDERRIIWit.r.ust to oppose new
efforts against the progress of BoXAPAIITZ. Well
Caere that if the power exisbil, neither the occa-
sion nor the inclination would be wanting, N•PO-
LEitte, with systematic policy, deto tttt ill ed on
extin-
gois;,ing the vital principles of its recovery. He
bus left, in fire, nothing except the mime of that
Monarchy, which., anweely half a century ago,
blaxiil out with rie pinch lustre iii the eyes of all
Europe. ,Scarce id Home exercise ou her van-
rptished rival a tnore cruel vengeance, at the end of
the third Punic war. than the t'orsican Emetamt
has executed Olt Prussia. If rerun is not de-
stroyed, like Carthage, it is rendered uninhabitable
by its nominal Sovereign. Ile Mires not revisit
Potailam. nor can he again inhabit Sans
Scarcely does he venture to entrust himself within
the walls of Konigsberg, the ancient half-ilesei ted
capital of his patrinsomial dominions beyond the
Vistula.

Perhaps, atnoug all the instances of fallen great-
ness, Far:DS:lnca WILLIAM presents the most truly
humiliating picture. FERDINAND IV. expelled
from Naples, still reigns in Sicily, and even defies
the power of his oppressor. 11. is a Sovereign at
Palenim, though driven from Caserta, and from
Portiei. Vicroit EMANUEL, expelled from 'Wil-
t, has found an asylum at Cagliari. Vk hile
the Palace ltitnetiv of Poaruest., a fugitive from
the shore of the Tagus, is still a Sovereign in ano-
ther hemisphere. But the unfortunate King of
Paussts iuu boast or no such emancipation. He
remains under the iron gntsp of Boaseaava, liable
to new insults as every moment, and having no
security for his personal freedom, except is flight.
The sources of his greatnexa are all dried up. If he
looks to Berlin, he beholds an upstart Corsican,
invested at his expanse with the honours of Royalty,
Master of the Elbe, of Alagileburgh, and of Bran-
deitilurgli. Would he visit Datitzic, it is erected
into a nominally-independent State, really retained
by NAPOLSON. Warsaw, together with almost all
the portion of Poland, which fell to the share of
Prussia, by the final partition of that unfortunate

country, is in like manner ostensibly conferred on
the ELICTOE of SAXONY. Silesia, which, with an
insolent and contumelious affectation of magmata-
. mity, the Corsican restored to the Queen of
,Panssex, during the conferences and ignominious
festivities of Tilsit, is in the last stage of miser•.
Its manufactures are extinguished, and its inhabit-
ants without means of support. The harbours of
I.slemel, of Milan, of Colberg, and of Stettin, are
all hermetically closed 'by the command of NAPO-
LEON. Trade, industry, and revenue, are no
I more ; while French troops retain in subjection
every portion of the Prussian territories.
From a Sovereign and a country reduced its such
humiliation, can any rational assistance be expected
to liberate Europe, or to make the smallest diver-
sion in favour of Spain ? The question answer.
itself. At this hour, the brother of Pak:semi
WiLualg, a • Prince of Prussia, is waiting in the

anti-chambers, not of Narni.Ena, to whose pre-
sence he cannot obtain admittance, but of C HAW.
rainy, and of Draaas, at Paris, in hopes to pro-
cure some remission of those exorbitant contribu-
tions, which, in contempt of the fnith of Treaties,
BONAPARTE levies on the Prussian provinces. In •
a few days we shall examine what hopes can be en-
tertained of co-operation or aid from Russia.

A Clottenbuqb IVlail arrived last night. The
letters and papers bronglit by it contain some of-
ficial military details. which are given in our pre-
ceding columns.—The Duchess of ANGOULEME,
the daughter of the beautiful and unfortunate
51,teir. ANTOINETTE, the late Queen of France,
has arrived at Carlscrotia, on her way to England.

We !tare received some Portuguese Papers, ex-
tracts from which are given in the last page ; hut
they contain nothing of any importance.

A severe action lately took Mare on the coast of
Denmark, between the Exertion gun-brig and
some Danish row-boats. The Exertion had got
on shore, and, while endeavouring to work off, was
beset by the row-boats. Her efforts were at last
successful, but we are sorry to add that she had in
the a( tion eight killed and several wounded. The
Exertion u.uuuts 13 guns.

His Mssestr's sloop Royalist, of Is guns, Capt.
Maawr lA, has captured the Aristides Danish pri-
vateer, while engaging one of the Gottenburgh
PAcketa,and sent her into the Dpwos.

The Message by the telegraph from Plymouth.
which we metiers' yesterday, announced the arrival
ut that port of Sir THOM as Dv es from Spain. He
had not arrived in town )c.terilay at a late hour,
nor was it know a ulna intelligence he lias brought.
Another American vessel, the Comet. with pawern-
gers for France, has been Inotight in as prize by
one of oar cruisers to Plyntonth.
It is reported oe the authority of • letter from
Heliioland, that the Spanish troops in the is laud
of .ten, basing received full information of
the state of their country, have refused to obey the
orders of Hemming, mod an is a complete
state of. akutift/".*
' '" c•-:- • • •
'Lettere liave-'been'recelved from St. Antler*,
dated the lath instant, which all concur in saying,
that the French were ondouhtedly defeated by
CV EST A—tha the Patriots were in the highest spi-
rits, and that they expected the most favourable
result from the effort that was to be wade the next
day by all the armies.
By the Calypso sloop of war. arrived at Yar-
mouth with dispatches from the Baltic, intelligence
had been tor:tied that the Ga/iatit man of war,
haviug previously reconnoitred the' mist of the
Island of Rogow, was dispatched by Sir S. Motto,
on the .26th of June, from Yetadt Roads, to
strengthen, in the drat instance, the light squadron
which was erniiing between ()awaie and the titilph
of Finland. She was afterwards to proceed olf
Lie-
Lan in Courland, where the Suryalas frigate already
was, to wait the arrival of the Duke and Duchess
of Anuou Luta, and such of the French emigrants,
who, adhering to the fortunes of Louts XVIII.
might be desirous to come to this country, amount-
ing in the whole to about 130 person.:
According to the latest accounts from St. Peters-
burgh, the influence of BON APARTE over the Eat-
PESOS and his brother the Graud Duke Coen* K-
T 1 NE, has undergone no diminution. At Stockholm
it was generally believed, that BERN ADOTTE had
demanded front the Court of Denmark the tev.ion
of Holstein, and a contribution of several millions
of dollars. His DAN bin consequence,
it was said, had entered into a negotiation for peeve
with England, iu which Sweden was to be ioetuded.

Yesterday, the LORD MAroR, nfter examining
the inealweighers' returns, ordered the price of
bread to be continued at Is. uid. the quartern
lour.

On the 19th ult. the English cutter brig Seagull.
Captain CATIICART, of 16 24-poinider cerronades,
was attacked by our cutter brig Laugen. com-
manded by Lieutenant WOLVF and tour of our
gun-boats, three miles west of Flekkerne. The
action, which was seen from a point uliove, and
every shot heard in the town, began at live o'clock
p. and continued until • quarter before seven,
when the enemy struck. We lost on our side one
Mall killed and two men wounded. The English,
whose crew consisted of about 90 men, have be-
tween 20 ant! Sn .killer! and wounded r•amongst
whom the Captain is slightly wounded, the second
in command lost his arm, the third officer and toas-
ter are killed. The vessel lies a complete wreck at
Fosvig, a little to the westward of Plekkeroe, where
die was hauled in after the battle.
Return of Ilse Svagull'a crew, signal by the COMlNalith'f at
• Chro,tivis•ind.
Captain Robert eadmirt, slightly wounded...lst Liciitr -
sant Hatton, lust his right I 111 —.2cl Lieutenant Athiso Misty,
L:lted--Antlraw Martin, nutter, do.--Jmn.s Wilson, boat-
swain, ali;htly wountlol-7 petty officers, pilots, 77 sea-
men, prinousee.--:iruiilcs six litak. who wen on board -..
(Frees. the C4riitiaaw Merravy, Jsly

month,
married

Yesterday His
An OUST*, and

WALSING.IIIM,

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mad Colonel Ti
returned to the

The Marquis
MA NCHEMA

and have proceeded
Hon. GILIBEST
ELLIOT, Lord
Mr. STram so

have also left BA drgh.
Mrs. IItLLINGTOX, Mrs. VAUGHAN, Mr. Hays.
son, Mr. VAUGHAN, Mr. Goss. and Mr. BART r.
saw, are engaged for the Gloucester
Meeting.
On Monday sennight, their Graces the Pan
and Ducleasaif Richmond, and several di...Gupta.
ed Nobility and Gentry, were elegantly euterbuorl
by Mr. thivid and Lady Cecilia Latoache, at thou,
denliesne at Marley, near Dublin.
His Gisree the Duke of Richmond pnrpn.ss
shortly making an excursion to Lainhay, an is:otoi
in the Bay of Dublin, on a visit to a Mc. Diltlll,l
gentleman who has built an elegant lodge there.
Monday, her Royal Highness the Prinesso of
W•t.sai, and Duchess of Buy NSWICK, ils:Ceepesied
by Sir A. S. LIAM 114 X 0, Bart. arrived at Climatal,.
fur the purpotie of seeing• tut. Disek-yard. Thy
alighsed at the Consenissioner's house, and etssairo
ed every part oldie yard, attended by the builds,
It. SETTINGS, Esq. with which they appesrd
highly pleased. A guard of honour attended at tie
Dock, from the Coldstream Regiment of limn&
. They left the Yard, and from thence proceA,,i to
the New Artillery Barracks, Broaaptoa. lllr
Royal Highness afterwards dined with Car.as
Henn, of the 3d Guards, at Nile Terrace, Rocet.-
tor ; and the Band of the North York A:
tended, and played several martial ave. 1:I
evening, the Princess, &c. returned to B:itekl.was.
The last arrivals at Brighton are—
Tie cumin de Rine, Anthony Brown, Esq. M. P. i.l4f
Stalely, Sir Edmund Manly, Major Moravia, Mr. Cave Burn,
Mr. Munn! a Mr. Swat'.,, Mrs. Patters's', Mrs. Tsusiss.i
Rev. Mr. Mr. Cokiough, Mr. Felliaghso, Mr.
lo.lbrooke, Mr. W. J. May, Mr. Ricardo Mr. W
Thomas Mr. Sesummat, Mr. Stacey, Mr. It:uncork& Mu
Jacobs, •C,apt. Bullock, Mr. Evelyn, Mr. Neri, Min Ins,
Miss Clarke, R. H. (larks, J. Iliceelson Eq. Capt Cc).
deals, Miss 'reviser, Mrs. Kimonos, Lor:d Measiker, Tho-
mas Thornhill, Ito+ ':sr' of Dorliagtoa' Thomas Pale 01.
Mr hunts Gleanie, General MePure, t. Metcalfe, Ent
The last arrivals at Cheltenham
Hie Highness tbe Dw'.te of Gloucester, t..e Archbvhe? d
Canterlrer), 1t.,.. sod Mir de Uourville—Sir J. Puns-
Cole Greet, Deweelleers Filfirrie.4 All liver-C1100"
Duff, Carpenter, Scott, &Mlle sad ladysßov. Mews. IA
taus, W. W. Green, Jones, Arinatrung—Mr. and Mn. Pe'
doe, Tlionspaus, Bullock, Dunlop--Mr. sod Mir kis%
IllannigitosMcssrs. 1.. Waal, Jordan, Berts.tea, R. J.
Higguit, A. M. Greares, Mucha, Pinions, Brews,
Scslatt, Wallis, Glrerdot, Pruntiag, Rao t, Allsoort, Lava.
Parish, Kandy, Harldleatene. Swab, Hos. y, Cane, A WA
laud, F. Hearbeote, Peppea, Grecille. and Cuadra*
Barusrelt, Heedless, Pear, &with, Pail sad fainilysslss
Longfellow, Lloyd, Duirdiag, A. lisas.:ll, Ridley, Sr. he
hHarrogate is lull of company ; the last .mods
arc—

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laisr•Grueral Wharton, Major Brook, Mr. Croft Pro
Doctor and Mrs. fairy, Miss highniald, Mr. Fold. 51,
Miss and Al iss .5. .Munroe, Mr. and Mr.. Herniae, Mr. "4
Mos Runty, Mr. Aylmer, Capt. Wood, Mr. Aliostri,•d,
!throe, Mr. Yolle, Ilialit lion. Lady and throe Mis...l".
tauten, Dr. Charles Ustraey, Mr. Burney, Mr Lavr he,
Etatbourne fills very fast, nail the inhabitant'
irlln emulous to pr.Aido for the comforni of !hot
visitors on irioelerate terms, The last arrivals ere,
Lady Clifton, the Hos. Mr. and Mrs. Iris, Sir Attlio
and IAdY PIMA, Sir William and Lady St/Pusan. Cal.
Mrs. Vasoitturt, die Woo. sail ker. Me Ltosie) davi:b a"-
"alb the Bre. Mr. anst Mrs C trier, Mr and Mrs. Wliko
force, Dr. Buelou.sts„ the NeY. Ailr. itoiOusiai, Mr. sod 11.•
%CODA. Mr. and Mts. idle, Mr. sad Mrs. Mr. awl
Mrs.
Mrs. Tucker' Mt. and Mrs. Need Betop, the Hon Nr•
Leigh, Mr. and Mrs Cohn/an, Mr. avd Mr,. poiro92'r.
Mr. Blnaehard, Mrs Jeskins, Captain and Mrs. Lake, id"
and Mrs. %Vivien, Mr. Weidman, lie.
Yesteraay tisovniug died, miler •
Ames Nit% Ml:Dtk, sitter to JAMES 3ILD"'
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bore her illuess with the !rented fortitudr--di'.
with the utmost resiienetion-wend is unites-waif L',
"Dented by all pho knew her. On account of ti
young death, Windsor Theatre t""
last night, but we itodenditud the perterunt.,,,,
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DUBLIN THEATRE. w
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On Friday last, Mrs. EDWIN was to take he, al
farewell of the Dublin stage, where she has b,4 a
for seise years a most favourite and justly-Munn:4 Si
performer. Mrs. Eowtx played Lydia Laigain fa
to Miss SMITH'S Atha, in MS.SHERIUAN'S CollieSt CI
of The Rivals. Miss Sonora also closed her ti;,
gagement •u Monday night, in the part ar ks. ri
Italia ni The Fatal Marriage, and was to resit. h
Collins's Ode on the Passions, for her own (*Quit. at
Mr. J•nrisionia and Mr. DOW7OII. of Drarr-laia fa
Theatre, are also playing in Dublin with th, th
greatest success.
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MARQUIS OF CLAN RICARDE. n 4
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Departed this life, on Wednesday night, therN, 11l
last, in Dublin, after a long and painful illnesi,tht V
Right lion. John Thomas Earl of Clauneante. 11l
General in the army, Colonel of the litirti regirom, be
Governor of Hull, and Cuatus Retulorum'
of the all
county of Galway. Few men are more deservedly in
regretted that his Lordship ; descended from an il. fo
lirst dons line of ancestors, celebrated for their tor Fl
shaken loyalty to their Sovereign, and aitarltio•ht th
to the liberties of their errantry. The first Manisa ti,
of Clanricarde, nn the reign of Charles I. and H. sot,
perhaps, as able and distinguished a finalist and T.
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patriot as that era produced, so celebratetj for
`Dent
se
men. Ilis Lordship, had he lived mail hest Al
month, would have attained his 64th )iii-. Iry
married Elisa, daughter of Sir Thome* Buie, wi
Burt. of Marble Hill, County Culway, in !Maul
His Lordship is succeeded in his titles andbitates PI
by his son, Ulick John Lord I)iiilkellyn, now Lib's
seventh year. He has also left two daughters; sal
• in the year 1800 His 31ajesty was most gnicisinle so
pleased to grant that, in default of mule issue, toe
Earl's eldest daughter should inherit hue title, col
Ile a Countesa in her own ri;riit. Sii
Ilk
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Yesterday His 1101AJES1 Y, PriIiCeSSCS SOPInt, wi
AIDIUSTA, and AIIiELIA. accompanied ..y Lord CO
WALsI Noll 114, Lady GEORGIAN* MURRAY, (silit s
MUNSTER, Generals CARTWItIIiHT and F. Irmo, Le
mid Colonel TAT Loa, rode in %I indoor Park, *AA sic
returned to the Palace about 12 o'clock.
of
The Marquis of iitiNvi.vr and the Den•line.f de
MANCHESTER arrived in Edinfillfol on Inikry is.;, HI
and have proceeded for Huntley Loil4e. Ist to
lion. GILPERT ELLIOT and Lady, the cis° Ili.. Si
ELLtoT, Lord SoLTuuri, the Hon. Col. SiSEll Air, • .
AIr.STIRI.I3O of Kier, cad two Misses STIALIn,
have also left Edinburgh.