nourable. Now, we are almost tempted, seri1 ous as the subject is, to propose presents of fans and parasols they will reach the heroic Spaniards in May or June-just when the heats of their climate will render them acceptable. Our hearts bleed at the thought of those sufferings which Spanish patriotism is Now enduring! The magazines of that king dom were never half stored with necessary sclothing &c. for soldiery; to meet the severities of winter in the field: and what stores could be seized, no doubt were seized by the French marauders. We know that the French appropriated to their own use the ammunition and military accoutrements; to replace these for immediate use, and to meet the demand of the moment, more than equalled the ability of the various Juntas, and of the Supreme Junta, also. The army of Spain could not have even met the enemy on terms of tolerable equality, had not the depots of Briain afforded the means.-The French say, very truly, that the arms they find are British: and if they can distinguish it by the odour, they may find that the powder they smell is British too. knees. Liberty is destined to triumph ; but the triumph of liberty is purchased by perseverance: the steady, the firm, ALONE, shall posses; her": She will be woord, and not unsought be won. British liberty was the object of struggle for ages: may Spanish valour be tempered with Britishobstinacy ? yes-obstinacy in a good cause; and may it baffle all the TREACHERY-that is our dread of the crafty Corsican, his vilainous myrmidons, and his unrelenting agents! May no half-measures delude Spanish wisdom! May no half strokes enervate Spanish bravery! May no possibility of capitulating with the insidious foe, ever meet the mind of the most wary Spanish statesman! They hare drawn the sword: what haye they to do with the scab bard-If the sword must be sheathed, be it in the bosom of the invader if he have taken to flight; be it solemnly sheathed in the name of the nation in the temple of the Supreme Disposer of all events! The world will re-echo the gratulatory solemnity; and heaven will resound the thankful Te Deum. The Panorama has never ceased from canWe have repeatedly hinted our fears that tioning the public against drawing too decisive too grave a sense of Spanish dignity would inferences from appearances. We know prove injurious to the cause of Spanish liberthat the attack of the French is always vity; and if (which Heaven forbid !) Spanish gorous; and that they often meet with a liberty be lost, the indignities which Spain success at first, proportionate to their ardour. will then suffer, will be severe lessons to that We believe, that even on the ocean, when unbending principle to which such a result Frenchman can bring himself to attack a may be in a great degree imputed. British vessel, the early part of the action is seldom to his disadvantage. As the conBiét advances the blood of the Britons rises; their powers are called into exercise their minds glow with determination; they in crease in strength, and dexterity, in animation, in vivacity, in steadiness, in fervour, and while the powers of the Frenchmen, having been at their height, are declining, those of the stubborn islanders are augmenting, nor do they reach their height, till some short time before the eneniy meditates either flight or surrender. But, viewing the present general disposi tion of our countrymen to assist the straggling in another light, we conceive that it does them honour, as speaking in audible language the sense of our nation; as shewing that whatever difficulties obstruct the establish ment of Spanish freedom, the British nation does not consider the cause as hopeless; as manifesting a fraternal sympathy, with every Spanish hero who fights against personal suf fering as well as against the unprincipled invader; and as leading to this great inference, of which our anticipations do not lose sight, the readiness of individuals to meet the neces sary sacrifices with cheerfulness, should Providence permit the same scenes to be acted in Britain. If the Usurper prevails in establishing his dominion over the whole of the Spanish so vereignty, let these words, thos fallen from our pen, be recollected, and considered. A few moments will suffice for that purpose; we ask not for minules ;———~there will then be no minute to lose. If the Spaniards have formed the same estimate of French conduct as we have, they have made up their minds, and have taken measures, for a protracted state of warfare. They have expected reverses: they have taken unpleasant events into their calcula tion; they have prepared to encounter storms; tempests, hurricanes but if they firmly grasp the sacred principles of liberty, they will weary out the invader and the sacred principles of liberty will prove that palladium which they have no need to carry away, as But, we do think that Boonaparte has their last memorial of their country, to fo failed, and will fail, of his chief design he reign shores. No heroie son will support has lost, and will lose, the Spanish Colonies: his father, whose hands not blood-stained, they will be no mines of wealth to him; he may hold the sacred relics, while a wife will have the mortification of seeing the preclings to his garment, and a child clasps hiscious metals poured into Britain, in very the new duties on wines, payable the moment they quit the VAT, are paid by us, without the smallest hope that we shall reimburse our payments by the sale of the wine. Every material employed in cultivation is enormously augmented in price; the training poles [for the low standard vines, they are. laid horizontally along the rows of vines] and the props [for supporting the vines, perpendicularly are one third dearer than heretofore; while the wood for hogshead staves [which is procured from the Baltic, no other being used for prime Claret] is out of all price; and all our expences are paid in advance. To complete our misery, one in three, or at least one in four, of the houses in Bourdeaux are empty and among them are ours. Money cannot possibly be scarcer than it is. After this, judge what is our situation, &c.", spite to his edicts and ordonnances; and he wines that were formerly worth £1,000 ate will find that the exclusion of commerce now scarcely worth £300 :, add to this, that from his ports, is the exclusion of wealth, the taxes, formerly established, are now paid capital, and competency from his people.monthly, under pain of military execution: On this subject we wish to correct an error that occurred last month in our first article, when examining some of the propositions of the Minister of the Interior, in the French Exposé. Those who understand the French language know that the difference is very great between the words cave and cuve. The first signifies a cellar wherein wine is stored; the latter signifies the mashing tub or sat; which contains the liquor before it is drawn off into the barrel. An erroneous transcript of part of a letter from Bourdeaux, led us to state that the duties were paid on the wine as it left the cellar (cane) we should have translated, as it left the vat (cuve), and as this communication presents a lively picture of the present state of that country, we shall, for the satisfaction of our readers, insert the original for the authenticity of which we pledge ourselves in the strongest manner. "Bordeaur, le 20 Novembre, 1808. Tu that Sovereign of the exercise of reason, who Has not the frenzy of ambition deprived te rappelles, mon cher ami, la situation instead of endeavouring to alleviate such dans laquelle tu m'a laissée, j'avois alors à miseries, brought by his conduct on his own peu-près 24,000 livres de rente, et notre people-his own people! No, THEIR TYdernière récolte s'étoit vendue 69,000 RANT 18 A FOREIGNER labours unremit francs, mais depuis, notre position de-tingly to augment them, by raising against vient tous les jours plus pénible et plus them additional enemies, and rendering the effrayante, par les mauvaises affaires auxname of the nation which he governs, a quelles nous sommes forcés d'avoir recours; proverb, a reproach, a stench in the nostrils ne pouvant rien vendre la qualité de nos of the rest of mankind! How many centyrécoltes étant absolument sans demande.ries must elapse, 'ere the name of France Les vins qui valoient 1000 en valent peine 300, ajoute à cela, que les anciennes taxes se pavent par mois, à peine d'exé cution militaire: les nouveaux droits sur ☛ les vins, en sórtant de la cuve sont payés, sans que nous ayons l'espoir d'étre remboursés de nos avances par la vente des vins. Tous les objets de culture ont énormément renchéri; les luttes et les carassons, sont d'un tiers plus cher qu'auparavant; et le bois du Nord est hors de prix; et nos frais sont en avance. Pour comble de malheur, le tiers (ou le quart) des maisons de Bordeaux sont désertes; et les nôtres entr'autres. L'argent est, on ne peut pas "plus rare: juge d'après cela de notre situ ation, &c." Bordeaux, November 20, 1808. You recollect, my dear friend, the state in which I was when you jeft me. I had then nearly £1,000 per annum of income; and our last vintage had been sold for £2,800, but, since that time, our condition, has become daily more painful and alarming, by the mischievous measures to which we have been obliged to resort; not being able to sell any thing wine of the quality of our vintages being absolutely, without demand. These will cease to be associated in the mind af speaker and hearer with the ideas of malignity, craft, despotism, unrelenting watchfulness distinguishes the crouching Corsican? What for prey, and whatever of tiger-like ferocity honour can attend such a Sovereign? Let him be quoted as an instance of the very in potence of Fate itself to elevate soine charac ters. Fate could make him a General-a Consul,an Emperor and King but not a Man of honour, or a Gentleman! What his mother was, she ever will be; that blood which flows in the veins of his brothers his patents connot ennoble: and if ever reason should return to him, he will discover, that, like Nebuchadnezzar, he has for many long year been emulating the wild beasts that desolate the plains; nor has any panther, leopard, or royal tiger been worthy of distinction as fierce or formidable, where the name of Buonaparte has re-echoed along the vallies, or been yelled around the forest. O, that he would look upwards to the dignity of Man! that he would think of soothing the miseries he has brought on mankind! that he would study to re medy some of the many misch efs he bas occasioned, and that in him, the Omnipoe The British dominions are in peace. This tence of Sovereign Grace might display itself in" taking away the heart of stone, and is saying much for North America, more for substituting a heart of flesh!" To the indivi- the West Indies, much more for the East dual we bear no malice; while to the Usur-ladies, and most of all for home. per-the cruel, vindictive, malignant Usurper, we shew no pity. but The Congress of America assembled, Nov. 7, as was expected. The president opened the session with a very long address. The tendency of it is, to justify the embargo: and to recommend the continuance of that measure. The Congress has agreed to take the embargo into consideration Nov. 14. We are, therefore, in almost hourly expectation of receiving the determination of that body. From the documents laid on the table, it appears, that the application of the American minister to the British secretary of state, for rescinding the Orders in Council was refused; -nor would any thing less than the repeal of Buonaparte's decree from Berlin, for blockad ing the British islands, be listened to. It would have given us unfeigned pleasure, could we have reported that the late overtures for negociation sent from Erfurth by collu sion with the Emperor of Russia, had been conceived in the spirit of peace. That they were not so, appears sufficiently from his Majesty's Declaration; which our readers have seen in our Interna. Nobody in Britain has been deluded by them; Somebody in the north has been deluded; and when His turn comes to be visited, with a visitation like those which have attended every government that has bowed the neck to France, let Him reflect, that He once called a people, fighting for their liberties, "INSURHis majesty's declaration contains hints of GENTS;" a nation shedding its blood too, inhesitating powers," which certainly are to resistance to the domination of a foreigner be sought on the Continent of Europe: the whose yoke is forced upon them, was, in His power principally alluded to was absent from opinion, insurgents;"-let not his nation Erfurth. But, we believe that another fight for Him, for his posterity, or for his power, not invited to Erfurth, is not wholly house, under pain of being deemed "in-overlooked in those allusions. The Turks surgents :"-let them tamely submit to the imposition of some fabricated king on the throne of the Czars, and banish every idea of loyal attachinent, or lawful sovereignty from every bosom-from Courland to Kamtkateha. Through this gate lies NOT the road to Constantinople!" We are hardly satisfied as to the propriety of giving publicity to reports on the personal conduct of Alexander; but, if events correspond to what some anticipate, it may then be recollected that the Panorama had dropped hints of certain indulgences leading to fatuity. Let princes know that they are liable to the same sufferings as others; and that it will be but a poor consolation when their faculties fail theun to be able to trace the origin of that failure to interested caresses and venal blandishments. A French Cleopatra can never justify a repetition of the tragedy of "All for Love, or the World well Lost:" though she may play a principal part in that drama. That Sweden has obtained an armistice from Russia will displease Buonaparte, but humanity will rejoice in it: there is so much longer intermission of deeds of blood, and we heartily wish that something still more effectual, may "find a time for frighted peace to pant." Denmark is much as before, her ill will is greater than her strength. Holland has issued other edicts, and has almost closed her ports, against all vessels, in order to exclude British commodities: she will also almost close her eyes, against the light itself, in order to exclude the sight of what she will continue to import,“ unsight unseen." are recruiting their army, and the sabre bears a keen edge; if report be correct in stating that it is also wielded by a strong arm, we may yet see the crescent set in blood, instead of being wholly darkened, as some bave anticipated, in the cloud of Corsican exhaletion and pestilence. Britain also exhibits the spectacle of a nation, as a nation, attending to the dictates of religion; His Majesty has issued a proclama tion for a General Fast, to be held in England on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1809; and in Scotland, on Thursday, the 9th. Those who be national transgressions will not fail to see the lieve that political evils are punishments for propriety of public humiliation and penitence. We may add, that his majesty's Declaration is so heartening to Spanish zeal and patriotism, that we wish the Committee at Lloyd's would consider the propriety of DISPERSING A MILLION OF COPIES OF IT IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE, THROUGHOUT SPAIN, with an account of their Subscription-so that every inhabitant of that country, whether in city, town, or village, may be convinced of the interest taken by the British Public in their success. Reports disagree as to the actual state of the new empire of Hayti: but, we learn from an Order in Council, that His Majesty ha officially legalized the trade to that island. It was lately affirmed, that the French inhabitants of the Spanish part of the island had been destroyed. We believe the curse attendant on their country may involve them in dan ger; but we hope the report is unfounded. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. FROM THE 20TH OF NOVEMBER TO THE 20TH OF DECEMBER, 1808. BIRTHS. Of Sons. At Newton, near Malton, the lady of Geo. Strickland, Esq. At the Black Swan, in Peasholme Green, Mrs. Weston, of a son. This lady has lately been exhibited in York, with a Model of the Grand. Turk's Palace. She is an extraordinary diminutive of the human species, though without deformity, being but 34 inches high, and in every other respect proportional. Her child exceeded in size most new-born infants. At Letterfoury, the lady of Sir James Gordon, Bart. In Russel-square, the lady of Claude Geo. Thornton, Esq. The Duchess of Roxborough, lady of Sir J. Manners, Knt. The lady of the Rev. Robert Moore, of Hunton, Kent. The lady of H. D. Erskine, Esq. jun. In Devonshire-street, the lady of Henry Baring, Esq. At the Admiralty, the Rt. Hon. Lady Mulgrave. The Right Hon. Lady Foley. In Bedford-square, the lady of Henry Davidson, · Esq. At Conan House, the lady of Sir Hector Mackenzie, of Gairloch, Bart. The Duchess De Castries. The Hon. Mrs. Eld. in Dublin, the lady of the Right Hon. J. Ormsby Vandeleur. Lady Anne Cooper. Lady Stronge, wife of W. Holmes, Esq. M. P. At Carisbrook Castle, the lady of Sir Windsor Hunloke, Bart. of Wingerworth, in the county of Derby. At Fryern House, in the county of Middlesex, the lady of Sir Wm. Johnston, Bart. The Hon. Mrs. Balders, of West Barham, Norfolk. The lady of James Goodeve Sparrow, Esq. of Gosfield Place, Essex. At Carr's Hall, the lady of John Delme, Esq. At Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire, the lady of Richard Parkinson, Esq. In Brompton-row, the lady of John Drinkwater, At Riddell, Lady Francis Buchanan Riddell. The lady of Major Hart. At Ashford, Kent, the lady of Brigadier General De Rottenburg. In Devonshire-street, the lady of George Taylor, Esq. In Hertford-street, May-fair, the lady of Mr. Dent, M. P. The lady of Wa Curtis, Esq. The Hon. Mrs. Heneage. VOL. V. [Lit. Pan. Jan. 1809.] At Havering Grange, Essex, the lady of D. Ximenes, Esq. The lady of G. H. Crutchley, Esq. MARRIAGES. At North Mimms church, John Vernon, Esq. of the 22d light dragoons, to Miss Elizabeth Casamajor, 2ddaughter of Justinian Casamajor, Esq. of Potterells, Herts. At Mary-le-bonne church, the Right Hon. Lord The Rev. Edward Repton, of Magdalen College, Mr. Jos. Morse, of Bedworth, to Miss Ann Bate, of Penn, in Staffordshire. Wm. Bathurst, Esq. of Rochford, Essex, to Miss Blakerray.. At Ludford, Edward Progus, Esq. banker, of Ludlow, to Miss Pouch, of Ludferd. At Edinburgh, John Wardrop, of Sharpsbanks, banker, to Barbara, eldest daughter of Wm. Macfarlane, Esq. At St. Mary-le-bonne church, C. W. Williams, Esq. of Bomstead, Surrey, to Miss Harriet Chubb, of Kennington. At Grendon, in the county of Warwick, Lancelot Rolleston, Esq. of Watnall, Nottinghamshire, to Miss Chetwynd, the only daughter of Sit Geo. Chetwynd, Bart. At North Yarmouth, Capt. Bradby, of the Calypso, to Miss C. Douglas, daughter of Admiral Douglas. C. A. Caldwell, Esq. son of Admiral Caldwell, to Charlotte Ann, sister of Sir Wm. Abdy, bt. The Hon. W. Bertie, R. N. to Miss Catharine Jane Sander. At St. cuige's, Hanover-square, Lie t. Col. Gascoigne, in the Hon. the East-India Com pany's service, to Mrs. Denton, of Tavistock-sq T. M. Shadwell, Esq. of the Temple, to Letitia, second daughter of the late Richard Williams, Esq. of Finchley. At Carisbrooke church, Isle of Wight, Edward Croker, Esq. of Exeter College, Oxford, third son of Edward Croker, Esq. of Ballynegrand, to Martha Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Michael Lascelles, Esq. of Marsh Gate, near Richmond., David Morgan, Esq. to Maria, second daughter of Robert Morris, Esq. M. P. for the county of Gloucester. At St. Pancras, the Rev. Stephen Barbut, of Trotton, in Sussex, to Maria, eldest daughter of George Jourdan, Esq. At St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, Reginald Graham, Esq. of Dulwich, to Louisa, second daughter of Dr. Dennison, of Broad-street-buildings. At Ewell, in Surrey, Henry Bridges, Esq. to Miss Dalrymple. Thos. Eyton, Esq. jun. of Lincoin's-inn, to Miss Campbell, eldest daughter of Maj. Gen. Dougald Campbell. J. B. Sladen, Esq. of Ripple-court, Kent, to Ethel dred, eldest daughter of K. St. Barbe, Esq. 2 F The Rev, R. P. Goodenough, second son of the Bishop of Carlisle, to Miss Cecilia Marsham, youngest daughter of the late Archb. of York. C. Berkeley, Esq. of Beverley, to Miss F. H. Pennyman, daughter of the late Sir J. Pennyman, Bart. W. Clarke, Esq. of Ribstone Lodge, Yorkshire, to At St. Mary's church, Dublin, Capt. Duff, of the Hen. Francklin, Esq. to Miss Fanny Webbe, of Weymouth-street. H. Drury, Esq. of King's College, Cambridge, to Miss Taylor, of Barham House. D. Grant, Esq. of the Ordnance Office, to Miss Hope, youngest daughter of the late Lieut. Col. Hope. F. Ferreira, Esq. of Oporto, to Miss Troughton, daughter of R. Troughton, Esq. of Lady Place, Hurley, Berks. F. H. Naylor, Esq. of Welbeck-street, to Maria DEATHS. At Broadstairs, Isle of Thanet, Anthony Calvert, Esq. nearly 30 years one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. Charles Minier, Esq. of Oakfield Lodge, Croydon. At Edinburgh, James Fraser, Esq. principal Secretary to the Bank of Scotland. At Glasgow, Capt. Edward Clarke, of the Stirlingshire regiment of Militia. At the Manse of Muithouse, in the 82d year of his age, and 45th of his pastoral care, the Rev. Alex. Imlach, Minister of the parish of Meirhouse, in the presbytery of Dundee. At the Manse of Lethnot, the Rev. John Taylor. The lady of C. Milner, Esq. of Preston Hall, Kent. The lady of A. H. Sutherland, Esq. Mrs. Drummond, relict of H. R. Drummond, Esq. of Fawley, Hants. ArDawlish, Miss Gardiner, daughter of the late Col. Gardiner, of Bellevue, Southampton. At Stoke Newington, the Rev. Mr. Barbauld, who formerly kept the celebrated academy at Palgrave, in Suffolk, and husband of the lady so highly distinguished for her numerous literary productions. At Southampton, Capt. Prescott, aged 95. - At St. Croix, in the West-fadies, G. M. Leathes, T. Biggs, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent. At Reading, Berks, Dame Lovejoy, aged 101. In the island of Marigalante, John Brown, Esq, a native of Belfast, and for some years a merchant in Dublin. On his passage from Antigua to another island, on a mercantile speculation, the ship he sailed in was captured and carried by the French into Marigalante, shortly before it was taken by the English forces. The French force having come to a determination to capitulate, they liberated Mr. Brown, for the purpose of communicating with the French. Unhappily his joy at his deliverance made him neglect the precaution of taking with him a flag of truce, and on approaching the posts of the British, he received a ball in the heart from a black centinel in their service. At Bedgebury, Kent, the Rt. Hon. Lady Forrester. In Spital-square, aged 72, Wm. Hawes, M. D, senior physician to the London and Surrey Dispensaries, and one of the founders of the Royal Humane Society, in 1774. At Barntick, county of Clare, the lady of Sir Joseph Peacock, Bart. At Cowes, Isle of Wight, R. Sykes, Esq. aged 82. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Duncan Mackay, late acting chaplain of his Majesty's troops on the Madras establishment. The Hon. H. S. Phipps, eldest daughter of Lord Mulgrave. The Rev. T. Mostyn, uncle to Sir T. Mostyn, Bt. Hugo Meynell, Esq. aged 81. At Teddington, in the 66th year of his age, the Earl of Athlone, Viscount Aghrim, and Baron of Ballymore. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by Frederick Viscount Aghrim. In Great Denmark street, Dublin, Theobald McKenna, Esq. a political writer of celebrity. In Sloane-street, Patrick Home, Esq. of Wedderburne, in the county of Berwick, many years representative in parliament for that county. At Tortola, Pickering Lettsom, Esq. At Brighton, John Parker, Esq. of Moswell Hill. At Castle Dawson, county of Derry, Mrs. Mary In King's-road, Bedford-row, Mark Sprot, Esq. |