The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-09-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF I.%)rillS, Sarr.?.4. A little before two o'clock, the Lords Commis sioners appointed by His Majesty being seated in their robes. a Message was sent to the Commons re quiring their attendance in the House of Peers, to hear His Majesty's Commission read for proroguing the Parliament. The House of Commons. represented by Mr. Ley. the Juidor Clerk, Mr. Mitchel, Mr . Whethara, Mr. Bellamy, jun. and several other Of ficers belonging to it, forthwith attended at the Bar ; when the Royal Commission was read. in a very au dible voice, by Mr. Walmesley ; and the Parlia ment was prorogued accordingly, until the 10th of November. The Lords Commissioners were the Duke of Po;tiand, the Lord Chimernor, and Lord Mut grave. poREIGN ELLIUENCE. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. ROUEN, SEPT S. The infant arid of M. Mussel, Ake as: Ju f ti, vaccinated some years ago, experienced, about three weeks ago, an eruption which resembled very much the small pox. The child was seen by most of the Surgeons and Physicians of Rouen. Several per sons, deceived by the appearances, spread a report that this eruption was the small pox. Nothing is more false. Twelve children have been twice inoculated with the ripest of the variolons pustules, and not one of the children has taken the small pox. We are astonished that the Vaccine Committee, several Members of which have watched the pro gress of this disorder, preserve silence upon this im portant fa& It might be proper to publish the ex periments made upon this occasion, because they must be useful to humanity, by proving, more and more, that the vaccine is a preservative against the small pea.—(Roans Journal.) 3•NILRO. MT. 1. A German Journal has proved, by a compari son of dates, that the English Ministers, at the mo ment they sent their expedition to Zealand, had rot by their own acknowledgment, any off ria I or authentic intelligence of the new connellions which the secret articles of the Treaty of Tilsit may have formed between France and Russia. The departure of Admiral Gactbier has been pre e;pitated, merely upon a vague report, that Russia had, by wit tut! of a treaty of alliance, subsisting be. tween her and Denmark, demanded a succour of 19 Danish ships of the line, and 13,00 n land troops, to co-operate in a &crew uplift the British Islet s labirelk de Bamberg. EXPOSITION OF THE. STET[ OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE RELIGIMIs WORSHIP. • To the members cf the clergy in general, the CaPrernment has to testify the highest satisfaCtion ; tether did p ire manners, a tolerant piety, great disinterestedness, a constant application to their duties, prevail in a higher degree among all ranks of the Hierarchy. Incessantly occupied in the Goble task assigned them, the amendment of public and private morals, they are sensible that obedi ence to the laws is an essential branch both of the one and of the other ; and that of all laws, that which has for its objeft the defence of the state. is the mnst sacred ; that it is a law whose prompt and complete execution is most strongly recommended. both by religious sentiments and the spirit of pant. otism. The different religions authorised in the empire, maintain an union of the spirit which is common to them all, and honourable to their misters. MAW: is From the departments bordering on the Rhine, general complaints have reached the Emperor, re swain the usury praaised by certain individuals professing the Jewish religion. An investigation of the has has proved that the fruit of thil usury would have entirely consumed the riches and the resource; of those beautiful provinces. The Em peror found it necessary to calm the just apprehen sions of so many thousands of farmers: but w!iile be applied a partial and in<tantane , lis rerne.'y, he formed a more vast concep.i.-.n e and of more lov able ; t '! once ; he beheld, in ancient habits, and in the false interpretation of certain points of doelrine, the primary cause of the evil which hal excited these complaint.. In order to avoid the necessity of perpetuating either precaltions or punishments, he resolved to ',venerate the manners of a portion of that class, by the concursence of the whole class, by the • ce of the religious authority to whose laws it sub mits. The Emperor knew that among the Jews in his dominions there are great numbers of persons whose opinions are sound, whose conduct i, irre proachable, who would be the first to deplore the brethren ; and so far from miss with those wt.° called the formar to ex are to pi?? the way to the general assembly LON BON, FaIDAY. SLPTLII iti 25. CHANCE' OF IIiSISTRY. 'The Ministerial Prir.ts of yesterday did sot af •ford the satisfaCtory explanation which we ex. petted, upon the subjeift of the wicked mil abomi nable report of a change of Ministry ; a report, the more atrocious, as being of the coinage 404 propagation of The Moplimg Her ild ; a Print, pro. fessing the true Ministerial faith, and a m sat en. thusiastic devotion to the Treasury. Tb 4 Coarser of last night, the very model of consistency and pure unfrenchified loyalty, from the first moments of its existence, deeply affelted at this urduti ful behaviour on the part of /be Morning Herat!, has naticed this frightful backsliding of its brother Print in the following terms : " We have never given the slightest credit or currency to the rumours which nave been in cir. culatiiin for several days, of inioisterial changes be ing in contemplation, and of Mr. Csasiono being about to occupy another post. There is nu found ation kr them, and their circulation is is one point of view calculated to do much mischief. If the Foreign Ambassadors, resident at our Court, or the Ministers abroad, believe that a change in our Foreign Depai mien: is in c‘interaplation, they will naturally wait to ascertain whether their belief be well or ill fou.ided. In the meats time they will be less communicative and open with the Secretaty of State, whom they suppose to be on the point of ping out. Intercourse will be less confidential—business that had begun under fa. rentable auspices will experience delays—negocia tions entered into will not proceed with adiviry ; and Rood understanding may be interrupted.— Hence we are peculiarly calicos to state, that there os not the slightest Inundation for the report of Mr. Cial/11 I:4 o's being about to occupy another office in the present Ministry. Such a change, indeed, woul be the. subjea of deep and general regret; for ran_ foreigh department is that for which Mr. CANNING is eminently qualified, nos only by the extent of his talents, but by the conciliating nature of his man- nets." The Editor of The Afernimg Herald, on reading this passage, which we have extraded from The Couri.r, mint tremble at his danger. It appears, that, to compass or imagine the removal of Mr. CANNING) from office, would be little less than High Treason. Even at the most distant prospect of such a calamitous change, public business would be at a stand, and all our foreign relations, which flourish only in the sunshine of his conciliating smiles. would cease to exist. Indeed, 71,e Courier migit have added, almost with equal truth, that the flumes would stop its course, and day and night crass to succeed each other. And yet The Courier has only in contemplation merely the re moval of Mr. C•NIIINO from one office to another. —What would it have said, had he been threatened in The Morning Herald with adtual and positive dis missal from place!—Chaos, then, indeed, would have some again; then shadows, clouds, and dark ness. would have spread their murky and bale ful wings over this ill-fated isle. But a crime still more heinous remains unnoticed by The Carrier. It has not poured the vial of its indig nation upon The Morning Pail, in which the present Ministers were indirettly chatged with imbecility, and the Marquis WLLLLiLCY direCtly Lei:resented as the principal *dor on the political stage, and the irresponsilde and unconstitutional adviser behind the curtain. Surely, this is a more heinous charge than that of unwarrantably visiting Mr. CANNING from one high and lucrative office to another ; and yet the Alarming Pod has escaped censure, and The Alarming Herald, the minor ollender, is wade to suffsr all the punishment. A rumour prevails in the city, that a \ego. ciator, on the part of this country, is to pro ceeJ immediately to Paris, in consequence of an overture from the French Government, broeght by the last cartel from Morlaix. One account states, that the Earl of M•LsassauitY is nominated for this mission. Another assigns it to Viscount FITZI A R.• Kis, his Lordsoip's son. This business is said to have been the subjel matter of a conference which took place oa Wednesday between the Earl of MALIIIISEURY and the Duke of Post Lawn, and of the Cabinet Council which was held in the forenoon. It has been indeed generally supposed, that the communication by Russia, offering to me diate between this country and France, since the treaty of Mit, and alluded to towards the close of the last Session of Parliament, had produced a• sort of Preliminary negociation, and that such was aClually in train, but subsequent events did not appear, at least to an ordinary observer, very fa vourable to the issue. Of this description are our attack upon Denmark, and the reported alienation of 1111111iA, and yet they were not generally consi dered as sufficiently strong and decisive to break off the business. The tumour, however, is not new, but is an old report which has acquired ad ditional confidence. Wd stated several days back, that Lord Fr is was then represented in ex . peaation of imam/lions so proceed to Paris. The lairlid, of 6 t guns, the arrival of which from the Mediterranean, we mentioned yes:erday, has not brought any account of L,rd CjI.LINGI• • woon's proceedings subsequent to the 221 July, on which day his Lordship left Malta for Tenedos, with seven sail of the line. The Intrrpid sailed from Palermo in the beginning of August, and left the fleet off Ca4iz, on the Ist init. The Honourable Gan. Fox, late Commander in Chief in the Medi terranean, and family, are come in her, Mrs. Fox being in bad health. General MOORE, on the de parture of General For, succeeded to the command of our army in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant• Gen. VILLITLI has likewise arrived in the Inhenid, having been succeeded in the com mand•ot Malta by Sir WI LLIANI GRIEN. We have received Boston Papers to the 11th last, but the intelligence which they bring from the seat of Government is not of so late a date as that con tained in the New York l'apers to the 9th, from which we gave SORE! extralts on Friday last.— r principal features are extra& rom The Nestiimed hteliwnerr, a Paper supposed to speak the senti m•:nts of the PRZSIOCNT of the UNITID STATtS, ar.d they are quoted for the purpose of chewing, that those sentiments are for war with this country. They state that the American Negotiators Lave been instruned to demand the following concessions nit the part of Great Britain. •iz. that Admiral Burt:LET. or Captain Hunritzzys. ?lout.' be punish. !. unless the capture of the Ches rpwale was eltl.hPrlsf.3 by the British Gavernment ; that the , e..tn wit taken from the Chrsapenie 3houltl be restored ; and that do seamen should, in !unite, be taken from any vassal sailing S under the American , these be really the terms upon which the ( titan Goverinsent i ns i st i: t h en war is inevit. I v cause no British Minister dare to grant them , the lioaton Papers admit t and they fusther that the public opinion in America is adro war with England. These Papers ire, strong party papers ; and, as ;uch, the sentimzen and opinions which they profess to entertain, - as those which they attribute to their adl should be received at least with caution. A Leeward Island Mail arrived yesterda brought to Falmouth in thirty-three days frons'r lola. We have received by it Letters aid r from that Island, to the 17th last. One of dated the 16th. says.-- , 4 Admiral Cocas, this place on the 4th inst. The, Fleet, under. of His Maretres ship Itforthapaberfaid, proceelel from hence on the 31st July. They were to wait in a certain latitude for the Demsrat Berbice ships, which had not joined. The Adin4al having joined the main fleet, dispatched the to Tortola, to wait for the Demerara and skips. I think on the 6th they arrived % al needed with the Arai; if they do not join she will take them to England." Lord Laystaorou, Governor-General West-India Islands, died at Antigua on the August. The SUMMERS, for Bristol ; and the Parher, ----, for Loudon, were wrecked at serrat, in a hurricane, on the 25th of July. We this day resume our Extra& from the Paris papers ; among them will be found a part of " The Annual Exposition of the State of the French Empire," lately submitted to the Legislative Body. It comprises the heads Finances" and' Religion." All the other parts have appeared in this paper. We have also given a long Article from the Masi; kir, upon the Expedition to Copenhagen, purport. ill to be written by a Dane, but evidently the com position of one of BON AAAA Tel writers in Paris. Of all the abuses of the public press in France, its its pre sent degraded state, there is none m'ate common than that of fabricated foreign correspondence The writer. its his closet at Paris, corresponds with biros:Ulm: every part of the world. If the article will answer the purpoie better, the Editor is ever ready to relinquish his paternal claim to the offspring of his own brain; in favour of a Dane,'a Swede, or an Englishman.— In this way foreign nations are calumniated and abused, upon the authority of their owl sentiments are read with gravity and t heir fabricated form, which, as the French folly, or malignity, would without notice, The Arachnid pack;Z=sbon. Falmouth. with Mails ; the letters will be &livered this day. Private letters from Cork state, the Expedition in that port has been Mr. I ACIUON arrived in town, Copenhagen, and attended at the but as he left that city before the came away, he brings no new intell Report states, that when the last Of, Lord CATHCART'S health was Sir Davits BAIRD'S wound had been more serious consequences than were bender]._ • Maj 'r-General M. Fa ASEit, • - M. Brigadier• General Srawaer, it is way home from the army in Egypt The gallant Marquis of Huts' p )inted to succeed General Fa •si did not proceed in the :saperinue ed. with Lord Cocua•ve. Lieut.-Gen Sir Haw Datavul the command of Gibraltar. It is said that Lieutenant-Genera was to proceed with part of the tsk, South America to the Caps of Good the Hon. Major-General Gam( nom 45th and 47th regiments were either India, or to relieve the 24th and b3d, Highlanders, who were to go forward The Sith Regiment, which is to go Beaasroao's army, is still detained winds at Cowes Harbour, Isle of '— It was the late Marquis placed Mr. Lass, now Sir doors Lai. the Post-office department in Ireland, long proved himself a faithful and r the public. On Wednesday nut, the 30th L. be a Grand Sham Fight up the River, ral of tke Volunteer Regiments will The point of attack will be Wandsworth. tacking party will consist of The Hu.i. Anallery Company, with field 'after, Colonel Loyal Lambeth CAnnei St- Mile' • •• Major K Fes.' Kerrey To these will be opposed The Clapham ........... Colonel The C done) The WAnd.worth ......... Major aied WAymouth Cain ' liatteraea •• • • Capt. The Artillery Company, the I. bell, and St. John's, will parade nine o'clock in the mooing. whsre impeaeil, and afterwards embark River Fencible,, comiu.inJed by misbehaviour of their brrt! eonf'..inslirig these worthy J ett: . t d h e e ce r r r v e e t s c u e :r7:h . which a c t sera:Ration of the others. —mon Flag, if the Arne. 4.14, b e . crn• This contend, Irene II however sentiments a In, we u iven kr i es. • • resterda y, from Tor. • id Papers ti of them, 14ot left er convoy oroceedel ordered a war* and the tie,; &Nike • ani pm- at See, • of the U o Ist of M the Lad) at Mum. the Paris of " The French to Budy. that the sailing of h a d en countermanded. si n n, yesterday, from Fn e Foreign Office ; 1 :he la.t Messenger lb telligenee. m 1 tat Messenger came ti 'as indifferent. and * a been produdive of were at first appro. ti Gri 1. P. and the Hon. is said, ate on their mat Pt t.rr has been ap- 1e g sew, in Egypt, but end :frigate, as intend- 4 Cap meta continues in ffit tiers ieral Watretocae deci, antortunate army of Good Hnpe, where at h commands. The 8411 tither to proceed to tie) 9.3 d. or Sutherland rward to India. Pgc9 to go with General roe, alined by contrary 14 51 Wight. an TOWNSH tNII who Leas, at the bead of will tland, where he 1145 ?Ark id steady servant to Cour h instant, tbsre will sith Liver, in whlth seer- fitew will be engaged.— 'Jai:. udsworth. The at- Ye net CUSTIS 600 Ge m o net SLacia....• 600 Ho tw g 1 oc Kyoga meiGatirsaist 6OO Leh L 1.4 WOO Chul,,i L aw , tel Pitscorr 5OO 404 " net Sierra....•••• x F 11,40110/ WATMotITOI• • . • SIT ark Um, . ..... 1L1...• e t U s , !eg, 1: 114 Ist Surrey, the Lar:. loan, de at Blackftiars , p where they will V *end k in the boats of ate Clirmanslofe Lwow , . tr. o at • 40- • " bas been held, and it has planned the regulations of their police; a Grand Sauftedthrt, an assembly of which the Jews have not, for ages, beheld an ex ample, has proclaimed their religious duties. It has solemnly declared, that the law of Moses, in stead of authorising its adherents to become the in habitants of a stare, without adopting its interests, without acknowledging its authorities, without obey ing its laws, on the contrary prescribes t, them sen timents of attachment to their adoptive country, obedience to all its institutions, and the duty of taking up arms in its defence. Ordinances will soon be issued to accomplish this great work, to regulate the exercise of the Hebrew worship. This reform, which will constitute an epoch in the annals of the Israelites, will furnish them with a subjet of everlast ing gratitude. The severity deserved by a few indi viduals has been the occasion of dispensing blessings to them all. The first of these is, that by preserving to them the name of Frenchmen, they will be ren dered worthy of that appellation. FINANCES. Such are the improvements effeaed in the internal administration of France since your last session ; but the principal feature. that which more particularly deserves your notice, the state of our nuances, is still wanting. In no period were they so prosperous, and during no interval so short has there been such an improvement. The public exchequer has been de• livered from the dependence on contra furs. who made use of its own means for the purpose of its ruin. Loans, formerly so troublesome, have now become easy, and are effefted on very moderate terms ; the public treasury ebtains discount at less than 5 per cent. of which there is no example under the ancient Monarchy. A distioi chest, appertain ing to the Treasury serving for the transadlion of business with the accomptants and the public, affords them the facility of accelerating the payments they have t 3 make. and affords individuals a secure place of deposit, which stock-jobbing cannot By means of this chest, without the intervention of money, by employing in every place the receipts t:.at have been given there, it may be procured where the payments are to be made. Its resources have increased beyond its wants. The ancient bfo narchy, in its prodigious loans, never found so fer tile a mine; but never was there so 1 ttle necessity for %eorking it. The chests are full; the payments e made to the appointed time ; ordgrs epon the public exchequer have become the safest 'Al' of ex change ; the public effects are those which inspire the most confidence. Such is the effea of the first glances of the Em peror at the state of the finances, after his return from Vienna, and of the attention which he has be stowid on this important brancn to: adnoniistratton ; and yet no impost has been aided to those which previously existed ; no new source of wealth has bets opened fur the creamy; the commands and the foresight of the Chief of the Government have alone effraed this astonishing amelioration. IE BRITISH PRESS.