The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1803-05-24 00:00:00

~•.- ~. -- 7 P "......."'.'........4111111 111 11416" • ••••••-, • • : • • • •• „ . • • • when the Ile fliiitive Treaty was signed, tliat it was at the present moment. Ile took notice of what had fallen from a Noble Earl, that instr.ad of a peace ter the last two years, we had only an armed truce, or a.tthzr truce. He had said in that Houses ever and rver again, that it could only end in war, as it had now done. With regard to the motion of Amendment, that would lead to a renewal of the s ystem of procrastination and concession , an d ti in,t, if adopted, and in the recommencement of liostilities, but. under mach greater disadvantages thin we are now liable tu. 1k would therefore ad vise their proceeding without fiuther hesitation; and be hoped it would be a-war that showed that this country felt and was determined to prove itself what it ought to be, superior to the French Republic.— .t war not carried on by any of the hacknied expe dients resorted to in feu ter wars, but a determined effort to preserve our independence, chastise the in o4dence of our enemy, and put an end to that course of arrogance, oppression, and injury uniformly siunifestcd towards this country by the First Consul ever since the signature of the Definitive Treaty. Lord DAR\LEY, in a short speech, by reading as extradfrom the papers, said, that the papers fully ;notified the impatience which he had tint ac than once expressed in that House, at the protralted and tedious length of the negotiation, which he rejoiced to and-was at length put an end to. Lord GWYDIR begged pardon for rising at that late hour, but ectild not but wish the Noble Lord could be prevailed on to withdraw his Amendment, as unanimity on such an occasion would be of the utmost importance. His Lordship warmly sup pored the Address as originally moved. The question was then put. that all the words, after the words a in obedience to his Nlajest)'s com mand," stand put of the motion. Contents 142 Not contents 10 Earl FITZWILLIAM gave notice of a motion on Thursday. Lord PELHAM wished the Noble Earl to state the objed of his intended motion, that he might previously lay the papers that might be necessary respeding them on the table in time. Lad lIIZWILLIAM could not yet give his Lordship the satisf.idion that he required. The Order fur ate Chandos Peerage was adjourned till Thursday %val.—Adjourned at half past twelve. THFATRE-AZOTAL, HATMAR KAT. TIIIS SIikNING will be ine..znteil THE MOUN'TAINEERS. Octoivi, Nir. Mown ;let, Mr. I. Palmer; Klimal. Mr. Denman; Lague, Mr. Chapman ; Ltwe Mr 11.4t.1ay, (from tiicTbanre-Royal, Wingtorr) ; Bolts tin Malec, Mr. Awls, ; Gawm,!: Smith: Ftwila tilt. Winthevra , . Nils. T. Win:KIWI ; liuraattlae, Mrs. Goodal. ; Agues, MIL Atia.uo. Aner the P' ay, the Nfusi.al P:‘,:c of THE Will Stea,l7 (with an addititstal Sorg) Mr. Holiday; Silly Shamrock, Mr* Atkins.' 'fo which w.ll be added THE VILLAGE LAWYER. To-fflonw, Tile ikir at law, with My Gratidmwther. On Friday will br prrsiurt.d i Nrw Cuinic Pircr, in Two Ams, call:el Mrs WigrMs. - TIIE BRIT ISII PRESS. LON 1)0N, TUESDAY, MAY 44. We are aware that our Readers have been looking anxiously forward to the debate which was fixed for yesterday in the House of Commons, upon the sub jet of the negotiation and rupture with France. .We feel, therefore, no small regret at the disappoint ment which they must suffer, when they shall open this paper and find it without any report of the dis cussion which took pl.tce in that House. In this tetra, however, they are sufferers in common with the readers of c• :cry other paper ; but as w e owe some explanation to the Public upor..l dinar,- an event, and in justification of the ter of this Paper for diligence, we consider our selves called upon to state the foiloWiug particulars. L. has been hitherto the custom to opcn the outer doors of the House of Commons, so early as ;en o'clock in the mooning. The Gentlemen who an: employed to report the debates hi the public prints, had thus an opportunity of gaining an early ad , mittance into the House, and placing them'clves :tart the door of the gallery allotted for the recep tion of grangers, before the crowd of people, at traaed by idle cutiosity upon any extraordinary occasion, began to accumulate. This was not a •ery accommodating arrangement, but it was not- . withstancliaza ccr.sidcred a favour, as by due dill: • genre every such person had a fair chance of gain: vlng admission into the gallery. This custom was, however, by an order of the Speaker, yesterday de. a-ted from, and a new regal ition substituted, by which the outer doors to the gallery, for the accom modation of strangers in general, were not opened until three o'clock in the afternoon. The result of this was a constantly accumulating crowd at the enter doors, a tout of constables, riot and confu sion. Those, Mho came as heretofore at an early hour, far from deriving any profit from their dili gence, became exhausted in the course of six or seven hours pressure and contest with the crowd, and were obliged to retire, faint, and totally incom ptent to the task which they came to perform. This was not all • several persons had contrived, under pretence of attending committees, &e. to procure admiitance into the interior of the place,. by which atens they were enabled to fill the gallery', the only: place of accommodation for _strangers, and c ontaining not more than 130 persons, before the Most athletic and powerful of those, who had been waiting patiently g all day on the Oiltside, could COMP into contest with them. When the immense i m portance of the debate in question is considered, when the inunense interest which it excited is con- •- . • • • . f •e. . OP. p. , N tires , r ' e, • : • ge._ •,. : 4! . . . skit:v.loh* stblic. mash ecanielint 'wit as . PAPERS* • • - advantate the paper must leave posSeis eti law its • *tweet), la eat, MA.MiTIeS TO unit moOtLii IoAiLLAM4VIT, 20, 1803. ....„ competitors, whir& Would have been eittfiuda- , INsTOcrtiplts To LORD WlllTWoiterll. lent or fortunate enough to have its fa establish My , - D o e fe nne-vseeet, Nev. ;1 4 , 1802 . Lord meat of reporters in the gallery, and been thus ena- I take the first opportunity of communicating to bled to give to the world a• report of a debate the Sour Excellency, for the regulation of your con most interesting ever agitated within the walls of du& the instruaions which - his Majesty is pleased Parliament, from which its -more liberal, but less to von on such points as may hecome subjeas ofdiscussion between his Majesty and the French fort te tivels, were excluded. In this painful Gtivernment.e,and to desire that you will endeavour and trying situation, the proprietors of !milers; who to t ed - nem yourself to them iu all your conversa happened to he present, and the agents of those . tons Nvitb the French Ministers. You will lose no proper opportunity of expressing who happened to be absent, iimmimously. agreed to his Majesty's earnest solicitude for the preservation take no advantage over each other ; and thus by of the peacevrhich subsists between the two countries; their fair and liberal conduct, the Public are de- his disposition to do every thing . in his power for prived of a report of a debate which every paper that purpose which is consistent evith the honour of his crown and the interests of his dominions ; and . in town had long anxiously expected to he able to. his regret at any circumstance which may have give in the best possible style, and with respect to arisen to ta interrupt that harmony and good lfa under snding which are so important to the were and which no care, no pains, no expence had been spared happiness of both countries. You will, however, to form the best possible arrangements. Fortue state most distinctly his Majesty's determination nicely no change took place in the usual arrange- never to forego his right of interfering in the affaies of the Continent, on every occasion in whicli ments of the H o u s e of Lords, and we are rouse- of interests of his own dominions, or those of quently enabled to lay a faithful report of what Europe in general, may. appear to him to require passed there, upon the same subject, before our it. This right his Majesty possesses in commo n with readers. e very other independent Power ; it rests upon gene ___---- • ral principles, and does not require the confirmation of any particular treaty. It is nevertheless import '4.ll;STY wit' ant that you should observe, that the:circumstances hich led to the conclusion of the last peace, and I the principles upon which the negotiation was con duacd, would give his Majesty a special right to in terpose in any case which might lead to the exten sien of the power or influence of France. In the com munication which took place between the two Govern ments, previous to the signature of the preliminary ar ticles,hisMajes• yan oposed. as the basis of negotiation, that if the French Government would not relin yeish the continental acquisitions which they had obtained from other powers in the course of the war, his Majesty would claim the right of keeping a part of his conquests, as a compensation for the important acquisitions of territory made by France upon the Continent. This principle was formally recognized by the French Government in an official note in the following words : " Cependant on re connoit que les Grands Evenemens survenus, en Europe, et lcs Changemens arrives da ns les Limitcs des Grands Etats du Continent, peuvent autoriser Une Partie des Demandes du Gouvernemcrit Bri tannique." The terms of the treaty of peace were negotiated in conformity to this, basis ; and it appears, therefore, dear, that the then existing state of possession and of engagements, as re spect the Continent, were the foundation of the peace itself, and that his Majesty has therefore an undoubted right to interpose in consequence of the treaty in every case in which the state of pos session may appear to him to have undergone any material alteration, or in which the engagements which were then subsisting had been violated to the prejudice of his Majesty, or of the other powers of e ope. You will proceed to observe, that the annexation of Piedmont to France, since the con clu,ion of the Definitive Treaty, makes a most ma terial difference in the state of 'the fixed and perma neet wossessions of France : That the renunciation of the becily of Parma in favour of France e n circum. stance which was concealed at the time of negotiating tee peace, and which is become of the greatest im portance from its furnishing an additional instance of teat system of Nara cedion which is totally inconsist ent with any system of security for Europe, makes a most essential difference likewise in the relative circumstances of the two countries : that at the time of concluding the peace, the French Government were bound by the most sacred engagements to re sped the independence of the Helvetic and Batavian Repuhlics, and to allow the people of those coun tries to choose whatever form of government they might think proper. That the violation olthis right in the Swiss people, and the invasionof their territory, notwithstanding the representation which was made in their favour by his Majesty, makes a most material alteration in the stateof engagements contraCted since the conclusion of the' Definitive Treaty, and adds most considerably to the influence and power of France, to the prejudice of a State which was then acknowledged as independent : That the condua of the French Government to the Batavian Republic was not less objeaionable : That the independence of this Republic was acknowledged, both by the Treaty of Luneville and by the Treaty of the Hague of the year 1795: That by the Treaty of the Hague; the French Government were permitted to keep, a garrison in that country only till the time of general peace : That by a Convention signed in August; 1801, the French troops were to remain there till the conclusion of the Definitive Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and France : That the French troops have not, to this period, evacuated the country ' • and that the First Consul is represented lately to have declared, that in the event of any differences amongst the people of that country, on the subjects of their in ternal Government, he would march with his whole army to suppress them : That this is an obvious vio lation of the independence of the Zatavian Repub lic ; and that his Me;esty would have a peculiar right to interpose on the present occasion, as he con sented to make numerous and most important resti tutions to the Batavian Government in the Treaty of Peace, on the consideration of that Government being independent, and not being subject to any , foreign controul. It is unnecessary for me to recommend to your Excellency to make these representations with mo deration and temper. You will attend very par ticularly to any explanations which may be given to you respeaing them ; and you will engage to report such explanations to his Majesty's Govern- meat.. 40.1 - t ; I have the honour to be, &c. HAWIESOURY. (Referroaelo Mr. Found% Letter to Lord flawkesbury of - 3 Jan.A French frigatecommanded by an officer of . that nation, whose name is not known, arrived this day i 8 'our roads. On board this vessel was em barked Citizen Horace Sebastiani, calling himself land parts.y w pt i: h fo ( the ) l r t E oha n e r c o esa : zie fro huait m t the mas oth : n un ; hhae C da o u n are su mri l vp i ded o f t rt h oo ese m guards of health were placed over them e He de manded a conference with the Government, assuring our Delegate Regent, that he was commissioned b y _ the First Consul Bonaparte, to communicate to all orders of persons is the Seven Islands, the attach. t Yesterday morning his MAiLsry with his usual ittendants viewed his farms. Her IviaJtst Y and the Pa zwccssi s rode to Fran , — more in a phaeton and sociable, and afterwards his. floured the lion. Mrs. H A KCOr nr, at St. I.conard's Hill, where the Royal Party partook of an elegant entertainment. Early yesterday morning Mr. HUNTER and Mr. Deessmo the Messengets arrived at Windsor•with dispatches for his Majesty from Ministers. Th Earl of Dulls v gave a grand dinner on Sa turday, at his house in Grosvenor-square, to the following Noblemen and Gentlemen : Ezul of Allwrm,e,., Lord Nbittard, Lord Sohn Towt.sigArl, Mr. : ‘,:kt;r • Lord If Or, Fit tpatrick, Lord Ois:listun, Nit' in oirild, Lurd Vu er, Mr. G. It by, Lord WiliaiLtaxs.: , r:, I hie. Ord. About four o'clock yesterday, Mr. PITT attended the House of Commons ; he appeared dressed in black with a large bundle of papers under his arm. The people who stood on cat:h side of him loudly clapped their hands as he passed, and expressed the greatest pleasure at his arrival. The Duke of QUEENSBU ItY was among the first to take his scat in the House of Lords yesterday. The greatest apprehensions were entertained, when the Gallery door of the House of Commons was opened yesterday, that the staircase would have given way, from the great number of persons who were pressing to obtain admittance but fortunately no accident occurred. The introduElion List night, at the ROYAL CIR. crs, of a new Temporary Lyrical Effusion, de- • scriptive of the Installation, or the Knights pf the Bath, was honoured with the most unbounded ap plause; it contains many neat points and apt allusions to the present day, and was admirably given by St AMR, in the charaCter of a Country Boy. The Second FLSTINO BALL Avill take place this evening, which is expeited to be far superior to any Entertainment ever given, as the Managers have spared neither pains nor expence.--Subscrip tions, we arc informed, continue to be received at the Festino Rooms. Mrs. Powtet's benefit last night, at Drury-Lane, attraaeal an elegant and crowded audience. The novelty of the night was a voung Lady, Mrs. Pow- LLL'S sister, in the chars der of Emilia, in Shake speare's comedy of "tire Winter's Talc." She was introduced by Mrs. Powell to the audience, and re ceived a most flattering reception. This Lady is above middle size, graceful in her manner, and pos sesses a sweet and finely modulated voice. The cliaradcr is of small compass, but she imparted to it all the interest of which it is capable. The play was succeeded by an interlude, taken from Mr. Al lingharn's favourite entertainment " lee all a Farce," which was received with great applause. The Loun Mavoa intends holding a Court of Aldermen this day, at Guildhall, at which it is expeficd his Lordship will name the gentlemen he has nominated for Sheriffs for London and Mid- dlesex. The military movements for the defence of the coast have already commenced. The (i£d regiment marched into Canterbury on Friday from Chatham barracks; the 70th regiment has also marched from Chatham for Plymouth. A strong brigade of Guards is immediately to occupy the Upper Barracks at Chat ham, where General I)unoas is to take the com mand. Major-General Moo RE removes to Canter bury, to command the troops stationed there. A camp is expected to be formed, without delay, on Barham DAwns, for which several regiments are re ported as under orders, both of infantry and cavalry. A brigade of Horse and Foot Artillery, the Scotch Greys, the 7th Light Dragoons, and the I.lth Light Dragoons, are said to be intended as part of this en campment. The first division of the Hertfordshire Militia, un der the command of the Marquis of Sat.isaux v, marched on Wednesday for Colchester barracks, where they are to he quartered, and the second di vision will march this day for the same place. • LIST OF TUE SHIPS NOW UNDER EMDARGO AT THE PORT or PENZANCE. Prince of Wales, Win. Trcludclra, of Penzance, from Lim don to Penatsce, with sundries.—Martha, Jos. Smith, of Fal mouth, front Falmouth to Penzance, with tirnber.—Eginurn, John Lubbut, of Bideford; from Swansea to Penzance, with cozh.—Adjuter, ittigtredc, of Dram, from Dram to Penance, with timber, B:c.-11awkc, Wm. Jennings, of Bideford, from Plymouth to Wales, in ballast —Translator, Buglehall, of Pen zance, from Bristol to Penzance, in ballast —Fortune, Liigan Flute, of Jersey, from Jersey, tea market with order. Enter, kite G. bl'lLeitaie, of Plymouth, from Plvittotith to Wales, in ba:llast.-1 - lunry and Elitahcth, John Waters, of Coombe, from Swansea to a market, coals..—Padstow, flats. Baling, ,of Parlatow, front Landau, to Penance, with from Pomace ta letusburgh, with tin.—Union, Wm. Curtis of Cloven y , from Fatmouth.to Wales, in bal hust...reacan, John Lowering, of Coombe, front FRI mo ut h to Wales, io.bialkt • Gortree, R. Stevens, of St. Ives, from Swastnts itio Nuance, coals.—Expedttion, Thelma+ Morgan, to Milford, to a market, with eon's —Fleenor, John Coll ings, f ontnbe, from Swansea, to Penzinte, with enals.—Swint, James Thompson, of Dublin, (hired! , revenue clines. —Dolphin Richard John, of St. Lees,ditto .—Lord Wm. Friend, of Bridoort, from Bridport to Penzance, with cordag' u Wm. Whiny of tdwilly, from Plymouth to Kulwilly, in ballast 4- • - • • • • ••••••.- ••••-••• .. / -.. v k *I. • • r . • . ti* 4-4eiss • • • • • - . , ~ . • - • . . . reffitt otetirst Consul, lns desire of seeing all the pail)le happy and contented, whom he would endeatotir to inspire with veneration for the laws, reseea for the existing Government, and:. obedience to its commands. In this designing mai ner be extorted a consent from the Delegate, that a•' few merchants and noblemen should be invited to the place which being done, it appearing that Mt. Antonio Martinengo was absent, he was sent for by Vice Commissary Renaud, from the house of his friend _Strapodi, and, immediately on his arrival at his palace was presented to the French Envoy Se bastiani and recommended as opulent, possessing iniluence,4 good man, and the friend of the people. Sebastiani made him short compliment, and this began his discourse by 'saying, " That the First Con sul liad begun to giiie a political existence to these islands ; that the vicissitudes of war and the distance of reinftrce menu- were preparing for them another destiny ; that he feels the swartne4 interest for their inhabitants who would be rendered happy, if they would adopt such a system ar would le most analogous to that of Franee ; that inter.; nal di;sentions, and false principles, had for a mo ment taken from them the liberty of giving their own opinion about the Constitution but teat, by a different condua, they might in future possess that liberty ; that the nobility might aspire to the offices of Government on the ground of pre perty, since it procured them a superior education. but that they ought not to pretend to establish, in a_ plea of birth, those privileges which should re sult front education, virtue, and property ; that the people ought not to exclude the nobility merely be cause they were burn in that sphere ; that a spirit of general concord ought to recal tranquillity among the three classes of the Nobles, • Plebeans, and the mercantile class, which is the best ; that they ought to avail themselves of the favoutable situation of the country which gives the means of procuring, by commerce, wealth, and future opulence; that so seductive an objeCt exposed to the view of Continental Greece, Might rouse up that ancient ardour and national enthusiasm for li berty, by which the Republic of the Seven Islands will become a power superior even to its own ez. peCtations ; that States have the same stages as the life of man, and therefore that it is not wonderful if, during their infancy, the errors of childhood should prevail in them : that if they are averse to the care of the French nation to maintain the happiness of those islands even by her own forces, (not sub jeCt to the outrages of fortune), the First Consul, in concert with the Emperor of Russia, will know howto establish by force an appropriate Constitution for the Seven Islands; thatlastly, herecommends to them to make known to the people these friendly sentiments of Bonaparte, direaly communicated to thembyhim his immediate organ." He said something respeding the Emperor of Russia, but very cooly, and added also, " That until the change of the present Govern ment, it will be necessary to obey the laws, how ever defedive they may 'be, to respea its ministers and obey their orders." When this speech was ended, Peta, the Ex-superintendant of the Cernides, cried out, " Long live the First Consul Bonaparte." The Russian Commandant who was present, re mained silent at these proceedings, and feelitig him self thus betrayed, he testified his disapprobation by his silence. The French Envoy, as he left the pa lace in crossing the square, was huzza'd and ap plauded by the most ill disposed of the people, led away by the bad example of all the former and pre-' sent officers tithe Republic. He went into Mr. Re naird's house, and then returned on board his own ship. He inquired for an express for Cephalonia, where he wished to send advices of his intended destination. The Delegate could not deny him permission to land, because he would have assumed the right of doing so of his own authority, and he thought, if in this case he had had recourse to the Russian force, he might have disturbed the peace which exists between the Emperor of Russia and the French Government. He wished to have opposed such a studied harangue, but had he done so, the French Envoy would have thought himself authorised to have gone out and have made it in the middle of the public square, and on a holiday, when the people were intoxicated with wine, and the remains of a spirit of democracy now reviving, by which a disastrous scene might have followed. These are the reasons which induced'the delegate to chuse the lesser evil, more particularly so because he had not any instruCtions for his guidance in such unexpected occurrences. The Commandant regards this affair as an outrage against his Sovereign, and he would have been sorry to have witnessed such a scene, had he not obliged to do so. . •• • ' POLICE. Yesterday several Watermen and Lightermen, Y.*lo had been impressed within the City, were brought before the Lord Mayor to answer the corn. plaint of the Impress Officers and Constables, who told his Lordship, they had been insulted by stones being thrown at them at Blackfriar's bridge, when in the aa of performing their duty : that not one of the Watermen appeared with their badges. Seve ral of the Watermen claimed their privilege by w‘taring a Nobleman's, or a Fire-Office Badge, but were informed by the Lord Mayor, that no badge but a Waterman's could proted them, if they Are.' as such. Several of them were sent on board the Tender, as an example to others. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL, This DAY. N.:'. 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