The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1803-03-23 00:00:00

F ewrßr. FASHION. AN.‘CREON I‘IIT.VIT.D. To en, lov.djs 'fhe liners and Lilies,. Ase Red from my Nettle, fotbeir Fur *Se, on my Nese, L the full-:donst Rose, A nd the Lilies are twin'tl with tny IL ir. The Marchioness of SALisnuav gave a gr.md Rout, on Nlond.ty evening last, to about .",00 of the fishionable world, at her house in Arlington-street ; among the company pre-env were, the Swedi s h, rottllgtlege, and Dutch Ainbassudt,rs.:— Duke Ju Pier,. 44rqui. of 14,•rtf. ed. rd r l,—Wii i o le k e3 „ pnljv 11fa , Nde,field, Stan- Uwe, Weatinorl.ind , awl Li ineriidc iinnuits—+aebes, Crantey, Sydow!, Mathew, Grimototi, atia Mosley. Lore—ritaltarris Rivning, Ftx.nv, asenstrion. Lev-ann Gown, Graves, Brisee, 4001 S-mirr‘i.lr. Cant% Sladll, ROY, 11.iugliton„ and 3. Riddle. Gerrerstur flogitirtek. Ceurre1.... , :t..11.1m, and Tree,. 4.lfteei•—.44rostirck .ind Hyman!. C.pt.av•—.R.3k,v, \tiller. awl Tfritharn nrain—Cstrert, iteittirmirm, C.tisvers, Stmlif ell, 11;1%4- est, Nl.meninse, Om stain. G• Walpole, F. Walpole, ll•nti Itiallams„ Rohirriefi,Slnane, W. Slow,. Freemartle, Moiatanse., 111-In., wits, Dkke 4 ". 1"""iti "a - .T1.1 it ;dere Tricerit.l.mid. Afirtner...„ Geer mood, S.att.lflrel, U ~,e , t . 1%11.111. \loner Ltotowlir, yen, Metttg..ruery i trmatrd, !lope, &dikes% Sttuaho; e, sod Corimoms Deekters.....De D-rritsti;r., and !Wenn. MartAimenr.-4)..weislitre, 14f-idiot, mind ifertfnyd. Ciou.kaso--.S.Ann, Csrli•le, Liver ! evrel, Tal• Mg, Sllticele.Se4l, Clary, De Joutf, Leitrim, Ctsaill.im, and Dhikelth. 114.uwetrues-ArVtirerk, Nts!htsione, S”inry, and Ca•Ce tea . B.Araitesa CrnAnn. avoil (is K. C-0:-. ItmiczN. t. L. Saun a/ens .1••••k , 31-4•11. T mker% hi 41. Se begin. 141-6.7. C 11..r.1. C. 11.vr,om1,11411:iitt.r.1. C. Dnadia% C Roden, l'rauftwel. C. Ntlatuive. &piing. C. Hat-. hum, llahua , C statitin Stun, Harrington, Wlllkums Wytuse,P...tre, S Ruder, (kintharn, I,.(erre!, Ch o n e nt,. !ttrithew, Somerton, Corr), E, t wdo‘, R. gimlet* 1, and itaistrunar—Joiles, Center-, Standards. FitalterSert, Gar. Vier, lia.-Itinwro, Flostrir, Ntusgmy, St. John, Cakert„ len. Chestnut, G. Donets, 11..ntir, /taker, Elliot, Walpole, Fremantle. C Oislionsa, A.li.tigtosi, Dickens, liotham, Doo r"' S . nun. Corovisilln, hturt, 'llmuniserni, %Sonars titt. L. vinsmr.v. Stroud, Farmer, Unlit.), Law, Fr.ine.s, Str.tr.ussl, Smith, S Peocham, Drummond Smith, Nl'Domo.ll, C. Los& anti A. Stanlinr. Alas ft—Ptic.,, Csuyers, Batiks, Shutriworth,ttartlicr, Mil fitr,;rral.l. Hamm-filen Sehlight, Fitzroy, Ch lirown. Whitaker, Lefeyo., Baker, Duckworth, Pe.h ums, Dershwond, tlsrwy, two Gages, Smith:, Addington, Did:sits, ihethaso, Mule, Byron, Shun hem Townshc..,l, Thompson, ruipo, W um, I lersey, Gyirnston, Done., Law, Friocit, two N%'alteield., Smith, Tuartiabeisl, R. 11 mghten, Stinho i x., and GCLUAitUII. On Monday morning his Maicsvv, after inspeet fag the works and improvements carrying on about %%indult-, took the diversion of hunting with the furriers in the Great Park. The same morning her Manst v and the PRIN. VIM!, accompanied by Lord and Lady SooLtY, and Mrs. De ax Ga osrp Not, took an airing to Frogmore, and the weather being extremely fine, the Royal p.uty walled a considerable time in the g..rdens. Yesterday, soon after twelve o'clock, her MA. JISTT and the PRlNctssts arrived at Buckingham house. About two o'clock the Princess 11l.st Y, at tended by Lade Cm k a Lorre Wv:isz. took an airing in the neighbourhood of Chelsea. About half past three his 11. tit. r v arrived at the Qutis's house. In the evening their NTssrocrirs had a Concert and a SClea party. Mr. HAUNE•DICK, her NtarEs- TY'S Page, entertained the company with a charm ing concerto on the flute. Yesterday Lord and Lady Scotty arrived in town from Windsor, where they have been on a vi sit to their Mai/Slits for several days. Tito. BEAUMONT has been appointed, by Lord HAncouar, one of her MAJESTy's Coachmen, in the room of Mr. Jaw( Swan, who died suddenly $ few days since. This evening their hfaxtsries and the PRIN. CISSES will honour the Concert of Antient Music with their presence, under the direßion of the Earl WILTON, who divas for the Earl FrizwiLLlAM, who is absent from London. Mr. Lewts, of Covent-Garden Theatre, met with a very unpleasant accident ast Sunday. in extricating himself from his hiirse as it was filling. His arm vras so much hurt, that he WAS last night obliged to h.tve his sleeve open, in performing the characier of the Hon- .11r. Sheldon, in COLMA,A admirable Co medy of gob/ Bull. Some people are convinced that BONAPARTE has no idea of invading .s. The reason is a good one— a! has told his soldiers, that the Bank of England contains nothing but titer. Professor A LOINI has returned to Paris. On his passage to Calais he made some experiments, from which it results, that the galvanic influence looses none of its effeas at sea. The Earl of A BOY sr., after an absence of several years, returned to town ou Monday, from Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. _ Lidv Sstrocs's Ball, last night, was very fashionably attended. The Earl and Countess MOCNTNOR tt IS are at the British Hotel, in Jermyn-street. Prince WILLIAM 02 . GLMTEcTtIt took leave of their Swarms' Mairsvits, at Stockholm, on the In of March, upon his return to England. We are concerned to state that Mr. O'lia aa, Member for the county of Sligo, is detained in Ire land by a hurt in his knee, received in a fall from his horse in bunting. His absence ttom his Par liamentary duty is matter of great relret, as there is not a more honest, upright and independent Se nator. He has been returned four times to serve in Parliament. It is a doubt whether his public or private virtues are the mr r•- predominant. To those Gentlemen who may be interested in the great match proposed by Mr. I)& s AND about a year since which the Cuur.irqf (lentiemen may re collat), and accepted by Cul. EituaN roes, we have authoruy to state, that the Colonel has named next the 25th ia.tint, to meet at Mr. Dos :4 11 ' S liome at twelve o'clock, to decide the merits of Alajor, brother to Snowball, the ag phi , Ora of Yorkshire, against Mr. DURAND% bitch of equal celebrity. The above match, we understand, for 1 trOt.r guineas, jr or pa.;. .a - tHLIXR COVVN T-11 AltDr.S. After tbe Comedy of John Bull, a new Drama, and of a new 'species, entitled Voio-Draw, was las: night brd'aght forward at this Theatre. I: is the progeny of the romantic brain of Mr. KINK I.swts, and called The Captive. No one of this Gentleman's produetions perhaps bears stronger marks of his terrific imagination. The design of it is simply to depiet, in one scene, the horrors of the interior of a madhouse. At the opening, a female captive is discovered; and the only words of the piece consist of a short poem which she repeats, accompanied with much pantomime and scenic ope fat' . Her Keeper appears with her sustenance: she urges hint to release her, for a she is not mad." He is deaf to her supplication, and quits her ; we then learn, from a so4iloquy, that she is unjustly confined by her husband. The back scene forms a gloomy perspedive of other parts of the prison. Yells and clanking of chains are heard from sur rounding maniacs. One of them havin' escaped, rushes titrward, a dreadfut spectacle, anc overlooks the dungeon of the captive. H. disappears, and is immediately seen again at the grate of its entrance, which, with furious exertion, he attempts to force open. He is then seen violently contending with his keepers, who finally force him :c.vay. The Captive herself is driven to aftual frenzy with the horrors of the scene, raves in the accents of mad ness, and sinks with agitation. She is awakened from her trance by her father, who, accom hanied by two other person, come to release er ; hut her brain is still distraded—she knows them act. Her little son is thin brought before her—she recognizes him, seizes him in her arms, and a groupe /a Koidate closes the scene. From ais description, a general idea may be ga. thered of the nature of this extra o rdinary exhibition; but to convey an idea of effed, description is inade quate. The scene is horrid beyond conception; it threw several ladies into hysterics, and the stoutest nerves could scarcely spstain it without emotion.— The opposition it experienced seemed to arise from this cause alone ; there were no hisses but what ac companied the screams of the ladies ; but they un doubtedly form an all-sualcient objetion to it, fu ture representation. Sensible of this the author we understand has withdrawn st. As the conception of a fervid imagination, it i s certainly calculated to augment the peculiar fame of Mr. Li was ; but it painful impression renders kiln& for the Stage. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. -, - PARTS, MARCH 19. They 'write from Italy, that the Pope is now engaged about a plan formed by Michael Auge, for diverting the course of the 'fiber, with the view of recovering those monuments of ancient art which may he found in its ch:tnnel. French engineers have arrived in Switzerland, to take an cra.% survey, and to form corret maps of that country. A man has lately been arrested at Brussels on suspicion of being one of the contrivers of the in fernal machine —He was furnished with sir pass ports in diffaent names ; among others, that of Lafosse, and of Bnrgeois. The Police of Brus sels having consulted the Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, on the subjetrt, the latter sent an agent of the Police to bring the prisoner to Paris, where the business will be enquired into. FROM TILE FRENCH PAPERS. . BE RN E. MARCH 7. The prisoners of state who were confined in the fortress of Narhourg, and now set at liberty, have obtained permission to spend fifteen days with their families, to regulate their domestic affairs. At the expiration of that period they are to wait on General Nev, and inform him to what town of France they wish to retire, till the new order of things be fully arranged. ntas:r, MARCH 11. The Landamman has just issued the following proclamation : Louis o'A F►'Rl, Landamman of Switzerland, to the Inhabitants of the Nineteen Confi•derated Cantons. The First Consul of the French Republic has dej termined upon the mediation which is to close those ' dissentious of which Switzerland has hitherto exhi bited an affliaing speßacle: that mediation must also irrevocably fix the destiny of Switzerland. This important aa, the result of long meditated con ferences with men of wisdom and friends to order, is shaped according to the wants and the dearest in terests of a people whom every thing seems to call to the peaceful enjoyment of a stable and permanent state of things. Five years of disturbances and pain ful struggles arc strong evidence against the forms of a central Government. Ihe antient federative system, modified according to the changes of which the empire of circumstances, and the example of neighbouring Powers, prompted the admission, could alone be suitable to the different inhabitants of Swit. zerland. Providence, the sole support of just and virtuous governments, seems to have chosen the present mo ment fur checking the evils that have overwhelmed our country, and holds out to us the promise of a more fortunate future. The new social compaet must be executed : political divisions must cease the violence of passions must be hushed. It is only by a wise concurrence of wishes, by a constant and uniform tendency to prevent ptivate interest from prevailing over the interest of the public, that We can ensure the success of those new institutions ; and that success alone, once obtained, will confirm our independence. It will be in the power of each Canton to make laws the most suitable try local purposes, and the must conducive to its prosperity. It is therdare of the highest impurbusce that in the nest eleaions, the choice should be such as to seled persons who, to a tried integrity, add talent, knowledge, and experi ence, which inspire confidence, and which can alone constitute an enlightened Government. Every man who loves his country will consult only his con science in the vote he shall give, and will spurn all foreign advice, unless it accords with the dictates of his conscience. Such are the means with which we are provided, , in order to restore to Switzerland that consideration ' which she justly enjoyed, and to give birth again to those fortunate days of happiness and of peace, the deprivation of which we have so sensibly telt, and which have long been the obje.l of our regret. LOUIS D P AF FR V, Landamman of Sw•itrerland. arrENTItEL, Secretary. FM irryiwwf • Me; rt. Reding and Auf-Jer-Maur are arrived itt achwite. Serious uisturbances have broken out in the ci-drvant County of Werdeuberg—if report is to he credited, the insurgents have imprisoned the Sub- • Prefeet, and the whole of the Tribunal.—French troops have been detached against the insurgents. Citizen Usteri, on his return from Paris, has ad. dressed to his constituents a Proclamation, in which are remarked the following expression of the senti ments of the First Consul resvaing the Ad of Me• ditation when he delivered it to the Commission ers of the Helvetic Congress :—" The Ad of Me diation is a plank thrown out to the shipwrecked, to afTord them the means of safety. If. the Swiss wish to attach themselves wit with confidence, their safety is certain; they will again become a people independent as their fathers ; but if they tear asun der the leaves of this book, the miseries they will. endure arc iit.:alculable. They will lose their liberty —and that is the greatest misfortune which can hap pen to any people. I reckon on the salutary dispo sition which the Deputies will carry back to their country. I hope that soon all animosities will be calmed, and all parties forgotten. I will no more suffer any taii(t to exist in Helvetia, suppored by the enemies of France, than I will permit the exist ence of anarchy and arbitrary power." YIGNVA• MARC!! 4. M. Talleyrand, nephew of the Minister for Fo reign Affairs, who was attached to the French Le gation at our Court, is soon to set out for Peters burg,•, where he is to reside as Secretary of the Enibass y. aaristos, MARCH 4. The Ministers of Frafice and Russia, M. Labo ret and Baron De Buhler, have announced to the principal Ministers of the Deputation and the Diet, that in a few days they would officially com municate the arrangement formed at Paris for the supplementary indemnities of the Etclot of Bava ria. the Austrian Minister, President of the Col lege of Princes, has, within the few last days past, ins•sted, that all the dispositions of the General Recce, relative to the arrangement of the vows of the College of Princes, should be expunged from the principal plan, and submitted to the particular deliberation of the Diet. A new instrudion, how- . ever, has arrived from. Vienna, enjoining the Aus trian Ministers to vote for the conlitmation of all the dispositions of the General Recce indiscriminate ly. It is expeaed that these Ministers will give their votes on the ;th, which is the next sitting of the Diet. ara - sstts,Altrll 1 t. The Prefe& of the Dyle writes from Paris, that the First Con:al will occupy the hotel of the Prefec ture, one of the finest and the most pleasantly situ ated in Brussels. This hotel was formerly occu pied by Count Metternich, Minister of the Empe ror to the General Government of the Low Countries. Preparations arc already begun for the teception of the First Magistrate of the Republic. An elegant car riage, of the value of thirty thousand francs, has been ordered from the manufadory of the celebrated Simon. It is destined to receive Bonaparte on the frontiers of the department of the Doyle, Our manufaCtu rers have been instrated to prepare a robe of lace, of the most exquisite taste, to be presented to Ma dame Bonaparte. The Commune propose to give splendid fetes. The Tribunal of Commerce has already subscribed fifty thousand francs. The Guard of Honour a chrval is composed of a hun dred of the must distinguished young men in the town. The equipment of each volunteer will cost a hundred louis d'ors without including the horse. The First Consul will be accompanied - by the Mi nisters of the Interior, of War, and of the Marine. MAmun, FED. 20. A new organization is to be given to the Spanish marine. New encouragements are to be offered to sailors, and means arc to he taken for better securing the regular payment of their w:►ges. During the late war, the irregularity of their payment pro duced frequent disorder. CONSTANTINOPI.r, JAN. '26. General Brune is lodged in the Hotel of France, in the suburb Pera. Ilc is making great prepara tions for his solemn entrance, which takes place on the same day on which he is to have his first audience with the Grand Seignior. Much mention is made of a military position which France is desirous to take in the Turkish empire, in order to support her ally, the Porte : it is said, that very possibly the pe ninsula of the Crimea may be occupied with French troops. With the source of these reports we are wholly unacquainted. Mr. Drummond, successor to Lord Elgin, is ex peaed to arrive shortly as Ambassador Crum Eng land. _ FETEISBCRG, FEE. 113. The interchange of couriers between the Courts of London and Petersburg is more frequent than ever. Russia will not consent to the establishment of a 'Maltese Langue, and England will nut con sent to evacuate Malta. Upon this controverted point turns the present negociaticns. In the mouth of May next a camp of 40,000 Aus trians is to be formed near Lemberg. At the same time the Grand Duke Co N sTANrixF. of Russia is to repair to the frontiers of Caliicia, where he will pass in review 60,00 u Russian troops, who are to be as sembled at that point. According to letters from Naples, the English squadron which sailed in such haste From the bay of thistan, upon the arrival of a frtgate from Lon don, direaed its course towards the Ocean, on its return to England ; and Admiral BICKKITON only went to Malta, on board his own ship. Accounts of a recent date were on Monday re ceived from St. Domingo by the Jamaica Mail. These represent the state of that Colony as much more favourable than it has ever been since the first landing of the French. For the violence, injustice, and folly of Lac I.& KC, General Rocu.+.rns,►o has substituted conciliatory condu&, moderation and good faith, and the consequence is, that though bands of Brigands still exist, the rancorous spirit which prevailed has entirely subsided. He had issued a proclamation, inviting the Negroes to re turn to the estates of the proprietors, and pro mising an ttrtioesty, in consequence of which many had actually returned. There can be no doubt, but that, if General ROCHAMHEAU had at first been sent with the chief command, the recovery of St. Domingo would have been easy. When these ac counts left St.. Domingo for fantaica, r three•decker and some other vessels had hove in sight, supposed to be sot:tuna with reinforcement . : ti 0111 Franc:. • ,', ~ . , GUILDHALL. i r db. Yesterday the Matters of the London Coffee-house were charged beitite Sir Joey EA3l2lt, the Sitting Magistrate, with having committed an assault nport G. B. Orme. Gent. M. C. F. Mr. Orme stated himself to be the Author of a Book intitled 4 , Ori ginal Songs, Toasts, and Sentiments, intended for the Stuart of COMICAL FELLOWS." This book, he said, formed an elegant colleetioct of chaste. loyal, and patriotic songs—loyal, bacchanalian, patriotic, comic, platonic, laconic, didactic, whim* steal, festal, and pathetic, Sic. and, in support of this charadcr, he produced the identical book itself in Court. The book answered the description, and proved to be a good saleable article. Mr. Orme then proceeded to state, that conceiving a tavern, hotel, or such like place, to be a good market for such a commodity, be went into the London Cut: fee-house, on Friday night, in search of buyers. Having ordered a glass of brandy and water, he took some copies of his work out of his pocket, and chewed them to some gentlemen in the room, who purchased several of them. Encouraged by this success, he requested one of the waiters to become his taaor, to encourage the sale in other parts of the House, but the y( uth of the napkin, prouder of a seat on Ludgate-hill than upon Parnassus, felt in dignant a: the request, and, aided by his brother waiters, forced him into the stmet. The masters of the Col Le-house, and waiters, attended, and said it was contrary to the custom of the house to suffer gentlemen who visit it to be interrupted by persons coming in and offering things for sale; that Mr. Orme appeared to have drank something else than the pure water of the Heliconian Fount.iiii, and had used language that was very bad, and neither rhyme or reason. file Lord Mayor approved of the con duill of the masters of the Coffee-house, and dis missed the complaint. MANIION-R01.3t. Yesterday Fran:ir Trigg: and joirph Rowland arere charged before the Lurd Mayor, upon suspi cion of betng part of the gang of pickpockets who dangerously wouudcd a Gentleman, a tew evenings since, in Fleet-street---Tacy were committed to the Cumpter. • KINGSTON ASSIZES. BEFORE BARON HOTHANf. RIG 1M Y. lamer Hotlinron was indicted for having feloni. ou-ly entered into wedlock with Martha Mayor, while his first wife, Jane Stevenson, was living. The prisoner had been a serjeant in the 2d regi ment of Light Dragoons, and had married his first wife, Jane Stevenson, at Newcastle, where she is still living. Soon after his marrine, he went abroad, and was absentinear 10 yews. On his return, he paid his addresses to Mary Mayor, a young woman residing at Croydon, and married her at that place, pretend ing that he was a single man. It was, however, soon found out to he otherwise, and the constable of Croydon was dispatched to the town of Newcastle, to ascertain the truth oldie prisoner's marriage with his former wife. On his arrival, he found the woman to whom he had been.regularly married, and returned with the certificate of her marriage, which was produced in Court, with other evidence, that left no doubt of his guilt.—The prisoner in his defence owned, that he had been originally wedded to Jane Stevenson, and that he left her ten years since to go abroad ; &ring which time, he said, that he had repeatedly wrote letters to her without having once received any in return, and at last had given her up fur dead. He. however, had heard since his arrival, that she had married again. The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdi& Guilty. He was imme diately sentenced to be transported for seven years. Richard Nettlefard was indiaed for feloniously shooting at Robert Southton, with a loaded gun. The Prosecutor stated, that he was a watchman in the parish of Putney ; he was going his round on the 21 of January last, when he saw the prisoner driving an as along the road, and conceiving that stolen property might.be concealed on the ass's bark, he proceeded to search the sacks with which he was laden. The prisoner then came up and abused the witness for what he had been doing, and declared in the must violent terms, that he would give him . the contents of a musket he had in his hand ; art affray then took place, and the prosecutor followed him to his house, where the prisoner fired the gun out of his window ; the shot struck another watch man, who tame to inquire the cause of the distur bance, in the hand. • William Card win corroborated the above evi dence, hut with the ditierence, that he could not tel whether the piece was charged with b:rl 'Elie prisoner affirmed in his defence that he fired his gun up in the air, without any intention to oc casion the least injury to any person. The Judge dizettled the Jury to aerpiit the pri soner, on the around that it had not been proved that the gun had been tired with an intent to occa sion the dealt of the Prosecutor. Richard Lemma, a boy of twelve years of age, was found guilty of stealing . a box, containing a sum of money, the property of Richard Charmin, his master. Sentenced to seven years transportation. Several other trials for petty larceny took place, but owe of any interest. The Salead9r del Mundt), of 112 guns, captured by the Earl of Ss. VINCENT on the glorious 14th of February 1 797, is ordere,l to bc got ready for com mission at Plymouth, and Captain H. Lawe is ap pointed to command her. Sir JAMES NIIRRIUT, late Judge of the Admi. ralty Court, died on Sunday, at his scat at Twinned hall, near Sudbury. About a fortnight ago a young woman applied for lodgings at a private house, at Kingston-upon- Hull, and described herself as daughter of Lady t.:LAS, of Edinburgh, who was recently mar ried to Sir JAMES PRIbi‘LE of that place. She said she had ekped, and married a Captain Ktso, who, on their arrival at Yarmouth, had left her, taking with him all her money, cloathes, Sec. She had since boeu informed he was married some years ago, and has a wife tiring in Ireland, to whom he was then gone. By this artful story of distress, this female swindler moved the compassion of the people of Hull, who famished her with cloathes, money, Scc. to a considerable amount, with which she decamped, having taken in vario4s persons to the amount of fifty roi.truis. -I s. 1 :1 !WW I .~ I