The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1803-03-29 00:00:00

7, 1 9 rmi • - TT IP TIM BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY,-'bIAACH 29. A Morning Paper of yesterday stated positively, that " the principal points in dispute between this ccuntry and France have been settled ; and with re gard to Malta, the great ground of contention, that it is to be left in the possession of England for three leays, unless in the interval a satisfaeory guarantee a its independence can be procured." From the in violable secresy which charaderises the present Admi nistration in its diplomatic proceedings, we are con vinced that the slightest hint of the pending discussions with France has not been given on this side of the water. How far the business may have, however, transpired through France, and been communicated to the paper in question by French agents, we arc not prepared to say. We know, that at the time of the signing of the preliminaries of peace the English speculators all ran upon the wrong side of the post at the Stock Exchange, while the friends and confidants of the incorruptible M. TALLEY RA.ND tallied off the golden prize. We may an swer for the honourable secrecy of Lord If Awizts /AIRY, but v:e cannot answer for M. TA LLtV A AND ; and in this state, however, we may doubt the ac count in the paper alluded to, as we are not com petent to contradia it.—Paris papers and letters of the 24th were received yesterday. Dutch and ilanthurgh mails also arrived, with accounts of so tecent a date as the 25th. They represent the pub lie Mind in France and Holland as pacific, but then, as in England, the proceedings of the Government arc warlike. The French finds continue to fall. They were oa the 24th, 55. 90. There was a fluctuation of about one per cent. in the price of the Funs's yesterday. Consols rose from tn 66, and towards the close of the market fell back again to 651. The greatest anxiety con tinues to prevail at the Stock Exchange for the issue of the next settling day, which is the sth of April. Yesterday the dispatches for Madras and Bom bay, by the Calcutta, were finally closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Purser. PASSESOLRS TU FORT ST. GEORGE. Mr. Wm. Blackwooil, C. Durasut C. (~nine, H. Y. Nlartin, W. T. Saumlrrs,J. \l Kelty, tt. I. Cope, it::d I'. Bar c:.ry. Mr. I. Home, and W. R. Chamb TO BENGAL Mr. James Sawyers, Assistant Surgeon; Messrs. A. Black, G. Anderson, and J. Duncan, Cadets. Mr. M J. TuTey, Free M.triner. A private letter from Calais, of Saturday last, says—" Tnere has been no measure indicative of ar approaching rupture in this place, further than 'doubling the guard at the Red Fort, and the arrival of a Company of Artillery. It is the general opi nion in Pais that there will be no war. Dispatches were yesterday received from Admiral isisisa, Commander in Chief on the East India station. Letters from Bengal, received by the recent ships, state the Markets there very dull, that up wards of twenty teak ships, from 5 to 700 tons, are laid up, in consequence of the determination of the Governor-general, only to send three country ships home this season ; and that most of the builders have three or four ships on the stocks, which must remain unemployed the resolution of the Go vernor-general is rescinded. It may be true that th: public opinion in France is against a war, bat it is idle to infer any thing from this as to the issue of the present discussions. By the accounts from Bourdeaux we are inclined to think that commercial men in France speculate for a war. There have been large purchases niade of West India produce, and of such articles as are likely to be enhanced in price by a rupture between the two countries. The press has been carried on in and about Shad well with the greatest success, and a great many good seamen have been procured. A proclamation will be issued out in the course of a day or two, requiring all the Out-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital to assemble at the nearest ren dezvous in the different ports of the kingdom, there to be examined ; and all such as shall be found fa for his Majesty's service, will be immediately sent off to do gasrison-duty. The shipwrights, &c. at Chatham deck-yard work from five o'clock in the morning till nine o'cl:ick in the evening. Lieut..G. Bitows is appointed to the &pyre, of 7' guns, a new ship just launched from Deptford yard. Great exertions are employed at Guernsey, in putting that Island into a state of complete defence. !'he attention ofGeneral Dov i.r. is unremitting. Accounts are said to have been received from the Cape of Good Hope, that the health of Vice- Admiral Sir RoGER Cu arts, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's squadron on that station, is so much impaired, as to make his immediate return to Europe indispencible. Accounts from Rotterdam of so recent a date as last Saturday assert, that the report of the expedi tion to Louisianabeirtgon the point of putting to sea, is premature. Two thousand of the troops which are to be employed in that service did not pass by Dort on their way to Helvoetsluys, until the 2.2 d instant. The expedition.is not to sail until the final adjustment of the differences between Great Britain and Vrance. Letters front Brussels of the 21st March say, e•Severarchief officers of the marine have just as rived at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Havre, to direa. and encourage the armament of every ship. At Dunkirk they. work incessantly in the dock-yards, sometimes even by torch-light. It is intended to colic& in Boulogne harbour a considerable Bahia., proper for the etnbarkatio n of a great, number of troops. Several demi:brigades.: of the line are to Il eac h from Picardy and XrenAltiElaUders to -the Coast, to take positions from ase paootls aE She 9th to Graveling. . • • -I. : . • • .FASIIION. • On Friday t4enitig last die 1114tcli:One!s of Won t n En [rave a Grand Rout at her house in Baker stivet, .to all the. beauty and fashion of the metro polis. / Among the gay visitors were, 1..rt.-..Egrement, Aliergavanny, Bridgewater, and Stanhope. risrosnaisi-bersnlq, and Wentwurtli. s Lin.— dsl2hetwylair, and Elmo's. tiarringtno, 11. Clarke, and 11. Martin. Gcturalb—Mar-h, and Pnvnta. Codolets-Harridge, Edwards, and Bentinck. Capialak—Vaughan, and Kinr. Maws.--M.dion I.ather, Washer, }-frrt ord, Mill;, tlawsm, Warren, Weddle, Ileatlicote, liar rinron, Elliot, Hirvey,Cox,T. Vauglian, ',Le, and Williams. Inteltews ref B ann. Doasger of Bath. Counteurs—Egremont, 'Sutherland, Carnarvon, and Ben tinck. Viscarttestra--Bulkely, and Wentworth. Lndit—.C. Lennox, C. Nelson, J. Howard, T. Motley Perth, Heply, three Thslities, I laggerston; Harrington, Broughton, Martin, Rolla, Bentinck, Auckland, Eit-ton, and M. Filsroy. Mihrecycs--Serle, Egerton, Clark, Gregory, Mathews, Gos ling, Evac.t, H Wiltams, Warren, Heatherite, Butler, .1 kyll, L. Ironmonger, Vernon, Morris, C. tientinek, Smith, Garoiet, Aninoteis, Cox, Cornwallis, Townshend, Lee, Wheeler, Lekvie, and Morratt. Ai n —Walpole, JefT•rys, Langford Brooke, Mathews, Hobson, Welter, tw Everett*. Dawson, Warren, C. Smith, Weddle, Scduey, Tiwnsliend, Pltilpot, I iarvey, Backman, Perry, A. Wats in, GAMI and Wheeler. Mrs. FITZHERBEKT gave on Sunday evening last the second Ladies Subscription Concert. this season, at her house its Tilney-street, which was attended by all the amateurs and persons of distinetion in London. The Concert was under the. direaion of Mr. SALOMON, Mr.BRAH AM, Madam BOLL ra STOR ACE, VlCAtiOtil, and RovLotNo, exerted their vocal powers. Among the company were, I lit Royal I liglite.nts the Prince of Wales. . Princess de Castace Duchess of &lion. Marcia es...lmA and Douglas. filarekirsinsts—Salisbury and Downshire. }'ar4—Crr isle, Ettnkeley and Linter ck: Count. stes—Starlienthergh, Montingtitri; Sutherland, Colic, Carlisle, Carhamptim, I larrelgton, and Clare. rimeetnits—Sudley, Dtirstey, and llaml den. rigenturists--Wentworth and Ifithitelen. Count Starle.mbergh. Baron de Riii e. Lord:—Antherst, Borringdou, Camlor, Crag, and Os borne. La.firt—De Cliff vd, T. Burke, Haggerston, J. Howard, G. C:cil, Amherst, E. Monk, Andover, 11:1i:Tool, F. Ratliff La tingdon,(3. Howard, Cawdur, Broughton, Pereitids, Palke, E. Pulite, anti Warren. lira—(; Afflock, R. Milbanke, H. Ethetington. General Piggot. folotiets—lfietatitirk and Witithatn. Messrs Hale, C. Bentinek, Thompson, W. Kerr, Moore, Simpson, Freeinantte, Thelltassun, Hardy, Andrews, Ward, B. Pager, Travers, andl.;aulfield. Mistresses—Hale s , Clonyvrt, Piggott, Walpole, Stu rt, W ,0 4!)4.4 saixt Cousin:, Ruder, Brushy, Gascuigne, Harcourt, Thel (union, Hardy, and Rigby. Alisscret—Hale, liaggerston, Conyers, I..wley, Jefferys, Start, Farquhar, Stiramerrille, Sloane, and Hardy. - - - This day the Ruy At. FAMILY leave Windsor for London. The hunt which was to have taken place on Fri day last at Maidenhead Thicket, and which was posiponed on account of his MAJLSTY being unex peitedly detained in town to give audience to Mr. ADDINGTON, took place yesterday morning. As soon as his M tjesty, attended by Generals HAs col/ r and NI A :':NERs, arrived, the harriers, who were kept in readiness, were thrown off for the day's diversion. A number of Noblemen and Gentlemen Sportsmen attended. His MAJESTY was in high spirits, and appeared to enjoy the sport, which was most excellent. About twelve o'clock, her itl/0 Est v and the Prin cesses AcousrA and ELIZABETH, attended by Mrs. DRAX Gaosvcriort, took an airing to Frogniore, and walked a considerable time in those delightful gar dens. The weather being remarkably fine, the Prin cesses SOPHIA and AMELIA, attended by the lion. Mrs. HA RCOuaT, rode in Windsor Great 'Park. Lady TEMPLETOWN gave last night a ball and supper to about 21)0 fashionables, at her house in Portland-place. The Marchioness of I TIAPFORT is preparing to entertain a large party at her house in Stanhope street, in a few days. Five hundred are invited. Lady Wm. Rt'ss Et. arrived in town last night, from Streatham, at her new town residence in Conduit- Street. One of General ANnarosst's couriers yesterday, purchased sixty quires of I)onn's embossed paper, at I-loot:11Am and EnRR'S in Bond-street, for the Use of the FIRST CONSUL. Lady READ'S rout, Curzon-street; Mrs. D.4E T WIEN'S music, Lower Grosvenor-street; and Sir d. HoRT'S dinner, Arlington-street, occupied a large portion of the fashionable world yesterday. Mr. J. DENT'S dinner, Audley-square; Countess of ROTHE'S rout, Upper Brook-street, and Miss ABRAHAM'S concert, Park-lane, will attra4t the no tice of the fashionable world this evening. Prince Onot.ENstrY on Sunday morning last from Paris, at his house in Great Mary-le-bone street. Admiral Sir THOMAS PAISLEY, Bart. left tow yesterday for his seat at Chilland's Cottage. neat Winchester. Mrs. MONTAGUE Bev (ma'am's Ball last night in Baker-street, was very fashionably and numerously attended. Yesterday morning died at her house in Welbeck street, Mrs. CA RTW MIGHT, of a short illness. We are sorry to announce that Mr. DEVAT tars' life was last night despaired of at his house atTurn hair-green. At eleven o'clock yesteyday morning an express arrived at the Earl of DARNLEY's, in Ikrkeley square, announcing the deaths of ltis mother, the Dowager Countess of DARNLEY. at her seat at Bounds, near Turtbridge,Weils, in the fitly-sixth year of her age. She was attended by her mother the lion. Mrs: BUTLER, till 1::er death, and also by • the Earl and Countess of DARNLEY, with Lady C. and Lady E. BLIGH, her daughters. Yesterday morning the remains of Mrs. DAVID Scorn' was conveyed from her house in Upper- Liarley-street, to Clerkenwell new burying-ground, fbr Interment. The funeral procession moved as follows : A hegzse and six, with mutes, and sixteen -outriders ; eight mourning coaches and six, with eighteen gentlemen's carriages. . We are happy to state that Lord ST. VINCENT is so much recovered from his late indisposition, as to be able to . attend the Admiralty Board as usual. On Saturday Lard MELvILLI had a long confer eni•eaviih Lord Sr. VINCENT; at his house in the admiralty; a . "- - _ - - GIBRAL7I4R; MAicii $. (Ettraa of a Letter.) " The .day before *esterday his Majesty's sloop *Wen:, Captain Coilititt, arrived from Malta, in twenty-one days. On the 24th ult. she fell in with the Dasber sloop of war and Abundance store.ship, on their way to Malta ; and on the same day she met two French frigat..; and a lugger steering to wards the coast of Barbary. The Biskra brings or ders for the Greyhound, sailing to England, to be Paid PIE The Rosario sailed for England on the morning of the Ist instant. " On the same day the `.2d battalion of Royals was reviewed. General Castanez,'llte Commander in Chief of the Spanish forces in th:s neighbour hood, having expressed his wish to be present, his Itoyal Highness the Governor embraced the op portunity of shewing a flattering and highly grati fying mark of respeCt to the Spanish (.eneral, by taking the command of his own regiment, as Colo nel, on the occasion, marching past at their head, and saluting General Castanez, whom he presented with a return of the regiment,_ at the same time pay ing nim all the honours usually shewn to a review ii.g " After the review, General Castanet', and the Officers of the Royals, dined with his Royal High ness at I lead-quarters. fhe /Jahr, of 74 guns, Capt. Skipsey, arrived this morning from Malta, in eleven days. The Dotinegal, Sir Richard Strachan, had arrived at Malta beforithe ear sailed. Sir Richard Bicker ton and hislquadroa were all well. No ves,el had arrived at Malta from Egypt since the Lowdoe port. The Hedor p:ocee,i , to England the first fair wind; Captain Collis, of the ;kith regiment, and Lieut. Lyons, of the 20th regiment, ale passen:ers on board from Malta. " Two Dutch line of battle ships arrived at 'Cat the day before yesterday. • We are happy to learn from Malta, that there is every appearance of our keeping the island-, We know from thence now, that the Donnsgal carried . no orders for the evacuation, as we apprehended. Sir Thcrnas Dyer arrived here tc-day from England, on a visit to his Royal Highness." DUBLIN, MARCH 24. A Privy Council wat held at the Castle, ost I uesday last, by his Excellency, when di Vd: iety of routine business of state was transacted. The seals were put 'in Commission, in conse quence of the Lord Chancellor being .under the ne cessity of departing upon business to England. The Commissioners for the Seals ar.: Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden, Lord Chief Baron Avonmore, and Lord Chief Justice Norbury. The Seals to be in the possession of the first mentioned Nobleman. On Monday last, Aldermaa Sir William Wor thington waited on the Secretary at War at the Castle, and : esigned to his Excellency the command of the Loyal liberty Rangers, on account of his bad state of health. WINCHESTER, MAlca 23. The three foreign soldiers, who were left for exe cution in this city, at the last Assizes, for forging and uttering false notes, purporting to be of the Portsmouth Bank, having first obtained a respite tine seven days, through the merciful intervention of a gallant Nobleman, who is charaaeristically known as the friend of poor prisoners, have since procured an unlimited respite during his Majesty's pleasure, through the favourable report of the Judge by whom they'Were tried. It appears that doubts have arisen concerning the competency of the evidence on which they were charged with having fabricated these notes, as also concerning their knowledge of their being spurious at the time when they uttered them. • Of the above-menticned for, igners, one is an Hun% garian, the other two are Austrians. They all ori gieally served in the Imperial army, till being taken prisoners in Italy by the French, they were, with others of the same description, sold to the Spanish Government, which sent them to garrison Fort Ma hon in Minorca. On the conquest of this island by our forces, these men were again employed in the cause for which they had originally been engaged, being formed. into a British corps under Col. Stuart and other Officers, consisting of more than 1000 men, called the Queen's German Regiment. Soon after this, they were sent into Egypt, where they greatly distinguished themselves, particularly in the memorable battle of Alexandria. In this they sup ported the brave 42d regiment of Highlanders, and one of them, Anthony Lutz, who himself was tried at our assizes a twelvemonth ago, recovered the standard of Bonaparte s Invincibles, which Serjeant Sinclair had before possessed. One of the prisoners also, Seijeaut Power, received a pistol bullet in his body from a French dragoon, and another of them, Arnes, a cut upon his head. At the Lancaster Asiizes, which ended on Fri- day last, an anion was brought by Mr. KIRKPA T RICK, of Liverpool, attorney, agains . .. the Propri etors of the London Mail Coach, for damages, as a compensation for an injury he sustained by the over turning of the Mail, on the London 'road, in conse quence of which his arm was broke, and he was otherwise considerably bruised. The Plaintiff ob tained a verdia . , with t.:501. damages. This acci dent was occasioned not by any negligence in the Proprietors of the coach, or any deficiency in its appointments, but was owing solely to the drunken ness and carelessness of the driver, and shews the extreme importance of being oerfealy assured of the steadiness and sobriety of all persons who are entrust ed with such employments. Lieutenant General the Duke de Richelieu, grandson of the famous Marshal of that name, has been appointed Military Governor of Odipa, in Russia, The Marquis de LUCCRESIKT, the Prussian Am bassador, was born at Lucca, in -Italy, and as a disciple of VOLTAIRE, was received as:a Lite; arl Companion at the Court of the GREAT FREPEKICK : he has been a Minister of State to the latt and to the present Kit4a of Psc.si A ; and was, in 1990, sent as Ambassador to France. • Letters received on Saturday 'states, that the Merchant vessels in the ports of Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne, put to sea ott Thursday last, in ccnse quence of an assurance .from the French Govern ment, that they might pri*eed on their respcZtive destinations with satety. • ' - . '0 r . t • . • d. . . • s N . • POREIGN INTEL L, gEkc DUTCH MAIL. r.evareir; marten Q. 3. • We are happy to he aide to.dispel the atoprelaers; Lions which we lately raised in th e winds of o ... readers, by no assuring the m,. that OW French - - troops are not to enter the comity unless hostili- , ties are renewed ; their march is already suspend' .40\ ed. Every thing - proves that the First Consul is anxi ous to add to all his other claims to glory, the praice '. of moderation; and that he is fully decided to let fall Upon others- the entirelblame and reproach o f hostile proviiaition. These appearances give rra m td hope that the two Governments will itrosecure with success the negociations for a perfect teem: ciliation, Which they are naw carrying on. onion, r en. 25. It is remarked here as a singular circumstance , that the Eeglish squadron under Admiral, bicker ton cruises at present in the waters of Corsia, aa.l that, ships arc continually ch.patched to varioni places .to reconnoitre. Some of these crude off Toulon, to observe all that is passing there. The destination and objets of this fleet remain as yet a political mystery. • ELAN, MAUCH 11. One of the first ads of the new Landanman was, to dispatch an officer of the Staff, with a corps of .chasscoars, to affix the seal of the Republic oo the cannon and arms which had been transported from various Cantons to the Waad. It is said that the principal archives will continue here, sealed up. The others will be sent to Fri burg. . On•the 10th, a grand feast was prepared here : .howe', , er, as several symptoms of misunderstanding and irritability appeared, the President of the Muni cipality kid:zed it adviseable to postpone the festi‘ vityl and strong paroles shortly afterwards paraded all the streets. From the same day the French troops are to be paid by their own Government. At Basle, all the Members of the Cantonial Com mission, nominated by the First Consul, have ac cepted their appointliwilts. At Zurich, one has re refused. MADRID, FEB. 11. By the Royal Ordinances of Illy 1, 1761, and Jan. 8, 1802, was decreed, that books arriving from foreign countries, written in whatever lan guage, or on whatever subjed, should not be sold i i Spain, till a copy of all such books WAS de . liv , !red to the Council, of Castille, and permiss'ou obtained from thence for exposing . them to sale. —Since the period of these institutions, great numbers of this article have arrived at the custom houses on our frontiers, where the most part ce them has since lain. Several of the Proprietors of them have lately requested the Council for leave to import them, but obtained fot answer, that they must be first sent to Madrid to be inspeded, ‘vlien they might expert either to receive permissi. - ai to sell them, or a refusal.—So much for the progress of illumination in this country ! HAGUE, MARCH `22. We have very little news here at present. Tat, great question- Shall we have Peace orWar ? it t :e subjea of general conversation. All ardently A% ish the present differences may be accommodated in a friendly manner; and if credit can be given to the assertions of many persons who pretend to be well informed on the tubjeet, all hope is not yet lost. On the other hand, should the flames of war, con trary to expthation, be again kindled up, a con siderable body of French troops, it is said, will march hither to cover our coasts against any hostilo invasion.—The report that 15.000 French troops are already on our frontiers, is not yet confirmed. In the winter in Russia this year, it has been nn ticed as a remarkible circumstance, that the wea- ther has been much more severe in the Southern than the Northern Provincec. The same has been the case in other parts of Europe. On the 23d of this month a person precipitated himself from Port St. Dennis at Paris. He called out to the crowd below to take care of themselves, as he had no wish to du them any injury: He was killed on the spot Citizetis Marat dnci !Aeratelle have been eleaecl Members of the National Institute, in room of Lambert and La Harpe. There was a very sharp contest, and the candidates were numerous. Garnerin has passed throtigh Berlili on his way to Petersburgh, where he is to make a variety of aerial experiments. The celebrated Professor banzell * lately read a memorial to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, on the mechanism of his composi.!..m for dire ding the course of balloons. The demonstration which he., gave was followed by general applause. At Berlin it is confidently expelled that by the union of the theory of the professor, and the pra.aice of the zronaut, means may be found to dired a balloon to :In im mense distance. The Protestants of Paris were, by 'drtue cf art arrete of the Pre fed, to take possession, on the of March, of the Church of St. Mary, in St. An toine-street, which had been granted to them by Government, and to perform their service there on the succeeding Sunday; bet the former Curate of that parish, alio was still officiating thne, having represented to their consistory, that the consideration of the Feast of Easter, and the apprehension of in terrupting the divine service on that solemn occa sion, induced him to wish for the possession of tho church till after how Sunday, the consistory dean ninein compliance with this wish, not to take po l sse d s;ion of it till after that period. The famous PaswAN OC Lou appears to be on the point of again commencing hostilities against the Porte ; he has advanced with 5000 men to the fron tiers of Wallachia; but the Hospodar, Prince Yam- Nri, has made the most formidable preparations for his reception, and has confided the command of his troops to Count BELL ava t, who was formerly a General in the Polish service. On Tuesday last Thomas Hilliker was executed in the front of Fish!rtcrn Gaol, pursuant to his sentence at the last Salsbury Assizes. He was one of that mistaken body of men among the working clothiers, who had associated to overawe the manufadureri and compel them to abandon the use of machinery ; and in pursuit of this objet he had joined the riot ous assemblage by whom Littleton-Mill, in the pa rish of Steeple-Ashton, was wilfully set on fire, and property destroyed to the amount of szvtral thou , sand pounds. I'l was only about nlnetto years of age, and bcr.: 'a good charaaer in the ordinary re liktiont,of life. ..A', ..~ 1111 10 ."" 14 ' - • • • t A • 1i ~~ ~' ~, Y~ ;i a ~. N ~i ~ Ly~~ -44 y ,~ °~~~ i .