The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-08-07 00:00:00

F If in all other parts of the South of Get many, a new partition plan is circulated, according to which Bavaria, as far as the river Iser, will be given to Austria, and the States on the left bank of the Rhine, divided between Bavaria and the Prince Bohr:wise ; Belgium and Holland will be given to the King of SwEnev, whose kingdom will be given to Russia; Hanover and the three Imperial cities will, in future, belong to Prussia, and Switzerland partitioned between France and the Elector of Baden. HasovEs, it7l. , r 27. The iron bombs and cannon, bought of the Eleaor of Hesse, are sent to Hameln, where they will be embarked upon the Weser, with a quantity of artillery and ammunition, for the fort George. NOTICE. TI4I RatTUN Pacss is unif.,rmly publi,lied at a very ewly Hour, sod may be sent off by the ?Joining Coaches We give this Notice, merely for the information of persons in the Country, anxious to procure the earlie4 and bed intelligence at this Important Cris.s. It ,s not meant in the slightest de gree as a reproach, or a hint to the respectable body of men who deal in Newspapers, with whose conduct the Proprietors of TR!. BRITISII Plit.ts are perfectly satisfied, and whose fairness and pun:tuality are never suspeetott nor arraigned, except by falling and disappow.t..d Prints. This Eley••••PILIICCIS Alla WA bo•n—floliday at the Public Of TILE 11111T1611 .1 itEs3. LONDON, TUESDAY, ALGtsi 7. The Ihwke, sloop cf war, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday, with dispatches from our fleet off Brest, • which state, that a part rf the French fleet under Admiral GANTH EAU MI, 111.1dC its escape last Wed- :Inlay night out of the outer road of Brest, through the passoge dtt Buz, a narrow passage between the Seneca and the neck of land to the North of Audietne. Its force is vatic:tidy represented. Some reports state it at nine sail of the line and two frigates ; others at four sail of the line and five frigates. Vice Admiral Sir T. GRAVES, it is said, had information of the escape of G ANTIIEAU Nit in .hree hours after it took place, and went in pursuit of him, with the following well appointed ships : Fwd.-vant, 84 guns, Vice Admiral GitAvr.s, ne west 844. lopetaseas 84, Montague 74, Tereidle 74, Co lo.fut 74, two frigates, and a cutter. The destina tion of GANTUE. ,U.4 Eis the subject of various con. *tures. As he is supposed not to have any troops on board, some think that his object is to intercept our East India or West Indi t homeward hound Ems. Others, with less appar:nt argue that he moans to attempt to effect a junction with the Frer,ch squadron in Ferrol, and, thus re • inforced, to proceed to the Mediterranean, and raise the blockade of Toulon. The Tigre, of St guns ; Princess Rennl, of 93 ; and Pr.,:cess Charletle, of St, just ready fn sta at Plymouth, were ordered to sail directly, to joia air CHAP! as Corroti. The Hamburgh Mai!, due on Sunday, received yesterday, with letters and papers tc the Ist inst. The contents of the public journals, though not im portant, may amuse our readers, and theivfore we have made copious extracts from them Their must marked feature is a paragraph an the Hom 6w7h which states that the Russian Beet has sailed from Bevel to cruise in the Baltic, and the North Seas. Our private currespondencc has communicated many interesting particulars. A letter from Berlin, of the 28th ult. says, that with two Russian armies on his Eastern ..nd • Northern frontiers, and three French armies on his Western and Southern, the King of PRUSSIA has declared to the Courts of St. Petersborgh and St. . Cloud, that His MAJESTY intends to preserve the stridest neutrality, and therefore will not permit the passage of any troops, artillery, or ammunitior, through his dominions; but regard as an enemy, any power attempting to force such passage " Another letter, from the same city, of the same 3 ite, says, " Lot. s XVIII. continued still at IVarsaw, v. hen the la.t letters left that city ; nor w•as it ex peCted that His Most Christian M A JEST y would leave that former capital of Poland soon. New over tures have been made by Bow I. ART r, for a general pacification, through the mediation of our Court, in which favourable arrangements have been proposed for the whole Bous.aog family now in exile, on condition of renouncing their rights to the throne of France, and of promising no longer to reside in England. A courier has been dispatched to St. Petersburgh, to communicate to the HeSSIAN Ester eon thtse overtures." Letters were yesterday received in town from the Duke of Avuout.aws, dated Warsaw, the 19th of July, in which His Royal Highness says, that he in te:,ded to leave that city for Vs'ilati, with his uncle and King. bcf-re the end of the month, but that his Royal Conaor, with her aunt tit.? Qua= of France, were to continue to reside there, at no certain ar- 1 rangements were made as to their future residence. It is even rumoured, that some of the other Bour bon Princes in this country will join their Sovereign, and the chief of their house ; but we have ihason to believe, that nothing is yet or will be finally deter mined upon, before it is knew!, whether His Most CaeisrtAN MAJESTY will fix his abode at Wilna, or change it for Mitteau, for as we have before eichtsive , mentioned, the Emperor of Rtissi A has, with a gene rosity worthy of His IMPERIA L MAJ I.ST Y. offered the King of I: it As cr and NAV•IIItE, the honours due * to his rank in any place which he may choose for his residence in the Russian empire, until the time when he should again occupy the tlirone of his ancestors. We d 3 not think, however, that the Bourbon Princes will leave this country until our negotiations with Russia, now drawing to a close, are finally settl:d. Exclusive of the change made in the command of the army in Hanover, by the appointment of BERNADOTTE:, and in the navy at Boulogne, Brest, and Toulon, by making BAUIX and LA Toucue, inspeaors general of the coast, GANTIIEAUME, the successor of Admiral Tuts(meet, and VER. NEVI, the successor of Admiral Mama, other Generals and Admirals, according to private ac counts from France, are removed or displaced, both in the army of the Interior, upon the coast, and in Holland awl Italy, according to the whim, suspi cions, or prejudices of the Corsican Despot. However ofzea the change of generals took place under the firmer revolutionary governments, these removals were caused by defeats, by defeaion, or by the political sentiments of a general not fully re publicanised. But the suspicious jealousy of Bo- NAPARTE has converted the highest ranks into theatrical commands. No Sultan ever appointed, advanced, recalled, degrade 4, dismissed, or punish ed his Pachas so arbitrarily, as the Corsican tyrant does his generals and admirals. We know not whe ther the Chiefs of the French army and navy, have, with the Corsican Usurper, proscribed the word honour; but we ask, whether, in serving their country, they mean to make themselves the pup pets of the variable caprices arid ridiculous pas sions of their fareign rules ? We ask whether the most ignoble soul would not be shocked at such despotic suspicion; whether the most suditl heart would not be disgusted with appointment; not certain for three months? IVe ask, whether, after the ingratitncle,ba: ba rity,andinjustice, so lately manifested by sae tare towards a PICIIEGRU, a MOREAU, a NI scow: sI. o, a LE CoußnE, and others. there could exit a ni degrading and dishonourable vileness, than that i f superior officers fettering themselves sincerely to his fortune, combating for him like lieroez, and after wards, in rewas d, sules ing themselves to he di .- graced as incapable, or to perish like criminals? This perpetual rotation introduces A kind of anarchy among the Generals, who, being one day stilsordi nate, and made the net Comm eiders become again inferiar, or dis,ak , tesl ;Ise fullot.ing week, no longer kw) v what their erik is, what their hope for the fontre, i.r what their influence may be with the army, which is easily weaned from these fugacious and min: scent leaders, whom it has nut time either to confide in, or to love. if those changes do not create in Commanders, as well es in the officers and men, that disgust which is the usual elle& of uncertainty, it will be one prodigy more produced by the French Revoliohm. W. should indeed be very ignorant of the charaaers and passions of military men, did we nut, from these observations, and from others we formerly and often have mentioned, conclude that the recep tion the Moniteue relates BONAPARTE to have met with in the army, on the coast, are not only ex aggerated, but false, because they arc improbable. A private letter from Hamburgll by the Mail of yesterday states, that BERNADOTTE Ms out in his command in the same manner as his predecessor General MORTIER, with plundering all the public chests in the Flenorate of Hanover ,of its cash; and the three Hanseatic cities, Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lybeck, by contributions under the appellation of loans. Bremen has already rclii%cd, and the Senate at Hamlturgh is determined to follow its example. The Magistrates, as well as the Citizens at Lybeck, are unanimous in their determination not to advance a shilling to Bomar sera's marauders. As these sentiments must have been known to the Cabinet of St. Cloud, many suppose, that these pecuniary requi sitions of Fiance are only precursors to a military occupation ; as a rapture with Russia is regarded as certain, and Bow Ara nEz's soldiers, by tyrannis ing over these cities, and forcing all the trade be tween Germany and England to Embden, will gra tify the selfish policy of the House of Branden burgh, and, of course, meet with no obstacles from Prussia, which is suspefled to have secretly con sented to all the proceedings of France in Han.,ver, and in those states in its vicinity, which suffer the calamities of a French neighbourhood. That Bo aud his satellites will carry off as much ready money as they Can every where, admits no doubt; and that under pretence of loans, in the name and under the mortgage of the Eledorate of Hanover, they will rob millions, whoni force and fraud oblige to open their purses, to gratify the ava rice of the RepttLl:cans, is evident from their past and present condud. ilis is fit titer confirmed by the Grenadier I )ipltonate and Ft .11-Marshal Baa s ADOTT E's own words to the Hanoverian States at their first audience, when, after rebuking them for their attachment to their lawful Sovereign, positively swore, " ' Oat before France evacu ated their country it should be so indebted, that its revenue for one century could not clear it from in cumbrance, and so ruined, that more than two ages should mourn for its English connedions." The Dublin Papers of the 2el contain a Report of the proceedings at the Quarter Sessions for that city. which commenced on Tuesday last. The trials of journeymen tailors and journeymen shoemakers, appear to have been the principa'. business. Upon one of these trials, " Mr.Wi Ls()N, chief peace officer, proved his having apprehended the prisoners on the Ist of July lad, at the house, NO. 4, found some books, letters, and papers, with them, ss :.ich he produced to the Court : one of these letters seemed very mysterious, and had been written From a Person in Newry, and dircaed to Corcoran.—Cor coran a(fled as clerk, and Cleary and Munday as stewards to the meeting : the writings produced did not however appear clearly enough to belong to combination respe(Ring trade, and therefore the tra versers were acquitted and discharged." The evi dence upon the other trial.: clearly proved combina tion, without any circumstance to excite suspicion that the Meetings were held for any other purpose. Paris Papers to the Zith, have been rec-ived in town, but they contain nothing of any importance. Sunday evening , Their NIAJESTILS and the PRIN CESSES, and the Dukes of KZHT and Camelot - it:l.:, walked on the Terrace ; among the company we noticed Lords MULGRAV E. and blecvatAa, Sir SY ONE Y SMITH, Mr. PITT, and the RUSSIAN ANI• BASSA DOR and Family. His MAJESTY conversed with several of the Nobility; about 8 o'clock the Royal Family returned to the New Music Room. Yesterday morning. the Staffordshire Militia were reviewed by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. in Windsor Little PAI k. Soon after His Royal Highness had funned the line, and they had gone through a num ber of manoeuvres, His Mai rive. and the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and KENT, arrived, and inspated them. His MAJESTY appeared highly pleased with their appearance. Her MAJESTY and PRINCESSES took an airing in t sociable in Windsor Crzat Park. Capt. 13Aowti, Aid-de-Camp t , .! General 'Mitre- LOCKE, i• appointed Deputy-Inspeaor of the troops at the depot in the Isle of Wiest. General OAKES, now serving at Malta, is to be I ientenant-GOYeenVe of Pot usnouth. Colonel Ev CJMmander of the Engineers at the above Garrison, is promoted to be a Brigadier- Gencral. Six new houses are ordered to be built for the of ficers of Plymouth Hospital. General DON having got a command in England. is succeeded in the Dunbar District. by Briga.:ier General Lord ELPHINSTONZ. The Right Hon. Sir EVAN NSPICAN, B wt. whose wit in Parliament was vacated by his appointment to be one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi i.ilty, was on Friday re-eleael Member fur the liorrt3ll of Bridport, without opposition. A teport prevailed yesterday iu the city, tha' Capt:tht Our ta has again buntlArded Havre, de stroyed some of their vessels, fired the town in se veral places, and that the squadron under his com mand sutTered very little. Dispatches have been received from our squadron off Ferrol, which was left all well on tl:e 2Gth of last month. Nothing material had orcurred since the escape of the French ship in the night. The launch and the m en s h e l e f t b e hi n d her - have been given tip to the Spaniards. Au Artist has 'Au:Lined a Patent for a new inven tion for waking metal repeaters for 10 guineas. which are eqnally good as those that used to co.t 2.5 guineas. A Naval Expedition, on a very extensive scale, is said to be on the eve of preparation. Lord Kam' was sent for, by express, on Friday last, to attend a Board of Admiralty, and to give his opinion re sperSting the necessary eq u ip ments . Sir Si °NE v Sis rit had, on Soundly, a long con ference with the Board of Admiralty. Mr. 1 3 1 r r is' expeaed to leave town on Wednes day for IValmer Castle, where lie will immediately resume his command of the Cinque Port Volun teers. Yesterday morning the 13th Light Dragoons marched throu yt h London from Birmingham, in their way to Maid,anne. A Dublin Paper of the 31st states, that order have been issued to augment the artillery companies Some of our contemporaries assert, positively, that a Treaty era, signed by Lord Ilsettowar and Count WOIWNZOW. on Tuesda_y last, before His MAJESTY went down to the House of Peers, to which other Powers, particularly Sweden and Den mai k, were to be invited to accede. We are =wired that a proirl of a treaty was signed on that day, but not an adual treaty. Letters from Ratisbon, of the Yttl: inst. mention, that in the two supra for colleges of the Empire. the votes, ad protvials,a, were called for on the very Tithed note deliver ed 'uy the Envoy of His Britan nic Majesty and EleCtoral Highness of Brunswick Lunenburgh. Every endeavJur has been made to induce this agent to defer his motion ; but he abso lutely insisted upon making it. having express orders to that did from London. __ SPECTACLE. AT PARIS. There is nn t needy without great success, an] n o great success *ithout its p..rody. To this tide no opera can have greater pretensions to the &Mout- of being a parody than °Ma!, or. the Bards. Thi,: bal -Itd presents. to the ams•iirs, the Dtn;n g Hag or Regal, at MOLIEN'S Theatre, Rue St. Marti t i. Many other little theutres'fsrapose giving their r,,, p dr p-tte, ta., offering of tlieir tribute of flattery, G oo d !tumour (say they) is Oreparing a little farce en. titled " The Sher of Bacon." and it isIaIIIOSITANSIER, ill.tt will give it to us : Oh ! \that a d a i nt y votecao parodied from Ossi am I ! The last th eatre h as pro. 'nisei us, after Firc and Water, or. the Geer), p u s to the proof; a new opera, Which they have played re peatedly, two other new pieces, called 7he Glutto n and thr Dc/or of Paler**, and The three &stars, the Wags of the Garrison, an opera, in two ads, which is for be played on Saturday at Feydeau, nix by Gusset, but by CHAMPUN, who performs the musical past ; Pa FANILILLS is the speaker. PARTY TO Tim ISLE OF WIWIT The fine ess of the weather has induced a great number of people of fashion this season to visit th e Isle of Wight. Newport and Cowes are both fall of visitors. On Friday, the Commissioners rac!it landel on that delightful island a large Irk& . Ladies and Gentlemen from Pot t:motrh ; %; whom were Ladies SAX CON, GAll LI ES, and Cillite LOrTE DI):: HA -4, the Lady of Admiral MONT AOLI. Mrs. CLEM KNT, Messrs. SAITON, &c. .1 be 1 , 2 . 1 dined upon the beach, near the place where y disembarked, after which they had a dance, ; 4 ,4 returned to Portsmouth in the cvcning highly ed with their excursion. ARRIVALS AT HARROWOATR: Marquis t:.(l...us , down-, Loot !leafy 1'4.-tty. Ilnacct, Mks Mariann, Mr. Asker, Rrr. J. G 1.91, ht.. F.-1 .4u! Rev. Air Pi a uilvo, Mr J. L wt.. M. J. G).adron, wight. Mr. firma+ Touch t., Str. Rer.o rd, Mr SCoi l ik t , Mr. --eka, Mr. No ..cuites, Mr. Mr. a d Men Mr. II ...beim Brawls, Dr Prkoot, Mr BAIL 'Ur a - 4 H Mr. Nrc -, 1 411 161 4 / 4 H.l, Sal R as I. ely 11 Mimi, Mr. (;mist!, ar.d Mr. S .n, 4 . r , vester4, 70: Mr. For. •, I Michell, Nils DiX..II, Mos. 101..0 us •or • Preston, the don. Mr. a , :d Mr 'al/ aI , .t. .sa Askew, Major Hogg. Mr a..d M s M Mr. Fetheratune, Cepti:/t and Atm tik*....a. Last week the H CH Alt r Jisso • . CAx his Lady passed th 7 Hereford. in :heir way to Foxley, the seat of u v LI) E.q. Lord BA v whir: gave yes•erday an tl.g.eit airte, at his house in Stanhope -street, to a Lirs4 party I fAshional-&s. Major H. Ctrmi Nrs, of the Leitrim!'ilia, whose gt;her so long repro' th.st c un.f, !r$ declared him , elf the r o om 0 11 1 ;.. if . lative, Lord Ct. EM EN TS, tn. arl of Ls ti a. A. The family and retinue • t ArIBI:TRNOT ah rived on Saturday at flamich, to emhat's ter I' - sum in the Diana packet. Mr. Aaatamtur scat expufted yesterday. l'he Bishop of S r. ASATe, with his Lady and are at Hastings, which was r...'ver so fall as at present. _ Mr. and Mrs. A onsaeTox and family are pass. in g some %reeks at Wortbi The Lord Bishop c.f . EX'a will ccafi•m at Ar. raster on the 'Z2J initant, visit at flositon 23J, and at Exeter the -.llst :alt. _ _ _ lord and Lady Aloneeru and family ^••ud through York, on Thursday evening, on their way to Casa: Howard. The Duke of LEINST r I arrived in fi England, rn fueediy last. His return was rued by his unmet ons friends in that city, and his ma• try in the country. The Right lion. the Earl and Counters of Moist, arrived on Tuesday night, at their house, in Qaese street, Edinburgh.. 'f he Right Hon. J. Bass-:roan has happily's. perienced a complete recnv ery from his late nat. position. He is now in good health at Clifee. Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAMS, lees 'of the Dultris Theatre. are to perform at the linzton 'I herre, d v'hich M test am is al lot propriet.r. The manufatory for straw paper is shortly to come to the hammer. All the as aw in the cove try is little enough for tidies' bonrets. The parish church of St. Lawrence, in Ipswich. has received a very beautiful ornament fern the penen of Mr. K 1 a PORTLft. It occupies the whole , f the west end of the chnrch, over the einiing id lery. The subject is our Slrioar dip iv; 94 the Doctors in Mt Temple, at the mo' ant his sa titer and Joseph arrive after their search foe l'he Earl of L ems:sae, tounie and suite arrivele Dublin on Sunday selimight. The return of ties Nobleman to his native country, after an abiencci many years—an absence occasioned, is the iirst ia stance, by the recurrence of great domestic cair mitics, and prolonged af•erwards by the ere° delicate state of his he.:ith. was celebrated with bolle fires, and received with the most sincere enresewle of joy, by the poor in the immediate viciait.; of era !env,. His i.ordsl ip was aceomp.mind by Iw elder t son, Lord Nl.wrown. On Friday selnnight, the Roxburgh. Bilew ic ,_ ll and Selkiritshire temps of y.omanry cavalry. saw the command of Sir JANIS step, were retie d on Dunbar sant!s, by Lord ELPHlratoas,Vhe n b l steadiness of the corps under arms, and the alert! with which they went through the tlfferene tw noeuvres, refleeted great honour oat themselvh,.,_ 3 ° . gave the utmc.t satistaltion to the General. troops were dismissed the unt e evening, having Iwo a week on permanent duty. The day was rand' ably favourable. and a rear deal of company sent, among whom wete the Duchess of Ron ' uses: the Duke of Buoctaccue, Lord Da utetra. Hoses, &c. The elegant Theatre Royal, Plymouth, hob! fitted up in a pidtnresque and beautiful reuniter, w the present liberal maragers, Messrs. Wiest 00 j O y Sulu- se, who have been at a great *velum in ser priate scenery and decoradons which hare 'Old painted in the finest style by that celebrated st from London, Mr. WHE ATLI' V. The grand . torical melodrama of V a lentine and Orton hal 06' got up most splendidly. Every night of its sentation it has drawn Wiliam and crowded oar cote, and has been received with un boondA plause. The last scene of the grand hall o f cbieotl. is, perhaps, the most beautiful ancient Gothic diibited in a proviueial theatre. of in men tion try dity. of an prc s 'Aire C. a. Torek,i acrordit Itt t? P ,, QAF them-el. (1 the Ynite? tnok p!mi by the OLVc% AV Of b!ile tizs wit each bo sainel of