The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-21 00:00:00

• THE ROMNET. LOFT OF • LITTER warrten SY Rt AR...ADMIRAL SUISCLL TO REAR-ADMIRAL Stakaar, CON. , MAND&R IS CHIEF IN THI TEILL. • His Britannic tgajesty's Ship Eagle,ll4osth SO I4 • SIR. AI Deelimbsy, 1 1 404, p.m. t i t I h..ve this moment reeeived youtill. &of Vile conveying to me the lion. Captain Blolv;.1, late nf llits B. i *c Maj,atty's shy Cie Rom ne y, wrecked upon 'Our coat s w' eight of his Mmes, whom yon ha first hismancly saved front Impend Lei ileatniction, and w ItolF your G .iorwmt ha:, with to: an tient 'nag wunnity, reiea-ed and rlitcil to their country and !inning wt their ramie of h•mour. Th . .' a " ali t sir. mast .-ntibly affering with heartfelt gran tle...., NatatiA.; GOVe , macut fur their emancipation nom ptivity ; to Admiral Ktitkert, for their presetv. t tini t from the wit el' death ; and in all the Dutch OtEc.u• and the Mb,. ... . . "taunts of the Tope! b loc their kindinss and moat 111,8Mal$, attrition,. Thi., Sir, is nobly alleviating the rigours of war, as th.• Christi:it hensubof your country noel nuns were wont hunted. to da in These sea" before a considerable portion of European 104ritellect war cornyted by false philii.ophy. Captain Cohill/ill ceniiiiiiiiicate to the Right Hen. the or ik CommitaiuSers rd the Admiralty your proposal for the ~,I . a .liatige or allitimiese, e' Acrept,,Sir, of nfrifterre 4 thinks, cud the assurance that 1 am, eritWri o rctirect, Ac. i ' ! (Sigma) T. M. RUSSELL. iiiimiralty•Clier. Dec. 13, 1801. Mir Lou,,—! am commanded by my Lorl: Commissioners • of. the /admiralty to acquaint you, for the information n I the ! nieichautv of Glasgow, that the convoy front Cork to the We4.l.idie, lia...iig been delayed so n.ueh the time `origads. an ,ay Lords propos.• to de i rT: l smne time that wilier% wastage! cw Oa 26th of this month; and their Lonkiii...s, Vierell!irr, dellittto know what period will be the mr,.. 1 convenient to the ttille et Glasgow for the departure of t!ie ries. cieiver. 4 0 66 1 are also comm. , add, that it wool! be a grzat ae ee'trrm,dmrr.rr r, th^ to-m mss, of this dep in nient, if the mer e...Pelle ' , Mde-gew. r.; , ' ,, ... ,1 , kee:poul, and gourd, were to PP did a general 6g.-ni in London, to whom their appliea. fro. , f r creamy Id he tihris.iritted, in order le Cie inte., , i., r ,,,h t e. 4 4 ;l ol o: l s pa ufb rt„...ie.. IA:. Ligre ( I o t zika m l y , .. ,1 1 . , I a t. t.._ rd t.._ rtsu.t I,lll'. ~. U . Your IV's cry Itilievi'e Servant, Lord Provost of Glasgow. WM. NIARSUk:N. ------T • chairs. Such is and such has been the misfoftun of present and former revolutionary potentates, that, footed without honourable celebrity, invested with ofOceS which arc despised, powerful in bor rowed and usurped authority, of which both the source and exercise arc universally detested, ridicu ka in their insolence, odious in their manners, bar baronaiin their aas, without esteem, credit, consi deration, honour, or honesty, their prosperity exas perates the people, who, even in their ordinary ca pacities, see only an instrument of their own mis fortunes. And what interest can the public take in men, whose exigence they know only by the evil they experienced from them ? Of all this, the crafty revolutionary trio, Bonaparte, Talleyrand, and Sieyes, are well aware ; and have, therefore, called in new and foreign succours to guarantee the vera city of their own absurd fabrications. Never be fore did members of a diplomatic corps interfere, and give their opinions, without waiting for instruc tions from their respetllive courts, in any affair less diplomatic and more impertinent and impolitic, than the present foreign diplomatic agents at Paris, in the pretended conspiracy of Mr. Drake. Trem bling for bayonets, or seduced by gold, from igno rance, treachery, or horn corruption. 'hey made their Sovereigns parties in a war, in which they ate neutral, and accomplices in the crimes of an Usurp er, the natural and irreconcilable foe of hereditary and " itimate rank. Our Cabinet has not resented with vigour enough such an unheard-of meanness er weakness in the representatives of friendly or neutral Princes. who, if they had remained silent. as was their duty, Bonaparte would, neither draw those conclusions he has done, in his insolent note from Aix-la-Chapelle, nor, front these conclusions, pro nounce the political excommunication against all English Agents on the Continent. We should not then have heard of the Taylor and *llium plot, no more than of the visit of Mt. G. Rtimbold to the 'Temple Bastile. In France, then, this imposture woald,with out notice, have been added to the thousands of other revolutionary fabricationc ; th e blood of th e Duke of Enghien might h ive been avenged. and the Imperial dignity still have been unpolluted. What proofs have the foreign Ministers in France had of its reality ? The communications of criminal and interested persons, in the habit of lying. founded upon a report of a spy, conviZled before of forgery, as well as of murder, No ! it is not thus, in onr times, that a King of Great Britain, the most religious and generous of Sovereigns, or his 'Ministers, the most circum- Tea of Stat.smen, will punish an enemy. We may well, in a case I:k* this, apply Voltaire's vase to Bonaparte : " Qui eroi; tnujcun , le crime, en parnit tmp capable." After all, were these conspiracies As evident as they are chimerical, Etirope indeed might complain of it; but silence wunid better become 'Bonaparte and his accomplices. They have broken the ties which held men, states, and nations together ; they have awakened hatred, exasperated resentment, and set all the passions in a blaze; and do they now talk of, and appeal to the law of nations A code, every chapter of which has keen violated by the revolutionary tyrants. This Day--Striraoss A s—Holtilsy at the Public o.Fess. THE BRITISH PhISS. lIIGNAPARTF AND THE BRITISH • 4 GOVERNMENT. Since die French Revolution has broken all the ies of religion, ni..rality, and public order ; since it sits sibjeeted all right to force, and all duty to the ibligatnn of supporting its cause, crimes have fu'- owed crimes, and horrid events have trodden upon *cis other's heels. Compatts, customs, and public aped, having given place to a new system of gelle d violence,of which the Freni_h republic has ereFted self both legislative and executive power ; that par- Icicle community has reduced Europe to the state f nature, and h:ss im claim to expea other justice ian such as it exercises towards its own slat es, and twards foreign sovereigns and subjels. In this point of view, the alleged conspiracy of ar diplomatic agents against a revolutionary go. ernment, which is itself in continual conspitacy pains! all lawful governments, would be nothing tore than stets of retaliation, commanded by ne tz%ity as well as by policy. Rot this new caltsmay f Bonaparte is connetied with circumstances, which ill not allow ;I: to remain indifferent to it, to hear nd r rad Tightly the opinions ti at on the Continent re formed about it, or pass over the eonsequillites 'bids the Usurper nas drat from it. Bonaparte, and his accomplices, suborners of ie same offeneranvolved in Oie. same hatred, and awned by eic same crimes, read their own fate in lose repeated tragedies, is ich a Brissot, a Bm espierre, and other revol s Emperors of fac ion have polished— ., Distr. ! ensis cui super impis cerrice pendot ." rid this refle:liun is added the pang of a galling' .oun.l, given by them to the prick. of a vain and amoral people, who not long ago considered -owned beads but as ornaments of their anticham eta, and the Christian religion as the doarine of an opossor, and as the faith of fools; to avoid, there ore, the blow that threatens them by changing the ttention and the objed of hatred of the nation, ley are under the necessity of inventing continual mspiracies, in committing real and the most enor ens outrages. They must keep their slaves in nitinual irritation against foreign foes, as some few ionths calm refleaion would otherwise open thair es, and convince them, diet, to end their dcgrada is, they must break their chains on the heads of elr cruel tyrants. Hence the declaimers of senates id councils seize every occasion to proclaim, that e misery of revolutionary France is owing entirely the plots of England ; they all behold with de lla every pretext for drowning their griefs in !lo an blood, for preaching the extermination of relve millions of Britons to preserve from pun sp ent some few thousand guilty Frenchmen. By ch a conduit they give a new impulse to the lais tishing spirit of their people, and, in calling for a sr 01 vengeance, awake their natural ferocity. The rolutionised French never invoke humanity but shouts of rage, and their propitiations are always rents of blood. 11,f greater part of the nation are, however, not tapes of these disgraceful farces, and, therefore, muse themselves at the ridiculousness of the ha laves, d e p u t a tions, processicmi, and other muck demnities. Flo generally execrated are all who are any share in Bonaparte's government, that the ablic would, without emotion, see even 'British dra. ...oils cut to piecea the Emperor and his Senators in heir £alacel, and tl:e Legi,laters in their curule W\ DUN, FRIDAY, DECIMS&R 21 . The question of Peace or War with Spain appears to be at last brought to an issue. An Order in Council was signed on ‘Vednesday for laying an Embargo upon all Spanish Vessel: in British Ports, and another Order was yesterday received at the Custom-House for laying an Embargo also upon vessels of every description bnund to the ports of Spain. These orders hive been, of cortrile, transmitted to every necessary point of the em pire ; and nothing now remains ..10“: to place us in a state of aftual hostility, bat the issuing of letters cf marque and reprisal, the ordinary mode of declaring war. These, we. understand, will be issued in the coarse of this day or to-morrow. Some say, however, that they will be delayed until the arrival of Mr. FREIT, and the consequent departure of the 5P•%1711 ANI VASSAL:OOR. The order of embargo upon Spanish ships is nearly inoperative, as, we believe, there are very few ves sels of that nation in our harbours. We understand, that (lover:latent yesterday re ceived information, that Mr. rit sae and Mr. Hos- TER had adualif sa:kd from Lisbon, in the same ship with I..nrd and Lady Ilut.,.aro, and several other English, lately ?evident in Spain. We have not heard the date of their but, it is said, that, from Government bad re ison to exped their arrival on Sunday last. It is supposed that they have been driven from th eir course, by the strong northerly ninds. We can state from the most respeffable authority the following interesting particulars, which evince the ciiniplete ini,crriav of BONA!. ‘ll FE'S plait to is , ilate Great Brit.:in from all Continental :onn When the Ring of l'ussi t a, accotd ing z t:10 rci•-r.cd desire of Bost:emits, in the 'beginning of last month, fur the fourth time, offered his mediati•in between Russia and France, to A LEX •NUEIL r. Prince CZARTORINSKI, the Russian Mi nister of State, declared, that, according to treaties ciex subsisting between the cabinet of St. Peters burgh and that of St. James's, the RUSSIAN MO NARCH could listen to no proposals of a nature to exclude England from negotiating in concert with Russia ; it was added, that if the Cabinet of St. Cloud came forward with a plan for a general paci fication, upon such a basis as would insure the con tinuance of a peace, and the rights and independ ence of Europe, the Emperor of Russia would im mediately order it to be communicated to the Court of St. James's. It is said that Government have received dis patches from out blockading squadron off the Elbe and the Wesr, with the information that on the 12th instant, these two rivers were fell of driven ice, th it nearly impeded their navigation. Since that day, the severity of the weather has increased, and we may conclude them now to be entirely frozen. N iture and the season make therefore the farther blockade on that dangerous German coast unnecessary for the present. To preserve, however, if possible, open the communication be tween Harwich and Husum, several ice boats have been hired from the pilots in the Heiligoland, which will, during the sinter, try to carry the mails to and from Husum to that island, where some of our cutters will be stationed to prote3 our packets, or to bring over the mails, as occasi , at may require. It may be apprehended that our communication with the Continent will even soon cease for some time, by the way of Gottenburgh, as, when the last packet sailed from that port, the winter had already set in very severe in Sweden, and the river Gotha was full of ice. Sir SIDNEY SMITH had an audience of the Lords of the Admiralty yesterday, at the Admiralty, from three to five o'clock, when, it is said, he was ap pointed to a command. - A Court of Directors was yesterday held at the India House, which adjourned at six o'clock, till this day. JOHN Boss, Esq. yesterday eleaed a Dire for of the East India Company, in the room of WILLIAM Aoisot Jacxsos, Esq. will this day be sworn, and take his seat accordingly. Several questions arose yesterday at the India House, among the Proprietors, in respect to the re. gularity of taking the oath prescribed by Parlia ment; several Proprietors objeaing to subscribe to it, without reservation being made for the Income Tax, which is deduaed at the India House. The Direitors of the India Company have lvely had under consideration the conduit of Captain Hoocas, of the Admiral Aloha, in surrendering hi, ship to the l'..yche French privateer in the Eastern Seas. The Dire tors, we understand, confirmed the sentence of the Court of Enquiry at Bengal, and approved of the conduit of Captain Roc ERs, and hi. Officers and crew, in every instance; with an ex ception with regard to his wit having destroyed all the private letters on board. As the subject will probably come before the public, when the General Court agree to allow the owners to build a new ship in /ter room, we deem it premature to enter into further particulars at present. The ../wra Maria, LECRSON, from Boston, for St. Thomas's and Honduras, is captured and tallied into Guadaloupe. The Trieoderia, Hone, from the Bay of Fundy, has put into Glo'stcr (North America), and is con demned. The InJairtry, HAIDERS, from Grangemouth, for London, is lost near Hartlepool ; crew saved. The (211ren, of 98 guns, is arrived at Plymouth, from Sir T. GRAVZS'S squadron off RochetUrt and L'Orient, which she left all well on the 15th. The ships had weathered some very heavy gales without receiving any damage. We understand, that intelligence has been received in Londonderry, of the Ainesly cutter, Captain Sac vrit, having captured a large Spanish merchant ship, supposed to be the vessel that was seen on that coast a few days ago, and that which the Brigiume frigate• sailed in quest of on the 30th ult.—( Be((/es: NCI' Leiter.) We Are sorry to learn, that while Earl Moms, on his return to town, stosipAl for a short time at Stamford, a green box, containing his Lordship's most valuable and confiden I t.a. PAWS. was stolen out of his carriage, and that every possible endeavour to discover the robber has proved ineffeutual. Be- sides this box, a pistol was also taken from his Lord ship's carriage. As the Papers in question arc of the, most important nature, great uneasiness has been excited by this daring robbery. Estraa of a Letter from Madrid, dated Nov. I am pained to inform you, that all hopes of An accommodation with England are at an end.— After all the expeaatinn that was generally enter tained here, Mr. Feces lett this place for England on the 14th inst. and so much are we under the ty rannic conlroul of BoN AAAAAAA A that I have no hopes °lbis return. On the 16th an order was issued fir the detention of all British vessels in every port in Spain ; and or the ISrh an order was issued for every person holding British merchandise to deliver in a faithful statement of the same, ullich was tol lowed by au order for its confiscation on the 20th ; ar.l I am sorry to my, that we hourly look for ano. Cher order to arrest every, British subje& now in Spain, so completely under the power and orders of France is this ill fated country." THE YOUNG ROSCIUi. We congratulate the public upon the favour i bi e change which has taken place in the indispositio n or this extraordinary and universally-admired boy. D r. B vue, and Dr. I's • IISOI4, the attending physicia n% pronounce I him, yesterday, considerably better. Ms intelligence must be the more gratetisl to the public, as his illness was much mare alarmism than it was generally supposed. All the little petty p i _ sions of the human heart, in its weakest and mast degraded state,have been put into action against him, in a certain quarter. It has been maliciously in sinuated, that his present illness has been occasion. ed, or at least eucreased, by the attention us the public. " The fact is," says an Evening Paper, " with respe.-t to the young tientleman's health, that, if it his been iinpairtst it hat not been by his playing, but by the and thoughtlew conduct of thus! wha call themselves iratr." 3 :— They rtx and Wage, and injure him by their inaprowenitirs and curiosity. If the proprietor were so determined to ienit t• health as their int °hied, why did they, why do they many ;,crv)iiv Isehind the ,cents Awl !irk. •-• the hu, on the nights of his acting? Why J o s o ~.any sons tit: • him out to supper un the nights 01 Isis perio . and one., he should go home to rest ?" Such affeaed Jacobin whine is disgusting. It betrays the cloven foot. Aye, the attention shewn to this wonderful boy is wormwood to the calusn niator in The Cohrier, who writes to gratiiy the spleen, envy, and je dousy. of a certaia tew. P a y no attention to the rising Roseies, take no notice of him, let him sink into silence and oblivion, and then he will be well, and they will he cmuent. They ;vill put forth again their now " diminished Lead.," and, heed from all that anxiety which must attend so much public applause and attention, the RaidilS may live in some obscure retreat, of fat 41.4 hearty as any plough-boy. Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, His Ma. JEST" arrived at the Queues House from Kew, and in a short time afterwards His. hi Ales CY gave audiences to the Dukes of YORK and GLoucrcr re. Soon after one o'clock His MAJES rir set off for Blackheath, to dine with the Princess of WA LES, and in the evening returned to Kew. Yesterday the Dukes of CUMBERLAND, KENT, CA %I BRIDGE, and Sussex, dined with Her MAJ rsry and the Pat NC esses. In the evening I ler NI ctesrr had a seta party of the Nobility and persons of distinetion. The Prince of MrCXLENSURGII STRELITZ. Wlll is reported to be a suitor to one of our PISAN,: esse. is in his 26th year, hisvint been born on the 12th of August, 1779. Of his tour sisters, all are mar ried to Gartman PetincLs ; one is the Queen of PRUSSIA, and the other the wife of Prince Far- DeIIICIC of PRUSSIA. Lady KNioisrLay has taken possession of Sr WiLLIAu GAR rusisoliCa late house in Manchester- square. _ _ • Sir HtURY Fl. ETCH 11, Bart. has purchased Major General Mutt:naives late house in Notting ham-place. 'f he Earl of ROSE RE kR Y and family arrived at their house in Park-lane yesterday, from Bixley-hall near Norwich. A first rate Beau at Paris wears a coat of pistaeit 9 green in the morning, and of bronze at night, with silver buttons. The most fashionable robes, for half-dress, at Paris, are of white perkale. '1 he designs consist of balls v . ,not• and puppies. The Earl of BUCKINGH ASISHIRE, late Lord hio. BART, will after Christmas take possession of his late Father's house in St. James's-square. The Dowager Countess is to succeed iu the possession of Sir H. MtLostsr's late house iu Stanhope-strirtt, May7ftir. Oied on Wednesday morning, at her seat at Hil lingdon-house, mai . Uxbridge, the Marchioness of KocKisUXnM. The nung Resciass being indisposed, the news makers are fitting out expeditious; and preparing a negociation for peace. Mademoiselle Gat:mots plays the part of Moldier, in ifsilidm the ConTiprvr, at the Theatre Feydeau, at Paris. Mademoiselle Gunton is the mibttes. of young.thatltAlltiOlS. The bails of Lt vat are all the rage at Paris. and are preferred to even those of the Opera. The following is a copy of a manuscript play-bill which was posted a few weeks ago, at Minshul.— “ At the Red Lion in Minshul, rrn---. there *id be the London Prost ice, or G. or k re and the Devi/ to Puy at e i ght o'clock. Pit Is. Gall. 61." r The Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the St. George's in the East here presented a 'ord. of the value of tool. to Liewenant SP Lior, their Commander. Yesterday. Major Caceittcv, with about 200 men under his command, composing the pi iacipal part of the right wing of the St. Andrea ..rid Sr. George's Volunteers, marched to I lighbury harm, to fire at a target, for a sword presented by the Ad jutant to the Non-commissioned Officers and Pri vates, when, after many excellent shots, the Major returned with them to his house in Eyte.street. Tuesday List, the Lancaster Volunteers, inder thii command of Litilt..COlClild BitADsli•W, 5S ct.l inspeded by Brigade Major Hut. row, aecompariird by Lieut.-Col. to nowt. On Wednesday, the above officers iuspeded the Loyal t.lverston Vi lUnteerf, commanded by Lieut.-Col. SUNDZIL•ND, and also the Carts provided for their couveyanet, in case of Invasion, with which they expressed themselves in terms of the highest satisfaet on. A letter from Bath says, . 1 We should have sup posed that the Miss Ftsstirio and Miss Lc Mae- CIEII had long ago exhausted all the varieties of figure, in their annual choral dances, had we not witnessed new combinations in their performances oh Saturday evening. The execution of these in= tricate involutions, by their fair pupils, did ample justice to the fancy with which they were conceived. It must be conieesed they had every attendant ad vantage to adorn and render them interesting— beauty of form, grace of figure, and elegant sizn plicity of dress. The style of attire, adopted by the young ladies of the Belvedere Scleed, displayed a per 'unified explanation of the untranslatable phrase " Smophz Aleadrtis:" and the elegance of their dancing was particularly admired. 'rho room was graced by a very numerous assemblage of beauty and faehion." A ban House, I p ay, in d ec eased The b; when the John Jat J d,a B. Jaa Owl .1!0 pao Ss The a gre 2 b ilia 1 Marquis Lord C o ther hh morning A eon in coma that the even. 1 the favo Fattison At th at six th At sit were fin: who, At r.Tett t 1 of vote% the EIS! son. clee The 1 neral Ci The t Direein Fur This Stopfor The fu centlerr In c 4 been re Ulster, the vill blind n Sir Board 4 than tssi that a to Aide would 2 sing!, John murder Mar. cleccas4 was av on a li, and tsv throng Stephe It al been stairs, of whit tortua The Verdit Tut !lips The s. inforn and aimed Tiers. cute Th swinc ,elf Indie in rig sixty SCCur tluiry sons I who, who oe4rl SCUti 4 , iej MIN ", : _ . 2 ‘3E 9