The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-04 00:00:00

"uni ; ---- T".". l . .r l 9 , llPrOlipmpron■■■• pOLtCY Ot BONAPARTE. Travellers lately arrived in this country state, that in France, as well as every where else upon th • Cunt:nem, the ineasion of England is at present 'only a secondary subjea of conversation ; specula tion and discussion being almost entirely superseded by reading and hearing the calumnies which French intriguers, ernietries, and spies, disseminate in all countries, and publiih in pamphlets. memorials, antes, and newspapers. 'Co any body who has fol lowed, and observed with attention, the political irnanetivres of Bots ar itr I:, and his accomplices, his and their adroitne , s in guiding the puhlic opi nioncaccording to his plans of usurpation and aggran disement, or as hi, interest diatted, must be evident When, twenty m mths ago, the Usurper forced us to tee art to arms, the conquest of England, and no thing but the conquest of England, was the order of th day. By the easy manner to :achieve such an un dertaking, which he held out in his political con ferences, as well as in his printed libels, he silenced the clamour of that numerous body of Fre:ichmen who desired peace ; kept up the spirit of his soldiers, who wanted plunder ; and caused Al independent Princes, accustomed to witness his farmer unerpceted successes, to tremble for the destiny of the British Empire, and, therefore, instead of forming new connetions wi:h this country•, inclined rather to dis aolvc those already snbsistiog, under the apprehen sions of being involved in its ruin. When the pub lic began to doubt of li:s means bein7 equal to his wishes and boasts to injure Great Britain, he in vaded Garmany, and murdered the Duke of EN- O:LIMN ; two deeds th it excited equal surprise And b.rrar, but not a terror which his vanity and ty ranny hoped f ir, aid which, at once, would have rade him the Dia ir rof t h e Continent. To divert, therefore, the attentinn of Princes, as well as sub kite, ho or fered his accomplices in the Senate to proclaim him an Emperor. the audacity of such an insult offered to birth, rank, and perogatives, changed surprise and horror into an indignation, which the selfishness and baseness of many Conti nental Sovereigns prevented, not only from shearing itself by a new confederacy, but even metamorphosed into a kind of childish admiration, and even imita tion. Nothing has since been written or talked of bun the Coronation of the Mock Emperor ; the fetes erpeiled on this slaanaafal occasion, his military journeys to the coast, aid his political plots and eon- fesences oat the banks of the Rhine. These subjeas are. however, now worn out; but the alarm, which Rtissia has :minded in the name of civilised so ciety, has barn heard and listened to, not only at the Goa n o f S tiO ikeis+ vr• *ham •4 Berl; _veal eh.* •••- sassin,whl so recently defied all foreign interference, in stabbing the Duke of ENOFIItM, releases now from his Bastile a British Agent, whose blood otherwise would have been so relishing to his palate, upon the single remonstrance of Prussia. This relative decrease of his infizenee, BUNAPARTS know.. is a real increase in the power of England. He, there fore, resorts to the u-ual weapons of c swards, " ca lumny:" and reviles a ration he dares not combat, which he is astable to intimidate, much less to con goer. Ry the inganions sophistry of his libeller, lie seduces the ignoyor and unthinking multitude, though he cannot hope to convert a single Prince, ',minister, statesman. or well informed individual. gthss, however, his ohjesrt, which is, to take • the attention of the Continent from his own his breach of promises, his violation of trea his encroachments in Italy, Switzerland, Ger. and Holland, as well as from the inefficacy . threats against England, by meditating on absurd and ridiculous accusations and false asper against that country. The last series of rench Papers is hardly tilled with any thing else; ' our Paris correspondent announces, that official against the British Government and the Bri tish nation are not only listributed gratis in all Otl6re-houses, howls, and taverns in France, Italy, Saul Germany, in the form of pamphlets, but in It • 'orns of handbills, desseminated among the ma il ,rs in camps and garrisons, as well as among the senple in the streets, in the public places, and even n the theatres. There is one well written pamphlet . ..owl the pen af HACT[4I%M. called s .4 Des Bases ?e is Farat et do la de G.airerwevetal de la iraNde-11 , rtagne," printed by G•lt. A MD. in the salais Poyal, of which itper yds of Ido,ooo copies lave been given away or are sold. Its price is only eventy-five centimes, or sevenpence halfpenny. t. discusses and intends to prove the conduet of .or Government, lssth in peace and in war. In cace, kora the attack on the Spanish treasury ships, nd in war, by the pretended plots of assassination, which our Ministers on the Continent are said to le inculpatei. It is read with great avislity by the eople, of which RON•T A RTI . S police spies take ad antage to mists* the vile hatred of their master nd a -comphce against our onion, into the mind f the public, as a ennarslajon for their disappoint :cut, at not having yet sliaresi the spoils of clur cares and independence. The incessant f war , — • BOV AP A Rts and TALLCiltAsn,to inVCIt aad pablish iibels against this c,:untry, ought to colivince our Government of the great advantages France derives from this infamous manoeuvre, and that, though their falsehoods are as barefaced as their cahunnies are absurd, they are not always to be ktt un answered or without refatation. The able and loyal politic:) %yr her, GcNr z„hi,tly remarks, " that Bon* P. lit UE i, lure ind.btzi for his power and tyranny to the pens of 'FALLEN:BAND'S pOlitiCal ,ophist,, than to the bayonets of his own military TH El BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TLTE D kY. Dacsussa 4. According to recent letters from France, the con tents of which may be dependcd upon, BONAP ARIL has this moment let loose a gang of intriguers, who surround our inbass adorn, and other diplomatic agents in every Continental Court. Under the most plan ,:ble pretences, they begin a correyonde::ce with the re f rese.ititives of our Sovereign, obtain some !ettcrs from them in their hand-writing, which after wards serve as models to forge similar 0n,..5, of what contents the Corsican and his accomplices have necessai y for their bean &lon{ and evil purposes, either to silence the el:a muurs of Frenchmeo, or the complaints of foreign ers. These political intriguers and spies are pet suns of talents and insilauxing manners, who, since the revolution, have, by turns, been republicans or tert ut ists, royalists or jacrshins, but who have equal ly served and betrayed 411 parties. From having associated with, and been in the confidence of; all former Emperors of faftion, they are well ac quainted with all their secrets and plans, as wed as with the general politics of Europe. They ttavci now upon the. Continent as persons proscribed by BONAP A R TE, and who have no hopes of returning to France, as long as this Usurper tyrannises over that country. They sp • sic, like all other apostates, with a hypocritical repentance of their former revo lutionary errors, and hold us their present pos erty As an evidence of their past honesty, though, in la% they are bnh rich, an w'll id by their ems ployers. In some places, as happened lately at NA:iles to one of these • cut; .f SO si A P A.t res Secret ruliCe. when suspected by those they intend to dupe, they cause the I,lees to he pers-ctre I by !he Usorper's Anthassad rs, and of course, Or• der:A away in an he • a i r manner by the Go vernment of the country, as ;ersons disagreeatom or regarded as dangero h. b ; the Losperot cr the raiser, whose anger they have incurred, which is a new title to confidence ho the neat capital, to which his views or puts seed them !n this marine' they wander from country t cou stry, convince the ig norart, deceive the weak, delude the unsuspicious, and often impose even upo h the most sagacious and penetrating. These men arc found at Constantino ple as well as at St. Petersburgh, at Naples, Rome, Madrid, and Lisbon, as well as at Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, ar.d Stockholm; and form the strong est hills of that known, but impregn able chain of secret agents of ISot4 AAAAA Secret 1' •licc, so dangerous to all other States, but so advantageous to revolutionary France and her Tyrant. Parliament will certainly meet on the I.sth of Ja nuary; but we understand that, after voting the custom try Achim; of Thanks to the KING for his Speech from the Throne, both Houses will adjourn to the 2?..1 of the &Arne month. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, the RCSIIAM and Post rt . nut.sa AM BASS•DOIi called upon Nlr. PITT ; they afterwards went to Lord HA It ROWllv's Office, where they remained till two o'clock. "1 be Fans!, NIA' t gm, from l'etersburgh, for Hull, was taken off the Humber, on Wednesday last, by a French privateer of to guns, and since re taken. 'Me Vadmintify, BRUIN, from Arrtv..x far Lynn, was captured on the' kith ult. by L'iltrearirWe, Freneh privateer, of 16 guns. since retaken by the Ceaser gun-brig, and is arrived in the Humber: the pri vateer had captured four other vessels, which were in sight. Tae S:r Hod( Perker. Smirit, from London, for Surinam, has put into Cowes leaky, having been on shore. The S a p ? HA M WIND, from Sunderland. for London. is run down in Sea R,..!/C:1, crew saved. The Srarrel, N C 0 LSO N, from Stettin, for London, is on shore on Dragoe. A letter from one of the °dicers on board our squadron off the Tezel, states that the officers and crew of the Reastey were ninon the faith ultimo in a French privateer to Amsterdam. The Don Cap tain Cot.v ILLS has sent a letter by a Dutch schuyt. saving, that reither the officers nor men saved a single article of property bat doe cloatbs on their bar Ira. A letter from Ilrest. of the Sth, says:—On the 31st of last misnrh. the Field-Marshal Ave rA u re viewed the Irish Corps. He entered into all the details of its ins:ruction, and saw with pleasure, that during the short period of eight months, the Irish Otii:.ers had made such a rapid pr , lgress, /kit eireirdy ”atory 14ena an" _Si to comniand rr,...aeut.. He expressed therefore his satisfaction bath on this Ac count, athl at their nailkasy appearance. Irion...••••••qpir - . • • ~ ~ _.. ♦ HUNTING. Yesterday se'nnight, Sir M. SYRIA'S Hounds tried Major To rti A ses plantations around t)e Wold Cot tage, but did not find till they reached Mr. LILOARD'a plantations, when a fox broke cover, and went over the Wold in a very gallant style ; but being beaded by some farmers who were coming to join in the chace, he went into a plantation above Wold New. ton, where he was killej. Above 50 horsemen were in the field, and, what is mote singular, not above one farmer, though they were in Martiontes Spiro•, was thrown from his horse, or rode over by another. After leaving Major Tor HA m's plants- Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND'S covers at Boyn ton were tried, and two foxes were f..und,hut without affording any run. Lord MIDDLLTON, Sir ?thee STK es, and a very large assemblage of Gentlemen, were of the party. On Friday the 23d ult. Colonel Tnomtvon's lap dog beagles met at Langtoft (a charming country), had Iwo very fine runs, and killed without a check. A pack of bare hounds were out within a mile or two of them, but they found the scent so bad, that the owner said they could not run at all : the air was certainly very frosty. The diminutive size of the beagle hounds causes them to bring their ncses so much nearer the scent; and, being chosen from ail the worst scenting countries, may account, in some measure, for the advantage they seem to have. A buck of the first head (kept up a year on old corn) was turned down at Falconers' Hall, as the hart bad been before; and, though all the pains were taken to dash the mettle of the hounds, they, after a burst of about ten miles, caught a view of him. He topt unfortunately Canton Warren, and, though every exertion was made to save him by a field of the best mounted and most anxious sportsmen, yet, in attempting to releap the %V.:nen wall, he fell, and, as the hounds were all in a body, he was in stantly torn to pieces. As soon as the horses had recovered :heir wind, the company were indulged wish a run of the lap-dog beagles, and they then gave, as they have done hitherto, universal satis fadion.—( nri Herald). Isnini,tet H. g%ii away th crimes, ties, many, of his I his ab►i si , 31 French and oui libels a icn 11. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Genera! Stuart, from Canterbury, to Mil'at's Hotel. esetsin Vt.'iteatley, irons Kent, to Stevens's lintel, Clifford .eet Cuontess of Pomfret, from Bath, to her house in Hertford. street. Colonel Jackson, from Cambrhlge, to F.mton's Hotzl, Et. James'. %met. Colonel O'Kelv, from Brighton, to Ilalf-mocm.street. e.pt Porei„ front Welles.icn, Sonic Net, to Fentou's Hotel. Marquis of Dorn ire, in I lanover.sqvare. Mrr.. llloom, from To ackenhAin, to her house in Grosvenor square. Th. Herrn, from Bath, to Fenton 's Hot .1 Imni from Faztiesd, Somerset, to Hill street, klerkeley.squate. Sunday morning the Liv at FAMILY went to St. George's Chap.!, IVindsor, and heard a Sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. litiatr. from the 13th t.n.yter of Romans and Itch verse. Yesterday morning MS M tnft 1r the Duke of t • 4151001. and Princesses S•OMMIA and Amer.' A, wiia several attendants, rode on horseback in Wind sa,r Great Palk. They :afterwards, with Her M JCS' . Y and the other PRINCESSES, honoured Mr. Fir W./AT:TLC yowls a visit at his house upon Engle field Grant, where thee part , . .l. of borne refreshment. The C•lunteas of WA &WICK is expeded in town in I f... ll' Gene . 1 Mount if pettedly recovered from his la: 14.,p 0.) 1 0 . 1e1 and Mr. BEAUMOMT arrived in town on Saturday, At their house, in Portmae.square, from Ilorsh.tin Abbey, Northumberland. The Countess of DEL AW•Ile and family are ar rived in Upper Grosventu-squAre, from Lymingtoa, H.r.ts. E. t• "macs, Esq. succeeds I.ord GLESIERVIE, in his lite elegant house is George -street, West minster. l ail Puwt. has purchased Lord DCMGANNON'S late hue i Berkeley-square. The Duchess of Giut.casraa's beautiful villa at Brompt•in has lately u•t iergone ♦arious repairs and alterattous, as at is expo led her Grace will spend much of her time there. I'he Marquis and Marchioness of A stecoev, An I the LAdies Hamm rots, will spend t:,e:r boil dA!.s 4t Coombe-wood, with Lord And Lady HAwitralUltY. fae tail of ORMOND, according to repvrt, will be !named en the IRh f this in intl., to Mi.. C.* Rat, hyress of P CLARKE, Esq. of Sutton- Hall, Del hyshire. I h.s 1,14,', fortune is said to he 18,0001. per year , and 80,000 L in m one y. Hi s Lordship's cAtriagc. arrived in town yesterday. to have the arms of the intended Countess emblazoned with his Lordship's. Yesterday se'nniglit, being the birth-day of His Royal Highness the Duke of Gi.ouctsr aa. the Liverpool Light hone. 2cl Shropshire and Militia,, Royal Liverpool Volunteers, the rthileeri and the Ride Corp% paraded in Crovra-stteet, Liverpool, and fired a fir. dejete. Jos.,' Scorr. Esq. Member for Birmingham. is expedited shortly in town from his soAt, Al Great Barr Hall, near Wu!. Gen. Dumas left Miller's Hotel, yesterday, for Canterbury. On Wednesday evening last, The Solditr'sDaaghter, and The Agreeable Surprise, were performed at the Jet sey Theatre, by desire of the Colonel and the Officers of the St. Hilier's That You. Kneeler is a wonderful boy there is no doubt : but there are two other bins now in Lond who have the singular merit, instead ut feathering their own nests by their aeting, to perform their re. spedtive parts for the sole interest and welfare of the public at large. These are the two Mae Coes Baer who superintend Fortune's mazy wheel. It is needkes to observe, that the approaching rich Lot tery is the grand scene of aaiosi ; wherein they will draw prizes that will induce a roar of applause from all the lucky possessors. This pLy, in short, in which these boys will perform with such deep con- cern to twentv.five ilioasansl of Fonuen's Votaries, will be brought nut in January. at the Theatre of ('oeser's Had. Every aa of it will be highly inter esting, and which will contain the nohle moral of rendering many individuals n.st intreiy happy for a night cm.y, but through the whale of their rtinai...- iag existence. I •. ~. I 7 II LITRE% The numg I 6 ties made here last night, in tl:e ch aia a e tragedy of /I ~ /410lttl. Those whatitdmired hi s wrac ! of Arhiset, t i his ease, tl•ar firmness of his step, Saturla c ses ou s l i d on not or hheinlidsaelTeldlpoifn t hattliey (utcied him in full ~, tryililk oecatie s• 11 performance certainly left no wish ungratifi e d ; 1 ,„ . • should we have b:en aware that the interest at scene could be carried higher, had we nu see , 1 .; repetition of the part. Last night he w as manly and impressive. The portrait of the Poe,. was drawn with a bolder hand, and coloured s • , more richness and variety. Some I , :w have sii that his voice wants modulation. They m a y perhaps, presumed npon his south, as neeessari.;v incapable of attaining perfe6lion in chi; eiseat i ;i point ; but if they heard him List right their 2:6 , N , must bx all removed. His speeches all abratetkd harmony and variety of tone. The following ad dress to Ztr,iikyee may serve as an example Ti...i•• comfort then t 6or know, the sum, n To reteue lice, wouid bleed at ev*.i vein ! Aid her, he said, yet Irmo we stay be blz.t ! Bed her reonamoer that the ways of ll...reit, Th.' dark, ar: just : that oft some goarecan pow'r Attends tin-eem to save the innocent ! But, if high Heaven deesees our fall !--qb d bee iv 6i wait the stmke, prepared a'ike To live or die! and then he wept as 1 do.' • The mournful pathos with which he spoke tSe last words of the last hue was deeply afry'a•ng. r s , his voice sunk, every accent sunk into the Ilea t, and melted the son! to pity. The following speech, which concludes the samc aift, gives fine soup,: r display of his declamatory powers: I Then be it so :—Wit.ies. ye miters of 11. aen• That not from you, but frum the inivirrer's lyre!) nays..lf in night !—.To you 1 wand Reireal'il in noon tide day • ented I arm bly hard with pove'r then, like to yuu, arrarit In storin sod fire, my swiftaveup!t•.g thunder Sh.ruU rlist tun tyrant. But, since dashes That ',marg., I'd seizs nu what it givts : Like the deep carern'd earthquake, burn bene.l . l, witelin his Lissom!, he empire, anal hunaulf, la use midis ous ruins These lines were given with extraordinary forte and energy. The applause was louder, if pnssihle, than upon Saturday night, and more frequently ex pressed. He was possessed of every passage and avenue to the heart of the audience, and guided all their passions with unlimited sway. We were too much occupied with this extraordinary youth to do justice to Mrs. LITCilf ittn, in Zephyrs, and Mrs. 11. Ss DDONS, in Irene. They are berth intitled to the warmest praise. The injured and insulted Queen could not meet a better representative than Mrs. Lyra:firma°. Force and energy have been her peculiar charafteri-tics ; but in Zelibrog she proves h:rself equally intitled to the praise of tenderne:s and feeling. The scene where Saint discov,rs himself, and is tcrn frrln her by the guards of 80-bare:or, dispirited fine an ing, and was extremely affecting. It excited much applause. If Mrs. II Stooovs does not make an equal impression in bore, it is the lank of the character. and not of the Actress. She is not obli3ed to co: tend with that variety of difficulties and dangers which excite powerful emotion and interest in an a ',hence. Her attachment to Selpa partakes more of gratitude than love, and the r.air vial to which she is exposed is between regarding h'in, an I her duty to the tyrant her father. Po sessing a plowing person, sweetness, and gentleness, sbe gave the character all the interest whico it is ca t able ot inspi: ing. Mr. Mt nit I's was a chi!. and judicious representation of the loyal and faithful subjed I but the audience have taken a lead against Mr. CUR Y and Mr. HA &Gil AVE ill 114r4d/Olait and which sell require extraordinary exertion to surmount. Mr. Ha exit Ave is certainly a gentle man of talents; and it Mr. Mossor had not fotmerle excited admire ion in the part, it might be suppesea incapable of interest. The failure, therefore, of Mr. HARGO•Ifi, is chiefly imputable to the peculiatitr of the situation. So gieat is the impatience of the audience to see the Iciavg Resew's, they listen to all the early part of the piece with apathy and disgust. The declamation of the tyrant only excites a preju dice against the performer. Public curiosity did not appeat to have suffered last night any diminution. Toe rich treat of Saturday :sign had rather wetted the appetite. So early as two o'clock a crowd begaa to colleft about the doors and avenues of the Theatre; and when the hour approached fur the op?ning of the hous,-, the pressure was equal to that of Saturday night. To enter into a detail would. therefore, be only to rep at the same scene. the pi: had a dark nod dismal appearance; seal cely a :e l male had courage to venture into if. It was, sr course, almost exclusively occupied by mins. nod did net afford that pleasing variety which it usuahy exhibits. It may be superfluous to add, that. in case where puls.ie curiosity is en strongly excited. and him/reds went away unaccrsmmodated, the house overflowed before the rising of the curtain. A Swede, which left the Terri on the f2. - it's ult. has brought intelligence to our squadron, that M),00) French are now advancing into supposed with orders to march and tam poss. ss of HamSurgh and Swedish Pomerania. Snme lettt rs front Spain, received by the I-1 - ass. burgh mail, which arrived on Saturday even: •••.!. state that the French Charge 14Pa-ea at Mash it had presented a violent Note upon the subjeA of tl.e detenticai of the Spanish ships—that increased ac tivity had in consequ nc e taken place in the naval and military departments, and that an embargo upon British ships was exp:Ekeil to take place jaunt diately._ The Earl of Emtessost has preferred the Rev. JACOI NIARSII AMI to the ReSory of Kirkeley-Ocer leys, Dioce‘e of York, worth 1,2001. per annum. Saturday's assette contains an account that three barns, in the occupation of Mt. lasses Stscuazt, ben. near the Mardics, in Essex. had been con sumed by the, together with most of the ccrne:ry contained. on the t`..id ult. ; an. Idlers a reward of 100 guineas for the discovery of any of the incen diaries, except the principal. It also contains Ills MAJ LS v's promi,e of pardon to any of tt-c cticLd ers, excrpt .tich prilicipa:, who .hall give such in formation, Coat the other parties may be prc%.c:n;cd a) c' Since accounts say that the prosi ice of 9fi acres of corn was consumed oy these aetariuu. ec too 11 . Deft plait :to Pail