The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-08-23 00:00:00

Et FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [FROM TILE NIONITILM.] onus, a uousr R. Tl , e sixty millions secret service money rant ed Mr. Pitt by the Engli,lt Parliament, begin to ahesi for what they were intended, in expeaation of leading a favourable issue. Every where upon the 1 Continent, scandalous reports are circulated, con cernin& the pretended ambitious views of France , end calumnies are publisled against the Emperor of the French and his august family. One day Pitt's : publish that the French government in to extend the French frontiers as far as the Da lt* and the Elbe ; another time, that their Impe- Highnesses,Princes Joseph and Louis, aredestined the Emperor, their brother, to occupy the thrones the Bourbons in Spain and Naples, and that his 'env intends to proclaim himself the Sovereign tuarlss Pro-ufter of the Continent; and that his Majesty's brothers in law are to be elevated to the rank of Imperial Eltitors, and reCeive independent Eleflo. ates at the etpence of Germany, Holland, and Iwitaerland. Though the impure source from riga all these falsehoods :low must be evident o every man of sense, they keep both pri Ices and abjeas in continual agitation ; and if they are in tuited by traitors ; make, notwithstanding, impre.;- ions on the weak and cowardly, and unfortunately, many persons of this charasler sit in the Councils If the Continental Sovereigns. The Emperor of be Trench slight claim, not as a favour but as a light s that these and similar absurdities should not Ind their way into the papers printed in neutral to friendly states. That the contrary has, been the tam the determination of our Police Minister, Sena tor Fouche, not to admit in future, into France, any Foreign Journals what'_ vet, clearly proves. But it is lees surprising, that rumours of this description make impresions abroad, when the falsehoodscirculated in France by Fat's agents find believers there. From the malicious, though ridiculous reports, circulated in our circles within these last four weeks, no one can doubt that some of Pitt's millions have found their way to Paris. In one society, the alarmists inform you, that our Beets at Brest and Toulon have been defeated and captured ; at another, that a tempest has sunk our flotillas with their crews. An orator in the Thuillery Garden tells the gaping crowd, with an affected sorrow, that 30,000 of our brave sailors have bees drowned; whilst another spy of Pitt, with crocodile tears in his eyes, publishes to his imbecile audience in the Luxemburgh Garden. that the grand expedition had sailed; but, after atestiag with a storm, was repulsed by the English, Ad that of 100,000 men, 40,000 only had a4ain seen their native shores. In the garden of the Pa- Isis Royal, the den of stock jobbers, these abomin able falsehoods are improved upon, and cupidity profits by the invention of treachery and disaffec tion. But the police, though lenient, is vigilant . Fitt's spies, propagators, nay even his dupes, art 'known and registered ; and when their plots are near their maturity, the Bicetre and the guillotine shall reward them as they deserve.—(Le Alen:or:a! Anharitaaniqvr, by Barrere Equally desirous of conferring the blessings of order and the happiness derived from science, his Imperial Majesty decreed a National Institute fur the Italian Republic. This body of scientific men, apesed their sittings at Bologna on the 10th ult. f All Italians eminent for learning, illustrious from • talents, and respedable for virtues,are members of it. I The constitution of the Italian institute is the same as that of the French, and foreigners may be eleaed members of it, and received as such, if the Emperor lapproves of the choice. The report, that all learned Frenchmen, members of our institute are, de jure 'members of the Italian Institute, is without founda hi" though the Italians, by free will, and without any foreign impulse, have chosen many French !l iterati for their associates in the difficult task to en- Zemin the superstitious nations of Italy. His Ho- Illness the Pope has been elcted deputy proteflor, (the Emperor, their Sovereign, being the natural iproteaor s but Pius VII., by the advice of some fanatics, has declined the proffered h,nour ; and the Vice President Meltzi has been chosen in his place. Among its most remarkable members is Signor Paulini from Ravenna, who, though blind, is one of the first Italian mathematicians, At the age of only eighteen. The Italian men of I.:tters, sub jets of the Emperor of Germany, and of the king of Naples, have returned the diplomas sent them as members of the Italian lo.titute, no doubt by the orders of their respedive Sovereigns. We have heard that the senators of the commis. sion for the pretearun of the liberty of the press high ly approve of the letter of Senator Fnuche, as a minister of police, to the Prefeai in Belgium, and on the left bank of the Rhine, which prohibits the entrance of all foreign papers from Germany and Holland. This is so much the more necessary when the grand expedition is on the eve of setting sail, as English gold and English intrigues would otherwise use the new.papers of these countries to ebange probable defeats into real vidories, and to 'THE BRITISI I I PRESS. WNDON, THURSDAY, Avoun 23. A morning paper of yesterday displayed the fol lowing paragraph in the most conspicuous manner : si We rejoice in being enabled to announce from an indubitable authority, that the Prince of VAL Es will this day have an interview with Ilia MAJESTY at Kew." It would give us sincere pleasure to be able to con firm this report; but we are concerned to say that it is without foundation. The Prince of Wales had no interview yesterday with His MAJESTY at Kew, or any other pla:e. Letters were yesterday received from Prince of Wales's Island, under date the 15th March. No thing further was known there respecting Li tcsi s's squadron, after it left Batavia; but it was generally believed, that it was gone to the Mauritius. Intelligence had been received there, by the Por tuguese vessel, Santa Simon, which had been de tained by Liao's, prior to his meeting the China fleet, to prevent his giving intelligence to the English Government ; that the squadron under L.- "vois had captured twelve ye Acts, five of which be longed to the port of Bombay. One of these ships was taken off Bencoolen : the Captain of the Santa Simon also reported, that above 800 prisoners, prin cipally Laicals, were en board the fleet, among whom were two Commanders, who were band-cuf fed at the time of the Portuguese being on board the Ma►enje. We have received letters from Gibraltar to the 17th ukima, by which we learn that on the 7th the convoy from England arrived there with the Pre voyante of 40 guns, and the Ambuscade of 32 guns. whence the ships for Malta proceeded on their voyage on the Ilth, under convoy of the Sophie. On the 14th the Ambuscade sailed to join Lord Nuatues fleet with five vianallers and store-ships. These will furnish his Lordship with a very season able supply, as his fleet has been in want of many necessary stores for some time, owing to the loss of the Hiudostas store-ship, which caught fire in the :Mediterranean, and was entirely destroyed last April. The latest accounts from Lord Nstsow's fleet are ..1 the Ist ultimo. Ile was left that day off Toulon with his fleet all weThlay a ship of war, the name of which we have not learned, that attired at Gibral tar on the 17th uh. his vessel called at Algiers on the 10th, where they were well received. The Dtv not only be haved with great . civility to the Captain and Officers, but sent with him an Envoy for England with over tures, settling amicably the differences which have existed between the two powers ever since the die. missal of Mr. Fa tcorr, the British Consul. Some of our c'iotemporaries have inserted a pri vate letter, stating that BonAPAara had threatened to invade the Elenorate of Baden immediately with :30,000 men, if His SWETHSH MAJESTY did not leave the territory of his father-in-law, the E rc roa of BADIN. That the Corsican Usurper is ready to commit any injustice as well as any crime, any inso lence as well as any atrocity, we n-ver had the least doubt ; but political considerations often prescribe limits even to the most barbarous mind. The Diet of Ratisbon has not yet decided upon the note of the Emperor of Russia, of the 6th of May, and the Emperor of Gee has not yet acknowledged the poisoner of Jaffa an Emperor of the FRENCH ; it is therefore probable that Bow AAAAA L'S policy has got the better of his malice and hatred against the King of Swsoss ; and that, instead of avowing his intent to invade Germany with an army, he would only send some few hundreds of his armed ba:bditties, and capture the Swedish Monarch, as he did die Duke of El wells, by stealth and by . treachery. We are so much the more inclined to believe this, as it was only upon the arrival of a Russian courier, that His MAJILITY suddenly left Carlsruhe, in the same man ner as the King of SARDINIA, after the arrival of another Russian courier, unexpededly left Rome. By the abilities of the Russian political agents, and by the liberality with which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh rewards all political information, no power penetrates so well into the secrets of the Cabinet of St. Cloud ; and in our diplomatic circle, it is generally believed, that the EM►EROR of Rus 51A Zia, good reasons to warn these two Kings of heir French neighbourhood; and that this, and not any threat of the dastardly BON Ar ARTE, caused them to change their place of residence. In confir mation of this, we have seen private letters from Paris, of the 6th lust. which say, that when, after the late trial of MOREAU, GEORGE, and the other pretended conspirators, the temple was emptied of its prisoners, considerable repairs were made to lodge conveniently state prisoners of rank and con siderati.,a, whom the Parisians believed to he the Kings of NAPLES and SPAIN, as being branches of the Bourbon family. A Morning Print, best known as an appendage to the tail of a party, alluding to the account of the conspiracy to poison the Boos elms, at Warsaw, made the following observation on Tuesday last : " Some French writers here, both in jest and earnest, are in the habit of publishing many fabricated arti cles." By this the print in question would direftly insinuate, that the accounts,t. in Tir r BRITISH Pa ass, and which it meanly copied, and with charac teristic consistency condemned, were written by "some Frenchmen of a serio-comic cast, in the habit of publishing many fabricated articles." Fabricat ed articles ! The charge comes with a good grace from a print that is a daily tissue of fabrications from beginning to end; which, whether descanting upon business at home, or matters abroad ; upon BoN RTE, or the Brenrford EleCtion ; speaks only the language of party, and betrays no feeling but selfishness, no sentiment but prejudice. But, laying the question of fabrication aside, and to come to the charge, that the article which appeared in this Paper was written by Frenchmen ; we do not believe that those loyal and unfortu nate Frenchmen, who have attached themselves to the desperate fortunes of the Bou /terms, who have had firmness to bear up against the loss of affluence, friends, and a country, who have with stood the bribes and amnesties of BONAPARTE. whatever may be the levity of the nation, are pre cisely the men to indulge a comic propensity; and, in the fullness of their sot row, to conj nre up imaginary evils to supply the absence of real misfortunes. But how concludes this illiberal attack upon the French emigrants ? This very same Print, which calumniat ed the account in Tire BRITISH Pars!, as the fabrication of French writers, in a serio-comic mood, yesterday published a new edition of it, from the Crueler de Lenders, from the very source which it abused, as unworthy of credit. The account which it cavilled at as absurd, and matter only of ridicule, confirmed and authenticated by the hand and seal of the French writers in the Courier de Loo ker, removes all scruples, and enables the Paper in question to pledge itself for the truth and authenti city of the contents. Now we can assure our read ers, that no copy of the document transmitted from Warsaw has been yet published ; that the original article would more than fill a newspaper ; and that the accounts which have hitherto appeared, were furnished by persons who only read the article, and reported it from memory, or perhaps a loose note. They may differ in length, and a few particulars, but none of them are true copies. The public, how ever, have nothing to regret on that account. The essence and the substance are the same, and fully sufficient to gratify public curiosity. But whence this anxiety to puff and bolster up the Currier de Lande,r, and depreciate the accounts in THE BRI TISH PRESS ? From jealousy, from envy, and dis appointment. A dull, stupid Print, that fills its columns from day to day with the Brentford Elec tion ; that ruminates upon that garbage, and flatters itself that the public taste is as corrtipt and vitiated as its own, cannot bear a rival that hesitates at no expence, and spares no labour to ensure a priority in every species of useful and entertaining informa tion. The exposure of its ignorance and inthecility puts it out of humour; and it has no resource, but to calumniate the merit which it cannot excel. The Iforrioto, H A ER L ZY, and theAmaism, IT r- CU eft, from Petersburgh, are arrived in Yarmouth Reads. They sailed from Elsiore with a fleet under convoy of the Lion armed ship and a cotter, which parted in a gale of wind, on the 17th irhc ant, in the Slow. The Artadnr, M.BR tor, from Africa, 1: is been captured and re-captured, and is arrived At Liver pool. The Grown, Sinews, is arrived at Bridlington. She was run Alongside of by a lugger privateer, of eight gliac. and full of men, on chit 17th iastarit. oT Tyne:ninth ; but it blew s, hard they could int board her. A Court of Direaors was yesterday held at the India House, which adjourned at six o'clock, till to-morrow. We understand, that in addition to the liberal do nations to China Captains, the IncFa Company intend to represent the services of the ('ommodute to Government, for the favourable ccnsidcration of lis AJ ZST Y. ASk AHAM BR ACESRIDGE, Esq. of Atherstone- Hall, has offered himself to succeed Sr GEORGI. SHVCKSCRGH ES EL Ys, Bart. in the Representalion for Warwickshire. A meeting of the inhabitants of llcry St. Ed mund's, who keep how, and carri.iFe , , WAS held on Monday at the Guildhall, when it was the unani mous opinion of ail present that every exertion • , uld he made to assist Government at this Mi. port Ant crisis. A`: ODE • From the Greek of THOM VS M of the Middle Tempt*, by OLD Nice, of the Inner Temple. T { A: 01 a hzd of rotl :•Sweet,'}' The T..tiait Bard reclining lay, j ,y )u+ pulse with rapture bee, For wine awl music !nark him gay. th: soul >f pleasurc ; l'rio'd it light in vnortiva measure— Tut, wo-la form the Cypriati dart, The reather'd weapon of the heart; That Hilts weave with rows red, crowil t ie lov'd AIII4CREON's head. ‘V:sdoin'i Queen, fro:n fleaeit above, Beheld the Bard, and each f,ir Love, Ai free-dsporting round they plaCd,, Add thus with gentle smiles she said: Atooogit the Wi4e, I hear they call " ANALRLON MileSt of them all t— " Why th,m, old 111A11, thy day4dec , ee " To love and wine, and nut to me " Sue, what is C)therea's " lu Ba , chus' cup, ah, what the bliss! " That ever singing blithe and gaF, " Thou thu, Wit WAUtOll'.l lif away ; " And itudivd sat gray., Wi.do " Nor follow'd wherc I point th! road ?" " Nay, be not angry, do not clink., (The hard of Trios then replied •' That, leaving thee, the wise should rah " ANareaaort wis ist of them all. " I love, I drink, 1 raise the snug, •r 'Midst lovely women, fair and young, •• Artless I spit ; for Soul and Lyre Alike of Love alone respire. " Then since the calm of life I prize " Far more than all—than Sti.ces " Say, am I not a Poet wise Who, who is wiser than my :alfe • Tlii*CM , was written by Mr. hinge, in alln<ian to the Fr OilliSpi , ±Ce to his Tr.in.latiott of Anacreon, iu quarto. t Plato styles him Tu . ! Wise Anacreon." In M. Fonte nell,'s Dialogue hAween laiSt'ltie and Anacreon, the I,tize Wisdom is given to the Poet. Yesterday morning, soma after breakfast, Their MAILS riles and the Par NCEiCEi took- an tiring from Windsor to Kew. On Monday the Princess of NV 4L ES and the Plitt cess Cm ARLO elt dined with His Mkt Esrv, az Kew. Yesterday, Mr. SHEKIDAS gave a grand dinner to a patty of friends in Drury-lane Theatre. Ca vers were laid for thirty, but only twenty-,ix expeded. The Theatre \vs.; splendid!T lighte.i tip.)n the ncc.tsiun. Amon{ he company were M.-. Sir Fa ANCIS BCKDETI, &c. &c. His Highness the Prince of WALES was expeetcd, but did not go. A private party, cons . nting of the two Mr. Matx- IV A KINGS, Mr. M. I.!SH, and about 15 irier Gen— tlemen, dined yesterday at the Nary Cs:lee-house. The dinner was served up in excellent style. Sir Wit.t.ia it Cuaris was expeaed, ;nu slid not attend. The Hon. Mr. Scor r, son to the LORD CR ANCEL. I OR, was married yesterday to the amiable Miss RI oi.r.v, daughter to Sir MA TTDEW WaITL LEY, Portland Place. Lady C.% , 11.131.1. L, Colonel and Mn. MALCOLV, Lady Cuts Lir r s, Miss Mac aeon, and several other fashionable% are among toe visi!ams at Lady Sl4lIo Buactss's beautiful villa in Essex. Mrs. JORDAN personifies the tascinatii.g Cireed . e, for Mr. 1 3 / 1 14NISTLR'a bene fi t. An Engli:h sailor, who noticed Rear-AdmirAl. 1.. - -tills in his flight, swore he was the greatest we Admiral he ever saw. Mrs. THORN rots is to ride at York in buff and blur. Lady GGDIVA, more simple and /mired in her dress. rode only in bug: Marriage is now so much the rage in the fashion able world, Hymen does not moire the support of the fete among the Greeks, during the celebration of which the old maids were allowed to beat the sal date4elors without mercy. CdTer colour was lately a favirtrite colour at Paris, but, in compliment to Rear-Admiral Laro);s. it is now succeeded by tee green. The supreme fashion among the Parisian Aria is to wear upon the left temple a Par 'di,. re versed, with the end of the quill concealed behiA the ear, a profusion of diamonds, and the hair in loose curls upon the forehead. The young ladies of Paris are assigned four dif ferent courses of study tOr the four seasons of the year.—ln Autumn, they learn to ; in they learn to datret ; in sp.mg, they btudy and, in Swam, r, they learn to swim. This day the Whitechapel Corps, under the cern mind of I f ieutenain•Colonel HARDY. and several neighbouring Carps, will he reviewed at Ilickney Fields by Brigadier General Call RUTH LIM Married in New York, on the tl3d ult. by tl.e Reveiend Mr. M.Ksicirr. Mr..1A71E5 %VA (TAM ts.• perater. r,t the amiable Miss Ilis:satt Four:Tar; n! that city—So, the .....d:11-117411/ Irts got a ii.ririreatfr A leLter from New-York, ofisily 9, says, if .11 BON APA R F., it is understood, LA% iatentions of immediate return to France, au.'. , reinplates commencing in a dew days a piett• :-• • tensive tour, in the cor.rse of which, after r ,•.- through the eastern states, he will visit Cie c' of Lebanon and Ball -town, and pursue the cti , t. ary route to view the gran.'. falls or Niagara, rid Lady will be of the pznv." Monsieur Letrov.rtcrisc, latelv the first dancer at the first Theatre at Botirde.ra•:, arriv, -1 at No's' York on the 3.1 Ells, in the sloop Vt• vr, tr-ot Charleston. This gcraltnnan retiorrse.l unfits at Charlesten with the grette-t anpl.:tste. Public buildings and ctirit. , itei .tic the fr•t 0 4- jelts which occur to the min.', y 47`...:Dr . 13 visiting this metropolii. W,-, the-eiOre, it a happy idea in Niev:rs. Kt sot ' and BA in producing so correa a Vi:W of. tint .t'l 1:4 public buildings and grandeur ; ;1•,. vt•tt '•‘ to the Pesos ~.?1 A in the Strar.2. I.&v kiVe advantage of seeing all the curiosities of unot metropolis. • ROUTE C The R, sor for V nined a l i r n t t a o r inr,dda at his se Ha iford they will change h. Berea is v.:11 leap CLSCES Iv; their j I. W.jl).V are exped and live u !Tr. E p; 1 t, SCI The A G.) Dr ,, •,I w : • fP •' • • t' • \ a ' r, bow :1, hz th ers kept length, ti cam:: fory hearing, " It is pike up( to ask it. heard. ckfence will (*. ISO justice do :lumber i) perfe!m:( " al every par I'here c.tr, 53' AV:•. v 11; A rnt4!. ~~, :IJ I " " NI! /I Mf H-.r rirl Wir her Si) high Titzsr 1 am tat That Ahd,ev, I •e n tir, if a:1,1 IJt, N. I'M RI The Hu an cleg.*nt Vesterch u ndmook a wager of distance Ox ford-stre He tive p wiLida the SP.:Arts at Itaby ,111 ' 1 "f lIV bro'w 4 , )ear, old TACeb Vuu9 turf disseminate disastrous reports, which afterwards would be copied into our papers, and cause uneasi ness to all Frenchmen, who love the honour of their country and the glory of their sovereign. 3 he courier, with the letters from Rennes to Brest, was lately stopped by twelve masked persons, and robbed of the bags. Their principal objea was however, to get money ; but their whole booty in cash amounted to no more than eleven Louis d'ors.