The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-09-21 00:00:00

I FORLIGN EtTELLIGENTS FROM TM, FRENCH PATERS. IPARF, Mot. It. They write from Dijon, that prie.ts are conti. nually passing through that town, whom govern. me t, nn accomt of their olostinary and refra&ory sp: is obligod to transport or banish. Their con s in the country, among the common people, has caused many sanguinary scenes ; whilst it has dis graced every good Frenchman, either e ckristtnn ore patriot. Last week, five priests were confined in the prisons of this town, and afterwards, by the order of the Emperor, were trati.ported, under the escort of grin ifaimara, to Rimini, in Italy. During their confinement, fanatics and devotees surrounded their prison, brought them in abundance to eat and drink and, when their condemnation was known, aubserihed a sum of money, so that each priest te stived fifty lonis d'ors. From this it may be jmiged, that tb fanatics are not among the low classes ref the people, or that their pious zeal must be maintained by the gold of British heretics. One priest, from the department of Me t urth, attempted to preach to the people from the windows of his prison, telling them that the chief of the Roman Catholic Church was not free, and, of course, his ads and appoint. !bents could not ; with other seditious expressions, /Aids caused him to be removed to a dungeon, where he might g. atify his envy of preaching a solilmtny. It is hoped that His Holiness the Pope, by his penance in this country, will restore to con sciences that tranquillity, of which those of the ig norant, weak, and timid, have so long been depriv e 3; and which has given rogues or fools so many opportunities to trouble government, and to skislead the people.—(st venal lea Dejessearrt.) An article from Utrecht states, that a temporary theatre has been waded in the camp of the Gallo- Batavian army, near Ziest, by isa orders of Getz: al filarmont, and a troop of French players are *Cling every night. The ciireltor is Mir. Desirk, who per formed last year with so much applause the part of Narleqvia, in the Theatre on the Bnuleverds. lie is accompanied by nine altresses, and twelve actors ; and, it is believed, that the good faces (mina) of the former, as much, at least, as the ttlents of the lames, procure always crowded houses. He expels, ague muse dolmen of both sexes from France ; and • we mappois list he will meet with little difficuliy in finding, at least, female recruits, when it be known, that of the nine altrassas with him, four have already found good-natured husbands, having married Bs tavian officers of an less rank than Majors or Cap tains.--(Journal des Whitler.) A person of the name of Sanne, who calls himself a contrattor, wroitLyeiv s 1.0.- 0. rs„.l-.„411,1 4 s..mars IN me loth egtment of Huss a rs , in which he applied f r a contrad to furnish this regiment w:th necessaries; offering, at the same lime, the Colon(' a sum of six per cent upon the whole amount ~ 1 Ow contra& ; and. in cat, she Colonel could pi. , (Jrc him it, he might immediately draw a bill of ex change, at sight, for i.:',000 hems. The Colonel sent this letter of Sarnir to the General of Diviyion, Bonier, who, as a warning for others, has publish ed it in most of the daily papers. The rumour is totally without foundation, that General %iorean,under the responsibility of the Spaa ish Government. has obtained permission to reside in the Island of Mihorca. Ile has pro:sably already sailed for North Anse: iea, and he can never return t to France without a special peninsula from the ETnperor.—( Janina de P..ris ) nider the 12,u49 persons ysho died last year in the diocese of Borgo, in the Grand Duchy of Fin land, 1.57 e; fell viaims to the ..mall pox ; a great nu indeed, and which ilic earlier introduetion of the cow pox might have prevented. It was on the day of Ft. Napoleon, that Field Marshal Jouidan decorated himself. and distri buted, among the officers and mer. under his cons- 1 ?nand in Italy, the crosses, As members of the Le- F. ino of Honour. The ceremony and th.• day were ~ eiehrated with great p .mp. under a salute of 101 yens. In the evening, the Fie!J Mai 5!..41 gave a ball, at which I,£oo persoii.„ of both sexes, were Fresent. Ihe city of Milan was illuminated in a most b , autift:l mliner, and nothing was seen but rejoicings, or bend but Vier !Teo rewr Ilittairois .• It is reported, but not believed, that the Empe. rnr has ri called hit Cie-re er e I Kerte in Sweden, M. Gaillard, without appointing him a successor. But, as long as the Mani/ear is %Heat on this sulijat, it can be nothing else but a false ransom. The King of Prussia, as a proof of His Majesty's =tisfaclion with the mance:tyres of the troops en camped in Silesia, made the Lieutenant-General, Craveuitz, commander of the Black Eagle, and Lieuterant-General Voss, of the Red Eagle. Lieu- tenant-General Doll's re,:eired besides, in ready money, a present of 1,,500 ti: dollars (:201.), Ma jor-Genet-4 Linir.er rix dollars (1461.), and Colonel lindorf, of the Gottkantit Regiment of Hussars, the same sum, Os I,A :a TIX dollars. The loaf _es of most of the Ita]ian states are very much deranged of late years, having all bun suf. fesers, more or less, direftly or indireetly, from the late disastrous wars. This misfortune is common to Tuscany. For a long time its treasures and re sources have been exhausted, and its debts aug mented. The evil has arrived at that height, that the Queen Regent of Etruria has been forced to appoint a committee, charged to find out some re medy to re establish order and regularity in the finances. The members of this committee are: Chevilier Fi.srambr• Ili, Marquis Corsi, Pt ince Nevi Corsini, and the Counsellors of State, Leo nardo, Lollahi, Spanocchi, and Fabroni. The debts of the late Eletiorate of Mentz amount to 6,153,818 florins. Of this sum, the King of Prussia, as Elector of Brandenburgh, has taken upon himself to pay, on account of the territory of this late Eleam Ate, which he has obtained as indemnity, the suns of 832,959 florins ; and, for the same cause, the Emperor of the French has promised to PaY t,652,030 florins. What powers are to acquit the remainder 3,649,833 florins, will be regulated by a deputation of the States, according to the va lue of territory each neighbouring Prince has at tained. In a letter from Orange in Dauphiny, of the 2nth nit. is said, It has not ceased to rain an hour for Own. last eight days, and all our rivers have over tioweJ their banks. The Durance, the most rapid of them all, has carried away, or sunk all the boats on its banks, which has been very injurious to the fair at lkaucaire. It is impossible to calculate the Amount of the losses ; the proprietors of lands near the rivers have suffered. The whole country, in the neighbourhood of rivers, form nothing but large lakes. Fortunately the harvest was over; but the vineyard, olive, mulberry, and almond trees, have perished, from their roots being so long under water, when they were loaded with fruits Almost ripe. In the memory of man, such a flood Las not liAppencci before at this period of the year. The physicians in our country have observed a cu rious phenomenon During three consecutive days at sevirral hours, four or fiee thunderbolts were, as ascending from the earth, elevatii.g themselves to the top of the high mountain, called Ventoux, and leaving behind then a train of fi: e, similar to a volcanic eruption. i•;ome pretend even to have felt some docks of an earthquake, and a very sul. pliurous odour, particularly befurc sun r15e. " .... ( . 704//ia dt GreaoPe. f hal I /.) NI ATI 1.11. , •••••11L.' .!•"' at the Puldic Tll}.; PRESS. LON DON, FRIDAY, SLP MI: An extra& of a letter esoro Montreal. in a subse eient column. will be found interesting. It spews Coe .avarice And cruelty car those secret emissaries, %So delude I riti ls subje:ts t emigrate and become slaves in North America, with the vain and idle hype n making Cteir fortune in a country. where t! , e horr•nr of their bondage is so much the more left, as c.i.itrinpt is added to oppression, and ti:eir masters are brutal and Avaricious. The forced or purchased addri,sses of the French Government would lead us to suppose that all was content, hiyaity, and happiness, in France. En slaved, however, as the French press may be, it Kill appear, from the GStrafls 11‘0111 the small Paris Papers, which we ezdasively receive, that France is At this moment torn by political and religions schisms. If power, tyranny, vigour, and oppres sion, had been able to heal all wounds, to conciliate all tempers, and tranquillise all agitation, Boxa ras rr, the grand pacificator of Europe, would not have condescended to share the glory of the ti iumph with another. It is, however, obvious, that he buds this a task above his strength, and that the Poet is called to Paris, not only to swell the pomp and grandeur of the Coronation of the Emperor of the French, but to do the State a more sub stantial service, by composing those feuds and animosities by which it is now disturbed and clic. tras9cd. IVhether the spiritual powers of Pius the VI his shall have more induenee than the temporal lower of NA rot. EON the Ist, time only can discover. It is hot, however, likely, that a people, who have dun:vides! the Hulls of his Holiness, and despised his Legates, whom neither Concordats could u:rte, nor aeis of Senahar Coessilters reduce to submission, will pay much respell to his lue se:ice, and his personal attendance upon the mock coronation of the Usurper of the throne of France. Seat...l upon the papal throne in the ca- pital of the ancient world, His Holiness might stiil command a dignified station among the powers of Europe, all of whom have been obliged to yield, more or less, to the revolutionary storm whiell has, for so many years, spread ruin and desolation over the continent; but to drag this venerable Poritirr from the bosom of Lis coi.slave and his church, to a& a part in the harlequinade and pantomime of Aix-la-Chapelle, to exh.hit this Christian Prinze tied to the chariot wheels of a vi.ilorious Infidel, is to add blasphemy to instil:, and to sactifice to vanity the little remaining resiielt and influence that His Holiness retains over the consciences of men in France. In every pl 31 nos A we find a double purpose ; but h.! ni:ist he blinded by vanity indeed, if he does not see that an Austrian Emperor, or a Roman Pontiff, when they submit to become the instruments of his ambition, and the creatures of his will, arc robbed of their influence, and sunk and degraded in the inverse ratio of their former elevation. If there be one man of principle and pure religion in France, what must be his feelings, when he beholds the Roman Pontiff imploring the blessings of Heaven upon the murderer, si.ouer, atheist, and assassin, in that very church at Paris, in which that very criminal, with his unrepented crimes upon his head, glorying in his guilt, and in the full enjoyment of its success, only ten years ago worshipped a naked prostitute, a Goddess of Rea son !!! So far as this exhibition of the Pore is in tended fur the purpose of swelling the pomp and pageantry of a triumph over religion, order, and morality, the Corsican's vanity will be gratified ; but, so fir as he expe.fts that it will quiet the minds and consciences of men in France, he will he disappointed, and find it only a sour ce of clissa tisfaillion and disgust. BON APAR WS Commander in Hanover, the revo lutionary Field-Marshal BERN ADO tr, when the last letters lett Hamburg)), was in the town of liar bourgh, opposite that cat. , where this e."-deaaut ser jeant of the regiment of La VIA Marine, expected that the Senate would send some of its Members to invite him to Hamburgh, or at least to compliment him on his arrival in the neighbourhood. Neither however took place, which highly incensed his Mock Excellency, who dispatched his Secretary to the Senate, requiring an answer in twenty-four hours to the demand already made by General C'SA tt &ATHtxa, the Chief of the Stiff of the French army in Hanover, of a han of two of marks banco, upon the security of tie Statcs of this EleAorate. After some hours deii'aeration, the Se nate charged one of the Syndics of the city to wait U1)013 BLitNAnOT7 6, who, After a great deal of abuse against the liamburghers for their pretended An glomania, was finally softened into complacency by the sight of good bills of exchange, to the amount of sixty thousand marks, 4,5001. which he consented to put into his pocket, with the greatest possible ta,iffrod, assuring the Syndic " that he had greatly at heart the prosperity ut that city, and there fore it would mach distress him, should he be 11:-.der the necessity of having recourse to military execu ti.m to enforce the payment of the loans of which this army Was in so great want." The report of an approaching revolution in Spain, rests solely, we beLeve, upon a letter from Bilboa, the substance of which is much exaggerated. The disturbances which Lave broken ont are, we understand, confined to thin , and proceed merely Ire:7l local causes, witholt any rel.:U.ln whatever to the general politic. crg ~ .crnnient of the country. The Bank Dire. ors yr:terday rams to a resolu tion to divide 5 per cent. upfin Bank Stuck, and to encre ise their salaries from 1.5..11. to 3001. a year. By a new regulation at the Custom-House, all packages are examined before they leave the River, by the proper officer. It has been reported. ar•.i commented on in several of the Papers. that the Ambassador from the Court of Nlairid left Engl rod much about the time that our Ambassador returned from Spain. That re. port is totally unfounded ; his hlxcellency the SPAN. ISM Amesssanoit has seen his Lady, with his two daeghters and son, out of tosvn, on their way to Spain ; hut lie still resides in I.iindon, and there is at present no reason to expoia that he will soon leave England. Vice A imiral Caowm, who h7s the command of the Russian fleet lately arrived at Llsineur, and who fought sn gallantly in the Swedish war, is now crisis. ing •Nf Bop uhulni. Tile French General Boyce has of late hrnken his parole, by going to Matlock, and by endeavouring • to send letters to his friends in France without pass. ink► through the regular channel. The General has received an int,mirion, that unless he complies with the terms of his parole, be will he confined. A letter from Doter, of the I ith, SAYS, " Last night a nisei arrived from off Bouiegne, by which we learn, that yesterday morning there was some firing there ; but it could neither he seen nor heard at Dover. The firing, however, was of no con. sequence. Yesterday afternoon, ;here were about fifty Enrich vessels outside of Boulogne H.trbour, cruising ab ut, manoeuvring, and exercising their crews, under protection of the land batteries. There trete. of our own ships, two bombs and six gun-hrgs, cr.:ising tbout also, out of reach of the law!, and t w o of our frigates at anchor. The rest of the Boulogne spi adroit was at Dungeness. The weather continues hazy, and nothing further is known to-day. The r1:11 . 84, of 64 guns, is arrived in our Roads." We hear that to the eight troops of the Somerset western gentlemen yeomanry, who arc to assemble on Sunday nest at Taunton, the Colonel (Lord Po a c HISTea), in his circular letter, has stated, a dinner will be provided for each of the regiment durinz their being embodied at Taunton, gratis, besides their lady pay from Government. --,---- DRURY LANE THEATRE. :n n J i d li r t e h e e . po P m i P 4 a rr nd w brill P ia r n nd cy lic ci e f d sp h l er en e di l d ast sce n n i e g r h y t ration. Nlr. ELLISTO* and Mrs. Jos Ana m a d, their ir't appearances in the charaders of ROI; and Edair:. This lady was the Latta Torun, ' of she American theatre, in which ch trader she made her 4. Oa? at Cusent Carden. She also perfornel at than i'heatr- , e in Tie Art -railing 0p.,. But it was in the elegant and interesting Comedy of Loeccs rows she made the greatest impressiol. In that piece she was the original Agatha Ftihe k7 during the whole season. She played it v!h genuine pathos and feeling, and gave to it 4 3 interest that will not soon be forgotton. Si that period she has been the ornament of the H. 1 .1 stage, from which she is now come to renew her az , quaintance with a London audience, and resume t1:4: place which she once held in their favour. person, which is a hire one, is wull adaptr-.I for r‘, but there are a softness. a delicacy and gentlen.,, in her natural manner, that mu , t rt.~ it a Scutt task to give full effect to the 'add and detrt, mined chara&er of the heroine. Tae first seete chewed, that whatever her improrentents map hare been in other respens, she has not acquired an Ad. ditional degree of coafidence. and an illiberA though puny, attempt to discourage her, encre ise i her natural timidity ; but the impression soon wirr off, and, in the progress of the piece, she ern re. warded with the most unqualified applause _ Mr. EL Lis on played Rolla for Hs late benefi t at the Opera House; but, amidst a creed, tumult, and confusion, that forbad all criticism. Last night his powers had fair play. In the &ch. matory scants he was rather inclined to rant, bur Iv exc-Iled in the t order and more difficult parts of the charader. Mrs. H. Jo N STUN'S CUM was natural and seeding. The Farce, " followed with its usual success. The house es. played an elegant and crowded audience. ELOPLAIEAT. At one o'clock yesterday, a post chaise and Nu drew tip at thirlingron Gardens, opposite to th e house of the Earl nt Ur In lOG E. The carriage wit very complete, a•id the horses were of the first ordsx of hack. A man, who had all the appearance of is hostler, attended, and set upon the steps with :he door of the carriage open, ready to receive its intend ed company. Shortly after, a tall, handsome Ges tleman, about thirty-five years of age, came up. Ile was of brown complexion, and wore a dark Cr. loused co it, boots, and leather breechrs lie no notice of the carriage, but walked up and In es the s:reet in a state of encreasing agi: ttlun. The prs 9engers were struck with the scene, and, conne:t rg him with the carriage in waiting,conclisded th,t some mysterious business was going forward. In ties opinion they were soon confirmed, by the app 'z of two young ladies, elegantly dressed, with their faces concealed by steep white lace veils. Th.r were in great liast. and pert:it:beim, ; and, joined by the gentleman, they all thre.:hurri , :d Sue the carriage. They had scarcely ta's2n their 1•30, when the gentltman, in a loud voice, desired r ' 4 postillions to drive to Cranforr , Bridge. S • • of the persons present had the. klicx • tin carriage, and they soon fauvist t t it to ;te st contrary diredion. From all the circunisimires, eery little doubt remains but that it was; an elope ment. • LAST AIt!fIVALS AT MATH. Viacaunte.l Ashbmok. Lady 11.irewrsnd, Sit C ,oiler Devorux, Sir Edward CuMorsel, Mn.s a,, I the t NI. s Glkstims. Mej.wai. , l \lr.. , Rev !)r. and Mrs %I ,shet , , Dr. Jones 1)r Rait-r, Rev. Mr OM, R.v. %Ir. Asnall, T. H rulbronke, Rri 1; %CH-sof-A. Rev. •Ir and Ks. Wars, Co n k Acid MAI. S. Snell, Cal and Mr. Erskine. Lord Viscount Get MSTON fare, List night, a s perh ball and supper to the Nolubty tn.l Gcn:ry the county ..f Flertfuttl, at his seat neat' St. Altar's. Among the Nobility expeZted were. the Mate+ , nest of Sat ont,nr, Countess Sr, 6..cr.r, and Lady Geowut!...sCtcit. iinrd Do sCAMtioN'S complaint has been an intim mation nn the lungs. We are happy to star, he is rapidly advancing to convalescence. The Pad and Countess of CH Atscuovr 1.12-e the Priory, the hospitable seat of the M.uspo , sal hiarehiimen of A BERCJAN t to-morrow, fa Bug nor Rocks. ' The Hon. wiLLI4M CA VVlD'ilt, M. P. returned to town yesterday from E•otbourne Earl Sr. Vircsar returned to town on Tiny last. and the Countess came yesterday from Chel tenham. Lord Dowse arrived in town yesterday urn Seotl tud, at BLAKS'S The lhtehesits of BALTON proposes Southampton with her pieseoce for some wr..1.). Lord and Lady A et HEIM returned to town ye,•er. day from Don -a+ter. The health of l7scountess YAIINI;TH is much impaired by her irn:u ist lment in France. Sir BOY R •CI!!:, being guestiant.l AS t. , .;i• state of the Boulogne flotilla, answer:it:l—u it ways erxising loud iv-friar% a.iont, but consantlf upon the same spot." Lite Earl and Countess of Lai Trim and fanu . :l left Cheltenham on Monday last fi , r Ireland. The Is fax , 124,eisu will he a cm :ous instant' an aeor playing withjimtmet.t, be fore babas arrived at the years of diterrtiem. Mr. Ralf xoLos deprecates premature dowiettri for his new comedy, by the title of liar it out. Dientst, encouraged by the succe.s of his E'" lil.; Fiore. has a . Frtzate upon the stocks. Ba'r'n and Sr. mace take it in tow. The Royal York Mary-la-vonne Volanteers hal yesterday a Seld day i. Hyde Park. Th:y vitrimand by Sir H. VA , / ASOL 4in the ab . cl•` . of Lord DVPICA111111.111«. -- - An effeCtual m••cle of preserving vitiarrs 1•44 beer. 1.11e!y discov:: , ed by a Loud Akilman. 11.* p:,, , poses to keep plenty of grapes always near t h,tn. Some of the country milliners, invti.scl of court; to town for the fashions, are content to copy thew from some miserable pints. This accounts 41 the *Teat display of eerieetures at averr assizes aa race ball. ~, V rive Tra and ht I.lx wrm vl I w;th on tl spa then nwlu 4 Ire hay iwardi the AI ti bo43ie l / 4 1 far, fro swim edge c, the the Fry bi the illust: form m 'lle cm mince mow y oi it is dmcitp elestinea pteolic at tbe 14 eel .4.1 awed c wtreii tits a3J digi Iu thq ballets, d 1., logu i hittikled reserrthli The ( 1 0, r , I.ad 3 ..ei11• Ili itr .r:l4 t r, •:;-y ~~ I.NVI a.,t-tes a furtict t . torot. I aNd dine. of a billion yell hem , 10 lt • the loon Atr ,i replete. w Otte f ttibeflilA IVedn e I "'ral (kr.i, nj vrattiq ta Lord ErieJ to ht *1 his gre 44 ", Pr at 1112 7 i ng the