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if I I IT r. . . This Di, ate puhrobol, In Chu Vohune attar% 'lice Vs. i • LETTTERS on the MODERN HISTORY and POLITICAL. ASPECT of EUROPE:: exhibit ing the Mature, Causes, and probable Consequences of the grand Contest, between Great Britain and Trance and the ie. litical Circumstances of the iliferent Nations which compote the Ftiinpeatt System. With an Investigation of the poli tical and commercial Importance of Egypt, and the 0.111,C -quences that might result Irani the Annexation ut that wn try to the ll..aainiont of Fraud. Illustrated with Ilistirical arid Ueograpliteal Observation.: Ily JOHN BIGLAND. " The Letters in this Volume are sixteen in number and they discuss, in turn, *linnet ell the great questions which can Sc agirated by politicians of the present hour. The principles of the Author are every where sitund and patriotic, and his 'wow ledge is surprisingly extensive British Critic, May, Mg Printed for Lnursan, Hurl, Rees and Orme, No. 39 "a ternoner-tow. Of whom mar be had, 11s the same Author, lately published, lAMRS on tint STUDY and USE of ANCIENT and MODERN HISTORY. Contai , Mig Obserratinns a nd Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of those Events which have preduced arty conspicuous Change its the Aspect of tho Vltirld, and tine General State of Haman Affairs. The Second Edition, Price 6s. Bonds. " Mr Bigland displays in this Volume a wellacultisated and comprehensive miod. Ilis style is generally correct ; firs in formation is externaire ,• and the marry pertinent remarks and inferences with which he has enriched this Summary of General Iliatory, inset our cordial approbation." Monthly Review, June, 1514 COR ESPONDENCE tTIL TO PRISONERS OF rv.411. (Conclude , : from our P.lper of Ye.terday ) TRANSLAIIOA VRO4I TNt 71tCtICH. Portland•place, 19th July, 1404. MY Losio,—l have received the note your Lord ship ha' done me the honour of addressing to me ; in whirls I am desired to forward its contents to his Catholic Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, to the end that His Britannic Majesty's sentiments on the treat ment which has been exercised towards Captain Wright, may be made known to the French Go wernmelit. At our last interview, I had the honour of express ing to your Lnretsliip, how mod' I should be fiat terra at being able to render myselt at all useful to His Britannic Majesty's Government, in facilitat ing its means of communication with that of France on this head. I consequently hasten to assure your Lordship, that I %sill seize the first occasien which may offer for making sucn communication. Meanwhile, I have the satisfa&ion of expressing to you my very sincere wishes to set this step crowned with such a measure of success, a; may prove satin. faslory to His Britannic Majesty. I beg your Lordship to accept my assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) Titz Csizvszias VA.soasna. Lossi iternneay. TRAtts4•lloPt /110`1 Tin Ylliatt011• ro:!l4sd Seot.mtlier 24, 114 1 7"4 Losio—At length I ha.e the i f 4.lt_l_l4_, Oil of announcing to your Lordship, the success which has attended the steps taken in favour of C:apt. Wright. 'By a letter from M. Talleyrand, addressed to his Catholic Majesty's Ambassador (a copy of which I have the honour of transmitting to you). your Lord ship will perceive, that the French Government is disposed to order Mr. Wright to be placed at the disposal of His Britannic Majesty; and, for his de tiverance, only waits to learn the place where this pri soner is to be consigned. Atter the lively interest which is evident to have been felt by His Britannic Majesty, in the-fate of this individual. I cannot but be infinitely flattered at the rasolution thus taken by the French Government, And I shall be no less so, as being instrumental towai Ss the pellet conclusion of this affair. In expressing thew sentiments, I do but fulfil the wishes, and even the very orders, of the King, my master; for, no sooner was His Majesty in' ntm , d of the desires of the British Government, with regard to Captain Wright, than he charged his Ambassa dor at Paris, most particularly, to omit nothirg which could aid their obtaining a favourable result. I avail myself of this opportunity for renewing to Tour Lordship, the assurance of the high considera tion with which I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) Till CIILVALIIR D'ANDUAGA. Lord Harwell. L ATION ?ROM THE TRENCH—ENCLOSCRE 1111011 lt. D ' ANIWROR TO LORD HARR•N7Y. ( 10th Fru‘titlnr, XII ), :HO Aligtt.t. Stn—l have laid before his Majesty the Emperor, the letter which you have done me the honour of woraunieating to me. By his order, I must reca 'titillate to your Excellency some fats. which relate to the object of that letter. Mr. Wright was taken by our cruisers, at the very moment he was landing Jews Marie and two of his accomplices, on the coast of Britarry. Prior to this, he had already landed at three times consecutively, banditti of a similar de- • scription. who have since been brought to judgment, conviaed, and punished, for having conspired against the state, and attempted the life of the First Consul. These species of aCts, under whatever point of vie .v they may otherwise be contemplated, certainly do not appertain to war. There is no age, nor any :la tion, in which they would not be regarded as crimes, and one may, with truth, aver, that it was ~ rtagranti debates, Mr. Wright WAS captured by irench mari ners, tken officiating as an armed force. According to Accounts, to which full credit mast be given. this officer had been demanded from the English Admiralty. The Lords direfling this de partment were, of course, not ignorant of the kind of service to which he was destined. The shame at tached to the premeditation and execution of a pro jea, •s atrocious and wile, as it was cowardly, re mains entirely with,the men who devised the plot, and, with him, who undertook to accomplish their ♦iews. I am ordered, Sir, to declare to your Excellency, that his Majesty the Emperor will never suffer Mr. Wright to be exchanged. No Frenchman belong big, with whatever rank he may. to the Imperial Navy, can ever consent to be placed in the balance with that person, in a cartel of exchange. But, Sir, the Emperor. having at bean to do every thing which depends tipan his Imperial Majesty, to mitigate the scourges of war, and willing to pose, that in his breast such a disposition preponderates over even usiativet of useful and just severity, has authorised me to declare, that his Imperial Majesty will give orders, that Mr. Wriibt be placed at the disposal of the ; English Government. May I hog of you, there fore, to make known to Lord Ilarrowby, this gene rous determination of his Majesty. You will sec in it, Sir, the mat ked intention of doing what may be personally agreeable to yourself; and Ilia Blitannic Majesty's new Ministry will be constrained to re cognise in it, a proof of the disposition so often ma nitested on the p.m of his Imperial Majesty, to spew himself above not only those sentiments which of fences in general excite, but eves above those which might spring from the attempts, of which his own person has been the objea. 1 shall, therefore, remain in expeclation of learning by your means, the place which the English Government wish the prisoner of state, claimed through your intervention, to be deli vered over. I avail myself of this opportunity of renewing to your Excellency the assurance of my most high con sideration. (Signed) CHARLES MAURICE TALLEYIAND. Certified as a copy. (Signed) FREDERIC GRAVINA• Certified as a copy. (Signed) THE CHEVALIER D'AHDUAGA. To H. Excellency Admiral Gravina. COPY. Dimnioe-greet, September 25, 1804. S it—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of yesterday, and to assure you, that His Majesty's Government entertain a just sense of the liberality and generosity, with which His Ca tholic Majesty has been pleased to interpose his good offices, in favour of Captain \Wright, and of the very obliging manner in which you And M. Gravina have complied with the request contained in my former note to you upon this subjeet. As the French Government has consented to libe rate that officer from his present confinement, and to allow him to return to this country, I do not think proper to make any observations upon the contents of M. Talieyrand's Note to Admiral Gravina. 1 have, therefore, to request that you, Sir, will he pleased to communicate, through M. de Gravina, to the French Government, in consequence of the wish they have intimated, to know the place to which Captain Wright should be sent ; that it is the desire of His Majesty's Government, that he should be sent to Dover is a flag of truce ; or, if there is any objeCtion to that mode of liberating him, that he may be allowed to quit the territories of France, for the purpose of proceeding to Embden, or any other neu tral port or place —1 have the honour to be, -Ste. (Sigoed) HILKIWW*Y. The Chevalier irAnduaga. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEP f LUBER 11. The Quebec fleet is safe arrived. Part of it, con. sisting of twelve sail, under convoy of the Uratud frigate, reached the Downs on Monday ; the rest, to tile amount of fifteen sail, have put into the western ports, for which they were hound. We have now only one more fleet at sea, the Leeward Island fleet; but no fears are entertained for its , safety. ..—......-- Some of the Evening Prints, of yesturday, say, " That the Combined Fleets remain in Cadiz, is now placed beyond all doubt. The zfriiitic, of 81 guns, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, from Ad miral Cox xiticiwouo, whom she left on the second, blockading Cadiz, with 28 sail of the line." We are extremely sorry that the Pi ints to which we allude should, have suffered so much unnecesr.ary uneasiness, as they appear to have done. We in formed them, on Monday, upon the authority of his Majesty's sloop, the Plow, that the fleets under Sir ROURRT CALDER and Admiral COL LING woo o, had formed a junftion before Cadiz. se far back as the 26th last, and were left blockading the Combined Squadrons in that port. The English blockading fleet, as we farther stated, amounted to twenty.six sail of the line. We believe very few, except the prints in fitleatioll, could have entertained any apprehension that the enemy would attempt to put to sea, ir. the face of a 13ritish force of this mag nitude. - NJ French, Dutch, or German Papers, of a more recent date than those, the contents of which we have already communicated, were received when this Paper was put to press.—Whatever has been since offered, respetoog military movements upon the Continent, whether in the shape of report or private letters, are nothing but speculations.... The stream can go no higher rip than its source ; and yet, we do find, that thest: rumours and specu lations have some weight, and give to the original report, a credit beyond the authority from which it took its rise. The two points to which we particu larly all.tde are, the march of all the army, lately encamped at "Boulogne, for the Rhine, and the atrial commencement of hostilities upon the Continent; two points upen which the public now reason as truisms, and priociples universally granted. We lately stated, that BO?: AVAICI AL had only a short time to fight England single-handed, and to redeem the pledge which he had given in the face of Eu rope. To invade England, wrJi a continental war upon his back, is a labour beyond his achiavement 3 and, therefore, the moment we had reason to con clude that a continental war was inevitable, we ceased to consider the invasion,hut as an idle menage, Upon the disappearance, however, of the camps in the vicinity of Boulogne, we must observe, that it does not striftly justify, in the fall extent, the condo- s;on deduced from it. It %you'd be 1 waste of wordi ' to argue, that if the army has disappearee from the heights of Boulogne, that is precisely what night itr expeaed if they were embat ked on board the tt.eilla fur the purpose of invasion. That part of them have marched for the interior, our cruisers have ascertain ed ; but that a formidable portion of them still re mains in Boulogne, or on br.ard the flotilla, is very probable. Bomar A ITZ will flat expose his flotilla, which he has been so long ctilleaing, at so great es pence and trouble, to the danger of being destroyed by Sir SIDNEV SMITH and his machines. NVe may be assured, that there is still a stout army at Bou logne, and that they deceive themselves, who be lieve that the troops have all marched to the in terior, and that only a few sailors remain to do duty in the fortifications. The condua of some of our contemporaries, at this particular crisis, is highly entertaining. Those who were the londest and most incessant in their menaces of invasion, appear to have less recolleatott that any such dan ger ever threatened us, than those who never believed in it. Not content with naming the month and the day, they had repeatedly prediEted the hour and the minute; but now, the word inva sion appears to be obliterated from their vocabulary, and the very idea of it has vanished from th 7ir me mory. We believe, indeed, that the invasion is aside for the present ; but we must not hastily presume upon that belief as a certainty, or aEt as if it were impassible that the danger, though interrupted, may not be speedily revived. A precipitate and eager belief of perfe& security, would betray weakness and. levity, Our Govern ment, as we have already stated, will ad with firm ness and circumspeuction. We this day give the conclusion of the Corre spondence between the English and French Go vernments, respeaing prisoners of war. We have the pleasure to anassace a fall in the price of bread yestertlay. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday at Lord Mui.oaas is Office, which sat three hours. Its deliberations were of the highest importance. They related to the new Continental Confederacy, upon which subjea an interesting Declaration is shortly expected to he published. The result was imme diately sent off to His M IJIST V, at Weymouth. Mr. Pirr came to town last evening, to his house in Downing-srreet,where he was shortly after visited by the Loan CH AIIetLLOR• Dispatches were received yesterday from Admi ral Cuictsw►Lt.'s. They ate dated Saturday last, at which time the Brest fleet remained as usual. • The East India Beet, arrived in the River, is esti. mated at ten millions sterling in value. The '1 mite and the Arke,,ienow men of war, stud the lifeefiettir frigate. with the whole of the fleet ender convoy Eons the East Indies, are arrived in t he Dcwns. The Qurra. IlA set.L, from Gibraltar for Lisbon, the Itith repottei to be capturel and burned, on t., ult. off Cape St. Viment, by the Combined Fleets is stated to have arrived at Lisbon on the 25th ult. The Lip , tiNtent, IVrrutas. from Botany Bay, Sailed from China about six weeks b-tore the last in company wit!' the °runt, parted off the Cape, and has not since been heard of. Tly:re Las been a very useful alt:ration in the mode of paying the sh.pwri,thts in the Royal Dock yard at Plymouth. They are to work two days and three-go:titers a day in one week, and each artifi c:r is to have one guinea per week every Saturday night. Sir lloseat StIOR► hitt.lity, late Governor of Quebec, his family and suite, are come to England in the (I I Asa The Lord Bishop of Qu case is also arrived in the Anne. The East India Fleet will afford a siifficien simply of stamen. to enable several ships of war, which Are equipped in to sea imme newly A great number of hands were obtained from the West India Fleet. A letter fiom an Officer nn beard the Inderniipble. dated To:b iv, 8 h iniewit, says, " We have just received waled orders, which are not to be opened until we are north-west of the Salutes. I believe we are going upon a criiii.e." Letters from Lisbon, dyed the tOth ult. state, that the brave Captain Woo*, his Officers, and 70 of the gallant crew of the late B lan , he, have been landed from I.n ' bonze, of 44 guns, which took shelter in ilia Tsgus from the Go/rerb and Organ, of 74 guns. when they chased her into port The British Consul has taken under bis care, Capt. M. and the 0 Beers, on parole, with the seamen and Royal Ma rines. Receipts were given to the French Consul at Lisbon for the number delivered over, not to set ye, till regularly exchanged. I.ist of British armed ves , els taken by the French, since the commencement at the present war :—The amount is 14, nnt out of which is of the line, nor one taken under circumstinces glorious to the cap tors. the names of the captured are, the Minerva, 42 guns, which ran aground in a thick log near Cherbourg. and was capttired ; —the Redbridge schooner, of Ili guns, taken by a squadron of tri- :.;ates, near Toulon ; the Wolveripe, of It; guns, sur rendered in a sinking state to two French privateers of 36 guns and 20 guns, alter an anion of three. quarters of an hour ; the Vincou, of 18 guns, cap tured by a sw4rm of gunboats. in a dead calm ; the evane, of Its guns, taken by the Combined Fleets ; Cle Li/y. of If; guns. taken after a gallant action; tile Mallard gun-vessel, ran ashore. and taken ; the Array, of 30 guns ; and the ifehreon of 8 gems, taken and sunk by two French frigates, after a long and severe centest ; the Venus caner, taken by a French squadron in the Mediterranean ; the Plumper and the Tra.r, , of 14 guns ; the Swift cutter, of 8 guns ; and the &mar frigate, taken and burned, after a most gallant resistance against a French squadron of two frigates and two sloops. '. 4 N. - ROYAL I" 'MILT. WEYMOUTH, SeeT. 9. We had, !AM eveninT, the greatest Esplanade rf any this season His hIAJESTY, all the Palm:gives, and Ito v AI. Docts. were present. The Piti sec. who dined with Their Ma.otss :as, remained at the Lodge wiLh 111:1' MAJCST . At dusk, the Rol , at. PART.; retired to the Promenade Rooms There were upwards of 200 Nobility a•ld persons of di‘tinc titan in ent. The It or AL PAR I: 11 left about ten. The PIIINCC spent the evening with Her MA JESTY, at the Loege. His MAJCST*, rode early this morning, as usual. Soon after ten o'clock, he went on board the Royal Yacht, for a morning cruise. ()a his way, he con versed with Mr. Mitmet.i., of Grosvenor-squaro His MAJESTY was accompanied by the Marl rd CIIIIITERFIELD, Lord Dussoss, Countesses of I - cii *tier is and MANsFIRLD, Lady Bute' L.:r. klra. CA MP BC i. 1., Mr. and Mr , . Geosvevon, Mrs. Da Al. General CARTWRIGHT, Colonels TAYLOR, CAMP BELL, STEWARD, HOWARD, and Messrs. GA LVII.La and VILLIcas. None of the Rol' AL Due es went, in consequence of their attending the PRINCE, the troops being bri gadieg before I lis Royal Highness, previous to his leaving us to-morrow. This being known, numbers arc flocking into town from all parts, to see him, A'rrtvlils at Luce 's Hotel— Mr. Mr*. and Mivs flora; Mr. Mrs. and Min Conway Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Blackbone, Mr. Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Lovely., Mr. Parry, and Thos. Hutchinson, E.g. CHELTENHAM, SEPT. 8. - , This fashionabb and much frequented spot, feels, as yet, no diminution of company; but, on the con trary, a vast increase ref the first Nobility and Geetry. Their Graces of BLDEOPO are daily ex. peCled. BA stricter' has just left us, called for by Royal Command, to resume his comic exertions at Wey mouth ; he made a short. but golden harvest, last week. Our next favourite is to be that delightfnl ^ little atiress, and true child of Nature, Mrs. EuwaN, who visits England, on purpose to give her father the advantage of her talents on his benefit night here. Mrs. Eowies, we understand, returns to Dublin on most eligible terms for the ensuing winter, being last year so deservedly the favourite of the Irish metropolis, that the Manager secures to her above a thousand guineas for the next season. ' Mr. CARTWRIGHT, whose abilities need no com ment, as a performer on the much-admired Improved Musical Glasses, and the Pyrotechnia, or Philos°, • phical Fireworks, meets with the most unparalelred i success and applause. e5,...--e—erni-elesse • The last arrivals at Cheltenham are : The Earl of Caniarvon, Lord Chief Justice Downes, Lads Tempi/son, Qom. and Mr. Johnson, Dr. Sullivan, and Cape tains Burr and Crichton. The last arrivals *t Bristol are— Mt. and Mrs Clark, Captain Staunton, Genets , never, Ur. said Mrs. M•Cale, Ms and Mrs %Vuod, Mr. Co... Void, as a S. Mandall, and Mr. and Mrs Sawbye. The Last arrivals at Clifton are-. Sir John and Lady Sinit's, lady Franklyn and fain;iy, Cot. and Mrs C..ors, Mr and Mrs. Satterthwaite, and Mr. and Mrs. Heatlicots. The Poatunurse AMDASSADOR had a selen• party to supper at his house in South Audley street, on Monday night. Madame GUALSINI was in tine voice, and sang s ime delightful airs. On Friday, the \ rclibishop of CANTP.NiVJIY ar rived in Albion Place, Ramsgate, with his family. We have great pleasure in stating, Earl Fitz- i waft.' AM is nearly recovered. Mrs. and the Miss THOMPSON!, ii.tend setting off on a visit to Ireland, in A few days. The PORTUGUYAHL AMSAssADOR intends honour ing Margate with his presence by the end of the week ; he will Also pay the Duke of SOMtit.SET a visit.. Lord and Lady PETRI are come to town far a few days. The Marchioness of liCADroar return :d to town from Tunbridge Wells on Sunday, wOh her son, whom she left at Harrow School yeserday morning, and then returned to the Wells. During the Funeral Oration at Grosvenor Chapel, nn Sunday, the pickpockets were extremely busy. Mrs. Freest, housekeeper to the Earl of Oast sr ri exo, lost a most valuable gold watch. LAURENT'S Theatre WAS crowded last night: the Pit overflowed at an early hour. Lord Cas .ON came to town yesterday from East Sheen, And returned in the evening : his Lordship's house in town is un c tergoing a thorough repair. The Right Hon. Sir Wit.xtest Gs ant, Master 4 of the Rolla, arrivesi in Edinburgh nn Friday last. The Countess Dowager of HADDIPIOTOS, the lion. .1. W. WA ao, M.P. the Right Hon. V.M. Deus' Kuno, and JAMLS DALRYMPLZ , Esq. have arrived in Edinburgh. Sir GILICILT HIATIICOTL Will leave town in a few days for Normanton Park, in Lincolnshire. Major-General and Mrs. CA MESON arrived yea terday at Berner's-street, from Bengal. The Poet unties e Ara s a Ass 1)011us Ch a pel, which has been under repair, is very nearly Enished, and will be open in a fortnight. Earl Geosv ENO a, with his Countess, family, and suite, arrived at Lancaster, on Thursday las:, and on Friday proceeded on their way to the North. The klaymarket Theatre was crowded last night. The Pantomime of Obi; or. Mee Fiager , d J aCki was Pellonined• It is got up in a magnificent style, and was received with unbounded applause, by one of the most crowded and elegant Audiences of the season. Mr,Fasecett has published an advertisemen t in the Cotk Papers, of which the following is an ex tra& ;—" Mr. Fawcit r having heard that a report has gone abroad (and received some credit), itati,i,,;. that he should derive HO e molument front a benen , adverstised, in his name, for Monday evenine :c ' • feels it necessary to contradict such report. a. ,1 .. ' assure the public, that the above benefit coirsrr.:. , a principal part of his engagement in this city. .j I