The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-12-31 00:00:00

'HE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, • TUESDAY, DEcr.mBER 91. It was our intention to reserve, for the fir , t day the new year, in the usual way of addtess T., the 'bile, some notice of the insidious attempts 1 ttely 'aide against the liberty of the Press—attempts ;eh, if pr:istcuted with success, must ultimately duce it to the most abjed slavezy. The ch.- imstances or the present moment bear direftly pon this question, and oblige us to anticipate sr purpose. But what we have to say upon this ibjeet, however pressing, we must reserve for the Aclusion of this article. We wi.,11 only, by this oly notice, to c - 411 the attention of the public to print. They are deeply, vitally interested in ie result. is no tim: tor trifling, nr for :tcy. It is the moment when we may say, with the it, the good, and the glorious N c Lsom, England ,1 1 :edts every man to do his duty." So 14r back as IFri lay hat, it was universally known in London, :hat Government were b possession of a French raper, The Argrev of the 17M, containing the 30th and Slit Bulletins of the Grand Army, detailing the Iparticolat s of the bottle of the 2d, or, as it is called, the battle of Austerlitz, and further stating, that the Emperor of GIIIMA had; in conseclaence, de. manded an Arinistiee, which was grainted, and, that, (.I , e of its pi iocipal stipulations, the Russian army o is to return home. This report we felt it our duty t hrvore vhr Public yin SAturdAy. A liaterdon t'nur.,nt has been , ectived, repeating in sul.l - thy accuw.t in tht. hg.a of the battle of the Id at . Au .terhtz. whi_h we inserted yesterd.l. The Mintst..rial Prints had riven the wAteh-word, that the accounts in The Arus, an! 76e Rou.rdnm • tour,:4, wen:. fcrwries ; nay, that The Ar,:. : us it s it •vas only an edition of the notorious L'Eciair, fnT l ery priiftiied but with too much success, in the late war. Far be it from us to use the 'phrase, " Ministerial Print'," as implying disre ape& or obloquy. Without any favour from Mi. !niters, we flatter ourselves. that our honest, impartial, and unbought services, have dote the state more service thaw the brawling of its purchased slaves. To support the Govern meat and tlic State, is our principle, our wish, ant our duty ; but we never did, nor ever will rr.re our principles subservient tn the purposes of private gain, and public delusion. We have ,tared that the Prints, which must support the ttir.l,ter, whether debt .chr wrung, and believe in the ) intallibility of their patron, as fervently and sincerely as ever devotee believed in the infallibility of the PorE, rei.resrnted The Argils as a forgery. They had seen it, read it, kcesv its con tents on Friday, measured them to a line, assured as they amounted to eraerly four columns, and, ac cording to one of them, it came over to the Mi vieer in an tript, boat, which was set eelrO? from Boulogne. AU this was urged and relied upon ~,by the soi-dirant Ministerial prints, as evidence that The Srgui was a forgery ; and presuming that they might have learned something from authority, we did pay some deference to emir assertion. A Print of yesterda7, however, one of those scions, from the same root, •and nourished 'by the same soil, announced the arrival of a series of the Afo "'roar, to the lath, containing the 30th and 31st Bulletins of the Grand Army, as given in The ..,frets; also the 32d Bulletin, with a Copy of an Armistice, dated the 4th, and signed on the part • isif Austria, by Prince, Lieu rensirtiu, and, on the part of France, by General BEltTlitti, of which the following is the substance : THE ARMISTICF.. The folluwingmee the principal stipuleionsms•The French trine is to preseret its positions in Austria, the Tyrol, in Carinthia, in Bohemia, I iiingsry, &a, the Russian Army is 11 retire by a route, and by marches pointed out to them, be yond Austrian Poland, in lb dsys, anal taallvia i n a m on t h The Austrian Government is not to make any levy of tfuopt in itobentia or Hungary. The Armistice is to continue till the conclusion of a separate Peace between Anst-ia and France, or this rupture of the Negociations now carrying on to that effect. A notice Of serrate days is to be g iven of the &termination to break the Aimistice. The Paper from which we have copied the sub stance of the armistice, quotes the Monifelsr of the I Sth as its authority, and states that it is indebted for this priority of intelligence to its supetior ar , rat:gement; for obtain:ag continental news. Ia the next paragraph, however, it adds as an apology for oily giving a slight sketch of this important int.'. lirnce, that it was indebted for it td the casual cir ciimstance of a friend, who favourod it with a pe ruial of the foreign Papers at a late hour. We do nia mention thin inconsistent! from disrespeet, or any hostile feel.i . ag against the Punt in quettion, tint as cooncaed with the poiat LO Which we have promised to call the pubtic attention, after having pot a a a.le same observations tyr,.l the foreig• . pew to which we now ptoceed. The 30th Sage- , 1111 is dated Ansterliti, Beeemirer 3, and does not bring down the military operations beyond the morning of that day, when it is said Prince doors of !Acura/4.l'mi: came to the head-quarters orgu- IS A PARTE, and had a long audience. The account of the battle sill the preceding day does not differ materially from that given in The Rotterdam Cow-ant as to the respeetive forces and result ; but to our surprise, it admits some circumstances not very favourable to the glory of the French arms. On the 29th, we are told Botraeartre sent his Aid-de- Camp, Sava* Y, to compliment the Emperor ALEX. ANDS& upon his arrival in the army. This, how ever, was only the ostensible object of the mis sion, for the most profound fraud was concealed under this affeSation of chivalry. SAVA, T re mained for three days a spy in the Russian camp. After he had returned, and made his report, the Bulletin admits, that Boa 's pram " was from that moment to wait for the faults of the enemy. and to watch the 'moment to profit by them. He proposed an interview to the Emperor of Russia, who sent him his Aide-dc Camp Prince Dotooavear ; that officer might remark, that every thing breathed mow nod fear is the appearance ( ! f• At French army. The placing strong guards, the fortifications made with such haste, every thing chewed to tile Russian Officer, an army half beaten. Contrary to die Emeanoa's custom, who never receives with so much circumspeCtion the flag , of truce at his head-quarters, he went himself to the edaureedirosta; and the young man, who has a real influence over the Emperor Atexamase, re turned, with a conviaion that the Ft erteh army was on the eye ofratia." Such, according to his own ac coon., was the generous gallantry of Boa •ea ar ; the !-.old, open, and manly coraluCt of the Cot swan. We have already observed, that The Ago' so fa: only proc eeds pars posts, with The Rotterdam Coroaud, and curr:sponds with every other previous account of the battle of the 2d. Did u+e matter rest there. we should have nothing new to notice; bet, we are informed by the Print, from which we have copied the .substance or the armistice, that it is dated the 4th; and theft t sr gullet i it,speaking of the battle efAu sterlitz, on the 9d, men ti,ms it a. R business of " the day before yectr.nrlay," From thi 4, we are led to infer, that the Bulletin of the 31st was written on the lah ; but it is not a little curious, that those well-infenned Editors, who have been favoured with a sight of the Afroritears, skuuld leave us to con jelirre upon so material a point as the date. The dates of the 31st and 34d Bulletins, are decisive of the question, and would precis/'e all pussibilicy of donut, and doubt there must be, as to the extent of the re ver•es of the Allies, and, the successes of the French arnas,when it is not even alleged that the Malheur, to the 18th, and Dutch Papers to the 24th, contain any news (mm the theatre of war, of a later date than the 4th. Coming now to the point with which we set out, we do deeply and sincerely lament that the public mind should suffer so much as it doer at present, from some unfair praltices in the communi cation of foreign news. In the late war, a gentle man in the confidence of Government, whose ho nour and integrity never were suspefted, was the medium through which the French Papers were sent to the public press. At the present moment, a gentleman equally entitled to ennfidence executes the same duty ; but selfishness and cunning have broken in upon the regular system. They have reduced order into confusio ; and, upon the subjeet of foreign news, rendered it impossible for the public mind to discern between truth and falsehood. Men are sent to the ont.ports, whether from the Stock Exchange, or what other quarter, we do not pretend to say, who represent themselves as vested with authority, to intercept secret correspondence, under which head, we fear, they are very ready to consider Foreign Journals, intended for the Newspapers. The Fn. , reign Papers, are the secret Correspondence, some of them, we know, only wish to intercept. Every thing else is pretence. It is br,- this praCtice that Kt it. HIRT'S letter, and other similar forgeries and fabri cations were enabled to obtain an ephemeral credit and circulation. is the absence of the Foreign Johrnals, the public have no means of detefting the falsehood of the bane-made foreign news. It is thus that your Ibitisb Burgundy and Champagne, which sparkle through the columns of a Newspaper, possessall the genuineflavon r of the grnwth of France. The domestic materials and manufacturer are never once sespeCted. Priv4e letters from Vienna, pri +ate letter:fret% Berlin; crowd upon each other, all witli iateresiiag news, and coming from pt./gnaw 'unquestionable authority. Even the sacred charac ter of the diplomatic corps is violated, and the names of Foreign Ambassadors wantonly intro duced, to sanElion these fabrications. In il- Itueratfon of• this latter remark, we need only refer to the coodua of a Paper of marl night. It pledged itself that there WAS a grand battle on the 3d, in Moravia, in which the Russians were successful; that there w.ts a grand battle on the 4th, iu which the Rassians were again its stories. And how has it extricated itself from these difficulties, and reconciled its Berlin and Vi enna letters, with the accounts in The Arrns, The eleniteur, and the Deter Papers! W. 4 it says that the battles which it represented as having taken place on the 3d and 4th, took place Le f-,.• the 21. Was ever such an ins'tit offeied to tilt public 1 surely it cannot be forgotten, that the Emperor of RUSSIA, who is the most prominent figure in the battles of the 3d and 4th, was not in any engagement prior to that of the CI, " Tlie time of these events,' says the well-informed print to which we allude, fs was mis-stated; fixing it etter iinstead of 1131. re the battle of the 2,1, it was in ' ferred, that the contest had been renewed, and a brilliant vs&oty obtained." And it concludes with stating, that Iff it has nothing to say, by way of apology, fi.r having misled the public." After this candid confession, we hope to read in it no More idle stnries of battles never fought, and vidiories never won, asserted upon authority, and slily insinuated as communicated in covitidence, by Government. Let the comitiffors 4af the two Ministerial Evening Prints, those • two Lees of Dr.:#(l'ol4 who nightly smell to the same nosegay, vouch for each other's troth ; but let not the name of Government he any more in troduced, to give colour to their Vienna and Berlin letters. This is no time -to lessen the Govern ment in the eyes of the people. If ever it were the duty of every loyal subjea to strengthen, uphold, aid exalt it, this is the moment. Among the means to effeet this purpos.e, the preserv ation of the liberty of the Press is not the least esinstial. If any individual, not connetled with Government ; can stop and intercept the come muniention of foreign papers, the public mind and the public purse art at his mcrcy. The people will Lot presume that such things could be done without authority, and therefore we think it only necessary to call the attention of Government to 'uch prac tices, to prevent their repetition. We will not pre. sum, for a moment, that Government could de grade itself by allowing such a licence to any man eonneaed with a Newspaper, and hope that the few hints which we have thrown out will prove , intuits& The Chasm] Beet took shelter in Torbay on the Nih, and sailed on the Ttth, to resume its station off Brest. _ _ . . . _ _lt is stated, that Cie Iris frigate is arrived at Ports mouth, with an account of the Rochfott squadron having got into Rochfnrt on Tuesday last. The Corti/and, Rims), and the Oar', —. from London, bound to the South Seas, were captured at Guyaquil, in South America, in March last ; the latter had 15 of her crew killed and wounded. The &I'll, GAMINS, from Newfoundland, ar rived in the River, spoke the Mars aad ah1:241, Captain Rowa' from Newfoundland, in long, 36. West ; she had lost her masts in a violent gale, and had thrown part of her cargo Overboard. The Marg, H *sit troy', from Dublin tor, ondon, was lost near, Caen, on the 15th inst crew saved. The Quebec packet, London, i 4 shore in the Humber. _ _ _ The Adoenirm transport. Cipt. MALLAMSY, from Cuxl.Aven, is lost on the Cm:omnd. A lettet tron:Cork, dated Dec. 23, says- 44 Most of the regular troops are ander expeCtation of leav ing this county for England. The 45th, 47th, 50th. 82d, and 82d regiments are aetually under orders of embarkation, at the shortest notice, ler England. Transports are daily expelled to receive *ion en board. The other regiilar regiments now in this country are, the 25th. 32d, 83d, and 97th." The next Chancery seal is to be held at Lincoln's Inn hall, on the I ith of January ; if the domestic misfortune which lately happened to the Lulu CH ANCELLOR, should not interfere with that ar- rangemerd. Yesterday morning, Lord Hoop, the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, attended Lord Haw K ICSBU RY. at his Office, in the Treasury, respecting the final arrangements for the ceremony of the remain. , of Lord N etsoit lying in state ; when it was settled, that it should commence on Sunday morning, and continue during that day, Monday, and Tuesday. The procession on the Thames on Wednesday, and the funeral to take place oa Thursday. The soleinn procession will begin to move at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, from the Admiralty. Those who go in the procession will enter the Admiralty by the door in the Park. It is supposed, it will not reach St. Paul's till two o'clock. The corpse will be carried on a new invented open hearse ; it is in the form of the keel of a man of war, which will be fixed upon a four-wheeled carriage, of a sufficient height, for the coffin to be publicly exposed, to gra tify the curiosity of every spedtator upon thii so lemn and deplorable occasion. A very elegant open black canopy will be over the coffin. The chapel, in Greenwich Hospital, and the two large rooms in the Admiralty, will be hung in black. Several men are now at work repairing the wharf at Whitehall Stairs, preparatory to the landing of Lord NELICIN% body. they have already laid down new Scotch pavement, and the steps, which fur some time back weie in a ruinous condition, are undergoing a thorough repaii. Many new ones have been already set, and the w.irkmen are pre paring to new pave the pass tge 14asting to Scotland Yard. After Mr. Mscrcron's admirable Comedy of Tire Mon ,f the fl'orld, these was produced, last night, at this Theatre, for the first time, *a new Grand Romantic Pantomime founded on the ancient Nor thern mythology), ca lled Harkquiles -Afarod; sr. S , andmetvi , 42 Sore,,rr. Nor, The Scandinavi.7n Sorcerer has got p-ales= lion of Kueutd, t young Knight, whom he bas con veyed to a desalt, to be devoured by wild beasts. Here, casting himself on the ground, be is covered with snow, which drifts over him. He remains it% this situation, until relieved, and transformed by the cods of the Scandinavians, and other Supernatural Agents, into a /inalsori, and endowed by theta with all ti.e requisites to become a knight-errant of the motley order. He now visits the Magnetic Chamber, eluding the vigilance of a wolf and ser pent, who guard the entrance ; and, after con quering Flint and Steel, two Genii, who gaard the enchanted lamp which bums there, he gains possession of the long-soughtfor magnet, hs miAress fylia, the Se Indinav'an Princess. Sbe now becomes his C.ltritt,iiie, and, in these charric- , ters, they visit Russia, where a number Of very 6... outdid scenes are intioduced ; aud, after runny " hair-hiea Itlt ',capes," they are nrYade happy, Aid the piece cam:tulles with a view of the Palace of Van Celestials. The owls; • of this Pantomime has nothing either new or intanag in it ; the ovortere was passed ortr almost in silence. One (1 the bongs was' but the greater part of tie audience expressed their t diqappr“nation s.) loudly, %bat nut a word o f the rem petitioa could he heard. The dresses were extreme— ly neh, and the scenes ethitliiel some very bat rid vizcvs of Petershurgh and the country of Rt.COR; A rypiestnottion of the Attmirnl:y of Pc:ersbareti with the statue at PETtlt the Gazkr, standing prkcipilat, were ;urn, talariy eitititd to notit 11. FASIIIONs FoR JA .\ On the day of the funeral s a general sarior..;ne will prevail. Many &ease. are etal,in: to he martial St. Pau yr'. vet, similar to e ph..., high in the neck, and fastened with a I.nge jet broach. (.!ollar and long sleeves, triouned wish crape or Jerk fur. The Trafalgar hat, of black velvet, looped op with jet, and ornamented with long biack feathers Slack velvet tor- Man:, r...arrubling hat+, are also making for the occasion, arse merited an the same manner. Morning Dresse., in general s are the Trafalgar and Sereskier pelisse:, in Earl, garner, inn. root, and other elegant coloured velvets, trimmed with fitch, and chin-chilly skin', are mast prevailing. Real :able is be come a most elegant and fashionable trimming Velvet hats and bonnets, of venous kinds, with feathers to stilt, ramp of which are lined witli fur. Cambric•mus'in dresses, with high collars, long sleeve., no trains, and trimmed round the bottom. Scarlet and ruby-colour:it printed muslin, arc very elegiac !or mornit.g dresses. FULL. DRESS. Dress hats continue mach the fashion. Turbans are also It great repute. Many beans appear a/a gregne, banded and dr, : s s ed with puffs or bows of hair r. they are ornamented with diamonds. pearl , tilver, did t . Are. and patent veils, w canal. Satin and vel vet turbans rat va•iiius ileactiptiena. Soong with paradise phonies, macaw, *c. &e. alio muslin, gold And silver Chambray dirt., with richly embroidered bands and loops. The Trafalgar dress hat, of ruby velvet, or white satin, turned up on one sale, with a beautiful bandana on the tight, and ostrich feathers. The gal.! and silver tars and vei:>, worked in lame, are v,lrvrilel; The nwsses are made much a. usoal, slinTliiwaislerl, low behind, but covering Ilia Lowrie, so as to require only a quit. ling of title, Long lace slava, aril net muffetes ; trains, as Tonga ever. the most elegant dresses are white satin. trimmed with. •isatisdown Ycleits , I.i every g , ral catille-light colour; thin, plain, and worked muslin haTI-lressea; short dresses of gzranitim or white crape.beautifully enthroievred imtnd the bet tors with velvet, mixed with sliver cod g old (Jeer waits writ. , . also white and coloured crapes, appligec I with vel•et.-. Turkish robe., ai,d coloured mead evening...stresses, are only adapted to ladies who have pes.ed their jeranesee. White swansdown muff. and tippet.; long shawls, &c. ate univenal for an evening. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, the Princess So. Pill* of GLOLCEATER, arrived at Windsor, on a visit to Their Maatsr: es. Mr. DIMOND, who altered the Tragedy of Gess lova Vera for representation, has, by his Grilliaeicv. dimmed, rather than added to the L,,sre of the ori ginal composition. Major-General Hawn' Lt. arrived at Nertor's Ilotel, yesterday, from Darlington. Durham. The Yoruotisas ANISAMIADOR, and a large party of Fashionahles, dined last Sunday with Nlr. Ctn. NCR v, at his beautiful villa, near lN'althamstow. The Marquis of Ameacoari's Theatricals were performed again last night. The Marchioness et HZADFOIT, the Earl of BECTIVE, and Lady MARY T•s roe, left town yesterday, for the Priory, to be present. the Apollo Society of Cork has presented the Lyinz-in Hospital of that city with an hundred p.niads, part of the produce of their amateur Thea trical,. T.te Marquis of HCADTOI/ arrived in town yea ter.las , from Brighton. N seot.sore's generosity will, no doubt, be es -1.,)r taking the w ord of his brother ALM. ANUtiR ; yet, it, as the AleToestr boasts. he first re duced the Itussi AN Esse ,noli's army to a sh l efees, he may safely say -swat take the ehom'e wvd for a aim:Sand " The Duchesses of Cosmos and INl•rocusssca will leava town to-morrow, on a Visit to the Duke and Due!tiss of Brriveisirs. at Woburn ; and frona thence well proceed to Lord Viscount /Ismail, at Brume Hall, Suffolk. , Yrivic Roseau appears to be so little damped by the massy unpleasant hints he lAtz:y received, thai hie spirit of " nobl- daring." in luced him to pee himself announced for the arduous cbariaers of , lisislet and Ardichtsi. successful ; and the tirdcr c.f tl:e Dap cf the • ,jr viir'' 6: 46 id, and the A r mi s ti c e, it t r e ate d :;s forgeries. ; We stated battles on the fid and 411, upon tl:e au- s' • tliority of the liamborgh papers ; ton t:.4 prim al- luded to despised such authority. It vouches them from superior sources, and it introduced the name THEATRE. of the Pausst•ti MINIS rl.l , to give consistency to CUVILI4 r-n 4 intw. ac rIp;•41 .1.: :• :•..1C i. Afirr Mr. MA C! If f "et 2111:•••610 rtlttl•ti Vof ripe Ai 1 4 i en ill it;