The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1810-11-05 00:00:00

.fiSt?..~ tilled that a hcresoerer oar troops should be, all Looilash merchaudize there fooled should be confis cated. and that this measure has already been oarried into execution at Stettiu. Demme. and all err • the North of (itertuany ; • • We have decreed, am: 'do decree as follows :-- Art. i. aUEnglish or Colon& methodize, or atieles roma** from liadtwitentooereo hoed in Etaidifort wa the 31inee, Wolf be pet owlet oepasearation, I. AI onswarnie shalt be appointed by oar eutiein the Prime of Eakenatil, the Coontsoitria-Chiefef the waits in German, ee tape a 0 the meamares necessary to the eons. tiro of the prison Ilterce, mod our drtermivation shall keys bees declared with regent in the said sequestration. S. Oar 31inietere of War sad Finance see charged a ith the 'unities of the presort Drente. Vino at Eisatembless, this tetb of October, 1410. (hissed) NAPOLEON. PROCL.iMATION. at From the date hereof ail owners of castigates of English or Colonial merchandise are prohibited from cooreyieg any part of tlie.r merchandise out of the city of Frankfort, under pain of confiscation. " AU the merchants are enjoined to repair to the Mike of the Coanu*sion established at Darmstadt limels sod to givirEi a declaration' of every deserip. doe of Laglish or Colonial inercloandize which they inlay have in their houses or elsewhere. u Such merchants as may have deposited goods. end those who have them io keeping, shall be eauslly obliged to make declaration of the same. " AU English or Colonial merchandise. or ar ticles proceeding from English ceinserce, not de• clewed its the space of 2$ hours from the date of the publication hereof. shall he confiscated. is For this purpose domiciliary visits shall he rands to the imus. • both of inerch rots and others. " If the decimation should nut be exact, the part of the merchandise not declared shall carry with it the coutiscatiou of the whole. " The ruerchstito. *scuts. end dealers. shall de lien to the Commission. within the space of twenty foir keen, ama meat of all the merchandise pro ceeding from English commerce, that has been ►e celied. and sent off within the last four mouths, which stammest roust be corroborated by their book of entry for the articles received and scut off. " The said Look shall be protisionn%y b slanted. end immediately returned to the ruerclisuts, in or der to their being re-produced •c the *tote of ve rification. " Piteous giving hiformation of undeclared mer otimadiss. shall be rewarded with • of their value. " Itshabitivits of Frankfort. measures aro takeu to insure the execte.on rd the milers of His impe rial cud Royal jolty. which task has been com mitted to me by his Serene Highueso the Prince of Ecktnuhl. . . *A Your re yens cousnierce, with.the amp tion of what is prohibited, and the festivities in which you habitually indulge at the period of the 'latest, will not be for as instant interrupted by them. - _ _ . ........ The Kasietratri ore reqwirerl to publish a►►d poet forthwith the prima Decree sod Prechwitatioo. lu bath leageesee. (siser , lC 4 , VRIANT, I. General of 'Nakao*, Coma 4 gait hospice " " illeadiaartara. at Fraakfert 0111 the Noise. lag Org. ►s►a" PARIS* OCT. 49. [MtSI* TIIC INOWITSUR.I_ The folloiviiig letter has been received et Caen from London, tinder date of the 9th inst. " The system adopted by the Emperor WAS the surest 1144n11 of conquering the English. " It stifles them in the midst of their wealth ; it is the cause of all the bankruptcies. st The East Incl 4 Company applied to the G - verninent in May last, fur the sum of 209,000 pounds. Before this lean was ranted them, an account was taken of their merchandise, whiJi was found to amount In £4„000,00,) sterlt:ig (upwards of • Tint !sciatic fluids are sinking, sitil will 1.611 f4ll lover, if the army in Purtujal is beater, of which there is no doubt. " The suicide of G---, the richest banker ifs London, WAS occasioned by notliinz else than the discredit of the funds. " A revolution will take place iu this couutry— it is wished fisr.'• M. Dive, a eliyinist. et Peyreheraile. in the de partiniat of Landes, liar mule teVerill experiments to extract anger from honey. They appear to have been crowned with sleets*. Ile has presented the Prefect of tl'e department with two s %asides of his trope of hour). One wes in the matt of the first e .y.t A llizsti4l, Or raw sugar; it rttaineil a slight whim of ill origin, which, however, tl. Dive hopes to lx alale to remove. The oc cr. •vlsic!e has miller root only one purifying prep.'s% is a tine powder ...l4:v, partakes mod, leis than the former of t..e taste of honey. M Dive i 4 engaged in rnauu ff,vnring a emosideralile gum ity, fur the purpose of teitspirati%e ea' cut- bet wren it tit 0111 pr extracted front the cane. or grayer. MINA, rim 17. The Emperor left firsts oo the 11th, end iron tinneol liis louruey fur Cowie, and the south of Merl s. t •ar.souur., OCT. 11 iiigliness the (:rand Duke has th s 'ley i-on-d en echo., prohibiting the trutspit of Culouirl R,--' - ruf sae eleseriph.nt throne' his territory, suit nrdertml ell such merchandise sirterly in the Onind It‘why. to be clepositr4l in the Government ware h...t4t s, tgq payment at tlirtluty on homy consurep -01 on the TILE DOWNFALL OF MINISTERS. Mies beggars die, dierdiereee comets seed. iide.daitr.ddr..--liens! Id an ogee of the world, the human race have put MOTO Of lee* faith its einem i and though, in our timer—tittles it tnay Ire inverted, of presumir non awl ocepticiasu—ne do not g o to the onnse *steed of belief in portents mid jorognobticationv that the ancients dill, who divined by the flight of mar, and augured from the guts derives ; yet b ou a reference to that tnost authentic source of pretktion.Nloort's Alosausek,•fid an sttentite ex- ammatiou of the mysteries of fortune-telling, as practised by him:rant gypsies in the country, sad settled conjurors in the Metropolis, we must be ready to confess, that the Fates do, even to ibis day, asinetinies give little hints and intimations be fore-hand of what they are abo.it....Many of thew indications of what is to come to pus doubtless escape our observation, as it is not upon every °c aption that Scotsmen and Edinburgh Reviewers (who are the only mortals acitnowledged to be legi _ timately pemessed of the second sight) are inclin ed te exercise their faculties, and enlighten the iberkling world. but some are 3o very• obvious that every man who runs may read, and they require merely to he noticed to be understood. of this description is the direful prognostic which por tends the cal:unity under the head of which thew tiuservistions are written. On a dismal 'sight of the last week of the utility month of October, ■nd on a dreary blasted heath, were the tun Chief Ministers of the British Empire overthrown.—O! where are thy Lachry male, Brit& iiii is pails will sin!—then weep them full—empty them, awl fill them again with the tears, while it is told unto Thee, that thy Lord Chancellor, and thy Chancellor of the Exche quer and First Lord of the Treasury (two great offices in one little person), were, upon Hounslow- Heath. on their return from Regal Windsor, tum bled from their carriage, and thrown into the mud ! —0 ! where were thy goaWlien angels when this shocking mac rimhe took place ?—They must mealy have beets busy cn some other spot, and looking after the safety of some other persona; else never could they have suffered thy chiefest Ornaments and ino.t mighty Directors to be so uncerestiohieue ly filthifiad and bedraggled ! flat what Las the accident in itself to the fearful forehodinie pith which, as an omen, it must till euey ! The coachmen's reins fulling from his trembling hands—the wheels of the vehicle stopping-show like the wheels of en Adininistra• tints statidiug still ! The springs breaking—how like the failure of the Cumberland springs on which the state machine is hung ! The pole snapping---hew like the (Wellesley) Pole giving say ! The whole overturning !—how like a com plete smash and downfall of Minister, ! —No won der that the !shock struck their tip / tolled senses with dismay and terror ; and that they should, Ike Rid tabs:gar of old, apply to every probable source to have the sign explained, and their fears either con firmed or dispelled. In this dilemma, there being now no Daniels, or Soothsayers, or Magicians ; and, iudeed, very few Witemen or Conju. ors, to whom they could have recourse ; they were fain to consult with the Cunning Men, and therefore im mediately called a Culotta Council. But hence, after much witchcraft, sorcery. and incantation. they were ulitiged to t!apart as i4ooraot ati whets they entered the mystic chamber ; fur they Gwrul that the more they stirred in the mysterious caul dron. they were the more Double, To:I and Trouble ! Compelled therefore to wait the natural issue sod result of the nnlios (,retold by the Hounslow. heath simiti sunk and countenances wee.begotie, they s'ite the same in fearful roper- trifles. Well 110 th .y know that no magic arts can now •rail them—•w•li do ti.ey kn„x• that they can raise uo opell on deep, liar utter any invocation so potent. (on, not even the cry of No Popery !") alto turn the coot roe or events ; fur it is now evident that the I)e,tiiiies have ft aril the end. and what the De:Ail-Ivo dratre 110 human power. however gre .t, that possibly avert. then the will of Hearers to he clime. as we .11. ith re.ipatioss. we briefly proceed to rimier some of the terrestrial eireumstances flowing from that at ertlirow. Nu vonlicr r 1,4 the forlorn Premier, and the Head of the Lao, Lind theniselve. safely and softly lodged is the mud. than they exchanged mutual clusgratus lotions. ins hariag so well escaped from their elevat ed intention ; and the former being tinctured with religious aeritiments. expressed s wish (for which the of Canterloory is not much indebted to lien !) that the Ilea.' of the Church had been with them. in order to have retoriir.l thanks to Prnvi. *lmre for their great preservation; yet hi. Grace will not partitilnite in that wish, auJ no doubt rejoices in the thought that the elevation of the pulpit is net liable to such topsy-survey reverses as those eapes rienced on legal sod political eminerseec where tweet. however high their carriage may be, are in danger every hour of being overact. The Archbishop not being at hand to utter up thank.gwings, our tea ' tellers prayed as well as they conic! for themselves; sad after clearing each other from the Flthwhat adhered to their clothes and persons. they left the chariot tit charge of the servant% and journeyed oe very lovingly together on foot. with LONDON, MON DAV. NovEvina s. We hare received Paris Poitiers to the !itßh last. They contain some furious Decrees of BONAPARTE against British matinfoctures and Co'onial produce, lie ascribes the lite failures in this country, and the depression of the funds, to the operation of his anticommercial system ; and thus comely, d of its efficacy, he now appears dettrinined to !milli it to thr licit extremity. e regret to state, that the Bulletin of His MA• Janea health. issued yesterday. doer not promise a speedy and favourable change. lit this situation, the eye of every subject must he directed to the August Personsgerlestined to discharge the functions of the Executive Power, is tl:e event of His MAI JMICS protracted illness. The mind will, of course, be carried hack to the conduct of Parlia ment in 17,48, under the wavier. of Mr. Pi rT ; hut there is hardly any similarity between the cir cumsrances of the present day N A t h ose w hi c h marked that period. At that time the Heir Ap parent was not stored with that mass of expe rience which he has since acquired—that kn.m. ledge of the world, that might ena b le hnn to snake a judicious choice of servante, bed had nut arrived at its full maturity —amt. ahuve all, the restoration of the Sotereign to health, ■nd a long continuance of his beneficent reign. wes anxiously lonkrd for by ail ranks of people. It ems therefore conceived necessary. not roily to insist on the power of flarlistrien: to appoint a !to rte, bat also to Gout the authority of the Regent by certain restrictions, which were set forth at the time.... Wow, however. the some necessity no lon ger mists. The whole face of affairs is changed, almost es much as the face of Continental Earope is disfigivr-. 4 . Stich is the weight of public bor. then*. is d iv, pviiitical spendthrift can now 'Tern. late on repairing • shattered fletune by getting into place. Ile might as well think of rep•sri•g a shattered conaitu• by going into ■n hosittslv . The roan, who will sentare to take mina him, the adinsuistration of ewe affairs. must 'be a rigid econosalat e as *en to r.n40.1 4 caw. the essitaise; 3 3lls, MI, 11;. 14,es aiussaid vt taresicr,lsmafstrs, is no I.s. re( . All sum, slus;cr ; r;:ctiusi at once wise. tigitatit. and eaccrui4 i. diaprioabiy Ileceibint a tterve ns from &emit t; the belos ett Slonarch, who as for vpsarslaaf yrars tuted'7llltLiteldittvd.itnt, iodep, ti d tift of calamity thitAirrecently befallen liirn, is wrio it that stage of ilfri in sris:oh th e ei4„0,43 so necessary to Meet :he 'ctifilvulties of the tit it sirs Jouger to be expecteit. The sat:l en Ilint ate continually Apaoaing around us, ejt ▪ Pyotem of direction greatly d;ffereut whet we hare hitherto experienced. l a 4., we want tutu who will sure p„ ti i iind ronquese,l, tuinrfi, and enslaved ; and orris by investing the Pante of Ws! i.v, it he deetutd necessary to appoint It Iteg.•:ic:., 1/11Wer to turn alt the energies of the ituu their best uses, thut we tan hope for the - tion of our independence or existrure. lungs to that distinguished ludivirliipl of wrilerstauding. u fund of knowledge, and tress of character, which eminently qualify I,ia the atation he may shortly have to till; 11111 j honour, as well as the good of the kingdws: quire that no attempt shall be made to fitte its the exercise of his poster. The Nairtd„ Copt:7ll:a, for Ironies, the Composite, for Ustrliodues, expect to nil few drys from Portsmouth, with the Il'e•t convoy. The Malabar store-ship, f v e proceeds with them. The .Hyde, Cants's W , with the convoy for Put itige!and th e ' mils tin. tiny. The Euro/Jerk, for Madras and Beard: Cambrian, for Beenhay ; and iht Cope Packet, tit. Cape of Good Hope. will aril in - the Afuline tad couvoy for Zhu Brazil', mouth. Private kikre from Harnisurgh. rigorous amititr t eva lately adopted for thr Cows ColessalisituWee and Eaglish goods. state the qsaticity I... Saxony to us tipwards.of at vets hividred waggons had constant etntelby for soap itnonthe to tr •Aftlier from tise coosteptAhe Bakic. liegotiotioss are pending between Room and Denmark, ties precise object has Mit tmeitsivittsd ; butt considerable dross importance is attached to it at some degee, perhaps, from the issterchnsige of couriers. It is certain ih ,, t is deterintleeto terminate the war sit!, the' 'oven alibis telittis less favourable than time she lately deyktied. In The Colette of Saturday lest there is an tier of Combed, for all vessels, cotaintt from the vsonah, to be compelled to parfaits a strict yea tine its the porta of the [baited huldoni neighbouring bilande, in conmquence of • grime that the yellow fever has raged CI violence io the Wood of Cuba. The French Minister at War (Duke of Fla off4etly, entitled to the Commander French.troops in Germany, that Goo mil drafted from every regiment of frum each of the cavalry ; and that they special favour, Ise permitted to retuin to lad from thence proceed to Spain. plaices from Bourdegpx, of a lste te, Ow the want of seauseq, to man the ships of mum fitting out at Axton, and other porn. occasioned the trantnumoon of an order commanding the forwinding from thence of seamen as could be spared, 'NI that ut c several battalions ,%ere 014 their match country do,,frasswerp. The Grand Duke ef FRANKFORT that from the let of Jailuary . nevt, there shall only one newspaper published in his domir' is to be intitleil TAr gazette VIA( Grand Frankfort, and to he edited by a person by the Minister of Paine. and adder his ship. The apprehensions of au attack upon we learn, are again revived among the. of that, ss we suppored, impregnable Otto'. formation, we understand. hat reached i.. tlot clefs had bees received at Cuxhaven. about tile ter mid of last month, to seed f rom thence troops and twenty pieces of can non to Newark. the montheith of the Elbe. not far from Cati on battery a ten guns was completed , and swill creett awe. nearly finished. A small co r p s, iSO to )11.1$1 men was assembled at Dunes. also bait been given by the French to buoy op shallows in such a manner, as to make the nit-shoe preeticuble by night. In cooseip these toos'ements and preparations. the Ho' and two or three other ships of war had to the mouth of the Elbe. We ore happy to hesr.that the fri Ct l tt.titt WAitli am, was nut run doi.n, perirhe.l. as WAS stated last week; moss' enatain of one of the ships in the convoy. ported it, saw the accident 1 She was run foul tht• Btater !loop of war. but him been imvee, v..-ry much damaged. . . sentence of the General Court-Maitoo at 4.1.. r Itteracks, on the 17th of SePlei t t " ti Cai aptn florets. of the Sid Weal Y ork been pram alacted. The Court at-guinea tier:mit of all the three charges (neglect mid using wrong and offensive lenguage t Tunnel. The Court. however, itt sect" Ia Capt. fhteerit of the third charge, Mill!.^t tin invittatifin (41 t h e testimony a Lout.. Twits,. the Procr eat or ; but suriltatesl t he , 1 enet,:of 4eatitnonv teethe eireassetaure of Twits Meting the misfortune to be Court extlteimeil their regret that an - l high character such testimouials ha prodswed. wet, erten had sew sisch,e'' shawl , : so tar forgo, hi m .,4, a s to hue' • eu ' the espressineo ;AbetCopt. iloterti @taus 1 defence to Lai c dace. r ics y r : 8 :: AC:4441. row • s fits tti.L. rigOrots 46 4 iutillnl he saLl trek" A":11:1 Ind us, es,ft f aa England from "14)1;r la" 4 ; 'gni it it " with IV t.ts, ehrt a kt was s Re'rract pito of the state h IA 11 smk 4 rot the preens led Judi a souosk * indol dge, a lid a out Mot qualify Lim f it tkN till; Mid hi * , lie kitte n , * gmi de to fret, Pk' isect to tt the Wed Lea r t l sit 5 IP. fur Antiza at seise Crce j u i . s t : dvin nit Bt , o e sj . e r t i t et "n i t ig l e " I ' ra : l s g ‘ Jamaica, nel v 6 ,4 it t : ci t hell ; s b t ert le.hn k u Yl si ::°;d" ss sb: tf p l tii n'i szils, front Pats. rat, ich bout foe the min. sot y to beastliest. goon had Imo its d b in Irctoporhogg `1" tic. wake: fa the Coals of ehei Our e olject et rikeh erable degree • • II Unti.i;: , ily arm main shot Rue r o ith the Turk " Th than ti.see stlit• thigh Week there is an 0 in;; from the II ri st.irt pia a uadons sod ti Ike °mace of 4tllo ki robed with gt- ` 7 7 1 041 it )uke of Fr.f.te Die to sarinalister of I. We Gnu mea than Mod i,ofaory, end ‘2, MART at they t4h4411. as The retuin to Fraser M . , F 1. rlraL, Ist. slt.te, aseatirn Otto c the ships of w mein 1 other ports . I th elm so order to Sissi Hi e M I thence of as esti The hart so coosequen switch front t • eel . 01 sons !moo has order • , It. there shall . his domi t tioos. korai heGreod a Po girl a person l mock; ntired i coder his Ceti in K a &Let k upon Heligol en rang the inhatc.l owl sts K nable island. I daily reached it, lh.t stir, Lweons edit i: ay: k tt ad "li ra tvd. a nd ;moth. , 4. small corps 1 ' • sit Dente. (0 “ ' tint h ich to buoy h a y, make the Calla route In coasequrflo ti'doe Ins, the Owen. rm t d r w. r itud pros' the ie friendskip tea to." dos'. t j . end she ; n atsestlist ' the mutiny. " nn 74, e was inn foul at hay beets tonsil d. 11 4 rett: C t da ti irt o .lo r s‘r t ie - : ki N tpm f re a di t it t c t bi o , t it. :: (neglect 1 ti 'Poet Its ye Irsloag e Omi t ever, ill * acrd H• 5, large. oesent to riti, natty a , she' li Yf Cut E; rat rtu ber • tatie that su Officer 0.1 iimPlll4l.l.ol::;lll:l;:is'isitiuhts'stris.j,:t. 1'117:71:: the ilesigo oh procuring a Chalet- at V a 41 - ext But it was decreed that their anisfortemes should tent terminate so easily ; and they were duetted to experience oth. r stronge adventt4s before they Fetched their journe.y's*ewl.—Thrt,. had trot proceeded far oar their way, till dirt were passed on the llrath by a stage-coach. lay the vehicle they instantly resolved to secure a Keit as far WI accordingly pursued it with ell the speed they were anostvis of, I)elloeiog the while, Stop, coach ! Stop, coaciar rut Jarvis. having caught • glimpse of them N 1w drove along, was in no hurry to stop at their cell ; but the inure they roared and ran. the mote furiously did he drive. For, stein the one a stout, athletic-looking man, hobbling as if he had long and often been accustomed to wear the derbies (ride Slang Lexicon fur double hens). and the little one, as he supposed, from the darkness of his complexion. with • mask or crape over Isis face, poor Claeliee had not the slightest doubt but that they were a brace of footpads.-4-To escape them was his most earnest desire, and truly ludicrous was it to are the anxiety and terror of his countenance while he belaboured the wretched steed: with Isis whip, broke the footboard by the violence of his stamping, and awoke dull echo by theloudness of his hiAtiag,jee-orhoing,aoil jee-aping. —But vain his exertious--the pursuing Ministers gained fast upon his jaded cattle, and hod just got check by jowl with the stage-coach, when an inside paswnger discharged a harse pistol at their heads. Now, whether it was that fear palsied his head and destroyed the correctness of his aim, or whether it well that the ballet was repelled by the harder head of the stout titan and glanced ineffec tually oft' into the air ; certain it is that our ter rified Ministers sustained no damage ON the oc casion. The unexpected salutation, however, Sr. reat.(l their college, and they stood statue-like, struck with astonishment and dismay. Via!, r these circumstances, the coach would soon have been beyoud their hopes,- had not the Loma, startled by the report of the pistol, plunged and fallen. Now it was that a sour of horror ensued, that to describe would have done honour to the pen of a Srmillet. Screams, ihrirka, and posits, formed a horrible concert—passengers inside and oat-prays lag for mercy fawn the fancied robbers, who thee& selves were almost as much frightened as the most timid of them. Never was there a more deleqable treat for a humorist !—At length, however, mettles were explained by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, as spokesman, informed the natives who he and his companion were, and assured them that, though they were evidently Blacklegs, upon his word of honour they were not thieves ; and that, though Cloth of the Irons, he knew nothing at all about the dor/tier. These assertions the people doubted ; hut not knowing how to get rid of their unwelcome visitors, they consented to their 1 1 accompanying them to the inn, putting their bust ' in Providence that when they came there their ; deeds would be brought to light, and they would be released from their intolerable presence sod superiority. THE BRITISH PREgk.