The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-09-05 00:00:00

THE 1411GOCTSrIO2 S. The leepetiisce for the issue of the negotiations sbew pending between England and seveial other powers. is, according to letters, as great upon the twitinent, as in this country. But, before connec tions can be renen ed, after the experience of an unfortunate war, what distrust must be dirpelled , I what prepossessions must be surmounted, what oh. steeled and terrors removed! It requires all the insolence and unbounded ambition of BONAPARTE to bring together again nations that had so lately abjured all common tics : yet, white acknowledging the necess i ty of a new confederacy, each of them eadeaveers to secure itself against the risks of the league, to direa the effort towards the objet which concerns it most, and to provide for the future. From the jealousies and distrust that subsist, they confiee themselves to the projea of a defensive al liance, which shall leave an opening for secret nego. ciations with France, and shall be attended with the advantage of their arming, as Russia, without a rupture ; and of obtaining, as Austria endea vours, some additional means of strength or safety without fighting. This timid confederacy, according to letters by the last mails, is still about to be embraced, or ra ther attempted to be nude general. Instead of concessions ',meted, BONAPARTL has persisted in his former usurpations, and effeaed new ones, at the very time he was repeating his hypocritical of fers for negotiations and peace. From his wheed. ling of last summer, it was imagined that he would yield to the force of circumstances, and the dread of a new league ; but, since he has resumed his for /1W attitude, certain powers have resumed their tenors, and have suffered Hanover and Baden to be invaded, the Hanseatic cities plundered, and the Duke of ENONIZN murdered, rather than hazard an adhesive war, to avenge the honour of lawful Monarchs, the independence of states, and the blood of innocence and virtue. This constant wavering denionstrates at once that the continent is convinced of the danger that hangs over it ; that it is anxious about the choice of measures of safety ; and that it has not agreed upon the basis and the precise oh jot of a general units. Are such unsteady systems to be settled, and such opposite interests to b.. re conciled in six months, or a year ? The relation s of the different states are dependent upon such a complication of public treaties, and involve to great a variety of consequences, that the unity of views and anion among such dissimilar political bodies, is the most difficult work of the human understand keg. Art and genius only will never effea it, if they are not assisted by time, and the force of cir cumstances, by which both men and empires are borne along in spite of themselves. The events that have taken place hang on the inertness of the rowers like a yoke of lead. When they look back, they see nothing but misfonuo., recalled only subjeas of distrust, and Are impressed only with mutual doubts of sincerity. Hence the anatiouanes of secession, of temporising, and of ir resolution. It is not easy to get out of such a laby riath, nor is a year more than enough for finning the ciue of it. Box is, in this respell, the . best guide. He is daily repeating to Europe, to have done with disputes and differences. With his arms stretching from the Elbe to the farthest point of Calabria, he traces the destiny of the Continent more energetically than in miraculous visions. If he, who forbad the Ottoman Porte to let Russian ships pass the Dardanelles, be oLeyed, he will very soon order the SULTAN himself to descend from the throne. If this natural consequence be not as clear to the Continental Cabinets as the light of the tun, there will be an end to all true clitistianity, to all lawful dynasties, to all hereditary property, to all Meal liberty, and the whole struaure of society throughout the Continent, in the space of »me few years. It depends upon four powers (whose re sources can counterbalance, and even exceed, the fortune of the French republic, and of the too for ty/mite Corsican), upon England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to avert such a catastrophe. The ob jea of their alliance is as clear as its motives. They cannot think differently upon either one or the other. Neither counter-revolutions in France, nor recovery of territory, nor sacrifice:, are now the question. The deliverance of the various states, which she crushes beneath her yoke and her arms, may form a collateral hope, but not the prime °lied of a confederacy. A more immediate and more urgent interest guides the union and the struggle. It is the day of political judgment. The assault is cow made upon the fort itself ; all the outwot Its have been carried, and to perish or to save is all that remains. If the Cause. of disunion operate in spite of a position of such extremity ; if the tears of pusillanimols courtiers ; if the influence of enervat ed favourites; if contemptible intrgues, an more contemptible calculations, contit,un the anarchy of the Cont'sent ; if the vices, which have led to the decline and ruin of empires, in; Jail' over the re monstrances of liberal men, and the warnings of 1 LON DON, WEDNESDAY, Sup rzlizza 5. We yesterday announced, erchsvively, a Revolution its Me German Empire, brought about by an Order in a Grand Council at Vienna, on the 10th last, at which the Estrenoa presided in person, when it was resolved to declare all his titles here ditai y in his fa mily, under the title of Empedr Astrin ; and at the same time to acknowledge BONArA al- rei di • sect title of " Empeno. V the French." Our au thority was the Hague Courant of the twenty-se venth, which quoted as its authority for this most in teresting information, nothing less than the Vienna Covet G.t: cue iboll. This, as is usually the good fortune of Tim BIIYISI4 NESS, furnished at once news and speculation for the Evening Papers of the day, not one of which, except Tile Gtose, had the honesty, or even candour, to acknowledge the source from which they derived their information. One of them indeed entertains great doubts upon the subjedt, and argues at length against the report, from the impolicy of such a proceeding on the part of Austria. Were not all the political events of the present age of an extraordinary nature, in contrariety with all reasonings, deduced flora the common course of events, we should commend the caution of the Print in question ; but this is an age of wanders, and our grammarians in politics, who examine modern events by the rules of the old school, will generally find themselves mistaken.— Another Evening Print, however, does not hesitate to aver it as a fact, and declares that it has received a Hague Paper of the 29th, in which the report is fully confirmed. The dogmatism of the one is more blameable than the scepticism of the other. We have reason to believe, that no paper of the 29th has been received in town, and that the matter rests entirely upon the authority of the Mote Courant of the 27th, exaelly as we an nounced delusively. THE Gtose, an Evening Paper of yesterday, contains the following ju dicious observations upon this interesting sub ject : " The former hereditary titles in the House of Austria were " King of Hungary, and Bohemia, Grand Duke of Austria, dc;." but the Imperial title of " Emperor of Germany," although it has been enjoyed with very little inter ruption by the person inheriting the former for near ly three centuries, has beer. always eleaiv:, and as such the cause of many wars, and more intrigues at every vacancy, ail fomented and encouraged by the interference of France. As this aZt was followed by the acknowledgment of BON A r Amr a's new title of " Emperor of Me Fetich," it looks as if this step were taken in concert with the Coast c A w, although, upon the other hand, the late rem irks in the Ms conc..rning the pretended encroachments of Austria,evince on the part of the latterdiscontent and jealousy. At the same time, it mu' be remember ed, that the Emperor of GERMANY has, at this mo ment, no less than three armies of no,ooo men each, encamped at different parts of his dominions, ready to take the field at a moment's notice ; and that the best understanding subsists between the Cour:* of St. Petersburgh and Vienna, the former of which his, no doubt, assented to a measure rendered necessary by the circumstances of the times. If no arrange ment has been made with Prussia, her Sovere'gn must see with displeasure a Revolution in the German Empire, which deprives him of the fa vourite scheme to transfer the Imperial diadem of Germany to the head of the House of Bran denburgh. His Protest, will of course, soon follow, and perhaps his armies take the field. We think, however, that if Bon AP A are has consented to the change, the King of Paesst• will be indemnified by an Imperial rank himself, and perhaps tome new territorial acquisitions. We have so much the more reason to suppose this to be the case, as the insults of the treaties of Leoben and of Camp • For min, as well as the proceedings of the Congress at Radstadt, were endured by the Cabinet of Berlin, only to preserve its impolitic and selfish system of neutrality. The next Prince who suffers from this determination of the louse of Austria, is the Lleaor of BAVARIA, one of whose ancestors ob- Wiled, by the plots of France, in 1710, the elec. tion of sm Emperor of Germany ; but probably the rank of a revolutionary King will sic his complaint. It has been justly observed, sat this AEI of the German Emperor is obviously only the first part of a new system of changes in Europe BONA PARTE, being unable, with All his power, to ascend to an equality with legitimate sovereigns, if they continued as they were, deludes them, by new revolutionary dignities, not only to descend to a level with him, but to confess themselves his inferiors. The title of the Emperor of the Frey CH will be of an older date than that of the Emperor of AeST RI A, or of the Emperor of PRU,SI A, while German Eledors, now stripped of the elelive franchise , will be probably raised to the rank of Kings, like the pigmy King of Eremite, with a view to dis honour the legitimate sovereigns wliJ bear that title. All the French faßions from the beginning of therevolution have uniformly meditated the degra dation of all hereditary rank. The calumnies, the mur ders, the proscriptions and overthrow of Kings have, however, been unable to effect it. All loyal sub jects, all enlightened and good men, resisted inno vations planned under the specious name of patriotism by ambitious upstarts, but the success of which w.,uld have brought upon all other countries the mi sery that France has endured. The faction of BoN.s- PAare have taken a diffemit course, and by making royalty contemptible, force even the steadiest friends of monarchial government to blush fur their princi ples and fur their chiefs. 'I his is a step towards an universal republic, or at least toageneral change of dynasties in Europe, of which demagogues and de mocrates will not negled to take advantage, and the evils of which will descend, with accumulated weight, to posterity." A gentleman, who left Paris on the 19th ult. has favonred us with the following particulars. The common belief in the best informed circles in France was, that the grand expedition against this country wculd, if possible, sail at the same tin:e, from Os tend, Boulogne, and Havre, at least sach was said to be the intent of Bum we AKT e, and that England was their destination. If they should succeed, then the French fleet at Brest, and the Dutch fleet in the Terri, were to put to sea, and make their way, as well as they could ; the former to Ireland, with ‘20,9'..`0 men, and the latter to Scotland, with 4 25,000 men. Notwithstanding all sensible men are of a dif ferent opinion, Boa ItT E believes, and wishes h:s artn:es arid flotilla to believe, that he has a strong party, and numerous adherents, in the British Islands; and that . he, with their assistance, wants only to land, to conquer ; or at least to diaate a peace .o England, as he has already done to Aus tria, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland. So cer tain pretends the Usurper to be of enslaving this country, in the manner he has done the Conti nent, that the Police permits a list to be cir culated at Paris, and in the departments, cnr.- Limning all the particulars of the innovations and changes which he intends ; the names of his Pro-Consuls in Great Britain; of those British subjeas whom he dishonours by desiring to make them Members of a Revolutionary Senate, of a Tri bunate, and of a British Legion of Honour, &c.— ARTHUR O'CONNOR was among the French Gene ral Officers who accompanied BONAPARTE to the coast, but returned to Paris in the first days of the last month ; and immediately set out for the army under Aco R csu, near Brest. In the river Seine from Paris to Rouen, and between that city and Havre, are two hundred gun-boats, and others newly arming, and ordered to join the division of the flotilla at Havre, where they would have been before now, but from the want of hands t man and manierivre them. Among the Officers of the flotilla, six hun dred of them, who never were at sea before, have been drafted from the army against their will ; ho rs AP A RTC haring used this as a mean to employ or get rid of the supernumeraries of the army, or to make room for young men who are indebted to him alone for promotion, or who are the favour ir. s 01 his favourites. , . Ads ices were received yester d ay from our squad ron off Ferro? And Corunn.i, otich WAS !Zit all wt.ll on the '2lst of list month. The .envy had not made any attempt to put to sea. The packet, with tl.e \tail from Lis bon, is arrived at Falmouth. The Mail will not be In town until this day. We have received New-York Journals to the tad, but they do not contain any news of import.incc. The tOttaihitim, JONFS, and the Exper , m,,', D A ItYMPLE, from London, for the East Indic., were all well, off Madeira, on the I:lth July. When the ships from Bengal (arrived in the Downs) were getting under weigh, from St. i ielena, a signal was made for a ship in sight, supposed to be the Althea, Rr Prirre of Wales.. Monday dispatches were received from Admi ral CORNWALLIS, off Breit, dated the Dr.h ult. which state. that he bad resumed the command of the Channel Fleet, in the GIGI?, of 91 guns ; that six of the enemy's large gun-brigs had attempted to escape from Brest by iine of the narrow elm:rids, supposed for Rochefort ; but that, on being d,-.eo vcie,l, they immediately took shelter, and are now closely watched by Lisa Dow frigate. evidence; fitio shall dare to accuse Heaven of it? Has Providence attached the duration of lawful dynasties to the blindness of folly, to the want of courage, and to the loss of all noble virtues ? Hap pen what may, England has proved that her power, her spirit, and her glory, ar.! able to surmount her enemies, as well as the defection of Europe. Her piers stand unhurt against the waves of the deluge, and, if ever it bn•aks through them, it will be owing to the want of union in their defence. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Editor is ob!tged t ~1. P. fur kit hints. Mock 3lnjoty, or, The Emprror in the Sods, has been received. G.toirrey Osoibado't Strictures upon Mr.. Thornton, are under consideration. THE 'BRITISH PAE6S • BONAPARTE'S CORONATION COACH. The workmen are busily employed upon th e Coronation Coach. It appears to be intended at the same time to revive the temembrance of many zras memorable for France. Upon the door will be the :trmsof the empire. Upon the Imperial will be seen the crown of CHARLEMAGNE, and upon the ham mer cloth, the bees of the Kings of die first race. The crown, borne by four eagles, will be piaced upon an altar. Eagles heads will also adorn :he harness, which will be of red Mur. cco, bronze, gilt with OP moles. The Impei:ll supported by four allegorical figures. boey 01 the carriage will be ornamented with a strip..., composed of medallions, representing the depart ments, and bound together by a ch.tin of spen?!..... This carriage is making by M. GETTING, maker, in the Rue de Provence, after designs by li e PERCI Lit, :411:11itea Of the EuPEROR, and under :!:1. dire. ion of General C AI.OI.INCOU Cr, Gt.taa of the Horse. RUSSIAN AlifitRIAGE. On the 3d of August were celebrated at St. Pe. tersburgh, the nuptials of Her Impetial Hight •ss the Gland Duchess MARIA PAWI.O4 Wil!1 fin Serene Highness the hereditary Prince of %VEIN AR. At eight o'clock in the morning a lute of all the cannon in and near the capital . flounced the festivities of the day. Tois was a sit. nal fur all persons belcmging to Conti to assem4. The nuptial ceremony was performed in the usual manner. In the afternoon a wand gala was gisen It Court, followed by a ball, and a wand and ge neral illumination all over di tt capital. The festi vities were the more brilliant, as this day was Cie birth-day both of the EMPIIt , S Doss acsa, and a hor daughter the Oa st:n Dec the bride. The Right Hon. Lord and Lady S r and SEI Lord EARDLEY, and Miss Cu 11.11EIRS. the Rev. IV .t. GLASSE, WM. SA DLI ER BRE ARE, Esq. Miss M. BOELTON, and Mr. and Mrs. OTTER, have arrirj at Durnhreck's I LAO, St. Andrew's Square, Edia. buret, from a tour through the Highlands. Ihe Hon. Mr. Yoi.K. is gone to join his rezimect at Chatham Barracks. Lord HAWKESSURY has removed from Sr. James's-square to the house lately occupieJ by the Hon. Mr. Yoar., in York•street. The Marquis of SM. ISBUIT Will leave Hatfield to-morrow fur Aldhorough, in Sussex, uhere his Lordship intends to remain a few weeks tor the benefit of his health. The Right Hon. tine Earl rf Monts left Edinburgh on Wedoes lay, for Pei!hshite, His Lordship s objet fur we under.t.n.J, is to visit the posts and military stations. Arrived at Walker's H , ,tel, E linburg!i, on Tiairs day last, from London, FRANCIS KNIGHT, Esq. In speetor General of the Army hospitals. We know no reason to stypc.se that the iirtni Roscius is a girl, unless it is Is.:cause Eis name is Betio. The company of one of the principal theatres at Pa: is set off for A ix-ia-ChapeiL on the tith last, un der the management of Picsnn. It consisted of his brother. i'leaao, jon. Beagles, VIONY ; CI). 5E1. ; :RUSSET, Mesdames PELISSI2I ; MOILIERE ; and Ikrreov. The side curl of a man of first rate fashion in Paris must have the appearance of a broad black stole along the cheek as far as the mouth, and dividing the head into two parts. The more rounded the body of a carriage is, the more fashionable. They belong now more to the square than to the circle. Mr. and Mrs. Bev [MAY'S benefit, last nigh", at the Brighton Theatre, was honoured by her Grace the Duchess of RUTLAND'S desire, and His Highness the Prince of WA ILs's patronage. The Earl of CARYSFORT has taken a house at Hampstead, for the benefit of his daughter's, 1.,.dy C. Nosy's, health. Yesterday, several of the most valuable paintings and curious pieces of furniture, were removed from the QuEEM'S House to Frogmore. The late rains at Pai is have not rendered the , o:1 of Pal nesse, more fruitful Thahe is still threat. !,..1 with a famine. The Opera carries all before it sv,h the exploits of Oasian. On Friday last the chariot of Colonel THOMPS 14, going to Worthing, was by some accident (Iyd-- turned on Pins Hill, near Horsham, and Eollslll - • ably damaged. Mrs. Tuosarsme and a child who were iii the carriage providentially escaped injury. The rage for embroidery is ao great at Par.a that an ciegante must have even her chemise and her morichair dr nee embroidered. White embroidery in cotton is the only kind used for the latter. it is said the infant Ro'cies has engaged Miss LEe SUGO to perform with him ; and. should the Mana gers nut come up to his price, he will take t h e Little theatre in the Haymarket, and astonish the town with ~! r antree performances. We understand that Mr. Et.xisrom has obtained permission to have his benefit at the King's Theatic, I laymarket. Mr. W I ; Master of the Southtriwn Acadcrny ! near Great Y:111111)11th, is said to be in possession -1 the prompt-book. by which the late celebrated Mr. (;Aam ic leatiortned Richard Me Third, at Ipswti,. in a summer company, under the management LI Messrs. Cheese and YATES; being the first time that wonderful aetor ever appeared in public. One would suppose that Bona vita waited f - the shoutots season to commence his attack up' preserves. As he has not yet taken out a /.. however, he is likely to sustain some damages, ,'• ticularly should he happen to be charkd by the 1.. .1: souu top,. Dr. M a%n e, the Bishop of Chester, all ivi d ' York on Thursday evening, and after attrildi! , : prayers Friday morning at the Ca:bedral. and specVng the church, he set off for Dish:nab:nye , pay his respells to, and dine with, his Gi ace the 1.,r1 Archbishop of York Mr. COKE and his shooting parties at llolkh in Norfolk, did prodi L; ious ex-e.ition Satuvd.. • last, it being the ;:rninj of campaign a;;.. the game. Ninety-six brae:: ut partridge'. brace of hares, and 47 couple of rahfets, their triiimplis of tlie day. Mr.• Coss F. is ssna co !:arc killed a third of the whole. It s hould lc " membered, however, that this cl.traershuaty des s sport was in Norfolk. at J: 11)4it the 11 liv,d art; ( 4 ) . 4104( lii.. Lille axe and wal A'.l l nea Pres uicl, c,