The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-08-30 00:00:00

I FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, AUGUST IQ. A.eeording to letters from Vienna, the rumour is yet general, that the Emperor of Germany will have an interview with the King of Sweden, in the Camp of Moravia. Their Royal Highnesses the Archdukes Charles and 3ohn will accompany their brother, the Emperor. The Ambassador of the Emperor of the French at Vienna has ordered the arms of his Sovereign to be placed over the door of his hotel. Several officers of the 3d battalion of the 23d regiment of inf.unry, which was lately at St. Do mingo, have arrived, upon parole from Jamaica, at Bourdeaar. A curious tutus nahtst made its appearance on the 14th of July near Evreus. A cat brought forth a small animal which has nothing of the species of its mother. The head is that of a Newfoundland dog, and the hinder parts of the body, including the tail, that of a rat, both in shape and colour. The head is very large and disproportionate, compared with the body. This little monster, which the mother nourishes and takes care of as her other kittens, is only four inches long, from the head to the t.+il. It is said that M. Petit Thouars is charged to bring to the museum of natural history, this new pal de la sea 'we. The Emperor has authorised the Bishop of Ghent to confer priests orders on '.27 young men, who have paid fur substitutes, and are of course excepted from conscription. In the diocese of Ghent are still atenracies vacant for want of priests to officiate. The fair at benegaglia, in the Papal territory, has been very brilliant this year: a number of ships from irriew had carried there very rich cargoes, chiefly of English palatines, which bad a rapid and ad vantageous sale. M. De Rochambeau, Ex. Marshal of France, and father of the General of Division, Rochambeau, late Commander in Chief at St. Domingo, at pre sent a Prisoner of War in England, has published She following letter: " At Aachamtseas, mew Vendome, July 27, 1804. " Ohioan Falai. Coleus; of St. Domingo, has, accord. ing blithe Hemmers, laid a very ',minus complaint against Goon& Rochambeau, behire the French Consul at Hay-small. I know, front exparicnce, that in the crust position my son found himself during the last six months of his command in the wawa of Cape, besieged both by sea and land, it would have been diffienit for hint* avoid exercising some acts of setcniy, iniumsen trvori thellineessriy and the wants of his tro3;11. But what I know as more certain is, that there is no generosity in eammtting two persons now, of whom the one as at Havan na!, and the other in the County of Derby, which is the place where my son is Prisoner in Eflgiana, bath separated by the ocean, at a &atalire of 1500 leagues from each other. (sizoterl) " ROCHAMBE.U.I, Sen." In cultivating the gardens and the ground round Brews, in the department of Ain, the ruins of an ; old town, destroyed by fire, have been discovered. Several Gaulisb silver medals, and several Roman medals of gold, silver and brass, among which se veral are extremely curious, have been found. In I digging the earth in the same canton, an urn, con taining silver medals to the weight of three pounds, was found. They were all of the Colony of Marseilles, and °false silver. On one side is engraved the genies of the town, or the town itself is peisonified without inscription. On the other side is a buckler, upon which are the letters M. A. ; the initial and ter minating letters of the word Mustier. They are of a fine impression, and engraved with exquisite taste, which ascertains the date of the foundation of the 7 town. Every one knows that Marseilles was for merly a colony of the Phociane. The Emperor of Germany has appointed Marc Zaguri, Bishop of Vincenaa, a patriarch of Venice, in the place of Cardinal Flangini, who die.) lately. It is sot yet Lsown whether the Pope he. confirmed this siornisation, as report says, that his Holiness destined this place for his eminence Cardinal Fesh. Never were rumours more numerous and more contradiaory than at this moment; never did they succeed each other with more rapidity: in one in stant it is reported that the expedition has sailed; at another, that it ha: returned; and in a third, that a landing has been made, A viaory gained; and our braves (s o. £'axe') were advancing towards London. k Again it is said, that immediately after landing a peace had been concluded, the British navy dis mantled or given up, and lilerty and are reigning in England as well as in France. Then comes another report, that the Russian Emperor has elselared war againn France ; that a Russian fleet has passed the Sound, and a Russian army . landed in Hanover, and that the three Austrian et. camptnems had broken up, and that the troops were =arching to support the Russians; and that, of course, a Continental war was inevitable This is succeeded by a rumour, that the mediation of Prus sia had the desired elfea ; that a cessation of arms would immediately be signed, and a congress f or a general pacification would be opened at Aix- Le-Chapelle. Upon further inquiry, all these ru- L Mows are discovered to be the inventions either of 1311 T avaricious stock jobbers, or of OUT buey garret politicians; who, not having talents enough 6-re gulate their own affairs, so that they can dine to for get hunger, kindly take. upon themselves, unin vited, to regulate the affairs of Europe ; and alter natively to distribute the cypress of defeat, the laurels of victory, or the olive of peace ; but, so on. grateful is the world for all their liberality, that their stomachs continue as empty as their heads, and their Lodies as naked as their minds. We should, therefore, warn the public not to become the dopes of rumours, the source of which we have now dis covered ; but to wait with patience the information Government chooses to give concerning present everts and the present situation of affairs.—(Jourval de Porie). . The Portuguese Negotiator and Ambassador, the Marquis de Lima, is daily expeeted ; and immedi ately after his arrival, the commercial treaty, which Field-Marshal Lasnes has been negotiating, will be finally concluded and signed. It is said, that in one of the articles, we obtain permission to import, dual frfe, the produaions of our sills and cloth ma nufaaories, not only to the Portuguese ports in Eu rope, but to those in the Brazils and in the other Portuguese colonies. It is added, that this com mercial treaty will immediately ba followed by offensive and defensive alliance between the Empe ror of the French, the King of Spain, and the Regent of Portugal. CORONATION PREPARATIONS. Though the Emperor is absent, the preparatiors for hit coronation continue without interruption. This men.oraile era will be celebrated by the most brilliant fete ever seen in France. We are assured, that the Senate intends to give a fete, which will con upwards of two millions (22,(l001.), in the pa lace of Lusemburgh. The city of Paris will, be sides, as in the times of the coronations of former Kings, give an entertainment in the Hotel de Ville, never before surpassed in splendour. The Legis lative Body, the Tribunate, the Council of State, the PrefeEt and Department of the Seine, the Mayors of the Twelve Municipalities, the Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour, the Ministers of different offices, all intend to give grand festivities on that day ; so much so, that every person of the capital, ever so great or so low, may gratuitously enjoy the treats and festivities. The Empress has al ready ordered five hundred tables to be laid out in the Thuillery Gardens, and in the Ely sian Fields, each large enough for fifty guests, all to be served at her expence, with the choicest dishes, and finest w; .es. Should the wea ther be unfavourable, these tables will be coveted as in tents. Freworks ere preparing, for which the Emperor has given 600,000 lieres (25,0 01.) from his private purse ; and, upon each bridge, immense tuns with wine will be placed, and every one passing by will drink as mach as he pleases; on every square will be an orchestra, wli-re the public will dance, and eat and drink at r . ban peror's expence. From his Majesty's private purse, ' six millions (250,00014 are already delivered to the Mint, where gold and silver Coronation Medals are striking, of which 1000,000 livres (75,0001.) will be distributed at Paris, and the remainder in the capital city of each d . epartment. Prisoners of every description will be restored to their liberty, and a new amnesty published, including all emi grated persons, with the exception of the Bour bons, and persons related to them. Each officer will be advanced one step, and each soldier receive from the Emperor's private purse one decade's (ten days') pay. It is expelled that an emulation will take place in every city, town, or even village, all over France, which shall be foremost to chew its greatest attachment to our beloved Sovereign. As these feasts and festivities will cmtinue for several Jays, all the theatres of the French empire will re main open sroris for the public, from the pth to the 19th of neat November.—lburlal It, Spec tacles.) THE BRITIbiI PRESS LON DON, THURSDAY, AtcLsr 30. Mr. MowLE, the master of the Ceara:wise cut ter, which was sunk by the Boulogne batteries on Sunday, arrived at Dover, Tuesday morning. l le says. that be was within half gun shot of the shore, engaging a gun-brig of twelve long guns, and two lugger rigged yachts, richly ornamented, and sup posed to have on board some officers of distinetion. When the cutter's guns were near enough to do execution, the yachts lowered sails and masts, and rowed in: the cutter followed them, and received a IS inch shell, which sunk her. Notwithstanding some thousands of shot and shells were thrown, the damage done to our squadron wag not great. The Istalor'ehte was struck by a shot, which wounded three men : a shell fen on board the Horpy brig, and killed one man. Other vessels received shots in their sails and rigging, but no more lives were lost. • The damage done to the enemy is believed to i have been considerable. Several of their vessels • were dismasted, and the slaughter, from the number of troops on board, is inferred to have been very great. But it is to be observed, that oar cannonade has net, as on former occasions, forced the enemy's vessels to return into port. Stich is the sum and substance of the wonderful bu siness of Sunday a•nd Monday, off Boulogne, which was sent forli by an Evening Paper of Tuesday, embellished and set off by the fancy or fears of the writer, as nothing lee than the admit commence ment of the execution of the long meditated threat of invasion. Upon the first blush of the account, it appeared to Os to be nothing more than one of those skirmishes, which, for twelve months past, have taken place almost daily between our cruisers and divisions of the French ilotiila, made up with a good deal of strong colouring and caricature, to catch the attention of that mass of idleness and folly, who do not choose to he at the trouble of thinking for themselves, and areever ready to swallow any nonsense that is offered to them in the shape of news. We take some credit for having truly envisaged this report, and put our readers yesterday upon their gnat d against giving ten easy a belief to the story of the Dover correspondent, in its full extent. It now appears. that Baron :11,0;ciausen has settled upon the coast. from whence he has undertaken to astonish the world, and dissipate the stagnation which generally prevails at this season of the year in town, by a succession of wonders. The Baron could count the grape-shot falling into the sea, under the batteries of Boulogne. •he Baron could see the men of the Iniororfalite holding up their oars, and packing up the men of the Coassitu. lion cutter, within half gun-shot of the French coast. The Baron could see the mast of the Condi. lotion sticking three inches above water. Had the Baron been half nos orer when he saw all this, his story would be feasible, and only common place. To astonish the vulgar, it was therefore necessary, that he should descry the whole scene through his glasses from the heights of Dover. If any thing could take from the merit of the Baron's account, it is the close similitude, which it bore to Capt. Son x e's report of his aerial voyage with Mr. GARNEIIIS, in 1502, in which the Captain could perceive, at the dis tance of several miles above the earth, the ruts in the roads, and could hear the dogs barking. The Baron's report,even as an imitation, has, however, some merit, and we flattered ourselves with a series of amusing articles from his pen. It was, therefore, with a con siderable degree of regret and disappointment we found yesterday, while we were gaping open. mouthed for some new wonder from the Baron, that, the atmosphere being cloudy on Tuesday, he could not make any new observations or discove ries. This was a mortifying blow to our curiosity, • and has greatly damped the sanguine expeltations which we were beginning to entertain from the ex traotdinary success of the Baron's glasses. We were beginning to hope that it would be tics more necessary to send Lord KEITH and General Mooas to reconnoitre the French coast, exposed to winds and waves, and theire of the enemy ; and that it would be sufficient for the purpose of the most mi nute enquiry and investigation, to order them to Dover Cliffs with a note to the Baron, requesting the loan of his glass. We had begun to hope that it would be unnecessary to keep a cruising squadron off Boulogne eluting the ensuing winter, for the purpose of watching the motions of the enemy, as all this could be done by the gond people of Dover -without Stirling from their fire-sides, with only the assistance of the Baron's glasses ; but, alas ! all these fond, loyal. and patriotic hopes are fled. The Baron says his glasses are of no use in bad weather. We find ourselves, without any provneztion on our parr, and much against our will, suddenly involved in a quarrel with no fewer than three Newspapers. One of these, indeed, the old organ of Jacobin ism, ought not to virprise us. It has never been known to speak well of any of its contempora ries but with a view to injure it. For tisis liberal and candid purpose, it has lately affeaed great kindness for the Ct«ri.-. elr Lemires, and encou raged the sik Editor of that Paper to attack Tau Bair cm' Pees. We have already given a friendly hint to that poor man, against whom we cannot possibly harbour any resentment. Though it kas-not had the desired effea, yet we do not consider him as absolutely incorrigible, and t:ierefore hope a few words more may not be th...issn entirely away. Boasting of this new ally, with Which he now fraternises, he says he does not agree -.with it in every thing. We have read nothing in ikat Jacobin Print for a considerable length of time, but the Brentford Eleftion business, and abuse of the Ministry. These have been the two great, pr..mi nmt, and leading features of the Jacobin Print . We should be glad then to know on which of I:le,e two questions it has the honour to be supported And applauded by the Cessi,cr de londres. Oat Government has been tather unfortunate in its,g,. nerosity towards French men of letters. With eh: exception of Mr. Narita, whose loyasly is as nu. questionable as his talents, most of this class of Emigrants have .proved e.lually disloyal and ins. grateful. 'loyalists when in F. gland, and fed by English boaaty, they have shewn themselves. when retarned E.) Francs., the most abjeft slave,, the panegyrists of Bos:kr. A tar. r, and the calumniator!, England. FUNTANES, MEIIEE DE 1.5 TOUCIIE, Mown:wive ir, now Placemen and Perssioner BON ‘eARTr. arc all living examples, to sdicir might appeal for the truth of this obseiva . a.sa. : . MoNrioNsirat resided ten years in this country, :. conducted with :slat; the rearier de Lma..,s. successor, the present Editor, not having the pretensions to talent, his loyalty is nSt in any Z r , Danger from the temp:a:ions the Use s e..a. ire, therefore, not is the least afraid that he ever make his appearance in the Legion of Hoorn:: , nor do we insinuate that he entertains the most dis tant hope of it. No, if the Proprietor of the Cumri... de Landers 'offers no injury from its present Conduc tor, we apprehera! none that can possibly result lions hislabours. Some portion of the bounty of Govern. ment i s no doubt thrown away upon that imbecile Paper, but it istoosmalltn arrestour notice. Thesetwo Prints however, are not so much to blame as The Traveller. To be attacked by The Traveller is to be wounded hr an arrow feathered from our own wing. For It: months past, that Paper has astually subsisted upon Tun llamas Pscss. We have reckoned ;n its pages, in one day, seven columns, all pirated from Tux BRITISH Pass, and seldom does it copy Iv; than three ; while, destitute of original sources of any value, it yields nothing in return. It has been suggested to us to take a regular accoui of these piracies, and to publish them weekly, with the amount of each day. This exposure would cer tainly be an aft of justice to ourselves ; but it m;ght possibly ruin The Traveller. We cannot, howevr, promise how much longer we shall resist the advice, and exercise the same forbearance. We this day resume our extraits from the French Papers of the 10th, which we have rec,:ived rerla sioely. Some of them will be found interesting, p.tr• titularly the ankle which gives an account of the preparations for the celebration of the coronation of the EMPEROR of the FRENCH. A letter from St. Petersburgh, received with the last mail, mentions, that the division of the Itus. sian fleet, which WAS to pass the Sound, is destined for the Mediterranean, to reinforce the squadron al ready arrived there from the Black Sea, and to pra tes" Sardinia, Sicily, Morea, and the Seven Island•. against the attempts of Fiance, it being yet doubtful for which of these countries the French fleet at Tor lon is destined, should it, during the equinosial gales, when probably our blockading ships will he driven from the coast, be able to get to sea, without fighting its way. This is so much the more prc bahle, as, according to letters from Loyd Netsoa•• fleet, the French ships at Tonlon have, ever sine• last June, been in complete readiness to take adva• • cage of the first opportunity to sail I , r that sect:: expedition, to which the French papers have a:.• flounced them to be destined. The French ships the Spanish ports are but badly manned ; but e.e crews on board the Toulon fleet are picked me 7. and the land troops, under the command of Getiet.,l REGNIIII, consist of thou. Sri t ades which d. - tinguished themselves most under Bostaemsrs, in his campaigns in Italy and Fgy pt. A report is current, of an embargo havinE, be:a laid in the French, Flemish, and Dutch ports. -A we have had no arrivals lirce from these ports, it &racially supposed to be the case and that FAA!' Z, to prevent our receipt of any informs:":. what is going forward in these countries, has 1, an embargo on all the shipping. This is, no the reason that we have been without French pap for near three weeks, as the last, which we r:c.• came only up to the 11th inst. thir • • terrroraric. have none later than th-i!e of We tth anxiety fOr the two lLsu which we 7e due poste-iii. A Court of Dire. ors was yesterd.ty hell a: India House, which adjouracd at an early hour t -morrow. A Cabinet Council was yesterday held at OtliCe. It was attended by CA rLtaLAost, H OW BY, MELVILLE, RA' • BERV, And the Lid o(CAmtnio. __ _ List Manday, about one o'clock. Cliasicet Loa visited Mr. PITT. At two o ' -• Cabinet Council was held at 1.114 11.4 P.,) , + 3 Office, which was attended by the Loll, Csik•••• • LOS, Earl CS VDr.v, Lord HASA UWB Lord Mt. VIL LS, and Mr. PITT. It is strongly reported and :hi: ~laresrvwill not sleep any nvre the Q - House, and will veto' rarely hold Levees, wl.e 1 he clan hold any, they will be a: tne In consequence of Lord 13st the l'yrone Militia, the Lord Lieut, has int n 7!rased to appoint Liroterw,L 1. 1:41: v. CALLD:rN to be Colrr.cl of awl'. Cn' noured tb e nmmanc I),, , ,L7hter thc Mr. I.)Aw Mrs. FAI extremely %,ent off : Ea, in I 211:ed :ty toe lious ::cle au, the ‹ame icjving tl l'he a 1:arl [Tx' • d Fin Vesten .t,:^eig/1 toc . :r reti übpitt fig• T:lis seven O'CI lutd.thilfe MILY sai Itad a v were qui The fo Royal H Earl of I 13 , mpfylde ut Ow Son Colonel S Mrs. St Jr leo, Mr. After Kabgno ws.aurat c niee wi Rosa, to the I I and, witl whom la take sorb party at the everti there he green or gain it is at m Lint oak —Ho turn it ii ter., and &tr.!. ings and my crape ro ings witl what etc the most Then shs as a dry,' Sir Ft seled par tine turd His 1 taken uf until be deuce, ahion;ble not inter engaged square. . . 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