The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-10-25 00:00:00

FOAMY IgTELtrozivcr. !ion THE FRENCH AND DUTCLi CAPERS pasts, oct. 17. Under a salute of the artillery at Etaples, Fic'd- Marshal Ney and his a ife struck the lii. s; nails into a new privateer building there ; which, in honour ca them, was called fi Id-21farshei :Vey Eg/e. The hammer was of silver, and the nails of gold, pre sented by the owner to Mr. and Mrs. Ney. Government has now organised a corps of En gineers for the bridges and chaussees. Their r in eipal occupation is to take care of the public roads and bridges, to projeill new ones, or to plan the inv. provements of the old. This corps will consist of 1,014 persons, among whom are tire general in spetl.'rs, who receive each a salary of 1.::,000 byres. The number of piaures which have this year ob tained the honour of public exhibition, in our Im perial Museum, amount to 1,200, of different de scriptions, not including portraits. This honour has been refused to DOO others. Cardinal Du Bendy, the Archbishop of Paris, though 91 years of agc, has demanded and ob tained tla: Emperor's p:rmission to ACC mpany Car dinal Cambaceres, and the other members of the deputation sent to compliment his Holiness the Pope, on the frontiers of the French empire. As the famous painter, David, is charged to as sist General Caulincourt, and the persons under his eomnsand, in the great preparations and numerous arrangements for the coronation of Napoleon the First, is Emperor of the French, he has already de lineated the outlines of the picture which he is charged to execute, representing the ascension to sovereignty of a fourth dynasty in France. This favour has procured him much abuse from disap pointed inferior rivals or enemies, who have pub lishel several libels against him s in one of which be is particularly reproached with having formerly painted the execution of Louis XVI. ; the apothe osis of Marat; the fete of the Goddess of Reason; and the Almighty under the figure of Robespierre, &c. The printer of this libel is arrested and in the Tern- pls. and the police is in search of tke author, said to be a female, wife or mistress of a fanatic royalist. now is England, and who. being inculpated in the conspiracy of George and Pichegru, passed last spring several months in the Temple. The printer does not know her under any other name but that of Charlotte Corday s but, by the description he has given of her person. and from some lines of her hand-writing, the prefea of the police is convinced, that her or her husband's family name is St. Luc, under which name she was imprisoned, and ob tained her release last spring.—(Ceerser des Sice leder ) The nronaut Garnerin has arrived at Frankfort, from St. Pctersburgh, on his way to Paris. He has been forced to postpone his journey to Constanti nople, for want almoner, having imprudently lost in gambling every thing that he had gained in Russia. It is said that Madame Catoctin has de mantled an ad of divorce from an indiscreet hus band, who, in four years time, has gained and lost three fortunes.—( Eels der Brandin.) The English Minister to the Eleaor of Hesse, Mr. Taylor, has returned to England. It would be desirable, could the Emperor convince all Sovereigns of the necessity, for their own hewer, to exclude in future from the continent all British political or commercial agents.— (Jsernal Jr Paris The troops ordered to form a camp between Cob ham and Mentz, have received counter-orders. The report of another encampment having been in tended on the Lower Rhine, near Cleves, is un founded. No new camps will be formed on the Ge: man frontiers before next spring, and we hope. that, even then, they may be unnecessary; as it will not be the fault of the Emperor, if all diff:rences between the continental states be not ariaaged be fore that reriod. The Hanoverian Legion in our pay is arrived on the Dii:ch frontiers, and will pass through Park on its way to Lyons. 1: contains 1200 men inftntry, and .i. 1%) mounted dragoons. After being corn pletely organised at Lyons, they are destined for nur army in the South of Italy. Their numerous desertions forced government to send them to such a distance from their own country. They are all you:if.: men, under thirty years of age, and have formeily belong.i to the regiments of the Hanove rian army, which surrendered to the French as pri. nursers of war, after our concord of Ilanover. Donations by wills, approved by Gosernment, to the poor and to the hospitals, amount, during the year XII. to the sum of 2,e22,5.:1 livres 0.3,0ct01.); a sum, though great, totally insufficient for Os r numerous poor, particularly as all former hospital% orphan-houses, and other charitable in stitutions, since the revolution, h.ve been corals cated and sold. It would be an ad ef justi.e in our Government. not to confolindi this sort of nitional property with the estates of the nobility and e. --;-r, but fore their unfeeling purchasers to prove TIIE P LON DON, THURSDAY. Octoua Li. According to a letter from Calmar in Sweden, besides the King of FR Awes, and Their Reyal.High nes,es, Mrs/suave and the Duke of AmooeLuis, the Swedish Grand Chancellor, Count de FLRSLN, the RestiAll Chamberlain, Count SOLTIZOFF, the late English Minister to the Court of Stutgard, Mr. SPENCIR SMITH, and the Danish Chamberlain, B iron De BLotes, were expelled there. Should this be the case, something else than the private fa mily affairs Jf the BOURBONS will be transafted there. We have declared before, that His Most Christian Majesty, Louts XVIII. and the Princes of his blood, intended to publish a protest against the Corsican Usurpations. We, at the same time, declared that which appeared in the Ifoqueur a forgery of 83. NA PARTE, TALLRYRAND, and Co. We have now season to believe, that such an aa is under con sideration, with the approbation, and according to the advice, of the Court; of St. James's, St. Peters burgh, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. As soon as it shall be Jett:: mined upon, we shall. as may be ex peeled, from our charaacr for priorqy of intelli gence, be the first to lay it before the Le:ters from onr squadron off Rrr , l. received yesterday, sta:e, that it was d.. expe!ted, the French ships blockaded there wra• i sea, as their crews had obtained conch.: •ra.l• reinforce ments, nut only of French, but of forced into their service. Aceir.ii ro t!.e report of four Dutch deserters, BON At A L 13.13 sent po sitive orders from Aix-la-Chapella to the French Commodore to sail for Brest, even though he should be obliged to fight his way through our cruisers. The squadron would, in consequence, have already left Ferrol, had not an aid-de-camp of the Spanish Minister of Marine arrived from Ca diz with dispatches, which induced him to wait for further instruaions from France. It is believed at Ferrol, and on board the French fleet, that the ships, which are equipping at CadiL and Barcelona, will co-operate with the French as auxiliaries only to a certain distance from the Spanish coast, as the Spanish Cabinet regards its neutrality en croached upon by the strklness of our block ading squadron. These Dutchmen assert, that the greatest anarchy and discontent prevail all over Spain; that the insurrection, which be gan near Bilboa, has extended to the neighbour ing provinces ; and that the insurgents amounted to upwards of 60,000 men, and were daily increasing. This latter report was confirmed by an American Captain from Corunna, who added, that the lea,l ers of the insurgents are Spaniards formerly in the French service, and young men, educated in France. The common belief among all classes of people is, that the dissolution of the Spanish Monarchy, or at least a general revolution, is at hand. This dan gerous mperstition is kept ap by pretended pro phecies, circulated by Spanish priests in French pay ; and it will, therefore, not be surprising, if an ignorant people, thus deluded, and also tormented by famine and disease, will, from despair, seek a remedy, in the worst of all evils, in a rebellion. When the last accounts left Ceylon. tranquillity WAS coinpletely restored in the island. The follow i 1,; is a copy of the Proclamation published by the G vernor on the 29th Decemher : Whereat tranquillity anJ g oxl order hare been restated thrniitiout Cie Litisli Settlement aid Territories in the Island of Ceylon: We do hereby proclaim and command that the adrninistrit.en and execution of Martial Law through ., .1 the said Sett einent• and Tenitnriet, with their Depend eacies, stud! firt!ie.th cease and determine. We have received some of the small Paris Papers to the 17th, several extraas from which are given in the preceding column. A Court of Dire&ors was yesterday held at the Las Insiia House, when the Court concluded read ing the dispatches received from India by the last Bert. The Court adjourned at an early hour, till to morrow. Accounts are said to have been received, stating, that the Prince o►' Iran Indianian had been captured by a Dutch frigate, and carried into the Cape. We believe this to be only a report ; but it is certain, that no apprehensions are entertained by nautical men, that her situation was sufficiently dangerous to give any ground to suppose she had foundered. ThA Spanish brig San 7041 h, ASILATTS, laden with linen and wheat, lately. detained at Cowes, was liberated yesterday, aid sailed tor Bilboa. Ti,e Pelham, WARDLN. from Riga, is arrived at Hull : o.e parted fr.tm the fleet, consisting of about 100 sail, nu the 6th inst. nt; Nr•ravay. She put into \ but heard nothing ft: . them. The gaiiiot A:p ; t:ot 4 -, from Liverpool for Rotterdam, is lost on the coast of The E -, front Bergen for N.- ph s, is on shore on the coast of HollAnd, and, it is feared, will he lost. A report was very cm-rent in the city yesterday, that the buy COllieredg.i. Captain Eomc anis, had been atracked on her homeward passage, by the Payeie French privateet, which vessel she very gal- Lind) beat off The P.vrie was the privateer that captured the Admiral .Ip/ea. The Dutch Papers state, that the Ps . whe had attacked an English East Indianian, but had been beat off wi.h considerable loss, Part of Admiral Gs aves's division of the fleet off Brest, the Feedeefont, and tirtnise, return ed to Plymouth on Monday. Mote frigates have been dispatched to cruise to the southward, for the purpose of detaining the Spanish ships homeward bound from America. The Insurgents in Biscay are not yet suppressed. A very serious insurrection has broken out in Ma jorca, in which the garrison his suffered severely : one regiment is said to have been entirely de stroyed._ The Gazette of Tuesday night, where it speaks of Vienna wool, is evidently a typographical error for Vicuna, commonly c.uled Vlgoana wool, the fleece of the wild Peruvian sheep. We also suspea that the bars of Tin will turn out en be ban of Zink. or Nickk, or perhaps Savor, a , then: is not. throughout the wh..ie CILL4IIt Of the Vi.:troyally of Peru, a single mine of tin. The charges against the Frereh Leaden Gazette, suppressed at the Hague, are, .partiality, and Artful Abridgments of intelligence. la disfavour of the Government and affairs of France. Tn. Nisc Mee chew, another prohibited paper, is innocently de clared guilty. and involved in the same punisiment, without having the comfort at being accused. It however, conjeaured, that the copious extraas contained in it from the Landon Papers has steel:- rated its fall. There is a curious contradiclion in the French official account of the attempt to burn the Boul •gne flotilla. The French government close their oiricial dispatches with inveaives against f-'r An attempt to destroy an enemy without exposi tirielve. any danger. And this is bravely .asserted after A positive affirmation that we had boat. full of me n sunk ; were thrown into the gteAte,t &border ; that the French kept up an incessant and w c :l. ; fi rc ,rted fire .I,ng the whAf line, dining the wLr le engage ment ; ..1.1 that our loss was ei.nstl3-ibly greater than ! that they really have paid the full Vahie for their acquisitions; and if they could not prove it, which few ears; restore to &Tering humanity, what avidity, if net cruelty, has too long enjoyed. The Hospital and the College of Sens were sold to the same person for 500,000 livres in assignats, which, in cash, amounted not to 50 louis (501.), though the buildings of the latter alone cost the Jesuits, in 1766, 1,200,000 livres (50,0001.). The college of Harcourt here sold for 200,000 Byres in assignats, which made then 2ti louis (ea) in cash ; and the bookseller who bought it, receives now in rents, for the lodgings he letts nut of this extensive building, 15,000 livres (6831.),though he occupies a third him self, for his family and for his warehouses. The hotel of the Bishop at Metz, and the hospital connected with it, were sold together for the same sum in assig. nats, worth the same sum in cash, and are changed into one of the principal inns at Metz, where the pur chaser has made a great fortune. We could mention numerous others, who could have no more reason to complain, were Government to oblige them to restore to the poor what is due to the poor, and which our humane and charitable ancestors intended for the instruction, consolation, and relief of the poor.— Such a generous a& on the part of our generous Em peror would increase future donators.We have heard of many persons in affluence, who, for fear of the in steialio of human s, dispose of their superfl sities to strangers, who thank them, rather than to be queathe them to national institutions, which, at some distant period, may again be called national property. This would not he the CAW, were the former put chasers of hospitals, asvla, colleges, &c co n manded to make a restoration.— tweet des De. .frnseurs.) The labours for the ceremony of the coronation are carried on with the greatest aftivity ; workmen are now pulling down the Chapter of Notre Dame, and several houses contiguous to that old edifice, which concealed the Lam the Metropolitan church, and obstruaed the striking view of a piece of archi• teeture remarkable for its boldness and antiquity. From the Parvis to the Port de la Cite, a very large circular apace is to be opened, capable of containing the different military corps, and a part of the retinue which cannot be present at the interior ceremonies of the coronation. Similar demoli:ions will enlarge the Place de Parvis, as far as the new portal of the Hotel Dieu, and will continue it as far as the A rchevcche. Workmen are labouring with the same celerity on the inside of the church of Notre Dame; rows ef benches are rising iu every past of it. '1 he large iron railing of the choir, and the tw•o altars, w:licit were on the right and left, have disappeared. The entrance i ~to the c.usir is enlarged. Alcoves are established in it, on which the Members of the prin cipal Orc:era of the Empire will be seated ; they are raised above the stalls in such a manner, that these m..ster-pieces of sculpture will suffer no injury. Gre: `reparation are making a-la-Greve in the C.harro-de-Man for the fetes of the coronation. An imme..se wooden hall is construaing in the Pace de Greve. This Day..Accesiaa of Guest 111-...110', t 4), at all the Public Offices. ROYAL FAMILY. WATINOCTir t OCT. Last night the ROYAL FAMILY honoured the Theatre to see the Comedy,of Mr:ld Oatt, and Th e Mith,ight Hour, for the bops& of Mr. and Mrs. DA W SON. Between the Play and Farce, Miss DAw. SON danced a most excellent Sccech Reel. On the entrance of the ROYAL FAMILY, the house w as but thinly attended, when His 111AJE‘TY ordered the female attendants upon the ROYAL FAMIL Y Io be sent for. The performances went off extremely well. This morning, as soon as His MAJESTY had pe rused the dispatches sent to him by Ministers, he went on board the Royal Yacht, and took an excursion to sea, RICHMOND CONCERTS. Dr. SMITH'S first concert this season was qiren on Monday evening, at the Castle Assembly Ro m , to a numerous assembly of the subscribers, amore whom were the Dukes of Qv ECM BERRI( And 11, ct.Ltot, Lord CARDIGAN, the Hon. Mr. K t 'P and Mr. ADDINGTON'S family. Miss MLNDY •.:• two airs, by HANDS!. and SA ETI, with great s,‘.. ness and brilliancy of execution ; we are harpy notice the rapid improvement this young lady h a nude since we last heard her. Ni asn's rite,' and an Italian song, were admirably given. Sars and Goat assisted in some excellent Gins. Dodo, SMITH performed an elegant Concerto of Kozr. Lucia's, on the Grand Piano Forte. CIA stet led the band, which has received a considerable addition by the engagements of HoLaitts on the Bassoon, and the LEANDEES for the Horns t they performed a ntect melodious Trio for two Horns and a Bassoon. Th e other principal instrumental performers were C. ASHLEY, MORALT, BOYCE; LING, It. ASHLEY, OLIVER, PIELTI•N, WOIDN CR, &c. &c. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Sir James Earle, to his house in Hanover•sq oars. The Hon. Mr. Lumley mist bride, from Nottingham, u l'Ark lane. Mrs. Warren, lady of the late Dr. Warren, from Stammer-, to her house in Arg Grineral Sahlakooff, flow the Continent, to his house ia Gre..t Mary-la-bonne-street. G. Hoary Mitchell, En. from his seat in Hampshire. FASHIONABLF. DEPARTURES. -, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wiles and Count Rms. joints, for Brighton. The Marchioness of Downshire, to Brighten. Lord Henniker, from his house in Portman-square, to Col. Bailin of the Cold:yearn Guards fur RAmvate. Lord ROCIERT SZTMOVIL is at Orford, ScE lk, enjoying the innate satisfaction a good shot feels, when be has scope for its full exercise. We are happy to find, that Mrs. Wv na A se, of Portland• Place, is recovered from her indisposition. Subscriptions are now receiving, for engraving a full-length portrait of Sir NATHANIEL DANCE. Commodore of the China Fleet, in the engagement with LINOIC. Sir W. M. Misuse has set off from his seat, Nunappleton, near York, on an excursion to Edin burgh. whilst Lady MILNER is enjoying the society of a circle of friends in his absence. Waistcoat pockets are come again into fashion at Path. The prevalent pasian for embroidery ha caused this change. Naked arms and 'mks are still all the rage i France. Tytanny is always favourable to th growth of raked fashions. Lthu awl Ndrcisse, an Opera of the famou Glues;, is now very popular in Paris. Romances and music occupy a large portion the time of a Parisian ekgaxle. Mr. Srtras Kan si.t wishes to get intoC,rew , t , but the rind people of that town are not inclined favour his designs on St. Mary's Hall. An Operatic Atter-piece will appear at Covent Garden Tt.eatre before Christmas, from the pen Mr. KENNY, the Author of the popular farce ?he Trind. Mrs. BILLISGTON and Signora GILASSIWI ate en. gaged at the Opera House, for the ensuing scan at a salary of 5000 guineas. These fascinatinA females have contrafted not to perform at any pn4 vale concerts, but to devote their talents exclu&ivell to their pulic duty. Comic operas are to he es ploded, and Signior MoitELLI has in conseque:lo entered into an engagement at Lisbon. Every time that Mademoiselle Coxrar plays al the Culne,ii• Franc4i)e, at Paris, it is good style ti go there. lithe China fleet did so much damage to Pea'' Admiral Limon, what would have become of 1.• had he encountered the Dc/ti man of war ? If we believe Mr. K tKo's late Work VI .. mentions names without reserve, and fats vviur reserve), he is really ill used; if he has misrepre tented things, we suppose all the people he rasa Lions will answer the pamphlet. There are concerts in every corner of Pari Among the most celebrated are the Concerts ft•te.Cerwti, the Hotel lks Fermis, of ere t' ,t .a a, of the Rue ekry, rf Chaassee Cle to‘re, Bo ), . The Annual Ball, giv...n by the Book S lc:. • East Grinstead, was on F-id ty I.tst att:nded the beauty and fashion of the ne;ghourhood. tween and QO slt down to an excellent '•• and choice wines at the Dorset .Irms. - ti in t! was with the utmost hilarity • meats of the dance were continued till km ....... ....... when t','e urnp.tny separated, highly ple.ss , l the polite at. v..ti Ins of the S:ewards, A. t: KIE. Esq. and h1.60r CRANSTON, of the I'Lvt • " • Legion. At Blicklii;y, RAces, Norfilk, An Friday, C WI% ImA st's horse won the Sweepstake. runaing, the Hon. Colonel I lis r.,. fell, And hw.: f .r this Accident it was espeeled to E. , bre a• b tr.i contes;ed rice. Mr. RI. ..11 . S )1 •I , e " •ilver cup. I:• , iir tars started 1,: 2 p:A:c • affOrkia'.l Lor.;:itrAbb: sport. SelfcrAl t. toA k one IT 12 guir.ea.;, w%:ch . 1% w, n by Mr. WADE. A rig T ACC 6,403 a • while, .Inl Afforded much diversion. The s +roc , sni:nts were very gratifi ing t., a r.1:: : •c• cornviny f All ranks, And lasted if sm • cr. to neda SIZ O'CICCk iu the evening. Co: