The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-11-08 00:00:00

~s I , TIP.PT'T 1 3.. fri.iii: ••••••••• Although this conatiy seems thrown en: , f the political balance, it may enter it again, and cue bring a very important weight into the sc.tie. It will either be rescued by Russia, and a continental war, from the bondage and contusion with which it is overwhelmed, or it will again 'alarm by a series of revolutions more or less, violent. In this unavoidable alternative, to be acqu :inted %c id' the orceent charaaer of Italy, the degree of its dis solution, the hopes and tears whirls it justifies, and its relative situation, with the political state of the other Continental Powers, is by no means a matter of indifference. Of all parts of Europe, this is per [imps the most imperfealy known to a foreigner, in seeped to its wretchedness, its spirit, and the tin s:4)ll=on causes that prolong its dreadful oppression teed horrible anarchy. The French Government, having exhausted upon it the fertility of their extor tions, of their cheats, and of their rage, hold it in some sot tby a secret title. They have made them selves masters of its communication, and reserve themselves to be the periodical historians of them. We know nothing of the existence of those desolated countries, but the frequent eruptions of a pitiless tyranny and an impotent despair. This is the sum mary of the prosperity which Franco has showered upon them, and of the parental beneficence with which Bass•r ART e governs them fur the advance int nt of liberty and philn•vphy. The deplorable condition to which the King of SARDINIA has been reduced is well known, but, with the misery of his former subjeas in Piedmont, most other states are unacquointed. The unshaken and general allegiance lithe P;elmontese to their lawful King, is equal to their horror of the French intruders. The whole country is, therefore, under martial law, and tyrannised over by the imbecile but cruel satrap, A BOA LI. A MENOU, whom 800 • P ARSE has sent there, empowered aad on purpose to riostise the people for their loyalty. The House of SAVOY has never, from its origin, been betrayed by a faith less servant; and its chief, though absent, is under the necessity of restrain:ng the unavailing insurrec tion of the people, who are exasperated by the provocations, the debauches, the despostic arrogance, and the robberies of the French. In short, although invaded, broken, and cast among rocks, Pied mont contains many brave men, ready to join any army offering to restore its former Sovereign ; and ) if a war btraks out, the French must either keep tine numerous troops, or it will be lost to them • for ever. We hear, at times, and in all countries, persons I , admiring the great abilities of a —0 At•RTE. TACO are many who, while they detest his politic:, are it:- dived to ascribe the secret of his operations and suc cesses to the depth of his understanding„ and the fertility of his talents. To undeceive his dupes, we need only open the history of Italy for the eight last years. No empire ever offered a conqueror more means to preserve it ; no where could a moderate revolution meet more materials ; no ether state fur nished so many springs of stability to the work of an intelligent reformer, who had once, by conquest, made himself master of the governments and the peo ple. But if any thing demonstrates the incompatib pity of the Corsican's extravagance, with every fixed and regular establishment, the presumptuous folly of the innovators, and the triumph of low and unbridled passions over the meanest political understanding, it is the conduft of BC't4 Atiotre towards Italy. No thing can be more confined than this Usurper's mat tial ordinances, modestly called constitutions; no thing can be less analogous to the civil, political, and physical state of the county!, than these forced ag gregates of heterogeneous bodies ; those republican edifices, put together without cement, and without taste or genius. Instead of executing the more rea sonable plan, foemerly conceived by Rteuar, of sending the foreigners out of Italy, of attending to the distinetions and iespeßive independence of the several governments, and of uniting them by a iederal system ; the revolutionary chyrnist, BON A. r seer, has thrown seven or eight millions of men, ef very different temperaments, into his crucible, to make them, in spite of themselves aid of nature, groups cf anarcoists united by provisional regula tions, while they are divided by manners, habits, and interests. A monarchical form of government may allow of suds mixtures, but a republic cannot a ;mit it ; because, in the latter, the principle of unity is already so weak, that it becomes anni i Jiiiated by ex ending the circle of its anion; and because, without a conformity of charafhera, of wants, and of ancient customs, a republic would I Ural* be any thing mre than a hot-bed of disor ders and of revolutions. To place the power of the peoF:c in that of their representatives, their ear auk" and their presidents, is to change the were, and the thing powers of anarchy, bat it is not to prevcot it. Thus, while BONA AAAAA TALI EV. SAM), S ; EY es, and other constisoor-- - :Lrs. amuse themselves in talking to us of great republ;cs, eet and ijdica 4/c+ taptritnze. judgment, azd the stud;- of our fellow-creaturer, teach us Mat suet societies ate inipratlicable. But these remailts become unsea sonable, for no one will vispea 805..,r RT E, or the 11 , ‘rIc of his proconsuls delegated in Italy, to have deacd upon questions of this nature. It is the bust system of oppression, and 1141 of lawn, which they nicat,t to give to their ultramoutane brethren. Suiely the fine model of the French Republic, one and indirigible, was equally applicable to the other side of the Alps; and if, as IS::14 ArA art pretends, there he a ri;otroxs propriety of uniting thirty-two millions of sten, under the same Government, there is certainly an impropriety in governing ten or twelve millions by four distinct sovereignties. We must look for the principle of this inconsistency la distrust. BONA r ARTE is afraid of an union among nations, whom it was his wish to keep under, to pillage, and to metamorphose, without the trouble of being on his guard. Their division constitutes their weakness; France can do every thing against them, and they can do nothing against France. But this precarious and temporary security will vanish as speedily as the rotten foundation on which it stands, whenever an interior incident shall hap- Nn to unite the resentments of the inhabitants of the revolutionary kingdom of Tuscany, and of tile revolutionary republic of Italy, of Liguria, and cf Lucca. BONA r A ESL has, therefore, not only failed in his revolution of Italy, by the instability, the ab surd system, and the violence with which he has inthr.dled it ; he has, moreover, exposed the exist. er.ce of it, suffered t:/r ,f,!, to be lost, and perpe tuated troubles, by giving up its northern part, Venice, to the Ea eraor., and its south-eastera vicinity, the Seven Islands, to the protenion of Rus sia and Forkey. In this foreign focus, the regrets, the wishes, the hopes of this desponding country all meet. Certainly BON A PARTE is laying by to ex tinguish the flame, and at the first favourable mo ment, to retake states, the ,independence and ruins of which he has sold to his foes, whom he almost compelled to purchase them. Certainly his work in Italy is not done, and he considers this temporary otgamiseSion of his conquests, as a provisional pas time. When. he has made away with the Pore, the Emperor of GERIIIANY, and the King of Na. PI. ES, who still leave a void is his usurpation, he will a third time fashion Italy, and torture it in a Lew mould. Till that event, his condua will have been nothing but a compound of cruelty, of ava rice, and of folly. By his plan of vanquishing to plunder and found dominion upon violence ; and by completing the misfortunes of Italy, he has ex hausted the means of alienating it, of ruining it, and of deriving the political advantages from it, hich a less ferocious and more enlightened conque ror would not have misapplied. Such is the real and relative situation of Italy, where the French invaders arc equally detested by the subjects of Naples as by those of Piedmont, by the eitizins of Lombardy as by those of Genoa, by the inhabitants of the Ecclesiastical territory as by those of Tuscany, all looking for an opportu;.ity of a new war, to rise and crush their barbarous tyrants. Should a British subject exist, whom experience has hitherto failed to undeceive, who could yet cherish an idea of throwing his country into a state of revolution at the incitement, and with the assist ance of BowAAARrt and his slaves, let him visit and contemplate the picture of Italy. There let him interrogate the chief partisans, the promoters, nay, the very placemen of his revolutionary or re. publican system—Let him consult the learned and the unlearned, the no b leman and the peasant, the fiery and the frigid, the executioner and the va9'm, be will bear nothing hut regret, repentance, and la mentation ; thanks to the ',Mint/ern* system of regeneration of the conquering hero Iklaeoxaori Boss . ! ! THE BRITISH PRESS, LONDON, THURSDAY, Noviva Bar A private letter, received. by the last Gottenburgh Mai*, states, that it was a Frenchman of the ::a cre 11 Leer, an =live member of Box 44444 c's secret pc;ice, who had arrived there es a (varier, with the recal of the French Comme:cial Agent ; but whose real objea was to as as a spy upon the Boy Minis, and to entleovom to find ont the cum of the inter view between Ilis Mosul. the King of Fsa\cc, and his Royal Brother, Mortsict a. lie was sent from Treves on the Bth of (Moller, the day on which the Corsican Usurper was informed of Mew s:MlA departure from England. and he arrived at Gouenburgh on the COth 14s:towing t and, though be had executed his commission, he continued there, modes pretence of illness, on the 26th. when Mot:- slit a sailed. lie was, however, watched by orders of the Swedish Governor, C••est ors, and no Swedish subjea was permitted to hold any convey sat•un with him. They rtjo:ce, every where in Sweden, at ihe coral of Box AAAAA Commercial Agents. Since the war broke out, eot a tiner Frtar.'i si.ip has visited the ports of the. kinglurn. These men, therefore, instead of proteEting the commerce of France, employed their time in in trigues to embroil the p 'Mies of Sweden. It was rep.ntesi I.ht.night in the city,ithat inform ation had been received of an embargo having been lail upon ail the Spanish Ports. The cause of this measure was not exaaly known, but supposed to be either in conseq tci%ce of the capture of tiv.? Spanish frigates, by our cruisers, or to rrevcnt the communication of the infe,llious dltedte, oats' raging in so many parts of Spain . Stocks eaperitnced a considerable rise yesterday. Th.:3 per cents rose to 581, the Reduced to 37i. and the Omnium, to Al. 9 premium. Various causes have been assigned for this favourable change in the Funds. Among the most probable, we consider the prorogation of Parliament untilthe 9d of Jan. and the consequent prozrastination of any loan for public service until next year. The purchases of stock by the Commissioners for the redemption of the national debt may have also contributed to produce this effe& In the three first quarters of the year, they purchase easily of stock a fixed sum, leaving the surplus, and what arises from holidays, when no purchase can be made, to accumulate. The whole of this surplus they lay out in the last quarter of the year, in addition to the daily amount ; and they are now buying up about 84,0001. stock per day. or about one million in three weeks. No fo reign intelligence has been received within these two days past ; and, therefore, we are obliged to attribute this improvement of the funds to internal Causes. A Court of Direaors was yesterday held at the India House, v.hen Captain R %MEM was sworn into the command of the new ship building by Mr. \Vrr.t.lA :us, in the room of the Prince.. Atm bilt, for St. Helena and Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till IVednesday next. There was A report yesterday, that the Emissa ries of the French Usurper had ende ivoured to secure the person of Mi. Er tor, our Minister at the Court of Naples. hut had t.ot succeeded in this infa mous design. NVe know not whether there be any foundation fur this report ; but the condua of the Usurper will warrant the expeaation of every vio lation of the rights hitherto held sacred in all States. Orders have been sent from the Admiralty to Deal for the Blockading Squadron, to proceed off Boulogne, ~nd to keep off that port, to watch the mu-erne:its of the enemy's flotilla, Government Laving received inforodhon that a moverant is about to take place. Admiral Sir. T. G tar cs was on Tuesday to said from Plymouth with the Ferdruyairt, of 84, and the Terpiefe and ColJrses s of 74 guns, in order to rein force our sqnadron stationed on the coast of Spain. Orders have been given to send out with all pos sible dispatch, every kind of stores, provisions, and clothing, for the use of the garrison of Gibraltar; at the same time, we understand, a reinforcement of troops will be embarked for that place. The Glue, Captain CL ARK from Cadiz, bound to London, laden with hides, tallow, &c. is arrived at Plymouth; she sailed the 16th of ()Sober, at which time there were only three British vessels left in that port. The Flaxton, —, from Memel, for Hull, is on shore on the Herd Sand. The Betsey, Btoomv into, from Pool, for Hull, was run down on the 3d inst. b_y the Bold gun-brig. The IVtliagat dtul Jks-tarcts Yealtracs from Swan sea, for Vs'atetford, is lost near Dungannon. The go+rti end Mary Axe, CORDISH, from Pool, for Liverpool, is lust at Vs'exford. The Melling Charlotte-, —, from Tonningen for Seville, is on shore near Ramsgate, cargo landed. The Trveodri,i2e, GLIROOLDS, from Valencia for Embden, is on shore near Dungeness. The Mediterranean ontward-bound fleet sailed on Tuesday from Portsmouth, under convoy of the Tribune, Preroyant, and Coml. The Lire'', and Beagle, sailed at the same time tr. join Sir ions 0 RDa's squadron. ' Letters have been received from the Re :elicit and Beserhante frigates, announcing their sale trIAVAI on / the gist of August in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, with ti e outward-hound fleet from Cork, all well. We nave already had the pleasure to state, that the accounts from the West Indies had greatly clap gyrated the losses sustained by the late hurricane ia that quarter. We have since received the f, Mow. ing statement from a gentleman just arrived, which, we have rearm to hope, will at least prove more corm& than any of thosc which have hitherto ap peared: (W., A,WrIC.III. atips arid bt * .ta OR Ave itriCdi and woSraisb .11;1.s; bat st Ism e:; :r.I tlte els!! be trsth a , * off. Demerara—.Eleven An shore: wee* C/.7•4 .Itnetbma. Th.: ts.orev lotlt also • n *liner. St. Titontar's—Ftone 33 to 46 sa.l on shore: aza:'y the whole small veitscis, and Americans. St. Kitt's—. very nor vessel. on shore. St. Irmeent ' i—.Sea - eldy any U. Grenada—Unto. Tnhag , ..-Dittu. innZud—Lhua. The opposers of -Ministers hint that the Nieetir.g of Parliament has been deferred, in hopes either that some fortainate incident may occur to enable them to meet Parliament with more confidence, or that they may be :stile " to relieve the dispiriting ins:- pidity of the war, by some other grand experisnen , ;" or that they may be etsabled to lay before Parlia ment and the public, "a digested plan of continental coaneftion against France.' We have not heard of any grand ezpetiment being in agitation before January. nor of any great plan of continental alli ance. The reason was probably this: the public service did not press fir an immediate rrennz, and Ministers were therefore anwilling to bring the Members to town for a week or two ►store Christmas. . "P" ."4 7 7" :r- .~ A 01-.11.;-nUST. • The Jeer, which was turned . ont on Tuesday 13tog. was a remarkably tine young one, it never .Iseett lianted before. In t!u course t, the day he sheave great sport, and promises to be an excel lent one for diversion. At starting, IllAr the slog ; kennel, he ran with very great Teed towards tdar race-comp., making ho. the 134wilio: toad: and, after rttnnirg upon th a for tome time, he crossed it s Mid ran • with great swift:res s across the. heath td), wards Cobham, wherf he pude several turns : he then teak to the left. through the inclosutes, making to the tight of llottley, taking his coures by Wey bridge and Outlands, anti cistssed the Thames near Shepperton. line he was cksdy puss:led, and being almost exhausted, he was taken alter a ver', hard run of about for:y MA j riT 'WAS ia excelleat spirits, and appeared to enjoy the' chace extremely. Numbers of the genqemea were throwti ' out. . . - FASFUUM KI.V. Ait ftll' ALS. Lieut. C ilons•I Murray. Thu Earl ind••.iontess if Rnrdyn, frn , n itza• 6,- • . hill, it.ictis, to Oat: house i t ht. iiiis34%-.4tlat.: The t: ',Bites, of Liv, - ,tool. and Lady C. Artioanids i• arc, Croydon, to their house In Hert.i.ii .trt , • Lin! Walsoigharn .11!4 Le2therlike, 8 4 his i.ouse in 11 iileysstreet. The Hon. Mn.. Keppe, fruut ldewarth, Henry Dawkins, Etq and Faintly. fr.on Standlynelt, err:v. Salishury, to his house in P.irtnlatt-square. foe Hoo.C.slonei.o.d Mrs. Stanhope, trout Stoke, to tit ,ir hunt in Curz.i.i-streil. S.r Mienael Le F.eraing, from Kendal, to his house Ilvrtfird.strect. The Hon. f:olonel, Mr and hits , 11,a•rard,fonn Pa:kll.lwit, near t • their li.nise iu L Gross Vail/ stre t The Earl and Cs.thteleit of Darnley, Irian a visit to the I)uk e and Duchess of Beliord. 8.11,)11e•S :i4 the Mi.. Croftions, fro 0 Chultanhaut, to then house in !erne it street. Yesterday morniil. soon after brelkfast, His MAJZSTY, accompanied by the Duke of KENT, the Princesses Sornia.and AIILLIA, and their tonal attendanti, took an airing on horseback, Loa short time. At twelve o'clock, His MAUSTY took the diver sion of hunting with the hariers, in Windsdr Great Park. . Her MAJ air r and the PILINCaiiaS took an airing to Fro m ote. The Duke and Duchess of Banta so, and a larze par!) , of fashionables, are on a visit att Bedfordshire. the seat of SaIIUILL Ar:,L,IaLACI. Esq. M. P. Lord Sr. lactates left Burlington-west yes terday on a ?ilk to . His MAJILSZY at WI-sisor for a week. _ _ Yesterday, at Mary-la-hoaze church; the Hon. Captain HEREIRT GARDVZR, of the Royal Naar, lon of Lord GARDNER, was married to Miss CORN WALL, aster to Mrs. TRELLUION, Mrs. Botnean, and Mrs. SIMNIONDE These ladies attended the bride to Church. After the ceremony the new married pair left town for Dulwich. The Earl of Mama, attended by an Aid-le- Camp, left London at e.ght o'clock, last night, for Brighton, on .a visit to Ills Royal Highness the Prince Of WA Lis. The Earl of ANOTNZ has purchased the Earl of Lttc.tes's elegant house, in Coat les-street. Berk ley-square. It is said 8,0001. Jsas been the purchase money. It is expeaed that Mrs. Join:PAM, and Mr. Etter. roe, in the new piece of Tide Two l'oe,asers, wal capte:ate the audience. Lord COVRTNEV'S late house, in Grosvenor square, is undergoing a thornagh repair, for the reception of the fini. C alone! Howssu and family. The biwk-lett:red gentry complain loudly of the dim light in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall. The Duchess of Bccetc;:nu has b-ten for some time on a eisit to her daughter, Lady M•RY 5105- roan. at Sidbrouk Park. Mrs. Bit tier/rote, and Signora GRAsstai. will commence their Oper.i-tions this wiater as the !Lad Queves. On Friday t ight last was married by special licence at Mrs. Huter's in South Audley-street„ die Honourable CNA•LLS BAGENAL AGAR. brother to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Curves, to Miss Hiner, of Llanhydrock, in the county of Cornwall. It may be superfluous to state, that that will -be no nod play in Lieutenant "'airman', walking match. Lord Cu•atas SObillt,iT will in a few days re move to his apartments in the Admiralty. The fashiunahle Cilia. Con. which we lately men tioned, has, we understand, produced the following arrangements : llse husband has retired to the con-- it y ; the lady is to enj3y an annuity of I,OOaL on c : - dition she shall not eolia'sit with her gay seduce; and the children are placed under the card of then amiable grandmother. The Lawyers Corps are now oi permanent datv„ and rased every morning a: Westminster Half; each man in his rig ohd is ream, as a Gamer should be. We understand that Dr. Anise lately died a Malta. Su sees?: col-!%rated c•nned. ‘,f ,the, 5 .'ll a" , was again perf.arraai List I h-ury Lane ' Theatre, t. !,ridiant aadier.ce. Joeuas's Wallin, and hit. Ettiscui.'s Regnant were received with unbounded appLittse, In th Atterpiece of A House to mi,, Ws cA Yr and Messrs. Bassaisraa and DnAION. exerted to talents with the happiest success Ike Ensi,b Feet was agaaa periormed last nigh at Covent Garden Theatre. As long as BRAHA. and Horace. ate in wid e it will go down the ti of public tavour will, a sea-thisg sail. k.LOPEMEN r.—A few days since an evert to., place at, Brighton, which Las caused - nit:Jr cone. cation among the fashionable% a: that place. 'fl event is nothing less than an elopement from .i gee house not a hundred miles from the Loege. • soon as the circumstance had gained vent, the t. wily servants were dispatched in pursuit of th fugitives in every direction. but with:at: success nor Lave the parties been since heard of. 'lhe Lai is young, beautiful, and accomplished. We v.. rot say an heiress, but her expetatior.s were COt der.tbie at the death of a ri.h *hit, consequence of this affair. has left Brighton, and r.osv ii. Landon, labouring under a WYNN .a...ott.