The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-12-18 00:00:00

77CHING malcso; OR. 410uSk. TRAP. The Prince of Denmark alludes to this Play in the celebrated tragedy of Hamlet. It has been re •ised and corrected since the appearance of the You, Rawrau by some learned, candid, and notable Critics, with the following appropt tate motto pre- iced : I ?dooa ne pnetven, p4a Inennvaurcre, Venvon: nou, pour en roe.lir.. LE hf ONT.kG NF. The following scenes may serve as a specimen of this curious piece : ACT IV. ISCENZ dark ROOM in Me Sfrand ; in tirc &Table; a Newtpaper preparing —The Press wor/.•- lkjag "; r :::: l h Enter Three Imps or The Courier. . •,, First hop.—Thrice the neighb'ring • bear bath ro.sr'd. &rood Inv.—Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin'd. • Tiff./ Lep...-The Newsman cries, 'tis time." First Imp.—Quick about the Critique go, Philes-Roscius, flag not so, In your poisein'd atoms throw. Toad that under coldest atone, Days and nights hast thirty one Swelter'd venom, sleeping got, Fill my pen, but make no blot ! Ail.—Double, double, toil and trouble, Write and print, the people bubble. Second Imp.—Fillet of A fenny snake, In the ink-stand, boil and bake Eye of cat, and toe of frog, Ears and tail of mangy dog, Adder's fork and blind worm's sting, Blackness of the raven's wing, rJI a charm of pow'rful trouble, Like a bell-broth, boil and bubble. All.—Double, double, toil and trouble, !rite and print, the people bubble. Tied fasp.—K—bl--'s deep sepulchral throat, i—cl—d--n's stent ct can note, —ll—y's shrill Italian squeak. trug and bounce of L—w—s's rake. tsar and rant of mighty P—pe, f Covent-garden once the hope ; —rr—y J—hns—n's strut and frown, - - Jack, of great renown ; " 'Tit time, • rosier Ch—rl—y's si.np'ring smile, flat does of maids their hearts beguile. ! aid me, while I do hew ray 'he blew Rswisi of the day. M.—Doable, double, toil and trouble, 'rite and print, the people bubble. &mad Isap.—Mix Tour mk with juice of hemlock and of yew, Wet your pen with envy, then the feat you'll do. Enter the kern Melpoinene, is winte salon. well do le ! I commend your pails ; knd ..viry one shall share i' the gains. /port his Acheret let your malice flow, tlarter must his Norval know, nto contempt his Frederick throw. SONG. Itrann paper and White, *f ellen quills and grey, sfinzta, mane,. mingle, You that mingle may' team/ Imp.--By the itching of my palm, oaf mnney this wAy COMM, /pen locks whoever knocks. Esser King John. Lag Job,. —How now, you secret, black, and ht imps ? Vrhat you do ? deed without a name, Tu nunhood a shame. ICsns John. --I conjure yea by that vrn:ch you rhytises olio (howe'er you come is know it), answer me : ongh you confound the types, and let them mi l itlin the cases ; tho' thy inkstand burst and over helm the table with it; sable Rood. Though 7 our should break dawn, and horn - bays burst eir lungs. Though the winter frost should freeze wetted paper in one cwgealed mass. Tho' no odvertisement should come to fill thy columns, and newsmen pass your office by unnoticed and unknown. Even till destruCtion comes upon thee, and the Stamp-Office sells thy copyright and ail, answer Me to what I ask you. • Tsret hep.—Speak. Rena INT.—Demand. Third ben.—We ' ll answer. Full leap.—S ty, if thotAist rather bear it from our mouths, Or fern :. master's ? Kew Jays.—Call him, let me see him. First hisp.—CrAve, where the Roman Ilvf:. ia lief, Ope and give him to our eyes; Racial:, from the dead arise. • rdcoci's Menaguiv is within a k AlL—Come high or low, His fortune let bin know. do Erprest.—An dfdiariair of Mid of ReicioN rises. Rung go/o/.--Tell me, thou unknown pow'r,— .Vrat hirp.—He knows thy thought ; Hear his speech, but say thou nought. App.—King John ! King John ! King John ! Beware Betty—Beware Young Roscieit— Dismiss me,—Enough ! [Discoid:. King Join.—Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution thanks ; Thou bast ha:lid my fear aright : But one word more : First Imp.—He will not be commanded : H.re's another more potent than the first. A Second Editon.—.4n Apparition if the head of Garrick. ing John ! King John ! King John! Kin; John.--Had I three cars, I'd hear thee. App.—He haughty, bold, and resolute ; laugh to scorn The pow'r of man, for no man born Shall harm King John. [Descends. Ki John.— Then rule, King John : what need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and renew my engagement. My public estim ation nought shall touch. Safe enthroned, long will I enjoy an undivided power, and hug me in the claps and plaudits of an admiring audience What is this ? (A thunder of osetaasntion, an Apparition of a Child, eroz•ned, rises.) That rises like the issue of a king, and wears upon his ba!fy brow the round and top of so vereignty 411.—Listen, but speak not. The drp.—Haughty, bold, and resolute, thou may'st laugh to scorn The power of man, for no man born, Not Cooke himself, can harm King John ; But a e/filrl am I, thy lord and inater. King John. —Horrible sight ! aye, now I see 'tic true. An eternal curse fall on you, Imps of darkness. First hop.—Aye, Sir, all this is so :—but why Stands King Cohn thus t amazedly ? Corn", brother Imps, cheer we his heart, And try the secrets of our art, Regardless of the public voice, Let us abuse the people's choice, Pronounce Young Betty without merit, Deny him feeling, taste, and spit it ; That this great King may tindly say, Our services he can't o'erpay. (The Three Imps sit do-.. 71 and tri'e.) End KING Jous. t It is supposel that Su me borrowed his Stb Ae: of ACibrikth from this scese. THE BRITISH LOS DON, TUESDAY. DECIIIIIBII 18. The Mrmitevr of the Ist inst. contains, under the head of London, November Cist, the foLowing paragraph, which is another proof of Boy P• et- l.'s determination to change the Batavian Goverasicir, and ezplairis the cause Tie merchant. were yeWeniay err. mach alarmed by lb , news circulated upon the Clair, th.t all future imbed—Jim! of English goods to fl d..nd was prohibited, and that .11 stun% should be entwine:ord. We have reason to think this news is well funded The Emperor of the Preach i. , at presesit, more anry than ever with England. Beside., this coalifterce was canted on in such a notate manner, thaJgh ..ontsary to Leman prohibitions, that it was sulrocteat for tic- !..inperor of die French t informed of it by some secret neat, to coon. terivt the dispositions of the Dutch Govcriment, to fard.tate a trade so adirantageons to boeh countries " The Mensterr does not quote its authority, but some preceding paragraphs are, of course, trans lated from The Mereieg Chronicle ; a paper worthy to furnish maim- for Cowaraart's official calornnie- tors. We think. however. that even the Ciefonor will abstain from obsequiously designating Monsieur Bosar AK rr Emperor of tie nitric's," when it finds that the Printer of the .Voutesir, in his selec tions from that paper, carefu'ly copies it in large letter, insinuating thereby to the people in France, that the newly usurped title of th Corsican is ac knowledged and adopted in England. Th.e contributions levied by T•t.t.tv RAND upon all foreign gazes negociating with France, and which have made him so enormously rich, have, no doubt, encouraged Messrs. X. Y. Z. or other infe rior intriguers, who crowd the office of the foreign department at Paris, to try to make their fortune, and plunder foreigners without sharing the spoils with the Minister. The following article in tle JllNd,r► of the 4th inst. - informs them, that he is sot unacquainted with their private requisitions, and warns them to desist for the future. TILE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. All per.onsh.,..og my torOnets to trammel at the fib• :.• y e. For. go Alta*, 2: orttateerr ttat.are at 4tay toturtstz:., ~. that they and *Wed themselves directly sot solely to the Minister of tit,' Fo.e,gat Department. The o'al and acw regulations prescribe with strictness all per. s OIS employed in this Office to desist from all dire t and indirect communications with any Ismail who ha, any pfrilit: Or OBfcia I affairs to neg.diate in this dcpa,tment. They mast not see, except in the presence of the Mini:ter, any agents, of whatever rank they may be, or in whatever man seer they are accredited, either a: temporary or permanent pull lic characters from foreign power., if not previously, in parti cular and specified circii.nstances, they do not rectire special orders from the Ministzr. They must not receive, either in private or at their office% but according to such an order, persons entrusted with coin missions, and powers, either by their countrymen or by fu• ;elvers, and who, in consequence of these their commissions and powers are obliged to apply at this Department. The same prohibition is made with regard to all persons who have any petitions to present. Finally, they are prohibited from accepting any invitations fron foreign el:ploinatic agent..., and still more from inviting th,•m. And they must never answer any letter, the object of which of a public or private intere.t rel..dive to their ',Lice and duty. (Signed) CIL MAU. TALLF.IRASD Parr, Nov. 30, 1804. The corruption that reigns in ,all public offices in France ever since the revolution almost exceeds belief, even at Paris, where the members of 80x...- PARTE% family are the first to bet an example to sell their protections and to pocket the bribes. From the place of a perfed over a department to that of a professor in a primary school, all is bought and sold in the home department ; whilst, in the foreign, TALLEVRAND has the same fixed land regulated price for the office of an envoy as for the sovereignty over a revolutionary kingdom, or principality. No thing is done at Paris but with money ; it procures indemnities to princes, and it alone insures or pre vents the execution of treaties, as well as of con c3rdats ; and good letters of credit are therefore more necessary for negotiators, conferring or trans- Ading business with TA cxxv rArD, than letters of credentials ; or rather, the latter avail nothing with out the former. This barefaced and political immorality is another consequence of that depraved system of the present and former revolutionary tyrants, to subvert civi lised society, by making all other governments their accomplices through fear of becoming their viLims. A private lette; of the 3d instant, from our Ber lin Correspondent, states, " That in the course of that week, BONAPARTE'S Emissary there, LA FO its r, had several and almost daily cunferences with the Prussian Minister of State, Baron H•RocN itso, and had even twice been at Potsdam, and ob tained audiences with His Paussi AN MAJESTY ; at the last of which, he laid before the K NG some pretend ed authentic and original papers, said to have been found at Sir Geotos Russsoi.o's house, and which a Courier arrived from Paris, the day before, brought him. in these papers, report says, that not only the policy of Austria and Prussia is blamed, in ra ther harsh and anti-diplomatic terms, but that some •!oubt ha. been thrown out even on the sincerity of is said that LA FOREST desired the Pers.! ss MONARCH to permit his Ambas.ador at St. Petersbur g 's to communicate these papers to se Members of the Russian Cabinet, at the same time vim a new plan for a reconciliation between B im PARTE and ALEX/LS[3I:R the FIRST ; the fourth pr •nted, within three months, by the Cabinet of St. Cloud to that of Berlin. It is genera:ly believed in the capital of Prussia, that the KING has de clined to interfere farther it. tm: differences, as a mediator, between Russia ai.d Fiance, and that His MAJESTY refused to make the desired com munication of Sir Giulio.: Romeo'. n's pipers, be cause they had been obtained in a violent manner, contrary to the laws and customs of civili.ed nations, and which was even an indirect insult to the protec tion, which His MAJLSTY, as a Member of the Cir cle of Lower Saxony, owed them, and the Agent, to whom they were said to belong. Such is, at least, at the Casino, and in the other political cir cles at Berlin, the report of the Kiwo's answer to La Foai.sy's impertinent demand ; and, so judge frost the sulky silence of this revolutionary &pin mate," onr Cnrrespondent says, "little doubt eanjse entertained of the miscarriage of this Corsican ii.- tripe, to Mjure and calumniate England " The La Lair, frigate and Heron sloop of war, with part of the fleet which sailed from Cork on the 7th inst. Car the West Indies, put back on the 11th. The deleOhi armed ship, with a fleet under convoy (ahvnt 50 sail), are an ived in the Humber. The don, ILLUSIs, and the Adrian. Saul:lows. from Africa, for the West Indies, are captured and carried into Gadaloupe. Government is said to have received som• very important information front a person who arrived from France on Friday last. It is confidently declared, that the Spanish Am bassador, the Chevalier IYA Novan A, has teethed his passports, and is on the eve of departure from this country. On the other hand, it is said that His Excellency has not made preparations (or his immediate return to Spain. The letters from Torbay differ in their accounts of Admir sl •:'.oerrwa LI t-'s Beet. One letter states, that the whole fleet sa:fed on Saturday evening, to resume its station off Brest ; another, that the Wmelao, Castle sailed for Plymotrhs ard that three other ships sailed also the same ever.%-g. but that their destinatica nai not knovin. - , . ROYAL FARB._ Sunday morning the RoYA, Divine Service at St. Georgei an excellent sermon preached Bossy, from 7th Chapter of S and 25th verses. After attendini Rov AL FA KILN. took an Airing LEIT4 ivia; 2i4 Yesterday morning His M KEN r, and Princesses Sort' I A and t*... airing on horseback in AVindsor Great MA J EST and thc other Pa IN C IMES took :Wi t , Frogmore. The RO V A L FA MILY attend Divine Service ercre morning at nine o'clock, at the Chapei Ruyal, WinJsor Castle. Tel THE EDITOR. ri ,, .it z to SlR—Upon reading in Tee Batns■ Plies* that the Rowvis WWI dc!ighted with dm r:inesentatium of a 1.0111 at Wnominster, the following lines Crowe Grutami or, t. my mild:— Lingua/ in ipsii doctu Incurabirn, poscit usus, ext•ati Rept..4ti ad ants iude pruperatu. puur, Ft instubiati, quicquid est Cum lacte primo. FAS I lIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Dawager Nbrchionesui DesiegAl from El,ga , to tiro.vonor•btrect. The Comae's; of Galloway from I>urnFies, Scotla.l,!, t her house in Charlus sheet, St Jains•square. Lady John CamEbell from Tookeisharo, to Albeo.a so eet. Lady Guy, from Fulham, to Dover , treet. The Earl awl Counttsoof Camd fro.. the Wald:sums, A rlin gton—treet the Lady of the light Hon. C. Lung, M. P. (rum Wl thing, to Hull start. --- On Friday last, a Treasury Messenger was dis patched to the Earl of Morse, in Scotland; it is said that it was for the purpose of hurrying his Lordship to town on some particular business or message from His MAJESTY. His Royal Highness Prince Wit.s.: AM of GLOU CESTER patronised the Ladies' Charily Ball, at Liverpool, yesterday se'naight. His Rlyal High. ness also honoured Miss Tzna ?Ws Concert with his presence and patronage. On Thursday last, the Earl of Ceti MN ass arrived at Glasgow, to take the command of the Ross-shay Militia. On Friday se'rmight, the remains of the elde-t daughter of the Duke of RUTLAND. who died At Brighton, in her fifth year, passed throng!: Stan.- ford, for interment in the family vault, at Batt:, ford, in Leicestershire. The Dowager Countess of Enact. is perfeetly recovered from her late indisposition, and will re main at Bat!) until after the holidays. Sir HENRY Hawaev has purchased an elegant house in Harley-street. The Duke of Noaroac was last week on a viAit to his relative, Colonel Hosea an, of Cathy, sear Carlisle Castle, and on Friday visited that city. Mr. T. Matrix has sold the copy-right ct Lis new Opera for two hundred pounds. Mrs. D.Ov LEI is arrived at her house, Cerao► street, May-fair. On Sunday Lord Somtavicta gave a grand din ner, at his house in Hill-street, to a sele& party of Agriculturists and Breeders of Cattle, Ike. among whom were, Pris,ce EST ER HAZY, the Duke of BE •1- FORD. CHARLES GORDOS Gray, JOlll4 P. Pkt L. PRAED, RATE DUDLLY, W.arc•a, Ass LL%, HUDSON, Bce. Lady AYLMER and suite left town on Saturday on a visit to Lady and Miss C I. at Bristol, where they intend to pass the e tri tm is holidays. To-morrow Mr. Glai ar, th • butcher, of Bond street, will give a don r to a sele,l party of gia.- ziers : his Grace the Duke of Baorunn, Messrs. \Ctsrc•R, ALI LEY, .SCC. xeetel to be of the party. The tragedy- of Tie G►ec ae D sigker I.as beta brought out at tit! Edinburgh Theatre with great eclat. A Mrs. W. sic it is the EtipAra4a. On hlunday se'nniglit, Lord Los Tblrlt honour ed Carlisle with a visit. His Lordship attended the review, and afterwards partook of an elegant dinner with General ORM, and the Officers of the Vo lunteers. ) The Fr , mcra :e Coast's Rooms, E dinbargb, Friday se'nniy ht, was honoured by the presence of t e Comisamoca in Cirier and his Star, the Earl set ABOTNE, Lord SPERCEE CIIICII LITER, Lord Mac- DON ALL), Ge e al FRAZER and Staff, General Ga • HALM, Countess of Moises, Lady Dove; c•s, Li :. CAROLINE Dou As, Lady CH•RLuTTI R Av. LN.N, Lady H. Moter.se a Lidy L. Ramsay, Lad) ST. CI. AIR, Lady HAT aad all the beauty and feshico of Edinburgh List Friday se • nnight, JAMES &TAIT WILL , in- SON, Esq. of Bell Granze, near Ripon, son in Jar 1a a Josepos WILLIAMSON. Esq. entered the 21st year of his age. This event was commemorated at t':e house ofWILLI/111 WILLIAMSON, FIEI ar Me?, ton !fill, who gave a splendid entertainmea to numerius pa, ry of gentlemea. Torn/ oo wens a turban i t the ehara.ier A r wet, at I); ury-LAnr ; at Cuvent-Garden I.• W. 1., a bir.r.et. Mr. li lists, it is feared. will be insliaed 01111,4, in buying Mt. Distils's Thirty Tuutan.: 1(4. 2001 A grand dinner was given Testercriy at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-greet, in IR& .. nour of the Queen of Poston AL'S birth-day ; du. PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR in the Chair. The Dowager Countess of Mr.x/10110Con has left the seat of her son, the Earl, near Ferrybridge, Yorksh:re for Middlewood Barnsley. The ELI of Raneioc and Lord BR UGA have taken houses in Lower Grosvenor street foi the winter. Yesterday se'rmight an affair of honour tool place at Barnby ... 00 r, near Doncaster, between Cast. W--5, of the Cambridge Militia, and Cap:. J —a, of the 21st Regiment. They fired two cases of pistols without eifect • after which, the affair was adjusted by th e interfere nce of the seconds. An Evening Paper of yesterday gives, as sew., part of the disposition for the ceremony of the Coro nation of Burma in the Church of Witte I).tnie, upon the 2d instant, fur the lull accosint of which, see Tut Barr ism Pecs& of /Au day le s 0,144.. COUR Sittings i This v tered int pUTC The 13 traet ha( certificai WAS rcii being OT This raueo of the - WTI bin Nc cot bei