The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-11-22 00:00:00

~~ ~~ t ?OREM/4' INTELLIGENCE. PROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PAR: , ', NOV. Her Imperial Hig'mess tll,l Princess Lo.tis is near ly recovered. The young Prince continues to en joy geed health. M. Champagny, the new Minister of the Department, was at Prague, on the ISth ult. where he was waiting the return of the Emperor 01 Germany. In all the Departments the people arc emplo:, eJ in choosing from each commune, a young, poor, .tnd virtuous girl, who, according to the terms of the Imperial Decree, is to raceive a crown, a portion, and a husband, on the day of the coronation. The labours for the festivals of the Coronation are continued with so much adivity, that they are not suspended even on Sundays. The Cloisters of Notre Dame, which were lately covered with the ruins of the ancient church of the Chapter, and other old edifices, which obstruad the passage,have again been cleared and paved, and present a spacious avenue as far as the Isle of St. Lpuis. The portal of the Hotel Dieu appears on the left side of the Parvis, deprived of the scaffolding used for its eon strultion, and the windows are now being fitted in. Several buildings, which concealed this portal on both sides, have been demolished as far as the street of Notre Dame, to the level of the Foundling Hospital, which gives to the place a square and regular ex tent. Before the principal door of the metropolit church is raised a large body of timber-work. or scaffolding, Supported by fon: pillars, fixed in masses of cone. It is said, that this edifice is intended to nicoind the Pope of the facade of St. Peter's at Rome. On the interior of the church, on both sides of the nave, there are around the pillars, a double row of galleries, which are ascended by steps. • acruEN, Nov. 3. tF,fteen parsons have (stele been ind.ctrd for being Collier 71:4 in what toe French Papers call English Ageuty.—Then Trial commenced on the 90th October, aini t.rminated on the id inst. The proofs against them ire s.. id to have peen found in the wainscot of a Ladi's rives.. groom at Abbe ville. The follossing Arti-ie, giving an a.•:. , iunt of the ter. minima!) a the Tri d, is k.iin the Pans Papers The great affair that occupied the Special Military Commission et Rouen s. as terminated yesterday. The Government Reporter recapituhted all the Cif's, and drew his conclusions in a speech, of which the following are some fragmenss : 1. We have a great but salutary examele to set. On the one hand, you see guilt with all sts audacity : on the other, innocence with all its candour ; the oppressed, who holds out his supplicating hands tr you; the wicked, who meditates new crimes. In the contest which is about to take Owe, the as:dre s of a villain may sometimes produce embarrassment ; Got read in his eyes, but follow his discourse, and the confusion of both, as much as the evidence i f the leas, will soon sbcw you his guilt. " Of these fifteen, three only have escaped ; the other twelve are before you. Doubtless the accused were the original authors of a plot so detestable, and that they had demanded the price of it from that atrocious Government, which, for such a length c time, has pensioned all traitors and rewarded al crimes. " There is no doubt that the great majority of rl-.e present culprits are not to be blamed than pitied in this important proceeding, and that their Credulity, with respect to the guilty principals, is, at bottom, the only crime which they have in realit• committed. But it is also to be believed, that in this latter number, these may be found men, go- veined by the vilest motives, who could not justify themselves frnm the crime which is imputed to them. The renewal cf the war with this nation, essentially the tannic% and deeply jealous of the French na tion, permits, them with a new occasion for deve loping means the most easy to combat ; they ac cordingly congaed together all the villains whore the sword of the Law pursued, and to whom their Government grants a special prnte.4ic•n. more par fi-alarl► when they are rrenchmen, and base enough to betray their country." The reporter finnh-d thus : " !?ere, Gentlemen. the duty of the Reporter ceases, and that of the Judge commences. Constrained to search for truth is a labyrinth, with no other guide than great zeal, it is possible that I may be in error ; at all times I have the happy certainty of baring admitted no thing against the accused but material proofs, strengthened by their cwn confessions. It is your task now to codify tLe e: r ors of my incspeticnce ; but reflefl, that your double office embraces the kncwiedge and repression of a crime which concerns social order. The law demands also that you s'aould consider, distingnish, and separate the errors inci dect to hanuni:y from the crimes t:i.st dishonour it." The Pre,i,Jenr, after having heard the Reporter's eonclus;ons, and the accused in their defence, asked the Morr.beisof the Council, whether they hadanyob krvations to mate ? Uprn their replying i 3 the ne gaii*:, he ordered the dt.: . =ders sa,i the accused to retire. The prisoners were re-conduaed, by the'r escort, to prison.. The Recorder, as well as the audience, also retired. The Court, deliberating in secret, and the Pre sident, having laid down the laws, according to the usual ftnnis, and having collefted the votes, com menting by the youngest Judge, pronounced a ver d:C.l of Gui 4,4 against the following persons : Le Clerc, at,a, Bailli, a:jag Godefroy, alias Le Cage (contumacious), aged l 2 years, a native of BA: ?ntic, department de l'Orne, Ex-professor of the S:nsiaary Saint Mar rel of Paris; Pierre-Marie Poids, alias I.t Rose, alias Gaubert, ciao Martin, chat Vielle-femme, alias Vielle Perruque, alias le Besace (contumacious), aged forty years, carrier, inhabiting the farm de P Ecuelle-Trouee, Commune of Saint Martin les-Boulogne-sur-Mer, department dcs pas de Calais; CEussel-Nymplic de Preville, alias Du buisson, aged twenty years, living usually at Munt-Lambert, Commune de Stint Ma: t in-les- Bon logne-sur-Mer (contumacious) ; .lean•Lcuis Philipi, a grocer, living at Treport, aged thirty -three years ; Jacques-Joseph Duponchel. aged t2S years ; employed in the inspeaion of signals, and institu tor at Treport ; Jean-Antoine Dieppois, aged 3S years, a master-fisherman at Treport ; all conviaed of being spies fur England, of being the authors of a correspondence, whose end was to snake known to that power the situ than of the troops of the Empire, their strength, their opinions, their instruaions, the situation of the National flotilla, the signals of the marines, and propagating injurious calumnies on the Emperor's person and the Chiefs of the Army ; a d all cr•miag under the case mentioned in Art. 4, Se& 1, titre Ist, and 2d Part of the Penal Code, Law of the 6th Oa. 1791, and Art. 2d, titre 4, of the Law of the 21st Brumaire, and 5, have been condemned, by the Commission, to death, and ate to be executed (shot) within twenty-four hours.— The other nine were acquitted. The tine_ condemned persons were shot next day. They behaved, say the French papers, with great courage. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS . ROTTERDAM, NOT. 16. On the arrest and carrying off of Sir George !tom bola, the British Minister to the Circle of Lower Saxony, the Senate of Hamburgh sent the following Note to the Ministers residing there : •• it 3 sink the deepest facet that the Senate is obliged to inform your Exceli ney of an occurrence, which is, in every roped, of a mor. syious casure, and whi.:ll has filIA the Sm..tt with the greatest sorrow. Last Wen, a detachment of between two and three hundred French troops, laind:d secretly t - -:e suburb caletlHamburger-Berg, proceeded to the Grindel, :Id there elmtundA the country-house of Sir George Rem ho'd, Burette, Charge tr.tfitres fruna His Britannic Majesty to the Crete of Lower Saxon?, seized him, and carried him, wi same of ris effetis, to lii.nburgh. As it was impossible tr the Senate to present this occurrence, which did not come their knoteerfee till zfter it had taken place, it now on!y re main* for them to employ every means to claim the liberates of Sr George Runaboid, a. d tne rermation of his effeas. The Senate beg. yo..r Exe.l sncy to be assured that they 1.13 1e..v0 no maws untriat, as tar as ever :ay* in their power, to obtam that and. (S•ened) " WIDOW. " Harnburgh, 0-s :5, 1104." Inc case of Sir Gentge Rumbnld appears to have been attended with no farther consequences, as the ilfe..l:fur of the lUh instant, in the Paris Ar ticle, says:— Mr. Rumbod. Englies Agent at ilamluirgh, arrested 'run n cannon shot of the adva iced peuts of the French army of Hanover, and carried to Par -, li.o been lioerated, through the proteAton of tile Log of Prussia, and has been sett to Erg!..id by the tray of Citeebourg. If the oroceeil-tgs agarnet tbi, sr -thy INSOCIAtt of Drains-, Spe ion S.aith, and Taylor, had been completed, they would have formatted instances as re c as t. ono( his accomphzes." This day the President of the Magistracy of this city received •he iolii win; letter:— ' Tilt GILMER AL OF BRIGADE ALEIANDLR ItOUSSEAC s C'IAROED WI .14 THS COMMAND AND suessis- TANDANCE OF Tilt COASTS ♦ND PORTS OF Tilt MUSS; " TO T 441 LORDS OR THE MAGISTRACY. TOIIMING THE COVIRPMENI or TIM CITY Of ROTTERDAM. " Head quarters, Rnttesdam. 2stli Brurna,ro, G MR/R. (Nnv. la), 18 '4. "I have the bociour to h.t.rm ynu, that the General in Chief, ht,iog received (reshot's:len froth his Mate4y the Em rem,. s,-iattre and the extracodmart 111113.1r1K e. br adopted agamst Engiand, has charged me to acluaiht this U.rcleantS,lltat kiwon w pave come from England, or the Captains of wb:ch shall declare on oath, that they come (rpm E. g 4.11. rtts, shall be sciz-d. The moder.tion of the General in Chief made him ex- Code fmot this nreantre all Coiolll4i produce, and apply the set. sure only to prohibited merchandise; bst he has received or ders to wise the whole carves of the ships. if there be any English merchandise en boat d. " Such seizure is to take place, and to be effecied without any exception or aiogificatiou. " Yet such is hie affection, that he has chanted MPs in I.i. ieuer oft Brumaire ;I.:th Nov ;. to inform the trade, th.t he w.:l not ;out this mew: re into intention tdi after the expira. Con of fourteen days, in order to give the nominate time to make the nee nary d...powthLn fear the arena: of the ships cwt. signed to theta, from nnteden or ether Neutral P. t 4.. " : re;uest ,ou, therefore, Licat:criten, to to ..0 the trade of ate saw: iminwhatMy. e. i in toe ults;:al and to ac ic.owinige the receipt thereof —1 sah;t: you with Futicular race= f,orguc.:; . " auCssLAu.- LON DON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. Ships fottified with German certificates, although having British manufaftures on board, and known to have tome from England, have been hitherto admitted into the Dutch ports without hindrance or restraint. We announced on Monday, that the French Government had given notice of their deter mination to put an end to this intercourse on the 28th in,t. We now find that our statement was perfeCtly correCt ; with this only exception, that the day fixed is the Ccith, and not the 23th. This con firmation comes through a Rotterdam Paper of the itith, which contains the official order of prohibi tion, signed by the French General ROe:SSEAU, com manding in that city. An expeaatiott was enter tained, that an exception would be made in favour of Colonial produce ; but the French General says, that his orders are to seize all vessels coming from England with British merchandise of every description.-130NAPARTE would. however, have the world believe, that he considers Holland a Tice and irsdependtrit state, and he talks of giving it a new constitution. What a cruel mockery, when the tyrant knows he is determined that it shall have no law, but his will, and that the orders of his soldiers shall super - ede every other authority. These violations of the law of nations croud upon each other, like the crimes of the tyrant Marbet/t That of an hours age doth h,s. the apes ter : F.ach to teem, a new one." 21facbetb, too, relied upon his destiny, and. at the moment when lie thought himself securely seated upon an usurped throne, to which ke waded through murder, blood, and treason, found that the juggling fiends Keep toe word of pro:ntse to our ear, And break it to our hope." That a similar fate awaits the Corsican tyrant, the history of all tyrants leads us to expel. It is at the very moment they had gained the pinnacle of their power we find them hurled from their seats, as if Providence had perntitted them only to rise so high that their fall might be the greater. BONAPARTE just touches upcn that point. His late circular note, proscribing the Eng lish diplomatic corps upon the Continent, is an order, an absolute order to the several Powers of Europe. It is vain to attempt to disguise it. It breathes tl.e spirit of a Master di eating to his Slaves. lad Prussia acquiesced in it by passing over w ithout not i ce the seiz ure of Sir Croatia Rs idiot p, we might fear that the course of the tyrant was not yet run ; but the re sistance of the Court of Berlin, and his retraCtion, shew, that he has passed his meridian, and may be el peCted to decline as rapidly as he rose. Of the resist ance of Prussia to this new aggression, there now can be no doubt. The Rotterdam paper states, upon the authority of the 3foncteur of the I Rh, that Sir GEORGE RirIBOLD was liberated and sent to Eng land, through the interference and proteCtion of His Pitussi.sx MAJESTY. Another plot against the life of BONAPARTZ, we are told, has been fortunately discovered. Tile small French papers give an account of the trial of fifteen persons at Rouen, charged with this offence. After a trial of three days, six of them were found gadi,, (three of whom being absent, were declared ewthiwariourl, and nine were acquitted. The former three were ordered for execution, and immediately shot ! This day His MAJMY will hold a Privy Council at the Q:;ssii's house. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India Hnuse, when the following Ciptains were sworn into the command of their respeaive ships, viz. Captrn James Sandilands, Walpole, Matirat and Bengal. Captain Ttoinat Hucl.on,Ct,len, dot Ct,,tain Richard Colnett, Cattle Eden, Bengal ant /len. The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock till to-morrow The fleet that sailed for the Baltic last week under convoy of the Al.sgJerne, is put back to Leith ; the convoy has gone on, having sia horses on board for the Duke of WI General Foe. and the ouvrard-boand Li.bon, Oporto, and Mediterranean fleet, have put into Falmouth. A vessel arrived at Portsmouth. from Lisbon, which place she left on the 24th ult. brings an ac count of an English outward-bound East India ship having, just before the departure of the above ves s:l, arrived at Lisloc.n, with the loss of her main mast, in an engagement with a French frigate, which she beat off. The Mediterranean fleet, and the convoy for Gibraltar, have been forced back to Tzlmouth, by contrary winds. There was little alteration in the price of Grain and Flour at the Corn Exchange yesterday. .4 Board of General Officers was held on Tuesday by order of His Royal Highness the COMMASDLIt in Cul sr, at which, we undastand, it was d:clared to be expedient, that, instead of the present allow. ante of coals and candles to Of f icers, a sum of mo. ney should be allowed for those articles ; that the pay of an Ensign should be advanced to 7s. per day : that of a Lieutenant tors. ; that of a Captain to 13s. ; and that Field Officers slion.ld also receive a propor tionate advance. y ~ 'torn FA, au.> ten o'c'ock.t+e Ray •L Yesterday morning, FAMII v left Windsor. ll,s MAJ csry on horseback, attended by de ter 4 rzeov, rode to Kew. Her Majesty and the Pewee:sec ia...Useir yelling carriages, attended by Lady Ca•u see. pre. ceeded to London, and arrived at the QCEIN.O 'Lui s e about twelve o'clock, where the Dukes of Kesr and CAMBRIDGE were in waiting, to receive Her MAJESTY. The KING did not arrive from Kew till p rst four o'clock. Their MAJESTies and the five Patscesses, aft er . wards honoured Covent Garden Theatre with their presence, to see the new Comedy of The Bargain, and the Farce of Tie !rirh great was the anxiety of every class to behold their beloved Sovereign again in public, seated in the midst of his family, that all the avenues to the Theatre were crowded at ttn early hour. fo e Royal Boa was fitted up for their reception in tl:e usual style of taste and elegance. The Royal wa. announced by the most enthusiastic rrt.:ll,• the most ardent affe.lion. Nothing could be rito- • interesting and affeeting than the coup d's-1 v. the house presented at this moment. !:very v•e sparkled with delight —every bosom glowed vi•t:, loyalty. The murmur of satistaetian, which had previously run from box to box, now burst into ex clamations of the liveliest joy. The Ladies stood up waving their shawls and handkerchiefs, and the Gentlemen waving their hart, w.iile the whole Yoe al strength of the house sang God Save ilpe Kug, wniea was enthusiastically encored. His MAJESTY appeared in good health anti qpi rits, and was much pleased with the performance, frequently expressing his approbation to Her MA JESTY and Princess Auousres, who sat on his right hand. Between the Play and Farce, Rule B, itunia was loudly called for, and sung by ail the vocal performers. At the end of the Entertainment, God Sore tie King was again called for, and sung w i t h the mist rapturous applause. The PRINCESSES, partaking of the fervor that per vaded all ranks , joined in the song ; their charming countenances br ghtened by filial affeaion ; w e du not remember to have s-en the Royal group. so splendid in their dress, or look better. His MAJRS. Ty was, as usual, in regimentals Long belt-e the curtain drew up, the House WAS so crowded that meney was refused at all the doors. The dresses of the Quesm and Per KCESSCS were as fol low : HER MAJESTY wore a nsarane velvet robe, trimmed with add (ring; boly and sleevei of white satin >ponied. the sleeves covered with rod act, and loone.llp wita dusinunds; d;ain .ni ne:klace, earring:, boa*, Sc Sc. Her head.dres,, a round head piece, cowed with gled arid Toes of diarn,nds. la front several tale diant..ad stare, and a gold sultan. PRINCESS AA:GUSTS wore a plain morons robe, trinuned with ,fiver, Willie satin aleeses, cosered with slyer net, drawn U. with disesasd tows, & IA!. rucke•, d.a , 10•141 Ce, •1•• ants.s4tr:ra ; a Isrge tob‘t.i mu ff , and white Her head res. a . .1111 lona of dstnionils, far much h ads faCiee across the bead, and a bunch old:al:muds At the SUL:.I of the feathe.,.. RR I NCESS ELIZABETH w ire a mulbe•rr end ao'd 'issue round dress, white satin Reeves covered with lOW .44 ead laze, nctic clang:int ; hall sleeves. the same as robe, limped to the shoulder with diamonds ; a lam hawker:hitt erns.l on her lioroni, and also conned on the shoulder; diem ne c k. lace and ear-rings. Her Royal It 01•1Ci , 't hind-dress was uncommonly ; her hair was confined by a gild ;41, the comer with a gold tassel hung on her left ettould r : ia the fro-it we; a sap trb din non I crescent, and ol Cm right side, the Prince's plum? in diamonds, with chains a ti-nded grow it, and a plume of Herd of Paradise feathers com?Mted the dross. —She also wrins white gloves. PRINCE* MARY ware a whim satin dress, riehle span. red, sleeve* covered with silver net, and looped up with ma minds ; disaote l necklace, , m,r , ng:, solitaire and Ire limiter, w hire muff and eoves ; her he.d doss was a lace crown bra: led round the face, with chains of diamonds, and three superb Gs tneh feathers drooping actors the bead, a id three altrii4l/ in front. PKINCESS SOPIII.I.'s dress was the qty. as Prin-e's Mary's, only sh , had but four feathers, : . .nd a ea. tiGu pea of black lav lung lappeu, whit.' bung down, and bad a br.u• Wel effeti. PRINCESS AMELIA wore a plain rnornue dmos ; a er-r beaunful white tippet and mus: white gloves; her head dr• a wa. a harldeau of diamorrls, an I several sten with fiur OtencLO feather►, curled, felling across the head. Her MIJ EST I( ani the PAINC &MI. after the Play was over at Covent Garden Theatre, returned to the Qu can's House. His MAJUTY went to Kew to sleep. Lord Sr. litt.tx's 'returned yesterday from a visit to His MAJESTY at Wialsor, to his house in Burlington -street. The Lei of ROMNEY and the La-lies Msa- SIIAMS left Arlington-men yestertay. on a mcnth's visit to the Earl of E.REMONT, at Petsvorh Peri, Susses. The Marquis of B. A%DrOkD returned to t 0.:.: yesterday, from White Kttighti. L. V taxon, Eui left town yesterday for his seat, Aldborough, near Sumundh.tm. Giotto& jaaniwois•w, Esq. is on a visit to hi, father, Sir Wii.LIAY Jtainsois Ass, Ban. Costesse; hall, mar Norwich. The Earl of CNA ex ASS has left Chatham, on a visit to P. J. Tuct.s.tissox, Esq. Randleshatn, Wood • bridge, Sufflk. The Duchess cf BED?OCD has been notch inlis pnsed at Woht rn Abb.:y ; but, wr are happy to s: Lie. that h-r Grace is ito.v cnsiderably kr:tter. 11.• T Grace has hcen attended by Dr. ILATIS • Itty sician at Be :ford. An Evening Print is very anxious to prove that Mr. PITT is descended from the Scutch family of the It is clear he dues not belong to the The marriage of MARY ROBINSON of Butter mere, "to a young Farmer of the Vale of Kes wick," has been contraditited in the Provincial Paper in which it originally appeared. Dorilae, in the Tragedy of Illerope. is said to be charaaer which Master Barry has chosen for h:s de ;u: on the London boards. ?Ors. SIDDONS is so much recovered from her se vere indisposition, that she is going to reside in cottage, at Hampstead. The new Farce of 31.;:riavotty was again performed List night, at Drury-lane Theatre, watt, if possibly. incre.ued applause. The house cmerflowed in ever, part. Yegerlav, the Harn't Volunteers were impeael by General Base ova, in Green-hill, Grim They are a fine body of men, in the highest' di.sc• P 4 rie. and were highly cemphmerted upon thcc :catt; and soldier.l lye appeararce. °.l Elm Tli} i iui'l 11 I'':ci:-~.~ limii