The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-11-29 00:00:00

itruntry parts are t:.e only people who gain, an d *ho even make some luxurious eipetices. Thus it is perceived, that the cities become day after day more beautiful, by the erection of new buildings and new house s . " The inhabitants of the cities and townsfeel, is a very alarming manner, the sad situation of our ma. nufaaures, the most part of which are in a total stagnation I no person will take the merchandise which they afford, since those of England are in circulation a-tri , igst us. The great proprietors of locks sell their wool to the foams of that nation. Formerly it was mansfaltured at home, but the introduChon of English merchandise has caused such a prejudice to ours, that our rnanufadurers can no longer sustain the competition t besides, foreigners pay a much greater price for Saxon wool than our manufaaurers. On this account, many thousand workmen are without work and begging their bread. A number at petitioos have ton presented to the Minister of Dresden, to induct him to pmhibit the importation of &reign merchendise, auo the expor tation of our taw matetials."—fi(olikee„) The Prete& of Polies has pebiisbed a list contain ing the names of all persons of the ferrite, register- • ell at the police, and qualified to administer suc • cows to the Parisians. There are 217 old phy skian% 233 old surgeons, 111 disflors of medicine, tO dottors in Surgery, 232 Atficers of health, and 233 midwives. Taint has left this capital for Alicant. where he is appointed a Commercial Agent. He was not presented, as he demanded, to the Emperor before his departure, it being contrary to the established Imperial etiquette, to introduce to His Majesty's presence, any agent of inferior rank than ministers. It is not use that he is accompanied by his former wife. Madame Tailless, of fashionable memory. She has for these last nine months been pleading to obtain a divorce, at the desire of her father, the Spanish Minister, Count Cabarus. An Officer of the flotilla at Boulogne writes, un. der the I tth instant :—" For these last three eights the English cruisers continue to make repeated sig nals, as if they kept up some communication with traitors on shore, and expetted information from them. Our goo d'a►asea and flying artillery are, however, every where upon the alert, and scour all boon, alter dark, the coast and its vicinity. Woe to conspirators of spicy if they meet with them I Admiral Beni: thinks that this manteuvre of our ir reimmilealsie fees is only to create suspicion and to *site elem. We counted this morning three ships of the hers. two frigates, and nine brigs or cutters; but they her at such a respectful distance *test: lotteries could not reach them. AU the mid crews tat the Smalls are in high spiriu. =alias M Finish do insolence of the cowardly islanders. Wk restive shady reinforcements, both frosts she eastward and westward, with little interrupting front the esenty. His Imperial Highness Prince laseph is now here, and we are flattered with the prow& of seeing the Emperor himself before Ilis Majesty's coronation, when it is said that the grand blow will be struck. In the mean time, we amuse ourselves with bells and plays, as in the time of a prefened peace."—(Le Cateyem Frawifris.) The Scotchman, James Douglas, who has esta. bliehed himself here since the peace of Amiens, and who has breit;ht with him several of the principal machines used with so much advantage by the Eng lish end Scotch manufacturers, has obtained from the Emperor letters of naturalisation.—(/d.) Mr. Douglas has obtained from the Emperor pa ints for eight difereat machines useful in the ma nefeiguring of cloths. It is said, that the Minister of the Interior intends to honour his manufactories in the Isle des Lignes with his presence, and inspeß their machines. There is no truth whatever in the report of Mr. Douglas being ordered to join other British subjeets at Verdun, nor that he is suspeSed of keeping up a correspondence with the enemies of France. His temporary imprisonment was caused by the false denunciation of some envious or jealous French manufatliwers, and for which they have ucen condemned. by the police, to pay him one hundred livres (41.) damages.— The arrest of two persons in the pit at the Opera last Sunday caused the report of another conspiracy bang discovered ; but, upon inquiry, we heard tha t these two persons were suspeded by the police agents of being British subjeas, though possessing Danish passes ; one of them is already released. Foreigners cannot Le too much upon their guard in not negreeing to observe strietly the urse regula tions of the police, which prescribe them to always tarty upon them their passes, or cards of hospi tality. At a tiros when so many thousand foreign ers have arrived here to witness the Emperor's eoro patios), the police- agents have an additional duty to watch them, at it is more than probable that some English erniseariss may have introduced themselves among them, which can only be discovered from their want of necessary papers to qualiir their rc. i • I - Nib - sidesce here. Those, therefore, mho neglea this duty, can have no reason to complain if they are er re ted or detained by the patroles or agents of the police. The Emperor has appointed the Generals of Di •isions, Clarke and A. O'Connor, Commanders of the Legion of Honour. The General of Brigade, O'Neil, is made a member of the same Legion. Madame La Place, the wife of the Chancellor of the Senate, and Madame Caroline Courtin, are ap pointed Maids of Honour to her Imperial Highness Princess Borghese. General Regnier has embarked with a company of Carabineers at Nice, and landed at Genoa. Re port says, that he is intended to succeed in the command of our army in the kingdom of Naples, General St. Cyr having resigned. In the deoartments of the Rhine and Moselle, of Ardennes, of the Meuse, and of Montblauc, at the approach of the winter, a quantity of wolves have again made their appearance. The prefats of these departments have theretnre ordered general Chace on the Ist of next December. Within the sight of the ramparts of Lunemburgh, these vora cious animals devoured, on the 9th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, a woman big with child, with an infant in her arms. The repairs at Fontainbleau are now finished, and this palace is ready for the reception of his Holiness the Pope. The Emperor and Empress will arrive there the day before the Pope is ex. pelted ; but their Majesties do not iatend to pass there in the whole more than six days. It is generally remarked that the credit of Eng land suffers a daily diminution in Germany, and that the German Princes are successively breaking off their connettions with the Court of London. Ba varia, Wirtemberg, Baden, and the circles of Fran conia, and the Upper and Lower Rhine, have re solved henceforth to discontinue their official cor respondence with the British Cabinet, and not to receive its Ministers or Agents, since the discovery of the intrigues of Drake and Spencer Smith. The Eleftor of 'Jesse has sent notice to Mr. Tay lor, the English Resident at this Court, to quit his territories. tie has aatially taken his departure, and the Secretary of Legation, who officiates ad in terim as Charge d'Affaires, will speedily follow his example, and quit the Eleitorate, with all the papers belonging to the Embassy. Mr. Elliot must soon bid farewell to Dresden; and then there will no longer remain any English Ministers in Germany, with the exception of those accredited to the Courts of Vienna and Berlin. The British Embassy, whose expected arrival at Ratisbon was lately talked of, will not now proceed thither ; the principal States of the Empire having declared that the Diet at R atis. bon has no relations with England, having no af. fairs whatever to transaft with that country. The Imperial Council at Vienna has passed a de cree respelling the misunderstanding between the Elettor of Wirtemberg and his States. It is not yet published ; but it is supposed to be favourable to the latter.— ( Pubis, Use. ENGLISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE. The British public are perhaps nat generally ac quainted with the state of distress to which many of their unfortunate countrymen are reduced in dif. ferent parts of France. It must be recollefled, tha t only persons uk.-1 in arms arc entitled to the be nefit of the allowance m tde by our government ; but a great proportion of the British prisoners now in France arc persons who went thither during the interval of peace, from motives of health, economy, or business. An ognexprtird decree of the French Government having prevented their return, and obliged them to make long and expensive journeys to the different d-pots, far from the places where health or business had induced them to fix their re sidence, the greater part of them are without the means of procuring a livelihood. Many passengers and pills taken on board merchant ships, and ser vants left behind by masters who had the good for tune to get away previous to the execution of this decree, are likewise in the sane distressed situation, and must unavoidably have perished, had they not been relieved by the benevolence of the more opu lent of their countrymen, and by some private re mittances sent over from England by Mr. Robson, Manchester-square, London, and by Messrs. Dun can, New College, Oxford. The former of thew gentlemen transmitted to Messrs. Pcregaux, the sum of 3001. in the year 1803 ; and the latter 2001. raised by private subscription in the University of Oxford. The Rev. William Newbolt has likewise sent 201. which be collated from the inhabitants of Winchester. This money, together with 5601. sub scribed by some English gentlemen in France, has been confided to the Rev. L. Lee, at Verdun, who has undertaken to distribute it, and to make every inquiry in his power into the characters of those who have applied for it, that none might be lavished on unworthy objefls. Regular accownu of the disbursement have been LONDON, THURSDAY, Novaustft 29. According to a private letter from the Hague, the French minister, Si MON , / tt.t.e, is n'w employed in disseminating there several false and infamous re ports against Russia and Sweden, as those against Great Britain, manufaCtureJ by himself, or his prin cipals at Paris, are no longer listened to, or only laughed at. In a letter, which he pretends to have received from General BRUNE, at Constantinople, this diplomatic grcmadier is said to have discovered an intrigue of the minister of Russia with lum bers of the Divan, to obtain permission from the GRAND Setomoa, to occupy the forts in the Darda nelles with Russian troops, in the same manner as the Seven Islands ; and to garrison the:cities of Ales andria and Suez with English troops, against the attempts of the French. These military occupa tions, which Banns has prevented, are said to be only preparatory measures for a territorial partition of the Turkish Empire, meditated by Russia and England. The King of Swenrs is accused by this same emissary of Bon AAAAA E, of intriguing in every Court in Europe, to obtain a subsidy. to repair the pretended ruinous state of his finances, which are in better condition than those of any other continental Sovereign. Mr. KONI G, the Swedish Minister at Con.tantinople, is said to be now intriguing to obtain a subsidiary treaty with the OTTOMAN PORTS, its which he is se conded by the English and Russian Ambassadors. On the 17th instant, when this letter was written, the plan of a new constitution, which SCRIM st e PENNINE had carried with him from Paris, was un der discussion, in a select committee of Batavians at the Hague, chosen from among the ablest Dutch statesmen and financiers. It was presided over by Sentient'. eranitte ; but the French Minister Sr. 'wt.:WILLS, as well as the French General :sl All. moss., often attended,no doubt to prom& the ltb..rty of opinions and deliberations. We give this day some further extrads from those small French Papers, which we generally receive exclusively. The Regicide Septembriser TALLIES, before his departure to Spain, as a commercial agent, was net admitted into the presence of his former accomplice BortAr *art, whose patron and protetor he was in 17:15, when Madame TALLIES WAS the Parisian Queen of fashion, whose throne Madame NA roLEON then regarded not only as a favour, but as an honour, to be permitted to approach. BONA P ARTS'S first commission, as a General, was signed in September, 1795, by TA I, LIEN, then a member of the Committee of Public Safety. What a change in the fortune of thes e t , revolutionary brigands! An article in the Padbride of the 16th, peett to give an opinion of our relative situatioc Germany, and of the idea the German P;inceitil tertain of the political condua of our Cabinet. 11, articles evinces equal malice and ignorance. English Minister ever .resided at ltatisbon. Tar Loa, so far from being orliered away f,,„ Cassel by the Eleaor of Hew:, came over h ei upon leave of absence, and left Mr. Hcavar n , behind him as our Charge d'Afrires. Mr. Ett.%.l whom the Pabiir,ste places at lhesden, is our Min, ter to the King of NAPIAS; and Mr. Cyst ucc, on Minister to the Court of Dresden, is treated th:n with that regard due from an independent Sever e to the Representative of the first Monarch rope. These abqurdities and falsehoods rmy I: French rebels and slaves, but can never del , Prince or subjea, who can or dares to thin... himself. NVith the above French Papers, we rcce:7; some Dutch Coacrants, up to the 25th instant; the contents are, how. vet-, of little interest. A graph in the Middle-64(rib Coarrant, of the states, that General MoNser. at Fluslling, hr received information that the Russian Cabins is determined to preserve its neutrality in d present contest between France and Erglam What faith is to be placed in that assertion, leave to our readers own judgment, only requ ing them to remember, that we have at this resent two Russian Ambassadors and negoti in this capital, one of whom was sent here at tla very time when the whole Russian Legation France was ordered to leave that country, and lttn. shin men of war in our harbours. The Dutch Papers do not menti6n any thing con. cerning the late prohibition of B 'NAPA RTN all intercourse between Holland and this Country but private letters state, that French Custom•hous OtEcers. and French Soldiers continue in pl‘sessics of those vessels lately seized for having on board British produce. Such is the penury of the Bax. vi an treasury, that large discounts are offered to thew who pay, before the 15th of next month, the ontr6 bution on property due on the first of next March. The 17.'reMt Courant, of the 19th, contains a lents from Batavia of the 7th oetebruarV, according tt which, the King of Cm:DIA bas driven the Englid from Ceylon, and put them all to the sword. WI have later news from Ceylon, and know that H CANDIAN MAJESTY is driven back to his srati; , atai; This is, therefore, :mother invention of France, console the Ratavians for the loss of their Mari and independence. We have inserted a detailed account of the In., .ef His Majesty's ship nvomey, of:!) guns, oa the C 044 of ( Tolland. Last Monday week, at nine o'clock is the morning, she ran on the South five miles west of the Texel. All ::tempts ti save her were in vain ; her masts went over-board on Moe day, and on Tuesday the officers and crew quitted her upon rafts, and were made prisoners by the Dutch, who displayed much latima4ity upon the occasion. Intelligence of this unfortunate event w2l brought hn me by the Glalbss, arrived at Yarmout with the Afr.;raine frigate in tow, which had suffer severely by the storm that proved so fatal to RONI.Ir.I. At a hue hour on Tuesti.sy night, Mr. S, sow, the King's Messenger, left town, with dispatcl.,u for Lord G. L. eLa, at St. Petersburßh; also for Mr. JACI•ZSOM, at Berlin. Mr. Se +Raw took shipping at Harwich for Husum, from whenc he is to proceed, by a circtil:,ll, cours e, to lier.ir to avoid the Frenc:a banditti who infest the t: route. Yesterci.sy, the Rt . ::t.sso AMSASs.►OOR [ran business at Lord HA atowsy's office, horn 1 ; 1 four o'clock. _ . Ye.a.:rday a Court of Dire:tars was held at t; - East India I-louse, which adjourned at six o'cior till to-morrow. Mr. Mattei is likely to surr-ed the late Mr JACKSON in tie direa'ou of the Fa India Cem a-ty The Indststrli, kac,:ec. from ILn.aic ; f• , • ARCPIER ; and the liebrrre, 111S11M ARM, tersburgh, with a fleet which sailed from ff.: . on the 17th instant, under convoy of the fit, t• • awned ship, are arrived in the Rivor. The last accounts from Torbay state, th it Venerable has gone to pieces. The number • • '••• drowned is said to be thirteen; they air v:,...••• • to have been intoxicated when the ship strucL. We are happy to observe a farther reduiCsn the price of Wheat took place yesterday. It is understood that Mr. Pity's view, io conference with the persons concerned in . Corn Trade last Saturday, WAS principally t. ascertain how far it would be necessary or e pedient to suspend the distilleries. They r scored, that the last crop of barley was not r. rnarkably deficient; but, on the other hand, wheat crop seemed to require the aid of every ct grain that could be used for bread. The el - lie objettion is the loss which the Revenue woul•I sus tam; but it is not doubted that both objeas Mill b answered, by preventing the distillery of Grain, it should be found necessary, and permitting of Si:gar and Molasses, at the same duties. as w adopted on a former oczasic.n. - "7 • . like sent to England by Mr. Lee, and are left at the banking•house of Messrs. Stephenson and Co. for public inspeition. It will appear by these accounts, that only a very small balance now temains, and unless some fur ther aid be transmitted from England,• it is much to be feared that the ensuing winter will be fatal to many of our countrymen. The greatest exertions have been used by the English Gentlemen at Ver dun to administer to these necessities. A dispensary has been established far the sick, and schools for the children. Daily subscriptions are likewise raised for individual distress ; but, suffering in their fortunes by their own detention, it is impossible that they should be able to afford a general and complete relief. It is earnestly hoped that this statement may at traet the attention of the opulent and benevolent in England, who may be disposed to give aid to a far ther subscription, that an additional and regular supply may be transmitted to our countrymen in digress. The annual sum of from 7001. to WOW. would be adequate to ali the purposes of this charity, and might leave a balance in hand to assist those who, whenever the blessing of peace may arriwe, may be desirous to return to their native country. In this case, in which the interests of humanity, aid the honour of the British name are so materially concerned, it is confidently hoped that this appeal will not be made in vain. (Signed) LituncsLos CHARLIIS LLB. rertisa i lst Sept. 1804. • Sines the date of the above letter, a donation of 201. hai been received by Mean. Stephenson and Co. from Christopher Idle, Adelphi, London. We are happy to add, that an order on the treasury for the sum of 10001. applicable to the pur peon of this Charity, has been obtained. It has been thought right to publish Mr. Lee's letter, with oat alteration, in justice to those who have contributed both at home and in France, to the relief of the,. suffering fellow countrymen, and for the purpose of more fully exhibiting to the public, the extremity of distress to which great numbers lase been reduced by the rigours of a captivity, heretofore without exampk among chased nations. But, as hopes are entertained, that the aid of Government will, in future, be extended from time to time, to affustl the requisite relief, it is net intended, unless new dilficultiei should vim, any further to solicit private contributions. 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