The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-09-01 00:00:00

ipizzoif iNiturazinz FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. PAPAS, suousr 18. The greatest pert of the department of Upper Garonne has been laid waste by a storm of hail. Wheat, wine, corn, cattle, &c. every thing was destroyed in ten minutes, upon a space of several leagues. The misery and desolation are great beyond description in that country. They write from (Genoa, under the 6th inst. that on that Allay, the Italian privateer, II rendicalore, left that port to cruise in the Mediterranean. It di redid itt course towards the Levant. This priva teer has captured sir different prizes; but not one of them arrived safe in French or Italian harbours. They were all recaptured by the English. During his present visit to the camps in Hun gary, Bohemia, and in Moravia, His Royal High ness the Archduke Charles is accompanied by his brother, the Archduke Antoine, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Both the Princes left Vienna on the sth inst. ♦NTWrPP, AUGUST 20. The festival at Boulogne was celebl.ated last Thursday, in a most magnificent manner. The Imperor was 'seated on an elevated throne, in the middle of a semicircle, around which the columns of troops were placed`, so that they appeared to be the rays of a star, of which the throne formed the centre. On the steps of the throne were placed the dignified Officers of the Empire, the Princes, Mar shals. am and on each side, in straight lines, all the drummers and musicians of the camp. His Majesty then, amidst the most profound silence s administerrd the oath to all the Members of the Legion of Honour; and, as sass as they had re peated the words, '• this we swear," a general dis charge of attillery took place from lathe batteries en the coast, the forts, and ships, while all the drummers and musicians struck up a piece of war like music, and the Members of the Legion of Honour received from the hands of his Majesty, the insignii of the Oraer. 'The columns then filed el, passed his Majesty, and proceeded to their quar. ters. The day wits spent amidst the greatest joy, and the people amused themselves with different pasti:aes, tech as running races, dancing, &c. Each man received a double ration of bread and meat, together with a last of wine, and the superior effacers were entertained with an 1110011 M collation by Prince Joseph. In the evening some elegant areworks were exhibited, accompanied with a ge neral discharge of musketry by a body of 15,000 men, having on their arms luminous stars, or balls, which emitted a bright light. the whole forming a most brilliant spe&acle, because an astonishing number of sky rockets were let off at the same time. The same .day M. Malawi, Commissary General of the Marine, opened in ceremony the new wharf and the magazines, on which occasion he delivered a speech, in which he stated, that the Emperor had ✓esolved to strengthen Antwerp ; that ere law, the Rhine, the Mane, the Scheldt, and the Rhone, would sus into each other. Gigues, amounting in the whole to fifteen sail. Three ships of the line, and three frigates, are destined for the Mediterranean, and it is expelled that another division will soon anchor before the Danish capital. It is reported that these ships will join the former ones, and another squadron arrive from Cronstadt. This causes several conjtaures under the present circumstances, though the German papers pretend that lately the Emperor was present at a grand Council of State at St. Pctershurgh, in which it was decided not to enter into a new war. (Hague Courtrai, Asagu.t 22.) THE BRIT 151-{ P RES* FROM TILE ERTIVII PAPERS. RAMIE. AUGUST 22. His Excellency the French Ambassador left this phos on the t!hh, for the camp of Zeist, to be pre• r nut at the festivities and grand manseavres, ordered ►y General Marmon, in honour of the Emper r , 5 Napoleon's birth-day. After a sham fight, and the blahs' uvres usual in la tSr guerre, the Commander gives a splend d dinner. General Marmon' returned at the 18th to the camp, after having paid his duty to Ida Sovereign, at ()rend. 'I he dinner is bespoken for sixty covers. We understand that several Mem. ben of our (1-vernment, of the Diplomatic Corps, besides our Minister for the War Department, ry ' v man, have seen invited to be present. P. S. We hear now, that this military pomp and manauvres took place last Sunday. The mantra vies began at noon, and continued to six o'clock, when the dinner was served. In the evening, a great fire-work was exhibited before the beautiful tent of Gen. Marmont. The French Ambassador is jus t teturneJ, and the Minister, Pyman, is cape/led to morrow. No orders are yet given for the breaking up of the camp at Zeist ; it may, however, be done at amo ment's notice. Some pretend that it will be placed in some other position, more healthy, and more con venient for observing the present occurrences upon the Continent, as well as to be ready for embarking for England. The visitors in this camp last Sunday amounted to upwards of 60,000 of both sexes. On the 16th inst. the French Minister at Berlin gave a grand entertainment in honour of the Emperor Napoleon's birth-day. AU the Prussian Ministers, and many of the diplomatic corps, were present. Neither the Russian nor the Swedish Ministers were invited. NAMIIVION, AUG. IS. bitten from Copeuhsgen bring an account of the arrival of a Russian newt before Bornholm, consist 116._itig, as some say, of nice ships of the lire and several LOX DUN, SATURDAY, SrrrEvnEß I. Again we caution the public against the idle and false alarm that an Evening Print has attempted to excite, upon the authority of its friend, the Baran Munebaestn, who occasionally writes from Deal, or from Dover, or from Sandgate, just as best suits his purpose, and may excite m 0.4. interest by varying the scene. Let it not be said, however, that we de sire our fellow subjels to go quietly to their beds and never dream of invasion. Our caution is chiefly direfted to the money market, in which speculators watch every breeze, and snuff up every scent of news within the limits of the political horizon. When we retied upon the business of the Stock Exchange, we shudder at the result of the shallow manoeuvres by which hindreds of knaves are enrich ed at the expence of thousands of innocent sufferers. It may possibly prevent the success of this system of delusion, to assure the public, as we most so lemnly do, that all the alarm which has agitated the town, during the coarse of the present week, has been produced exclusively by the accounts of a Reporter sent down in this holiday time to the coast to fill up, by his communications, the void left by the absence of Legal and Parliamentary business. —lf, as that writer has had the audacity to assert, the approaching smoke of the enemy's fire has shewn, that they have quitted the proteCtion of their batteries, and pushed into the Mid Chan nel; for surely they must be a great distance from Boulogne, before their approach could be discernible with a spy glass, from the heights of Dover : what can we say to palliate the remissness and negligence of Government ? During all this time, while the flare* Manage:so, from his Observatory at Dover, could see the whites of the eyes of the enemy ad vancing to invade us: during all this bustle and confusion, we are assured the signal stations at Dover remained idle and inaftive. %Vill any man believe, that Government is so besotted and in-A fatuated, as not to provide for such a case, and leave all the people of England dependent upon the ' diligence of a Newspaper Reporter for information upon the important subjeft of invasion ? Where are our telegraphs, our improved modes and nse.uss of communication, and all those ingenious devices for transmitting intelligence with certainty and cele rity? Are we to be told that they are all good for nothing, and that a letter by the ordinary convey ance of post leaves them all panting behiad ? Most assuredly we shall mot believe such a libel upon our Government. The Minister would be a fool or a traitor, who, with the application of all the re sources of the country in his hands, would manage his affairs, and lay Las plans so badly, that any p.i vate person, however great his diligence or sagacity, could flatter himself with a chance of outstripping Government in his information, upon a point of such vital importance. We do believe, that Goverr. ment have used every precaution, and adopted every possible means to ascertain the motions of the cite my. Their observations have satisfied them, that the preparations for invasion axe now complete, and that the attempt may be hourly expefted. This in formation the public have a right to expert from them. Thus forewarned, and apprised, the public spirit will be kept upon the alert, and in a state of preparation. But when the atteatot shall be made, when the enemy's flotilla shall ha :e begun to move from its native shore ; we do also expect, front the vigilance and energy of Government, to find it the earliest Herald of the news—we do expeCt to find all London under aims in rive hours after the commencement of t!. • aztempt, and that we are not to wait for the arrival of the Dover coach for the first communication of an event of the last importance. In the case of the Brentfurd EleCtion, expresses and extraordinary means were resorted to for spreading the result with cele rity over the kingdom. We are persuaded that Government will not be less sfhve in great case of aCtual invasion. We are the more anxious to in culcate this sentiment, because we fear that the false alarm excited in the early part of the week, and which has not yet subsided, may ultimately prove extremely injurious to the coontry. .r” inculcate the opinion, that the attempt of invasion may bt.• hourly expc3cl,:s theduty of every good subjea, who oche Ks that the state of the enemy's preparations warrants that idea, because it keeps the public mind constantly alive and fixed upon its danger; but to give out that the enemy are coming, when in fa& they are not corning, is only to let down the public spirit, and render it incredulous to ro,d danger. We have al ready stated, that the Boulogne flotilla has returned into that port; and, notwithstanding the letters al luded to from the Coast, which we have inserted, only mention it as a probable event, we are pretty confident that it has already taken place. In our paper of Thursday we inserted a paragraph from the .hardal de. Dele,lvermrc, copied into a Ger. M4ll paper, stating that the Marquis De Li AA, the Portuguese Ambaisadar, was daily expeaed at Paris, and that, immediately after his arrival, a commer cial treaty between France and Portugal would be concluded, as also as oirensive and defen,ive alii • ante between France, Portugal, and Spain.— The Jouraal des I).;ity, which we received on Thursday, ("derive/it, announces the arrival of the Marquis de Lim s, at L'Orient, as we announced yesterday ; but we have autharity to state, that the report, Si far as respe.ts the treaties of commerce, and offen,ive alliance, are unfnuaded, and that the Marquis de LIMA'S commission is merely an ex traordinary embassy to compliment the new Em peror of the French, and totally unconneted with commercial, or other arrangements, which ought to be managed by M. De SOUZA, the Portuguese Minister, accredited to the French Government. If it were the intention of France to force Spain and Portugal out of their neutrality, it is extraordinary that a French Paper should be the first to announce it. Yesterday we received Dutch Papers to the 23d. An article, under the head of Hamburgh, states some particulars reveding the Russian fleet. The improved state of His M AJEST v's health, as announced in our Weymouth News, will, we are confident, diffuse joy through every class of his affeCtionate subjects. A fleet will sail for Russi4 in about a week, and will be followed by another about the latter end of the month. _ The brigade of Royal East India Volunteers yesterday received orders to bold themselves in readiness to match to the coast at a moment's warn ing ; this respeaable corps have for some time past kept a regular nightly guard at the Company's Warehowes, similar to that established at the Ilaak by His MAJESTY. Above fil!evn hundred weight of lead has lately been moulded into bullets for the use of the brigade, in case of bring called ihto labial service. Considerable preparations have lately been mak ing at Bow, and several parts of Essex, to open the sluices, and overflow the country adjacent ; it is expeEted an experiment will be made in a few days by flooding several meadows near the River Lee ; the Duke of Yoait, it is said, sill be present. A Conic of Diredors was yesterday held at the Fast India House, when additional dispatches were sent off to the ships at Portsmouth. The Court adjourned at an early hour till Wed nesday next. The outwardbound East-indiamen now at Ports mouth, arc expcfed to sail from thence to day. We understand that six of the ships of 1,200 tom each, lately arrived from China, are to b 2 en gaged by Government, to serve as block ships in the Downs. aitvrs received by an American House in the city state that Li slots considered himself so certain of capturing the China Fleet. that he had engaged to dispnse of the cargoes of two of the ships to an American Merchant at the Mauritius. In the late arrangements for the farther distrihu tn of the heringapatam priae.miiney, the East India Company have ordered a full share to the de. tachments tinder the command of Colonels BROWN and RV°. 'the yews, Wtt.gow, from Quebec, arrived in the Clyde, spoke the following vessels at sea, on the 18th ult. viz. the Montrotal, SIMPSOI4, FLATONBY, and the etsettc, BAILLY, from Quebec for London. Several days last week, during the fine weather, our off shore squadron off Brest could approach the outer road near enough to count, without the as sistance of glasses, the number of ships at anch , ,r there, which amounted in the whole, to seventeen , hips of the line, four of them 3.deckers, nine fi i:•ates, and eleven cut ers, or other small armed vess e l's. It is reported in a leter from the Flague of the I flth inst. that the 1) :actors of the Bata rian IL public, the Linda:tomtit of Switzerland, and rte Vice President of the Italian Republic, are to be appointed Commanders the I .egion of !font - Air. It is said, that the same h .4w; have been offered to the Kings of Spain, Prussia, and Denmark, to the Fleflors of Bavaria, I lesse, and Baden, and to the President of the United Stalcs of America. CIIAILES MORDALNT, Esq. of Walton, son of Sir JOH% MORDAUNT, Bart. who was formerly one of the Representatives for Warwickshire, is a Can didate for the seat now vacant in the representation of that county.. Sir Jour: MORDAVN T, at the last general cleaion, having declined, from ill health, r 'ceived the thanks of the county for the attention wi;ich he paid to their interest, during the time he was in Parliament. On Monday next the Right Honourable the Loco Marna, Aldermen, and City Officers, will proceed in state from the Mansion-house, at halt p Ist eleven o'clock, to Smithfield, and proclaim Bar tholomew Fair, according to annual custom, and on Tuesday following, his Lordship will hold a Court of Aldermen to declare the vacancy of K. eper of Newgate, by the death of .1011 N Kis av, Esq. and to fix a Jay for the eleetion of another in his room. ORIGINAL POETRY. THE IRISH BY OLD NICK. 0 rune, n Arra, • .tranainarevigfia "f In days of yore, but since the flood, Whikt Teague an lied was snaring, A Spectre 'fore him ghritty,stood, And 'woke him with laq roaring. Nu masa it had, nor een an qe, • Nur mouth to eat its bread; Arid, wood you know the reawiti why, . Alas ! it had no head ! W:t , i horrid gape Teague view'd thn Then cried " Ah ! now begroki,c, a And mite tw.• from my sad aliicht, 1 ' And tel me if waking Arrah, my d ar," the Shade reithel, " ,:amort 'oil LIAM " Hum I'm th father's glio.r,who t:,c I, " Beheaded ; Lord kudui how !" Nitek, poor Ghost :" the son culained, " No wonder rimed not frisks. " for he most surely must be ds•—• I s " Who crinot drink his whiskey." " Alt, honey, true !" the Sprite resum'cl. " Therefore 1 loive the dead; " And th a I mayn't to 1-1— be doom'd, "I'm loAing for my head !" • This ejaculatory line is taken frum the 11th canto of t,. Rierionletto of Foreepterri, where it relates to a certain lip Haman much more titan our Irishman, who, ft er L.. head hul been cutoff by Count Orlando, snatched it up, an carried it down stairs with him, to the great surprise of tb! good Count. (11 futon Coate), Now rode if ir.ire Gusto, anti.l,4ltietat. E la reciso tr3ta in piano piei i 4 Slate dicrende. Sr . 16. The Earl of limey:moron, and Lord PITSP. SHAM, set off this day on a •isit to His Royal High ness the Prince of WALES, at Brighton. We are extremely sorry to hear that Viscruntees liswicsssuar is seriously indisposed at Coomb- Wood. The Sr *stilt Asusassa nom will, in a few dues. lead to the Temple of Hymen the beautiful Lief Ft.zerwoon, widow of the late,Sir Tao M A% 1 .. Les 1 . - woo°, Ban. Her Ladyship returned to towa from Bath yesterday, preparatory to the nuptials. His Excellency has a superb house preparii.g, the corner of Manchester-square. Her Royal Highness the Princess of War. es gave a superb dinner, at her beautiful villa, at Blackheath. on Sunday last, to a selea party. The French Princes, Prince CASTELCICAL A, Earl and Countess of HARRINGTON, Lord Havneesauve, Lord L. Gowrat, and Lord PETERSHAM, were of the party. The Duke and Duchess of Be a:FORT and familt are now at Seaford, in Sussex, where his Grace ' . regiment is quartered : when his presence can bt' dispensed with, they will return to Badminton Park. Yesterday the Captain and Officers of the Ea ,/ Camden, East Indiaman, entertained on board that excellent ship a number of the Direaors of the East India house, also the Earl and Countess of Ilan. RI NwroN, Earl CAMDEN, Lord and Lady CAST i.r. REA au, Colonel and Lady L. WOOO, Lady A. ST A • 110 Pr, Lord H•weessears Lord HAEROWBV, an .I Lord PETERSHAM, &C. Died, on the 24th instant, at her house in Brnm ston-street, Portman-square, in the 44th year of he: age, Mrs. MARGARET Aarroan, widow of dier.General ARNOLD, and daughter of the Eawann SNIPPY:Ca, Chief Justice of the State t Pennsylvania, North America. Of this 1.:14y it may be truly said. that, with a superiority or.: strength of mind, seldom equalled, she possess such polished and fascinating manners, as to conve:t every acquaittance into a friend. The Duke of Gls • Fl on's horse Parasol is match. x.: against Mr. Mil. arsit's Buss, at the next Newinor . ket Meeting for 200 guineas. Sir NATIIANIEL DANCE is much indisposed et Cheltenham. Colonel and Mrs. Sr Alt tow have arrived in fian from Clifton, in consequence cf Colonel B. Sr su sow being appointed ilrigadie:-General in the %%• , ..t Indies, in which place he will shortly go. Some say that bettor is a bad name for a Lc:- eery Orlize Kee,wr ; but fortune has proved, that . is h;gh up in the wheel. Mrs. Motpsr Ain's enter!anment of the L 1 1 / 4 '.);,/ sr has been most rapturously received A. Elinbargh. The critics of that cif; cannot i • between her Caleiuman her Pa!: a a Sign her nrk‘h,re 'Squire, acid her Irish Copt tier. are all allowed to be inimitable per:Or mantes. Now that the infant Rovius his tun his r the good pe Tie of Birmingham cry Trag avaunt!" and ask, whethor the buy conies ....An :la : hand of NAttl:e a pe •c et actor (like Mir ch vs armed cap-a-pee from the be 'in of Jove!, or, thee he 1.4% !wen pet alit,.!?" Thu: :te:! dear • to solace :hc:nsclves tor hi; :I!•,euce ss r • L ~inpany of comedroii• : s • •, • : BLAN.•I4A.tD, EN : ‘ * l tirC. tilklt4s, Miss NOR: ON, at.d M.:SS lAA : We arc concerned to state, that Captain . 1 . %1 • • • of the Glory East-Indiaman, uMortuna:oly lost :.•• lite in a duel, at Madras. painting of the late engagement between t: China Meet and Li:sots has airerdy b:el executi: and gill shortly be pi esented to the East India • pony, who, no doubt, will do every thing t. - lay in their power to commemorate this grew: o ver.;. .e understand a print is to be taken ltum r:• , painting. ihursslay the Lord Mayor gar ai el..gant at the Maii , ion Horse to a numo..- persors cr•t tirOlion ; among wlicim were, Lark CAALAN H A RItINI. (UN ; Viscounts Ikon and L • AsI a F.Atin; HEM. W. l't 1t; S;O: Silia N \V. Custis, C. Pill,. E, If. INoi J. Col BL„,E,. \V. A.ll ..„; J. T s'.! tFt GOV losoit and Di .s f of the I!..4titi, and D.AECIORs ( . .i ‘ 1.11*•• ..1 EA.T-INDIA CONIPASY, and Diukt't ; ‘ I • ,hcriff Sit \m, Mr. W. MEI I,1!, S •• • Etc. Scci