The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-11-21 00:00:00

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE. FRENCH PAPERS - PART;, NOV. S. On Sunday, the 4th instant, her Majesty, the Em press, received at St. (loud the ladies of the Am bassadors, and of the Foreign Ministers and Envoys, as well as such foreigners as had been already pre sented to his Imperial Majesty. The Princess of Santa Croce was presented to the Empress at this audience, by Madame de la Rochelottcauld, as were also the Duchess of St. Theodore ',Nero, and Madamoiselle de Carracciole, daughter, by the Marchioness de Gallo. M. de Rayncval, French C4arge e 4Aires at the Court of Russia, has arrived la Paris. The report is now contradißed, that General Lames had received orders to return to his mission as Ambassador to Portugal. A society of Poles • eelebra:ed the birth-day of the celebrated General Kosciusko, on the sth instant. His Holiness is aftually on his way to Paris. His suite is disposed in four divisions. The last, in which His Holiness travels, together with Cardinals Antonelli, Bagia, Pietro, Cazelli, the Duke Braschi, Prince Altien, and their attendants, was to leave Rome on the 3d of November. It consists of ten coaches and sir, tA'O waggons of six horses each also, and two couriers. Cardinal Fesch travels with the third division, which set out the 2d November, and his suite forms the greatest part of the first di vision, which began its journey on the 31st O,lober. The greatest preparations were made at Florence fa ir the reception of His Holiness, who was expelled there on the 17th of November. BOUI °GNI, YOV. 6. Estraa of the order of the day fur the Imperial flotilla : the flotilla shall celebrate on the 9th, by three discharges of artillery, the anniversary of this glorious day, which has fixed the happy destinies of France. The first discharges shall take place at the break of day, the second at noon, and the third at sun set. All the vessels remaining in the port, es.he ther the flotilla bt in the road or not, shall be decked out in the most splendid manner from sun rise to sort set. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, at the time of high water, the Admiral will d • tribute the Eagles of the Legion of Honou• the brave fellows for whom he has received them horn the Grand Chancellor, pursuant to the orders of his Majesty the Emperor. A private letter from Tonningen, dated the 21st of Otßober, and inserted in the Pvbfreiste, contain, the following accusation against Mr. Harwood, English Agent at Husum : " For a length of time it has excited much sur prise, that the mails coming from England should be carried to Mr. Ilarwood's office, instead of being deposited, as usual, and agreeably to the custom or all nations, with the Postmaster. This pradice, the English Government insissed upon, through the me dium of their Agent, notwithstanding the remon strances of the Court of Copenhagen, and the obser vation, that " it was for the Danish Government to be answerable for the letters that passed through the Danish territory." Much warm altercation took place on both sides, when Mr. Harwood, fertile in expedients of that nature, proposed silencing the clamours of the Postmaster at Hustn, by an annual indemnity of about 2,0001. on condition that the letters should be brought to his office ; an acquies cence might easily he expeded in a case where scarcely any resistance could be made—an engage ment was thus concluded. " From that moment the secrets of families, the secrets of commerce, and even those of foreign na tions, were placed in that part of the North at the disposal of the English agent. " Several merchants of Hamburgh had in vain preferred complaints ; letters for London entrusted to the post never reached their destination, or reached it very late, while other late: s of the same h . date were followed by the necessary answers.— (Murmurs of discontent increased on all sides.) " At length the secret of this trick is now brought to light, and the discovery alone will, no doubt, be sufficient to put a stop to the abuse. The Mails of Hamburgh and of London were stationed at Mr. Norwood's, at Husum. From that moment it was fully in his power to examine them, to dispatch, cr retain them, as he thought proper. It was stipulat ed, indeed, in the agreement between him and the post-:Waster, that the bag of letters for Denmark should continue to be deposited at the Danish post office, on the moment of their arrival from the packet-boats ; but the English agent adhered to his engagement in the same manner as the English Cabinet adheres to treaties; accordingly there boas came no letters from England for Tonningen. " The Postmaster sent his complaints to Copen hagen. The Danish Government, in order to see clearly into the matter, authorised him to require of the Chamberlain of Husum an authority to aJ, the express every post day, aIC ..•••maa• • •••••• ... arrtmt on the Tonningen re) reborn Mr. Harwovd tlispatebed 1111111111111111 met and who was susreaed cl:.rtutcd with elc correspondence. " The express WAS accordingly arrested on the' 130 i Oetotrer. There was found upon him a packet of letters, which he &dared he had received from Mr. Hat wood, %CLL.!' ,s ere dire& d to Mr. Ellcrman, a commercial house e,mblished here, and much em ployed in affairs with E •glaral. It was thus proved, th it Mr. Ellerman, on his owa :tut! ority, appro priated to himself the privilege and the profits of the post by getting the letters distributed, and by recti%ing the moors accruing from the carriage " the produce of this kind of theft pradised on Danish Post-offices was faithfully divided between Messrs. Harwood and Ellerman ; it amounted to a con adtrable sum. It as yet remains unknown whe ther the packet for Tonningen WAS secreted at Har wich from the Danish press, or whether the business WAS coa.l.uned in the cabinet of Mr. I larwood. When the English Agent was threatened with a criminal prosecution, he declared that he would get the packet-boats withdrawn from the town of Hu sum ; but such threats are nugatory, because that channel of communication with the Continent is much more necessary to the British Government, than it is beneficial to the town of Husum. " This violation of the Law of Nations, and of the secret of letters, on the past of Mr. Harwood, is a fresh admonition to all Governments, that where soever an English Agent can set his foot upon the Continent, he will attempt to usurp some privileges or establish some abuse!" LEYDEN, Nov. 9. We hear from Rome, that orders have been issu ed from the office of the Secretary of State, that all the necessary dispositions and preparations should be made for the journey of the Sovereign Pontiff to France. As His Holiness has resolved to travel to Pads at his ow•n expence, the Treasurer-General is to keep in readiness the sums required of him. The incipal bankers of Rome are likewise to furnish bills of exchange on the most accredited banking houses in the towns through which His Holiness will pass, and principally on Paris. The Holy Father will make short journeys ; his retinue and equipages will be magnificent and numerous ; at each stage 120 to ISO horses are to be kept in readiness. The body-guards of His Holiness will escort him to the frontiers of Tuscany ; from thence he will he at tended by the guards of the King of Etruria to the frontiers of the Italian Republic. A detachment of French cavalry will then accompany him to Paris. The Holy Father carries with him a great number of valuable presents, intended fur the Em peror and Empress, and all the Princes of the Im perial Family of Ft ance. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEIllik 21. Yesterday se'nnight, a Deputation from the City of Dublin waited upon Sir EvAN NEPLAN, with a statement of their grievances, when they we c assured that Government were ready to accede to their de sires. In the list of complaints, was the inconveni ence arising from the want of a passage through the Castle•yard, which Sir EVAN NEPEAN promised should be immediately opened. This consent to the removal of the barriers round the Castle, and to throw it open to the public, is an irrefragable proof the confidence of Government in the loyalty and tranquillity of the country. The Gazette of list night contains an interesting account of the capture of the privateer, commanded by the noted Captain BLANKSIA•:. We this day resume our extra 1s from the French Papers. We were aware that the very accurate and cir cumstantial account given in this Paper on Mon day, of Sir GCOROL Ito m not. o's arrest and return, would excite the envy of our Contemporaries.— Among them The Aforning Chronicle being, as usual, the most deficient, is, of course, the most sore and the most angry. It fancies that it has dis covered one error in our account, and, according to the Jacobin logic displayed in all its attempts at rea soning, it would hence aired to discredit our whole statement. In a detailed account, comprising a va riety of particulars, hastily collefred, a candid mind would not be eager to censure some trifling error. Ent we do not claim any such indulgence, as, not withstanding the envious sneer of the Jacobin print, we rely upon the authenticity of our statement. The part of it, which that Print has thought fit to ques tion, is the alleged treatment of Sir Germ°, iturtacri.o in the Temple at Paris, and our de scription of his apartment in that prison. The Editor cannot believe that the worthy Baronet wa; allowed only a roasted fowl and two bottles of wine for dinner, and that the ape rtmmt was gloomy and ill furnished. i le was, says Chronicle, on the contrary, treated with the greatest rcspat, meaning, no doubt, that he feasted upon Ortolons. and had a section of the Legion of Honour, in li very, assigned to wait upon him at table. As to a gloomy, ill-furnished apartment, the accuser of Go vernor Allis, and the advocate of Colonel I)es rasn, might no doubt admit such a thing possible in Cold-bath-fields prison, but it is all splendor and joy in the favourite prison of BONAPARTE. It a fairy queen were to carry off some favoured mortal for her lover, the Temple is the very sort of en. chanted castle in which she would deposit her charge. and woo his affections. There he would dine off a service of gold, be attended by celestial agents, and drink the nectar of the Gods from a cup of eme ralds. We, however, whose admiration of BONA. PARTE is not unbounded, may he excused if we can not see all the beauties and luxuries of his prison, and if we contemplate the room in which Sir GEORGE Rti si nor.° was confined, a cold, comfortless, and gloomy apartment. But, if our account was inac curate in some trivial points, why has not The Chro nicle given its readers a complete and corre& edition ? Satiety there was time since Sunday last to pick up a little information upon the subjea ; sad there are some cases in which The Chronicle does not want in dustry. For seven days the Editor of that Print laboured the question of the postponed votes at the late Brentford EleStion. All Jacobins admired his profound legal researches upon that occasion. And still they per', and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all tic knew. But the reason is obvious—To gratify the town with early and interesting information upon All sub jefls of importance is a task of infinite labour, and attended with great expence; but to fill a print with incoherent, and frequently contradiaory dreams of opposition politics, costs only a comfortable doze in an easy chair, and a few inches of candle. The same spirit of envy has pervaded a few other Prints of the minor class, whose condua is perhaps still more reprehensible. It is their daily praflice to copy columns from THE BRITISH PRESS, to impose them upon the world as their own original intelligence, and to dwell upon the great expence and labour at which they procure it,. while their boasted energy and liberality consist in making a vigorous effort to pull six-pence out of their pocket to buy one of our papers. To this class of Editor_ then, who aftually subsist upon our industry, we pledge our selves,that if they will quote Tut Bei visit PRESS, for every article they copy from it, we shall hold our selves responsible for every error into which we rn.zy lead them. They certainly shew their judgment in I becoming our servile copyists, and the fa6l of their b.ing so is a proof of our superiority ; but if they adopt our information as their own, they have no right to disown any part of it to serve a sinister pur pose. So much egotism may, *e fear, prove dis gusting ; but we have been betrayed into it, rose by a desire to protest the public from imposition, than to do justice to ourselves. Yesterday the Poisruouess, the SPANISH, and RusslAN AMPIASIADORS, and the Turkish Inter preter, transadcd business At Lord HAaaow•av's Office. Yesterday, at three o'clock, the LORD CHAN GEL LOR it-Ansa:led business with Mr. PITT, at his house. Lord KEITH arrived in town yesterday. His Lordship had a long conference with the Lord, of the Admiralty. Lord I I AftaowaY returned to town late last night from Bath. We are happy to announce the arrival of the homeward-bound Newfoundland fleet, under convoy of the his, Sir ERASMCS GOWER. The Pirgury brig of war, with the Abet under her convoy, for the West Indies, which sailed from Portsmouth on the 2.id August, are arrived at Bar badoes. The SPEAKER of the House of Commons has given notice in the Gazette, of his intention to issue his writ for the eleCtion of a Member for the Bo rough of Totness, in the room of Jun N BERKELEY BERLAND, Esq. The Kura has been pleased to appoint CHARLES Hoer, Esq. late His Majesty's Advocate of Scot land, to be His Majesty's Justice Clerk in Scotland, in the room of Sir DAVID RAE, of Eskgrove, Bart. deceased. The Km] has also been pleased to appoint Sir JAMES MONTGO IlLit V, of Stanhope. Bart. Advocate and Presenter of Signatures. to be His Majesty's Ad vocate in Scotland, in the room a CH AIL L E 9 i 10 P L. E S4l. BREAM—In consequence of the great rise in the markets, the Loan 1 1 / 4 4 s volt was under the pain ful necessity of raising the price of Bread three as sizes, or sixpence in the peck loaf, which will take place to-morrow ; when the quartern loaf wheaten will be sold for Is. 41. and household, Is. 'lid. That public-spirited nobleman, Lord PE It V um, has opened a new and nearer road to Holyhead through his estates at his own expence, by which Conway Ferry, and the terrifying ntecipice of l'enmaunmoewr, which overhangs the Hi, are avoided. A Magazine, on a large scale, is to be ereeted im mediately on the land of the Hon. Lord CAMOZN, near Brecon, capable of containing a large gitaiaity of arms and ammunition, and to serve as a depot of stores for the whole of South Wales. The Coronation of Bor AAAa7A is now, it is sail, to take place on the 25th of December, Christmas Day !—With the impiety that forms a prominent feature of the Corsican's charaaer, he has seleacd. for the wicked and insulting ceremony of crowning an stamper and an assassin, the day from n11;4 Christians date their eternal hope ! THEATRE, DM)* 1 , 4 ArE . A new mus'cal farce inritled formed here, f , :r the first tone, I :st n.tht. l'he principtl charatters were asfelnw: Baron d Om od g Delara! Mr . Mr Clara %In Jo 0. /Abet/a llrs Gland The scene is laid in the vicinity of Berlin, an-2 • following is a sketch of the plot : Deldeal and Clara, an amiable young couple it Berlin, having, by too fashioned+ ), and a mutual perverseness of d'spositior, i themselves in incessant quarrels with each length solicit the Uncle of C/era, a Cabine t sister, to use his power in procuring them t sli m Lion. The Uncle, convinced of the goodness their hearts, and of their lurking fondness tin, other, resolves, id order to cure them of their tni: and convince them they were necessary to e. other's happiness, to confine them Ity:th . in a p s i „ El . lle commits the managernetit of his Is:, friend 11 trGn Liuthurgh, whose few miles from the city, is accordingly c, e into the pretended gaol. They are arrested rarely, and meet unexpe&-cily the C,,,t/e burgh. Their interview, at 6!St. is a:te ded, usual, with mutual reproaches, bat by degas rs , IVe ing the solicitude and gloom of their situation, court each other's company, and finally relatee int all the ardour of their first affeais,n. They ar then Bete led in an attempt to escape ; when an oils of freedom is made to the first ssla should sign deed of separation. This they both refuse, ar. , resolve rather to pass their lives together in a pri son, than past again. The Baton , thus convince their follies are radically cured, discovers the plw and they prepare to return, mutually happy, Berlin. The main business of this Entertainment is tak from a little French Opera, iutitled Arb/p/e Clare, recently performed at the Paris Theatr with great applause. Mr. KENNY, the successf• Author of the popular Farce of 12.0i,in,g the has so altered and improved the original story as to make it alitutt , t entirely his own. The in tripe is managed by Lpsette, the waiting ma' of Ciatte, and In this cline:After Mrs. BLAND ' played her tine voice in two beautiful airs, which were unanimously encored. But the ptacip agent in carrying on the delusion is Cavherip an Irish huntsman, who is made the jailor . a part which was admirably supported by Alt. JOHNSTONE. Mrs. JO:(DAN'S chat acier IS Well con ceived, and was happily executed. It abttunds in natural touches, all sithich were given with her pe culiar taste, wit and feeling, by that fascinat ing actress. Nothing could be more finely es pressed than her anxiety about her dress, when a fellow prisoner is announced, and Ler dis appointment when she finds he is her husband. She sang a very pretty air, and accompanied htr self upon the lute. It was loudly encored. Mr. Ertisrois was a striking portrfiit of the apparentle careless husband, whose Afrvaion only respire) some incident to call it into real aCtit.m; ar,l Mr. Dow Cosi was an excellent representatise of the worthy German Baron. This piece is of the must moral tendency, and the charaCters .are com bined with judgment, and a perfect knoivledge of stage ere& The music is beautiful, particularly the overture, and received the most ripturous applause. The scenery and dresses are als o in a splendid style. In f,o, the piece is complete in every part, and, with a little compression, cannot fril to prove a favourite. It had excited a very high degree of expeCtation, which was ma nifested in an overflowing home at an early hot r. Mr. I'.Lr.rsrom announced it for future representa tation amidst a thunder of applause. The following may serve as a specimen of the poetry : When disdainfully we treat you, Every beauty we po:se..si When with frowning look we rn.N.b.t von, I..inginge can't nur charms express. When you're sighing, Swearing, dying, Full of boding, Praying, kneeling, Stilt pursuing while we fly, Doating while we cry, eh ! Fie! he! fie! But when pitying your puritan, Quickly atter'd is the cue ; Sinn you spare your admit awn, Fled is 'Wry charm and grace. No rm.re sighing, Swearing, di mg, Praying, kneeling, Vows, or feeling, You ungrateful then grow shy, Sneer aside, and cry, oh fie Fie! fie! fie! Yesterday morning His Majtsrv, aceompanie.i by the Duke of Ctrs( eral. A TAD, attended by General FITZ!" v, role to the right of Ascot Heath Race Course, where a deer wiAa turned out for the day's diversion of hunting. Her MA.Ir sry and the Princesses Arotisr Ft Z A ski Mitt MARY, went in two coaches and fear., and honoured the Hon. Mrs. HARCOLRT WOO a %is'. at St. Leonard's Hill. Princesses St./B'MA ;Pi.' AweuA took an airing on horseback. The Duke of CLARENCE will give, this day. an elegant slimmer to the Dukes of YORK, Kerrts C A IA am oat, and Sussex, at his house in the Stable lard. Yesterday. at his Lordship's house in Low: Grosvenor -street, the Lady of Lord Datcx was safely delivered of a son and heir. Mr. Ho►e will give a grand dinner to-morrow, at his house in Cavendish-square, to a large party. Sir doom CkAUFIoRD gave, yesterday, an elegnr.: dinner, to a large party, at his house in Dover-street. The Dowager Countess of lit.cx 'Noss A ‘I4I4IRE, in consequence of the death of the Earl, is arrived iii St. James's-square, from Lincolnshire. Lady Fi aux& and family arrived yesterday Archer -street, from Cheltenham. The beautiful Mrs. Dix-)u, and Lady Mooar. are expelled in town this day from Maaging, to their house in Stratford-place. A separation, we understand, is shortly to take place between an aeress of celebrity and her hus band. The lady is to be allowed 20,0- . ).A. ar het er.trate use, t,-; dicosed of 45 She think fit.