The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-10-30 00:00:00

't tween Ulm , Memmingen, and Stoettach. v ",il , t one of their divisions from Liar has adv.wced ovrr the Dariuhe into the Wut tvatburg territory. 'file Freitcli army, which passed the Rhine at Iluningen, wilder Marshal Augereau, coming from Brest, is ma , ch ing through the Black Fotvst, along the frontier of Switzerland, and had arrived in the neighbourhood of Schaffhausen on the 7th instant, being observed by Gen. Von Gottesheim, who is posted at Stockach. " At Fuessen, on the Lech, a body of Austrians is posted, with a view to keep open the passage to the Tyrol, on that side, whilst 45,000 I'russians are said to have effr.fled a juneion with a corps of Aus trians on the Inn, en the 12th instant." The Emperor of Ge:ma:.y was to have set out on the 9th to open the Diet at Fresburgh, The Letters of Convocation to the States of Hungary, which he has published, coireon a demand of a levy of 12,000 men, and certain contributions in grain and money. HAGUE. OCT. 24. Baron Fell, Austrian Minister in this Republic, will quit the Hague to-morrow, or lieu day. The Russian Chargr .4 ir;lires is also on the point of de parting, having this day taken leave of several Nli nisters. BLRLIN, OCT. 15. Count Hauguitz arrived here to-day from Vienna. Declarations, on the part of our Court, have been delivered to the French Ambassador Extraordinary, Marshal Duroc, And M. Laiorest, the French Am b issador ; both of whom had a contcrence with the Minister to-day. FRONT TM NI 'FUER FARE, OCT. 18. The intelligence receives! from Berlin begins to be of a more pacific nature. Some had expefled the last extremity, judging by the impressions which the march of the French troops, through the Mar graviate of Anspach, first made at Berlin. From hence, perhaps, is to be attributed the intelligence circulated in car newspapers, dated at Berlin, the 15:11, that Cethit Kalreuth, who had set out from thence for carrying a letter from the King Of Ps ussia, writtrn in his own hand, to the Froprror of Russia, conserving to the march cf the Rusiian troops through the Prussian tcriitories. H•MBIL;11 , 1H, ocr. I. Mr. Thornton, the English En .oy, having corn municstted to the Senate of this City, that His Bri tannic M"ieuy had ordered the blockade of the Elbe and the Weser to be taken off, he was formally thankc 2 for the communication. BERYL, OCT. 13. air frontiers are at present occupied by detach ments of the Confederated Army, along the whole line from Basle to the Lake of Constance, and thence along the bounds of the Cantons of the Grisons and Tessin, towards lt.sly. The number of these tro•ip s is calculated at about 10,000. Further contingents are ready to mirth in all the Cantons. The head quarters of M. De Watenwyl, are at Zurich. A perfect harmony reigns in the 19 Cantons, with re spect to these measures. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDUN, WEDNESDAY, Ocrom 30. is stated in a letter from Dover, that orders had been sent down on Monday to countermand the sailing of the Expedition from the Downs, and that the troops had begun to disembark. We have rea son to believe, that there is not the slightest founda tion for this report. Government surely would not et with so much precipitation, even though the ru mours of the defeat of the Austrian army were as certained to be true, in their full extent. The wind has blown very strong at N.E. since Friday, and rendered it impossible for the Expedition to sail. The Amelia loop of war, with a Beet under her convoy, fur the Baltic, has put back to Sheernesq, owing to the strong Easterly wind, which prevented their progress. Mr. SCOTT, the Nlessenger, who accompanied Li; d II saws av, and his suite, to Yarmouth, re tarned to town yesterday, with an account, that he left his Lordship wind-bound at that port ; the wind having continue.' to blow very strong at N.E. A Gimenburgh Mail arrived yesterday.---It has brought the following article: GOTTINIURGII, orr. 21. The important news was ?e,ter,lay received here of the K,ng of Yeovil havolig roiled the Omlawn, and, to (IA y, it hu Lear ocoihrmed from various quarter'. We announced, yesterday, the extraordinary cir cumstance of a Bulletin sent from Boulogne to ap pri.e the English squadron, off that harbour, of the complete defeat of the Austrian army on the Dis unite This communication, we understand, was made in the following manner: In the cow se of Saturday a vessel came out of the inner hat bour of Boulogne, and, within sight of the Immortal:h. fri gate, I :unched a boat, which drifted with the tide, and waa takea up by the frigate. On board the boat was found a mall parcel, containing the fol lowing Bulletin : CI .M HAS sURRENDERED TO THE FRENCH ARMS, AND THE AVSTRIAN &BRIT 1$ ANNIHILATPD." The C polo of the forsyretifite sent this Note on the 1 illowiw; day to Deal, addressed to Lord KRITII, who received town on Monday, and imme diately communicated the extraordinary circu:n stance to the Admiralty. . A private letter froM Dover gives a diftirtnt account of the content; of the Bulletin. It states, that Sir Si o iev Sst au, wh ) was at Dover on Sunday, received, at eight o'clock at night, an Express from the Officer who comm tills our flotilla off Boulogne, informing hint, that a boat had been sent out to the mouth of the harbour, and then allowed to drift, without any person on board. This boat was pieked up by the in:miff/44re liigate, and on board was found a letter, stating, " that the 1• . ) each had had 4:1 :inion with an Austrian army, consisting of one hundred thousand men, which they had entirely put to the rout ; having kill:J, wounded, and taken prisoners, nearly the whole ; the Commander-in-Chief being among the number !" We arc inclined to believe, that the former is the more cermet copy, and shall, for the present, merely observe, that the communication is only an anter4. mous note. We have since received private letters from Hol land, of various dates, to the 27th instant. One them, dated Rotterdam, the 25th says " A very bloody action took place lan week, in which the French troops were three times repulsed in sturaiing Ulm, and the ,iai,gtiter W. 1.3 very great. They ',tamed, however, a fourth tins: toi the charg', aid then succeeded, with the loss of several Geiterals. The tams reports state, that the French have push• ei as far as Sirtabuig, and thus are fast nearing Vienna; but all th acznunts au s t canfused, une with the other, that no thing C. 1,1 b • ii ramified on" Another letter from Holland, of the 2tith, says, i• The action took place on Saturday, the 19th inst. It was long and obstinately contested. Viaory, however, at last declared for BONAPARTE. The whole of the Austrian army is represented as being nearly destroyed; not a vestige of what might be term?..i an efficient corps remained. Those who escaped the sword or the chains of the enemy, all who were not among the number of the killed, wounded, or prisoners, were broken into puny detachments, and scattered in various direaions." In addition to these sources, we have received Dutch Papers of the 26th, which state, tinder the head of ankfort, Oftober '29, that " the French attacked Ulm on the 11th, but were repulsed with loss ; that they had, however, renewed the attack, and that Ulm had, according to report, fallen into their hands." The most accurate information cannot always protea the public against the frauds and artifices of speculators, who agitate the funds by false ru mours, while they repose and fatten upon the fears of the timid, and the credulity of the honest and us suspeaing. But, if ever there were a great and perilous crisis, at which the country was exposed to the arts of men interested in the perversion of the until, and when it ought to be particularly upon its guard against corrupt praCtices, it is the present. From the opening of the campaign, to the present hour, we have been, in rcspea of information from the theatre of the war, entirely at the mercy of our enemies. The Paris Papers carry down the military operations no farther than the t2th. To that date they are communicated in the five Bulletins of the Grand Army, published in the Papers to the 19th; for, though the subsequent Papers to the 22d, announce the capture of Ulm, and the defeat of the Austrians, with the loss of 30,000, and, according to others, of 40,000 men, these are given merely as reports, or the substance of private letters, without any official or positive cha raaer. During the interval, since the 22d, the in formation received has been still snore unsatisfac tory, consisting only of the contradifory and con fused accounts which we have copied front Dutch Papers, and private letters from Holland to the 27th. The Bulletins of the grand army appear to have reached Paris in six days. Supposing, then, reports and private letters from the theatre of war to travel with the same velocity, the decisive action announced in the Paris Papers must have taken place previous to the 17th. If this report, then, be true, how could BON APAKTE annihilate the Austrian army over again on the 19th? We shall not, however, pursue the obvious inconsistencies and con tradiaions in the various French and Dutch accounts any further. There has been, unquestionably, much hard fighting, and with various success ; and though Boaaoaare may have obtained the vi!tory, it will probably be found, that he has dearly purchased his laurels. Unless the Austrian army he entirely broken and dissipated, we cannot regard the capture (f Ulm, and even a severe loss of men in that quarter, to be certainly decisive of the campaign: Boy. e Aar will suit hive to encounter, with an army thinned by the sword, the gallant remains of the Austrian force, recruited with Russian and Prussian troops, fresh on the field, and swelling iti rank► far beyoad their original number. We own, th it the woman ish despondency in some of the London Prints, and the manifest disposition in other. to press proofs far ther than they will go ; to rektrd vague and contradielory rumours, as cntain and positive evidence, and to swe!l every trifle that makes against Austria, into an ohj ,a of importance, have encouraged us to hope more favourably of her cause, than any inconsistencies in the French accounts would warrant. One of them, after co pying the anonymous note from Boulogne, which it calls a " tremendous sentence," adds, " Had we no other grounds than thi Bulletin, we should still have had little doubt remaining upon our minds of the French having gained a great ad •antage." Now we maintain, in opposition to this writer, on whose mind this anonymous note has flashed conviction, that, without other grounds, it would nut de3erve serious notice. NVere it not for the app trent rejoicing at Boulogne, and the va rious rumours afloat of a ♦ictory gained by the French, this extraordinary note would be regarded by every cautious man as a boar, or, at most, a sort of rearnaran, intended to explode at the Stock Exchange, to fill the pocket of some French spy, or agent of Bomar A ;sr Os secret police. We stated, in a former Paper, that the aCtion at Ulm was, probably, fought upon the I fith ; and it may not be unworthy of notice, that among the various reports of its result, there is one which states, that both sides suffered severely, but that neither could claim the vi Cory. This report is the only one that corresponds with an account in the Frankfort letter of the 20th, which states, that the Archduke FaltDl M.l KO passed the Danube, at Ulm, with a considerable division of the army, with which he took positions at Heidenheirn, Aalen, Gemund, and Geislingen, in the Wurternburg territory, still keeping up his communication with the main army on the Iller. The second Russian Army was expefted to reach the Inn by the latter end of the present month. There are two - contradiCtory reports with respell to the armies in Italy ; one states, that the French had been defeatsd with the loss of 8,001) men ; the other.; that the French had succeeded in forcing the posi tions of the Archduke CM A at. Es, and finally defeated him. Both of these depend upon the same private ac-: counts from Holland, which state the aftion at Ulm. To-morrow morning, His MAJiST V will Come tOy town from Windsor, to hold a Privy Council at the Queen's Palace, to receive the RECORDER'S It:DOI t of the convi.ls who have been cast for death since His Marzsry went to Weymouth. On Monday, about one o'clock, Mr. Wick, the Messenger, was unexpectedly sent off with an ex press to His Id/A/ESTI`, at Windsor, with dispatches from Lord ME LGRAVE. Yesterday, His Royal highness the Doke of. Yoatt, as Commander-in-Chief, held a public day at his Office in the Hot se Guards, to receive Mili tary Gentlemen, either in uniforms or without. Between the hours of two and five, His Rost. 11101IsEss gave audience to upwards of thirty, who were admitted in rotation, according to the .seder they had previously given their names in. A letter from Ramsgate„ dated 051. £ll, says, " The 14th and 23d Regiments of Infantry marched in here last Friday ; the former embarked on bard the transports the same evening, and the latter the next morning. The 14th Regirmnt is more than 1000 strong. On Saturday morning, the 23d Re giment went on board, and the transports, with both Regiments, sailed about twelve o'clock. Sa turday afternoon, the tali, or King's Own Regiment of Foot, arrived here ; a remarkable fine Regiment, upwards of 4000, embarked yesterday morn ing, and sailed for the Downs about one o'clock. There are now only three transports remaining het e ; but more are expelled shortly ; and a further em barkation is then expelled to take place, both of horse and foot. Several Regiments are mentioned ; and among those General Moore's Brigade. The situation of Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, one always of considerable import ance, and about to be filled by Lord CATIICART, was, for several years, filled by his father, the late Lord, greatly to the satisfardion of his Sovereign ; who, among other marks of the royal favour, deco rated him with the Order of the Thistle. Yesterday, the Right Hon. the Loft!) MAYOR, after examining the Mealweighers' returns of wheat and ftrur, ordered the price of bread to be continued as last week. A Court of Aldermen will be held at Guildhall, on Tuesday next, the :ith of November, to hear and determine an appeal against the rates made under the Clergy Aft ; to cleft Searchers and Sealers of Leather for the year ensuing ; to cleft an Out-Pen sioner of Emanuel Hospital, and on other business. The Earl of Burn was the first Scotsman ap pointed a First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of ltosstrts the first Lord Chancellor from his coun try ; Viscount Mcivitte the first head of the Ad miralty; and Alderman Straw the first Scotsman ever elefled a Lord Mayor. Yesterday the Logo MAYOR'S Court was held before the Rxcoanew, in the Court of Exchequer, Guildhall. Several undefended CAWS were hied. chiefly anions brought by apprentices against their masters, for not enrolling their indentures, wheteby they were deprived of the freedom of the City There were also some causes heard, wherein the As signees of different bankrupts were Plaintiff., and persons unlawful!., holding part of the property of the bankrupts, were Defendants. No defence being made in any of them, on the examination of a wit ness in such cause, verdifts were entered for the Plaintiffs. The Court having gone through all• the business, broke up at an early hoe,. Deji Said RA orurr • twee to Ductur Cote.," While tippling, hill of glee ; " Come, brother, :tere. 10 .11 the fools, That greet you with a fee." " I that: k you, bro'htr, " CASS Tep!ied, " And itr.uk your tout with zest ; " Gore me the foots,. and I'm curve it, " rou'r , w•leihnl. to the . row •"" • Dr. 123 ,1 1C11ff-S,'": G.-vigor's Lyttur<, Mite! ht Male 14. t Tll4 WA, 1 bt'll.:lrd, the Dr. CJIV., of wtoon a Po. t serted, that the PA , .h r hail orntiod name by olio mp 11.11:., t ay he bad by all ;U. wur k e. • 111.4 i.: • ..: jiltric,t 1, y i a was „Lienleuer4, oral the Quack', s " plume, " id, Ca L. Yesterday morning, His M .1 is r v, and Princes:zs AII Gus r ;I:1d SO►'II a, accompanic. by 1.4) 1% A I.• SI N(III A M, General Fl l ZROV, Colunrl .v tun, ;mil Lady Wysvaan, took an airing, on luirsellask, is Windsor Great Park. His Royal Highness the Prince of W is., con tinues to enliven Brighton with his Presence; and the town may be truly sad to be still very gay. All the Steync houses are hilly occupied ; arid the balls, plays, and other places if pulsiic are unusually well attended at this period of the season. The last Art ivals at Cheltenham Spa are, Mejw.a.arrat She.hrouke, Lidy Catherine flo*ard, Suffld. CoJonel Cooper, co!ol e' Franks, C.lpt Mrdelord. km Mr Lean , Mr. and Mn. Reduard, Mews lie r!" Shir k% Dodds, Lynn, Harnett, Legett R. thrice, Muvr4,ar, Law, Dame. Arthur and .1..,ne; Mn r.,1 Three Mi.a Wal drew ; Mrs. Carter, Was SL Cloude, Two Mitt Leans, Mna Hungry, Mum Sibly, Lord klt.i.Ettaoacscon has arrived in town, from Ramsgate. The PC:ATI:CCM AMBASSADOR will be in town this week, from Ramsgate. Countess OVENKAUs!'!: left town, nn Sunday, for her seat, Altreds, Shields, I luntinc , onbe, near Salthill, Windsor. On Saturday night the Lincoln Theatre c:osed for the season, after a most successful camp.i:gin, with The Provoked Husband, and the entertainment of The Padlock. The Marquis and March; mess of WA rrasoso are at their scat, Curraglimm-e, Ireland. Mr,. M. Joas row, of Notting :sra•platc, has taken a house at Hampton Wick, to which she will remove in a few days. Burton Theatre opened last night, with The School of Reform, by the Stafford Corps Dramativi,e,, under the superintendance of Mr. Sr Aetna. Lady 13aosioarois is expeaed in a icw days from Yorkshire. T. Hoe mono. Esq. arrived, last Sunday, at FENTON'S Fhtel. from Hop t iwood-hall, Lineashire, and is going. in a few days, on a visit to toy Earl of DERBY, at the Oaks. Lord G. EsaLsruito is with his regiment at Gloucester. In consequence of the dea..ll of the Doke of Rox uoitott, without issue male, the Bri:tish Earldom and Barony of KIRI' of WAI:k: 111 o becomes ex. tin& : the late Duke, however, never took his seat as such in the li..u,e of Lords. The Earl and Counte , s CHOLIN oNor - Lev, we un derstand, mean to take a tour into Di vionshire, be fore Christmas, for the purpose principaily of visit ing their noble relative, Lo. (its -voile, who reside. at Sidmouth, for the benefit of his health. Mr. T. DIRDIN'S new comedy was read in th? Green-room of Covent Garden Theatre on Monday fart. Report speaks in high terms of it. Lady ANN WINDIIAM arrived yesterday, at her house, Gloucester-place, from Ramsgate. Messrs. THOMAS and CHARLES DI 'DIN, jun. have engaged the Patent cf Mr. AST Ley's Dublin Am phitheatre Royal, which will open in November, with a company ni London favourites, under the management of Mr. C. DtsotH, jun. I ler Grace of Bcorosto intends giving a grand masquerade at Woburn in the course of a fortnight. It will be one of the most magnificent pet ever given at Woburn Abbey. Tee Beau: S.ralagrm will be performed this night at the Gloucester Theatre, for the benefit of the Infirmary, by Gentlemen Arnateqrt. Died, on Mo,:day sennight, at Drimmie-House. Scotland, the Right Hon. Lady KINNAIRD, relit of the late Lord KI NSA. REI, WhOM She outlived rot many days. !to. Ladyship was the daughter of the late GUI rim RANSOM, Esq. of Palace Yard, West minster. Mr. /cellists will open his Theatre, at North Sh:elds, this slight, with the Comedy aro Mary, er Not tv Marry; and on Monday night Newmtle Theatre was to do c. The 11th verse of 9th chapter of Revelations, by prefixing a n' to the last word of the V4ff !, de scribes 131NAPARTZ—" And they had a King over them, which is the Angel of the Bottumle,s whose name in the Hebrew tongue is ABADDOM, but, in the Greek rfingue, has his name Apa.54014." His Royal Highness the Doke of CAMBRIDGR gave a magnificent dinner at the Thatched-House Tavern, in St. J one,'s-street, yesterday. to the Officers of the Coldstream 'regiment of Guards*, their Royal Highnesses the I of YORK and CUMULILAND, the Earl of CA VAN, General, CAW' VERT and WYNTARD, Captain 141014 Messrs. Cox and Geteaswoun, and about seventy Officers and Gentlemen. The tables were laid out in a su,s• perb style, and the number of covers amounted to four hundred ; the ornaments we re beautiful, and the room a blaze .'f 1;;;11:. 11,3 Rriyal Highness the Duke of GAMIIRID'Ga sat at the head of the table, His Royal Highness the Duke of Voss, at his nght.hand, and the Duke of Cum us A Ito, un his left. The Duke of Cams* ion2s band played all the time of dinner. Many songs were soot, and much hilarity prevailed, until a late flour. • . 1 3 4S I oN.. • ($ j ORIGINAL. POLTRI. TIIE Douro ßs—AN EPIGRAM.. BY OLD NI,K. .1