The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-11-28 00:00:00

ISWERLift PARLT4AfrA7. ROUSE OP LORDS-TUESDAY, NOV 27. This being the day appointed by a former Procla mation of His MAJE, rv, for the as.embling of Par liament, the Loan Cu Anectcoit came down to the House of Peers, about half past two o'clock ; the Earl of C.tmoLis and Lord Viscount Mi:tvit soon after attended, as did his Grace the Duke of NoarotE. The three first mentioned Peers took their seats in their robes on the bench in front of the Throne, and Mr. QUARKS, Deputy Usher of the Black Hod, was dispatched to order the attendance of' the Commons, who (represented nn this occasion by Mr. DYSON, and the principal Clerks and Officers of the House) forthwith appeared at the Bar. His MAJESTY'S Commis,ion, authorising the Lords, whose names were therein mentioned, or any three of them, to declare and notify the Royal will and pleasure with respea to the farther proro g don of Parliament. was then read. After which the Lc.ao CIIANCELLOI addressed the Assembly as " MT Lao AND GSNTLANIN, " By virtue of His Majesty', Commission to us and other LOMA directed, and now read, We do, in His Majesty's name, and in obedience to His Majesty's commands, declare and Deli . y His Majesty's Royal will and pleasure•, that this Parlia ment at farther uritroved until Tuesday the 15th day of Ja nuary next, to be then here holden : And this Parliament accordingly stands prorogued to the said Turklay the 15th of January." The Commons then withdrew, and their Lord• 'ips retired. The ceremony tn9k place in the Royal Robing Chamber. wherein a throne and canopy have been greeted, the alterations and improvements in the •' House," or Great Chamber of As►embling not being yet perfeElcd. T.i i E B lIIITIS 11. V' ii 1147,5.5. LON OON, WEDNESDAY, 14ovsmatu 29. We have been favoured with the following in- wresting extra& from a letter of a Neutral Agent in France to one of his countrymen in London, dated Paris, Nov. 10 :—" As the wish fora peace is com mon everywhere in France, not only among the principal sufferers frum the war, the merchants and manufadurers, but even among the soldiers, tired as much of the fatigues of their encampments, as of a defensive warfare, which promises few, it any opportunities either to gather laurels, or collet or extort plunder; the Agents of Government and Pol ce Spies circulate repeated reports of the pacific intentions of the Emperor of the FRENCH, who, they pretend, has gone so far as even to postpone, several times, the day of his coronation, in hope of seeing, even by great sacrifices, En:rland tired If ibodshed, and an English Ambassador present at this memorable ceremony. At last, to gain the admiration of the lovers of peace, or to silence the clamours of the peace fa lion, the pretended pro posals of Bow Ar.Aas E. both to Austria and Prussia, to become mediators between France, on one side, and England and Russia, on the other, arc handed about both in the diplomatic unlit, and popular circles and societies. They are ton long to be copied into a letter, but !;eiv,_•', th, it a l to it a crsia tie" lestibtiet, their langna::e, at least in the be ginning, so far from being pacific or moderate, is hostile and icon ilous. The former calumnies against England, and abusive reproaches against Russia, are repeated in a prelimin:try political discussion on the means a restoring the lost balance of power, which England, by her conquests in India, and Russia, by her conquests in the Turkish Empire, are said to have broken, and by it forced France, for self•preservation, to extend her frontiers, and to augment her military power. No mention is made either of the partition of Poland, or the org raised usurpations of France in Italy and Germany. Bo ll* r A ars there repeats the old proposal for a con gress for pacificatiors, which, it will not be the fault of France, should it not afterwards be changed into a conservative congress if. perpetual peace. Before the members of this congress meet, the preliminaries between the present belligerent or disunited parties ate to be signed according to the •folluwing plan, proposed by France:- Ist, France coneents to evacuate the k Ira "n' of Naples :icd Firuka, the ripe! Territory, and the It optiblirs of I.lturis, Helvetia, and Itatiria, together with the F.lethirite Ilanover, and all plares rte.:n i nes! by her on the right bank .if the Rhine. '2,1, England consent. to re.tor • all her cii nitwit+ iu the West lndie., and to give up Mali- t...) the King of Sardinia, as • pert of tit • lode/ft...tie, deviated ?hi. Sovereign 3d. The recesinil:r of the 'lila! 1111Ities to Hi. Sardinian Mil ieuy are to be taken (ruin tne kingdom of Etruria, round Sienna. 4th Franea promises in return to give up to His Etrurian Majesty the Duchies ci ?arm* and PLiilllllleC. Sth. Russia is to evacuate the S,ren Wands, and all other places occupied Icy ner tronps it) the Mediterranean. Ths Seven Wands arc in future tu be under the exclusive protec tion of the Ouornan Porte. 6th. The differences between Spain and England, as well as awe between R uvtia and Rome, are to Lc settled ill an amica ble aiNtlllief iniinerhately, without the interference of the Congress, aocurdins to the decision of the respective me diators. 711.. The differences between Spout and America are to be rated by the sole mediation of the Emperor of the French. sth. The Emperor of Germany and Au>tria, and the Knit Prussia, are by all parties acknowledged as mediators. she Louse, dip-% a pw, to reaped the independence of those kinmlnms, states, and repub• lice, evacuated by her troops, in consequence of the present peace. 10th. As France allows the late Grand Master of Malta, Ba ron Hompech, an annuity of 500,000 Imes (12,0001 ), Eng land is to assign and pay an equal and annual sum to the pre sent Grand Master, who resigns his sovereignty over the island of Malta to the King of Sardinia, whose heirs or desLendairti are fur the future to be hereditary Grand Masters of the Maltese Order. " R-sides the above, the plan contains five ether long articles; the 11th concerns the respeetive eva cuations and disarmaments, &c. In the 12th Arti cle, England is to consent, for many reasons men tioned at full length, that the mediators, who are entrusted to regulate the political balance of power, may, at the same time, fix some rules for restoring a commercial balance of trade. In the 13th, Rus sia and England, in return for being permitted to have deputies at a Congress, where the affairs of Italy and Germany are regulated, to which both are said to be strangers, to permit the mediators to listen to the complaints of the Princes of Persia, as well as to those of the native Princes in India. In the 14th Article, the necessity is agreed to, of making a new constitution, not only for the Ger man empire, but for the Turkish empire ; the obe dience of which is to be enforced even by the ar mies of the mediators.' The 15th and last Article fixes the number of deputies and of votes, and the city of Utrecht as the place waste the Congress is to be held." The writer finishes by saying, "that, thongb this pretended plan for a pacification is handed about, and permitted to be copied even in coffee-houses at Paris, all the Editors of newspapers have been prohi bited from publishing it. The Editor of the Gazette de Frazee was sent for four days to the Temple, be cause the police was informed by its spies at his printing-office, that he intended to insert the out lines of it in his paper of the 4th inst. which was stopped. The re.son of this prohibition is supposed to be the little attention or faith paid in France to the contents of newspapers ; whilst every thing circulated, as with a kind of secrecy, is read and believed with avidity." Ve yesterday announced an attempt, by a French Banditti, to seize Messrs. 'THORNTON and PARISH, at their villa, in the Danish territory, upon the banks of the Elbe. Our account is fully confirmed by letters from these Gentlemen to their friends in London. Mr. THORNTON su, , poses, however, that this outrage was not a political concern, but a pri vate speculation of the marauders to extort money, as he has a banking-house at Paris, under the firm of Turnip:Tom and Powr.t., and the latter gentleman remained unmolested in that city when the last letters for Hamburgh left France. Should Mr. THORNS os's suspicion be well founded, it is evident that not a man of property can be safe upon the Right Bank of the Elbe, as long as the French marauders occupy the Left. We are concerned to announce the loss of the Venerable, of 74 guns, Capt. Hurry s, on Saturday night, in Tot bay. The Venerable was the late Lord Duple AN'S ship in the glorious engagement off Cam perdown, and bore the brunt of the battle upon that memorable day. She is the first man of war lost in Torbay within these forty years. The parti cubit will be found under the proper head. Yesterday, about two o'clock, the Russ' AN and SP A NtS9 Am a ASS A DORS transacted business At Lord klaalowav's Ofike. It is reported that Government hay. determined to appoint immediately another Cha,ge d'ktitires to the Circle of Lower Saxony, in the room of Sir GIORGI RUNIROI.D. Mr. PARISH, whom the French marauders at tempted to seize, at his villa, cm the Danish ter ritory, near Hambitrgh, is a Scordiman by birth, and was formerly the American Consul General to the Rinse Towns. He was the principal in a very re spe.lable commercial house at Hamburgh, hut re tired from trade in 1197, with a large fortnne. The Jane, HENDERSON, from Petershurgh, for Liverpool, has put into Copenhagen, leaky. Notwithstanding it blew a very strong gale upon the Kentish Coast on Saturday night, all the gun brigs that could be possibly got out, received orders to proceed immediately to their usual station off Boulogne. Stricit orders have been again issued from the Custom-House to orevent any vessels coming up the River, os passengers landing, frbm Gibraltar, or the infeCted ports within the Straits, without re maining to perform a rigid quarantine The Deputation which Bon the Pops, left Paris on the 3d, and Lyons on the 7th instant. It travelled in sixteen carriages, drawn each by six horses. A Morning print of y?rtcrday pretends, with its usual sagacity, that the note presented at Vienna on the 7th of November, by the ENGLISH and R ussi AN AMBASSADORS, related Addy to the seizure of Sir G. Romeo, D. This outrage, which occurred on the 24th OCtotser, could hardly be known at St. Peters burgh on the 7th of November, much leis could the Recra A AMBASSADOR to the Emperor of GER. MAN Y have received any instrus2ions how to eel up on this unforeseen emergency; and, without such in struCtions or orders, in a case not pressing, he could, according to diplomatic rules, not take upon himself to express an opinion which might be diffet cut from that of his Sovereign. 76011 ORIGINAL POEMS: Ey THOMAS GREEN jESSENDEN, TILE MORNING. Behold, my fair, the ruddy morn Anticipate the day ; Whit hoatiteinis tints the sky adorn, And gild the azure way ! The sombre inists, which gloanly night Ilad pawed iii the vale, Are tv.or,le aloft, and wing their flight B-fore the f I ' g gale. Now chalig'd to clouds of varied hue, In airy maze they d tnc. ; Now sweep athwart the welkin blue, And gam the gay expanse. The plumy tenant of the grove Is Iser , li'd on yoncLr spay, And serenades his 'inlet we With sweetest roundolay. To taste the pleasures of the morn b bk.w without alloy, Though FashisioN drowsy rot'iies scorn T 4 quaff the cup of joy. hut rite, my hear'nly charmer, rite To greet the early ray, And let toy 'rem ANIS f A . ll eyes Add lustre to the day. isk, krance ?reunite' NI Ow I utui FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lard Wodehouee and Family, (ruin Kimberley, Norfolk, to his house in ffinwk•street. Lord Bag d and Family, from Blyfield, Staffordshire, to kb house in Upper Brook-wart. Colonel Sparrow, (rum Brighton, to his house in Berkley square. NVilliarn Iloare Hume, Esq. M P. for the county of Wick low, arid his new married Lady, from Ireland, to llotel, DOM' street Lady aid Miss Hartwell, t, their ►ouse in B iulton•street. Crawfunl Bruce, Esq. M. P. front Tal.low, Bucks, to his house in Fitzroy-square. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, (tom Rath, to Wimpole•street. Mr. Elves, bum Itith, to Nlillcr's Hotel George Trope, Eq. and family, from Rutlandshito, to the British Hotel. Mr. Howe and family, from Hounslow, to Fittrorsquare. Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, His MAJ arrv, Duke of Kewr, Princesses Soria, a and A MALI attended by General FITZROY and the. Hon. Mr VIL LEHR, rode to the right of Ascot Heath Race. course, where the E.trl of SANDWICH was waiting for His MAJESTY, and on his arrival gave direaions for the deer to be turned out for the day's diver,ion. The Duke of LEST and the Pa INCFSSES returned ta Windsor, and took an airing in the Great Park. Yesterday morning, the Duke of CAM RR roof: in speßed the Berkshire Cavalry on Maidenhead Thicket. Lilly LOUISA MAK/SCIS is much recovered from her late indisposition at ltAmsgate. Lady 6..socu left town yesterday, from Miller's Hotel, for Norfolk. By the death of the Countess of SH A rrtssef the Hon. Cwt. CV AsttLiv receives a considerable addition to his fortune. 4r Hari tor and Lady ENGLISTIELD Set out from Tinley street yesterday, on a visit to Lady 13i:etc, at her set in Kent. The Dcwarr Countess of T.Err aim, and her daughter, Lady -- CLENLNTS, will return on Friday from Worthing, to their house in Grosvenor square. Lord Demur and Waits is expo led in town to. moirow, from Himley Hall, Staffordshire, to his house in Park-lane. An Opera is in preparation by Mrs. Norf., the celebrated painter, who has also undertaken to de sign all the scenery. The soil of St. Domingo is more favourable than that of France to the growth of E ••• M r - rm . *. Di.ss A LIN rs is now a full grrnOn Emperor, while Rot: A• PA RT IS only our in embryo. On Friday last, I .ord Do R FR, and the l Inn. Mrs. PORT /41 A is, attired at Cheltenham, and touk up their residence at Mr. Joires's, the Arch-buildings. This day the first and light company nt *he se cond Regiment of Loyal London Volunteers, will go to fire ball at West Ham, for two gold medals, which will be given by their late Treasurer and Quarter-Master. A cold collation will be provided for them. A vacancy occurs in the representation of the city of Edinburgh in Pat Lament, by the Loins Aims- CAr IA appointment to be Lord Justice Clerk. The I lois. Gwent ABER:RU , IBV, Of Tullibudy, eldest son of the late gallant Sir R 41.1.11 AntIICSIONRY, and s- ;.in-law to Lord Viscount M s:i visas, is, it is said, a Candidate for that honourable station. The last accounts from Antigua state the death of General Du ti sop. Monday last, the 4th battalion of Carmarthen shire Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Wit t Lame, of Penycoed, assembled in a field, in the neighboui hood of St. Clear's, where an elegant pair of colours, presented to the corps by Sir HEN& v Paornt Roe, were consecrated by the Rev. Wirt.- I AM Davis,t Vicar of Llangathen. A West Country newspaper contains an adver tisement, from which the following is an e‘traA Wanted, an einnearosed Sarlihrrd, to marage a flock of sheep, upon an enclosed farm, in a warm pleasant situation, in the Vale of Glamorgan, near the Bristol Channel, where all the neighbours talk English ; and reasonable encouragement will be given to an honest, sober, careful m in."—'rhe ad vertiser is supposed to be an unmarried ShepiSerdeu. The bet taken up against Lieutenant FA intsAm. oat his late walking match, was only to the extent of one hundred guineas, and was shared by four Officers of the Regiment; of course pecuniary emo lumer.t was not the objeft of that Gentleman. On Thursday last, the 29th or Stirlingshire regi ment of British Militia, commanded by Lieutenant- Colonel GR•I4AII, of Gartmore, were inspeded in the Links at Aberdeen, by Major-General the Mar quis of Hearer. After the inspeaion, his Lord ship gave an elegant dinner in Cleughs, to Lieu tenant-Colonel G tarsal( and the Officers of the regiment, the Garrison Staff, and other military gentlemen in town. • a LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Adrnirnity-Uptc•:, Ploy. 27,, Isoc Copy of a L , •tter from Vice Admiral Sir John Thr,s., w o r th, K B. Commander, in Chief of Hit blai Nn 7 ; And V e.aels at Jamaica, t9.w,posvn hca , cle;;, L 6 , 4 Purr Rn l al, 3 :th Septenattts . SIR, - - I transmit you, for the information of the Commissioners of the Admiralty, the c , .piei of Letters from Captains Gordon, of the Racoon, the Hon. John Murray, of-the Franchise, rely the capture of L'Alliance and L'Uranie F rt Privateers. I am, &c. J. T. Duccwolsk Hi s 94,siest ) % Brig Racco r , SIR, Bird K e y, Aug. 90 is 44. I have the pleasure to inform you, that on thel instant, in lat. 20 deg. 52 min. N. long. 7l , 10 min. W. Sand Key, N. E. by N. distan t s e or eight leagues, I had the good fortune t , ) d w i t hi n mu s k et shot, a large French private r, struck after we had tired at him I r three of an hour ; she proved to bc for twelve guns, haling only -ix tiluun:e.l, iour pounders and two nines, commanded by .1 4c ... JJunoque, manned wit!: s i x ty - e i g h t men, ou: e l t days from Samaria, and had taken within), ; she a fine vessel, but much cut in her sails and and had only one man slightly wounded. - I have the honour to be, &a. (Signed) J. A. Gusto Sir J. T. Duckworth, IC. K .tc. Arc. Arc . Silt, Franchise s xtsz., Sept 14, I have the honour to acqnaint you, that ge ms day, after a duce of eight hours, His Majestyl ship Franchise, under my command, was forteui to come up with and capture the Urania Frn.cl privateer schooner, of three guns and sixty-f men, belonging to the city of St. Dons.ngo, thirteen days, and his taken nothing. the is supposed to be the fastest sailing vessel in tho seas. I have the honour to bc, 3cc. (Signed) Jolt:, Mult:4l Rear.Admital Darns, /kr. , LOSS OF THE VENER.IBLE. TORBAY, R0V. 4 25. 1 am sorry to inform you of the loss of 1-1" Majesty's ship Venerable, of 74 guns, Captain Pus ter ; she went on shore at Peignton ! lead, hist eve ing, at half past eight, p. es. it being on *.poirit rocks, she bilged almost immediately. I am this instant returned lions the Spit, ssli there is a most distressing scene : the ship is cote. pletcly to pieces; and the shore, fur three qua. of a mile, is covered with the wreck of the ship, ac different stores out of her. lam happy to find, th not more than three or four lives arc lost. " greater part of the crew arc on board Flis Majesty' ship liapetrieux, of 80 guns, Captain Martin; the mainder at Peigntun Hospital. The latter ship r mained and came to an anchor very near shore t assist ; and, if possible, to warp off the Veaers GY She now rides hard, uith a great sea, and smart at East. The Goliath man of war is also in the The brig Melly, Capt. Cummings, from 'Veit, • mouth for L verpool, is also on shore in •he gay and it is feared will be lost. The aced , nt happt ed to the rieprolte owing to a man f o.cr hoard in fishing the anchor, it being exceed avi dark; in lowering down a beat to save the ra. two more fell overboard; the ship was then hers to to save them, when she drifted on shore, anti falling little wind, veered several points to the Lasi• ward, at the same time, that they could not lay col the shore. • CITY BUSINESS. Yesterday, a Court of Aldermen V 134 held at Guildhall. at which were pre,cnt the Loin NI YOll. fifteen Aldermen, the Recorder, Sheriff's, Casuals* tierjeant, and Town Clerk. It being the that Court in the May.oralty, the Lotus Avon addressed the Aldermen, in a very sensible speech, on the occasion, thanking them for their Attendance, and trusted he should have their assistaixe whenever he ne:ght request it. The Court pr, weeded to examine the hi eal weighers Reports, and ordered the price of Bread to be rail' to trild. the Quartern Loaf, Wheaten, and 13J. kidusehold, to take place to-morrow. The thanks of the Court were given to the late Lau Mayon (for particulars, see front of Paper). A b•ali year's divide.id of the Orphans' Stack was ordered to begin paying on the 11th. of January nest. The several Precepts for W tr(hn.e.es, to be 1 , -11 on St. Thomas's Day next, for r Officer% tor the year ensuing, %vele ordered re :LI issued. - ---- This day the Loyal Whitechapel Volunteers hare a grand field-day in the Tenter-ground, Co 0 J• man's-tiel where they AN to go through the six teen manoeuvres before the Earl of HARR' soros. The ltitie Company that is forming to be attach ed to the several regiments of Loyal London Vo lunteers, -all close takers in the course of net: week. We wonder that Messrs. Wls:Dif Ast and Co. their enmity to the constitution of the Volunteer k • • of the country, and to the privilege which this I,r (- claims of nominating its own officer, ' and legit' :l ing its concerns by committees, should not ha , taken notice of the Honour-Able itillery Comp ' which, from time immemorial, has elected it em annually, down from the Colonel to the Set - jeants, and regulated its affairs, both military so civil, by annually eleaed committees : and yet the:: is no Volunteer regiment in London, or, perh ips, in Great Britain, that can boast of greater plane, or of being better app o inted. Last week, the Roborough Battalion of Volun teers, Colonel Lopez, were mustered for :Ts ivw and inspeftion, on the Down of Roborough, in Dzron. near the clump of firs, 4:20 rank and file. The in speaing Officer wai Lieutenant-Colonel Tsvt so, of the western distria. After this fine body of hardy Devonshire Volunteers bad gone thniugh a variety of maneuvres, in a very coma style, the review and inspeaion finished, and Lieutenant -Co lonel T A Y Lao returned his thank! to Colonel Lorc a, for the very soldierly appearance of the Roboroug h Battalion of Volanteery under arms. I HA _ OE be 2f:fit the Iva to firs the Bo Car Ina the 44 pal 2UI for the we the the of vi of co