The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-08-15 00:00:00

weIBRALT:#II, General Fox, with his wile and danibtties, silted This moraitik,'on board the Orf;:ef for where be goes to take the comdeand nit tits wins. The ciaroy,from Ireland, with die IlanoveriaP brigade na board, for this garrison aid the Chif finue frigate, irons Portsmouth, with Sir John -Moore, and 'Generals S:terbrbitke and Mackenzie, arrived about two hours after General Fox sailed. JUNI 30. The Ajar arrived with dispatches from Sir Sidney Smith, who was at Palermo on the the 23J of Jute. Sir Sidney had taken the island of Capii, and se vetal French ports on the Italian shore, destroying and carrying off all their artillery. JULY 19. . . On the Sth %cant, Ilse Chirenne frigate with Gen. Moore, &c. sailed from this place for Sicily : De Roll's regimeat went from this place in the trans ports, tnder convoy of the CAyronne. Six of the Garrison Brigade attempted to desert last night from the garrison ;—one was dashed to pieces in the attempt ; one made his escape, and four were taken prisoners. JULY 21. The garrison is perfeflly healthy, and there has been no appearance of the pestilential fever any where in Spain this summer. Bat we have ye tetived accounts, within these few days, of the Vague having broken out at Tunis, on the coast of Africa ; in consequence of which a rigid qua , tantine is imposed on all vessels from that neigh ,.. bourhood. - THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, rRIDAY, ALGCST 13. Mr. BASlLteo,the Messenger, landed at 3 o'clock onWednesday, ,at Deal, from the Vestal frigate, which • brought him from Boulogne, with dispatches from the Earl of LAVOILSOA LI at Paris. At two o'clock, ' last morning, Mr. BASILIC° r-ached town, and delivered his dispatches at the Foreign Offi:e. His arrival became universally known at an early hour yesterday, and produced a favourable change in the Funds. The Ottrnium, which left off on Wednes day at 91, rose, before twelve o'clock yesterday, to . 101, and the other classes of funds advanced in the same proportion. This was the result of the . mere arrival of Mr. Bost cico, independent of any speculation upon the nature of his dispatches. A Messenger irons the Earl of L•VDtaDALS had ben expeeted since Sunday last, and the interval be. two that day and yesterday, became the source of various conjeetures, all of them adverse to reaee. According to some, the Earl of LACDAII 'IOA LI was upon his return borne; while others • Rated, that Bow•emi re had threatened to send him to j in his countrymen in captivity at Verdun. These and various other reports of the same nature were circulated in the beginning of the week, and though they rested upon no authority of any cre dit, they threw a coldness and doubt upon the ne. gcciation, which operated unfavourably at the Stock Exchange. All these rumours, however, were dissipated by the arrival of Mr. BASI tic°, and the funds rose accordingly. The delay of the Messenger beyond the expelled time, which was the source of these adverse rumours, also changed its completnion, and the speculators who had inter preted it as an unfavourable omen, now consoled themselves, by supposing that Mr. BASILIC° WAS the bearer of advices, stating something more than that the Earl of LAUDIROALI had arrived safe in Paris, and had been graciously received by TA IA so a Ana, and announcing some progress made in the negotiation. About one o'clock, a Cabinet Council assembled, and took the dispatches into consideration. We cannot suppose that their contents transpired, and yet the favourable impression made by the ar rival of the Messenger, was soon after effaced.— Between one and two o'clock, the Orrtnrum fell from 301 to 61 t 7, and Consols from 64 to 63 It was said that the Earl Of LACOSAIDALA had reached Pal is on Tuesday sennight, in the znornirg, having remained some hours at Amiens, to take a little rest. Upon his arrival at Paris, he im mediately drove to the hotel where Lord Van stout's resides, upon the Boulevards, and, after a long confnence with that Nobleman, announced his arrival to M. TA L LtVRA SD, who is rumoured to have rein; ned for ansvier, i• that business, which could not be deferred, would occupy his whole time for two or three days, during which he could • not have the pleasure of seeing his Lordship ;" and it is reported, how truly we know not, that he had no interview with TA ILE v Aso before Saturday or Sunday. The coldness and indifference on the part of the French Government, bring generally credit ed, had the effeet of entirely dissipating those hopes which the arrival of Mr. BAST Lsco had encouraged* and they continued to operate tat:td the close of the • market, when tte Dienluns left off at G!, ed the Consols at tie i . The procrastination of Teo.i.e Y- R Atil) is conceived to originate in a wish, on the part of the French Govemmeht, to gain time for the re. turn of dispatches from St. Petetsburgh, annonecing Court respeaing the dis• graceful Preliminaries of Peace lately signed by D'Ou ; but if the French Government meant to pla) that game, it was a more obvious course to delay send ing the passports for his Lo'rdship's mission to Paris. Among the other rumours of the evening, and we give them merely as such, it was repci ted, that Lord LAtiosao ALE had demandad his passports, but had been refused them, and that Bow A Farr E had urged in justification of this proceeding, that his Lordship did not appear to be vested with the neces sary power to treat, and only came to feel the pulse of the 1.1-ench Government. It was also reported on 'Change, that Russia had taken a decided part with France, in some point of vital interest to this country, which must necessarily involve us in a war with that Power. This latter report, however, we consider unworthy of any credit. Soon after Mr. BASILIC° arrived, the dispatches were sent off by a special Messenger to His MAJES TY, at Windsor ; and after the Council, which sat upon them, broke up, Mr. BASILIC° was ordered to hold himself in readiness to set off for Ellis with dispatches for Lord LAUDERDALE. The Print-eta Elizalcth packet is arrived at Fat mouth, in eleven days passage, from Lisbon ; she I has brought a Portuguese Messenger, with dis patches for Government. We declared some days since, our apprehensions that Portugal was threat ened with some nee/ and immediate danger. In support of our opinion, we quoted a paragraph from Mettiels?oresinouth Paper, stating, on the authority of a letter front an Officer in the Channel Fleet, that the Hibernia was completed for a long voyage, destined to take the Prince regent of PORTUGAL, to the Brazils, and establish him there as King.— This may not be true in its full extent, but it is cer tain, as we have already announced, that the Earl of Sr. Viricemr has since sailed in the Hibernia, upon a Secret Expedition, with the ajiaece, of 74 guns, and the Lavinia frigate, of 44, leaving Sir CilA It cl Corrom in command of the Channel Fleet. It i now generally believed that his Lordship has sailed for Lisbon. The Campo, of 74, has been since ordered to sea from Portsmouth, with sealed orders, and is, according to report, to follow :Am. Some think that his Lordship is gone in pursuit of one of the /Oren French squadrons, but that is a very improbable case. That would be the business of a. detachment of his fleet, under the command of an infelior officer. The Earl of ST. Visiscumr aid not go to Aboukir.—fle sent a Nti.som there. Dot 4• r *Art's developement of his new plan, for the organization of the Southern States of the Ger man Empire, under the name of the " Raenisis Con federacy," it is thought may determine the Em peror of RUSSIA not to ratify the Treaty signed by D'Ouess 1., at 'Paris, in its full extent. If the Emperor was not apprised of it, the pre sumption is a fair one, and the circumstance may prove fortunate for the common cause. All the chango hitherto effeded by French fraud, arms, and influence, in Europe, are trivial, when compared with this monstrous innovation. Hitherto Bow A.• CARTE has been content to work upon a single piece at a time. He spared Naples until he had revolutionised the North of Italy. The dethrone ment of a single King, or the eredion of one new kingdom, has heretofore been .suffleient to gratify the cravings of his ambition for a day. But in the Rhenish Confederacy he goes to work upon a larger basis. Its appetite is become delicate, a single dish will not please, as formerly.—He must have, a Alia tenth a variety of removes and covers, to please his squeamish palate. The usur pation of Genoa put an end to the pacific mission of Novosi xvzor r, and it is not unlikely that the pub lication of the Federal System may overturn all that has been done by the mis.inn of D'Ou eau. Although the Emperor ALEXANDER might have ►eosrdisposei, under other circumstances, to ratify the terms subscribed to by that Minister, disgrace ful as they appear to be, he will depart, in a most unaccountable manner, from the generous policy which he has hitherto pursued, if he does not pause before he sanctions a treaty, stipulating nothing less than the annihilation of the German Empire. The Rhenish Confederacy affeds Prussia still more than it does Russia ; and if the project did not in volve the common intere.ts of Europe, every liberal mind must rejoice at the drgradaticn to which the cold and selfish policy of that power has reduced her. After driving Austria out of the empire, France will not be likely to substitute Prussia in her place. It is not FREDERICK, but BONAPARTE, who is to preside at the Congress of Frankfort.- -All bores of the restoration of Anspach and Bareuth, or of any other equivalent in Germany, for Hanover, are now flul from Prussia, and the can only retain Hanover at the expence of a war Nv;tl' 1 England. In a subsequent column we ha ve g iven a .State Paper relative to her possession et" that Electorate, which strengtheas the o);nim, that there is Ito idea of an exchange of terriory, and that she is resolved to retain it, as the only compensation to which she can now look. It ;s the Declaration of His PSUS.IAN MAJESTY to the Hanoverian Deputies, wi•isli will he found in a pre ceding column. The last part of it contains, we believe, the first mention which that Sovereign has thought proper to make of England, as connected with the country of which he has lately taken pos session. It is also so far interesting, as it explains his motives for incorporating Hanover with the Prussian Monarchy. The Deputies are told. that experience has proved "that England cannot protect them ; that they can be protected by Prussia alone, And that the welfare and security, both of the Hann. verian States, and the Prussian Monarchy, depend upon their union and incorporation." We stated yesterday, in our Court news, that an order was made for proroguing Patliament un til the 9th of 06tober.—We do not see how this order afiefts the report of a dissolution, which it now supposed likely to take place in Au'umn. An Evening Paper, however, devoted to the Opposi tion, obviously alarmed at the pr;speet, says-- " But it would perhaps have been as well if the Nlinisterialists had waited a little ; let them look to the north of England—let them look to Scot land—and "see they no danger lurking there?"— Danger in Scotland !! What does the Writer mean? Is not Lord bilis , ' r.t.E there? Mr. Fox sat up in his bed-room yesterday, and transadled business with Sir Fa ANCIS VINCENT, his Secretary, from two till three o'clock. The Right Hon. Secretary takes beef tea and other strengthening 'broths. The Trepassey, Monne, from Newfoundland. for Bariridoes, was captured and burnt on the 17th June, by Admiral WI cctauraer's squadron ; crew carried into Martinique. The transports, with troops, which sailed from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday. We hear thit Larl PERC v , the eldest son of the Duke of NORTIIVAIIIERLAWD, is to be retutned for the borough of Buckingham, in the room of Lord Pao av, appointed to the staff of the expedition to Sicily. Circulars have been received by the Lord; Li Au tenants, relative to the trainieg of the Levy en :t terse His Grave the Duke of NOETHUSI se RLAND. in consequence. issued coders for the immedi. to deli-. vet y ot the lists in that county. The Officer who landed at Standgate,on Tuesday night, was not, as we suspesled, the bearer of dis patches from Parrs. He arrived on Wednesday at the Admiralty, and delivered his dispatches, which are not supposed to be of importance. Mr. M SKI DEN sat up the whole of last night, and the night before, In expettation of advice, from Admiral COCHEASE. None have yet arrived. On Saturday, Col. MA TTHEWS assembled the six companies of his regiment, which meet in Hereford, for the purpose of submitting to them the new regu lations. After a clear and manly speech from the Colonel, he desited all who wished to secede, to order arms ; when five men only did so, and one has since returned. The Prince of WALES'S tradesmen dined together at the Thatched House Tavern, on the Pa 'sec's birth-day, when the following resolution, expressive of their gratitude and attaeinirem to his tivyist tt,gh neu, was unanimously agreed to : Tlistcheitt Inure Tavern, Aug 12. Ass numerous MN ling of the Tradesmen ot tin tturoll-I.gh nes• the Prnice of Wales, assumbhid to r..lesh:.ite the ann.. , r. dry of his birth, it WM .nge,tua, •u.l rioaninsously ag , eed to.— That they ought, at this crisis, pad) , to .and forwr. 1 in nollr to esio.-ss their note grateful acKnowledgmenis for Isle advantages they dame, and lase , : derived, Irron the uid sismient of Lis Royal ilighitees, to whose cote and libevel eisoluilltment the pro v es 01 the we i g,,,,t and usetol arts country, stands so Inglilv indebted. That (eating themselves thus honoured and ixnetted, di, consider it ris due to gr.titude end both, time I ,uhlicly to mimes. their Ingli ',oar of H. Royal Idighnes.'4 condes.,n lion and patronag•, th ir entire sat,. faction, as era Irvin n, and their anxiety to exert thents,Nes, so its to mitt rim 10..,1 11,gline.es ati,:robatmir, and tu meet the honour of has future coo.hhinds. The Stationers' Company, yesterday, held the r annual August Dinner, at Stationers' Hall, on which Oceasion, Sir MAT THEW 131.0XNANI, the Master t f the Company, took an opportunity to observe, th. t dir Representation of Maidstone was the chief price of his life. and, in the event of a General EleaißO, hoped that his condor' heretofore would cosine him the support of his former friends. and oventtral:y keep him in that high situation which he felt • o much pride to fill. Sir MATTHEW'S seatimetts were highly applauded. - - - - In a late Paper we gave the names of four of the New Commissioners far Auditing the Public Ac counts, viz. Serjeant PR AED, JOHN ANSI' KY. FACI. JatiN Wtsnaw. Esq. and -- DEAR, Esq. T: ,e fifth is Sir CHARLES Rous But OM TON, one of the Commissioners under the former Aa. The Profes,or DELON mai, of Paris, has recently presented to the Tribunate " An Exposition of the Prophet DANIEL, with relation to the present great epoch." Prophets still continue to make their for tunes in France. Thus, the pamphlet, entitled, " Prophecy that NAPOLEON the GREAT was an nounced twenty centuries ago," has already reached a third edition. Some years since, in the great and credulous metropolis of France, Dyed a man, who had calculated, from long experience, that out of ten reports, on an average, six or seven were false. He, therefore, betted against every new re port, and gained large sums. if it was added, that the account was received from good authority, and might be depended on, he doOled his wager. What riches might not this man now amass I THEAI RE. STR ART). Last night, the new Entertainment of Portr a iq „ f the Living aid Pre' WAS repeated by Mr. PAL. sack, at this The.stre. From the numerons and fashionable attendance. combined with the intrinsit merit of the piece, an I performance, it may be now considered as firmly establisiied in pu b lic favlur. Soine of the Leiftitres have been indicin.l.4, curtailed, particularly those on the he tds of the Italian Opera Singers, and on that of Bow A e art. The produdion of the latter, h•rwever, was disalyee. able to a part of the an tience ; but the harsh ob. servations on the cl)ara6ler h..ing almost merely omitted, tranquillity was shortly restored. The p er . trait of Mr Pirr. also, produced some npansitine ; but the enloginm nn that great man's memory alai heard with bn•sts of applause. The !retire on tla head of Nevins was enthusiastically apptandrd, and the whole entertainment gave the highest satisi ec . tion. 7. - 7 ik 2 q t j • UPON A RECENT DUEL. 1.o! here's a miracle, instead of a slit ! The bales they slinp'a • .r, th.i they rooter ship W. The Dlke of CAMBRIDGE arrived at W4td.or oa Wednesday night. Yesterday morning, the Duke of Yogic trance:lei business with His NI ai EST Y. Afterwards His MAJEST y, the Dukes of Yolk and CA NI BRIDGE, Lord W •lAINGN A Alt. Lady THYNISC,GeIIerAIS FITZ tUY and (2•••rwainrirta , d Colonels Goes, Gi !VILLE, and TA v Lov, rode Windsor Great Park, dtc. end returned about halt. past twelve. Lord L. Govect arrived at Yarmouth from nu - sia, on W. dnesday night. Yesterday he carne to town. His L irdstiip's Secretary will remain till the _ _ arrival of the Marqiiis of DOCGLAit. Yesterday, Mr. And Mrs. 1..4.111ERT left their bowie in Suffclk.s reef, for their scat at Lials Hampton, Sussex. Yesterday, after a long illness, died, at her hr' in Perey-street, Lady Guaxtrao, 'Lelia of the late . _ Sir Fa A ocis Gostteco. Lord licon v PETTY gave a grand dinner yes terday, at his Lordship's house in Downing-weer. Mrs. F./WELL played Lady .11,Arth, last night, at the Windsor Theatre. Macbeth by Mr. BilOWliE• JOHN Dcrr, Esq. M. P. left his Immo in licit ford-street, May-fair, yesteiday, for his seat near Lancaster. Betts. my, from the Dublin and Manchester"! he atres, is engaged to sm:ceed HILL at Covent-G,c den. The neat Rotrirs is engaged to perform every night during the nett week, at Lan; aster. Lord and Lady CAWDOR arrived io Edinburch et St.oday last, in their way to the North of Scotland. Some of the papers think the Rhino* Conf• de ra:y is a msnomer, because it is cc, embrace states far d s. cant from the River Rhine. Ilantlet, we belirve, is nat thinking of the Rhine and its warts, when .4 speaks the following lines— .. The Kul &Me wake to-night and take his route, Kes•ps wassal, acrd the swaggering uteri/rine reels, And as he Maim. Ms draughts of famish down, The kettle-drum end trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his leslge." The West Middlesex Militia arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, and went into Franckfort barrack - . Ile Lancashire Militia were removed to Duck, to make room for them. - Bs A MDON, Esq was married, yesterday. to Miss Da SY SIMONDS, daughter el -- Ds SY 2. MONO!, Eeq and neice to the Messrs GOLDSNIUS. The ceremony took place at the seat of Mr. De fiv stasoreos, at Mitcham. A Lag t company ass invited to partake of a grand rural f.te, given on the occasion; a dance rn the verdanttuif was intended; and the whole of Cie Goo n-st: o family were pre sent. but those now at Brighton. His Grace the Duke of NIONTItOIII has hers at Dundee for a week past. actively engaged in do ciplining the Stitlingshite militia, of which he is , Colonel. The regienci.• dad a field-day at florae. ton Pent on Monday, when his Grace was plea.i.l to express hit high approbation of the perfecliou to which they have attained. On Tuesday, the lgth inst. the Royal Glamorgan Militia, under the command of Cilonel Avatte.v. tom-tett:id at Brirol, fired Om Down, in honour of his Royal Highness the fettics of Vf •tes's birth-day. . V A VIM A Lt.—Should this evening hold fair, this enchanting place will again be the Garden of Pos sure : all those parties who were disappointed on Tuesday, by the rain, have decl tired their intention of visiting it this night; and preparations, on the most splendid scale, are made on the occasion; ter per is prepared for ten thousand peruses. Toe laitchfielel Agiicultural Satiety held their an nual Meeting at the Gorge Inn, at LitChtittlds m the sth instant, and soli very 'lnman:lusty a.teaded• Among the company were—Lord TALCS° t ' L"td ANSON, Sir Bonet r LAWL[Y,.Sir Gdattox Plotter Sr JOHN WROTTESI.II Y. Mr. !WILLA% Mr. Stunt Mr. BUCK Lav, and s e • I distinguished Agricola Wrists. A wager between Lord TA LS Z r and Mr. Cox, the former showing a Herefoedshire. Ball, against a long horned, or Staffordshoe Bull, it" longing to the latter, was drawn by mutual consetas the judges being unable to decide Aeother bets however, of 100 guineas, took place between 141 same parties, in which the bulls are to be slaurtered in January next, at Litchfield, and Mr. tit Bair, and another butcher, from Loudon, are to examne them after they are killed, without seeing them alive, or being informed of their identity, aad are to de termine which is the fattest and best beast. On Saturday se'nnight, a small sloop struck tire a rock a little to the eastward of Du:,dee and was left, by the tide, resting in a very siitgtil.te manner. A small piece of the rock, of a coito..l form, somewhat higher than toe other parts.:i t caught the vessel by Coe middle of the keel, a t ti thus balanced, she sat till the returtiog tide B JA 3 her off.