The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-12-08 00:00:00

n i ' • T""E`"Ji?NrruhERRY Yl3.,w i i e beghic Drawing colir•lN. . - . 2 Prizes of L. 00,000 are I. nn,noo * 2 3 5 6 20 - 1.. 40 5,100 ,, 20 .... 162, .----..-- 21,000 Tickets. Capitals determinable First-drawn Ticket, Ist Day....L. men° Ditto 3l Day 10, 00 Ditto sth Das 30,000 Ditto L.•st Day 5,000 PRICE. Ticket - - Ll 9 lbs. • Hatt 1-10 2 u Eighth - L. 2 II 6 I Q..aiter - 52 0 Sixteenth - 16 0 • T4cgr - rsp..,‘ sti AR rti arc on Sale at alt the LICENSED I.OII . FtY OF FICEN, and by their Aries iii the Count iv. ' The above iM.14 , 4 , 44 Capita: Frites arc the greatest, in [a Sese•no of so few Tick is, ewer nre•ciied in the annals of Ls: er. Idre.attire. Thus fact i•. iodimotable But the Veva. rl , . o , Fortune, in participate of such unprecedented opulence, mos' he on thq avert, as the Drawing commences so early as he viti. en J.nua.t next. • L aso, 30 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAMBURGH TITERS. HAMIVIGA, NOV. £5. The Emperor of the French has issued an ex traordinary ProelarnAtion here. After a long re- Leital of complaints against England, and partieu ' lnly against the tyranny which she exercises upon ' • the seas, i , enacts as follows: 1. The &Air& Isles are declared to be in a state of blockade. 2. MI trade and communication witi Great Btitain is striate prohibited. & Al; letters ening to or coming from Tealand are not to be foewerded, sad all those written in English arc to be sup •r 1 4. Every indbrWual who is a 'object of Gr!at Britain , is to he mad? a p•isonet of war, wh mire' he mar he f 5 All goods heloogiog to I tie...Anima are to be condi.. tete& and the 1141 , 1111 , 1 . aid to those who hare su ff ered through Art-mine of ships ►y the English. d. ,this analog fit ns Great Britain, or haring bees ie a t of that country. are to he admitted. /. MI trade in English cowls is rigorously prohibited. GOTTENALT.GH MAIL. b e Eztraft of a L•tt.r from I-14rnburglt, dated No- Taber T. 2, received ci, Gottenburgh : - " In Env letter of the 20 h. I informed yen, that, , . on the receding day. General Monier, at the head of 3,000 Fresse% itsfanny, and a numerous corps of cavalry, occupied this city. They marci...— e,bur% eying, and music playing ; and, in the Paper of she 206, it was announced, that ' this City is ,„ • tales is the same of the Eissperar • 1 Avast.' 10 ".. .. More French troops have since arrived, and *hem are expeCted on their wsy to Holstein. Two thou...nd m.in have invested Altcrta. and I bear that ' . Convention has been entered into between Den k ... . and France, by which the possession of Hot stain is surrendered to France until a peace. ./The Bank in this city is guarded by French in conjundion with the military Of the city. ~ The, Bank at Alton has been removed to Gleck: - The French troops have hitherto behaved with ...'propriety. M. Bourtenne was not apprised of choir approach until nine o'clock on the morning of their - . al ; it was, in consequence, three o'clock in ternoon, before quarters could be provided fir there, after they bad been smading seven hours in the open air 7 Tie mail has likewise possessed us al the Swedish. I).toish. and some of the German Papers: the consents of the latter have, however, been in general anticipated. The Stockholm Paper, of the 21a, contains the following articles : Si II • LSUN Di soy 4. The French Cemrn ,nder-in.Chief at Anclam, has demanded, and obtained, an interview with our General, Count Lewenhaupt, foe the purpose of complaining of,4oented Prussians being allowed an asylum bent. 7. M, Ekwall, Direttor of the Swedish Mail Posts in :Mecklenlwirgh, has, in consequence of the irruption of the F:eneh, withdrawn the posts from Butzow, tiz'..w.rrin, and Tessin, acid retreated witiv them to ifarrirarten. NOV. 9. 4 A r c t c e n nc tin s ts ca h v av tl i t u l g c r o e n a : claed this mioroc two or t t h h a t tcorps ee a tho mud men, bad, under pretence of pursuing the Prussians, entered our country at Anclam, Meyerkrelis, Denamin, &c. that the inhabitants had ben plundered and suljedled to contrihu:ions, &c. ; Escelleney. the Governor. General, on the morning of the Cab, dispatched Lieutenant-General Arrefeld;, with four detachments, to Giiels weld. Grimm Lichtenberg, and Redebas, and these were tellrrsed at noon by twos bligad,-t, which tr+ek post on the sea-shore at D.lfain and Vicsdorff Baron Armfeldt C ue d his head quarters at Luders haven, and sent out parties to scour the frontiers; but the French, who had occupied Anclarn and pernmin, retreated on their approich, and have wboily 4,61Lp/seared from our couutry. The ta- THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, Muslims 8. A Gottenbu-gh Mail ariived on Saturday, with letters and papers to the 2d instant. A Hamburgh Paper, of the 25th, has been also received. The in telligence through these two channels is important. We shall begin with the latter : —The Horrahurvi Correspondenice, of the 25:h, contains a long Procla mation, dated Berlin, and promulgated at Ham burgh on the 24th. After a recital of a long I,st of grievances, alleged to have been inflieled upon France and the rest of the Continent, by England, and complaints against the tyranny of England, ex ercised upon the Seas, the Proclamation orders the SLIZLIRI OF ALL BRITISH SUBJeCTS, AS PRISONERS Of WAIL.—.TNIS CONFISCATION OF BRITIsIi PROPERTY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, WHICH MAY SC FOCAL/ Its THE COUNTRISS occurian. BY THE reescm ARMS--AND THAT THIL BRITISHI,,ISL•NDS SHALL BE PLACID IN • sr•re or acoccant. Sever.' persons arrived on Friday, at Yarmouth, in a vtioal which they fell in iiith off Cuxllnten, af ter twitting their escape from H.smbnrgb on the 280, by the way of Altana, have also communi cated the contents of the Proclamation, with many interesting particulars. The following is an sztraft of a letter from Yarmouth, dated December 5, 1806 : " We have just time to inform you of our arrival here from Hartsburgh,, which we were obliged to leave at a few minutes notice, after a Decree, making all the English there prisoners of war. " BON APA RT I'S last Proclamation is to this elle& That British property of every descrip. Lion is to be confiscated ; England is declared to be in a state of blockade; and all British su►jells, who way be found in the countries occupied by the French, are declared to be prisoners of war.' " We left Alma at half past three o'clock on the Nth ult. Four or five thousand French left Hamburgh the day before; t►ey went through the Stein Gate (the road to Lubeck) ; their destination was not known. Ttve Brithh Fattory had been arrested, but was afterwards liberated on parole." It is reported that the Merchants and others made prisoners at Hansiourgh have been a:rested, and marched prisoners to Verdun. . . We understand, by other communication:, both personal and by letter, that the space required far the dislivery of English property was limited, by the Pro clamation, to twenty-four hours, and if after that pe riod any persons were discovered to have withheld or secreted goodsand articles of that AISCT iption, military mention was to be indoeted upon them. 'fhe con sternation produced by the decree it is impossible to describe. Not only British sobjeas, but many re• speetable citizens of Hamburgh, attempted, by va rious stratagems, to elicit their escepe. Several of the former succeeded, notwithstanding the cridness of the orders, in passing the gates of the city; hay having first left in the possession of the French otE cers. entrusted with she command, property to a considerable amount, as a security for their return. Mast of these are the persons who reached Yarmouth on Friday. They embarked in a vessel at Altona, which proceeded with them off Cushaven, where, meeting vith a collier, they prevailed upon the master to bring them to England. They had a pe rilous and fatiguing passage of ten days, and as they had oniy salt provisions on board, and but two births in the vessel, they were so much exhausted when they reached Yarmouth, that, with all their anxiety to see their families and friends, they were obliged to remain there on Friday night. One of these gentlemen arrived, since in town, gates, As his eon &lent opini.,n, that the Brithh subjeFts left in Ham burgh have been forced to set out on'their march to the interior of France. Mr. Druertrom, our late 7tliitister at Hamburgh, arrived about the same time in the Pincher gun•brig, which also brought over several persons of respect- ability. A port or place is considered in a state of block ade, when it is so closely watcheXby the ships of the blockading power, that a vessel could not enter without running the risk of capture. France has complained, in the late and present war. that Eng land has travelled out of this strict technical defini don, and declared large extents of coast in a state of blockade, without a commensurate line of ves sels to watch it. Viewed in its true and proper meaning, BON•e•rr E's order for the blockade of England is only calculated to excite contempt and ridicule. To represent Great Britain hemmed in on every side by the numerous fleets and cruisers, of a Power whose navy is almost annihilated, and still possesses a few ships, only because they dare not venture to sea, is the most impotent threat,- and ri diculous conceit, over engendered by the fancy of man. The plans of Eon FA are, ani his mode of executing them, will not, however, allow us to set him down a tool or a madman. We must therefore presume, that he proposes to himself, in this Pro clamation, something more than contempt and ridi cule. Ile knows, that every Englishman. of every description, and every informed man, of every coun try, must laugh at the idea of his blockade of Eng ' land,in the technical senieot the word. But he knows that the great mass of the population of Europe is grossly ignorant, and impressed with an i lea of his ex traordinary rawer and genius. Indeed, wheathey see great nations thrown down by his nod, and armies scattered as it were ►y his breath, it is not surprise • ing that he should he regarded by many as en dowed with a supernatural agency. To this is to be added, the unlimited dominion which he exercises over the public press; for, after the fate of PALM, no man in any country within the reach of the arms or influence of France, will dare to publish a sentiment unfriendly to Boa•e•ere, or unfavour able to his plans. Possessing these advantages, there is nothing so extravagant for which he may not obtain some credit among the people of the Continent. The public mind will Ise entirely at his mercy. He may fill it with such delusions as he thinks proper, and lead it on in utter ignorance and darkness. English Newspapers will not be among those articles of English manufaaure. the least striFily prohibited ; and from the press of Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, but little light can be ex pelled to break in upon the middle and the South of Europe. At a time when France did not possess one tenth of the meats of imposture and deception which she now has, the Direaory announced to the world the memorable vidary obtained by Lord Howe, on the let of June, as a defeat; and how little would the Continent know, this day, of the circum- stance and issue at the Battle of Trafalgar, if con fined to the French and Spanish accounts of that glotious day?—But, by this order of blockade, Bo sAP A RTE, in fad, means our whole exclusion from every part of the Continent in his possession, or subjea to his controel. However ridiculous and unfit the terms in which it is conceived, call the measure by whatever name he may, this only can be its operation.—lt is a sentence of interslidion ani excommunication against England ; and, as it is only what he has long threatened, and we had a right to expeft, the moment he had it in his power to enforce it, the public mind must have been prepared for the result.—Wkat steps Govern ment may pursue, in consequence of this extraor dinary measure, we cannot anticipate.—While BON •rartre prohibits our commerce in the States on the Continent, under his power and influence, England may cat off these states from all connec tion with the other three parts of the world; but Bon•r AILTZ is aware that England could not adopt this coarse, without infinite loss and daager. It must offend neutral nations, because it would be in jurious to neutral commerce. It may also eventually promote the designs of BotsarAa ra against British trade. So I'nz as foreign luxuries and mannfaflures find their ' , cry into the States under the dominion of lionaraatt, so long the people of these States will consume them, and when peace returns, England will recover her share in furnishing that supply; but if these a•ticles be totally prohibited, if the people of the Continent Cannot procure them, they must learn to do in ithout them ; they may acquire new habst:, or endeavour to open new channels. It they cannot obtain the luxuries of Egypt and India by sea, they may feel an increased desire to obtain them by land; anti upon the r. torn of peace, we in ght find many of the present sources of our trade dried up for ever. The other snares of intelligence arrived on Sa tu- fay, the Gottenbu , g Mail. eitti Letters an Papers to the 2.1, repeats the repot, in circulation last week, of the total defeat of Daveuse's corps, near Posen. This account is vouched npon the authority of the Captain of a vessel, arrived oa the Ist instant, at Gottenburgh, from Elsinore.— He states, that the French force amonnted to 60,000, and the Russians to 140,000 m.n; and that, at the departure of the Captain, from Elsinore, i t ship had arrived there, in three days from Stettin, the Master of which had seen uineteen waggons, full of wounded French, enter that city. About lour o'clock on Saturday, evening, a Russian Mes singer arrived at the Forelgo OlTice, from St. Pe. tersburgh, with dispatches. On his way, he had heard the report, and annrunced it with con. fi knee. Letters from the Postmasters at Gotten. burgh, received by the Mail, state also to the same died. Mr. Dos ipso'', the Messenger, also Sr. rived on Saturday evening, with dispatches from Vienna. He was detained for five days, on board a merchant vessel, by contrary winds.— The Russian Messenger performed his journey in seventeen days. We are concerned to state, that no accounts, or dispatches, received by Government, amount to a confirmation of the report of the defeat of the French by the Russians.—We fear all the accounts, to that effeEt, are only reverberations of the report which prevailed at Hamburg!), on the last, and was repeated at Yarmouth on Mon. day last. It is not very likely that DA vot:sr should have been taken, by surpriz.., at Posen, by such a greatly superior force ; and if not taken by sun prize, that he should not have fallen back to the Oder.—Some credit, however, is attached to the rumour. In our last page will be found a sketch of the commencement, progress, and termination of the late Negociation for peace with FtailCe.— All the points have been given from time t► time in the Newspapers, but have not before hen colleeled in a regular and conneeted series. The work also bears some marks of odicial authority, as parts of it purport to be eztraas from the original Diplomatic Correspondence. The Krug has been pleased to approve of Mr, Tesooost Is Carrico to reside at Lnnaon as Consul• General for the Ottoman Porte. (Go:•,/:(./ Snme letters were receivid on Saturday front Lisbon, which were landed at Weymouth, hunt is not yes ascertained by what conveyance they were brought to England. One of them, from an Eng lish metchant, states, as the current rumour 4: Lisbon, that Boon aaaaa had derstantkd from t::ir Spanish Government a categorical answer is thr e questions : 1. The nature and tern 3 of tazir late NegeCiaConi Aussie? 2. Thermions for n.tt pieriding suthe.ently for tLe s2ciity of their unifications in America ? 3. Why Sper.r was at present arming ? Demanding at the same time the payment el fifty thousand dollars per day. until such questions shold3 be saiisfaaorily answered. Neither our Dublin Cnrre.pondent, nor the News papers and Letters front that city, of the 2J, the latest date, notice the accomt, reported to have bees received there on the It, of an engagement be tween the Cavan Militia and a large pity of thor disturbers of the peace, called " T Granard, in which the latter are said to have sus tained a great defeat. Ecaciions.—State of tl e Poll for the county of Mayo, en the I Ith day : Right Hon. Denis Wowne - nee H's. Colonel Dillon - - IWO Si , John Browne - - 1170 0A1.0•Y et.LCTION.--SATURDAY, NOV. C). For Mr. Daly - - - - IS9e Mr. E, re - - lOU Mr. Martin - - 841 The Right Hon. Sir J014t4 Naweowr, and several other of the Irish Members, are not expelled in town until after Christmas. The William, Arkin', from Bt. Michael's for Liverpool, and the lk.,re Sisters, from Giasgow Dr. the Mediterranean, are on shore near Bid.iclor.f. The Sivoers, of Newfoundland, is lost t!:, , re. The Beresferst, Waite, from Messina and I.; is artived at Hoylake, alter being on shore. The MIMI, BOGIE, from Norway to Cork, is lost on the coast of Norway. Every possible exertion is making for the equip' rnent of the squadron with which Sir Sa must. Hoots is immediately to sail iota the Baltic. In addition to the ships of the line and frigates which that gal lant Officer had under his command, he will nave several bomb vessels. Orders have been sent to Sheerness, to fit out all the vessels veLich are calcu lated for bombs, without loss of time. It is said that a very unpleasant difference exists between this Government and America, upon the subj it of ships, under the American flag, sailing for hostile ports, and loaded vents West-ludia produce. The British Government, it is said, is resolved to sohjee all such vessels to capture, 'in the presump tion of its being French property, and carried oily in American bottoms. The Am ricers Government conre.;d for their right of purchasing such articles from the Colo iists, and selling it afterward- as American merchandise.—The difference is said to ne irteconcilisable. Amine the very numerous fortunate Sharers of Capital Prizes 'it tl e last L•sttcry, we are assure,: a the authenticity of the toil-wing mirk lamed WILLION, well known in the n, of Durham, as a strolliag mendicant . , died , a few weeks since. In his untried miner ents e.e wood early 7u01., with a Sts e.•nth liiiate • f one of the 10 0001 Prizes; mitten has bin lately paid, and hanoed over to his poor relation. This man Kerner' to have been in the ;,ahi . horn t'oi we • lih rum's' is s clothe-, of consta-tly P uri:twang a small LAX" cry Share—an example not uriwo: by 'hr attention inane ti.‘ve greater means to d • it. paitt. .early in a Scheme or such iinnnoois consequence now invites the embrace of iilkgegrees tat lkse' venttliefi. - 'Ages of the French in Meckleoburgh have been mast wanton. ANOTRER LETTER, DATED NOV. 10. The French have demanded from the city (31 Rostock a contribution of 152,000 tix•dollars. The militia of this province are asiembled, the gun boats are fitted out, and every possible arrangement has been made for the defence tif this place. GOTTENOUNGN, NOV. SO. A Russian Courier has just arrived, in ten days from St. Peteriblirgh, he reports, that in passing through Stockholm. he was told there had been an *Rion between the French and Russians, in which the latter were completely viflorious: he could not learn any particulars. DEC. I. A Captain of a ship, just arrived from Elsincur, reports, that when lie left it, accounts were re- ceived, that an alien had taken place between the Rui.iais and French, in the neighbourhood of Posen, in which the latter were defeated with great slaughter. The Russian army consisted of 140,000 men, the French but of 60,000. A ship had ar rived at Elsineur, in three days, from Stettin, the Captain of which saw r.ineteen waggons, full of wounded French, enter Stettin.