The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-12-03 00:00:00

FORRIGN INTE 14/CA:. 11[034 THE iitEIkIWPAI I I:R4O tan a te l igokir 15. TIIIRTIETH HULLETIN OF .1111141;Witi'ARMY. i• H—lin, tiosemliec 10, i 601). " The fortified town of MagdeburggrOderetidertel an the 11:11 On the 9th, the gateirwere occupied by the French troops. The capitulation is hepeento annexed. 0 ', Sixteen thousand men. nearly 604, pieces of Canton, and magazines of every kind, life is our bands. " Prince Jerome has laid Glogau, the capital of Upper Silesia, under blockade, by Brigadier-Gala. Lefebvre, at t:e head of 2000 Bavarian 17orse. " The town was bombarded un the fitli ley ten howitzers, fired by the light artillet y-men. The Prince passed an eulogium on the conduel of the • . nYelltian Cavalry. Geunal Deroy invested Glogau iili his el4isiou on the 91e. A parley has keen • teamed for its surread.r. io Marshal Davuuot entered Posen with a corps % cf the army oa the 10 ii. 11e is highly satisfied wish the yitit that animate,. ilie Poles the per. sr.. a who I. i:el situations • order the Prussian Go. vet omen: would have been mastaceed, had not the , French army taken them under its proteCtien. •' The vans of four Russian columns, each 15,000 - Men strong, had begun to enter the Prussian bates • by Georseenburg. Oliva. Orridno, and Jalosvka. On the t Sih if Graeber, these advanced guards of columns had made two days marrow!, when they Ver.ieed news of the battle of the 14th, and nt the I' eor sequent events. They retrograded immeeltat-ly. :30 many successes, and events of such high impois , arc-, should net blacken the noli.ary preparations in France: 'T'he'y sb.itilel, on the contrary, be tot. lowed up with fresh energy, not to satisfy an insati wile andorion, but to fix bounds to the a.nbition of . Our enerrie.. "'The Fret.ch a-my will not quit either Poland or k.: Seoul. until the Porte shall have been in the full p . en...s of its itdependert:e. nor bntil Wallachia and • Moldavia :hall have been declared to belong in 1 conol•te - voreignty to t' e Porto. " The e..ethh army will not quit Berlin, until the possessions :vat colonies, boils Smnisn and Dutch, - dad French, shall have been given up, and a gene .. • i rod piece made." • Nero follows the capitulation of General Blu. ,deer.] , . PARIS, soy. 19. • Dantaic Mail has been intercepted, which has - -hewn found to contain a great many letters from Petereburgh amid Vienna. At Vienna a very weak device is put iii pra'aire in circulate false reports: 'With each copy of the Gazette, which invariably breathes a very reserved tone, there is sent under the same cover a written paper, conveying news of the roost shooed descriptor) You there read that France . has 110 longer any army in Italy, that all that coun try is in dames, that the tenacity of Venice is in a state of the greatest disaffeCtion, and adlually in in &omelets a that the Ruisians have attacked and completely defeated the French army in Dalmatia. However tale- and ridiculous these articles, thev ar , • live from so many sides at once, that they render it dillryipit to know the truth We are authorised to aayMbat the Emperor has `100,090 men in Italy. of -.. which bO,OOO are in Naples. and 25,000 in Dal matia; that the kingdom of Naples has never been ' troubled hut by rubbers and assassins ; that the sing of Naples it meant- of all Calabeia ; and that if ale English are willing to land regular troops there. st.ey v..,1 find whom they have get to t • lk to; that Marshal &Intend has never had any thing but %accesses ; and that the King is tranquil in his capi ; Jai, taken up with the cares of his misty, and of She adminiciation of his kingdom; that General Marmont, the C•mmander - of the French army in Dalmatia, has completely beaten the Russians and Montenegrins. betwem whom a division reigns; that the Montonegtins accuse the Ru•siatis of having fought badly, and the Russians reproach the Yon. teasegrins with having run away r and thus, of all troops in Puro i rc, the Russians are the worst calcu lated LO make war in Dalmatia ; consequently, that is seneral they make lout a poor fete optiii it. With all this, the Diplomatic Body, endonrined II the false diredlion given in Vienna to opinion, Ildsieasi, (Airless with sacks rhapsodies. False cal ettlecines areSuilt upint tiblta. and, like every thing thwe is built upon lies aid error, fall quickly into • rain : riilisepriies so ill combined ate sure to turn to 'the ciittftiiion of their authors. • BRITISH PRESS. . LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Dictum, S. —..........--- kr she Msfireise transport. which touched at St. I Hamm on her . passage from the Cape of Good Hope, we are sorry to learn, that letters have been received which con fi rm - the capture of the Warren Nooks?: Indianian, by the Pissiesemisss frigate of 4G was; awe a gallant resistance of four hours and a bag. Ilse Worrell Neatiegs beat her of four tim e s, whoa she was In great evpAlation of getting away ; but the frigate only lay-to, to repair her damage, whielt,whets done, by her superiority of sailing, again I• came up with her. And renewed the action; ma'am • sastiy, one of the masts of the Wares': Hastings was carried away, and falling on the deck, prevented oar gallant seamen from working the gams, when the Captain ... d e obliged relaßantly to strike the co lion. The French, on taking possession, stabbed all the Officers on the quarterdeck —a proof of the i • cowar dice of the enemy. Had the mast not gone, there rennaiiiet great hopes that 'they would still • h a ve defeated time objelt of the frigate, though shs 1 ..., was is every r,spet su sup:iior. The loss on board the 'riff - tr . ? Hostistgs %vas 7 (urn killed. and 17 or 18 wounded. The Purser, it is said, is among the slain. The dispatc he.. containing this intell;gence, IlVellt bEnliglit to town, last ever.irg, Sy Mr. READ, „ . a Gentleman belonging 40 4 Mr. IatINDEDIEN'S Office, the East India Company's Agent, at Portsmouth. A Miaisterial Print of yesterday, The Morning CA rwirde, says, ' 1 All the ports in the North 6'4, in the Elbe, the Weser, and the Ems, as well as thu.c in the B tide, Lubeck, Rostock, ail along that coast to Dan:zi4t, may perhaps , be shut against Our etips.” This desponding tune migist have become .Hurling Chruniele uniter the old re;ime, bat is now very much out of place. The gallant Sir SAacet. Hoot,, we undertand, is going with a squadron to the Baltic; and we flatter ourselves, that his presence will restrain that power which The Ma'am.? arontrle repre , ents as unlimited in that sea. We have been told, in some of use Papers, that the Sound is to be frozen up this Winter, and that the French a. e to march their troops over in safety, upon the ice ; or in case of a thaw, that the foitifi cations on each side will be so strengthened, as to render its passage impraelicalrle; but the best in fcrmed entertain the least fear upon that subjed.— In the _years 16.511 and 1660, the Swedes were in possession of Cronborg, on the Danish side of the Streight. They had numerous batteries on both shines, and a considerable fleet riding in the Sound, yet the Dutch Admiral OFD•AI fought his way enough this triple fire, and with the loss of cne ship only, reached the roads of Copenhagen ; and should tar French, by threats, by force, and in trigues, acquire a footing upon both sides of the Sound, we have no doubt, that Sir SA MUEI HOOD, with a, British squadron, will effed, in 1806, what the Dutch accomplished 110 years ago. A report has been circulated, that Government had issued an order to sequestrate all the property in our funds, belonging to the subjeds of those countries over-run by the French armies; and also dire led our .Naval Commanders to seize all pro perty belonging to the subjefts of said countries, al i nigh found on board neutral ships. Government have not issued such orders, nor, do we believe, have any such measures in contemplation. Many persons think that this would be a very justifiable and necessary mode of indemnitying British subjeas fur the losses whs. aibey have sustained, particularly in the occepation Hamburgh, by the ut principled tyranny and injik ice of BONAAACTI. Of the effi ciency of this in .de of redress, these is no doubt.— The property i h foreigners of this description is esti mated at between 50 and 100 millions; a sum amply sufficient to cover all losses likely to be sustained by British merchants. But we contend, that it would not be wise, politic, generous, or just, at the pre sent moment, to have recourse to such a desperate r2meily. .The terror of French arms and exafli.ns frightened this immense sum into our possession, and an implicit confidence in British faith and justice, Ins, retained it there. It will increase with the same causes, and England will probably be, in a few months, the depository of the greater part of that treasure which has escaped the hands of the enemy, in the Prussian and Hessian states.— England is strong, not only from her physical, but her moral powers and energies. It may then be a question whetbet Bon AAAAA E would not be well pleased to sce her embark in the same revolu:ionary career with him, and forfeit all that strength and influence which she derives from her high charaEler for !armour, justice, and liberality. But it has been said, that BONAPARTE having recourse to ex traordinary means, England must do the same, to be able to restrain him. If the French and English Governments had one and the same ohjeet in view, there would be some foundation for this reasoning : But that is not the case—France an only support herself by the plunder of her neighbours. England seeks to flourish by the arts of peace, principally by her commerce, and that must be cultivated by a stria adherence to justice and goad faith, under the most trying circumstances. But, though such a measure may not be striely just, we do not say that an extreme case may not arise, in which it would be excusable. It Bore ar knowing that a certain Merchant at Hamburgh had a certain sum of money in the Funds, de sired him to draw it for his (Bo AAAAAA tiS) use; in that Cale it would not only be excusable, hut just, to detain the money. The owner, in such case, is not a free agent ; and the de tention of his property, under such circumstances, would be to proted it against a common robber.--- But to detain the money of a neutral owner, its a case where be is not a free agent, would be to aggra vate his mislortunes, and add to the wrongs al ready infliSed by French tyranny and injustice. It is obvious, however, that it would be impossible to discridiinate, and, therefore, as the measure, if re- sorted to, must be a universal measure, without ex ceptioa, and consequently involving a great variety of cases of hardship to innocent individuals, dbtring short of an imperious necessity wilt ever reconcile it to the fechngs and principles of toe British Govern ment. Whatever may he the result, there is no im mesh:Ate danger of any part of the ptopertj of to selgners being drags oat of out fund!, to feed the ' amhition and fill the coffers of Bots APA :CM The' three per cent. Consols will shut immediately, and transfers will not take place for six weeks to come. The contents of Paris Papers ti the 23:h inclu sive, are given in ottr prece.lin4 columns. One i f their must interesting articles is die 30 n of the Grand Army. It states, that the Advanced Guards of four Columns of Ru Tropp', of 15,000 each, had begun to enter th Prussian States by Georgenhurgh, Grodno, ;cc. Ste. and that on the 25th of Oelober, hearing of the result of the battle of the 14th, they immediately fell istek.- -Nis Bulletin concludes with the following striking ..bservatio,:s Tile French Army will not quit either Poland or Berlin— until the Porte shall have been 111 the full extent of its hide pendency, our until Wallachia and Moldavia shall have been declared to belong in complete sove,eignty to the Porte. " The French Army wid nut quit Berlin, until the Posses sions and Colonies, both Spanish and Dutch, and French, shad have been given up, a. 4 a General Peace made !! !" These professions of friendship for Turkey are pitfeCtly consonant with Bow AAAAAA 's design against Russia, and the British Empire in India ; but his threat, that we must deliver up all the Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies, as the price of the evacuation of the city of Berlin, is not so susceptible of explanation. Part of the Prussian territories is to be incorporated with Holland. If BONA P•IiTE keeps his promise, another part will be absorbed in the re-establishment of Poland.-- If then Prussia is to be cut down to a paltry Pro vince, dependent upon France, its precarious ex• isteoce, in such a state, can be no legitimate aka ' of. English policy, nor an equivalent for the Dutch,' French, and Spanish colonies, now in possession of England. But, supposing Prussia thus cut down and mutilated. to be a. , equivalent for them, why should England sacrifice her interests for the sake of a Prince, to whose cold and selfish policy Bow AAAAAA owes his present aggrandisement-- perhaps his life ? We find also in these Papers fresh proofs of the hostility of BONAPARTE against A„.;stria, and his wish to involve that Power in the war. Vienna is represented as a manufactory of all sorts of false re purrs injurious to the arms and power of France. The object of this charge is too plain to be misun derstood. It is an indireo attack upon the Austrian Government, which cannot be supposed ignorant of what is said to be a general prallice in the seat of the Royal residence. The late military pre ' parations in Spain, are attributed to an ap prehension of an attack, meditated by on army of 40,000 Moors, urged on by England, but this explanation is not considered satisfaitory. A Gentleman has also arrived from France, who declares, that, previously to his departure, he read Paris Paprs. of the 21st ult. containing the particulars of an Aassirrict between the FRENCH and Paussi aro, the chief conditions of which were, that all the Country, on the tfl of the Vis/stla, should remain is possession of she French till the Conclusion of Pence; and that the Russians should not be allouid to remain en any port of the Prussisn DQ11144/41114. The Papers of the 21st, also crate. that the King of Paussia was at lionigsburgh, with about seven or eight thousand men. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived yesterday. but it has brought no news. Sir JAMES S•CNIA aaz arrived in town, yesterday mining, and had an audience of LorefGams v A h.tter received from Captain C. Jos's, of the ship Earl St. rlfll , oll, hound to Bombay, dated 21st July last, to lat. 28. 49. S. long 41. k.. states, that he and the fleet were all well. Ships in company, supposed to be those that sailed'from Ports.r.outsi on the 3lst March last, under convoy of the L‘cowrd, viz. Lied Nelson, Lord Wyllie, Jsia, Fans, S,wrAsit. and 444,40/sr. The Dever Csete, RICHARDEON ; with the chips Lord K 404, RAMAGE; and Oran, M TAcc*ts. o warel-bound, sailed from St. llelena, for lJen ; on the 4th 00ober last. The Ceres (whaler). Captain Susan, arrived at St. Helena on the 23d September. The Brother,, LuAn, ol Shields, is totally lost. near Stromstadt. It is reported, that privateers are fitting out in the poris of Prussia occupied by she Freud* hear P OMIT, Dsc. County—Rh 'rooms, Featherstone and Lord Viscount Faaics. A trim o.lllltyCapi J. R. B t /*Ned awl Lat o Ales. M•Naehree. Wipsen, Wellborn, Atismaer, N-. Galloway, Id* Rd. Stuart. Dumfries Countr-allapx W J. Hope. Yesterday, the Luau MAYO* held his first Court of Aldermen, at Guildhall, which was numerously attended. Tue thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to JAMBS SII•W, Esq. late Lord Mayor. (For par ticulars, see the Advertisement in the front of this raper ) The Court ordered the assize of bread to be con tinued the same as last week The precepts for eledion of Ward Officers, on St. Thomas s Day next, were ordered to be issu.-d, as were several ether usual orders. A Dividend of 2 per-Cent. to the Orphans, due the sth. was ordered to commence pay e January neat. Upon a Report from a C.,m rnifice . the Court agreed with /Aegis. S AAAAA end GOD rate, of Stansigate, to build a new elegaot State Barge for toe use of the City. Several Rah and Salerii.s were ordered to het paid, and no other bass nets ol in portisoce was trausaded. -- Last sirB i} night B id k. in I t S h T e t e lt om r resumed the g t i l v s . i ll- p A ir :r r i t 4 . e i Ifni. Him, after an absence of ten weeks. He loAri extremely well, and appeared in good spirits. Ihe interest which the Plihiic felt in the ace; lent that had so long deprived them of this favourite pee. former, was displayed in his reception. An en thusiasm seemed to pervade the audience, arid a long iprotraeled series of applause greeted his re turn. An apology was m.tde for Mr. Weouors roe. who was prevented by indisposition from perform iog the part of Gooenso•r, which was undertak-n by Mr. 13 aat Lev. Mrs. H. SIDDONS was uncom monly interesting in Mrs. I arorinore. The Wido s , fleimeur is a part not exa&ly suited to Miss DUNCAN'S ailing. It is a part which few at tempt, and fewer succeed in. As drawn by the author, it is a mere sketch ; the performer must give it all the witchery of fashion, all the capti. eating graces attendant on a lively and amiahie woman. Miss DeNcers's Widow Beionotr did not possess all the fascination which we have witnessed. It was, however, a pleasing and sensible performance. Tekrii followed. Mr. Eyrie. in the absence of Mr. W R °UGH Topt, performed th e Miller. He received great applause. The house overflowed with elegant company. Earl FITZWI ILIA St left Milton Abbey,last week for Wentworth House, near Rotherham, Yorkshire • The E trl and Countess of Baisros. arrived, ye,.• te.:day, at their house in St. James's-square, from their seat at lckwith Park. near Bury, Suffu:k. fhe Earl and Countess of CaaceoaN are er peeled, in a few (Icy!, at their house in Lower Gros vonor-sti eet, from Windsor. for the season. Mrs. WILBRAHAM BOOTLE is eXpeSed at her house in tiediord-square, from Latham, Lancashire. The Marchioness of SA Lis lOU Rtir intends giving a grand musical entertainment, this Christmas, at Hatfield. Lord Y►eseanvcu is at his seat at Brockieshy, in Lkhcolns;.ire, Aial IS nut expeeled in town until alter Christmas. The Earl of Motions will come to town, this day, from Windsor. His Lordship's house in Sa. villcsrow is nearly completed. The Earl and Countess of T r left Geri, oe's Hotel, a few days since, for their seat is Kent, where they intend passing the Christmas holidays. Mr. Metvisr, the gay and lively Gegalfif". is this night announced for the gloomy and horrible Ceeet Remodde in the Tale of Mysiero. It is said that Miss I.v.e's new Comedy will not be brought forward until it can receive the powerful assistance of Mrs. JOYoaN. Mr. Lewis has a new Farce in preparation, in which he will perform the pi incipal part. Neither the name nor author have as yet transpired s and, from the extreme interest Mr. Lewis takes in the prepa ration, it is thought he will f,ri•er the ton:liee. Mr. M•11Sil A Lt., who so much excelled in the part of Boarsiat'e. some time since, on the London and Dublin boards, is now pettorming at the Belfast Theatre. General Poatea and Lady Ger:miasma, have re moved from Adur Lodge, to partake of the winter amusements of Brighton. The 1,0001. Bank bill sent by Sir FRANCIS BUR DUET to Mt. PAULL'S Committee, is called, by the knowing ones, a decoy dark. It is not Mrs. H. Jorisston who is performing in Edinburgh. A Scotch critic speaks in the follow ing terms of a 'slim Manson; and "although she may not passers all the ftscinanon of a Joaria.e, she yet displayed, in the part of Amelia firiblashains, a a.iotte, an arch simplicity, and a coerce understand jog of the character, wb , ch we have often in v e in looked for, in older and more approved per fortaiers." St. Andrew's Day falling this year on Sunday, the Royal Society held their Anniversary Meeting on Monday, at their apartments in Somerset-place, when the President, the Bight Hon. Sir Jet ph Banks, Bart. K. B. in the name of the Society, pre sented. the Gold Medal, called Sir Godfrey Copley's. to Thomas Andrew Knieht, Esq. for his various papers set vegetation, printed in The Philosophical Transaltions I the Society then proceeded to the choice r I the Council and Of for the earn ing year ; and afterwards dined together, as usual. at the Crown and Anchor 'favern iu the Strand. It has been erroneously stated, that ike 'hoopoe, which is reviving at Covent-Garden Theatre, is Davos''. alteration, not SNaas 's original and admirable with. ?he truth is, that Seeg er EA ait's Play is to be ►rought forward wita a very slight passage from Dternta, arid a retrench-neat 4 , et Mete redo sdaneics. Tois charming romance at. fords fine scope for pillaresque beauty and graldeur of scenery. Ceders' V srr, M. P. for Beverley, in Yorkshire. is not dead, as has been mentioned in most of the papers. The report originated in the death of a veteran soldier in that reighhourbood, who went by the appellanou of Genera/ Year. Last Saturday, the first taivi.toi of the second Lat• talion of Rorel Scotch, marched into Lewes, on Its nem° from Horsham to Bexhiti. Li-•inenant Bratty, o. the First Regiment of Life Guards. died last Sunday. at Love's H .tel, in Dover -street, alter an illne.s ef three weeks. Mr. RA ASOW, whose rravels have so deservedly raised his name in the republic of letters. t.as fitly bed his Life of the late Earl Mac* TTTTT Mr. &aeon. must have had peculiar opportunities of forming a due estimaie of the character of that *meld.- and accomplished N arising from long friendship, as well Al from a more particular intercourse chasing the Embassy, in which his ac. h:s Lordsh p to China. A few days ago, Miss B , daughter of Mr. &AMA,, butcher, of M.ttivt Weightbn. Yorkshire, was found shnwned fa 'he river at that re lc; She had only been missing a tew minutes. adore she was discov. red in that situattoii. A his. appoi•itment in hive, is said to have itsuuced her to take this melaachnly step. ..: •-z 1 ""-',, 40., 4..../...%,f.. THE talt I. I