The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-12-01 00:00:00

FOREICin InA T FOURTH HA MBURGH MALL. 11A1111.9t0H, ROY. 20. Yesterday, Marshal Monier emceed Hamburgh at the head of his advanced guard, and took pos session of the city, in the name of His Majesty the ilmperor aid King. This was done in the greatest good order The troops sibserve the stritlest dis-• aipline. The soldiers are quartered on the citizens, sad behave themsolvta ezttem ly welt. AH the mi litary posts in the city are occupied by the French. The Senate published two proclamations yester day, to give notice to the Citivos of the approach of the French troops, to enjoin a quiet and or. &Ay behaviour, and to regulate in what manaer the French soldiers should be treated in their guar ters. t, To-day another proclamation has been published, r which is as follows : " The Honourable Senate received yesterday, from Marshal Mortier, a letter, in which, after re. .;.•...stiting the reasons by which His Majesty, the Em peror of this Frisch considers himself as obliged to ' %nab reprisals against England, he orders that all Miss commodities shall be seised and put under -e is The Honourable Senate is therefore under the -tzsity of communicating the contests of the said to the merchants. traders, &e. and hereby to -squirt, in the stsiftest manner, that within 24 -% from the publication of this notice, they shall -o accurate list of such goods in writing to want-Colonel Bazandourt, under pain -Me con.equenees. E. . oventy-feer hours which shall f 01.4 .4 peseta wotificati -a, every banker, user or .trader s having meregandise, er funds, at is whether they ail . otherwise, shall be Register 11$14• place. domiciliary visits , to ascertain their military manner, . coy. 15. iperial Goad Gretbsdiers of received otdera to wouaded, passed either respefling "wren, certain, ; but, it is ...I ratify it. .. Koenigsberg with l.is CAM. - 1111.1 e, Nov. 18. 'Marshal Solar arrived here on the 16th ; his di vision is expeded to follow him. The Prism of Isenhurg has puhlished an ad• ilertisernent, stating. that - he has received permie— dem from the Emperor of Francs to raise a Tee*. meet for his service, consisting of four battalimsa, and inviting the Prussian Officers and soldiers who 7 !, have been illaetepris•Dr.ers to eulist in his corps. By a C ou rser who arrived here yesim day, a re.; • port was ejaculated, of a Preliminary Armistice hay , %g been concluded. which is (spaded to terminate in a peace. A Proclamatinn was yesterday posted up in all die streets, offering the Lurch part of the vale,, as a reward for all pritperty which may be discovered beleneing to the sing of Prussia, or stay of the Civil and Military Person, in his suite. • P•SEM, NOV. 12. ' On the 4th the French advericed pests entered Posen. Oa the gth the third corps of the Grind Army arrived, and were received by the Poles with the livi•he.t tokens of j 'y. • The inhabitants of Kalitzoh, in consequer.ce of an agreement among themselves, have fallen upon and disarmed the Prussian garrison at that place.— Several Prussian parties have net with similar treat , mew elsewhere. A glorious day dawns on Poland. In a few months the Hero of the French will resters the times of the great Casimir and Sobieski.—(Pease Jeurnelj NOV. 11. • An appreaelsing peace is ..p..ken of between France and Prussia : Marshal Duroc has left Berlin with this view. Os General Derahrowsky's arrival at Posen, the populace took the horses from hie carriage, and drew him to his quarters. As the arrival of the post is free again from Bret :striae and Dantsick, it is concluded that those places stri either in the hands of the French or their allies. All the public Officers here are to retain their As, and receive the arrears of their pensions, &c. e: :4 great part of the French troops arc upon the alareh to she Oder. His Imperial Majesty, it is said, wit go to Posen very silently. list French advanced posts are already at 'thorn and Warsaw. Giog.sa is invested. YROM THE NAYS, NOV. 15. The new acquisitions which Holland is to re- Warimitiaia..aor assAis Aiskiiiiials three —verve ur vmaseawilsw.. departments. viz. those of tke Ems, Monger, sod ,•the Lippe. 'rum Nov. 17. The troops of the corps under Marshal Berns gotte, have left us, all but one battalion. 'REMALY, NOV. S. The fillowing article, dated ale sth instant, from South Prussia, appears ia our Gesetie of this day:— • We can now state, with certainty, that an army of 80,000 Russians is already in full march through this province, and will speedily aplroach the fron tiers of Silesia." The Magistrates of this place have published a Proclamation, enjoining to the inhabitants a quiet and peaceable demeanour in case of the approach of the enemy. Lamle, Nov. 10. According to advicvs from Lusatia, the Austrian advanced pits are only a quarter of a league from Ebersbach. Other Austrian troops are drawing towards East and West Gallicia. The Russian troops are falling back towards their own frontier. The whole Russia's army. including the troops in the most distant quarters, are in 11110ticti. ing frau- English nsan - ufafturin, whetb •• pertain to English proprietors, or other bend a declaration of the same to the It !Alibied by the Commandant of the piaci " To verify these declarations, domi shall be made to per.ons declaring, toss fidelity. and punish fraud hi a mama .should it be discovered." Rettig. • The mounted Chassems of the Imp net Mt from hence this day. The G the Gitard bad not last night receive . march. • Eighty-one carriages, full of woos through this city yesreesi..y. We know nothing positive here, tithe peace or itilli*tiCe. It appears, hone that an armistice has been concluded said. that the Emperor bas refused to rs The Kirg of Prussia is at Koenigsb Carr_ !ARO 6r Trt tLIt, NOV. 16. The latest accounts from Vienna states that the French Ambassador has delivefed two note; to that Court. By the first he demands, that the French wrmy should be withdrawn from Bohemia. By the cond he declares, that the cipatture of the Arch duke Charles for the army, will be considered a de claration of war, and that, in this case, he is enjoined to quit Vienna immediately. The measures for the new military cnnscliption in the States of Baden, have produced symptoms of discontent among the peasants of the county of Furstenherg. and a part of the Brisgau. The Grand Duke of,Baden has sent there troops, and artillery. HAG4JP, Nov. 11. His Majesty the King of Holland is expeffed here before the end of this month, when the incorpora tion of the Prussian and Hanoverian Prcvinces in Westphalia will be solemnly decreed. In this in corporation will likewise be included, as we are assured, the countries of the Rhenish Confederation on our Eastern Frontief, as well as others in West phalia, the possessors of which will be indemnitied elsewhere. PARIS. NOV. 10. The Empress Josephine was expeaed at Paris, from Mentz, about the 20th of November. 111•NOVER, )101. The following Proclainatioa has been pablished here : TO TIIF STATES OF IIANOVF.R. A have taken possession of your country in the name of His Majesty the Emperor and King, my most gracious Sovereign. The revenues of the country will be received, and justice done in his name, dm (Signed,) has. Moir MC" BERLIN, am 12. The following is the Thirty-first Bulletin of the Grand Army : On the I Ith instant, at nine in the morning, the Garrison of Magdeburg defiled before the corps of Marshal Ney. We have taken 2J Generals, 1300 Officers, and 22,000 men, among whom are *OOO artillery -Men, 54 pair of colones, 5 standards, 800 feces of cannon, I million pounds of powder, a large bridge-equipage, and an extraordinary quan tity of metal for artillery. Colonel Gerard, and the Adjutant Commandant, Ricard, have this morning presented to the Empe ror, in the name of the Ist and 4th corps, sixty pair of colours, which were taken from the carps of the Prussian General, Blucher, at Lubeck. Four thousand horses, completely accoutred, that were taken at Lubeck, are proceeding to the depot at Potsdam. In the Twenty-ninth Bulletin, it is stated, *hat the corps of General Blucher has given us 12,000 prisoners, among whom are 4.100 cavalry. !Isis was a mistake. There were 21,000 prisoners, whom were 5,000 mounted cavalry. in consequence of these two capitulations, we have, thetefore, taken 120 pair of colours and standards, and 43,000 prisoners. The number of prisoners taken in this campaign, amounts to 141,000, and that.of the colours taken to upwards of 250. The number of field-pieces taken from the enemy, in the field of battle and in various actions, exceeds 800 ; and the number of pieces of artillery found at Berlin and in the sarren dered fortresses, exceeds 4,000. General Savary has proceeded with a moveahle column to Rostock, Me there found between forty and fifty Swedish ships in ballast, which he imme diately sold. YCKICt, tiny. 1. Official intelligence has been received from Dal matia, that the French, following up the victory which they obtained on the 29th and 301; of Sep tember, over the Russians, Montenegrins, and the inhabitants of Cameo, took the fortress of Castel _ _ ..... _ Nuovo, by storm, on the Ist of October. _ . Our Monthly Literary Catalope is deferred until to-morrow The Celebration of Mr Rosc re s Election for Liverpool, and his excellent Speech upon the occasion, shall also appear, if poesible. trutorrow. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. MONDAY, Dlcimeta 1. The capture of Hambut gh, and confiscation of all British property in that place, by the French, were an nounced to the City, on Saturday, by the following official note from VISCOUIIt HOWICK to the Loan M A YOR Foreign Office, Nov. 99, 1806. MY LORD—It is with the deepest concern. that 1 inform your Lordship, that the City of Hamburgh was necupis.d by a Iriench corps under General Mortier, on the 19th instant ; the property of English merchants eat immodiatery confiscated. On the night of lb. 21st, all the Eogliale merchants were attested, but were afterwards released, en their want, not at any mo ment to absent themselves, till the determination of Bona. parte, respecting them, should bit rereirred Mr. Themetow, Ills Maje►ty's Minister at Hainburgh, WJI proseeiling to Neil ; Mr. Nicholas. his Vice Cohan!, was gone to G!ackitadt, in order to provide for the Engli►h ships immateding foist' that poet in softly. Ile was then to go to Cuthaven anti Moulin. All props► precaution had been taken for the secunty of the Mew chants remaining ia liamburgh, and their property. HOWICIL (Signed) To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. Ever since the first reverses of the Prussians, the probability of a visit from the French had been an ticipated at Hambnrgh, and preparations made for its result. The aftual intention of the enemy was known in that city thirty-six hours before it was carried into efefl, and tho' the French Minister took every pains to appease the alarm, and lull the merchants into a false security, few of them were the dupes of his artifice. The greater part of the English property, as insinuated in Viscount 'low:cies Note, had therefore been embarked, and the vessels containing it were left in perfen safety.. The intelligence, however, produced gat dismay in the cit7e and was not a little aggravated by the details contained is the Hamburgh papers, which arrived in the course of the morning. These consisted of two sets, one to the 19th, brought by the fourth Hamburgh mail, the other to the 22i, received through a private channel. The latter are those which we ought to have received by the fifth Hamburgh mail ; hut the Diana packet, which was to have brought it, was obliged to make her escape without it. When the Diana sailed, there were three convoys arrived from England, one from Hull, a sccand from Leith, and a third from London, which was prevented from proceeding up the Elbe. These convoys were under the protedion of I,' elimale frigate, Captain UPTON, Commodore, and the following brigs and cutters, the Obvert, Prince William, C6.irlel, Tiger, Falcon, and Pincher. Cap tain Urros, judging from the state of the weather that it was not likely the 'vessels could put to sea before the appearance of the enemy, of whose ar rival he WAS in hourly expedition, sent an official notice to the Officer commanding at the nearest French station, signifying his intention not to un dertake hostilities against the French troops; but at the-same time declaring his resolutioo, should they mount guns upon the batteries, which they had for. merly raised and occupied, for the purpose of an noying the convoys, that he should feel it his duty to make every possible effort for the destrudion of the batteries and the place. With that view he had already moored a brig, mounting twenty-fear pounders, in front of the principal battery, and disposed the force under his command in the most effectual way to carry his threat into execution. The private accounts add, that, in pursuance of MO k T MR'S proclamation, requiring all hankers and merchants, having British funds and manufadures in their possession, to deliver corred statements, the Chamber of Commerce, at Hamburgh, requested, by public notice, that those complying with the pro clamation should also furnish them with copies, and at the same time tend an estimate of the lasses they shall be subjed to, should the measures enjoined be carried into effed, in consequence of reprisals by the British Government. The great object intended by this estimate is to thew, by a petition to BON P. r 4. era, that the plan of confiscation r—ist be nld mately more favourable to Great Brisain than to the interests of Hamburgh. The 'Underwriters were also desired to state, as far as they were able, the injury they wool sustain by the capture of Ham burgh, and other etsels, in order that a fair balance might be made t. A similar proceeding against British property as been taken by the French at Lubec: and it i further reported, that they had entered Altona,and Dantzic, and were on their march for Husum and Tonningen, for a similar purpose ; also, that Bona, arra had demanded ten ships of the line from Denmark, threateniag, at the same time, to occupy llalt:ein and Slcswick. in case of re fusal. We believe, however, that these latter re ports are merely ppecri'atiee. It is also very proba ble, tbat the Fiends will soon attempt to shut the Sound against British COrtiIIIPTCO ; but to carry that into drat, - believe it ;- necessary ' measure _. , we , _ it is puns the Swedish, as well as the Danish side of that strcight. While the three French corps which punned Bi UCHSR to Lubeck, are thus spread ing themselves on the side of Hamburgh, the great body of the grand army is advancing, with all its charafteristic rapidity, in Poland.— Its advanced posts have already reached Thorn upon the left, and Warsaw ea the tight. The Ilussiane, we understand, have fallen back as the French advance. The third corps of the latter had arrived at Posen on the 9th. Its advanced posts entered that place so early as the 4th. As every one. who had the slightest knowledge of hu• man nature, might expeS, the heart of every Pole is fired with the prospect of the re-establishment of that ancient and legitimate kingdom. What a Ina son for Booar A UTE, if, in the miseries which be is now entailing upon mankind, he looks for any thing beyond the .gratification of a transient passion for power, and hopes to ereft a permanent throne upon the widely eltended ruins which he has made. Those kingdoms and stateswhich he is now partitioning and parcelling out among his upstart relatives and fa vourites, will, like Poland, seize the first opportunity to avenge their wrongs, and recover their rights from their despoilers. It has been considered matter of surprise, that BONLP ART? should have been so long a quiet spedtator of the great military prepa rations of Austria, a power, which he knows must hate him at heart, and rejoice in as opportunity for his destratioa. It now appears that he was only temporising. He is said, in some of the German Papers, to have ordered his Ambassador to present two Notes to the Court of Vienna, de manding, in the first, the evacuation of Bohemia the Austria. army ; and declaring, in the second, that he titan (raider ehe departure of the Archdale Cuaat.rs fir the Arms, as a deelarakon of war. Some persots seem to doubt this orienteigiN think trichott reason. • An Armistice is said, in s-verat paragraphs, is have been signed between France and Prmsiag but the accounts add that Dubs sr sari has 'child to ratify it. This does not appear probable I p a ., aoc, by whom this armistice is supposed to have been signed. was with BONAP•ItTIi, at Berlin, at the time. 6.. sides, the views which BoNtir &vie has disclosed, and must be well known to his Gt. mrals, cannot be realized, but by the total dismees. berment of the Prussian tertisories. The King and Queen of Paussts were at Rae. nigsburg on the 7th. It is probable that they have since removed still farther from the reach of the French troops. The Funds suffered a considerable depression co Saturday, in consequence of the unfavourable Sc. counts from the Continent. The Gasettc of Saturday night, which is gives in the last page, contains accounts of several :niv-t aClions in the West India. A report has been circulated, upon the authority of the Master of a vessel from NewfteindhAtil, that Monte Video has been taken by our Expedaee fitted out by Sir Home PaPAAM and General Bt. it tossers. No such intelligence has reached Go vernment. The French were guilty of the most wanton es. et saes in Mecklenburgh, murdering the men, viola. leg the women, and destroying such property as they could not remove. The following scandalous falsehoods were assert. ed in a Paper of yestetday General &vents, with nearly twelve thousand. was taken %anthem a blow;" Again, in one and the same article—" We moth doubt whether there was a loyal man is the kingdom of Prussia."--- I hese are falsehood; With which the Sabbath ought not to have been pro. phaned, and see not a little aggavated by the cir cumstances of the moment. ihe &rare Hill, &setts, from Revell, for Hail, is lost on Gothland.—Crew saved. The Queen, Basest, from London for Liken; the Kinesevare, BLACKLE, from Newfoundland, fee Oporto ; the Prim's, Royal, Cowes, from Newses. tle, for Lisbon; and the BRAND, for Male, are captured, and carried into Vigo. The Ranger, RICH•KOSON, from Oporto, foe London, is captured, and carried into Boulogne. ' The Poraeon, EIAOLLTON ; and the fri,soislto, SMITH, both in ballast, are captured, and serried into Dieppe. The Hatterel, CLAIM. from London, with a fleet. arrived at Cuxhaven on the 17th instant. The BRITISH Nes , v.—The whole of the ships and vessels in His M AJLIT Y'S service, which are in erne. mission at present, amount t 0 .773. Of these, 131 are of the line—le are 50's or 40'se.; t 64 frigates, and 193 sloops. In the North Ste and Downs these are 134 vessels.—About Spain, Portugal, and Gib raltar, 34 ; Mediterranean, f 4; West Ladies, 4b; East Indies, 39. lleport says that Spain is about to declare test against France. Insurreetions have broken out in Baden and Ea* Fred:tool, in consequence of the military consantp :ions. In the South, the French have defeated the Res sians and Montenetrins, and taken the fortress of Castel-Nuovo by sterns. General Marmoht has issued the following pre. clamatien to the Bocchese aqd Morlachrans, frets his headquarters, in the suburbs of Castel Nuovo: " BOCCHalls—You have taken up arms again t your legitimate Sovereign, have refused the prt t *red pardon, have drawn down upon yourselves the wrath of Heasen. It has at length chastised you ; indulgence has its limits. The province hf Ca• tarn belongs to the Emperor of the Fiencn and King of Italy; who would long since have been isl vssessic.4l of it, had !is troops, who, conformably to treaties, were to occupy it, received orders to connect it by force. Continue in your criminal rebellion, and you will prepare for yourselves the most dreadful calamities. Seise not agat: the a•rns which yesterday dropped from your hands! Lc." A private letter lions Hamburgh, dated .t.c 22/, says—. Mr. BURROWS, Mt...Taii/1 I'MORNTOM, Mr. Grooms SurTH, and Mr. PARISH, are amen* the Merchants arrested by the French in this city. At first these Gentlemen were confined in a botee near the Exchange, after seals had been put 111 ,,, a their et/eels ; but they have since been permi,t4 to occupy their respeaive houses. • A guard, hie,- ever, always attends them. 'Ole greatest dread is entertained here of a scarcity. The fames threatened at Berlin is to be alleviated by supplin from the granaries of Ilamburgh, which is anothe cause of anxiety, under the immediate necessities al/ dirficul.ies with which this anfortunate city has to contend." The friends of Mr. Nutt. advised him early to shun the .freeernei entor,-ee of Corporal Co ss ss ; and. in justiketion of that. advice, nose ten hits to the following passage le Corpora/ COIISTTT'S laical Hensler, of Saturday. Addressing himself to Mr. WINDHAM, upon the subjelt of the late West minster Election, the Corporal says—" We made no attempt to deceive or seduce the people. Na senti ment was expressed by as, that I myself had not expressed in print, when addressing swell to the dispassionate judgment of my readers, who, from the very nature of sou publication, are, in genera to be foiled in what we commohly call the higher ranks of life. never addressed ranself to the strao• rance and discontent and prejudice of the pe , p!e nor has Mr. PAULL done it now. No infloence , other than that which was visible to all the werld. did any of as she." With his " ma," and h is " and his " sre," a stranger woulti suppose that Cor viral COIIIETT, and not Me. PAULL, Was the Lan didate for Westminster. Saturday morning .cuboar d at h n: 3l 4'aie wne was eess f s r e i n g t a o te n . C shor ap e t ' a ' Deal, from ' Reenacts. supposed to be concerned in the fintt . .4 murder of the late Mr. Sifier.r. He was deliver up to two of the Bow-street Cificete, by the Map trate of the tcwa. . i