The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-05 00:00:00

THE 1411GOCTSrIO2 S.

The leepetiisce for the issue of the negotiations
sbew pending between England and seveial other
powers. is, according to letters, as great upon the
twitinent, as in this country. But, before connec-
tions can be renen ed, after the experience of an

unfortunate war, what distrust must be dirpelled,
I what prepossessions must be surmounted, what oh.
steeled and terrors removed! It requires all the
insolence and unbounded ambition of BONAPARTE
to bring together again nations that had so lately
abjured all common tics : yet, white acknowledging
the necessity of a new confederacy, each of them
eadeaveers to secure itself against the risks of the
league, to direa the effort towards the objet which
concerns it most, and to provide for the future.
From the jealousies and distrust that subsist, they
confiee themselves to the projea of a defensive al-
liance, which shall leave an opening for secret nego.
ciations with France, and shall be attended with
the advantage of their arming, as Russia, without
a rupture ; and of obtaining, as Austria endea-
vours, some additional means of strength or safety
without fighting.
This timid confederacy, according to letters by
the last mails, is still about to be embraced, or ra-
ther attempted to be nude general. Instead of
concessions ',meted, BONAPARTL has persisted in
his former usurpations, and effeaed new ones, at
the very time he was repeating his hypocritical of-
fers for negotiations and peace. From his wheed.
ling of last summer, it was imagined that he would
yield to the force of circumstances, and the dread
of a new league ; but, since he has resumed his for-
/1W attitude, certain powers have resumed their
tenors, and have suffered Hanover and Baden to
be invaded, the Hanseatic cities plundered, and the
Duke of ENONIZN murdered, rather than hazard
an adhesive war, to avenge the honour of lawful
Monarchs, the independence of states, and the blood
of innocence and virtue. This constant wavering
denionstrates at once that the continent is convinced
of the danger that hangs over it ; that it is anxious
about the choice of measures of safety ; and that it
has not agreed upon the basis and the precise oh-
jot of a general units. Are such unsteady systems
to be settled, and such opposite interests to b.. re-
conciled in six months, or a year ? The relations
of the different states are dependent upon such a
complication of public treaties, and involve to great
a variety of consequences, that the unity of views
and anion among such dissimilar political bodies,
is the most difficult work of the human understand-
keg. Art and genius only will never effea it, if
they are not assisted by time, and the force of cir-
cumstances, by which both men and empires are
borne along in spite of themselves.
The events that have taken place hang on the
inertness of the rowers like a yoke of lead. When
they look back, they see nothing but misfonuo.,
recalled only subjeas of distrust, and Are impressed
only with mutual doubts of sincerity. Hence the
anatiouanes of secession, of temporising, and of ir-
resolution. It is not easy to get out of such a laby-
riath, nor is a year more than enough for finning
the ciue of it. Box is, in this respell, the.
best guide. He is daily repeating to Europe, to
have done with disputes and differences. With his
arms stretching from the Elbe to the farthest point
of Calabria, he traces the destiny of the Continent
more energetically than in miraculous visions. If
he, who forbad the Ottoman Porte to let Russian
ships pass the Dardanelles, be oLeyed, he will very
soon order the SULTAN himself to descend from the
throne. If this natural consequence be not as clear
to the Continental Cabinets as the light of the tun,
there will be an end to all true clitistianity, to all
lawful dynasties, to all hereditary property, to all
Meal liberty, and the whole struaure of society
throughout the Continent, in the space of »me few
years. It depends upon four powers (whose re-
sources can counterbalance, and even exceed, the
fortune of the French republic, and of the too for-
ty/mite Corsican), upon England, Austria, Russia,
and Prussia, to avert such a catastrophe. The ob-
jea of their alliance is as clear as its motives. They
cannot think differently upon either one or the
other. Neither counter-revolutions in France, nor
recovery of territory, nor sacrifice:, are now the
question. The deliverance of the various states,
which she crushes beneath her yoke and her arms,
may form a collateral hope, but not the prime °lied
of a confederacy. A more immediate and more
urgent interest guides the union and the struggle.
It is the day of political judgment. The assault is
cow made upon the fort itself ; all the outwot Its
have been carried, and to perish or to save is all
that remains. If the Cause. of disunion operate in
spite of a position of such extremity ; if the tears of
pusillanimols courtiers ; if the influence of enervat-
ed favourites; if contemptible intrgues, an more
contemptible calculations, contit,un the anarchy of
the Cont'sent ; if the vices, which have led to the
decline and ruin of empires, in; Jail' over the re-
monstrances of liberal men, and the warnings of

1

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, Sup rzlizza 5.

We yesterday announced, erchsvively, a Revolution
its Me German Empire, brought about by an Order in
a Grand Council at Vienna, on the 10th last, at
which the Estrenoa presided in person, when it was
resolved to declare all his titles here ditai y in his fa-
mily, under the title of Empedr Astrin ; and at
the same time to acknowledge BONArA al- rei di •
sect title of " Empeno. V the French." Our au-
thority was the Hague Courant of the twenty-se-
venth, which quoted as its authority for this most in-
teresting information, nothing less than the Vienna
Covet G.t: cue iboll. This, as is usually the good
fortune of Tim BIIYISI4 NESS, furnished at once
news and speculation for the Evening Papers of
the day, not one of which, except Tile Gtose, had
the honesty, or even candour, to acknowledge the
source from which they derived their information.
One of them indeed entertains great doubts upon
the subjedt, and argues at length against the report,
from the impolicy of such a proceeding on the
part of Austria. Were not all the political events
of the present age of an extraordinary nature, in
contrariety with all reasonings, deduced flora the
common course of events, we should commend the
caution of the Print in question ; but this is an age
of wanders, and our grammarians in politics, who
examine modern events by the rules of the old
school, will generally find themselves mistaken.—
Another Evening Print, however, does not hesitate
to aver it as a fact, and declares that it has received
a Hague Paper of the 29th, in which the report is
fully confirmed. The dogmatism of the one is
more blameable than the scepticism of the other.
We have reason to believe, that no paper of the
29th has been received in town, and that the
matter rests entirely upon the authority of the
Mote Courant of the 27th, exaelly as we an-
nounced delusively. THE Gtose, an Evening
Paper of yesterday, contains the following ju-
dicious observations upon this interesting sub-
ject : " The former hereditary titles in the
House of Austria were " King of Hungary,
and Bohemia, Grand Duke of Austria, dc;."
but the Imperial title of " Emperor of Germany,"
although it has been enjoyed with very little inter-
ruption by the person inheriting the former for near-
ly three centuries, has beer. always eleaiv:, and as
such the cause of many wars, and more intrigues at
every vacancy, ail fomented and encouraged by the
interference of France. As this aZt was followed
by the acknowledgment of BON A r Amr a's new title
of " Emperor of Me Fetich," it looks as if this step
were taken in concert with the Coast c A w, although,
upon the other hand, the late rem irks in the Ms-
conc..rning the pretended encroachments of
Austria,evince on the part of the latterdiscontent and
jealousy. At the same time, it mu' be remember-
ed, that the Emperor of GERMANY has, at this mo-
ment, no less than three armies of no,ooo men each,
encamped at different parts of his dominions, ready
to take the field at a moment's notice ; and that the
best understanding subsists between the Cour:* of St.
Petersburgh and Vienna, the former of which his,
no doubt, assented to a measure rendered necessary
by the circumstances of the times. If no arrange-
ment has been made with Prussia, her Sovere'gn
must see with displeasure a Revolution in the
German Empire, which deprives him of the fa-
vourite scheme to transfer the Imperial diadem
of Germany to the head of the House of Bran-
denburgh. His Protest, will of course, soon follow,
and perhaps his armies take the field. We think,
however, that if Bon AP A are has consented to the
change, the King of Paesst• will be indemnified
by an Imperial rank himself, and perhaps tome
new territorial acquisitions. We have so much the
more reason to suppose this to be the case, as the
insults of the treaties of Leoben and of Camp • For-
min, as well as the proceedings of the Congress at
Radstadt, were endured by the Cabinet of Berlin,
only to preserve its impolitic and selfish system of
neutrality. The next Prince who suffers from this
determination of the louse of Austria, is the
Lleaor of BAVARIA, one of whose ancestors ob-

Wiled, by the plots of France, in 1710, the elec.
tion of sm Emperor of Germany ; but probably
the rank of a revolutionary King will sic his
complaint. It has been justly observed, sat this
AEI of the German Emperor is obviously only the
first part of a new system of changes in Europe
BONA PARTE, being unable, with All his power, to
ascend to an equality with legitimate sovereigns, if
they continued as they were, deludes them, by new
revolutionary dignities, not only to descend to a level
with him, but to confess themselves his inferiors.
The title of the Emperor of the Frey CH will be of
an older date than that of the Emperor of AeST RI A,
or of the Emperor of PRU,SI A, while German
Eledors, now stripped of the elelive franchise,
will be probably raised to the rank of Kings, like
the pigmy King of Eremite, with a view to dis-
honour the legitimate sovereigns wliJ bear that
title. All the French faßions from the beginning
of therevolution have uniformly meditated the degra-
dation of all hereditary rank. The calumnies, the mur-
ders, the proscriptions and overthrow of Kings have,
however, been unable to effect it. All loyal sub-
jects, all enlightened and good men, resisted inno-
vations planned under the specious name of patriotism
by ambitious upstarts, but the success of which
w.,uld have brought upon all other countries the mi-
sery that France has endured. The faction of BoN.s-
PAare have taken a diffemit course, and by making
royalty contemptible, force even the steadiest friends
of monarchial government to blush fur their princi-
ples and fur their chiefs. 'I his is a step towards an
universal republic, or at least toageneral change of
dynasties in Europe, of which demagogues and de-
mocrates will not negled to take advantage, and
the evils of which will descend, with accumulated
weight, to posterity."

A gentleman, who left Paris on the 19th ult. has
favonred us with the following particulars. The
common belief in the best informed circles in France
was, that the grand expedition against this country
wculd, if possible, sail at the same tin:e, from Os-
tend, Boulogne, and Havre, at least sach was said
to be the intent of Bum we AKT e, and that England
was their destination. If they should succeed, then
the French fleet at Brest, and the Dutch fleet in the
Terri, were to put to sea, and make their way, as
well as they could ; the former to Ireland, with
‘20,9'..`0 men, and the latter to Scotland, with 425,000
men. Notwithstanding all sensible men are of a dif-
ferent opinion, Boa ItT E believes, and wishes h:s
artn:es arid flotilla to believe, that he has a strong
party, and numerous adherents, in the British
Islands; and that. he, with their assistance, wants
only to land, to conquer ; or at least to diaate a
peace .o England, as he has already done to Aus-
tria, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland. So cer-
tain pretends the Usurper to be of enslaving this
country, in the manner he has done the Conti-
nent, that the Police permits a list to be cir-
culated at Paris, and in the departments, cnr.-
Limning all the particulars of the innovations and
changes which he intends ; the names of his
Pro-Consuls in Great Britain; of those British
subjeas whom he dishonours by desiring to make
them Members of a Revolutionary Senate, of a Tri-
bunate, and of a British Legion of Honour, &c.—
ARTHUR O'CONNOR was among the French Gene-
ral Officers who accompanied BONAPARTE to the
coast, but returned to Paris in the first days of the
last month ; and immediately set out for the army
under Aco R csu, near Brest. In the river Seine from
Paris to Rouen, and between that city and Havre, are
two hundred gun-boats, and others newly arming,
and ordered to join the division of the flotilla at
Havre, where they would have been before now,
but from the want of hands t man and manierivre
them. Among the Officers of the flotilla, six hun-
dred of them, who never were at sea before, have
been drafted from the army against their will ; ho-
rs AP A RTC haring used this as a mean to employ or
get rid of the supernumeraries of the army, or to
make room for young men who are indebted to him
alone for promotion, or who are the favour ir. s 01
his favourites.

, .
Ads ices were received yesterday from our squad-
ron off Ferro? And Corunn.i, otich WAS !Zit all wt.ll
on the '2lst of list month. The .envy had not
made any attempt to put to sea.
The packet, with tl.e \tail from Lis-
bon, is arrived at Falmouth. The Mail will not be
In town until this day.
We have received New-York Journals to the tad,
but they do not contain any news of import.incc.
The tOttaihitim, JONFS, and the Exper,m,,', D A
ItYMPLE, from London, for the East Indic., were
all well, off Madeira, on the I:lth July.
When the ships from Bengal (arrived in the
Downs) were getting under weigh, from St. i ielena,
a signal was made for a ship in sight, supposed to
be the Althea, Rr Prirre of Wales..

Monday dispatches were received from Admi-
ral CORNWALLIS, off Breit, dated the Dr.h ult.
which state. that he bad resumed the command of
the Channel Fleet, in the GIGI?, of 91 guns ; that
six of the enemy's large gun-brigs had attempted to
escape from Brest by iine of the narrow elm:rids,
supposed for Rochefort ; but that, on being d,-.eo-
vcie,l, they immediately took shelter, and are now
closely watched by Lisa Dow frigate.