The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-01 00:00:00

FROM TILE ERTIVII PAPERS.

RAMIE. AUGUST 22.
His Excellency the French Ambassador left this

phos on the t!hh, for the camp of Zeist, to be pre•

r nut at the festivities and grand manseavres, ordered
►y General Marmon, in honour of the Emper r
,5 Napoleon's birth-day. After a sham fight, and the
blahs' uvres usual in la tSr guerre, the Commander
gives a splend d dinner. General Marmon' returned
at the 18th to the camp, after having paid his duty

to Ida Sovereign, at ()rend. 'I he dinner is bespoken

for sixty covers. We understand that several Mem.
ben of our (1-vernment, of the Diplomatic Corps,
besides our Minister for the War Department, ry-
' v man, have seen invited to be present.
P. S. We hear now, that this military pomp and

manauvres took place last Sunday. The mantra-
vies began at noon, and continued to six o'clock,
when the dinner was served. In the evening, a
great fire-work was exhibited before the beautiful tent
of Gen. Marmont. The French Ambassador is just
teturneJ, and the Minister, Pyman, is cape/led to-
morrow. No orders are yet given for the breaking up
of the camp at Zeist ; it may, however, be done at amo-
ment's notice. Some pretend that it will be placed in
some other position, more healthy, and more con-
venient for observing the present occurrences upon
the Continent, as well as to be ready for embarking
for England. The visitors in this camp last Sunday
amounted to upwards of 60,000 of both sexes.
On the 16th inst. the French Minister at Berlin
gave a grand entertainment in honour of the Emperor
Napoleon's birth-day. AU the Prussian Ministers,
and many of the diplomatic corps, were present.
Neither the Russian nor the Swedish Ministers were
invited.

NAMIIVION, AUG. IS.
bitten from Copeuhsgen bring an account of the
arrival of a Russian newt before Bornholm, consist-
116._itig, as some say, of nice ships of the lire and several

LOX DUN,
SATURDAY, SrrrEvnEß I.

Again we caution the public against the idle and
false alarm that an Evening Print has attempted to
excite, upon the authority of its friend, the Baran
Munebaestn, who occasionally writes from Deal,
or from Dover, or from Sandgate, just as best suits
his purpose, and may excite m 0.4. interest by varying
the scene. Let it not be said, however, that we de
sire our fellow subjels to go quietly to their beds
and never dream of invasion. Our caution is chiefly
direfted to the money market, in which speculators
watch every breeze, and snuff up every scent of
news within the limits of the political horizon.
When we retied upon the business of the Stock
Exchange, we shudder at the result of the shallow
manoeuvres by which hindreds of knaves are enrich-
ed at the expence of thousands of innocent sufferers.
It may possibly prevent the success of this system
of delusion, to assure the public, as we most so-
lemnly do, that all the alarm which has agitated
the town, during the coarse of the present week,
has been produced exclusively by the accounts of a
Reporter sent down in this holiday time to the coast
to fill up, by his communications, the void left by
the absence of Legal and Parliamentary business.
—lf, as that writer has had the audacity to assert,
the approaching smoke of the enemy's fire has
shewn, that they have quitted the proteCtion of
their batteries, and pushed into the Mid Chan-
nel; for surely they must be a great distance from
Boulogne, before their approach could be discernible
with a spy glass, from the heights of Dover : what
can we say to palliate the remissness and negligence
of Government ? During all this time, while the
flare* Manage:so, from his Observatory at Dover,
could see the whites of the eyes of the enemy ad-
vancing to invade us: during all this bustle and
confusion, we are assured the signal stations at
Dover remained idle and inaftive. %Vill any man
believe, that Government is so besotted and in-A
fatuated, as not to provide for such a case, and
leave all the people of England dependent upon the '
diligence of a Newspaper Reporter for information
upon the important subjeft of invasion ? Where are
our telegraphs, our improved modes and nse.uss of
communication, and all those ingenious devices for
transmitting intelligence with certainty and cele-
rity? Are we to be told that they are all good for
nothing, and that a letter by the ordinary convey-
ance of post leaves them all panting behiad ?
Most assuredly we shall mot believe such a libel upon
our Government. The Minister would be a fool or
a traitor, who, with the application of all the
re-
sources of the country in his hands, would manage
his affairs, and lay Las plans so badly, that any p.i-
vate person, however great his diligence or sagacity,
could flatter himself with a chance of outstripping
Government in his information, upon a point of such
vital importance. We do believe, that Goverr.
ment have used every precaution, and adopted every
possible means to ascertain the motions of the cite
my. Their observations have satisfied them, that
the preparations for invasion axe now complete, and
that the attempt may be hourly expefted. This in-
formation the public have a right to expert from
them. Thus forewarned, and apprised, the public
spirit will be kept upon the alert, and in a state of
preparation. But when the atteatot shall be made,
when the enemy's flotilla shall ha :e begun to move
from its native shore ; we do also expect, front the
vigilance and energy of Government, to find it the
earliest Herald of the news—we do expeCt to
find all London under aims in rive hours after
the commencement of t!. • aztempt, and that we
are not to wait for the arrival of the Dover coach
for the first communication of an event of the
last importance. In the case of the Brentfurd
EleCtion, expresses and extraordinary means were
resorted to for spreading the result with cele-
rity over the kingdom. We are persuaded that
Government will not be less sfhve in great case
of aCtual invasion. We are the more anxious to in-
culcate this sentiment, because we fear that the false
alarm excited in the early part of the week, and
which has not yet subsided, may ultimately prove
extremely injurious to the coontry. .r” inculcate the
opinion, that the attempt of invasion may bt.• hourly
expc3cl,:s theduty of every good subjea, who oche Ks

that the state of the enemy's preparations warrants
that idea, because it keeps the public mind constantly
alive and fixed upon its danger; but to give out that
the enemy are coming, when in fa& they are not
corning, is only to let down the public spirit, and
render it incredulous to ro,d danger. We have al-
ready stated, that the Boulogne flotilla has returned
into that port; and, notwithstanding the letters al-
luded to from the Coast, which we have inserted,
only mention it as a probable event, we are pretty
confident that it has already taken place.

In our paper of Thursday we inserted a paragraph
from the .hardal de. Dele,lvermrc, copied into a Ger.
M4ll paper, stating that the Marquis De Li AA, the
Portuguese Ambaisadar, was daily expeaed at Paris,
and that, immediately after his arrival, a commer-
cial treaty between France and Portugal would be
concluded, as also as oirensive and defen,ive alii •
ante between France, Portugal, and Spain.—
The Jouraal des I).;ity, which we received on
Thursday, ("derive/it, announces the arrival of the
Marquis de Lim s, at L'Orient, as we announced
yesterday ; but we have autharity to state, that the
report, Si far as respe.ts the treaties of commerce,
and offen,ive alliance, are unfnuaded, and that the
Marquis de LIMA'S commission is merely an ex-
traordinary embassy to compliment the new Em-
peror of the French, and totally unconneted with
commercial, or other arrangements, which ought
to be managed by M. De SOUZA, the Portuguese
Minister, accredited to the French Government.
If it were the intention of France to force Spain and
Portugal out of their neutrality, it is extraordinary
that a French Paper should be the first to announce it.

Yesterday we received Dutch Papers to the 23d.
An article, under the head of Hamburgh, states
some particulars reveding the Russian fleet.

The improved state of His M AJEST v's health, as
announced in our Weymouth News, will, we are
confident, diffuse joy through every class of his
affeCtionate subjects.

A fleet will sail for Russi4 in about a week, and
will be followed by another about the latter end of
the month. _

The brigade of Royal East India Volunteers
yesterday received orders to bold themselves in
readiness to match to the coast at a moment's warn-
ing ; this respeaable corps have for some time past
kept a regular nightly guard at the Company's
Warehowes, similar to that established at the Ilaak
by His MAJESTY. Above fil!evn hundred weight
of lead has lately been moulded into bullets for the
use of the brigade, in case of bring called ihto
labial service.

Considerable preparations have lately been mak-
ing at Bow, and several parts of Essex, to open the
sluices, and overflow the country adjacent ; it is
expeEted an experiment will be made in a few days
by flooding several meadows near the River Lee ;
the Duke of Yoait, it is said, sill be present.
A Conic of Diredors was yesterday held at the
Fast India House, when additional dispatches were
sent off to the ships at Portsmouth.
The Court adjourned at an early hour till Wed-
nesday next.
The outwardbound East-indiamen now at Ports-
mouth, arc expcfed to sail from thence to day.
We understand that six of the ships of 1,200
tom each, lately arrived from China, are to b 2 en-
gaged by Government, to serve as block ships in
the Downs.

aitvrs received by an American House in the
city state that Li slots considered himself so certain
of capturing the China Fleet. that he had engaged
to dispnse of the cargoes of two of the ships to an
American Merchant at the Mauritius.

In the late arrangements for the farther distrihu-
tn of the heringapatam priae.miiney, the East
India Company have ordered a full share to the de.
tachments tinder the command of Colonels BROWN
and RV°.

'the yews, Wtt.gow, from Quebec, arrived in the
Clyde, spoke the following vessels at sea, on the
18th ult. viz. the Montrotal, SIMPSOI4,
FLATONBY, and the etsettc, BAILLY, from Quebec
for London.

Several days last week, during the fine weather,
our off shore squadron off Brest could approach the
outer road near enough to count, without the as-
sistance of glasses, the number of ships at anch,,r
there, which amounted in the whole, to seventeen
,hips of the line, four of them 3.deckers, nine fi i:•ates,
and eleven cut ers, or other small armed vessel's.
It is reported in a leter from the Flague of the
I flth inst. that the 1) :actors of the Bata rian
IL-
public, the Linda:tomtit of Switzerland, and rte
Vice President of the Italian Republic, are to be
appointed Commanders the I .egion of !font-Air.
It is said, that the same h .4w; have been offered to
the Kings of Spain, Prussia, and Denmark, to the
Fleflors of Bavaria, I lesse, and Baden, and to the
President of the United Stalcs of America.

CIIAILES MORDALNT, Esq. of Walton, son of
Sir JOH% MORDAUNT, Bart. who was formerly one
of the Representatives for Warwickshire, is a Can-
didate for the seat now vacant in the representation
of that county.. Sir Jour: MORDAVN T, at the last
general cleaion, having declined, from ill health,
r 'ceived the thanks of the county for the attention
wi;ich he paid to their interest, during the time he
was in Parliament.

On Monday next the Right Honourable the
Loco Marna, Aldermen, and City Officers, will
proceed in state from the Mansion-house, at halt
p Ist eleven o'clock, to Smithfield, and proclaim Bar-
tholomew Fair, according to annual custom, and on
Tuesday following, his Lordship will hold a Court
of Aldermen to declare the vacancy of K. eper of
Newgate, by the death of .1011 N Kis av, Esq. and to
fix a Jay for the eleetion of another in his room.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE IRISH

BY OLD NICK.

0 rune, n Arra, • .tranainarevigfia "f
In days of yore, but since the flood,
Whikt Teague an lied was snaring,
A Spectre 'fore him ghritty,stood,
And 'woke him with laq roaring.

Nu masa it had, nor een an qe, •
Nur mouth to eat its bread;
Arid, wood you know the reawiti why,
. Alas ! it had no head !

W:t,i horrid gape Teague view'd thn
Then cried " Ah ! now begroki,c,
a And mite tw.• from my sad aliicht,
1' And tel me if waking

Arrah, my d ar," the Shade reithel,
" ,:amort 'oil LIAM
" Hum I'm th father's glio.r,who t:,c I,
" Beheaded; Lord kudui how !"

Nitek, poor Ghost :" the son culained,
" No wonder rimed not frisks.
" for he most surely must be ds•—• Is
" Who crinot drink his whiskey."

" Alt, honey, true !" the Sprite resum'cl.
" Therefore 1 loive the dead;
" And th a I mayn't to 1-1— be doom'd,
"I'm loAing for my head !"

• This ejaculatory line is taken frum the 11th canto of t,.
Rierionletto of Foreepterri, where it relates to a certain lip
Haman much more titan our Irishman, who, ft er L..
head hul been cutoff by Count Orlando, snatched it up, an
carried it down stairs with him, to the great surprise of tb!
good Count.

(11 futon Coate),
Now rode if ir.ire Gusto, anti.l,4ltietat.

E la reciso tr3ta in piano piei
i 4 Slate dicrende. Sr . 16.

The Earl of limey:moron, and Lord PITSP.
SHAM, set off this day on a •isit to His Royal High-
ness the Prince of WALES, at Brighton.
We are extremely sorry to hear that Viscruntees
liswicsssuar is seriously indisposed at Coomb-
Wood.

The Sr *stilt Asusassa nom will, in a few dues.
lead to the Temple of Hymen the beautiful Lief
Ft.zerwoon, widow of the late,Sir Tao M A% 1.. Les 1.-
woo°, Ban. Her Ladyship returned to towa
from Bath yesterday, preparatory to the nuptials.
His Excellency has a superb house preparii.g, the
corner of Manchester-square.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of War. es gave
a superb dinner, at her beautiful villa, at Blackheath.
on Sunday last, to a selea party. The French
Princes, Prince CASTELCICAL A, Earl and Countess
of HARRINGTON, Lord Havneesauve, Lord L.
Gowrat, and Lord PETERSHAM, were of the party.
The Duke and Duchess of Be a:FORT and familt
are now at Seaford, in Sussex, where his Grace'.
regiment is quartered : when his presence can bt'
dispensed with, they will return to Badminton Park.
Yesterday the Captain and Officers of the Ea ,/
Camden, East Indiaman, entertained on board that
excellent ship a number of the Direaors of the East
India house, also the Earl and Countess of Ilan.
RI NwroN, Earl CAMDEN, Lord and Lady CAST i.r.
REA au, Colonel and Lady L. WOOO, Lady A. ST A •
110 Pr, Lord H•weessears Lord HAEROWBV, an .I
Lord PETERSHAM, &C.
Died, on the 24th instant, at her house in Brnm-
ston-street, Portman-square, in the 44th year of he:
age, Mrs. MARGARET Aarroan, widow of
dier.General ARNOLD, and daughter of the
Eawann SNIPPY:Ca, Chief Justice of the State t
Pennsylvania, North America. Of this 1.:14y it
may be truly said. that, with a superiority or.:
strength of mind, seldom equalled, she possess
such polished and fascinating manners, as to conve:t
every acquaittance into a friend.
The Duke of Gls • Fl on's horse Parasol is match. x.:
against Mr. Mil. arsit's Buss, at the next Newinor.
ket Meeting for 200 guineas.
Sir NATIIANIEL DANCE is much indisposed et
Cheltenham.
Colonel and Mrs. Sr Alt tow have arrived in fian
from Clifton, in consequence cf Colonel B.
Sr su-
sow being appointed ilrigadie:-General in the %%•,..t
Indies, in which place he will shortly go.
Some say that bettor is a bad name for a Lc:-
eery Orlize Kee,wr ; but fortune has proved, that .
is h;gh up in the wheel.
Mrs. Motpsr Ain's enter!anment of the L
11/4'.);,/ sr has been most rapturously received A.
Elinbargh. The critics of that cif; cannot i •
between her Caleiuman her Pa!: a a Sign
her nrk‘h,re 'Squire, acid her Irish Copt tier.
are all allowed to be inimitable per:Or mantes.
Now that the infant Rovius his tun his r
the good pe Tie of Birmingham cry Trag
avaunt!" and ask, whethor the buy conies ....An :la:
hand of NAttl:e a pe •c et actor (like Mir chvs
armed cap-a-pee from the be 'in of Jove!, or,
thee he 1.4% !wen pet alit,.!?" Thu: :te:! dear •
to solace :hc:nsclves tor hi; :I!•,euce ss r •

L ~inpany of comedroii• : s • •, • :
BLAN.•I4A.tD, EN :‘*l
tirC. tilklt4s, Miss NOR: ON, at.d M.:SS lAA:
We arc concerned to state, that Captain .1.%1 • • •
of the Glory East-Indiaman, uMortuna:oly lost :.••
lite in a duel, at Madras.
painting of the late engagement between t:
China Meet and Li:sots has airerdy b:el executi:
and gill shortly be pi esented to the East India •
pony, who, no doubt, will do every thing t.-
lay in their power to commemorate this grew: over.;.
.e understand a print is to be taken ltum r:•,
painting.
ihursslay the Lord Mayor gar ai el..gant
at the Maii,ion Horse to a numo..- persors cr•t
tirOlion ; among wlicim were, Lark CAALAN
H A RItINI. (UN ; Viscounts Ikon and L•AsI
a F.Atin; HEM. W. l't 1t; S;O: Silia N
\V. Custis, C. Pill,. E, If. INoi J. Col
BL„,E,. \V. A.ll ..„;
J. T s'.! tFt GOV losoit and Di .s f
of the I!..4titi, and D.AECIORs (..i ‘1.11*•• ..1
EA.T-INDIA CONIPASY, and Diukt't ; ‘I•
,hcriff Sit \m, Mr. W. MEI I,1!, S •• •
Etc. Scci