The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-15 00:00:00

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r. the EUITO the ARIL al PR:;.i.S.

" ilfeteittg.
" Stu.;--The iiise,tion a the frdlowing Artiel your P.tper,
will extreniely tth;ige, your very obedient Ser‘ant,
" C. Loma"
" 1311,1 of s.•ivice are Ittily making by the Volunteer Corps
in 0304 ..1 Cora. Kritain, and, we un-
Al, it is th:. wish of Gioi‘iirnent, that those who are clii-
lksied again to eiir.4l tiosomielv.si, will •itgnifr their intentions ai
sin e.Lly as AA it now h obvious at this ju:ieiure, that
Cos,• measii.es wail smears a twofold purpo.e, that of enabling
G.ive.iimelt t.a conliiiiie the "weretit Anuamelit without atm-
mooing t'ie riozolar eatahlishrtitlit ; and of Convincing the
French toatiosi (OA we are sinanimouv in our 4,pport of riur‘e
riled., whirls Vliiii.tersarenow employed in 3A4.`i ring. Among
))))))) emu. 1,01.. r( we have to Aim, •• the otf•rs us
tli • Couoty of Kent only Gravesend, Northfleer,
Rochester, Tunbridge, and Crauhro k "

like following East Indianien, homeward hound,
tinder convoy of the Romer", of 510 wits, and the
Redalau frigat have artived in Plymouth sound :

erre+, Ca aria Don.ford.
LTA Chafhtte. 'aptAin Patte•otnn.
David Sron, C.iptain Jones ; and
Aro,son, Cupt. M.trjorihmik, from China:
Iterip', Capt. Cornine, from Cain and Bay.
They had a very ine passage, and had no idea or
a rupture likely to take plate with France till their
arrival oil' Plymouth.

A letter from Dinan, of the Gth, says ,t Siic of
the English ships that were ordered back some time
ago to England, are returned to Cuncalle. This
event, though of small importance in itself, has
caused muchy at Sr. Malo, because it proves that
the English Government has !clued those almost
hostile measures v-hich they adopted List month.

Forty-one vessels are now fitting out at the port
of Hult for the Greenland whale fisheries, of the
ensuing season. This is five more than the num-
ber employed in that trade front that port in the
preceding year.
Venice will, it is said, be declare.: a free port, al-
though there is much opposition to such a measure
from the merchants of Trieste, who conceive that it
will be highly injurious to their interests. Several
commercial men, however, in the Austrian domini-
ons, think that it would be still more advantageous
to re-establish the Canal and Port of Aquileiurrr,
which would contain 700 vessels ; kit the expence
attendant upon the execution of such a plan forms
a very serious objeaion.
Private accounts from Paris, received yesterday,
furnish the ground-work of a most extraordinary
speculation respeaing the objea of RONA P ART C'S
Visit to the ei-devant Netherlands, which, it is said,
is to proclaim the intcit-rity and union of the ancient
Belgium, part of which now forms the B:tavian
Republic, and
.part has lately been attached to
France. The whole to be denominated the Belgic
Republic, and Antwerp to be declared the scat of
the Executive Government, which it is even guessed
will be placed in the trusty hands of one of the bro-
thers of Bom A PANTE 1

Upon a reference to the Treaty of Peace: between
France and Holland, we find trance is authorized
to place a garrison in Flushing at any time, in war
or peace, with the design, we presume, of securing
the tree navigation of the Scheldt. We know that
such a permission confers the real !sovereignty ; but
the placing a town in a state of siege, is a civil as
well as a military as ; it is an aft not authorised by
the Treaty alluded to, and one which should have
sprung from the Dutch Government alone.
So lucrative was the Government of Gibraltar
previous to his Royal Highness's taking the com-
mand, that we know, front undoubted authority, that
General O'H Ati A, during the few years he was
Governor there, realized about seventy thousand
pounds.
Major-General Sir CHARLES ACC:ILL has re-
ceived orders to proceed immediately to Ireland, in
order to take upon him a chief command in the sou-
thern district of that kiagdom.
General MI VItICK has arrived in Clonmell,
to take upon him the cltief command of that
distria.

General Vieron and the other French Officers
of note, who were to sail with the expedition for
Louisiana, have thought proper to sell their stock
for the voyage, and this at a considerable loss.—
This transaction took place last Thursday at Rot-
terdam. The flag of Admiral HARTSINCK was
flying last Saturday on board a thirty-two gun
frigate in Helvoct Road, waiting for a favourable
wind. It was thought his orders were for the Me-
diterranean. _ _

The new Bill for regulating the holding of farms
and residence of spiritual persons on their benefices,
is expeEted to meet with considerable opposition in
the House of Commons, as it is thought, that by
encreasing the powers, it would greatly augment
the influence of Bishops in elelions, the clergy
forming so powerful a part of tl:e. magistracy and
freeholders of the different countie:.

The parochial accounts of deaths within the bills
of mortality, are at present considered as very in-
accurate, as they inak; no mention of the great
numbers annually interred in the burial grounds of
WLsrLEv, WHITFIELD, Lady Hum-It:coos, &c.
which ure not parochial.
Though if true, it would be a matter cf very little
importance ; yet we understand that the story in
some of the newspapers, that the dog which occa-
sioned the late unfortunate duel, has, been the con-
stant companion of Captain MACNAM AR A, during
his illness, is perfatly unfounded.
The maritime expedition fitting ant at Peters-
burgh, at the expellee of the Company of American
Merchants, is to proceed from the Cape of Good
Hope to Kanitschatka, and has for its obje& to esta-
Mish an exchange between the produaiuns of oiberia
and those of China.

The troops of the tine in the vicinity of Portsmouth,
are daily exercised in the use of field-pieces, under
the inspetclion of otNcers of attillery ; and go trough
their different evolutions and firings of the pieces of
artillery with the greatest correaness and exactitude.
Mr. LEwts, we understand, is to retain the ma
nagement of Covent Garden Theatre, by special
agreement, as long as he pleases. To his assiduity
and judgment the Theatre is indeed much indebted,
and we hope he will long possess the health and
good spirits which have enabled him to render so
much service to the property, and so much pleasure
to the Public.
The chief Proprietor of C.vent Garden theatre, as
soon as he had settled matters with Mr. Kt:34131.E,
sent immediately to COOK E, to let him know that
his interest should not suffer by the new arrange-
ment of the property, nor his feelings be wounded
by any future allotment of charters.

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1) ÜBLIN.
T 1 le following is a copy of a cifeitiai• letter, ad-
dressed to the Commanding Officers of the respec-
tive Corps of Yeomanry on the present crisis :•—•
March :A, Mt.
" I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you
that, in th • pte,viot itoqttre of affair, it i. pirrictilarly 01".
Airahle the Yeomanry of Ireland dooms' be prepared for any
emergency.
" Ili% Excellency is fully convinced, from the loyalty and
public spirit which have been a nwdy so generally manifested
by the Yeomanry, that they will again mot cheer uhly conic
forward, if their servie-s >huuld he required, with the same teal
by which they were actuated during the late war.
" The Cono under your command may be assured, that if
it should b necessary to equip them completely for service, no
exertion will be wanting on the part of Government fur that
purpose. I have the honour, &c.
" E. IL LITTLEHALES."

We arc now enabled to state, upon good autho-
rity, that the alarm excited by his MAJESTY'S Mes-
sage to Parliament, was very far from being with-
out a substantial foundation. All the official com-
munications made to our Ministers uniformly assert
the immense warlike preparations making for some
time in the ports of France, in which Flanders is to
be included, and in those of Holland. These were
and arc of such a nature as could nit be destined for
colonial purposes. It may, perhaps, be true that
there are no more than three or four ships of the
line ready equipped, in many of these ports; hut
there are as many hundred flat-bottomed armed
boats, which could -never have been destined to
make long voyages fur which they were every way
unsuite

Portrait of Mary qr Putttristrr.]" She is an ex-
tremely interesting woman, with a good figure and
animated face, though not a perfect beauty ; but
there is something about her that would have awed
even a savage from injuring, and would make every
thing civilized delight in protecting her."
Bu AIiAM is engaged for the Serious Opera next
season; the sum mentioned i 800 guineas. &rep-
RACE is engaged fur the Comic`llPpera—but it is un-
derstood that both of them arr_to play occasionally
at Covent-garden Theatre.
A gentleman of Rotherhaa, we are informed,
and who is now doing business for Government,.
has just completed a perpetual wheel—the object of
this most valuable invention it to do away the ne-
cessity of fire aad water, inlbe working of mills and
engines.
rhe jewellery in the celebrated three-dropped
oiarnond ear-rings of the late unfortunate Queen of
FIlA,;(71: is thus divided :—Her Royal Highness the
Princess of WALLS possesses the tops, and the
largest pair of drips ; Sir WILLIAM MANNI tts is the
proprietor of the second pair, and Lord Butoa t-
BANE the third.
The Ayrshire Militia, are commanded by Sir
amp HUNTLIL &mu. This Comm.uuler will
lead the French a daises.

Wednesday last was launcli"d at Mr. HART'S
yard, in Ulverstone, A fine cutter-rigged sloop, of
fifty tons burthen, called the Ilfigium Pitt, the pro-
perty of Sir .louN LEGAte, who is going out in her
to visit different parts of Italy for health and
amusement.

The news of the marriage of Lord MoNrco-
MER V, son of the Earl of Floi.iwroig, to Lady
MA RV MONTGOMERY, diffused in the town of Ea-
glesham a general and lively joy. On the morning
of Tuesday last, a large company of his Lordship's
tenants assembled on horseback, in order to proceed
for Eglinton Castle. They were conduCied out of
the village by a number of the principal inhabitants,
with music and banners displayed. In the evening,
all classes of the people most ardently concurred in
manifesting their joy.
Tuesday last WILLIAM LEECE, of Lancaster,
innkeeper, was convklcd before the Mayor, in the
penalty cf five pounds, for refusing to receive and
furnish JAMES PRICE, a sick soldier belonging to
the ‘2d regiment of Dragoon Guards ; he having
been legally billetted upon him. The 'largest pc
r.:ity was infliaed, on account of LEECE turning
the soldier out of the housc at eleven o'clock zt
night.

It is said that the FIRST Cossut, dissatisfied with
the manner in which many of the finest dramatic
pieces are represented, has expressly forbad that
Moline should be longer abandoned to the pre-
sent performers.
By accounts from the Continent, Lady WALLACE
died lately at Munich. She was sister to the Duchess
of Go !MON.
There is a silly story in one of the Paris papers,
that Mr. Mu RPHY, our excellent dramatic writer,
has been granted a pension of two hundred pounds
a-year, to prevent his publishing a poem in honour
of BONAPARTE.

At Newmarket Races, on Tuesday, Tuntful beat
Al by several yards.
Mr. WATSON'S Goaler beat Mr. WILSON'S Sophia
across the flat, for ;:uti guineas.

Mr. DAwsoN's Quiz, which won on Monday, ran
again yesterday against five fresh horses for the Oat-
lands Stakes, and beat them all easily.

Duke of Gsarrozes Penelope and Sir FRANCIS
ST ANDisit's Dlubury ; across the fiat, for 200 gui-
neas. Penelope won by a neck.
Mr. AstErr, Assistant ('ashler at the Bank, is
the person to whom we have alluded as having been
taken into custody for an extraordinary deficiency in
his accounts. Defalcations to the amount of two hun-
dred and eighty-eight thousand and sixty pounds are
said to have been committed ; and the great object of
the examinations has been to brinq out the applica-
tion of this immense sum. About 80,0061. worth
of the bills have been restored to the Bank by the
person in whose hands they were lodged for sego.
elation. Mr. A. lived in lodgings, was a single man,
and in a very tittexpensive way. He was engaged
in some Lead Works in Wales, but to no even; and
as yet no trace has been made of this enormous
sum. It is not true that any Mr. Cum ELL was con-
cerned in buying or selling the bill, upon which the
discovery was made by Mr. Buil. There was not a
banking-house in Condon that would have hesitated
to trust Mr. A. with their Government Securities
to any amount on the very morning of his arrest !
Mr. A. has, as yet, made no disclonn.es. He was
advised by his Solicitors not to ansv ex interroga-
tories. Mr. BRuouE WATsON remanded him to the
Poultry Conipter until Saturday next, by which
time he expressed a hope that he might be able, and
disposed, to rtnder an account of tie Funds, sus-
pe:led to be widuirawn from the strong rooms of
the Bank. Ile is not, th...ref qv, fully commitsedfor
trial, as stated in some of the payer s. I -.
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