The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-08-15 00:00:00

The Print-eta Elizalcth packet is arrived at Fat

mouth, in eleven days passage, from Lisbon ; she I
has brought a Portuguese Messenger, with dis-
patches for Government. We declared some days
since, our apprehensions that Portugal was threat-
ened with some nee/ and immediate danger. In
support of our opinion, we quoted a paragraph from
Mettiels?oresinouth Paper, stating, on the authority
of a letter front an Officer in the Channel Fleet,
that the Hibernia was completed for a long voyage,
destined to take the Prince regent of PORTUGAL, to
the Brazils, and establish him there as King.—
This may not be true in its full extent, but it is cer-
tain, as we have already announced, that the Earl of
Sr. Viricemr has since sailed in the Hibernia, upon
a Secret Expedition, with the ajiaece, of 74 guns,
and the Lavinia frigate, of 44, leaving Sir CilA It cl
Corrom in command of the Channel Fleet. It i-
now generally believed that his Lordship has sailed
for Lisbon. The Campo, of 74, has been since
ordered to sea from Portsmouth, with sealed orders,
and is, according to report, to follow :Am. Some
think that his Lordship is gone in pursuit of one
of the /Oren French squadrons, but that is a very
improbable case. That would be the business of a.
detachment of his fleet, under the command of an
infelior officer. The Earl of ST. Visiscumr aid not
go to Aboukir.—fle sent a Nti.som there.

Dot 4• r *Art's developement of his new plan, for
the organization of the Southern States of the Ger-
man Empire, under the name of the " Raenisis Con-
federacy," it is thought may determine the Em-
peror of RUSSIA not to ratify the Treaty signed
by D'Ouess 1., at 'Paris, in its full extent.
If the Emperor was not apprised of it, the pre-
sumption is a fair one, and the circumstance
may prove fortunate for the common cause. All
the chango hitherto effeded by French fraud, arms,
and influence, in Europe, are trivial, when compared
with this monstrous innovation. Hitherto Bow A.•
CARTE has been content to work upon a single
piece at a time. He spared Naples until he had
revolutionised the North of Italy. The dethrone-
ment of a single King, or the eredion of one new
kingdom, has heretofore been .suffleient to gratify
the cravings of his ambition for a day. But in the
Rhenish Confederacy he goes to work upon a
larger basis. Its appetite is become delicate,
a single dish will not please, as formerly.—He
must have, a Alia tenth a variety of removes and
covers, to please his squeamish palate. The usur-
pation of Genoa put an end to the pacific mission of
Novosi xvzor r, and it is not unlikely that the pub-
lication of the Federal System may overturn all
that has been done by the mis.inn of D'Ou eau.
Although the Emperor ALEXANDER might have
►eosrdisposei, under other circumstances, to ratify
the terms subscribed to by that Minister, disgrace-
ful as they appear to be, he will depart, in a most
unaccountable manner, from the generous policy
which he has hitherto pursued, if he does not pause
before he sanctions a treaty, stipulating nothing
less than the annihilation of the German Empire.
The Rhenish Confederacy affeds Prussia still more
than it does Russia ; and if the project did not in-
volve the common intere.ts of Europe, every liberal
mind must rejoice at the drgradaticn to which the
cold and selfish policy of that power has reduced
her. After driving Austria out of the empire,
France will not be likely to substitute Prussia in
her place. It is not FREDERICK, but BONAPARTE,
who is to preside at the Congress of Frankfort.-
-All bores of the restoration of Anspach and
Bareuth, or of any other equivalent in Germany,
for Hanover, are now flul from Prussia, and the can

only retain Hanover at the expence of a war Nv;tl' 1
England. In a subsequent column we have given
a .State Paper relative to her possession et" that
Electorate, which strengtheas the o);nim, that
there is Ito idea of an exchange of terriory, and
that she is resolved to retain it, as the only
compensation to which she can now look. It ;s
the Declaration of His PSUS.IAN MAJESTY to the
Hanoverian Deputies, wi•isli will he found in a pre-
ceding column. The last part of it contains, we
believe, the first mention which that Sovereign has
thought proper to make of England, as connected
with the country of which he has lately taken pos-
session. It is also so far interesting, as it explains
his motives for incorporating Hanover with the
Prussian Monarchy. The Deputies are told. that
experience has proved "that England cannot protect
them ; that they can be protected by Prussia alone,
And that the welfare and security, both of the Hann.
verian States, and the Prussian Monarchy, depend
upon their union and incorporation."

We stated yesterday, in our Court news, that
an order was made for proroguing Patliament un-
til the 9th of 06tober.—We do not see how this
order afiefts the report of a dissolution, which it
now supposed likely to take place in Au'umn. An
Evening Paper, however, devoted to the Opposi-
tion, obviously alarmed at the pr;speet, says--
" But it would perhaps have been as well if the
Nlinisterialists had waited a little ; let them look
to the north of England—let them look to Scot-
land—and "see they no danger lurking there?"—
Danger in Scotland !! What does the Writer mean?
Is not Lord bilis,' r.t.E there?

Mr. Fox sat up in his bed-room yesterday, and
transadled business with Sir Fa ANCIS VINCENT, his
Secretary, from two till three o'clock.
The Right Hon. Secretary takes beef tea and
other strengthening 'broths.
The Trepassey, Monne, from Newfoundland. for
Bariridoes, was captured and burnt on the 17th
June, by Admiral WI cctauraer's squadron ; crew
carried into Martinique.
The transports, with troops, which sailed from
Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday.
We hear thit Larl PERC v , the eldest son of the
Duke of NORTIIVAIIIERLAWD, is to be retutned for
the borough of Buckingham, in the room of Lord
Pao av, appointed to the staff of the expedition to
Sicily.
Circulars have been received by the Lord; Li Au-
tenants, relative to the trainieg of the Levy en :t terse
His Grave the Duke of NOETHUSI se RLAND. in
consequence. issued coders for the immedi. to deli-.
vet y ot the lists in that county.
The Officer who landed at Standgate,on Tuesday
night, was not, as we suspesled, the bearer of dis-
patches from Parrs. He arrived on Wednesday at
the Admiralty, and delivered his dispatches, which
are not supposed to be of importance. Mr. M SKI-
DEN sat up the whole of last night, and the night
before, In expettation of advice, from Admiral
COCHEASE. None have yet arrived.
On Saturday, Col. MA TTHEWS assembled the six
companies of his regiment, which meet in Hereford,
for the purpose of submitting to them the new regu-
lations. After a clear and manly speech from the
Colonel, he desited all who wished to secede, to
order arms ; when five men only did so, and one has
since returned.
The Prince of WALES'S tradesmen dined together
at the Thatched House Tavern, on the Pa 'sec's
birth-day, when the following resolution, expressive
of their gratitude and attaeinirem to his tivyist tt,gh-
neu, was unanimously agreed to :
Tlistcheitt Inure Tavern, Aug 12.
Ass numerous MN ling of the Tradesmen ot tin tturoll-I.gh-
nes• the Prnice of Wales, assumbhid to r..lesh:.ite the ann.., r.
dry of his birth, it WM .nge,tua, •u.l rioaninsously ag,eed
to.—
That they ought, at this crisis, pad), to .and forwr. 1 in
nollr to esio.-ss their note grateful acKnowledgmenis for Isle
advantages they dame, and lase,: derived, Irron the
uid sismient of Lis Royal ilighitees, to whose
cote and libevel eisoluilltment the proves 01 the weig,,,,t and
usetol arts country, stands so Inglilv indebted.
That (eating themselves thus honoured and ixnetted, di,
consider it ris due to gr.titude end both, time I,uhlicly to
mimes. their Ingli ',oar of H. Royal Idighnes.'4 condes.,n-
lion and patronag•, th ir entire sat,. faction, as era Irvin n,
and their anxiety to exert thents,Nes, so its to mitt rim 10..,1
11,gline.es ati,:robatmir, and tu meet the honour of has future
coo.hhinds.
The Stationers' Company, yesterday, held the r
annual August Dinner, at Stationers' Hall, on which
Oceasion, Sir MAT THEW 131.0XNANI, the Master t f
the Company, took an opportunity to observe, th. t
dir Representation of Maidstone was the chief price
of his life. and, in the event of a General EleaißO,
hoped that his condor' heretofore would cosine him
the support of his former friends. and oventtral:y
keep him in that high situation which he felt • o
much pride to fill. Sir MATTHEW'S seatimetts
were highly applauded.
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In a late Paper we gave the names of four of the
New Commissioners far Auditing the Public Ac-
counts, viz. Serjeant PR AED, JOHN ANSI' KY. FACI.
JatiN Wtsnaw. Esq. and -- DEAR, Esq. T: ,e
fifth is Sir CHARLES Rous But OM TON, one of the
Commissioners under the former Aa.
The Profes,or DELON mai, of Paris, has recently
presented to the Tribunate " An Exposition of the
Prophet DANIEL, with relation to the present great
epoch." Prophets still continue to make their for-
tunes in France. Thus, the pamphlet, entitled,
" Prophecy that NAPOLEON the GREAT was an-
nounced twenty centuries ago," has already reached
a third edition. Some years since, in the great
and credulous metropolis of France, Dyed a man,
who had calculated, from long experience, that
out of ten reports, on an average, six or seven were
false. He, therefore, betted against every new re-
port, and gained large sums. if it was added, that
the account was received from good authority, and
might be depended on, he doOled his wager. What
riches might not this man now amass I

THEAI RE.

STR ART).
Last night, the new Entertainment of Portraiq „f
the Living aid Pre' WAS repeated by Mr. PAL.
sack, at this The.stre. From the numerons and
fashionable attendance. combined with the intrinsit
merit of the piece, an I performance, it may be
now considered as firmly establisiied in public
favlur. Soine of the Leiftitres have been indicin.l.4,
curtailed, particularly those on the he tds of the
Italian Opera Singers, and on that of Bow A e art.
The produdion of the latter, h•rwever, was disalyee.
able to a part of the an tience ; but the harsh ob.
servations on the cl)ara6ler h..ing almost merely
omitted, tranquillity was shortly restored. The per.
trait of Mr Pirr. also, produced some npansitine;
but the enloginm nn that great man's memory alai
heard with bn•sts of applause. The !retire on tla
head of Nevins was enthusiastically apptandrd, and
the whole entertainment gave the highest satisiec.
tion.

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