The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-21 00:00:00

lIIGNAPARTF AND THE BRITISH
• 4 GOVERNMENT.

Since die French Revolution has broken all the
ies of religion, ni..rality, and public order ; since it
sits sibjeeted all right to force, and all duty to the
ibligatnn of supporting its cause, crimes have fu'-
owed crimes, and horrid events have trodden upon
*cis other's heels. Compatts, customs, and public

aped, having given place to a new system of gelle-
d violence,of which the Freni_h republic has ereFted
self both legislative and executive power ; that par-
Icicle community has reduced Europe to the state
f nature, and h:ss im claim to expea other justice
ian such as it exercises towards its own slat es, and
twards foreign sovereigns and subjels.
In this point of view, the alleged conspiracy of
ar diplomatic agents against a revolutionary go.
ernment, which is itself in continual conspitacy
pains! all lawful governments, would be nothing
tore than stets of retaliation, commanded by ne-
tz%ity as well as by policy. Rot this new caltsmay
f Bonaparte is connetied with circumstances, which
ill not allow ;I: to remain indifferent to it, to hear
nd r rad Tightly the opinions ti at on the Continent
re formed about it, or pass over the eonsequillites
'bids the Usurper nas drat from it.
Bonaparte, and his accomplices, suborners of
ie same offeneranvolved in Oie. same hatred, and
awned by eic same crimes, read their own fate in
lose repeated tragedies, is ich a Brissot, a Bm-
espierre, and other revol s Emperors of fac-
ion have polished—
., Distr. ! ensis cui super impis cerrice pendot ."
rid this refle:liun is added the pang of a galling'
.oun.l, given by them to the prick. of a vain and
amoral people, who not long ago considered
-owned beads but as ornaments of their anticham-
eta, and the Christian religion as the doarine of an
opossor, and as the faith of fools; to avoid, there-
ore, the blow that threatens them by changing the
ttention and the objed of hatred of the nation,
ley are under the necessity of inventing continual
mspiracies, in committing real and the most enor-
ens outrages. They must keep their slaves in
nitinual irritation against foreign foes, as some few
ionths calm refleaion would otherwise open thair
es, and convince them, diet, to end their dcgrada-
is, they must break their chains on the heads of
elr cruel tyrants. Hence the declaimers of senates
id councils seize every occasion to proclaim, that
e misery of revolutionary France is owing entirely
the plots of England ; they all behold with de-
lla every pretext for drowning their griefs in !lo-
an blood, for preaching the extermination of
relve millions of Britons to preserve from pun sp-
ent some few thousand guilty Frenchmen. By
ch a conduit they give a new impulse to the lais-
tishing spirit of their people, and, in calling for a
sr 01 vengeance, awake their natural ferocity. The
rolutionised French never invoke humanity but
shouts of rage, and their propitiations are always
rents of blood.

11,f greater part of the nation are, however, not
tapes of these disgraceful farces, and, therefore,
muse themselves at the ridiculousness of the ha-
laves, deputations, processicmi, and other muck
demnities. Flo generally execrated are all who
are any share in Bonaparte's government, that the
ablic would, without emotion, see even 'British dra.
...oils cut to piecea the Emperor and his Senators in
heir £alacel, and tl:e Legi,laters in their curule

W\ DUN,
FRIDAY, DECIMS&R 21 .

The question of Peace or War with Spain appears
to be at last brought to an issue. An Order in
Council was signed on ‘Vednesday for laying an
Embargo upon all Spanish Vessel: in British Ports,
and another Order was yesterday received at
the Custom-House for laying an Embargo also
upon vessels of every description bnund to the ports
of Spain. These orders hive been, of cortrile,
transmitted to every necessary point of the em-
pire ; and nothing now remains ..10“: to
place us in a state of aftual hostility, bat the
issuing of letters cf marque and reprisal, the
ordinary mode of declaring war. These, we.
understand, will be issued in the coarse of this day
or to-morrow. Some say, however, that they will
be delayed until the arrival of Mr. FREIT, and the
consequent departure of the 5P•%1711 ANI VASSAL:OOR.
The order of embargo upon Spanish ships is nearly
inoperative, as, we believe, there are very few ves-
sels of that nation in our harbours.

We understand, that (lover:latent yesterday re-
ceived information, that Mr. rit sae and Mr. Hos-
TER had adualif sa:kd from Lisbon, in the same
ship with I..nrd and Lady Ilut.,.aro, and several
other English, lately ?evident in Spain. We have
not heard the date of their but, it is said,
that, from Government bad re ison to exped
their arrival on Sunday last. It is supposed that
they have been driven from their course, by the
strong northerly ninds.

We can state from the most respeffable authority
the following interesting particulars, which evince
the ciiniplete ini,crriav of BONA!. ‘ll FE'S
plait to is,ilate Great Brit.:in from all Continental
:onn When the Ring of l'ussita, accotd-
ing
z t:10 rci•-r.cd desire of Bost:emits, in the
'beginning of last month, fur the fourth time, offered
his mediati•in between Russia and France, to A LEX-
•NUEIL r. Prince CZARTORINSKI, the Russian Mi-
nister of State, declared, that, according to treaties
ciex subsisting between the cabinet of St. Peters-
burgh and that of St. James's, the RUSSIAN MO-
NARCH could listen to no proposals of a nature to
exclude England from negotiating in concert with
Russia ; it was added, that if the Cabinet of St.
Cloud came forward with a plan for a general paci-
fication, upon such a basis as would insure the con-
tinuance of a peace, and the rights and independ-
ence of Europe, the Emperor of Russia would im-
mediately order it to be communicated to the Court
of St. James's.

It is said that Government have received dis-
patches from out blockading squadron off the Elbe
and the Wesr, with the information that on the 12th
instant, these two rivers were fell of driven ice,
th it nearly impeded their navigation. Since that
day, the severity of the weather has increased,
and we may conclude them now to be entirely
frozen. N iture and the season make therefore
the farther blockade on that dangerous German
coast unnecessary for the present. To preserve,
however, if possible, open the communication be-
tween Harwich and Husum, several ice boats have
been hired from the pilots in the Heiligoland, which
will, during the sinter, try to carry the mails to
and from Husum to that island, where some of our
cutters will be stationed to prote3 our packets, or
to bring over the mails, as occasi, at may require.
It may be apprehended that our communication
with the Continent will even soon cease for some
time, by the way of Gottenburgh, as, when the last
packet sailed from that port, the winter had already
set in very severe in Sweden, and the river Gotha
was full of ice.

Sir SIDNEY SMITH had an audience of the Lords
of the Admiralty yesterday, at the Admiralty, from
three to five o'clock, when, it is said, he was ap-
pointed to a command. -
A Court of Directors was yesterday held at the
India House, which adjourned at six o'clock, till
this day.
JOHN Boss, Esq. yesterday eleaed a Dire for of
the East India Company, in the room of WILLIAM
Aoisot Jacxsos, Esq. will this day be sworn, and
take his seat accordingly.
Several questions arose yesterday at the India
House, among the Proprietors, in respect to the re.
gularity of taking the oath prescribed by Parlia-
ment; several Proprietors objeaing to subscribe to
it, without reservation being made for the Income
Tax, which is deduaed at the India House.

The Direitors of the India Company have lvely
had under consideration the conduit of Captain
Hoocas, of the Admiral Aloha, in surrendering hi,
ship to the l'..yche French privateer in the Eastern
Seas. The Dire tors, we understand, confirmed the
sentence of the Court of Enquiry at Bengal, and
approved of the conduit of Captain Roc ERs, and hi.
Officers and crew, in every instance; with an ex-
ception with regard to his wit having destroyed all
the private letters on board. As the subject will
probably come before the public, when the General
Court agree to allow the owners to build a new ship
in /ter room, we deem it premature to enter into
further particulars at present.
The ../wra Maria, LECRSON, from Boston, for St.
Thomas's and Honduras, is captured and tallied
into Guadaloupe.
The Trieoderia, Hone, from the Bay of Fundy,
has put into Glo'stcr (North America), and is con-
demned.

The InJairtry, HAIDERS, from Grangemouth, for
London, is lost near Hartlepool ; crew saved.
The (211ren, of 98 guns, is arrived at Plymouth,
from Sir T. GRAVZS'S squadron off RochetUrt and
L'Orient, which she left all well on the 15th. The
ships had weathered some very heavy gales without
receiving any damage.
We understand, that intelligence has been received
in Londonderry, of the Ainesly cutter, Captain
Sac vrit, having captured a large Spanish merchant
ship, supposed to be the vessel that was seen on that
coast a few days ago, and that which the Brigiume
frigate• sailed in quest of on the 30th ult.—(Be((/es:
NCI' Leiter.)
We Are sorry to learn, that while Earl Moms,
on his return to town, stosipAl for a short time at
Stamford, a green box, containing his Lordship's
most valuable and confiden I t.a. PAWS. was stolen
out of his carriage, and that every possible endeavour
to discover the robber has proved ineffeutual. Be-
sides this box, a pistol was also taken from his Lord-
ship's carriage. As the Papers in question arc of
the, most important nature, great uneasiness has been
excited by this daring robbery.

Estraa of a Letter from Madrid, dated Nov.
I am pained to inform you, that all hopes of
An accommodation with England are at an end.—
After all the expeaatinn that was generally enter-
tained here, Mr. Feces lett this place for England
on the 14th inst. and so much are we under the ty-
rannic conlroul of BoN AAAAAAAA that I have no hopes
°lbis return. On the 16th an order was issued fir
the detention of all British vessels in every port in
Spain ; and or the ISrh an order was issued for
every person holding British merchandise to deliver
in a faithful statement of the same, ullich was tol-
lowed by au order for its confiscation on the 20th ;
ar.l I am sorry to my, that we hourly look for ano.
Cher order to arrest every, British subje& now in Spain,
so completely under the power and orders of France
is this ill fated country."

THE YOUNG ROSCIUi.

We congratulate the public upon the favouribie
change which has taken place in the indisposition or
this extraordinary and universally-admired boy. Dr.
B vue, and Dr. I's • IISOI4, the attending physician%
pronounce I him, yesterday, considerably better.
Ms intelligence must be the more gratetisl to the
public, as his illness was much mare alarmism than
it was generally supposed. All the little petty pi_
sions of the human heart, in its weakest and mast
degraded state,have been put into action against him,
in a certain quarter. It has been maliciously in-
sinuated, that his present illness has been occasion.
ed, or at least eucreased, by the attention us the
public.

" The fact is," says an Evening Paper, " with respe.-t to
the young tientleman's health, that, if it his been iinpairtst
it hat not been by his playing, but by the and
thoughtlew conduct of thus! wha call themselves iratr."3:—
They rtx and Wage, and injure him by their inaprowenitirs and
curiosity. If the proprietor were so determined to ienit t•
health as their int °hied, why did they, why do they
many ;,crv)iiv Isehind the ,cents Awl !irk. •-•
the hu, on the nights of his acting? Why Jo so ~.any
sons tit: • him out to supper un the nights 01 Isis perio.
and one., he should go home to rest ?"

Such affeaed Jacobin whine is disgusting. It
betrays the cloven foot. Aye, the attention shewn
to this wonderful boy is wormwood to the calusn-
niator in The Cohrier, who writes to gratiiy the
spleen, envy, and je dousy. of a certaia tew. Pay
no attention to the rising Roseies, take no notice of
him, let him sink into silence and oblivion, and then
he will be well, and they will he cmuent. They
;vill put forth again their now " diminished Lead.,"
and, heed from all that anxiety which must attend
so much public applause and attention, the
RaidilS may live in some obscure retreat, of fat 41.4
hearty as any plough-boy.

Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, His Ma.
JEST" arrived at the Queues House from Kew,
and in a short time afterwards His. hi Ales CY gave
audiences to the Dukes of YORK and GLoucrcr re.
Soon after one o'clock His MAJES rir set off for
Blackheath, to dine with the Princess of WA LES, and
in the evening returned to Kew.
Yesterday the Dukes of CUMBERLAND, KENT,
CA %I BRIDGE, and Sussex, dined with Her MAJ rsry
and the Pat NC esses. In the evening I ler NI ctesrr
had a seta party of the Nobility and persons of
distinetion.

The Prince of MrCXLENSURGII STRELITZ. Wlll
is reported to be a suitor to one of our PISAN,: esse.
is in his 26th year, hisvint been born on the 12th
of August, 1779. Of his tour sisters, all are mar-
ried to Gartman PetincLs ; one is the Queen of
PRUSSIA, and the other the wife of Prince Far-
DeIIICIC of PRUSSIA.

Lady KNioisrLay has taken possession of Sr
WiLLIAu GAR rusisoliCa late house in Manchester-
square. _ _

•Sir HtURY Fl. ETCH 11, Bart. has purchased
Major General Mutt:naives late house in Notting-
ham-place.
'f he Earl of ROSE RE kR Y and family arrived at
their house in Park-lane yesterday, from Bixley-hall
near Norwich.
A first rate Beau at Paris wears a coat of pistaeit 9
green in the morning, and of bronze at night, with
silver buttons.

The most fashionable robes, for half-dress, at
Paris, are of white perkale. '1 he designs consist
of balls v. ,not• and puppies.
The Earl of BUCKINGH ASISHIRE, late Lord hio.
BART, will after Christmas take possession of his
late Father's house in St. James's-square. The
Dowager Countess is to succeed iu the possession of
Sir H. MtLostsr's late house iu Stanhope-strirtt,
May7ftir.

Oied on Wednesday morning, at her seat at Hil-
lingdon-house, mai. Uxbridge, the Marchioness of
KocKisUXnM.

The nung Resciass being indisposed, the news-
makers are fitting out expeditious; and preparing a
negociation for peace.
Mademoiselle Gat:mots plays the part of Moldier,
in ifsilidm the ConTiprvr, at the Theatre Feydeau,
at Paris. Mademoiselle Gunton is the mibttes. of
young.thatltAlltiOlS.
The bails of Lt vat are all the rage at Paris. and
are preferred to even those of the Opera.
The following is a copy of a manuscript play-bill
which was posted a few weeks ago, at Minshul.—
“ At the Red Lion in Minshul, rrn---. there *id
be the London Prost ice, or G. orkre
and the Devi/ to Puy at eight o'clock. Pit Is.
Gall. 61." r

The Non-commissioned Officers and Privates
of the St. George's in the East here presented a
'ord. of the value of tool. to Liewenant
SP Lior, their Commander.

Yesterday. Major Caceittcv, with about 200
men under his command, composing the pi iacipal
part of the right wing of the St. Andrea ..rid Sr.
George's Volunteers, marched to I lighbury harm,
to fire at a target, for a sword presented by the Ad-
jutant to the Non-commissioned Officers and Pri-
vates, when, after many excellent shots, the Major
returned with them to his house in Eyte.street.
Tuesday List, the Lancaster Volunteers, inder
thii command of Litilt..COlClild BitADsli•W, 5S ct.l
inspeded by Brigade Major Hut. row, aecompariird
by Lieut.-Col. to nowt. On Wednesday, the
above officers iuspeded the Loyal t.lverston Vi-
lUnteerf, commanded by Lieut.-Col. SUNDZIL•ND,
and also the Carts provided for their couveyanet,
in case of Invasion, with which they expressed
themselves in terms of the highest satisfaet on.
A letter from Bath says, .1 We should have sup-
posed that the Miss Ftsstirio and Miss Lc Mae-
CIEII had long ago exhausted all the varieties of
figure, in their annual choral dances, had we not
witnessed new combinations in their performances
oh Saturday evening. The execution of these in=
tricate involutions, by their fair pupils, did ample
justice to the fancy with which they were conceived.
It must be conieesed they had every attendant ad-
vantage to adorn and render them interesting—
beauty of form, grace of figure, and elegant sizn-
plicity of dress. The style of attire, adopted by
the young ladies of the Belvedere Scleed, displayed
a per 'unified explanation of the untranslatable phrase
" Smophz Aleadrtis:" and the elegance of their
dancing was particularly admired. 'rho room was
graced by a very numerous assemblage of beauty
and faehion."

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