The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY,-'bIAACH 29.
A Morning Paper of yesterday stated positively,
that " the principal points in dispute between this
ccuntry and France have been settled ; and with re-
gard to Malta, the great ground of contention, that
it is to be left in the possession of England for three
leays, unless in the interval a satisfaeory guarantee
a its independence can be procured." From the in-
violable secresy which charaderises the present Admi-
nistration in its diplomatic proceedings, we are con-
vinced that the slightest hint of the pending discussions
with France has not been given on this side of the
water. How far the business may have, however,
transpired through France, and been communicated
to the paper in question by French agents, we arc
not prepared to say. We know, that at the time
of the signing of the preliminaries of peace the
English speculators all ran upon the wrong side of
the post at the Stock Exchange, while the friends
and confidants of the incorruptible M. TALLEY
RA.ND tallied off the golden prize. We may an
swer for the honourable secrecy of Lord If Awizts-
/AIRY, but v:e cannot answer for M. TA LLtV A AND ;
and in this state, however, we may doubt the ac-
count in the paper alluded to, as we are not com-
petent to contradia it.—Paris papers and letters of
the 24th were received yesterday. Dutch and
ilanthurgh mails also arrived, with accounts of so
tecent a date as the 25th. They represent the pub-
lie Mind in France and Holland as pacific, but then,
as in England, the proceedings of the Government
arc warlike.
The French finds continue to fall. They were
oa the 24th, 55. 90.

There was a fluctuation of about one per cent. in
the price of the Funs's yesterday. Consols rose
from tn 66, and towards the close of the market
fell back again to 651. The greatest anxiety con-
tinues to prevail at the Stock Exchange for the issue
of the next settling day, which is the sth of April.
Yesterday the dispatches for Madras and Bom-
bay, by the Calcutta, were finally closed at the
East India House, and delivered to the Purser.
PASSESOLRS TU FORT ST. GEORGE.
Mr. Wm. Blackwooil, C. Durasut C. (~nine, H. Y.
Nlartin, W. T. Saumlrrs,J. \l Kelty, tt. I. Cope, it::d I'. Bar-
c:.ry. Mr. I. Home, and W. R. Chamb
TO BENGAL
Mr. James Sawyers, Assistant Surgeon; Messrs. A. Black,
G. Anderson, and J. Duncan, Cadets. Mr. M J. TuTey,
Free M.triner.
A private letter from Calais, of Saturday last,
says—" Tnere has been no measure indicative of ar
approaching rupture in this place, further than
'doubling the guard at the Red Fort, and the arrival
of a Company of Artillery. It is the general opi-
nion in Pais that there will be no war.
Dispatches were yesterday received from Admiral
isisisa, Commander in Chief on the East India

station.
Letters from Bengal, received by the recent
ships, state the Markets there very dull, that up-
wards of twenty teak ships, from 5 to 700 tons, are
laid up, in consequence of the determination of the
Governor-general, only to send three country ships
home this season ; and that most of the builders
have three or four ships on the stocks, which must
remain unemployed the resolution of the Go-
vernor-general is rescinded.
It may be true that th: public opinion in France
is against a war, bat it is idle to infer any thing
from this as to the issue of the present discussions.
By the accounts from Bourdeaux we are inclined to
think that commercial men in France speculate for
a war. There have been large purchases niade of
West India produce, and of such articles as are
likely to be enhanced in price by a rupture between
the two countries.
The press has been carried on in and about Shad-
well with the greatest success, and a great many
good seamen have been procured.
A proclamation will be issued out in the course
of a day or two, requiring all the Out-pensioners of
Greenwich Hospital to assemble at the nearest ren-
dezvous in the different ports of the kingdom, there
to be examined ; and all such as shall be found fa
for his Majesty's service, will be immediately sent
off to do gasrison-duty.
The shipwrights, &c. at Chatham deck-yard work
from five o'clock in the morning till nine o'cl:ick in
the evening.
Lieut..G. Bitows is appointed to the &pyre, of
7' guns, a new ship just launched from Deptford
yard.
Great exertions are employed at Guernsey, in
putting that Island into a state of complete defence.
!'he attention ofGeneral Dov i.r. is unremitting.
Accounts are said to have been received from
the Cape of Good Hope, that the health of Vice-
Admiral Sir RoGER Cu arts, Commander in Chief
of his Majesty's squadron on that station, is so
much impaired, as to make his immediate return
to Europe indispencible.
Accounts from Rotterdam of so recent a date as
last Saturday assert, that the report of the expedi-
tion to Louisianabeirtgon the point of putting to sea,
is premature. Two thousand of the troops which
are to be employed in that service did not pass by
Dort on their way to Helvoetsluys, until the 2.2 d
instant. The expedition.is not to sail until the final
adjustment of the differences between Great Britain
and Vrance.
Letters front Brussels of the 21st March say,
e•Severarchief officers of the marine have just as-
rived at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Havre, to direa.
and encourage the armament of every ship. At
Dunkirk they. work incessantly in the dock-yards,
sometimes even by torch-light. It is intended to
colic& in Boulogne harbour a considerable Bahia.,
proper for the etnbarkation of a great, number of
troops. Several demi:brigades.: of the line are to
Il eac h from Picardy and XrenAltiElaUders to -the
Coast, to take positions from ase paootls aE She 9th
to Graveling. .
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