The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE. FRENCH PAPERS

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PART;, NOV. S.

On Sunday, the 4th instant, her Majesty, the Em-
press, received at St. (loud the ladies of the Am-
bassadors, and of the Foreign Ministers and Envoys,

as well as such foreigners as had been already pre-
sented to his Imperial Majesty. The Princess of
Santa Croce was presented to the Empress at this
audience, by Madame de la Rochelottcauld, as
were also the Duchess of St. Theodore ',Nero, and
Madamoiselle de Carracciole, daughter, by the
Marchioness de Gallo.
M. de Rayncval, French C4arge e 4Aires at the
Court of Russia, has arrived la Paris.
The report is now contradißed, that General
Lames had received orders to return to his mission
as Ambassador to Portugal. A society of Poles
• eelebra:ed the birth-day of the celebrated General
Kosciusko, on the sth instant.

His Holiness is aftually on his way to Paris. His
suite is disposed in four divisions. The last, in
which His Holiness travels, together with Cardinals
Antonelli, Bagia, Pietro, Cazelli, the Duke Braschi,
Prince Altien, and their attendants, was to leave
Rome on the 3d of November. It consists of ten
coaches and sir, tA'O waggons of six horses each
also, and two couriers. Cardinal Fesch travels with
the third division, which set out the 2d November,
and his suite forms the greatest part of the first di-
vision, which began its journey on the 31st O,lober.
The greatest preparations were made at Florence fair
the reception of His Holiness, who was expelled there
on the 17th of November.

BOUI °GNI, YOV. 6.

Estraa of the order of the day fur the Imperial
flotilla : the flotilla shall celebrate on the 9th, by
three discharges of artillery, the anniversary of this
glorious day, which has fixed the happy destinies of
France. The first discharges shall take place at the
break of day, the second at noon, and the third at
sun set. All the vessels remaining in the port, es.he-
ther the flotilla bt in the road or not, shall be decked
out in the most splendid manner from sun rise to
sort set. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day, at the time of high water, the Admiral will d •
tribute the Eagles of the Legion of Honou• the
brave fellows for whom he has received them horn
the Grand Chancellor, pursuant to the orders of his
Majesty the Emperor.
A private letter from Tonningen, dated the 21st
of Otßober, and inserted in the Pvbfreiste, contain,
the following accusation against Mr. Harwood,
English Agent at Husum :

" For a length of time it has excited much sur-
prise, that the mails coming from England should be
carried to Mr. Ilarwood's office, instead of being
deposited, as usual, and agreeably to the custom or
all nations, with the Postmaster. This pradice, the
English Government insissed upon, through the me-
dium of their Agent, notwithstanding the remon-
strances of the Court of Copenhagen, and the obser
vation, that " it was for the Danish Government to
be answerable for the letters that passed through the
Danish territory." Much warm altercation took
place on both sides, when Mr. Harwood, fertile in
expedients of that nature, proposed silencing the
clamours of the Postmaster at Hustn, by an annual
indemnity of about 2,0001. on condition that the
letters should be brought to his office ; an acquies-
cence might easily he expeded in a case where
scarcely any resistance could be made—an engage-
ment was thus concluded.
" From that moment the secrets of families, the
secrets of commerce, and even those of foreign na-
tions, were placed in that part of the North at the
disposal of the English agent.
" Several merchants of Hamburgh had in vain
preferred complaints ; letters for London entrusted
to the post never reached their destination, or
reached it very late, while other late: s of the same
h. date were followed by the necessary answers.—
(Murmurs of discontent increased on all sides.)
" At length the secret of this trick is now brought
to light, and the discovery alone will, no doubt, be
sufficient to put a stop to the abuse. The Mails of
Hamburgh and of London were stationed at Mr.
Norwood's, at Husum. From that moment it was
fully in his power to examine them, to dispatch, cr
retain them, as he thought proper. It was stipulat-
ed, indeed, in the agreement between him and the
post-:Waster, that the bag of letters for Denmark
should continue to be deposited at the Danish post-
office, on the moment of their arrival from the
packet-boats ; but the English agent adhered to his
engagement in the same manner as the English
Cabinet adheres to treaties; accordingly there boas
came no letters from England for Tonningen.
" The Postmaster sent his complaints to Copen-
hagen. The Danish Government, in order to see
clearly into the matter, authorised him to require
of the Chamberlain of Husum an authority to
aJ, the express
every post day,

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