The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-23 00:00:00

THE BILITISH PRESS.
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LONDON,
MONDAY, MAY 23.

Another body of evidence has been laid before
Patiiament, that proves the inveterate and never-
'ceasing hostility of the upstart Usurper, who fills
the theme of Trance. The information which it
c.antains is no less important than new, and we,
therefore, lay it before our readers at full length.
They will fad from it, that the mere circum-
stance of as English captalni of an English vessel,
eating his dinner in his ows cabin, on board his
own vessel, with a linicemportork of English mann-
fatinre, is i minx shit idgeas both ship and cargo
to confutation, in the poets of France, ins time of
profound peace ! ! They will find, that every ves-
sel. above a handredtods, that shall be forced, even
by unavoidable neteulty, to sail one league beyond
the middle line of the narrow =eight that separates
Dover from Calais, is liable to confiscation, if it
should have a single article of British mantrfac-
board ; and this in a time of profound
price! 1 They will find also, from these new do-
cuments, that with respee to the. United States of
America,the vigourof England has arrested the rapa-
anti hand of BONA P ARTE, and forced him to cede to
that insulted people the territory of Louisiana, at the
very moment when he was contemplating in its
possession the conquest of the western world. This
is intelligence that will come home to men's business
and botorns•at the Stock 'Exchange, which we are
sorry to say is too much the index of public opinion,
and too generally considered the criterion* -of na-
tional prosperity; for it is not by the quantum of
blood that has been shed, or the quantum of hamar
that his been forfeited, we measure our losses; let
the funds rise, and we are taught to think that all is
well, although we be every hour falling in the scale
of nations, and the usurpations of BONAPARTE be
every day gaining ground upon the world. The in-
sertion of the articles t 6 which we allude, at full
Myth. and the press of temporary matter, mem
taeniain from entering into an examination itl .tit:
fait Odle papers connected with the negotiatioilijii
diem this country and the Republic of France....
We regret the disappointment, however, th
' because the official matter which we lay before ode
readers is infinitely more important than any ober.,
vicious which we could substitute in its place,' yet
ita we must not pass over a subject so deeply inter-
eating, without some notice.—Tbe first circupt,
stance that obtrudes itself is the slightness efthe
; reasatian which the declaration of waililtOaenilikk
totuarybana Trance ]tai preduetti4lf tharmi4:'
.stood their geoihid, and even rallied after au Ciffibi,
annotincentent that the negotiation was tern i**
the Ma Might: be fairly accounted fox by Voi:Aii?.
ported Medi:Won of itnetla ; taut any bop* that boir;,
era; a:W*lmila mist have been dileipated by
Pukka absttriske 4.4ia ifistitilaini h i thi;.
Bosse of Cceinthos on gip;, ind;yet ibn haws..
did not experiences fin if smut Stab& al one Per
" 3alusdaiv at.l49b i.OlO no 11°0' of P4FO
the lijidatere trui to :tbeteeelepi,
without a heintatten 'On the piii cf the'rtasi; C.
sett,. erhkb TWO ,kate nositael llio Annie. titiart
free hitspowerAtin anatiaAateisnSthet:4,
Wak.;..thore6ire,' inexontitlir laievikaida, and we call
upon thi Country tolockii belay. hi the fdc and