The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-12-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
HAMBURGH TITERS.


HAMIVIGA, NOV. £5.
The Emperor of the French has issued an ex-
traordinary ProelarnAtion here. After a long re-
Leital of complaints against England, and partieu-
' lnly against the tyranny which she exercises upon
' • the seas, i, enacts as follows:
1. The &Air& Isles are declared to be in a state of
blockade.
2. MI trade and communication witi Great Btitain is
striate prohibited.
& Al; letters ening to or coming from Tealand are not to
be foewerded, sad all those written in English arc to be sup
•r 1
4. Every indbrWual who is a 'object of Gr!at Britain, is to
he mad? a p•isonet of war, wh mire' he mar he f
5 All goods heloogiog to I tie...Anima are to be condi..
tete& and the 1141,1111,1 . aid to those who hare suffered through
Art-mine of ships ►y the English.
d. ,this analog fit ns Great Britain, or haring bees ie a
t of that country. are to he admitted.
/. MI trade in English cowls is rigorously prohibited.

GOTTENALT.GH MAIL.
beEztraft of a L•tt.r from I-14rnburglt, dated No-
Taber T. 2, received ci, Gottenburgh : -
" In Env letter of the 20 h. I informed yen, that,
,
. on the receding day. General Monier, at the head
of 3,000 Fresse% itsfanny, and a numerous corps of

cavalry, occupied this city. They marci...—
e,bur% eying, and music playing ; and, in the Paper
of she 206, it was announced, that ' this City is
,„ • tales is the same of the Eissperar • 1 Avast.'
10 ".. .. More French troops have since arrived, and
*hem are expeCted on their wsy to Holstein. Two
thou...nd m.in have invested Altcrta. and I bear that

' . Convention has been entered into between Den-
k ... . and France, by which the possession of Hot-
stain is surrendered to France until a peace.
./The Bank in this city is guarded by French
in conjundion with the military Of the city.
~ The, Bank at Alton has been removed to Gleck:
- The French troops have hitherto behaved with
...'propriety. M. Bourtenne was not apprised of choir
approach until nine o'clock on the morning of their
- . al ; it was, in consequence, three o'clock in
ternoon, before quarters could be provided fir
there, after they bad been smading seven hours in
the open air 7
Tie mail has likewise possessed us al the
Swedish. I).toish. and some of the German Papers:
the consents of the latter have, however, been in
general anticipated. The Stockholm Paper, of the
21a, contains the following articles :
Si II • LSUN Di soy 4.
The French Cemrn ,nder-in.Chief at Anclam,
has demanded, and obtained, an interview with our
General, Count Lewenhaupt, foe the purpose of
complaining of,4oented Prussians being allowed
an asylum bent. 7.
M, Ekwall, Direttor of the Swedish Mail Posts in
:Mecklenlwirgh, has, in consequence of the irruption
of the F:eneh, withdrawn the posts from Butzow,
tiz'..w.rrin, and Tessin, acid retreated witiv them to
ifarrirarten.

NOV. 9.
4Arctcennctinstscahvavtlitulg
croena:claed this
mioroc two or
tthhattcorps
eea
tho
mud men, bad, under pretence of pursuing the
Prussians, entered our country at Anclam,
Meyerkrelis, Denamin, &c. that the inhabitants had
ben plundered and suljedled to contrihu:ions, &c. ;
Escelleney. the Governor. General, on the
morning of the Cab, dispatched Lieutenant-General
Arrefeld;, with four detachments, to Giiels-
weld. Grimm Lichtenberg, and Redebas, and
these were tellrrsed at noon by twos bligad,-t, which
tr+ek post on the sea-shore at D.lfain and Vicsdorff
Baron Armfeldt Cued his head quarters at Luders-
haven, and sent out parties to scour the frontiers;
but the French, who had occupied Anclarn and
pernmin, retreated on their approich, and have
wboily 4,61Lp/seared from our couutry. The ta-

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, Muslims 8.
A Gottenbu-gh Mail ariived on Saturday, with
letters and papers to the 2d instant. A Hamburgh
Paper, of the 25th, has been also received. The in-
telligence through these two channels is important.
We shall begin with the latter : —The Horrahurvi
Correspondenice, of the 25:h, contains a long Procla-
mation, dated Berlin, and promulgated at Ham-
burgh on the 24th. After a recital of a long I,st of
grievances, alleged to have been inflieled upon
France and the rest of the Continent, by England,
and complaints against the tyranny of England, ex-
ercised upon the Seas, the Proclamation orders the
SLIZLIRI OF ALL BRITISH SUBJeCTS, AS PRISONERS Of
WAIL.—.TNIS CONFISCATION OF BRITIsIi PROPERTY OF
EVERY DESCRIPTION, WHICH MAY SC FOCAL/ Its THE
COUNTRISS occurian. BY THE reescm ARMS--AND
THAT THIL BRITISHI,,ISL•NDS SHALL BE PLACID IN
• sr•re or acoccant.
Sever.' persons arrived on Friday, at Yarmouth,
in a vtioal which they fell in iiith off Cuxllnten, af-
ter twitting their escape from H.smbnrgb on the
280, by the way of Altana, have also communi-
cated the contents of the Proclamation, with many

interesting particulars. The following is an sztraft
of a letter from Yarmouth, dated December 5,

1806 :
" We have just time to inform you of our arrival
here from Hartsburgh,, which we were obliged to
leave at a few minutes notice, after a Decree, making
all the English there prisoners of war.
" BON APA RT I'S last Proclamation is to this

elle& That British property of every descrip.
Lion is to be confiscated ; England is declared to be
in a state of blockade; and all British su►jells, who
way be found in the countries occupied by the
French, are declared to be prisoners of war.'
" We left Alma at half past three o'clock on
the Nth ult. Four or five thousand French left
Hamburgh the day before; t►ey went through the
Stein Gate (the road to Lubeck) ; their destination
was not known.

Ttve Brithh Fattory had been arrested, but was
afterwards liberated on parole."
It is reported that the Merchants and others
made prisoners at Hansiourgh have been a:rested,
and marched prisoners to Verdun.
. .

We understand, by other communication:, both
personal and by letter, that the space required far the
dislivery of English property was limited, by the Pro-
clamation, to twenty-four hours, and if after that pe-
riod any persons were discovered to have withheld or
secreted goodsand articles of that AISCT iption, military
mention was to be indoeted upon them. 'fhe con-
sternation produced by the decree it is impossible to
describe. Not only British sobjeas, but many re•
speetable citizens of Hamburgh, attempted, by va-
rious stratagems, to elicit their escepe. Several of
the former succeeded, notwithstanding the cridness
of the orders, in passing the gates of the city; hay-
having first left in the possession of the French otE-
cers. entrusted with she command, property to a
considerable amount, as a security for their return.
Mast of these are the persons who reached Yarmouth

on Friday. They embarked in a vessel at Altona,
which proceeded with them off Cushaven, where,
meeting vith a collier, they prevailed upon the
master to bring them to England. They had a pe-
rilous and fatiguing passage of ten days, and as they
had oniy salt provisions on board, and but two births
in the vessel, they were so much exhausted when
they reached Yarmouth, that, with all their anxiety
to see their families and friends, they were obliged
to remain there on Friday night. One of these
gentlemen arrived, since in town, gates, As his eon-

&lent opini.,n, that the Brithh subjeFts left in Ham-
burgh have been forced to set out on'their march to

the interior of France.
Mr. Druertrom, our late 7tliitister at Hamburgh,
arrived about the same time in the Pincher gun•brig,
which also brought over several persons of respect-

ability.
A port or place is considered in a state of block-
ade, when it is so closely watcheXby the ships of
the blockading power, that a vessel could not enter
without running the risk of capture. France has
complained, in the late and present war. that Eng-
land has travelled out of this strict technical defini-
don, and declared large extents of coast in a state
of blockade, without a commensurate line of ves-
sels to watch it. Viewed in its true and proper
meaning, BON•e•rr E's order for the blockade of
England is only calculated to excite contempt and
ridicule. To represent Great Britain hemmed in on
every side by the numerous fleets and cruisers, of a
Power whose navy is almost annihilated, and still
possesses a few ships, only because they dare not
venture to sea, is the most impotent threat,- and ri-
diculous conceit, over engendered by the fancy of
man. The plans of Eon FA are, ani his mode of
executing them, will not, however, allow us to set
him down a tool or a madman. We must therefore
presume, that he proposes to himself, in this Pro-
clamation, something more than contempt and ridi-
cule. Ile knows, that every Englishman. of every
description, and every informed man, of every coun-
try, must laugh at the idea of his blockade of Eng-
' land,in the technical senieot the word. But he knows
that the great mass of the population of Europe is
grossly ignorant, and impressed with an i lea of his ex-
traordinary rawer and genius. Indeed, wheathey see
great nations thrown down by his nod, and armies
scattered as it were ►y his breath, it is not surprise
• ing that he should he regarded by many as en-
dowed with a supernatural agency. To this is to
be added, the unlimited dominion which he exercises
over the public press; for, after the fate of PALM,
no man in any country within the reach of the
arms or influence of France, will dare to publish a
sentiment unfriendly to Boa•e•ere, or unfavour-
able to his plans. Possessing these advantages,
there is nothing so extravagant for which he may
not obtain some credit among the people of the
Continent. The public mind will Ise entirely at his
mercy. He may fill it with such delusions as he
thinks proper, and lead it on in utter ignorance and
darkness. English Newspapers will not be among
those articles of English manufaaure. the least
striFily prohibited ; and from the press of Russia,
Sweden, and Denmark, but little light can be ex-
pelled to break in upon the middle and the South
of Europe. At a time when France did not possess
one tenth of the meats of imposture and deception
which she now has, the Direaory announced to the
world the memorable vidary obtained by Lord
Howe, on the let of June, as a defeat; and how little
would the Continent know, this day, of the circum-

stance and issue at the Battle of Trafalgar, if con-
fined to the French and Spanish accounts of that
glotious day?—But, by this order of blockade, Bo-
sAP A RTE, in fad, means our whole exclusion from
every part of the Continent in his possession, or
subjea to his controel. However ridiculous and
unfit the terms in which it is conceived, call the
measure by whatever name he may, this only can
be its operation.—lt is a sentence of interslidion ani

excommunication against England ; and, as it is
only what he has long threatened, and we had a
right to expeft, the moment he had it in his
power to enforce it, the public mind must have
been prepared for the result.—Wkat steps Govern-
ment may pursue, in consequence of this extraor-
dinary measure, we cannot anticipate.—While
BON •rartre prohibits our commerce in the States
on the Continent, under his power and influence,
England may cat off these states from all connec-
tion with the other three parts of the world; but
Bon•r AILTZ is aware that England could not adopt
this coarse, without infinite loss and daager. It must
offend neutral nations, because it would be in-
jurious to neutral commerce. It may also
eventually promote the designs of BotsarAara
against British trade. So I'nz as foreign luxuries
and mannfaflures find their ',cry into the States
under the dominion of lionaraatt, so long the
people of these States will consume them, and when
peace returns, England will recover her share in
furnishing that supply; but if these a•ticles be
totally prohibited, if the people of the Continent
Cannot procure them, they must learn to do in ithout
them ; they may acquire new habst:, or endeavour
to open new channels. It they cannot obtain the
luxuries of Egypt and India by sea, they may feel
an increased desire to obtain them by land; anti
upon the r. torn of peace, we in ght find many of
the present sources of our trade dried up for ever.

The other snares of intelligence arrived on Sa-
tu- fay, the Gottenbu,g Mail. eitti Letters an
Papers to the 2.1, repeats the repot, in circulation
last week, of the total defeat of Daveuse's corps,

near Posen. This account is vouched npon the
authority of the Captain of a vessel, arrived oa
the Ist instant, at Gottenburgh, from Elsinore.—
He states, that the French force amonnted to
60,000, and the Russians to 140,000 m.n; and that,
at the departure of the Captain, from Elsinore, it
ship had arrived there, in three days from Stettin,
the Master of which had seen uineteen waggons,
full of wounded French, enter that city. About
lour o'clock on Saturday, evening, a Russian Mes-
singer arrived at the Forelgo OlTice, from St. Pe.
tersburgh, with dispatches. On his way, he had
heard the report, and annrunced it with con.
fi knee. Letters from the Postmasters at Gotten.
burgh, received by the Mail, state also to the same
died. Mr. Dos ipso'', the Messenger, also Sr.
rived on Saturday evening, with dispatches from
Vienna. He was detained for five days, on
board a merchant vessel, by contrary winds.—
The Russian Messenger performed his journey in

seventeen days. We are concerned to state, that
no accounts, or dispatches, received by Government,
amount to a confirmation of the report of the defeat
of the French by the Russians.—We fear all the
accounts, to that effeEt, are only reverberations of
the report which prevailed at Hamburg!), on the
last, and was repeated at Yarmouth on Mon.
day last. It is not very likely that DA vot:sr should
have been taken, by surpriz.., at Posen, by such a
greatly superior force ; and if not taken by sun-
prize, that he should not have fallen back to the
Oder.—Some credit, however, is attached to the
rumour.
In our last page will be found a sketch of the
commencement, progress, and termination of
the late Negociation for peace with FtailCe.—
All the points have been given from time t►
time in the Newspapers, but have not before
hen colleeled in a regular and conneeted series. The
work also bears some marks of odicial authority, as
parts of it purport to be eztraas from the original
Diplomatic Correspondence.

The Krug has been pleased to approve of Mr,
Tesooost Is Carrico to reside at Lnnaon as Consul•
General for the Ottoman Porte. (Go:•,/:(./
Snme letters were receivid on Saturday front
Lisbon, which were landed at Weymouth, hunt is
not yes ascertained by what conveyance they were
brought to England. One of them, from an Eng-
lish metchant, states, as the current rumour 4:
Lisbon, that Boon aaaaa had derstantkd from t::ir
Spanish Government a categorical answer is thr e
questions :

1. The nature and tern 3 of tazir late NegeCiaConi
Aussie?
2. Thermions for n.tt pieriding suthe.ently for tLe s2ciity
of their unifications in America?
3. Why Sper.r was at present arming ?
Demanding at the same time the payment el fifty
thousand dollars per day. until such questions shold3
be saiisfaaorily answered.
Neither our Dublin Cnrre.pondent, nor the News-
papers and Letters front that city, of the 2J, the
latest date, notice the accomt, reported to have bees
received there on the It, of an engagement be-
tween the Cavan Militia and a large pity of thor
disturbers of the peace, called " T
Granard, in which the latter are said to have sus-
tained a great defeat.

Ecaciions.—State of tl e Poll for the county of
Mayo, en the I Ith day :
Right Hon. Denis Wowne - nee
H's. Colonel Dillon - - IWO
Si, John Browne - - 1170
0A1.0•Y et.LCTION.--SATURDAY, NOV. C).
For Mr. Daly - - - - IS9e
Mr. E, re - - lOU
Mr. Martin - - 841
The Right Hon. Sir J014t4 Naweowr, and several
other of the Irish Members, are not expelled in
town until after Christmas.
The William, Arkin', from Bt. Michael's for
Liverpool, and the lk.,re Sisters, from Giasgow Dr.
the Mediterranean, are on shore near Bid.iclor.f.
The Sivoers, of Newfoundland, is lost t!:,,re.
The Beresferst, Waite, from Messina and I.;
is artived at Hoylake, alter being on shore.
The MIMI, BOGIE, from Norway to Cork, is lost
on the coast of Norway.
Every possible exertion is making for the equip'
rnent of the squadron with which Sir Sa must. Hoots
is immediately to sail iota the Baltic. In addition
to the ships of the line and frigates which that gal-
lant Officer had under his command, he will nave
several bomb vessels. Orders have been sent to
Sheerness, to fit out all the vessels veLich are calcu-
lated for bombs, without loss of time.
It is said that a very unpleasant difference exists
between this Government and America, upon the
subj it of ships, under the American flag, sailing for
hostile ports, and loaded vents West-ludia produce.
The British Government, it is said, is resolved to
sohjee all such vessels to capture, 'in the presump-
tion of its being French property, and carried oily
in American bottoms. The Am ricers Government
conre.;d for their right of purchasing such articles
from the Colo iists, and selling it afterward- as
American merchandise.—The difference is said to
ne irteconcilisable.
Amine the very numerous fortunate Sharers of
Capital Prizes 'it tl e last L•sttcry, we are assure,: a
the authenticity of the toil-wing mirk
lamed WILLION, well known in the n,
of Durham, as a strolliag mendicant., died , a few
weeks since. In his untried miner ents e.e wood
early 7u01., with a Sts e.•nth liiiate • f one of the
10 0001 Prizes; mitten has bin lately paid, and
hanoed over to his poor relation. This man Kerner'
to have been in the ;,ahi . horn t'oi we • lih rum's' is
s clothe-, of consta-tly Puri:twang a small LAX"
cry Share—an example not uriwo: by 'hr attention
inane ti.‘ve greater means to d • it. paitt.
.early in a Scheme or such iinnnoois consequence
now invites the embrace of iilkgegrees tat lkse'
venttliefi.

npon the
mrive..l on
Elsinore.—
nonnted

i; and that,
Elsinore, a
-oin Stettin,
a waggons,
ty. About
ussian Mes-
rom St. Pe.
ray, he had
with con.
at Gotten•

to the same
;er, also ar.
arches front
e days, on
ry winds.—
s journey in
o state, that
;overnment,
of the defeat
fear all the
berations of
ugh, on the
ith cn Mon.
-ovsr should
n, by such a
Lken by stir-
back so the
ached to the

sketch of the
ruination of

h Fran ce.—
om time to
not before
d series. The
authority, as
I the original

prove of Mr,
in as Consul.
'turd ay front
ousts, burst is
ce they were
from an Eng-
t
rumour
ded from t::0
lIWItt is thr e

lgoeiaf.ona
Cra the sacirity

mein of fifty
estions shota:3

sor the News-
I the 2J, the
Ito have bees
tagerent he-
petty of those
resien,'
to have sus.

the county of
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