The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-20 00:00:00

all to sail the first fait wind. A letter for him, from
Lours XVIII. was raceived by the Hamburgh Mail
of yesterday,' and forwarded to Harwich last night,
under suppcuition that His Royal Highness was yet
there. It is now believed that the two Royal Bro-
thers will meet at Gottenhurgh. After the inter-
view, Louis XVIII will go to Calmer, and MON-
strut will return to England. The King of FRANCE
was received with all the honours due to his rank, in
every part of the Russian Empire that he visited.

A report was circulated yesterday of the arrival
of as Express at the Admiralty,with intelligence that
713 sail of gun-boats and 47 tuggers had come out of
Boulogne, and that the embarkation of troops was
pushed forward with great energy and expedition.
It was natural to suppose that the fine weather
would induce the nin,quito fleet to repeat its usual
safe manteuvre undo the proteaion of the batteries
upon shore ; but we have reason to believe that the
apprehensions of Government are no encreasing
with regard to the subjel of immediate invasion.

A letter from a merchant at Nantes, to a respefl-
able house in the city, says, "All our trade is en-
tirely at a stand—our only speculations are in pri-
vateering. Within fifteen months, forty-three pri-
vateers have been fitted out here by subscription ;
of these, twenty-six have been captured by Lugli!li
cruisers, five have been cast away, seven have been
unsuccessful, and five have made eight prises ; of
which three only have arrived rafts in French petits;
we, of course, have been lose s in this business ; as,
besides our vessels, we have been deprived of our
hest sailors, now prisoners in England. Our port
is almost deserted even by neutrals, on account of
the numerous vexations they are exposed to, by the
rapacity, treachery, and insolence of our Police and
Custom-house Officers. Four Americans have been
here for six months ; but, after taking in cargoes for
Martinico and Guadaloupe, last July, and being
ready to sail, they were stopped by the order of our
Police-Commissary, who pretended, that some of
the sailors were British subjeas. After some Louis
d'ors had convinced him of his mistake, and pilots
were ready on board, to descend the Loire, the
Custom-House Officers seized the vessels, upon a
charge that they had Engli.h goods on board. 1 his,
it is true, was the case—but the goods had been
bought originally at a public sale, from the English
prizes. Two of the American Captains are gone
to Paris to complain, and the other two are unload-
ing, intending to sail in ballast, to avoid all farther
plunder and chicanery. Last June, a Danish and
two Swedish vessels, in the sante manner, after ex-
periencing the same diffiztll!ies and oppression,
Navin., agreed to carry to fil.artinico set eral passen-
gers of 'both sexes, the day they sailed, they were
ssopped, half a lergue from our city, by our wick
Police and Custom-house Officers, who declared
the passes of the passengers deficient in some of our
numerous formalities, detained the passengers, until
the orders of the Grand Judge arrived with per-
mission for them to depart, and for which they are
still waiting, after having expended their money
and provisions, and lost their passage, their tes,els
having sailed for Spain."

Yesterday a Ct,urt of Dire tors was held at the
East India House, when several tenders were opened
of ships nt 1000 tons burthen, now in India. also of
those which have performed their coatraftzel num-
ber of voyages in the Company's service; they were
referred to the Committee of Shipping.
The following Sh p s were stationed for China, in
pa►t of the number to be employed the ensuing
season, viz.

Ro.nnar Captain A. Ilarnilton, Bengal and China
rienry Adaingtoo, J. Kirkpatrick, Wexford, Captain W.
Man ey Clrrks Royal Ccurxe, and Earl at Abong.-
yeo.nr. J. %V..r7kwn.th, Jun. Bombay and China.

t kr•ari, Madras and Chian'.
Warr,n 11.1-tings, J. Larkins, St. !Wens, •n, ani
Chi a.

rhe Court adjourned at six o'clock till IVedm.s..
day next.

The Afac!;,—, from Greenock, for Virginia, has
been captured br Mon thick T.,4y French .privateer,
re-captured by the Marrow, man of war, off Ferrol.

'llse I 1 fiat: MA esti ALL. from Antigua for Li.
verpnol, is lost in Cardigan Bay.
Brigadier-General t•riert is to succeed Colonel
A Noscsorr, as Inspeaing Field Officer of Volunteers
in the karrison of Plymouth and its ',trinity.
Commissioner CoNNINC.II •u, of the Vianalling-
Board, has returned from inspeaing the different
departments of the viaualling-office, cooperage,
and bake' ;et, at Plymouth, and brewery at F.aisth
Down; has brought with him, to be laid be-
fore the 3oard, a plan to crea a pier in part rd ',:aw.
sand Bay, for the more expeditiously bringing water
to ship for the use of the men of war lying in that Bay.
The examination of the Comet East-India par-
quet took place on Wednesday, and the papers
were sent forward to the Admiralty Conn. It in-
volves a great question to the commercial interests
of this country, whether a vessel is to be considered
a re-capture captured by the enemy, carried into a
neutral port, but her papers, &e. examined in an
enemy's port, and there condemned as a prize, then
sold in the same neutral port she was carried into
originally on her capture by the enemy, and sailing
f.w a British p trt, re-captured by Rear Admiral
Cocitaame, and sent in here. The question arises
whether, under the existing circum.tances, she is or
is not to be considered a recapture, and a salvage
'f one-eighth ought or ought not to be paid by
her original owners, on obtaining possession of her,
to those who re.eaptused her ?