The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-29 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.

?EOM THE NEW MERCHANT, JUNE R.S.

It is confiden•ly said, tl.at the king of Prussia
hts resolved to recognise Bonaparte Emperor of the
French. and that new :redentials have been sent to
the Marquis of Lucclwsini at Paris.
The German Papers say, that a fourth kingdom
is about to arise in Italy ; that Lucian BONA-
, A RTE is to be created Grand Duke of Parma, and
Kingly Regent of that part of Italy not compre-
hending Naples, Sardinia, and Etruria, and that
he will quit his residence at Rome; that the Pore is to
resign his high office, and s?end the remainder of
his life in religious devotion ; that the ecclesiastical
will be converted to a temporal state, of which the
brother of the French Empert,r will be the head.

•A letter from Rome, cl ned June 3, seems to con-
firm this not improbable lnteiligence :

" It is now reported that the Cnurt of Vienna is
labouring to bring about a pacification, and th a its
mediation has been requested by one of the bellii;e.
rent powers."

Front Leghorn they write that an English flag of
truce is arrived there with dispatches for the Court
of Florence. whither they were immediately con
veyed.

COMP? 10/IF, JUNE 17.

The Emperor arrived at Compeigne, at eleven
o'clock, on Saturday night. This morning, at three
o'clock : be was on horseback, and reviewed the
dismounted dragoons of the camp till noon. In the
evening, he received the Constituted Acthorities;
visited the School of Arts and ManufAttres; and,
mounted on horseback, manoeuvred the cavalry till
Light.—(Manitear).

BLAVVAIS, Air, I'.
Our Prefea has just set out for Compel. Mere
his ht.ije•ty the Emperor is expeaed. He cries
the statement of the Votes which have been given
in the I)ep irtment on the question of the Ileredi-
ditary succession. In this case, as in others, the
Department of Oise has distinguished itself by its
at,,climent to the head of the State. On the ques-
tion of the Consuhhip far life, the department gave
1 d,l9'; votes for, and '22 against ; and on that of the
hereditary succession, 37,900 votes for, and 17
against, which is more .lean double.

'ARIL, JUME LB.

Nothin3 is talked of at Vienna but the approach.
Lig departure (.f Count Enerhazy for Paris. He
w.ll be accompanied by a very numerous suite, in
quality of Ambassador Extraordinary.

LONDON,
FRIDAY, luxe 19.

In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Hamm-
BUR Y gave notice of his intention to move, on
Monday next, that the Bill for the Abolition of the
Slave Trade should be postponed until that day
three months. His Lordship said, that even the
friends of the Bill, who introduced it into the
other House, could not expect, from the ad-
vanced state of the Session, that it could have
passed in it. iA fear Lord HAWK ESEIL KY will suc-
ceed in his intention to throe out the Bill ; and if
so, Mr. PITT will once more have the credit of de-
feating as a Minister, the very measure which lie sup-
potted as a man and a Member of Parliament.
Mr. WILBERFORCE was in the House behind the
Throne, and heard the reasons assigned by Lord
HAWKESBUIT why the measure should be laid
aside for the present. From thence it would ap-
pear the session will shortly close, and yet some assort,
that Parliament will sit nearly a month longer, Arad
that Mr. PITT has same new measures to ityro-
duce. These reports, we must presume, ate with-
out foundation.—Any new measure would be still
more obje.lionable on account of the time, than the
question of the Slave Trade.

One of the three Hamburgh Mails doe, arrived
yesterday, and brought us Letters and Papers to the
16th inst. We received at the same time Paris
Papers to the :o.h, and Dutch Papers to the
tier. In Germany, the Courts are emulous
which of them shall degrade itself first in acknow-
ledging BoN•PARTR'S new dignity. Prussia. as
well as Austria, have accordingly sent new Creden-
tial; to their Ambassadors at Paris, and are besides
preparing extraordinary embassies, purposely to
compliment the Usurper. If ambition and vanity
' did not entirely blind BONAPARTE, he might know'
that these alit ate commanded by terror, by the
power of his bayonet ; not any attachment to his
person, or acknowledgment of his right. The of
fee is, however, the same upon the French nation.
and other Continental States surrounding it. While
Addresses pour in from all the French Departments,
Deputations are sent from the Ile:vetian and Ra-
tavian Republics, not only to salute the CORSI-
CAN EMPIROR, but to honour his Coronation
ceremony with their presence. There can be
little doubt but that Spain, Portugal, and
Naples, will fellow the example of Austria and
Prussia. No mention is yet made of the determi-
nation of the three Northern Courts—of which,
however, the Danish will, probably, be forced, by
fear of the French neighbourhood in Hanover, to
submit in a short time. In Russia, the armaments
continue ; and private accounts say, that the Cabi-
nets of St. James, and St. Petershurgh, pettedly
agree and understand each other, with regard to the
present situation of affairs, and the necessity to re-
sist French oneroachnsenu s but they add, that
Austria and Prussia, jealous and mistrustful, are de-
termined to continue a precarious neutrality—and, in
doing so, endure an oppression and tyranny, which
a Mimi* Tams*, and a Fiti.nsiticc the Geese,
would have resisted and resented, even at the risk di
their Thrones. We must, however, observe, that
the present Ausv !ism and PRLSSI AN Sovsamoms
have neither a K AUSITZ nor a I laminas. for
their Ministers and Counsellors.

By Bonaparte's late usurpation of an Imperial
rank, all previously existing hereditary thrones are
shaken; and either they or the revolutionary throne
of France must inevitably fall. Their co-existence
is a moral, as well as a political impossibility. It is
better to be without Kings entirely, than in their
persons to see royalty loaded with insults, which,
though tall :mining it, are never resented. The
French Revolution, in producing so many crimes,
so many errors, has, to the rest of its scourges,
added that of empyrics, who promise to cure the hu-
man race of every disease, provided they take their
drugs, and pay well for their prescriptions. Among
these, Bonaparte has certainly been the most sue.

cessful ; and, for the wretch2duess of the
has made the most dupes. Emperors, Ki,;gs,
Princes, Ministers, States, and Nations, have
Loved Isis poisonous doses ; and their prestmt melan-
choly situation is the consequence.

There are many expatriated Frenchmen; fo,
reigners who follow them, and Ministers who give
them their confidence; who perceive, in the subvet.
&Lai of Prance, only their own history, and, h the
revolution, only a revolt protrafted by a wicked, are:
bitious man and his accomplices. There ate many
men in place, and reasoners out of place, who still
persuade themselves that terms may be made with
this volcano, and that it may be extinguished by
suffering it to burn. We request these to refL
upon the universality, aaivity, the rapidity, of the
revolution, anal its incompatibility with all that is
still existing out of the vortex of its empire. By
the event of the revolution, Europe is thrown into
a state of demolition in all its parts; religion, mo.
rats, language, boundaries of states, forms of go.
vernment, classes of men, foundetions of property,
are all effaced, all new moulded. The revolution fira •
breaks empires, then throws the fragments of them
into its crucibles. In them have already been
formed half a dozen of republics ; and, what is
more dangerous, one emperor and empress, in.pe.
rial highnesses, and a revolutiasary nubility and
clergy. Such has been, etch is, an .1 such ever
will be this revolution. It is a body of destruElion
completely organised for the purpaie, perfeWy of a
piece, and adherent in all its parts, which, in its
course, must crush all before it, or be crushed itself.
Bonaparte's aftions and transactions do not disguise
this truth. They designedly tear away the veil from
the future, as well as from the past. The Revolu-
tion has withstood the changes of leaders, the shock
of faaions, the arms of open enemies, and the snares
of secret conspirators. Whoever has seized upon
the reins of it, either a Robespierre, Barras, or 80.
naparte, has i•eld them with a hand equally firm. It
seems to have insinuated its double spirit int) all
those mho have direaed it.

In considering what has hitherto been tried to
opp ise this engine of destruCtion, it is distrc .sing
tc ail loyal men to see most Governments taking
pains to oppose the Revolution upon its own nature,
and maintaining, in spite of Gas. in spite of its re-
peated assurances, that it is not what it declares it-
self to be. Such is the unequivocal sense of all their
conduet, from the treaty which Prussia signed at
Basle, in 1795, to that in which Russia, in 1801,
guaranteed, with France, the partition of Germany.
The only revolutions that change the face of the
world are those which combine opinion and politics.
It is this combination which is never attended to by
ordinary diplomatic charaaers, or the still more
.njudicious class of military men, who, when they
have traced fine evoiotions upon paper, besieged
some forts, or displaced some battalions, imag'ne
ley have undone an empire, before which, generals,
armies, and fortresses, have fallen into dast. If
Mahornet had fixed his mind only upon a kingdom,
perhaps he would have remained a tamel-driver;
but he was a revolutionist in religion, in Isgislation,
and in morality. The minds of men took fire, and
his dogmas spread with the empire. The King dis-
appeared, but the prophet-legislator still reigns
over one half of the globe. Bonaparte is perfectly
aware of the qualities and effeas of these double
revokitions. His predecessor's zeal of impiety,
aid tanaticisirn of equality, equally striklng
the senses and the imagination, have been kept up is
his religious Concordat, as well as in that of the
Senatus Consultus, which annihilated both liberty
and equality. However changeable may be his
revolutionary system in its metamorphoses and mr
difications, its principle remains fixed and immut-
able, and it is only in its principle that we are to
look for it. Its very essence renders it incompatibk
with whatever is not of its own nature, with all that
has existed before it, with all that exists around it.
If all independent states and statesmen con.iJer
this with attention, all petty passions of jealous,
of rivalry, of hatred, and, in a word, all thite
wretched strifes which twelve years of common mi-
sery have scarcely diminished, must disappear ; and
the only remedy, a common war in a commit
cause, against a common enemy, carried on with
energy and union, restore France her lawful So-
vereign, and the world its long lost repose.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday it
Guildhall, at which were present the Lord Mayo'.
eleven Aldermen, Recorder. and Sheriffs.
The Chamberlain reported to the Court. that
Thomas Griffith, Esq. Citizen and Clothworkert
had paid his fine, to be excused serving the Giles 01

The Coon ordered a precept to be issued for s
Common Hall, to be holden on %lons' Ay nest, fir
the elation of Sheriffs of this ('it) and County cf
Middlesex, for the year ensuing, in the rnOrn of C
said Thomas Griffith, Esq. and in the room tt
James Ephraim Luke Nealson, Esq. citizen ssi
draper, Sheriff eket, who hath refused to sige die
usual bond, to take upon him that office, on M'•
chaelmas day next, he being publicly called upon
to do, by the common cry's., in the of tos k•• 14 a`ki
did ogt appear.

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