The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-31 00:00:00

NEW SONGS COMPOSED EY MISS SCOl7'.
To-morrow January I, will be published, •
THREE NEW SONGS, viz. " The Bouquet,"
price Is. ; " Jick and Susan,' • balled, price Is. j
•• Come,Sweet Cont.," an admired Rondo, with Piano Forte
and Ilarp accompaniment., price Is 6l —The beastly of the
melody, and simplica} of the accompaniment., will unques-
tionably render these Songs favourite; with both the young
Perotiner and fiiiialied Singer.
Printed and published (or the Compo: r, by Preitian, at his
Wholesale Music Warehouse, Nu. 97, Scam!, London.
Etch Song tungud by the Composer, and sold by the Music-
cart. in general. ak

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM TIII: FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.

BARCELONA, NOV. 2.1.

We are now at war with England, which, al-
though no; formally declared, may be considered as
inevitable, if one may judge from the hostile mea-
sures of the English in the Atlantic and Mediterra-
nean Seas, where Nelson lately captured some of
our transports with troops on board, destined for
Mahon.

Our provision of wheat is very trifling, and the
prices continue to advance; and, from the untavour-
ahlc report of the ha. vest in Spain, Allele i; no pro-
baf)ility of their red:a:lion. In short, we only want-
ed war to consummate uur misery—and, if it con-
tinue long, God only knows what will toccome of us.

PARIS, DEC. 20.
The Festival given by the city of Paris to Their
Imperial Majesties on Sunday last, was the worthy
complet' of all the fetes that have taken place in
consequence of the Coronation.
When their Imperial Majesties had arrived at
the Hotel de Ville, and were seated on the Throne,
And the Princes and Dignitaries, habitet: in the grand
costume of ceremony, had taken their stations on
the steps of the Throne, the Marshal Governor,
having received the orders of the Emperor, the
Counsellor of State, and PrefeA of the Department
of the Seine, addressed Their Majesties in a long
speech, expressive of the ardent wishes of the city
of Paris for the prosperity of Their Imperial Majes-
ties, and their successors. The discourse was fol-

lowed by reiterated applauses from the whole as-
sembly ; and the Emperor, in a' voice which
appeared charged by emotion and sensibility,
but in a paternal tone, and with the most touching
expression, returned a short answer, of which the
f plowing is the purport :

Gentlenem of the MOSIICipAI Noev, I haw come among rti
to give to my good city of Paris the as.maiire of my speci.,:
protection ; un all occasions at will be a duty and a pleasure to
me, to rot particular rnds of my benevolence toward. it.
for I wi.h that vett should know, that in the beat of battles,
and in the greatest dangers upon the seas, and to the midst of
&saris, 1 have ever held in •iew the opiat .11 of this great
capital of Europe ; next, however, to the sairagc of posterity,
is All powerful on nay heart.

The Emperor his written to the Arc' bishops and
Bishops of France, the following letter:

Providence has bestowed cob m• new s•rength to sup-
port the weight of the Crown it has p.1,.1 on my
lit the statist-action at people have il on the oe•asien at
my consecration and coronation, which !Mord •T • ok place
with all the pomp and solemnity that corild be al.: mew,•
settee of our %lost Holy Father the Pope, the visa, o
the Universal Church; the aectainations which ace-. t.vanterl
me during arid Oct tho august ceremony, have peas
trate my heart with a protuticul sentiment which will
never be effaced. To obtain from the Supreme Being, who
$3 visibly pruteas the Empire, that he may attach to the
SACRA nation, which I have just receive% all the grace witch
oily confidence in rib divine endue.. t :rites me to Lope ;that
tie may grant me pouderice, the fio.t irtie• of sovereigns; and
that he may maintain my people in peace and tranquillity,
which will ever be the dearest object cf my care, and winch I
.ball alwayssennvider a. the watt solid glory of toy reign; I
desire that public prayers may be offaed up in all the churches
if the e.npite; I there( oe address to you thy letter to direct you
to cause it DCVO to he sung in those of your diocese, and to
invite to the prayers which shall he put in your Church, the
Authorities arc:monied to attend at such kind of C'.sernonies.
pray OM to hare you in his holy keeping.
Some of the German Papers have spoken of the
appointment of a Prince of the House of Nassau
Orange to the post of President of the Ilatavian
Republic. One of thenimakes some reiledions open
the subjefl, and adds, that the nomination would be
produßive of great advantages to the Dutch nation.
It would tend to approximate the Government to
the form under which Holland flourished for two
cenruriis, and to re-establish the relations and habits
which have contributed to bar prosperity.
The dignity of the President of the Batavia.n
Republic would have the advantage over the ancient
Stadtholdership of being uniform for all parts of the
state, and of ensuring to the person who shonld be
invested with it, the same rights and the same pre-
rogatives in each portion of the whole nation ;
whereas formerly the Stadtholder, being named
for each Province and by each Prov:nac, did not
exercise an equal power any where ; he received
his dignity from each with such limits or extensions
as each thought proper. Hence arose the ditriculty
of preventing, on one side, the too great increase of
the Stadtholder's power when it caused any um-
brage, or of augmenting it when the interest of the
country required. Thus in 177 t,, a powerful party
being formed against the Stadtholder, William
the firth, who has now retired to his German pos-