The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-06-17 00:00:00

The prefee of La Meurthe has prohibited the car-
rying of arms. None are allowed to carry arms but
s.,ich as shall have paid all their taxes. Young men
under eighteen cannot obtain them unless upon the
security of their relatives. The armourers alone are
forbidden to -sell ire arms ; they must keep a re-
gistry of the purchasers.

lIREMEN, JUNE 2.
Three %hips of our city have been takes. In
die present war it appears that the English do not
acknowledge sr:wets.
They say, that if Hanover had not taken up
arms, the French Government would not have
treated that country hastily, but would have merely
occupied it in the same manner as it was occupied
►y the Prussians in the late war.
AMILNS, JUNE 9.
Three Portuguese ships, laden wth cotton, have'
been taken at the mouth of the Somme. R ap-

pears that thr English have adopted, with regard
to neutrals, still more violent principles. They
take every thing.

miLay, Just 1.
The Vice President has published a Decree of the
First Consul President, stating, that as the King of
England ha: authorised his subjects to fit out pri-

•ateet s against the inhabitants of the Italian Repub-
lic, .11 the Italian ships of War shall cruise
against the English, that letters of marque shall be
granted to all such as shall demand them, and that
the same measures ps those adopted in France shall
be taken against the English in this territory.

MADRSD, MAT 19.
The ships sent home from our colonies, have
brought us an imtnense quantity of money, suffi-
cient, if neceicary,• to support the expences of a long
are now prepared for every event, and
. to see the liberty of the seas grow out of
the pewee circumstances. There is reason to be-
that &Bother %were of Europe with, like iss,
liberty, and in that point•bf Tieir, there are
coax. czzcinica in Elappe, Bailaid and the as.

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.tile General commanding the Isles of France
% ." and Reunion to the First Consul of the Republic.
CITUIEN FtiST CONSUL, sth roe. •
Of all the Colonies, those of the Isles of France
and Reunion are most indebted to you. They
f proclaim you their Saviour ; and the day upon
which they learned your appointment to the First
Magtstraey for life, bas been to them a day of fete
and enthusiasm.
The afElirs of the English in India, assume a
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..'" very unfavourable cornplection. Too much ex-
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tended, they are unable to make head on every side,
I - -•` .4, and their sceptre,which is become weighty in propor-
I ,e . - tion to their extension, hks increased the discontent of
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i '. the people. 71my havelottly list tosivortont hook egoist
• - 1 - the Marmot. Thearhesof Tippoo am rekindling,and
, the asstraination of the Anabassadfsr or Persia, at
. , " ' Borabay„basinj tired them so m uch the more in the mind
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of thepeople, as they have been informed, that he bad
been sent to demand, in the name of his Sovereign,
the sum of money which the English Government
4. had bound itself to pay him, by a Convention, in
it. whiarthe Prince promised net to favour the passage
t. 4 of the Army of Egypt. It does not belong to me
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to anticipate vibe is to be the result. But lam jus.
tified in thinking, from every information I receive,
' that the sin is approaching, -when the harshness of
I the English, their usurpations in India, the mass of
1 the powers and possessions which they have accu-
mulated, the weakness of their physical means to
sustain themselves upba such an extent of country,
1 . must bring with it a great and speedy revolution in
this part of the country.
(Signed) MAGALLON LAMORLTEIt. .7
1 11ZTSNSIBU1GU, T7TII Ninv. •.
• The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who are'.
i here, have within these few days held a Chapter,
with the consent of the Emperor of Russia. They
1 , have appointed the Commanders Montclare and
. . Count Rasisti, to congratulate the Grand Master,
/ in the name of the Grand Prior of llussia, and to
deliver to him the part of the Archives which was
in this city. They have also orders to go to Mes-
sina er to Malta, or to anti other place where they
may be able to finil the Grand Master.
The Court cf Vienna has officially contra dieted
the report, that the ports of the Adriatic would be
shut against the English, and that Walachia has
been ceded to the House of Austria.
11 Citizen Laforet is appointed Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister from the Republic to the King of
1, t Prussia, and Citizen Otto, in the same quality to
i the Eleaor of Bavaria.
Ou the morning of the 11th, at eight o'clock, a
part of the mounted Consular Guard set out for
Brussels. It is thought that the First Consul will
set out on the 14th for the departments where he
has been expelled for several months.
1 if The plague, which the English brought from
. Egypt, continues to make great ravages at Malta.
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The precautions are redoubled at Marseilles to
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