The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-13 00:00:00

FLUSHING COURANT EXTRAOaDINARY.

rtystuno, APRIL 5.
This mominu arrived from Cadsand, a battalion
of French infantry of the tith half.brigade, which !m-
-at:mai:ugly proceeded on its march for Middleburgh.
In the afternoon arrived another battalion of the
same brigade, which likewise proc^eded for I.tliddk-
burg. A battalion of the 95th half-brigade, lying
here in garti:•on, set out at noon lc Vevre, and
a few bows after was mid:wed by another battalion
of the same brigade. Our garrison consisted hither-
to of two battalions of the 95th half-b: igade.
This evening, at six o'clock, the whole garrison
tame under arms in the Great Market, an. Gen.
4onnet, Cormaander niche Troops in the town of
• "Flushing and the Isle of Walcheren, accompanied
ley General Osten and-some other ()dicers, appeared
iu the front, wnd d,liv,:red to the Commandant of
the place a writing, which was read by the same
Commandant, and contained as follows:

lIQU ALITY.
IXTVACT TIMM 'CITE 117171srt re or Till. DELIWZRA.
TIONS OF TUE. CONSULS OF TIM IREPUNLIC.
10th of G:rnahs.ll, 11th Year Mille Rviaildie.
Bonap.ute, kirt Cousul of the Repulokc, de.
trees:

LIBERTY.

ART. 4. Tire Town of Flaalting ir placed in a mite of Sievi
tinder the coniroarid of the Geneial of Brigade Mount, who
for this prirpor,e i. ir.re,ted with all the neceeiary poweri, and
weho torre.; nwi diriTtly with the NIIII64ST at War.
Ant. e. Tne :Wilhite( at War to cisitriol with .the execu-
tem of the pr-sent Dircr.re.
Vhe First eanbul,
(Signr.ll)
The Secretary of State,
(Signed) IfUGUES B RARET.
The Nfiniater at War,
(Signed) ALEX, BERTIIIEft.
Jt True Crpy, the Cornmaitilairt-Cranerat of the Team of
amlivle of Wrlzhco:o,
pFtigneil)

SONATA It 'i*E.

MOWN E r.

We expea to-Jay or to--:narrow three hondr.td
and eighty eavalr), and two companies of artillery,
which, it is said, will be distributed in the towns Qt.
Flushing, Middleburgh, and Veere.

THEjTkik-Rfll-.•1„ ARtIRX-LANE.
THIS E% wilt be piewasull
THE WAY TO 'KEEP HIM.
s'ir Bashful Cunituit, Mr. Stammer, Jun. ; Sir &illiast Fa-
Mr. kimahir; bowls:. re, Mt. IVroirg4lo,l;
ham, Mr ‘Vlthen. Tn. Wi•tow ischraintr, (ustia:the
uI%C Wa.iii•v) 1113-4.Jord ni; Mr; I.irteniuri.,
iwn pup,; LA/ ciin.tatet. Ma, 'l.lila Pope.
TO which b 34(1,1i,
LO % E .AND 14.1;.1C.
The Polak- At., anfuruarii, taut N w Carnetly
of The Stiniiitsc litelni;c: is uniamil! tem,..l Lill s,t,ti-
*iv next
iir-traintow, the Country Girl, with th • Pion.ramanua.
lle h.iag recnvervil Irvin 4cr lu Lippliqun, will
periurso in the VAT a 11).a: 410 Vot... u., nod

THE BRITISH. PRESS.

------"IN• eamMIIMM.
LO N DON,
WEDNESDAY, A►xu. 1 3.

Eail St. VINCENT 15 Omni• to retire from the
Admiralty.—This change has been for some time
in agitation, and may be now considered as finally
dotermined upon. It will of course bring with it
many changes in the subordinate • ofices of that de-
partment. A report to this effea has prevailed for
some t:nie past,and has been genet ally believed by the
well-in;ormed prints. A ci-dwat ministerial paper
has, however, uniformly resisted it a's an implied
censure upon his Lordship. It Ins asked, “ Who
dare to doubt the talents, industry, and integrity. of
Earl Sr. Visit i sir r. We answer, " :Nobody."
And if the change nom,, .ssarily implied such a
doubt, xe :•!keuld not have supposed it possible.
But a Minister may have as much merit in resigning
an office as in accepting an office. The motives
and principles that govern his conduCt may in both
cases be equally honourable. We therefore do not
hesitate to assert, that Earl ST. VINCENT is shortly
to retirz from the Admiralty.

Yesterday we received Paris Papers of the 9th
from Paris, and letters and papers of the 7th by the
Dutch and Hamburgh Mails. It may be easily
perceived, from a general view cf them, th.it war-
like preparation. are proceeding in the Dutch and
French port; with as much activity as in our own.—
The Fi It ST Cosset has cle.clart.l the tov:n of Flush-
ing in a state of siege, by which we are to under-
stand that all its civil rights are suspended, and that
it is henceforth to be considered a military depot.—
Had Prussia. or Russia taken this liberty with the
property of an independent Power, it would no
doubt excite surprize ; but from BONA? ART " the
Pacificator of Europe, and the Pnueaor General"
of the liberties of its States, it is familiar usage.—

The French Funds have fallen rather core than
cne per cent. They were on the Bth .s•i; ; 1:1...1 had
been on the Preceding day.

Yesterday the arrival of the Glamor, Dario
Scorr ; and Arnimin and Brunswick, from China,
was announced at the East India House. They
left China the 7th of Dec. in company with the
flop/ and sailed from St. Helena the 18th
of February, with the Behgil, from Bengal, and
two whalers, ander convoy of the Rod" y. The
fleet touched at As•:.ension the 21,d ot February, and
were joined by the Dedethis friga:e.
Sir WILLIAM SCOTT'S Clergy Bill has been
printed by awder of the House of Commons.—We
this day insert an accurate'copt of it.
On the table at the Lord MAYO a's dinner, on
Monday, was a most beautiful Chinese temple of
about ten feet in length, and seven in height, sup.
ported by 2.i pitlari beautifully gilt and ornamented.
In the corner of this temple was a pedestal, on
sullich were stataes of the three Grace,;; at the oppo-
site slily were busts of their Mot LAT ICS ; and the top
was decorated 'with flags of „the different nations.
Mr. MALNAM AMA. the late Member for Leices-
ter, immediately on hearing of his brother being en-
gaged ha the late unfortunate duel, posted up from his
estate in Wales. Bail to any amount has been of-
fered fur Laptain Ma est.% si Ar A, but refused. Jr iz
not understood that the .friends of the late Colonel
Mori viostras, urge a pros.:cution,
On Thursday the Ship Ownets of North Shields
met, pursuant to public notice, and agreed upon a ,
Memorial to the l_ords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, setting forth the grievances they labour
ander, by die e.nprecedented and irregular most! of
conduaingthe impress service in the port of New-
castle, and soliciting their Lordships :.1r redress.—
lialliour is nearly in a state sirt,;!.a to an em-
bargo.
On Saturday the list of failures at. the Sock Ex-
change,, the last settl7.B7, was laid before the Com-
mittee. It consisted of eleven public and Ltizhteen
private names.
It was •yeswrday r-...ported that a perfon in a con-
fidential sit-ration in the Bank, had been ta.en into
custody"' a charge of having sold Esehevier Bills
that had been bought its by the pire&os. An
eminent Lottery-office Keeper, who had sold the
bills a day or two before, is said to ha-re beep the
means of deteaing this transattiou. The defici-
ency is es:imated at ico,oool.

From the particalass of the ditratch received
by the CliCv.dia Ilr. Sot.e.t. from
Portugal, ss to the apprehension of FA Imo. and
GILLIHG f ON, lbr fortztug notes on :lt.tt Bank, many
offenders hive Since been secured ta London, and
been examined, a: various times, before Mr. Bono ;
who at length discovering, from the confession of
one of them, that the r:miunder of theforged notes,
amounting to upwards of 3000, together with the •
steel dies, wood seals, and copper plate, wrapped in
a towel, were on Friday se'nrug tt, stink with stones •
in the river Thames, betweeni.ambeth Palace and
Westminster Bridge.; the It.fa,•tistrate gave three-
tions to have the liver dragged,- let the exp.:lice be
what it might ; and yesterday the fishermen fortu-
natelyinid ofthe towel, ar .1 brought up a:1 the
notch which sere immediately Conveyed, by Mr...
80N0,.t0 the iltr.bassadai's.housegin South Audleyi
Tweet, who appearesilii&hly gratifi•Al, not believing
the recovay them possitle.

IVETMOUTII, 'lean 11,

ELNTIACT Of A LETTER 1
go A terrible affair happened on Saturday st'n-
night :—A press-gang from a frigate, lying in
Portland roads, consisting of the Captain and his
Lieutenant, with the Lieutenant of marines, and
,)7 marines, and about as many sailors, came on
shore at Portland Castle, and proceeded to the
first village, called Chesel,Jn. They impressed
Henry Wiggo: and Richard Way, without any
interruption whatever : the people of the island
took the alarm, and fled to the villw(e of Eason,
which is situated about the centre of the island,
where the people made a stand at the pond. The
gang came up, and the Captain took a man by the
collar.—The man pulled hack, on which the
Captain fired his pistol ; at which signal the
Lieutenant of Marines ordered his men to fire,
which being done, three men fell dead, being all
shot through the head, viz. Richard Flann. aged
41 years; Alex. Andrews, 47 years; and William
Lano, ?Ai years, all married men, two of them
quarry-men, and one a blacksmith. One man was
shot through the thigh, and a young woman in the
back ; the ball is still in her body, and hut little hopes
:we entertained of her recovery. Poor Lano, the
blacksmith, was at his shop-door, and there fell
dead. An inquisition has been held, and a ver-
diet given of /Valid Murder against the whole,
leaving the law to discriminate the ringleaders."

Tuesday a Board was held at the Admiralty, at
s‘ Welt Lord St. Vim:I:UT presided.
The Board went throng? a great deal of business,
both in the home and foreign departments, and dis-
p itches and instnidims Aver,: ordered to be expe-
dited to the different ports,
Among the officers who have come forward
to tender their services, were Admiral HastitToii,
and Captain DidittA se.
It is stated again with confidence that Mr. PITT
is coming in, and that on Sunday evening he had an
interview with Mr. AoniNuToN, at Mr. LONG'.
house, at Bromley. It is said that the arrangements
were there settled.

Mr. DUMONT'S important work, entitled, " Trea-
tises of Civil and Penal Legislation," was presented
to the Legislative Body in the Sitting of the ath
inst. by Com as.,l3ot:Nous. This work, he observes,
was one of the first results of that moral gravita-
tion, towards the most perfeol improvement of the
elementary principle of the science of laws, and to-
wards the melioration of the code of every nation,
proceeding from the progress and light of know-
ledge in Europe.
Kotzebue's publication, entitled Le Sincere, con-
tains the, following article from Riga, dated the
•I.t:d of January: " The Nubility of the Govern-
ment of Livonia is ordered to assemble oil the lUth of
February:—The Nobility of Courland and Lithua-
nia are also expeifled to assemble. It is said that
ere Emperor has several propositions to make for
the improvement of the condition of the peasantry.
God bless the Emperor !"

It is a ceriotis fad, and one which must astonish
those who have read the lives and exits of the re.
!Chi of CMARLI:i Vith. that SANTERRF, the
-Drawer, and the General of the forces at the exe-
cution of Lewis the XVlth. lives at this moment. un-
plated, unpensioned, and (except to foreigners,
who may gaze at him in all the admiration of hor-
ror) unknown in Paris. Thus have we often seen
the fixes: trees cut down to mate room for their
aspiring neighbours, while the rank and poisonous
weed is suffered to remain undisturbed by the level.
ling axe, until, in the end, by rotting in its own
putridity, it even fertilizes and improves the soil
which its existence poisoned.
If the government of France is unable to make
her people moral, she has at least the policy to turn
their vices to the State's advantage. TI ough gam-
bling is not put in requisition, it yet is made to tell,
upon the Weys and Means, and it is atclually com-
peted that the different Moti,ont de gee, with thtit
Rouge Ed') Mir troops, and their Trout & ou:rove
companies (not omitting the famous Salon de Pair,
Rue Grange Batteliere, wrefully remembered by
some of oar adventuring countrymen) produces, all-
nually, to the treasury, in permits and hush motive,
the enormous sum of twenty million livrcs.
Even the lovely Cypriens themselves, (rail and
fair Satellites of Venus, find the proteaion of a h.
ce•.•ee, like our ticket norters, absolutely necessary .
to the undisturbed wanderings, in which, upon the
light fantastic toe, they sweep the airy mazes of the •
Palma kiwi.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the body
of a man was observed floating on the side of the
Serpentine River leading towards Kensington-gate.
On the alarm being given, a boat was immediately
putout from the Keeper's hour: at the opposite side
of the river, and the bode W4S taken out. There
was no property, or any address found in his pr;sscs-
sion, that could tend to identifybim. He appeared to •
be thirty years of age, of a middle stature; ire had
yl
on a short blue jacket, a dark pair of breeches, with
shoes and stockings. He was very much swelled,
and was •shortly afterwards conveyed to the Done-
house. The Keepers of the -Perk said they found a
hat floating on the water,
.eupposed to be his, last
Monday week.
On last Friday morning a man dressed in a see- :
wants' livery, with a pitcher in his hand, applied at •
a reepeauble house in Welbeck-street for setae n.t- -
ter ; the maid servant, who was cleaning the hall,
immediately took the pitches and went down into
the kitchen tp fill it; wleiieshe wits gone, the fellow
found means to pack up several great coats, and
other articles belonging to the servents the ..le-
mily, with which he mode
On this day the battle is expeaed to ht. fought
between tetenta anti the It ter F ; at Newmar-
ket. The match was made be twit master butchers
in St. James's Me:Acct. The odds are three to one
in Pave er of &Leine. Great doubts are however
entertained sespeting his success, and considerable
betty are depending. It ieconjeaured that the meet-
ing will not be. at the place announced, but some-
where else more private. A great number of per-
sons in the sporting circle have .left town for the
purpose of berng.present upon the occasion.
On Tuesday last came on at Ayr, an elcaion for
a Member of Parliament-for that county, in loom of
Colonel Fut t A R r fee, now one of the Commissioners
at Trinidad. Sir Ile .v De Lire!: PLE HAMILTON Of
North Pene:iCle and 13arge•was unarirpoesly
eleilede after which ae. eies • .
gi"•?n: to the elee-ere rred t. .en of the
county. •

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