The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-04-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

At three o'clock this day, the House met. As
soon as the Speaker had taken the Chair, the De-
puty Usher of the Black Rod thus addressed the
Speaker:
tt Mr. Speaker, the Lords authorised by virtue of
His Kije.ty's Commission, for cl.cl,oriug His Iloynl
Assent to two Aes, agreed upon by b•ith Houses,
And fer Proroguing this present Parliameht, do
desire the immediate attendance of this Ilmour.
able House in the House of Peer., to hear the Com-
mission read."

The Speaker, accompanied by a number of
the Members. a, tmded accordingly.
Upon the Speaker's return, he said that the Lords
Commissioners had delivered the following Speech :
(for yoisrA see Me Loris.)
The Speech was the:. read by the Speaker to
the Membeis standing around the Table. The
Hnuse then withdrew. and thus ended the Session.;

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Araii. 28.

A heavy firing Err to the French coast was heard
at Dover and Deal on Saturday evening—but it
was a partial one, and was supi.osed to proceed
from a battery firing at some of our cruisers be-
calmed.

Embarkations are soil.; on with aaivity. De-
tachments of ships of the line and frigates, with gun-
brigs and bomb-vessels, are daily leering the Downs
for Yarmouth Roads. The 6th regiment of infantry
is nnw on board the transports in the Downs. The
13th and t6th foot, with the 14th light dragoons,
are under orders to embark.

We have received New• York Papers to the 25th
of March ; they state, that the Treaty with this
Country is to be submitted to the Senate.

We wen came. yesterday. in stating, that Mi-
nisters bed finally resolved upon as immediate dis-
solution of Parliament. It was prorogued yesterday
until the 13th of May, and will be dissolved to-
morrow. The new Wsiu will be issued on Thurs-
day, and the new Parliament will meet upon the
18th of Jane, when there will be a short Sassicn of
about six weeks.

The funds yesterdoo experienced a favourable
change. The Oxonians advanced to two per cent.
premium. Conjedure was busily at work to aster.
tab the cause, and in the early part of the day, the
improvement was attributed to a prospeft of peace.
It was said that a cartel had arrived from France.
Another report stated the receipt of dispatches from
Lord Hurcitinsou, announcing that a negotiation
for a general peace, to which England was invited to
become a party. had been opened by the Belligerent
Powers. It has been, for sometime, a vowing opnion
is the best-W*lW circles, that Bcn AAAAA■ is la-
bouring to eitid a general peace; and the in-
activity which has so long prevailed in the re-
speEtiva armies, in Poland, strengthens this idea.
We are inclined. however. to impute the rise in the
Funds su she Smash with shish the Perlis.
mrnt was prorogued yesterday ; the substance
't which might have transp.red at an early hour.
Lord liasav PETTY'S new system of finance had
the eta of raising the funds; and they fell upon
the accession of the present Ministers, from the fear
that as they had opposed that system when in oppo-
sition, they wouiJ abolish it when in power. The
praise. however, bestowed in the speech upon the
plan of providing for the public expenses, without
imposing new taxes, includes an approbatit n of the
principle of the new financial system, and must of
course Lave tended to dissipate those fears which
caused the depression of the Funds. The speech
also holds forth a pronthe of economy, in the
public expenditure ; and, so far as it allud..l to
foreign relations, may be considered of a pacific
charafter. It hopes for an honourable termina-
tion a of the great contest in which we are engaged;
and upon that sus,j-et, studiously avoids every expres-
sion that could posshaly irritate or offend the enemy.
We applaud this course. Whether it originates in
a *tit el page and wicilissiso, at is elidaiej

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by insincerity,. pod nest tome silt. Angry las.
guage cannot sharpen tlte sword, nor facilitate ss
honourable and speedy peace. In this, however, A,
well as the financial principle approved in
sreteh, the new Ministers take credit lot what
due to Omit- predecessors. ir
Or. Sunday evening.. Likd 1-laaaowev I.!F
sewn for Staines, where his low.lship %Ltpt,
proceeded to Windsor, early yesterday ruorail.,
and had an audience of Ills Maissrr solo ah,,
nine o'clock, for abut a quarter of ■n hour, wt..
which His Manses, proceeded, is Isis trate:l.3,
carriage, t Lqnd'in, and arrived at the QUIE
Palscr, about twelve.

A: two o'elnck, His bllaresrr held a Privy Cou.
cil, which was attended by the I.ono ertsescst.sui.
the Dukes of PORTLAND and MONTRUSZ. E.tr,,
C•AiID•N. WaStillollL/ND. and BATIIIISMIT, VI.
cuunt CASTLEIL AOll, Lords Hswiteseuvr. M..,
Gasses, and Mr. Perterras, when au Order was
sued for proripuing the Sessions of Parliament t.
the 13th of May, preparatory to the dissolution,
which will take place to-morrow.

His MAigITY will come to town to-morrow zed
',Ad a private Levee, at which a Deputation of tf.e
University of Ostoid will attend and present tbtir
Address. The Duke of PORTLAND will head them,
a; Chancellor of the University, afterwards the U.
putation will dine with the Duke of PORTLAND at
Burlington House.
Viscount MRLVILLS left town on &today for
Scot land.

Ye3t.rdwr, the Right IloisouraMe JOHN Forret
set off lei Ireland, for his re-eltdion in the County
of Louth.

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Sir FRANCIS BARING will leave town, this day, to
canvass for the Borough of Taunton, Somersetshire.
AIRANAN ROS•IiTS, Esq. one of the R• pre-.
szntat;yes for Worcester, has very liberally ofictd
to present a steam engine for raising water for the
use of the inhabitants of that city.
The iirtspree, Lest.re, from New York, trrived
at Liverpool, was bue.rded on the 19th inst. in
Long. 19. by a French privateer, which detained
her one day. the had captured three vessels, Lot
would not tell what they were. .
points cif iencis n^a.t -poear to :live
encampments, as if the enemy suspe,.. • vn artact
from this country. What BON *Pair 26 s). ?s (and
there are too many of t:sem in this great town) may
have discovered, we know nut ; but no preparations
to that effea have yet come to our knowledge.
Vice-Admiral Sir J.'l'. Dueawrarn is supposed
to be on his rattlers to Englen r some Members, high
inithe lateAchninistr 'ion, state that his orders were to
allow only latlf an hour for the ant wet of theVoats,
and if that was not definitively satisla.r.ory, toproceed
in the immediate eaptureor destruction of the l'urkish
fleet, and the bombardment of Constantinople. If it
should have happened that the British Admiral pre-
ferred holding, a Coun..il of War, and stetog upon
the tesult of their deliberations, be will, no doubt,
endeavour to explain the grounds of that decision
to the Board of Admiralty immediately on his re.
torn. _

The King of Sw soul has annotusell his intention
to join his army in Germany. Arrangements have.
in consequence, been made for the departure of the
Queen and the Duchess of Bausivet, K. -rim hlalqp
for Stockholm, ahont the middle of May.

A Letter from Falmouth, tnentions the loss of the
Swithare, of 74 guns, off Cadiz; but adds, that the
crew were sa►ed. No such account has reached the
Admiralty.
A letter from Dryer, dated the 26th, says—" The
boats of His MAje.ty'. gun brig Furio.4 last night,
between seven and eight o'clock, went in and cut
out from under the harreile,,lnear Calais, a sloop
which was endeavouring to get into that port ; for.
tunately our brave tars accomplished their objea,
without any loss, although exposed to a very heavy
fire, which we heard here very distinetly, and we
were not witllout tears that it proceeded from some
other cause."

All the Tailors I—A meeting of Mr. PAULL'S
friends was held, last night, at the Crown and An-
chor, to consider of the best means of securing Lis
Ele.Rion for Westrnin.ter. It WAS well attealed,
and would have been much more numerous, bad
not all the Tailors, who. lately struck, returned to
work ; having split the difference, by accepting an
addition of 2s. 6d. a week, in lint of ss. the ad-
vance originally demand:A from their employers.--
Several of them declared their readiness to go rrifeh
through with Mr. !Ansa, and have accordinpir
commenced a canvass, as Mif as harms, in Ins
favour.

A Letter from Copenhagen, dated the 16th, by a
vessel from the Baltic, arrived at Gravesend, stater,
that the D•inish Government. although it has care-
fully av,)ided the app:•aranee of m.litary egnipment,
has sedulously laboured to place both its army and
marine in ill'. condition for service. Our Correspon-
dent says—.. There are now 21 sail of the line and
13 frigates, besides mallet vessels, Irtaig in :be be-
son; they are not rigged, but their stores of aver
description are on board."
The following Correspondence has beta seat to
us for insertion:—

ICtI:T.) •
Mr. Secretary )) i)) g presents hit cont,limentt to Mr
M:.nruo, moat in aohyr r to hit tette.. of the ltd 1011. ila• the
honour to transmit to him the ropy "ha butter from Alr. 1 . -
den, by which he .ill own:sive that the ("wit Comureti um.
of the .ktlmira....v have diwiTtryed of the condud of the Cuq -
inaldvrs of If .. Majeitv's onih tic:noi...n and Ithandhourni,
haying warn: A tie Atheicao ship in queitout from 610c.,°‘•
the port .it ..ltitwerp, as repreeenteof by Mr. Munroe.
" Mr. S.cr tars Canning mioeb,s Mr. Moon* to aecer,t
the awnoaorea of ho h.gh co..o,t—etiom."
" rfor,go OCice,Aphl 20, 1607."
S! I,,,,hauri-place, April SS, 1107.

" I hate the Introits. to inclose a copy of Mr. Stereo, Cam
nine i Note to toe nt .1) • Ihnh instant, which, a.. at ettn.a.nt a
c0tr...i.,-.0•Ion of c. ntidorahle im;eartance to the cotome•ccut
the Umted Statrs, l na yr to frooest tilt you will be so good
as
to males known to tlowe who are engsted. I have the honour
to be, y ow molt obedient servant,
(S.ened) " JAMES MONROE."
" Wm. Iv °am, E.q Cnn,ll of the United State., Loodon.'
" American Cnnvolate and Agency, Lood.to, April Et.
" MI rweret•mot. and .dtte7t interested in the commerce of
flu? thine+, ',,tatel of America, wI!I tsl,e notice of the tor.going
contosumarattons, and gfers. themselves acconlolty.
" W. LYNAM."

His Royal Flightless the Duke of in-
rdTt'sterday atteri,onn, part of the Second
.enni of guard:, is, the Yard of PortintuNotrape
preparatory to their !saving tows for Co..
reign service.

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