The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-14 00:00:00

ADVICE TO GLUTTONS.

An amatear, who is at the same time a calculate"
and connoisseur, has informed all persons of Yora
einus appetites and good stomachs, that at Neil
they may eat, ati., every hour, day and nigh
if they have plenty of acquaintances. They hale
to begin their eating in the suburb St. Germ ''q
at nine o'clock in the morning, with the clerks and
persons employed in public offices. who, at that
hour, take their breakfast ala timrchcae. At dal
yen o'clock they may again breakfast with rhea
friends in the suburb St. Honore, who, at that
hour, devour cold pies, eggs, sausages, Ste. mid
drink coffee, chocolate, and tea. From thence they
should go to Chaassi d'.4sitin, where, at one o'clocki
persons of Gee on eat oysters and drink Champaign.
previous to taking a ride on horseback, or an atrieg
In a carriage. From thence they have to go to the
Marais ; and, if they make haste, they may be sure
of finding. according to old fashion, an castly dirty
ner. This repast done, they have to turn to
the citi, where the advocates, just arrived from Chid
tribunals, sit down to their dinners. They bay"
afterwards the choice, either to return to the Abrais,
or to the suburb St. Germain, and they may be sum
to find their friends or acquaintances at their early
suppers. The supper dispatched, they should visit
amain the fae4ionablie of Curved d'Antin, and their
dinners will be upon the table. To divert them.
selves, they may then go for half an hour to Fres.
cati, where they will meet with parties, called, Tea
where dainties of every description, and bid
profusion, are set red. These parties being ore,
they have to go back towards Charm; arAnthi
where, at two o clock in the morning, they will en
joy a delicious supper, set wed upon silver plates, b
valets in gold-laced liveries. A quarter before foot
these suppers are ovr and lv
distance, arc -

they m..ybe

trea:ei with a

the finegt wines

reguhaly over
am satisfied,
hours ; if not,
where the corn.

too polite not

ealfasts.-

are over, arid only at some few yarsisl
numerous gambling houses, lees:
:ertain. at four o'clock pracisely, to
a reveille's of choice cold dishes,
es and li7seirre. 'niece rroraesse
rat six o'clock ; and if their ap •
they can repose themsehm for
, they may go to the market
vis, poultry, and fruit snerehante
; ,o incite tliem to share their
e "settee! dee Spellecles.)

Vic barbarous Pur:s shall be given, if possible,
to-morrow.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
FRIDAY, SEPTLialiglt 14.

The threatened invasion has, for these fifteen
!months past, al.n ,st entirely occupied the attention
If this country. From the Prince to the Peasant.
e public and private life, through every part of
Deiety. in all its relations and comer:lions, this sub-
e6
has extended and diffused ksel4 until it has al-
post absorbed or overwhelmed every other political
onisideration. To make that threat recoil in dis-
irace upon the bead of the braggart, who boasted
hat England, single handed. was unable to contend
• France sto be fully prepared to meet the at-
en its most formidable shape, and terminate,
the defeat and confusion of the enemy, a blow
at our existence as a nation, and as the only
sad prop of the liberties of Europe. has been,
the same period of time, the study and labour
every Briton. To the advancement of this great
every impulse has been given by every mo-
t that could inßuence the heart and mind cf
Nature. reason, sentiment, and feeling, have
he all the varied force of argument and
woes to enforce this duty. In the discharge
k, no personal inconvenience, no domestic pres-
ed
len, no difficuky or danger, have been regarded•
ar taxes have been laid on without exciting a
the pesceful citizen has become a soldier ;
*giving up for a time, commensurate with t'..e
those civil sights, those laws and liberties
' Is he holds so dear, willingly subjeas Aim-
ee martial law. When, then, this great and
• us duty is performed ; at the very mo-
t when this great work is complete ; it
strange that any print should bt weak or
• lad enough to attempt to undo all that has been
ne, and to cast down that spirit which is now
• to the level of the danger. It is still more
nee, that the attempt should be made by a print
at once received much of the proteaion of Go-
assent, and still insinuates that it enjoys its pa-
ge. The print to which we allude says :
'is w hale lean always of opinion, that the inurement,
lich hark plow' while So was en the coast (on the
iftli oh), was thr grand experiment Why it tailed, we have,
I ye, had 110 satud',etury account ; but the torpor of the
!rn, *law that •1 le, end the departure of Bow
los the corn, seam to iml•cltir that the iv:politer° is lard
14e, at Irfarit fur the prlsent. U the attempt bo not made

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before Se illnlicet (of which there appears little prol ability),
it is likely to be deferred till at least thaSprlug, s:n e there is
no probability, in the winter, of sech a 'mete:ion of ea.,
weithee (for four to five following trays at lettst are necessary)
as may enable the invaders to get their smut craft out of the
harbour, and marshel them under the prob.:dims of their awn
batteries, previous to their crossing the Channel. If the ex.
peditinia be thia deferral, there is a great probability that the
Cor•icau will find other employment for his troops ; w that
we may than consider the project of invasion as vljourne..
line die.'

Hete, then, we are told that the danger is all over,
at least, for the present, and, of course, that we
ought to go home, beat our swords into plough.
shares, and dream no more of invasion. If
there be a man in England weak enough to listen
to tech advice, and credulous enough to swallow
such sen:iments, from this moment forward he must
become a discontented strhied, a bad citizen, and a
worse soldier. Is it in human nature that he should
submitwith cheerfulness to burthensome taxes, which
he believes are expended in providing against an ima-
ginary danger ? Will he submit with cheerfulness
to personal inconvenience and privations, to acquire
discipline, which he is conscious will not be wanted
in the field ? Will he resped and esteem a Govern-
meat, which he cc nceives to be filled with more than
womanish or childish fears, alarmed at a bugbear,
and destitute of every charader of manly fortitude
or wisdom ? 1-low.advice and language, so adverse
to the iuterests of the country, could find their way
into a public print, we are at a loss to conjedure ;
an advice in which we are desired to throw away
buckler and shield, and wrap ourselves op in a blind
and fatal security. If the writer, who seems to
stand alone, in opposition to general opinion, he not
a fool, it will surely be expelled that he should ad-
duce some irrefragable arguments in support of a
doEtrine so new and extraordinary. lie will not
surely presume, that, in a matter of such vital
importance, the public will a& without proof,
or upon light and frivolous grounds. Let us
then examine his reasoning upon this great question.
" We Live keen always of opinion," says the writer in
The Times, " Mat tke move nee! which tee i ?lace while
BoN APART& was yon the met', upms the 264 last,
was Me GRAND IXPERIMENT." The epinion hers,
advanced is not supported by a single circum-
stance; but is, on the contrary, irreconcileable with
every thing, that is passing around us. It is a noto-
rious truth, that, during tl,e whole of that af-
fair, •shich is called the " grand experiment," the
signal stations upon the coast remained totally inac-
tive. Are we then to be told, that, at the moment
when the French flotilla was in the very ad of
moving front its shores, ready to throw its legions
upon our coast, Government looked on with silent
indifference, resolved that we should be taken by sur-
prise, and not have even the benefit of notice ? We
did expect, that when the " grand experiment" was
making, the signal of alarm would have run along
OW coast, our telegraphs would have been at work,
our military would be under arms, and ar their
posts ; but it appears now, that we were entirely
mistaken. A note of preparation of this kind
might alarm the people, it might interrupt their bu-
siness or their pleasures; and therefore, no dount,
whenever the grand experiment is made, e o shall
hear nothing of it until the enemy are half wsy
over; or, if not sent to the bottom by our cruisers,
adually landing upon our shores. Although no
alarmists, we do not approve this overstrained deli-
cacy and outrageous politeness, that would suffer a
man to be burned to death in his bed, rather than dis-
turb his repose. Rut, supposing the affair of the With
to have been the " grand experiment," how does it
thence follow, that " the expedition is laid *sib, at
least for the present ?" !has Government, which
we may be allowed to presume better informed
upon the subjed than the writer in Tke Timer,
relaxed its vigilance, or let down the spirit and
energies of the country ? Every provincial pa-
per teems with accounts &orders to military corps
to be ready to march at a moment's notice,
and provide themselves accordingly. A great part
of the volunteer force of the kingdom is, we be.
lieve, now in that state. Do we not, also, hourly
hear or read of new means t.f precaution, of new
measures of deensce, of new camps, new fortifica-
tions, new plans for flooding, intersecting, and in-
creasing the difficulties of the country, for the purpose
of retarding the march of an invading army ? Look
at the Proclamations of yesterday evening, by the
Loan MA volt, requiring the Masters of all foreign
vessels in the port of London, not to move their
vessel in the night, an inch from its moorings, nor
suffer a sailor of their crews to go on shore,
from sunset to sunrise. Were Louden upon the
eve of a siege, or under the momentary ap-
prehension of a surprise, we know not what
greater precaution it could use. With all this
evidence of danger staring us in the face, how
shall any Newspaper writer dare to weigh his opi-
nions against the wisdom of the Government ; tell
us that Ministers are afraid of their own sha-
dows, and t:e..t their disordered imaginations have
tieinged our windmills into giants, and our socks

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of peaceful sheep into invading armies? The wri-
ter in The Timet, having thus attempted to ri-
dicule every idea of present danger, proceeds to
assert, that, if the invasion be not attempted before
the equinox, it will he dAerred, at leas!, until next
spring; and, in such event, that it will not be at-
tempted at all, and the question will be set at rest
for ever. These latter points, which are as un-
tenable as his first position. we have not now ran n
to discuss ; but we shall certai❑ly seise the earliest
opportunity to expose them.

It is supposed that L.,rd (1. L. Gowie trill nct
embark in the Almethyd, on his mission to St. l'e-
tersburgh, until the final decision of the Court of
Russia is known with regard to France.
The Commander of the Colitii gun-brig, ar-
rived in the Downs from a cruise el Ostend, re-
p:Tts that the flotilla and craft, which were at that
port, arc all hauled up the Canal of Bruges.
The Captain or a Swedish vessel from St. Va.
lery reports, that an order had just been received at
that port to lay an embargo on all Swedish vessels
for three months, and he had great difficulty in es-
caping in ballast a few hours before the embargo
aftually took place.
The Elizabab, DREW. from Africa to the West
Indies, is captured by the Grand Decide, French pri-
vateer, and carried into Gtaadalospe.
The Susannah, SCALISBY, from New Brunswick
fur Jamaica, is captured and carried into Cuba.
The Ara boats have taken a French vessel,
laden with flour, off Honieur, and driven two
others on shore.

Sir Home POPPIA Al has been trying his telegra-
phic signals with Admiral Louis's fleet, off Dunge-
ness. Messages were delivered from Boulogne
to Dungeness in eleven minutes ; they can be con-
veyed from Boulogne to the Downs in the same
time. This is only the first trial ; all the °lke's
were of opinion, that they might be conveyed, and
every movement of the enemy made known, in five
minutes; therefore, taking up the information at
Deal by the fixed telegraph, it can he known ia
London in a cysarter of an hour, when the fine
green and gob barges, which are intended to con-
vey the Este Leon, come out of Boulogne harbour.
These signals have been long ago established by the
East India Company.. Sir Hosts POPHA 34 has night
signals equally communicative, which are nearly
complete, and it is thought that he will tty them
soon in the same place.
A letter from Folkstone, dated September 12,
says—" 'lle signal is just madc on the heights, that
some of the enemy's cruisers are out. The signal is
made from St. Margarite's, three miles beyond
Dover, and it is thought a detachment of about a
dozen of the enemy's small craft is skulking along
the shore from Calais to Boulogne, a part of the
vessels that latrly escaped into that port from Ostend;
but it is too hazy at present to see the vessels from
hence. This morning a detachment of 17 French
vessels escAped along shore from Calais to Boulogne,
under protcEtioa of their batteries. Out own
cruisers accompanied them all the way, in hopes of
getting them out of reach of their land guns; but no
tiring . took place. as our ships are ordered not to go
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within reach of the land. The atmosphere being
clear this morning, we could discover that a en isi-
number of the enemies ships have again
come out of Boulogne. We had nineteen shipsot war
at anchor off Boulogne, and sixteen off Dungeness.

It is reported, that a plan has been laid befcre
Givetsirnent, by a very able Officer in the navy,
who thinks it possible, with very little loss, to
blockade, destroy, or burn Bos a P Dees flotilla,
notwithstandieig the numerous French troops and
batteries, by which it is defended and proteaed.
It is said, that this pia; has been sent to be examined
before a selea number of Officers. both of the navy
and army, who have given it as their ofsinioo, that
it may he carried into execution, with some im-
provements proposed by them. It was yester-
day rumoured, that in a short time it will be
attempted ; that it has the approbv ion both of
'.lr. Pity and Lord Idxxv txxx—and that this
Was one of the causes of their late aquatic excur-
sion. What this plan is, we cannot pretend to know;
but some say it is intended to burn the flotilla with
the ancient Gregorial fire, found out by the pro-
jeftor ; others, again, think that a new method has
beers devised, by which the mouths of the harbours
of Boulogne, Ambleteuse, and Calais, may be ea-
sily shut up.
A letter from Salem, of the 28th of July, states,
that " the Go urge Irby& whom, (.4:fetz;Ba ir ANT, from
the Isle of France, arrived a: on that day,
after a passage of 97 day'. At the time of his
departure, there were seven vessels lying at that
place, under the command of Admiral Limon : the
Mureage, of 8 t guns, five frigates, and one cor-
vette, which were to sail on a cruise in the course
of a few days. The morning Capt. BR va MT left
the island, two French frigates arrived there,
having in company a large ship richly laden, from
India, which they had captured a few days before.
An embargo was to be laid at the Isle of France, the
same evening that Capt. Be AsT sailed. When
ofr the Cape t.f Good Hope, he saw a fleet of eight
large ships steering t. tae Westward.

•
A new Oyster.l;ed has been discovered in the
River :Medway, within these few days. It is
claimed by txo cities, those of London and Ro-
chester. Two tlster dredgers arrived yesterday af-
ter noon, with some of the new found produce, at
the Mansion House. The Loin NIAYOR, attended
by his suite and proper paraphernalia, will go down
the River, for the purpose of ascertainiroz the pro-
perty. The Oysters will be named, The Nalire
in compliment to his Lordship. Star fish
were found in clusters on the bed. .

In consequence of accurate information having
been received at the Public OflL e, Bow street, of
the residence of the several deserters who created
the riot in St Giles's, on Sunday last, a corps of pa-
troles, twenty in number, assembled yesterday morn-
ing, about four o'clock, at the Brown Boar, and un-
der the direetion of two Polite Officers, proceeded to
the several retreats of the deserters—such were :heir
inforniation, and promptitude of execution, that, iu
less than an hour, near twenty prisoners were lodged
in the strong room, Bow-street ; azd several other>
in St. Giles's watch•hou:e. In the eveaing,
were removed to Cold Bath Fields Prison.