The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-03-29 00:00:00


THE BRITISH PR

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LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, M. gj.
Iterort of tht• Secret Coininittueof the House
of Comitions, upon East India Patronage, so &oz.
expvettil by the puidie, has made its appear-
It is given ut length in oar preceding co-
lumns.
A Flag of Truce, Erna Calais, arrived on Monday
at Dover with ti Russian Ni,essenger, wit). dispatches.
for oar Government. It is supposed that they re-
late to the reeeut deposition of the King of Swrima,
and the Steps taken by the Regent, tho Duke of
the re:oll,l,6oi' of ifeace.

The curiosity, interest, and anxiety, excited by
the investigation into the conduct of the late CONS-
;IA N -CRIMP, have 5141011 subsided; and that
event, followed by his Hoye' resigna-
tion, together with the appointment of Sir Davila
DI, N DAS as his, eucceseor, are swept away by the
vast tied awful struggle which appears to he about
to comineuce MI the Coutineat. Vet war is not
begun, though every indication autiotince• its near
approach. The prime agent and mover of revolti-
tnne the great deem) er and renovator of Europe,
lingers still in the vicinity of Paris, ostentibly oc-
cupied, not less iu diversions, or ameliorations of
various kinds, MIA IlatlollBl 1111p1'41V4:1111'11111, than i4t
prep:troth-tits to crush the HMls,' of AUSTRIA, whose
tival destioy is probably determined 81141 11%01. It
is true, that, on the with of last mouth, the Corsi-
can reviewed his Imperial (Mavis. and his new le-
ties, in the Square of the Titilleries, to the number
or trainio men ; hot we find !jilt, nevertheless, not
touch more than a fortnight ego, repairing to Ram-
houillet, under the prettatse of limiting for a few
days. This is o.n' of the palaces which the tyrant
affects to like with a distiognishing predilection ;
prolaably from its privacy; which affords him the
means of there converting, undisturbed, those plans
which are to he felt on the Danube, anti on the
Vistula. Itainbouillet is only uhout six leagues
from St. Cloud, .mild has been rendered memorable,
in French Ilistory, by the death of Fa a acts the
First, a Prima: whom :Carat :I,C COtIIICNCVIIIIB tee
regard as not tiuwortoy of his esteem, on sicemsut
of his heroism and love of letters. Fur this fero-
elites usurper, amidst his crimes awl his conquests,
stilt emulates ,the pun*: of the Menu t, and of
Louts theFourteeuth, as an admirer and a patron
of learning.
„ While his invincible legions are assembling en
every side ; while D'AvoesT is on his way towards
Franconia; mud slide MASS6NA is about to assume
the command in Lonsbanly ; BON APA NPR'S active
mind is still directed to domestic objects of utility,
or grandeur, or attack. At FOrient, from whence
he has just contrived to slip out a squadron, of
whose destination Lord NICIAIRAVE knows nothing,
and whose operations may be felt where they are
Last expected ; be is ulakiug new regulations..
highly btineficial to the naval udouittistratioa of that
port. The works of the Harbour Napoleon, at
Cherbourg, are carryieg on with redoubled activity,
at the expense of the umfertunate King of Pacsit a,
whose gold plate was inelttal duwu, and sent prin-
cipally to that port, in order to pay the numerous
artists and workmen employed at Cherbourg.—
Mut,octet is incessantly labourittg, at Antwerp, to
equip, to fit out, mid to man, the shina of war eon-
strncted on the Scheldt. A formidable squa-
dron is already collected in that port anti river:
while we observe, not without some surprise,
as well as regret, that he has, it would seem,
captured and carried into Toulon one of our
frigates. We may not improbably bear next
of him, either w tVirtemberg, or iu Bavaria ;
at Stutganl, or sit At:Melt; as he has notified, it
appears, to each or I hose dependent 11loaareli5.
created by himself, and reluctiiiitly compelled to
become Kings, that he shall shortly be their guest,
as lie was in isoa, when lie mantled to Vienna.
If this assertion, made in the latest letters from
Dollaud, prove authentic, it aerials almost certain
that be meaus to invade, and to penetrate into
Austria, ty Bavaria and the course of the Daitubet,
not Irons the side of Italy and the Tyrol. as had
beet, prematurely believed. (tl tiny dcelaratiou'W
war between the Emperor FRA NCI/ and NAPO.
t.S.O N. or of the actual departure of the latter front
Paris on the I tth instant, to join his armies, we
have no certitude; but it is impossible that we:
should bug reinsin in ignorance apes tither
point.
We understand Meanwhile that the Corsican,
compelled by the urgency of his ',Taint, and oblig-
ed to make warms the soot moment in Spain, and
iu Germany, has foetid it neceasery to let go his
hold of the throat of Faxes:am the Vlth. Trust-
Mg to the unappeasable enmity of that Prince to-
wards Great Britain, and to the national recollec-
Coos of the expedition against Co,tenhagers, Bo-
W APAITE has actually evaenated, in a considerable
degree, all gee Danish dominions. ULasi amens,
by ordere szsini his master, has not ouly withdrawn
the French troops fro:n Zealand, awl from Facet',
but likewise from Jutland, Sleawiek, and llolstein.
Duntsor was marching smithwarol at their head ;
as the strongest proof of the tyraut's confi-
I derive iu. his Danish ally, he had proposed to Fie.