The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-30 00:00:00

tween Ulm, Memmingen, and Stoettach. v ",il,t one
of their divisions from Liar has adv.wced ovrr the
Dariuhe into the Wut tvatburg territory. 'file Freitcli
army, which passed the Rhine at Iluningen, wilder
Marshal Augereau, coming from Brest, is ma, ch-
ing through the Black Fotvst, along the frontier of
Switzerland, and had arrived in the neighbourhood
of Schaffhausen on the 7th instant, being observed
by Gen. Von Gottesheim, who is posted at Stockach.
" At Fuessen, on the Lech, a body of Austrians
is posted, with a view to keep open the passage to
the Tyrol, on that side, whilst 45,000 I'russians are
said to have effr.fled a juneion with a corps of Aus-
trians on the Inn, en the 12th instant."

The Emperor of Ge:ma:.y was to have set out
on the 9th to open the Diet at Fresburgh, The
Letters of Convocation to the States of Hungary,
which he has published, coireon a demand of a levy
of 12,000 men, and certain contributions in grain
and money.

HAGUE. OCT. 24.
Baron Fell, Austrian Minister in this Republic,
will quit the Hague to-morrow, or lieu day. The
Russian Chargr .4 ir;lires is also on the point of de-
parting, having this day taken leave of several Nli-
nisters.

BLRLIN, OCT. 15.
Count Hauguitz arrived here to-day from Vienna.

Declarations, on the part of our Court, have been
delivered to the French Ambassador Extraordinary,
Marshal Duroc, And M. Laiorest, the French Am-
b issador ; both of whom had a contcrence with the
Minister to-day.

FRONT TM NI 'FUER FARE, OCT. 18.
The intelligence receives! from Berlin begins to
be of a more pacific nature. Some had expefled
the last extremity, judging by the impressions which
the march of the French troops, through the Mar-
graviate of Anspach, first made at Berlin. From
hence, perhaps, is to be attributed the intelligence

circulated in car newspapers, dated at Berlin, the
15:11, that Cethit Kalreuth, who had set out from
thence for carrying a letter from the King
Of Ps ussia, writtrn in his own hand, to the Froprror
of Russia, conserving to the march cf the Rusiian
troops through the Prussian tcriitories.

H•MBIL;11,1H, ocr. I.

Mr. Thornton, the English En .oy, having corn-
municstted to the Senate of this City, that His Bri-
tannic M"ieuy had ordered the blockade of the
Elbe and the Weser to be taken off, he was formally
thankc 2 for the communication.

BERYL, OCT. 13.

air frontiers are at present occupied by detach-
ments of the Confederated Army, along the whole
line from Basle to the Lake of Constance, and thence
along the bounds of the Cantons of the Grisons and
Tessin, towards lt.sly. The number of these tro•ip s
is calculated at about 10,000. Further contingents
are ready to mirth in all the Cantons. The head-
quarters of M. De Watenwyl, are at Zurich. A
perfect harmony reigns in the 19 Cantons, with re-
spect to these measures.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDUN,
WEDNESDAY, Ocrom 30.

is stated in a letter from Dover, that orders had
been sent down on Monday to countermand the
sailing of the Expedition from the Downs, and that
the troops had begun to disembark. We have rea-
son to believe, that there is not the slightest founda-
tion for this report. Government surely would not
et with so much precipitation, even though the ru-
mours of the defeat of the Austrian army were as-
certained to be true, in their full extent. The wind
has blown very strong at N.E. since Friday, and
rendered it impossible for the Expedition to sail.

The Amelia loop of war, with a Beet under her
convoy, fur the Baltic, has put back to Sheernesq,
owing to the strong Easterly wind, which prevented
their progress.

Mr. SCOTT, the Nlessenger, who accompanied
Li; d II saws av, and his suite, to Yarmouth, re-
tarned to town yesterday, with an account, that
he left his Lordship wind-bound at that port ; the
wind having continue.' to blow very strong at N.E.

A Gimenburgh Mail arrived yesterday.---It has
brought the following article:

GOTTINIURGII, orr. 21.

The important news was ?e,ter,lay received here of the K,ng
of Yeovil havolig roiled the Omlawn, and, to (IA y, it hu Lear
ocoihrmed from various quarter'.

We announced, yesterday, the extraordinary cir-
cumstance of a Bulletin sent from Boulogne to ap-
pri.e the English squadron, off that harbour, of the
complete defeat of the Austrian army on the Dis-
unite This communication, we understand, was
made in the following manner: In the cow se of
Saturday a vessel came out of the inner hat bour of
Boulogne, and, within sight of the Immortal:h. fri-
gate, I :unched a boat, which drifted with the tide,
and waa takea up by the frigate. On board the

boat was found a mall parcel, containing the fol-
lowing Bulletin :
CI .M HAS sURRENDERED TO THE FRENCH ARMS,
AND THE AVSTRIAN &BRIT 1$ ANNIHILATPD."

The C polo of the forsyretifite sent this Note on
the 1 illowiw; day to Deal, addressed to Lord KRITII,
who received town on Monday, and imme-
diately communicated the extraordinary circu:n-
stance to the Admiralty. .
A private letter froM Dover gives a diftirtnt
account of the content; of the Bulletin. It
states, that Sir Si o iev Sst au, wh ) was at
Dover on Sunday, received, at eight o'clock at night,
an Express from the Officer who comm tills our
flotilla off Boulogne, informing hint, that a boat had
been sent out to the mouth of the harbour, and then
allowed to drift, without any person on board. This
boat was pieked up by the in:miff/44re liigate, and
on board was found a letter, stating, " that the
1•.) each had had 4:1 :inion with an Austrian army,
consisting of one hundred thousand men, which
they had entirely put to the rout ; having kill:J,
wounded, and taken prisoners, nearly the whole ; the
Commander-in-Chief being among the number !"
We arc inclined to believe, that the former is the
more cermet copy, and shall, for the present, merely
observe, that the communication is only an anter4.
mous note.

We have since received private letters from Hol-
land, of various dates, to the 27th instant. One
them, dated Rotterdam, the 25th says

" A very bloody action took place lan week, in which the
French troops were three times repulsed in sturaiing Ulm, and
the ,iai,gtiter W. 1.3 very great. They ',tamed, however, a fourth
tins: toi the charg', aid then succeeded, with the loss of several
Geiterals. The tams reports state, that the French have push•
ei as far as Sirtabuig, and thus are fast nearing Vienna; but
all th acznunts au s t canfused, une with the other, that no-
thing C. 1,1 b • ii ramified on"

Another letter from Holland, of the 2tith, says,
i• The action took place on Saturday, the 19th
inst. It was long and obstinately contested. Viaory,
however, at last declared for BONAPARTE. The
whole of the Austrian army is represented as being
nearly destroyed; not a vestige of what might be
term?..i an efficient corps remained. Those who
escaped the sword or the chains of the enemy, all
who were not among the number of the killed,
wounded, or prisoners, were broken into puny
detachments, and scattered in various direaions."
In addition to these sources, we have received Dutch
Papers of the 26th, which state, tinder the head of
ankfort, Oftober '29, that " the French attacked
Ulm on the 11th, but were repulsed with loss ; that
they had, however, renewed the attack, and that
Ulm had, according to report, fallen into their
hands."

The most accurate information cannot always
protea the public against the frauds and artifices
of speculators, who agitate the funds by false ru-
mours, while they repose and fatten upon the fears
of the timid, and the credulity of the honest and us-
suspeaing. But, if ever there were a great and
perilous crisis, at which the country was exposed to
the arts of men interested in the perversion of
the until, and when it ought to be particularly
upon its guard against corrupt praCtices, it is
the present. From the opening of the campaign,
to the present hour, we have been, in rcspea of
information from the theatre of the war, entirely at
the mercy of our enemies. The Paris Papers carry
down the military operations no farther than the
t2th. To that date they are communicated in the
five Bulletins of the Grand Army, published in the
Papers to the 19th; for, though the subsequent
Papers to the 22d, announce the capture of Ulm,
and the defeat of the Austrians, with the loss of
30,000, and, according to others, of 40,000 men,
these are given merely as reports, or the substance of
private letters, without any official or positive cha-
raaer. During the interval, since the 22d, the in-
formation received has been still snore unsatisfac-
tory, consisting only of the contradifory and con-
fused accounts which we have copied front Dutch
Papers, and private letters from Holland to the
27th. The Bulletins of the grand army appear to
have reached Paris in six days. Supposing, then,
reports and private letters from the theatre of war
to travel with the same velocity, the decisive
action announced in the Paris Papers must have
taken place previous to the 17th. If this report,
then, be true, how could BONAPAKTE annihilate the
Austrian army over again on the 19th? We shall not,
however, pursue the obvious inconsistencies and con-
tradiaions in the various French and Dutch accounts
any further. There has been, unquestionably, much
hard fighting, and with various success ; and though
Boaaoaare may have obtained the vi!tory, it will
probably be found, that he has dearly purchased his
laurels. Unless the Austrian army he entirely broken
and dissipated, we cannot regard the capture (f Ulm,
and even a severe loss of men in that quarter, to be
certainly decisive of the campaign: Boy. e Aar
will suit hive to encounter, with an army thinned
by the sword, the gallant remains of the Austrian
force, recruited with Russian and Prussian troops,

fresh on the field, and swelling iti rank► far beyoad
their original number. We own, th it the woman-
ish despondency in some of the London Prints, and
the manifest disposition in other. to press proofs far-
ther than they will go ; to rektrd vague and
contradielory rumours, as cntain and positive
evidence, and to swe!l every trifle that makes
against Austria, into an ohj ,a of importance,
have encouraged us to hope more favourably of
her cause, than any inconsistencies in the French
accounts would warrant. One of them, after co-
pying the anonymous note from Boulogne, which
it calls a " tremendous sentence," adds, " Had
we no other grounds than thi Bulletin, we should
still have had little doubt remaining upon our
minds of the French having gained a great ad-
•antage." Now we maintain, in opposition to this
writer, on whose mind this anonymous note has
flashed conviction, that, without other grounds, it
would nut de3erve serious notice. NVere it not for
the app trent rejoicing at Boulogne, and the va-
rious rumours afloat of a ♦ictory gained by the
French, this extraordinary note would be regarded
by every cautious man as a boar, or, at most,
a sort of rearnaran, intended to explode at the
Stock Exchange, to fill the pocket of some
French spy, or agent of Bomar A ;sr Os secret police.
We stated, in a former Paper, that the aCtion at
Ulm was, probably, fought upon the I fith ; and it
may not be unworthy of notice, that among the
various reports of its result, there is one which
states, that both sides suffered severely, but that
neither could claim the vi Cory. This report is the
only one that corresponds with an account in the
Frankfort letter of the 20th, which states, that the
Archduke FaltDl M.l KO passed the Danube, at
Ulm, with a considerable division of the army, with
which he took positions at Heidenheirn, Aalen,
Gemund, and Geislingen, in the Wurternburg
territory, still keeping up his communication with
the main army on the Iller.
The second Russian Army was expefted to reach
the Inn by the latter end of the present month.
There are two-contradiCtory reports with respell to
the armies in Italy ; one states, that the French had
been defeatsd with the loss of 8,001) men ; the other.;
that the French had succeeded in forcing the posi-
tions of the Archduke CM A at. Es, and finally defeated
him. Both of these depend upon the same private ac-:
counts from Holland, which state the aftion at Ulm.

To-morrow morning, His MAJiST V will Come tOy
town from Windsor, to hold a Privy Council at the
Queen's Palace, to receive the RECORDER'S It:DOI t
of the convi.ls who have been cast for death since
His Marzsry went to Weymouth.
On Monday, about one o'clock, Mr. Wick, the
Messenger, was unexpectedly sent off with an ex-
press to His Id/A/ESTI`, at Windsor, with dispatches
from Lord ME LGRAVE.

Yesterday, His Royal highness the Doke of.
Yoatt, as Commander-in-Chief, held a public day
at his Office in the Hot se Guards, to receive Mili-
tary Gentlemen, either in uniforms or without.
Between the hours of two and five, His Rost.
11101IsEss gave audience to upwards of thirty, who
were admitted in rotation, according to the .seder
they had previously given their names in.
A letter from Ramsgate„ dated 051. £ll, says,
" The 14th and 23d Regiments of Infantry marched
in here last Friday ; the former embarked on bard
the transports the same evening, and the latter the
next morning. The 14th Regirmnt is more than
1000 strong. On Saturday morning, the 23d Re-
giment went on board, and the transports, with
both Regiments, sailed about twelve o'clock. Sa-
turday afternoon, the tali, or King's Own Regiment
of Foot, arrived here ; a remarkable fine Regiment,
upwards of 4000, embarked yesterday morn-
ing, and sailed for the Downs about one o'clock.
There are now only three transports remaining het e ;
but more are expelled shortly ; and a further em-
barkation is then expelled to take place, both of
horse and foot. Several Regiments are mentioned ;
and among those General Moore's Brigade.
The situation of Ambassador at the Court of St.
Petersburgh, one always of considerable import-
ance, and about to be filled by Lord CATIICART,
was, for several years, filled by his father, the late
Lord, greatly to the satisfardion of his Sovereign ;
who, among other marks of the royal favour, deco-
rated him with the Order of the Thistle.
Yesterday, the Right Hon. the Loft!) MAYOR,
after examining the Mealweighers' returns of wheat
and ftrur, ordered the price of bread to be continued
as last week.

A Court of Aldermen will be held at Guildhall,
on Tuesday next, the :ith of November, to hear and
determine an appeal against the rates made under
the Clergy Aft ; to cleft Searchers and Sealers of
Leather for the year ensuing ; to cleft an Out-Pen-
sioner of Emanuel Hospital, and on other business.
The Earl of Burn was the first Scotsman ap-
pointed a First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of
ltosstrts the first Lord Chancellor from his coun-
try ; Viscount Mcivitte the first head of the Ad-
miralty; and Alderman Straw the first Scotsman
ever elefled a Lord Mayor.
Yesterday the Logo MAYOR'S Court was held
before the Rxcoanew, in the Court of Exchequer,
Guildhall. Several undefended CAWS were hied.
chiefly anions brought by apprentices against their
masters, for not enrolling their indentures, wheteby
they were deprived of the freedom of the City
There were also some causes heard, wherein the As-
signees of different bankrupts were Plaintiff., and
persons unlawful!., holding part of the property of
the bankrupts, were Defendants. No defence being
made in any of them, on the examination of a wit-
ness in such cause, verdifts were entered for the
Plaintiffs. The Court having gone through all• the
business, broke up at an early hoe,.

Deji

Said RA orurr • twee to Ductur Cote.,"
While tippling, hill of glee ;
" Come, brother, :tere. 10 .11 the fools,
That greet you with a fee."
" I that: k you, bro'htr," CASS Tep!ied,
" And itr.uk your tout with zest ;
" Gore me the foots,. and I'm curve it,
" rou'r, w•leihnl. to the. row •""
• Dr. 123,11C11ff-S,'": G.-vigor's Lyttur<, Mite! ht Male 14.
t Tll4 WA, 1 bt'll.:lrd, the Dr. CJIV., of wtoon a Po. t
serted, that the PA,.h r hail orntiod name by olio mp 11.11:., t
ay
he bad by all ;U. wurke. •111.4 i.: • ..: jiltric,t 1, yi a
was „Lienleuer4, oral the Quack', s
" plume,
" id, Ca L.

Yesterday morning, His M
.1 is r v, and Princes:zs
AII Gus r ;I:1d SO►'II a, accompanic. by 1.4) 1% A I.•
SI N(III AM, General Fl l ZROV, Colunrl .v tun, ;mil
Lady Wysvaan, took an airing, on luirsellask, is
Windsor Great Park.
His Royal Highness the Prince of W is., con-
tinues to enliven Brighton with his Presence; and
the town may be truly sad to be still very gay.
All the Steync houses are hilly occupied ; arid the
balls, plays, and other places if pulsiic
are unusually well attended at this period of the
season.

The last Art ivals at Cheltenham Spa are,
Mejw.a.arrat She.hrouke, Lidy Catherine flo*ard,
Suffld. CoJonel Cooper, co!ol e' Franks, C.lpt Mrdelord.
km Mr Lean , Mr. and Mn. Reduard, Mews lie r!" Shir-
k% Dodds, Lynn, Harnett, Legett R. thrice, Muvr4,ar,
Law, Dame. Arthur and .1..,ne; Mn r.,1 Three Mi.a Wal-
drew ; Mrs. Carter, Was SL Cloude, Two Mitt Leans, Mna
Hungry, Mum Sibly,

Lord klt.i.Ettaoacscon has arrived in town, from
Ramsgate.
The PC:ATI:CCM AMBASSADOR will be in town
this week, from Ramsgate.
Countess OVENKAUs!'!: left town, nn Sunday, for
her seat, Altreds, Shields, I luntinc,onbe, near
Salthill, Windsor.

On Saturday night the Lincoln Theatre c:osed for
the season, after a most successful camp.i:gin, with
The Provoked Husband, and the entertainment of The
Padlock.
The Marquis and March; mess of WA rrasoso
are at their scat, Curraglimm-e, Ireland.
Mr,. M. Joas row, of Notting :sra•platc, has
taken a house at Hampton Wick, to which she will
remove in a few days.
Burton Theatre opened last night, with The
School of Reform, by the Stafford Corps Dramativi,e,,
under the superintendance of Mr. Sr Aetna.
Lady 13aosioarois is expeaed in a icw days from
Yorkshire.
T. Hoe mono. Esq. arrived, last Sunday, at
FENTON'S Fhtel. from Hoptiwood-hall, Lineashire,
and is going. in a few days, on a visit to toy Earl of
DERBY, at the Oaks.
Lord G. EsaLsruito is with his regiment at
Gloucester.

In consequence of the dea..ll of the Doke of Rox-
uoitott, without issue male, the Bri:tish Earldom
and Barony of KIRI' of WAI:k: 111 o becomes ex.
tin& : the late Duke, however, never took his seat
as such in the li..u,e of Lords.

The Earl and Counte,s CHOLIN oNor-Lev, we un-
derstand, mean to take a tour into Di vionshire, be-
fore Christmas, for the purpose principaily of visit-
ing their noble relative, Lo. (its-voile, who reside.
at Sidmouth, for the benefit of his health.
Mr. T. DIRDIN'S new comedy was read in th?
Green-room of Covent Garden Theatre on Monday
fart. Report speaks in high terms of it.
Lady ANN WINDIIAM arrived yesterday, at her
house, Gloucester-place, from Ramsgate.
Messrs. THOMAS and CHARLES DI 'DIN, jun. have
engaged the Patent cf Mr. AST Ley's Dublin Am-
phitheatre Royal, which will open in November,
with a company ni London favourites, under the
management of Mr. C. DtsotH, jun.
I ler Grace of Bcorosto intends giving a grand
masquerade at Woburn in the course of a fortnight.
It will be one of the most magnificent pet ever
given at Woburn Abbey.
Tee Beau: S.ralagrm will be performed this
night at the Gloucester Theatre, for the benefit of
the Infirmary, by Gentlemen Arnateqrt.
Died, on Mo,:day sennight, at Drimmie-House.
Scotland, the Right Hon. Lady KINNAIRD, relit
of the late Lord KI NSA. REI, WhOM She outlived rot
many days. !to. Ladyship was the daughter of the
late GUI rim RANSOM, Esq. of Palace Yard, West-
minster.

Mr. /cellists will open his Theatre, at North
Sh:elds, this slight, with the Comedy aro Mary,
er Not tv Marry; and on Monday night Newmtle
Theatre was to do c.

The 11th verse of 9th chapter of Revelations,
by prefixing a n' to the last word of the V4ff !, de-
scribes 131NAPARTZ—" And they had a King over
them, which is the Angel of the Bottumle,s
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is ABADDOM,
but, in the Greek rfingue, has his name Apa.54014."
His Royal Highness the Doke of CAMBRIDGR
gave a magnificent dinner at the Thatched-House
Tavern, in St. J one,'s-street, yesterday. to the
Officers of the Coldstream 'regiment of Guards*,
their Royal Highnesses the I of YORK and
CUMULILAND, the Earl of CAVAN, General, CAW'
VERT and WYNTARD, Captain 141014 Messrs.
Cox and Geteaswoun, and about seventy Officers
and Gentlemen. The tables were laid out in a su,s•
perb style, and the number of covers amounted
to four hundred ; the ornaments we re beautiful, and
the room a blaze .'f 1;;;11:. 11,3 Rriyal Highness
the Duke of GAMIIRID'Ga sat at the head of the
table, His Royal Highness the Duke of Voss, at
his nght.hand, and the Duke of Cum us A Ito, un
his left. The Duke of Cams* ion2s band played
all the time of dinner. Many songs were soot, and
much hilarity prevailed, until a late flour.

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