The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-16 00:00:00

LO N DON,
WEDNESDAY. ()croon 16.

We have received Paris Papers to the 6th,
and Dutch Papers to the lRh instant. .1 he head-
quartvrc of Roy./ tPARTIC were at Stutgard on the
31. His whole army had crossed the Necker,
and has been joined by the armies of Bavaria,
Wirtemberg, and Baden. Meanwhile, the Austrian
detachments of advanced posts are represented
retiring in all diredions, at the approach of the
French; and the Austrians are colleting their great
force between the Lake of Constance and the Da-
nube. Should a battle take place between the main
armies, it will be fought in the very heart of Ger-
many ; and a great portion of that country, even in
the event of the most, brilliant success on the side of
the Austrians, is doomed to suffer all the horrors
of war. This must be a great disappointment to
those sanguine tempers which expelled that Austria
had got se much the start of the enemy, as to be able
to push the great body of her army to the frontiers of
the Empire, before the French had passed the Rhine.
As she most trivial failure is of importance at the
outset, from the spirit which it infuses into the foe,
it appears, at first sight, strange, that Austria should
send her troops forward to occupy posts which she
meant to abandon the moment a French soldier pre-
sented himself to take possession. —Did she specu-
late upon bcing joined by the Bavarian troops ? and
are they. with those of Wirtemberg and Baden,
actually enlisted under the banners of the French,
and combating at their side ?--This deletion of Ba-
varia from the Chief of the Empire, which, we fear,
is no longer doubtful, would, in some measure, ex-
plain the retrograde movement of the Austrians,
and account for the delay in coming to a grand
battle. We must, however, observe, that other ar-
ticles in the Paris Papers assert, in terms equally
positive, that the Austrians have again passed the
Danube, and taken positions in the rear of the
Black Forest. The advanced guard, under Gene-
ral KLEMM:, is posted between Stnckach and Do-
naueschingen. In this case. as anion between the
two armies may be immediately expelled.
The Ausr afar Mr ir ISM at the Hague,is making
preparations for his departure, but it dues not ap-
pear that Count Co VBNIZEL has yet left Paris, or
M. DB Rocalrouc alma. ♦ienna. It is, perhaps,
their continuance at their respective pests, that has
produced a rise in the French Funds : they are 551.
RON AAAAAA has delegated the Government, dur.
ing his absence, to his brother Joseen, the Grand
Eledor.

Only a few of our countrymen, who were at Ver-
dun, have been removed to Valenciennes—the
greater part of the remainder hare been transferred
to the Castle of Vaudreuil.

A letter from Bombay, of the 17th April, says,
A spirit of revolt had manifested itself among the
troops of the Rajah of TR•V ANCONt, instigated, it
was supposed, by some French emissaries, who had
been landed ou the coast from one of the enemy's
frigates, arrived there from the Mauritius, which
had obliged the RA1•11 to apply to the Madras Go-
vernment for assistance, when a detachment of Eu-
ropeans and Natives were immediately ordered to
enter the Travancore dominions. This had the de-
sired effed the principal mutineers owe seized and
punished, and the test et the troops then returned to
their duty. The emissaries, it was ezpeded, wi, ild
be discovered before they could reach the @bore, as
intelligence lop' lean cceir d, that k WAS their in •
cation to endstavour to get ou braid the blurs
which was then cruising off the coast.

Yesterday we announced the arrival of the Ja-
maica and Leeward Island fleets, in the Channel,
under convoy of the "import! and Phistrwidr. The
Beets were left on the I ith, under the proteffion of
Admiral CortmwaLLlS, by the Venpurd, which, be-
ing leaky, proceeded to Port:m.)llth, where she
arrived on Monday. The Van:ward had been
five years upon the Jamaica station, and had
been ten weeks on her passage from that Island,
with her convoy, amounting to 80 sail. S!te re-
ports. that, on Thursday last, she fell in with the

Leewe:J Island Ant, amounting to 200 sail, 50
of which had bees distanced, and otherwise injured.

its a heavy gale of wind, about a fortnight before.
Twenty-two sail, part of both fleets, have arrived
at Bristol, and about twenty-five of the Jamaica
fleet, were kft on the 9th inst. with the Br, aahia.
in lit 49. 42. long. I I. 40.—The names of the ar-
rivals, the places where, and every other particu-
lar that could be ascertained respeeting them at
',toy o's, are given under the proper head, in a sub-
sequent column.

The G4:ette of last night contains an account of
the capture, by the Dexterous gun-brig, of a Spanish
gun-boat and seven merchant ships, which were
under convoy of a whole squadron of gun-boats,
near Gibraltar, on their way from Malaga to Al-
gez:tas.

The intmortaitte frigate Arrived on Monday in
the Downs, from a cruise off 13oulogne, during
which she chased three praams and ahout twenty
schooners, which were going along-sh )re ;rum Am-
bleteuse to the grand depot; but they kept so close
in-shore, the !nem/le/di could not cut any of them
off. A shell fell on board of her, and wounded
several of her crew.

Govt.!! menr, we understand, have received in-
telligence through the Channel Fleet, of Lord
Netsou having arrived off Cadiz on the 29th of
September, at which time the Combined Squadrons
had made no attempt to put to sea.

Yesterday, about one o'clock, Capt. KENT, of the
Mangold°, arrived at the Admiralty with dispatches
from Governor KING, at Botany, to their Lordships,
Ministers, and several official Gentlemen. The
Governor only waits the arrival of his successor,
Capt. &too, who sails on the 16th of next month.
Yesterday the NEAPOLITAN ANSASSADON and
Earl WILSTAIORL Aso, transaned business with Lord
MuLotave, at his Office.
Yesterday, about three o'clock, a Board of Tree.
sury was held, for the first time this season, whit a
was attended by Mr. PITT, Marquis of Bt•N
roan, and Lord Fitza•ants. _ _

Monday, Governor Pa eras traasafted business
with Lord C AST L all AOM, at his Office.

Counsellor S•ursow, who has been for some
time past resident at Hambursh, has obtained leave
from Government to return to IreLukl tor a limited
time.

The nut!fovea, 84, which loosed top-sails after
being paid on 'Thursday last, at Plymouth. fired a.
gun for all Officers to repair on board, wlten she
was enveloped in such a dark thunder-storm, as to
be obliged. after weighing, to bring-to again, it
blowing fOr above throe hours a perfea hurricane ;
bet, on Friday reeling, she and the Egytieusse, 4s,
Hun. Capt. Ft ESLINO, sailed to resume their station
og Hochelott.
'By the detained Prussian vessel arrived at Ply-
mouth, nothing further has transpired about the
Calcutta, 56, and her convoy ; the former is certainly
captured, but the latter have all escaped. The
Master of the above Prussian ship, and all her pa-
pers, are on board the Calcutta ; of course, no ex-
amination of ship or cargo can yet take place as to
the cause of her detention, till he returns from
France, or a special commission tor examination of
those lett on board should be issued from the High
Court of Admiralty to the Pt ize Commissioners.
An Extract of a Letter from Captain HENRY
Wm, of the Ferrier gun-brig, one of Admiral
Russxxes squadron, dated North Sea, October 8,
says, " Just at dark, last Sunday night, two
large French cutter brihs ran alongside, one on
each beam, and poured is a broadside, which
killed nearly one half of us. I had only nine
guns to their thirty-six, but I gave them my lar-
board guns. They both wore, and kept up a well-
direfted fire until eight o'clock, by which time our
quarters were well cleared. At this moment, I was
under the necessity of sinking all my papers, signals,
instrations, Ste. to cut away one anchor, heave
one useless gun overboard, and clear the decks of
every incambrance. The enemy, however, to our
great astonishment, hauled their wind, and left us
at the moment we were expeding to go to the
bottom."

A division of the Hanoverian troops passed
through Islington, on Monday, on their route to
Blackwell, for embarkation. Several divisions are
marching. by different routes, amounting to near
0.000 effeftive men. Other troops are m motion,
to make room to quarter them on their march.
Deptford Creek Bridge was opened on Saturday
last for foot passengers. It is built over the River
Ravensborne, sear its outlet into the Thames, and
leads from Deptford to Greenwich. The Com-
mittee, of Proprietors of this undertaking met on
the bridge at two o'clock in the afternoon, when
the ceremony of opening it was performed amidst
a great esincourss of spectators assembled on the
occasion.

A Meeting of the Council of the Chamber of
Commerce of Belfast, was convened on the 4th
instant, in that town, for the purpose of laying be-
tal. thew a letter received by the President, from
WILLIAM Epee Lees, Esq. in answer to their
application respelling some proposed changes,
tout hing the more early arrival of the Dublin
Mil in that town, and the more frequent con-
veyance hy post throughoutthat neighbout hood. Mr.
!Ass's letter being read, by which it appeared he
had not (nay paid due attention to the Memorial, in
his official situation, as Surveyor of the Post-Otfice,
but that he had transmitted the same for the consi.
daratton of the Post-Masters Geneva', it was re-
solved, " That the President be desired to transmit
to Mr. LEIS, the warmest thanks of the Chamber,
for the prompt and polite attention he had shewn to
their wishes, and to assure him, that the intended
improvements, when carried into effed, would not
only considerably convenience the trade of that
town, but materially advantage those great manu-
facturing distrids of Antrim, Derry, &G.; and, in
the end, increase His M sac,/ it's revenue in the
Post-Officc department."