The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-06-10 00:00:00

" F.cntheim, 28th May.—Zwenir.g.
" The French array on iu route to Hanover wa; r7^% by a
Rursian Aid-41c-Cantp, who. on the part of a Russian Certeral

here, requzsted a conference vrith

of tlw French

troops, since which the French arms has betted."

Coupling these circumstances with the indiren in-
sinuation thrown out by Russia at the time of Lord
WHITWORTH'S &MUM from Paris, of a wish
to mediate between this country and France, a san-
guine temper may be excused for speculating upon
a disposition in the Eurraox of RUiSI A, to pro-
ted the weaker states of Europe, connefted with
England, fn.m the violence and usurpation of the
FIRST CONSIP. of France. Any expeentlon, how-
ever, of this kind, has been muck damped by a
confident report circulate d intuit it, that Govern-
ment has received authentic ausices of Bremen
having been taken possession of on the 2d instant,
by the French troops, and that a strong detach-
ment was in full march for liattiburgli.—Shonld

this prove to be the fad, the preparatlons of Russia
may be easily accounted for, ividlcut assigning to


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her that generous policy towards the weaker state ,
of Eukape, which, in 'mare chivalrous times,' k
might be eipeaed she would pursue. It biro been
long a favorite objekof Bettsa ra arc to elhat Isp
the port of Hamburgh against English commerce.
That point once, efeeted, the Baltic trade is all
that would remain to us upon the,northem tide of
Europe; and as Russia is the principal part; in
the firm, nothing can be more natui al than that
she should fit out a fleet for its proteetion.—
A new disposition manifested upon the part of
France would, of course, produce a new policy in
foreign Courts ; but nothing has recently transpired
that could change the policy of Russia. She was,
the other day, the mediating power under whose
attsp;ces and sandicn Germany was cut up and
carved to please the ambitic,us appetite of the FIRST
Coasot. Since that veri, d the Negotiation with
England has been broken off; but the diplomatic
correspondence furnishes no principle assumed by
France that can be new to Russia,. In her system
of ambition and aggrandizement, France has, indeed,
been most religiously uniform. If then Russia was
not merely a looker on, if she encouraged and
sanctioned the new partition of the German Empire
for th..! purpose of aggrandizing France and her
Ally, the KING of PRUSSIA, and if the system of
European politics has since continued the same,
surely no cool refleaing mind can hope that Russia
will commit herself with France fdr objeds purely
English, fur Hanover, for Bremen, and for Hain-
burgh. We therefore erped to see all these
places occupied by French troops, conceiving,
as we do, that Russia does not feel a suf-
ficient interest in their quarrel, and that Prus-
sia is not to be diverted from that selfish policy
which she has so successfully cultivated by a passive
obedience to the will of France. The event may,
no doubt, prove otherwise ; but if so, it will be a
grateful disappointment to our Government, as we
have reason to believe that the Minister has long
since made up his triad for that result, and specu-
lated upon nothing short of seeing Hanover in the
occupation of the French troops.

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Newsman she j,.eacltag Article of yesterday for jointers:
read gamey.

H. BROOZZ' Esq contests the vacant recrresenta-
don of the County of Fermanagh, with the Hou.
G. LOWRY COLS.
Government, accosting to report, are preparing
a secret expedition.
A Deputation of the Silk Importers had an inter-
view yesterday with the Minister at the Treasury,
from eleven in the morning until half past two.
The LoAti....All the Candidates for the Loan,
except one, have already completed their Lists : they
are six in number, viz.

Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co. (The deference between
these Gentlemen and Mr. Goldsmid, that has for some time
subsisted, is said to be nnw adjusted, is consequence of which
they are itapetted to join in the same list on the present ooca-
skn.)
Memas.Esdaile, Sewell, and Co.
Main. Sprott, Smith, Mills, Hammond, sad Walters, for
the Stook Exchange.
Sir French Basing, Angeestein, Batty., and keen.
The Bankers.
Sir C. rok. (This Gentleman's List k the only one that is
not yet flied up.)
By the Cecilia extra East-India ship from Bengal,
which arrived on Wednesday in the Downs, we
have the information of a Dutch Frigate timing
been captured by La Loire, and sent for Ports-
n.outh.
Lord GARDt4tft is appointed Commander in
Chief at Cork; Admiral C. Momr‘sout Comman-
der at Portsmouth; and Sir iota( COL POI'S Com-
mander at Plymouth.
Mr. \Vicki's st's Motion for the intr.lciu6tion of
a Bill tending to appropriate a surplus fund in Ire-
land, in loans to Clergymen of that Country, for the
purpose of rebuilding Parsonage Houses, is deserv-
ing the utmost patronage of Government, as it will
contribute hi,7'o' ,1y to facilitate the diffusion of mo-
rality and religion in that branch of the Empire.
Mr. NlANnevit Ls, Under Secretary to the late
Embassy in France, s arrived in town. He was ac-
companied to Dover by four English Ladies.
Hanover was in possession ofthe French in the year
73i, but they were soon after expelled. It com-
prehended at that time nothing but the county of
Lawenroad ; bnt now it contains the Dutchy of
Zell, Saxe, Laweaburg, Bremen, Lunenburgli, the
prir.cirality Vcrien-, Crubenhagen and Oberwald.
Gorge the irst was the first that gained possession
of. all these States, which extend two hundred miles
it. lensth.
By dispatches found in a recently captured West
Indianian, it appears the French have finally de-
serted St. Domingo, which is wholly in possession
of the Blacks and Mulattoes.
Sir Hostel. WILSON has published an answer to
the charge brought against him by the French Go-
vernment, in which he says, " I feel confident there
is no individual who will not amply confirm all that
I have written on this subjeet ; and perhaps Europe
has a right to condemn me for not having made the
accusations still stronger, when I can produce' fre-
quent general orders of the French army fur the de-
stra&icit of villages, and their inhabitants ; when I
cart prove, that above 20,000 of the natives perished
by the sword of the French soldiery ; and that every
:ad of violence was committed, and particularly in
Upper Egypt, which could outrage humanity, and
disgrace. the charmer of civilized nations."
The trustees of the late Mrs. Buicewsst, Aber-
deen, have decided the prize dissertation on the sub-
ject prescribed last year, viz.—" In what respects do
poetrf, and eloqueme agree ? in what respects do
they differ? and what are the characteristics of
these arts"—in favour of the Rev. Mr. Aux.
Bowta, Relief Minister, Aberdeen.
The subject for the next year's dissertation is
" What are the duties of an historian, and what
should be his talents ? Who art the historians, • an-
cient and modem. who have succeeded be in this
ptovincc