The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-01-02 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, JANUAtT 2.

Io isubsequent column will be found an account
of the loss of the Anm, of 40 guns. Captain
LYDIA RD. We understand that shoat 160 of her
crew, including the Captain. have been lost.

A Mail arrived, yesterday, from New-York and
Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Duke of
&Ise packet.—By this conveyance we have re.
ceired New-York Papers to the 7th ultimo,
and Washington Parrs to the 3d. containing
the proceedings in Congress up to that date.
Mr. ERSILIPIL had received dispatches from his Go-
vernment, containing its answer on the subjects in
dispute between the two countries, excepting the
affair of the Chesapeake, which is to form a separate
aka of negotiation, to be condueed by Mr.
Russ. The business had net ou the 2d come be-
fore Congress, but the substance of Mr. Carona c's
answer had transpired, and is given in our curets
from the New York Papers. The measures for
increasing the naval and military strength of the
United States, and the defence of the coast, con.
tinued to occupy almost exclusively the time and
attention of Congress.

Count Da MIEN is the person who came in the
Flag of Truce, which arrived on Tucsday in the
Downs. He is a Polish Nobleman of distils.
guished abilities, and is Secretary to the Austrian
Embassy at Paris. His mission, therefore, must
have for its objet something of considerable
importance. It is supposed that he brings with
him some further communications on the subjeft of

the proposed mediation on the part of Austria and
Prussia, between Great Britain and France ; others
assert. that the Count De Miss has brought a posi-
tive order of recal for the Ausr at •rs Ahi SASIADON,
with dizations for Lim to return by the way of
Par is.

Dispatches were received yestevday from Admiral
Grtotisa, dated Torbay, the f)ch last, at which
date the part of the Channel feet, under his com-
mand, which had put Imo that harbour, were all
1

Dispatches were sent eif. last night. from the
Admiralty. tor 1.-,rd Coactnewooo. _

Dispatches are hourly expo:led from Sir Survey
Su a TN. Name had arrived at a late hour last nigh'.
The line of Tdegrapbs. between the Admiralty
and Yarmmth, alit be completed in about tbres
wet ks.

The Three Brothers, Coots*. from Chepstow, for
Chatham, 011 in with a French privateer, on Satur.
day last, off Beaehy Head, and after engaging her
for a considerable time, ma her down ; but so many
M. the privateer's men gnt on board the I Ares
Brother:, that they captured and carried her off for
France.

The jese.Scoes,frown Quebec, foe London, was
all well off St. Peter's Island on the 30th Nos.

An order has been seat to Cork for the troops
which have artived with Admiral Musa AY. to land
there. If the order should dot arrive before Ad.
miral Msaa•v sails from thence, they will land in
Kent. agreeably to tha original order.
A vessel is arrived at Gravesend, tram Holland.
but she has brooght no intelligence of importance.
Recent accounts Irons Mimic state, that 15,089
French troops still remain in that city and its neigh.
►ourhood. The king of Pausu• has sot yet re.
moved from Memel. A scarcity of provisions is
veil severely felt at Dantzic. Is is said, that a►out
six pounds of a very coarse kind of brown bread
costs there, and in other parts of Prussia, at least
two shillings. _ _ _

Letters from Flashing. of the tOth last, state, that
the Dutch merchants have ventured to remonstrate
with the French Government, on the want of fair-
ness and equality in the execution of the laws con.
earning foreign commerce in France and Holland.
Tkey complain, that in France a brisk trade is car-
ried on with various nations, while no vessels of any
kind can go in er out of any of the ports of Holland.

The Di:claration of Ausitia, assigning cause for
breaking of all conneaioa with -England, is es.*
peßed shortly to make its appearance.
A vessel arrive.: from 11,boa. after a passage of
only ten days, reports, that at the time of her sail.
ing, it was not known there that the French bad en-
tered Madrid; and the Pations of Peace still con-
tinued, as far as the latest information reached, the
efficient and acknowledged Minister of Spain.
The Liverpool paper received yesterday says—
" We are happy to learn that a meeting for the pur-
pose of petitioning for Peace, was held on Friday
last, at Oldham in this county; more than ten
thousand persons were present; several resolutions,
tending to show the necessity of peace, were passed
unanimously, and a Petition ordeted to be pre-
pared. A Meeting was last week held at Calvettey.
Yorkshire, at which st was resolved, " That at the
present moment, Is is no less the duty than it is the
right of every British suleS humbly to petition the
Ka MO to take such measures as shall appear to him
best adapted to obta:n a secure and permanent
peace." This Meeting was held in the room appro-
priated to transacting the public business of the
town, and was attended by upwards of one hun-
dred tespeflable sehabiteits, both clothiers an/
others, and the resolutions passed without one
dia-
serting voice.
A Requisition, addressed to the inhabitants of
Frigley, signed by about thirty names, including
mill owners, and whets reepeilable inhabitants of
that place, has hero also in circulation for some
days, calling a General Meeting, to t.ke into Con-
sideration the propriety of petitioning His Moats/ If
at this awlal Crisll, on the subjett