The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-15 00:00:00

War Ofre, 0411 11, 1804.

Mh Regiment of 117.g00n Gu.inlN.—..‘uguatt. Curzon, am'.
to be enrn..t, stttui.t
11th Dstto.-..Captaln Plwattl %toekle•, frmi the 4 •-,11.
be without punitasg, rice Nigoby, pr...o”tett to th.•
594 f• or*

40th Dittoe—Major Paid Anderson, front half•pay oI the Lit..
Corsican Rangers, te be Major, v.ce Rcenell, elan excli,..4e.;
411.4 Regiment of Foot—V.•jor Sebr.gl.t %fee br,fotiu the 18.1.
Foot, to be Lieutenant.Coltwel, wittioutpuicluhe.
STAFF.
Maim Thomas ‘farlay, on half. pay of the lit Fuot fluent., to
be an hone ling Field Officer of Yeomanry and
Corp.. in Ircla,.d, wan temporary rank of Lieutenoit.eo.o
tel in the Army, rice Sir Wuliam Orckbanse, more ap
pointment lao not taken place.
sward by the burl7ieurreaidnrShe Crusty e 1
Middlesex.
Raid East MAdlesex Rcement of Militia.—Thornas Prince,
IN. to he Captain. D.ited Sept. V 4, 1104.
Women Regiment of %faint —Sir R. Crawford, Lrt to b'
Captain. Dated Sept. 44, Min.
P. Cooltm in, Gent to be I.l,utedant Dated at
James B.atit, Celli to be Ditto. Dated as above.
R. Riissett, Gent. to be Unto. I).ted a. shove.
Duke of Gloucester's Local Volunteer=.-..l.ieuteitint Valen-
tineJonim tri be Captain, vire the Lad et Clogenell, re-
signed. Dated Sept. li, 1404.
The Han. William Slceffington to be ditto, vice Thomas
111.gb, F...q frog ed Duet as above
Eleign Lock in hi Lwilte.4ll4, vice Foigleßekl, reogned. Dated
Sept 18, 1804.
Fulham Volunteer: —The Rigbt non Thomas Loot Varmint
12-ntilegh to be Liesucoant•Climel Cominaudant, vice
ltdayrick, reagoed. (Fated Sept •.'ll, !Cie.
Noes Wi bunt Frederick's Volunteer..—Chad Randall, Gent
to be Fiiogn, vice Sinikin, reogn-d Dated Sept. 27, 1804.
SeeMerset•Place Volunteer, —Sir Andrew Snaps Hammond,
Rut. to be Lieutenant Colon, I•C imutainlant, 'ire Tierney,
resigned. Datal Sept. 18, 1404
Si. Cho:lei William 14.1111 e bmghtm Sari, to be Lieutenant.
Colonel, vice lIJIT mond, promoted. Dated., above.
William Cromwell, IL,I to be Slain,. eiri• Rune, pmnioted.
T Ca,82184.-11.1eitte0.10t Jahn Ctc.twell, ace Duncan.
recline" Dated Sept. IS, 1804.
L'eotenalit Allred Joa.,soti, vice Terry, resigiud. Dated at
above.

Lieutenant WIIIi ns knight, vice Latham, resigned. IS ty.!
as abo% e.
Lieutenant Arthur Met*. vice Hays, resigned. Dut.vi as
above.
To be 1.. •ttionrritt..--F.mie John Finney, vice William Crew
wsl, proni..tad. bated Sept. IK, 18C4.
FrPign John Fairweather Harrison, viceCresww.lt, promoted
DAtcvl as above.
Ensign John Thorn... Briggy, vice Johnson, promoted. I.ldted
do above.

LotligtsCl;arleq Hart, vice K p.nniot. d. flatrA at a'.ovg..
Ge"rge Yeats, vice Morn., I)..teri as above
'Ravi Thomas Avvp Ducun, vice Halnuti, Date•l

ao above.
-To be Eriiiigni —Jetties Stow: -Gent. vice Fisin-,., promoted,
Dated Sept. 18, 104.
Walter Hutton, Get,. vice Hatriton, pugnote.l. Dated a.
alin-e.
. Janet Inglii). Lawson,Oele. vice 116;gs promoted- Dated
a. alit.. e.
Jamey 1111 cit.?, dot. 'ries 144,t, promoted. Datrd at above.
T. h••• .4,lju • 4.1 T...4.{Tillanani Jobs t. inney, vitae Gio.ge Smith,
rt...g..ed Datiii Sept. IS, IMPS.
CIIIIIMIIIHOSS 11;rerd ti Hie Ngiesty's Fire Liertema of tilt Ciliate
Sant harnpa.n. '
Duke of (..,,,,wee. few Forest Range.;—William Hill,
Gent. to to, Atlantan, vice Stl'Liatian, taigned. Dated
Aug. SO. 1814.

TILE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
MONDAY, Ocrostrt 15.

We have received a letter, dated the 3d instant,
from our correspondent at the Hague, of which the
following is an extra et :—" The communication with
England by neutral vessels, hitherto tacitly allowed
to us by our French oppressors, though absolutely
necessary to enable us to pay theireztortions,has lately
"net with many obstruaions, and, it is even rtported,
will soon be entirely prohibited, at least until the
final change in our government has been organised,
and the grand expedition shall have sailed. The
four last bags with ship letters, that have arrived
from England, have been seized by the French, and
carried to the Camp of Ziest, where General MA a-
stomr, and the Minister Simonet'. r. r, assisted by
some secret agents from Paris, opened every
letter. All vessels suspeaeri of coming from or
baring touched at Digland, have been rummaged
and visited in the strictest manner, both in the
Tesel and in the Meuse, to find out English corre-
spondents. Several persons have in consequence
been arrested both here, at Amsterdam, and at Rot-
terdam, and snail/bills of exchange have been lost
or taken away, to the great loss of our merchants.
and the great detriment and confusion of um- com-
merce. Foreigners may perhaps think, that a great
conspiracy has been discovered, or a meditated in-
surredlion prevented, and that they are the cause of
these measures of severity ; bat no such thing ; we
continue patiently, and in silent anguish, to
bear the heavy yoke imposed upon us by BONA..
P AIMS we stiffer, sigh, but pay without opposi-
tion, because the spirit and energy of our ancestors
have been buried with our liberty and independence.
Of this the Corsican and his satellites are well con-
vinced. This was, therefore, merely a revolution.
ary-financial operation, to find out sshat money our
principal capitalists have s. ill in the English funds,
or preparatory to some new pecuniary requisition
film France, under the name el loan, to pay the ex-
travagant ezpences of her foreign tyrant's corona'
non, and, as some pretend, the ceremony for the
installation of our own new ruler or rulers. That
this must be the case few doubt, as all the arrested
persons, in opening their purse,., have opened the
doors of the prisons for eieir reception, and the
French commercial agents are busy in taking a list of
our richest inhabitants, and to gain information of
the amount of their fortunes. Emigrations to Ham.
ourgh. Denmark, Russia, Sweden, and America,
have consequently increased ; and, should Bona.
Aare continue some time longer his present sys-
tem in this country, in sonic few years it mill con-
tain nothing but tyrants, beggars, and slaves."

The state of St. Domingo has afrirded a pretence
to the French for committing daily depredations
upon neutral commerce in the Vest Indies. The
American papers received last week abound with
accounts of the frightful barbarity exercised by
French pirates and pi ivateers in th it quarter. Nu-
merous ships of the United States have been taken
by vessels fitted out from Gaudaloupe, and plunder-
ed, sunk, or burnt. The crews have been trcatcd
with the greatest barbarity, loaded with chains, and
confined in dungeons. A vessel from Jamaica, ar-
rived on Saturday in the Downs, has brought a copy
of the proclamation under which these elCiiit!) have
been committed. It will be found in a suiisequeut
column.

Virginia Pap2rs, received on Saturday, contain
rm.: interesting news from St. Domingo. It ap•
pears, that the Negro Empero► of that island has
been defeated, with the luss of 1,01) men, in an at-
tack on St. Jago, which was defended by 7,000 Spa-
niards, under the orders of the French General DE-
• A Vs. Dess ALIPI &I is stated to have destroyed the
city of Monte Christi mid Fort Dauphin, murder-
ing most of the inhabitants. Early in August, he
was preparing to attack the city of St. Domingo,
and the posts of St. Jag° and Azn, which were all
that remained in the hands of the French and Spa-
niards. The Negro Chief has declared war against
the latter, and given orders to his privateers to ca,s-
ture their vessels.

While all our contemporaries alarmed the town
with an exaggerated rqwesentation of a contagious
disease at Gibraltar, we stated, eacinti.../y, Govern-
ment had received information, that it did not exist
in the extent stated, and that its violence had
a►ated. We have received Gibraltar Papers to the
2d last, which confirm our statement. It appears
from them that the Garrison is not mote sickly than
is usual at a like period of the year ; and that the
fever which prevails there was chiefly amongst the
inhabitants, and bore no resemblance to the malady
which has occasioned such mortality at Malaga. On
the I sth, there were sixty-five inhabitants, and four-
teen soldiers, ill of fevers. Seven deaths took place
during the five succeeding days. A few new cases

occurred, but several of the patients were declared
convalescent.

New-York Papers to the i ith last have been re-
ceived ; but their contents are not of importance.

The Captain of a Swedish vessel now in the River,
who sailod from Cottenburgh on the sth, states, that,
on his leaving that harbour, the English Packet with-
! lie Root Highness MONSIEUR, brother to his most
Christian Majesty the King of FIANCE, was in
sight. Louis the XVIII. had not then arrived at
Calmar, his intended residence; but was daily ex-
pescled, and great preparations were made for His
MAJEIEY'S reception. Five hundred men, of the
provincial regiment of Calmar, were under orders
to do duty as life guards of the king of Fit ANCE.

information is said to have been t _ :eived in our
diplomatic circles, that the Cabinet a St. Peters-
burgh has published a long memori.•• which has
been pre:cuts...l to all the Courts of i 'e, and
regardeil as CcilliV.llellt to a declar...• war
against BON Apa TF, but not against Fr:, C. It is
stated to contain all the numerous gi • iitt,:es of
Rtmia, against thi, barbarous I. stirper, and public
as well as ,ecret articles, in treaties between Ft.ance
and Rusin, which were only supposed to subsist
by th- other European States ; but must now con-
vince even the Corsican's French slaves, that their
tyrant's political perfidy almost elta tis his iaoral
depravity; and that as long as he is seated
upon his usurped Throne, and his insolence, bad
faith, and oppression, are endured, France cannot ex-
pel peace, nor Europe safety and tranquillity. We
have heard it reported, that according to the con-
tents of this well-written, spirited, and dignified me-
morial, no Power, not even England and Germany,
have been treated by the Usurper in a more treache-
rous manner than Russia, nor been, with more pa-
tience, the dupe of his Machiavelism and machina-
tions.

A Cona of Aldermen will be held to-morrow at
Guildhall, precisely at twelve o'clock, to swear into
office CI. AUMIUS STEPIitI4 HUMTtit, Esq. to be
Aldermat of the Ward of Bassishaw ; also to hear
and determine the several appeals against the As-
sessments made under the Ad of Parlianwnt, in-
tituled '4 An Aft for the Relief of certain Incum-
bents of Livings in the City of London ;" ai:d to
elett the Se.o chers and Sealer of Leather.

A Court Martial, consisting of Generals Fox,
Wv NY A RD, BROIt Nalco, and other superior ofliccrs,
will sit this day at th I lorse Guards, upon an of-
ficer of high rank.
The Camp at Ridgmont, in llolderness, is ex-
petied to bleak up in the ens, ting week.
The 91st rag:atent is on its march front Sussex
Essex.

The 42d regiment, now at Colchester, is under
orders for Ireland.

The 3I st regiment, daily expeEte,l from Jersey, is
to reinforce the Eastern Distriet.

The ilorse Guards (Blues), who haie been for a
length of time quartered at Canterbury, are to
march for Windsor in the course of the ensuing
week. They are to be replaced by the First Dra-
goon Guards
Several new sloops and win-brigs have arrived in
the Medway, during the last week, to be coppered,
preparatory w their being commissioned.
Letters were received in town on Saturday, from
our cruisers off Boulogne, by the 11,11 S .71 armed-
ship, and IL da bomb, arrived in the Downs. Se-
veral of the enemy's vessrls, which had been driven
in by the late gales, wen on Thursday on the out-
side the harbour, bet they lay secure from our
lire.

The PrWeil efWalri, C X SI LE. from Jamaica
for Clyde, is totally lost on Wicklow Bank, only
one man saved:

The MTN,' and the Smith Caraina, Srovr,,
from Ch.trleston; the Drethert, I IgN DE RSON, aand the
Eh uskt h, MANNING,
_from i.onJuras, aiwitt4.

Deal on Saturday; the Greyhound frigate,
same day, sailed from that place 'spun a
and the Elephant man of war, for Sheerness.
The albnerw cutter arrived at Portsmouth, on
Saturday. from Jersey.
Letters received from Guernsey, by the fleidissit,
COURT, which on Friday arrived at Weymouth, ',-
NTT that the island had bun relieved from a consi-
derable degree of solicitude, in consequence of the
gun boats blockaded in Concale, having escaped,.
tinder favour of the late dark nights, to join, as is
.tared, the. Boulogne flotilla. At Cherbourg, there
were, on the 9th, 70 or SO vess-ls of all denomina-
tions, and aLsint an equal number at Granville and
St. Ma10,..5.

The Cr,.rs, Penelope-, no s. and Speculator, four
stout Letters of Marque, sailed from Cork harbour
far the West I iidiei, without convoy. on yesterday
se'nnight. 'They .are well appointed ripe ships, and
fully able to give the enemy's privateers a warm re-
ception.
We understand the Board of Admiralty have been
pleased to approve of the report steads of the great
capacity of Cove harbour, for the nreeiving ships of
war in ordinary ; and that their Lordships have
given orders for converting Haulbowling Island
into a Spar Store Yard.
The French frigates at New-York, the Diluu
and Syisik, got under weigh on the morning of the
29th of August, with an intention of proceeding
to sea; but having arrived at Gravesend Bay. and
perceiving. the Leander and Cambrian outside ti:e
Hook, waiting to dispute their passage, they very
prudently returned, and anchored in New-York
harbour on the following day. They were at one
time within four miles of the Leander and Caesarean,
each of whom fired a gun to windward as a de-
fiance to the Frenchnieu. The principal towns in
America continued fire from pestilence at the date
of these accounts.

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TITE_ITRE, •

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• TAU R Y•i. A E.
The Comedy of The Fru»der was performed at this
Theatre on Saturday night. It preser.i ed two great
sources of interest and a inn, in Mrs Jos DA
Violanic, and Mr. Et xisvilffi Dun Felix. The dia.
rater of Vietsoe is one of the mast amiable and de.
licate that the fancy can conceive. H:r high serse
of honour, in keeping the secret of her friend, at
the risque of losing a lover, to whom she it moat
tenderly attached; and the many other amiable traits
of this charaeler, require great discrimination and
taste in the performer, and render it an attempt of
peculiar difficulty. The delicacy of her resentment,
upon discovering a female in the apartment of Doss
Frbr, and her expression of wounded pride, at his
jealousy, were never more happily expressed than
by the sweet and silvery tones of Mrs. Jirstostr.
This fascinating actress has been often admired as
the most natural aird unafreded, shit ever trod th••
stage. On Saturday night she was nature liers.•ll,
adorned by the hand of thegraces, and in her hap. • -
mood. Mr. Eta. isros.'s Dan bilis was an adili,i..!•l,•
piece of afting. Perhaps there is
,no Play in the
whole range of the English Drama, which so power.
fully commands the attention, by the rapid succes-
sion of its incidents. Love and jealousy alternately
tyrannise over the mind of Don Fehr, and call forth
every passion, and every weakness, that agitate or
betray the human htart. It requires, therefore,
great powers, great judgment, and great versatility
of talents. To this arduous undertaking, Mr. EL-
Lisruto was in every respect eqn .1. In his general
dem...maim, he was the elegant man of fashion.
this little quarrels with rioliotir shested feeling
without weakness, and were impa..sioned without
vehemence. There were a anfiness in his voice, and
a tenderness in his manner, that rendered him tin.
commonly interesting. In diameters of this class.
Mr. ELL 'snits has no rival urn the London stage.
The house overflowed at an 'early hour, with as bra.
liant an audit:no: as we ever witnessed in the depth
ofthe season.