The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

.14ANBURGH MAIL.

VIRIINA, NAWCH 24.
A report is in c'reulation that his Imperial High-
?lvo the Archduke Ferdinand of Este, Commander-
in Chief in Hungary, a ill shortly go to Italy,
und thut•ii marriage with a Sardinian

ingtor:atitig.
Sir Thomas Lawrence is at 'present printing
for his Royal ftglme^s the Prince Regent the
portrait of the Aube Counsellor Von (lens, so well
for his writings, and for the part he
Its, had in 4istitiitintrrtact d;plarytati-c tratsitztiont.
A nalisce has bren purrlsasrd here in Ilse in-
tourlo, for 7,0991. sterling, and Atted Yp, as it is
said. for . Prince Leopold of Saxe CiShUrg, who
will Wave F.,iglant! and reside here.
Nritt week the dowry of the litt,hduchessearo-
biltir t.f Pntice •Fredrrie of Saxony, will he
txhiblieri It, the public, oceording to custom, its
the apartments of the Toinrri..l Palace.
BR trittmirouaG. APRIT. 9.

Accounts have liven receiet.d which *Nit that a
highly contagious distemper has brtiken out at
(;reisf-iiherg, in Silesia. A manufacturer of that
i•ciivell several bale* of cotton from Smyrna.
4,1.0. 01 MIIOI (*outlined infectious matter. After
the m+nnfueturer tirodistributed the cottcti among
a/oil:men, the disorder broke out, which
*ono *pearl so raininy, that several persona fen vic-
tim% to it. The Austrian amid Prussian Authorities
arbided the strictest measures to prevent the
fin iher *preadiiig of the contagion.
STOCILHOLM, siAlici
Conot*ellor of State, Count Tessin, who
v o• kintwit in the middle of last century as
'ohm—odor to the Court*, of Austria, Trance,
Z`ru>•in, •1111 Denmark, as Prime Minister, total
10 K: L ; 1114-0111 bll'l.Master of the Househoid
in is a.•.ihr r, the soorr of Frederick the Great,
&c. tell it Joornal in 29 Win iroiurnes, an extract
'from viiiish :t* umiw Ave, t1,r411 for putdivarion here,

um! sloth Kill itrollaikly furnish very ititiAttlttit
'material, to:0490110w history of thove times.

BERLIN, A rim ).

tto the $1 at March thtee was 11 grand Iwo& of
iitt• Knrrismr lwfore thesKiiir, and a splendid enter.
'rtins oleo at 'Com% iucurnflernorotion of the twin-
vi•ra.ity of the entrance ul. the Allied Armies tutu
The Ambassador, 'Mr. Rose, has returned
Yrottn *Hanover.
HAISOVER. APRIL 9.
On the 3CIII March, his Royal Nighties% the

Doke of Chsriter 'retired a Deputation of the
As.taubb ui the States, hho txpartystql their sorrow
at tht ifnt+ere of the hopes of the dkostrtous raretts
and of the %hole Itougdum. His Royal Highness
thookr.l ilorm teeth much emotion for this ogee-
oo t o ate wart of their attachment, and observed,
that he-fthatid mut consulatiot in Nw amentlint:lt

of the health of the Duchess foe the misfortune
which Nod befalleu him.
COSISTANTIINOTLI. FES. 23.
A few days ago died the youngest child of the
Sultan, the Sultana Herinorth., who was hardly •
year old. All the great Officers of the Crown,
Ministers of State, &c. attended the funeral, and
paid their compliments of cuodulence to the Sultan.
The Imperial Arsenal hus lately purchased large
quantities of cannon halls and saltpetre from
Swedish and English contractors.
It said that an agent of the King of Sardinia
will shortly come hillier to enter into 'political and
commercial arrangements with the Porte, under the
mediation •of Russia. Erib Effendi, late Minister
of the barrio; was deprived of his office on tlw
led) instant, and Abdul Kotler Bey appointed to
succeed I • ;he is accused of having aimed at the
dignity of Vizier. At Galata there were lately some
affrays, attended with bloodshed, between the pa-
miler of the arsenal and some Tultimharbichis, in
consequence ut some new regulations of the police,
though the first had justice ou their side, and the
latter were even the oggressots„ yet these rioters,
because they belong to • formidable orta of the Jr
nissaries, were not amity set at liberty, but the Com-
mander of the High Admiral's guard was even de-
prived of bin office on this occasion.
The Imperial Treasury Iris lately been enriched
by some millions, by the treasures of the late
Sehaker Ahmed Pacha and Tschlebi Effendi.—
The valuable books and manuscripts of these two
great persons were lately sold by public auction, in
the presence of all the Ministers. This is quite a
novelty here.
Accounts from Smyrna stale, thrt an armed
corvette of the King of the Netherlands had ar.
rived there, to clime for some time in those seas,
for the protection of trade. It was also reported
at Smyrna, that the American squadron, which
has visited many ports of the Mediterranean, would
also coine to Smyrna, to he stationed there fur some
tinge. —1 I loorburgh Papers. April 7.)
Exchange ors London, the 2tl and 6th
33. Si.

THE IitFISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1619.

We have received Paris Papers of Wednesday
and Thursday. The Gyrate de Fromm, of the
former day, state', on the authority of a private
:letter front Italy, that a compiracy had been form-
ed at Mantua to administer ponoa to the Ent-
jezror AI.TRIA, during his residence its that
city, that the .:otiviracy was discovered only half
as hour before the time appointed for carry-
ing She design into ezeeetion, mod shot several
persons orate Society culled Corboisari had been
arrested, in consequence of thw discovery ; bat the
Joe real des 'nebats of the following day, noticing
this rumour. reniaritr, that hot only are the italiau
Papers silent respecting this circumstance, but that
no mention is made of it in its own private car-
respondeoce from that country. The day is not
odded when this diabolical attempt was to have been
.executed, but we had by these Papers that the
Emperor and rutin...sof A vstait were st Florence
on the 26th of March, and were preparing to set
out its a day or two fur Rome.
In the French Chaurher of Deputies a doolit
was started by the-Committee appointed to examine
the qualificatmmia M. Matt/AMIN CONSTANT to
be admitted a Member of the Chamber, for the sole
purpose, as it would appear, of enjoying the ►plea-
sure of removing it. O.CONITAi4T, it is stated, was
born at Lautadne. How then, ask the Committee.
shall be be considered entitled to the privileges of a
Freochmait 72 but, reply the'Committee,
is'etscetided from a family exiled in come-
quence uf the reviication of the :diet of Nantes.
Now, by a decree of the Constituent Assenibly*Of
September 1790, the descendants of such faMilies
. . •
Ste'perm, tea, on certain count terms, to resume their
rights of Fresichneti. The father 'of M. CON-
sTAPPT fulfilled these cosiditLios, ergo, M. CON-
MIST is entitled to the privileges 40 a Frenchman.
No objection bring stifle to this couduaton, M.
CONSTANT was oclutititd to take his atilt as a 113 v.
Idy.
The 'French Funds were—
Ou i'oesday, five ,per Carts. 11.:1111sewilliak ilocks
1,580 f.
<to Wciluesaity, Plea vis Vests. NE 10e.—Back Stock'
1,635 f.

We have received lisnibirrgh Papers to the Bth
instant. It is stated Under, the head of Vienne,
that his Ituyid 'Pliglinias Pointe LEOPO4.D of
SAXE CtilUlit. means to lie his residence in that
city. Scsipture says, a man ...hall leave father and
muther and •cleave to his wife. If the Prince
means to 'marry *German Printers, weeannot find
Isiah with his chine, of rcsideirce, but possessing
an income of tO,OOO/. a year delayed from Eng-
land, without some such ratnitirdistary inducement
to remain abroad. hr would nut eland In ill, Otitis'
lavotired class of obsesiters.

lite Russia*. Government is tilting oat two expe-
tlitiuus fur wiriitific researchni iu **saute seas. Elicit
will consist of two ships ; vireo. them is designed to

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make discoveries towards the North Pole. The
Commanders are soot yet appointed, but such an
eagerness to partake iso them prevails in tht navy,
that above eisty (officers of the imperial fleet have
applied to the Minister of Marioie, to be employed
in these expeditions.

The Erne. Captain ScnivErt, went out of Ply-
mouth harbour on nontyility, fitted fur the coast
of Africa, where an additional (*force is to be kept
for the yuppresUoit of the vile trot:Ai:ln ylaves. The
Pheasant and Margie/ea go With the Erne.

The return of Mr. SToko►., Surgeon of the CPR.
queror, and lately mrdn•ul attendant on BONA..
PARTE, from St. Helena, has excited consideiable
interest in the polittcal world, in winch it has been
generally attributed to the independence of spirit
evinced by that Gentleman in the discharge of his
duty, kind a want of date obsequiousness to the taste
and temper 41 Sir Iftinsot loWx. Mr. STOKoE
left town oil Friday for Portsmouth, to bike his
ilassisge in the Abandanee, he being ordered to
return to St. Helena. and resume his duties there.
This being the result of his examination by Minis-
ters, it is inferred that his conduct has been fully
approved of. The Abundance is expected to sail
on Wednesday nett. A detachment of the 06th
regiment embarked on board that ship on Saturday
morning.

On Saturday. at twelve o'clock. the Duke of
YORK held a COUIIOI at York 111.. use, upon the
sort- or the KING, winch *As stteeolerl
The ArclibiaM.p of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York,
the Bishop of Lund ( ((( the lord Chancellor, she Herquis, of
CAIT4I. a, lb, Earl of iVnichilsca. Lord Belsky, Lurd St. He-
kiss, Lind Arder, and Sir William Grant;
the. whisk. ill the Members of the Duke's
Comma except the Dike of MONTROSE, Who will
;absent from indisposition, and the End of MAC-
CLESFIELD, Who WM* attending the KING at Wind-
sor. The Councti reniaiued iu deliberation near
an hour.

On Saturday afternoon the Duke of Ironic vi-
sited the PRINCE Itiogni at Carlton House.

Yesterday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, the
Duke of YORK left town lot Windsor.
The LORD CHANCELLOR and Count MuwsTrft
had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday at
Carlton House.
Lieutenant EDWARD HALL left the St. Peters-
burgh Hotel, Dover-street, on Friday evening, With
dispatches for Hanover.
. .

On Saturday the dispatches were closed at the
East India House. and delivered to the Pursers of
the following stdir-, viz.—
The Cornwall, Capt.,. P. Wilmot; Apollo, Capt. G. Ten-
ney', and Matilda, Capt. W. Plminilton—for China direct.
War-Admiral GRIFFITH soiled from Portsmouth
on Wednesday, on board the Newcastle, to take
the command on the comfit of North America.
The Pheasant, Captain Kini.r. and Morgiana, '
Captain STaotqa, for the coast of Africa; Drake,
C4loliiiii SMIffWEIL for Newfoundland; the Came-
Iron, Cowan, MisoAT, refitting; mod the Abund-
ance, Ltentel,4sit R. C•UPBELL. fur St. Helena, '
retain, at Spithead.
Five tram:ports, viz. Amtrea, Minerva, David,
Nearchits, and Williams Pitt (1,800 tons), were
diacharged out of the orrvice loot week.
The lit hattalion fiOth regiment. SOO men, from
the Cove of Good Hope. landed on Thursday at
Portsmouth, mid marched to Fort Cumberland, to
be disbanded. We understand the deteutiun of
these men on board the tralioports, so bug idler
their arrival. has afire,* out of the iiecular charac-
ter of their case.—They are principally mili-
tary offender.. who, under transmuted sentences,
were sent mbrood to serve there during the
period of their natuml life; but their bat-
lotion coming within the scale of reduction to the
peace establisilitneot. +Dow they hove returned home
fur that perp•oe.it has become a question bow they
ought to be inally.disposed of.—About 70 of them,
me understand, haste heretofore forfeited their lives
to the lowa of their country. We understand it 11,4
been determined, that all the men of the battalion
destined to serve for life, shall be turned over to the
2d and 241 botolunis of the regiment.
Mr. GRATTAN has left town for Twickenham
fur a few day.. The notice of law motion on the
CotholicCause, which stow stands for the 30th
'loomed, with, we mideristand, be further postponed
until the 3d of May, which is the day before the
,location will come on in the House of Lords.
An Agricultural Association, u for Abe preserve-
tiou of the pooperty and Ci:vrl ri4his of ?he proprie-
tors and occupiers of land in the county of Glir-
intaglio," was formed at Cardiff on the 13th last,
WYNDHAM LEWIS, Eoq. in the Chair. In the
resulutiiiii,, moved by the lion. Vt'. B. GREY. it
was stated—
" That as Wag as the prevent system of admitting (111feirTI
Corn into she markets of flits *country, ilisty.free, is mite-
ytred ill, it will crud to discourage agvieselture in general, and
rudi.t soon pievent the cultivation of the poorer soils (of
winch Woks chiefly consists)„ sail by reducing the reseal de-
hum! for labour, Increase she &Inv', entirratins amount of
pidapreirm. That this hireling will mil be &terser' by any as-
tempts In stifle its complansts,bnt will persevere by every fair
and roast non 111 l al Means to obi nt sit 'mamba Inuit of team lan
uts She adminoun of foreign inuluce of every descrittion
into the markers of this country, which este be piton •in
iii.. soils of the United Kissedosa, @Mouth the relief they
setk•tur be not gestated the present SesiCion of P.rliansent.'
On Friday morning, during, • fog, a brig ran en
the Goodwin North Sand Dead, where She remains;
supposed to be u collier, and should the weather
prove moderate will be got tiff the neat flood tide.
The lluaui'h, arrived its the Dow ll.from Bombay,
sailed Stli December; from the Cope Ist February ;
and from St. Helena 10111 February : left the

l'hontur t'untis ut the Cape, mid the Balekittehum-
shire eud MOM at St. Arlene.

the 'lige fur emigration to Ani?ricii bus not ee-
troil.d to this County. Title twig George,'Cirittrin
lIVDDOCK, Isis beets in Ale port of Chichester three
oorrk►, uud Advertised to take out passengers rod
hagg:ige to Picts)°, at 'five pounds per Nutt. Mir
hailed w hrllrst on Snnday, uith at fair wind, but
uithout u 'sin& puesehger.—(Sossex Paper.)