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London, England, 1804-08-10 00:00:00

FORMAL DrtiIUANOCII.

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Very unfavourable reports have been emulated
here sines yesterday. concerning our present rela-
tions with the Northern Powers. It is said, for
Instaucia that the Itussias Cha►geds{ffeires, who
was left here, has delivered a note, in form of an
ultimatum, one of the objeas of which is the eta.
cuation o Hanover; that he awaits a categorical
maw within a few days, and has demanded his
pemport to return to Russia, in the event of a refs-
ml. &c. But all these terrifying reports, and others
of the same kind, find very little credit hitherto.
and they are umbedwith die innumerable "on di',"
with 'which the public will busy themselves, although
they Were lately submitted to the severe lash of the
Diesiteer. Nevertheless the gamblers in the funds,
who hoped for a fall, obtained their objed ; since,
in consequence (it is thought) of these reports, the
funds fell from 591 to S 11.
Those who find a pleasure in alarming their fel-
low-arisen', and in viewing every thing in a gloomy
light. have not failed to magnify the damage said
to be done to the flotilla at Boulogne by the storm,
end at Havre by the bombardment ; but in letters
from those places, the damage is not rated so high
W a great deal. Six or eight gun-boats v..cre
enaded at Boulogne. it is true, but the crews are
mostly saved. At Havre the enemy's balls and
shells flew over the flat-bottomed vessels in the port.
and fell mostly in the adjoining plain and on the
town, by which 13 or 16 houses were more or le,s
damaged; but the flotilla has suffered little or no-
thing. During the bombardment, the enemy sailed
up the mouth of the Seine : one of their vessels
could only with difficulty get to sea again.
The Emperor was expefted at Calais on the 25th
of July.

The Minister of Marine arrived at Ham on the
Adth, and after inspeaing the port, the arsenal, the
deck-yards, :cc. he set off again at two p. in.
A statistical memorial of the department of the
Um and Moselle has just made its appearance.
It has been written by M. Masson, Correspondent
of the National Institute, and Secretary of the Pre-
. Flaw*, according to the invitation of the Prefea
Boucqueau. This memorial begins with a topo-
graphical description of the country. The depart-
ment of the Rhine and Moselle is composed, in
part, of the former eleaorates of Treves and Co-
? /arse, and of several other small states, belonging to
no
•teas than forty-eight independent sovereigns, of
whom the principal were the Margrave of Baden,
the Duke of Doitx Pouts, the Counts of Leyen,
&bomber& De Metternich, Ikc. Ike. It is situated
between ♦9 deg. 41 min. and 50 cll. 41 min.
northern latitude, and 40 deg. 24 min. and
S deg. 29 min. eastern longitude. Its form is a long
square of fourteen myriansetres, and five myriame-
tres wide. Its surface is of 281 square leagues (linos
caries), of nearly 1,086,750 acres (ex peres). M.
Masson, speaking of the population, proves it has
been augmented from 1769 to year 9 (1800), with
16,138 individuals, and that it now amounts to
230,601 persons of both sexes. In this number, the
proportion of males to females is eighteen to nine-
teen. Births were, in the year 9, considering the
population, as 1 is to 251; marriages, as I is to
981 ; deaths, as lis to 53. These proportions were
still more favourable in year 10, and insure a rapid
increase of the population of this extensive depart-
ment. Th. proportion of natural children to legi-
timate gives a good idea of the morality of the in-
habitants, being only I to 32, whilst every where
else in France it is Itol I. The towns of Coblents
and of Bonn, the most peopled of this department,
have no more, the first, than 10,691 inhaiiit.ukts ;
and the second, only 8,833. The population of
Cobleats has, since 1789, augmented 2,01 indivi-
duals ; whilst that of Bonn has diminished ;
Relative to the extent, the population is A•2O inha-
bitants upon each square league, and I individual
upon 41, inhabits towns and bourgs.
Nothing better proves the relative and real situ-
.
ation of Paris and London, than, whilst in the latter,
old houses are falling down, and crushing scores to
atoms, or yet standing, threatening, in the most
public streets, every passenger with death and de-
, struaion, for want of money to remove those public
nuisances. In the capital of the Frenc:i empire, the
Immense expellees necessary to create a navy, have,
• by the prudence of our ruler, yet left us mgh to
continue all public work, for improving or decorat-
ing it. In the palace and garden of the senate, the
work continues with the same activity, as during
the late peace. On one part, a wall is erected in
the garden round the inclosure, which is to form
a nursery. On the other part, the base and foot of
. a pillar are constrated, destined to support a beau-
tiful iron grille, which will entirely shut the garden,
by the side of the boulevard of Most-Parnaise. A
new fountain is construaed upon the place before
• the Medical School. Upon the quay of Dessair,
116, the works are continued with an aaivity, which an-

semen that they will soon be finished. It is
may waited till the achievement of the quay to a
certain height, when all the old stone buildings in
the neighbourhood will be taken down. In the same
line with the quay of Dessais, other houses by the
side of the river have been bought by Government,
and are taken down, and preparations are made
for cenarating another new quay, which will go
as fax as the bridge of the city. This quay will be
called the Quay of Napoleon. The two bridges will
1-4 finished before twelve months, and the place be-
fore the Louvre will be completed before OUober.
When all these improvements are atchieved, Paris
will be the most beautiful as well as the first city in
the world.
Upon the complaint of France, the Grand Bailiff
at the Hague has received orders to carry away,
from all the booksellers shops, the work of Mr.
Le Frank de Berkhey, called De Beteafeedie Men-
schtpkbrid ; or, TAe Batavia,' Homianiey.
The expences which the English have been ob.
liged to be at in transporting their goods to the last
fair at Leipzig are incredible. The principal com•
missary and factor for the Scotch manufafturers,
Mr. Humphreys, has paid ahsurd prices /a.s prir
jou) to receive his goods first. They were all car-
ried with extra post horses. But he was amply re-
paid by selling far upwards of 300,000 dollars.
Those who received theirs late were losers. A
young man at Leipzig, lately established, made a
great fortune by smuggling a w 17gon with English
goods through Hanover, which is the nearest way,
and in which he succeecLd, though our troops and
Custom-house officers in that country are very vigi-
lant.

A Lieutenant, of the 108th regiment of infantry,
was lately condemned to twelve years imprisonment
in irons, for committing a rape upon a girl four
years and a half old. He was first publicly de.
graded upon the Grand Place at Brussels. This is
the first crime of this description committed by the
military, which the Tribunals have noticed since the
beginning of the revolution. The Prefeft of the
Seine and Marne, La Garde, formerly Secretary to
the Executive Direftory, has been appointed by the
Emperor a Member of the Legion of Honour.
The crop of bay has this year been very abundant
in the south of Prince. and has therefore expe-
rienced a :uprising fall. What lately sold for
eight lines, now only costs one Lyre, or one livre
five cents.

The departmental direllions in Holland have re.
ceived orders from the Batas•ian Government, at
the regulation of France, to find out Ph. Verbrugge,
the author of the suppressed Gazette, called The
Menu, which contained several injurious observa-
tions against the Emperor, and the Imperial Fa.
wily ; and besides attempted to accuse France of
bad faith and oppression in her political and mili-
tary connetlion with the Batavian Republic.
VIENNA., JULY 18.
The last letters from the Turkish frontier st ite,
that the Porte has sent the silken string to Bekir,
Pacha of Travnick. The messengers met him be-
fore Zwornick, and acquainted him with the sen-
tence of death, as he was going to proceed on his
journey.

His Royal Highneu the Arch• Duke Charles
leaves this capital the sth of August, with intent
to •isit the different camps formed in Hungaria,
Bohemia, and Moravia. His brother, the Grand
Master of the Teutonic Order, Arch• Duke Anto-
ny, will accompany him in his journey.

lIAGeE, JULY 31.

Yesterday the ceremony of the presentation of his
new credentials by the French Ambassador took
place. Before twelve the officers of the garrison
proceeded to the Hotel of the Administration of
State, which sent two of its membars, in a coach
drawn by six horses, escorted by a detachment of
cavalry, to the hotel of his Excellency M. de Se-
monville. where every thing was ready for the
grand procession, which went forward after the
Dutch Commissioners had waited some time at the
door.

MIST, JULY 2.

Another French privateer has entered this port ;
after passing before the English ships laying here,
it cast anchor at a short distance from them, and
saluted the fort with five guns. It afterwards want
to the place where quarantine is kept. We expe&
several more privateers of the same nation, intended
to °borne the English trade in the Adriatic, lately
very flourishing.

TifiE BRITISH PRESS

LON DON,
FRIDAY, Avausr 10.

It will be seen, in our account pf the proceedings
at Brentford yesterday, that Mr. M•usw•RINCI is re•
turned by the SHZZIFTS, Representative for the County
of Middlesex. This defeat of Sir Fa ANCIS Bogner r
has taken place under circumstances that greatly ag-

graeate his disappointment. The expetations of his
most sanguine friends began to flag on Monday and
Tuesday. All the usual symptoms of defeat
began then to skew themselves. It was said, that
his Committees had mismanaged their business ;
that they had offedned the Eleetors, by aegled,
and in many instances by personal rudeness. Its
short, we observed all that crimination and re-
crimination which disappointment engenders
among :nen, embarked in a lost cause, and seek-
ing to throw the blame from themselves, upon their
neighbours. From this state of despondency, al-
' most bordering upon despair, they were suddenly
raised on Wednesday, into a confident belief of suc-
cess. The procession of the Baronet to the Crown
and Anchor, on Wednesday night, was condufted
with all the mita of viaory. The public at large
certainly considered his success as complete, and
even the few who knew the real state of the case,
entertained very little doubt. From this elevation,
to which they were suddenly raised on Wednes-
day, they were as suddenly cast down yesterday,
by the declaration, which announced Mr. MAIN..
WARING the vielor. We own, that from the heat
and animosity with which this eleZtion was con.
duled, we were not without our apprehensions,
that some serious mischief would ensue. We are
happy to find that they have not been realised to
any considerable extent. About half-past ten o'clock
last night, about 200 men,several of them armed with
bludgeons, and others carrying links, filled the
street in front of Sir FRANCIS BURDETI% house in
Piccadilly, where they stopped every carriage, and
made the company declare themselves the friends of
Sir FRANCIS, upon which they were suffered to pro-
ceed. There was, of course, much noise, clamour,
and tumult, but we did not hear of any violent
outrage, or personal abuse. Mr. MAINWA RI a G's
carriage, we understand, WAS broken to pieces
early in the evening; and it was feared that
the populace would attack his house. A party
of the Life Guards were therefore sent to Ilan-
over-square, far its proteaion, where they re-
mained at a late hour last night with the St. James's
Volunteers. Sir FRANCIS Buenas's., we under-
stand, will contest the validity of the return.

We have received some Dutch Papers to the Id,
from which we have extratied every article that
deserves notice. The most important part of their
contents is an article, which states that the Russian
Charze-d'Alfairis at Paris, M. D'Ousstr, has de-

livered an ult,matudt, in which he demands the
evacuation of Hanover by the French troops, and
presses fur an immediate answer. 'the French
funds have fallen, and their depression may be
fairly attributed to the encreasing probability of a
rupture with Russia. Rumours prevailed at Paris,
that the flotillas at Havre and Boulogne have suf-
fered considerable damage. BON se•art was ex-
petted at Calais upon the 25th last.

We have received a letter from Emb len, of the
tOth ult. which in some part exposes the intrigues
of France in Prussia, and the selfish policy of thi!
Prussian Cabinet since the present war. " You
know," our correspondent says, " that wren the
King of ESGLAND'S Message of the Bth of Mardi,
1803, was known at Paris, BONArAHit., to gain
time, first resorted to the mediation of Prussia, and
afterwards to that of Russia. The former was
justly declined by the British government, which
oriended our Minister Hat:owErz ; who sent orders
to our Ambassador at Paris, Marquis Luec is FA'S!, to
propose to France certain arrangements in case A.
a rupture ; the principal of which was the occnpa-
' tion of Hanover by our troops. To this Fra: c:
consented, upon condition that England should
agree that neutral ships, under Prussian colours,
should make free goods of every description belong-
ing to a neutral nation. As this proposition reviv-
ed the old question of " free ships make free goods,"
and was contrary to the maritime laws of nations,
it was refused by Great Britain, well knowing that
this was a clumsy attempt of Fiance to embroil the
British empire with Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and
America, neutral states, which would of course
claim the same rights with Prussia, or resent a re-
fusal. BONAP twirc then proposed to occupy Han-
over with French troops, to which the Court of
Berlin so vwc:: the more willingl) .assented, as it
was promised by France the exclusive trade v.
Great Britain, and the north of Germany, by the
exclusion of all British commerce on the Elbe and
on the Weser. The consequence was, that this
town became the depot of British produZlions and
industry, and, within six months after the war, it
increased equally in population and in riches.
This excited great jealousy at Bremen, and at Ham-
burgh, which, with some intrigues, and perhaps
pecuniary sacrifices, effeifted the removal of BONA'
PASTE'S commercial agent, LA CHEY %RD: from
Hamburgh to this town, where, soon after his arri-
val, be began all kind of chicanery to impede or
obitrat the passage of British goods from this place
for the interior of Germany. Unable, however, to

effea it, without some new invasion of the German
Empire, he alvised his governs ent to take pos-
session of Meppen, a neutral toWsl, b.longing to the
Duke of Ahrenberg, which was efiled. though not
without representations from the Court of Berlin.
This was the cause of the late scarcity of British
merchandise at the fairs of Franckfort and Leipzig.
and of the momentary disgrace of Haut/Taira, who
desired his Sovereign to support, with a good
grace, even this insolence and encroachment of
Francc, which now began to intrigue at Berlin, for
a permission to have a (reach garrison even ;we.
About this time, the Corsican became Emperor.
mad, and Baron HA aDEVIBBILO, the successor of
H•ucworz, ad interim; removed all difficulties, bi
persuading our KING to acknowledge the new dig,
nity of the Usurper, who, in return. removed his
soldiers from Meppen, and recalled his commere.al
agent. This di/inieresred republican made, hour.
ever, a handsome sum of money, during his st.v,
by his certificates, that British proclaaiont Uteri
Prarrian property; and which, though fined :It a
crown only, were seldom obtained under
Louis d'ors.

In justice, however, to this citizen, we mnu• 21.
mit, that for money he refused noth:ng, and 5011
even French passes to British subj !as, with which
they and their goods passed unmolested through
Hanover, Holland, and even the French side of the
Rhine.

.0 We have now got ent:rely rid, at leas: for the
present, of French intrigues and vexation!, aid out
trade is very flourishing ; many capital mnchant!,
not only from England and France, hat from
land, Bremen, I-iambi:ugh, and Ly'rieck, have set.
tied here ; and should the war continua 1..:r same
years longer, and BoIdAPARTZ respect oar neutral-
ty, this town will be one of the richest in the nary
of Germany, inferior neither to Bremen nor Ham-
burgh."

A Gortenburgh Mail arrived yesterday mnre:tty,
but its contents are anticipated by the last cnrtyrs
cations from I lamburgh, France, anJ Holl.vd. It
confirms, however, the report that the R • :3
ill:et has sailed from Revel. One ..is ;4.m is to
cruise off r.irnholm, to proteel Hoist-in from C.e
attcmpts of d'e Fre,•ch, whilst the other is sut.-
posed to have salled for the North Sea, prnbahly as
in the last war, to iss:st oer squadrons in blockad•
ing the Dutch ports.

Yesterday morning Flis NIA,/ LGT v., and the Prin-
cesses S'PH I A and Ast ct A, with tbe:r atte Man&
took an air:ng on horseback in Witni•or Grea, ParL
Her lislaJzars- and tha otherPa:rclsustook.&a
airing to Fro7-nore.
Yeveriay, two o'c'ock, the Ne A POUT Art
SASSADOR and Lori HARROIS BY bad an aadie:,ce
of Mr PITT. _ _ •

B Eon Papers have been received in toy n nat'e
7th of July. The chief information is 'hat respetti
a misunderstanding which •se.e.ns to have taken pla e
between Mr. MERRY, our. Ana Sass Oar, and the
Untted States, relative to 'the Caorbe do frigate a
New York. The whole, however, is a Eortjuttati%)3
of the news lately received by the last New York Pa-
pert, with s ime additional par iculars, hire
not yet appeared in the Lion Pei:its. As Mr.
Nlcauv had very properly adopted c,-ttciliatary
measures, no doubt can remain :,itt th it lo', ere
now he and the American Governmen: h :re r...rnt
to a pr. per understanding on the sill jest, with, :
wounding or implicating the boas u f eit:..:
country.
Admiral CORN W AEI. rs has been f 'reed r.,••
trary winds to return in the .=t.
CrANTHCAVOIS had CffYit d his? 'turn :- p•
last Saturday. He remained in tan.aret Bar,:
whence it was suspe3ed he would at tem
first heavy fog. His force es:mists of mit, ern
decker, five two-deckers, four frigates. arm :it
vette. Camaret Bay is very stiorgly priLeacd
batteries up ,n the ceast.
By accounts received by the Leeward Island S e.
it appears that an extr me degree of si,:knes:
vails in the Leeward Isla d.. ihe Ca, 4t7,0-1 f: 4:e.
having sustained same damage, w:r.t into
to refit, and in the space of a few days, C q,!.3
FAraaiAw, Mr. Sateen ors, pu.ser, six mid,hi‘,mce,
and about sixty seamen. fell vi Rims to the fee.:.
Letters from the H is- rd. of 18 Rand.
!save, sated at sea, MC ed by the Dare, per pa,
arrived at Plymouth, st rte, that sl.e spoke wi:h,
her cruise, an America ship from St. Derni•go,
for Boutdeaux, with 14) French 'niche. ts.
their families, fugitives from the miss:lce cf Dri•
SAL INES, which they es:aped by a mira.le
and rot aboard the American ship, ti,eugh
very little of their property. They say :he massa:7=4
and murders were dreadful, in the highest d:.,pie
of atrocity.
Letters, dated a few days since, were en Wedvs'
day received Prim Captain Lcwts, of the Rnsai ‘lr
rines, of L'hapeur, at, of 84, guns. stating I i=
safe and well on hoard that ship, after gear t.
from the Glenan Islands; so that the azcauit
being made prisoner was premature, though he:4+
a very narrow escape.
In consequence of a misunderstanding
,;eilentl Gov.. sit, and some of the Officers '1 ife
First Royal Cornwall Nlilitia, on the regirrertiP
ing the encampment last week at Woodbury D,A_
Lieutenant-Colonel Per ea, Maj or Fox T ESCUF. tt;
tains Waisiwitiona and Ilzaatc, have res
their commissions.
Yesterday, the Sd Regiment of Royal I.ct,°
Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Kis 51-
and the fill], commanded by C:oloc,el II
had a field day, on Kenningtr.n Cornrion..!
were inspeaed by Colonel Haiti:an r.
through their mansauvre. wth usual
They mustered between 1411 i and S(X) men ei,;•••