The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-07 00:00:00

Prague.

SPItLIN, JCLY 2°.

On the 17th of next month the King sets ow i r
the reviims in Silesia. from which Ilia Niaje..ty \ai
return the Sin following.

verve. 4.
Field Marshal Bernadotte uas formerly la • itos-
commissioned oilicer, made a prisoner Ly the Hono-
verians in storming a fort in the East Indies. Co-
looel Wange.iheira. to whom he was carried, is now
a member of the Hanoverian states; Bernadette
knew him again imnse hotel'', and thanked him for
his former good behaviour.

A pr;vate 1-tter from Altana, dated July 3lst,
says, a The King of NWE inn left Carlsruhe rather
unexpedeily, and, after a short visit to Vienna, Hie
Istijesty intends direaly to return to Stockholm's."

The news from Sweden will soon become very

interesting.
They write from Nurnberg, that there. as we

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in all other parts of the South of Get many, a new
partition plan is circulated, according to which
Bavaria, as far as the river Iser, will be given
to Austria, and the States on the left bank of the
Rhine, divided between Bavaria and the Prince
Bohr:wise ; Belgium and Holland will be given to
the King of SwEnev, whose kingdom will be given
to Russia; Hanover and the three Imperial cities
will, in future, belong to Prussia, and Switzerland
partitioned between France and the Elector of

Baden.
HasovEs, it7l.,r 27.
The iron bombs and cannon, bought of the
Eleaor of Hesse, are sent to Hameln, where they
will be embarked upon the Weser, with a quantity
of artillery and ammunition, for the fort George.

NOTICE.
TI4I RatTUN Pacss is unif.,rmly publi,lied at a very ewly

Hour, sod may be sent off by the ?Joining Coaches We
give this Notice, merely for the information of persons in the
Country, anxious to procure the earlie4 and bed intelligence

at this Important Cris.s. It ,s not meant in the slightest de-
gree as a reproach, or a hint to the respectable body of men
who deal in Newspapers, with whose conduct the Proprietors of
TR!. BRITISII Plit.ts are perfectly satisfied, and whose fairness
and pun:tuality are never suspeetott nor arraigned, except by
falling and disappow.t..d Prints.

This Eley••••PILIICCIS Alla WA bo•n—floliday at the Public
Of

TILE 11111T1611 .1 itEs3.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, ALGtsi 7.

The Ihwke, sloop cf war, arrived at Plymouth on
Saturday, with dispatches from our fleet off Brest,
• which state, that a part rf the French fleet under
Admiral GANTH EAU MI, 111.1dC its escape last Wed-

:Inlay night out of the outer road of Brest, through

the passoge dtt Buz, a narrow passage between
the Seneca and the neck of land to the North of
Audietne. Its force is vatic:tidy represented.
Some reports state it at nine sail of the line and two
frigates ; others at four sail of the line and five
frigates. Vice Admiral Sir T. GRAVES, it is said,
had information of the escape of G ANTIIEAU Nit in
.hree hours after it took place, and went in pursuit
of him, with the following well appointed ships :
Fwd.-vant, 84 guns, Vice Admiral GitAvr.s, ne-
west 844. lopetaseas 84, Montague 74, Tereidle 74, Co-
lo.fut 74, two frigates, and a cutter. The destina-
tion of GANTUE.,U.4 Eis the subject of various con.

*tures. As he is supposed not to have any troops
on board, some think that his object is to intercept
our East India or West Indi t homeward hound
Ems. Others, with less appar:nt
argue that he moans to attempt to effect a junction
with the Frer,ch squadron in Ferrol, and, thus re •
inforced, to proceed to the Mediterranean, and raise
the blockade of Toulon.

The Tigre, of St guns ; Princess Rennl, of 93 ;
and Pr.,:cess Charletle, of St, just ready fn sta at
Plymouth, were ordered to sail directly, to joia air
CHAP! as Corroti.

The Hamburgh Mai!, due on Sunday, received
yesterday, with letters and papers tc the Ist inst.
The contents of the public journals, though not im-
portant, may amuse our readers, and theivfore we
have made copious extracts from them Their

must marked feature is a paragraph an the Hom-
6w7h which states that the Russian
Beet has sailed from Bevel to cruise in the Baltic,
and the North Seas. Our private currespondencc
has communicated many interesting particulars.

A letter from Berlin, of the 28th ult. says, that
with two Russian armies on his Eastern ..nd
• Northern frontiers, and three French armies on his
Western and Southern, the King of PRUSSIA has
declared to the Courts of St. Petersborgh and St.
. Cloud, that His MAJESTY intends to preserve the
stridest neutrality, and therefore will not permit
the passage of any troops, artillery, or ammunitior,
through his dominions; but regard as an enemy,
any power attempting to force such passage "
Another letter, from the same city, of the same
3 ite, says, " Lot. s XVIII. continued still at IVarsaw,
v. hen the la.t letters left that city ; nor w•as it ex-
peCted that His Most Christian M A JEST y would leave
that former capital of Poland soon. New over-
tures have been made by Bow I. ART r, for a general
pacification, through the mediation of our Court, in
which favourable arrangements have been proposed
for the whole Bous.aog family now in exile, on
condition of renouncing their rights to the throne
of France, and of promising no longer to reside in
England. A courier has been dispatched to St.
Petersburgh, to communicate to the HeSSIAN Ester
eon thtse overtures."

Letters were yesterday received in town from the

Duke of Avuout.aws, dated Warsaw, the 19th of
July, in which His Royal Highness says, that he in-
te:,ded to leave that city for Vs'ilati, with his uncle

and King. bcf-re the end of the month, but that his
Royal Conaor, with her aunt tit.? Qua= of France,

were to continue to reside there, at no certain ar- 1
rangements were made as to their future residence.
It is even rumoured, that some of the other Bour-
bon Princes in this country will join their Sovereign,
and the chief of their house ; but we have ihason to
believe, that nothing is yet or will be finally deter-
mined upon, before it is knew!, whether His Most
CaeisrtAN MAJESTY will fix his abode at Wilna, or
change it for Mitteau, for as we have before eichtsive,
mentioned, the Emperor of Rtissi A has, with a gene-
rosity worthy of His IMPERIA L MAJ I.ST Y. offered the
King of I: it As cr and NAV•IIItE, the honours due
*to his rank in any place which he may choose for his
residence in the Russian empire, until the time when
he should again occupy the tlirone of his ancestors.
We d 3 not think, however, that the Bourbon Princes
will leave this country until our negotiations with
Russia, now drawing to a close, are finally settl:d.

Exclusive of the change made in the command
of the army in Hanover, by the appointment of
BERNADOTTE:, and in the navy at Boulogne, Brest,
and Toulon, by making BAUIX and LA Toucue,
inspeaors general of the coast, GANTIIEAUME, the
successor of Admiral Tuts(meet, and VER.
NEVI, the successor of Admiral Mama, other
Generals and Admirals, according to private ac-
counts from France, are removed or displaced, both
in the army of the Interior, upon the coast, and in
Holland awl Italy, according to the whim, suspi-
cions, or prejudices of the Corsican Despot.
However ofzea the change of generals took place
under the firmer revolutionary governments, these
removals were caused by defeats, by defeaion, or
by the political sentiments of a general not fully re-
publicanised. But the suspicious jealousy of Bo-
NAPARTE has converted the highest ranks into
theatrical commands. No Sultan ever appointed,
advanced, recalled, degrade 4, dismissed, or punish-
ed his Pachas so arbitrarily, as the Corsican tyrant
does his generals and admirals. We know not whe-
ther the Chiefs of the French army and navy,
have, with the Corsican Usurper, proscribed the
word honour; but we ask, whether, in serving their
country, they mean to make themselves the pup-
pets of the variable caprices arid ridiculous pas-
sions of their fareign rules ? We ask whether the most
ignoble soul would not be shocked at such despotic
suspicion; whether the most suditl heart would not
be disgusted with appointment; not certain for three
months? IVe ask, whether, after the ingratitncle,ba: ba-
rity,andinjustice, so lately manifested by sae tare
towards a PICIIEGRU, a MOREAU, a NI scow: sI. o,
a LE CoußnE, and others. there could exit a ni
degrading and dishonourable vileness, than that i f
superior officers fettering themselves sincerely to his
fortune, combating for him like lieroez, and after-
wards, in rewas d, sules ing themselves to he di .-
graced as incapable, or to perish like criminals?
This perpetual rotation introduces A kind of anarchy
among the Generals, who, being one day stilsordi-
nate, and made the net Comm eiders
become again inferiar, or dis,ak,tesl ;Ise fullot.ing
week, no longer kw) v what their erik is, what
their hope for the fontre, i.r what their influence
may be with the army, which is easily weaned from
these fugacious and min: scent leaders, whom it
has nut time either to confide in, or to love. if
those changes do not create in Commanders, as well
es in the officers and men, that disgust which is the
usual elle& of uncertainty, it will be one prodigy
more produced by the French Revoliohm. W.
should indeed be very ignorant of the charaaers
and passions of military men, did we nut, from
these observations, and from others we formerly
and often have mentioned, conclude that the recep-
tion the Moniteue relates BONAPARTE to have met
with in the army, on the coast, are not only ex-
aggerated, but false, because they arc improbable.

A private letter from Hamburgll by the Mail of
yesterday states, that BERNADOTTE Ms out in his
command in the same manner as his predecessor
General MORTIER, with plundering all the public
chests in the Flenorate of Hanover ,of its cash; and
the three Hanseatic cities, Hamburgh, Bremen, and
Lybeck, by contributions under the appellation of
loans. Bremen has already rclii%cd, and the Senate
at Hamlturgh is determined to follow its example.
The Magistrates, as well as the Citizens at Lybeck,
are unanimous in their determination not to advance
a shilling to Bomar sera's marauders. As these
sentiments must have been known to the Cabinet of
St. Cloud, many suppose, that these pecuniary requi-
sitions of Fiance are only precursors to a military
occupation ; as a rapture with Russia is regarded as
certain, and Bow Ara nEz's soldiers, by tyrannis-
ing over these cities, and forcing all the trade be-
tween Germany and England to Embden, will gra-
tify the selfish policy of the House of Branden-
burgh, and, of course, meet with no obstacles from
Prussia, which is suspefled to have secretly con-
sented to all the proceedings of France in Han.,ver,
and in those states in its vicinity, which suffer the
calamities of a French neighbourhood. That Bo-
aud his satellites will carry off as much

ready money as they Can every where, admits no
doubt; and that under pretence of loans, in the
name and under the mortgage of the Eledorate of
Hanover, they will rob millions, whoni force and
fraud oblige to open their purses, to gratify the ava-
rice of the RepttLl:cans, is evident from their past
and present condud. ilis is fit titer confirmed by
the Grenadier I )ipltonate and Ft .11-Marshal Baa-
s ADOTT E's own words to the Hanoverian States at
their first audience, when, after rebuking them
for their attachment to their lawful Sovereign,
positively swore, "'Oat before France evacu-
ated their country it should be so indebted, that its
revenue for one century could not clear it from in-
cumbrance, and so ruined, that more than two ages
should mourn for its English connedions."

The Dublin Papers of the 2el contain a Report of
the proceedings at the Quarter Sessions for that city.
which commenced on Tuesday last. The trials of
journeymen tailors and journeymen shoemakers,
appear to have been the principa'. business. Upon
one of these trials, " Mr.Wi Ls()N, chief peace officer,
proved his having apprehended the prisoners on the
Ist of July lad, at the house, NO. 4,
found some books, letters, and papers, with them,
ss :.ich he produced to the Court : one of these letters
seemed very mysterious, and had been written From
a Person in Newry, and dircaed to Corcoran.—Cor-
coran a(fled as clerk, and Cleary and Munday as
stewards to the meeting : the writings produced did
not however appear clearly enough to belong to
combination respe(Ring trade, and therefore the tra-
versers were acquitted and discharged." The evi-
dence upon the other trial.: clearly proved combina-
tion, without any circumstance to excite suspicion
that the Meetings were held for any other purpose.

Paris Papers to the Zith, have been rec-ived in
town, but they contain nothing of any importance.

Sunday evening, Their NIAJESTILS and the PRIN-
CESSES, and the Dukes of KZHT and Camelot-it:l.:,
walked on the Terrace ; among the company we
noticed Lords MULGRAV E. and blecvatAa, Sir
SY ONE Y SMITH, Mr. PITT, and the RUSSIAN ANI•
BASSA DOR and Family. His MAJESTY conversed
with several of the Nobility; about 8 o'clock the
Royal Family returned to the New Music Room.
Yesterday morning. the Staffordshire Militia were
reviewed by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. in Windsor
Little PAI k. Soon after His Royal Highness had
funned the line, and they had gone through a num-
ber of manoeuvres, His Mai rive. and the Dukes
of CUMBERLAND and KENT, arrived, and inspated
them. His MAJESTY appeared highly pleased with
their appearance.
Her MAJESTY and PRINCESSES took an airing in
t sociable in Windsor Crzat Park.

Capt. 13Aowti, Aid-de-Camp t,.! General 'Mitre-
LOCKE, i• appointed Deputy-Inspeaor of the troops
at the depot in the Isle of Wiest.
General OAKES, now serving at Malta, is to be
I ientenant-GOYeenVe of Pot usnouth.

Colonel Ev CJMmander of the Engineers
at the above Garrison, is promoted to be a Brigadier-
Gencral.

Six new houses are ordered to be built for the of-
ficers of Plymouth Hospital.
General DON having got a command in England.
is succeeded in the Dunbar District. by Briga.:ier
General Lord ELPHINSTONZ.

The Right Hon. Sir EVAN NSPICAN, B wt. whose
wit in Parliament was vacated by his appointment
to be one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
i.ilty, was on Friday re-eleael Member fur the
liorrt3ll of Bridport, without opposition.
A teport prevailed yesterday iu the city, tha'
Capt:tht Our ta has again buntlArded Havre, de-
stroyed some of their vessels, fired the town in se-
veral places, and that the squadron under his com-
mand sutTered very little.
Dispatches have been received from our squadron
off Ferrol, which was left all well on tl:e 2Gth of
last month. Nothing material had orcurred since
the escape of the French ship in the night. The
launch and the men she left behind her -have been
given tip to the Spaniards.
Au Artist has 'Au:Lined a Patent for a new inven-
tion for waking metal repeaters for 10 guineas.
which are eqnally good as those that used to co.t 2.5
guineas.
A Naval Expedition, on a very extensive scale,
is said to be on the eve of preparation. Lord Kam'
was sent for, by express, on Friday last, to attend
a Board of Admiralty, and to give his opinion re-
sperSting the necessary equipments.
Sir Si °NE v Sis rit had, on Soundly, a long con-
ference with the Board of Admiralty.
Mr. 131 r r is' expeaed to leave town on Wednes-
day for IValmer Castle, where lie will immediately
resume his command of the Cinque Port Volun-
teers.

Yesterday morning the 13th Light Dragoons
marched throuyth London from Birmingham, in
their way to Maid,anne.
A Dublin Paper of the 31st states, that order
have been issued to augment the artillery companies
Some of our contemporaries assert, positively,
that a Treaty era, signed by Lord Ilsettowar and
Count WOIWNZOW. on Tuesda_y last, before His
MAJESTY went down to the House of Peers, to
which other Powers, particularly Sweden and Den-
mai k, were to be invited to accede. We are =wired
that a proirl of a treaty was signed on that day, but
not an adual treaty.

Letters from Ratisbon, of the Yttl: inst. mention,
that in the two supra for colleges of the Empire. the
votes, ad protvials,a, were called for on the very
Tithed note deliver ed 'uy the Envoy of His Britan-
nic Majesty and EleCtoral Highness of Brunswick
Lunenburgh. Every endeavJur has been made to
induce this agent to defer his motion ; but he abso-
lutely insisted upon making it. having express orders
to that did from London.

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SPECTACLE. AT PARIS.

There is nn t needy without great success, an] no
great success *ithout its p..rody. To this tide no
opera can have greater pretensions to the &Mout- of
being a parody than °Ma!, or. the Bards. Thi,: bal-
-Itd presents. to the ams•iirs, the Dtn;ng Hag or
Regal, at MOLIEN'S Theatre, Rue St. Martiti.
Many other little theutres'fsrapose giving their r,,,p
dr p-tte, ta., offering of tlieir tribute of flattery,
Good !tumour (say they) is Oreparing a little farce en.
titled " The Sher of Bacon." and it isIaIIIOSITANSIER,
ill.tt will give it to us : Oh ! \that a dainty votecao
parodied from Ossi am I ! The last theatre has pro.
'nisei us, after Firc and Water, or. the Geer), pus to
the proof; a new opera, Which they have played re-
peatedly, two other new pieces, called 7he Glutton
and thr Dc/or of Paler**, and The three &stars,
the Wags of the Garrison, an opera, in two ads,
which is for be played on Saturday at Feydeau, nix
by Gusset, but by CHAMPUN, who performs the
musical past ; Pa FANILILLS is the speaker.