The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-02-11 00:00:00

At the diplomatic audience held yesterday, the
following English nobility and gentry were pre-

sented to the FIRs-r CONSUL by Lord WHITWORTH
Lord YAKsoftourm, Lord MORPETH, Lord LAU-
DERDALE, Brigadier-General MACKENZIE, Colonel

VICARS, I,

Tyra) A t, of the guards,

Colonel Fong rEa, Lieutenant-Colonel FARRIER,

Major Moee.►r, Colonel UNwIN, Sir --- GRANT,

Captains LOVELACE and Wi..IDDINGTON, -Messrs.

WICKHAM, BARRAN( and LI:E.
Letters from Petersburgh, received at Berlin on
the 22d of January, mention that his Imperial Ma-
jesty does nut cease to interest himself in the fate of
the King of SARDINIA. The union of Piedmont to
France will not be any obstacle to hit; proceedings.
Letters from Hamburgla state, that on the 26th
January, there were twelve Mails due, viz. Six
from England by Cuxhaven, three from Sweden, two
from Denmark,•tnd one from Holland. '1 he cold was
e':cessive: the thermometer was thar morning be-
low 16.

The Minister of the French Republic at Stock-
holm, Citizen BOURGOING, gave a grand ball on the

10th inst. to Prince IA ...tcLint4 of (houct:stra ; at
which were present. the Foreign Ministers, and all
the Nobility of that capital.

Letters from Vienna, of the 21th January, men-
tion, that the port of Venice will be immediately de-
clared free, as well as Trieste. 'I he news of the
changes effedeJ in the NVar Department has caused
a lively sensation of joy in the Austrian army.
The frigate Vendwa has been dispatched to Pa-
lermo, to bring back the different objeas belonging
to the Gallery of Florence, and the Palace Pitti,
which had been conveyed thither during the war.
The fourth class of the Institute (Class of Fine
Arts) named on the s.ith Feb. Citizen VINCENT as
its President, and Citizen LEBRETUV as its Perpe-
tual Secretary, Citizen PLY ite was named Mem-
ber of its Administrative Committee, And Citizens
VINCENT, DEMON, DCEOURNLY, GRETRY and
MoiTrE, Commissaries, charged to draw up its in-
ternal regulations.
An Arrke of Government, of the 31st January,
decrees, that the duties on Leaf Tobacco, imported
from foreign countries and bonded, shall continue to
be paid at the time of their being taken out of the
entrepOt, according to the net amount specified at
tho time of their entry.
Another arrete, of the same date, perr:its spun
hemp to be exported from the Departments of the
Rhine, or those that are bound d by this river, on
paying the same duty as unspun.
There was no parade on the morning of the 7th,
on account of the cold.
M. LA FAYETTE broke his thigh, on the 4th, by
a fall on the ice, as he was retiring from the house
of the Minister of Marine.
Two decrees were passed on the 2d, for the go-
vernment of the Isles of France and Reunion. They
arc to be under three Magistrates, viz. a Captain
General, a Colonel Prefe6t, and a Commissioner of
Justice.

The CAIDINAL LEGATE is dangerously ill at
Paris. He has received extreme unction. M. LA-
nARPE, is also in the last extremity.
M. De BARRAL. formerly Bishop of Treves,
lately died at Meaux, at the age of 88. This Pre-
late held the See or Troyes for SO years, and was
succeeded in 1790, by his nephew, M. LOUIS-
MATHIAS ni BARRAL, now Bishop of Meaux.

The EMPEROR of RUSs'A has made a present of
a splendid ring, enriched with diamonds, to M.
MEMNICH of Hamburgh, an estimable Savant, and
Author of several polyglot DiEtionaries, now sold at
Paris.

skusszi,s, FEB. 2,

The camp which is to be formed under the walls
of this city, is to consist of from 12 to 15,000 men,
drawn from the 16th, 24th, and 23th Military Di-
visions. Besides these, the garrison of Brussels will
be very considerable, and the entire, with the Con-
sular Guard and the Volunteer Companies which
are forming in our Departments, will exhibit a
magnificent speeLicle. Several Austrian, Prussian
and Batavian Generals, and a multitude of strangeis
from all countries, are expeEted at Brussels, to see
the military manoeuvres to be executed under the
immediate orders of the Chief of the Republic.
The camp is to be under the cc.•atmand of the Ge-
neral of Division BELLIARD, who was one of 80r4.5.
PARTE% companions in Italy and Egypt.

yr& S.

The Mayor of the city of Mons, Citizen DuvAL,
has published the following Proclamation t his

" Cur izsiris--Our well-founded hopes of soon seeing the
Universal Pacificator come to cast his penetrating ',mks upon
these rich countries, ta electrify commerce, revive our fine
estaSlishmentv, and ramsoitdate the confidence which his wise
view; deserve, have excited sentiments of joy in all hearts. A
vast nunlike: of cities, after the example nt Europe, are prepay.
ing to sheer him marks of their admiration And gratitude. The
cbief place of Lire department of iTemrotypes, the city of
Mons, will not bt the last already have pou►e young men

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