The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-02 00:00:00

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THE4TRE-ROTAL, DRilltr-LANE.
I.);'.llJlLlit3 V EVENING witl.Su petf.otnot a Nom Easiedy
ra
THE MARMAGE PROMISE.
iipcsartlyt, by Mr C. KatsSie, Mr, Ylvrver, Dow-
fwy Mt Hulling...Nei. Mf.17:01111.4', an. Mf. ?Aloe', Mr.
11t. ros.l, Mr. Pti6.l,. M.. knot. Mn Pnweil,
Jilin Mrs .T 4.411, Stark, Mrs.
T eilkh w.ll be 1141,10,
NO UM; NO SUPPER.
Ntvcestts, bit a YOUNG L.
;0%01 if Dr. I.ljai:l, hzr A.ipie.:riuce on ins Star )
0.9 The l'aTtrt atr in..a res;self‘i!..v itiTma,ll, that on
scowl, n/ the likprna:li:hc 71.::tefits, th. Nr l'nntrelv 'Pre
54..thAg• pro ko•1 c...~..(1 milt Nine N...tlito more &temp
the prNont Seasmi --owl he I ")th N:ght T.i-rAtsy,
with A I loom: to ta; Sa.J.

THEATRE-ROT IL, CO rENT-G .1 RD FAr.
TIILS EVENING will be pri-,•,it,1 New Coau iy ro. ica
JOHN BULL;
Or, AN ENGLISIIMAX* FIRE SIDE.
The principal Charaderi‘ by
Mr. Lewis Mr. Ciolce, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Johnstone,
lir. IL Jolinstrin, Mr. Antiorliaid, Mr. F.inerv, Mr. W.4.ldy,
Mrs. Gibbs Mrs. Poirel, and Nlurriott.
With a Lyrical rvilwgii: by Mr. Johnator.e.
Ti which will lw vide.%
HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS.
fin Thar day, John 8011, with The Lviag Valet; and re-
praiid on Friday. APer which will preduccd a ntw
41 After Piece, caned The Fair Int.tives.

••• A very interesting arti:le of iotel.igencr., telAtis+ to the
Missionaries in Otaheite, trill be found in our last page.

TUE BRITISH PRESS!:

LON DON,
MONDAY, MAY 2.

It is said that there wAs no truth in the report
which was confidently believed and widely circu-
lated on Friday, of the arrival of official dispatches
from France. It is certain, however, that Ovate
•commnaicatiosts were received on that day, and that
the depression of the Funds was the consequence.
One of the houses that sold out largely, and gave
the turn to the market, announced, in the evening,
acccrrdirgto repent, that ithadreceived private advice
of the rejeftion of the uhiwtswe of our Government,
by the Fs *sr Co rstt.. We will not go the full length
of the report ; but we do believe that private advice
was reecired,andtha.tit waseSan unfavourable natus e.
Nothing can be more liable to be aeled upon by
stratagem than the Funds, but then in all cases of
ir.crance or error, the cloud quickly disappears.
however, eras not the case upon the present
ocea...ior.. The impression made on Friday re-
mained on Saturday morning. On that day the
3 per Cent. Consols. opened at 641 declined to 631 ;
and about two o'clock were done at 021 ; they, hew-
ieer, closed At 63,1.. '1 bis farther depression tools
place upon the arrival of a Messenger (tom France
with dispatches, and was the result of various con-
sequent reports of an unfavourable nature, corrobo-
rating the rumour of the preceding evening. It
would be idle to detail these various reports ; but as
a proof of the facility with which the most gross and
stupid arc entertained, it may be sufficient to state,
that a rumour prevailed that the LORD sv oa had
been sent for by the Privy Cour.cil, for his advice,
respea:::g the hest mode of breaking the unwelcome
ner•s to the City. The circumstance of his Lord-

ship having suddenly left the Mansion-howe about
one o'cloCk, furni-hed the only ground that n.. 7 know
for this report. The propagation of this and such
idle rumours is, however, easily accounted for. In
the absence of an offizial communication, the atten-
tion necessarily turns to private infi.rmation, as the
only means of acquiring that knowledge which nii-
nisterial secray withholds. The 'auks and words,
therefore, of every Broker on 'Clrmge are anxiously
sronsultett and the public mind, irritated and alarm-
ed, catches at trifles, which, at a corder moment, and
in more settled times, it would not deign to notice.
The particul.lr house which is said to have given
the turn to the market on Friday, did not, we un-

derstand, sell more than 5n,0031. yet even that sum
proved adequate to the effea. Rut thou:;11 the con-
tents of the dispatches received by Government have
not trAntpired, the general feeling, accompanying
cirenmst.ances, pad private accounts from France,

afford too much reason to believe that they and un-
ftvourAble. It was confidently reported on Satur-
d iy. that after the breaking up oldie Privy Council,
orders were issued for putting sevetiteen more ships
of war into commission. Private letters also state,
-that orders hare been issued in France, to prevent
Englishmen frozn going to any of the sea-port:, Ca-
lais excepted ; and that ihnirti !Two R Tit aavisfed
the few remaining English at Paris to return home
ith all e pedition. The dispatches were also supposed
tube •ufliciently decisive to enable the Minist, t t , make
h:s promised communication this day, an event
looked to with universal an7:iety and apprehension.
ti:.nidable preparations mal.ing by fr.ince,
indeed afford no proffof an aczonimodating spirit
uptba ele part of the rms.:- CUNSCL. lit:Mind is
.now, to all intents and purposes, of hostility to
England, a part of France, and the great &pet of
'tee forces, and troops daily arriving from the in-
terior, arc thickening and extending their ranks along
the French crust, from Brittany to lioNand, while a
large army is organizing in the neighbourhood of
Ghent and Brussels, and report adds another in the
-mutts of France, with a view to operations in 'the Me-
Aliterrasse. an or Portugal. It cannot surely be sui sed
shat triai this increasing farce, and a rowing scnti-