The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-16 00:00:00

IKON LAST NIGIIT', GAZETTE.

At the Court at the Queen's Pslace, the 14th of
1801,
PRECFNT,
'rise bast Excellent Majesty in Council.
Tli4 day the !Cant :loci. George Earl of Wiuche see and
Amber:ham. 'Groom grebe St.i:e to Ili. itfajaistr and the
Right floo.(beorie Thy mie, comoo.nly called 1,:4 Gemge
Thrones, Collor itl:r of fin I.4a}witr's sc., by
Its Nl‘jear.c...miluni, spurn of Ilrs Maje.tv's Mira Hno
Privy Conned', a.d touk Lbw reapectiye pia.:ol at the. Board
4-cOnltiter •
His Maim), baying been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
*Wiry ord• !ft-mob!. ant the It.ght Hon. debit lei:r:es
F .ri Camden, two of Ho Niajeay. rineipal secretar.e. of
Rate, they were this day, er !Ls aifaiesiv`. command, sworo
two of His Majesty's principal qw:retaries of Staid accordingly.

initchall. agar► 13, 1804.
The King ha% br::n pleased to *instaute and armilt the
Right Hen. Wiliam Pitt, ►seorge Perri tut. (tor, aus:-.1,
estlod Lent Loraine . Jamts Edward Harru. Esq (commonly
rafted Viscount Fitshuris the ft,ght Hon. Chalet Lomit, and
the Hmi. Henry Welle.ley, to be Om missioners fa exocut:nt
this Ake of Tteasuret of Hut Maj• sty's Exeheqa,r.

The King has been ',leased to eonstit,,te Ind appoint the
'Right Hop. Henri. Vs.coont Mclvilla, Sir Philip Stephens,
Tart. James Gon'tiar, Esq V,ce•Ad'ril nil of the Red Squohon
of His Majesty's Floft ; !Cr Harty Neale, Bare Sir John Col •
'pays, Kti,ght of the goat Otder or th.; oath, and Mm.ral
'of the ll.se of H s Sfa,esty's
Zsq Vioa.Adthiral of the Red Squidron of His Majes'y's Fleet,
Ind 1.),“ son, jun. Eso t., b- 1 iia lifs,esty's Com-
thlsiioners for exectituig the office of High Admiral of the
enita Kingdom of Great ?inlaid and Ir.la d, and the demi-
Skala, Wendt., aect terrtonts Ineteunto beloning

FORLIGN INTrLITGENCt.
—......,
PAM, MAY 4.
The fashioir to enter into priests orders in France
is entirely passed. Th • Bishop of Amiens has
'opened in his see a subscription, intended to provide
for the education of ) oung men destined to take
orders. In imploring the charity of the faithful.
the prelate exposes in a moving manner the wants •
-of the church. and the necessity for the continuance.
'of religion. to continue the clerical order. .. As a •
.other, says be, 4. who opens his heart to his chil-
siren, we unload in your bosoms the whole weight of
our melancholy inquietude. Already since our ad- 1
tiMecement to the episcopacy, sixty priests under us
Save died ! and who ate to fill their places? Others,
and those in great numbers, are advanced in their
career, afflieted by mf.rmities : who are to succeed
them ? Good God ! the piety of our ancestors, is it
replaced in us by a mortal indifference ? Exclusively
fond of ourselves, will we fix all our thoughts, all
our affetions, upon the present moment, without
having any solicitude for our posterity ? and are we
to see the happiness of future generations sacrificed
to our indifference, egotism, or irreligion, by ne-
t -fling all means to bequeath to other ages the rcli.
gion of Jesus Christ, with the great virtues which
st alone inspires, and with the abounding heavenly
consolations which religion alone gives and affrrds ?
The deplorable times will then soon come, when the
night of ignorance, superstition, profanation, and
all the shocking vices, their attendants, will cover
the church of France ! Her churches will stand ;
but no priest will be found to officiate at their altars,
to sing with the people the praise of the Almighty,
to explain to them their duty, and to thew them the
way to eternal happiness ! All charity will be ex-
tinguished. Orphans, widows, and the children of
the poor. will in vain stretch out their hands for a
morsel of bread ; all hearts are shut to pity. The
siffilEted wilt in vain look for consolation—they will
• Ind none. They seek, in their sufferings and ago-
nies, the old man near to breathe his last, the re-
pentant agonising sinners, all in vain will call for
the consolation and support of religion ! Fathers and
mothers, if you have any tenderness for your offspring,
jf a desire to preserve them from the worst of wretch-
edness in this world. and of misery in thenest, inspires
your generous humane sentiments ; if you do not see
with indifference the extinetion of the Christian faith,
the total cessation of instruftion in the evangelical
religion in your families, and in France ; if you
tremble in thinking on that fatal hour, en that dis-
astrous momeirt, when religion descends into the
tomb with the last of its ministers, remain not insen-
sible to our prayers ; do not refuse a small donation
to our pressing solicitations, which the preservation
of the most invaluable of all things, and your own
s_;7tuirlitzrest, claim imperiously, —(goarmai du
la.
Such i. the indifference to religion, caused by the
persecution of our revolutionary philosophers, and
ur philosophical barbarians, that of five thousand
oracles, vacant in the French Republic. not fifty
roper subjefts are found to fill them up. The
Wilful are therefore forced to travel forty, fifty.
d sixty miles to find a church, where a priest offi-
fates. What a blessing would not nor valoueous
"thief Magistrate receive, was he to change some of
pr military schools or pritanees into religious se-
roar er, and convert sorae of one military co/1%-
ri pts into religious students. All sort of glory is
eserved for hem ! he will therefore not leave un-
*nishesl what he so devoutly has begun! His reign
will, therefore, by the faithful of all future ages, be
ailed the reign of the stewed re:arraign of Cirist!--
Ga-ette de France.)
Ihey write from Italy, that General St. Cyr, the
:011ithauder is Chief gf the Freaclt trecps in the

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kingdom of Naples, and the General of Disision,
Lecchi, arrived at Btindes on the 2tith
1, hese Generals have made a military tour in trae
provinces ót Leue and Otranto : they have able en-
gineers with them, employed to take a man of these
and the neighbouring provinces. When this busi-
ness is finished, they intend to inspeft all the French
troops rowld the Adriatic Sea.
0:1 the 21st uh. a detachment of Ligurian gens
d'armes passed through Mantua, with the famous
brigand the Grand Diabolo, who has been atrestedl
on the Ans,rian territory near Triest, and who has
been delivered up upon the demand of Bonaparte.
The Austrian General, Count de Bellegarde, who
commands at Pavia, had orders from the Emperor
Li, proteft this detachment in crossing the imperial
dominions with their prisoner.
lIICPLIN, MAY 1.
Yesterday evening a remarkable sdic!,te was com-
mitted. The deed was perpetrated by a young boy
in his 14th year. The son of a respeaable inn-
keepet , went the day before to a gun-smith, an ac-
quaintance of his faither, its whose name he bor-
rowed a pair of pistol:, as for a journey ; with these
he went to the outsid.... of the wall between the Pots-
dam and the Brandenburgh gates, put one of the
pistols to his mouth, and the other to his breast, and
tired both at the same time, which laid him in an
instant a corpse on the ground. The father, who has
spared neither pains nor expence for his son's edam-
tion, is inconsolable. No cause is given fur this
t ash aft. _