The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-02 00:00:00

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evessel which arrived yesterday front Genoa
in 49 day, we learn that 5000 Polish troops in the
French service had arrived there, to embark for
St. Domihgo, and that 10,000 more were daily ex-
peded there for the same service. Great discontent
prevailed among the first detachment, and numbers
were deserting. Two French ships of the line and a
frigate had arrived at Genoa, tor the purpose of
taking part of them on board.
On the Ist, the Memo transport arrived here
from Plymouth, but List from Malaga, she having
been driven past the rock in a gale of wind some
days ago. The Memel had on board a detachment
of 150 Artillery-men, under the command of Capt.
Yoolio, for this garrison. on the same day also
arrived a Portuguese squadron from Carthagena,
consisting of two sail of the line, a frigate, and
corvette. They were unable to procure supplies
of provision, at Carthagena, which obliged them to
come here. The poverty and distress in all the
Spanish sea-ports where there are Government dock-
yards is astonishing.
The Drajon and Ratown have both gone into the
Mole to refit; the Meameadi has not yet arrived.
The Pincego brig sailed yesterday fur Lisbon, to
bring the mails.
The Quarter Sessions commence to-day, in the
Court House ; where his Royal Highness, as usual,
presides as Chief Judge.
The Garrison is remarkably healthy, and in the
highest stare of discipline and regularity.

This day the I.min Ma yo R, Aldermen, Com-
mon Council, attended by the Sheriffs, and all the
City Officers, will proceed from Guildhall, in state,
precisely at half past twelve, to present an Address
to his MAJESTY, on the providential discovery and
defeat of the treasonable conspiracy against his
Royal Person, and ultimately intended to overthrow
our glorious Constitution.
At a numerous meeting of the Magistrates, Gen-
tlemen, Hop-planters, and others interested in the
growth of hops, residing in the eastern part of the
county .of Sussex, held at the George Inn, in Battle,
on Monday last, JOHN ruLIAR, of Catsfield, Esq.
in the chair, it was unanimously resolved to petition
Parliament in behalf of the planters, praying relief
from the present excessive duty on hops.
The Public Offices at. Paris have been silent for
some time as to the affairs of St. Domingo, but it is
the silence of the grave t The Bureau of the Marine
is not adequate to give all the mortuary extrads
which are there demanded.

Jamaica Papers were on Monday received in
town, to the 13th of January. They state the crews
of his Majesty's ships upon that station, to be in
good health.
By the abo►e Papers it appears, that a smart
shock of an earthquake was felt at St. Jago de la
Vega, on the 25th of December.
The first part of the Civil Code was presented to
the Legislative Assembly by three of the Govern-
ment Orators on the 23d ult. Poet- A L IS, in a long
speech to
.the Assembly, developed the motives, and
explained the principles of it. The Code was or-
dered to be printed. The principal persons who
successfully opposed it, when it was last under dis-
cussion, are no longer in either of the Legislative
Bodies. It will probably therefore be adopted with-
out much opposition.
The Communication made to the House of
Commons from the PRI Ise E of WALES, is creditable
to the manly feelings, the high sense cif honour,
and prudence of his Royal Highness. The senti-
ments which it breathes, will be, read with a mix-
ture of pleasure and regret—pleasure derived from
a communication at once so respectful and magnani-
mous ; and regret, at his being still unable, from
motives of public consideration and delicacy, to re-
sume that establishment so necessary to the rank
and dignity of the Heir Apparent.
In the French service, according to the prezent
arrangement, no General Officer can have a regi-
:aent. Those Generals who have deserved well of their
country are provided for in succession, by being ap-
pointed to the command of Districts ; or, as they
are now called, Military Divisions. Of three hun-
dred Generals, seventy-five are provided for in this
way ; many more have the command of garrisons,
and are employed in the inspection of the troops,
stores, &c, Others are employed in the civil de-
partment, on embassies in the colonies, &c. A
great number are, as may be supposed, in a state
of solicitation.

A letter from Cracovia, of the 29th ult. says, that
the winter in that part of the world has been ex-
tremely severe, and caused much calamity. The
wolves daily arrive at the gates of the town, in search
of prey, which they cannot elsewhere find. A
soldier, going on a message, vas devoured by these
ravenous animals, and the circumstance was only
discovered by the tattered remnants of his cloaths
and his musket. Many dogs have become mad,
and various persons have been bitten, against whose
complaints all medical assistance has proved ineffec-
tual And, notwithstanding the rigour of the sea-
son, an epidemic disorder has raged very furiously,
which was at first supposed to be the plague, but
which is happily.on the decline.
The Imperial Cabinet pays every year to the Di-
ref/ors of the Russian Court Theatre the sum of
231,000 rubles ; to which is added the entrance-
money, amounting to 130,000 rubles, so that the
expellees are ::G-1.,000 rubles.
The Pope has ordered a hundred galley-slaves to
be employed in digging for antiquities in the old
city of Ostia. His Holiness has likewise added to
the sums usually applied towards the musuem
MOW piastres, for the purpose of supplying, as
far as possible, the losses it had sustained from the
rapacity of the French connoisseurs.
A new regulation has been made atVienna, rela-
tive to Public Libraries, &c. None of the works of
Voltaire, Rousseau, Helretitss, Bayle, and other
philosophers, must in future be lent to any person,
except to those who intend to refute them.
While the noted BARRINGTON, late High Con-
stable in Bot;my Bay, was in the exercise of his
office, D'AitcY Wrarivoarit, so often tried fur
highway robberies at the Old Bailey, though since
a surgeon in the New South Wales Settlement, was
brought before him. BAR a r srfrron, as a magistrate,
immediately ordered him to take off his hat. " No,"
replied WEN•rwokrit, "it shall never be said that a
brave highsuayeam, who has been often known to
conimit robberies in an honourable manner upon
Shooter's-hill, :in the .0 idle of the day, should
ever degrade himself, oy pulling ca" his Mat to a
paltry poic-pocket.."