The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-11-05 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

' LUN DON,
THURSDAY. Novamact 5.

We announced yesterday, aIICLOSIVILY, that at a
Council, held on Monday last, it MIS determined
to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisals against
Denmark and the Italian States, under the
dire!! and immediate controul and influence of
Frame. We can now add, that this determination
yesterday received His bisiaarrv's approbation,
and that instructions to the above effeift will be
issued immediately. With Tempe& to Denmark.
the measure is a matter of course, that Power having
already declared war against us. Indeed, before
our fleet had left the Baltic, she had begun to
St out privateers to cruise against British commerce.
Every thing, we admit, was done by our
Commanders to soothe and c!)ft-..11 the wound
that they were obliged to iota upon that nation,
and we v.-ere not among the last to give credit
and currency to every fel:est r.f their svcceu.
But, from she nature of the attack, and the
address cf cur invetzrate enemy, an angry
feeling towards England will be long cherish
ed in the breast of Denmark. As evidence of
this, we have learned that the M a ksira c of
the ADMISALTY has found it necessary to a; ply
to Lord I lawaasec v for a military guard over the
Danish prisoners, on the ground that !heir enmity
was so great, that if the guard was refused, he
could not hold himself responsible for the con•
sentience:. This request was communicated by
Lordship to the Duke of Your., and his Royal
Highness was pleased to order a guard accordingly.
With tepid to tt.e Italian States under the ins.
mediate cor.troul of Iranee, it certainly became Mr.
Paac IV AL, whn so stoutly contended that the Late
Mini.t es did n'•t no:ct 73:.? e &re. blockading

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decrees with corresponding energy, to give a pi-Nil
of his own kxtraordistiery ♦'goer. The declaration
of war against the Italian States, is, therefore, only
what Mr. PERC EVA L owes to his own consif.tency.—
The States to be included in it are, weundeDtard,Tus-
cany, rectntlyoccupied by French troops under Gm.
Miol.r.ts; Ragusa, lately attached to the kingdom ni
Italy; Naples; the Republic of the Seven Isfard,,
lately ceded by Russia to France ; and ail the newt.
States in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, in po!-
session of France or her Allies. The Treasury
papers state, that the states of the Pl. E vln be
exempted. They are equally under the influence
of France as Tuscany, and we really know not why
the benefit of clergy should be extended to the States
of the POPE. unless it be in deference to the title,
which amounts only to a nominal distinClion.

By the fleet which left Oporto on the 16:11 ult.
letters to that date have been received from P 4,1111-
g.ll. It appears by them. that the Prince de BEIRA,
son of the PRINCI RICENT, was to embark at Lis -
bon on the 12th for the Brazils, but whether the cm
barka:ion afluaty took place we have not learnt.
The Portuguese squadron, from the Mediterra-
nean, had arrived in the Tagus, it consists of two
sail, and as many frigates.
Lord STILINGTOID and the British Fac:ory
were to sail from Lisbon on the 16th.

General BiIIEIFORD, who has the military corn-
man/ of the Expedition fitting out at Cork, having
been sent for by Government, arrived in town on
M. nd4y, and has since had several interviews with
Ministers.

The accounts respeEling the place of abode of
LowsXVlll. during his stay in this country,are con-
tradidory. Our Yarmouth letter of Tuesday, and
another received yesterday state, that he set out on
Monday. ferHolyrood-House. The Ministerial Prints
state, that he is to occupy Goss&ld-House, a seat of
the Marquis of Buctts:owass, in Essex. Another
contend., that he is to come to town, and will reside
with his relatives, in a house which has been taken
for him near London, for a few weeks, upon the ex-
pi►ttion of whic't he will return to the Continent in
the same frigate that brought him to England, and
rrjoin his family at Mimi). The Hon. Cna.azzs
134(.02 and Mr. Ross, who went to Yarmouth, on
Sunday, with instrudlions from the SLCILTARY of
Starr, returned to town, last night, accompanied
by .11:. Duke De &am Alt the time of titer dr-
part,n.k., Nto:tsi lea, the Prince DE Cony', the Duke
D'ANcoutLatz, the Doke Dc Bona BON' and a
the other Members of the nutrition Family in this
country, remained with the King of Fa A NCI.
Some persons, :truck with the absurdity of the
supposition, that Lours the X Vlllth is come to
irrigate this Government in a new plan'for the
res-
toratson ot the boualloslll to the Throne of France,
are ot opinion. that his objal is to consult our Go-
ya, amen' about the propriety of abdicating his
claims as the Throne of France, and accepting of
sums indemnification, which, it is not altogether
improbable, the present Ruler of that country may
It lye proposed to him, through the medium of the
Emperor of Rthsi 4.

Yesterday, a Court of Diredors was held at the
Loa ludis House, when the undermentioned ships
wet- taken up, and thus stationed, viz :

Estscrmais. 400— trans, Captain Alesandes Campbell; Har.
rine. bll9 leflS Willi AM Lynch; Sir William Itesis.er, fi47
tons, ti. Hever; Euphrates, 391 tau, P. Hrgbart i for Ma-
dras and 13 rsfal.
H•iidart, Sol mos, Wm Nesbitt, for /lumbar ding*.
Air:ander, riC'i inns, Th.d.Pr•c,, Madeirl and Bombay.
Woven, I 0 twas, Stephen Hanes, Madeira, Madras,

'llwinilowing Captains were sworn into the corn-
s,' sod of thew respectivt snips :
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Car ten Was. SimilLtt, Itudd^i. itna'any dime.
R. it &moo, f), rberabirc, Ch taa direct
The Omit adjourned at six co:clock. till Wednes-
day next.
'lrhe Ihnehniie arrived on Tuesday afternoon at
Portsmouth. wit o dispatches from Lord CoLL•No-
w000 and Sir Airtime Pager, which were received
at the Adtairahy yesterday. Their contents have
act yet transpired.
The five sail of the line now fitting fir sea at
Plymouth, for a secret Expedition, are expefted
to be joined by seven sail of the line from Ports-
mouth. They will be accompanied by a consider-
able number of the ttoops and the copper-bot-
tomed transports that were employed in the Expe.
ditioa to Copenhagen.
A report prevailed, yesterday, that Bo AAAAAA c
had arrived at Boulogne. for the purpose of review-
ing his troops; and also t•lt the Brest fleet had
eluded the vigilance of our blorkad,ng squadron,
and put to sea, with a con iderable number ut troops
on board. No sa..t.i tholitgea:e was received at
the Admiralty, nor do we believe ti.r repot t.
At a General Assembly of ti e Aeadem;cians, held
on hlooday last. Messrs W. I).ss: ct, A. J. ()Lives,
and Jamas WARD. were elected Associates of the
Academy...

'hie Reimers: Tatosirgois. from Riga, hag been
captured, recaptured. and is a•ri Td dir bridiMg;Dll •
(.tit Friday evening lair, a Frc-scn Coluilel, ♦ pri-
soner at Chew: livid, was riiubtil by Nis companion,
a French officer seen, of a laige imins Or money.
The latter, being clitfrete.i, svadoved po:son ; but
thaunot operating immed.at..l), kr stanbeJ hinisdr,
sad died. An was liehi on the body on
Thesd.q. 'the Jury tou.lucd a verdat of—Jr/f
Abovier.