The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-01-09 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

WNDON,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9.

A Paper of yesterday inserted the following Pio-
claniation, as intelligence recently tcctived from
the Continent. We have lately witnes.: I in the
newspapers many efforts of Fancy to amuse itself in
the coinage of articles under the name of t' Foreign
Correspondence," aid upon every occasion where
the exercise of this bad 7v talent is confined to harm-
less macs, we are net di sed to censure it. But the
present isnot one of those to aiiy-favoured cases. It
proclaims to the wont!, that il.•-14 aPA ac already
considers as easy Ivey, a tuined country, that must
accept the Most iiiisgr acdul conditions which he may
tiiink fit to utter. What ! while the viEtary of Fra-
/Agar still echoes in his ears, and before the great
and glorious Lord NELSON islaid in his grave, can
B3OaPARTE suppose Europe so besotted, as to be-
lieve that he can dilate terms of peace to England ?
It may answer the purpose of treacherous friends,
to re,iresent him a vain, extravagant man, intoxicated
with his extraordinary success; but febrizations of
this kind can do no good to England.—We know
they do her a great deal cf harm. They let down
the public spill:. They make idt..l3 familiar to the
mind, that ought never to have been entettained for
a moment. This fabricated Proclamation says,
that for a nominal peace of a few days,we must give
up the kingdom of Mysore, Ceylon, Jamaica,
Malta and Gibraltar. Let theca terms only come
fir a few days into pubic discussion, and the sun
render of Malta will appear a mere trifle. Surely
it is only to give up one of die many points which
Bon •issi a rr demands.
" Frenchmen-.. Your Emperor has conquered Austria,
humbled Russia, silenced Prussia, and commanded the admiray ail
don of the world, by his ge.tarNd# and inediration, as much an
by his valour and achievements. England Gill dares to resist;
bet her resistance is the struggle of the agony Of dna, Site
is breathing her lust. If she desire • few years longer existence,
instead of immediate destruction, she mast, in the Lan, re-
establish the kingdom of Mysore, such as it was to 1754: re-
store Ceylon to Holland, and renoence tier aio.iopuly in ioduan
c.immodities and trade. In the West, she must give up Jamaica,
as a security fin her assistance to Ds, to destroy the anarchy of
the blacks iu St Domingo. She mint evacuate the Meditetra.
Heim, give •p Malta to its Grand Master, and Gibraltar to its
lawful mid territorial S,,yereln N. whore more inimical
ports will be declared in blockade, or the flags of Neutrals be
molested, insulted, and pillaged. The sea shall he as seas as
the earth ; and, without the permission of the E.mperor of the
French, a vessel shall no more dare to sail, than a fort be built,
or a cannon fired. Frenchmen ! yea are already, thanks so
your heroic Emperor, the most powerful of pisop'es•-a little
mare pans y re will also be the most happy, and the most
wealthy. (Signed) " Prefect of Police.
(Countersigned) " PIeS, Secretary."
" Paris, Dec. 17, ;3,-15.-

The Hme frigate, C.tpt. Cocci:AlN, with the
Marquis IVELtast EY, and Suite, on him-J. arrived
at Portsmouth on the 7th instant ; sailed from St.
Helena the 19th of November.

We understand that the Marquis Wittrstast
had not made any permanent arrangement with
Sc:sota and the Rajah of URA!, before he left
India. On the arrival of Marquis Coassvat Lis at
Bengal, it WAS repotted that SCINDIA had detained
the English Resident at his Court. The Maaqu is,
therefore, proceeded immediately f.-,r the army, in
the Impeof settling and adjusting all disputes with
the Mahratta Chieftains, as the rainy ce.w.n pre-
vetted the army from :thing with any effect.

The following is an extraft from The
Xvf fie, dated June IC, 1803 :—.• On Saturday kat,
anchored in the harbour, the ship .1/rrt, Capt. R.
W. Loasir, from Mocha, frcm whence she sail•
ed on the 4th ult. In company with the Hon. Com-
pany's cruiser Prouos AN:tetta, as fir as Maculla.b.iy,
from whence that vessel returned to Mocha. with
Mr. Paitsucc, who had accompanied them thither.
—The 44rt left ridieg in Mocha Road, the Hon.
Company's criiistr Paieber, with Viiicnunt VALLS..
TI A on hoard, three American ships, and some
country vessels. It was reported at Mociia, that the
Wallabies, either were, or it was daily expefted
would be, in possession of Juddalt.
Paim.r.ge, per n S. S•ark•.

In a Sop,iiement of Tkc Madrid Gvelte of the
2!ith of November; given in our preceding
columns, is 011.1LO:cif an Address to the People,
entitled An l'....hrittation in behalf of the Poor
Widows and Orphans of the Defenders of the
Cuntry, who fell in the Bay of Cadiz, on the 21st
of o:tober." It is signed by a Fellow Country.
mar.; but from the Piper in which it appears, as
well as from the matter it contains, there can be no
doubt of its official charafter. It exhibits, on the
part of the Spanish Government, a remarkable con.
fes.ion of their want of resources, and penury. While
it pretends to solicit contributions from the people
for the relief of those who suf.:zed in the battle of

Trafalgar, or their relatives, it appears to have for
its real objedt, the raising, throughout Spain, a spirit
of emulation for supplying, according to the re.
spetlive means of public bodies and individuals, •
either money or materiali for the formation and
equipment of a new fleet.
No intelligence has been received from the Con-
tinent since Saturday. Rumeor, Lowever, was busy
yesterday. it was reported, that His Pauss,•r; MA-
JESTY had taken 114nover under his protalio. ;
that the British troops wete partly emba►ked ;
and that a considerable subsidy was to be imme-
diately sent to the Continent. Others assert, upon
the alleged authority of private letters, from our
army on the Continent, that the advanced posts of
th" French and British troops are contiguous to each -
other, and that it was thought the French wooll
make a speedy attack. We do not know ;;hat
credit is due to any of these runtours.
Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at Lord MULGA Alfa% Office,
which was attended by Earls CH ITNAP4 and
CAMDEN, Lords Hawk esaurtv, Mul GRAVE, and
CASTI AREAOIII. The Council sat till near four
o'clock. The ReSSIA 24 Akr riAssAooa attended at
tke Office from one till three o'clock, and hadifte-
quent conferences with Lord MULORAVI.

Yesterday morning, Prince,tes AvctsrA, So.
1.141 A, And AMELIA, attended by the (lon. 'Ors.
EcnitTos, took an airing, on horseback, i• 1 Windsor
Greda Park.

On Tuesday morning. the RUSSIAN ASS! ‘SSADoa
had a consultation with Lord bilkiLGit ASE, from one
till three o'clock.
Yesterday a Court of Urea( rs was held at the
East India when the andtr-mentinned Com-
manders took t:av:r leave of the Ccurt, pre-
vious to departing for tacit jt celive destinations ;
vie.-- _ _ _

Caps. W Durrel,r4. 'ere*, itinitiay and China ; and W.
fa:riax. Hugh Inth . Mas. ea Lea Bengal.
Capt. Luke Dodds W 25 gown into the Walmer Cattle, come.
eigiied to soin*ty and China.
The Court adjourned, at six, till Tnesday next.
Yesterday a Ballot was taken at the East-India
House, for the elation of a Director in the room of
Ps us Le Mesmer', Esq. deceased. On summing
up the votes, there appeared 5,56 in favour of Capt.
G. Mtr. Lire. who being she only candidate, was
declared duly eleeed.
The indhpensidie. whaler, sailed from St. Helena
the 20th of November ; and the Iris, whaler, arriv-
ed there the 1!)th.
The frantic and unprincipled ambition of the
Gallic Usurper. it is now notorio:11, would, in the
event of -ompiele swast, caitely disorganise and
overthrow the whole system of the German Empire,
and annihilate the poser and independence of the
House of At:sr lila, by depriving it of the Tyrol.
the kingdom of Hungary, and the remnant of its
Italian dominions; and by s...tfttig up a Rog,/ Auto-
maton, of leis own creation, m the South of Ger-
many, who would, is fart, prove an instrumental
governor, for himself, over Bavaria and the Tyrol;
but who, at the same time, with his efrawal crea-
tures, in the West, would prove a balance and set-
off against the Crowned Head (Prussia), in the
North of Germany. One of the mushroom Princes
of the *paws house cf BONAPARTE, would, in all
probability, be
.fneed upon the Magnates of Hun-
gary, as a Sovereign; and Switzerland become an
iotegrol parr of France, and camp.se two or more of
its departments. Thus much, at lease, it is crat
from the condue and declarations of the .1'; rant,
would be perpetrates' in the above contingency. And
do not, we ask, intentions so swaafort, amply :Ind
incontestihly justify the Allied Powers, in am-apnea-
tototz the Usurper of the French 1 hrone, for at-
temp-s, in future, to disturb the traoquillity, and
undernibie the independence of Europe ? And, if
Prussia, boldly and manfully comes totward, this
can be done !

Should Ili, MAJCiT Y. as has been stated, deter-
mine upon -stablisliing a Sew Order of Knight-
hood, for the reward of military and naval merit.
m,re will be dnne is that way, during the resent
reign, than in those of all the rtec eJi g Kings of
England ; .t., c: dependent of the in: oration intro-
duced in the Ancient and primary Order of the
Gaiter, in 1716, by which the original numt.er .-1
twenty-Svc Knights Companions, as ordained by
Enw AID II!. were to be exclusive of such issue
the reigning SOVEI:EIGI4 as may be invested with
the Order : the original Institution of the Iri►h Ol-
der of St. Patrick. and the projefted one of Military
mod Naval Merit, are the measures of His Present

laJr.sre. Those instituted by preceding Sove-
reigns mere only the Garter and Beth. The Stets
Order of St. Andrew, or the Thistle, was an wi-
ginal institution of the former Kings cf that
country.
Yesterday and the day bef-re* rumber of Pollee
Officers were employed at Radcliffe Highway, is
cohering Lastars to be sent on board bLie bound
Flory baJ bosun to secrete themselves.
to avoid re:stain to their •,an country. Snale of
them rettued the authority of the coniumbles t hut
they Mete at lest almost all rzeu-ed, and *taut oa
board their respective -hips.