The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-24 00:00:00

=owl from the neighbouring countries, eafering
till. sWi!pdlitig Ma: it IS now repaid that
the day of his Coronation is, 'for the fourth time,
postponed to the (ith of next January, or, as the
French ca'l it, Le Jour des Role; but many think that
not even then the Usurper will have miner enough
to produce the expensive spectacle which be has
promised his Parisian and French slaves from the
provinces. It was said at the Hague, that . Scut as-
st Et. rENNINCI: would not return to Paris as an Am-
bassador—and that, before the let of December, he
would be prcclaimed the First Magistrate of the na-
tavian Republic; and that the present Minister of the
Foreign Department, VAN nee Goes, will succeed
him as an Ambassador in France. Another treaty of
subsidy and military capitulation, between France
and I lolland, is talked of. The defied to be made
gooJ in last year's budget, of the Batavian Repub-
lic, amounts still to thirty-three millions of florins,
or three millions sterling ; an immense sum, for a
nation not containing much above two millions of
persons !—a nation without sufficient territory to
procure subsistence even for half that number,
without the support of commerce and manufac-
tures, both now entirely annihilated by French ty-
ranny, and by BONAPARTE'S oppression and extor-
tions.

The Editor of a Morning Paper, yesterday, boast-
ed of his sagacity, in suspating that the account of
the capture of a Spanish frigate by the Led Melville
privateer was a hoar. He appears, however, in a
rage, that he was not imposed upon as effeaually as
many of his brother journalists. As if he were
ashamed of being guilty of a single instance of
discernment, what he left out on Thursday, because
he sitspeSed it was not true, he inserted yesterday,
after he knew it to be false. This inconsistency
would, perhaps, be unworthy of notice, if it were
not for the illiberality of his observations. Ile
more than insinuates, that the /war was the inven-
tion of French Emigrants, and advises, that they
should therefore be all sent out of the country.—
A charge of this kind ought not to he lightly male ;
and the Editor owes it to this unfortunate body of
men to state the grounds of his accusation, and give
them an opportunity of answering it. IVe believe
we have been correa in stating, that it is an old
story. We have since heard, that a clerk in the
city has the exclusive merit of its revival.

We have received, we believe exdusiedw, a series
of Calcutta Newspapers, to the 13th of March.
They contain some entertaining light ankles, one
of which we insert, hut no serious news of any im-
p )rtance that is not already before the public.

There is a report in circulation, that the Port
ILLS made his escape to Malta.—We do not know
upon what authority it rests. The known repug-
nance of His Holiness to pollute his sacred charac-
ter, by crowning an infidel and an LT,urper, may
be the only eau,: of the rumour.

Yesterday, a Court of Diret'tors was held at the
East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock,
till Wednesday next.
The account of the visit of the Minister and his
friends to the London Docks, at Wapping, on
Thursday. which appeased in several of the Morning
papers of yesterday, is ill founded. They visited
the West India Docks at Poplar, but not the London
Docks, at Wapping.
Lord KEI nt will leave town this day, for Rams-
gate, for the purpose of resuming the command of
the Boulogne squadron.
The .4.hren, Kirin, from Newcastle, for London,
is on shore on the Home Sands, near Yarmouth.
Several German Papers are said to have asserted
that the mission of the Swedish Baron Altus ELDT
to Berlin was to obtain a guarantee from the King
of PIUSIIIA against the invasion of Swedish Pome-
rania; but that His MAJES r v formally refused any
kind of intervention with resped to Sweden.
Some new regulations, we understand, are about
to be adopted respeaing the Aliens now in this
country, the precise nature of which we have not
yet been informed of; but we learn that all those
who have come to FrOand since the tom:iv:we-
ment of the present war will be required to give a
particular account of themselves.
It is much to be regretted that in these times,
when our very existence as a free and independent
nation drpends so much upon the perfection of our
military forces, some enlightened and experienced
Officers on the half-pay (and there are many of this
description) do not come forward and give public
leaures on subjetts relatingi to the improvement
and application of military bodies. A great deal of
useful information might thus be imparted, which
cool.' never be acquired so easily from the perusal
of books ; and, were sorb lectures given in London
at a cheap rate, hundrers of Volunteer Officers, and
others, would amply requite the leaurer's trouble.
It is truly a pity, nay, one may almost say, a nit.•
tional calamity, to see such blunders committed by
the commanders of Volunteer Corps, when ailing in
the geld, as would sacrifice, in the event of being
opposed to the enemy, thousands of valuable lives,
without producing one atom of good. The Colonel
of a regiment should know how to convert every
house, every tree, every ditch, to his advantage ; and
to adapt his manceuvre. to the nature of the ground
he ads on. Those, who deride the idea of sues mi-
litary lectures, should retie& that among the most
warlike nations, France and Germany for instance,
war, in its minutest parts, ha., for more than a cen-
tury, been treated as a science.