The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN lATELLICENCE. •

EXTRACT OF A PLIVATE LETTER.
texts, MARCO! 2C.
The First Consul has postponed his journe, to
Brussels. The most aCtive preparations are making
in all the ports of the Republic. Forfait," fanner; f
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Minister of Marine, is gone to superintend tho•r_ ;
carrying on in Dunkirk, Nieuport, Ostend, & .
In the mean time, the public opinion, if there can
be said to be any public opinion in France, is :n
favour of Peace. Bankruptcies are frequ,a. ,
and poverty and distress, which are already
particularly in the capital, it is apprehended. wiA
very much increase, in the event of hostilities taking
place. The Consul has never, at any former period,
felt so much the weight of his greatness. lie sva•.
lately shut up for three days at St. Cloud, and 0.-
dered no one but a Messenger to be admitted to
him. Some days ago, every report was in favour
of peace. It was said, that the English Minister
had been five hours in conference with Bonaparte ;
that twenty-one articles of discussion were treated
of, and amicably arranged between diem, and that
they afterwards ate a cold collation together. Bi t
reports are now of a different complexion. Evert
thing again w..-.ars the aspeEL of war. It is sale,
that the merchants, bankers, a2cl agents of the;
place, who are in the habit of doing business with
England, have received dire:tions from their con-
stituents to make up their accounts ; and all specu-
lation between the 'two countries is completely at a
stand. The workmen, who were employed in re-
pairing the house which Lord Whitworth was to
inhabit in the Rue Faubourg, St. Honor e, have been
dismissed. The English, however, are not leaving
Paris in great numbers; on the contrary, the pros-
peet of a rt7pture, together with the fine weather,
seem W have, for the moment, brought- an additional
number of them to %isit the capital of France.
In the eleCtion of eandidales f..)r the Conservative
Senate, it has been remarked, that a majority of
votes, in the Eleetoral College of the Department
of the Seine, have been Li favour of Albert de.
Luines, (formerly Duke de Luines) and Pas-
tore, (a modai transported on the Nth Fruetidor,)
although General Berthier had all the influence of
the Government, and Lucien Bonaparte was Pte-
sident of the Eleetoral College.
The number of conscript deserters, from the'
Departments of the Republic, it is computed, amount
to eight thousand—four thousand six hundred being
the ascertained number from sixty-two of the De-
partments, in which the lists have been already
made up.

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FROM THE. FRENCH PAPERS.
PARIS, MARC* 243.
Yesterday at ten o'clock in the morning. the hat
brought by M. the Ablegat Doria, was transmitted
by the First Consul to the Cardinals Dubelloy, Bois-
gelin, Cambaceres and Fesch. After mass these
Cardinals were presented to the First Consul in his
Cabinet, where were assembled the Consuls, the Mi-
nisters, the Senators, the Counsellors of State, the
Presidents of the Legislative Body, and of the Tribu-
nate, the Military superior officers of the First Div .-
sion and of Paris, the superior officers of the Con-
sular Guard.

M. the Cardinal Dubelloy addressed the First
Consul, in a speech of considerable length, in which
he expressed the sentiments entertained by the Clergy
for the restorer of morality and religion.
The auditors were surprized at the memory of
this venerable Prelate, in his 95th year.
The First Consul after hearing them, convessed
affectionately with the tour Cardinals.
A deputation of twelve members of the Electoral
Body of the department of the Seine, were then ad-
mitted to do &image to the First Consul. This de-
• putation, composed of great proprietors and persons
of consummate knowledge in public business, ha.;
at its head M. d'Harcour, its prolocutor. He thank-
ed the First Consul, in the name of the Electors, for
the honoui ssiiich he had conferred upon the Elec-
toral Body, in giving it for its President his illustr:-
oat Brother.
The First Consul answered, that he valued very
highly the example which the EleCtoral Body of the
Seine had given by the wisdom of its eledions. Ha
concluded his answer by this phrase : " My ambition
has always been to obtain from all the French the
sentiments which you have expressed in my favour,
and my constant wish is to deserve them." After
and before ►hese introduCtions, the First Consul
passed in the Hall of audience, where were assent•
bled in much greater number than upon any former
Sunday, the Members t,f the first Authorities, and of
the most distinguished soldiers. M. de S. tack no
notice of the crowd that appeared yesterday at the
Thuilleries. " What a difference," said he, " be-
tween this day, and this day six years I Behold men
of property in the place of thapaax rcug:s and of
bonnets. rouges—And how hasall this come ? Without
violence, without exa.aion, not to fast, nor too slow,
and following only the firm hand which holds :Al
our destinies, which resists all abuses, and opens the
way to every good.

HAGUE? MARCH 16:
Government has confirmed the resolution of the
Council of War, by which Citizen Hartsir.clt, why
was destined for the c anmand of the j?atavata
squadron in the Mediterranean, is appointed Vice-
Admiral. All at once it has become doubtful wkw
they, in the present circumstances, this squadron will
set sail from our ports.
The new dispositions of the British Government
have redue'd our bank business to a sort of stag.
nation. The funds fall, and there prevails every
where in this country, a strt of stupor produced by
the impre,sion made upon t!..- pubiic Mirk/ by the
image of we cri:ic.d sit tatioa ir, which we s.io.,:d
find ourselv,:s, if we were ..t once to destroy

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