The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-26 00:00:00

A NEVI EMPIRE AND A NEV CORONATION.

A Correspondent, in Holt-Moog-street, has fa-
voured us with the following most important iatel-
ligeace. We have reason to think we have it ex-
cioively. The public will recollea that some time
ago the French astronomer, Citizen LA L %NOE,
made the French Republic a present of 50,000 stars,
all of his own discovery. This present was pub.
tolled qfiriaii" in the Monsieur, and in all the other
Paris papers. From the same source, we lately
ie.irrrd that a Volcano was on fire at the side of
air Great Lake near the eastern edge of the Moon.
Moe communications, it now appears, were only
intended to prepare the public mind for the high
trntours which his destinies had in reserve for BoN A.
taste. The following articles, extrasled from the
Lunar Court Gazette, will best explain these extra-
ordinary events:
;:!:ttaet of a Letter from Citizen BINISSOT to Citizen BoN•-
r tare, First emend of France, Emperor Elefl of the
French, and Emperor in Embryo of the whole unizene.
" Dated let Quarter of the Moon.
" errszave MST CONSUL,

•` Jacobins are incorrigible; and, consequently, on my Com-
ing here, I did not forget the vow I made on earth, `" toset fire
ten,* four corsets of the world." The Moon has been ever
since in a state of revolution as glorious and happy as that
which has dietinguished France. Faithful to my principles I
lave endeavoured to turn it to the aggrandisement of the Great
*alien. Citizen Consul, you will And by the annexed, that
another St. Cloud, and another imperial diadem, await you in
the moan. Health and raped,

" BRISSOT."

Ulna hots the Registers of the Lunatic C onservarive Senate,
•Gated 3d day of the 2d Quarter of the New Moon of the
Lunatic Republic, one and indivisible.

" let, The innate and irresistible propensity to continual tyro-
brim and change, the inconstancy, and proneness to err, which
ctrakute the principal qualities of the Moon, and place it in
the rank of Planets, point out the French nation as its natural
ally, whose friendship the Moon should cultivate, and with
whim, front similarity of sentiment and disposition, she should
ar.sb to be bound in the bonds of fraternity.
" 2Jly, Justice, policy, and interest, require that the indivi-
dual. who posseae. the Axise qualities in the most eminent
epee, and whose 14 cnquestionable, should be placed
at the head ot r se Lunatic Republic.

" 3dlr, Crtisen Napoleon Bonaparte, +Jew, Atheist, Chris•
tim, or bifida!, as occasion offers; Jacobin, Terrorist, Aristocrat,
Philosopher, or Legislator, as serves his ambition, appears to
le, of all the individuals its Francs, the most worthy of this
bigli honour.

4thly, The Imperial hereditary diadem of the Lunatic Re-
piddle is therefore to be offered, by a deputation of twelve
Lomita% to Owen Bonaparte, and made heredi•ary to his

" sthly, His Imperial Lunatic Majesty shall be humbly prayed
That he may be graciously pleased to change his name from
Sampans us Luisperte, and to quarter his arms with the
Awes of the Moon, in the same manner as Mackinac Bonaparte
lbw adarnsd kis bead.

• (Signed) " MARGARET NICHOLSON.
"Tice•ptoideat of the Lunatic

Conservative Senate "
Answer to the above, from NAPOLEONS 30NAPAIITS, First
Consul of Fran's, Emperor elect of the Moon, &c. to the
Zusisatic Cameras ye Senate.
"LUNATIC SSNATOSS,
" The street, and squares of Toulow an Paris, the rivers of
Mood la Daly, She ensenguine.l plains of Syria, the pnisonvd
lasepitals at Jaffe, the dungeons of the Temple and of Vin-
cennes, and the peopled wilds of Cayenne, bespeak me a
=easter ; but my beast and glory, and the boast and glory of all
soy parasites, is, that I am only a Lunatic, nothing more or less
than a real native of the &Irwin. True, mcv.t true it is,
am a fereigow es to France; but !VIM though I were riot a
Lunatic, the Great :dation of the Moon ought not to object to
roe on that account. The ►loon shines only with a borrowed
light, and I am the light of the Sun, the fountain of the
ill.anieatt, the enlightener of the enlightened all over the
world Your Impala revefutiuvery Diadem I gladly accept, as
also your haws, in addition to those I now wear. So my high
destinies have decreed. (Signed)

" BONAPARTE."
ANT of Lesetie Lagers Is annexed to the above, Uom
Citi-
aen LA LANDI to Citizen BONAPARTE, of r hkh the tel.
brings the staletance

Citizen Li, LANOE states, that from several ob-
servations by his forty feet telescope, he discovered
that the prnposition for making the Flan. Consul.
of France. Chef Lunatic, or Emperor of the Mnon,
had excited the liveliest joy in every part of the
Lunatic Republic ; and that the supposed volt an;c
eruption in the Moon was nothing more than a
general illumination and rejoicing, in honour of the
hew Emperor. Citizen I.• Laaoe, however, adds,
"At the same opposition to ths elevation of the
Corsican Lunatic t') an Imperial Diadem upon
arth, manifests itself in the carious sirn: and
in the heavens. The Liam was roar rag
:.ud. The Ursa Major bad put forth its enormous
P tw, and the Ursa Miner had shewed its teeth.
I.e Georgian Silas was covered with arms, dis-
PI tying upon its whole surface only one tented
6,lds one cluster of men and steel. Tit Ball
1.4.1 been butting against his native oak, and
t....iring responsive to the challenging use, who,
tar afield, cautiously and cowardly held back up.n
native plains. Penal was blushing; 111. rs a:
tint Atercssry skirping about wits j..y at the elevation
(i his br rrfrikin. TL :s5 .Star had cialyed
tz'l bs:ween his Ice=, .ad himself under the
Soqi,a, which had extfaldi..l r cliws, and declared
ituii :von the si,t, th rasC.:a
ft.'nt of Franc,.

St. Clo.td Ist Day of the 31 Qoarter of the Mom.

Peter Wilkiiii, a confidential Courier, has this moment ar-
rived with drlpatcin•s, said to be of great importance, front the
Lunatic Republic, to His Lunatic Majesty Boriapa:te, Empe•
ror Elect of the hi oori.

St. Cloud, 2,1 Day of the 14 Quarter of the Moon.

The dispatches, the arrival of which we yesterday delusively
announced, brou:ltt the unwelcome intelligence that symp-
toms of rebellion Tlki dissatisfaction hail niairifestecitheinselves
among the 50,000 gars, lately presented to theVirst Coniul by
Citizen La LSIVIC, ill consequence of a positive demand by
Citizen Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Emperor Elec.
of the Nluoti, ti be made Esirenoa of Tye Fuze Term-
SAN co Stites. WA of the atypic britogfred stars, had de•
Glared themselves the eusinies of id! Becautionary Govern-
menu.

St. Cloud, $1 Day of the 3d Quarter sf the Moon.

A Deputation of twelve LWwades waited this day upon the
First CorinJ, and communicated to him the decree of the
Lunatic Conservative Senate, conferring upon him the title of
I.:nip...rot of the Moon, and making the mine liereilitaiy irs the
family of Bonaparte. The Members of the Deputation all wore
crowns of straw, and presented the Floe Consul with a diadem
of straw, which he was mod graciously pleased to accept.
One hundred Lunatic V.rgins, All ilreis,d in straw, closed the
procession. Madame Bonaparte expros,ed her surprise at the
greatness of the ottmber ; but this extraordinary phatnometion
was satisfactorrh extilainerlty a Member of the Deputation,
who observed, that as every thing loot on earth was knsnd io the
Moon, Virgins were of course very nunicrous in the Lunatic
Republic.

PRIVATE LETTER

PAY'S, MAY 20.

The destinies begin to unfold themselves in a
series of most astonishing events.—ln addition to
the title of Ester awe of the Fastscm, and Kiso of
LOMBARDY, BONAPARTE has been offered the title
of ENT ER oit of the Moo.; a revolution is organis-
ing in the 50,000 stars lately presented to the French
Rep üblic, by Citizen LA LANDS; and Citizen Stay is
has been ordered to prepare a new Republican Con-
stitution for the three greatest Comets that have
made their appearance within the last century.—
This may account for the occasional disappearance
of BJNAAARrs of late. At those moments, when
the splendour of his presence was withdrawn:from:the
public eye, he was not shut up in St. Cloud, nor on
a journey of inspeelion to the Camps upon the coast ;
but on a visit to the Moon, there organising his new
dominions. Tremble, England; your doom is sealed.
From the Moon the :nighty LUNATIC ERIPLROR
will pour down hail and storms to blight and destroy
your crops and flocks, while, possessing the sovereign
command of the tides, he will find new facilities to in-
vade your hated shores. The Lunatic Senators and
Tribunes are already appointed Members of the
Legion of Honour. A Lunatic National Museum
is already built, and a Lunatic Institute decreed.
Health and RespeEt,
Yours,

CIIAPPI.

FROM THE CALCUTTA POST OF OCTOBER 24.

41 SIATURA, SEPT. 24, 180$.

4, On the night between the 31st of August and
Ist of September, at half an hour after midnight,
a severe shock of an earthquake was felt at this
place, which lasted for many minutes, and was
violent beyond the memory of man. Probably not
a living creature in the place, but was roused from
his slumbers on the alarm, and felt its effects ; many
of the Pacha's buildings were cast down, and Ze-
panas hitherto unassailed by violence were deserted,
and their fair inhabitants took range in the meets
and in the fields, in deshabilles,
to conceal their charms, and in an affright which
elevated their charms, sought protestion with
men, whose visages it would otherwise have
disgraced them to have beheld. The night was
calm, and enjoyed the full influence of a bright
moon; and, when the alarm was over, the blushes
and modesty of the fair deserters of their conse-
crated mansions afforded a pleasing contract to
their previous distresses, and amply consoled their
prote'lors for the desolation th 4 had suffered in
their own houses.

" Nuor ul Nissa Baigum, a beautiful and accom-
plished young woman, then pregnant with her
third child, to the unspeakable afflielion of her hus-
band, was unfortunately killed by the falling of a
tile, under which she had run for safety; and ano-
ther lady of eminence was cruelly put to death,
upon a suspicion of gallantry, with the person who
auendeJ her in her flight, though wholly unwar-
ranted by any other appearance of suspicion than
the disordered state of the few garments they re-
spenively hole.
" In mornin4 very entensive fissures were Oh-
serv,.s! she field, which had been caused by the
4 the befote, through which se::-
terr 0..• with great violence, and continues to run
to 5:.e resent date, though its violence has gra-
d:: illy .i!).ized: this has been of great benefit to the
nrig:rwuring Ryotts, as they weie thence enabled
to draw the water over their parched fields.

dg The principal Mosque el the place, erected on an
ern:nonce, by the famous Khaun, as a token
o: LS trinnirli over the infidelity of the Hindoos,
has licea slimmed to pieces, and a considerable
part of the dome was swallow:%l up during the
opening of the earth.
Several slighter shocks have since occurred ;
but I do r.ot hear they have occasioned any farther
damage."

Professor Sessee, the celebrated botanist, who has
been absent eight years, assisted by a party of mon-
ralists, Les returned to Spain. lie has visited the
wbol ut the Spanish possessions in North Americ.t,
and the island, on the coast. It is said, he has en.
richt J bottny with 4!,5 10 species of unknown plants,
and lt.ts als, di.covered cighty fishes not yet de-
iCl .Ltd.