The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-28 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS•

LON 1)0N,
FRIDAY. Decsmsek 28.

A great number of Traraports went down the
River oa Wednesday. So sudden and unexpeCted
were the orders, several of them sailed without their
full crews. The men thus left behind followed
yesterday. Southampton is suppo,ed to be their
immediate destination, where they will form part of
one of the foreign expeditions now fitting out.

Yesterday we received some New.lroek Papers,
but none of a later date than those alraady in our

possession, from which we made some ertratels last
week. The speech of the Pfttsincevr, upon the
opening of Congress, which we have already sub-
mitted to our readers, contains a passage, in which
a confident expectation is held out of an amicable
adjustment of all differences between the United
States and Spain, respelling Louisiana. The fol-
lowing article, which we have copied front one of
the Above papers, confirms the statement of the
ParSIDENT upon that head:
" The late Indiana Casettes have contributed to remove the
alarms from the portion of Upper Lisuicana, which had been
subjected to the temporary governinznt of Indiana. On the
2tl !teptembet a coinsa.ttee, at Genevieve, drelan.4 in favour of
an entire submis.ion to Congress, and in support of the autho-
rity of Governor Harrison. At Low*, in the district r f
Upper Louisiana, twelve out of the seventeen repre.senta-
tires appointeJ to meet in Chit p'ace, had assembled and
taken the eath of allegiance, agreeably to a proposal
made in their assembly ; and on the first of OEtober
Governor W. If. Harrison issued his Proclamation, by
which the distrid of Louisiana is tr b: divided into five dis.
wins, and hounded, the first including all lands above the
Missouri, called Charles.

" The second, called Louis, haring the Mississippi on the
North, Platin Creek on the South, from its month to its
sou-ce, thence ou a West line to the fork of the Mciriroac,
called Arnatiean, and down said fork to the Merrimac, thert
up iJd Merrimac, to the Upper Settlements on that Riser,
and then Oft a Westline to the Western line ,if Louisiana.

" The third, called St. Genevieve, on the north upon the
district of St. Inuit, and int the south by Apple Creek, fiorn
its junction with the Missisippi to its source, and then upon a
west line to the western boundary of 1.11.11.1 a .
" 1 he fourth, b,•tween the above, anA that tine which has
to orated the jurisdictions of Cape. Girardeau arid New Nl.otrid,
c lied the district of Cape Girardeau.

" The fifth, ail that part of the district of Loui..iana which
below the district of Caps Gir irdzau, to be calle I the dis-
trict of New Madrid.

" The soats of justice an at thr pl.ce. from which Cie dis
tnets derive their acmes."

It is said that Government has received jar irm-
ation of the arrival of BUNAPAR'CL'S emissary,
BUuarros.vii LE, at Madrid, who, according to re-
port, immediately presented a Note to the Spanish
Cabinet, with a letter from the Corsican to the
King of SIAIN, who admitted him to an au-
dience. The same day, orders are said to have
been issued for the arrest of all British subjeFts,
and those in the capital were all imprisoned the
same night, and their property and effeds
taken possession of by the Spanish Govern-
ment. There can be little doubt hut that this vio-
lent measure has been extended and carried into
execution in the provinces and in the seaports as
well as at Madrid, where it was reported, that
though the Ki. 4; of SPAIN had consented to the ar-
rest of British subjeas and the confiscation of their
property, he had refused to give up, according to
Boma r Att Cx's desire, the former to his disposal,
and the latter to be sold to indemnify him for
claims under a pretended subsidiary treaty with
Spain, which. front the capture of the treasury ships,
the Spanish Government has been unable to carry
into effea.

Some more Dutch l'apers to the '_:id inst. have
been received, with Private Letters of ,a very recent
date. The contents of the former arc unimportant ;
but the latter state that the recent spirited con-
dun of the Batavian Direttory, in resistiog the
tyrannical measures of their Gallic oppressors, has
encouraged the King of Pat Sit A to interpose his
authority in behalf of that unhappy country.
PRUSSIAN MaJtSTv is said to have atisailly in-
s:rutted his Minister at Paris to demand the
evacuation of Id illand by the French armies, pre-
vi-losly to the revision of the Constitutional Code,
which, he conten Is, ought not to take place under
the bias of foreign influence. Should this statement
prove correct, the important fact must he considered
a, highly auspicious to the ca-ise of Europe; but
until its troth he ascertained, it would be only trifling
with the attention of our readers to enter into any
idle speculations upon the subject;

Yestcrday afternoon. two Messenger, Mr. MAR.
UP.AVL. from Stockht.lm, and an English private
hfessenger from Lord G. L. Gowcii. at Peters-
burgh, arrived at the Secerrautv of STAt eg Of-
fice.

Wednesday in thick weather the c;irrostarr, gun brig
ran on shore near Cala:s t, prevent the enemy's
raining possession of her, Lieut. Snorrowt And
crew set her on fire, w:.O were providentially saved,
and are arrived in the liewns

The Agit!,lit, Con at:, irom Virginia, for Dun-
kirk, is upset off Calai.,---Crew saved.
The Attire, MORYAN, in ballast, from Plymouth;
and the Padthav, S r ir vs.', from Cardiff, for Lon-
dun, are lost at Scilly.
The Petition by the Roman Catholics of Ireland,
on the question of Emancipation as it is termed, is
not to be presented to Parliament in the ensiling
Session. On Saturday se'imigilt, the R port of the
Committee of Twenty-five W4l received at a general
meeting of the principal Roman Catholics, although
it had been violently oppo.a.d in three prect•ding
Committee Meetings. Government is, we under-
stand, highly gratified by this decision of the Gene-
ral Assembly, which has, to doubt, been carried by
the influence of the Earl of FINGAL and his friends.
The party which wished for an immediate applica-
tion to Parl ament hare withdrawn themselves for
the present, but threaten to bring forward the ques
tion at another genet al meeting.