The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-16 00:00:00

snres on the Italian frontiers continue without inter-
ruption. On the Austrian pans of the coast of the
Adriatic Sea, not far distant from Fiume, a new
fortress is ordered to be construed upon the Plane
of Alexandria, in Piedmont. The strong forts in-
tended to defend the Julian Alps are already ti-
*stied. Before next spring, the additional fortifi-
cations to Trevisa will be completed. The Austrian
General, Count De Bellegar.i, dire& all these

undertakings.
According to the list letters from the Turkish
frontiers, the confusion lit:d disorders continue to
tnereese. The Christians of the Grecian Church
in Bosnia have foll,rwed the example of their neigh-
bours, and taken up arms. Their plin is to unite
themselves with the insorgent Servians. It is said,
that several Foreign Officers have entered into the
service of the latter, and that their troops now
amount to 40,000 men, who, from want of artillery,
Mos. and ammunition, have, however, nut yet
been able to undertake any military operations of
consequence. They are otherwise perfealy organised
into regiments, battalions, and companies, and ob-
serve striaer discipline than could be expeCied after
an insurrrtlion of only eight months. The cordon
of Austrian troops on the same frontier amounts
to 12,000 men, watching the movements of the in-
surgents, as well as those of the Turks, and forcing
►oth to respell the territory of their Sovereign.
There is no truth in the report of the Divan having
proposed, and the Sultan having consented, to give
up Belgrade to Austria, on condition of restoring
order in Servia.
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As evil-minded persons have taken advantage of
the cup'elity of w.any money brokers, to stir up
a mutinous bah iviour among the lower classes of
the people in the market places of the capital, by
refusing or undervaluing all former silver coins,
the Councellor of State and Preled of Police have
ordered re be published, and posted u , the fol-
lowing advice, in execution of the Imperial decree
eoncer, ing pieces of three 'ivies, 24 sols, 12 sols,
and 6 soh :

" Difficulties have occurred in carrying into ex-
ecution the Imperial Decree of the 13th last Au-
gust. They are removed by the Decree itself. Ist.
In what concerns the epneha of the fabrication,
it is not the year hundred (It milieu/we/which alone
determines it. Every piece coined before 1726, with
the King's effigy placed from left to right : every
piece coined in 1726, and the following years, with
the effigy turned from right to left, according to the
model annexed to the edia of.l.inuary, 17,2 ti : Pieces,
therefore, of which the effigy with full face (vet
de jeer/ turns to the left, cannot be refused, even
when she Tear hundred is not visible, °eh/ she coin r.
sf Frc.ch
.1: b•reaticn. 2d. French coins are known
again either by the effigy, if it be sufficiently ap-
parent, or 17 the escutcheon of Fleurs-de-Lys. and
branches of laurels. This elphea.o is to put An
end to all contestations. (Sipa:A) sins."
The Prefel of the Seine has addressed .t bat so
all the inhabitants of his department, informing
them, " That every inhabitant of the iiiterior of
the Empire, conviEled of I::...wingly having con-
cealed the person of a deserter, or conscript, or to
have favoured his desertion, or to have, in any man-
ner, aided his escape from the pursuit, otilered by
the 4th article of the law of the 24th Brumaire
(year six), shall, for the first time, be condemned to
a fine from 300 to 3,0'00 livres, and one year's ins-
prisonme::t ; and, for a second time, tried and con-
demned as an ris3adroietss, which is a capital crime."
This letter has been caused by the want of zeal in
the young men, and of patriotism in their ftlatives
and friends, which have prevented the quota of con-
scripts for the department of the Seine still to re-
main incomplete.

THE IRoN 11 kSK.
The history of the man with the iron mask, of
whom so much has already been said and written,
will soon be augmented with a new chapter. A per-
son, who thinks hialaelf able to explain this mystery
, : a more sata,tatct iry manner, i, preparing to puts-
Esh his conjectures. He pretends to know, from a
!'tier of I ir.fis XV!. t'lat this Prince was unac-
ipainted wull the se, 'et who that unfortunate per
son really was who lived acid died with an iron m is'.:
. . over his face. It is kn-,wra, that one of the supposi-
tions witch has obtained most credit is, that he was
the Count de%'ermandois, natural son of Louis X i V.
y the Duchess De La Valliere. That the motive
to this extreme rigour was an aft of brutality of
Count De Vermardois towards the Dauphin. But
as the Count WAS publicly buried, it is supposed
that the funeral ceremonies performed for him, were
merely means to mislead the historians of that time,
and that a log of wood was buried in his place. It
is the verification of his coffin, and what it contains,
which is the objea of the above mentioned letter of
Louis XVI. now in the hands of a Member of the
National Institute. The King ordered the Bishop
of Arras to (siren the coffin, and to take a Fenn-
eirrh.:l of r.s cc.ntents, and to sand it to His Majesty.
Louis XVI. consequently did aot kaow any thing