The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-04 00:00:00

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had nat les. than t!::-ee %has through the Cr in..
his hat ; some state, that two men were ;
the general belief is, that only one MCI was
wounded. Were we to change places w•tii
French, and were a French flea[ td any
which BONA PASTE sh,ntld please, to bloc .asi Fits.
mouth as an English squadron now blockades 800,
logne and Calais, we might expeC't to be kept in tot).
tinual alarm, by a succession of stratagems.
genuity of the French was stiposed to have be at I
erted ever since the attack of Lordiqtasoa, upn., I
Boulogne, in devising plans to render that haznoni•
completely unassailable. The public, consequerca,
expressed no surprise nor disay.'poiimrrat, on finsiiik
day succeed to day, without any atterwpt to anr.ir
the Boulogne flotilla. The late experiment he
Sir SIDNEY SMITH, chews, hios•ever, that ti,e
harbour of Boulogne is nut inaccessible, and th,
adive mind of that gallant Of er.coura.7es
confident expeaation, that some means i•
vised for the destru Rion of the boa.ted fl
it contains.
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A considerable relaxation has taken place With:a
these few days in some of our star einitsinea.s,- end
a number of workmen have beet d .chaagsd,.
circumstance has given ri.e, in s-ime eincles,
opinion, that certainly some kind of negotiation fn
peace is now on foot, in which Prussia a.%
fice of Mediator. We believe, however, that th..::e
is no ground whatever for this rumour. A ben.:
reit ;on may be assigned for suspending, the equ ;-
111:?elti to which we have alluded. The Emperors
of f:t..SSI A and A t.ST eta ha cc, we underst,id,
ec-
titiedto our Court. that if the miney intenderito
laid our in certain attempts, on our part, be furnisfrd
to them, they can, with the same means, brit
much more powerful fortes iat-i the field, than could
rssibly be accomplished by an expendi.uw w slat
same amount in this country.

Mr. Ssittli, the Messenger, left t..le • on XV '.
nesday night. with dispatches for the 1/42,J., .1
Berlin.

The accounts presented to the Haute of Tr..
mons, oe the 20th Jano, respaeting nrsaies p
der warrants or precepts of the Barmis of th:
chequer; His MAJ EST If's hereditary and r-serv-d
revenun and land rents; gr.tnts of land and bi-
shopric rents; pensions recently charged upon His
Mislays-Y's civil establishment; and monies issued
under any other authority than that of w trrants Irons
the Barons of the Exchequer, in Scotland, have betn
recently printed. We this day lay an extraEt from
them befh-re our readers.

The Cat, Captain NI,K ILLoca, from Demerara,
is arrived at Lamlask ; she parted from the fl et,
on the 24th of August. The vessels of this :oa-
voy, before arrived, are supposed to be the oat
ones that parted company in the gale of th- sth and
tidy of September. It wa, reported, at Liverpool.
on the Ist. inst that the fleet passed Cork on the
26th ult.

The Merchants, Undarevri•ers, and other ham-
bitants of I,,vei pool were requested, by advertise.
meat, by order of the MA von, to meet on Monday
last, at eleven o'clock, in the CoonciLroom, Brans-
wick-street, in that town, to take into consideration
the propriety of sending an immediate supply of
provisions and water to meet the West India 'etr
so long expeded.
One of the prisoners who was on board the sloop
Friends, pooDwi Lc, retaken by the Badger Excise
cutter, on Sunday, between Dover and Calai', says,
that the whole of the troops, who were intended to
invade this country, are marched off to the 12.!..ne,
and that the batteries all along shore are now gar ;-
coned by the mariners belonging to the flotilla, and
the inhabitants of Boulogne.
Mr. Foss's* will leave town on Saturday or Sun-
day next for Ireland. It is expeded that he oil re-
turn tc England in about a month.
Some persons have expressed doubts of the accu-
racy of the assertion, that the Eledor of BAVARIA
had concluded a Treaty A ith the Emperor of Cr
SI ANY, and had joined the Allies. The .e d
rest chiefly upon the circumstance of no memoal
having been made of such a Treaty in the Cerro I-1
Papers, brought by the last Hamburgh Mails. '1: .• '
last French Papers, however, hint at the Treat),
and state, that a proposition was made to the
ELICTOC by the Emperor of GINMAMY, to j(111,
the Eledoral to the Imperial troops. Besides, we
know that Government have received, as we stated
several days ago, the intelligence of the Er.sc.roa
having declared in favour of the Allies.
That part of the specie lately sent from the Bank
of England to Portsmouth, has been put on boars.
the Rval Sovereign, of 110 guns; the Defiance, of
74; and the Renommi frigate, of 44 ; all of which
are bound to Malta. The amount was yesterday in-
sured from all Risks, at LLOYD'S, at a premium cl
50s. per cent. to return 95. 6d. for all sums s.i in-
sured, which should ultimately appear to have bee.,
forwarded in ships carrying a wra:er tome thus
50 guns.
A sum, amounting to nearly three hundred Clow
sand pounds, has also within the last few days been
insured, which has been put on board the Antelope,
and other ships of war in the Downs, risk on which
ends eu their arrival at /locum. This insurance
was effes.cled at a premium of 20s. per cent.
S:r Iticnako HILL, we are extremely happy to
state, is much recovered from his late indisposition,
but was not able to attend the Anniversary of the
Salop Infirmary, at St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury.
The lion. Mrs. LLIOIITON and Mrs. KYHASTON.
supported by Lord Ha aw ca and WI t. slam
CHILDS., Esq. held the pla:es at the doors when
the unprecedented sum of 2711. Its. Mi. was
colleded.