The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-01-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE EitTCH PAPERS.

BERLIN, DEC. 3.

In the order by which the )uke of Auerstadt
announced to General St. Hilnire his departure
from Berlin, the tidies-nig passages are the most re-
marklible The lust orders which I have to ad-
dress to you, on my setting off from 'Verlio, ought
to be is mark of respect for the glorious memory of
Frederick the Great, ante a proof of the esteem
which our Sovereign and zbe French nation enter-
tain for hie august brother. When you are leaving
Berlin, you will repair Si the head of your troops
to Prince Ferdinand, cud present to hun.the keys
of this Capital." • " At Berlin, Vienna, and where-
ever destiny has conducted the arms of our Em-
peror, it cannot be denied that we have done no-
thing to seduce the affections of subjects from their
Sovereigue."--, 11!•re, us every where else, there
are eethusiasts and adventurers, to whom the sub-
verriou of all order is an object of hope and in-
terest. These dangerous persons have been 'kept
in check. The uobility, landholders, clergy, 11-ni-
sei's. and merchants—ell the institutions which
form the basis of social order—have been protected
and defended against the atteinpts of innovators.
The French leave this country with sentiments of
proginind consideration for the Alonarch and the
people."
The Telegraph positively states, that information
has betas laid before the Freres Authorities of a
myetermise mid romantic assuriattiou, into which the
y Y men are 'weighed. The person who joins
it kilo.", only the individual who enlists him. He
takes an oath to furnish himself with arms, to attend
to a signal which is to be given for their embody-
ing, to repair to his appointed rendezvous, to obey
'implicitly SIJ unknown Chief whom he shall there
find, and to follow him wherever he kids. The
.new member engages to enlist one of his friends
iu
the same mansser. The oath of enlistment, signed
by each itetlicidttal, poises from hand to hand until
it reaches the unknown Chief.
This fact was long looked upon as incredible,
but the numerous accmints which have been re-
ceived front Vll6llll* tiiistaers rAtablish its reality.—
The French Authorities !ewe also received dentin-
' ciatious against several eueicties, whose only object
seems to be general disorder and anarchy. The
Marsh's! Doke of Auerstadt, on being informed
oftnese things couccived that the presenee of His
Majesty the King in his good town of Berlin would
Speedily putt an end to till the efforts of the attar.
Chietti.

. In the forenoon of Sunday se'nnight. Mr. R.
Blcewat.t., of Riddeuilen, in Kent, went from hit
Impose over his land, to exumiate his stock; when
not rat •g so soon a. expected, his wife and
daughter proceeded in reach of him, and, melon-
chuly to relate, fouad kin fallen -in a fit. Ile was
convoyed to his home and expired about mithaight,
leavilig a wife and four small dotal:els to lauleut
his loss.
A yonitg woman a the name of SELLERS, kit
whittiv Alarliet in the storm of the 17th last, and
we. missing until new-year's-day, when her body
was found, near a place called Lido Crow,. about a
mile and a half to the eastward of the Picketing
road, by a ma's looking after his sheep, moiler eir-
Clllllllltalleell winch iodic-Med the esteeine severity of
her sufferings. before she had been compelled to
submit to the grasp of death. It appears the had
wandered about some time after else 1.14 separated
from her horse, (which.was found a week afterwards
at a distant farin-houset, in the fruitless endeavour
to extricate herself froui the horrors of her situa-
tion. She had lost her bonnet, cap, and shoes--
the feet of her stockings acre emitirely worn away,
mad her feet were lacerated to the bone. On the
day the body was found, the greater part of die in-
habitants of the neighbourhood where site resided,
Set out oil a general search, spreading thetusielves
over a large tract of ground, that they might leave
lit) part nuexplored, eltere a probability might
exist of her being found: it is probable, however,
their search would have proved fruitless, AS the un-
happy sufferer had been driven by the storm a crin-
siderable distance from the road she had to travel.
The heavy fall of snow, to the Southward, last
week, having retelfared the roads impassahle
is
Lincolnshire; the and 3d divisions of the 84111
Foot, which were to have crossed the Humber on
Saturday and Monday, did not leave Dull till
Tuesday and Weiliiesday last. On the landing of
the division at Barton Water side, some of them
seised a voting mail on the charge of being a de-
serter. Ile was, consequently, kept in custody,
but contrived to take poison, which, it appears, he
h:id carried about him, and &kid, in consequence,
in the evenime;.
On Thiesilay, the sth last. about seven o'clock
in the looming, the inliebitanta at Seaton iron-
works, near IVorkington, in Cumberland, were
alarmed by a sudden mg/ violent inundation—on a
prompt inquiry being instituted as to the cause, it '
was found that a breach had been made in the
south corner of the Dam Wall, (probably occa-
sioned by this frost) uowavils of thirty feet wide.
Immediate measures were taken to prevent the
river Derwent from proceeding into the canal,
which supplies the pool with water, but which
could not be effected before the lives of many
horses, cattle, &c. were in danger ; happily none
were lust ; but it will require some days before the
breach can be repaired, even in a teittporary man-
ner; and a considerable portion of these valuable
and extensive works era, in consequence, this mo-
ment at a stand. It was peculiarly providential
that this brtarb happeued ut an hour when most of
the paople employed at the works were upon the
alert, or the consequences might have been ineal-
culable.
Tuesday the corporation of painters, stationers,
and cutlers of Dublin, waited upon the Right Don.
Sir A. iVELvsst.tv. at Dublin Castle, and had the
honour of presenting him with the freedom of their
guild, which was uaauimou lyvoted to him, at
their last e '
piarter-day together with ma suitable Ad-
dress, expressive of that respectable Corporation's
high sense of the distinguished talents and bravery
displayed by him during the time the Right lion.
General held the chief command of llis MAJEti.•
TT'S army in Portugal. The Corporation was re-
ceived in the inosegrimetous manner by Sir ARTHUR
‘VELLEsLty, who returned a very polite and ap-
propriate answer.