The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-02 00:00:00

first Emperor of %MA, and the first Kings of
Peussin. and SAanun a, had many years assumed
their new titles, before otivr states would commu-
nicate with them under that appellation. The fa-
vourite scheme of TA Lttvnaxo was always to have
four Continental Emperors ; one of Austria, another
of Russia, a third of France, and a fourth of Prus-
sia. The new; from the interior of France evinces
the same unsettled state that has prevailed for these
lugt three months. The Tyraat reigns by terror,
bu; trembles in his turn.

We have inserted in our last page the principal
part of another report from the Grand Judge upon
the =bled of the alleged conspiracy against Bus A-
ritart. Mr. SPENCER SMITH, and Mr. WICKHAM,
are accused in the report as aelors in the same play
a•tributed in the first report to Mr. Da AKE. We
have alsu inserted a Circular Note sent yesterday by
our Government to all the Foreign Ministers at our
Court, in answer to this charge. It is not conceiv-
ed in the language, nor dues it breathe the spirit of
indignation which we were taught to expett from
the warmth with which Mr. ADDINGTON repelled,
in the House or Commons, the odious accusation.—
It maintains, that in the present relations between
France and England, a British Minister at a neutral
Court may fairly pursue measures for the subversion
of the French Government.

The Ga:vtre of last night contains an account of
several captures and engagements by the ships under
Commodore Huon on the Leeward Island station.

Yesterday His MAJESTY rode in the QutEN's
Riding-house.
Yesterday, at one o'clock, His NIAJEsry gave an
audience to Mr. AnoiNGTON.

Yesterday, about one o'clock, Her MAJESTY and
the four younger Paiscesses, attended by the
Countess HA R COUR T and Lady I'ityi4Ne, took an
airing through Putney and Fulham.
Yesterday the Duke of CAIIIIRIDC.E dined with
Her MAJESTY.

Sir EDWARD PE I. LEW W 23 yesterday appointed
by the Lords of the Admiralty to the command
of the East India Fleet in the room of Admiral
RAIN' ER.

Yesterday at two o'clock the Russ' t!1 A MBAS.
'toot had an audience of Lord Haw•tesauaY at
Dis Office in Downing-street.
No business of imporrAnce came on yesterday in
the Courts of King's Bench, or Common Pleas. Sir
JAMts M•msvi et D sat but a short time in the late,
to hear bail justified, and the Cosirt rose at as early
hour.

After several conferences with the Turkish Minis.
tern, the consequences of French iptrigues, the Rus-
sian frigate will its convoy is at last permitted to
pass the Dardenelles. We expel daily a second
convoy from Sebastopel, destined for the :Mediter-
ranean.

We are sorry to state, that the Unity, Captain
WALK ':it, om Portreath to Neath, w;th copper
ore, struck on the Miser. Sands, Lear the Mum-
bles, on Monday night last, in a heavy gale of
wind ; the sea making a complete breach over her,
she soon went to pieces, and, melancholy to relate,
the Captain, with a man and a boy (►being the ,any
persons on board), all perished. Great part of the
wreck, and the body of the boy, have been washed
ashore near Swansea.

According to letters from St. Domingo, a civil
war disturbs that colony ; and the Negroes, in oppo-
sition to DESSA L IN Es, have taken the Cape.
The Batavian Navy has at its head Admiral
Writs. ea, as Commander in Chief, 6 Rear Admi-
rals, 34 Captains, and £53 other Officers.
A Private I.etter from Berlin, of the 16:h of
April, says—
" The arrival of two Aides-dc-Camp of the FIRST
CONSUL, and three Couriers, has caused several re-
ports. in our diplomatic circles, it it said and be-
lieved, that they are come to propose that our
Kim° shall change his title for that of Emperor,
and that Bo a r Aare, in return for this compliment,
shall be acknowledged " Emperor of the Gauls,"
with the unanimous consent of the French nation.
Our King is also to guarantee the suceessian to the
throne to the family of Bo es are. It is also
proposed, with a promise of further advantages,
that our SOT RR LION shall keep Louis XVIII. and
the other Bourbons, confined within the limits of
the city of Warsaw ; and to permit a French
agent to reside there to inspea their conduit.—
I have heard that our Ministers have endea-
voured to elude a direl answer, and though
pressed, have declared that our Sovrarium would
follow the example of other Sov ea E I OHS ; and that
our Ambassadors, particularly those at St. Peters-
burgh and Vienna, should be instructed to learn the
opinions of these Courts upon the subjeS."
Captain RRTNOLDS, of Pennaire, near Truro, is
appointed to the command of the Drearuntglu, of
98 guns, now with our Beet off Brest. Lieutenant
C 4 lITNSW Ri.TNOLDS who so gallantly distinguish-
ed himself in the late affair in the West Indies, is the
son of Captain Re THOLDS, now of the DreadrestsoP.
This brave young officer was for a moment
over-
powered in a struggle with a French officer of supe-
rior strength, and tell ; when the Frenchman was on
the point of stabbing him through the body. At
this critical moment, his friend, Lieutenant Barr as-
WORTH, shat the Frenchman through the head with
a piste'. This appears to have been a most gallant
and daring anion; young Revsotos and a Scots-
man, were the two first that boarded the enemy.
They a'cended by a ladder suspended o-ter the cor-
'este': stern, and cleared the guarter-deck, while the
other boats boarded over the bows. When Lieute-
nant Rey Reims laid hold on the ladder, he offered
ten guineas to the first man that followed him, de-
claring he would lead the way ; " I'll be di---d if
you do, then," said the brave Scot. who sat in the
boat's bow, and instantly sprung before him. The
vessel was carried in a few minutes, and Lieutenant
ItRYWOLDS, who is recovered of his wounds, has
been made Master sod Commander on board the
Prise.