The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-04-18 00:00:00

ROM THE. PARIS PAPERS.

P•Rti, APRIL 9.
The Imper;al Message upon the levy of the con-
scription of 1808. gives the most magnificent idea
of the power of France. It is difficult to add any
thing to the developement► which the report of his
Excellency the Minister of War contains. This
conscription may be looked upon only as a levy of
national guards taken from among the class the
fittest for military service; their organisation and
service will not differ from that of the national
guards, until they are called out to foreign service
at the usual age prescribed by the law.
Thus, after so many labours, so many difficulties
surmounted, and conquests completed, the French
army is more formidable than it had yet been. It
appears much superior to all obstacles, to all chances,
to all the combinations which the enemies of France
are able to assemble against her. Never were such
successes less deafly purchased. After these pro-
digies, there is, perhaps, less cause for being asto.
nished at the prudence of the genius who knows how
to 'terry eeee s even in the favours of fortune, than at
the generous moderation, whirl), looking upon
peace as the sweetest reward of its labours, is in-
capable of punishing nati•res for the cruel obsti-
nacy of their governments.
The enterprise of the English fleet against Con-
stantinople. appears to have completely miscarried.
Its effed must bereave the English of all hopes of
intimidating the Divan ; and perhaps it is happy
that the Porte has had this occasion of shewing, that
the forts of the Dardanelles are not the only bul-
was ks if the Ottoman Empire.
Whilst there reigns between France and her
Allies an admirable concert of ideas, means, and
'iterations, it is to be resew lord, that England, the
1)10'110w and soul of this fourth coalition, bears al-
ready about her the seeds which have brought on
the dissolution of the three first. The new Minis-
ters, the impotent remains of Pitt's fathom those
whose unsiultelness was unable to survive his fall,
can inspire neither sectoity in their fellow citizens.
nor cootie:fence in the Allies, whose hopes they have
so of ten ditAllioiuted.—(.l,VlB.)

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, Anil. 18,

Government, we understand, have received dis-
patches from America. confirming the account of
the rejtiftion of the Treaty recently n.igosiated with
this country, by the President and Senate of the
United Staes.

Three Hamm Mails arrived at a late hour last
night, with letters and papers from Altona and
Hamburgh, to the 11 th instant, being merely du-
plicates of those which, as we have already stated,
were receive] by Tat Gt oea yesterday.

Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived last morning,
and one at a late hour last night, with letters and
papers to the 11th. We also received Paris Papers
to the leth, and Dutch to the 14th inst. The Got-
tenburgh Papers contain nffi:ial intelligence, stating,
that the Fs ench have not only raised the siege of Strad.
sund, but have evacuated Swedish Pomerania. They
were hara►sed in their retreat by the Swedes, who
took 1000 prisoners. The French retreated by An.
clam and Demrnin, and are probably gone to re-
inforce the army on the Vistula. The raising of
the siege of Stralsund, was announced, yesterday,
by TMs Gtoac, on the authority of the klamburgh
Papers, which it received, eselislidely, to the 1 Ith ;
which also state, that no general attios had taken place
in Poland up to th. Si, on which day BOM AAAAAA 's
head-quarters were still at Osterode, and contain in-
telligence from C instantinople to March 13. stating,
that Admiral Ducewoa ER bad failed in his attempt
to reduce the Poats to submission. 'Tbe English
squadron is said to have lost 600 men, lolled,
wounded, and taken prisoners, in an attempt to land
upon lalati. The Faris and liaagiurett

Papers communicate a Message from Boma., alga
calling out the Conscription of the year lON.—
The erasure lately adopted in hngland, fur calling
out '200,000 men under ti.e Training An, is the al-
leged motive of this extraordinary proceeding ; but
the real cause is the great loss tile French Army has
ristained in Poland. The lowered tone of Bori 4 p 41T
furnishes farther evidence of the difficult;es of his
situation. He, who was to annihilate Ow Prussian
Monarchy, and to restore the Kingdom of Poland,
now offers peace to England and Russia upon the
same term; u before the war, and to restore to
th t King of PR USIA his capital, with iranquill::y
to his subjefts. The Message. and other docu-
ments relative to the Conscription, are given in the
last rage. The Paris Papers further state, that
Antwerp and Brest have been declar?d in a state of
siege, probably on account of same expeditions
fitting out in these ports. We have extrieted,
from The Awe. an article upon the change of
1 ministry in this country.

We have received Boston Papers to the 11th
last. They contain a notice, stating that the

Ame►ican Minister at Faris Las recei►ed a commu-
nication from eie Minister of the Ma:inc, on the
suljelf of the Decree of BO Nar A era, In: the block.
ade of England ; and that the provisions of r: De-
cree will not ba enforced againct the Americans.

The Primers* A strata packet arrived on Tuesday
at Falmouth, with mails from Messina, Malta, and
Gibraltar. in eleven days' passage from the latter
place. 1 he accnunts hrnaght by the mail state, that
the the Liss s.f which we mentioned in a rornier
Paper, blew up while lying at anchor, in the ntou'h
of the Dardanelles; she took fire abusat nine o'ci .:k
in the evening, and in 20 minutes blew up: aLro•i:
2:.0 of the crew unfortunately perished. asts...ig
whom are the Master, the Surgeon, two Lieu ‘na-
Captain of Marines, and eight Midshiprner.
was with Sir J. T. DUCKWORTH% squad-on„ whisat
have passed the Dardanelles without firing a shot.
A packet sailed from Gibraltar for Malta, en the
4th of March. The Corn=al/is arrived at Gibraltar.
and sailed for Malta on the 2d of April. An Es-
pecli:ion, supposed for Alexandria, sailed on the 6th
of March ; consisting of 29 transports, with 8000
troops on board, under convoy of His MA'S/Tell
ships Tigre, and frizird. His Ma.orsev's
ship Nautili, was coming with dispatches from Ad.
miral Louts, in the Dardanelles, when she r.n on
share in the night, on an uninhabited island. One
half of the crew took to their boats, and were fortu-
nately picked tip by a Russian frigate, ord c;.rried
into Corfu; the remainder (Capt. PALMER one of
them) were literally starved to death, there ; 'ins
no food whatever on the island.
PROM TN% UIBRALT•R CHRONICLE, M ASCII 21.
•' Ca;turert, and carried to Ceuta, ua the sth, the tnghth
schooner Crafty, commanded by Lieutenant Richard Spencer,
et the Royal Navy, from the Dardanelles, with Dig:vette, for
England, by S Spanish privateers. She was Isaarded with
so miich intrepility, that, nntwithvtandii,t her retiu mce, the
contest ...sever inlets than a quarto of an hour, which pre.
vented the dispatches being thrown overlinara of the
English, 3 killed and 14 wounded, the Commaoler being
among the latter.—Low of the captors, 4 killed and 9 wound-
ed ; the Captain of one.of the privateers being among the
farmer, and the Second in Command among the
potry.

A Swedish Messenger arrived, last night, with
dispatches from his Court. for the Swamis' Au-
enSLADOR in London, which were considered so im-
portant, that a packet was dispatched from Gotten-
burgh. for the purpose of bringing him over.
A Russian Messenger also arrived, last night.
with dispatches for the Russia's Au BASt•I3O a.
The Duke of Monfrose packet, with from
New To k, is arrived at Falmouth; the letters will
be delivered this day.
His Nina writ, we- understand, has signified to
the Suzettes of Lannon, that the defe& in his eyes
roidered it inconvenient to him to receive the Ad-
dress of the City, by the A hole Court, upon his
Throne, at St. James's. One of the Lords in wait-
ing hinted, that a deputation of twelve might be
eu.sciehr. The question' reload% it is said, will
be previously siotnitted to • Court of Commute
Council.
Lieut Doestes is appointed Naval Officer at the
Cape of Good Hope.
It was yesterday reported that Mr. CA s e IS• has
tendered his resignation, in consequence of an at-
, tempt to bring Viscount StEmou to Into the Ca-
' binet.
Lord Saatoaris Is going out Coverlet. of Per-
bice, in South America, and not Mr. CiAP*4 sr, as
has been erroneously stated in several p#ers.
Thursday, the Duke of Yost: transreed business
with Its MAJIIIITY, at Windscir, for upwards of two
hours.
The ballot, yesterday. at the East India House.
was respeAably a'tended ; and the question was car.
rued in !avow- of Mt. Rowse° EPHRAINI Pore's
return to Bengal, with his rank. in the Company's
service.
On Thursday a ballot was taken at t"e East ladia
House, when the unanimous resolutions of the
Ceurt of DiffiaOrS. salltlitiPe the Captains of the
Lady Buries,. Wirral eigdiev. And Lad of Aber.
geoenot, of any negiea or misconduct, in the kiss
of these vessels. were coafitmed.
Thursday Am. WOOD, we Larcashire pedestrian,
ran forty miles over t .e New.naiket he ,the in four
boors and fitty ,ix minutes t he was allowed five
hours.—Mr. Howoartt's I nurdt s won the sweep-
stakes, aa4 Mt. Fa.amaa's Hipposeses, the Kum'.