The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN lATELLIGENCE.

PARIS, APRIL 8.

The vessels from the West Indies which have en-
tered the Texel, have on board a great number of
pas,eagers, who have returned to enjoy in their na-
tive land considerable fortunes, the fruits of com-
merce and industry successfully exerted.in the West
India islands.
The monuments and other specimens of the arts,
which some time ago were sent off from Avignon
and Lyons, have arrived in safety at Paris.
L^tters from Mentz state, that official informa-
tion has been received that the intended visit of the
First Consul to that town, will take place within the
first fifteen days of Horeal.
The Municipal Council of Liege, agreeably to the
wishes of the inhabitants, has authorized the Mayor
of that town to employ whatever men he may juAtge
necessary to make the reception of the First Consul
as splendid and magnificent as possible. For two
months the gon-smtths of Liege have been employ-
ed in furnishing a musquet of the highest beauty,
to be presented to the First Consul.

APRIL 9.
The merchants of several of the great commercial
towns of ci-devant Belgium, particularly Brussels,
Antwerp, and Ghent, have determined to present
to the First Consul, during his visit to the reunited
departments, elaborate memorials pointing out the
means of improving different branches of commerce
and manufa6tures. It is not doubted that any plan
for the extension of public property, and the encou-
ragement of useful industry, will be favourably re-
ceived by the First Consul.
It is reported that a considerable deficit has been
found in the Imperial treasury of Venice. It is said
to amount to two millions. Several persons have
been arrested on strong suspicion.
From the •?.2a day of March to the sth instant,
eighteen packet-boats entered at ('alais, with a hun.
dred and ten passengers. During the same period
there have sailed from Calais for Dover, seventeen
English and French packet•boats, with ninety pas-
sengers and couriers.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

STLTGARD, MA3CIT C 9.
It is generally believed in Germany, that the oh-
jea of GeneralDuroc's journey to Berlin was not
merely •to get, assured of the dispositions of the
Court of Russia towards France, of which there
was no room to doubt, but to lay open to that
Power the present state of affairs between the French
and English Governments, and thus to give a new
proof to his Prussian Majesty of the value which
the Cabinet of the Thuilleries attaches to his
friendship and confidence. The First Consal
could not have made a better choice to accomplish
that objea, than of an officer already known by
toe important and delicate missions in which he has
been employed ; and mo►e especially by the pruit-nt
alai polite conclua which had acquired him at
the esteem of the Ministers and of the Court.
His short stay at Berlin gives room to suppose that"
he was only charged with amicable communica-
tiens.
It is probable that the Prussian Cabinet will an-
swer these friendly pn,ceedings on the port of
Erance, with new assurances that it will undertake
nothing ; nay, that it will admit of nothing on the
part of its friends, or its allies, that can f;tvout, in any
shape, the hostile views which England is manifest-
at the present moment, and which cannot be
formidable to France, it the Continent contents it-
self with. remaining. a simple speFtator of the dis-
putes that May subsist between the two rival na-
tions. Prussia, by her new access;-an of territory,
by her vicinity to France, whose States are contigu-
ous to those of Prussia, may ensure the tranquillity
s,f continental Europe; and no doubt the French
Government will not leave unimproved the, present
occasion to remind Prussia that she enjoys that glo-
rious privilege.
Placed between two great States, Russia and
Austria, Prussia has foreseen that a time might
come, when she would be obliged to present a
double front to her formidable neighbours. She
constantly Made France sensible of the necessity she

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was under of aggrandizing herself, and of connect-
ing herself more intimately with France, in order :n
be able to support herself until France could come
to her assistance ; and this is what the French Go-
yernr/Sent has accomplished by (lie new arrange-
ments relative to Germany, which enable the. twp
Powers to lend each other a mutual support. Fran:,
by means of Prussia, preserves the peace of the :son-
tinent ; and Prussia, by means of France, asserts
her.independence, and the rank she holds aniong the
great powers. Upon these principles is grounded
the tranquillity of the German erhpire ; and they
are so strikingly evident, that we are under no ap-
prehensions Aotit the result of the disputes which
seem at present to divide the two great maritime
nations cf Europe : we begin already to feel the be-
neficial effects of that policy, which tends to shut
oir England from every diseirsion in which the
Continent is interested, and to insulate her as com-
pletely in political matters, as she is insulated by her
geographical position. ~ •
In pursuance of this system, the Aa of Mediation
of the nineteen Sw,iss. Cantons has not been com-
municated to the English Government, who, in faft,
ought not to intermeddle in any shape in the af-
fairs of A state situated iu the centre of Europe.

NANra, APRIL 5.
letrn by the fi ifzate E!rypri Ear, which left
Port au Prince on the I Odt Phrviose, (Feb. 9,) that
several mulattoes, at the head of a nlmerous bddy
of blacks, have takin by wit-prise the quarters esta-
blished at L'Anse-a-vealt, set fire to the place, and
were guilty of some horrible cruelties. Gene: al Ro-
chambeau, with eighteen hundred troops, lately ar-
rived from France, and General l.aplume, with
twelve litindre !, marched to that neighbourlicod,
where they disperrottl the blacks with great slaugh-
ter. The mulattoes were taken prisoners. General
Rochambeau, having fixed his head quartets at Port
au Prince, has restored confidence in that. gunner.
The following letter, which is dated St. Maloes,
April 4, is addressed to the Editor of the journal
de Commerce ;-•-" Permit me, Sir, to anstVer, t.-rough
the medium of your journal, to an assertion made
in your paper of the first of this month. It is there
said that letters from St. Maloes, addressed to the
Editor of the Time:, announce, that there are as- ,
sembled in that port eighty gun-boats.
,g The flat-bottomed boats, which the author.of*.he
pretended letter alludes to, were here at the conch :-
sion of the last war, to the number of sixty. Tiltq-
were completely disarmed at the peace. It is
much above a month, as I have been previ.-tm:ty i:1-
formed, that of twenty, seven were employed in c;:tf-
rying materials and in completing the works in-
harbour of Cherbourg ; the crew and cargo of one,
of these vessels were lust. As to the activity of our-
armaments, it is agreed that it is as- astonishing od
our part, and that more than fifty vessels will pro-
bably sail in less than a month to make war—sn
frh If I salute you with consideration.
itOTTISR."

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BANAL, APRIL 13.
For several years past there !:as not beer., in this
city, such a concourse of foreigners P.S fur this
month back. Merchants of every naLi -n, English,
Dutch, Danes, Russians, tipaniards, ani a propor-
tional number of foreign sailors, seem to give to our
port anew existence. Havre is supposed to contain
at present, 35,0Z,50 scuts ; while its ordinary popu-
lation does not amount to two-thirds of that num-
ber.

COPENHAGEN, MAIICH 26:
The following intelligence is inserted in the
Commercial Gazette of this day
" According: to accounts received front Captain •
Kxsad, and trom his Majesty's Consul at Algiers,
them is room to hope that the disputes flint have
arisen from the arbitrary conduit of the Algerine
Government, and which might be considered as the
forerunner of hostile measures, may yet be ami-
cably adjusted. At all events, the frigate Freya
has received orders to proceed immediately to the
Mediterranean, and Captain Kxxcl is instruiftcd to
adopt the necessary measures for proteaing, as
far as he is able, the Danish ships now in that sea."

_VIEs:KA, MARCH 2:i.

The marriage of the Archduke Palatine with the
Princess of Baden, now at Petersburgh, will be ce-
lebrated at Cracow, where the Emperors of Russia
and Germany will meet on that occasion.
TURIN!, MARC!, 28.
A considerable train of artillery, and a number of
military waggons, have been sent f.nward to Alex-
andria. The law relative to the Conscripts is carry-
ing into effed with the utmost success in the six new
departments. A great number of-young men have
vohtnteered to serve in the colonies. A nu:n2roas
detachment of recruits for this d2stinatien was yes-
terday expdted at Turin. The whole detachment
was well armed and equipped.

GENOA, MAILCIi 20.

The Senate has issued a decree prohibiting all secrct
associations and meetings, unless they be authorized
by Government. Whosoever infringes this law, shall
be regarded as disturbers of the peace. The Chid
Magistrate is empowered to exile from the territory'
of the Republic, or to arrest, without being obliged
to bring them before 'any 'tribunal, all those Ano
transgress the law,. provided that the imprisonment.
is nut to last more than one year, or the exile mote
than two.

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THE DUTCH MAIL.

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MARCH 29.
General Duroc has just set out for Paris. He
is preceded by a courier, whom the Prussian .Go.
vernment dispatched the day before yesterday for
France. At the same time a Russian Lieutenant,
Mr. Holm, passed through this city on his way
from Paris to Petersburgh. The disputes that have
arisen between England anti Prance, vdlile they
occasion these diplomatic movements, must also
tend to hasten the compleat eonclusien of the long
continued discussions relative to the affairs of Ger-
many.
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rer.Aved a conittnrtichAt7en front the French Go-
vrroment, ii,:iniating that the latter had repre-
seined to the Curt of Vie.ta, the dderences ha.
twcen France awl r.nitlanA, as a !votive for accelv-
r sting the Imperial sannion of the Uetinitiee Ecso-
lution 'to he tat.int by the Diet of the Empire, in
favour of the Plan of Indemnity.

ROTTERDAM, APRIL 8.
We are as little enabled as before. to give our
readers any positive information on the subjea of
the iv-Tending hostilities. The French and Eng'ish
Papers, and the, rept.: ta every where circulated, arc
so contradiftory, that nothing certain can be Jedoced
from them. As one proof on the side of peace, we
have to observe, that the French• Funds have risen
more than t per cent. siace our last : but then, on
the other ham!, the marching of armies, and the
equipment of fleets, arc going on with undimiiiished
vigour. Great numbers of French troops seem also
to fr approaching the frontiers of this country 4, the
Commissary for whom is already arrived in the
Hague.
France is endeavouring to skit all the ports of the
Continent against the English in ease of a rupture ;
and it is thong!:' that war or peace depends on the
aaswer to be received by the First Consul from the
Court of Petersburg.
In this state of things, little is transuaing in com-
merce. On Inir Exchange to-day, prices continued
nearly as befere. Tobacco was net so brisk as last
week ; and coffee and sugar do not advance. Gin
Remains as noted in our last.
It was also ext..emely dell with our Funds to-day;
and the Rescriptions had f4len to ti 2 a 6'2; pr. 0.
• PARIS, APRIL 3.
The number of troops that are already on their
march, or that are in readiness to match, to rein-
force the army of Italy, amounts from 20 to 25,00 )
men. General Murat, brother in law of the First
Consul, is destined to have the command of all the
French troops which are to be distributed for :he
most part along the coasts of the extremity of the
kingdom of Naples to the Genoese territory. Several
Generals, celebrated for their plilitarr skill and va-
lour, are appointed to serve wider General Murat.
Orders have been also given to reinforce the garri-
son of the island of Elbe ; and there is a great talk
of sending a corps of 3000 men to Ancona, to aug-
ment the garrison of that place, in cutler to secure
a military point on the Adriatic sea.
In general a war witil England is considered as
unavoidable ; and we every moment expel news of
the commencement of hostilities. In the mean
time, hmvever, the negotiations are carrying on ;
tut the hope of an amicable accommodation is al-
most vanished The warlike preparations in our
sea-ports are going forward with an ardour beyond
example. The Admirals and other officers, who
are to have the command of our fleets, squadrons,
and numerous flotillas, are already selefted, although
their appointments are not yet publicly announced.
Tbus it is also as to the Generals and superior offi-
cers who are appointed to command the troops as-
semblino from Brest to the North Sea. We already
count alsont ?00 gun-sloops. flat-bottomed vessels,
and others of that natare, which are perfealy armed
and equipped.
The English and Russian Ambassadors have
lately held a conference in this city ; but the subject
is not knon n. When it was ended, both Ministers
dispatched couriers to their respefli:e Courts.
An officer of the Consider guard sat off on the
:40th ult. as courier to Madrid, with dispatches,
which are said to be of the greatest importance.
The day befere, a c9urier from our anibassajcir in
Spain had arrived. \Vc hear that three regiments
of infantry and one of dragoons, have been cm-
harked at Carthagena and Barcelona. to reinlbrce
tl.e garrison of Ntatorca.