The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-29 00:00:00

taint THE PARIS PAPERS

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P A It 15, r.
It is said that the Emperor, on the day of has Co-
'onation, gn.cio.isly intends to estsit:ish several

grand and charitable institutions, which will eter-
nise this happy and memorable era of our history,
imd make his Majesty as much revered by future
ages, an he is admired and beloved in the present.
At both extremities of the capital of his extensive
dominions, at the 'Bois de Boulogne on one side,
and in the wood of Vincennes on the other side,
his Majesty will lay the foundation, on the
day of his Coronation, of two extensive build-
ings, called lisp int Napoleon Hospitals, where 10,000
persons of both sexes, widows, orphans, wounded
military persons, or decayed civil public fanctio-
ries and their children, will find a comfortable re-
treat ; where youth will be educated and instrueted,
infirmities relieved, age suppotted, and the sex pro-
teded. The Imperial Naparota Hospital of the Bois
de Boulogne will contain females, whose parents or
relatives have served, suffered, or perished, in the
cause of the Revolution; the Imperial Plopdcon
Hospital of the wood of Vincennes is destined for
persons of the other sex, having the same claims
from the same cause. All boys there will be edu-
cated for the Army, and promoted, when past fif-
teen, to the rank of officers, in preference to other
competitors s, all girls, when at the same age, may
e!ioose their husbands, and will ohtain a marriage
portion of 3000 hetes (1251.). That aged persons
may be amused, as will as relieved, three times in
the week the players of the Emperor will represent
some pieces in the Hospital of Bois de Boulogne, and
those of her Majesty the Empress in that of the wood
of Vincennes. Twice in the yearnrizcs of industry and
,rds of virtue will be distributed, and the Emperor,
the Empress, or some Members of the august Impe-
rial family. will be pt esent on these occasions. A Mu-
seum and a I.:iceura w: al be formed in each of these
• Hospitals, which will be joined by spacious gardens,

laid out in the most elegant manner, so as to serve
equally for the amusement of youth, and for a place
of meditation for old age, and for exercise for
both. These gardens will be decorated with stied
statues of the numerous rend men produced by the
Revolution ; and sculptors and statuaries are already
engaged to finish these works in a manner worthy of
the donor, and the place for which they are intended.
In each of the I lospitals will be built a grand Impe-
rial Chapel, where the Catholic worship will be ere&
vire fy celebrated by the imrrial dimmers or chap-
lains. A highly finished drawing, from the pencil of
Garnier the younger, delineating these proje.led Im-
perial Napoleon Hospitals, with their gardens, and
containing short notes, with explanations, &c. has
been presented for, and obtained the Emperor's gra-
• apptobation. 'lbis drawing is now hung up
in the Museum Josephine, and amateurs, as well as
• by applying to the General Direltor, Delon,
fibt.i;., permission to see it, and to deliver their de-
sert. AO...as or ctitiques. Many think that the
numerous arrangements necessary for the Em-
perm's coronation in the capital will, from
want of time and bands, oblige his Majesty to
postpone the ceremony of laying the foundation for
these his f!rnstd and noble establishments, for some
.tune, and perhaps to the 20th of next May, the anni-
versary of his Majesty's proclamation, as an Empe-
ror of the French. The expences foe building and
supporting these hospitals, require a capital of one
hundred millions of livres (four millions sterling),
which his Majesty will take entirely from his/a/sate
purse. ASe nal at Considers will convert this grand
donation of the chief pf the Bonaparte dynasty into
a national as well as Imperial institution, and by it
put its future support and continuance under the
protoftion of the gelwrosity and konour of the Great
Nation. (Cow ier des Spectacles.)

THE* BRITISH PRESS,

LON DON,
MONDAY, OCTUSZY 29.

The Gazette of Satin-day night contains an ac-
count of the loss of the Ce 4 a gun•brig upon the
Flemish coast. The Co/Ad, is company with the
Cruiser. and five other gun-brigs, attacked a squa-
dron of the enemy, consisting of two praams and
eighteen schuyts, which attempted, on the evening
of the 23J, to run from Ostend to the westward.
The engagement continued frum a quarter past five
to half past six. Unfortunately, in her zeal to
close with the enemy, the Cerffict took the
ground, and the tide leaving her rapidly, every
endeavour to get afloat proved ineffetual. In
this situation her crew were obliged to abandon
her, and an attempt was afterwards made to regain
or destroy her, but without success, as the enemy
bad taken possession of her in the mean time, and
dragged her up upon the beach, out of the reach of
cur boats. In this engairrnent we had one seaman

killed, one lienteAant, 9 seamen, and.one marine
wooodee The loss of the enemy most have been
considerable, as their fire was entirely silenced.

The Casette also contains an accountofan engage-
ment between an English squadron, consisting of the
bviortalde, the Oevarvo, and Basilisk, and a division of
the enemy, consisting of three pt aams, seven b:igs,
and fifteen loggers. This engagement took place
off Cape Gristtez. It was a running fight, in which
the shallowness of the water prevented our ships
from closing efre,clually with the enemy, so as to
destroy them, or prevent their passage into Bou-
logne. The loss of the enemy must have been wry
great, as our grape shot completely covered them.
We had four seamen killed, one lieutenant and seven
seamen wounded.

We have received some of the small Paris Papers
as usual, crelassicely. They are not of a later date
than the 2lst ; but they contain some curious par-
ticulars.

A letter from a neutral diplomatic agent at Paris
states, that before the Russian Ambassador, D'Oo.
salt, left Mentz, he received the ultimatum of Bon A-
PARTE from M. TALLEY BAND. In this State Pa-
per Bon AAAAA offers :
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Is!. To indemnify 11w King of Sardinia with the whole of
Tor any, and a part of the Duchy of Parma to proclaim Ivni
Mug of Etruria ; and to make the young King of Etruria Ling
of Sardinia, which Wand is to be ceded to hint.

2sily. To evacuate. Hanover, upon condition that this Fier-
torate shall be occdpied by Prussian troops, during the present
war; that the same restrictions against British goods shall be
continued u they now exist ; and that Hanover shall pay an
annual sum of half a million of dollars to France, until the
conclusion of a Peace with England.
Silly. That the general affairs of Italy, the occupation of
the Kingdom of Naples and the Seven Mantis, shall be sego.
rated at a Congress, to be composed of Ministers from France,
Rus.,l„ Austria, Prussia, and Spain.

♦thly. That the Congrew shall be vetted with powers to
¢cule all th deinaielt of the several German Pf 1021,, 314
make for that putpose new territorial arrangements, and grant
new indemnities.

bthly. That Switzerland and 111.,11and shall remain in stuns
qua until a peace with England, viten their entire iudepand•
mace shall be currantod to by France, and respected In future.

Such are the terms as reported in the diplom!ttic
circles at Paris, which BON A r•aTE has consented to
grant to the demands of Russia. As the paci:ic tem-
per of tLe Emperor ALL:ANDER is well known, this
condescension has caused the late rise in the French
funds, it being the general opinion that these terms
will be accepted, and that a Continental War will
not take p6ce for some time.

Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock. Mr.
Dessss a, the Messenger, was sent off with dis-
patches to the Court of Petersburgh.
The Glory is arrived at Portsmouth, and Sir
JOHN Ones will immediately hoist his flag in her,
to proceed on a partieular service.
The whole of the Channel fleet is arrived off
Ushant and Brest, refreshed and recruited by their
stay in Torbay, during the late westerly gales.
'Ow Garrison of Gibraltar, by letters vi the 4-.11
inst. is stated to be in a fair way of becoming u
healthy as usual.
Orders, we understand, have been issued to the
Barrack Board immediately to provide transports for
25,030 men. in order to their being stationed on the
coast during the winter.
The Aro sloop of war, with a convoy from the
eastward, arrived on Friday at Plymouth.
The Resolution. SY ass, from Jamaica, for Loss.
don, was captured on the' d inst. by the la Breisr
French privateer ; retaken on the 9th by the I.l*-
mond frigate, and is arrived at Plymouth.

Thr 4ene;al Mumma privateer, 'of 2,5 tom' ( r-
mei If a Raw:Tate plrasure boat), sailed from ILl-
voet, the 22,1 inst. on a cruise.
'the Yew, inrushes, and the I.theetti, Jon SOON,
bound to London, were left in the Eyder on the
2lst Odober, the former basing broke her windlas,
and the latter supposed to be on shore.
The gam eel Thomas, Cur mirsns, from Got-
tenburg, for Perth, foundered at sea oo the :)th in-
stant t crew saved.

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The Anna %lone, !Use, fmm Stettin, fur Loa.
don. is wr-eketi on the coast of Jutland.

The Officers for the CAM and custody of Prisoners
of War have receives! information from Captait:
Bastivon. who aged as Agent for the Eug};lis•i Yti
soners at Verdun, that the remittances front this
Country, which were made for their use thmugh
the House of Pal no•ct. have been ordered by the
French Government to be discontinu,d.

Yesterday !tanning, about 100 I lanovcrian troops
marched through Pimlico, on their way to Lyming•
ton. About the same time, nearly the rime num-
ber, who are disab6l, rased through in caravans.
The Yeomanry Officers of the City of Dublip,
waited on His Eseeileney the Loa L! LUT IsSi A 1 •
at the Castle on the :11s1, according to in itruaions, o.
receive the regulations, for brigadir.g and disciplin-
ing the Yeomanry Corps of that metropolis.
A paper or yesterday says,—" Orders have been
issued to the Commanders of all our crithers on the
French, Flemish, and Dut,th coasts, not to incur
danger to their vessels, with a view to prevent the
assembling of the enemy's flotilla, hot rather to
allow their uninterrupted passage alon.; their coast,
unless under circumstances of strong probable ad-
vantage."
Letters from l'onquin state that coast to have
been lately visited by a hurricane, more violent and
destruetive than was ever remembered in that quar-
ter. Upwards of twenty native vessels foundered
in the Bay, and b.tween fifty and sixty were dashed
to pieces on the shore. The c,:ast for many miles
VMS strewed with dead bodies and fragments of
wreck. Several villages have been totally destroyed.
Upwards of twenty thousand persons arc stated to
h.tve perished on the occasion.