The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTE,

LIGENCE.

FROM THE FR LNCH PAPERS.

TAIIIS. OCT. tl.
Fanatics or impostors art wandering in different
parts of France. preaching the end of the world,
disediCting misfortunes, and printing and distributing
prophecies, containing the most ab.urd and terrible 1
tales, which agitate or terrify thy lower classes of
the people, who, from ignorance. are ready to catch
a' any thing surprising or miracuious. These
iti :sot prophets are particularly bray in Belgim,
in Fi hiders, in the ciairiAsajok!rmo Provinces 401
tbii side of the Rhine, and tg the gnat* delight.)
ments, where the inhabitantialere lesi 4tlightcneid;
and more superstks, than in other part. of France.
•It is said, that de incorrigible adherents to the des- '
perate cause of the Bourbons employ anektay with
British guineas these men, at phsopt iletrefel Chris-
tians, lig, in fad, scandalous and criminal hypo-
crites ; many of whom, ten years ago, were the
most intolerant atheists and cruel pivecutors of the
believers iu the Christian religion. prefea of
the department of Lys has carise,+. three of these -
false prophets to be taken up, who, upon examina-
tion, were found to have been members of revolu-
tionary committees in the reign of terror, thotigi
now loaded with scapularies, relicks, prayer-hooks,
legends of saints already departed, and pr.ipliejes
of persons ii:irty a life of saalfity, coaversing regu-
larly with the divinity as well as with the Virr.tin
Mary, and ail other inhabitants of b,aven. tiro great
1.,[ eras their popularity, and so numerous their ad.re-
rents, that the grit. d'arincs who arrested them. were
twice repulsed ; and, after they were carrrel into,
the prisons of Ghent, by their hypocritical cant they
seduced the gaoler, his wife, and tirrolciaildien. to
open the doors of their prison, and to Escape with
them. The police is now in sear...i- of them: and
will prolthly soon tliseoveralltn. They left he,

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pliecies, in the Flemish and French Lingo ges,
which they had received since their imp:is-to:tent,
as all their former papers are deposited at the po,
lice office. In one of these pretenJed prophecies is
foretold, that the next winter vial be the colJe:t ex-
perienced in Fr .nte since 171)9; that a general lA..
mine will desolate all the Continent ; and the, be-
fore the next spring, all the departments between
the Rhine and the Loire will be swallowed np
by an earthquake; whilst a plague will destroy
9V-100th parts of the people between the Loire,
the Alp,, and the Pyrenees. From this slvr t ,pe..
ciinen, ft easily seen that these terri'..ile prediaions
are the off,pring of the fertile br..itts of Briiisn
:leretics, or of agents in British pay. jrne • de

•I'he Emperor has ordered the Colonel of Engi-
neers, Villefoase, to draw a currea map of tne
whole Eledomte of Hanover ald the countries :rt
its vicinity. It will contain all the most advant t.
geous military positions in the event ill Continent.
al war, and plans for erefeng new fortresses,in case
Any attack from without shoull be apprehended.
The privateer, joirp.iiiir. of 44 guns, Fiving, 34
' guns, and Mua'arie Murat, of 32 guns, sailed fr,•rn
Bourdeauz near a month ago, and as nothing :.as
been heard of them since, they are supposed uN be
de.tinrd for the East Indies. It is said, that the
Empress and their Imperial Highnesses, Princesys
.Louis and Murat, have each a two-third sham. ;it
each privateer, called After them, and that they hAra
generously determined to give the who amount of
their shares in the prize-money to charitable institu-
, lions. •

A vessel, with French Colorists from St. Do.
last from Cuba, has arrived at Nantes, After
a passage of fifty days. These unfortu tate •Ittre...
era from Dessalines's cruelties st.tte, that the affairs
of this barbarian are in the mast desperate s:ta-
ation; barks made another attempt upon the City
of St, Domingo; but, being repuised with the I,st
of 3,000 men, the remainder of his trolps b .c.trzte
mutinous, and left him to join Christophe, whose
popuLirity and army daily encrease. They considep
the latter as ferocious as Dessalines, hut abLr, more
ambitious, and a greater hypocrite l'o en.:nurage
desertion from his rival, he has instituted his owt
order of a Legion 11 Huieir, with which he has
promised to decorate every deserter who joins him
before the lit of Ottober ; -as la his conauti with
the whites of foreign nations he is more political
and less savage, than Dessalines ; it is believed, that
ne is secretly supported, in his usurpation, by the
English and Americans, whose frien.!ship he seems
particularly to court. Since the late vigorous mea.
~oct of rap Captain-General of Guadeloupe, *Wag

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. declare all American, or other neutral ships, trailing
with the relocls at Domingo, good prices, the Eng-
lish, ender the escort of their men of war, are almost
the only nation who carry provisions or succours to
the blacks, and trade with them. Api ivauser from
Gnadeloupe captured lately a pirate vessel with ne-
- gioes from St. Domingo, the Commander of which
Wore the order of Dessalines's Legion of lirnuer. Be-
fore the pirates perished in the flames, the Captain
Gvneralordered the public executioner to destroy and
. bur, under thekeyes, this impertinent :mil infamous
order of decoration. Such was, however, the lama-
tt..isrn of these wretches, that, though tied to the
stake, they never ceased to abuse the Emperor of
the. French, and to exclaim Vice Dessnline, !—( La
fruille Narstat‘e.)
It is reported that M. Dc Vaudreuille, our Charge
d'itiroires to t:;e Court of Madrid, has received orders
from the Emperor, to notify, that his Majesty
should see Wth pleasure, all differences between
his Catholic Majesty, and the United States of
America, anon and amicably settled. Little doubt
exists but, that before now, the limits between
Louisiana and Spanish Florid?, would have been
arranged, had not Nisish geed and intrigues in-
fluenced the caaltr.'il of one, it not both parties.—
(Le Clf da CaNnet j . •
The Negro battalion in garrison at Mantua con-
sists of 800 men. They conduit themselves with
great propriety, but as they will not receive any
recruits, ti-eiraiumber diminishes daily. Even among
these men, in that distance from Great Britain,
English emissaries have penetrated. Within four
weeks, upwards of sixty negroes have deserted into
the Aust: ian territory, where English ships are ready
at Venice to receive them General Jourdan has
written to Count De Bcllegarde, tl-e Austrian Com-
mander in the il devant Venetiau States ; hut as no
cartel for the exchange of French and Austrian
deserters exists, no redress has been given. The
Governor of Mantna, General Marconi, caused.
however, on the 12th inst. five negroes respected of
intending to desert, and holding seditious conver-
sations, to he immediately shot on the ramparts of
the citadel. This SUMMARY justice, it is to be
hoped, will restore or,ier in this corps, which, report
says, as a punishment, is ordered by the Emperor
to do garrison duty in some part of the cold and
inhospitable region* of the Alps.
The Turkish Ambaiiador here has, within these
lart eight days, been made a Free Mason, and has
become one of the most :alive and industrious mem-
bers of this society. We may not despair of seeing,
at a period not fair distant, the Grand Signor, the
Grand Vizier, and the Captain Pacha, instruaed in
the secrets of Free Masonry, enlightened by their
drniners and fellow labourers. As to the Mufti, we
acknowledge that we have not the same hope wail
we can he able. to aed a nee chapter tat the Also-
tan, proving that Mahrarra was a Grand Master
of the Free Masons, as are, as a Ihopher...._(,hurair
de i',..r),.)

Deputations from the armies and from the garri-
sons of Brest, Bourdeaux, Mat seines, and of ci-
ties, have already art ived here, to assist nt the Em-
peror's Coron aims. The Emperor his graciously
perinitted the goarls of honou& rf dol.:sent cities
through which he has passed, to send deputies here,
'to be present at the .ame ceremony. Each military
person, who art iros here in the quality of a deputy,
receives, during his stay. five hwy..% (foiti ssillntgs
and two pats) a shy, from the Emperar'speirate
purse.

Two more Spanish ships, with twenty millions of
dollars on board, are on their way from the liavan-
fah to Smite

Mossiest. Solm. rt-rlestrel Prince Salm, and Au-
=tts us Talleyvand, the Minister's nephew, are ap-
p anted Chamberlains to the Emperor.
The rich bapking house at Leghorn, under the
firm of Nicola Maria Sassi, has stopped pay.
*sent. It has failed for fourteen millions of livres
(580,0).;1.), of which more than the half is due to
merchants and manufafturers at Lyons, who are
cr:-.lt sufferers, and many of whom will, from this
occurrence, be reduced to the necessity of be-
coming bankrupts themselves.
Several divisions of the army on the coast will
eh mge their po.itions ; but there is no truth in the
cepqrt, that the camps will break up, and the
troops march into Winter quarters. They will visit
England before they steep under any thing else
bat canvass.
It was yesterday reported, that the EmpetOr had
again set out for the coast; but, upon tnquity, we
found that his blajesty was still at St. Cloud,
though little doubt remains, bnt that such a jour-
they will be undertaken, particularly as the corona-
tion is postponed. The rumour is again common,
that the expedition against England wall sail before
that period.
Vice•Admiul Villeneuve has left Rochefort for

Toning, where he is appointeJ Conimancer in
Chief. Vice-Admiral Miss'►si has sit.:..ceded him
as a Commander of tiie smail squadron at 12 o.:st..fort.
Ths chapel of the Chateau 7t. Les. in the beau-
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tiful valley of Montmorenci, has lately been conse
crated by the Bishop of Versailles, for the use of
their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis
Bonaparte, the present owner., of this chateau.

According to the registers of the police, fifteen
thousand two hundred foreigners, and eighty-four
thousand nine hundred Frenchmen from the de-
partments, are already arrived here, to witness the
coronatior festivities. Lodgings have, in conse-
quence, already risen in price three hundred per
cent.