The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-18 00:00:00

TILE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

All per.onsh.,..og my torOnets to trammel at the fib• :.• y
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that they and *Wed themselves directly sot solely to the
Minister of tit,' Fo.e,gat Department.
The o'al and acw regulations prescribe with strictness all per.
s OIS employed in this Office to desist from all dire t and indirect
communications with any Ismail who ha, any pfrilit: Or OBfcia I
affairs to neg.diate in this dcpa,tment.

They mast not see, except in the presence of the Mini:ter,
any agents, of whatever rank they may be, or in whatever man
seer they are accredited, either a: temporary or permanent pull
lic characters from foreign power., if not previously, in parti-
cular and specified circii.nstances, they do not rectire special
orders from the Ministzr.
They must not receive, either in private or at their office%
but according to such an order, persons entrusted with coin-
missions, and powers, either by their countrymen or by fu•
;elvers, and who, in consequence of these their commissions
and powers are obliged to apply at this Department. The
same prohibition is made with regard to all persons who have
any petitions to present.

Finally, they are prohibited from accepting any invitations
fron foreign el:ploinatic agent..., and still more from inviting
th,•m. And they must never answer any letter, the object of
which of a public or private intere.t rel..dive to their ',Lice
and duty. (Signed) CIL MAU. TALLF.IRASD
Parr, Nov. 30, 1804.

The corruption that reigns in ,all public offices in
France ever since the revolution almost exceeds
belief, even at Paris, where the members of 80x...-
PARTE% family are the first to bet anexample to sell
their protections and to pocket the bribes. From
the place of a perfed over a department to that of
a professor in a primary school, all is bought and
sold in the home department ; whilst, in the foreign,
TALLEVRAND has the same fixed land regulated
price for the office of an envoy as for the sovereignty
over a revolutionary kingdom, or principality. No-
thing is done at Paris but with money ; it procures
indemnities to princes, and it alone insures or pre-
vents the execution of treaties, as well as of con-
c3rdats ; and good letters of credit are therefore
more necessary for negotiators, conferring or trans-
Ading business with TA cxxv rArD, than letters of
credentials ; or rather, the latter avail nothing with-
out the former.

This barefaced and political immorality is another
consequence of that depraved system of the present
and former revolutionary tyrants, to subvert civi-
lised society, by making all other governments their
accomplices through fear of becoming their viLims.

A private lette; of the 3d instant, from our Ber-
lin Correspondent, states, " That in the course of
that week, BONAPARTE'S Emissary there, LA FO-
its r, had several and almost daily cunferences
with the Prussian Minister of State, Baron H•RocN-
itso, and had even twice been at Potsdam, and ob-
tained audiences with His Paussi AN MAJESTY ; at the
last of which, he laid before the K NG some pretend-
ed authentic and original papers, said to have been
found at Sir Geotos Russsoi.o's house, and which
a Courier arrived from Paris, the day before, brought
him. in these papers, report says, that not only
the policy of Austria and Prussia is blamed, in ra-
ther harsh and anti-diplomatic terms, but that some
•!oubt ha. been thrown out even on the sincerity of
is said that LA FOREST desired the
Pers.! ss MONARCH to permit his Ambas.ador at
St. Petersburg's to communicate these papers to
se Members of the Russian Cabinet, at the same
time vim a new plan for a reconciliation between
B im PARTE and ALEX/LS[3I:R the FIRST ; the fourth
pr •nted, within three months, by the Cabinet of
St. Cloud to that of Berlin. It is genera:ly believed
in the capital of Prussia, that the KING has de-
clined to interfere farther it. tm: differences, as a
mediator, between Russia ai.d Fiance, and that
His MAJESTY refused to make the desired com-
munication of Sir Giulio.: Romeo'. n's pipers, be-
cause they had been obtained in a violent manner,
contrary to the laws and customs of civili.ed nations,
and which was even an indirect insult to the protec-
tion, which His MAJLSTY, as a Member of the Cir-
cle of Lower Saxony, owed them, and the Agent,
to whom they were said to belong. Such is, at
least, at the Casino, and in the other political cir-
cles at Berlin, the report of the Kiwo's answer to
La Foai.sy's impertinent demand ; and, so judge
frost the sulky silence of this revolutionary &pin-
mate," onr Cnrrespondent says, "little doubt eanjse
entertained of the miscarriage of this Corsican ii.-
tripe, to Mjure and calumniate England "

The La Lair, frigate and Heron sloop of war, with
part of the fleet which sailed from Cork on the 7th
inst. Car the West Indies, put back on the 11th.
The deleOhi armed ship, with a fleet under convoy
(ahvnt 50 sail), are an ived in the Humber.
The don, ILLUSIs, and the Adrian. Saul:lows.
from Africa, for the West Indies, are captured and
carried into Gadaloupe.
Government is said to have received som• very
important information front a person who arrived
from France on Friday last.
It is confidently declared, that the Spanish Am-
bassador, the Chevalier IYA Novan A, has teethed
his passports, and is on the eve of departure from
this country. On the other hand, it is said that
His Excellency has not made preparations (or his
immediate return to Spain.
The letters from Torbay differ in their accounts
of Admir sl •:'.oerrwa LI t-'s Beet. One letter states,
that the whole fleet sa:fed on Saturday evening,
to resume its station off Brest ; another, that the
Wmelao, Castle sailed for Plymotrhs ard that three
other ships sailed also the same ever.%-g. but that
their destinatica nai not knovin.

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ROYAL FARB._

Sunday morning the RoYA,
Divine Service at St. Georgei
an excellent sermon preached
Bossy, from 7th Chapter of S
and 25th verses. After attendini
Rov AL FA KILN. took an Airing

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Yesterday morning His M
KEN r, and Princesses Sort' I A and t*...
airing on horseback in AVindsor Great
MA J EST and thc other Pa IN C IMES took :Wit,
Frogmore.
The RO V A L FAMILY attend Divine Service ercre
morning at nine o'clock, at the Chapei Ruyal,
WinJsor Castle.

Tel THE EDITOR.

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SlR—Upon reading in Tee Batns■ Plies* that the
Rowvis WWI dc!ighted with dm r:inesentatium of a 1.0111
at Wnominster, the following lines Crowe Grutami or, t.
my mild:—

Lingua/ in ipsii doctu Incurabirn,
poscit usus, ext•ati
Rept..4ti ad ants iude pruperatu. puur,
Ft instubiati, quicquid est
Cum lacte primo.

FAS I lIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Dawager Nbrchionesui DesiegAl from El,ga ,
to tiro.vonor•btrect.

The Comae's; of Galloway from I>urnFies, Scotla.l,!, t
her house in Charlus sheet, St Jains•square.
Lady John CamEbell from Tookeisharo, to Albeo.a
so eet.