The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-01-07 00:00:00

MOM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

COPIIN HAGEN. DEC. IS.
Among the pr.z-s which our crnuet• are deify
Nisi in, there envied one yesterday e% ening in

arbour, o hieh has penis; oaed ant Crown Prince
to perillinin a.gratftfill sal
ens of the two prises kotelt, in by 'Sur ctuiser;
the IStig. Padilla, had on board the English Arr
honsodee birliektik ow his return from Memel,
where the King of Prussia this just tefused to re-
ceive him. As soon as the Crown Primer woo in-

formed of this, he instantly ordered that a vessel
should be prepared to convey JIM' Centleumn
(whore holland** -;eentiuet during 'his' embassy
justly gained him the esteem of the (:overnment
and the public), with his sertunts, and of Irvin
the prizeeship to the Swedish harbour of nelaiug-
borg. This was curried into etkit immediate!),
and the Minister is already arrived there.
The patriotic gifts and offerings for the laud-
service continue ; and a second Report of the..
Commission respecting Naval Affairs announces;
considershle contributions toward:: a new fleet.--1
Further, the magazines of corn and other pmvisioni
handed in Zealand are sufficient to maintain that
islaad more than two years.

VIENW&, DEC. 16.

On the 11th inst. the French gatru.sin of Bran-
nan marelasl out of the fortress, and possession
was tinkers of it on the part of the Austrians.
Yesterday, the Diet of I langary was to be dosed,
yet it is thought that the sittings will Luntinue,
some time longer ; but the Emperor is to return Si
the ttlet inst. The Diet has deemed, iii support
of the royal, finances, a grant of are per cent. on
all income, and one per cent, on all immoveable
property. There are Magnates in liunga.-y, who,
in consequence of this new taxi will have to. pay
:200,000 florins. Prince Esterlusgy wilt hare to
pay upwards of double that sum.
FRANKFORT, DF,I. 21.
The Russian prisoners or war, who, through tilt
generosity of the Emperor Napoleon, are 110 W re-
turning from France to their native country, have
in part pivseil through our city. It has been oh-
served, that their'iendence in France has bad a
beneficial effect upon the conduct of the 011icers
towards those who are placed under their authority,
which is much lees severe than it formerly was.—
' The well-known Russian joviality has been thus
-increased, while military discipline does not seem
to have suffered from One more Immune treatment.
NVe hear the soldiers incessantly sin'ing their
tuitional songs to the tambour. 'Me inhabitants,'
in whose hoases they have been quarteved, speak
favourably of their conduct. They are to march
to the Russian frontier, not in the usual military
route through Thuringen, but, more to the south,
I through Franconia.

DEC. ,23.

Yesterday. M. Schwinine, Russian Serrctuire
Interprete in the Foreign D,Fatiment, passed
through this city in his way to St. Petersburgh.—
The Russian Admiral Siniavin had dispatched him
from Lisbon on the 2tith of November, after that
the fleet under his command, consisting of 13
ships of the line and 5 frigates, had entered the
Tagus. Since, on the aoth of November, General
JUIIOt entered Lisbon at the head of Juno troops,
no means are wanting of effectually &feuding the
town and harbour from all hostile Knacks, by oc-
cupying the batteries at the mouth of the Tagus.
DORSTEX, DEC. 94.
Yesterday *detachment of French custom-house
officers (dowauiers) pursued their march from this
place. They come from the left Bank of the
Rhine, and are going to the Bank-. of the Elbe.
For several weeks maull detachments are daily '
passing through this place on their return to
Frauce.
TRIIISTR. DEC. 3.
Dining the last week a ship laden for Messina
was set on fire, through the carelessness of a sailor.
It had hemp, linen, and cloth on board, and also
three barrel, of powder, which were increased by
the public apprehension to thirty. In consequence
of this, the greater number of people, fearing a ca-
lamity like that at Leyden, ran out of the town,
and butt few persons ventured to attempt extin-
guishing the Hamm; happily some courageous
sailors succeeded in throwing the powder over-
board, and sinking the vessel.
FSOII TEE. FRONTIERS OF TIVIKEY. DEC. 3.
If we may credit the reports from Servia, which,
however, as experience has taught us, ;,re neither
certain nor accurate, that country. will moil receive
a fixed Constitution. It is announced from Bel-
grade, that the Counsellor of State Itodotinikin re-
ceived on the pith and 20111 of the last Month, two
Couriers, with 'important-dispatches from the head-
quarters at Bucharest. It is even asserted, that
one of these Couriers has brought the new consti-
tution of Setvia. In pursuance of this Constitu-
tion, the Assembly, hitherto known by the name
of the " Synod of Sercians," is ni assume the title
of Senate, and be transferred front Memendrin to
Belgrade.
On occasion of the turn which affairs are t Acing
in Semi*, and the consequence which the Merriam
General Czerni Georges will probably retain, the
public papers mention the cause which first in-
dneed this brave man to put biinself at the head of
his discontented countrymen. At the time when
the mutinous Janissaries of Behrnide, by their acts
of violence and murder, filled the whole district
with despair, one of their troops entered the vil-
lage Renienika, in order to assassinate one of its
richest inhabitants. This was George Petrowita,
surnamed Csemi, or the Black. This since .so
celebrated Servian, seeing his house etivimhed,
rushed out, armed with a tirelock, a sabre. and two
pistols. With the Brat shot he Levelled two of the
Janissaries to the ground, with his sabre he dis-
patched several others. and succeeded in fighting
her way to a neighbouring forest. lirre he was met
by another fugitive,Stanoch Slavin+, famous for his
extraordinary valour. Two or three hundred of the
Christian inhabitants, who were roving the woods
and forests, without any dwelling, collected around
these two chieftains. A corps of on men, sent to
disperse them, aims defeated and driven away by
Crenii Georges, with only, on men, This first good
fortune was the signal of an itiliverro: insurrection.
The Servians made themselves masters of some
pa/mikes, or intrenched places. The Turkish
Generals who remained faithial to the Porte, se-
cretly aided the Merriam% furnishing them with ar-
tillery against the enrnmnit enemy, Paswan Oglou.
Mcli was the origin of the Servian insurrection,
ich has arisen to so nlariiiiiig an height in so
short *time. 'zersii Georges is represented to be
a very honest and brine man, yet void of military

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, JAL 7.

The Anstrisn Messenger, the Count DE MIER:
who arrived on Tuesday se'llitight in a Flag of
Truce, with dispatches from the Austrian Minister
at Paris, we understand, expected to receive his
final instructions last night, and to set off
this morning on his reran to that city The.
Count DE MIER is Secretary to the Aus-1
trian Embassy at Paris, which is the point fro&
which he s.arted, and to which he now returns. A
Cabinet Council sat for a c'Onsidenible time on ,
Tuesday morning, at which those who think a ne-
gotiation is carrying on by England and France,
through the medium of the Austrian Minister at
Paris, will conclude the answer which the Count
Da Mixt brings back was taken into consideration,
and forms part of the dispatches with which he is
charged. No newspaper is, we believe, competent
to speak with confidence respecting the matter of the
correspondence which has so long subsisted between
the two countries by flags of truce ; but for our own
part we are free to confess, that the more we con-
sider the subject, the more we are inclined to be-
lieve that the French Government would.uot have
tolerated this correspondence, if it were not di-
rectly or indirectly interested in it. The eager-
ness and positiveness with which the Ministerial
Prints oppose every such inference and suggestion,
ought not in the lewd to influence public opinion
on the question. They !wive repeatedly asserted,
that the correspondence related to a request of
leave for the Princess Svaltaamatao to come to
Enttland, through France, an assertion stowed
to be quite absurd and ridiculous.

• TAe Bombay Courier of July t 5, 1807, say*—
" A number of passengers from Tranquebar, lately
prisoners of war at the Iri of France, have. Arrived

at Bengal. When they left the Mauritius the
island was suffering severely from the want of pro-
visions. The number of armed men upon the
island did not exceed 12u0 ; of these three-fourths
were disorderly undisciplined rabble ; the only re-
.gular troops being the Governor-General's body
guard, represented as a very fine corps of men.
but nut exceeding three sir 400. Front this at tuel
state of the island, suffering under the calamities
of famine, and destitute of the mews of defence,
no period could be inure tivoumble than the pre-
sent for an enterprise against the colony, which
would probably surrender to a British force, without
firing a gun."

We understand that Governinent has no idettof
evacuating Sicily, and tic:. the present naval and
military force upon that station is considered per-
fectly competent to its defence. From this, how-
ever, it does not necessarily follow, that, previous to
the departure of General Mooac, there was a sit-
perneineniry force on that Island. The troops
which have returned with him were not all station-
ed there, and fresh supplies have been sent from
Malta to replace such of them a. have been with-
drawn from Sicily. We staki in a former Paper,
that the return of this force required explana-
tion, and that a report prevailed, that it originated
in mistake. A Ministerial Paper accounts for it in
the following manner :—k says, ,se When Sir Joey
Moottc left Sicily, in October, the events which
have happened in Portugal could not have been
foreseen. Ile had a moat unusually long voyage
to the Streights, and finding that the great purpobe
of getting the Portuguese fleet out of the Tagus,
was effected amicably before he arrived, what had he
to do , being so far on his way, but to bring his
little army back to England, to be employed as
oceit.ion might require ? Whatever may be the
service for which General SPP.MCF.R was destined, it
is obvious that much time might have been lost,
if we had trusted to orders reaching Sir Jona
Moore, to the same effect ; not to mention the
inconvenience of giving nothing but arritica in-
structions."

We have received some more French and Dutch
papers, but none of a later date than tto+e from
wilmh we made extracts on Monday and yesterday,

The Dutch papers state, Mr. Gaaticat, our late
Millister to the Court of Copenhag ‘,. , and ‘O,O
was removed f,ota that situation immediately be.
fore the rupture with this country, was lately
taken on board the Pasting, on his rettira
to England, and carried into Copenhagen.--
The Cuowri PRINCE, as a mark of his persriad
esteem, in consequence• of his conduct during his
residence at the Danish Court, immediately set
him at liberty, and sent him to lielsingborg, its
Sweden, to enable him to take his passage home.
Thus his natural greatness of mind appears in this
instance to have triumphed over the re,entrnent eak-
tertained by the Caowx PRINCE against this coun-
try. Brannan has been, at length, resto.ed to
Austria, which power is proceeding regularly in its
pacific system. Except some details respectingtb,
state of Aims in Serria, the Dutch papers orutAin
nothing else ofany interest. •
Au article from Vienna, in the Paris papers, states,
that Austria has made common cause with Franca
against us ; that she has at length discovered the
necessity of putting an end to British despotism;
and that her Ambassador has been recalled Irma
the British Court. This is not new. It was long
since announced in the Mweiteur, and noticed in
this Paper. The Austrian Minister, however,
still remains at our Court, and we have not yet
he:•:d that he has demanded his pe*ports.

The late meetings in Yorkshire and Lanca-
shire, in favour of peace, and these of a similar
description to come, appear to have given some
uneasiness to Ministers. Some time his elapsed
since the Treasury Journals announced a meeting
in the City of London, ibr the purpose of coun-
teracting these pacific movements ; but the City of
London has not yet taken the hint. The City of
Glasgow, under the auspices of Lord Mt Lvt t.t.r„
appears to understand these things better, as
we find by the following Notice, which we have
copied from the Glasgow Paper:—
" is consequence of an aitydication from a esenblerabk num-
ber of respectable Geatleinen, I vegan* a Meeting of the
Merchants aad Manufactories of We City, in the Town-ion.
on Thursday-next, at one o'clock, p.w. for the repose of
we/Sayre% We propriety of enamel* to His kleoely, et
this important miser, their firm determination ,to seppikm,
by every means Work power, hie jest vies awl Ass h-
ien:it% of the BOMA Reasthre, and et Visreeme the Se sow
gratelme His Waiest en the vigeroos awl milireline dela-
duct which has bees porseedia Ns gesompiles Otis War,
and upon the brilliant Voceemes WSW which time energetic
tseueasea have so happily barn criteneds• 1119tritirairdind Lis
anon coatederacim which have berm lermad ageing us.
" MACKEINIZIE, Lied Pitivost."
Glasgow, Jan. a, woe." •

Colonel 1101‘Caint, of the East India C6IIIPO3'S
service, has, %Akin these few slays, irrrived in town
from India. He intended ro come over-laad, and was
eliiirged with a mission to the King of Pinata, but
on his arrival at Bagdat, he was stopped, and us-
formed that he could not proceed further. lifion
inquiring the cause, he learned that the Persian
camp, which Was honoured with the presence of the
Pana,ts Nftsaacit, was in the neighbourhood.
He observed, that it was a fortunate eireuinstanee, as
he had business with His MAJESTY. He was then
told that no foreigners could be received there, un-
less they had previously visited the. Persian capital,
and brought certificates from it to entitle them
to admission. To the Persian capital. Colonel
M‘C Aan accordingly' went, and having there ex.
plained the nature and. object of his usiesion, he
returned to the Cauip, provided with the ne-
cessary passport., and obtained admission.—On
his arrival, he learned that a French Embassy
had been with the PiLSIAN MONARCH at the
Camp, that he had concluded a peace with all his
enemies, and entered into a strict and close alliance
with France. Under these circumstances, lie was
refused an audience in the moat positive terms, and
returned to Bagdat without having accomplished
the object of his mission; but there he was not
suffered to stop, or to prosecute his journey from it
by the usual way ; he was obliged to take a new
route, and explore a new passage : He erinned
the Caspian Sea, entered the territories of Rus-
sia, and came to England last from Sweden.—
Having cleared Europe, a well-provided French
army, this Gentleman thinks, might niarch to India,
without encountering any extraordinary difficulty,
except one desert, and this he conceives might be
passed upon camels, in three or four days. This
account has been communicated to us upon most
respectable authority, but not having seen the
Gentleman who has arrived from India, we cannot
vouch for its correctness. If we attach much ina-

portinice to it, it is because we feel st this moment
a inure than ordinary anxiety for our possessions in
India. A few years only have elapsed since
ae were assured. that next to the conquest of
England, Egypt said India were the primary
objects of BONAPA RTlfl/ ambition ; that he thought
le nothing else by day, and dreamed only of them
by night.. 'llstikstas the fruiting and the language
of Lord ..%lELvist.l, when Mr. I):.:Nnat, a #.14t,....

man of great exp,r
and whose opinion i
weight with the pi
French arms and
these beloved obj
increasing the fears
We see BONAPART
Austria, ititzsia, and
tiuent of Europe at
designs in India
31ilsn, a point frc
to direct the operatic
and hope grows 1
India is uow unacco
yowl the reach of B
moon ; and the T,
attempt of the late 1
Egypt against him,
levity as they wot
cloud between Bow
stars or the planets.

We stated, yestc
bad. returaed to Pal
the alleied cause, I
is, we fear, withou
'us

Yesterday a Cm
East-India House
sett, Wilt WOW it
Lord Keith, eens4
The Cuurt adjour►
Admiral Clatinw
he succeeded in th
by Vice-Admiral
the Ilan. Bear-Ad
in command.
General MTRAS
understand that I

practicability of s
but whether such
port of His MAJJ
tend to know.

It is wind that
port, which forme
the command of S
damage, they will

time.

Th^ Au.tta,(
t tto liataagate, w
The Adelaide,
c tptared oW Dovv.
Last ai4ht, a
non-re. tent Fr.*
MFISOR 0:11111'S
Heed i row-,t

in~the best mean
Nobleman. The
in the city a Lii
ve7 respectable
resident Freemen
sueoess.

Private advices
—" No arrival's fr
for all veisek tna
by fares, will, oi
elowned, togetke
rive in France wit
the cargoes and
structesit exami nal
hoods are to IA
French mannfaet
The want of cf

of sugar, utaterit
every part of the
1 .yond doubt, whet
fess it in the folio
the 9th ntt.--“1
and no hope is 1
scene, and ill 1
*Anneal is set!

in great requeet,
A pver of yes
received advice,
_

PettNburgli,
gland, and

consegnence, off
The following
imported into L

From thr 'reit
trom Portuer
From the Briti

Thu amount w
at ion of our real
a tot:Hairy or ram
for one of the u
nufncture.

The Right H
morrow for pre
Corporation of
This ceremony
ons o'clock, in
occasion his Le
eso present Sir
Merchant Talks
ship is a ntrmbe
Last Wednew
of the 7th infant
mouth, from tl
into Lewes Barr
during the wine
On Wednesd
(entry marched i
Portsmouth.
The 51st and
prefix' shortly 7
hill Barracks.

. iSruhearmtiele fro
fw
has languished
Elbe, arid the et
hat rensaius for
Slorist has shiN
a:,I Ea,t. of La
LA, a tirr.,, pa
1"4,19 and her
4. Rtitie ports,
eritcd tray el
~( w 00,14 intli
Crnit rise,'`

man of great ezp'rience and undoubted talents,
and whose opinion we thought would have some
weight with the present Ministers; yet we Se!
French arms and influence daily approaching
these beloved objects of our care, without
increasing the fears of Ministers for their safety,
We see BONAPARTC freed from all contronl of
Austria, Fin. sia, and Prus,ia; nay, with all the Cou-
tiuent of Europe at his back, ready to second his
designs in India and Egypt ; we see him at
Milan, a point from which he might be able
to direct the operations against the Eastern World,
and hope grows up in the place of fear.—
India is uow unaccountably regarded as much be-
yond the reach of Boxarasre, as the comet or the
moon ; and the Treasury Journals ridicule the
attempt of the late Ministers to retain a position in
Egypt against him, with as much contempt and
levity as they would an attempt to interpose a
cloud between BowAPARTE and an attack upon the
stars or the planets.

We stated, yesterday, a report that BONAPARTE
had returned to Paris. It is not improbable ; but
the alleged cause, viz. a conspiracy in that capital,
is, we fear, without the slightest foundation.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East-lndia House, when Captain pETEEL CANT..
SELL was swam& lute the command of the ship
.I.ord Keith, consigned to St. Deletes and Bengal.
The Court adiourued ut siA o'clock, till to-morrow.
Admiral GatinaLa has struck his flag, and is to
he succeeded in the command of the Channel fleet
by Vice-Admiral Sir J. T. DUCKWORTH, K. B.;
the lion. Rear-Admiral DE COWLEY will be second
in command.
General MIRANDA has arrived in town. We
understand that he is still fully convinced of the
practicability of an attempt upon the Cameeas ;
but whether such a measure will meet with the sup-
port of His MAJESTY'S Minister?, we do not pre-
tend to know.
It is xiid that the transports lately returned to
port, which farmed a part of the Expedition under
the command of Sir C. Curran, sustained so little
damage, they will be ready to sail again ilea short
time.
Th- Ao.Arta, GtRION, from St. Kitt's, is put
ito Ramsgate, with damage.
The Aielaide, Fsevricit, from Quebec, was
eiptared off' Dover, u7th ult.
Last eight, a very respectable meeting of the
won-resident Freemen of Lincoln, in the -Earl of
•Idrneon roost's interest, was held at the Garrick's
Head, is Bow-street, for the purpose of consider-
ing the best means of insuring the clectton of that
Nobleman. The Mattson interest principally lies
in the city of Lincoln, which. together with the
ve7 respectable suppmt promised by the non-;
resident Freemen, leaves little doubt of the Noble
End's %nears's.
Private advicee f- em Paris, of the 24th ult. state
No arrivals from America can now rake place,
for all vessels that have touched in England, even
by foree, will, en their arrival in Dawes be cos.+
inenned, together with their carves. If they ar-
rive in France without having touched iii England,
the cargoes and certificates are to undergo the
strictest examination, and if admitted to an entry,

bonds are to be given to export the amount in
French manufacture:4"
The want of colopial produce, tobacco, of drugs,
of sugar, materials for dyeing, &c. is severely felt in
every part of the Continent. This must appear he-
.yond doubt, when theMartiteur even ventu res to con-
fess it in the following article from Lower Saxony, of
the gth nlt.—" 'Tobacco becomes scarcer every day,
and no hope is left of procuring am—cottons are
scorer, end in, great demand—indigo the same—
imelameal is not to he hue}—insiterials for dyeing are
M great request, particularly Pernambuco wood."
A pnper of yesterday states, that Government have
receil eel advice, that great dissensions prevailed at
"t. Petersburgh, on account of the rupture with
1 England, and that Count Novositzorr had, in
consegnence, offered to resign. •
The following is a return of the amount of cotton
imported into Liverpool in the year 1807 :
a•os.
Prom the I'uitr.l Stales

From Portliest
From tbs British Colonies 41,7a6

Total 397,aas
Thia aecotint we anbmit to the fterinus consider-
ation of our reader+, and beg them to observe what
a quantity of raw material is furnished by America,
fur one of the most important branches of our ma-
nufacture.

The Right Hoe. the LORD MAYOR has fixed to-
morrow for presenting the Sword voted by the
Corporation of London to Sir HOMF. POPKAM.—.
This ceremony will take place between twelve and
one Welock, in the Chamberlain's Office, on'which
occasion his Lordship will deliver an oration, and
a!so present Sir Home with the freedom of the
Merchant Tailors' Company, of which his Lord-
ship isa member.
Last Wednesday and Thursday the PA battalion
of the 7th infantry, who were lately landed at Ports-
mouth, from the Copenhagen expeditioe, marched
into Lewes Barracks, it is supposed, to be stationed
during the winter.
On Wednesday last., the eth Regiment of In-
fantry marched into the Barracks, at Steyning, from
Portsmouth.

The 511Cand 89th ltegiments of Foot are et-
perterl shortly a Lewes, 'op their mare% to Silver-
hill Rarmekv.
An article from Frankfort, of the sth nit. rays-
-1.1.1e manufacture of Silesia untl Lusatia linens

hits languished by the shuttintr of the Od.,r and
ribe, and the events in Denmark. The only port
Nit rentaius for esportation is Trieste, from whence
'4'44 has shipped a good quantity for the Smith
,'I East of turope, of which amount Ensrland
A a larze part for her seamen in the Mediter-
asf!an, and her troops in Sicily. The ',hutting of
'i. Baltic ports, particularly the Trove, has pre-
e''''“l every estoortnflon from the North.—Dve-
'‹ wormis, indigo, and buk, hove 'veriest:ea a
,r.it rise."