The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.

• PARIS, SEPT. t.
The following curious affair is Itow before the
Tribunal at Metz. A Jew of that town, who clntri-
tably lent money at the rate of 30 or 40 per cent.
called lately upon a lady, whom he had accommo-
dated in this way, with a bill of exchange for 4000
livres due to him. He entered her apartment with
the bill is his hand, and was received in a very
polite manner. He was asked to sit down, and
offered some peaches. The Jew, who observed
several piles of crowns upon a table, made no diffi-
culty to deliver to the lady the bill of exchange. But
when he was busy in eating the peaches. he says the
lady tore the hill, and swallowed it piece-meal.
The Israelite attempted to make himself master of
the crowns he saw. But the lady called out Mur-
der ! Thieves I" The guard arrived, and the Jew
was at rested. This is the second affair of the same
kind which has occupied the tribunals at Meta within
twe years.

Tire Senator Francois de Neufchateau has offered
a prise medallion, watch fifty louis d'ors, to any
young man in the Lycra of the Empire, who
writes the best poem in honour of the ascension to
the throne of Napoleon the First.
Madame Tainville, the wife of the French Com--
mvrcial Agent at Algiers, arrived lately at Mar-
seilles on board the Danish frigate Najade.
A certain M. Grimand announced lately that he
would ascend in a balloon on horseback, and obtain-
ed large sums by subscription. But, on the appoint-
ed day, the horse was stolen away (ercamattr), and
the balloon ascended without the horse or its rider,
as M. Grimmd was determined not to ascend on
foot. He has again demanded new subscriptions for
another aerial trip upon a jack ass; but the long ears
of the former amateurs think it an encroachment
upon their own species, and have therefore declined
•he request.
The report, that the office of the Ministry of the
Home Deparunent is to be abolished, obtains no
credit.

A letter from Romagna mentions, that Baron
Hompesch, the late Grand Master of Malta, who
subsists by the benefadions of the Pope, at Civic'
Castellana, has received information from the Em-
peror of the French, that a considerable pension
will be paid to him in future by France.
The new tax upon oil caused lately an insurrec-
tion at Port Maurice, in the Ligurian Republic.
The edift was torn to pieces, and a great many dis-
orders were committed, until the arrival of some
companies of French troops restored order, and
punished the chic's of the insurgents. Several lives
were lost upon the occasion.

Talleyrand left this city the day before yesterday,
and took the tio.ireat way to Ai:•la-Chapelle.
It is reported th it a Prince of Baden and a Prince
of Bavaria are es.iiv.ded in the same city, to have an
interview with the Lmperor.
Our Minister to the Court of Spain, General
Brurnuinville, has, with leave of absence, left Ma-
drid for the baths at Bernier's. During his ab-
sence, M. de Vaudreuil aas as c4arge erayaties.
It is not true that the Emperor has ordered all
Russian subjetis to be detained as. prisoners in
France : but, the day before yesterday, the Russian
Chancellor, Count Balk, obtained, without di&
cult'', his pass, and left this capital for Germany.
Very few Russian travellers are at thus moment in
France, most of them having left it within these last
our months.

The Minister of the Public Treasury, and not the
Bank, will, in future, pa... annuities and pensions.
Within these eight days, Bailly's Journal, con-
cerning the beginning of the revolution, has been
published, and is vet y much read. It does not go
farther than to the CI of Oaober, 1,759; but con-
tains many interesting particulars concerning the

The merchant; already arrived at Fund:for% for
the Michaelmas fair, are very nanserotts No want
soodsis falto*heefront Pouseassr Kraillautds •
Thot our Emperor wants no more gun-boats is
evident from the permission which his Majesty has
given to sell by public au 9i' two gun-heats, cont.
pletcly finiated, at Strasburgh. Tttey stay be con-
verted into merchantmen, and are purchased by a
wine-merchant at Meat*.

All half-crowns, called /*OP teat, and pieces of
24, 12, and ti mei, which have been coined before
1766, are recalled from circulation; and will, after
the month Nivose, year XIII. be of no other value
than their weight in silver. It is 'opposed, that, be.
fore the end of the year XIII. all the coins of thi
Kings of the Bourbon raee will be withdrawn front
public circulation, and replaced by Imperial crowns_
of six byres, three livres, and five francs.
The Senate has determined, that its members will
in future receive no petitions, or recommend sty
persons by their signatures to public einiiloyments ;
as several intriguers have abused their itenermity.
and extorted money from supplicants, who lithei
pretend to have shared the sums obtained with the
senators.

The department of the Aude has noxninat•J Ge-
neral Andreouy a canJiiiate for the Conservative
Senate.

The ei•deoant Count Salm-Dy k is appointed a
member of the Legislative Body for the department
of Rhone.

The Emperor has ordered a new fri,,ate, called
Misttraa' to be immediately built at Flushing. No
less than thirty-six ships of the line, and forty-four
frigates, are now building in the diffvrent dock-
yards of the French empire, and will probably be
ftnishod within two or three years. Contrarits are
besideseancladad, both in Holland and Italy, fqr.
the conetenetion of twelve ships of tile line anti ten
frigates. Let us only have some patience. and tru.t
with confidence to the aftivity and ability of our
government, and, before the year XX, our navy
shall be as numerous as that of our irrecoucileable
foes --(journal are Defarsew.).
The several Ministers at the Diet of Ratisbonol
who tor some time have been absent, are, by their
respective sovereigns, ordered to return to their
post. This makes many suppose, that so:ne io.l
teresting discussions will soon be opened there. •.
The English agent, Mr. Spencer Smitits who h 1
passed some time at Carlsbaden, in Bohemia,
left that place. Wherever he is going, he may
sure he is watched by our government.--(Your
de Peru.)

.11.1770 PS

PERltika, MAYOR.
To aU Cotains, ?dots, and other Peroonshaving the command
or care of Foreign Vessels, In the Port of London.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,

That tke Colours of all Foreign Vessels are to be hoisted
immediately en their entering Rugby's Hole, to remain up tilt
they arrive at their appointed Stations. The Colours are
likewise to be hoiwed when the Vessel leaves her kfewrings
going down the River.

That dl Coinmandetv of Foreign Vessels do mutter their
Criw every Evening at Snn•set, and not suffer any of them to
go on shore after that time till Sunrise; end in Cate any of
their People desert, or are dischat gett, immediate Information
most be sent to theLortilon Schooner, of Greenwich.
That all Pilots or Watermen are expressly directed not to
move any Foreign Vessel between London Bridge 3114 lingby's
Hole, after dark in the Evening, till Sus•rise the next Morn-
ing, under any Pretence whatever.
HP Order stl the Right lion. the Lord Mayor,
J. R. SNOW,
Captain Commandant of the Harbour Marine.
Harbour Marine !lead Quarters,
1. London Sc'otioner, off Green-
' wieb, September 10, 1104.