The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-02-02 00:00:00

EGr Pr.

The mission of Citizen Sebastian; to the shores
of the Levant, the open, noble, and prompt man-
ner, with which he has terminated the differences
that existed between his Government and the Bar-
bary States, the dignity which he has spread round
his character, and the respect, which he has conci-
liated for the French name, and for the person of
him who presides over his native country, his
voyage to Suez, other objects equally glorious and
useful, as is supposed, to the Chief who has sent
him; all there considerations, it must be confessed,
form a very striking contrast with the conduct of
the English in the same countries, and present a just
idea of the difference existing between two rival
nations, one of which owes its strength and power
to that spirit of commerce and calculation, remar!
able even in its lofty political notions ; the other,
to that spirit of heroism and bravery, which even
in its commercial negotiations and speculations,
recals the idea of its victories and military superi-
ority.
Whilst the Minister Plenipotentiary of France
to the Levant was visiting, like an able and un-
daunted negotiator, those countries, already filled
with the French name, the English, never abandon-.
ing their favourite system of deriving, from every
event, from all circumstances, a pecuniary advan-
tage, a commercial resource, were positively charged
with abetting the revolt of the • Heys, to enable
themselves, with More facility, to dictate terms to
the Sublime Porte. The frequent conferences of
the Ent,,lish Ambassador at Constantinople with the
Reis Effendi (Minister fur Foreign Affairs), confirm
this suspicion. Every circumstance leads to a belief,
that England demands a very large sum fc,r the
evacuation of Egypt ; it demands this sum as an
indemnification of the expence of recovering this
province, as if it bad been for the Sublime Porte
that England had made the conquest of it.
France; therefore, pursues invariably its own sys-
tem, of negotiating with the powers of the Conti-
nent for the interests .of the Continent : The Calsi-
nets of St. Petersburgh, Vienna, Berlin Munich,
maintain a very alive correspondence with that of
the 'ffluilleries; the Court of London is not ob-
served to intermeddle in these relations, and this
commencement of a new order of things in diplo-
macy, forms an epoch no less remarkable, per-
haps, than the Treaty of Westphalia.
It is manifest that, in the present circumstances,
the Porte neither can or ought to satisfy the Eng-
lish. The exhausted state of its finances obliges
to sue for time ; and the situation of Egypt, a prey
to vi6torious rebels, imperiously compels it to pre-
vent an evacuation that might be so fatal to this pro-
vince; for, it cannot be denied, that the Divan at this
moment both fears and desires the presence of the
English in Egypt. The latter, they say, cnndial
themselves very well ; they observe a most rigid
neutrality, and do not intermeddle with the affairs of
Government; but they must abandon this neutra-
lity ; so far as the course of events is altogether fa-
vourable to them, it aids their policy admirably, and
contributes moreover, to justify them in the eyes of
other nations.

This policy, however, which cannot remain at-
ways unknown ; these negotiations at Constanti-
nople—this neutrality adopted in Egypt, cannot
satisfy France, which ought to regard t`.-cm only by
their comevences. England yet occupies Malta
and Egypt ; this is the fact, which in politics parti-
cularly ought to be more clear and more certain
than arguments drawn from circumstances, or in-
tendons ill-understood, and sometimes suspected.—
Citoyen Francois.)

BIRTHS

On Satutday, at his house is Russell-place, the Lady. r.r
Charles Bishop, Ebq. o£ a daughter.

MARRIED.

On Thursday last, Capt. Hodder, of the Royal Nary, to
Miss Troy, eldest daughter to the late J. C. Troy, E. of
Chatham.

At Canterbury, last week, after a courtship of thirty years,
Mr. M. Dinine, to Mrs. Jane Edwards.—They are both up-
wards of 70 years of age.

At Yarmouth, by the Rev. Dr. Turner, Mr. S. Simpson.
woolen-draper, to Miss Judith Batley, daughter of Me Bat-
ley, merchant.
Friday, at Chichester, Mr. Wm. Robinson, of }tartlet's
buildings, London. to Miss Mary Ridge, second daughter of
Wm. Ridge, Esq. of Chichester.
. _ _

Last week:Mr:Timothy Triebner, of Leeds, to Miss Rhodes,
of Holbeck.

DIED.

yesteMay, at his house in Charlotte-street, Portland place,
Mr. Robert Harper, in the 58th year of his age.
On Friday last, aged 57, Mrs. Mary Harrison, Knight;-
bridge.
Lately, in Bedford street, R2dford-row, in the 60th year of
his age, Mr. James:, many year,: an assistant at Soho Syhool.
On Saturday morning, in the 74th year of his age, at his
apartments in the British Muszum, the Rev. Richard Per-
neck, rectur of Abingcr, in Surrey, and of St. John's, lkr-
mond,ey.
On Saturday last, at Kennington, after a lung and painrol
Mr. Samuel Linging, aged aO.

! STOCKS:
,RIXAT.

Excltzq Bills
Irish S. per Cent,. ..... 9111 I
Consols fin Fz.b 71„; I i 701
India for Open. 21:1; .
Rink ft*
°minim
Fog. Lot. Tick .r .. 171. 1",..
1 per Cent 69; i
Ditto Ann.