The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-17 00:00:00

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people. Snell lialeynt; days wroth% tw doubt, he
highly gratifying to Alimsters and their ifoillowers;
hut Nho is there besillsivi them that could icesournre
the quiet of the stagn.itit whose traimull stir-
fare betrays its implitity, to the brood expanse of
ocean, vilified by eveiy Lwceae, but whose agitation
preserves its swretims. I We look open the occa-
sional ebullitions of ;tarty zeal that burst forth
at a popular election as so many indicating* that
the spirit of phony is wit extinct, and should
they ever pay. Lo-yinitl the I nut tip ohuclt one wishes
would contiar thew, we eau account for them
only by the tinfrequency of elections. The period of
•even years is 11141 long for the abeyance of tins great
prisilege; and we enteitain on diiiilot, if 1)+04-
orients were triconisl, na formetly, a general election
would only cause that moderate zeal and animation
which men iii earliest ought to feel, without being
disgraced by ►crises of riot and disturbance.

Clistaits FireCLAßEtice arrived Ll 6, 111nritillg
town with dispatches overland Irmo India. Ife lett
Nagpoor on the Stlt of.litiitittry, at which time we
are nodded to state, fur the mutilation of their
friends,, that all the wounded Officers there were
doing well, and that serval of diem were needc re.
covered. The Officers who were wounded at Core-
pant, under Captain Sractirott, were also dein
well on the '29th of the same month at Seroor.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last.
They mention that an attempt had been ut 'dr 04
the life of the King of DENMARK by et lunatic,
but the ready interference of his Majesty's attend-
ants happily prevented any mischief. A ptit•:.te
letter from Paris asserts, on the authority of a
letter received from the French Conant at Cadiz,
that the King of Portugal had publicly avowed his
confederation with the Indepetioleivsi of the Spanish
Provinces, and that his son Inid bees proclaimed
King of PEau. ‘Ve think it right to notice this
report, without attaching to it any
The French Five per Cents. are 73 1. 65 c. ;
Bank Action/ 1,648 f. 75 c.

Dutch and Hamburg!) Mails have arrived, with
letters and Papery to the Bth instant.—The
iui-
luwiug are extracts :--

DRVStCLS, .11Illf. 8.

It *ems that the inspection of the fortresses en the
southern frontier, by one of the Aides-de Camp of the Disks
of Wellington, has given rise to a report, that on the with-
drawing of the Army of Occupation, a part of it would he
stationed too our froutiers. This report is eeclared to be
wholly nufauuded.
We see continually English travellers of high rank pass
through this city, going to Made-Chapelle, or Spa, iu ureter
to be uu the spot during the approaching Congress.
IROM TIIE FREVIIN FRONTIERS, rtdig 12.
The Ordinance of the Guver 1111111111 l respeci Mg the orgaiii-
batiou of the General Slat/. of the annz. is equally
factory to the principal officers on halfspay and to the Ul-
tras, as they are called. Both complaiu tint they are
neglected. Sensible people, however, arc of opinion, that
the Minister has chosen the middle way, and are convinced
that iu order to satisfy Ow various parties, the best nieth,4
is nut to give the preference to any. Nu wrsous have beta
named who have sheaf' at any time symptoms of exagitc-
rated opinions. It is asserted that the Duke of Wellington
will go to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, accompanied I.e
General Alva and the Duke of Richelieu —Witarkai
Courant, Juno Id )

rIENNA, MAT 31.
With the express consent of the Freittis Court, and with
pasiiporta delivered by it fur that purpose, Geneiid iseruy
ban left Gratz, where he has hitherto ,sided, and has CO-
larked as Trieste, with his brother-in-14w, Culuuel Faudraa.
They art both going to North Auierien.

mrirs.trsnt:Rin, JOSS 4.

Among ether happy consegiteuees of the general peace,
we rejoice in the porapeet of seeing a work accompltslwd
which s ur wise ancestors attempted three centuries ago, hut
which several unfortunate events hindered them from accosts-
phsbing—se mean She juuction of the Baltic and the Kurth
Sea, by means of the Elbe, the Ode, Site Slur, the Meat lake of
Schwerin, and Swam. by a canal to Wismar. This nodes sat-
ing, which is of the hislseid insportauce to all Mecklenburg, to
Handleargh, and several neighlmuring Stater, has lately 1.-
come au object of custsiiik ration ; it has beets she% a to be
practicable fur a sum of 300,6'00 dollars, sod urgently
cummeuded. There is un doubt but every tn.dy will he
eager to see this great work begun and finished as suou at.
possible, since its effects will be so important, and it pro-
aiars the greatest advantages, as well to the holders of shouts
and the public treasury, as to the commercial

IRUM TIIF. MAlsv, JENT 3.

Madame Jinievls Boo*parte is gone wills Ler family to
the Baths of Cons; she has formally eoutiadietesl the repeat
that her rldrPt daughter is to marry the MOOS of Madame
Mural. The Coronation of the King of Bavaria is said 14,
be fixed fur St. Maximilian's Day.