The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-09-14 (London, England)

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 clntritably lent money at the rate of 30 or 40 per cent. called lately upon a lady, whom he had accommodated 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 difficulty 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 Murder ! 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 Marseilles on board the Danish frigate Najade. A certain M. Grimand announced lately that he would ascend in a balloon on horseback, and obtained large sums by subscription. But, on the appointed 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 Emperor of the French, that a considerable pension will be paid to him in future by France. The new tax upon oil caused lately an insurrection at Port Maurice, in the Ligurian Republic. The edift was torn to pieces, and a great many disorders 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 Madrid for the baths at Bernier's. During his absence, 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, concerning 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 contains 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 converted 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