The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-01-09 00:00:00

ROYAL BIRTH-DAY. The Princzss CFI A a I.OT ( of WALES completed ier elevonill year on ‘Ve.lairsday ; those w o o have Uri care of 1 ler Royal I lighnirss agreed opon hay ing a seleO pity, and a Concert, conceiving, no nabs, it would be a gratifying entertainment to er Royal Highness, as she is particularly fond of lug:. Accordingly,. the Bishop of Excise and ,tdy DI Curran° invited a tact/ party, and en ,aged a number of first-rate Performers, to agree- Iq sarpri<e Her Royal Highness And her party.— Ihriut eight o'clock, the Bishop of EXF.TeIe, his .arly and family. and several person; of distinc on, arrived at Warwick-house ; I ler Royal High ets received the comp lay in the mo-t finished and oudescending manner; Lady Dc CI tr. roan being a attendance behind Her Royal Highness. Soon !ref the company bail arrived, the Concert corn raced in the Drawirw-ron s', in which is a capital .keness of Her (toy ti tatter. The Concert, which .as intend d ti be entirely vo- I commenced wiih V E SB'S celebrated Glee of t.t,at: lire with Mt, and le v laws which was most admirably sung by It-stos. H strutting. Goss, Nist.o, Kt+ vest . r, and mutts In the coarse of the eVeniag, a umSer of the most choice Catches and Glees -;.re sung by the .ame Gentlemen, with toe ssisrance of Mr. C. Km vvErr and his promising on. Mrs. Aims delighted Her Royal Rghness .1 the company, with two of HANDEL% most :He ated So •gg, Angel: ever br , et mud ,fair i and 11 , roof/ ye 1 mitiellfreame. Mrs. MI L te. lie r Roy al ig'lness's mom's, performed a Cincerto on the Lino Forte, in the most complete style, and with ecinion suflkient to match, if not excel, any of ie male performers of the present day. Her Royal ghness paid the most particular attention to the •7ienti6c gle-s, and appear d particularly gratified ~to t e whole of the Concert. At eleven o'clock, 'me company retired, highly grAified with the even -1 g's entertainment, and Her Royal Hithness's be -1.-vionr. . I ,AI Y4l4_ e . f 4 * - , a e Z 4 r / cl er LOPE If E A few Jay's since, a younw Genilernan arrived at ,t v's Hotel, in St. .lames's-street, and desired a e,,ei ishnuld be diredeii to bring him some stock -ngs :o look at ; having selected what he wanted. he siresl the hos,er to come at nine o'clock the tng e mou.ng, for payment ; before the hosier ar rived, a .. ai-e came to the door, into which his ltsggag- • i pot ; aid he was o the eve of setting off, %she:, i:re hosier appeared, and insisted on hAvirg his money. The youth offered a draft, xshicr wcii ant he accepted, and he was oblig ed so ci: - .^.7-ss urns if the son of an Irish Bishop, wh.: L i•! ', t.uniii..rl on a trip to lomdon, on his way to . -i! roma friends at Bath; that having given irs twat- Coe slip, and being totally unacquainted v•th viesxpences of a journey, his cash was exhaust sl. allike war at slut moment pennykss; from C.ris disagreeable situat'on he was, howev r, relieved, !y the arrival of two Gentlemen, who had pursued t'e runaway !torn Leland ; and who, aster pgyiaz Zia bills, couduOed Lim back. ViSCOOnTett LOWTH It It it elected Lady Pero ?lns of the Lying Inn Charity at Whitehaver, the following Ladies, Ntrs. P. DIXON, Mrs. I,CW rn warm Mrs huts ( ilensin , oam), Mrs. rm., llis. JOTTPH DII.IN, Mrs. JOHN • TIWASD, Mrs. ANTHONY' THOMPSON, and Mrs. Jossen Bft %rso, are rpointed the Cenumttee tor the preacot year ; 84 poor women have been relieved during the 14IT year. The Bishop of r.q"iDON is at Bath, much indis posed, which vas the cause of his Lord.ihip not at tending the commemco anion of the festival of the Epi phany, on Tuesday, at the Chrpel Royal. Mr. HCLL, late of the Edinburgh Theatre, has opened, in that city.. A Rigmarole Repository; to ►rush sea) , the Canker of Care, and dislodge the Cobwebs of Melancholy ;" which is attended by all the votaries of Mirth. The Duke of Gtouctsrea's Loyal Volunteers rill dine togsther, in uniform, on Thursday ne xt , at the Th a t c h e d clause Tavern, St. Jam 'es -street, to celebrate the birth-day of his Royal Highness. Viscount COURTLN AT has purchased the late Tsai d^nce of the Duke of YORK, in Portman-square, with its valuable furniture, for six thousand guineas. Mrs. Pcwiev, ti-devant the lively Miss SIMMS, of Covent-Garden Theatre, is performing at the tics/castle-Theatre, with the greatest MI. On Mon.:ay tat, she played Little P,d'e with the most unbonnded applause ; as the cranial,' of All nierit, she is compared to Mrs. JORDAN in that part. The Right Hon. JOHN PHILPOT CustaAN, the frist Master of the Rolls, attended below the bar of Cie House of Lords, yesterday, during the fur ther hearing of the Irish cause, CHASSE-SY versa. Lard Masan,. There were some other Irish Brrristers present. On Wednesday, his Grace the Duke of Nutt. risuatiansirro and Family passed through New ...sae on their road to London. The Duke, with the approbation of His MaJesr v, has appointed Sir if. E. Swassurtue, Bart. Vice-Lieotenant of the comity in his Grace', Aasence; and also A tic Meat° Re a, Esq. Mayor, for Newcastle-up,m-Tyrie The remains of Mt. HASI.LV, WI Attorney, were deposited yesterday morning in St Clcnient's Church 7ard. The body lay for some days in state, at his Chambers, in the New Inn, from which it was con veyed to the burial ground, a distance of afinut fifty yard s , in a hearse and six, followed by several blowing coaches and tour. AtTLSY'S PAVILION, NIA`CASTL STRCET p StilAND.—From the uncommon strength and ex ec:leace of Entertainments this Evoning, we should i n l4 ;line this rheatrewill he as cr o wed as it has been this Season ; it is composed of remarkably fine mist beautiful Dance. in Forte AEh ; the Grand Cavalry Military Pantomime, Ste. which Pfece will be performed Tins and l'amorrow Even i'Ts for the last time this Season. On Morn ar ars; a New 'Pantomime, from the pen of Mr. Clumsy AX, will be produced, fur the first time, at Theatre. MANNERS OF PARTS. (111101( A GERMAN PAPER.) It is starcely fifteen years since the reign of the National Convention and the popular Assemblies; and, nevertheless, the same generation is still living at Paris. He who then beheld that city, and now sees it again, might daily weep over things at which at that time he perhaps laughed, and laugh at others over which he then wept. I recoiled, but too well, the man with an expressive physiognomy, till in stature, and with distended paunch, when he meets me in the street, carrying a bandbox on his arm. He is undoubtedly in the service of some milliner or hairdresser. My resped for Time, that Deity who so strangely governs human affairs, prevents me from inquiring whether his present destiny depends on the clmb or the needle. In the year 1792, he was an orator, a leading man in one of the most ce lebrated fasiziourgo of Paris. Heaven forbid that I should ever attempt to make him an ohjed of ridi cule ! Hr was then an honest man, not a seducer of the people; his principl•ts were pure, notwith standing the corruption of the times ; be entertained the utmost abhorrence of the atrocities 4 Marat and Chaslier. He was once cbsrged witn important commissions by the then in part incorrupt A.imi-.i stration. He was esteemed and employed uy a m..n of honour, and of consequence s and that man now has a place in the Senate, and in the Legion of Ho nour. It is possible that the matt with the hand box may be t3O proud to make application at the Luxembourg ; but, certainly, the man with the rib bon is of too noble a disposition to be offendad at such a visit. I enter a church, joist at the moment when high mass is performing; the immaculate divine, who is giving his benediction to the people, is known to me ; I recoiled pertedly will that he wee once im pure, like many other men He abjured the oath taken by the priesthood, married, begot children, obtained a divorcz, and reconciled him,elf with Heaven. Fortunately for him, the fruits of his former aber-ation, dropped before they were ripe ; the tree that bore them has long been trans planted into another field. This change is cer tainly for the better: those who once approved t:..e violation of his vow, had no occasion, with their former principles, for such an edifying er imple. The marriage of priests may be permitted, it is true, in all the regions of the globe ; hut it was this, that, with other innovations in religion, proved the bane of the revoluion. The blessing which the man now dispenses, is certainly of greater importance than the scandal which he then created. His qmonSms wife likewise thinks the careues of her present hushand more natural, because she re ceives them in Christian honour : in the former en dearments of his reverence, there was always some thing, which, in consequence of her education, she considered as forbidden fruit. For this reason, the most licentious Frenchwoman always pities a Pro testant parson, as a species of heathen ; and at the mention of a parsow's *A, almost kills herself with laughter. I was addressed, yesterday, at the corner of the street, by a man, whom I immediately recognised as one of the best informed politicians of former times. He was a newsman long before, and after Robespierre; I recolleded that he had once sold me diurnal prints, by hundreds. When I was desirous of learning the secrets of the popular insurr dions. that names of the principal persons in this or that as sembly of the people, the private measures adopted with 'esp.& to bread, or to foreigners, I had nothing to do but to apply in confidence to this man. .s You are an honest fellow," he would reply, " though you are a foreigner, and will not make a bad use of what I tell you." On roost subjeis, he actually was very well informed. I remember well, how sensibly he spoke concerning the war in La Vendee ; how, at the taking of Amsterdam, he had multi tudes of people about kim, to whom he was preach ing about happiness and tranquillity; and particu larly how, at the presentation of the Swedish Am bassador, M. de Steel, at the bar of the National Convention, he said significantly to me : " This King is to-day the first, perhaps he will once be the last to acknowledge us." When I yesterday met again with this man of former times, my ideas were na turally direded towards politics ; but to my first question, as to his opinion of the present state of things, he replied with a smile ; •' I give myself no concern now abort those things; all my care now is to get oats and hay for my horses, and a decent coat to my back."—" Coachman," said some one, who just then came up to us, "do you want a fare ?" I looked iouni, and immediately discovered that my former diplomatic revolutionary citizen; he, who once knew mute than now a days a clef de dive . - sioq in many an office for foreign affairs, had now quitted the track of politics, and was ignorant even of the secrets of those whom he drove about in his if acre. 'Twenty yeas a&o U. populace here was styled as tee s tiul tea yc.trs *leer , it stAi in full possession of it: tide—,be People; and now this portion of the inhabitants of Paris are obliged to put up with the somewhat hat:shier .qipellation of-41.1c lcwrr dories. I never saw them as the , artaite : whit they were as the people, is known to every one. But if, in the latter capacity, they were wretchedly governed, it mistaken policy, thirteen years ago, now placed the dagger in their hands, and now snatched it from them ; hit, as Ihr layer classes, they are by far not so meal, as the higher classes are arrogant. This ex-people is industrious and peaceable ; looks hack, without malignity, 4)2 the lost privileges of its revo lutionary exaltation, and forgets its former sove reignty in the names of Austerlitz and Napoleon.— l'he lower class no.v pay no taxes, unless they carry on some business or trade ; it is well known that the furniture, house, and watch -rates, are as good AS abolished; and persons ahle to pay ground-rent never belonged to this class. Their principal im posts are paid for their palate or for their hopes: that is, for wine, or for lottery tickets. The fish wife has now no occasion to inquire concerning the value of (resigned:, or the keeper of a chandler's shop that of dooms. Then again, they are neither phy sically nor morally tsar ratorrr; that is, they nei ther envy the rich, nor do they appear in rags and wasp-pointed caps. It was only at the early pe , riod: of the revolution that the young volunteer took up arms in the caste of liberty ; afterwards, for every efledive man in a corps, might be reckoned one deserter; n.iw they are impelled by the more powerful motive—honour. and that reaped for the Cvmmissary of Police, and Sub- Prefed, which has succeeded to the former anarchy The daughter of the most common person has a new gown every three or four months; in the times of liberty and equality, she was assuredly not more chaste than at present ; but neither libertinism nor industry would then have procured her the daily 20 or 30 sols which enable her logo to Tivoli. Eleven or twelve years ago, when she WAS but a little girl, and was crying nut for bread, with the savage hordes in the hall of the Convention, she wore a ragged shift, and at best a Linsey svoiAsey apron ; now she pa rades in the very same garden of the Thuilleries, in a white robe, coloured shoes, and an embroidered neck-handkerchief. She still belongs to the people of' the lower class; but she no longer thinks of bread, but of a treat of chocolate or ice-cream. THE LATE MR. CHRIsTOPHER BROU'Ar. On Tuesday evening last died, In the 64th year of his age. Mr. Christopher Brown, of Oxford Arms-passage, Warwick-lane; a gentleman well ' known among the Booksellers of the Metropolis, ot the last, as well as the present generation. In early lite he was placed in the house of Baldwin, ot Pater noster-row, wt•err he remained for seven years, and acquired a knowledge of the hookselling business. He then engaged himself to the late Mr. Longman, as an assistant, and continued to serve him, with un swerving integrity and fidelity, during the lo.ig period of SS years; and after that gentleman retired, and relinquished the business in taviur ot his son, the present Mr. Longman, Mr. Brown remained, as an honourable fixture, in his place, for seven years longer ; when, in a manner, and under eit cumstanees highly creditable to all parties, he was iodated to retire to rest, from the fatigues of a long life of labour and exertion, and to pass the evening of his days in tranquillity. ft will be deemed no trivial eulogiure, to say ot him, and it may be as serted with truth, that wherever he was known he was respelled. As a servant, no man ever evinced more integrity, or more solicitude to promote the interest of his employer; as a friend. no one could be mare sincere and faithful; and as a husband an I father. no one more tender. indulgent, and affationate. MURDER Or lIR. S 7 EELE. Many persons attended at the Public Mei, Worship-street, yesterday, expeaing (being the day of removing the prisoners from the different gaols to NewAatt) that the persons in confinement t•ri vaipichin of committing this atrocious deed, would be finally examined, and committed to the above mentioned prison for trial, next week. No such ex amination, however, took place. lb&way. Flag ged,. and the said Laag,lJ, stand over for re examination, and, consequently, cannot be tried at the ensuing Sessions. A Gentleman remarking the ether evening, that the present Lottery Scheme was very inviting, from the magnitude of its Capital Prizes, an act' izintance aptly replied, that it we% inviting also, on the ground of its being for the interest of the Public, in point of the great product from Lotteries to the revenue, t•s encoutage them. " True." cried another Gen tleman i• company, " for if State Lotteries were aliA3lished, we should have our wince, porter, du. taxed higher, in lieu of the benefit to the revenite arising from them ; and this too without any chance of gaining a Capital or any other Prize." The pet irrl will quickly a-rive, when all those who wish to have a Share of the First-drawn Ticket, on Tuesday morning .lest, must manifest tht•ir inten tion, otherwise they w.ll be too late for the Chines of 20,0001, which sorely is worily of notice. On the same duty, many other Capital Pris:•s will make their appearance, Thirtv- l'bousands, Twenty-Thousands. Ten-Thousands, ties Thousands, &c. to the great joy of the owner,. These valuable benefits are to be had at Hos Nino and Co.'s. 26. C rnbill; .54, Charing-Cross ; and St. Marga►et's Hill, Borough. Mos. 33,9 4, end 42,569, Prates of 39.0V01. ware geld ►y Heaney and Co. inrci MA.I Y rant),'lr- . T"!r-T.. Yesterday. twn Gent/mm.l.'74i, llorlier an•l I . Lormz. were brought to this Office; charged with obt lining money tmher false pretences, of Ar. Long, of Dover-street. It appeared that the Pri:nner. called at Lone. Hotel, Dover stre-t, on Wedne,day evening, and represented them.elves A• belonging .o the suite of a It lissian Prince an I Princess, lately arrived in England; their hu;i.tess in Linton w.s to provide suitahle accommnd *tool' for the i:lu.triints strangers and their suite; for ;his pretended porno.. they sp. pied a , the above Hose!, an i made every neces sary preparation foe their .cromenorlation ; at the same true telling Mr. Le ig that ;key had four onexpenehly, that a doweur wis exp •tt-d at the A.ien OlNce, for which they were rather unpro. aided Mr. Long. willing to accommodate the srra Teri, lent them nearly ten I.e;uuds in cash. Utley requested that beds might be provided for that night, f"r their use, and that t ey might be called early in the m3rning to t•ik • thee departure for Portsmouth, to inform the Russian strangers of the provided accommodation. Mr. Long seen began to suer& he had been duped ; it was strange that persons from Russia should arrive at Portsmouth, and he rtoeared P . lice Officers, iebo took these Gerrilemra hitt• tody, and brought them yesterday to the lir 'lite Office, Marlivorough-street, wit re they underwent an eta. titillation They were remanded till Wednesday, ve.e., several ether ehareec are expelled to be brought against them. Mor solemnly declared, that he was well knnwn bt L Yds Grenville, Howtche H. Petty, air Francis Vin ear &c FrESTMINstsk SENSION —I A 4. 8. Thisday the Sessions for the City and Liberties of Westmins.er commenced, before W; Lisle MAINWARING, E.q. Chairman, and a numeraius Bench of Justices of the !'Cate, for the said city and L berries. h. Lawrence, bolder, was convilltd of an as sault nn one Lane, a labourer, wh • worked under him in October last. It appeared on the triai, that Lane having threatened to beat a you lad in Mr. Lawrence's employmen., the lad fled to Law. fence for prutrct:on, who consequently struck the Prosecutor on the breast and legs with a !mad cane which he usually carried. 'rife Court was in duced, from these circumstance., only to fine the Defendant in the sum of 'lO Shillings.- Hen", Nfuttnree, sad Franris Sweat, were indicted for assaulting and falsely imprisoning John Notes. The Prosecutor stated his own case, with great precision and animation. He had lived, he said, tor some time happily with his wtfr, tiU the De fendant, Musgrove. by artifice and acHress, seduced her, and removed her from Woolwich (a here the Prosecutor was employed in rho service of His Mar jetty, as Cillar maker to the Artillery Corps) to a house in Monmouth -court, where, on the .Ith October last, Noises discovered her, and insisted oa her returning home ; perceiving her unwilling to accompany him, he seized aer roanstthe waist, and endeavoured to bring her off by hire, which Mas grove (who frequently visited there, and actually hired the lodgings for her) preven.ed him from doing, by filiging 1-im by the collar to the ~,her side of the room ; at length Mrs. Nc lees. set ont with her husband to the Woolwich stage, in com pany with the Defendant and others. On their way thither, Mrs. Noises informed some soldiers whom they met, that the Prosecutor was a deserter from his corps. and charged them to detain him at their peril. Noires asiared them, he had a pass from his Commanding Officer, but on searching his pockets, discovered he had lost it, and charged hie wife and the Defehdaor with robbing him of the pass. Of this, however, riot being able to produce any proof, he was conducted to a guard-house, where he, remained, in close custody, until 11 o'clock next day. in a few days after his release, he again came from his quarters at Woolwich, to town, and insiy ed on hi. wife returning with him. Sutton, the landlord of the house. hearing the alteration which took place, came up, and, with the ZICSig!AnCe of the Defendant, Musgrove, turned the Prosecutor out of his wife's apartment, threatening if he con tinued to &sittib the house. they would commit hire to the care of a Peace Officer. The au: y Accordingly found the Defendant Musgrnse, gra 4y, and the Court sentenced him to pay A tine of ten pounds. The thfeadant Sutton was ecp;tleal. EARL PERCY'S ELECTION. ffeary Bdl, High Constable for the Hailliern distri3, was indiet-a for a viti:ent Assault upon John Bradley, a master carpenter. It appeared, that on the day nn which Earl Percy was elated to serve in Parliammt for the City of Westminster, his Lordship having been chaired by the populace round Covent-garden, and from thence earned home to Northumlyerland House, where the Noble Duke, his father, had provided a quantity of bread and cheese, and Finer, to be distributed amongst the populace, the Constables were ordered to preserve a circle, that each rerson might have a fair chance for a s!sare. The Prosecutor, who was a special constable, %were iCif thence.,-ion, was endeavourir.g to keep order, but the mills behind him preisei upon him, so as to oblige him to give way; a tics the Defendant came up to and, with large silver staff, clenched in bolt hands. rushed against him, and threw him back with violence. The Prosecutor produced his conslable's staff immed!ately. and was about to remonstrate with the Defendant, when the latter drew back se aerial paces from him, and again rushed against him with his staff, With reclont-ied nce, accompany. ing the alien with mcst insulting and abusive language. Tne siefenc! set up was, that at the time this affray took place, the Defendant being a constable. was mere?' atiting in the discharge of his datv, ana the violence of the blew arose mutely from the ne cessity of the moment, in his et:cleave:wing to pre. serve the circle. The Jury, withmt hesitation, found the ant Gaol's. and the Court sentenced Lim to pay a fuss of &is. 1 I