The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-12-01 00:00:00

} ..vim `, NEE YESTERDAY. ~r.,- Leghorn - - Genoa - - VI l'enies - - 27 Malta - - —. --- Naples . - - VI Palermo me Lisbon - is Oporto - . so Itio.latteiro -47 t Bahia - - 411 Ilublin - 9 . 1 Cork • - are by no means so great as they have been reptesented. Two fri gates and a brig have succeeded in saving themselves under corer of the cannon of the Dardanelles, but these probably are the last ships that will reach that place, the Greeks now being masters of the sea. By the latest news it appears that they burnt, on the 15th October, two more Turkish frigates. Our Paris Correspondent mentions another instance of the denial of the rite of sepulture by the Roman Catholic clergy of France. In the cue of the actor PHILLI prig, the ecclesiastical ceremony was refused because the deceased belonged to a profession obnoxious to the censures of the clergy; but in the case to which we now refer, the rite was denied to an old and respectable Magistrate, M. Laxoss, formerly the Mayor of Troycs, simply because he was a Jansenist! This venerable man, who, at the period of his decease, was 84 years of age, was refused the sacrament unless he would abjure his errors as a Jansenist ; and while this indecent violation of the sanctity of the hour of death was perpetrating, M. Laxoss expired, the last effort of nature only just enabling Mtn to make a sign to the priest expressive of his anxiety for the last offices of his religion. This occurrence, which at another time would perhaps hardly be worthy of observation in this country, deserves some interest now, from the dangerous and groundless pre tensions of the Catholic clergy in Ireland. We must all recollect the outcry that was raised because the Catholic priests were not suffered, in Ireland, to perform their rites in the Protestant church-yards. We see, in the instance of M. LaLose, what is the conduct of this same clergy where they have power to act according to their will. It affords also a strikingand decisive answer to the boasts we havehcard as to the perfect unity of the Romanists. The mutual hatred of Janscnists and Molinists seems to reign with as much fury as ever between the members of the Gallican church. The Protestants are, we know, suffered to enjoy their worship unmolested in France; but we cannot be ignorant that this boasted liberality of the Roman Catho lics was really the result of BONArMITZ'S indifference to all religion. Since the restoration cf the Dot:Knows the priesthood have allowed no opportunity to pass without I manifesting their hostility to the sectarians ; and when we see them pursuing with relentless hatred to the grave one of their own flock, because he erred in some immaterial point of doctrine or discipline, we may easily guess what they would do towards the Protestants if their inclinations were not fettered by their inability. In some parts of 6 , 2 - many the same edifice is at different hours of the day oc cupierl for the purposes of divine worship both by Catholics and Protestants. Is this a proof that they are in those places less opposed to each other ? Certainly not. It shows only that there is a balance of power between them, and too much poverty to enable each party to provide itself with a separate church. The Times of yesterday complains, in language that may well raise its reputation for vulgarity, that " a foul calumny as ever appeared in print" was published against it on Monday in this Paper. Its rage, pest up, as it had been, for several weeks, at last exploded, and a more ludicrous mixture of bounce and blackgaesrdism was never vented within the purlieng of Printing-house-square. Its personality is below contempt. On this head, however, we will say a word or two, and dismiss it. The writer of the article complained of, if he is thought to deserve the abusive epithets applied to him, wishes to be understood as deliberately repeating every syllable it contains. If this is considered as aggravating his offence—the party offended knows where to find him. We will now proceed to state the ground of the accusa tion which forced this rancorous Journal at last to break si lence, and to bolt,away from the charge, as it has done, without refuting it. The charge was matter of inference from their own course of proceeding ; the circumstantial evidence in proof of it was, and is, conclusive. No sooner was the unhappy man, who, by his death, has expiated his offence, and whose corpse is even now scarcely cold,—no sooner was he apprehended than an article appeared in the Times, which, under the pretence of giving a history of his private life, held him up as amongst the very worst and most profligate characters which could infest the circles of civil society : and this while he was yet untried !—in that awful interval, between life and death, when to strike at him betrayed a mind in which every manly feeling was ex tinct, and over which human'Ay had lost all influence • This was the moment chosen to fabricate such appall ing falsehoods as should brand his name with infamy, and cut him off from all public sympathy. Messrs. Malan and Co. have not dared to deny that they fur nished the materials of this slanderous attack on their unfortunate partner; and the article, as we very early pointed out, bears internal evidence that "an old and experienced hanker" had a principal share in its compila tion. If it was neither M•ustt nor STR."CEY, who was it? The Times calls its fabricated " account" of Mr. F.sotir- LEcor, which occupied more than a colu:un of its closest type, a "paragraph," as if it were one of those light articles which might well have passed without remark; whereas, in fact, it was a very long and laboured production, sent forth whit every appearance of authenticity, and drawn up with a direct view to the efeet meant to be produced by it. On the day fillowinr;, public attention was drawn to it s?ecially by a pretended corresprmelent, to whom an answer was formally given in the leading article ; and it dakrves teo to b.! noticed, that this shameful libel, pregnant wish every epithet of ignominy, was publkhed on a Friday, the very day on which it was likely to be copied at full length into the Sunday papers. There wes just time enough to enable them to copy it conveniently ; whilst there was not time, situated as Mr. FA NTIL ROY was, immured within the walls of a prison, to enable him or his friends either to contradict the statement cr to counteract it. The article accordingly was copied, nct only into all the daily, but into all the weekly papers, and front them it obtained currency all over the empire. Did the Tires act thus without a motive ? Will the public believe that it bed not some , powerful and adequate int:nem:cut? Would not any re spec table Jotartial have given up the writer of so infamous a slander, after the unhappy object of it—standing at the bar of his comitr•—had said, in an aff.Tting address to the Ct,urt, ;emu; frcm him in the agony of his mind— `• Tortured ail I bare been, it now becomes an imperative ditty to expl.dn to yeti, I iendemen, and through you to the world at large, ~..1e 10. 0 .•tuations heaped upon me, kcJ:et to!! utterly fidtr 1: . . v. hu are beat acquaintel with my private HO and Ita..-a been as 112.eped upon we,pr the pnrimmerf lunaiu an: with MP 7.• 10, 1"Qf the 114,,v traurrrn.mT, fr which , I:nd In•ta trltiob 0.117. rrp ro.l rs st• cre from bank- I :Jar. br, aect.acd of crimes u•ver crrn and of ac!* of refitpary uncr co.waittr,l; and I appear at ,• a•:/•*, prfj.#4.T.4. , st We, and almost prejn.'.ip tl." ikk's it wit exci:e, and deem it notjustifis, a strong sus p:eien that tile Times, after thi-, taunt hare had gu:lty retrotts for 1::,t in the slightest manner retracting the base and crud asp:rsions of which this dying man complained, and fur steadfastly withholding the name of its confederate in this work of slander? What then arc those guilty ~. lULLIOX. ~- L. s. d. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 l'oreign Gold in bars 3 11 0 Ncw Poubleons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 ♦ 101 Silver in bars 0 5 V E•ht aritiott aprtgo TREATRE ROYAL, DRI'ItY-LANE. Tilts Ironing, WEDNESDAY, December I, will bi perforang THE SIEGE OF er:t.ctt %PE. The Serail:ler, Mr. Maple: Catienberg. Mr. Wallach lemael, Mr. G. Smith; Yampa, Mr. Gatti*: Leopal.l„ Mr. Harley: Peter. Mr. Fier. w;:liaml .ID:elm. Mr. Redford. LEla, Mies stepheno; Katherine, braddon ; Ghita. Mee rover. After which, H.IFED THE GIIEPEn. The Prltimipal Charactos by ?laser". ArAer, Welleet, Terry, and Harley; liecdames W. West and Maylctt. To- marrow, Der Freigehutz, and IL.fed the Glicber. TfIEATRE R0Y.41., CIIVE.‘"I-GARDP.V. This t E DNE.,D %M. Dee. I. will be performed . DER FREISCHUTZ ; Or. TIIM BLAt'A HUNT'. MAN nr Ottnear, Mr. Baker; c,knrad, Mr. Egerton; Caspar, Ur. Ronaett; ITIRP•Im. Mr. rearanau ; the Black Itantsrueu of Beheim'A, ]Sr. Evans. ilea 43., Mies Playa ; Lent' Min Love. After which, CLARI. _ . The Duke Vivaldi. Mr. T. P. ii.CaiT Maisano. Mr. laweett. Cleat Misa M. Tree; Ve4p , a.a, Ilia Love. T.-morrow, A Woman Never Vela. and The Frozen Late. Ihe Daytime Palms commenced paiblieliing yesterday morn ing at live o'clock. LONDON, WEDNEqI,II 7 , Ducemara 1,1524. The Paris Papers or Sunday arrived last night. The following aro extracts : (From the Etuile, dated Monday, Nov. Zt.l CONSTANTEKOPI.T, OCT. 25. There is now no more doubt with respect to Cie fate of the Capitan Puha ; his disgrace is certain; it is given out f•r illness, but he is expressly forbidden to come to the capital. The son of ti e Viceroy of Egypt, as we have already said, is his sueettser. The Porte preserves entire silence respecting the oferations of its new Admiral. !I. Minziaeky has not yet presented his eretlen ti.da. Aeltmet Aga, commanding the Turkish troops in kfuleavia, has had a Moldavian officer beheaded. This event has caused • great sensation among the Christian legations. It is said that the evacuation of lilt:Mavis is at length effected. Pants, Noy. V. The Univestal Gazette says. that M. Cousin, who tins been im plicated only by the deposi:ions of two students, will be shortly set at liberty. Count BernstorT is still in the country. M. Cousin as been treated with the greatest attention, and even permitted to ride out in a corringe in licrlin. The itoniteor of Suntf.y contains no official article. Ltsrmx, Nov. 10. The Garette of to-day contains the follnwiug article : Pereira, Minister of Enance to his Maj sty the Emperor of in • despatch addressed to the Huard of Finance of the lhosince of Bahia, foundcd on the applicatiom nnule by an inhabi sant of Bahia toobtain for the estimated Trine • warciunise, the property of a Portuguese enigrmit of that city, which has been sequestrated, says, " thet his Imperial Majesty orders the said Board to be informed that the sequestreitm at the property of the Porsuguese en- ;;:rants is merely a measure. or prretestinn, the ohj:ct of which is t n other than to oblige the Government of Lis bon to recognise Cie independence of the I:nipire of Brazil, but that, as soon as this independence rhall be sTrsniscd, the pro perty and the revenues of it will be restored to their ew-ers." _ The sr.toe Jouval tomes the follaring rtfl,•etinns on the ma t p! wen by the Minister to show tic in: , ;:ze of the sequestra von " We do not tind in any ruhlicist the right which the Govern -1.11:;:. at Rio de J oleic° ttrrsgalcs, a:goes:rate the property of a private irdiriJul who has iiothing to do wnh the r i nen ti o n of th e t;iiteperidence un pretext of f orc i ng by date Tin. " 11'..1.1111e1 the v) reco7nise that at ino Jancir.). c3v!ci ;he of sl;I:e iniUvi.!l:lls can. crain the wax.: tlie nAtll , l to be wanting io r: hat it (MCA to itt Bing ? No; et of 0711-..i•.!eree eon oily be to itc!oy mere r ;At wore the reconri of tyre countries, for the ri•rlit of !dem:.itr or.r lest: r.,;:tvr time nor reroltvions ran ic:4trr•y . r 711 it‘ 1'711: , !, 11‹ 'P.ttc.t Ciiint! to •:S OEO'2 Pevo'.ition. 1.;,1r rtr.,ible t f Q., f i ef, of ties: trni, , ths, that 1.2 s on mans 1: in n...st arolac v irrtr, iL not et 4 110 C, 11 , 1 t .• 1!=.• t!le con. t t, rotec. rr.7,:ds FM:. I ti, [I :cm o.e C 41 1 r of ^•nnday.) Rt . 4 i'IT• RI., ~:. , c , •rtn,liroyle of It to. . arog.E , • t Ills i- a I:1(1 otantinople, tr.! lie %owl.' br i,:it cf. It is n vary however, t!:at he. will 1,11 into i; ; but if he takes care of hicnoelf, which is by no certain, for it is not known where lie is et prevent, he will without doubt return to Egypt. 3lcenwhile the Divan fs spresiling di report that the lostcs of the Ottoman flee` ,1 !'~i 1!' BAIC Sir IL C. Glyn. 3tils. 11n1 11".+1:cr Sti . Mr. Phi lii 0 . . L :~Seaa.. }'rc,h~;an ........... 9 3 ii .% M ES . ‘V ATER comPANY; for providing the JL 31 etroyolis sith a cor.staxt and unlimited supply of Water ut • pure mad unexceptionable rituality. t omMITT1:1: Or MANAGENEFT• The !light Hon. the }PHD MA VI /R. Sir IMlsrad Banks I W. Routh. Esq. 'Ames Brunson. Esq. Edmond W. Rundell, Esq. James Burton, l'..q. Robert Slade. Esq. Charles Calvert, Esq. M.P. Sir Walter Stirling, Bart. William Sixnley Clarke. Iltq. W. Thompson, Esq. kI.P. and Wi:liam l'rawshay, Esq. Alderman. Walreie Eyre, Eaq. John lam T imins, Er q . It. T. J. Glen. Esq. Colonel Trench, M.P. W. Bret - All, Esq. Jahn Tullock, Esq. l'hornas flallites. Esq. W. I'enables. Esq. Alderman. Thomas Hood, Esq. rico. 11. Whittaker. Esq. George Era. Esq. Samuel Williams, Esq. Rich. Mee Raikts, Esq. Thalami Wilson, Esq. Robert Rickards, Esq. liras illyn, Mills. and Co.; and Sir itling, and 1106011. peer. ip Taylor. 'TOSS s and Ileatl rote. isiness of the Company to be ad. latutgement of the Thames‘Vatcr id lleathcotes,Colcman-atrect. STOCKS YE/TERM/AV. i Mexican Bonds 601 1 11 6 1 Ditto Acct. rzi Neapolitan Bonus Re 11 Ditw Bonds (1824) Ditto Scrip 1 1 put Ditto Acct. l'eruwian Bontis Ditto Acct. Portuguese Bonds 901 a 1 Ditto Acct. 901 Prussian Bonds 100 1 1 Ditto /tea. Ditto Bonds (1919) Ditto Acct. Russian Bonds Ditto Acct. 931 1 Spanish Cons. 221 3 213 Ditto Acct. 23 Ditto 310 Bonds 231 Ditto 170 and i3s Bonds 234 Ditto 83 Bonds Ditto Cons. (1823) An ihnnrour.irations on the on' argued " To the Committee of Ail Cinsepaej," t 3i cute. Freeman in PRICES OF FOREIGN Botte.a 944 1 Ditto Acct. Bemiiian Bonds 7S 44 Ditto SeAp l 4 pm Dam Acct. 2 1 pin Buenos Ayres ticrip Ditto Arm. Bo.tds Ditto Acct. lomb. Bonds Ditto Acct. 1)4 , 3(1824) 84 Ditto A eet. 84 Parish Bonds 1031 Ditto )larks Banco French Renter 100 E 7k. lik. 101. 123 c. xdrange 2SE 10c. Dr:to Scrip 121 i pm Ditto Acct. 120 1 pm Greek Bonds tt3i 4 Ditto Acct. 51 roußsE OF EXCII Amnterdnin C. F. 12 1 Ditto, at sight - 11 18 Rotterdam • 12 2 Antwerp - . 12 2 Harburgh - 36 10 A ii..ana . - 36 11 Pails, 3 'lays' sigh t 25 13 Ditto - - 25 45 Hourdcaux - 25 45 Berlin- 710 Frankfort-nn-the-Main 131 i Petersburg!' - Vienna . 10 2 rrieste - 10 2 Madrid . 36 Culls . . 331 Hilboa . 35f Barcelona 31 I~erille. 331 Gibraltar - - 31 • •••• -"" THE BRITISH PRESS. reasons? Let the Times explain them. If money was not paid, WHAT ELSE was the condition upon which the Times consented to make its columns the vehicle of these " vile accusations ?" What answer does the Times offer to this? Why, it makes two exclamations, neither of which include a denial of the fact, and it tacks a note of silly admiration to the end of them :—" We take money as a bribe from STRACEY, mARSII, and GIIA HAM ! We want their money much r"lhey are not, it seems, ashamed of the iniquity, but of its wages. " I know not"--says FALSTAFF to the worthy Knight, Cot.- vt 1.1.5—" I know not how they sold themselve , , but thou. like a kind fellow, gayest thysetf away !" And yet, ac cording to their own unguarded and foolish confession, we find it is nothing new that the Times should be charged with venality. We have their own admission of the fact, that " rarious public characters, from envy, hatred, and malice, have at diFrent times charged them wills taking money." There can hardly, the public will think, have been so much smoke without fire. But the Journalist, with an air of simplicity, affects to consider it as " surprising that none have turned upon them and attempted to justify the assertion from their ows knowledge." It would be much more surprising if these matters were so ill-con certed, and managed with so little of contrivance, as to furnish the injured parties with the means of proving, from their own knowledge, the mercenary treaties of which their reputation was the victim. Bribery is not usually conducted quite so much in the face of the sun, as to supply positive evidence sufficient to ensure its conviction. We can hardly expect the testimony of those behind thescreen, and no man can be expected to prove, "front his own knorriCdgC, " transactions which have been so studiously withheld from it. As to the declaration of the surviving /-artncrs of the concern in Berners-street, that they " never inserted, nor caused& be inserted, any paragraph in a public newspaper, but two, to which they signed their names," which the Times quotes in the way of exculpation, we repeat, that it confirms the suspicion against them, instead of removing it. " Such is the confusion of ideas in the libeller's head," says the Times, " that he thinks this an equivocal decla ration, because they did not deny that they had written or furnished materials hr writing such paragraph." does not every one think so that reads it ? It reminds us of the school-boy fable of "'the Thieves and the Should r of Mutton :" one swore he slid not steed it, the other swore that he had not got it. Why aces not the Times give up the author of the article, and thus exculpate themselves at once? That this Journalist, after inserting those false and infamous accusations against the ill-fated individual now in his shroud, should rush with ruffian fury before the public, and complain of " foul calumny"!! Really it is too serious for laughter, and too absurd for contempt. Another instans neglect on the part of the Water Companies oceuT afire in Gravel-lar.c yesterday. In tliis case there Was a delay of above two hours before water was supplied, Oil the fire was fairly snared to burn out by itself. An unusually thick party-wall alone saved a long range of bui:dings from a general conflagration. The turncock of the Lamb. 11l water-works was summoned to Union-ball to account for this scandalous negligence. The .details he gave of the tedious process for turning on the waxr into the main pipes, exculpated him, but deeply cri minated the Company he serves. It appears that there is an insufficiency of persons to attend to the duty, and an utter inaptness in the preparations for speed. The water should be had instantly ; and if the Companies persist in disregarding the loud and just complaints of the public, we hope and trust that Parliament m ill interrerc, and exact from them by law, what they arc unwilling to render irtrn a sense of moral duty. The consol market o yesterday a.vsumed a mare lively appearance than it Las lloiw for some time hack. Consider ing the little business that was done, iliac was a very con siderable advance, the opening pace being 95, from which it rose to DS,,I; Mexican Bonds have had still a greater rise from 9t3 to ,i!. We learn from authority on which we can place the very greatest reliance, that all the matters at issue between the Government and the Canada Company, have been finally adjusted, on terms which cannot rail to be highly advanta geous both to the Company and the Colony. It is now tinally determined that the four Commissioners shall take their departure on the 17th 1/..ceinhat. Last night we received a file of American Papers to the 7th ult. Their contents are uninteresting. Mr. Owen, who has arrived at New York, wade. an exposition, on the 6th of November, of the outline of the improvements which he thinks it both practicable and in the highest de gree beneficial to introthate into the pres-nt system of human society. Mr. Owen (says the New lurk American) intends to submit his plans to Congress. Adviccs have been received from the Dutch Admiral at Mahon, that the Mgerines had comnactievd hostilities against the Dutch fag. Despatches, dated the I ttli June, acre received yesterday morning, at the Colonial Department, from the Governor of Ceylon. Letters dated the loth Jody, have also been received from that island, but they bring no news of isn portancn _ . _ The Allgentrine Zeinotg, of the z?..d instant, states. that the President of the Committee of the Prussian Sinking Fund had concluded a negociation, with a 1v:11-known house in Lowden, for the establishment of a National Bank. The Prussian National Bank is to consist of 50,000 Flians of 1,000 dollars each, or a capital of So midious of dollar*. (alasure-40014000 atcrling.). Any person can take part in it by paying .100 dollars in money, and Soo dollars in State Bonds (called Staatschicldscheine), for whielt he will receive a share of 1,000 dollars. This news had Intl the effect of causing the Stat.' floods, which bear 4 per cent. interest, to rise from *it one-third to t and a-half. THE ARMY IN moth.—The regulations lately carried into effect at the several Presidencies, dividing each regi ment into two distinct regiments instead of battalions, has occasioned an entire change in the arrangement awl tleshf nation of those to which Oleos in India have been hi therto attached. A correct report, from official documents, of the alterations, and lists of a'l the regiments, as now formed, will be found in the Arialie Journal, published this day. Tux ARPatv.—Tlie 99th fle7iment, now in Clat;ow Barracks, has received orders to enthark immuliately at Leith for Portsmouth, where they are to disenahark till transports are collected, in which they arc to proceed to the Mauritius, to relieve the Stath Foe:, now onlned home. This information is important to many officers now on lea of absence, who wi!l join at Portsmouth, instead of in curring the expetse of a longer Joutney to Scotland. Be vr..—A meeting took plan near the Crom Man, Finchley Common, ycsterdly ' between a gentlemen of the name of Forbes and a Mr. iletlicrington, in COllSCqtal:ce of a quarrel. in which the character of a lady is said to he involved. The first Ere was a arras; hot in the second Mr. Hetherington was sevel-ely wountit,l in the side, and he was conveyed off the ground in a pest-clijic. EARI.I)O‘..I OF CSAIVFOU.O.--It i.. Taitt tion of a person in huni:Jle tilnied John Lin,' ;ay, presently residing ha Niddrie, county cf Edinhzirg!), to present an before the t;upreole C.airts of F. , land, prayi:ig to be served and cowl - Ariel tirarest lawful heir-niale to the late Coptain David Lindsay, of hirk forther, who died w:thout i•stte iu the ye;:r 7 ; and also to he serves' nearest lawful heir-in:de to Ceorge Esti of Crawford and Lindsay, who died likcwisc without is6r.e in the year I . ..!‘oS.—.L'ok:.;o:isto ifercery. P. 1111.1. riox OCR COIIRESPONDZYT.I P*rus. Now. 27. The Liberty of the Press is, above all other subjects, that which the most occupies the attention of the Ministers, and the reason is obvious enough—the Liberty of the Press has undermined their power, and menaces their overthrow; there is, therefore, a deadly war waged between the Minis ters and the opposition Journals. if the Ministers survive, the Journals must fall; if the Journals survive, the Minis ters must fall. A certain Marshal, who has been placed on the shelf since Ills, lately hal an audience of the Klett ; in the midst of the conversation, M. vi COMERE entered. The Marshal retired to a short distance, but not so far as to prevent him from observing, that during the conference the Minister of the Interior made some remarks in a low voice, but with mach earnestness, to the Kr NG, in reply to which his MAJITh said, in a tone distinctly audible where the Marshal stood, " Vous ne cease= de eons pkindre de la licence des Journal's. ; uous Sc pourea, ooeu fist9nner a la libertif de la pes.:e et cependant cette liberty est urcessairc. Nun Frerc ne sartoil pa; mais rnoi je tors, je court, je t"is par nsoi-m(me, it fast queje melte is resift'. Si je netapprendais pas, par les Juurnanx ; je tapprendrai doss 1" rue per des passans, it tai, ela dendanderai. Lequel rrait prrfrraldc ?"—" Yon are perpetually com plaining of the licentiousness of the Journa's ; you cannot reconcile yourself to the Liberty of the Press, am! yet that liberty is essential. My Brother did not go out, but Ido ; I walk about, and see with my own eyes; I must know the truth. If I did not learn it through the Journals, I would gather it from the passengers in the street, of- whom I would ask it ; which of the two means do you prefer ?" These words have been reported by the Marshal who heard them. The wishes of the Kier. will nor, however,' have much influence on the proceedings of Ministers, They arc fully aware that they cannot restore the censor ship, but they hope to supply its place by a law which will shelter them from the tracassaries of the Journals. All their agents have been put on active service to ahl in this important work. At first it was the intention of the Mi nisters to propose, as the basis of the new law, the sup pression of all the privileges of the existing Jounials, and making it necessary to obtain a new authority to continue their publication. By this means, all the Journals that dis pleased the Ministers would be suppressed according to law, and they would grant new privileges to those only whose support they had previously taken measures to en sure. They considered, however, that so scandalous a violation of the rights of property would create too loud an outcry, and, without altogether renouncing their project, they sought an expedient more adroit. They are, beyond measure, anxious to render themselves independent of the tribunals, and to take out of their hands the cognizance of the off. noes of the press. It was at first deemed most proper to have these offences judged by the Council of State; they have since considered it better to sub mit them to the judgment of a jury, but of a special jury, which shall be nominated by the French Academy, It is very easy to foresee the consegneness of such an appeal. Among the 40 members of the French Academy there are scarcely ten independent men to be found; among the rest, are a few furious Ultras, tools of power, who make open profession of a servile obedience to all the will and wishes of the Court, and are at all times ready to pros trate themselves at the feet of the two Bishops, whom they have voted into the Academy. This Academy, properly speaking, is merely a literary association; to appoint them as a jury, would be to submit the choice to the Archbishop of Pours, and the Ills'aop of nevi unites, and yoU may suppose in this case what would be the fate of the Journals that fell under the tribunitial ser. Sech is the present project that Ministers appear to have hit upon ; and which, unless between this, and the sitting of the Chambers, they should stumble upon one still more odious and oppressive, will be the one preferred. Another instance er the refusal of the rite of sepulture has occurred, which recalls to mind, in a more odious point of view still, the unchristian conduct of the clergy, with re spect to the actor Pure term : it evidently shows how fast the Priesthood are receding into that fanaticism and in tolerance which used to disgrace the (When Church be fore the Revolution. A letter from Troyes of the i 3 l inst. states the following fact :—M. Larose, formerly Mayor of Troyes, departed this life yestenhy, in the trith year of his age. This venerable, and highly respected citizen, died without having received the Sacrament, which was refused him in his last momenta, on the pretext that he was a Jansenist, unless he would previously abjure his errors ; such was the extreme debility of the dying man, that he mid only express his assent by s sign of approbation to the Minister. lie cespired unabsolved. The Church was scandalized, refused him its prayers, and denied his re mains admission into the lloiy Sanctuary. To-day, ap plication was made by the family to the Curate, but the Priest refused thiur Christian burial, as being a Jens:mist. The Bishop of Troyes, M. es Com ere BOULOGNE, gave only an evasive answer. The Prefect who interested him self in behalf of the family, could excite no compassion in the ministers of charity. The body remitted for some hours, and the Nods ass:tinkled in great numhers at the house of the Ll:eel:sit, cepecting a clergyman to arrive, but none would o:Sciate, and the funeral precession was at length escorted by gen'aut lies nut tur , nts of Police, in awful silence to the ear ;eery. A conceal oration was pro nounced by M. o rs 3 1:91:A51 DI: :IT, who, iu a most feeling and inter sire rummer, expatiated on the moral qualities awl nu vote virtues id this truly religiatti citizen the town hat: les:. An immense Lumber of poor cuiluw:d in tears, t::, it 114 , :t-cat:!er. The Priests refusal even to say a Lee: Mess for Ins seta. If the prat en of a few intolerant l'ri.sts were wanting, those of the objects of his beneveh nee, and the rear's of the whole population of Tre:Te, will supply a more stitesre and hooourable tribute to his memory. Yesterday inornin7., about c'ercn o'r:ock, the De re cf Clarence ecru• from Ilus:iy, sr•! paid a visit to his Majesty. His !toys!Lini•ss prcs!drd at (limier gist:a Ly the F.:ottisli at the Old Lon don Tavern in Bisliolis -ate-street. The I),lke o': lt'ottet.stt-r,le I of :711-ence, and the t)ill.e. visitra I)ach^sl l;loucesta 'ft:mer it:ly. The a:IsIvA- 17:ven to tlla rmn'.-rotts inquiries yes-% r c!ity, aft ~ , set , ! that" 11:1- • Itoril I i igliiicss Las had a buter and .s rather lott..r ti)-(12.v." nr , llll , py to lirnr that Mr. S cretary L'ann:r7 cor.:red front the at:ark ef which lie ex- LiNt tcc. ; andlion-•!raMe krtlily at tlio i;,•1C111311 trap. l hi in :n,nir -c'7a t. ( • 111:11. arc, the Earl of and 11 - aril. (; ru. NOV. i 7;st the 11t:' , 1 nrrjrals I'i::,ta•tct i`adl Cc . (:o.;111an, Pratt. - 110,4 list the 1:11k,. cf Cot 1 ,..tt paid his first to the arei•T.: estate 4 I:) thc res,•- sion or wt.:el, 1i en: rcil en Cm: s hy'.r of alter a long prntract , ..d i:t re a I..ase that would have mull( tt lv tleniced hitn, and the oth:r substi tutes, of tin! tnan..l;entent of tho itro.:t . rty for neatly century to c,.:,nte. NEIrEOUNDLAND PAPER, From the Newfoundland Ilona( Goali e o f t h e 9th lit In enticing the arrival at Plymouth from hence of his 31inji ship Egerhe and sir Frauets Drake, on the Ist ult., after a of 20 days, we cannot help thinking it nun duty to pry th at , tit 4 ., or praise to the indtlatigable . exertions of Capt a i n S. which, in our opinion, he so Justly merits. It may be wi t h 4, ,, rernllocion of our readers, that the Sir Fr anc i s Drake was el,' g 2.",t1i of August, at 11 a. m. completely dismantled and it h. similar to the way in which the ships in ordinary s ur 'el and at at sunset on the same day the whole of the bou s i nt °l. stripped off. Such was the esnedition with which she was for sea, that on the 11th September she was in all respects and when it is considered flirt in that I.lmrt tinie the whole 00; naval MOM bad been shipped on board her from the deckled.. and the whole of her rigging fro.n the bo%tay to the truck. been thoroughly overhauled, our astonishment at the power, v seaman, when well directed. is excited to a degree which up, t ct our wannest admiration ut that noble profession. DRI:A ASSAssINATION OF MAJOR (MAIL. PION. AT ST. VINCENT'S, AND C031311T316 T OF TILE :11CRDERER. Sr. Vtucrur, Orr. It It is our painful duty to record, in this day's 1., ffr , melancholy death of Major Champion, 21st RoyLl Yon!: fusilcets, commanding the troops in this garrison. (in tetur z ,,.. to the fort on IVednesilay evening last, at ibout seven p. n. was shot by the sentry posted at the drawbridge, and espied fore ten on the same evening. The wench who committee o rs diabolical act is now given over to the Civil Authority; and oti4 is the second instance of a similar nature which he has raid, Toured (though in the titst instance happily unsuccessfully)). re. petrate. it is hop .N 1 that he will soon meet with that fate shirt so richly deserves. The body of 3lujor t'hampion was intrusdni every military honour due to the much.ismented deceased,, 'I hursday evening; and marked respect was paid to his nen. by the principal Authorities, civil and military, together with g n i of the respectable inhabitants. . The foregoing particulars (transmitted bis us from the Rea lm) comprise a faithful detail of as shocking an event as ever was remit( —one, we are happy to say , hitherto unprecedented in this Moat. and of which, perhaps. scarcely a parallel can be found in the of the British army. It ha. thrown a gloomy melancholy Art-r community, which at once marks the detestation and horrnt 13 viiti the crime is held, and the deep commiseration that is felt br all he the fate of Major C., and in the affliction of his widowed lad, rd five fatherless el ild ten, when the melancholy tidings shall reach them in England. IVe have but few particulars to add to what is cones,. orated officially above, respeetirig the death of this pliant tint Ha was on his return from town to his quarters in the fort, ar,' h. a d reached about the middle of the drawbridge, when he was 4 ' lenges' by the sentinel on duty at the end of it, who inquired ;r. eularlw as to his identity, and being assured it was the 3laine ty approached—he immediately shot him, and he fell from his hse on the bridge; the distance between him and the aasassin about six yards, and the shot pawing below the left breast the hotly. .1n inquest was held on Thursday on the body, arc a verdict of wilful murder returned, when the culprit was corn., to gaol, upon the coroner's warrant. Major Champion was IC LI :17th yevr ; he had seen much service, principally as an or. the stall, in various parts of the world ; and was witch eceew : -5 his brother officers, as well as all those who had the pleasure (.14 ac 7quaintanec. A vessel was sent express to his Excellency the Governor on :In night of the llajoi s neath, and he returned here early ytocust morning, from Canouan, since which he has directed a Cour. Sessions to he caged for the trial of the ptisnoer. The mew:A assas•in is named James Ilallasty ; he is n native of Ireland. bat ben about ten years in the regiment, and bore a bad chime is it. Ile acknowledged his guilt at the moment of the murder. and repeatedly since; indeed the savage and unfeeling manner is which, we are assured, he exults iu the deed, almost excads 6► lief, although his victim, not long since, is unsimtood to bast solicited and obtained a remitation of his punishment, format. tempt to commit a similar crime.—Yt. Perot: Gazelle. ROYAL AOCIE IT. Yesterday being St. Andrew's flay, the Royal Society met at their Chambers in Somerset House, for the purpose of electing the l'redelent, Officers, and Council for the En suing year. Sir Ilumphry Davy read an elaborate and highly interesting 11 port of the Council on the progress cf natural science during the last twelve months. The So• cloy then proceed,il to the ballot, and Sir Humplay Davy was unanimously re-dee:et: to the office or ?resilient, as were Davies Gilbert, Esq. MP., aml W.J. Braude, F. 4 to the offices of Treasurer and Secretary. The following u the Council for the ensuing year:— _ Sir lfumphry Davy, Bait. 11, 7 siJent ; William ThOMIS Brare.e, Esq. Secretary ; Samuel fioodenaugh..Lord Bishop of l'arlide, V.P. Major Thomas Colby; John %Wilson Croker, Env; 1%. vim Eaq• Treasurer, \'.l'.; Charles Hatchet*, Esq. 1. 1 : Sir Everard flume. Hart. Y.P.; John Pond, Esq. ; V.l'.; Thomas Young. 14.1). Serie. Corresp.; HaLington. ]1.11,; Francis flsiley, fit.; Jelintieoe (71n•Iiiren, Esq.; Vise lune Dudley and IVard ; min 11. Eater Th titian Andrew Knight, Esq.; Alexander Hu. !env, Esq.; J. F. W. Herschel. Eaq. Sec.; :Nit T. Suaninei K ht. ; Edward .Idolphca, Duke of Somen.4. This Council *ill continue till St. Andrew's Day, Ins. OPER.4-11()USE. TO TILE EDITOR OF TIM' BRITISH PRESS. STI —Obscrvir.r, in consequence of the number of rich irdiei. duals in this cruntrv, that ruinous joint stock companies are forming, I ant surprised no proposal has been made for the for mation ors co mai) , fee the purchase of the difTsrent inkr::s in the King's The: tie. iii order to place it on a secure and liberal foundation, accompatfeil with asu nificerice su table to the Lust theatre in the world, and honoured with the name of his Mit?isay• A more advantageous opportunity eicanot be expected, as the greatest interest in the concern (Slr. Chainbt es's) must be soid, and an arrangement satisfactory to the lesser interests may doubt. less be easily made. Very beneficial results may he expected to the proprietors of ra,lt an undertale.ng, as wdl as to the public; and I beg leave to recatt. mend to the proper authorities, befire they grent licence. 1. , theatres in future, to take sufficient %truths for the regular I'ly r:era of the performers, the: the misery aua disgrace now so F:• cunt may be aeoideil, and that additional legislative interfenrce be endeavoured tube obtained thr that purpose, should there co , Et found butficient power in the ;re,ent law 4 . W. T. FASHION:IBU: INTELLIGENCE. Prpartares from Ratt's Iln el, Dovtt.•treet :—Air. taal 'frt. I.o:l;truni citt family, tor France ; Mrs. Trbltets ani: fanr!y, ror Finis ; r. (Mgr., for I )sfortl ; ('aptain 31ildmrr. for Wilt. slti; trnlmi.l and Irrc. Ilcrry, for Bath ; The Han. Mims illonekton for Grosvenor-place. TnE L•TE Slit It% ll raseitlLL. A eareaponflent, in proposing that a pahic ino! um utt should be ercctod to th . e namely of the late Sir W. Herschel!, observes. " A s:rarf.: marble, iu an obscure country chinch, is all that, perlfri". could have been cNpected from his family. But the nattaa he Elected as the worthiest field for the t xcrcie of 13:1 ti aoralinary powers, is inter,sted in inarkin; him as itgoara I.y some mere couspiettous sim, and call zwra 51:::cr a t;a:sfe so closely associated with its noblest ii;fcil.cLrod tiumplis to drop unnoticed into oblivion with the voi/r herd. I feel satisfied that the sulject neel only he thf:! alluded to, to Lusure its notice in the efisuing Sessioa I. Parliament." . ..... 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