The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-10 00:00:00

C'HILE.

In the 76th Number of the Chile Gazette, we
I.4ve seen the correspondence between the Chtlean
V ice-Admiral. Lord Cochrane, and Captain Bid-
of the United States curette of war, the
I lniario. respecting the salute or the national flag.
The correspondence does honour to Lord Coch-
r:rw, fur the dignity and moderation which charge-
terie his letters, whilst Captain Biddle loses tem-
per in some of his, and ruts. into inconsistencies
and contradictions, as Lord Cochrane lias remark-
ed. This every impartial person must ucknow-
ledge.
After this occurrence, Captain Biddle sailed on
the 314 of January, so precipitately, that he left
a3aochor in the port ! He pretended that be with.
held from taking this step from fear of delaying his
s•tilitig. in couseques.ce or Lord Cochrone's request
to defer it until our squadron had weighed anchor ;
but, for our own part, we think that the real mo-
tive of his precipitancy was his consciousness that
he had violated the laws of neutrality, by taking
sin board, as he really did, passengers and enemies'
property to the amount of 800,000 dollars, accord.
log to the declaration of three deserters from the
col vette. We do not believe that the Coversimeut
of Chile ever thought of searching the vessel ;
olihocgh, had it dune so, it would have been jus-
tified by the low of Winos. Indeed Vette!,
whose opinion on these subjects is received through.
out Europe as an authority, says, in sec. 115, cop. 7,
_ _

4. Property belonging to an enemy. found on
hoard a neutral ship. is reizable by the laws of
war."

The rule is no less clear and evident. which
bestows the power, according the law of nations,
cl tlecl.tring in a state of blockade the ports of an
enemy, if sufficient force be engaged in it. Con-
sequently the Government of Chile lawfully may,
and ought to decline in a state of blockade Callao,
and the other ports of Peru, in order to prevent the
ens my receiving assistance by means of neutral
•r+srls.—(l''rora El Sol, of Ms 29th of January
lust.)

'counts baring lately been received at Madrid of the
destruction by Santander of the army coming from
that city to relieve Morillo. Cagigal has been ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief of New Granada.

PROGRESS OP IMPROVEMENT IN CHILE
AND VENEZUELA.

In the New World, liberty and science walk
hand in hand, while despotism, bigotry, and igno-
rance. fly fast before them. The Senate of Chile
has just decreed the re-establishment of the Na-
tional Institution, and its maintenance by various
funds—because, say they, 8, it is of the greatest
importance to the State for the education of youth,
and in order to raise up excellent men and good
citizens fur the defence of their native country."—
In Venezuela, a steam-boat now plies on the Ori-
noco as regularly as here on the Thames ; and the
lithographical machines of Ackermann, which,
without difficulty or expense, multiply copies inde-
finitely, are employed in the army and in the pub-
lic offices.

BRITISHI HE PRESS.,

LONDON,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1819.

New York, Boston, and Baltimore Papers, have
arrived at our Office. It is stated in a New York
Paper of the Bth of last month, on the authority
of a Captain RIPLEY, of the schooner Zephyr,
who had arrived at Boston in 47 days from Cadiz,
that the Treaty for ceding the Florida. to the
United S!ates had received the ratification of the
Spanish Government, and that the Hornet sloop of
war was to sail from Cadiz on the Ist of June, con-
veying the ratification to America. This, how-
ever, we cannot consider decisive evidence upon
this subject ; for it is not to be supposed, if an
event of so much general interest were publicly
known in Cadiz in the month of May last, that
any doubts could have prevailed in Madrid with
regard to its occurrence at so advanced a period
as the middle of July. The recent disgrace of
the Ministers by whom the Treaty was negociated,
and the proceedings at law which we are assured
have been instituted against all those who were
most prominent in this impolitic and disgraceful
bargain, which is now publicly declared to have
been transacted without the command and egainst
the will of their Kul G, afford a presumption against
the correctness of Captain RIPLEY'I statement,
sufficient, in our minds, to countervail the weight
of his testimony. We cannot believe that the
British Cabinet would with perfect indifference wit-
ness the transfer of the Florida, to the United States,
and not snake some effort to prevent an occur-
rence which would effectually destroy the balance
of power in the Western Hemisphere, submit the
most valuable branch of British trade to the control
of an active and jealous rival, and place the Bri-
tish West India Islands within the very grasp of
those whom ambition and interest would alike
prompt to take advantage of the triumph prepared
for them by such happy circumstances. The Flo-
rides could not be placed mare fortunately for
Great Britain than in the halide of Spain, and the
mischief of their being surrendered to swell the
Union, which has already grown to a dangerous mag-
nitude, would scarcely be compensated even by the
acquisition of the rich and beautiful Island of
Cuba by this country. They argue very it►cor-
rectly who pretend that the British Cabinet has no
right to interfere between the Governments of
Spain and of the United States, and that these two
independent Powers are at liberty to decide their
differences in any manner they may think proper.
The principle, however, of sic Were too wt die-
m:we won lerdas, applies in no cue more forcibly
lino, in the arrangements between independent
States, and should either party, from indifferesice
or utceesity, appear to neglect its operation, it be-
comes Ilse duty, as it is the interest of other States,
to interfere. and prevent the occurrence of the
threatened evil. On this principle have the several
Governments of Europe acted steadily and with
advantage for centuries, and to the active jealousy
with which they severally and respectively watched
the growth of each others power, are we indebted
that ao ambitious Prince has at any time succeeded
in effecting a scheme of universal monarchy. The
acquisition of a single town or inconsiderable di..
trict in any part of Europe would agitate every
Cabinet, and rumours of wars would float on every
breeze ; and can it be supposed that the importance
of this principle is confined to Europe, or that the
possespion of additional territories of immense ex-
tent, with the consequent increase of power, neces-
sarily endangering the security of ot.r possessions,
and compromising a valuable portion of our trade,
ought not to be considered an object of jealousy or
a cause of alarm, merely because such au event has
taken place in America ? As we Isere already hinted,
we should not be surprised if the difficulties that
have been started in the Cabinet of Madrid. with
regard to the ratification of the Florida Treaty,
were suggested by the British Government ; and
should such be the case, however we may thii►k
that such suggestions, whatever they may be, ought
to have been urged at a mach earlier pariorl, we
shall yet be happy to concur with the great ma..

jority or the nation in applauding the conduct of
our Minister.
The report of the death of the PRESIDEX? is
untrue; he was expected et the seat of Govern-
meta on the 15th ultimo.

We have received German Papers of recent
dates. The Universities still continue to be the
objects of suspicion, and arrests continue to he
made among the students and professors. So great
an alarm of jucobit►ical doctrines is either felt or
assumed by several of the German Goverumants,
that in an article from Frankfort it is said, that
" every where personal safety is compromised, and
terror reigns in all classes of society."
The assurance of a Constitution, founded on
justprinciples and consonant to the wishes of the
people, is held out to the States of Wirtemberg
by the Kum. The Commissioners appointed by
the Deputies are, says one of these papers, " very
sedulously occupied with the important object in-
trusted to them, and the progress of their labours
thus far affords the most favourable prospect.
They go through the KING'S project of a Consti-
tution, from the beginning to the end, chapter by
chapter, and paragraph by paragraph, and hope
in this manner, and on this basis, that they shall
the soonest attain the proposed object."

. .
" The accounts fromStutgard," says another Ger-
man journal, " are very satisfactory. Instead of any
reason to apprehend a new difference with the Go-
vernment, and, consequently, another failure of the
Constitution, we learn that the endeavours of the
great majority of the Deputies, and especially of those
who have the most influence, teed to the removal of
all those difficulties, which, in the last Assembly,
hindered the completing of the new Constitution.
The representatives of the kingdom seem to be
thoroughly sensible of the importance of their
vocation, and to be proud that the Government
will give the State a Constitution in cenjiinction
with them, whereas the neighbouring States have
received Constitutions prescribed by their Princes.
A flamburgh Paper of the 3wli of July icip,—
" Lieuteuant•General Count Pine, included in
the Ordinance of July 24, 1915, is arrived litre
from St. Petersburgh returning to France."

uttusos:t.s, AUGUST 5.
M. CAMBACERES. Duke of . set uut sea.
terday 'nor JJ 11l g Cur Pans.
It is said for certain, that M. NIARET, Duke of
Bassin°, has received permission to return to
France.

A meetiug was held last evening at the Crown
and Anchor, in the Siratol, called by a public
notice, profestiog to give information, oil the
subject of the new plan fur coluiliziog the Cape of
Good Hope. The door* were beset by crowds of
poor people meditating their flight from distress at
home to this laud of promise.

An account of the PRINCE REGENT'S aquatic
excursion, so far as . ff Portsmouth, is given in an-
other part of our Paper. From Portsmouth, his
Royal Highness continued his cruise westward, ac-
cording to report, for Plymouth, at which port he
is expected, but no orders had been received, indi-
cating his intention to laud at that place. His
Royal Highness's ultimate destination has not yet
transpired.

A private letter from Bsdsjoz, publisher, in a Pa.
per of yeserilay, makes mention of a Col. MELCHOR,
who is at the head of • small body of torn, iii the
province of Estrrtnadura, where hr has for some
time braved the power of the Spanish Guyer 1111 l ent•
His force, originally 350 men, ilityersed in vaituris
parties, and uniting as orcuinstasices may rripmr,
is sand to have been augmented to seven or eight
hundred, in consequerace of the late dispersion of
the mutinous troops from Cadiz. lie is said to
have as gutted great reputation as a patriot and
officer, and that he is looked to by some as the
future regenerator of his country. He has address-
ed to the people a proclamation, requiring theta
to join him fur the recovery of their liberties, and
brawling FERDINAND us a tyrant worse than
CALIGULA or TIBERIUS. _

Papers have Iseett received from Boston, New
England. Captain Iliuwaact, arrived at Eastport
from Trinidad, reported, that just before Ise sailed,
four English ships had arrived iss the Gol of Pa.
ries, full of English troop., bound to Auguatura, fur
the puriiisse a assisting the ludepesidesstr.

The Christupher, --, from St. Kitt's for Liver.
poet!, woe spoken with 41st June, in lat. 35. 9.
long. 67. out 21 d.%%, leaky, and steering N.W. fur
the first port she could make.

Doctor DAVENPORT has renounced his claim to
the valuable College living of Arelstraw, vacant by
the death of Doctor FITZGERALD, told Doctor
Nom has formally declared his imention to ac-
cept it.
The Stockport Magistrates have receive.l such in.
formation of the perpetrators of the murderous at.
tack on Biacti, the constable, as hes induced them
to publish a new edition (Stile advertisement offer-
ing the reward, with the names and desceiption of
James !Winne: nod Jacob 411.1otars. natives of Ire-
land, and weavers of Edgeley, near Stockport, as
being deeply implicated in the felony, and as having
absconded. A letter of the sth, from Stockport,
says, that BIRCH was so far recovered as to be able
to walk about in his houses.

Advice, from Liverpool arrived on Saturday. which
state that two persons had hero arrested on Thurs-
day 6st at Wigan, in Lancashire, for seditious.
Sunday sesunight a tremendous storm of thi).
der and lightning, accompanied wish heavy rain,
visited Hereford cud it. neighbourhood. At Moor-
(on. two heifers, the property of Mr. Homan, were
kilted by the electric fluid, and near Withingtou
the bark wal stripped [row a tree by the liglitoing.

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POETRY.

MISS O'N El LL

[From The Cork Plerrantik Chroniclel

It is she !—it is she !—let the password mond.
"nil each wave-beaten ruck feel the nsatiesl motlods
Let the gladsome responses prekide in the
'Till each hill and each Valley Ye-echo "
Yes ! welcome, thrice welcome to visit the Isle
Where thy bright natal star first presided, to smile
O'er the cradle of Hope lips Infancy's shrine,
While the name that it marked thee—clear Erie, it Wet!

Like the rose of the valley, secue'd frnm the Nast,
By the kind, tender foliage that around it is cast.
'Till furring its beauties, it breaks on the sight,
While it gathe►s fresh sweetness from gems of each Night.
Oh, ye Genii of Erin !surrounding her, say
Can powers Siddonias compare with her sway'
No ! Great Nat are now bids a Melpowee shine—
And the Queen of the Temple—dear Erin, is thine!

On the Nee of the water when morning rays dip
In the sweet calm contentment that dwells nn its lip,
Then the beams oa their silvery *nip will reveal

All the rota that %would 111011C111 ly wish to conceal.
Üb, ye Loves! and ye Graces! limit sport o'er her mom,
Ye than dwell i• her dimples and play round her form,
II is thine to ri fleet who, the heart would design—

Fur her hearty anti candour—dear Erin, are thine!

There's a Nora 'rottend her, more shining anti bright
Than the Idazint of beauty that d • ells on tl,e sight ;
'Tel the gem of the casket!—'tis Honour's recess
no wealth can enhance, or allurement make lets,
But, like gold is the furnace, the flame is defied,
And will boss* to be puler, the more it is tried—
It is Pier's!—hring a chaplet from Fishes pare shrine,
And the hand that shall crown her!—dear Erin, be thine!

There are chords on the heart that by absence improve,
And unite us inure loudly, tie farther we rove,
'Tip the impulse of friendship, of love, or of home,
That purloins from enjoyment whenever we roam;
But, the sweet soul of feeling will sensibly rise,
Now, the desk veil of vision is rent from the eyes—
When her magical voice shall those feelings refine,
Then the welcome, 0, Erin! the welcome he thine!
George's-duel. P. C. D.

Struday Prince LEOPOLD. 'mended by Baron
IFIARDFNattocK, rude from Claremont to Kris.
siurtiiiii Palace, where his Royal Highness dined
wish the Duke and Duchess of KENT. At •
o'clock his Royal Highness left Kensington, ou kis
return to Claremont.

Yesterday the Princess FEODOR, the daughter of
the Duchess of KENT, attended by her Governeer,
went in Claremont, uil a visit to ber uncle, Prince
LEOPOLD, where the Princess litoltiotql to dotorr.
The Duke and Duchess of KENT went Irmo
Kensington Palace yesterday to their house at Ca.-
tleharshill, where their Royal 1-Ibighnesses stopped
to dinner.

Saturday se' ;;;; ight (being what is called at Eton
College, Election Satin-dm') the young gentlemen
of that seminary went up the river Those+ in
fancy boats, from Windsor Bridge, to &only Hall,
where the bind of the Royal Horse Gonda were
in attendance to receive them, and played for their
amusement ►everal marches and other pieces. The
'lmre) were thronged with spectators to view the
juvenile aquatic excursion. Among the company
were several of the Nobility and persons of ills-
tinction. On their return, a grand discharge of
tire-works took place, from Windsor Bridge, which
had a very tine effect, the weather being remarkably
favourable.

Str CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Bart. has presented
to the Rot•al Imosticion of LOlltifill, through the
no-ilium of Earl SPENCER, ►everal fine specimens of
native English 0(1, lately found its tin 'beam
winks in the parish of Ladock, in this county.
Several of the pieces weigh sixty grains each.—
( Royal Cornwall Gazette.)
Every friend of genius will rejoice to learn, that
the statement which recently appeared in some
Newspapers, respecting the serious indisposition of
Mr. WALTg.It SCOTT, is totally void of foundation,
that illustrious individual being at present in better
health than he has enjoyed fur some mouths past.—
( Edinburgh Paper.)
An immense skeleton of a whale was on the 19th
ult. found by some workmen, in making improve-
ment* tenon the estate of A irthry. the property of
Sir ROBERT ABERCKOMBY. B art. the Crown or
head butte of which was in breadth eight feet and
five inches.

A Yew TREE.—Dimensions of the yew tree
which is growing in the area of Skipton Castle, the
property of the Earl of TH•NET, and which is con-
sidered by travellers a wonderful production :

Ff. In.
Height of bole from the ground l3 7
Girds al 2 feet 5 inches high
Girth et 7 feet 5 11111 hes high 5 10
Height of the first bough l7 5
Diameter of the Manche' (which form a circle) 34 0
Height from base to summit
The above tree II supposed to have bent planted at
the time she castle was repaired by Lady ANN
CLIFFORD. Countess Dowager of PEMBROKE
(after being destroyed in the civil wars), 1111110 1657.

At a late dinner of the subscribers to the pro-
jected Dartmoor Railway, Sir Thomas Tirawntrr
entered into many interesting explanations on the
subject of the rail-way, and the probable use to
which the prison on Dartmoor may be applied. A
glow of benevolent feeling was imparted to every
one present by hearing list at least eight thousand
pauper children, now wandering unemployed and
uneducated in the purlieus of vice and crime, in
the. London bills of mortality. will, in all probabi-
lity, be soon rescued from impending destruction.
and consigned to Dartmoor, •for the purpose of
learning the arts of isidisstry, and receiving that re-
ligious and mond instruction of which they are now
so irefully iguocant.