The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-04-14 00:00:00

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of the town ; and the other, a refined and emascu-
lated siditinn, for the amusement of the board-
ing-school tuiAsio. Thie plan, however, had not
been many days in contemplation, when it was
settled, that it would be unsafe, as emdra bo-
oms mutes, to publish any thing grossly obscene;
and the printer. Mr. Gll.l.liT. a irtry respectable one,
received instructions for on7y one copy. This dif-
Scotty, however, was scarcely got over, when a

ties. oue 'wus htarted. The Letters contained beve-

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At tile Sokthw trk Meeting, of which ae gave a
full report yesterday, Mr. ALcocu, alluding to
tlteturtiitlk of Mrs. CLARKE'S Book, expensed-a
wish that it might rise like a Phoenix from its ashes,
in order that the country might see tie• buitidalous
manner in which its utfairs'were maaaged, and its
confidence was abused. The honesty and sincerity
of Mr. ALCOCA'A wish no man acquainted with Lis
character can doubt, but we do not believe that his
wish, if realised, would answer Ins expectation. A
Sample of the Duce of Yonfe's Mee-letters is be-
fore the public, in the es idence given upon the ill-
spiry before the House of Commons, and Mrs.
CLARE had a great many others from the some pen.
Serval objections were, however, made by her legal
mod friendly couiisellers, to_ the publication in
their original state. Some were objected to as too
vies, and it was proposed to emasculate them, for
Ilse benefit of the sentimental and boarding-school
li.saies. In answer to this, it was said that such re-
finemeut would rob them of their only merit; and af-
t era long discussion with a certain civic Knight, who
modestly characterizes himself ti an Eminent Pub-
Usher," it was agreed to publish two editions, one
in pari4 orsiara:ibus, for the use of the old batche-
lore in the city. and the kept ladies in the west end

ral allusions to the other Nletinbers of the Royal
Faun!), :lied it was suggested; that coupling them
with some infamous reports and parsgraplis in some
of the newspapers, • ease might he made out fur a
Jury, tantamount to a conspiracy to degrade and
vilify the Royal Family. Here then the prolong
knife was again set at work, and every paragraph in

the amorous epistle. of his Royal Highness contain-
ing any anecdote of the root of the Royal Faintly
was cut off and cast away. It war in this stater that
the work was prepared for the pn•ss, and ten tlmu-
• sand copies were worked off, when on Saturday last,
Mrs. CLARKE issue) hioliat for an auto dafr, and
they wr .- ddi co.Aigned to thc attunes. Mrs. C: LA RE E
' it tipprais, never had a child by Dowl.cit, nor by
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t tar Luxe, although she had several by the miser-
able fellow, her husband. If. i:i.• of the DLAL's
letters he says something in his awn defence, and
CANlrtiiiiPlo that, by a former Sot, -..ue, be bad two
ugly children, whom be occasionally risited.--This
i 4 the only private scandal that Wars r.tained in the
work. Report has stated, that Mrs. CLA ItliE had
contrived to introduce herself to the Duke as an
Officer's widow iti distress, and all the world
arena aidti•ni to know whether this story was true,
. as &epsilo! of this modern Mad. Da MA,rietcsorde
Bat 'even this point, so interesting to all belies
ausiotiaeo ire under preicelion, was not noticed,
and the work wits cot down into is mere dr
' fence of lot ow u suotliect. sass wit, sin/ scandal,
same anecdote, same tawdry, semis every thing to ren-
derit delecrahle to refilled *oral sad political taste.
We may, therefore, ash ly say that neither mora-
lity, politics. literature, mit lewduros, have loot any
lilies by the suppression of Mrs. CLAZILL'S Work.
THE BRITISH PRESS.

We yesterday announced the arrival of the official
accounts of the ertutplete surrender of Martinique ;
and also of the strrtuder of ViKo. They were pub-
lished yesteiday, in an lixtraardinary Casette,
whieh is is writ in our preceding columns.

Sir At TWO. WiLLEILLY and Iris Staff remained
Oct Wednesday, at Portsmouth ; and die tritrivports,
with the 3d and 4th Dragoon:, which bad Sailcd
tinder convoy of the Frederickstein, fur LiAnii, bud
put into Stoke', Bay, being forced buck by con-
trary. winds.

Lord Aacausato Hann:sow gave notice last
sight in the HOWL' of Common', of a motion rela-
tive to Vircottot CLIITLEREAGII, grounded upon
the evidence before the Select Committee upon
East India( Patronage. Wk stated yebtertlay, that
•ant the Noble Viscoust suitst go. nod wok now ro.
peat go be mw,t.

Perhaps in no department of Administration has
BoNAMAirrit disployeof greater ability or din:em-
inent, than iu the selection of those persons whom
lie has employed, and whom be continues to em-
ploy in diplomatic situations. Three of these in-
dividuals lisle been particularly distinguished in
the Court 4 of Turkey, Austria, arid Knurls. The
tiro, Srfurtiani, after vivitiog Egypt, Persia, Syria,
and the Asiatic provinces of the Porte, finished by
governing the Counsels of the late unfortunate

mod was in fact more master at Con-
stantinople, during ;oome years, than the Sultan
himself. He has sere' theleste beets recently sent
into Spain in a military romanand. imireussi, the
second. commenced his diplomatic career in this
rThatrY is IOL He was a 111411 of science is his

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