The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-02 00:00:00

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quibbling, we presume, is offered as a speci.
men of logical precision, or of very ucute special
pleading. Now, supposing that this man sere to
change his general desigoation into one more sloe.
cific, and instead of styling himself " spilt for the
Indepeodelots of South America," he were to call
himself agent for the lodependents of Buenos
Ayres, or of Arenernela, or of any other town or
proviuce, would be in such case, if representing
his constituents truly, be considered and treated a.
en impostor? Most certainly he would not ; awl
we do toot believe that the Monarchs assembled in
Congress would refuse to hear his statements, or
reject his information, even though he had not ob-
tained his oppointmeist from all the Independents
assembled in common council. Possibly some
T►easury Journalist, filled with the dreams of /fgt.
tiataes,f, might imagine that the legitimate Monarchs
of Europe would not recogstise an agent, commis..
sioned by men who presume to question the rights
of one of the Royal fraternity ; hut it mug at the
same time be remembered, that if the Allied Sove-
reigns undertake the office of mediators, they must
thereby acknowledge the existence of the lode.
pendent' as a distinct Power, and, consequently,
in their office of mediators, they must submit to
hold conferences with persons delegated by the
Potter they have already acknowledged.

Authentic accounts front the cost of Africa state,
that the Spaniards have transported a greater num-
ber of slaves to the West Indies in three months of
the present year, than in the same interval in any
preceding year. So much for the feeble policy of
Lord CarmestßAcm at Vienna, in acquiescing in
the continuance, for a given time, of the Slave
Trade on the part of Spain and Portugal, after it
had been abolished by Great Britain. It was ob-
vious that the effect of this arrangement must be to
transfer the British portion of the trade to these
two Powers, and that, by limiting its continuance
in point of time, they would pursue it with greater
zeal and energy than if it had been left indefinite
in its duration. Twelve thousand slaves were lately
imported into the Havannah, from Africa, in the
course of one week.

Count Lumen, the Russian Ambassador at tills
Court, left London yesterday for Aix-la-Cha-
pelle, by the directions of the &maim. His E..
cellency war accompanied by M. de Pouct;r4-
POILII. the Secretary of Embassy.

It is asserted that Cardinal GONSA LTI has re-
cently written to the English Minister, that the
POPS had it its contemplation to send it Catholic
Priest to General BONAPARTE at St. Helena. His
Britannic Majesty's Minister replied to the Cardi-
nal, that it could only be effected by the Priest
consenting. to *abject himself to all the regulations
at present to fare in the island, and upon the ex-
press condition that he would remain there at least
five years. It is suspected that this condescension
on the part of his Holiness, is to be attributed to
the earnest solicitations of the BONAPARTE family
at Rome.

• A government packet will, in future, sail from
Bristol every Thursday for Dublin, and the Wa-
terford vessels will soil on the Bth and 13th of each
month.—/Barh (.'hrerade.)
We understood it is in contemplation to establish
• Society in Wale*, for the preservation of the re-
mains of Ancient British Literature, Poetical, His-
torical, Antiquarian, Sacred, and Mural ; mud h.r
the encouragement of the National Music ; fir
which purposes it is proposed to hold an Eisteddfod
annually at one of the following places :—Catma--
then, Cuwbridge, Dolgeltey, and Llsagollen,
un-
der the patronage of the Duke of B•Auru•r. the
Earl of Poem. Lord Dvw•vort, Lord Campo*,
Sir WATIUN W. WYNN, Sir ROs••r VAUGHAN.
Sir THOMAS MOSTYN. Rod Sir CisalLas MORGAN;
and to invite the uuited efforts of all lore,* of
Au-
cieut British Poetry and Literature ; and to pro..
mote by subscription the publication of the inedited
works of GINALNGS CAMINENIIII, and other An-
cient British writers. Premiums will he minority
given for the best specimens of poetical composition
in the Ancient British language by hviug wrirert,.
for the best Essay in English on subjects conhecteii
with the institution, and for the best performancts
on the Harp.--( Hereford Journal.)
A cask, belonging to the ■hip Loads, was found
by Capt. PEcturry, of the Nerd George, of Hull.
on the SlOth March, who has brought the cask thi-
ther on his return from Davis's Straits. The Lou-
don was left in April, 1817, in lut. tip long. 57-
and the cask was picked up in Hoysous..l. a tsar ow
pass at the Orkney Islands, its a pertect state, hut
entirely covered with gross. It seems difficult to
ascertain whether the set of the tides. or long pre-
valence of westerly winds (sometimes for Mile
months together), had drifted the cask the great
distance of 1,400 miles in eleven months, or shout
four miles a day, and in this age of ilircovery may
be deemed worthy of further inquiry.

The miners in the employ of Colonel BEAUMONT.
in the western part of the county of Durham.
struck for *II advance of wages oil Monnsy week.
That they have no means of subsistence without
work is pretty certain, and, therefore, unless an
uccornmodation between the workmen and their
employer speedily takes place, the parish of Stan-
hope. whose poor's rate is already extremely heav,
a l►kely to be burdened with an addition of some
hundreds of paupers.—(Newcastle Paper.)
The Committee of Benevolence at the Hague,
formed in the Netherlands for employing the indus-
trious poor, have presented a Report to the Prince
of ORANGE, the President of the Association, de-
scribing an Institution on the plan of DI•. Owsu,
of Lanark. The land is purchased oo the burden
of Overpaid. the materials fur building 57 houses
collected, the canals necessary for transport ren-
dered navigable. part of the houses built, and the
rest marked out; and the colony is now in full
acttrity.