The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-13 00:00:00

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seems to us to be the wrest, the mist intelligible,
and the most constitutional mode of reforming
representation •f the people in Parliament'
Siavoid Lord loss RoesELL'a Bill eventually
rtekive the mactiou of the Legislature, a great
and positive good will be achieved, for not
• oily will corruption be checked and puui.hed in
e•ae of its strongest bolds. but the populor interest
will obtain a positive increase of strength in the
lime, of Commons. We fear, however, that should
►hi House of Commons pass the Bill, the Lords
Milt reject it. and disappoint the anxious hopes of
the community.

Bills of indictment for libels upon the Quests
have been found by the Grand Jury of the county
of Middlesex against the Moruing Post and the
Courier. The country had long felt the deepest
iltagurt at the unceasing virulence with which these
is, Papers iu particular had flung out the most in.
decent invectives against the Queen of ENGLAND,
end had freely censured the apparent remissness of
het MaJtirrir's Lsw Officers for not having en.
deavoured at an earlier period to protect—not. the
tN alone—but the moral character of the
ctsp6try, from the infamy of such scandalous, and
mr4e. obscene publications. Freed, as the writers
the two Papers avowed themselves to be, from
eery feeling of reserve or delicacy towards her
MAJESTY, and secure as they conceived themselves
.o be in the pro'ettion of the Ministers of the
Crown, they dealt out their coarse ribaldry against
the iliustrious Printers herself, and against all who,
in despite of every art which power or malice could
Jurist, still ventured to countenance and defend
t.er, with unsparing malignity, yet now the Courier
'mounts to express his astonishment that he
should be made the subject of $ penal pro.
secutiuti. We perhaps should not have noticed
this citcueustante at all, had not our attention
Leen very forcibly caught by a somewhat singular
observation used by the Courier upon this matter
—an observation to which we beg leave to direct
the notice of such of his MAJUTY'S Ministers as

cosy chance to honour us by perusing these few
remarks. Commenting upon the injudicious coo.
duct of the Law Officers of the QUEEN, in se-
It‘ting so immaculate a subject as the Cou-
rier fur prosecution, this writer bursts into
this expression, " HIS MAJESTY'S Government
will merely feel it an imperative ditty to in-
stitute defensive prosecutions." Indeed ! defea.
sive prosecutions ! For what ? Ilas the Queen's
Attorney-General proceeded against the IC ten's
Ministers ? Hu he attacked the Government
for • libel ? Is Lord LIVERPOOL or Lord CAS-
YLERE•GH the subject of prosecution, that his
AlaiesTv's Ministers should " feel it au um.
ptraitive duty to institute defensive prosecutions ?"
Or are we from this expression to collect that every
libel, gross, infamous, and scurrilous as it was,
which has appeared in the columns of the Courier,
thence to be transferred, as usual, into the tepidly
pure columns of the Post, was published under the
sine:lion and authority of the Ministers of the Crown,
and that it is " an imperative duty" open them
uule to institute cross-prosecutions against all who
uttered • word in favour of the Queen, Day, against
the QUEEN herself, as • kind of set-eff f.sr the re.
vane, if not the defence of their instrument in the
Courier? We trust that the Courier has hid no
p:ctence for throwing out such an insinuation, which
is. indeed, a gross libel upon the good taste, if
'opt the gocd faith and justice r'f his MAJitsrv's Mi-
tAsters. The Ministers owe it to themselves to dis-
claim all participation in the offences of their poor
'tribes, and if there persons, pursuing their own
w.cked desires, or mistaking the views of their sup-
posed patrons, shall commit themselves hy conduct
slisgraceful to them as men and Erglishmen, the
Munster', we trust, will suffer them to feel the
consequences of their errors, and not interpose to
prevent the free course of justice, or evince any
slinpathy in their tuisfurtunes by releasing them
Imo the penal consequences of their misconduct.

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Rome remains crowded with viaitors, although
the dread of approaching armies has tkiuutd the
number of forever' in that city.
The name of Lord POLLINGTOP will elnitied
in the list of the majority against Lord Mims-
vocC. 'potion nit Monday the Silt i, strut.
• The QUUEN will give her fi.st grand dinner on
Monday neat in the Duke ul Suiati and several
Nobility m.d Gentry.

At iralf past eleven o'clock last morning, a very
numerous procession of the inhabitants of Spital-
tit Ids passed the Strand, ou its way to Branderiburgh
Myer, Milli an Address' to her MaiLSTY, cambial.
tilt of twenty Cam Ir. filled with ladies arid gnu.
tirruen, the putuillious weariest yellow satin jackets.
We usideratund the abuse Address Na. segued by
silence 10.000 pelmets,.

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Ou ‘Vednesday the workinen began to enclose
the ground in St. Andrew's-square. where the
n►owut+:ent is to be erected to the memory of Lord
kJs&V►t.t.s.—(Ldia6wrgtt Star.)
• The eighth Attniversa►y Meeting of the Lambeth
R►l►it Suciety was held yeas rday rveni►►g ill the Omar
Krum of the Hums Tavern, Kew ii ii gtoo, which
was must ouo►eruuslj and respectanty et feuded,
Anent half-past .it oVitick Thutu.ts Wilshinan,
EN. took the chair, supported by several e►ui-
nent Dittoes and other gentlemen. The report of
Ilse irreeeeditigs of she last year Rds then read, alter
which several per.ous aducessed the meeting at
c„asidirrAila brow)) ; when thanks . hosing beet+
votki to the P.e.adrut, Officers, and the Cliairtnau
of !EL Society, the &Wing adkutut.d.