The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

method of restraining the violence of men by teach-'
ing them that they are injured ,and oppressed, in order
that a "base and bloody faction" may tyrannize over
them. One, and pe.haps the chief object of this Adeirkss, is
clear and palpable. The Catholics are, in effect, advised
to withdraw their confidence from the K t NG 'a Government,
and look for their salvation exclusively to the Catholic
Association. The exertions of that body alone can lead to
their deliverance from their worse than Egyptian bondage.
It become then of importance accurately to ascertain what
are the means by which the Association intends to accom-
plish the emancipation of those who furnish it with a re-
venue of 10001. weekly. Among the purposes to which
the Catholic Rent is to be applied, we find one which
scents peculiarly to deserve attention. It is the making
known in Ellen el,and elsewhere, the grievances under which
the Catholics labour. A correspondence has, we find, actu-
ally been opened with the Continent, and we have accord-
ingly men several inflammatory and calumnious articles
respecting the Catholics, in the French Papers especially
devoted to the Jesuitical interest. At a late meeting of
the Association, the following letter was read by Mr.
O.CONNILL, which seems of itself sufficiently to explain
the views and intentions of the parties, both in the British
dominions and elsewhere.
" Faris, Hotel de Breyolle, SI, Roe de flrenelle, Faubourg
" St. Germain, Saturday, Nov. 14, 1824.
" Stn—Without doubt you will excuse the liberty I take in ad-
dressing you, when you arc made acquainted with tie subject of
my letter.
1 have been impressed with the necessity of employing the
foreign press in favour of the Catholic Eniammation. 1 observe
from your speeches that you have entertained the same opinion,
and from the conversations 1 have had with .Ir. Blount, the
English Secretary, I find that his views on this head coincide
with mine. The circumstances in which I am now placed are
admirably calculated for carrying my plan into effect. lam inti-
mately acquainted with the chief proprietor of the Paris Paper
oftenest quoted by the London Journals; this gentleman is ants nt
in our cause, and I ant employed to translate for the Papa/ articles
of interest that appeared in the English Papers.
" I can obtain macro an for any thing I wish in at least four
other Paris journals.-.I shall shortly be in regular communication
with Josanalists in Madrid, Vienna. St. Petersburgh, and Rome.
To all these plate,, as well as Lnuden, I am sending dcapa:clies
free of expense ; and what is of still more importance, without the
possibility of their being intercepted. 1 shall receive all English
Journals fres of the heavy French postage. Now, Sir, in this awe
of things I address myself to you, requesting your support, for
without it little can be done. Unless lam in ►egular communi-
cation with you, or the Secretary of the Association, my efforts will
be ermiparatively useless.
" I should wish to be enabled to dedicate my whole time to the un-
dertaking; I have written to Mr. Blount upon the subject Tour
frierd. 31r. Lyons, will tell you who I am. Allow me to observe,
that I think it would be better, if the fact or the Catholics hut Mg
as egret he Paris were cesseeakd ; the support of the foreign press
would have more effect, if it were thought spontaneous. But of this
you are the proper judge.
" Requesting the favour of an early answer, I remain, Sir,
" Your most obedient and humble servant,
"11EORGE PARKER WI:R."

This foreign agent of the Association, himself, con-
siders his services to be of such a character, that his mission
should be kept secret. The question as to the Association
thus assumes a new shape. That it has not hitherto vio-
lated the letter of the law, must, we believe, be admitted,
but that its proceedings are accordant with the spirit of tl;e
Constitution, we believe none but the Catholic leaders
themselves can after this be found to allirm. The only
legal objects of such an Association are the redress of
individual grievances by the admiristration of the law,
and the petitioning of Parliament for the redress of public
grievances by the alteration of the law. All publications,
not of a libellous haturc, which are deemed necessary for
the attainment of the latter object, arc, of course, included
in it. But what connection can the apl•ointment of a
fireign agent have with either of these objects? What can
the people at " Madrid, Vienna, S. Petershurgh, and
Rome," have to do with the measures that affect the sub-
jects of the British Crown ? The desi;;n is te.o evidently
to overawe and menace Parliament into acquiescence with
' the demands of the Catholics. A more audacious appeal
to foreign aid was never made; it must be promptly met
and crushed. If the Catholic Question were to be conceded
the very next Session, the Association which hes appealed
to foreigners shouts first be utterly suppressed.

Whether the practice of pr, aching condemned sermons,
as they are called, be wise or useful, we have no time, at
present, to inquire: we certainly agree in opinion with
our Correspondent in another part of our paper, that the
making a public exhibition of the unhappy individuals in
whose car the knell of their departed hour is so soon to
toll, can have no good effect; and we think the sooner the
custom is got rid of the better. But the tenor of the ser-
mon preached to Mr. Fa u I. emir, and at those who had
petitioned the hive. for the commutation of his punish-
ment, deserves some remarks beyond those which are con-
nected with the custom itself. It is exposed, we think,
otejections of very serious magnitude. We would draw
attention, in the first place, to the danger of that lesson,
now so common, which teaches that a savieg conversion
may be effeeted in the last hours of life. If true repentance
coosists in the turning front our evil ways, and the for-
king these hart courses to which we have been addicted;
in nr.:cr to t.'sttfy it, we must—as the fwmata of our
Church trachcs—" lead a new lifr," it seems a fatal error to
snprse that this may be &tie just as effectually by those
who are about to close their career of guilt on the scallbld,
and arc within a sp.itle of the grave, as if they had testified
their sinceri: y by tin ir moral reformation, and had actually
lett Owl at w to v,hich the ri ward of !leaven is promisee!.
I laving thrown out this: remark for the consideration of the
mere ref:ective, we pass to other parts of this discourse,
which we think call strongly for animadversion. Many are
I of opil.ion that we inflict death with an unmerciful impa-
-1 tie:ice ; whether thin be so Cr 110% it sure ly made no part
I of the Ordinary's duty, iu preaching this " condemned ger-
; nom," to launch forth his insidious invectives against these
al.. interceded to solioit the mercy of the Crown. A Chris-
tian Minister should he the lest p-reon to reprobate as
" mistaken clamour" the f, recut exe:tions of humanity,
! :eel to attribute to " artful exeitement" the instinctive
ctrorts of a pure and spordatitrins beuevolenee to save a soul
:.nn death. Th. re was ntueli more, in a strain extremely
' ott;msive ::.d out of place, in this sermon, which we have
net hisure to observe upon. But there was one piece of
Wm.:ration whien was somewhat remarkable. •‘ The
," we were told, •• with that hunrnity and feeline•
s. iee eeliee!e their own, ei• cina e.od tl)
OFE IN I): 111)t• !.S il 1141110 I' a I' 1,1:1)." Now
in this th:re wa,l not a word of tre.h. ‘Vhat has genuine
devoCum mot, over, to do with these sera of topics? We
will not press the subject further, hering that the Rev.
Mr. Ct. t 1 o w:d dis..hatre his soi •itual fonetions :a future
with more caution. and deliver his IIIiSCO:MICUUS opinions
f.t.na the ptt!,,:it e:reunispection.

The public, as was very natural, had expected that the
aftrr the uttansw..red, and unanswerable, refuta-
tion efits Lila, and mat:Nide:lt charges against Mr. I'norr-
t.►.tos, put forth in the shape of prim!: would
have ingenuously retracted its calumnious statements, and
thus have oiler:-1 tlie best antidote in its power to the
;poison it Ed H.lastrioudy circt•.latec!. When, behold !
to the utter torpr;..t: of its readers, in its columns of Saar-

THE BRITISH PRESS.

day, appears the fo!lowing snort extraordinary paragraph,
addressed, with becoming manliness and modesty, to all
whom it way concern:—

"We arc not anxious to extend the nurative of Mr. Faunderoy's
life by a description of Li► personal habits ; but if provoked we can
lay before the public such a detail of low and disgua•.ing sensu-
ality, as would, if not completely authenticated, appear incredible
to those who were not as degraded in mind and deed as he was.
This narrative would involve several peraons who hold themselves
ruttier high, and who have preshometi to talk big, with reference to
our accounts of their wee:chest friend and associate. bet them be
quiet : if we find that either in public or pri►ate (and we have
channels of information which they dream not of ), they have the
impudence to disparage our motives, or deny our statements, we
will hold up their names and actions to public scorn, and astonish.
ment, and disgust."

Well, truly. this is a curious movement ! A most
shameful and scandalous attack is made upon an indivi-
dual, while in the hands of justice ; a time when, of all
others, every man, whether guilty or not guilty of the
crime charged against him, ought to be safe front the stab
of slander : and when the public outcry of shame! shame!
is raised against it, the slanderer, instead of expressing
the slightest contrition, turns abort round, and exclaims—
" Mind what you're about ;—take care, you that bold your-
selves rather high—beware, all you who have presunted
Ito talk bid; we will republish our libel, enriched with
annntatinns ; in which we will consign to infamy any one
who shall dare to question our veracity. Bs QUIST ; for!!
we find that either in PUBLIC or in PRIVATE you hare
Me IN runt: nc e to disparage oar motives, we will blacken
your characters with the same die, and defame you with
the same anonymous slander which we poured so profusely
upon Mr. F *Er NTLEROY ; dare but to come forward again
and deny ou► statements, and we will hold up your names
and artions to public SCORN, and •aroxuxrsar, and
DISGUST! ! !"

Really the daily press will become a national bless-
ing of inestimable magnitude if the public voice is to
be silenced by menaces like this I Nothing imaginable can
be ceder than for the mis-leading Journal of Europe
to punish the impudence of any of his Majesty's subjects
that shall dare, on any future occasion, to disparage
its motives or deny its statements! This language of
threatenirg is new to the ear of Eantisiis tar ! We had
been accustomed to believe that the press was free, and
that aspersions on any man's character, if false, might be
declared and proved so to be. We hope this sort of edict,
issued from Printing-house-square, will not be followed
up in the way of precedent by other Journals ; fa if it is,
the terror of Popery will he a fool to it. There is not,
however, much ;,round for alarm ; the menace itself is so
stupidly arrogant, and there is something so sanity about
it, that those whom its solemn forewarning is meant to in-
timidate wil! feel their blood unchilled. Let the Times but
put Tile li•Mi Or TIM WRITIER to any narrative it can
lay hefire Me public, and it may carry its blustering threat
into execution whenever it pleases.

Among our advertisements this morning will be found
the prospectus of one of those great public undertakings
which peculiarly belong to the enterprising spirit and im-
mense wealth of this country. We allude to the plan for
making a rail-road between Liverpool and Manchester. By
this means the transit of merchandise between those towns,
a distance of 33 miles, will he ef•cted in four or five hours,
and the charge reduced to about one-third. This great
saving in time and money. and consequent benefit to the
manufacturing interest, will not, however, we understand,
be inffered to be carried ints effect without opposition. The
proprietors of the two canals by which goods are now con-'
veyed between Manchester and Liverpool, at an exorbitant
and latterly highly-increased ►ate, affect to consider the pro-
pesed improvement such an invasion of their interests as
Parliament ought to prevent. At the very first statement,
this pretence appears so monstmus, that one is disposed to
turn from it with astonishment and incredulity. On the
same principle every public improvement ought to be pre-
vented. The inventor of every useful machine, in propor-
tion to its utility, throws out of employment the work-
men and capitalists engaged in following the old system.
But of all the districts in England, surely so absurd an
attempt must be most hopeless in Lancashire, the county
in which the value and importance of machinery are better
felt and understood than in any other part of the world.
The canal proprietors themselves have shared, and largely
shared, in the advantages resulting from improved and
improving machinery ; and unless they are prepared, for
the sake of consistency, to fill up their own canals, and
require the cotton merchants of Lancashire to send all
their bales by broad-wheeled waggons, or stage coaches, as
before the canals Wt Te dug, we know not why rail-roads
may not at this time of day snpersede canals, as they riper-
seded the dilatory and expensive modes previously used.
But the canal proprietors la eil nut be alarmed that they arc
about to lose a 3 their business. t`oute will still remain to
them, when the rail-reads are in fell activity. They will
enjoy the monopoly of conveying all cumbrous warts; and
while trade is free and conirtiiion of all sorts encouraged
its all other branches of commerce, we see no reason why it
I should be checked or cramped in respect to internal carry-
ing. How litany .ailing vessels have been supers.•ded by
swain boats? Vet we have not heard that the owners of
the former ever contemplated an appeal to Parliament to
put down swam navigation ; and we are sure, that if they
had made one, it would have been scouted with universal
contempt and indignation.

Lord Strangford, since his arrival at Vienna, has had ac-
vcral conicrences with Prince Mvit,rnielt, and with M,
do Tati•cht if, on the alliiirs of 'Turkey. Au ex pri,s was
to lie ii. %patched on the Pith, with important despatches
for the Emp•ner .A.11..X:11141er.
. . . . . _ .

The Austrian Funds have,just fallen in an extraordinary
manner ; the 'Met:ll4llva are at 91 ; the merchants are
much alarmed at this in tins of peace.
'Elie Senate et' Vienna is diseti,sing the plan which had
been pre,.ented to it relatively to the establishment of a
flank. The capital is tia•d at present at the millions of
florins, to be rais:.tl by shares of ?o0 florins each. The
fund is to be ;nereased in th.• s.apiel to ta ii
Prof, asor Omsk' is strictly guarded at Berlin ; aas he is
indisposed, the inquiry ha,l thwit :usp..ll_;eril for sine days.
raper.
On the l tilt ult. the first Session cf the Prussian
Stan nerd ;vas op:.neil at Kot;ity,ber4ll. At mice
o'clock all the Dcputics, in manlier 173, wt r
and after attending divine worship, the Royal Commis-
sianer solemnly declared the S.:ssion coiniii..aiced. The
sauu dav, the lieptiths of the tivil and Military
ties dire ! with the Coninisioner.

Letters from B •!grade speak of the great sensation which
the suce..sses of the Creeks have catirall in SA-via, Bill-
anal Thvesaly. The Turkish authorities in these'
provinces arc in the gis:atest anxiety, because the military
force at their disposal is utterly insuflicient to put down
an•• iii,,urrectioi that may break out among the inhahitativ
of the t ;reek
The Divan is said to he extremely clissatb;fioll with the
Viceroy of Egypt. At Constantineple it is reported that
an agent is to be sent to Cairo, with very strict orders front
the Sultan ; but it is thought that nobody will venture to
go on such a mission to the Pacha, who is aLsulute in his
province.—.4ogsturgh Gazette.