The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-02-14 00:00:00

PROCESSION 4T LOUGHBOROUGH.

The wool-combers of Loughborough and it.,
neighbourhood, last week cekbrated the anniversary
of their founder, Billnip Maize, with more than usual
hilarity. Thirty years having elapsel-since a pro-
cession had been formed, and many workmen hav-
ing returned after an absence- of ten years in the
service of their country, it was proposed to give a
grand display of char hers relating to the mnnufac-
tory, and parade the streets in appropriate clresses.
The procession was led by jarcn, as the champion
and prote6tor of the Go/ 61-n Fleece, who was folic,wed
by Shepherds and Slicpherdessl..s; a beautiful girl,
elegantly dressed, carried a lamb upon her lap, with
a bouquet of flowers, made of woci, in her bosom;
next followed the venerable IsiFliop : his mitre, with
the keys of St. Peter, gilt in front, were formed of
wool, and he had a large wig of the same material,
which reached down to the ,;addle ; his bridle was
held on: each side by a page, and another was at the
stirrup, carrying a bible in one hand and a wool-
comb in the other; his followers, dressed in white,
with sashes, scarfs, and high caps, carrying two large
flags, all made of wool and wands; two persons
elevated on a stage, were at work, sheering the man-
ner in which the manufa6tory is carried on. In the
course of their parade through the town, they re-
ceived some handsome contnbutions, and the even-
ing was spent with the utmost harmony and good
order.

The Hereditary Prince of Orange, on leaving
Fulda for Berlin, assured the National College, that
he should return in the spring to take up his resi-
dence there with his consort and family.
Alderman B.tRAER, who, in his time, was one of
the most eminent printers of the City of London, was
threatened with a prosecution by the House of Lords,
for an offensive passage in a pamphlet he had print-
ed. The Alderman was acquainted with Lord Bu-
t INGAROKE, and his Lordship informed him of the
danger which threatened him. He immediately
called in all the copies in the booksellers shops, can-
celled the leaf which contained the obnoxious pas-
sage throughout the whole impression, and returned
them with a new paragraph supplied by Lord Bo-
Li mc BROKE • so that when the book was produced
before the House, and the passage referred to, it was
found perfectly unexceptionable. It was this gen-
tleman who erested the monument to BUTLER, in
Westminster-Abbey, and upon that occasion, it is
said, POPE wrote the following lines, and proposed
they should be placed cn the vacant scroll under
SHARI:FPI AR 's bust:
" Thu; Britain love) me, and preamtvc-d my fame
Pure frum a Barber's or a:Benson% name."

It has been contended, in regard to cutting log-
wood in the Bay of Honduras, that if by the non-
renewal of treaties, this right is lost, so is our right
to Jamaica, Gibraltar, &c. To this it is well an-
swered, that there are some points, which, when once
ceded, do not require to be renewed after a war ; but
there are others that do. Treaties, or parts of treaties,
cease of themselves Ihe moment they are fully exe-
cuted. Gibraltar sv* not only ceded but taken pos-
session of. The stipulation was executed, and its
force was at an end. But if Spain had, by a sti-
pulation of the same treaty, obtained or reserved
the privilege of selling oranges in the town, or of
keeping a number of persons to dig stones out of
one of the quarries, such a stipulation would have
been found to be unexecuted at the breaking out of
the war between England and Spain, and would, of
course, have,ceased to be any longer binding upon
England, until again positively renewed. All rights,
which are not rights of dominion, which are en-
croachments on that right, which are to be exer-
cised in the dominions of another power, which re-
quire not only the past but the present and the future
consent of that power, and an active continuance of
his permission, must be renewed after a war. Such
are rights of commei ce, of fishery, of drying fish,
of cutting wood, &c.

IJNIOTE HALL.
On Thursday last thirty Publicans were brought
before the sitting Marstrates, by the Society for
the Suppression of V leer for suffering tippling in
their houses on Sundatf:.
j!uring Divine Service.
It appeared that
previous warning from the Society, but still per-
sisting in such disorderly praCtice, they were seve-
rally Acted 10s. besides costs, and received a suit-
able admoaition from the Magistrates.