The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

THE CORTES.

The discussion of the Report of the Committee of Finance,
relative to the measures to be taken, to meet extraor-
dinary expenses previously allowed, bas occupied two sit-
tings. M. Ferrer, Reporter to the Committee, evinced
great ability in matters of finance, and a patriotic zeal
fur avoiding abuses, end protecting the interests of the
nation. The Cortes finally placed at the disposal of the
Government forty millions of yenta, which are to
be negotiated and inscribed in the great book of the pub-
lic debt. It is to be observed that, independently of the
considerable sums already voted fur enabling the nation to
assume the imposing attitude which circumstances require,
there were added on this occasion 37,739,308 reals for clothing,
ecintpping, and arming the national militia.

The last intelligence from the frontiers of Spain
gives a striking idea of the contending armies. Msts•
is uniformly well rectived by the people, and success-
ful against the Royalists, who are never strong or for-
tunate but in the anticipations of certain French
writers. The " ridiculous Regency," as it is well,
termed by the patriotic General, is styled by its par-
tial friend in Toulouse, " illustrious voyagers with un-
known intentions." We recommend General MINA'S
Proclamation to the people of Cerdagna to particular
attention. it bears internal evidence of the weakness
as well as wickedness of the " Army of the Faith."

The intelligence from Trieste is important as well
as gratifying. The destruction of another Captain
Pacba by the desperate valour of Greek seamen,
cannot fail to give increased animation to the Greeks,
and to paralyze the efforts of the Ottoman. The ex-
ploit, as described, is a marvellous instance of intre-
pidity.

One of the most difficult tasks which can be im-
posed upon a Public Journal is the task of exposing
and reprobating the malignant sophisms.of men with-

feeling-and mitimat charsew. POPE contemptu-
ly said—
Unfitted 'tben let the hasku monster rage,
Some tn dulness, minim, want, and age ;
bat the writers of The John Bull have obtained so
much notoriety, that they cannot be dismissed with
contempt as harmless. They are, perhaps, singular
in any age or nation, for the considerable circulation,
and consequent mischievousness of their writings,
without any one pretension for elegance of composi-
tion, or originality of observation—for lively remark
or humorous wit—for decent personality or pointed
sarcasm. The only peculiar feature in the character
of The John Bull is unfeeling, unqualified, and often
obscene calumny. The extent to which it was per-
' witted (or, shall we say enabled ?) to carry this flagi-
tious warfare under an Administration the most un-
manly which ever disgraced our island, awakened the
indignation, and called forth the abhorrence of the
first characters in the land for rank, property, talent,
and reputation. The indignation and the abhorrence
only served to increase the notoriety, and multiply the
profits of the conductors of this Sunday publication.
We are warranted in affirming, that no individual wbo
has any pretension to moral character can suffer The
John Bull to be. introduced into his family, or can
mention it without expressing his detestation. It
would be a proof of the malignant influence of politi-
eel party infinitely stronger than we are prepared to
think possible, if the bitterest political partisan could
read The John Ball's brutality towards his opponent,
or even his rival, without resenting it as an outrage
upon every manly and right feeling. No; the circu-
lation of this paper is among thoughtless young men,
whose taste is yet to be matured and elevated, and
whose curiosity is too eager fur the counsels of a just
understanding.
Not inconsistently with its previous history has this
Sunday Paper advocated the P-otestant assassination
of the Marquis WELLESLEY. Here are the words of
The John Bull:

" The man who threw a bottle at the Lows Ltntrr *****
wonld probably have done the same to a stranger who had
trodden upon his toe, or have laughed at Isis brogue; but
his neighbour and partisan in the same cause, who only ex-
pressed in words his wounded feelings at what be considered
an impeachment of his rights as a free-born subject, stands
in a very different point of view. Why, then, is the Irish
Whig to be debarred from the public expression of his prin-
ciples on the anniversary of the glorious Revolution ? It is
no doubt unpleasant to the Roman Catholics to see the statue
of King WILLIAM, who gave the death-blow to popery and
despotism, dressed up in triumph on the eth or 6th of No-
vember; but it is equally unpleasant to their feelings, we sus-
pect, to see a Protestant Krim on the throne, and a Pro-
testant Archbishop officiating as the howl of the Church every
day in the year."

Let none of our readers apprehend for a moment
that we can degrade ourselves or insult them by reply-
ing to low trash like this, as destitute of reason as it
is replete with criminality. The occasion of publish-
ing this trash, be it remembered, is not the abolition
of the mischievous ceremony on the 4th of November,
but the attempt upon the Marquis WYLLESLLY'S
life by rufhiuis ,n the gallery of the theatre on the
14th of December. We allude to the publication
solely with the view of directing the attention of all
respectable and virtuous persona, and especially of
all parents, guardians, and guides of youth, to this
wide-spread pestilence. Surely there is moral energy
in English society to extinguishthis abomination. We
abstain purposely from adverting to the virulent
loyalty and malignant religiousness of this enemy of
every religious precept, every moral principle, and
every social decency, because we would not excite by
such aggravations the disgust which the bare reading
of the above extract fails to create in every well-con-
stituted mind.
In the same paper is an excessively contemptible
series of ribaldrous remarks upon " Don Carlos,"
because it is the production of Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
because it is dedicated to Lord HOLLAND, because one
of its dramatis persona is a QUEEN, and because Lord
JOHN RUSSELL is the son of the Duke of BEDFORD.
We allude to this act of insolent scurrility only with
the same view with which we have called attention to
the palliation suggested for the attempt at assassina-
tion. To enter into any detailed exposure of vulgar
Billingsgate, would be ridiculously preposterous. If
a low cur roll himself in mud, and howl to the meri-
dian sun, it is by something more appropriate than
words that the annoyance is removed.

The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived in town yester-
day about two o'clock, from France. About half past
two o'clock his Grace proceeded to the Foreign
Office, Downing-street, for the purpose of having an
interview with Mr. CANNING, in which the Noble Duke
was disappointed, as the Right Honourable Gentle-
man waa at Brighton, on a visit to the KING, having
left Coombe-wood yesteffity morning for that purpose,
where he had dined on Sunday with the Earl of Liv E tt-
Pool.. The Duke of WELLINGTON proceeded from
Downing-street to the Office of Ordnance, in Pall-
mall, where his Grace remained a considerable time.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER arrived in
town yesterday morning from Blackheath, and after
transacting business in the fretsury, left town iu the
afternoon on a visit to Viscount St DMOUTLI.

The Freeman's Journal says, it has heard that the
bottle flung at the Lord Lieutenant was thrown by one
of the Battle-axe Guards, and asks, " Can this be
truer On the highest authority we state it is not
true.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, it is said,
again intends to honour the Theatre Royal with his
presence on the evening of Monday week. We sin-
cerely hope we may be correct in making this an-
nouncement. It is almost due from his Excellency to
the citizens of Dublin, to the people of Ireland, that
an immediate opportunity be afforded them of wiping
away the stain which now so lamentably fixes on the
character of the nation.—Duldia Patriot.
LOSS OF THE RACEHORSE BRIG Of WAR.—We
regret to state accounts have been received of the loss
of his Majesty's brig Racehorse, on Sunday last, at
the Isle of Man. Six of the crew and three boatmen,
which were on board the brig, unfortunately perished;
the remainder of the crew made their escape with some
difficulty to the shore.

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11S CARONWLE, CANNING, COBBETT,
AND CO.

The Morning Chronicle, once the organ of con-
sistent principles, and of elevated sentiments, now
devotes its columns to panegyrics upon Mr. Canning
and Mr. Cobbett. The Chronicle may write in what
taste and in what spirit it thinks proper; it may, as
often as it deems it expedient, exhibit the evidence of
its having abandoned its principles and deserted its
party, but it shall not, unchastised by the British
Press, labour to confer popularity either upon the
open enemy of Parliamentary Reform, or upon the
ignorant declaimer against economical science.
The Morning Chronicle has no foundation whatever
for attributing to Mr. Canning a line of foreign po-
licy more liberal than that pursued by his predecessor.
It is true that a more incapable Foreign Minister than
the Marquis of Londonderry never lost for England
in the Cabinet the ascendancy she had conquered
in the field. But it is also true that all the perni-
cious blunders of the most incapable Foreign Mi-
nister that ever degraded this country in the eyes of
Europe, received from Mr. Canning, even when his
retirement from office relieved him from the obliga-
tion of acquiescing in the measures of the Cabinet,
voluntary and unqualified approbation and support.
When Ferdinand VII., by a double usurpation
against the rights of his father and the privileges of
the people, seized the sovereignty of Spain without
the limitations which the Representatives of the na-
tion had imposed, did this imaginary friend of li-
beral institutions let fall one syllable condemnatory
of the royal treason? When Italy petitioned the
Allied Sovereigns for a National and Representative
Government, and when the Tramontains replied by
edicts of partition and spoliation, did one audible
sigh of classic sympathy escape from the new idol of
liberty before which the Morning Chronicle falls down
and worships? When Saxony was partitioned,
when Norway was transferred, and when royal
perfidy deprived Prussia of a Constitution, was
the voice of Mr. Canning heard? Did the li-
beral Foreign Secretary of the Morning Chronicle
subscribe a record of dissent? That journal must,
indeed, be fallen, if, upon recollecting all these
things, it does not blush for the gratuitous and sense-
less panegyrics it has bestowed. Up to the hour of
taking office Mr. Canning, in his Liverpool harangues,
avowed his concurrence in the policy pursued ; and
up to that hour he proclaimed himself the champion
of that corrupt and inadequate system of representa-
tion which causes the interest of the many to be sa-
crificed to the interests of the few. And yet the
Morning Chronicle, while it professes to be friendly
to Reform, heaps panegyrics upon its most strenuous
opponent, and by the northern gift of second sight,
discovers in the enemy of liberty at home the friend
of liberty abroad. Whether this arises from a con-
fusion of intellect or from a laxity of principle, it is
the business of the Chronicle co explain. The Chroni-
cle's panegyric upon Cobbett is still more inconsistent
and degrading. ' The writer in the Chronicle is a poli-
tical economist, and, on The vitally important ques-
tions relating to the eurreney and the cots trade, he
has adopted Mr:Ricanlo's principles. How is it that
the disciple of the enlightened philosopher becomes
the eulogist of the scurrilous buffoon by whom his
master is assailed ? The Reformer exalts Mr. Can-
ning, and the Political Economist extols the wisdom
of Cobbett! The Morning Chronicle was not always
conducted thus. It once adhered to political connec-

lions, and maintained consistent principles. Tem-
pora mutantus.

LUNACY.

About a quarter before four o'clock yesterday afternoon, an
elegantly dressed lady was observed walking in a dejected state
in the Birdcage-walk, St. James's Park. She looked at se-
veral of the trees with apparent earnestness, and seemed quite
insensible of the object of the mob who followed her, till she
arrived opposite Story's-gate, when she took a handkerchief
and made it fast to a tree; but finding the bough to which she
attached it was not her height, she untied it again and fastened
it to another much higher. She very leisurely tied it round her
neck in the presence of a large crowd of men and boys, who
all the time watched her motions, and springing forward,
twisted it round iii such a manner that she was entirely raised
from the ground, and would have been strangled had she not
immediately been cut down. She then abused those around
her in the grossest language, saying, she was by birth Lady
Carrington ; that the King and Duke of York had known her,
but by oppression she was deprived of her rights, and left to
wander forlorn and friendless. She was, however, recognised
to be a woman well knownin St. James's ; she had been sup-
ported by a Noble Peer, in splendid equipage and dignity,
only a few years ago, and through some fault afterwards aban-
doned ; since which she has been seen about the streets, fre-
quently in a state of despondency. A constable took her to
the workhouse until she can be got into some proper asylum.

The Central Prison at Ghent, which the illustrious
HOWARD in his work on Prisons speaks of as a
model, and of which only five-eighths were finished, is
to be completed by order of the Government in the
course of next year.--Brussels Paper. -
Two extraordinary impostors have been unmasked
within these few days, one of whom (CAsaiNcrox)
is gone to try the virtues of the Treading-mill. The
other (Miss SIIERRATT) reminds us of FREDERICk
Moox, who so well imitated the process of dying,
that the keeper of the prison where he was lodged in
Americo, supposing him to be at the last gasp, left
the door open to fetch something to warm his limbs
already cold with death, when to his great astonish-
ment in a few minutes he had escaped and could not
be retaken.

AFFECTING CIRCUMST•NCE.—On Saturday se'n-
night the corpse of an old woman was found near a
farm-house, in the muir, a few miles from the village
of Dairy. The body being unknown, the circumstance
was proclaimed on the following Sabbath, in the
parish churches of !kith and Dairy, in the hopes of
discovering some traces of the unfortunate individual's
connexions. A little boy, the son of a farmer in the
neighbourhood, on coming home from church,remarked
to his father that the woman's plaid was " unco like
granny's." The farmer, rather alarmed at this informa-
tion, hastened to the spot, and to his utter grief and
astonishment discovered the corpse to be that of his
aged mother. It would appear that she had left
Irvine with the intention of visiting her son, and that,
either overcome by fatigue, or misled by the darkness
of the night, she had lost her way in the muir, and
perished with the cold. When found, she was in
a sitting posture on the aide of a hillock, and had an
orange, partly eaten, in her hand.—Glasgow Herald. j

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ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE BLACKHEATH ASSEMBLY.

On Monday myself was politely invited
To go to a ball on the top of Blackheath ;
I was told, that with beauty, I'd there be delighted.
.Ind must tremble in love, in spite of my teeth ;
So I dress'd, by my glass, till I look'd like Apollq,„
And put on a smile that was perfectly killing,
Made sure that a dozen of conquests would folic r,
And then, heigho ! for the cooing and billing— •
Ti lours, ti lours, dum dee.

Oh ! the dear little creatures were daintily drest all,
To choose which was loveliest only was puzzling—
Not an elderly lady but look'd like a vestal,
Nor a young one that wasn't an Angel in muslin.
I felt myself lost in a crowd of Divinities ;
I found that my heart was beginning to tingle
Thinks I to myself, my dear Ladies, what sin it
That ono of the party should ever be single.
Ti bourn, ti loura, dum dce.

So I made up my mind, ere the evening was over,
To some pretty partner to make my advances,
A waltz or quadrille has lix'd many a lover,
And Cupid is famous for flirting at dances.
Then I gave my fair partner a look like a love.let..
And verily thought the expression had caught bar,
But my friend wish'd me joy, said my next bit OW
prove better,
For the lady was blest with six sons and a dauxht.
Ti lours, ti lours, duns dee.
As soon as I beard it my heart was my own again,
For I couldn't maintain a whole set of gradrillers ;
But, in the next dance, oh! the wanton was gone agai
For the ball-room was full of these pretty men-killer
The Spanish dance templed to cast a fond look
My precautions again were beginning to vanis-..
But my friend spied my meaning, and brought
book again,
For my partner, he told me, bad none of the -.
Ti loura, ti lours, dum dee.

Olt ! Emily, Anna, Kate, Fanny, and Mary,
Amelia, and Lucy, and Beuy, and Catherine--
Not one of you present but looked like a fairy,
And set a fond Irishman's heart a wool-gathering.
'Twas Oberun's Court, at the Green Man assembled,
And ye were the sprites that his lady Queen Mal, see;,
With affection I glow'd, and with reverence trembled,
Fur all who werepresent, and one who was oboe
Ti lours, ti lowa, dum dec.
Then the music, so sweet, kept my ears in the pillory,
The fiddles were all them genuine Cremonas,
And the Colonels and Captains of Royal Artillery,
Were gentle as Junos, and brave as Bellonas;
knee all the quadrilles in the worldbad been gi'
Then the kind-hearted folks, lest the dance
fatigue us,
Gave us plenty of tea and new rolls, to enliven ti .
For the ladies all vote it far better than negas.
Ti Inure, ti loura, dum dec.

Now, long live the ladies who visit the Green Nan,
Wires, widows, and maidens, long life to them all ;
And if ever you're seized with a fit of the spleen, man,
Pray post to Blackheath, and make one at the Ball.
Blackheath, December 24, tem.

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FASHIONABLE. INTELLIGENCE, ~
Tb, Duke alit. Albans smiths fAdies Bemeetkelyteft tofu
yeaterouy for their t, Giateo, tyc.
The Marquis us T:tet.t.l4 -end tome "Fidajbeetose's urn
town yesterday moron% torer me.
m The Earl ot Surrey arMissive yesterday eveituri; oio
his halite. (the Duke of Rierfolltie. Porshie....gidikra...
Earl Burford has arrived in town from uo
Earl Thanet is expected- at Feutoo's •s'y -
street, this day from his soot Is Relit.
Lord Rt. Hikes Ims reduced to toed from W.. _ra
tle, Esq. M.P.'s seat in Surrey.
General Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart. arrived yesterday at thy
Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat in Hints.
Sir Roger Gresley, Bart. has left town for his seat, Drake
low Park, Woreestersb ire.
Sir Philip Roach, Bart. has left the Clarendon Hotel.
Bond-street, on a tour.
Colonel Macdonald has left town for Bath.
Departures from ditto :—Lord Francis Osborne and MI
Sydney Osborne, for Holland ; and the Rev. Edward Bury
kir his seat, Westwood Lodge, Kent.
Mrs. Benyon arriied yesterday at her house in Grosvenor
square from her seat, Engletield Green, Berks.
The Misses Perceval have left town fur their seat, W ..dir.:,
Hall, Hcrts, for the holidays.
Mr. Secretary Canning left town yesterday for the PR, i
Brighton.
T W. Beaumont, Esq. M.P. left Warren's Hotel, Recent
street, yesterday, for his father's (Colonel T. R. Beaundo
M.P.) seat, Bretton Hall, neer Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake have arrived at Hodgson's
Dover...al reet, from a tour.
Captain Vandeleur, lath lancers, bas left ditto for Exec., .
Mr. and Mrs. Crawley have arrived at Kirkham's Hotel
Loam Brook-street, from their seat near Luton, Bediuni.
shire.

Departures from Mirart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street -
Captain Lukin for Brighton; and Mr. and Mrs. Marstoo
fur their seat in Northamptooshiro.
Mr. Heatheoto has left town for his father's (Sir Ottheit
Hentheole, Bart.) scat, Normanton Park, Lincolnshire.
T. Thisilewaile, Esq. has left the Coburg Hotel, Cheri,
street, Grosvenor-square, for his scat iu Hants; and
Kcppel, Esq. on a tour.

Sunday the Duke of GLouctarea attended Di%
Service at St. George's Church, Hanover-square
Paris cltil-rhat reports that a favourite of 71,rpaicbore, &-
worthy nod/tree Thane, are now dirided in their opinions a.s
what constitutes the direct line of hearty aid of race. fi --
therefore not quite su certain that this nymph of tie air will tte, 0
that light fantastic toe in England durh.g the approaching seaso
The seeming slight and want of attention to a certain Web'
Baronet and his 'mac by the leading personages at the COaire>.
at Vero6O, did sot arise fretany preindiee against the Massa:
able and pertly isdbridual persooally, but from•she ostrome
Nit, of essikag themselves usmilesamisil—she gnat Peamitai
%sae most of the halm; languages, whilst the gosel-lanwoo•. e
Welshman was unable to ~OM intelligibly in say dialer:
Aia suns.
In a very thin house an actress was speaking very li.•
her communications with her Inver, when ths actor, v
face of wornl humour, exclaimed, "My dear, you
speak oat, you see there is no 0110 to hear us."
MIDSDIPDAN'S Par.—An (dicer of the navy being
what Mr. %mac meant by the " Cheap defenetrodnati.
replied, that many persons in his line underatood hi.e
mean a midshipman's half-pay, " Nothing a day, anef
himself."
'Three gentlemen being at a tavern, whose names werk
Moue STRANDS and -• "There is bet

;ern,
atone, said the last, • _
ono cuckold is themegy, and that is Stroage."—"Tes" MA-
ered STRANGE." there is one Mere."—" Aye," said 1110er,
" that's Wright."
A foolish fellow, whoa addressed by a man of rank, nsel
to ssswer, " Thank God and your Lordship.''—" How meal
children have you, honest man i" said a Grandee to t::rri
" Four, thank God and }our Lordship."
The censorship of Lausanne has ordered that the proprietors m
reading rooms in that city shall not lend out the works of
WALT/il SCOTT!—Europeass Ma erne.
It is with pleasure we untiee the inerearing presprrity t'
venerable University. The Matrieulation Lint, eyes at this es 4,
period, /1110UMS to the unprecedented anseher of LK& —;:etii-
burgh Star.
it will be gratifying to our readers to. learn, thrt
the Most Noble the Marchioness of lANDOWDIrtiI
has placed in the Menagerie Royal, Tower of Load( .1
most beautiful Tiger, and a pair of tine Ostriches, w
added to the great improvement within the last six me
under the present Manager, Mr. Armies Cora, for:
assemblage at once beautiful and interestin, the prin
objects of which are Lice's, Tiger, Leoperi, aloes,
namon Hear, Ant Bear, Percepine, lie tames,. Boa
Bent Crocodiles, Raters, Weeping Cyrus, Crown Cr
lack Swans, Ste. &a—besides the' grand Colleen°
Bouts, Birds, and Reptiles, which were in Ike Tower I
to the present Illenagesaist.

TD THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH PRESS.

gia—By giving insertion to the fullowing Rules for ascer-
taining the age of a horse, by inspecting his teeth, you will
render to many of your numerous readers a very respectable
vivioe. I have myself considerable dealings in this way,
did have always found a reference to them extremely
useful

At from two and a half to three, years old, a horse sheds
n both rows the two centre teeth, and is then said to be a
three. ear old. At from three and a half to four years, ho
Imes other four teeth ; one on each side of those he Inst the
preceding year, b.ith in the upper and under jaw, having the
bur outside or corner teeth remaining. lie is now called a
bur-year old. At from four and a half to live years. the four
:enter foal teeth are cast, and then he passes fur a flve-year
old; at full five years the flesh disappears, and the corner
• teeth become complete shells, hollow within; the tusks have
now pierced the gums, and their points may be felt with the
Anger. At from five and a half to six years, the tusks become
•,fa moderate size, sharp, the inside; fluted, and the o Ige
nest the gatherers thin; he is 110 W called sis•year old, which
is the most valuable age. At from six to eight years old all the
gatherers are full, having only a brown speck on the top; the
corner teeth havebecome much thicker, and the tusks longer ;
hut as the speck remains with many horses for several years
alter, a person who is no judge will be told that the horse is
teat more than six years old. At eight to ten and upwards :
eight the bean being generally worn out from the teeth of
the under jaw, the upper jaw mar be examined ; at nine, the
,peck of the centre ; at nine and a half, that of the middle;
sad at ten, that of the corner teeth is effaced. Theo the horse
is said to be aged, and to have lost all mark :—the age can on
ertger be known from the length of the teeth, but a probable
conjecture may be formed from the length of the tusks.
December 13, leas. A YORKSHIREMAN.