The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-17 00:00:00

F.4SIIIONADLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke of Gloucester had a dinner party yesterday at Glou-
ctsker House.
The Marquis of Lans3own has issued cards of invitation for a
dinner party on Friday, at Lansdown House, Berkeley-square.
E. Ellice, E‘q. M.P. entertained adistinguished party at dinner,
yesterday, at hi. house in New-street, Spring-gardens.
Mrs. Bennet had a select circle of fashiunables yesterday at her
house in Privy-gardens.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have arrived at their
house in Park-place, ht. James's, from their seat. Hatfield.
Lord Arundel' has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street,
from ardour . . .

Lord and Lady Ilaynicg and family have arrived at their house
in Seymour-place, from their seat, Honningham, Norfolk.
Lord and Lady Forester have left their seat, Willie Park, Salop,
for the Duke of Rutland's. Ilelvuir Castle.
The Alarchitmess of Tavistock has left town, for her seat, Oakley
House, Bedfordshire.
Lord and Lady Langford and family arrived yesterday at their
house in Berkeley-square, front their scat, Cooper's Hill, Surrey.
Dowager Lady Anson has arrived at her house in Curzno-atreet,
May Fair, front her son's (Lord Anson) scat, in Staffordshire. •
Arrival at the 11'atef100llotel, Jermyn-Ereet :—Viaeount Bevy,
from the Continent. Departure:—Ross. Colonel Arden, fur his
sent, Pepper Hall, Yorkshire.
Charles Fitzgerald, Esq. left Crillon's Hotel, Albemarle-stmt,
ignatertley, for the Continent.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel. St. Jamees-atreett—Lord Wilt.
froni a tour; the 11.41. Mr. Twiatleton, front a tour; the
Rev. J. Billington slid Edward Phillips, Esq.
Arritals st the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-stmt:—Captain
Dent, from Westmorland ; and the Rev. J. F. Floyd, front 1 ork-
shire. Departures :—Capiain M'Coy, for his feat, Bay Hail,
Vorkshi;e; aed 1). M. Mitchell, Esq. for his seat, Cost Love,

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Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-streetr—Captain
Drown. R.N., Mrs. Brown, and Miss flotne; Mr. and Mrs. 1110.
rant and Miss Seymour. for their seat. Purbruok Park, Hants.
Dayarturiss from Fladong's Hotel, OxforlAtrert:—Sir Thomas
and Lady Phillips for Middle Hill. Worcestershire; General Mo.
Cnetra for Cheltenham; Col. and 111ra. Schenck, for Hampton
ourt; Samuel Tyssen, Esq. for Swanam, Norfolk; John Hodg-
e*, Zaq. for CbigwelL Essex ; Thomas Stoner, Esq. for Hanley.
upon-Thames.

The Speaker's Parliamentary Levees for the present Ses-
glow will commenoe on Saturday, the Ilat instant.
Mr. Lambton is spending a short time with Earl Grey,
at Devonport.
The Earl of ('ork is now on a visit with Lord Clinton,
at Mil ill lr
seat, Heanton Sate.e, near Hatherkigh.
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An high Earl, hitherto in Opposition, is mentioned as
likely to succ..eil to the Colonelcy of an Irish regiment of
Militia; and the pri sent vacancy in his borough is to be'
BllNl up by a Ministerial Member.—/hiblin Freeman's'
Journal. _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Wingfield, we learn, has re:eked hi■ appointment
as Master in Chancery, in the room of Chief Baron
Alexander. _ _ _ _

We are requested (says the Tyne Mercury) by T. W.
Beaumont, Esq. M.P., in consequence of a misrepresen-
tation in a Sunday paper, to state what are the " infamous
allegations" alluded to in his advertisement of the 19th of
January. They relate to an assertion must industriously
circulated, of that gentleman having been, within a law
period, "under a mental delusion," and to a report as in-
tamonsly and maliciously invented, of that gentleman's
marriage with the daughter of a northern Baronet having
been broken off, in consequence of a discovery of his being
already married to a fork ign lady. The allusion to an in-
tended marriage with the beautiful daughter of a noble
Earl is totally unfounded.-1 t, Conduit-street, London,
February 3.
ROYAI. ACADEMY.—Yesterday evening, J. rsianan,'
Esq., R.A. give his first Lecture on Sculpture, at the Royal
Academy. Sir T. Lawrence presided on the occasion. We
were softy to observe a very thin attendance of both
Academicians and Students; for, although them was nothing
either striking or novel from his former L^ctures, yet
there was enough of information and intelligence to de-
serve a better attendence.
Coves T.G.AaDEN Thesvax.—Romeo and Julie, was
performed at this house last night. Miss F. H. Kelly
'played Julie', with all that grace and feeling wljeh have
hitherto eleiraeti razed her delineation of this favourite of
Shakespear.'s. Miss, Kelly was warmly greeted by the
audience on her entree, and throughout the performanc
received that liberal and encouraging support which she so
highly deserves.
On Monday, Mr. Young, from the Drury-lane bonnie,
played ./Leeniet at the Exeter Theatre; and on Tuesday,
Zasget, to full and brilliant houses ; en Friday, king
Lair; and this evening, for his benefit, and being the last
night of his performing, Sir Perrino.: Marsycuphanl.—
Devon Freeholder.

I.‘-situen ape, ARG LL-R00315.—A masquerade' on an
extensive scale, task place last evening at the Argyll
Rooms. The three large rooms were thrown open for the
reception of company, which throng d in crowded attend-
:lee to th, rooms from an early hour. The gentlemen
were not very generally masked, bat the ladies veiled their
charms in black silk masks, which they occasionally raised
to reveal their beauties to the admiring par; of the visitants
of the other sex. Each lady was accompanied by a beau,
and so far the a.settibly assumed the appearance of much
pro; r:ety ; but such geneemen is went unaccompanied by
a fair companion, did not find an introduction difficult fur
the ':any, or other entertainments of the evening. There
were f w well-sustained characters ; perhaps the best was
an it a moan, the father of Langan, in search of his
son, accompanied by a dumb child of the pugilist,
who pl tyeel many fantastic trick;; anti an ,
at:i ed in appropriate cestunri, who displayed all the fero-
city of a Sylvan savage. There ware stone well-dressed
Jews, Turks, &c., but they did not " act well their part."
Quadrilles and waltzes were kept up with unremitting
spirit until an advanced hour in the morning. Tiee best
part of the entertainments was certainly the supp:r, which
was supplied on moderate terms, in a style and profusion
Wittily creditable to the proprietor.
Ul7lll/11111 FEB. 'O.—MARRIAGE TN SCOTLAND.—The
Sherif ef Domfrieshire, we understand, was engaged last
week In investigating the practice of certain neighbouring'
Magistrates in celebrating what are called clandestine'
marriages. This practice may be explained in a single
sentence. The lore-sick couple appear before a Magis-
trate, and there acknowledge that they have came upon a
needless errand, by testifying to the fact of a previous
marriage—an allegation which is very charitably ad-
mitted as a fact ;—aird all this with the view of soothing
the fair one's feelings by oltainiag the signatures of
respectable witnesses. The Minister of the parish (as we
hear) receives the certificate of this farce as a substitute
for the regular proclamation of banns, and performs the
usual ceremony of the Church between the parties. The
candidates for this easy mode of entering into matrimony
have increased prodigiously since the passim, of the late
English Marriage Act; and even in Scotland lovers have
become so new-fangled that the S asion Clerks have been
cheated out of many a fee.—(Assarere Cheord.le.
TRADI.—The ropespinners in Glasgow have lately re-
ceived several foreign ordent, and they are at present
throngsr and in better spirits than they hare been at any
time since the termination of the war.—Glasgoto Paper.
For the last two or three weeks the price of grain row
with a rapidity that threatened to be ultimately ruinous
to the British farmer, as it must necessarily have opened
the ports to the impatation of foreign grain had it conti-
nued a little longer. Happily for both growers and
consumers this rise has met with a check, and we trust
that the price will be such that our manufacturers shall
it 11 eat exclusively the produce of our own farmers,
who, in return, are much better customers than any foreign
fanners to our manufacturers.—(;fargoro /brad.
Curt x FientllT.—The herring f shery this season, in
the Frith of Forth, has been very productive, affording,
the fishermen remark. a no at seasonable. compensation to
them for the extraordinary deficiency of oysters. Last
season the shoal of herrings scarcely ventured farther than
Inchkeith ; but some wet ks ago they went so far up as the
Queensferry, where they still remain. About 200 boats
mumble every morning from the diferent ports of the
Frith, of whtch twentv-six belong to Newhaven. The
number generally taken by one boat amounts to two, three,
or four thousand. On Tuesday, however, owi:ig chiefly
to the low tides and the strong gales of wind, none of the
bow obtained more than 200.—Edi ibargh Paper.
The number of private buildings erected within the
city of Edinburgh and its dependencies, during Vie year
18 CI, amounted so 376.
Hazard and Co. respectfully remind the Public that the
4tte ems n :se '1 hursday, when the two first Prizes will be
,tuled to 20,011111. each ' • the Scheme conrainine seven Prices of
and every Blank drawn the first day will have a accent
"'qua*. or the holder may receive 101. before the loth of 11an h
ilua-d and Co.'s 01J Established and Fortunate 1 Ace*, Royal
; 26, Cornhill. and 324, I.llst*or.l-street; and of
l'iteat.street ; where Capital Prins 'lave been sold, amounting to
maxim

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

Yesterday we received, by express, the Courrier Francais,
Journal flee Debuts, and Conslilutiunnel of Saturday ; to-
gether with the Etuile of Sunday's date.
(From the Ebik.]
PART& Fre. IA.
Advice. from Algiers state that a decided misunderstanding has
broken out between the Hey of Algiers and the American Consul.
31. Schaller. The cause of it, it is said, is the animosity which
exists between the Algetines and the floors, and the order given
by the Dey to put the latter to death. The American Consul hied
in his service several Moors, whom the Algenne Prime Minister.,
at the head of a corps of troops, attempted to seize, in the Hotel of
ihe Consulate, in which they were concealed by 31. Schaller, who
declared that he would defend them at the risk of his own life.
This was the state of things at the departure of the hut courier.
It is now certain that orders have been given that the columns of
Spanish prisoners (who were to have marched at state) periods, so
that all of them should arrive in Spain ere the end of .March), are
to remain at the several depots until further orders.
Six squadrons of Chasseurs have received orders to reinforce the
Army of Omupation. _ _

NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, JAN. 9.
IVe have received authentic nears that General Ulysses Andrus°
has taken by assault the important fortress of Karistos, in the Isle
of Negropor.t.

CORTI!, JAY. 18.
Letters from Smyrna announce that a Turkish squadron, which
wag going in Nude to the relief of Smyrna, has been surprised in
the sea of Marmon by &dreadful tempest. It is almost entirely
destroyed—fire frigates and six brigs have been cast on shore, the
rest arc disabled.

From the Jorrmal des Deboto.l
OME. JAN. 30.
His Holiness has been confined to his bed sixty four days. lii.
state, however, is much more favourable. _

, JAW. 21.
We have received letters from Constentinople of ODESSAthe 13th inst.
The embarramments of the Porte still continue. The recent sue.
teas of the Greeks hare deeply wounded their feelings. Not one
Turkish ship has dared in appear no the see since the return of the
('apitsu Paella to Constantinople, anti the primates of Ipsara have
declared to the Consuls of Europe that they would intercede foe
the city of Smyrna, that the repose of the Gulf of Smyrna was not
likely to be obtained by any other means so soon as by paying a tri-
bute; that the Greeks were carrying on anational a Al legitimate war
against the Turks, and they were acting conformably to the sa-
cred principles of the law of nations. The last numbers of the
Sprcratenr Oritalal (133 and l 3(, arc very interesting. They
announce (which appears encouraging to the Turks, and to make
them forget their disasters in Areannia) great victories of the
Turks in Candia ; 31; Greek tillages having been burnt, and 7,4011
Greeks made prisoners. But, says the Sp-flatcar, 18 brigs of
war have repa:red to 3lissolonghi, the blockade of which place
had been abandoned by the Turks, who had retired into the
Gulf of Lemont.. In consequence of which, the islanders, being
at once 111:1SLCIN both of the sea and of the passage, have quite time
to bring into that place all the provisions of which they stood in
need. It is said that they have all kimls of provisions for two
years. In addition t., this, it must be remembered that the place
is defended by Constantin Hozzari. Beside,. the army, which had
blockaded it by land, had retired, doubtless because the Pachas
had judged it was useless to wait in vain Mr • place which they had
no hopes of being able to take by famine.

PARIS.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDEXT.I
FEBRUARY 12.

The weather continues fine, and we are in the heyday of
feasting and festivity. Except that now and then a ci ip-
I pled pilgrim importunes the charity of the tees charitable
mu' slew, we should not know-110T shall we know till the
end of the month, when our furlough of frolic expires—
that there is any such thing as wretchedness in the world.
Governments, or rather the Sovereigns of Governments,
as they arc modified in this our slay, seem fully of opinion
that their yaw ',weer and the general prosperity of their enh-
jecte can never be both fixed on the same base; and it
must be admitted that, taking their view of the subject,
they are not very widely mistaken. General prosperity
can proceed only from the general difffision of property,
and from this arises that substantial power in the great
I ody of the people, with which in any great crisis the
Sovereign must in vain hope to contend. Every determined
struggle with it must he at the risk of his throne. It is
the general diffusion of property, and consequently of
leisure, which creates that great middle class of knowledge
and wealth, to which in England yon owe all your prac-
tical liberty. At to the representative principle, even if it
existed in its purity—which it does not, nor any thing like
it—and as to the forms of the Constitution, if they were
even any thing more than fLress--which they are not—
still without this great middle class, in which the soul and
strength, and spirit of freedom resides, the Constitution
would become a dead letter, and liberty an empty name.
It is the publirpre,s which curbs the will and controls the
measures of Ministers in England, and it is by persons
moving in this class, and constituting by far the most moral
land the most enlightened portion of the community, that
presiding energy of talent is furnished, which the press sends
forth to the world. It is from this perennial spring of rea-
son and intelligence that the public mind is fed, and public
spirit cherished and kept alive. lied America been peopled
Irene any other country than England, she would never
have established such a system of government as she framed
for herself when separated from her moiler country. Ile r
industry, both before her separation and since, has always
been directed to productive purposes; she has no host of
placcinen to feed upon her labour or to fatten upon her
capi;al. Time spirit of such a Government, from the wide'
extension of its wealth, must be republican: it cannot,
from its very nature, be oppressive, while it remains what
it is, iiecnuse the rights of property are co-extensive with
the whole population, and there is no supreme will that
dares flagrantly to violate them; nor any supreme power
that has, or ever can have, the means to silence or to satisfy
the numbers whose discontent must be disposed of, before
corruption could establish her empire, and the children's
bread be given to the .lo s. But a truce with polities.

A curious accident occurred vesterday in the Champs
Elysers. An elegantly-plumed damsel, mounted on a
beautiful charger, accompanied by a gay and youth-
ful chevalier, and followed by a servant in livery,
while riding at a conversation pace, suddenly uttered a
piercing shriek, and fell from her seat in a swoon.
number of persons from the throng ran instantly to her
assistance: among then was observed a gentleman, who
rushed forward with violent imp-tuosity towards the lady.
The groom appeared thunderstruck, and the chevalier, lost
in surprise, fixed his eyes for a moment on the fainting
fair out., with an air of pAplezed astonishment ; then,
turning to the persons who surrounded them, and entreat-
ing their kind attentions towards het, lie darted from them
with the greatest precipitation, and in a few momt nts
wholly disappeared, leaving every one astounded at the
singularity of the adventure, which has given rise to many
coryectures. At present the whole is enveloped in mystery.
The lady was placed in a carriage, and conducted in safety
to her residence.

The arts here are in a state of great prosp:rity, considering
the obstacles which their pros r. as has to encounter. I have
just received from Paulin timcrin, a pwoof, on vellum, of
a lithographic engraving from his beautiful painting of
Venus and Anchises, now placed in the gallery of the

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Luxemburg. It is considered the most perfect specimen
which has yet been produce': in that branch of art, and
bespeaks the extraordinary talents of the artist, who it very
Young. We seem in no condition, however, either bete or
elsewhere, to rival the treasures of ancient art. lire appear
to hive lost much of the genius, as welt as the strength of
our forefathers. If I were a philosopher, I should sit
down gravely to trace this to its true cause, but I content
myself with the fact, which is indisputable. But 1 con-
sole myself with theconvietion that we are improving, and
I look to " the coming on of time," to elevate us to the
high and palmy state of our ancestors.
The Parisians have a great fondness for caricature; but
with the exception of sotne occasional good things, they ex-
hibit nothing which displays the graphic wit and sarcastic
humour which so perpetually amuses one in the London
print shops. The Boulevards swarm with prints repre-
senting the expedition of the French army into Spain, in
most of which the heroic Duke d'Angouleme cuts a conspi-
cuous figure. The other day a new lithograph of the tak-
ing of the Trocadero came out, in which the Duke is tie-
piced at the head of his troops, sword in hand, leading his
foll Avers to victory. The complimentary artist has here
been guilty of a slight anachronism—The bake teat nut pre-
text at the ha jag td that place.
The Society of Agriculture, Arts, and Sciences at Macon
(Somme et Loire) have proposed the following point for de-
cision by h Ist August, Int :—For comparing the French
and English literature in the department of novel writing,
to determine to which nation the palm of superiority should
be assigned in that branch of composition. 'I he prize tor the
best dissertaticn is a gold medal, value 300 francs. The
Edinburgh Reviewers, if I mistake not, have already dis-
cussed this question. The proposed prize has somewhat
the appearance of an aT IN al from their verdict.