The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

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lion of Vice his Itoty Wasted for Weis, years, and audacious case of this description °cc: .en
tow
is allowed, from the discretion and prudence gene- Saturday on the coaet.of Kent. Of which this
rally evincedby the directors of it, to have effected ing account is given ii:selgheietilittgetteßieTh, Igstfoint4eklmium:l7.
much good for the community. There is in the • '
" Smunowto.—Another, and very darlag affair (whets the
title of this Society something intelligible, some-
' Wpm«. of tbe moralag. is take* iota consideration) wl&IL
poseething,tahnadt sopehticifiheamlluystpoi int, out its object and put.
smugglers, took place at Sandgate, about three o'clock on
we
meow. on its first aP- Saturday morning, at which hour a large boat put on shire
pesesnee have Deutratised every principle of eippro i near the National School, add was immediately attessidlorr
sition which might otherwise have been offered to it,
upon grounds strictly and purely nearly 400 smagglers front the country, a very r.onsi
b the seaman of the coast blockade NAN,
In this • particular, thlt Society possessed • • great
constitulionsi. portion of wheoem were armed with pas sod pistols. An
ole the spotg:von by
Thomas M eouseter-at-erulle‘ WV
advantage over the mountebetik Association recently
formed. which has undertaken to save the Ministeis the watch-bowie with See @tames under his commlinitrn mid
irises within pistobshot eomasenced a spirited attsebatihn
of the Crown front the necessity of exercising any smagglers, who in the short space of ten minutes, Met vies
discretion upon the subject of political libels, and ceeded in discharging a cargo, supposed to consist of about
from performing the duty they may owe to the 300 parcels.
" As the little baud who first commenced the adios UN
country of judiciously suppressing the virulence of
came reinforced by the arrival of Mr. W. Lowry (soh&
seditious writings. The same assumed by this So-
'ninth', mate), with three men, the smugglers retreated ill
ciety recently formed-.that of " The artillery bar
Constitu-
the
Bona) Associatioso." expresses nothing—it is in it- Iltlitary.rosol, leading to the racks, pursued
by that officer and seven mantes, Mr. Moore haring been de;
self an absurdity, and no more expresses the pre. lathed to secure the vessel sod 34 tubs left by thesuingelers,
' sumed object of the union, such as it respnmented w hbci (lid
beh performed;isl
r bat
retarded
t t:he workinbgyiphaeraty being rreenyt
by the members of it, thew if the Society for the a
Supplession of Vice had called themselves " The the ammunition of the blockade service being czpended. the
rinse was relincinisheil, after Mr. Lowry bad bee, severely
Virtuous Association." Every Society not con- won sided in the right thigh, sad two seamen also wounded.
trary to law, every frisodly union for the encou- The ball has beta extracted from Mr. Lowry, aid it is hoped
mgemest of industry sad eeessomy, every burial be may do well. The bravery of this officer hohwern rent
• society. every old -worm", club to the country, is a disparitr or force canoed be too much extolled.
`" On the alarm reacbtag No. 4, Tower, Mr. !Rallied,
properly a " Constitutional Association," and does
master's mate, who came off duty at twelve o'clock and had
buileed more properly deserve the name than the
gab which has presumed exclusively to assume it, retired to rest, set off with his party to eodearour 'to inter.
cent the smugglers in-land; bat from the distaste of-bid
for the old ladies who meet together occasionally to station, and the time necessarily occupied, the zeal of that
club their Pence, 'unlike the old women of Bridge- officer wasiieffectual, although be continued his search
street. assemble carder the authority of an Act of from three o'clock until half-past seven.
Parliament, and while 'they count their si.•.nigil, " Toe riding officers, and the perils,
,of the 9th !sneers on
, .
neither meditete attacks UP" the eemiedltde the coast duty, bad by some false information been drawn IS
4.7 thewestward; the Ilythe party in particular, were occupied
characters of their neighbounte inpr libel the Go. all the night; but on the return of Mr. r. Mowle to his home,
vernmeut of the country, by Midis* them- up to about eight o'clock in the morning, he received such heron
public view as either incapable' -of ascertaining ination as induced hint immediately to proceed tog shave near
what their duty to the State iney,Rquire, or un- Poulin', about tire miles from the coast, with a small do.
tachment of the gib tamers, where were found four parcels of
willing or unable to discharge it.
To the Society fa- the Suppreuiou of Vice, how. he **ee"' to use b"dred a" ti' us the"P"eb
of the ofSeer mid 'Millers, um men were area to quit the
. eeer,• tbeso mob" iencuse the establishmeot of the spot where the tuba were coecealei, one of whom, named
Btidge4treet iety look with an 'affected confi- Richard Rolfe, of Lyeltigni'Vnii 'traria, and had in his pot
.tjanee. as if iss.los.uonpposeti esiatence a sufficient .sersion a pistol, potearie:hOrik'd,ri:viWp. Rolfe, with Ilso
apology would be found for the other. There is goods, was of course.oebirnl, cosureged to Myths, and after ex-
amination before Woi.peettes, Esq. at Mr. Ely) n's office
not enough of analogy between the two Societies to
be was committed for peewee safety to Hythe geol..
justify this species of argument. There is a great
" During/Wedgy a greet number of suspicious ehantlen
,deal of difference between a Society framed fur a , were observed in the town; sad apprebendiog that as as.
tinsitifeet and tpeeitie object, capable of being ex. tempt at rescue might be made, tlit Magistrate, fur perfect
'pained and defined. and an Association so geueral ' security, authorised the removal of the prisoner to tbr har-
clad vogue in Woman, its clammier, and its per- - .racks i
loefdtbthee RaotryenttfistdauffttEenerpsoutt
titriii:shitutits of which rrgimeat
„pew. that nut ocie even of its members could dm-
" It is believed that the smugglers suffered very sevemle.
shistestly.point out its real ohjete. We are told that W e havehear of clever!' killed and two wounded, of whom
Saturday."
the Society- is framed for putting the law in motion
two Flout this statement it appears there is mu defi-
against seditious libellers. This presumes that the ciency of miliory force in•.the place where' this
officers of the Society are capable of previously affair has taken place. Every paha presents a force
ascertaining what is -or what is 'sot a libel, what is I f some kind military, or marine. Unless then there
or what is not offensive or injurious to the Govern-
be a sword to mkt iiidieidnetthrost, the contraband
trade '
de ii•not.iikrilpttei la sippilessed. istbis way.-e
went, and likely to endanger the peace of society
Cupidity slid distress.4isiminie all obstacles, and
by its tendency to create a breach of the peace. smuggling,• we fear, will thelitissoe to thrive until
To do them justice all this they undertake, and, A some improvement in theivotumercial and agriculs
what is more, they have sundry persons in their Out!) slate of the retwits, apd some reduction is '
the (hales on certain foreign import., shall diminish
employment who will swear, though unencombeted
. with the weight of much political the motives and temptations to practise it.
science—eye,
Swear upon the Evangelists', iltit sundry writisigp
~: The- night Hon. Geoaoe Centime .Ited a Jong '
!which they may chance to i agouti are all fraught• interview yesterday morning with the Earl of Li
' With the special danger here fitiiiitiOtined, and that Teueuot.- at Fife House. , lir& sstmsts.,,ts
''although the Officers, of theidtentres, are blind: to Yesterday a Court of-Directors was held et t
East India House, whin Captain. Cliotreri woe
'these venous evils, the moan* se selected for pup-
sworn into the command of the ship Thomas Coitli4,
,nishruent ought to be irretrievably ruined by due consigned to Madre* sod China.
,opetation of law !
Letters from Leghorn, Germs, and Naples. Ste
: The great difference thetOyetween the Society fur that the public authorities of each of those pla
1•. Suppression of Vice aud the Bridge-street had adopted additional precautions to prevent
Society Consists iilflitimothe,',former can proceed
I • introduction of the fever so prevalent in Spinal ; t
communication therefore between. Italy and
Ispiast -offences whisk foam Abair nature bear so ' '
country may be considered as completely cute
hg an impress oftheirthiticter tbst they cannot at least- for some time longer. The trade wit
easily be misunderstood ; the latter !mooted to punish Turkey had somewhat increased, under the sap
'as offences acts which are in themselves indifferent, sition that Russia would not ort to war with 1 .
and may become offences solely by happening not Porte; but at Naples, on the 20th ult. reports
to accord with the speculative polities! notions of been received from the Mores, that the Rosen'
force on the banks of the Muth had been coos*
particular individuals. Blasphemy and indecency derably augmented.
are the saute in every errantry, under every. circum- Letters from Madrid of the 49th ult. mention
stance, and every form of government; but poll- that n difficulty has urisen in the completion of en
tical writing, like the fabled cameleon, acquires a expedition fitting out fur some time past in the port
distinctive colour and character from the surround- of Cadiz, and supposed to be destined for South
fromit tthses7dadi,ittiof
that
hug atmosphere. That which would be accounted fittercileues; etwitiPlCootuf noli" of 1*
eia
in the United States of North America a temperate, have been sent to Paris to purchase, if possible, alf"
constitutional, and loyal essay upon the advauteges the French Government, the vessels required; cod'
of a democratic,' form of government, would in that they have instructions, should the siegoctatiori'
England be viewed as The tirade of some radical fail there, to repair to this country. • -
fanatic; and even in -England, as the aspect of no- Extract of a letter from St. Jehter, New Brunee•
wick
liticell•affeirs may change, so will the character of o
t' dated October le --
ve have reveilles-di accounts from Frederickston, stalling•
political writings. It requires great delicacy and that the harvest has been exerediag good, and there is meg
reason to believe that much more grain will be housed thins
no small share of discretion to determine wben it re
will be uecessary fur the consumption of those acttlements."
may be proper to treat writings as libellous, and Extract of a letter from Halifax, dated Oct. 19:
where slieuld this discretion be placed hut in the " Provisioas for the ensuing winter he,, been landed by
from
GosvternAmdent trig Cf bettbeese Ido,t3:t Sablebr Island. Aerostats
lutists of- those to whom the Government of the
Empire is intrusted ? Should it be reposed else. Thommpson wares rwenleneedt by the Court nefia(renethraaltSeWsailisiliamylia
where, the country loses the benefit which must re- fur damning the Laws, Judges, and commit' iou, to pays
fine of 251. and costs of the prosecution."
cult from the restraint of official responsibility, and
the nutional press is deprived of its natural and A new foreign loan, respecting which no intitudielo'
had previously been given theta itegoci•to ion was OW-
only safeguard, the strong shield of public opinion. ing, was on Tuesday introduced into the money mar-
._.—...,— ket for the first time. The country for which it is to
The Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived.; :be raised is Denmark, end the contractors are under-
Their accounts of the state of disease in Spain .are stood to be all Ellgmercantileh mercantile house of the first
class. its present amount will be 1,500 000 L. but
not more satisfactory than those of of the relations has the option in the year 1825 of
tletween Turkey nod Russia. doubling the amount on the same terms. Two
i. ~....a.vem.- thirds or the loan will be in the denomination of
The practice of smuggling appears to derive stetting money, and out-third in mares benco ; the
' strength from the force employed to restrain it. dividends on the first payable in London. on the
second in Hamburg'', hut subject to no commissionThe persons engaged its it, like the banditti who dim.
or variations in the rate of exchange. In that per-
turb the south of Ireland, pursue their illicit call- , ticular it resembles the last Prnsaiati loan bet one
-in undismayed by the actual presence cf the Five per cent. will be the rate of interest, sad I'
'Military, whom they set at dt filittee• • A most period of redemptisa is cued at 40 reins