The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-23 00:00:00

EXTENSION OF OUR MILITARY FORCE.

It has been set fo►th in a Treasury Paper. with
an air of confidence that smacks of authority,
that " as a measure of indispensable vet...mine, in
the present reduced state of the army, an addition
of 10,000 men is to be immediately made to the
protecting force of the country." We are further
told, that " this will be accomplished in the most
efficient and economical manner, by calling into
activity those who are receiving from the State the
rewards of their former services, and !dating them
under the command of Officers already upon the
pension establishment. The services of a part of
the regular army will be in like manner rendered
available, by relieving the soldiers now in the gar-
risons and dock•yards, and by substituting marines
in their place. With this view, twenty men will
be added to each company of marines, makinr, to.
getter eleven thousand six hundred men."

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The Ministers seem resolved to dispisy the ut-
most vigour in defending the country from every
violent effort on the part of its enemies. If they
can induce Parliament to accede to their desires
with respect to the extension of oor military forces
they will have obtained one of the great objects for
which their adherents have for some time been en-
deavouring to alarm the country. We trust, how-
ever. that Parlinment will not permit its fears so
far to overcome its judgment as to prevent it from
inquiring into the causes of the agitated state of the
public mind, before it sanctions the adoption of
measures which, in their consequences. are &cu.

lilted to increase the present anger and discontent.
No doubt can to entertained that in the want of
employment has originated the political ferment
which now excites the apprehensions of the Govern-
anent, and it would he consistent with sound policy
and common sense to seek for the restoration of
tranquillity rather by removing the causes of dis-
content ths:klly adopting any violent measures.
The Fu....: yesterday experienced a serious fall,
to the extent of I I per cent., probably on account
of these intended measures.

A pamphlet, entitled " .4 Warning Letter to hit
Royal Highness' the Prince Regent," by the Rev.
L. T. B•asu•w, lass been just published. It pro-
fames to be intended principally as a call upon the
middle ranks at this important crisis to rally mood
the Throne and the Constitution, as the only power
competent to save the country frosts the dangers
with which it is threatened. The bold truths which
it malaise. end the aulstary advice which it iwewl•
mtua, Iran esited vest lames% and elossiesd •
rapid mil ottani,' cirestatimi. It 'add seem, from

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• " Although a mixture of jealoasy and caution may
be remarked in the following passage, it breathes too delir-
mined a resolution to vindicate the Iltown of the Pron.',
to be 'daftly overlooked. Will Ministers call TIM Warm%
also, a Reified?
'l' If, in the repression of any meetings of the people for
any object of Reform, wits sr impracticable, their rights
have beat infringed, or any 'mew Is individual, have been
committed, I shall be smart the Arm tu vindicate every
redress which the laws can sweeties, and shalt be foaled at
WI limes reedy to resist the slightest mtereaciateut upon the
waders! freedom. Ie sorb a case, mistake& opieieseoe
the stimieut alimeadact of individttal% might to have no
kind of abet to okoarronso POOLIC nonce, sue to pee-
ves& tbs Maims stall dames la 'plaid the vital security et
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It will be seen by an advertisement in the front
of our Paper, that all Officers lately belonging to
the Royal Veteran Battalions, end now upon the
Retired List, are likely to be called into active
service.

The venerable and patriotic Earl FlTzwtu.tax
has been removed by his Majesty's Ministers from
the office of Lord Lieutenant and Ceslos Roirsforavi
of the West Riding of the county of York !
Energy is a noble quality in an Administration,
and so also is discretiun, and the Ministers have
*hewer! themselves just as wise as they were rigor-
ous in inflicting this summary act of vengeance
upon the head of Earl FITZWIT.LIAM, for presnm-
ing to Lint a doubt respecting the propriety of dis-
persing, by military force, a meeting of the peo-
ple at Manchester, and suggesting the necessity of
having some inquiry insti►uted into a proceeding
at once so violent awl so unconstitutional. What
a contemptible effort of puny spite ! Did the
wiseacres conceive that in expending the phials of
their wrath upon him whom they have selected for
its subject they could degrade Earl FITZw!LLIAM
in public estimation, or diminish the respect lit
which he is held by every man in the country, not
■ member of the Cabinet ? In offering an insult
to such a man they degrade and lessen their own
characters, and the indignity which their petty
anger would fling against him is retorted upon
themselves with ten-fold violence. They seem alto-
griller to mistake the nature of suffice. The cha-
racter of individuals is independent of the accident
of place, and as there are many clothed with the
drapery of power, on whom, from the unkindness
of nature, no external circumstance could confer
respectability, so there are others SS lio.e native
dignity requires no adventitious assistance from the
wand or rohe of office. Among the latter must
ever rank in the highest degree a British Peer, who,
exercising his rank, influence, mud talents, fur the
benefit of his country, and pursuing with ruidevi-
sting firmness the straight path of patriotism and
virtue, despises at once the frowns of authority and
the clamour of faction, and, secure in his own in-
tegrity, obtains in the consciousness of rectitude the
sweetest reward of his exertions.

Advices from &monde of the elst August, and
received by wily of Norfolk (Virginia), annottuee
the existence of a malignant lever at Hamilton,
the chief town of that island. a spot hitherto justly
celebrated for I isk solubility of its climate aikl the
health of the inhobitanYL.• Right cases are men-•
timed of that diaeifto teach ternsinoted fatally ; and
the 'termini ads, that •t several soldiers in the
mid soreroi momest. Imam weeds in the
Ni.Goves, had aim Mhos vieeims to

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the Radical Press, as I am, can form no notion of /d 't,*;);:j4,c.Z;:e-...1?„...t.t,:,;, ,
the daring tAreats which are weekly levelled at your
person and your life. To see and hear these, and
be silent, would be compromising treason."

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THIS HLOOStIffO ROSE.
We have from a Correspondent the Stanzas to
Mr. Philipps cothlmoed the very mormsful Ballad he I..tily
doted at Covent-garden Maitre, is the Opera of Lore an a
Village.

We learn from the German Papers which hove
arrived, that the Pepsi G-vernment is proceed.
ing vigoreudy in the execution of its scheme fur
expelling from the land of the Church the bands
of robbers by whom it Ills been for some time
infested. The town of Simi's() has long been a re.
foge to these predatory band., and their Eminen-
cies the Cardinals can devise sin other means of
extirpating the robbers, than by destroying the town,
and d.iring out ull the present inhabitants. The
houses are to be razed, and no trace of this de.
voted town shall be suffered to remain except the
town hall, which is to be converted into a bar-
rack for the accommodation of some troops of
curbineers. The distress and misery which must be
occa•ioned to the wretched inhabitants by the exe-
cution of this dreadful decree can easily be ima-
gined
; and this consideration ought to have in-
duced the Cardinals to devise sonic other means of
preventing the existing evil before they had recourse
to so violent an extremity. The establishment of
a military post in the infested district is still
thought neceesary, even though the town be de-
stroyer', and probably the Government would have
proved its wisdom better, had they resolved to try
how far this military experiment had succeeded
before they undertook to destroy a considerable
town, and reduce 3,000 people to misery, many
of whom must of necessity joist the bands of the
rubbers, and thus increase the magnitude of the
existing evil.
The arrival of Madame MONTNOLON from St.
Helens, has given rise to many conjectures. It is
said that her husband leas accompanied her iii
the disguise of a servant, intrinned of coarse,
by NAPOLEON, with some important mission.
In the Lady's clothes were concealed letters which
are to overture► all the existing Governments, and
by the same means was eourrye.l to Europe the
manuscript copy of the three first volumes of N A Po-
LEON'S Memoirs, written ley himself, bronght down
so far as the year 1804. Some difficulty it seems
is felt with regard to the printing of this ominous
work ; but having succeeded so well in bringing the
manuscript to Europe, the Countess and her friends
may hope to witness its publication at no eery distant
period. They would fuel but little difficulty in
Louden' in the achievement of this enterprise.

This blooming rose at early dawn
Expending drank the dew,
1 pinek'd the flow's.; hho' slurp its thom,
Because it look'd like you.

But gluing y thy beauteous face;
The likeness fades to view;
Nor in the rose thy blush I trace;
II chorale mast yield to )im.

WINDSOR. OCTOBER 22.

Yesterday the remains of the late Quarter-Mo.,
ADAMS were taken from the Carahy k. nr
military form. 'Ere pall was carried by Q•fat-
ter-Musters. The Officers followed Iwo And tvm,
the band drums mused; his lioi!e
boots and spurs were hung acrosq, rev.raed; the
troop that he belonged to followed. T 1 ,e f,
playing all the way to Clewer Church-y:0'1 frnmi.,
liarrecks. A great number of spectator.
the procession.