The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-23 00:00:00

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what Sir P. Iko abtrt eallesi lile Warta twin
of office," their arrogance iwe'reilserl with; for it
could not have exceeded, the calaiiitierof Oceanus.
try. To such a height indeed did this spirit carry
them, that they—thy who have ever been distils:
gutihed fop
all the vicissitudes of political life—they who re•
makted unmoved in their places, after the Perlis-
ment.itielrhed voted them incapable's-4W' trig.
men, eirctwo or three distinct occasions dnring•the•
last Session, vauntingly &chafed, that their exist-
ence as Ministers depended upon the vote of the
night. So they declared on Mr. TiEttNue's mo-
tion—so they repeated on the imposition of die
new taxes. Would they have indelged in this
empty and unmeaning declamation if they enter-
tained a doubt of support and success—if, in fact,
questions of public policy had not been virtually
decided before they were discussed ? To out
minds a stronger proof of the want of any thing
like independence' in the present Douse of Com.
mons cannot be adduced. That House hie Pepini
rated without performing one•act that could gain
the public confidence. The Ministers, we pre-
sume, have retired to enjoy the delights of their
beds of roses, whilst the country exhibits a scene that
would alarm the stoutest heart. Discontent pre.
vails from one extremity of the nation to the other,
aggravated as it is by the keenest bitings of po-
verty, and the bitterest feelings of disgust and di*.
appointment.
Such is the situation to which England is at
length reduced—England, whese former state of
solid glory, of internal happiness, of genuine loy.
ally, and constitutional freedom, appear perhaps
the more truly great, whets contrasted with the
state of wretchedness, of discontent, and humilia-
tion, to which she is now reduced.

We have received Paris Papers of Monday last.
Accounts from Lausanne give some notice of the
affairs that occupy the Diet of Switzerland. A
Concordat was 'proposed, permitting marriages to
be contracted between persons professing different
religions, which was acceded to by the Cantons of
Zug and Geneva, but rejected by those of Uri,
Schwitz, Underwald, Appenzel. and Vallais. A
proposition proceeding' from Berne, that the off-
spring of marriages contracted between persons of
different religions should, without any exception,
be educated according to the faith of their fathers,
was also rejected, as a matter belonging to the inter-
nal economy of each Canton. On the contrary, a de-
sire expressed by Zurich was adopted, that those
Cantons in which such marriages ere prevented,
should modify their penal laws, and no longer pu-
nish by banishment and loss of civil rights those
who may contravene the existing ordinances. The
Cantons of Zug, the Grimm', and Tessino, have
ennounced their adhesion to the Concordat, which
declares that change of religion shall no longer be
punished by deprivation of civil rights.

The French Government continuer from time to
time to place on active service some of the retired
officer■. The Gazette de Frame states, that four-
teen of these unemp'oyed officers hi the three de-
partments composing the I I tlo military division,
have received orders to join different corps.

Sir ROBERT WILSON has arrived in Paris.

Accounts from Marseilles state, that 150 Cache-
mere goats have arrived there. The harvests pro-
mise well in the South of France, but Marseilles
is 1, encumbered" with *heat sent from Odessa and
Genoa. The tow price at which it is sold reduces
the husbandman to despair.

Flanders and Hamburgh Mails have arrived,
bringing Brussels Papers to the 19th of July.—
They notice an expectation which is said to be en-
tertained by the Dignitaries of the Order of
Malta, that the Knights of Saint John will sac-
ceed in obtaining from the Sovereigns of Europe
the absolute posse•Kion of the bland of Elba.

Accounts from Berlin speak of the discovery of
some secret societies in the Prussian territories of •
revolutionary tendency, and stale that several arrests
have in consequence been made. The votaries of
literature in Germany have fur some time been con-
sidered the most dangerous enemies to the existing
institutions, and oat every occasion when we are ap-
prised of conspiracies and cabals against the State,
we are sure of finding students and professors of
the universities accused of being deeply implicated
its such transactions.

Yesterday morning Mr. KROUSE, the extra fo-
reign meviienger, arrived in town with dispatches
from Italy.
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Viscount SIDSIOUTH had an audience of the
PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
An Evening Paper, %hick lately stated as a
report that the plague hail broken out at Moga-
dore, has contradicted the rumour on the authority
of advice. from the British Vice-Consul resident
at that place, of the 6th of June, which make no
mention of arty such event having taken place.
Extract from a letter from Genoa, dated 10th
instant :—" Several vessels have arrived here since
the 3d instant, from different parts of the coast of
Spain, but they do not seem to confirm the report
which hiss been circulated of a rupture between the
Algerities and Spain."
The East India Company's outward•bound ship
the Mar*, if Ely, which parted company with
the Larkins oil the coast of Portugal, was, in le.
7. 54. N. bong. 21. 10. W. on the 43d May, 911 well.
The Nellie Castle, alter parting company with the
Lord Castlereagh, as mentioned in former accounts,
fell in with the Alurvtis of Ely, end kept company
with her until they strived off the island of Madeira.

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