The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-03 00:00:00

WINDSOR.-SATURDAY, JAW. 1.

The weather being fine this afternoon, his Majesty, ac-
companied by the attendants in waiting, arrived in his car-
riage at the Castle from the Royal Lodge, and inspected
the great improvements going on there. His Majesty's
carriage went through the new arch to the Castle, which
will, when finished, be a grand improvement to it. The
view from the arch is in a line with the Long \Valk, and
leads direct to the Castle. The King did not make a long
stay at the Castle, and afterwards returned to the Royal
Lodge to dinner.
This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Gloucester passed through Windsor on their
way to Bagshot Park. Their Royal Highnesses had been
on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury,
and other Noblemen in Ilertfordshire, and had come post
to Windsor: their own horses were in waiting for them at
the Castle Inn to take them home. The Duke and Duchess
looked in good health.

The Duke of Clarence and the Princess Augusta came
to town on Saturday, from the residence of the Royal Duke,
at Bushy, where the Princess is staying on a visit to the
Duke and 'Duchess of Clarence.
The Princess Augusta paid a visit to the Princess Sophia
at Kensington, and returned in the afternoon to Bushy
with the Duke of Clarence.
Yesterday the Duchess of Kee t and the Princess Feodore
attended Divine Service at the Royal German Chapel, and
heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper.
His Royal highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg,
dined with the King of France on Wednesday.
Prince Eeterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, Count
Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, and other Foreign Mi-
nisters, transacted business with Mr. Secretary Canning
on Saturday, at the Foreig,n Office, previous to the Right
Honourable Gentleman's expected departure for Bath.
On Saturday evening Mr. Secretary Canning left the
Foreign Office for Gloucester Lodge, and was expected to
leave yesterday, for Bath.
Mr. Crotch, a King's Messenger, was sent off from the
Foreign Office, Downing-street, on Friday evening, with
despatches for the Right Hon. henry Wellesley, the British
Ambassador at Vienna. Another King's Messenger was
also sent off on Friday evening from the Foreign Office,
for St. Petersburgli' to Mr. Stratford Canning.
The Recorder of London transacted business at the Se-
cretary of State's Office for die Home Department, on
Thursday.
We understand that the statement (in our paper of
Thursday), of the death of Lord Mount Charles, is in-
correct. The last account, received in town on Friday,
from his Lordship, states, that he was a little better.
Amongst the latest arrivals at Rath arc, the Earl and
Countess Liverpool, Lord Bolton, Lord Porchester, Sir It.
Vaughan, Colonels Althorp, Baillie, Baker, Litchfield,
Parker, Major Caines, &c. &c.
Mr. Baring is in Rills.
The Masquerade announced for the 10th instant, at the
Argyll Rooms, under the direction of six Noblemen, is, we
understated, to be on a grander scale than any heretofore
given.
Sir Walter Scott, in conjunction with Mr. John Lock-
hart, it is said, is busy in preparing for the press an edition
of Shakspeare. This has long been a desideratum in our
national literature, and from the known talent of the
parties engaged, we have no doubt that the hiatus which
this want has caused, will be most ably supplied.
General Martin, a native of Lyons, who died in India,
in the service of the British East India Company, be-
queathed to his native town a considerable legacy. Some
difficulties having arisen, M. De }teeny went to London to
settle the affair. All the difficulties have been removed,
and the Municipality of Lyons has now at his disposal
1,700,000 francs, proceeding from the legacy.—Paris
Paper.
Exxon IN THE At.:: ANA css.—There appears to be a
most strange and unaccountable blunder in the placing of
Easter-day, in all the ali»anacks for :he year 152.5, which
we have had an opportunity of consulting. It is a well
known rule (anti is given in all the church prayer books),
that Easter-day is the first Sunday after the first full moon
on or after the 21st day of March ; and if the full moon
happens on a Sunday, then Easter-day is the Sunday after.
Now, whether Meesieurs the almanack makers have al-
tered this rule we cannot tell ; bet certain it is, that they
have placed the Paschal full moon on Sunda./ the 31 of
April ; and instead of making Easter day fail on the Sun-
day "atter," according to the rule in the prayer book, they
have placed it ol (e seine day!—Whitsunday, and all the
other moveable feasts, which depend on Easter, are, so far
as we have examined, placed in the same manner; and
there is like ly to be a &floes confusion in the church ser-
vices for the ensuing year. We should like to know, from
some person learned in these matters, whether the alma-
neck or the prayer-book is right.
Ec LI ems is 11-M.—There will be four eclipses this year :
two of the sun and two of the moon. On May 31 and June
1 the moon will be eclipsed, visible, beginning at 534 mi-
nutes past 11 on the eight of the 31st May, and ending at
234 past VI on the morning of the let.lune. Digits eclipsed
0. 11.—On the loth June there will be an eclipse of the
sun, invisible in this part of the world.—Nov. 25th, the
moon will rise eclipsed, at 3 minutes past 4 in the afternoon,
and the eclipse will terminate at 19 minutes past S. Di-
gits obscured 2. 51. on the moon's southern limb.—Dec. 9,
there will be an eclipse of the sun, invisible.
The Aire and Cinder Navigation Company have come to
the resolution to cut an entirely new canal, at a cost of
100,000;. from this nlace to Castieford, and possibly to
Knottingley. Much ailliculty has long been felt in the
navigation of the Aire, owing to the number of mills upon
its banks, and to the shallows in the river ; but at Castle-
ford the waters arc deepened by the contributions of the
Calder, and from thence to Knottingley, the navigation is
excellent, except in flnoda and frosts; at Knottingley the
vessels will pass into the new Goole canal, anti enter the
Ouse below the sand banks, and within six miles of the
Humber, the great receptacle of almost all the principal
rivers of Yorkshire. When these plans are executed,
vessels of one hundred and ten tons burden will be enabled
to come up to Leeds, and the coasting trade from hence to
London, and to every other part of the British Isles, may'
be carried on without the merchandise being retarded or
re-shipped.
Formerly it was a maxim that a young woman should
never be 'untied until she had spun herself a set of body,
table, and bed-linen. From this custom, all unmarried
women were termed spinsters, an appellation they still re-
tain in all law proceedings.

[From the Eta'le dated Fridarl
N. 1E XNA, Dec. 20.
The following article appears in the Austria's Observer of the
above date :

CONSTAXVIKOPLF., NOT. 27,

The Capitan Paths returned the day boore yesterday front the
Dardanelles to the port of Constaitinople, in his admiral's ship.
He was received with the customary honours. Yesterday he had
an audience with the Grand Vizier, and received the Pelisse of :io.
nour. The report of the disgrace of Chosreff Pacha, was generally
circulated. They even already designated for his successor, Abo-
lobond Pacha, Governor of Salonica, but the friends of the Capitan
Pacha have on this occasion again ttiuniphed.
To-day, also, positive news have been received that Ibrahim
Pacha had set sail from Roudroun' November Bth, with his fleet
and transports, but that instead of proceeding to the MOM, he had
gone, some days afterwards, to the hay of Mannerist.* (otherwise
Altai), on the shore situate opposite the Isle of Rhodes. He hay
cast anchor in the mad, where he intends passing the winter.
As to the state of things in Livadia and Thready, the Greeks
bad pnblished news, from which it appeared that the Turkish
troops had not only evacuated leitun, but that they had proceeded,
even to Larissa. These details are not confirmed. For some
months none but insignificant actions have occurred in those coun.
tries. We have it on good authority that I)ervisch Paths, with a
corps of 12,000 infantry, and 8,000 hone, occupied, at the beginning
of thin month, the camp of Hamanna, on the southern shore of the
Sperchius, in the environs of Thermopylae.
The personnel of the Greek Government, sitting at Napoli di Ro-
mania, has dust been renewed, but Conduriotti remains Prrsi.
dent of the Executive Council. Mavrocordato, who, some mood a
since, had given in his resignat'on of the Presidency of the (boned
of Legislation, has been named Secretary of State. It is thought
he will be obliged to renounce the Pretidency of the Directory of
Blissolonghi.

PARIS, DEC. 30.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
The Commission appointed to prepare the Address, in answer to
the King's Speech on the opening of the Session, has completed its
task. To-morrow the Deputies will re-assemble. They will de-
liberate in • Secret Committee on the Report of the Commission,
and in the public sitting which takes place immediately afterwards,
they will choose by lot the members who, with the bureau. will
form the deputation which is to present the address to his Majesty
on Saturday next.

DAUDAIIELI.T.e, Nov. 24.
A Captain, who left Stanchio on the lath instant. informs us,
that the combined Turkish and Egyptian beet left Boudroun on
the Bth ; that for three days it was detained by calms in sight of
St►nchio; that the Greek fleet, to the number of eighty sail, which
for more than twenty days had been watching the muvemen•s of
the squadron, had attacked them on the 9th, 10th, and 11th.
They heard at Stanchio a heavy cannonade ; but up to the period
of his departure the result of these attacks was not known, nor the
ulterior destination of the squadron. The same Captain says. that
a great mortality prevailed among the troops of the expedition,
more especially among the bursas.
Several European transport vessel., whose term of engagement
had expired, and who were unwilling to renew it. had before
quitted the Turkish squadron, and proceeded to Alexandria to
claim the amount of their freightage. It is said that 3lehtmet
Ali Pacha wished to pay them with grain of a bad quail y.

GERMAN PAPERS.

GHENT, DEC. 27.

By a decree of the lath October last, his Alajesiy 'has decided
that from the Ist of January, Oaxettes, Journals, Newspapers,
Periodical Works, and Price Currents, coming from foreign rout:-
tries, shall no longer be subject to the formality of the extraordinary
stamp, hut shall be marked with a particular stamp, or signed in-
stead of stamping (visa pour tib.irre), on their arrival, by the
Postmasters, indicating in writing the duty to which they are liable,
and which shall be paid to the Postmasters. This measure Will put
an end to the delays and impediments to which the delivery of the
foreign journals has hitherto been subject—Austrian Otscrv.r.
CONSTAWTINOPLE, Nov. 25.
The capital lately witnessed the return of the '.;spitan Paths,
wish • few ships, which are in the most deplorable condition.
Whoever had r.ny doubts about the result of the campaign, tray be
convinced by his own eyes, from the pallid countenances of the
crews of these ships, with what hardships they have had to con.
tend ; and yet we know that the Capitan Paella has been for four
weeks in the Dardanelles to repair and recover. liis successor,
Ibrahim Pacha, has since attempted to land near Candia, probably
with the intention of ar.choring there, but it is said that the Oreek
fleet has hindered him, and that he has since returned to Boudroun,
after having suffered some losses. The treasury is so exhausted,
that a farther deterioration of the currency is considered to be in.
evitable.—Allgenteine Zeituag, Dec. 24.

The subscription for the relief of the sufferers in the
Isle of I'ortland is nearly 2,000!.
KT s G'SBENCII.—It was announced on Saturday, in a
Notice from Lord Chief Justice Abbott,that the Sittiags for
London will be adjourned to Friday the 7th instant. His
Lordship will commence with Common Juries; and, in
about a week afterwards, proceed to Special Juries. The
ln.t day for making Special Juries will be on Mcnday next.
The cause " Cox, Esq. v. Kt an," still remains on the
Paper; but it is intended for trial by a Special Jury.
We have now the gratifization to announce, that a
Company for the construction of a railway from Leeds to
Hull, by way of Selby, has been established with a capital
of SOO,OOO/. to be raised by the creation of 5,000 shares, at
the rate of 1001. each.—Leeds Mercury.
Dr. Brewster, in his Number of the Fdinhurgh Journal
of Science, closes en article on the " Vision of Impressions
on the Retina" with the following remarks :—" When the
eye is not exposed to the impressions of external objects,
or when it is insensible to these impressions, in consequence
of the mind being engrossed with its own operations, any
object of mental contemplation which has either been call-
ed up by the memory, or crested by the imagination, will
be seen as distinctly as if it had been formed from the
vision of a real object. In examining these mental impres-
sions, I have found that they follow the motions of the eye-
ball exactly like the spectral impressions of luminous ob-
jt cts, and that they resemble them also in their apparent im-
n oh 1 ty when the eyeball is displaced by an external force.
If this result (which I state with much diffidence, from
having only my own experience in its favour) shall be
found generally true by others, it will follow that the ob-
jects of mental contemplation may be seen as distinctly as
external objects, and will occupy the same local position in
the axis of vision, as if they had been formed by the agency
of light. Hence all the phenomena of apparitions may de-
pend upon tLe relative intensities of these two classes of
impressions, and upon their manner of accidental comb.,
nation. In perfect health, when the mind possesses a con-
trol over its powers, the impressions of external objects
alone occupy the attention, but in the unhealthy condition
of the mind, the impressions of its own creation either
overpower, or combine themselves with the impressions o
external objects ; the monad spectra in the one case appear-
ing alone, while in the other they are seen projectol
among those external objects to which the eyeball is di-
rected."
UNITARIAN CHAPILS.—A warm controversy has fo:
some time been carried on in the Manchester Gazette, re-
lative to the right of the Unitarians to most of the elispeb
now occupied by them. Amongst the writers in this con-
troversy are, on the orthodox side, Mr. George Hattlad, c:
Manchester, and the Rev. John Cockin, of Holinfirth;
on the other, Geo. Wm. Wood, Esq. of Manchester (sr
of the late Rev. Wm. Wood, of Mill-hill chapel, in tl is
town), and Mr. Samuel Kay, of Manchester. The conte!
tion originated in some animadversions, made at a Ltd:
rian dinner in Manchester, on the doctrines or conduct ,1
Trinitarians ; and these were met by a charge against t!-.
Unitarian body, of occupying chapels, and enjoying elide,-
utents, built and settled for the promulgation cf arthct c
principles. It is stated that, of fourteen places of wersll.:
held by this denomination in the ‘Vtst Riding of Yen-
shire, and several of them endowed. three only have ban
built by them, namely, those of Thorne, Sminforth,
Wakefield; whilst those at Lncls, Sheffield,
Bradford, Lidgct, Eland, Itothoram, Ponca:4:r, Sch.!,
and Stannington, were built, and for many years occupi,:.
by Trinitarians. In the North and East Ridings,
Unitarians have six chapels, only two of which they lie,'
built or purchased. The case is nearly the same in t..
adjoining counties. The transference has of course
produced by a change in the sentiments of the niajorizy 0_
these congregations. We do not know the precise object of
publishing the lists which have been given ; but we arc
sure, if any orthodox dissenter is weak onough to look for
the recovery of these places of worship and their endo,w-
ments (which we have not heard to be the case) he Isis :es
for what would be a great curse to his cause. Nell went
endowments for religious purposes have done intitnte :in-
jury to the cause of religion.—L' eels Paler.
MeLawctiois OcceaseNcr.—We learn with rec.et
that the horse-postman between Oticy and Skip ton, v3c,
drowned in the river Aire last vve.'k, in c,nrsoluence
the dreadful inundations on the road. Part of :he
hags have been found, but the body of the unfortn'fte
man, with the bags attached to his ~erson, hail rot,
Ins
as.
our correspondent informs us, been diseevered when :
account was sent LE—Blackburn Mail.

M.4R1.1 FOOTE.

If half thy outward graces had been placed
About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart I"
SIIAISPEAIII.
the was ever a creature who merited the sympathy of the
la, it is Maria Foote !
.6,3 was ever a with who deserved its commiseration, it is her

becurt narrative of the causes which have led to the condition of
'tee and the unhappiness of the other, may not be without its
i,„( erects on fathers, mothers, and daughters.
%twat 28 years ago, an actor came to Plymouth by the name of
(his real name being Foote): he was of a respectable fa-
foo Salisbury, his brother being at that time a clergyman
st^oat on a visit to his brother, he met the sister of his bro-
., ode, a young creature about seventeen, just from a boarding
; tote disgrace of all parties, they persuaded this in.
~g bOinting4Cllool girl to marry a man 23 years older than
-wit He returned to Plymouth with his wife, a sweet innocent
la country town% actors are considered profligate people ;
1g though the young Creature had been educated as a lady, and
murk more of one than most of the other females in the town,
roue foooly paid her the least attention. She was considered
anted& man whom nobody respected—and notwithstanding the
hole town was interested in her appearance, pity was the predo.
inset feeling whenever she appeared.
;mated comparatively by one see, she naturally enough
mew herself into the soctLity of the other nd certainly, in
inmouth, ha good htunnur, fascinating manners)ong silken hair,
• white his and feather, made prodigious havoc among the young
oats of the town.
Her husband was too apathetic to care who flirted about with his
vet provided he was released foam the trouble, and left her too
ften after the first burst of passion was cooled. Thus, without
ng vicious. her natural gaiety deadened all sense of discretion-
-11%4 being shatnzfully alighted by the world without a cause,
the became indignant, and indifferent to its opinion. Iler old 'hus-
band, finding that she was nut visited, began to neglect her himself,
instead, as he ought to have done, of paying her double attention,
and seekingto soothe and console an ill-used woman, whose feelings
had never been injured till she sacrificed her youth anti bee pree.

pM_
s to hint.
The produce of this ill-sorted union wu Maria Foote. who was
Ain, brought up timid scenes little calculated to strengthen the
sense of propricty, thematic lure, or domestic happiness.
Irma that weariness of wind, which in momenta of quiet con-
stantly presses the heart of a slighted woman, a desire for relief,
which was denied he: in the suc:ety of her ova sex to the degree
she deserved, urged the mother to take refuge nightly in the
theatre. Duly and hourly seeing, hearing, and talking of little
else but the theatre, as might have been expected, a wish to become
an loess got possession of her mind. She went on her husband's
stage just as bee innocent child was becoming open to impressions ;
hod mut Maria Foote, the present subject of public sympathy,
was initiated, with the most innocent feelings, to undervalue those
'imam proprieties and delicacies of female character, which add an
resistible charm to the most beautiful, as they grace and soften
'Mt mos abandoned, woman.
When Maria was twelve years of age, her Mother was so far lost
to all delicacy of mind, and her Father so utterly insensible to all
' the duties of a Father, that he suffered this only daughter to act
Jelitt to the Romeo of his wife !
The town was disgusted—thoroughly disgusted—and whatever
claims he had before to the notice of some private friends, to whom
his manners as a gentleman ever made him welcome, they were now
considered forfeited for ever.
Front this moment, a sort of reckless indifference seemed to pos.
eras
the whole family. Nothing came amiss, so that money was
the consequence; and under the impression of making it, Foote,
who was brought up a gentleman, and whose wife had been edu-
cated u a lady. took a public inn, lost his wife's fortune, became
the dupe of villains, and was ruined.
Maria was at this time a most fascinating girl, and having suc-
ceeded in an experiment on a London audience, obtained an en-
gagement st Covent-garden theatre.
To those who know nothing of a theatre, it may be new to tell
them, that as interesting girl is in the jaws of ruin who enters it as
an actress, unless watched and protected by her family and friends
with die scrutiny of Argus, without his divosition to fall asleep.
Constantly. exposed to the gaze of men--inthuning a hundred heads
and agitating 'thousand hearts, if she be as Maria was, fascinating
and amiable—surrounded by old wretches as dressers, who are the
constant conveyers of letters, and sonnets, and notes, and flattery—
dauled by the thunders of public applause, and softened by the
incense of a thousand sighs, breathed audibly from the front of the
pit or the stage.boxes—associating in the green-room with licensed
married strumpets, because she must not be affected ! Or supping
oa the stage, after the curtain is dropped, with titled infamy or
gray-headed lechery !—let the reader fancy an innocent girl, from a
country town, plunged at once into this furnace of depravity—let
him fancy her Father sanctioning her by his indifference or helping
her by his example, and then let him say, if she be ultimately
seduced and abandoned, whether it ought not to be a wonder she
ass innocent so long!
In spite of an education that never ch.rished the best feelinge of
"child, Maria has yet a sounder understanding than her parents;
sad it is the conviction of the writer, that she will by its exercise
regain It last her station in society. It is manifest, front her letters,
that she begins to perceive the folly of wishing to appear vicious
wfaidat actual vice—of being familiar with title, however the Ireart4l.
&grscas it—she begins to perceive that selfishness, ingratitude,
hypocrisy, indifference to the opinion of the best rart of sociity,
sulfate desertion of old friends when the most has been made of
thno—a love of dash and splendor, in preference to virtue and
Suitt--are not, after all, the surest, or the more certain, or the most
honourable methods of obtaining the respect of oneself or of society,
sad generally inflict on the practisets a double portion of disgrace
mid offering.
For her seducer's heartless treatment of her during her distress-
fug pcegnancy, no punishment can ever be a sufficient lnflictio.
A emit pessionate, ardent, endeared lover. certainly, to stay from
his beloved nine months out of every year during the five she was
his:—that is, 45 months out of 60—thus spending, out of 60
months.ls in her arms. Noble creature ! Romeo was a log to such
a lover !
To those who are acquainted with the conduct of the old gentle-
man for the last 30 years in Devonshire. the history of the pulmo-
miry complaint, the 'slanton gun, the six weeks at Thal!, the mean-
ness, the heartless ingratitude to Mayne, were exceedingly enter-
tilting. There is Namely a friend living, or a family dead, that
being not treated with the dirtiest selfishness, whatever were his
obligations—spunging till he was insulted, lying till he was disco.
vend, puffing till he was the butt of the town. The people of Ply.
mouth can relate a thousand instances of this description.
Berkeley's shrewdness soon saw that lie should have no authority
if such parents were not kept at a distance, and he was right ; but
Hits loved this girl, why did he not at once marry her and take her
bon) them ? The influence of a husband would soon have correct.
ed all her insensibility to appearances when pernicious examples
were removed !—Leaminer.