The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-27 00:00:00

THE BRIT]. S PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1819.

We received last night some German Papers,
c!ie of sh eh coot:rig.* the following inteliigence
►•slrecting the Spaotrl► exped►tion fitting out fur
S lath America :

fIItAtIA, MANCH 21.

We leprn by accounts from Cobs, obit the expedition,

the mull of the last efforts of Spain, will sail in the
month of June. It is, however, coosidered as iinprulsa-
lile that is 1.311 leave Cad.a before the 10th of August.
Ili h.re my di parlor, Com Cadiz, six wetks ago, nothing an.
woof. ditat it would he 10 WWII Si sea. It would be dans
full to form a just idea of the element• of this expedition.
A small cumber of Officers shrived enthusiasm, but the
veatest dissatisfaction prevailed among the soldiers, who
viccivr.l neith. r pay nor clothing.
An order sent from Mad. id directs the strictest ex-
@mutation to be made among the Staff and the Officers Le.
longing to the exp. di lion, its order to discover and to expel
those who are Fie-(masons. Nothing could he more coin.
richly ridiculous and shined thin such a measnre, if this
is the iirtirotiou of it ; hat its real übjeit is hi ihseover the
went,. esof Ani.ther fsr icor, dang,runs association, ahith
it is sail spread rapidly in Spain. The name of it is care-
fully e ruled, an order 1.. keep IN existence secret It is
r port. it Olt a slumber of Officers belonging to the army
rum,. members of this association.
'I lade is eatirely at a stand, with the exception r f a little
roasting tilde between Bourdeaux and Bayonne. Money
14 iinconimmily rare. There is no demand for the iron of
li..ay. Merchandise finds nu purchasers; lint a single
ship anivira f...nt cur anri.nt Colonies. The imposts are
caressive, and shear itself among all CFI/SPC
Fisch is the state of lialli.la grass grows nn !Ise quays, and
the 41111, may be sold of all the other towns in Spain.

Flanders Papers receive(' to the 9.34 inst. con-
tain the following particulars relative to the Brits-

lo plot :

*Bruns, APRIL 21.

Ihr Court of Assizes will begin, on the 24th of this
enoo.ll, the pi-oral-dicta% agaiisti the persons accused of
101 al. rh •'1 to break out last Nor 'ober. It scorns hard
t.s Lebo se that so mad a project could have raiated ; it ap-
r. arc, loowever, that the ioqiiiries made with the goratest
.ore M. Van ile Faso ele, romplet• ly fatai:lish the proof
tlor plot. It was not directed either against his Majesty
sir Sot ere it'll Of against his Government, but its sole object
was to compo I Itis Majesty the Emperor of Russia, by the
most violent means, oven by the seizure of his person, to
go tiruclainat ions in mob t In c•tabtosh another Goseounient
in trait f• by prootlaiimiii her Majesty Maria Inuisa Regent
flooring the nomority of her son. The mem:Mance that 110-
t lig aas pi oj..cied either against his Majeaty or his Govern.
boot that all was di d against a foreign Sovereign
and (rove, noirot, inalfra the Articles f%ti, &c of the Penal
1..d1. imitoi&erlo:e in this rise; and Ilona flit re is no
c•.. al?on ul capital punishment 'floc pleasoings in this cause
so ill cm • ',cite the public curiosity, we shall commi-
tit ate the (Owls to our trailers. As there are above forty
v ittoo•si s to lo h. and m this cause, it is thought that the
•-oiro of A•1.:2 11 cannot open its public sittings before Tues.
flay. The acru.rd ate fite an number, four Frenchmen and
hoe Belgian. Laborde, who has escaped h) fight, was the
1- silt

Act...nuts Corn the French frontiers say, that n general
di.ha+m.o is t.sLing place to the F.esich army. A part of
the aiiilisr) from the south is posted iu the northern de-

pulunt uls.

night, in the !louse of Commons, Lard
PA 1.514.1i51 ON gine notice. that ea Monday next he
will move the Army Estimates.
Ou Thms,lay neat General HART will certainly
briog forward- a notion fur repealing the laws now
in force in Ireland, Moire to the imposition of fines
on town-lands in which illicit stills may he found.
A Meeting or Nobility mid Gentry, landholders
in Ireland, WWI held yesterday on this subject, a
report of abide is Kiser in 01If lift ceding columns.

It will he seen by an advertisement in the front
of our Paper, that Mr. OwLtr, of Lanark, a gen-
tleman well knows' to the public by his philan-
thropy and attention to the internal economy of the
cousdr, has offered kunstlf a (7andirlate fur the
Writ in the representation of the bOrouglis of
Lauark, &c. vacant by the death of the late
Sir J. B. liIDDLLL. Mr. OWEN has very strong
claims to the honour which he solicits, and would
prove a valuable aelltion to the miscrllauy of which
the Imi.erial House of Commons is composed. Of
the purity of his views, the following priss.sge in his
Address stfurets a satisfactory assurance :—" I have
ale patrot.gr," says Mr. OWEN—" I raps•ct noise ;
for a hors. r may lie in power I will not a►k a private
favour fur in3self or others."

Tile approaching discussion of the Catholic
Q 1..11011 will he one of the most interesting that
iniportent subject has rile undergone. On
inter discussions the force of intolerance, the
alit in. 111 war, and the hostility of Ministers, alter-
this.% tied the voice of reason and toleration.
13,1! 1r...., untwithstanding the efforts that have been
in id.. Muir in Billow, and is Ireland, to raise the
ty of •• No Popery!!" the Protestants of the
Einpire have resisted with becoming inde-
peniklirt lOC of those who would excite
them isolust their fellow-suLjects, and who would
xposs them to the runtempt, the odium, and the
ex,cralion. of am eillighteireil world. Of course,
upon a questa/II like this, we cannot expect to find
ail men una.ninous, we are therefore 'wither i.tar-
pri.rd nor story to see a few resolutions awl a few
pelrtwus preseuted by a few bigots aglllllSi the
‘.‘at act of a natiaa's liberation. But the peo-
Fe of Englisisil are not parties to these measures,
iiirriteirt and wretched as they are, they only tend
to sue* how much tile progress of liberal irptiiinirs has
t0....1,1iLd ho.o oar csorititry the issistskeu and (mil-