The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-20 00:00:00

GARRICK'S JURILR E.

On Monday evening, the 6th instant, being the
50th year front Garrick's Jubilee, • lecture up•
on the peculiar and ultstacteristic merits of Shalt.
*peaty was read at the Town Hall, its Strat-
ford, by John lirittoo, Esq. F.A.S. whose archi-
tectural taste awl skill are at, well known in
this country. Whilst the enthusiasm of MG Brit-
ton in the cause of Shakwerre, and las exer-
tions to keep alive the meniory of the " Bard
of Avon" in his native town, do honour .o his head,
his benevolence in approptiatiog the whose profits
of his lecture to a charitable institution in Striae
ford. is equally creditable to his herd.
The lecture, which is stated to have liven the
composition of H. Neele, Esq. • friend of NIG Brit.
ton, is written in a style elegant and perspicuous.
Mr. Neele's correct discrimination of what consti-
tutes the difference betwixt wit and humour in dm-
moue wraing. is highly creditable to hie taste and
judgment. To select from this admirable lecture
every separate part which is entitled to praise, would
take up too much space ; we shall therefore only
observe generally, that Mr. Neele has contrived to
give an air of perfect originality to this long-liack-
Med subject.
Mr. Britton finished hie lecture with the follow-
ing beautiful and well-chosen passage from au Ode
I of Dr. Wslron's (P. rindar) :
This whilst I woutl'riug pause o'er Shakspeare's page,
I mark, in visions of delight, the sage
High o'er the wrecks of matt, who stands sublime,

A column in the melancholy waste,
(Its cities humbled, and its glories past)
111.9jestic 'midst the solitude of Tillie

Hayti Gazettes to the 20th of July have arrives].
The particulars of Sir Hosts POPIIAIes visit to
CHRISTOPHE are Minutely detailed its that of the
25th Muy. No Sovereign could hate been received
with greater state and ceremony than the arrival of
the British Admiral called forth. The intended
visit was announced on the 4th of May, by Captain
Cox. of the Shearteater, deputed for that purpose,
and on the 16th Sir H. Poritast lauded at Cape
Henry. He remained there six days. A division
of the cultivated lands was proposed to be Made
among the soldiers of Cititisrornes army. A Com-
mittee, consisting of the principal members of the
State Council, had been appointed by the King, to
consider the measure and to superintend the appro-
priations.
IVe understand, by letters received in the City by
the last mail from Valencia, that au jusinetise slum-
ber of persons (indeed, so many as 140 a►e men-
tioned) have been put to the torture, its the castles
and dungeons of Nlurviedro, with a view to extract
from them confessions respecting any popular com-
motions that might be dreaded its the country.—
(Sunday Paper.)
Letters from Madrid state, that the mortal re.
mains of their late Majesties, King CHARLES IV.
and his Queen MARIA LOCISA, have arrived from
Gaeta, in a Spanish port in the Med►terranean.
The King has given orders that the bodies should
he conveyed with the utmost pomp to the Palace
of the Escurial.
The hope of aid in Ireland, with which The
Courier lately flattered the Radical* of this coun-
try, has completely vanished. The Dublin Papers
treat the alarm which it lately discovered in that
city as a mere Masion. The iireeutaft's Journal of
Wednesday last, adverting to the subject, says-
'4 We confess that, notwithataniling the repeated proofs
which that Print (The Courier) bra given fur some time
past, of his anxiety to catch at tad rang every
thing that could he tortured into the ►emblance of dis-
affection, we trete surprised to find it the dupe of so
clumsy a fabrication as this we are noticing. What men
desire, however, they cats easily !ielieve, and The cos-
rive could nut resist so precious a aorceaa as a story of
• Sedition in Ireland.' But its gratification is destined to
be short lived., fur we, its common with every resin enable
Journal its this country, can assure it, that Ireland was never
more tranquil than she is at this moment, and that Rebel-
lion is the last ems of employment her people will think of
resorting to. Their distresses are not less revere or less ge-
arra' than those of their neighbours in England, but they
have no expectation of finding relief in disloyalty, nor do they
idyl any desire to aggravate their sufferings by offending
spinal the law, and bringing down its certain vengeance
upon their heads."

A variety of idle rumours are circulated in the
stock market to account for the decline of prices.
The true causes are, perhaps, to be found in the
scarcity of money, and in the quantity of stock sold
in the latter end of last week. These tales are
aid to have been principally made on recount of
foreigners, •Ing, taking alarm at the late tumul-
wary meetings, have transmitted extensive orders
for that purpose.
It is with concern that we announce the failure of
another country batik, viz. that of Dorking. carried
on fur the last hew mouths under the firm a JOSEPH
PETER' and Co. ; an eveut which has, of course,
produced considerable distress (particularly among
the lower orders) in that neighbourhood.—(Ports-
month Puper.)
To-morrow, being St. Matthew's Day, accord-
ing to annual custom the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
Sheriff., and Governors of the several Royal Hos-
pittils, will attend divine service at Christ Church.
After a armor, by the Rev. Jona GREENWOOD,
A.M. they will proceed to the great hall in Christ's
llospitul, where two orations will be delivered—in
Latin, by CHARLES STEPHENS MATHEWS ; in
Eughish, by FREDERICK ILIFF, the two senior
scholars of the Grammar School.
lu consequence of Lord Bumf's declining to
staud as a candidate for the borough of Aruudel,
CHARLES WETHERHALL, Esq. has been solicited
by the intleptudint party to come forward.
A reduction among the clerkt: employed in the
Victualliiig Office, it is said, is about to be carried
into effect. It does nut, however, appear that any
of the Commissioners belonging to that Board are
to be reduced, although it is evident, from the dish.
missal of the clerks, that a diminution in the public
business has taken place.
The valeable rectory of Hatfield and the sister
livings, vacated by the decease of the late incum.
bent. the Rev. S. !CRATE, have been presented to
the Rev. J. FAITHFUI.L, late tutor to the Hon.
Lord Viscount CRANRORN E.
Letters from Newfoundland of the 20th of
August state. that his Majesty's Alp Tamer, Capt.
Hon. WIC GORDON, was thriven on shore during •
thick fog on the 13th or 14th of Julys et Barge-
point, Latnidor, but after cutting away her main
and inizeromituhiss and throwing her guns ovettreards
was gut offs