The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-27 00:00:00

lONIAN ISLANDS.

(From Hoe a Jor►rst •e D•bats.l

The literature a►►d some= which the cartes* of
Corteututiouple and the cospossta of illohoosistdisia
had driven from the pommies which were their
cradle. and obliged to sea so asylum in the West,
may now indulge the Imps of -sgaiii visiting their
natal laud, and if they have Dot as yet pens-
wiled to the Continent of. Molest Gnats, they

have st kat hoed a first asylum in the lonian
Islands. For some time the Greeks of these Islands
have looked for the establishment of an
versity ; they have obtained this benefit from t. e
enlightened care of Lord Guilford (grandson
of Lied North, the eelebrated Minister). Cherg.
al by hie Government with the application of this
University, Lord Guilford has appointed to the
several choirs, and his choke has iu every instance
fallen upon Greeks of the first merit. No one his
seconded Lord Guilford's intentions with mire
effect than the Count C•po-d'lstria, who was hop,
in Corfu, sad wbo has fried nv means more *or.
thy of himself, of paying the debt of tills!
duty tewards his country than by multiplying
the mace, of instruction for his young maintryinsii.
Not truly has the Coast Caposcl'lstria encouraged
by his liberality the foundation of the biters
University. but being apprised that M. Politi,
• young Lencodian, possessed of knowledge and
talents, desired to profess chemistry in the Liman
Islands, be remitted to him the funds solficiept to
purchase all the instruments and furniture prow
furs chemical laboratory.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY. JULY re ISM.

Public Meetings continue to be held in various
ports of the manufacturing districts, for the avowed
purpose of expressing the sentiments of the people
on the necessity of a reform in the mode of electing

Member, for the House of Commons, which are

uniformly conducted in • peaceable and orderly

_ manner. With the sincerest sorrow we have, how.

ever, to stales that the conduct of the poi:Mace
has not in every instance been free from censure.
At Stockport they have unfortunately stained them.

selves by the dreadful crime of assanismnon. It
appean that Mr. HARRISON, the Dissenting
Clergyman, who was arrested during the Meeting
at Smithfield, on Wednesday, by order of the
LORD MAYOR, was conveyed to Stockport in the
custody of a constable, named Macs, and snind
in that town on the evening of Friday. The pops'.
lace were soon apprised of the circumstance, mid
quickly assembled in considerable numbers round
Macs's house, threatening to pull it down, ankle

the of6cer surrendered his prisoner. BIRCH, sp-
prehensive that they would carry their threat into
execution, endeavoured to make his way to the
house et Mr. Pexacovv, a Clergyman and a
Magistrate, to obtain advice and assistance, but he
was sefortunately recognised by some persons in the
street, one of whom discharged a pistol at him, and
wounded him severely in the breast. Buten tiudisig
himself wounded, jumped over a garden wall, and
thereby escaped further violence, but the ball had
not been extracted when the latest accounts left
Stockport, and from the direction it appeared to
have taken, fears are entertained for the tuitions.
taste man's life. The assassin, we lament to my,
has hitherto escaped detection ; hut suspicion has
fallen upon three or four men who have been er•
rested, examined before the Magistrates of the
town, and remanded.
The

of this event is a matter for
serious reflection. It would be idle to contend that
the act of an individual should net be objected as
• reproach to the great body of the people present
at the moment of its perpetration. The escape of
the aesamin proves the connivance of those who wit-
nessed the deed. •tad stamps them with the moral

_ .
guilt of the transaction. Has the character then of
the people of England become so depraved—has
the pressure of general and individual calamity
effaced the finer traits that once marked their in-
genuons and noble disposition, that they will now
countenance the public commission of a crime from
which. not long Pince, they would have revolted
with feelings of detestation end horror? Have the
laws ceased to command the reverence and respect
of the great mass of the people. and has the Govern-
ment become so odious and so unpopular, that so
inoffensive man shall be pointed at as an object of
public vengeance, merely because he performs his
duty with fidelity and energy, in executing the
laws at the desire of the existing authorities ? If

such really be the cue, it would well become our

rulers to consider by what means so great a revo-
lution has been effected in the feelings of the
people, and bow much of it must of otcessity
be attributed to the unusual poverty that too gene-
rally pervades the country. The people have not
usually manifested an hostility to the Govern-
meat and the laws of the country ; boot when they
are galled by the consciousness of unmerited suffer.
inp. they will sometimes permit themselves to be
momentarily led away from their ordinary princi-
ples. But in such ■ cue it becomes the prudence
of the Government to interfere, and obviate the evils
of sects as unfortunate deviation ; it should endea-
vour to remove the causes of discouteot, and allay
the irritated feelings of the people, by **hewing
kindly sympathy for their distresses. • The public
stied being unnaturally excited, the Government
should carefully avoid every circumstance of irrita•
lion. and strive by gentle means to lead them beck to
their accustomed principles. Have the Ministers
acted so in the present unhappy state of the public
mind ? Although professedly the Ministers of
expedients, they have yielded in no respect to
the voice of the people. When the people
cried for relief, they were answered by the im•
position of fresh burdens* end the moment at
. which the neasfecterisi clause were mist

rrevsr4l sod clamorous, was chosen for homes. •
tt trade with vocations duties, sod for alienate,
i„g th 2 feelings of the South Ansericaus, to whose
lacressing markets our merchants had looked with
sell-founded confidence. The valves power of the
I. invoked, cud even the Sovereign is made to
,reek of his people with distrust cud severity. A mo-
r.em of strongenitemest is madly chosen forezecnt-
-1.,,z measure of harshness in the arrest of 11.-anat.
ty%; ,it that instance the people showed them-
selves in judgment superior to their rulers ; the en.
rronciit on the patieoce of the people was, however,
iiiis,hisedly carried too far, rod Mace, the
coo.tible of Stockport, has unfortunately become
-I:. victim. The assemination of this man is indeed
s.,ech to be lamented; but we hope it will induce
Government to adopt some measures that may
tend to allay the ferment in the public mind, which
t,,, he done only by diminishing in some degree
ti.e pressure of poverty, or at less' by manifesting
„ .ini.ere desire on the part of the Government to
o;irviate their distresses.

less than five indictments have been found at I
Quarter Sessions of Manchester against .1 Amu 1
IV ;we. the Editor of The Manchester Observer,
1.,r .e) many alleged libels upon the existing insti-
iut,ons of the country. An indictment has also
been found against one Mast W•stems, for a toe.
dits•nb, libel upon the Govertiment. These are
further fruits of the threat so emphatically expressed
in the Paimcg Itggm's Speech from the Throne
at the clove of the late Session, of enforcing the ex.
laws against all persons who may, by writing
or utherwilre, manifest any hostility towards the in-
stitivions and government of this empire. The
Almnoers deserve praise at least for the legal and
coo,titritional manner in which, in this instance,
they proceed against those whom they conviJer the
enemies of the State; but we hope that they will
endeavour to accompany these measures of severity
arch measures of conciliation, and strive, while they
voi,v,ls active offenders. to remove the causes that
wse them their pernicious influence over the minds
oi tlx people.

• -
A Meeting of the Livery of London was held
pi•erday, at Guildhall, for the purpose of electing
a -lieriff, in the roum of Mr. BOOMS. who had
tit flitted the dfice. and paid the fine. The choice
td the Livery fell upon Alderman Itoniwgl.l..
'lli, business being trammeled, the usual proclama-
tion was made for dissolving the Hall, and the
LORD MATOR retired, but not without encountering
wrong marks of the disapprobation of the Livery.
The Nleeting, however, did not then separate, but
Mr. Alderman WAITUNAN being called to the
Chair, • very warm and angry discussion WON re-
specting the conduct respectively pursued byMessrs.
Wool) WAITIMRAN, and the LORD MAYOR,
.1t1,1114 the late Meeting at Smithfield. Thanks
"'rte. %utied unanimously to the two former Gen-
C. men, but a vote of climate against the LORD
MAYOR was carried by acclamation.

We here received the Paris Papers of Friday
1:4.1. The differences which had subsisted be.
I,%trill Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden,
st length been definitively adjusted by
the Ministers of the four great Powers sitting at
Flank fort, to whom these affairs were referred by
the Congress of Ait.la.Chapelle. The integrity
of the Grand L)uchy is guaranteed. and the sue.
cr.eion of the ancient Counts of Hochberg, now
hitelgraves of Baden. formally recognised. The
Crawl Duke of Baden shall cede to Bavaria a
part of the ancient principality of Loe.Wenstrin.
Wertheim. of the Badese circle of the Mein and
the Tauber. The pretensions of Bavaria to the
11.114iiriate, rind of Austria to the Brisgatt, are de.
chord extinct.
The French five per Cents. are 71 f.—Bank
FotoLk 1,425 r.

German Papers have arrived at our office. but
tt,esr contents were fur the most part anticipated
by the Paris Papers. which we published yesterday.

A Dutch Mail has arrived, with Papers to the
9.4 It instant. Some fresh quarrels have broken
out lietweeis the French and Dutch troops at Metz.
It &es not stein very walked on the part of Go.
1/eminent. to shut up in the sense garrison two
b...hes of men actuated by a spirit of jealousy to-
(*aids each other.

Tile Funds rise rapidly. The Omnium left
cif yesterday et 31 premium ; and Consols for
Actount at

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'Fite Eleanor, HODGSON, from Yarmouth for Li.
.iefp..ol was fired into on the 15th inst. oft the Eddy.
by a cotter. who arid ber boat on board the
b tour. and took from him his custom-house
Thry could not learn the cotter's name.
We p,icrive that bleetitags of the Radical Re.
I...itirra are called at Huddersfield, Rochdale, and
11: pditudete.--f York Herald.)
The rumour utigusated by a Paper in this town,
th tt *trend deputies were to take the Milli she, the
at Letds. and to tepair to Loweele.- soot.
11.1,4 Um Smithfield Meeting. proves to be false ;
on inquiry we find nut only that no with depta.
tiitimi did actually depart hence to London. but
11. tt .10 intention of the kind was ever entertained
I.y city of the leaders of tbe Meeting... 4 Leeds
Oh miry
A leiter from Warsaw speaks of a Illadesse'
But:W.1111, a native of Poland, tubs is is• sear,
Webbed a mow as to excel CATAL81111: bee
bight
notes are in particular the object of the steel,
lti-
peii.4tiou. This lady iv only 24 years of 41.