The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-20 00:00:00

M POST UEE UNMASKED.

THE Progress of Merit, ililitts;iftfrctittimilv assailer!,
is not impeded by Envy and Detection. Thjaggressiott
of ambuscade terminates in defeat; and conscious rectitude ultr's
metric triumphs in the attainment of the grand ohiect—puttlit
approbation. The test of experience is the guarantee of toren.,
and has established WAR It EN'S BLACKING in rand caSs
elation ; of which there exists not a stronger proof, Onus the tomtit
acknowledgment of a host of servile imitators, aho surrepiitiouey,
obexide on the unwary a spurious preparation as the ;genuine, ar.
tide, to the great disappointment of the uneacalcd purchaser, and
manifest injury of Warren, whose character EA interest, by this
iniquitous system, am equally subject to detriment. It btu:ernes
therefore, an indispensable duty. to caution the public agagnat the
manceuvres of unprincipled venders, who having co e:tarsecy to
lose, and stimulated by avarice in their nefarious pttrauita. eiee ta
the acquisition of turner through any medium bet that of beeper.
The original and matchless Blackleg hears ea each Emir allot"
directioe, with the sikmature " ROBERT M'Altlifile t", dl
other. are counterfeits; and in many instances the ituposuies lab*
are artfully interlined with a diterer.t address. in %ell. linelrate-
waders, between the more conspicurns tines of " NO. W,' 044
"STRAND." It is earnestly recommended to shopkeeretendiff
others, who ore deceived by bane fabrications of Watson'. *lisp.
ing, to return the detected trash to the source from whew* it ado*
and expose the mathinationa of rtscalky to merited obfiey.
Warren'. Blacking is surpassingly ; it evlitsrtim
gives pliancy to the leather, retain. its pristine virtue id% a
mates, and, combining elegance with melon, is so artlelbAnfally
of indispensable fashion and utility.
Sold by every respedable Vender in town and cautery, in hot.
the, at W., led., 121, and led. each.

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PRIM; OF FOREIGN
Armies Scrip, 17 R.
DUN far Account 174 4 4 pr.
CYYiar Dim paid in
Rda. full, 011
1111
Dino for Am
Polon& lids. 1144 4 4 4 34
Do Act. 93 4 4 Si
Da. Scrip .1 44 4,1 4j34 4 pr.
Damaish Bonds
Da Mark, Banco
thank Scrip. 2 I dia.
IMeto for Acct. ti dia.
Mexican Ronda, G 8 II
Pitt. Sato. I pr.
0.. Acc. tat pr.
Porungurac Scrip
Ditto Kotula,
Ditto for Acct. 94
Prussian 80414111
Moo oirr.)

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STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Russian Ed& 67 WI
Minion for Aect. fill
Russian Inacription
Dutch Ronda
Ditto Exchange,
Span. Cora. 181 IA 4 I7i 18 1
Ditto for Acct. 171 18
Ditto 170 & 255 Ilds.
Do. 5 per Ccnta. (1len) 181
Anglo Mex. Alinea74 p.
Alliance 131 16
Fr. Reines, 103 f. 2k. 50c. 2k.
Do. Ex. 2M. 45c. 40c.
Do. tor Account HOE 2k.
1)o. Exchange 25f. 4k.
Do. Scrip, 17 pr.
Ditto for Account 17 I 17 pr.
Peruvian Mond■ 821
Do. Scrip 3 2 1 11 2 pr.
Neapolitan lids.

MAIL S.
ASZIVID.-1 Harnburgh, I Holland. I Flinders, and I French
Dv E—l thatenburgh.

rettioviacfs:

KIN('. TIIE.ITHE.
This Evening. TUESDAY. April 110, will be performed
IL 11.111111 ERE 1)1 ..IVIULIA.
Between the Arts the Invertbsiernent of
L'OVVBAN DE AUX I.IIIWES.
Bud faiths Opera the faviiurltr 1' W Invertheemei
LA VETE 111)NtittotsE.
On Saturday the Gram() aid Serlio ppm a Mello, In which Madiune
Pasta will made her Ara appearance the.e wren years.

Ballet of

NEW THEATRE.KOYAL.DRURY-LANE.
Tk Mireniug. TUFAI)IV, April At. will be perfurnied
THE TALK.
Leyte, Mr. Meeready FlorTitel. Mr. n enact Autelyetia, Mr. Nun
dam 7 tiermione. Mrs. Huns.
T.. eenehode wit% • new (Maud Ea). palm Tales"(
7.0K0

It. called

THEATRIT Rill.l4,(:oi'iAliT-,GARDE
TRW Reagan TeR.SI)%V. larti VI, will be parformed
JoilN
Paragrhae, Ilk. Coopers Job Tbornberry, raweett Tiefinis Brut
groddery. Mr. Conover% Mary Thornberry Miss cheater.
After wallah I sow Cleland Mei... Dramatic Prratian Romance, Galled
THE MIRITS 1W THE MOON:
Or. THE INUNDATION II) THE NILE.

NEW SURREY THEATRE.
?Ws rceidad. TUESDAY. April 110 land Cuing U,. Week). • new
Spectacle called
TIM rIRILWORSIIIPPERS; w, TIM PARADISK OF TIM PENIS.
Mee whisk, • new Barletta. called
PLOTS IN MADRID or, TIM P. ‘INTIgH'S STUDY.
To conclude wkh anew leclo-Dnune. called

TN! TWATENUCKWO74II-01;:- MECUMS.

SADLER'S irELLS TREATRE.
Thus Evessies,;, TUESDAY April !O (and during the Week),
An OCCASIONAL ADDRESS.
After which a uew Csdednedmi Divertissement. called
THE lIIRTH-DAV.
To which will be added.' new gamed nem:tile Melo-Drama. called
ORA: or, THE AFRICAN SLAVE.
Tu emiclude with the Passtonilene. called
TNR insTca OFFERING ur. HARLEQUIN'S GoLVEN HARVEST.

morning
Ills BRITISH Patnacalntnti•vieid.eribitdrig yesterday

LONDON, TUESDAY, Aram 20, 1824.

The Freak% papers of Saturday and Sunday have little
that is important in their columns. The only subject of
any interest agitated in the Chamber of Deptaies on Satur-
eay was, that under the report of the Commission appointed
to inquire into the " projet" of ministers for reducing the
interest of the national debt. The report, which is given
at considerable length, is plausible, and sanctions the plan ;
but it cannot disguise many difficulties which the French
ministry will hive in carrying it into execution. The
report, however, states, " That the Commission proposes
the adoption of the project, without amendment." A letter,
during the sitting, ens read by the President, from the
celebrated Benjamin Constant, the validity of whose elec-
tion has been most unjustly impeached, stating that be was
compelled to be absent front the Chamber for three weeks,
fur the purpose of procuring the necessary documents to
prove the validity of his return.—Rivaud de Is Raffiniere,
it is stated, has refused Bounnont's command in Spain, and
t:enersl Dijeon is, in consequence, named as his successor.
Mouton Duremet will, it is ea:4l, command at Cadiz ; Ma-
taflorida, the Spanish lawyer, lately President of the in-
famous Regency of Urge!, and created a Marquis for his
All viers, h.,s been named Ambarsador to no less a personage
than the hey of Tunis, and quitted Burgos on the tith
for his high destination.—The important fortress of Lepanto
is said to have fallen into the hands of the Greeks on the
1. Alt of March. The artillery of the Philhellene', under
the direction of Colonel Stanhope, after some heavy firing,
firmed a practicable breach, and a summons was then sent
to the Turkish Commandant to surrender. Jussuf Pacha
( who had thrown himself into Lepanto, with the remnant
of his shattered force", after his defeats in the last cam-
paign), refused, however, peremptorily to secede to the
summons of the Greeks, and the place, in consequence, was
stormed on the night between the 1 nth and 13th, before
the break of day. Constantine Bo:saris, and the brave
Nieetas, called " the Turk Destroyer," led the assault ; and
before seven in the morning of the 13th, the standard of
the Christians floated from the ramparts of Lepanto. Num-
bers of the Turks fell in the fury of the assault ' • and an
immense booty, in money, ammunition, arms, and baggage,
si h all the .poils plundered in Achaia three years since,
devolved to the Greeks. Jussuf Pacha is said to have fallen
in the cattiest. 'l'he Paeha of Egypt is assorted positively
to have been red by the Porte Commander-in-
Chief of all the now preparing to act against the
Creveks in the More* and islands in the next campaign,
and the declaration of his independence is again denied.
We shall be much surprised if Alahomed Ali accepts this
perilous command, and resigns his present situation for no
clime sus an office. The Creels, however, are now be-
yond all fears Sven the Turkish power. They never can
be enslaved again by any renewed elfin' of this barbarous
staereezaey. Their independence (by the confederated
Powers of the Continent) is looked on as certain ; and these
Power+ are in coilsequ• nee planning the erection of Greece
into an independent kingdom, to he offered to " Charles
John," of Sweden, or an Austria-) Archduke. Russia and
Austria cannot bear the idea of an independent republic
existing in the East of Europe.

An article of considerable ability, on the " Practice and
Delays in the CJurt of Chancery," concludes the late
number of the Qterrlet 1e Review. it is said to be written
by a f..enticman whose contributions arc coowtant to this
I!):tinguislied publication, and who has long been attached
or.e of the first codices at the Admiralty Board. The
o4efeure made for Lord lailon is e.eilitahle to his talents
n industry ; it is at once eloquent, informed, and
p 'Can s ; but in the warmth of hit zeal to vindicate Lord
Eldon porame•//,, be concedes too little to the eziaiisw
4efects of the Court over which this great lawyer has solong
pr.sided. The article in question is full of extracts front
t!,e writings of other days. The object is to show that
complaints have in all times existed against the delays and
grievances of the Equity Court in this country, and have not
originated with Lord Eldon's presidency. Pamphlets, pub-
lished so far back as the days of the great but corrupt
Lord !Won, are aceorolinv! introduced with this view.
sleotations of the saute kind are made from another
publication', when land Li toh t no, in loin, was Lord
timper. The writ,r tlion passes eiumpliantly to another
pamphlet, published, as he says. "nut in the corrupt thous
of George the or (;eor,;e the Fourth, but in the Acre
and regenerate age of the Co mwealth," when the
-.teat Seal was in t!onitnisaion, end held by such men as
I 'tenors, Lisle, and Bulstroole IVhitelock, as f'oonntis-
:Wailers. Another complaint against the delays and expense.,
of this Court, from Mr. Williams. a Barrister, in the time
of the Great Lord Sooners, in 1700, is also alluded to.
prom that pamphlet the writer passes to one of the same
itoacrilition, while Lind Chant-110r Cowper was at the head
of that Court, in !inf. The last publication he concludes
lois extract,' from is one in the Jays of Lord Ilardwicke,
clorsm rl rearrukile *omen, wbi.ch spooks of the high
Court of Chancery " as incontestibly the most dila-
tory as wi as the most expensive—an oppre,sion,
(it adds,) which bit Majesty's subjects have long laboured
ender, and univer.:ally complained of, insomuch that the
,ferb bath net been more jocularly than
11 to such who, with more precipitation
,evolved to engage in l'hancery suits,
mg up six or eight years in Cl:Amery r
ause may so iong depend there, until
lice arc exhausted, his health impaired,
r vexation, emaciated, like a skeleton
physician, or an anatomy in the once

of a surgeon ; tar the delay of justice is said to be the]
denial thereof, since what is not done in due time is Dot
done at all—

"Justitia preerastituitio ejusdem fit almegnatio."
In this way the writer of this able article endeavours to
abew that the delays and grievances of the Equity Court
have existed for ages—a position on which he teed not
have expended so much ability and research ; for no one
at all infotmed upon the subject had any doubt re-
specting it, or that the increase of population, of com-
merce, of wealth, and of consequent litigation, have
thrown an immense increase of business into the Equity
Courts, which, under its present composition, it is beyond
the strength or ability of any individual to get through.
The truth is, the duties of the Chancellor, as at present
existing, are too important and too many to permit him
to devote his time and talents to the business of the
Court of Chancery. The proceedings of the Court
also arc so complicated and tedious, so burdened with
expense, and so full of delay, that the longest life is
often too short to witness the conclusion of a suit de-
pending there ; and no moderate means can meet the ex-
penses of any protracted contest: health, and hope, and
fortune, sink alike under the overwhelming burden. The
talents and the profound information of Lord Eldon have
never been questioned ; his high integrity is above all
altapleall ; lie is laborious, unaffected, patient, and inves-
tigating; brat the strength and intellect of any one man
are unequal to the weight of business he has flung
upon him. As a Cabinet Minister, lie has the most im-
portant political concerns of this great country to attend to;
holding the Great Seal, he bided/gee keeper of the King's
conscience, as acknowledged headof the Established Church,
and its most important interests and patronage are de-
posited in his hands. The whole legal jurisdiction of
England rests in his keeping. He numerates in fact, the
Judger], posnesses all the patronage of the bar, and ap-
points the entire magistracy of the kingdom. Ile is also
Speaker of the House of Lords, and the woolsack is his
hereditary and ancient scat, where he presides over all de-
liberations of that august chamber. Hitherto also he has
attended all appeals brought before the Upper House, in
their nature most complicated, and involving the most se-
rious interests front the three kingdoms. The reports of all
the Judges, in every doubtful case of life and death, and
those made by the Recorder from the numberless sessions
of the ffid Bailey, all come before him ; and Lord Eldon,
it is known, has peeved nights in the agitating deliberation
where the existence of many human beings hung upon his
decisien. These are limits. one would suppose, many and
weighty enough for the mind and strength of any indivi-
dual, however capable or laborious • but the Chancellor
has the immense daily business of the Equity Court over
which he presides, to attend to also: all bankrupt motions,
all lunatic petitions, and those from minors, are decided by
him ; and he has a throng of appeals beside from the Vice-
Chancellor'e court. The able writer of the article in
question says, "We have always doubted the constitutional
propriety of the creation of the office of Vice-Chancellor,
and we more than doubt its expediency and advantage."
Now, though doubts were entertained of the " consti-
tutional propriety" of the appointment of this high officer,
and strong opposition was made to the appointment when
under consideration, no doubt can be entertained that
his sittings have seriously reduced the accumulation of
business depending before the Chancellor. All hearings of
regular causts come before the Vice-Chancellor in the tint
instance : he der ltei generally quickly and correctly.
Where either party may appeal, it is to be expected
that the unsuccessful suitor, plaintiff or defendant,
will often try the remedy of another hearing, before the
Chancellor ; but the press of business in his Court must
be materially diminialud, since Sir John Leach was ap-
pointed to aid him. Lord Eldon's indecision in eases involv-
mg the most serious interests, has been often and pointedly
dwelt on. It is hard to censure such feelings, when spring-
ing from the purest and most conscientious motives: yet,
it would perhaps have been more satisfactory to all
parties, if his decisions, in cases the most important, had
been more prompt. A statement is given in the article in
question of the number of controverted appeals and writs of
error determined in the House of Lords bi every Chan-
cellor, from the time of Lord Hardwieke uown to Lord
Eldon, situ the comparison is decidedly favourable to the
present Chancellor. The interval was filled up by Lord
Northington, Lord Camden, Lord Apaley, Lord Thurlow,
and Lord Rosalyn. In some cases, the present Chancellor,
during his Presidency, has decided three times the num-
ber of appals, and in all other cases more than twice the
Amount. In fact, these appeals, from increased wealth and
consequent litigation, throughout both countries, have mul-
tiplied beyond all former precedent, within the last twenty
Years, and the decisions in consequence must of necessity
have been much more numerous. This subject is one of so
much importance, and has been agitated so warmly of late,'
that after dwelling upon it already at so much length, we
feel we have not been able notwithstanding to enter into
it as fully as we would wish. The talents, the high
integrity, and the industry of Lord Eldon are unques-
tioned: but it is impossible to deny, that the Court over
which he presides needs a serious reform, and that in its
present existence it is often destructive to the impoverished
and despairing suitor. The Chancellor, therefore, acted
with a feeling every way worthy of his high character,
when he recommended the appointment of the Commis-
sion, since named, to investigate the composition, the
practice, and the delays of this bight Court ; and the
labours of' those since named for the investigation will, we
have no doubt, be such as the high characters of the ex-
alted individuals appointed may lead us to expect, and
most serviceable to the community at large, who are so
deeply interested in the result. We shall take the first
opportunity to return to this important subject again : it is
one of paramount importance.

WINDSOR, 11If•NDAI., APRIL 19.

The weather being remarkably fine this morning, the
king rode out in his phaeton to the Royal Lodge, and other
parts in Windsor Gnat I'ark.
Prince I'ulignac (the French Ambassador) arrived at the
Castle this day, on a •iait ti his Majesty.

The Princess At;;;laartd the Prince Leopold, dined
with the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at her apartments at
the King's Palace, Kensington.
Yesterday the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess
Augusta.

1 estaday his Majesty's bounty, called the Gate Alms,
was distributed to a number of poor men and woolen, at
the Almonry Office, in Scotland-yard, by Mr. lanhy, the
Secretary to the Lord High Almoner.
Accounts were received yesterday in town frotu Bath,
stating that the Earl of Lirerpool had derived much be-
nefit in his health from drinking the waters.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Ro-
binson are on a visit to Lady Buckinghamshire, at Charl-
ton, in Kent.

Yesterday Mrs. Wigram, accompanied by Lady Wi-
gram, left town to spend the holidays with her brother,
John Arkwright, Esq., at his seat at Hampton Court, in
I ft refordshire.

The accouchement of Lady bac, which was first, we
believe, noticed in an Exeter paper, and copied last week
in the Freeholder, is not true.—Den./ Freeholder.
The power of the Law Commissioners has been mate-
rially enlarged from what it was originally stated to be ;
for besides the practice of the Court of Chancery, and
the attendant expenses, they are to inquire " whether any
and what part of the business now subject to such
jurisdiction can usefully and beneficially be withdrawn,
and committed to the jurisdiction of any and what other
Courts or Tribunals."

Yesterday the despatches for China, by the ship Princess
Amelia, were closed at the East India-house, and delivered
to the purser of that ship.
Lo•tters from llolland, received yesterday, are filled with
details respecting the new Trading Company, which may
be considered a great national institution. The first inten-
tion was that the capital should be twelve millions of
guildtrs; it is now proposed to be increased to twenty-four
millions of guild's', and the books for the inscriptions
were opened only a few hours before an amount of nearly
seventy million guilders was subscribed for. The books
were in convequenee closed, and a premium on Asses of
ten and elcvt n pounds hiss already been realised. The,
letters state, it is itnpesible to say where the premium may
stop, as the applications from England, France, and tier-'
many arc numerous, and to an immense amount.

II 11 miterrogstery prover
pertinently proposed
t!nin precaution, re
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implying that bis ii
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Red his person, by
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