The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-10 00:00:00

MR. 1.0111:DAY.

We yesterday stated that an English Gentle-
man, of the name of Loved's', had presented ti Pe-
tition to the French* Chamber of Deputies, coin-
;dinning that his daughter, whom lie had pluced ut
■ boarchugsschool in that city, had been converted
to the Roman Catholic, faith. The Petition is of
cotonderale length. The ftllowileg are the prin.
cipel facts which it details, stripped of a great
redundancy of observations upon the prose-
lytizing system, complaint against an obstinate
daugliter.and esporestous of indignation agasn't the
mistress of the boarding school, who is charged es
the principal agent lii the conversion of the young
lady:—
Mr. Douglas I.nveday. the petitioner, is an Eng-
lishman and a Protestant. In 1816 he came to
Fruiter, fur the benefit of the education of his two
daughters. Being obliged to return to England in
the same year, he placed them and his niece, the
daughter of Major.Genersl Lovedsy, the Governor
of Benares, in • hoarding-school kept by Made.
moiselle Ernestine Reboot. 09 his return to Paris
in July 1811, lie wrote to his daughters, inform-
ing them, that on his return he meant to take
them from school. He then received from Made-
moiselle Reboul a letter, stating the injury she
might sustain if they were all taken away at once,
and requesting that the Mee,. who was the youngest,
might be allowed to remain fur • time, adding,
that Petitioner should do her injustice if he enter-
tained any apprehension on the score of religion.
In the month of September he returned to Parts,
and on the 43d of October the two daughters de-
clared to him that they were Roman Catholics, and
that their firmness and faith were not to he shaken.
Not suspecting that Mademoiselle Reboill was an
accomplice in their conversion, he let the niece re-
main, and removed his daughters on the 3d Novem-
ber; but in a few days the conversion of the niece
was also effected. On tbe 11/1h November his eldest
daughter eloped from his house, leaving a note, •p.
pointing to meet him at Mademoiselle Reboul's. I
He went accordingly. Mademoiselle Reboot
, pleaded total ignorance of all that had happened,
and in the course of the conversation she received a
letter from his daughter, stating, that she would
not come to her house, that she was in. a
place of safety, and was happy. The Peti-
tioner then goes on to state, that he had
intercepted some letters from his daughter, and
had found that she maintained a correspondence
with some person whose Herne lie had not been able
to discover. In vain he demanded from Made-
moiselle who this person was; he could only learn that
Insdaughter had made him a present, which the mis-
tress charged to her account. He was not able to
learn of what this present consisted; his daughter
in • a letter to Mademoiselle Helmut said that
she hoped he hod been presented with HER
HEART, referring to the person before alluded
to. On making his complaint to the King's
Attorney-General, that Magistrate answered that
Mademoiselle had acted Islay; that his daughter.
was 21 years of age; and it was a delicate and diffi-
cult affair. After several coin efforts to recover her,
on the Bth December lie teamed from Mr. Vaughan,'
the Secretary of the English Ambassador, that his
daughter was found, she was in the 'lands of Mr.
Jerutugham, a Roman Catholic Gentleman of high
Montour, whose faintly was originally English, who
delivered her up to Petitioster, but she made her
escape. She was recovered, but shortly after made
her escape again ; and on tile 17th of December
he was informed that she had sought refuge in the
Convent of the Congregation de Notre Dame, the
Superior of which refused to give her up, and was
supported in this refusal by the Commissary of
Police.

A private letter from Paris states the failure of
one of the most eminent banking-houses in that
city. Many English families residing there suffrr
onsiderably by this failure, as the house in question
was preferred fur deposits, ou account of its reputed
solidity.
Letters from Gibraltar mention the failure of a
highly eminent house there, which is largely con-
nected with this country.
Letters h tie arrived in town from Vienna to the'
28th ult. They in no respect confirm the miser-
tiuns of the French Papers, ins the authority of
advice@ from Frankfurt, that Turkey had been com-
pelled at length to accept the terms imposed by
the Russian soltinutrns. That such a report pre-
wailed in the Austrian capital, at least a fortnight
ago, we are well aware; hut it failed in the effect it
was intended to produce upon the stock market of
Vienna, and there is little doubt that if such a
rumour was again circulated, the purpose of it was
the Mine.

Extract from a letter frogs Deal, January 7:—
" I understand the Comet brig, Capt. Bestirs,
which left this yesterday for Smyrna, is loaded with
ammunition for I heTurks, and that she Carrie. 30,000
shut, and a variety of articles of the first necessity.
1 cannot but hope that the Greek cruisers may fell
in with this brig, mod that the Brinell flag will not
be allowed to curer these war supplies to the Turks
against our Christian brethren in Greece."
Extract of a letter from Montreal, dated Decema
ber 510 :—" Ice has already formed in our port in
an unbroken sheet, between the little island said
the adjacent shore. and we hre reason to believe
that this winter will be, unusually severe."