The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-21 00:00:00

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The liN I T 1411 I'e►:n■ commenced publishing yesterdsy morning
at lice "'clock.

LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANV ART in, iMn.

One of those attempt.; but too frequent in this day of
impoature and credulity, has been made on the money
market within • kw days, in the slacieus i.hape of a
Greek Loan. The would-he contractor iv the holder of
the hat Poyois. One would Wye aupplwed that the very
name of " Mosquito," with the swarm of buzzing wretches,
who were attracted round it to cheat and plunder the
unwary. would have been enough to d every future
attempt at imposition of this sort ; but unprincipled auda-
city can attonpt anything where there is the remotest pros-
pect of rain. For ourselvca, after the strictest inquiry, we
du not believe that the Sclavonian and Greek (or pretended
4:reck), Mr. Ilendrik's deputies, have any authority what-
ever to contract this loan. llut what espolients will not
fraud or nisersaity resort to? Juvenal says, of

" Grimehis, uswiens, in coesuro jisueris, ibit ;"
end this is • desperate flight of the pante description. It
i= yet a (motion whether even a regular loan, 1411C(1081.11
I ;be Greek Congress, would be taken until the govern-
ment of that country is more settled; but • loan to the
pre-ont agents in the mark t would be a risk intim!.
Mr. Ilendrik's loan was brought ont ■t the modest sum of
4'). We should consider the intlivit:ual a fit subject for a
strait-waiales•t, who would take a single Bond at one half
that priors' The rea deputies horn the Greek Cougtess.l
who come authorised to treat for a loan, arc now on their way;
to this country, having touched at Corfu. Mr. Bowring
holds the only authentic document, authorising a loan in the
came of Greece, and this barefaced attempt at imposition
rr•.ua give him great pain. The mock loan has, as yet,
lad uo success whatever, and will we trust, be scouted with
intimation in the money market. It is calculated only to
entail ruin on those who engage in it to any amount, and
laming down unmerited opprobrium on the Greek nation,
But loans are the bubble of the day ; we shall yet hear of
(me, we suppose, for Terra Incognita, or one of the t /to-
L itan islands, taken by write worthy contractor, fur the
ewe/Wants, perhaps, of Adams. the mutineer from the
Bounty. Nothing appears too gnaw to he swallowed at
prevent. This last speculation is r previous attempt on
deptit who can abut their eyes anal be plunders."' by 'limn-
Woes at moo-Jar.

The circular of Lord pathurst to the Colonies, which
reached us by the last arrivals, anal which appeared ex-
clesively in our paper of yesterday, is well calculated to
cold fit"th various reflections from the different parties, ac-
cordion" to the interests and objects which they have re-
%ye:lively at make. 'lle first remark that will occur, lore
think, to every reflective MO unprejudiced resider t: this
it:Mei:ll document will be, that there is nothing definitive,
nothing distinct about it : much it said about religion and
relig'ous instruction, " u the foundation of every belie-
chanpu iti the character and future condition of the
Ills Majesty's Government too, we arc told, " is
deeply impressed with this truth, and with the necessity of
maintaining an adequate manlier of clergymen and t uchers
throughout the W'cst Indies, with episcopal control, so
that whatever becomes of the impales, we shall at least
open a new mine of church patronage. If the reveaurs
of the colonies an insufficient, " his Mroje%ty's :Li-
seratrent," Lord Bathurst tells diem, " will not he-
tats to apply to Parliament for such p..cidoiary
xratitt as may be reqiiirisl," and it cannot doubt—it
covtainly would not be justified by experionc^ in so do-
ing--but that " Parliament teill ehietrultte contrilnile,"and
so on. Nothing, we are will assured, can be of nitre lest-
of, in:porton*: to the welfare of titan in society. whatever
than to improve his mental capacity, and tot
tlli:vate his moral feeliogs ; is is impossible to lahoor leo
earnestly to I g all classes. high aml low, within tit.•
sod pure, and humanizing influence of the Gosp el.
It e, in:possible to circulate tool widely those fundamental
o tiles of Christianity. . which teach us " tu do K.. 41 uqb. till
v•r,,- and which exhort us " be Pletrirld. it., on, lbsa.
1.,n17 rather also is ntereirol :** which instruct us in all the
dohs,' of life, and regulate our conduct in all the relations
of socest V. All this is profitable " for instruction in
righteousness," and lie is an enemy to the human race
%ch., wtoil.l not do all in his power to further an ins a-
111 'WV an end. But a West Indian to he'
I.,,,itotWt.il at the cost of Great Britain —a Coleco:al
I I:l,rcli Establishment, with a long train of taxation 8:1 I
pi efe.rmems in its rear:-mall this may :alit the views of
• both po,..tical and spiritual,--but for the si 21,4
• _duly we sit nothing enosuraging in the pi ospcet. For
p, w. %IltWlld not hesitate to consider nor /71,11.1111*::li
I'/,•i tiatoo of more worth than all the 'ri',
•T. We liar,' t o objection that the to 111.4 V the
figurative phrase of Mr. Bloke, should •• erect her mitred
fruit in I 'ousts and Porlamcnts." hut among the ignorant
mid enslaved Negioes of the West Nines, this " milt ed

which is imiiiiewed with us :u coustitute thc cs•sctic.,