The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-22 00:00:00

GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

QVARANTINE LAWS.

We extract the following from a letter we lately received' TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRIT'S', PRESS
front our cortespontlent in Boston, a gentleman of great! 1
talent, and intimately connected with the literature of his I London. July 20, 1824.
own country:—" In the 44th Number of the North Arne- I binSoi.aw—hi beg
kh aastolol:dgl beer(l ibs,
Plrd.rdisipace.rhayrtbasariantatnantodaccajailir of li
rims Review, there is a high-toned and severe article an : tion, of the abolition of which there is tow fortunately a um very"-
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Fincr's Travels and the Qaunterly lieriedr, which will hardly ' distant prospect.
be relished in England ; but if cur rood friends over the Accenting to the mots of a went Report of the Committee on ,
water will persist in abusing us without reasen or propriety, !Fere.ten Trade, in future shipsirweithaneldeop. bills of health are to be
we think it but justice to the land of our amostors to return I 7:„n^. 1 ~.„emr,:tif:7".„Tira;,;,: instead ,74thant.:20,bilistoi:s11%
the compliment, at least to the full extent of reason and jest to manage duty. Y
propriety." I . Lest yes (Veit the 'Amber of shjps that performed quarantine
Now we, for our own parts, are heertily sorry for the In Englerd was 18 with had, Q• with dean hills of health—
spirit which this paragraph ex resets ; hemba..., in the fits: th,earpropo. ram of the Ronnie tole Mum being as Ito 37. Theo
place, we arc convinced, that if those to whom the mess is tils' 31r patt:e. ormasyllbethe"L‘,66 4ii,t,"' j0r..4 rul awayl n o now wliaitlrtoprtto ;elf.
ceennitted in both itatiotts were to pitch their tents an ' latices;
octave or two lower, it would he much more likely to create . remaining 31Ith part—a • amounts neatly to a total
harmony, than by displaying their powers of execution on ; abolition of the system. t,. i
which has' From the ith of Jan? ism. tti, the Sth of July, 1822, the ex-
' the falsest ) key of acrimonious recrimination,! Lesnelitiaure,
error
wetieserviesh
33.. g
ire
derglitpraaapthriatypilsome mly, amounted to
(Mtn tonnage duties, ,
1 for too long a period been in vogue with both sides ; and,
secondly, it will be something new to us to see abase re- Anti the remainder hew the edirtind. Thus the average
turned to the full extent of reasen and propriety, without , charges of quarantine wife 911; ki'estia, to the average of tonnage'
gresefat
going a Mlle over the line of demarkation. This in law! duties mow annually Ilk i Is. pad W. however, the
and ; latter WIDOW."' .0 21
and equity constitutes a treespaes again to be reeentiel, (Mee 'a Erie of Qmaranthir
that again to he retaliated upon, to an endless infinity al Levi,,l average
sinews • Imes iusudned bt
comment, in
mon-
' hitter animosity which answers no one good purpose, and! quenee of the derma...l wipe it gammon,. has been computed
I
only tends. as Mrs. Quickly would say, to "an old abusing lat 114,8191. annually.--( Seib of Querelstiac Low. 33.) Thus
of God's patience and the King's English." the direct !melba derived to ceramaret from the Woo of qua-
;vine inanEagirodjedfa . thmetze Ram coniiii.. amount. to
We are fully convinced of the truth of the following sen-
timents, exti acted from an excellent piper in the last num- of the here., by detention,
which falls upon Ytie ahlre ttitli fourarrilh still subjected to a Simi-
her of Blackwood's Magazine, on the subject of the people nutted detendon or 21 days.
of North America and Great Britain, and emanating from The public bcaellts, whit* will indirectly access from leaving
the pen of a gentleman whose works must crenteand re- trade unfettered,.. expand so the fullest extent of its natural beun-
spect for his opinions on either side the Atlantic:— darks., cannot be arinuatay 'adulated, far want of precis. ate.
Bat, judfing from the vast nimble deism whale twinhihrih he
" The truth is—and the sooner it is known the better— bee, subjected to dmie...mmailLryfis -- -taverna.... Law, ay.
that the rational and good men of both countries have al- Prof- p, ziy.k la he Immo* W' mom lik4 m rimed,
ways been friendly to a hearty, unreserved, kind, and free than safailakert astseiaitreenuaal llig defteally.
intercourse between the- two nations, ever singe the intie- To wham. Of 10 what. It may be asked. L the proposed removal
pendence of that was acknowledged by this, and that the 'Llelortaaarlettist: bees attbr
1,:c011'..,
ititarlt° Densra.Vl: !ltri:
very multitude of both countries, in proportion as they come mime oo pomp Trade of she iniii—id 31,...TiZiesn.e iZeisees,
Ito know one another truly, and to understand the real opi- othat quorantine laws see fee their endsomil thin
Dion that each entertains of the other, have always been, peullential contailion hos no P" universal esters at
and are at this moment, absolutely cordial." and Mauled aremersem of quidootine laws would have been the
Assuming this as fact, anti we see no ground on which legitimate
ac wwq""" aro caaatilcakia of the truth of the (*Pod*
the assumption can be impugned, it behoves us to inquire net although ft is the interim at dolmen and navigate. that
what can have given rise to retch an unnatural antipathy we mare d.....d.rty weed ice .shh, country by the
between a large proportion of two nations bound to each these baneful laws, the goarandoe or sanitary systesn„ar rrmost
other by every tie of consanguinity, sprung from a common extended stale, as existing in ether countries and in ant colonies i
stock, governed by s'milar laws and institutions, cultivat- : lb e Monet Intrt7firli their ws lithlrbrii: yn,e_rry ditti_let ImmtioL,l
ing the same literature, and holding the same religious te- sickness, ;lA'; (loamy, during 0ciu"571,...... by ink;
nets, and whose tastes and even prejudices coincide in al- metes to-&intercouroce upon the male abed marm._
mnst every particular. by restraint upon Individual 1--ond by twit:Jim:nes to
The first great cause of this mischief is the press. On *civics. aid to the Waren of genteel imptrenteht,
theelecdonsidiaderingi_tbe exerwstworhattlitnaresealmliedscli.wt.thes. it to lnersltent open.
the other side of the Atlantic little is known of the power
behind the scenes, which moves the engines of the different either b„...7; ."7"..ra„.leds. the troth of *Ter op;ottedcsct=L'
parties, literary and political, in Britain. We retnember, Woos, is enagusesay to contend for she unimmi "maim and in-
for example, an American paper which believed that Mr. erased strictness td quarantine laws, aceseding to their own prin.
Canning was oli tor of the Quarterly Review, and, tense- ciPles; fur math* is DIKOW can be more absurd than to adhere to
queenly, that every thing that appeared in that periodical asidthtmcsoldvedmitagralasat the e•ly" ettich, tht igtnualliatre.,o_,,...ing B,l"agin.fabekmnod'dedi:
spoke directly the feelings an-I sentiments of his Majesty's sec comma, of emomod, with mkty tertre-p7rbim. '
Government, and the highly respectable party who support I son, Site, your obedient servant,
it. :Ve do not mean to say thre all or even many of the A lilatencee Lootctes Or TIM NODES)"
I people of Aineeica believed this ; but that there are few W:h001.
men in the United States who art. aware that periodical
1 works, in Great Britain, are got op and maintained by emi-
' nent booksellers, chiefly for the purpose of
,puffing works
published by themselves ; and as nothing c.oys the public
taste so much as the sweets of incessant laudation, the sa-
tiety which such a proceeding would necessarily generate
must be relieved by a jutloiotts intermixture of piquant
Abuse, which, by a most feliciumamanagement, is carefully
bestowed on books published by their rivals in business.
Jonathan has no cotton of this, and would stare with asto-
nishment were any one to tell him, that a bitter tirade of
twenty pap a against his country and her institutions might
have its origin in some such important matter as a personal
quarrel of one brother of the trade with another, about the
copyright of a spelling-bock. From this happy state of
ignorance it is, that the people of America are opt to at-
tach much greater importance to such flatten than their
intrinsic value would at all warrant. if any American
doubts this, let him just write a good book of travels
in the United States—give Mr. Murray the preference in
the disposal of the copyright, and if he, his book, and hie
century, are not landed to the skies in the number of the
Quarterly following his publication, he may, as Sir Toby
says, " call us cut."
In America, we are informed, that the moat influential
editors are Irishmen—Men, most probably, whose crimes
or follies have driven them from their homes, and these, of
I course, must look to this country with feelings pretty much
akin to these with which Milton's fiends surveyed Fert-
ilise ; and it is but obeying the commonest dictates of our
nature to deprfeinte, in the eyes of others, the blessings
which we ourselves have forfeited, and to arraign the jus-
tic of the law under whose lash we suffer. These men
must work incalculable mischief, as our transatlantic
brethren will. no doubt, look upon them as unprejudiced
evidence as to everything, regarding Great Britain, . when,
in fact, as renegadoes, their word is the very last that might
to he for a moment relied oe.
Another greet cause of the muteal want of knowledge,
and consequently of esteem, of each other, which exists be-
tween the two nations, arises from the very unfavourable
specimens they see of each other. We export to America
bagmen front Itrimmg, supereargees from the city, ship-
toasters from 11-apping, cockney sentimentalists and phi-
lesephers from Tooley-street, and now and then a Lull-
headed farmer, whose opinion in his cwn country would
never he listened to on any other subject but as to the
merits of a dime-hill, and who, at his return, is kind
enough to eldieltten the world with his views of Ame-
rican police, literature, philosophy, and legislation.
Each of these claims to he considered as an Eng-
lish Gentleman, and has his claim allowed by sim-
ple Jonathan. Besides these, we have a class of
nun, such as composed King David's adherents, wor-
thies whom necessity, not choice, have driven acfPll.
ell Atlantic. " Every one that seas in distress, and every
one that was in (Ebt, and every one that was discontented.'
From habitually surveying such a beteregetteous mass,
considering them as representatives of their native country,
is it to be wondered rt, that the Americans should hold
the character of Englishmen st so very low an estimate?
On the ether band, they send to us only their commer-
cial travellers, men great in the mysteries of piece goods
and cutlery, and profoundly ignorant of every thing else.
Medical students, bursting with the pride and self-import-
ence which two years s udy. and the title of lAxtor, in
anticipetion, never fails to confer. Braggadocio skippers,
who enure us that they are the most rfapeerable and
w• altity merchants of the United States, and only sail one
of their oven ships for amusement ; or an milk:nil pheno-
menon from the back woods, who comes home to finish his
education (which, by-the-bye, seldom is weil begun) in
a Seoteli College, and acquire polish from his vulgar
Scotch relations. We certainly do occasionally see an
American artist, author, or gentleman, on his travels, but
that is rare, anti chiefly confined to the metropolis.
The last cause of this misunderstanding of the English
character a: hies from the advocates, whom it has been the
curse of America to find in this country. To people ignorant
of the real merits of the case, the fact that the great eulo-
gizers of America are seditious demagogues, Deists, bias-
ithemets, contemners of the laws and venerable institutions
of the country, which has the ilierrace and misfortune of 1
producine the:tn, is sufficient of itself to micount for much
of the odium which has been cast on the country, damned
by their praise, and which of right ought to have tested
on the heeels of those who, for other reasons, were execrable
in the sight of Eng'.islimt n.
We have been I'd into a more lengthened detail titan we
at first ieee •ifiel, by this subject, but it is one to which we
shall frequently recur, as we have estenlished a corre-
spondence with every part of the i; sited States, and shall
Is stew a considerable portion of our time in attenditte to
the literature and politics of that interesting and rising
country.

ANNUAL DINNER OP THE BLANCHEWS.TOWN

PATRIOTIC SOCI6TI

The friends to this Society, amounting to 30C, sat down to dinner
in a niegnificent pavilion pmpared for the occasion. After the
cloth was removed,
Mr. O'Connell observed, in proposing the health of his Majesty,
that he was educated in the, pure principles of the Constitution.
Towards Ireland, there was every reason to believe that he felt
nothing but kindoess and liberality. Full of generous confidence,
he threw himself amongyt the people without parade and without
guards. The reception be met with must show his Majesty that
his Irish subjects do not deserve the treatment they receive; that
they were not intended to be slaves of a base and grovelling fac-
tion; but that the God who inspired them with so much gene-
rosily, bravery, and virtue. intended them to be partaken and the
defenders of freedom. The Learned Gentleman proceeded. in a
most eloquent manner to state, that the disposition of his Majesty
and the temper of the times were favourable to the cause of Irish
liberty, to ensure the success of which required only the union
and energy of the people. Mr. O'Connell then gave—
" The King," four tionifour. Tome God Sere the King."
" Old Irelesd."—Y' Paukk's Day."
• " Marquis Wegtoley."...,! ilaneen-coeLgann."
31r. O'Connell took an eloquent review of the public life of
his Excellency. In India his wise and manly conduct coo-
-1 firmed the Welsh power; in Spain be was the man who really
upset the crquerer of nations. Ills manly and sagaciour mind
clearly perceived, that unless the feelings of the people could be
enlisted in the cause of government, that that government would
inevitably fall before the power and the intellect of Napoleon. He
advised the guarantee of a free constituttoo—the people rallied
rotted it—and Napoleon fell. If that constitution was afterwards
basely invaded—if the patriots who so bravely defended their coun-
try—who upheld the Government and expelled the invader; if those
great men met with ono other reward than the dungeon or the scaf-
fold, no reproach on that head could revert to Lord Wellesley;
the glory of saving nations was justly his ; the shame and dishonour
of violating Constitutions belonged to their Majesties of the Hal
Allianc:. The government of his Excellent-sr in Ireland, thou
coerced by a powerful faction, who were hostile to the cause of t
people, had yet about it the marks of a just and popular adminis-
trauma There was an evident disposition on the part of his Excel-
lency's Government to deal out justice purely and impartially.
There was no hostility to liberal opinions, there was no persecution
of the press. The underlings of Government were no longer per-
mitted to run riot on the people. His Excellency, coerced as he
was, had little opportunity el' showing any marks of favour and
encouragement to the injured party; but the Irish were willing to
do justice to his motives. They were so long accustomed to insults
and oppression that they willingly and sincerely applauded the Goa
vemment, merely because it abstained from doing ill. He (Mr.
O'C.) was well Inclined to believe that the Marquis Wellesley was
disposed to act in this country on those just, liberal, and Statesman-
like views which he carried moo effect everywhere else. Ile whose
policy bad so much improved and strengthened other countries
could not be insensible to the glory of raising his own, of raising
her from a state of wretchedness and division to a state of prosperue
and independence Such was the task which he hoped was reserved
for his Excellency. The spirit of the times, after all, was favour.
able to the cause of Ireland. To promote that cause, to imerove
her condition, and to extend her liberties, he hoped, would be yet
in the power, as it was in the disposition, of an orator, • scholar,
and a Statesman, whose talents and attainments shed so much glory
upon his native country
There were from lour to five thousand persons outside the
tent.--The Patri.t.

THE CATIIOItc Cr.tany.—A speaker at the Catholic.
Association, thus alludzys to the conduct of the priesthood:
—" At this moment, when the people are borne dowi. by
grievances and want, the Catholic Clergy are preserving
then in obedience and loyalty ; the Catholic Priesthood of
Carlow, headed by their very pious, patriotic, and illus-
trious Prelate, Doctor Doyle, were at that moment, to his'
(Mr. Finn's) personal knowledge, supporting by their ex-
ertions and by their charity, the people of that neighbour-I
booth, and preserving them from becoming the victims of
famine and disease. Those are the mean, by which the
Catholic Clergy have engrafted themselves upon the affec-
tions and confidence of the people, and it was matter of re-
gret that so few of their brethren of the Catholic Church
took the same road." _ _

Poo rt RATeS IV IRF t•N D.—At the meeting of the Ca-1
tholic Association on Saturday, Ur. O'Connell said he was
a convert to the necessity of establishing poor-rates in
Ireland for the preservation of the peasantry of Ireland,
who, " the moment they were obliged to buy tl!e times
series of life (continued the Learned Gentleman) began to
starve, being unable to procure work, in order to obtain
the means of purchasing, subsistence. There were at this
moment, in the town of Carlow, two hundred men seeking
employment at two-pence per day, and who, but for the
exertions of the Catholic clergy and Dactor Doyle, would
base ere now rerisbed from famine, leaving numerous fa-
milies to share the same horrible fate. Yet in this neigb-
bourbood, where there arc but thirteen Protestant families,
and a church capable of affording accommodation to thirty
times the number, they are about erecting a new one, to-
wards which the famishing peasant, when his potatoe-
garden pads a retuni to his laborious toil, must ton•
tribute. _ _

The following discovery has been announced at Mu-
nich :—Lientenant Hcbenatreit has invented a process by
which he makes a species of caterpillar spin a kind of wad-
ding, which is of a fine white colour, and water proof.
He made a balloon of this stuff and raised it by means of a
chafing dish with spirits of wine, in the large warehouse
wlnre he keeps his caterpillars at work. He makes them
trace ciphers and figures in the wadding. He accomplishes
this by moistening outlines of figures or lett6s with spirits
of wine. The caterpillars avoid these tracings, and spin
their web around them. Thus any fine figure which has
been drawn ia represented in the stuff'. A piece of wadding
seven feet square, perfectly puro. and as brilliant as taffeta,
was made by about 50 caterpillars, between the Sth and
the 2Sth of June.-I'aris Paper.

The amount of Irish provisions required to he con-
tracted for this year, is settled at 21,000 tierces, being more
than double the quantity taken by Government last year,
as well as the preceding. This increase is thought to have
hal some effect in lowering the Funds on Tuesday, as in-
dicating an apprehension that a greater naval force than
mord will be called far • but these alarmists seem to over-
look that a considerable portion of the beef and pork is
' intended to be applied to the use of his Majesty's land
forces cr.ployed in the West India Colonies and at Gib-
raltar.