The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-18 00:00:00

THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR.

Yesterday woo the day appended fee the intro-
betel' of his Excellency this

to lire AlssErrs, ishich was arranged to be
acted with equal attention sod splendour to
tof the introduction to HIS MAJEATT. Soon
r two o'clock. Her MAJUTIeII carriage .4 I six
aiifta bay horses, iith tisreelootosen, shy, to-
11,r with the coaAus tan and postilion, were
std in .rate liveries, iii every respect, as If lo •t-
-ied Her MAJESTY, except. wearing bats, inroad
i,elvet caps, arrived at his Excellency's buti..e iti
lausfseld•otreet. hoop after his Exceltercy's
15,711 of the Mu Lk* rud PAO!, Set ofFiii his Ex-
4litocy's carriage to the Quit an's Palace, with the
vseuts ;nought by his Excellency' groin hit Court
Her Alrr err v. In • short time after, his Exec:.
ary (mafiosi! iii Iler MSS LSTY's carriage ; • nu in-
ir of persons Isere attracted round his Excellency's

sae, in cousequence, who behaved in a very re-
pectin' mariner. His Excellency arrived a few
nooks before three o'clock, at the Qurss's Pi.
, preceded by the carrier of Sir STEPPE:II
MULL, the Master of the Ceremonies, and
pooled in tier Mavis/es carnage by Mr.
mu, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies,
STarwall CorratLL bang indisposed, and
GORE OuseLcir, lira Excellency's Interpreter.
s Excellency was conducted by Mr. Ono.
a. to (id IN aJaSTY'II I)rairiil4-rOwywi loud
,ens
',Ott elt'rel to Iler MaJerre by Earl MOlllon,
li
re MAresre's Chamberlain, with the same
op
sad NMI as if Her MaJaIITT was hold-
-4 a grand pnblic drawing-room, all Her Manse
it's stet atten.lauts heini present ; Consisting of
oloitel DxsliaoW. Her .IfiAJIATT's Viie-Chtin-
erlain; Earl thuotyrr, the Nlaster of the florae ;
trlisnel Urrom. the Equerry; Master ANSON, Her
Ilsrtsrt's Page of Honour, and the other Pages;
di-v .1. Timing mud ELY ; Misses COURTS rt•
UDEN Et,L,S. COLES' 411. Sold WILOTTIMLV.Y. Her
AJES FY was accoespanied by the Pai%cessEs,
il the 'Nikes of Kgar,Caalaallorix, iWid Ballms-
tlci. Ili. Excellency delivered his credentials to
ler MAJESTY. which were nrost graciously re-
Vlietl. Ills Excellency also delivered the pre-
-I.rits fruits ilia Court. consisting of three boxes of
toil., several choicer shawls, and a curious carpet,
Ihirh were also most graciously received.
His Excellency was in the Palace about half an
bar : then returned in Her MaJlisre'a carnage
rraigh the Park, mod got into his own carriage.
Hi, Excellency is expected to attend Cie Draw-
ii-rrstri, this dly. at St. J.imes's Praisers 's cele-
iaio of Her MAreerv's birth-day.

A Ste broke out at three o'clock !a,at ritorniisg.
4 loal4ing.laouse in Old Gravel-lane, BI tckfriArs-
‘l, which cipnigiuleiceted to the White 'flirt pith-
"44llll,. the corner ol Gaorge.street, N. e atm ly
*Aimed the house, except part a the hair, which
4, oared lay the activity of the 6rr,ateu. The
luX oi the accident has out lereu aractrt allied. Nu
ON e hut.

,At the late Chelmsford Quarter Sr Minn, Jtolin
and Jolts Tunbri.fge, were eon% icted of draw-
-1,00 "iira%ans, on the highway, in. the town of
.n a very rations manner (r )pposed to be
`t41.11, and thereby overturning aatl. breaking the
Inlet or MI. SNEPPARD, in whiff h s! e and her
were tr.abtlawg, soul nlio,v eye watch hum.
4bl;ti.rlt f tit io imminentilai g, T. The I/v-
-.1114 were sentenced to scum!um e the imprison-
Itt,t.

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. •

TO THE. RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD

ILLINIti, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.

LETTER 111

Twice have I addressed your Lordship on the
subject of that placard which is suffered to sully
the walls of the Hall, where the Court of Chancery
is held ; twice, with a prophetic and warning voice.
have I advised you to rescue your character front
the odium a hich will attach to it. if you should de-
scead from your high office, without previeu..ly ob-
literating that illegal and uncoustitutionul bye-law
of an egoistical Corporation, who have presumed
to declare, that men, who have writteu fur the Jour-
nals of the only free country under the canopy of
heaven, shall be excluded from the profession of 'be
law. and shall not he entitled to do those exercisi s,
which are to enalde them to be called to die liar.

It was my intention to have represented to you
what would have been the effect of such a vicious
system of partial exclusion, if, instead of having its
date within the period of your Lordship's influence.
it could have been traced to an sroa, anterior to that
in which literature so eminently 11..uriehed in this
cowl/rye It was my purpose to have sheen, what
sort of persons were lekrly to have come within the
prohibition f but. meow reliestion, 1 find I. should
be taking too wide a range ; my Address would ex-
ceed even the prolixity of • bill in Chaucery ; 1
should have to enumerate ncarly all the celebrated
writers of the lest century. from Addison down to
the Learned Judge, who now administers the laws
of England tv the inhabitants of ludostan.
It nas been reserved fur your judicial existence
to engender this monstrous productiou ; and future
historians will have to say, that ;tale Lord Eldon,
the candidate for the Chancellorslep of Oxford,
held the seals, such an edict was suffered to be
promulgated by a junta of Lincoln's-Inn Reochers,
acting immediately nodes hi, eye cod authority.
Wnh the assistance of thtse instruments, you
have date all in your power to degrade and lower
in society, a class of oven. who, in every nopre-
jud;ced point of view, pere entitle! to your re:
sped. You have made the Court of Chancery
like the desert that surrounds the Upas-tree. You
have exhaled an atmosphere in which genius and
learning can neither thrive nor even exist. Yon
Ilan rendered it inaccessible to all, except those
who. by tile adveatitieus circuenstauces of birth and
longue, are destitute of that stimulus which cen
alone render them useful to the public, sad urge
them to exertions, without which celebrity is nu-
attainnble in any profession.

Let me ask )our Lordship. what there is in the
character of a writer for the public journals, which
should justly suhiect h►m to be treated awes alien.
to the British Constitution, sod to be considered
unworthy its protection ?
Who, when the inveterate and hereditary rivals
5011 enemies of this country threatened to *min its
sac►ed sod with our own blood, and when rumours
were abroad of an immediate iiivasion by their hos.
tile haniti, who, I say, seized the truininit of Fame
and blew a blast so loud and shrill, that it was heard
from one extremity of the kingdom to the other ?
The writers for the newspapers. Who, at that awful
moment. waisted the Government in arming
400,000 brave men ; who. 'under able direction,
would have scattered to the four winds of Heaven,
all the armies that could have been brought against
them ? The writers for the public journals did
this. Who, at that eventful crisis, caught the
spark of patriotism, fanned it to a flame, and, by
dilating it, warmed the bosom of every Briton ;
converting, by • species of magic, the sons of in-
dustry into warriors ? The writ. re for the newq.A.
pers. Who, when (dreadful to be remembered !) a
mutiny in the navy Will on the point of giving
France those fleets she never could have conquered;
who, I ask, prevented this catastrophe, by convey.
ing to our deluded seamen the words of wisdom
and admonition, which flowed from the lips of
the country's most revered representatives ? The
writers for the newspapers.--Who have instrueted
the people of England ; srui, while they have
made them as competent judges of good govern-
ment as those by whom they are governed, have in-
fused into them, or, et least, eminently encouraged,
that spirit of loyalty and affection to their King and
Constitution, which induces them to bear, with pa-
tience and resignation, evils at which • less eulight-
'lied nation might revolt ? The writers for the
newspapers have done this ! And are these the ruen
who are to be disgraced, to be lessened in their own
estimation, and itt the opinion of the public, by a
hon-dereript, self-elected assembly of /leachers,
sitting in conclave in Lincolies.lnn ? Why. the hu-
man mind shrinks from the contemplation of such
a prodigy-1 am ashamed that such men should
have ever breathed the air of England—they are
adapted to is different meridian. They should have
been placed among the members of that subservient
Senate, who debase the nobler attributes of man,
by their al+ ct submission to the worst of tyranny
Those who, because they vainly think they litre the
power, would trample upon the rights Of ail clam.
of their fellow-citizens, are unworthy to be deo.-
nsisated Englishmen.
I new pmcresl to a very material part of the
h the ins estiKatiOn of the extraordinary
Ouse I filet to that plat aril, which, to my utter
astoeishment, you hate not yet removed from sour

presence, repetrenting, as 1 hare Area,ly olaitrved
)ou tto. a Sovereign, who has ever bee.' ambitious
of being considered the ritron and promoter of
learning. The wont. to which I refer are these—
No person who has written, fur hire, in the new*.
papers, shall be called to the Bar. Now, tivan
what ground is is, that a motive which applies to
all the transactions in which mankind can possibly
he concerned, is selected, in 0r....1r to deprive a pars
titular class of their civil and politicdl rights? If
we could extend our nbservance to every part of
the universe, we shostbd hardly tia.l t single idi-
vidual engaged in any inirsilit whatever,
so engaged for hire ut gJiu, *loch are conveeiible
terms, •

What can be more honourable tlian the clurac-
ter of a Critisb merchant ? Vet does lir freight his
ship. and rimque his merchaiirlize without a piii-
spect of gain ? Dues not his hire vousi,t in
that advantageous return he receiees from the
persons with whom he traffics ? Dow is his
commerce conducted ? Wholly by persona, who,
in their different departments, serve huts for
hire. Would those who navigate his vessels.
trust themselves to the perils of the deep. by day,
and by night, if they were not hired to thrive the
dangers of adverse element'', with which they ne-
cessarily have to conten.i. But, to proceeds
De-
gree beyond this, what are our armies composed of,
from the highest to the lowest rank Why men,
actuated. in a certain degree, by native valour, and
• thirst for glory; but mainly impelled, as soldiers
ever have been and ever will be, by the hire they
are to receive. I believe few instances can be men-
, booed of ;;;; ies keeping the field. after their pay
or hire has been withheld from them. • Look to our
wiry, our intrepid awl invincible seamen—is there
a Mao, from the Admiral to the common sailor, who
would be found in the service if he was not hired?
I deprecate any invidious construction being put on
these observations ; I am merely using. in my own
defence, an argument, which pride and a false view
of the subject rave forced upon me. What are the
persons who, from time to time, compose the Ad-
cuiaistrations, that are supposed to rule the coun-
try ? Why. the hired servants of the public ; end
pretty high wages they receive, considering what
sorry servants some of them are. Did any one ever
hear of a Minister giving his services to his country
gratuitously ? Coussil4 Mr. Perceval ; if that be
not conveoient. The Red Book will answer this
question. What are you? Lord High Chancellor
of England—hut are you not Lord High Chancel-
lor for hire i• Would you sacrifice your time and
your domestic tujoymenis. if you wa. not paid fur
it? Would )011 tat, from morn till eve, is Lin.
coltes-Inn.Hall. and from eve till morn, in the
. Moo of I.,osda, if you was ass kited Westerns'
take the pains you do to execute justice between
parties. in whose concerns you have no personal
interest, if you derived no reward from your exer-
tions? Would you, as I frequently observe you
do. after hearing for hours the tedious arguments
of Connael. take home with you verbose proceed-
ings, to read which must occupy many additional
hours, in order to make assurance double sure,
and be morally certain, that your decree, which is
to affect the property and interests of others, shall
he free from every exception—that it shall be satis-
factory even to the unsuccessful suitor sad be
founded on those unerring principles of justice and
equity, which shall make it a beacon to guide
future Chancellors ? Would you do all this if you
did nut do it for hire—could it be expected of you
I am far from wishing to infer that your emolu-
ments are even adequate to your labours—l blame
you only for having adopted that uncharitable and
Anti-Christian principle, which has urged you, who
twee been so liberally dealt by yourself, to act with
illiberality towards others. This is s subject which
isgricvous to me to pursue. If you rightly consi-
der it, I sin persuaded it must overwhelm you with
confu,ion, and I hope with repentance, that you
should have sat one instant in the Court of Chan-
cery with such a placard—such a memorial of ir
nonince—stasing you in the face. If I may use a
language, cortaiuly not vary classical. but familiar
to you, I say you have mortgaged the fee-simple of
your fame to Prejudice, subject only to a proviso
of redemption, in case you should, by your restore.
lion to a better way of thinking. be enabled to
make sati4faction. Your estate is on the point of
being foreclosed. Let me advise you twavail your.
self of your equity. and, by an art of justice, trans.
mit the inheritance uniocumbered to your pos-
terity.

It was my ihtention to have made a few remark►
with reference to sum.• of your honouni bit Bendier',
whose muses I find in the list, particularly one of
them, who was himself a writer. at a very humble
hire indeed. for the newsprper, of winch the late
Mr. Woo(Ifall was once prop-u•tur ; bur, as your
Lordship's conduct is my theme, it would be •
art* of time to throw anzry a word upon le o
ultircts. •

lu addressing your I.ord:.hip, I have scquitted
mi..elf to my ovin teeinsz.. and hare done so hat I
could. to shelf, my aunt htuent to the uncurls' Insti-
tutions of my country. as they existed before you
was Chancellor. The mow. ; t I
folitid that all
tlllUrt,r 1 authority had destroy ed oue of the
c. of owe freeGoverntsteut. closing the gate
which leads to distinctive+. against • partic,alar class
of todividuals. and had writteu over it, Lucia.

bid it shall not be *pewit to you," that Ibbakent
determined to appose sus► am innovation. •
It would harm been a reproach to the remise
period of our history, if, when an insidious and
fatal blow was aimed at the liberty of the stibject,
and the freedoea oY Vie press, there had not bees
one men found to protest 'against it. I have pro-
te.ted , and do protest against it. All that remains
to be done lay me is this : if I can find, and I,t
would be impious to suppose I cannot. one among
the Representatives of my country, who will pre..
sent my Petition to that august A►serdbly, front
which alone red►e,. is to be obtained, 1 suh-ainly
pledge myself to statethis grievance in terms whit ►
►hall completely bring it within As powerful jun..
diction. The cause will thew be out of my hands,
and whatever may be the result, I Ault here the
satisfaction of having done what I think my duty.
If I should again sea this placard, to which yew
attention has beeo so repeatedly draws. in defiance
of all decency, disgracing ■ Coiirt of Equity, 1
shall he confirmed in the truth and justice of all
the inferences and observations I have addressed to
you. ; shall be assured you still entertain the sees
timents from which it sprang.
As these are mainmasts by which no man, pnew
mired of learning hiraselt or capable• di iratiem•
istog and asconeagiag it io ethers, can be actuated,
I *hall congratukte the University of Ozforil urns
the good store and prndresee they yid have ma-
nifested is net having chosen yen for their Chia.
cellor. I remain. ke.
ONE WHO WAS ♦ WRITER FOR
THE NEWSPAPILLS: