The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-01 00:00:00

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Leghorn - -
Genoa - - VI
l'enies - - 27
Malta - -
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Naples . - -
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Lisbon - is
Oporto - . so
Itio.latteiro -47 t
Bahia - - 411
Ilublin - 9.1
Cork • -

are by no means so great as they have been reptesented. Two fri-
gates and a brig have succeeded in saving themselves under corer
of the cannon of the Dardanelles, but these probably are the last
ships that will reach that place, the Greeks now being masters of
the sea. By the latest news it appears that they burnt, on the 15th
October, two more Turkish frigates.

Our Paris Correspondent mentions another instance of
the denial of the rite of sepulture by the Roman Catholic
clergy of France. In the cue of the actor PHILLI prig, the
ecclesiastical ceremony was refused because the deceased
belonged to a profession obnoxious to the censures of the
clergy; but in the case to which we now refer, the rite was
denied to an old and respectable Magistrate, M. Laxoss,
formerly the Mayor of Troycs, simply because he was a
Jansenist! This venerable man, who, at the period of his
decease, was 84 years of age, was refused the sacrament
unless he would abjure his errors as a Jansenist ; and while
this indecent violation of the sanctity of the hour of death
was perpetrating, M. Laxoss expired, the last effort of
nature only just enabling Mtn to make a sign to the priest
expressive of his anxiety for the last offices of his religion.
This occurrence, which at another time would perhaps
hardly be worthy of observation in this country, deserves
some interest now, from the dangerous and groundless pre-
tensions of the Catholic clergy in Ireland. We must all
recollect the outcry that was raised because the Catholic
priests were not suffered, in Ireland, to perform their rites
in the Protestant church-yards. We see, in the instance of
M. LaLose, what is the conduct of this same clergy where
they have power to act according to their will. It affords
also a strikingand decisive answer to the boasts we havehcard
as to the perfect unity of the Romanists. The mutual
hatred of Janscnists and Molinists seems to reign with as
much fury as ever between the members of the Gallican
church. The Protestants are, we know, suffered to enjoy
their worship unmolested in France; but we cannot be
ignorant that this boasted liberality of the Roman Catho-
lics was really the result of BONArMITZ'S indifference to
all religion. Since the restoration cf the Dot:Knows the
priesthood have allowed no opportunity to pass without I
manifesting their hostility to the sectarians ; and when we
see them pursuing with relentless hatred to the grave one
of their own flock, because he erred in some immaterial
point of doctrine or discipline, we may easily guess what
they would do towards the Protestants if their inclinations
were not fettered by their inability. In some parts of 6,2 -
many the same edifice is at different hours of the day oc-
cupierl for the purposes of divine worship both by Catholics
and Protestants. Is this a proof that they are in those
places less opposed to each other ? Certainly not. It
shows only that there is a balance of power between them,
and too much poverty to enable each party to provide itself
with a separate church.

The Times of yesterday complains, in language that
may well raise its reputation for vulgarity, that " a foul
calumny as ever appeared in print" was published against
it on Monday in this Paper. Its rage, pest up, as it had
been, for several weeks, at last exploded, and a more
ludicrous mixture of bounce and blackgaesrdism was never
vented within the purlieng of Printing-house-square. Its
personality is below contempt. On this head, however,
we will say a word or two, and dismiss it. The writer of
the article complained of, if he is thought to deserve the
abusive epithets applied to him, wishes to be understood
as deliberately repeating every syllable it contains. If this
is considered as aggravating his offence—the party offended
knows where to find him.

We will now proceed to state the ground of the accusa-
tion which forced this rancorous Journal at last to break si-
lence, and to bolt,away from the charge, as it has done,
without refuting it. The charge was matter of inference
from their own course of proceeding ; the circumstantial
evidence in proof of it was, and is, conclusive. No sooner
was the unhappy man, who, by his death, has expiated his
offence, and whose corpse is even now scarcely cold,—no
sooner was he apprehended than an article appeared in the
Times, which, under the pretence of giving a history of his
private life, held him up as amongst the very worst and
most profligate characters which could infest the circles of
civil society : and this while he was yet untried !—in that
awful interval, between life and death, when to strike at
him betrayed a mind in which every manly feeling was ex-
tinct, and over which human'Ay had lost all influence•
This was the moment chosen to fabricate such appall-
ing falsehoods as should brand his name with infamy,
and cut him off from all public sympathy. Messrs.
Malan and Co. have not dared to deny that they fur-
nished the materials of this slanderous attack on their
unfortunate partner; and the article, as we very early
pointed out, bears internal evidence that "an old and
experienced hanker" had a principal share in its compila-
tion. If it was neither M•ustt nor STR."CEY, who was it?
The Times calls its fabricated " account" of Mr. F.sotir-
LEcor, which occupied more than a colu:un of its closest
type, a "paragraph," as if it were one of those light articles
which might well have passed without remark; whereas,
in fact, it was a very long and laboured production, sent
forth whit every appearance of authenticity, and drawn up
with a direct view to the efeet meant to be produced by it.
On the day fillowinr;, public attention was drawn to it
s?ecially by a pretended corresprmelent, to whom an answer
was formally given in the leading article ; and it dakrves
teo to b.! noticed, that this shameful libel, pregnant wish
every epithet of ignominy, was publkhed on a Friday, the
very day on which it was likely to be copied at full length
into the Sunday papers. There wes just time enough to
enable them to copy it conveniently ; whilst there was not
time, situated as Mr. FA NTIL ROY was, immured within
the walls of a prison, to enable him or his friends either to
contradict the statement cr to counteract it. The article
accordingly was copied, nct only into all the daily, but into
all the weekly papers, and front them it obtained currency
all over the empire. Did the Tires act thus without a
motive ? Will the public believe that it bed not some,
powerful and adequate int:nem:cut? Would not any re-
spec table Jotartial have given up the writer of so infamous
a slander, after the unhappy object of it—standing at the
bar of his comitr•—had said, in an aff.Tting address to the
Ct,urt, ;emu; frcm him in the agony of his mind—

`• Tortured ail I bare been, it now becomes an imperative ditty to
expl.dn to yeti, I iendemen, and through you to the world at large,
~..1e 10. 0 .•tuations heaped upon me, kcJ:et to!! utterly fidtr
1:.. v. hu are beat acquaintel with my private HO and

Ita..-a been as 112.eped upon we,pr the pnrimmerf lunaiu
an: with MP 7.•10,1"Qf the 114,,v traurrrn.mT, fr which,
I:nd In•ta trltiob 0.117. rrp ro.l rs st• cre from bank-
I :Jar. br, aect.acd of crimes u•ver crrn
and of ac!* of refitpary uncr co.waittr,l; and I appear at
,• a•:/•*, prfj.#4.T.4. ,st We, and almost prejn.'.ip tl."

ikk's it wit exci:e, and deem it notjustifis, a strong sus-
p:eien that tile Times, after thi-, taunt hare had gu:lty
retrotts for 1::,t in the slightest manner retracting the base
and crud asp:rsions of which this dying man complained,
and fur steadfastly withholding the name of its confederate
in this work of slander? What then arc those guilty

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