The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-06-01 00:00:00

Every thing that they ha'e done since they came
into office, proves that the opinion of incapacity
which they originally formed of themselves, is cur-
r:3, and ought not to be questioned. The Men
who could raise the hideous cry of " Ni' Popery,"
alio would " teeth the lamb in the ewe's milk,"
who would convert the nutriment t.f the state into
i.s poison, who, " making sweet religion a
ilispsody of words," would talk of conscience
while they were provoking civil strife, and throw-
ing the country hack into the ages of Eligious bi-
gotry and persecution, the men who could do t'iis,
under any circumstances, or at any time, do not
appear to us possessed of those liberal views, and
enlarged conceptions, which fit men for the ad.
e,inistration of the affairs of a great am! powei tit
eamire ; but the men who could do all this
and provoke all this danger. at this critical
n:ornent of the world, and for the paltry purpose of
procuring a few days more of ill-gotten place and
power, clouding the eve of a luminous and liberal
vign, through the morn and mid-day of which
religion diffttserl a genial warmth, and has shone
with pure and unsullied light ; the men, we
repeat, who could do all this, and in direa
opposition to the course of the former lives,
doarines, and principles, of many of them-
selves, we cuesider unfit not only for the first
offices in the State, but for any place of power or
influence at all. If the sincere entertainment of
th.sse sentiments constitutes an opposition Paper,
THE BEITIiH Paess must bear, whatever censure
attaches to the name, aU the guilt and shame be-
longing to a Print, which, though it may speak
erroneously or ignorantly, always speaks its senti-
ments honestly ; which is. and has been uniformly
independent in principle and =duet, and never has
been anuated by an unworthy motive, nor acknow.
ledged an undue influence or controul—all that
girl: has Tea BRITISH Ps tor in:ur red, and all that
'name we hope it will long continue to endure.
But we will not deceive ourselves, nor wrong The
Courier, by supposing that this is the sort of oppo-
sition which it imputes to Tut; BOLIEISSI Pa ess.—No ;
it means thet THE BKITISII Paws is one. of those
Papers that is syuematically in oppasltion, which
opposes the Minister, whether right or wrong, and
does not speak the language of truth and independ-
ence, but the I tnguage of prejordce and party.
In this sense then we do not hesitate to assert, that
the character of " opposition" imputed to Tara
llarztsx Puss, is a direft and positive falsehood,
premeditated and aimed for the purpose. The
*Editor of Twa Bettina Pam neither knows who
wrote those paragraphs, nor who sent those para-
graphs, upon the insertion of which The Courier is is
founded the charge of its being a hired oppos;tion
Print. they corresponded with what he had learned,
known, and fel: upon the subject, and, rs st.ch, he had
n hesitation to adopt them as his own ; and had they
•en of All opposite character would have rsjeaed
them with the same promatitude. NVe know that
7Lre Courier, which appears to consider it a crime
to insert "voluntary contribution.," will he natu-
rally inclined to doubt the fair aid lin, trti.el prin-
ciales upon which wa as ; bit as the Editor (we
still stypose Castor on duty) affral to knew toe
author, be may satisfy his doubts upon that sutijea
As to the argument, that paragraphs of a similar
tendency, or written by the same author, of whom
we agaiq Profess our ier. ',ranee, have been inserted
in other Papers, it would go to the exclusion of all
articles whatever, not immediately written by the
Editor; for it is impossible for him to foretell,wien he
Inserts any such article, that the same, or som !thing
like it, may not appear on the same day, in some
other Paper. But this is not all—the Editor of The
Courier, we find, while he attacks the article, adopts
what it says of the Earl of Palatinate; thus, while
he censures Tit e Buena Pasts for inserting the
whole of an article which it approves, he inserts a
part of an article which he condom :s. Whether
Curt,! Or Pfidlilt were awake when the blunder was
committed, we do not know. Perham they may
be troth used to write in their sleep. Airre cannot,
however, in either case, be very angry with The
owl!, ; for Mr. CANNING having. as stated in TN/
bi f,s L. Newspaper of last week, taken a trip
to I stershire, of which he has availed himself,
customers fur TA. Courier, the Editor
of LEA Paper could not do less in re:urn, than look
atter the Ear! of PsNlKosts, and the Foreign Al-
14ns, 'lathe R l lon. Secretary's absence.

Yesterday moroir.g. His MAJESTY, Princesses So.
Fele. stoccsta, Aussie, wad MARY, aceonipa
Died Ladies G. A. Betzatar and WAt. CC.
OIAYa, r.Alt in their ?du sin is' carriages, Irons the
P.sieee to St. Geortte's•chapel. where a eermun was
presched by she He.. Dr. CNAIIraLYI., groin Cic
First nt tLe F.Nh -sluts. verse 7. sad afterwards re.
turned to the t'..lece.
Liras muses and Us/1100e, Generals GAUTN•
** ** ar..l Fitz. v, CoWoe's TA YLOa and
Alta.%OW, a:WNW at the Chapsl, ready to reuse
1;m11.

Tneir Wu:mit and the Panicum are ex-
f,ded is town this Jy.