The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

AN ACCOUNT
AF TOE TOTAL IMPORT OF FOREIGN AND COLO-
NIAL CORN, GRAIN. MEAL AND FLOUR. IN
REAL VALUE, IN EACH YEAR. FROM THE YEAR
TO THE YEAR 1818, loorm INCLUSIVE,
INTO GREAT BRITAIN.

tar ur as IrSICUIRISJ it she Marge Market Prices, io
Emalawl and %ilea, of all Foreign awl ()mania, earn,
Grain, Meat and near, loupotted into Great Drama.
C 0. d.
Year 1612
1813
1814 •• • • 2,916,319 4 0
1816
1016.. 942,497 19 7
lM
818

WILLIAM IRVING.
inspector-General or Imports
and Eafurta of Great Britain.
tram,. Nouse, Lowlot,
tisk .1/firek, 1019.
AF ACCOrNt

OF THE TOTAL REPORT OF CORN, GRAIN, MEAL
AND ruova, IN REAL TALDB, IN EACH TEAR,
FitoSl THE TSAR 1814 TO THE TEAR ISIS, BOTH
FROM ORZAT BRITAIN TO FOREIGN
COUNTRIES, AND TO THE COLONIES.

VatUR as eakolatei at she Average Market Prices, in
F.oeland and Watts, of all Cora. Graiit, Meal and Flour,
spurted from Great Britain to Foreign Countries, and to
:fa Colooks.
s. d.
Year 181?
1813
1814
11116
1816
1817
ten

(Signed ea dated as above.)

On Thursday sited lost, a asessitt in the house of %fr.
Lawrtere Steknell, Lincoles.las-Fields, who was sitting
in the kitchen with another servant, was alarmed by a
noise in one of the tipper apartments ; their heing No other
p• ruins in the house they eonclit'iled that ilia rex were there,
and made ever.' seareh to no miritime; sod at lengifi return-
ed, and sat down in another apartuteni. The fret was, a
thief had entered the house by one Of the windows on the
second tloor,by means of a ladder used in repairing the front
of the house, nod footsteps were observed by the servants,
who not satisfied made a fresh search, and in doing which
they heard a noise like the !hireling of a door; on going
down stairs, they timid 1 Tall in the kitchen, who had
riera alarrited, sod, romehow rustle his way there, to
make his escape. He told the .ervants he wanted a mau
named Jones, and they took him to Si. derneat's watch.
house, where he was larked' up.
Minim►UL Actions's' —Yesterday, about two o'clock
in the employ ur Mr. Rich.

TOREIGN INTELLIGTNCE.

PARIS PAPERS.
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PART, MARCH 23.
The law for the orgsnitatioo of the National
Guards of the kingdom will be presented to the
Chambers in the beginning of next week.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, MAtcM 42.
The Sitting opened ut one u'clock. The Marquis
Dessolleo, Baron Lotus, the Count de Cum, ap-
peared Dal the ministerisl bench.

PETITIONS.
M. Jobe& in the name of the Committee of
Petitions, obtained permission to address the Cham-
ber. He stated that two inhabitants of Avignon
demanded the dissolution and disarming of the
national guard. of that town, in consequence of an
act of violence committed upon the Petitioners by a
body of the national guard. on the )7th of Janu-
ary last. They had been in the house of a friend
on that night. when about half-past ten o'clock
seven or eight individuals, armed with muskets.
rushed into the apartment, crying out here are
the two robbers, we shall arrest them. Otte of
the Petitioners was wounded in the thigh with
a bayonet, and both were borne off without any
authority, or being aware of any offence, by those
armed men. This national guard was the same
that hail been the unmoved witness of the crimes of
which Avignon was lately the theatre, of the vio-
lent death of Marshal Brune, an outrage the im-
punity of which continued to be no trifling
cause of astonishment, not only in France, but
in all Europe.—(Agitation, hear, hear.)—With
regard to the principal demand of the peti•
tamers on the subject of the national guard, it was
a matter of importance, not to the department of
the Yourfuse alone, but to the most pressing in-
terests of France. It was impossible to disguise
the numerous vices in the present organisation of
the national guard; gendarmes, provided with a
simple order from one of the chiefs of the national
guard, enter into houses without lawful authority.
—(Very lively agitation on the right side of the
Chamber, and cries That it is not a report.)
M. Jobez continued.—Citizens thus arrested, with
a shameful publicity, and against the forms pre.
scribed by law, were flung into prisons like criminals.
After some further observations on the want of dm-
cipline, amid the absurdity and incoherence of the
laws for the government of the national guard, he
concluded by moving that the Petition should
be referred to the Keeper of the Seals, and that
a copy of it should he sent to the Minister
of the foterior. On this motion a conversation

took place, which ended in passing to the Order of
the Day, on the first part of the motion' stud in
ordering the Petition to be referred to the Miuister
of the Interior. . .

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Several other Petitions of no general interest
were reported.

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
The Keeper of the Seals—Gs The King has
charged us to present to you three projects of law for
the repression of crones and offences committed by
the press, or by •very other means of publication.
The first of these projects contain the penal dis-
positions.
The second regulates the mode of procedure and
of trial, which will be followed by prosecution and
repression.
The third relates to the Journals and periodical
writings, which being hitherto freed from all pre-
vious censorship, seem to require some particular
dispositions.
Pm/ Dispositions.—The first project rests on
a very simple principle, or rather on a fact, which
is, that the press, which may be used as the instru-
ment of crime, cannot however c►eate a crime,
nor give the definition of any particular offence.
In the same manner as the invention of powder has
furnished mankind with new means of committing
murder without creating any new offence to be in-
scribed in the penal laws, so the invention of print-
ing does nothing more than afford a new instru-
ment of sedition, libel, and other offences already
known end restricted, . .

That which renders an action punishable, is the
intention of the author, and the nature of the evil
he wishes to effect. It is not theta the press, but
he who uses the press, that is responsible. Con-
sidered in this way, the question becomes simple,
and the law in some manner applies itself. Every
thing is embraced in flu: four chapters, of which
the law is composed Ist, The public pro-
vocation to crime—td. Public offeuces towards
the person of the ling-3d, Outrages to public
morals-4th, Defamation and public injury.
Prosecution and Trial.—His Excellency entered
into a long discussion on this head. lie said that
the Ministers were decided to propose the seizure of
the supposed libel before trial, but at shall not take
place unt►l after publication. The trial by .fury
will be preferred to that by the Correctional Tri-
bunal, and the public acts of persons in power
►hall be ol•eu to public animadversion.
Journals and Periodical Writings will be sub-
jected to a special legislation. The Proprietors
must give the security of two responsible Editors,
and i,uoo Ir. iu reuses, for daily Journals; and
SW fr. fur Journals appearing at periods more
remote trout each other.
The three projects to this effect were read, and
referred to the bureaux.

The Clamber then resumed, in Secret Com-
mittee, the discubsion of the proposition relative to
the Law of Election,. MM. de Corbiere and
Barte-Lablotide, were heard for the proposition;
and MM. de Is Fayette and de Saint Cricq,
against it.

SOUTIMAML•IIIRIDGB.—This elegant structure
was opeiod fur passengers at twelve o'clock on
Wednesday night. ft has thirty lanterns, lighted
by gas, which give a most brilliant effect. Thus,
in the spare of four years, another ornament has
been added to the metropolis. There was no cere•
mony observed on the occasion, but as St. Paul's
clock s►ruck twelve, the tolt of one penny com-
menced. The roads intended to lead to the bridge
on the Surrey vide are in great forwardness: one
has been planirst. from the Elephant and Castle,
to cross St. George's-fields, pairing the back part
of the King'• Renck Prison, thence across Great
Suffolk-street, to meet at a rig'it angle with Now
Bridge-street. m Union-street.

AMERICA.

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NEW YORK PAPERS.

7IEW YOU, fkIIRUARY 26.
The 74 at the navy.yard at Washington, is to
be launched tomorrow. She is to be named the
Columbia.
On Tuesday last we published an account of the
apprehension, in Savannah, of a person, on whom
was found counterfeit bank paper to the enormous
amount of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
IVe have since learnt from Mr. New boht, cashier
of the Bank of America, that the information
which led to his apprehension was received from
Juctib Hem high constable of this city.
The following address was delivered by George
Mills, Captain of the Independent Veteran Corps
of Artillery, to General Jackson, on the 23d inst.
on his reviewing said corps at the New York State
Arsenal :
TO MAJOR-GENERAL. ANDREW JACKSON.
Ste—The lutlepeiukut Veteran Corps of Artillery, of 74
soldiers of the revolutionary war, and their immediate de-
scendant., welcome you to our city, being highly gratified
with t►e presence of the man among us whom the Almighty
has made his instrument, by his energy at New °demos, to
silence traitors and tories, and establishing a preeedeat in
prosecuting the Seminole war, to expel licensed rcoepdes
and bandits of foreign courts from our favourite land.

'I

Jobs Lowe, a labouring men, id the employ (.1* Mr. Rich.
ardsow. tie builder, woe sent with I others to wink at
etnienwarerWee, in Vine-street, Pircarl 11y, the interior or
whieii *ma dimeierring a repait l.oog weS ordered to go
&Wu- 111 C hole iw a bucket, hot he had iftliCt iy stated him-
' self and launched at off. abut the lope broke, and the Pout
Ohio watt precipitated lot° the .ewer, huchrt and all, by
witch his arms sod thiells were 11f1/111.11, and hi. head fron-
t turgid. He win dragged up with n rope, and carried In St.
urges u t bUrb of otct,r.!ry.