The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

St'—l find my last letter has irritated Mr. Tay-
lor's udcucate, who is pleased to deuo ii ill ate ins
otnerratiutis " the evident overflowing% of private
count,," I might. perhaps, with more truth, de-
nominate his defence the evident ovei thawing of
purchased partiality ; hut penencilities I wish to
with its being the last resource of a defeated ad.
versarv. It wars industriously reported by Mr.
'favio-r's fiends mill partizans, that he 1,„,1 wade a
gri;tadous offer of the Opera-House to Mr. Harris ;
sad I ain not surprised that the story should bare
gaiueit some credit with the public. His house is
,n unproductive waste in vacation. Besides, tilt
e.iuse attic Covents-Garden Company was a popu-
lar one, and a man who is not overburdened with
ts.pulsritv might be disposed to sacrifice something
to nutain a little. The discerning part of the pub-
he were not, howeser, to. be duped by this iinpu-
tiro boast of a gratuitous °Her to Mr. Harris.—
Mr. .1%, lor's advocate iu The Sun of last night ad-
IDIb that they. judged siAlitly, as lie acknowledges
that Mr. [lams was to pay in cash fur the ocCails•
111014(ogi. 1 his conduct of Mr. Taylor," lie
adds, " was so prompt and so kind, that it (night
to h.:ve esmisptinl dlr. 7lrsOor from tide 'Moat*
which have been med.• upon I• ." onderfully
prompt and kind indc,.l.l; ins: as prolnpt and kind
as any Jew could older. Taylor was glad to
nod a teiniat for has empty house, and to make
Profit of that which should othrrw Me have r. -
wined an unproductive waste. 'lle nest charge
against Mr. l'aylor is, that he has given t;•e
Covent-Gartleu C ptioy a short notice to quit,
telling them, at the *nue time, wit a sardonic
and insultim; steer, that they can 'utter no ineon-
veldt nee, as at the time when they cause into
his Louse. Mr. said, he hati um ay other
tar!. of aceounnotittion. Now for the truth of this
charge I can apral to Mr. Taoor's advertise-
ment, in moat of the pufslic prints; anal. I do repeat,
that his conduct in this particular it most ungener-
ous; convinceJ a. I am, that Mr. !Loris never
mull have settled iris company in the Opera-
House, had lie been aware that Mr. Taylor meant
so won to turn him out. Thew two points thin
bele!, established be, and all controversy, I mesa
the liberality of .Ir. Taylor in turning his house to
the best profit, anti his kindness to Mr. Harris, in
taming him out of it uaespectedlv, the last point,
namely, to whom Mr. Harris may safely pay his
it bet m..es of tittle importance, it being a mere
rivute questiou between the parties, to he settled
bt their law vere. 'ours,
Skakeipeare Coffee-hawse. . 0. P. P. S.

POETRY.

IMPRoMPTI'.

A MICIIATT.MAII " NOTICI TO QVIT."
To ail Gad.tes and f:nats, fund for even-tide bum,
To the Bloc-bottles too, with their Gossamer Drum ;
Testi Long- kgs nod .1011is,thertititleas rotemes,atill at rue,
Old Wuttcr sends gnreliag—bealth, friendship and these :
Wlisremiso complaint !Med before re this day,
That far months back—tu wit, retro... Ate first day of May,
Various :meets, pretenders to lawny and hi. th,
Hasson ventures .me snug lately tr avers'd the earth I
Aid mistakiog fair Clara% eliAste lips for a rose,
Stuag the beauty is pahlic—sod frigliten'el her beans
And whereas on the last sultry catalog in June,
The said Clara a is harmlessly hamming a tune,
A Blue-bottle, sin ung from some dunghill an doubt,
Dazed shout her so lung, be at lase put her our :
And • :,..reas soudry Launches arid high season'd pin,
And a thousand sweet seeks have bees o'er.ritii by flies ;
Eb: wisdom old Waiter Otitis nothing mute fit
11.4 n to pui,:,.l, this friendly " Mesiesta to quit "
A; dour per.l, to Long-tats, this notice despise!
nee. ye vile Gad-ilks —a turd to the wise !
Msratts, Hoes..-stingers, Wasps, fly so hostile s land,
Or ustr drjtli•watnutsi sive LI by old Winter's chill band.
Dieeeknosi, WINTEII ISIPNOSE.

The Duke sii;d liaatenasuun are
et:weird to Imre town, to-morrow, fur Sion House.
irl Srt:NcEa *.rives(, at twelve o'clock on
Thursday sit hla honer iu St. Jinnes'ir place,
hien Northamptonshire.
Slr WALTCR Flto4l9lrifi Vert? much indisposed,
at hi% house iu ersidui Vltreet,
OsortuE emit the two Miw.e• C.tv s Duni
left Latimer', on Wednesday. to meet Lord
GFORGIE eANLIIIDI4II at Ipsa
lody haaMetia Cour-Too arrived. ye,terday, at
her house in Flurlyer-strest, Westminster, from
Cambridgesliire.
'the Countess of BARRYIIIOIE had a select party,
last evening, at her house iuSechrille.straet.
The llon. BLHHALEY CHAVEN left town, yester-
day morning, on a visit to the Duke and DIIO)CSA
of RFTLAHD.at Cbeveley 1141. Cambridgeshire.
11'itu•si LAKE. F.. 41. 14 Illipeeteil, this day, at
his house, iu Suckville-street, Piccadilly, fmin
Southampton.
Mrs. Holman ariived, on Tliuralsiy, at her home
in Lower Grosvenor-street, from ltaimigate.
The play of The Stratt;.-, attracted a most brit-
lisnt and crowded endience, last night, to the
k.'ng's Theatre. Mr. liloBlll.lt and Mrs. Stour's.
msplayed their tole:tit-, to the greateg advantage.
The Behest Theut.-e Opkl3l at Chnstinas next.
Madame CATALAN,, and the Italian Opera
aiananv, were expetted in Dni.lin to pet form two
Thursday last and this night.
The comedy of The Mar of the If is per.
ling at Liverpool. Mr. tiamiT is the Sir Pee-
d' 'lac Syrophant, and Mrs. Gtneett the 1.4p1y
Luntterco;tri ; in which part she has un
'4l ota the LolitiOn stn2,e.
ir% BiLLisirrox, Als.. SALsol.
Air. ll►a-
iv, Mr. 60111. Mr. ti 411111.1.34• Hr Mr. "131 -
-11, a..,1 Mr. and Mrs. \ "'tousle, err delighting
:nl:ll.,tauts of Liverpool at Grand Sake,eriptioii
011eertil, under the dieectiou of JOHN Knows,
Enwssto.FALlClaFit. .Insrrit
EAILI.t. E.y. JONAS BOLD, Eq.
JOHN LIJIITIODr, E,41.

MITE OF IREL.4XD.

lousum, ocr. 10.
Our domestic or/ urn-sees wviir upeiit :he w hole
no wit:twin-114e I ; if INr cwithi except

out of the Statellleta, born!! atrfcities that have eJtell

too loog persisteil io in the Coui►ly of herry, ec
►hould have to rrlieit.ite the country upon its colon
oind prosperous couilition. Tina exerption, how-
ever, not nu!y must be made, but also unotimr,

which the fre.p.c:it outrages committed iu the
47cintwity of Linsetick retitle, imperative.
The incesmut violations of the public peace in
•

that coutbt,. and the continued otatages commit-
ted agane.t. the Iwrwoo. tawd pr.bpettie.l of indivi-
duals, do not appear to tend to itioy particular tAi-
jeet. They went to be the ottspnug of IA lllett-
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tioua love of eviloshich has let stbellloose upon

the community. lint io the cuuuty of Kerry the
midnight plundering and murders hare u manifest
design. according as they appear upon the Journals
of that part of tile kingdom. The actors iu these
horrid designs lure *unused the designation which
used to denote those who had taken up arms open-

ly to oppose the 'levying of g ems—they di.tin-
guish themselves by the appellation of IVhite toys;
and their hostility is direct.A Heinst those whom
iledlings in tithes have rendervAl ohnoicious. %Ve
speak solely upon the authority of the Kerry
the 1.114 of which that we hare received (Chutes

Weiser' ilregildl) mentions the murder of a Mr.
Murphy, who is said to have had large possessions
iu
The poor and saisersible of every country seldom
enter into the aut 'tittles or refinement* of theoretical
,distress. Tangible RI-Trances they understand,
and when those press beyond a certnin point, the
resentments of the people poilaiin their excess.—
Our peasants do really siiii;:r--that camoit he de-
nied—more than in • well-adjustal condition of
society they would be required to bear; hat if a
question of remedy ever arrive. it should lint be left
iii the bands of those, who, being themselves this
authors (thinkingly or ii!hiiskingly) of many of
the heaviest burdens tli.it rouse the peasant's groan,
oaglit not to obtain mote credit for their sympathy
that for their candour, when they attempt to charge
it...Am another class of persons all the miseries of
• the eountry.
The late declaration against tythes had the sanc-
tion of many honest minim, no doubt ; out every
thinking mail, wins well understood the iiiievilar
constitution of our soeit•ty, and w Ito knew the
gravity and caution which I la
-.mu._ precede the re-
' commendation of remedies for two.t:
with solitreheii,ion, the course diet ha I
taken to our away the whsle tythe sysieni,
as the spriis and source of general distress. It is
very true, that if t. .1 Ilea-rent lamer ids thought
that is endeavcrinw; to exempt theimelves trout
the odium of c: :on. tuid to east it all ,sepou
Lily of men mit perhu,s half pea els* ;vital
dues, the peasentre should hike a part against
tythes, they would fume desisted at once. But the
invariable result of such public proceedings is, that
whets sentiments and principles become promul-
gated, they sink into every mind ; they light upon
the brain of ignorance; they descend upon, and
are confounded in, the reveries of nonsense and
folly. The man of education acts and thinks be-
coming au enlightened mind; but the peasant,
r, illiterate, sad oppressed, thinks and feels as it
is natural he should ; and when he finds a respect-
able portion of the gentry of the country pointing
out as it stele the cause of his poverty, and de-
nouncing it, his passions a ill not allow him to hold
n truce with the PUppOIWCI adversary to his happi-
ness, and he will not wait tOr the mill aud circuitous
remedy of the law, but become his oau redresser.
It is well for the public that the subject of tethes,
or rather that the condition of the peasantry, forms
now an anxious subject of consideration with the
Government. It will throw sway all pretext fur
the interinedilling of ragged politicians with so shut-
and delirate en atfair ; and it ought to sug-
gest to those who might unconsciously and most
totloceotly have r %cacti sciisaUous in the peasantry
%hick they ilia th.t foresee, to exert themselves
with double zeal in suppressing such painful come-
qiienees of misappreheusion and uaistale.—(A
LyGGa Paie r.

A very large fleet of merchantmen have arrived
from Stuekliolin and Gottenburgh; they sailed from
the latter p!ace on the 30th tilt.; twenty-five are
humid to Hull, at which place two of the fleet ar-
rived on Tuesday last. The whole convoy consists
of about tins ; many of the odiips are from the
ports of Revel and other Russian isirts, and have
on board' valuable cargoes of the produce of that
comstry.
Th, present establishment of the Royal Naval
I1orp:141 et Plymouth has la en settled as follows,
Irk an order of the Right lion. the Privy Conned,
at the re: owisendation of the Right lion. Lords
Consiii.ssioners.ol the Admiralty : the warrant was
bent down last weak. . .
Governor
1.0141 I.:cotenants tip *•` looper Anotim.
r1„..;,..".4-10 yew, • ei. oil per Ditto.
All oil, r Thysiarao
Nurgr..nx
3Stt
Dt.p..user sod Cluplotto
Govenorio Ord,. l5O
Fir,t Clrrk to the Agent l5O
; ft. ot Cl.rk to the Sire er4 so

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The Demerara and the Belleisk. from Demerara,
are arrived at Lit erpool ; they parted from the Sir
Edworl l'rliero, fur the Clyde, on Tue.day last.
The brii; Pomona, of Exeter, is {apposed to be
lost at llovlake.
The Prover!rare, TATTIN, from Quebec, for
Guernsey-, is captured.
The sloop Troia/gra, of Trinidad, has been cap-
tured, re-ca•tturcd, and carried into Grenada.
There seas:► ►eport vestenlay,that a private letter,
received late a vessel from hail hrooglit an
aceount of an action haven 4 been fought between
the Spanish Patriots sod the. Frt.-nen, on the Ebro,
which u as said to have terminated to the advantage
..r the enemy. The battle, it is stated, took place
on the Iry instant, We have not heard what corps
were engaged, hat if there be ant. truth in the ru-
..... ur, we lio;,e it will tuns out that the engagement
vas of rr. ry partial notate. 'risere iiireetaitily no-
thing ia the last intellixelice front France to induce
as to 9.ulsonse that the eue:nv ha•h received .affi-
taunt reiufuvremrnta to citable them to re,ume of-
fensive

ROYAL itifiN4L.Dlin

That re.uarkuble oeffusiou of not.sopatit:lll
troop*. in the rider de Ceroueel, wlierriurlittdoelt
with so much heat of onroAidation ugail this
couutry,de.iguatisog her notice. the heraldic figure
of " the. Leopards,' hue produced *Moe deecrip-
tive illustrations of his expression, to sanction the
allusiod, which is certainly upheld by thee historic
page. d* :t lice! that immediately alter the Cosi-
qeest, time kiiiigos of England Litre two leopards,
borne unit by the Cooqueror William, us Duke of
N • udy.itiod thence coutidued down to the reign
of licory the lid, who, in right of Isis uitulwr, ad-
tweed her paternal coat. the. Lion of Aquititoi,
which, being of the some field, uietal, and forma
with the leopards, was jointly onsuelnollo d with Beene
in one shield, a, d hlazoned three I a 55 at pre-
sent. King Edward 111. in right of his mother,
claiming the Crowu of France, thought tit, with the
strode of Eughowl, to quarter the urns% of France,
which then were azure, sewer Jr
.11eury Jr lye, or,
'Leto-wards changed to three plus dc Lrs, where-
upon Henry v. of England caused the EleAlish
sinus to be chasers' likewise. King 11111 C., uisuu
the union of England and St'.otlenil, caused the
arms of France stool England to he quartered with
Scotland and Ireland, and thus blasuued :
. .

In the first place, azure, three Asses de lys, or
the regal sums of Emmet, quartered with the nu-
perial ensigns of England, which ure gulea, three
lions passant gaardaat is pale or. la the second
place, or within a doable tressure rammer-flowered
lye, golds, * lion rampant of the second for the
royal arms of Scotland. ..isasthe third place, azure,
an Irish harp, or, stringed argent, line the Royal
rumen. of Ireland., lir toe fourth place, AS in the
tir.t, :id within the Garter, the (Anil ensign of that
most noble Order. Above the same VII 11C1111.1t,
allbWl.l.lllg to His Alajesty's sovereign jurisdiction
upon the same a rich Mantle of cloth of gold
doubled ermine, adorned with an Imperial crown,
and surmounted for a crest by a lion pussiutt par-
don:, crowned with the like, suppoi tea by a bon
rampant gnat-dant, or, crowned as the former, and
sii ii:,teorn argent, gorged with a crow u, thereto a
chant affixed, passing tittween his fore legs, and
retli xt•il over his back, or, both standing upon u
compartment placed underneath, and iu the table
of the criiniesrlinent, His 'Majesty's Royal motto—
Dieu et 11101 t droit. This motto was given by
Richard 1. to intimate that the Kingdom of Eng-
laild was not holden in vassalage The motto of
llorti suit qui map y pease was given by Edward
the founder of the Order of the Garter. Since
the late Union of Incorporation with Ireland, a
trilling chinigo has taken place iii the urine, and in
toe title of the King since the Revolution in
France. tut it is very remarkable that the
Leopards" belong to His Majesty its Duke of
Bruninsick, and are only supplied by the Horse.
winch denotatiie of Hanover, the Eirotfinit
House, and which for them, as of greater dignity,
is substituted.

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