The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-02 00:00:00

!happrioNtafrthat the atleasimilitimil
doabt of•bis"Grace'a ultimate Neon*
lotornistiosi hots New Bruatariek -111r4hitilita
bowsaw socestats •of an extensive aSI
fire. 'Mich had spread its ravages IP/Aftlifirtin
miles over the most fertile proportion of the North
and Western pineal Nova Scotia. The fire cos.
hissed bnraing for three days. The potatoes were
burnt in the earth; houses. fields of
.rais., stock
of all kinds—sad. indeed, whole villages sad vets
tlemeate,•-1101 a pay's* the devouring • etaswsto-•
(Royal Gomm, Ilocces6er 16.)
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JAMAICA. DROBSUIEII 16

Lord Coat:roe has token Lime after a tremen-
dous resisteace. Roar of his vowels "sere sunk—
the Meet was composed of 20 sail. 'Panama has
declared for the Independents owing to the success
of Lord Cochrone.

PURIFICATION *OF FUR Visote essay.--Holtday at the
Mak, raicliegaer,-Zaet Italia sad &moth Sea Hessen.

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LONDON.

FRIDAY, Irti!tUAILY Q.

Lord Ltrairoot laid on the table of the Home
of Lords yesterday evening a copy of a dispatch
.tranirmitted by the British Government from the
office for Foreign Affairs to the several Powers of
Europe, by way of answer to the Manifesto of the
Allied Sovereigns at Troppnu, respecting their its•
terference in the domestic concerns of Naples. In
'.this dispatch the British Government eliocisinia any
participation in the projects of the Allier, and offers
so far • satisfactory answer to the confident aner.
lion contained in the Manifesto of the Allies, that
they relied upon the coaeurreoee of the Courts of
Great Britain and France in their oppressive pro.
credings against the uooffending people of Naples.
The Court of the Tuileries, ignited, has not dis-
appointed their hopes ; the 'King of Fiastice has
lent himself to promote the ambitious views of the
old rival of his House, and to affect the security of
the kindred throne of his relative in Naples. This
is a positive infraction of the general principle of
independence, buten are not as yet prepared to
say how far mote censurable it is than the negative
conduct of the British Government. In such a
case we would sot have Great Britain act a part
merely neutral. To witness tamely and in silence
the comnairsion of a flagrant offence, when it is in
one's power to prevent it, is not far removed from
an actual participation in the goilt of she trans-

action.


We are glad to and that Lord Jona •RunaLL
resolves "to persist is his project for disfranchising
Grampoand, and trausferring the right of election
which it has forfeited to the populous and com-
mercial borough of Leeds. It cannot be too
strongly or too frequently impressed upon the pub-
lic, that the mode of proceeding adopted in this
instance by Lord JOHN RUSSELL is no i•aovation
in the Constitution, but is strictly analogous to the
prerogative anciently exercised by the Crown of
transferring the elective fronchise.—sometimes at
the discretion of the Sovereign himself, and some-
times on the prayer of the borough sought to be
relieved, from ono place to another, as the removal
of commerce or other change of circumstances
might render it expedient. That such a power
must rest somewhere in the State is absolutely
necessary to correct those anomalies which even
the course •f time must create. The progress
of constitutional learning, and • purer intel-

ligeoce of what constitutes political freedom,
have necessarily removed from the Crown the
exercise of a discretion which, vested in the pi-e-
-ruptive, could not fail of proving dangerous ; but
it has fallen to the collective power of Parliament
to be exerted as circumstances shall arise to jur-

'if, it. A Bill fur disfranchising Grampound,
and transferring the right of election to Leeds, was
introduced last night in the House of Commons,
read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Monday next.

The recent military outrage at Kilmainham,
near Dublin, when the freeholders of the county
were forcibly driven by the bayonet from their own
hail, will be brought this evening before the House
of Commons by Lord JOHN RusseLl.. We trust
that this event will be treated in the House as if it
had occurred—not in a country which has been too
long the theatre of every vice in which arbitrary
power can indulge, and where unfortunately the
exercise of military violence is of too frequent oc-
currence to excite the feelings of indignation which
ought to accompany it—but as if it hid happened
in some county in this more favoured portion of
the empire, where the magnitude of the offence
would be more justly estimated. The time has at
length arrived, fortunately for both parts of the
United Kingdom, that the principles of the Con-
stitution cannot be invaded in one without indict-
ing an injury upon the welfare of the other.
A considerable part of the sitting of the House
of Commons last night was occupied, as usual, in
receiving Petitions from various parts of the coun-
try, praying that her atIAJIIITY'S name should be
restored to the Liturgy. The proposing and re-
ceiving of there Petitions offered au opportunity
for again discussing the merits of the Qualm's