The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-18 00:00:00

SPARRING.

The last benefit this season took place at the Fiees
coot yesterday, fur the benefit of 11. Harmer,as good a titan
as any of the Bristol lot, elthongh a blinker become, like the
(amid James Belcher. The Court wa■ weU attended con-
sideritig the thinness of London, and the lathe setting-to
exli:bitett was—
Randall and Holt—This was the best match, and although
Ilaudall's natural gifts gave hiss the best of it, yet he had
nut it all his own way. Hull's fine science cave him some
points, and be stood manfully against this senashing operator.
Harmer and Belche► made au excelleut set-to with
mu-
tust advantages, and it was impossible that Ilits science, and
particularly in giving, could be better dipplayed.
'lle opening sets-to between Jemmy Lennox and Mason,
and those between Harmer and Soiling, kielemund mid
Shelton, awl Cropley mad Edwards, afforded mach spurt.
The close was between twit stout young countrymen,
who are worse than even the Sussex Farmer, whom Shelton
beat. They however did their best, and pelted away un-
mercifully at each either.
Bone, whom Carter beat in his maiden fight, challenged
to fight Kendrick, the Black, in the same ring as Cy Davis
and the IrishmantonTuesday noel, for $ parse.

Extract from a private letter, dated Aix-la-Cha. I
pelle, August I I :--
" The Duke of Wellington. accompanied by Colonels
Junes and Greville' arrived here yesterday at usiduight,
from Spa. *mend English families of distinction who are
there at pretreat, prevailed upon his Grace to pass a day
with them in corning from Brussels. His Grace alighted
at the Grand Hotel, sod imerilied his pause not Duke I
of Welliugtou, but Prince of Waterloo. Tbis raoraing
he set out fur Berlin, passing by Cologne and Coble'''. I
I (Mak I may give you a certain assurance, that his motion
los fur its object the arrangement of the differences be.
tween Sweden and Denmark, which are still far from be.
iug settled. Bernadotte is on the point of being abandon.
ed by the Emperor of Russia—a circumstance which will
iiicresro the difficulties of his position. The object of •
the Duke's mission will no doubt lead him to Warsaw,
where the Emperor of Russia will arrive in the eusuiug
mouth. thie of the principal objects of that mu.
narch is to fix the future destinies of Poland. Since that
kiagdwo has fallen upon his sceptre, be has directed its
erganixatioa with an anxiety, and watched its prosperity
with a predihction, which is said to have excited not a little
the jealousy of the Russian Noblesse. You will remember,
that there was some time ap • report, that the Duke of Wel.
boom *as going to be present at the 'read review of troops
before Petersburgh. This was incorrect, but be will enjoy
a similar spectacle at Warsaw."
Extract of • letter dated Panama, May 14:—
ss The present state of affairs cuts up all our com-
merce with the south. 1 lie cruisers under the flags
of Chili and Buenos Ayr.• are so numerous, that
we have not one point to trade with. Callao has
been blockaded since the 13th March. The port
of Paita (which lies between Putman and Guyaquil)
is also theirs; and last night we learned, by au ex-
traordinary coutier, the capture of four vessels at
anchor in the Itealijo. It is also firmly believed,
that the ship Carmen, from Sian Blass with up.

ward* of oue tudliou of dolling, lum been token.

All this may be attributed to the weakness of our
naval force. and we are looking for au immediate
bluckade."

The two young Madagascar Princes now in Paris
vent to the opera for the first time on Friday.
wss the tint theatrical exhibition they had
-<‘er wituested, and their surprise war of ...purse
4eIV great. %Viten the ballet comtneuced the de-
, .
.Iglit they felt was nut to be controlled. They bunt
out iuto the liveliest transports of joy, and began
to dance about the hos, endeavouring to imitate
the gestures and manners of the performers.
A letter from Glasgow, dated August 19. says—
" The weavers who were employed in the Green,
tend who struck work on Monday morning. owing
to the wages being reduced to ls. a day, in cons.-
cpsence of the outfitters who applied for work, again
tormanenced on Wednesday morning, and all is now
gong so quietly. Four troops of the 10th Huss
'Of,. with row pieces of Caution and several ansou.
bnian waggons, strived bete about tea o'clock so
Wednesday issoroiniy."

*'/TL OF TilE cousrnY

♦AIATION AND CORN LAWS.

TEE EDITOR OP ?HR BRITISH PRESS.

1. In 1793 the people were its a state of ease snit comfort.
Mare thee the price of the ■tees series of life has been doubled,
by the progress of tattooist losstlee, and the increased
pries st previsions by wrens of the Cern Laws. For the
proofs sad eleeidatioa of these positions coosider the facts
following
I. Admit that England, Wales, Scotland, sad Ireland,
contain upwards of sixty nsilliows of reiltivated acres, the
overall, madam of which canner he valued as less than 41.
Per *rye, prodeciag 140,000,000/., prices being doubled
piece 1793, the sons of 130,900,000/. appear to be the addi-
tional berdees laid ow the people in the price of food.
- . .

3. In 1793 tie annual inu.auest of the national taxation
vas 17,500,0001. The public staimenta of 1819 exhibit the

ratiosid taxation 10 be. 53,

as increase iu

direct taxation of Z 6,000,000/: Ily.
4. Between the periods of 1793 and 1419 we have. there-
fore, increased the price of food 120,000,0001. and increased
iitiates! taxation 36,000,000/.
5. The Select Committee mu the Poor's Laws state the
proportion of the population living by trade and manufac-
tures to be 959,632 families to 770,199 living by agricul-
ture; but under drawbacks and contingencies. liberally
equalling the numbers, hole of the taxes, via. 16,000,000/.
being borne by agriculture, that sum de4neted from
120,000,6001., the apparent increased profits un laud, by the
'mirror food, as stated above, there will remain 102,000,0001.
—lke increased price of foul.
6. The account will then stand thin-102,000,0001. net
additional molts on land in the increased price of food. and
36.000,0001. add/tinsel burdens by dirert taxation making
the whole 136,000,0001.—the total additional burden ins-
posed on the country since 1793.
7. Taking these proportions, via. 102.000,0001 net in-
crease of land in the prier uf ford, and 38,000,0001. fur
taxes, which are as three to one, and taking the price of the
quarters loaf to have been 6d. in 1793. and uow one shilling
in 1819, the proportions of contributions to the land sad to
taxation will be these:—

• d.
Price of Soar in 1793
Increase rent of laud, or fk►es parts 0 43
increase of tootz, one part 0 11

Price of loaf in 1819. 1 0

8. As the price of bread influences the price of all other
Things, the price of wheat applies to all other productions
of laud. Assuming the price of wheat to be at present 80s.
per quarter, or Ns. per bushel, it follows that one shilling
per bushel represents ten per cent. uu fund generally : thus
the truss produce of 60,000,000 of acres, at 41. per acre, is
240,900,000/., on which lea per cent. is 24,000,0001., and
these data furnish the following mulls :
(a) That Is. a bushel advance io the price of wheat, Is a
burden on the country equal to 24,000,000/.
(6) That, in like manner, Is. 611. per bushel, is a burden
on the country equivalent to 36,000,0001. of national tam
ation, and is equal to the whole increase of taxation since
1793, as shewn in No. 4.
(e) That 2s. 3d. advance in the prier per bushel of wheat,
is a burden on the country equal to 54,000,0001. a sum ex-
ceeding the whole amount of national taxation stated in
No. 3.—vi5.53,500.0001.
(d) That the advance of the Corn Laws from 48s. per
quarter,ia 1793. to 80s. per quarter, as at present in 1819,
is an advance of 4s. per bushel, and is the same burden on
the country as 96,000,0001. per annum of national debt
would have been.
9. That the progress of the interest of the national debt,
funded and unfunil.il, exclusive of the sinking fund, having
been from abort 10,000,0001. in 1793, to about 32,000,0001.
at present, Is an increase of 22,000,0001. per amnion, but
not so heavy a burden on the country as the advance of Is.
in the price of a bushel of wheat, or lid. is the quarter.
loaf, as thews in (a).
10. Parish rates, at this time, are called 8,010,0801.
per animas, of which 2.0e00,0901. existed is 1783 ; add to
that sum 2.000,0001. attaching to boasts and other properly,
sail agriesdistral, there will remain 4,000,0001. for the is-
Crease rf rates on land.
11. Admit ant F.siglanii and Wales, only subject to these
rates, contain 33,000,000 of cultivated acres, the gross pro-
duce of which, at 4/. per acre, amounts to 132,0041,000/.—
an advance of four pence per bushel out wheat, on this sum,
will alone ammo to four asillions Air /misdeed lkorisentd
pounds—a sum which more than indemnifies the whole in-
crease of parish rates paid by the land as above stated; and
on the calculation NO. 4. leaves the land interest a clear ad-
vantage of 91,600,01101.
12. The anstributions of the country are therefore these
several sums, via.—
I. The 'mount of national taxation, 1819 53,500,000
Add new taxes in 1819

Direct tones
Levied isereared rate uu food by operation
of the Corn Hilts
3. Parish rates w.000,000

Aannal levies t 161,000,000

besides all the charitable inslitations which do so mach ho-
mier to the benevolence of individaid subjects.
The indirect tax by the Corn Laws is indeed more he.
portent than imagined. It will be seen by the debates in the
House of Commons in 1815, that the Corn Bill was opposed
as an indirect tax in foveae of the landed interest, exceeding
43,000,000/ pe m, sod contended, that if the Bill was
to pass against the Petitions and Protests of Nearly the
whole co?ntry, it most be more palatable to the country if
taken as a direct tax in lien of all the assessed taxes ; so
that although the principle was amigned, the immensity of
the houu to the landowners wile not then imagined in be of
so much inaptitude as the present calculation exhibits.
it is sanecessary to adduce that notional fazafion, and,
more especially, at Corn Laws, are the causes of all the
distresses sod pauperism of the country ' - but, perhaps, con-
trary tie belief and expectatiosi, it will be great matter of
surprise that the last of these evils, the int:in-et tax of the
Corn Laws, is by far the most mighty sod oppressive, as
Punderoasly enhancing the price of food in three limes the
proportion of the so meth dreaded and reprobated national
taxation. But, thus, the foregoing positious of fact and
caleulatior manifest. The remedy fur these evils, however,
or rather the greater part, is no less manifest : the reduction
of the price of food, by repealing the Corn Laws, and elbow-
iug the free importation of food, in other words, to receive
the steeples grain of uglier cousitrirs in exchange fur the
surplus perishiug manufactures of ours. This repeal will
command, as it ought to du, the submission of our land.
owners to a corresponding dinsiontiun of their rents, and
conditious with their lessees. The diminution may possibly
pitarlissorfern purchasers under the war delusion, hut the old
Proprietors can have no possible claim to comideration.
They have eujoyed, lung enjoyed. and had their cake, at the
dreadful sacrifice of the maisufacitirers,• and if they have
foolishly rates their cake, they cannot have it also. They
rose rapidly and 'Wanly, as others felt by the severity of
their sacrifices; they cauutit repine at falling as rapidly, sad
nopitied, as the coanstry is no longer to be sierificesl to
their political boom from the wretched and despicabte pokey
of the Ministers of the country. This will compel them, as
an calightesed Legislature will do, is retrace their steps,
amid will replace the laorkiwners in the same situation of pay.
lag the natiosal taxes from their own immediate resources,
like the rest of their fellow.sobjects, Wafted of deriving the
payment frost the indirect tax of the Cons Laws, at the es.
pease of their fillow.subjects. They have too sag been at
the condition of a privileged order, exempt heat taxation,
by the forted medium of the Mee Laws, sad es sissy tea
only obtain this ezeroptios by force of them special Corn
Laws, they alight weedily to feel, as the ratios will see, that
they assimilate mote properly with Meese, pessimists,
holding lemma by teasperssy special grant—sad, ss fat as
implicates shot Isms Indies of their rents only by the psi.
silage of the Pis Laws, that they as ea mad burden to
1 , she aseatry as die oedema creditors, het, meet welike diem,
ash WM. simies4 eel *waist fee the patois anise.

TRIALS FOR SELLING PROFANE AND
SEDI7 rum WRIT'/ACS.

WARWICK ASSIZES, MONDAY, AUGUST 9.
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IlitZ V. Inbilltl.L.

This was a prosecution Sir publishing one of
Hartt►a Parodies about 18 month% ego, and was
put off from the last Amin to the present.—[lt
will be recollected by our rattier* that Hone had
been tried for three different Parodies of the some
nature in London, and acgnit►rd.]—At Defendmit's
requevt, before the trial commenced, the witnesses
were withdrawn from the Court. Mr. Promo'', of
London, was Defendant's Solicitor. Wooler rod
Carlisle were also stated to be in Court.
Mr. CIA KKK opened the case for the Crown, in
which he observed that Defendant was charged
with intending to bring the Holy Litany into (VII.
tempt. and to excite impiety sod immorality, Ily
ridiculing it in a certaiii parody, called the Poli-
tical Litany, in which are minimised profane remarks
a► the divine service, &e.

C. L. Barber. and a peon named Hurley,
proved that they had bought the publicatiou of the
Defendant.

Mr. Mott, the Registrar of the Dean and Chap-
ter of Lichfield, produced the Act of Uniformity
from the archives of the Chapter, in order to com-
pare the Litany, as by law ebbiblished, with the
Parosly.
Some trivial objections were made.
The Defendant then addfessed she Court in a
&speech occupying of considerable space of time and
with great fluency, in extenuation of his c fort.
He said that he owed the present persecution to she
ingratitude of a man he had befriended, and that
his arrest was founded in spiteful motives. The
original Printer had been acquitted by a bunion
Jury ; and it could not be guilt in the ucce?..;sry,
which was not guilt in the principal. The politica-
bon was merely laughable—it was a popular way of
'hewing"t popular sesitimenta.
His Lordship, in his charge to the Jury, oh-
served, that in his opinion the parody war a libel ;
and the Jury found a verdict—Guilty.
The Defendant will remain upon bail until next
' Term, when he will be brought up for judgment
iu the Court of King's Bench.

HODMIN (CioaXwALL), TUESDAY, AUGUST 10.

Thomas Hynes was put to the bir charged with
uttering a seditious libel. He was r 111411 a a retch-
ed appearance, who owned that he could ii..areely
read; rather wild in his look and manner, and, on
coming into Court, said he had committed no
crimes and knew nothing about pleading. Being
asked if he wished to put off his trial till next
Assizes. he replied that he had no basil, and after
some hesitation he consented to be then tried
rather than return to gaol.
Mr. SELWYN, COUlailet for the prosecution, then
stated that this prosecution was instituted at the
desire of the Magistrates of Penryti, where the
offence had been con 0000 died; and they had acted
with wisdom and becoining energy on die oc-
casion. While other districts of the kingdom were
agitated by seditious publications without number,
the peace of the county of Cornwall had nut been
disturbed, perhaps because those vile productions
had not yet been circulated with impunity among
its loyal inhabitants ; and it was to protect them
from ro impure a contagion. that the Magi*.
traits deemed it a duty incumbent on them to put
a atop to the evil at once. by bringing the present
delimptent to justice. It is not given to man to
look into the course of time, and to predict what
events may happen at a future period ; hut if such
proceedings be tolerated, and sedition be allowed
to stalk openly through the country in the persons
of such tool* as the Prisoner at the bar—if Juries
be not alive to the preservation of the beat interests
of society. by upholding the laws and exercising a
necessary severity upon these illiterate agents of
guilty author*, who keep in the beck-ground, reap
the profits, and leave them to their fate—there will
Ire ass end of all order and goverement, and revolu-
tion must inevitable ensue. 'chit is the first ease
in the county of Cornwall that has been submitted
to a British Jury, amid too much praise cannot be
given to the Magistretes of Peorysi fur setting ro
laudable an example, which will 110 doubt be fol-
lowed, should an occasion alter, by those of every
town in the county. The pamphlet of which lie had
this day to complain was out written in the free spi-
tit of fair discussion, but was a malignant libel on
the Church, the Clergy. the Gower 00000 riit. and even
on the Royal Family itself, amid calculated to excite
anienuaity ageiust all that is good or great in the
empire.
Julius Uren. the younger, saw the Prisoner on
Monday, the 48th of June last. in the streets of
Peoryn, crying various pamphlets for sale. Ile
purchased one. paid is penny for it. marked it with
his name. and kept by him ever once.—[Here the
copy was pin iii and read.] •
'the Prisoner otitird in his defence a license
signed by the Commisai 111 l ers of Haa kers and Ped-
lars, which, es hr contended, authorised him to sell
any kind of publication in town, and frorn house to
house, iu any part or the kingdom,: provided the
Printer's mime were attacked.
The Learned Judge addressed the Jury in a roost
eloquent speech, in which lie eXplmitictl the 1.. w of
the case, and emphatically touched upon the disor-
ders which at this inomesit distract various pert* of
the kingdom, and which, he said, had been fostered
mid greatly aggravated by such mischievous publi-
cations, and the torso* taken to disseminate them.
The Jury lomat the Piisouer Guilty of :Whisk a
seditious Pamphlet. soil lie was sentenced to six
mouths' imprisonment in Bodmin geol.

Camberwell Fair begins this day, and, thanks to
the activity of the Surrey Magistrates, is not likely
to be disgraced by any of those outrages which has
caused the suppression of West End Fair. Several
hundred Special Constables bate been ...num if.
Lord SIDWOUTII sent a letter yesterday to the Ma.
gis at the different Police Offices. ordering
them ter send snme.of slwir officers to Camberwell
sold Peckham Fairs, in put themselves under she
orders or the Surrey Magistrates, who will .it at
the Golden Lion, Camberwell, is, orthr to j,r• Serve
the peace, and 'prevent any midi ili.graetlul out.
rages as occurittl at %Vest 'End' Fa r hum taking

LdIY INTELI.IGENCE.
COURT OF CHARCF.RY. Lvicoug's•Us, .
Teserav, *been M.

Till LORD CI

mint &cluck.

came isle Curet it

cocnenet. tr. BARBER.
Mrs Wit.son begged leave to mention • Motion
in this case tat confirm the Minster's report, relative
to the sums each of the nest of kit' of the deceased
M. Barber were eutsiled tar, anal that the Account.
ant-General should Ise directed In distribute the
fund in Court. It was necessary that this motion
should be made before too o'clock, as Bee Ac-
countant-Gesseral's office elitfilell at that hour, and
would not open agent until after the vacation.—[lt
will be recollea teal that this ease arose ion of the cu-
e ttttt stance that a 11r. Barber, the n saddler
also resided in the Strand, went to the Rost Indies,
anal ACClliestilated It large fortune. Ous his retorts to
th . easuittsy f.e found that hie llamas were dead ;
he theft went to an hotel its the Ailrlnhi, and was
found dead in has bed WI the following morning.
His next of kiss were advertised fur, anal all the
Barbers of Herefordshire. sisal the prism paddy of
Witte., chsiiin-11 to be related to I • . It was re-
ferred lay the Court to the blaster to istquire and
report hose tossiy of the claimant* stood related to
the deceased ]
The Loan CHANCELLOR—“ Why alid not the
blaster make his report bef..sr ? I will not hear the
motion ; I will out allow the regular business of the
Court to lie disturbed to this manner."
Mr. Wtbssori said it was impossible for the
Master to hare Wilde his report befute, on accoubt
of she proceedings being sus veal ttttttt mug.
The LORD CHANCELLOR-6' I do not believe it.
They are always. in waiting, but the Solicitors will
not attend theist, and the Masters are blamed for
delay canard lay the Solicitors. It is high time that
an road should lie put to this neglect. At this time
of the year solicitors are anxious to obtain their
costs, and hurry nsattera II gh the Master's
office, which could be done much mere to the ado
!outage of their clients at an earlier period, cud
which coastal he much snore convenient to the blas-
ters, for they tell me they are its attendance its their
Alice* for whole days, without a single Solicitor
making his appearance before them, and we all
know that a Master canstot proceed its his inquiry
its the absence of evidence. This may be properly
called the motion of the Solicitor to get his costs.
I will nut hear it, fur if lie had studied his client's
interest lie might have obtained his report before
this ; then I will not gratify him, by enabling him
to get Ins costs when lie has neglected the intetest of
his client. It has beets always painful to me to be
obliged to 'peak harshly of any class 6.f persons
belonging tat the profession, but in justice to my-
self, the different brunches of the Court. and its
officers, sisal also the bar, to declare, that the delay
generally complained of by the suitors sisal the
public, is caused by, I will not say the miscou•
duct of the Solicitors, but I sin certainly borne
out in saying, by the neglect of Solicitors. You
take nothing by your motion, Mr. Wilson. Let
me know which of the Musters this was before?"
Mr. Wilson—" It is the report of Master
Steplien."—Motion refused.