The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

F.4SHIONADLE NOVRMENTS.

The Earl and Cisuntese of Craven and family have left
town for their seat, Hampstead Lodge, Berks.
The Earl aed Countess of Scarborough are arrived at their
house in Portman•squarr, from Paris.
Sir John add Lady Shelley and family will leave the wa-
terloo Hotel, Jennyu-street, this day, for their seat, Had-
field Park, Sussex.
John Dingwall, Esq. is reamed to town from his seat in
Surrq.
C. 11. Tracy, Esq. sod family have left their house in Do.
ver-,treet for their seat in Worcestershire.

Sir Henry and Lady Georgina Wellesley have left town
tur the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, Hatfield.
Arrivals at the London Hotel; Albemarle-street :—Sir
John and Lady Morrice from their seat iu Wales; and Mr.
and Hrs. Davoust from a tour.

F. L. Charlton, Esq. is arrived at big house in Conon-
stieei, May-fair, from his seal in Shropshire.
Arrivals at Kirkham% Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Rev.
Thus. and the Mimics Lovett from Litcheeld ; A.lFright,Eaq.
from Cambridge; R. Piers', Esq. from a tour t S. Mon-
teith, Esq. from Seutland. Departures :—Lord F. 0.-burn
and the Hon. Miss O•burn for their seat in Cambridgeshire;
sod C.iptain Rush and Lady Cope for their vat in Haute.

On Sunday the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE
attended divine .ervice at the Chapel Royal.

Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCE and the
Princess AUGUSTA took an excursion down the
River Thames. Their Royal Highnesses took
water on hoard a pleasure-barge at Vauxhall-hri4e.
Yesterday the Duchess of KENT visited the
Ditchers of ICLAitexcE, and dined with her Royal
relative.

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Ili. Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD mai the
Duchess of K►NT, attended by Sir ROBERT
GARDINER and Colonel ADDENBROKE, yesterday
honoured Mr. MATTHEW ‘WATT with a visit to
view the three figures which are tini►hed in marble
for the Cenotaph to the memory of the late
Princess CHARLOTTE. His Royal Highness was
deeply affected; and the Duchess of KENT ape
peered also to be much interested. Their Royal
Highnesses expressed the highest approbation
of the work. The Royal party proceeded from
thence to call on the Earl and Countess Gaos-
♦ENOR, to view their splendid mansion, 'pictures,
&c. The Royal party partook of a collation.

The Duchess of BEDFORD hill issued cards of
invitation fur a splendid ball on Friday the 22d
instant, at her house in St. Jumes's.square.
Mrs. BE.B's intended rout on the istli instant,
in Gloucester-place, we are uuthon►ed to state, to
postponed until the 29th.

Sir Iberian') and Ludy BURROUGHS entertained
yesterday the Duchess of Ittcmicron, the Ladies
LENNOX, and a distinguished party, et their house
in Berkeley-►yuare.
The beautifot picture of Belshasur's Feest•
now exhitriting in Catherine-street, is shortly ex-
, peered to leave this country, as there are several
comp.tito►s for its purchase, two of which are
from Governments abroad.

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CURIOUS EXOTICS..

The following paragraph has been i )übliahed in
nearly all the London and provincial p Nita :

" No less than 6,756 exotics were introd•o-ed into Eng.
land in the course of the reign of his late I :lusty ; duriag
the reign of Elisabeth, 578; 578 during the vimu of the two
Charles's and Cromwell ; 44 in the reign of James 11.; 298
in that of William and Mary; 230 in that of dme; 182 in
that of George I.; ao4 1,776 In that of George 11. The
total number of exotica ■o* In the guard two Otitis cOdotry
appears to be 11,970."

A correspondent has furnished as with the names
and 'qualities of ■ few of these exotics introduced iu
the last reign. lie professes to :speak from 'ape-
rience, and to describe several of these curious in-
troductioni iy having grown up nodes his own eye.
LONDONDERRY PRIDE.—This exotic has no si-
maCtude to the little modest Bowen- called Loudon
Pride. It is a tree of the forest tribe, atal a native
of the North of Ireland. Being without !raves or
branches, it is in appearance of the class of tim-
ber designated by the woodmen " Ram pikes."
INCOME TAX.—This is a species of the iJpas
tree; the unhappy victim who reposes under its
shade must perish in ten years, if not sooner. The
first year takes away one tenth of his substance ;
the second year ►educes one tenth more. and so on
to the 10th rear, which cOniigns him t.o complete
annihilation.

Ecouoirtr.—:This is a most beau liful little
herb, highly prized, and of wooded*, it
lit all cases of consumption and del uility it has
been found a sovereign cure. Under it t influence,
duly administered, weak and exhaust' td constitu-
tions are recruited, and the healthful at e preserved
in their strength and vigour. It is • national dis-
grace that this truly valuable plant is no I cultivated
properly in this country, which appeals so fully
sensible of its value. The State Gardet ter neglects
its great roots and fibres, content wit h clipping
just the poor little ends of its leaves.
THE UNION.-..This was a tree of great prcnise,
first introduced about 20 years ago. M. Purr ex-
vected that it would thrive like a grain of mustard
send, and cover the United Kingdom eith all the
tithes usually attendant upon peace, plenty, and
prosperity. The transplantation has disappointed
these hopes; brambles and thorns have grown up
under its shadow in all the frightful lir turiance of
wild and uncultivated nature, to the i stpuverish-
went of the native soil. The reflections excited by
thus disappointment are the more melancholy, as
the transplantation was effected by a greit sacrifice
of blood and treasure.

CAttv.—This is a specious, demure, and appa-
rently modest-looking herb, not unlike the little
flower called Two Faces snider a flood. It is also
of a creeping, sticking qulllity, and in that rev pect
resembles the crawling plant known in our hedgts
and ditches by the mine of Robin ran the hedge.—
It certainly flourished iu extraordinary loxurisoce
in the late reign, but there is • great doubt whether
its introduction be of that date. All our moral and
political botanists mention it as very common in
England about the time of OLIVER Caordwei.t.,
and there is frequent notice of it in our Monkish
Historians:

MOCK LOYALTY.—This most poisonous tweed
is an undoubted exotic, but the date of its
introduction into this country is not ascertain-
ed. It never was cultivated in England to ~uch
high perfection us at the present moment, 'Alt it
is a weed, we apprehend, of much longer stanZilig
than the late reign. It certainly was not known
in this country during the Saxon [lepton:lly, but
there is a shrewd conjecture that it may have been
introduced into England so far back as the Norman
Conquest, as there is very much of the Frenc!i
character sod quality in this most detestable and
pestilential weed. Its stem is 'hollow, and its fruit
always rotten st the core. Unlike the rose, the
shamrock, and the thistle, with which it would
affect to class itself, you seek it in sain iu a pure
and healthful soil, and it is only to be found
blooming on dunghills, among filthy fungi slid
toadstools, the poisonous excrescences of rtercorsri-
ous masses of filth and dirt.

A new tragedy, entitled " The Oilcan," was
performed it the Taunton Theatre, on Monday
night. It is from the pen of Mr. H. LEE, the son
of the manager, and is said to be a production of
considerable merit.

Mr. DOWTOF, late of the Theatre Royal, Drury-
lane, has been engaged to perform four night!, at
the Plymouth Theatre, and made his first ap-
pearance in the character of Sir Jahn Falstaff, ;18
SUAKSPEABS'S play of Henry IV, last evening.
when the house re-opened for the summer itasoo.

MR. BELZONI.—A Medal has been struck he
the City of Padua, iu honour of the celebrated tra-
seller Bat.zout, who is a native of that place. It
appears that ou his return to Europe, he took the
opportunity of his first visit to Italy, to present to
this (his native) city, two lion headed statues et
granite, part of the fruits of his enterprising soil
successful researches ; they have been placed iii
the great saloon of the Palezza dells Justizia. The
inhabitants of Padua. proud of the distinction
which thei► fellow citiztn has so justly oluaiiitil.
have commemorated the gift as well as the discove-
ries of the traveller.

A young cuckoo was discovered a frw de!,
since in the roof of Pe:nno►e-house, near Ibis cit:.
where it lied been hatched by a water-wagtail, snit
is now daily fed by its foster-mother. It is a well-
kliowis fact, that the cuckoo ue%et hatches Os tion
young, but deposits a solitary egg tor incubation rn
the neat of another bird.—( Exeter Paper.)