The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-02-10 00:00:00

WAYS ANT► MEANS.

Mr. BROODEN hrondlit up the Report of the Committee
of Ways and Meant., which was agreed to, and Bills ordered
to be brought in pursuant to the Resolutions.

On the motion of Gemini HART, the Papers prreented to
the House Isi.t evening relative to the fines imposed on town.
lauds in Ireland, for illicit distillation, were ordered to be
printed.
EXCISE DUTIES.

Mr. BROGOIN brought op the annual Excise Duty Rill,
which was read a first time, and orderrd to be read a ra.cuird
time to-mo►row.

The House Oren adjourned at Nine °Thick.

REAL LUCK ! ! !—The Inat 20,000 i. Prize,
drown yesterrlii%, No. 4.4rfi, was sold in Trn
Shares by EYTUN, at his truly rut innate Office, 2. Grtn-
►ull, and Lombard-street, the holders al which may tetrtre
their Prise Mulkey immediately.

THE BR:II7.ISn PRESS.

LON DON,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1819.

Last night, in the House of Coinmons, a Cern-
mittee was appointed, no the motion of Air. STu it-
GEs LoU RN 1,, to collect to fortnal too relative to the
Poor I.aws. proposition met with some objec-
tion flout Nlr. Ct Avi at and Mr. LON G
ILLY, on the priticiple that sufficient information on
this subject had been already laid before the. house,
amid that time country expected a specific measure
on so iiiteresting a subject. Mr. CURWEN Sug-
gested the rropriety of relieving time landed pro-
prietors from the burden of maintaining the Poor.,
which Si lit be Oncost) impartially upoim the seve-
ral el .sees of the co iiiiiiiii iity. There is an appa.
remit justice in such a demand, bit the object of it
cnuld be obteined only by either of two means,
neither of which, we should hope, would, oit
maturer consider-m*lms, meet with Mr. CURWEN's
support. Either the aggregate sum requiri:d for
the support of the Poor should be taiseel by some
general tax, Reid be placed et the discretionary dis-
posal of the Crown, giving thereby a vest accession
or what mr.ight be called minute nod local influence
throughout every town amid hamlet of the kingdom ;
or the property of all persona throughout the
country must, on time perilicious principle of an
income tax, be laid millets to the inquisitorial
research of parish officers. To state these projects
as the only means for carrying Mr. CuawEN's pro-
position into effect, will alone, we trust, be raft-
csent mi this point to counterpoise the great weight
thin, generally speaking, must attend the 1-lon.
Gentleinnim's sentiments.

%Ye feel a great unwillingness to differ in any
respect with Mr. CeRWEN upon any branch of this
question, in which he must hr considered as par-
ticularly well informed ; we feel that we can bring
nothing but dirtily in opposition to his practical
knowledge; but in the course of his speech last
he urged a point of political economy which
we must colitis* is totally at issue with whatever
sentiments we have been enabled to collect on the
subject. Mr. Cunwtsv lament* that potatoes have
been introduced into this country. Why? Be-
cause, by the facility with which they eau be
raised, and the great quaotity of loud they atiord,
they tend to increase population ! We had ever
thought, that an nuclease of population was an ad-
vantage to he desired by every country possessing
the means of useful employment, and that popula-
tion could never be regarded as sit evil, except
when it surpassed, or even too closely entrenched
upon the means of support. If, however, a coon-
try, either by superior cultivation, or a happy al-
teration in the nature of the produce, afford three
times the awaits of support that it has been in the
habit of yielding, it would naturally seem that a
three-fold increase in the population could bring no
greater evil tha► had been antlered previous to the
improven►emt, or the happy discovery.
The ArtoRNET-GENEIAL brought in a Hill
for abolishing the barbarous relic of our feudal law
relative to trial by battle.

We have received New York Pipers to the
15th ult. two ails later that, those received yes-
terday. The l'alwr of the 14th gives the follow-
ing extract the Report of the Honourable
J. C. CALIioUN, Secretary of War, en the rub.'

ject of the present Military Establishment. After
noticing the Peace Establishment of former periods,
he observes—
" If then the Military tstahlishment of 1802 be :mime.]
to be as almal as was then consistent fur the safety of the
country, one pieseiit Establisl •sit, wheat we take into dom.
mtrison the prodigious increase of wealth, population, ex-
tent of firs titory, rnnnher and di3l3/itT of nolitary posts,
cannot lie pronounced extraragaut ; hut, on the emir
trary, after a foll end four comparison, that of the
former period wort. io proportion to the tirres:ilies and
capacity or the colottry, hr admitted to be 91111 P as Ihrge ao
the WWI" anduuthe accumpliun Ilu,tt the estaliiislisrieht
of 18112 wee 39 small as the piddle salcty would then io!ittil,
e redoct ion of the expense of our present rsialdishment can-
not be made with safety lathe piddle service by reducing the
army. In coming to this conclusion, I have nut overlooked the
111543i13 that a large standing army is dangerous to the liberty
of the comitry, and that our ultimate feliAlli'A fur defence
ought to he on the militia. Ito most vealnus adverntrs must,
however, acknowledge, that a standing army, to a limited
esti ut, is necessary, and no good 11,31,03 cats be iissigned
why any sl Id exist but what will equally prove that the
pn sent is not flits large.

6' To consider the peceent army as dangerous to our li-
berty, partakes more of liniclity thou of wisdom. Nut to
insist on the character of the officers, who, as a holly, are
high-minded and honourable men, attached to the pi on pit e
of freedom hr education and et-lei-lion, what well-grounded
fear can there Ike trout an establishment dotted Olt Pll
extended a Gunner, with many tl 1111 l sand miles between the
extreme points occupied But the danger, it may but said,
is not so much (runs 1114 11111131/12151, an a cpsrit hostile to li het t y
by which it is supposed all rugular armies are ;Mill:lied. This
observation is probably true when applied to %tainting 311111111
wheu collected into large and powerful masses; but dis-
peeve's' as 0111 P is twee ././ vast a PIIPCIPC, both officers and
Iwo will lose their military habits, and glide gradually into
those purely cis tt "

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday
lust. The Pile per Cents. closed on the pre-
ceding day at 7 t 1. ; Batik Stock at 1,550 I.—The
follniAllig are extracts:—
PARIS, FEIIIREART G.

The Marquis de Laiour-Matilmung, who acid:ter% the
Slarquia WO- lin the Enibaesy to England, uld.itited
his audience or tray, yestetilay.

Litters frusii iosittal state, !hat a report is t irciiilated in
That ciiy that Ilse Pi ince Regent of in Ihe att.
poschine r, vi.it the Awl, prusitiecs, the baihs

Of Carlsbad having been recommeuileil to his tto)al High.
news fur the restoration of his health.
An article from Stockhulin of the Ifith of January srtys—
We have sten is Oh extreme surprise in several foreign
paper., that Sweden had sold to a certain ((Helga Power the
Island of St. Bautholutm•w. This assertion is entirely
Wide of foundation. Sweden attaches so Enoch the gresiter
value to this colony, as it is the only one slue posseaas."

Lag evening, at a q tun trr p sev.ns o'clock, the
Pat Not REGENT mimed at Carlton Hou.e, finm
Brilidunn.
The Marquis of BATH it appointed Lieutenant
of the conuty of Soiner+et. in the room of Esti
Pottutrr. deceased.—(Gazelle.)
The Itivht Hon. JOHN ORMSBY VANDELEUR
and Lois Faaacts. Hon. Colonel BURTON, and
Sir HUGH and Lady DILLON MAUI, have arrived
at Ps nr.

WE►TMMINSTER ELECTION.—ThO usual prods-
'nation of the approaching Election was made
yesterday, in the several parishes of Westminster.
by the Common C►ier, accompanied by the High
Conatable, &c. Orders have sit ratty issued from
the %Var-office for the removal of all troops but the
Guards from the city and its liberties. This will
he accomplished by Friday ; and ou Saturday the
Election will commence at Covelit-garden.
The :1141(11(41ex s will commence at Hick's
Hall on Monday, and the 0;d Bailey Seabions, at
the Old Bailey on IVethiesday.
Bosnia.—The match between Abbot, the
gardener, nod Dolly S►nith, for fifty guineas aside,
was fought veoriilay, in the Morello-a, opposite
Woolwich. .Af:er contesting the battle for more
than three hours Abbot was cluelarell victorious.
but neither of them half covered thenlsel►es with
glory.
As USUA L !—S'e'ts May the State Lottery
wen drawn, when No. 5.19 i, was drown it Prize of
Twenty Thnnsan.l Pounds, and Nn. 1,53, a Prize of Two
Beth ,sese sold in small Shares at
111 SW, fortunate Offices, 4. Cornhill, and 9, Charing-cross.
The Lottery hint wit ntslßllp t s lien this inirsvoirph it.of sent
to prp.o,, therefore BISI4 laps, to-ItiolllllN, to
to the also.. e list.

Tiw l'apfts reppeeting the l'Atc, moved for by
Mr. Cite?' flat., have been 'nutted, by order of the
Ilout.t. of Coin 111011 q. We find from them that—

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The total tsurnher of Forged Nides which have been detect-
ed by the Batik of England, from the 10th April, 1818, to the
26th Janoaly, 1619, was 23,104—0 f ethic!' 21,582 were mites
of 11.; 775 of 2/.; 670 of Si.; 77 of 101.; moue of 151.;
19 of 201.; and I of above 201.
The aggregate amount of Guineas, Half-Guineas, and
Seven Shilling Pieces issued front the Bank of England,
from the sth Janu uy, 1610, to the latest period to which the
sane can be made up is 701,419/. les. 0.1.
The total number mat Sovereigns nailed from the Bank of
to the latest period to which the same can be wade
up, is 3,799,800; of Hal-Soveleigns, 1,410,390.
The highest aggregate mamma of Bank Notes in circula.
lion at ally one tune, limn the Ist January, 1818, to the
25th January, 1819, was 30,945,88 W.; and the lowest,
24,610,830/.—makiag a r•riatiun In the circulating medium
of upwards of six millions.
The total 4,1111111111 i of Kink Notes In circulation—
On the 7th January, 1818, was .626,127,500
Ditto, on the 12th
(1•i the 7th J votary, 1819 24,797,290
Ditio 1411 the 12th
makiiig it ifiat4oll of aFl4tut three millions and a half in
the abort sp.ne of live days.
Ou the 15th of December, 1918, there were in the hands
of the Bank balsotys of Customs to the •mount of 86,5931,
of Excise to the moonlit of 5,934/., and of Stamp. to the
amount of 28,2161. The total amount in their hauda from
the abuse sources of revenue, from the Ist of January to the
15th of December, Inclusive, was 10,800,928/. and the
average in their lauds, on the Ist mid 15th days of each
month ill the year, is 453.7881.
The total from the

account was

27,2051.
'Total from the ilitTcrent department. of Government, in-
cluding the balances of the Accountant.6cnecil of the Court
of Chancery,34,984,3041. Average, 1;07,6791.
Total of all public balancer not specified in the preceding
457.022 f. Nn average is gives].
Of balances from unclaimed Dividends, including Lot.
*ere Prier, there rernnined in the hawk of the Bank on the
Ircernilicr, Mb. 141,107/—Total of the above fur lb.
year, 18,406, 8611. Average 760,9521.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Wt*TMINSTM
TULSDAY, FIPZRUARY 9.

The LORD CRANCFCCOR, at halt peat ten o'rloi k, cunt
into Court for the find lime since his late indisposition.
LAW PREFERMENTS.
The following Barristers were swum its Serjesnts et Law,
via..—Vitrovius Lawn, E.Q. John Cross, Ecri and "knew.
Doyley, Esq. After she Learned Ses.hants had taken Lair
oaths, the Lord Chancellor rentuvcd into Isis room.