The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-27 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS•

the strictest order to the officers of health and police, to jay the
greatest attention to the communications with ,loldavia and Wal-
lachia, where the plague still rages. These precautions are the
more necessary, because, since the anarchy that prevails in these
principalities, the quarantine establishments have been abatuhined
by the officers. The orders are extremely rigorous both in the
Russian arty of observation and the frontier notion of .lu.trin, to
prevent the passage of people, animals, and goods, so Wog as this
crisis shall conthme.

The following is an extract of a letter, from a friend
and correspondent of ours, to a highly patriotic Nobleman,
who is one of the few who feels for the distresses of
his native country, and whom we have lately had the plea-
sure of bringing to the notice of our readers, u the author
of a letter which did equal credit to his head and his heart.
By his residence in the bosom of his tenantry, he has
given a splendid example to his fellow-proprietors, ofj
what may be done by a man who is determined to do his
duty through good and evil report.
"On returning to Ireland, after • Ling absence, I visited the
south, my native country, and was quite astonished at the altera-
tion it had undergone since I last saw it, in 11114—the first fami-
lies labouring under most unforeseen and dreadful difficulties from
the decline of t"cir property, and the lower orders idle and disso-
lute from want of occupation.
" The facility of getting whitewashed by the Insolvent Act, the
fraudulent transfer of property previous to taking the benefit
of that Act, and the large sums remittal to the non-resident
gentry, have caused the most alarming reverses, and must end in
total ruin to the counzry, and a loss of everything like confidence
between man and man. Those Noblemen and Gentlemen who re-
side in Ireland, and make a fair allowance to the tenant, have their
rents punctually paid. and suffer but small privations, while the
tenants of the absentees are every day deserting their farms and their
landlords, of whose merciless extravagance they feel themselves the
victims, and leave the ground in a wretched and unproductive state
for the agents to occupy.
" The result will ultimately be, that the absentee proptietors
will be proscribed from the society of every good Irishman, for
their iniquity and injustice to the tenants who support theta, and
to whose support they should, on every principle of honour and
justice, contribute in their turn. If the nor-resident Noblemen
and Gentlemen continue this system, they may have land, but it
will be a waste. If Government would interfere to prevent the op-
pression of the absentees, it would ultimately be found more ffee-
tual in promoting the peace and happiness of Ireland, titan all the
coercive Bills the Legislature can enact.
" These non-resident gentlemen, from want of principle, are to
be found everywhere but where they should be. They herd to.
getter chiefly at Bath, Boulogne, and Cheltenham."

A change will shortly take place in our highest diploma-
tic missions. We understand that Sir CHARLES STUART
will return home from his embassy to the French Court,
and that it bas been determined to appoint Lord GRAN
citt.i his successor, with the same rank and emoluments.

Mr. CANNING has not yet returned home, but he is
hourly expected. His late visit to Ireland gave rise, in the
fertile imaginations of the natives of that part of the United
Kingdom, to all sorts of speculations ; and as the Right
Hon. Secretary would not be dragged per force to make a
public exhibition of himself to phase any party, his firm-
ness has, we believe, disappointed and dissatisfied the busy
and factious on all sides. The Irish politicians POZTO quite
unable to comprehend the fact that a Minister of State can
have any other than a political object in every movement
of his life. Every shake of his head must, according to
their notion of a Statesman, be portentous. Like Lord
Br aericit, he must be turning over some scheme on
which the safety of the empire depends. They abso-
lutely scout the idea that a Cabinet Minister can cross
the Channel to spend a week or two with an old
friend, unless at least he caries with him an offer of the
Premiership, or is secretly engaged in ascertaining the
strength of the contending parties, who between them de-
stroy the repose of the country, and thwart the progress of
the conciliatory measures of the• so's Government. It
is a dogma with all true Irish politicians, that a public man
can have no private feelings. Mr. CANNING, however,
has withstood all the temptations of public honours which
each party was ready to heap upon him, if he wculd have
condescended to accept them. lie would not survey the
ground on which the intend, d " Senate-house" of the Ca-
t elic Association is to be erected; ands: the Orange papers
carefully noted, he actually had the audacity to laugh at the
paraphernalia elate Grand Orange Convention, now sitting
iu due form and solemnity, to devise ince:tures for putting
down their antagonist Association. The Catholics will never
forgive Mr. CANNING fur having gone to the Kildare-
street Institution, and for having been attended on every
occasion by his friends Messrs. NORTH and Don elm
while, on the other hard, the zealous I'rot•estants arc
shocked that he should have received the card of the Most
Rev. Dr. Mc allay, the Titular Archbishop of Dublin, and
that he should have arsec•iated himself, at the Viceregal
Lodge, with Mr. SPRING Rice and Mr. Ill` ['COIN:/N.
Sir liancoe ter L►es, itt the name of the Oiangenten
of Ireland, has given the Right Honourable Gentleman
notice, that he has it in contemplation, under certain cir-
cumstances, of having him hissed ousel' Ireland, on his next
visit, if after this warning he should ever again have the
temerity to go there, and of dismissing him from office,
unless he iron; eliately renounce his predilection for
purgatory. We expect by every post to receive Mr.
Oliotort sz's denunciation of the Foreign Secretary, for
I not having paid Ids respects to " any of the Catholic 11
Institutions of Dublin." Our Correspondent, who has the
best opportunity for knowing the fact, advertises us that
the feeling exists, if it have not been already thundered
forth to the utter discomfiture of its devoted object. Let
future ministers then grow wise by the awful fate of Mr.
C•NNING. The editor of the 7V,ltelp who must knew
much better than the Right Ilonourable Gentleman hiin-
self what he meant by going to Ireland, fort:warn:ll
bins that it was the duty of " an honest Sea:canna to
'let the world see clearly what he is de:itig." IVliat
right truly has a Minister to make a visit of pleasure,
without publishing in the Ga.-.ette a full and particular
statement of his inducements to the journey? Above all,
it is not to be entlured,that a Statesman should go even to a
watering-plate, unlees he previously di. claim all political
designs in his trip. If he will travel in mystery, let him be
prepared to hear every patriotic journalist insinuate that
. he cannot be an "honest" man.

The Morning Paper which published the apology for
Fat:a:via:Roy has, in the natural course of things, been
since compelled to publish an apology for itself. It admits
with amiable simplicity that it used " moderate terms,"
but denies stoutly " any expressions of palliation except
perhaps the epithet unfortunate.' " It adds, " Every
mind worth saving must be deterred from evil by such a
disgusting exposure." In this sentence, in which is the
only attempt at a fair defence by way of orpiment, we find
two gross fallacies assumed, viz. first, that minds liable to
be tainted with vice are not worth saving from it ; and
s-candly, that the moral tendency of every " disgusting
txpature" must be good. If, indeed, every mind liable to
be tainted 11 apcl.azeti'e d.•scriptions of vice be held to be
not " then does no pdhitectien

aver stamp deserve to be condemned. We may without
impropriety give our daughters Little's Poems for the
amusement of their leisure hours, and initiate our sons into
a knowledge of society with the .4femoirs if the Cheealier
Fahldat. Every ban,, carries with it, according to this con-
venient doctrine, its own antidote, and we need not trouble
ourselves about the progress of evil.
.• One truth is clear, whatever is is right."
It is idle and ridiculous to give good advice, or to set good
example. Every mind that is drawn into the vortex of
guilt is not " worth saving." But the writer denies that
he used " expressions of palliation." "We have (he
says). on the Irry, with unsparing hand, exposed his
vices, and laid the causes of them." This is a ques-
tion of fact: we appeal to the public, in justification of
Its charges, and cite the following passages in evilence,
to support them. Mr. F•UNTLYROY'S qualifications arc
thus ctated:—" S 3 that Mr. FAUNTLEROV may be consi-
dered as the firm himself, in point of activity ; and as far
as capability to manage such an establishment, we under-
stand there is not in London a man more worthy of such
a trust. His first seduction is thus, " with unsparing
hand exposed:"—" Mr. FAUNTLEILOY'S family were in-
timate with a respectable, but not an opulent family, of the
name of Y—. One of the daughters of this family,
a handsome young lady, attracted the attachment
of Mr. HENIIY FAUNTLEPLOY ; and their intercourse
ended in Miss Y—'s giving birth to a child."—
The artific2s of Mother Base, and 11:e associate prosti-
tutes are energetically denounced :—" It was also a prac-
tice with these women, whenever they found a wealthy
man strongly attached to their persons, to have themselves,
by some sham process, arrested for a large sum; °rase there
was some dear fr'end in durance, and what man's gallantry
could, who had the means, refuse to release the captive?"
The writer proceeds :—" Mr. FAUNTLEROY, unfortunately,
fell in with some of the destructive women above-de-
scribed, and amongst the rest this Mother Bang. Ile was
a man of a generous disposition and humane iCelioge, and
could not hear to see any one uhout hie: in dibtress, while lie
had, or could obtain, the means of relieving them." We will
give only another extract: it is the statement of another sedue-
tion :—" Some time ago, while in that country (France), he
became enamoured of a young English lady, then pursuing
her education at a convent, and suceenhd in gaining her
gyectione to a degree that she eloped with him. This
lady, who is extremely beautiful, by whom he has two
lovely children, he has never parted from." His adherence
to this " favourite female," as she is elsewhere termed, for
distinction sake, is, to be sure, the climax of moral excel-
lence in a married man, with several similar connections
already on his hands. We have done. We are sorry that
we have been drawn into these animadversions on a person
in Mr. FmnszLaaoy's unhappy situation ; but let us all
bear in mind, that the interests of public morality should
never be sacrificed for any inttividual,however really amiable
and vaxellent he may be; still its* for one who, we fear,
may be said to be almost " nula eirtate redemptum."
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Mr. Draffen, a King's Messenger, was sent off on Satur-
day night, from the Colonial Office, Downing-street, with
despatches for Abeona.
The Dublin Packet, lately arrived from Vrra Cruz,
sailed from the Downs 4th June, arrived at Vera Cruz
Yoth July, discharged its cargo under cover of a battery of
three 18-pounders, sailed on the 7th August on its return
to England, with despatches, and arrived at Portsmouth in
43 days.
Letters have been received from Rio de Janeiro, dated
on the Bth of August, which communicate very satisfactory
intelligence. A partial change has taken place in the ad-
ministration, and considerable benefit was anticipated from
it. The War Minister, Gomez, bad been dismissed, and
ICarvallios had been appointed his successor. To the for-
mer the disturbances which have latterly occurred in various
parts of the et. pire wine mainly attributed. His Britannic
Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk had arrived out with 3.10,000/.
of the loan. and this event had produced a most important
change in the opinions of all, from the Emperor to the
peasant.
In consequence of Messrs. Prodgers, bankers, Ludlow,
having been accustomed to draw upon Marsh and Co., of
London, who have lately suspended payment, a run took
place fur some days upon Mesirs.Prodgers; but confidence
is now completely re-established.—Wereester Jaurna/.
Oa Thursday, orders were issued by the Admiralty,
granting the indulgence to the Field Officers and Captains
of the Royal Marine Corps to sell their Commissions up to
1 the 20th October nest.

There is now at Exmouth, eon-posed entirely of shells,
a model of the Right Hon. Lord Rolle's new church, of
the following dimensions:-3 ft. 10 incites in length, 2 ft.
width, 2 ft. 2 ditto centre aisle, 4 ft. 6 height tower; the
pinnacles and other ornaments of the church are in equal
proportion ; it has been seen by Lord and Lady Rolle and
company at Bicton, and greatly admired for its elegance
and ingenuity of workmanship; it nos modelled by Messrs.
Ruhert and John Pony, masons, of Exmouth.
We have pleasure in bearing that the Ilambledon
boards. which are at prestmt without a master, are, for the
ensuing season, to be placed under the direction of Geo.
lierant, Es.q. of Purbrook Park.—We may congratulate
the Gentlemen of the hunt, on the choke of so good a
tilortsman, and one who in every respect is so comprient
I to the management of this excellent pack.—durnpshire
Paper.
CILELNLAND FISIILnY.—The following VeS-
ads have arrived at the port of hull last week, front
Grtrnland :—The Eagle, Brewis, 7 fish, 770 seals, 150
butts ; Perseverance, Turnbull, 3 fish, 36 tuna; Rachel
and Ann, Newham, 3 fish, :eel/ tuns; Keiro, Colqultuun,
6 11.14 90 tons.
New phone TO ITALY.—The beautiful road of Posi.
Epp°, began by the French in 1811, and carried on with
much art up to the foot of the mountain near Pozzuoli,
is continued upon the same plan by the Austrians, and
will be completed iuuncdiately. The trenching which
those works made necessary, has b.en the moms of did-
coverim tombs inelosing skeletons and vases, with money
plami In the mouths of the skeletons.
Oa Sunday night a shocking accident happened at
Wans:ord, Lincolnshire. A youth named henry Ward,
about twelve years of age, was riding the haling horse of
a gang of lighters (which, on the Sabbath, and at the
unseasonable hour of eight o'clock at night, were navigat-
' lug the river Nene), when, from ignorance of the channel
of the river, the boy urged the animal into a deep pit near
IVansford paper-mills, where both horse and rider were
drowned. They were n 4 got out of the pit until seven
o'clock on Monday morning. The unfortunate boy was
brother to the owner of the lighters, who came, we under-
stand, from Sudbury, in Suffolk, and had with him in his
craft a crew of four men and a woman. An inquest on the
body of the ileeeasetl was held at Wansford ou Tuesday,
by Thomas Atkinson, Gem, Coroner, and a verdict of
"Accidental Death" was recorded. The Coroner fined one
of the Jurymen fire shillings for neglecting to attend the
inqu.-at before three quarters of an hour at'ta'r the time for
which he was summoned.

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The following discreditable circumstance occurred at
Alton, Hants, last week : farmer at Kiugaley laid
informations against one of his neighbours, a hard-
working industrious man, of irreproachable characttr,
for selling bread without first weighing it in the presence
or the purchaser, as prescribed by the Bread Act ; upon
which he was convicted in penalties amounting to 111.,
although the man did not bake the br.stl, it having been
left with Lim by a treighlruiring baker :or disposal. The
hos& farmer's share of the penalties ainoßtite I to .51. lux,
width he mina" pat in idle &tea p wket.—Derizes Gazette.
Thursday morning a young man was found dead near
the stably leading to the barracks, at Darchester. Ile ap-
peared to have been laid out by some person after his
decease. We forbear entering more into particulars con-
ne:ted rith tlt'r mysterious event.—Doncaster Paper.