The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-09-28 00:00:00

'OCJLrr for tIA. SUPPRESSION of VICE.

: TO THE RIRTOR 01 THE BRMS}I PRESS
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' In consequence of an unfounded and a moat in-
jurions charge an:tinst the Society fur the Suppres-
sion of Vice. evil:eh appeared in The fifor"ini Chro-
me* of the .90th ult. I tent the following letter to
the Editor of that Paper, on the 14th inst. On the
18th of this month, rso notice having been taketi of
the letter. L sent a note to the Editor, stating; that
such a letter bad been transmitted to him, and re-
questing that it might he acknowledged in his notice •
'to Cot respondents. The note, like the letter, has .
to this day been totally disregarded. I therefore
find it necessary to putsue some oth.r coUrse,
order to repel the charge; no other cours-t
seems so proper as the publication of the letter it-
self, wits a statem-rat pf the fa.l of its being fruit-
lessly sent to the Editor of ric Mdriiing Cioniefr.
The public will hereby be ettallhd to judge' or the
candour and justice which that Editor has displayed
towards the Society, firtt, by advancing. agaitiSt it
an unfoonded charge, and then by refusing tie
colds its viadicatioa in the same channel in which
he had propagated the acctrsation.
I refrain, Sir, fiom noticing a variety of other
misrepresentations of the Society, generally 'steam.
pitied with abuse; trusting that what 1 now ser.d
will be sufficient to put the public on their ruirct;
and to induce them rather to judge of the Society
by its pewee/hey', which are published in its reports,,t
than by the unsupported charges, which are iesidhl
onsly advanced against it by those who are hostile
to the institution.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
A MEW Sere or FRI. :NW:II4TV FOR
Sept. 24, 1804. FRC SUPPRESSION or Vict. ..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE:
SIR, •
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' Your Pa ter of the 20th o. last Augrut contained the f0:-
Loring Article respecting the Society fur the Supprewion of
Vice:
" The Society foe the Sup;ireation of Vice, enticeivii.g that
nothing tends more to irtunonelt, than pea. king game, and
that inane are brought to an outtinely ..11,1 I/ it, have, in
order to 'discourage eta-, much as pissib!-, directed the,- ens:
ployed by them to is rep a sharp looleout after Message cache%
caravans, w7geona, as well as hiulers' cags, Who ..re in the
practice of bringing to town all ktink of game ....We copy 'he
above from a Morning Paper, where, 114 duoteiti it
by authority.—We really cannot hell repeat.. g, th:ir this So-
ciety for the Suppression of Vice is one of the most rin;,Mteirt
and troublesome cirporations of folly and iiffseculon we bars
ever heard of, and we are astonishird h-iw they are p trnitteel
to hire sod regiment spies to =Wat tigtellll,lllllliiityi-irthey are
V.emselves a ni:'-sance which the mare.? inn should ,ti,,press:'
I cannot help, Sir, being suri.ri-wd at s,nrr creiulity ih
believing so impro-able a choice on no better tram!, than its
appearance in a Newspaper; est, as you 14111d.collght ;caper,
noly to express your confident opinion allainthe are* cut-
tensing it w:.s unerted by autihnity,' but also to make It the
occasion of •.4, severe an attack on the Soci:ty, iit is
lime to d rube that you will readily raise the contrirePtus of
it which I now send you S.ich a comp las:nine. as least,
would be due to the MeitleSt 1..11 and surely it will not
be missed to a Society consisting of upwards ref tfOU arcade r:,
an% g who.si are to be found perso:u of the first rank and coo-
sequence in the enyntry
i If the Society fur the Suppression of Vice were el Inter-
fere in any niaillitt with offences ausinst the game laws, they
would Step far out of their provt.ice, and world infr,nri the
roles of their iustitution. In confirm •tioir of this Ettw,rn,Lat.
as wall as to prevent further inissak is year vine ms:rectitia
the obierts of this Societe, it roar be proper to return s nn that
the ofTen..es, to which they are bound to coafine their hum-
tion' are :
' The profanatisn of the Lord', Pity;
' Tile :roods ar.d allllSef I,raCtisol is "wiling by faist neghts
ant measures;
' The publication of b!as?herr.otn, licentious, arid obscene
books or Onto:
• Illegal insurance.: in lotteries;
The keepiiig of riotous and disorderly houses. birothela,
and gani,hg houses ;
The seductive practice of procurers ;
' Prophane swe.r:nt ;
• Ouchr to animals ;
• And ouch other grans offeurri as come within vie .eopeof
His Majesty's most adsoir..ble Proclantat,ii agaiiit Vice, Pro-
fanenas, and lionioiality.
' To the above objects the Society nave striev cmifined
their attention; and the circumstance of their being CO:lprd
with what they hays not done, atfurrk a 'seine pain nipt. 013 that
it is found imp... Vole I. censure with effect any thin:!th.it
have dine. It is not the iropmpeicty,h.it the nature /sr their
p.c.:edifies, which has subjected them t« .-ninsure. Tome who
attack vice must expect to provoke the li.r.tility of the vi-
cious.

' To restrain the offences above enumerated Vie ley.slature
has, from time to time, paseel eine and salutary lowa ; but
the open violation of those laws cot become co ::ten, a.id
the disregard to them so prevalent, that some evtra..rdiniry
interposition seemed necessary to preteen: their beconsiog a
dead letter. Individuals could not be expected to incur the
repence, trouble, and odium, of appealing tomagi.tritm„ Cr to
court* of justice, for the exeeution of lam, the breech of
which, however inaugious to the state, did not particularly affect
any one individual more than another ; anl maestrates and
courts of justice could not be exueSed to act in such eases, un-
less infmmations were laid brfore them. An 3113e50311,, there-
fore, afford el the only chance of giving eft. t to lowa, the ef-
ficacy of which nine.. ca.ald reitrain vice, inamoraley, and pro-
phaneoess ; under this imprcisiun, and iii imitation of the Mu-
&hie example of the Pre e'intation Society, as vier 1 AS of si-
milar sozieties 13 this country in the 17tn cehtury, the So-
ciety fur the Supple-a: nn of rice was mitabl.shed no
ober benefit had resulted from ui estafilishineut thus the dee
teeion, prossetur 3. 23i 1313111 nent of some of theee ;min to
society, who in great numbers went about the country pedant-
it4 the :naiads of youth of both sexes, by seetyt'y vending in
gemination of elueati in the most (daytime prints ; d no other
bemidt, I say, hal res.lteril from the ev.e.tions of the Society
for the Suppe...ion of Vier than tl.e ....ereic which had been
given to (lie above most r.:Tatious .134 tiNtrtletiVC ;
every parent, at least, must %urea, rejo:cr •hit such Society
has been insinuted. eerr indeed tor.'••••
sider how much the we fah., and even the ,afetv of the state
ale-,ends 1.11,014 its asoraiii, rl its manuers, mu-t bait the alga.
bash oeet of socb a Society, at • time when licentiousness and
proflioey are making the moat aiming mad • ben
the rest:amt. and the (reams:, which in better days were re-
spetied, even by the vicious, evens to be rapidly losing their
infloettee upon the human mind.
'1 trine, however, Sir, twat why 1 have mid will be 'ef-
ficient to remove the pre.uclice, which, under the isifiumice of
misconcea tom, you have hems the means of excheiy aya.nst
the Society fie the u putt...don of Vice, and lam confident. that
while that Society ermine themselves, as they hare hitherto
done, to their pr.-scribed objects, and while they pursue thorns
nbjects, not merely by legal mean:, b t with mo'cratiun.....
seeing always upon their farouritr that prevelitima sio
pr'efere:le to punialineent'-eihowes r tl.ev may ee.: :lie th •,-re
of the thnughtleva, and th- a :offs of the prolligatr, they win
eniure the aiprobatrion of tl.e virtuous and refleding part of
N..:ro,nm:wity.

' I am, Str..t.t•
' A Member of the S....stay 13r the Supp►eYion of iee.' '

Tuesday last, the Custom-House Volunteers had
a gr ind field-day, and were inspened by Col fl A st-
NAGE ; the• went tl.r'ntgh their evolutions I.ke we..
te,ans. The corps, be.ides the advantage of regu.
lar discipline, have to boast of one of the first Cost•
maulers in any Volunteer Corps.

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OORTCMOVTIA. MT. -26.
.iT night Pail.'d the Dale at' C/o,Tuce cutte7. with
3 can‘clY tor Gurnee!; and the Hum/e/ and ./.4d%
..1/;!..i//e armed Aips, with Channel convoy.
His Majesty's ship flieaheint atternred tei come
into harbour this morning to he paid oft
Arrived the illegere, of Iti guns, Capt. Duff,
• 11',-,•in off Seaford.
Leutenaw Balfour is appointed to command the
•Nard, of 1 t guns, at Plymouth.
Sir Nash Grow landed here this morning from
the Isle of IVight, and went for 1..nd.,n.
.-Wod the Prosp,:re bomb, trim a cruise:—
Wind E.

Pt YHotTII, SIM'. 25.
Arrived (NIT the Sound, the Sundt Casale, bound
to the East iodic,.
Came in the Tham-(.1. Munro, of and from
in, bound to the South Seas, with the Lou of
her main-mast.
Sailed (he Pretty Ely* sloop of war, Sires,, Naiad,
and L'dide frigates, on a cruise.- -Wind E.

szr r. 26.
Arrived yesterday after post, the .lieralT/I m to of
war, Right lion. Admiral Lord Keith, from
cruise off the French coast.

tiailed through the Downs, the Presqleat, Lynch,
for Naples.
Sailed the Grcvhornd frigate, with several other
ships of war, for their respeCtive 'talons off the
French coast.

Came down from Sheerness, the ifccarneninon fri-
gate, and remains in the Downs, with the Monarch,
rtrecht, and IsyLvid/e men of war. raslor. Pently.c.
and L'elarisable frigates, Orestes, E'serne, Dasher,
and jaaad gun-vessels. the armel defence ships,
and the coppered armed transports, :is per last.
HULL, I.l*.
The Asesra armed defence ship, of London, ar-
rived in the Humber, on the 13th inst. from the
Downs, tot hands; and remains, expeuing to be
docked at this port.
On 'Monday last, the Leiftw.g, Clark ; and Bnoon,
Jackson, joined the J0f...• armed ship, in Grimsby
Roads, and sailed from thence nu Wednesday morn-
ing, with a tair wind, tot Toasain7,tm.
t his morning, twenty-four sail of nt !men,
belonging to this port, besi.:es a number of • they
vessels assembled in the Humber, from the neigh-
bouring ports, sailed from thence for the Baltic,
under c,inyoy cf the Prince Wilha,v armed ship.
A convoy is petitioned for to sail from hence the
3d of October, for Toaningen.
The Vi.lol gun-brig, Lieutenant Browne, has
out into Shields. a stnuggling vessel, called the
Hope, laden with near 900 halt-ar kers of brandy,
rum, and geneva ; thirty -eve hales tobacco and
four boxes of playing cards, wlot.h he captured off
Whitby.

ISTOL, SCPT. 25.
Came in the Britanria, Parsi r, from Dublin; Laurd,
Withers, from Demerara and Milford ; Severn, Law,
from Greenock ; Peaks, -, ftom Waterford ;
Prince fr.L., Henry, Knight; and Lord 117thoo,
Horn, from Cork ; butstey, .lames, from Lucia ani
Milford; Cerberas, Haan, from Rotterdam; /-
hem, Lamplough, from Petersburgh ;
from Baltimore ; Express, Russel, trom Belfast ;
Jour, D tvis, from Liverpool ; and Charlotte, Cooke,
from Cork.
Arrived, at Cirk, Alicia, Davis; off Barhatlres,
Elio, Shepherd ; and Europa, Russ, from Bristol,
bound to lik.i.iduras.