The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-21 00:00:00

REFORMATION OF MANNERS.

The Society for the Reformation of Manners publis
statement of their proceedings in the year 1713, by wb.
appeared, that lbey had prosecuted from December 1,
to December 1,1753, not fewer than 1,304 ri*soes, for
lag lead and disorderly houses, swearing, drunkenness,
ing, and proceeding in their usual occupitions nq Sao
The total amount of their prosecutions kr thirty-four •
was 91,6091. In the year 1734 it would apuear Wolfs se
preacbsd at Bow church, before eight bishops and m,c
roes auditory, on the anniversary of the Society,.tb.t t
number was coosiderably reduced, only eighty-nine bar•
been prosecuted in the preceding yi•ar for disorderty ro.d
lewd practices : 13 for keeping disorderly houses ,110
for exercising their trades on Sundays. As prosecutions I, •
each misdemeanors have somewhat decreased, let -ft ?tripe
that the causes also have been diminished along with thee.
As a proof of the change which the manners of ear Abr.,
have undergone since the beginning of the lasteeatiry,
extract the following statement from a weekly paper. ter,i
71/4 Dutch Prophet, published at that period, in whiro
author professes to give the outlines of every (ley in the tr
as employed by different persons " Wednesday se, ,
shopkeepers nearfiL Paul's will rise betorr six.; be upor •
knees at chapel a little after; promise God Almighty t
soberly and righteously before seven ; bike halt a p
sack and a dash of gention before eight ; t, II fifty lies
their counters by Dine ; and spend the rest of the me
over tea and tobacco at Child's coffee-house." .oe
now-a-days neither attend, at matins, nor breakfast au
and 'motion. An attempt was made at the eonsmeneeme, of
1731, is suppress some of the most enn•lderahle prvieg
bosses in London. TheEditoroftheSt.Jawes'sF.rsair. ci
observed on tbis occasion, " It may be matter or instil:error
as wells' of amusement, to present our readers with De ..nt.
lowing list of officers, which are established to the MO •' •
torious gambling-homes :
" A Commissioner, always a proprietor, who looks ie •
night; and the week's account is audited by him at •
other proprietors.
A Direc.or, who superintends the room.
An Operator, who deals the cards at a cheating game e-'
ed taro.

Tii;Crowpees, who watch the eards and gather rbu in<
oey for the hank.
Two Puffs, who have money given them to decoy "othets
play.
A Clerk, who is a cheek ea the Puffs, to see that they tint
none or the money gives them to play with.
A Squib, a Puget a lower rank, who serres at half eater:
while he is learning to deal.
A Flasher, to swear bow often the Rank has been strippc,:
A Donner, who goes about to recover money lost at play.
A Waiter, to fill oat wine, snuff candles, and attend the
gaming room.
A Captain, who is to fight say one that is peevish for for:og
his money.
An Usher, alto lights gentlemen up and down stairs cud
gives the word to the Porter.

A Porter, who is generally a soldier of the foot guards.
An Orderly Mao, who walks up and &Jun the outside ut
the house to give an alarm at the approach iof constables.
A Runner, to bring intelligence of the Justices' meetings.
Link Bays Watchmen, Chairmen, Den's era, or others, a fro
bring the Ora intelligence of the Justices' meetings, or of the
constables bring out—half a guinea reward.
COMIMOU Bail, Afilidavit Men, Rum ins, Bravoes, raw c.v.'.
shit.

LAW versus JUSTICE.
—go—

[From The Traveller.]

" A good parson once said, that where mystery bleat,
gion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of humbly lives.
where mystery begins, justice ends? It is hard to 'eny, whetsee
the doctors of law or dnrinity have made the greatintavances is
the lucrative business of mystery. The lawyers, swivel! as the
theologians. have erected another reason besideenekoral reason;
and the result has been another justice besides osseral justice."
—Burke, Vied. of Net. Noe.
" One of the seven [sages of Greece] was want to say.
laws were like cobwebs, where the small dies Islet cattail •nis-1
the great broke through."—Lord Baron.
To TN' EDITOR OF BILLINGS'S LIVERPOOL ADVERTISIII.

SIR,—In the year 1820, his Majesty's Attorney-
General moved the House of Lords, the Lord 'Chan-
cellor (as of course) therein presiding, to intiet by
Bill, certain Pains and Penalties upon Caroline, 'the
injured Queen of England." That House then sat iti
itt judicial capacity, and every Peer of the resin: was
consequently called upon to tit in judgmriot in a cause
the most momentous which bad ever been submitted
to his consideration.
Amongst the noble constituents of thstjedlclabbdir
sat and voted, the Earl of Portsmouth

All England was indignant bathe
loud remonstrances were made against the injns
suffering the Earl of Portsmouth to be judge in a
of the merits of which, it was more than laser
that he was incapable of judging.
In the year 1822, the same Attorney-General
the same Lord Chancellor, to grant a statute of t
against the same Earl of Portsmouth, groundit
prayer upon certain acts, and upon the genera
of intellect, exhibited by this hereditary legi
during a period, commencing antecedently to th
1820, and continued down to the present time.
a conclusive exemplification of the two courtiers,
and Lord Bacon!

Quere—Was the Earl of Portsmouth the onl
who was allowed to sit and vote upon the
trial under similar circumstances? But the Eat

" content," and, therefore, the Attorney-Gener
" content."

nRFADPUL SVlNDE.—Thursday mornicz,b4
eight and nise o'clock, the body of a Ilan. having ever►
Alice of a seaman, was discoTered lying on his face to a 6,
the florae and Groom, at Streatham, Surrey.. So detersi
the unfortunate man on aillf-dentruetion, that he had at

tempted to Lang himself from a tree, but the cord is sop}
have broken; he then inflicted two deep wounds in he
which had the effect. The circumstance earned the
alarm in the neighbourhood, it being at first reported the
been 'murdered; hut this did not appear to have been the
the part of the cord on the tree corresponded with de
mend the meek of the deeetmed, and the knife was also f
Lis side; he was unknown. He wore a seaman's jack
trousers, light womied 'seeking', sad shoes in good to
be was ofa middle stator". The body was removed to it
and Ciroom public-house, at liltrowlimm, for the purposes
ieg the verdict of Mc Commer's Jury,

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