The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-06-01 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED
" LOUVAIN, MAY 23, 1819.

" I was at Antwerp three dove since; there, as
well as at Brussels, and I belir've every where else,
the despairing dullness of trade, the fine weather,
and the luxuriant appearance of the growing c►op•,
bath grain and others, are the sulircts on which all
conversations turn. The new tuxes which they im-
pose every Sessions in their Parliament. or Assem-
bly of their High Mightinesses, cause touch grum-
bling; but it ends as with Juhn Bull—you must
pay; and I don't think they are a bit better one
side the water that the other. The affairs of Eng-
land are always interesting to this and other coun-
tries, but the affairs of this country most be a
matter of perfect indifference fur you. The trials
of the persons foe the conspiracy to carry off Alex-
ander, when at Brussels, caused no kind of interest
there; it was so well known to lie a miserable,
lame, ill got-up plot of the Ultras in France, and
stupidly played off by a sort of Police Mrector, a
Mutt'. Knife, in the pay of Mon'. le Tour du Pin,
the French Ambassador at Brussels, that you scarce-
ly heard it spoken of. I was at Brussels at the time,
and people only shrugged their shoulders and
laughed. The Wellington plot it of the same cast.
I am sorry to say, although 1 am not able to account
for it, that this great General, our countryman, has so
many enemies on the Continent ; all take a pleasure
in abusing him ; many do not know fur why or for
what ; it is the fashion, and they hark in with the
cry rai►ed in France. There it was natural eliough,
for they can never pardon the man who conquered
Napoleon, or their invincible vielle garde !!! The
petition presented against Catholic Claims by the
Hero of Waterloo, has been repeated and comment-
ed on by all the Papery, and cited ever soil over
as his illiberal and narrow mind finding a pleasure
in the office. 1 am sorry be did not keep out of
such a business, and regret that the result of the
question turned as it did. lam persuaded an equal
participation of rights must benefit every land, and
would, I believe, be the only means of removing
much of the ill blood now kept in fermentation by
such people as in the laud of Saint Patrick.
I seldom see an English Paper ; they are too ex-
pensite for our society here, and when I go to Brus-
sels or Antwerp, I have not much time to spare.
The extracts given in the foreign Journals are very
deficient, curtailed, and often badly translated.
" I see that Mr. Reiriagle has at last got a room
for his exhibition of his copies from Rubes's% great
pictures. 1 doubt not they will cause as much
pleasure to the lovers of the Art, by the bold and
masterly manner they are executed iii, as they
caused astonishment and jealousy to many who
saw them daily beside the originals, while he was
occupied at them, and who, in spite of their
hatred of an Englishman, and of an Englishman
ax artist, were furced to confess their surprise and
admiration. They laughed at the idea at ti.-t. Such
• thing, copy them as large as the original, was
never attempted, they said, and could not succeed,
the outline would take six muni/is ; limilly, they
were forced to bow conviction, and said they were
all thunderstruck at his masterly manner, anal hold
and just way he imitated the colour, the touch, and
expression of Rubens. The originals, which ere on
wood, are peeling off, and fist falling to decay, are
much neglected against a damp wall, nasal when its
France were miserably mended and patched.
" Yours, most truly."

Mu? Tvt.DaY.-rtioli.lay at ate Rank, tultiner, 'Bast
and South Sea Human.

Ti L' BRITISII PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1819•

The Paris Pakrs of the 28t1► ult. ■rr:ved last
night. The d►setssinn of the ba•lget was resumed
on the 27th in the 'Chamber of I) Tune,. The
charges of the public debt and the sinking fund were
voted in that sitting. The fond, of the c vil hat
and the royal family were charged to account.
The Chamber also voted on that pat of the bud-
get afteciing the admiiiiieration of justice, which,
after a, lung debate respecting the Ministers of
State and the Couos.•llors of State, was adopted
without any reduction front the proposed scale.
The port of the budget relating to foreign
aftairs would he discussed on last. The
Gazelle de France says, flirt the health of the
KING improves da►ly, and that his MAJESTY will
go out the first time the weather proves favourable.
We have not lately noticed in the Paris Papers any
accounts of his MAJESTY'S excursions, as last year,
in the vicinity of his capital. It was therefore to be
presumed that lie did not enjoy his usual health,
but this is the first iuti►natin►► iu tiny of them that
his MAJESTY lies been ill. The whole of the Royal
Family were expected at the theatrical perforn►.urce
given on Thursday night at the Ely see Bourbon.

Ilis MAJESTY has authorised the return of Mar.
shad SOUI.T, Doke of Dalmatia, Lient..O-neral
Count PIRE, DIRAT, Count 'teat., and PUSIME•
REUL, comprrhentled in the Ordinance of the 94th
September 1815, and lair of the littlilmutry, 1816.
The Five per Crut. Consols were on Thursday,
66 6 10th francs—Bank Action,, 1,500.

We noticed yesterday the rumour, that the in-
tention of the Ministers to propose a Property Tax
during the present Session of Parliament has been
abandoned, and that remorse will be had to an in-
crease of the duties on Tobacco, Tea, and Sugar,
and that the War Malt Duty will probably be re.
vived.a. the best means to 'meet the deficiency in
the public revenue. We at the same time pub-
lished the opinion expressed to the House of Com-
mons by the Finance Committee, that (economy and
retrenchment are the only efficient means of meeting
the public exigencies. We trust that in now com-
bining the consideration of imposing new taxes on
on exhausted people with this decided opinion of a
Committee of the House of Commons, we shall
create so strong an association between them in the
public mind, that whenever the Ministers shall
touch on one t • r, thu remembrance of the other
shall be necessarily excited, and neutralise the
specious arts by which the Government will endea-
vour to obtain its favourite object.
Much as Ministers and Parliament have, since
the termination of hostilities, spoken about retrench-
ment, it is but too evident that neither party have
as yet applied themselves seriously to this wise and
necessary labour. The Ministers, indeei4 in the
Session of 1817, appointed it Commission, consist-
ing, if we remember rightly, of Lord BINNING,
Mr. RYDER, and Mr. S. BOURNE, to investigate
whither any and what retrenchments might be ef-
fected ; bat such an appointment was a mere
mockrry of inquiry, and the result seemed as if it
was iiiterided to odd insult to the distresses and
complaints of the people. Nothing but the op-
',ointment of a Committee by the !loose of Com-
mons. honestly, :mil without the interference of the
Ministers, to investigate the publiC offices, and
apportion the salaries of the Servants bf the Crows
in every department to the nature and extent of
their services, will satisfy the country that an
honest sympathy is felt fair their calamities. The
exertions of some Committees lately appointed
have been so vatualele. that we should rote-stain high
hopes of seeing the finances of the country placed
on a firms and intelligible basis, if suds a measure
were adopted. A Fitiaisce Committee, as it is fa-
cetiously dew iii i l seta, does indeed sit at present,
but if it derived its name from the mature of its
services, it ought rather to be called a Committee of
Accounts, for it literally does nothing more than
state the result of certain arithmetical calculations,
without suggesting one sicheine fur improving the
resources or cluniiiishing the expenses of the cowl.
try. We do not urge this in censure of the Com-
tnittee, because possibly the powers delegated to it
would nut warrant the file:Werra iii proceeding to cons
rider those cirninistances winch, in the ordinary notion
of a Finance Committee, would seem to lee the prin.
cipal object of its constitution ; but we would sup
• gest the propriety of eidargitig their powers to the
extent we have noticed, and the result, we are con-
vinced, would be to relieve Ministers sod Podia-
ment from the odium which must nrcebsarily and
deservedly attach to them for imposing additional
taxes on the people, and save the country from the
danger and distress of being oppressed with ad-
diticod burdens at the moment when finesse and
famine are malting cruel restage' among the work-
ing classes, and when no obvious intros of saving
them flout itumediate destruction appear within
the power of the Legislatnre, excepting trial from
I taxation.

At the commencement of the present Stesion,

Lord I:tvEardot. boasted, in the House of Lords,
that, in oti%equence of the reduction in the Mili-
tary Establishment, there would be found at the
close of the year an absolute surplus of revenue
over expenditure (including the Sinking Fund) of at
least sex tirct.f.tirss, and that this SUM might be re-
garded vis the absolute Sioking Fund of the coun-
try dilinsalile in the hands of the Commissioners.
The revenue has not as yet disappointed the hopes
r.f the Ministers; knd yet, on the most favourable
calculation, we cannot find an absolute excess of re-
venue (including the Sinking Fund) to a larger
amount titan about one million and a half. This is a
miserable pittance, to be opposed, in the fourth year
of peace, to a debt of 800,000,000/. Should we
chalice to be surprised by a war, the consequences
must be dreadful. All parties must agree that
something must be done to place the country in an
attitude snore suitable to the high station to which
her &elutes have called her ; but how this owe-
thing ire to be achieved, or whence derived, is the
great obj-ct fo► our consideration. The question
is really, whether the Ministers shall surrender any
portico,' of their extravagance—diminish the unwieldy
bulk of their patronage—redtice the amount of sa-
laries among the higher classes of officers in every
department (even though the reduction should be
temporary) —or whether the people, who have
been home down to the earth by taxation—gall-
ed by every fretting imposition, but enduring
their sufferings with noble patience, in the assur-
ance that with the war they should terminate—
whether they shall be still further opprested
with burdens destructive to them, and neither ho-
nourable nor useful to the country ? The question
is between the Ministers and the country. It *ill
be a trial of strength, to determine by whom the
sacrifice shall he made. The recent victory ob.
wined by the Ministers in the !louse of Commons,
on Mr. TIERNEY'S motion, may give them cou-
rage to act with generosity, by 'hewing them that
they may be just without endangering the safety of
their darling places; but should they determine
otherwise, and proceed to lay further taxes on the
people, the consequences we sincerely believe must
be such as we do not choose to express, and are ex•
tremely unwilling to contemplate.

The signing of the Petition, in the City, against
" the Foreign Enlistment Bill," is proceeding with
great rapidity.
Lin ANTONIO JOBE DE YRISARRI has arrived in
town as General Envoy and Resident Representative
of the Government of Chili, in this country. Don
YRISARRI was formerly Chilion Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs, and is the same who is mention.
eel in the Report made to the Government of the
United States by Mr. BLAND, sent to Chili u
their Commissioner. It was he also who signed the
important Treaty between Chili and Buenos Ayres,
which we lately inserted.
A number of agricultural families arrived in Carl-
isle during the last week, on their way to the coast,
to earaherk for America. They sill of thew carry
with them a considerable capital.
At Cockermouth, the master manufacturers have
not discharged their workmen, nor restricted the
hours of work, but the wages are reduced so very
low as to create a great addition to the mass of
misery.
An application was made a few days ago to the
Mayor of Leeds by 76 cruppers, who have 56 wives
and 161 children, to be sent to Canada. This ap-
plication was laid before the Board of the Work-
house, who expressed an opinion that the scheme
was visionary.—Query ? Gave any of this honour-
able Board, from "awful experience," known any
thing of the "realities" of these poor creatures?
The once flourishing stocking trade of Tewkes-
bury is nearly •liilated. IVitluis these few days.
one house alone discharged 100 workmen. The in-
flux of applications in that place for parochial relief
is most appalling.
A letter from Malta. dated April 9. communi.
cafes some alarming particulars relative to the
plague, which it was feared would be introduced
into some of the neighbouring island*. A small
vessel, last fruits Sass, the crew couvisting only of
the master and five other persons, put into ass out-
port on the 28th March. Two of the crew. who
were boys, sickened and died on the voyage, and
three others after their arrival, of a disorder evi-
deafly resembling the plague. Every 'precaution
was taken to prevent the communication of the in-
fection I the bedding and clothes of the sailors were
burnt, and even the vessel in which they had arrived.
Accounts from St. Domingo have arrived; those
from Aux Cates are to the lid of March, and
fl'oni Port-au-Prince a fear days earlier. Cams.
Torus had collected at the latter an immense quan-
tity of specie, it is said even to the extent of be.
tweeu thirty and forty millions of dollar,. The
reports of war having been declared between this
chief mid BoTua were unfounded. They arose,
it seems, from the circumstance of a rebel named
Guissa haviiig taken possession of a strong place
belonging to the latter, between Port-au-Prince
and Aux Cayes, but lie was entirely unconnected
with eIiaDITUPIIE. Goss ex had induced several
hundred versions to join him, but a price having
been set als his head by BOYER, a cumber of them
had surrendered themselves. _

Halifax and Burtuuda Papers hare arrived to the
end of April. The trade of the Bullish provinces in
North America is represented to be completely
changed by the recent eisartmetits of the English
Government, and the retaliating measures of the
Auserican Executive. Halifax and Bermuda are
stated to be greatly benefited by the change. The
extensive demand for lumber for the supply of the
British West India Colonies has given a great im-
pulse to the industry of Nova Scotia. The quan-
tity of vessels daily arriving is stated not only be-
yond precedent, but even inure than the most san-
guine could expect. From Bermuda we have the
same cheering reports. The Bermuda Gazette
btattS. 1114, under the new situatiun of trade, it be-
comes absolutely isellpsiry to alter several of the
laws relating to comuleree.

i tir2!!
i_ll4 411
\—;
cry Ce‘7lll 5 el) r 7": . 441
• ' '
L.lO, ei%

ORIGINAL 'POETRY.

LINES,

•Dlnurfarn RY A WELL RIOAN DIRAUATT,T Ir, r.;‘,
TAIN WOULD-6E COMpIiPER, WHO ; tut I N
AND CIRCULATED F,i.vritAL r1101414-111IN NUICS
iIIiCLOMGI%43 TO HI7I.

Bereav'd of all my Imre:, by you, I daily 'nil tit rat.,
But find ihej'ie nut the only roles you label.. con elite
Vile rogue, repent ! to ate and Music render up onr due.
Give up my +Wm, and ult !in justice, give cep tun;
FOr Mete Net/ your not.,, you ewer WIN Value g, re,
All just men must protest them, and rune b1t....14-rf, re-
ceive.

May all our Dramatists be warn'd by tiv'uniixrpv flze,
And neer accept your notes, or, they'll meet discord, wlu•

toe late !

Voters fielded are some bars, for which a stare yon should

receive,
And when 1 am ad libitum, that stare to you I'll give.
AiMats Cl.a, May 31, 1819.

LONDON NINE FASlllo.‘s,

Pros " Atherntenn's Repository of Arts, Prtsitito &e.