The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-05-22 00:00:00

SULTII AMLRICA.

PROCL6II ATiON.
111140 N SoLITAIL, riRrsIDENT or THE RErUILIO or
YENFZUFLA, &C. &C.
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To the Spaniels Soldiers and Senors tf the Expedition
preparing nt Cadiz.
SrantAnnit OP rite Fix/Ml:U.llmi !—You have seen in
Spam the bent herrn I Jurors of a liberating Curlew succeed. il
by the irbitrary acts of a besotted &spot:son. You lase
seen your native country, after a moon Mary and eliectieg
glimpse of freedom, plunged or the sit plh of political darks
nese. Yon have seen her rendered the wonder of Eitroue,
for unrelenting praberiplions, and for attrition,. er tier, :nut
bloody executions. And, Great Gout ! who were the imps:-
soiled ao,l proses iberli An Arvicllu s, a hcse purrs iot do.
quence was the admiration of Europe! A liallasleroa or 4
Mina, who led to ninny of tune very triomphs which se.
cured the national Only 'residence. liiuntr.,ll out the cis il litre -
tree of Spain ! And who were tie r'.veulerl, or tallier tl.e
murdered and aasassinated? A NOCii...l, a Lacy, arid a annul
of Other., your bravi al companions in arms in the bloodiest
battles ever waged with the real enemies of Spain. It i c..
tuftitted only fur the perpetrators of such crimes to clot. ,c.
you, lie very men who had witnessed and deplored [lose in.
1 gib: :at iothnee,nausms tbeorrourfe
their
ri nt sr
at r,
oerritt,sd andleg i
tt.liriei,v
gi entdi n lc:jun:pi:ode
extension to the Wesiern World. Madmen! haul they dors-
all these of men who might lizi fitter agr obi of crime than
you can be, such is here the incompressible spirit of 'doll)
,that they would Imve been dunuln.ul from our roasts, ur 1.1-
glilkd 'quo oar shorts, as surety as the .venomous reptile
thrown upon the eisrfare of a eu:cariu would be 3111111111 s mull
in the horning blast of its crater. But you, our brothers of
the Ohl ‘Vorld, we shall hail as sach—se know your re geld
for nw—we have haul pledceis of your intent• . Every For.
diet and am suntan 0, hot jthille our 114 shall trot or ly have frruni
us a friendly tecerstruir soil ails yr ate reward, but the arms
and 11113011.:Ositti ~,, contained its slur ships they m..y bring in,
shall he purchased 111111 paid fur as their maim Every 01b.
Lersighreailti
attotr
unmeemt stn.
firank aind
amplee tttt .rlour.m..e.n.t —8
haerzl
bile. ribaal
made
en
übir:
our soil. 'lt is sills neutron tits of fraternity, lb. ii, that we
shall be prepared to receive our brethren from Spans, expos
kissed by a besotted and bigutted despot. If oil. rat till.
i Licata be substituted fur tins', woe to those esi.q can't-14m ...

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LONDON,

SATURDAY, MAY 22, MO.

ripeeislly to (Lose whn, in any ituttanre, compel our
brethren tu raise their arms against the lives of
'topic %IA) w,.111,1 rt crime tho•rn in rare
Given mot signed at the l'akee of Government, in
Angostura, iii. Icl clay of March, 1819
(Sigwv.l) SIMON soLtvArt.

E BIUTI S PRE SS .

Last night Lord HAtROVVRY, asChairinan of
the Committee appointed by the House of Lords
to inquire into the affairs of the Bank of England,
proposed to the House the adoption of the Remits.
he hid previously laid on the table, and
which embodied the plan suggested by the Com-
mittee for the adoption of Cash Payments lu op-
position to• thews, Lord I:AVDIIIMALE proposed a
series of Resolutions, declaratory of the prihciple
that the present adianted price.of gold iu the mar-
ket, as compared with the Mint price, was cowed
al.ogether by the nature of the Mint regulations,
which, by reducing the value of the silver coin, de.
strayed the long-established proportion between the
two editable metals, and that the repeal of these
tegolations was intlivfmnsable as a'preliminary step
toward:, the adoption of any measures for the re-
siorationor a 'metallic standard of value. The de-
bate on this Subject displayed grrat research and
industry, and was protracted to half-p..st ten
o'clock this tanning, When the amendmert was
put and nexatived without a division.

In our observations on the majority of Ministers
en Mr. TIERINIT'S motion, we ezpres•ed our fears
that their success would tempt them to renew their
favourite Property Tax. We lament to find our
Tears reiiliiwd. This purpose was avowed in the
debate in the Commons on Thursday night. The
CnimeoLioa of the t xcueuusit said, instead of
decreasing, it was absolutely necesmtry to increase
the taxes, and Colonel Wools, the brother-in-law
of Lord CAsTLIIIILSAGH, in recomtnentling a
petty Tilt es the means of this necessary
ilitloll, was loudly cheered by the Ministerial Bench.
'They must be stupid who will not take so plain
a hint.

A Dutch Mail his brought intelligence from
natavia to the end of December. Every thing
gots on prosperously fur the Dutch in the Indian
Archipelago. Thanes of Glamis and Covidor. they
'Lave it • Borneo. the largest island in the
world, is therri, and they are in possession of all
their old establishments, with the exception of
Pulling, a Om of little consequence, the.vight to
which is &nitrated by the Lieutenant-Governor of
Beucouleas, Sir I'. S. RAFF/.611. It was not with-
out reason that this spirited Officer has complained
of the esicroachturnts, the usurpations, and mono.
!missing spirit of the Dutcfsin that loaner. Bat
his zeal for the interest Mid honour of his country
t', forsooth, bad faiik, as complaint on the part of
the Javanese. • people lately happy airier Ilk ads
ministration. is rank rebellion under their new mas-
ters. T,o leaders in the disturbances which broke
out in July last itiChiribon. in Java, have been
tried and found guilty. 'One of diem, a native
Prince, has'been hanged.

Paris Paper. of Tuesday laid have arrived of our
'Office. In the Sitting of tbeChsniber of Deputies
on Monday, a report was made of several petitions
presented to theCluktiber in favour Of the read of
all the French exiles, but the Chamber passed to
the order of the day. Some discussion took Place
un the aCcortuls of 1815 and 1817, but the farther
consideration was adjourned to the fullowitig day.
Accounts from the West Indies of the Ist of
March, by way of Holland, state, that on the side
al Venezuela General PAM hati obtained consider-
▪ adisntages over Moante, and had destroyed
• numerous body of his cavalry.. _

The French 5 per Cent'. •re 66 I. 70c.; Batik
hock 1,616 f.

The raids suffered a depression yesterday, Con.
rata Were down to 70,2, _

Yesterday the Doke of Ironic transacted mili-
tary hopinres with the l'ttiticu REGENT at Carl-
ten Hoinw. The Royal Duke eubmittrd to the
l'etricK liEvmse's ineprci iiiii three private, in the
Coldgreasn Regiment of Foot Gusids, in their
hew clnibisig,
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1, flogging less to be reprobated R 4 a civil than a
military pithlshetiesst ? Public exhibitions of bat*,
tool its some instances bloody hacks, ore by no
Means likely to increase either the proper feeling Or
the delicacy of it British people, and yet we oh.
setae that this vbrolee mode of punishment 'hs of
lite 'torn generally revived in this kingeten. Ot
Wednesday hart tier men were whipped ulont
Onny in this town, and back again, for hating been
loom' Iwgging, and in lODIC eaters alotest demand-
ing money, On Friday, smother itismosee of this
punithoirset occurred oil a poor man, Whom tome
supposed to be a Inman:. It is, 111104r111. but
vice to obsesses that he received only diger or lour
sari pet. --( ittireastk Paper./
o.' Wrelatselry se'imight, in the evening, Major
CLrrrcisuci, of the Nortlimul,erl mid Militia, on
Lis way home so Watkivorth, had the troefortnne to
toll from Ins horse, and was killed oo the spot.

SACRILEGE.—Oso Thurt.clsy nig*.st last, I:ustie
pelposa or progeny, sit !mollt ittik entered the
Roman Catholic Clhim I in Chtrenclon.mitore, uurt
otolr thrtritoen a biker chulice. awl ulout 131.
%loth were iu the Ewe' box.