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London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

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Sas
Istrarris.—The second letter of R. 11. an ttlis sub.
at shall appear to-morrow. The press of lama unwind..
ably compels us to postpone it.

The DRITION rn cu commenced publishing on SatuMsy morn-
ing Native o'clock.

LONDON, MONDAY, Novsmsza 99, Inc

The principal article of interest in the Paris Papers of
Friday, is the account of the Public Sitting of the
French Academy, for the reception of two new members,
in the pertons of the Archbishop of PARIS and M. Sou-
se rr. The Archbishop, in pronouncing the eulogy of (.•ar-
direal Ilsau WILT, took an opportunity of panegyrising M.
CH•TEAI/RRIAND, in no very measured terms. The
Noble Chevalier, as he is styled by his admirers, was pre-
sent, and all eyes were of course turned on him. The
pir,al des De.kals infers Tether hastily, we suspect, that
the Ministry must fall, and that " M. DE CIIATEAV•
ORIAND will be avenged." We believe that no sensible
friend to the repose of Europe or public liberty, wishes to
ate the revenge of the " Noble Chevalier" glutted by his
restoration to power. His principles of Government are
quite as objectionable as those of M. or VILLE LE, and he
is leas impressed with the value and importance of peace.
On Wednesday the Ki ea visited the Exchange, where his
bust was lately inaugurated with so flattering an inscrip-
tion. The particulars are thus stated :
" The Prefet presented the Members of the Chamber of
Commerce to his MAJ Errs% The President of the Cham-
ber, while aildreming his MAJESTY, in their name, and
ramming the sentiments of respect kid, .love which
a• imated them towards a Prince, the generous protector of
t;umtnerce, explained to his MAJESTY, that the Chamber
a►sembld five times a week. Ills MAJESTY desired to
know bow many Members composed the Chamber, adding,
that he believed their services were gratuitous. The Pre-
sdent answered that they were gratuitous, and that they pro-
duced annually to the revenue, from 7 to soo,ooo Claims."
The leiude of Saturday states, that the Paella of Acre is
about to visit the Viceroy of Egypt—prohably to concert
measures for their mutual aupport against the Sr crA N.
The French Government is intro rfering on behalf of
Professor COUSIN, wlw is treated with the utmost attention.
The revolutionary intrigues are said to have spread them-
s !Ives widely among the Prussian military. We distrust
e'l these statements, which appear too much like pretences
shackling public intercourse.
FsßDlNallo proceeds in his infatuated career in Spain.
':'hr infants Don CARLOS and Don Fes,s uteri, are both
about to leave the country. It is highly probable that the
I\l NO will be soon obliged to follow them. In the true
spirit of his Sovereign's Government, the Minister of
War has given milers that no petitions, whether proper or
I.l.r:l;pm, shall be received from the odic, rs who have been
at •at:issccl. The Spanish monarchy tiitiA sink under the
weight of its own vices. No power can long uphold so
monstrous and wiresionable a state of things. It is worse
tI sn chaos itself.

Fak:Ncii Ft; KIIS.--PAN IS, Nov.:A.—rive per rrnot. timed
a; WIC Mk., clottnt at WIC (0.. ; Bank Stock, 19701. ; NCA.
p a:ton Rents, CortificAr Fakonet de d. ; :'Neapolitan
I.•;nds, Itothrhild'a Loan. 92 ; Rentes Wl:Warne, Illi ; Royal
Spauitit Loan, 1103, Dli.—Exchange on L0nd0n....-1 hie month,
2:.1 lk. ; throe months, 2.1 f. 65c.—Onus Atte. Nov. 211.

lii the Brussels Papers of Satunlay, which we received
last night, we have, frotn the Orientai Spectator, the
Turkish paper publishoil at Smyrna, soim: accounts of the
Ottoman fleet, from which it would seem, if we were dis-
posed tobelicre the writer, that the ;reek seamen arc the
utast cowardly in the world, as they always, as represented
by hit., sail away from their enemies. Unhappily for the
Turkish champion's credit, we know that these timorous
4:reeks have totally destroyed the noble squadron which he
describes au !Hurtfully. The 7'.2' ships of war no longer
Beat under the Crescent ; they are Either destroyed or the
prizes of the sictoriims I lellimists. The character of
this Journal renders m; somewhat doubtful as to the
e,rrectritss of the details • it gives rispeeting the pro-
ceedings of Commodore Nell/A.l. at Napoli. If the
Erglish autlior:ti:l had not aetyil v. ith energy, the
dispute with the tired: tl,:verninent would, perhaps,
have been 'oolong,. I till it hail assumed a cham-
p! of unehamrable hostility. It veal impossible for the
Cog:isli Coy, ruinelit to overlook the danger to which the
national flag was exposed lay tile 1aw1..;, outrages of the
Creek cruisers. Their condi:et was not surprising. The
qel'AL:oll they had n'tViVell Iron th!• naturally lel
them to diaeriril all rights tint protected by immediate
Nicer, and, tin r Tore, it b.:calite mei ssary to teach them st
low • that Bitty twit sillier: to the 111 l iverscly recur nised
riTubisions of public law with respect to their treatment of
vesaels suspected of favouring their enemies. No

,utely will ltr AINto-11 (plough to C3:lt, lid, t 112: Iteciot.

the Greeks are strurglis6r, in a jnit estux a;•aiti,t the
Turks, they ought to he permitted to violate all principles
of justice towards the commerce of neutrala in the Le.rant•
If the f urkish iltwernment had unlawfully detained one
vowel under the English flag, we should have remonstrated
ostaady with the Divan, and if there had been occasion,

we should have enforced our rights by force of arms. What
we should have done against one of our oldest allies, equil
justice required us to do against the Greeks, without any
reference to the nature or consequences of the contest
between the belligerents.

The Catholic Priests in Ireland, in order to show some
reason for opposing the dissemination of the Scriptures
I among their flocks, have now turned round upon those
%bona they call the Biblemen, and commenced an attack
upon the character of the Sacred Volume itself. We some
weeks ago noticed with surprise the strange epithet be-
stowed on the Protestants, by which an attempt was made
to stigmatise them for their reverence for the Bible. We
were then ignorant of the sense in which the Catholics
meant to point the phrase against their adversaries. Nu
doubt, however, can now remain as to the design of the
imputation. We see before us the extraordinary and
almost incredible spectacle of Christian Ministers borrow-
ing the larquage of Paine and Carlile, in order to scan-
dalise and vilify the Divine Revelation, on the authen-
ticity of which alone the truth of the Christian religion
depends. The very language, which has most justly,
with the consent and at the earnest and importunate re-
quest of all the different sects holding the Christian faith,
been prosecuted in our Courts of Justice, and condemned
as blasphemous, is—we turn again to the Irish Papers to
assure ourselves of the fact, too monstrous to be believed
on slight evidenee—republishexl from the lips of men who
profess to be ordained to preach the truths of the Gospel,
and inculcate its sacred doctrines among the people under
their charge. The lkist and the Infidel have at this
moment, as cosdjutors in their labours, the Catholic Clergy
of Ireland. Under these circumstances it is quite appro-
priate that he who raised Paine's bones from their uncon-
secrated grave, in order that be might parade them through
this Christian land in solemn mockery of its religious feel-
ings,—a project by-the-bye which be never dared to attempt
to carry into execution,—it is right we say, that those who
adept Pain's sentiments should have their cause advo-
cated by Paine 's champion. But what must even the re-
fleeting part of the Catholics themselves think as to these
proceedings ; if, indeed, it be permitted to a Catholic lay-
man to exercise any faculty of his mind with regard to spi-
rituel matters? They hear their Priests describing the Bible
as a book obscure, dangerous, unfit to be put into the hands
of youth ! Is not such a representation directly calculated
to destroy all reverence for the Scriptures? The object is
manifestly to excite smong the ignorant and deluded fol-
lowers of the Catholic Clergy a fanatical abhorrence of the
Sacred Volume, to which all Christians who dare to judge
for themselves look with pious hope and confidence for
their salvation. So far have these ortrages been carried,
that at a cont-oversial meeting lately held at Castkbar,
a Priest actually selected particular passages of the Old
Testament, of which he spoke with all the obscene
licentiousness of a practised freethinker. At other places
texts have been tortured, to show bow easily the essential
doctrines of Christianity may be quibbled away, and the
wonls of our SAVIOUR rendered the language of faction
and disorder. Never were ridicule, invective, and abuse,
more copiously showered on all that the Christian world
relies upon for present consolation and future happiness.
The argument, that if the Bible be given to all, some will
not rightly comprehend the whole of its contents, is abso-
lutely unworthy of serious refutation. What knowledge
is nut liable to be misunderstood or tuisapplied ? Let us
then at once extinguish all seicnce and learning, and re-
sign ourselves for ever to these reverend guardians of
eternal ignorance.

The influence of the Daily Press has at length become
the great engine of power in society, rad, according u it is
directed, may either be made infinitely serviceable to all
the b(st interests of the community, or it may be turned
against those inter( sts, and become the deadliest weapon
that can threaten the security of civil life. The progress
of knowledge amongst the great body and mass of the
people, and the consequent interest which they take, and
are capable of taking, in all that passes before them, brings
a deep responsibility on those in whose Lands this exten-
sive and dangerous power is placed. Buss u, in his
Thoughts on French Affhirs, published in 1791, has sonic
striking observations, which serve to show the alarm with
which his prophetic spirit contemplated the increasing as-
cendancy of the daily journals over the popular mind, and
the state of things to which it was likely to lead. " What
direction," says he, " the spirit of proselytism is likely
to take, and in what order it is likely to prevail in the se-
veral parts of Europe, it is not easy to determine. The
seeds arc sown almost everywhere, chiefly by N Kw.
eirrulatilns, infinitely more efficacious and extensive than
ever they were. They are a more important instrument
than generally is imagined. They arc a part of the read-
ing of all ; they are the whole of the reading of the far
;;nester number." And, speaking of the writers of these
papers, he says, " they are like a battery, on which the
stroke of any one ball products no great effect, but the
amount of continual repetition is decisive."

We have no intentior, at present, of remarking on the
abuse of the day press, as applied to the conduct of Mi-
nisters, or to the affairs of Government. This wet of mis-
representation may always be met by matter of fact : and
there is, besides, little fear, generally speaking, but that
Government will always he prepared to defend itself, with
a force equal, at least, to any which may be brought against
it. Neither do we purpose, at present, to dwell on the
evil that may be occasioned by the dissemination of false
and pernicious principles in politics or in morals ; because,
where the press is free, such principles may always be en-
countered by truth and reason, and so opposed they can
never long keep the field. Only give the comtnon reuse of
mankind fair play, and you may break all the weapons of
controversy, whither political or religious, that ever were
sharpened for the combat. Rut the perversion of the dnilri
press, Which see would mark out to the public as most to be
dreaded, is that which bargains, for a sum to be agreed
upon, to give the aid of its influence and circulation to de-
stroy the character of any individual in private life, by ad-
mitting into its columns any charges, however flagrant and
however false, which it suits the secret purposes of the
party to fabricate ! The conduct of the Times, in
the case of the unfortunate Mr. Fat' 24 Tl.r OY, is not
likely to be soon uhliterated from the public memory
Mew.; Masan, STRACIII, and CIZAiIAIs.I, artfully sought
to suppress all further inquiry as to whether they were the
authors of the base and diabolical aspersions which were
inserted in that newspaper, against that unhappy man-
whose heart is this moment aching with agony, and who,
to-morrow, will bid farewell to this world for ever, by de,
daring, under the paraded attestation of their three signa-
tures, that they never inserted, or caused to be inserted,
either directly or indirectly, any paragraph in a public
newspaper, except two, to which they had signed their
names. Rut when we stripped this their equivocal asser-
tion, and exposed the evasion that lurked under it—when

THE BRITISH PRESS.

we put their artiflt-e in plain terms before them, that
though they had here denied inserting, they did not deny
that they had wall. TEN, or that they had furnished the
bl AT LIU ALS out of which those midi and scandalous libels
against Mr. FAUNTLEILOT were fabricated—if they were
not the authors of those fabrications, and if they did not
pay a suns of money to Me Times for preserving such a
dead silence as to the party from whom it received them,—
why did they not immsliattly deny the fact ? They must
know, Oat by Not denying it they plainly told the public
they could not Jeny it. Who can contemplate this pro-
ceeding without instantly perceiving that if the daily
press is thus prostituted, it becomes an engine of guilt and
mischief, that leaves no man's character safe? There is no
parallel in the periodical press of this country, of such
sanguinary and atrocious attacks on the character of any
individual under accusation, and about to be tried for his
life, as appeared in the Times newspaper, between the
period of his apprehension anal his being put to Me bar.
This awful period, during which even the malignant suffer
their enmity to sleep, was the period during which the Times
pursued him with the foulest imputations, and strove to
excite the worst possible impressions in the public mind
against him !!! When the proprietors of a public Journal
betray such an avidity fur gain, as to lend themselves to
a proceeding like this, the only security which the public
have it in the notoriety of the fact ; when the venal cha-
racter of such a Journal is once thoroughly known, it soon
comes tobe appreciated as it deserves, and in ceasing to be
respected, it ceases to be mischievous.

The Duke of York visited the King on Situplay.

The Duke of York left town yesterday morning ,con
after seven o'clock, for Cirencrstt r, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess Bathurst for a short time. _ _ _

Yesterday morning the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Feodore attended Divine Service at the Royal German
Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper.
'f he Duchess of Gloucester was a little better on Satur-
day, after an indifferent night's rest 011 Friday night. Ile r
Royal Highness reedy-41 visits front the Dukes of York
and Glou6ster, and the Princess Sophia. Her Royal High-
ness bad a better nicht on Saturday night, and was a little
better yesterday. The !Mehl's* of Kent, the Princess
Sophia, and the Princess Feodore, paid visits to time Royal
Duchess, as did also Prince and Princess Polignac, and
several other Ambassadors and Ministers.

Yesterday the Lord Chancellor bad an audience of his
Majesty.
Mr. Latchford, the King's Messenger, arrived at the
Foreign Mice on Friday morning, with despatches from
Madrid.

Though a great deal of business was sons in the ('onsol
market during the course of Saturday, they still continued
to decline, and after several fluctuations, they finally closed
at about 93. No good reason has been assigned for this
decline, but it seems to be generally believed that there
will he a rise in the market before they are shut, or if not,
that they will reopen with a great improvement. Though
there has been no intelligence from South America, these
securities keep their ground remarkably well, and the prin-
cipal holders anticipate a great rise on the confirmation of
the news from Cardiagena, which we gave last week, and
which they confidently expect as soon as the Jamaica
packet shall arrive.
Mr. B. C. Ferguson and Mr. E. C. Macnaghten, left
Calcutta in March last, to proceed to the Persian Cull;
and from thence over-land to England.
It is true Sir Edward Puget has applied for leave to re-
turn to England, but that application was totally uncon-
nected with any circumstance or erect arising out of the
Burmese war. The sole rause was, the desire of Sir Ed-
ward to return, for the purpose of filling the office of Go-
vernor of the Royal Military College ; an appointment
which has been held fur him, since the beginning of the
present year, by Sir Alexander Hope. As soon, therefore,
as his successor has been named, Sir EiNard Paget will
leave India.—Courirr.

On Friday, his . Aim v P yacht.the Herald, Capt. Henry
J. Lcekc, sailed from Portsmouth for the Nest
with the following passenwes :—The Lord Bishop of
Jamaica, (the Rev. Clitistophtt Lipscomb, D.D.), Mrs.
Christopher Lipscomb, the lion. Mrs. Coventry (her
mother), the Itev. Archdeacon Pope, Rev. W. Past-non,,
Rev. C. M. Bolton, lies. S. Goddanl, and Henry Lipscomb,
Esq. Secretary to the Lord Pisbop, for Jamaica; the Rev.
Archdeacon Parry, for An: ; Rev. J. G. Adams, and
the We. S. Lewis, for Barbadoes. The Herald will till at
Plymouth, to embark the Lord Bishop of Barhadoes (the
Ike. W. Hart Coleridge, 11.1).) and his Secretary.
On Saturday last Michael Ilowley Fitzpatrtek, Esq. was
called to the degree of Barrister at Law, by the lion.
Society of the Middle Temple.
Id•aatetos: IN HIGH LIFL—On Saturday was married,
at St. James's Church, by the Rev. Lord henry Fitzroy,
the Hon. George Rice Trevor, son of Lord Dynevor, to
the Him. Miss Fitzroy, daughter of Lord Charles Fitzroy.
After the ceremony, the happy pair set off in an elegant
chariot and four horses, for ikon:ham Hall, Iktifottlshire,
where they intend passing the honey-moon.
We are requested by Col. Collier to contradict the state-
ment of Mr. Mathew Fitzpatrick, who was brought up to
Bow-street last 'Thursday. Mr. F. represented himself as
the Colonel's friend, but the gallant officer has not the
least knowledge of any such person.
Ti, Ili 81. E.---It is a rather singular coincidence, that
while the Pope, and the human Catholic Clergy are making
such great exertions to suppress the Bible, the Grand
Signior should issue a Finnan for the same purpose from
which the following is an extract :,
" Know that it is ascertained, that books have been printed in
Europe, viz. Bibles, Psalters, tioapels, with the History of the
Apostles at the end, two or three thousand of each sort, with a
tract in Persian ; and there have come to my capital two or three
hundred of each sort, with four or live of the Persian tracts. And
as it is my ditty to prevent entirels such things, when they happen
in toy kingdom, during my reign, let these books be returned so
Europe; mud if hereafter ally of theist arrive at the Costonotouses,
let carefid search be resole, and advice sent to my capital, in tester
that noise may be sold or bought. Likewise let no Turk whatever
take any of these false hocks, and whenever any of them are
found, let them be taken and cast into the lire, that they nay be
burnt, and let then, not be bought or sold in any country."
The trial of Papavoine, for the murder of the two
children in the wood of Vincennes. will shortly take place.
The greatest anxietyth exists ha the public hid with respect
to this mysterious crime.