The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-05-15 00:00:00

litl3H MALT IIrOCLATIONA,

The flousereSoivi;,l iistllintoiiLOMlnittee on
the Irish Malt Regutittou Rill.
After borne conversation between Mr.R.
Mr. Fusrse, stud Mr. %111rIlltk*O• she HolDe
resumed, and the Report ordered to be brought ttp
this day.
The Scots Fees Reteolstion Bill ifs. read $
third time. end ordered to be sent to the flambe of
Lords.

The lionae resolvirel hat!! into i Committee on
the Irela Salt Regulation Bill, which was agretal to.
The House reaunied. mud Ow report was ordered to
be received thia day.

The further ennsi.ferstion of the Caual Robbery
Bill Wil4 posipoual to this day.
Mr. Fosrsw rive Notice. that he would. on a
future day. bring in a Rill to great a bounty to
lemons licensed, is Ireland, to sell spiv'.. that also
sold strong heir.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
or, and the Douse adjourned at lIALF-FAiT-TWO
O'CLoCa.

TII E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY. Mir Is.

A Jamaica Mail arrived yeiterdly. It has
brought an account of the arrival of the outward-
bound fleet, on the last day of February.
Meeting of the General Aasenshly had been further
prorogued foutn the 6th of March to the 10th of
April.

A Gottroburgh Man arrovrd list enroing. It
has brought the following article :

" GUTTINSVIOII. ■a• 7.

" An Engli'h squadron of line-of-nettle ships has
been reitiortrd Boni the Telegraph to have passed
this part under a press of awl to the Northward,
supposed fur the Baltic."

Me ls from the Mediterrauran arrived yesterdsy.
Among the articles of intelligence which they have
brought, is a leiter doted Zatite. goth February.
from which the "Mowing is an eatrect :—.O The
Biittsh force is thus divided :—General Omarsth.
with the heed-quarters, at Zinte, and the 35th regi-
ruesit.—At Cephalonia. Colonel Lows eumoianda
wish the Corsica. Rangers, and two companies of
the 44th regiment. At Cerise. Capt. MIICAUSTSI.
wills 100 men of the 35th ; and at Ithaca. Captain
,Nicitotsos. with two companies of the Corsicans.
We anai,•usly wait the arrival of reinforcements to
enable us to proceed against Corfu and St. Maure.
At the former the French have a considerable gar-
rison. At the latter tbry hemebent four thousand.
men; but being principally Greeks, and greatly
tlisiffeeted to the French, we may view it as an
easy conquest. whenever we may choose to ur.der-
take its reduction. We have established a provi-
sional foray of Government at each of the islands
under our protection ; at the bead of which ere
British Officer., assisted by a Courted, composed of
the most retipectableiohabitants.

e'rlowitsbate na she Cethane G•irts was pest.
postal. lest Light. is the Haase of Cowmen% by
Mr. Gaartan, until Friday nest.

A Petitioa front the List India Compony woe
pre■ented, lost night, in the [louse of Common►.
cleunisig a sum of 1,904.0001. due to them from the
public for military expenses in India. It was re-
ferred to the Committee on India Affairs.

Among the very few prisons to whine minds Mr.
Possesses splendid and solid speech. on Friday,
has not carried conviction. we are sorry to °Were
tote Editor of The Awning Chives*. In his
paper of yesterday. he has attempted an answer to
it, whic•i, however vague and feeble, ought not to
pass without notice. It rings the changes upon
"dm dominion of the late ;" a fine captivating
phrase too 13riti,b ear ; meaning thereby, that the
House of Commons has a right only to proceed
rig:limit Sir Fit VIM 131111D.LTT in a Court of 1.30,
awl as if "the dominion eJ she Law," and the
rights and privilege* of Pa►liameut, were totally
distinct and contrary; whereas the latter are as much
the law of the land as the statute which received the
Royal Assent one hundred years ago.—Of all the
in. onsistencies that we have ever witnessed in politi-
cal controversy, we think this attempt, on the part
of persons affecting to espouse the right, of the
people. to set up a Court of Justisce, as the guar-
dian of the people's rights, in preference to them-
selves, as represented in the House of Commons,
appears to us the g►eatest and most eittrairedisiary.
It is very true, that the Judges being sow in-
dependent of the Crown. the people have more rea-
son to look for fairness and impartislity than for-
merly ; but still all the arguments founded upon
ancient authorities, apply to times when Judges
were not independent; and what must have been the
state of civil liberty in !how times? times to which
Sir Fasncts profemes a wish to restore us, if the
House of Commons was to be commuted by • Judge
Jcr►atu, or any otlte► men, mere creatures of the
Crown, eliding ■t its will sad pleasure? "Oh !
but." says The Moraine CArtoiele." the House of
Commons, es ■t present constituted. is jealous of
the liberty of the press, and the influence of the
Monarch is so great, that every thing is done
in it "at his instance." Whr, this mat be very
tr to ; but it is no answer to Mr. Pnasusas. who
says, "it the House of Commons do not let rigl.tly,
sad be insprnpely consttut►d, ti.• people ought to
onteud and trftwo it, by 11:1 coa,h a ioaal itiF.atis;