The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-06-07 00:00:00

The motion fur a Committee was withdrawn.

Mr. Cu MYER postponed his motion for the repeal
of the Ag'iculturel Horse Tax till Friday.
Lord NIIITON postponed his motion respecting
the repeal of the Wool Tax till Thursday (this day).
The Order of the Day for the second reading of
the Yorkshire Poll Bill being then read, a short
discussion arose, in which Mr. Denman, Mr. S.
Bourne, Lord ►Milton, Mr. Wynn, and Mr.
Brougham took a part.
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
he committed oil Friday next.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the Douse adjourned at Two o'Cz.oc
this morning.

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'llewticusterl klbsiiiii,.ll'o4Bo63 a which the Porte
is not likely to agree.
CSIMINOWITZ (CAPITAL 6v OUILOWINA;,
MAT lE.
*amines of fugitive Greeks gaily arrive here
from Mofdisvia. We have shunt 800 houses here,
and every inhabitant is eager to Shelter the fugitives ;
but we • have iio mbre room. M. Rats'. the Aus-
trian agent, arrived here on The 4th from Jassy.
At Itudsclink, and according to 'other accounts.
at Siberia, and again, according to others, at bosh
places, the Turki have passed the Danube, and
it was feared they would enter Jassy on the
Terror precede* them, tbr they unsparingly destroy
whatever is in their way. Of Ypsilanti we know
nothing certain. Sometimes he is said to have
joined Al, of Joaniiiiia, sometimes to have gone
to Bulgaria, then to have retired to the mountains
of Trissillvdnia; then to have entrenched himself
with 40,000 men at Bucharest.

THE BRV!'ISH

LONDON,.
THURSDAY, Jima 7, mt.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived
,list night.
The following are extracts :

FARM $Olll6 3.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleine is
perfectly recovered from his late indisposition. The
Emperor Alexander arrived at Warsaw in the night
of the 19th of May, part of which he spent in
transacting business with his Ministers, and set out
next day for St. Peteriburgh, where he expected
to arrive on the 23th.

An article dated \Yarns', the 20th May. says-ii-
" The Russian and Polish troops which march
towards Moldavia will there form a cordon to pre-
vent the Turks in pursuit of the Greek rebels from
violating the Russian territory. The Emperor has
besides, by the Treaties, of Peace of Szistowa and
Bucharest, granted the immunities of the princi-
palities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Should the
Porte, after suppressing the disturbances that pre-
vail there, attempt to organise • new government,
it is indispensable that it should come to an under-
standing with Russia."

Five per Cent. Consols 86 f. ; Bank Action•
1,580 I.

Ta the House of Commons last night the Mar-
quis of LONDONDERRY brought down a communi-
cation from his Royal Highness the Dake of CLA-
RESICE. Previously to making it known, he moved
that the Resolution of the Committee of Sunsly, of
the 16th April, 1818, be read; after which he in-
formed the House that the 6,000/. per annum which
the House then resolved to vote his Royal High-
ness, but which lie then, for reasons highly ho-
nourable t• himself, declined accepting, trig Royal
Highness now, in consideration of the alteration of
circumstances, was desirous of receiving, and in
consequence he moved, that the consideration of
the Resolution of 16th April, 1818, be referred
to a Committee of the whole House on Friday
nest (to-mo►row), which was agreed to.—We are
surprised that this application has been so long de-
layed. It is a claim of strict justice. Since the
resolution alluded to, his Royal Highness has
become next presumptive heir but one to the
Throne. Since that time he has married an
interesting and amiable Princess, who lately gave
birth to a royal infant, and affords hope and pro-
mise of a future family. Steady and uniform
advocates ■s we are of economy, we cannot dis-
sent from this request. A suitable provision for
the immediate branches of the Royal Family is very
different from the accumulation of overgrown pen-
sions and sinecures : it is associated not only with
the splendour of the Crown, but is essential to the
grandeur and dignity of the country.
The attention of the House was ■gain called to
the Association calling itself
." Constitutional."
Dr. LUSHINGTON presented • Petition from Mr.
DOLBY, who, as our readers are aware, has been
selected as un object of their " constitutional"
vesigesince. The case of Mr. DOLBY is peculiarly
herd, us will be seen by the statement of the
Learned Gentleman to whom he intrusted his
Petition.

We should very much regret if the opposition
which we have thought it our duty to express to.
wards the Society which has vainly and unwarrant-
ably assumed the specious title of a " Constitu-
tional Association," should be confounded with any
intention or desire upon our part to thew a personal
disrespect to any of the individuals who have en-
rolled their names io the list of its members. %Ire
have not looked through the list with much atten-
tion, but in a hasty glance which we threw over it
we saw many names that omit and enjoy the esteem
and regard of all parties in the community. For
these persons we profess the sincerest respect, and
although with many of them we have the misfor-
tune of differing in opinion upon the greater num-
ber of 'Lair political questions which for some years
have employed the public mind of this country, we
eau yet esteem the purity of their principles, and
give them credit for sincerity and integrity. We
lope, in return,. that our motives and principles
swill be treated with the same candour and indul-
gence. But in the view which we have taken of
this Society, it matters nothing who may have sanc-
tioned it by the authority of their lames; it is with
the principle of such an
and
that we quar-
rel, nl not with its particular members. The re.
.pectability of many or of all of them does not te.
Isere thaws' from the imputation of having cowl
gojoimsgapitfluf in judgment; and we doubt not

• tile ‘,44 Nigi;
1.4141144%y theconditionS or tSrispo1 of aye:hesocHrtsrup.'
-.est •
ey, thellf.lropld to a *tussle avowal of feeyalty; the,
eritilaMst having previously considered withSitiebduis
the injurious effects which such a Society risaly
calculated to produce when put into taepve (wow
We hove been induced to make these n.marki
by the 'my ungenerous and tiejlist charges that are
levelled in the Treasury prints against all persons
i who venture to express a doubt respecting the le-
giddy or the expedieeicy of such a Society as this.
The support of the 4' Association" is utiempiek to
he made the test of loyalty, religion, and morality
throughout the country ; and volumes of vulgar
abuse, in which of course the old cant words. " sr"
dition," " faction," and " bla.pherny," form • pro-
minent part, are heaped upon it. opponents. The
Association is somewhat ludicrously represented
as being synounnous. with laws, loyalty, and
truth, and this position is urged with such retie-
mence, that one is tempted to wonder how the Go-
vernment has been enabled to exist so long without
the special protection of so invaluable an institu-
tion. It might be conjectured by a stranger, from
the very injudicious defence that is mark by its ad-
vocates fur this Society, that the question now in
dispute is, whether the laws of the country 1.11611 or
shall not be enforced. But this is slily thing but
the point wider corisideration, for they who oppose
the Association are far more friendly to the reign of
the bows, and perhaps we might add, of loyalty and
truth, than those who now dare to vilify their mo-
tives. The question the laws framed for
the protection of the Government be put into motion
at the discretion and will of the Government
itself, or at the caprice of an unauthorised, unre-
cognised body of men ?—Shall offences against the
State be prosecuted under the constitutional respon-
sibility of the King's Ministers, or by • self-consti-
tuted Association, who undertake to select for
ostensible prosecution but certain ruin such of
their fellow-subjects as to them or to their attorney
may seem fit ? The dispute therefore lies not
between the reign of law and isarchy, between
religion and infidelity, between loyalty and sedi-
tion, but betwreu the recognised powers of the
Constitution and the unauthorised assumptions of
private persons. The laws will lose none of their
vigour though this Association should be annulled,
and the members composing it return to their pro-
per level in society. They forget their duties to
the Government and to the country when they pre-
some to erect themselves into a distinct power in
the State, arrogating on the one hand • discretion
that belongs to the immediate. Officers of the Crown,
and oppressing, upon the, other, such of their fel-
low-subjects as may chance to iucur the personal
dislike of their agents or advisers'.
We can easily conceive that many of the asso-
ciators assented to the formation of this Society
from an impression that the Ministers of the Crown
have been remiss in their duty. that the Arroa-
PILY-ORNERAL ought to have been more active
in filing informations, and that the penal lows
ought to have been enforced with greater severity
against offenders. How far they may have been
judicious in thus censuring the Government without
arty iuquiry into the circumstances that may have
governed the discretion of the Ministers of the
Crown, we shall not pretend to say ; but this is
obvious, that one of the associators is • Cabinet
Minister, that many of them are Members of Par,
!lament, and that they might with ease have either
induced the Ministers to display more activity, or
hare complained its Parliament 'or their eilpible
neglect. The evil which the associaton seek to
remedy, is a certain remissness in enforcing the
penal laws against libels; of this the public might
possibly have some cause to complain, but there were
other means of correcting it besideerntrenchiug upon
the authority of the Crown, or exposing the faults
of its officers before the public, by contrasting their
indifference and remissness with the spirit and yeti- ,
vity of a private Association. Here is • practical
libel upon the Government which deserves the
notice of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

A Lisbon Mail has arrived, with Papers from
that city to the 26th last. In the sifting of
the Cortes of the 24th, M. SERPA, on the part of
the Committee appointed to examine various papers
relative to the conduct of Portuguese Ministers and
Agents in Foreign Courts, read a Report from the
Committee, stating, that the Government having
made the necessary communications to all, the first
who excused himself was the Resident in Eng-
land, unless he received orders from his MAJESTY ;
that the second was Jost ANSEL'S° CoIIREA, and
those others who refused passports to vessels, and
declared the Portuguese ports in a state of block-
ade; that the above CORREA and others had pub-
lished various papers, &c. which were direct libels
on the nation, and might have done infinite mil—
chief. The Committee thought their conduct
should be considered as treason to the nation ; that
they were in no =inner authorised by his MAJESTY;
that their conduct merited punishment, but that
there was no law to which they, could he rest•
dered amenable ; but that the Cortes ought to.era-
sure their proceedings, and declare them incapable
of being employed on foreign missions.
it was resolved that the Report should be print-
ed, and the paper on which it was founded laid on
the table to be examined by the Deputies.

The Report of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons upon the Lima relating to
Vagrant., is given in another part of our Paper.
Among other suggestions it recommends that the:,
practice of passing vagrants to their places of set-
tlement he suspended for oue year from the let of
September Om.

Yesterday the Marquis of LONDONDERRY had a
tong audience with the KING.

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The Dole of Hroni..ldre will give a splendid rout thin
'Again v, IL; effo ,abler
The NY hp!Desesie sir Canedeu's rout on Tuesday 'voting its
Arlitigion-str/et was attracted by nes, ly 200 distinguished
fashiow.blea.
The Marquia and Mlseeltioness of Cholmonde/ev gave all
elataot entertain...en, yesterday al Cholmondelry. Hops.,
tn.llie Duke of York. Anso..g usher dilliingnish•
sd pers....ages invited a, meet hia Royal lilightleau were.
Prince and Prineess &.i/dingy, the Disks of llnnirose, She
Marquis and Marehintiess of Hertf..r.l. the Marquis and
Marehloneus of Winchester, Earl of West/0104nd, Earl
Yarmouth. Grl. A/matron', Mr. sod M,s. Arbuthnot, he.
Visennniesa Aalebruok will give •.grautl.rusil this eartliolt
at her house's !Hans6/I.l.stree., Cavendish.s.p.are.
Lady G H. Cavendish has Wiled c.r,IA of invitation
for a grand runt on Monday neat at Burlington House, Plc-
cuddly,

Lady Johnstone will give a grand hall on the 19. h inst. at
ber house is. Guest Cumberland-place.
Mrs. Atkinson will gore • ball on the 13th twit. at her
boast in Nailingham-place.