The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

JVAI'AL lATELLIGENcE.

PORTIMOITN, INWNUART
Failed the F 10141144 the Quell. $1%1101)40'4 fir lbeivasord.
TALMOUTII, I/BRYANT 9.
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son, frees Cook,

TrnitilAnir 11.

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f 1,60 6 to Km her name us •ny Whit Will MUM
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Arrives' end siti'M for Ole Direr Ib. Aim, Bell, from
floroos Ayres ; Na. y, Wiltinstor, hens Trinidad ; owl
J tows, Gray, from N. wesstir for Mukha and Jeousica.
/'ear door, from 11w River Ilse Vittorio. Tole, for Teirsi-
dad: (1.. e. Cliarlotie, Toyksr, for Rio Janeiro • *Mews
parkrs, Alku. for Madeira ; awl hfidillertx. Adams, fur
N,ll, and remain with the test as brfore.
'flir East I nd.a .hop Waterloo still keeps to sea, allbeogis
Ike wind i. guile routrasy

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rocerd ogi her voyage i eargo all barely lauded and

OUIJA I. eiVl4 E.

(eineelucled.)

Those whom attendance at our Lectures have
taught the iodine of our mode of thinking will
knob, and others ore here with doe deferetoce in-
'nulled, that the utmost possible favour to the
pursuits sod projects of individuals proposing public
advantage or harmless pleasure, compatible with
an allowedly strict gettersl adherence to tie rules
of justify, and to the true tenets of the Church of
Fughood, is the principle which seniors us. The
blowsier of a tender regard to those maims of our
fellow erratum has beets long complained of
in tlw Reviews and Newspapers of the present
'fey, and the means of promptly supplying,
de re Men, the word of that notice and at-
tention which they refuge to the candidate for
public favour, will be our constant study. Whe-
ther we shall be prepared to effect this purpose by
the immediate establishment of an °obtain' Re-
view, or similar undertaking, it at present doubt-
ful. But the evil is at its height, and though such
ti. cultivate literature insiely as readers do Hot feel,
tyro easy be serf at this injustice done to
and tutu of enterprise, yet they may feel it
tit its remedy by the greater abundance of the
amusement it would call forth front others, as well
111 by the nift.e philanthropic character of the sem
I:thrill it would awaken iii themselves. It has
Leese sometimes filmed that the circumstance
of espousing the Noe general npii•imis is the critic,
is sure to recite iss him a g••in•ruus syinpathy, that
residers him a sort of protection to sou against the
rival critic; but this Is far Irons the case ; literary
ambition may impUe these fratriridal Aristarchi to
s,rre in some exaggerated ...Innate of s particular
dot ma of one or other of the Failbras o.lllw Church,
supported by some moiler,. Pitebt of great general
melt. when they amicably unite (as it IP rimy to
inetetaii, from higher oratices) to fall foul on the
volividusl It emir theses to discourage, sometime!
will the less powerful *ran o( violent invective, but
in Gthwr iso.!•lohreit with the almost irresistible sieo.

lona of a political silence iind inattention.
This thetelore bring the case, our Society may
have inainfested somewhat more holdneos then pru-
desire, in adopting a subject for the first course of
its Lectures tending ill a ileculiar manner to excite
against it. utioleserverily, both ridicule and mien.
presentation. The enemies of our syoteas fumed by
this subject have prated to be. Ist. ''he super-
swims, use! orer-sersprious: 2elly, The steddlets.
active or passive. in the cutieersis of others; idly.
Tlw iiiterrated miacalcislidors Of a force they
hoped to overthrow. The eriticisnis hence on.
gunshot have been directed against the ROM of
slip Society. It has been already stated by Of to
tlw public. that se derive it party Iran the com-
mon sayisig, 4' that the busbies, of every body
is that of nobody." and partly from the append-
lion which Ulysses. in heater's Odyssey, assum-
ed (That of riobotly). to answer the inimical goes-
boas ol Polynlwitsu., should hypercritical pedantry
dispute the propriety ol our adoption of this name,
as a S.iciely having peculiarly in view to extract'
every advantage for inaiikinil !ruin the strict 'salm-
i:4pm, of NCOLECTED DUTIES and of O IiGLELI
A tic UM RNTS ; that is, not improbably to eo such W001...s
l...s of every body as is that of .ohodt. Let nie first
iecel to the memory of the at.,, learned und twines
1,11. ttlasllllllll 011;111 of many tonnes from what they.
I 11l iiiiii.itiee soAiitticetiono, said frossi lesb,
leglla-
iss,sir esiissasgs. IA word. in every Isisgu.sge 'poke('
ti. g the onion. of the earth ; sisal aisle, idly.
s all our hears-r.. shut ar ever wish our amts. sate.
t rrlietisbie this., now lisifeinog to my valedictory
toldress, d sad tt, bum I cauuul compliment in takiog
I. Jr.. of thesis at this cheerful %ennui of a year in.ii k-
eit, ris I hive indica,ed, by most stroking teen's,
better toast Ili ark lowleilg!eig iu theat tiiat preju-
dice of g oml oviioe which inclines them to the more
ill poi tam and suln.tani:al objects of thought, rather
vim* to si.e einisiv wood of the proper names,
se iflix to them.