The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

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TO THZ ZDlrvoli or THE 1101'.1111nli 10111 i t • '
Sta—Tour exposure of the New lion . ttliiirt 14E4
I his abusive attack on the Edinburgh Revielpflor bnivialk
merely mentioned incidentally the name of a Frenslia,
poet, an offence against decency which touched
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virgin delicacy to the quick, induces me to call Y,;t
attention to hill comb:wiry, When a jourisaliet is Oil
eitremely sensitive that the very name of a dissolutil., ../
poet makes his flesh creep, we naturally expect the,-
if in his presence the voice of profaneness was ntit:i .
hushed, he at least would never be its echo : that it: ...
would not be the one to run with open mouth, repeak‘e'
bag in the public ear all the grossness and impuritliCi .
which had been poured into his own. Our criin. -
law considers the receiver as bad as the thief. .-
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the same principle I hold the individual that circulatimii
: the effluvia of corruption into•quarters to which itg
' would not otherwise have found its way, to be an als..*
eeuary, to the fun as guilty as the principal offendefal
. Casting my eye over the New Times of Saturday laito,
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i I began to read an account of what passed atAlke I
Mansion-house, on an application from the SECRia I
1 TAILY of the Society for the SUYPRESSION 07 VlCia
as to how he was to get rid of the nuisance which ex-
• isted at the corner of Giltspur-street, occasioned by i
a the placards hung out in front of Mr. Carlile's ebo4
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', Being naturally of a grave and saturnine cast, f wan I
led into a long train of melancholy reflection on the 1
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a vices which abound in this great metropolis.. Ldtp,
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the modest Doctor of the New Times, in all matt* i
of verbal delicacy, I am extremely susceptible'. I I
know that offences will come, but I know it is said,
" woe to those through whom they come." Like him,
Po WI% I am for pursuing all offenders is this way old,
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a- direful vengeance, and am for following up Oa fund
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ties of mankind till we make the world ai puteial
Paradise: Indeed, Ido notibink I ranlritsysolf with
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the self-righteoas when I say thate -world less pet 4
is scarcely fit for such persons as the dear Dooming
of myself to breathe in. In thelnidet of nr4 ri4146
n_ phical reverie, behold, a lady tke.pailasii#4
which I wars sitting, for the rittitose of dis'Onargigi
ilf the debt of a morning call due to the lady of thezhon*
got The latter, I knew, was dressing, as it was.duriamtbee
ill,
do idle interval of expectation that I, had. occuated ,nayr
lea ~
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„ self as above stated ; but, as it grew near the hoer of
san engagement which I had made, rase to depart
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at, and, while about to put the. New 2111.941 AO: thq
rae,': hands of the elegant female vititar stkeigoMpl. tit '
as leave behind me, my eye was ancihmltilrionesMali
eel by some dashes and initials, 'relsickapireig..4,44.4
met
intelligence, whatever it role*. 111; lOU* ofiligAit . ~
tae sea importance., When L.begen to mai tvosildmsprep
mod
em credit my eye-sight—you might hameAppakad Ana
down with a feather. In the =ft. 41,14p;n7yfe, hi
the the very next column—to that atiehosiatadthito seal
NMI - -ar---A,
iced of the Vice-suppressing Society, Was the elotbil•of am
rise
„o indictment of two persons for firing a bun, In• rile
al course of the examination, oaths and imptlemions
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seem to have fallen abentlike hail-Moses. scieiiiiiiiee
ins tbe
virtuous Editor, however, world not suffer onedt
'mit them to melt away,• but picked them up, one by one,
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or of for the edifiailine of his: residers timid I was ab- i
any
solutely within mace of putting into the hands of this 01
Lady, to whom I was a stranger, sod. who might, from
cgs, such an act, have formed a judgment of my moral.
his character—the examination of a witness, part of whosis
evidence is reported in this wise :—" Oa Thursday, the
ten 7th of November, lie was heard to say,' I wish I kismy
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ay° my friend (meaning, as was supposed, the prireeetiltei) •
:' d—n seize my lead if I woud'
nt do a job for m,
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lex, and give him the length of my tongtse: Qs Salimiles,
1 of the 9th of November, in the evening, he OW sir
Weston, ' I think Mr. Fleury is the man who has pet-
tork vented my being relieved ;' and afterwards, ' if theta
', in is any one of these great b---s starving the pope, I
ugh
think they will have a great deal to ammo, fir,' spit,
and
It as he was leaving the house, hn midi 1 .211....a5y is
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oint my enemy, d—ii his heart.' In Illiis 'afah9ollllll4l*
i of
felY 10th of November, Weston was spin at 1ie.114...
can over's house, and when, for the same cause, he was
r to refused relief, he said, in a very malicions manner,
ver, ' I will be d—d to hell if Ibe not a match for him
kr. (meaning the prosecutor) before to:nuanose night.'.l'
'°"" I really beg pardon of your ripul4p4 Ni giosol64
_ such profane vulgarity—but I tea ii frOg' ik 1
ten-...r_ a
„mil New Times, Whose pare present a porpstnapp
"n 4 similar samples of 07.4itor's prefetigd l'iinlntejnalli
des-
the the purity of the rising generation. I prodtiee itie r,
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not evidence of his zeal in the suppression of whateveig
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Ann tendency to taint the youthful mind, and to
use-
nbe when moral reformation is the great object so be aimed
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~0„, at, how strenuously be set his shoulders to the wheel. -..
Th.° But "fair play's a jewel," and I ought not in candour
orni•
to impute this violation of decorum ez4sisively 4? the
cos
columns of the Journal in question. Nis brethren in
ken the same department are, in general, I lament to say
ma- it, equally guilty. Our Judges and public Magi).
" a trates of every kind, must of necessity hear ntfttie
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med cases of crime and depravity that are bronglubefoce
and them, and they must, is the discharge of their thsty.
here listen to all the evidence, however gross and ofibleisre,
nor by which those charges are substantiated. But ins*
mn' is no excuse for making the public newspsMtfli .11611f4
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ks,. form a great part of the reading of evetiffirtitoll-
-- milt' throughout the kingdom, the vehicles of alb lm
in's, indelicate and offensive testimony *ugh the iskniU • .
f°r ked the trials make it necessary to produce. •" A &tit
hick paper," as a correspondent in an Evening Journa has
ived' most justly remarked, " can have, or et least ought to
his have, no other object than to furnith amusement mad
Sa- information, and within this wide range enough Ittar
wing always be found to excite interest, and to setiefyin-
ano-
,, of .quiry ; and enough akeo ID:itplumon all the activity,
inn& and command all the tainstnhinhi ea can be employed ill
ii,. its service. When well Amidnetad, it is &really in
t the
the power of this department of the press to 'object
ifily,
'cite dissipated to the aseitol of reason, and.r.o.isia i
own
kw over our psi** to die eitte of virtue. It if, there-
fore, deeply to be regretted, that it is made, as sce 1
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