The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-16 00:00:00

scraple not so send them all over Europe, where
the French language is understood.
No*, thou wilt sac, my friend. Xe 110, leave
those things winch thou dust not understaod, or
eanst not exploit,. mill 1.401 on to facts; tell me,
thou wilt say, now the trials ire 6itisbed. who are
the new Minister. friiiii which factiou are they
clitoris? By Culig-liiit-tsee, thou wilt believe as
tittle whet I shell tell thee, as what I have already
&livered. Their Kiug, who dismissed a whole
Ministry because one of them did not humble him-
self enough before the throne, is gone tato the
country, without knowing who are to be his Muns-
ter& How ! hue ! thou wilt cry, their Monarsh
left his capital without appointing a Miatistro Vor
what is he gone iuto the country To visit his pro-
viiicss—to distribute justice—to muster his army.
Alas! alas! drat Lieu Chi, England is not China.
Hear, and I will tell titer; the English hove no sun,
uu summer, as we hove; at least their sun does not
scorch like ours. They contemn themselves with
tioaire : at a oertain time of the year they leave
their capitol, and dint makes sustainer; they go oat
of the c.v, and that makes the country. Their
t Monarch, when lie goes into the elsoutry, passes
in his calash by a row of high trees, goes slung a
grovel walk. crosses one of the chief streets, is
driven by the side of a canal, between two rows
of Wept, at the end of which he hose small house,
sad then he is supposed to he in the country. I.
saw this ceremouy yrsrenlay. As soon as he was
;pour, the turn pot on ouster vestments of white
linen; mid the women left off those vast drap‘ries.
which they call hoops, and which I hived, scribed to
thee ; and the') all the men awl all tier, women said
"It we: hot." If thou wilt believe me. lam row
writing before a fire.
At tile top of the gravel walk, as their King
passed, was a huge: company of youths and boys,
newly clad, as mariners, olio are clothed by pri-
vate contributions ; for private peeress are rich.
the public is poor—and nothing is well done. but
by theme starts and devices. The King has given a
thousand pieces nt gold to this institution, not as •
Kul4, but iu ht. private capacity, winch here they
distinguish. If he had given them a thousand pieces
of his public money, not one-hall would have come
to the youths, but would have been embezzled by
the. officers of the revenue. These youths were
coinnunitled by no officer in the sea-service, but by
the slily civil Magistrate they hove. and be us
totally blind. He commends that charities, in-trad
of beimg the object of them. Every thing here is
reversed.

Thou wilt be impatient to hear why the Kin; has
appointed no Ministry. If I may beltete'
who has always hitherto told air truth, the Knits
Liu, no more to 40 with the choice of Ins Almo.try,
than thou witlithat of our wereor Emperor. Thou
wilt reply. but can the King of 6.i1 ,nd mon ike
Ministers. and Dot make them ? Truly
not how that is. Me has left the town, oriel eon a
Mwiistry pe formed, he is to lie movie accithuhte(l
with it. The three faction. are arming with ev.eii
other to come to some agreement, sod to whatever
they agree. the King most. Thou wilt say, then
lie is no King. I rustier. init oceoriliiig to thy
idea.; the F,uglish think differently. NA ell, wilt
thou bay, but in thy other letters thou ham de-
scribed the people of England as ino Po essik. sa-
tieticl ; wilt they swifts. three Irartim., of rtuf.rent
merits ;yid principle., u. lord it weer hotel King
people ? WiN those who %valise Royal Airtearor.t, trot
revel the attutillibritou of it ? Will Inner raw tiank
the ai‘eient Nivister. :mite. hot lit °trudged if
they are a:zat:, adgolny...l* Will those who re vitiated
the least fiction f.r heini dismissed, not resent
their whiting with those who reatnbutrd to their
?
My frirsid Lien Chi, I tell tMe things as they
are—l prrtead u..t to aceeaut for the coattail of
Kale/shales,. I tohl thee before th-y are isateaspre-
6eresi6le. It lot* lately that • min fl entered
into the King's st,..ce,, and vacated 1114 *eat in the
rI assembly by it. The King punished hi,.l
. would not let Kira be re-admitted into
the general assemlily ; yet the man who bowed not
to the King may he rewarded for it. Farewell.

(This vises rem arallea May la. 1757, ws• wit lath* ?tag
seat day. sod rest Olivetti five itaihows in a &Militia 3