The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-28 00:00:00

NFU,- SURREY THEATRE.

/tie IV EDItiFSDAY, July will lir presented ►new Serie-
Melii-flruilia, railed

lIIKARAK Tim MISER:
01. TIIF. CRAZY 01.0 SLIPPERS Or BAGDAD.
Altrr which tile 1111,,-Urania, called
TRIVIDIPSIES* HAUNT: or, THE C MAINS ./E TUE CLYDE-
To conclude with Comic Pa ~,,, ni!me. called
• rmairs PARADISE: Or. HARLEQUIN PI.01:ttlIBOY.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
This Evening, WEDNEVI).IV..ItiIy tit. there n ill he
A SPLE:yitlit %I A FIF:TE

..... .
hti Patrotintge a hie MeJe..tyl.
(Under the elite,.
!nth a waatant 'tweeze MI .. ‘nosftwvits trout Eight till Twelve
;

cot:Awing of a grand rolleert of Vora! and Instrumental Music, In
-rttteh wat be Introduced a Brand Battle Slitfonia, rmiii..ced by Mr.
Hooke: the attorrh.ing Perfortunneett of the ErVl6.ll JCielfler, t* lilrh
I ler met the approbation of nearly all Europe. Ihe low H. -
/I rte: new Performance of the adndred Fatimeeini: Tight mid
It o ei new lawinurattim.: the Aptendltt alm.leal Temple n itl be
ezhl-
i ; Elre-wuiltx terrific ascent of the y ln.rrican. &e. &e.

Doors Open at Seven. Ciumeirrt e ...... iteaces at Eight.
Mint

• In ennitequenee of re;;;;t7..ill;7ll;ltiricioi to rename :he favourite
Pellet of The t'hlneee Wedding. the Proprieh.ni reuirrifii!ly el:team,
t•etet it will he pert'. . ad for • few night,. altrrnatei t ith the Prated
Pantotuane.

T.tr IlsiT ism Pit EIS commenced publishing yettrday morning
at five o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, IS'lt.

It is with the greatest reluctance that we confess, that we
I ace wally no intelligence to communicate to our readers.
We have left no atone unturned—we have rummaged every
creek and corner, but in vain; no foreign intelligence, no
domestic calamity, no fire, no murder, no crisis. con.,
nothing in fact that can either amuse or interest, no, not
c ;en the power of explaining to the public the dosbyk/
i luer. des of cur cotemporarie,, as to whom they allude
when they tell the story of a lady of doubffol character.
I:oder these circumstances, we should feel abashed and
a:concerted, were it not that we enjoy the consolation of
the worthy old Scotch wife, who, when her potato crop
failed, from rains in the spring, and frost in the autumn,
piously thanked Heaven that, however hard her lot might
I.e, her mighlxiurs were as badly off as herself. We looked
at the paragtapha of ottr colleagues, who, like ourselves and
the Sun (not the newspaper), are burthened with the task
of enlightening the world in the morning, but from them
we could catch no hint. One talked of the old topic of
0f.....111004141,46,10.0. the metropolis, 411 d pre,Vbelitli j

with the Irivliman, that London would go out of town.
A•tother took a theme of which he never tins—Scotland,
ar.d found novelty in repeating in othor words that which
hr has daily repeated for years. A third informed us thot
Cite Paris papers of Saturday told us nothing but what we
knew the day before.
The evening papers of ycet:•rday arc equally barren.
The only lutelligenc.: we have received from abroad con-
sists in a file of Crylan Gazelles, front which we shall
• opy the only extracts at all interesting. The following is
Ire.t intelligence:--
•` We have great pleasure in announcing, that an Express has
Cos moment reached us from 1/alle, sming that the Hercules,
lisvirg at board his Excellency Sir Edward litrues and suite,
raised that poet yestenlay, on her way to Colombo.
A ship is now in sight, which, front the cin•uutstanee of her
having seas at the mast-head, we suppose to be the flereuks.
•"fte following is a list of her passungers

1.40.-Oeneral Sir Edward names, KA'. B. ; Lady Ilarnes,
('aloud and Mrs. Churchill, Mr. and 31:M. Eden, :Ilks Farrell,
Captains Hamilton and Hutchinson, Lieut. Rodney, Messrs.
Wilmot and I)ykc, and Aluastaat Surgeon Hume.
•• Since writing the above, we have Wen a geotleman who landed
at Mount Lavinia, from the Hercules, and htmes her to have I.ft
riglaiirl on the 14th August. From the lmeness of the hour we
conliwilcil to delay further particulars, than Mut Moe 4.at
p•gibati:li•y nfva, with Eiighind."

We are heartily glad to hear this, though VP2 were
ender no great apprehensions of a war with Ceylon.
They further contaio an order for a new coinage of.
r..pees, of equal value wills the Slaelras mete; otherwise

'there is nothing in them that can be interesting to the
public. Except a few proclamations of the Government,
they arc entirely made up of extracts from English books,
or from the Calcutta and Madras papers, of a very old
date.

Some doubts were entertained, and much discussion took
place, as to the propriety of the ladies of England setting
up the Brazen Image that overlooks Hyde-park; but now
that it is set up, we think there can be only one opinion as
to the propriety of preserving it from mutilation. As the
matter stands at present, the barrier around it has been
broken down, the letters of the inscription arc one by one
disappearing, and the statue itself has become a climbing
post for his Majesty's leige urchins to display their prowess
upon of a Sunday. If things go on at this rate we shall
not be surprised to see the granite pedestal broke in pieces,
to fonn specimens for the cabinets of cockney geologists,
or the fingers and toes of this monument of British glory
amputated, for the purpose of being recast into snuff-boxes
and tobacco-stoppers, for the curious in nick-knacks, as'
was the fate of the ex-ball and cross of St. Paul's.
One would think, that a monument raised to COMITICIDO.•
rate a series of victories, unparalleled in history, and ac-
quired at a loss of blood and treasure which no nation on,
earth but the British could have survived, was at least as
well deserving of the protection of a sentinel as a piece ofl
Turkish ordnance; or if it be too distant from a guard-
house for a relief to be easily sent to it, why not build a
small guard-room in the vicinity, and mount a day sentry
upon it; or if it is feared that the member for Brechin
should oppose the vote of twenty pounds in the barrack
estimates, for this purpose, let such a railing be placed
round it as a man would put round his own area, for if
something of this kind be not done sparkly, the antiquary
'of 1921 will most assuredly be as mucb pnultsl to deter-
mine the precise spot which the statue of Achilles occupied,
as those of the present day are, to demonstrate the field of
the celebrated battle of the Mons Gratopius, fought between
the army of Agricola and the Picts.

It has of late been repeatedly our painful duty to record
the death of people who have died of one of the most
dreadful diseases " that flesh is heir to," we mean hydro-
phobia ; and we find, that the appearance of rabid (lop
seems daily to increase, instead of dimishing. Surely, in
such a case, some precautionary measures ought to be
adopted ; every one is aware, that as long as the weather
continues so warm as it has been for the last eight or ten
days, we may look for fresh instances of this calamity
every hour; and yet we are sc- y to remark, that the streets
of the metropolis are as much crowded with the canine race
as if their masters were perfectly curtain that they neither
could do, nor receive, injury.

A gentleman who has lately returwA from South America
has brought with him a quantity of a particular species of
toot, which in that country is known to be a perfect specific
against animal poisons, and which he thinks might also
have the effect of combating the bite of rabid animals.
This is a favourable time for trying this remedy, as hy-
drophobia has hitherto resisted every remedy that has been
proposed, from opium and bleeding, which was trium.
pliantly declared by the French to be a specific, to injecting
the veins with tepid water, which produced instant death
on the first patient who had the misfortune to he the ea-
first perch( of the experiment. Should any medical gen-
tleman have an inclination to try this root, we shall be
most happy to give him every assistance in procuring it.

We call the attention of our readers to the proceedings
which have taken place in different parts of the country,
for the purpose of erecting monuments to that great and
good man, JAM SVarr.
An ingenious but eccentric correspondeat has written a
letter on the subject, to which we refer with feelings of
very cordial sympathy. We trust, however, that what he
states and insinuates with respect to the conduct of the
heretofore public-spirited town of Greenock, is greatly ex-
aggerated ; indeed, it is impossible to believe it otherwise ;
at the same time, some justification of the crippling man-
ner in which the worthy inhabitants have followed in the
rear of the other admirers of their illustrious townsman, is
certainly required. That a prophet is never honoured in
his own country, has long been an invidious truth. But
it cannot be credited that the gentlemen and merchants of
Greenock have been so blind to their own interests, and so
stupid, as nut to understand the hints which appear to have
b 'en given by Mr. Watt himself in founding the library,
and by his son in presenting them with his statue by
Chantry, as not to know that,! by these acts, it was intended
to suggest, that he wished to be remembered in his native
town. It is, in truth, humiliating to think, that any such
'cause as the one ussig,ned, viz. " the Stool Lawsuit,"
immortalised in the AYRSHIRE. LEGATEES, could have
prevented the chair from being taken, for so honourable a
purpose as that of doing homage to the modern Archi-
medes. In a word, the civilized and scientific world have
a right to some explanation from the inhabitants of Gree-
nock for their singular conduct in this business. As the
birth-plain of James Watt, Greenock may be entitled to
honour ; but, towards his memory, it has shown itself un-
worthy of that good fortune.

Since the above was written, we have been informed
that Mr. Watt was really not born i.i Greenock, but in the
respectable and rising town of Cantadyke.

THE KING.

WiNnsop, JVIY 26.

Vestcnlay afternoon his Majesty took his usual drive
[save slimier in his pony phsetun, in the Great I'ark, snd is
the evening returned to the Royal Lodge.

The following speeches were this day delivered, previous
to the vacation, by the young gentlemen of Eton College,
in the upper school-room, before the Provost of King's Col-
lege, the Rev. Dr. Goodall, Provosts of Eton, the head
masters, and a very fashionable company of visitors,
among whom were Mr. Seer.tary Canning and Mr. litm-
kisson :
I Mangum - - Camillus - . - Livius
2 Astley, ma. K.S. Phi!nettles - - - Sup huries
3 Palk - - - Slicipsa - - - - Sallustius
4 Brownlow ). - Legat !tarn •
5 snuw,ma. Alexander ) Q. Curttus
8 Serrins Tullius . Deis's
7 Carter, ma. - Antony - - - Shakspeare
8 Pearson . - - fixer Tacittis
9 11rrenwisial Sit Posturnius . ',tem*
10 lord Douro - In Caiilin. 111. . ('leer)
II Tetinysun - - Catilina - -
12 Loft, K.S. . - . - 11I.assingve
13 Farmtliareon, ma. I'm :11s-cello . rro
I I Evrton, not. - Phillip. I. - - Dents!henes
15 11 +silage, 11131‘. - Lord S!ratfnl . State Trials.

Monday the Pule of York tvt nt to Windsor, and dined
with the King at the Royal 1,01:4c. Ills Itoval !liglints?.
staid till near one o'clock, and ilo n left for London. and
arrived at his residence in the Palace about three o'clock.

Yesterday arterooon, soon atitr three o'clock, his Royal
ilighoe.s left Loudon fir Brighton.

lootlay Prince 1,-opolil let town for Claremont.
Ytsterilay ant:motto Alt. and NIN. Canning loft White-
hall Stairs in a boat, to dine with a numerous party on
board a &hip olltireenwieh.

Yesterday. afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
after transacting business at the Treasury, left town for
Chulton, Kent.