The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-04 00:00:00

FRO3I OUR CORRESPONDENT.

PAWS, BIM. 1.
The Ministry every day signalise their career by some
act of ignoble and cowardly despotism. Every body re-
members that it is riot sis months since the Ministers did
not blush to have recourse to the most criminal and shame-
ful means to procure the election of M. Sanlot Baguenault
las Deputy for Paris, instead of M. Lafitte. Circular soli-
citations, threats, false voters, false votes (pox &clears,
fit sssss corks dent, ie dans ha colleges) violence, corruption,
nothing indeed was omitted to insure the return of M.
Sanlot Daguenault. The ministry succeeded. Their can-
didate was elected in preference to M. L•efitte. It appears
that the ministry lent their support to M. Sanlot Hague:intuit
only from the retsuasion that when l: was chosen deputy
he would vote for them iike a valet, according to the orders
they gave him. It has not been so, howectr. M. Sanlot
Daguenault spoke, and with some talert, against elle law
proposed by M. de Wide respecting the Itentes. Same
time after he entered into an association with M. de
Larboureleimaye and M. Leinoine, to revive the Aria-
torque. It required no more to change into hatred the
previous goodwill the Ministry hail borne towards him.
When they had dismissed an Advocate-General of the
Court of Cessation, for having su&rtel a n•stilt favour-
able to the Aristarque, one could not be s,Nrprised that they
would not allow one of the proprietors of that journal to
wAtinue in possession of those public functions which are
in their girt. The Ministry could not deprive M. Sanlot
Bagetenault of the title of Deputy, which they had so largely
contributed to procure fur him ; but as he was Mayor of,
the Second Arrondisement of Paris, lie was, in respect of
that oltice, subject to the jurisdiction of the Minister of
the Interior, and no time was lest to make him feel it. M.
Baulot Ilaguenault bat just been dismissed from his'
mayoralty, but at the same time the ministry are so much
ashamed of this act, that they do all they can to keep it
secret, and the Censors have received orders not to suffer it
to transpire in the journals.
The formation of a ministry of religions worship, and
the new general arrangements consequent thereupon, serve
M. Corbieres a• a pret xt for discharging thelprineil a' em-
ployt.4 in his department. More than twenty of these are
mentioned who have been many years in the service. They
arc discharged on the pretext of r.:organization, but really
to make way for others. Tue Censors have orders to pre-
vent the Journals from speaking of these dismissals.
The Censors hod I th,ir meetings in a place into which
no profane p !rsoli is allowed to enter. Some rash indivi-
duals, however, who have seen it, state, as a curious pecu-
liarity, that it is unia:actiteil with a bust of the Count
d'Artois, while we may look in vain there fur a bust of the
King.

Amidst the paucity of foreign intelligence, and the happy
rareness of demestic occurrenc-s of "deep interest," it is
gratifying that all we have to communicate is of a cheering
character. The harvest has been abundant throughout
the country, and the late fine weather has given the farmer
the means of getting it secured. Our manufactures, par-
tieularly our great staples, are in high demand, and give
good prices. We extract the following from a letter ad-
dressed to his correspondent in the City from an extensive:,
dealer in the iron trade in Warwickshire:— 1

'• The great demand for our manufactures has produced some
disquietude through the whole of ours and neighbouring districts
fur an advance of wages. In two instances submission was the
wisest plan ; but a still further demand has placed those who have
made large engagements in ammo perilous situation, as it would be
impossible to replace the considerable engagements I had during
the first five months of the year at an advance of 15 or 20 per cent.,
and heavy ankles, as iron nails, at 25 per cent. ; and yet the de.
mantis on these terms cannot be half supplied at present ; but there
must be a re-action, and whoever is the first to get ton market with
those advances, will find great difficulty till the prices settle down
to 4 regular standard."
We have received a series of (;ibraltar Papers to the
13th ultimo. Tncy confirm the intelligence respecting the
fever at Cadiz. The police regulations, refared to in
the following article, we think may probably have been
adopted, in some measure, on account of the political
events in the neighbourhood of the fortress. The follow-
ing is an extract:
GIBRALTAR, AUCI'ST 11.

Intelligence of the yellow fever haying broken out at the Ilavan-
nah seems to have lately reached Cadiz. In consequence of which
several new police re.mlations were issued on the 31st ult.. forbid.
ding foreigner. to lodge, spend the night. or stay in the buildings,
sheds, or eating-houses mitside the walls, or to enter the city,
except through' Waterport or handeort Gates, and with the med.
site passports, under th? penalty of 1(N) ducats and 3U daye
fihement ; to which will be likewise liable those who harbour the
°Wenders. -

The following is an extract of a letter from a naval
officer, dated Gibraltar, August 11. It is curious only as
it thews ill., spirit which actuated the Spaniards in their
bite enterprise at Tarifa. It also &hews that the French
Aid not succeed quite to cheaply as they would lead us to
believe in their official 2CCOUIIIt
" There is sonic eseitiment here, Owing to a party of Spanish
Constitutionalists having got into Tarifa. An attack upon them
ly the French fr.. Cadiz has taken place, in which they (the
trench) were beat off whit some loss. They say they are deter_
tuned to take it (-mit ghi cookie. I was close in last night, within
a quarter of a mile a the town. Among their rejoicings they
forgot to bight up the light-house ; however, a large moon, and ■
clear night, did quite as sell.
Atto. lt—This morning there has been a hfstvy firing at
Tarifa. A French General has been brought to Algesiras, whn
has died of his wounds. The Spaniards here are.full of fun and
frolic about the matter."

The Cour Royale gave judgment yesterday (Tuesday
last) in the caw of Mrs. Mary Bryan, a native of Ireland,
the divorced wife of Colonel Milky Doyle. The Tri-
bunal of First Inatspcc had decided against a second mar-
riage, which .he proposed to celebrate before the Mayor
of the Third Arrondissetnent, %ill) M. ;gondol), a
winia-
ture painter. This decision the Cour Royale now con-
firmed, adopting the opinion of the inferior Court, that as
the French law no longer recognises divorce as the dissolu-
tion of marriage, even strangers divorced according to the
law of their country cannot be married a second time in
France.—Parix Paper.

By the last news from Greece, it appears, that Prince
Ma nrocordato had concluded " a Convention of Neutrality "
with (hoer Vrione, and made advantageous arrangements
with the chide of soma Albanian trilies, which would
almost compel the Pacha of Scutari to remain neutral. It
is even said that the latter was also secretly ritvciating
with the Greek Government.

The Russian Government, according to recent accounts,
has imposed a tax of three per cent. on the produce of all
the copper mines in Russia, which will be productive of a
considerable revenue, instead of the 300,000 rubles that
twit to he raised under the old system.
The whole line of road through Kingsland, Enfield, Tot-
tenham, and as far as the seven mile stone, at Lower
Edmonton, is about to be lit with gas, supplied front the
manufactory in hackney-fields. The pipes are nearly all
laid down, and many of the lamps erected, indeed, as far
as Stamford-hill, is already lit up, and from the number
of workmen employed, it es expected the entire length of
road will be illuminated in about a fortnight's time.
An experiment was last week made in Kendal, at the'
shop of Mr. Phillipson, to ascertain the powers of a certain
newly invented waterproof cloth. A piece was folded up
in the form of a bag, filled with water, and hung up at
ten o'clock on Thursday morning. It was taken down on
Friday afternoon, at two o'clock, and -found not to have,
leaked one drop.
ToTourists, Gray's Annie of Iloads, recently published,
will be found a most useful travelling companion, its plan
embracing Much features of utility and ready reference, as
have long been wanted in Itineraries. For instance, it
brines into one paint of view the various lines of route'
leading to any required point of distance, and the Index is
so arranged 83 to enable a direct and immediate reference
to any required mote, at whatever principal town or water-
ing-place the tourist may happen to be. Iksides these
advantages, it contains several lines of route which arc not
to be found in any similar publication, and amongst which
we notice a line of communication between the west-end of
the Metropolis and the north roads, through Edgcware,
Hemel Hempstead, and Leighton, joining the Chester anti
Holyheatl..;oad, near the 41st milestone, from Hicks's
Hall ; as a:so an outline of the new road now forming
front Chelteollun to I lereford ; particulars of the contem-
plated improvements on the Holyhead-road, &c. &c. ac-
companied with a complete set of county maps, price 12s.
or, with the maps coloured, 13s. half bound. Published by
Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-row.

The heat of the weather duritirt the last three days has
been excessive, particularly on Wednesday and yesterday.
Several horses on the roads near the metropolis, dropped
dead with fatigue. Last night there aas a heavy fail of
T, which we hoi,e will render the ann,,sphere mere
ndurable.

the Dont.)
NUM, SEPT. 1.

The King heard Mari In his apartment.
Ili. Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers which lasted two
hours.
Mr. Iltirtado, Minister from Colombia to London. has just ar-
rived at Paris with his family. He alighted at the Hotel d'Orvil-
km Rue de It ivoli.
The plague has appeared at Ator in the lonian Islands. The
High Commissioner has re-established the Sanitary Laws pre-
viously in force in all their vigour.
A revolt on the part of the felons. condemned to the gallies for
life, at Toulon, had long since been apprehended, and measures
had been taken to suppress it, if it broke out. On the 23d ult., at
noon, at the moinert that those of them who sere employed upon
the gmur.d of Alourillon, were entering a shed under which they
repose during suspension from labour, one of them, with a cutting
instrunieet, struck the serjeant of the guard, who, finding himself
attacked, drew his sword and stretched the felon who had wounded
him dead at his feet. This was the signal of revolt. They all
rushed upon the guards, who, in defence, fired upon the assailants.
1111. Reynatl, Commissary of Marine, hastened to the spot, and
order was promptly restored. In this utinirtunate eircunistansa
sixteen of the galley-slaves were killed and several wounded.
The Kim g of Prussia, according to custom, has avoided the
homages of his natal anniversary. Ile went to the Isle des Peons,
at the confluerce of the Spree and Ilavel, near l'oadani. It is a
delightful retreat, in the midst of our plai..s of sand, where there is
a superb collection of flowers, particularly of roses. The King,
who much enjeys himself there, has lately embellished it by
purchasing, for 311,000 crowns, a new collection of roses and exotic
plants. It is also the favourite retreat of the Princess Royal,
daughter of the King of Bavaria.
mere will be the,: camps d'exreciser this autumn; in Silesia,
near Breslau ; in Prussia, near Konfsberg„ and in l'omerania.
The troops of the garrison and Royal tluard of Berlin will also
msnauvre in the vicinity of that capital.
There are two remarkable tnings in the measure which we an.
'flounced in our last number, viz. the creation of a Minister for
Ecclesiastical Affairs, and the choice of the Prelate appointed to
this high function; both merit the gratitude of the clergy. The
formation of a special Ministry for Ecclesiastical Alliirs has long
been earnestly desired by the friends of religion, and may lead to
results of the highest importance to the Church of France.
(From Gologootre Aleueeire.l
Pants, Seel. I.
Ssoce -Ex eft* ear, A en. 31-3 ol"boca.—The great quan-
tity of Stock in demand, in consequence of settling.day, occasioned
a rise in the market to-day. The Five per Cents for money closed
at 101 f. We. Pm the end of the nineth, the rice, at four o'clock,
when the parquet dosed, was 10If. 71k. At this hour it le
telf.ll3e. The Royal Spanish Loan declined I pre cent. In other
foreign Funds there is no variation.
A Cennril of Ministers was held yesterday at the housed the
Count de Villele.

On the 28th ult. the Germanic Diet licl.l its last meeting, pc&
vious to the vacation, to sign the Protocol.
The following it from the rwirrirr de 114, Ithiff:—" We an
assure:] that the police of Berl:n have succeeded in discovering, in
one of the towns of the Prussian Monarchy. a secret association,
which not only hail the project of subverting the Constitution of
the Provincial States. hut who had also conceives' the gigantic plan
of giving to all Germany a new organisation, by establishing •
system of unity. Detail, of this affair are eagerly expected."
lux Nevi Fr ND!. SEPT. I.—Five per cents. le2f.; ditto for the
end of the month, 1021. 10e. Neapolitan, 88f. Spanish Royal
Loan, 86f.

FRENCH PAPE'RS. ENGLISH OPERA ROUSE.
ahrlf rßi‘ra.riliattne,4 tint ?hod uarrie7fluillfi f'sne'lloc::::.:1
Yestrrday,we received the Etude, dated Thursday, and In continence of the temporary withdrairr, of
The following are very:tiiss attractivestephens
and the other Paris papers of Wednesday.
extracts:— Miss

provit., engagements, the manager of this theatre,
night, introduced some oilier novelty ; and, as t. 544
scions of the magnitude of his recent loss an wen as
inability to produce a sufficient substitute, he favoured I
'
patrons with two new pieces instead of the one so m 4
voidably and unprofitably withdrawn. The first entertain
' ment for the evening was a new farce, called Jountho„
England, by Mr. Peake, founded on the wellanown
tertainments given by Mr. Mathews, at this home, after
his return from America. We certainly mite red the horde
with excited expectation. Mathews a caricareires, and
eccentric vagaries, certainly appeared to us „,:sc.
tible of reduction to dramatic limits and proporroOl'..
and we thought that, u.:der the exptritiwed
of Mr. Pt ake, something, like jtv.tice, if not hor4,
would be done to such a fruitful and well known so,'
ject. We ate sorry to be oblig.ed to say that our ear%
tations were far from being realised. The music, incluelog
the overture, presented nothing praiseworthy nor eTes
novel. The plot, if we may so call a heterogeneous
tore of absurd incidents without point, without intevcia,
and almost without connection, is too simply absurd tote
artificial enough for r. written development ; and is
equally unfaithful in the delineation of American nit is
of English manners; and Jonathan W. hooli4ins (Mr.
Mathews) is as much a libel on the American eh'.
meter as Sir Leather lip Gros!peder (Mr. Bartle...) is in
unjust and illiberal caricature of a City
These silly attempts to debase (+oracle:a in themstivcs n.
spectable, can only be made tolerable in the performance,
by theatrical talent of the first degree of excellence. Tida
talent, it has long been acknowledged, ie en riterta in
thews; and he, together with Hanky, in the character of
an English Alderman, preserved the piece from immediate
condemnation ; and the curtain fell during the equivocal
honour of a feeble applause.
The second novelty of the evening is called the Frezn
Enke ; a musical drama in two acts, translated bee Mr.
Planche, from a French piece called Le !Wage. h haa
all the cliaracterittics of French frivolous inanity and eltu.
vocal morality. The plot is too jejune and trifling to re.
*mire explanation. The first act is the very essenerofir
plenty, and the second would appear the same, if it had
not itec:ssarily the advantage of the denouement, which
rebored us from much ennui. It was given out, U we]
as the former piece, for r!petitionto-morrowevening, wok

what will inoq likely Lie called in the play-bill; gent
applause; and should it, contrary to our expectvions, hue
a run, sve shall have another opportunity of stating mare
at large our S ntisnents on the performers as well uoa the
drama. One performer, however, we cannot pan err is
complete silence; her great popularity, her great mere,
and our sincere anxiety to see them both continue and',
ininished. cemp...l us to say, that we could will to hut
seen Miss Kelly in a character more congenial to her talent.
We will not contrast her admirable acting in &mem

purely mclo-dramatic, with her personification of her clu-
racter of last Hight. There is no comparison. We cria
only give our &civic.: (in common with all her friends) thst
she should not attempt to sing : her physical posers weby
no means commensurate with her conception, and there-
fore she may possibly fail the more.

ON THE PROPRIETY OF RECEIVING
TILE PLEA OF GL'll.7'Y IN ClillitllV.4-1, Ci5E9.

(FROM A coRRICSTONDKNT.)

A case lately occurred en one of the circuits which de-
s. rves to be noticed. It nee that of a prisoner who, on his
arraignment on a clime,• o: felony, expressed a wish to
plead guilty. The Jotter remonstrated with him on the
ininolicy of this proceeding ; soil, after much pressing
entreaty, prevailed on him at length to put himself for trial
on his country.
Fortunately the interests of the community did not euf-
fer, on this occasion at least, Ivy the amiable weakness of the
Judge. Luckily rot a single link was found wanting in
the chain of circumstantial testimony by which the pri-
soner's guilt was established ; and, notwithstanding all the
Judge's benevolent anxiety that he nil the be on the aleit,
ter the purpose of utakimg his escape through some tine or
whir of those loop-hobs. which, from the imperfect nature
of human testimony, will always, even under the bast sys-
tires of criminal law, be left open to the most abandoned
criminals, this man was found guilty, and sentenced to
eratienor ation.
The reluctance which is evinced by many *ell-meaning
Judges to the admission of a plea of guilty on the record,
arieitigr, no doubt, from a mistaken sense of their duty to
the prioner on the one hand and the public on the other,
is so absurd, and may lend, in numberless cages, to conse-
quences so destructive of the ends of justice, that we must
say a few words in reprelettion of it.
It in evide•nt, that in criminal procedure there are only
two modes by which we can arrive at any kind of rational
conclusion as to the guilt or innocence of an accused party ;
namely, either by what is called judicial proof, or by a
confession from the party himself. A very little reflection
will show us the inneeasurable superiority of one of the se
modes over the other. By extrinsic evidence. however
• satisfactory aril ecnrircing, the utmost we can attain to is 1
a very high degree of probability ; while by a confession
(we must of course be understood to mean a valintary
one), we arrive at twee, without any kind of preliminary
difficulty, at alsolute certainty. The guilt of the accused.
it must always be recollected, is only known to hinwell; and
in many cases, from the closeness of rules of evidence, or
from the peculiar and mysterious circumstances under
wheel: the crime has been euminitted, it will be found to
he impossible to furnish legal proof of it.
For the purpose, therefore, of opening another door for
the detection of crime, the law of England, like every
oiler system of law with which we are acquainted, lets in
as conclusive evidence of guilt the acknowledgment of the
prisoner himself, that being in all cases the surest, in some
the only, way of getting at the truth ; and accordingly a
gmilty prisoner is allowed, on his arraignment, to elisbur-
then his conscience—to tear away the veil front the eyes of
his Judges at once, and to save the time of the Court, by
musenting, in his cies-, that those forms of proof may be
dispensed with, which are in other cases the best wife-
pants of innocence, by a candid and honest avowal of his
delinquency.
Ender such circumitanees, then, what is the obvious duty
of the Judge? Why, simply to record the pica of guilty in-
stanter; and, the main question tieing thus incontrovertibly
settled, if it slimild be thought necessary, in eetimating the
due quantum of punishment, to ascertain more precisely the
real character of the offence, it might be Koper to examine
a witness or two fur that purpose. Instead, however, cf
this straightforward course, to which there can be no ob-
jection either in law or reason, the ley-lied Judge, on a plea
of guilty being tendered, exhibits every symptom of un-
easiness, urges, implores, nay, sometimes falls into a down-
ritht passion with the prisoner, with a view to induce Lim
to abandon his int •ution. Finding, however, all his en-
treaties likely to prove ineffectual, he mutters something
about the " law taking its tour:'." The wretch at the bar
then starts from his sad reverie, and musters courage to
plead " Not Guilty." The trial proceeds, and if it should
happen that, born some informality in the pructe 'ings, or
some want of legal proof, the culprit is acquitted, the con-
seqeence is, that society receives again into its bosom a
desperado, emboldened by his successful escape for the
commission of fresh crimes; whilst the prisoner himself
leaves the dock with the comfortable conviction that he is
a much Lonelier man than be ever suspected himself
to be.