The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Prides-room, House of Commons,
June 24, 11124.
Ilia—Seeing that Ve. Owen had commenced practically, that
be had left town to benid up the walls of the New Jerusalem, I
homily wiehed him success t foe even the Were of experimeut Is
destructive anti useful. Unhappily while he, to good purpose, ex-
changed the pen foe the trowel, there was left behind , an heir to
the ink-stand," add we now hare in your paper a column of specu-
lative weakness—a host or intenogativee, and a nation of 'm-
aims.
For my writing there are two exeuses—First, " I cannot get out,"
and have nothing better to do ;—hecond, should you publish this
it may save mere doetor's fees, and assist in bringing to issue that
queetion of my sanity, which punks the Collective.
Three and twenty years age I got into the identical reverie,
which, for the last eilht, has engaged Mr. Owen. I shut myself'
up at Bath fora week ; thought of nothing else but a community
of goods--green pastures and great waters ; and at the end of tint
time, resolved that such a state of things was not desirable.
Sit years ago I travelled through great part of North Americae
sac man at vicious stages of advancement in civilisation, from the
dull-eyed savage to the cafe Yankee ; saw boundless tracts of land
lying waste for want of people I saw some in the hands of indi.
vidusls, and some occupied by Communities; saw its first settle-
ment inranada wrsed with patronage and favouriteism—Govern.
ment and clergy reserves; and in the United States maned with 1
monopoly. I then first opened my eyes to the greet principles-1
may ray the science of emigration and antlement ; a science which
has since engaged much of my reflection—a science of my own.
I then, confident of a liberal hearing, sent home communications
to be laid before Lord Braining. as introduction to more, but in
vain. I have since offered again and again to communicate ; but,
eo ! the I 'oluitial Department, regardleee of science and principle,
goes on anon, squandering away public money, sending out poor
creatures to Canada and the Cape, to be miserable themselves, and
unproductive to their country : to retrogade in eiviliastMn os poo.
pie the earth with rulganity said ignorance; to fool away the
strength of our nation ; that by which she may speedily become
mistress of the world, and be immediately the patroness of pee &
table and virtuous exertion.
The light of my theory and practical keewledge, now coerce.
tested, uffords me the strongest assurance that the grand object of
political econony should be the right disposal of landed peppery in
rew countries; and the diseetanglement of it from restraint
in those which have been long settled, exposing it to tree drabs-
tion amongid,Wuala. unberidine it front entail ; and eufering
sot as inch of it to =IWO for upholding superstition or arbitrary
power.
Were man made fliheead alone; were he I;kelvers and sees
tended only to moil ; to collect in summer only what was to be
consumed in whiter—to bus and to die; a community of goods and ,
interests, parallelograms and dormetories would be the thing, and
the whole thing; but, blessed be hied, we are above the brutes, and
have powers sufficient " to raise a mortal to the sky, and draw an
angel down ;" powers which can ouly be brought into due action
by Individual exertion highly stimulated. Man is specially di,.
tinguished from the brutes by having regard to property ; by having
means of accumulating wealth, Ind rendering it not only subser-
vient to his bodily want, but to the improvement and enjoyment of
mind. Ile is the most selfish of all animals; and nothing but
necessity or ambition will make the most of him. The possession
of property is the grand regulator—the grand stimulant for man ;
and the grand desideratum is to hsve the state of property made
perfect. Justice should be dune to the individual, but nothing
awe. Each man should be left to his free and unfettered eller-
doo*--to lose property, or to gain it—to sink into the depths of
udeetre—or rise to the ereacy of bliss.
In Briteln it is well that Mr. Owen's experiment should be
j made, that the public civic illy may be gratified, and that this pion
should no longer be a tub to the whale. In America it has been
weighed, sod found wanting. I there visited several communities
where goods were held in common. I saw that these people pro-
duced in the first place it sufficiency of necessaries for tin it own
eonaump"on ; and bevosid that had goods in store-houses for sale
tithe beet quality. Loads mule by the Shakers, and seeds raised
by their, are sold at superior prices all over America. When you
visit these people you find thew house., furniture, utensils, all of
the best—every thing in order and delightfully clan; but tbsp
themselves are the poorest creatures alive—without sentiment—
without panion—without spirit; inferior indeed to their cows; for
they dram** nature, abuse common sense, and have filthy notions
of their fel!ow men. Front these communities look up to nations
which, in a similar way, are unnaturally restrained and dormant with,
dogmas. Look to the Ilindote and (i;hisene, and see what they
have become after centuries. Are they making advantage of the
printing press ; or have they discerned any thing like gee and
steam t Do they bravely come up to the scratch in boxing; or
surmount the clouds in a balloon Oh, no ; these are results of
freedom and liberal principles, and when we have the state of pro.
posy In England improved, as it may he, every thing else will
Improve in proimrtion ; roe will thoece evils doe ever felt which
Mr. Owen thiaks his community of geode and interests can gene
rep&

808. GOURIA Y.

MI?. ROBERT GOURLAr.

Venterilay, in consequence of the prnrogation of Parliament, the
above-i:amed gentleman was, as a miner of course, discharged
but it having been thought Dena/nay, in certain high quarters,
to have him still under coercion, a warrant was secordingly awed
by the Row-street Magistrates, and Ellis, one of the officers having
watched him from the !louse of Commons as far as Garde-court
Strand, took hint into custody. At half-past eight o'clock
Isat evening he was taken to the public olEce mid underwent
a very long examination before Mr. Halls, the Magistrate.
Witnesses were examined to prove the assault on Mr. Broug-
ham, and Mr. Gourlay callcd several peewits who had bears
intimately acquainted with him tot storm years past, and cumin.
ell diem as to their opinion of his sanity. They all stated their
orhtion of his being wine, but of a very enthusiastic turn of
mend,
.inewpable of comeninlirg the act charged against him, from
a feeling of malevolence, but which one of his turn of Mind
would be likely to commit iu a matter in which he thought his
honour concerned.
1 31r. Ilindlay put s: venal questions to the Magistrate, which the
the lateness of the hour prevents us from giving. hut the ra.
suit was, that Mr. nails considered the amain sufficiently.
rowed to justify hia .ienOing elinamiamnaeleetter lions, and Mr.
' (louday was 'eamniitted to ilie‘Mminieni Coati.in, with dime-
*thins that every possible attention should be ahewn hint, and that
he should experience the treatment due to a ttleatlentan.

A ROYAL. GICTTON.—The Duke tie Berri, who died on
the 4.tlh of May, 1711, abridged his life by his extreme in-
temperance in eating anti drinking. He bad concealed,
besides, that in falling Itom his horse, he had burst a
blood vessel. Fie threatened to dismiss any of his ser-
vants saho should/ay he had lost blend. A number of
plates were found in the rurlle of bus 6 d after his death.
When he disclosed the accident, it was too late to remedy
it. As far is could be judged, his illness proceeded from
gluttony ; in consequence of which, emetics were so fro-
, quently admioistertil to him, that they hastrued his death.'
Fie himself said to his Confessor, the Pdre de la itue—'
" Ah, Father, I am myself the cause of toy death."—lfe
repented of it, but not until too late.-;—Mentuirs rg. fLc
Cowl q' Louis ..11r.
ROBBERY Aron APPACIIENSION or A TIIIEF.—About
ten o'clock on li'adnewday night, • follow broke a pare of ideas in
the shap.window of Mr. John Vaughan, linen-draper. carrier of
Lamb's CondaitAtreat, rod Theobedfrig.road,' and smle thevout
one dozen night ram and one dorm pair of hose. John Seaton, The .Tinlges chose their respccore I 'ircuits yesterday morning at
one of the ithoptinm. ran out, but the thief was gone ; on rc. the Chief Justice Abbott's house, as follows :
turning into the shop, and going behind she counter, he saw a 1.1..t:5T ERN—Lord Chief Justice Abbott and Mr. Baron
man'a hand through the hole in the glassy and pulling out ono. (Jarrow.
thee dozen pair of hose, he immediately laid hold of the ham!, and 111 tot. AN n—Lord Chief Justice Best and Mr. Justice llolroyd.
held him fast, until William um. the other lawman, ran out Non yorli—hord Chief Baton, lint the new Judge to be sp-
end secured the fellow, on whose tuition he found a dozen pair of pointed in the mom of Mr. Justice Richardson, who has resigned.
hose, which both identified as their master's property. The tr!low I iloME—Mr. Baron thulium and Mr. Justice Burrough.
was lodged that night in tbefwateh-huuse, and yesterd3y co:nail:red NotiTlitaw—Mr. Justice Bayley and 11r. Baron Bullock.
MR trial from Ilsnon-gstaea. °aro au-31r...1,1r.ive Park and Mr. Justice Littledale.

Williams Nerd, a carman. was indicted for committing a most
violent assault on Mr. t:onatantine Mims.
Mr. Briggs stated, that on the limning of the II th of February
he was driving his gig down Watlingonreet, when he overtook a
deny driven by the defendant, and endeavoured ro pass it, which
the defendaut prevented, by drawing his hones cram up to the curb
stone, and nearly upsetting the gig. Mt. Reigns was much skinned,
and considered his life in danger from the violent conduct of the
defendant Ile remonstrated with the defendant, and was answered
by a mdley of tibiae. He then endeavoured to take the number of
lived's,, when eke defendant struck him several violent blows with
the butt end of his whir, and injured him to such a degree that ho
was confined to his bed for a fottnight
The prosecutor's servant corroborated his testimony ; and the
Jury found the defendant Guilty.
The RECORDER, after commenting on the enormity of the do.
faidaoes condact, seetenced him to six months imprisonment.

4UMMFR ASSIZES.