The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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toYERNMENT OP 11.1111.
litteinttoviog ;reliteatimg arttete; vinare4 from the "Comte
althinigh ef e titre entetior to tie hoe report al' a
reaolt in that wand, flartuttma a tenements ?reef that there
is link po.bautlit, of in event M that Ittnd moo taking place.
if vre War c'.l3l' paivg. ri-t of the !whit* Lam, ror, hies
got trim:inr appears, a• •co hounded, and a. Wt..li to con-
tinue. A• that of Ins Mother feaputet.n. We are of opinttha
that the repeat must hare origittat.t.l from wine iottodeil
ettaiinermalypoculaiial—rosi . Gs.
Cale Fraitcoitt, Avglet 'I, I Se).
" The organization it all the branches of the go-
vernment of t: e Empire, is nearly compleonl ;
many imperial decrees and ministetial orders have
already ken published ; every thing revive:. every
thing talt;:s a new And permanent form ; in fire,
we approach the period of ;a happy prosperty.
The residence of Ills Majesty, at this place,
affords us daily proof of his indefatigable applica-
tion In husiness, and of his paternal solicitude for the
happiness of his suhjeas. The organisation of the
army, the division of the territory, the restoration
of culture. the regulation of the government, have
all been equally attended, omitted, or forgotten.
Thar ks to the labours of our Sovereign ; thanks to
his devotedness, to the happiness of his subjeas, we
have a constitution and a code of laws, which insure
our political existence ; each citizen, instritaed in
his duty, will, for the future, hate no excuse for
evading it. The influence it one man has alone
produced this happy state et things. In spite of
the misfortunes which preceded the independence of
Hayti.this island soli finds itself in a state sufficiently
flourishing, to warrant the idea of its future great-
ness, and of the immense resources which are justly
expedited from it, by a wise and enlightened admini-
stration The merchants of neutral nations, wbo
have heretofore arrived in our ports, for the pur-
poses of commerce, have always found a sufficiency
of produce to exchange for their merchai.dive ;
aid the prospeet of an abundant harvest, offers us
the means, in a short time, of carrying on a still
more extensive trade. The organisation of the
army, by discharging its useless or expensive mein-
diminishes the expences of the state, and re-
Ofires many useful hinds to agriculture: a circum-
stance, in our present situation, of immense advan-
tage.
" fhe public revenues have hitherto been ade-
quate to all the expences of government; and its
payments have been made with the utmost punc-
tuality, notwithstanding the numerous appropri-
ations, of every kind, which were necessary to place
it in a respeaable state of defence.
"It would hardly bebelieved, that in the short space
of time which has elapsed since the independence of
this empire, more than 60,000 soldiers have been
armed and erptipped,without the aid of a singly loan,
and solely from the resources of the country it-
If. at a period of extreme embarrassment, the
konsequence of an abandonment of cultivation,
which was rendered necessary by the war, our go-
vernment has been enabled to support itself, what
pay we not reasonably cape& from that state of
prosperity. to which, laws, accommodated to the
ve, itive its the hope of attaining t No state
er atquinrd its independence as this has
am. without weeding its finances. The
_'it of the government has always been sap-
pitied, and in a little time its revenues will enable
it to provide resturces against future exigencies.
This astoesishing vies at our situation will appear
still most striking, whets it is known that there
exists no tax. except that of one-fourth of the pro-
duce derived from cultivation; a tax which is solely
borne by the owner or Tenter of a farm, and which
can never be unequally distributed. It is true, that
the domains of state, are immense. and that the
rents of these alone, far surpass the revenues of cer-
tain European states, without taking into the cal-
culation, the custom-honse receipts, which form a
branch of continually increasing revenue to the go-
vernment, and which, in proportion as it encreases.
affords a pleasing prospea of the prosperity of
commerce, and of the opulence of our citizens."
amemnimer-smaw

The Tarr, Dva•so, coal loaded, is lost off
Yarmouth.
The Penrhen, Hemet', from Trieste, for Liver-
pool, is on shine near Barry Harbour, Sonth Wales.
Tim suburbs of Shrewsbury, during the late de-
loge, lay four or 6ve feet deep in water, so that the
habitants of those parts were obliged to resort to
their upper rooms. The Mayon solicited the ge.
serous aid tithe inhabitants at large, in contributing
towards a supply of comforts and necessaries for the
sufferers. Many sheep and pigs have been lost ;
and a waggon-horse was drowned in the Abbey
Mill Pond. The water. however. was not so high,
by about a yard perpendicular, as in the great flood
I of Febtuary, 1793. The subscr*ion was distri-
boted to the poor in coals. At Chirk Colliery, a
flush of watts broke into one of the pits and drowned
six horses. but none of the workmen perished.
la consequence of the very gran fall of snow in •1
thaupper parts of Shropshire. and the heavy rains .1
y experienced, which swelled the rivers and
Owlish, to a great height. the Severe overflowed its
Aosks last week ; the torrent rushed with irresisti-
bN strength and fury, bearing away every thing he-
ft', sit, which had not been previously secured, and
wik,,sh its rapidity, in some instances, rendered al-
most impossible; the country was completely inun-
dated to an amazing erent ; and on Sunday, when
the fier d was at its height, near Worcester, pre-
sented a scene most awfully tremendous : in Shrop-
shire, it ,vas considerably higher than has been
; known, 'searing once, in the course of thirty years.
On the 12t.s of February, 170, the tiousi was
twenty.orse inches lower than the brass plate fixed in
the wall. near the College Green, to commemorate
the flood in November 1770, which latter was the
greatest in the memory of man. On Sunday, the
water, at the same place, was about fifty inches
below that plate.
The following method of robbing a shop-window
was resorted Cu on Tuesday evening, in Portland-
street :—Two men west and looked in at the shop-
window of a jeweller, while a third engaged the at-
tention of the shopkeeper at an opposite counter ;
on.. et those outside was discovered cutting the win-
dow by some persons passing. and his companion
amused them by stating, that it wa, a joke to win a
wager of the j.ereller The artifice succeeded, for
the thieves got a valuable gold seal, and decamped.
e person is the shop rt off, by pretending to
pu.tsue his companions.