The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-12-01 00:00:00

WHIGIS.U.

The name of Whig took its rise in 114 'reign of
that profligate Monarch, Chinks If. anil'sttas be-
stowed on the best patriots in the kingchisii, as a
term of diligence for their (storming isi'sfailsitesey
ntemoree, and asserting the rights of rirliartienr,
awl the privileges of the people. They were tree
friends to the old English Constitution. They
•.w with cuut'rrn the attempts made to ruin it lir
the reigisilig Prince, and dreaded the prospeet of
a popish successor, whom they knew to lie of a fi•
nous temper, and under shoat they feared the lu,s
of all their lifierties, both as Englishinee sent I'm.
testants ; and therefore were for pursuing the only
measure that, under ( iod,eould save them front im-
pending , and fur excluding bun from the
throne, who was,
.Isy principle and religion, an
sensed enemy to the nation.
The names of Russel. Cavendish. Capri, Mon-
tague. mid Winning/on. will ever be remembered
.:11 honour, who were the most reisluus promoters
advocates for the Es4usioto Ibhi. true smith
%ermine whigisin, therefore, cionsivts in a zealous
attachment to the liberties of mankind. Intl Parti-
cularly its a warm and habitual colleens for, and
resolution to support, all the just hiss and privi-
leges of the British nation. It coin:Wee% our
Vriiices as invested with the supreme autaiwitY for
En- public welfare: as executors of the laws, the
bothers of dui, people, and the protectors of all
rood subjects in their rights and properties. It
esteems the laws. which bound the Prince's powers
squishy sacred .with throe which determine the week-
Safe slowliewee its the subj. rt ; and is as cinch an
enemy to all tyranniral proceedings in she one. as
it is to rebellion and treason its the.other.

It is soppoised that Mr. SHAW LETEvItt will
sneered Mr. %Vomiting as Chairman of the Cons-
' miner of Wit, s and Means in the [louse of Com-
mons.
On the 46th of October, tell, a bowl of ptinch
was made at the Right lieu. Edward Ituseoll's
bolts*, when he was Captain General and Coin-
swandet-iii-Chief of ii. Majesty's Forces in the
Mediterranean. It was tousle in a fountain lii the
garden, in the middle of four walks• all covered
*err-head with lemon and orange trees, and in
every walk was a table, the whole length of it,
covered with cold collations, &c. In the said foun-
tain were the following ingredients. viz. four hogs-
heads of brawl); right hogsheads of water. breast,-
fir, thousand lemorn, twenty gallons of linte.juier.
thirteen hundred weight of fine Lisbon sugar, ivy
pounds of grated nutmegs, three hundred toasted
biscuits. and. lusty, a pipe of dry ,mountain
lags. (over the funittain was • large canopy, to
beep off the rain, and there was built on purpose a
hide boat, wherein was a boy, belonging to the
feet. who rowed round the fountrusi, and filled the
rep of the souspany. and in all prohability more
than six thousand men drank thereof.
Lost month, Messrs. NIEFIL and DAVIDSON. two
enutr•cturi fur the operations which hare been car-
Ding nu upon the meadows of Inverness-shire, in
Iledruch. by ( ;entitle 711AeettEltanal GRANT. Esq.
of Ballindoloch, M. P. fiiiished this wrist work,
which they umumenced in May. 1807. and by which
upwards of SOU Stuteh acres of rich meadow land
ive to...cited from the nverdowings of the river :41147.
The main drain. which interrupts rise mountain
stream, is upwards of three tu*.les in length. and at
an overawe twenty feet aide, with a floodgate's...its
extremity, to exclude the river in tame of deeds.—
The embankment ettends along the river Spey
•uoiit three mires sail a half, and is, at an nversige.
rive feet 'ugh, but its u.sny plums upwards of ten
feet.
Imo week a turnip, of • very extraordinary sp-
pearenee, we. taken up in a field near Carlisle, he-
Imagine to 111 fa %Vance!. It exhibits:A.46e perfect
reaepahlaiice of a human hand, hoeing atl I, and
four fluters moat completely fohned and propor-
ismore remarkable, one of the hngrrc
is littnislied anti the likens-sr or a nail. This co=
new production ef.satare has been pre:semi!.

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NM'S M RE R

AGRICI3.II

A Treatise en the..llA;ta Vsaintllll;nagement of Sheep ;
with Intro,lo. tory Remarks on their Atm, ttttt iral Sirloin re;
and an A °pendia, mutation% Documents, exhibiting the
Value- of the SI Gnu° Bread of Sheep. nod their Progress in
Seotluitd. By Se George Stewart 3leckeuste, Bert. aro.
71. lid.
Tbc runner'e Aecompt Book for into I 1 is.
Facts rod (Maceration' relative to sheep and W,Hol,
rionclt,, 11%, n, and tither subjects of Husbandry. By the
Bight lion. Lord Somerville. es.
ARTS, FINE.
The Auliqsarian sad Topographies' Cabinet. Vol. VI.
I is.
htodiea front Nature; containing sevesity-eight Outline
Engraving% of Scenery, selected from the Mountains of
Cumberlaiol, Westmorland, and Laucanhire, front &swings
taken on the spot, atoll enraged. By William Green, folio.
SI. Ss.
A Collection of Portraits. sketched from the life, since the
year I pa. By fleetly Dance, R And r:iti loved in imi-
tation of the original drawiugs. By Willi:Ml Daniell, A.R.:I
Nos. IV. sod V. II is mph.

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A nevi Iliographical Ituctiottar? cootsitting &entente
Sketelics of the Lira' of the roost eminent pr.-.4t6 of eve,
age and statute : iaeludiug tbrutuat (111111tul It A &IS, mud a
List of their works. Royal t 7e. 6d
Memoirs of the Life sod IVritiuga Vicl..r Alro'Cl, the
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spersed wits .011.4 dotes of *ewers' disttee%oh,J meat. n cha-
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BOTANY.
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rAei : oroiroloureil figures and Descriptions of the
Plants referred by Botanists to the FOCUr. la ltaw-
tun Tamer, A.ak F ILA. I.S. 4:c. ac. Tul. 11. Ilu)st
ato al. 13S.
DRAMA.
Ciassidelat ions of the Pest nod Present Side of the
4,01, • rt+reti,, to the late Coati et of Cutout triad,. • to
whole are added, a Plan fur ft New 1 lieutre, tar the toul.o4c
iif bearing Plays. 2. N.
Ihr Rebellion ; or, All is the Wrong. A eerio comic
11arly-Burly, in .win, as it was per(inurd fur two months,
at the New "f he:are-Roy al l'orent•Gardeta, by Ills M.j4it's
S.rrants, the Players, and his lirge subject% the yubbr. To
which as added. a Poetical Threctiwarent,conclailaug with a
Parsuranale Vacs. of the New Theatre, is tar raw. 4A
A JOU. nal of the IVar carried us in the New Theatre.Rny.
al, t'inent-Gardeu, from the into of September to the tails of
Nnweantier, t‘o.n. TO which are added, a variety of Poetical
Efferione on 16a occsawn, and a Scientific Descraptiou of
the Interior sad Laterior .if the Theatre.

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