The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-20 00:00:00

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.

The superb FETE, for the BENEFIT of the SPANISH and ITALIAN
REFCGEKS, the particulars of which hove been already announced, will
take place at the Royal Gardens. Vauxhall, THIS EVENING, and will
consist of a GRAND CONCERT, and a FANCY or DRESS BALL,
The Concert will include all the Musical Talent row In the Metropolis;
and the following distinguished Foreign and English Vocalists have most
kindly tendered their cratuitons services on this occasion :
Madame Pasta Madame Caradori Mr. Braharn Signor De Segni&
Madame lianinl 11ita Travis Mr. Taylor Signor Curioni
Madame Cornega Miss LOST Mr. Sineitir Signor Pellevant.
Canductor, tie. Bishop—Lender of the Band, Signor Spagnolettl.
Instrumental Performers :—Messm.Antossi, Eley, Platt, Norten, Puce,
Hopkins, AVrtton, Tully, Grßaths, Pritchard, Rooke, rec.
Mr. Welppert will conduct the numerous Quadrille Band.
Tickets, at Half-a.Gainea each, may be obtained from any of the Com-
mittee, and of Frederick Freshdeld, E.q , Honorary Secretary, 20,
Thrnirmorton-street ; of Mr. nem, 27, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews,
Hand-street; at the Argyll Rooms; of Clemcnti and Co. Cheamd4e; at
Willis's Harmonic Institution, St. James's-street; of Goulding. D'Al-
=eine, and Co. Soho-square; at the London Wine Company's Ofilces,
141. Fleet street ; and at the Royal Gardena, Vauxhall.
•s• Boxes may be engaged for the Evening of Mr. Andrews, Bond-
street.

The Doors to opera It Eight o'Clocir.—The Concert to begin it Nine.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
Under the especial Patronage of his Majesty.
NIGHT ASCENT IN A MAGNIFICENT BALLOON FROM THE
ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL, BY THE CELEBRATED MR.
GREEN, TO-MORROW EVENING, FRIDAY, July 21, being the
only Ascent at Night which his ever token place in this Kingdom.
THE GRAND CORONATION GALA,

which gave so much delight on Wednesday Evening to a large Company,
will be, TO-MORROW, repeated in all Its splendor, and the 12,100 addl.
dons' Lamps will be again displayed In cartons Emblems, Mottoes, &c.
The Entertainment, will commence with a GRAND CONCERT,
which will Include all the celebrated Vocal Talent of the Establishment.
Miss Travis Madame Cornega Mr. Taylor Str. 'Minty
Mies Love Mr. Braham Signor De Minis Master Barker
Silas Helm. Mr. Sinclair Mr. Robinson Mr. Homemade

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Leader of the Band, wh!ch umerout and complete, Signor
Spagnoletti. Compo.er and Conductor, Mr. H. R. 131-hop.
A new Ballet. entitled THIS VILLAGE DOCTOR, will be performed
for the second time. A full Military Band will play favourite Places In
the Orchestra at intervals.

The unrivalled D'ERNST has bad in preparation. for a considerable
Gore, for this Evening, the most solemn,' DISPLAY of Ft ag-wonics
ever !seen ; during the last piece of which lir. fliackmcre will make his
terrific Ascent on the Tight Rope, amidst Showers of Fire.
The Proprietors having engaged the celebrated Aeronaut, Mr. GREEN,
to ascend from the Royal Gardens during the Entertainments, have the
pleasure of announcing that all the arrangements being complete, the
Ascent will take place about Ten o'Cluck. This splendid Balloon, the
most magnificent ever constructed, to entirely new for the occasion ; and
will be =fathered in the front of the Pire-Work Gallery. It will be In-
dated at an early hour, purposely to afford the Company a view of the
ponderous Machine, In the same state In which itovill rise Into the air ;
and will be so situate as to enable the Visitors to have an uninterrupted
sight of it until its departure.
The Proprietors Invite any Lady or Gentleman to accompany Mr: Green
he this his tint Night Excursion to the Aerial Regions, terms of which
may be known on application at the Gardens. This unrivalled Aeronaut
has meal,, eifty-live Ascents without the *lightest accident; and Intends,
if possible, to return to the Gardens In two or three boars after his depar-
ture, to pay his re•p_•cts to the Company.
Doors open at Seven o'clock.—Concert commences at Half-past Eight
Admission Ss.

No Otder or Free Admlvvions of any lied admitted this Evening.

The BRIrIII9 Plugs commenced publishing yesterday morning
at tire o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, Jul 20, 1926.

!lib Majesty's Government and the West India Proprie-
tors are nearly agreed in the essential points respecting the
amelioration of the condition of the coloured population in
the islands. They both deprecate the rash attempts of the
Abolitionists; but they are equally anxious for the proper
estimation of all classes of the people of colour, in the re-
lative situation they hold as members of the British com-
munity. The instructions that have been sent out from
the Colonial Department, having this object in view, are
the best proofs of the sincerity of the disposition of the
Ministers to do all in their power in furtherance of this
purpose. We know that the Colonial Department has re-
commended the propriety of rescinding the severe laws of
former periods, when political exigencies rendered rigorous
measures more necessary than at present in our colonies.
The interesting facts detailed in another column, show the
existene:!of a law in Bermuda illustrative of this severity.

Though statesmen arc sometimes inclined to undervalue
the labours of the moral or experimental reasoner, the
efforts of the ietiretl inquirer afford perhaps more impor-
tant facts for the observation of the philosophical historian
than the events, whether of war or diplomacy, which en-
gross the attention of those who conduct the affairs of na-
tions. It is on the result of these apparently unproductive
exertions that the politician afterwards establishes the pros-
perity of empires ; and without the solitary labours of the
political philosopher and the experimental inquirer, Eu-
rope might now be in a state not far distant from that of
the East. The encouragement of the Statesman may fos-
ter these inquiries ; but the mere acts of Government, by
themselves, would never have raised this or any other
nation to distinction. For this reason we are accustomed
sometimes to look into a scientific journal as no unim-
portant auxiliary in forming our opinions concerning the
future destinies of nations. In the present generation
there have been a variety of inventions, to which it
would be quite superfluous to allude—inventions, which
are likely in the end to produce an almost total change on
the face of the world. Unhappily for man, the arts of
peace, which these are chiefly calculated to promote, are
liable at all times to be disturbed in their progress by
those dissensions which can only be terminated by the
decision of the sword. The arts of war unfortu-
nately have hitherto been by far the most fruitful in as-
tonishing results of all the departments of human exer-
tion, and when the discoveries of philosophy are made to
bear on this point, it is likely that their results will be
still more astonishing. There never was an invention (if
this view be just) which deserved more the attention of the
public than that of PERKINS'S steam-gun, with his various
contrivances for its application to the art of destruction.
Without ehltring into the question of its effects as likely

THE BRITISH PRESS•

to lead to universal peace, we shall merely look at its con-
sequences on the relative strength of nations. In this view,
it is decidedly favourable to this country, as it will neu-
tralize eonipletely the effects of the superior population of
foreign states, and will place us, as long as we preserve our I
superiority in skill and industry, on a level with nations of
double and triple our numerical force. It sectns, in fact,
to be an invention which is likely to lead to a complete
change, not only in the military art, but in the political
reasonings of statesmen. We can scarcely imagine, even
at present, that this invention will not be applied, in
the event of a war, to contests on land as well as by
sea ; and in that case all the presmt European dis-
cipline, all the departments, even of the grandc tee-
thine, would undergo a complete revolution. We are
persuaded that none of the old Generals would now
be able to ket p the field, without abandoning entirely
the principles on which they have been accustomed to con-
duct their campaigns and to calculate their battles. The
numerical superiority of Russia, or of any nation, would
give her no advantage, unless it were employed in aug-
menting the more efficient means of annoyance which are
now presented. We cannot but approve most highly the
attention which many distinguished characters have paid
to this subject. It would be well, indeed, in many other
departments, if the proceedings of the scientific world were
more carefully attended to, and more successfully directed
to practical results. There have been methods devised in
abundance for the destruction of human life. Surely it is
time now to direct a little of our attention to its support.
Some men have displayed to much ingenuity in the
invention of gunpowder and destructive missiles, as
well as in devising methods by which the various facts
in science may be made applicable to purposes of
offence, that surely it tleserv;s a little of their attention to
inquire whether there are no inventions to be made in the
article of subsistence—whether there arc no means of turn-
ing science to account for the relief of the distresses of our
population. At the outset of the French Revolution, it is
well known that all parts of the community contributed to
repel the apprehended calamities of foreign invasion ; and
the scientific projets de eanspagne and engineering im-
provements of CARNOT, as well as the indefatigable exer-
tions of the St runs in perfecting the processes for the ma-
nufacture of gunpowder, were not less useful for this pur-
pose, than the courage and enthusiasm of the soldiers, and
the zeal and ability of the Generals. It becomes every

man, in a case of this sort, to do his duty, and those who
have the furnace and the galvanic battery ever at
band fur the analysis of gases, and the detection of the
various ingredients in metallic or vegetable compounds,
might well exert a little of their skill and industry at such
smoment in endeavouring to discover new species of food,
or toincreas^ the quantity and nutritiaus qualities of those
which are already discovered. It is rather extraordinary
if Nature has been so capricious as to make all other de-
partments susceptible of improvement from Art, while she

has fixed a ne plus ullta beyond which the artificial in..
crease of the important department of the means of sub-
sistence cannot possibly be extended.
The fact is, that scientific inquirers have given but a

very partial degree of their attention to this subject, and
any one who should follow out this idea to the full would
now perform a most ess:ntial service to his country.
It may seem inconsistent to commence on article by the
praise of war, and terminate it by observations of this
sort; but the connexion of our reasoning is obvious, and
it is our sincere regret that we cannot adduce as many in-
stances of the success which the sciences have met with,
in endeavouring to increase the supports of life, as there
certainly are of their promoting its destruction. Much
has been done, it is true, in both departments, but zeal
and necessity might do infinitely more. Again, then, we
would call on men of science to come forward with that
which they possess of greatest value, in order to relieve the
distress which oppresses their country.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Settlement, as far as it has gone, on the Account of
yesterday, has been without default, and this being a
holiday, there has not been much business done. Consols
have varied from 77i, during the day, to 774, and closed
at 77Z ; New 4 per cent. Scrip is at premium, and Ex-
chequer Bills at ILL ; and 'the only complaint is of the quan-
tity of money in the Market.
South American Securities have still further advanced,
in consequence of the intelligence received from Colombia by
the Vest India mail received this day. It is positively
asserted that 400,000 dollars have been shipped towards
the payment of the dividend, and that further sums would
follow. Considering the immense consequence that at-
taches to these States that their credit should be supported
with this country, there can be no doubt but that every
exertion will be made to overcome the difficulty which has
existed to the payments in question. As soon as M.
Ile wranos intelligence reached Bogota as to the failure
of Messrs. G 01.1)SC IIMIDT; and e' ..be failure in raising
the Peruvian Loan, an extraordinar: meeting of the Con-
gress was called, for the purpose of considering the best
means of relieving the Colombian Government from the
stigma that would attach by a breach of faith ; the result
of which, it is presumed, has been the shipping of the
sum in question. Its arrival will be the best proof of
the sincerity of the Government, and the sure means of
supporting its credit here. Mexican Bonds closed at 4S.
The sales in the Sugar Market went off heavily to-day,
and at prices not improving on the last returns. The
Corn Exchange displayed little or no activity.

Private letters have in town from Bogota,
dated the 19th May, which state that a Message had been
sent to Congress, recommending that all the specie they
could collect at the Custom house and Mint should be
shipped immediately for England, to pay the dividend.
By a letter from Carthagena, it appears that a beautiful
new frigate had arrived at that port from New York, where
she was built, called the " Plata," for the use of the Co-
lombian Government. She was insured at sixty-five thou-
sand pounds.
A letter from Syrn, of the sth of June, asserts that
Ibrahim Pacha continues to traverse the Morea, without
meeting with any opposition. After having divided his
army into three columns, one of them marched upon
Megapilea, a convent fortified by art and nature, which
contained the wealth of the principal families of the Morea.
" The Arabs," says the letter, " made themselves masters
of it, after having made a great number of slaves." The
other column marched to Mistra, where it met with no op-
position, the (;reeks flying on all sides. Those of Zaconia
found heir safety in Spezziot vessels. Ibrahim himself
went to Parthetii, in order to march thence on Napoli di Ro-
mania. At the latter place it is said Colocotroni is at variance
with the Roumeliotes, who hold the fort of Valamedi,
and the Government is divided into factions. The Spez-
ziots too, it is said, are prepared to fly from their island in
their ships, which are able to contain their whole popula-
tion, while the Hydriotes are obliged to remain in their
island for want of sufficient ship-room. This is the intel-
ligence from Syra, which, it is to he observed, however,
is inhabited by Catholics hostile to the Greek cause ; but
we fear, as far as relates to the Morea, the accounts of the
progress of Ibrahim Pacha are correct. As regards the
!Mande, we trust the aid expected from Western Europe
will arrive in time to defeat any attack upon them.

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