The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

THE BRITT S 1.-1 PRES S.

LON DON.
MONDAY. Jl:hlr 19. IBM

We have received Paris Papers of Wednesday
and Thursday last. The Chamber of Peers has
advanced rapidly through the legislative business
which awaited its decisions. and has thus dispatched
in a few days the mass of public again which had
for several mouths occupied the aux ttttt a and midi-
sidtd attention of the Chamber of Deputies. The
budget of receipts alone remains to he determined ;
this will, it is said, be passed on Friday ; and on
Saturil iy the Session of the Legislative Chambers
pill be fortnally closed by the Kir.g'a Com•
missioners.

We remarked a few days since. that when the
Legislative Chambers had terminated their discus.
sioos, the Paris Papers would cease to be objects of
curiosiey or interest ; but the sources of public in-
terest are infinite, and even tile political rumours
which ore externally springing up in the political
liot.htlla of the reach metropolis will stimulate
our curiosity. and give employment to speculation.
These are never wanting, and they will, no doubt,
contribute to fill up the rind occasioned by the pro-
rogation of the Chambers. Among the latest
rumours. it is stated, that the Ministers will com-
mence the mitt Session by presenting the budget
to the Chamber of Deputies, which will be followed
immediately by a project fur introducing some
modifications in the long-contested law of tlectionss
The alterations cnotelplated are said to be to re-
dote the sore of persons eligible as Deputies, to
thirty years from forty years, as it is at pencil, to
doable tlreir tionshre, ta renew the Chamber every
seven years, mud to prorogue fur seven years the
rowers of those Dept', ins who shall not go oat at
the next SeT4IIOII, , The 14w of
elections was mewl',
made is leas of party feeliogo, . and. it is undeloilsoll
that. Ore. late Altuistry, of AO thf 110110:iof
.72, 7..

litotrunt was Vittiiilent, *as dissolves; upon the ;
question for determining 'the expediency bf in-
troducing any alterations. We conceive the
appearance of stability in the existing institu-
tions of Prance so essentially necessary ler
the present circumstances of that Country to the
preservation of its internal tranquillity, and to the
extinction of whatever still remains of retolntionisry
feelings, that any meddling Stith • law of primary
importance, like th it for regulating the election* of
the reptesentative body. must in our milld be at-
tended with dangerous coo-ripener% The present
rumour is probably vet afloat for the purpose of
agitating the public mind, and of exciting an idea
of insecurity in the institutions of the country.
Accounts from Madrid speak of a counter-revolu-
tion in the Spanish Ministry. It is stated that CC-
•A LLCM has been restored to the Ministry, and that
even GARAY is recalled to a seat in the Council of
State. A rumour prevailed in the capital, that Don
Onto, the late Minister to the United State*, who
left Paris some days since fur Madrid, for the pur-
pose, as it was thought, of succeeding the Marquis
de CAsA-IstiJo in the dangewns post of Minister for
Foreign Affairs, had received article to atop at Val.
ladoliil. The indulgence previously extended to
the Ea-Minister of War EGN tieing permitted
to remain in Madrid, has been withdrawn, and lie
has been compelled to depart for his command in
Grenada. This Minister, it will be remembered,
was reported to have been deprived of his former
poet solely on account of the indifferent state of his
health, but King FERMA•ND is resolved to try
how far a change of air may contribute to secure for
the public good the services of a valuable subject.
The Marquis CAIIA-111VJO seems to have excited in
an extraordinary degree the resentment of his be-
sotted Master, for a notary of the Council of Ca..
title ltas been dispatched to Avila, to take the ex-
aminations of the late Minister relative to certain
charges that have been preferred against him.
The number of troops collected at Cadiz for the
long-threatened expedition is said to amount to
25,000 men, There has been an extraordinary
levy of sailors along the whole coast of the king-
dom, and the orders issued for their assembling at
Cadiz hare been executed with the utmost rigour.
It is stated in the same article of intelligence, that
the convents of the Jesuits throughout Spain-are
filling with novices. In that of Madrid alone there
are 130.

The French Five per Cents. are II fr.—Bank
Stock, 1,445 fr.

An extract from a letter from so Emigrant in
the United States of America to his friends in
England, is given in another part of our Paper.
In presenting it. we would direct the reader's
attention to one of the last Acts of the late Ses►ion
of Parliament, namely. the grant of 50,0001. to en-
able Government to give assistance to persons de-
sirous of emigrating from this country. to go out
and settle in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
where, we understand, an establishment has been

formed. in the neighbourhood of Algoa Bay. in a
healthy elitnate. and with a soil rich and fertile.—
An official circular from the Secretary of States
Office contains some useful instruction.

Some particular circumstances connected with
the arrest of Sir CHARLES WotsELEY. Baronet,
are given in another part of our l'aper. The war.
rant against him was executed on the morning of
his mother's funeral. He was immediately brought
before the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions for
Cheshire, pitting at Kuutsford, where he pleaded
not guilty to the indictment preferred against him.

On Satu►day Prince ESTERRAIT. the Anotrian
Atubassady, had an audience of the PRINCE K.
GENT.

Yesterday the Lotto CHANCELLOR had an audi-
ence or ihe PRINCE REGENT.
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On Tuesday the transports British Army, Ma-
riner, and the Earl of Moira, Lieutenant R. D.
PRIITHAID. agent, arrived at Portsmouth from De-
merara (sailed 9th Jun.) and Berbice, with the 4th
battalion 60th regiment on hoard, which landed
on Friday, and marched to Fort Cumberland.to be
disbanded. The Goth regiment is only to consist of
two battalions; four will have been disbanded. The
regiments now stationed in the Leeward West In-
dia Islands are—the 2(1. 4th. sth, 9th, 21st. Ist
and 3d West India.—At Jamaica-50th, 38th,
61st, and 9vl.
The Tartar (Commodore Sir GEoilae COL-
-1.1211) sailed oa the Ist June for St. Vincent's and
Jamaica. from Barhsdoes. The Salisbury (Rear•
Admiral CASINIELL), Earyolus, and kokiet,
sailed from Barbadues on the 26th Mity, for St.
Vincent's.

The Owen Cicadae& frigate has been commis.
sioned at Chatham. for foreign service. Dr.
M'DoNat.o is appointed Surgeon.
On Monday arrived his Majesty's tor e-A ro Co-
rantaadel. from Rio Janeiro, with timber for Ports-
mouth dock-yard. She is come into harbour to un-
load.

The Orlando frigate. Capt. CI.AVLLL, had been
f lin an unlit state to return to England, from
India. Captain Ci.sett.r., his officers, and crew,
therefore, will bring home the Alaloloar. 74, lately
launched at Bombay. This ship is daily expected
to anise,.

Sir Tttom AS MASTIMMIAN flAnny, Bart. luis
hems appointed Commodore and Commander-in.
Chief on the coast of South America and in the
South Seas, in the room of Commodore Bow Les,
who, owing to ill health, has recrested to be recall-
ed. Sir TBOWAS wilt -hoist his Hag in a line-of-
battle ship, and have a Captain under him. It is
suppoed I.e reigeor, 74, which Widow ordered
to Portsmouth, from Leith, is iniendilifrirthertier.
vice with. the Olga Gletsfouvr. ,

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