The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

HAMBURGH HAILS.

ST. MILLSBORO'', DECCMIZt 4.
Ifis Imperial Highness the Archduke Constrotst
arrived hue on the 4d frotn Wurssw.

The day before yesterday a are broke out in the
hotel of the French Emhas•y. Tins boled was
purchased and fitted up several years ago by the
Government. for the constant residence of the
French Embassy. Notwithstanding every exertion
the back pot of the buildiug is considerably
damaged.

FAMOUS, DECENT= IR.

General Count Alters is commissioned to signify
the plea of the Hereditary Mar-hat (who is *biro')
at the opening of the Assembly of the States
on the 48,11 of this mouth. The Members of
both Chambers have been called upon to nr.
quaint his Majesty's Commissioners, on the 27th
at the latest, of their presence of Hanover, that
he may be able to determine whether the half of
the Members necessary to open each Chamber
have already arrived. The deputies are requested
to send their full powers, as soda as poesible,
to the Ministry. In the late fire at Brunswick, not
above the half of the Chancery was burnt down--a
damage which 5,000 rix dollars will repair ; but
uullappily two men lost their lives in it.
The number of students- at Gottingen, which
at Easter this year amounted to 76i, has much
increased at Mieleitetosia, nod amounts now to 07,
171 having left at Michaelms., and 346 others
came in their room--of these, 902 study disiony ;
375 jurisprudence; 165 medicine; 10 mathe-
matics, philosophy. philology. sod bleary. Of
the above number, 569 are uatives of the king.
doe ; 296 of other German States; and 7i to-
reiguers—and among these last le Greeks.
MON TUB 14AINC, DeCkheEs 15.
The Landgrave of Hesse Homburg has concluded
a lose with M. Van Rothschild.
Professor Geerree has resolved to pass the winter
at Strasburg, and to employ himself in litet ny.
not political works. He is at present engsged
upon a work on ancient mythology, which be
began long since.
OTOCKNOILM, DlceelltErt 14.
Among the foreign goods imported thi. year
into Stockholm were the follownig :-594.5451b5.
of coffer, 409 alms of wrack. 104,7uilbs. of
shooed*, 19,i5SItio. of currents. 911.740 trios Or
100,1121 toss of rye. 19,425 of wheat.
415,5831b5. leaf whiny*. 74 amiss 'of Rhenish
and Moselle wine. 4.111 elms of Freueb and
Spain* wier.-016cial accounts have Cow beet, re-
ceived of Hie damage dose by the hormone at St.
Battbelistsweit. There boo brew no such berni-
une is the West ladies Noce 1792. His Majesty

THE BRITISH PIZ. 1.,' SS.

' LONDON.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Si. mtg.

The Boys, Assent was yesterday evening given
by Commission to the Bill for the more effectual
prevent;, li and punishment of Libels, and also to
the Newspaper Stamp Duty Bill. These Bills,
therefore, now form part of the law of England, but
with what rffi•ct time alone can determine. We
cannot, however, avoid repeating, that by the opera.
lion of the Libel Bill, connected with that of the
Bill fur the prevention of what are called Seditious
Meeting►, an alteration will be iircduced in the
open and ingenuous character of Eliglibhmen, from
which the very worst consequences may he splice.
headed. Such are our fears; they are sincerely felt,
hut we as sincerely hope that they will prove un.
founded. Of this, however, we are convinced, that
io the ►truggle which must ensue between these new
laws on the one hand, sad the character of Eng-
li►bnun on the other, either must yield, and it is
our ardent ;lope that the new laws will perish in the
contest.

Some further financial explanations were yeeter•
&toy evening given in the House of Commons by
the CHANCELLOR of the Rienzi/nen. for the pur.
pose of correcting some erroneous impressions which
his former statements had created. The Right
lion. Gentleman had on a former °cession held out
the hope, that the produce of the taxes during the
prevent year was such as would almost realise the
plan which was submitted to Porliament dating
the last Session ; but last night he •tateel, that his
hopes of an excess of iiicorne beyond expenditure
this year did not reach to 5,000,000% as was origi-
nally contemplated, but that he reckoned with
confidence ia:mti 3,000,0001. even though the pro-
duce of the revenue fur the present year falls
short of the last by the sum of 450,0001. Of this
sum 1,000,0031. was produced by the new taxes,
timid the other 2,000,000/. were the amount of the
excess of income over expenditure anticipated by
the Finance Committee, and which formed the
ground of the plan proposed last Session to Par-
liament.

The CHANCELLOR of the ExultQuitx gave no-
tice last .eight, that a motion would, soon after the
recess, be submitted to Parliament by Mr. %VAIL-
REN, relative to the employment •f the poor. We
lament that on • topic of so much interest at the
present moment, the Right Hon. Gentleman should
choose to express himself in the House in • tone of
voice not distinctly audible in the gallery, whence
alone the purport of it could be effectually and
satisfactorily conveyed to the country in general.
Our colleagues, however, whir were in the gal-
lery, collected, that the motion referred to the
cultivation of Dartmoor Forest.....a project which,
we believe, was mentioued lii the House of Corns
mons originally by Mr. Alderman WOOO, and
which we trust will be found productive of
the most extensive advantages. An excellent
opportunity would here be found for applying
sun h parts of Mr. Omen's plan as would be
four.d, on fair inquiry, practically useful: such
114 the plinciple of commencing the education of
egi.:dreit with the first dawn of intelligence, and
fuming them early to habits of virtue and industry.
We are by no means friends to Mr. Owsit's system,
as a general plan for the divisional government
of a whcie empire, but we think there tire many
parts of it which might be applied with, great
advantage in the management of u small infant
colony, like that which may polu.ibly be esta.
blished at Dartmoor; or of workhouses sad paun
per settlemerits, which, in their present state, are
hot-beds of every vice, and may be fairly wade
subjects for politiiml or civil experiments.
—......—.
It is somewhat ludicrous to fee the mini Meriel
papers asserting Coat the new taws pawed in the
present Seswou have already been attended with
tie most salutary consequences. They Aire that
Laws which eves, yet have Dot come into wised
have corrected the team * Sind.
sod have iodated thetrallidilir - 11101_1
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lion i With aid' perk oilloisory sew oleo rot'.
;Sure to prate abet do eon'eetion of the OW
mind, as if this public mind were • malleable thni*,
which any political jobber might alter inol model
within • week, and regulate its movements in qr.
cordance with his own sentiments ! Do thry
imagine that an effect so sudden and pates:nee
could be produced even upon the mind of an ill..
dividual ; end is the general opinion of a now:,
or of • large portion of a nation, more easily 1..
Burnett! than the mind of an individual ? his
doubt the Seditious Meetings Bill will have ti,4
act' of preventing assemblies of the people, air!
BM Military Training Bill will prevent the idle
boys of • tuanufactoring town limn forming them.
Mires into companies, marching. counter-mirri-
ing, and practising the evolutions that coon!.
tute a part of military discipline; but if tare-
popular meetings and military training arow,
from • seditious feeling on the part of tt-.
people, what good effects could the Bills proilni,
unless they were enabled to remove the cause, Cr!
sedition, and metamorphose discontent into OE r.
tiouute loyalty towards the Sovereign and the pr.l.-
tic4l institutions ? If the temper of the pub Lr.
mind, which was supposed to create • necessity for
these measures. be so strong as it was represented
to be by the Ministers, not all Lord Lteettroot.'t
or Lord CASTLEIMAG9.II eloquence, assisted even
by the terrors of their harsh and onpopelar uses-
sures, could hare the magical effect attributed i,,
them of so suddenly altering its charger; , heti:,
on the contrary, the sedition were ergs menage-
able a nature. it is evident that such mew/um
were not necessary.
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i A Flanders Mail arrived set night, vith P ,es
to the 40th instant. The following ar ems"
lIAOUZ, DECLSS, .S.
In the morning and evening sit...th, s i'm
Second Chamber of the States General, a most
warm and interesting debate took plage upon th..
Ire projects of laws relative to the fiu,,nees. It ~
to be observed that the two first projetesigiave beeii
prevented in two different shapes, for •hlarhag met
with considerable opposition in the section%
King ordered them to be presented to the Cham-
ber in an altered shape. The budget new presest-
ed is of peculiar importance, because it is to fix th.
ordinary expenses of the State for ten years. Th
great objection to the project Wai the large afeicr
which remains to be provided for by extraordinar
means.
" If," said M. Hennequin, gi we are met side
cover our expenses in • time of profound race
what shall we do in time of war ?"
M. Dohengt victoriously confuted all the argo
melds in favour of the projects.
Baron Serret coqpided au eloquent discourse
by proposing to dishind the Swiss reginseists.
M. Person, of Namur, amid... if we het war,
the King and the State will not be without 'dr -
fenders ; the love of the people is the power et
Kings."

Couut Hogeudorp said, " Such, then, ire the re-
sources to which we are reduced ; discontent mummer*
in ell classes; it is universal. I have passed my
life under the motto of Vise liennge r With
this same motto I dull vote ageing all the projecte."
The Chamber having sat from ten in the mart,.
ing till four. end again from six in the evening t,.
one in the morning, the question being lossily
called for, the Chamber proceeded to the onset
nominet, when the two first project., ru their
first form. were rejected unanirmeely.
first project, is its second form, wn rejeete,t
by 15 to 43 votes ; the second project, in its
second form, was rejected by 6.2 to 36 ; the third
project rejected by 63 to SO ; the fourth rejected
by 70 to SO ; sod the fifth adopted by 34 te 44.
This is the most remarkable debate, perhaps. that
has hitherto taken place in the Sta►es General.

By a Hamburgh Mail which has arrived we
have received German Papers of various dates.
The Congress of Vienna is otill occupied in ti e
&minims of the important etehjects referred to
them, and which are now on,lerstood to 'relate
to the freedom of cnmtnerce, the interpretation of
the 13th article of the Act of Union. the military
contingents to be furnished by the severs) States of
the Confederation. std the powers of the modietivol

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Princes. The University of Gottingen has re..
covered from the shock it sustained some time.
since, in consequence of the polital sentiments
entertained by the students. The number of stu-
dents in that celebrated seat of lemming hos con-
siderably increased since last Easter. The alums
entertained, or at least professed by the several f;(
vernments of Germany. respecting the putioc.:
opinions of the mass of the people, area to ha.:
subsided. possibly because the alarm excited 0..
accomplished its purpose. and enabled the sever..
Governments to fulfil their projects fur enslavi.
the prey of Germany.

Yesterday the Dukr t.f Yoag transacted rn,! •
lery business a iii) the Pgines Reassir, at Car.
ton-Honse.

The LORD CIIIAMCULLOR, the Earl of
POOL, sod Viscoont CASTLEIII4I4IIA, had autheoco
of the Patina ItIIOZST yesterday, at Car%wt..
House.
lu mossy ports of lie With *moods of LocoWhirr
and Yorkshire; the spumy on yet with. Witter--
so complete was the wont of water during ell tt•e
hste warmer.
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ORIGINAL. POETRY.

/HE LATE PANTOS(' M RECOMMR4 D &TIDES
0 TEMPERANCE AT A TAVERN." $Y YWRS•
;09$ETT AND HUNT.

yoll roust mind what D /math, est laud
-,ce"--A C AAAAA .11

0,1 Cqhhett—" Good citizens, all tumid our table,
it,•nk. water! drink water as long as you're able;
is safer there's neither pollution nor stain,
Ilerhvens the heart, it elightena the beaus;
as Waithrnan told Hunt, when of water briars'',
'v.,' ran fight like a bully, or rust. like a bull."
T:,eo pray, Muster Cubbett," raid one, m is that ease,
II lot mean all those pimples mad blotto in year eater
lls! ha! little critic!" told Cohhett replied,
A plans true Worst heart,and plaits speech are my guide;
vs. conduct of all I have paid is the test,
I,...rption I hate and all change I detest ;
11.. t to try my good nature my friends think on sin,
so *ben I call for water—they pop in the gin !"
HUMBUG.

. THE QUI BTIsT.

Gulp to his friend, white Me beget went pit-pat,
A monstrous Pike has been abee, 1 tell ye:"
'fly I mire not ," said Counsellor Gobbo, "for that.
ur a Pike's what 1 love, if well sturd in the belly.'
COOKERING.

FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES.

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iwtspnrtecl of a very eminent practitioner of
and who was an idolater of the talents or
NEILL, that when he observed a patient in
celaucholy mood, he would prescribe a sight of
' Lidy in two or theee or her principsl parts, as
sinidote to low spirits. Alas ! his recipe is

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Atmst.neil changing from Sancho Patna info
i'..... in the popular new Pantomime of Hark-
-1 end Quixote. has created a new source of
•. and given an additional gratification to the
• and old Bays. win) nightly flock to this
tinment, at Covent-garden theatre.
:;')VAI. COBURG THEATRE.--Me. 800TH...-.
• (iraitleinait •Illi Continues to draw crowded
. If the Proprietor of any Theatre, major or
i.lies to he recompensed foe his exertions, the only
e ay is by engaginz talent worthy the amusement of a
Moabite, for liberal they always ore where a 'worm of
taarhinment and amosement are properly represented.
Warty neat Mr. BOOTH will appear in a New Clami-
.Ho•trama, called The Horafit and Curafii, written
yor this Gentleman. We shall give au impartial
",ar The scenery, dresses, &c. are magnificent.
llt g a Fi to gular remark, though true. that half
ape g'-bk are now filled with thefriends of liberty.
Y4e ot.ir conettlation attending them ie. that in
111/Whey vet II enjoy it the mote. To the blimphe-
rwes eiCsttLIRE this dues not present much hope,
as he des not look to on hereafter.
Pusan ow TRAKQUILLITY.—in one of the
anin, goaehea upwards of Inn barrels of oysters
en tarried into the town'of Leeds. iVe nay ex-
l'e.V, therefoie, to hear eliortly of some disturbances
—4ooogat the stomachs of the inhalntutite.
Abost she second year of the present Kt nuts
r 'Ol a moo of she name of George King was
""ratted in Dublin or :4 capital Gloity. lie drew
'...), • tetnrioruel le the K I ..11 G, which he forwarded
I ti... foilowing line% :
;,.einge Kieg to King George rends ilia humble petition,

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"Inag Ka:; George will pity pour George King'. col.
ditien ;
ti Lag Ge..ree to George King will grant a long day,
t;eo ;It Xing t..r Kinv, Gunge fir ever will pray.
,•of !ILIA rv,e pardoned.
ne more die New Sprtern is tinderatood. the
""e 1.!li rns ed. It limit beets the anemia .1' di--
."14"4...; Fotle Tvretivar Tnoticurns, ns Grid-drawn
mid ite environs, in she ehort apace of
hoe Alant:s only. &ligatures, Bristol, (:heater, Livrrpool,
OCas.oe, 1Welliy•I;i0P uthdTiauy 11.11,C also 1141.
to F.or dofferrits Toros)? Thou-ands. In the
'10;1 I-query, so begin litth _fiat; MY, there tot Foot
Witt TwouraNtre—and the Two limt.ittawn
.""t•iir certain of an adJaiiortal Twenty Tbonsand each.
ineltritew of Print is to begin the !rap Year, which is
"min, a new inducement to every claw of adveotorero to
'rnlit butt Forums.

7sie Earl of Diatom, from his bombe in Grosvenor-oam for
i • 4ilGrafinsi's seat, Wake&ld Lodge, Slimy Stratford.
Elenhorougb, from St. Jamests.squart, for Rieh.
4.1
T4e El.hop of Ely, from Dover•street, for the Palace, Ely,
Lily Houseage Osborne, from house in Charles-West,
kit ,:eter.opiare. for her seat in ilfordohire.
Par The Earl and Countess of E. x, from their house in
.!hstrret, Berkeley-moire, for t nor seat, Casbiubury Park,
iv x.
Ix, and Lady Castterea , from their house in St.
more, fur their sea :Sortie Cray, Kent.
;or ..harles Fitzroy, f Ia Berkeley-square, for his
i on ffolk.
I•ut Amherst, from his bo min Lower Grosvenor.street,
So seat iii Kent.
!Amid Brown. front Pa fur his seat in Beek,.
h ov and Moss Celle n, from the Royal Hotel, St.
feii'a. %Bret , for their tare in Surrey.
* Arch:twos" of Lists he, Com ditto, for Southampton.
'WV Eaq. M.P f ditto, for his seat is Herts.
,kes
0. . f ditto. for Hythe.
. q M.P fur Dublin.
Grw • mom, Bart. and Sir Robert Shee, from
saciutt's r el, for Bath.
lien. Mr. Rodney, (tern ditto, for Plymouth.
• '.4..0ut Rookie, from ditto, fur Dublin.
Re,. Dr. Ritual, from ditto. for Healey-Go-Thames.
ftvoilisos Payne, Esq. fur insist.
IN! James Jean', Esq from ditto; for his seat is Wales.
J Duals, Esq from ditto, for his seat in Worcestershire.
rite
The Earl and Countess of HARROWET and fa.
,ar, leave town to-morrow. Icit,their seat, Saudoi
th.. 116;1, near Staffordshire.
of Elf! and Com.tess Vozw.Ala are entertaining
I:: rat)? ( I distinguished fashionables at thei
G,,rhamlniry, Herts.
• T!le Earl and Countess of •Jawszv's seat, Mid
ores No Park, Odfordshire, is a scene of great fes
my I,,ty thv se holidays.
ilh 11,. and Mrs. Dcatmo left their house i
p." cs'eti.street, May-fair, yesterday, for their sea
iiertp.
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rtspnrted of a very eminent practitioner t
tr.
,c, sod who was an idolater of the talents c
dly 0-O'NEILL, that when he observed a patient i
pe 14iiicholy mood, he would prescribe a sight •
ieitr•.:l.l4 in two or three of her principal parts,
rh ,Midote to low spirits. Alas ! his recipe
fant*Lot's changing from Sancho Panza in'
is IT., in the popular new Pantomime of Hari
ircl •i cad Quixote. brio created a new source
!tea awl glee's 9,1 addition tl gratification to tl
44 sod old Boys, who nightly flock to
tf
..nainment. at Covent-garden theatre.
Ilia
::'/VAL COBURG THEATRE.—Mr. BOOTH.
•liii ColUi sines to draw crowds
Jaws. If the Propel. tor of any Theatre, major
we %Iles to he recompensed for his exertions, the or
sty is by contagion talent worthy the amusement of
tep, tsisisebbe, for liberal they always are where a source
cal otlertsiatheal mad amusement are properly represent,
'had/ next Mr. Hoorn will appear in a New Clot
100.tramo, called The Horan and Carol-U, writi
late- sly sr this Gentleman. We shall give au impart
of The eeraery, dresses, &c. are magnificent.