The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-19 00:00:00

[MON THE mostomlMPlll, OF NOV. 15.)

By the tort hope, Captaiu hits from Madras, we received
puperstothe hof July. A violets; storm and inundating rain
Were- esperleseed in Ind* coil in June, and near!) dmilmded
lin the Indigo plants. A great amount of property has been lost
by the iseadahons. and some lives have been lost. It was
that on the Small Chore the greatest part of the partial's=
perished: 1t.060 rues were subscribed at Calcutta for the sur-
viving euffirrers. The rice harvest bee paiticularti failed at Ma-
sills WILLOCX, the British Charge de Moires in Persia,
had refused a ppq the usual tribute, mai demanded hi* passports:
This has produeiW a repom that there would be a rupture between
Eisgland and Persia. A good understanding is said to be after-
wards restored, and Mr. WILLoCC left the Persian Court in gut
amicable manner, to proceed to England to consult his govern-
ment.
Ou an important point, mention ie made of a Russian Officer
having been found in dim/wire in the neighbourhood of Dolio.—
Viers has been several important failures among the Nellie mer-
chants wbobase speculated in Cl4lOll.
CALCUTTA. .11 NIA

A most violent stone burst over Calcutta in the night of Frith,-
lain, the 7th instant. Accounts from Diaspora menthol that boats
without numbers hare hiien lout in the Ganges, and the shone
*ere covered with wreaks.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the following ships were
thus timed, viz.—
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For Madras and Bengal—Princess Charlotte of Witlea
and Marquidlof Wellington: to be afloat the Ittli of March;
1813 sale W Gravesend the *Gth of March. stay there thirty
dabs ; and lobe In the Downs on the tat of May.
Ror Bengal—Minerva and'Thoesas Grenville to be agoat
the 14th of Aped, tatty sail to Gravesend the Potts of Mav
stay there thirty days i, and to be in the Downs the Lithior
June.

We are informed by one Of the Jurors on BRlnti's
trial, that the assertion that the Jurors refused their
guineas, if it comma of Batntt's pocket, is without
any foundation in truth.

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FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. -

Lord Ellenborough has arri.ed at his seat, Roehamplon,
from Brighton.
Lord St. Helens bas left town on a visit to Wm. Fremantle,
IN*. M. P., at his seat, Englefield .green.
His Excellency Sir RNlph Woodford, Esq., Oovemor of
Trinidad, and suite, have tell the Royal Hotel, St. James's-
street, lin. Falmouth, on their way to Trinidad.
Arrivals at Mivart's llotel,l4iwer Brook-street t—The lion.
Oen. Walpole from his seat in Hants ; J. King, Esq. from
Cambridge ; and B. Lytton, Esq., from ditto.
Mr. and Mrs. Dieken left the St. fieorge's Hotel' Übe-
marle-strcet, yesterday, fur Brighton; and J. Manning, Esq.
for his seat in Oxfordshire.

Arrival* at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square s—Mr. and
lady Elizabeth Heatheote from Rams,ate ; Wm. Haile,
Esq., from his seat in Herts. Departure :—Th. Mariviis of
Exeter fur Newmarket fur a few days, ou hi* way to his seat,
Burleigh, Lincolnshire.
Mark Singleton, Esq. has arrived in town from his scat in
Surrey.
Captain R. Fox bas arrived in town from Northampton-
shire.

Captain and Mrs. Fraser left Hodgson's Hotel, Dover-
street, yesterday,tor Brighton.
Arrivals at Kirkbam's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Earl
of Leitrim from his seat, Ki!dew, Comity of Kildare, Ireland ;
and Lord and Lady Chetwynd from Oxfordshire. De-
partures :—The Earl of Meath for Earl Darnley's seat, Cob-
ham Hall, Kcnt ; Hon. Mrs. Traverson for ditto ; Mr. and
Mrs. Montgomery for Ireland; 0. (Day, Esq. for Brighton ;
Mr. mod Mrs. Freeman on • tour ; Lady Oat rosy and the Hon.
Messrs. Moncton fur her Ladyship's seat in NOW.
The Earl and Countess of ralcdon have arrived at the Earl
of Hardnieke's seat, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire.
The Earl and Countess of Pembroke are expected to leave
ton u this day fur their seat, Wilton House. Wilts.
'l'. T. Drike, Esq. M.P. has left town for bis seat in
Bucks.

T. Thistlewaito, Esq. has left the Coburg Hotel, Charles-
street, Orosvenor-square, !or his seat in Hants.

Tea Sterrens or rue House.—finsitinsw, one evening,
in the midst of a long debate io the House of Commas., took
an opportunity, on perceiving a Member rise trite wasvemark-
able fur ionising, to retreat fur the purpose of taking some
refreshment. He remained absent for some time. On his
return, be saw near him several Members, who, harlot fallen
into a nap, were reclining iu very indulgent attitudes on the
scats; one among them, remarkable for his corpulency, was
snoring in an elevation ut tune that at intervals might be very
distinctly heard, when the dramatic wit, entering in n hurry,
exclaimed in the words of Sees

•' What's the busineios?
"That such an hideouts trumpet calls to parley ?"

A PORTRAIT CAPITALLY RXRCOTED.-10 R bookseller's cata-
logue lately appeared the followinf article : Memoirs or
C mugs the b irate with a head capitally executed !"

A SUDDEN N►r.—Two Oxford scholars slept in the same
room at College. "Jack," says one, early in the morning,
"are yea asleep l"—" Why ?" n plied the other. " Ilecause
if you are not, I will borrow hall a crown of you."—" Is that
all? Then I am."

Joyner summit vo VAWIIII.—•It was debated before
Aricsit.Aus, n het her courage or justice was the greater
virtue ?' " There would be no occasion for valour if all emu
were just," replied the Kase.
Tam Beim—An ignorant young spendthrift wishing to
borrow some money as privately as possible, was startled al
reading the beginning of the bond, Be it known to all
men," and declared his unwillingness tto sign, as it must cer-
taluly come to his father's ears.

MILITARY INN.—When Marshal TALLIED was riding with
the Duke of MARLBOROVeII, in his carriage, after the victory
of Blenheim, " My Lord Duke," said the Marshal, " you
have beaten to.dsy the best troops in the world."—" 1 hope,"
replied the Duke, " uu except time who have had Use
Amour of beaten them /"
Inscription upon the grave of a glutton who had a remark-
ably large mouth
:
"Stranger! tread lightly on his sod'
".For, if he gapes, you're gone by 0—!"

A Pansourriou.—When the celebrated Beau Nasal was
ill, Dr. C wrote a prescription for bias. The next day
the Doctor coming to see his Idica, 'inquired it be bad fist-
' lowed his prescription? "ro, faith, Doctor!" said NAM,
" if I bad, I should hare bruits my neck, for / threw it out of
a two pair of stairs 'chador ."+
It is a cannon saliva in Italy, that !widen the hours of tWo
and four, none but Englishmen sad dogs are seen out.
The Inn at Reddgelert has for its sign, a goat, with the appro-
priate motto beneath it—" Petrie wed; petra"—lly estuary es a
rock.

On allot stone in the nave of Conway church, is the followiag
isseriptlo•:—" Here Iyeth the body of Nicholas Hooke", of Con-
way, Oeat. who was the fort?'-fiat child of his father William
Hooker, Faq., by Alice his wife, and father of ti children; w►o
died the *oth day of March, Urn."
A Ociiikman of the Bar, well known *,r a chain determination
of miad, and ao unaecouuoudatiug rtrength of resolution, aas
perceived to be very active on a trial: it wee prepped to refer
the case to the arbitration of this Gentleinasi. (ht the other side
an objection was raired, founded ea the knew■ sternness of his
character; and it was also remarked, that his iron leg wan
wiliest part about him: •• Oh, surely," said • Barrister, ••that
must be irony."

The first book auction la England, of whirls we have any record,
is of a date as far bark as 1676, when the library of Dr. Seaman
was brought to the hammer. Prefixed to the catalogue the.. is
an address, which thus commences :—" Reader. it Meth sot bees
11.4 u al here in Englsuith to make sale of books by we of assaiea
or i-bo will give must for them; but it haviag bees poetised is
other coumnes, to the great advautage of bWb buyers and sellers,
it was, therefore, conceived (for the encouragessest of learning)
to publish the sale of these books in this wow of way."

" Sir W mum Payer, says Evaxvii, w was the son of a mean
man some where is Sussex, and sent from school to Oxon, were
he studied philosophy, but was most eminent in mathematics and
mechanics; proceeded doctor of physic, and was grows famous
as for his learning, so far his recoveri g a poor wretch that had
been hanged for felony ; and her body barter been begged ((as
the comma is) for the anatomic lecture, he bled her, put
to bed to a warn. woman, and with spirits and other means re-
stored her to life. The young scholars joined, and gave her a
little portion, and married her to a mask whebad several children
by her, she living fifteen years after, as I have bees assured."
It will be reman, ered that during the silt* ti the Congress
at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1818, the KING commanded Ws Tilolllll
LIWIIINCI twlio was not at that time President tithe Royal Aca-
demy, Sir KGNI %MIN Wine being still ia life) to repak thither to:
the purpose of painting the portraits of the Severely's, their Mi-
nisters, the Ambassadors, and the Generals most prominent in
the various battle% towards the close of the continental war, for
his Mummy's private collection ; and to *WA, this gm* Mast
to eteente this commission with more facility, a temporary and
portable apartment was built in London, and shipped to Antwerp,
which was afterwards come) ed to Aix-la-Chapelle.
alter all, this tent was not brought into nue. for the upper epit-
omes of the Hotel An hie. at Aisela-Chapelie, being Itilltr aloe
ligh was assigned to the artist. After theCilegire had sepereemay
Sir Trams visited %icons and Route, and various other parts of
Germany and Italy, in order to complete this very hitmestiag
series of portraits. When these painting+ arrived in Regbutil they
were deposited at Rockingham House, and there inspected by kb
and the fatoured few who were fortunate mmagh is
obtain the Royal permission to see them. The Sovereign was
perused to express his pleasure that these picture+ should be pub.
lily exhibited. There was, however, a difficulty as to a room
calculated to show them to advantage. Buckingham Mouse, •
Royal residence, conk' Not be converted into n plate where mosey
as to be received; and the old Exhibition Room in Pall-mall was
sr that time in such a ruinous condition, theta pervious repair be-
came indispensably necessary. Thus the Exhibition was oetes-
eerily postponed. Last year Vie twitter was agaiu retired, but
his MixtIVITY'S engagements were so various, that lie could Not be
spoken to on the subject. The affair is ago* revived; and as Me"
(Ed Exhibition Room has bees eidmensitially repaired, there
seems no further cause for delaying tide splendid assemblage aim
longer. We bate not healed Am any portraits unconnected with
Royalty are to be included. 'W-ep_artioularly call upon the PM-
sident not to 0111il entreating his Ali 4J INT Y So be permitted** is-
elude the Portrait of young Nteutuu%, which was taken by Sir
TIIOIIA6 at Vienna, and which is nut only as exquisite picture,
but a most correct and spirited likeness of an extraordinary boy,
who must Necessarily engage an extraordinary share of the attri-
tion of Europe

Wt learn from Germany, that the Dramatie Censor of Austria
has caused the denouotent of IV Winn Tell, a tragedy, b.)
SCHILLIAS, to be altered. It iv uo longer true that Gaoler was
the tyrant, and Tell the Liberator of Switzerland. In the new
history which alum. has any Hann to swear on the boards, Tell
misses his airs at (;ruler three times, who pardons his as often,
dad the piece concludes with lung lire the' Asettiats, long !ivy
(Jingler l—Freterla Paper.

MILDN ESS OF NV FATIIER.—As a proof or the ex-
traordinary mildness of the weather, several bicsis'
nests have been found in the parishes of Chilham, and
Gedmersham ; some with four, others with five eggs,
and the old ones sitting on them. There is also in the
parish of Woreborne, a pear-tree is blossom, as beau-
tiful as in the month of June.—Maidstone Journal.

THE CHASE.

The Earl of Derby's stag' hounds will meet t0.,,r0u
Purley Downs, two miles from Croydon, when one of
best deers will be turned out, and a pod day's *putt
esCed.
Cheshire fox. hounds on next at Fox;
Harrel; Tuesday at Dartington Heath ; Thursday at ii
Leigh ; and Saturday at Delau►ere ilouso—each day at L
past ten o'clock.
The Lewes harriers have had some capital runs lat
They throw off to-usorrow at Swanburgli at ten o'clock.

Sir Jacob AOley's hounds threw of at ltingstead Coven
Friday last, and taunt, near Sumerheld a fine dog lux, at
;iroke corer in gallant styli•, and proceeded with the a
blowing north-west across Somerlield terra, by the set.
flocking Town, user a fine country, to Stanhoe, Barn.
and Creak ; here the dogs cacao to a chuck, and alter
minutes casting they hit upon bias Iwo), and pr..eee
lout droit over Leicester-square Farm, to the front of Cr
mer Hall, to Seulthorpe, whore he was viewed across tin.
held lip to a cottage garden, within a mile of Vaketib
when the hounds bceame at fiult. Alter cracking the af
in the ditches to no purpose Res card was spied on the t
of the cottage, when a general cry was raised 10 save him,
the•portsmen dismounting caught him as ho fell oft the I
by the cottage doer, and drove him in, when Res nal d•
secured in lately and taken home in a bey for another di
sport. The run was about 16 miles, and :too horses sic
in the chase.

PIGEON .114TCH.

The match between eight slats from the counties of 11.
and Berko, with one from the .tshton Club, and right or
fordahire and Wiltshire, with one from the Midglmm
took place on Tuesday on Bagshot Heath, fur lice gnu
each, at seven birds from the trap, twenty-one yards from
gun, which was decided as follows:

Ilants and Berks.
Killed.
Capt. Horton
Mr.Bouverii•
Hankey
Phillips
Holles 5
Shelton
Kemp
Humphreys
Dawn 3

Oam and Wilt:.

Mr. Jebb
Humphries
Hopeywood
Hardinge
Meadows
lierriot
Tleadows
King. .........
Knott

Messrs. Hanley and Honey:
Clubs. The winners lost one
hounds more than a hundred
losers ire.

man were the Members of
bird, w hick was killed 0
yards ftom the trap, and

The conduct of the LORD Crimscassoa in the distriln
and refusal of coifs and silk goffss is become matter of
general conversation at the Bar. It is said that Mr. W

and Mr. STORKS have made the usual application to the I.
CHASCSLLOR to be made Sergertets—a degree which
been heretefore supposed to be open to all barristers of
dant standing who chose to apply to be admitted to it.
which certainly has not bees refused to many, very inferii
professional reputation to either of the., Gentlemen. TM
pllcations of Mr. WILDS and Mr. Prongs are said to I
been refused ; and the surmises at the Jar are, that the e.
have been withheld from them because Mr. WILDS was on
the late Quarles Counsel, and that Mr. Proems is into .
in the decree of exclusion merely became his application
made at the same time with Mr. WILDE'''. What seen
strengthen this conjecture is the well-known refusal of
gowns some time ago to Mt. Baouonswaod Mr. Dens

the late Qt: tot's Attorney and Solicitor-General, who,
the office they had held, the reputation they enjoy on thrill
spectite circuits (to say nothing of general reputation),
entitled to the precedence, on account of which the how
appointment of King's Counsel is alone coveted. It is
true, certainly, that the legal power of withholding these

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pointmenta is in the Crown ; but it is equally true with res
to this as with respect to all its other powers. that nothing
be more unjustifiable or unconstitutional than to turn s.
which should be exercised for public advantage, to gn.
factious purposes or ',visage revenge. According to the r
of the profit- sion, the lawyers who enjoy the honorary
pointesents of King's Counsel, or the degree of timer
are esmitled to precedence ; and long custom, founded
the (Unrest view of the convenience both of the public
the Bar, his made these appoiutmests, as it were,
right of those lawyers who are most sought after by cli
to take the lead in their causes. If this rule were not
nerally established, on the one hand those Barristers
were ntA fitted to take the lead in causes, however so
end valuable ttek other talents might he. would, as
grew sad at the liar, lose their business; and, ee the ere
clients would be often obUged eitlwr to take incosupe
Advocates to lead their causes, for Use sake of able yuniers
to pet up with Inexperienced }odors, for the sake of favors
Italie/1. There has been heretofore the greater Willi;
grantiag these titles to jsreeedeoce, because a lawyer of
business took them at his peril; foe if he rashly aecepte
right of precedence, without those leading talents which a
that precedence • general matter of convenience, the unit
effect of it was to deprive him of the secondary *ewe
which be before eejoyed.. We have stated these amid

boos which are so fainter with all who are toqualoted with
Courts of Justice, that the repetition of Ahem sill am
superfluous, because we have on former occasions oboe
persons treating ail points of legal precedence as question
mere personal vanity or interest. What the aotives of
Loan CHANCELLOR have been, it is as difficult wetly to
vise as It is to co/melee that they have been good ones.
cannot of course say whether he octet) wider tbedirgatloo of
own prejudices, or made himself subservieut to the.. lambi
bat lila certainly the worst policy la the wend, wi h a
to the preservation of the Crown itself, to deprive all the be •
which surround it, of the sabstantive strength which ens
them to afford support to that which they are suilleigady
terested in uphold*. To wake all the Ittstitatioat of
country parasitical and dependant—to make them all shift
shake on the caprice of a King or of Ministers, is the very
to deprive them of all dignity and all strength. The dismiss*
the venerable Earl FITZWILLIANI from his Lientenattey,
cause he attended a County Meeting—the cashiering of
ROBERT Wss.sos, because he paid his respects to the rem:
of the Queen—cord they attempt to strike at the ietiepe
ence of the Bar, by carry* considerations of ministerial
dileetions or Court prejudices into its mt•re arrangenseats, tit
to be, though different us their degrees, either parts of
sane impolitic mid mischievous system, or indications of
same mean sad petulant passions.—(Frogs The Traveller.
We are requested by Mr. De LAPOIIII, of Rat
bone-place. Dentist, to state that his removal to
house in George-street, Hanover-square, is uneven
ably postponed to the beginning of March.
DELICATE Disccoavess. --We understand tl
some circumstances have lately occurred in the WI
of England, which are likely to lead to disclosures
so delicate a nature as to involve in their consequent
the everlasting happiness and regulation of wht
families. We do not at present profess to be inform
of all that relates to this affair ; but knowing only
moth of it as we do, we sincerely hope that sober
judgment, or the interposition .of friends, will avert
the threatened ruin, and keep the world in ignorance
of the subject.---.S.A•riterwe Mercery.

ANOTHSII PRIER OF 20,0001. SOLD IN SHARES BY
Ci,uroLl..—No. 3,425, drawn on Tuesday last it
Prize of VO,OUOL and No. 16,M, drawn last Friday week
(December 6) a Prize of 20.0021.—were both sold in stterm to;
CARROLL. who alao sold Six other Capitals to the present
Lottery. On Monday the Lottery ends—there are 6 capital.-
In the Wheel, amongst width are OHS of 10,000/. Two or
10,0001., besides others of 2,01.1011., 1,0001., MOW., &c. &c. the
whole of which must be drawn on Monday next. Warranted
indrawn Tidets and Shares are Selling at CARROLL'S krrtit-
maw Meow, 12, Cornbill, sod 26, Oxford-street. .

IMPORTANT TO TAVERN KEEPERS.-Mr.
sum, the Magistrate of Bow-street, has decided
that the publicans within his jurisdiction shall
not be compelled to close their houses on Sundays,
except between the hours of eleven and one in the
morning, and three and four in the afternoon.
On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, as the
watchman of Mary-k-bone was proceeding his rounds
through Oxford•street, his attention was attracted by
a man lying on the ground, weltering in his blood.
and on being raised up evinced no symptoms of
on taking him to the watchhouse a large wound was
discovered to have been inflicted across his head,
from which the Wood had proceeded: he so far re•
covered as to give his name, " Hyenas," but nothing
more whatever ;—whether he was knocked down for
the purpose of being robbed still remains a doubt ; but
he was, however, taken to St. Geotg •'s Hespitsl,
where he now tie, in a dangerous state.