The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-13 00:00:00

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M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT has arrived in Paris from
Switzerland. lie proposes to lay the documents which he
has succeeded in procuring, in support of his election, be-
fore the Chainher of Deputies. The Special Commission
appointed by the Chamber for the examination into the
titles of eligibility, met yesterday (Saturday), and M
Constant was presmit at the sitting. M. de Montignac, it
is expected, will forward the Report of the Commission,
which Ripon is to be heard this day (Monday.) There is
no qu(•stiun but that he will take his seat among the
771 it,,,r11.11. _

Affairs are going on here much as usual. Minimal,
" towering in their pride of place," carry all before them
with a high band. But the re-action of all this is yet to
come, and it will be attended, when it does come, with its
correspondent consequences: what is now Im-forming is
hut a prelude to events which I fear, tranquil as we think
ourselves, will ere long disturb the peacefulness of Europe.
The rulers of France have at present no other tonna
than their own sense of justice, and this sense of justice is
constantly weakened by the extension of their power. The
result will be, as under similar circumstances it a 1111 S has
been, that the multitude in the coil will rise 111 their
wrath, and then woe to their rulers! These reeolutiona7y
movements will call up the confederacy of crowned heads,
who will forthwith mush:7 their troops for " the maintenance
of social order," and Europe will be again drained and
drenched, to work out, for the third time, the salvation of
the Bourbons. These events hang but upon the thread of
~ne man's /qr. England will do wisely to hope for
the best; but to prepare for the worst, lest the worst
should happen. Be assured that the power., in re have long
been employed in digesting and methodizing the means of
making France the preponderating. enhinet of Euroole. To
effect this they must endeavour, and this will be among
their first efforts, to recover their fortunes in the field.
They must, and with the very first opportunity they will,
enter again on a new career of glory ; for dewed upon it
you have not yet seen the tri-cubmerd fig; for the last
time ; and that despotism will, one day, again send forth
her proclamations to the armies of the Sambre and the
Meuse. The militaty ardour of France is at present pent
up, but it has been long struggling for an outlet, and when
it finds one, it will not be a short conflict that will content
it. I write this in no dispiriting tone of prophecy. Great
Britain, when her energies are wanted, is equal to any oc-
casion that may call them forth. But it she places her
strongest reliance, as she is hut too apt to do, on her
dal resource's, and her redundant capital, whenever the tuna
conies that calls for either, her hopes will break under
her. Iler surest, indeed her only sure support, must be
looked for in the integrity of her Rulers, and in that bontst
and heartfelt allegiance to the government and the consti-
tution, which flows from the good faith of the one, and the
freedom of the other. There is no security but in these;
there is no source of spirit or enthusiasm, other than these,
that can be at all relied on. Whether the danger is
from within or from without, these resources will carry her
through ; all beyond is deception and moonshine.
Passing from the political to the theatrical work' : -en
Saturday, Mademoiselle G Eo an E s per: ormed at the Odeon,
!when a party, dispersing themselves over different parts of
the house, commenced such deafening vociferation', that
the voice of the actress was wholly inaudible. It was no
wonder that, under such irritating and ungallant treat-
ment, aji male should lose all patience. This was un-
happily the case : the philosophy of .Ifademoiaelle tons ok
her ; she came forward, and in an angry tone declared that
" such a cabal was monstrous, and not to be endured."
This demonstration of indignity threw oil upon the flame;
the breeze freshened instead of abating, and she was loudly
called upon for an apology ; but her se.rmal spirit having been
vexed beyond all corporeal sutferance, the Manager came
forward to announce that Mademoiselle Geoeaxs was
in violent hydet ies. Even this appeal to the gallantry
and compassion of the oppo,it ion !ailed to appease the
tumult, when, during a momentary suspension of hos-
tilities, a Commissary of Police addressed the audience
front the stage, declining that Mademoiselle had misbe-
haved, and that the authorities would compel her to make
the amende &mos able: the authorities were, no doubt, as
as their word, as the lady sent a letter to one of the public
papers, disclaiming all intention of giving offence to the
audience, and declaring that she only meant to address
herself to those who appeared to conic there avowedly as
her enemies. Mademoiselle GE 0 RGES has since given in
her resignation. What a magnificent triumph over a
female! How honourable to Me authorities! and what a
brilliant specimen of publicfreetkas !

IVINDSOII, WI DNESDAY, MAY lt.—This afternoon
his Majesty took an airing, in his close carriage, up the
Long-walk to the Royal Lodge. The boats concerned in
the great rowing match, from Oxford to London in sixteen
hours, passed this place about ten minutes past one o'clock,
on their way to London, having 48 miles further to go in
six hours : they left Oxford at three o'clock this morning.
An immense concourse of spectators, on horse and foot,
were assembled to see them.

Yesterday morning the Duke and l)uchess of Clarence
left their residence in Stable-yard, St. James's, for Rushy.
Their Royal 'lig'mesas returned to town in the evening.
The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Princess Augusta yest..rday.
Yesterday the Princess Augusta took an airing in the
Park.

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The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of West-
morland vest relay, at his house in Grosvenor-square.
Yesterday Prince Pelignac (the French Ambassador),
had a lung int:rview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer.

The Duchess of Bedford, we are happy to state, is
getting hotel..
Viscountess Bulkelcy. we are sorry to hear, is much in-
disposed, at her house in Stanhope-street, May-fair.
Ma sat secs IN Lirs.—Yesterday morning were
married, at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Marquis of
Exeter, to Miss Isabella Poynts, daughter of W. S.
Poynts, Esq., of Grosvenor-place. After the cerymeny
the happy pair set off, in an tlegant chariot and four, for the
bride's father's seat, Cowdery. Sussex, where they will
pass the honeymoon.—On Thursday, the I;th instant,
the Rev. John Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
to Augusta, daughter of John Swinfen, Esq. of Swinfen
House, in the county of Stafford.- The bride looked most
lovely, in a superb roe and veil of Brussels lace. After a
fkicaaer a hi jiairdiette at Swinfen, the happy pair set off
for Malvern.

We underhand that Mr. Hall's lecture on classical edu-
cation, at Willis's Rooms, mi Saturday last, has excited eery
great interest. The Lecturer t xpldned a plan which he
hail incured, by which t';c Latin langu.,:e might he ac-
quired in an extraordinarily short spare of time. \lr.ll. in-
tends'
we believe, to deliver a 5e...0wl lecture in the course
of a few weeks, when we hope to have the pleasure of hear-
ing him.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Esst
India 1i0n5..., when the following I rs took leave
of the Court previous to departing for their respective
destinations, vie. ;—Captain 'l'lu:llas Francis Balderston.
Asia ; Captain Charles Edward s, Marchioness of
Ely; and Captain Thomas Niarquis, Rise, for Madras
Itengal. _ _ .

The period for receiving, privateprivate petitions is cmtn:,!,•,!
to the telth instant.

We learn, from undoubted authority, that the curious
' anti interesting work on the Temples of Elora, by
l'aptain
Seely, has been patronised by the East India Company,
who have subscribid for forty copies ; and also, that his
Majesty has been gracion..ly j.l e ~.41 to receive a copy of .t.
through the hands of Mr. 11'. 11-vnii. This mark of respect
• t 11;011Y grirt-ii.Ying to the author, slid is doubtless
appreciated by him as a flattering reward for the labour he
has bestowed in exploring ea .se magnificent vestiges of a
remote ts.:e and people, with whose !nanny the most of-
lightened of the present day are so little acquainted.
Ea s r Ixnt.tx A xll4l' iTI —Anion., the researches
of the learned and the enterprising, and the exploration, which have
been going on in almost every corner of the globe, it affords matter
of 'urPrile that the caverned Wonders of Elora." in the East
Indies, should have been so long neglected, panicularly when it is
confessed by every lover of science, who has heard even slight and
imperfect accounts of them, that they dispute precedence with the
Pyramids of Egypt, and might be justly ranked among the wonders
of the world. A vets able work has, however, appeared. by 44P-
rain Seely, of the Bombay Native Infantry, entitled ‘• The
drrs t 111, a." which is minutely descriptive of these stupendott•
temples and dwell,ngs, so magnificent design, so stupaidnus en
size, and so extraordinary in their structure—the whole immense
range of them being ..zeavated out of a solid mountain of granite
rock !