The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-30 00:00:00

tißiratE coAREsomtrDENCIL

OCTOild 26.
According to my promise made to my friend on
Our departure from Boulogne, I sit down to give
too an abstract of a letter I received this day from
that place, which informs me, that although the
number of persons who have lately raitittsed to Eng-
land are considerable, yet the gaiety and convivi-
ality of the place keeps up H. ntOal interest, and
although the balls sod parties are not in brilliant as
heretofore, from the number or Grande! tecently
having left this. yet they ate its general well at.
tendril. Our friend, who inhabits the large hew
near the Haute Ville, once the residence of MiWhat
Ney, gave a cry ball on Wednesday night last,
called a Children's' Hall. bat which terminated in
quadrilles, &e. among those of mature, pie.,
and as usual every thing went off well, as might br
expected from the hospitality aid urbanity of tiv
manners of obr friend, sod alio from the enlivening
of her Ladyship, whose siutieol secnail
plishments help to make all her ponies delightful;
they krpt it up till a late bons, es 'tows tiro o'clock
before they parted ; the number of Oie Distsiies these
were eery few. as the moat brol&ON Mars were
absent, either from having left this, ov sot being
among her Ladyship's acquaiotances, yet. notwith.
standing more were to be seen there than in the
generality of London assemblies.

Mr. Bowling, who has been ars harshly treated
and confined its Boulogne, I understand has been
relieved since Wednesday Isom all sort of restraint
as to communication with his friends. Fur the week
previous he was kept en secret, mitt not even Mr.
Hamilton, the Viee-Cossall, allowed to have Inter-
course with him, and on Monday hews. served with
notice that he was to be arraigned for high treason,
with his choice either to be tried in Pans or here at
Boulogne, and yet before he had made his election
he chromed the privilege alsove mentioned. I shall
retorts to Boulogne for the fair de St. Martin,
which is to be the 9th neat month, ■nd I dare ray
shall have much to communicate to you about that
place, as probably the neuter sojouruers will base
he that time arrived.

Mr. Wynne Hallways is living in Boulogne in
studied retirement ; Lady tk. Roos and her amiable
(laughter were on • visit this last week to Lady
Charlotte

The animosity displayed by the French mho-
cities agninst the Lsdy.uf our excellent countryman,
the Member for Cork, most, we ace sore, have ex.
riled general surprise. We have ao doubt But
Mr. HOTC/IPOISON will repel with becoming indig.
nation the pitiful! calumny. The sole reason, we
are assured, fur the itittoduction of Mrs. HUT(H•
ANSON'S name at all in the proceedings as a
known enemy of the House of Bourbon, was Mr.
HuTummies having, with his usual kindness snd
humanity, on the vulva! of Mr. BOWRING as a
prisoner at Boulogne, waited on him there, and pail
bum those attentions which he thought might be of
service to him ill his situation, and the cireurnatenie
of his having received n letter relative to Mr. Bow-
RING from Sir ROBERT WILSON. Although the
removal of the hitter had previously been deter-
mined on, notwithstanding it was found impossible
so implicate hum in any charge, what deternmil the
French Government to hurry ow the removal as it
did, was the receipt of a letter of his to Mr. NOTCH.
ANSON, which she letter had transmitted to the
Procure:sr do Rei for his communiceriou to Mr.
Bovreted of Sir CIIARLTS STUART'', detlaratiow,
that be would do all that was in his power to we
that justice should be done to that genikman.
Advice, from Bahia of the lit alt. state, that 4n
attempt had been made by Genend Magnin to
obtain possession of the Orbital of Taporics, bat
without success. The event is oflly wolgt notice
a• showing the spirit with which the Brazilian troop.
are animated. Toporica being the place from wherrte
St. Salvador is; supplied with vegetables, and its
possession importunt therefore for the supply of the
gairsivon, M•Devea, on the morning of the 28th
August. detached 4200 Portogueoe troops on board
a aunties, to take post on the Wood. Oa approach-
ing the shore, they found a piety of Brasilione,
orally equal in number, oo the beach to receive
them. The Portuguese troops landed, but were at-
tacked so vigorously, that out of their little detach-
ment, 80 were taker, prisoners ; wail refining to
submit to certain conditions imposed by the victors,
were subsequeolly ill put to the sword. The com-
mander of the Brazilian troops was Colonel Fixts-
RIOT° C•I.II,ESRA GUISES, one of the peraina• relit
prisoners linen Bahia to Lisbon, but set at hbeety
by order of the Cortes.
A letter from Galway, dated October 24, says,
" The stuniber of persons received late our hospital,
on Monday last, was eighty-four. 'Fire number
his, suttee that period, increased to one hundred snit
toenty-five, in cousetpsence of further sccommoda-
lion below made for tbe patients. No general .de-
crease of fever has, we regret to say, taken place.
It hisoalso naitiofested itself in aortae other iamb of
the amety. We shall not add one word on this
subject—the fact speaks volumes for our condition !'
In the parish of Moycolleti alone, there are atrocity-
our casts! We may be called alarmists. bet that
shall not divert ma froin the path of duty."

This dsy, at three o'clock, the State
.11.014eiv
begins &omit.* Tickets end Shares, sari.-re
of Neatens, pill be as sole till tilt user. hy
It tcnaaasom, GooDgivcs,end Ce., et their tAlic.,
No. 104. Kauk-buildthr, Corubill.

TODAY AT TURFS o'CLoci.....llAzAnD nod
Co. rrapectfollc remind the Public, that. Litiery
so the good Old Plan. same as thirty 'ears back, begin.
drawling Tuts DAY at Tnara, when all the fullowin!
Corinth, may lie drawn (a. there are so Fixed PliXesli—
Three uf. etouut., Two of MOON, Two of 5,000 f,, nice
of 1,000?.. Tru of 1,0041., Resides Use liaartred more
Prises of 5001., 3001., sod 400/. HAZARD and Co.'s old
esiabliAted Offices, Royal Exchange Gate; 26, Corshill:
nod 324, Oxford.stries, share sere sold Three Prises et
26,0001. us the last Lottery and preceding Cowed.
TeumBEIL STORIL—In • storm of thunder and
lighiumg, which occurred at Scitoste, Rhode
blood, on the 15th of September, a Imam was
struck by the electric fluid, and part of it laid
°lieu, some cotton-yarn vet fire w, the pewter
dishes melted, the crockery broken to piteer, &C.
but akhough there were nineteen perms within the
wells, all of whom were struck down, yet none
them received any material injury.—.( American
Paper.)

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Masai Entioos—florne twenty your, ago I used to
write ocessioually for the Press, and was lbws led to take a
littk more notice than common of tyliographiral mistakes.
I was vexed enough, and often at Ilse trouble given by the
blunders of lime ig•oraat or careless workmen, and com-
pelled to revise my own proofs to give my readers some
tolerable chance fur ascertaining my meaning. It was about
this time that ■ printing house, under the title of the
" Literary Office," was established, with good reason, but
poor success, fur its pruductio•s were rather more ill:feral*
than those of any of its fellow craftsmen. Since then, I pre.
some, these literary pretensions have bees dispensed Wish in
print' rr, and artli..rs left to see to the correctness of their
works themselves. However that may be, I have bad nothing
to do with the busiursa for some time, but to read the publi-
CAIiODS of the day, without caring whether they were well or
ill printed. I could not but smile, though, now and then, at
the ludicrous mistakes I cunttooslly perceived in the news-
papers, generally the extent of my literary researches ; soil
at length, a few days since, commented a memorandum of
such material ones as should fall under my oliaereation. The
list being now full enough, I believe, to fill a column, or
newspaper essay of a decent length, I send you its cootents
for republication, and if you do not smile at some items in
the catalogue, you will at least learn from them Low math
importance may depend on (the omission or addition of) a
single letter.
The first blunder I noted was in an acennot of • dreadful
storm in Prance, after which "two hundred and fifty
*peasants were found killed by the hail," according to one
paper. What an awful destruction! thought I, and how im.
!—until in some other papers I found it correctly
stated, pdassants, the A beiug omitted in the first.
Tbe 'loose paper contained the advertisement of what i■
deitiitiaated • (Asa/ store•-•doubtless intended for Antis
one. lyres, thought I, possibly ilea truth by mistake, sad
!the refireLbe more provoking to the trader, who might well
tell the papier his paper ought to be " right to s f."
A few days after, skimming over a bindle of old country
papers, I lit upset a dismal writer on the Missouri ovestion,
who Wittily deprecated the possible consequences of that
dreadful dispute to the !!‘ Moiled Stales ^ Whether he meant
Coiled or not, I could not discover by his lamentable strain,
as be was spin elatiosive of a dissolution of the Union. Per.
Asp, the printer did not transpose the letters.
About this time I saw an ace Mint of a
_Acing attorney
apparently Intended for a feeling one, but very possibly the,
more safe, if not correct resdisg, witlsoAi the 1.

la another paper I read a story of a number of persons
who had been to a great religious 'sociably, where they were
vehemently exorcised. Ab! thought 1, like the days of the
opeatho—east out devils—well, perhaps in this way the good
folks exercised their visitants. And if suc► were the case,
It could not be said, as I once saw in a paper, that " they
who weal to jest refereed to Om" instead if prey, as the
graceless compositor should have pot
A•advcrlieemest Is a late Gowns announced a properly
isle, of which it said the gardens were " laid nut with
yell waifs." Possibly true! thought I, although taste was
the word intended, sad both not Incompatible with each
zither. Not "right to a r again.
Another offirtd a nosnisfocinry for sale, "calculated for
• very e.rpestsfre establishment," Poe Minute,. Nut " right
M s f'again ; yet porgibly more true.

The seat memorandum WII.I of a eelehnstrol temple of an'
Artily raged by the hoods of its builder. ‘Vhat an ■ffiont
ts the memory of the pions monarch who raised it. The
language is out murdered, as Conan said, it has only am
knocked oat.

I was soon after startled on falling in with an article
headed 0 isfernaf improvements" of this state, and predict.
lay nothing but mischief sad ruin to certain district; even
to Albin), itself, from the great canals. Ilere I suspected
my aid friend f was ill-treated assia, and shoot., be restored
folds place to all the is Collefflll of the commoiswealth.
As editor, by way of congrotaloting a new.married mats
so the acquisition of so mach bung is his bride, was sus-
peeled not to be so very wide of the mark, however blast

ilecontplinient, slibough it wu evidently no much beauty
meant to far.

But bow slat mcd mast the musical world have been. upon
wing ',Bounced for public exhibition, a duel by Messrs.
lortedoa and Philippa! Discord betwees these two cute.
bested sons of harmony, to so deadly a pitch, sod the public
invited to wdness it! Nothing hat s duet after all, if poor t
had been permitt►d to arreapy its proper place.
"The perm, with all its errors," was held op in ferritetnn
lately to s political ad y, who •u•t have smiled ■t the

Impotency of the threat, which is divested of all its force, and
a mere blank cavelike, by the urnisvoie or the 1, to constitute
the terrors. team, well printers he " right to a I'^
T &este. 1 read of a train ship hrior spoken at sea,
bound to Ne. Orleans, probably the Rob/ rf re/tow, nevi.
gated by strum, and nut use of our Lune busts of the
fem. s.

ant what wool.' the gestalt (or New York) eulogist% say
to that elisisiby robins, who told his readers that Mr. Keno,
the finorms actor, wee playing theve to
.froof hooves! More
Nast thee set Ike ear in giving foil is broad an accent.
Tllol4llor of a foreAly publication, lately inserted the
pLrase reahly moseelleny, in speaking of his work, whether
thrinigh ire yenaonse modesty, or dagessiosts mistake, I will not

One of our Papers the other day said of a certain tele.
lusted. though 14.11111C1t hat f 4pIIVOCaI military character, that,
en a pal to rim nees•ion, hi* retreat being cot off, he found
110 resource but iiiiiifilit—mrassiim fight, but she her slum.
Idnig nearer the fief or oul, 1 CIIIIIIOI N3y.
In one of the " rrinissi "of Ow 1:11110011 Papers a
ofticism of Dr. Bytes was called ■ witticism. From the
k.“.nia chasm er of the Rev. Doctor, ho , I presume
into r phrase woold he correct.
Rut what think you of 111,000 dollars loss on a single " rap
coffer," said in h.• suffered in 11.11 e of she %Vest India
~land.! Impossible! sinless the cup were like the bowls of
leopstres wine, in which were melted pearls of immense
r4isse. Tire careful printer meant to say crop.
In a New Jersey Paper the teacher of a female academy
to iiiiitruct young Indies in the elegant and woeful ac-
e. nipli*limeat ',sighing, instead of singing. Perhaps some
ea los fair pupils /mold prefer lhe mistake lu the correction.
It is sot an bad, .boarever, as • painter Is paint
eight, by the priater 'Wier then a too lung hind leg.
read is s city Paper that such as actor played the Dog
of Venice—a sew character, ratistitaitd by the printers for
the Doge of Fogies.
Rut, Sir, silly imagine gay aatosishment, os earefolly
laukirig into old Papers, is are it asserted, ou a camera bal.
luting in a (WWII real boom ur assembly for a Speaker,
that a aerobes of Members weve bought aver to vote against
the candidate from their own Stale! Mercy as us! says
here's srawdahos isopeafsiss, contempt, breach of privilege,
and I know not what all, if not high treason itself! Aad 1
'ailed, la the grimiest anxiety sad anspenge, mill I found
h" °PIM, in the nest day'. Paper, strain his absence at
the time of the publieatim, sad desiring his readers foe the
I.telitlfe word so mibmitiste the istmeed morroayllable
h,"ght, Aud so 1 kuppose tbat storm bk. over poor
pf.

• •
timpißstry OF 44MBRIDG
Itseems sear Is b• getwreally believe/ shot the Slegker la
started as one of the candidate, fur the University of Cam,
bridge, is the Place of the Solicitor-General; but there are
some doubts and difficulties, worthy of cainaideration,which
have been suggested as to Ms eligibility. The first question
that occurs ki, whether the Speaker, or any Member of Par.
haulm?, is eligible, dorleg the retells, while he entrant
Member for say other place! or whether, in order to become
eligible, he ought not previously to vacate hie seal ? The
writers on the law of election hold, that any person who has
taken his seat in Parliament fur one place is not eligible foi
another place, •nleas he first earlier his seat. A candidate
may be elected by two or more places at the same time, and
may take bus rest fur either; this continually occurs; it is
• cosmos practice also for Members to vacate their weals
by taking the Chillers Hwadreils; and, after taking this
precious step, they may be, and often are, elected for •s-
-other 'date ; but 'it in difficult to indent's(' noon what
priweigie the same person can represent in Parliament rove-
& plates at the same time. All just reasoning on the theory
or the cosstitstion, and cm the ditties of the representative,
la decidedly against the legality of such a doable representa-
tion, which seems as contrary to the policy of the relation
subsiatior between the representative and his constituents, as
a double msrriige is contrary to the policy of civil and social
life. Then, if • Member of Parliament must vacate his seat,
in order to be eligible for some oilier place, this serried Tres-
lion will arise—whettser the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons ran legally vacate his sect dining the teens, without
the consent of Parliament? In the first place, let It be coos •
'Meted what the eonseqweeires would be if the Speaker were
to viral, his seat, •nd afterwird. fled in the election. The
Speaker would titre cease to lie a Member of the II onse of
Commons—whereas mote but • Member ran lie Speaker.
Further—all the, functions of the high office of Speaker
would be suspended, sod no person would he conipetcill to
issue writs, in care of the death of any Member fir soy
county or borough, before the meetingof Parliament ; wherein
the lay...requires writs to he issued, and the election to pro-
ceed within a fixed and limited time. Nor would the diffi•
culty be 113 the slightest degree removed, even if the Speaker
were to powered in the election; for in the Wriest between
his vacating his present seat mot the election for another
peal, be will have erased to be Member of the Honor, sod
therefore ceased to be Speaker; and after hie election he can-
not resume the office of Speak. .r at his own will and pl
These are some of the many extreme inconveniences which
would nectsssrily result from such a state of shines. The
qurstioo, in a consiitiiiironl point of view, is one of great
importance, and well worthy sot-consideration.

TO TIIR EDITOR OF THR BRITISH PRESS.

The frequent orerturnings of stage roaches have of Into
beevime %homing, and are • subject of high importance t•
the public. A glance at the (noses may Irad to prevention.
The opinion of many coachmen is, that the cause of a coati
guise over when earning • corner, is the locking of the foie-
wheel under the body. This is not the range—for a roach
in that situation always turns over on the opposite side to
that which sack a position of the wheel would east It. They
(the coachmen) die not, perhaps, consider the laws which
govern motion, and the tendency of every thing which re-
ceives an impetus to keep in a straight forward coarse.
Therefore, when at fall speed, if the frost part of elm ve-
hicle be soddenly drawn on one aide, the body or bulk of the
weight ■till tends straight forward, which to the new posi-
tion of the roach is oblique or sideways. If at this critical
juncture the weight be high and the base barrow, the danger
Is great indeed.

Coaches, when going at s great rate, to avoid each other,
by forming too acute and sudden au angle, have goiie over
from the same cause. Rut as no foresight of the coachman
can at all times avoid these sudden turns, it foliose that
r coaches should be more safely construirlerl. Formerly, when
roads woe bad Of fall of ruts, it was impossible for wheels
to run an a wider track than the rats would retsina; bet
now that rots have disappeared on every road, there remains
tro remise fur Ilse same narrow base; fur the slow rate they
formerly travelled this might do well enough, a sixty years
ago • stage-roach was two days mid a night on the road
from Luella' to Reeding, • distance of only thirty nose
miles—now a coach goes three hundred in the same time.
Coaches then require a broader base, fur the srloeity is so
great, that the wheel coming in contact with • assail Nome
or hollow produces on the horigrontal springs now la see a
rebound, whith perhaps cants the hotly of the come a foot
ors one side and if there he weight on the rf, each as
impetus her oo
•• beiroad the line of gravity, sad desemesion
of eons se follows. The absurd and dang. rout practice of
loading coaches on the roof is muds defended by eoarhmrs,
as it oilers no limit to She quantity of baggage; they have
also • strong prejudice that the higher the weight the easier
the draught. The following expresser nig were tried in pre-
sence of some who, instil then, were of that ("isms:—Sever
half-hendreda were placed us the roof of • coach, which
then required an additional twenty five pounds over a pulley
to move it ; the same wrizhis were afterwards placed inside
of the coach, when Ma, fourteen pounds were required.
These experinierits were repeated many limos • ills Ilia same
smelt.; therefore, luggage un the roof is as OlUfb against
the draught as it is against safety. The treatise is, the pre.
cise point at which force produces the greatest • frt et—ibe
centre of concession, in coder to which there must be a.
Much weight below as there is above the level of the busses'
collar, which mimeos be when luggage is on the roof.
If eoachmastern will carefully consider the Act for Tern-
latimr star coaches, they will find an inducement to adopt
• sari: method of loading their coaches ; the latter part of
this clause most have escaped their /tutorship, for by the :Wilt
.f George 111. they ere not only allowed two more palace-
gm for placing their luggage low (of this they see sware),
bet they are exempted from all Roes mentioned in the Act
for doing so: this perhaps has escaped notice. The words
are " without subjecting the driver., owners, or proprietors
of such coaches, or other carriages, to any of the penalties,
bees, or punishments imposed cr authorised to lie imposed
by the Act, guy thing biteas contained to the contrary sot-
withotauding."

To decide from the words of the Act they are clearly not
.object to any Gam; and if not subject to ally, to which Aar
tea they be collect ? Cut to be gosented by the spirit soil
acirairiag of the sew Art, safrty of passengers is all that ia
scoot; that secant pitched, nothing more is required ; the
spirit thee wed meaning as well as words of the Act clearly
pats soch coaches out of the reach of hammers. his is
worth the coosiderat ion of all combats sssss .
October 30, 1822.