The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-08-02 00:00:00

?LANDERS AND NANIPURON NAILS.

coressomay. JULY 20.
Aceeptiog to *cements from Iceland. the on.

commonly mild winter has been followed by a very
$ ;gement spring, though an the mouth of April a
-quantity of quite flat sea ice appeared. The
oldest people in Iceland &mot remember ever to
have seen such thin ice, it being generally piled
up, and resembling a rough cliff. This thin ice,
however, disappeared in less than a fortnight, and
was of great advantage to the inhabitant., as it
-brought with it an immense number of seals, which
almost covered the ice. A great quantity of the*
were killed upon the iee, with claire and similar
-steepens.

K. 01114111$111111011. JULY 10.

On the 24th June (0. S) his Majesty the Em.
peror went from Oranunbeum to Croustade, when
he visited the naval schools, the marine bar-
racks, and the hospitals, and inspected the vessels
now lying in the roads, destined to make a sties.
tide voyage round the world.
The Imperial Academy of the Sciences has rt.
calved from the Directors of the English East la-
rfia Company a copy of the celebrated Arabian
Dictionary of Kamm, printed at Calcutta.
On the 7th July the anniversary of the birth.
day of the Grand Duke Nicholas, who entered his
it4th year. was celebrated at the -summer palace at
St. Peterhof.

• The Grand Duchess Alexandra, consort of the
Grand Duke Nicholas, is again near ber aerated&
meat.

The review 0 the Imps in the camp at Kristin-
geselo still continues.

RAGA, JULY 19.

On the 26th Suns there was a dreadful hail storm
i. Courlaa.d. between Bunke and Mitau, which
annihilated the whole harvest of rye..kc. A barn
in which some labourers took shelter, was blown
darn by the storm, and two of them killed.

STOGYHOLII. JULY )6.

Last Tuesday another shocking murder vies cum.
untied here. A journeyman carpenter weut into a
public-house kept by a widow, and asked to drink
it pem credit, which being refused. he killed her with
as axe. then went into an adjoining room and am-
tiered a youug woman, her adopted daughter; he
♦hen escaped through the window. but having left
the ace, he was soon traced. and is now in prison.

Accounts from Lund. rnpectiog the health of
the Minister of State. Count Eagestroni. are still
nufsvourable. His wife and daughter •set out for
Lund as soon as they were informed of big illness.
An Englishman. of the name of Owen, who has
a foundery here. is now building a steam coach in
the ntainier of the steam boats, which it is expected
will be a most convenient vehicle fur travelling by
land.

The model of the • statue of Charles the Thir.
treoth, which is to be erected in the Rnyal 'Osr.
aims liere, is shortly to be sent to Paris, where the
amine is mbe cast. An artist there has engaged to
tinieh it in tee months after receiving the model,
tor the sum of 52,000 fruits. For the statue of Gus.
sums 111. which is not so large as this' is to be, and
%hidk was cast here, one hundred and twenty
s!.ip-poonds of copper were employed, and it was
i-n years before it was finished. Mr. Owen asked
tor casting she statue of Charles XIII. ono hundred
I.iiip-peetida of copper, and the sum of 26A00
hrs. Intaglio.

CONSTANTIIIO.I.II. 401 E IS.

Nit accounts of the subjection of the rebels
leave y►t been received. The forces directed
against the►e people 000111 00i to be yet collected
together. The nomination of a new Lloapodae of
Moldavia is daily expected. It is however said,
that Prince Callimachi has made application to
have the time of his government prolonged for

,r Ie is years mere.

BILUSSILiI. JULY 48.

We have accounts from Co'ague. which state,
timt an consequence of the discoveries mode •1
Bvflin. M. Mulsleafeis. substitute of the At.
torury.Geuerat. has been arrested, sod after having
brim interrogated by M. Daniels. the Attorney.
Centre, has been sent under • strong escort to

Accounts front Amherst say, that there are con.
trouelly wOO% cluou the Rhioe easigrants fray
Swabia. Bade*. and Bavaria, going to Amster-
I lam, and thence to their Gaul destiustion. Ou the
.t. tluu arrived from 13.1deu, mum' whom Were

THE•B'RITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
MONDAY. Alwyn Q. 1119.

The Cairene of Saturday night contains the Pro-
clamation respecting the proceedings of the Radi-
cal Reformers, which we announced in oar Paper
of that day. It adverts to the late public Meet-
ings. and the seditious speeches and publications
accompanying them. It exhorts all loyal subjects
to avoid and discountenance all such proceedings,
and require. the Magistrates to use all due dili-
gence fur the punishment of all persons concerned
in such illegal acts. lu the list of offences which
have called forth this Proclamation. the election of
a Representative for Birmingham in the House of
Commons, in the person of Sir CIIARLIIII Wows-
Lae, holds the foremost place, accompanied with
the observation, that 44 there is reason to believe that
other Meetings are about to be held for the like
unlawful purpose." Now, the Leeds, the Smith.
field, and several other Meetings, have since taken
place. and at none of them has the example of the
Birmingham Meeting been followed, in the elec.
tion of • Representative or Legislatorial Attorney
to the House of Commons. At the Leeds Meet-
ing it was only resolved to elect such Representa-
tive, whenever a proper person could be met with.
It would seem then, that this part of the plan
was more likely to all to the ground than rise in
popularity. The Reformers must feel, that some
of the ridicule to which they expose the party whom
they affect thus to honour must fall upon them-
selves, and that its impotent folly must detract from
the seriousness and gravity of their complaints;
and, indeed, Earl Firanwax. in a letter to
the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cheater,
truly observes, that this resolution respecting • new
Member is inconsistent with the other principles of
Reform which they profess. In fact. the transfer
of the right of representation from rotten and de-
rayed boroughs to such towns as Manchester and
Birmingham, with triennial Porliaments, is the very
plan of Reform in which all liberal sod enlight-
ened people, who conceive some Reform necessary,
agree, and therefore there is little danger that it
will find advocates among these wicked and sedi-
tious men, charged with attempts to excite dis.
obedience to the laws, and insurrection against the
Government. The Proclamation also mentions
the clandestinely assembling of men for the practice
of military training and exercise. This is a more
serious ground for apprehension, being evidence of
a plan to carry their purposes into effect by forces
it is also the only new circumstance disclosed in
the Proclamation. Illegal proceedings of this kind
are tangible articles, and we can scarcely reconcile
their undisturbed and unrestrained existence in
" some parts of the kingdom," with the activity of
the Magistrates and the strength of the military
',rower in the discontented districts. It is also sin.
guise that the provincial Press. the attention of
which is so anxiously turned to the proceedings of
the Reformers, should never have noticed these clan-
destine military drills; and that even the
terial Prints, so sagacious in discovering the wicked
devices of the malcontents, and ingenious in co.
louring and exagerating their proceedings. should
never have favoured their readers with • single in-
stance of them. The information which the Secre-
tary of State may have received on the subject we
do not know, and cannot presume to judge of its
accuracy. We are only surprised that a feature in
the Reform proceedings of so dangerous a nature,
and so calculated to excite alarm, should not have
received earlier publicity. The purpose for which
the present Proclamation, in which it is noticed, is
now published, spew a field fur conjecture. Among
the hints for alarm circulated by the Ministerial
Press, it is stated that a general meeting of Dele-
gates. from the Union Reform Societies. is in con-
templation, and that Government is determined to
prevent all such meetings in future.—lf there be
authority for this statement, the Proclamation may
be considered as a notice to the public of a more
vigorous and energetic exercise of the powers of
Government than it has hitherto thought proper or
necessary to use. We should rather suppose, how-
ever, that Ministers would, on reflection, feel
pleased and satisfied with their moderation. The
principal Meetings have been held, they have been
conducted with propriety, and the people have
dispersed in the most peaceable manner. The
spirit evinced at them has gradually cooled,
and has now sunk into a tone of humiliation;
and the prospect of employment in the op-
prosch of the blessings and active labours of an
abundant harvest. in assuaging the bitterness of
present distress among the lower classes. must
weaken the influence of those designing and wicked

oleo who would make use of that distress to lead
thews:astray. As far, them. if the state of the

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musk/ is before the public. Moe apron iii as.
aosity fur increased rielfer sad severity so darn
Of Clormsment. Au epqrsetoity has buss peas
for the 411 and free asp rise of the spirit sod
temper of the people, and in sminnmpttelvla.tbay
skews themselves dangerous bt beitite ill the
public tranquillity. AN the Meetings have rks.
played the same character, and the fallowing *b.
nervations of Earl FITZWILLIaII strait the Leeds
Meeting, in the letter to which we Icive allookt I, ap.
plies .prall to all. is 0.. the whole," Days this
excellent s' I think I sassy confidently *mere
your Lord .p, that though there are to be howl
,
iu this *ding a certain number or very seditioe%
designing, and dangerous characters, who are en.
deavouring to instil into the minds of the spin.
formed, doctrines subversive of every thing va•
friable in our sonstitutional establishusent, these
men are few in numbers, without character or in-
fluence; the wars .f the population it by No mesas
disaffected, but, on the contrary, contented with the
present mode of thing.. if they attend such Meet-
ings, it arises in a great degree froasbant of °CC*,
'ration : they have the misfortune to be unemployed ;
however willing to work, under the present stag.
nation of trade they can find none : and are thus
reduced to the cruel distress, which every man,
whose daily support depends upon his daily earnings,
must he in when employment/a/b. • This is their
hard lot at present, which, to their credit, from
every thing I hear, they bear. in hopes of better
times, with patience and resignation."
Such is the view entertained by Earl Firsarrt,
LIAM of the present state of the discontented dis-
tricts. The character of his Lordship, his long.'.
perience, and extensive means of information, con-
stitute him an authority of great weight.— Discon-
tent is the natural and necessary consequence of
distress, and the present discontent being of that
description, does not require extraordinary rigour
and coercion. '

We have received the Paris Papers to the 30th
last. The Court now resides at St. Cloud,
where the Kane suffers from the put, but not in a
degree to prevent his attending to public business.
The Five per Cent. Console are 711 f. Bank Ac.
time 1,4041 f.

Flanders and ibmburgh Mails, with Papers to
the 30th of July. arrived last night. An approach-
ing Congress of the German Powers at Carlsbad has
been for some time announced in some of the Fo-
reign Papers, and as confidently contradicted in
others. An article dated Frankfort, the 24th. which
is the latest intelligence on the subject, seems to pat
this question at rest. The alarming state of Germany
is said to demand some combined measures as es-
sentially necessary to its safety. Ministers on the
part of Austria. Ramis, and Prussia, had already
arrived at that city, the destined scene of their con-
ferences. The King of HANOI.= will be repre-
sented by Count MUMS&
The name of OWIN promises to be celebrated
for arts and science on the Continent, as much
as it is in England for political economy. An
English Gentleman of that name is building •
steam coach at Stockholm, and has proposed to
cast the statue of CHIARLIN XIII. upon the
model adopted by the Swedish Government.

The Holy Alliance. we understand, is now pious.
ly engaged in concerting measures for the purpose
of maintaining the authority of the Beloved Fait.
DIMAND in South America. Each of the maritime
Powers, parties in this Confederacy. will, according
to report, contribute its quota of ships to the for-
mation of a formidable fleet fur this purpose. Eng.
land. in addition to its Foreign Enlistment Preven-
tion Bill, will of course furnish a full share. Com-
modore Sir THOMAS HARDT had on Friday a very
long conference with the Board of Admiralty, relit.
lite to his cumulous(' in South America. The gal-
lant Captain will leave town in a few days, to hoist
his broad pendant on board the Superb, of 74 guns,
at Portsmouth. Our reader* are apprised that the
Yeager►, of 74 guns, will be also under his coin.
mind. These two ships are now at that port
waiting for men; the latter wants upwards of one
hundred to increase her complement to 540. She
has been completed (according to her only present
orders) for foreitru service. The Hyperion, Captain
T. SCACLC, C.B. arrived at Portsmouth from the
Leith station on Sunday. She is also fitting for
foreign service. and. it is supposed, to accompany
Commodore Sir THOMAS HARDT. The Ramp-
shire Telegraph presumes that these ships are in-
tended to ou out only as a squadron of demoustra-
tion, or of observation, in consequence of Lord
COCHRANE having. by Proclamation. declared all
the ports on the roast of Peru and Chili in a state
of blockade. It is probable, however. that they
are only our quota to the general naval force des.
tined to act in that quarter.

Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR and Prince
ESTERHAZT had audiences of the PRINCE Re.
GENT.

The Honourable Captain 131'NQ, and Captain
S. ROBERTS, C. 8., as well as Captains Mon-
TRESSOR and Orrr, are appointed to the Canada
Lake service, under Commodore Hama. C.B.
We understand it is not intended that these officers
shall put any of the ohms on the Lakes in coin.
mission, but are to take up their residence at the
several posts of danger, in the event or any circum-
stances arising winch may call for their service,.
The Hon. Captain Butte was to sail yesterday in
the British Army, fur Quebec.

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