The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-11-25 00:00:00

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jriity, then Prince Regent, generously gave
fifty thousand • year out of leis own inetnrie, to re.
lieve the wants of the distressed mann facturer-, big
Ministers took care that this Should not Itoppro ti I
about a fortnight after the Priace broad becii (loun
to the Ilutise of Lords to open ;he St S.iinto Heti
this act of Royal munificence taken place previuu•
to the meeting, the Prince liegetit woyld tete
been carried down almost on the shoulder!. of
faithful subjects. Let us examine a little into o,s,
proceedings respecting the coitspirroil in eat&
street, for dirty too we shall find a peculiar estr7
currence of sentiments in the 'mots iii those hichfj•
interesting scenes. The newspapers st..te the 1.,4'1
Chief Justice to hare addressed the pi!••
who had upon petrniasion withdrian ilten p.•
not guilty, in order to suhstittite place
of gull yi in these word.:—" If any of yon shook,
ultimately have your lives spared, us will, I trust.
he the case a ith some of you, let me earnestly hope
that you will bear In Mind that you oar the pro-
longatiott of your existence to the merciful dispo-
sition and benignity of the Sorer igii, and to the
compassionate feelings of Owe very men alto seer-
to have been the victims of your conspiracy. at
to have been sacrificed a al muttlered by you."
Mr. the keeper of Newgirie, goys lad!
further, and entirely omits any obligici.oi tie cola
vita might have to his Nlajesty„ fur the estensi..n
of his Royal mercy. Ile itaja—" There is one of
the must remarkable circumstances attesithiriz your
cases that ever took plate upon any occasion, awl
if you have any feeling, it must make a deep and
indelible impression upon you. Those very Rennie
against whose lives your hands were about to be
raised, are the men by whose intercession you live s
have been saved."

Now how is it porwilde that the Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, or thst Brow'',
could hive known that it was at the intercesstun of
his Mojest3's Nlinistera that lie was about to eici r-
cise the most brilliant prerogative of the Crown ?
flow could they have known it, unlo,v from MGT.
'nation derived immediately from die very alvisers,
who must also have instructed them to in3kr iliia
public deelsration of it ? Might it not have al
from the spontanroits flow of the knoan benevo-
lence of the [loyal mind? and to Ilia solute of
benignity it is more reasonable to attribute it, thao
to any suggestion from his usual advisers,

Observe also the result of this calamitous Bill of
Pains and Penalties (and God alone knows what
further baleful consequences it may produce!)
The Ministers have absolutely driven his Majesty
into retirement, and placed him in such a situation,
as to he cautious of appearing, during the full fare
of day, it: the metropolis of his kisigdo.n. Tu
whom is this owing ? Let the process against ilia
Queen have originated wherever it may, the con-
duct of the proceedings is all their own—the
Milan Commission, even if not originally their urn,
they have adopted and acted upon—the suborna-
tion of witnesses is their own—in the perjurie., of
which this business has been productive, if uut ex-
clusively their own, they have the most ample pars
ticipation and guilt, and are liable to the conic.
wieners. Alas ! what a small share of prospective
oradoru belongs to man ! With a conduct directly
calculated to produce the public indigi k/41011,
Ministers could not see that they were uniting all
England, 1 might add all Europe, against then' ; and
thus have they, by their attempts to shift the white
obloquy of their proceedings upon the shoolderr of
Royalty itself, brought it ten-fold upon their own,
and will, I hope, suffer in the end for bepaying
their Master. Could his Majesty be persuaded to
remove theta for ever from his council•, he would
be received in every place with the melt coidiA
plaudits of his people, and would call forth rip..
venial benedictions (row the uttermost limits of his
dominions.

Letters of the 4tli instant via France, state, that
the Brazil packet, Captain WATKINS. reached Lis-
bon on the Ist, and that as soon as the Captain had
attired,
.he was arrested and put into prison, and
his mail taken from him. The mails were opened
on the pretrzt of searching for contraband pto-
perty. No such ankle, being found, the Captain
was immediately released. The packet was to wail
again on the 6th for the Brazils, with the Conde.
dr PALMELLA ; but no private letters were to be
suffered to go with her. The elections fur the
Cortes acre concluded after the manner adoi,ted
in Spain, and they are to meet in January.
The remains of the Earl of MALMKSBURY were
removed yesterday from his bourse in 11101-strfer,
Berkeley-square, for interment, in the family vault
iu the cathedral church, Salisbury.
The vestry clerk of St. Margaret's par,sh,zW..•-
minster, his Miaowed lire parishioners, Ifsit fu f:tt;ii-
pliance with the general wish the
solved to open a subscription among the litipt.).tara
and congregation attending St. Margaret's ilua7h.
fur the purchase of a piece, or wise pieces of Watt..
to be in-viewed to the Rev. HOBLRT STEVEN'''.
their late Lecturer, as a tribute of respect and sffee..
inmate regard for his long and faithful sertrlcea, wu it
a suits ble inscriptioti:to be putrared Overton.
Alter a patient iiivestigetiou of three days,
Aa-
Hanid Quiney. Henry Adams, Samuel Sjaktespap.l
Dermas liesierey, have been committed to our
county gaol by TIIOIIO HUNT. Esrp. Coroner.
charged with the wilful murder of Mr. WILLIANI
Hi Ruin at Alvemon, on Saturday night, the 14t!,
October. The Pri-oners, we understand, were 4, ).
prelteuded by the acittity Of one of the Officer, a
Police belonging to this town; they were labourni4
men employed in the neighbourhood, and uhr 4
thew was, or had beau lately, a well:man of the
are miaghain lisseue.)

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