The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-20 00:00:00

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The • Wit*• •Isf ' • one of the Lotidon'tveuing
Papers hos the good• fortune to haver Corotspon-
deist ikManchester, who in r dearth of facts can
imagine cheroot's's, end by the gift of reeved tight
anticipate evil, as if a volcan,, was ready to burst
open and involve the whole system of inanufactnre
in one common ruin, and wail its crater to sweep
away. to oblivion the towiss and trade of Manchester
atal Stilford; offering as evidence the facts of two
or three petty robberies which have lately been com-
mitted in this neighbourhood, and a statement of
the price of coals, by winch the iiiiishitinits are to
be starved to death during the ensuing -sinter, by
enaggeratiog an metes' adiratice of a itolfirermy per
cwt. to One of three shillings per ton. We are not
so fortunate in obtaining information as the London
Editor. Nu local incident has come to our know-
ledge which will furnish a subject for a croaking
paragraph es the disorderly state of the population;
amid we must content ourselves with congratulating
our readers---•—•*--nlarly diode, who, from locality,

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ern br.t ascertain the col reetriess of the statement—
on the abswisce at thaw circumstances, which, a
short limit ago, wade a hlanchester Newspaper pe•
culially interesting to their friends at a distance.—
( Alaseltesier Herald.)

DINNER AT tENDAL.

Oa Siiwnlay se'imight, a very numrrous party
of the friends of AVestmorland lorlependetwe gave
a dinner to Mr. Brougham, at the King's Arens,
Kendal, in honour of the glorious struggle at the
last contest At Appleby to regain those rictus which
the House of Lowther have usurped during the
last fifty years.
Mr. Brougham arrived privately at Mr. Wake-
field's. at Sedgewiek, the evening previous to the
dinner, to the d►sappointment of minty of the in-
habitants, who intended to hive drawn him into the
town.

At half-past eleven o'clock he was
Sedgewick by • great coucourse of persons, accom-
panied by the Kendal band of music playing, and
colours flying, and alighted at the ion, where he
was received by • party of friends. The people as-
sembled waited patiently for Mr. Broughani's ap-
pearance at the wiudow. although the nano coutiriu-
ed pouring down in torrent% ; therefore lie did nut
keep them long in the wet. but addressed them •ts
the following purport
It had been said of him that he always brought
bad weather to Kendal—he could not help it—/
laagh).—As it was. the best thiag lie could now do,
would he to keep them waiting in the rain as short
re while as possible, so he would confine whist he had
to say simply to a couple of brief sentences. lo
the. first place. he was proud in seeing them again
stßeisdal ; the second was, he should meet their
'antagonists (the Lowther.) at Appleby. the very
first opportunity that occurred, when the second
trial would tell whether their cause should prosper
or not; and if that should not. he would try them
again and again after that, and tees bow over if
found necessary, and he wits spared.— ( Cheers. I--
He weblil nowouly just add asiothsr very abort sen-
tence, and take his leave of them fur the present.
iu hopes of seeing them arms at some future
period. It was truly gratifying to him and early
friend to the cause—the good cause in which lie as
engaged—to see still ezi.ting that same
that same seal and confidence in every
animated and cheered them in
tru.ted that it would so con.
finally eccomplished their in-