The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-05-12 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIER, MAY S.
We expect every moment a royal ordinance re-
'peeling the manner in which the young people in-
tended to recruit the army, and to be levied, and
for the further organisation of the army.
We learn that 1.400 new officers are put upon
attire service, of whom the half are officers oil
half pay. The Cadres for the veterans are to be
formed gradually.
They write from Lille, that the notorious Mau-
breuil, who escaped from the prison at Donny, is
in possession of vety large sums of money, which
will triable him to live at his ease in foreign coun-
tries. People are curious to hear what will be the
sentence of the Court on his cause, which conies
on to-day.
The Duke of Wellington is expected hark iii
France on the 20th of this mouth. it was expected
that he would come to Cambray before lie returned
to P.sria. The highest prai.se is bestowed 011 his
iinpirtislity, and moderation. " In the situation
in which the confidence of the European Sovereigns
has placed me," he is reported to have said, I
Forlong to no nation in particular, but to Etteope,
in order to produce genetal satisfactinii."
The subaltern officers of the old army gradu-
ally oflir themselves to be placed in the Cadres of
the Departmental Legions.
MEMEL% MAY 6.

The british Government still keeps up a very
a:ti►e correspondence with the Northern Courts.
On the 4th a Itur►ian courier passed through here,
coining from Warsaw, with important dispatches.
Sorteral couriers have passed through to-day.

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ANTWBIP. MAY 4.

The sti.ct observance of the laws introduced un-
der the Flynt+ Government, and which have still
remained in force—among which is the rigorously
dr 'Howling pre-sports, which frequently causes un-
Orson't rlaspotes with travellers et the gates, has late-
lately been Illy cause of a very melancholy accident.
A t iris n of this city, Dominique Janssens, going
to Airlines, was met by a gens-d'arme, who de-
manded to see his passport ; he said he had none.
and that hr was a resident citizen of Antwerp, mod,
as lie th •uzlit, not personally unknown to the
This availed nothing, and hr was re-
quired in gn to Leer. J4iisseiss reHtses, brcdule it
.is so intich mil of the way, and will I ler the bu-
sooss lie has en Wind. The gen* gnome insists,
1611:1 trisa.rs. The grub-411%61nm prepare*
In bind him ; J nissen• suffors himself to be
bound aithnut resistince, and follows ilie assailant,
by his dtsite, to a will ; there the dispute is re-

TIM BRITI SII PRESS.

LONDON,

TUESDAY, Ma 14, 1818.

The 'Paris Papers of the Bth arrived last night.
The Moxiftser contains the Royal Ordinance fur
raising a sum of 16,040,000 francs for the payment
of foreign dirndls, pursuant to the vote of both
Cluturbess for that purpose.—The teport of the
trial at Albi comes clown to the .2tl. The Sitting of
the Ist prevents nothing new nor striking. The
wive' of the prisoners Jausiox and BASTIDC are
ctinstantly employed iu writing letters to excite
commiseration. They are represented in great die.
tress, and totally destitute of mean.. Madame
MANSON has, during the Assize., completely coo•
ciliated the public. After the delivery of her address
on the 29th April, the most distinguished ladies of
the city went to compliment her in the prison.
The strangers are quitting Albi. More than 400
witnesses have already obtained leave to return
lionw.-6The Five per Cent. Consols are 68 6-10th
francs.

We have received German Papers to the 4th
instant. The King of Pausstx will set out in the
latter end of this month ou a visit to Moscow.—
The following is en extract :
CAMML, MAT 1.
His Royal Highness the Prioce Regent of Great Britala
and Ireland baring caused an applkation in form to be
made for the bind of her Must Bettor Highness Princess
Augusta, youngest danghtcr of his Serene Highness the
Lori!grave Frederick of Hesse, fur his Royal Highness Prince
Adolphus Frederick of Great Britain, Doke of Cambridge,
his Royal Highness the Elector, as bead of the House,
has given his consent to this union, already arranged with
the parents of the bride, and it is now declared at Court his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will write here oa
'the sth, and on the 7th the marriage of the illustrious
'cobple will be celebrated in this city.

A Dutch Mail has arrived, with Papers to the
10th instant. Accounts from the French Iron-
tiers state, that the Government of France is pro-
ceeding in the organization of the army, conform-
ably with the law of the present Session. A consi-
derable number of half-pay Officers will, it is said,
be appointed to the full service, for the purpose pro-
bably of appeasing that angry spirit of discontent
which not long since appeared to animate that dan-
gerous body of men, and seemed to threaten France
with a renewal of her former sufferings. The depart-
mental legions are gradually forming throughout
France, and will übsorb many of these Officers who
offer themselves fur this species of service. The more
they can be dispersed the less dangerous will they
become; and as, its many instances, hunger has been
found the prime instigator to rebellion, it is to be
expected that if theme fiery Gentlemen can have
their tables comfortably supplied at the expense of
the' tate, they will net stiffer their political feel.
ings to interfere with the general tranquillity.

Ceylon Gatettes to the Oth of December last
have arrived, by winch it appears that the provinces
agitated there by insurrection, were never accus-
tomed to submit to any quiet or orderly Govern-
ment, and that many of their inhabitaAts, portico-
lady the Veddalis of NVeßasile and Bintenne,
knowledged only a nominal subjection to the Can-
dyais monarchy. Orr the other hand, all the provin-
ces, heretofore habituated to the control of regular
authority, have been perfectly faithful in their alle-
giance to the British Government. A reward of
2.000 runt dollars is offered for the apprehension of
DORESAWSIY, the chief instigator of the rebellion,
who lurks as a fugitive in the &stipm*Bnd jungles
of the island. He is a person of the Malabar cast.
The difficulties ern:moldered by the detachment
of troop* sent in pursuit of the rebels were very
great, but, riotwithstasiding the perpetual showers
of arrows by which it has been assailed iu its
marches, from the thickets and other hiding-places,
two wen only have been wounded in this particu-
lar service. The unfortunate Mr, WILSON perish-
...l by an arrow, while proceeding to a friendly Om-
krenre, mid his body was carried off by the enemy ;
and subsequently Mr. NlcNuurt. Assistant Staff-
Surgeorr. fell In a similar way. The rebels mark
their career with the must atrocious cruelties to
every adherent of the British,
The 19111 regiment of foot has quitted Ceylon
for England, and is nosy no its passage, being re-
lieved by the $34 regitneist from Cork, a detach-
nient of obit!), ansuosshng to .100 men, lauded vary
npportnisely at a critical state of the rebellion.—
Captain Eosin% o LOCKYKR, of the former rrgi-
Meld, Mrs. I.ticsorea. and five 0111111*n, one of
whom war, boils at ses, during the v•iy.ge, have al-
ready arrievil by the Ludy Lloringdon.
At the Irakr end of October, Jobe Jenny, a pri-

' vote of the .73t1 foot, was shot 'at Colombo, for'
striking Captain Smith of that regiment. He died
very priiinent, hav►ng previously confessed that he
had been concerned in robbing the treasbry at
Candy, about two years before.
On the .2.9 th of November a violent gale of wind
'took place at Colombo, in which the t►anaport
Eliza, Capt. Ruts not.nson ; Pembroke, Captain
RIMERS.; Leghorn, Gtut.or4 master; brig
KERN master, and ketch Ardtuier went ashore and
were totally wrecked. All the crews were wised, ex-
cepting a gentleman and his serva►►t, passengers in
the Pembroke, who, leaping overboard when that
ship struck, with the view of gaining the land,
were drowned.

The Court House of the Bombay Presidency was
nearly destroyed by tire on the 18th of October.
At Calcutta and in the environs, choltra sorbet
has been very prevalent. The cases, only between
the Bth and 14th of October, amounted to 1,336,
of which 1,470 were cured or convalescent, and 66
died ; but, by the latest accounts from that quar-
ter, the cases daily grew less and less numerous.

Not many dart since we tamented sincerely the
fate of Lord LAIIDERDALE'S and Mr. TIERNEY'S
motions, in their respective Houses of Parliament,
for the appointment of Committees to inquire into
the state of the currency of the country, bring
persuaded that there is. no subject of more general
importance to a commercial people than that
which relates to the means of effecting the transfer
or property. We had, however, principally Is-
meuted the circunistarice, because the subject is
one of considerable 13ifficulty, and the practical
information to be acquired In a Committee of
either House of Parliament is that ou which
alone we can rely with confidence, or Which can
correct the errors of theoretical writers. But
though Ministers had un these motions denied
the necessity of such an inquiry, the propriety of
revising the laws relating to the coinage of the
country was acknowledged by Mr. WELLEsLee
POLE in the House of Commons on Monday,
the 4th instant. But with the inconsistency
that seems to characterise the measures of our
present Ministers, this confession was made at
the very moment when they were requiring a sum,
not less than 73,000/. to be expended in furtherance
of a system of coinage that experience has proved,
and that the Master of the Mint has allowed to be
inefficacious. Indeed, in the whole proceeding
respecting the coinage in this year, there appears
something extremely preposterous. The Ministers
first declare, that during the year not one sove-
reign shall circulate in the country, while they, at
the same moment, undertake the expense of coin-
ing eight millions. In justification of this, they
say, that by the provisions of the existing law, the
Mint mutt coin into liivereigus whatever bullion
shall be taken into it, and that the Bank is making
great efforts to 611 its coffers with coined monies ;
but they in the same breath add, that the laws
relating to the coinage require revisions to the
intent of reducing the real below the nominal
value, and hope to make the public believe
that the Bank of England would, in the face
of this intention on the part of Government,
send bullion to be coined at the full value, which
it would be necessary before the tittle of cash pay-
ments to have re-coined at a lower actual value.
The sum of 73,000/. therefore, is merely meant to
be idly squaudered with no other motive, we firmly
believe, than to put money into the pocket of the
Master of the Mint. and other persons receiving
fees from the operation of coinage.
We are glad, however, to find, that the Ministers
are at length aware of the isnpolicy of their conduct
in reducing the proportionate value of the silver so
far below the gold coin, and that they have resolved
to propose a seignorage upon the gold coin—for
this is what we can collect' from Mr. W. POLE'S
speech. It is useless, however, to make any changes
while it rests with the Bank of England to inun-
date the country with their sibtes, and to drive the
gold out or circulation. We know that there are
many persons who object to a seignorage on the
coin under any circumstances, from the belief that a

seignorage would produce en unfavourable effect
upon the rites of our foreign exchanges; hut the
effect produced solely by an alteration iii the
value of the coin, if tint carried to any serious
extent, is hardly worth a moment's considera-
tion. They, loweverb who think it important,
should have withstood the imposition of • seig-
mirage upon the silver coin, for if the one
he continued we cannot choose but establish
another. While there exists a difference be-
tween the values of the two coins so great as six
per cent. it is idle to think of maintaining the cir.
culation of both.

Yesterday the Duke of You transacted mili-
tary 'Juanita* with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton
Mitre, . _

Prince EstEnifait, the Austrian Ambassador,
had an audience of the PatscE BEGLIST yebterday.
On Saturday evening Mr. Mti.t.s, the King's
Messenger, left tows, for Frairkfoit, &c.
Prince qf Wales revenue cruiser, BENJAMIN
01.1i/Cit, commander, soiled from Braves Sound,
Shetland, on the Ist inst. and left there the four
ships destined for the Arctic Expedition, all well,
and were to nil is, ilia course of two or three duvs.
EDWARD ARMITAGE, Esq.. of Finn6).4l;ll,
Yorkshire, has rrevivtd prePlllllK invitation from
is number of the Burgesses of Beverley, to offer
!Milk If as a candidate at the next general election
to represent list boroughs in Parliament.

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POETRY

ANACR EONTIC.

Come, God of Love! entwine soy heart,
And hid each sigh Of grief Itrpart;
Young Bacchus too, with Tuseaa wine,
Declare an hour of mirth is mine.
Tip to the brim, hay, fill the vase,
See, Sorrow shuns this joydus place:
To her I love the goblet fill,
And, as 1 drink, freak joys Mali!.
But see, Ike nil or night is spread,
The stars their twinkling lustre shed ;
Come, drink my soy, we'll drink till day
/Us driteu"the dusk of night away.