The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-09 00:00:00

THE BRITTSII. PRESS.

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LON DON,
SATURDAY. Dvcssissa 9, 1820.

The Paris papers of the sth inst. arrived at a late-I
hour last night at our office. It it stated, under
the head of Vienna the 24th last, that the Congress
of Truppait would Le suspended until an answer
was received to the ultimatum sent to the Court of
Naples. The Paris imperil contain no other notice
of any interest respecting that kingdom. The
sentence of death pronounced upon Gamut* and
Bouroa has been commuted by his MAJESTY for
imprisonment and hard labour.for life ; the punish-
ment of the pillory his been 6144, remitted. Our
readers will iecolleet that these persons were found
guilty of discharging a petard under the window of
the Duchess of BERRY. shortly before the birth of
the Duke of BOURDEAUX, with intent to do het
Royal Highness a personal injury.—The arrival of
Lord ALTANEEY in Paris is anoonticed in the fop.
lowing terms in the Ga:eue de France: It is not
Sir Rosette WiLson who is arrived in Paris, but
Ltud ALTANI.EY, a great part;san of the radical
QUEEN. He was received at the door of the hotel
where he alighted, by a gronpe of little Savoyards,
who sent forth loud exclamations of joy."
The Five per Cent. Consols are 77 fr. 60 c.—
Bank Actions 1,415 fr.

A Dutch Mail has strived with Papers to the 6th
instant,. The king of PRUSSIA moil the CROWK
Pal Nor have arrived at Berlin front Troppau.—
Accounts flout Vienna intuition the march of se-
veral regiments so the south.

Extract from a letter from the agent to Lloyd'',
dated Cape Henry, October 13:—

" On Friday. the 6th, about ten o'clock at night,
the inhabitants of the Cape were alarmed by the
drum. beating to arms, and were soon informed
that the troops hail revolted, and that they were de-
termined no longer to have a K;ng. as the follow-
ing day the troops were marched out of the town,
with the Governor of the Cape at their head,
joined by a great number of the inhabitants, who
were furnished with arm.; they took up a position
on the high road to the Klan's rrsidence.
" On Sunday they were met by the Ktutee
troops who made little or no resistance, for after
exchanging two o► three shots they joined the Cepe
vary. The result was communicated to the KING
who exclaimed • then all is fini.hed with me'—be
soon alter retired and shot himself through the
heat t.

..On Monday ibe PLUMB ROTA I. WM lake% sod
conveyed to his palace► where he remai►►s under
arrest with the other branches of the Royal Family.
Perli.ips a greater tyrant never aimed than King
111 art

" From the 6th to the loth all business was at
• gaud, but property doll descriptions, both mobile
and private. wee respected. They appear •tt•ni-
tnons in the choke of a new ruler, but under what
title is not known, nor is his name yet mentioned,
but lie is said to be of a mild disposition. -
" Not om,e drop of blood has been shed in this
Revolution, from either private or public revenge.
awl it would really appear that they had bet one
enemy. and he woo so great • one to their heppi.
tiers, that his destruction has swept away all
anitinessey."

A meeting of the Freeholders of she Coenty of
Middlesex was held yesterday at Hocksley, to eon-
grasulate the Queen on the fate of the Bill of
Pains and Penalties. and petition the Brno to
dismiss his Ministers. A fall report of the pro-
ceedings is given in our preceding columns.

Annexed to the few obseivations which we are
about to offer to the notice of nor readers, will be
found a letter addressed by Mr. HART DAVIS, one
of the Representatives in Parliament for the City
of Bristol, to Mr. BRIGHT, the Chairman of " a
numerous and respectable meeting of the Citizens
of Bristol," in which Mr. DAVI.; declines to pre-
sent to the. QUEEN au Addreits which had been
unanimously voted by the meeting to her MAJFSTY.
Mr. DAVIS enters candidly into the reasons which
have induced him thus to dierent from the wishes
of his constituents, and we rigid that he " seriously
objects to paying his personal respects to the
Qtreerr until she has publicly disleowed an itiju-
riems letter, written and published in her name, and
addressed to our Most Gracious Sovereign." The
letter to which Mr. DAVIS *Hides must be familiar
to the public ; it w;.s a letter of complaint and
remonstrance, addressed a few months ago, in the
Quer:res name, to her Royal Consort. Ily witora
written, it is, perhaps, ussorcessitry to inquire, but
Mr. DAVIS goes, we tliii.k, too far in saying, that
it %us published, using the wind in its latoiliar cc-
etiolation, in the name or her AIAJE,4TY.
It this letter," observes Mr. DAVIS, " be not
treasonable act, which lily legal kvoisledge due.
not permit me precisely to determine. it Is iluts,
riously of a character so closely bordering upon it,
that no loyal subject who loses and honours has
Kivu can consider it in any oilier light than as
tending and isaeuded to bring the KING'S
awl the motion:by of she country lialOcontruipt."
We will by no means tiodertalte to justify that
letter. It was in our mind a very ill-advised pro-.
duction, doing as little *risky to the Queen,.
as it did credit to estlwr the heart or the head
of the individual who clitnyosed it. Futtunatrly