The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-02-01 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBARY OF THE
BATH NAIL.

On Moeda, right the Rath mail-coach drew up to the
Gloucester Colfer.house, in Piccadilly, as is customary, when
the man employed at that office, known by the name of the
Bonner, set shoot packing the parcel., belonging to the red-
sengsrs and others, directed to gu by that mail, when Andros
that lw could not pack a large banil.boit, there not being
room for it, he look it back again into the office; sad as
he was returning again to the mad-coach, he was stopped
by a man who asked him a few trifling questions, which
110 doubt was solely fur the purpose of delay, and when he
gel to the coach and opened the dem, he found the other
door had been opened aril left an, and immediately missed •
parcel which plowed to contain 1,4001. !whinging to the
I)wizee Bank; and, strange to tell, tine of the proprietors
was gulag with it to take rare of it.
The roblwr escaped undiscovered, no doubt with the
man in league with him, who stopped the porter ur runner
to ask bim a trifling question to delay him.

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The sionatiot If the poor was never roorrr. Itch
so Is Oast country IM mental and plio;c•il
in genius. in industry, in arts, and in capital—.
eighty as she is in arms. in extent of territory. in
naval tufty. in colonial posresstons—east as are all
her resources—excellent as are her laws—when the'
roll of the British family is called oses, how
the beholder unused to find. that issollious of its
ut-mlsers ore in a state of pauperism. literally
•iiiiiriirted by the free bounty we fitefiril cols.
intuitions of their brethren! Nit nutistaitun is
ao regularly found mooched to every village SO
the Inw.t•lteutte; *owl fur their support. erinuird as
those Itosass now are, a larger sum than ever is
drained from the shallow purses of the middle we.
dere. hiders', so crying is the evil, dud tlw most
iorldrereuel are at length aroused to scrims in helmet
of the diatreosed; and inquiries are every where ors
on loot. whirls. ws they proceed. are 111.afie rot sit
'woods's even those who are moat nerlistittned
scenes of wretchedness. by the unexpected devil.
am! aglravatiosa of the misery which they
sent. The rewearches which have beets made by the
benevolent, in Leeds and a netglihtibring town. may
• a specimen of the slate of the West Boding
generally. and we fear we may say, of all the .111.0"
nolactiirsog and many of the agricultural districts
throughout die country. Without reek g those
peramis who are thrown out of work by the Mere
tocknieticy of the season, we mat safely assert that
r,,,e want of employment was never PO great. sod'
the state of the poor never so descrying of commis
germ iiiiii as at the present done. Whatever may be..,
the cause, the facts cannot be deputed : how they
originated, )artier may c‘iiitrail—bog thug these
things ore, blindness itself eaount deny.
As the interests of the different classes of society
ire Intimately cosoncird, and io a great measure
identical, we find that trade, in all its branches,
hears intuits of the same withering power which
has blasted the protilwrity of the I .bourong chigoes.
E ich class, too, feels, itself so deeply affected. that
it is panne to consider every other class as compass.
tiv. ly fortunate. and even 1111 enjoying advantages at
its expense. The real, or apparent climbing of the
ago With oral and manufacturing interests luroishes
matter for serious disputationoind causes he straihiog
ut every nerve by each of the oppo•ii- patties to pro-
cure legislative enactments favourable to themselves.
The agriculturist, complain. that the wive which
their corn and other produce letet., is insofficimi
tar remunerate them for their labour and expense in
Ilse culture of the ground. The poor rates are so
Heavy, clothing is so expensive, and the Neer are so
high, that they can with d.fficull ji.sy their rents.
or obtain their profit.. They see. with alarm. that
the price of corn has fallen. since the war. very
considerably, while the poor rates have increased,
and the taxer %re rather augmenting than diminish.

When the ports are open, grain is brought
Crum the Continent in @amazing quantities. becsupe
it can there be purehaoril at, lorry shillings, and

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nirg or ENGLAND.
err' few weeks ego England was one great
✓ of political controls...ie. and the einnwrous
Is vritich record else events of 11w day weie
employed eis cirrolatiog. 11 gee ..tver_y dis-
own. and villagr,•the report of parlianivettary,
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wilting or ',reserving our priletsc.,l privileges
betties. Great and momentous as were these
.ts, and well worthy of the Hoist undivided
ion which could be IWllooWeli ups.“ theta,
swear to have almost stink iinui uhLviva be.
outlier gisestiose, if possible, of more pressers(
ry abd more immediate moment. The voice
rev, and the complaints of the iscoriteigeil
been drowned by the pierciog and oilivers4l;
misery : while the • les laturnti..g the loss:
'hest priviteges, it is still
the existence of nations! distress. and loukili
I with despair on the woful exchange *ll.ch vii
years has been made, from ihe hone of pornlr
hitter cop of misery. The existence of fill.
In a great and slamming extent, is now WO-
es.t to he rlenird : every man feel* it liimerlf.
• it in hideous colours around liiin ; 411.1 [Tell
longues which hot lately ilissllll.ta or tit.
41 it, aie now firward to besercei nl.ll impor-
. that inialediste mod availing reenf way Ire