The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

Arrangements were making on Saturday for her
51 AJ MY to take an airing out of Kew Palace, by
souse alterations in her chair and poles, but which
dist not take place ; the expectations were raised on
Sunday, but we are sorry to say the QUEEN was
not well enough, and her MAJESTY, we a►e con-
cerned to say, was nut quite so well on Sunday
evening as she had been the three previous days,
particularly on Thursday, when she was better than
she had been since her resilience at Kew. The re•
port of her state yesterday was—
p Mee Majesty ass bad not quite so good a ■ieat, bat is
sada the tame as she has bows for several days past."
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE went to
Kew on Sunday, to take leave of her MAJESTY,
and dined with the Duchess of GLoucEssza and
Princess AUGUSTA.
The Duke cud Duchess of KENT arrived at Kew
on Sunday evening, soon after seven o'clock, in an
open chaise and four, driven by the Royal Duke,
from Claremont, on a visit to the QUEEN, and to
take leave of-the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.

Parliament was fixed to meet this day, but we
understand a writ has been issued, proroguing the
meeting for two mouths, duit is, until the begin-
ning of October.

The Paris Papers of the 31st last (Finlay)
have arrived. The time of the KING is constantly
occupied with business or recreation.—The Ma-
nliest,* contains a letter from NI. PANTINI RO-
SATI, Special Commissioner of his Holiness fur
the execution of Political Treaties, to the Edi-
tor, contradicting a paragraph copied into that Paper
from • London Journal, stating, that the POPE is
negotiating a loan with M. ROTHSCHILD. The let.
ter says, there is no foundation for this statement.
The five per cent. Consols were on Thursday
771 fr.—Bank Actions 1,615 fr.

Flanders and German Mails have arrived, but
they bring no news of any importance. The ap-
peal of the Duke of WELLINGTON against M. De
BUSSCHER liss excited a great sensation at Brus-
sels. The object of his Grace, in pursuing this
course, was to confute the inbinuation. that he bad
pervv►ted the trust confided to him by the whole
of Europe to exercise an unjust influence over the
Councils of France.

Ve have some more American Papers, but not
of more recent date than those which arrived on
Saturday. They contain another official statement
respecting the capture of Pensacola. It is ■ Pro-
clamation from the Adjutat►t-General, which forms
a contrast with the conciliatory language of Gene-
ral JACKSON'S address. The following is the do-
cument :

" II6•D-QUARTERS—DIVISION OF THE !OUTS.
" Adjiataut.Geotrara OAre, Bar ,
May t 7, 11818.

" Fzt.Low SotAttans—You were called into the field, to
pinisb savages and negroes, who had, in a sanguinary wan-
ucr, used the tomahawk and scalping knife upon enr help-
less citizens on the frontier. You have pursued them to
Mickasuby, St. Mark's, Sewaney, and lastly to this place,
thronh an unexplored wildccuess, encountering immense
difficulties and privations, which you met with the spirit of
American soldiers without a murmur.

" Your Geurral auticipated a close of the campaign oil his
return to Fort Gooboleti, and hailed the hour with feeliugs
of gratitude to Ileaveu, at the prospect of relieving yule
from your labours, by placiug you iii quarters, ur return.
ing you tel your home, but how great was the disappoint-
ment, whets he heard of the recent mottles,' comulitted us
the Alabama, by a party of the enemy flout Priam,la,
where they writ furnished with provisions and ammo-
oiliou by a friendly Poser! Cooler this state of things,
you were marched here under oldficuliies which you
alone eau properly armorer:law, turtling out the Way the
Protest of the Governor of %Vent Florida, threatening to
employ force, if we doll soot immediately evacuate the
count' y. This new and unceptcted enemy has been
taught to feel the imam, sire of his threats. You ruined
rcusocolos without resistance; and the strong fortress of
she Baraucas could hull out but one day agailist your de.
mil courage. Yuur Gram:rod cannot he p admiring the

sitrit sad military k,al lOWA pm asanifinned, whirs it was
sipiW that it would be memory to carry it by sto►m."
The reinsinder conaistaanetely of thanks to diffe-
rent officers for their conduct on the occasion.

The disturbances among the manufacturing la.
bourns in Lancashire still continue. On this sob-.
ject we have deemed it our duty to make a feet
observations; as the cause of them lies far deeper
than is generally apprehended. although by no
means d►fcult to discern—we wish that we could
say not difficult to remove.
Some of the newspapers are blaming the master-
manufacturers for not increasing the comforts of
their workmen adequately to the improvement in
the kate of trade ; but more are upbraiding the work-
men with ingratitude and latiness; while a few are
imputing to them crimes of a deeper die, and (shall
we say boldly, rashly, wickedly, or impudentlj)
charging on them the burning of a factory at Bol-
ton. We have no hesitation in saying that such im-
putations, lightly made, are wicked and imprudent
—wicked as charging a crime not proved, nor even
probable; imprudent, as pointing the huger, and
urging on, by the irr►tation of false accusation, to
the very crime itself. We copy the follow-
' ing sensible remarks on this subject from the
Chester Guardian:—.4 We learn that a manu-
factory has been buret down in Bolton. It is.
of course, ascribed to a►► incendiary, but with-
out soy apparent reason, as no account of dissatis-
faction in the town accompanies the report. There
are two things we have always observed in regard to
manufactories, which, as existing together, are most
extraordinary : the one is, that they are more liable
to combustion than any other places; and the
other, that, notwithstanding such liability, they
are never burnt down without some person lighting
a fire expressly for the purpose."

To return. We think that it is unwarrantably
assumed that, because labour is in great demand,
the masters are enabled to pay a great price for it;
this apparent symptom of prosperity has not unfre-
quently preceded great manufacturing convulsions.
We hope, and believe, that it is not now the pre-
cursor of such; but we think it must be very obvi-
ous that the price of labour cannot be adequately
advanced here without miring it too high for the
continental markets. The fact is, that it is not the
price of labour that is low here, as competed with
European labour, but the price of provisions here,
which is high as compared with that of labour.
A most respectable Nobleman got strangely
wrong on this subject, in a conversation which took

place in the Upper Howie near the close of the last
Session of Parliament; he said the price of labour
must be raised to that of provisions. He might as
well have proposed to legislate that fire shall not
snake us hot, nor ice cool tie, or any other natural
impossibility. No, if ate are to be a manufacture
ing nation, the price of labour must not, cannot,
we mean, be more above the continental price than
superior skill and capital eats compensate ; and as
these advantages are daily diminiahiug to us, by
the participiniou in them of our continental neigb-
hour+, . the manufacturing labourer is rapidly sp.
proaching, has already nearly approached, that state
in which lie must have continental price, of labour
with English prices of provisions and house-rent.
And from this state of worse than Egyptian bond-
age nothing can release him but a diminution of
taxation.

As fur the charges made against the workmen of
laziness and ingratitude, it is enough to remark,
that this is childishly foolish, sod the other notori-
ously false.
Au increase has, we admit, taken place in the re-
venue, independent of the consumption of a general
election ; indeed we know that it must be so, from
the operation of the provision laws, in conjunction
with two deficient harvests, having put the farmers
in a condition to pay rents; so that by the exorbitant
price of provisions they ■nd their landlords have,
for the titre, advanced in comfort as much as
the labourers have sunk in misery. In what a
pretty situation our pilots have anchored us! They
have placed us between Scylla and Charybdis ; it
provisions be at a price to make them attainable, in
sufficient plenty, by the great bulk of the popula-
tion, the farmers fill the gaols, and, from the
inability of the land-owners to consume the heaviest
excisable and customable articles, the revenue falls
off; while, on the contrary, if the farmer obtains
that price, the great bulk of the people are steeped
in misery up to the lips, 81111 the poor-houses
thronged with inhabitants. But it is now time fur
the independent Members of the Senate la insist on
the Ministry letting as recur to a natural order of
things. The present smitten revenue, assisted by
rigid ecinioni), a reduction of the enormous civil
and military establishments, the abolition of all
useless places and unmerited pension', and a reduc-
tion of all such as are enormously overpaid, should
be immediately applied to take off some part of the
most oppressive taxes ; by which means the people
would not only be eased from such taxes, but the
farmers and landlords, being likewise so eased, the
Ministry might safely permit the prices of provi-
sions to full, by modifying the provision laws ; those
which keep up the price of bread, butter, and
cheese, fur instance.

On Turailay the troop of the 13th Maws which
hits fur several month/ been stationed at T. nro left
that town for Exeter ; and on Friday a troop of the
7th Royal Dragoons arrived there to replace then-.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

- COURT OF CHANCERY, Limeouos•lww,
Alonsav, Avoca. 3.

I.UN ATIIM.

Lady SUSAN DOUGLAS, is the Matter of JOIN
?GASPS. Esq. a laseatie.
Mr. BILL stated this was the Petition of Lady
Susan Douglas, the mother of the feaster, praying
that his Lordship would confirm the lunatic's inten-
tion, when he was sane, of making a provision for her,
under ilia following circurnsioiscest—The Petitioisee
was warned to Joseph Thorpe, the eldest sea of
John Thorpe, the testator and grandfather of the
lunatic, in July, 1788, she being then only 16
years of age ; and by the marriage oettlement she
.was only entitled to a jointure of 5001. per annum,
charged on the testator's estates in Jamaica. in the
event of her surviving her husband Joseph Thorpe.
Her husband shortly after the marriage went to raid.
in a large house in Portosan-square, he haying par.
chased the lease (end which house is now uccapied by
Earl Grey) which wasfurnished with the approbation
of the testator, in a utast magnificent and expensive
style. That the Petitioner's husband, Joseph
Thorpe, died in 1791 intestate. leaving the Peti-
tioner. his widow, soil issue by her. the lunatic.
and a daughter, Charlotte Stewart Thorpe, since
dead. After the death of her husband, the testa.
for applied to her to give up the possession of the
house on Portman-square, with the furniture, plate,
&c. and threatened her, if she did not comply,
that he would disinherit her son (the longue); in
this dilemma she applied for advice to the late
John Mocineniars, Esq. of Streatham. the then
agent of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who ad-
vised her to give it ur, observing at the same
time, that when her son should he informed of
the sacrifice she had made, he most feel it his duty
to make her a remuneration ; and that she accord.
ingly took out letters of administration to her late
huanand, and assig..ed over the mansion, furniture,
&r, to the testator, of the value of 60,0001. with-
out receiving ally cousideration whatever; and the
mansion house was afterward* sold by the testator,
in September, 1797, to his Greece John. Duke of
Athol, for 14,7001. On Irving up the house. she
was obliged to take a futiuslied house, she being
reduced to her jointure of 5001. a year. The tes-
tator. afterward.' at the request of the Petitioner's
brother, the Earl of Dunmore, made an addition '
to her Jointure of 1,0001. per annum, with the con-
dition that 'he should cease to receive it el sheenier-
ea inns a second marriage. tvliicho'se forfeited by her
marriage with , John Drew Esq. in 1797. The
Petitioner, after the decease of her second husband,
guarrn.l leer present, the Key. Archibald Duugliss,
iii 1909, and the lunatic was permitted to reside
with her dieting his vacations, um which account she
was atiligert to oucrease her style of living. by
winch me ina her affairs and her husband'. boohoo
epoch embarrassed. The lunatic. before sed.aftet
hr 11411 obtained the age of 21, always seellisi file
iiiimer that he would make her ampler-ass.
Tamils whenever lie obteuned the eye of 24, wive be
would he entitled to the testator's rotates. by mak.
lag a coissoleruble oddities to her jointure. The
townie obtained the age of twenty-four en the 24th
of May last, and became entitled to the testator's
erasers in E..gland and Jamaica, of the net valet of
42 4001. The Learned Counsel observed, dist thit
Pe, nines. besides being supported by the ollidarit
of Lady Susan Douglas. was also 'appalled by
those of Lord Archibald Hamilton Lord i
curry, the Bishop of Kildare. ice. Hamilton,
be had
to ask of his Lordship was, that he would rotor Ilbo
Petition to the Master to consider and report VW
allowance ought to be made to the Petitioner oak ,
of she income of the lutiohy.
Mr. Wtwortst.o followed on the same side.
The Loan CmanclLLoa—" The illegalises" of
the petition only outoilint to this, that the lemotie
eaprelard great affection for his mother before bit
was insane, but there is nothing that amounts WO
contract. Let me see the affidavit."
Mr. WoisorisLo —" We don't state it so if
there was a contract. We only put it to your
Lordship, whet were the intentions of the lunatic
towards the petitioner, and whether your Lordship.
viewing the whole circumstances, and the menace
she made of her property to secure the estates to the
lunatic, does not think that she ought to be secured
the be/refits of his intentions, by as order of this
Court ?"
The LORD CHANCILLoIt-wi Before I make so
rade, in this petition I wish so see the sadavits which •
have been made in former petitions in this lunacy.
Let me have them, and I will dispose of dds peti-
tion before I rise for the vacation."
Further consideration postponed.
Lord DIGIT its the snorter of the Dimikols Dewy a

of NORFOLK, -4I Lunatic.

Sir SAMtilki RUMILLY-46 I am ready now, my
Lurd, to state this petition, whether the mortgage
sliaii-t be p.oI off without prejudice."
The Loan CHANCELLOS—Is It is net iitcamary,
as I Bare read the petition. and caraider it a mat-
ter of course."
Motion granted.