The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-18 00:00:00

PARIS PA Plll3.

PARIS, JAIMARY 13,
Yesterday after Mass. which the King heard in
his apartments, his Majesty tranaseted business
with his Minister of War. He subsequently pre-
sided at a Council of Ministers, at which neither
M. De Cases nor M. De Serre appeared.
The Seine was yesterday quite frozen, and seve-
ral persons walked *cross it between the Pont /Yes,/
sod the Pont des Arts. But as the ice was not
very strong, gendarmes were placed on each quay,
to prevent imprudent persons from exposing them-
selves to danger.
While in Paris we suffer a cold severer than any
which has taken place for twenty years, letters from
Naples inform us that the temperature there is as
Mild as in spring. Early in December there fell
in the environs of Pi►a a great quantity of hail, ao-
companied with thunder and lightning.
. Yesterday a report was circulated that the Cham-
bers would be prorogued until the month of June.
This 1111,11111fe, if it be adopted, would turn to the
advantage of the Revolution. Some articles of the
Charter are in dispute. The liberal Journals, who
silt eoliths giant solicited for the interests of their
party changes which are now shoat to be
inside in the Constitution for the interests of
the Ministry, do not cease to affirm that the en-
tire Charter is menaced, dui all individual rights
are compromised, and that the national good is in
tinier. Such assertions, if continued, are suffi-
cient to convulse the kingdom ; the time then be-
longs to the revolutionists until the plea of the
Ministers be known, and submitted to the Cham-
bers fin discussion. Is such circumstances traitors
aloe would advise the Ring to gi►e three months
to a party who only want eight days to overturn the
tbisise.—(Gasette de France.)
Wa are informed that Baron Potpie., who it
was said snobs the shame of his colleagues to pre.
met to the Chamber of Deputies the project rois-
ter. to the elections, hes been suddenly a►tackd
by a violent cold in his chest, which will prevent
him from speaking. Titus there are three Minis-
ters iocapable of speaking, when a question arises
►etwsea monarchy and revolution.

A Paps of Upper Susbia makes the following
reflootioos:—" The very erosible progress of civili-
ristiou Os the southern proviocee of Ramis and the
cos* out of Tu►key, sad above all in Egypt,
joined to the still immeshes *entity of these moo.
tries, threaton with a revelation our rand mammy,
mid thee aim of all Italy Spate, and the Smith
of Frasier. The low prices of co►a with which
the ports of these meats* are inundated by
the disbud provinces. will Mese such a diminutims
in the prices of oar products, that we shall be
hosed to cleft mirselms to ivaprom sad render
more hieratic* the present system of our @snoot-
iest. This stets ur *Eon merits the senses at-
tests's of she respective preramenta."

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Stitttlf. OIRCIUSER IL
J!• is 4044 that N. Itedigerd casdidaie hr.
Amoy, atio or ammo* vitt' Wow pares,

'wised of repsfitlican iartigues, but ems NA at
liberty pis, has been arrostBd a ataisd time.
Messrs. Illulerifirl mod Follenius, GUM, tbi Lower
Rhine, arsrigill iu prison.
The sect of the Pietist' continues to spread more
and (lore. even among the military. A silk-
weser4 is their principal preacher; this sect was
founded at the beginning of the 18th century. by
Professor Franke, founder of thororphan-house at
Halle; for s long period it was confined to a vrry
small number of adherents, but it is now making
great ',fogies'.

CARLIIRUHR, JANUARY 2.

The damage done by the iuutailatiais last month
appears to have been more considerable than was
at first supposed. Many wishes on the Rhine
base lost almost all their winter stock.
We hear that nn intimation has been given to the
merchants here to renounce connexion with the
Society of the German Merchants and Manufactur-
ers. The report still prevails, that our Assembly
of States *lll meet in April.

SAXONY, JANUARY 4.

We learn that our Assembly of States will be
summoned before the summer of 1820, ■nd many
wise measures have been prepared in silence for the
improvement of the regulations respecting the Dirt.

There is no occasion now to establish in Saxony
a Censorship of the Press. _

The Leipzic Book Committee, and the regular
Commissioners of Censorship in all towns where
there are printing-offices. have long since secured
us against every abuse of the Press. However, on
the 25th of August last, a Rescript was issued en-
joioiag the Censors to pay the strictest attention to
political and other journals by which dangerous
principles might be spread, and especially to watch
over the Iris, subsequently the prohibition was re-
newed against printing or selling at Leipzic anony-
mous writings—(Frankfort Papers, Jags. 9.)

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 11, MO.

The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived last morn-
ing, and those of Friday were received at • late
hour last night. The Gazette de Frame, of the
former day mentions • rumour, which it gays was
prevalent in Paris, that the Legislative Chambers
would be prorogued until June neat. but the
other Journals are silent on the subject, and there
is no further notice taken of it in that or any other
Paper. There was a report at Vlenn. on the
Ist inst. that the Duchess of PAIMA (late Empress
of France) was dangerously ill. The Duke of
CAMIRIDOS, we regret to God, was ill at Hanover
for some days in the end of last month. His
Royal Highness was nearly recovered oa the first
haunt.

The Five per Cent. Consols were—
On Wedresday, 71 fr. 90 e Bank Adige., IASI&
Therwavy, 71 fr. 70 e Bask Adios% 1,0116 fr.

The proceedings during the present Sessions at
the Old Bailey have been particularly distinguish-
ed by the numbers of unfortunate persons charged
with the uttering of forged notes. Of these severel
have been permitted to plead Guilty to the minor
offence of having forged notes in their posoession,
knowing them to be forged, whereby they escaped
prosecution upon the capital charge; but 'event
others have been prosecuted upon the capital
charge, and convicted. One of these latter persons,
previous to his trial, very pertinently asked why
the indulgence of being permitted to plead guilty
to the miner offence was not extended to all alike—
and why he should be made the object of a capital
prosecutiou, while others. more favoured, were-suf-
fered to atone for the same offence by transportation
for fourteeu year. ? This question, we regret to
soy, was not eatisfaetorily answered; and, indeed,
to say the truth, we think it impossible took,* a
fair distinction between the cases of any two indi-
'ideals charged with the offence of uttering forged
notes, which could entitle one to so great ao indul-
gence not extended to the ether. From the inten-
t* of the crimicels Moue can the comparative de.
grees of their guilt be estimated, and the intention
of committing • fraud is as clearly shims by the
polio, of one forged note as by the passing of
one hundred ; and if among the unfortunate per.
sew arraigned at the bar of the Old Bailey, any
one of them should seem, by the greeter *umber
of the notes uttered, to be mere criminal than an-
other, it is because he had been permitted by dr.

coostances to parses Ins career for a longer time
than his fellows in guilt. It would indeed be most
revolting to the feelings*, the nation to pursue all
the criminals with the utmost meant, of the law. bet
we think that nothing is so impolitic aa an appear-
aim of partiality in the admiaistration of justice;
and although it is very probable that the distinc-
tions drown by the late authorities of the Bank
are reminded on equity and humanity, it is certain
that they are not made evident to the public eye.
which leeks in vain for the motives that ialleence
the several &chilies. There are meay persons in-
dicted far this seem* who do not ask the India-
genet of being permitted to plead is the litigant
1 Awe*, and whe wsrld iambs* mhos it. if of
lad; but jestier, relief, and beasnity• am& to

extend St to an that desire it, sine* the practice has
arisen of greeds( it W some.
We slicer* hope that oo time will be lost by
the Beak in bringing into general use the lapin-
ous device that is proposed to he substituted for
their present notes. which are so easily end excel.
'molly imitated. Experience has proved that no
severity of punishment. however great, is sufficient
to deter persons from braving its terrors. The im-
politic rigour of the law has in some degree defeat.
ed its own object, and • practice originating, we
are convinced. on the part of the Bank in feelings
of the purest humanity. has been established in our
Courts of Law, anomalous in its mature, and der°.
gatory from one of the noblest prerogatives of the
Crown; yet it is sanctioned from the same motives
of humanity by the Judges, who no doubt are
happy by any feasible means to escape from the
cruel necessity of presiding at the trials and capital
convictions of so many of their fellow-creatures.
This difficulty will, we trust, be removed by the
publication of the sew notes, and we hope that
thereby not only will the retail trade of the country
in future be conducted with greater security, but
the interests of humanity will he secured from
shocks so violent as those to which, under the pre.
seat system. they are unfortunately too frequently
exposed.

An interesting meeting took place yesterday at
the London Tavern of the Society for Educating
and Clothing the Children of the Peer, • report of
which i► given in another part of our Paper.

The change in the weather, which commenced
with the new moon, has improved since Sunday.—
Yesterday there was a continuation of mild and
gentle thew, which has happily succeeded to the
intense fierceness of the atmosphere for some days
past. Of the intenseness of the frost, some idea may
be formed from the state of the ice in the metropolis
and its vicinity. On the Serpentine River, in Hyde
Park. it was three feet thick. At London Bridge
there was an iceberg in the Thames upwards of 15
feet high.

Friday a bill of indictment was preferred and
found ■t the General Quarter Sessions at Wake.
field against Joseph Mitchell, now or late of Leeds,
fur seditious words spoken in a speech delivered by
him ■t the Halifax Reform Meeting, in Oc-
tober last, The speech in which the expressions
charged as seditious occurred, was that alluded to
in the House of Commons, by Mr. WOSTLICY, when
he informed the House, that the property of Earl
FITZWILLUM and others had been marked out
for partition by the Reformers. This prosecution, we
understand. is not instituted by the Crown Lawyers.
In the many other cases of sedition and blasphemy
which have been tried. or are now in progress of
trial, nothing can be found to shew the expediency
or necessily of the new laws. The existing laws were
perfectly adequate to their coercion ; and it must
excite su►prise that they were not sooner enforced.
If we may be allowed to judge from the following
case of obedience to the hors in a district ranked
sowoDg the disaffected parts of the country, the
addition that has been made to our military force
was or little called for as the addition to the Cri-
minal Code:—

.4 On Wednesday Thomas Schokfield sod ✓oses
Lister. blanket weavers. of Heckmondwike, were
convicted at a Justice Meeting, held at Dewsbury,
of an illegal combination to raise the price of
wages, and were committed to York Castle, for
the term of three soothe. As these persons
were members of the Clothiers' Union, it was
thought advisable to have military assistance at
hand, to prevent a rescue, and a detachment of
infantry and cavalry was marched from Leeds
on Wednesday morning, to Shaw-Cross, within
abort a mile of Dewsbury. After remaining
there several hours, and eluding no demand for
their services, they were marched back again.
In the evening the Prisone►s were tent off to York,
by the couch. attended by a single police officer,
and though several thousand persons were collected
together, and accompanied the coach with music,
in a kind of triumphal procession, no interruption
was thrown in the way to impede their departure;
and the civil power arsoprotred to be perfectly ode.
quote to the execution of its own processes without
the aid of the military."

The following aecouat was received at LLOYD'S,
yesterday:—

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•' A report has been received here from Dorsi.
nice thin Rear-Admiral Casreeta. died et are on
or about the 11th intent and that the Se/isbrry.
with his remnant. reached Barbados the following
gaterday."
The PIM/Mk the LO&D CSINCIILLOS, and the
COMMANDS& of the Forces. were. an Wednesdsy
hat. sworn in es Lords Justices of Ire'sod. Wore
the Privy Cowbell. at the Castle of Dublin.
The first division of the 93d foot 'notched into
York city yesterday. en their route to Newcastle.
The Colliers in the neighbourhood of Berwick,
Durham. Am. still mown oar. sod several have
been taken into custody fee eedestrourieg to force
those who are willing to week to join their Union.
Intelligence from the Cope of Good Hope states,
that the rooms hod jest reached the Cape of the in•
teeniest of Clerrershoteot to fern • settlement on the
Fob Stiller, said produced. as slight be exported.
0 very Owlet. nopresersen. N the toyeitenes of the
colony week( be tocreseed ley t is he* 10110101Delatt

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ARRIVALS nod DEPARTURES

•IRIV£u.

The Earl nod Goatees of Ustertdego, at Mime* Rotel.
Lower lireek-street. from a visit to the Margoie end
Marchioness of Aretieery, et their eeet. Deadlier, ftref-
fordobire.

The Pori of iteekoaver, at Cbeheitiodeley ilooor. Picca-
dilly, Croon a visit to the Ho*. barb Lisle, at bee sear, Dear
Lapses.
Earl beefier, at Kirkleases Hotel, Lower illrook-otroet,
frost a tear.

PUPA RTURIS.

The Commies' or Sandwich, frees her hem* i. Dower.
street, ea • visit to the Doke sod Duchess of Bedford, at
their seat, Madmen* Abbey, Bedfordshire.
The Bishop of Norwich, from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower
Brook.street, fur the Palace, Norwich.
Lord Dyerrnr, from the Earl of Chatham's seat, hi Cam-
bridgeshire fur Droevor Comte, Booth Weirs.
Lord ChLrles Harmers, from feekville-street, far Belmar
Castle, Rstlandshire.
Captain and Mrs. Kelly from the Blount Hotel, Lower
Greavesier.streel, for Brighten.