The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-01 00:00:00

Inman, tr. lend his aid to any object of general or
•ifilientual bettetit.—(iipplanse.)—When he was
IViit4l to attend, he desired to ate the Resolution.,
f• or reason, that as a worthy gentleman
-.44gested the course of the alas', It was always
1,41 it fur u man to commit himself whets he meant
sincerely. Gk Mt that a certain degree of weight
• •he.l to the presence of nny of the Rile' Family,
.4.. ..c i.wreforr, they had a right to know before-
h to .e ha they were called to commit themselves
.orke their election anal hear the brunt.
tie waa..l6rwar an outline of the Resolutions pre
IIM• at.: they met his concurrence.—(effpyikuise.)
—Solite al rtnists mar differ with I un this point
—in.' • 4 he believed they had. but be shook off

midi as., 4tensiusis as carelessly as be would a
maims a.... Were the people of England to be
told arty.a-ilays that the Press was not to be free,
t r the r the universally disseminated ? Let the
•1114. cons before him, he would maintain the si-
ll/motive, and lw woUld be ready to meet and mis-
timed 'um. is the pretence of that greet assembly,
by tenet at reasaning.—(Applasise.)—The man who
woold ,:are to combat the rational opinions of a free
press :ant liberty of conscience, was no friend to
leis cogivoy,. less to the Royal Family. His
faintly, . had been well mead, had come to the
throne ul these kingdoms by virtue of a stiptiluted
compact. which could no longer be valid than it
• ohar red by mutual good faith between the
and his people. His family wee not put
upon the throne. but called to it by the people.—
/ *pia, blamed no man for his religious
tenets; God forbid lie should presume to be the
• het nen any Illall a ctniacirruce and his God.
ifpratiase.)-11a gloyied in belonging to a fa.
ailIT s., coosiectetl, and identified wills a free and
iestimperilviir people--41 greater honour than any
A ulcer.: or despotic Emperor could aspire to. %Veil"
them, rediogs of civil liberty he came among them,
and with them, improved and fortified, lie would
depart. If a cry were raised that the Church was
its thingeo, let them treat such tionsenve with con.
trial'', will trust on the vertare approbation of their
mime,' • iericeN for the juetifictitiosi of their acts.—
applause.)
The vvesiteenth and eigiftentli Resolution.
That Mete Resolatioatile printed, sail be advertised in
the prim. ipal Papers aril Pithheations iu Great Britain, Ih-r-
-imed. America, anti on the Contiorut of Europe, at the Ilk-
attillll uf ape Comettitlee; and,

o to defray the 'uproars of such publication and of
this s! • • Subscription be now nude—and that the
procivd, t each Subscription the Committee be requested
fw alleti.

were bete put and earned, and the Meeting broke.
np icon after tire o'clock.
Sub-oriptions to defray the necessary expense.
ewe collected in the room.

T the EDITOR of TA. BRITISH PRESS.

will trust to your impartial Piper for the
ii..rrtio•l of the following statements, merely to set

i!-'it the public opinion those made in a Govern-

mem Jiwnsel (The Coteries), ott the 'subject of the
tncsorrniis state of our Revenue and Finances.
if, ay mislead nasty persons if not speedily
(fp. Wet.
or&r to avoid error as much as possible, I
hare Nicest ui9 account from the various ►tate•
wrists, made in this very Journal. fro►u time to.
T.

.'ublic well know that the Finance s.divided
d ander two !trod; viz. Consolidated Fund
vellameoms, anal thee nearly the whole of the
" • Ileettvl are appropriable to the charge on
the (4%,l.•olitlateal Fund alone (in which is included
t§V, rods, &e. Sze.) and for this year a deli-
tses4 a very consnleralsle extent has accused,
& wa.t be provided for by a Loan. I will explain
it. 01 tflt.ltr.

PECEIPT ON CONSOLIDATED FUND.

Rump, fools sth hot. 1817, to hth Aprl .. L. 9,1111,R7P
641% April l• sth Ji11y.... 9.:W.499
hilt July -- to 10th Oct .. 9.5110,1104
•••••••11111. Oct. •••••• to sth JAM. Nth° 7,8000100

Tutu Receipt L 35,827,671

• N E. This Qiuntie elm only be estimated, as it dues not
o(os sstil the it ha wry.
.:11ANGS ON CONSOLIDATED FUND.
fr. is hhJnn. 1617 to sth April
--- Alb April -- to btis /sly
--- !is Jody -- to 101bOctoher.
•-•-• l• 't Oct.--- to sth Jan. ISIS* 13,200,060

Total Charge L. 44,0020,010
Total Receipt L. 33,827,671
I. 8,192,320

- P Tina Q•iavtrr can only be entiontedoin it does not
t,l

i. out yet known what may be the amount
ward from Iceland. I will t►ke the deli-
'. this branch this year. at four milliotia—or,
•pe,nkiug, say that the Revenue af►-
ttrepnstrd for the thseltarge of the Interest of the
Naliettal Debt, is hp, li►tle by furtr minima : coil-
s pit,lll) them. tour 44444 sr he bor►owed.
-I. Id 1111 W take• 3 %W W 1 fall.' I apprchrial a tolera-
ct of Ilia brand► chroberl nodes. the
Thsce!laneous:—

.• meet -
•I um Vaultslea Debt
~‘ Fu16,1 uu done

_ 1, 2,08ft,r,00
. fonomon
. I 911.34.0
1,70(0011
- 1.91111.111t0
- :130,111A)
sopa,soo

It. venue applicable to the di:-Atrge is

VIZ.
4, say

- . 3,nonjion
• 3,54,41,0041
200,0110
6,700.0011

Orticietiry Arm+ - r. 13.5a1.3011
lhfieu too wi the l'onmplitlited fund 4 04111000

I.rieowy for IIK• Year 1818, to bc proviafd
Luau - - L 17,531,300

elear;y, *awl without feor of coutrull.etinit
Editor or his Treasury Prompter, set out

the probable diminished Revenue to our expendi-
ture fur this year, I will candidly ask, whether the
statement made in The Courier of the 27th ult. is
calculated to crease sack an impression, or whether
it would not lead us to believe that our situation is
so prosl►erous as not to want tiny luau or support ?
I shall not follow either the Editor of %he cou-
rier. or his Treasury Master, whether the late fall
in the Funds has arisen from sprenlations or from
the true cause, viz. the probability of a new crea-
tion of Stock to the extent of FORTY MILLIONS,
for if we take the winds of this year at lieventeen
millings aid a half, and say that fifteen millions of
Excherpier Rills (out of the seventy millions no*
afloat unfunded, and which at present cannot meet
a side) must be immediately funded, we shall
readily discover that a new creation of Stock to the
amount of Furry git.i.tusts is likely to take
place.

Now, Sir, I will leave pm and the pnblic to
judge between this candid Editor's statement (who
wishes to guard the public against speculators), and
that now made by me ; and should this said Editor,
or his informant, attempt or endeavour to disprove
these statement, I shall feel really to answer them
more pointedly :mil more fully.
In accounting for the fall be the Fiends, I might
have adverted to some other important cite -
stances, viz.—the discussions about to take place
on the propriety or withdrawing the Allied troops
from France ; the French Loan of 8,000,0004
sterling ; the imrmediute funding of Exchequer
Bills; the improbability of the Bank of England
paying in specie in July, in con Sequence of the
great .and illegal exl:ortatiou of the coin of the
country.

I am, • Sir, yours, &e.
VERAZ.

••• The Mouthly Lit CAl'legue will appear

tu-morrow.

Ix.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East
laths, and South Sca HUIIIIOI.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,

THURSDAY. JANUARY 1, 1818.

.. We received last night the Paris Papers of the
41Ith Dec. (Sunday last.) The projet of the Law for
collecting the six first twelfths of the contributions
of 1818. upon the hats of 1817. adopted in the
Chaniber of Deputieglm the 22d, having been car-
ried unanimously in die Chamber of Peers on Sa-
turday, was presented by the Chancellor, 'at the
hear; of a deputation of the Peers, to the Ki.sg before
*rues. on Suuday. The Report of the Committee
ou the projet of the law respecting the Newspapers,
was presented to the Chamber of Peers on the
27,11, and ordered to he printed. The discussion
up it was opened at the same time, and after four
Members were heard for and against the iirojet, the
debate was adjourned to M lay.
The following are extracts
PARIS, DEC. 28.
The Duke of Feltre had yesterday an audience
of the King.

M. Laiste, the Duke of Hip belies,, and the Duke
of Tarente, successivorly transacted business with
his Majesty.
There will be a grand al. rnt the Castle of the
Thiai!triers on the Ist of January.
A letter from Madrid, of the 16th December,
states, that the plan of reel. ' g the army by
conscription, is oai the eve of being carried into
effect lee Spain.
The Duke of Wellington is expected at Paris
this ev ' gat sax o'clock.
The tire per Cent. Consols yesterday were,
641, fr.—Bank Actions 1,440 fr.

Although the acquittal of Mr. HONE was Suffi-
ciently calculated to vex and annoy the adherents
of Ministers, we could not have anticipated the per-
'nattily with winch the Treasury JOllllllllB dwell on
the subject, nor the want of judgment they chew
doming public attention to it with such unremit-
ting industry. The cireinisstances uttentling this
case, the -hardships endured by the T)efendant, and
the triple trial, present nothiiit; very favourable to
the characters a their patrons. No popularity,
considered iii its nohlrst reuse, can be obtained by
it —Seine certainly has b.:en lost ; and when dis-
SMISMEIS so strong exist, sufficient to any ordinary
cfm§prrlien•lon, to prevent the friends of Ministers
evi,iusisig too far the weaknesses of their
disappointed vengeance, we are tempted to ex-
plain the conduct of their setibes by causes dif-
fering iu some degree from their oetlinary pas-
,iun, of declaiming against every event favourable
to general liberty. The professed object of the
Treasury writers is to spew, that 110,4 E, although
pronounced innocent of every smelt!' or blas-
phemous intent by three Junin, of his country,
choseii ton, iii some nieasiire, by the agent for the
Crow'', is still, iu fact, guilty of the crime laid to
his cliar4e; and that lie is to be regarded rather us
a man of singular good lu. k, thou of moral gi •,.-
lessors.... Now, siisposimg these gentlemen to
red in their ohject, und that they could, ogaiust

the evidence of reason and common sense, persuade
the public to assent to their representation, what ad-
vantage do they hope to derive fron► it ? They cast
a stigma. not upon Hose, but upon the 36 men who
tried and acquitted him, they attaint with irreli-
gion, with connivance of blasphemy, with perjury,
three Juries, consisting of thirty-►ix highly
respectable merchants and traders of the City of
London—men against whom, when ranged in the
box previous to the trial•, mottling could. be urged
by the jealous scrutiny of either party ; and who,
having undergone this moral ordeal in the face of
their country, had been pra►ounced in the emphatic
terms of the law, probi ae levies !tontines. If re-
proach and obloquy C3ll fasten iipoit such u►en,
where can the people of this empire look with cou-
'Hence for safety or for justice ? It tends to dis-
solve the dorm which binds us with eln►nst su-
perstitious reverence to the " Trial by Jury,"
and teaches us to contemn an institution, which
these worst of innovators would represent as
the sport of chance, or the tool of faction
We are not so blind to the frailties of I in
nature as to assert for Trials by Jury ass absolute
iaafallibilitf ; we will allow that occasionally a guilty
man may by great good luck escape the punish-
ment of his ofli•nce. But luck obviou.ly implies
a singular exception to common occurrences. and
the idea of it is repelled in Hos tea case by the
correspouding verdicts of three successive and
different Juries. las acquitting 3lr. Hoist, we
have not the remotest doubt that these thirty-six
Gentlemen expressed the sense of the nation.—
Honest Juries, taken from the body of the people,
must speak the sense of the people—and it is this
assurance that drives the corrupt advocates of an
inefficient and unpopular Ministry to throw discre-
dit on the only means enjoyed by the people of
loaning sentence upon their rulers. A Judge ap-
pointed by the prosecutors, and looking up to them
fur further honours, or perhaps a Tribunal of cor-
rectional Police, would be found vastly more con-
venient for Ministerial porposes.
As we have confessed that a single Jury is not
infallible, so we will also confess that a Jury may
be corrupt, or under the influence of one of the
parties. But when the Government happens to he
arrayed against *poor, friendless, and solitary indi-
vidual, which party is then most likely to exercise
an influence over the minds of the Jury ? The mo-
tives, therefore, to a verdict in favour of the Crown
may sometimes be questioned, while those that lead
to a verdict of acquittal can very seldom, if ever,
suffer the slightest imputation.
It is not always that subsequent events are found
to justify the verdicts of Juries, but this happy
cuharity has attended those in Mr. Hose's case.
Ou the trial the Defendant solemnly protested
against any irreligious intentions in the publication
of the Parodies. The Juries believed, and ac-
quitted him. Mr. Hose's letter, which appeared
irr Tee hafetsti Peess on ‘Veduesday, Decem-
ber 94, was the response of au ingenuous mind to
tlieir honourable confidence. Another man would
have triumphed in the acquittal, and republished
the Parodies ; nay, even many have fpund fault
with Mr. HONE'S disavowal as unnecessary, or as
what the Roman Catholics would call an act of
supererogation. We differ with them, and look
upon that letter of Mr. HONE as the consummation

of his triumph, and as the proudest reproach lie
could Ring on his prosecutors.
But in all this indigtiation of the Ministerial
scribes against those who wrote and those who ex-
cused the Parodies, it is amusing to observe how
carefully the interests of religion are pot forward as
the ostensible motive, and the total disregard affect-
ed to be entertained respecting the subjects of the
compositions. The Ministry are as nothing in their
sight—it is religion, it is Holy Writ that requires their
aid. The Ministers, secure in conscious rectitude,
or in majorities in the House of Cotninons, may be
left to their native strength—but the Church and
the Gospel demand the disinterested exertions of the
Ministerial Prints. The Crown Lawyers would
have remained tranquil—Attornies and Solicitors-
General had not been changed—the pens of the
scribes had lain in inglorious ease, if Mr. IloNKhad
merely confined himself to representing the people in
simple words as** poverty-stricken," whose sole uses,
" to labour and to starve ;" to designating the House
of Commons as formed " by borough-mongers,"
the Ministers as ". blind and imbecile," the mea-
sures of Guyer ttttt era as " conspiracies against the
people," the Allies of England 118 " wholesale
human butchers," and the 'willies themselves as
" deceitful hirelings." Who could be weak enough
to think that such sentiments, if expressed .in Ilse
ordinary manner, could have excited one angry
fueling ? No ; it was because Sacred ‘Vrit was
used to convey them that the moralists rose in arms,
and now withhold their belief in the purity of Juries
that did not symi.athise in their feelings.
We are not 'prepared to argue how far ridicule
way be the test of truth, but it is certain that it
is snore feared than serious argument by every class
of controversialists. This is perhaps the reason why
these same Gentlemen are se indignant at the
Parodies, while they remain quite silent on the ef-
fects of a nrions denial of the first principles of
Christianity. Were our Holy Religion, or its Di-
vine Founder, really the object of their .anxiety,
4,, they soot iiioset iu;e .....1
Ut.italians. who asaenibte if moblie places s• dt-
...ulec the Labial in which Clrristiars " live fad
• •

v~ `:

a!!"r t

move, anti have their being;" who by every mean,
of written and oral dii.cussion, by the power of ar-
gument and the allusions of oratory. strive to take
from us the hope on which we rest in the day of
Why does Gums' or I lUME grace their libraries, or
why does Poi UTLEY share their respect? Away*With
such hypocrisy ! it is an insult to commonsense.—
They care not for religion or for Holy Writ; their
God is the Minister, their place of worship his
levie—and if in outward words they do not repeat
Mr. [UNA'S Parodies at the altar of their political
faith, their conduct and actions betray the sincelit:
with which the sentiments contained iii these Paro-
dies Are written on the heart.

The brewers have determined upon a rise of five
shillings per barrel on porter, and have distributed
notices around to the publicans to that effect.

This Metropolis was yesterday enveloped in
dense fog : the darkness was so greet, little business
could be done within doors without candles.

Captain UPTON is :4)110;111ra the resident Nava[
Cominitisionrr st the eN,itlihshilient at Trine )))))
Cattail' Itrin ►s apioniteil to co tttttt
Drirer stoop of on the Leith station.

The e«siterengh, from tiarbarloes to Turk't
Island mid New Brunswick, was lost nos Point II
Pretiti. Clew and part of the cargo saved.
The Triton, from Martinique to Nantes, wo:
totally lust 011 the ludo instant, near Crane.
The Allot, from Slii.-Ids to lierbice„ put bad
to Aberdeen, on the •2.;th inst. with damage.
The French brig Andromache, which had sailed
front Maldonado on the ..;r1 of October, awl arrived
at Bourdentrx, of course brings the latest accounts,
especially f the eastern bank of, the river, to the
the following effect :—" The Vorillgtiese troops
remained at Motile Video, where they were, how.
ever, as much disliked 114 ARTIGAS ; the ininibilant
had no other wish but to be united under the Go-
vernment of Barrios Ayres, which was every day
more consolidated. ARTIGAS had been deserted
by the greatest number of' his troops, and the Gro
ve 1111 l writ of Buenos Ayres can depend nil 2,000
of them to serve under liar banners. In Chili, Ge-
neral SAN MARTIN had raised his forces to smears•
the number which he proposed, and the prepara-
tions for all expedition agatnitt Lima were carried on
with great activity."
The vessels for exploring the northern regions
have begun to be equipped. Two are to elidetivout
to penetrate through Davis's Straits, and two to
reach the North Pole, if possible ; by winch means
it is expected to ascertain whether Greenland is at
i►land, or part of the continents of Asia or Ame-
rica. The vessels are to be stored with every re-
quisite in provisions, nautical instruments. &c.—
The crew, it is said, will consist of 50 men, in-
cluding officers, in each vessel. They will also be
provided with every appendage used by the Green-
land ships ; and some experienced men in that ser-
vice are to go in the vessels.
The decrease in the revenue of the Post-office,
is at least a proof tle.t the commercial correspond-
ence of the country is greatly diminished. II
amounted lust year, as appeared by the accounts
presented to the [louse of Commons, to upward►
of 100,000/. (nearly 1,000/. a-week), and front the
last statetnent it is considerably kb* than the cur•
responding quarter of 1816.
By the death of the Rev. Dr. HENRY JENKIN,
who died last week in the 86th year of hit age, the
Rectory of Wootton, near Dorking, in Surrey, and
a Prebendary Stall in Winchester Cathedral, be-
come vacant.

On Christmas Day all the poor of the parishes of
Aviligton, Easton, and Martyr Worthy, Hants,
amounting to between 400 and 500 persons, were
plentifully supplied with roast beef, plow pudding,
and strong beer, by the Marchioness of BucwiNG•
HAM:; they alz•o received many articles of clothing.
Lord COURTENAY, since he left England, has
received, by the wile of his property iu Ireland
alone, no less a sum than 650,0001.

The Quoildienne contains the following amusing
paragraph :—" The A rchd u kes John and Lewis have
given permission to a German Journalist to publish
some extracts from a journal which they•kept dur-
ing their stay in England. These Princes examined
with care the English manufactures and agricul-
ture : they give also some details as to the style of
living in the upper classes, which are not' within
the reach of all travellers. The magnificent interior
of the country•-seats, the taste of the furniture, the
isinialsle and decorous freedom of their conversa-
tions, the interest which the women excite,

much by their cultivated u Is as by their charms,
these are the points which struck tl►ese illustriout
travellers during Hatt slowly i.. 0-...t.y. ti
there, say they, that you bhould study the high so-
ciety of England, and even the character of all it,
gentlemen. London is merely a large inn; it is at his
country house that the I?.iiglislitnati is hospitable
and amiable. The Archdukes describe the manner
of ti gat the Marquis of Anglesey'►. It pre-
sents a novelty for our gourmands ; after son;
they took cold punch.• A celebrated agriculturist
the Chevalier Sebright, had the Princes fur h.
guests, and *hewed them his numerous
Miss Sebright is u meanie (2 scientific lady) ; she
made an experiment in galvanism before the Arch-
dukes, o ith a little galvanic battery. The Cheva-
lier Sebright grows such enormous turnips, that one
day lie ',tilt to Isis sister Ili partridges in the hollow
of one of these roots."

• fluweeer hew Oils may he to fortifts cuurtuasols, it 1.
u very oki custom in Euttachi to take cukl punch with turtle
twig); and that, we ►uppuse, is the soup here spoken of.

There was a good supply of simples at Norwich
market or tistoiday. and IVheat was sold abowt
per cooed; logher than last week. Other gram
►ouch the saute.--The spew of cattle oo the II"
was•telerably good, and the sheep-pens Mete pro
welt ailed, but vrry little vsriation in the price

either.
The erection of two intire peotiogong in lite Peoi.
t.. .agy at Milo 1.1. Lis atti4 it la r
pr. led day ovi;t ttr ceittlititted'fet the reception
trl It'Jlitrk II: tilt COUItt reff 'WHOM

ev.

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i 'moo, t/., hews his aid loony object of general or the Probable diminished Revenue to our c'xpendi- the evidence a reason and common sense, persuade move, mid have their Lenin." who by every means
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,„mentug; bettelit.—(Applause.)—When he was lure fur tins year, I will candidly ask, whether the the public to assent to their representation, what ad- of written and oral discussion, by the power of Kr-
'rued to attend, he desired to see the Resoluti .. ii,
statement made in The Courier of the 27th ult. is vantage do they hope to derive front it ? They cast gument and the allusions of oratory, strive to tali?
I for tl s reason, that as a worthy gentleman
-.'l4' il ,n the course of the slat, it was always calculated to crease suck an impression, or whether a stigma. not upon HONE, hut upon the 36 men who from us the hope on which we rest in the day asorrow?
:',l4lgiteZ u man to commit himself when he invent iit would not lead us to believe that our situation is tried and acquitted hint, they ottaint with irreli- Why does Gums' or limas: grace their libraries, or
ei„,,reiy. He fe4t that a certain degree of weight so prosperous as not to want oily /Qua or support? gion, with connivance of blasphemy, with perjury,
net, •hr-1 to die presence of any of the Royal Faintly,
a.. 1 : ~,t I.ierefore, they had a right to know before- . I shall not follow tither the Editor of 1 Ige Con- three Juries, consisting of thirty-six hi
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they
were
called
to
commit themselves ?ter. or his Treasury Master. whether the late fall respectable merchants and traders of the City of
la why does Pat EST LEY share their respect? Away•rfith
highly such hypocrisy ! it is all insult to common sense.—
They care not for religion or for Holy Writ ; their
...ilesq ,( sake their electi°4l66"l hear the brunt. in the Funds has arisen from spectslations or from London—men against whom, when ranged in the
lie was slown isii 'while of the Resolutions pre_ the true ramie, viz. the probability of a new errs- box previous to the trials, soothing could. be urged
roved, ml.: they met his concurrence.—(dpplause.) lion of Stock to the extent of FORTY MILLIONS, by the jealous scrutiny of either party ; and who,
—Some al .runats ins, differ with I on this point
—iic. • I Isr believeil they had. but be shook off ..
IL. 'l sly se be would a
sucb as., e.--traions as Cite es
I_ A . sM.— .1— --I— —r 12....4—...,1 1.,, 1..... : Exchensier
for if we take the I,lllllofGod is the Minister. their place of worship his
levee—and if in outward wools they do not repeat
Mr. floe x's Parodies at the altar of their political
• •
wants this year at lieventren having undergone this moral ordeal in the face of faith, their conduct and actions betray the miler' ity
gulgiuwis and a heir. and say that fifteen millions of their country, had been pronounced in the emphatic with which the sentiments contained in these l'aro-

ti