The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-23 00:00:00

t.• . LONDON,
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THURSDAY. JULY Sl.l. 1818.

H.

We received last night the Paris Papers of Sun-
day. the 19th instant. England lately presented
the disgraceful scene of civil officers, paid for the
protection of the people, turning this nutriment
into poison, as in the case of Vaughn* and Others,
who aimed at the lives of those whom it was their
duty to protect. Tbs Police of France is re-
presented as a model "for other nations, for its
efficiency and propriety. The Paris Papers, there-
fore, do not furnish any case of an abuse of office
of this description, hut they present one in a quarter
in which we should have expected more manliness
and senac of honour. Several young Subaltern
Officers of the Legion of the North were on Fri-
day brought before the First Council of War,
charged with iwrsonating the characters of Police
Officers, and arresting young women upon the
common charge of being, gids of the town, from
whom they extorted money or other favours as the
price of their liberty. Of one groupe of these
wretches, consisting of four serjeants and four cor-
porals, four sere found guilty, and the rest ac-
quitted. One of them, whose case was accompanied
by particular circumstance.* of aggravation, was
sentenced to two years confinement in irons.

We lately noticed the strong measures adopted
by the Government of Sweden eg•lnst the Liberty
of the Press, upon the grown! that it had been
abused fur th►e parpooe of destroying the union
between that Kingdom and Norway. This at-
tack on the Press is not confined, as too ge-
nerally happens, to vague and indefinite charges ;
to the cry of Jacobin Prints and enemies of religion
mud social order, with which giving. out the Minis-
terial lurching. in this country occasionally attempt
to amuse anal deceive the public. With •
tender regard for the safety of the subject, and
an anxiety to save him from the perpetration of an
offence which lie did not contemplate, the King
of SWEDEN abjures all constructive crime, and
has proposed to the Diet a law, enacting. that the
author of a writing urging the destruction of the
union, or of the order of succession, should be held
guilty of High Tetasou. and not merely of • crime
sukecting him only to banishment. It is of the
essence of freedom to have offences clearly de-
fined ; und.although • law of this peculiar character
may he severe in the present state of the Linnet)
Kingdom of Sweden and Norway, it cannot he
considered impolitic or onneeeseary. Against that
union we unil.rnily and steadily raised our humble
voice, while that voice could be presumed to be of
any avail ; but the measure being now completed
under the auspices of the legiti►sate Sovereigns, alias
Sovereign Masters of the fate and fortunes of
Europe, an attempt at the present moment to destroy
that union «mild be only an increase of misery Jo
the brave. innocent. and unoffending people of
Norway.
The King of FRANCE, it seems, will not attend
the approaching Congre►s of the Continental
Sn-
vereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle. His Majesty will
be represented there by the Duke of RICHELIEU,
fur whom one of the principal hotels has been taken
in that city.
The following are extracts from these Papers
PARIS, JULY 19.
The King yesterday took his usual promenade in
the Little Park of Saint Cloud.

His Majesty admitted at breakfast Marshal the
Duke or Reggio. Major-General on service of the
Royal Guard, and the Duke de Grammont, Cowan:
of the Guards. The King afterwards transacted
business with the Count de Nadel, the Duke of
Richelieu, and the Count Decazes.
The Funds were yesterday ma follow :—Five per
Cent. Consols, with (puissance) interest from the
Slid of March, 761 f.—Bank Actions, 1,62i1 f.

We have received Jamaica Papers to the 30th
May, but they do not contain much intelligence of
public interest. A Proclamation has been put
forth by the Duke of MANCHESTER, announciug
that the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury had given
orders for issuing a small copper coinage for the use
or the military in the West Indies, and by mean* of
which the pay of the soldiers woUld be issued daily
instead of monthly, as bad hitherto been the practice.
It is stated in one of these Papers (from which we
have made extract.), that BOLIVAZ had been taken
prisoner by a detachment of royal troops. In all
probability, however, this report refer, to the un-
successful attempt made to surprise that Chief while
asleep, sad of which detailed aecownts have already
been published in this country.

Some interesting maws Irons the West Indies will
will he found in WIT naval column. The Braze*,
arrived at rosewood' from Barbadian, from winds