The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

Your Committee wish, on many other eubji yt• which hare
been brought under their cuusirlarati ~,,, to r.h r cr •-• IA)
to the evidence; there will be found much that I. a do-
able to those who seek practically to heittr the r • tom
the society in which they live. Bait while they
poruting the attention of the Route to the alerenitig sii..t-
mentatiun of criminals, and to the liter-ear:jog multitude:
of all species of crime, they, honesty, imiw, that this
anneeutalik proof of peseertt and distress among the Peet
is but ltenporary. The esideure of perrolia well quutitiral
to. speak on these topics, describe the chat serer of oda-lots
to be much more mild than heittuhire, arid the gem ral mati-
nees and morals oil the people to have been in a termite uf
gradual improvenieut. Your Conimitter Ilu.t, 111.11 the
prumutiou of education. which is now ailsaireing with as-
pidiiy, and the means thee., by affuealid of thirig thr rtat
truths of morals and retie:ruts On the minds art the pi riply,
will briug them hack to those via/awns. ilia, ACP, II hill Amt.,
ensure, on a stable a curtly, the gra atilt Itti and hoppibabb ut
the nation. _ .

Your Commit tee have received from stet rid of the :11.tz.s-
ttates, *hum they have examined, eartutev opinions upon ii
/MVO ant subjeCt of the prevention of re iAs, which e.
ed by thew to Ur of primal y 'input fan CC Tbta is a • 114.
jt CI of guest difficulty. It is on flotilla tree, that to prr•
eMI atilale is to tter than to punish it • but the ditlienity aa
out in the end hat the means; and th:otigh C. us tier
eutild imagine • system of police that Anvil arrive at
the rhi Cl tottibl foe, yet in a free country, tar seats le owe

~ere asp ussestraieed illieft'eßfee of satiety io alesitled,
°oh a system vroeM of necessity be odious and repulsive.
sail use WWII so government would. be able is carry Nisi
esecutiosi• larkspotic eosintriea it has sever yet succeeded
a, the retest aimed at by those throeists.; sail sewn a fres
pserls, the very proposal would be rejected with abhor-
rence: it would he p plan which would ware every nervaat of
elegy h..ae a spy us the action' of his master, eked all
theses of society spies os each other. The police of a free
essatry is to be foond In mimosa sod humane laws—is an
efeeive and enlighteeed asegisereey—anil is the judicious
sag proper *election of these ullicers lifjustite whoa.wags, no eauservators of Ow peace, executive 'duties are
Bally placed ; but, above all, eta the moral habits and opi.
eines of the people; sad in propertioa as these approximate
emu* • state of perfective, so that people may rest is
!weevily; sod though their property may oceaslowally be
yodel, er their lives endangered by the lands of wicked and
&operate isilivirluals, yet the isslitatious of the country be-
* need. its laws well administered, and justice executed
spiel* °Senders so ter safeguard cars be obtained,
eitheal aserillcing all those rights, which society was instil.
tided to preserve.
Your Committee submit to the consideration of the
Reuse, the evideeee which has been delivered to them by
the late °edifier, of Nei/gate, Dr. Ford t • the permit °Mi-
sery, %lr. Cotton; Mr. Neves., the late keeper ; Mrs. Fry,
sad other respectable and well-informed persons, touching
the effect of capital puuishinents, as well as that Of trait►
potation, to Betsey Ray : They forbear front eateriag late
details ma these subjects; they are of the deepest import_
swe, arid spread over a wide Geld : your Committee, there.
Sore, leave them for the present, soder the hope that, at
least Gie the exuniestion of the latter opiestiom, they may
hr permitted to resume their labour next Gessioe.
Jew 4 ISIS.

THIRD REPORT
FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE POOR

The Select Committee appointed to consider of the Poor
lows, and to report their Obernations thereopou to the
Roue; have, permeates to the Order of the House, further
•essmiord the matters to them refeereskand have agreed to
the follooiag Report:—
The Committee, in their Report of the last Sessions, anti-
eiputed a further valuable accession of detailed inGwonation
empreliag the practical managessient of the poor in Seot.
land ; and your Committee have now the 6408:action
to stale, that suds an espectation has not been disap.
pointed The inquiries instituted by the Genesil As.
nimbly of the Church of Scotland, at the instance of
*year Conionstee, appear so have hew prosecuted with au
mach zeal and ability, as to have furnished a Report (which
they now bet l r lay before the Hoare) fell of niformotion
the moot valuable to those who bare this subject under their
immediate cousiettraliou, and in the highest degree interest.
IKE so all classes of the comusossity.
Your Committeeemnsot allow the Session to close, with.

eat Mating is the Moser, that it his been their object,
since the essocieweemeut of their sitting, rather to carry
into effect the 'espaliers wootsioml its the Report of the
LW %mein, than bestow more lime on the investiptioa and
duseussio• of the abject at liege, being satlaSed of the
jostler of throe pristeiples and opinions which had been
before submitted to flie Ind:Meet of the Helleit• They
proposed, therefore, in ftw 1.. s ioslasico, sea ineseures-
ss they preesmed were I.kely to be atlewird with the
ka.l itiliailly ; the malted alteration, however, is the
lass vespertine the eiteagetnclit of parochial ammo%
excited se moth attentive, and some masters! atisiety is
differest parishes to adapt the propelled enactments to
their Mill realise rireuraistantea, that the detail of those
isientures which have received the sometime df the Hunie,and
of the others which yet remain for their eonaideratioa, have
occupied neetiwarily so mach of the situation of your Co*.•
miller, as to haw, added matesially Its the &Scully of
inattineg other measures that ovoid apply to the radical
err of the syeh ; this dilitsilly Imo also bees
iw-
cressed by the supply .f labour coutiouitig Mill tin ,bony
ports of Ilse kingdom so far to exceed Ilse demand,
as lo•lurse throws many iodustrious persons oaf of employ.
mewl, and is. have reduced the wages of others to a very loa-
der/sale rtsmorewities for their service. If they have, there-
fmv.abstaiseed frees offering to the cousideratimaof thelf Dose,
doting the present Itemise of Parliament, may wanes the
osture and shiest if which might have been to provide Olit
effectual chest to the progress, mod a gradual retwedy to the
evils Aldo have resulted from a meopolenry assemormit for
the pieepories of relieving the poor. it has sot bees (nab soy
alteration in the opinions they have enpremoil of the neom-
oily which exists for Mikis( such a provision, or fain say
iiimilliogiese, or their part, to micorinter the diihruhy of
uttering such a provisiou to the coosideratias of the Moose.
Your Committee use therefore disposed to Myelitis', the time
which has elapsed may not be considered as loot towards the
attainment of the great object which they rerelommided to
the mienties of the Hoare : They have kept it its view in such
eoactmcats as they have already submitted to the judgment
M the House, and they trust that it will oot be lust sight of
hereafter.
Al 26, 1818.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

night here, their Roykl Highnesses proceeded on
their journey to Hanover."
Colonel Sir Robert Steele hail the honour of be-
ing presented yesterday to lois Majesty, Ly his Ex•
cellesicy the bnk. De Ferman Nunez, Ambas-
sador from Spain; and Lieuteivoit Steele, his
brother, by his Excelleney Sir Charles Stuart,
Ambassador from England, and General Brown.
The Prince Kalkreutli. Counsellor to his Ma.
jesty the Emperor of Russia, arrived the dry be-
fore yesterday at Paris, and has taken up his lodg-
ngs at the Rae de la Paix, Hotel de Bourbon.
The parties 111 the case of the l;rey Nan were
again before the Tribusial of Correctional Police
on the 18th. The Tiihur .1 postponed giviug
judgment ou the bookseller l'Huillier.

••• AT MIN& O'CLOCK TO-MORROW MORN-
ING, TWO PRICES OF £a 000, TWO PRIZES OF
£2,550, 1,000 SOVEREIGNS, ke. WITH GOLD, CIA-
RRT, PORT, MADEIRA. ALL MUST BE DRAWN
TO-MORROW.—LOTTERY 'FINISHES.

ST. Raavuoxottaw.--Heliday at the East, Exchequer,
East tdi., ad Sus& Sca Houses.