The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-18 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

I.ON DON,
TUESDAY. Aram is, 1820.

The trial of Arihur Thisi!mood, for high
treason. commenced yesterday at the Old Badly,
before the Chief Judges of the Courts of the
King's Bench, the Common Pleas, and the Ex-
chequer, Mr. Justice RICHARDSON. and several of
the City Magistrates. %%re have given, in another
part of our Paper, a very full and particular ac-
count of the proceedings in Court until the com-
mencement of the ArtoaxElr•thrsca A l.'s opening
statement ; but the Court conceiving that as there
are several other prisoners to be tried upon the
same charge, the publication of any part of This-
tlewood's trial might in some degree militate
against the impartial administration of justice
with respect to the others, a strict injunctiuu
was pronounced by the Bench against the pub-
lishing of any part of this first trial, until the
trials of all those associated in the charge of high
Maori shall bare terminated. With this injanc.

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dw on e must;of (vow, strictly tomply, and sifitll
merely notice the progress of the case.
The preliminary proceeding of ernpannelling ilia
Jury occupied the time of the Court until one
o'clock. A very considerable slumber of challenges
were made, both by the Crown and the Prisoner.:
twenty-four by the former, and twenty-five by the
letter. The challenges in the Prisoner's case were
of (Ivor-• peremptory, and those for the Croat)
were also peremptory. as there still remained a
sufficient number of mimes on the minuet to con-
stitute a Jury. The A TTORN ST-GEN ERA 1:111 state•
ment did not close before half-past three o'clock,
sod the evidence and crovs-examination of Adams,
the approver, lasted until after seven. The wit-
nesses for the Crown are very numerow, it is there.
fore probable that the protwcutiou will not be
closed before to-morrow evening.

The accounts from the northern dist►iets still
speak familiarly of treasons and schemes of blear-
rertion. and while from one quarter we are told of
the miraculous escape of the country from the
plot of the Ist of April. we are from another bade
with prophetic solemnity to tremble at the dangers
that are still reserved for us : the comfort of se-
curity is scarcely felt. before our apprehension' are
again excited, and we find ourselves plunged into
new calamities before we are well extricated from
the past. It is said that the Ministers have in
their i.ossession conclusive evidence that • ge-
neral insurrection of the Radicals had been deter-
mined for Wednesday, the 3th of this mouth.
The day mid night however passed, and no insur-
rection took place. We were then told that on the
14th the malcontents would try their strength
against the KING'S forces; but the accounts from
Glasgow of the 14th, and from Manchester of the
15th, assure is that these towns then enjoyed per-
fect tranquillity. - Ye are not aware that the pro-
phets have specified any particular day for realising
their threatening,; but in the mean time the Ma-
gistrates in several parts of the country ore perse•
',tingly vigilant and active, ■od numerous arrests
fur irell%oll and sedition have been made. No
doubt can be entertained that • very bad spirit
prevails among the Radical Reformers, but we
(shunt think them so devoid of ordinary under-
standing us that ally considerable number of them
should contemplate an encounter with tbe over-
whelming military force now in arms for p'►e,erviug
the general tranquillity.
A second Address to the people, of a tendency no
less treasonable and inflammatory than that which
was rased at Glasgow on the lst of April " by the
Provisional Government," was posted upon the
walls of Carlisle, and circulated smoog the working'
classes in the coarse of Saturday slight, the Bth
instant. This Address will be found in another
part of our Paper. It purports to be issued from
the " Constitutional Press."

An Edinburgh Paper states, that among the
persons apprehended for treasonable practices in
Glasgow and the neighbourhood are several per-
sons above the common ranks of life. This inti-
mation, if it be true, would he of more serious im-
portance than the meeting of hundreds of the mere
rabble, but we are more surprised than intimidated
when apprised first one of the persons arrested
fur treasonable practices is " a Clerk in a public
office."—lt is said in a Glasgow Paper that
several a to have been made in that town and its
sieighbouihood, and that several persons have sud-
denly disappeared who were not previously sus-
pected of having been involved in designs against
the safety of the State.

Paris Papers of Friday arrived eta late hour last
nigl.t at oar Office. The Chamber of Peers assem-
bled on the lath instant, but the business transact-
ed was of no general interest. The Viscount DU..
110UCHAGE developed • proposition for renewing
the indulgence in respect of time which had been
formerly granted to the planters of St. Domingo.
The Chamber decided that it would consider this
proposition. In the Chamber of Deputies the in-
vestigation of the accounts of 1818. is still continued.
The intelligence from Spaiiris so far interesting,
as it shews that the general tranipsillity of that
cowsitry has not been disturbed. The Count de
MONTIJO has been appointed Governor-General
of Old Camille, in the place of DON CARLOS
0' DON !ISL. General Dote JUAN MARTIN
DIEZ L'EurEctm ADO, who was so highly distin-
guished as • partisan in the revolutionary war, is
made second in command.

General O'DoNoJu has dissolved the army of
Andalusia. The battalions of Navarre and the
volunteers of Valencia have been seat into Estremr.
dun ; the regiments of 'Limos and others have been
marched into Grenada; the volunteers of Arragois
into New Camille, mid the several militia regimen:a
into their respective proviewes. Nothing could
exceed the exultation which was manifested in Ca-
diz during the time devoted to the solemnity of
proclaiming the constitution. The rejoicings were
protracted during three days., and every part of
the city resounded with CMS of " Live the King!
Lire the Conititation

Several Spanish ships of war hove recently been
expedited to various paint" of South America, and
the Madrid Gazette of the 3d of April tutnounces
that • squadron of ships of war will shortly foil