The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-16 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

‘Ye are assured that Lord Wellington, after hay.
i,,g pai.ril a few days at Isis herd-gusiters, has set
nut tur Londuii. from whence be will, after a short
Visit, returu 10 Eniiitv.

Two merchants of Montfort, named Glotin and
Person, convicted of usury, by which practice many

unfortuuate country people have been ruined, had
been condemned by the correctional police. They
appealed to the Court of Rennes, which, instead of
tititigatisig, nicrtaitti the fine to 5.000 fraues on the
(rimer, and 6.000 on the I oft r, is double the
amount of the original .ciotriser. Th, se persons,
in many cases, extorted front 70 to lOU per cent.
interest.

31. Baring, the London b %siker, gave a very
brilliant ball on the Bth, at whir h were present the
King's Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors, and a
greist 'mintier of verso'', of high rank.
The aceite of Naples, of the 16th December.
contaius a decree of the King of the Two Smiles,
creating the Prince de Talleyrand, Due de Dino,
and empowering the Count Edmond de Perigord to
transmit this title to his posterity.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 1.

The Yacht of Bagdad lb on the point of ler-
taking a campaign. but it is not ascertained on
what side he will carry his anus. For the purpose
of keeping his projects concealed, be loss esta-
blished magmxioes iu several directions. While the
Pacha is thus engaged in his military preparations,
the robbers exercise their ravages to the very gates
of the capital. Two Tarter couriers have been
rubbed within a few leagues of Bagdad ; and the
merchants of that town have lost by this accident •
sum of wore than 400,000 piastres.

PETERSDUEGII. DEC. 16.

It is known that the great Empireof Russia has
laboured under a total want of coal, but hopes are
now entertained of some having been found in the
environs of Tuttle, a manufactuting town, 115 miles
from Mo.cow. The Emperor has, through the
agency of his Ambassador in London. the Count
de Lieven, engaged a Scotchunati, M. Cougertiue,
with a great number of workmen, from Wltitehaven
and Newca►tle. They left London ou the lit of
October, and have already strived at Moscow,
where they will 1/11114 the whiter, and commence the
works at Total' in the approaching spring.

RU 4E.

The Court of Rome persists in its plan ut suc-
cessive suppression of the Feudal System. All
the Ba►uns who refuse to renounce their jurisdiction
in the tiers they possess, are obliged to pay certain
very considerable sums to the Officers of Justice
and the Military Force. Time gre.ster part of them.
Barons, to save these sums, have already consented
to renounce whatever was required of them.

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On Twelfth Night (Tuesday se'imiglii) au rle-
gent ball and supper were given by Mr. and Nlrs.
PATTESON. at their house iii tinriey-street, Noe-
wick, at which upwards of ISO ladies and gentle-
men were present. The 'lancing was kept up with
great spirit. and the company did not separate till
three o'clock the next morni •g.

01.0E.1101

The opera of Artaxerxes was last night re-
peated—and went oil' with the utmost eclat. Mt.,Q
STLPIIENS sang divinely, and Mr. BRAIIAM'S
exertions were crowned with success.

After the opera a new one act piece, entitled
Three Miles front Paris, was produced. It is a
miserable trifle, without any one good dramatic qua-
lity to lave it from utter condemnation. Where
tile limits are so restricted, we have no right, io,r-
haps, to expect a very artfully-constructed plot—
but, surely, in the course even of one act, we are
justified in hoping that at least a solitary jest will
occur. Not one, however, enlivens the (Woes, of
Three Mites from Paris—except the cracking
his whip, by a French courier, be equivalent to
i• the cracking of jokes."
A young British Officer has taken a fancy to
Louisa, the fair daughter of Mrs. Welcome, the
landlady of the Old Fleur de Lis, new Revived, an
inn situate within three miles of Park. 'I tie lover
is desirous of informing his mistress that lie is ready
to carry her off, but the watchfulness cf her aunt
prevents I from delivering a letter. His serv.rit
Motley undertakes the difficult task. Ile succeed.
after many unsuccessful efforts—the young tidy
elopes, and soon returns, a joy ful bride. The piece
has evidently been written to enable Mr. DENNING
to chew what lie could do ill Mr. MantEws's
hoe. He appears in the various characters of
au English Servant, a French Courier, a Bri-
tish Grenadier, a fashionable Touriet, and a Jack
Tar. His performance had some merit, but not so
much us we have a right to expect from the suc-
cessor of Mr. MATHEWS. We were indeed re-
minded of that Geritlemats, but the recollection was
rather a painful one. As the Britith Grenadier,
31r. DENNING sang a sort of muck battle song
toleruldy us the sailor, he rat-entrd is
song descriptive of a horse-race, a cocL-tight, and
bruising-match, with a good deal of humour.
His sailor was ihe best, and his Fieoch coulter, the
worst part of his performance. Miss MATTIISAS S.
BP Louisa, and Nlrs. DAVENPORT, as her Aunt, did
all that could be dune for two very insipid character..
A good deal of disapprobation was manifested
towards the elate of the piece, and, alien tlw cur-
tain fell, the feeliiig of hostility was must decidedly
expressed.

Mrs. MOUNTAIN, so lung and so justly admired
for her musical and theatrical talent., gate a very
charming. Concert %Vetlair-Way as an opening
of her w residence on flarnineisiiiith Terrace.—
Mr. MOUNTAIN led, and gave. in the course of the
evening, a line solo oil the violin.

The Edinburgh The.itir opened nu Saturday.
with the comedy of The Ms!, hi Keep Ma, and tire
new one-act piece of is lie Jealous? The 1100.1.
was a good one ; the 1;11 in particid.•r
nod the peiformances were wcil received. Mr. 14-
.TH EWS made his appearance an Montl:ey
in the characters oh Sir Darld Dander and all,kist.
Er.coccatEx T.—A letter from r
states, that on Tuesday betwreis the
hours of ten and eleven o'clock iss the 1..11-non' ,
notwithstanding the vigilance of the Frriich Polio
who, it was understood, were directed to he on the
alert, to prevent the circutnbtance being carried
into effect, a gallant young (Meer of Dragoon
Goorth., calliope(' in the vicinity of Casimir, eloinmt
with u loatly and accounplidwd joung.Lady, mete
to a worthy Baronet well known in the illt-pt of
Englimid; boils in the disguise of domestics to
some blends who accompanied them. Ou tl e fol-
lowing morning they were seen prosecuting their
journey to the North of England, and probably ere
this the indissoluble knot is tied.

A Correspondent, who keept a register 61 Cairibi I
Prizes and by whoop told, assures lit that o 11,,!
Litt 12 years there hare becii only 12 Prizes it' 30000!.,
and that the present Contractor, sold sin lc., Oslo
Might of Orem : this is another 'woof 11131 " a ~r
roars lhnse ~ho favour Ana," Indeed in the last Lau,
*hid, contained Three Prizes of 30,000/. (alum two pus .
ago) BIM sold them all!! In she very Livt Lottery be sai!tl
io Shares 3 Priz.-s of 20.000!. each, and as the present Lot.
tcry contains 3 Prize. of 30,000!. beside. ta7 other Caintab,
where can we go with so great a chance of ol.tuiniae 111.....
as to 81•114 the Cootractur ? who seems the NI wired AR•tt
of Fortune to ilispec:e her Riches to the Public al Cort.l ill
and Charing-crust, London, and by his Agents in the Comfit!.
AlLatoitt and PORTRAIT of the PRINCESS CIIAR •
LOTTF..—Mr. COLBURN Irasthe fro ...... o stag 0-1
the Public, that among many other inierrstioc th.•
ISivw MorizoLY MaGsztar, puhlishc.l JSUWASy 1, p ice 2-.
e.astains a very complete Memoir of the Life of her 11..0
Highness ilie Princess Chailotte, accompsui..l by a brass •
tifully-eitgraved Portrait, from in original !utilising...—
The foruaiT embellishments of ti.. interesting ova. -
dical Wolk, consist of Portraits of Lord I.t rots, Rui,, t
Sunthry, and Thouurs Campbell, &qrs., It.
Csabbe, the Prince of S.ixe Coburg, Mr. Sheridan. a .1
Madame ila. Start. Independently of beia:; a faithful tin. •
niche of the Political Lvessts of the Time:, and so . c, ora .•
Wenn, of Ihnuestar, Cnunurr. ial, and a
Magsz.ne folios a comp'. te Register of iv. s y novelty in t I e
Asti, Sciences, and Letters, equally SCI leph‘lble to tie
Scholar and the Philosopher, to the man ..f I. rope and
MOM of ILDUSIM.SA. volumes of 110iti Ts1111:11.14 )le:oe.•
Zany, commencing: will. the important cr. of Januar,.
ISIS, arc now pleterl, price 13s. 6J. iarb, Iralf.!auciisal ;
and a Number is regularly published 1.4 of *rely
Month, whirl may be sustaistly forwarded to hien& and
relation, abroad (to whom It .nuts prove a ins.st
unseals', by applying to any Postmaster, Burkselkr, ur
Newsman.

NAPOLEON : !'tint par lui-Ineme.—Pulolie ca-
riosity will rill• shortly hr gratilis.l toy
•t-
-anre of this work. 11• e understand the .IIS W.Ol Sraosusilbd
from 1560 M, ash assnrantes that Its pe•rtict touh,iii.ory
might In• depended on. he Editor. in 11, pt. fare, say.,
" A aingular circumstance War.d ilirso rap. s in my is ',-
session. In June, IS 11, an A,.,i i n, a In. was tr..e.llnri
for his pt. OSOlfe, came 101 Vl,ll toe :it le 010111 ills estn•n.e
curiosity to bow 1111 l e acquainted wools Itult.tp.ll te O.,sp;ord him
wills ats earnest wish to go, to the Isiawl F.:ba, and I
procured him the means of it g MO. Ili s.os is moos of
considcrable knottltolge and tort' eo4.cwz mn,ur I, aid
a•ems to hate pleased liapsolross isurh. Ili had St Vend
iu-
terviews with hun, soul was allow. d to po soot. los M:111111,Cf• I. t
3lcnsuirs, front which he privately to, I. xt. ti the Ica..
joie parts. Ills conversations wills linitarwe acre of aSi
ainguler nature•. These he also. mitt,' dual) tarry day as
they occurred. Ott his return to L. rho. O. he l'l,lllllllliiicate.l
to me Isis notes. I found them soo .1,115,160 y interestinc tir-t
I t ntrtioirol the permissions to take ■ copy of Ihesu, aids Coe
sire of their being puishillied. After mulcts het:nation he :it
length rosowsitt.4l to my request. The siiiitular manner in
which for motes were takes. may perhaps thous. • shade of
doubt, wits thee the facts cited happened exactly as they are
related, or %briber there was not souse coniii%.once ta•lafe
Honapaste and the author. Be this its it may, I consider the
Manures opt as a cit. loos historical olocismcut. 411,1 one of the
most autheA:c retettrt to lionsiairtc."

- - 'any, commencing; with the thiportatit cei ..t- January.
election. What success was met -:i.ti-i-i;l:ar-S; from their seas In Kent ; Xlr. and Mrs. Macooul.E 1814, arc now c Meted price I3s. 6.1 Naas, Irile-!lutuisil the Palace Elysee. ou Tuesday. The young plied almost immediately ; but it requires a lapse
I. GRANT mid faintly, ,fr their seat in Scotland.— mid a Number is requh:rly published on.
111. Ist of *very
Princes, sons of the Duke of Orleans, were preseut. of time, and, what is more severely felt at present the frees here .I
have s 0 great o . .
doingg7-thin byne°
I 1 11/ L 1 Pull"
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gis proxy.—.t .r. ler. once made Sir LEONARD fitLN Es, Bart. left ditto, for the Month, a bids in sy be instaistly forwarded to (lieu& and
'Else Jorrna/ de Calais, in announcing the escape by Spain, it also requires considerable expense to Ilia ppearance i„ this t„,,,,,0, 0„ electioneering Isle of %Eight, relation,, abroad (to whom It moat prove a suit 4kt:usable
of Nlaubreuil, add*, that the gaoler was intusedi. maintain the Royal rimy iii effective strength. The grounds, and we were saissiiest;—but we 110 out
itchy put tido prison. Spassiards, front their ►superior skill and discipline, understand peoryisas—il won't do; it will not
Oa the With of September last, about half-past may be expected to brave, with even inferior sum- gi?: 14. tisfaction—nothing lets than the
,min iiiin-
seir—it must be so—the general cry is, ZACHLUS t
opt
jeLpilKirs7refolir fimianith. Fenton's Hotel, St. James's- Ilisr"eall'. by applying to soy pw,aw,sl„, 80, 1,,,,Th.,., w.
street:. -Capt. II A LI, fur Cambray; Ml'. Did Al Ib.
Oo Friday the Earl of Gi.avoow was installed in.
NAPOLEON : Print par lui-oleme.—Polilic cu-
riosity will troy shortly he gratified by the spi.i-so-
*nee of this work. We undtratimil the MS 11/.1% tratumilleil
five o'clock to tlw eve,,ing, a voice of distress, op. ben. the ill-or bands of guerillas in regular Lord Rector of that Uiliversity.
mail come down.—Ax a rejoinder or suppl e- from Leghorn, silk weer:its-es that its perll it nlllllllllll ir,
• tiareistly front the top of the rocks, was heard at the battle, and may linger out a tedious time within talent to the above account, the freemen through. The Senate of the University of Glasgow has 'night in. depended „„. '. Ihe
Editor, ill L., pit fart., sad.,
Illiopitill of the Great St. &sward, The religieue the walls of towns and fortresses ; from the want of out, and widows of firemen alto, were yesterday conferred the degree of Doctor ii Divinity on the .. &singular circumstance plarill iiis, lug.. is 111 my pi s-
-0
hasttiord to afford relief, and boon perceived a man union, too, between the Patriots of the several pro. presented with half a cluildruss of coals each front lies. Ww. MAN vEL, Minister of the Scots Church, session. In June, 1811, an Aims ie ,11, 110 w.l. tr,ivi flout
—mum ! The coals are pronounced good ! Thus London-wall, I un the Rev. R. 31ustutsoN, of for hi, pl. assure, came to visit toe :it 1.. Omit; Ili. extreme
on the point of a rock of the Chenalettaz. He vines, the Royalists may continue to hold the up.curiosity to her 111 l e seilusilitill 11-1111 Itoll.lp.ilte i”sysed hint
CatillOn. Dr• M. who has greatly distinguished
are we nourished and chel'irlied—one week with will, an earnest akb to es to Ilie Isiamt ~fI-::ba, and I
J proved to be au Englishman, led b curiosity to per haud in certain districts. but if the war be still
roast beef, another aids cosilis--and probably the himself UP all Oriental beholds-. acted is interpreter procured him the Illeatl% ofd
.6. lc ... it, 11,111 11 111.,11 I.f
I 11.Ce11,1 the ruck, lout who could nut get down. protracted, they must eventually be wasted away, next we shall have something wherewith to wet our to Lord Aunt:arr. in the late Embassy to Chum it s. coosiJsTable knowledge suit ei ry i iii; c.t.c:: 111:11111111, aid
eastil Nu mirnit much Ili 1111.1 seven,' in.
Although it was nightfall the religirux procured for even the immutable ordinances of nature are ar. whistles.—Thiss we live, mill live too accordoig to The fifths miniver/wry of the Society of Antigua- "tier:::::.l7ll:hi:ii, 1 I 1 1 1 ' ~I, s m,„„m„,..,
/we ladders, with which, aided by the light of a rayed in opposition to their success, the good old hospitable totemic. "like !'c/bons, " ties of Neweastle-iipos.-Tyne, was holden on Weil- Memoirs, from which he
hweiis a 0141 ilO p. 1.1 1 1 f 1 1
privately toil.. .. hal ti u the c.,, .
siesilay aelitlight, lit the Castle, in that town, when one parts. His conversations wills tionar,.., sire of II V 1•1
p 1
With respect to the probable issue of the ro- To • lode, llogarth had hi* tai/—theis why I intern, they succeeded in rescuing the stranger
soaelet I ? Here it is the,,,,_pubfic opiNiose yri., his Grace the Duke of NORTHU MBERI, AN D war meals.. nature. 'Phase lie sus,. merit lio% a every day as
faint hi. perilous situation. This Englistitnasi has posed mediation, we sinverely hope it may out he Imlay, 0,, eitet,eri„K snits, bad got a "Disler sonnitiated Patron of the Soviets, which office was they occurred. On his returis to L. cb...i.. be rootto"nirstra
SI
since arrived at Geiser'. accepted by the Patriots of South Assirtica ; be- turd to its tail, and was whisking is
the town vacant by the death of the late Duke. to me his notes. I found them siiiAtiamely micrestinit lie-t
I t nitrated the I/Vl-1111,/.11111 to take • copy i.filieni, wish i;ie
We are assured that Lord Wellington, after haw. Cantle, if they mace again submit to the bridle, no like a dog in a fair; it will very Orally to he seen Oil Twelfth Night (Tuesday se`iissight) iii tie- sits of their Ming published. After much heimation hr :it
tug passed a few days at Isis head-quaiters, has set Powers of Europe could or would guarantee them which way It ran, through the channels of every gant ball mid supper were given by Mr. and Mrs. length col...ruled to my request. The sinzular 'mintier ia
which the sides were taken may perhaps anti. • shade.. 4
street ia the hisriiu 1, Inn: sic !Sanwa by liar- PATTESON. at their Isuuse in Suriey-strut gi
Dits.pwalir.illise o.
its'
111,110,g! awddie.skraii,itd relate,
win thee the facts cited liappentil exactly
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out fur Londuss, frons whence he will, after a short from the cruel vengeance .if their masters. There
visit, return to France, is only one way by which Spain can 1101 hope to ninny, who allwami
*pilule!, tlimenilirstliil e.t
the call
twuteciliteweetrewll:riesech
vosirite air which b ' I I tickled I '
Two merchants of Montfort, named Glottis and derive any advantage from her revisited Colonies in f h f .4 (.)
Person, convicted of usury, by which practice many America wand that is, by grunting thew their little. evert
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Over the wafer so great sutra. and the commit' tel.) with
v did not se naive till X a re
eilaitie: , or %%briber there was set abuse coniii%•a*: slitywt:fai,.
Hunapaite and the author. Be this its it may, I consider the
u , , I sci ipl Hs a cilium.: historical ilociimcut, and one of the
three o'clock the next 1111.111 i •g. 1 Most atithe:.::; Matter to lionsparte."
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