The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-29 00:00:00

RELIEF fl?0M TAXATION.

A Correspondent says, it has been stated in the
Papers called Ministerial, that throughout the
Stales of Continental Europe no taxes whatever
have been taken off since the peace ; and that the
only relief olitained is a cessation from extraordi-
nary reqmisitions. If none of the States upon the
Coiditiesit have adopted the fiiniting system, this
relict may be considered the most effectual that
could have been given ; us with the termination of
the war, they have dope with all its expenses. In
England whatever advantages belong to the fund-
ing system, a great part of the war expenses must
'naturally be perpetuated by taxation, and this order
of things may be compared to the keeping up a
state of war in the midst of peace. In America, it
appeuts they have repealed all their internal ditties,
imposed daring the war, thereby giving that coun-
try effectual relief
*lions taxation. If the example
could be followed on this bide the Atlantic, this
country might then rejoice in having obtained a
permanent relief from taxation. It is true that war
hairs to the amount of eighteen ►Millions annually,
have been repealtd since the war ; but before our
agriculture, and some of the staple manufactures
(*.III lie r ffectually relieved, a further reduction is
orcr.•~ary ; for both these great interests of the
Star are labouring under severe omit vision, which
nothing but a diminution of the public burdens
can trirctually relieve.—( Leeds Me►cury.)

As within the last week or two, grain, and ropes
ci.illy wheat, has much fallen in price, there seems
e%ely ',respect that alter the next general average
shall have been asceitaitied, the ports will be closed
against the introduction of wheat. That general
averag,e will be calculated in shout a fortnight, hut
in ihe mean time it has keen taken fur the four
we.. kg already past. At the end of the first week,
the average pore of wheat was Als. per quarter;
at the end of the second week it W 3. 80s. MI.;
at the end of the thud week 80v. ; and at the
end of the fourth week 795. I Id. As the prices of
other gram have tint fallen in the tame proportion,
it is inost likely that their importation will he al-
lowed from ports between the Eyder und the Hi-
dassrei.

BRUTAL OUTIIAur.-011 Saturd.ty fortnitzlit a
young g-ntleitran, u student or nwdonor, who
shout to proceed to Toha;.tai its a practitioner, was
returning from a farewell visit to Amor liirtok in
Mosselhurgh, when, in passing through the lime,'"
Park, he was attacked by three lethm a. who *4' :it..
tempts to rob Inns were ultimately Irti•t.ateil by the
approach of it gentleman's servant ; but in the
scuffle with the ruffians he war .0 from•ll% Lr tie..,
that we are sorry to learn lie (lied in consequentC
on Saturday last.—( Edinburgh Paper.)
A report that Mr. PLATT, Clerk t.. the late I.ORD
CHIEF .11:stics of the Court of Kisig's Bench,
treated the present LORD CHIVE JUSTICE ,Allll tier-
Poona ann./pert, in WA appoishiffirs
and kieping bins waiting two boors without has
Lordship seeing or heotiog from him, having been
circulated, we are authorised to state, that the pre-
sent CHILE JUSTICE tweet made any appoititmeret
whatever foot Nir. PLATT to cell no lutist; and tortlies,
that his Lordship, oil the sth or Noventlwr last, by
I,lter, tolvertiog to a co,,verbotom lie had had with

31r. 1' I. ATI' nn the day preceding, lehtith that Anne,

intim ttpt.l to Mr. PEAT'. that It *twirl hr tartlet,. to
gi%e bun the truulde of enlltug upon hi. Lurd.ll,ll.
' Lunt that he declined the acceptance of Mr. PLAT Ca
tverticti.

20 THE ErniO.:: VP TIIE niaran PRESS.

" At rera :11r Curti (Araks) fr,ml honi (iris proprimet
Urea t Bus ronnticnt:pos it/third "—CIcEn. Orr. 3.

. St n—A ft ,r n. war of oilexampl.,l magnitude and expense, 1
and out wb ;eh its eulogists boa it ne hive been •liided
with such wonderful e::(•tiuiv soon glory, tier won lit had
orason to lo .k forward to Lime of the blessings of peace,
which are usually exported to in ode their aimearance after .
the termination of discord aud bloud.hrd. This leruspeet ,
was the mos.t readily indulged ill, loon the ordinary in-
clination of mankind to think writ of their superior and
to believe evs•ry thin;,; good of tine, aleom Proeidene.• natb
placed over ; Ihat is, Emperor..
Nobles, Field-UaraluilL &c. Bust though Ihr.c Ingle :101l
lofty Personages have freqoently, of late. laid their wow
bead' together, no doubt for the hest of purposes, aud .
have talked, in good set rlerase., n 1 t religion, morality,
.octal order, and the happiness of 1141 i ~,, A, yet their bens
guage and their actn.na hare kale decidedly at va.
riance, and instead of benrfitiog mankind, they haire
thought only of aggrandizing their respective States,
aud dividilig the lacer:led remnant '4 and spoils of Eu-
rope among themselves. But it' they had been really
seri a shout preserving irmiquillely and order, they
wool ' have attended to the source from which disorder awl
anarchy naturally *firing, that IL the multitude in every na-
tion—the itieligeot and neglected multitude, who contain
within them the elements of confusion suit re.yohition, Mr.
Owen hose repeatedly sdilreetwel net 11111 l ..als to the Sovereigns
of Europe, aaaembled for the &cites plumate of promoting
order seed tranqtaillit,; and yet, as I.ar as it appeals, no no-
tice has been taken of his ;Tone 0:" . Tlwse Rio lers,howeeer,
would have consulted their dignity better, sir at least their los
terestLand the security of their dominions, if they had devised
some mean, of ameliorating the multitude, insteni of search-
ing to promote the rersonal views of a lea individuals only.
According to the opinion of Dr. Adam Smith,. the motto of
all the Rulers eel. mankind IL !` All for ourselves, aud no-
thing for the rest of the sorb'." a most notable sentiment
indeed, and our that would loose passed a few years back
only for a splenetic effusion of the proroiled Doctor, but
a hitch is now, by sad periemse, hicorporated into ihr
diplomatic rude, and ham become a feitielatismital axiom of
diplomatic acieciee. But if they are seriously desirous of
tranquillity and peace, let the • holed of Peace be ps racked
to the multitude; but let it lw tbe GOSPEL OF PuLITICAt.
CNRISTIANITY, whirls erect. its basis, nut on another world
of future expectation, but on our own globe, the only one
that we can well know, and which was expressly given to
us to cultivate and to Moines,. The multitude are nowt
a-days too wise and shrewd to Ice golleil by promises of future
felicity in meother region, aced at a e dialant period; Ihry
are not to be entrapped into submission, and brought tooter
control by such thread bare artifices, especially when they
witness the worldly conduct of the Missionaries an/ propn-
gator* of such sr when they see them grasping by
every means in their rower at the good things of the present
world, to monopolize and secure them tie themselves. It is a
presumptive proof of the soundness of Mr. Owen's doctrine, am:
the wisdom of his plan, that he leave, the article of religion
untouched; that he will not admit sectarian divisions, auel
religions animosities into his villages of Unity and Coucord,
as he styles them. If, indeed, any political doctrine can lie
said, with propriety, to he fully miiirleel and elucidated by
the concurring experience of nearly two thorsand years, it
must be this, that a dogmatic religious, sir uue founded on
peculiar doctrines moil sentiments, admitting, of course,
of various views, and opposite judgments, would, in-
stead of promoting pence nod harmony among man.
kind, tend t effectually to breed endless discords
and animosities in the win Id The fetal experience of
modest. 'Ornery has established this proof in dismal sad
bloody characters in every page ; while, at the same time,
modern experience happily presents the antidote in most
legible chant:lees, by exhibiting an immense re.:.• of the
globe growing into unparalleled prosperity, happiness, and
Leedom, upon the hams of opposite prioriples, of universal
toleration, of religious opinions, and unqualified latitude
Of political sentiments Tbts is the Goswit, os Tug WrsT;
the WtsDoM (*THY. WEsT, in professed oppositio• to the
once-boasted Wisdom Meier East. When Columbussteered
for the west in search of a new world, in search of gold,lere.
mous stoners, and Indian wares of curious and exquisite
fabric, he gained his immediate object indeed, hut he could
not dive tutu futurity, and divine, that, in after times, the
pearl alone all price, the freedom 111111 emancipation of the
human race, the most valuable of all comneodities, would is-
sue
sical walla is now so well investigated suit laid open, the
moral and political world requires some haul sled ardent ad.
venturer, who will penetrate its secret 111112.1., and hring he
light its latent riches nod its uodiscovered stores the old
beaten track• and huekneyed pasha must be•bandoned, and
ties ways 1111 l st he opened an.l explored : the recesses of
tench mid freedom must lie bunted to bring ehegoldeu age
once more to light. Rut this glorious prospect case 'levee be
realised, while the vast majority of the pupulaiiou is im-
mersed in distress; and indigence ; while, as a natural conse-
quence of that Relict. fl and degraded state, rancorous passions
feriae ; envy, jealousy, and smothered resentment, on the one
side, and fear, hatred, and apprehension on the other. Our own
country is more peculiarly situated in this respect, since all
elm's reason and cnlcillate in their presumed rights; and
the mart numerous class is taught to believes by their iewu
champion, that the rich are in direct uppueition to their
claims, and consider (heir restoration to them as a source of
danger to their own security. This view of the matter is
foe the r corroborated by the acknowledged friends of the
wealthy and the noble, who, in order to secure their attach-
ment and summit, represent the lower classes as directly
hostile to their pnifessions flail their privileges. But it us
always latter policy to disarm an enemy than to meet him
ill full sue 111111 l er; to prevent evil, than to allow it to grow
net.i rank awl luxe.' iant magnitude. It is in INS light that
Owen views the matter iu queslioit, and it is on the
ground of prevention that he builds lira plan. He means to
insulate the paupers; to insulate them front the more for-
tunate and p 0.4)(11.114 clinics, Lot to concentrate shun
among theniselvea. What was before the source of weak-
ness and distress, will, on the proposed basis, become the
means of strength and sessrity—of seenrity to the powerful
and prosperous, by the removal of an one-roils burden of irn-
pied reluctantly motored, as well as by a ithdrawing jealousy
and disaffect illl wand of strength to the pour and feeble, by
concentration their 1t1e311% aced sffurts for their common
benefit. _ _ .

ARATUS.

On Sunday evening a must lamentable occurrence took
plate at the house of Mr. Si. ;:WOlO.l, gerldien.strert. A
youngsersittenian, of the name of Kt. hard Hillard, in a fit of
de/modem, cut his throat in a most dreadful manner,
four or Ire places. The pomp( Mall, we understand, was
Slut twenty years of are. Nlany ri ttttt mrs are prevalent as
to the tense of the isnfortni.ate event. The ynniie visas had
courted a pitting lady fur some months, and it is stated that
lately his visits were not received by her so kindly as they
formerly were, and he in criiiitirmence lueetime very nielaii-
choly, and in the early part of last week be took to his bed
and became mark WWI!. Mr Anglia, the surgeon, was
called in to attend him, and 11,111p1.11114 of daring. meat in
Miele-et. appeared : at tumes he raved inceamettly, and
theta for a Awl period bewail calm and rat' I He IX•
pre.", a wish to vie she riming lady above alluded to on
hemeisey. She was Millie. d to en and see bim ; he talked to
her in the moat affects ate manner, and as site was gnia::
he trimmed a partner kiwi, *blab was 1(11111.01 galore the
lady left tlw honer, a noire was heard is the room of Mr Hal-
liard. A Friellemari• named Inglis, went two 11w apartment
and saw the Wood nesuiirie Is his thrust. Ou the goer lay
a knife covered silk blood. Mr. bleb ‘4 rimed op the bead
of the iiiifurtunate man, and obserw•ul a rater,' the blade of
whit Is keel penetrated deeply into the throat. He leek the
'save mil, and Mr. Austin, the onrceon, was sent fur.
Morn he arrived, hr Instil that the deceltu.ed had cut three
smaller wU1111•14 in the neck wit,. the knife, but was una-
ble to Ilerolllllllloll hi.. pnrp um. Mr. Miguel is still living,
bat OW air emelt:slued of bin recovery.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.

The I..pwing, for ilw 'sure of seventetn en•kq .p; ri f
nn Wertnt.nlay, She 30:h instant, ea board :It 143 tuvuth.
itecalls at No. 9<r Kerr•atreN, Plyaoutb•Dock

POLICE.

XAVSION)4OIISE.
LOST CHILD RESTORLD.

Testeritiy an officer, Horned 144ttli‘ w IA own, besot:lit tw
the 10-tice-room the child of a decent ~or w inuntsl
Elizabeth Smith, which he had found in the street 1.111 Sat iir•
day night
The officer said the child, which was about two years
was crying bitterly and shivering with the cold "plumb:
fistodlitek's Office. Some humane per, ,-t 113,1 pot itropeoce_
Is ilfeenny into the infant's band, but the offirs r Ihhut :hi it
snore charitable to convey the child t., a place for warinth
and sustettaiire, and tuck it to a pnbhr.l se. II tin it
-veot w sesi els of the p trent, to whom he was .dirreted
1 ill posts d a:;-iiast the 111,0eAois ileisse, as he walked al.she
null 10., bunks'. Ott inet..rill7 the honor he 40111$
.11 *rm.!'
where the loss was most aeutely felt, awl sniplied the Isamu
of lamentation with a very different feeling.
The I.oril player highly commended the conduct of the
officer, which w.ia as revnatkaWe No the colicWise4s with
which he sitoglat to relieve the mother, us for the ',rumples
tulle villa which he relieved the child.
The mother said she had scut the infant with an elder
bnither, and that to her terror this latter moulted alone.
She expressed her gratitude to the officer with floe Irish
warmth, and said she felt his humanity the mote as she was
e strangtr in *lsis country. •