The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-14 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS..

LON I)ON,
SATURDAY, Nolnuisgs 14, IBM

THE QUEEN.

Sir WHAT RAMIRO left Kew l'alace on Thnrs.
day afternoon, her MAJESTY bring in a composed
state, for Windsor, to take hi. waiting on the Kt sO,
and to attend on the Princess SOPHIA. aho con-
tinues in a low and nervous state, with which she
has been elleicted for some years past.

The Patsce REGENT remained in anxious at-
tendance on his arnicted Parent till above half-past
twelve o'clock. when his Royal Highness left Kew
'Waft for Carlton-house.

The Bulletin of yesterday morning was more
favourable than it had been fur several days past,
and was as follows:
" Krw Palsee, November 13, 15111.
The Queen IA some sleep in the night, and her Majesty
bypass to suffer 1(0914,411'y titan she did yesterday.
“ F. OILMAN."

A little before twelve o'clock the Patitcs Ite-
dairr received a full report of the vtate of the
Qtrsurr during the uight and early yesterday morn-
inc. His Royal Highness sent an answer to the re-
porh and to make inquiries in the afternoon.
No other account etas received during the day,
her MASEbrf remaining in the mane state as she
we. in the morningb without auy material variation.
We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday last.
A private letter, which appears in one of them,
from Aix-la-Chapelle, states that the differences
which subsisted between Sweden and Denmark,
relative to the performance of the Treaty of
Kiel, have been submitted to the Congreqs, and
there decided. By the sixth article of that
Treaty, the King-of S*IIDEN charges himself
with a part of the public debt of the Daniell
Monarchy, proportionate to the population and
revenues of Norwayb the amount of which was sub-
sequently to be determined by Commissioners.
Commisioners were in consequence appointed by
both parties, but they could not come to an agree-
ment. The amount is determined by the Congress,.
but has not been as yet made public.

The French Funds have suffered a trifling fall
since the former accounts. The Five per Cents.
were on Monday, 69 r. lo c. ; flank Stock, 1,560 f.

It is understood that the ill-success of the Expe-
dition fitted out in the early part of this year for
the discovery of the North Pole, will not deter the
Lords of the Admiralty from venturing a similar
Expedition in the course of the ensuing spring.
It undoubtedly belongs to a great naval and mer-
cantile Power, as Great Britain is, to make every
fair and national effort to extend the limits of sum-
field and geographical science, and to attempt the
achievement of an object so universally desired ; but
considering the unsuccessful experiments that have
been repeatedly made, and particularly the last,
which vets undertaken with every advantage that
could be afforded by enthusiasm, skill, and intre-
pidity, we cannot entertain the remotest hope of
ever Teeing a similar enterprise crowned with success.
From the accounts that have been comminvicated
to their friends and the public, by individuals en-
gaged in the Dorothea and Trent, it is very mani-
fest that the flattering pictures drawn by the over-
heated imaginations or abused credulity of many
persons in this country, respecting the absence of
ice in the Northern Seas, were the crude offspring
of fancy, and that an icy barrier ►till encloses the
eastern coast of Greenland, and, indeed, prevents
the possibility of an advance to the North beyond
the Both degree. The two ships found nature in
those bleak and desolate regions clothed in the same
repulsive garb she had ever presented to all previous
natigators, whose accounts were deserving of credit;
the field ice was as firm and impenetrable, and
the floating ice as dangerous and variable, as it had
ever been on any former
It has been said, that the late Expedition failed
rather from the accident that betel the Dorothea,
than front any obstacles opposed by nature that
might not be surmounted ; but this untoward ac-
cident was the consequence of the too daring in-
trepidity of her Cotnniander ; and if it had ;lot
happened at one moment, aid in one situ ition, the
same accident, or one still more tremendous, must,
from the'general aspect of nature in that region,
and the terrific char:too. of the roll., have been
anticipated at no great distance of tape tinder other
circumstances.

We arc tol,l that the return of the Isabella and

the Alexander, cott►posing the other Lraneh of the '
-grand Expedition, is not to be considered a failure.
We admit that the word." failure." considered as
absolute and total, might he too strong an exprer-
•ion us applied to the return of these ships; but
at the same time we conceive the term " suc-
cess" to be no less inapplicable. We well remem-
ber, while the ships were in the act of being equip-
ped. the elaborate statements which appeared iu a
periodical Journal, emanating) if general report
were to be credited, from the Admiralty itself
which hail for their object to prove the ferailrility of
reaching the Pole, and the existence of a point
of union by Davis' Streits between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans. These statements, by shewing
the impressions entertained at the time within the
precincts of the Admiralty, likewise evinced the
hopes that were indulged, and may therefore be re.
ceived almost as conclusive proof of the exact ob-
ject proposed by the Expedition. Many interest-
ing discoveries may have been made—many goes-
tious of geography may have been set at rest; but
the very point attained, namely, that Beffitex Bay
is proved, by accorate observati ~,,, to be a bay,
establishes the fact, that the hopes of those wl.o de-
vised the Expedition have been disappointed.--
This. therefore, if not • " failure," must at least
he considered as approaching very close to it.
The early chemists who sought the philosopher's
stone, were far from being reconciled to their dis-
appointment by the many valuable discoveries they
made in chemistry during their visionary pursuit ;
and while the object of their fondest search con-
tinued to baffle their art, no minor attainment,
particularly should it prove the vanity of their
exertions, could be regarded in the light of " suc-
cess." We lament. extremely, the failure of the
Expedition; and though we may entertain fears
that the ships dispatched in the next year sill be
eqiially unsuccessful, we should at the same time
be e. ry unwilling to throw interruptions in the way
of the enterprise.
Much interest is attached to the discovery of a
station inhabiting between the latitudes 7ti. and
78. who are reported to have " thought that the
world to the south was all ice, and of whom gem-
tattoo had succeedst! generation without their tasting
the fruits of the earth." Ass Evening Paper, with
interesting simplicity, expresses a hope that Captain
Ross will let the world know how such • nation
obtained the maim of existence without tasting the
fruits of the earth. IVithout having the advantage
of a peep at the Captain's Journal, we shall
venture to inform our admiring contemporary
that this nation probably found the means of ea.
istence in killing bears and seals, and catching
fish, in a manner very like that penned by th►e Wm.
bitants of Lapland and Greenland. It is not stir.
prising that this people, surrounded by immense
harriers of ice, should believe every thing beyond
their own immediate vision to be ice also. and where
vegetation must be wholly interrupted, it was to
be expected that the miserable beings inhabiting
such to clime should never have tasted " the
fruits of the earth." We do not anticipate any
details respecting them which will exhibit a
state of existence very different from that of the
Laplander. The extent of their ides* can easily
be imagined by a consideration of those scenes of
nature which latitudes so far north must present,
and with which alone these poor creatures can be
familiar, An affected importance is attempted to
be attached to this discovery, in a notice respecting
it published in the Treasury Journals, wherein it is
said that " the chief, of this people had hitherto
supposed themselves to be monarchs of the uni-
verse." IVhat • pomp of expression ! Chiefs and
monarchs are fine-sounding words, and imply a
state of cis ilization *deduced beyond the first rude
principles of society. But can it be imagined that
in such a place as that, where this " nation" is said
to ix discovered, any ►hing like eivilis-stion could
exist ? The " nation" will no doubt prove to be
a few wretched families huddled together, each too
anxious about the attainment of the scanty means
of prolonging their precarious existence to entertain
a thought of governing the others.

There wag a report last evening that Mr. HORS.,
little boy, mid the man who stole the child,
had been trims at Dover, but we fear it is not COP.
rect. The case, we lament to find in our Bow-
street account, wears a more alarming appearance
than ou the first impression.

Yesterday morning the Doke of YORK trensncted
military business with the PRINCE !Wm.'''. at Carl-
ton-house, for some time.
Viscount SIOMOOTH had an audience of the
Put NCE HEOENT at Carlton.house yesterdey.

Mr. BARINGTON. late Member for Leicester, is
mentioned by his friends as a probable Candidate
for the representation for Westminster.
A fire-balloon was sent ups short time since at
Car'probe, which, in falling, set fire to a large fa-
tes% The Government of Baden, has, in conse-
quence, issued ass ordinance, ',inhibiting in future
such dangerous atutrartnetits.
PORTSMOUTH BANN.—It is understood, that
before any Extents could be issued alpinist the firm
et* Messrs. Cuowt• and Cu. backers, at Ports-
mouth, a Commission had been opened, and they
were declared basskrups ; and that, to prevent any
injury to the general creditors, • provisional bargain,
HMI vale 41111 assignment had been executed by the
Commissioners, mud the Nlessengers were in pos.a.
sion of the property before die Crown process could
gtt down.

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