The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-05 00:00:00

of tradtamiet, and low farmers, with Large fami-
lies, who could assart him in his 'arbours. But we
shall now let him speck for himself
:
" Immediately %son handing (at New Yo.k),
I treated myself with a glass of railer nail smite
fruit ; the charge was dearer than in Londuo.—
As yet I cannot of course communicate any useful!
particulars. I have walked alone throtirls the
streets, for the purpose of forming an iudepen.
dent judgment. Every object is new. I hardly
dare trust myself in forming cottelitsiotto : our
most cheering fact is indisputi:ble, the absence
of irremediable distress. The street popoletioo
bears an aspect essentially ditlerent from that of
London, or large E.,41i,h towns. Otte sinking
feature is io the number of blacks, many of
whom are finely dressed, Ile- females very ludi-
crously so, shewieg a partiality to white muslin
dresses, urtificial flower., and pink •NiloCli• I saw
hut few well-dressed white ladies, hut ant informed
that the greater part are at ittesesit at the springs of
Balsianand Saratoga*. The dress of the mesa is
rather deficient in point of neatness nod gentility:
Their appearance, in common with that of the, la-
diis and children, is sallow, and what we should
call unhealthy. Our friend I)-- tells inc that
to have colour in the cheeks :sat infallible criterion
by which to be discovered us nit Englishman. In a
British town of any import:6er, you cannot a alk
along a leading turret for halt nu hoar, without
meeting with almost every vari.ty in the sire, these,
trout appearance of the inhabitants; whilst. nu. the
contrary, here they seem all of one family; and
though not quite dritb.ClilOUrt'd creation.' the
feeliegs they excite :ire not many degrees removed
from the uninteresting sensations generated by that
expreasion. The young men are tall, Hilo, and so-
lento; their dress is it:avert:ally trousers, and very
generally loose great coats. Old men, in our Eng-
lush idea of that weld, appear very rare."
" tYpoua the whole, a walk thiongh New York
will disappoint an Englishmen ; there Itt, (111 the
surface of society, a cerelesmess, a laziness, an un-
to:scud indifference, which freez-s the blood and die.
gusts the judgment. AN evening stroll along
Broad-Way, when the lamps are slight, will please
more thou one at noon-day. The alums will look
rather better, but their proprietors will hot greatly
please; their cold sialiffeleiter may be mistaken by
themselves for independence, but no person of
thought and observati will ereecoireede to them
that they have ',elected a wise mole of eithibiting
that dignified feeling. I disapprove most decidedly
of the obsequious vervilltl• of the London shopkeepa
erg, but I am not prepared to go the lengtlaof those
iu New York, who stain' with their hats on, or sit
or lie slang their counters, smoking :trots, and
spitting io every duration, to a degree offettstve to
any man of decent feelings. The prevalence of
Dutch names tells me I mil there a stranger; tint
this feeling is often comiterneted by viewing the
iorroetaw quantities of Boitislo manufactured goods
with which the shone are crowded, as also the num-
ber of English works which tare advertised, and the
placards of Home's Riot In Latidoir'—' Prince's
Russia Oil'—' Reeves and Woiaiyer's Colours,'
and Day and Alartiit'a Blacking'."
" Yeste:day, at the dinner tshle, my attentiou
was strongly fixed by a cooversation between Com-
modore Dacirtur sod a gentleman, I presume a re-
sident of this city: the following is neatly an seen-
rate report. I would remark, that Commodore De-
catur is a member of the Navy Board, and, of
course, concerned in the contracts isscsng from that
body.

Gent.--' Well, Commodore, there were some
good bargains mail,• by stone people during the war.'
" Com. So I gnetis.'
" Gent.—' 111--, this contractor, did not lose
any thing by turning round : his rations paid aril.'
" Cunt. D.—' A man ought to profit by what lie
sells.'

Gent.—' Yea; but democrats only bad the
chance.'

" Com. D.—. Contracts tire conducted with the
most perfect fairne►s. Givernment drill► with that
matt who can supply the country to the tnost A-
vant:qr.'
,` (lento—, If ►o, how is it that throughout the
whole war, and up to the present moment, not a
single federali►t in any part of the Union has been
a contractor ?'

" Coro. D.—' I guess they have not made appli-
cation:

• " Gent.—‘ That I {corm they have, ati.l myself
for one, and lit a 1 .wer rate by per cent. than
M-- supplii
" At this pat t of the conversation, a gentleman
Pitting on my left remarked that Government wet,'
perfectly right in pursuing that hoe of policy
that they ought to favour those who supported
them : this was partially assented to by Commodore
Decatur. The gentleman before alluded to c•ott-
tillaed, with some feeling, to complain of jobs and
peculation. These were terms which I had imagined
were unknown in the laincuage of the Un:ted
States : I had hoped that this refined order of thinoi
auultl never be imported fium our great but op-
pressed country to this 1311(1, at the rlll4liClp3ll,lil
of which from tyranny and taxation every tree multi
througi t the world joined in exultation and
triossinh.

•• "I he inn• and hoarding-houses Ire crowded. At
this liter greet slumbers are here 'ruin the Wore
southern State•. Among other inducements. itit'Y
Cotter to avoid the ineSelst svprehended existence
of the yellow fever. The rn ~,,, in which I write is
in the attic story. every "titer being occupied. Iss
thin %moll ispartilt.mt l•,ere are two hedr. The beet
of the weather eti r,.ivr, utid the visit of the mom.
gusto,s not the roost pirsollig. I have not t't•t beett
riishled to sleep, Until tlitee or lour o'cloek •a the

• " A place uf inchiunahle stammer re*ort.sliont 200
from this clay. The mote as by w.ty of which i%
stadia up Ihe II 1014111 rkfr, 349.1 hi %%bleb .• mr of the
steam-inists in lbc wurl,l co Three lion•. a we. k. The fire,
including bnotrill, is ',ern tl,,lhrs, and a tax of one dutimr.
The time issually or-copied from Pic..., York to .41inly is
from cleat:co sod a ball to 'twenty two huurc."