The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-02-25 00:00:00

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, FRIBRUAILY We 1811.

A Hamburgh Mail has arrived, by which we learn
that the Crown Prince of Sweden, Cummins JOHN
(licanattoreu), has ascended the united thrones
•f Sweden and Norway. being proclaimed by the
Herald, in the usual form, on the day after the de.
mite of the late King. His Majesty the present
King immediately issued a Protlomat' , lament.
ing. in the strongest terms, the death or his prede-
cessor, and reciting the circumst.anees of his own
onartionons election, in 1910, to the dignified illa-
tion of Crown Prince. On the 7th of February
the States of the realm were assembled, and the
Mao having solemnly engaged to maintain the
laws of the country, received the moths of alle-
giance from the representatives of the people. in
she narrative of these events we read of tin mi.
litary parade, nor perceive any circumstasices
that could induce a suspicion of any unwilling.
caw on the part of his subjects to submit
Ca the assumption of the supreme power by the
t•reornt Sovereign. We find the parade of a Royal
poces.ion accompanied with the usual virus, and
other acclamations, to attest the joy of the popu-
Jeer ; nor ore we aware of ally reason for throwing
tiny discredit on these statements, although they
manifestly proceed from persons attached to the
successful aspirant. The claim which IIEnNADOTTE
cativo:iced to the dignity of Crown Prince is the
strongest be could urge In the throne itself. He
has hitherto enjoyed popularity in the country that
adopted him, and the same qualities that have beet)
Cum, successful g•• g 1 • the love of the
people in one station, will, in all likelihood, enable
him to command the fidelity of his subjects in
smother.

The eleWition or BERNADOTTE, and the proba-
bilities respecting the coutinnance of his power,
Is sire Imig been a favourite subject of conjecture in
all rolitieal circles. Deriving importance origi-
itally from his connexion with BONAPARTE, it was
stundly cot:eluded that his carter must have
dosei with the termination of NAPOLEON'S for-
tune. The sin of ingratitude to his early friend
and twister did not, after the example of the un-
fortunate 51CRAT, appear in the eyes of many a
sufficient atonement for his want of legitimacy, or
capable of irropittatisig the favour of the Allied
Sovereigns. His political existence seemed doubt-
NI at the period of the Congress of Vienna ; but
he was more versed in the intrigues of Cabinets,
and prob slily better aware of the faith due to the
unofficial promises of Princes than the sonirtime-
Kiug of NApt.go, to trust implicitly to the Allies;
and listing throughout the war acted the part nut
only of a skilful General, but of a shrewd and
cautious politician, lie appeared at the unexpected
close of it fortified with a powerful army, and still
littler, with the solemn recognition of his claims,
extorted from the fears of the Allied Sovereigns of

Europe.
HCIMADOTT6 has now mired at the crisis of his
fate. He has hitherto been supported, in a great
measure, in Sweden, by the personal influence of the
deceased King. whose cause was common with his,
and political circumstances have prevented Foreign
Powers from asserting the pretensions of GuErsvus.
But now he stands in the invidious place of first
man in • country wherein he appears wholly iso-
lated. There are no remembrances to bind him to
the gratitude or to the vanity of the people; we
look iii vain for any ties of kindrkl, or uny external
circumstances that could lend him an &Wren-
titious strength. His army may mutiny—his
people may rebel—and if affairs should ever
come to a personal struggle between the King
of SWEDLN anti the lowest of his subjects,
there iemains it, t ill the kingdom, or in Europe,
one person of importance who would feel himself
particularly called unties to revenge the death of
the Munardi. If fortune, however, will have it
so, that BERN ADOTIE should establish his dynasty
on the throne of Stiellit•li, we shall esteem it a
'nippy event, us affortlisig one additional example of
a free people exercising their inherent right of de-
posing and electing • Sovereign; but, at the same
time, it will be the most virprising instance of a
Revelation perhaps ever recorded. In it will be
seen • Kin', in the enjoyment of his faculties,
removed from an hereditary throne without blood-
permitted to retire in catty raisin the
kiug-
don: lie had governed, smith residing iiiimolesteil its
a private citizen in an inconsiderable town of Swit-
zerland. His seat will he found occupied by a
soldier of fortune of another country, and of .111'-
4:lent rtligiou and language, chosen fur sin eircum-

aliment connected whit the people who invited him,
and bound to them by no one tie that ordinarily
unite men with a particular society. If such disad-
vantages be ultimately neutralised by the charms of
his private ‘irtnes, the integtity of his life, and the
benignity of his government, and that untter him
the country shall enjoy trattqlsillity, it will offer *
humiliating but instructive lesson to other Sove-
reigns, who, iu despite of early popularity, an
illustiious birth, • high talents, and an hereditary
affection to their families on the part of the great
mass of the nation, shall still be assailed with dis-
contented clamours, and be told, even* by their
Ministers, that their Governments are endangered
by the violence of the people.

We have received Paris Papers of Satur-
day last. The affair of Mailman' BRUNEAU
has at length terminated, and sentence has been
pronounced against him as a vagabond and a swind-
ler. He has been condemned to pay a line to the
King of 3.ooo.freuirs, to an imprisonment for five
years, on account of the crimes of which he has been
convicted ; and on the•expiratimi of that period, to
a further imprisonment of two years, on account of
the insults Offered to the President by the Prisoner
during his trial. He is further c lensed to pay
three-fourths of the expenses of the proceedings;
and on the expiration of his present sentence, he is
tiltimately placed at the disposal of Government.
BRUNEAVII accomplieys are also convicted, and
sentenced to different degrees of punishment, in
proportion to their offences. The individual who
had presented himself in the course of the last week,
at the palace of the Tlmilleries, calling himself
CHARLES DE NAVARRE, was a M. DuenEsiv X, who
had been previously confined in a wad-house.—
The Five tier Cents. are tit; f. 55 c.

The mler-mentiotted newt Judia Company's
ships arrived ■t Calcutta as follows, riz. the Alias
nail General Kid, the 10111 July; the Marvels of
Irellingion, the 25th July; the Minerva seal
Streashani, the 27th July ; the Rose um! Prineedll
Charlotte of Wales, the i:ith August ; the William
Pia and Carnally, the 2Rth August ; and the
Thowas G►envil/e anal Lord Castkreagh, the let
tirptemlier.
The Waterloo anal Wireekelsea left Penang, for
Malacca and China. thr 25th July.
The Unnira, outward-humid, put into Plymouth
the 2 lit instant.

JAMES DECEIVED WILDMAN, of Chilham Css-
tie, in the pariah of ehilhum, to ihr county of Kent,
Lug. is returned to serve to Parhameist for the Bo-
rough of Colchester, in the mum of HART DAVIS,
E• 9. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—
(Gazelle. )
Sir WILLIAM DONEVNAN (lately a Lord of Ses-
sion) contends the represeimati iiii of Orkney in the
enruitig Purlintnent, with Mr. LAING MEASON.

The Estimates of Ordinary of the Navy, Build-
ing and Repair of Ships, and of the Transport
Department, Int the pear 1818, have been printed.
The following an rhinrael:

Total for Transport Service 1. 178,948
Total for the Navy
Total fur Arsuy Provisions 320,000

Grand Total

MARVEL.t.ottI STORY.—The public I.are been
atnitiied rue some (lays pa►t with N marvellous story,
wholly wilhiint foundation, iespecting a certain Noble Per
monist., to which we are ant lied that any one of common
meow could 11111111 even fur a moment. This story is, how-
ever, now wetly well silenced. by the attention which the
Drawing of the Lottery excite•. and to which many are
eagerly luokioe for the gifts of fortune: it will rot ttttt enee
on WEDNESDAY N►.XT, illicit alimit 5,000 Tickets will be
drawn, ten of which must come forth Capitals in the count
of the int ten =Motes, and it i. no wonder lhat ii should
excite attention when Own. ore 100 Crpital., wills Three of
30,0001. or that lititia Offices should he cruwiltd daily.

The extroordit.ary preference which the Public
have Riven to WEBBN Offices, 9, Conanll, end
17, Ludgate-street, in the present Lottery, is easily ac-
counted fur :—The Scheme contains TRR►e Sterling Prizes
of 30,0001., and CAPITAL% of thin description are seldom
&Alain where else! For ism:tore—the Lottery drawn in
May, 1815, contained Ihify Owe Prize of 30,0001., aid that
was Sold by Wants! The next Lottery, drawn in Angstst.
contained Oda Owe Prize of 30,400/., and that also was sold
by Wass! The Lottery drawn in May, 1816, contained
Two Prizes of 30,0011, and Ong of those was Sold by
Weam!—Thas it appears that, since May, 1815, there bare
been Only Four Mo.', Prizes of 311,000 f., and num.'s OP
TOFX W Eta Soap cv WEBB !!!—Soicb Plain and Sterling
farts as these, will no doubt bare more weight with the
Public than any Puff

One would have imagined that the numeronn
tale,. which are at present vireubiling with so much
industry in every circle. would have withdrawn the atten-
tion of the Public from the merits of the pmient Lottery, slid
we not know that it Scheme, which at the mire time po%arsues
Three Prizes of 30,000/.—One Handred Capitals—and
Twelve Pipes of fine Old fort—is a novelty not often pre-
sented to the Public, but which they know su well how to ap-
preciates—The only question to be determined, therefore, is,
where shall we make our Purchases ?—Tlie answer is, at
CARROLL'', 7, eosin n and MI, VORD.tivitztr, Lo-
cums be Sold the Last Prize of 30,000/. ever drawn, and
because be also Sold, in the Last Lottery, Sit Capital
Prizes, including Two of 20,0001.
We understand that the Electra-Gnlvenic in-
fluence hiss beets successfully employed by Jr.
LA Ba.auww, of Suntkamptoo.row, in the treatment of Deaf-
ness, Amounisis, and other thosrdera of the liervona Syatt m.
As extraordinary Cures have liven uhtalned by the judicious
application of this siihtile fluid, it merits a fair trial in
tbuse distressing complaints.

On this day se'imight we noticed a singular case
of abduction in this neighbourhood. giving only
the initials of the rurties, and stating that they
land remained three nights at lodgings in this city.
This day we hare to state, that Miss Harriet Me.-
sum, the young lady alluded to, was, on Sunday
lasi, inarried to Mr. ‘Villiani M. de Montmorency,
a young gentleman reeidtog n few miles from town.
Mr. B. Flood, the young gentleman accused or
carr)ing her ult to this city, and apprehended at
hi. remains in prison to abide his trial.—
(Kilkenny Mudrratur.)