The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1811-02-15 00:00:00

ENLIGIITENED AGE."

Are either in a state of primeval virapheity,
alien the tree of kmokrledge ar as yet u.itnueheil ;
Wd have carried the our ohteh followed to ouch
sit extreme of perreilinn that they meet. and kna-
very aril iinpreiture walk *Wood unmasked. Its
tie present *ley. craft perpetually overleaps iteelf ;
or (boric+ is Atteerth or oeakneg- constantly proof
too aseelte I •hall note t'vo nr three cases.

I.nnk et t■n•e hisittnears " Iht Revolaterniary
Pta-
t.rch." In.l Slr. GJIIIII.:1801.11 " Secret History *fate
r'nb.iari ni Boneparte."—These worked please* our
p ei.10%44 to miconrage. and propagate ; hut
would it no, be well to reflect. that though we may
straw and catoinniate our enemy. we cannot change
his fo►tune. or ;user hi• high estate ; ■wl that so
‘,,,,,tomoiity to mu evict tilt 1111.1lItlifif ru all that coo.
rims Nopo:P ()tie 14-nOl. vie. that. though so.
k..egs. ttwy were (miserly Idrbesan•. is net NI
much to loriuz to tin into contempt with the ralgar.
S.
to make the %algae look forward with sanguine
Isnot, to stations which imolai otherwise has. nets.
• &reed into their ciinieustilarion.—This sword has
two mig a. end slots too nsurh work !
Seems/11y, with ?enact to the Rqrwry. hare not
nuf Msi iatfil. in the plemtede not these otbelono, oe
tosetwwiltty. rdsos•r to aprosit the Prlnre of Welt*
wiiti sock restririsms (tint torsi' them
su•;at.wn•j .:i►w. s-corifing to their prinetit I- of
prissiminig Vi • mht nt rico lion, that Ae is the to.i
of all per...ns 0.1 -!taw th.st ele•liwn thelitiol 11011 e
1).., not the Crown of Eintland
use whit, of Its power. ionocace, fad rpleisdcur.

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petatitted to the King -b—and if so, ahutsW ho, who
represents him, and.-has *II his oilers to lultil,
at any time, but especially at this momentous cri-
sis, he vested with less ?---.lt is necessary, or it is
not.+What do they seem to think, and how much
does it prove ?
Thirdly, touching the admission ofproties in the
House of Lords, which Horace might, without sa-
tire, say cousasani tense plane caret; and that the
Noble Lords themselves may add the rrst
" nee,
" Quits Waste in nusinei legenisancionn minima!"
If the judgment of the absent is not only taken, but
is often clearly the means of deciding the most
portant questions, what are men of common under-
standing to think of the parade of heated debates
and elaborate arguments, addressed to what is
called the sense of the Haase ?—Sutely this proves a
little too much
The list of unlucky proofs might be swelled to a
volume, but they need no index, and 1 shall add
do snore.
Amongst the portents and miracles of the "asses
mirabilis,' wa are told that "black cows gave white
feel that this hardy assertion (though
sworn to) must needs to 6 rejected with contempt by
the faith of these times ; for we have a similar pro-
digy, in which there is an equal share of truth,
namely, that paper is nothing inure than paper ;
hat, though every body gives it credit, nobody will
believe it! Seeking into the rause of this strange
infidelity, 1 find that it happened once tither, and
History ascribes it to conjuration.—The author of
the Persian Letters, speaking of Louis XIV. says,
Ct Hsi e.ait use maiwien,qui (sink accroire uses
suj:ls, yue du papiri nit de l'argent"—i. e. That
*vs, r(//)1 it ror, who made his ,objects believe
that paper was numcy. ••••
Temple, F. b. la.