The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-21 00:00:00

THE NoRTH POLE.

It was the Him Daiwa Boreingtee who, in the
year 1779. proposed Captain Phippe's expedition
to the Pl..rth Pole. After the failure of this rape.
dition, Mr. Barringtou. in justification of his pro..
pos.al, collected a variety of document,. which
were read at a meeting of the Royal Society tis
1774. The following a an extrect from them.
and the sea slicer allotted to is the present vener-
able Moja, Cartwright
• Whilst the ships &Wised for the Plea% Pole (allaillsis
to Certain Phippee eneditioe) were new*, • meat is.
grebes an ebb see Aker, Lanoline' Jena
told dm that twelve ran ego be hod bees informed
N a eery remarkable voyage mamba by a Captain Cellos' is
a Gmeoleed ship, mewl, as Car aa latitude St. N. He had
proceeded within* the lest shatisetine to tilt. when the
ma was is. sayers to the meethward, bet they had met
wee • spin of in fir the lasi three degrees, sad the
nether at the as those was ISSIISISSAA. AS they advanced
Ow she high Northers latrines, the mate began to complain
that the eineepom was onmeady, and tie Captain renewaly
yielded to the mates pre/at, sod refereed to his Mann at
Gresbad"
The follasies wet Captain Despioes lopisioa of
• northpore-t papoose:
" I know there hove hoe dines attempts made sheet a
14. W. peawm, sad all ememetamfel; pi, I as of opines,
that each a passage may he heed. All oar cueweryneen
that lime gone to dinner the !M. passage hove einem
vowed to pose to the westward, !ecstasies their search sleet
Davies Straits, Sr Nedanis Nap; bet if I was SO go es
this diarevery, l wield go deb into Os Berth eau, lend lay
MUSD dram sing California, and that way seek • reeve
into the Was len Per. u ethers have apeat the mummer
in ime werchieg ea this men basso seek soarer home, sad
se, befwe they get Amish, the time at the year obliged
them to give ewer theb ararele, mad provide for • bag
hod agile, fee gee of being left in the whiter; en
4 wand omen Gem me the Loa karma cent et
Seek one, mei IM. at the year mend seat', I
Id u.ed as reheat, for I sheen came Cardin isle wry
newledge, if I reetieded in my attempt, sad should be
without that dread sed.few which the mien meet have Is
paring two. the keens le the nekeowa, whe, for megbt I
know, pee over their mooch jlllll MI limey NH 811 SAS petal
of serempliebing their desires."

Too mach credit eani‘ot he bestowed en the
Proprietors of the Royal Coburg l'hestre, fol• oh. ir
tntleavours to procierotelest Noel I. the sisPerior style is
shieb the polonaise*, are prodsod. If liberality ma
rlaio • plate is the estimation of • British public, we ere
.reared that the Proprietors have offered Mr. Conway, of
Cutest-garden Theatre, the sass of thirty piers' per week.
'Pots he is at presto promoted rreeeptige, is weastemsesee
ui hie prowtowiti eageetmests. Tlie old veteran, Mr. Bas.
armour, late of Coolie order, will awake Ms appraresee
WI Numbly ant, the letb lastest, m • mew bleeder,
Tale, in the same style of his isimitable perforamase of
°owed, is Me Castle Spain. Pis asmak a portion of the
name liberality will be the remuseratioa.

A hotly of distinction at Berlin has been awidelee•
ell to herd labour fur cruel treatment towards a
male orphan which she Wisest up.
An unobstructed view of the horizon, on a fine
evening, this week, presented, soon after minuet. a
most interesting phenomena. The Moon rapidly
approached Jupiter, which'
appears majestically
splendid in the South; she bee Row passed that
planet. In the Western sky, Veins is seen fast
descending into the Sun's beano ; whilst Safaris
slimly rises in the East; sad, as if to complete
tile circle. the eye einied round to the North, is
arrested by that beftatiful star Cape?/a, sheding a
profusion of light, whit+ increases in brilliancy es
the Suu descends iota the nether hemisphere. Of
the other objects which attract the intention of the
observer in the " Oerhaoging firmament." the
most conspicuous is the fine star Arcturus, which
follows the setting Sun, each evening drawing
enter, until the south of Oes•bor. when it will
sink into the Son's light, and disappear in the
good of superior brightness.
RON A PARTZ.—The Public will be pleased to
1-arii that the trarslation of the Private Anecdotes
sighs Chart end Fider of Napoisen has at lettglit appear-
'd. It has been justly chanced or Somparte, that she men
i• Ina tearra that the bens sad sit that hos hitherto bees
p ibtnheol trameraieg his domestic Ws 6a some memo" par
i.kes If the nature of Rea seise. The majority of thous
%Ors here initials nu hopeless, wareely know ham by mil*:
IlvPv hwr judged hies by his postgame atria's—Me, have
f.krictsed the clod isadisridessl of the Sale. sod have
f. 'poems .p,kea urines ea the Abate de Writiel spoke of the
llortt of Malts—bat it w esideat that the anther uf this
"""kre,i,trd s Napoleon's Palate. arcesapaated the Coed
its j..ersits sad was to fart an Anna! 'thieve 011ie pH-
-141" dusia;stir lifr r f die Ei-Eutp ow. sad bring,. oil
tatiiii.le (whet with all the iodtaidusts of tier Court, boa
!Nt.'s stoic to • alleCt tames .1 00000 itor must curtsies amuse.
Th.. %Air Al the oriviiiel, w, is,dersiesed. ha- b.e.. strictly
/3"jblimied to Franc., probably ea see..out of its wets.
oionally exhibitiug haputrass is a rather favourable paint
of v.eiv.
DROWN ING.—,OII ll'. itne.day evening last a fine
ask,ur h old, son to Alf. THOUS'S
litTUOIll. 411 )(Wise% ottrrle I.lifiehMU're reihfild
111111 several of Ins contra.. .1114 to batik' '" the Rnvrr
Tiraines, but hr leaden luoidtely wrist total r.f hits
depth sad s stinrriseel. Frets stsslitstiCr wa•
64.'"dt'l• He tr•is ''ken iinite avid the *erne
and caused home to hie olialreastd

PRIM lieM (,F rim PRECk.

[From

MI Galaihj

We might lilt nor coluini with detailing the
Various public benefit* arising from the eircitlation
of Newspapers, but 'shall only ti'diule to one
more—we mean the koowleake of the lasts by
which we are governed and protected ; a know-
ledge to be gsp,ed by the faithful report of the
proceedings of the recital Courts of Justice. It
es of the utmost importance that those reports
should be free and unconstrained. If a man is
charged wills having offended against his neighbour
Of against society. and that tillage is brought
before. the tribunals,, it is proper—it is necessary,
that his. condesonstien or his justification should be
made public. It is a justice to all parties, that it
should be so. The accuser and the accused, the
legal advisers. the Jury, and even the Judge him-
self, are all interested iii Itasiog their actions in their
public capacity made known. Without each a pub.
fatuity, the wicked woulJ escape deserved infamy,
and the innocent would often labour under mime•
sited disgrace and censure. Our Judges (and if
they are not wise Men, where are we to look for
wisdom ?) evince a desire tioet the proceedings
before then Meek, he published. with very
few exceptions. The conduct of Mr. Serjeant Lens,
when presiding in the Criminal Court at one late
Assizes. is a feceut instance of judical opinion on
the subject. His Lordship most lartiesarly di-
rected that the utmost possible accommodation
Mould be afforded to the Gentlemen attending to
take notes of the trial of the unappy criminal
Hassey. Such reports are net to be considered as
merely matters of amusement for the readers of
newspapers. They are of real utility ; they affotd
• guide to the uninformed its the law of the
they spew the practical application of that law, and
freqoautly correct errors. A reported decision may
often prevent a man from plunging into a suit that
alight lead to his utter ruin.
We were led I. mate these few obsermtieso by
the late trial for a libel. brought at the Kent As•
sizes by Mr. Lewis, an attorney of Canterbury,
against the proprietors of The Observer, iu which
the Plaintiff failed (vide our Gazelle of last Tues-
days. Ou the trial, proof was adduced that the
Deport (the ground of the action) was substantially
correct. We were happy to find a Kentish Jury
deciding that a correct report Of a trial is two libel,
however unpleasant the facts detailed io it may be
to citiver of the puincipals concerned. If the Jury
had come to any other decision, every unouccturtil
suitor in • Court of Justice might have brought
en
action against the Paper that dared to publish a
report of the trial, and theu all pulvic information
ea law matters GUM have ceased. We hove the
' veedico i i t..e cut of Lewis.. Clement will afford
to tone petride an useful lemon.

It is reserted that the opeuiug of the Congress
et Aix-10-Chapelle is deferred, and definitively
fixed fir the ntli of September next. It is con-
jectured that the Sovereigns who will assemble iu
that town will remain there two or three mouths.
Geueral ALIIRCHT, Ceminausler of the Lancers
of ►he Guard or the Emperor of RVIMIA. has ar.
rived es likomplioir, eta his say frees Warsaw to
Paris, sod the English Adsheral ?Lints fro.

It appears from Halifax Papers of recent date,
that the encroachments of the subjects of the
United States o► our Fisheries on the coast of La-
brador and Newfoundland, continue a subject of
complaint. Of the extent of these ►nc►oachment*,
an idea may be formed from a private letter, which
stales, that the number of A inerican vessels fitted out
for this illegal service amounts to not less than 800.
Of these intruder. IWVPII or eight have been captur-
ed by Captain lit SIPES' but so little cousciou• of
the impropriety of their conduct were their people,
that the Captain of one of them has remonstrated
against his detentio►, as if it were an act of oppres-
sion and inju,tice. It is necessary, however, to
add, that these appear to be the acts of private
individuals of the United States, and do not ap-
pear to be countenanced by their Government.

Extract of a letter from WILLIAM WHITS.
master of the brig Jason, of Wlsitehaveo. which sailed
from that port the 17th of May last, freightu•d by
Goveroment. will* lie settler, from Alston Moor.
for U pper Canada

•
•
" J APO (trif kainoaraecas, about 100 miles
beJew Quebec), June 2S, 111111.
1, We arrived, sU well, in the river St. Lawrence, ea the
58th hid. after a 'insane and egreeabk passage; since
which lichees been detained by ',minify elude."

Were the allowance to subalterns of militia paid
quarterly, as the half-pay is, it would be very ad.
vaistaiteoes to a deserving class of men.
A fire broke out at an early hour yesterday morn.
iug at No. 4, Potter Terrace, Mary-le-bone-fields,
the nursery of Mrs. Genesi. Two children of live
and seven years old were much burned, and their
lives see despaired of. Mary ALTER, the servant,
is also much hurt,

Wednesday afternoon. as same young men were
playieg at cricket on Kennington CaMII3OII, one
of them, of the name of A 'Akan ben A Runic:urn.
had the misfortune to have our of his eyes struck
out by the ball.

Twevday last, as Et.esaon AnnELY, of Bot-
cherby, a woman advanced in year 4, was riding
home from Carlisle in a cart, she fell frnw the cart
in consequence of the starting of the horse. and
was killed by a blew in the breast by the annual's
foot.

Yesterday morning, as a gentleman was going
along Highsstaset, Wlntechapel, he was surrounded
by • pogo( thieves, one of whom was observed to
pick his pockets; • bey who was selling fruit
cutitioued him to wind his pockets, as he knew
them to he pock-pockets, and they all ran sassy.—
The getttlerumr, on feelissg his pockets, discovered
that hr had been roldwd, but pursuit was all in
Shortly after one 01 the fellow.. returned to
the spot and gave the poor boy • dreadful byliting,
so as almost to render Imo insensible, and then
made his rseqw.
The man alluded to in oar Is4t, wbb coore.srd
that he was the muislerer of 31. N. SAND!, the
)111114; woman who wa‘ ft 41 its the 31rdaii) a short
hint' .nee, near T. Am. Iludge, liatv
been couitutt-
ted to M optatohe gaol, I.) the name f Morton: he
is 11 trade ti Cerpthter.—(K.olllol Guzaft.j