The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIs. DECEMBER 16.
Yesterday the King heard mass in his apartments.
Ilia Majesty ori nine,' better, and breakfasted this
morning with his family. At one o'clock he re-
ceived the Ambassadors.

The :4 upprrsion of the office of Receivers-Gene►al
is talked of. It is said that the organization of the
National Guard is next year to undergo considera-
ble modifications. The number of thole who com-
pose it will he reduced, and only citizens in easy
circumstances will he culled to enter into the ser-
vice. Al cording to this arrangenictit there will be
only two battalions, instead of four, to every Le-
gion ; and the loots of service for the National
Guard will he reduced to two, the l'huilleries and
the Prefecture.

They write from Boulogne, the WI November,
that the herring lialirry hav totally failrd ; that fish
having dibappriortl from the coma.
We ate savored that the new Prnuisit Conatitu-
tiou will be •peedtly published.

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DECEMBER 17.
The King yesterday heard Muss in the Chapel
of the Palace. He afterwards received her Serene
Flightiest. the Duchess Dowager of Orleans. Ills
Majesty transacted businesa with the Duke de
Richelieu.
Thos Chamber of Peers will assemble on Sa-
turday next. to that Sitting the Commission
clanged with preparing the address to the King
will make their Report.
Active exertions ere making in the Ministry of
Finance relative to the execution of the 10►td
Ar-
t►cle of the Law of Finance of the lith May, 11118.
wh►ch enacts, that the definitive regulation of the
previous budgets shall in future be the object of
a particular law, to be proposed to the Chambers
lielore the presentation ul the annual Law of Ft.
natter.

General Count dr Lobsu, comprised in the is
court list of the Y4th of July, has arrived in Paris.

MNI. Renaud HIM Clltva- Ilier, vinare of the
Biblsotheque Histurique. were arrested ou Tuesday
last.

His Excellency Sahel) Coolant Muideem Vekil,
or Ambassador of his Highness the Nabob of
Itednure, accompanied by hi• Secretory, Meer
Saheb, his physician, Mr. Ramsay, and a nu-
'herons suite, departed un the 6th of this month
from the Lazaretto of Marseilles, provided with
letters of recut iiiii eatt!stion from the Viceroy of
Egypt. Ile was received at the gate of the
Lazaretto by Angelo lascsris, the Viceroy's
agent at Marseilles, who provided him with
lodgings at his liottse. On the Sunday following
his Excellency visited the botanical garden, where
lie recognised with pleasure several plants of his
Liaise country. He appeared ni the evening at the

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,

MONDAY, Duzusat 2!, 1818.

We have received Paris Papers of Wednesday
and Thursday. The Kula has so far recovered
from his recent attack of the gout, that his MAJESTY
was able on Wednesday last to attend the celebra-
tion of divine service, as usual, tu the Chapel of the
Palace. The Chamber of the Deputies has been
occupied during Tuesiiay and Wednesday in veri-
fying elections, and in choosing five candidates for
the Presidency of the Chamber, who are to be pre-
sented to the KING for his selection of one to 611
that high office. The five Members chosen are, iii
the order of their election, MM. RAYEZ, Da
SEISE, the Count D'Auutea, the Count Du-
Force, and M. PLANELLI DE LAVALETTE. The
Address of the Peers to the KING, in reply to his
MASISTY's Speech, will be presented on Satur-
day to the Chamber by the Committee who have
been appointed to prepare it. The nomination of
• Committee by the Deputies for a similar purpose
has been hitherto postponed, in consequence of the
length of time occupied by the preliminary busi-
ness of the Chamber. The nomination of the Com-
mittee will be made ias the Bureaux, and it is
thought that on Friday the Chamber will be en-
abled to take the Address into its consideration. On
that occasion the contending parties will probably
make a display of their relative strength.
The Ultra-Royalists, those monopolizers of loy-
alty and purity, affect, in the political Iticubratimis
they transmit to their Journals in this country, to
entertain elevated hopes of again wielding the rod
of authority. The" fancy that in the Kt ma's mark-
ed reprobation of the violent revolutionary principles
that overthrew the throne, and are supposed still
to endanger its security. an intention is implied
on the part of his MAJESTY of taking their faction
@gain into favour; but they strangely forget that the
KING'S Speech is the production of his Ministers,
and consequently that the selitiments expressed in
it canuot be attributed individually to the Monarch.

The intelligence from Span► communicated by
thaw Papers, although containing nothing to con-
firm the rumours lately circulated in the City re-
specting a violent political commotion in Ni 101641,
is yet extremely interesting. It appears that large
bodies of armed men traverse some of tlw pro-
vinces, denying the KING's authority, acid levy-

jog rations on Iris subjects. These men are re-
presented a rubbers, hut they . are more formi-
dable, from the circuinstance of their having been
soldiers, driven from their colours by the dread of
being compelled to engage iii the forloru hope of
an America.. expedition. How contemptibly im-
becile the Goveriiment must be which finds itself
' unable, though po•>cs+ed of a considerable military
force within the kingdom, to prevent such excesses.
It requires no great extent of political fol. sight to
pronounce that it must already totter on the brink
' of ruin. These bands of military refugees, although
they may for the present moment content theinst lees
with extorting the means of existence from the
weakness of individuals, yet as they form • nucleus
to which every enterprising or desperate character
in the country will readily attach himself, they will
soon cease, as their ►trength increases, to regard
themselves as petty plunderers. Conscious of the
imbecility of the Government, they will lend them.
selves to any design against the State, in which
they will at the same time perceive the means
of gratifying their revenge, their avarice, their
patriotism, and their ambition. The force long
destined fur South America will probably be
soon employed in a domestic warfare, lint less
destructive than that for which it was ori-
ginally equipped. The gloomy horrors of •
civil war cannot he contemplated without pain
and sorrow, but should it succeed in terminat-
ing the present system of government in Spain,
and in utterly destroying the Inquisition, humanity
will eventually have cause to rejoice in the struggle.
The French Five per Cents. closed on Wednes-
day at 63 1. and Batik Stock •t 1,500 f.

The Drake. 16, Captain SHIFFNER, arrived at
Portsmouth oil Saturday afternoon, from St. John's,
Newfoundland : left the Island on the 26th tilt.—
No news. The Si► &mei, Drake, Captain Bow-
KEA (bearing the flag of Sir CHARLES HAMILTON,
Bari.) was stripping :—the Tamar, Hon. Captain
J. GORDON ; and Carnation, Lieut. GLAMICOCII,
acting, were also to winter there. Captain ToßEit,
late of the Tamar, came home in the Drake.

On Thursday the Redwing, I 8, Capt. HUNN, sail-
ed with Mails for St. Helena, the Cape, the Mauri-
tius, Trincomalee, and Bengal. Dr. and Mrs.
WOOLNOUGH, for the Naval Hospital et the Cape of
Good Hope, went out passengers by her. Neither
Mr. ARBUTHNOT nor Mr. ELLIS are gone out.

The greatest activity is exercised by the selfish
patrons of the Agricultural Petition, for raising the
price of bread, to carry that mischievous measure.
To the several counties and districts in which it has
obtained a numerous list of subscribers among
some mercenary farmers, land occupiers, and other
persons interested in its success, we have to add
Anglesey and Pembrokeshire. To this host we
are happy in being able to oppose the senti-
ments and opinions of the Bath and West of
England Society, as expressed at their late Meet-
ing, a report of which is given in our preceding
columns.

Madrid Gazettes have arrived to the 30th of
November. They contain a &match of the
September from the Viceroy of MEXICO, with an
enclosure from General BALSANO Y LINA, dated
the 24th August. The bitter stater, that he had
brliteti and pat to flight a body of rebels at Pico,
near Puebla, with the him. of 113 killed. By thus
defeat the communication had been again opened
between the capital and Vera Crux.
A Treasury Journal contradicts the reports in
circulation of the Intended retirement of Lord
MELVILLE from the Admiralty, and the removal
of Sir H. LOWE from the government of St.
Helena,

On Friday arrived at Portsmouth, the Pheasant,
IS, Captain KELLY. from Plymouth, to be ern.
played on that btatlllll, in the room of the Rosario,
about to be paid off and re-commissioned.

The Reed utionaire. for the East ludiev, is order-
ed from Plymouth to Portstuouth.
Remain at Spitliead—Salisbury, Leven, Sap-
phire, Pheasant, Rosario, Drake, Shamrock, end
Harrier.

Rear-Admiral DONALD CAMPBELL would have
sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday, in the Salis-
bury, for the Leeward Islands, had not the wind
changed after he had embarked.

The Stock market was on Saturday subject to
considerable fluctuation, without any very obvious
cause. Consols opened in the morning at and
soon rose to 79 ; front this price the fall was equal-
ly rapid to 781 to I, and at the latter price the
market closed. The scarcity of money, which has
been so severely felt at the Stock Exchange, ap-
pears to have again sohsided, and coe.' is become
tolerably abtinstio! The late want of snooty has
reduced the ',tritium sin Exchequer bilk, which,
from having beta :Wt. now vanes between 7e.
and 15s.

In consequence of the intervention of the Allied
Soverietgois at Aix-la-Chapelle, the Family of Ho-
NAPARTE at Rome have been invited to choose and
nominate a Phyttician to attend on the Ex-EM-
PEROR lo SI, Helena, and accordingly they have tip-
pointed Al. de IIEAUREG ADD, the able medical man
who attended on BON APARTE in the hie of
and who returned with loin to Paris, where he rr-
trimmed at the particulor request of N A POI.F.ON, LOA
with nitwit:linos to follow him to North America,
as boon as it should be known where he took up lint
atuttle. M. de BEAVREGA RD is to 1,0 nit 11111111C-
iliarly, and we have nu doubt but that it it 0 part (if
the arrangement, effected by representation, made
at Coligress. Ihut this Getitlemaii will nut find Sir
HUDSON Lowy, the Gore, nor Ott orriv,al.—(Soo-
day Poprt..i

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PORTRY.

A DANDY OF A.D. 1611.

Extracted from " Rom Mien," or " Hem, Tr; hr, a Play,
written by Lonowscat BARRY, 111 1611.

Wr[. SNALf.,IIINR9.

loo'l widuw,

Marry me, a yonug and complete gallant.

TAYFATA.—How ! a complete gallant ? What ! a fellow
With a bat incited up behind, and what we use •
About our hips to keep our coats from dahhling
He wean about his neck a farthingale (1);
A standing collar to keep his thin neck miffs
The whilst his shirt doll, stink, and is more foul
Than au Nu of ammo", tabie.cloth.
His breeches most 1w plaited, as if lw had
Some thirty pockets (3), when one poor hatfiwnny purge
Will carry all Isis treasure; his Lutes all pima,
As it his legs and hams we►e tied topethe► (4).
A fellow that has Ile inside (Cs), but prates
Hy role, so players and preens used lar .11n,
And, to define a complete gallant right—
A mercer funned him, a tailor makes him,
A player givca him spirit.

(I) Stays.
(2) A thins resemblin: n lady's hoop in siar
;3) Cossacks plaited un the top.
(4) False rumps or calves.
(b) A man of uu uuderstaudin:.