The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-01 00:00:00

nose THE 711111XCH FROIITIERI, JUNI et.

They write from Cambray, that several persons belong.
ing to the suite of the Duke of Wellington, have lonely ar.
rived from Paris, at the licad.quarte es. It is affirmed that
the Mike lately scut a courtier with important dispatches to
Madrid.

From the 15th May to the 15th June, about 400 Baited'
soldiers have returned le Faig'aitil, and out more than 100
have eons to replace threw los France. Fur some days past
• report has beam m etreselation that the smaller contingents
will begin their march homeward in the mouth of Septem-
ber, but it appears that tbs. report is premature.
Fur some time paot nothing further has keen heard re-
specting the prueetdings *gat•st 11ari►et and CootVoss, ac.
cusrll of having formed the plot agaitiot the life of the Duke
of Wellingtuo. lwar now that these two pi iliuners have
comfrosed eircuttiotaured which throw new light on this
complicated ;altar, aud it I. added that they will stun be
publicly brought to trial before the Court of Assisi...
HAARLEM, JUN( 24.

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A very long letter from a person on board one of Ilia Ma.
jesty'v sliipv which had a .hare so suppressing the in
tiun iu the Ohm& of Ua. ork.• analSapiti uses, cumin's various
particulars Sisal Mime published. From this letter it appears
that she iisilsves music a desperate leiflotilla*.
Wlsass we looked at the eueusy'a works," says the writer,
o we could not sufficieutly admire the lumina of their Cosi-
Istrucluoi. The walls were of sharp ems! stones, fium
twelve to fourteen feet 'lsis k, five feet hi'ls, supported
within and without with heavy Israillal. EVI s y where at in.
servals ut a musket...shut (raven/. were stink, to oadir to dr.
feud theisiselver when setreatimb stud Isi front the walla were
1.111/11:Vesi by pits, in which alias p-posiatil Miniboom wale
fixed, while the sgrssiiii4 raw as it were sawed with sharp
trim point., by which bevrial of ma people us os wounded.
Tlw %Alba Mel e impeliessable by a thirty.two-putiOder"
Tivr lealde•l-lightiSitf amts.. 1w have hero on she attack of
the aesU,urrot of Sean Sass v) and them *huh weir slius:gly
fortilitd. W.; bud our of the finest native acttl.inibta was

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lakes .by storm arid Karla, (wept the china?, split h is
hantbamirly "rnanseuted nut, Cilt w.thm and w :15. WI
Liratrunul Ittehrsiattwi, *ht. attacked Or. is with WO il•
was fort.P.l ly teller?, still Ilajor Mays, who 4-"161."8..i1",
was wi.t.ted lu Coll.. rt his whale furce, rod the est my%
works were /1D..... tl.
The rut my Posit rulleeteil all big forte in shormitur Ike
twreettli erirroirliortelit. Lientrion,t It t killed,
ibr 311rjor was wautatrol, awl obotir. d Ia Ite est rigid sits hoard
• Ails, mull Captain Viericist writ a'Atti list. The is milts
arleauced but were srililrisly viieimitir,seil me all sides by
11w enemy's fire; the J,ivauere Robb,/ begru to waver, and
it was ttee ..... ylo fire upon them to make them stand. Af.
ler • tb 'perste action, the hourrs w.veset Oil file', .111.1 the
robe Is, share Chit I's were then. its.. mlilr.l, all fietl.

A young tem of the mitrilerid Resolciii, Vun a.•y, who
when his parents wire killed received two wound% in Ins
head, but was found and .avetl by one of the natives, was
b ight by the natives. who ran.r to submit after the flizlit
of their Chiefs. The mangled remains of the Resident's la.
Hilly were found by chance iis an English trunk, jo,t under
the sand. and weir duly interred. The Sultan of
and the Kingiif Timer, assisted the Dutch with a Chet of
unwed Kerra Kurras.

••• Our Monthly Literary Catalogue is unavoidably post-

paned unfit to-morrow.

THE BRITT SH PRESS.

LON DON,

WEDNESDAY, JULY I, isle.

The proceedings at Covent Garden yesterday,
We are happy to say, presented no indication of any
disposition on the part of the people usseuilded in
front of the hustings to disturb the peace of the
city. The polling proceeded with the greatest re-
gularity, and in a manner that must prove emi-
nently gratifying to the independent supporters of
our free Constitution, as it justifies a confidence in
the ultimate triumph of Sir S. BOSIII.LT and Sir
F. BURDETT. The former of these Gentlemen
continues at the head of the poll, and the latter
was at the close yesterday 275 votes above
Sir M. MA XWXLI. The Electors of Westminster
should not, however, suffer themselves to be lulled
by this flattering appearance into a security that
might prove fatal to their dearest interests. They
have hitherto displayed an energy almost mira-
culous. They have baffled the intrigues, power,
and influence of the Government, even on the very
threshold of the Court, and it requires only the
perseverance of a few days longer to unintain their
city in the proud pre-eminence they have already
acquired for her—that of being the admiration and
example of every other part of the Empire.
As the close of the Election approaches, every
day teems with increasing interest, and as at such
• moment nothing is so valuable its time, the
Electors should hasten forward to the hustings, as
the only means of securing the triumph of their
liberties. They 'should hear iu mind the close of
the Election at Guililliatl, and with how mud,
difficulty the tardy zeal of his friends rescued
Mr. Alderman Tuonr from the peril to which
their own procrastination had reduced him. This
example, however, while it reproves delay, should
operate as a proud encouragement to the friends of
independence, for at the close of that momentous
contest, there still remained not fewer than two
hundred Liverymen of the City of Loudon,
who were anxious, had time permitted them, to
give their votes to the worthy Aldermee. Men of
independent principles, fraught with the most
lively sense of the importance which should helimg
to the exercise of the most serious duty reposed by
the Constitution in the people, are, we trust, not
wanting in Westminster ; but unfortunately there
are ton minty of them who, us indisidnale, consider
themselves devoid of weight, and imagining that
they are lost in the immense multitude that in !hit
city enjoy the decisive franchise, they decline the
exercise of their most valuable privilege. They
also want that energy, and the means of uctiog in a
body towards the attainment of a igforriii otiject,
which mint lielosig to those who are compelled to
commit themselves to the guidatice of the Tieasoey.
Such persons, however, should it flver, that it is
only by the expression of itidividual opii loos,
ascertained by the result of an Eli-diet), that the
general sense of the country can be collected, and
at ►uch a moment no man who desires his country's
good should colon!, r himself as unimportant or
devoid of weight. His political right is but by
courtesy entitled a privilege, and p0t0e,...s that ilia-
reefer only as it is solistreient to bin own discretion
in the mode of exerting it. But it is a sacred duty to
his country that the tight should not reunion dormant.
Is the pronunciation of mile or two 'UMW?. on the
hustings to ;peat a Sill mice of time, sod !armor,
and peasmial conveiiie.ice„ as to he' tot in opposition
to the loss of liberty, either by an iiicrease of the
royal prerogative tilt tine hood. or liy the intempe-
rate violence of the populace on she other Are
the blessings of a flee Constitution of so little value
as to be esteemed misorilly of rten the slightest
effort to preset ve them ? Is not every man aware
that, iu dechniog to exercise his ticei ire franchise,
lie dues not merely u.utrslize his ow u ruse, but
that lie theithy gives a proportionate weight to that
of rivet>, oh, r 111411 who may thu.k proper to em-
ploy it, fur the fulthetaiice of Ills 0411 priYee
litiurs, no matter how iejurious they may he to
the general same ? The right ails iitipuirt d by
our ancestors wills difficulty, and aas esteemed a
pound 5.*.1111 for those mighty t tl•rts that grace
the page of gL•►h history ; and is ow patriotism

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become so cold to ackaoseleitce no
with the chilli 11111i* 11r fr.:tibial, tool to suffer our
birth-right to Ire dr seaoileill from us, uninspired by
the memory of the past. and rinliffereot to teeny
thought of the rollout- ?
But in coming forward to a-slit id the return or
our Represeirtatives to Parlismesit, we should stn.
diously weigh the grouiiils upon %kelt we ore re-
solved to give our votes. There is one plain rul.;
which we shall venture to 14y dowil to Electors, out
Duty iu IVe,tiiiiiister, hut in every part of the
Ilion, so succinct, that it in .y be ever present to the
(Mod without burdening the memory, mid so easy
of application, that every 111011 will find it within
himself. Let no consideration induce any Elector
to give his vote In a 111011 wliii would not, when iii
Paohornet'', be hkelv to support the saute princi-
ples professed by the Elector himself. We are the
more desirous of pressing this principle at the pri.-
sent moment, as there are many Electors in West.
minster who, we fear, have merged
feelings in pity fur the innuelited suffi rings ES
Captain Sir MUittlAY MAXWELL. This gu/larit
Officer deserves the utmost cominiserilion, 511(1,
as we have already said, we are sure there is
no householder in IVestininster who would not
gladly become the instrument of bringing those
who insulted and attacked sin to the severest
punishment permitted by Inc. But we shoul.l
cerefully distinguish between pity fur him, mid the
surrender of our own rights. Let us suppose, fur
en instant, that Sir Nlyttittit was re-
turned to Parliament, and that to the 11 ,we of
Commons he supported the Munster, as we know
he must do, in every scheme against our liberties
arid our purses—how will those who permitted
their pity to triumph over their political
princi-
ples justify thetnirelves for giving him their votes,
when they find him voting for the Property Tax
ill the next Session—when they Imo %w-
-ing for the Suspension of the Wiit of I lai•eas
(Animus, or for any oth.:r
which it may pledir the to suggest
Long ere thin tiler arrives, the gallant Captain w:11.
he fully recovered from the etrerts of the late
out-
rage, the bandage will have heeii removed fruits
his eye, but the consequeoces indis-
cretions will nut he so easily obliterated. 'rise scar
that disfigures the Iminaii from will yield to the
skill of the surgeon—but what skill coo minister to
• the outraged and debilitated Cmislit town ~r the
country ? wounds inflicted there are us inde-
lible as they are disgraceful, and the Constitution
• itself tnust sick beneath suds outrages, rodents it de.
rives a new spirit of vitality at the periodical tlectieu
of its reputed protectors.

The riots that took place no Monday night af-
ford an opportunity to The Courier to indulge in
its usual invectives against the people of West-
minster and the supporters of the popular-Candi-
dates, but the " tumult and bloodshed" on
that unhappy occasion must be laid on the
heads of those who were really guil!y. The
partisans of the Treasury thought proper Oil
Monday eveoing to stew that they too were
not deficient in spirit ; and fur this purpose
they ',abided the streets of Westminster, aimed
with bludgeons. and at•cu utpa vied by a 1104 t. or-
namented with the orange colours of Sir MultilaY
MAXWELL. In their new-horn gallantry Cory
knocked down an unfortunate basket wausaa
Polaild-street, who ventured to expres-i her o
nion too freely, but were soon alter discomfited iii
the squabble with the populace, which they had
inasiilestly provoked. la this relicootie tioqie losoit
were broken, fur which Sir AILNARAY NlAxwr:LL's
party ought in fairoess to be 1141 account
though the conquerors neat attacked the
Captain's Coininittee-rOlt;11, tV(, will contend that
tlas was but a coritiouatmo ,i 1 tide foriat-r
and that the results of this affray must a'so he ad lit-
limed to the gang of rutfi pits who tir.t the
poruiare to violence. The sincere friends of tit:
popular Croithilites lament exerediugly, as they are
the first to ackttow•tedge, the impropriety of any
viole.,ce displayed by the pspulace against their
opponents; but it belongs to the foul-moutheil ad-
vocates of die Treasury to beep their false
tiers upon every individual who chances to diEr
with then) in opinion, .while they .coneeal the ag.
grrviiiiiiis of their o p.erty, or Clldealfolit to joys
tilt them, as if they ditLred in elierachrr from those
of their antagonists.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday
last. The King of SWEDEN lino commenced In:
reign with a proof of his pacific disinisitiui,;
no *miner was he seated nu the thrtnie than he itiailc
allvinicep towards reconciling all ditfeiencea that
misted between the Club; of Stockholm
and ()emit:ilk. The success of his exertions is not
stated, hat the measure is at least main sssss s of future
traiigiiillity.—The French Fite per CCnit. are,
73 I. yu c.; Bail Actions, 1,630 I.

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Cutslit .‘" Id SI -TER had au autlittice of the l'lttst..l:.
ittGENT
The late Laid Mkt VlLt.Eatatell'tame time -ince.
that ihr nunstruuslisi•ul bankrupts clearly 010-wrd
the flourishing state of the sot:wry. Accortli..;:
tO
that position the CO outry outt-t mar he in a r.ry
tlisttespril state, as ally oNN. bar ki opt it ait::uouc•d
un lo.t Ilight's Lastly.