The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

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The taw price of cora appears a be • corm of very
getters! complaint among the farusePrin tiillitty
peels of the Continent;, we have noticed it in
French, Heruburgh, Dutch, German, end Spanish.
Pepsis; nor is the evil, us it is reputed, cow.
fined to thencricultoriers, for in its consenotviees
it materiaby affects the receipt of the revenue by
the respective Governments. It meet be a very
diseased state of society wherein the' bounty of
Providence can actually be felt as a source of in.
dividial distress; but such a supposition must arise
front an erroneous and confined habit of think-
ing. The first statement of the proposition
presents something so extravagantly preposte•
rous, that the mind can with difficulty admit it.
With plenty is necessarily associated the idea of
'sappiness or of prosperity, and that country hes
every reason to be thankful, in which the supply
raised from its own soil equals or exceeds the yams
of its inhabitants. The harvests all over Europe,
last year, were very productive, end the low
prices of corn now complained of are the result,
not of a diminished consumption, but of large
crops. The increase of produce causing low prices
in the articles of general consumption, must have
the effect of reducing the price of labour, and
thereby give such an impulse to domestic in-
dustry, profitably directed, as will still further in-
crease the demand for agricultural produce.—
Nothing could be more unwise in a Government
than to endeavour, for the gratification of a parti-
cular class of persons, or for the attainment of a
temporary adroitly, to check this natural pro-
gress of events. To increase the price of labour is
to impoverish the sources of national wealth, and
we very mach fear that no inconsiderable portion
of the distresses now experienced by the manufec-
tutiog and commercial classes of our people, and
from them incidentally by the agricultural body,
may be traced to the necessary operation of our
Corn Laws.

In our extracts from the flamburgh Papers will
be found a list, ►hewing the number of ships that
entered the port of Ilamborgh during the last
year, and the countries to which they respectively
belonged. It i► satisfactory for us to observe, that
of these ships a very large proportion was from
England, being nearly three times HS In n r w bed
arrived within the same space of time frotn guy
other country in the woifd.

A Fiend-eta Moil a`reited loot night. sills Papers.
to the 14th inseam. The fdllooknir erretttrMots ;

=vase" .telltarww It.
By a degree of his Majesty the Kink of Prussia, dated 3011 s
December last, rind which has been received at the post.
office in this City, all the Journals printed iu the Nether..
lends, without any Inception, are strictly prohibited in the
Prussian dominiosini, slid ere not to hr permitted even to pass.
through to other pet■ of the Gerrnsii empire. The pro.
amble of this decree states, among other reasons, that the
falsehoods and lies circulated by these Journals have led to
this measure.

We learn from Ghent that an attempt has lately been nods.
is Heat city to assassinate M. Rioust, Editor of the Joestesdi
La Vendivie ; he was attacked on returni•K home in the
firming by four men, mid received several wounds, one of
which is in the head be would inevitably hove lost his
Nfe hail not his cries drawn I persons to the spot.
M. itioust bas published an article, in which be attributes
this odious attempt to political animosity.

VIVINA, JANUARY 1.
Ii was nines Metternich who, its the genersa sutttug of
the Congress, made the Report on the competence of the
Diet, ind•ate the mode of executing the decisions of that
AtesensblY. This Report, which is very circumstantial, and
embraces all the qnestions already agitated at Frankfurt las,
summer, will be diseased at the oral general esettiwge;
The Committee for the fortresses of the Coofeeleratiou have
mot yet finished its baboon, and this will probably be the
last eubjset laid before the Cuteness.

We here receives...Palle Papers of Wettnestelay
lasi. 'Die Legislative Chambers did ant assemble
en Tuesday, isor has a day been of appointed
for their next meeting. The business of the coun.
try must is France ',elsewhere wait open the eau.
"sunnier of the Ministers, and neither M. Ducauts
nor M. DE SCRIM are able to appear as yet on the
Ministerial Bench. A project of law for the ems.
pity of individual liberty, resiensbling is principle
the British Act of MAN, Corpus, will be submit..
tell to the Chamber of Deputies in the next sitting.

e lately published a circular letter, addressed
by the French Minister of War to the Command•
ants of Divishuss and Corps, exhorting thens to
present the circulution of seditious writings among
their troops. We now learn. that the principal am.
tire to writing this admonitory letter, was the pebli-
tuition of • work addressed to the troops, entitled
N The Coreehini of die Brave," and actively distri-
buted throughout every regiment. inc object ofthe
publication was to impress upon the soldiers' salads
that foreign war was the only oilcans of public so.
curtly, and that they should not obey any officers
wbo did not belong to the old Sammy. The authors
and distributors of this work are unknown.
The Fire per Cents. art 7/ f. 40 c.: Bank Stock,
1,445 L

Two Dutch Mills have arrived, but the Paints
they briog conning uo intelligence of interest.