The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, AUGUST 19.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester left Row-
design tut the 12th inst. for ken, from whence he will pro-
ceed to the baths of Ranges and those of Balmer's; Ilium
thence his Royal Richness will repair to Lyons, and snake
an ',reunion to Geneva. It is reported that shim Prince will
rt tura to Fiance towards the end of October, ea a visit to
our capital.
111Awntra, AUGUST 12
It apprises that the result of the disturbances at Gottingen
win, that 14 'lndents and 12 hussars were saw" or Ina
wounded; oar of the students (a Swiss) and use hamar have
dle•d of their noteside.

The Baton de Stria, it is said, bas hems lovind to pro_
(end, in the month of nevember, in Ain•la-Chspellr. There
are expected also She Heron de Humboldt, the Prsoloists Ms•
Disler at !mouton ; the Smog d'Anstetien, the Itiissiso Mi-
nister at Fraakturi ; sad 1111. d'Alopene, the R llama

LONDON.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 181$.

The a"cuuut of the mate of the giu Eve. health
yerterdar
" The Queen et/Minium Leiter"

A Flanders Mail arrived last night, with Papers
to the '23(1 instant. The following are extracts:—
LLIGC, AUGUST 7.
His r the Duke of Wellington arrived here the day
before )esteiday; he examined the works carrying on to
augment the fortifications of the t2itidal, and of the Char-
Wester, and repaired to Spa. Yesterday he returned to Leta.,
and continued his tour to Namur. His Grace was accent.
pained by very few atteutlants.
OR UM‘FLII, AUGUST 20
Yesterday there parsed through this city M. Jup. Renards,
as Ansdriau cornier, on his way from Wienaa to Loudon,
and Means. Chailet and Sey inset', belonging to the chancery
of Lord Castlereagh, hearing dispatches from his Lordship,
and color as coal irr from London to Aix-lA-Chapelle.
AUGUST 21.

The Rottlliern provinces of the kiiirdom of the Netherlands
deserve at this moment to fix the attention of those who love
to reflect on the most fortunate periods of our history. While
a formidable line of fortresses, of the first and second rank.
is erreltur, out our funnier* tl,ll/Rlllll France, from Nieuport to
11.toxen.bourg, a sec 44444 1 line is formilie on the banks of the
Meuse, and is to cover this river from [hosed to Muestrecht.
It is this line which the Hoke of iVellioxtost has just exa-
mined, accompanied by General Cent-r.:MT. They have suc•
cessively visited Liege, Huy, whose ancient castle Is to be
rebuilt on • new Ono, and the iinpuctunt fortress of Namur,
where the works are carrying on with extraordinary activity.
Hence tiny contiout..l their tour of inspection to Charleroi.

Vuhrirc, 6i Isis Age of 14114% .t 71.. mentions it as a re.
markable circiimstanec, flat during the long reign of that
Monarch, 200 fortriessrs were bush or repaired on the
6-omits's soil tin tbe coasts of France, uhich is certainly
much less astonishing than what is now erecting before our
rtes in our new kingdom. History will dedicate a page to re-
cal to posterity a perioil which may be considered as the most
remarkable b. tom. nuns Is. if the observer rrilects that at the
very ~,,, mesa ultra so many fortresses are rising, as if by
enchantment, new road*: are opeuiug in various direglioos
that others are projected; that Brussels is daily improving,
and will woo become one of the most beautiful cities
in Europe, as it is already one of the most agreeable;
lie will 'denim the resotiices •iiil the riches of an industri-
ous people, and will not he surprised But the French were
su bent ou retaining Belgium.

Yesterday was a holiday at the Bank, but the
Stock Exchange was open for business. The
IVliincy•changers litiow no holiday. The auri sacra
fames admits neillter respite nor relaxation.—We
understand that India Stock fell eight per cent.
If this statement be correct, it Mt:heater some ex-
traMilinary cause, of which, with the recent spleu-
dt,d mccomos 11.ain India before our eyes, we are
unable to form an idea, or offer any explanation.

The Cottou-spi suers of Manchester have appealed
to the ',tribe. Thei: Address will be found iii an.
other part of our Toper; and though we would. be

Ilse Ix►t to excite or foment th►ennteut or itu

g-e:isses. we are bound to
nation among our workir,
observe, and we ure confident our readers will agree
with up, that the journeymen appear to have a great
deal of right and justice on their aide. The ground,
on *lnch the operative si re rest their justifies-
iron air simple awe, in the first place,
that about two year* ago, their masters demanded
arid obtained a reduction of "rages I m account of the
low state of the markets, pronwing that they would

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willingly make an advance when the market. woad
admit; that the markets do now, and for u length
of. time, admit it, and, therefore, they cl&ci the ful.
filineut of the promise. If this statement he true;
sod true we snug take it to he, till regularly con-
tradicted by the employers, it is decisive of the jus-
tice of their demands ; a contract was entered tato
bets ern both parties, one of them performed the
tentditton" of them required, and now they desire
the other to do the saw.. Hot the workmen for-.
Orr declare, " That they cautoit, with the greatest
possible inditstry, obtaiu the common comfort• and
necessaries of lite at the present low prices ;" thit
instead of receiving, as is asserted, 30.. ur 40s. a
week, average wages, their average clear vo,.7es, ;n
1816, was about 25.. when they were reduced front
20 to 95 per cent, at which rate they have since
continued. This would make their late wages
average from 18st to 19s. 10d. ; and without taking
noon us to pronounce that sum to be inadequate to
the support as workman, it is easy to observe bow
much it falls below the alleged rate; it is scarcely
equal to one half of what the same class (Amen are
said to be now rattling in Glasgow, viz. from 11. 16a.
to 21. ss. a-week (subject tom small deduction), and
the " strike" at Manchester is far front being ado•
quate to account for so great a difference.
It is a matter of surprise. that nut one of our able
writers on the impolicy, &c. of the Poor Laws .nor
even the Committee of the Hon. House of Com.
mons themselves, have given out scale of the pro-
portion the wages of the labourer should have ta the
price of provisions. It must be acknowledgiii it
would be difficult to give a general, or correct mei-
age of provisions and labour; but solely att, so-
proximation might be made, that would servt,al;.
guide for the vestries of agricultural patialica; fur
want of this, all is conjecture whether a family be
sufficiently supplied with food, or half starved. Now
the harvest is over, the old evil again recurs, out-
withstanding the legislative enactment', asi ii the
unemployed labourers crowd the vestry for mask.
~ Bone's five-part antidote against them •sirs
of the poor (patience, labour, frugality, sobriety,
sod Million), tails for want of labour, and wt shunt
this till attempts are nugatory.

We lament to find, from the Papers receivesi
terdagoliat the typhus fever is on the ineitase in se•
Terri parts of Ireland. In Dubl►n there has been
an awful increase since March last. %Vitra ail in
the South, mid Sligo in the West, suffer se seitly
from its malignant spread.

The United States frigate Grierriere, from B a-
ton 'tor St. Petersbnrgh, with Mr. G. W.CAMI SW.
on hoard, as Minister to that Court, arrived on Sun-
day off Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Twenty-tire thousand men of the Army of Occu-
pation, it is said, will be reduced on its tett km Troia
France.

An Officer, lately belonging to the Son th Ame-
rican Insurgeot Army, is now in Plymoutl s, hewing
lately quitted that service in disgust. He desembes
the privations and dangers to be endured i , this VA.
vice of the severest and most appalling k 'tint; but
these are the natural attendants of a pen; 31t-'el for-
tune., who seek fur liberty in the first ime vises of
revolution. The most brutitird slave wu aid out
wear his chains for a day eould they be ex •I.ll.iiigtl
for liberty without an extraordinary exertioi t.
We have heard it rumoured, but how tidy a,
know not, that a Commissioner from the Uoi',.!
Stairs is to pvoceed to Ghent. where be will b lie'
by Mr. ItounisoN, President of our U t•i
Trade, for the purpose of negociating a corn nu-it.44i
treaty. The professed cause of meeting se. :w% i:

enough—the plaice alone is what fill* FS *it tai :wpm-
hension ; for surely there is sonialling otn panne is
the name of Ghent.—(Thrter.)
A new silver coinsge is preparing at tl MO,
designed by PISTRUCCI. The half-crown ha, the
George and Dragon on the reverse.
The Sarah and Elizabeth, CURRY ; Ipswich,
GARDEN ; Experiment, -- ; and ./..)/ruder,
ConeEn, have arrived in the River fro in Grcrie
land.

ull,
a bocci-"
330 Hr the
fish ; E under-mentionedbuArva eulari
oigdiiib
.roert Andrew
re
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3fi
sefihls
si:st
pdaz the
c:itzi t
—t. a
ogi fet,i
Arid, 5 fishi Alfred, 3 fish; Albion, 4 (1.1 b.: flrolbrrs.
u.
it 1;11,
Royal George, 6 fish ; Samuels, 3 fish ; Swan, 4 fish, Syll•
Wiry, 4 fish ; Three Brothers lost.
The Commissioners for building oidditiaml
churches, iu answer to an application from Oe
parish of Windsor, have stated that the ateinaii-g or
the Act of Parliament does not allow thet x to exirtal
any assistance towards the rebuilding of that parsli
church.
A pamphlet has been just published. rontaitiogl
the Correapundence between Count BEE .111 RD snd
Sir HUDSON LowE, at St. Helena, with note• coin-
inviting upon the conduct of the latter . It we!'"
from the notes, that Count BERTRAND plainly
in-
timated the repugnance that existed in t he mind of
NAPOLEON to permitting the visits of M .r. 113Artat
as an attendant physician. The Cour, d stated to
Mr. B. that it was probable such rept' ,gnatice oat
caused by Sir HUDSON LOwE'S rill siring troy
person who was received at Longwood to report ts
him every thing which he said, saw, or beard tlirle.
(which he had recently required evi to (HMI Nl'.
O'MEARA) ; that perhaps if lie (NI rr. !Wens)
would declare that if he wire culls(' it i at consults'
(ton at Longwood, he would give t eforehatid
liii
word of honour not to profit by its y as to convert
it iato means of espionage, it was probable II"
greatest obstacle would be removed It
that when Count BERTRAND, in the trtimig
spoke of this conversation to N POI. ION, the I.tar
found fault with him, and said, " that his repug-
nance was inviticible against this phrictait.
wua
had been Surgeon-Major of the ba ton or C"''',"
can deserters 111 the service of En gland, a "i"
corps Sir HuDsoN Lows had been 7Coasisoogkr•

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• rta •• '24
Tin Earl of Densove, from ►in home In Le*. Iludedep

/beet. on a tour. s -
Lord Dorsally, from his boom In Perk.lsset, lbe his seat,
Ltlhoy, Ireland. sr
The Earl of Leitrim', from his honor in Great OrMabevlant_
place,. for Wend in Ireland. ►
Sir J. W. Lubbock, Mari from his house in St:Jarnes's.
place, for his seat, High Elms, Kent.
The Marrhioness of Exeter, front her honor is Privy.
villein, fur her mg, Langley, Kern.
Julio Lowther, .q M.P. from his house in Grosvenor.
square, for his sirat is Yorkshire.
Earl Ludlow, from his Loess in New Borlington.stree_t,
fur bus mat in Itedfordshire.
Lord Macdonald, from his house iu Hiude-street, Man-
ebrarec-squnre, fur his seat is Scotland.
Covet Lofreshelm, Swedish Ambemador tos the Court of
France, sad Professor Berxelius, from Brunet's Hotel, Lei-
crorr.srmare, for Paris.
Old Foraurillians, from Milton, Northamptonshire, for his
seat, Weriterorth House, Yorkshire.