The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-29 00:00:00

MARGATE, OCT. 25.

The typhus fever has lately been raging here to
an alarming extent. From delicacy to the peculiar
situation of the inhabitants, I have been induced to
forego naming it; but in the vicinity of the church
(winch it the hottest part of the town), not less than
seven out of ten houses, and within u stone's throw,
all have been subject to its distressing effects. The
sharp cold winds of Thursday, Friday, and yester-
day, it is hoped, will continue; the approach of
winter, and proper diet, may remove the dreadful
evil. To Mr. Waddington, the surgeon, great praise
is due, for his constant and skilful exertions.

A cotnpany of Gentlemen talk of erec:in7.
Crescent on the New-road. to be corned after the
Regent; it is to face the Great Nut thern Sea ; au Y
some steps have already been taken, such as ntea•ttr.
Mg the ground, &c. Some such improvement
wanted, for we are lamentably deficient in good
houses.

The herring fishery has almost totally failed hi-
therto. The fishermen ascribe this to the want of
windy weather. " A boisterous sea," say they.
" always produces a wind-fall of one kind or at -
other."

The creditors of Drury-lane Theatre were h..
vited to meet yesterday, to receive a propositwo
from their Committee, for the payment of iii it
debts. It has been proposed by the Sub-Coo,
mittee of Management to pay los. in the pound,
and the Committee of the creditors was appionte,l
to take this proposition into consideration. The
latter, however, have not been able to come to an
unanimous decision on the subject, a mil ority con.
tendio.g that the Theatre should be held liable to
pay the remaining ►en shillinga when its finance+
should enable it to do so.

Mist' BOOTH'S benefit, on Thursday evening, was
a bumper. Her performance of Letitia /lardy was
chaste and judicious. She touched off the inno-
cence, the cunning, the artifice and melancholv of
the part, to the life; and in the masquerade scene.
moved with such a charming elasticity, as " though
she disdained the earth on which she trod." She
gave the celebrated song of " Where are you going.
my pretty Maid," in excellent style. On the lull
of the curtain she was greeted with three rounds of
applause. A ludicrous circumstance took place a
little before the termination of the evening's enter-
tainments: the gas-lights went suddenly out, and
instantly " darkness was visible" throughout the
house. This was owing to the valve, which con-
veys the gas to the theatre, being put down by the
people at the works, under a supposition that the
performances had beets concluded. Candles were
immediately placed in different parts of the house.
and the afterpiece wu then finished.—(CAate►
Paper. /

Madame ELIZA GAR/SERIN still remains con-
fined to her bed. at Aix-Is-Chapelle, in consequence
of the contusions she received in her late attempts
to ascend in her balloon. She has experienced an
accession of fever, notwithstangling all the asaisiance
which bus beets rendered her by the Physician of the
King of Pausal*. The Physician attended by
order of Ills Maailsxtr. One of the thing• which
affect Mademoiselle GARIERIN most is, that site
has as yet heard nothing of her balloon.

" Good Masters wake good Serneets."—This it;
very old, and, we think, a very true saying. A
striking instance is to be found in the following
facts, which we record with the highest satisfaction:
M . . CAD3t•N and DA&NTON, of Leeds, te-
bacco-manufacturers, had very recently its thew
employ eight servants, who had faithfully fulfilled
their respective trusts for an united peliod of 44/1
years.

CVRIOUS DECISION.-A person lately appeared
before the Magistrates at Ilrninster, Somersetshire.
to answer u charge for bastardy. Au older had
been made twenty-See years ago, and the bastard
man, not bring able to earn a livelihood, applied
to the !wish. The putative father contended, that
the child, having long since passed the age er
emancipation, he was not bound to pity; but the
officers stating that no time is limited by.l.w lii
the maintenance of bastards by their parent'. 't
was so decided by the Alagistrates. Tuns it
posmble for is man eighty years of age to he sun'
:
molted for the maintenance of his 111tAkitintateeu
spring, born silty years ego.

CELEBRATION OF TAE
CITY UP NORWICH ELECTION.

Oia Friday last shout 400 gentlemen dined ut the
Asrembly-ronma, Norwich, to celebrate the return
of William Smith and Richard llaithtiry Gurney,
Furs. as Members for that city. There were three
tables placed in the ball-room, and the same num-
ber iu the tea-room. At that in the centre of the
former Mr. Smith took the chair, at the right-hand
table Sir Thomas Bervor, and at the left William
Foster, El.; in the tea-roan. R. H. Gurney, Esq.
at the centre table, S. T. S.mthwell, Esq. and
Anthony nod, ~,,, F.-q. at the ..ther tau.
SAM after four o'clock the Menhirs entered the
rooms, when the entemeny all ruee and commenced
three minute of clapping hands. Before `five on ele-
gant 1111111 P, was served up. which was exceedingly
well conducted. Olt the cloth being.reinoved, No*
No6is Domine was sung, and during the evening
many glees said songs were delightfully sung by
the gentlemen present. The following toasts were
given, and drunk with enthusiasm :
" The Culminates of these realms, mid its Aral estate—
the King."
• "The Prince Regent, sad may he never forget the triumph
of those principles which seated his family ou the Throne."
" The Queen and Royal Family"
" Civil rind Religious Liberty—may they be the portion
.f all mankind"
"The Navy, end thanks fur its put exertions • and Mae
it ever be unmoral in the enlist of hastier and ats'Coantry."
" The Bishop of Harwieh."—Three limit' three.
Archdeacon BATHUINT returned thanks fur the
'honour done. ii. father by drinking his health.
"TIN High Sheriff."
P Sir T. Berme sad our Friends is the County."—Three
times three.
Sir TROMAII returned drank., and gave—
" Tim Members ter the Gin" which was drouk with
throe times three.

Mr. SJOTI rose, and after the ulna' acknowledg-
ments for the honour conferred on his colleague and
hinted', in electing them, and for the farther sigmal
sad gratifyiug mark of attachment given in the at-
tendance of a coMpany numerous mad respectable
beyond all example on arty former ►imilar occa-
sion, Mr. Smith proceeded to say, that he would
not consider their late victory as the mere triumph
of a party, distingoished by whatever mune. He
had had the heartfelt satisfaction of being re.
ceived in the City with continually increasing fa-
vour on three previous occasions; but this was the
first time for many years, that he had been able
to give assurances u to future political conduct
in the ilante of hod the Renresentatives; a eircom.
stance which. jobbed with the deetsivc mxjo►ity by
which it was produced, and by the similar feeling
which had burst froth in many popular election.,
and above ell in the three great divisions of the
metropolis, had wrought iu his mind the complete
consietiou that more just and liberal ideas on the
great and general principles of liberty, and the
requisites of good government, were spreading
throughout the cnnnt►y. On the mere appella.
Cons of Whig or Tory he laid little stress. He
had seen end known many moderate and upright
Tories, sincerely desirous of the good of their coun-
try ; and ni.ny Whigs, within the last twenty-five
years, who seemed almost to forget to what class of
politicians they belonged; but still he thought
there was an important difterence between the lead-
ing ideas of these two grand divisions. The motitn
that government was instituted for the benefit of
tl:e governed—not for riders, bat for the people
—was clear, intelligible, and fruitful of impor.
tant consequences; and, however cavilled at, by
maxim would he abide. It was no objection to
it. to say tiutt ►be governors were • pert of the
nation. and therefore ought to lee considered ;
while their interests coincided with those of the
whole community, they would necessarily be bene-
fited by the general prosperity ; but the difficulty
arose when their private interests became, as was too
often the Mt, opposed to those of the public; and
then, he scrupled not to say, they ought always to
tie .i..uk 'lr yield. It also was of great conse-
quence in Religion, Morals, anti Politics, that
men should have just principles; if then they
erred, it was comparative, easy to declare them by
appealing to the standard which they acknow-
ledged; whereas, if their very light war darkness,
• the hope of their amendment was email indeed.—
In the busineer of Reformation too, as applica-
ble to all, even the oast acknowledged abuses,
from whom was it to be expected ? surely not from li
those who could see nothing wrong; and he would
leave it to all mankind to determine, whether such
persons were most frequently to be found among
the professors of what is usually called Whiggism,
or in the ranks of their opponents. But some of
these opposers of all Reformation were actuated by
a horror of revolutionary principles. Such persons,
not generally over-accurate in their expre►sions, or
even ideas, he would request to consider what they
lucent by the phrase, and he apprehended they
risiaht at last discover, that under the terra re►olu-

Wintry. they were unwarily condemning revolution
prisiciples—such as true Englishmen gloried in—
such as had expelled a tyrannic dynasty. and placed
the reigning family on the throne of Britain. Mr.
S. went on at this time, anti in the course of the
evening, to discuss other topics of great political
interest.
" A speedy mid radical Refo►m in the Reuse of Com-
loons."
• " The Fad of Albennele.*--Three times three.
The Rev. Mr. ELVIN returned thanks. anti raid
the Noble Earl was only prever.ted from dining
with them by being a Peer of the Realm.
" The Committee who conducted the Eiection."—Thret
times three.
" Mr. Coke, and the independent Freeholders of the
County."—Three times three.
" Sir F Burdett "—Three limo three.
"Our sister, Ireland—may she be completely emancipated
from Civil and Religious Tyranny"
" The spiiit which produced the Revolution of IMlll—
it never erase toll every •hose of the Constitution, at
present, h► pot down."—Sonm "'Tie Freedom calls."
• " The Immortal Memory of C Fox."—(ln silence.)
" The Members of the Metropolis—and - - the Electric'

..1 may
,tf tontime, Westrefoster, and S..aihwark, be fur ever so is-
lloveroltatly'represenied "—Three times three.
" .11r. t: Anson, and success to his Medias at Turncats."
Three times three.
Mr. N. YAtattta, of Yarmouth, returned thanks
for Mr. A iron.
" The lath:pendent Electors of Norwich, resident at Var.
amnia) "
Mr. ilastmotrD, of Yarmouth, returned thanks.
" The Patriots of South America—.aod may they never

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ahem% the sword till their Isdepertilesee is secured "—Three
times thrre.
At right o'clock the Members changed rooms,
when they were greeted with the seine applause as
on their first arrival.
" The Trial by Jury—the thief barrier aqsinst the ea.
eroselowents of Despotism."—Three times three.
Sone—. Britannia is a noble Shin."
"Otte Alerriber, Mr. Gtwoey."--Three times three.
Mr. Goes ET returned thaoks, sod in the course
of his speech, declured he was for short Parliamenti,
amid was perfectly satisfied of the necessity there was
fur a Reform iu the House of Commons.
66 Mr. C. %two, and the Independent Yeomen of the
County."
Mr. ‘ITATSON returned thanks.
" Mr. P. Martiueau, sod our Loudon Frieuds."--Soom
" Liberty Hall."
"Short Parliaments, and honest Reprelientatives."
"The Indepeuilest Freemen of Nurnicb."—Three times
three.

"Arelideacou Bathers', mid the Independent Clergy of the
Coolity."—Three times three.
The Archtleawon returned thanks.
The Rev. G. Ghiver.".—Tliree times are*.
The Neil. Gositletousi nettirisrol tisusike.
a Mr. Miiminomi."—" Mr. Prott."
'4 The Lalterty of the Press."—Three times three.

. Soon after nine I.'cl,irk the Members uud many
or their friends retired; hut .pout fifty persoisis kept
up the highest conviviality till three o'clock 111 the
morning.