The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS. FRB. 15.

Ilia Royal flightless the Duke of AUgoulease re-
ceiied yesterday evening a visit from the Duke of
IVellington.
Since the event of the 10th inst. the Duke of
Wellington has received daily visits from the kitag's
Ministers, the Ambassadors, and the most distill-
guiAlied personages in the capital. Ilia Lordship
took his usual ride on horseback, uccuinpanied by
one of his Aide►-de.Cantp.

The debates on the cause between the Duke of
Orleuns and M. Joliet) are suspended until the 7th
of next March, without doubt to give the King's
Advocate time to prepare his opinion.
lesteralay M. floulleuger brought an action
against Al. Joseph Bonaparte, to recover very im-
portant claim., in the name of M. Mottet, mer-
chant of Madrid, who complui.,‘ of an act of dis-
possessing effected through violence anti force of
arms, by Joseph Bonaparte, when the latter occu-
pied the capital or Spain. The Sirur Nlottet ob-
tained, put elefonl. in Nov. Is iti, a juiluittent by
which lie recovered two hundred and some thou-
sand francs, fur indemnities mid interest, lle caused

his personal property, the Castle of n.trootaitir, to '
be seized, and the seizure was dechired lawful, in
opposition to the claim. of the Sirur Choy, who
pretended to have bought the property, as a part
of his real Hod perilous.' estate. M. Joseph Bona-
parte has protested against this judgment by de-
fault. lie has engaged for Advocate M. Tripier,
who will reply on Friday next to the pleading of
M. Boullanger.
The Gazette de Madrid confirms the intelligence
received from Genoa relative to the conduct of the
Etey of Algiers towards the foreign Consuls. This
confirMation has beets derived from Mahon, whither
the rival chief Mahomet had retired, on his extraor-
dinary liberation by the Dey. It is repeated, that
the daughter of the 'Consul, or of the banker of
England, whose beauty had excited Aly's brutal
passions, had been carried to the seraglio, together
with • young Frenchwoman, whose father was
keeper of the principal hotel in Algiers, and that
all the persons attached to the English Coassalate
had been thrown into prison. Such, according to
the Madrid Gazette, was the state of affsirs in that
Regency on the departure of Mahomet awl of a
crowd of foreign merchants, who likewise fled from
Algiers during the first fortnight of December.
Mademoiselle Gartserin, on the 6th of this month,
at five o'clock in the evening, made an ascent at
Boureleaux : when arrived at u very great elevation,
she suddenly separated front her halls:ion, awl de-
scended without accident by the aid of a parachute.
At half past seven she appeared at the spectacle,
where site-received the applausea of the public.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING OF FLO. 14.

The Sitting commenced at one o'clock. The
Order of the Day was read and adopted.
A Petition was presented from M. Saleles, mer-
chant, in the Isle of Bourbon, who protested aguiost
the violation of his property by the agents of the
English Government. The Petitioner tilted
out a galliot privateer called the Lottery. On the
6th of April, 1810, the Lottery captured, Oil the
coast of Sumatra, an American brig, culled the
Wekorne Return, and the capture was regularly
proved, conformably to the Ordinance of the 17th
December, 1807, relating to neutral vessels. The
17th of the seine month, and the 13111 of May fol-
lowing, she captured two English brigs, called the
Buchanan and the Favourite. These three prizes
were carried into the port of St. Paul long before the
sur►ender of the Island. The Commissioners of the
Navy took the necessary steps for protecting the
Petitioner's property, and the requisite documents
were sent to the Prize Court in the Isle of France.

On the 9th of July, 1810, the island capitu-
lated, and the last article of the Treaty ordained :
" That the laws, curtains, and religion of the in-
habitants, and all private property whatever, should
he respected and secured." J. A. Sitlrks confiding
in the faith of this Treaty, left in his magazines
piastres and all kinds of merchandise ariAilig from
these three captures. Some days alter, Messrs.
Reed and Stones, nominated prize-agents, placed
their seals on the doors of the magazines. He
reloonstrated in vain with the English authorities.
At length the Treaty of the• 20th of November
was concluded. This Treaty established a Com-
mission to liquidate claims and indemnities ac-
knowledged in favour of the subjects of the two
Governments ; but this Commi►sion, although
formed, cud on whose registers the object of his
'notelet claim was duly inscribed, had nut yet
commenced their operations respecting the claims
of the French subjects on the English Govern-
ment.

The Chamber referred the Petition to the Ali-
nister of Foreign Alßing.
Son►c French proprietors, purchasers of national
property in Spain, claimed the enforcement of the
first additional article of the Treaty of the 30th of
Jnly, 1814, between France and Split', vetoing to
the restitution of the property possessed by French-
men in Spain, and which had been sequestered.—
The delay whit!' had arisen gave reason to suppose
that his Catholic Majesty, returning to the first sti-
pulations, wished to recede himself from the per-
formance of a contract which had become one of
the bases of modern policy, a contract that Sove-
reigns have religiously observed, that the Pope has
sanctioned in his territories. au4l which lately has
been confirmed by the Diet of Germany, that pro-
tected the purchasers of foreign national property,
who were subjects of the Prince of Hesse Cassel.
This Petition also was referred to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.

The Minister of Finance was introduced ; lie woo
accompanied by M. Saint-Cricq, Director-General
of the Ciii•toms. I lis Excellency ascended the tri-
bune, and announced, in a Laid' recital, that be was
ordered to present to the Chamber • Project of a
law relative to the Customs.

After hearing the details, the King's Commis-
►ioners prepared to rend the project of the law. The
Chamber, however, diipen•ed with it, nu the oh•er-
vations of several Members, that it would he more
easily understood when it was printed and
distri-
buted.—Adjourned.

VIENNA. 'En. 3.

News has at length been received ut the Court of
the safe arrival atlin Janeiro of the Princes. Leo-
poldine. spouse to the Prince Royal of Brazil. The
Clievalier Guitieirn, who left Rio Janeiro the 15th

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of Novenilier, lias arrived invrt.iog ..61h dis-
patches confirming this agree:o)lp mut s.

rvii. 3.

Our Ga:cite of to-day ;moo ttttt Ts, that alter se-
veral combats, our troops have gained the what,-
tinge in Mexico. A great numlier of individuals.
who had taken part with the Insurgead,., have re-
quested to avail themselves of the amnesty publish-
ed by the Viceroy. This number include.' a gear
many Chiefs, and nearly 12,000 ut Ist' s, wil;c11 has
reinstated the Royal authority over a cotoiderable
extent of territory. These happy results were oh-
tained ptevious to the capture of Mimi, and we ti,.
not &Mitt but the latter event will soon restore tran-
quillity to the entire kingdom of Mexico.
Preparations are snaking ut Cadiz to receive the
Russians. The Government has ()Meted the Alu-
nicipaltty of that city to give a magnificent wet'.
lion.

nASI.E, TFII. 5.
Yeiterday, in the Sitting of the Grand Council
of the Canton, the Swedish Colonel Giistavu4
.Irlolplius Gustayson, former King of Sortie'', wa•
solemnly and unanimously admitted u Citizen of
the Town of Basle. When introduced into the
Hall, and apprised of his adinis,inti, he said, " Born
and reared in the bosom of a free and independent
nation, i know how to appreciate. •nort Hnnourksh;,•
iiiirgninAster and Gentlemen of the Grunt'
the proof of confidence you now gi►e int ill t?..e
granting me the right or citizenship among. yutz."

ON-R. lIHNDRED CAPITAIS:TIIR EX. PIZIZ CS
THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS—TWELVE S
OF PORT.—LorrEta IntAws WLDNLSDAY,
MARCH.

THE BRITI S I L PRES S.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEARCAItir $9, 18:8.

We have received the Parix Papers of Sunda•
last. They state that the Duke of IVELLSXGTOX
had paid a visit on the preceding day to hi• Royal
Highness the Duke of ANGOUIAME, lint give no
further elucidation of the ittempt upon his life.
A Treasury Journal of last night sat-, it dws
not exactly wolerstand the utility of this int s-
trrinna silence, thus insinuating that the Pars
Palters know the particulars, but
pre*. them. For nor part we judge more charita-
bly, and are disposed to attribute the silence
tile Paris ['opera to their ignorance on the sui j ct.
It is possible, too, that the shot fired may have hero
the act of a solitary assassin, and not the result .t•
a conspiracy, so that there would be no actual con-
spiracy to discover. The silence of the Pars
Papers, in that case, would, therefore, lw not
free from mystery, but perfectly natural and In-
cest:try—
The Spanish fleet they cainnt see,
Because it is not in sight.

The proceedings against the sham Datipliio.
at Rouen, still continue. In the Sitting of the
14th February, seveial witnesses were examined,
among those was the sister of Matlinrio Ilrunt
but she was nut positive that the prisoner was her
brother. A witness, named Anne Rosalie Salon).
whom the reporter represents as of the school of
Madame KRUDENER, of d lunch mystery, mot
stating that after much inquiry she had given liiin a
gold watch and ring, she comlutled by declaring
that her ideas on the matter blinuld die in her (Iwo
bosom. The Pretender (tenni to have imposed
very extensively on the credulity of his visitors, and
had obtained from them runes of money.
In the Chamber of Deputies a Petition was pr.:-
seated from a person of the name of Sat.r.r.ra, a
merchant at the Island of Bourbon, complaining
of some injustice which he received from the Eag-
lish there, after its capitulation, and prav mug for
compensation under the Treaty of the :2(lth Notein-
her, 1815. The Petition was ordered to be refer-
red to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Director-General of Customs, M. de Si.
submitted the projet of a law, relatiti;;
the levying of those dishes; and which was inite:ad
to be taken into consideration on Thursday.
The Madrid Curette contains an article, datt sl
from Port Mahon, island of s 1 t of C 3, whit!,, if IL
be authentic, confirms the intelligence from Genoa,
respecting the conduct of the Dry of A totEits.
to the foreign Consuls. The news was comeyeil
to Minorca by various t.,?sstla fimn Algiers, sell Ilia
passengers of winch concurred in the statement-
already given. It is added, in one of the Fmnsi,
Papers, that an official account of tluse outrage-
had been dispatched to the Count dr Ptosst, the
Sa•dinian Minister at the Court of Austria.

The 5 per Cents. were, on Saturday, G 6 F. is c. ;
Bank Actions, 1,.558

The State of the Viisnos in the City of London
was brought last night under the cousidelation of
the House of Conpnotis, uml, on the motion of
Mr. Alderman %Vont), the late Lord MHvor, a
Select Committee was uppointril, to inspect and
report upon it to the !louse. The object of the
Woithy Aldermom was to exculpate the Magistrates
of the City of London front charges of inattrn-
liou from time to time, have been brought

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ngsii.st them ; but he at the same time acknow-
ledged, that many ports of the present system re-
quired alteration. We can easily account for the
facility with which the Magi.trates may flatter
themselves that they have done their duty towards
themselves and the most unhappy of their fellow-
creatures, if they merely maintain the system they
hove received from their predecessors; MA can con.
ceive how greatly the complacency of ibeir self.
approval might be startled, en being censured for
not tutting- inquired into its errors and abuses.--
Prisons have, unfortunately, little to induce even
curiosity to remove the veil of seclusion and mys-
tery is which they have been too twig enveloped,
and charity has been seldom found sufficiently ac-
tive to explore the recesses of guilt and misery.
Hence have their unhappy inmates been permitted
to languish unpitied and unprotected, because of
the very uniformity of their sufferiugs. Mr. Ben-
:titre's exertions for the correcting the almost in-
veterate evils of Prisons, are beyond all praise,
and his opinions respecting the cameo and the
means of their removal are so decisive as to
defy the possibility of refutation. The great evil
seems to be the want of clessificatiou, end we
think, that, if this were pursued with attentiou, we
should not in future hear the distresaing complaint
now so frequently urged of want of room in our
Prisons. There is nothing more notorious than that
crimes are generated and fostered iu Prisons, and
that the punishment which was originally intended
to amend and correct, has the mull of debauch.
the mind, ■nd rendering the heart cottons to
every virtuous or social impression.

Having our thoughts thus turned to s subject of
oo much importance to the general Police of the
country, we think it our duty to notice, for the
consideration of those to whom the subject pro-
perly appertains, a circumstance that &Mends in-

stint correction. We allude to the total waut. iu
this metropolis, mod, we believe, we might have
added in the whole kingdom. of ■ny institution
for receiving destitute females, who may not
as yet have fallen victim' to vice. or bare not
been convicted of crime. This defect in our Po.*
lice was strongly eaeinplified by a case which not
long since occurred at Marlborough-street Police
Office:—Mr. RICHARD TAxDY, a man of re-
spectability, complained that his niece, whom
he had supported horn motives of charity, had
robbed him of a considerable snm of money
(twelve hundred pounds), and had been sub-
sequently found concealed in the apartment of a
female of bad character. Ts save the child from
ruin, he entreated the Magistrate that she might
be placed iu some charitable institution ; but the
Magistrate informed him, that there was none
where she could be admitted unless previously con-
v:cted of some offence. Her uncle. in conse-
quence, declared that, however di►tressing it might
br to h►s own feelings, he should proceed against
her, fur the sole purpose of giving the child the title
of a conviction to claim protection. We cannot
but think the alternative thus proposed very re-
volting, and most suggest the advantage of either
eatablishing • house of correction for the salvation
of unprotected female children, in cases similar to
that we have noticed, or of altering the rules of ad-
!Marino in sonic or all of those female peniten-
tiary houses now existing in several parts of the
kingdom.
Viscount Mti.vit.t.x ■nd the Hanoverian Minis-
ter had audiences of the Panics Mom yester-
day, at Carlton House.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
Last India House, when the following Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective Ships.
viz. :—Caj!taits DAt.tressimr, to the Ca&lra. and
Captain TEMPLAIR, to the PeTICCMINCes both for
China direct.
Several clerks were dismissed from the Mee-
surer's Office, Plymouth-Dock-yard, on Mo►►dcy
last, and this is only introductory to a further re-
duction.
Accounts from Antigua of the 2d ult. state, that
in consequence of recent indications of revolt
among the Negroes, the military force of the island
was held in riquivition to assemble ut the shortest
possible notice. A. very revere shock of an earth-
quake bad been felt at St. John's, which lasted
several ►econds, during which the ►ibratious of the
earth were of the most alar ttt i t )1; description. It
ass reported when these advice, came away. that
ronsiderable injury had in consequence hero sus-
tained in Bowe parts of the island.

By the Morley, bound to Rotterdam from Ba-
tavia, letters have been received from that settle-
ment slows' to the middle Of October, at which
time the Island enjoyed perfect tranquillity. For
liii% state of things it is indebted to the good
sense of the new Governor, in adopting the
spirit of liberal policy which distinguished his pre-
riectsumr, Sir THOMAS S74MPOILD RAFFLES, who
haaal so greatly endeared himself to the natives, and
‘..imr.e removal hail excited so much regret and die-
appoisitusent. By *initiating his example, the Dutch
still not only consult the isapplimiSs of the Island,
but their own interest. Anion the conciliatory
measures adopted by the llCW•Gnverisor, are mime
commercial arrangements of a liberal nature, and the
siwouragetnent or foreign merchants and settlers.
hy a inure than ordinary attention 16 their safety and
aselfate. Colonial prodice' had greatly tiseti
Mire—coffee is quoted at 13 SIMIIII,II dollars per
lactil, and sugar at nine. The cultism of both, but
particularly of the latter article, which is entirely
free, had greatly increased in consequence of the
favourable markets. '!Khali-building appears to be
carried on with . '!Khali-building
within the last four
months several large mud hindsome ships had been
launched, constructed throughout of the fittest
teak, twitter, and most of them under the suurriii-
-1,1,41.,.1 of itittsts.

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