The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-22 00:00:00

the earliest victim* selected by the Ministers,
alien it was footed necessary to conjure up a
plot They were committed on the eatli of
meknown individual, charging them ire
treitoes ; but with all the anxisety of the Govern-
ment to convict some persons of high treason,- this
charge against thee EVANs'a was too futile to be
made the ground of a formal trial. They are• now
rent back to society with feelings imbittered by
their cruel indignities, with bodies weakened ley loo;
privation, I injured in property by loeg aliseiece
their busiiiess. A mote distressing ease can
loudly be iinsgiiied, than a here an iiiseoreist mail is
unjustly accused,and yet debarred of the °ppm tunity
of proving his et ace; where oppaes•inn and igno-
miny are heaped upon his head, and yet deprived
of the means to punish his aggressors ; where lie is
insulted, and dares not retaliate ; is reduced to po-
verty, and refused compensation. Ileit how this
picture lerigleteue•d when 11;e sufferer lead leerie
once a fireman, and tastes the liitterness of she cop
more strongly by rsa-on of the contrast ? A Bill
of bedrolls's), well of course sanc•tilj• all Slide nsei-
sures, and screen the Ministers and their ii.triets
from any disagreeable coissequelices ; but if the
bard hips and crielties endured by bidet ielmils tin-
der their sanction were iouleficly kno‘vii :tad
pray felt, they deter the lereepht frwei com-
muting iu future to any 31inistets the power of
waotonly intl.cting so many evils.

The I'atNcE R►IGINT 14 expecteil to hold a
Privy ('outicil nu Saturday. to Mick for Sheriffs
for the lin...rot year.
The I.(IRD PRESIDENT will give the Sheriffs a
dinner to-morrow.

The Earl of LIVF:RPOOL will entertain a large
party of the Nero on 31ontlay, at lila reridleuce,

Lord CA.,TI.ERF.AGII wilt give a grand entertain-
meat on Mum! sy next, No a numerous pmy of
Members of Pas Insistent, at Isis house in St.
square.

Sir THOMAS PAUSIER, the new Master of the
Rolls, has taken possession of the Court-house, in
Chancery-lane, We understand, however, a lois-
trodesigaorliog has Liken place between his agents
and thos,, of Sir WM. GRANT, the Isle Msoer of
the It.bs, rilative to the fixtures in
It iiiiiwars that f ti:iie immemorial the Master
the 1:o11.1, ou rioniiie into office, Laid his vie-
',rut:v.or 51104 for the book-eases, ; Sir
(:RANT, Oli his uppoititilient, paid that sum, but
the agents of Sii THOMAS PLUMES remand paying
fur them, until they were valued by a broker.
This dispute being snack known to Nlittisters, the
Surveyor of the (210w11 WaS Ihrected to value them
fur (:u%t•ri strut, a . i the agents of Sir TiatuAs
P1.11:311:It ;1,,, it that lie has i:.:t u tig!it to pay any
thing for them, a, they have lierome the property
of the Crown, .rod that Ire is Vl•frilli to ti.e use of
them while lie fills the high j id:eial situation of
Master of the gulls,

The (obstinacy with which Ministers soll4lit, in
the case of Mr. IIuNE, to (Aaiun a coluietwn I.
the lice of two lorerdio4 acquittals, anal the iojto-
limos eons' quesoires which the ft tends of the Cotodi-
lotion Hpitriellellll would It'S11:1 to the Toial by Jury
from the coollio tang %crawls thus sought I,a, hate
called the poololic attention, in .1 pit:Oh:lr degree, to
that admirable and ittstittstioa, and
excited the cares and jealousy of the eointhy nt its
protection and defence. At the Nora tett City Sea.
si )))) s, held on Tuesday se'unight, Mr. Steov.trol
AILDLItioN, in the course of his Charge, took occa-
sion to pass is just enlogition on the iiiestimable ails
vantotgo s of the Tina by Jury, which, he said, was
almost couval with the nation was baiii2-
tiolird by the Great Charter handed down to us by
our Nlit routs : It was one of the gr.-iit.st pritilrtirs
of which we, as Englishmen, had to boast ; and
Mr. Justice IhActisrusor. hail reinutkrol, that while
the Trial by Jury was uphelol, the Constitution of
the country could never be subverted. Ile (loco
proceeded to obaerve, that whiltt lie indulged liis
privilege of speaking, he could hoot hello eel/mating
them, that the greatest dainger if the 1;tS111,1C11011
of tins mode of trial rested with thenisrlo es ; for
sl Id in-sauna in their situation lend ihrinselecs to
party in political questions, or to an arlsitrary
Gu-
er►uuieut, then would arise the danger—then would
the Government step in to the destruction of this
inestimable 'privilege. The Grand Jury, by thtir
Foreman (NV. FOSTF:R, Esq.) returned nooks to
the ',earned Steward for his truly constitutiond
and patriotic Charge, in the sentiments of which
they fully acquiesced.
The following was posted up at I.lOYD's on
Tuesday :
a The William Stoith,from Itiornos Ayres to Liman'', was
taken by a Spanish letter of marque, bound fruto Cadiz to
Lima, and tartlet, into Bahia."