The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-05-05 00:00:00

RARA AV/S.

On Saturday last William Prince, the Gamekeeper of the
Earl of Mount Edgcrtmbe, shot, near his Lordship's man.
si ~,,, a curious bird, which. on investigation, proves to he
the Ihropne, and exactly resembles the one figural, iu T.I.
want,' ("flea oo ioo gs of Natnral History, except that It is rather
larger It is remarkable for a towering crest of long feallwrs
tipped with black, and but rarely occurs, though& 'Migratory
b:rd, in etas c..untry. It is common in most parts of the
continent of Etirone, and ocrainonally found in lilt East
Indies. particularly at 01 ton. Its usual size is that of •
blackbird.

At 61 recent Meeting of the Catholic Board in
r letter from the Ea►l of Domoucnmoitr
was read, in which lie advisee the Catholic Body
not to ',guilt kiting forward their question in Parlta-
ment, without u full and previous st.sturatire of the
attendance and htlioport of its friends. A Brnoln-
tim,. however, was ',mowed—
" That an ilegregate Malin, .1 M.! Catholics of Ireland
be convened in Dublin, on t►e 9th day of May next, for the
put pose of Cusillidering of the propriety of presenting a Peti-
tion to Parliament, on behalf of the Caii,,lies of Ireland."
But this Itesolution wits negatived, and Titanks
were voted to Lord Dunouunnkioah.

Tire Company's attic; Inglis end Marquis
Camden, arrived oil' the Start the hat instant.—
They railed from Macao the 47th December, and
St. lichens the 14th March.
Compatity's shops Waterloo and Winehe/sea,
sailed from ClllllB the 29110-Plovernber—ibe Cape
the let Mardi—and St. Helena the lath March.—
The Weirdo° separated from the Winchrlsea on the
19th Mardi, and arrived oil Falmouth the Ist inst.
TLe two 18.t.meniimied ships left at St. Helena
the Company's ships Carmarthen and thadort.—
The Coltipait's ships Bourbou and Charles Grant,
smiled from China the .2lst December last.
An excelent Sermon eras preached nn Sniidar,
at Hanwell, by the Bishop of CHESTER, for the
National School, lately established there. The
text was taken front the Bth Psalm, part of the
2.1 verse—" llnl of if,. mouth al eery babes end
sodding' has( Shun ()brained sires:gilt."
The new !Linking 13,11, it is supposed, will re-
ceive a few mmlifiesstions by next Session, but it
terms far tenni the Minister's intention to abandon it. The
principle of the Bali is grounded soll Pnblie Benefit, as it
tends to increase the wearily of Negotiable Notes; anal the
objection to lock up a Capital stray now he easily removed,
by the ft..)al Fxchurge Plan of HAZARD and Co, the Con-
tractors a ith Graves ta went, to distribine 107 Capitals through.
out the country, including TRIM of Twenty Thousand
Pounds, with the Scheme au arranged, that Twenty One
Thousand Pound Prizes will be drawn in the first twenty
t i ttt Iles on the KI`:G.II BIRTH DAT; Mid the Slxtli Drawn
Prize shove 1,090/. moist he either 22,0001. or 2.1,000/. or
40,n00t.!—.411 Sterling Money.

SALT DI7TIES.—Our Readers will probably be
gratified hr the following curious account of the
Debate in the !louse of Commons, on the renewal
of the Salt Duty in 1731. It iv extracted from
SMOLLETT'S Ilivtory of England, pd. ii. page 409.
" No motion, diming this Session, produced such a warm
contest, as did that of Sir Robert Walpole, when, after a
long preamble, he proposed !bat the OM SALT, which
shout two year. before had been abolished, should nos be
revived, and Emaid tat his Majesty, his heirs anal succes-
sors, for the term of three years. lis order to sweeten Ibis
proposal, he declared that the Land-tax for the ensuing year
should he reduced to one shilling in the pound. All the
Members of the country party were immediately in commo-
tion. They expressed their surprise at the grossness of
the imposition. They observed, that two years bad scarce
elapsed %ince the King, in a Speech from the Thruue, bad ex-
Imrted them to abolish some of the tsars that were the must
hnetheissome to the poor; the Rouse was then of op'
that Ike fax *pox Solt was the most burihenseme and the
most pernicious to the trade of the kingdom, all the imposi-
tions to which the poor were subjected, and therefore it was
taken off. But that no gaud reason could be produced fur
altering their opinion so soddenly, mad resolving to grind
the faces of the poor, in 'Haler to ease a few rich men of the
landed interest. They affirmed, that the must general taxes
are uot always the least boorthesisonte: that after a maims is
obliged to extend their taxes further than the luxuries of
their country, those taxes that can be raised with the least
charge to the public, are the most convenient anal easiest 10
the people; but they ought carefully to avoid taxing those
things which ars necessaro for the subsistenee of the poor.
The price of all stercsonrie. twill; thus Csibauceil, the wages
of the Iradeamau and manufacturer will he undersold Ivy
those of cheaper countriva. The trade insist of consegitence
lie ruined; soil it 111 out to be supposed diet the lantkd grit-
'lemma would choose to solve a shilling as. !hr pound from the
Land-tax, by means of an expedient MO woxid ruin the