The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-02 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

Paris Papers of Friday hat have arrived at our
Office. A letter from Rome atatep, that her Ma-
jesty the Queen of ENGLAND left Rome on the
9th of April, with her suite, in seven carriage,.
Her MAJESTY proceeded to Pesaro, and thence
to Milan, on her way to London, where her NIA-
sErrY then hoped to arrive on the Ist of M4y.
We had. by a paragraph in the Carafe de Fraxee,
that her MAJESTY has reached Lyons,and that it was
her intention to pursue her route through Brussels.
The accounts from Spain represent Madrid as
continuing in a *tate of gloomy tranquillity. At
Valladolid some quarrels have occurred among the
The French Funds are, S per Cents. 73 f. 75 c.;
Batik Actions 1,491 f. 50 c.

We have received New York Papers from the
Wilt to the !Yds of March. Cougress was not ex-
pected to rise before the Ist May. These Papers
contain sio news from South America. The follow.
ing are extracts :--
NEW YORK, MARCH 48.

The death of Commodore Decatur ham thrown a
gloom over due city. Commodore Bainbridge acted
as friend to Commodore Decatur, and Capt. Elliot
to Captain Barron. The duel was fought near
Bladensburg. Capt. Barron is badly but not den.
gerously wounded. Of all the particulars relating to
this melancholy affair we have not been informed ;
tb• distance is stated it 8 paces, and that both were
wounded at the first fire. As to the certainty of the
origin of this dispute we are not fully acquainted :
it is said that Commodore Barron bad demanded to
be restored to his rook and emoluments; it appeared
however that some representation had been made to
the Department relative to hia absence from this
country during the war, or in other words that his
absence was voluntary ; which representat. he
supposed to have come through Commodore D.
This, together with sonic remarks indulged in by
thou gentleman, was the occasion of this mournful
catastrophe.
Fire at Porto Bico.—An extract or a letter from
St. Thomas, of the 101 of March, is given in the
Boston Palladium of Tuesday lost, whets men-
lions, that the whole of the city of Ponce, in Porto
Rico, with the exception of a church, was destroy.
ed by fire on the 47th of February.
The same letter states, that at the latest advices
front Margarine the long-projected expedition still
remained in port.
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Front Mogadore.—The brig Active, Capt. Clark,
arrived yesterday morning in 45 days from Moga-
lore. One of her passengers informs us. that the
Emperor's Vizier was essassinated in December
last. While reviewing a platoon of 23 men (of the
Imperiol Guards), he struck the Captain for some
supposed irregularity, on which one of the soldiers
levelled his musket sod shot him. The Vizier had
held his place for upwards of SO years, during which
time he had practised all sorts of impositions upon
the people, and particularly upon those engaged

in commerce. Afire his tleiih4l.w.pettisle tlemoliOi-
ed his house, and found in it is vest querttitt• or
gold and silver, the proceeds +if his rt+tortinn. Ile
is represented as lasting been $ suit of s•ruug mini
and inminuisting manner*. which is corrnho►rted
WI/ hosing maintained his slant ereins post Po
mod Iris having originally been hi/tight am a COMORO!'
slave at the market, by order of the Ensiwror.
is consequence of the confiner anti dealt' of 0,,
Viaier, the ElRlOefOr'll gua.Js rrvnl•rol, Pool 10.. k
Iron essinie of the roads leseelioig to Wirpiee.re.
capital of the empire. Thr rei.ealt ad the rrc.dt .r
mutiny is not koawn.—(Cora►aercio! 4drer[isc►.)

Dispatches recently ►ecrirrdl from Sir Mixt
POPHAM trvresest our fleet no floe J•nfaica station
as having %offered severely hum tl r yell.* few....
This intelligence is the mere illOtttOtillg.l4, the time
was the season of the year generilly co,,soirrPol nom
healthy and formarahle to floroneao
The Iphigenia frigate has been a principal puticnr.

The dretu'rul sentence of the law was rte: wad
yesterday morning in front of Nrowgite sin
I/crowd and roar of los wretched (*Ohs phhimh; ;h
guilt. A more particular accousit of the slut
cacum,tances connected *ills dam totot 'nil be
Bann(' in another part of our Paper.

The crime of high treason against the established
goversimesit of • state, where the 1113.1.1 y of the rob.
jest is not flagrantly violated, and where tire erliiv.
meta of property is moored by eland taw% is so-
dnuhtrdly the most heinous offerer that eats he
pet iortraterl or dr visr.l. arid therefore is it that the
laws of Englairi denounce • severer portiiiloweire
against high treason than against any other +peens
of guilt. In treason it is intimssitile to calculst•
the consequences of the cruise, or apportion la.
sufferings, general and individual, whirls must flow
from so foul a source. Who cats promise et Iro
pleasure to stop the effusion of filooal, the demist..
lion of laud, the burning of habitations; or restore
the cheerfulness of industry, the activity of rW.
merce, and the blessings of repose ? Vel stories
as these considerations insist be onore.s,l upon
minds of all men in the state, we %ill venture t•
affirm, that in the recent case of liii.llettood .114
bin associates, they sunk into ulimilttle
cance when compared with the dark atrocity of ii.e
most prominent feature in the conspiracy,
ed distinct from theanne of treason. it eats to the
project of 'nation that the politic mind was
turned with universal loathing and abhorrence,
Bled with a sensation of deep regret that sot many men
could have been found in England to concur its a
crime happily as little known to our 110114!11 as it is
opposed to the free spirit of Mir imattutiims, and to
the refinement of our tratioriod semiuserits.

Independent indeed of this murderous deviee,
which, taken separately. was 1101 Iftllll3ll, the 1/411;14
field 1411+11 was nut of a salute to excite very
serious alarms for the safety of the State. We d•
not mean to question the actual commission of the
crime, nor the criminal inteution —both were clearly
'moved, mod justly did the colisicts suffer; but
even in their conviction some circumstances •pp.ar
which tansy be received by the country as mature
for congratulation. It was clearly *hewn by the
evidence of the accomplices, that fu► • oomiriss.
able time the conspirators were sedulously emlea-
vowing to obtain associates; yet after all tl.rrr
exertions and artifices employed among the poorest.
most ignorant, and most suffering of the labouring
classes of the metropolis. the gang eventually did
not exceed some g 5 persons, half armed, with
weapons ill calculated for action. and bat • few of
them fully apprised until the last moment. whew
immediate retreat was impossible, of the terrific
guilt which was contemplated by the leaders. It is
shocking lurked to reflect upon whet the conse-
quences of their first act of desperate vittlence
might have been upon the lives of 143 many noble-
men and gentlemen, who are ar►rnng the tirt.t emi-
nent in the kingdom fur a istlosit, Iraraiuq. oral
valour, yet considering the cusaiposidon of the gang.
it is not probable that one half of them would hat.:
had the courage and constio.cy to 1641v4113CC 10 tie
door of Lord thattownv's 14444)11r. Rut were the
conspirators twice MO 1631111r34404 sr they are repre-
sented to have been. what success ct•nld have at-
tended their ultimate cute 4 prows ? The alarm of
their first violence would rapidly fly thrnagli
the city. and their destruction most he inevitable.
Two men. we learn, were dispatched to capture
six pieces of artillery in our place, and havittz
effected this conquest utiresistr d, to proceed to
Capture two pieces in number I•l+ce. What thee
were to do with the six pieces tit cannon while r
',toyed iu taking the other two, or how they arr.- t. 4
drug even one CAIIIIOII after them. wr have nol
informed. "Hie plot, in this 'spited/. arum• tr. ts
itiletior it. cleverness to Preston's ingenious .'c•
vice of taking the horses from the hackney -conchs-,
pail converting the coachmen 'tiro artillery drivers.
Preston, too, Lid resolved to display his pet-
tonal and mental activity r'•urtrrg Ins insturrectt,.s.
snit had determined to procure blur brawny pc '•
Inn to bear him about upon their shoulder• ;
Thistlewood and his prig stained to trust rut
thing. after the seizure of the Nlansion-house, to flit.
magical efficacy of a few manuscript iiiitrnstioss
affixed to burning buildings, that '• the Prorisio,l
Government was sitting." Preston was determined
to con►ert the Batik of England into a fortress, , 1,4'
to defend it with glass bottles, having, we warrant ,

first emptied them ; but Thisikwood was resolved
to set fire to the stone walls of the Bank, and to
establish his throne, like the Fire.. King. in the
midst of flames. The abandooed ruffisns who
formed the conspiracy seem to have been as stupid
as they were wicked : had their abilities been
equ3l to their thirst after blood, they might have
been formidable enemies to the public peace.
It is a further cause for congratulation that this
conspiracy, confined as it was in the metropolis to
a very few persons, had no partisans whatever in any
other pert of the kingdom. It cannot but be re-
membered that a few days after the discovery of the
assassination !dot, it was stated in the Treasury
prints that an unusual anxiety to learn the news
(tom London was observed in the town of Leeds on the
morning on which theaccoutit of the assassination,
if such a dreadful event had unhappily occurred,
might have arrived from London in that town. It
was thence inferred that the plot was generally
known in the manufacturing districts of the North,
■nd that the blow which was to be struck in Lon-
don was to have been the signal of a general insur-
rection. The evidence given on the trials at the
Old Bailey falsifies this fanciful supposition, ■nd
proves that the statement contained in the Treasury
prints was altogether sal:rounded. No less absurd
was the imagination that some mysterious COIN!CC
tiou subsisted between the conspirators in London,
and the faction in France, that instigated Lott-
ed to the murder of the Duke de BERRY.—
The coiucidence of time with respect to the Duke's
murder and the discovery of the plot in Cato-street,
was merely accidental. Upon this point, however,
it may not be uninteresting to remark, that while
France the proceedings preparatory to the trial of
a man who in the presence of a crowd of persons
actually murdered one of the first Princes of the
ro, al blood, the great hope of the family of BOWL*
BUN, and who even confessed the crime, are still
incomplete, eleven persons have in England been
formally, legally, sod to the full satisfaction of the
country tiled and convicted, and sentence of death
executed upon five of them, for devising the mur•
der of the Ministers of the Crown, although flue
discovery of their guilt was some days subsequent
to the arrest of Louvel.

We nre happy in being able to state that the
ili.iiirlwtl districts are represented as being in a
triniquil state; and although there have beta out.
rage• committed which no true lover of his country
would attempt to justify. still nothing has trans.
pi,ril to prove that the old laws. if properly admi-
tii•tvrrd, are wanting in ally respect to perpetuate
that tranquillity.—( Darken's Chronicle.)

Iron has fallen two pounds per ton within the
last few days, in the manufacturing district*, in con-
setwoce of the diminished demand for the manm
factures of Liirutioghatn, Wolverhampton, and other
towns in the oaighbourhoo4l.—/ York fleruld.j
Fourteen furnaces have heels recently stopped in
the Ifibll mines in Staffordshire.

!Atli BERESFORD sailed iu the Spartan frigate,
on the 4th of April, fur Rio Janeiro. Previous to
his departure, his Lordship addressed an Order of
the Day to the Portuguese army, in which he extols
their zral, loyalty, and good discipline, and apprises
them that measures have bee. adopted by the Go-
v, !salient for ameliorating the state of pay and al-
kw:nicer, which have hitherto been much in arrest.

The inquiry into the appropriation of the Droits
of the Admiralty, the 41 per Cent. Fund, &c. dur.
ing the long reign of his late MAJESTY, is likely to
produce important results. The amount of these
Nods is immense, and it is essential to the country
that lice produce should be accounted for, as well as
that Pa•liament should come to • clear understand-
ing is to its future application to the public service.
Ilepert rays that these funds. in the course of the
reign, amount to millions. What has become of
these millions? It is known that his 111•JesTY ap-
plied, from time to time. to Parliament to make up
the di ticitucies of the Civil List; and the payment
uf the debts upon it made no small addition to the
hstroletis of the people. Surely these droits and
resenues could not also be expended by his MA.
J .S*l Y. The account is to be laid on the table of
the I louse of Commons, and we trust that the uses
to which the sums were applied will be satisfactorily
slues' it.—f Evening Paper.)

The Dartmoor Rail-road or Tram-rood Corn-
prmy, will commence their operations on the lit of
May : the contract for the iron work has been made
with a house in Staffordshire ; men from the neigh-
Filming parishes will be employed, preference being
given to those with the largest families. Government
11.ir lent the Company 10,000/. A contract has been
enter •.1 into with Sir M. LOPEZ, to supply all the
granite in the parish of Walkhanipton, at the rate of
2,1, perton, which is already disposed of at 4t1., thus
providing 100 per cent. fur expenses and profit,
Three of the projected iiew Churches in London
are to be built with the moor granite, and several
of the principal streets of the metropolis will forth-
with Le paved with the same stone. The prison
of war is immediately to he converted into a School
and House of Industry for the London pauper chil-
if ten. Two thousand of these will arrive by the be-
ginning of August, mid the.• number will, in all
probability, ultimately be increased to 5,000 Of
7,000.

Amongst other benefits which promise to attend
the contemplated improvements on Dartmoor, is
rteetit discovery, that its peat may be converted into
KN., which produces a light not to be excelled in
honey, is perfectly free from diarigreeableamells,
and apparently not at all dangerous in its use. This
rent is of black colour, close in texture, and inex-
haustible in quantity. A short time since an expe-
riment was tried with it at Princes Town. in the pre-
sence of Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT, BUIJAMIN
Tutimit, Esq. R. A. NaLson, Esq. Secretary to
the Navy Board, and many other Gentlemen, who
weer pleased to express their entire confidence in
its capability of producing gas, which was found
• quid in duration of burniog to that obtained from
a like quantity of coal.

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