The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-24 00:00:00

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BRIGHTON, Drc. 23.

We hear that the Earl of Egremont will give a grand
ball and entertainment at iiis scat at Petworth, upon the
same inagnifieent scale as last year.
Mrs. Con tts will give a fancy dress ball on an extensive
scale early in the ensuing month.
Lady Coote mill give a grand ball at her house, Old
Steine, on the sth of January.
The Honourable Frederick. Lamb isarrived ; Sir Godfrey
Webster, Cawain llyde, Mr. Mantling, and Mr. Marjori-
banks, are also among our arrivals._

Mr. Justice Bayley and Lady Bayley are arrived at the
Marine I'arade.

Baron D..lmar occupies the Marine Mansion.
The Don. IL Cadogan is at Regency-square.
Lady tie B:aquicre, Sir James Wedderburn, Mrs.
Dowdeswell, Mr. Morrill, Mr. Morris, anti Miss Bird, are
here.

Lady Le Degreaser is arrived at Marlhorough-place.
Mr. Montagu° Burgoyne occupies a house in Regency-
aqua re.
Lady ()ugle•y is expected to arrive in the course of a few
clays.
The Dean of Salisbury, who had arrived a few days pre-
viously at his house, on the Marine Parade, went on Thurs-
day last to town.
Captain Brydges, of sporting celebrity, is among our
recent arrivals.

Mr. T. R. Kemp and family are residing at the Temple.
Colonel Blake is residing at Bedford-square.
As *gentleman was engaged at billiards the other day,
he felt something pinch him in the side, and on unbut-
toning his waistcoat to ascertain the cause, he was much
surprised, and the company nut a little amused by a mouse
jumping out and making his escape.
Brighton will be very gay this winter: balls and parties
are already very numerous, and the approaching election
will, no doubt, tend to make them more so. There is a
great deal of fashionable company in the town, and fami-
lies of distinction cont. daily to arrive.
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Captain Medwin has been absent on the Continent,
it appears, on a matrimonial excursion. We learn from
a friend of this gentleman, that he married at Lausanne,
about two or three weeks ago, a Swiss Countess, who, is,
we bcliere, a Seotehwoman by birth, with a large fortune;
her name is the Countess Stanfurth.

INTERVIEWnfGENFRAL LA FAYETTE and the

INDIAN'CHIEFS at WASHINGTON.

(From the New York Aferrastik Advertiser of Nov. 30.11
On ‘Vislnesday last, the Delegation of the Choctaw
Chiefs, at present in this city, repaired from their residence
at Tennison's Hotel, to the quarters of General La Fayette,
at Garlaby's. Major John Pitchlynn, their interpreter,
having been introduced to Judge Brooke, was, by the
Judge, introduced to the Gcueral, when the several Chiefs
were, by name and title, successively resented by the
'Major to the Guest of the Nation.
The Chief Alushalatubbee then spoke as follows:
" Y are one of our fathers that fought in the war with (Jeneral
Washington. We take you here by the hand as a friend and
• tattier. We hare always walked in the white paths of
peace; and in tinise 'Milli we have travelled t, visit you. We
offer you pure 1141.11. which have never been stained with the blood
of Americans. %Vt. live in the South, where the son shines hot
upon us. Vie have been neighbours to the French, neighbours to
the Spaniards, and neighbours to the English ; but now our only
neighbours are the Americans, in the midst of whom w* live as
friends and bnithers."

Pushatnata, a superior Chief, nest addressed General
La Fayette in the following manner
" About fifty years ago you drew year sword, the companion of
General 'Washington. With him you travelled and warred again,:
the enemies of America. In spilling the blood of your ftsps, you
generously shed tour own, thereby consecrating your devotion to
the cause in which you were cast-t,.:A. After the terminstion of the
war, you returnt 11 to your country, and now you revisit this Lind,
blessed by the benediettons and honoured with the grateful at
tions of *numerous and powerful neoplz. You it, everywhere
around you. cr..waing to your presence, and clasping your hands
with filial idfrerloll. the children of those wnli whom you Haight in
the delzree or their country. We had In.ard of these thin••• es en
in our remote habitations, and our 111.0111% were depressai with
anxiety to !tie you. We have come. We take you by the hunt
and are satisfied. It is the Goat and the last tin e. We shall
meet no more. We part, on midi, fur ever. This is all I hare
to ray," _ _

Co:onel Cole then gpoke to the following etrret :
" I tam u man of mixed bload. I consider all white men as my
Loiters. You come from a far distant land. I salute yota as a
father, because you are a whit: man, and the old and constant
frici'd of America."

During th:se addrenes from the Indian Chiefs, General
La Fayette wes in:it:lull by Etrong emotions. and was evi-
dently much affected at the marks of respect which they
showed him. Ile siscral times cordially pressed then.
hands.

The Chiefs accompanied the General, on his departure,
from Gadsby'a beyond the Capitol, on the road to Balti-
more, when, mutually hewing farewell, they parted.
At the same time that the Chet:taw Chiefs waited on
General I.a lay cue, the Chiefs of the Chickasaw nation, a
kindred tribe, also paid him a visit, and shook hands.

In addition to the very extensive iron trade carried on at
Merthyr Titlvil, it gives us great pleasure to learn that a
spirited individual, connected with a very largo brewery at
that place and at Rath, has purchased most extensive
• eral property m the neighbourhood, whcreou he in-
tends to build three or tear blast furnaces and forges, which
will be Cie of MOW: ing from 1,40 u to 9,0 ham's.
Ju;:rnat.