The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS. JAN. 9.

The Duke of Wellington remained s;iily a week
at Paris, during which time he slimmed wills the
Count de Cazes, the Minister of General Police.
A letter frosts Lille states, that Mauhreuil made
his escape I the prison of Douay, on the night
of the lit of January. He took the road for
Antwerp, where it is supposed he will embark.
It is slated in letters from Bayonne, that Las'
Cases, who lately returned from St. Helena, will
be sent to the fortress of linenigin-Grartz, iu Bo-
hemia; but the news requires confirmation.
It appears front advice:, front the Levant that the
trade with India is going to take a new direction,
a,md that the route by Suez, so long abandoned, will
he resumes!. Several ships have arrived in the port
of that city. by the Red Sea, with rich cargoes
front China and the East Indies.

Letters from Antwerp. of the 3d Jannary, state,
that very serious quarrels have taken place among
the military who compose the garrison of that city.
The soldiers have fought in several parts of it, and
some of them have been killed and some wounded.
The citizens have been also ill-treated by the
drunken soldiers.
Au event has occurred at Marseilles which
evinces the most consummate wickedness, if it can
be supposed that the culprit had fore►eeu all the
consequences.

A lady who, shout eight o'clock in the evening,
was walking in one of the most frequented parts of
the town, appeared all at once enveloped its a smoke
which arose with violence. On hearing her cries,
souse persons rats towards her, and it was discovered
that a very large quantity of squafortis was con-
suming her clothes and face. Every possible atten-
tion was afforded, but Use dreadful liquor had al-
ready burned several parts of her body ; her situa-
tion became pitiable, and it still causes muds
anxiety. is their ►olicitude, the spectators never
thought of pursuing the authors of this unheard-of
crime, but it is hoped that they will be discovered.
It is suspected that it wits prompted by jealousy,
and the attention of justice is fixed on another
lady, who has been arrested in consequence of it.
Several Spanish corvettes have sailed from Ca-
diz to cruise against the Insurgent corsairs, which
have lately bunted many Spanish merchant vessels,
after having plundered them of every thing va-
luable.

A letter from Rode:, of the lst of January,
states, that M. Auharet, a Counsellor of the Royal
Court of Montpellier, has for ten days been exa aaa i t
Mg witne►ses in the affair of Fualdes. Oise of the
last persons examined is an inhabitant of the village
of Lis Mouline, who happened on the evening of
the 19th of Mardi, to be coucealed on the banks of
the A veyron. lle saw the convoy descend, and the
victim precipitated into the river. Ile also heard
the dreadful words of the oath which the principal
murderers tendered to their assistants. The night
was not very obscure; he could distinguish the
as►assins.

The inquiries of justice have discovered a crowd
of other persons, whose uniform testimony strikes
with the clearest evidence the actors iii the scene of
the A vey roll ; but the motnent and the circum-
stances attending the assassination remain enveloped
iii darkness. Of these nothing is known but what
youngest daughter 11116 reported.
M. Aubaret summoned the Ciiptain of the De-
partmental Company, and demanded of him his
motive for having caused the retreat to be beaten
earlier rhau usual, on the evening of the day on
which the crime hail beets committed.

The inhabitants of ltorlez have recently given •
new proof of the horror inspired in them by the re-
menthrance of the crime which has agitated the
town. Au unfortunate woman had, without being
aware of it, taken to the market tin- filthy animal
that was said to have gorged itself with the human
gore. Some tierson immediately recognised it, and
cries of horror immediately resounded from every
quarter. The poor woman, disgusted at the odious
commission which she hind • ieently undertaken,
abandoned the animal. The people did not kill it,
but nil one ducd acknowledge himself its mater.
Bastille has not been in fetters for some days, but
every night before locking his dungeon a chain is
passed round his body, which dues not prevent him
flow sleitiiig.
By a judgment of the Civil Tribunal of Itodez,

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AIM

LON DON.

MONDAY. JANUARY I'2, ISM

Last night we received Paris Papers to the 9th
iustaist. We are sorry to learn by them that the
King of DENMARK. at the solicitations of the Court
of Spain, has been induced to prohibit the importa-
tion of arms and miiiiitions of war front foreign
countries into the free port of Saint Thomas, iu
the West Indies. This Island had been the general
rendezvous of all the European adventurers who
were proceeding to join the Independents in South
America, and had also been the principal mart
whence the Patriots had been supplied with stores
necessary for the attainment of their liberty. This
prohibition must therefore be felt as a very Rescue
blow to the cause of South American freedom.
Letters from Rodez notice the continued exa-
mination of witnesses, by Commission, in the case
of Fu A I.DES. The celebrated Madman. AI A NSON has
hem divorced front her husband, in consequence
of the part site has sustaiiitil in this mysterious
scene of iniquity. Iler trial will shortly take place,
[rat no circumstance has transpired to iudnce a be-
lief of her participation io the ultic.l,,r of 1:1; A I.OEI.
Ititlitrttruce the Cunt:out, to tlistalcit at tier

present infamy of her situation, is a proof ratlitr of
insanity than iastauerhet .
Five per Cent,,., by the latest accounts,
were 65 f. 60 e.

We have reet ived l'inston Papers to the 17th De.
ember. The annual tiwuci rl statement had been
laid before Congress by the Secretary to the Trea-
sury. Its details confirm the v.ew taken iu the
PRLSIDI:NT'd Message, of the improving state of
the Irv:tine, us comloared with the expenditure.
The revenue, in 1815, was forty-nine minima, of
dollars; iu IBlli, thirty-eight millions; and ,in
1817, thirty-three millions. The permanent an-
nual revenue is estimated at twenty-four millions of
dollars. The expense in 1818 would be greatly
lessened; it was estimated at aboot 2n millions of
dollars. Hostilities between the army of the United
States and the Seminole Indians have continetic,d.
General GAINES was surrounded and blockaded.
in one of the forts on St. Mary's ; he had dispatch-
ed an express, requesting iinmediate reinforeemeists.
Some Spaniards are reported to have joined the
Itulians.

The Tamar, 36, Captain To'cr.'', arrived at
Portsitiontli On Saturday morning, from St. John's,
Nt•ivfoundlaiid. in thirteen days (having left the
on the' 8111 ult.); she cut her way through
the ice, to the outer roadstead, a fortnight before
she sailed. The Sir &clads Drake (Admiral
PtcrimottF.), Egeria, anti 1.71, intended to whiter
at Sr. John's. Provisions were plenty, but the
distiess consequent upon the late calamitous lire
was very gi eat. Earl DALHOUSIE hail seta two
"dimmers front Ilahrax, laden with biscuit. No
discovery hail been made no to the original cause of
the first lire.

On Wednesday evening arrived at Portsmouth,
fromlifax. the transport Medusa, T. Hu rCHIN.•
SON master, with invalids of the 15:h, 6thli, and
ti2d Regiments, and Lieutenant TwtsuEsi,
and Mr. LucKwouo, Naval Stirve,, or, with plans,
&c. of Nova Scotia, for the Admiralty, passen-
gers. The Medusa left Halifax on the tat
The crops in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
this season, have proved abundant, and the winter
reason, had set its very favourably. Sir DAvii,
MILNE was about to leave Haliftx, in th- Leander,
accompanied by the Opossum, Lord JOHN
for Bermuda, there to remain until the Spring; the
Forth, Sir JOHN Louts, was under repair. Sir
JAMES COCKOURN. Governor of Bermuda, had
proceeded thither in the Harrier, Sir CHARLES
JONES. The Dee, Captain Ctismcutts, was lying'
at New Brunsniek ; the Wye, Captain H.1nr:•:R,
at Dighv. The interior of the Province of Nova
Scotia had experienced a vast increase• of population►
during the past year; those whom the events of the
late war had invited as residents of Halifax and its
immediate vicinity, had retired up the country, and
commenced in various agricultural pursuits.
The illeelasa, since the 11th January lust, has
gone upwards of 27,000 miles (being a greater
extent than the circuit of the Globe;, having crnss-
ed the Atlantic five times, besides trips to Guernsey
and Jersey.

The Russian squadron, which put into Port:-
mouth on the elst ult. is (let:tilted at SpitheitA Ly
contrary winds. !Ur. is to take the shy.; on
111 charge to Cadiz, and return with the t:atisp,:its,
having their crews on hoard. They wit'
moment the wind will permit.

The Subscription for the Rel-ef r.I the I) tressed
Seamen, we rejoice to find, promise.. ellicieot relief
to those meritorious but unfortunate poor fellows.
The Abundance store-ship is stationed in the
River, off the Tower, for the reception of such
of theta as have been taken out of the Streets
of the Metropolis by the benevolent care of the
Committee. One hundred and fifty of these poor
fellows were received on board yesterday.. To
Mr. W. STOItGe every praise is doe; Ina unremitting-
exertion is astonishing ; Mr. Tlyclit.E likewise, and
C'aptain BRENTON. R.N. ; FRANKLIN (U. C. S.)
Captain ‘Vit.t.nuclinv Cowt.e, and reversl others,
attended yesterday. Great credit is due to the
officers of Government fur the extraordinary dis-
patch which has been used in getting this vessel
ready, as she is of considerable size, capable of
holding not less than six hundred men. Besides the
Abundance, two others, the Perseus and Plover,
will be got ready without delay.

On Friday a meeting of all the Co',Met 11;:.a.tept
in tool' took place. The Earl of Ln•tatroot.
came to town front Coombe IVood, for the expaos
purpose of attending the 'Prolog, and ii the %ei,-
thg the Noble Earl returned to l'uon►he Wood.
The CitANcEt.t.ott of the EXCHEQUER left too
aeon alter four o'clock, at which time the tocetiog
broke up.

A Nladras Paper of the 23,1 of August tr.e:r,
that the important fortress iii _: I)morn nor
i &red, without tiling u shot, to the iolvatoe a
Colonel l'utrzl.r:R.S force, ui,drr tie (0118111amd of
Nlajor N EWA 1.. Kishoul has also hten given up.
The inhabitants of the surrounding country ex..
!limed great satisfaction at the provl.ect if beiiig
1 taken under the protection of the Biitisli Govern,
meat, The troops in camp are represented to
i have experienced much) iticourenieuce from the
I rains that liad filleii.