The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-10 00:00:00

sov nr AMERICA.

(From the New York Tapers.
The Lima papers received at N
Baltgl.limore, by the George Gardiner,
furnish no sews. Den Manuel Vidautre and Don Jose M. de
Pando, Representatives from the Republic of Peru to the General
Congress at Panama, sailed from Chorillos on the 6th of June for
their degination in the brig Cairene°. By a decree of the 31st
May, it is ordered that liquors not distilled (such as beer and cider)
which may be imported into the Republic front foreign places, shall
pay a duty of forty-eight per cent.
COLOMBIA.
The editor of the Baltimore Federal Gazette has received inte-
resting letters front Carthagena, of the 22d and fad of September,
and Bogota papers to the Bth of the month.
Ills Lxcellency Dr. Gaol, Secretary of State for Foreign affairs,
we are informed, was to set out from Bogota, on the 10th instant,
for Carthsgena, on his way to the Congress representing all the
• New States to assertible next month at Panama. Matters of great
" pith and moment" are expected to transpire. A circular from
General Bolivar, upon the subject of this Congress, has also been
received, from which it appears that it is intended, uhinsately, as a
counterpoise to the Holy Alliance.
An alteration In the intendency of the Department at carthagena
has been made.—Hitherto the powers of Intendent and Military
Commander in Chief of the Department were centred in the same
person, but they have been lately disunited, thus separating the
military front the 'civil authority, which is more in the spirit of the
free institutions which now govern the country. Dr. Jose delßeal
Is Intendent, and General blontilla commander of the forces.
The writer speaks of some secret and highly important expedition
about to be undertaken by the Colombian navy, the ships of which
had already begun to collect in that harbour. The Ceres and
Uric., under the command of General Clementi. an old naval officer
of the Republic, arrived in the offing on the 23d. Five more were
expected to appear in the course of that day or the next, to be fol-
lowed by others. "In short," says the writer, " this is one part of
the naval movement for which we have been prepared here more
than a month, and about which it is now unnecessary to be silent.
A large force will soon be assembled. So much as this cannot
now be concealed from the enemy, but more than this need not be
said at present."
The steam.hoat, Rays the writer, has not succeeded in ascending
the Magdalena. Seven weeks have elapsed since she started, and
by the last account she was left a considerable way short of hoe des-
tination, and unable to proceed. It is likely to turn nut an unpro-
fitable speculation. The river does not appear to be fitted for, nor
to afford facilities for steam navigation.
The Colombiano announces that Joseph Lancaster had received
a second letter front General Bolivar, enclosing bills of exchange
for 20,000 dollars, and letters of advice for the Peruvian agents in
London.

An attempt had been made in the city of Caraccas, by Col. De
Lima. to assassinate Sr. Outman, the editor of the Argos. Relay
in wait for his victim, and under the corer of the night, wounded
Min three dines in the back with a sabre. The prepetrator was in
confinement, eirititing hit trial.

It is reported in Paris, that the King of France is on the
point of marrying a Princess of Saxony, the widow of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany. The bad health of the young
Duc de Bordeaux giving little hope of the perpetuation of
the Bourbon dynasty, is said to have induced Charles X, to
take the resolution of giving a Queen to France. His Ma-
jesty is supposed to have alluded to this circumstance in his
answer to the congratulations on his Saint day on Thurs.-
day last, when he said, " I must not only occupy myself
with the present happiness of my people, but prepare their
future felicity."
The Archbishop of Cologne, in a pastoral letter, recom-
mends the clergy of his diocese, on account of a reprimand
of the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, not to correspond
through an illicit channel with the Court of Rome or its
agents. The Archbishop solicits the King's pardon for the
violation of this prohibition for the time past; but in future
his Majesty will exercise the utmost severity towards those
who are disobedient.—Courier du Bat Rhin.

FIIENC/L PENAL COLONY.-It would appear from the
Sidney papers that it is the intention of the French Go-
vernment to establish a settlement similar to the British one
in New 4loßand, for the purpose of penal colonisation. It
I is said that a French squadron is at present in the Eastern
Seas in pursuance of this object, and it is supposed that
some part of Madagascar will be the site selected for the
settlement. It is also believed that the reason for lately
establishing an infant colony on the North coast of New
Holland was to counteract the designs of the Frenclt,
whose views were directed to that quarter.—Bombay Paper.
The question concerning the suppression of the Company
of the Philippine Isles occupies, it is said, the cabinet of
Madrid. 'I he commerce with these islands, according to
report, will be thrown open to all nations, under certain
restrictions, in favour of the commerce of Spain.—krench
Paper.
Accounts from the city of Mexico have reached as down
to early in September. Allman was about retiring from
the Ministry: oar account states his resignation had ac-
tually been sent to the President. We are sorry to state
an additional duty on English goods was in agitation, in
place of the anticipated reduction of the present high rates.
—Globe.

The letters received from New York yesterday state, in an
inflated style, that "the greatest undertaking in the world"
will be celebrated on the 26tli of Oetoberr-the completion
of the great Erie Canal, the junction of the waters of the
American lakes with • the Atlantic Ocean. The canal in
question, if not the first in the world in magnitude of
labour, is, however, certainly among the first in point of
probable utility. .

Great difficulty has been experienced in the navigation
of the St. Lawrence for some days, in consequence of the
dense fog. On one occasion the steam ferry-boat was 20
hours in going from Montreal to Laprairie, a distance of
.only nine miles. . The boat had on board about 100 pas-
sengers, who were without food the whole time. The fog
is said to be owing to extensive fires which are raging in
the interior. The fire had destroyed a vast quantity of
standing timber, and some thousand cords of cut wood.—
Quebec paper.
TEA BALE IN CANADA.-011 Saturday week the East
India Company's second sale of Teas took place, when
1061 packages of tea, of various descriptions, were offered
for sale. Notwithstanding the quantity was little more titan
one half of what was exposed at the last sale, the purcha-
sers were cautious, and the bidding in general proceeded
heavily, especially for. the superior sorts, and a very large
proportion (733 packages) remained unsold.—The Hyson
brought !is. Id. and ss. 241., the setting up price being ss.
The young Ilyson and the Hyson skin were in no de-
mand, and did not sell, and a part only of the Twankay
met a sale at Id. advance on the upset price of Ss. Id.
SuchCongous as were sold brought 24.11 d. being Id. in ad-
vance on the Company's limit,and the Souchong rose toSsatl.
The lower Rohm limited at Is. 6d., alone found a brisk
sale, and brought as high a price as Is. 11d. The object
of the Company will be equally answered by the result of
this sale, in keeping the prices below those of the Ame-
rican
importations, and it Mows that so long as the East
India Company will continue to feed this market with
regular supply, equal to the consumption of the provinces,
the Americans must be deprived of the lucrative trade
they have hitherto driven in supplying us with this essen-
tial article, now almost a necessary of life; nor is it likely
to afford a field that will induce speculators to purchase
largely, in the hope that an increase of price may remu-
nerate them for the capital employed. Such an advance
can hardly occur unless some accident befals the ships in
their long voyage between China and this port.—Quebec
Mercury.

THE Jews.—lt will have been observed (says a Brus-
sels Journal) in an uticle from a Berlin Paper, relative to
the census of the Jewish population, which we inverted,
that it is there said that in the Netherlands as well as in
France, the tnembera of the Jewish community are ex-
cluded from all public offices. This assertion is not only
contrary to fact, but it is in direct opposition to the funda-
mental laws of the kingdom, which admit all Belgians to
the discharge of public functions, whatever may be their
creed. The Netherlands may reckon among the members
of this community names whirl► are honourably known in
jurisprudence, literature, finance, and political economy;
and also others not less commendable in the different
branches of the administration.

The English brig Marianne, belonging to the 7,lauritlus,
had been two days in the port of Barbara, on the North
('oast of Africa, when the Captain and his brother, the
Chief Mate, were seized by the natives while on shore, and
placed in confinement. Afterwards forty or fifty natives
went on board, took the crew by surprise, killed two, and
wounded two others, when the rest jumped overboard and
escaped to the dows anchored near them. The Captain and
the Chief Mate were afterwards rescued by the crews of the
native dows trading to the port, and were carried to
Mocha, from. which place they were conveyed to Madras,
where they arived on the '.2d of June, in the American brig
Aim, Captain Millet. The Marianne was completely
stripped and plundered.

YELLOW FEVER.

DEATHS OF CA.PT. RUSSELL AND MANY OF TnE
OFFICERS AND CREW OF H. M. 8. SCYLLA.

[From the New York Commercial Advel User, Oct. 17.1
A distressing account is given of the ravages of the y(1.
low fever on board of his Britannic Majesty's ship of Int
Scylla, anchored in the haLbour of Cartbagena. But
though the deaths are truly lamentable, they are in moot
considerably below the numbers recovered.—The accost
stands thus:—
" Captain Russell, First Lieutenant Elkins, Sureon,
Quin and Brown, Doctor M'Cann, two midshipmen (Mil-
ner, and another whose .name is forgotten), the Captain's
Clerk, Barnes, and 15 men, dead.
•" Captain Bombard (of the Life Guards, and Aid-de-
camp to General Sir John Kean), Acting Lieutenant
Dixon, the gunner, the boatswain, and upwards of fifty
men, convalescent."

Captain Russell was unremitting in his attention to the
sick, and would not leave the ship. IVhen the black
vomit came on, he rose, and with great firmness wrote a
letter to his wife, and died in two hours afterward"
Doctor Ill'Canti was an Irish gentleman, recently inn- 4
in the Venezuela from New York, intending to join Lk;
Colombian service.

The New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser of %I Sep,
tember last, acknowledges the fact of 4t deaths ha% ing
curretl by yellow fever.
Another paper, of the same date, states the number nz
to have exceeded fifty or sixty.

FIRE 1N NEW BRUNSWICK.

FURTHER. PARTICULARS.
hunnzawrom, OCT. 12.

EXTRACT OT A LETTER.
The mail of last week canted for me a large packet di-
rected to your care, but since that time we have hods
tnoet alarming fire here, and as there is a chance of your
seeing an account of it in some paper, you may imagine
that we are all swallowed up ; I subjoin the particulars of
this most lamentable conflagration. On Friday u °ruing
last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, the house of the
Hon. T. Baillie (Surveyor-General), about a mi e fro a
thegown, was reported to be in the most imminent dan er
from the trees round it having taken fire; the rni.itary,
and most of the male inhabitants (with the engines) .w-
-mediately rushed to the spot; they had scarcely been Lb.
sent ten minutes, when the cry of " Fire! fire! the town
is in flames!" smote Upon our can, and it was found that
the stable of Mr. King, at the north-west end of the town,
was on fire; the wind blew a ple from that quarter; we
had not had say rain for a month ; the thermometer was at
86 in the shade; and in a few minutes the fianrs
were spread in every direction, threatening destruction to
the whole place; and when the soldiers, &e. &c. returned,
the heat and smoke were so intensei that they could not
approach it, and were compelled to let it burn to a certain
point, which, had it passed, nothing could have saved
every house, barracks, &c. Fortunately they sot.
ceetled, and stayed the devouring element where um
wished, after it had destroyed ninety-eight buildings, tie
fuel-yard belonging to the barracks, horses, pigs, and edit,.
Not one of the buildings was insured, and the less faro
upon men who were just beginning to reap the advents&
of their industry, or on those who have mostly begun bit.
sinew. I was visiting at the barracks, and it is not pos.
aible to describe the appalling scene; the streets resounded
with the cries of women, who, almost distracted, were run-
ning with their children out of the flames, and imploring
bep to save their property : this, alas ! they sought in
vain, for all the men were gone to Mr. Baillie's, and ere
they came, all was consumed, and the poor creatures cast
upon the world without any thing but the clothes they
had on ; had it been in the spring of the year, it would
have seemed better, for now they will have the miseries
of winter added to their other misforttlnes. When night
came on, the horror of the scene is not to be told : all
around us the woods were in flames, and the sky was a
vault of fire ; and had we been driven from our house, as
we at one time feared, there did not appear any place of
refuge for us but in the river ; and even there, so inteute
was the heat, boatloads of things were burned. How the
fire originated is not known. It is the custom here to clear
the land by burning the woods ; and it frequently hap.
pens that they lay waste many miles, which has been the
case in many parts of this province this season. All round
Fredericton these fires are now raging, and, it is said, that
from them the one I have now described came. They say,
no other process of clearing wood would answer here, to
remove the vegetable DMA which for centuries has arn-
mulated beneath the trees, and which, when burned, ism
excellent manure. A subscription has been opened. Sr
H. Danglan has given two hundred pounds.from the King's
casual revenue, and twenty pounds from himself; the
other people have given something, and I hope the Eng-
lish will assist their unfortunate fellow-creatures. All our
houses are wood, and hail the fire happened in the night,
not a house would have teen saved, and many lives, in ad
probability, would have been sacrificed."

DREADFUL FIRE AT MIRAMICIII.—A numerous and
respectable meeting was held yesterday in the Sabscripties-
room of the North and South American Coffee-house, con-
sisting of merchants and other gentlemen interested iu the
Colony of New Brunswick, to consider the expediency of
a public subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the
late dreadful conflagrations at Fredericton and Miramichi.
A conversation took place, in which it was suggested, that
although the Subscription-room was sufficiently spacious
to contain a considerable number of persons, it would be
more consistent with the convenience of a public meeting.
that it should be held in a room unencumbered by the seats.
and other accommodations in a place designed for busim:i4.
Finally, it was decided, that a meeting should be held at
the London Tavern to-morrow, at one o clock. John Bain-
bridge, gsq. Agent for the Colony of New Brunswick, will
take the chair, and we confidently cherish a hope, that ti::
attendance will be as numerous as the afflicting disaster
which calls for relief may he thought to require.
Corr Ea.—This mineral is found (a Missouri paper says)
in such abundant" and purity, from the falls of St. An-
thony to Lake Superior, that the Indians make hatchets
and ornaments of it without any other instrument than the
hammer. The mines still remain in the pow anion of the
Indians.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday as Mrs. Lac.
of Fort-house, in Fort-crescent, with another lady, in
small pony gig, were proceeding to Chapel-hill, ou the
Ramsgate-road, on arriving at the Vicarage-cross, about
mid-way from the town, the horse fell, which pitchel
them out of the chaise. Mrs. Lens had her forehead
dreadfully lacerated, which, had it not been for her home%
no doubt but instant death would have been the corF,-
guenee ; the other lady escaped with but little ie.4127'
Fortunately, it being about noon, some labourers going
their work were passing by at the time. who rendered eraY
assistance in their power. and, on gt,!tivg the ladies her!.
which they did with difficulty, every medical aid uaa:r -
inediately procured ; but co topes are at present ear.: •
tained of Mrs. Lens's recovery, her forehead being ex
pletely cut open.—Kentish Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF lIYDROFHORIA.-011 'fa'?
day morning a most afflictive event occurred at
about eight miles from this town. Mr. Richard
rose from his bed in pursuit of a cat, as be said. to ei
her. lie went to his barn, and removed part of the tiee!-
ing, but did not find her. In the yard he met Vs
whbm he threw on the ground, and with an aYA• star,!l
her head from her body. About eight years ago •
it is said, was affected with hy3rophobia, in conre,!ntro•
of receiving on his hands the saliva of a rahid sy&e• 371
t.
was for several months after in a delirious stete. Fl-ce •.
time he has been, until within a few days, in good lic!:1,
For about a week before the fatal transaction he vas
melancholy state of mind, which was imputed to the
ration of religious feelings. After having killed Mrs. N,
he stated to his neighbours that the cat of which he wa,
pursuit was bewitched, and that the witches ha,l h.:: 1.1:
and gone into his wife—that he hid r o intention
her when he left the house—expressi-d bis willingt e'%
be taken into custody, and was accordingly cofficir;••••,,
York gaol. Mr. and Mrs. Neal had been marri,r.
seven years, were each about thirty-seven yeara of 32'
were the parents of four children, were posscsaA
competency, and had lived in tinirgetr,red barn
ee!.