The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-20 00:00:00

TliC BUJ I'lSn Pn gas commenced publishing yesterday
morning at five o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBIWART 20, MS.

The kading cot:tents of tit:: I!imitate and Etoile of
Tuesday and Wednesday will be found to follow. The
foreign Pipers contain nothing of any importance.

From the Moraines- of Tuebtlay, Feb. 17.]

The official part containa only some unimportant notices from
the Dep.vtment of the 31inister of Justice.

Tot-Lot:sE, Frs.ll.

Thirteen Constitutional priests. coming front dilfereat parts of
Catalonia, have arrived here : they come to expiate, In voluntary
exile, unfortunate errors, the fruits of a ►ystesn which has plunged
Spain into an abyss of mittfortunes. These ecclesiastics, who all
found in our city the huspi:ality due to misfortune, almost all belong
to the secular clergy.
The third squadron of the regiment of Chasseurs of 31orbihan
(about VI men and 110 !tortes, will arrive here on the 13th and 14th,
on its way to Bayonne. It is going to join the remainder of the
regiment at Cadiz.

(From the Etoik of Wednestlay.]

PARIS, Fey. 17•

M. Joseph dc lieredia, brother to the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in Spain, who is entrusted with a mission to the Court of St.
James's, rtlative to the liquidations and claims, arrived at Bor-
deaux on the 12th of this month, and set out fur London the fol.

lowing day.
The French ennui! at Tunis has written the King's Attorney-
General at 31anwiiits, declaring that there is not the smallest truth
in the story told by the Joarmal dr Cummerce, and repeated by
the Pit*, that M. F. a merchant of Marseilles, settled at Tunis,
has committed suicide, after hating made a solemn affidavit that
he had committed the crime of Itarstry, for whieh M. Vita Costa, a
merchant of Marseilles, halt been condemned to live years impri-
sonment.

(The Flolle, in addition to the bulletins of the health of the
Princes of Con& in the other papers, gives a later one, of the
17:h February, lii.lf.past seven in the morning, ahich is not so
favourable as that of the preecdirg evening.)
FRENCH Ft: xna.—Pan is, FED. 17—Five per Cent. Consols
opened at 190 f. ; highest, 100 f. We. ; lowest, 99f. 61./e.;
closed at 100 f. : Bank Stock, 1,750 f. : Neapolitan Five per
Cents. tiJiif. : Rente d'Espagne, 211 f. Exchange en London.—
One month, 2Sf. lJc. ; three months, 25f. 35c.—C'oars Aitt/tve.
tight, Feb. 17.

A number of petitions were last night presented against
the duty on coals coastwise. The repeal of this obnoxious
duty is loudly called for: it presses on every portion of the
community, but distressingly on the poorer orders; to
then it brings in its train unqualified suffering and mi-
sery. The present winter has passed mildly away ; but
the rigours of that of te2g and 1144.48 were bitterly felt.
The sense of the, country has been declared by the number
of petitions presented; we trust, therefore, that the Chancel-
lor of the Fachequer, who has paid a proper consideration
to the feelings of the country since his accession to his high
office, will be influenced by these appeals, and include this
distressing impo.-4 in any reduction of taxation he may
bring forward ou ahe 23d. Another rixluedon that ought