The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

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ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
This FRIDAY, July 14, will be performed the new
Melo-Drama of
THE LAST GUERILLA.
The principal Characters by Mews. Peerman, Thorne, Bennett, Archer,
Ciitford, Salter, and Cooper; Misses Hamilton, Coward, and Gray.
After which the Comic Opera of
FREE AND EASY.
Sir John Freeman, Mr. Wrench; Mr. Courtly, Mr. Bartley; Ralph,
Mr. Keeley; Michael, Mr. W. Chapman; Richard, Mr. Power. Mrs.
Courtly, Miss Coward ; Gertrude, MI., Belly.
To conclude with the Comic Operetta of
THE PROMISSORY NOTE.
Mr. Markham, Mr. Wrench ; Mr. Scamper, Mr. Penman , Carollac,
Mina Coward ; Cicely, Miss Kelly.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

Janissaries is going to be destroyed. The new troops will be coned
troops of the Prophet (Askir Alohamoudi—new victorious troops.

JUNE 19.

Thousands of Janissaries have perished either in the combat or
by the hand of the executioner. Their barracks have been burnt,
their regiments are dissolved, and the whole institution abolished.
Tranquillity is now restored ; orders have been given to re-open the
shops, but the arrests and executions still continue; numerous
guards are still placed in the principal streets. The Sultan has not
yet returned to the country, and his soldiers are still encamped In
the inner court of the Seraglio. The Sultan has displayed on this
occasion extraordinary energy and firmness.
The Pacha of the Bosphorus, who may be called the scourge of
the Janissaries, and the artillery under his command, decided the
combat in favour of the Sultan.

The official part of the Mouih'wr contains a long report, ad-
dressed by the Minister of Finance to the King., recommending
that, to complete the guarantees which have already been given to
France relative to the receipt and the expenditure of the public mo-
ney, the amount of all the financial operations executed by the
Ministers shall be submitted to a judicial tribunal, in order that
this tribunal may judge.independently of the reality of the facts de-
veloped in the documents laid before the Chambers for the exami.
nation of the papers (pkces justifiralipeß), the correctness of all the
results which are the subject of their deliberations. The report
enters into a detail of all the improveotents that have been made in
the various branches during the last twelve years. The Minister
concludes by recommending a project of an Ordinance, embodying
the measures he proposes. This is subjoined as a Royal Ordinance,
sur k Coal rote des Comptes (in IlfiniStreS, signed the King,
and countersigned J. de Villele.
FnExcli Fuxus,—Pwats, .1 tmir 11.—Five per Cents'. 081.
98c. ; Three per Cents. GM. 611 c. ; Rank Stock Rentes
de Naples 72f. 40e. ; Rentes d'Espagne 6,1; Spanish Loan 4S,}f.
Exchange on London. one month, 2M. 60c.; three months, 25f.
40c.—fours Alithentique.

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The Smyrna Paper states that M. ROGER, Aide-de-
Camp of the French Ambassador at Constantinople, ar-
rived lately in that town, and set out immediately after
in a French brig of war in quest of Admiral de Rigny,
with a view, as the report goes, to desire him to join the
Austrian division, in order to repress the piracies com-
mitted under the Greek flag. It is not impossible that
France may be lett to take measures sirr.ilar to those of our
own Government for the protection of her commerce ; but
we must have something much stronger than the authority
of the Smyrna journalist, before we can believe that the
French Admiral has received instructions to attack all Greek
vessels indiscriminately. The probability is, that the
mission of M. Roe.ert has some connexion with Lord
COCHRANE:EI expedition.

The following intelligence is extracted from the Memo-
rial Bordelais, which gives it .on the authority of letters
from Vera Cruz, dated towards the end of April. "It is
to be feared that the Mexican Government will shut up all
communication with the ports of France, either because
his Most Christian Majesty will not recognize our intle-
pentlence, or because it is generally reported here that an
expedition of 40,000 men has been fitted out by France
and Spain in common, intended against us. The proptr
measures have been taken in consequence to receive them.
The French frigate La Nymphe arrived here on the 15th
April. She brings a French Commissioner, empowered to
treat concerning commercial affairs with Mexico ; but it is
probable that this Commissioner will be obliged to return
quicker than he would wish, for the certain information
which we have received from London, apprises us that his
credentials are not in due form—that is to say, his mission
is not officially avowed by the French Government." The
Memorial Bjrddaia pretends that these accounts have
been fabricated by the agents of the British Government.
On that point we have not a single observation to make.
If France has sent, as it seems she has, a Commissioner
with powers to treat of commercial matters, it is in itself a
virtual recognition cf the South American States. The
account of the arrival of the frigate with the Commis-
sioner on board, and the objects of his mission, which we
gave above a week ago in the British l'7ess, must there-
fore be considered as substantially correct, though the ob-
jections of the Mexican Government may throw some diffi-
culties in the way of it.

We have copied, in another part of the British Press of
this day, an article on the subject of the circulation of
Scotch notes in the North of England, to which we would
call the attention of our readers. The subject, we doubt
not, will receive due attention in the proper quarters, and
will be thoroughly examined in every point of view of
which it is susceptible. The principal objection to the
measure of doing away with one-pound notes is the dif-
ficulty which would thence arise to small capitalists in pro-
curing loans, as is usually done at present. We are not
aware, for our part, of any reason whatever which could
prevent the Bank of England from advancing, by its branch
establishments, any sums of money which country bankers
could advance ; and it is more likely that the agents of the
Bank of England would be less influenced by private
partialities in their advances, than in the case of the pre-
sent country bankers.

We extracted lately, from an Inverness Paper, a passage
giving an account of a pretended discovery of a cycle of
the price of grain, which was said to be connected with
the cycle of the weather, discovered by the same indivi-
dual. The discoverer asserts that he has formed his con-
clusions from the regular accounts of the price of grain for
a long series of years, from which he has been led to con-
clude that there is a regular succession in the rising and
falling of prices, dependent upon the weather, which he
asserts.to be subject to a like vicissitude. This theory
may, perhaps, possess more of fancy than of reality ; but
we confess it appears to us not by any means so wild a
speculation as some of those whom we have conversed
with on the subject imagine. There is something in the
mind of man which inclines him to run successively from
one extreme to another; and a sudden rise is invariably
followed by an equally sudden fall. There is also
a sort of regular process by which the develop-
ment of truths gradually comes into operation, and
produces important changes in society ; and thus, even in
those departments which depend apparently upon the ca-
prices of the human mind, less steady by far than the de-
ments, there is a sort of cycle—a regular succession, by
which one event leads to another, and which would enable
beings possessed of higher faculties than we are, to draw
the last link of the chain from the first. In the occurrences
of a few years we may see events following in something
of this form. We have seen the manufacturing interest
depressed, and the agricultural flourishing; we have seen
them change places again and again in the rank of pro-
sperity ; and the people of this country ought not to be de-
pressed by a vicissitude to which they have so frequently
been subject.

at 411 to f, and Colombian at 27, while Greek Scrip is'
at 111 to 12.
Letters from Naples of the 27th June announce that, by
a Royal Ordinance just promulgated, a duty of consi-
derable amount is established, over and above that which is
at present levied, on all colonial articles and fish consumed
in the town of Naples, the same to take place from
the Ist Jan. 1827. The letters do not state the amount
of duty in British currency, but it is understood to be an
impost of a very serious nature. It is vety afflicting to ace
such a serious tax levied upon the consumers of the com-
modities in question ; but it is still more afflicting to ob-
serve, that while England is setting so brilliant an ex-

ample, in freeing cotnmerce from the fetters in which it
has so long been bound, any Government can be found to
do the double injury of enhancing the price of the com-
modity to the consumer, on the one hand, and on the
other, to check the regular course of an important branch
of trade, which it is idle to suppose will bring into the
Royal coffers anything like the amount of the proposed in-
crease of duty.
The letters from the distressed manufacturing districts of
this day do not detail any circumstances of import. Though
the stagnation of trade increases rather than diminishes,
the poor creatures who are the severest sufferers hear their
lot with something like composure, and no acts of violence
are mentioned as having taken place. It is considered
matter of alleviation that this incvased pressure has oc-
curred at a season of the year when the wants of the poor
are lees felt than at any other, and we heartily participate
in the hope expressed by many of the masters, that ere the
fall of the leaf some important change will be effected in
the market, so as to cause a demand, and with that de-
mand a return of credit.

It is understood that the Parliament was prorogued on
Wednesday by the King in Council, at the King's Castle,
Windsor, to the 94th (lay of August next.
DINNER OF AMERICANS AT PARIS.—The citizens Of
the United States at Paris assembled on Tuesday se'nnight,
at an inn in Paris, to celebrate the 501 h anniversary of their
independence. General Lafayette made a discourse on the
occasion.

THE WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT.—We learn
from Sweden that the fire in the woods in that kingdom,
which had been greatly promoted by an unexampled
drought of six or seven weeks duration, has been lately
checked by very great exertions. In two places the fire
has destroyed the forests to the extent of nine mile. At
the end of June the atmosphere at Stockholm was obscured
by the smoke, and fears were entertained for the safety of
the neighbouring places. The accounts from Sweden of the
effects of the drought on the corn and fruits are melan-
choly. From Norway anti Denmark but little better.
IThile the North of Europe is thus distressed for want of
rain, it has been so a',undant and continual in Hungary,
in the latter part of June, that the rivers have overflowed
their banks, and the Danube has done considerable
damage near Presburg. Much rain also fell at the same
dine in the mountains of Silesia, and on the 26th the
Oder had risen very much at Breslau, but it was begin-
ning to fall again.
EA ILTHQUA k E IN THE ALM—At Inspruck, on the 23d
June, at half-past eight in the evening, two slight shocks
of an earthquake were felt ; and a much more violent one
next morning, at a quarter past four, which shook the
furniture in the rooms, and was particularly felt by those
who were in bed ; and some persons fancy they felt some
slight shocks in the afternoon, at five o'clock. Shocks were
felt at the same time at Trent and Roveredo. On the 24th
of June, between one and two in the afternoon, pretty
smart shocks of an earthquake were also felt at many
places on both sides of the lake of Zurich.
PARLIAMENTARY.BUSINEBS.—Of the great increase of
Parliamentary business iu the House of Columns, an idea
may be formed from the evidence of Mr. Mitchell, cf the
Vote Office. In his examination before the Select Com-
mittee on Committee Rooms and Printed Papers, he states
that " There has been such an increase in the printed
votes and proceedings of the House of Commons, as to
render of late years a tenfold greater space necessary than
was required in years past ; anti that,' from the greater
anxiety with respect to Parliamentary business, the de-
mand and press upon the office, in the discharge of its
duties, is a hundredfold greater than formerly.
MIRACLE.—A Lyons Paper states that the wife of a
labourer had been ill for eleven years, and had not quitted
her bed since the month of March. A sudden insiiration
led her to invoke the blessed St. Jubin. whose tomb had
just been discovered at St. Irene. She determined to
profit by the power which she supposed the relics of the
Saint to possess, of working miracles before that power
should grow old. She proceeded with that lively faith
which removes mountains, but which could not move her.
She caused herself to be carried on a litter on the 231 ult.
at ten o'clock in the morning, to the tomb of St. Jubin.
Care was taken to inform her friends and acquaintances,
and there was a great assembly of the faithful who had
never yet seen a miracle, and were all agog to see one at
last. All eyes were fixed on the woman on the commence-
ment of the mass, but the virtue of St. Jubin did not yet
operate. However, on the elevation of the host, she
kneeled without any assistance, and an instant after she
walked easily and steadily to the communion table. The
husband who wrote the account of these facts himself, in
other terms, as may be supposed, adds that the litter
bearers and many of the spectators shed tears of tender-
ness and joy, anti called out " She is eared!" She left the
church casting a disdainful look at her litter, and loaded
with blessings. Since that time she goes every day to hear
mass by herself, anti perhaps she danced last Sunday for
the honour of St. Irenmus.
Dasaneri. AcCIDENT.—There is much talk in the
town of Auch about an accident which happened there
on the 24 instant, to a young woman 20 years of age. who
fell down dead as she was going into a house to rest a
little. In consequence of the suspicious circumstances
attending her death, her body was examined, and poison
was discovered to have been taken. It is added that the
deceased was pregnant, and that she had swallowed a
draught the morning before her death to procure a miscar-
riage. Two women have been arrested in the town, who
are strongly suspected of having composed or administered
thereat drug.
LOVE AND MURDER..—AbOIIi ten months ago, a double
marriage was concluded at Veigneux, between the families
of Dumoulin and Briant ; John Dumoulin having married
Maria Brian', and John Brir nt having married Sophia
Dumoulin. In the month of November last, at nice
o'clock in the evening, John Briant, in returning from the
house of the widow Dumoulin, his mother-in-law, was
assassinated. Ilis body was found on the following day,
and suspicion fell upon a man named Pooeul, who had long
lived as a servant with the Dutnoulin family, anti was sus-
pected of an improper intimacy with Sophia Dumoulin,
since her marriage with the deceased. A variety of circum-
stances transpired to implicate Docenls, among other
things, it was proved that lie hail said, immediately after
the murder, " I have just done a thing which I never did
before, and can never do again :" but the most conclusive
evidence was that of a poor beggar and half idiot, named
Colas, who, having no as) hum, wanders about the fieldr.
After maintaining silence for a long time, Colas said, that
on the night of the murder, he was lying in a ditch near
where the belly was found, when lie heard the prisoner
' say to Briant, " It is here that you must die, for you have
robbed me of my wife." Alter this dialogue, the witness
declared that he saw the prisoner fall upon the deceased,
who cried out for help. This evidence made a great
impression, anti a majority of the Jury returned a verdict
of Guilty ; but the Judges having some doubt of it,
joined themselves to the minority, and thus acquitted the
prisoner. Doceul was fast asleep when the verdict cf ac-
quittal was pronounced. He was awakened by force, and
apprized of it.
Yesterday Count Lottum, Charge d'Affaires of his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia at the Court of London, jointly
with Mr. N. M. Rothschild, anti accompanied by Mr.
Charles Green, Notary Public, cancelled and deposited in
the Bank of England the amount of 20,4501. in special
bonds of the Prussian Loan of 1822, being the seventh
half-yearly redemption of bonds, viz. one half per cent. on
the amount of the Loan, and also the saving of the interest
on the 111,9001. redeemed to the Ist of January last, in-
clusive.

FRENCH FII•ANCE.

The following is the sutninary of the French budget of
receipts, for the financial year of IR27:

Registers, stamps,&C.
(:rown timber - -
Customs sod Salt duties
Jodirect taxes
Post•office
Lotteries
Paid by the city of Paris
Divers Products
Direct taxes

Franca.
. 184,400 (MA
2.1,3441 MU
- 147.904.600

213,300,1*i
27,51111m0
15,411)
. . 6,4011,000

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2t40;48,734

Total . . 91660# 734
The excess for Inn is about the same as that of 1826.

ACCOUN7'
PRESENTED TO THE GREER GOVERNMENT ay Tar
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DEPUTIES ORLANDO AND LURIOTIS.

- 1,110.000
31,000
10,54;0
2,200
k I 456403
200,000
20.000
84.000
113.200
123,000
37.0041
153,000
1.200
400
67,893
11,930

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- 2,709
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