The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-07 00:00:00

HAMBURG II PAPERS.

Ilamburgh Papers to the 13th inst. reached us last
night. The following are extracts:—
CHRISTIANA, Apart.
Count Wide! Jurlslicrg has proposed to the Storthing to petition
his Majesty to obtain, through tb^ Embassy in London, the reci-
procity of commercial advantages for Norwegian ships, in cotif:or-
mity with the Act of the British Parliament of Pith July, 1112.
He ha likewise proposed the adoption of similar measures to obtain
such a recipro.ity for Norwegian ships in Denmark. 3lr. Stotteb-
berg made a similar motion with respect to Prussia, adding, that
it would be proper to advise the Prussian Government that the
Custom-house laws of Norway were different from those of Sweden.
ST. PETERSBUROU APRIL 17.
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A supplement of the Minister of Finance to the 'tariff, maim-
ing the tea trade at Kiaehta, which has been in force ever since
February, 1812, orders. that there shall be henceforward. four sorts
of green tea of the ti:st quality, viz.: Vanekung, Holuntung.
Tachankow, and Peking, or pearl tea. On each of these, aa well
as on tea in chests, a duty of one rouble 83 copecs per lb. is to be
naid ; and for all inferior sorts, 31 roubles per pood (381 b). This
supplement repeats the strict prohibition of all money transactions
in the Chinese trade, and in the barter with China no credit is to be
either given or taken.
BERLIN, APIA. 27.
His Majesty has given orders for the celebration of the seventh
century of the introduction of Christianity into Pomerania. It falls
this year on the 15th June, on which day, in the year 1124, the Po-
meramans converted to Christianity were baptized by Otto, Bishop
of Bamberg, at Otto's Well, near Pyretz. It is ordered to be
kept in all the Christian churches and schools of Pomerania as a
groat festival.

EXCIL
HAMM:HMI. Aram 36 IA; 2 maths 36 11.
PETEISHCRGII, APRIL 16.—Landon, 11-32; Paris, 91f Ij.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

We yesterday received a fifef American Papers to a late
date. They contain several accounts of piracies in the
West Indies. In I:digress, it appears, the New Tariff
Bill continues to be warmly opposed, and the advocates of
the measure despair of its success. In the sitting of the
Senate of the Bth of April a Bill " to abolish imprison-
ment for debt" was ordered to be engrossed for a third rr ad-
ing. On this Bill the New 1-wk. Advertiser of the 12th
ult. observes—" It gives us great satisfaction to find, that
after a struggle of several years the Senate of the United
States has given a distinct expression of its opinion against
the barbarous laws, which, by imprisoning the boor
debtor, declares poverty a crime."
[From the New York Daily Advertiser of the 13th ult.)
NEW VOIX, APRIL 13.
From Captain Powers, who arrived here in twenty.nine days
from l'ara, we learn, that on the 3d :March, the time appointed for
the Brazilian frigate Imperatrez, and sloop of war 'Maranhao), to
sail for Para, the Cantina insurgents were in ion of the
island of Markin and other small islands ; being very nu-
merous, it was the opinion that as soon as the frigate and sloop
sailed they would enter Para, as that appeared to be their intention,
and to overthrow the present Horemnient.
1 From Kingston (Jamaica) Papers to March 13.1
The inhabitants of Spanish Town have been visited by a fever.
which is attributed to adam constructed across a river, which caused
the water to heroine stagnant. The Montego Bay Paper of the
sth 31arch states, that on Thursday sennight a. shoal of whales
were seen from the Point Estate, Hanover, passing to the east..
ward ; five or six Of them wete cast on shore.
FROM CITRACOA, FEU. M.
Our Liberator, Bolivar, has again immortalized Lis name by
the most splendid victory obtained by him in September and
October last, over t'..e armies of Canterac and Laserna, wliu have
been completely overthrown.
(From the New York Commercial Ad: --neer of April 12.1
The National Intelligetwer says, the vote taken in the House
of Representatives, on friday, fur reducing the proposed duty on
iron from 1 dollar and 12 cents per cwt. to 140 cents, we understand,
jeopardises (leopards) the whole bill for a revision of the turitl'ot
duties on imports. With this amendment of the Bill. some of its
warmest friends become its opponents, or at least indifferent to it.
The fate of the Bill is therefgre now more doubtful than ever.