The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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nave reass• t o fear if s Russian army had op-
reached Constantinople. Lord Strangtord has re-
sided for some time at his country house by the sea
side. N. Chsppon, his Charge d'Affaires, continues
his aegociations with the Reis Effendi."

The same Paper contains an article on the sub-
scriptions opened In the Russian empire for the
Greeks who had taken refuge in it. The subscrip.
tic)" amount it seem to 97,000 roubles, of which
his Majesty the Emperor contributed 150,000, and
the Empress Mother 10,000. But a the number
atter indigent Greek fugitives is very great, further
subscription are inherited fo► this laudable object.
sirtsmeme IS.

We learn that his Majesty's departure fur the
Congress at Vienna, &c. is now fixed for the 40th
instant.

SEPTIMBIR 15.
The Prince Chancellor is expected to.dity from
Westphalia, and it is said he will also go to the Con.
gems the beginning of next month.
COPENHAGEN, sttnaresß 10.
Their Highnesses Prince Christian of Denmark,
sad his consort, arrived on the 16th at Odense, and
ots the 11th at Fredericksburg.
1110CILkoLlt, SEPTMOIBIR 10.
We learn from Westemes, that on the 4th inst.
a fire broke oat iu the building, called the Old
Hocithstis, near Kungsoer, which consumed both

that and the old Castle, or King's-house, together
with the Town-house. The Castle belonged to his
Majesty and the Crown, the other ',eliding* to the
clergymen, wbo purchased them of the Crown. The
furniture, &c. was for the most part saved.
WAII.SIII, SITTSIMER 8.

The Diet is not convoked. His Majesty, how.

ever, in confirming the budget for this year and
the next, has reduced by one-third the contribution
to be furnished in kind, so that this tax is now re-
doted by 478,000 rix dollars.—( Hambergh Papers,
September 17.)
Exchange on London-37 01; 37 3/.
IT. PITER3IIOIIOII, SEPTEMBER 3.
Exchange...
iLossloo ........10 111 1.10 I Hamburg% ......
Acnstardass ....10 3 32 1-10 i Paris lO6

lIIATONNI, SEPTIMBaIt 14.
Our Chamber of Commerce has just addressed .
very energetic representation to the Government,
complaining of the injury which the merchants sus-
tain in consequence of the measures ordered, it is
said, by the Secret Committee of the Faith in our
city, of which General Equia is President, to stop
the mails going from France to the Peninsula, and
vice versa. This complaint is said to have been
induced by a report generally spread and believed,
that there lately arrived here two soldiers of the
guerillas of the Faith, which infest the great ►oad
of the three provinces, bringing dispatches for Gen.
Equia, and even a part of the intercepted corres-
pondence, which he has refused to give up, alleg-
ing that he had received only dispatches concern-
ing hie army. However this be, if the orders to
stop the mails continue to be executed as is feared,
the merchants of Bayonne will sustain serious in-
jury by the total interruption of all busiuess with
the Peninsula.
The adventurer A Icarez Toledo, one of the p►in-
c:pal agents of the counter-revolutionary party
'thief) has been formed on our frontiers, arrived here
the day before yesterday from the Seo d'Urgel. It
is said he complains of the operations of Quesada
and Co. The Supreme Junta of Government of
Catalonia intends, it is reported, to send a represen-
tative to the Congress at Verona, expecting that he
will meet with a better reception than the Deputy

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of the Constitutional Government, if one is sent.
Various reports of military preparations are cir-
culated here; it is even affirmed that orders are
given to receive at Bayonne, between this and the
lid, of October, 25,000 men.; but we canaut *ar-
rant the accuracy of this statement. We content
ourselves with saying, that the military preparations,
and laying in stores of provisions, continue, mile,
that our neighbours, the Constitutional Spaniards,
are a little alarmed at them ; not that they fear a
foreign invasion, for they boast before hand of the
fatal consequences that would attend it, as well
for the• invaders as the invaded; the invaders,
they say,- would not be able to sleep at ease
in thrie-Awarters without a guard at the foot
of their -beds to protect them from the dag-
ger. In the Interior similar threats are heard, even
from the women, who participate in the enthusiasm
of their husbands and relations. The Royalists on
the frontiers, however, wish that an auxitiary army
had already entered, and there is no doubt that
3,000 men wound hot at present meet with the small.
est resistance as far us Vittoria. We have no cer,
tain accounts of the army of (Ness& posterior to
the affairs of the 7th, which is confirmed, with the
exception of the arrest of that General by his own
troops, which was a mere firtien as it seems. It is,
however, said, that after the defeat of the '7 t h, Que-
nch and the Trappist retreated towards Moncayo,
on the road to Calstayad ; others pretend that they
have taken the direction of Catalonia, by the way of
Ainsi and Benavarri, having left in the mountains
of Navarre about I,ioo men. Others affirm that
General Equia has just received dispatches from
Queseda, dated the 1 tth inst. from heti.
It is nine o'clock, and the post from Spain is not
yet arrived; the driver of the mail from Bayonne,
who gees to the Pas de Behobie to fetch the mails
tam sits Peaiosala, arrived this Morning at eight
o'clock, kciogiog only letters (ma bun end St. Se-

bestian. The 'first confirm the news that the three
last mails from this city for Madrid have been in.
tercepted, two in the Basque provinces, and the
other at Lerma, six leagues from. Burgos, by the
partisan Cabello ; and add, that it was not feared
that the mail would be intercepted, because orders
had been given to escort it, but that it would per•
haps arrive 24 honrs later.

The St. Stbattiait Gillette contains a circular
note of tht Provisional Deputation, the object of
which is to collect in the chief towns of the districts
the young men dwelling in the country who may be
in danger of being carried off by the factious.—
Measures have been token to give fifteen sous per
day to each mon while they are in those places of
refuge. Thus all excuse is taken from those who
should pretend they were carried from their homes
by force; sod the Mayors, &c. are made responsible.
Another circular publishes the Decree of the
Cortei, of the 29th June, respecting the surveil-
lance which the Political Chief and the Provisional
Deputstioo ought to exercise over the suspicions
conduct of the Clergy of their provinces, and the
removal from their functions of those priests who do
not inspire the necessary confidence.

A third circular prohibits the sale of gunpowder.
and orders the inhabitants of the three provinces to
deliver op as soon as possible and under severe pe-
nalties all fire-arms fit for service that they may
have in their possession.
The same journal mentions the hostile prepara-
tions making at Bayonne, and positively announces
that the correspondence intercepted by the soldiers
of Zabala has been sent to General Equia. It is
the battalion of the active militia of Salamanca
which has arrived at Sr. Sebastian ; the Governor of
Burgos has retained the grenadier company of that
corps to pursue the partisan Cabilla, whose band
daily increases and intercepts the communications.

The arrival of the French General Count
d'Erlon at Barcelona is but too true ; it is posi-
tively affirmed that he has asked permission of the
Spanish Government to raise a foreign corps, to be
called Knights of Liberty, and that it was strongly
believed he would obtain it.
•MOTERDAII, SEPTEMBER 18.

To-day at noon one of the most dreadful fires
broke out here that has happened in this city for
many years. The new Lutheran church, on the
north-east side of the Singel, is burnt down, toge-
ther with some of the adjacent buildings. The
church was observed to be oo fire about half-past
one, and a little after two it was all in flames. The
heat was so great, that all efforts to save the near-
est houses were necessarily renounced. It was felt
at the distance of two streets nit the Torenslius,
and opposite the church it wn insupportable, not-
withstanding the breadth of the Singel. The sight
of the lofty capita in flames was dreadful but sub.
lime. The copper which covered it, and which flew
in large sheets through the air, coloured the flames
with varying tints of blue and green, which were
speedily mingled with the brighter flames of the
ardent spirit, and the dark yellow smoke of the oil
with which the adjacent warehouses were filled. It
seems certain (at least this is the general supposi-
tion), that the fire commenced in the church itself,
and not in one of the neighbouring warehouses;
but with respect to the real cause of the mi►for-
tune, we have little more than conjectures. On
account of the violence of the fire ■nd falling
sparks, the vessels Dearest the Singel, over which a
very strong easterly wind fortunately drove the
thick smoke, had to remove to another place. It
does not appear that any of them received much
damage.
The fine church thus destroyed, and of which
little will remain but the wall round it, which is
ten feet thick, was erected in the years 1678-1691,
chiefly by voluntary donations. The fine dome
was built on the model of that of St. Peter's at
Rome, and, as well as a semicircular building ad-
joining, covered with pion of copper, which was
brought from Sweden duty free, by permission of
King Charles Xl. On the platform of the adjoin-
ing back building there was a large cistern of rein
water, to be used in case of fire : we do not know
whether it has been of any service on this occasion.
Four o'Clock.—Four of the adjoining dwelling-
houses and magazines are burnt, and the fifth is in
flames.

AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 19.
The fire yesterday seems to have broken out in
the loft where the plumbers had been at work, sod
so rapidly spread, that the church was all in flames
in half su hour, and soon communicated to the
neighbouring houses and warehouses, some of which
being full of spirits, wine, and other inflammable
substances, added to the fury of the conflagration.
The greatest praise is due to the firemen for their
extraordinary exertions, and we are happy not to
have heard of any accident of great consequence,
only that one of the firemen received some severe
bruises on the neck and hands, soother on the bands
only. The whole inside of the church is destroyed,
the walls only remaining. happily the books and
papers were saved, as well as some valuable se.
tides from the Consistorial Chamber. Six dwell.
iog.housem mud 9 warehouses are entirely or nearly
destroyed, some others are damaged, but not to any
extent.

A Berlia Paper, which is considered as hail
official, positively contradicts the report of the
search of au Austrian corps to reinforce the French
cordon on the Pyreoees.—(Dtdch Papers, Sep-
tember 414