The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-28 00:00:00

FROM THE !FREE, JUNE 30.

Notwithstanding the explicit ordinance of the
King, of the ft2d May, 18 I 5 ; notwithstanding the
assurances repeated on every occasion by the highest
authorities of tl►e State; nay, in spite of the active
preparations already made fur introducing a sl-
tion..l representation in Prussia, there are persons
who frequently express doubts of its being ever in-
troduced, as well as of the necessity and serious in-
tention to introduce it. What justifies these
doubts? Is it the feeling of ancient haunt, which
says to the inhabitant of the March and of Pume-
ranis, that he t►►ay very well continue to be go-
verned as he has been governed hitherto ? Is it the
idea of the Government, that it is not wholly safe
to grant to the people rights which they may abuse ?
Both suppositious are contradicted by the intro-
duction to the ordinance, which speaks of main-
taining the principles hitherto followed, and of a
pledge of confidence which the King will give his
people. These doubts may be much more safely
ascribed to the micliinutions of a certain party,
who feel uncomfortable at the name of a popular
representation, because they are afraid that they
would nut be able to maintain that intermediate si.
Welkin between the King and the people, in which
they have hitherto found their own advantage to the
injury of boils. Parties seldom serve a Prince faith-
fully and well; this is more injurious than it be-
lieves itself. The old Prussians must slut be ac-
cused of inditftrence to their popular cause,
because they thew so little opposition to this
party, and because tl►e friction of political life
seems so inconsiderable precisely in the old pro-
vipers. In part, the people's minds are more excite
ed than is believed in other countries; and partly
they have less cause for sl►ewing any external acti.
vity, because the Government di►regards these ma-
chinations, rind ',root& in its course, on the whole,
on liberal ways, though more slowly.
Nut much is printed upon polit:cs among us, the
journals are under a rigid censorship, and are con-
sidered as the must insignificsiit in Germany.
Pamphlet writing is quite in its infancy among us.
But what is writing and printing to *peeking I
Whoever wishes to make himself acquainted with
the interests of the Prussians in politics, and of the
knowledge they possess on the subject, must attend
to their conversations. The freedom sad boldness
of speech can be no where greater than in Berlin.
In the numerous evening parties, clubs, societies,
fetes, &e. we are to look fur the temper, which
shears an active spirit extending through all classes,
and which with a true attachment to the King and
to Old Prussia, cherishes the greate►t desire for the
higher political existence, a Inch has been announced
in the promise of ■ Constitution. The Govern.
meat is neither a stranger to this spirit, nor averse
to it ; it is too sensible what a difference there is in
the effects between the principles of the year 1806
sod those of 1513.--fAllgerneine %tilting, July 17.)

IMEIZERLAND, JULY 13.

The opening of the Swiss Diet took place at
Berne on the title In►taut with the same ceremonies
as last year.
After the op ' g speech of the Aeoyer, M. De
Mullinen, the Deputies took the oath, and thee
went to the Hall of their sittings--here Count
Mullinen made a second speech, giving * detailed
clew of the internal and external situation of the
Confederation, and pointing out die moat important
subjects of their future deliberations.—(Journal
de Frankfurt, July 17.)

AMERICAN PA PERS.

(From the Mereapstik Advertiser.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 29.
PENSACOLA TAKEN.

By the brig Amelia we received yesterusy the
Savannah Papers to the 22d iust, from which we
copy the following :
( From the Milledgeville Junstal, June i 6.)

We are iuclebietl to Or. Wotkins, Postmaster at
Fort Claiborne. Alabama Territory. for the follow-
important intelligence

"IIAY 27.
" Mears. Grantlauds---I take the liberty of in-
forming you that Gen. J.u•ksou took poisernion of
the Spanish town of Pensacola, on Sunday, about
teu o'cluck, nithout the tilt of a gu u. The Go•

wersior of the place and some of the iiiliatt:tants
have betaken themselves to the Barrancas, with
a determination to oniiittrits the post as long
as possible. The General was making prepara-
tions to move against the Barrancas on Mondry
morning, when my informant left Pensacola. Ilia
force is said to be 1.200, and that of the
enemy 500. The Ba Otstrong, situated at
the entrance of the harbour, but is CoMmanded by
an eminence on which there is a fort. The taking
of the latter will insure the former—his soldiers
suffered considerably, before their arrival at Pen-
a:mold, for provisions; they had lost all to shout
180 horses, but they are represented as being in the
very best spirits, and regretting that an opportunity
of fighting has not yet offered. This is very piers-
ing intelligence to this part of the territory. We
ate in hourly expectation of hearing something fur.
Cher from thence—great numbers of our citizens
left this place to-day for the purpose of visiting the
army, end to visit the fall of the Barrancas. This
may be relied on."

Since the above was in type, we have been fa-
voured with an extra sheet of the St. Stephen's
Halcyon, of the,..trl instant, which mentions the
fall of the Barrancas, in consequence of the mutiny
of the garrison, after a bombardment of three days,
with the loss of two Americans, and 13 Spaniards.
The poststitler states, that General Jackson had set
out for his residence• iii Teitel-ssee.
The capture of Pensacola, we think, will bring
our afairs with Spain to a crisis. We shall soon
have tsar, or an amicable arlitistineot of our differ-
rocas with her.—(Geo. Jour. 16th inst.)
It is ►aid, that at the time of surrendering, our
liners had proceeded within three hundred yards of
the fort. and that there would have been much
longer resistance on the part of the Spaniards, had
not a mutiny broke out amongst them. The flag
of the United States is now waving on the walls of
the BclllBlllCgth mid in the town of Pensacola.

/From the National Istelligeneer.)

WARHINGTON, JUNE 23.

Our readers are doubtless mipatont for further
accounts of General Jackson's movements ; but we
have nothing further to offer them. No direct in-
telligence has reached the seat of Government,
from (Zellers! Jackson's head-quarters, since he
took up the line of march from St. Mark's. We
hove thought proper to notice this absence of in-
formation, to account for the silence we have ob-
served on the subject, since announcing, the other
day, the reported capture of Pen.scula. This re-
port reached the city (rout two different sources, re-
mote from each other, and nearer to the scene of
action than to this city. We have little doubt of
the correctness of the fact of Gen-ral Jackson's
having entered Pensacola; and it it. equally proba-
ble, if he entered at all, it was by ussault, as it is
not to be supposed the Spanish authorities would
have given up so important a post without at least
is shew of resistance.

The motives of this step General Jackson's dis-
patches will tl:sclose. It is presumed such a mea-
sure was not in the contemplation of the Govern-
ment, although it may necessarily have resulted
from the discretion vested in the Commanding
Officer to take such lawful steps es the surety of the
frontier might appear to require. If the Indians in
arms against us led the way to Pensacola, there can
he no doubt of General Jackson's being justified in
following and dislodging them.

WASHINGTON. JUNE IL

The President of the United States reached his
residence in this city yesterday, in the ino r g,
having left the Nonsuch thirty or forty miles be-
low, and came up the river unattended, except by
the boat's crew which rowed him up. Thus has
the President terminated the tour of observation of
the waters of the Chesapeake. which his official duty
devolved upon him. The Nonsuch arrived at the
Navy Yard in the afternoon.
(From she Auro►u of Monday. June 22.)

The Pre►ident bus returned suddenly to the seat
of Government from his tour on the Chesapeake.
The Foreign Ministers, at the head of whom is
Mr. Bagot, have had a hustling week of it. Don
Onis, howeser, is not there ; he has had other en-
gagements for fifteen dips past, in the neighbour-
hood of Philadelphia. It is said he received two
expreocs, one on Tuesday night, and the other on
Wednesday morning, supposed to relate to the
storm of Pensacola.

111 ten days the public may expect to hear Gen.
Jackson openly denounced, as Gen. Mathews was,
when ordered to take possession of St. Augustine,
for misconstruction of his orders.

Don Onis is at Bristol, twenty miles from Phi-
ladelphia; when he heard of the storming of Pen-
sacola by Gen. J.ickson, he exclaimed —,‘ URO time
le lama y acre earda la lama." We must look fur
a translation hereafter.

Dun Onis soya dint the storm of Pensacola was
a matter of farm; that the garrison fired only
blank cartridges. We shall see how true this is
when the official returns are received.

NEW YORK, JUNE 29.

By the arrival of the ship Wood►up, Sims, at
Baltimore, in fifty-five days from Buenos Ayres,
inforinutiou has been received that the Patriot
grimy of Chili has gained a great victory over the
Roy*lslas, and had taken 1,500 prisoners, 160 offi-
cers, with artillery, ammunition, &c. The battle
was fought on the Sth of April, ou the plains of

Muipo. The Patriots were commanded by Ge-
neral San Martin.
The following i• a further account

BURROS AYRES, Argil. 19.
Friday.—lt is now lour o'clock. The air is filled
with shouts of joy, the roar of cannon, and the
ringing of bells. We have obtained • cotnpleto
victory in Chili :-1,500 prisoners, all their artil-
lery, their baggage, their General Officers, a Gene-
ral called Ordonex, are in our hands, the pledges
of victory. The miserable remnant of an army that
a few hors since promised an early conquest of
Chili, now routed and fugitive, seeks in vain for
escape by flight; our cavalry are in pursuit, the
dead strew the field of battle. The action lasted
six hours—it was at the point of the bayonet, the
true weapon for soldiers' liberty, that we have over-
thrown the enemy. Our loss is inconsiderable,
computed with that of the Spaniards.
In the evening • complete and spontaneous illu-
mination prolongs the brilliant day, which for ever
consecrates upon an imperishable basis the inde-
pendence of South America !
A new courier this evening announces, that all
who are not slain are taken prisoners. Otorio alone
has escaped, and it is still expected that he will be
overtaken ; in fine, as the hope of our country says
in his 4ispatclies, " the enemies of Chili exist nu
more."

NEXT TUESDAY LOTTERY DRAWS.-TWO OF
£30,000, TWO OF £l,OOO, 2,008 SOVEREIGNS,
CLARET, PORT, MADEIRA, GOLD-ONLY 8,000
TICKETS.

THE BRITI S PRESS.

LONDON,

TUESDAY. JULY 'lB, 1818.

The capture of Pensacola, which we lately an-
nounced, is confirmed by the arrival of Ameri-
can Papers of recent date. The town was not
taken by storm, as the previous accounts stated.
It surrendered on the 24th of May; the Fort of Bat-
micas surrendered on the 27th.

Penencola is the capital of AVest Florida, the
southern district of North America, belonging
to Spain. The circumstances under which Ge-
neral JACKSON, the American Commander,
has made this hostile attack upon the Spanish
territory, remains to he explained. From tin ar-
t;cle in The National Intelligeneer (the official
Journal of the United Stites), it may be inferred
that the American Government itself is ignorant of
General JACKSON'S motives; nay, it IN even added,
as a conjecture, ‘‘ that suck a measure was not in
the contemplation of Government, although it may
we resulted from the discretion vested iii the
Commarding Officer."--Under these circum-
stances, the following extract from a letter, received
by a mercantile house in the City, is highly iin.
portant :

" ANTIGUA, MAY 28.
6" By a vessel which arrived last night from Porto
Rico, we learn that an embargo has been laid upon
all vessels at that 'Auld, in contemplation of an
approaching rupture with America."

We have received the Paris Papers of Friday
List. General CA NU EL has been committed to so-
litary imprisonment, there to remain until his trial
for this famous conspiracy to dethrone the KING.

Hamburg') and Flanders Mails have arrived,
with Papers from the former city to the :?I,t.
and from Brussels to the 14th instant. We la-
ment to find the King of SWEDEN meanly
truckling to the Barbary States, and purchasing
their forbearance by the customary presents exacted
from him by these lawless depredators. The ex-
ample of so many other nations of the Continent,
we hoped, would have inspired him with a better
spirit. Denmark and Sweden are, we believe, the
only Powers which continue to submit to this de-
gradation.

EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM MADRAS, DATED
FEBRUARY
_ .

" I send you the enclosed sketch of the bottle of
Maheidpoor, fought by the troops under the personal
command of Sir I'. HISLOP, the result of which has
been so favourable to us. The young HOLKAR, a
boy of shout twelve years old, has bean given over
to our Government, to be educated and brought
up by us, as the young R..jath of MYSORE was
after the death of TIPPOO. The HOI.RAR'S re-
venues are estimated at 7it laca of rupees ; he in to
be allowed td hies, and the country assumed ;
Major VAN AGNEW is to have charge of the boy.
The PEISHWAII bas been deposed, and the head of
the Mahrattah Dynasty at Has end. One of the old
family is to be raised by the title of Itnjah ; what
allowance or country may he given to lino is ►till
doubtful. The Nagpore matt has given himself
up to 1114 and will no doubt have his wings clip-
ped. There can he no doubt but that there was
a complete !%lahrattalt confederacy ; and had they
simultimeously commenced their operations against
us, uoir situation would ut obis time have beets most
perilous. The NIZAM and his followers, at Hy-
derabad, were prepared fur the attack, had the
Mahrattahs succeeded. You will, no doubt, re-
ceive much better political intelligence from your
Bengal torrespoodenta. It was said when I was
at Culcutta„ that the Marquis of HASTINGS took
the onus oil himself. The result has certainly been
must furtuuate."

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