The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-09 00:00:00

Tomorrow, A Grand IlualeiS
Mr. sneer.

THEATRE ROiAE,CdVEIVT-GARDE.V.
Thbi Evening. TUESDAY. March 9. will be performed
NATIVE LAND.
Principal characters by 'Alessnt. Sinclair, W. Farren. Cooper. arA Few.
Lett r Mimes Paton. L.•re. and M. Tree.
After which.
THE MILLER .IND Ills MEN.
Tomurrow, there wtll be nu Performance.

THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
On Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent.
LECTOR! on A4THONOMY and be MIRNuMENA of the
A
HEVENS and o the EARTH.
The Second Lecture to he deliveredf by Mr. Rattler, TO-MORROW.
To tatiOn at Heron' and conclude at I`..m.
Tickets of Atintoti fur Families to be had on moderate terms at
the Box-olllce.

The Therrien Passe commenced publishing yesterday morning
at Five o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, INC

The Paris Journals of Saturday, and the Etoile dated
Sunday, reached our office last night. They contain very
little of general interest. It appears that the King of
the Netherlands has sent a squadron to cruise against
the Algerines, who before the 12th of last month had
carried four Spanish vessels into the port of Algiers.

[Fillip the tfonitrur, Mardi 64
(Official Part.)
PARIS, MARCH 5.

To-day. before mass, His Excellency the Prince of Castel-,
cicala, Ambassador from his Sicilian Majesty, presented to the
King, is well as to. their Royal Highnesses Monsieur and the Duke
of Angouleme, in a private audience, the letters which his Sove-
reign has written to them on sending to the King and each of
those Ptinces the insignia of the Orders of St. Jannarius and.
St. redhaod.

(tion.official Part.)
ROME, FES. iik
As the Roman Seminary is to occupy tho bwikling belonging to
the Academy of St. Luke, his Highness has ordered that the
Academy shall be transferred to a building neat to the Vatican.
This will ►e highly agreed* to the students, who will have before
their eyes the masterpieces of art praierved in the museums of the
Vatican.

It is aKrmed that his Holiness has ordered that Cones, Portig.
liana, Campeatorto, and Ostia, shall be declared places of asylum
for malefactors, ai in ancient times. The object of this measure
, appears to be to prevent the inhabitants of the Campagna Romagna,
from joining the banditti in the mountains when they have rendered,
themselves amenable to justice for ordinasy transgressions.

The Englishman who was lately wounded by the man to wham
he had given his fowling-piece to repair, is in peat danger : he is
sn officer, the last descendant of the celebrated Lost Bacon of
Verulam:

On Ascension-day the Sovereign Pontiff' will proclaim the Holy
Year, and. on Christmas-eve he will open the sacred gate of the
Basilica of the Vatican. At the same time several Cardinals will
open the sacred gates of the other churches. During the whole of
the year 11123 there will be no public spectacles in the Roman
States. The last Holy Year was proclaimed in 1776, under the
Pontificate of Pius VI.
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MADRID, Fri. 25.

Several Members of the Council of Coatille have bees allowed to
retire. The King has nominated in their room Memo. Limon
Garrido, Camara, Cano, Olal, Winless, Almazan, Luis de
Leon, Sharrz Valdes, Til. Perez, Simla, and Soler.

Meson. Argentina and Castiela, the two Ant deem ht the De-
partment of the Minister of State, have also bees allowed to retire.

IFrom the EN!le, dated Sunday, March 7.1
PARIS, MARCH 6.

The squadron of his Majesty, the King of the Netherlands, which
was in the Nun of she Balearic lolanda, under the command of Ad-
miral Ruyach, has sailed to make war on theAlgerines, in conformity
with the treaty of Alcala, because that Regency has sent ships of
war and a great number of corsairs to the coast of Spain, for the
purpose of capturing all Spanish vessels that they may meet with.
It is known, Mat before the 12th of last month, knit Spanish ves-
sels had bees amid into the port of Algiers.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, 6.—Five per Cent.Jouisa
du isa Sept. 1823, closed sth March, at 104 f. Ihfe. ; Joules du 22d
March, 1824, opened at 102 f. 80c., closed at 102 f. 50c. • Neapolitan
Five per Cents. 16f. ; Rents* d'Espag. 24; Royal Spanish
Loan, 1823, 614. Exchange on lionsiqs—ons Month, 2.5 f. 41ir• I
three months, 24f. 30c.

Jamaica Papers t 3 the 14th of January, and Demerara
to the 22d, reached us yesterday. In the former island no
symptoms of insubordination had shown themselves, nor
were any apprehensions manifested for the continuance of
tranquillity. His Grace the Governor, we learn, has par-1
doned Elea de Sotto, Joakim Hernandez, Pablo Biller, and
Juan Olivier, who were found guilty of piracy at the late
Admiralty Sessions, and sentenced to be hanged. From
Demerara the advices as to the state of the colony arc
equally satisfactory. Martial law ceased there on the 19th
of January, after an existence of exactly five month@ : on
that day the troops of the garrison, with the George Town
militia, under their commanding officers, ree..)ived his
Exeellency the Commander in-Chid, whose arrival was

hailed by a general salute of artillery and musketry. Ills
Xxcellrney then expressed to the Commandants his high
sense of their services, and of the arduous exertions of the
soldiers under their orders. The expiration of martial law
was celebrated with deep and enthusiastic feelings by the
inhabitants, whose peace, if we may judge from the tone
of private letters, is not likely soon to be disturbed.
Despatches from Ilaibadoes to the 10th ult. state, the
general tranquillity prevailed also in these islands. The!
27th regiment from Ireland, and the 93d from Gibraltar,
I had arrived there in safety.

Yesterday we received Lisbon Gazettes to the 2211 ult.
The owl/ article worth ooOce in them it an account gl the

ceremony of investing the King of Portugal and Don Afigr
with the Russian Order of St. Andrew. Baron SjingpqM.,,,t*
on presenting the insignia of the Order to his; lltalent:, .
made a very complimentary speech, to which the King re-
plied—" I highly value those. testimonies of esteem from a
Sovereign Who, by so many exalted qualities, has gaidell
the admiration of the whole universe."

The proposed alterations in the duties on silk underwent
a long and very interesting discussion in the Monroe of
Commons yesterday. Mr. Huskisson, in the *bane: of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer (who, we regret, was
prevented by indisposition from attending in his
after pointing out the advantages that would result from
the general adoption of a liberal commercial policy, wen*
into a detailed explanation of the motives that induced
Government to propose an altesation in the silk duties. A
reduction on the raw material, and a diminution of the
countervailing prohibitory duties on foreign manufactured
silk, formed the subject matter of the resolutions proposed.
by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He proposed that the re-
duction on the raw material should take place from the
25th of this month, and that the other put of the plan, for
the admission of foreign silk into the British market on the.
' payment of a small duty, should not come into operation till
the sth of July, W 26. This delay with regard to the counter-
vailing duties, Mr. Iluskissonobaerved, was a concession to.
those who were enguged in the silk trade, teeny of whose
petitions had been presented to the House. He considered,
that in two years the British manufacturer would be en-
abled so to regulate his trade, as not to suffer from the re-
duction of the prohibitory duties. Mr. Baring, ma
the other hand., apprehended that the dread of fo-
reign competition would be so great, as to throw
a damp upon the silk trade of the country, and deter the
manufacturer from pursuing it with enterprise and spirit.
Ile thought the only effect of the delay would be, to giv,-.
those who had atnbarked their capital in this branch of
manufacture, an opportunity of gradually withdrawing
themselvts from it. After several other members had
spoken on the question, the resolutions of Mr. Huskisson
were carried without a division.

As a measure of relief to the West India Inantess, Mr.
Hume, in a Committee of Ways and Means last night,
proposed to reduce the duty on sugar from twenty-seven to
twenty shillings per hut decd. The Host. Member ob-
' served that this reduction would not embarrass the di alms
of the country, whilst at the same time it would produce
a sensible benefit to the %Vest India Trade. Mr. Baring
did not think that the proposed reduction would prodm-
any relief to the planter; and it would only give the con-
sumer his sugar at about one halfpenny par pound °heap's
than he bought it at present. It appeared by q statement
from Mr. Huskisson, that since 1814 the consumption
of sugar has increased considerably more than the surplus
produce. The Right Hon. Gentleman considered, that I v
permitting distillation from sugar, had been propcscti,
very little, in the shape of immediate relief, would be pro-.
duced. Mr. Rose Ellis was desirous that some general
plan of relief should be devised for the West Iwdians, anet
that the existing duties should remain. Mr. Calash and
Mr. Benett (of Wiltshire) expressed themselves favourablp
to the introduction of sugar into the distilleries, when, made-
. the existing Corn Laws, foreign barley might be import -d.
into this country. The amendment of Mr. Hume being
strongly opposed by several Members, the non. *110"
ultimately withdrew it. . s •