The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-29 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

this delightful victory never existed hut in the imagination
of his faithful Gazetteer at Puerto Rico ! But we espe-
cially admire the paragraph with which the author con-
cludes his bold and brilliant fiction :
" This glorious day will have a great influence on Europe. The
English people will see that Macs: t wroso and the other Radicals
deceived them with fbrivi greys, in order to drain them of their
money, and to urge the Government on to a prenutture declaration."

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After this indignant invective against "forged new,,"
we realty know not how to apostrophise this exquisite liar.
It must be the last of his production►, and he seems to
have been determined to dose his performances with an
article of transcendental merit.

The Mowitekr of Saturday contains, in the official part, ex-
tracts from the Minute of the Greif? of the Royal Tribunal of
'Paris, containing the sentences passed upon various authors,
printers, and publishers, on account of certnin works. Some of
them are condemned a. seditious. some as offensive to morals,
others as attacking the religion of the State, or religion in general.
Fitzwta Ferns.—. Pacts, Mauctt 20.—Five per Cents. opened
at Imo.; timed at 102 r. 90c. ; Bank Stock, 2,030 ; Rente des
Naples. Cestiticat. FAlconnet, 9or. tsoc.; Rente d'Espagne, l 8; ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 69. Exchange on London, one month,
25f.; three ditto, 24f. &ie.—Cour, ,4nthentique, Marcia 26.

Letters were received yesterday from Zante, dated the
Sd of March, in which we are informed that a fleet from
Candi°, it was supposed, had succeeded in throwing in some
relief to the Turkish garr'sons of Motion and Coron. The
fleet, it is stated, afterwerls proceeded westerly towards
Patras, and between Zante and the main land passed two
Greek vessels, which escaped by superior sailing. This
informat'on is really of very little moment, suppos-
ig it to be, as we are assured it is, strictly correct in
all its parts. Motion and Coron are places comparatively
insignificant, though it is certainly desirable that the MOrea
should be completely delivered from the presence of a
Turkish force. If this fleet should proceed to the Gulf of
Lepanto, it will have to encounter the blockading
squadron of the Greeks, which we understand consists
of upwards of twenty armed vessels. The possession
of Patras is of so much importance that it was pro-
bable the Turks would make some effort to save it
from falling. From the confident statements is the
French Papers, we were inclined to hope that the re-
ported capitulation was true; but as the most recent letters
from Corfu do not mention the fact, it may be doubted.
Of this naval detachment from Camila, however, we have
not the slightest apprehension. It sould be quite a novel
incident in the war for the Greeks to be beaten on their
favourite element.

The Turkish Government is, we dare say, well enough
disposed to make a strong cndeavonr next summer to ri -
cover its dominion over Greece. Advices from Constan-
tinople and Smyrna state, that a great number of transports
are chartered at a high rate of tonnage, for the conveyance
of the Turkish soldiery to the North Eastern coast of the
Mores, where, if the fleet can arrive in safety, the expedi-
tion is to be landed. Unfortunately for the SULTAN, none
of his plans can he carried into execution without great ex-
pense, and his treasury is considerably dilapidated through
the charges of the four last unsuccessful campaigns. Letters
from Odessa of the sth instant represent the troubles of
Constantinople to have assumed so serious a complection,
that the Divas have been consulting on the propriety of
removing the imperial residence into Asia. It may be
safely predicted. we think, that if the next campaign
against the Greeks should fail, the Ottoman empire will
cease to exist; and that it will fail, who can doubt, after the
experience we have had of Greek patriotism and valour?

We understand that the negociation for the Spanish
Loan has taken a turn, which we think is likely to prove
more beneficial to the bondholders than the terms pre-
viously proposed. The project now under consideration is
to convert the bonds of the Cartes into a new Stock at
three per cent. The capitalists, who probably will be the
contractors, have endeavoured to convince the Spanish
Government that it would be as much a measure of
policy as of justice to recognise the bonds in full ac-
cording to the original bargain ; but there is great reason
to apprehend that the obstacles in the way of this arrange•
ment are insurmountable. The conversion into three per
cent. stock, however, will be the worst treatment the bond-
holders will experience. That is a point that will not be
conceded. The fluctuation in the market in the early part
of yesterday was ascribed to several groundless rumours.
We suspect it was more owing to the reduced quotations
on the Paris Stock Exchange on Friday. We have ob-
served a remarkable sympathy in this respect between the
two markets. When no particular cause affects them, they
are the echo of each other. On Monday and Tuesday
the prices in Landon were depressed by the loud and
positive declarations of the now silent and crest-fallen
'limes and ita coadjutors. On Thursday and Friday we
accordingly find the prices sinking at Paris, and they in their
turn are now operating on our market, and would operate
more powerfully if we had not countervailing information
of which the French speculators are ignorant.

We have judged it advisable to give an abstract of Mr.
Par Ca very important and excellent Bill for the consolida-
tion and amendment of the law relative to Juries in Eng-
land and Wales. The Bill is substantially the sarre as it
was printed at the close of last Session. The amendments
made in the Committee consisted principally in expunging
the new qualifications for Jurors, which were contained in
the original draught. The old law is therefore in fewer
respects changed, and this is certainly the more desirable
course. If it should be deemed proper to extend the
qualification of Jurors, the question can be better con-
sidered in a separate form. In the part relating to the
striking of Special Jurors, we observe an amendment cal-
culated to render that proceeding, if possible, more per-
fectly the act of chanct.. By this device, not the names of
the Special Jurors, but the numbers affixed to them in the
Sheriff's book, will be put into the box, from which the
first 48 drawn out by the proper officer will compose the
Jury for the trial of the cause, unless it can be shown by
the agents on either side, that any of the names corres-
ponding to these numbers are by any cause disqualified
from serving. We need not attempt to satisfy our feelings
by pronouncing a panegyric on this great legislative work.
The Right Honourable Secretary has heard his praises
uttered simultaneously from every quarter of the House of
Commons. His name, already connected with the re-
establishment of our currency, will descend to our latest
posterity as the author of the measure which restored and
embellis'aed the venerable fabric of Trial by Jury.

CITY. Ilfoximy EVEWING.

Consols were very steady throughout the day, and rather
advanced on Saturday's prices. They were done for
Money this morning at 93i ; and for the April account
at 9311.1._

In-the Foreign Market, Securities for the most part were
depressed ; Greek Scrip declined to 6 and 54, though for
dd