The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-17 00:00:00

THE BRITI S 1 PRES S.

I.ON DON,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER fl, ises.

Yesterday, at three o'cloCk, his MAJESTY held a
Court at his Palace in Pall-mall, which was at-
tei.dra by—

Esti Bathurst, the Sari of Liverpool, the Earl of West-
morland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Treasurer
of the Navy, Mr. W. Wynn, the Duke of Dorset, as Master
of the Horse, and Lord Charles hemlock.

Lord ST. HELENS and Sir HILLGROVE TURNER
ware the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which
Mr. CANNING kissed hand*, and received the seals
of office from bis &Warts' upon his being appoint-
ed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the
room of the late Marquis of LONDONDERRY.
Parliament was further prorogued from the Bth
of October to the 26th of November.
Mr. ASHTON SAUTE! was sworn in Lord Lieute-
nant of the County of Carmarthen.
Earl BATtURST was President of the Council, in
the absence of the Earl of fiszao4aY. Mr.
BuLt.sa attended as Clerk of the Council.

The Council broke up about four o'clock.

Mr. CAMNINa had an audience of the KING be-
fore the Council, and the E,rl of LIVERPOOL lied
an audience after the Council.

The Mai, Papers up to Sunday have arrived.
The Comstitaiiimeel of Saturday, under the dates
of Corfu, August 11, and Zvnte, the 14th, gives
what it calla authentic particulars of the general
defeat of the Turks in the pass of Thermopylae on
the 20111 July. The fallowing are extracts :

SANTE, AUGUST 12.

As soon as the Greek Government learned that •
Turkish corps d'ormee had peuetrsted into the Pelo-
ponnesus, •ud that the Ottoman fleet was bound
for this coast, • Proclamation was issued, calling all
the inhabitants to arms, which load the effect of
railing about 8,000 volunteers, which force marched
to join the troops at Pitras. Four thousand Ma-
Motes, tinder their Chief, 111.yrotnichale, arrived at
Calamsta. The rest of the Peloponnesians having
run to arms in every direction, the General. Colo-
cotroni and Mayromichale were enabled to match
at the head of 16,000 men towards Argos.
A second battle took place on the 6th and 7th
of August between the Turks and Greeks io the
plains of St. George, between Argos and Corinth,
when, it is said, 3,000 Turk. were killed. There
are no details as to the number of wounded and
prisoners ; about 2,000 horses, 120 camels, and
all the baggage 281 d ammunitiou fell, into the hands
of the Greeks.

The Turks retired upon Corinth, whither Colo.
cot►oui followed them in vigorous pursuit.
General BERTON and floe of his accomplices
have been found guilty, and sentenced to suffer
death. All the rest of the accused have been
found guilty only of not revealing the plot. In
the preceding sitting, the refusal of M. DLAUI.T
to plead in defence of his client, one of the pri-
soners, was, on the motion of the President, re.
corded by the Clerk of the Court. Our readers
are aware the King's Advocate stated, in the pro-
gress of the trial, that this defect would vitiate the
proceedings. Nothing furtherapprars respecting this
point. The Aosise Court of Paris was occupied the
whole of Thursday with the case of the four Edttora
of newspapers, charged -with having published a
malicious and unfaithful report of part of the pro-
ceedings in the trial of the Rochelle conspiracy.
They were all sentenced to fine and imprisonment
for different terms, with fines in proportion. The
same disregard or the principles of justice that cha-
racterised the previous proceedings was manifested on
the preterit occasion. The parties were not allowed
to produce proof of their innocence; they were con-
victed on the mere assertion of the Officer of the
Crown. From this subject we turn to a country in
which the principles of justice are better understood.
At a moment when no helping hand iu the Christian
States of Europe is stretched out in aid of the op.
pressed and persecuted Greeks, it is grateful to find
that they have found a friend in America. The
4114esseise Zeiensig is quoted for a letter from Coo-
stauticiople, dated the t Rh, in which it is observed
that the Government of the United States, having
no
mistiest with the Parte, and never Milieux-
whited with that Power, has formed some coo-
ns:ion with the Greek Senate. The American
squad.). stationed is the Ideditensasso, sad which

is authorised to save the Greek emigrants iti care
of a ifeneral disaster, was received on tie 43d of
July with great solemnity at Hydra. The
squadron is also said to have landed a great quan-
tity of arms and ammunition at Hydra. Admiral
TOMS ASAS, who attacked the Podia's ves►el, and
oilier Greeks, were presented to the American Coro-'
mender, who congratulated them on their courage.
The letter adds, " Lord STRANGFORD appears to
be jealous of this intercourse ; and it is said that be
has sent agents to Tura, Syrs, and Milo, to per-
suade the inlarbitanta to prefer the protection of
England to that of America."
French Funds on Saturday, 91 f. t c.

Ge►man Papers to the 7'h inst. have arrived.
The Allgen►eine ZeitaNg of this date contains the
fullowilig article :

FROST THE FRONTIERS OF POLAND, AUGUST 26.

By an order of his Imperial Highoess the Grand
Duke Constantine, the Nobles in Podolia and the
Ukraine are forbidden to go into foreign countries.
Those to whom passports have already been deliver-
ed before the publieution of this order, must give
them back again, and the prohibition even has a
►etro-active effect with regard to all passports issued
in the month of July. Permission to visit foreign
countries must be obtained from his Imperial High-
ness himself.

Auslrisn Funds, September 2.—Metalliquea, 831 i Bank
Shares 884.

The Bank Meeting for Thursday, advertised
yesterday in our Paper, excited great interest io
the City, in consequence of the expectation of a
bonus, and the reduction of the annual interest
upon the stock.

Our Paper of yesterday contained a full report of
the Court Martial held on Colonel GORE. lo the
afternoon of Sunday he received • letter from the
Right HOU. JOHN BECHRTT, Judge-Advocate,
congratulating him upon the decision of the Court,
viz —a fall and honourable acquittal. The letter
added, that the Court considered the charge wicked
and malicious, and that a prosecution should be
forthwith instituted against the accuser. The de-
cision of the Court was made known after a shorter
interval Mau is usual on occasions of the kind.
Considerable surprise was, however, expressed yes-
terday by those who read the report, that the Court
did not decide upon the case immediately, so very
clear does the innocence of that officer appear, and
so palpable was the falsehood of the accusation.

The Report of the Select Committee appointed
by the House of Commons to inquire into the
amount and appropriation of the sums levied on ac-
count of the poor Fn England and Wales, has just
been printed and distnbutell„

The Committee begin their Report by observing,
that the returns referred to them, containing state-
ments of the amount of sums levied by way of poor-
rote, and of the sums expended on the poor in the
year ending March 25, 1821, are complete, with the
very inconsiderable exceptions noted in the margin.
—[These exceptions are Baildon and Mannitightun
townships, in the West Riding of York.]
Connecting these accounts with previous ones
laid before the House, there are now "returns for
nine successive years, composing three triennial pe-
riods, ending March, 1821.
The ►exult of the comparison of these accounts
is, that it exhibits • " continued reduction in the
levies, from the year 1817.18, so that in the last
year the amount was less by about 300,000/. than
the year 1819.20, and less by 900,0001. than in
1817-18. It appears, however, that the amount of
expenditure for other purposes than the send' of
the poor his been increasing in the last three years,
viz.—

1818-19
1919 20
1820-21

The Cominittre declare themselves unable to
state po•itirely how this progressive increase has
arisen.

We think it may be interesting to learn the pro•
portion in which the poor rates have diminished
since the years 1817-18; premising, that the whole
expenditure, as compared with what it was in 1812,
has increased. In that year, fur example, theag-
gregate sum levied was 6,123,1781.; but the in-
crease has not been progressive year by year since
1817-18, nor is it slow progressive. Out the con-
trary, each or the three years of the third period has
exhibited a diminution, as compared with the year
preceding, viz.—

In 1817 18 the amount was £7,890,148
In 1818-19 dine 7,531,650
In 1819-20 ditto 7,329,594
1n 1820.21 ditto 6,958,445

The Ruch►■ AMB•UADOB had en audience of
the Kure yesterday.
A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at
Laybach shoot three o'clock in the morning of the
Bth instant.

Sir W. KNIGHTON has succeeded Sir B. BLOOM.
YIELD sis Private Secretary and Keeper of the
'Privy Purse. Mr. Maintains still retains his
place as Clerk of the Privy Purse, and Mr. W
SON Assistant Private Secretary. The latter geu.
tlecnau was many years with the Duke, of Cum-
BERL& /ID. and has beeu • good deal abroad. The
Red Hower, lately occupied by Sir B. BLOM('
111111. D. is to he got i• readiness, it is stated, for the
seceptioo of the family of Sir W. Kmaaroc—
(Evosins Paper.)