The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-06 00:00:00

TI IJ BROCS I SS._

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, Novsmsza 6. 1844.

Jamaica Papers to the 15th September sustain
in their full extent the complaints recently made
et Lloyd's of the inadequate protection afforded to
oar commerce in the West Indies. The mer-
chants and traders residing at Kingston have had a
meeting, in which they have made similar corn-
plaints, and passed resolutions to that effect. The
charges and statements made at • public meeting
are very different from anonymous reports, cir.
ciliated for sinister purposes by persons interested
in raising the rate of insurance, of which deverip-
tam Admiral Itowt,Ey was pleased to consider
some of the accounts of piracies committed within
the !nail's of his station. The Secretary of the
Admiralty. we apprehend, must yield to the
weight of such authority mil strike his colours.—
The Houre of Assembly met on the Ist of October
fur the purpose of enabling the Legislature to
equalise the American duties under the new
Act. The following is an extract from these Ja-
maica Pipers :

KINGSTON, SEPTEMIIKK 11.

A public meeting was held at the Court House
on the 9th instant, and several Resolutions entered
into. The first and third of those Resolutions,
which are the principal ones, are as follow :

" Resolved—Thal the depredations, now too daringly com •
mined ou our commerce, can no longer be viewed with in•
difference; and t►at the expediency of extirpating the band
of pirates infesting these seas calls loudly fur measures the
MOM prompt and efficacious.
" Resolved—That at no period of war were convoys so
indisptasable in these seas ; and that the squadron on the
station is totally inadequate to the protection of its trade."
The following isan outline of the proceedings:—
A numerous and highly-respectable meeting of the
merchants of this city was held ■t the Court House
on Monday forenoon, to take into consideration
" The existing state of the trade, generally, of the
island." The requisition to the Mayor, and the
advertisement calling the meeting having been
read, Mr. BARNES was called to the Chair.

Mr. HYSLOP observed, that it was fully under.
stood by the Gentlemen present what was the nature
of the object for which they were convened, but the
difficulty was how to attain it. lie thought the
most effectual method would be for the Meeting to
draw up a Memorial, to he signed by the Chairman
on behalf of the Meeting, and transmit the same to
the Colonial Office, setting forth the unprotectid
state of the trade of the island, and soliciting addi-
tional force to the station. He did nut think that
any blame attached to the Commander-in• Chief,
for the squadron was quite inadequate to the ser-
vice of the wide range of the station. If the fault
was any where, it was with the Admiralty, who
should have attended to such outrages long ago.
It was suggested by Mr. HRECIIPICLD, that
Government should be requested to apply to the
Spanish Government to dreire the public authori-
ties of Cuba to exert themselves to suppress the
hordes of pirates infesting its coasts.
This Mr. [Tenor said had already been done
through a Memorial ..: the merchant* of Glasgow,
but he was sure it would prove useless, for he de-
clared publicly ard fearlessly that strong suspicions
existed of their being concerned in those most atro-
cious piracies. He then submitted the Resolutions,
which were read and agreed to. He submitted to the
Meeting the draft of • letter to Lord Bathurst,
which was read, setting forth that the navigation
round Cape Antonio had of late been completely
interrupted by a hawk.. band of pirates infesting
that coast, who had in some instances committed
the moat cruel and wanton murders on the defence-
less crews ()fireside from this island, and, in a recent
case, had carried off a ship with u valuable cargo
bound from this island to London; that those free-
bootees had not confined their atrocities to the
western extremity of Cubs, but had become thiritig
in proportion to the impunity with which they found
they could carry on the predatory warfare, in Nye
existing insw.gicieney of oar nava/ fusee ; the scene
of it had extended to our own coots, almost block-
ading Port Royal, and exhibiting within these few
weeks the mortifying sight of a vessel, which had
toiled only that morning, chased back, and totally
wrecked on the Palisadoes, to the severe loss of the
merchants and omierwriters of this city ; it presumes
that detailed accounts of these atrocities have already
been forwarded by the Commander-in-Chief, but
conceives the present application necessary, as She
evil is increasing with rapid strides. The letter then
glances at the description of the force mew on the
station, us nut being adequate to the protection Cf
Bilitili interests against this " enemy in peace."
and euggeris the propriety of substituting ten
schooners in MOM of two of the 20-gun ships.

Upoir thus hist subject some ►hort discussion
wore, it being stated that this reduction could not
be acceded to, as there would not be a sufficient
number of Captains to form a court martial.

Mr. Garman'Lir raid, that the Admiral had
already urgently requested the Admiralty to send
out six schooner. to the station, and he submitted
whether, thetelate, it would not be better to memo-
rialise that Board, thus backing and strengthening
the Ailiniral'a application, than to addre►s Lord
list karst on the subject.
This ropes's!, however, was not agreed to; and

-wimine.

ba tiit ',ion of Mi. 111'1.0 and Others, td
soiieit the additional protretion sought (o by the
Admiral, the same was adotitt-d, and the letter or-
dered to be transmitted by the Chairman along with
the Resolutions."—(Kiagsma Chronicle.)

An extract from the Austrian Obsert,er, given in
another part of our Paper, contains • variety of
details respecting the revolt military operations iii
the More•. The Austrian Obsertrer having uni-
formly espoused the interests of the Turks, its
statements. where unfavourable to their opponents,
should be received with caution.

lii consequence of the notice issued for the meet.
ing of the Comfort') Council of the city of Dublin,
announced in our Paper of yesterday, forty-nine
members of that body met at the Assembly House
on Saturday ; one gent leinsii, conceiving it to be an
illegal meetiog, quitted the room, when the remain.
ing 43 proceeded to busineso. They commenced
by deprecating the conduct of the LORD MAYOR in
issuing what they were pleased to term an illegal
Proclamation—entered into Resolutions that they
would persevere in dressing the statue—called
upon Mr. ALLEN, the Clerk of the Corporation,
to draw them up as the proceedings of 1, the Com-
mon Council" of the city of Dublin ; but this Mr.
ALLEN refused to do, saying they only composed
• small part of the Council. Mr. SUTTIR and
some other persons then volunteered to draw them
up as the proceedings of the Council at large.
The 4th of November is the onnivernry of
this exhibition of the statue of King WILLIAM.
dressed in orange rags, an exhibition as insulting
to the memory of the Sovereign whom its patrons
affect to honour, as to the living Sovereign, to whom
they profess loyalty and affection. It will be seen
in our extracts from the Dublin Papers of Satur-
day, that a violent resistance was expected to be
made to the Proclamation of the Lord Mayor, and
the agitators perse►ered in preparing for the cere-
mony. Their efforts, however, np to Saturday
evening, had been effrctually resisted by the police,
and his Lord• Lip being supported by the Govern-
ment. his 6iial success may be co•6deotly antici.
paled.

Yesterday his Ruin, highness the Duke of
YORK held a Levee as Commander-in-Chief, at his
office in the Meese Gua►d', which was attended by
about thirty Military Officers.
. Yesterday evening the Princess AUGUSTA arrived
at the Kin,, a Palace at Pimlico from Frogmore.

On Monday nig!a a messenger left town with
dispatches for the Hon. Mr. HILL, his Majesty's
Minister at Turin. The dispatches were supposed
to be in answer to those biought by the Lime mes-
senger a fortnight since.
WETWOUTH, NOVEDIIIti 2.—On Thioniday lust
the High, Hon. R. PEEL (his Lady sod &roily) left
Lit!worth Comte, being summoned to town to at-
tend w Cahisitt Council. In the course of • few
weeks the Right Hon. Secretary will return to the
Csstle, to receive his Royal Highness the Duke of
Yoatt, the Marquis of lIEETIPoRD, and s I
other Noblemen. who intend teeming • shooting
party.—(Solisbary Pape►.)

After the various erroneous reports which have
prevailed on the subject, we are enabled to state.
most confidently, that the Hat. Sir 111.WitAvILLY
is definitively appointed to mimed the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY as Ambassador to the Court of
Vienna.—(Eeening Paper.)
Lisbon letters, which hove been received, men- •
lion that the expedition to the Winds was pre-
paring with great activity, and it was 'unposed Own
the whole force in readiness fur embarkation was nut
less than 4,000 men.

The following •ccotunt, eztrocted hoot the ✓i.
Nairn Go:ette, shows the disposition of sloe Ikiti•h
novel force between the Bth of May and Ist of
August :