The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-22 00:00:00

DEATH OF MADAME RIEGO.

On Saturday last, Donna Maria Theresa del Riego y Riego,
widow of General Don Rafael Del Hier y Riego, died at her resi-
dence, No. 13, Seymour-place, Little Chelsea.
This lady, whose fortur.es have so deeply interested public sym-
pathy, was the daughter of Don Joaquim del Riego y Bustillo, and
Donna Josefa del Riego Flores. She was born on the 15th May,'
1800, in the town of Tine°, capital of the district of the same name, I
in the province of Asturias, and wit the eldest of seven children,:
having at the time of her death three brothers and three sisters
living, all of whom were separated from her by the fatalities of
civil war, except one sister, Donna Lucie, whom neither peril not
privation could distract from the exercise of that regard and atten-
tion which she was able to manifest under every trial.
In her infancy, Donna Riego was adopted as an object of pent.-
liar care and affection, by her maternal grandfather, with whom she
resided in the village of Funs; and in the year 1808, was obliged,
together with himself and the rest of his (mill, to fly from place
to place on the mountains of Asturias, to avoid the incursions of
the French armies. Her father and mother died in her early youth;
and in some few years after, she lost the affectionate relatives who
had adopted her, upon which the care awl guardianship of herself,
sod the other six children, devolved upon the near connexion mid
relation, Don Miguel del Riego, Canon of the Cathedral of Oviedo,
In which sty he resided, and they with him.
On the 15th October, 1821, she wit married by proxy, according
to the custom of the country, at Cangas de T' to the General,
to Whom she was known from her infancy. In February, 18d,
they fixed their residence in the city of loadrid, but the political
eefusion and continual alarms of the time having appeared to
affect her health, the General proceeded with her in the month of
September following to Grenada, with the view of effecting the re-
establishment of her constitution by a residence In a more southdrn,
climate.
The convocation of the extraordinary Cortes for October, 1822,
obliged him to return to Madrid, and he parted from her—never to
meet again! He placed her only for a short time.,iss he then fondly
hoped, once more under the guardianship of his brother the Canon,
who conveyed her to Motril, a place on the coast of Grenada, mi.
vent for the salubrity of its atmosphere. Being advised to remove
to Malaga, the Canon accompanied her thither, in March, RIO. A
gradual improvement of her health had become perceptible, but
hereedrain she was destined to endure fresh 'afflictions, being
obli to seek shelter in Gibraltar in the month of June, to avoid
the trench army, then advancing o the SOuth of Spain. The Ge-
neral, ever anxious in the midst of his public cares foe her comfort
and security, directed thht she should proceed to Ragland, and
accordingly she embarked, together with her attached sister Donna
Lucie and the Canon, on the 4th July, but owing to unfavourable
wind and weatifee, did not wealth London till the 17th of August.
It was not ow much for her to expect that Dow, at least, bee suf-
ferings would find some test, but the visitation that impended over
her was still more calamitous than all that had preceded it. Bereft
of parents, separated front her relations, a fugitive from her native
land. her anxieties still found a stay in the consoling hope, that she
should one day or other enjoy the society of her husband, as the
reward of her moral fortitude. Never was their disappointment
more terrible of overwhelming. It is not necessary to detail the
persecutions of her husband. or the consummation which concluded
them. Suffice to say, that within three months after her snivel in
London, the sanguinary act was perpetrated% which extinguished
every present consolation and future hope. The account of his
death reached her on the 15th November. Her poor frame amid
no longer rally or resist ; she wasted and witheled daily, under the
corroding influence of a tedious decline, and it length closed her
unhappy course, in the embraces of her sister, attended by her de-
voted protector, the estimable Canon, and several distinguished and
faithful Spaniards, who had, to the latest moment, enjoyed the
confidence, and adhered to the fortunes, of her husband, and never
failed in proofs of respect, attention, and regard towards the widow.
Some few days previous to her ditdolution, she intimated to those
around her an anxious desire to execute a testamentary document,
and on the 12th inst. site duly made her last will. In this instru-
ment she not only arranges her private affairs, but furnishes addi-
tional proofs of unabated attaehmeht to her petite land, and solici-
tude for its happiness. She does ample justice to Great Britain,
and directs her executor the Canon to assure the British people of
the gratitude which she felt towards them it her dying moments,
tin' the sympathy and support which they extended to her in the
hours of her bitter adversity; but what makes the will peculiarly
affecting is, her solemn and impressive. though superfluous attesta-
tion to the purity and sincerity of the political life of General
Riego ; for she states that she esteems it to be her last act of justice
and duty to the memory of her beloved husband, Solemnly to de.
dare, in the awful presence of her God, before whose jagment.
seat she feels she mutt soon appear, that aH his private feelings and
dispositions respecting his country corresponded with his public
acts and professions in defence of its liberties.
Thus perished, in her youth, this amiable and accomplished
lady, the story of whose life abounds with incidents of melancholy
interett. All those whose feelings or opiniona are worthy of con-
sideration, will readily extend to her memory the tribute of re-
spectful sympathy.

The Duke de Plaisauce (Le Brun), a distinguished
writer and Peer of France, died a day or two ago, in the
46th year of his age.
A subscription is opened at Calignani's reading-room, fit'
the Rue Vivienne, Paris, fot the portrait of the unfortunate
traveller Belzoni, price from ten to twenty francs. This
subscription is under the patronage of Sir C. Stuart.
In 1770 there were only four libraries in London ; at
present there arc one hundred ; and nine hundred in Eng-
land, and fifteen to twenty thousand reading societies,
Longs. nan, a bookseller in London, sells annnually five
million volumes ; employs one hundred and fifty printers.
sixteen ahopmen, and pays 5,000/. a year for advertisements
in the public papers.
WEATHER AT PARIS.—(From a Cerrespondent).—
The four first days of last week was sultry to an extreme,
the sun was scorching, and the evenings and nights sufFis.
catingly serene, not a breath of air undulated a Itaf. On
Thursday the weather suddenly changed to rain and chilling
cold. Transitions from heat to cold, and cold to heat, are
more sudden than can be imagined in London. It appears
as if the sun skipt over three signs of the Zodiac, from the
fishes to the lion. We pass, in Paris, front winter to
summer in a few hours ; it is really necessary that the
Parisians should lire like frogs, in water—or in fire, like
salamanders. The blossoms of the chesnut-trees in the
Tuileries had comedy opened their perfume, when they
were beaten to the ground by the storm, and strewed the
walks of the gardens, which appeared covered with snow,
and hundreds of untleged birds perished in their nests,
drowned by the torrents of rain.
A person finding himself seated at table next to an ar-
dent devotee to Bacchus, who constantly pressed him to
fill his glaz:,, replied, " My dear Sir, 1 am not thirsty."
" In what then are you superior to other animals," re-
torted the Bacchanalian, " if you never think but when
you arc thirsty."
A gourmand observed one day to Despreux on his Satire
du ke,tin, " 'runt hypocrites into ridicule, and all honest
men will applaud you, but take care how you turn good
cheer into a joke."
Two individuals fell victims last week to the poisonous
adulteration of the common wine, sold in Paris. Vestcy-
day. at ten o'clock in the morning., the police seized 27
hogsheads of aimixture cold for wine, at a wine dealer's in
the Rue de Temple, of whic'ea twentieth part only was
grape juice, and staved them before his door, amidst the
sheuts of a crowd of spectators.—Pw•ic ruler.

EAST INDIA SillPPthe

beDwirolevron
ARRIVALS 114 ZNGLA .
Fenn IllevGAL.—The Asir, Pope, of ' • Itb. AS
20th inst. ; sailed from Calcutta the 29th Deccm
Madras the 18th January, from the Cape the IS Fit.
and from St. Helena the 4th May.
FROM lierevis.—The Palembang, Hyde, Coll/' Dover,
the 20th inst., bound to Amsfeiclarn : sailed irons Batavia
the 20th January ; the Rotterdam Wakleren,, Sbindell, in
the Dawns, the 20th inst., bound to Rottesdam. sailed
from Batavia the 30th January, and from tie/ Cape the
Bth of April.
FaoM rue cAir.—The °deem, Jeckseb, et Cork, the
17th inst., with wine for Cork, and Mager for London ;
sailed from the Cape the 48th March.. . „

• ARRIVALS AT THE CAkrer
The Berwick, Jeffery, from New South IS'ales ; the
W,ngland, Bray, fioro Bombay ; and the. Rockingham,
Beach, Rom Bengal (sith damage in a hurricane).
SAILINOS FROM THE CA/Pre
The Thalia, Branlight, for Batavia; and the Cam.
bridge, Barbir, for Bombay.

ARRIVALS AT MADEIRA.

The Lord Amherst, la, Edwards;
and the Upton Castle, Thacker, from London.

SIIIPS SPOKEN WITU.

The Countess of Harcourt, Ilhuu, from London to New
South Wales, 18th April, lat. 4. N. long. 2i. W.
The Luna, Kiibx, from London to the thipe, 22d April,
let. 24. S. long. 30. W.
The K. S. Forbes, Chapm-an, from London to Bombay,
17th dune, lat. 46.40. N. long. 8. 30. W.
The David Scott, Thornhill, from London to Madras
and Bengal, 21st Msiy, off' Porto Santo, all well.
The Woodlark, Brown ; and the Courier, Alainwaring,
were chartered from Sydney to Hobart Town and London,
and were to sail early in March.
PASSENGERS, by the Aurora, Captain P. Earl, from Bom-
bay :—Mrs, Make Davis Mrs. Thomitit, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs.
Say, Capt. Robert Hark, Bombay Civil Service; Limit. Sterling,
Bombay Civil N4rti.ce ; Dr. P. Leslie, Bombay Civil Service;
1)r. Holmes, his Majesty's 4th Lancers; Mr. Henderian, Bombay
Civil *nice; Mr. gay, Miss lUitsbell, Miss Ulla, Master
lilitche7., ?Miler Clow, Master Betts. acid Master Frederick Betts.
Passr. mores, per Palmyra. Lamb. from Ben r :--.Coloorl
Smith, Mrs. Smith, Miss Elitebeth Smith, Miss 'len Smith,
Master W. Sniitt, Dliss -- smith. Colonel Ctlney Vide, Capt.
J. IL Little, Cipt.'.l. Scott, Capt. It. Asford, Capt. W. Stirlins,
Mr. Stirli, Master J. Ward, Miss M. Ward, Master F. R. H.
Burlton, Muter M. James, Colonel t.'umming, Mrs. Curmnii.g,
and English servants; Mrs. W. Bird. Miss, C. Bird, Masts,
Bird, and three aervints, landed at the Cape.

SHIPPING JN7'ELLIGE2VCE.

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CUSTO3I-HOUSE. Jews 21.
EXTERED
Posey. Hall, Triad (Urquhart, broker), from Domirftes.
Underinod, Remmington (Cheap), from DOTICTITIL
Columbia, Roe (Buckl, from Oporto.
Recovery, Fotherby (Chapman). from Bahrein.
Diana, Jay (Jacksn.), from Leghorn.
John, Matthews (Illitchieson), from Messina.
Eclipse. Cart (Coopedr). from Ouernsev.
Flora, Moor Illettlewell), from 1;ephalools.
Polly, Gibb (Willcox), froth Cidiz.
Neva, Farquharson (Masson), from Jamaica.
Cambridge, Masson (Masson), front 'Jamaica.
Tinto, Jeeb (Longridge), from Smyrna.
Nimrod, Fowler I Sunby), from New York.
Telegraph, Grandin (Simon), from Havre.
Duke of Manchester, Hoed t Higgin) from Jameice.
relicitas, Campbell (Taplin), from 'Mauritius.
'Orient, White Alston). front Calcutta.
William Bryant, Urquhart (England), from Jamaica.
Albion. Paulson (11entrain), from Alexandria.
Mary, Rttnnick.(Boulcott), from the South Sean.
lienngapatam, A Ben (Boulcott), from Hamburgh.
Palmyra, Reynolds (Wilkinson), from Port au Print*
Prince of Waterloo. Page (Drintald), front Ostend.
New' lbion. Powell (Longridge), from Smyrna.
Adeana, P. Steward (Welker), from Smyrna.
Magnet, Grant (Flock), front Cape Coast.
Elisabeth, Bunny (Pugh), from St. Vincent's:
Laurel, Hurry (Whistoo), fmm Malta.
Hope. Wain^ (Pugh), from Cape Coast.
Commerce, Horrie (Mandfall), from New Orleans.
Iri and James, Doland (Smith), from Cape Con*.
Goodwood, Pullen (King), from Faro.
Segkr, Hore (England), from Berbice.
London, rooter (Laurence), from Jamaica.
Elizabeth, Heston (Dalton), from New South Wales.
Augustus Cesar, Selby ((looeb), from Jamaica.
Claktrillll Sophia, Kraeft (Bremen), from Dentate.
Neptunus, Diemen (Bremen), front Dantzie.
Magnet, Meant (Hopkins), from New Orlenes.
Sjolax. Thurman (Cowie), from Blomberg.
Vrow Diet.wke, Tippirna (Hoftuan), from Worrum.
William Frederick, Horn (Donato, from Drobect.

MOM LLOYD'S LIM

Erasmus's!, Jr we 19.—Arrived the Steamer packet, from
Lisboa; Jane, Russell, from Bahia; lour Friends, and Trial,
• from London. Sailed the Industry. Enterprise. Success, and
Lour', outward bound. Sailed yesterday, the Duke of Kent
packet, fur Lisbon.
PLYMOUTH, Jcsrt 19—Off the port, the Rio packet, from
Rio Janeiro; Wellesley, Scott, from Jamaica; and Coromandel,
—, from ditto. Arrived the Lord Castlereagh, Durant, from
London for Bombay ; and transport ship, No. 20 front the Etat.
ern!. Sailed the Fame, Ilallancyne, for St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. -

Dtroirepar.--Sailed the f'yrene. 9.0, for the Mediterranean.
Arrived the Kite, from the Irish station, to be paid off. Remain,
the Britannia. Ocean, Dartmouth, Sappho, Nimrod, Me:eor,
Plumper, Zephyr, and Blanche, in the Sound.
POaTIMOUTU, JUNE 20.—Arrived the Doris, Penny, from
Sierra Leone; his 3lsjesty's ship C•tnbrian, from the Mediter-
ranean; and Justice, iValker, from Memel.
DEaL, JUNE 19—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Re.
eomy, Orient, Earl St. Vincent, Palmyra, Aurora, London (Ar-
men), London (Turner), Augustus ('au 31 r, Duke of ancheuer.
RUCIICII, Colonist, Magnet, t nderwood, Madras, Coriolanus, and
Sygar ; also, arrived the Comet, from Buenos Ayres for Antwerp &
Staters, from Galipoli for Petersburgh g and Fenton, from Bahia
for Ilarnburgh.
Jcxr 20.—Arrived the Waterloo and Louisa. Passed through,
the William, Pines, from Trinidad; William Lushingtun,
Sughrucs from St. Kitt's ; Lively, Hodgson, from Sierra Leone;
and Caroline, Campbell, from Jamaica.
GEAVEbEND, JC!CE 20.—Arrived the Polly. Gibbs., from
Cadiz; Caledonia. Crightort from Tenni* ; Besulny, Bredin,
from the South Seas; Madras, Fisher. front Madras; tieneral
St Vincent, Reeves, from Calcutta; Palmyra, Lamb, from ditto
Royal George, Reynolds, trom Bengal; Aurora, Earl, front
Bombay ; Orient, White, from Calcutta; Competitor, AIODUeI,
from New South Wales: Albion' Patterson, from Alexandra;
George anti Jairks. Donald, (reap Africa; -Magnet, Mount., from
New Orleans; Cambridge, Mason, Augustus Caw, Selby, Lon-
don, Harman, Duke of Maccitester, —, and London, l'urner„
from Jamaica ; Nimrod, Fowler, from New York; Laurel, Harry,
from Malta; Adeona Steward, from Smyrna; Fortuna, Wise.
man, from Lisbon ; and several others, from the Baltic.—Sailed,
the General Hewitt, Barrow, for India; Christina, Whyte, for
Jamaica; Active, Charlton, tier Madeira ; Naiad. Bemused. tor
Leghorn; Marquis Wellington. %Vetherhead, for Archangel; Su.
son, Jones, for Gibraltar; and London. Rombert, use Ilatuburgh.
LIVERIP.OL, Jr NE 19.—Arrived the Sarah, Tobin, from De.
merara ; Union. 11.Kown. from New Orleans; Eliza, Golda.
worthy, from Newfeundland ; Nancy, Candler, front Catania;
' Vine, Jll, front Leghorn ; and Pallas, —, from 3lestina.
His Majesty's ship Cambridge. of 82 guns, Captain Mating
sailed front Monte Video fa Chilion the 38th March.
Captain E. F. Scott is appointed Inspector of the Coax Blockade
at Whitby, Yorkshire; l'aptain Scot. rousse rumen at Liverpool.
The Newcastle has been fitted out at Portsmouth for the purpcso
of being stationed at -Milford, as a lazaretto, to air cotton goods.
She sailed under jurysenasts, in company with a dock-yard weasel,
en Thursday.
The I 'hampion has been commissioned at Portsmouth by Lieu.
tenant E. IL Pace.
The Triton, Sharp, from Liverpool. was driven on shore the
16th of March, near Sierra Leone—cargo and stores expected to be
saved.
The Sorry, Garbutt, of London, was wrecked near Cape St.
coast of Africa, previous to the 9th of April—crew and mate.
vials saved.
The Ageroria, Haling, from Rio to Burros Ayres, was totally
lost in the River Plate, previous to the 3d of April.
The Jessie and Charlotte, 'Turnbull, from Newcastle to St.
Petersburgh, was totally lost the (7th inst. on Oesel—crew and atom
tasted.
The Idly' Hutton. from Lichen to Rochester, upset In Coven-
tugen Roads, the 11th inst. anti was full of water--etew saved.
Janet, 31•Kanale. of Inv:loess, was driven on shore the
13th inst. near 1/unbar, bottom up.
Tls- Dobson, of Aberdeen, was fallen in with the 211 uh. in
lat. 49. long. 411. with loss of fort-meat, and abandoned.
The Kent was at New Zealand on tha 7th February, with ll
lizards tf sperm nil.
The Cat/urine Stewart Forbes, Chapman, front London to
!tomb Li.. was all well 17th inst.
The American ship Annino, bound to Buenos Arne, was on
shore on the Chico Itani. precious to the 146 February. Canis
Jerald: part of the cargo expected to be slaved.
Extract of a letter from tin Agents to Deed's, at the Cape of
(lend !lope, dated 144th April t.—•• The lighthouse at theentrance
of Tattle flay is to he lighted up on the 12th iost., the b,netit or
which c.un cs, but Ise ftlt by the shiKing interest."

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