The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-21 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

The F:astroct ( Maim.) Seklimelof the 21:th rlt. Mires a Retailed
arroyo' of the conduct ot the Commander of the British brig lam-
teed', which anchored in Passamaquoddy Bay on the Mo. One
of his boats boarded an American vessel, and made her I'apiain
Pay 45 rents. foe five shots which were fired at her, and the board-
ing ofiicer wanted to know " why the dunned Yankee did not
heave to at the first shot.- lt appears that he also took a small
fishing boat with three young into in it. who hail caught twenty
mackerel for their own They were landed at Casiipo
fish • the British side, and their boat and ri. taken from them. If
the above statement be true, our Government should investigate
the subject.
The sante paper of the 4th inst. says—" It will be seen by the
subjoined accounts, two more American fishermen have been cap-
tured by the 1)oltercll, in open violation of the treaty between this
tiaientimmt and Brest Britain. The languttge of the • Mani-
fesro.• or 1812, we think is tray applicable now, which is, it we
recollect right, this :—• On the part of the United States we be-
hold a state of enmity and peace meanie (;rent Britain, and on the
part of fircat Itritnn a state of war against the United States.'—
We behold our property plundired on the high seas, and the lives
of our seamen jnopartled, and some of them sent to a foreign
country. and for aught we know, to be murdered for daring to as-
sert their right*. In fine, we see the laws disregarded, our flags
insulted and trampled under loot; we therefore recommend • an
immediate appeal to anus,' that we may drive these • freehoJters*
to the polar regions, or sink them in the depths of the sea.

Loan COIIIRANE.—It is correctly stated (says the Co-
lombian° of the VOth ult..) that Lord Cochrane has obtained
the consent of the Emperor of Brazil, to his ass g once
more the command of the Chilian navy, and that he is now
:n co-opciation with the Liberator, with a view of inter-
cepting the Spanish man-of-war •%sia, and other vesseis
lately from Spain. When Lord Cochrane accepted the
overtures of his Brazilian Majesty, and assumed the cum-
mand of his navy, it was under the express condition that
he should be allowed to return to Chili, whenever his
ser-
vices might he nquir.d.
By the arrival of the Speedy from Santa Martha, which
place she sailed from the 28th of August, we have intelli-
gence from Bogota, of the date 18th August, by which we
learn that Bolivar hail countermanded the force that had
been ordered to join him. This at least chews that he had
uo fear of the enemy.
The want of direct information from Spanish America
may be ace tinterl for. At this season of the year the
Andes are covered with snow, and the intervening country
to inundated, that the messengers cannot possibly travel.
The despatches are generally conveyed by persons on foot,
who are eamptiled to carry on their backs provisions for a
month or six weeks ; in their journey they erect temporary
resting-places, about thirty feet high. to sleep upon, and it
frequently happens that they ate obliged to remain there
for a week or a fortnight before the snow is dissolved suf-
ficiently to proceed on their journey.
Accounts from Assam of the 9th of May state, that five
companies of the .13.1 regiment left Gowhatty on the sth
of that month for Colleabar, where the Burmese force bad
retired and stockatled themselves. Captain Iforsburgh,
with three companies of that regiment, and the irregular
horse, continued at Soagong.
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A letter from Paris, dated Monday last, states that the
French Government had, some days previous, received des-
patches from their Consul at Smyrna, announcing the
plunder and destruction of a French vessel (La Jenne 41fe-
lanie) 0,3 the 3d of July, by three Albanian yes:els, the
commatuhrs of which murdered the crew of the Melanie,
with the exception of the mate, who escaper! dreadfully
wounded, and fire Turkish passengers. The despatches of
the French Consul are said to have been permed in a spirit
truly heatile to the Greek cause; but a correspondence on
the same subject from the Provisional Government of
Greece has entirely removed any unpleasant feeling which
they might have prodite.ll upon the French Ministry. If
we are correctly informed, the Greek Secretary of State for
Foreign Anita has not only disclaimed the act of the Al-
banian Captains, whom he 'lnuits s as pirates, equally
detestable to Greece and to all civilized nations; but he
has also expressed the readiness of the Provisional Govern-
umnt of Greece to make any compensation to the owners of
the vessel, and the wounded mate. if upon reflection the
French Government should imagine that more could be
expected than the profound horror with which such an
event had inspired all true Chtistians.—Giola. and Tra-
retire.

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By the Chichester packet, Captain Eirkness, which ar-
rived on Sunday at Falmouth, from Sr. Thomas's in 8.
days, we learn that a hurricane commenced to windward
on the sth of Septemir, r. in the evening, and continued to
blow hard all night and the next day ; but what damage
is done by it was not known when the packet sallt i ; it is
however tt ppOSell to he considerable to the southward and
eastward. The Mat ia, mail boat, tell in with a French
schooner on the loth September, ten days from St.
Tlbornaa's, bound to Martinique, with her foremast gone,
and every thing washed from the deck. Two sloops were
driven out of Montserrat, and two sunk at St. Kited. At
St. Thomas's, the gale entnmenced on Thursday morn-
ing, the 9th September, when two small craft were sunk,
and nearly the whole of the wharfs damaged.
An Act passed the Legialature of Barhadoes in June
last, amending the Act to tax new comers and non-resi-
dents. The object of this Act appears to be, that all wi-
ses anchoring in any port, bey, or landing-place of the
island, shall pay a transient tax of two per cent. on the
value of their cargoes, whether they are landed in Barba-
does or not, unless the same are hose fide consigned to a
merchant who has resided there three years, and is bound
to no other port.

The deatlis in Charleston for the week ending on the 4th
of September were to, oof which were by yellow feY.T.
Test:l-any a Court of Directors was Held at the East
India Ilona:, when Captain Clarence Dalrymple was
sworn into the command of the ship Vansittart, consigned
to 11.mibay and China.

Dartmoor granite is getting eensiderably into request
in Loudon. and considerable orders for that article have
been ra mists!. It is on account of its durability, which is
confessedly superior to the Bath and freestone hitherto used
in the tnetropolis.—Ereler Riper.
The quantity of Ain fallen in Sussex during the last fort-
night, exceeds, by nearly double, the quantity that has
fallen in the munch of October for nearly twenty years
past.—!aent;ah Ga;:elte.
Ft to E.—Tueralay a tire broke out in an unfinished house,
situate in Cauonbury fie'.ds, New North-road, Islington.
There were several catpenters employed at the house in
fitting up the interior, and they had made a fire in one of
the rooms for the purrose of melting the glue. The work-
men left the hou;e almint twelve o'clock, anal went to din-
ner, anal shurtly afar they were gene, the house was dis-
covered to he on fire. It is supposed the fire was caused
by some sparks COMM 111 l leafing with the shavings, there
hieing a gteat quantity in the room. Soon after the com-
mencement of the fire, one of the workmen, anxious to
rescue his tools, entered the house. Several of his shop-
mates, anal other persons, advised him not to venture into
the house, as there was no hope of hi succeeding in his ob-
ject ; but unfortunately, a few moments after the carpenter
entered the house, the floors anal roof fell in with a tremen-
dons crash, and etigulphetl him in the ruins. The house was
extyletely giuted in less than an hour, anal from the rapi-
dity of the fire, it was impossible to render the unfortunate
Iran any assistance.

Sr mous Ae t0?.,:t.--While Wynne,. the Bristol youth,
and the veteran Spencer were lighting the second battle on
Tuesday, two persons were standing on the roof of a post-
chaise, wheu on a sudden, from the shouting in the ring.
the horays took fright, and made a sudden start off': both
were precipitated in a moment from eighteen feet to the
ground, one falling upon the other. The undermost,
whose name we understood to he sparrow, was taken in a
senseless state to Fish wick's hooth. There was no medical
aid at hand, and we hare slice heard that he died on the
road holm.. The horces drew the poJt-chaise among a
cluster of gi'c, and did much rnsehiet..

ANR.2DOTES OF BONAPARTE.
A work has latelv been ;rub/WitA at Paris. entitled Tyre
Memoir's of 17 ftTodiYl (Wirer, of which the jmarraral dry
Drbeds has take:t particular notice. Sense pne,agee of it,
Mating to the extraordinary man who ruled France for
nearly fourteen years, may he interesting to our readers
Early in life the stir -biographer, M. de R., was Len with
his regiment to Corsica, where lie became the comrade of
Bonaparte, then an of in the artillery. M. dc It. gives
us some account of the family and person of this sub-Lieu-
tenant, who, in a few rare afterwards, became almost the
master of Europe. The R /alba officer, of course, speaks
not very favourably of the man who bad the insolence to
usurp the throne of the Bourbons, but he has the right of
speaking harshly of Bonaparte after his fall, as he neither
flattered him in the days of his greatness, nor received the
favours which the Enux•ror would gladly have lavished on
an old comrade. " His fatbet," says M. de K., " had
filled die office of in the small town of Ajaccio, un-
der the republic of Genoa, and that of Judge under the
Bourbons. Ilia little sons then no longer went barefoottd,
nor hail his daughters any further occasion to bring water
from the fountain on their heads. The children of this'
petty Corsican citizen were become youne gentlemen anti
ladies, and, by the kindness of N. de Merbreuf, the former
were rent to the Milit,•ry Academy, and he latter to St.
Cyr, while, thanks to this extension of the King's bounty,
they ultimately became, by their cunning and address,
Kings en I Queens, &e." the author describes Bonaparte
himself ae, at the • he last met with him, 'slaying the
part of a cautious and malignant traitor. A few yrars
he passed again through Corsica, on Lis return from Italy
to France. He found the revolutionary principles making
rapid progress in that island. They had already produeed
a revolt of the soldiers and a manacre of the officers. He
rowel Bonaparte busy fomenting ineubordination, and ag-
gravating the hostility of parties against each other. Less
favourably disposed towards his former comrade than ever,
N. de IL endeavoured to draw him into a duel, but Bona-
parte reserved himself for his destiny of grandeur. M. de
It., however, fought a duel, in which he was wounded : he
regrets that it was not with the " little Corsican," whom
he thinks he should have killed. Some time after, he met
Bonaparte at Valence, in Dauphiny, and he thus relates
the rencontre :—" I happened one day to dine at a table
where I met Bonaperte, whom I bad not seen since I was
in Corsica. I pretended not to recollect him, but one of
my comrades, M. Dupree a free-spoken and most deter-
mined Royalist, observing that the girl who waited on us
at the inn had accidentally put his tray by the side of the
elubist, called her back, and told her, once for all, never to
I,ive him a seat near to that MTh. TIM little Corsican was,
tso doubt, afraid of the repulsive style of the French Lieu-
tenant, for he swallowed the compliment without saying a
word." At this period M. de It. left his regiment and emi-
grated. because he would not take a new oath, in which
the King's name was omitted. The remainder of the
volume is tilled with the narrative of his suffering% and
dangers in the army of migraine, under the Prince of
Conde.