The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-29 00:00:00

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Adolph, Mr. T. Cooks; Caspar, Mr. I lorn s Bernard, Mr. Red ford;
11 •rinit, Mr. e;.. mith ; Kilian, Mr. Fltswilllana. Linda, Miss Grad-
dun; lisp. Mfss Power.
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After which the Comte Dimmer
THM WAGER: Of, THE MIDNIGHT DOUR.

The prineipal Characters Dy Nears. nolo°, Horn, J. Ituseell,
'lmlay, favour*, and Bedford; Misses Kelly and Cubltt; and Mrs.
C.
To-morrow, The Wager. the Adopted Child. and The Sleep Walker.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

IlisEming.Turs DAV, Nnv.29, *lll beormed tho Comedy et
RULE A WIFE AFD HAVE A WIFE.
Tie Data. Mr. Coopers Virtual Perez, Mr. Jones; Leon. Mr. C.
Kcalble. ratifaala. Mu Cheater.
After which (3d Haw) a new Pieee sailed
THE lICAPE-GHAT.
TM Matters by Messrs. Blanchard. Cooper. W. Farrea, and
secadows; Miens.lnncs and ALJonet.
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To conelnite withlieeenaaeal ESTI e or
• ROLAND P.11.R AN OLIVF.R.

ale mat Chase, ilar.Ya;ret•tt; Alfred Hietiflyer. Mr. Jones; Fixture.
■r. Harmer. Marls DarOutten. Madams Vestris.
Tommie's*. Clara, The ilsapeeficat, and Jocko, the Brasilia= Monkey.

A considerable damp has been thrown over the mercan-
tile interest of Arbroath, by the recent loss of the smack
Leaden, oo her voyage to London. This vessel had on
•board is valuable cargo of manufactured goods, and unfor-
toostely very little of them were insured. The loss will
oeusequently be severe ; but it is fortunately spread over a
pretty wide surface, and will therefore press comparatively
light on each individual point. By letters received in town
it is stated that abaft 11,0001, worth of the cargo had
bees recovered.

We have heard much blame attached to the Bank, as if
the Directors had mainly contributed to the present embar-
rassments in the money market by suddenly restricting its
discounts. It is natural for those who suffer, be the oc-
casion what it may, to ascribe their misfortunes to any
other cause than their own imprudence. The fact is, that
no imputation can be more undeserved than that which:
such persons have thrown upon the Bank in the present
Instance. Anxious to give every accommodation to the
commercial world, the Bank discounted good bills at four
per cent. ; this gave great facility to the transattiens of th#
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mercantile world, and the mercantile world continued for
some time to derive great advantages from this
accommodation ; but great numbers, inataitti., of astaillig
themselves of it for the valid purposes of comMerce, per-
verted it, in the most mercenary spirit of jobbing, to their
own private emolument. Persons in extensive dealing, and
with high credit, who had an account at the Bank, soon
found that they eoultl turn its liberality to account ; they
accordingly themselves discounted good bills at
.fine per
cent, and, taking them tothe Bank, with their own indorse-
ment, got them discounted at four, putting the intermediate
profit of one per cent., without any further trouble, into
their own pockets. This practice was carried to an extent
which made it imperative on the Bank Directors to put a
stop to it. This it was that obliged them to refuse dis-
counting many good bills, it being through the medium
of such bills that this most dishonourable profit was made.
And yet there are persons, who knowing well this real
cause of the restriction of the discounts, keep it care-
fully in the back ground, and declaim against the Bank as
having first encouraged the spirit of commercial enterprise,
and then depressed it by suddenly withdrawing its aid by
limiting the issue of its notes.

Our readers will observe that the Loci) Ctt•\cet.r.oa
and the Vice-CHANCELLOR had both occasion yesterday
to complain of the absence of Counsel. In each Court the
Judge was obliged to retire, and remain absent some time
before any Gentleman made his appearance at the bar.
This is an evil of great magnitude, and deserves particular
attention. It is easy to lay all the blame of " delays in
Chancery" upon the learned and eminent individual at the
head of that Court ; but it would be difficult, we think, to
show how it is in his power to put an end to the great
waste of time which is continually occurring from this cause
alone. The remedy is in other hands, and we trust they
will devise some means to apply it

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

It is quite impossible to describe the state of alarm that
existed in the City this morning amongst speculators in
the Funds. In addition to the gloomy anticipations pro-
duced in a great degree by Saturday's business, the failure
of a Plymouth Bank was announced. The moment the
Market opened it was crowded, and brokers and jobber
were all, without exception, endeavouring to sell. 0:
course every specks of Security declined rapidly. Monet
Stock at one part of the day could scarcely be sold at any
price. An eminent broker with difficulty sold even a
small quantity at 801, and it was afterwards done at j ;
Exchequer Bills were at 14s. dis. ; Bank Stock fell above
3 per cent. Colombian Bonds were once to-day under
60, and every thing else in proportion. We have fre-
quently before urged holders of stock, whether foreign or
domestic, not to suffer themselves to become the dupes of
groundless apprehension?. The agitation of the public
mind, however, this morning, as far as we could judge of
it by what we saw passing in the purlieu' of the Stock-
Exchanges, renders it imperative on the conductors of
that portion of the daily press whose object is not to mis-
lead their readers, to beg the LOWS
,fide holders of
public Securities to pause for a moment and consider
what they have to do with the fluctuations of the Stock
Exchange, resulting, as it is perfect! well known they
have resulted, from the e tion of 'limy year.

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Two young Greeks, confided to the Greek Committee at
Paris, to be educated at their expense, have just arrived in
that capital. One of thew, fourteen years old, and who has
already served on board his f cr's ship, is the son of Ad-
miral isparita Apostoli ; the is the son of 'f samstlos,
who was killed in the 'sleet S aeteria, oft Navarino. He is
only twelve years old, and, un tunately, has a mother and
sister captives in Turkey. •
FRENCH SLAVS Titanic. e have received private
letters from St. Thomas's dpi he Bth of October, by which
which we have learned malOy particulars respecting the
mode in which the slave trade is continued in spite of the
laws made for the suppreesten of that hateful traffic. We
have been furnished with a list of the vessels which were
departing for the coast of Africa, and the number of slaves
which they hail brought to Martinique by their previous
voyage. We shall nonnention here the names of the
vessels, no those of the captains and mercantile houses
concerned in these scandalous undertakings. We shall
confine ourselves to the duty of calling public attention to
the shainefhl impunity enjoyed by the dealers in human
flesh. It is enough far us to state, according to our infor-
mation-Ist, that the nuniber of vessels so employed is
nine, of which six are Frenah, and three Dutch—Wly,
that the Captains of these ships are all Frenehmen.-3dly,
that 3 of them, on their late return from the Ronny, brought
With them 1,1t77 slaves ; and Mthly, that each of these ves-
sels carry two or three sets of paper*. The false ones are
fabricated by a French house at Sp:aloveas'a. It is fle-
perally from the papers- of' the cruisers of Martinique and
Gatatlalotipe that the signatures of the -Governors tee
forged, and the official seals imitated.—Courrier Fraacabc-
rThe motrected case 41‘ tjte vahulble Dutch smuggling
larVer two Sisters, captured on the 16th of February,
1324, was finally decided before the twelve Judges, in the
Law Courts of Dublin, on Friday se'nnight, when she was
adjudged a lawful prise to his Majesty's late cutter Dwarf,
Lieut. Nicholas Gould commander, and the Essex frigate,
which was proceeding to Kingstown, Ireland, under the
orders of Mr. Raven Master, R.N. to be stationed there as
a convict ship.—Der:onport Telegraph.
141LTFOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON.—A very extraor-
dinery circumstance took place on the 3d of this month in
the forest of Calonhaven, in the arrouilissement de Thi-
onville. A carrier, returning from Sierck to Filstroff, was
going through the forest between six and seven in the
evening; he had arrived within three-quarters of a league
of Laumeafcld, when, in the midst of a violent hurricane,
mingled with thunder, the forest suddenly appeared all on
fire, and preserved that appearance for the space of a
quarter of an hour. The horses became alarmed,
and fell down ; one of them broke from the harness,
and fled as far as the village; some of the inha-
bitants recognised him, and suspected some accident
had happened to the driver. They immediately went
towards the forest : as they drew near, they perceived an
inflamed cloud traversing the horizon from the north to the
south. The meit completodarkness succeeded this appear-
ance. The carrier, when he heard them calling, answered
them; and when they came up with him, they found him
so overcome with fright, that it was only by the greatest
care lee recovered to give an account of what had heppened
to him.—journal de Moselle.

Roustel alias Caginrd, the ringleader of the riot among
the workpeople in the vicinity of Konen, was executed on
the 2.341 instant, pursuant to his sentence.
On the Bth of the present month, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, a troop of ten wild boars entered the village of
Flirey, in the canton of Thiancourt, in the department of
La Meurthe, upon the high road from Pont-a-Mousson to
St. Michael. Six of these animals entered a barn, thedoor of
which was immediately shut by the proprietor, who was at
work just by with hi. servant; another penetrated into the
passage of the oppoaitt howate.whare he was also shut up,
and theinhabitants killed them with guns and flails. The
whole drove would have been taken if the door of the barn
had not been shut too hastily.--Jesienal de la lifeerthe.
The ordnance powder mills at Faversham, sold by auction
by Stevens and Brenchley, on Friday last, lately let by
Government at SIM fetched 14,3601. At the same time,
less than three acres of gulden ground sold for 1,12:41.
Three houses in the town of Faversham, and a house on
Davington-hill, realised 1,801.
Aluen r a AT SANDG•TT..—An Inquest was held at Sand-
gate on Thursday list, the 94th inst. before Thomas Thorpe
de Laseau, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thomas Page,
who, on the evening of the 18th inst. was stabbed in the
lower part of the abdomen by John Burton. It appeared,
on the evidence, that the deceased with some other young
men were, on the evening in question, al the Ship Inn..
Sandgate ; and being a little inebriated, the deceased'
blackened his hands and put them on Burton's face, who
immediately flew in a rage, and threatened to be a match
for him. The deceased, wishing to avoid him for the pre-
, sent, left the room, hut shortly afterwards returned, and
while in the act of lighting his pipe, Burton attacked bias
with a knife in his hand. A scuffle ensued; Page called
for help, to take the knife away, which was done by Mr.
Plisher. Page exclaimed, "Oh, Lord! I am stabbed:
this d—d old rascal has stabbed tee." He immediately
fell, and lingered till Wednesday last. After a very
minute investigation, the Jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder against John Burton," who was imme-
diately committed, under the Coroner's warrant, for trial at
the next Assizes. The deceased, who was 24 years of age,
was very highly respected, and his tragical end has thrown
a gloom over the whole neighbowitood.--Ciegue Ports
Herald.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey have left their seat, Middleton
Park, Oxfordshire, for the Earl of Westmorland's, Aptborpe,
Northamptonshire.
Sir Roger and Lady Gresley have left their teat, Drakelow, Der-
byshire. on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, at but-
worth Castle.
Sir John Nichol]. M.P. and family have arrived at their house In
Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, from their seat, Merthyrinan,
Olamorganahire.
Sir llilgrove and Lady Turner and sotto left town yesterday
for Portsmouth, to embark for Bremoda.
Lord and Lady F. L. Gower have left town for the Earl of
Surrey's seat, Worksop Manors, Nntts.
The Bishop of Chichester and family has, left Hereford for the
',slue, Chichester.
Mrs. Kionaird arrived yesterday at Gould's Hotel. Jermyn.
street, from Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ackers left Warren's Hotel, Regent.
street, yesterday, for Cheltenham.
31 rs. Tibbet has left Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, for
Cheltenham.

Departure front Long's Hotel, Bonttstreet :—R. Palmer, Esq.
M.P. on a tour; Beauchamp, E.q. for ditto; Messrs. R.
and C. Best, for Ramsgate ; John Cocgreve. Esq. for his seat,
Mount Congrere, Ireland ; R. \V. Dixon, Esq. for Dublin; the
Rev. W. D. Broughton, for Briptnn • Parrott, Esq. for
ditto; the lion. Spencer Law, for Windsor.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and family have left the London Hotel,
Albemarle-street, for Ram:agate.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have arrived at the
Burlington lintel, Old Burlington.street, from Mr. Coke's :eat in
Norfolk; and Captain Cayler, from a tour.

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