The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-09 00:00:00

DEATH OF MR. ROWCROFT.

The fallowing details of the unfortunate death of Mr.
Roircroft, the British Consul-General for Peru, have been
communicated in letters from Lima, dated the 21st of

fiber:—

" Mr. Rowcroft was proceeding from Callao to Liens on
the 11th December, and was unfortunately shot by the ad-
vanced guard of General Bolivar's army. The Royalists,
at the time of this distressing event, occupied Callao, and
the Patriot forces the capital, Lima. The advanced
poets of the garrison of Callao, with two pieces of arttl-
lery, were very near to the advanced posts of General Bo-
livar. Mr. Rowcroft having to cross from the one post to
the other, was hailed by the Patriot troops. Instead of
answering the signal, and stopping his carriage, Mr. Row-
croft got on horseback, and, with his servant, continued to
proceed forwards. The sentinel again hailed, but received
no answer, and conceiving, from the noise made by tho
trampling of the horses' feet and the rattling of the *heels
of the carriage, that the enemy, with two pieces of artillery,
was advancing, fired two shots, and unfortunately one of
them struck Mr. Rowcroft, which occasioned his death.
Miss Rowcroft, the daughter of Mr. Rowe oft, was in
the carriage, and returned with him to Callao, where
he expired the next morning. It is stated that all the
aitthoritics, both Spaniards, Patriot., and English, evinced
the utmost concern for this unfortunate event, which ap-
pears to have been purely accidental. General Bolivar,
in particular, appears to have shown an unusual degree of
sympathy, and called himself upon Miss Rowcroft to con-
dole with her upon this unhappy event."
According to other accounts, it appears that at the time
of this melancholy accident, Mr. Rowcroft was dressed in '
the full uniform of the London Light Horse Association,
to which he had formerly belonged.—lt was known at the
outposts of the Independents, that the Royalists had two
pieces of cannon not far distant from the route in which
Mr. Rowcroft was proceeding, and on the supposition that
he was followed by the guns the shots were fired, and he
fell dead from his horse. The dusk of the evening, and
the circumstance of his uniform not being that in which,
as British Consul, he had usually appeared, caused his per-
son to be mistaken ; but on the body being recognised, the
consternation and sorrow expressed by the officers and sol-
diers were extreme, an.l the body was immediately removed
o Callao with every demonstration of respect.
Mr. Roweroft's remains were to be deposited at Lorenzo,
but it was intended, when the new English church was
built, that the body should he removed thither.

The letters received from Paris by the last arrival express
a very confident belief, that Mr. Stratford Canuing has
succeeded in the object. of his negociation with the Ca-
binet of St. Petersburgh.
A gentleman has arrived in town from Paris, for the
purpose of purchasing various articles for the use of the
King of France, and the Royal Family, at the approaching
Coronation.

A letter from Zante, dated the 30th of January, states
that 7aimis and Londos have been taken, and conveyed to
Napoli, where they were to be tried.
Letters have been received, dated Rio, the Bth of Ja-
nuary. They announce that the Emperor has appointed
Ministers to the Courts of St. Peteraburgh and Paris.
Guamanga, near which the fate of Peru was decided, is
the capital of the province of the same name, and is about
200 miles in a straight line west of Cusco, and about as
far east and north-east of Cancte and Pisco, the nearest
sea ports, respectively.
A report prevailed in Linta, at the date of the hit
letters, that some Spanish or French vessels had arrived
at Chiloe. If it be any aid for the Spaniards in Peru, it
will have arrived too late.

The Hamburgh Papers received yesterday are still chiefly
filled with accounts of the late inundations. Some of
our reader' may, perhaps, recollect that the young Princes
of Brunswick, when at school in this country, took the
whole of their pocket-money to Mr. Ackermann, in aid of
a subscription fur the Germans. The same disposition
still distinguishes these generous youths; and accounts from
Hanover state, that their Highnesses the Duke of Bruns-1
wick and Prince William, his brother, have subscribed'
10,000 rix-dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the
floods. It is said that a collection will be also made in the
Duchy of Brunswick. There is a report that two regi-
ments (one of them cavalry) will be disbanded for some
years, and that the sum saved by the reduction will Le
applied to the repair of the dikes. Time will show whe-
ther this report is well founded. The clergy have been it:-
sited to impress on their congregations the extent of the
ravages caused by the floods.
SLAVE TRADE.—The iniquitous traffic in slaves is at
present in a great measure covered by the French lag,
and the mode of carrying it on has been so dextrously
arranged by the merchants of that country, that they are :
enabled, in a very great majority of cases, to elude the vigi-
lance of the English men of war stationed on the coast of
Africa for its suppression. The sea-port town of Nantz,
in the South of France, is the spot where moat of the en-1
terprises for capturing slaves on the coast of Africa are
planned, and it is said there are few merchants in that I
place who possess capital who do not largely participate
in t1..2 trafEe, to which their cupidity is strongly attracted
by the immense profits resulting from it. Indeed, to such
perfection is the system carried, that insurances on the
venture can readily be effected at from 40 to .50 per cent.
while the profits in general average 300 or 400 per cent.
that is, return three or four times the amount of capital so
employed—the whole voyage, including the bringing back
a cargo to Europe, seldom occupying more than six months.
Advices have been received within these few days from
Cuba, of the arrival ;here of a vessel named the Orphee,
with more than .500 slaves on board, which vessel was fitted
out for the voyage by the merchants of Narita. It is said
also, that some merchants in Antwerp are sharers in the
profit and the disgrace of the undertaking.
Extract of a letter from Roucn, dated March 1 :—The
City of London packet, belonging to the General Steam
Navigation Company of London, is busily engaged towing
our merchants' vessels. These two latter days she has
been towing eight vessels together at each tithe; and al-
though theme was at first great opposition to bring towed
by an English vessel, now the people at Houtfleur and
Quillebeuf are disputing who shall be first taken in tow,
and threatening that if they once get hold of the steamer,
they will not let her go till she has taken all their respective
ships up to Rouen. The object of our Chamber of Com-
merce here, to endeavour to get back the lost commerce of
this place, begins now to be understood, because the bene-
ficial results are daily felt.