The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-22 00:00:00

AMERICAN P.l PE RS.

At a late hour last night we received a &le of Coifed
States papers down to the 221 of February. Three
journals are destitute of general interest; their leading
!feature seems to he the examit.ation of the claims of tits
diff'erent candidates for the Presidency of the Republic,
Amongst the candidates are Mr. Crawford, General Jack.
son, Mr. J. C. Calhoun, Mr. Manta, and Mr. Clay. In
the !louse of ReprovAttatives the new Tariff' has undergone
considerable discussion, and up to the In.th ult. scant!,
!any progress was made in the details of the Bill. It ap-
' peats that the restrictive principles of the Tariff; which im-
poses additional dut ;es on tile importation of tnanteactureJ
gcoils, are strongly denounced iu the Chamber, and ever)
fresh discussion increases the number of those who support
a liberal commercial policy.

(Froni the Kew Peek Statesman of Fob. 18.)
There is a report in circulation, which is probably not •Itkon
foundation in truth, that the lion. Niiiian Edwards, at presest a
senator in Congress from the State of Illinois, has to-day been no
minated by the President as Minister to Mexico, and that the Se.
nate will act upon the nomination in a few days. It is suppowd
there will be little or no opposition to the appointment, as he is
lirved to be well ipiaditied for the phee. Mr. Edwards is a Clithl
of Maryland; emigrated aeveral yearn since to Kettucky; a:4
when Illinois was constituted a territory. he was appointed distrie
Judge. Ile has since been liovernor of the State, and for some
time a senator in l'or!ress._

FRO3I MARTINIQUE.
Capt. Mille, of the French brig L'Amaxon (arrived at Boatel%
23 days from St. rime's, informs that two or 300 Mulattoes, ass
cuscd of a cunipirary against the Government, had been put on
hoard two frigates and sent to France for trial; and it was reported
Odle had been sent from Fort Royal. It was aim repay-cc! mit •
branch of the corayiracy had been dimmed at livid&loupe anti
that many arrests had been made there.
Capt. M. did not hear any rumour that Martinique was expetud
to be made a free port.

BALTIMOItr, FEL Is.
Captain Soper, of the brig Ardent, of New York, has arrind at
that place in the _Locilla, from Liverpool. The Arlan vas
wrecked on the 21;th Of September, on her passage from the Wes-
tern Wands to New York.

The Wilketharre Bridge, over the Susquehannah, was mere
away on SVednrulay evening last. The loss iv estimated at SO the
dollars. The Sate have lost 13,000 dollars, the amount of stvtit
ow tied.

NEW ORLEANS, Jaw. It
We Inrn by the steamboat Vulcan, that there has been a pre.
yol and considerable rise in the waters of the upper country. The
Ohio had risen upwards of twenty feet at the Falls; and, is the
Mississippi is already considerably on the rise, we may calculate
on the receipt of the produce of the upper country as speedily nit
can be transported. A large number of flat boats are already as
their passage down.

It I ED.
At R yegste, Vermont, Colonel Jacob Blanchard. to Mist Tkosts.
Jefferson :amen, n, daughter of J udge C3111[7401, and grand-daughter
of I:eneral Stark. The eccentricities of some cf the sons-imlaw of
the veteran Stark were smreelr less remarkable than his own; the
whole family wurc admirers of Jefferion. Pro loos to the birth d
the lady whose marriage is announced above, the (nth:. prts
dieted that the infant would be a son, and insisted, wh•th•r male ot
female, it should benantid Thomas.Jetferson —Philadelphia Paper.