The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-02 00:00:00

liritiOtt apreoo.

DRURY-LANE 7'IIEATEE.
This Raining, FRIDAY, Dec. 2, will be performed the
Romantic Drama of
FAUSTUS.

►austus. Mr. Wallack : Wasne;,l4;.Wrleyt Mephlstophfles, Mr..l
Russell. Itosell►, Mlu I. Paton; Adlne, Mies Graddon.
After which the Comic Opera, (
THE WAGER; or, THE MIDNIGHT HOUR.
The principal Characters by Menus. Dowton, Horn, J. Riessell,
Hoe% . rcyleure, and Bedford i Mime Kelly and Cubist; and Sire.
C. J•nws.
Tu•aiurrow, The School for Scandal, and The Spectre Bridegroom.

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COVRNT-GARDEN THEATRE'.
Thh Evening, FRIDAY, Dee 1,1111 be performed the Tragedy of
HAMLET.
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Hamlet, Mr. Serle (from iiie."-F.ngilsl2 Theatre. Brussels. hie IM
appearance In this eountry): Potonius, Mr. Blanchard: Lune., Mr.
Cooper. OptieHa, Miss Hammersley.
After which ftlth time) a new Piece taped
THE SCA PE-00AT.
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The Charaeteni by Stevan. innieliarii.Fonper. W. Farm, and
Meadows: Misses Junes and A. Jones.
To.morrow, • 1, The Scene-Gnat, and Aladdin.

ADELPHLTHEATRE, STR.4ND,

This Evening, FRIDAY, D♦e.2. will be presented the Nastteal
Melo-Dramatie Burietta of
THE PILOT;
Or, A TALE OF THE SEA.
The princiral Characters by Bruer& Terry, Yates. T. P. Cooke, aid

J. anti
After which the favourite Ilitrietta of
ALL AT COVENTRY!
Timothy. Mr. Wrench; Lively. Mr. J. Reeve.
To conclude with the Comic Revile Operatic Tragic Pantomimic
Burlesque Burletta Spectacular Eitravilganza of
DON GIOV %NISI ;
or. A SPECTRE. ON HORSED WK.

Don Giovanni, Mrs. Fltzwllllatns Don Guzman, and Ghost of h!rn-
self, Mr. T. P. Cooke; for. Octavio, Mr. Foster; Leporello, Mr. J.
Rears. Donna Anna, Wu Roden.

NEXT TUESDAY, Four of £30,000, and other IW:es,
exceeding a Quarter of a Million in Sterling iloney.
All NEXT TUESDAY.

The BRITISH Pares commenced publishing yesterday morn-
ing as five o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEcsmeEß 2. 1821.

The Paris journals of Tuesday have arrrived, with the
Etoile dated the following day. The morning papers are
almost entirely all filled with reports of the speech of M.
ME RI t.II ots in defence of the Courtier Francais. We gave
a summary abridgment of it yesterday from the Ftuile.
The death of General For, the eloquent leader of the
liberal opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, is an-
nounced in these papers. It is also stated that M. BEN-
J•MIN CONSTANT is dangerously ill.
Several accounts are given of the sailing of the Turco-
Egyptian armament from Alexandria. They all agree in
representing it as of fearful magnitude. According to the
lowest estimate it consisted of nearly 10,000 disciplined
troops, commanded, we repeat it with pain and indigra-
lion, by European officers, principally Frenchmen. The
plan of the campaign, it is stated, wu transmitted from
Constantinople, and the base renegades in the Egyptian
service boasted, we trust falsely, that "it had been fur-
nished by an European Ambassador." It is useless, how-
ever, to indulge tither in lamentation or invective. The
patriots will soon have to encounter dangers far more
formidable than any they have yet had to contend with.
If they can maintain themselves against this attack, they
will be safe. It is not in the power of the Paths of EGYPT
to fit out such another expedition. We do not despair of
the cause of Greece.

We have extracted an absurd article from the Quotidiettne,
relative to the decline of the French funds, as a sample of
the shallow and factious style in which poli.ical subjects
are treated by the royalists opposed to M. de VILMA.
The writer of the Quaidienne pretends that the whole
depression is owing to the creation of the three per ants.,
and gravely asserts that that disastrous measure, extending
its effects across the Channel, has been pro luctive of the
fall of stocks in this country. The decline in Paris on
Tuesday was very great The five per cents., which closed
on Monday at 93 f. 90 c., were reduced on Tuesday to 91 f.
c., and the three per cents. suffered a further depres-
sion from 63 f. to 61 f. 25 c.
Faexcrt FUNDS.—PARIS, Nov. 29.—Fire per Cents. 91f.
60c. ; Three per Cents. 61f. 26c. ; Rente sle Naples, Certif. Fal.
connet, NC; Royal Spanish Loan 18M, 471. Exchange on Lon.
on—one month, 21f. 95c. ; three months., 24f. 74c—Castre
Ai:then:Nue.

By the Lisbon Mail yesterday letters and rapers were.
received from that capital to the 19th ult. Tile &wile
of the 16th contains the official ratiacatiou W.' the •ttesty,

with Brazil, and several decrees for carrying its stipula-
tions into execution with regard to the losses sustained by
the Portuguese during the hostilities between ti.e two
countries. Ilis Meat Faithful Majesty has, according to
the terms of the treaty, assumed the title of Emperor of
limit. Ott the 17th 7`e Deem was celebrated at the
Patriarchal Church, and public rejoicings were ordered in
all the cities and towns of the kingdom. It appe-,;rs that
commercial negotiations have been opened by the Erni-
linn Government with the diplomatic agents of France
and Austria now at Rio de Janeiro.

The apprehensions with regard to the safety of public
credit, the solvency of country banks, and many other
topics, appear now likely Eon to subside. Nothing
1 is more alarming to many minds than an indefinite and
shapeless evil, because there is no state under which the
fears of mankind can be so easily worked upon. We re-
gret to observe with what malignant pains some of our
journals bay- strived to create this overwrought excitement,
merely to serve certain temporary and stock-jobbing pur-
pose:. iYe had intended to have remarked at some length
on the system which has been pursued on this occasion,
but we are obliged to defer the subject.

CITY, THURSDAY EVINING.

When we state that Money was comparatively plentiful,
and Money Stock scarce, we need hardly add that confi-
dence is in a degree beginning to revive. Tie New Four
per Cents. and Consols shut to-day, preparatory to the
payment of the Dividends, and some very large purchases
(in many instances by orders from the country) were made
of Money Stock. Consols for the January Account closed
at 83: 4, having improved during the day above per
cent., and at the conclusion of it they hall a very firm ap-
pearance. Exchequer Bills left off at 63. Zs. discount.
The Foreign Market had not a great deal of business
transacted in it, and prices did not materially vary. Co-
lombian Bonds were 62 3; Mexican Six per Cents. 64j;
Guatemala Scrip 12 dia.; Brazilian ditto 13', 13 dis. ;
Spanish Bonds 131, Greek ditto IS 20, and Danish ditto
..S8 60.

The Sugar Market is still in a very deprevAud ware.—
There was no public sale of Coffee, and Ruin was but little
inquired after.

The letters that were brought by the John, from Ja-
maica to Belfast, have arrived in town. They are as late
as the Bth of Oct. and represent the island in a very satis-
factory condition. There have been fine rains, that have
had a most beneficial effect upon the crops, and the negy —s
ore contemed and happy.
Letters from Madrid of the 17th November, have arrived;
the following extract is taken from one of them :—" 1
am sorry to say nothing is decided upon with respect to
the new Tariff; some thinking it too high, and others too
low ; so that, for the moment, there is a stoppage in the
making of it. The reductions are chiefly in favour of the
Spanidt flag. Every thing is quiet here, and the came I
hear in the country generally. The government feel daily
more and more the want of money, and this, in time, will
bring about an amelioration."

The Ekile states, that in consequence of the urgent
wants of the state, the Spanish clergy has just offered the
Government the sum of twenty-five millions of rcals (abcut
250,0001. sterling.) Should this offer be accepted it may
be considered a further proof of the determination of Fer-
dinand not to comply with the recommendation of these
who advise a change or system. for it can hardly be sup-
posed that the clergy would makes° great a sacrifice except
with the certainty that it would tend to confirm their own
ascendancy. According to every account the Spanish
Treasury must be in a desperate condition, so much so in-
deed, that it is stated in a letter front Madrid, which ap-
pears in the Journal des Davits, that when the revolt in the
garrison occurred at Valencia, from the non-payment of
the troops, the Treasurer-General, who was ordered under
any circumstances to send money there, was unable to
make up the sum of 100,000 reals (about 1,0001. sterling),
without drawing upon his private purse.
The accounts from Vigo Bay reach to the 10th ult.
The stormy weather still prevented the further progress of
the adventurers in searching the vessels already discovered.
No attempt bad been made with the diving-bell.
The new Tariff of Austrian Custom Duties has just
been promulgated. It is uniform for all the Austrian
States. Thus the Customs of the Tyrol will in future be
subjected to the same regulations as those of the Lombardo-
Venetian kingdom.
By the Turkey mail letters were yesterday received from
Smyrna to the 20111, anti from Constantinople to the 27th
of October. They mention a report that part of the Egyp-
tian fleet had arrived at Navarino. The Greek Authorities
are also stated to have lent in their submission to the
Pacha ; but both rumours, we suspect, want confirmation.
The mercantile letters, however, go into details as to the
prospects of the consequent trade in the Mores.
The German journals contain the following article:—
" An English merchant-ship was recentiy met off Candia
by two Greek vessels. Having come from Alexandria with
600,000 colonatis on board for Ibrahim Pacha' the Captain
was summoned on board the Greek ships. He con-plied
immediately, and produced his bills of lading made out for
Candle. The Greeks 'aid they would examine the cargo,
and, detaining the captain, steered towards his vessel. Some
Turkish passengers on board the English ship, upon seeing
the Greeks coining up, fired upon them, by which one man
was killed and three wounded. The Greeks, enraged, and
not knowing that there was money on board, sunk the ves-
sel, With all its crew and passengers. A single Turk and
three sailors were taken out of the water, and conveyed to
Napoli di Romania with the Captain. Upon arriving
there it was known that there were troops and money on
board, and that Modon was the place of their destination."

Accounts were yesterday received from Demerara to the
2lst.of October. The excessive drought continues, and,
the distress for water is severely felt. The destruction of
the crops is now represented to be very SeliOW. •
Letters from Port-au-Prince to the 16th of October
mention that the new tariff, by which the duties on Eng-
lish goods and shipping were augmented, went into opera-
tion on the 14th. A severe gale occurred at Aux Cayes on
the 28th of September. Two American brigs, a schooner,
a Danish galliot, and a number of small Haytian craft,
were destroyed by it ; the only vessels that escaped were
the Charlotte and Hope, English brigs.
Letters were yesterday received from Mexico to the 2d
October. The sickness lately so prevalent on the coast
had reached the capital; the letters state that one thousand
people were buried in one week, chiefly from the measles.
Trade was in consequence very dull; exchange with Eng-
land nominally 61 to 66.
The letters and papers from Batavia state, that an escort
with treasure, consisting of' 40 soldiers, and with 200,000
silver rupees (about 20,0001.), proceeding from Batavia to
Souraba, had been attacked by the Raja of Soloo. livery
man was filled, and the treasure seized by the insurgents.
Des AAAAA r. A 1413 FATAL Du et.—A letter from Mayence
states that the 16th instant furnished a duel which offers an
extraordinary example of animosity. A Prussian officer
and a student were at a ball at Wisbsden ; the latter trod
unintentionally upon the foot of the former; when the ball
was over the officer expressed his anger to the student, who
replied that he had already begged his pardon, and now
renewed his apology. The officer, not being satisfied, pro-
, posed a duel, which was accepted, and pistols were agreed
upon. The officer stipulated that the combat should not
terminate without a serious wound, or the death of one of
the combatants ; he fired first, and missed ; the student
had the same fate. They loaded again ; and four or five
times the event was the same. At the fifth discharge, the
officer having missed his aim, the student fired, and
stretched his adversary upon the ground, the ball having
passed through both temples.—Etelle.
Au error has generally gone forth on the subject of Sir
Hudson Lowe. That officer is not appointed Governor of
Ceylon, which situation is now held by Lieutenant-General
Sir Edward Barnes. Sir Hudson Lowe is appointed second
in command, and is a llinjor-General on the :Rad the
above Island.