The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-19 00:00:00

TURKISH PAPER.

The Journal published at Frankfort in French, which
thinks under the dictation and by the permission of the
Ceivral Inquisition established at Ma)ence, has just
taken up the cudgels in the defence of his brethren,
Messrs. Pitate and Tricon, the Editors of the Austrian
°bar, ver and Oriental Spectator. The latter is a poor,
necessitous maniac, barely acquainted with a mongrel
jargon which he calls the French language, in which
he writes a newspaper to blight the sacred cause of
the Cross, by calumnies at so much per article. Places!
under the protection of the French Consul at Smyrna, lie
tells all who choose to believe him, that his mercenary
paper is read by the Sultan, of whom he speaks as of a
Prince as legitimate as his Apostolic Majesty the Emperor
Francis, and of Turkey as of a country the most civilized
of the world, blessed in a rich soil perfectly cultivated.
What answer is to he returned to all this, when the
Turkish piastre is at 50 cent. commerce annihilated, and
the people starving for want of bread, and devoured
by the plague and the Cholera Muria's? But what will
the Oracle of Frankfurt say when we tell him that M.
Tricon has praised the execution of the martyr Patriarch
Gregory, that he has endeavoured to justify the assassins
of the innocent population of Scio, and that he went to a
ball given to testify joy at the extermination of the Chris-
tians of Ipsara ? If these facts do not entitle M. Tricon to
he called renegade, what is he to be called ?—Cour tier I
Fraficais.

ftrpecriost or Duns.—The consumption of whisky
since the reduction of the duty, compared with the quan-
tity formerly used, is very extraordinary, perhaps not less
than as 10 to 4. In addition to the great number of stills
now at work, several more are at present erecting in and
about the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, and many of the
distillets can hardly execute their orders.—Glasgow Chro-
nicle.

REMINISCINCC.—Among the few curious incidents of
earlier days, that have es.:aped the pen of history, and are
transmitted only by traditionary tale, is one that came to
our knowledge a day or two since, and which; as far as we
can learn, is new to most of our readers. It is the burning of
a human being in this city, not for, trifehcraf?, but for mur-
der. It is stated that nearly eighty years since, a slave ran
away;from his master, who )lived in this city, and con-
cealed himself in one of the islands in the vicinity three or '
four miles below. The fugitive was not long after disco-
•vered by an inhabitant of the island, who took him into his
canoe to bring him to the city ; but the slave rose upon his
keeper, and with a knife cut his throat. The slave was
caught, tried, and condemned. lie was led to the place of
execution, where a large iron band bound his waist, and a
chain fastened to the stake. burned in Spate-street, nearly
opposite to the old gaol. He met his fate with fortitude,
bidding defiance to all around him. The above is given as
a fact occurring under the observation and within tlre
recollection of one of our oldest inhabitants.—National
Democrat 11',11:qiny, in Anicrira.
A valuable cowl !Mae has been discovered on the estate
of lir. Shirley, near Carrickmacross, and coal of the best
quility is now mining in abundance. The mine is
waxing by the Royal Itist Mine Company.—Freeman's
Journal, Dublin.

Lead ore is now raised at Rochestown, within six miles
of Dublin, in quantities averaging a ton per das, and for
which, in that state, the Royal Irish Mining Company
readily gets 420/. per toz-.—lb;i.
SHOCK:No AceiDENT.—Sunday morning, about eleven
o'clock, a party of three young men were rowing in a boat
on the river Thames, near Mill-bank ; when they arrived
near a coal bar,ze on the river, one of them got up for the
purpose of pushing ott the boat, which was in a most dan-
gerous situation, in. doing which he fell into the water;
one of his companions, while he was struggling in the
water, plunged in for the purpose of saving him, on which
he was clasped round the neck by his friend, and in a short
period they both sank to rise no more. The bodies were
dragged for, mid soon after were picked up lifeless, and
earried to the White Hart public-house for the Coroner's
InTtcet. Tin is zanies ate C!ark,3 and Ciatli..3.