The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-30 00:00:00

SIEGE OF MISSOLUNGIII.

The following particulars have been communicated to
the Paris Papers by the Greek Committee in that capital :
" On the 13th of November the brave Karaiskaki sur-
prised the Turkish army in their quarters near Alisso-
longlii. The attack was made at noon whilst the Turks
were asleep in the greatest security. The slaughter was
dreadful, and the military chest was taken, as the con-
founded Turks were able to make scarcely any resistance.
The booty and the prisoners were transported to Misso-
longhi, and Karaiskaki, on the same night,went to his station
in Acarnania, where he attacked the Turks at C ***** sara
(anciently Austrasia), he took all their provisions, and press-
ing upon them, a great amber of Turks were drowned in
endeavouring to embark. A third action took place at the same
i time, and in the same district in which Carvassara is
situated ; a detachment of Turkish cavalry, escorting pro-
visions and money, was taken toa man by the Greeks.
About the mine period of time Goitres, the chief of the
Western Army of Greece, who was besieging the
Turks in Salons, beadng that a Turkish detachment
was coming from Thessaly, with provisions and am-
munition, took a detachment of the besieging army with
him, and by forced marches met the Turks on the frontiers
of Greece, and, attacking them briskly, took the whole
convoy. Whilst returning to Salons, he learnt that a
corps of 700 Albanians had quitted the Turkish army to
return to their own homes, with a convoy of mules, loaded
with the booty diey had made in Greece; he pursued
them, and took thewbole of what they had with them, leaving
the tiling Alto returitileute without their arms.
"11 appen that Egyptian feet et.tereil Ne-
varino and n the b November, but there were
only 6,500 inflintar, and 1500 cavalry with it; this num-
ber is barely sufficieut to replace what Ibrahim has lost by
sword and sickness ; the winter, besides, is in our favour.
" The Turkish *et on the 29th November was in the
lonian sea, makii4for the gulf of Lepanto. Letters from
Corfu state that the Greek feet was in pursuit of it."

Letters received. from Smyrna yesterday to the 19th ult.
state, that the exchange had advanced to 30, in conse-
quence chiefly of tote prohibition of the export of silk. An
immediate alteration was, however, anticipated, as the Mi-
nister at Constantinople, with whom the measure origi-
nated, had been displaced.
Letters were yesterday received, by a respectable mer-
chant in the city, frwm Constantinople, of the 2.5 th of No-
vember, and fromSnayrna of a recent date, with which we
have been favoured. They contain no intelligence of poli-
tical importance beyond the fact of the Porte having offi-
cially directed an officer of great distinction to proceed to
the Dardanelles, to receive his Excellency the Honourable
Stratford Canning, as Ambassador Extraordinary from this
country.

A private letter from Alexandria, after noticing the de-
parture of the combined fleets of Mahomet Ali and the
Capitan Pacha, for the Mores, says :--" The excesses
committed here, during the stay of the ragamuffins com-
prising the army, were ouch as have seldom been surpassed
in Smyrna or Constantinople. The figures on the British
vessels were the targetsof the Turkish sailors, and the persons
of the Frank merchants the cudgel property of the savages
of Nubia ; in short, scarcely one Frank escaped injury or
insult. The last act of their violence was the murder of
the Austrian Dragoman."
We have received the Oriental Spectator of Smvrna to
the 19th of November. It states that the Greelipirates
still commit great depredations on the Austrian navy. In
the space of twelve days feet merchant vessels were plun-
dered by the Greeks, nearly at the same place, and the
same system of piracy extends over the whole Archipelago.
The pirates were so daring that they sometimes attacked
six vessels at a time ; an instance of this occurred between
Milo and Metelin, in which the Austrians beat off the
Greek ships. The Oriental Spectator contains an account
of the forces of Ibrahim Pacba, and corrects a mistake in
one of the Frolch Papers, which represented his losses in
the Mores at 14,000 men, the number killed being only
eri
1,400, which is c inly much more probable.
Neither *1 Au a Observer, nor the Vienna Court
Gazette, of 4W7th ecetnbet inclusive, makes any men-
tion of the death of ;he Emperor of Russia.
The death of the Empetor of Russia cannot fail to be
attended by important resfilts on the political state of Europe;
and it is but too probable that it may even lead to a gene-
ral war. We do not wish to excite unnecessary alarm upon
this suldect; but it is our duty as public Journalists to
state our sentiments on so momentous an event without
reservation. We ate in possession of some information,
which is of great importance in endeavouring to anticipate
the probable consequences of the demise of the Emperor
Alexander, and which is perhaps unknown to any other
Journalists in the kingdom—even to those who are sup-
posed occasionally to receive their cue from Ministers. It
is this,—and we pledge ourselves in the most solemn man-
ner to the truth of our statement,—that the British Go-
vernment relied solely on the personal feelings of the
Emperor Alexander for the preservation of peace.—Edin-
burgh Independent.
Tue He NGARIAN DIET.—The Frankfort papers re-
ceived yesterday contain the following notice of the pro-
ceedings of the Hungarian Deputies, under the elate of
Presburg, Dec. 13:—" The project of a humble address
of thanks to his Imperial Majesty, for his last rescript,
and which project was discussed in the Chamber of De-
puties, and read in the 211 h sitting, was unanimously
adopted in the 25th sitting of the two Chambers, on the
9th of the month, as well as a resolution conformable to
the Royal proposition, on the question—How ought the
Diet to discuss the labours of the Deputation of 1790 and
1791 ? These projects have been presented by a Deputa-
tion to the Chamber of the Magnates, which discussed
them in the 26th sitting, on the 10th, and after some ob-
servations, sent- them back to the Chamber of Deputies
yesterday."
Demerara Papers to the 15th of November have been
received ; they contain no political intelligence, but at that
time the colony was tranquil. One of these papers states
that Mr. Walker, the Superintendent of the Winkel De-
partment at Berbice, bad been superseded in his office. A
ti accident had occurred at Demerara, by the upsetting
of a corial while navigating the Rapids, in consequence of
which Mr. Groocock and Mr. Bremner were drowned.

SLAVERY IN TII7 UNITED-lti•TES.—NegTOlllyety
still flourishes in several of the States cf North America,
forming a singular anomaly in that boasted land of free-
dom. There is scarcely a newspaper published in the
slave States that does not contain an advertisement for the
recorcry, salt, or pfrelpse of slaves. In_ the cue of run-
away slaves, there is usually a clumsy figure of a negro,
and the advertisement is not unfrequently headed—" Stop
the villain." It appears, by the copy of an advertisement
in one of the Georgian papers last received, that slaves are
in great demand. as person who does not blush to give
his name and address, states that lie will give " the highest
cash price for young negroes of both sexes, from ten to
twenty-eight years of age." It may, perhaps, be thought
that the word slave, in the United States, is only another
name for a servant, but, on the contrary, they are treated
with the greatest cruelty and insult; and instances are on
record of their receiving personal chastisement of almost
uncxamided severity.
FINA Nees or Sratx.—For the purpose of relieving the
exigencies of the State, the King of Spain bar recently le-
vied a forced contribution of ten millions of seals on his
subjects carrying on trade and commerce, and before us is
a copy of the instructions, coutainir.g in all nineteen &s-
-ticks, which his Ministers, uniter date of 22d ult. have
transmitted to the several Intendants of the provinces for
its assessment and collection. This contribution is to con-
tinue for successive years, and commence on January 1,
1828. By the eleventh article, all thew persona are de-
clared liable to this contribution "who cxerci7e the mer-
cantile profession in any one of its branches or classes, the
term commerce being understood to apply to the purchase