The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-24 00:00:00

THE WEST IXDIES.

We have recived Jamaica Papers to the I ith tilt. The
House of Assembly hag been further prore!_med from the
4th of May to the stli of Juice. The following Procla-
mation has been received with the greatest jay by the
Colonists:—
BY TILE lOW, A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGE R. . .

IVheress, it has been represented to cis, that the slaves in our
West India Cilonies, and of our FowStiViOns on the Continent of
South An:erica, have been erroneously led to believe that orders
have bren sett ay us thr their emancipation : and whereas such be-
lief has produced arts of iiumhoetlination, which have excited oar
hi;,hest distltssine, we have thought tit, by and with the advice
of o,t.ri,Tivv conceit, to ism:: this Oolf Royal Proclamation: And
we do hereby declare anti niake known, that the slave populatimt in
our said colonies and possessions will be undeserving of our pre-
teetion, if they shall fail to render ective submission to the laws, as
well as dutiful obedience to their masters ; ,Ind we hereby charge
mid coitinmnd all our tiovanots of our said Viet India Colonir,
PONPCiniOII% to give the fu'lest publicity to this our Proclama-
tion, and to enforce, by ell legal n.cana iii their power, the punish-
ment of those who toity. disturb the tranquillity and peace of our
Isiid Col:inks and Possessions.

Given at the limoat Csrlton House, this 10th day of March
and in the sth year of our Reign.
God save the Kiug.

ice-Admiral Sir hawrenca W. Halsted. K.C.R. has addrcsizil
the toihwing communication to his lionour the :tlayor

(corn.)

We, Port Roynf ifarliour, Jamaica. 11ay -I, 1824.
a,—l beg you be pleased to make known. for the inforatation
of those interested therein, that the result of the demand made on
the authorities of Porto lite° for reparation in the case of the sloop
Eliza, of this island, piratically plundered by the Fortuna privateer.
that judgment tan official copy of whit!' is in my pows,ssion) has
bttn given against the offenders, to the full amount of the claims
made by the British uurchants ; but, although every effort has
been made to that ctttet, the poverty of the parties is such, that
there is little nr no priopect of obtaining payment at Porto Bic°.
'IIIO omner, ilivrtion.. now remains to be tinally settled by the
vernmen's ot t;reat Britain and Spain, to the :miner of w inch this
result will It,• duly matte known
If any gentieit.an interested in this afttir will call upon ow,
I shall be glad t receive and give hint any information in my
pOW Ct. . . .

• I have the Imam ?to be, Sir, your move obedient humble 'er-
rant, (Sre4l). L. W. IL% hsTED.

i'iso.Adnira and Cimmastier.in-Chief.

To the Honourable the Mayor or Kingston.
he Grecian cutter, 10, Lieut. Cawley, sailed from l'ort. Roval
en Stl!ldAy morning for Carthagena. having on bard delipstches
fro a Viee..l4;miral Sir Lawrence W. Halsted, X.C.13. for the
Vice. President of Colombia.

.....
Kt NI:4TON, NI AY 13 —His Majesty's schooner Lion came t:
ar.rh.e a: Port !Cord yesterday. in 3days trimt tit. Jag.) de Cubs.
The Forte, 46. Capt. Sir T. Cochrane, livt., sailed from Port
Loral yesterday, tot Vera Cruz.
Nimr 12.—flis Majesty'a ship No. of 50 guns, Captain
Forest, sailed yer•rglay for Chacres' with th,., trade for that port.
Mar I I.—llis :Majesty's Lug Bustard balled yesterday for
Ttarhadoe..

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31 10.—On Satunlay hie ship Pyrainini., of 4
guns. t.ap.uin Noecombe, from St. Domingo ; anil Surinam
brig, 13, Captain Cro c, from Barba toes, la.t from .lux.Uayei,
came to anchor.

The Paris papers cf Sunday contain little of general in- I
West. The Chamber of Peers has resolved that the public
shall have access to htla its discussions. The .70arauf dal
Debald most ridiculously ascribes the delay on the part of
Mr. Canning to reteguise the South American States, to
the opposition made to that measure by M. Cliateaubrianil..
A telegraphic despatch, dated Aranjurz, June ret, and
given in the Mennen", announces that the Infanta Louisa
Cnrlotta, 'onsort of the Infant Dan Francis, was., dive; ed,
the preceding day at ten o'clock in the morning, of a
Princess, who was baptised the same day by the Patriarch
of the Indies. The Corrier Franeuir is under prosecution
on a charge of having, in a succession of articles, mani-
fested a spirit calculated to disturb the public peace. The.
Advocite-General prays that the journal shall be suspended
for three months
Lire T lox or Smenirrs.—This day being Midsummer-
illy, the Lord Mayor will hold a Common Hall in the.
Guildhall of London, for the election of Sheritik for the
year now next ensuing. The Aldernrn Brown and Key,
it is understood, are willing to take upon themselves the
o 7ce : and an it is hulispensible that every Alderman shall
have actually served as Sheriff' before he can take uten
himself the higher office of Lord Mayor, no opposition is
of course expected to be made to tl:eir election.
It has been ascertained, on good authority, that no lees
a sum than 300,01,0/. is annually drained from the county
of Limerick by absentees, and 130,000/. from Kerry.—
Iriah Tittles.
Aerate or II o xourt !!—We understand that in con-
sequence of a dispute, originating at a billiard-table in this
city, on Friday last, between a young professor of the Es-
culapian art, and a Mr. —, a meeting was arranged for
S onrday morning, on the Horse-fair, in the suburbs of
tnls clty, according that the differences might be adjusted
acrarding to the laws of honour existing among gestiemen.
Imagination must Ell up the interval batman, the eholleagr
and the media;—how the young gentlemen settled their
worldly affairs—the sle.epless nigl or the feve.ish dream
—the involuntary starting at the tick of the clock, which
sounded so like the snap of a pistol missing tire, and all
the rest of that sort of thing. !laving done this, we will
premed to the scene of action. The combatants pot there
in reality, and i: is equally certain that they returned Wire
and s.aldh/e4a, hut whether it was through the interposition
of their seconds, or that they wtre safilli•a/ at the of
the ;iglu's, or they actually ventured to hear their 'crew',
as rumours are various, we will not pretend to affirm. But
however the fact might be, as they have thus early proved
their title to rank as men of coam4-e, we 11.1pe it will so-
lirfj for the rest of their lives ; and that for the
future they will refrain from breaking their own peace, or
that of his Majesty the Kirg's.— Fork Courant
There is a person here, whose name is Watson, who an-
swers oil mathematical, algebraical, and arithmetical ques-
tion% by mental calculation. in a manner nearly equal to
the celebrated G. Ilidder.—Soallortaidon
Probert is now in Gloucestershire, and was at Newnham
fair as the I lib instant, exhibiting a hose for sale.—Yon'.
Cuutuq.