The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

POItTg MOUTH.

Satreranar. Jesse 1:;.
On Thursday his Majesty's frigate Galatea, Sir Char'es
Sullivan, Hart. arrived from La Guayra,Carthagena, Ci.a-
gres, and Havannah-23 days from the last-mentioned
place, bringing despatches from his Excellency Alexander
Cockburn, Esq. his Majesty's Ambassador in the Colon,.
hien States, and from Henry Dawkins, Esq. his Major%
Consul-General in the Guatimala State, with which ibr
Charles Sullivan proceeded to London. The accounts
have received present a very discouraging state of those
countries.—The common enemy having been expelled, die.
cord, intestine division, and even open rebellion to the con.
stituted authorities, have arisen in Colombia. Messenger
had been despatched to hasten the return of Bolivar, the
President, from Peru, from whose personal presence and
firmness much good was expected. Commerce, as the na-
tural consequence, was in a very languid state; indo!,
until the natives can be induced to shake off their natural
apathy and indolence, they will be satisfied, in a great de-
gree, with the abundant natural products of their own
country, and their artificial wants, which the industry of
this country can supply, will be few. The accounts franc
the mines are also discouraging. The pearl fishery vessel,
at Panama, lately lost her diving bell, in which three men
were at work. The Galatea brought 70,000 dollars for
British merchants. The Ambassador to Colombia, who
was landed at Carthagena in had health, intended to Imre
the country again shortly, in the. Ringdove, Is, Capt. Ride,
for England. -
We have received letters from Halifax dated the 19th of
June, which state the perfectly tranquil state of affairs
within the limits of our army and navy commands there,
with the good health of the troops and crews of the ships
of war. Lord Dalhousie was about to visit Nova Scotia •
the Menai, 2S, Captain Houston Stewart, had proceeded te
Quebec, for his conveyance to Halifax. The Jupiter, :le,
Bear-Admiral Willoughby Lake, was lying at Halifax ;
the Rifleman, in the Guipla of St. Lawrence ; Dotterell,
in the Bay of Fundy ; Orestes and Ciinker, at Newfound-
land ; Grasshopper, gone with mails to Bermuda. The
Niemen had just arrived from Jamaica, with a small
quantity of specie for the use of the Commissariat. Copt
Jones had taken the command of the Orestes, vice Captait
Litchfield, promoted.
On Monday the Talbot, 2S, Capt. Hon. Fred. Spencer,
sailed for the Mediterranean. This evening the Glasgow
frigate, Capt. the Hon. J. A. Muffle, sailed for Lisbon and
the Mediterranean. Captain Robert Gambier, R.N. and
Lady (for the benefit of her health), took their passage by
her for Pisa. The Naiad and Sybille frigates arc to re:ue
home.

This afternoon the Blonde, Lord Byron, and Arrow cut
ter, railed on a cruise. The Galatea and Swinger are come
into harbour. Remain at Spithead, Lively. The Gangt
will go out on Wednesday.
AlajorGeneral Sir Ntill Campbell, K.C.8., (em,
maniler-in-Chief on the coast of Africa, and suite, ar,
expected to sail in the Lively, on Thursday next, fr
Sierra-Leone.

The Jupiter transport, Lieutenant Green, put into Spit
head, this morning, from Woolwich, by contrary wind
on her way to Dublin with two companies of Royal At
tillery, to relieve two companies there, and take th°l
then on to Gibraltar, and bring two companies thence I
England.
Captain Edward Sparshatt isappinted Inspecting Corr.
mander of .the Preventive Coast Guard at Weyinout!
Lieut. Henry Goisett, to command the Ferret • Mr. E
Hopkins to be Lieutenant of the Tweed ; Mr. fames Mali
land to be Lieutenant of the Ferret; Dr. Armstrong, sot
geon of the Glasgow, to be surgeon of Port Royal flospita,,
vice Dr. Lang, deceased ; Mr. P. Lyon, surgeon of 0
Cadmus, to the Glasgow ; Dr. warden to be surgeon
the Pelorus.

PLYMOUTH, JeLY 13.—Sailed on Sunday, the Romnel
50, Capt. N. Lockyer, with 300 troops (detachments) fc
Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian Islands: Camelion, ft
Liverpool ; Nightingale, on a cruise. Came in the
gington transport, Lieut. Gtrdtleta, with condemned eon
from Malta, after long passage. In the Sound—Dryad at
Java. In Hamnaze—Britannia, Witt&or Castle, Fort
Pelorus, Trinculo, Bramble. The 321 Regiment h
marched for Manchester. The lit battalion 60th Rep
ment has arrived here. The Notth Cornwall Regimes
of Hussars has, assembled at Bodmin, for eight days pet
manent duly.
Captain IVilliam Elliott, C. 8., and the officers and ere
of his Majesty's ship Lively, have subscribed--the font.
three days', and the later one day's, pay.—for the relief
the distressed manufacturers.
Lord Yarborough's new yacht, Falcon, returned tl
morning from a cruise of six days, during the late at
breezes in the Channel. On Tuesday last she fell in wit
anti colts:do-ably beat, the Talbot frigate, in turning in'
Torbay. Site is remarkably dry and easy, very stiff, ar
has not strained a rope.
Mr. Asheton Smith's new cutter yacht, of 160 tons, be
at Hastings, in a cruise off Brighton, a few days since, It;
a trial of sailing with the Arrow cutter, Lieut. Brookia
blowing fresh, ant) in a reach of 17 miles only, headed 11
Arrow one utile.

N. vv.—Since the conclusion of the peace, 443 ships
war and other vessels have been sold out of the service l
the Navy Board, of which 112 were sold on condition
being broken up. The tonnage of the whole number sol
amounts to 229,647 tons.
AMERICAN COMPLAINTS OF BRITISH AGGRESSION•
The letters received from Virginia on Saturday, to thet2ot
ult. mention that the citiz-ns were in a state of great e•
citement by the capture of the American fishing-boats P
the Bay of Fundy, by his Majesty's ship Dotterel.
SCOTCH ROYAL. IICRGIIS.—The Convention met
Tuesday, the Lott! Provost of Edinburgh in the Chin
but the business was chiefly routine.
lIn.LS oN Fl R E.—Two men have been lodged in Alien,
Been gaol, accused of wilfully setting fire to the hills not
the source of the Dee, whereby much damage has been
clone. Another man stands accused of the like crime. hat
has not yet been got hold of; a reward has been 00'6,
for his apprehension.