The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-11 00:00:00

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

St a—ln wandering round the London Pock on Thurs-
day last, chance brought me to the birth where the Grecian
man of war schooner was lying, discharging her ballast.
preparatory. to receiving some repairs upon the bull ; and
I Immediately stepped on board to examine her, and notice
the manners of her interesting new.
The Amphitrite is a beautifully-modelled vessel, of
about 130 tons, mounts ten carriage guns, and was built
in the island of Samos, about five years ago. I never saw
a vessel better adapted for swift sailing, nor one from
which a hint might he taken with more advantage for the
improvement of our Post-office packets.
I counted thirty-five uncommonly stout and well-made
seamen on board, with their sun-burnt count: n ere
graced with such tremendous mustachios, that I thought
them hideous at first sight ; but they improved upon
acquaintance, particularly when thq became animated
with the sudden re-appcaranca in the midst of them of one
of the finest of the youths of their country, who have been
sent here for their education. In an instant there was a
clamour of tongues, and every one had some question to
ask, or some joke to crack upon Castanos, who, in hie
turn, seemed delighted to reply to their badinage. and
'ake by the hand once more in a foreign, but not in a
hostile land, flu? shipmates of his voyage, the defenders of
his native and illustrious country, and the sworn foes of its
oppressors, the sanguinary and inhuman Turks.
When Castanos, who is a pretty and an interesting boy
m. fourteen, left the vessel, her crew broke oil' work. and
having carefully washed themselves, sat flown in nic,ses
to a very comfortable dinner of stewed beef awl potatoes.
They formed a circle round the tin dish which o•ntained
their food, sitting cross-legged like tailors, and each of
them having reverentially crossed hinistif, and asked a
Wu-sing, begat; to eat with the utmost regularity and
propriety.
Can these be the half-savage and ignorant Greeks whom
I have heard so much vilified? thought 1, as I left the
vessel. Ii they are, they possess at least some qualifica-
tions. which it would give me infinite pleasure to witness
in my own countrymen of the same profession.
Whoever has a taste for looking at a fine vessel, or ad-
miring a sample of the men who are struggling for freedom
on the classic soil of Greece. will have both gratiika by
sisiting the Amphitrite and her crew.
I am, Sir, yours, .

Bread-street, Oct. 30, 1821.

A. B.

Prince Esterhazy the Austrian Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
It is stated that Sir Charles 13agot will be snrceedeel in
the embassy at Sr. Petersburgh, by Mr. Stratford Canning.
Despatches were yesterday received, to the 't3iln!t., from
Sir Frederick Adam, his Majesty's Lord High Cammis-
biota in the United States of the lonian Wands. We
learn from these despatches that, after repeated demands
made, in his Majesty's name, in satisfaction for the viola-
tion of the territory of the lonian States in Pecember last,
the Provisional Greet-lemma of Greece have consented to
make the reparation which has been required from them ;
but not until Captain Peelle'', the °hirer commanding his
Majesty's Naval Forces in the lonian Seas, hail been wider
the necessity of seizing three Greek armed schchners at
Napoli di Romania.
A Paris Correspondent informs us, that the demolition
of the mountains of the Jardin Beaujon has been corn-
me:.eed, and that houses are to be erected upon the ground.
Tivoli was in like manner to have been parcelled out for
building ground, but we hear that in consequence of the
intervention of an august personage, that beautiful resort
of the French fashionable world will not be destroyed._

li!stirday a Court of Direetors was held a: the East
India llouse, when the following ships were thus timed,
viz. Prinvss Charlotte of Wales, Captain Christopher
Men ; Warren Hastings, Capt. George Ma:o r ; and Mi-
nerva, Capt. George Pronyn—for Madras and B ngal : to
be afloat Feb. 17, 1325, sail to Gravesend March 4, stay
tl e e thirty days, and he hi the Downs April 9. 'The
Thomas Grenville, Capt. William Manning, and Marquis
of Wedington, Capt. Blanshard—Lr &Nal direct : to be
afloat on the April 18, sa Ito Gray.:send May 2, stay there
thirty days, at.d be in the Downs 7th June. That the
ships Charles Grant, Captain —; Bombay, Captain
—; Lowther Castle, Captain Thomas Baler; and
Warren Hastings, Captain Richatri Rawes—for China
direct, be afloat 4th March, Ise'', sail to Gravesend 19th
ditto, stay there thirty days, and be in the I)uwns 24th
April. The under-mentioned Captains were sworn into
the command of their respective ships, viz. Captain John
Peter Wilson, Ily the ; Captain Richard Alsager. Water-
leo—Bengal and China; and Captain John Paterson,
Repulse--St. !Lima, Bencoolen, and China.
The Court of King's Bench (says a Dublin Paper) was
crowded on Saturday to suffocation, occasioned, in a great
measure, by a rumour which had gone abroad, that Mr.
O'Connell was to move the Court for a criminal informa-
tion against Sir A. B. King, founded upon the Baronet's
acknowledgment at Collrge-street Police-otlice, on Thurs-
day, that he was Treasurer to the Orange Association. The
crowd was disappointed, for Mr. O'Connell made we such
motion.

The Norfolk Magistrates have come to a cletermination
to move for leave to bring a bill into the House of Com-
mons, for the removal of the Assizes front Thetford to
Norwich.

SINGULAR Rscorzev OF STOT EV PROPERTY.—On
Monday selinight some persons entered the shop of Messrs.
relgate and Osborne, jewellers, in the market-place, Nor-
wich, and stole a large quantity of jewellery. The greater
part of the above stolen property was discovered on Thurs-
day in rather a singular manner. A boy, employed to at-
tend 1i4)1111.` bullocks in a field upon a fann in the occupation
of Mr. James Barber, at Gorleston, near Yarmouth, on ap-
proaching a corn-stack in the same field, observed some-
thing stuck under the thatch, which, on his removing•
prov.al to be an old stocking, containing a quantity of
valuable jewellery. The buy immediately made his good
fortune known in the neighbourhood, when a further search
was deemed advisable, and two other lots of jewellery were
discovered in the same stack. The police have been upon
the alert sine.: this discovery, but, as yet, no trace of the
depredators has been obtained. The property has been
identified as that stolen from the above shop.—Nerteith
'Wee.
Pt LCHARDS.—At length, and after havi77 ceased to hope
that this season would be better than the preceding, it is
our pleasing duty to communicate, that the fish are not
only on the coaat in immense shoals, but that great quanti-
ties have been taken at different places. Yesterday
sennight, the day after the sculls had been laid up for the
winter, Mounts Bay was discovered to be filled with pil-
chards—two seins were got ready with the utmost expedi-
tion, and great numbers were taken ; though if the other
seins had been prepared, it is supposed that many thou-
' sand hogsheads would have been secured, as the quantities
seen were unusually great, and which, from its blowing
hard, betook themselves to the sea again. Twu boats tilled
with fish sunk in bringing them to the shore, and a man
was unfortunately drowned. I hie net burst, and its con-
tents were of course lust. Th • whole taken in Mounts
Bay are about 64./U ho;sheails, and, up to Thursday, great
quantities were seen in the Bay. The St. Mimes, Lizard
and Coverack seins have been still inure lucky, having be-
tween them safely lamh-d %m a) hogsheads, with 1,000
still in the water. The Mevagissey seine have not taken
any ; but the catches at l'Jrtlue. Newquay, and St. lees
I have hem handsome. The price of pilchards at Truro is
35., while, a: the Lizard, they ate Is. bd. per hundred.—
Cornwall Paper.
WYln•n Turner. the pugilist. was taken from the ground
to his quarters at the Ceerge tun, Colninvok. it was foUIRI
that one of the bums of the left hand was broken, and one
end of the fracture nearly protruded through the skin. A
surgeon in the town was sent for, and the fracture speedily
rduc•al. Ned thinks it happened about the middle of the
tight, in stopping one of Inglis's tremendous right-handed
blows. u Lill, he caught on the point of the knuckles of the
middle finger. With th:s exception. he has scarcely shun
of any consequence. and certainly rot a sciatch. Some of
Ned's friends were remarking that Inglis'a blows were light.
Djn't tell me that," saki Ned, " I fel: them, see know
:ha: they were extremely heavy."

THE BRITISH PRESS.

THE FIFTH AWNIVERSARY OF THE ORANGE.
STREET TRACT SOCIETY.

A Meeting of this Society was held at the Chapel in Orange-
street, Leieester-square, last evening.
The Meeting was called for six, and at half-past six the chair
was taken by the Rev. Tstosess Lr.wts, of Islington.
The Rev. Jottx TOWNSEND offered up • prayer far the waxes
of the Institution, and
The Climate's', aßer having stated the object of the Meeting.
requested the Secretary to read the Report, which stated that tracts
had been very generally distributed in public-houses, amongst
hackney-coachmen, watemen, watchmen, watch-house-keepers.
&e. It alluded to the profanation of the Sabbath by the keeping
*Pen of shone, and informed the Meeting, that the Committee
hoped that the distribution of tracts bad done something to abate
that evil. Tracts had been well received by soldiers; and they
had, in many instances, been placed in shops, where they
sold trash in the shape of amusement for children, with great
success. Some toed been distributed on board one of the dis.
coverv-ships (the Heels). They had also been dispersed in Tothill-
fields' Prison and Newgate, all the Theatres, and Bartholomew
Fair. The Committee also expressed in their report, the satisfac-
tion they felt in stating that a Tract-book Library. had been esta-
blished by the Orange street Society. Some gipstes in Hertford-
shire, the pea and hop-pickers, almost all the harenakers in the
neighbourhood of London. and the Greenwich Pensioners, had re.
eeived them. Ths report further stated, that 90,6119 tracts had been
circulated generally; 17,509 had been given to subscribers; 6.4,666
had hcen sent amongst hackney-coachmen, to theaters. fairs, &c.;
and 3,631 had been forwarded to the Secretary and his friends.
making an increase of 10,758 in the present year over the last. and
making a grand total of 2&1,701 tracts distributed since Oct., 1819.
The SECRETAItY then read the account from Ist November,
1323, to lot November, 1124. by which it appeared that 11G. 19s. Id.
had Mr!, expended in the printing and distribution of tracts, and
that there was a balance of BM 17s. &I. due to the Treasurer.
_

The Rev. JOHN TOWNSEND, in moving the first Resolution.
observed, that they had cause to be thankful for what their eyes had
snn and their tars heard a hut still there wai much darkness re.
maining in the country. Thousands and tens of thousands were still
in the valley of the shadow of death. The Tract Society recommend.
NI itself on a variety of grounds. A tract could find an entrance where
Bible could not, and its nod appeared to be easily aceompli,hed.—
It had extended itself to prisons and hospitals., and in a variety of
instances it had done substantial' good. He would say that tracts
were introduced to attain the object that brought the Saviour upon
earth. The Nev. Gentleman then moved the let Resolution—

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That the Report now read be received. and that the following
gentlemen, whose names will be read by the Secretary, be the Com-
mittee and Officers for the year ensuing.
The Rev. R. 11. SIIEPU CRD was cer:ain that he need not to
that meeting speak of the advantages of meta ; they were well
known to all around him, and two of the greatest objects that had
been obtained were the distribution of tracts at the Missionary
Tent Meetings, and the substitution of the papers issued from this
Society for the trash usually read by children for their amusement.
AVith these impressions is favour of the Institution, be cordially
seconded the Resolution. . . . . . . . .

The Rev. Dr. STYLES said, that the motion he held in his hand
united divine agency with human imatrumentality, two operations
that ought never to be separated. Whatever human beings did
ought to he to the maim and glory of Ood, and if blessed results
were produced, the praise ought to be given to find. The object
of the Society was the circulation of Christian inowlrcige, and it
had a universal adaptation to the wants of man. (hut of a popula-
tion of a million and • half within the bills of mortality, not more
than nue-third had an opportunity of attending divine worship. Dr.
Chalmers. who was rot only the best civil economist of his time,
but mixed the saving knowledge of Christianity with his economy,
had said, that every temple was an attraction ; Isut he had also said
that was not enough, there must be an emanation ; and the domi.
ciliary visits paid by the members of this Society was that emu's.
;ion. Ile then moved the second Resolution.
That this Meeting acknowledge with devout 'gratitude the in.
creased support which this Society has received, and the blessing
with which a grae,ses GOD has been pleased to crown its efforts
during the past year. and while we desire to ascribe all the glory to
Him, to whom alone it is due, may he so increase our teal, that we
may strive by our influence and our prayers to make this Society
more extensively useful than ever.
Mr. JOAF.PH PAYNE seconded the Resolution.
The Rev. Joust THOMAS considered Tracts as Monitor, from
Heaven, to alarm the careless and reclaim the profane; and he
wan happy to inform the Meeting that the beneficial effects of the
Parent Society were felt on the Continent. In the neighbourhood
of Orleans 30,01,0 copies had been dispersed. Ile begged the
Meeting to continue their efforts in support of the Society, and
concluded by mowing the third Resolution.
That this Meeting witnesses with thankfulness and encourage.
ment the steady progress the Parent Society is making in the good
opinion of Christians of all denominations, as its plans and opera-
tions become more exter.sively known ; and that the cordial thanks
of this Meeting be given to the Committee of the Parent Society,
for their liberal assistance to this institution, in allowing their Fob.
lic stints to be purchased at reduced prices.
Mr. Rolm,' seconded this Resolution.

The Rev. Anxot.ri WIDTH, in moving the fourth Renointim,
expressed his gratitude at the success that had attended their zeal
and operations ; mankind were running fast to woe, and th ye-
fore the most benevolent act that could be accomplished was to
check them In their progress, which this Society had, to a large ex-
tent, done. It was no light matter to reflect that this Society ex-
isted in the heart of a profligate metropolis, where juvenile della
qnency existed in an appalling degree, and yet that it had been
enebled to carry on successfully its operations, and to cheek in some
degree the profaneness and wickedness that surrounded it. The
laws were good, but the people could only be checked in their
evil courses by moral means. To this end perseverance was neces-
eery; their teal must not grow cold. He cordially moved the
fourth Resolution.
That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Treasurer,
William Parker, Esq. for his kind attention to the concerns of this
Society during the past year.
The Rev. 0. C. SMITH, of Penzanre, was thankful for what had
been done ; but still he thought little had been accomplished, and
little could be accomnlishrd towards reforming this vast metropolis.
until the mass of profligacy that existed in the courts, lanes, and
alleys of London, was attacked. He knew of one alley that con-
' tained 150 thieves, men, women, and children, all under the con-
, trol of one man. It was sinks of iniquity like this that ought to
be cleared away, and that could only be done by personal exertion,
by these courts and alleys being visited, tracts being left in the
houses, and the Scriptures read to them. If he were Satan. he
would say, " give me all the public houses, theatres, fain, brothels,
and gambling houses, and you may take all the churches and
chapels : as long as I have such instruments as these, I don't fear
all your efforts." Did it not, therefore. behove every well-wisher
of Christ's kingdom to come forward and manfully attack this mass
of profligacy ? They ought not to come there to compliment each
other, but to consider nothing done whilst any thin:: remained to
be dope. The Reverend Gentletnan then seconded she fourth
Resolutioo.
The Reverend Mr. Jowls moved the fifth Resolution,
5. That the thanks of this Meeting he given to the Committee of
the Sunday School belong to this 'Chapel, fur allowing the Com.
mittee of tide Society the use of rooms fur it: various meetings dur-
ing the past year.
The Reverend JOSE psi TAYLOR of Portses moved the thanke
of the meeting to the Chairman, who offered his acknowledgements
for the compliment. and the assembly broke up at half-past nins
o'clock.