The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

STATE' OF SPAIN.

A letter from Barcelona, dated 15th January, states,' '
that assassinations are committed quite commonly in Cats-
lonia•by the partisans on each side. Lately, in the district
of Argentera. in the jurisdiction of Tarragona) the bodies of
a Captain of Royalist volunteers, and four individuals of his
company, who had been murdered, have been found; at
Vilarrodona, the Mayor has had his throat cut in his own
house. At Sanahueja, a young man who bad borne arms -
under the Constitutional standards, and who had been ad-
mitted as a substitute in one of our regiments, bad obtained
leave of absence, and had lately been to visit his family;
whilst here he went to play at tennis, the favourite game of
theinhabitanta. Upon hislaving the ill fortune to beat his
opponents, they set up the cry of " Death to the A'rero!"
and as they were proceeding to put their threats into exe-
cution, the young man, being obliged to defend himself,
drew his poniard and struck to the ground two of the
boldest. In the meantime the police came up, upon which
the young man surrendered himself to them without resist-
ance ; he was shut up in a dungeon, where he was left
loaded with irons. The populace soon after assembled
round the prison, broke open the doors, placed a rope round
the neck of the unfortunate man, and dragged him into the
streets, where he expired in the most shocking torments,
every one pressing forward to strike him with sticks, swords,
poniards, &c.
Since the restoration, it is computed that more than forty
Negros have been assassinated, without the authorities
having dared or been willing to take measures to punish
the assassins.

Letters dated 4th December are in town from Penitent-
buco. At that period the most perfect tranquillity pre-
vailed. They bring no news. Trade was dull.
We are somewhat amused with a statement contained in
one of the last numbers of the Jamaica Gazette. Dr.
Orderson, the rector of Christchurch. Barbadoes, has, with
praiseworthy zeal, published several long letters, which he
addressed to Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Stephen, eight or
nine years ago, in vindication of the colonists generally,
and especially to prove that the insurrection of the Slaves,
in 1816, was produced by the Registry Bill, and not by
the oppression of the proprietors. These letters, we dare
say, are considered very interesting to the Rev. Gentle-
man's friends, though they are not in our judgment re-
markable for much-novelty of illustration or force of argu-
ment. The Jamaica Gazette, however, holds them to be
of such tranuendent merit, that " undue influence"
only could induce us to refuse them insertion. The state-
ment is—
" From some undue influence the publication of them vu re.
fused in the Courier and the British Press newspapers, published
in London."
We have one fact to state in our justification, which will,.
we think, be sufficient with all but the Rev. Author him-
self perhaps. Printed in our smallest type, these letters,
which relate to events passed by upwards of eight years,
would have filled more columns of our paper than we
could have devoted to that or any one purpose for a week.
This will surely explain why we did not publish them,
without supposing that we were exposed to any " undue
influence."
A Hamburgh Paper says, that Sir Walter Scott intends
making a tour in Sweden and Norway, in order to make
himself acquainted with the localities and customs of coun-
tries where he has laid the scene of a new work, which he
is writing.
CORA MECHANICS' INSTITUTIPH.--4 Mechanics' In.:
stitution, on the plan of those of London and Glasgow, is
about to be formed in Cork. The peoject originated with
some gentlemen, members of the Literary and Scientific
Society in that city, and a meeting on the subject has been
since held, at which the Mayor presided, and which was
attended by several of the most respectable inhabitants
and merchants of Cork. There is every probability that
the plan will be carried into effect, and that its consequen-
ces will be of a nature the most beneficial to the South of
Ireland.
WEST MEATH Cause.—True bills for wilful and cor-
rupt perjury have been found by the Grand Jury, against.
Michael Corcoran, Margaret Shields, and Sarah Taylor
the three principal witnesses to support the late prosecution
of the Marquis of Westmeath, against Connell and others,
at the late Commission for a conspiracy.—Dablia Paper.
The bankruptcy of a mercantile house at Leith has un-
fortunately obliged three considerable and esteemed houses
'in Norway, viz. one at Drammen, and two at Christians,
to atop payment.
On Wednesday, one of those sturdy vagabonds, who
levy contributions sometimes by begging, and at other
times by bawling the contents of printed papers through
the streets, was brought before the Magistrate, charged by
a decent looking journeyman tradesman with crying
through the town an account of his having been sold by
auction at the instance of his wife, in the Cheshire market.
The tradesman spoke in just terms of deep indignation
at such an atrocious, act of foul falsehood, and the fellow
was remanded for further inquiry, with a view to prosecu-
tion and punislnuent.-7'uesdav s Liverpool Advertiser.
• Yesterday a Court of Directors was heht at the East
India House. when Capt. Richard Rawes was sworn into
the command of the ship Warren Hastings, consigned to
China direct.
Yesterday the despatches for Bombay and China. by
the ship Inglis, Capt. Serie, were closed at the East India
House, and delivered to thrpurser of that olvip:
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