The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-28 00:00:00

WINES.

Mr. CALCRAFT moved fur an account of ill
Wines imported into Great Britain and Irelititd, in
the years Inl6, 1817. and 1818, distinguishing the
countries from wheure imported, and the duoe
paid thereon.
4djourtked.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, JANUARY 23.

The Kiug heard mass yesterday in his apart 7
meats. His Majesty afterwards transacted nosiness
with the Marquis PersoUeta. Nlinister for Foreign

A flints.
The Court will yor on mourning for 21 days,
from Saturilaay next, on account of the Queen of
Wirtembtrg's death.
Ismael Gibraltar, general agent of the Viceroy of
Egypt, has altogether sent three ships laden with
casinos', balls, Scc. from Sweden to Egypt. Three
munitions were to be employed in the war agaisist
the Wecliabites, lint that war, as is known, being
,tertnisiated, they will serve to supply the arsenals
and fortresses of Egypt. The surname of Gibral.
tor was given to one of Ismael's ancestors, by Sul,
tan klurad. as a reward fur his having, with st small
Turitisli vessel, taken a large ship of an enemy.
)9111ftil has been for several years Post Captain in
the Ottoman marine, where he acquired the confi-
dence of the Viceroy of Egypt.
There have been discovered on the banks of the
river Nlerrinialt, tweuty miles from Saint Louis, in
the United States, some tombs built of stone, con-
strnciesl with a crrlalii degree of art, and ranged
in sytomettical order, but of which none is
more than four feet long. The human skeletons
found iss them do not exceed three feet in length,
but the teeth prove that the persons must have betas
of :nature age. The skulls are out of proportion
with -the rest of the body. Here then are disco-
, yew! the Pyrites or

ljai Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester sets
out ou Tuesday for Fontainebleau, with the Prince
de Talleynoid. lie will remain there several days.
A week since a courier art out fur Rome.charged
with important dispatches. It is not known whe-
tlwr ilwse dispatches refer to the affairs of the Church
of France, or to the Bull of Consecration.
A German Astronomer has predicted the weather
of the present year. The spring, lie says, will coin-
',truce early ; the months of March and April will
be .very tine ; all the harvests will be abundant, the
.cherries and prunes alone will fail ; the wine will be
of excellent quality. and *bone all very raccharilie,
but there will be less of it tikao in 1818 ; there will
he some dry fogs in the mouth of August, and the
muistli of September will havesanue arm cold days iii
it. Those who live near volcanoes utast be on their
guard, fur there will be many erup{ious, preceded
eartlisluikkes. Two comets will approach our
planet, 14.. t not cause any evil. They will ise with-
not tails, and fused a is Tiles. So bays The
Curette.de Botpeuth.
'Flie presence of one of the English Princes of
the Blood. at the solemn ceremony celebrated in
the Church of tit. Denio, to the memory of
Louis XVI. preortited an interesting
The Doke of ,Gloucester, and suite of four per-
soi.a4es attired like Abe Prince in military uniform,
were conducted by the Grand Master of the Cere-
noniiii s to r seat op front of the Members of the
ktai) al family. The .betich reserved for the il/us-
nom* traveller was that which is gratefully appro.
printed for the Ladies of the Court; his Royal
litgliewos invited two Ladies who were on the second
',Loch .to take their seats von him. The Prince
wore. 14/ isiournis"o. insignia. Mack pantaloons and
o crape roof, and appeared deeply *fleeted during
the resttiocuf the pious will, to which lie listened
with remarkable attention.
'Elie Bulletin of the Lairs, No. 11..;7. which lass
just been published, cogitator is Royal Ordinance.
dated ilir fish instals,. which assign" a pension of
.9,utio francs to Owlet Corvrtle, iu recomprose of
044 dietiliViAl" .enriren 19% Jlrwatrr 4.1 Finaocc.
The esu-e of General Sarrar a will nut be trtd

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TIVIRSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1819.

We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday
and Sunday. To the number of Royal females
who have recently followed catch other in quick
succession to the grave, we fear we shall soon
have to add the Queen•of Swßoari. Her Majesty,
who resides in Paris, is represented very seri-
ously ill.
Amon the ids of Royal clemency that •have
graced the anniversary of the slat instant, is the
liberation of five prisoners in Paris, under sentence
for seditious words or cries.

The five per Cent. Consols were, oil Friday,
68 f. 20 c.; on Seturday,•6B f. 6o c.—• Bank Stock
ou Friday, 4,500 1.; on Saturday ditto.

We have received New York Papers to the 4ift
instant. It is stated in the Daily Advertiser of the
g9th, us evidence of the sanguinary disposition of
General JAcKsow, that in the lute Indian war two
,Indian Chiefs had been decoyed on board an
American schooner, thinking it was a British
vessel, mid that having refused to answer some
questions put to• them by Peneral •Jacksow, he
had them instantly haisgsd:; thus 4. furnishing,"
says the New yusit Paper, .6e practical exposition
of the principle of lite law of nations, which, to the
honour of this country, is, it seems, about to be
established herr, that a General has absolute power,
itt all eases, oecr the hers if his prisoners, and is
antenabk to nobody but his God fur his conduct."
Itepoit stags that t!,;s retloubA Chit f a artived

at WEshi igton, to setile some accontito with the
bear-Aber. 'rise rite.bt ot.sT inAde public
the Treaty between Spain and the V 'Met! StJtes
Gmmiest's', which w. concluded as far back
as the year 1504. and rablietl by the latbr
Power in January, 1t304, but iitit by Spain until
last July. 'lbis Treaty :elates sole!y to the settle-
tent, by the slhitratton of ConiniboOtniers, of all
civill% prior to 150.2, mode by the rut.jvets of Spain
and the Uttiteil Stuir. reple, 'lively, fur losses 1,11
talittil by the ilepreildtinio. of citiaesia of the two
tioyttospents during the pit ceding war.

Llift evenis g the Petition of the t..ord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of
London. praying fur a revision of the Criminal
Code of the country, was presented to the House of
Peers by Lord iiQl.l.ANq. Au ititer?sting debate
arose on it, in which Noble Lords ut bunt sides of
the House expressed their concurrence in the gene-
ral prayer of the Petitiou. Lord Lies:Reno,. en-
deavoured to *thew that the recent increase of crimes
this Fountry, sis very far beyond all precedent.
was to be attriltuted altogether to the present cir-
cumstances of the country, and the 1111111.11 o
from a state of war to a state of ware." So much
has been said by Ministers since the CrPS:II011 of
hostilities about the miseries arising from this
(0 transition," that should the country, in any
future period, be so unfortunate as to be agates
implicated in war, no friend to its general prows.
Pty, and to the happiness and morality of the peo-
ple, can ever think of desiring the return of ;
for if we are to believe our Ministers, no calamity,
however west, which could result from the cou-
tittuutier of war, could be so formidable as its ter-
mistotion. It is satisfactory, however, to think,
that the criminal laws, and the state of our prison
discipline, will, in the present Session, receive the
earnest considerstion of the Legislature.

yesterday a Court of Directors was held et the
East India House, when TD014,9 GDEENTNEE,
sq. was appointed a Membe4 of Council at
St. Helenal in the room of W. W. DovETONr
resigned. fhe under-mentiourd Commanders took
leave of the Court, previous to departing fur their
respective destinations, viz.—
Captaim W. Hope, of the Herel
Bombay, and China.
Captain J R. Francklin, of the Windsor, and Captain
A. Nairn, of the General Kyd—for Madras sod Chins.
Capt. R. Alstorer, of the Waterloo Capt. C. O. Mayor,
of the Alias; and Capt. T. Hatistde, of the Streatham—fur
Bengal and China.
A private letter from Paris affirms, that many
changes are contemplated in the French diplomatic
world. Among the rest, it is reported, that the
Marquis D'Ossionq has solicited his recal from
London; and that M. ANDEEOSSY, instead of pro-
ceeding to Vienna, will be named to his former
situation of Ambassador at the Ottoman Porte.
On Tuesday the Lords of the Council assembled
at the Council-office, to hear an appeal from the
Prise Court at Naples, so long since as when the
ever-to-be-lamented Lord Ngs.sots was there, when
a condemnation to the captors took place, which
was appealed against to Sir %Vit.:dam Score, and
whose decision was appealed againet on Tuesday,
before the Lords of the Council, and Sir Wtwan
did not attend in consequence. The Meeting was
attended by the Lots PRESIDENT, the adastsit
of the Rot.s.s, and Sir WILLIAM GRANT.
Rank Stock rose on Taeadey four per cent. The
consent of the Minister to submit the affairs of
the Bank to an inquiry is urged as a proof of
his confide:ice in its prosperity, and this rise in
the price of its funds may be regarded as the
effect of this proposed inquiry. The avowed deter-
mination of the Minister to continue the Bank Re-
striction Act, furnishes perhaps a mow immediate
and satisfactory explanation.
The assurance we lately gave to the public, that
Lord COEHRAPIE had not arrived in any part of the
provinces of yeikezuela, is borne out by a letter,
dated the beginning of December, from Margarita.
It appears that the whole has been a ruse de Fume
on the part of Admiral Ba;ton, connected with an
important operation he ,bad in view ; and for this
purpose he availed himself of the arrival of another
naval officer in that .quarter.—(Morning Paper.)
The name of Sir G. J. HoPe was substituted by
mistake for that of Sir Geoncx COCESIURN, in the
/spurt of what took place on Tuesday night. in the
debate upon the subject of Navy Half-pay Officers.
The Martha, SEETCHLEY, Irons New York,
sailed 3d January; and Earl Lansdale, (Jammu,
from St. Domingo, sailed 04th December, are
arrived at Liverpool.

SI. Helens,

We had a full attendance at Norwich Market on
Saturday, and It good supply of both Wheat and
Harley, which suffered a trifling decline in price,—
The chew of lean !rests. Scots and flume-brads,
with some tolerably wefl-fstted I)uHocks, was much
as usual, and the sheep-pens were pretty fall:
prices 'my little altered;
in a private auction which took place a few day
since at paris, the marble statue of Madames
4....ET1T1A BOWAN= was hold for the SOW of
36,000 francs. it was purchased by order mid Ou
account or the Doke of DEIONSHIRE. A Russian
Prince hod given a commission for the purchase of
the same object, but he haul limited his offer to
24,000 franc.. it is universally known that the
statue of Madam. Lil47llA 11011A;TalrIVIS a work
of the celebrated Cseorvs, es is also the statue of
14414POLISPN BONAPAATIIt. Witith has lately passed
from the hands of the Perwcs ,Reosev of ENG.
LAttiP to those of the Voltz of .WICI.LittOTOW..—
Gariecte.de fronee.)— 'his is the statue which the
Nay lot whom it was ertecuted exhibited to an
English Ducherta. who visited .her splendid collec-
tion of works of Art at 'Rome ; atoi when the lit-
ter expressed her surprise that a laity should have,
contrary to the .feeloogs of modern y. af-
forded CARO'S the same opportunity for extent.
tog his model which C.LEOSIENES hod for his cele-
brated illedieerts Venus, the Prowess immediately
sr lied, 0, Adam ! /a Aurae* Mit echatri/.
The MUM was warm.

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