The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

ASCEIYSIUN ISLAND.

Ilia Majesty's ship Tees, on her voyage homeward,
touched at Ascension, which island is rapidly rising into
usefulness and importance. Through the zeal and ability
of Colonel Nicoll, and hit indefatigable party of sixty ma.
eines, this heretofore almost barren spat has been made to
produce abundance and variety of vegetables, consisting of
French beans, sweet potatoes, leeks, !parsley,. canine, tur-
nips, mange! wurzel, cabbage, pumpkins, green pease, let-
tuce, spinach, cress, mustard, beans, chillies, watermelons,
musk melon*, bananas, and Cape gooseberries. Already
the whole African squadron refit and water there.—During
the lost eighteen months, 56751b.5. of vegetables have Leen
suppl 4 I to various merchant ships which have put in there.
The Admiralty have afforded every means of improving
the island. There is no custom-house, port, or anchorage
clia-ges of any description, and all merchant ships in dis-
tress are ordered to be supplied at the same rate at which
Government lay in their. provisions for the Navy, so that no
imposition of any kind is suffered, one price is only asked
or taken for every article, 3,1. per lb. dead weight (except-
ing fowls, which are three foe • dollar), pigs, goats, sheep,
oxen, &c. which is never suffered to be exceeded: a very
curious eel is taken in great plenty, which is called the As-
cension lamprey, it take• and pents with salt equally well,
se/ that a rioh and wholesome dish can be had at the ex-
pense of 3d. per. lb., to last all the way home; it is used
either boiled for breakfast, or boiled or fried for dinner.
A rapid improvement is every day taking place in africul-
ture anti horticulture, as well u road making, building,
&c. A turtle-pond of larger dimensions is almost ready,
and turtle are to be had all the year round, but the mums
for turning them is from December to June; ships are
supplied with them for the value of about 3d. per lb. of
meat, without .bone or shell, and any thing taken in er...
change they may have to spare, such as tea, sugar, coffee,
rioe, grain of any kind, or plank, spars, &c. for boat anti
house...building or mending. About forty tons of water are
kept constantly in readiness for ships iu want of this neces-
sary article.—llampshire 7'elegraok.

On Monday and Tuesday his Majesty's royal bounty o:
five shillings each was distributed to eight hundred peer
aged men and women. At the same time thirteen shillings
a-piece, called the Gate Money, an ancient term for a cat-
tain bounty of the King, wu given to 168 poor aged men
and women. The distribittion was made by Mr,lla,iby,
the Secretary to the Lord High Almoner, at the Royal
Almenry-oflice, Whitehall.

As 'yesterdaj was Christmas-doe, the Duke of York,
being rnoveted from his attack of lumbago, left town for
the ILodge in Windsor Park, to spend the day tad dice
with his Majesty.
" Saturday morning Sir llerbert Taylor wanueted military
business with the Dube of York, at his house in South
Audlev-street.

On Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer arrived in town, and, after trans-
ecting business at the Treasury, during the day, left Lon-
don soon after five o'clock.

On Satdrday Mr. Rufus King, the American Minister,
transacted business at the Foreign-off/be,
Mr. hunter, sen., the Kiig a are:genre, performed his
journey fl•om Madrid with west speed, being only eight
days on his way, having.left Madrid on _die 11th instate.
He arrived in London last :Thursday night, although be
was unavoidably detained in Paris near twelve hours.
'The Attorney-General, Sit J. Coplty, is carrying on his
canvass at Cambridge with great'activity. If great talent
and upright constitutional -principles can insure success,
his friends have no disappointroesit to fear.
The Moniker of Thursday contains two Ordinance?,
by which the Chambers ate summoned to meet on the Sist
January next, for the regular session; the Chamber of
Peers is ordered to assemble especially on the 13th of Feb-
ruary, on the ;affair of Ouvrard. -A third decree raiies.
Beausset-Roquefort, Archbishop of Aix, to the digaitY °I
the Peerage.
The Ossereatore Triektino, of the 6th inst., says, "p 1
A ship which has arrived here to-day, in six days from
Prevesa. we lawn that tho Capitan Rkha's fleet appeared
before Alisadlonghi on the 23th of November, and that the
surrender or that fortress was in consequence thought to
'be near at hand. It was said, that the Government of
Missolonghi had left the place on the approach of the 9eet,
and had fled to Zante. It was likewise said that Ibrahim
Pacha had sent to K4ypt, on hoard firty transports, many
Greek families, whom he had taken prisar.ers on his expe-
dition to Mistra."

In the Sitting of the Rtpresentatite Council of Geneva,
on the 12th inst. M. Molten, sop or the friend of Jean
Jacques Rousseau, propased to erect to that Free sill co.
monument in the Isle der Barques, is tituatcd in the
Rhone, at its entrance into Geneva: The proposidon was
unanimously approved; and yet„for sane reason not stated,
was not adopted.
The treaty between the Hanseatic cities and England is
to regarded as the natural consequence of the new
adapted in the English customs by the British Govern" t
and we arc Pith: surprised at the advantageous
.which it secures to the Tree cities, when we rcfitct on the
market which this treaty Opens fior the products of English
industry. Hamburgh a beyond. doubt their first market
in Europe, as nearlyai thousand vessels bearing the flag of
this country pass ,up and down the Elbe in each year.—
Erode.
The Government of Aziaf, in which the town of Taco'
sox is situated, coutposea of all those countries which
Russia acquired by the peace made with the Turks
to
1774. Taganrog is a fortron with a fine ports 641'11
leagues and a half from the month of the Pon,
I under
47. le. of lat. and 55.: 57. of bong. It was constructed in
1559-by_ Peter I. after the
liking of Mot. By the treaty
oftlan Pruds be was obliged to raze it in 1711, but it WU
again established in 4769, at the beginning of the arr.