The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-11 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPiIiL

trvromm, mernitinsa 30..
His.3erene Highness the Duke of Brunswick
arrived here lust night on a visit to their Majesties.
The Allgemeine Zeitang of Octriber 1, has an
article, dated Corfu, August 16, containing a letter
which the person who communicates it states that
he received from a friend at Calamata. This letter
gives an account of the operations of Choitrschid
Poch* at the end of July, and of the victories of
the Greek..
The writer makes Cliourvzhid's army to have
consisted in one corps of 8,000 men, under the
Paella of Dram (Machmut Pactia); another of
8,000, under Tschadkanti Ali Fuchs ; and the main
body, of 30,000 men, under his own command. The
plan of operations was well laid, and the Greeks had
but a very inferior force to oppose, but Odysseus
am: the other Cuptains took the most prudent and
energetic measures.
Chourschid, who had advanced to Fontana, was
defeated in a great battle, which continued for some
days, and fled back through the defiles of Thermo-
pylie to Larissa with only 3,000 men. The other
two corps were likewise defeated, as were the troops
which Jussuf Paella had landed in the Gulf of Co-
rinth. Of 10,000 Turks who fought near Corinth,
Pot one is now to be seen. The country, says the
writer, smokes with the blood of our enemies and of
our brethren.
VIER NA. Sammie,. :—Metalliques, 82 11.16; Bask
Shares, 857.
25416.—MessIliires, 82 13.18 ; Beak Shares, 868 2.5.
26116.—Illeisiliquel, NI; Sauk Shuts, 839 3-s.—(Aore-
maw Olsereer to the Mk September fischtsfee.)

[The Austrian Observer of the above dates has
no news hose Greece and Turkey.]

AMERICA.

111 W YOU, SEPTEMBER 10.

The following is a correct account of the cap-
ture of the Spanish privateer brig Panchaa, alias
Pa!mere. by the Uuited States' schooner Grampus,
Lieut. Com. Gregory, related by a passenger:—
From numerous depredations committed on the
American commerce, several masters of vessels had
lodged complaints with Captain Gregory, in conse-
quence of which, as he was bound to ports on the
Main, he gave notice to vessels bound that way, in
order that they might avail themselves of the con-
voy. Accordingly two schooners placed themselves
under protection of the Grampus; and on the se-
coed day after leaving St. Thomas, the Pamela:a
was discovered to windward, following the convoy,
which she continued till next morning, when Cap-
tain G. gave chase, and on coining up with her she
displayed an English ensign and pendant, and fired
a gun, but shortly after hauled down both, and
hoisted the Spanish national flag : a white one at the
fore, and hove to. When the Grampus came within
hailing distance he requested her flag to be lowered,
which Cu. answered by firing part of a broadside.
The compliment was returned by a full broadside,
when the Spanish flag was instantly lowered, ■nd
the brig surrendered. On taking possession, she
was found in a sinking condition, with eleven of
her crew killed and wounded. The remainder,
who skulked into the hold, were ordered on deck,
and transferred to the Crumpet.
It is a fact worthy of notice, that of the broadside
fired but one round shot missed the hull, and that
cut away one of the fore•ahrouds ; it is equally
singular, that of the shot which went into the hull,
one passed uoder water through the magazine, and
wet nearly all the powder; another shot passed
through the cabin, destroying a number of muskets
and pistols, clothing, mattresses, &c., and lodged
in the bore of the starboard pump.
Among the plundered articles found on board
were the books and clothing a Mr. Peabody.

SEPTEMBER IS.

FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE.—A letter to the Editor
of the Baltimore Patriot, dated at Port-au-Prince
the 24th of August, informs that General Romain,
formerly a Duke of Christophe'., had undertaken
to raise ■n insurrection among the fl•sytiens, but it
was discovered by Boyer, and in an attempt to arrest
him he was shot. A young man, whom he had
employed to curry dispatches to the Cape fcr the
purpose of exciting them to insurrection, had been
taken, brought to Port.au•Priuce, tried on the
20th, condemned, and shot the same day.

(From the New York Car.ette of September 12.]

We learn by the ship Alfred that four days pre.
vious to he► departure from Si. Thomas, the United
States schooner Grampus, and her prize, the Pan-
dicta, sailed for the United States.
It was reported at St. Thomas that all the Ame-
ricans at Porto Rico had been imprisoned by order
of the Governor, and an embargo laid on American
vessels, in consequence of the above capture by the
Grampus.

BAT.TIMORE, SEPTEDIBER 19.

COLOMBIA—IMPORTANT.--VICTORT OF THE
PATRIOTS—DEATH OF Mott•LEs.—We were right
in our conjecture, as published in the Gazelle of
Wednesday last. The Royalists at Ctiracoa had
the news of Morales' defeat when the Hippomenes
sailed from the island, and the prisoners reported to
have beau bteught hitt, Laguayra were [tom the

defeated army of Morale., toAo is dead of his
wounds.

This is, in every point of view, important, parti-
cularly as it relates to Colombia herself, who has
now no longer an army to cootend with on her soil,
and also as it regards many of our merchants who
have property at Caraccas and Lagnayra, the Hon-
, der of which was most likely the object of the Spa-
nish General. Morales was distinguished among
the most inveterate and most cruel of the enemies
of Colombian liberty, and with his life has termi-
nated, we presume, the war on the shores of Colom-
bia. If Puerto Cabello has not already fallen, it
cannot now long hold out, as it bus lost the master
spirit of its resistance.

In addition to the preceding, we have this morn-
ing the following from the Philadelphia Freeman's
Journal, by the brig Zeno, Slade, arrived at the
Lazaretto :

CURACOA, •UOUST 13.

This day arrived a Dutch schooner from La-
gusyra, in 36 hours, bringing the following glorious
news:—

General Morales, with 2,000 men, marched on
the 3d instant from Porto Cabello, against Valencia
and Caraccas. They were met on the height of
Birgirama by General Paez, and 7506 men ; an
engagement ensued. Morales and his troops were
completely routed, and only 90 men escaped alive.
On the sth instant • party of Royal Spaniards
(400) landed by sea at Ocumare ; they were met
by • party of Republican troops (950); • severe
action took place, which lasted with spirit on both
sides for two hours, when the Royalists, after losing
200 men, were compelled to surrender to ►he vic-
torious arms of Colombia. So much for liberty
and independence. Vise la Republic!

al all times barbarous and atrocious, had not been
marked by any increase of rigour till the lunar.
rection of the latter, fomented and headed by
officers in the service of Russia herself, gave occa-
sion to severities which Alexander with any degree
of consistency could not condemn. If in addition
to this we recollect what has been for a long course
of years the settled policy of the Russian Court,
it will be difficult to resist the conviction that the
real object of the warlike attitude assumed by
Russia was the annexation of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia to her dominions. If the Porte could have
been terrified into an acquiescence in this project,
probably the influence in the other European
Courts, already acquired by Alexander as head of
the Holy Alliance, might have been sufficient to
prevent any very vigorous opposition on their part
to this augmentation of his power. But when it
became manifest that these provinces could be
wrested from Turkey only by force of arms, Alex-
ander, after the loud menaces and haughty bearing
of his Ambassador at Constantinople, io his solici-
tude to perpetoak sad increase his authority in the
more civilized Courts of Europe, not only postpones
the execution of his ambitious project (for it is only
a postponement), but he abandons the Greeks, on
whose behalf, ostensibly, he hid taken up arms,
without pledge, guarantee, or security deny kind,
to the untamed despotism under which they had so
long groaned. These vacillations of conduct on the
part of Alexander, in which the interested and am-
bitious motives appear so transparent, are now coo-
verted iuto themes of praise, and he is lauded to
the skies by all the servile pens engaged to support
the abuses of existing governments, and to cono
ciliate the opinions of mankind in favour of a
league having the perpetuation of these abuses for
its object. These anxious efforts of all the courtly
writers of Europe to protect and exalt the cha-
racter of Alexander, would alone be sufficient to
convince one that he had already attained a power
and consequence in Europe to which he is not en-
titled, either from the extent of his territory, much
of it barren, trackless, and oupeopled ; from his
military power, incapable, as it has been repeatedly
proved, of making any permanent impression be-
yond the frontier; from the financial resources of
his States, subsidised by the Treasury of England
during the war, and borrowing from the private
capitalists of England during peace ; or, finally, from
the advancement of his subjects in the sciences and
arts, they being notoriously a century at least be-
hind the European average of civilisation. It is
to the universal war which is now going on, be•
tween the elements of improvement and the rem-
nants of barbarity, in which the Sovereigns of
Europe have unhappily taken the part of the latter.
that he is indebted for much the greater share of
his importance. It is impossible that a state of
things so unnatural should be of long duration
The Sovereigns of Europe will at length awake to
a sense of their true interest and glory, though it
may be feared not till after a series of conflicts mid
commotions. But whenever such institutions are
afforded to nations as shall admit of the full dove.
lopement of the human faculties, whether this is
brought about by the consent, the coercion, or the
deposition of kings, then, and not till then, will
the Emperor of Russia be reduced to that share of
influence and authority to which, as the Monarch
of a powerful though barbarous nation, be is fairly
entitled. T. B.

arisen at St. Quentin, entirely built in the modern
taste. The small towns and large manufacturing
villages, on the plan of Lille. are doing a great
deal of business; and the number of houses, work.
shops, ■nd magazines building increases daily.
As for the army, it will be raised to its lull
complement by the and this month.

" The royal guard was complete on the itt of
August to 20,000 men of all arms, and received no
more recruits, as well u the 10th regiment of dra.
goons, the 24 regiments of chasseurs on horseback,
the six of hussars, and all belonging to the eogi.
neers, which were already above their complement.
At that time five regiments of infantry of the line,
three of light infantry, and the cuirassiers, were the
only corps of the army which are still incomplete.
"The wounds inflicted by the Revolution begin to
close; industry has made prodigious strides; pub.
lic opinion daily improves ; ■nd every thing pro.
[nisei us days of peace and happiness, after so many
political revolutions and storms."

We have received Bayonne Papers to the 4th
instant. The great military preparations made at
that place demonstrate ■ determination on the part
of France to exercise an overbearing influence upon
the internal state of Spain. The following lb an
extract

BATONMR, OCTOBER 3.
The landing of the heavy artillery, &c. which has
arrived in four transports, as we have before men-
tioned, is carrying on with great activity. On the
other hand, large quantities of military stores and
forage continues to arrive by land. It is affirmed
that within a few days we may expect IS or 20 ves-
sels with similar cargoes, and it is even said that
some of them are at ►his moment in sight of the
port, but are kept off by a contrary wind. Our
politicians are bewildered in conjectures, psrticu-
lady since they find in the Paris Journals that no
foreign troops will go to Spain. Yet the light
artillery which is in our arsenals, the park of
battering cannon which is going to be formed
in the Glaris, and which will consist, it is said,
of 80 pieces, the immense stores of all descriptions
which continue to arrive—every thing announces a
foreign expedition ; for if we should suppose that
only measures of defence were contemplated, we
should not want them, for the fortress of Bayonne
is amply provided with every thing requisite for a
siege, and besides, there is not the slightest indi-
cation to be seen of preparation to fortify it. Our
neighbours, the Spaniards, are alarmed at these pre-
parations, and cannot divine the cause of them.
Some of them, however, think that after the Con-
gress some intimation will be made to Spain to
obtain a modification in its Constitution, and that
this demand will doubtless be supported by tht
diaplay of great preparations, such as we see here.
If such is the case, we are inclined to think that
nothing will be obtained of the Spanish Government
by such messutes, particularly as it is thought that
the efforts of the Kew Ministry to reinforce Mina
will be successful, and that the Catalonians will
soon be reduced.

A traveller who arrived yesterday from Vittoria
says, that at the moment of his departure from that
city on the Ist, news was received oldie entrance of
Mina into Cervera on the YOth last, after puttimr, to
the sword all wham he met with there with arms in
their hands.

Letters from Saragossa of the 24th confirm the
entrance of Mina into Cervera, and say that the
Royalists had retreated towards Agramout, but do
not state that there had been an attack : nothing,
it is said, could stop Mina, who had 6,000 men,
the vanguard of which was commanded by

Torrijos.
This movement had had a good effect in the inte-
rior of Catalonia, and the Barcelonians had sent an
Address to the General, congratulating him on his
arrival. The siege of Miquinenza was carried on
with vigour, and heavy cannon had arrived from
Lerida. The defeat and capture of Taibuenca is
further confirmed, but Baron d'Erolles was not
present at the battle. Troops continue to arrive st
Sarsgosaa, and the expedition of Mit)s is expected
to be sanguinary, as he will spare none who oppose
him.

Baltimore Papers to the 13th, and New York to
the 17th ult. have arrived. The yellow fever has
extended to Baltimore and Norfolk ; and even
Pensacola, hitherto considered one of the healthiest
towns in the southern section of the lJuioo,
been recently visited by a few cases of this dies .
The National Inielligencer, however, states that ut
the date of the last accounts from that town, al
alarm bad subsided, and there did not remain 4
single case of fever in the place.

It appears from these Papers that the pirate`
who infest the West Indies pnv as lade defrreitc,
to the flag of the United States as to that of ally
other nation. Those marauders consider nothing
but the chances of successful plunder, and roc
very impartial in the distiibutiou of their atro-
cious attacks.

The Paris Paper. of Monday last contain a de•
tailed report of the military operations in Green•.
which confirms the long-disputed accounts of the
victories obtained over the Turks. This report
bean all the marks of authenticity, and is of a chs-
meter quite opposite to the vague and general ru•
mourn of the Greek defeuts.
Accounts from Setnlin, after mentioning the total

destruction of the Turkish army at the Thermopylae
god iu the Murea, state that the Porte had ordered
all the troops that were encamped on the banks of
the Danube to repair to Thessaly, in order to form
a new army to act against the Greeks.
The late accounts from the Spanish frontiers con.
tidicted the report of the successes gained by the
Boron D'EaoLLas over the constitutional troops
commanded by Colonel TABUILIICA. The Paris
papers, on the contrary, contend for the accuracy of
the original report. They state that the constitu-
tional column was cut off in a defile, and that a
general massacre was made by the Royalists. The
Colonel, on being taken prisoner, was immediate-
Ir
shot. It is added, in further contradiction of
the Spanish Papers, that MINA and TORBIJOS were
afterwards driven under the walls of Lerida.

Madrid Papers to the 3d inst, have reached town,
The Extraordinary Cortes held their first prepare-
tory meeting on the lit, on which occasion the
President delivered a speech directing their atten-
tion to the efforts of the advocates of despotism, and
reasiodiog them of their duty to secure the political
liberty of the nation. A discussion on the mode of
approving the powers of Deputies, and other buil.
urea of form, occupied the remainder of the sitting.
Colonel FREIRE DE ANDRADE, appointed by the
Portuguese Government Minister Plenipotentiary
sod successor to Senor de CASTRO Pesetas, has
arrived in Madrid. The Universal says—" It is
believed that this new Envoy is especially charged
with adjusting a treaty of alliance offensive and
defensive between the two nations."

It is stated in the Indieador that an express ar.
rived on the morning of the 29th, with an account
of a battle in the neighbourhood of Vick, in which
AIM defeated the factious banditti, and took 800
prisoners.

The report of the appointment of General ZARCO
DEL VALLE to be Minister Plenipotentiary from
Spain to this country is confirmed. He is at present
General of the sixth military district, and is to be
succeeded in that command by Don ...MANUEL DE
VELAICO.
Sir W. A'Couar, British Minister to the Court
of Madrid, arrived in that city on the 25th last.
The highest marks of respect were shown him by the
civil and military authorities on his way from Irua
to the capital. Escorts of troops accompanied him
wherever there was reason to apprehend that he
might be insulted or embarrassed by the banditti of
the Army of the Faith. On the arrival of this
Envoy, one of the Madrid Journals makes the fol-
lowing observation :
"The policy of the English Cabinet, which is at sly times
distinguished for depth and foresight, moot fall to perceive
die miler the reseal circsambsorses t►e political sod COMM
sandal interests of Great Britain are intimately connected
with the constitutional system i■ the Pesininala. The isms.
baidation or that system is now the best guarantee sad
counterpoise spinal the prepoaderance which a great
Paver wishes to obtain in the balance of Europe. But be
this as it may, the nature of she sew diplomatic feistiest'
which the British Governmeat is about to establish with
Spain, through the medium of its sew Plenipotentiary, can.
cot be long concealed from sagacious and enlightened ob.
servers."—(Umearsal.)

On the 28th a contract was wade by the new
Spanish 'Ministry for a loan, in return for which
18,000,000 of rules are inscribed in the Greet
Book.

The account of the produce of the Revenue for
the quarter just ended was made up last evening.
Tile surplus in the Consolidated Fund in the cor-
responding quarter of lest year, exceeded 1,600,0001.
Weapprehend that the official statement of the pre-
sent year will not exhibit a like excise. The Trea-
sury Journals, however, not discouraged by this re.
suit, will not bedeticient in the discovery of plausible
excuses. They will plead the redaction of taxes
eff.cted in the last Sersion, by the exertions of Mr.
Huge and the other advocates of economy and re.
trenclintrnt. But we presume they will not com-
plain, should they be reminded of the increase of
trade end manufacture, which they have repeatedly
assured their readers the country now enjoys.

The Dublin Papers of Monday contain a long
list of recent outrages in the South of Ireland.
They are of the usual character, the burning of
houses sod destruction of ocher property by armed
banditti, who dictate to the landlord and his to-'
nant, and seek to terrify both into obedience to.
their commands.—The Galway Papers give an
alarming account of the progress of the fever in that
town, notwithstanding the moat judicious and effi-
cient measures bave been adopted to restrain it.

The Company's ship Sealrby Castle arrived of
the Wight on Wednesday she left China the 14th
ot April, and St. Helena on the 15th of August. in
company with the chartered ship florentia, which
•rparated from her on the 6th inst. in lat. 47. 8. N.
lung. 15. 10. W. in thick und blowing weather.
A gentleman just returned from the south of
France, hue mentioned a report which he heard in
three different parts of the Continent, viz. Prussia,
Switzerland, and the south of France, that an in.
triple was at present on foot to place the Duke of
PARKA, son of the late Emperor NAPOLEON,IuU
the throne of France ; and that the time for mak•
leg the attempt was to be the death of Louts
XVIII It is added, that, placed on the throne,
the new Emperor was to bind himself by a corona.
lion oath, to abide by the Cade Napoleon, and all
the civil and military institutions of the late Em.
peror NAPOLEON. "La cloche de Notre Dame"
hds become a favourite toast with a certain party
who understand one another, evidently in allusion
to the signal to be given by the bell or the cathedral.
--(Netecastk Paper.)

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