The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-09 00:00:00

wl.ate.er code of laws his oki.ce inn, have been
I.rtnted out, or on whatever principles of civil, mi-
litary, or international jurisprudence he may have
been convicted, the conduct of JACKSON is wholly
unjustifiable. The judges appointed for MAORIS..
u's trial,
undoubtedly, in the first instance, sen-
tenced him to death, but they subsequently revised
tirs decii•ioin and thereby effectually revoked their
witetice; for on maturer consideration, and, as we
ire to ptriume, 011 wander principles, they two-
'emit d Cie iiri•nner to what they conceived to be a
lesser puite,inin•iit. They commuted the sentence
of death into one for inflicting fifty stripes on the
back, with an imprisonment in chains for twelve
months. The latter was, therefore, in contempla•
lion of every law, the only sentence that affected
him ; but JACKSON, presuming on his .authority,
bet aside this sentence, and on his sole responsibility
ordered the unfortunate man to be shot. The me-
boo, therefore, can be considered iu no other
'iglit than as a deliberate murder perpetrated by
JAcKsox, to gratify a vindictive feeling, or for the
nitre delight of spilling blood. What steps our
llorernment will adopt upon a point of such ex-
treme delicacy we cannot pretrial to imagine;
but we think that no time ought to be lust in lay-
ing the whole proceedings before Parliament, where,
as the only question to be considered will be the
most effectual means of obteining a reparation for
the injury offered by an iii.olent ruffian to this
country, no party feelings will, we air confident,
interfere to prevent the holiest pursuit of this gent-
nil object. It should never be forgotten that the
chief glory of every State consists in *ltalia/Hulot.;
the individual security of its member., tin matter
how in•ignificant or contemptible they may be,
provided they do not tvansgrese the general princi-
ples of social law, or the municipal code of the
country where they have chosen to fix their do-
micile.

Hinuburgh Papers to the let instant have ar-
rived. There have been rejoicings at Constanti-
nople I.r three days, in consequence of the arrival
of the official accounts of the signal victory obtained
over the Wachabites by IBRAHIM PACHA. the Go-
ernor of Giiida. After several actions with the re-
bels, who had fortified themselves in Derajch, that
city was taken with 80 pieces of cannon, 20,000
of the rebels fell under the sword, and their leader,
ASDALLAH BENSVND, was made prisoner and sent
to Constantinople, where au open carriage was mak-
ing fur the purpose of ex!sibiting him to the public.
Not only a political but a religious importance is
attached to this victory, as the Porte has thus re-
gained possession of Medina and Mecca, those cities
so sacred to every Mussulman.

One of the most wetonishing advertisements has
aveared in the Public Prints, issuing as from the
Victualling Board, bat in reality from the Lords of
the 'treasury. It is a contract for supplying his Ma-
jesty's troops at various of our Leeward Islands with
American flour. When the last contract was made
by the Victualling Board, winch was in 1817, the
harvest of England had been unproductive, and
English flour bore a very high price ; at that pe-
riod also, British as well as American vessels were
allowed to take in their cargoes rather from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Alexandria, and
proceed direct to any of our Leeward Islands. But
we fear the Treasury have quite overlooked two or
three very important cases with regard to the pre-
sent advertisement, viz.-Ist, The Act of Con-
gress of last Session, which prohibits American
vessels front trading with our Leeward Islands:
._d, The abundant harvest in Europe, and parlieu-
lady England, whereby we are enabled at this
moment to supply the troops with our own pro-
duce, and at considerable low a rate than what
:nust now be given for American flour: 3d, The
,anplo,yinent of about 1,200 ton. of American ship-
ping, and thus keeping our own vessels excluded:
4th, The vent for about 10.000 barrels of English
trine, the payment of which would be confined at
home, whereas now we seek American produce,
unnecessarily, we think, and have to pay foreigners,
for what ?.--for the like article, that could not only
Ore spared from our own granaries, but be sent
out at a much cheaper rate ; because the American
Baur must in the first instance be shipped and
tarried iii American bottoms to Bermuda, there
i,e lauded, and re-shipped in an English bottom ;
thus increasing a two-fold expense of freight, in-
surance, landing and re-shipping charges, amount-
ing on the quantity required on the present occa-
sion, somewhere about 7,000/. for the flour, exclu-
'•ire of perhaps, 2 or 3,000/. more for the tonnage
.1. the vessels required in transporting the flour.
Tile whole ti, he paid out of this country
for tuieign ihair will be about 40,0301. Surely
vane egregious oversight has been ciiiiimitted,
(here—Was it the wish of their Lordships to
favour some individual particularly interested in
the American trade ?

Extract of a letter from the Agent to LLOYD',
• Iluelios Ayres, dated October '25 :—" It is re-
voted that Talcahuano is evacuated by the Roy-
• and that pert of them have returned to Lima
mid Mi. rest to Valdivia, Licenses have been graiit-
eil by the Viceroy of Peru, admitting English yes-
PIA to enter iii Callao with cargoes ul wheat, and in
several vessel* were loading at Valve.
Niso for that destination. His Majesty's ship
Blossom has had aii engagement with en Insurgent
pnvorer in the South Seas, but no inuticularo ere
koowu.'.