The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-28 00:00:00

THE LATE INUNDATIONS-IX ROLLAND. '
';'l4e States of the l'keivinee of East Friesland, assembled
at Aurich, have fr!t themselves called upon to express., in
the name of their fellow-eiriaces, the feelings of grati-
tude for the baievolonee shown towkrds the suffemrs.
is that Province by time destructive inundations of the
3,1 and 4th of February this year. The coasts deso-
fetid by the fury of the elements, after the destruction of,
the dykes, appeared as if they never could twiner the in-'
jury sustained, when, after the example of his Majesty the
King of England, of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Caniridge, and of his Majesty the King of Prussia, such
ample contributions were rectivril front all parts of the
North of Germany, especially from the Hanoverian and
Prussian provinces, and from all the Hanseatic cities. as
wend as from their fellow-subjects in England, that they
'rot only afforded immediate relief to the poor inhabitants
of the coasts, but gave them also means of providing for
their future. support.
"Grcat, 'say the States, " was the misfortune and the
'slang r, but great, beyond all expectation, was the assist-
ance afforded us both by the rich and the less optileeo
Cusses in our neighbourhood ; it has strengthcneil our eon-
glace in a superintending Providence, and in he kind
jeliogs of our fellow-citizens, has inspired us with fresh
tourare to exert ourselves in the struggle with the elements,
and filled us with hopes of better times, in which the relicf'
alluded to us will bear ample fruit, and enable us to as-
sist oilier distant sufferers. Receive, therefore, generous!
benefactors in Germany and England, our warmest and
most profound gratitude, and the assurance that the re-
membrance of the sympathy and support bestowed on our
tnifortunate countrymen shall be never effaced (tutu our
karts." •
C0.'.0.418 1 A..
Accounts from Cathattena of the Ist of May state, oat
in conseqiienee of the scarcity of provisions the Intendency
had pc:lll4A, for five months, the importation of tnaizc,
rice, &c. duty free, anti had prohibited for. the same:
period the exportation of all sorts of provisions. The fol.. I
lowing is the eirctilar issued on the oc.:asion:—
CIRCULAR TO TILE DEPARTMENT.
By an Act of then! ult, the Intendency have pi nnitted the in-1
trade/lion amain, rice, and every description of brestLatuff, into!
the ports or the department, free of all duties, for the term of Are
mouths, and have prohibited for the same term the exportation of I
previsions out of the rails of the Republic.
The Intridency, in dictating this measure, has taken into con- i
ii.leratian, among other Wit urgent circumstances, the extreme
strarcity of the urtielas of necessity which is felt in this city, and the
&Immo. raised by the Magistrates of the interior, wha declara that
in the country they are even in want. The Intendency hope that I
L. the end dive months the present calamity will be remedied by
the new crops ; and. in these circumstances, they hope that the
lIIMNIte Will not only be grateful t,, the inhabitants of Magdalena. i
but also meet the approbation of the Executive, as one of an extra. I
medicare character, required by the public necessity.
rwthagera, April 29. DIONFILLA.