The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-26 00:00:00

THE BRIT! S H. PRES S.

LONDON'
THURSDAY. Seprgitsze 26, ISM

The Paris Papers up to Tuesday have arrived.
The most interesting portion of their contents is •
detailed account of the execution of General ELto.
which, it is now ascertained, took place at Valencia
on the dth inst. It is curious to observe how very
differently the tame circumstance may be reprea
vented by persons belonging to opposite parties.
when one should think the awful and melancholy
nature of the event would impose upon the narrators
the obligation of • strict adherence to truth, notwith-
standing every adventitious excitement. The letter
of • Liberal from Valencia, evidently written in a
high tone of exultation, commences with stating
that the " infamous" General E►.to has at length
suffered the pain of death. He ►hen describes the
impatience of the people as each, that, if the execu.
tion had been delayed. they would have broken
into the prison. and satisfied their desire for yen.
geance upon • pe•son whom they regarded a• an
enemy to the constitutional system, by being ►hem-
selves his executioners. The letter concludes with
the following paragraph :—" The people maintain.
ed that demeanour which becomes an heroic nation,
and accompanied the culprit to the scaffold with
shouts of. g To death with Elm) !—his blood will
cement the constitutional edifice•."

Another letter represents the General to have died
with the utmost firmness, expressing a wish that his
might be the last blood that should be shed in
Spain, and repels with indignation a statement in a
Journal distinguished fcr the violence of its prin.
cipleo," which said that General Eta° fell upon his
knees, and entreated pardon for all the mischief he
had occasioned. We fear the General's dying wish
will not be fulfilled. From the present aspect of
affairs in Spain, it can scarcely be doubted that
much blood will be shed, if not on the scaffold,
certainly in the field (though in a civil war one is
generally a forerunner of the other), before the
termination of the present contest.

Advices from Ancona corroborate the accounts of
the success of the Greeks. They state that the expe-
dition of CNOUISCIIIID PACH& into the Mores has
failed, that he has even evacuated Corinth, sad ie.
tired in the direction of Larissa. The Augsburg

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Over, wbieh `tees this inteltgasier, do: s not, hoi.
Aar, Venture to express any opinion in favour of its
litlifieitlAty, farther than by otterrini that it differs
bet link froth the kited received on the preceding
*by. Two tetteri Gots coda, dated the 9th sod
Mth or Atigurt, itudlrat these reports generally,
and abut positively that Recto PAciay vulgarly
trolled Citouliticuto NONA, the eyetteralotimo
of the Turkish 'rattier, was focal to return to
Letitia with only $,060 out of all the fore, he had
collected together, itinoweiting, at was said, to
40,001) earn.

We hive relieleCl/41 a 'copy of the Report from tie
Select Committee on the Poor Rate Retiar...,
printed By order .r the Heine of Common.. .1
garbled al*onnt of lhil doeunient. containing
following extract; italic); the sums expended for tl r
relief of the Oen iii lately giveu is a hliuister.a;
Print i—.

la 1800 190 Ai/Mini imr.: !!7,840,148
In 191019
Iv 1411949
la 11191.111 • • sit.: • 6,938,445
From this etweaseut the Print alluded to is.
(erred that peoperisrh hat actually diminished; bat
that is not a coliclitsian that necessarily fellows
from the reduced expenditure. Annexed to the
Report is no A ppend.x, govirsg the airing, price of
*heat. the principul article of food, in these lout
successive years it* feller
In 1817 IP Q4arter . 90.. 7d.
In 181, Po
Is 181920
In latnol-N, uts. sd.

The decree. 'the expenditure of money it the,
appears has beets alsout our-eighth, the decrease its
the price of four, about nne-third ; from which it
follows, that aftlioagli the expenditure has been re.
duced, there may have been an actual increase
the number of paupers. This Report is of con*.
durable length, but on account of its great tin-
portance, and with a view to guard ugainst
presentation, we mean to publish a copy of it in
our Paper of to-morrow.

The Report of the Select Committee upon the
Linen Trade of Ireland has been printed, by order
of the House of Commons. The Committee, after
examining into the constitution of the Board if
Trustees, the laws for regulating the trade, the
quantum of bounties, and their application, and ex.
pressing their opinion on several points, observe the
the trade has apparently advanced under theencon-
ragement of the bounty on exportation, and that
the evidence of all those examined on the subject,
pronounces the continuance of the bounty to be
essential to the interests of the manufacture both
in Great Britain and Ireland. The amount of
this bounty paid in last year was above 451.0001.
A copy of the Report is given in another part of
our Paper.

The Duke of Yolk visited the KING yerterdsr.
Mr. CANNING had an audience of his AIAJCSTI
yrstesday.
Letters from Vienna announce that Lord STRANG.
FORD Was expected at the Congress, and this may
serve to explain the departure of Count Luvzow,
the Austrian Internuncio.—( Evening Paper.)
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned ship..
taken up for the ensuing season, were thus sta-
tioned, tic
For Bengal and China—General Ryd, Captain Mandel'
Nairate; Hythe, Captain J. P. Wilco a; Wisrlsor, Captain
Thomas Haviside; Kist, eulogist Henry Cobb; and Sopl
George, CB4llllll Charles S. Timis,.
For Madras and China—Atlas, Captain Charles °liaise;
Bettie Castle, Captain Edward L. Adams.
Fur Bombay ■ad Captain &marl Seth;
Herefordshire, Captain William Hope; Farquharson, Cap.
lai■ William Cruickshank; Scald, Castle, Captain Dard
Bewail; avid Wag...than, Captais Richard Alsager.
Fur St. Hetes', Bombay, and China—Bridgewater, Cap-
tain William Mitchell.

For St. Helena, Beatoolte, sad Chine—Repulse, Copies
John Paterson.

For Cbios direct—Vaositiort, Corsi@ W. H. C. Dal.
rpople.

The Paris Papers contain the official ropy of a
Royal Decree fur the convocation of the Eatraordt.
nary Spmesh Corte,. The purposes are candidly tet
firth in the Decree. as follows:—lse, To furnish Ow
Government with resources in men sod money ,trAi•
cent to meet the wants of the State, and to deliver
the nation without delay from the factious beads
which infest the frontier provineea.-2d, To the ar-
rangement of affair,. of high importance with some
Foreign Powers.-3d, Ta give the Spanish army s
new organisation, according to the milit..ry ord,
nonce.. the dm:union of which was suspended to
the last Legislature. and the placing of which to
turmoil? with the existing hatatutiona is mint is.
portent.-4th, To thotcode of legal process so neer*•
airy for the p,•:torpt sod impartial administration at
justice. In conselnence of this Deena another his
been Patted, convoking the Extraordinary Cortes fat
the 7th of October. the bat preparatory meeting to
take place nu the lat.

It appears by letters from Lima, of the tyth of
April, that the defeat of Horny of the lndependeu•
by the corpaof Royalists antler the commandof CA N.
Tgle•c,hati been extremely magnified to the itsteowiit
of that event received by way of 13u• nos .11)n o, sod
that so far from producing any beneficial Festal,. II
bait been followed by consequences highly detri-
mental to the royal cause, 110 les, than 29 °Mc. r.
awl 1,500 privates of CatarttaXet division home
deserted immediately after the battle, cid jolutd
SAN MARTIN. This latter circam•taocr is placed
beyond all doubt, by Ito being contained itt the let.
ten of promos attached to the Spanish mete in
Pero, sod therefore natatallf disposed to ►epresent
it is the most favourable light possible. From tile
oicssl accounts of the battle published at Limo, It
I. evident that the defeat of the Independetsta owl
canoed by a surprise, they having been attacked t■
their eticsasposruis during the might, rather than 17
any sufetionty iu valour or disciplitie.