The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-19 00:00:00

PASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a grand dioner.on Satur. I
day at his house in Illownirtg-atreet, to his Excellency Baron Fagel,
Sir John Malcolm, Bart., 3lr. and Mrs. NVni. Dundee, Mr. and'
Mn. Henry Ellis, Mr. ar..l Mrs. Wm. Wynn, Mr. J. C. Free-
ling, Mr. Falk, .31r. Ward, Mr. Rush, Ice.
Count Linen entertained a distinguished party at dinner yester-
day at Ashburnham House.
The Earl of Ilarrington had a dinner party yesterday at hit bowie
in the Stable-yard, St. Jarmat's; in the evening her ladyship had
a select circle of fashioilithles. _ . _

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Count Eleven arrived in town on Saturday from the Puke of
Wellington's seat, Strathlieldany,
tronl and Lady Frederick Iter.tintk have arrived in town from
the Earl of Ironstlalv's seat Cottramere, Rutland Mire.
Sir %flu. Houston, Hart: ham left town lot his seat, Avisfird,
Hants.

Lord and Lady Grenville and family have arrived in town from
their yeah, Droprnore.
Lord Langford bas left town for his seat, Cooper's 11111, Surrey.
Colonel Aubrey bat artived i.t town irOUI UCIVOit Cootie, Rut-
landshire.

Hon. Fred. Lamb left town on Saturday for Earl Cowper's seat,
Pantiangor, Herts.
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Henry have left Gould's Hotel, Jeruiyn-
stm.i, fur I)ublin.
Win. Gosling, Esq. has left town for Naples.
George liyug, Esq. M. P., has kit town lily his seat, Wrothsen
Park.

Departures from the Pultenay Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Cap..
min Rose for Bombay ; Captain la-au-rim a tour ; Richard 'Fortin,
Esq. for his seat, Engleficid-atreen, Barks ; J. Newcombe, Esq. for
Brighton.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Mackenzie arrived, yesterday, at Thomas's
Hotel, Iterkeley-square, front the Earl of Capture. seat, Elton
Stilton, iluntingtionsitire.
Arrivals at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street r.—T. T. Drake,
Esq. M.l'. from his seat, .Ituersham, Bucks ; Mr. Gray from a
tour.

RUSSIAN liflsslON IN CHINA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER raox lIT%P.TERSACROII, DATED

imexmara 1:?.

None of the European Powers have more regular or more
uninterrupted relations with C'hina•than Russia. These
relations haveyubsisted em the same footing since I7YS,
since the onnelttsion of tl.e first commercial treaty between
die two empires. By this treaty the Russian Government
has the right of maintaining at Pekin a hotel, two churches,
an arelimandrite, with four ecclesiastics, and as many young
nu in destined to acquire the Chinese and 'Mandchou lan-
pages, for the purpose of serving, on their return, as in-
, Lrpreters on the frontier or in the offices of the Minister
cue Foreign Affairs. By the stipulations of the original
treaty, all :hese persons should reside at Pekin only for ten
years, but generally the ecclesiastical suite and the pupils
of language remain for thirteen years. Till lately little at-
tention was paid to the kind of persons selected for the
Chinese mission. 'they were frequently individuals of
mean talents and limited education. A few only of the
Russian interpreters brought up in China have hitherto
:littered real services to their country and to literature,
such as Leonticv and Vladikine. Of the last mission, which
has just returned, I must speak differently. The Arch-
mandrite I lyacintlie, who was at the head of it, carried to,
Pekin more natural talents titan any of his predecessors,
and has gained higher claims to distinction by his inde-
fatigable study of the Chinese, and his extensive know-
ledge of other languages of the interior of Asia. Thirteen
years spent in the capital of China, and employed in stub-
born literary labours, have enabled hint to accomplish works
which will surpris.. those best acquainted with the Chinese
language, literature, .and history. I shall merely enume-
rate a few of those works, which would aepear from their
number and importance to be rather the united transactions
of a learne I society, than the productions of a sin de indi-
vidual. The chief of them is a history of China, from the
year 1367 before Christ, to die year 1633 of our era, which
Is comprised in nine folio volumes. Another is a geogra-
phical and statistical description of the Chinese empire,
socoinpanied with an extensive map, in the five principal
dialects spoken in (Willi. The next in importance is a
translation of the works of Confucius into Russian, with
an ample commentary and learned notes. Besides these,
he has composed a dictionary of the Chinese and Russian
languages, in two volumes ; four works on the geography
and history of Thibet and Little Bucharia ; a histo-
ry of the Mongolian Tribes ; and a translation of the code
of laws given by the China Government to the Mongolian
hordes wider its eissinnipt ;111 detailed description of tike
city of Pekin ; and an account of the llyttraulic winti
executed on the banks of the Yellow River and the (Bleat
Canal of China. In addition to these labours, the Arch-
mandrite /Iyacintlie has enriched the literature of his
country with several treatises on the manners, the customs,
the arts, rend sciences of the Chinese. It is said by his
friends, that this learned person poasesses extensive literary
treasures, of which his present position is little calculated
to forward the publication. Whether from the freedom of
bis political opinions, or from thelwant of that legitimate su-
perstition which is now so much in demand in the Russian
church, he has been ordered to leave the capital, and to
reside in a convent near .Irchangel. It is hoped that he
will be recalled by the Emperor, after expiating his liberal
sentiments or conduct by a proper penance.

Saturday morning, the Earl of Liverpool left his seat at
Coatnh R ood, for Brighton, on a visit to his Majesty.
Friday morning, Mr. Secretary Calming left town for
Coombe Wood, :Limey, the scat of the Earl of Liverpool,
on a visit to the Noble Earl. The Bight Honourable
Gentleman spent the day. and took a hod there.
On Saturday morning, Mr. Canning returned to his
house, at BTOMptOII.
On Saturday tht. Three per Cents. Reduced exceed-
ed 90.

MADAME CATAt understand that the indefa-
tigable manager of our concerts has succeeded in engaging
Madame Catalani for the two next subscription concerts,
to take place, it is expected, un Tuesclay the 3d, and
Thursday the sth of February.—Lircrin4 ,ilereury. •
Early in the month of Felruary the Lord Chancellor is
expected to give judgment in the Queensberry Appeals.
A paragraph has appeared in several of the daily papers,
on the authotity of a private letter from Calcutta, that Mr.
Thaekery, the barrister, having proceeded thither without
a liceiree from the East India Directorship, had be.n re-
fused admission by the Judges, on the ground that the bar
had aln sly three more their the prescribed number, and
was ordered by the Government to return home. The sim-
ple fact is, that when he left this country, Mr. Thaekery
had only provided himself with a licence, authorising him
to reside at Madras.

THE LATE ('HAR! I)IIII)IN.—GRAND MUSICAL
FEwriv A I..—The stewards for the public festival in honour
of the late Charles llilnlin, met on Saturday evening at
the Freemasons' Tavern, when a letter from Sir desoph
Yorke was read, in which the gallant expreattl
hill_ferfetle !liiifttiltdis take the Idbair on theaserweioik:
Indio promote the lautiOde nndertaking in every way wit
his power. Answers were also. received from several pro'
fesaional gentlemen to signify their desire to add to the'
eouviviality by their presmee, making up the list of mu-
sical performers to upwards of thirty, including alt the
principal vocalists of the present day. The whole of the
selection is to be from the works ot the late Mr.
The gallery is to be thrown open to the lady subscribers,
who will he admitted by tickets only, and the company is
expected to 'be more numerous than on any former occa-
sion, and many naval and military characters are to be
invited.

A color ONICON.—The selection for this instrument on
I Saturday was extremely pleasing. It commenced with the
overture Caliph q-Bugtha. The air He's all the World to
Me, and song Doke Thomtim, were delightfully executed,
and most effective. There is something so sweet and deli-
: cate iii the perfonntince of a ft.vourite air capon the Apollo-
: nicon, that nothing seems wanting. The overture to La
Donna del I.ao) is a mixture or Rossini's beauties and
im-
cctiois, but in some parts very pleasing. ll'c heard it
last season at the. /peva vary frequently • but the chaste-
ness and brilliancy of Mr. Purkia's performance would
raise the morture much in the estimation of the musical
world. It was much applauded on Saturday. The Intro-
duction and Rondo (Mochellcs), was a fine specimen of
execution, and we have seldom seen the performances more
effective altogether.
IV: learn with gratification that the Committee of the
Court of ('onimon Council, to whom was referred the con-
sideration of the state of the coal trade, have determined
on recommending the appointment of 25 additional meters
—a measure, which, if adopt d, cannot fail, by leading to
a quicker supply, to lower the price of that moss nec.laxry
article. The l'ommittce, we uns'..:ratatul, Were nearly una-
nimous on this peit.t.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.

Last night we received the Paris Journals of Friday,
from which we copy the following :-
1 From the Motateete.l
lIAYONNE, JAN. &
- -

There is nothing new on the frontier'. The strictest vigilance
is exercised at the proe%art lkhobie : those Spaniards who come
without passports are not suffered to pa's.
TOl'l.ol7gr, J 9.
General Rottenbourg, commanding the Eastern Pyrenees, has
been authorised by his Excellency the Minister of War to send
into the Department of the Arviege and the Aude several regiments
belonging to the division of reserve.
The proceedings preliminary to the trial of the French deserters
are expected to be hntshed in two months, when these persons, 34
in number, will be brought to trial.
From the C'unriler Fre:menial
INANKFORT, JAW.

We learn from Eberfield that the directing cenincil of the Rhenish
FAA India l'onimny has published its report upon the maritime
exportations mink by the Company during the course of the year,
I/P23. The re..ult of the report is, that there was exported to
America, and chiefly to the colonies fomerly belonging to Spain,
produce of Herman industry which returned con‘itlerahle sums.
The nianufactories of Prussia have furnished in linen., cloths,
cottons, iron, and other metals, copper, ironmongery, hats, glass,
and ware, to the amount of 837,0110 rix dollars ; Saxony and
Hanover, to the amount of 118,11011; the other Getman States,
to the amount of ; the total amount of the exportations is
a million and a-half of al: dollars.

AVe hear of communications made by the Coon of Vienna, to
Baron BiMortensen, President of the fiennanic Diet, which he is
to submit to the anienibly. It is already certain that every thing
will be accepted. Many Ministers and 31endiers of the
mimic Chamber continue to arrive at Frankfort ; we notice parti-
cularly Baron B'essenthergh, the confidential adviser of the Em-
peror of Austria, and Baron Ifershels, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the /hand Ifuchr cf Baden.

The last number of the Spectalcur Oricrthil, which reached us,
rapt, that the Turks march everywhere without obstruction; and
that every person is forced to acknowledge in them the chancier of
power and superiority. Affairs are still unsettled, and a fourth can,.
piticm would undoubtedly take place; but the Greeks sould never,
ur assisted, be able to gain their independence. And of this they
ate so conscious, that to extricate themselves from their dreadful
situation, they generally desire (who will believe it %) a King,' a
Sovereign. These are the words of the Aprclutersr; who, Lair.
ever, hastens to add, you will perceive that this desire is already an
important trait with all reflecting minds; but this inclination is
warmly opposed by the Chiefs, who protest against any idea of the
kind ; to the rest, there will never be the least unanimity in the
operations of the Greeks. When permission is given to write, it
must be done under the correction of a Pacha. The same jourmil
mentions, that the executive power of the llellenisis is removed
for the present from Napoli to Romania, and the legislative au.
thority to Argos; and Piiilhallenists of rank have arrived at
Hydra, where they have been most cordially received, and lodged
in the best houses. They have made (it is added) a most singular
proposition to the Greeks, respecting the Island of Rhodes; but
the Sivflutrotr does not think proper to inform its readers of
this proposition or any thing connected with it.
Bites:4El.s, Jaw. 12.
The sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General have
been postponed until the I;th of May, at which time there will be
presented to its consider's:ion, different projects of extreme im.
portenee.
The Jsdicafrar of llourtleaux gives the following from ;Madrid,
dated January 3 :
• . . .

" Two dais since a Swiss 11113 killed by some soldiers of the
Royal (bard : one of the latter was arrested ; an officer caused him
to escape ; but the officer himself has been arrested, and conveyed
to prison."
The accounts from Galicia are afflicting ; all that district is in
motion ; and ft may be stipposod that the Liberals arc not spared.
It is said that 20) armed men traverse Andalusia and Murcia.
The day before yesterday the cavalry regiment of the Prince left
the capital ; its destinaJion is not known ibut it is conjectured that
it will march upon the provinces of which we have spoken. Au.
other regiment has left Morbid this day. AU the Spanish troops
will, it is thought, be removed. and the French garrison will be
augmented to the number of I fi,lloo.
The Prime Minister continues ill. The favourite and the ad-
vlaer of the King since his return is said to be a Sieur Tarte.
The Archbishops and Bishops have addressed a memorial to the
King on the subject of the various charges made against than, in
not quitting the capital when ordered, being indisposed, dec.
Ills Majesty has decided that all the staff officers of the city of
Grenada, who voluntarily limned a part of the national militia,
shall be deprived of their employments, if they do not prove before
the Captain-General of the province that they were comprised in the
deidaratioa of the li;th of last September.
[From the Jou t. nal des Di:bats.]
Manain, Jaw. 6.
The King. in consideration of the heroism shewn in his last
momenta by Don Antonio Lastrea, who was shot at Malaga by
order of Itirgo, as one of the men moat devoted to the cause of the
altar and the throne. has bestowed upon his widow the sum of
4,400 reale, enjoyed by heir husband. He has made a similar grant
to the eldest son, the successor of his father.
:The Mentoried Bordrldia contains the fallowing :-
- JAN. 6.
The Ring has Nat rained General Quentin Military Governer
of the City of Madrid ; and Pascual Lignuw, Governor of Ciudad
Rodrigo.
Property of every description, belonging to the Tribunal of the
Inquisition was latterly applied to the credit of the public; but his
Majesty wishing to put an end to this state of things, bag ordered
that all the property, pensions, and revenues belonging to this
Tribunal, be in future managed by the Collector-General, and that
the persons employed in the offices of public credit, charged until
the present time with tic affairs of the Inquisition, should preserve
them.
Pants.
_ _

After cor:menting on the warlike tone assumed by some of the
English papers, the Courtier Frurfrail adds, after the language
used fir three months by the English :Ministerial Journals and
other more significant demonstrations, it is difficult not to believe,
that if our Government gives the least assistance to Spain In an
attempt to reconquer her ancient American Colonies, the British
Cabinet will d :clare wcr. We cannot have forgotten the fatal con-
sequences which an English war has at all times entailed upon our
country; and however great the lore of the new Minister may be foe
the principles of the Holy Alliance; however he may wish to make
' them triumph in America, as lie has made them triumph in Spain;
however he may feel himself disposal to make this new concession
to the party which dreams but of war and conquest, we may be
permitted to indulge a hope that the importance of the results
which will follow this determination, will arrest the execution of
projects which have awakened the distrust of England, and that
South America will net he compelled to purchase by a new war,
and by new sacrifices, lior ivlepentlence, of which no human power
will be ultitustely alle to deprive her.
Two Couriers, ore English, the other Piedmontese, arrived yes.
toeday at Paris, announcing the death of Victor Emmanuel, King of
Sardinia. This Monarch was aged 63. His death is sincerely re.
grated by the people of Piedmont. Posterity will do justice to
the courage and integrity of which be gave a rare example, when he
renounced a throne rather than descend to oaths and digned de.
monstrations of adhotion and attachment to a constitution which he
d.rosed incompatible with the rights and perhaps the happiness of
his subjects.

The Prince of Carignan, having been informed of the death of
his Majesty, could not go yesterday to a brilliant fete, which wee
given in hts honour by one of the (Intends of the Army of Spain,
which a great number of (Jeweils belonging to that army were
present.
The Journals of Madrid, of the 6th, received to-day, make no
mention of the Decree of Amnesty, which, if we were to believe
the Ministerisl Journals, wax to be published on the Day of Kings.
Thus is the fourth time that an epoch has been fixed for the sp.!
penrance of the decree, and that the hopes of those who expected
it have been deceived. So many successive postponements musk*
us think it put off to an indcintte period.
A letter from :tante, of the lOth of December, announces that;
Omer Vrione, disgraced by the Pcrte, has thrown himself into the '
antis of the Hellenists. If this news be true, it will be of the
highest importance, this Pacha being the most skilful of the
otroman De:mends, and possessing a Feu influence ever the
Abanians.
V.T• • [Fran the Afigemeive Zeiiling of January 11.[
Mr article from ()dense of the th December saws, thatearni-
2tr

,
ring to letters from Constantinople of the lOth, the Uiran, after bar.
;neaten occupied three weeks in discussing the MCISIIIIIII to be
taken against the cheeks, seams to have decided that the Ovand
Vizier shall go in person to the Mores, with very extensive
But it is feared that the resolution, whets made public, w cow
great alums among the peoplt., its being weU known that tb•
tirand, Vide, never leave* the capital but in cases of extraordinary
I danger. Should he go it is supposed the Capiten Pacha will sus-
ceed him. Lord Strangforirs iatluence seemed to be Messaging;
but the intended expuition of the English fleet at Tunas,
which, fur three you", east, had rendered the Porte un
Vices, leaves bile small hopes of the continuance of trirsttour.
its. Minziacky will scarcely be at Canstantinople before the middle
cf.lanuary, to take upon him the functions of Consul. M. Von
Palin had left that city.