The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-28 00:00:00

THE REFUGEES.

The Lord Mayor his determined to leave no tones ore.
Unmated which may he likely to forward the spirited
for the relief of the distressed Spanish and Italian teems. •
has written to some. and intends to write to all the princ.pal authe.
cities in the dille.rent great towns of Great Britain, requesting the
they will aid the cause, by calling rueetings, and rept:semi.:
the necessities of the unfortunate foreigners. W: believe it is es:
his Lordship's in'ention to write to the Ministers and Chnr.'...4
wardens of the different parishes in the metropolis, to creel:re.,
parochial sitbscriptinns. The Committee appointed at tie „v:
nutting, met once since its formation, and discussed the nec,..s
ineasuris for dieposirg of the subscription. The members
not yet come to a definitive arrangement with respect to the tire,
disposal of those who are so strongly the objects of the pidins
pathy, but there is every reason to suppose that the eiihrts ti:
public will be assisted most liberally from a very exalted
it is due to the Chief 3legistrate to say, that his peremptcry
to allow a grain of Cie alloy of polities to be mixed up Ilk% the 0.:•
sideration of the merits of the subject, has had the erect of n:
innumerable contributors. Ilia Lettlship hes Itttire,l
letters. inelosing large donations., end assuring him drat e.: .1
would have been obliged to withhold their charity, ii any ti.! 'c
but that of charity hod been appealed to. The Commene
aware that they have a delicete duty to perform in disp:nsis; t..
public bount... They have appointed, pro trotir.re. five .f !;,
Spaniel'. unit Ere of the Italian refugees, atuctigst whem are, c
understand, Generals 31ina and Quiroga, to invent ignh. arh ...s.';
but they have taien g ,tel rare tint no individual she !..as
obliged to seek pi-weed:in here, shall bz for a muses.:
from the delay which niust unvoidelly arts; troll the eat...., !'..
inquiry. From the day of the meeting, each single mss, . :.•
eeived ten shillings ; each nu:tried man has Mg only a a.... 7 H
shillings; and each serried man, having :. wire and
eighteen shillings per week. Thus, upwards of 700
great number of whom have been living in grondeus in 1:h.:7 ~•••
country, and then Med to starvation in this, are Dow .
this last dttmdful extremity. Notwithstanding the veer..i !•
necessity of the refugees, it is a fart, that in some in.. a : cts v
have rejected the aid of the Committee, and actually engaged ir. c •
most Laborious and unprofitable drudgery, rather thap rube
what they consider en indienity. Others feel great rcle:T:ree
the idea of bentg supplied iv tile herds of their couetryr•vn.
have been apt ente,l by the ( ommittee to itlViStif•lit Cia,s„ r.•
to deal out the week: e
restertl.,y tome of refugees waited on his
Tirenent the ptopriety of altering this latter wes,.. t'..•
IfOreNilip refereed them to Mr. FreadiS..4l. the Greener . i•?.• ':•
who resides in Thragmutionastreet, and who his 1 .... t.'
voted a ;:cat reftinil of his time to the !...rniet. of :h.. 4.! n:. •
Iced Mayor, at the slant: time, expressed a hip'. . .
tunate gratlemen ;mut! W cor.ider•
chase who re rind *cm, AY 121
that prejudice : and that. if it acre only for the err; ..:r
the Comittitteo, all objections to the existing mod.: e:
would be waived.

Dir. Louis de. la Vegn is. we understand. to i.ttenil
Imes Ilotd. St..3lartn,',.strect, r
distributing the idiom a :
In the coarse of the day a deputation front the rr:.!, r!'
Mao. w.tited upon the Lord 31.twor, and the
.:'l7.
the 31in'''" of the Pak!), rot it,, his Lord•P.!.
sum than ;::/. subscribed by a few ine•mit,''''
Numbers of contributions are daily
Tons souls oho comfortably smoke their pii,vo and talk
the parlours of the 31artitiis Puke of II
the Hole in the Wall, and other pubUr.houses.

We understand that the Committee for the relief
Spanish and Italian refug:.-cs made the first
the funds intrusted to their manszement on 1
at Newton's Hotel. near to Leice...t.v-siluare. .1
sufferers were relieved.

The GuaziostWi'atriot of the Aug'. arronnot
Af. Muzi, Archbishop of Filipos, .Ipustolie % ker,
tug
rived at Chili; but that having begun to combo Intr.r
more like an agent of the Holy Alliance, than of the v.,
Pontiff, the Government hail ordered him to quit t,
country, and he was tit:it at Valparaiso Nair to corbel'
Lis delicious I tali.