The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRES S.

LONDON,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1822.

Paris Papers and letters up to Friday last have
arrived. The French Funds fell on Thursday to
88 f. 60 c. It is presumed that the decline was the
result of gloomy accounts received by express from
London. The news in the Paris Papers was favour-
•ble to the peace of the Continent, and as such cal-
culated to raise them. That the Urgel Regency is
on the eve of resigning its functions, and that its
cause is hopeless, is asserted io the Paris letters
without reserve ; though the Journals do not, by any
means, supply a clear history of it', expiring strug-
gles. MINA, as it is admitted by the Ministerial
Journals, has made himself master of the city of Ur-
gel, but they add that the garrison. 1,000 strong, had
retired to the citadel. This force is known, from other
and more impartial sources, not to exceed half that
number; but even these, according to the Coo-
of Thursday, have been abandoned by
their leader, the Baron d'EROLLIS. He is said at
first to have entertained the intention of defending
the fort to the last extremity, but had since retreat-
ed towards the valley of Andorre, a territory the
right to which is in dispute between France and
Spain, and bad sent on the records of the Regency
to Llivis, which place is now described as a neutral
State, but which is at all events wholly surrounded
by the French territory. Bet the commercial
letters quoted by the Constitutiomtel, place the
Regency in • still more desperate condition : they
state that General MINA had gained a decisive vie.
tory over the remains of the Army of the Faith,
and that all those troops who had neither been
taken prisoners, nor joined the ranks of the Con-
stitutionalist'', had taken refuge at Llivia. Mere
than half the Baron's troops, it is said, have joined
N/INA, who has also captured large stores of arms
and ammunition provided by the Regency. MINA'S
army in Catalonia is stated at 30,000 men. Gene-
ral O'DoNtist.t., who, next to the Baron, may be
considered the chief stay of the Regency, was, by
the list accounts, at Irati, and up to the 18th last
had made no hostile movement. This, though an
imperfect our, is the best account of the state of mi-
litary operations on the frontier.

Bayonne Papers to the 23d ult. arri►ed last night.
They confirm the account of the arrival of General
Toaat.sos at Vittoria, where he was received with
every demonstration of joy. He was expected at
Pumpelun• on the 20th. On the 18th he addressed
at Vittoria a Proclamation to the inhabitants of the
sth District, in which he charges the Army of the
Faith with • long catalogue of crimes, including
' robbing the temples. The Army of the Faith, we
presume. derives its name somewhat in the way of
/stews a nom heeled°.

Letters from Verona of the 19th last state, that
the rising of Congress is definitively fitted for the
Bth instant. It is at last resolved that there shall
be oo general declaration, or official document,
with regard to Spain, issued by that Assembly ;
even the expedient of addressing separate notes to
that Power by each of the members is said to be
abandoned. All the Ambassadors accredited to
the Court of Madrid will receive instructions to
'remain in that capital only so long as a particular
course of proceeding is a►siatained by the Spanish
Government ; and, that deviated haw, iinmedi-
'ately to demand their passports.

Friday night the ship Henry Porcher passed
Portsmouth fur the River. ',Offing there several pas-
wagers, sad a mail of about 7iooo lettere. Site

lehaisto,Jdune 4, Madras 17th July, and t
colpe Hope October 3. The peuengers
her Grew/vont Bengal—Messrs. Fo
STRM, DORANT, HANNINOTON, and CArri,
fr#m Madras—Messrs. SMART, BI.I9acNSOP
WILLIAMS, sod Mr.. LOWRY ; from the Cape
Mr. Rivas% of the royal engineers. The
General Palmer was at Madras, loaded, and wou
sail for England about the 121 h of August ;t
ship Ne//ish had left Bengal for Madras ; the it
C'esiwerce was at St. Helena, for England; the C
nerd Hewitt and another Wiliam), with thes
regiment of lancer, on board, for India, had orris
at the Cape, after 15 weeks' passage. The Hon.
H. BLACRWOOD had left Madra. in the Leroult
60, Captain BARER, for Trincomalee, in oral
to meet Consmodure Gitasir, in the Liffey. T
Admiral intended to leave the Indian command
the 12th of August. The Glasgow fi 'gate, Capta
DOYLE, had gone to Calcutta, to being 11•111 e t
Marquis of HASTINGS. littelligence had been t,•
ceived Madras of a dreadful tilt:us:ratios of t:,
Ganges, by which all the crops. and ino,Olto peep
had been destroyed, principally inhabitants of
neighbourhood of Patna and Moorshedebad. T
indigo crop had previously been destroyed by t
rains, and that article of commerce had risen Ic
much higher price than it can possibly realize
Europe. No other event of importance had o
correct in our Eastern possessions at the sailing
the above ship.
Major-General REYNELL, who went from Port
mouth in the Glasgow, to assume the post
Second in Command at Bombay, has been a
pointed to the command of the secoial field aro
at Meerut, in the Upper Provinces of Bengal.

Sir T. B. LETHBRIDGE, Bart. M.P. for Some
setehtre, has addressed a letter to the Landowne
of that county, on the subject of a County Mee
ing on the state of Agriculture, for ahich a reqi
tition has been presented to the Sheriff. •
THOMAS says—" I am convinced that nothing
contribute so much to your receiving that justice
the heads of the Legislature, which is at present
withheld from you, as a 'bong, manly avowal cu
your parts, in the face of your country and its Go-
vernment, of that depressed, not to say degraded,
position in which your property is involved; to set
forth, with firmness and moderation, your utter
inability to hold under your present embarrass-
ments, that situation in society which by birth, and
the property you once erijoyed, you are entitled to
fill ; to state respectfully that no relief has yet been
afforded by the measures adopted in the lastStt•-
s;on of Parliament, which can in any degree I,
deemed adequate to the urgency of your cue
that the new Corn Bill carries with it t
direct opposite character, and must be cent
deed by all who have any knowledge of its enac
menu, as an injury rather than a good to the cot
rower, for the simple reason that its provisions
to ensure a large importation of corn, at a price f.
which, •pots ao average of year., no British coin
can be grown ; and that, whilst you expected the
importstiou of all other articles, the produce of the
soil, Otieh as tallow, hemp, fax, seeds, hides, bark,
•hotler, cheese, &c. &c. would at least have been
spade liable to duties on their import, in some wee-
more proportioned to their cost of production here.
"Verobserve, with astonishment and dismay, that a
. proposition to that effect, made by one of the Jodi-
widen!, whom you send to Parliament, was
aside by the most overwhelming majority.".." Let
me hope, then, that you will be convinced of the
necessity for public meeting•, to enforce these vita!
and important matters ou the notice of an Admini•
titration, who have shewn hitherto more reluctance
to ei,counter, thins vigorous determination to over-
come, the extraordinary difficulties prevailing mow
the landed interest."

The Piedmontere Gazette, of the 19th November
contains the following account of a conspiracy t
overturn the government of Tunis, and mstescr
all the reigning family. It was discovered in tim
to prevent its completion, and the principle agent
concerned in it, suffered the punishment due t
their crime. The following are extracts:—

TUNIS, OCTOBER 5.

It was not till the 25th ult., that the Bey wa•
fully acquainted with the plot, of which lie had ha.
notice tome month% before, the object of which ws
to overturn the present Government, by the death o
all the Princes of the reigning family. At the heal
of the conspiracy was the High Treasurer of tilt
Regency. It was to be carried into execution en
the 31st of October : the President was to be chow.
Berths; I of his relatives to fill the princips'
offices, and the pillage of the city was promised t •
the soldiers. The son-in•law of the Treasurer Wa
the first to be exiled and strangled on the road
he himself was arrested and executed in the
of the Seth ; the next day his brother, who was
iu bed, was taken, and shared the same fate: hi
son is•till in prison, as well as his women, the slave!
the Moors, servants, Matnelukcs, friend+, relatiori
•nd acquaintance. The danger was great, espe
cially as some tribes of Arabs in the interior set
invited to .co-operste. But now all is perfect'
quiet, and every fear has vanished. The Tun
•urer,:a Moor, had been raised from a low condi
tion tethe highest degree of power and fortune
and had bee access to the norm of the Bey
thingtquite unusual), and saw his women unveiled