The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-10 00:00:00

SURRENDRR OF CALLAO CISTifE

to a fair reckoning. A third class reject this latter pro-
position, as bottomed in the most flagrant injimiee. What!
talk of an amicable settlement of accounts between the
public debtor and creditor, that is, to aid in wiping out the
score ! Monstrous ! What ! rob the annuitant—defraud
the moneyed capitalists—spend the money you have bor-
rowed, and when it no longer snits your convenience to re-
pay it, dictate what terms you please, and call your breach
of faith with the lenders an egi,;:a/de (11/jai/men/ I Most
iniquitous reasoning, certainly !—cries a fourth set of poli-

ticians: honesty is the last policy; besides, what have the
Corn Laws or the National Debt to;do with the stagnation of
trade or the misery of the cotton weavers? It is the baneful
operation of the paper money system, and nothing else,
which has produced all the mischief, and will continue to
produce it, as long 53 there is a rag of that system left.
Would gold and silver ever have brought us into this di-
lemma ? No such thing. Let us once get universal cash
payments, and we shall then see commerce thriving and
bankruptcies at an end. Nothing, in the opinion of another
set of politicians, can be more erroneous than to ascribe
the distressed state of our trade and manufactures to the
Corn Laws, the public debt, or the paper currency, while
the fact is, that all the want and misery of the manufactur-
ing classes arises from the employment of machinery. If
we are to believe this order of politicians, the working
classes have no 'cause of complaint but the sit ant-engine,
The saving - -
lesion of '

powers of
and no agency

seems the
st the present

ently strive

ing up the looms that furnish them with the moans of ob-
taining it; and struggle to procure higher wages by anni-
hilating the property whicb gives them maintenance t they
look forward to increase the ease and comfort of their
circumstances, by destroying every improvement which has
hitherto facilitated their labour.

If, by the foregoing observations, we may be considered
as having thrown some ridicule on the various political
emrirics who would prescribe in such opposite ways, for
the atrophy, according to some—the plethora, in the opi-
nion of others—with which the State is afflicted, let us
not be supposed as in the most remote degree jesting
with that distress, which unhappily but too much pre-
vails, and which the benevolent of all classes and opi-
nions are so zealously endeavouring to relieve. Assistance,
and immediate assistance too, is the grst impulse of
every generous mind towards the distressed, even though
their misfortunes and misery be of their own seeking—the

result of their own improvidence—aye, or even of their

own vice. Let us attend to the sacred impulses of charity
Jfirst, and Ilan seek at our leisure the best means of prevent-
ing such calamities for the future.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

The English Stock Market was bloyant this morn*, and hens
the opening price, 77j o,:they advanced to 78i j; and the July ac.

count price was a shade higher. After a few transactions at
783} for the next settlement, the closing price was t. Exchequer
Bills were Ps. Ils. premium ; India Stock am 2291 ; and the
Bonds 7s. 10s. premium.—The fall of Callao has been so long an.
ticipated, that the announcement of Its capitulation this morning,
had little effect on the South American Stocks. Colombian Bonds
were 4113 ; and 3lexican Six per Crock were 62 rrt 3. Peruvian
Bonds were held more lightly, 31 to 3 being the last quota-
tion. Russian Bonds wefe 753 to 6 ; Greek ditto were 16, and
Old Spanish 8.
The share Market was in a state of comparative activity. Anglo+
hleirietwt Shares advanced from DO to 17 ao di., and United Mesa-
can from 10 die. to par. In all other slims In which business was
doing, a similar improvemeneoeearred.
Mexican papers and letters have strived to the 11th OrStateet.
The Senate passed a resolution, approving of the expedition
against Cuba, and authorizing the Lxecutive to carry It into im-
mediate effect. Ten thousand men were expected to he despatched
on this expedition, which is also to be joined by the Colomb:sn
squadron. The Exchange was 50 to 51. The Pyramus was ex-
pected to sail from Vera Cruz about the 24th of March.
By. the German Mail received this morning, it appeas that corn-
mental distress has much abated in Berlin.

The Duke of Sussex and a select party dined with the
Princess Augusta on Monday.
Earl Bathurst had an audience of his Majesty yesterday.
The Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Melville, and Mr.
Huskisson hail an audience yesterday afternoon with
Mr. Secretary Canning.
Mr. Smith, the King's messenger, was sent off yesterday
afternoon, from the Foreign Office, with despatches, which
it was understood were for the Duke of Devonshire, Mr.
Smith having to proceed to the Nore to meet his Grace.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave a grand dinner to the
Lord Chief Justice Abbott, the Lord Chief Justice Best,
Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Justice Burrougga, Mr. Baron Gra-
ham ; Aldermen Sir C. Flower, Maguey, Garratt,. Brown,
Lucas; the Recorder; Sheriffs Crowder and Kelly, &c.
Married, Thomas Clarke, Esq. eldest son of Thomas
Clarke, Esq. of Swakeleys, to Jane Selitvt, eldest daughter
of the Honourable and Rev. W. Robert Capel, and niece
to the Earl of Essex.
DIIITRESSKD SFITAI.FIELDS WEAVERS.—It gives US
great pleasure to learn, that about the end of the present
month there will be a sale, at the Hanover-square Rooms,
of useful and ornamental work, for the relief of the dis-
tressed weavers of Spitalfields, who have borne their many
and heavy privations with such exemplary patience and
resignation. 'The ladies patronesses are—
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchetses of Clarence and Kent,
the Duchess of Beaufort, the Marchionesses of Lanstlown, Co-
nyngham, and Salisbury, and the Dowager Marchioness of Salis-
bury, the Countesses of Liverpool, Warwick, and Aberdeen, the
Ladies Alaryborough, Barham, Charlotte Calthorpe, Elizabeth
O'Bryen, Georgiana Granville Ryder, the Dowager Lady Croft,
and the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Canning, Mrs. Denman and Mrs.
Waldo.
No delay should take place in so beneficent an undertak-
ing ; and therefore such ladies as are disposed to furnish
useful or fancy work should, as early as possible, transmit
it to the Lady Mayoress Nlarision-house ; Mrs. Doxat,
Finsbury-square ; the Aliases Lloyd, 22, Queen-street,
Cheapside ; the Misses Clode, 138, Bishopagate-Without;
or Mr. Nisbet, 21, Berner's-street, Oxford-street.
The Belfast Commercial Chronicle contains an account
of a meeting called by the unemployed operative weavers
in that place, to consult on the best method of obtaining
relief. About one hundred assembled out of a body of
several thousands, all of whom have conducted themselves,
amidst their privations, in the most exemplary manner.
John Agnew, Esq.. sovereign cf Belfast, attended and
addressed the meeting, assuring it that a strong sympathy
in their distress was felt by the inhabitants of the place,
and recommending them to separate, and cause some
estimate to be made of the number of persons out of em-
ployment. This stiggt.stion was willingly adopted, and
the meeting quietly dispersed.
The following are extracts from the Limerick Chronicle
of Saturday:—" The subject of the Corn Laws has
checked the enterprise of our corn speculators here, and
Wheat was this day but Is. 4d, to Is. tid. Irish, per stone
for Red, anti Is. 7d. to Is. tid. per stone for White. Oats
fiti. British, per stone ; Barley 11d. British, per stone.
Flour stationary, at 435. Irish per sack for Firsts ; 375.
for Seconds, and 265. for Thirds. Oatmeal, ditto, at 14s.
Irish per cwt. and great stocks on hand, but no likelihood
of a rise, in consequence of the reduction on Oats. Pota-
toes stl. per stone, and 64d. per basket of 19 lbs.
" PLANTING THE SHOOTS OF PUTATOEB.—In the
Autumn of last year, Thomas Walker, Esq. of Fermoy,
made a successful experiment in the cultivation of potatoes,
by planting the joints of the young shoots of the root,
instead of the cuttings of the root itself, proverbially
called akellanies. This Gentleman has this year planted, at
a public meeting invited to the exhibition, on a large scale,
and will at the time of digging omit the crop give public
notice thereof, that the lower class of farmers may be con-
vinced of the efficacy of such an improvement."

The intelligence received of the fall of ("allno is con-
firmed. A navel officer has arrived at the Aohnicalty with
the account, which states, in addition, that General Roan
and his garrison were allowed the honours of war, and were
to go to Spain. The fortreas mu-fluttered on the 2:tid of
January, to the Independents, under General Sodom.
We ltare a!fl9 received the Gacrta del Gohierno Petra-,
1 orilinor4s of January 23, 1826, which contains the terms
of the•capitulation. We have not room for the wtole of
them' to-day, but subjoin the principal ones.
It is a curious fact that the negotiations were carried on,
in the first instance, on board a British ship, and that Ge-
neral Rodil, on his surrender of Callao, embarked on board
his Majesty's ship Briton.
The first condition proposed on the part of the gerfleoo
was the following:—
" There shaU be granted an amnesty, or general pardon, to all
and each of the irdividuala, of whatever class or condition, as welt
military and ecclesiastkal as civil ; and consequently their persona
snail be inviolable, whatever may be tile Services they have new.
dered to the King.
" Answer—Granted, with respect to their past conduct, op to the
surrender of the fortress."
The succeeding nine conditions demanded by the pa-
rism, stipulate for the removal of the officers, public funs-
tionaries, and others, in British transports, at the expense
of the Independents, with permission to remain in America
if this should be preerred.
The eleventh Article proposed was rather remarkable.
It ran thus— *

" The Chief Officers and For et innaritx, who may he wfitinfeact
enter into the service of the Republic, shall be atintitted into it,
waiting their respective ranks.
stipulated secuttt)r.
- the disposing a
to ask
obligation/
• of

FINE ARTS.

LORD RADSTOCVS PICTURES.

Among the admirable collection of picterres belonging
the late Lord ganstock, which will be brought under
Mr. CHRISTI e's hammer at the close of the week, is that
extraordinary chef d'ruvre by TITIAN, from the Aldo-
branlini Palace, The Darted. r iicnonras, with Me
held of ST. dolt Non a charger. Had no other production
of this transcendent genius ever reached to our times, bie
claim to immortality might safely rest on this pictures
alone. None but a mater-mind like that of TITIAN
could have throon that powerful and peculihr expression
into the countenance of the principal figure, which so pro-
flannelly arrests the attention of the spectator, as to give
him neither leisure nor inclination to reflect on the cruet
and vindictive intim of her request. We see her bearing
' the Baptist's heal on the charger, but we " look in her
face," and forget our commiseration for her victim. We
in fact have no room for any other feeling but that of
admiration of the magic skill which produced such
picture. In the first day's sale (Friday; is the celebrated
picture of TITIAN AN!) tits DAUGHTER, formerly in the
Borgliese Palace. The subject, which is allegorical, le
singularly interesting; and never was that thoughtfulness,
which it is calculated to inspire, more forcibly depicted
than in the expression of the daughter's face, while listen-
ing to the monitory lesson of her father. The mind was
never more strongly portrayed on canvass ; no v erbal descrip-
tion can convey any adequate conception of it. We might.
particularize many other fine pictures in this collection, if it
were, not that by so doing we might appear to undervalue
those we omitted, which would be to do them great in-
justice. The whole have manifestly been selected with
great-judgment, as they are of rase uirrit and of undoubted
originality.

NEir3fARKE2'. SREGNEI ATPRING MEETING

NEWMAUKET, TUESDAY AYTERIfOON, FOUR O'CLOCK.
: Match of M. T.Y.C.
Mr. Pettitt's Werosaide, est. 10Ib. . . - 1
Mr. Greville's Skirmisher, let. 81b. . . 2
First Class.—Mandicap Sweepstakes of lawns. such. T.Y.C.
rol. Wilson's hr. g. by Tireslas—Spinning Jenny, Bst. . 1
Lod Jct►ey's Arid, list. - . 2
Several others srsrted.
Match, 40. First half of Ab. 11f.
Duke of Grafton's c. by Woful--sister to Nectar, 9st.
Mr. Greville's Mot,osi $ by 3lanfred, Zat. .
Second class--Handtcap. T.Y.C.
Mr. itogtres 31uleteer, 4 yes. Bst. 1.1”). .
Lord Amiou's 1. by Bustard, 3 ) rs. list. 10Ib.
. Three others started.

(BY EXPRESS.)

Fifty Pounds for 3-yr. olds. R. 31:
Mr. "%Dyedltam's Brother to 'f watty
Lord Exeter's Recruit
Several others started r Tears was third.
BETTING.
DERBY.
I/ to 1 aget. The General
. II to I agst. Dervi.e.
OAKS.
11 to 8 agq. Problem I IC to I art. Parapluie.
11 to 2 agst. Mignionette

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9 to 2 og4t. Panic
11 to 2 agst. 2dosletn

tve no cause of complaint but the sham-engine. " An;wey--Rej.ected."
it of labour is the source of famine, and the pope- 'lllte nueeeeding Articles, to the 20th, stipulated security
Great Britain can never 'be wellfed antil.tbe for Nlyete ty ; six mots for the disposing c
If:rr
cbtmistry
and
meckinteiteeime 04 deg. .
~ , • ••• ;- • preserving the rof masters to theft
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• au the liberation otsoners.
gettey is known loutibbt-eiland laisitv. .: •• . viairitaiiii, folio at
prevailing doctrine of the operative pitilosopn • a " The Ttepublit of Peru shall take upon itself the obfigatiose
went moment. They, therefore,
very emdsv., zd debts;Ne;,eleiliti3%the °overrun' since he wok pussessien of this
fe to acquire a larger quantity of food by break- " Answer—Rejected."
e looms that furnish them with the moans of ob- The remaining Articles (there are thirty-one in all) Ist
fordth.tilhe mannerfort in which the capitulationr .ha 11 be ratified,
and struggle to procure higher wages by arrni-
he property which gives them maintenance t they awttich'meay 'aress
ise shall be uLeramninedafianvoutraahtlyantoythie It!!
raid to increase the ease and comfort of their siegetl. The capitulation was formally 'stifled cn the 1.2til
'wee. by destrovine every improvement which has of January.