The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-04 00:00:00

FRENCH Ell ItiSSY TO PEJiSLt.

The Viscount Desbassyus de Richemont reached Tenris
in the month of May, and was there received with distinc-
tion by the flvreditary Prince of Persia. On the 2,1 of
JIM!: lag lie sat out for Teheran, where he arriv«l on the
17th. On this route the land gradually rises till the
traveller reaches the mountains of Tcharaf anti Caflanguer,
the summits of which are covered with perpetual sli6w.
The part passud over by the French Ambassador and lgs
suite was seven hundrtil toises from the level of the s.a.
On arriving at Teheran, M. 1).• Richemont was received is
apartments prepared for him at the house of Aboul Hassan
Khan, lately Ant haFsador in England and Franey, and now
Minister for Foreign Affairs. A few days afterwards lie
had a formal and solemn audience of the Shah himself, to
which he was introduced with much pomp and ceremony,
hearing with him a letter from Charles X. to Futteh Ali
Shah.

The Shah received him sitting on a throne covered with
jewels. The hall of andience was extremely magnificent.
Near the Shah stood the grandees of his Court gorgeously
attired, one bearin7 the Royal diadem, another the sei-
mitar, a third th, :•hiehl, and a fourth the sceptre; (hi
the shield was an emerald of extraordinary dimensions,
and on the Shah's bracelets were two of the largest dia-
monds known. rutteh Ali Shah is 66 years of age, and re-
markable fur a long bum', which is the admiration of his
subjects, covering his face almost to the eyes, and flowing
down to his girdle. The audience lasted a quarter of an
hour, and the Ambassador was reconducted home with the
same pomp with which he had been introduced. The
Shah conferred on M. de Rich, mont the Order of the Lion
and of the Sun of the second class.

The (lay after this ceremony the Ambassador was
attacked with a serious illness ; but a subsiquent letter,
of the 34 of August, states that he had recovered suf.
ficiently to begin his journey from Teheran for !qualm,
whence he meant to procetd to the Persian Gulf and
Bombay.

bespatches were received yeattrlay at the Colonial
Office from General Lord C. 11. Somerset, at the Cape of
Good Hope ; and from Lieutenant-General Sir G. L.
Cole, G.C.8., at the Mauritius.

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The Palinira, Lamb, is arrived in Margate Roads, from
Calcutta, having sailed as late as the 1 tth of August, awl
from St. Helena the 16th of Novembet. Sir James Britt-
bane, in the Boadicea frigate, had arrived there with a
large freight of specie from 31adras. The Tamar frigate
was in dock ; her crew were very sickly, and the First
Lieutenant and several men had died.

The Ilcugal Merchant sailed from Arracan on the 11th
of July, in company with the Broughatn ; about ten a.ni.
saw her bear up for the river again. She has about -too sick
on board for Calcutta. 'Troops at Arracan are very sickly :
hospitals full ; number of deaths daily.
The Gazette of Venice givcs a most distressing account
of the immense damage done by the overflowing of the
l'o, and other rivers, which rose higher than even in 1823.

Mettnrie OF M. Ii.II.I.ER.—A letter from Switzerland,
in the Frankfort papers, states that the judicial documents,
the Visurn and Repertuns, on the body of the late Avoycr
Keller, have really been found in the archives of Lucerne,
so that they had not been abstracted, as was reported.
FOREIGN EICIIANGEN.—Letters from St. Peteraburgh
of the 13th December, (N.S.) state that the Exchange was
declining ;it was then 10,t, to 10. Letters from Riga cf
15th December (N.S.) quote the Exchange at 10 3-16:14,
with but few bills on London offered.

Letters have been received from the city of Mexico,
dated on the Stll of October, and from Alvarado, dated on
the 17th of the same month. The communications from
Mexico, by this conveyance, are of considerable import-
ance, and must, in no small degree, increase the expecta-
tions previously entertained, that by the speedy surrender
of the castles of St. Juan d'Ulloa the freedom of the Mexi-
can Republic will be completed. The letter from Alvarado
states, that at the time when it was written, the Spanish
Governor of St. Juan d'Ulloa was actually on board the
British packet oft' Vera Cruz, discussing, with Mexican
accredited Ministers,the terms on which the castle should be
given Up to the Republican forces ; and strong hopes were
entertained that the negociation would end favourably to
the cause of the independence of the Mexican States. The
terms demanded by the Spanish Governor were, 100,ouu/.
for his country, and 600 dollars to each of the garrison.
The premium is small, when compared with the value of
the prize, for it can speedily he replaced by the increased
quantity of foreign goods, which must then be imported,
after payment of the legal duties—a state of things which
cannot exist so long as smugglers are protected by a Spa:Mh
force at St. Juan trUlloa. Trade in Mexico had for many
months been unusually languid; for heavy duties on
European manufactures injured the consumption of their,
land nothing legally imported could be sold without a heavy
loss. Smugglers, on the contrary, continued to reap im-
mense advantages from the restrictions placed on the trans-
actions of fair dealers; because, by the evasion of the
high imposts of Government, they were enabled to under-
sell all who paid. the legal duties. The Mexican Govern-
ment is, however, young in legislation, and we doubt nor it
will soon reform its commercial system.
lklunnea or COLON!' I. SII3 ItP.—The Kentucky Re-
porter says—" The individual suspected of pctpetrating
this horrid deed has been apprehended, and is now con-
fined in gaol at Frankfort. llis name is Jeroboam Beau-
champ, a nephew or relative of the late senator from Wash-
ington county of the same name. He studied law with
Col. Sharp at Bowling Green some years ago, and now
resides in Simpson county. He was taken at his own
house on the day of his arrival there, by the persons sent
in pursuit of bun from Frankfort. The circumstane(s
which led to his apprehension have no connexion what-
ever with party feeling, as some were willing to believe.
Ast ERMAN Sweaters.—As an instance of the liberty and
prosperity of this country, it is stated in the Pottstown
(Pennsylvania) paper, that a sweep-master and his bey,
both blacks, arrived in that village from Philadelphia in a
gig, and, after having swept all the chimneys requiring
such ceremony, they took their carriage and returned to the
city.--Vete Tort. Advocate.
Mr. Wm. Nicol, manufacturer in Forfar, was, in lels,
under the necessity of compounding with his ercelimis.
They were then so well convinced of his honesty, that they
unanimously agreed to discharge him. Since that time',
by adhering to his industrious habits, and being more for-
tunate than formerly, he has been enabled to retrieve his
affairs. The other week he called a meeting of his credi-
ditors, and paid them in full. Such instant 's of honesty
seldom occur, and it is barely an act of justice to this de-
serving individual to make the circumstance known. It is
at the express desire of his creditors that this communi-
cation is made.—Stirling Journal.
We learn with dismay to what fearful extent the crime
of poaching prevails in this neighbourhood. Latterly the
estites of Sir J. T. Stanley, Bart., at Alderly, and of
Davies Davenport, Esq., at Capesthorne, have been in-
fested by hordes of men, sometimes to the number of
twenty in a gang, who pursue this debased and debts:ng
system of plunder with daring effrontery, setting at de-
fiance the keepers who are appointed to watch the grounds.
Strong measures, we understand, have been adopted to
check these lawless depredators.—Mace/e! field Herald.