The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-09 00:00:00

THE GI? UEKS.

r, te 30.
The Pea is once more covered with the ruins ofCoa
ti...r .OJttGuollll fen.
The shores of the Archipelago resound with the cri.l
Crtiss is victorious !" The brave ('snarls, the hero of Grtect.
tire to the Turkish fleet at 3litylene on the eight of the tita re
2bdi of the present month. The ('apitan Puha, with a small nth.
bee of vessels, auceeeded in escaping, and took refuge in the ii6if
of Sinyri a. This is what we have summarily learnt cf ths grat
event. Greece will be liberred by it.
Arlit,T I.
It was on the 7th of July, three days aftet the affair at limas.
that the squadron of Adinina 3liaulis N'ocos arrived at the
age of that island, where 9,000 Turks were disputing for the Lc,
of the half-destroyed city which they occupied. The Capi...l
Cache had left the vicinity 24 hours before. As en seeing
barum the barbarians uttered fearful cries. ney regarded .
selves as betrayed, and offered 60 resistance, and 2.000 Schrs•
Malionietans, were the only persons who resisted. Thca
were vain. Two Turkish fricstes and ten being set on lin.,
carried terror among the infidels, who threw themselves kin
sea, and on the 19th, in the evening, more than seven daunt!
Adel* had perished. The shore wu covered with ruins, the
stained with blood, and the Greek squadron havieg chased a1i0....
sixty voids, forced forty of them ashore at hoe, when a era!
number of Turks lost their lives and property.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
We have received Sydney Gas, ites to the 16th of ApriL
The new Charter for the more efficient administration c.
justice in the Culony had arrived, with Chief Juntx
Pedder and the .Ittorney-Gt.neral, T. Tice Gillibro,!,
Esq. The Chief Justice was to enter on the duties of ha
office, .ccording to the full powers given him by the niw
charter, on the 10th of May. Captain Wi,tht„, of tL:
Medway (which vessel had been off and on the coasts ut
Peru and Chili for nearly twenty months), aioovezal
the sth of March an island, which from its non•antes:.
ance in any hocks or charts, he very fairly suppoodio it
a new discovery. Its length from east to west a about it)
miles ; but its breadth could not be so accurately ascer-
tained from the want of time for examination. The lona
was high, and it was six hours bcfme it disappeared from
the view. The latitude is 21 dig. 36 min. S., and the
longitude 159 deg. 40. min. west of Greenwich. Its dis-
tance is about one hundred miles west and by north from
Mangeea Island ; and Captain IVight named i: Roxburgh
Island. His Majesty's ship Tees, Captain Coc, waltz.
Nat'l' to sail for New Zealand on the 15th of April. Ste
was to proceed to the assistance of his Majesty's oilenial
brig Elizabeth Henrietta, which had got on slut! on
Goulburn Island, to the south cf New Zealand. it bile
at anchor in I.Jobooka Bay on the night of the 25th of
February, she parted from her chain cable, and lost two
anchors HI a violent gale. It seems that the culture of the
vine iu New South Wales has begun to attract more atten-
tion in that colony, since the Society of Arts awarded we
large silver medal to Mr. Blaxiand for wine, the produc-
tion of New South ‘Valcs.

These papers say that the natives continue th.ir to
chieretts conduct. In itlareh last they des:toyed aat
belonging to a Mrs. Collins, at the Blue and kind
James Doyle, one of her t ock-ket pers. Mr. Dawson. the
commander of the trading vessel Samuel, had broogbt
back with him a black native woman, and a child twoyeut
old. She hail be en taken away from Kangaroo Island b
the American ship ameral Gates, and lett on Soish
Cape of New Zealand with a party of sealers. After they
had been there for some time, a horde of savages came upon
then), and massacred nearly the whole party. The peer
woman, with her little one, took shelter under a rock ted
the New Zealanders had quitted the spot. TLe mother
and child lived for eight months on birds and seal's Beth,
withuut any fire by which to cook their wretched pro*
dons, but were found in good health.

The Pacha of Egypt has given up the contracts m=ade
for transporting troops to Greece.
The name of the wrack whom the 'patriot:put torhath
on the 12th of July, was Bongliago. In 1e24, lie Fre'u-
lated in the spoils of the massacred Sciott a. He swat to
Ipsara to purchase the plunder of the Christiana, with s
band of Jews, who shared his fate.
" Do you know what made my voice n tr,elodion?'
said a celebrated vocal performer, of awkward lam",
to Crades Bannister. " No," replied the otli,r. " Why,
then, tell you : when I was but fifteen, I swalimic,
by accident, wine train oil." " I don't think,' leiathed,..
Bannister, " it would have done you any harm if at eue
same time you had swallowed a dancing master!" ,
The Diaeovery, in which, accompanied by tte Ref."'
don, Captain CAA made his lest voyage, atd which. after
his death, February 11, 1779, at Owyhee, arrived at Sbere.
mess, S. ptemher 1, 1760, is now the convict ship at Wit'
ford. The interior has undergone considerable alteratiect
to adapt it for the purpose, but the hull and esutier
remain, in a state ut perfect souudnen, in their orizical
state.
The temporary iron fence tailing,which wassail to be to
encroachment on the public right of way through theGreea
Park (and respecting which sinister nithives w.re impute,'
to an Illustrious Personage, as if desirous to mgmas the
spot !) has been removed. It now
.presents the advanuctl
of verdure which the ',reinsure was intended to producerm'
stead of the former swampy stateof the place.
The eight officers belonging to the Cavalry Dcrot. at
Maidstone, who star :ed from thence in an open beat fa
row to Calais, arrived there on Thursday, t.e
four rat. after a pull of eight hours from Margate, where
they had slept the preceding tight. They embarked la
the Lord Melville steam-vowel yesterday morning (Men
day, 6th inst.) to returu, not liking, as it would eppear, Ia
retrace their voyage in the frail bark which conveyed
theta—Kentish Gazette.
ibiTClll at CH ElS.—The best-informed diess-piayersta
Loudon speak in a very different ter
ws lately published from the Ediabi
of the games, that in which the ,
move, is decidedly lost by the Scoff
the Edinburgh Club will probably
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