The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-27 00:00:00

BAYONNE NEWS.

We yesterday received the following from Bayonne:—
BAYONNE,APIIIIL 17.

By our accounts from Madrid of the 12th, we' learn that the
Military Commission sits permanently. It tries, or rather it con-
demns, all that are declared and influential partisans of the Gonad-
tut ienal cause.
The French Garde% du Corps complain much of having been
obliged to leave Madrid to follow the Court, which is in fact Ivry
General Bourinont. devoted to the clergy. is using his in.
flurnee to get lion Vit for Slier restored to the Ministry. There
is still a want of harmony between the General and the Ambits-
. . .

A Decree of the King orders works to be undertaken for the pur.
pose of bringing water to Madrid, which, in the summer, is ex-
tremely scarce. A title and patents of Nobility are promised to
him woo will undertake the work. Foreigners may partake in li,
and will enjoy great privileges. The King has nominated three
Bishops and two Archbishops.
The Mario eontains a long article against several passages of a
libel, said to have conic front England, which attacks the system
that it scents intended to hillow in Spain. The Spanish writer says,
on the contrary, that no happiness can be hoped for, except under
an absolute Govetantent, /sc.
All the Ambassador go to Toledo, except the English Ambas.
sador, who dues not god an hotel to suit him, and will not leave
Madrid.
The King will remain at Aranjuez till the illth, and return to
Aranjuez before he goes to the baths of Sacednn. On the I I th, •
train of forty mules. loaded with money, arrived at Madrid. Under
the Constitutional Government, the corps of Advocates had pre.
sented a petition, in which it requested that the statutes of the
order might be regulated in conformity with the new laws. Pro-
ceedings are now instituted against several of those who signed this
petition, and it is reported that they will he banished. All kinds
of persecution continue ; those who held offices under the late Go.
veroment are daily in danger of being put into prison, or exiled
from the capital.
The Marquis of !ilatallorida is here with his two sons: he is
going to his embassy or exile at Turin. The Spanish prisoners
continue to pass through here; they are very miserable, and fear
the moment when they shall reach their own country.

Papers and letters were yesterday received from Deme-
rara to the ith ultimo. Their contents are of the most
gloomy description ; the inhabitants had been greatly
alarmed by nightly meetings of the negroes on the East
coast, where the late insurrection had broken out. There
had been rmetings of the principal inhabitants, who had
come to a resolution to expel all Missionaries from the
Colonies.

Letters were vestertlay received from Gibraltar, dated
the sth instant. 4 No intelligence had been received from
Algiers. The British men of war continued to convoy
merchantmen bound up the Mediterranean. The Bran-
atoll, of London, has arrived at Gibraltar, from Trinidad ;
she had been plundered, OW Porto Rico, by an Independent
privateer.
Accounts from Batavia of the end of December, state,
that the English merehant Thornton, who had been taken
by the Malays, was daily looked for. The Nautilus Dutch
' sloop of war had been detained to bring him to Batavia.
A letter front Smyrna, dated March 5, announces fresh
atrocities on the part of the Turks. " The villa of Fed-
i heti," it says, " has just been the theatre of a sanguinary
1 eatastrupbe. Eiehty-tour (;reeks have been massacred at
I that place. A Turk, returning from his cheflit, fell from
his horse, and was wounded by his datjger, which came
out of its sheath. Ile was carried to Follieri's house,
where the people followed him, asking by whom he had
beta wounded ? Ile answered, that it was by himself, in
congequenee of a fall from his horse. • No,' cried the
multitude, • the Greeks did it.' In vain did he assure them
to the contrary; the people, excited by ill-disposed per-
' sons, attacked all the Greeks whom they met in the streets
urn the 11th and Itth of February, and massacred eighty-
four. Tranquillity was partially restored on the 19th."
A s Extract of a letter, dated April 13:—" The
country round the warlike city of Algiers is very moun-
tainous, having snow out the tops and sides in the higher
regions; but the hills and valleys arc beautifully orna-
mnted with trees, and all the fiats are in high cultiva-
tion. The city F lands on the point of the Mole Head ;
the buildings are chiefly of white stone, angular shaped ;
there are latteries, with heavy brass guns, all round to-
wards the sea, and a light-house nearly as high as the
Monument in London, with an immense luminary on its
summit ; a half-moon battery of IYO guns protects the
entrance into the Mole. In the inner Mole or harbour we
can distinctly see the mast. of several frigates and small
cruisers. Soon after we anchored in the bay, the Captain
I of the port came on board ; he is a tine manly-looking per-
sonage, with a long bushy grey heard, an immensely long
red turban,l long red trowsers or wrappers and a blue coat or
jacket richly embroidered with gold braiding on the 3110 -
. den, back, elbows, and writts ; he wore no stockings, his
t slippers were of thin bite leather, without strings or
• buckles. The Dey still peruses to allow the English Consul
to have his flag flying within the walls of Algiers.