The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-18 00:00:00

F.4SHYONAILR I NrstArGEl4 CF.

The Puke and Ditcher* of Portland have arrived at their seat,
ilterk, Nona, front scotlaiol.

The Earl and Coutiteas of Surrey have kft their seat, Wmlea.
Manors, Non,. for Trentham Hall, Stalhirdshire, on a visit to the
Marquis and 3larchioness of Stafford.
The Hoke of Wellington has arrived in town from the Marquis
of Saledoiry's scat, Hatfield.
Earl Mullin' has left town for the Dowager Countess of Har-
eourt's scat. Nianeham, Oxfordshire.
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Lord and 11,ntly Carrington, and family, left town on Saturday
for their srat, Wycombe Abbey, !lurks.
Lord Melbourne left town, oil Saturday, fur Earl Cowper's scat,
Pansenger, Hems.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb have arrived at Mel.
bourne Hall, Ilerbyshire, from a tour.
Lord Nugent has left town for Il'orthing.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James s.street :—T. Hamilton,
q., from Constantinople; Capt. and Mrs. lloubiggin, from Scot.
laud ; and Sir Win. Mohan', from a tour.
Captain Leslie has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place,
from his seat, Royston Castle, Salop.
Mr. and Miss Corbett have left the St. George's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, far their seat in Lineolshire.
Count and Countess Osgarollsky arrived in town yesterday, from
the Marquis of S.ilisbury's seat, Hatfield.
Major and Mrs. Hawkins have left town for Brighton.
Arrivals at Long's Hotel, Bund.street Thiwoughwell,
front Paris; Thomas Best, Esq. from Paris • and Sir W. Fletcher,
from Brightod. lleparturts James Ilolywell, fur Chelten-
ham • and Mr. aid Mrs. Content, and family, for Bath.
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Arrivals at lilailong'o. Hotel, I ixford-tureet William Ger.
rard, Bart. and ..Ir. Gerrsrd, from a tour; and Mrs. Pickering,
from I kfordnhire. Illeparturen :—Lady Broughton and Al is., l'ur.
rue, for the Continent Sir George Prescott, Bart. for Brightm;
Braninton, E. for Esnex ; Lady Rayleigh. Colonel and the
Minium Strntt, fur Essex ; John Irian, Eng. far Vienna ; Count de
Bourbel, for Heading; 11. Sharpe, Kul. for IVorcesternhire.
Beportures from Blake's Hotel, Jerntyn•atrret:—Tlte Earl of
Goithird, for Sutfulk ; Cilwatd Knight, E•y. John Knight, En',
and Mins Knight. toy Ilanta.
Arrival. at the Union Hotel, Cocktintar-street:—J. Wondgate,
Esq. tom Brighton; Lieutenant %'intiteleur, limn Woolwich;
Colonel Thomas, trona ditto; and Admiral Riker and tinnily, Bout
a tour.

Yesterday morning about ten &dock His Royal High-
ness the Duke of York left town for Newmarket.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at
Cassel on the sth inst.

The Duke and Duchctt of Somerset, are amongst the
latest arrivals at Bath.

The I)uke of Meiningcn arrived in town yesterday
morning, about ten o'clock. Shortly after his Serene High-
DVSs left town to proceed to Dover, where he will embark
on his way to Memingen.
We understand that despatches from the Mexican Go-
vernmetn to their envoy in this country, were brought
by the Cortes.
Mi.xico.—An American Paper, of Sept. 3, published
at Richmond, in Virginia, says, " We have noticed by a
letter from Tampico, dated Mav 10, that in consequence
of the absence of &minister of the United States at Mexico,
our public concerns are suffering in that quarter, and that
the British Government, by the appointment of a Charge
d'Affaires, are obtaining certain benefits for her manufactur-
ing community."
A private letter dated Leghorn, the Ist inst. states, that
a vessel had arrived there from Alexandria, the captain of
which gave the intelligence that the Greek fleet had attack-
ed the Egyptian fleet, and totally defeated it.
Private letters, which we have received this morning by
express, from Paris, state, that a Spanish Loan has been
contracted for, to the amount of 21)0,000,000 of fiance
(8,000,000/. sterling) by different banking-houses in that
capital, of the first respectability. The loan is contracted
to be sold by commission, but the Cortes Bonds are not at
all mentioned, nor are they to be taken in payment. Two-
thirds of Guebhard's Loan are negociated ; but the re-
maining third will not be put into circulation.—Courier of
Sinuraloy.
Extract of a private letter, dated Madrid, October Y :
" The arrest of the former Minister of Finance, M. Erro,
is certain. Ills papers have been sent to Madrid by an
active courier. The following are some details respecting
this arrest, which has caused great surprise. M. Eno has
been three days at Valladolid when a Colonel, furnished
with the order of the Captain-General, presented himself
to him, and ordered him to the College of Santa Cruz, the
place appointed for his detention. The officer also de-
manded all his papers. M. Erro obeyed immediately. We
are assured that these papers contain nothing relative to
political affairs, nor even to the public administration.—
Nevertheless, they persist in saying that M. Erro was im-
plicated in the affair of the late Minister of War, Cruz.
It appear* certain that the order for the arrest has not
come from any Minister, but from the Cabinet of the King.
M. Etro formed part of the Junta established at Oyarzum
by the Duke d Angouleme. In 1823, under the Re-
gency, lie was Minister of Finance."
It is calculated that more than one-half of the Clergy-
men of England are unable, from their slender incomes,
to lay by a provision for an orphan family.
Vt e hear that Mr. Stephenson (a London Banker) will
be introduced to the Electors of Petersfield, in interests
atlverre to those of 11. Joint'''. Esq., at a public dinner on
Monday se'nnight, for the purpose of avowing his intention
of offering himself as a rinesentative of that borough, at
the next election.—!lonepshire Puler.
We have not yet received anv advice, of the arrival of
the Nestor at Liverpool, from New York, with the ex-
pected American papers, eight days later than those which
came by the Cortes. Great anxiety prevailed all yesterday
respecting this vessel, as it is supposed that the will bring
intelligence of considerable importance from Mexico and
South America. _ _

General Santander, Vice-President of the Colombian
Republic, has ordered that 10,000 dollars belonging to the
tunas of suppressed Convents in Ovine, be applied to
Lancasterian schools. and the Provincial College in Magda-
lena ; and 9,000 dollars, from similar funds, for similar
purposes, in the city of Valle-Dupar.
We (the Liverpool Mercury of Friday) have been kind-
ly favoured by a commercial gentleman of this town with
the following important extract of a letter, dated Smyrna,
Yet of S.ptembt r, being a duplicate despatched by the way
of Toulon by a French ship of war, transmitted from Mar-
seilles, and received here yesterday, prior to the arrival of
the Turkey mail of the same date, now due. The intelli-
gence which it conveys relative to the defection of the
Turkish troops on learning the fate of their countrymen
at Samos is curious; and no doubt can be entertained of
the extent of the panic stated to be excited am cmgst them, '
the writer of time letter being, himself, we are assured,
hostile to the Greek cause ;—" The Turks have been panic-
struck by the Greeks having blunt a frigate, brig, and cor.
vctte, by their fire-ships. The greater part of the army
immediately disbanded, and the fleet is said to have left the
vicinity of Saint's. Such proceedings are quite wonderful.
There is yet no improvement in business ; hotted cause ex- '
ists for it to be even more dull than hitherto, in conse-
quence of a rrreat portion of the hundred thousand men as-
sembled at Scala Nuova, having disbanded to return home. '
The roads are covered with them in every thrertion, and
they plunder every thing they meet. Even the Turkish
Ambassador from the Porte to the Viceroy of Egypt hiss
not been respected, having been robbed of every thing he
possessed—even his clothes."
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His Majesty's yacht Herald. Captain Henry J. Lecke,
is ordered to be completed to a blimp of war's coinplemet.t
of the first class, as a permanent rstablismcnt. She will
sail in about a fortnight for the West Indies, taking out
the Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, Bishop of Jamaica, and the Rev.
Dr. Coleridge, Bishop of Barbadoes, with several other
l'lerwnu•n attached to their respective Sets. The Bishop
of Birhadoes will embark at Plymouth.

Accounts were received by the family of Mr. Abel
Aubrey, at Kensington. on Sstunlay, that that gentleman
was killed in a duel with a Captain France, on Tuesday
last, about four miles from Rotten, by the canal side. a
ball having entered his right side, and bulged in the body ;
front the etF•cts of which he survived but a few hours.
The ptarrel originated at a ball-room.
Yesterday se'nnight, Dr. Chalmers preached at Stock-
port to a very numerous and opulent clam:legation, on be-
half of the Sunday School in that place, when the atlmi-
riots feed to the chapel, and the collection alter the sermon,
amounted to the extraordinary aunt of 395/.
It is stated in Gulignanis Messenger of Friday, thy. a
rumour that a great quantity of Three per Cent. Stock
would he issued, to indemnify the ernigrtnts, had pro-
duced little ett'ect on the Funds, which had recovered their
former vices.