The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-09 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

The Times can write no snide oa the subject of Mr.
FAUNTLEROY without betraying the cloven foot, and thus
daily fixing upon itself more strongly the suspicion of
being the well-paid vehicle of that mass of atrocious ca-
lumny with which its pages have disgusted the public. In
a paragraph which appeared in its columns of yesterday, in
an article. entitled " CONVICTS UNDER SENTEN cc or
DEATH," it is stated that
" Mr. Facreritaur has not the most distant hope oft
pardon or commutation of punishment, and was by no means
instrumental in transmitting a memorial to his Majesty,
praying for merry. If is friends have, however, di awn up a
paper to that effect, and given it in to the Secretary of State.
In fact they did so, without his knowledge, in order that
nobody should have it in his /.veer to say that any thing that
could be :lone was lift undone."
These malignant assertions are not made without an ob-
ject, and a very base and insidious one. Neither the writer
of this paragraph, nor the Times journalist, can at all
know, and consequently cannot be at all authorised to
affirm of Mr. FACINTLEROI, that " he has not the most
distant hope of pardon or commutation of punishment
but the insinuation artfully meant to be conveyed is, that
lie is so conscious that he deserves to suffer the sentence of
deatit, that he has, thcrifore, not the most distra.t hope that
it will be commuted for any otEr punishment ; that he
feels himself so un4r,ri.4 of mercy, that he would Lot be
instrumental to the application which has been made to his
MAJESTY to obtain it. This is the impression on the pub-
lic mind, which is meant, indirectly, to be produced, and
it is of a piece with all the deep malevolence that has gone
before it. That his friends have originated the memorial
to his MAJESTY without the knowledge of Mr. FAUPIT
trans. himself, is :.ot true ; the object of the writer is to
have it believed that his friends have int.:Trend in
his behalf, not with the least hope or expectation of
success, but merely that no one should have it in
their power to accuse then: of nm glect, or, to use the
words which are here put into their mouth, " to say that
any thing Ad could be done was lift urdi,ni." His in this
trivial light that the 'Tunes is desirous to represent the
sleepless anxiety of every i:idividnal to whom Mr. HENRY
FAENTLEIWY is known, to save a life passed,—with the
exception of the offence which has forfeit'al it, with
honour ni;.taincil, and an integny uhimpeaLled.
The assassin-like efforts that have been wade by Cie
Times to destroy the character of Mr. FAUNTLESOY, and
time terror that is manifested is a certain quarter, lest his
life should be spared, bespeak a dread of that counter-proof,
which, if he liars, may. and no di/liht will, be adduced
against them, and a disclosure of facts which his death
would hary with hips. Hence the source of that unprece-
dented fury with which his moral character bas been
assailed—hence the source of those obdurate entreaties
which besought him to plead gviky, and thus to trepan
him into resigning himself, wilkoat al.:pace, to Ida fate,
that !hey might escape the discoveries to which that el -
fence might lead, mid from which tliscovsry they know
and feel that it is only by his death they can escitio.. We
do not write this lightly. IF Mr. FacNTI.EftOY lives, we
feel assured Ulu an interval of sir weeks will verify what
, we have said to the very letter.

As there is still no intelligence from any part of the
world, no business is doing on the Stock Exchange. All
the funds, more especially the South Atr.trican, area :lade
lower than en Saturday. A rumour that the negcciations
had been broken off between the Courts of Lisbon and Rio
Janeiro, had the cam of depressing the Brazilian Scrip in
rather a greater proportion than she others. Little or no-
thing has been dune in the Consol ma: ket.
Letters were yesterday received in the City from Hydro,
dated 21st Sept. (2d Oct.) which completely confirm the
accounts of the repeated surceases of the Greek fleets over
the Turkirh and Egyptian expAitions. These letters men-
tion the arrival at Ilydra of the Commander-in-Chief of
the Turkish expedition, lamed Gibraltar, as a prisoner,
and also that, in the last battle, the Greeks captured three
frigates and two brigs : one of the frigates was a Tunisian,
the Captain and crew of which, together with an Egyptian
Colonel and a great many troops, have been taken priaeners
to Hydra. By the same conveyance letters were also re-
ceived from Napoli di Romania, the seat of the Gre.lt go-
vernment, dated the 6th (17th) Sept. which state, that from
all quarters advices were arriving of the naval and military
victories of the theeks. The Turks were at Boudrouni,
where they were harassed on every side by the Greeks.
Lord Strangford embarkel at Constantinople, fur Trieste,
on the Bth of October.

Letters from Bayonne, of the 31st ult. state, that a ge..
rious affair took piece, a few days previously, at Foetal
del Reyna, a town about 'three leagues from Pampeluna,
between the Royalists and the Constitutionalists, in which
upwards of forty per,ons of bath sexes were killed and
wounded. Similar afhi'rs have take: place in Estra-
madura, and iu the Sierra Morena there are said to be
more than six hundred well-atilaCi Constitutionalists.
Great activity is displayed in the dock-yard at Bayonne,
in building vessels of war, brigs, schooners, and corvettes;
eight are now upon the stocks. A letter from Madrid
states that great eaulne.s bed arisen between the King a:nl
M. Z:a Bermudez, in consequence of the latter enforcing,
with more zeal than discretion, the claims made upon the
Spanish Government by the French Ambassador.
A letter, to which we will not ripply the poper epithet,
was published yess.rday in a teeming paper, purp,,rting to
be written by the son of the unfortunate Mr. Fauntleroy.
'the editor, whose weakness has been of,en " pinycd upon •
by similar iniroduceil this witless, wretched, and
palpable fraud,with the same aolemniti s and outward sins
of authenticity with which he, on state occasions, saute
forth his most lumillOUr tVaVs on the causs of suicide, ar.l
the art of "getting on the world." It is droll enouh
that in the very column antecedent to that containing this
stupid hoax, the srgacious editor inserted a ceinradietion,
sent by a lady in time country, whose name had been used
in a like unwarrantable manner, and in so doing he made
the following profound reelections, which he ap:;ears, how-
ever, wholly to have forgotten the next niomeat. We
copy them exactly es we had them, with the italicised
woggle of the write: :

" The letter appears to have been en it.e.atiJent forgery. It Is
singular that in this esiighte.tAl cm .try, there ithotill tie people
silly enough to be ut the pains of writing long letters to elective
the public through the medium of the newspapers. The pen
who did this meet have been of a ittaligitatit disTro%ition, or he
never could have ben so unfeeling and so unoliant as to use
the (MAI of a respeo•tbie female en the iie-..asion."