The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY. Avausr 47, HRS.

The French Papers which arrived yesterday are for
the most part filled with long dissertations on the plans
and conduct of the Ministry. The Elulle complains that
the Opposition Journals are endeavouring to alarm the
• tundholders, by circulating false intelligence and warlike
rumours, for the purpose of preventing the rentes from re-
covering themselves. The Etude assures its readers that
the political liaison was never more unclouded than at
.wesent. The re-entrance of the French army into the
Peninsula is said to be wholly a fabrication. The camp..
forming at Bayonne and Perpignan are, according to the
Doi's, merely camps of manoeuvre. No troops, we are
told, have been called together by the Spanish Government,
Lit for the expedition fitting out at Ferrol.
fhe ministerial journals of Paris differ widely in their
observations on the proceedings of the. Irish Catholics.
The E:oilr announces that the New Association is in-
creasing daily in numbers and influence, and comments
with evident delight on the energetic attitude which the
Catholic leaders have assumed with regard to the Govern-
weut. Their speeches are praised, and the most seditious
and inflammatory passages are extracted as the genuine
sentiments of the miss of the Irish population. On the
other hand, the Drgpeau Mune states, that the Catholics
of Ireland have acknowledged the entire failure of the New
Association, which has been dissolved almost before it
existed. It adds the following coinmentary :—" Never did
ar.y political party act with less prudence. The sincere
Cstbelics are compelled to admit the fact, and regret
that their cause was confided to hands so nnskilful."

fhe Drapeas Blase is profuse of its eulogies on the
trailistil submission of the Irish Catholics to the British

Government. It says, " they have shown themselves!
worthy of the faith they profess. Before the law had
decided against them, all the Catholics were prepared to
defend their rights ; but es soon as the words of authority
were spoken, they submitted without a murmur, and the
incendiary addresses of Such. and O'Coarwett. were
received with unequivocal signs of disapprobation."
'!be news from Greece is by no means favourable to the
patriots. laitaiiir is savaging the country without op-
position. The siege of fdissolonghi is pressed so closely
that an express, it was reported, had melted the Greek
Government with the information, that unless that fortress
was promptly relieved it would of necessity fall into the
hands of the enemy. These reports, however, deserve
little attention.

?'he Con:thationnel of Wednesday announces that there
would appear in the Monitear of the following morning,
a very long Ordinance on the administration of the col°.
tiles. This Ordinance, it was added, would be founded
on ancient regulationt, and had been prepared by a Com-
runision cousis:ing of members of the Council of State,
Ministers of State, and Peers.

The MuniLehr of 11'ednesday,liorrever, does not con-1
rain such an Ordinance, or any other official article.
[From the Etoile dated Thursday.]
Sraa, Jut.e 2.
At Napoli di Resoasia a Turk has bean discovered, who had
attired in European oastutrie,
•n, who had conic to assist

the Greeks. He raised troops. Ainong those rezruited there were
thirteen other Turks. They were to spike all the cannon of Napoli
dl Romania, at the approach of Ibrahim 'Paths. His correspon-
dence has bren intercepted. After being put to the torture, and
having made a full confession, the traitor has been burnt alive.

For some days put there have been recruits raised in all the
islands. The mass of the Greeks, fearing treason on the part of the
3lureotes, went to the Mores of their own accord to support the
Government.

Ibrahim has burnt and ravaged all the country about the (Gelman
of Anti.
PAllts, AVO!ICT

The frigate La Ga'chit, commanded by Captain Mai!lard Lis.
court, sailed on the oth from Toulon, haying on board -Sidi lash.
moud, whom it carries back to Tunis.

This Envoy of the Bey had expressed a wish to Kt sail by night,
in miler, he said, •• not to experience the pain of seeing recede from
me the shorts of a kingdom where I have received so many marks
of distinction and kindness, of which I shall Dever lose the remeat.
brance."

The Suabian liferctiry states, that on the arrival of the Capitle
Fiche in the Gulf of Pause, with 36 mil, he invited the Generals,
Juuuf and Redschid Pacha, on booed his ship. The one is be-
sieged at Patna, and the other is besieging Illbsolongla. The ac.
count states that the three Commanders, after a conference which
lasted permit days. determined on a new plan of offensive opera.
tiona against the Greeks. This mount is silent se to the fill ofi
Ilissolooghi, and states that Redachid Pacha was about to besiege
it a second time.
The Eylau, of the line, Raar Adlairal Judea, the Jean Bart, Rear
Admiral Grivel, the Bigot*. Velma, Cleeinde, Nynsphe, Thetnis,
Alagicienne, and Medea, tte corvette Saimaaadle, the brig Cu-
rieux, the schooners Antelope, Hireathale,Foareade, and Topme,
were to sail on the 26th June from the toads of Port Royal, Mar-
tinique to return to Brest, touching at Nev Euglaad ea the way.
The Gam& abeam, is the only Hines ship which remain* In
those sees for the *lnter.
[From the CoustUntiomesl of Wednesday.] ' '
Guava, Ave. 17.
CT Or • PRIVATE LITTER.
The decimation of the canton of Berme against the Jesuits, and
the effect which it has produced in the Diet, have spread convex-
, nation among that pert of the Swiss population, but whatever may
happen, it does not seem disposed to yield without ratiatince-
Thus, at Brig, in the Valhi', the good fathers have surrounded
their convent with a wall, with embrasures, and a kind of bastion
at the four angles. As these works are executed according to all
the rules of art, it is to be presumed that the Children of Loyola
have admitted an engineer among them, and that in case of need,
they intend to defend this passage, one of the most important in
Switzerland.
Fres ICC it FIJ 111)1...-.PAR IS, AVG. 24.—Five per Cents. opened
lilt 441 e. ; Bank Stock, 2183 f. ; Rente de Naples, Certif. Fel-
Meant, SICAlik.; Rant* d'Espagne, 17jt.; Royal Spanish Loan
011 in Mi. Exchange on London :—One month, 23f.; three
maths, 24f. 86c.—Cosrs Authentique.—Five per Cents. 102 f. 40c.;
ditto. for the end of the month, at three o'clock, 102 f. 40c. ; Three
per Cents. 72f. 45c. ; ditto at three o'clock for the end of the month,
721. 50c.—; rant the Etoile, Aug. 24.

The following letter is extracted from the Constitution-
nel. It will be found to contain some interesting
statements respecting the political condition of Portugal,
and the feelings which prevail in the public mind. We
are apprehensive that the ultra party is gradually strength-
ening itself, and only waits for a favourable moment to
execute its designs against the KING, who is really well
disposed, if he had firmness and ability to support and
guide him iu the execution of his wishes. The QUEEN,
is appears, has emerged from the convent in which she
was immured, and is again most unwisely permitted to
hold her court publicly. Thus is the weak Monarch suf-
fering the powerful malcontents, who look up to the
WIEN as their bead, to organise their plans, and fix the
period when they may judge it convenient to unfurl the
standard of rebellion. The conduct of the English govern-
ment appears at Lisbon, as every where else, not to be
satisfactory to either of the parties who are struggling for
mastery. This is necessarily the result of the neutral
position in which England stands with regard to them.
The time has not yet arrived whet the British government
could with propriety depart from the prudent course it has
followed with relation to the political affairs of the Penin-
sub. Our interference et
.present would be productive of
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consequences, the very reverse of those which we desire.

PORTUGAL.
(EETR♦CT FROM ♦ PRIVATE LETTER.

Ltsnox, Atm. 7.

The nephew of Count de Subserra (General Pampelona, Es-
Minister of war), our Ambassador at the Court of Spain, arrived
here a few days ago from Madrid, bearing despatches, the object of
which was again to solicit his recall. It is stated that his request
will be acceded to. This minister, in point of fact, found himself
awkwardly situated in Spain, by the aide of the Portuguese
Princesses, who had shown so strong an inclination to favour the
political views of the Queen of Portugal and the Infant Don
Miguel. We remember that the political conduct pursued by
General Pampelona, while the King was at Rio Janeiro, caused
him to fall into complete disgrace with our Government. But we
know that the fanatical partisans of absolute power will not admit
the subsequent services which that General has rendered to com-
pensate for his former acts. Thus has this General, who was
among the number of those men of the age who were the dupes of
illusive and false political calculations, seen his arrest ordered,
and a price put upon his head, by the Lisbon conspirators of the
30th of April, 1821. Count Subserra at the same time requests
permission, which it is said will also be granted to him, to go and
take the waters at Barrages. It is known that he enjoys the rank
of Lieutenant-General in the French service.

The Queen has obtained permission to leave the convent of Que.
In:, where she has been living in perfect seclusion, and to inhabit
the palace of Ramaillon, where she will be allowed to hold her
Court. Since the publication of the last amnesty it has been ob.
served that the assemblies at the Queen's Court have been very nu-
merous. Thus the traces of the horrible outrage of last year rwe
generously effa:ed, whilst the nation are again in hopes of seeing
the same system of clemency and oblivion adopted in respect to the
occurrences of 18'30.

The striking contradiction which this state of things presents to
the view would appear to amply that there existed a spirit of par-
tiality that would violate the eternal principles of eqvity and of
justice. The lively anxiety that was felt had already broken forth
in murmurs at the silence of the English Minister, whom the
people reproached for neglecting to use his influence for the interest
of thereatintryv-k was welted whoebee Ms. Gassing, after having at.
tained his end with regard to the commercial advamages in favour
of drat Britain, was willing toile reduced to act the -rarbordinste
I part of an imitator—a part which he knew suited only men of indeci.
sive and mediocre taient,in the application of a political theory which,
ceasing to be liberal, would be repelled u selfish and suspected.
Some well.informed persons, however, maintain that the British
Cabinet, after having taken a position in Portugal and secured it.
self in it, would imitate the example of Fabius, and not precipi•.,
tate an abrupt change in the political situation of that country, in
order that it might procure certain advantages of a superior kind,
and leave time for France to adopt at last with regard to Spain a
reasonable system, so as to avoid too offensive a contrast, and
which might become dangerous. Besides this result, which ap-
pears to be at once the interest both of Portugal and Spain, and
elso•of France and of England, most soaner or later be brought
about by the natural course of events.
The English station off the Tagus before our .port has just
been increased by two frigates of 43 guns each.

CITY, FRIDAT GVF.WtNn.

A heavy account was very satisfactorily settled in the
Consols market this morning. At the opening the Eng-
lish Funds had a gloomy appearance, even more so than on
-their closing last night; but at the conclusion of business,
although the alteration was so trifling that it wasocarecly
worth notice, still the market looked rather lighter, or we
should say, perlizpo, that it was not quite so heavy at the
lend of the day asit was anticipated it would be, at the be-
ginning of the day. Consols left (drat 891 e for money,
and for the next account in October 893 j. Exchequer
Bills were as low as 15s, 17s. Money was remarkably

'scarce, which accounts fot the extraordinary fall that. he'
taken place in the premium in these public securities. The
cause for this great scarcity of money is to be found, if not
exclusively, certainly for the most part, in the Bank of I
England narrowing its circulation, to whiCh measure we
know they have been strongly urged ; and although tem-
porary inconvenience may arise from it, yet the wisdom and
ultimate advantages of this course are obvious.
Very little business was doing in the Foreign Market,
and prices were generally on the decline. Greek Scrip
again retrograded without there being any reason for its
so doing beyond what we gave yesterday, if that can be
considered a sufficient one for the panic that struck holders
of it. It was reported to day at 161 16. South American
Securities also experienced considerable languor. Colom-
bian Bonds were as low as Sitj 3,-and Mexican Scrip 41}
discount. Brazilian Scrip remained at yesterday's quo-
tation. Danish Scrip, after being a long time stationary,
has declined to 5,4 j discount. The new Guatemala Scrip,
was at 1, 11 discount. Spanish Bonds were a shade worse
than yesterday. The new at 17 j 4, and the old at 2211 ;
but the present state of Spain must have a tendency to
!keep them, we should imagine. buoyant; because that
country appears to be about to undergo some change in its
Government, and any change must be for the better.
There was scarcely any thing reported in the Share.
Market that deserves notice. Anglo Mexican Shares were
'at 671, 72k, and those of the United Mexican Company,
at 19, 41. The new Potosi Company's Shares declined to
41, and the Anglo Mexican Mint Shares to 21(.
In the Colonial Market the Sales both of Coffee and
Sugar went off heavily. Rum was also under a depression.
There was very little doing in Mark-lane this morning,
and the market rather declined in consequence of the indis-
position in millers to buy even the fine new Wheat that
was brought there.
. The frank and liberal conduct of the Government of the
Netherlands, towards the new states of America, Is be-
ginning to produce the benelkiillfreots which were ex-
pected from it. The commerelat intercourse of the Dutch
*ith these countries increases daily. One of the Brussels
Papers announces that she frigate Maria Riegersberg, and
the brig Pollux, had arrived on the ist of April at Cheril-
los, near Lima. These two vessels on sailing from the
Texel, were bound to Valparaiso.
Extract of a letter dated Constantinople, July 25:
" The Britannia, Neale, that loaded at Enos with provisi-
ons for the Turks in the Mores, has been carried into
Napoli di Romania by the Greeks. and her cargo con-
demned. With respect to carrying cargoes for the Turks,
we have no redress, if they refuse to pay us our freight,
which they universally dispute, even when the voyage has
been successfully performed for them ; and our consul here,
Mr. Cartwright, will at interfere, as he says he has
nothing to do with Turkish transports. The Greeks now
take all vessels laden by the Turkish Government, so that
there is an end to freight* from that quarter.
The regulation against the admission of certain English
papers is rigidly cnforced by the agents of the Police at
the French ports ; but it is a singular fact, that they are
regularly received at Paris, through the Minister of' War,
who supplies them to the different reading-rooms. Thus,
for the sake of a paltry gain, the Government will sell that
poison (for such they call English liberal papers) which
they publicly denounce.—Dablin Plorning Post.
The tribunal of Odensce, in Denmark, recently pro-
nounced a most remarkable sentence against 28 persons,
charged with issuing forged batik-notes : one is condemned
to death, six to have a hand cut off, seven to be sent to the
galleys, and fourteen to imprisonment and fine. It is long
rince any tribunal sentenced a prisoner to have the hand
cut off, except the capital penalty was pronounced.
Professor Hanstein is gone from Christiania to continue
his observations on the magnetism of the earth. A com-
mercial house in Stockholm has lately received a consign-
ment of silver (about 40,000 marks Hamburgh Banco),
which is for the Bank of Stockholm.
The Suabian Mercury contains the following article
The Supreme Criminal Tribunal of the Kingdom of
IVirtemburg recently sentenced fifteen persons to imprison-
ment for terms more or less lung, for having formed a
treasonable plot. Among the conspirators are several Pro-
' testant pastors and professors."
The Consul of the Netherlands at Copenhagen has just
informed the Minister for Foreign Affairs of that country
that the Danish Government, with a view of favouring
the commercial entrepot of. Copenhagen, has just agreed
upon a new tariff of transit duty, founded on the principle
that it should never exceed one per cent. on the value of
• of the merchandise, and when there are a great many
articles, that it should even be modified to two-thirds and
one-third.

The Paris horse-races for the present year will take place
[as follows, viz.: For the arrondissement prizes, four in
' number, 1200 f. each, Sunday next (the 28th inst.) The
[ principal prize, 20001. on Tuesday next. The two Royal
prizes of 6000 f. and 5000 f. Sunday, September 4. The
I(ing's prize of 6000 f., and the Dauphin's prize of 3000 f.,
Thursday, September 8.
The Governor of the state of Rhode Island has a salary
of only 400 dollars a-year, and the Lieutenant-Governor
receives only 200 dollars.
CONVF.Y•NCE Is BRITAIN.—The rapidity with which
intelligence and passengers are conveyed, and communi-
cations accelerated, in this country, has become very re-
markable. Thus, from our present mail arrangements,
the papers and letters which left London last Saturday
evening, at 8 r. N. reached this city at a quarter pas 5 r. at.
last night, or in 451 hours. After a stoppage of five hours
here, during which the public news are printed, and the
private communications answered, if necessary, these leave
this at half-past ten last night, reach Edinburgh about
four this morning, stop there fot;r hours (till 8 A. H.) and
then proceed to London, which they reach before 6 A. at.
on Thursday morning, returning to the metropolis in four
days and ten hours. The distance run is 838 miles in 103 k
hours, including the time necessary for ordinary stoppages,
for refreshments, giving out and taking in mails, and also
nine hours of extra stoppages, for the purpose of commer-
cial business and other matters. The rate at which the
above distance is run, is little under nine miles an hour,
including all the ordinary stoppages; but exclusive of
these, at the rate of 91 miles per hour.—Glasgote Courier.
A duty of 3d. a pound is now payable on all stone-blue
[ imported from Ireland to Great Britain, and a like draw-
' back on stone-blue sent from Great Britain to Ireland.

There are at present not less than twenty-eight coaches
which pass and repass between Leeds and Bradford. Most
of them are well loaded, some of them excessively so. This
affords a pretty strong proof of the intercourse (most of it
commercial) which takes place between these towns.—
Leeds Intelligenecr.
The young men employed in shops in this town are de-
,airmts of bringing their employers te,consent to an abridge-
ment of the hours of attendance upon custom in the even-
ings. Those young men employed in drapers' shops have
presented a respectful memorial and remonstrance to their
employers upon the subject, and we understand there is a
good hope that this reasonable request will be granted by
the master shopkeepers.—Liverpool Advertiser.
A few days since Messrs. Ransom and Co., bankers, of
Pall-mall East, enclosed country notes to the amount of
between one and two hundred pounds, for the purpose of
heir being returned to the Taunton Bank; but, from some
accidental cause not as yet known, they did not reach their
intended destination in the regular way of business, and
upon an inquiry being made, it was discovered that the
person or persons who obtained possession of them lost no
time in applying for their value at the Bank at Taunton ;
diligent search has been made in order to obtain some clue
to the delinquents, but hitherto svithout success.
A few slays since the workmen who are excavating the
'new canal, near Clonfort, in the.ooanty of Galway, disco-
vered in the large bog a wooden road, about six feet wide,
formed on large piles of timber, and running in the direc-
tion of the Shannon. It lies about four feet under the
present surface of eke bog ; the length of it is not exactly
ascertained, only about a mile of it having as yet been
opened. The workmanship appeals to be of .the rudest
description.
The storm of Saturday and Sunday week has done great
damage to the new Breakwater forming at Whitetreven.
Stones weighing five touts, have been pitched from their
positions to the distance of twenty or thirty feet, and the
whole of the works above water so much injured that only
three tiers of stones have been left out of seven. The
serge was so strong that it lieu ovey.bc. north and smith
walls, and the spray et thugs to** higher than the extreme
point 0' the lighthouse.

•
Milt: RUFUS X INC.
The following potirait of Mr. Rufus King, the present
Minister of the United State* at the British Court, is ex-
traeted from an American Paper:—
" The-political career of this gentleman has been remarkable.
With talents of the first order, he has not been generally a fa-
vourite with the people. It must be admitted that he never courted
them with much assiduity, and certainly never flattered them for
the purpose of procuring their suffrages. Ile seems to have rested
his claim to preferment on his known public services and the high
degree of intellectual tapscity which he possessed, and which he
had shown enniany occasions. He would unquestionably have risen
to more 'important stations had it not been for the spirit of party.
Whilst Minister at London, he objected to the transportation of
certain individuals to the United States who had rendered them-
selves offensive to the British Authorities ; ands this, in the estima-
tion of clamorous partisans, was sufficient to tamp him with the
reputation of a Royalist, or at least with that of an aristocrat. But
there is no act of Mr. King's public life which denotes in him an
aristocratical disposition, or that can be construed into a com-
plexion of hostility to free political institutions. He felt the force
of a strong mind, and disdaiued to seek for applause through the
ordinary avenues of ambition. Of this his opponents have always
taken advantage, and represented him as haughty and supercilious.
Mr. King undoubtedly belonged to the Federal party; but he did
not sanction all their measures. Like moat men of intelligence
and reflection, he had formed determinate ideas of what Govern-
ment ought to be, and he adhered to them, careless whom they
pleased or offended. A character like this is seldom completely
triumphant in his own day. Posterity, however, will not fail to
do him justice; and during his existence there will always be a
portion of well-informed individuals who will esteem and fear-
lessly support him. Within a limited circle, Rufus King has
exercised great influence. He has had the unhappiness, in com-
mon with a number of other eminent men, to have his mo-
tives and his actions misrepresented by those who either did
not comprehend them, or would not describe them fairly.
Among the other evils of party, it is not the least, that when
once a foul name is established for an opponent, all who ate in-
eluded in the denunciation are depicted with the same pernicious '
intentions. No discrimination is made, and one dark shade of
calumny is made to cover alike the wise, the weak, and the mis-
chievous.
Mr. King Is familiar with revolutionary times; served In the'
old Congress ; was Minister to Great Britain under the Presi-
dencies of Washington and Adams; has been a distinguished
Bum or of the United States ; and is at present the successor of
Mr. Rash at the Court of St. James. He has a cool and clear
head, ant Is not to be put off his guard. He has an absolute
command and his passions ; is intimaoly acquainted with,
the reaml reamers and nterco* of his tountry, and particularly i
with those of a commercial nature. He is proftundly vented
in ancient and modern history, and is extensively conversant with
polite literature. His knowledge of our constitution and laws, and'
of the principles on which they are founded, is exceeded by Vet ofl
no citizen whatever. He has the faculty of readily common citing
what he knows ; and is brief, luminous, and logical with his pen
and in the Senate. His manner as an orator is prepossessing, re.
spectful, and persuasive. His wit is attic ; and, if the occtsion
should require it, he can be sharply satirical and keenly sarcastic.
His enemies have been altogether political. It is believed that he'
has none of • personal description. His probity has never been
impeached—his morals are pure—his temper frank ; and of patriot-
ism he gave a shining example by sustaining the national govern-
ment, contrary to the wishes of his party, during the Late war with
Great Britain."

FASHIONABLE I N7'ELLICENCE.
The Duke of St. Albans left town yesterday for Si, Gilbert
East's seat, Hall.place, Berks.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwick left Hastings, Sussex,
yesterday. for Brighton.
Viscount Dungannon has arrived at his seat, Brynkinalt, Den-
bighshire, from a tour.
Lord Frederick liceauclerk left town yesterday for his seat in
Herts.
The Earl of Buckinghamshire has arrived at Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street, from a tour.
The Hon. John Coventry, and the two Misses Coventry, have
left ditto for their seat, Burgate House, Hants.
Sir Colin and Lady Campbell and •family arrived yesterday
at Gould's Hotel, .lermyn.street, from the Isle of,Wight.
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere and family have arrived at
the London Hotel, Albemarle street, from Scotland.
Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Mr. and
Mrs. Stirling, for Scotland ; Captain Clayton, for Essex ; and Mr.
and Mrs. Christie and family, for their seat, in Surrey.
Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—The Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Noel, from the Continent ; Blr. Morris and
son, from Paris. W. H. Unwin, Esq has left ditto, for Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. Carleton left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond.street,
yesterday, for their seat in Northamptonshire.
Robert Price, Esq. M.P., and Mrs. Price, left the Burlington
Hotel, yesterday, for their seat in Herefordshire.
Departures from Read's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Lady and
Miss Fitzgerald, for Bath ; Wm. Hinde, Esq., for Paris; and J.
Scott, Esq , on a tour.

hoes -there five months. and rho, attired
youcC I've • distinguished Philhelludats