The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-07 00:00:00

TRIAL BY JURY.

On Tuesday the 23ih soniversary of the Triumph of Trial
by Jury, is the acquittal of Thos. Hardy, Job. Horne Tooke,
Jobs TIDO/wall, and Jobs lisitlev, of a clams of constructive
high tenses, was celebrated by a dosser at the Crows mid
Anchor T ,to which between 200 aid 300 persons sat
down. Mr. Woolev baying been called to the Chair, as soon
as the cloth was removed, he proposed " The Majesty of the
People," which was &sok with three times three.
la proposing the health of Lord Erskine, Mr. Wear
read the following letter, received by the Chairman of the
Contsmittve, in consequence of a &putative baring welted
opus his Lordship:

" Sin—l beg the• favour that you will expiate to Mr.
IHSCreery and ge.Gardaer. t►e cause of my being prey. oird
from she piewassee of receiving Owen, with yourself, oa Wed-
nesday last; mad yew will further oblige me by expressiag
to your worthy friends, whew assembled gm the Sth Nevem-
be4 that !IWO my see baying It io my power to meet
them; hot Ittst, it they *else it, I wfll sot Rill to ho present
'whist iheyvAmmemble time sent year.
" When all corcantstaaces are duly cossislered, so public
treat can, in my opinion, better deserve to be hold is perpe-
tual returns,' 44444 amongst us than the acqinsml of Thomas
Hardy in 1:94 from the usfoatided charge of constructive
high treason. A great portion of the ordinary period of he-
asap life has since passed away. and a very abort time busked
ran now remain to me; bus I am sore that even in my dying
hoar I shall eall to mind she august spectacle of London on
that day; which proved at once she urn Cumulation of oar
lives and liberties whilst the nisi by Jury shall continue,
sad the worthiness of theme who knew how to valve each a
blessing.—l have the honour to be.
" Sir, your faiihral humble Servant.
(Sullied) " ERSK IN E.

" Buchan Hill, November 1, 1828.
" P. 8.-1 have ever since the trial kept up my argisaintseee
with Mr. Hardy, sad believe hint to he a worthy and inno-
eent.miaded man, inc,prble of meditating the destroetioa
of the British Giastitatrun."

Th. meld toast was—

4 The memory of Muir, Palmer, Margaret, Gerald, and
Shirring, victims to the arbitrary renteoces of • Scotch Curti
is the year 1791."

Tii irrhirlt followed—
" The Immortal Memory of Thomas Paine, sod the other
Furaniers of American Indrpendratee."
" The Liberty of the Ponta."
" The unly Remedy fur our National Grievasseriu—a Ra-
dical Mum to the Common. House of Parliament."

" The Memory of the Lumina Correepundinic &wimy, and
may its motto, ' Unite, Persevere. and be Free,' be adopted
as the watchword of all Real Reformers."

Upon giviss which, the CHAIRMAN said, that if the
experiment had its some eases failed, it skewed what in some
eases the public could do. When we now looked upon the
cultivated pining of reform at the present lime, is was •
proof how meritorious bed been the dotage of that tioeiety,
which had laboured in the Lutes waste. There should be
no disunioo among the Reformers. They ought first to con-
sider that they bait Ow:r enemies to destroy before they began
to dispute among themselves.
hlr. GALLOWAY now, after an eulogions apes the
Weals sad eouduct of Mr. Wetter, proposed his health.
Mr. WOOLER returned literate. He thought the praise
leo much. He was, however, holism in the enure; sad
though he never intended to tome forward in his uwu per.
sun, he wished well to the mei% If patriotism was sot
foraii.d upon, priartple—principle which put an end to the
disputes of patriots—it was insworthr of the mime. The
friends of corruption abm.ed one another. and even fought
duels on account of their private quarrels:, and why should
not the friends of Reform do the same? The fanners, who
had at one time been the must comfortable people in the coma.
tr*, were mow is a very bed eosidition, and it did not
appear that my Lord Liverpool was any wecommen f
lie of Heaven, as he had sot been, with all his .power,
able to procure for them oue bad season. He thought that
the doctrine of Sls:thus and his abettors ought to be 'cooled,
and that the New ?derriere AN was • well devised means of
inducing the people to marry aid' have families, whether
themselves were naturally so dipmed or sot.
Mr. ST kV ENS, after a few words of ietrodection, gave—
" All our Patriotic Brethren, who are, or have been, ismer.
cerated for their endeavours to restore freedom to mankind."
%'s hick was followed by—
_ .

• Sir Francis Borden, with Ulnas for bis exertions to ob-
tain justice foe military outrage ; and may the authors Roil
abettors of the Manchester • • • • yet receive • • •
" The Constitutional Governments of Spain and Portugal,
and may the traitorous esdeswoors of the despots of the
Holy Alliance to forneat rebellion against t►em cause shelf
owa oppressed subjects to assume their proper station."
• The People of Greece and Italy, and the cassis of Li-
berty all out the world."
" Lord Orcbraue sad the rest of our gallant countrymen
who are Soling is freedom% came."
• Friuli ire Christlsaity—a deerieblog Gera, sada lithe.
lees Clergy."
After diet the compete, separated eta reguler.beer.

Dating piracies occur daily at no great distance
from our Wand, and some of the ports are e'en
blackeded by the piratic'sl entire._
iciitariii...avitrar St.
0* Monday sfieetroon,sballt lire o'clock, a small
pilot boat schooner. with Spouiits colons.. having
gun amidships, and full of men, gave chase to the
Spanish schooner Amens Pelicans, which had molest
from Port Hopil that morning, for St.Jago de Cuba,
and fired several shots at her, upon *hick the mus-
ter of the Areas Pelicans ran her on shore at Har-
bour Head, which was distinctly seen front this
City. The Pirate pursued her lull within half a
mile of the beech, when she put about and stood
to the southward. The Nueva Pelicana, it is
supposed, will be lost, her keel being knocked
off, mud she is bilged. It is feared that part of her
cargo will be damaged. We understand that the
above privateer was spoken with a few days before
in Cow Bay, by the pilot bait beleogiag to the
Commercial Rooms. On Monday the Petty was
chased about fifty miles from the land by a pries-
teer 'schooner, which fired twice at her; when.
carrying away some of her masts, she gave up the
chase. A Dutch sloop from St. Jato de Cuba,
bound to Curacoa, has been taken off the Moro by
ten men in au open long boat, and plundered.
LUCIA (JAMAICA), AUGUST 29.

The schooner Lucia, of this port, on her way
from Savannah Is Mar, when about • mile and •
half to the westward of St. John's rein., fell in with
a long low schooner, with about 40 or 50 men,
armed with cutlasses : on observing the Lucia. she
bore down and hailed her, but finding she had troop.
on board, immediately tacked.

LUCIA. MUNI= 3.

There hes been a pirate 'chooser blockading this
port for these ten &By' past. and bay her station be-
tween Negri and Montego Bay. A Spunish yes-
eel. with geode, has been detained here that five
days fearful of going out.

NAIIIII7. ♦uau.T 31.

The schooner Eliza, Bartlett. belonging to this
port, sailed from hence on the 13th instant fur
Cuba, and on the north side was captured by a
piratical vessel, which c.srried her into a creek,
sod the owner of the carp am obliged to pay seve-
ral thousaud dollars as a raneetts.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

NEW YORK, OCTOBER 13.

In pursuance of the recommendation of the city
authority, yesterday was observed in this city as a
day of humiliation and prayer. The churches of
dilfereot denominations of Christians, except those
which have been necessarily closed for some weeks
past in consequence of the prevalence of the fever,
were opened, and religious services attended. The
occasion was peculiarly solemn and interesting. The
long continuance of destructive disease, •the alarm
created by it, the ar cessity for so large a number of
the inhabitants to leave their limps and occupa-
tions, and to sub to all the inconveoienc.a and
other conseqoeiscrs of a sodden dispersion, the in-
terruption of the ordinary busineei. and ',insults of
life. the losses and mirfortuoes which must neces-
sarily How from such a state of things, the distresses
of the poor, the sufferings of the sick, and the low
of lives—all united to resider the period isiterestinir,
the duty obvious, said the exercises solemn and im-
pressive.

OCTO2III 11.

The Right tlononrable Stratford Canning. hid
Britannic Majesty'a Minister, passed through the
upper part of our city yesterday, on his way from
Boston to the Peat of Government, Laying remained
only a kw moments at the British Conant's. It was
his Excelleocy's intention to hare remained here
souse time, but on account of the present calamity
he passes on to Philadelphia. ‘l'e are happy to
learn that the Minister is much gratified by the at-
tentions he every where received.

NEW YORK, OCTOBER 14.
BOARD OF HEALTH.

Monday, October 14, 1822.
The Board assembled at the usual time and
place, when one come only was reported.
The Baltimore Paper', at length, after the re-
peated calls made upon thee, hare come out
upon the subject of the fever with which they
are so exceedingly kfilicted at and near the
neighbourhood of Fell's Point. But they stoutly
deny that it is yellow fever—it being, as they afl
ssy, .4 a didions fever of a very high type!" Now
it seems the type of this fever is so very high. that
in a population of about one-third of that of New
York. four times us many die of it, in a week, us
do of the yellow fever here.—( Commercial Ad-
vertiser).
The deatfiffat Baltimore. for the week ending on
the 7th instant. were 81, of which 40 were bilious,
alias yellow fever.
Letters from Philadelphia give a deplorable pic-
ture of the ravages which have been committed this
season, in the vicinity of that city, by bilious and
intertuntent fevers. One physician at Moor,towo,
New Jersey, nine miles from Philadelphia. is stated
to have 140 patients under his charge; and in many
families on the banks of the Delaware and Schuyl-
kill, not a sufficient number of healthy persons re.
wain to attend the sick. _

41;eiiii«lelphio Fret kin Casette of the 9th

sir—+" Oae we case of yellow fever. and het
deaths. took Ogee. yesterday." We hope Or I*
authorities will not think it expedient to enforce
awy hind geseautine regulatinos.
Were iIIDIA TIADE.—The IVorfrlic Herald
states. that the instructions from the freasury de-
partment to the collectors are, to exact the feeeiea
tonnage duty from British vessels arriving heronry
Beittab colonies. The law anthorising the Presi-
dent to ffillOVll the restrictions on Oil' 'rude not em-
powering him to suspend the foreign tonnage duty.
it matte of necessity, remain in force until repealed
by an Act of Congress, which may be expected at
an early period of the Sewing,.
Maxico.—flavanualt Papers received at Charles-
ton to tb- gOils September state, that the roaster af
• schooner, in fourteen days born Vera Cruz and
Tampico, bad brought the report of a severe action
having taken place between the troops under Grua.
tel Guadeloupe Victoria, and the
which the latter were completely &festinate We
'weir somewhat prepared fur a stiuggle of this sort,
and should not be sorry to hear that the-republican
General Victoria had succeeded in overthrowing the
o•urpatinu of Iturbide, a man, by all accounts.
wit' t talents. and whose ambuion wiussolely di-
rected to the aggrandisement of his own family at
the expense of the libei ties of his country. It is
ridiculous to think of an imperial, or even a kingly
government. existing among • people, isine-tenitu
at the least of whom are repuldicatts. The dynasty
of the new Emperor may be considered as having
commenced its dissolution on the day when
insulted the Mexicans by iilacing the bauble of a
crown on his head.

[Since preparing the foreeing, on opening the
National Gazette, we find the accuracy of this in-
telligence strongly doubted. We Barr in our hands,
says the Editor of the Gazette, Vera Cruz Papers
to the end of August, and find tin mention to them
of such an action.—New York Paper.]

SKINNING Nor SHATING.--TOe Democratic
Press informs us that the ingenuity of our wester►
fellow citizens has got up a new species of counter-
feiting. A bank at Indiana, it is said, was este-
Wished, that issued skins instead of notes. A rac-
-coon skits passed for a dollar ; an opossum 50 cents,;
minks 25 ; rabbit 121 ; quit rel a cent. At length
the counterfeiters got to work ; they fixed raccoon
tails to •possum skino, and passed them for a dul-
ler, while the " coon" skins without the tails main-
taiued their value, until the frond was detected.
Usury in this currency was called " in-
stead of " shaving."
[From the %Rosso Intelligeneer, October 2.]
HORRICAIIR ♦r NORTH INERT.—The duty in-
cumbent on the editor as a public journalist, im-
poses on him the painful task of detailitig the
circumstances of that awful dispensation with which
the omnipotent Disposer of human events has been
pleased in his inscrutable wisdom to visit this de-
voted village. With feelings still strongly excited
by those dreadful occurrences which it was a Waif
his lot to witness, lie will not attempt to do more at
present than to furnish the outlines of the heart-
rending scenes of this eventful tight.
The weather had been fur • week or ten days
very unpleasant, the wind blowing occasionally
fresh from the E. and S.E , hut, as there appeared
none of those iudicntions which usually precede a
hurricane, and as the mercury in the thermometer
continued low, very little apprehension w.w enter-
tained; even at sun-set. oo Friday evening, the
27th lust. although the weather was bad, vet still
there appeared uo cause to apprehend a gale; at the
close of the day there was a heavy shower from the
S.E. accompanied by some wind, after which the
weather appeared better; b• tweet' ten and eleven
o'clock, however, we had a squall from the north-
east, from which quarter the wind continued to blow,
high till •bout twelve, alien we experienced an-
more violent squall from about E. the mercury
about this hour had risen to ;9. and continued
to rise fur acme time after. Fiosu twelve tire wind
continued gradually to change to the S.E. and S.,
increasing in violence as it shifted ; from S.E. it
blew with frightful and unprecedented violence;
most of the injury caused by the wind [oust have
occurred about two o'clock in the morning, and
whilst it blew from this q latter. As the time of
high water hid been about seven o'clock in the
evening, the inhabitants apprehended no danger
from the tide, as from the violence of the gale, it
was presumed that it could nut continue until the
period of the succeeding high water. In this ex-
pectation, however, it pleased the Almighty to dis-
appoint them. and by the awful result to prove
how fallacious are all human cilculations. The
tide could have ebbed little at a:1, when the waters
returned with irtsistible violence, aud betweeu three
and four o'clock in the morning had reached a
height far exceeding that in the gale of 1804, end
we believe of any other tide within the memory of
the oldest inhabitants; a very small portion iudeed
of the inhabited part iif the island remained above
the ocean. The gale began to subside, we believe,
about half-past three o'clock, the wind blowing
then from S.W. It was oppressively warm during
the gale. and many of those luminous bodies, or
meteors unusual in our fall gales, passed near the
surface of the earth. The gale was of shorter du-
ration and accompanied by less rain than usual.

ALYARADO, SEPTEUBER 12.

MeXtco.—lt appears that since the first meet-
ing of the Mexican Congress, that cordial harmony
and confidence so desirable between the Legisla-
tive and Executive Powers were not to be found;
on the contrary. mutual distrust and discontent
prevailed. The steps which led to the coronation
of the Emperor are already known. On the 26th
of August the Executive Government caused to be
arrested from 45 to 50 individual., among whom
were 13 members of the Congress, then sitting
in the city of Mexico. On the next day a Procla-
mation. signed by the Minister of State, was issued.
announcing to the public, as the cause of this mea-
sure. the existence of a conspiracy against the Gu..
vernment. After some days the Congress present-
ed to the Emperor a memorial, praying that their

• felinwonenikun io Captivity .could he brought
Tiondollid if guilty, liberated rf innocent.
• The tefllleen documeat was by an menus fa-
vonrablei it threw reflections on the whole body.
These Aorta cannot fail to have a striking effect on
comment. which is in a Isiegard state. The castle
of Si: Jams de Ulloa remains in posseseion of the
Spaniards. the garrison not exceeding 300 men,
which exacta of vestel. entering 30 cents per lien
tonnage-money-5 re per cent. oa the invoice alas
on all importations..
fresan tire Philadelphia Gereettej
Captain Dawson informs us that he left at Alys-
sato the echormer Mary ; he also states that an
attack. was howdy ex pee! ed on the Egualia. at Aien
tad% ditto several row ; in consequence of
',hitt they were making preparations for defence."
Pear fl&VANNAL—Extrart of a letter dated
gOth alt..-441 awed myself of the departure of the
bdirakeßlP le iOlOll4 .jr.O. that by a reerat
.rep-
%Mow of abs Custom Home •• depot of foreign
goods will be established here. by which all
dry -good., with the exception of provipiout.
may be deposited far one year, free of duty ;
and if re-exported during that time, to pay ally
tan per cent. storage-. This law is to go into
operation during next month. sad promises to be
of the moat beueficial consequences to this city.
A loan to the Government of the Island for
300,000 dollars, has been subscribed among the
merchants, bearing ten per cent. interest"
FROld Poaro lit:co.—The New York Memo.
tile Adeeeliser slates. that the visit of the Cay-
enne to the above place was received in a
friendly manner, but that there is no prospect
of obtaining redress for the depredations which
hove been committed on ear commerce by the
privateers of the island, otherwise than from
the Spanish Government. The new Governor-
General. La Toter., has arrived, and expressed
much disapprobation of the practices that had
been permitted. and a determination to put a stop
to theta.

[From the New York Paper, Oclober 16.3
Feoar.—We learn with pleasure, from the neigh-
bourhood of this city, that on this island, in New
Jersey, sod on Long Island the night before last.
there was not only frost, but ice as thick u a quer-
ter of • dollar.

At New Orleans and Pensacola the fiver rages
with great violence.

CHARLESTON. OCTOBER 5.
THE LATE DREADFUL HURRICANE.

We understand that no branch of the femilies of
Mr. Waring or Major Ward, on the northern part
of Dubourdieu's. have been lost. as was the general
impression. Their houses were destroyed. but for-
tunately none of the inmates received any material
injury.
The beacon to designate the ship channel over
the bar to vessels corning in has been carried away;
and the light-house Inis suffered such essential in-
jury. that the lights cannot be Wiesen for some dap.
Captain Clark. with two negroes of the packet-
boat Eagk, have been drowned, and bis packet
upset. A negro fellow who clung to the keel of
the boat states, that Captain Clark, fioding it im•
possible to come in►o the wharf with security, said
he would swing round to South Bay. He has not
since been seen.

Mr. 11.11's sloop broke from the wharf, and three
hands hire been drowned. The sloop, after much
injury, has been preserved.
Near the Panchita, on the marsh opposite Gads.
den's wharf, the Spanish schooner Rosalie, which
had been finished in her repairs, ran on shore, and
now covers soother smaller vessel.

Upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses in the
e:ty have been unroofed, and shout one thousand
hare been rendered pervious to the rain by the loss
of tilts or slating.
Among the public buildings the beautiful city
hall has been considerably injured in the roof, mad
the north sashes driven in. Not one place of
worship has escaped the indiscriminate fury of she
storm. The theaktre has been awaited end other-
wise injured. The slates and roof of the gaol aad
work-house were destroyed mud the Wilding* other.
wise injured.
The principal sufferers were those whose property
lay in the north-westeru sod northern millrace. Se..
vend fine large houses, and the mills in that &rec.
Lion, were more or less injured.
The Camden• Gazette of the 2d states, that the
rivers mud creeks were impassable. The cotton and
corn crops on the bank of the river had costumed
considerabie injury. The road between that place
and Pee Dee was so obstructed by trees that the
stage could not get along.

CHAIMILITON, ()crown S.
Extract from a letter from Long Bay, Wacca.
mar., datrd Sunday. 29th :
. .

No doubt you meet hats felt la Charleston the storm
of t►e Slib. To describe the horrors of our situatios is utterly
impossible. Yoe cutlet conceive of any thing same slukfut.
Between twelve and one teelork the •wind became way ►igh ;
we got op, secured the doers and windows as well as we
could—but the wind increased every moment, and we soma
perceived that it was s hurricane, more violent Mom nay we
ever before witnessed. Still we felt secure ; bet conceive
the agony, the terror that seised us, opus beerisg the tee.
=endives crash of the roof falling in, and both pleases tom
sway ! The first impulse was I. run oat ; but when bull
we run to ? The water was upwards of three feet deep st
the back pinssa, and is front the waves were breaking over
the bill upon which our house stood. We stayed in the horse
until it appeared to be giving way, when we rushed out
up n the Sand Hills, bet the wind was so violist it was with
difficulty we could stand our ground. After a while, *hes
the %%bid abattd a little, we got into an otit-bonne, where we
remained until morning. The tide fell about three 'o'clock ;
had it continued to rise one hour Imager, the whole island
meat have bees swept sway. Mr. Huger's establishmeot is
so completely broken up, ihsl they have been obliged to re-
move to the river. Poor Mr. Myers' body, arid the
bodies of several black children ►ave been washed up 011 the
beach r

Extract of a letter from Mr. Jones, the mail cam-
tractor, to T. W. Bacots, Esq. Postmaster iu this
cety. dated 32. Mile Iloure. 611:1?ctsiber.

a Dean Eta—Tlie driv.r arrived from Pella oil Saturday
night at Georgetown, without a mail. He Matta tbat the
driver which went to the north with the mail, ow the Stith of
September, ban aster bees beard of, that them bag beta se