The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-03-17 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

STOCKHOLM, FEBRUARY 23.
Wit 'respect to the mutter in which the duties
of customs are to be paid, his Majesty has been
',leaped to order, that in such goods as are import-
ed by foreign vessels, they Shall henceforward be
paid either in Swedish specie rix dollars, on a par
with 1-lamburgh Witco, or in foreign silver coin, or
in um clued silver, winch is of equal value *WI
Hamburg', bonier,. The duties oil goads imported
by Swedish vessels, shall also
.be calculated anti
',aid in silver. The present population of Sweden
amounts, according to the last census, to 2,543°,412
souls.

ST. PETERSRURGII, FEBRUARY 42.
Lieutenant Lasarew, of the Imperial Navy, who
went last year on an expedition to the Frozen
Oceaii, has published an account of it. The inten-
tion was to proceed to the IVaggatz Straits, and
sail round Nova Zemble. After struggling with
numerous hardships from the immense accuniula-
lion of ice, they reached the entrance of the Strait,
hut could not go into it, and were obliged to return
without accomplishing their purpose.

COPENHAGEN, Daiwa 7.

1-li4 Majesty has prolonged the charter of the
East India Company for a year, reckoning from
the 14th January.
On the Ist of March there was a furious storm,
which did some damage; a Danish, a Swedish, and
an English ship, were totally lost in the bay of
Hahn.

:since the Ist, the frost has been severe, generally
from six to eight degrees, and the Sound is entirely
frozen over, for the second time this winter; above
V. 4) vettels which have arrived here are frozen up in
the Ittitithiotiitl a passage is cutting through the ice
to bring them into the harbour.
The following advertisement has appeared in our
Stole Gu:eite

" I have the honour to announce, that on this day, Mon.
day, February 14, I have discovered the quadrature of the
circle. The solution of the problem is geometrical, and
very simple..6-Aussitt STotm."

ORB RYA, FEBRUARY 23.
According to our accounts from the south of
France, we must expect that many Protestant fami-
lies of that country will seek an asylum in Switzer-
land, because they seem to be apprehensive of u
renewal of the popular excesses against them. In
t 415 Switzerland afforded ■n asylum to several
Firi.ch Protestants, many of whom settled there.
For this last quarter of a year trade is quite
dead : there is as little doing as in the most con-
vulsed times of the French Revolution.
WARSAW, FEBRUARY 22.

On the 18th and 19t1) the Bth district of the City
of Warsaw, said Praga held its Electoral' Aaaseinbly,
anal elected his Imprint' Highness the Grand Duke
Constantine its deputy to the Diet.

HANOVER, MARCH 8.

A •ast quantity of snow has fallen within these
few days in the north and north-west parts of the
kingdom, and has been drifted, by the long conti-
nuance of the storm, to the height of six or right
teat, and in some places so ■s partly to stop and
partly obstruct the communications on the roads of
Z. 14 and Ilaluburghs

BERLIN MARCH 7.

His Excellency General Count Tauenzien. of
Vittemhurg, is going as Ambassador Extraordi-
nary to London, with the letters of condolence on
the death of his Majesty George HI. and of con-
gratulation on the accession of George IV.; and
in Paris, with letters of condolence oil the auassi-
nation of the Duke of Berry.
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HAMBURGII, MARCH 10.

The celebrated Professor John Joachim Eschen-
burg, died on the 29th of February, iu the 77th
year of his age, and in the 63d since his first en-
v:igetnent in the Caroline College at Brunswick.—
(llurntbu►g6 Papers, March 10.1