The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-18 00:00:00

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

LETTIS PROM ST. !STUMM!, JUNE 40.

On the 13.11 of July it b►illiant/c1 will lee given
at l'etemlinK it being both the birth-day of the
;rand Duchess Alexandra and the aiiiiirereary or
tier marriage. The preparations are carrying on
with great activity t the espenses are at present es-
tinrited at 80,000 mollies, bit will probably be
voiee roissideral.le. Apartments for the king of
Pris.sia are fitting sip both here in the Imperial
Winter Palace, end at Zarskojeselo, in the moat
.legant and splendid style. It is believed that the
King will make but a short stay.
A. mein a. the King of Prussia arrived at
he immediately changed his dress*, and put
on I Russian uniform, as Chief of a Russian re•
giinent.

•RCHANGEI., MAY 20.
A ship of the line of 74 guns, and n frigate of
44 guns, built here, were happily launched this
worsting.

LITTFIt FIOM CHILISTIINIA, JUNE 27.

To the gracious proposition of the King to the
Stiortloissq, resper•iug the addition to the Act of the
Dirt of August 6, 1815, it is proposed " thtt an
author whose work cunt tins o distinct invitation to
ttis•ulve or violate the union between the two king.
or the estalolisheil order of succession in the
tiorosie, shall be punished as a traitor to the cows-
try, •ud not an our State Gazette lately stated
rsourourly, with exile.
A paper annexed to the proposal, shelve how the
j:sry melds ~, oo et! its it is to be organised, the jury
being considered as the only imams by which it eau
foe duly inquired, a liether and in what degree the
accused is guilty or nut, beeJuse the (offensive ex-
pressions are net always so clear that the literal sp.
;die:lbws of the Low C3ll take place. The jury in-
troduced in Sweden for such cases, by the regula-
tors,' of July 12, 1812, is a'lduceel as ust example.
This jury is shwa). to consist of nine prisons, who
tre clauses, as foliose :—The Judge chooses live,
and each or the panics four, is. all thirteen honest
and rtspected citizeits, whom the Judge recognises
as capable ; then each of the parties excludes one
and the Judge two of them, without assigning any
teastKi, and the trine others compose the jury.
They then take the culls, mid the Judge having
opened the case, are to ;sass sentence, but Iwo
thirds of the votes must agree to pronounce the
accused guilty, according to which the Judge
must frame Isis sentence.

LETTER IMO)! CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 10.
SOOll vforr the Persia.' Aonbasavdor Irft this city.
a search woos made by order of the Sokoto for the
late Pcr•ia.' rr►ulrart. Aga, viol
slier he had been kept some dais in the house of
the To ptvehi Bauchi. lie was sent oath a WIC wort
to Ow Penis.' frontiers.

Nevis of the date of the Oth hair been received
from Alexandria. according to which the Weelio-
-I.ites have defeated two emir* of the troops of
llrhrnrt Aly Nncha, in Upper Egs pi. This 'sews,
s,i sonfavosirable t.. the Turkish arms, spread great
consternation. particularly at Alexandria. But it
is singolar enough, dial there is at the same time
in circulation, a report of a dirretly opposite nature,
omelets-, ..1 the continuation 'of the successful ad-
vance of towards Derajr, the capi-
tal city of the ‘Vveltisbites ; and thi‘ is cai,firmed
by isccouots front Aleppo, of the Igth of Alay.
We now wait with impatience the dispatches of the
Parlous of Egypt and Syria, none of whose couriers
pare arrived for this mouth past.
Two chiefs of pirates, takeu in the islauils of the
Archipelago, have lately been hanged hcre.—
illambergit Corresposideue, July II.)

DUTCH AND HAMBVRGH MAILS.

COPENHAGEN, .11.71. Y 4.

A cotfnt►y latl, of the neighbourhood uf Aarhuusi
Laving laid himself down lately in the field to sleet►,
it 'snake crept into his month, which was open, and
ittncended two hi. stomach: lifter having remained
ll:ere (or s4IIIIP dads it came out again alike by the
r•arne way it had entered.
For this week part we have had rain almost
and the weather is become so cool, that it
ntnre reseinblea October than July.
I...itt year the her of births in all Denma►k
(exclusive of the Duchies) was 33,441. and that of
deaths 21,253, bting an excess of 14,188 in the
number of birdie. The outuber of marriages was
8,584).

ITOCkHOLM, JUNE 30.
The Committee of the States has appeuved of
the proposal made bt• his Majrsty, to sell the Island
of St. Bartholomew, for the liquidation of the pub-
lic debt of the kingdom of Norway.
the Kittg and the Crown Prisice are gone with
their Court to triode at the palace of New Haga.
The interment of the remains of the late Queen
Dowager, will he its about three weeks. The ne-
cessary preparations ate waking in the Rutter-
lobos Clinic+.
it Lithographic press has been ettablished fur
the printing of music. Some specimens have al-
featly been published.

IMMIX, 3 u Ll' 1.

Br a Cabinet Gillet issued on the lith of June,
No Majesty has been pleased to appoint Major-Ge-
neral Count Guiesenaii, chief of thv 9th or Col-
liery regiment of infantry. It is well known that
this regiment ever sistscr It vido formed, has greatly
iliptimptislie3 itself whereser it has been employed,
and 114 the regiments have, according to the present
system, no disci's, and are nained merely after the
Province• in a regular series of number., it is to he
eomittereil as is very distinguished honour to Count
Goliesenau, and an extraordinary favour f his
Majesty, that his appoititment 141111 trade on the an-
niversary of the day Oil windy, three years before,
the courage and talents of that brave General so
greatly contaibutrd to baffle Napoleon's tievr
CLEVES. JULY 2.

Foreign papers having circulated a report of •
trillion or the territories on the left bank of the
spec.fying the Duchy of Cleves, the under-
sitoied authority was induced to mention it, in the
neuant delivered to his Majesty the King. fur the
month of Aril, tlll4 year. The Prince Chancellor
of Stair, by a Nute of the 29111 of May, has, in
unimequellier, authorised the undersigned, for the
••rtisfaction of the inhabitants of the Duchy 01