The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-08 00:00:00

WA LPO LE'S 111 EM 0I RA ON TURKEY.

The religion of the Mainiots is that of the Greet
church, with all its mummery. The most pleas-
ing feature in their character was their domestic
intercourse with the other sex. The women were
'wither secluded nor enslaved, and constqueutly
neither corrupted Aim. ignorant. They parotid( io
the matnegement of their families and the rcluvaiti 4444
of their children. In►tances of conjugal roti.letity
we►e extremely rare. which, indeed, is not touch to
be wondered at, considering the utacisier in abich
the Bret advances may chance to be received.—
The German Pliemius of a certain cipitano,
an accomplished lyrist, who scraped a three-
string rebeck, having offended a pretty woman in
the neighbourhood, by some itoliscreet proposal•.
she drew a pistol and shot bites dead on the spot.
Indeed the Mention lathes are altogether most for-
midable personages. Not content with •• love's
artillery," which Mr. Morritt describes as being by
no means of an inefficient description, they were
seen by him slinging stones and bullets at a mark,
with great expertness.
Mr. Moffitt describes an interesting visit to Zs-
itetachi Latuphari, • capitano of consideration,
and his niece Helena, a young widow and • wealthy
eapit•uesse. At an audience with which she
honoured our travellers, this lady wore a light blue
shawl-gown embroidered with gold, a sass► loosely
tied round her waist, and a short vest, without sleeves,
of embroidered crimson velvet ; over these was •
dark velvet Poloilete mantle, with wide and open
sleeves, richly embroidered. On her head was a green
velvet cap, also embroidered with gold. A white
and gold muslin shoal fixed ou th• right shoulder,
and pissed across her bosom under the left arm.
Boated over the coronet and bung to the ground
behind her. Her DIXIE'S dress was still more mag-
urficent. Mr. Morritt was informed, that in case
of tiectrisity. the Mainiuts can bring li,ooo meta
into the field.

Dr. Sibthorp observes, that caprifiestion is still
radioed. We should ha -e been glad to meet with
a clear explanation of the principle of this opera.
lion.

The long debated (oration relating to the trea-
sures of ancient literature, supposed to be concealed
in the libraries of the Seraglio, the Mosque of St.
Sophia, and the Colleges of Di/vises at Constan-
tinople, lies at length been settled by the researches
of Dr. Hunt and the late Professor Carlyle; and
the result of their inquiries is, that "in stone
of those riot collections is there a single classical
fesgsurot of a Greek or Latin author, either
original or translated. The volumes were in Ara.
hic, Persian, or Turkish; and of all of them Mr.
Carlyle took exact catalogue.." Surely thii.is too
sweeping a sentence. It was not possible for these
gentlemen, without an examination of the books
themselves, to ascertain that they contained no
translated fragments of a classical author. We
thick it, on the contrary, very probable, that some
of the Arabic MSS. may contains portions of Aris.
toile or Galen, or of later Greek writers. It or-
pears from Professor Carlyle's description, that the
!emery of the seraglio is built in the form of a Greek
crop, and is not more than twelve yard* in length
from the extremity of one arm to that of the other.
It contains 1,29 t MSS., mostly Arabic, with a
few of the beat Turkish writer.. The Professor
must have made good use of his time, for during
isle shout stay in the seraglio t, he is certain that
there was not one volume which he did not sepa-
rately examine I but. he woe prevented by the jealousy
of the animist's, who incornpauied him, from tusk-
ing out a detailed catalogue of the whole I" and,
indeed, if the moulalis had been out of the way, it
would have required a quick eye, and the pen of a
ready writer, to make out u catalogue ef 1,294 orie
vital MSS. in two or three hours. He obtained,
however, a catalogue of the library of the patriarchs
of Jerusalem, the largest in the empire, and even
got pet sithition to carry a few of the most valuable
to England. These, together with is large roller.
Lion of Arabic MSS., were transmitted, we believe,
to this country, and deposited in the archiepiscopal
library at Lambeth, by the munificence if the
present primate. We are, however, not quite certaiu
whether llr. Carlyle d d not mieusiderstand the per-
mission whirl. he hail obteintil front the Patriarch of
Jerusalem ; for we hate heard it repotted, that this
venerable dignitaty of the Greek Church has re-
claimed his valu.eble MSS. And it appears from
expression in one of Dr. Hunt's papers, that the
volumes ware only lent.

" The Patriarch behaved to us with the utmost
liberality, not only sending fine of his chaplains to
assist us to making a catalogue of the l►brary, but
allowing us to take any of the manii%ciipts we might
wi►h to send to England for the purpose of being
examined mad oollaied. Such as we thought jute-
resting or curious were forwarded to Lohdou along
with those pros ured from the Priuce's islands;
and they are now iu the archiepiscopal library at
Lambeth I"

On Thursday last JAMYS Borrow. Eoci. was
sworn into die office of Alderman. or Chief Magi.
strate of Bury Sr. Edmunds for the sear ensuiug;
also ORBILL RAT OMITS, Esq. into the office of
Corontr; and Sir T. G. Cum.ou. Bart. Jamva
OAKES, THOS. COCISEDGR, CHaa. BLOMFIELD,
PHILIP hams CAME, mid Tuos. CLAY, &qrs. as
Assisieria Justices. On this occasion the slew Alder-
man gave, us usual. a handsome dinner at the
Guildhall (served by Mr. BOLDER°, of the Angel
Imi). consisting of every delicacy of the serum, at
which were present his Grace the Doke of
Gaarrou, the Members for the Borough (Lord
Eurrot and Colonel Urrox). and several of the
County Magistrates. together with the Members of
the Corporation. the Clergy, and many other re-
spectable inhabitants of the town and neighbour-
hood, to the number of steady 150. Sever"! es.
celleut songs mid duets were sung. and the Alder-
man who presided introduced the usual loyal,
popular, and local toasts. amongst which were the
health. of the most distinguished of the party, also
returned their acknowledgments for the compli-
meat pied them.

lATELLiCINCE.

ionitwourn, orrostrn 6.
Arrived the Jelin transport from Ceylon, Cape of
Hope and St. Helena ; saikd *6th Apo% ISt h July, sod 1714
Animal ; spoke the Sappho, from Bombay, uff St. Helena,
and may be expected here iu a few days ; spoke 14111 Sri,-
tember the Seaforoh, from Buabay far Liverpool, in lat.
23. N. long. 36. W. The &gunk fell in with a small ship
is Int. IC that hoisted English, colours; on the Seaforlh
laying-to, the ship hoisted Spanish colours, and again shift-
ed them for another flag. The Ship Glad srver.il shot, and
ifl4 Irr boat not to hoard the Seaforth, but the Capts-a
threatening to resist, the ship bore away. Lao at St He-
lms the Conqueror, Itaeoun, Musinitn, Podvgus, Iteilp.ii.,
and the David !ran-port. 'thy C.iplain .4 the Redpule ,h•
at eee, and Captain C% I..Ce tale Flag.t.ientNnw)
was appointed to ii-r. Al,O an iv. d the gallint Gustaf Mo.
demar, from for CB.IIE, wit Id days, color .
ill to repair, having been sliu,k nob yi..terday,
Portland, in a heavy shoat, and shivered her us tinntasi.

IL\'7l OLTH, OCTUBEIL 5.

Came in she Ellen. and Glace, llynooml, from Galloway
to totoloo. out tweutymne (levy in *um of proirmi ~,, a; ami
Hope, Williams, from Newport so the Gulf of Veuice, uut
eight day., damaged in her rigging.

-Fwvrria .saerehMit reads, bolitid outwards, have hero
spoken with by the pilots off this port, and it is exptetrd
they will fetch
VALBOUTR, OCTOBER 4.
Arrived the Monts:lie patties, with mails from Nils
York ; sailed Bth, sod from Halifax 16th September. Ako
arrived • Danish ship of war, from Copeuliagso, to the
West Indica.

DEAL, nctoitit. 6.
•
Arrived and sailed fir the River, the General Werrir,
Prom China, Sze.; Genet-Al Rltiott, Trent, from Quebec; Sa.
lua, —; 33 days reran Richmond,
Gift down horn the River the Mary, Barnard, for lamal.
ea; Heart of Oak, Kra I, for Limbo, n ; Criterion, Avery, fur
New York Wirer, rue Jamaica; Indust. y, K nc,
fur the South Seas; Swallow, Ford, fur Newfoundland: 11. e
whole Onsain wills the outward-bound, as before, eleept the
Swallow, which vessel hay sailed.

tilE LATE ACCIDENT AT iltorriNovm.

Erma Ts. NettingAan Review of Oct. 2.]

The property deposited in the warehouses, whoa die Isla
dreadful accideut happened, consisted of oil, vitriol, paper.
groceriee, cotton, •L4l, and several thusisand enstris of
corn, some hundreds of which had only Lem deposited there
last Saturday: many Of these articles were entirety de-
stroyed, and the remainder so injured as to he compa-
ratively of little value. Sonic parts of the mass of runs
wen ast fires and two firesagines were speedily bringlit
dusts, and by their powerful Bracy extingnistird the
Inuses. Mr. ll'ilkes's and Mr. „Hussell'a houses within
.the wally, Raft red most sever, ty ; the roofs wire usual
injured, the casements tilos n out, and so.t a pane of
glass is left entire in either house. Mr. Wilkes was for-
tunately from home un a joerney ; Mrs. Wilkes was thrown
with great violence from. table to the other aide of the house,
and the furniture has sustained considerable defamer ; the
carpets, enrtatath hc. were t le ribbands. But the dr. 8401
effects of this catastrophe are by na meats misifined to the
premises. Most of the buildings on the whsi fs along its
email ate partially unroofed, and swore nr les iujured. lit
the owl) west direction, Mr. Thomas Ather4une's (tre-
llises's and prrmises hare suffered must severely In the win-
dows., roofs, mot furniture. Mr. Pyatt's house is Canal.
street, as well as Miss Barnsdall'o, were maids injured, the
doors sera off, the casemate blown out, the roofs damaged,
Ike. A view of the immediate aeighbourbood of the altar(
le trnly diatieraing. There is scarcely a house that has
escaped some trace of the desisting shock ; and the windows.
which are now boarded up instead of being glazed, give the
houses a very peculiar appearance. Canal-street, Navigatissa-
row, IPisiklii I Ist reel, Cherterfield-sti err, Broad-snardi, Turn.
ealialky, and Drury-hith here suffered more thou other
places ; but the di caseation reached the castle, where
many panes were broken, as well as fisaudard-hill, whew
the mansion of Daniel and Samuel Freeth, Emirs. as well
as the Infiratery, bear evident !nuke of the viol ace of
the concussion. Many panes of glass were broken is St,
Nicholas's church, at the back and front of the boner* in
Castle. gate, and even in the Mai kel-plaee, not only o I the Ex-
change, but also en the Lowg-row. The shock was so via.
lent in she shop of Mr. linen, surgeon, Bridlesmith.gatp,
as to 'blow down and break some of his battles; slid pains
of glom were forced out bulb at Wilford and at Saabs°.