The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-09-01 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, AUGUST 28.

Yesterday, before Mass, the King received the
Duke of Wellengtou in private audiesire. His Grace
departs, it is said, to-morrow for Catribray.
The Swedish Government has dispatched some
naturalists into Laphind, for the purpose of examin-
ing the mines, and other natural productions of this
WOUtitry. so little known. Some copper mines, very
rich, bevy been found, but the wood nectioony fur
working them is too far remote from the places
where the times are situated. Vegetation two been
so powerful at Jackasjerfirri, unit some other
tests in Ispland. list 'lowly groins have heels pm..
elticed from one. The iiiii era travellers have
admired g waterfall, formed by the river Lulea,
which they represent a+ the most majestic in all
Europe. This river, more than two thousand fret

wide, falls hots a height of four hundred feet. in
wittier, this waterfall is sovmounted•by sir arch of ice.
The file of St. Louis was • caebrated at Ch,ren..
top, St. Maurice, Alfort, 'COuflans, and Mercy,
with no less enthusiasm than at Paris.

The equestrian statue'which had been erected to
Louis XIII., and placed on its pedestal Nov. t 7,
1609, in the centre of the Place Kayak, was of
bronze • it was torn down in 1791. In execution
of an bronze;
of the King in it it will be re-
placed by another equestrian statue of white marble.
MADRID, AUGUST 13.
The Pope lois granted a B• 611, a long time soli-
cited by our A mba,sadur at the Court of Hume, on
the subject of the revenues of the Clergy. The
Ailing of vacant ecclesiastical dignities and bent..
fires is suspended for two tears; the revenues will
he received lino the pithlic Treasury to assist the
payment of the public debt, unit its interest. His
HOlinels, touched with the representations of his
Catholic Majesty, has been pleased to authorise
this measure. which has not yet improved the
state of oar public fiends, for our non.consohdated
Royal 'vales constantly lase 6 t per cent., the con-
solidated 40 per cent:, arid the votes Ordinance, that
is to my, those that have not been presented 'fur
coneelidatirm, 75 per cent.; such is the state of our
pu 'die -credit.
They are slowly employed at Cadit in the repairs
of some vessels ; the pointers df our treasury don
• riot allow that activity to ba bestowed 011 Olin Is.
'bouts which'eirCumstaimes would require.
histextulss, AUGUST 15.
The Session of the Cortes of Navarre was closed
yesterday. This soletnis act was public and the
most respectable Ladies of the city graced-the cei.
remony by their presence. It consisted in the
King's Viceroy swearing to guard the laws and Tr&
vileges of the kingdom of N . After the
oath, a eeputy prevented the law of the Supply,
which amounted to 800,00 More
(4,000,000
francs). payable five years. More had' been de-
mantled, but tircuinstances did 'not 'perMit the
grant of a later sum.
•,. Brum. Auddsar tB.
• The Protestant Ecclesiastical Deputies of the
tat Cossfessleiss,sand public Functionaries of all tha
districts of Rhenish Bavaria. are assembled at pre-
sent in the city of Kaysershruterii, to complete the
entire union of the two branches of the Protestant
religion, on which union they have been labouring
here fee some tithe.