The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

NA VY ESTIMATES.

Sir GEORGE IVARRENDEN gave notice, that on
Weduessday oast he would propose a vote of sea.
men for the present year in the Committee of
Supply.
Oat the motion of M►. ARRUTHEOT. she mural
Seasonal Order fur the aria gcsistsit of notices and
orders on. *mole.

Al a qui. ter before lour o'clock the House ad.
jimmied until Monthly neat.
The SPEA IL F. X thrii pri.ceeiled in state to Carlton
Palace, occosupanied by the Mover and Seconder,
fur the purpose of presenting the Address of the
/louse to his Majesty.

A letter from Cork tnesiiinus, that on the 17th
ito.ttiot the Casile Coole cutter. Lieutenant JOHN
fitAsta. captured is the sound of Ittesheuhol. the
rrly fine copper-bottomed American schooner.
Sweep. laden with tobacco. of shout 9,0001. value.
together with her crew of 10 sum. The capture
was made by the boats under the command of
the first mete. Mr. Taoism Heiseir, nt shout
13 wiles distance from the cutter. This is
the sewedseheeser the Castle ceete has sakes,
*Wrist these five mouths.

LONDON,
MONDAY, MAY 1, It:20.

Saturday the COMMON SEILIBANT made his re-
port to the KING iu Council of the eleven men
convicted under the late Special Contruispiou ;
the Judges who tried the prisoners likewise at.
tended. After two hours deliberation, sod hear-
ing the report of the trials, the following were
ordered for execution this morning, viz.-4r-
thur Thistlescuud. Jame, lugs. Thomas Brunt.
Richard Tidd. and William Davison. The re-
maining six, who pleaded guilty to their in.
dictinents, are respited during his 111sJesvir's
pleasure. The sentence uu the live wretched
culprits will be executed ut eight o'clock this
morning iu front of the Old Bailey. The
awful pesparatioos for this purpose commenced
3esterelay et an early hour. lu addition to the
usual apparatus, a large platform was erected op-
posite the Debtors' door, for the purpose of be-
heidiug the culprits, and two carts load of sow-deft
were laid under it to receive the blood. Means
were also adopted to guard agaiiist the danger to
be apprehended from the extreme premiere of the
crowd, by axing strong posts and railing at
every avenue leading to the place of execution, and
at certain distances iu the Old Bailey. A great num-
ber of workmen were busily employed during the
whole of yesterday and the greater port of last night,
in carryieg these arrangements into effect.
At an early hour yesterday morning a strong de-
tachment of the Guards was pieced in the interior
of Nervgate, and at seven o'clock lest night at,-
other strong body of troops arrived. Orders were
also issued from the Horse Guards for a part
of the troops stationed iu the Tower to be under
arms at twenty minutes past four this morning.
A strong body of the City Police were cm duty
during the whole of yesterday and last night ; the
firemen belonging to the different offices were
sworn in special constables during the day.
The fatal moment was not anticipated as being so
near at hand, neither was the scene the same
as presumed by the public. Tower-hill hinting been
reported the probable place of ex. cutiou. The ilr•
trrerinetsem of the Council on Saturday, filing the
execution at the Old Bailey this morning, new.-
eerily excited extreme anxiety ma% the relatives

ai.d ftiends of the wratcl►eJ culprits. Yesterday
Mr. Disown, the keeper of Newgs/e, waited
upon Lord SIDNOUTU twice. Mr. Sheriff Rats.
WaLL, and the Rev. Mr. COTTON, the Ordinary,
also waited upon his Lordship. Thew messages we►e
all in conseluence of applications to see the convicts,
or to report their statements. Up to the latest hoar
last night we learn they seemed res►g►ted to their
fete; they exhibited a sort of enthusiastic bravery,
end expressed a pride hi haviug •u opportunity
to lay down their lives iu the cativo of free-
dom. There wee • pert of melancholy contented-
ness about Thistlewood which evinces • strength of
mind ►ncapable of submitt►ng to any trifling consi-
, dewiest. He had been employed in writing a sketch
of his own life. The pri,oners all remained dou-
ble-ironed, and placed in the condemned rooms.
The necessary arrangements having been coin-
, pitted, ■till service is, the Chapel being provided
foe such of the convicts as wish to partake of
it, they will be brought from their cells
about seven o'clock this morning. Their irons
will be then knocked off, and their arms and hands
bound with rope.. Notice bring given to the ►
Sheriff of London that they are all ready, a hurdle
previously prepared iu the court-yard will be
brought forth, in which they will be drawn to
the drop, preceded by the Sheriff and Cler-
gyman. Five coffins will also be previously
placed upon the temporary scaffold to re-
ceive their bodies, after having beets beheaded.. The
wretched men will be brought out iii the order
in which they have been tried. First Thistle-
wood, next lugs, then Brunt, Davison, and Tidd.
After hanging half an hour, the bodies w►ll be cot
down. The cost having been takes, utr, the head will
be severed from the body by the executioner, with a
surgical knife. The executioner will then take the
brad, holding it by the hair, and carry it round the
platform in view of the populace,while another officer
accompanying hiat will otaclaim, " Beheld the head
rf u Truitor." The head of Thistlevrood will be the
first exhibited in this shocking form, and the heads
of the others will probably fallow is the order
which we have mentioned.

We have received Paris Papers of Wednesday
and Thursday lair. Considerable anxiety and
alarm seem to prevail in several parts of Spain. and
risany persons use retiring from that country tinder
the apprehension that it will become the scene of
civil war. These voluntary exiles for the most part
proceed to Italy.
The assembling of the Cortes begins to be look-
ed to in Spam with extreme solicitude by all par.
tits, in the hope that its authority will give cm-
sistency to the Government atul confidence to the
public. A stale of complete anarchy is said in
private letters to prevail in &Meal. and Tarra-
gona, and travellers who strived at Irun from Pam.
peluna affirm, that MINA has lost much of his
popularity, and that an insurrection was appre-
hended throughout Navarre, in consequence of a
pr"ject avowed by Miss, of raising 3,000 volun-
teers within the province, and of dismissing the
troops of the line.

The Gazelle de France contains a Proclamation
addressed by Baron MILIUS, Governor of Bourbon,
to the inhabitants of that island, in which lie al,-
prises them that a French mined corvette captured
as English slave trader, called the lisnourite,
freighted with its human cargo ; that the English
sailors subsequently rose upon the officer placed iu
charge, ran the ship on shore, and hav;ng, by some
means not mentioned, obtained another vessel, re-
shipped their slaves, and subsequently landed
Moiety of them on the island, for the puiposes of
sale. The Governor exults that this crime was not
committed in.der the royal Bag of France, and he
offers a reward of 100 franca fur every black who
shall Le firllVCrell into his power. We lament
sincerely that Englishmen should still be found to
stain the character of their country Ly trafficking in
the miser►es of their fellow-creatures, but the good
Governor, in his exultation at the purity of the
" royal flag of France." seems to overlook the
circumstance, that no persons would he fouud to
commit the crime of slave-trading if others were
not found to encourage it, and in the scale of guilt
there seems to be but little difference between the
Englishmen who supplied the market, and the
Frenchmen who purchased the staves.
The Count de Yummy, • name better known
than respected, once a Senator, late a Peer of
France, and a Member of the French Academy,
died iu Paris on the night of iVeduesiday last, after
• short illness.

The Five per Ceuta. are 73 1. 85 c. ; Bauk
Stuck, 1,487 1. 50 e.

On Saturday the Creole frigate, Capt. Bovuns,
returned to Portsmouth from the South American
command, where, fur some years (with the rank of
Commodore), be has rendered very important ser.
ricer to his country. He was succeeded by Coat.
inodore Sir •THOMAS HARDY, Bart. The Creole
brings no South American news, either important
or interesting. The latest accounts from the Rio
de la Plata are to the gid of January. at which
time nothing was kissiwu of Lord CocaaAas's
proceedings, beyond his failure before Callao, au
account of which liar already appeared. It was
supposed he would remain at sea until obliged .0
retorts to Valparaiso, for want of pruviaissos; hot
there was uu chance of his ginning any further ad•

vantages ea the co st. Bit 1.1401 AS HARDT was
el BONN* Are.; and Caplais F.L. MAITLAND,
C.B. with the Vengerr avid Sipes* woo et Mal-
donado. The Hyperion. Captain SNARLS, C.B.
went round Cape kinta.i..ths beginning of Imo-
cry. Sir THOMAS HANDY'S broad pendant was in
the Owen Gkadower, Hon. Capt. R. Srucea,
which ship arrived from England the tidy the Creole
sailed from the Rio de le Plata. The Hon. Capt.
BRIDIIMAN. R.N. mid Lady. Came priiiiergerigiu
the eu k.

Means, we understand, have been at length de.
vised at the Mint, fur facilitating and encouraging
the conversion of bullion into coils, by decreasing
the individual Inas hitherto attendant opon this ope-
ration. Any person now taking gold to the Mint
in bars, may receive half the weight back in coin
in six days, Hod the whole in three 'seeks. It is ex-
tremely desirable that even ibis space of time should
be farther diminished, and nothing but a very
strong encouragement of this nature will induce in-
dividuals to import gold for coining, and Guist the
operations of the Bank by 'brown% into circulation
a considerable quantity of Reid coin before the
period arrives at which the Mink must commence
its issues in specie.

There war a brilliant assembly at Sir CHABLIS
STUART'S. the British Ambassador to the Court
of France, on Wednesday evening, et which all
tht Foreign Ministers appeared. The dazzling
splendour of a superb diamond chain, worn by the
PERSIAN AMBASSADOR on this occasion, seemed to
draw universal attention. It was the magnificent
present which his Majesty King Gcoaoa IV. made
to the Ambassador, together with the portrait of
that Monarch, adorned with precious stones of the
greatest value.—(Paris Paper.)

On Saturday the dispatches for Madras •nd
Beliel by the "hip bids Carel:Aglow. were closed
at the Evot India House, sod delivered to the Com-
mender of that ship.
l'amoviiwna per .hip Lady Carrington:—
Fur Mertrse..-111n. B. lorry, sod News. Perrier, Cole-
brook', loopy, sod Wood, Cadets.
Foe Bengal —Mr. W. Foley, Cadet. . . _

Saturday the dispatches were closed at the East
India House, and delivered to the Commanders of
the following ships. viz.--
Brothers, Captain R. Stamp, aril Camden, Captain J.
Johnson—fur Bombay direst.
Passenger p-r ship Brother:
Fur Bombay—Mr. Henry Lambert Arden, Asaistast-
Surgeon.
Passenger per ship Camden:—
Mr. H. J. Nihilism', Cadet.

Au official account has been published. •hewing
the sinouid of the income and charge on the Con-
solidated Fund for the year ending January 5,
1820, including Great Britain and I►elaud. From
this document. it appears that tire income for
Great Britain thermic that period is 41,725,9291.
and that the charge amount. to 46,080,4641. =ek-
ing • deficiency of 4,355.4051. The income for
Ireland is slated at 4,251,903/. and the charge at
2.394,3311. •hewing tot excess in the Irish revenue
of 1.867,372/. The deficiency in the income of
the Corsolithrted Funds of the United Kingdom.
as compared with the charge, is thus reduced to
2,497,8331. Among the items of charge on the
fond for England are, 210,000/. fur the Doke of
Wellington, slid 72,889/. for iuterest of Exchequer
hills issued to make gu.ud the deficierciee on the
Consolid.ited Fund. The accumulated amount of
the deficiency for the preceding years is not giver.
iu this return, nor have we the documents at hand
to refer to ; but we toiderstwird it .o be little ►hort
of nine millions at the period of making up the
general account.
By a return made from the Exchequer, it ap-
pears that the amount of bills in circulation on the
Sth January, 1840, was 36,303.200/. being a di-
minution, compared with the amount in circulation
on the sth January, 1819, of 6,005400/. in that
portion of the unfunded debt. This diminution
has been principally effected by the payments o'
the late loan, half of which was made receivable in
Exchequer bills.
Money. we understood, is so remarkably abund-
ant in the city, that good bills are readily discount-
ed at 4. or in some instances. 31 per Cent.; and
for very short period• at 3, or even 4 per cent. This
tends to deprive the Bank, who never discount at
leas then 5 per cent. of one great source for the
eurploymesit of their capital. and has oraisted in
procuring credit for the report very generally circu-
lated, that the Directors have finally determined
not to require from Guveroment the payment of the
second five millions during the
_present year.
If this report be correct. the Casucimhoit of the
EXCHkQUER will probably not find it necessary to
have recourse to the market for the loan of five mil-
lions. which was ►aid last year would he required
for the purpose of paying off so much of the public
debt to the Bank.

On Wethmestlay time Tamar. 44. Capt■in A.
Srusw. sailed from Portsmouth for the Jamaica
station; Ilse Sappho. Capt mist l'unetttDoe, itsiended
for time Cm k station. is ghee out of harbour; the
&feria, 44. Captosim Tour NICOLAS. C.B. will
soil in a few days fur the Newfouodisust stollen;
the ',diet, Sir JAMES GORDON. K.C.B. *out
tout of harboor on Saturday morning.
Time Conway. 44, is ordered to be prepared for
comutismou at Portsmouth.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 27.--Sir GEORGIL COCK-
imam and Sir GIiQBGE CLURS (Lords of the Ail.
rowdily) have this week made sus inspection of the
ships in ordinary et the Doek-yard, Breakwater,
Ike. at this port. Sunday sailed the American ship
Hesry Cloy. CARNS, for Virginia, hesluur on
board about forty passengers from this port
arid the brig Speen/Visa. Ricuauus. for
Quebec, with goods end perriertgere. On Man.
day, is eoninreanoretiott of his Msjerry'r birth.
day, the sili Veteran Banshee,- 79th Regi.
nreut. mid Royal Marines, fired 'feu de joie. and
the betterres mad ships a royal mime. The 79'h
is trader seders for Cork, to be relieved by the Pith
regiment from Dover.

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