The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-26 00:00:00

•tar Sart. The wltole carp, *Lich wee for account oti%e
Paella of Egypt, sod estimated at 250,000 piastres, is lost.
The trade of Egypt is is time most wretched aitaatisa.

The dispatches brought by the Hon. gTAW-
nonll from India contain the most satirfsctory
accounts of the state of that interesting and im-
postuut quarter of the gh;be..—With the ex-
uplift. of SellthlAll, all the other States and
Pelleffletelf opposed to the British interests had
lubmit*d to the policy end views of the Marquis
of HArithWit The Officer whip has brought these
dispatches is not the sou of the Earl of HAULING-
,OI4 be is a 'cousin of the karl oT Cautsa-
Stn.%

The &Bowie* 'irethietlens id stile Army are, 'bre
believe, finally settled. vie..-the sloth, 24th, and
isth Regiments of thegoiiet I also the slat and
ter! Dragoons, which tern latter ire in fodia—and
'dawn to the 9 &fiat! of iefintry ; ten sub-
lateens from each' Regimad St Foot Goals...sod
II men per company of each ittqiiatent of Foot.;
two battalions of the Goth Regiment, one ditto
Ride • Brigade, ell Foreign Cape, and Seeond
Lieutenant-Coleaels Second Majorette to remain.
. . .
On Wednesday the Saniskider frigate. Captain
ELLIOTT; C.B. arrived at Portsmouth from
the Leeward Island., triter a passage of 23 days
from Barbodoes, to be paid off, having served her
stated period. She left Admiral Heaver, in the
Antelope, SO, Captain G. SATZ' (2). at Trinidad,
.whence he intended to sail (after the hurricanes had
ceased) about the ldth of October. for Barbadoes.
The Childeve, Captain Warraore, had left the
station for Roglaad. The Seaatander brought dia.
patchtra hem Lord Coilitamiths. The accounts
she beings of the Patriotic cause on the Spanish
Maki, are. &tidally favourable on that side.--
The last operatioce were attended with tbe cap-
tore of Goire wad all the shipping there, by the
naval
.force under the Patriot Admiral Batos
and General BtaehrOas. It appears, though
the proceedings off our squadron are regulated
by the most rigid principles of neutrality, o'er
Metelialita have far greater mason to complain
of the lawless capricious conduct of the Spanish
Royalist Oates (aa they are called), than they
he.. of soy of those numerous mixed indivi.
dials who have espoused the Independent cause.
Sitiof. recently captured four of our merchant
teem).. carried them auto Oahu. end refused to
girt theta up, Captain ELuorr was dispatched
thither, is. the Seammoder, by Admiral HARVET,
to Apiiiirreatitetiou or the vessels, or a compen-
sation for their beat if refined, he wee to resat
to face. The .CloveretiE ere • pelapptrity re-
fold f bit distaide 1 ea therefore, Captain
Banner housediately cleared- the slinsterider for
shake .heat ta qiunitii—ind hoisted the signal
fee" hauls at the maim The warden were de-
: ilightwf with the prospect berme them. Bat, pre-
; sisisia to the completion of the preparations, • Admiral
BMW who betPurviVed with his farce. with the
Waite •
altiveities; the pleat, pawned to Captain
Rater" sw sempead his imirdahliti; until he had
Aria& the. ettack;' gad, if lie should prove see-
cessfol; he smile engage to deliver hp the fair
Bela% • nags to Captain LiLttiTt. This was
• aweed to; and Admiral Bans and General
ceitatteeced their operations at four
o'clock in the allernon of the 24th of August.—
nOWIng, from experience, the dastardly charac-
ter of their adversary, they landed about 70 men
and boys in the mode, near the fort, which force
they contrived • olitisild be magnified, by report in
the place. to 500 uses. These few men commenced
lid /ring of their pieces with the utmost rapidity,
one malting the most frightening hallooing noise.
Orli* the squadron kept up a vigorous bombard-
meet of the fort. Very moo the Spaniards took
ffiskt, shout 330 in number, and deserted the place
the utmost precipitancy. Baton took-posies-
star of the vessels,• including nine gin-boats, mid
Beitiiites entered the townostel secured
•ell the propaty. Boom defiveted up' the 'four
Lfedlitlt merdhantntin, as he had agreed. His force
1111111misteil of the Vittoria, of ga guns two beige; two
• sthotaters, and'elgtit ;dui-boats. There area great
mamba of English Olken employed in the Ind*.
• irehrfent cause, Wilk, if tlitf fall into the handi of the.
.40auiards, aro treated with the most savage cruelty.
Capt. &Aloft wet shocked at thesight oran
stews of their atrocity, on the person of an English
Surgeon. (who had, been formerly in the British
)(ran, whose bodythe ear lying on the beach at
Gant, stabbed issoli•perts, and his head fleetly se-
vered from his hard). Ile had been taken prisoner in
one of lioron't vessels previous to the attack on the
plat*, whilst on his 'passage to join the Independent
teeeps.—Just previous to the Scuriresider's sailing,
about 14 Lieutenants of the British Navy left the
Independent service. and shipped themselves iu a
brier neneturn home they could not obtain the
Amy thilt was due to them.—During the zealous
stegvice• of the Seaniender , in protecting the trade
'of fith country, when improperly interrupted. or
. peoventing the principle* of it from violation, she
' MOW end condemned ten- vessels of vatioes de.
segaitious. for breaches of the Navigation Lows:—
One, an American-built vessel, manned chiefly by
A Istria oil, her cargo. the property of citizens of the
Unites/Stott% sod her register a false one : another.
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