American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-07-30

thlng saVorlng OF liberal principles. The MaDches
ter Chamber OF Commerce had also petltioned il
favor OF recognizing South American liberty
Petitions had been presented in both houses o
parliament from the Dissenters against the Test
and Corporation oaths. That in the house of Com
mons was signed by 10000 individuals.
The bill TO repeal the act for preventing artizan.
leaving the country, was read third time and pass
ed in the House Of Lords Parliament was to be
prorogued on the Gath June.
A Paris paper of the 9th June announces the
removal OF M Hyde de Melville from the post Of
ambassador at Lisbon, and the appointment Of the
Baron de Roger in his place.
GREECE.-Letters from Greece convey the
agreeable intelligence that the Turks, who had ef-
fected landing in Gambia and Negropont, were re.
pulsed al the first mentioned place. with great saugh-
ter. The force OF Ulysses at Megropont was con-
siderable, and 1t was fully expected that the utmost
extent OF the evil OF the arrival of the Turkish troops
would be TO prolong the ressiances of that fortress.
The Turks are said to have abandoned all idea Of
invading The Morea this summer.
The Russian Emperor expected at Warsaw,
TO be present at the opening Of the Polish Diet and
in place Of going to the baths of Carlsbad in Bohe
mia, 1t is said the Imperial Autocrat would honor
the southern provinces of his vast empire with his
presence, and extend his tour to Astrachan and the
Caucasus. The Vienna papers contradict the re-
ports OF another Interview between Francis and AL
exaDder.
Information of the passage into law of the Ia
riff Bill had reached England. The high import
rates, observes The Hull Advertiser, imposed on
British goods by this absurd law, will be severely
felt in the manufacturing districts of the country ;
but we have no doubt II will be felt more iniutious
~ in America.
a meeting had been held in London, and mea-
sures adopted, Tor the purpose OF erecting a monu-
meBt TO the memory OF the late Mr. James Watt,
the celebrated engineer.
The widow of Riego is represented TO he in dy-
ing state. Her medical attendants considered her
hopeless.
The Right Hon. Lord Henry Thomas Howard
Molyneux Howard. deputy earl marshal oil Engan
and brother 10 his grace the Duke Of Norfolk, died
III London on the 18th June.
Accounts from Bengal to the 18th February, re-
present the Companys possessions to be perfectly
quiet, but that war with the Burmese seemed in
eVitable.
Doctors Munro and Tu,hill, having certified tina;
Robert Gourlay subject to mental alterations
and not considered of sound mind he had been
dered to De detained until properly disposed Of by
his friends He had written another letter to the
Editor of the British Press respecting Mr.. Ovens
plan for the improvement of the Irish in which he
says thai Owen had been Justly treated with con
tempt, because he would not join with him (Gour
iay) IN promoting the same object; and adds, that
this circumstance " may go SO far IN proving me
more sound Of mind than parliamentary doctors ina
CINE"
Eigh, persons had been brought to trial, and con
yiced, in London, Tor selling free thinking works,
and sentenced to various degrees Of punishment
some OF them to three years Imprisonment. Instead
oil preventing the sale of these books the prosecu
lions had increased the number of venders several
Of whom were IN custody for trial.
Accounts from Galway, in Ireland, represent the
western part of that county as in state of" fright
ful distress and that the condition Of the country
was SO alarming, that if the peasantry were not re-
lieved, " starvation must be the inevitable conse-
quence." The iyphus fever had also sci in, and
several families were reduced 10 scanty morsel
once in twenty four hours. There was total want
Of employment.
LONDON, June 18.
The G0tG Const-Official accounts have been
received confirming The melancholy intelligence oil
The death Of Sir Charles MCanhy.
Cane C0ast, March 1O.--His excellency Sir
Charles Mccarthy arrived here from Sierra Leone
III December last, and in the early part OF January
marched TO the interior towards the river Free, with
an army of between six and seven thousand men,
chiefly natives, and West India regiment. On
the 2ist Jan. near Pree, most sanguinary battle
was fought in which nearly one hundred OF the enc
my we're slain, but the ammunition being expended,
our little army was surroundedby about 10000 and
the greater part cut to death with long knives, in
a most horrible manner. The heads oil nine white
officers were exhibited near one spot, with the Jaw
bones taken out--an invarable practice with these
savages when they take enemy alive
The body OF The lutte Sicilian dwarf, who recent
~ died in London, had been presented TO the Royal
College Of Surgeons, by the person who had exhib.
tied her when alive. The father, who IT appeared
resided in Dublin and was only aPprized by the pub
Tic papers OF the death OF his child, arrived in Lon
don only in time to recognize its dismembered trunk
in the dissecupg room of the college. 1t appears
the child had been taken surreptitiously from its
parents
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