The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-10-19 (London, England)

OCT. I.s.—The Omni de Panin, Secretary to the Russian Legation at Madrid; who passed through Bordeaux on the 11th instant, is going express to Madrid. We learn officially that an English brig, which sailed from Quilca on the 2d June, arrived at Cadiz on the 28th of September, at ten in the evening. It brought passengers, a Spanish Brigadier-General, and a Lieutenant-Colonel, sent by the Viceroy La Serna, with despatches for Madrid. The Asia (of the line) and the Achilles brig, had anchored at that time (21 June) in the port of Quilca, thirty leagues to the south of Lima.—Etoile.  - . Private letters from Spain contain some rumours scarcely credible, viz. that 1,500 Constitutionalists, commanded by Colonel Valdes, have effected a descent at Benicaolo, and defeated the troops sent out to attack them from Valencia; and that several vessels, with Constitutionalists on board, had appeared off Valencia and Almeira. A very obvious question suggests itself, from whence have all these Constitutionalists come? These alarming rumours arc most likely set afloat by the fanatics, to serve as a pretext for the persecution and murder of persons supposed to be of the Liberal party. These fanatics commit the most horrible excesses.  Extract of a private letter, dated Lisbon, September 29 : —" The projects of April 30, to overthrow the Government, and to introduce a perfect despotism into Portugal, have not been stopped either by the favour shown to some guilty persons, or by the severe punishments inflicted on others. One party of the milks continues the same course, and the Government has just discovered another plan for accomplishing that object in which they before failed. A conspiracy was to have broken out at Lisbon on the 26th current, for which a great number of armed men were already collected in one of the suburbs, who, united with one regiment, were to proceed to the different prisons, release the prisoners, and then surround and make the King prisoner, and murder the Ministers. A great number of persons have already been arrested, in consequence of this conspiracy having been discovered, and among them are some persons of diainction.—Report says, that the Queen's party, with the Patriarch at their head, have set this conspiracy on foot, and that immense sums of money have been expended. The Government has published a decree, prohibiting the entrance of any Spaniard into the kingdom, who is not provided with a passport signed by the Portuguese Ambassador at Madrid. The merchants complain much of this measure, because the smugglers, who carry out of Portugal a great quantity of English goods, will be prevented from coming. The merchants of Elvas have asked for its repeal."—Constitutinand. It is reported that advices have been received from Tricte, announcing the defeat of the Egyptian fleet, with the loss of eighty transports, two frigates, and one brig.— Glohe and Traveller.  A letter, dated Venice 29th Sept. states, that on the day before there arrived in that port two vessels from the I. of ('orfu in nine days, the Captains of which reported that the Creek fleet, having attacked the fleets of Constantinople and Egypt, off Smyrna, succeeded in destroying (by the means of its fire-ships) three Corr, ttt s, or frigates, and in taking two others, with SO transports. By letters from Trieste, dated the 4th inst. we learn, that in the kingdom of Naples additional duties on the importation of almost every article imported from this country will be levied trim the Ist of January next—and the Austrian Government, as wo arc informed by these letters, has issued a decree, imposing a duty amounting almost to aprohibitiou on cradled sugars:  LAVAL PR 0 M OTI On s —Commanders A. D. Y. Arbuthnott, and It. 11. Barclay, the seniors of their rank who wt re employed at Algiers, are promoted to the rank of Captain. —Lieutenant Andrew Drew, first of the Thetis, is promoted to the rank of Commander ; and Mr. Arthur Hood Row sell, Mate, to the rank of Lieutenant, for their services in defence of Cape Coast Castle.—Mr. Thomas Cobbe, late of the Terror bomb, and Mr. Davis, of the Bulwark, are proangled to the rank of Lieutenant.  TO