The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-02-10 (London, England)

STATE' OF SPAIN.  A letter from Barcelona, dated 15th January, states,' ' that assassinations are committed quite commonly in Catslonia•by the partisans on each side. Lately, in the district of Argentera. in the jurisdiction of Tarragona) the bodies of a Captain of Royalist volunteers, and four individuals of his company, who had been murdered, have been found; at Vilarrodona, the Mayor has had his throat cut in his own house. At Sanahueja, a young man who bad borne arms under the Constitutional standards, and who had been admitted as a substitute in one of our regiments, bad obtained leave of absence, and had lately been to visit his family; whilst here he went to play at tennis, the favourite game of theinhabitanta. Upon hislaving the ill fortune to beat his opponents, they set up the cry of " Death to the A'rero!" and as they were proceeding to put their threats into execution, the young man, being obliged to defend himself, drew his poniard and struck to the ground two of the boldest. In the meantime the police came up, upon which the young man surrendered himself to them without resistance ; he was shut up in a dungeon, where he was left loaded with irons. The populace soon after assembled round the prison, broke open the doors, placed a rope round the neck of the unfortunate man, and dragged him into the streets, where he expired in the most shocking torments, every one pressing forward to strike him with sticks, swords, poniards, &c. Since the restoration, it is computed that more than forty Negros have been assassinated, without the authorities having dared or been willing to take measures to punish the assassins.  Letters dated 4th December are in town from Penitentbuco. At that period the most perfect tranquillity prevailed. They bring no news. Trade was dull. We are somewhat amused with a statement contained in one of the last numbers of the Jamaica Gazette. Dr. Orderson, the rector of Christchurch. Barbadoes, has, with praiseworthy zeal, published several long letters, which he addressed to Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Stephen, eight or nine years ago, in vindication of the colonists generally, and especially to prove that the insurrection of the Slaves, in 1816, was produced by the Registry Bill, and not by the oppression of the proprietors. These letters, we dare say, are considered very interesting to the Rev. Gentleman's friends, though they are not in our judgment remarkable for much-novelty of illustration or force of argument. The Jamaica Gazette, however, holds them to be of such tranuendent merit, that " undue influence" only could induce us to refuse them insertion. The statement is— " From some undue influence the publication of them vu re. fused in the Courier and the British Press newspapers, published in London." We have one fact to state in our justification, which will,. we think, be sufficient with all but the Rev. Author himself perhaps. Printed in our smallest type, these letters, which relate to events passed by upwards of eight years, would have filled more columns of our paper than we could have devoted to that or any one purpose for a week. This will surely explain why we did not publish them, without supposing that we were exposed to any " undue influence." A Hamburgh Paper says, that Sir Walter Scott intends making a tour in Sweden and Norway, in order to make himself acquainted with the localities and customs of countries where he has laid the scene of a new work, which he is writing.