The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1820-08-25 (London, England)

PAPERS. . ./ • HANOVER, AUGUST L Several samosa have passed through this city, who are to give evidasoe before the House of Lords respecting the conduct of the Queen of England, during her last vi.it td berthany. Letters received by the knglish here from their friend, at home do not stietk with she same con. &lessee as formerly of the peaceable issue of this lemons trial. The decision in the Upper House, they say, does not seem doubtful ; but its reception in England, and the execution or any sentence are not so certain. The prudent and collected conduct of the Queen since her return gains her; they •ay, important suffrages, and the women in partittilar espodse her cause. The principal inhabitants are not: gone to the watering places, but the Labouring classes are employed in the royal palaces, as the Duke of Cambridge is expected back this Summer, and we have not given up the hope of seeing the King.—/Supplement to the eillgesteine 7.eitsiNg. Argent 15.1  ♦IENNA, AUGUST ht. Irons one of our correspondents at Leghorn we have received the following particulars of the dreadful events at Palermo, as related by an eye-wittiess who left that city on the 19th July. When this Ira. yeller departed, the military, after three.days' massame, had been entirely overpowered; several hundred lay dead in the streets, the rest were imprisoned in the. dungeon of the galley slaves, before which the same criminals kept guard who had been confined there only a few days before. Cannon loaded with grape shot are placed before the prison to fire on the imprisoned soldiers at the first signal. Three or four thousand inhabitants of Palermo likewise lay dead in the streets. The Government, if such it can be called, was in the hands of the various directors of trade, who commanded the armed populace, and formed a kind of senate. whose despotic orders were summarily executed by the mob under its influence. The general cry wss independence, and eternal separation from Naples ; but those who first set up this cry had already disappeared from the stage, or if ally one of them sliewed himself, he was immediately the victim of the popular fury. The heads of the Princes Cattolica and Villa Franca (the last Minister (luring the Sicilian Parliament, and both the moot zealous revolutionists in the country) were fixed upon poles in the middle of the city, and their bodies quartered and exposed in four different streets. Many other persons, among whom are mentioned the commander of the port. and, as some affirm, Prince Priem) and Prince Couto, have likewise been murdered. The victims of private revenge a►e innumerable. For the mere attempt to conceal three or four officers • man was shot, and his body nailed to the door of his own house. A great many houses were plunder. ed or the furniture thrown into the street and burnt ; to increase those horrors, provisions were becoming scarce, as nothing was brought to market in the general confusion. while thousands of armed peasants kept pouring into the city on all sides. It was generally believed that in case of famine, the soldiess in the prisons would be left to starve. An embargo was laid on all vessels in the harbour of Palermo, and the oars of all the rowboats taken away. The crews of many of those vessels were thrown into prison. As far as was known the rest of the Wood was tranquil, but the wish for independence and separation from Naples was general ; Messina alone seemed to adopt the con. stitution, if the seat of government were removed from Palermo to Messina. Accounts from Palermo of the 20th are more consolatory. The Archbishop proceeded through the streets with the cross, and exhorted the people to humanity and tr►nquillity ; it was hoped that the latter would be gradually restored.—(Anstrion Observer, ANgNst 14j