The National Register. — London, England, 1808-05-15 00:00:00

MAY 15. . ...- ....... str;kiag. The figure stands ,at a table on which the left hand :rests ; and those who remember Mr. Pitt Will Olive Lreat plea sure is loOlsiug at a portrait which convey . leer accurite Gulden nf his totirode, cswntenance, and manner. 'Some persions have complained of a feverish appearance in the . (nee but we own that to as the picture appears to he eiteediagly well-coloured, and in as instance to " trerstep the modesty of nature , " 1 Vu understand that Ntr.sLawrence tans this a posthumous plc , . lure, becluse he painted it from the dead body of Mr. Pitt. fiat surely this dues not make the picture posthumous. A post humous poem is a poem published after the poet's death ; and. she propel mensiog of the words " a posthumous picture," seems to he a picture exhibited after the death of she painter. Accordiag to Air. Law react's vocabulary, every *talent history may be called si posthumous work, since it is .publkhed oker the death of the persons who constitute its subject. . _ ~„ 'AUTICAL INTELLI(iENCE. - - Pt.s st o 17TH, MAY 10.—The Citeerly pastille, Which Veit's . ed Isere esterday, brought dispatches from Admiral Sir U. Cots ton's tleet off the Tagus, which sbe left all Well, twelve days since. She brings intelligence of all exp loit performed by • the boats of the Nymph frigate, and Blossom sloop of war, filar me, which from each of those ships. manned and armed s 'proceeded. up the Tagus, about three weeks since, under stover of the night.; in order to attack a large Portuguese brig; insiinititig 20 guns, manned with a French crew, Whit% lay mewred abase Belem Castle, and immediately off the city of Littans. the boats got very near her . before they were diseaverfr...d, when a tremendous ifire was ripened upon them from the shir:;, and-from s everal them-' • sand troops a hick Bard the shore. Vaptain Shipley, the C001"; 4 , snaader of the Nymph, headed thelxpedition, amlgot ant along tiide the enemy, and was the first:vim attempted to board, which, he had nearly erected, when he was nnfurtunately shot by Is musket-ball. and intmediattAy fell oierboard, and was seen nee . snare This _calamitous eircumstatice so damped the spirits of the boat's crews, and fitsd . ing themselves opposed by such an im nesse force, the euterprize *as forthwith abandoned, and the I,aats retuoned dar' n thesbarbour with the loss, of their brave' Commander., sciunatt killed, and a midshipnian and ;three' seamen wawo - ted. Captain Shipley is represented a mostbrave and gallass' 011Secr, about 26 sears of age- OUTII ! , MAY 11. —An Officer arrived this morning in a 1' 34 .et from Sicily, six days from Gibraltar. Ile says, the ).''reach and Spanish fleet , ittriuding the Rochefort squadron, leas certainly relieved Corfu ; and, on its return, Lord Collings wond's squadron was just in time to perceive it go into Toulon. There is reason to think, that one of our friptos is taken by the french and Spanish tieet, as a frigate was sent out from Malta to araltar, to five notice of the French squadrons being in the Mediterranean, nail having joined the Spanish squadron, has rot since been heard of. This Officer has been but a month from Sicily, and the packet he came in has been attacked three times ay privateers, on her passage 160111 e. The Rochefort *qua slron, it appears, meant to have landed their troops in Sicily, but did not, front an idea that our reinforcements had arrived; but this nut being the case, the French have lost the opportu nity. At Gibraltar, it is said, that Bonaparte has sworn to take that fortress, and his people have been at Algesira' to re connoitre it. He will tied it, however, a tough job, for the improvements are beyond all conception. BOXING. On Tuesday the match between Gully and Grerson, Horton nod ('rib, and Dutch Maui and Cropley, took place in Sir J. : , eahriglit'i Pork, near 3larket-street, Dens, after it had been prevented at three other places. It w I'S nearly three o'clock, u hen a ring etas formed, by permission, in Sir John's Park — and the first ex hinition took place between c ih and Dorton, timidst a tremendine4 fall of rain. A ring was next formed for e;ollrY and Grt•gson. They set to tzt half past three o'clock, wilt) th..ir seconds, Joe Ward and Gibbons for Gdley, and Lee nod lticlonin fur Gregson. nettinr five to four on Gully. The rounds continued in favour of Gully till the 17th, when tiregson lust his temper, and run in upon his adversary, who hept hitting and getting away from him in a manner whirl, ex% cited astonishment. lie turned his hack to his man twice in the x . ound, and made towards the ropes; but Gully changed his trout, fioLed him, and kept him from falling until he hail ruf f/ailed him into an apparently senseless state, and then drupped him quietly betiVeell his arms. 1-leveu utter ruuuds weiv fought, and Gregsoa was constantly *4- e veer . E ATI ON ArijartatrA •• ' tl9 receiving treaseidois blossom the hued and loins ; he was fight ing under* every slistitivantage of weakness, blindness, Re. and comequeotly unabletsi mrn'the career of his adversary. In the :sth mutat he'reeeiyed two trinucudous blows, which decided it in the 2Stii• 'when Gregsnn could not be brought'to the mark of setting to in'time ; ht also received a severe hit in the car iu the rth round. Gully fought with studied castion% and when he bad his an tagonist at • tallying, there' was- not one instaoce where Gully failed. l'he - chaMpien was also hi much better condition than when he fought at Newmarket, and, never betrayed symptoms betrayed symptoms of Weakness. After the battle Gully nddressed the ring; tind informed them publicly, he was so situated that he never inteided to fight n,tatio, nor would he hive done so in this instance, had be not• been bound in h o nour to comply with firegson's challenge. lie had id this instance fought with a Mole arm, and Gregson surely ' would not decirito combat with him again. The battle lasted one hour n, ;at quarter. CRIB AND HORTON. This contest, lasted the same time ns the former, but bettiogs ' were Sir to four at setting to, and they gradually rose to the end -of the light. It was not a good match, and Crib beat kis ad versary n ithonfreceiving much injury. • . DCTCH SAM AND CILOPLtY. This was a real scientific combat of thirty-five minutes, and WO NON by Dutch Sam tolerably easy. Oar limits will not admit of our entering into particulars. • The fighting was mot over until seven o'clock in the evening. • • t FIRES. Tuesday morning, about four o'clock, a fire wits atedlitglra in lb: back warehouses of Mr. Scott, linen-draper, in Smithfield, which soon communicated to St. Bartholomew's church hiljnin 'log. Fortunately, by the activity of a fireman, who cut away a partition, the flames were prevented from extending to thit part of Mr. Scott's house, were his books, Rc. were deposited Lin doing which, some of the ruins fell and injured litmso much nfiat he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. By the Ktent exertions of a considerable number of Macro:it boys, in stipplying the entwines with water, which they had to fetch f;orts ' kconsiderable distance, the church WAS preserved, with only the ' destruction of the vestry, oat of which the registers were res cued by the intrepidity of the watchman of the Hospital. On Wednesday morning, between three and four o'clock, a Ere broke nut in the yard of Mr. Coates, a ynteb-boibler,4ll44ksek friars-road.- Several new and old carriages, the work-shops, &c. as also several teneateuts, were destroyod. The fire was occasioned, it was said, by the carelessness of a hackney coach man, in leaving a light in his carriage after putting it up, at a late hour on Tuesday evening. It is impossible to describe the distress of the people living at the hack of • the premises--they were running about naked, almost frantic, while others were hosilreinployed in removing their furniture, &c. In the con fusion, a Jew, of the wane of Solomon , who had put his purse into his pockets step robbed of it, which contained a coasi derahle sum. Same morning, at half past six o'clock, a ire broke out ata pawnbroker's, in Portpool-lane, Gray's Inn-lane. A dreadful tire broke out, on Wednesday last, in the wire howl, of Messrs. rector and Co. at Dover, wbicltit is said As stto)ed property to the amount of 30,00)1. • MARRIED. At Surinam, in October last, Cherie; Frederici, Esq. sop to .1. F. Fmlerici, Esq. late Governor of that colony, to Min Van Otomaron, of the some Colony, an agreeable young lady, with a large fgrione. At 11.qt*, Major Pilkingtoo, to Bliss Gibbs, only daughter of the Attorney-General. DIED. Tuesday, nt hitehall, after a lingeringillness, the lion. Anne Smith, daughter of Lord Carrington. At the Deanery, Rocking, the Right Hon. and Rey. Lord C. Aynsley, only brother of hii Grace the Duke of Athol. At Thunsam, Mr. S. Jotter: lie was remakable fur his pe mtriou, economy. From the situation of a Gentleraao's coach man, he rotze to the possession of a Curtin*, and accumulated the sum of 27,000/. by denying himself the enjoyments of life. He has bequeathed his property to a nuiber of poor relations, to whom, daring his life, he paid no attention. A niece, with a large Emily, to whom he left WOOL died at Maidstone, on Wed nesday • I i lIF I• V I