The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1803-07-07 00:00:00

o . '" pplinwrrw•- - 41' VIE COURT. Yesterday, soon after 12 o i clock, his MaitSTY arr ived at St. James's Palace from Kew. ills MA- JtsTV was Met by the Duke of CARI •KI Dog, at the garden gate, who handed his Royal Parent out of his carriage. About one o'clock the Levee commenced, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Duke of CASIBRIDDE, the Archbishop Of CANTERBURY, the Archbishop of Dunt.in, the Lotto CHANCELLOR, the 1,.;t0 'Oiler JusTice of the Court of Common i'le::-., the Cil ANC ZI.LOR. of the E.:te it EQUE It, the SE• citiTsrtEsof STATE, the SscnyTARY at WAR, the i.-tn NI Avon, the RECORDER of London, their FA - ccllencie s tho Spanish, Rivarian, Prussian, Da nish, Swedi:.h, Rtissi.sti, Tr-Teri:Ll, POTIIIgUeSC, 114- oc‘ctian, and W irtemburgian Ambassadors ; and there were present, Dake,—Rnstm,e, and Carnbrid:e.nd Circello. Mvquis:es-....touglas, sal;:bo ry, a rarls—Gall, way, Chatham, Suffolk atA W stmorelancl. Vtgoontf...•Faltnuuth, St pford, t,,ewther, and Sydney. Lent..—Selsey, Amherst, liaryey, llohatt, normally, Ban tory, Waliiinghatii, Mulgrive, iklvailley and ,id fling. Billyolit--Ciiiiehe,ter Giouce.ter. Rochester, tio St. A621)11. ital".iiraliefl., ielmont and Lentha Sir.--G. Oidnwit, S. Cost nell, H. Popham, C. Rich, E. K catch bull, 3 Rot?, E. Littletiii, and J. Aodrews. The Rot. Drs Busby and Madan. rale-iiieWaldiritriff, Coburn, Smith, Bland, Wi lford, non- Oznedot, Phipps, and I. -die. Cionei...--llar., Newenhani, Wigan, Wetriten , Troliope, Giant, and D'Oyley. Captain 3enkinion. Meatra.i-ett. nii , Wralaß, /rid:bison, Milne, M'Kensie , On,low, S. itverie. k i ltlington, Calvert, Adam , Smith, B Curry, Wtight, Methuen, Nice , barn, Wynne, Annesley, Eragge, B„ilie, :damning. and 0 mat,,. Among the Presentations to his 14 AJEST It Were, Colonel ist: gin, ni th , London Militia, on his pro - Veutenant Mo tion to that rank, It/ Colonel Newnham, in c.msequence oithaysien.tims of Sir Watki • LOWei. Ur. Mli.e, by the Nfaripis Douglas . Le I farovel;* data Mr. Dinliey R yit-r), was at the Levee fur the hist time sine , hi : ci iroir g to t'.e ti t l e his being ap Egon B•lhoont, I'v Mr. Spencer Smith, pointed Enro n E traorriittary ti Wirti:isiburg. Mr. Ronan, Is Ste Geo.% . 04,,un Ili4 Excellency Geta-r.l W itertorf, by the Danish Minhaer. E u sign Jerrhiniton, of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards by Feld Marbal G.:neral Cobwon, on his protnution by 'Lail MINI Chatham o, on his mar7i.tge, by Mr. Serjeant Mr Jams 1111 C ensi Ons Colonel flare, I 1, , ,n1 Pelham. InOn ArmlessOv the Pruoiialt Ni. Bransitie, by the PoortoguL-se . in Wiwi W. W. Wynse, upon a p,.ointiner.t as His Maje.,ty's E-isr Estraortlinary to the Court of The Rev. Dr. BVSRY came with the CH At CELI.O sf the ExcHxactit to be presented to His M*a f.sT on his Church Preferment, but was deprived of that honour, not arriving at St. James's till the Levee WAS over. The I.evee closed. a few minute before two o'clock, when His M AJEsty held a Privy Council for the purpose of receiving the Ktcor.nr.7.'s Report of the Convicts cast for death at the last Old Bailey Sessians, and we u:idersta nd they .xere all reprieved during His pleasure, except the man for shooting at Mr. .Tovrtisr.Ho at his own door in St. James's Place. Alta: which liis Jt.si It gave private audiences to the Archbishop of C su ms,. the CII.424CELLOR of the ExcitErVra, Lords Hollant, Pit HA %1 , , and Ifassio.ssesv, Earl Ser. tot.n, and CHAT*: sm. At four o'c'xck His M?.JI:STV set off for Kew to dinner. This day Iler IkIaiLSTY will . hold a Drawing room. A list of the fashionable removals from the me tropolis, which took place yesterday at the West end of the town : Viscount Somerton, Archhisbo:t of Dublin, for Ireland Ldtd Dullard, for Bothwell Castie, near aisgow Lot! CaII, :6 Whit:Ord-hoes:, IteAT Callington, Cornwall Dowattin Lady Harterood, to tzantsgate Doke of Atwater, to Grimstost-c - . , tle Zarl of Uxbridge, to Windsor Lord Steleille, to Wimbledon Lord Mec.irteity, to Corry-house, Chiswick -• 11. Slildinay, to monlihaili-huit L Coityngharn, to Dublin L Mom: aid Mr. Dickson, to Taptow }, di of Effingham, to G rang e, Rotherham. Yerishift Sir W. Asliburishem, to Broonsliain, Hastings Mrs. Hanby's, to Eillnin Mrs Pocock, to Engiefield-green Sir G. Cvnwall, to Moccas court, Hereford Viscount Bulkeley, to lia -hill, Angles.ry, North Wales Fad of Roseherry, to Bixley-hall, near Norw'ich Lady SUllthAMl4l4ll, Fe:toy-fan% Nordic ex isenont Crtntiorrei, to Chasse Sir W. W Wynne. to Wr e xham Denhiglich:re fail of Carlisle, to Castle Howard: lorkihire General &Lour, to Felistburgh Dowager Lady Sefton, to Stoke-park, Bucks Win. 'Canon Egerton, to 'Down-Park, Cheshire Earl of Leiersri.r, to lUchinceid, Sorry Duchess of Montro,r, Pit. to Reinstate Tholoono, to a eh irErmeotat, Uxbridge Yarl of Tin'serville, to Whastoo, in S . arty timeral Cowell, to Clifton Mr. Dawkins, to Seiollystch, W its Lord powlie-, to Culess, Sussex Yesterday the remains of Mr. Btar.e were re- I moved frUm his town house, in Cumberland-place , for interment at Hanway, with great funeral pomp. They were followed by twelve out riders, four mournin coaches, and near fifty other carriages. }le was g an American merchant, and died worth 1, 1 0,(:001. resented ,firs. SjsTn, of H er tford-street, p her Lard a f.w days ago with a son and heir. Lord III:Nav FirzorAtat.o has taken a new house in Stratford-place. Admind Paaxett has removed from his house in South Maulton-strect, to Portman-place, Padding- P. to:.. • Lady II sstwooo took an airing yesterday for th.: Fs:A time since her late and severe indisposition. Mrs. Cov.t gave last night her last Rout for the season, which was very fashionably attended at her house in Hanover -square. The Marquis of ASERCORN and family arrived last week at their country tesidence, Pam; Court, near Newtown Stuart, county Tyrone. His Lord ship and family took shipping at Port Patrick. Mr. CHAMPION succeeds the late Col. BARRY in his house in St.mhope-street, May-fair. The Countess of G A I.LOW A v gives this evening her last Rout for the season, at her house in Charles 'street, St. J a mes's-square Mr. Jtwien, report suns, will lead the fair Miss L as rotes, niece of Lord HAKI.WOOO, and dau , 4ll- t e r to General LAsceLtss, next week to the Aka . of Hymen. nf TA s lo N. a TO TILE EDITOR OF THE,BRITISII PRESS. Silt, The late interruption of my correspondence with you, might need some apology, had I not good reason to believe, that you are well aware how bu sily I must have been employed in the Councils of France, and especially in assisting the French Bi shops in drawing up their ~ Addresses to the Clergy on the subject of the War !" However, being in that situation much engaged in the contemplation of invasion, I have been perusing in Aylett Sammy' Britannia Antigua Ilvtrata ; or, the Antiquities of Ancient Britai , an account taken from Tacitus, in Vit. Agric. of the invasion of this country by the Romans ; from which I shall here transcribe some a pplicable parts of the speech of Galcacus, previous i to a desperate battle with the ;:"Ivaders. In the 82d year of the Christian :era, the first of Domizian's reign, and the fourth of Agricola's go vernment in Britain, ‘, Glota and Bt lotri a, now Dun-Britton, and Edinbarrough i'ryths, together with all the creeks and havens on this side, were held by the Roman garrisons." In 85,* Agricola :lurched with his army . 4 as far as the mountain Gearrpiul, upon which the enemy was ernbattlei." " Natri," says the I.a:in Historian, 4 , Britanni nihil fi aEti papa: ptioris eventu, et ultioncm gut sei vi tints' e xspeZtantes, tandemque doEti commune peri culum, concor.iia propulsandum, legationibus et fcederibus omniu:n civitatum vices exciverant.'' " The age__ I_ mse / v es would not be exempted from thir d At dais: servia, but as they had been famous in their time, so every one carried before him some badge or tto l .hy of his youthful atchievements. Amongst the rest, Galcacus, chief is authority and birth, when the army cried out for the signal of battle to be given, is said to have spoken to this purpose : t " GA LC .sot ;, his Speech to his Souldiers before lia3le. " As often as I consider the cause of the war, and our present necessity, I ant strongly persuaded tint this day, and this chearful consent ol yours, will give beginning and life to the liberty of all Britain. Arms iv's,' tattle, which to she valia ,, t art honourable. prove now the safest ref age of cowardt.. 4 , Hitherto, in all the battles fought against the Romans, with various success, we have alwaies been hitherto as a forlorne hope, and upon occasions a powerful reserve, because we, the noblest of the island, and seated in the most hidden retirements of it, have never so much as seen the :hoar: of a truck ling nati.on, or p,qlßted car eyes with any conta g ion of statitey. Placed in the extremes of tlvz earth and liberty, we have lived in the inmost chambers of ho nour, beyond which there is no more earth, and bc sas wi, eh there is no fradcm. " Now the end of Britain is discovered, and things known catty less shew and appearance. There are no nations behind to amuse the enemy. Rocks and waves are on that side, and on this Romans, whose pride in vain ye may ;eel to :atisfy with service and ,übniissim, Rua HERS OF THE WORLD, that having now left no land to plunder, ransack the sea itself. ~ If the enemy be rich, they are greedy of his wealth; if poor, they covet glory, whom not the East or West could ever satisfy. The only men in she world, that with equal apps ite seek the rich and needy. To ROB, KILL AND PLUNDER, THEY CALL EMPIRE ; AND WHEN THEY HAVE BROUGHT DESOLATION TO A COUNTRY THEY CALL IT ?RACE. " We, as yet, in our full strength, and never tamed by any, born and not redeemed into liberty, must urge for an encounter, if ever we will spew what manner of man Calidonia bath reserved in store. Do you think the Romans are as valiant in war as they are wanton in peace ? The gods have delivered them, as it were, mowed up and fettered into our hands ; let not the vain stew and glittering of gold and sil ver dazzle you, a thing which neither.defends in itself or annoy eth. , 4 Here is a General, here an army ; there the tti butes, there the mines, with the train of ' liveries, that unseparably attend upon bondage, all which mint for ever be u nde►gone, or in this one battle revenged. WHER 1.- TORE GOING TO RAMC, REAR IN vouß MINDS THE FREEDOM Or YOUR ANCESTORS, AND THE DAN GER OF YOUR POSTERITY I !! [4 , The Britains received this oration with great teNtimonies of joy, as my, confused noise:, after the customs of their country, and a dissonant sort of bowl ing, which chewed their approbation."] Temple, July 2. OLD NICK. * It was itt the year of 86, poet Christ, that the Romans ISM discovered that Britain was an island. t This Speech of Galcacus is very rudely translated trots Tacitus. A report prevails, and we think it by no means improbable, that the late addresses to the Fi Jur CONSUL, which have described him as possessed of that genius which overcomes all difficulties, and pro tected by that fortune which commands victory, will be immediately followed by whets, to implore him not to trust to his genius or his fortune, by ac companying the projected expedition to England. I hey will tell him, no doubt, that a life so dear to the people of France, and so necessary to the liber ties of Europe, is not to be trusted to winds and waves, or exposed to the ferocious perple, against whose shores he meditates his vengeance. - • _ 4g4 - ,- LAW INTELLIGENCE. Nemmx••!• • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, luLv O. DEA,. V. BRATHWAITE. • This was an anion of Trespass, brought by the Plaintiff, a stable-keeper, against Captain Brath waite, for unlawfully seizing two horses, the pro perty of the Plaintiff, and so immoderately driving them, that one of them died and the other was ma terially injured. It appeared that the Defendant, on the 26th of Aiwist last, had hired a chaise and four for the purpose of going to Epsom races. He was accompanied by a Major Morgan, and their valets •, the valets rode inside the chaise, and the Defendant and his friend were in the Larowthe. When they came to Wandsworth Common, the Defeo lant, who wished to get to Epsom time enough for the Derby plates, thought the postil lion did not drive with sufficient speed. He ordered him to dismount, and upon his refusal pulled him off, inhumanly kicked him on the face, and l ft him laying in the road, in a state of insensibility. He then took the reins himself, and drove with such rapidity, that when the animals reached Epsom, they appeared in a state of the utmost distress. One of them, a fine free horse, before in perfeft health, staggered, and fell down. It rose again, was walked about a mile, then fell down, strug gled, and diet. The other was rendere I and incapable of working as usual. The de fence set up was, that the Postillion was drunk, and tiait th • Defendant had therefore pulled him off, and drive the chaise. This defence was attempted to be substantiated by Major Morgan, but there did no: appeAr the least foundation for it. .1 he Jury g.tve a Verdia for 41 1. allowing 361, for the horse, v:hich had been killed, and 51. for the one injured. SHEERNES", JULY 3. Last night, at a late hour, a Dutch Naval Officer arrived with a flag of truce, and landed at the dock yard, where he was received by the Officer c ommanding the dock guard, who condufted him to Lord Keith. We understand he was the bearer of dispatches rd considerable importance, though not a kv or d respeEting their particular contents has trans pired. Th.! dispatches were immediately forwarded t o Government, but the o:ficer is detained un7il an answer is received from London. Lord Keith live. in a ship which has been run aground near the dock yard, his flag is flying on board the ;tit march (Cant. Searl) which passed by this morning for the Ncre. The La Seine ftigate has dropped down, her cc m plem en tcf men is nearly c om l , leated; she is tto roughly repaired, and I believe t' e finest frigate ill the Navy. Large qtrantiti: s of shot have been plaofc ed within this last two or three da y s, by the side the guns. on all the ramparts, one of which may i-e fortunate enough to case the Corsican despot of his ambition, and F;arope of the greatest pest which ever afflicted any put of the world siuce the plagues of Egypt. COXIIEATH CAMP, Joc•r 5. Tlll - . delightful spot continoes to attract crowds of visitor , . The Derhyslthe Regiment have taken their ~:ronnd on th e left of Major-General Thorn ton's 'brigade, and are to he under his command until more Regiments much in to form a separate r ommand for an other Major-General. The Not _ to-da - and as tinglum Regiment is expe:':ted in , , y ; it has, by the la - e drawing tbr precedency, become the youngest Militiiißegirrient in the kingdom, must take its ground on the left cf the whole Camp. It is rather singular, that the Berwick, which was the youngest, list war, is ni;w the oldest. The two (ent Regiments will certainly march here in the course of .t few days. The hest beitlth and disci pline prevail : the men regularly retire to their tents at retreat beating, and never leave them during the night. The troops are very correlt in their behavi our, and the most perfeft discipline prevails. The camp is well supplied with the best forage, meat, &c. which reflects great credit on Mr. I. owl, Cie contraEtor, who is exceedingly attentive. The great est inconvenience felt here is the distance of the wa ter. A pa: ty commanded by an officer i, obliged to go a mile and a half every morning to fetch it. ---------- - DUBLIN. COURT OF EXCIIEQUr.a.—FIIIDAY, JULY 1. TRIAL AT NISI PRIES BEFORE BARO , I GEORGE. The Right Hon. Jacob Poole, Lord Mayor of the city of - Dublin, Plaintiff.—Alexander and Maria Ward, proprietors of the Dublin Journal, Defen- &ants. Mr. Guiarass opened the pleadings, by saying this was an aaion brought by the Lord Mayor against the Defendants, as proprietors of the Dublin Journal, for publishing in their paper of the 13th of January last, a false, scandalous, and malicious libel, set out in the declaration, to which the Defea dants pleaded the general issue. Damages were laid at 10,0001. Mr. CURRAN, in an eloquent speech, occupied an hour and an half in stating his Lordship's case. The alledrd libel was an essay in the Dublin Journal, signed, S q uare Toes," obliquely accusin g his Lordship of neglea in his official duty. That the loaf of bread, in consequence of such neglect, had decreased in size; that coal had increased in price to a rate almost unprecedented; that the flesh-markets were dirty; that he failed in that necessary etiquette to attach respea to his station, and to show a proper deference for his fellow citizens, by omitting that state and regalia so usual with his predecessors, and so indispensibly nec essary in the perform ance of his important duty. The writer drew a parallel be tween his conduit and that of Alderman Thorpe when Lord Mayor, paying the latter many flatter ing compliments. It was altogether written in a strain of irony. Mr. Serjeant Moose occupied near two hours in his clients' defence. Baron Grortot, in a perspicuous charge, concur red in part of the Learned Serjeant's statCrncilt that public animadversion on the conduct of men in high official authority, through the medium of the Press, is a privilege inseparable from its freedom — If the Jury b e lieved the alleged l ibel had no other than that fair tendency, they ought to find a verdia for the Defendants—if, on the contrary, they saw good reason to ascribe such me aning, and draw such inferences from the inuendoes in the Plaintiff's declaration, as had been stated by his coun ty l, it was their duty to find a verdia of damages in s favour. The Jury, after retiring for a few er minutes, return ed a verdift for the Defendants' Cal. costs. 4 as. -► __.'~_. .3---. , -! FAntlxol4 Hotiss. • A Special Cenevadlitrt wa s yesterday held, " to consider of iertaie O''e'dings of die Court - Diriftors upon appbtaions made to them by Owisers :if Ships sail* under the Old and Skipping Systems for an increase in the present SCASCRI of the allowances stipulated with those Own ers by contra f, for the Peace Freight of Ships." The minutes of the last General Court has been read, with those of all other proceedings which had since taken place, The CHAIRMAN (Mr, BOSANC/tICT,) TOW stated, that this was a Special General Court, ed by the Directors, for the purpose of giving Constituent Body full intOrmation of all that passed between the I ireflors and the Ship Owners, in consequence of the rfpplicltions from the latter, respeCling the price of freight. With the leave c the Proprietors, so mu ch of those papers as would serve to convey information to the General Court, should be read. Many of them need not be read, as they would not give much light upon the je&, though necessarily printed for the purpose conneCling the series of the proceedings. The Clerk then read all the important papers throughout, together with the Protest of Sir Fr: cis Baring, and it appeared that the whole' of had passed between the DireCtors and the . owners, turned on the single point, what was definition of a peace cr war freight ? erhi The Cl!Alar4Mi said, that the papers been read, would, he trusted, sufficiently satisfy the General Court, what the nature of the object was, which had occupied so much of the time - the Dire fors, and had undergone so very anti discussion on both sides. he decision which the e. re:tors had come to, he meant to bring forward the shape of a motion, before he sat down; but must previously acquaint the Court. that Atli( on several occasions differences of opinion had p vailed on this important subject, they (the Div tors) had been unanimous. The Chan mat plained, that on the 18th of December, 17;,5, was a time of war, the Court of DireCtors retch that besides an annual allowance for the extraore' , nary expences incurr td durin g a state of war, would be adviiitlile to fix, once for all, the peace rate of freight of all the regular ships in their ser vice, or by permission for building for them, and they accoidingly agreed to give for rh AC ships, dur ing the remainder of their existence, that is, until the they had completed six vo y a g e,, following , after following rates : For a ship of SOO tons, to China and B .en`wi 1. c. direft, and circuitous to China, - -1110 - io p ton :on. 1. B eng al And rtzticoolen, ;.cr 1.. n Dins, Coait and Bay, - - - :"3 10 per n. The Resolution of the Court stated, that one oh jeka of this measure was, to protect and prewrve the property of the Owners of the existing ships, anti that in order to meet the wishes of those Owners, the Court had agreed to terms of peace-freight, which they themselves thought too high. The Owners, in their answer of the 2'2d December, 1795, desire information respeCling the words peace and war, declaring, that by peace they understand that si tuation of the country wherein there is preparations for hostilities. The Court of DireCtors, in answer to this definition, say, " that by peace is mean', a state in which there is neither declaration 4 war nor actual hostilities, nor such preparations for war as may satisfy the Court of Diteetots that an additional expence has actually and bona Pe been incurred." The Owners then tender their ships in time of peace at given prices per ton ; they make applica tion for a conference with the Chairman and 1;e -puty Chairman , and the Chairmen, Mr. Manship and Mr. Grant, are appointed to confer with them. The Owners, at such confererence, proposed, "that the rate of 211. 10s. per ton, peace freight, should be subjeCt to variation as to the pi ice of stores " This proposition, the Chairmer, Mr. Mansliip and Mr. Grant, could not accede to, as it would againopen the whole question as to freight in time of peace, and ren der it subjeEtto future col troversy;buttheycommuni eated to the Managing Owners their opinion, that if upon a sudden peace, the price of stores were not immediately reduced, the Owners should state spe cifically to the Court, the particular circumstances, and submit to the liberality of the Court for relief." The Court of Direft.srs unanimously approved of the state of the conference, and of the opinion given to the Managing Owners by the Gentlemen ap pointed to hold the conference ; and the Secretary, by order, transmitted a copy of the above resolu tion, informing the Managing Owners, " that the Court, in settling the peace-freight at 211. 10s. per ton, professedly went upon an adjustment thereof, once for all, without regard to the price of stores at any particular F.eriod of time whatever, and that the Managing Owners have accepted the same by their letter of the 22d instant, without any reserva tion whatever." An answer was received, from the Managing Owners, stating, "that it the a was not reement their intention to disturb , i n any degrer, g which took place on the 22.ci of December, but that they were anxious to lay the foundation for a continued equitable rate of freight, by an acknow ledged criterion of the expence of fitting out the ships, subjecting the freight to alteration from acci dental variation, to a certain extent in such expence. That, however, as the Court are averse to such a proposal, they will not persist in it, relying fully on the liberality of the Court, in every case where the effea of war has produced evident influence on the price of stores." O n the lath of February, 1796, the Owners, in a letter recognizing " the rate of freight they have now agreed to receive, in conse quence of a permanent contraa having been con cluded for the existence of the ships " On the sth of Februai y a bye-law was made, ordaining, among other thins, " that it be left to the Court of Direc tors, to make such agreements as they may judge light, for ascertain in g , p a y in g , or recompensing the additional charges, in time of war and hostilities." The Chairman touched upon the heals, severally, of the subsequent parts of the discussion, from which it appeared, that in consequence of the price of na val stores not having, by any" Means, fallen to the usual level of peace, which the Committee of Ship ping admitted, the old Owners had appealed to the Court of Director s for relief. in regard to he price of freight, which they had contracted foe, and threw themselves on the liberality of the Court. • 'Fhe pa pers concluded with a series of observations on the most advisable method to be pursued on the present occasion, it whether to relieve the Owners at the et. pence of the present system, or whether to permit them to give up their contracts, or whether any =OM wieSIN _. _~ i i I t held, art of r the New eeilt . Own- their .4 4 a ving fi • !dings • e and call- ng the it had wners, latter, ,ave of would Court, read, le sub- rose of paners r tran• pi' what ,e Ship- was the had satil? Le objeet time of ample a 'the rward in 1 A , 1 1 : 1 5 1 e tt : h as d 1) 7 1 : ) I l i ut :: . g e ec ei rh e eh xd e h . : , !xtraorc 6 - war, it he peace- their ser- _ _ 1 I