The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-01-10 00:00:00

BATH, J.►+. S. . Yetterdiy , the W i ykchamists held their annual meting, at the White Hart Inn ; upwards of fifty 1 a t down to an excellent dinner. provided Ey Mr. Woodho.ne, and the evening was parted in hilatity and harmony. Col. Leigh. and the Rev. Dr. Tom. kyn,, g vete Presidant and Vice President ; and pot she company we noticed the Lord Bishop of iiindon : the Rev. Messrs. Bowles. Wood, and 16 ,i k b ; Grnv L.ngton, Esq. and Counsellor Gooden. The Li I Graces. Yaw Lerqs. Dolre Ammo, and he heaotiful fuge of Oesnibet Wieutasieis, were de ,7hthille chaunted and sung by Mr Daubenv, Jun. ne nt the Members, assitted by Messrs. Windsor. A n bley, Cook, Gray, and Winter. A most extraordinary robbery was committed ,}ere Monday evening. Three fellows attacked the servant of the Rev Mr. Ogle, its the street leadirg from Catherine-Place to St. James's-square, between rine and ten o'clock ; and although it is so great a thoroughfare, they bound him hand and foot, tank upwards of Ed. from him, and got safe off. The Magistrates have offered SOL reward for apprehend ink rhe daring gang, and the poor fellow's =stir the like sum. Mr. sing had upwards of elvbreen hundred per. sons at his benefit ball, on bionday last. Mr. La Bat has his ball 10.030110 W evening, at the Lower Rooms. Notoir` - stlneieig the puhlie places of amusement are so well attended. IcOgiog•house keepers. and t ra desmen in general. still comphin of a thin season. Lady SICITII Besets will give a grand dinner, t•s• 'rumlay. at her hens-. Hyde Pat k Terrace. Buse, Egg will give a grand dinner, day, to Colonel snd Mrs. licaunner, and several outer Fabhionableh at his house in &vine. street. HINNY GRANT. Esq. arid family, left their house in Portman-square, Teiterday, for their seat, How place, near Soucy. The Princess Was es is attended by Doaor Bouttlx--co that every thing which processional skill can do, may be expeaed. Mr. ALLIIICIN AM'S new Musical Piece was read, nn 'llnirsday. to t:.e Perfo: mers who etc to be concerned in it, at Covent Garden The.tre. It is said to be charaaeri.ed by all the original whim which a; rears in the other produaions of the same Autioir. Se i rare E Malt e is nner at Elinhorgh, end's 'curial to procure the rev,rsion of the Patent of the Theatie in that Ciry. which he was promised niany years ago, hot ccull not then obtain. owing to the eurrior interest and popularity of Men. ER I Is. TIII. Comic Opei a of '7 he Catia.l was performed I , Rt night to a brilliant and crowded ainlirn.e. at • Druty•l.ne Uheatre. Bee It•M'S enchanting murk, with his and Sent ACC% singing, received such ap plause as stich t%leuti n.ust always command. Tile storm, in ti e P.ntomme of The Amthenters, mid the shipwreck. are so err. rnely well managed now. as to have a very sublime effee. 'this flerle quit.ade has ?lien rapiii;• in the public estimation, Err: its earlier trpresentationr. D oft r Fa ol Grosvenor-strew. having suf fered so much trim his late indisposition. pro poses to go to Devons'aile, for the recovery of his health. ihe Earl and C-untese of Decay are espefied ' r liar hleai.rv's Esrle-day. The D.Avager Cmmess of MOUNT ISOCCUNI RI . • ,arty, last sight, at her house is l'ppei Grosv-nor..tr.re. V. 11.1.14 a RACES. Fol. arrived, yesterday, at his house is Lid -sneer, Berkiey-square, friss his seat in ilestford,lare. Viiirlunt Cot NTENAY arrived, last Thursday, at hi. Lew resident, in Pertman-sure, lately occu pied by Hi. 1t...yal tlighneas the Duke of YO4K, fintil hit teat at i'ciaiderh;tm Castle, Devonshire. sr e title of Mourns's new Comedy is not Tet fit • but it viii protribly be called. Teter and Cove , ..:. The scene of aainn lies in both, and the manners of both form the stibjea of the Fable. re. Lanza. who composed the music to the Aftor-ptec.i. ei toted. Tite Dperrs of Avails, pie. tenni! a Trcefris ('aloe and a dozen. of Port. to the Mroical La 3 of Coven: garden Ileatre, en rms• ely lest. It was determined, that the intended festival. on this occasion, should be adjourned till the lol.overnemmoist 1t—t 1 Cake and the Wine, in the genres, we e el?;.nsi:ed tinier lock and key in the hair-drrsrei's mom. \Vireo, however, the Musi cians were an in concert, and ready to play Moir poor with great 'amity. at the luxurious board, mother Cake not Wine conld be lon d. A f.u , t race, for 20 guineas, took place, yesterday, in Co. ti Ids rear (.41110,1bIrr-hOII , Y. Islington, be twe.n C.apt. BALLING and a Mr. Jacqui.s. One hundred and fifty yards were measured, and at sta-ting Mr J. was the favourite. The match was contesre.l. and won wi:h diflieulty by the fa. Tourite by about i yard. Another match followed betaeecn tem Carpenters, %Lich was won hollow, and elicited no interest. Lies law aaPIC c.—'rhe cackling of Wake, Goose has been heard, by every description of people, tltronehout the Metropulis; and their anxiety to beilnlir the fair fledge.* Enchantress, in the per son of Mr. Stu woes. has made her produftion GoPer, Bees so very abundant, that t. e Managers, we should hope, will lose no time is effeaing an Insurance on her We; in order to make so valuable an Intelsat perpetual. It is whispered about, this Insurance cannot be made, except at the Office of Messrs. BOLOGNA, GaINI ALDI. and Co. near the tin uggier. Bow.stren, Covent. Garden. A smogs:tar room is nearly completed in the garden centre of Cat leton•house, the Cornice, kc. of which is decorated with naval trophies ; it is to he called The aldmirai; goons, and is to contain six whole-lenstlis of the mist distinguished Naval Heroes of Siagland of modern times ; the portraits bir JOSHUA IitYIIOLDS. and Lott Gonave. by Gsmsaciaouon, are already put up; 1..0. .if Loral Nomura, and Earl St. Vinous'', srei aiso .a b • placed in the course of a few days; lax& terf thew a by NORTIICOTO• ANECDOTES OP BONIPAIRTZ. The Emperor Napoleon rises early in the morn ing. for he sleeps very little, not snore than three or four hours a night. After having taken his cof fee, of which he is very fond, as he never drinks less than thirty cups a-day, made very strong, he goes to his bath, the water of which is mixed with souse medical reparation, to cure the effens of the impu city of his blood, which is visible upon his skin. As he never can be a moment idle, and makes the most @lbis time. he is attended by • neison who under stands the English language perfeftly. and has the ability of translating it without hesitation into French. He, th,refore reads, the English News papers to the Emperor, as if he had a French paper in his hands. This he calls his hour of amusement, and sometimes laughs at t • absurdity and ignorance of the English writers, as he calls their contents. The person who reads to him, is instrufted not to pass by any expressions. or to soften them; he must read as he meets them ; for he likes to know what the enemy thinks and writes of him. After having bathed, he dresses himself and gees to his chamher. where he has always some one to at tend him, his Ministers or officers have the prefer ence. next hi. private Secretary. He is called at the hour of dinner. and Wash an hour is occupied ith that meal, for he eats very little; and has al most never any appetite. on account of the quan tity of car , . w ich be drinks from time to time. In the attunes , n, he is as busy as in the morning, bat allows himself. sometimes thrice a week.sn hour. go to some theatre or other ; but it is never to when he goes, or which theatre he means to vii ; he very seldom knows it himself till dinner tinie, when he inquires for the different plays which are to be given in the r.ighr. The Empress accompa. Dies him always ; she is fond of him, and he is very much attached to her. He is always attended by Ronan. a Mameluke. who is very much attached to him. Ha was a common man, whose family and relations suffer e d g reatl y inn Egypt ; Bona parte, when in that country, tok A fancy to him. and, after having proved his fidelity, employed him in his service t he raised him from time to time. and he is now a Colonel. He is not only with him every where in thvday time• but in the night he is the near-st to his person; felaii , me Bonaparte does not sleep wi h him. Rouen sleeps before the door of his bedchamber, so that it is impossible it can be opened without disturbing him. When he i. upon his post, the Emperor tninks himself safe; for Is• relies much more upon this Mametiike, than upon all the pages. guards, and wati.hrr.en. that are placed in the different avenues to is t.. om. r I eA 11V . r ,•,0 6 'II f :' • 6 01 1-'. 17 : - . Z i . 4 tit . ii a BL'L N 0.% Y itLS. Nl° , We have been t • ipered with the —mowing Letter. which has been I eceiven by a Gentleman from his friend at Lis . .,un: Lissom. um 10. 1606. •• Give r'e !raw.. to int•'tm you of the news re ported he► • about Buenos Avre•. A v , serl arrived here about eight days past. from Bahia I have seen utters fm n that place. which militia. , that they had intellla nen from Rio Grande, by a sumaca (a coasting vessel). that the Spanish Governor of Buenos Aires. who nad fled from t-e English. hay ing asseMiled his troops, which were reinforced from Monte Video, c.ime down to Buenos Ayres with above 6009 men, end compelled the &sends troops to abas.don the plac -, an 1 that they had re tired on boar 1 their ships. A reinforcement of 6,000 men, in transports, had arrived At Rio de Janeiro, from ':tateland, but did not continue their destination, in c' .is quence of the above news. '• Rio Grande is the most southern settlemer.t the Portuguese have in the Brasile, and the inhabitants have a constant smuggling trade with the Sp ini Ards. from Monte Video, by land, which makes some people believe the above report. partiehlarly as it is confirmed from Spain: but the report of the arrival of the English troops at Rio Janeiro. makes me believe it a fabrication at Bahia. not here. It was i.n possible •he troops from It ngland could hive arrived there last September or October. which was necessary, to have the sews at Banta in so short a time: . Lent Preachers appoint d to preach before Ws M A 4 arry,for the year 11107: Fcoru try 11. MIS WYslisesay, Doss of the Chapel, Lard Et hop of Landon. 13, Freda., Dean of I„,,elsdeld, Dr. Preby. 13. Bonney, Lord Bishop of Linea. Is, sVediscsday, Dr G,tted. 2J, F r iday, Dasil et caaucasaw. De. Lasmere. SS, Sootily, Died dials°, of Lined. WeJOJisy, Ur. Strachey. 2 7 , Friilay. Dean of Foster, Mr. TOW. March 1, Sunday, Lord Babel+ eel Maieford. 4 , Walasolay. Mr. Vountain. G. Frisby, Des. of Peterrentgh, Dr. K.pitrig. 11, Sunday, Laird Eiihop of Chschess,r. 11, Wednesday, Mr Gape. 15, Friday, Dean of Rochester, Dr. G sodenenh. 15, Sunday, Lend Bishop of Gloucester. 13, Wednesday, bit. W0i1,,i,,a 20, Friday, Dean r f Chester, Mr. CllClMOndeley. pd, p a w Sunday, Lo r a arcubishop at Canterbury, sr Lord Archbishop of 'fork. 25, Wednesday, Mr. Tattersall. 27, Good ii . ridey, Dein of We.tiniitater, Dr. Vincent. 29, Easter Day, Lord A 1112311.1% At one time, during the Astrta's passage to Dant. sic. all here of safety had so corep:etely var.ished, Lvrd Hurt:mason and his brother tl.e Hen. C. HUTCH/ISOM, embraced, and took a Saal leave of each other. The TIjJ Fs iamb, 111 , esurs, from Carmarthen for London, is lost near at Titailidgd4arric, Item the Bay rf Chalou's. for Boston, is lost on the coast of America. No one need be invited to have a Share in the present Lottery. .I . he Scheme steads en its omit, and must induce every observing eye to boy a Chame. The Contraacits have already felt the good seal of introducing Thirty Thousands, AS they have disposed of a large majority of the leads. The eligibility of the p lan has causta an extraordinary sale in this country ; but from land and Scotland, the demand is unprecedet , :e.l. The advantage of buying, on or before Tut:sday next, must be obvious, as the First Drawl Ticket is imitled tcs 20,0001. Tickets and Shares 2111 on Sale at the old estsibli.:ivd State Lottery Offices of H.sawser and Co. '26, Cornhill, 52, awing- Cross, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough. Nos. 33.979, and 4'4SO. Prizes of 30,0001. were sold by lioassestr, and Co. PAL DUEL PRA'YRTE►D. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS—JAN. 9. ---- nowt, whose .nduCt had, is we ! ave Two young . Gendemn, one the son of a mer alrealv va•ed. 'tinseled the n tier of 0 The So- chant in at- city, a youth of gold-rt priopeas, the ciety foi Cie liu pr Ilion of Vii.e." was indifled other an artist, a fawns. eh'. dof Pallas, met on and opovered of Indecency. in the company of fn. Thursday, near Ealieg, t fior a idd. The dis. of nn the rtv)st satisfanory evid e nce. pute orrginated at a festive board,the vicioittr Han”oh 4t/en was found :Nifty of an assault, Fiizroy-equare, whore som- dashing &Mrs, dia but discharged, on t iaying a small fine. monde of the first water, were !,resent. Tise God- Mend %eerier, atria, late of Westminster , was dens uf Secrecy not h p !saving sealed the bs of these imtuCted f ur uttering titious %cot ds. fair daug hters of loveliness, an alarm was spie.d. I. appeared. tio• D-tetulant ulad, on thi• 14th of which soon reached the viglant d, arms th , Po - last December, apple d to the landlord of the Le- I lice, and one of the daring youths eras biositd over MOO tree Porter-house, in the Haymarket, for ac- to keep the peace. Th. du 1•r s timely pr vented; commodation for the slight, arid can d for a glass the rage of t pa, tie' ,übsi ted, Awl the beans of of shrub, which he sat drinking in the tap room, the fair ceas palpitate with fear, for the till his bed should be prepare/. T.,ree other per• safety of the rerrelive heroes. sons were in the tap room, one of whom said, he w"nld presume to give the company a toast, and pr lo •sed. `• ?he Bruit., Navy; or, Bonaprte's riseek-‘trio,o " The Defendant, alone, refused to drink it • aisert;ne, Bonaparte was the universal friend of mankind ;" an-I give as a toast, " S4CCCIII to Boooperte wad his urns, suberttur he Neu go." This he repeatedly drank, in spite of the remon strances of all present. The landlord requested him to desist ; and told him, eseept he chose to go quietly to bed, he would not permit hum to remain in the house. He accordingly wet to Ind, while the test of the company, aetuated by a laudable feeling of loyalty, though two of them were fo reigners, resolved on giving inlormati.in to ifs* Bow-street Officers of the Defendant's extraordinary comma. and he was immediately arrested, ems• mined, and committed for trial. Alt - thei widow, agreed, that the Defendant appeared pettedly sober, and in his senses. Ttir Learned Counsel stated, he had only that moment receive.' instiabons to 4,`.1 for the Prisoner ; he, of course, could only suggest in his decrier?, what he was happy to Bred h .d been laid do Nri by the Counsel for the Prosecution. vie. .1 - hat in the circumstances of the Prisoner. to one but a fool in a drunken man would have expressed himaelf in such An un ; uarded and dangerous manner, particularly when there could he no obvious reason assigi ed hit his rashness; he had. however, witneres of great respeltability to attest the Defendant's general ceA. rafter for loyalty, though the same witnesses. he was informed, could not but admit. that he had for a long time been in the habit of mduiging too freer/ in the use of spirituous liquors, to which indulgence he liopi.d 'he Jury would be of opinion this str nive and unaccountable cousin& of th- Prisoner ought to be attributed. Messrs. Norris, Mortice, and Porter, respeftable inhabitants of Westminster, were cep called, and all concurring in the itaternent of !le Prisoner's Counsel, the Jury bro.ight in a verdia —Net Guilty, The Bank on Thursday cornmenead the payment os Dividends on the 3 per Cent. Consolidated Annuities to the Bankers, a-14 this day the payment (as usual) will be made to the Public. This circum stance will tiring a large sum of money into the market, in consequence of which, and the improved prosiled of affairs on the Continedt, a considerable rise in the Funds has taken place. Omnium, which for some time past had been at a premium of about one p.r cent. rose to 211, and Consols to 61b. A Foreigner, named Jean Litevaa, who, it sce.ni, was a few says since arrested at Working ham, in lierkshire, has, we understand. nnillttg - ine several examinations at the Ahem Office; and has been since conduded to one of the out-ports, for the pu• pose of being sent out of the kingdom Flom what has been suffered to transpiie, it appears, that this man was formerly arrested in the neighbour hood of Widmer Castle, in Kent, where lie was landed from the French coast, out of a smuggling boat. Much praise is due to the Magistrate who caused this man to be apprehended ; aid, it is to be hoped, that the Country Megists ales will be parti cularly aftive in the present moment, in tniorcing the Provisions of the Alien AU in their respettive distrifts. A Parisian merchant was on Thursday apprehended under a warrant from the Secretary .it State for the Home Department. and underwent a lung examina tion at the Alien Office. He afterwards was com mitted to the custody of a Messenger. A Foreigner, who , it appears, was lately a Waiter at CI•1111 . 11 Hotel, the sign of the isatirc. bed de Teresa', at RO:tefdattl, but who came over to this country in the charader of a Merchant of Brinsels, was yesterday committed, by the Coast MAolltaaaL at Bow-Areet, to prim:, under the provisions of the Alien Ad, for being at large without a license. This man had tun away from Gravesend. where he was lauded ost of A vessel from Holland, in December On Saturday last, ito.fer Purlorielt, of Littlewonli, in the county or Oaks, higler, wa. careered before Eow•an Luce, t.sq. Mayor of °Mord, in the penalty of 251. for having five hares in t.is pos session. Oii Monday last, two min were taken out of the Shag Custom-house cutter, of Rye, Captain HAD• DOCIt. inspected of being the persons into souse time since broke open a house ; they passed through Dover on the &Arne day. 41 their way to Deal, for examination, with seta.' riding Officen, belongin to the Customs, attended by proper of& seri for t heir protection. One evening last we.'.:, three men were drinking in a public house at Buncougli, Lancaster, when t quarrel took place amongst them. One of them had an iron crow, and another a gun, these two took part against the third, via , ' was unatuseff Atter they had telt the house, the person woo had :he iron crow, called to his companion to shunt the other person ; but his comnian.•s nut bring obeyed, he struck him on :ne orA, which broitent him to the ground, and repeate.l the blow on differ ent parts of the body; the Mall then appearing to - ac dying. they placed the bnidy across ihe road, And then left it. A gentleman was trevelliiig oat road with his gig, and ft iding himself stimped, he whipped the hone, but still the animal seeruing either unable or unwilling to draw with force, in duced the gentleman to alight, and to examine what it was list stopped his passage, when lie perceived tne body a a Mar. apparently dead, lying against the wheel; chi alariniug the neigtibuurhood, the man was carried to a house near the place. and found not to be quite dead, but nearly so. He lain getistieu until the next day, aid then died. It is feared, that, during the late tempestuous gales, the Chol er gun.vessel foundered. No aC• count of this vessel - has been received at the Ai mirolty since the early part of November, when she was cruising off the French coast The white flux continues to rag.• among the French army in Mead. besi,:es another s'iocking dientoleit called the rioNtoge: ars, Plica Polonie,s) In the latter, puiulent mattes Rows not of the end of ewer/ haw on the heed, a. d the hails swell and grow doters to the middle of the body in the form of , queues. The disease is almost ineerehlt. A few days since. a otos d•rooill, belonging to Mr. HASP v. e.f Battle, in Sussex, accidentally leek fire. and blew up with a vett rtolosi•iii • and, no the nut siAv. fh. , seder I al:other of the 'Bathe mills, theistr , p• t.y rot Mr. LAnoltoco, alto exploded. and did eonartletahte rtama,;e to the prenlises.— ['here were luckily no men in either of the mills at the time of the explovon ; but three workmen had quitted Mr. Ila avres mill oily a tew minutes hew , the accident. Although disasters nf this tied so fretorentiy happen to the powder-milts, at Battle, yet the greatest possi'ale care is taken by the people,- ters, in working what is calla 1 cetly on,- charge a• a time, and by other precautions, to ptevert them t ond by there means the exp7r.tion, ao:loftt an uccieent does happen, is not soiLeiently great to de mischief, swept in the hiiildings where they take place. Friday se'nnight, as Rica/ban BISMOIS, of Birdlip, Gloecester and Cirelltest r earth :r. was retutnitig home from the latter plact; 1.1. horse tell smith him, and he was killed on the spot. The animal certaing home about midnight, witl , rit his metres, the family were alarmed. and immeo'i , orlo' we• t out in s-arch of him ; when they hone the unfortunate man lifeless it the road, about a hut - dred y ads from his own boost. with a dreadful wolitid on the right side of his head. ..vh:rh moist have occasioned instant ileitis. On Monday an in► qt:es was held before D. Wt on-, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body ; when the Jury returned a verdift —.ter eho fel Death 'Thursday se'anight. at the mutual meetioo of the Members rf the Hurstperooint Amicable orciety, in Boob:on, Mr. Tito% os MI tcHeIL, toeir Clerk, bei,.g An czcellent sinner, was called upon f,r a song, with which Ile had no fermer similar occasions often entertained the comp aly ; he saeg it accord ingly, and with his accost , tneci mei , dy and cheat ' fulness ; but alas ! it was the list he had to s'ng. for he had no sooner chaunted the concluding line, than he reclined his head on the back of a chair, and replied without spoon. The deceased was A very worthy eharafter, and greatly repealed by all who knew him. Ah'at five minutes Nefore twelve o'clock, on last Wedeesd iy se'riniolo, as the ringers of 13.aliharn, in dune:. were about to usher in he new year with a merry peal. the frame-work of one of the bells gave way, and discharged its heavy burden, which fell with an alarming cram among the ringers, and htoke to pieces. hot f etunately without causing t h e smallest hurt to either of them. Friday setrovi h . a bor. about 13 years of age, the son of THOMAS I,O•GILEY, of the Bank, near Leeds, brickiayer. having repeatedly pressed his father to allow him to rite a horse that Was rather spirited, the father at length cur tented; the horse bad not gone many yards, befote the fattier saw his son hurled from his seat, and kil'el on the .pot ! Friday settlight, a troop horse got loose firm the fareier's shoo and, in the narrow part of Gat . - street, Winchester, going at full spe-d, went over a youth. sun of Mr. fal•lSOT!ato, and kne•7ked one rye art, and otherwise so dteadfully bruised him, that his life is desuoired of. Thursday a dog. which was supposed to be mad • bit a plot min to the leg in North A o dley.streets and afterwards bit a has dog belonging to a Gentle man. He ran off so swiftly that no person present was able to overt.ike him, neither could their shoots alarm others in sufficient time for say one else t stop him; and it is not vet aseertaii.e4 what do moire he may have committed. Saturday was committed to St. Dunstan's gin!, Canterbury, Thorn is Orrifehl, of Itllton. charged with having in his possession a quantity ef copper bolts and sheaths or cooper, and other aidel o, the property of His MAJ as/ v. 'Fre same day, Mrithore Seers was committed. charged Swith stone, i tealing faggots from the Workhouse.ys, at n Oso* property of the overseers tithe said parish. horn the thick fogs, *hitch. at this season of the year, commonly set in with the close of the day, the Public ate certainly obliged to the Lottery Office; for their brilliant transparencies in various part. of the town. They, doubtless, are of great use to pr.. vent accidents in heavy foggy evening.; et the same time they remind passengers, that a Love , y Schalk of unprecedeOtad opuien..e and cons quasar, is can the very tee almost of Drewirg. Mai not the post of Harnhuigh Seen shut against our commerce, before Tuesday next, the slay on which the Lottery commence, drewirg. the whole of the Pickets would have been dispose.* of 'The home crusumption. together with the orders Wel Ireland and Scotia:id, will str , a else , the C .411%.4c.. tors of the remeimeg few. The Grand Voles mew. of cootie, reme.n in the Unite-s 1 Kingdom. which CitC,lnis'Anee makes anip'e itme,.cts tot reign disappointment. The Puolic I t the Scheme in moh estimation, and will, no doubt, part.cipate in the thin y I hoosends, Twenty 'llonaands. Tim l'housands, Five Thou,ands, which nuoy be load at the Offices of HOMOSSY an d Co. 26, Cornhill. 52, Charing-Cross, and St. Margaret's Hill, boson to N a. 53.979, it'd 44,569. Pram of 30,00J1. Wes* 'sold by Ho sassy and Co. i 1 IT II I