The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

I 1 ... - , t V e i t 4 4 4 ' II I L , I i i I ''' 11 ti 4 i 1 • 1 ,i . l it r 0 1. 1 0 I u 4 lit f f i i7i 1 . il.jt V i ‘ I~ 1 I t •r • NAVAL I.I.IGEIICE.- 1.7.1-mot-nip arum 13. Arrived the 71e , eler.-r, ct ;s.. inns, Captain Bed ford. and the Ardent, of tit flints, Captain Win thrcp, from Sheerness; the L l oadicea, of 38 guns, Captain Maitland, from a ernize ; find the Ranger, , Busy, Renown, lliz•ele, and &Tie canters, ftom cruize, with impressed men: tlie hitter is under gerarantise, has ing impressed two men o' of the Cativo/sr, of this port, from Malaga, which vessel is arrivesi.off the Sounds Ihe Courigeve, of 74 guns, which was stated to have sailed for Torbay, is yet in Cawsand Bay ; it was the of 74 gams, Captain Ferrier. that ior Torbay with the Yeptust. The Deuher, of 1$ guns, and the Hunter, of 18 inns. which sailed yesterday, are retunted again to the Sosuid. Came in from Guernsey, the Blanche, of 3( guns, Captain Z. Mudge. Ve'hile the six East Indiamen were :sing ton off rite Eddystone, for the easterly wind on Ms,ndav last, the cruizets' boats in the Channel, manned and armed, boarded them all, and made a fair sweep of nearly 300 prime seamen for the service of the fleets • the crews of the fr.dianten, till boarded, bad not ;he most distant ijea of any misunder standing with Fiance. If the Indiamen should want - seameis to navigate theta to the River Thames, the men of the ships in ordinary in the Tamar and Hamoaze, still, as usual, be drafted for that purpose. The ships now in dock tinder repair are as fol low :—ln the double doct, the Warrior and Terrible, of 7i guns each ; in the south duck, the fi,gard, of 4A guns ; and in the middle single dock, the !in terwar, of ti 4 F tuts. They are all to have it tho rough repair. l'he whole of tiae repairing idozks are quite full in this dock-yard. Arrived off the Sound, the Desin-ara, of Lan caster, Capt. Peter Ea les, from Demerara, bound to Rotterdam, laden with sugar and coffee. The following passengers landed from her this afternoon : • Mrs. Jones, Mrs. James, Miss Gibson, Nlr. Hinde, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Waterson, and Mr. Parker: the ship is beating up Channel. The Demerara packet, and the Coiling', two Dutch ships, sailed horn I)eniei ara, at the time the Demerara of Lancaster left it, bat parted company soon after. The place is said to he extremely un healthy, and the Dutch soldiers die at the rate of so a day, owing, in some measure, to the want of bei . n properly fed. The laregray, Captain Adams, which was ashore on St. Nicholas's Ishtud, is got off without much damage. 1100aTsVOUTH, ATIRIL 14. Sailed his M.,:icsty's ship Arida, of LO guns, Capt. Lord Proby, to the eastward, to complete her com plement of seen. —Arrived L.. 4 4.4, of 3t guns, Capt. Wolfe: and remains at Spithead witfi his Majesty's ship Groves, of 50 guns, Admiral laud Gardner and Capt. Caulfield RULI(I, of 74 guns, Capt. Williams; Puissant. of 74 guns, Capt. Bowen; "lima, of 24 guns, Capt. Malbon ; Cahiera, of SC guns, Capt. ''riodriti; and Arrow, of 30 guns, Capt. Vincent; with several revenue and excise cut ters; the Lewd !trove and Lord Ca:tiered:6 East InJiamen, and OMB/ transport. At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship 4,7/kilo, of 1:: guns, Capt. T. M. Hardy, and ri;;!moy Luttei, of 14 guns. Lieut. tit bite connuansicr.--14 Ind S. A. E. and moderate. INovst, APRIL 1 I. Sailed this morning the Express packet, with 'ail and passengers for Calais ; and this afternoon the /Jambe,: of cork passage-vessel, with W. Rogers, Esq. W. Porter, Lays Mrs. Impert and family, and several other passengers. Arrived . Irk ille, from Boulogne, with tTic Hon. and Rcv. Edward Taylor. Passed by the American ship Racl , niond, Rudd, from New York, hound to Hamburgh. An order arrived at Boulogne a few d.tys since for 250 se.uuen, 100 of which were sent off to lirest yesterday ; similar requisitions have been received at all the French ports. An impress boat came into our 'harbour last night, and toot a number of ruen out of the col liers and other vessels. A rnesseagcr arrived from London this afternoon at four o'cly.ck, with dispatches of consequence ; he embarked with every po,sible expedition ou how d the AuciLuul packet, which sailed inirnediately fur Calais.—The racket was hired for the purpose. 115E•1., 11. Came down and sailed the Quebec, Rayiry, for 'Quebec, and Regvialer, ---, for - Manta. Remain in the Dow/1S his Majesty's ships as per last, and the :Rwory, Deacw, from Honduras, and S'a,A, from Plyrauudi. The latest advices from Petersburg!: and Stock holm mention, that the crisis between England and France has much raised the produas of exportation in those countries. At Copenhagen, too, the colo nial commodities lave, for the saran reatin, experi enced a vet y considerable dist. A s sa: nor e or I.‘ an KA I Ns.—Dr. Berkely, pre bendary 131 . Canterbury; and some other men of emi nence, ILA passed the prior part of the day at the house of Lord Kaints, anti were preparing to take their leave, when their entertainer was hastily sum moned from the room. lie did not return till after some time, when he entered the apartment with bolts of the greatest dismay, followed by his daugh ter, Mn. —. This young lady had been mar t,..l to a Mr. —, a gentleman of large estate, hat had so far forgotten what she owed to her situ ation, that her husband had, at length, discovered her infidelity, and sent her home to her father. It was to receive her that the atheist had been summoned from the room. Ihe young lady, as we have mentioned, entered the apartment with him ; and, in presence of the tornpany, thus address ed him : •• Nay, Sir, you have, of all men in the world, the least justice in accusing me, fur nay er rors are oily the unhappy fruit of your own. Yes, Sir, I accuse you in the presence of this company, of haring been the cause of my crime, and conse quent rinser!. It eras tiom yo a I learned that I had nothing to dread from any future account. i loved my husband, but in his long absence bee.une sawn:entail/ attached to another. The restraiais of religion wile removed by your care in my educa tion. I had nothing, therefore, to dread, but the consequences of deteaion. The absence of Mr. ---- put ate at ease upon that heatl—he returned atter pc:Artily --" i • . tr ... • . - .siivauLAß,eirmAA CTERS. Tire following deiscription of a singular charafter may not prove unaceeptahle to our readers : It is a curious, till at the same time a melancholy retieaion. that more than half the miseries of life are of our own creation. The human mind is tenacious of zffliCtion ; it clings to and broods over its sufferings ; it magnifies every unpleasant °hied that conies within its ken ; and, by the help of ima gination, turns slight and transient disquiet into real evil. Disappointment in a party of pleasure, a rainy day, an ill-roasted joint of meat, a lost argument, or a spoiled new hat, pre sufficient to put sonic peo ple out of temper for a month. A literary actituintance of mine, who is apt to be troubled with the hypotiondrie, seems to exert his whole ingenuity in making himself miserable. If the weather in .lanuary suddenly become warm, his thoughts are perpetually recurring to the dread fel plague in the reign of Charles II.; if the sun look red and fiery, he is no doubt coming !full drive against the earth to reduce ns to ashes, or there will be sonic other terrible derangement in the planetary system ; either Jupiter's four moons will go to loggerheads, or Saturn swell to such an enor mous hulk as to burst his belt. A thunder storm sends him upon Lis knees, be cause lie is persuaded the last day is arrived ; and a shower of frail in the night is sure to rouse him from his bed to look for tire running along the ground, as it did during one of thepla;,nies in Egypt. His existence, indeed, is one continued malady of mind and body. The apprehension of misery Iras at length become worse than the misery itself; and every slight bodily indisposition, or even the small est symptom of indisposition, so affe,i,ts him, that his house looks like an hospital, instead of appear ing the residence of a gentleman and a philosopher. He has nolliing to do but to cough three or fosse times in the morning, and he immediately risutlles himself up in flannel, lies down on a sopha by the tire, aid spouds his time in marking the changes of the sky, counting his pulse every four minutes by a stop-watch, drinking water-gruel, rubbing his throat with hartshorn, and spreading plaisters of Burgundy pitch. whom I was intrecleced some little time ago, is, if it be possible, still more ingenious in the creation of visionary wretchednee. Having applied himself from his youth to the andy of Antiquities, and a very attentive peruser of Ancient History, he has at kneth persuaded himself that the present is a very degenerate age ; that every new century brings , with it a thousand new evils; that the moderns are a set of unfortunate ignoramuses and rascals ; and, in short, that the trite way of living rightly-and comfortably Ives known only to the ancients, and has never been re-discovered since the decline of the Roman Empire. This notion is almost uppermost in his thoughts, and is consequently betrayed in every word and action of his life. He thinks the world is grown too old to be of much use any longer; is continually quarrelling with his hard fate that brought him into the world in the eighteenth century, and made him a rich bachelor, an Englishman, and a Chris tian ; and cannot conceive the reason why he was not born two thousand years ago. The first thing he does in the morning, after er omitting his cabinet, to see whether his gems, me dals, intagtios, &c. etc. are all sate, is to throw up the window of his bed-chamber, curse the heavy hypochondrical atmosphere of England, and sigh for the delicious refreshing breezes of the ancient Campania. Ile theta dresses himself, and while he is putting on his shirt, cannot help uttering a thousand lamen table soliloquies on the disuse ot flannel and woollen inner-garments ; on the infinite superiority of flan nel to linen, wearing better next the skin, and being much wholesomer ; and on the stiff cut of modern dress ; not forgetting to execrate the want of taste monifented by the preeent age in the total conceal ment of their toes, which is the consequence of wearing shoes instead of sandals, and is a custom, he is certain, we have borrowed from the Chinese: whereas, argues he, if sandals were in fashion, our young nien would not only become more cleanly in their persons, but nti dont:. as in Rome, cur beaux might learn to slide more easily into the hearts of the ladies ; and a good foot with the toe; neatly pared and rounded, would become as great an Al traaion as a white and taper hand. t)ur antiquary,' after indulging himself in these and such like melancholy reflections, proceeds to breakfast ; a 'meal which he regularly continues to tat with ill-humour, and an ill-relish. Every spoon ful of tea that he sirs indices him consider how a Roman would laugh to see him drinking a clecienion of a paultry Chines' herb, evidently ot modern use, and consequently utterly umbisical and barbarous; anal yet he is, froin habit, so attached to certain little modern conveniencies, such as tea, swat, tohac.co, &c. that it is with the greatest veolente to his animal inclinations he can prevail on iliiaself to forego any one of them ; and it was but three days ago ne told ene of his maid-servares, teith tears in his C't.`F, that he belizeed lie must Lt~ compel/ed to take off his two toasted crumpets wont his morning rucal, as he had sonic doubt% whether the collyra lonian', mentioned by Pliny, was the exaCt modern . crumpet or no. As his table, however, notwithstanding piteous complaints of ill-faze, u, in general not only ele gantly, but even sumptuously furnished, it is al most daily surrounded by a could of acquaintances. who are content to hear his lamentations, enjoy the good things of a very excellent larder, and !aught in their sleeves at the man who has Al the comforts ollife within his reach, and ?et will iiio put forth his hand to obtain them, because Providence has sent them in the nineteenth century, and not in the reign of .iviseiai Casio, or iilwinuirr the Grta:. R. The heart and bowels of the late Pope Pies the ' Sixth, arrived on the 29th ult. at Valence. All the magistrates of the place, and a great number of the must distinguished inhalsitants, with a !amber of females in mourning, went nut to nieet the re mains at I.uriul. On their arrival at Valence, the procession repaired to the church of St. ApoUinaire, which was hang with black' upon the - occasion, at the dior of which the remains of the unfurtunate ris4 were received by the Bishop, accompanied by a numerous body of Clergy, and were then placed on a magnificent Catafalque erefted for the purpose. The service was then perfumed. During the cere mossy, which lasted throe hours and a half, scveral discharges of artillery took place. SUSSEX ASSIZES. litnry Murray wan indiacti far stealing a horst, tle: property of his Majesty. The circumstances of this case, as proved by W. Wyatt, a .private in the 10th regiment of Light Dragoons, were as follows . On the evening of the 10th of January The pri soner came into the Inn stables, at Chichester. where a part of .the regiment was quartered, and entered into conversation with Wyatt aad another soldier respelling the goodness of the horses in their regiment. Wyatt vaunted the excellence of his own beast., and pronounced him to be absolutely the best horse in the regiment; but,. said the prisoner. “ where are your bridles and saddles? I do not se any of them ;" he was told they were in their bed-rooms, and that they only kept a watering bri dle in the stable. After some other conversation, he invited Wyatt to go in doors and dri: - .lc some ate with him, which he did. After they had drank one pot, the prisoner observed to Wyatt, that his com rade, wi n s was left in the stable, must think it an:. lead that he was not also invited, and sfat W. to ask hint to jinn them. Tins being done, they all three sat some time ; at last the prisoner went out and did not return. They supposed he meant to have cheated the landlord of the score, but the next morning th:y found that he had taken a fancy to the horse whose merits his rider had so extolled, and by way of completely setting himself up, he had taken with it a pair of pistols. 'lire prisoner rude away to Jelscornb, where he offered the horse to sale fur 44 , guineas to the landlord of a latlilic-house. The landlord observed the number of :34.; eut in the hair s of his foot, which led him to say that he must be a dragoon horse. The prisoner readily replied, yes, he was ; and that he himself belonged to the 10th re ment of dragoons, which was selliag oC several of their horses ; but that as they fetched a bad price at the hammer, their Major sent several of the men about the country with horses to sell to private deal ers, as they got the best price that way. The land lord suspeEled this story, and caused him to be ap prehended. As soon as he was taken. he confessed the fa&—Verdia Guiky—Death. The fashionable Mrs. OIDE narrowly escaped a fatal accident in driving her curricle on Thursday. As she was returning to her villa at l3ottley. from the British Hotel, in turning the corner into St. James's street, from Jermyn-street, the horses took fright. and ran furiously towards Piccadilly ; the Lady be ing unable to govern them with the reins, screArned violently, when tbrtunately one of the horses stum bled and fell ; but, by the gallantry of two gentle men passing at the nsomeut, the lady WAS rescued from her perilous situation. BIRTHS. On Monday last, in Hulk,-sticet, the Lady of Gilbert Mathison, Esq. of a sun. Friday seisnight, in Newcastle, Mrs. Airey, wife of Col. G. Airey, ut a soil. On the 13th, at Baldwins, Kent. the Lady of Sir Jo: - .11 Haritivon ut a daughter. MARRIED. On Thursday last, at Chisletuirst, in Kent, the Rev. William Panchen, of Wocd Walton, Hunts, to Miss Mary Hyde WuHalton, clad daughter of the Kew. Francis Wulbilon, of Outelhurft. Monday, Mr. F. Angus, printer, to Miss Waugh, both of Newc +stk. On batu. - day the 9th inst. at Clainn, VV'orcestershire • W.Mules, Esq. Li.:utennut of his Majesty's ship the Text). to Miss P. Meade, of Blanquett's House. On Tuesday last, at Christ Church, Surrey, Mr. Ke lly. of Fareham, Hants, surgeon, to Mrs' Leaches, of Scam. ford -street, Black.lriars. DIED. Oh Saturday, at Helton Park, in Oxforashite, in the s+th year of her age, the Hun. Mrs. Packer. At Lisbon, un the list ult. Mr. G. Petty, of Law.. rance-lane, Cheapside. Yesterday morning, R. Lindsay, Esq. of Hampstead. formerly of Charlestown, South CaroLna. Friday, C. Reavelcy, Esq. 011 d of tile proprietors of Ker... ton Colliery. On Monday serinight, aged 61, Mr. R. Brown, of Bur. ton-in Ken.la,. shoesnaaer ; and, about five minutes atter his death, Mrs. Briiwo, his wife, aged 50. On Saturday se'ilight, at Trinity College Lodge, int Cambridge, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. Mansel, Master oi, that Cu.lege. The sante day. after a short and mist painful illness, is ) ear at his agc, the Rev. T. Jackson, Head Mac— ter ut the Flee Grammar Scnt,,,l at Blackburn, in Lanca shire. Mrs. A. Nairne, daughter of the late J. Nairne, Egg. of Wednesday, the 6th lost. at Piestonficid, in the S;d yrag of her age. PRIV. PI TIME' Hank Stnck 166 7 3 per cent Red 3: 3 3 erCe.P.13. , u5..... 63i 4169 4 per C,r4t. Con,. 7e.IL 90; 9i 3 per C..nt. Allll 4 .* ! net Ceqt. 17 97 1.1;1,1 mk L. Aim...... 7-Iti !Sank Stunt \ ri. !MI). 3 pm' Cent. Divan Anti .. .. \ .. STOCKS. :110AT. U . 11116010 ... 'l3l disc. India %trek X94;5}9 !list.) &Inds * "—to I Loral S per Cent. iii, , Exciirq Bills . it , 1..11* Lot. Tick. ••• • frith, diew !tank ter Open 17; loillia for Open. ol Consols fur May Dltai WA:11:1 AT LONDON:BRIDGE. 181$ DAT. Morning, Ira after 9 1 Afternoon, after 91 *eta! by &tuition. By Mr. KING, At hit Great Room, No. 58, King.street, Covent-garden, di MONDAY, the isth Instant, `1 Small COLLECTION of SHELLS, MI. NEIt.ILS, FOSSILS, SOUTH-SEA RARITIEf, SAXON, ROMNN, and other COINS, TURKISH and M \ LAY D.kGGERS, ANTIQUE SILVER and BRA% RINGS And SEALS, SILVER CANDLESTICKS, TABLE SPOONS, SUGAR-STAND, &c. MA) , be viewed on Siitutiliy, and Catalojuirttheo bad at th 4 By LEIGH, SOTHEBY, and SQN, At their House, in York -street, Covent garden, On MONDAY next, and Seven following Days, at Twelve o'cinck, very curious and valuable LIBRARY of of the lite Mr. ROBERT GRAVE, Prints,der, Of Catheritte-wreet, Strand. Consisting of a very uncommon Collection of biseoriesi Buono and Tracts many of which have Portraits of .the Au- Onus. Particularly at the Tune of the Rebellion, 1645, this Usurpation, Restoration, and Abdication; one Lot of Tracts, contains near there Thousand differeut Pamphlets, emilesive at many ,thew ( with curious Pl3tes ) , not in th e a b ate au e l e , all relative to those eveinful Periods; also some Ofigamil Suits l'APers and Deedsi with AllteinPhs of smug matisient Cha racters. To be viewed, and Catalotues lad (price 61.) a the place of Sale. I.uadou : l'rmted by .1. No. le. Crown-coon. Fleet-struka ; and published there try W. 4. Cssmapv, of -Nu. 1101, Strand. • PARIS, Aram 11. (Exisad of a Letter.) 44 Here itre as many differeat versions as to the intent of publishing the French Libel in the Ham burgh Papers, as on the late conversation at the drawing-room ; but most agree, that both the one and the other were meant to throw the odium of a new war upon England, and to persuade the world, that the pacific Bonaparte wished for nothing but peace, and to continue to intrigue and conquer in peace ; the authentic exhibition of French duplicity has, therefore, so much the more offended the Great Peace-maser, and his tractable Minister, as the etrea intended is lost by die diteorer,-, and in future Rerulotionary Lampoons against England, either' printed at Rome or at Haniburgh, at Stutgard, or at Copenhagen, will make no more dupes, or be more trusted, than when printed by the Constlar Press at Paris, and published in that political mon ster, the Ofcial Afoniteur. " Politicians here amile at the political nicety of a certain C. curt and its guarantee ; many think the delay originated from no indemnity being offered fur this trouble; and others, that the Sovereign here, has hinted to the Sovereign .1141i:ter Acre, his intention not to respta other guarantee but possestion, which in fa6t is the best, if not the only security against un generous hatred, and restless intrigue, and an ambi tion that at present mocks the independence of Na tions as it formerly did the principles of Religion. It betides surprizes many, how. M. de Busy, a French man, can be the Lieutenant, or rather Deputy Grand Master, when after the Treaty of Amiens. no Fpench man can be longer a Member y . the Maltue Order. This justly inspires suspicion, and certainly wants expla nation, as, after the Statutes of the Order, ' at the 4 death of the Grand Master the Soveieignty of • Malta remains in the hands (Allis Lieutenant, un • til the elediun of a new Grand Master.' •' We .expeil every day the appearance of the Harabargh Libel in the Monitcur, to prove to Frenchmen, that the public opinion in free Ger many is the same as in free France ; and that every where but in England, justice is dune to the digni fied, peaceful, and modest vii tart of their Sovereign Ge neral." Another Letter, came Date. 41 It is believed here, that the principal reasons for Prince Ruspoll's not accepti, the noniination of ,111 g Grand Master of Malta, was leis u ..‘mination not to be governed by a Lieutenant appointed by France ; but what would France have said, had, by the threats or intrigues of England, the new Grand Master, Thomasi, appointed Sir Home Popham, or any other British suiijat of the Maltese Order, his Lieutenant ? There is no doubt a Protest against it, both in the Alen/tear, and in The Re7u,si rim Carwpaidetuen, would have soon appeared ; because when the Lieutenant is about 50, and the Grand Master near 80—and at the death of the latter, the Sovereignty of Malta belongs ad interim to the harmer; the probability of the Lieutenant surviving the Grand Master is great, and his par tiality either to England ur France might involve Europe in a new war. " The present Lieutenant, M. de Busy, is in the vigour of age, but the Grand Master, M. Lie Tho masi, is enervated by hot climates, and weakened by great 'about s and long life, and, like most men of his age, wants more to be governed than to govern ; were it otherwise, he would not have sub mitted to be the tool either of endared Rome, or of free France. " By the Treaty of Amiens, the Maltese Langue of Bavaria is to subsist ; by subsequent Treaties with France, the income of the Bavarian Langue is ceded to . the Eledur of Bavaria, an indemnity for, God knows, what loss.—What do the Guarantees say to this ? And is England to be reproached as the violator of a Treaty, idoich . France neither diredly nor indirectly has resfreaed P t) IREI.zIND. Wkklow Assizes ended the 2tith ult. at schich the 141:owing persons were tried before Lord NU R -7ohn Byrne, convi&ed of burning the house of Thomas Cross. on the 31st of October, in the year 1798. The case was fully proved—not that the pris“uer akltually burned the house, but that he was present, 'and one of Dwyer's gang. The prosecutor was a man of the name of Thomas Halpin, an ap prover, who gave evidence very fairly, which was IN ell corroborated. The prisoner received a most excellent chara&et from Mr. Ambrose Moore, of the city of Dublin, Will proved that the prisoner worked with him as a gar.hmer (at his country-houie) since the beginning utf the year 1799 to the time of his arrest, near four years ; that he was well condated, a hard-working man, striElly honest, and that during the above 'period, the prisoner had been in town se veral teincs every week, and never absconded or concealed himself. •- Previous to his receiving sentence, he in a very humble manner addressed his Lordship, and said, he did not deny his being present at the burning of the house, but that he was not naive, nor had he been the cause of it ; that be was sorry to say he could not help bein t present, having been forced to it. He told his Lorisnip Fe never quitted the country ; but the moment he could escape from Dwyer's party he returned to industry, and never auempted to Link himself from justice. Lord N o away impressively stated, that during the whole of the trial the prisoner had contitra , .4 himself with proper decorum, which made much impression upon the Bench. His Lordship was pleased to say, he would recommend him to mercy, and lay the whole of the trial before the Lord Lieu tenant. He was sentenced to be executed on the 7th of Novvrnber next. Thursday the Bank made purchases on the Stock Exchange, to make good the defalcations that had beeu discovered ; and for all which they justly con sider themselves as liable. This iad the efled of a temporary rise, but as soon as their purchases were compleat, the funds fell hack again ; and they were not agitated by any political rumour whatever. Owing to tits resistance made by the crews of the East India Company's ships in the diver on Monday last, although they had protedions :rom the Admi ralty, their Lordships have caused .orders to be issued, to impress from all protedions vhen such re sistance is made cm board any mercha:..l . . . . , ..- . .• .- • .. IR i °. . . .. • . _ _ I I*