The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-01-21 00:00:00

l OPERA HOUSE. Last night. du col* Opera of 11 Principe di Tereus, was performed to an elegant, but not crowded audience. Madame Peseta and Monsieur pa Haves, in the Balkh seceived the most raptu rous applause. There wens present— fps t royal Niemen the Duchess of York, accompanied M Ho Royal Highness ttae.Doke of Candiridae; Lady Ann Cell* Smith , Co l o nel Tarter and Mr. Smith ; alto the pekoes of ltrotbur(h, Chaining, anti De Castries ; the Mar of ktrodfort, Downahire, and lath ; the Earl and (~unrest of Cameroon. til4l Litt of Val ride, the Earl and Countess of Barrymero. the Counters of Carchgarr. Vienuntrim ; Ladies C. Caaeodurk, Abdy, Eortescor, M. rr, Ue Clifford, an/ Blackwood. ,v will leave town. this day, -Anita and the PLUM LSI LS Itosisgton Palace on their way, and early dinner with the Doke of St:ssr.t. •tt.orirs of WALE• dined with I Monday. "tort., aid Lady Gestivicts •t ssparty, on Motlday evening , the Princess CU A ILL OTT L Lady Ds Csirroaci, visited the Panictssts. Princesses ELIZASITIS and MA IT kiti.sms Placa with a visit, at James's Palace. Curaest.ANO and Swim dined miss yesterday. t. the Prussian Minister, dined, yes- Royal Higheess the Duke of Yon K. of the new Opera of Filar Afa, no • and must do so, while music, can please. lANCILLLO% was prevented frnm the Draseing.Rnem, on Monday, weehmalter not lasing able to repair , and take off the arms of Lord ,4 amnia e and barites.. being the albratioe of Her M 'oast v's e naming will sabered in at Windsor ringing at the Cathedral and parish Town Hall was illuminated on the Loyal Volunteers mustered very a fa &joie on the occasion. and Mr. Anew.* are executors of !Nike of RICHMOND. About we understand, will devolve _ present Duke. Duchess of Rtatisono hale re iwood, to their house in town. patronised the new Comedy of Fite Wes off i and the Mu fly ig sight t or, Lov Stain, on Grantham Theatre. Scsissassv paid a visit to Her r. Her Ladyship was prevented drawing-room, the preceding startsax arrived, yesterday, at ..usoar's house, in Grosvenor. Badminton, Gloucestershire. Presentatroas to Her MC) EST Y, On the Countess of Culligan. Tee Ear' of Morino. Str Eduard Berry, on helot , lad %beton. %dm Chinks Part, by the ..i4 ; and Mn Pinakney, try Mn.s Mown. Ems's, Fumes., SU sW, ROWCIIOtt. Tolurvss,Amostsost.and Wet.- M Drawing-Boom, on Newswire was prevented from paying ier MAJESTY, on Monday, by in have great pleasure in stating, that worthy Baronet was midi better. • Pan anvil are expettled, this day, d Grosvenomsinare, from Penrhyn Wales. Highness the Doke of CL A asses, we • of stating, was so much bates, proposes coming to town, from and Marchioness of Saussuar, GaotatAsia and Augur. Ctcir, yesterday for Hatfield Park. •They will -- for the season in a fortnight. Doitcu wren was prevented from at- Dr wing -roam on Her IVlAre t ry's •ii+position. Their Royal Highnesses Lis and Dukes of CA/43810GS paid a visit to his Lordship on Sa house in Park-lane. and New Year's Ball. at Petworth, et, and attended by all the beauty that neighbourhood. The Earl noble owner of Petworth-Hoise, of thirty persons from his hospi- last week, to enter the fAshionable Marchioness of Waterford, f.ord Ce,g. Nils. Rayr.esferd, Lout De Idlaquiere, Sir 'rs. lkSiss Beaty, 11.4t.a !Ake, Lord Lady Charlotte Knowlis, Mrs. Calcraft, and Miss Alexander. 4 the Rochester Garrison. and some :men of that neighbourhood, intend perform the Tragedy of Zi►a. and the st the Rochester Theatre. Deury-len• Theatre, will be the The receipts of the hou.e will the MAYOR of ROCMCbT LI. for Stittex, the seat of Sir H. FIA. . the extraordinary quantity of one brace of game was shot. from ig the 7th. to Saturday iiirzht the p triy visiting at the above mars- Nssiy^ao, who is dangeroncly ill, Ulout*stershise, is anis, by marriage, Viscount Heitcroao. Her Ladyship lINIRTTA ra Tascr first Maids of Honour to the s with Lady Etc HO. daughter . of W'r.v eA, arid dangt.ter of F.sq. She is a Lady.‘ 31 the in 116 , • . MED I LITE D DUEL A private letter, which we received yesterday, I from Dublin, dated the 13th inst. contains the fol lowing passage You are already apprized of the duel lately fought in the Isle of Man, by Mr. and Sir J. P. P—, which ended in so extraordinary a manaer —Sir J M—, the brother or the former, left this city yesterday fur that Island, with a surgeon, two Seconds, and a garentuns :died of powder and ball ; and previously " A vow en God made he That he would day the greatest Bucks Conte trlm the West Countree." Sir J is certainly gone with an express de termination to fight Sir J. P. P—, his second, and the second of Mr. M-I— , his brother, in the l ate duel.—Whether, like JOSHUA, he can command the sun to stand still, I cannot say, but it will almost require this supernatural power to enable the Ba ronet to accomplish, in a day, the work which he has taken in hand. PI Lai1...." so. f oe applause. There w }kg tire Highness the I by Hi Royal Higloner elm calm souk Colonel Tar palters */ Roxburgh, Chao cf.m.esor Ibledfert, Down cAuntess of Cameroon. the Cortese of Berrymere. the C re'::re,th; Ledo' O. Coo r, Us Clifford, and Med 17-,e ROYAL FAMILY f Windsor. Her Wu stop at Kentitron partake of an early dinni Princess CMAILOTIf Their histories 00 I The Duke of ARGY were of Their MAJCSTIE Yesterday morning, t Weals. attended by L Their MAJESTILS and th Yesterday, Princess' honoured Lady Cuaat. her apartments, in St. Ji The Dukes of Cuter with Their MAJEITIZI Baron J ACOIII. the F terday, with His Royal] The attraOion of the increases each night, a incident. and poetry. CI The Loan Coating going in state to the 13 owing to the cosshnsal the state carriage, and BL OM, frost tie genii Sunday, being*, 0 Birth-day, the morale by the hells rissLag Church, and the TOwn occasion. The Windier Loyi strong, and fired a / Mr. SriaLs and MI the will of doe late I 141,0001. par annum. s with the title to the p The Duke and Duel Weed from Good woo Ll* BIOWIILOW pa Mir /Egger Past • er . and Farce of fie Fly 6 IMiesday last, at the Cr Lady Coatis's So MAJIIITT, yesterday. from attending the di day, by indisposition. Lined **TRIM Sows the Duke of BrAlllo square, from Badminu Among the Present Monday. were— Lady Walpre, by the I forarlington, by Za.l Ma created &Damien, by Seel lir Counter ee' Uxbridge; anti Aldermen Liana, AOSLlT,Psamilio, lON, were at Her Ms Monday. bit Joss Nawsoat his teepees to Her IV disposition ; we hovel last night the worthy 1 Lord sad Lady Pars at their house in Oro Castle, North Wales. His Royal High nest have the pleasure of reterday, that he pr.( Mashy. on Friday. The Marquis and and the Ladies Gsoi left town yesterday f return to town for the The Earl of Dorms( tending the Drawinl Birth-day, by iniliqvni the Princes of Wats, and Cunt statarrn pail turday last, at his how The Christmas and were very brilliant, as and fashion in that of Los amour, the not brought upwards of t table mansion. Left Brighton, last I ;ct of London I The Ntereine aml Mara Mr. and Mo. ...' . O'fftfoy, Mrs. ny • •1 Banbury/ Lady S.inniron, E:q• and The Officers of the mindere Gentlemen of ▪ nest week to perform Puree of raw Fiewi Mrs.• , ousuron, of D Navies of the night. • • at the disposal of tt 1 charitable purpose. At Up.pa r k, i n s„, ▪ ttttt TONNAUOO, tin ' , Ye hundred and one I 'edoesday morning t • oth instant, by a pr.; e Viscountess Hta si her seat in Mout.% ' the present ifiscoun II the Hon. Hess tee. one of the 6, is 4 'tin. and coheiress r. alaw of 'he Earl r "Tennr Kees, F.sq 440 1/04,41 charity. CHEETHAM AND CeIBBVIT. [Front The Nlifiest &muter.] These two men, so similar in their character and conduit, will, in ail probability, rerembleeaci. other in the termination of their eciitorial career in this country. Cobbett, our re.iders will reenlled, for a long time published, with impunity, one of the most libellous papers which this, or any of her people, ever witnessed. He seemed resolved to try what could , berffeded in political controversy, by a system or discriminat3 abuse and calumny. He possessed, in a high degree, theralent of heaping slander and ridicule upon the charaders of men. 'his t tient !.e omitted no opportunity of exercisini pninical oppo nent, who was eminent 1, to became a mark for the snafts of save, be was sure to a . taek and trample under to, t. How lou t; he was suffsr dto go on in his licentious ea-ear unmoit sted, now hi g h he stood for a considerable rime, in tie estimation of a great prvortion of the people of this country, whit confiden,e, And vivo, t, and patronage, he ie ceived, and how he w.e. applauded and encourage to persevere in a line of conduct so hostile to de cency and the etimmon feelings of human twine, and a • much at variance with the laws of the land, must remain in tie recolledion of every man. whi. was at all conversant with the political !yenta of those days. Many men of high respedability, of integrity, And undoubted honour, and whose at tachment to the true interests of their country, could not be questioned, these afforded countenance and support to Cobbett ; who now blush to think how miserably they were deceived as to his motives and objeds, and how much they must have been blinded by political prejudice, net to have disco vered in him a deadly enmity to the constitution And government of the United States. Although party spirit may induce men to g o great lengths in tolerating calumny and abuse in those public papers, which profess to advocate their po litical opinions, yet there is a point at which the man of honest views must and wilt stop $ at which his sense of decency, and his regard for the laws of his country will oblige him to halt. When the Edi tor of a Paper stirs beyond this point, he must lose the patronage and support of the honest politicians of all parties—such was the fate of Cobbett. When his excesses had disgusted those who had once been his friends, he was abandoned to the punishment which the law is always ready to inflict on the ca lumniator. He was crushed, and his slanderous tongue silenced by die exemplary verdid of an ho nest jury ; a verdict!, which awarded to a most worthy man, nee thousand dollars, fir the injury sustained in his chataatr and feelings, and which stripped Cobbett of the wages of his iniquity, and banished him from the country. Such were the charader and condnd of Cobbett, and such the end of his career.—What a striking likeness to this picture does Cheetltam present. He, like Cobisett, has for a long tone gone on no• checked, in a general system of attack upon the reputation of his political opponents—he, too, has received patronage, encouragement, and support, from a great part of the people of this *tate— he, too, like Cobbett, has been esteemed an honest politician, by many men who cow sincerely regret their error, And by many more who will hereafter blush at their delusioa—and he, too, like Cobbett, Joues. e has at length felt the lash of justice. Within the last week, he has been arrested on executions, amounting to near fourteen hundred dollars, on judgments recovered against him by Mr. Living ston, for maliciously slandering his reputati .n. Other snits, for malicious labels, are depending against him, and we do not doubt, that the hones: jurors of our country, will continue to punish him by exemplary verdids, until the torrent of abuse, he is continually pouring upon the community, shall be effectually dammed up. It dos not require the power of prophecy to foretel, that Cheetharn, as he .141 so nearly resem bled him in his general Due of conduft, will likewise resemble him in the termination of his diurnal career. The miserahle tools of the faaion may, f a little while, uphold him against the norm of indignation, which is lamming ou his head, but his fall is as sure as the final triumph of virtue over vice. ' lis a consummation devoutly to be wished." The good and virtuous, of all parties, will rejoice to see him driven from a station, nh:ch he so con stantly disgraces; and will behold, with pleasure, his return to that hottest trade, from which, in an evil hour. he was taken, to corrupt and poison the public inaud. Eztratik of a letter, dated buyer, January 19 : " On Friday even:ng,'3'uoraaslN lPsao, a very de cent elderly woman, who kept a small chandler's shop at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, was mur dered on her return from visiting I:er daughter, who lives at k3rts..l4airs. Circumstances induced a sus picion, that .s private of the Gsrnsaa Legion was the perpetrator of the horrid deed: he is lb custody, and the Mayor of !)over (who is also Coroner) has ►een for several hours engaged wit:i a mast respedable Jury, in examining a number of witaesses.—Mr. GAR ROW. who was at his house in that neighbour. hood, has been very saive in endeavouring to pro mote the inquiry, and is now assisting the Coroner in the examination.—Mr. BA anima. the Librarian at litoadstairs, deserves much commendation for his anivity in securing the prisoner, and tracing the propel ty of ahash the dem," was phinderad." P•W", vt" . 7771' • • OLD IA/Ltr.--im ~ ea. • ~ The Reccianea presided this day. ec.i • William Jeer was indleted for stealing frontal board the lral:•l , , f er barge, I ;oaths. weight of leaf!, the property of the East India Company. Robert Knight, Quarter-Nlaster of the Worcester Indianian, swore, that on the IS:h of December, the Prisoner, with several others, were hired to work as lumpers on board Cie ifPeri.ester, then lying at Blackwall, alongside of which vessel tte Tretezar lay; she had then on boar d several tons of ling lead, • the property of the East India Company ; in the evening he discovered one of the pigs of lead con cealed beneath the cable of the Thoceeer. Con• eciving it to be removed from the haree by some of the lumpers, he concealed it in another part of the vessel. In the morning, the Prisoner and three others were observed Tel busy, searching the ves sel for the lead. Soon after the Witness saw the Prisoner in these of cutting it with a saw, to render it rrs ,, T, convenient to carry off ; and when the Wit ness expostulated with the Prisoner, and repteten:- i•ci the imp-opriety of his conduCt, he replied, " I know you're down to it, bu: we'll splice it, If you don't Kali." The Witness ge.sured him. he would neither partake et the crime nor the emolument, and inisnediately sent for an Officer, who took him into custody. Several other witnes..es were called to prove the lead the property of the East India Company, which being , ntisfaltorsly established, the Jury found the Ptic ,ner badly. threw Maws was inditted for stealing from his employer, a firmer and cow-keeper near Hendon, in company with William Boden, not yet appre hended, 37 trusses 'of hay. 1 hey were observed, 'bout :CAr o'clock in the morning, by a watchman, 'slason Anvil* a team laden with hay, and Boden following at some distance. The watchman stopped the cart, and demanded a reason for the Prisoner appearing with it: at so early an hour, declaring ire would not permit the cart to proceed until the o wner should himself appear. The Prisoner im ne,ha:rly called Bccien, woo, he told the watchman, ve •-. ri, owner. Roden came up in a great passion, .1,1 demanded the Prisoner's whip, with which he snore he would knock tne watchman down, if he would not permit the cart 'to pass. The Prisoner then drove of thi: cart, and was tint taken until the next day. flie hay was also proved to be the pro • perty of the Farmer, and the P. isoner having no thing to urge in hi. ....sr was touad Jams Lhvi rr:t lilso fluted GAN of s t ea li ng five pounds weight of cheese front the sliop of Mrs. Ines, Pretest -street, on the f".0:11 of December last. Prison', appeared extremely indigent, professed he was compelled to it by hunger. The It ECORDIa passed sentence of death upon the rever.teen prisoners following : Hallett Grill. LOllOll Feld, Tho,nas Ward, Ens:ahem Stacey, Frodetish Saslth, aka' Homy St. John, Catherine M•Carthy, John Fordham, John H+%%%%%. Richard Hartmd, W MU Brqtge, Moiry Craw*, James Wood, W Marsden, Jarn Bailer, Patrick headwirm.i. John Worse's*. Tomas MD POLICE. NIARLIIOROVOK-STRIZT. DOG STE A L George &yrs, a known informer on the town, was charged with stealing a Newfoundland dog, the property of a gentlemen. It appeared, in evr• deuce, that the dog in question was stolen from te• young man a few days since, and was afterwards sold by a pe-son of the name of Brannam, who keeps a Menagerie in the New-road, to a gentle• man, who instituted this complaint, in consequrnee of the dog having been claimed by another. Lovett, the Officer, apprehended Green as the person who had stolen the dog ; and, on his being examined, he confessed having been hired by Braunam, the dealer in dog•, to steal every dog he could lay bands on, and be had enticed away the dog in question with fond. The Prisoner also informed the Magistrates. that he had stolen a great many dogs for Brannam, A considerable number of which bad been sent to the East Indies. The Prisoner was remanded, and the parties concerned were ordered to attend again, when Brannam should be brought up. The shipwrights and other workmen, discharged by the Earl of ST. ViscaNT, in his sour, are nuw invited back to the Kimo's chick-yards, for which purpose blank proteiflions have been issued for six months, to be filled up at the dock-yards where they shall apply for work. On Saturday next, at two o'clock, a beautiful new ship, called the Valiant, of twenty-four guns. will be launched from Mr. PaWel Yard at Blackwall, and aiterwards go into Dock to be coppered, rigged, and otherwise fitted out for immediate service. 76e Madrid Ga:ette, of Olober, 180(3, gives an account of the return of Dr. Flt ANCIS Xavita &sous, Surgeon Extraordinary to the King of Spats, from a voyage round the world i taken for the sole . purpose of conveying the benefits of vac cinatiiai to all the transmarine possessions of the Crown of Spain, and other countries in their vicinity. This expedition set out from Corunaa, in Novem ber, 180$, carrying out 22 children who never had the small-pox, as the means of preserving, in due erEcacy, the vaccine matter, by successively trans mitting it from toe to another, during voyage. It stopped at the Canaries, at Porto Rico, and at the Caraccas : in that province, it was divided into two branches. cne destined for South America, the other for the Havanna and Yucatan. The latter, by a sub-division. spread vaccination through New Spain ; and, uniting again at Vera Cruz. proceeded, with 26 fresh children, across the Pacific Ocean, to the Philippine Isles, where this salutary dis.ase wss propagated through all the islands subjett to Spain, end among the natives of the Visayan Arcirplago. It thence marled Macao and Canton, where it was successful in bringing the matter in an alive stare, in which the English praaitioners had hith rto Asa use proceeded for Eutope in a Portuguese vessel, and touched at St. Helmut, where he prevailed upon the English settlers to adopt vaccinatioo.which they had before negleted. though communicated to them by Dr. J a . The btanch of the expedi- • tin sent to South America, though it underwent shipwreck, was successful in saving the children, and the matter, in an alive state, and spread VAC. dueness widely in New Granada. linaielmice. in • LeZDS EOROUCII SESSION. CRUELTY. .11114ING C. •—••••-•.. 1114 was a trial tot an assault of a very singular nature; and in giving an outline of it to our readers, we shall sim:ily lay before them the evidence with out any comments, either of our own. or of the Couasel for the respedive panics. Charles Campbell, Li.e lan on whom the assault e WAS committed, sot of Lien. Col. Campbell, of Ohs tnv.n, having been examined as to, his capacity (bring only ten years of age) of understanding the nature and oldigetion of an oath, was admitted by the Court to he sworn. He stated, that on clan I7ta July last, betwixt the hours of twelve and one At noon, he put a play bill under the rapper of the Op fendant's dour, out which falling from the sittisnua in Vic . ' he had placed it, 0. - -casinaed a rap at we door, th- witness immediately ran away. and was pit-sued by Cie Defendant, who overtook him at the corner of St. Paul's Church, and seizing him by the hair, knocked Lim down, and placing.the heed of N.s witness in stints a situation as with his knee en con fine it against the wall, he took a penknife from the right pocket of his waistcoat, and with it made al incision in the back of his ear. 'fire wttnes• said he cried out when he was first seised by the Defendant, but much louder when he began to cat his ear; his ear bled much and blo i.ted his shut neck. Master Campbell further added, that a ser vant girl of Mr. Clark's, who was cleaning the out side of the windows, was looking towards him at tins same time. A fe.enaie servant of Mr. Clark, who lives in Park-squaie, said, that she was cleaning the outside of the windows at the time when this assault was committed, and that her attention brill attraetril by the screaming of Master Campbell, she kept her eye upon him the whole time; Mr. oreesonit him at the north-west corner of St. Paul's Church, knocked him down en his breech, and placing the boy's head between his knees, took a small penknife from his right waistcoat pocket, and cut his ear with it. Being strongly interrogated on tbi. part of her ,‘„ evidence, Witness said she could solemnly declare " upon her oath the truth of all she bad asserted. On being asked her opinion as to the distance from her master's house to the pl-ce where the assault was committed ; she expressed her opinion. that it was about 50 }aids. Mr. Logan, surgeon. stated. that be was seat for about three o'clock in the afternoon, on the 17th July, to dr-ss the wound, which had the appear ance of having 'seen : liaed by a sharp in- unmean t as it was a clean .neision ; it was not impossible, bat he thought it improbable.for the wound to have been occasioned by a fine nail ; the wound was about an inch or an inch and A quarter in length, and a gottrter cf an inch in dept':. The Defendant did not ptuluce any'ridence to rebut the charge. Tire Jury, after deliberating upwards of an hour, found the Defendant - Coilio of the whole charge. The Court sentenced hint to pay a fine of 251. to the King, and bound him to his good heft*. riour for twelve months, himself in 2001. and two sureties in 100!. each. • The name of the Defendant is suppressed bt the Psper„ Iran which we base chTted this cam SPORTING -INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MUTING. Tometsp•Nr, Sweepstakes of tf•Ogs —Two-year old course. Mr Payne's Tudor, est. t I lb. . 1 • Lord F. G. Oshorne's Nowt, Sit. 61b. . Mr. Wyndhasn's c. by SeheLimit, •. The squadron under the command of Admiral Louis, consisting of the Caniws and Thrtakear, 74 guns, and Standard, of 64. arrived at Malta on the 9th.of November. . Yesterday, the LORD MR TOR, after examining the returns of the Mealweighers. ordered the pries of Bread to be continued the same as last week, vie. Is. I Id. the Quartern Loaf. Several seamen who have applied for warrants at the Admiralty. to serve as Ma-tern on board the Royal Navy, will be examinee, to-morrow, at the Trinity-House. The Duke of Rreassoiro. in a very interesting address. has taken leave of his late const.tneats. the Freeholders of Sussex, whom he represented four succeeding Parliaments. His Grace the Duke of NORTHUM SUL AND being appointed Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (Blue;), gave an elegant and sumptuous dinner to all the Officers, and roast beef awl Win pudding to all the Privates, with plenty of Quesm's ale to drink Her Islaissev's health, due. W:LLIAM Et Lis, Esq. was, on Thur:day last, a second :ime cleacci Lord Mayor of York. At the same time, tAxatioLit Baartiot.osioa, Esq. Proprietor of The York was chosen a Corp. mon Councilman for Walmgate Ward, on the re signation of Mr. Groaoc Krt.& m. On Monday night. about twelve o'clock, the Duke of CUM • Mt. A rio's apartments in tt. James's Palace, were discovered to be on fire. The di... covery was made by a servals . of Mr. GORDON, w • rmides in the apartments ajoining t s His Roy 1 Higbnc,s's, by the holy of smoke and smell tit* that had got into their rooms ; he gave the alarm. and it was found to proct.ed from the vety la ge fires in the stoves used to cook the dinner. Nome was immediately given to the 'rarer in trait f the Palace, who, with a number of men, sit► up all ought on the cclenration of the Birth-days. He brought the Palace engine in a few minute;, and after ripping up some boards in Mr. GOR DOS'S apartments, and getting the engine to play, he got it under in a short time, withou: doing winch da- mage. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the gene ral sentiment of the superiority of the present State Lowry Scheme, than the unprecedentedly great sale of tickets and Shares which took place on Saturdar a.id Monday last, when the Putslie perceived that there was not the least probalnlity of attaining them at a cheaper rate, according to an unfounded im pression, that the price would %e lnwer, the nearer the drawing approached. Such a-aher sale as that of Mond ty in particular, will not inure a porehasa. b`a Ticket or Share in the L vet y roarket. In truth, the two immense Prates of 30,0001. .•• • 1