The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1807-11-21 00:00:00

r ___ _ __ _ __ b .._ _.• ... z ____ ___ _ ,___ c i f. will take their ivy to Zealan4, as formerly, this 1, hmby made known to the Royal Post Ceawtoir, fir their sown °l:sensation, as well as for the lafor. r.afion of the public. And, as measures willl bw.l I •ten in ease or a ppcket being pursued by the . e .iny. and enable ~ escape, for throwing** an. n. y and valuables verooard, in that case, the .v,...r. 4t • " hertAve 'in rued, that the Post Office . • Ces UK bind itself t snake reparation, but the 1, 1‘,.. •liti:., be sustained by the proprietors. How -1 ever, attestations of the goods, monies, ht. that =ay be shipped, will be:squired at the Post Office." . . By a Royal Order of the 27th of OEtober, the •••• importatieo of timber of all descriptions to foreign • eeuatries is prohibited. both by land and sea, under . • the penalw of confiscation, and a fine equal 16 the • value of the articles. li te ' l O -- IT. Iltranssuacm, OCT 14. The British Minister, Lord Gower, has repeatad his proposals to Count Romansow for a renewal of • the Treaty of Commerce ; bat they have been re 1, •• . • j•Aeci. 1 , ...• • . ...... TfiE BRITISH PRESS. f~ LON DON, SATURDAY. Novastaza 21. • 4 We stated yesterday a report prevails at Ports-• mouth, that the squadron of Rear-Admiral KBATIIS is destined to detain the Russian Beet which lately 1 1t • • pat into Gibraltar, on its return from the Mediter ranean. The Plymouth letters received yesterday • 1 . announce that a similar report prevails at that '0•• .• • ik r place. 'lle Russians. by forcing our blockade • :' .-• • 'of Venice, certainly have rendered themselves übjeds .C * .t. of jealousy and suspicion. But it is not likely . that our Ministers would visit the offence with se. I I Tait:. It may be a fit subject of remonstrance. but not a sufficient ground for provoking a ruffturd with RuLia, in the present circumstances of Issi lope. It is not enough for a war to he just. it ought to be also necessary and expedient. It was: reported, yesterday, that Admiral K c•T as, who is 1 at single anchor at St. Helen's, is all clear fur ac tion, and that two frigates are cruising off the Isis of Wight, to give notice of the approach of the , .; Russoan squadron, which it is imagir.cd Las by dug ir ' time arrived in the Channel. :i; . We announced, yesterday, the.capture of severil prizes by the Carrter, Ike. which via appear is this t • Light's Ca:;tte. The prize of the Ca:rier is the ! 4l !Mire privateer, captured cif the Di.i;ger Bank, ' il IP • iIIN days since. Twenty-nin.: of her crew have 4 1.) . alliilrui at Grimsby . Elia :411,7kiTY'l• brig Sweei.tv , • captured, on Sunday last, nine leagues S.W. of the '' .A i 7 ji 45.izard, the French schooner I..eilierval, with 45 A ,. • - ,0.. Bien, and pierced for If guns, all of uhich...woto on *brown over hoard in do chase ; she came• osit. dr • * Marlin the day before. iu company with two lug. gers, Lad had taken nothing : and on Wer,n .odg. i. , ~ the Plena sclioorwir privateer, L'als'evral DA CMOS. I • . attired at Plymouth. Sin is pierced for 18 On, i it mounted with lti long nine-pounders, and 95 kea. i .1111 r d was captured onTu•gsday in the Channel, after chase of six hours, by the Surinam slorrp of war, 4 . k of 1$ guns, Capt I., , irt. Tilt privateer had been !I • . r out only W hoots from St. Woes, and had wade no captures. —.,......—. • The F. teiro“inf, of SA guns, and :he nrk, of 74, 10.4, Li .p, have mated from Plymouth, to join Sir SIDNLY • 4. A • • Sm ten's squadron at Cork. Previous to the sailing sidle Fo•d•es,Ast, the Hon. Heal-Atli:o44 LIIIITII W. .. shifted his flag from teat vessel to the Beth rqddoi. .4;•;' • ? - • • , : • • i t Preparations are making for a ihird scciet expe dition. It is to be fitted out at P!) plinth. Sir 2: ;: B•Kligt. HOOD Will sail immediately !tom P011s• . 1 4 ' mouth, in the Cashier, to 245011 e the naval corn *, -It t..f ORD ATI iveJ at l'ortsrivarth . accompanied Sir SAM:MI. HOOD ; i‘ to have the con 02S hiof tLe the expedition. received, yesterday, at the the Baltic. They bring fresh hostility of the Danes. Cionburgh with cannon, in the best possible amending the Sound. It fires upon vessel that attempts to par.' it.— however, is friar miles across, and our to the Swedish side, may pass • ___,...._ other foreign papers announced. that BONIII.II3TE intended to visit Italy before winter. . Tfirs Paris inst. state. that se will tint km the Irt of D:cember, and are to the jo.irney to Italy. In the :ARTS is represented shooting 1 . wild _ 4, hunting, or dfitifig about Foartainbleau tier a little chaise with Madame Boa AAAAA a, like PO . 1/ ,' a snug oitia,:n and his wife. 1 4. dr A state of such quiet simple life is so contrary to a . thiturbulent and wicked spirit of this ntan. Oat l e l i so sir some people think it isispos,ible, and a repose has •* ' 4 , . arisen that be is dra. , . Revolution they consider • VP! this viral pi inciplr ; and the quiet of rural :etiremen i 1 e• . his cc:La:a ddhu. This appaieut quiet, we venture 'l. . . . t • . . . T , 4; nand. Gencr.il Dal I. • v on Thursday ; he az ' • 111 3 and it is rumoured, • . troops zoirig upon tl .R. ta l Dispatches wrre •• ' amk s ' Adult/sky. from ti • 1. '1( • j Wisecoutifinf tl.e hosti • Castle is provided w manner, fv crmniai , ever? &kis!' *Esse e Scur.d. hotter • • by keeping • . ea eatery. • The• Paris and o - early in autumn, the 1 his king,ium of It. *lb At' 4 papers of the 3d inst Fonteinbleau before . ' • silent with respzet tt 4 bitenta time Bouar s wild ducks, hunting, • I however to predttl, will be found a ikethrialorlin , a ueacberous tranquillma,pregnant alt The warily of the mask u unbohodiedo . lsio has shisod in ttio cabinet:llnd in d* tfir. He is bid "- amims , iiMitse at rhit peri arid at peaty the Ball. 'The must be anxious to wake die wont believe that ha sl.eps with•st quiet conscience, and can manse him- - self with shooting wild ducks at Foataintileau. Gas,ete of this night will co-rain more ,peSesa than any- that has been published for a long time. The quantity of matter sent from the Admiralty is unprecedented. The conditions and regulrions conflated with the late Orders in Coun cil, we understand, form a part of it. The transports, with troops, from Copenhagen, which artived lately at Portsmouth, are to be sent to Ireland. 80113? foreign letters and papers have been re ceived, containing rumours from Hamburgh, to the 10th inclusive, but nothing of any interest. Dispatches were tent off last night from the Fo reigs Office for Sweden. A Letter from Dover. dated Oft. 19, says too 1, A few nights since, six large French logger eti olate!' were off here. Two of them, within mile of the shore. captured a brig transport, but, I be bele, she is recaptured by the hbleik." Captain WITHLY, of the Three Friend', arrived at Hull, from the Baltic, states, that he passed lour English gun-brigs, on the oth or 9th inst. turning through the Ground. 1 he J•Aahaes. Jr:toreros% from St. Croix, is de tained by the Attire privateer, of London, and was spoken with, on Saturday last, by the Live!, priva teer, of Guernsey, twelve leagues S.E. half E. of the Headman, endeavouring to get iuto Dast mouth. We never meant to return to the case of Mr. AL cocx, until the trial of that Gentleman upon the charge of having murdered Mr. Coacaotou, in a duel, at Wexford. From time to time,:however, the subjrtl has been revived ; brat in The IL•r,ior • Herald, and next in The Morning Pest t• which latter assures us, that Mr. ALCOCK has gives notice to the Sheriff, of his intention to stand his trial at the ensuing Assize'. To prevent any further oh serer inns bf this kind. wrinform these Prints, that if Mr. Ascoce means to stand bit trial, - he mint advertise such intention three times in The Dribn Gazette ; and also give notice thereof to the intone diate telatives of the deceased. This is the'law of the Lind ; and, we repeat; that those w . ...opnsinnate I the contrary, arc igoonua of it, ui wilfully mis represent it. Letters from Rotterdam, of the Ins. positively assert that Mr. elltlliTßONO, the American 'Minis,- ier at Paris, had just' written in urgent terms to the must respectable merchants of that city concerned in the Americas trade, advising them ft hasten, with every possible expedition, - the waiting of American ships. Mr. AIIMSTIOirtI is saiet jectirel leg to those letters, to have stated, that the ravioli, mrsito a . R piss ps aril, insists that America shill shut her ports against braids shipping, and cease . all cossaasuoiesstios with us. The entails. an Art:slim-I oriel, is arrived it Cowes, from Cherbourg; she bas brought mane let ters. from Party, bat they are lint of a *recent date. By this ship Mr. SMITH and Mr. W • Lsis, who lately left England for Franco, in the American schooner fig wait. ate returned. Mr. SMITH is *teen:panic' by some par of his family lately residi At in France; and Mr. WALSiI is said, but we believe errbne ously, to be the bearer of some insport.so eommu near ion trim Paris. A Gentleman of the name of Noose also came passenger in the 4,44, from Cherboutg, and brings with him his fatuity, after a residence in France of nearly eighteen months. Mr. &nay was the priori appointed by the Goverr meta of the United Stasis to negotiate for the possession of the Flotillas. Meeting of the Magistrates of the County of Nett - ors% convened by the High Sheriff, was held at Ennis:fifth'', on Itriday se'nnight, when were paned the following Resolutions : " hitonuatwa has beau I,d 'odes. ua, that certsin felonious woke, have Item latey posted on the Chapel door of Goosins town, and in 'erne other places in this county, threatening with i ul , and every other kivid of harm, all perveis witu shall take nr let ground. otherwise than as approved by deluded and risked erretches, styling themselves • /fell Mire end tn. " And whereas cattle have been barbarously killed, !weigh ed, or otherwise ; houses burned ; aid other IleC tUrral outrages coffin:titled, confbraiably to the said threaten ing notices. Now we, the Magetretes, fully determine:l that our comity o, a l „„t again be di ewee , a l an d Mourned he :01..iiious and Inhuman practices, whilst with the ea peoseof our fortunes or lives it is possible to prevent end put them duets, do hereby pledge ourselees sot,every practical,* uffort to discover, and pease with the Manta reecho of law/yell ;wren,. concerned in tne writing awl patios loch notices, and the perpetration ut such oub.gsa •• Anil, in addition to the sums severally annexed to our names, we wit endeavour Vi obtain from tiovertiment a CUT potvuu coward ler each discovers, secret or otherwise, as may sato. f. “su hose bo tone to bring to Justice loch offend sm. . 4 Weals., declare, that mall asses at nightly ninchref, we wilt use ear utmost stemmas to obtain for ids injured paste, compensation. by @aisment, of such town lands (within our casuoty), as we shall tfikliser, or .tides to suspect, inch siXen hers ate harboured in, to• countenanced by. " Algae same time, whilst• we deeply lenient that such outrages alaruld thus ducis •I a assail ta,ttun of ow counts}, we log great tAila/Ciloll us discovering, be our minute as- Ligation the day, that the musty is in gederal tranquil and indu.trioua The Hanoverian stamped paper, at Gottenbergh and Grabenhagess. has lately received a third stamp. with an eagle, and this inscription—" Reyes:fie de ireatphalie, Aar ied liddarer." • Most fortunately the Princess ST •HRICO auto has not been detained in Holland so long as was at first apprehended. Her Royal Highness is now at Et utsels, on her way to England. Ou Thursday night. the Portsmouth night coach, coming to London, with passengers, was over turned between Hind-head and if - Hod-lane. The c,achnsan was killzd upon the spot ; one of the passengers bad his thigh broken ; the guard was dreadl filly bruised. as were several of the paesengere s who ware brought to town in fish machines, ; counter a Manager of the Opera Huuse, forgot to notice the lonsitadinal and !startling! knowledge no cessary to ascertain the decent knfte of a lady's pet ticoat, or the letrailta of a circle which PAOIiOT might be allowed to describe in a Pirouette, without offending the eye of a Bishop. The tickets, No. 5127 at d 9338, drawn yestere day. Prises of 1000 L each, rere sold, shared, and registered, by Sir.l* as at [leaisscoseaand Co. at their lucky Lottery Offices. ho. 11, Holnurn, 37, Corn. bill, and No. 34. Hayinatket, Piccadilly ; where the Ticket, No. 3570, enti•led to 40,0001. in the pre- sent State Lottery. was likewiee sold in sixteen Sits teen:lrs, and where the holder.; of each respethve ,hare may ractivi the amount W their Pain, on de mand. • • • •.a. night. the front Plymouth-Dock. overturned upon Dinham Bridge, about four m the western site of Ashburton. The coach was proceeding with mote than common velocity. anti, truru the circumstance of the horses instantly strip pin;, the driver was precipitated over the bridge, where the waters had .woken beyond their ordinary size, by recent torrents. He was much breioed by the fall: he was carried to some distance by tile current, and probably would have perished, but for the exertions of a •gi.ntleman, oho caught hold el his great coat. and dragged him to the atm. None of the passengrrs were, in the slightest degree, butt; but, had the horses been restive, it is more tan probalale, that the consequeoce to them mast 110° proved fatal. 'VW. I . . • • "' • • ... . . / . . . - - . , • ' 14 • 0 " . ROT.4L HUNT. • 1' -4- •-• - i •' .k: .,- .. J. 4 . Tuesday mnrni - e. His Meets r Y's stee l . . • ... __,.. - • ore"" - . 4 were taken to Salt 11111 for a day's divers ion 1. 'Ve — 9I • 6 ,0" . '. ''‘' .... . . C 4k_ I Duke of Cusiamteemo, by order of th e M a . i -....- •- ' ' CORNWALLIS, the Master of His 14 Aitir Y'S • THEATRE. hounds, soon after nine o'clock. About ten or —...____ WA L Lts, and a nu merous fi e ld o f gent l emen s. the Duke of Cusieeseaten, the Marquis C . DRURY.L ANS. men, assembled at S a lt Hill, w h en a remat The Opera of Love in a Village was spill p e e- fonned. lac night. Miss Leon sang and played II fine deer was turned nut of the cart for the • with great etre& and received the most unbounded f sport. At starting he 'hewed mudb amuse applause. The new Mele.siearna of Elks Reset:Keg wet j arid went with great speed across some field a second time perforered, and received, if possible, i wards Iturnhem, taking to the right of Faro i with increased success. Mrs. H. Sionmes. the lair making a double back, crossed the Becht heroine of this most interesting piece, was received, i towards the Thames, and swam across to ther l on Ler entrance, with a burst of applause. and Maidenhead-bridge ; the sportsmen and hound played with such 'sweetness; delicacy, and feeling, sued him over Maidenhead bridge, and renew that there was not a bosom in the house did not I chase across Old Field,w here the deer wesrunein , sympathise in the sufferings of the fair Ella. Mr. great swiftness, by Bray, Wick, end th roug h t IMATH MS WAS mellowed in his part, and appeared cloeurcs. towards Maidenhead T h ick et . ta ke s ,to much adventaee ; Mr. RAT. as the Commander Gout se through the wood, and over the hills to of As 'troon:, hid very little to do, but thee little I Henley, turning to the right down the hill, was corral one impressive. Mr. Et t ter ors, Mr. he made for the Thames, and crossed it to,. . ; Reveeoeo. Miss RAY. and Mr. De C•anr, were of the mil's ; the sportsm e n and h oun d s we a not lets excellent than on the first representation ; nod over at H an l e Ford ann atria l th e was renewed'; an d. titter borne ercelle e t s p or e and the whole performance was attended through- . . out with the most 'marked attention and rapturous . deer was taken, s-veral miles b e y on d G reat applause. Before the commencement of the after- 1 t 7 , in Suckirignenishire, after a s u n o f upw piece, there was nor an empty seat in the house. four hours. Rt LY4P/R CASTLE. 7 . Ht 41 .tt !CAL I' ttOPI.RT Y. - • .--...--. ---...-........ This splendid end venerable Cattle, the seat of i We understand, from uredouhted autborit the Duke of Rine. eteo, has undergone great im- ' the Proprietors of the Winter •Pheetres ha provements. A nen tower has been built on the to a resolution to put an immeinite stop to south ride of the Castle. mei all the alterations are ctoachments daily snide on their property, ezpeaed to be colneleted by the 4th of Januatr, the suppesed eminency of the Lord Cham when his Grace will enter bi. 30th year; a new Reg Their (enlacet are decidedly of opinion, t will be and a grind bell will he given in Mdeeey havinrciosly made his dee honour of n the day. '1 he apartments are fittin g u p Pat a ent appoint m e n t , as u to what Theatres r in the greatest stile of elegance ; they are to be hurie I ezist in Westminster, the Lord Ch am berlain with crime .n and eky-biue velvet, surmounted writ I not infringe on those Patents, or legally I rich draperies. A greet quantity of ale bas been any other place for Theatrical Represen brewed in preparation. to gladden the hearts of the without the consent of the patented Fee surrounding neighbourhood. His Grace intends and certain it is, that fto'm the Jay the first leaving Wilsford, in Lincolitatere, this day, to meet Patent was granted to Old D rur y. t h rong his mother, the Duchess Dowager of Rert.•tro, at I whole .of Mr. Garrick's time, and ever Belvoir-castle, and oil Monday his Grace will give until the Chamberlainship of Lord Salisbury, . a grand public bre a kfast to all the surrounding uniform praelice at the Ch am b er l a i n ' s Oin Nobility. to refuse even to listen to an application for a e __ ______ gk night, though for a charity benefi - , unless Yesterday morning, the Earl and Countess of party applying brought with them the pre HARCOURT arrived at Windsor, on a visit to Their consent, in writing, of the Proprietors of the hi ee esti as. they were to have breakfasted at Frog- blished Theatres. But beside the question of I more Lodge, but the weather proving unfavourable, right, the Proprietors Also refer to their title in eq prerented Their MAJ /sem and Pelee/nes going. that the Lord Chamberlain, even it the right The weather being so unsettled, His Mae asr y with him. is bound. by positive covenant, n did trot rake his usoal ride. grant any new license for • any dramatic ezhibi • His Grace the Duke of PORTLAND is now reco- there having been executed a regular deed, s• treed from his fit of the gout, arid will be in town " leafing/ Arrangement." the result of a long en Tuesday neat. elusion and arbitration. recognizing and para. Madame C s w as a t Birmi ng h a m, on ing the exclusive rights of the three estsbl' Thursday, her first Concert at that place was to be Theatres. which deed received the express san . on that evening. of. His Majesty, and sea, signed, under his li e The Tralliber Print says, Miss MILLON has got a pleasure, by his Chamberlain. the Matcpais of S gdoes teach. Those who reside its a 'labs house, and bury. It was also honoured by a). cancan - not on their glebes, ought not to be the first to atom his Royal Highness the Prince of Weles,ewhosig S!SIIIS. it }camel, as did also his Grace th e .! Duke The TTliiiloer Price says, Miss Idifetest has got Iledfos4,. Oa the kph of this dome so t a "isle (mech.-110.e who reside in I Ma., non.e. tweed, the Proprin °M $ tn • and not in their globe~, ought not to be the fiieten received &trete thousand pounds from the ' throw ,does. prietors of Drury-low 'theatre, for their done Thursday morning. Prince ST/SHIM/ mum and patent; the King's Theatre matriboted thirty In Prince ESTERHARY s Count Pommel, Baron De sand pound* en recovering its license, to the l• Roe tR, and Major Dit 'MARKUS. left town for Gos- of the Pantheon Opera undertaking ; and finally • field . House, to pay their tespeas to Louis the deed formed the whole foundation for the rebuild XVlllth. of Drury-Line Theatre.. ifi which undertskin " Committed," says a Provincial Print, " to property of not less than three hood ed thou gaol, Deriy Dimeram, charged with having in his pounds have been embarked. and all la the co , possession a mare ye bal, and not being able woe- dente and on the faith of this arrangement, comet lire it satistraeteriey " cured under such high an:horny. Lord CA Hi a and family, Lord and Lady Droves- To suppose, thimetcre, that the present • HALOS, and Major CR e %semi°, arrived in Dublin, Chamberlain del or will, knowingly and intenti yesterday se'nnight, from England. . ally, countenance end authorise any ezeibition o People have been greatly puzzled to find out dramatic kind, would be as great a disrespcff to li . • what became of Wit since Mr. Sn CRI OA ba ceased to as it would be an iojary to the property - pleced . write Comedies. It appears, from cur reppet of the Law and, His majesty's will midst his ear the Opera House business, that this self-same dap. proteaion. per wit has lain hid in the Cour t of Chancery. Should the difficulties of the present Opera Holt Mr. H. JutitiSTlON appears to be the hero of the not be overcome, incited of lookiag to a new sche Dublin nitre. Oo Monday last, he was to pity or projea, contrary to all faith and jastice, we . Sir Edward Msrtimer in The Iron Ght,t, and reemai derstend that resole will he had to she dormant Tel.eli. rent, with the consent ar.d for the benefit of both Mr. HAM mos, of the Liverpool Theatre, plays Winter Theetten which patent is at present en Major (Ithegherty, in the Comedy of nu A ater.l withheld tram being operative, through tessera Son, endif•aeise. in the tare* of the Honest Thieves, the established Opera House, and the teems of t. on Monday next, for his own lien, fit. • agreament before reared to. Coe and /lav e/ Leos are matched ler 130 guineas . The first step, we have reason to believe, whir a-side. bat the stakes are not yet put dews. will he taken for the assertion of the claims of tl. An old proverb says, " Strip a Spaniard of ail established Theatres, will be by an humble petite his good qualities, and the reineinder will make a to His Majesty, who has ever been a most grace Portuguese."—This may account ter some late a nd fi r m p r otetter'of their just rights. Such a pet proceedings at Lisbon. non, signed by all the nusnereirs sad respeaable i Mr. Deceur's part in. the new Melo-Drama was /widgets whose property is involved in the esta stu.lied by Mr. BARRY6IOIIe, for whom it was in- blished Theatres, on the pledge of a sattlemen tended. He this night plays Ivan: fashion, anu- which never could be expeaed to be questioned ther of Mt. BA say Hulle• pens. will no doubt meet as it merits the Royal attend . Mr. Cooks, it is said, is still at Appleby, in West- _ -- —a morland. Mr. JOHN CHURCH is appointed Cashier d - On Monday last, the Right Hon. ARCHIBALD Stationery Office, in the room of Mr. Cr/tango Co equitov en of Krlfennont and Clethick, Lord Ad- who has resigned. vacate or !icotlned, was chosen Lord Reaor of the . Rice, ARD Scaivare, Esq. of Northampton, is a' University of Glasgow, for the ensuing year. pointed to the lucrative onkel of Head Distributor Mr. Per meld, who made his debar in Me part of r f Stamps, in the room of the late Jose rre Cleat AVOAZO. at Drury lane Theatre, is engaged for three E, q , years at a progressive salary. He will make his The Honourable Captain PAORT left town , um first appearance Oa comedy this night in the part of Th urs d ay morn i ng . at 5 o ' c l oc k, for Sheerness. neede.e. A Messenger arrived last night .t the Admi• Sir SAMUEL ROM ILLY, in stating yesterday the ralty with dispatches from Portsmouth. diliculties which the Lotto CNA scir.Los mint en- I On Tuesday, the 10th inst. about 10 o'clack st counter 44 Manager of the Opera House, forgot to night. the mail-coach, from Plymouth-Dock , est notice the longitadinal and latArdiseal knowledge no CIWPTItitrIPLI unnn liiisham Brides. about four met