The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-12-12 00:00:00

I t d L. V The Citker, trovn Charl-kton, for Lon &ln, was captured on the 4th November, near Charleann, by a privateer, aft.T an aftion, in which Capt. ravina, his first and vecond me^s, petite?, and eight or ten men, wcre killed, the third mate and several men, wounded. On Tuesday morning His Majesty's ships 1,,. psrd, Fury, and Furitist, with abort 120 transports under convoy, having on board the troops compris ing the veond division cf troops destined for tbe .North of Germany, saile,i from Deal for the We. ler. The troops on hoard these vessels are, the 3d, or Old Buffs ; the Bth, or King's own Regiment ; the 7th Fusileers; the 9th ; the Ifith, or Carneronians ; the 28th, 3011. and 3fith Regiments. and the first battalion of the 89th Regiment. Great part of the troops on the 3tts-ex coast are in daily expeßation to receive orders for embai kation. The fine brigade of General SPENCItI i who com- 'sanded a brigade of flank companies in Egypt', vi z the 40th, tl7th, 116,11, and 2d battalion of the 95th• or tine corps, eape& to accompany him. The 2d battalions of the 40th and Sth regiment, are like- • wise on the move. Besides the above, the following, as far as is yet arranged, is a list of the force to be immediately embarked for the Contissent from Deal, Dover, and Ramsgate. The 9th, 11th, and the 17th Light Dragoons ; the 4th, or King% Regiment, the 34th, 55th. 40th, 4Gth, 87th, and Sflth Regiments, and the Cd batta lion of the 95th, or Rise Corps—making in b an ib,at 90 or 21 battalions. The 91st, a Regiment of Highlanders, march o Tuesday from Deal, for Ramsgate, to embark. flat Commatider.h.Chief of the British troops on the Continent, is lieutenant-General Lord CA rm. cnar. lie will have the btevet rank of General in the army. .1 The Genera/ Olryoss, in addition to those who proceeded with General Dote, • are to be Lieutenant Generals Ft.ou o, FR KCII Hoops% and Moose; Major-Geuerals Al Kst:zte Feoazii, S - ARTHUR W to t.s.skev, Sm. verifier, HILL, and two or three Rigadies,Generals. Tkle Adjutant. Quarter-master, Paymaster, and Commissary-Generals, not yet ap. pointed. Deputy Inspedor, 'Dr. rave ICK, goes at the head of a large Medical Staff. ... We understand also. that an embarkation of hoops is speedily to take place at Hull. Amon; other regiments, the Ist and 3d dragoons are men Sword as likely to *ail from that port. It is in agitation t rend several regiments of heavy dragoons. The I{' , ?al Horse Guards ( Blue) ender Wood Dimas, h..c r.que.a.c.l to he sent. , ,In the mean time, Generai Officers, and their bri• ' gAdes, are embarking with All possible dipatch. Three tiranwits, having eisch a Corup4iiy of An till.rra on board, have arrived at B!ieerness from Woolsslich, and more are daily ravened. They are shorly t) proceed to the C•i•irirent, tii!de: convoy of the Pr g uts,,, of 41 , guns, and theuri 01).Lrig. t We have received ch.! Boston Papers to the 12. h 1:!t. : they contain no intelligence of importance. Yesterday. a Court of Dire:lots was held at the East louse, when Cape. ADAM C wants was sworu into the comm Ind of the %Lip &veil, con signe I• to Ma frac and Bengal. The Court ad jour:lcl at six o'clock, !id this d.4v. ironed, arrived i:t the Downs, sailed from Smyrna all the 290) Ocioher. came thrott7h the Got of Gibraltar on the ¶!Bth N ivember, with the Phehe frigate, u' convoy of eiet sail. S';e spoke, on the 16th November, off Algiers, the Inendship, BA tee, fiqm Smyrna. 'The Berwick, GIIFFITII, from London, for Bar badoec, and the Morn Ann, NA YLOR, front Lonitti, for Trinidad, have sunk in flatn•gate 'carbolic. The Union, Goocit, from London, for H. r hi ce , has lost her bowsprit and tot—rills( in the Downs. His Royal Highness the Duke. of CA3421110(11 will embet k in la few days on hoard the OrnLiao tri gate, &Lich has heed appointed to convey His Royal Highness to the Continent. The Vrsial frigate, Captain DIORY, which was appointed to convey Lord CATHCsvr to the Con tinent, arrived at Yarmouth on Monday, from the Boulogre n t. His Lordship, wick his Son, and suite, arrived there the same evening, and Tuesday moreitig embarked on hoard the Veitaf, under a sa lute. The ftioto immediately oat under weigh, and was out of sight by one o'clock. Tws hondred and fifty French prisoners a-riveil, no Tuesday, at Epson. from Port.mouth, awn their way to Chatham, where they are to be con futed on hoard the pa lion si.ipi. Another division IS expected trool'ar•ow. At fix same oIACe. Most of them Were tAkele 10 Sir RICH ARO gTRACHH'S OH gAgement. ('heir condition is retcOe lin the ex treme, most of ahem being bale-looted. , The first division of them bait this day. at Brumley. The Commissary has hundred, pair of shoes, to dis tribute among th , ise who are in the greatest dis tress. Yesterday morning, the Third Regiment of Loyal Landon Volunteers, c,'ntnandrd by Colonel KEW SING rote, were insoen-ri in Lilco' i's-Inn Gardens, :or G•ineral MAR rEs ; they mastered above four hundred. and were in the gardens by eight o'clock in the morning. Ttr•saltya the workmen .begin to Kepare the Painted Hall at Greenwich, for the reception of the remains of land Na 14014. On the 27th May, arrived off the town of Calcutta, the ship Thome', Capt. Lao anoint,. from Colombo, and touched at Ma iras, which port she left the 12th ; Capt. LICA MAIOCTII re ports, that }odor pi his leaving M 'drag, His Majaty's brag diSoiroso had arrisred• there, and gave information to His Majesty's ealp Cwirordi, Cap!. Worst), then lying in Madras Roadi, of a Fiend; frigate being off Ceylon, and that she had captured a small brig. The Coward( immediately slipped her c thies..and swat dff under full sail, in the good hope of falling in with the Frenchman ta that. no doubt, is the famoos &bee, of which ,o moth has been said; and in consequence of the Cute ford,' teeing reckoned a very• fast sailing frigate, we trust, 'onra to hear of her bringing the ene:ny's ship into some British port. The country skip Arthesisti, was going into Madias ICIAdS, as the Fame, was coming out. We are sorry to add to the above intelligence, reccived,by Capt. Le ARMOU of a boat having tinfortniately ups o when soling in Madras Roads. An officer of the Nemirow, and two seamen, were, unfortunately, lost on the shove • occasion ; the remainder saviid themselves on the bottom of the boat, and were picked up by the boats of the sh7ps then lying in Madras Roads. The Marriage, Admiral idoioas. with the Serer ler% Ai.alenie, and another frigate. escaped from the Isle of France, in consequence of nor squadron being so far to the keeward of the island. The Belle Peet. frigate, not being completely ready for sea, did not proceed with the Marrero, Llt7. A few days af terwards, she got nut and joined Admiral Ltrauts. when the other frigatts parted compaoy to cruise in the Bay of Bengal. The following are the increased Pensions for Wi dows of plaaroaf Officers; Widows of Captains, three cloorter post, 801. per ylganm ; Captains less than three-quarter pest, 701., par/annum ; iCousmAnders and Lieutenants retired with the aotak of Com manders. tuff. •per annum; Lieutenoitts, Maters, and Surgeons. 401. ;!ursers,.3ol. ; flootsavoias, Gun ners, C ',Tenter', and . Hospital Mates, who die abroad, 251.; Widows of . 916fere of Mashies, who die in full pay. o -Colaarsla, 014 LioutenonscColooela, 301.; Majors, 4 3 ,11,...- f.asp4sts, d4A.; Elm Lieu tenants, 201.; Second Lieutenanis, Mr. Weis, 'mine-agent to Ilis l ßoyal'Highness the Prince of Waist, hat distovevled a most ealuible topper mine, in the TaaWer River, which divides'the counties of Devon anti:Cornwall. , Thai's mine was set to Work the 9th' Slay of. Septeriset 'l3st, and a rich vein of tappet' nee, four feet irddb,Aris cat r'n a steep hill, nearly 30 tithoni 'from theviveri, which promises to' make one of the finest :nines ever dis covered in either county.; 'as it resenibies the 'fa mous Atierae a mine, net having either whim, windlaa, or any thing bat a wheetibArrow to tike Olt the ore The east to the propatthrs did not exceed thirty pounds/. On Sunday night, the Bth inst. a comet equal in light to a Star of the fourth magniolde, with a large femur, but no oatitear or tail, was observed, at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, pass the meridian at 6 deg. 24 min. 7 sec. mean tiine, with right as cension, 353 deg. 6 min 54 . sec. and declination deg. 41 min. 14 sec. South, discovered by Mr. Fl R 'SINGER. the Assistant, a little before. The same was discovered by Dr. Haastal at 1., at Slough, near Windwr, about the same time. It could not be seen the following evening, though clear; pro bahly having gone to the Southward with a quick motion, to carry it into the horizontal vapors, or below the horizon. - - f THE BRITISH PRESS. LoNrsoN, THURCD AV. Drcaasisa 12: We unde-v.and that toe burial , I r co. I. •C) PA is fixed f the loth of January. The J:taiirj hav ing received the repairs necestarr to enable her to proceed to the River, %.4 ilea on Tuesday afternoon from Portsmouth, with the remains of that much lamented hero on board. le Valary will he docked at Chatham. Some Paris Papers to the Ist, and Dutch .lnitr ells to the sth instant, were received yesterday. They contain some articles that deserve notice, but only one of imnortance. Count I - lauosvi rst arrived, on the 20th, at Vi.tnna, upon his siiplo. rn ttic mission to BOPS PA krl; We have always ',seed to this proceeding nn the part of Prussia with fearful anxiety. Should BONAP kart be r•r.•sslul, he will not stop the career of inr♦ to listen to the pacific pr.sposi.ions of Prussia and should HA ucwrrz tied him defeated, this interf-renre of Prussia will bt. ak his fall. We are not co,n ,, tent to rate the precise proposi tion which hlauoss rtz i. aut' , rised to make, ►sr..t is rumoured that BnVAPARtt is to be al. 10.. ed until the 14th inst. for h's definitive anse.er . An atoriv is formin4 near St. Omer's, to he. com manded by Prince Louis. It is for the defence of li^lland against the combine.' troops of Russia, Swedat, Prussia. and Crest Britain. A letter from Angela. deed the nth of Sep teenh.r. UM, states, that three French privateers from the River 1* Plata. viz one i f 82 yvins. one of IS guns, and one of 16 guns, were cruising on the Coast of Africa. On the sth of Septemb-r there were lying in C - ingo River the La Forager. the and the RcAfinpier, of Liverpool, with the American ships CI-opogres, Africa, and Daphne ; the two former y•fesels were moored across the river, to prevent th privii-err going up. There were at Calends and Ma!emba, the Roe, Ststerss Rrierre, and Claeradoir. of Liverpool, which mast be informed of the privateers' being nn the east, and no doubt could efFelually oppose them / i •_ ca ~, ". ROYAL eICADEwr. On Titesdie evening, the !royal Academicians held their Annual Meeting' at Stmerset l' 4 oase, to deliver the priers to the resiietive candidates who ruched in Plainting, Thnwing, Modelling, Sec. A proceeding lather ttnninal took place upon this occasion t the prizes have previously been deli-' vine,' in the Lefture-ronm of the Academy, tout this year they were distributed in the Council ' Chamber, and none but candidades and suldeef• were suffered to be present. The business cowl. , menced by the President, Fuser r, Esq. R.A. in-.l forming the auditory that he had been deputed by a the Academicians to reward the candidauts with the pr;res scent-ding to their respellive merits, and he trusted they woul t continue to cultivate the arts, and preserve the preference they had obtained. The c-mpetitors for the best painting, were Mr. Gutsy and Mr. HAliiticon, and the subjea dsignat ed was The /)each of Patrorlar. In the production of Mr. Gursr, the friend of Aehillee, dead, and stripped of his armour, is borne off the field by sol diers. Mr. H. has delineated the dead Horn lying in a cave, where the light is admitted through an aperture at top ; the friends of the fallen warrior are weeping over the bode, and the whole group assume an appear ince suitalde to the solemnity of the scene. As these paintings are probationary, proJncld to spew the rising abilities of the young artists, it would be unfair to criticise.— lt is enough to say, they both possessed merit; but the gold me !al was *war iecl to Mr. Guess', scup received it fr.. n the Pa ZSIDENT With the :swat cowl oliments. Ihe prize. a rid medal. for the best 6trures in Immo rrher.p. was gained by Mr.TOLIMAIISII. 1 be subjeft in modolring was The , 'hainang of Promo theut So eauressa. It was rneflostiously CLeCuted by two candid:ll.-s ; the preference sins, however, given to Mr. Buss, pupil to Mr. Ross, and he obtained a silver medal. _ The priz-s for the hest architeaural drawings were awarded to Mr. KEIrrAsT, and Mr. Kamm', both of whom obtained a silver medal. The best drawings from the Academy Figure, were produced by Mr. HOPP,JER, and Mr. Noel.; those gentlemen consequently obtained the prize, a silver medal eac•:. .After the distribution of the prizes. for Presid •nt addressed the students. 84c. and pdititei'dut sty nal rules necessary to be adopted for Otis 'lrtyroveraent of t h eir studies, Anti the nve4ting ettited. ORIGIN:41. porricr. ON THE LATE GLORIOtIi VIC TORY, OF THE EVER LAMENTED LiiRD NELSON. To these ranfashog wreaths Marini' WMili In wail age; by gallant bosoms eon, Has Vstnaos hand the evice.t :awes Dore, Sastal NtsSrlitertNitl-OPSU , N . S w.teistassuat la whose heroio oleos% Death% Stornilft peter I , ss's annealing HAIM could neer cnntroul; .W.,;....5nds of c ...clue*, in bfe. , Insirvg hour, songs of seraph , , charmed h s Parting soul. • • And thus the old prophetic strain addreo'd, "Iseheate, brave Spint, shall thy worth r, -me 11,3T'ilto &dein irants us thy besisseat, . The undivided *miser/ref the main." Yesterday His MAJ RCVS went from Windsor to alacklieath. dined with the Princess i of and returned fiorn 7 thence to the Queen's Palace, at five o'zlock. Yesterday, at 'Weise .o'clock. Her Klaus. se, and the PI [lir asses, AIIiVERI at the Queen's Palace."-- Dukes of YOA IC. KENT, CUSSIRRI. AND. SUSSEX, iiald CASIRR I no ; and Princess Su en aof Lo uc visited HerMAJ IST T. The Royal Dukes dined. The Rov•r: FAaa ILY will honour Gwent-garden Theatre with their presence this evening. The tail of PLYMOUTH left KIR/L.4AR% Hotel on Tuesday, for Harrow. Admiral Hi lives , and his Lady, left town Tesler- t day, for their seat, near Epping Fort-.t. lord RIVERS arrived at Namor's liotel, yester day, froM Hampshire. Lord Glom ETAT Loa arrived, yesterday, at his: father's house (the Marquis of HERDFURT]. Great Stanhope-street. Mayfair, from Harrow Schaal.. Earl of DoacirtsTaa arrived yesterlay . st; his sister's house (Lady Calming. Dames). riOarte, from Miltoh Abbey, - Sir GI,La Lay Atli:ace is expedited to -morrow, at his hotni, Dean-street, south Audley-street, Iron' his seat, Dalhim Hall, Cainbridgeshire. Mr. Sim rtiso'ros.'s predtletlion for the days of chivalry 'is' extremely natural : his ancestors were knights in the days of Hindi Vis6ount and 'Viscountess Cass:oar:a came to tAwp 'yesterßay, for the season, fiorn't)seir farm, Cheilais. icillteirtiouse, Great StanhOpe-street, May-fair.. The Earl of :t•a as' Noe s, we re sorry to. mine, is indispoded at his house, in Sackville-street. The Earl and Countess of Semis left GulLLtox's Hotel, Albemarle -street, yesterday. for their seat, near Liverpool; and the Dowager Countess of Sir- TON left town for Brighton. The EAt I . of C HATHAM occupied by Sir JOHN ORDIL. in Dover-street, Picca dilly, to which he intends removing this day. Sir JAM .s PRINOLS left STEVENS'S Hotel. yes terday, in a very handsome gig aid harness, from the manufadt.Ny, in Old Bond-street. MS. SPENCER Sv Ira has also launched one from the same place. Miss Wort, the infant aarees, who lately made an w:successful atteinpt on Covent-garden stage. is the posthumous daughter of Lieut. SCA Rai LL, an Officer of the Army, who died in this town, and whose widow is since married cos Mr. MoDIE.- ( Bury Post.) Miss Di CA SSP, accompanied by her mother and sisters, was in the second boxes of the l'heatre, on the tint night of the new comedy. There is no charaner this admirable address appears to more ad vantage in, thaa Miss De Ca NIP surrounded by her family. . =SWIM 1 . .. ~ —.....41M... . ." ,• I ~ .. DOOR V.I. A .'S t. .. i l Last night, the, new C.aue Ira Tar .\c4o•l e l:o , F,i•nd , , was pe-formed w; h, if possible, iocreved success ; we ii . ci no, p.eceive Any •nAterial 41teta4 . ,11 or cur ailment. h soutild be imp .sible for the s.er t,rerr.rs to attain * greater defttet• of rertecrion than on. the first reprc.entation, And we hare .no doubt hut it will he ts lasting favtairiti with the psis. lic The tre.arifol drama of Jigs bk 4 ,74 ', SAWS tolloWeJ ; which went of as usual, w ill saptqaops, ari'avlnse : while relined taste,. bean . i'ul etudes And magnificent %entry, with all the. fascissAtimt of enchantment can please. ti it entertiaiamt t .4vill maintain its place.. Ile houa.• was crowded to the extreme. La the brilliant eh de were-v.- Marchioness sit Elaajdfwt. C•Joyarra ir Harrington, Cu..nteat of Con% nt ham, LadlO Knauer. Cranial, a tit AivA, ~ , t'-• Fad of Caureen V iwraunrei. Cr.-room. L.rly tetre. L, is C . - r Arne /hoar d Laid 111114 Lady Hernand, Claneral La -•,t, and Mr. G. Jokroatun. r COVENT -G A NW:It. Last night, the second part of Kin: Henro the Fourth was performed here Mr. Kciast.s. in B ev y the Foipih, was every thing the most &lei thous critic cculd desire. Mr.Cooae was extremely happy in the facetious Knight. The whole per formance wrs Admirable, and the house full. - h-------- : ' WEST,II/10 TAR TILE.4TRICALS. Yesterday evening, the yonng Gentlemen of ' Westminster. School performed, according to an- nual eustems..antecedeet to tine Christmas Holiday% Teatimes Play, entitled Pbnwsio. The follesving a was the cast of the , ~ . • ass.* 4.0 DRAMATIC PrittiON.C. ^ Pliorrti'o Mr DAV. . ' . 4 " . ' V I).:otip4ao.. . .4 , . last mum. we-s ei.• •siiea 0416;1; u Mr C Pic- 'rta .. Cr*ta Mr. '5 s • it ocootTe. iteus Mr. Wicit . t 4M. 1 s.,pivon, Niot.o.t-t.a Mr (; VIIIIWOW. Cr.' ins* 11. 1 .0 Cutn.. Mr R. V. Veawew. It is with infinite satilfaftion that we have it ig our power, frrin theimaterly perfermance of the several r•iitkmen who had parts ,ss; g n.d them in the .thbve Play, last night, to bear our humble testimony, and pay our cheeful tribute if applause to the very 'evi dent imptovernent in the speaking and delivety of the eleg.titt langn tr.; e (the Latin) in which this Play is written ; and, at the same time, to the else, t ist-, and energy, with svhich they respe!Rively idled their parts, when cnmoared with what twelve months ago we deemed deserving the loudest praise. —*Co give a description of the various passages in which these young actors evinced so much excel knee, would rettfire a greater space than our limits 'can possibly allow ; and, to advert to those which particularly struck our fancy, or excited oar appro. bation in the efforts of any one, where all were so truly entitled to our ungnalified applause, would he to us at once invidious, unbecoming, and tmgrawful. 'We shall, therefor , content alewives with simp and impartially declaring, that the whole of t • performa-ce was such as would have done cre to either of our winter Tneatres, in ',Gilt of histrionic science, and refl.9ed the highest honour on the masters who tanght, and the peed' who delivered their lessens there'n. The audience seemed, from the beginning to the end of the play, to have but one feeling, in common with each other ; and that w.as the tenirnel, , . of unfeigned deltget. which they testified by the rase general and reverated plaudits _Before the cut rain drew op. Mr. L. Vernon. wh,o is the C !pta,r. cf the School, came forqrard, and delivered a very elegant Prologue, in Catin, the veljea of which wa:. the glorioui achievements of our much-larnenteld hero, the Late Lord isletsue. It spoke most warmly and energetically of his anions wale living, lila ackuewledged that. brilliant .and dasx!ing as those were,.thAt which :;av, oec +lion to hi s death, was, by tar, the most solieicy rd .11, and could not fail to endear his name to al: of the present day, and to hand it dowd asirnmar tat to the most re mote posterity. Mr. VIIRMUN delivered it with great dignity, animation. and path s, which ion veyed an trreaistlble emotion into the bosom of r every auditor, and evinced that, when the languag e of . truth and iAture flrlw from the fount of sensib ility. they never fail to mare their way with an eleetrin forte to the feelings of those to whom it is address ed, It was received twice. with the must universal and enthusiastic applause. litc'EPilrigue was delivered in a stile of infinite harm/tat and naivete, by Messrs. Dar and MACS, wceit+4, as Ph .•••• and ale, and went a with great spirit, amiiN loucl plaudits. As socm as the ,F a pif.gue was over. the whole of et a i Dr am ee4 pe r ,,te s 'apeared on the stage, anal walked slowly delseh, w ieilst the band played God Sea" ,*r Ki,r, life Whole audience standing and uncovered, who. all joined, on its conclusion, in ene_united tiempler or applause. . . The The i lltC was crowded in (Tay part to an nucqfnmon durnte ; and never did wesnitness some genuine or, tnntelenetalsatisfattiou, than appeared. (Wring the whole evening, in. every countenance) Tfi alma e ladiec were lashionahle and [ ous, and 4 dressed mans;Assaptly. .The Pus:l:cows Ass Gam capon, the MALTA,. of the Huta.", and several othei perions of rank were present. We obserVid, on coming out, that watclif•l guardian of the public peace, Mr. Tow/astray, was an the-outer-tours, anJ to him, no doulat. we may attribute the order and regularity with which every one was enabled to paaathrough the several parte of Dean's Yard. t Is was a sulljeft of debate, basely, in a large coin. piny, " Whether LG7e or . 1 1foloy entatibuted *lose to add li.iks to Hymen's chain ?" The question was carried in favour of the latter ; and chiefly by the argument of a Gentleman, who declared, that within his own knowledge, no less than twenty three marriages bad taken place, in consequence of the Shares of Capital Pekes, won in the three last Lotteries, by youthful suitors to Fortune, for her gifts. Tim present rich Scheme seems uncommonly calculated to give weight to this argument, since the first drawn 5000 numbers alone, are not only produdive a certain gain ; but may present also. for marriage-portions, numerous Shares of capital Prue.. A