The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-11-20 00:00:00

MONMOIII7I COUN'Tr ELECTIOIi. 01 1 7 :•idly seinnight, a meeting of the Gentle m,,,, CLl:git. and Freeholder s, wan held in the Town H dl, Monmontli, in ?neat ince of public advertise ment, fur the purp Ise of eleling a Member to ' ,rye in Ptrliantent; in the room of the late General ;to Ike. As soon as the cirstornal y forms were gone t :,r041. and no other Candid ste appearing, Lord Arthar Somerset (who had before been nominated a s a proper person to represent the County), was. unanimously declared duly elesgled to fill that im ro•tant office. Ilk Lordship then rose, and, after thanking the Ele&ors for the distinguished honour they had conferred on him, took occasion to observe, that, highly as he felt himself flattered by this mark of their confidence, it would have .c.ime with far rester satisfaaion ro his feelings , but for the me lancholy loss which occasinn•td the vacancy : he concluded, by assitting them, however, that his ut most efforts should at all times be exerted, to pro evne the particular interest , : and prosperity of the vunty of Monmouth, a 11 as to support the ge neral welfare of his - Loud litrizas follow ed his Loral:in' d he was after uards chaired ti• • at streets of the town. A served up at the Beaufort ~ was honoured with the pr-enee of his (;race the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Charles Somer set,' Sir Robert Salisbury, and many other charac tas of fortune in the County. To this entertain- In.mt, succeeded a Ball and Supper. Th.. Ball was opened by the Duke of Beaufort, aid Mrs. Price (the Lady of the High Sheriff of the county, fol lowed by Lord Charles Somerset and Miss Oakley, Arthur and the Lady of Major Davies. of the Monmouth and Brecon Militia, &c. and the dancing was continned with great spirit, both before and after sapper, till a late or rather early. hour, when the company separated, highly gratified with the plea sures of the Meeting. The King's Head, as well as other inns in the town, had respectable parties of freeholders. and other inhabitants, who kept up the spii it of the day in the most joyous manner. TILE RIGHT HON. JOHN BERESFORD. This gentleman. who died lately at his seat at Walworth, in the county of Derry, was the second sou of the late Earl of Tv Rome and Baroness DE LA Pots, and brother to the late Marquis of WA TFRIORD. He was educated for the bar, and, called to it, but soon forsook it for the brightei . p• °Teas which the Senate held out to his view. His family influence having, at an early period, procured him a seat in the House of Commons, be applied himself with diligence to the financial department, particularly the customs, and was First Commissioner of the Revenue for many years. In private life no man was more beloved and es teemed. His manners were pleasing, and his ad dress was elegant. He was a kind master, a sincere frienl, x good father, and an excellent husband. At the age of twenty-two, he married Ansa CON sr Alrt* Lummox'. a French lady, of the family of Liaorra es, of Auvergne, where grand-father, the Count De LIGONDIS, a General in the French army at the battle of Blenheim , was taken prisoner, and brought to England. Here he married the Countess • of Host! NG1 , 0,4, an ancestor of the present Dowager Countess of Move A, mother of the Earl of Mora A. The Countess having gone to France. took an op- Fortuity to visit the Castle of Auvergne, and there found Mademoiselle Ltooso oas, her strong and beau titul relative, preparing to enter a convent, as a no viciate, and destined to take the veil. Her Lady ship soon discovered, that the lot intended for her fad friend was not her own choice, but that of her father. in conformity with the custom which then prev.uled among the nobility of France, to enrich the elder branches of the family, by ohliging the younger to enter into religious orders. The Countess of td oil% A, anxious to rescue Mademoiselle Lroosnts from her unp'easant situation, obtained permisslon for her young friend to accompany her to Ireland, where her Ladyship incurred the violent displeasure of the Roman Catholic Clergy, for riddling the Church of so fair a prize Anathemas, denanciat;ons, and interdictions, were thundered against her Ladyship. and her charge. It was even feared, an attempt would be made to carry her off; and, for the better security, Mademoiselle la s.n ts wu placed under the care of Lady BeT ry Coast, who resided at her father-in-law's, the Archbishop of Dublin's palace. There Mr. Bearsroan, who was brother to Lady BETTY Cease, had frequent opportunities of seeing this beautiful and persecuted young lady, and won her affettions. Their mar riage soon followed, and the cause of the Romish Church thus becoming hopeless. the fury of the Clergy gradually died away. By this amiable lady, who died in 1772, Mr. BERESFC/ED had four sons and five daughters. MARCVI, his eldest son, was niarried to Lady Fa alma., Larson, daughter to the first Earl of Mit. rowes, and died at the age of 33 years. He was a lawyer of high estimation, and had a'tained great praelice at the Irish bar. Ills se cond son is GLOBUS on LA Po ..e, Bishop of K L amar, and married to FRANCES. daughter of 0s:11- v/rug P • Bustle, Esq. of Kilfane. Third, Juror Cltunics, married to Miss Mayans. and late member for the city of Dublin; and CHARLES Coate, in Holy Orders. His eldest daughter, Ca rataise, married the late Florae THEOPHILCS CLEMENTS, brother to the late Earl of LEITRIM ELIZABETH died young. HENRIETTA COW AN . TIA married to tire late ROBERT lianas, F.sq an 4 now to Dov tic. Esq. JANE married to Gauecs. eldest son of Sir HI'GH HILL. Bart. of Londonderry, and A iss treratt a, unmarried. In 1774. Mr. BIRESEORD married Miss BARBARA MONTGOMERY, second daughter of Sir WI a Liam XlcurrooMillx. Bart. and sister to the Marchioness of Towesa r No, who died in 1748 ; by whom he had fire eat:Leiters and three sons. Mr. Baalsroao died is his 67th year. The Court Martial on Sir Roseas CALDER will he l.eld on hoard the Prince of Welty man of war, tow at Portsmouth. Lieutenant-General Sir Joint Moose, KB. hat arpointei the Hon. CII ARLES ST•91101 , C, Cap tam in the %2J Regiment, his Aid-du-:.amp. _ The 2J Somerset With', commanded by Col. Lord HINTON, son of Earl router r • marched from Weymouth, last Friday, for Silver-Hal Bar• racks, Sussex. a FORD NT.1,301,7. . • Aaree.thit to a revelation of a public Meeting on Tuesday se'enialit, the Mayor and Corr/oration r Nlimmontli, in their formalities. and in nemrding, atte.sied by thcir proper Officers, haatiatt the macs dress •si with craae, accomp rnied Also liv the pri::• cipal inhabaants, with the orri,.is .-•.1 or•eates the Volunteers, went in grand ; rocession to sly • seiarice. cat Sunday, as a mark of their respea col the immortal memory of the Hero of the Nile, 'ii. Lordship beim; a Burgess of that borough, which gave birth to the Conqueror at Aginenert.—A most excellent disc. , Ise, suitable to the mehinchi ly occa. sion, was delivered by the Rev Mr. Milli ps, which highly interested the feelings of the congreg.ition. The pulpit and organ w. re hung. with black cloth. and the antirem .end ps ilms perposely composel. ga ve an additional degree of soleeinity to this day of pub lic sorrow. Monday, the inhabitants ag iin met, to raise subscriptions for ere ling a monument iii the church, or some other memorial of regard for his Lordship's moat important riblic services. The figure of Br l tareia, which crowns the Naval Temple of the Ky min Pavilion, .iear Monmouth, has already been dressed in mourning, and th•• p.tirvitigs under neath covered by a board, bearing a 'host inscrip tion, expressive of the phi of the Genius of Bri tain, for the loss of her ..avoirrite Son. -On Monday, an illumination took place at Rosa, in celebration of the glorious battle tar TrefAlg ir. Among many other devices displayed on this occa sion, the transparencies exhibited at the Bank, were particularly conspicuous ; they represented Fanre sounding the trumpet of victory, with a perspeirve view ut the principal ships engaging with the enemy. A nitro', •t• ut speCtators paraded the streets ; and, all departed, highly pleased with the novelty of the scene. Carmarthen was most superbly illuminated on Wednesday night. A variety of tranrparcrvies, de vices, &c. hide alive of the gallant Nelson's triumph and lamented fall, were di rlayed on the occasion. The Mayor and Corporation, who had prcsiatisly assembled at the Old Ivy-bush Inn, paraded the town, prectefed by the Carmarthen Volunteer Band, playing God Sore Me ki .7., /Pale Rrdaqot,, and oc casionally a solemn dirge (104th Ptatm), with drums muffed. When the procession reached a large bon fire, which had been made in Market-street, they found several large bowls of punch waiting their arrival, and a number of loyal and patriotic toasts were drank in copious libations. Here the scene received an additional eclat, from the appearance of the Carmarthen Volunteers, who had been c riled out, together with Captain L'ower's troop of !torte (on duty there), and who fired a . lea-ik-joie. About ten o'Almk, the Corporation, &c. returned to the Eradi, and devoted the remainder of the evening to agreeable conviviality. CURIOUS OC( URRENCE. PLYMOUTH, NOV. 13. A most curious circumstance, respetling the ever to-he-lamented Lord Nelson, happened on Monday last :—As Col. 1 yrwhitt, Vice Warden of the Stan naries, Cornwall and Devon, was, with other gen tlemen, looking through a telescope at the French prizes going en the harbour, he observed a fine little boy, of an open countenance, cheeting with his play-fallow., and heard him several times called Nelson. This raised (on being often repeated) his curiosity to know who tire boy was. Colonel 'yr whitt went to his father's cotiage,who sie...s a quarry man, and lived at Rusty Anchor, under the West Elae. By this time the boy was returned, first ap pearing shy, but, on a little conversation, this wore off, and he said. Lord Nelson was his god father, but he was shot and killed the other day in a great battle. The Colonel then entered the hut, and found the father, who had lost a limb in the Min,- face, in the battle of the Nile, and his wife and four children, clean, though poorly dressed. Col. Tyrwhitt then asked if the circumstance were true, of Lord Nelson's being god-father to this little boy, and was answered, yes ; the mother then produced the certificate of his baptism, at the British Fattory Chapel, Legharn, July, 1300, attested by the Cler. gyman, Rev. Mr. Cummins—and signed EMMA HAMS! TON, WM. HAMILTON. NELSON and BRONTIL The child was named Horatio Nelson. His mo ther was washer-woman on board the -Winokur, 74 guns, Capt. Louis. When the child was born, in the Bay of Leghorn, his Lordship, Sir William and Lady Hamilton, said, they would stand sponsors. He had promised, when the boy grew up, to put him to sea, and give him a nautical education. But, aher the Peace of Amiens, these poor people, through ig norance, forgot (though desired by his Lordship when he sailed for England) to write him where they were settled : the Minotaur was paid off at this port, and the father of the boy; with his small pension, and by hard work, contrives to maintain his family ever since. After talking over ti.e circumstance of . the intended kinshie sof Lord Ne sun to this poor Little boy, if he had known their situation and place of abode, Colonel '1 yrwhitt, determined to follow up his Lordship's good wishes, took the boy as hisnr,ker, a d, with his usual humanity, had him direttly clothed, and put to school, ' meaning to give him a regular nautical education, to fit him kit the naval service of his country. A little pure, by way of subscription, for present purposes, fi I, been opened, under the patronage of Mrs. Ad miral Sutton, which will, no doubt be soon tilled, not of respell to the memory of a hero, beloved, admi: ed, and almost adored, and whose memory will be cherished and entwined round the heart s•rnngs of every lover of British naval virtue and heru;srll. It is with sorrow we relate a melancholy circum stance which occisrred on board the Mort, during the late 4iorious eagAgement The brave Captain i) rr had two sons in the Anion, one aged ab •ut It, and the other about 15. I.arly in the contest, tne first nAd b ith his legs carried away by a shot I Soon after, the sec2nd fell!—anal, at last, to corn pie.. the distsei.sin4 groupe, the lather himself was . added to the list of ,ain, leaving an amiable widow i s a situ stio3 too dreadful for description. The youth, who lost his legs. likely to rzcover, and will. no doubt, receive all the reparation which a liberal Government and a sympathising country can bestow. .. .... L.nr 1147.LLthENCII. - • • COURT Or CllMiCalt ir, T ,1441. 19. WRITE 11 WILLIAMS .11.110111211. The whole of the time of the Court, this day, is Yell as the greater part of the day preceding, WAS consumed in reading exhibits, accounts, and coy -••..sondence of Mr. White, deceased, with the gen -1 nen concerned in the trust. In the cmtrse of the proceedings, Mr. MANLEY. sn eminent pra&itinner. and one of the trustees of he deed in criestion, addressed the Court at some !ength, in vindication of his own condittl, and that if his colleagues, alleging that what was One by hem beyond the letter and spirit of the deed, was it the instance and approbation of sir. W. White himself, and his brother, who attended to his inter ests in England. the Loan CHANCEL LOR observed, that nothing could he more plain, than that, in many instances, tbe t:tt .t was not couslutied in execution of the deed. He, however, gave %Ir. Manley lull credit for the statertwat re Ltd made ; a:,,1 would, himself, per- haps, iv der similar ,:ircurtv.tances, have Afted in the same manner. It V.',IS true, that whatever irregu larity to k place wi'h the concurrence and santiion of Mr. While himself, cool ! not be well impugned by the gentleman who now claimed as his represent ative ; but the same was net the ease with the other creditors, who might apply to him for a bill, that an account should be given of the manner in which the trust was ',teemed. He added, at the same time, that however uprightly Mr. Manley might have co lii.lted himself, the last person in the world to be a trustee of such a property, was ne who wa'• concerned in it as an advocate. It was, he said, a urnceeding which he could never countenance. phis ca•ise is so complicated, and embraces so many tranc,istioni, covering a space of 27 year;. during which the trust has continued, as must make it the subjett of several other hearings. COURT OF KING's-11F4CH, VVLITMINSTSII, Nov. 19 The Term Grand Jury, for the County of Vliddle. sex, attended this morning. at the sitting of the Court, according to usual cu -tom. Mr. Justice Gaon shortly addressed them. The whole of the morning afterwards, WAS taken up in justifying bail, elischargieg insolvents ; and, when :nuir c•::12 d:iwn, in bearing law arguments, wholly uninteresting to the public in general. t'he following one only, we think, necessary to state : ANDIMSOIII e. the ROYAL EXCIIANOR •SSURANCR COMPANY. This was an aftion uonn a Policy of Insurance, upon a ship laden with malt, from Araterford to Liverpool. The Plaintiff had made an abandon ment of the cargo .to the underwriters, and now claimed a. for a vital loss. The ship in question, laden with 1G,115 barrels of malt, sided from Waterford en the 2dth of .14. unary ; when at the mouth of the harbour, she struck upon a rock, and went to the bi.tmm. On the 31st of the same month, the owners, began to raise some of the malt, and continued so to do till the 45th of February. when the ship herself was raised. According as the malt was recovered, the kiln dried it, and about 931. wraith was saaredout of the whole cargo, valued at 090. Upon the 18th of February, the assur .d made an abandon ment of the ship and cargo to the underwriters. This anion was tried at Guildhall, the sittings after last term, mid a nonsnit entered, subjea to the question, whether the Plaintiff was entitled to re cover as.fpr a total loss, or merely for an average 4)4 . Mr. Cc ANXT contended, at some length, that thu Plaintiff was entitled to recover as for a total loss, and cited malty cases in support of his proposition ; but the Court were of opinion, that use aban fon ment of the ship and cargo was not made in time, the Plaintiff having continued before and after the abandonment, to recover the property as for his own benefit. An ak•andorment should be made with all convenient speed, which was not the pre sent, cast. Mr. Closure pressed for a new trial, on the grounds of proving the taa of the notice of ab in- The COUR r thought, that if the Defendants could be prevailed on to waive the tine of notice, it might go to a new trial. But, Mr. PARKA., for the Ile leadanfs, refusing, Judgment was made absolute for the Defendants, C ANON I'LEAS.--N.,,ausio if. An immense arrear of businect, red tting to Sees, being in the Chirographer's Office, to consequence of the negleA of the last officer, an application was some time back made, nn the part of tae Custos Brevitim, who was untble to get through his busi ness, on account of the deficiency nn the part of the Chirographer. Tim. was allowed by the Court, on the Chirographer's promise to make every ex ertion in the course of the last vacation ; a quantity of businea being still undone, a fresh application was now made, and, after a short discussi. , n, Sir A seas NiA sr limo observed, that there were faults on both sides ; and ordered, that two addi , tinnal clerks should he employed in each of the of fices, for the poryse of getting through the busi sus as speedily as possible. *set° score, %fors., and CO. surviri ag partners of LENvos, deceased, v. riaciasion. This case, which we noticed at some length a few days luck, whets the rule was obtained by tier jeant Lass, on the part of the Yetendant, for the Plaintiff's to s.iew cause why they should not re ceive their principal without interest, was this day argued. The anion was brought by the Plaintiffs, as• Trustees for William Blain, to recover ‘41,5901 lent by William, to his brother Thdmas Blair., un the warranty of the Defendant. Thomas Blain we. examined on the trial for Mr. Thornton, and stated the money to have been paid ; but his evidence being contradiSed, the Jury gave a verdift for the Plaintiffs, allowing them principal and interest, which amounted to a sum of 4,00.1 and upward. Serjealt Lees, on a former Jay, appli*d to set this verdict aside, but the Court refused th.tt Rule, al lowing him to take out with rasped to the isal lowance of interest. the Learned Serje.uu now tuknaitted, that the rulaaies should In allowed ; as, - • tee iiicoust - between Will;isil and Tbosnisarkg a sum of . ...jOOl. Only appeArr..: to Lou dui . •ois latter, and t .et efore the warranty could only go to discharge that. lie hoped also. the Court would consider. that interest was not. payable untd the de mand was InAde• Set jeant Str craven, on the other side, urged, that the state of the account could gmly be ast-erta.ned by the affidavit of Mr. Thomas Warn, and he sub. mitted the Court would net rive credit to the affi davit of a man, whose testimony. on the. trial, the Jury disbelieved. It would be impossihie, he con ceived, that a man, who. on the trial, swore one t.l deprive his brother of the whole of his de mand, and was disbelieved, should now he allowed to swear almost the contrary, to deprive him of a part of it. Serjeant Leos observed. that in the account, as drawn oat by William Blain. the mrsney appeared to be due ; but, as he had charged compound in. tet est. and only allowed f. , r dollars at par, he hoped the Court would refer the accounts to the Protho notary, to see how much was doe. The Court, on c )nsideration, ordered the secortnts to be referred to the Prothonotary. to ascertain whether compound interest ought to be charged, and at what rate dollars should be valued The Defendant agreed to pay ov•rr ; but the Plrinri!l is not excluded !Torn basing mots, it the Prothonotary award it. POLICE. • 11WATt Yesterday, Mr. Wallace, who keeps :the Ale eel. lag, in Spring-gardens, accompanied by his Att l o/. ney, made another application to Mr. Bra%in and Sir Witt tsar Pastors, resreaing the anonyrneas letters. signed Richard Crossley, and IN. parcel eon. tailing a human skull and bones. and reqn-sted to haze summonses against certain persons whom they suspeined of being concerned in the impositions. 1"!:0 MA GIATItat IS again told Mr. Wallace, no 4- fence had been committed that was eCtirrliZahle hefts. them ; and as Mr. Wallace's name ha i been used against Mr. Crossley. as well as Mr. Crnsiley's against Mr. Wallace, and neither of them snepected each other, the NI actsra Ares advised Mr. WO dice not to take any notice of the fae!tiy the 11 :4 , 0n CluL,whom he supposed to he the atftWrs of the letters. 'l7:e Attorney pressed very hard fur summonses to be issued, but witkout effect. In the afternoon they marl , a second applie.ation; but the Maori s would not heir them. James Rem:mut and .1.4,1 Path r. the two notorious pick-pockets who were at:refunded a few days since by young Crocker, ou suspicion of p:cked the pocket of Mr. Treda way, a firmer, near Uxbridge, at Kingston fair, of sank Notes. to the amount of 451. were brought to ten. Office tor fir-thee exam:nation. A large quarit:ty of plate having been found in the room where hem tam was ap prehended, the silvan imith of Peterlsoiiiugh, wh shop has lately bee.. broken open attended, and es .m' fined the plate, bu. coteid not identify any of it to tie his property. A boy, who saw the rob's. ry iu t'ist fair, and the villain rescued wno pick: i Mr. Ts zd :Mike/ pocket, attended, but could no: be email, as to their persons. Amts Jaws, the woman Remnant tutil.asilted with, was breaght tin fair LETi•i 46011, a.l 1 01 't a.- I. Remnant seas capitally cwicalle I t.ir incsalig a pocket at Bath ; and pardoiied. on -no Mints of his being traiisported for hie to Botany D , t :nyti which place he made his escape, and cowrie to get on board the East India f lent, hien was a'- tacked by Admiral I in - sis, and he having :-eta brnught ty a surgeias, assisted the seerene dr. sing the wounded, and c indule.l himself .n op. Dem v wall, that the Ofic..rs inreree,fad for him, on their return to Eaglani, and su.-cee lei in aka; i ing his Irce pardon. l'he Prisoners were ordered to be cilm-n' ted for further examination. NAIIILSOROCON-57K1117. SWINDLING The person who ;sPl.;;ent;.l himself as Aicrand.c kw:, of the Royal .vy, Mai hr-. up yesterday to this office, for re-exarninatico. the charge of hiring a mare, and not retursirog he of which we gave an accoli,it yeverday. Mr. Ch..- ma, Parnel, of the Navy Pay-Office attended, mai pelved, that these are only two Captains of cte trams of Innes in , he Navy, hod; brother. ; the one, Capt. Alexander Inrws, of the hers. f7igatc, u,•qn th,! Irish station ; the -other JoSa !s. , a a pi i soner in France, having been taken on be.rd t Rang, r. roe office was uncommonly crsw and several persons who acended, intiom.o4l that they should exhibit severel sin s aiar charges against the Prisoner, at the next exao ;ennuis The report rf a case at the Mat.sion Hens., se.. spading the Office. No. 17, Lutig .re.hill, gc n its our Paper of Monday, was copied frorn . a Me Sunday Paper. We sod, upon entunry. th. .the whole was a onarepresentation. and Are cone rata' that we should have fallen into so great an eri . A few days ago, as some gcntlttrren we , . has -t -ing a stray beck, near Swindon, '•V s. Mr. it. Hooves, of Sohhorp, one of the •.'.'y. ;ow- . d; ttely on the dogs seizing tne al.g`uted tt, a his horse, to kill him, when lie suddenly ru-scul round, and, forcing his horn into NI, Rua, aes thigh, leaped with him ever a hterigr.,. Men •r 1 • Sp. 4. He n'4.l taken horny, e lm nt ft to loss -4 blood ; but, though it is likely to be sr ..lot tits.o lie fore he is Ahle to walk, we are happy to say, he is pronounced OW of darter. One of the most obstinate battles ever r--orded, took rlas, v?sterday, at Kensit.gton, betwewt Jewee and Cariae, labouring Rlen, in cowerptence o a dis ptre in ag.ictiqui Al skill. The c.)rn'mtAnts fotspitt nearly two hours, with at shifting, wAen, being es bawted, they waited ten minutes, and re-com menced thatrd;versicm, which lasted another how-. The moat furious Mows were exchanged, and blew received by Carter, terminated --te cnntest, and, as is supposed, his existence. A few days ,'tee. an 01E , r the 9-h light dra goons. u.ldfrtoit, for a ‘ntoider al , le wager, to ride one of his own horses from the Star Inn, in Lewes, to Bletchington bar•acks. a distance of neatly tea miles, anti bad road, in 35 mina es. He started at three in its , . afternoon, and up judiciowly crn.ci g the brooks and river, wear Glynde, arrived at row barracks L'9 minutes, six athletes ;within the time. i e C e is 'T s is