The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-08-25 00:00:00

THE. COURIER, DE LONDRES, AND THE CHAO .' NICLE. " Ctaw me, and Pll claw you." THE Brterrew Parris, and one other Paper, gave an account oa. Monday last of the atrocious plot to poison the Bourbons, at Warsaw. The Morning Chronicle of M.;nday neither knew nor heard any thing about it. How could it I Its great source and authotity for foreign information, the Cowie, Jr Loam, was not published until Tuesday, when produced, by the aid of Tut BRITISH PRESS, sad the other Paper to which we allude, a ran/to atelier et entenditior edition. What was the condo& of The Morning Chronicle in the interval ? Bold. cruel, and unfeeling, it advocated the cause of the poisi , ner of Jaffa, and attempted to throw the whole story into ridicule and contempt. Finding, how ever, that truth must prevail, it seized upon the ac count in the Courier de Londres; and, to gratify its prejudice against this Paper, trumpeted forth the statement of the former as the real, official, authentic account. The Editor of the Courier de [Andres of last night, too shallow to penetrate the motive of The Morning Chrouirk, expresses his gratitude for this preference ; sincerely we allow, but rather un. fortunately in its manner, as it charges that which Tire Cbrlnide gave as authentic, with being a mis translation frori the French, in " essential" points. This is the simple case. Now for the comment. Why, we ask, does the Courier de Londres come forward the champion of The Morning Chronicle? Whence all this fraternity between them ? We thought the Courser de Londru was a loyal print, devoted to the French Royalists and the British Go. ternrnent, whose bounty and proteftion it enjoys. I, that the charaeter of The Chronicle How ernes then all this sympathy between them? Torch the Courier is Limiter, The Chronicle inter. posts its great leathern shield ; touch The Chronicle, the Cosner de Leaders immediately points its puny ar.ow. Tra Barns* Pans has served the cans* which the Cu. i este Lear** professes. It has done so from pr;nei,le, from loyalty, from honourable feeling, without arty selfish motive, interest, or view. Many ob-orvations, some of them not much to the saran , age of the Cour sr Jr Londres, here suggest the :melees. We shall, howev.•r, for the present, r.,:iintain a friendly silence. The good intentions of the Editnr of the Courii rde Londres ought to pal. Late the errors of his judgment, and have disarmed our resentment. If he he not as obstinate as he is weak, he will, however, after this hint, abjure all intim:ll with The 31,rniLg Chroniele.—lf he eefletis for a moment, he will find the ccnneetion arty be fatal, and can do him nn service. lie must not take the praise of that print as fame. It wouil abuse him with more pleasure, had it the same motive. Or, if this course I.e difficult to follow, wr. roould advise him to give that print a monopoly of ail that " good and cheap" foreign intelligence, with which he proFoses to supply Tim Barmy Pains. He will then have his revenge of The Mer,il t Chronicle. for its false friendship. As to the charge that Tee Burr ISM PIRA is " environed with an impenetrable obscurity," we plead guilty. The Agents of Mehee de La Tiieche have been about cur office, bet they never were able to pry into our secrets, or to trace those loyal and enlight• reed correspondents upon the Continent, to whom we are indebted for that Foreign Intelligence which gives TH. BRITISH Pass adecided ,uperimity over as contemperazies. RE'r 1 W. snoariccirre, •t.:6 'I he T)uke of York arrived from Dover at Gene trha ~e m° " O e n 'si th a e t At even i ng yes te rda y , ate , tlr; Dungeness ngn d e in e e s d s sluadron arrive,' in trandgate roads, close under the camp. The squadron consisted of the aledeer, rAs ; Le..,effed, 50; Leda frigate, and several smaller slrps of war. Notice was given that His Royal 1 - I.gliness would review, of, as the military phrase is, lee the troops precisely at seven this morning, at which time they were all drawn oat. They con. silted of several companies of the Rifle regiment. voataiaing about .500 men ; of the 4th Regiment of Foot, censiderably more than a thousand strong, the 52d, also very strong in numbers; of the - 0.1, strong also in numbers. These are all in the camp. The 59th came and joined the line from 1 lythe barracks, but they are weak in numbers. The Rifles took the ri- ' , t of the wing, the 4th ne' t them ; and the whole, th Artillery, being General bioore's brigade, an,ounted to about 4,000 men. There were no naval re. Exadly at seven o'clock, the Duke of York came on the ground. The ships of war in the roads each saluted him, and the artillery on the ground of Re view saluted hem about the same time ; the tiring had a very finagled, if the situation 4[4 - the camp, a fine extensive level on the top cf a ebb, is a bean tan' one. The tsansis of each regiment saluted the Duke, as he passed along the line I the regiments then passed in quick and slow time, and marched admirably. The whole of the review was con ducted with the greatest order. The Rifles are a Sae body of men, and very aSive. Then were about 2,000 speelators present, and among them se. lend genteel parties. The Earl of Chatham was on the ground to sec his regiment, the 4th. After the rev iew, the Duke of York went to Hythe, to sCe the l4t Draooas ; from thence he wa to go to ßra bOUTn h e Lees, g and then to Ashford, to s see the two bri;rades there. The review concluded at Sham a& .bout half past ten o'clock. THE TURF. YOU, Weisoss••r, Agouti 22, 1204. [CONTINUED.] . • Sweepstakes of 100 gs. each, h. f. colts Bst. 41b. fillies Bst. 116.—Three milts. Lord Fiurtrifliaiiie b f. by Sir Peter . Sit F Ssaudisti\br. cult, Brother to Stamford . . 2 Sir H. T. Vaoe's b. c. Discus,,, Duke of Hautiluster bay c. by Buzzard . . . Mr D. Drouiptotes bay colt, Mumanu, . 2 to . l on Stamford. Won by a head. Fifty pounds given by the City of York, added to a Subscription Purse, for five-year olds, B,t. lb. —Four miles. Mr. Garforth's bay horse, by Traveller . . . . I Lord Fitzwilhain's b. Is (Srsille Mr. Mellish's bay hone, Stockton • . Sir T. Gascuignit's ch tn. Toeee Mr. Wentworth's b. m. Primrose Sir F. Standish's Br.,tlier to Eagle, 4 yrs old . . sto 4 against Stockton ; 6 to 4 against Orville, 6 to 1 against Tooee ; 100 to 4 against the winner. AIRS. THORNTON. [Extriet of a Letter, dated Wednevlay Evening" • This day after the races, Mrs. Thornton, mount ed upon Fin ,, arillo, took an exercising, gallop of four miles. She was dressed in mazarin blue, and wore a neat black jockey cap, looked very well, and was in high spirits. She went off in a canter, sat her horse amazingly tight and snug; at times put him to the top of his speed, winded him, and chess ed that she had all his powers perfealy in her command. All the knowing ono were astonished at the style of Aoraeship. in which she performed her gallop, and declared it equal, if not superior to any Chifiney or Buckle of Newmarket celebrity. Unfortunately, when within about three distances of heMg holm!, the saddle girths gave way, and she came with con siderable violence to the ground. You cannot con ceive the interest we take in our fair equestrian, or the anxiety which her fall produced among those who witnessed it. I am happy, how ever, to assure you, that she did not sustain the slightest injury. Being a smart, altive, elas tic figure, she recovered her feet in a moment, did not appear in the least alarmed, made light of the tumble, and walked from the course in the same good spirits with which she came upon it She will exe the again to morrow, wen. no doubt, every possible car* will be taken to prevent the recurrence of a similar accident. Indeed, I hope we shall have no Milan to regret this circumstance, as it may prove the mems of pr,:venting the like en the day of trial, when Arch a mishap would be more serious. And now, Sir, to come to that which appears the grand source rf curiosity an 1 interest among many of vorm sills. contemporaries. " The sporting Mrs. T is to r:de the four miles in buck-skin breeches," " she is to ride in ,lot," " she is to ride like a men." Such are the effusions of your scribble: s. whose Pe gasus is no better than a jack ass, who ridicule that spirit in a woman, which they do not themselves possess ; and cannot believe, ss bile they stumble along Rotten-row, trembling for the 'r lives, upon a spavined, lazy hack, that a lady could have courage to commit herself to the hack of a first-rate racer. To put, then, all these silly queries at rest, know that Mrs. T. dies not wear buck-skins or doe-skins, and that she rides n-yrdr. It shows a great depravity of taste, when that spirit, which was admired in our female ancestors, and formed a distinguishing qua lity of our good and glorious Elizabeth, is treated anal received with levity. the betting is now six to . four upon Mrs. I hornron, and, I think, will be pro ' bably more in her favour, before Saturday. Indeed the F/h.t, to rare a tailors' phrase, is likely to prove a dung, :and, I think, will not v stitch over the course, as he at first expelled. If 1 be not much mis ;taken, he w4ll tote the Isrelle as well as his horse. Ms city, and every Gentleman's house in its vicinity, are nosv as full as they can hold. Should more com pany come, t know nut where they can be accom modated. Every part of the kingdom appears to have furnished its quota. I own I am not surprised at this result. It required all the dashing talents of Colonel Thornton, which are ever contriving some thing new with which to astonish the Spotting world, to make so extraordinary a match ; and in no'. place could the scene be laid with bucheffed as in Yorkshire. IFr .in Tea Most Evvoia, Nvv.paper, from which this arttrl • wit ail* tow copied, in Yde•de no re part, run, all the London Nzytspaiows tin* d'Y TILE SOUTHAMPTuN CRIM• CON. When men above forty marry girls of sixteen,what can the y Mr. C. had been for some years dancing attendance upon every lady of fortune that visited Southampton without success, when he was captivated by hit. present wife, the grand daughter of a deceased grocer, who did not leave her quite a arm. She had all the weighty reasons contained in ten thousand pounds. Mr. C. made his party good with the lady, applied to ber guardian, who was inexorable, and the lovers, accompanied by a young and lively widow, the gentleman's sister-in law, took shipping for the Isle of Guernsey or Jer ser ; but fate was unpropitious, and a French priva tr.., boarded their vessel and took them prisoners; and as Bonaparte's myrmidons have as little feeling as any of the Algerine Corsairs so famed in his tory, they not only threw them into prison, hut into separate cells. History does not relate whether 3 Moorish slave or a Sultana obtained their de liverance : but, after some time, they w.:te tvt at liberty, absence and misfortowe only inctel , .cd their bye. They were married, and returned to Southampton, where they hate lived a pattern of conjugal affeftion, until A Q•ii Tam brought his ac tion, andgot into possession of her Jealous. The Lady was not to be of age,wit'intit the consent of her guardian, unlil the age of '25 years ; And we have not heard of his relenting ; that Mr. C. has not even the money to console him fur the loss othis wife. W at. RlllO Marc s.---Os Thursday the Wal king Match that heifer some time been pending F. • weeis P.ShanueN,Esq.and— Tost.ar i Esq.was decided. The former Gentleman was to walk against time for eighty guineas—ten miles in two hours—thirteen miles in three hours. The Harrow-road was the place fixed for the walk, between the3d and 4th mile-stones. About lOo'clock, Mr. METHL , II4 set off, and walked the first 6 miles in 1 hour and 50 seconds. In the 2 hours he had allowed him for the fire 10 miles, he with ease performed 11 ; and completed the 13 miles iu 2 hours and 25 minutes. • • 741.:t1;510N HOUSE. Yesterday, a melancholy instance of the want of humanity was exhibited before the LORD MAYOR. A poor sailor lad, about •sixteen years of age. *as brought to the Mansion House. carried upon the back of a soldier, in a must deplorable state. being nearly naked and half starved. Mr. HUDSON, a Surgeon, having told the Loan Mayon he did not thinic the boy would live, his Lordship orderecliiim to be brought near the fire on a chair, and his account to be taken down, which in substance was as follows:—That his name was William Thomas ; that he was a native of Wales, had shipped himself at Wapping, on board the Venue of London, fur a voyage to -Guinea, about ten months since, at Rl. ss. per month; that he was sick in the homeward-bound passage; that his illness was much increased by the cruel treatment of the chief mate and cabin boy, who often heat him very much, and encouraged others to do the same ; and when he was not able to come upon deck, they ordered the black boys to hoist him sip, with ropes tied to his legs, and that the cabin-boy and others had beat him within these two days; but as soon as they got to the wharf, the black men hoisted him out of the ship, and left him on the cold stones, till some gentlemen took notice of him. His back being examined, it was found all over marks and bruises. William Barlow said, he was at French Wharf, near London-Bridge, on Thursday evening, when he beard this poor lad crying very piteously, and SAW some black men dragging him from the ship with ropes, who said they were ordered to ck. so ; that he aiid some others exclaimed against such brutality to a poor cre.tture in a dying state, when the mate abused them for interfering, and said, they might take him to the workhouse. William Ayles, the Mate of this ship, and Joseph Young. the cabin-boy, heing present, they were put to the Bar, and the young lad and the other witnesses were sworn to the truth of their evidence. The prisoners denied the charges, and said, the boy had only been forced to come upon deck to clean himself, &c. The Loan MA volt said, he should commit them to the Compter till the fate of this man's life or health should be known : in the mean time lie or dered him to be sent to Bartholomew's Hospital, with orders to take him in direaly, and that every attention should be paid to him. PUBLIC OFFICE:, BOW-STREET. A case of considerable importance to masters and apprentices has been before the Magistrates of this Office for these last two days. On Thursday evening, Thomas O'Leary was brought before IigNRY NASH, and READ, Esqrs. the sitting Magistrates, charged with unlawfully absenting himself from the service of James Boyle, law-stationer, of Cooke's-court, Carey -street, to whom he was an apprentice, without his consent, and contrary to his indentures, on the 2.2 cl inst. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Boyle, that the Prisoner has been his apprentice for near seven yews- During the last four years he con dueed himself in a very improper manner, and it cost him near 601. for expences of prosecutions against him during that time. About four years since he lett his service, and was absent about six months : he at length traced him to Sheffield, where he had enlisted into the regiment of the Somersetshire Light Dragoons, and followed him to Huntingdon, to which place the regiment had marched. The Colonel of the regiment, being informed of the Ptisoner being an apprentice, very properly gave him up, and Mr. Boyle brought him to London with him, and was about to take him before a Magistrate ; but on his making great con cessions fur his past condua, and promising in the strongest terms possiole to conduit himself properly in future, Mr. B. took him home to his family, and treated him with the greatest kindness ; but bad company, which is the ruin of youth, he could not refrain from associating with, having unfortunately formed a conneaion with a number of dissipated young men, who tempted him to neglet his mas ter's bu,iness, and he has, within the last eighteen months, absented himself three times from hi, master's business, and has been imprisoned twice in Tuthill-fields Bridewell, and once in the House of Correaion ; it was only about a week since, when he was liberated from his last confine ment, before he absented himself again, and he was taken by his master on Wednesday in Parliament -street, in consequence of a letter written by him (but tinder a feigned hand) being intercepted. On this statement, he was about to be committed again to the House of Correaion, on Thursday evening; but, on the intercession of himself and mother-in-law, it was agreed to let it stand over till the day following. The final determination was postponed till yesterday morning, when it came on to be heard before NIGHOL•S Bowe, and READ, Esq. when the business took another turn. Mr. KRA? r attended for the Master, and Mr. AGAR and Mr. FITZG RR Al. cf, for the apprentice: the latter gentleman took an objediun to the Magistrates proceeding any farther in the business—setting up as a defence, that the apprentice was above 21 years of age, and was not liable to be held by an indenture, although the time of his apprenticeship had not expired, as he had hound himself, and no person covenanted with him; and they grounded their objeaions on a case which came before Lord Kenyon, in the year 17:4, in the case of a female apprentice, who had attained 21 years of age, when it was held by the Judges to he the common law of the land, that no minor could be bound to any ad, by common indenture. after he had attained 21 years of age ; and the Magistrates agreeing to this doarine, as laid down by the learned Gendeman, agreed, ifit could be proved that the apprentice was 21 years of age, they mast dis charge him, and the Learned Gentleman proceed ed to call evidence to prove his age; but the wit nesses consisting of his mother and friends, who could only state from rectllection the time he was born, which was objeaed to by Mr. KNAPP, as not the best evidence to prove his age, and that the cer tificate of his baptism ought to be produced, which being agreed to by the Magistrates, and they re fused to liberate him on this ground, and were about to commit him under the A& of Parliament passed in the sixth year of his present t.ajesty, where by apprentices are compelled to servo the lost time during their apprenticeshi7 after the i r ir,der.- tures are expired, or make such aatisfa.ction'to their Masters ar the Magismates shall think prnii•ir r and in case of noo.complianee, to be committed fir one month, .w not exEeeding three; ht4on the interces sion of his Mother and MO - rico - di, for his master to accept of terms, 'Which being !ittched to by Mr. Boyle, at the recommendation of tlic • Magierates, he agre:d ootake five guineas as a ten - Inner:Won for the last month ; but which not b •ing reedy to be paid by the parties, he was ordered to be detained. COURT OP RYQUESTS. A respeltable shop-keeper, in Fore.street, us the city, was summoned for half-avtinea, by Mr. La:- celles, clerk to a merchant. It appeared that the Plaintiff's wife sent a yours?: girl, her servant, on Tuesday evening last, for a pound of pork chops, and gave her a H. IM:C to pay for them s the Defendant, having weighed the article, received 61; 1 0-pence halfpenny in payment out of the note, then enclosed the change, consisting of half a gui nea, a seven shilling piece, and some silver, la a piece of paper, and sent the child home ; on her re turn the money was given her mistress, who look ing at it found the half guinea would not ring, and that it was a bad one. She immediately sent the girl back to have it changed,but the Defendant refused to give any other, under pretence, that he never changed money after it was taken from the counter. The half-guinea was then locked up in a drawer by Mr. Lascelles, and it remained in that situation, tin• til brought into Court. Mrs. Lasceiles stated to the Auditor, that the half-guinea produced was the same brought to her by the girl, and that it had passed into no other hands than her husband', since it came the last time on Tuesday. _ _ The Auditor, after blaming the Defendant for not examining the hall•guinea bt•fore he gave it to the child, ordered him to pay the money. SOMERSET ASSIZES. At the Assizes for the county of Somerset, held at Wells on Saturday the 11th instant, before Mr. Baron Tuomesois and a Special Jury, was tried an information filed er °frac), by His MAJESTY'S At torney General, the Kiu e. June SOVTIMTON, an attorney, for unlawfully obtaining from Mr. Pa•TClitr, of that town, druggist, the sum of 101. It appeared in evidence, that Sou-rot...a roe had written to Mr. PIATCRET in Aogust 1803, stating, that he had been applied to to prosecute him and se veral other druggists, for pilling medicines without stamps, and offering to settle the aliti ins in the best manner he could without bringing the complaints into court. In consequence of tlti. application from the Defendant, an answer was returned, tueng to be informed of the name of the inhume', tile na ture of the offence, and how it could be settled To this the Defendant wrote in reply. that the offehcz was for selling Friar's Balsam without a stamp ; and that a 101. note enclosed in a letter, addres•ed to 70/an Greenslade, the pretended info 'nez, at the Post-Office, Wellington, would stop at -oceedings. A letter was accordingly sent, inelos ng the note: which letter the Detendant himself fetched from the Post-Office. It appeared also, upon inquiry, that the Defendant, his children, and servals s, had Lem in the habit frequently of fetching letters from the Pmt-Office, addressed in the name of Greenslade, but that no such person resided at Welling! on.— The information contained thirteen counts toe dis. turd offences. The Jury found the Odes dta: redly ; and he will be brought upf for judgment nest Term in the Court of King's Bench. • The notoriety of the Defendant's co-clittl, as a pro. secutor of the Clergy, prodoced from a gentleman present at the trial the following lines inippirepte The Friars, for non-r. s Paid Snutherton's rx- , t Till Parliament a 1).11.84a found, To cure their mai. fartni:l4 But Birmingham her Drugsin< aria To 3tickle for a small stint ; S. Sauttlerton at lag was By dint of Irises liaison. CORK, Rua Is. Yesterday the important cause between the Ear of Cork and Lady Fitzgerald came on, and after occupying most of the day, the Jury returned a verdia for thd Plaintiff, by which his Lordship gets immediate Possession of a valuable train of land, near this city, said to be worth 1,5001. a-year, to which the Defendant claimed a title for nineteen years longer. A cause of inferior consequence came on to be tried the same day, in which Lord Cork• was also Plaintiff, and the Rev. John Webb was Defendant. The question for the consideration of tint Jury, re lated to the title to some fields near Sunday's Well, for one year only. After the tutraination of a few witnesses, a Juror was withdrawn by mutual con sent, and the Counsel for the Defendant agreed to submit the merits of the case, as well as the com pensation for damages and costs, to his Lordship's own discretion raid well known lijerality. Yesterday a man riding a cart horse down Fleetr . street, was suddenly thrown off by the unlucky animal, and in falling his leg was broke—ferteugaidy it was a wooden i Wednesday morning, between three and four o'clock, a fire was discovered in the kitchen of the Golden Lion Inn, at the top 04 Dale -street, Liver. pool. The alarm bell was runs, and the St. George fire-engine brought, but the bre was extinguished without doing other damage than alarming the fa mily, several of whom leaped through the windows, without however sustaining any material injury. On Monday evening, a tout race t_f 25 r .Js w u run at Faversham, between the note t Ilse sows i f that place, and a gentleman from Dr. don. .ere 5.5 Tameas, Which was won by the tot ho has antagonist half a rod. An .kgricultnral Gentleman, who has I.ttely been employed in improving the growth of ,) .:ts, yea• terday left town fo- Northampton, for the humane purpose of distributing the produce 01 ety acres of that valuable necessary to the rnr, smti.. •he planting of them cog him tile trifiiix; sum of four shillings and sin-pence per acre. AL. e • 1 1, /