The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-10-05 00:00:00

EXPEDITION AGAINS LOTILLA. T THE BOULOGNE F tlE•f, OC R. 3. For some time an expedition against the French coast has been talked of rivately In re, and prepa rations have been made in various p.trts, giving reason to expee an attack would L.: made ; but all prudent persons observed as rwicr, g l i. mce .,, roc ,ibi, 06 the suhjelt. The tides set vine, the attack was expefted this week, and it wa. genorally milerstood that an effort was to be made to burn some of the enemy's gun-vessels at Boulogne, as fire-ships, &c. were preparing. Thursday, it was thought, would be the night ; but yesterday, it was reported last sight would be the night, while mist people con padtfted this from a desire of concealing what was ng on. Early this morning accounts came from Dover, that a heavy firing l.ad been heard at mid night, and that persons at sea had seen a ship blow up, Collow;t1 by a great blazing and loud reports of cannon. Coupled with the expeCtation of an attack on the enemy, it was presumed the attack had been made, A:,d every one was anxious to know the re sult This forenoon the Thrmer gun-brig arrived i n the Downs from a cruise off !:,rest ; it passed near Boulogne last night, and by it we learn, that about ten o'clock a vessel 'slew up; one or two more soon afterwards blew up also. These are supposed to have been our lire-ships sent among the enemy's vessels. A greatblaze followed, and lasted some time : this was succeeded by heavy firing on both sides, and throwing of bombs. The tiring lasted from ten till Doe in the morning. It is reported here that two men in the itatamo/i/i frigate have been killed, se veral wounded, and that the bowsprit of the ship, hr. have been shot away, but I cannot discover any foundation for this report ; on the contrary, I am assured, on authority, that no person is killed, nor any material damage done. This comes finnx Aral mer Castle. Lori( Mxtviccr went off yesterday in :he iliniable frigate, and is supposed to have been sea: our squadron during the attack. IITRACT TROST A NOTHER LETTER SAN' DATE. We are in the greatest anxiety to learn the re sult of a most formidable attack, which was certainly made last night on the Boulogne Flo tilla. A blaze of light was distiaetly seen from the Castle and Heights, and a heavy firing heard for s-veral hcars. 'elle Master of a Fishing-boat, which was near the Varne (some miles front the 'bor.!) all nig it, reports, that towards eleven o'clock be and his people were struck with the appearance of an tilliC,ialMOß light in Boulogne Bay ; they at Erst imagined it to proceed from lightning, but they describe it as continuing with uncommon btightncss for neatly an hour ; dui ing which they could very ph ay perceive many shells which wc-e thrown nom theshios and the shore. Th. , : Master of an Oyster-boat, which was dredg ing during the night, on what is called the new (luster-ground, about three leagues from Boulogne. relives, is a about eleven o'clock he heard soak. tremendous explosions, and saw an amazing blaze cf light off itoulogne : he distinetlr obse, red three vessels blow up, which see.ned to fill the air wits fire, as if, to use his owr. expressions, thozsaads cu fireworks had been set off at the same instant. cutter was seen standing from Boulogne Road. .4 the Downs at noon, and at this mom nt (• • x o'clock, p. tn.) a great part of the Bo•do.;re sq. , drod, headed by the Mot , arrh, with L lag flying, are seen near the South Sand dead. g under toll sail for the Downs. It•MSCATC, OCTO/eR 1. it reported here this afternoon, by a Ge just come from the Downs, :hat last sight se I load explosiolis were heard on hoard the fl tg literes which seemed to come in the diret'tior Boulogne, arid were supposed to he Occasinaed the blowit,g up of some of the gen-bouts. i. 4, wilichCame into the Downs early this morn also reports the same, and with the like Wear , by the blowing up of vessels at Boulogne. Lord Kei t h still remains off Boologoe, and no !mai.. account has been yet received here; but it • said that his Lordship is sanguine in the sueets, tag present attempt to destroy s.inte of the kher , . • night Lord Melville went in a Lig.tte from th.• was, %VA a number of other vessels, to join I Keith off Boulogne. WATER WORKS. A for A Steam-engine, now standing at Chels-a Water works, WAS (I e second was ereft'-J undo' Belton and Watt's patent, in or re a this metro o and serves, when compared with a capital engine ertavd there about two monihs ago, ' 0 the progress of improvement in this machine, become sto e , sential to our rnanufaau ers, dor • ,; the last twenty-six years. Tat :sew engine has cast iron beam, which, with the cylinders, pumps, ad every part IV the machinery, WAS CAS( .aivi pre. Pared at the Soho manufieffory. et Birmingham. This engine it not double, V.-at ;-, tie steam only • on the top of the pis.toti, is return-d again, by a large weight burg at the other end of " beam upon the pump-rod. The cylinder is f-nine inches in diameter, with a stroke of eight Al in length : the pump. at the other e''d , i s 4 iro ning -pomp, aging upwards through a stuffing ; the stroke is eight feet long, :mid the internal s .liam eter of the purnpas trrel seventeen and a half incise,. Near to the pump is a strong irem cylios im air vessel, into which the water is forced, . the elastic pressure of the air therein may equalise the motion of the water in the pipes laid Coder the streets. The highest place at which this new engine and Pump de:ivers its water. is into a cistern at the to; lithe water-house, in l lode Park, near tne round reservoir oe the ground;. and this hetair is about 1 80 feet from the surface of the water in Chelsea G am. This chews a power equal to more than l. 's'se pounds and a half upon each square inch .f pistion upon which the steam aCds, and prov.. s e great perfecti on an d comp l ete operation nt t!i s Cy engine. To guard against any sudden accele. 'awe of th e going of th engine, on oening a of the numerous cocks e . or the pipes under t he * rills a coppe r pipe, connected with the condensed l a the air vessel. communicates with the bin:- a a small cylinder, in which is a pistion kept 4 b Ya large w&.ght, and this is connee.ted by . Ill& with the s team cock t and thus the suPPiT o f to the cylinder is regulated. POLICE. ROBBERY OF A BLIND SAILOR. - - --- Yesterday, R. H. was brouzht before the Sitting Magistrate, at one of the Polke Offices, on a charge of having robbed Francis Cooke, a blind seaman, of money, and several articles of wearing apparel. It appealed, from the evidence of the blind man, that, beieg an invalid, he was discharged from I lis Majesty's hospital-ship the Sme.r, lying at Sheer ness, on Monday, the tad of last month ; he was going to Bristol, wh e re hi s re l at i ons and friends re sided ; the prisoner, who had been his shipmate for some years, and was also an invalid, and hound for the same place, was appointed his guide, to di re& and assist bun oa nis journey. They reached London some time that night; and landed (as he un derstood) at Iron Gate. He had two bags, contain ing his clothes, which the prisoner carried for him ; they had not proceeded far, when the prisoner tore out the pocket of his jacket that he wore, in which was sewed up his money : consisting of one five pound note, two one pound notes, and some other money ; he then took Isis stick from him, and ran away with clothes and all, leaving him in the street, in the middle of the night, pennyless, and without knowing which way to go for assistance ; after sonic time, he was picked up by a watchman, and was delivered over from one watchman to another, till he made h:s way to Bow -street, where he told Isis pitiable story. Upon his information, a warrant was granted, and notices posted sip, and en Sun day, the 30th of September, John Smyth, one of the Bow-street Officers, apprehended the prisoner, at the White Lima Inn, in "I'ooley-street, in the Bo rough ; he there admitted he was discharged from 411 hospital-ship, in company with a blind seaman : and the bags containing the clothes were found in his poss e ssion ; the money he had given to the land lord of the White Lion. Upon being askel, could he identify the prkoner the blind man answered, he would swear to his voice : and the prisoner having said something, he swore po sitively to him. He was then desired to identity the clothes, which being brought in, he regularly took up each article separately, and having felt tlicm, he distinguished them in a very exiraordinary manner ; the shirts, some of which were grey linen, and others made of cheque, he first particularised ; he knew his pantaloons, they being too long fur him, he had cut them short : one pair of his trowsers were dirty, and he had tol !ed them •.,:p stocking fashion, which he explained to the Magistrate ; when he came to a blue spotted handterch;ef, he observed, " It th.s he mine, you will see a white darn in one corner of it." He then felt the several corners, and hold ing one of them up, exhibited a small white darn. John From', the landlord of the White Lion, stated, that the Prisoner came to his house on the 25th of September; he brought the hags in question along With him, and gave him one 51. note, two 11. n tres s th. L. silver, :Ltd one 7s. piece; he remained wit him until the time of his apprehenNion. He told him, he had been discharged from an hospital ship, bin said nothing about the blind seaman. When the Prisoner was called on for his defence, he said he had Lit else blind man for a ntomnt in the strett, and on his return, he could not find him ; be admitted, he had taken the clothes ; but denied a y knowled.:e whatever of the money. The Ma.,;istrate observed, that it was not possible he ,:rittsi he a British sailor, as no true British sailor could be guilty of such an enormous crime Against .tis unfortunate blind mess-mate ; he certainly mtr.t. .save been some miscreant, who had crept tinob s‘rsed into that honourable service. His crime seas I most aggravated one ; and it wetted be his care to ;end him, where he would meet the punishment j istly due to so heinous an offence. He was then committed to take his trial at the Est Sessions. this It e-, man j veral Chip t ind from on, Ily th sey mnaci e d. kg, a it, by the Lo: sit- emu; is Lit( it;- tae st lay La Lowe laird of her. A 5 works A R• Bolin' po;is; the r .w the His now t mg to Oinl lleast e 01 and e, tred fired ads n Tied again, sin- tie b forty., irel L -et 11 oust vwei n bur ; Ore• dians s inci.e, der,, nst 4 • that nll aqiialt under acid The liar pump of th e Oily lever / , sent 180 f t lilt : Cie e k twelv e int - the pi lins- the gr new e last r e ei 4 , 44 is in of t h e 'titres :AN trit er lAce tom,,, ,3:e, dow n • tte din *ll FIRE IN IrESTMINSTER. Mt shocking olt•ath of Mrs. Freeman, and the hardly less dreadful alternative to which the two p•wr girls were forced on Wednes fay morning, br leaping from the garret of the house on lire in Union -street. Westminster, ought to ad as a warn ing to tit* parish officers of thts metropolis, to see that fire ladders are kept in constant order and rea diness; and to dived their watchmen and patroles, +sn the first alarm of tire, to give assistance in bring ;rig such ladders to the spot: for this purpose, a key of the fire ladders and engine-house ought constantly to hang up in every watch b( is of the with, that no time may be lost in fruitless search, or calling up persons to get the key. It is a me lancholy refledion, that two ladders, which were provided at the parish expense, large enough to reach the garret of Mrs. Stores house. were hang ing in the passage opposite Westminster Hall, within forty yards of' the spot, whilst three lives were so dreadfully en•-Isngered for the wait of them : but .he key of the same was (or ought, according to the notice on a board there, to be) at St. Margaret's watch house, three times that distance, in the oppo site dir•rftion. We hope that the parish officers, not of St. Margaret's only, but of every parish in Lon don, will attend to this subjed, and employ watchmen, attive anJ capable of assisting in bringing the lad ders to any .pot where a fire may be breaking out. The houses r.•hich were burned down will not he rebuilt, fur it is understood, that in consequence of an aet, which passed last Session. Government intend. as soon as possibly can be, with due regard to the occupations and trades of the tenants, to pull down all the houses beween New Palace Yard and King-street. and St. Margaret's Church-yard, ex cepting only tht Ordnance Office. It is also under stood, that the row of houses on the North side of New Palace Yard is to come down, so that a per son coming over Westminster Bridge, will, from Cie hridge-foot,, have an uninterrupted view of St. Margaret's Church, and the venerable and superb pie of Westminster Abbey, towering over it. A p irt of the ground intended to be cleared hetween King -street and New Palace Yard, had been pur chased by the County, for ereding a new Guildhall, instead of the present Session House in King-street ; but, in conwittence of the passing of the Aft above mntioned, Government have repaid the purchase monies to the county ; and the old and useless baildings, intended for Vestrninster Marker, are n,sw intended to come down, to make room for the new Guildhall. CANADIAN REGIMEAT. GENERAL ORDERS. At a General Conn Martial, h.d.i at Edinbergh Castle, Mmida. the lOtb of Selitemlim, 17;04, wh , reni Lienteain• Colonel William Pansonhy, of the 'th Regiment 1/ra goon Guard., was Preaident, fin the Trial of the fullowine nu Pth.ners, viz. Donald Macdonald and James Bruce, private sol Biers in the Canadian Fencible regiment. Charoe.—For repeatedly being guilty of disobe dience of orders, exciting mutiny, and being muti nous, by refusing to march with their company when ordered, and advising other men to do thy same. Opioion and Se. , tr tree of the Court.—After mature deliberation on the whole evidence adduced on the part of the prosecution, as well as what the Prisoners have stated in their defence, and the evitlenc , .. 01(1 have adduced in support ~ f it, the Court :ire of npi nion, that the first part of the charge, ‘iz. " Re peated disobedience of orders, in refusioA- to march," has been proved against both of the prisoners. Ott the second part of the charge, viz. " Exciting mutiny," they are of opinion, that Bruce is not guilty. With resnea to Macdonald, although it does not appear to them that the origin of the mutiny is to be attributed to him, or to any premeditated design on his part, yet he does appear .o the Court, on more than one occasion, to have taken the lead in dis obedience. The Court, therefore, being of opinion, that the prisoners. James Bruce and Donald Macdonald, have been guilty of a breach of the articles of war, do sentence James Bruce to receive five hundred lashes, and Donald Macdonald to receive eight hun dred lashls, at such time and place as General the Earl of Moira shall dire& A s, however, there appearstothe Court a possibility, that, from the regiment being neither clothed nor armed, they may not have supposed themselves sub jeft to the same implicit military submission, as if the regiment had been regularly organised ; and as perhaps some allowances may be made for the be wildered state of mind into which many of the men, and the prisoners in particular, had been thrown, be the distress or sickness of their families, which last circumstance appears to have been the sole cause of their remaining behind the company on the 28th of August, the Court beg leave to recommend them to mercy. Angus Macfarlane, private soldier in the Canadian Fencihle regiment. Charge.—Fur quitting his ranks on the Green, on the evening of the 23(10f August, Mt, and be having in a manner unbecoming the charafter of a soldier. &wenn. qfthe roure.--The Court having maturely deliberated on the evidence adduced against the pri soner, Angus Macfarlane, and what he has stated in his defence, is of opinion, that he is guilty of the crime laid to his charge, which being a breach of the articles of war, they do sentence him to receive five hundred lashes, at such time and place as Ge. neral the Earl of Moira shall think proper. As, however, there appears a possibility that, from their not being either clothed-cr armed, the men might not suppose themselves aflually subjected to that military submission which they would have felt it their duty to exhibit, it they had been more regularly organised; and also in consideration of the youth and inexperience of the prisoner, and peni tence manifested by him, the Court beg leave to re commend him to mercy. Roderick Fraser, private in the Canadian Fencible regiment. — Chargr.—For rescuing John Maclean of the same regiment, from the hospital guard, on the evening of the 2Nd August, 1304, where he had been con fined. Sem/cute of Mr Coy-I.—The Court h tying maturely deliberated on the evidence adduced against the pri snnet, Roderick Fraser, and likewise on what he has set forth in hii defence, is of opinion, that he is guilty of the crime laid to his charge, which h.ing a preach of the articles of war, they sentence him to receive one thousand lashes, at such time and place as General the Eatl of Moira shall think proper. As, however, there appears a possibility, that, from their being neither clothed nor armed, the men might not suppose themselves aaually subjeaed to that military submission which th e y s h ou ld have felt it their duty to exhibit, if they had been more regu larly organised ; and in consideration of the peni tence expressed by the prisoner, the Court beg leave to recommend him to mercy. Genrral the Earl of Mot R A approves the above four sentences.—As he concurs entirely in the con siderations upon which the Court has recommended the prisoners to mercy, he remits the punishments severally adjudged ; unconditionally in the tarn of Donald Macdonald, .Tames Bruce, and Angus MAC.. farlane ; in the case of Roderick Fraser, von the condition that he shall engage for unlimited service in a regiment of the line. It having been industriously circulated, that many men had been induced to list in the Canadian regi ment by delusive promises which Government would not have been hound to fulfil, it is fitting on this occasion to state, that a Court of Erviry was kept ratting at Glasgow for many days, to examine into any such cases as might be brought before them; and Major General Wemyss load instrua;ii to cause it he explained to the men, that every one, whe suspeaed himself imposed upon in his engage ment, might lay his case before the Court, in order that he might receive his discharge from the Earl of Moira, if it appeared, that he had been attested sander false pretences. No case of the sort occurred; the enlistments of certain men. who had been en gaged upon ' fallacious representations, by one (now in the jail for that offence), having been before declared null and void, unless where the individual himself, on explanation of the real tea rr.s held out by Government, desired that the ague meat should stand good. Adjutant-Generd's Office, Dlefiburgh, iKth Savtenib.T. 11%4 It is General the Earl of Moira's order, that the foregoing charges, sefitences, and reconarncndations, together with his Lordship's decisions and olrerva tions thereupon, shall be read at the heal of even• regiment and corns of the Regular and Militia forces in North Britain, and eavred us their re spettive orderly boats. • THE TURF. - NEWMARKET RIRsT OCTOBER MEETING. Aram* csoa v. mimics S. One third of a subscription of 51,0 w each, to which will be a !Jed the Town Plate of 501. for S Jr old . ohs and fillies, D. I. !,1 oriris..iiois b. c. gatutelle 1 Wthol.'Bl b. c. St.stv;) , . • • 9 'r W)ndh.dn's rh. c. The C..rpenter •. • • • S. iiz to 4 against Bagatelle —even hettir.g on Spuely. Fifty Guineas, free for any horse, &c. 4 yr olds,B.C. Mr. Howorth'd b. e. Strap, 4 yrs old, walked over. Mr. F. Neale's Brainworm, ist. 7h. heat D. of St. Alban's Merryman, ht. Ab. M. 50gs h. ft.— l'wu to I on Btainworm. PLIGI I.Nif. • —. a .-- A desperate battle was fought on Tuesday at Shadwell, between a Ilideht r ' 8 BOP/ and a Attact . Ch,esernutsger. It was not a regular standing up !rattle, or scientific net to, but a rename .rfehi, for nearly a space of four hundred yards ; tire pre paration of a stage was, of course, totally out of the question. Indeed, the parties evidently stood more in need of a race-course than of a ring. The Cheelemonger, who was a mighty lean of a Dutch mould, had at first evidently the advantage. He posited his blows dWie and iinec with violence and fury upon his adversary, who c; intinued retreat ing_ with a quick step un t il h e came to t h e Police , • 1 Office. I !ere the Butcher's boy made a stop, and, " colleting all his strength, he ran his antagonist back with equal velocity, and actually beat him into his ' own shop. This contest attraded an immense crowd. The whet!. neighbourhood was in an up roar ; hut the Parish Constables and Police Officers, at length, succ%eded in r• sturiug quiet. This two Combatants were shockingly cut about the head. . The parties did not fight for a purse, but is conse quence of a dispute abent a seaman's wages. Iwo tradesmen in Shadwell, admirers ;:f one and t the same lady, both candidates for her favour, and jealous, of et•urse, resolved, last week, to deride their quarrel with see rd and pistol, in Stepney Fields, near the Ben Johnson's Feed. The chal lenge, however, having transpired, a party of con- .. stables from the Pollee Office, Shad *ell, took the amorous heroes into custody, and they were booed over to keep the peace. The Halt, R•turn, hired armed cotter. or 10 guns, commande i by I.;emendnt Totter*, arrved at Plymouth on Tuesday, from the in-shore stria& on off Brest, near which place, whilst ern; i..g a fear • days since, in company with the 3.l..marsx ektatt of 10 guns, they fell in with two French slocips of w.o, one a ship of le guns, the other is brig if 1 it go e, 1 attemring to get into Brest, which they cogs ed the greater part of the des' ', within reach of the batteries, which continued to p .ur Ironies of sh and shells over them during the whole of ti anion ; the sloops of war , h owever , at length • feted their scape, by runn i ng on shore among tit rocks, where they were immediately guarded by veral hundred soldiers. The Hitt, Return receiv only two shots, one in her bow, the other in h rudder, wfticirretrivred het isrierranarable, and she( • was obliged to be towed off. the crews of the Iwo`, cutters are reported to have behaved in the gallant manner, none of whom were ether kart, . .. wounded. i • On Tuesday la s t, as t h e artillery company of the . t German Legion were pradising firing with drot at a I ,' 1 hill near Weymouth, one of the shot t o o k a n unex- 1 / 4) 11 peeted side diretiun, and struck one of the Mollie/3.. men's arms off, and so wounded his side that Ne r l .1 ' s ' ' '• life is despaired of. The Black .sea trout, frequently mentioned 1477 travellers, as living in a lead cistern in Dumbarton ' Castle, died last week, supposed from a fright, 'tee.,. being confined there upwards of thirty years. It - weighed shout two lb. and was quite grey about " w the mouth. A most extraordinary crow was shot on Sattreday last, near Kendal Castle, by Mr. Br. .11 , 1 D. the fea- • . thers on the neck and back, and lower part of the, body, are brown, a nd t h e ta il an d w i ngs nearly '., white. i Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, an in- t quest was taken before Get.' , Esq. the Coroner of Westminster, on the remains of Mrs. Axe ' ''' Fatima N, at St. Margaret's workhouse, in Deano street; and, atter the examination of several wit- ' messes, the Jury brought in a verffiel of—.lretdental • Death. , We are happy to state that Awn Toone and • ELIZ•SICTN Mil I.S. the apprentice and servant of Mrs. Sroe a, are still living, and considered, by the 1 surgeons who attend them, as in a fair way of re- ' coverieg from their desperate wounds, bruises, and ' burns : Mrs. STORK'S hand, which was so burnt 4 seems also in a fair way. 1 On Tuesday, a respetable Publican in 9hadwell, ' : I whom his friends familiarly call Tie arPor, and who ' is greatly affliCted wi t h t h e r h eumat i sm , m a d e a I , ' . •. wager with a hackn e y coac h man , t h at h e should o run from a given spot acro ss the fields, to Mile 3 End turnpike, socrier than t':e coa -ion In could ' ' drive his coach and horses along the road to the same point, being half a mile shooter than the course which Tar D Odor had to take. The Does, won the race by several minutes, but he has not gained merely the wager, and the glory of •iftot; i although he was in great pain when he set out, he felt pertelly well before he got to the end of his race. and has ma since had any return of his disor der, which is supp-sed to have been perfetHy re moved by his extract-A:a .ry exertion. inc Blind Goddess nester bestowed her favours so ' judicioasly as its the present le ittery, now drawing. Almost every town in angtand has already expe rienced the good effeds of her smiles, in conse quence of the Iwo Prizes of 1.,,00111. each, and Three Prizes of 1,0001. each, being sold in small sham. This mast stimilate and encourage all de seriptions of her you:tries not to lose the only op portunity that can offer th;s year, of gaining an OTI. ITle'ls ! sum at the small-st risk ever known, con sidering there are Eighteen Capital Prises now in the Wheel, viz. Three Pei: es of Time, Mow; II Pumsifi4 One Prier of Ten T.toowsel Prowl,. Three Prises or Fire T.iessovd Posads, Three Prises t r ow Timmand Purim% Lek Prises .f Ace Moat ed Peossts, &c. Ac. Ansi only Seven Days to Draw. re tri- ted the rb- 0 1 - ere it.. tile