The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1805-09-14 00:00:00

- TO PETI rrox (IF VIZ ALPII.II3ET, 1 1 , TI! • BOOKSELLERS Or LONDON, o ur ody cam:daining, *hew untn your Excellencies, 'nue r pli ini , and daily Crew , A , )I,C, I), E. F, C, 11. I, J. K, 1., , pi, 0, p, Q, R. S, T, U, V, tV, X Y, and Z, that OM iiy of suppliants is of grant antiquity ; and that, at a r remi.te period, and loot before the creation of any empire ~,,,, tw o in es,teiice, they had arrived at a veiy NO .c of civi 'esti rn, liemg und n. the patronage and prate-lien the WC tors of your Excellencies in theno cities, imams, v illages, erre I Folios, Ziarsos, Octacor, and Vuoterienat, well kuoritu in the Ciceroni world. Th.d your supolinits have been always taught by their .A4O 4et 4.111, Pot re, and other ;rout Law fs;veri, tu shun 1 5 v e d. things a joist rovr.rd, art-I r- . live in kir,issiiiti with h ,thirt, in all wawa and time:, and in whatever wood they -head to be. lea C. Inn the ntiist estimahle of the family of your suppliants lose it w r y, of great splendour awl magnificence, being ge r, ly dtested in green and gd 1, or Moroe.:o Anil gold ; ‘ 0,,1e such of them as go without enrcrirce, or may b.. Pitied in Love Ater, are despised and held am-thins, as canines of evi iKe in your Excellencies' shops can testifv Your suirpliants state, that certain merchants, shopkeepers, and tr drones, in the cities of London and W,iittninsta, and go M the Borough of Soinliwark, t. taily regard:ets of the Isa r -;:id c ustoms, long established amone your suppliant:, sod c onspiring to injure their chore le", and to deface and OV.:eratt every vestige thereof, have lately ...tate' upon several of your petitioners, and having cut off the ears of some, knocked out the eyes of Ohms, and other morsel, disc. giirel, and abused them, and destroyed their 3) mmitry and pm portions, have gibbiited your suppliants over their shop hart th.,Straird, in Fleet street, flondistre , t, mot •dher, the lost pubic and most populous plaee ,, , and there exhibited than to scoff and tier;sion, and all this they have dolts 01 their own name, and in open day. Y.iur su,r.liants further state, that as a juititiixtiiiit for these cruel persecutions and toriiires, !iaisi wicked and fistl. &vend shopkeepers, merchants, and traders, gise nut and pret ad that your suppliants are of EATsitiass tfligin, and, fire. eel a the lineal descendants of Cadmus; and that, by these mu tilations and contittions, it is sought to make 010 , 14 like tiallif ancestors, from whom they have &generated tu figure and praportionv lair suppliants humbly submit that their Egyptian g"ee'' ten we-e on ugly and an aukwerd race, bat that, by the care of your Fxcellencies, the breed has been gradually Unplowed, and brought in the present generation to the highest state of symmetry and perfection ; insoosir_ih, that they excel their ancc:ton in grace and bemity, as much as the CinaliStall fair nirpass the females of End, of this present day. Your suppliants further state, that Mrs r. only a ledlow pre hence of men who, under the mant of reform, seek to effect a revolution to the literary waits, awl introduce liberty and equa- Ls into the republic of leiten ; and, as et - ideate of their being ciliated by revolutionary and level'ing principles, your sup. uliants beg lease to observe, that the cap:ral members of the family of your suppliants, have beets the principal sufferers, and, shorn of their firm ari•tncratic herds and taih, are now forced to b refine croppers, and the ;unit Mindy of U's are reduced to mere "whoa Your suppliants hag leave to observe, that th said has, of said merchants, tradesmen, and shoptiree,iers, aforesaid, are high crimes and misdemeanors, against the lives and persons of your suppliants; and come, as your suppliants are advised and believe, within the provisions of the C4d.V.iog 4.1. Your Suppliants, therefore, humbly how, that your E,icel !comes will take their staining. into consideration, and afford them such redrir,, as i wrontnnt with justice, equity, and grind consi - icruit, and the met t. of their c.se may require, arid your suppliants w.ll ray." Note.--It mav necesttry to observe, that a most preposterous fashioo has been lately introduced in the iiisrriptions op in signs and shew-boards over the shops of tradesmen in this metlcpolis. The mo dern capital letters are rejeCted, and the old, bar barous, eukward charafters substituted in their place. A tradesman's shew-board has thus the ap pearance of the gravestone of one of his ancestors, with the letters partly defaced, and scarcely legible, and looking more like a rectiiescrit in pace, or hieroglyphicas upon a catacomb, than an invitation to business. It is a bad and corrupt taste, and ought to be avoided. THE DEPLIZATE. yesterday received the following letter, and tike the liberty of publishing it, conceiving by that touts: we will best answer the purpose of the ! writer : His Majesty's Rrig Desperate, Downs, SIR, Sept. 12, 180 S. In Your Paper of the 9th, there appears a letter from Dover, dated the 7th of September, stating, that • French privateer of 18 gum +tool in b.!tween the Desperate and the there. I beg Inv. to inturm you, that the Desperate left Dover Wiads - on the trimness of the ith ; and, at this false report might 11 . 4 to injure my character a , cornonsittling her, 1 deare you will tako a very early opportunity of eu.itradicting it. EVC7f .rson who it not aequ.i.titel with ,nv charaeler, Iseult naturally conceive 1 either kept a very iteelogent look nut, or that 1 did Dot wish to bring the privateer in questio.i to action, had there really been mile, which 1 very much doubt ; yt. any rule. I ant einivoiced no vessel of that azstription e.ame while Om Desperate lay in Dover Roads. 1 sin, Sir, your M. 41 nitdiPnt Ito mble cervani, J. M. HANCIIETT, Lieut. and Commander. _ . Yesterday, at two o'clock, the third Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers marched into town from Maidstone, at which place they relieved the ist Regiment, on pet manent ditty, fur twelve days. The steady and soldier-like conduet of the men ex cited the admiration of the inhabitants of the town of Maidstone; and the attention of the Officers to the discipline and comforts of their men, refleOs on them the highest credir. One circumstance oc curred, we are sorry to say, which tinged the cha ratter of this fine body of men. A private in the irst company was yesterday tried by a Court Mar. tial, while on the march, for uttering improper ex- Pressi. ,, ,s. Ile was found 'stilly, and sentenced to .5e lashes ; 33 of which was infE!led on the gun c4rriage at blackheath. DOVER , Sr:PT. 12. Last eveniag, the Diligence sloop of war, which l,.td detained a ship bound for flamlottgii, as mentioned in my letter of yesterday. ptoceede f to the I Oswes with her price ; the latter was last from Beneal, and I suppo c her to be the ship .Itil;ana, mentioned in your Plymouth letter of the 6th lest as having passed op Chariot!. Her parers, I anderstand, have been sent up to London for investigation. At a e hour last night, a Vest lndi imam passed up Channel to the Ea.' ward. supposed to be one of the shies missing (loin the fleet. Capt. Hillock. of the ship Hannah, belonging to the port of London, was landed from a Dover pilot hoot yesterdn y evening,which took him up at Beachy Ii• ad. The If ?Noah has been thirty-two months since she left the pint of London. She sailed with conviets for Botany Bay, from whence she pro ceeded to the South Seas, and lastly to the coast of Peru. Thil ship had been given over as lost, long since; the Captain never having had an op portunity of advising his owners of her safety; she had not half the complement of hands returning, with which s h o had gone out ; some of them having ran away at the different places she touched at; and, what is very singular in so long a voyage, she did not meet a single ship, of any description, during the course of it home, until she got into the English Channel. When off Beachy Head, she was hoarded by the Autumn sloop of war, which pressed four of her men, and put four Greenlanders on board in their place : these last the Antrum had pressed from a whaler, when off the coast of Scotland. When passing the Needles, the Hannah spoke two home. ward-bound Wes► Indiamen, whom she knew to be Jamaica ships t, they were heavy sailors, and were steering Eastwards ; these ships are expeCted off this pert in the course of the evening ; and, together with the one which passed last night, accounts for three of those ships which had been mising, and supposed to have been captured by some of the rutnerous Spanish privateers which hover about the Gulph of Florida. Having taken a pilot on board from this port, the Hannah proceeded on her voyage to London. The Trusty sloop of war, belonging to the Bon logne flotilla, passed at some distance from the Downs to Dungeness. The ofthenieone of erli guns, and the Mediator frigate, two of the East India convoy, and a sloop of war, also passed down front the Downs, on their wa•r to Portsmouth, whence they are going to refit. The Flirt cutter, from a cruise, came into this harbour on the morning's tide to rest ; also several coasting vessels from the Westward. Six o'Clerk, p. One of the Jamaica ships, mentioned in the for mer part of my letter, is just passed to the East ward, and the other is in sight, at about two leagues distant, with a f.ne breeze from the S. W. The evening has been so hazy we could not see any thing of the French coast ; nor have we had any intelligence from that quarter for some days. EXETER, Sm. 1 1. TESINIE SWINDLER. A finale, pretending to be a lady of genteel con nenions, has lately beets very troublesome to this city and neighbourhood ; she has occasionally as sumed the names of. Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. Beau champ, kc. but being at length discovered to be an impostor, she was last week apprehended at Chad leigh, as a vagrant, and committed to the house of correflinn for the county. Since her commitment, various letters have been received, stating her impn. skims nn the public, in London, Brighton, Bath, Cheltenham. Gloucester, Bristol, ice. under the charafters of daughter to Gen. England,Gen. Beau champ, Gen. Robinson, as wife of a Mr. Wilkinson, a Gentleman in India, who had deserted her, v. ith three and sometimes five children; she has a singn lar mode of impressing her distress on the minds of the benevolent, by taking a phial of laudanum, or leaping into a river, where she knew there was no danger, in the presence of many speaatoss, and stating herself to have lately escaped from a lunatic asylum. A particular description of her is, we understand, to be inserted in the next line and Cry, a d P4lite Gazef!r. This is the second extraordi nary imposture dete,9ed in this neighbourhood, within these few months, much to the credit of the (-minty Magistrates ; the first was the pretended Rev. John Augustus Polygreen Bridgetower, other wise Lieutenant-General Mentor, lately serving under Touissaint L'Overture, otherwise the Black Prince, idoo. this person speaks fluently the English, French, German, Italian, and Polish languages, is a man of colour, fine figure, and about forty years of age ; he is also in confinement in the county bridetvell. The Right Worshipful the Mayor and Chamber having resolved to present the freedom of this city to Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. B. " in testimony of their high respet for the eminent services which he has rendered to his country," the Vice-Admiral attended yesterday at the Guildhall, when the resolution having been read to him by the Town-Clerk, he replied as follows : Gentlemen...As the hi;liest gratification an efficer can re• twive for his smyices, is the approlsation of his king and Coun try ; the testimony you have this day hanaiired me with, by en rolling me among yourselves as a fmiluiais of this ancient and loyal City. is truly flattering to my feelings: and I hone the happy unanimity that prevails by land and sea, will render the machinations of our enemies alsortiye, and preserve to us the birthright of Engliehmen—sear liberty !" After which, a superb dinner was given on the n eaten, by the Right Worshipful the Mayor, to which the Lord Bishop of Exeter. Vice-Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth, K. B. most of the Naval Officers in this city and neighbourhood, and a large number of Gen tlemen, were invited. s so Tt "4 E.—The Public are mnch indebted to the Cow raflors of the Lottery which will begin Drawing this Mon•h ; for, by their wise arrange ment of the Scheme, a purchaser of a Ticket or Share may Gail either of the three Prizes of 20,0001. three of 100001. three of 5,0001. and numerous other Prizes. for little more than half the usual price, As fret' Twkrt drawn within a certain period, will he entitled ro some bencfit,from a 20,0001. down to a 291. or a 10i. ; and all Shares will receiv their respfdive proportions .1 suck Prices. SPOICriAi. INTELLIGENCE. PONTEFRACT RACES. TUESDAY. SEPT. 10. ;wcapatakes of 10es each. woth 20g. adder% for all aim; thre , - year olds, 21b. F..u•-year olds, 7-t. 10Th. For •..year elbla, xct. !.lb. Six-year nlds and era, Ad. 121 b M ,reti al -514.; and a winner of a Plate, Sweepst•lt K, Of Sub scrti&on, this year, to carry Slb. extra. Four Moles. Those marked • to carry fith. extra. Mr. N. It Holrion's f Pri villa, 4en nld . • • • Mr. Peirse's b h. Vergutoo, by ICog Fergus, 5 yr; 9tol on Ferrisvm A rocxl R ace. SAUL DAY. . 2 The Membere Plate of 501 - rior4iiit.n three end fare-year olds; three-year olds, 7st Vila. and f...'-veor olds, list. 21b. fillies to be allowed llb. Three.nide Heats Sir R. Winn's b. c. Mariner, by Precipitate, 5 yrs old . . . . . . 6 1 I Mr. Richardson's bay mare,Wooribine, 3.yrs old 5 4 3 I L a n. I. Saville's ch, fby Patriot, 3 yrs nld . 3 2 dr Mr. Wilson's be. f. by Sir Peter, out of Violet, 3 yrs old Mr Flint's b, c.Scam,ston, by Screieton, 3 yrs old . . . . . . . 1 3 2 Mr. Hotham's b. c. Bonnet, by Traveller, 3 yes old . . .. - ... . 2 dr sto 1 against Precipitate. 7to 4 again t Sir Peter. F..isy. 'MINIMA", !BUT. 11. Sweepstakes of Sngs each, 10es forfeit, for three year old colts, est. 21h. fillies, 7st. rdlb. The last 'rile and three quarter;. Sir R. Winn's ch. c. Sound lodgment. by Rutstarrl . 2 Sir W. Gerard's bl e. &Touche, by Overton, out of Young Charlotte's dam . . • . . . 1 Three to one o■ Rarouche-eery easy. SAMI DAY. Sweepstakes of 20gs each, with 20g, added, fir three years old fillies, 84. A winner of a Plate, Sweepstakes, or Suloscrip lion, this year, to carry 31b. and of two, 41b. extra. The last rode and three quarters. Those marked • to carry 31b. extra. Sir R. Winn's bey, Hypocrite, safer to Ann ioneer . . . 4 Lord Strathmore's grey, by Overton, dam by belpiai . . 2 Mr. E. L. Hodgson's bay, by Monrcork,oist of Mi.s Mitst , ,n S s Sir T. Gascoigne's ch by Pre. irritate, oat of O,lelvnioci , s 1 Sir E. Smith's grey, by Overton, dam by Yonne Mark . 3 Two to nne apt Lord Strathroore's grey, and five to too asst Sir T. Gascoigne's chesmit—half a head. %ARIZ DAY. The Cold Can, valtte leng; a Sith,ctint:on of lolv. esah with Mrs. added, for three.year olds, fist. :fa). tour-year olds, 101 b. 4vz-year nl4s, d.t. 514. air-year ttlo, and ages, gAt. Mare 4 and 17...1di0r to be allowed ilb. ITV a winner of the great Strhacription or Sweeisstakt4 at York, this year, 51b extra. Four Milta....Those 'narked t to carry 51b. extra. Mr. Dent's b. c Sir Charles. by Selim, 4 yrs old t Mr. Nine's b. h Ferguson, 5 vet old 2 to 1 and 5 to t on Ferg.tinn, easy. . 2 1 LITCHFIELD RACES. TCVMAY, strT• 10. The SOW.; Plat. of 100 gs was run for, upon Whitlinstton- Heath, by Horses, kc. carrying est. 71b. each, Islet rile !feats, by— Mr. Skinner's bm. oocklin . . . 1r Fenssick'. h. ns. Mi,s Coiner • • Mr. Claton's h. h. Sir Ulic Mc Killigut . Mr Femur: b. h Pr.nctisal 4 1 1 . 2 dr .1 2 2 . 3 di 0.14, after the in heat, 10 to 1 on S;r G c; after the se cond heat, 10 to 1 on Dutkliii; many of thr In.it informed mete taken in by the fint 6-ts. 0 UGEIN. Description of Oogein, the erital of powlut from Rao Scindiah, received in a letter , _ Bombay : The City of Ougein is far superior, almost in every respell, to any I have hitherto seen in India. We approached the city on the N. W. side, on which, with the exception of some very high Pago das, it is entirely concealed, until you approach close under the walla, by means of gardens and plea sure-grounds, laid nut in a very churning stile, and which has a very pleasing elle& Between these, and the town (which is entirely without de fence), runs the river Tembra. The bed of this river is, in 110 part that I have seen, very wide, not of a greater depth, than the middle of a moderate sized man, but may be probably deeper in the freshes ; hut hitherto we have had very little rain here. The street by which we reached the main one, is rather narrow, but paved in the same manner as the carriage-way in London ; the main street is very wide, extending, I believe, nearly the whole length of the city, in a straight line, running from South to West. The principal part of the houses are built with an extraordinary degree of uniformity, seldom equalled even in European towns. On the ground-floor, which is considerably elevated from the pavement, runs a ventiriak of shops, to a vast ex tent ; over the whole line of which you may glance your eye at once, and forms a very pretty reap dad. In these shops are exhibited the various and richest produdions of k n dia, Persia, China, and even Eu• rope. The inhabitants appeared extremely affable, and asked a great number of questions, and were frankly communicative in their torn. I was accompanied by an English officer, dressed in the cavalry uniform, with a helmet similar to the 19th Dragoons, and they took him fur one of that corps, of which they have heard prodigious accounts, and whose prowess ' they conceive to be invincible, and they term them, the red-haired-men, in allusion to their helmets. The bazoars for grain and vegetables were exceed ingly well supplied, and the articles, in genera!, much cheaper than any place we have yet visited, notwithstanding which, we observed many both dead, and dying in the streets. On enquiring of one of the inhabitants the reason for what appeared to me unaccountable, he replied, that those miserable people were strangers, who had come in from the country. In so rich a place as Ongein, one would suppose some relief would be afforded by a general chari table donation, but, I believe the reason of its being otherwise, is the fear every man has of chewing that he has money. Holkar summoned this city some months ago, and, by threats, extorted a considerable sum of money from the inhabitants. The harvest, In every direflion, is most abundant. In some parts, it is calculated by the farmers them celves, that the produce of the crops will be at least treble those of last year, and in all quarters Provi dence has been unusually bountiful : wages arc un commonly high. The new copper coinage, which is ezpeeled to be issued in a few dais, from the circumstance of its being designed to circulate uniformly and generally throughout the United Kingdom, has been truly considered as the first step towards the attainment of that lsighly desirable objea, the equalization of the currency in all parts of the Kingdom. • 1 1 1 •r• .11/.;PEAft. NT. --.2.---- • A very sin-suler eloper...nt took pl ice at R ye, in Sussex. o.i Monday last, of which the folio.. Mg are the particis!ars : A par y of the Royal Staff. quar tered in and around the town of Rye, frequente I a house kept by a very respeetable and lulu trious vi.-- mailer ; and one of them, a private, of the natde of Uuggin. became enansoured with the landlady, a woman abrnt thirty, and mot'uer of a family. She had not known her fresh suitor many days, when he eir eased the most ardent love for he-, and, by nu. merous artifices, contrived rodeeny her finis!' her hus band, on Monday last. The parties decamped dot ing the absence of the husband, who was informed of die cii cums:.•nce by his children, and he traced them to A village five miles distant from Rye, where he learns-J, that they had departed from thence in a post•cha , ,e rid town. The husband returned borne, ! and he missed monies, &c. to the amount of about tool. Mr. Butler, the Chief Clerk at Marlhornogh street Office, was at Rye, and he of ered his assist ance to the sifaiEted husbart.i, in pursuit of the fu gitives. I'y his avistance, they were traced to an inn in the Sonnies; and Lovett was sett to appreh•r.d the soldier. eft Thursday evening. They were yfsicr day examined at Marlborough-street Office,anditap peared, by the staternentof the wife, that she was mat ried at St. Clement's Danes, on Thursday, she hav ing refused to grant the soldier his di sire, unti such ceremony had taken place. It also appeared. that the money, and a quantity of the hushand's ap parel, had been taken away by the wife; and, as shere WAS no evidence to implicate the soldier in the rob bery, he was released from that charge, and sent to the Savoy as a deserter. The wife appeared sensi bly affeifted at the imprudent step she had taken, And said something had been administered to her, which rendered her senseless. The husband consented to forego any kind of pro secution for bigamy or toe robbery, and the wife was restored to him, with whom he is returned home. '!'here never was an instance of this kind where more artifice and intrigue were used, than by this debaucher of domestic happiness; and, as he has (citved the Civil Authority, we trwst, Com manding Officer of the Regiment V% I'll ail:* him his just reward. POLICE. alp SW LOH t Lt. Yesterday, a lady of the Paphian tribe was charg ed before the sitting Alderman, with an attempt to rob a gentleman, in a house in King% Ilea.l Court, near Fleet-street. The gentleman stated, that he was a stranger in town, and that his re.idence W4l in Liverpool. Being the night before rather intox icated, he was decoyed by the Prisoner, to a house, but he could not exaely tell where. The Prisoner condo led him into a miserable apartment, when, alarmed at the appearance of the place, he endea voured to get away ; but the Prisoner, on fi—ling him determined not to rerna:n, caught hold of the chain and seals of his watch. He struggled to pre serve them, and she seized him by the throat, and forced him upon a bed. She then cried nut murder! and held him until a watchman came into the room, and, with difficulty ezirkated the gentleman from her fangs, The gentleman further stated. that he was considerably alarmed, as he had property about him, to the amount of L3Ol. The watchman said, that. on hearing the cry of murder in the house, No. 13, King'sliead-court t he went to the room, and saw the Prisoner holding the gentleman on the bed, as before stated. In her defence, she said, she took nothirl front him, and that she was very much in liquor. The Alderman committed her let a month to Bridewell, to be kept to hard labour. 14 A tt. 50 aouo tt-ITI WIT. Yesterday, at Marlborough-street. an Attorney .was held to bail for perjury, in giving his address at a house which proved to be uninhabited. while stand ing forward as one of the bail for Major Smart•, who was committed from this Office a few weeks since. The Officer, who was sent to ascertain the nature of the bail, proved, that the house was shut up. The Defendant held, that he was recently the occu pier of the house in question, and the. he was there to be heard of by reference to his present abode. which he supposed, at the time, sufficient fhe Ma gistrate, however, was of a different opi lion, and. in a professional man, he conceived the as to be wilful and corrupt. The necessity of bail was for the Sheriffs to have access to the propetty of the in dividual, when the recognisance became estreated. and such could not be tne case in an empty howe. In the present case, he thought it necessary for a Court of Justice to decide on the Defendant's con. dud. AN NAOS P ray, can you think what l're heard tan, A t a Shop that Shaves went, for a S,.us, C uts Hair for 'Pero:Jerez ever , rhy. eeps Men such Wiol fur to do ?—• W hi! I've b^e., told that in his read., 0 id and Young like to be "Mid neat, tJ n strops he has a Fortune made, we set` --at IG, t.race Churrh.stneet. The Reverend ROWLAND HILL, during a tour through Wales this Summer, has inoculeed far the cowpox upwards of 1000 of the poor, gratis; be sides 3000 in other districts, without a single in stance of the failure of success. The small.pox, in some places where it began to be fatal, immediately disappeared. An inqueit will be held this evening on the body of the unfortunate man murdered on Thursday night, in Feather's-court Holborn. Of the vigilance of the police officers, and their anxiety in the discharge of their duty, the following circumstance affords a striking instance : —As the Porter of Mr. H• ;coati o, of Piccadilly, Bookseller. was passing near St. Luke's Hospital, on Thursday night, he was stopped by three or four fellows armed with bludgeons, who demanded what he had g• at The Porter took to his heels , and etf e a ed his escape from them. Shortly after he was met by a party of men, to whom he told his story.—They examined his parcel, and sent two of the party to escort the Porter, and see a t e parcel safely de livered. They proved to be a party of police, anxious not only to protea the Porter, but to as certain the truth of his story. I te pee!, lAIO urn, 44- xnce tong , has .rdcn, Fot I, .tree. tom, 101- 11 , uroa Viiie •:ici C