The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-10-04 00:00:00

SHAM FIGHT. ' As military Slowest le: are the order of the day, she dukarard Spiid of TUC MORYING CHRONIC L c, and the Light Company of Tate Moartino Posr As eoci 41'1014 lately agreed to have a grand field day and Sham Fight twice or thrice a week, to attract the public eye, and save them from that state of oblivion which generally attends an useless and inActive life. The following articles for the conduct of this li terary warfare were matualAT agreed to, and signed by the drill serjeants of if IPespective corps : No ►ullets to be fired on eitheis side but paper ander, eve., La the brat of the anoat furious baghlt. The Aakeer•d Strad will be allowed go ekar!;e their elver say with Pitt's g di, Training infloricc, venality, and c,r. naption.' The MOANING POST Associ avant Light Company to large their adversary with dullness, jacobluism, petulance, aibd slander. To prevent accidents, all st•arp and edg'sl weapons are mutu ally prohibited. The paragraphs on u,,th :ides must, therefore, be without year, and the epgrawis without a tail. • To supply the absence of cannon and great guns, a few pis sod paw may be elpiedrd Tria Aukward Squad to represent the French, the Light Company of Tull Vest the English. These rules being communicated to the respeElive corps, all has been bustle and confusion for several days past at their drill grounds, opposite to each other, in the Strand. Neither tense, time, nor con cord, have been regarded. All the letters in the alphabet have been put in requisition. No man's can has been allowed as an exception ; even the premtwe have turned Volunteers, and the printer's derds, catd.ing the mania, swore that their Captain is the very ivpc of an ia,•ro. On Man.:ay night the following official order was isst:ed to the Av K WARD Squao : GENERAL ORDERS. Heal Quarters, Morning Clironiele Office, Strand. There wll be a Gravel Feld Day and Sham Pignt TOW, upon Waste Paper C..munon. Doe notice will be gisen es the hour, by the music of the hire Colonel requite this attendance of all the Members, 'swell ini...111 as houawy as well a., regularly They are to hare titc;r :.aversacks filled with pens and paper, and their ea.ftzcits well supplied with Every Member who can and it, is requested to supply hineteW with a blanket, a night-cap, and a pair of shoes. Breeches will be dis,iented witn, as the squad will represent the /Bodo. el at 41. Arrived upon the ground, the Corps will take open order, and Are in CO:anall S. Neither wit, sense, nor juigusent, tats, fine., nor talent., evil!, upon any ac.munt, be admitted within the nom" Tuesday morning the wayward spild matched, in pursuance of the said order, at an early hour, and took their station upon Waste Paper Common, in the Strand, the intended field of battle. To theirs beat astonishment, however, a dead silence pre vailed in the enemy's camp. You might bear a mouse moving. Our readers have probably heard of the eneoun • ter between 11.3 Qiixote and the TV ,dim('. As to the story of Ajar slaying a /irk of sb:rp, in mistake fur the Tr l jox army, every schoolboy has it at his finger ends. The leader of the sok we,d aorta (we wish to pay him every compliment) was as bold as Ajar, and as adventurous as Don Quixote. His head being a little crack.2d with learning. and his irnag'wition strongly heated by friction and • with some thick-skulled adversartes, it immediately sugge.i - Qd itself to his disordered fancy, that the still state of the enemy, whom he expesied to find drawn up in battle array, was a r a p• e k raerre, an attempt to draw him into an amt ush. tdasqued batteries, mines and counter mine:, ae ,cordingly presented themselves to his view. While his troops were contemplating the vacancy before them, their Commander stood forth, sad thus ad dressed them, in the true style of an an:lent Gesset.d: C0 , 464./i ten. Pfelftelen, 4.1.1 Cirboya, sty boJoe and 6 .411 amt C. , ipotoo d.sii, That as ir4 (pointing to Da 11.ou.rog Pit,, °1.e..) may appear to your vulgar mess a brairft space, wirhin x i..t rely reducible to a.hei by a few ; bnt do not dative yoorsolses, I tell you it as a mo-t fri,m4able fortress. Behold that figure within the deadly r You may limey him a Swims, or some Grub Strad Meretr.ary •. No such thing Tnat is Mr. P*r Ismael, or ono of his or la.& ramp, armed erp-a pia. I know him well by 7 hu mover i t ties Mules, his martial mien. Hs is my dearly foe, and the taltawe el spsd of nu Coot.ic it hoarse again with calling him car battle. Therefore, mote ready, prucd. fire In ..n Instant the Irate.. matter discharged from three of the switee n l staid 'tine ed this su,i,>o,erl the Cinque hits to ph.c.e. " Eljleet iajens it low* reasariii " Ti: Imze tar S 4. d The fire not being returned, 4...W4'i Spa marched aw a y i n tr i umph to the tug: 61 the Mars. leas oug . Upon ittsp.!aion of tlle dead beds - , the supposed Ct ‘ncl proved to be n.)thing more than a portrait tIGUY Fars, which had been carried in nrocessioo at the last anniversary of the Gunpow der Plot. The Commander tel the Light f;.,. [peso , . of Tete Posy, who, we must admit, was the challenger upon the occasion, yesterday issued the following Proda. • See The Mends% Chn.rw.e of TuaoeAf. mation, in answer to this insolent bravado of the AUKWARD SQUAD : Head Quarters, Morning Port OfFoc, 0.... 1. THE COMMANDER IN CIIICI TO THE ARMY. Brune Conscripts, In contempt of a solemn convention, stipulating for only a slisinfight, to attract notice, and gull the public credulity, tne Commander of the &Award visa, on Tuesday last, made a se• rises attack upon our camp, in which he broke Prig-ion's he,tl ire many places, and threw all our limes into confusion. Being of a peaceable and passive temper, and anxious to save the /*wise of intricent ink, I strictly command, that yeu shall not attempt to make reprisals, er in any mode revenge this most wilful and wicked aggression. —Themselves the slaves of a party, they have no idea of isheding, and the various other manoeuvres hi which the army I have the honour to command am so well practised.—kttsched to no side, you should consider your selves pure Ss is. The supporters of freedom should them selves he free. Wishing to inculcate this principle, and proud of our indepeuclenre, I order that you shall forget this insult, and leave tne Commander of the diukteord Squad to pursue his iliberal and printout course, as I mean irnmedottely to draw off me forces, amid use your services in " eke war with Srli,t I ." This Proclamation being read at the head of the corps, the troops gave three cheers, and swore they had no ohjeetion to .1 teach the Spanish." The speaators, who were very numerous, then dis persed, observing, that they never saw so com plete a siSani fight, and so much snide, with so little fire. See The Mn Rim: rot of yesterday, containing the origins!, of which this Proclamation i. , we pledge citirselved o a true copy. GUILDHALL. ELECTION OF 1 LORI/ MkYOR At the close of the Poll. yesterd ty, the numbers stood as follows : For Mr A .I.rman P..rch.ird . . . 1461 Mr 114C1 , 11J1 tin ,w Mr. &matt Pi,Ker The Co.irt nas thin Adj , )urned to this morning at nine o'clock. Je t tai , and it ; tun "I for• ge as vat lii ienac his ic kir • s e-1 IC coti th. IL 01 to 14011 in • ral fete (.1.1 kit F.' -1 the id tot. E n Count ris e ' ady tyibTfus ec, L, he • es dIC InCa oecup ie this rat- oda! N am OM ISO I Itt hand sat Si Otn i s OP Eta 11.1.1 014 tM to Da4 maks chua• mt h &RI p s zT • - 1 :I, s t let. Co Oil err, C at rsitel..sf sse corn Po the.ttr the M in.i Ole FOUCIIE. The Recolationarsi Plutarch contains the following para'raph in Fouche's life, which hears same con trast to this atheist's late opal/arca/ letter to the Revo lutionary French Bishops " Foyers E chose to cele brate this feast (the apotheosis of tile Septerebtiser Challier) on the Ist of November, 1793; a day con secrated by the Roman Catholics to prayers and to the memory of all saints." Early in the morning the cannon announced the festival, and men and women carried, with an air of respea, adoration, and pomp, the image of Challier, whilst others, enemies to the Christian teligio brought consecrated meet ; surrounded a jack ass, covered with as Noscapal '',.on a mitre fastened between ifs two ears, and drag , giraz in Me el,rt the Bible ised toils tad. "Atter the burning of Challier's pretended corpse, of which the as:,es were piously distributed amongst the sectaries of his and Fouche's morals, the Ifety little was thrown tato the fire, and, as it arose in smoke into the air, Me et-remedy ended Tail the 441 tirtakiaT (fang the soered chalice !!I " When the ceremony was over, Fouche proposed to consecrate that day by sacrificine all arrested per sons (amouating to upwards of 25,000) to the manes of the God whom they had just adored ; b a t sto; in suddelly dispersed this iniATIOUi asseml,ly." In his letter from Lycms,, of the 10th of November follir.ving, primed to the Mosateafs and Addressed to the Natioi;alCc.nverstson, Fouchn said, a rig shade Chalker is sarisfied, his precious mains, gieutt . e colleifled, have been carried in triumph. It is upon the place where this holy martyr was 11111W0- lAted. Not pus cobra have ere' cermet to pid , lo *morn tom, to th. reh a tion orptari.'isio. At last the 5.1 , nc , .; of sorrow was inter opted by the cries of vengeance ! vengeance! Yes, we swear, that the peo,-le shall be avenged ! This sod shall be overthrow , ; and on the ruins of this superb city, the traveller shill find only some simple monuments, ereelcd in memory of the martyrs of liberty," &c. &c. In a note it is said that Challicr was called the Marat of Lyons, and by Fouche and the Jacobins— St. Cluillier!!! The Honourable and Rev. Lord ROTE kT Lor sus, son of Marquis of ELY, is promoted to the Irish Bench of the Bishops, in consequence of the death of the late Bishop of Down E. On Monday last was held the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians, in M . arwick • lane. when the following Gentlemen were chosen Officers for the ensuing year: President, Sir Lucas Pcr VS, Ban. Censors, DT. MATO, Dr. PEMILII 10T, Dr. Morrose,and Dr. H 4WOR T N ; Treasurer, Dr. Bono; Register, Dr. Htav KY; Commissioners for granting Lic.nces to persons keeping houses for the reception of Lunatics, Sir Lcc AS Peevs, Bart. Dr. Uhler ell, Dr. Rosters, Dr. HtIIENDEN, and Dr. FR/LAWTON ; and Secretary, Dr. MATO. At this meeting, 1;r. Fel-cows, Dr. Ctssty, and Dr. 'rum', were eleeled candidates. Wednesday last the Maidstone Volunteer. and Rifle Corps were inspeited in the Roebuck Field by Lord Gast, who expre.sed much satisfaltion at their discipline and military appearance; and informed them, that some time in the present month they will be brigaded on Cozheath, b Lieut.-Geoeral the Earl Of CII•TUAM, with the Medway Vulunteers. On laturday last, F. R. Raesoi ns, Esq. was sworn intl the office of Mayor of Yarmouth for the year ensuing, and gave on the occasion a most ekgant entertainment, at which were present Lords 13II4D FOND, WODSNOtrn, RCYMINCI, Sir RD. &num- Fa c to, and several other parsons of diginftion ; to gether with many officers naval and military, the officers of the Yarmouth Volunteers, kc. There is an opining prevalent in the City, but which appears to us wholly unfounded, that the 4/thea has not been taken, and that the whole of the dispatches from General DtCAZN, both as to the Althea, and in so far as they detail the operations of Limon, are a forgery. Some people distrust the account of the capture, and, we understand, that insurances have been done on the Ahkea as BO prr z SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Yesterday morning, at fire happened near the corner of Union -street. New Palau'-yard, West minster —attended by such shocking circtimvw,cf•s i , that arty exagtvration on our part would be ti e most wanton attack on the feelings of ant readers ; we have, therefore, been at considerable pains to colleek the facts. Mrs. Starr, a widow, in partnership with her two sons, William and John, carried on t!t: business of a batter, next door to the corner of New Palace Yard. Mrs. Storr slept in the front room, one pair; her son William, in a back room, on the same floor. The front two pair room was used as a din ing-room ; aad, in the back room, r.n the same floor, an Elderly maiden lady, named Anne Free man, slept, who was a lodger in Mrs. Storr's family. In the back garret Mr. Storr's younger sun John slept; and in the front garret two you .g womea slept, the eldest Ann To!sbey, about ! 7 t, ears of age, an apprentice to Mrs. Storrs whom she had taken about two years and a half ago from the Grey Coat School, wh re she had been placed as an orphou ; the other, Elizabeth Mills, a servant girl aged about sixteen years, the daughter of a milkman in Orchard street. It appears that Mrs. Freeman, the lodger, was subjet to an asthmatic complaint, and spasms in her stomach; and having medicines to take frequent ly in the night for her cough, burned a rush-light, which waspleced on Tues Joy evening, as usual, when the family retired to bed, in a large wash hand bason on its stand, in a corner of the room. About half past three o'olock, yesterday morning, Mr. J. Starr was awakened from his sleep by the violent screams of Mrs. Freeman in the room below; he jumped up, and ran down stairs with only his shirt on ; hut having smelled any smoke, or appearance of fit e, and thinking old Mrs. Freeman, who was nearly el years of age, to be only taken suddenly unwell, as has feequently two or three times in a week before been the case, and she has screamed out in the same way, he did not think of Alarming the servant girl. On arriving at the bottom of the garret stairs, he SAW Mrs. Freeman on the landing place, in her shift, standing and screaming; the doors into her bed-room, and into the dining-room, were standing open ; he then discovered the cause of her screams ; the paper and wainscoat of her room, towards where her candle and medicines usually stood, were in flames. Thinking that Mrs. Freeman, who was not at aU infirm for her age, could easily follow him down stairs, lie ran down to awake his mother and brother, which he effeled with some difficulty, by literally pulling them out of bed. Mr. John Storr then ran down stairs iato the kitchen below the shop, and drew a pail of wa ter, thinking by that means he could extinguish the flames ; in the dark, however, he overthrew the pail; then giving up this thought, he hastened to the street door, and with some difficulty, by !cud calli g, alarmed the watchman, whose stand was not many doors from opposite, he being an infirm old man with a wooden kg ; by this time, poor Mrs. Freeman, instead of coming down stairs, had gone into the dining-room, thrown up the sash, and WAS screaming as loud as possible at the window. Mr. John S. urn in haste to the Coach and Horses in New Palace Yard (which is a watering-heuse for Hackney coaches, and kerpsopen all nigh:), and reqnested then to take in /is mother, whose house WAS on fire. On returning with all speed, and still in his shirt only, to the Titmice, fie found a watchman and a patrole in the shop, and his mother in her bed-room one pair, attempting to dress herself; hut unable .o do it, her hands were so burned, lie spoke in haste to a watchman and patrole, who followed him up stairs, to go up the neat stairs, and secure the old lady, who WAS there with the girls; and in stantly carried off his mother on his shoulders, to the Coach and Horses. In going out at the door, they had the heart-rending misfortune to see one of the poor servant girls laying on the pavement, ap parently dashed to pieces ; and the other, at the same instant, fell close to them, from the garret window, a height of near 40 feet ; fortunately, a watchman, who saw the last girl, Mills, jump from the window, was aid: a little to break her fall. It appears, that as soon as Mrs. Store had recovered from the first shock of being suddenly waked, she ran up stairs, SAW Mrs. Freeman's door open, and the room in flames; but, looking in, sow nothing of Mrs. F. and concluded she must have gone down ; she proceeded some steps up the garret stairs, and called out as loud AS possible to the girls by name, desiring them to come down immediately; the smoke had colleited thick en the garret stairs, and she heard, after several times calling, that the girls Answered and said, . 4 We cannot conic down." Mrs. S. continued calling on the garret stairs, till the flames burst out of Mrs. Freeman's room, and ter ribly burned her hand, at the same time catching her eye-brows and hair, and setting fire to the halus tres of the stairs. She therefore returned to her room, and was soon after carried out in her shift only by her youngest son, as before•mentioned. In the mean time, the eldest son, who is very deaf, had partly dressed himself, and had carried up a pail of water, and threw it into the Hanks in Sirs. F.'s room ; but, finding it of no avail, and not seeing Mrs. F. he soon after left the house. Tile house being very old, built of vireo!, and the rooms papered, the flames quickly communicated through the ceiling, obliquely to the front garret, which sic cesioned Aim Tobbey to take the desperate resoll tion of jumping out of the window into the street, as the only way of escaping the flames, there being no parapet, or trap-door in the roof. By this time, not more than two or three persons were collea ed in the street, viz. Mr. Steward, hatter, of King street. and Benjamin Timbrell, of New Tothill street, and Will Goodenough, patroles ; and her fall could not be any way assisted. Six or seven mi. nutes elapsed, and the flames aftually reached the other girl, Elizabeth Mills, anJ dreadfully burned her arm, before she miatered resolution enough to follow the desperate course which her companion had set. In a few instants, the neighbour's rif the opposite houses, alarmed by Mrs. Freeman's piteous cries, discovered the flames spree ling into the din ing-I:oiler, in the two pair, and approach her ; and, hoe rid to relate, first to seize on her night-cap, and, at length, ow her shift, as she stood screamsng be fore the open window, with her arms and hands ex tended, in vela imploring assistance, for there were no ladders et hand, till at length she sunk into die flames ! A zoore.shocking and peinful death cannot be conceived, suffocation not happening, as is mostly the case in such dreadful crises, to alleviate . the ex tremity of suffering, muting to the draft of air from the window ; hut, .he was literally burned to death! The humanity of the by-st..nders soon conveyed Ann • l'obbey,who was in her shift only, to Mr. I lanbary's, the surgeon, in King's -street, on a bed, where she continued for two or three hours, her sk all being supposed fraaured (from having fallen on her lett temple), and her thigh. and other limbs, to be bi °ken : we are happy, however, to add, that, on her wounds being examined and dressed by Mr. Ilanbury, and by the more minute examination of the surgeons of the IVestminster Infirmary, after her removal thither, that no bones appear broken or fraaured, although wounded in the temple, the side, and several places, and that her recovery may be expeded ; especially, as s he h as h er senses , an d has since asked fur foot!. 4lizabeth Mills, the other unfortunate girl. was not so much hurt by her fill, as to be disabled to walk with assistance to the work house, in Dean -street, and thence to her father's house, where Mr. Hanbury attended her, and she appears to have no bones broken, and is, probably, in no danger, except of the loss of the use of her arm, from the burn. The alarm of file spread through Westminster In a few minutes after it appeared, an.: a very Tensed able muster of the St. Margaret and St. Johu's Vo lunteers was made in Union -street, before even the Alarm could be beat round. Major Jones, Captains • Fearnside, Griffin, Sanders, Clapham, and others of the officers of this respeClable corps, attended. Some Privates of the Royal Westminster, also, who live near the spot, were early in their attendance ; • and a party of the Prince of Wales's Volunteer% under Major Craig, arrived in a very short time. Too much praise cannot possibly be given to the Gentlemen abovementioned, for their laudable and strenuous exert ons for preserving the rives and pro- °' perry of the sufferers, and particularly in keeping of the press of spectators from impeding the exec. tions of the fire engines, and persons employed in moving goods, which the alarm occasioned the owners to do in nearly the whole of Union -street, owing to the combustible nature of the mate-tit:sof the houses, and the wantof party walls. The first engine which arrived, was the St Joh.t's parish engine at a quarter before four o'clock ; the British Office en gine arrived, and plenty of others shortly after: no water was however to be had, fur a long time. Mrs. Storr's h ouse b e i ng near l y d estroyed, and the ' next bouse,belongin .4 to Mr. Godfree,an uph,:lsrerer, at the corner of New Palace-yard, was COMpletely on fire. Water was at length procured in plenty, and the engines played with great effecl, and pre. vented the destration of Mr. Windsor's home, boot maker, on the west side, which, notwithstauding a party wall, had caught by means of its wood and plaster front. The premises of Mr. Edzard, painter, on the opposite side the street, was much scorched, • and the windows horst open. Some houses, back. wards were also slightly damaged. Before five o'clock, the flames were got under, and soon after entirely extinguished. The wind being most for tunately still at the time, although it ruse soon after to a brisk gale. About nine o'clock, the firemen being able to ap proach the ruins, the remains of poor Mrs. Freeman were dog out, reduced to a mere ciader, which were conveyed in a shell to the work-house in Dean street, where the Coroner's Inquest is to be held. Guildhall, in King -street, was opened on the last alarm, and formed an excellent and sate depot tot the goods of the alarmed neighbourhood ; untortu uately, scarcely an article was saved from Ades. Stores (who is inader i ttatel, insured), except their books and money, which were in an iron c: est in the shop. Mr. Godfree saved a consiierabl.: part of his furniture and stock, though his house was entirely consumed. Dispatches were received on Tuesday from Ad miral THOR a sotot:0;1, off the I exel, d.itcd on board the Eaes, of 74 guns, the 45th ult. The Princess of Oranze, Capt. Rooms, had joined his squadron. The following is the present state of the enemy's force in the Tete', viz. five ships of the line, and one ship of 24 guns. Coming from Amsterdam, and down as far as the Pampus, one large frigate, lately launched. The number of transp.rts his di minished lately ; no more than 93 Arc now v Some of our ships of war have been for a long ti.ne on the North Coast, watching the operations of the enemy in the ports of Holland. Owing to the great perseverance of Capt. Ilse% of the Dermre, that ship has been able to keep in the stormy Nltth Sea for more than eight mo iths, without being once iss port during all that period. On Thursday night last three sol tiers brake into the garden of Mr. Ct.AR K r, near the North-gat es,l'ar mouth, who surprised them. When they attempted to make off, he desired them to stop, or he wow.' shoot them; to which one replied. " Shoot, and be d•—n'd." Mr. C. immediately fired a fowling-piece, loaded with small shot, which entered the sold•er's body, and wounded him in so dreadful a manner that he died a few hours after. The other two made their escape. • - -r • A considerable alarm was occasioned a few days ago, by a most tremendous fire on the premises of Fuca AGEII, widow, near Chttbam Lines (which was by many supposed to have been one of the tire beacons) : four large barns with all their contents were immediately consumed. This unfor tunate catastrophe was effeCted by a person charging a fowling piece, the wadding of which lodeed on the thatched roof of one of the barns. The Ticket 10,234, drawn yesterday a Prize of 10,0001. was sold in One Quarter, One F.i3hth, and Ten Sixteenth Shares, at Bisit's Offices, No. 4. Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing-cross, where dse Ticket ..t0,724, drawn a Prize of 1,0001. on Satnr day last. was also sold and regist-rei.—The For tunate Holders may receive their nroney on demand, at either of the above Offices, wi.ere Tickets and Shares will continue on sale, warranted undriwn, until Saturday morning. nine o'clock, when the Fourth Day's Drawing will begin. lhe very moderate charge tor 'rickets and Shares, in the present State-Lottery, is irresistible. Thr.... who never ventured in a Lottery cannot refrain from indulging themselves in the presort gr..nd Wheel. 1 excitement is incomparable real chance truly beneficial. 9 Nixes of ti I of 1;i0,000,—.; 44 15.000, &c. The Day's [hawing will be on Saturday next. Tickets and Shares, r.arrarted andreirn, at liots,sr & Co.'s, :ti, ¶ tile. Anal the A i .C20.00' ...... . i le P . ourcla. !.. • . , sue se46 Fn. J 6, Mt, etli no. War