The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1804-05-24 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TN I'ELLIGENCE, RECEIVED BY EXPRESS. spatches were received at a late hour last night, !I state, that the Ministerial Fleet, under the tnand of the Right Honourable WILLIAM Admiral of the Fellow, were left yesterday Jr o'clock, P. M. in sight of the enemy's Corn ! Fleet, under the command of Admiral Fox, hat an engagement w• , considered inevitable. Combined Forces were drawn up in line of in 5 division , , ir. the following order : s DITtSIOI.4. Guns. D opmene Stoprd 74 Capt. tower. Corii4 74 Capt Howard. Spencer 74 Cwt. Spencer. Bestreerog4 ....74 Capt. Tonionbr. b„ fdk 74 Capt J. How. c a. Woburn 74 Capt. Rusaell. vuin.,s( 64 Capt. Sigh. .CONTIE DIVISION. Guns. C. Fox, Admiral of she St Anne 120 Slue, Commander in Chief. Capt Francis. Capt. Adair. Poioaden ieo i R.R.Sheridan, Vice Admiral ' of the Red. as, ie .• S 4 Capt, Grey. Isedlo.l 74 CAM Wirtbrad. roe Cat/ e Norwich 74 Capt. Smith. Mirieteses... 74 Capt. Burdett. SEAR DIVISION. Guns 5 W. Windham, Relr-Adrni ' * Mawes '••• ****** "" 1 ral of t h e Red. Asibiusuder - 4 Capt. Grenvile. Lumbermo '4 Gip'. Laurence. Grervilm 74 Caps. Temple. reterbeeous), 64 Capt. Elliott. !wades founeell thgatet, eight kis:, and bomb., lectchas. t:. innumerable. As the force under Admiral PITT • was greatly inferior in number and weight of metal, the conse come of a general engagement was looked to by every Officer in the fleet with fearful anxiety. In deed it was the general opi:sion that the Admiral would give the signal to disperse, rather than risque &battle with so inferior a force. The great hope was, that, by some judicious manoeuvring, he may besible to delay a general alion, until he shall re ceive some reinforcements. We understand he is also la expettation that a mutiny may break out in the raemy's fleet, thecrews of v.-.rich, from old jealou sies and heart-burnings, he flatters himself, cannot bog aft with concert and cordiality together. Oa the other hand, one of the crew of the Hatuicibury, who lately deserted from the combined fleet, anJ boded at Liverpool, reports that the enemy are in the most complete condition, and that the best disci pline prevails among the crews. He adds, that dug had cleared their decks for several days past, sere ready more attioti, arid ieterrys4ied to avail themselves of the first opportunity of bowling, to which system they seemed uncommonly partial; and that they had laid in an immense store of pro visions, with Which they were supplied from S r AF FORD, CARLISLE, NOKFOLII, DZIIIIY, SUFFOLK, &c. Even the common sailors had refused grog. sad drank nothing but wine. The St. Anne is the same vessel that, in the American war, engaged the Lard Mrth, and blew bee out of the water. In the late war she frequently exchanged broadsides with the Premier, command. ed by Admiral PITT. In the last engagement with that vessel, the St. drone had her stern beaten in, her rigging all shot away, and was obliged to met and run. She has since undergone an entire repair ; has had all her seams caulked, and is now considered ts good as nem. The St. Amer was built upon a Dutch model, and is very broad across the beams. The Posassden is also a crack ship in the enemy's &et. Although a first-rate, and carrying as heavy metal as the St. /tine, she can, with a light breeze, outsail the lightest and swiftest frigate. She is generally the headmost ship in a storm, and carries a lanthora in her poop. • The St. Mews, with her whole crew, was taken is the present war by the St. .dam, in company with ifsirse and Bedford. She carries very weighty metal, aai also an unusual quantity of small arms ; consisting of dirks, daggers, and other sharp iustru meats, pop guns, Scc. The Ss. Mawu is not remarka ble for precision in firing. A readout shot from her, i I the late war, nearly sunk the Press/rt., which was ILe headmost vessel in the same live. The dispatches, to which we allude, also con• t.i;aed an account of the proceedings of the feet, under the command of Admiral Purr, trona the qth to the 1,36, extraded trum the log•book of the P•rnutr. followir.g letters were Alan received at the ante time : v , pr Ma Letter from G. tote, to tits RIM lion W. Pat, Almir,i the Yetiow, Cotameanate .tr .it.. demi Pairmaszer. at Sta. SIR, Agree&We to ord-i., I rontino^4 ts , th Hi. 11/11)e.tft ship ua ctr toy command, cru•-nig :n deg ow, North latitude, be le nest Cottlesi,Bay and ilia T•sousey Civek, without mooing Ir.! thing worth piek!ng np. Ist: the tno:atr.‘ ortbe 140, a n:ange ssii hove iu sight. Froth her mike, 11 took het to tie' •3" estiii ?PIM ,f Dutch Esst foilisman ; she ant S 4 deeply laden, as to appear to oe sicking. I crowded all the tail I cowld, and, opera coming u:s with h-r, she proved to be the enemy's ship Badger, laden with stores and provi-ion; of 41 kind, for a whole year for the enemy's fret I immediately took her in tow, being appre• sive, if left to herself, she might go to the bottom, from the et cessive weight of her cargo. Extract of a 'Letter from G. Canning, dated on board the Trenfurer, in Navy Bay, on the 14th, 2 r. w. SIR, Several strange sail appearing in the Offing, I immediately gave chace, making signal at the same time for the rest of the squadron to folios., which ord!r, I am concerned to say, was nut obeyed. lipuir coinin4 up,l found mys9l, uoexpectedly, in the midst of the enemy's fleet. The St. Ant, the Potimsden, and the Dropmiare, the headmost shins, all three d..ekers, im mediately bore 'down upon me r unable to cope with such a superior force, 1 immediately struck, and the enemy took pos se:sign of the Treasurer. In justice to them, I must say, th treated me with great politeness. We sai:ed in company fir three days, during which time, I contrived to persuade the Captain of the DreptAire, that myself and crew were ready to G;lst upon hi: side. The whole squadron fired a dicharg of - 21 gulls, in demonstration of their lay, and the Tre.l4, er was no longer watched, or ordered to keep under the lee quart••i of the Drormore, her former station. The Treasurer being thus, as it were, left to herself, on Saturday night, 1 began to repair some damage the yeasel l e ad received in tier bucsprit, ill consequence of having run foul of the Premier, when at moor ins in Dover Roads. This gave me All oppo.tu• its to fall hind, without incurring suspicion, until the rest of the fleet had shot greatly a-head, with a fine brisk wind I then crowded all the sail I could, and shaped my course to join toe fleet under your command. The Sr. dune , I !resume, was the first vessel that suspetted my intention;for the moment] hoisted. the Navy Jack at my top.mast.hcad ; she opened a tremendous fireirom Iter stem ehacer, which mast have biown me to pieces, had I not been three leagues off. The enemy's lee; I sup pose, ha•l some more important object in view, as they took tin farther notice of my escape. While with them, I attempted once or twice to take a peep at their book of ...goals, but with out effect. A neutral fleet of observation, under Comm.). dc.e ADDINGTON, has put to and was left watching the motions of the two hostile squadrons Great apprehensions were, however, entertained, that in the event of an engagement, the Commodore would side with the viAor. The Cemmodore's ship is pierced for 40 guns, but cArries only eighteen 12-pounders and a few s%;ivels. The rest of his •quadron consists of sloops and gun , brigs, with slily.: keels, and are badly mann'd. GIBRALTAR, Arita U. The gp4ie ilnnp of war arrived here on the 7th, from Lord Nelson's fleet off Toulon, which she left or. the 26th salt consisting of nine sail of the line, all well. The Maidstone arrived to-day from Mogadore, where she had been sent with a surgeon from this to :he Emperor of Morocco. APRIL 20. Yesterday the Lerint.3aw, with the iln:d er. .Ic4ercn, and .Etna, bomb ketches. with a convoy of sev-My.two mail for this place and Malta, arrived here b ten Jays, from Pc.rtsmouth. CIDI7, Aran 16. It is confidently rerrted, that Bonaparte has demanded eight m:llions of dollars, in addition to the subsidy originally stipulated for our neuttality, And that the request his been made in the most urgrat and !Xrratuang terms, as indispensibly ne cessary to enable him to pay the army destined for the invasion of England. We are unfortunately between two mill -stones, -.chich will crush us et last ! A few days ago a serious affray took' place be. tween a boat's crew belonging to an English frigate, and a boat's crew of the French line of battle ship L'Asgle, lying here, while they were it the landing place. The quarrel began about politics, and as the debate warmed, from words they soon came to blows. 'the numbers were nearly 'Taal, but most of the French were armed with sabres; the tnglish seamen had no weapons .but the boat's stretchers and their cars, with which, hnwrver, they in a few minutes contrited to beat nut the brains of the French officer and two of his men, aid drove the remainder cver board with the luss of one man killed, and a few slightly liur. NVe have the pleasure to announce the arrival of the hnir.eward-bound Jamaica fleet, off Cape Gear. Sevrra; of the ship bouni to Liverpool are arrived, and the remainder may be expelled every hour. The Telma, from De:narara, is aerieetl at Liverpool, last from BarbaJoe', which place she left abdut the 23d of April ; the expoiltioo Was then 6iting out with all possible dispatch, and teas expelled to sail from that place about the 7th instant. against Suri nam, where there are about 83') soldiers, and one frigate, besides smaller ships. After the ralullion of Sui ;Hans, it was supposed our fleet would pi n eeed against Cayenne, where there are 5)0 soldiers, commanded by Vii...roa ['he Russian Charge d'A dales at Paris, it is said. WAS dressed in deep mitt:ming, when he delivered the Rernonsaanogot his Mager against the violat;on of the territory of Baden, and the murder of the Duke D'Esoiti IN. The fiLowint Whalen arrived a: &. Helena, as undermentioned the See-Asne, on the 17th of March, bound to the Brazils; the Here on the leth. a prize, bound to landau ; the air toss on the 19th, And the Pee.* on the OM, for Landon.. The Dona, Capt. Haul Lion, for Hocum, and the Km; Grorre, Cipt. SACIMILOS. for Got:enburg, sailed yesterday from Harwich, with the Mails of the astli and a few passengers. Mr. LOVIS, hi+ Lady and family, came porien ters in the Earl Hew, from Bombay, after a resi dence of twenty-two years. He is brother to Rear- Admiral LOIIIII,OOW in the North Seas. _ _ Monday rnosising au she halals of the kyr East loodiansen arrived Plytnouti. sem passed CI them. and sent on board the Adougars ship tut tits tribut;.n in Cs/ fleet. LAW :E. COURT OF KIN ,N BENCH, WasTMINSTLII, MIT 29. Sittings before Lard ELLEPIDOROUGH and a Special DOE, ON THE DEMISE OF DIOIST, V. NAWKINS AND 07 II E RS. This was an eje&rnentbrought upon the title. The Plaintiff claimed a right to certain land and premises demised to him, as being situate in the hamlet of Mile-End Newtown, in the parish of Stepney ; the Defendants held the same premises for some years past, as tenants deriving under the parish of Whitechapel. Th e q uest i on for the Jury was, to which of the parishes the premises in que. don belonged ? Several witnesses were called on the part of the Plaintiff, most of them very old men, who proved that the premises in question had always been considered as within the hamlet of Mile-End Newtown, and parish of Stepney ; that in perambulating that psirish those premises were always included ; and have always, till within these four or five years last past, paid the land tax and poors rates to that parish. Mr. GI has, on the part of the Defendants, went into a very long and arduous statement, to prove the premises as belonging to the parish of White Chapel; but failing to support his statement by sufficient evidence, the Jury found a verdiel for the DEFAMATION. ♦IN{LIE V. GISIONS. This was an atSion brought by the Plaintiff against the Defendant, Sir William Gibbons, Bart. for slanderous words si:oken by him. Mr. Eitsic IN E was proceedin* to state the P:ai:t. tiff's case, with his usual aliihty and eloquence, when he was interrupted by Mr. Glans; on the part of the Defendant, who had authorised him to consent that a verklift should be taken for the Plaintiff, in any sum he might think proper. The whole busi ness, he observed, was a mistake, and a misconcep• tion in a person who had carried a message from one of the party to the other. Lord ELL EN ISOROCGH observed, that as the De fendant admitted the injury he had done the Plain tiff, in a handsome and most proper manner, and had made every reparation in his power, the Jury therefore could no; hesitate on what verdift they should find ; they accordingly found a verdict of 101. for the Plaintiff. ItSGISART D. WOODS. The PLtintiff, in this case, seas a carver and gilder, and had been employed by the Defendant to make some gilt ornaments for two figures. Ile figures had remained fur some time with the Plain tiff; and when he had the ornaments almost finished, the Defendant came and carried the figures away with him; by so doing, he prevented the work from being completed The work was proved to be done in a workmanlike manner, and reasonably worth the price charged for it ; and the only quection for the Jury was, whether the Plaintiff had used reason able dispatch in the execution of the work ? The Jury, after consulting for some time, withdrew, and, on their return, round a verdict for the Defendant. DUBLIN, MAr I. EREACH OF PRuldiSF. OF MARRIAGE . tITZGERALD V. HAWIESVORTI4. Yesterday in the King's Bench, a verdWt for 25001. and tad. costs, Was given far the Plaintiff against the Defendant. Few trials at 11 tai Przus have more engaged the public attention, or excited an higher degree of interest ; and whether we con sider the nature of the aaion, the porticn of time it occupied ? or the celebrity of at least one of the parties, it was eminently calculated to call forth much curiosity. The trial lasted three days, from Tuesday morning till late on Thursday evening. The Defendant is a young clergyman, Who has figured as a preacher in most of the churches of this metropolis within the last five years, and whom his admirers consider as scarcely inferior to Kirwan himself. In the year 1794, Mr. Hawksworth, being then in his twentieth year, and ott the point of taking his degree in College, became attached to Miss Fitzgerald, who was then scarce sixteen. This young lady was the daughter of a tespeaable officer. who had retired from the service with much honour, but no great share of wealth, ana had fixed his residence in Castletown, a beautiful vil lage in the neighbourhood of Mountrath, in the Queen's County. Mr. Hawksworth soon gained her affeaions ; bat still be was not satisfied, as his father was an enemy to early marriages, and, of course, an immediate union was impossible. Time or accident, he apprehended, might defeat his hopes, or a parent's authority consign her to the arms of another. In his letters, therefore, he urged her with all the ardour of a doating lover to enter into a solemn engagement never to marry any bat him ; and to encourar her to make this vow, he called upon his God to forsake him when he forsook her. These letters were read in evidence; and though they exhibited no very finished specimens of epistolary elegance, they seemed, at least, to flow from the bean, and were not 111 adapted to make an impression on a girl of sixteen : at ler.gth they made that, and thes the conneaion continued until the year 1802. Meanwhile Mr. Hawksworth had been ordained, had become r ,:upnlar preacher, and was much In:lowed. la January 1802, he called on a Mrs. Palmer, a particular friend of Miss Fitzgerald, and after some preliminary conversation, be told her he was ready to fulfil 44J figireilleXt with Miss Fitzgerald, if her friends would give her 10001. and begged she would communicate his intention to them. Mrs Palmer delivered the message. A council of war was summoned. Captain Fitzge rald, the father, agreed to give four hundred pounds ; the uncle, also an old officer, agreed to gin two hundred; and the brother to the 'Portal; lady. who was then serving with hi s reg i ment in Malta, upon being written to, immediately pro mised to add the remaining 4001. out of the ho nourable earnings of his profession; and though he was then actually in treaty tor a Majority, lie chear fully posponed his own promotion to the happiness of a beloved sister—be did more, he came to Ire land to be a witness of that happiness. Hawks► worth seemed delighted with his arrival, every thing was settled. the wedding cloaths prepared, a special licence procured, and even the ring purchased. Mr. Hawksworth and young Captain Fitzger ald went dOwn to the country on Friday, the neat day. ' Saturday, was to be the happy day ; when to ! in stead of the bridegroom• a iellei dons was delivered to the company at Castletowyt, begging to be ex cused, as be was obliged to ge from home on pecu niary business. From this period, until the Affirm WAS brought, the interval WA< filled with evasion ; the torch of love seemed completely extinguished, and the visions of his early days to have vanished for ever. The action was then brought, and, the verdict 25001. Ls commensurate with his property. The f,,llowing fatal accident took place, a few days ago, at Baitinglass, in the county of Wicklow: Captain Corry, of the Militia, WAS last Septenilser out rebel hunting there, and had with him a case of screw barrelled steel pistols. One of them he lost, and after some time it was found, but in so rusty a stati it could net be unscrewed, and the powder so damp, it Could not be discharged ' • however, it was thought every precaution h a d been taken by pick ing the powder out of the touch•hnie, and froM that time, it became A standing jest to snap the p!stol at diff er e n t persons without effeEt.— A few days since, an F..nsi?, , n in the Regiment, son • of the Conimander, and the most intimate friend of Captain Corry, presented the pistol at his. when it went off. and lodged the contents in the lungs of the , Captain, who languished till the next day, and died in great torture, in the 23d year of his age, univer sally lamented. This morning the following Regiments and Corps of Surrey Volunteers will march to Hyde , Park, to be inspected and otigaded together by fie neral the Earl of Hata:ninon : The Surrey Regiment. Lt.-Col. Oa • I.•nal 11 , n:thwart •••, .• e,••••• it -C.," Loyel Lambeth • ed. Unwire. Chnstchurh •••• ?A aim' Tee 0 ChM. S'. SatiOuel. Major putt. St. John's Rutherbithe Mega, IV•Ils. f:atusin Sh•w. A Rifle Corps attached to the Z Dahl*. let Surrey Regiment It k understood some other Corps are to join than Geosoe Hotronn, Esq is appointed Secretary to the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs ol" India, in the room of BENJAMIN Hosisocse, Esq. who retires. His Maierry has been graciously pleased to re store to their rank of Commanders in the Navy, C. B. JONES and W. JENNINGS, EAT'S. from which they had been dismissed by the ser.tences of Court Manials. The suceessor of Admiral PATTEN, on the Downs station, is nut appointed. We understand that in March lan a most tre mendous surf was experienced off the South side or 11 the Island of St. Helena, which did considerable . damafe to the wharf, and broke in the South gate. • General La Salle, Chief of the 4th Regiment of i t Veterans, has called upon his officers and men to sign with him an address to the First Consul, pray ing him to assume the Imperial dignity, and to. make it hereditary in his family. "I he departments, says he. the armies, &c. all desire the hereditary sovereignty in the family of the Dees-dyene, «tear reiriged du fed." The Grand Judge has ordered that every finreigner who enters France, is in future to ante down in a book, deposited for that purpose in each frontier town, not only his name, bat the deeeription of his own person i and when hearrives at Pans, be is to write it over again, and both writings are to be corn• pared before he obtains permission to reside there. The adventurer Nlnntreillard, who lately wrote* pamphlet against Pichegru and Moreau, has pub lishedanother in honour of Bonaparte, called, "Prone( Ender the Government of ameparte." By the Book sellers in the Palais Royal alone have been published, within twelve days, two hundred pamphlets, in fa vour of an hereditary Imperial Dignity, in the Bo naparte family. Lucien Bonaparte passed, on the 21-t ult. thresgh Genoa, for Rome. He is erpeofted at Parma. where rent preparations are made for tts reception. He is to be invested with the Sovereignty of Parma and Placentia, under the Sovereignty of the Emperor of the French, as these Duchies are regarded as French Departrnents.—( Crieren Franca.) Several emigrants not inculpated in the late een spiracy, have been permitted to reside at Ratisbon. At Frankfort, a new severe regulation has been made against all French emigrants. Every person who discovers the residence in that city of a French emigrant. receives a reward from the Magistrates. and every inhabitant who lodges an emigrant, skull pay a fine of twenty dollars. Domiciliary visits will now take place in this Imperial city, as often as in the French towns. fhe duty of the Magistrates, and the safety of the inhabitants require, that all means to offend the Trench Government should be avoided.--( Gazette de teener). The marches and counter-marches of our troops from France to Holland, and from Holland to Han over. and vice verve, continue to confound the spe. culeions of one politicians, and this ebjett of Go. yernment is therefore obtained. The fair r.t Leipzig has been prolonged hr the order of the Elea°, of Saxony, for four days, in ex. pettation of the arrival of English goods. Whea shall the time come, that the Loothaent w.ll despise as much English ptodutti , ns as it already detests English politics ?—(Juursal Jr Conwnterre ) As some children were playing, one of their fell into the New River, near Hertford; the cries of the rest alarmed the neighbours, when two women ran to its assistance : the first plunged in, but. being out of her depth, she unfortu lately sank ; a man recolleCting there was a long pole with a hook at a neighbour's, went for it, and after some time brought up both woman and child, to all appearance d-ad. The gratuitous delivery of the Lo..tsuri HUMANC Some les plan was providentially employed with success—an only child, in about half an hour, was restored to its fond parents; and the ssoman, who had been deprived of life in her humane efforts to preserve an unknown child, was happily resuscitated, to the great joy of the spectators and her numerous family. There are rh, 4iories• worik Pnremt of Gesii. DWIDEND AT GUILLAIALL. TO. Moll•ol. X Thomas Sitkitt, Flt , ckwall, TOW il.o d 1 Htrts, vtrtztalle: t