The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-01-16 00:00:00

• . TLE OF TRAFALG.II2. L.4IT w- - ~. _ _ Rona f railmr. ------ esterday 'morning, early, Their MAJILV, PRISCIASEI left Windsor for own: li, v stopped at Kew. and walked in the gar; e l ided by Mr. Pia.owe and Mr. MON r ',cur., and ed is the Palace, er MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES arrived at the' rev's Palace, about twelve o'clock.' The Dukes Keer and CUMBERLA No were in waiting to re e their ROY AL Mot :Ist and Sti`rEps. The tkes of Yoak, Susses., and CAMBRIDGE, after rds paid their respels, and dined. ' His MAJERrr, attended by his German footmen, rived at the QUEEN'S Palace a little before five. Ia the evening, Their Maieseress had a seleCt rty. His MRJ: - .st Y will hold a Council, to-day, at two clook. The ROY AL FAMILY will return to Windsor, Monday. Lord Homage left town yesterday, for Bath. Lady Ha a rwoon arrived, last Tuesday. at her ouse, p or tm a n.quare, from Sunning,-hill, Berks. Mrs Lisatriaosix will have a juvenile ball, next 'Monday, at her house, Portman-square. The Duke and Duchess of BRovosin are expefted to-morrow, from* Wobm n Abbe - ... The Marquis of HERTIORD arrived, last week, at his star, Ragley, Warwicksha - e, from Ireland ; and yesterd sy his Lorktship and family came to their hoarse, in Manchester-square, for the winter. The Earl of CA any; AS will give a grand dinner to-morrow to Lord Gr AfIOMOVIIY, General Bo sirs, and several other Nobility, at his house, Gros venor-street. Th • Marquis of STIRITOAD arrived yesterday at [ his house, White Hall, from Trentham Hall, Staf-- fordthire. The Hon. Mrs. BROORIANK arrived yesterday, at her house, Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from Brighton. The Duchess of &arrow - L . will give a grand ball, in a few days, at her beautiful seat, at Ban:- mimeo, Gloucestershire, at which will be present, 1 1 the-Earl and Countess of B•TMURST, Lord EDWARD Sommer, and all the Gloucestershire Nohltty. The Earl of Motes left town yesterday morning, at four o'clock, for Edinburgh. A M. S stir a, of the Manchester Theatre, is said to 4ros-ess one of the finest tenor voice 3 ever hear I ; he is a pupil of Mr. Astit.ey's, and last (xorn the Livotpool Theatre. Savor'. %Tut (BREAD, Esq. M.P. will arrive in town to-morrow, at his house in Dover-street, from his seat at Southill. Tomorrow there will be a grand hall at Leeds, in honour of Her MAJESTY'S birth-day. A Mr. Salrage was lately declared bankrupt. Mr. Ciril was the petitioning creditor, and Mr. Piayfor, the attorney to the commission. Lord, Irtli:coaave will give a grand dinner next Saturday-, in honour of Her Maiasrv's birth-day, M all' tbe Forkign Ambassadors, at his house, in . Harley-street. ' JobuG. I loerwooo, Esq and his La ly, arrived yesterday at Largo's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Bath. Lord RIVERS arrived yesterday at NRROT'S Hotel. from Hampshire. , - The:amounts from Viscount MILTON continued yesterday 'to be favourable. Th. Earl and Countess of Maw) ILCISJCIII arrived, en Mcindaiy list. at their bouse, Dover-Erect, from l'i4er" Park; Yorkshire., ..tethicr - _ ""'r Sir JOHN 11AWIlpei arrived yesterday, at Du *ANT 'S llotll, from his seat, at Borough Halt, in Ycrikstire. •- 1 • Colonel H Ciritbtrarrived on saturday, at bis house, - -Cravonssuaet, from his seat in Lancashire. Mrs. Sissa.v is arrived at her house in York Place, fown her beautiful seat at Ackworth Park, Yorkshire. Sir itSOON, WATSON and a large party were at the German Theatre last night, and expressed much pisasure at'tht entertainments. Pawl-a drew a crowded house to Covent Garden Theatre last night. nn n ew•yeai's eve, the Rev. br. THORP!, of Antis's, Yorkehi.e distributed two peeks of corn to each poor family and widow , in that place. • Wpillt - the London papers announce th e Countess of eA terforming L.,dy Rac4r , to admiration at Eisomora Theatricals the Dublin papers announce the Noble Earl as receiving from the Dublin Socie ty a prerreinto of two hundred guineas and a gold medal, for the extensive plantations, of timber trees mail,e. by his Lordship on part of his estate near Cabin • Chichester has been unusually gr this Christmas. % AY, Fienner 's concert was graced, by almost all the and fashion of the town aodmei6hbourhood. ,amtet the 'compeny were , th e Right Rev. the swiss. Bisitor. Lord Eow seri and Lady Scl . TASSSCT. Sir J. Cotenvs, K. D &c. The per formance, which included a grand seleCtion from . . Tie 3firriii, WAS received with grit applause. On Monday sennight was ran over Skiptun Ingo, Yorkshire, a match for 50 guineas, between Mr. TIPPING/IS brown horse, Captatn Rauh, and Mr. T. Mason's brown mare Garrort Jeans , WhiCh WAS WON easy by the former.—Rode by he respeetive o owners. I. .•s Yesterday, the remains of Mr. WiLIIIISON. raer :•°'-• chant, of Wood -s t reet, Cheapside, were interred R with funeral pomp , in th e Church of St. Matthew, Fritla y.street. The Procession consisted of ahearse and six, three mourning coaches and four, filled with the relations And domestics of the deceased, and a lnntrain of carriages bel nn g ;n g to private friends. r flie deceased is deeply regretted in the City, where he hore an amiable chareCter. A lit-site, with the remains of Mrs. Derv, Lady of Colonel Derr, of the Guards, passed through Rory St. Ecfmtind'son Friday, from Edinburgh, to its way for Ifelmingham church, in Suffolk, there to be depo.ited. till the magnificent mausoleum at Doff-home, the seat of the FAIL of Fire, in Scot land, is finished, where the Coil interment is to take place. —......-- . C )1.711T OF C:IANCEItY, LINo CLN'i INN:, JAN. 15. of a letter ft-nen a Midshinman, U. leis tied *rem VP board. ilia Majesty's siip ! Tills day being the first Soal, his Honour the 64 guns, Spitla, ad t-•-ss I rhall j.nt lay 1 Master of the Rails, in the absence ef the Omn i the sequel of thwaFtion off Cadiz ; I i cellos, sat at ten o'clock, when a few !slotienn of t-L-On nStinday the 20th of Oftoher, ° enistse were disposed of, and bcfore twelve, the saw the Combined fleets cif France and Court rose.. cruising off Cadiz., and we immediately heat To-morrow the Chancellor will sit, and the busi. - : when we cleared our ship for anion, , ness of the Conn proceed as USUAL . remained by our guns all night, and the next . .. .. - . Je. m. _ 15. morning we Bare them chase , and came u p with OLD BAILEY, .. , `hem at eleven o'clock that day ; the enem y con sisting of Sa sail of the line, besides frigates and This day the Sesrions commenced. before the brigs, which Bonaparte had sent to conquer the Right Hon. the Loire, Mayo.:, the LORD CHIEF English fleet, .and not to return to any French or lisaos, Mr. .1 es-rice LAWRENCE, Mr. Jusnict Spanish port again, but to sweep the s^as; Cir ANI WM, the RECORDER, and several A IDEA M liN. for which purpose he had provided a I,w-decker, The calendar, as it stands at prrese s nt, not cont tin we are called the St. le Trinidad , with a g olden broom at ha ppy to say, extremely light. It doe her mast head ; but how greatly she was mistaken, any accusation for murder, or for brut:ll'ly cutting ihe event has proved. The Hooal avert ;ii was the and maiming, whi h Lord Eiienborough's all so first ship in the anion; our noble ship the Africa, wholesomely provides against. The capital charges 64, was the third, and we boldly ran the gauntlet are novnumerons , and those principally for trifling through 14 sail of the French and Spanish line, i burglaries, which, very probably will, on trial, fail when there were three of our ships lay close along- i with respeet to the earital part of the h.dielment. side of the Spanish four decker, and our saucy little' In the London eommiltniems there are but seventeen 64 lay under her stern, raking her fore and aft.— prisoners, and in the Middlesex only fifty-two. We soon dismasted her ; she struck to His Ma- Robert Fletcher was indieled for a highway rob ', jesty's ship Afri:a, and immediately we boarded her, fiery, in stoopiag Margaret (.iondon, potting her in and took her nisr prize. We had .t great many le ir, and taking from. her pelves, a kindle, con killed and wounded. By this time we gut to wind- raining a p sir of sheets, a counterpane, and a 11. ward of all the fleet, and had • tar main-top-sail-yard note, her property. carried away ; and we had the misfortune to hear, Margaret Croydon deposed, that en the 7th of brave Nelson's ship, the riflery, was dismasted. December last, about eleven o'clock at night, she and that gallant hero was killed. We again was going past the end of Gnildfard-street, when a came down to. the fleet, and engaged sevewor eight 1 m m eame.up to her, and, sty:lei. g her on the side of 1 1 sail, and, at last, we fell in with a French 74, called I the head, snatched her bundle from her arms, and the Brusinvick, which engaged us for two hours ran off with it. She called out stop thief; but she and a hall, successive fir mg or. both sides. She could not swear to the person of the man who rob bed one hundred and thrty men killed in forty bed her.. ruirastec, and we had twenty killed, and forty-tw , Sicithel Fisher on the same night was coming wounded. The Orion took the fire off us ; but she down Lamb's Conduit-street, and on hearing the would not strike to any bat us, as we had dist:lastest cry of stop lbirf, observed a man crossing Guild her. She had 900 men on board when she struck ford-street, a•ol coming towards him. As soon as to Os, but the Captain was killed. It is said, b) this person saw him, be turned about, and ran up the priseneos on board of our ship, he intended to Carlisle Place. He pursued him, and saw him sink, smiler than strike to the British 114 g, but they drop a bundle, but having turned tire corner, he lost behaved very well, for we did not take a french or sight of him for a few minutes, and when he 'got to Spanish ship that day, bat what nas dismasted : the top of Carlisle Place, he saw the Prisoner at the it is said, we took 19 sail, bunted two, and sunk Bar, wha had just been sei;ed. He, however, could one. The rest ran away, and the others left us a not say, that the Prisoner was the man he sass run gift for His Majesty's British fLet ; but the rest of ning• our ships that were not disabled, had made sail after Two or three other Witnesses were then called, them, and, I hope, will give them a total defeat. who proved the arrest of the Prisoner, just as he The whole aelioo continued about five hoists and a was turning tins co: nee of Carlisle Place. halt. It was the dreadfullest engagement that ever The Lotto Cits El 13 M 10,4 summed up the evi was seen; risen I saw the heaps of killed and dente, informino the Jury that, though the evidence 1 wounded i ;Mg on the deck, it struck me with terror: was, not at all dire& and positives yet there was the it was a gincious day for them tine lived. Our ship strc:rgest presumption that the Prisoner was the bears a tine name throughout the fleet. The nee: person who committed this robbery, as he bad elite, Admiral Louis cause alongside, and gave us been nut of sight for a few minutes only, and as tiOee cheers. One of our lower-Deck guns hunt, there was no other man running but him. and did great donate; we bad wounded, three The Jary, after a few minutes deliberation, found Midshipmen, hut no Orficers killed ; we lost one him Gut Po. when the Ursiiiasn Corten was, ;Minted for stealing a silver Serjeent of Marines — l was ver y ha ppy alien was over. It eadsd about half-past five bread basket, a silver slop-bason, le silver forks, o'clock in the evening : we were the last ship iii the several spoons, and other articles of plate, the pro atliern. Atter the anion we met with a fool wind, perty of Sinaloa-41s Williarris, widow. and were forced to sink and burn a great many Anna Dutton, a servant of Mrs. Williams, who prizes. We, poor souls, were the worst off, for lives in Welbeck-street, Mary-la-bonne, deposed, we carried away our main-mast ; next our rerun- that, on the 27th December last, the Prisoner came mast ; and, at tour in the rnorniag, out fore-orast• to her mistress's house. &pinked whether she want went, and leit us a complete hulk on the watry ed a servant ? She desired' him to sit asiwn in the main, expelling to sink every minute; we were oblig- hall, and went up stairs td her mistress, who then ed to throw some of our main and quarter-deck called her: When she got asp two-pair of stairs, guns overboard, and we were more alarmed then she looked over the bannisters, and saw the Prisoner than when in the anion It was most dreadful to open the hall door. The parlour door was open, hear the cries of the wounded, with the motion of but she d?d not see him go into it. She west down the ship ; all hands to the pumps, firing signal guns I stairs immediately, but the Prisoner had absconded. of distress all night. Some of our ships bore away, On going into the parlour, she missed a basket, afrala to come near us, all erpetling sneer to set containing the articles of plate already mentioned, our native shore any more, 'till we perceived a ship which that morn i ng she had left there, flaying coming 14)W0 to our assistance, which proved to be alarmed her fellow se rv a nt, h e ran up ga t es , port the Conqueror, 74 guns. She took us' in tow to mod the Prisoner, and (nought back the plate. Gibraltar; but she had a narrow escape of being Witham Fraukfin, on being alarmed by his feta Sag with us. The wind b lowin g hard, she became low servant, pursues! the Priscner, cryiwa 09, stop a wreck, and came right athwart our bows, and Miff. He saw him :calf-way down the street, with carried away dur jiliboorn. We thought she would the basket on his arm, and when he got very' cloie * a ye sunk; but, thank God. nothin g material en- to him, in High-street, a gentler:ne liim n, stoppeci., sued. We cirne to Gibraltar, and got up jury- and the basket fell. The Prisoner was. the con masts, and sailed felt Otd England the 9th of No- veyed to the watch-house, and he carded tile plate weather, witi• a fair wind ." to his mistress. . - - - Mri. 4Villiams. who was an elderly, lady. was MSIMEEMMINCJWIIIe then railed; she seemed much affeeled at giving Tire l'atot. OAKF.!, from Lynn, for .Leith. is her evidence. It merely-want to identity the pro stranded near Dunbar. perty.• She could not speak to the value of the pro . The %anon, Cetveratort, from ‘iverpeol, for Ja- peter; but, it appeared, that a p ar: whic h was p ro- mica, se oat on West Hoyle. duced•in Court, -was worth upwards of 401. The Margaret, M‘Domonott, from Greenock. for Mr. Justice Lawazoce read over the'evide,nee, 1 Liverpool, is lost. and said, he did not think it nocessary'to comment ' The Salty, Au ntsost, from Selby, for .London, is on it. bn shore off Ortordness. The Jon , instantly found him Gui:11 1 . I The Yana (in ballast) buena to London, is burned alatthele Mosson4 was i indieled for stealine three et Leghorn. I plainer figures, bronzed over ; the property of John ' The Master of a neutral vessel, arrived on Tuesday Hamilton. Mr.. Hamilton, a statuary, in Sloane at Harwich. from Holland, states that an Ameri- screen Chelsea. depos ls ed.-ointhat the. Prisoner was er had em caa ship was lost last Satu r d a y ni g ht, near Gatwick, ployed by him as jtheyinan,nev on the Dutch Coast; the crew took to the masts, power to sell goods. 1-le, at different times , missed but therewas no possibility of saving w hom: this 'tartars figures, • and, suspeelihg the Prisoner, ship is supposed to be bound to Rotterdam, from hinted tar him a wish to part, and the Prisoner London, laden with sugar. coffee, rice, add other went away ia'Newembey tast. On the Scl of Jana goods. n . . ary he went te the house,of Mr. Lee. who lives in The whole of the late Lord NELSON'S clothes, Sloane-street, for the purpose of seeing a figure „Fa stores. Sicilian wines, baggage, he. amentating which was in iris possession. The servant woman, to 120 diffetent packages, which have been on board by mistake, brought hitandowa a roslrr's c•fre ;be the /awn, were landed yesterday morning at the knew it to be his property, which he had name time Custom-hortse. lad' we lost, and he asked Mrs. Lee, whether she Admiral Sir E 11611.1“) NAGLE met with an seal- had the fellow to it ? she said she bad, and the dent at St. Paul's, after the interment of Lord set- alder ,was then breaght down, • soo, occasioned by a carria,„oe passinis over his foot Mr. Jusn lc ECO &SI sa s several times asked. 1 , as he was coming out. The gallant Admiral has what he meant by a cuter and his wife? but the been confined to his room in consequence. Prosecutor seemed quite astonished that his Lord- During the funeral procession of Lard Nctsom ship could not understand him. At length the two tip the river on Wednesday last, a lady of the small planter figures, bronzed over, were produced, name of 11 Anse. related to the late Captain Wm- representing a eeblec arid his evifi sitting at work 1.1 A - .I li 1 V NE, who lost his life in the West Indies, The Prosecutor further deposed, that when he under Lord R Orin tar, was so :steeled at the scene, went up stairs to Mr. Lee's drawing-room, he found that she fell into hysterics, and died a taw minutes miserm plaister figure, which he also had after. some time before. On his cross-examination, In the violent storm of snow on the night of he said, that the nisoner never was in partnership Thutrday last, a man perished on the High Moors, with him, and that when they parted, the Prisnoer near Sheffield. His corpse was discovered under a was 201. in his debt. Ile acknowledged, however, snow drift, when the thaw came on. on Saturday. that he had sent him in a bill, in which he, the He was on his journey from Manchester to see his Prosecutor, had been made debtor for -about 1701. family, who lived in Sheffield. The sense day, the Mr. Lee stated, that be had known the Prisoner birdies of two men, who had been lost in the same when he worked wish Sir. Bloir, statuary. He met storm, were found a few miles from Nottingham. him one day in the street, and asked him to broaat en auction. 'The Prisoner the. , told him he nee %Ir. Bloir, hut would iinderteke the job. lii ac cordingly bronzed ;le taw, and. weer. he hroatel - t ;t lietne, tee Witnee a ;t , ieel to perAsi t m two roinel.4 for a CqUer and ei , .11" t ee eV a merrtnry. 'At elle emit the iWitnees went to friril. - eres shop, and ,poke to the Prisener aberieseedine home Re i.e t tires, ,afore the ProseiutOr, but he art sines ityWeeliallqe J he heard him or not. ' Mi. I..ee fur tiler eilid, thlt Iset•4 • s i had asked Harnitten what his reesqn Was for CWISd. 4;1- mencing so ssanPloue a hresceetiniV? •and he sod . .4, to him. 4 *. Wheels , : can t dn. when be bas breagh: ee me in his delitter, For tear 2001. ?" ' . re Several Witnesses were rhea called., sane gars • up Lhe Prisoner a most excellent char4et. Mr. Justice Cii AM In r.s. stmened op the evidence ;,-- 2 ateetheJery, under his Jireetion, fubod a Verdi& weal of acquittal. sultru r SESSIONS.—Jiti. -- 1,1 1 :4 MO 'i ? Avainil . 1141 l'efure 31e. Seljeant Onstow, Cha t inrrn. 01 4 &lei a most numerous Bench ujJa,t...v. of the P. , rwr 1.1 4, 1% County if Sarre'. - leaserte The Court was occupied the whole of • tLis di " ( I . antil five o'clock in the evening. bearing and cecid ing parish and peeper appeals, which excited r.O public interest whatever. These r lating to parish rate,, will be heard tevirnornciv, after which, the trials of the traververs end felons will COUNROOCC The Calendar, for the tile! of alreanees ellisartet this lesions than lass been known for woo dose. ,------- - , --- , -v-svi. . .....-..../... CUIWNER'S INQUEST. I -......ene.......... • SHOCItItit.; SUICIDE, An Inquisition was taken, yesterday, at the Th. , nmphant Car, Piccadilly, la•fore AHT NOISY Gras, Esq. Coroner for teiestnerster, oa the body of ki- f chard Edwards, who cut his threat, un Monday morning, at Lis lodgings, No. 3, meet -street. Gros. yen.' -squat e. It appeared, by the evidence LI Mrs. TAUS Beard, at whose house the dece.so.. l : lodged, that he was taken ill With ,a fever; on Sunday looming last,. and Witness attended him. He grew worse in the eveiene, and on Monday remain he appeared in a state of deliriem, as he hid drew the greater part of the night. About ten o'cloakethe Decea ,, ed requested, that Witness might pronely him some porter, which was done: and, on her rev teen, he was sitting uptight in the bed, having eat his throat in the men shockirg manlier, during her abeecsee. 'Witness did ant perceitre what had Op posed, at the moment of her remits tor the De ' ceased had covered himself over with the bed ' clothes, and threw himself tracer. He, however. groaned bitterly, and on Witness moving, the co wiring of the bed, she discovered hies weltering ie ' his blood; and she also perceived a rays on the chair by the bed-side. Mr. Davis, an apothecary, in Duite-streees: tent for, and also a' surgeon. Mr, a. the deceased hail procured some in the morning of Sunday, 'perSoraVpoesiii . supposed him to be deranged. gemielevessetessm firmed the Opininn of Mr. Davis; for, whholligh ;die Deceased appeared senale torn., time limo 04 wound had been liettnEen, on being interrogated, be was ignorant of what had haleness& • •lisee ur.formnate man lingered until Tuesday snerniug, when he ciptred..4-VekHß—Livaqi. . Yesterday. the Court met at Hieksieballs en ne• wive the bills of inditeerent from the Graud Jury, eirbich was the only b isiness that occurred. One great Objese, doubtless, of the enorig moat big of Parliemaa, is to raise • supplies fee the peo oat year. While our Pepresenta yes atreifeiltiog t his necessary work, thensands nt private iodic ~iiduals are contemplating how to provide Mtn for their own exigencies throughout the year. For the latter sAIUt al y end, tlife whet* tribe of yeculassts See challenged to say, what means afford, fur a trifling risk, such a chance of 'raising supplies, not arkerely for twelve months, but for Nair whole lives, as s t irs& .of an adventure in such an imenemele opulent Scheme as commences drawing en Isiond.l fortnight ? . A desperate battle was fringht, last Monday.-for SO guineas a-side, near Briton Park, Yorkshire. between RiebJed DVlge (called the Tani fieight,). and Jean Burke. It lasted three.craeter4 ot an hour., in which time they fouget twenty-one remsds. On their entering the ring, the be VIZI% equal, till a f t er t he third round, when the odds weie live to three in favour of Burke ; at the eleventh and thirteenth round: the bets were again equal: some remarkably. good spirring, and a great seamy knack dow3 blows, t ink place, and the battle tier minatel in favour of Depihre, alias Belcher. %ea: iy five hundred sp elsitors were colleelei from I toy lend, Dimon, Wnoley, Barnsley, Wekirail i, :tea several other neighbouring towns and villages. The life-boat procured fer Fraseraburgh, by sub. scription. is safely arrived at that place; she was, on Nlonday fortnight, during a pre'ty severe gale. launehed, and, without the lean hesitation; maimed by Mr. done DALRYMPLE, ship-hnilder in Fraser.- burgh, and ten seamen, belonging to LI,- pert. who. for experience sake, rowed sorneconsiderable di: tam e among the breakers, and, altirough the sea ran very high. they returned without shipping a single ste, full of confidence from the wane) , which they felt in the boat. On this occasion, no other boat would have lived in the sea; arid at a place where so many sere ks happen, this ingenious invention may be the means of saving many valuablelieese It would be endless to recount the traits of he roism exhibited by individuals in the hue ;iron ; two instances have, Inv:ever, come to our it vivre ledge, which we cannot forbear to state to the pub lic ; both instances occurred on board the retry, and both the persons b !longed to that ever-gallant and meritorious bode, the Royal Marine Corps.— A corporal, in the middle of the adios, had hi. arm carried off by a cannon shot ; he hound the stump amend with the sash of no officer who had been killed, spirited up a party to board the enemy, and was lienself at the head of that party, aid Cie first that was on boa: d the opposing ship —.l. private marine was at the point of firing his musket, whir his left arm was struck oE by .. ball ; he afterward. fired of his piece. and went, unattended. to th. cock-pit, carrying his musket with ben in his sigh band. ' A I k E. 4 14) Etittait o ',dat 'A IF:tin,of before you now begin 1805, we sa arm and Spain, cruisi HiS M A ' to quartets e gardens; and remain(