The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1806-10-08 00:00:00

'T. IL mwd“.l - On Tuesday, the Municipal Regalia proceeded, with the accustomed formalities, and in usual order, from the Mansion-House, to the Castle, where the • Ex-Lord Mayor resigned his authority, anti Alder man Pemberton was sworn idol office before his Grace the Duke of Bedford.• • The Recoitomt somnienced a very eloquent Charge, respelling the important trust about to be reposed in the Lord Mayor, with a nervous and well e applied compliment to his public spirit, good sense, andindependeuce of mind, evioced upon many pub. lie occasions within his jurisdiaion. ,As a Magis trate, he promised that his Lordship would maintain those ardent and uaecinivocal principles of loyalty, which, in all public situations, had marked his con duff, principles which embraced a co-operation with de precepts of the Christian Religion, the first ob. ligation of a Magistrate's duty. The strid ob servance of the Sabbath he would be found to en fp+ ce. klis exertions, in the next place, he vouched, would bo k iiirecled to put down a species of public atrocity,in which the trading community in this city was neor having become a viaim—he alluded to the pernicious prevalence of combination among jaurioymen tradesmen, to raise, by the most illegal and tumultuous methods, the price of their labour ; these culpable proceedings were not only fraught •rith inexpressible mischief to the community at large, hut Involved the perpetrators, with their fa . lsilies, in the most dire distresses, from which they can never emerge, without the most utivalified, the most rigid and radical reformation. This refolmo tion, he feared, could however never be effeaed without the salnotary interference of the laws, and the application of the punishment to which they give a sanaione combined with that authority, with which the Chief Magistrate is invested. The next objea of consideration was the subversion of that system mai - regrating and forestalling at the public Market iit this city, and other places for vending the necessaries of lite, particularly to the poor, to which he pledged himself, the Lord Mayor would pay equal and effeaual attention as his predecessor, notwithstanding an infirm state Of health, had in varithly persevered in. The more minute parts of his Lordship's duty, he would leave to the Learned Judge, whose eloquence and ability must contribute hugely. if any incentive were wanting, to enforce a stria observance of 11mliaistetial duty on his Lord ship's mind. fhe Recorder having concluded, and the new Lord Mayor being duly sworn in, Mr. Baron bourn addressed him to the following effect r— ' " In the performance of that duty, which, from die absence of my Lord Chief Baron, and my Bro ther George, has suddenly and sae:pettedly de volved on me, I understand it has been custom ary to deliver a charge to the Lord Mayor, consist ing of au enumeration of the duties of his office, and a recommendation to discharge them with fidelity and retention. " With opportunities for preparation, which the time would not allow, I might, perhaps have been enabled to accommo late myself to this pradice. but, I the lets lament my inability to do so, not only because I have been so ably anticipated by the Re- Corder, but because your Lordship's numerous and various duties are at this day so generally known, that a recapitulation of them would, I apprehend, be mote tedious than it could be useful. a And, if the functions o: the Chief Magistrate be knows to all, we may presume that they are espe cially familiar to that Body, from which he is elect ed, whose nearness to the Chair will acquaint them with its jurisdittion. and who will take pains to in form themselves of the nature and extent of 'stations which they are likely to be called on to per form. " If it be unnecessary to enumerate the duties of your Lordship's office, still more soperfinons, I trust, it would be, to recommend a diligent performance of them. In stating them to be duties, I sufficiently enjoin a gentleman of your description to discharge them. " Those humble, but not, therefore, unimportant funaions, whose ohjea is to promote the comforts of the lower classes of your fellow-citizens, you will not therefore neglea ; ur be tempted, on account of their lowness, to despise. You will, on the con trary, rerollea, that the happiness of the community at large is the true toundatioo, and legitimate cud of all authority. * Without inquiringwhether such 'recesses, though coarser, be more culpable than those which might be found to prevail in higher circles, you will look to the consequences of drunkenness and vulgar riot, and interpose your authority to prevent them. • Should persons employed in the recruiting ser vice exceed, or, which is the same thing, abuse their powers, and kidnap, where they are only autho rised to insist. you will here again interpose your authority, its vindication of the privileges of citizen ship and trade; and. which is more important than either, the liberties of the subject. I am sorry to say, that this topic has been sug gested by something which lately fell within my observation. • fw «suing yeorisice against savage and disgust ing cruclty, which is ceercised towards animals, in driving them throuj;h the streets. you will feel that ynn are not timely rescuing these from torture, but are reforming the in:toners, indeed the morals, of the lower orders ; and, 1 AM sorry te add, supplying the deficiencies of the law. enforcin* a due observance -f the Sabbath, and steadily diseckunciancing all protanatioas of that day, you will consider yourself as discharging a mere sus red duty than any of those to which I have been adverting. ss Oa the whole, you will be proud to emnlate the m of many of your predcaessors who have Chair. You will not scorn that fame, re told, .:anent be contemned, without a 'the virtues that confer it. ae acquired on the stage on which your about to aft. A fame may there be aly honourable, but lasting. lapse of near a century, the name of filled the office ro which you have sue remembered with respea, or only lost Tie good Lord Mayor. indeed, will last. It is consigned to my being recorded in the writings of his ';orfot. It &Lauds iuscribed oa the self-built monuments of this latter worthy, to' whom no memorial his 'yist been ere red by his un grateful country. " Your Lordship will recelieet, that, when this great man ►ought to reader a most essential service to his country, and sees those rights, which 4 Court (unlike the present) was eireckivz, in order the bet. ter to effeet his pirrpow, he assumed the disguise of a citizen and trader. I need not say, that L allude to the publication of The Drapar's (Alms. " But your Lordship has advantages, and will Ilse them for the public good, which were wanting to Swift, and to your celebrated predecessor. In their days, this country was forgotten, or remem bered to be mocked, insulted, or oppressed. tt Those days, I trust, are past ; I trust they ne ver will return ; though, if they should, I any aware they could not last. " These were the excuses which I had to offer to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, and to your Lord. ship, for not delivering a more regular and formal charge." The carriages of our new Magistrates are executed in an extremely good style, and their appointments tasteful. The bodies are dark, with the respective arms well emblazoned, and the hammer-cloths, which have the owners' arms on the sides thereof, in an embossed broidery, produce a very excellent effea. The motto of the Chief Magistrate's arms is, riptide ci Labore— Those of Sheriffs Manders and Nugent, the former, Pro Omnibus Laos Dee ; and the latter Decrevi. The liveries are white, with scarlet vests and small-clothes, the first laced with silver, and silver kuee.gaiters to the latter. The coats are trimmed with worsted lace at the seams, and silver-laced bats. His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, all the great Officers of State, and such of the Nobility and prin cipal Gentry as were in or near the metropolis, to. ge.her with the Board of Aldermen, Recorder, and Sheriffs, were sumptuously entertained at dinner by the new Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, which has been for some time in preparation for that oc casion. rerucAtion of m p4s2cit the Chai which, we art t disregard oldie 6. It is to be , Lordship is abc • gained, not onl .. After the I a eitiz....n, who A eeedei, is still r ih his title of 7; " Ills name, • immortality'. by Piltur-PaiTir We are authorised to state, that " by accounts received from Malta on Monday, it appears that the loss occasioned by the explosion of a powder maga zine, which happened on the 18th of July, amounts Royal Artillery 14 Thirty-ninth Foot Maltese troops 25 The number of inhabitants who suffered by the ex plosion does net exceed 200. Some houses, and a small part of one of the curtails' in the town of Vit toriosa, on the Cottoniera side of the harbour, were thrown down." It:inviting this disaster. we have also received the following letter from an Officer of Engineers, dated MALTS, AU7. 4, tee 6. you will have heard of the melancholy consequences of the explosion of 40111 barrels ni gun-powder, on the morning oi the 18th of list month. occastimed by the extreme temersty and disobedience of a Non•Coininissvoned Officer of Artillery, who trii . oadod shells in the thaguineiteeff, instead of cairying them to a distance for that purpose ; 14, gunners., 26 moldier, (23 of whom were Menem), and about 200 inhabitants, were either killed sit the spot, or buried to the emirs of the adjoining forti fication and but:dings, besulta them! w.oinded. A woman and child only hate been dug nut alive. Besides the fortifications and military buildings, snout fifty private hours have been thrown down, or en much shaken that they will require to be re-:anat. 13* Otistait of either Navy Sr Army has lima killed or wounded. Yesterday .Vnnight, as the Colonel command ing the Artillery, at kingnier, was returning from ' Bletchington to that place, in his curricle, with Cap tain M'LACItLAtt, he, ►y some accident, overturned the carriage, rear the church of All Saints, and was considerably hurt. Capt. M`Lacitt. an had a very narrow escape, one of bis ears being much lacerated by the wheels. R. THOMPSON, Esq. Mayor of Rochester for the year ensuing, was ott Monday sworn in, and 'began his official duties accordingly. He gave a public breaksast on the occasion, and a sumptuous dinner to a very large party at the Crown Inn. The Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry assembled yesterday se'nnight, to take into consideration the new volunteer regulations ; upon which occasion, Lord Swamis, their Colonel, addressed them in a very energetic speech, explaining the difference of the system, and requesting their determination either of rejefting or continuing their services upon the present plan ; when the whole corps, without a single exception, in the most handsome manner, acceded to the stipulated conditions. The horse be longing to a member of the corps, came forcibly in contaa with the shafts of a gig, at the corner of Goose-lane, on its Way to the muster, by which accident the animal was instantly killed. The following Orders have been received by each Division of the North Pevensey Legion : ORDEKS. SheiF.eld Place, se t a. 52,1806. Various cirsumsta seta requed that Lord Sheffield should represent them, mot the state of the North Pemnisey Legion, to it, Field Officio,' and Caittates, at a inviting called for that purpose ; and they having thereupon agreed with him in opi nion, that the Leglun could no longer be maintained with advantage to the country, and credit to itself, and that the Lord Lieutenant should be requested to obtain His Majesty's permission for them to resign their comminsons, permission has b eer , ;To n e d according's.; and orders have Wren twte4w4 to deliver the arms, accoutrements, and all other military stn.., to a person appointed to receive them, at the magazine ludo lioralsain. The person who stood charged with unlawfully detaining ELIZA DAVIS, put in bail at Marlbo rough-street Office, on Monday evening. The young woman was, by order of the Magistrates, delivered to the care of the Parish Officers of St. James's. She was found in the room where she was confined, in a state of petted nudity, nor was there any apparel which she could put on. The matron of St. James's Workhouse went to the room with which Miss Davis is provided, and .asked her if she would take wine, or any other nourish ment ? when the unhappy girl said she did not wish to impose on her, as she had no money to pay for it, although she was entitled to considerable property. Mr. N. the person in whose house she had been confined, was in possession of all the documents re lating to her pi:Testy, which had been signed by h:r. Before she resided at the house of Mr. N. her residence was at No. 20, Michael's-place, Bromptun ; and, previous to that, in Sloane-street. The Magistrates are using every effort to find out the relatives of the young woman, and to sift to the bottom this very.mystetious case. NATAL INTELLIGENCE. TONTSMOUTII, OCT. 6. Afrived the Audi:rise', of 74 guns, Capt. Cosse lin, from Plymouth, one of Sir Richard Strachan's squadron, much damaged ; Camel storeship, from Gibraltar; Diana frigate, from a cruise atter the French frigates that were at Greenland ; she only learnt that the last place they were at was Iceland. Also arrived the Ti,iplione sloop, from off Lyming ton ; L'Espe:gle sloop, Captain Morris, with a con voy from Cork ; Planer sloop, and the Chterly gun vessel, from Plymouth ; and the Argus sloop, Capt. Kittoe, from Cork. • FALMOUTH, OCT. 4. Arrived the Mini-ere Eti:ab,th packet, Kidd, with Mails from Lisbon, in tourteen days. Left there the fleet under Admiral Earl St. Vincent ; the Prince •f Ifiales and Turnskend packets ; the latter arrived out in five days.—Wind W.N.W. PLY MOUTH, OCT- 5. Sailed last evening, after post, the Rover sloop of war; Lads Warren hired armed ship, With the Deptford transport for Milford ; Stiollow and Attack gun-brigs ; and Rezithrice frigate.—Wind N.W. vet y hazy. V A SINIOOTH, OCT. 6. This morning arrived the Diana and 'Darn.: pac kets, both from Gottenburgh, with Mails and pas sengers, which were landed here. Two days pre vious to their arrival, the Dorn: fell in with a fleet of Russian vessels, consisting of four ships of the line and three frigates, one of which chased her for near two hours. They were steering southward, and supposed to be hound up the Mediterranean. A frigate last night hove in sight, ;did made signal of a fleet of men of war being in these seas, in con sequence orders were given for the Officers belong ing to Admiral Russel's squadron to repair on board without delay, and the whole fleet sailed early this morning in pu-suit.—From the arrival of the Dorset however, no doubt is entertained, but that the fleet of ships seen by the frigate are friends. DIAL. OCTOBER 6. This day, at neon, the Calypso sloop of war ar rived in the Downs, from Calais, and landed at this place Mr. Basilico, the Messenger, who immediately proceeded to London, with his dispatches. Came down from Sheerness, and sailed for Calais, an English sloop with French prisoners. Sailed die Fury bomb, with the Seraph store ship, and Royal George, Kerr, for Buenos Ayres ; and the rest of the outward bound, &c. under convoy for Portsmouth. SUMNUS, OCT. 6. The Steyr sloop of war, which was appointed con voy for Tonningen, to sail this day, has just left the Nore, with a fine breeze at S. W. but has no vessel nnder her convoy. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. (TURTIIER PARTICULARS). We mentioned, in our Monday's Paper, an acci dent, of a most melancholy and fatal nature, which happened on the morning of Thursday last, in the mvelin, on the left of Chatham Lines, by the fall of two very large brick arches, which were built for the purpose of forming a magazine,and were finished last Saturday week. Oa Wednesday, the carpen ters were &reeked to ease down the centring, over which the arches were built, in order t'eatAxe brick work might come to its bearings (an-weration, which, in large buildings, is perforrnea4t least twice, but most generally three times, betore the frame work is intirely taken away); this was ac cordingly done; and, on Thursday morning, be fore the commanding engineer had been on the spot, the workmen, in the presence of two or three foreman of the bricklayers and carpenters, proceed ed under the arch, without having taken the pre caution to see whether the brick work had followed the frame, and, instead of•easing down, began to remove the uprights which supported the centring, the consequence of which was, that the whole mass of brick work over their heads fell in with a dread ful crash, and out of ten persons, six-civil, and four military carpenters, wbo were employed in this unhappy business, eight were crushed to death, and buried in the ruins, and the other two wire, with much difficulty, saved, being much hikuised and lacerated. The most prompt measures were taken to endea vour to extricate the bodies of the unfortunate stif f • but while the workmen were clearing away the rubbish for that purpose, an alarm was given, that the remaining arch was falling, and that they were in danger; before they could proceed with their work, it was necessary that the building should be secured ; during this state of awful suspense, one of the poor fellows, since saved, and who was shat tered and buried in the ruins as high as his chest, was in momentary expectation of being again over whelmed, kept crying out, that, as an aet of mercy, some of the bye-standers would put an end to his misery and existence. At the extreme hazard of their lives, however, some fearless and determined men, went to his assistance, and extricated him from his dreadful situation. As soon as the remaining arch was secured, the workmen proceeded in their search, and continued working till dark, by which time they found five of the bodies, and at an early hour the next morning, the' remaining three were dug oar. The bodies were conveyed to the Bar racks Hospital, and an inquest was held before J. Si as Moms, lE,q. one of the Coroners of the county, when the Jury, after a most dispassionate and unpre judiced inquiry into every circumstance, gave a verdre of Accidental Death. The piers on which the arch was built, are stand ing, and are perfectly sound, and it is supposed that the remaining arch will stand secure. Two of the unfortunate people have left widows and large families, one seven, the other five children, who are redeced to the utmost distress by the acci dent. • We are very happy to learn, that a subscrip tion was set on foot, for the relief of those distressed families, which has been supported (and which we trust will be generally the case) by some very liberal donations. On Sunday, G. Strood, one of the carpenter's unfortunately killed by the falling of the arch on Thursday, was buried at St. Margaret's, with mili tary honours. The Chatham and Gillingham Vo lunteer Artillery, commanded by Captain Draw bridge (of which corps he was a member). mustered ♦rry strung cn the occasion, and mauled his re maim to the place of isterment. BISHOP OF ST. ASAPIT. Sam. Horsley, Lord Bishop of St. As +ph, L L D. whose death we announced on Monday, was c. e of the most eminent men of his day, as a Thsoja. gist, a Mathematician, and a proßamei Classic. was many years Redo!. of St. Mary's, Newingte e , the first parish to which he was ever promoted, see which preferment he held long after his episcopal elevation. His Lordship's first seat on the Revm eed Bench, (for which he was, in a great degree, indebt. ed to his Noble Friend the late Lord Thurlow) r ,„ in 1788, as Bishop of St. David's. In VA he wi t translated to the See of Roehester,with which he held the Deanry of Westminster, and in I riot elevated, ee demise of the Hon. Dr. Bagot, to the more lucrative Bishopric of St. Asaph. No man of the age, p er . haps, possessed more of what is generally under. stood by the idea of recondite learning, or vu more profoundly versed in Classical Chronology__ He edited and illustrated.some of the most impa l e. ant of Sir Isaac Newton's Works, and was hirsu t e( the Author of several esteemed Mathematical led Theological produdions. As a Senator, he vas de. servedly considered in the first class ; there were few important discussions in the Huse of Lords, especially when the topics referred to the Hier. archical Establishments of the Country, that no. pendous (and, in its effects, most calamitous) event the French Revolution, or the African Slave Trade, of which he was a systematic opponent-4 e which his Lordship did not participate. The Re. verend Prelate was many years a leading Member of the Royal Society ; but withdrew from it, as has been said, in conzeseence of a certain high appoint. meat taking place, of which he disapproved. H. concluding words on retiring were—“ I quit that Temple where Philosophy once presided, and whets Newton was her officiating Minister !' CORK, Oc r , 1. Yesterday four transports, having on boar,+ of the 40th esti 14th Regiments of Fent, arnveil a t Cove from Portsmouth, under covoy of the than, gun-brig, Lieut Wickham. His Majesty's sloops, Argus, Capt. Kittoe, and Espiezle, Capt. Morris, sailed yesterday from this port for the Downs. Previous to the sailing of the last West India cos. voy, the Definite, of Bristol, bound for Barbadnes, sprnng a leak in the night, and but for the for tunate discovery of the accident, the consequences might have been very disastrous. On Saturday evening last, an effort was made to haul her on shore inside White Point, in this harbour, in order to examine the injury she had sustained. By some accident, however, she did not make the et aft part intsoded for her, but backed on shore at several yards distance upoa some rocks. By the ski of Mr. Baxter, who went on board to assist di Master, she was got off at that time ; but in a li time after Mr. Baxter's departure from her, s took the ground a second time, and heeled upe her starboard side, so as to make her removal prallicable. In this situation she was sheared gr. bet in a short time the shoaii gave way, and she .es turn#d to-her former position. In the suddenness of this accident the Master's wife was thrown down, and a cask of water, which had been. disengaged by the circumstance, fell on her and wounded be? very severely nn the head. The vessel was mil righted, but the injury which herOottom recyr precludes the paasibility of ( Thr following distressing circnrostonce sectored on Monday last, at Darlington. in Sussex :—As a boy, about eight years of age, son of Mr. Cant'', farmer, was amusing himself, by drasing two of his brothers, one a year, and the other 18 months old, in a chaise made for the use of children, near his father's house, their little vehicle was run foul of by a waggon, laden with faggots, which the horses, having taken fright, were drawing at full trot on the road ; it was, of course, violently upset, and the se cond boy, falling under the wheels of the waggon. they passed over him, and unhappily crushed hint to death. The eldest was thrown down, and though one of the wheels of the heavy carriage also passed over his body, he miraculously escaped with life. and without any broken bone, which was attributed to the waggon being, at the instant, upon the lock. He seas, however, dangerously bruised ; but strong hopes are entertained of his recovery. The youngest was providentially preserved, without the smallest injury. Report attached blame to the carter, bet. upon inquiry, we find unjustly. • PRICE OF STOCKS, YESTERDAY 3 pet Cent Comas 6211 5 per Cent. Naty Olinnioto India Bonds Exchequer Bats Engli,ll Lott,y Tl , krts Consols for Siiii T. BISH, Stork-broker. No. 4, Cornhill, and 9. Chorill' COURSE OF EXCHANUE—.Oet. 7. Amsterdam ....36 7 IC. wont* .. 47 LIT. ric• Ditto at SlFrbt .. 95 10 Venice n. C.... 45 Ditto. Rotterdam c.f.. ll $ $ V. Lab.m. bat Ha.nbutsb B4. 0 44U. Oporto 6l Alloaa 34 14{l1. i Dublin 12,1 Paris. 94 0 Lie. Cork 151 Dttto 5Us 24 4 suitattrie. 4. o r IL Bottreeauz effect. Ditto ttortittl Ditto PortusalGold iu OA., and Bats pee as. 4 •••• New Dnuis'onns •-• New Doitars 4 Strewn Rag. !'I Bilbna 313 Leghorn SI t NAples 44 N4W Lnuts e:ch •••• Apo of the rank of H,tl+u''e Si pe , Cent BIRTHS. On Tuesday, the..9oth ult. the Lady of James Du Pre, 1.01• M P of tifdtou Park, sucks, of a daughter. At Midleton, county of the Rev. Robert P.att, of • son and he.r. Cork, no the 27th ult. th e L ei f of MARRIAGE. On Monday, at Monmouth Mr. Weollet, eldest I ,n of Mr. %Verities surgeon, of the:tovro, to Miss Cheriette Void. daughter of the late Abrahall Lloyd, Es 4. of tssrthoge, "ca t Ross, Herefordshire. HIGH WATER, THIS DAY, AT L'iNDrlfl BRIDGE. 141 orn• • •.St min. after 10 I Enn....tto ntie after 11. LONDON :—Printeal by G. DAVIDSON, No. 17. Deke‘ Coon, Bow-street, Cow*' glen, and poulsecd WO ()Him, No 15, Back of St.lLlentent'sChuree, Stroul, bf W of No. 7, Now Boltoo-stieet, Lome Acta. Osiers, Joe. for this Pam, sent to the OfLe 4 04 7") .11 be gale attended be. ~~ NUM - MIEN. reittl J. IY,ikr, Mr. Rise. un [h it Cherry. tdn,M; Al The C Mr 11 S 1V..!1 kis! ° 0.1 ii I 7- - 1 1 1 1 4 4 vrt *.red .J'qy, Maciyat Tbs C 0c1; TN' th the 16th rard stre 11/111110.1 la 13 MO! 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