The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-24 00:00:00

PROBERrs CHARACTER.

We understand that Probert is about to prosecute
Messrs. Knight and Lacey, of Paternoster-row, for pub-
lishing a work reflecting. on his character! The following
is a copy of the letter of his Solicitor :
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71 Red Lion street, Jan. 22, 1824.
OENTLEMEN,—L am desired by Mr. Wm. prober to institute
proceedings against you, as publishers of a work entitled Recolke.
time of Jahm 7lmrtell, for certain libellous matter contained
therein, highly injurious, prejudicial, end hurtful to the character
of the said Wm. Probed. The present is to levient you will
orthwith furnish us with the name of your Solicitor, in order that
I may forward communications to him relative to this anpleasant
affair. I am,_(.l entlemen,

Your °ballot serrant,
(Signed) JACOB H. MANN.
To Messrs. Knight and Lacey, 24, Paterooster.ro et,

We have received New York papers to the 24th ult. by I
the packet-ship Pauthea, Captain Bennett, which arrived
here yesterday from that city. Thu it contents are unim-
portant. It was reported at Havannah on the 3d ult., that
the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa had surrendered to the
Mexicans. We rejoice to perceive that the people of the
United States are beginning to show the deepest sympathy
for the Greeks. Meetings had been held in their favour in
several of the States, and subscriptions raised. The Greek
Committee of New York had put forth an eloquent address
to the citizens in behalf of this heroic people.—Liverpool
Mercury.
TIIE LIBERTY or THE Pll FSe.—The long pending
question between Mr. ('Dement, the proprietor of the
Observer newspaper, and the Learned Judges by whom
Thistlewood, Ings, and others, were tried, for their con-
nexion with the Cato-street plot, and by whom a fine of
Soul. was imposed on Mr. Clement, for publishing the
trials of two of those persons, after their trials had been
concluded, will come before the Duchy of Lancaster Court,
by way of appeal, on Friday next. Mr. Clement, it ap-
pears, was constrained to pay the fine in question to the
Sheriff of Middlesex, but in doing so he felt it a duty (not
only to himself, but to the public and his fellow journalists)
to enter his strong protest against the injustice with which
he had been treated, and the unconstitutional power which
the Judges had thought proper to assume. It will be re-
collected that much discussion took place on this subject at
the time whad the fine was imposed, and that strong opinions
were delivered in the House of Commons as to the illega-
lity of the step which the Judges had taken. The ques-
tion is one of considerable importance, and after what has
been said on a recent case, it will DO doubt excite a good
deal of interest. The Right Honourable Lord Bexley, as
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, assisted by Mr.
Justice Bayley and Mr. Justice Holroyd, will preside. The
Counsel for Mr. Clement are Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Brougham,
Mr. Denman, and Mr. Platt. These gentlemen will, no
doubt, be opposed by a strong Crown liar.
At the high Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on the 19th
instant, Margaret Bong was arraigned on the charges of
having murdered an old woman named Elizabeth Low, or
NPLaren, at Dunning, Perthshire, in the month of Febru-
ary, Isis ; or of • theft and reset of theft, in stealing from
the house of the deceased a quantity of linen in webs and
sheeting, and various other articles, the property of the
late Elizabeth Low, and having the same unlawfully
in her possession.—After a long trial, the jury returned
a verdict of murder non proves, but guilty of theft.—
Lord Pitmilly said he could have no doubt as to the sen-
tence which should be pronounced. She had been ac-
quitted of the murder, and consequently of all accession to
it ; but no one could doubt that the theft was of the most
dreadful nature, aggravated by being perpetrates! after as
foul and atrocious a murder as ever was known, and com-
mitted in the abode of a murdered woman, whose corpse
still lay upon the ground. It amounted almost to a capital
offence, and the Court would ill discharge their duty to
pass a milder sentence than transportation for life.
Tut: SHEFFIELD CONCERTS.—On Monday the 12th,
and Wednesday the 1 tth, two delightful Concerts were
given to the public. The Theatre was, on both occasions,
• but especially the second day, filled with respectable coin-
{ pang. The great attraction was Catalaiii.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALWOUTR, Jax. 21.—Aretted the Brothers, Gilbert, frods
Traps-U. Sailed the Hussey, Jenkins, for London.
PORTSMOUTH, JAW. 22.—Aretwed the Hearse of Athol..
Daniel, from the Do‘•.is for Bengal sad China ; and the Tuscan,
Starers, from ditto for the South Seas.

DOVER JAN. U.—Passed br, for t've Downs, the Claudine.
Crabtree, from Calcutta; and Luphratel, —, from Bombay ;
with several others names unknown.
JAN.Came done from the River and remain, the
lion. Company's ship Thomas Calms, Christie, for Bombay
Clio, Cummings, for St. Vincent's ; and Jane, Tuit, for St.
Lucia ; also remain, the Hon. l'ompany's ships Castle Huntley
and Marqueen ; and the Srneaton Castle, from Shields foe
Charente.

IVIAVie ‘TE, AN.22.—The Nathaniel. Randall, from Liverpool
for London, with salt, went whore on Forencfs rock, and has got
off again this afternoon's tide without damage, and proceeds,
GRAVE EN D. JAN. 22.—. Arrived the Itlargaret and Jane,
Gourley, from Seville; Jamb* Henrietta, But, from Lisbon;
William, Nattby, from Harlingen ; George, Stilfins, from Roues
Robert and Nary, Fox, from Ostend; Leonidas. Douglas; Swift,
Edwards; Eritt, Allen ; and Lord Ebbrindon, D, front Water-
ford; Richard and William, Rowland, front Dubin; Gratitude,
Davis, from Dub/in; and Alchymiw, Stevens, from Cork.—
Sailed, the Eagle, Llewellyn, for Port-au-Prinee; Men Watson,
for Leghorn ; Throe Sisters. Frost, for Rotterdam ; rerseverance,
3largolle, for Calais; and King George,: for Calais.
Livxminoc, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Diamond, Steal, from
New York, sailed !Ikh December • Edwin/ Brner. Lewis, from
Paraiba, sailed Ist December ; dannibal, Law, front Virginia;
Attelphi, Stewart., from Halifax ; Westmorland, Coulter, from
Calcutta. sailed 13th August ; Intrepid, Jason, front Jamaica;
Jane, Ferguson, from Philadelphia; Deadan, Anchor, from Cape
Breton ; and Friendship, from Gibraltar. Of the poet;
the Union, Pesch, from Macao.
LivEaroox, JAN. 21.—The following reseals arrived hone
yesterday :—The Margaret, Atkinson, front New Brunswick ;
Benson, Smith, from St. Andrews; Protection, Tyson. frOnLYlf-
ginis ; Panthea, Bennett, and Pen*, Merriliew, front New Yolk;
Jorige, Nicholas, from Antwerp ; Hercule. Johnston, from Hain:
Ceres, Jones, from Dublin ; Amami), Davies mid ,John and
Margaret, Donaldson, from Waterford; Norval, M`Lood, from
Newry; Edward, Heather, from Belfast: Catherine, M'Qsils„
from Londonderry; Despatch, roster, from Bristol in, Rood,
from Remick I Convey Castle, Mattbem. front Holyhed a Join
and Betsey, Magee, front Cambletown ; Nelly and Jane, M•Ktros,,
from Newcastle; Nautilus, Hooyton, and Eleanor, Barran, from
Yarmouth • Queensberry, Geddie, from Dumfries ; and Min;
burgh, Wilson, from Glasgow.
Sco.xv, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Velocity. Brooks, from Bunted
Ayres ; and Frederickson, Bunnett, front St. John's, Nest
Blunswick.

Anltlcen —A t Baltimore, the General Hand, —, from "'Kew
burgh ' • and Blucher, Smith, from Cadiz. At Charleston, Miercue„
Drew, from Bremcn ; and Seneca, Gray, from Lisbon. At Boston,
Pearl, Marble, from Malaga ; Boston, Lincoln, from Marseilles
Ant, bran, from Lisbon ; and the Draco, Luffkin front Leghorn.;
At New York. Circassian, Whiting, from Trieste; Ross in
Bloom, Bens. from !bordello' ; and the Depoial, Gill, front
Cadiz. At Philadelphia, Ruth. Tear, from Gibraltar. At Ala.
vannah, Hesperus, Mac Corkill, from Ilene ; and Caledsois,
Lindsay, from the Clyde. At Salem, Standard, Dewing, from
St. L'bes. At Rio, Sicilian, Frost, from Oporto.
Ot.asoow, J AN. 20.—Arenunts Were received on Monday week,
at Arbroath, through the medium of the public prints, of the loos
of the sloop Nancy, of this port, William Steven, master. TM,
vessel, which had been missing ter some weeks past, was at Got..
tensmrgh for a cargo of timber, and is supposed to have been leee
in some of the late gales, as part of a vessel, bearing bar 11110110,
came ashore on the coast of Jutland, near the Seaw. As there it
no information regarding the crew, it is much to be feared that
thy have all perished. What renders this event truly direting,
is, that Captain Steven had on board with him two sons, oat of
them about nineteen ; and the other about seventeen yews of age
and that he has left behind stint a family of six helpless children,
with the mother still in ehild.bcd of the youngest. Thus, at eade
" fell stroke," has this hapless family been " deprived of all—et
every stay, save innocence and Heaven."
Et.st • Etta, JA x. 13.—The following vessels, which was driven
on shore during the late gales, have been got off, viz--Hoppit„
3lclin, from Stockholm to Plymouth, after being sold by auction,
and has been towed to Copenhagen by a steam-boat ; Latona, MOr.
limn, from Riga to Liverpool, and proseeded to Copenhagen.
The Susannah, Hardee, of and for Hull, from Petenhiegh,
mains a wreck on the Castle Point. and is to be sold by auction.
HAMIUIOII, J AN. the frost we experienced since yyeas.'.day continues for two or three days, we expect the navigation of
the Elbe will be obstructed.

CAPE OF Goon HOPE, Nov. 8.-I"be Jane, COIIIOI, aaivai
in Table Bay, from Beira Bay ; sailed thence 25eb ult. and
spoke the ship Julia, off Natal, with part of her bulwarks carried
away ; she parted company with the brig Salisbury in a gala
of wind.

Nov. II —The Mary, Boyd, which arrived here 10th ult. from
Landon anti St. Jago, has been condemned as unseaworthy. The
brig Eclipse is lost in the 31orambique fhanneL
JASIAICA. Nov. 92-11 is Majesty's ship Gloucester ended es
Tuesday morning for fuream, haring under her charge the Dumb
schooner Eugenie, which was lately detained anti sent hue Part
Royal, try the Union schooner, having a cargo of slaves. Tbe W-
hirring ii I list of the vessels which received insauttloos from hie
Alajesty's ship Icarus, and sailed from NiTri_l Bay under her ear
voy, vs.:—For London : ship Drs. of Bedford, Hawkins, from
Port Antonio. and bark Vittoria, Forbes, from Post Maria. For
Liverpool : brigantine Elisabeth, Bremner, from Mowers Rep
For Greenock : ship 'lamina, App.eton, from a Northeldegmetwo
pr came Ocho For St. John's, New Bruner/Mkt' big ie.
bert Dewar, Paton, and schooner Olive Branch, Stincleeenk *s
Montego Bay.
Bu elate A YRES, OCT. 26--The Danish ship Anna Dorothea,
Schildknetch, from Copenhagen for Buenos Ayrec, with iron
timber, sail-cloth, &e., was totally lost on the evening of tbe Rd;
October last, near Point Indio, in th,t river. The Captain and
crew saved, and have arrived here. The Thetis, Worthen), frost
Genoa, was stranded at Point Indio on the night of the 7th WM.,
and it a expected the whole of t,te cargo will sustain damage.
Bolt HET, SEPT. 4.—No arrival since the Brailsford dune

CALC 1.7 T; A. AUG. S.—Diamond Harbour: Ti;Argyl;;nd
Roberts, outward bound. remain. Kedgeree • The Aurora, Maly,
and Eleanor. passed down. New Arobetage: The H. C. ships
Windsor and Hytbe.
The Ogle Castle, Brown, bound to London, put both so Bengal
to be docked, previous to the 2d of September.
A vessel, supposed to be the Resource, Muckle, from South
America, was seen off Cape tit. Vincent 2kh ult. steering for
Gibraltar.

The England, ROW, was within a dares sail of Ceylon 16th
Sept., and spoke the Patton, to Bewgsl, :10th August.
The Grecian, Holbrow, from Portsmouth to Valparaiso, was
spoken with 16th Nov. Mist. 20. b. long. 33. by the Velocity, ar-
rived at &illy.
The Mary, Boyde, which arrived at the Cape of Good Hope
10th of October, from London, was condemned as unseaworthy,
previous to the 9th Nov.
The brig Eclipse uss lost in the 3losstuSique (`bated, pre-
vious to the Nth November.

The Ann Dorothea, Schihlercht, fmm Copenhagen; and the
Thetis, IHoreltam, from GeLoa, were stranded 7th October, at
Point India, River Plate.
The Frederick, Kopperholdt, from London for Copenhagen, has
put into 3landahl.
The Scandinavian, Berg, from Stralsund and Copenhagen for
Lisbon, with wheat, has put into Arendahi, considerably damaged,
and must unload.

The ship ('muck, from Bristol, with 300 tons of iron. 1000
boxes of tin, tv.z. was driven on shore, 24th Dec. at Sandy Hook,
and bilged.

UNIVERSITT INTELLIGZXCE.

CAMBEIDGt, JAW. 23.
The Rey. Henry Farish, B.A. of Queen's College, was on Fri-
day last elected a foundation Fellow of that Society.
The subject of the Seatonian prize poem for the present year is—
The Death of Absalom.

The Rev. Henry II m. Blake, B.A. Fellow of Corpus Christi
College, was on Tuesday laat presented, by the Master and Fellows
of that Society, to the rectory of Thurning, in Norfolk.
His Royal Ilighnem the Chancellor of the University has ap-
pointed M r.Wm. -Ruins, Yeoman Bedell, in the room of the late
Mr. John I.aughton.
The Lev. Charles Kingsley, L.L.B. has been collated, by the
Lord Bishop of Peterborough, to the Rectory of Barnack in the
county of Northampton, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Lloyd, and in his Lordship's patronage.
The Rev. John Henry Steward, B.A. of Trinity College, kis
been instituted to the vicarage of Seardeston, and to the consoli-
dated rectories of Saxlingham Nethergate and Saxlingham Thorpe
Norfolk, vacant by the death of Rev. Archdeacon Gooch.

The Cheltenham Chronicle, received on Thursday, gave
a circumstantial account of the finding of the body of
Mr. l'ierce, of Bristol, buried in a park between Clifton
and that city ; hut as the Bristol papers were silent on a
subject on which they were as likely to be well informed
es the Cheltenham Editor, we did not insert the article,
which we learn by the Bristol papers, received this morn-
ing, iv not true ; no tidings whatever having been heard of
the unfortunate gentleman.
CAUTION.—iitAR'S GREASI..—J. Atkinson, importer
of the genuine Bears' Grease, respectfully cautions the Publii
against numerous counterfeits of the above article many of these
counterfeits are sold as low as Is., and are only Lard, marrow, &c.,
and some are very injurious to the hair. The genuine of his in.-
portation has a Bear printed on the top of the pot, and a primed
bill round the pot with his signature and address. The high ran.
oration this article has long held for the growth of hair, and the
remarks of a celebrated modem lecturer on physiolog. , that
" Bears' Grease front the animal in its native climate piinesses
very remarkable properties for regenerating the hair," supersede.
the necessity of further remark. J. A. will only add, that this Ina
genuine article, which he regularly receives once in six or eight
weeks from his Correspondents in Russia. It is of the very finest
qur'ity, and very pleasant for dressing the hair, making it beauti
fully soft and gloomy. Sold by the importer, James Atkinson,
Perfumer, 44, Gerrard-street, London ; and by appointment—{Fa
I Venders' names see Advertisement.l

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