The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-11-30 00:00:00

LORD NELSON'S FUNERAL.

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It is very properly determined that every mark of
peculiar honour should be paid to the remains of
this distinguished hero. It has, in consequence,
been settled, that his corpse shall not be taken down
the st":"s in Sr. Patti's to the vault, as ail others have
been ; but that it shall be let down under the dome,
eche e the brass grate is, the opening of which is not
sufficiently large : a number of workmen are now
daily employed, using every possible esettion to
mike the hole large enough to let the coffin down ;
hut it will be some time before it is complete, as there
is an immense body of stone to cut through. We
do pot learn that any other arrangements are finally
fined upon. Mr. Mr tiae, the archital of the Ca-
thedral, has proposed to Lord Havencsau it Y, and
the'Dearr and CH A P rut, a plan for a monument to
be eiened to the memory of the Noble Hero, under
the centre of the d,,rne, which was much °Netted to
on the ground that it would disfigure the appear-
ance of the Church. Mr. MILNE has since laid
before them an ancient plan of St. Peter's, at Rome,
to pi...we that his plan will not have that effixe.
In this plan is represented four pillars, under the
centre of the dome. He has likewise produced
an old record, in which it appears that it was Sir
Cams-menu Wltt!:'S desire, to have a monument
ereCted under the centre of the dome, to perpetuate
his memorv.
Should Mr. MI L NE'S plan be adopted, it is for a
large stone pillar, to rise from the grave a consider-
able distance above the brass grate, and a very ele-
gant colossal figure of the gallant Lord to he on the
top of it. The Bishop of LINCOLN. the Dean, is
expeCted in town in a few dare, when a Chapter
will be held, for the purpose ef making arrange-
ments for the funeral, when this proposal will be
taken into consideration.
It is uoiereiood, that a monument will likewise
be erened in Westminr.er Abbey, among the other
great warriors of this country.

DOVER. Nov. 28.

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Last Sunday night. about twelve o'clock, taro
French privateers took two light colliers belouging
to Sunderland, off Dungeness ; the Facade. Bell,
with all the crew ; and the !Cm.. Snordsn, the
crew escaped in the boat, and are safe here.
A lirge French privateer is s-nt in here. The ore
carried into the Downs, some time since, eras tar•-n
by as ar mei .hip, which he boarded by mistake for
a merchantmen. Sir Sidney Smith's double boat,
which was towed in sunk, on the night the Eipe-
dition sailed, is fitted out again, and yesterday was
hauled into the outer harbour; the other one of the
rinse description, was this afternoon, trying ex-
petinsents with rockets in the Bay opposite the
Caves ; the other gun-boats, which have come in
here from Boulozne, which are only five in number,
• are liLewise. getting ready. Combustibles of various
descriptions, are preparing in a retired place, off
where the boats are moored. A centinel is constantly
on duty, and no person admitted but such as be-
long to the army or navy ; a member of the latter
seem very busily employed. • For these two hours
a very heave firing has been heard from the French
coast, supposed to be rejoicing lor the late successes
in Germany.

The Isabella Paasons, was lost at Newfoundland,
in September last.
A letter from 'an officer of La Tennant, 84, dated
on board the Sirius, SC), Capt. Paowsr, Nov. 3, off
Cadiz, states, that the Spanish ship SOAP( Anna, of
110 guns, struck to the Tennant, 84. on the glorious
21st of Oduber, off Trafalgar, and was taken pos-
session of by a Lieutenant of La Tennant, an Of-
ficer of Marines, and 60 royal marines and sea-
men ; the dreadful hurricane which succeeded the
battle, drove the Santa Anna towards the shore, and
there was every reason to suppose, as her starboard
side was beaten in, she would go down ; the British
seamen being insufficient to manage this large ship,
the commanding officer required some of the pri-
soners
to assist. These fellows, instead of honour-
ably assisting to save the Santa /Ana, rose upua our
seamen and marines, and being joined by the re-
mains of the crew, overpowered our people, and ran
the ship into Cadiz, making the English prisoners
of war. These miscreants, who, after being beaten
by fair fighting, struck their colours to a British
ship of war, in token of submission to their gene-
rosity, and called for quarter, when another broad-
side would have sent them to the bottom of the
ocean, were not Spaniards, but Frenchmen, as she
was manned entirely by French. When the ships
cams into Cadiz, the Spanish commandant, having
a due sense of honour. immedi.tti;y as the weather
moderated, scut off the Lieutenant of the Navy, the
Officer of Marines. and the men, in a car el to the
Satins, with his compliments.
Yesterday. between one and two o'clock in the
morning, a daring robbery was committed at the
house of Schneider and Son, furriers to His Majeuy,
at the corner of Gray's-Irm.laae, Holborn. A
gang of depredators broke into the shop, by cutting
the iron bar, and removing the window shutters ;
after which, they cut through the glass, and packed
up every article of value. The muffs, furs, and
tippets stolen, amount to between 4ilud 5001 with
which the offenders got clear off. When shay re-
tired, they leJt a written paper of the following pur-
port :--At Good bye! God tile's ye!" Tire watch-
man observed a man with a sack in the street, about
the time the robbery was commithad, but did not

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