The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-02-13 00:00:00

TIM SlNG'''. BARNET.

Mr. Martha?? and Mr. Kiev. applied, to the
Court, in behalf of the bail in this cause, fur in-
dul gi,ute ; they expected the Defetidant, who had
been about six mnriths hick in Easton, in New Eug-
land, would have bad returned to this country, anti
received his mutest'. The amouut of the bail was
£lOOO, and if they were obliged to pay it imme-
diately, they would be ruined; they, therefore,
hoped the Court would aUow them some time to
raise the money.
The Couur observed, they must apply to the
Court of Exchequer, as that Court had uo juris-
dietiou in it.

COrItT AT COMNON PLEAS—F►o. az

The fallowing Order was made a Rule of Court
this day
*Mary Tens, in the 413 tit year of the Arlo' of King
Gears" is ordered, That from and after the ►ast
day of thus Tam, no Def*adant shall be holden to ape.
(dal baR in Troves or Detinue, unless 10 order of the Lord
anaf.lastice, or oae other of the Jostler* of tins Court.
(Slued) J. MANSFIELD.
J. HEATH.
A. CIIAMB/LE.
mismsoutme
The Cecilfa, MAast, from St. Michael's, for
Loudon, is on shore, near Margate.
The Friendship, SHELDRARE, from Cork, fur
London, is put into Rinmagate, with the loss of
anchors and cables.

The Groee Hill, SACKER, from Riga, for llull,
i 3 stranded near Copenhagen.
General 14'nrrecocae was born about the year
1759, and was educated for some time in the
Grammar School at Marlborough. Ile was placed
by the late Earl of AYLESBURY (whom his father
served as Steward), at Locuer's Military Aca-
demy, near Chelsea, where be remained till the
year 1777, when his Lordship procured him an
E.nsigncy in the 14th Regiment of Foot. Ili.
regiment being at Chatham barracks, he there
formed a friendly connection with the present
Quarter Master (.ieneral. BROWNRIGGE, then Ad-
jutant of that corps. About the year 1787, he
and General B—, both then but Lieutenants, mar-
ried two daughters of the Lite Mr. Lams, Chief
Clerk of the War Office. Quick promotion was
the natural Vurnee of so fortunate an union.
Ile soon beca to' Field Officer, and on the com-
mencement of the war in 1793, he was promoted to
the Lieut.-Colonetcy of the 13th Foot, in a hich he
'erred a considerable time in the West Indies. He
Ima coursi and St.;Domingo, where au ext raordi-
nary -instante• is. related concerning an o"verture.
to thertench'Cleneral Lavatx, published by Mr:•
.EDlrsiMr;''but which, at this moment, it would be
i • thlOtlite. General Wittrexocxx return-
ed to • 1131 in 1794, and, from his matrimonial
connections, was soon appointed to the Flume Stair.
Soon after this he obtained the rank of Brigadier-
Geneist; semi progressively rose to that of Major
and Liouteumst-General. and to the command of the
*Pk regiment of foot. In 1797 he was second in
trOltakand' at Portsmouth, and here he had many
Olikrortnititles of displaying his parade talents,
• which are so dithreptly appreciated. lu 1800 lw
was remora' taus Lthis situation. and appointed
to the command of the depot at Caryibrooke, in
. the Tale of Right ; and in 1807 he became Com-
mander-in-Chief of an Expedition destined for
the re-capture of Buenos Ayres, from whence he
returned unsuccessful in September lost; on the
• 9th of. NOrember um put under sa arrest, and
• is now on his trial.
The. adjourned Session's for the City and Liberty
of Westminster, sill commence this . morn-
ing, at eleven o'clock, at Guildhall, Ring-street,
W estminster, %hen Bill Somers, Wuudfrrd, and
Mate! the pick-pockets, will be brought up, and
the opinion of the Bencii given ou the legal objec-
tions taken to their eons iction.

A truly benevolent lady. in Bath, not in the.
habit of seeing large parties, or making routs, gave
lately a splendid entertainment, where the con-
dition of her being AT FIUME au., that not only
the card money, hoc the full amount of the win-
nings, should be appropriated to the relief of a &-
mit% that once " moved in circles gay," but were
now reduced by mental and personal atilitions to
the greatest distress. This unfalinonable rout was
thronged; and the %%innings were ample!
Lately were interred, with military honours,
at Nrhittlesee, near Peterborough, the remains
of Mr. JAMES SPENCIia, formerly hair-dresser
of that place, and trumpeter tp the Whittlesea
troop of Yeoman Cavalry. Ilia death was oc-
casioned by the follow ing accident : a few even
ings since, returning home in company with ',Err
acquaintance, he, in jocularity, prohosed running
a rare, which wa. agreed to. They started at full
spree!, and baring a bridge to pass over, the de-
teased (in order to gain ground of his adversaryi
ran with such violence, that on turning the angle
of the bridge, he mold not 'recover Isis balance,
but precipitated over. and pitched with such force
upon his head on the ice, that it fractured his
skull, and the ice immediately breaking, immersed
hiss body in a watery grave. He has left a wife
and three children to lament their irreparable 10111‘.
and is sincerely regretted by a numerous acquaint-
ante.

Tuesday se'nnight, an Inquest was taken at the
Red Lien in Hateonhy, before Jon?: Ft t smuts,
Fon. nn a female infant, found nn the previous day
t'sIPMAN. of that place, near the senpua
plantation of firs belonging to Sr GILBERT nEATII..
gess, on the Lincoln mod, about a mile north of
Morton. Thic hraii of the infant was covered with
• dark cotton handkerchief, the body inclosed in a
green stuff petticoat, with shoulder-strap, and bald
with its face downwards, by the side or the fence-
ditch. in a clump of briars. The Jury returned
• verdict to the following effect : Supposed
to hale been left slide by its unfeeling parent,
not. nerhaps, without a hope of its being taken up
t.mr t, iii (serve life, by an accidental passenger;
but diet! a fiber by an ffocitinin 11 want, or by the
stvcrir: of tr!..• weathcr."—We are thus minute in
thr re:,.:;on of circumstances, in order that a pro-
-o"e:decree of circiamspee.iun mar lin used by all
headtrof kind en in the neighbourhood for the di,-
cut cry of the unnatural offender.