The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-11 00:00:00

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court, Asrratt's-eourt, Ozford-buildings, Dtc. ; Sir
RICH Ann issued 'a
number at search Warrants, and
at a very early hour yesterday morning a number
of officers and patrole were dispatched to put them
in execution, with cutlasses and lanthorns, and ap-
prehended in the above neighborhood upwards of
100 men, principally Irish. They were in bed,
and very few had shirts on.
Yesterday morning they were examined before
Sir RICHARD Fouo and Tuonss ROBINSON, Esq.
when forty of them were identified by office's to be
deserters, and were committed to the Savoy prison.
The persons charged with extorting money from
gentlemen, under a charge of unnatural practices,
underelent a long private exanilifition before the
above Magistrate, and were remanded for farther
examination.

WHITECHAPFL.
Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a party
of police officers went to several houses at Stratford,
Bow, and other places, in search of deserters from
the Guards, Army of Reserve, and other Corps,
when they brought away near 200 persons, several
of whom slept four in a bed together. Must of the
recruiting parties in town, and Serjeants of the
Guards, attended at the Public Office, Whitechapel,
in order to identify as many as they (-mild, when
about twenty were sworn to, and sent to the Savoy,
and others were sent on hoard the tender, after hav-
ing undergone a close examination. The remainder
were discharged, having given a proper account of
themselves.

SMITHFIELD C.l rnE AND SHEEP VIEW.

The time is approaching when the patriotic so-
ciety of Nohl -men and Gentlemen, who meet at the
Crown and Anchor in the Strand, of whom the Duke
of BedfOrd is President, will make their annual dis-
tribution of prizes to the owners of the best fat cat-
tle, sheep, and pigs, which shall be sent up for sale
at Smithfield market, and exhibited for the informa-
tion of agriculturists and t' e public, with the certifi-
cates requited inthe Society'. hand hills,of the breed,
age, wool, food, and other particulars, essential to
he known by future breeder, and graziers, in making
a judicious chr.ice out of th,- numerous breed or VA-
rieties of each sort of animal used for food in this
county, and in conducting their business, so as to
produce the largest quantity of animal food for man
from the produce of a given quantity of land.
The ensuing shew, which opens on Friday morn-
ing next, is expected to be more wteresting than any
former one, from the increasing experience and num-
oer of the Candidates, and from the conditions, or
Call, to he certified respeaing each animal, being
more strift, and dire& to the points of utility aimed
at, than they were in the earlier periods of the useful
labours of this Society ; the want of which precau-
tions gave rise to prejudice in the minds of many
wellintentioned persons, and an idea, that this So-
ciety was intent on the long, excessive, and wasteful
feeding of cattle, than which we think nothing was
further from the intention of the respeaable founders
of this Society.
The accommodations of this chew are also ex-
peeled to be improved by the change of residence
which Mr. Wooten, the stabie.keeper, in whose
yard the exhibition takes place, has made since the
last thew, from the Dolphin to the Swan-yard, in
West Smithfield. The pigs in particular, which
were before shewn in a close and inconvenient
place, will this year occupy a range of pens, under
awnings, in the open yard.
His Grace of Bedford intends, it is said, to send
seven oxen and cows, and nine sheep; Sir Thomas
Carr two heifers; Mr. Westcar, eight oxen and six
sheep; Mr. King, four oxen and six sheep;
tlibbons, an ox and three-sheep; Mr. Flushes, an
ox ; Mr. Humphries, nine sheep, &c. All the oxen,
cows, sheep, and pigs, intended as c:l.ldictites for
the prizes, are to be sent into the yard previnu: to
Thursday morning next at nine o'clock, at which
hour the five gentlemen who were to be appointed
in June last, by the society, as judges, are to assem-
ble, and enter on the examination of the respect
' ive merits of the animals, and of the accuracy
of the registers of food, weight, lc:. of each animal,
and to declare the successful animals, in order that
their adjudication may appear at the head of each
animal on Friday morning, when the shew is to com-
mence; these notices, like those in Lord Somerville's
annual thews, are this year intended to be more ex-
plicit than heretaTe. The judges consist of three
farmers, breeders, and grasziers, of respectability and
judgment, and two butchers of character and con-
siderable trade in the London market. Henry Hugh
Hoare, Esq. of Wavendon, Bucks ; and John West.
ea., Esq. of Cieslow, Bucks, are the Stewards of
the present shew; full particulars of width we
intend to lay before our readers.

TT 'be EDITOR et THE BRITISH PRESS.

SlR—Most of the daily Papeis have, within these few
day', teemed with Paragraphs and Letters, addressed to me as
the tither of Muter Betty. Some of them have assumed the
ge,itkr shape of admonition ; others the more prawns form
of accusation and ransom I am advised by some to he partiru-
lady mindful of my sun's health. I am accused by others of
wantonly inspai,i..g it.
IV hen I consider the motives that 'll-e infliiene,:d the wfders
of Corse letters and paragraphs, it i.. impossible for me to re .1
ant sentiment of anger. But l own lam 11114 by them, and I
think I have mine WO, reason to cogsplaiii. I hope a Wise,
may to he readily believed, when lie asserts that be is
tent r,ly solicitous for the welfare of his son ; that he is deeply
anxious for his health ; and that he ia ardently desirous of pro-
moting, to the utmost of his power, his fortune and his fain
tri the cause, that produced my son's frequent appearance
at Covent Garden Theatre last weak, it 14 not necessary here to
enter into any explanation—they ClllllB4 operate again.
But of the state of soy son's health, it may aTird
to tae pa'ilic to know, that all tire account. of leis labouring
under a severe co d, of his being languid horn too great Coigns
and exertion, amid of being nude, a course of r..eruitinig Inc.
dicine, are entirely without foundation. Ili- mother and myself
never rev:elect his health and spirits to have been thtter than
they are at present. _

111., it cannot but be painful for a parrot to feel htinsef
under the necessity of making wipsiLitions with tits piibisc,
that be will not be a careless and negligent guii,lian of his inn.
111 any other case such a necessity would imply suvpic;ou of
the fattser—in the present I am aware that it has been pro-
duced merely by sol.citarle fi.r the son. thiv impres.
sion, I can have no objection in pledging in the most wAsinn
manner, that, whilst I will me every means to prevent my KM
from inturing his health by too great and frequeitt effurta of
/is, I will take care that the foquite and fruit. of hi. e1f.,,,
.hall riot be rle:troyed nor impaired by any iinprojeT conduct
o. ne.glieeucc of wow.
Thne, who know me, m.uid not deem acv such vtipulation
or piettge rnsserwar?—but how sonatl must be the number of
thou/ pessons,. ensnare I with the ~tit MISS Odle public !
I 1131, Sir, your mo:t o'Adicut S.-rvant
W. it. BETTY.