The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-15 00:00:00

NEW DOCK AT NORTHFLEET.

The inn r 7. meditated plan for nuking a Receiving
Dock at Nurthfleet, will be irome.Eitely carried into
execution. The ground has alread been staked
colt, and the Engineers have survey, .the situation.
The expence of making the Dock be very In-
/
flo,g, compared with its utility, as a space of near
t v..lve acres has already been excavated by the
Chalk-cntters, and consetwently much labour will
he sired. Ships,after being launched, instead of re-
maining at Woolwich, or sent round to Sheerness or
Chatham, may be received Inca this dodo, and con.
sequentiv rigged and fitted for wa,with the advantage
ofbeing in a condition to sail at the turn of every
tide, there being a sufficient depth of water to float
the largest man of war in the service.—Govern-
ment transports may also be collated here, instead
or being moored at Deptford, and thus the naviga-
tion of the Thames will he kept more free and Open.
In time of peace it will serve as a dock, in which.
ships can be laid up with safety. and at much less
expence than in tha Medway.

Previous to the capitulation of the Rajah of
vat-root:. most of the inhabitants of the adjacent
country had submitted to Lord LAKE. and had re•
ceivtd detachments of troops for their proteetion.
During the Hight of /taut KHAV, he narrowly
escaped being taken by a corps of sepoys in ambus-
eade, and most of his Nrty were cut to pieces.—
Another detachment, from General Sietrm's corps,
stationed in the jungle,,, WAS, however, attacked by
a very superior toi ,e.and routed with loss.

.
The country about Bliertpoor is an almost con-
tinued junele. The distria ceded by the late Treaty
to the India Company k in a high state of cultiva-
tion ; it extends from Byona to Rassnlpor, and
eompri,es tit_ tort.. and villages of Nagror, Raree,
Dngern-e. and Junjeah.
On Tuesday sc'nniebt, the dwelling-house of
Messrs. S t N:.l.s, of 13ilsby Lincolnshire (in the ab-
sence of the housekeeper), was broken into by some
peFsou in the dav-time, who took from out of au
old c1.1:44 bills and cash to nearly the value of 2701.
Mr. SCINStIi, doting the robbery, was in the gar-
den, near to the house. A report having prevailed,
that be was gone to consult ft sure frilpeat'lg
had committed the robbery, on the evening
folowiug, a draft, with the bills, to the amount of
2001. ware returned to him.

Oh Saturday. sennight, PE TLI Ammo's, the
Loy who comm.stc.l the violent outrage at Weil-
house. near Leeds, was apprehended at Hull.
Early on Thursday morning, a tire was discovered
in a stable on S:refield Moor, belonging to Mr. GIL.
LITT, in which were two valuable horses and two
dcgs s bath the former, and one of the latter, we
are sorry to say, were burned to death, and the eta.
ble nearly consumed. By t!.e speedy arrival of the
..es the fire was prevented is ow communicating
to Mr. GI Lt. &TT'S !was?, ad;oining. It is swpected
to have been set on fire wilfully. The piteous cries
of the poor auintals were the means of its first being
disc.)vered.

neetzs Shcljr was etamined at Union Hall on
Friday, on a charge of stealiag a gold seal, the
property of Gen. Tuner. The Prisol:er was em-
ployed in the baggage warehouse of the East India
Company. Repeated complaints had been made
that articks were missing from the baggages which
came from the Eat Indies. Amongst the rest the
General complained of losing a gold watch and
seal. The lodging of the Prisoner was searched,
and upwards of .50 duplicates were found, and one
of them was for the seal, which the Pawnbroker
produced, and the General swore to. The Pri-
soner was fully committed for triaL

On Saturday mot fling, about eight o'clock, a Miss
Su HPHC•O, • young Lady about 18 years old,
drowned herself in a pond near the milk, at Bat-
tersea-fields. The deceased was very beautifial in
person, and of accomplished manners. She had
conceived a partiality for a young Gentleman, of
whom the aunt, with whom she resided, did not ap-
•prove. Some disagreement ar se between her aunt
and herself the evening preceding the rash ad,
which, it is imagined, so preyed on her mind, as to
induce her to commit the fatal deed. When the
body was taken nut of the water, which it was very
'.horrly after she threw herself in, the means gene-
rally resorted to for the recovery of drowned per-
.•nns, was used for upwards of four hours, but with-
out the desired effee.

On Friday evening, the wife of wcarpenter in Bat-
tersea, who resides very near the spot where the me-
lancholy event before recorded took place, put an
and to her existence by cattirg her throat.
Ab, sit four o'clock on the morning of Monday
week, the house rf 11. Pats•rorf, Fsq. in Park-place,
in Leeds, was broken r' en, and robbed of 4351. in
motes, a bill for 151. 10s. rid. and several gold rings.
Two men and a boy, who were seen near the pre-
mises, are supposed to be the thieves. The robbery
was crated by putting the boy through the iron
grata' of the wash-house window, who was so little,
that to open the do-.r fir the :nuance of the alien, kw
was obliged to get on a chair to slip the bolt. With
she above, the ;ins gi.t clear off • sod, had they
ant been alarmed, th-ir plunder would. in all probe-
nitity, have been mote mensive, as they had packed
up a quantity of plate, linen, &c.
A waiter, who lived at Mrs. ?attempt:es house
(the Windmill, at Salt-hill), at the time of the sud-
tiro death of several Gentlemen who dined there
about thirty years since, has recently paid the debt
of nature himself. The day preceding his death, he
sent for the clergyman of the parish, and, after in-
forming him that be mild not die in peace witlamr.
disclosing what be knew of that calamitous event,
made the following recited : That it was cat occa-
sioned, as had been generally supposed, by any pre-
paration in the wine, to ice it, as it arose from the
circumstance of some carp having been stewed for a
family expetiled the day before; but frow their be-
ing prevented coming, the fish was set by in the cop-
per stew-pan, in which they had been dressed, where,
Irons its long standing, the corrosive acid is the sauce
*waded from the stew-pan that quantity of coppe-
ems, which proved destreelive to most of the Gentle-
men who partook of this dish, so fatally served up
the next day. This fad, he said. was discovered, and
liic,wn only by the cook and himself; and on
isn-
p.it;:.g it to their afli eled niistrcss, she enjoined
them to s-.:rery,,o4flafiguks .they lived; but that he
sow Com s t; moments, unable to
salient dopy.:
11 '• .• 1.7r11 4r" '• Mrs. PAIITIMIII
•146 "Y•":'
many years.
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