The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-02 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, Jury* 31.
Arrived the Turners, Leaden, from Antigua—sailed 10th June ;
Vere, Allen, from Alexandria (Egypt) and Milford; Vittoria,
Gray. from Bremen ; New Hampshire, Snow, from New Origami
and Cowes ; Jane, Campbell. from Pictoo and Cork ; Laurel,
Hunter, few Hamburgir ; Florida, Tinkham, from New York—
sailed let July : and Leeds. Stoddart, from New York—WWl NTS'
July; Charlotte Louisa, from Bremen; William Parke, from
Jamaica: and Kent, Cummins, tinm AfriCa.
Five brigs and two snows off at eight.
The Ganges, Milford, from Liverpool for Calcutta, was spoken
28th inst. in lat 80. long. 8.
The inst.,
Highest, from Liverpool for New Orleans, off
Belize 13th June.
The Camillus, Peck, from the Clyde, has arrived at New York.
The New York, Prince, from Liverpool, has arrrived at Boston.
The Jason, Cavan. from Liverpool, has arrived at Baltimore.
The Selima, Longfiell, from Liverpool, arrived at Mobile 9th
June.
The Julius Cwsar, West, from Liverpool, arrived at Phila-
delphia 29th June.
The Thule, Pillsbury, from Liverpool, has arrived in Hampton
Roads.
The Hankineon, from Liverpool for llavannah, was spoken in
the Old Straits.
The Delta, Clinknn, from Liverpool, has arrived at Boston.
The Olive and Eliza, Se emu, from Liverpool, has arrived at
Portsmouth, N. H.
The Sappho, for Smyrna, sailed this morning, and put back
with loss fore top-mast.
Sailed 30th July, the Sir John Kean, Newland, for Buenos
Ayres and Valparaiso; Hermes, Le 3lesurier, for Havannalt ;
Cynraure, Colburn. for Boston; Franklin, Hardie, for Phil
delphia; Gleaner, Jelluaon, for Portland, A. S. ; Governor Strong,
Wyer, for Alexandria, A.S. ; Robert AVilson, Arnold, for New-
; York; Matilda and Susan, Fox, for Barcelona; l.eddel, Thomp-
son, for Archangel; and Annegina, Portjee, for Rotterdam.

FaLstoevi, JULY 30.—Arriced the Active, Banks, from
London. Sailed the Lord Melville packet, for Buenos Ayres.—
Wind E.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 31.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Cal. I
Hope, from a cruise; and the Concord, Jacobs, from Watertoto
Wind S.E.
DEAL, JULY 31.—Sailed about noon, with the rest of the out-
ward-bound. the Britannia' Walker, for Bombay : Sovereign.
Adams, for Jamaica: Jean Stewart, 111‘Kenzie, for Santa Martha;
and the Hyndman, Sergeant. for Demerara. At three p. in. an
American ship, from the River, is passing, reported to be the Mer-
cury, Boit, for Roster). Wind S.E.
CARDIFF, JULY 29.—The Chesterfield, Watson, from New.
port to Viana, has completed her repairs, and will commence taking
her cargo in again.
I.:Lst NOVE. JUL Y 13.—The Sylvantts. Gaeterell, ofSurde land,
is reported to be at anchor between Hornbeck Bay and the Ham-
mer Mills.
PARIS, JULY 29.—The Victoire Aglae, Bliley', was wrecked
on Demesnes' previous to the 7th inst. Part of the crew saved,
and arrived at Riga.

CUSTOM HOILTSE,JuLY H.
SHIPS ENTERED iIIWAND.—The Fox, Fox. from Ostend;
Earl of Clancarty, Boxer, from Rotterdam; Afileck.,Tell, from To-
bago; Annesley, Pollan!, from St. Petersburgh ; Esperanre, Van
Oeyt, from Antwerp; Leeuw, Verbruggen, from ditto ; Fowler,
Robinson, from Danuic ; St. Johannes, Kramer, from Nemirow ;
Vrouw Antje, Ommen. from Neaharlingerziel; Heinrich, Boom-
garden, and Vrouw Elizabeth, Brahms, from Emden ; Blockett,
and Voyager, Anderson, from Sr. l'etersburgh ; Vrouw
Maria Anna, Vander Weeg, from Antwerp ; Placidia, Fair.
dough, from Dantzic Vrouw Janns. Wnllenstein, and Veiny
' Antura, Heyen, from Emden; Ann's Resolution, Thornton, from
Rostock ; Linnet, Thompson, from Aalborg ; Friendschip,
Beale, from Riga; Sites et Fides, :Moller, from Christiania;
Bertha, Schurdt, from Konigsberg ; and Elizabeth, Minter, from
Dublin.
ENTERED OUTWARD.—The Hamburgh, Woad, for Elsinore
and St. Petersburgh ; Calthorpa„ Newton, for Copenhagen and
Elsinore; Union, Clench, for Trieste and Venice; Bellessima,
Warren, for St. Petersburgh ; Hayti, Stevenson. for Rotter.
dam; Rotterdam, Laming, from Rotterdam; Duke of Bronti,
Harris, for Jamaica; Industrie. Massuque, for Marseilles anti
Nice; 'Jong Johanna, Lifters, fcr Ostend, Brtges, Itnd Ghent;
Wellington, Edwards, for Cork.
CLEARED OUTWAID.—The Nesbitt, Nockells, for Jamaica;
Drie Luster, Schoon, for Amsterdam ; Lively, Ford, for Malta
and Smyrna; Countess Mansfield, Sitewright, for Hamburgh ;
Isabella, Petcock, for Trinidad; Margaret, Spink, for Rostock;
Henrietta Lammert, for Memel ; John and Robert, Swintrin, and
Christopher, Knight, for Quebec.
CLEARED OUTWARD TO IRELAND.—Active, Hutch n2,s, fOr
Dublin; Melanctho, Price. for Waterford.

The following is a copy of a letter, addressed by Mr.'
John Smith, of Woodbridge, to the Editor of the Ipswich
- Journal:—
Early on Tuesday morning the town and neighbourhood pre ~ If you can spare room for this communication I will thank you
sented an unusually lively and gay appearance, from the variety o to insert it, to convey to your readers a notice of a phenomenon of*
flags and emblems displayed on flag staves, and from the windows kind heretofore unobserved in the river Deben, between Word.
A triumphal arch was erected by Messrs. Olver, and the large bridge and the sea. Eels to a great extent, in respect both to num.
room at Selley's having been found upon inspection not to be large bet and size, have died. The oldest fishermen of this port and river
enough to contain more than half the number of persons who were recollect nothing like it. They go the length of expressing their
desirous of procuring tickets, in order to remedy this defect, the fear and belief, that all the eels between the sea and higher up than
bow windows at the head of the room were taken out of the frames, Woodbridge have perished. In this they are probably not correct.
and a platform constructed on a level with the floor, extending over The ferryman at Woodbridge declares diet he bad himself SCCR
the whole breadth of Green Bank Quay. When this was covered dead on different days within the last fortnight ' a tumbrel loath,
over with canvas, and flags and temporary windows had been fixed some as big as his oar, and a yard long, or more.' He added, tbat
in at the end of it, and the whole decorated with evergreens and for some days before the last spring tide. ' the water and air stunk
ribands uniformly with the room itself, it had a very beautiful with them' The late high tides carried them away. Some hogs
effect, and gave to the whole the appearance of one long and richty lower down are said to have made early discovery of the savoury
ornamented apartment. banquet. They are described as exhibiting a ludicrous scene. rue-
At four o'clock the Stewards ushered Sir Richard and the corn- ning about with an immense eel dangling out of their mouth ;
piny into the great room, which presented a most elegant ap- chased peradventure by their envious messmates, or two or more
pretence. hugging at an unfortunate individual. I heard a gentleman de.
On the removal of the cloth, Dr. EDWARDS proposed the follow- dare, that he counted on the Sutton bank of the river, ovpos:to
ing toasts:- Woodbridge, seventy-five dead eels, in a space, if I recollect right,
" The King," three times three. Tune, " God Kaye the King." of five yards. lam told that an unusual mortality among the same
" The Duke of York and the Army." " Duke of York's animals has been recently observed also on the Orwell ; I knew
' March." not if to an extent at all equal to what I have described on the De.
"The. Duke of Clarence and the Navy," " Rule Britannia." ben. lam not aware of any unusual occurrence that can be teasel:-
The CHAIRMAN gave the health of Sir R. Vyvyan, Bart. ably looked to as the cause of this phesotnenon. No other species of
with three times three, (great applause) and may he long live to be fish has died. Some ascribe it to the heat of the weather. I.
our Representative in Parliament. (Cheers.) Tune, " Britons am not disposed to think this an adequate cause. That
1 strike home." the temperature of rivers has been higher than common Is very
sir RICHARD Vrvitsal rose amidst cheers from every part of likely. In the Mersey, the warmth of the water has been two do
the room. He commenced by expressing the high sense he felt, greets higher this summer than for ten years past. A thermometer.
Mid the gratification he expenenced, at the reception he met with plunged into the floating bath at Liverpool (where a regular reps-
from his friends that day, and the sincere pleasure he had in ter is kept) indicated the high temperature of eighty degrees. But
meeting so large and respectable a body of his friends end consti- this is not likely, I should think, to kill, or even to dirurb the
bent'. He next commented on the events of the late election, and tranquillity of an eel. They have not, as far as I have observed Or
succerefully proved that he had ever been the friend of Mr. Tre- heard, suffered in ponds or ditches. And it is well known that
mayne. Ile next adverted to the general state of England in par- cold, not warmth, is the dread of eels; and land &oils, not
Hauler, and of the other Powers in general. He ridiculed, on the drought, their bane. If this communication should attract the no.
subject of the Catholic Question, the absurd charge of being an tice of any one desirous to investigate the point, and not asquatnted
Ultra Tory—if he were to be named at all, from his aversion to with the locale of the Deben, it may be well to add, that no gas
any further concession to the Catholics, he should be called an machinery, nor any thing whatever connected with deleterious
Ultra Whig, for the Whigs were the persecutors of the Catho. matter (except the ordinary lime kilns), exist on or itear the course
lies, and a Whig party drove a Catholic Ring from the throne, of the Deben. Is it possible, that the atmosphere, saturated as tt
while the Tories were the party that ever defended the Catholics, may lately have been with electric matter, can have had any ere-
and for more than a century endeavoured to bring about their res- pathetic influences over the peculiar property of (one species at
toration. He then turned to the subject of our Navy, and took oc- least) the genus under air notice? Or is it an ascertained fact,
casino to speak at length of the super:or and manifest advan ages
that the g
of Falmouth Harbour. He trusted the time would not be ere gymnasts electriceu only possesses any portion of this girt
cific singularity ?
great things would be done for Falmouth. lie would pledge _ ____ --
himself ever to be its friend, for in befriending Falmouth,
he was convinced he benefited the country. He avowed himself DREADFUL FIRE.—A FAMILY OF NI NZ PIRCONR
the friend of Government while they were true to their prin. BURNT.—On Tuesday night, the farm house, at Inverug-
eiples; but would be their determined enemy as soon as they las, occupied by A. Bell, ground officer on the Inverness-
deserted that line of conduct which had raised England to her shire estate, Badenoch, was burnt to the ground, and
proud pre-eminence over the nations of the earth.
the whole inmates, consisting of his wife, seven
theThfeollboawnidngt,heanmopnlagyedoth'i:rßtossritonsts:_stli,keThheomive,o"odsuenceredivedalll,z
children , and a tailor lad from a neighbouring parish, were
" Rule Britannia?' " The Duke of Wellington and the Army," burnt to ashes. The unfortunate man was front hosier,
" See the conquering Hero comes." The healths of Earl Falmouth. procuring meal for his family and neighbours. It is imp-,
Lords De Danstanrille, Exmouth, Melville, Clinton, and Lotl
.—T that the fire originated from a spark from the turf tat
Combermere and the lndian Army, were also drank. the open fire-place, and that, owing to the combustible ma..
G
posed
TRIAL or Ma. E. ."-Wesartztohis important serials of the dwelling, the fire spread so rapidly while the
criminal inquiry will in all probability take place on unhappy family Were asleep, that when they were awoke,
Thursday, the 10th of August, and will occupy a long half suffocated and stupilled by smoke, they were unable tO
space of time. We understand the Counsel for the Crown escape from the flames; but this is mete conjecture, flit
are Mr. Scarlett, Attorney-General, Sergeant Cross, Mr. now remain mien the cireninalenco et their awful filth—.
Brougham, and Mr. Williams.-.4lfaccksfuld Courier. lowness JorrnaL

DINNER AT FAL MOU
BATHRT.O T SIR RICHARD
VY 31. P.