The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-07-05 00:00:00

NAVAL lIVTALLIGENCE.

PORTIIIIOI7IO, JOLT 3.
Arrived the Aire, Pyalea,froar Dmotzle.
Sailed the Atbol fur Spiihead.

?immune, JULY S.
Arrived Hie Pigmy 'chooser "Fhb Ilse Garland smuggling
boat of Dartmouth, which sbe raptured yesterday off Eddy.
mune. Shaba" on board 115 tega of brandy and five men.
Sailed the Treat, Hart, for Quebec.

WALKOUTII, JULY 1.
Arrived the Marchioness of Qawewsberry packet with a
mall from Jamaica i sailed 19th May.
The Lady Arabella 'packet, that arrived yesterday from
Lisbon, spokr on 98th June, in lat. 49. 46. bog. 15. 5. the
Mrsiet, Wlthank, sit months from lionebay.
Sailed the Arundatil, INutkinsal, for Arendahl ; and
Hopes Anchor, Pau., fur Longwood.

novnt, slimy 3.
Arrived the Cbristiao, Grdie, from Tereriffe, with Ws* of
•rchur and c4bk.

MULL, JULT 3.
Famed the beck of esse Goodwin Send., the liebroederr,
Sipco, from Havens's,' fur Answer?.
Arrived Ate Favourite, Savage, from Belfast, and Ocean,
from Liverpool. The 'chooser Active, Quarine, of sod
from Penryts for Ramiro': sod London, drove on shore Ibis
morning on Sandwich Flats; rhould the 'traitor asodiarate
most probably she will be got off.

The Fanny, lll‘Nalty, from New South Shetland, put into
It,, Janeiro Uth Mani) with Dire of the crew in confinement
for mwttny.

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We sr• mattred that orders have been honed fur
opausng ■ rendes►ous upon Tower.bill fur receiving
volunteer seamen for actual service, under • Cap-
tain of the Royal Nov y .—(Evening Paper.)

ATTEMPTS ro DISCOVER A NORTM-WEST

PASSAGE TV THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
1.
Mews the Quarterly Rowley, published on Thursday.)
There are those who question the existence of a wears
though Behring's Strait. All that we know of the unpins.
treble ice is, that Capt. Cook passed beyond Icy Cape before
he fell in with any; this was in the month of September:
That Kotzebue, in August, saw woe. on the western shove
of Behring's Strait, as far as the eye could reach, from the
entrance of the inlet in lat. 6$ deg. N.; and we have recently
learned that Mr Grimes west, in 1819. in • small brig, to
trade for furs in Kotsebue's Inlet ; that he passed the Strait
on the 18th of July, and remained in the neighbourhood a
whole month, during which time the sea was perfectly free
from ier. We shall speedily know this, as Capt. Ricord, of
the Russian nary, hired Grimes' vessel, and proceeded is
her last summer to explore the seas to the northward of the
Strait—which one accounts from St. Petersburch state, that
he actually pissed (with the two Russian frigates sent on
discovery) hi July, 1820, and that so intelligence of their
return had reached the capital is the middle of March last.
" Comteeted with this subject, we may take occasion to
mention one of the most daring enterprises of a single lath.
•ideal since that of Ledyard, whose activity and intrepidity
he appear* to have imbibed. Captain Hondas Cochrane, •
Commander is the Navy, after preambulating every province
of Spain and Portugal and a great part of France, voles.
leered to pre pair himself as • Mahomedan for • jsereey feign
the enuree to the termination of the Niger, bet on stigratbs
litres that could not be complied with. He therefore tratreffialll
en foot to St. Petersbergh and was introduced to the DI&
peror, to whom be proposed a journey on foot acmes Si=
fullowieg the northern land which he suppoord to be
to America, or, finding that not to he the rime, to procure
passer, across Belirmc's Strait, enter Kutzebue's Islet, and
prosecute his journey on font slime the northern coast of
America to one of the establishments of the Hudson Bay
Company. The Emperor readily acceded to his project, aid
he set oil with • passport ■nd an order from the Minister of
the Interior to all to whom hr might apply to afford hies
every possible assistance. In September la.t, information
was received at Petersburg,' of his having readied
the Altai mountains on the confines of Chinese Tar.
tary ; and that from likutsk he was bending his way
to the northward to avoid interruption from the Chlorite,
and with the view of reaching Kamskatska as the
most likely place to procure a conveyance across fiehring's
Strait. Coupling, therefore, obi. extraordinary expedition
with owe seat officially by the Ilinuriau Goverment, ender
the orders of Lieutenant Bartle Wrangel, to ascertain with
certainty the existence and precise positron of the North-
east Cape of Asia—the laud expedition of Lieutenant, stow
Captain Franklin, in America, ant that of Captain Parry, we
t but indulge a hope that, in no great lapse of time,
the geography of the northern regions of Asia and America
will be accurately determined."

A SINGULAR G'HARACTRR.

Within these four days a considerable deal of curiosity lass
been excited by the appesiance of a singular old man on the
Pulkikehsws road. He would give no information of the
place of his birth, or the way in which be spent his life. In.
quiries on these subjects could elicit nu oilier answers than
that '8 he was horn in Britain, and is • packman." He says he
has been struggling to gather money since lie was 6 years old;
but the lying and knavery "(mankind have kept bins in power.
ty. A. generally wears two hats, his clothing is one solid mass
of partyroloured rags, and on his back he carries a ponde-
rous hordes composed of very heavy materials put up in
parcels. Another ordinary burden was bound round his
waist, and hung down before his thighs. Two broken pots
and several pieces of cast Iron were slung round his neck
and hang at his sides. In addition to these, be rained •
large basket on his lett arm, whirl, was filled with broken
puts, old. pans, old shoes, fragments of sickles, and an end.
less number of 'iron niek.nacks. This basket itself would
have required a strung man to carry it five miles, and the
whole of his luggage (under which be crawled along sup-
ported by • staff) would asaos•t,) it is ■fiirmed, to
■early six hundred weight. His miserable and uncouth
appearance kept always a number of people around him,
and when any of them expressed their astonishment at his
being able to carry tooth as u aaaaa I load, he uniformly re-
replied, " My meat's no vent strong, ea' my driele's no vera
strung, and I am an a•ld man o' four score and seven years,
sod no were able to carry a heavy burden." He p the
eights either in the Melds or in the barns, kilos, or cart.houses
of the farmers. He travels but • short way in • day; lie was
at Pollokshaws on Friday, and be bad only reached the Got,.
bats on Tuesday night (a distance of three miles), where he
sold I3d. worth of his warn he • china shop. When he
severed his money, where it would have required more than
ordinary pstieusfre and ingenuity to find it, he produced a
religions book, and read a portion of it with becoming so-
lemnity, sled pat it up agate, observing that he had always
doses° when be received any money. He then carefully
collected the minutest parts of his Hereulean load, and when
be had it adjusted and bound to hi■ body, he left the shop
and took the way to Tradestos.--(Greentiek Paper.)