The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-11-25 00:00:00

IRMA RA L Wht Tk LOCKS.

The following anecdote is ..x• railed from Bryan
Edwards's Huhn, of bt. DOW nift

" 1,1 the year 179 a, when ComnM VW ..itelocke was before
the town of Parf•-au P.i:, an imp •iiant station to the East-
ward of St Nicholas, he conceived an idea of obtaining pos.
session of the plies by private negociation. The town Iris
commanded by Lavaux, an old General in the French *evince,
to whom Col. Whitelecke addremed himself by letter, which Ise
seat by a flag of truce, and offered StlUOl to be paid to him in:
person, on hisdelivering up the post. Col. Whitelocke seems,
however, to have mistaken the charaaer of Lavaux, will/ war not
only a man of distinguished bravery, but of great probity.—.
Nn answer a remarkable:—" You have ondeavoured," send
he, " M dishonour me in the evs of my troops, by supposing
me so vile, flagitious, and base, as to be capable of betraying
nip trust for a bribe This is an affront, for which you owe
me personal satisfaction, and 1 demand it in the name of he.
',our; wherefore, 1 offer you Uncle combat until one of as
full ; leaving to you the clie:ce of arm., either era loot or on
horseback. Your situation, as nip enemy on the part of your
country, did nut give you the right to offer me a personal in.
; and as a private person, I ask satin:action for an injury
done me by an individual."
"Cot Whitolocke reptfted the challenge; but the Officer
who was sent by him with the letter to Lavinia had a set.
vice of Sauget; fur Lamm having silently read the letter,
compelled him to declare, upon the honour of a soldier, whe-
ther hT knew the contents of it ? The Officer, as the fact was,
answered in the negative. TM French General, thereupon,
toad the letter aloud to the people who surrounded him, and
told the British Offreer—" That if he had brought him such a
proposal knowingly, he would instantly have caused his to
have seffered iii igneminous di std."

The Bonded% —. from Malta. daerted by the
crew, is carried into Yarmouth.

The Sewed, —, from the Clyde, for Quebec,
is lost near Newfoundland.

On Saturday erecting, u a labouring maa who bad
been working on Chatham line* was going to East
Mailing, he was stopped on the Maidstone-road,
near tine first wood, by two soldiers, in undress
jackets, and robbed of the wages he )sad received
for his week's work, after being beaten by than with
a large hedge stake, in a most cruel manner. The
thieves got clear off ; the man with 'difficulty made
his way Lack to the Gibraltar Inn. *heft he Iles In
a dangerous situation.
On the 13 h inst. a General Meeting of the Clergy
of the Diocese of Hereford was held at the Mitre
Coffee-house ; present, the Lord Bishop, the Chan-
cellor, the Casters. Rev. Drs. Morgan. Cope, and
Irate, and ma,iy others. Dr. Cope, Treasurer of
the Clerical Charity, was in the chair : when the
Diocesan remarking on the decreased value of mo-
ney since the commencement of that institution.
the serious advance in the price of all necessaries
of life, and the consequent pressure on the objects
of the charity (the widows and orphans of the clergy)
proposed th..t the original rule for reettiCting sub.
scriptions to a limited sum, however wise al
should be Perrind4 ; and that the Clergy :,-•
Laity should be at liberty to subscribe, in future,
to the exteot of their benevolent wishes: this plan
was unanimously adopted. His Lordship then
set a laudable example, by doubling his own sub-
scription; which was followed by the gentlemen
present, and we trust will have an influence on all
their absent brethren. Dr. Cope yietd,d to the
united wishes of the diocese, in cautioning bis able
and zealous superintendence of the charity. Strong
le•te's of admonition were dire ted to be written, in
the name el the Bawd, to all anemias.