The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-02 00:00:00

NEW DteCOP2R7Iii

ADRIU. ♦VC. 15.

The Royal Hydrographical Office of this city has
published, by command of the Po ince of Peace. in
The Gazette of this city, the following notice. rel.l-
- to a discovery recently made in toe South firma:
The frigate La Palo, belonging t 6 the Philippi ie
COmpany, and commanded by Don John BaptiAe
Monteverde, on her voyage from Manilla to I.i,n el,
discovered on the 18th of February, 1806, a Soup
of islan.is, the southernmost of which is situaud in
1 deg. 29 min. North latitude, and 162 deg. 5 min.
East longitude, from Cadiz.
These islands, 29 in number. occupy a op ace of
10 leagues from N.E. to S.W. and are separated by
channels, one or two leagues in breadth. They are
low, woody, and inteisceed with rivers. Thtir
inhabitants are of the most pacific disposition. They
irst approached the frigate to the numbet of 21.
it two canoes.

When they bad come within musket shot, they
ceased rowing, and held some cocoa-nuts towards
3i.o.iards, shouting and making signs. The
frrzatc clewed her sails, and hoisted the Spani.h
colours. This manoeuvre having apparently excited
some apprehensions in the Islanders, the Spanish co-
lours were struck, and a white flag was hoisted, the
crew, at the same tinte.-calling and making signs to
the canoes to approach. They, accordingly, came
alongside, and gave the Spaniards some cocoa-nits,
without demanding any thing i r return, Luc none
of them could ba persuaded to come on board.—
The crew of the frigate then distributed a:no g
them some old knives, iron-rings, and pieces of
cloth ; and this liberality excited such joy and I`.lA.
etude is; these go id people, that ere!: ty
stripped their causes t mace presents L 3 ihr
biards; their nets. their fi.h tine ks, t! eir coc,:ia•rut
shells, which served them fur cups, their e-cina-.li;
bats, mode of the leaves of the palm-tree, w. re all,
in a moment, removed on board of t! c frigate ; anu
they, at length proceeded to strip themseves of C.eir
only garment, fast. ned round their wars , in onto
to testify tI ear gratitude to their benefactors. Still
they were not ci.ntesit with themselves, and gilV.!
Spaniards to unt'erstand that they wound rerutn to
their Island to fetch other presents, and requesting
that the frigatci would wait for them.
These Indians are tall, well made, rnhnst, and
They are of an olive colour, have Ili it noses,
black curl-d hair. hut of considerable length. In
each canoe was a venerable old man, raked like :hr
others, and who appeared to be tlieir Chief. One
very rernarkabk: circumst.nce that thesci rwo chi
men wera white. and had aquiline notes. 'l,l!iiy had
rather the air of Spaniards than ct Savages. Cdptain
Monteverde adds, that these islacds. and their aged
Chiefs, bore a c.insiderable resrm'slonce, in their
features and conduit, to tr.. 2 !ndians of Ceti islands of
St. Bartholomew, and those Cata
Where he lanced in 100, with the it:izato I.a .P4t-
tppiae,coa.tuandcd by Don Juan Ib:sr

A deuble kind alit SOOI.IACC was run Wc.l:sday
=ruing at Ns-wingtion. hotee:n 4r. V.; arr, .
sentleman of tontine, a•F.n res.'s!: s ;n
Maty-la-bonze, and Mr. kit ra enacv s, of Aston.
The distance was two ni.les, for 2 guive an-
other tl3 guinea: wa► bated by Mr. V. ar T, 111.. t
be performed t;.e distance i t S 3 minut.s. 1 S.:,
couple ran writ togethzr for a mile, Mr.
"Nears liev:ng taken the Leal, closely followed by
hieadeereety. The Mil:: WAY pC:,1.0:7M,:.1 in a les:
mods under the .ix might. s, s,•hi:>t ronning t.le
lest mile. Mr. IVr&TT pothid, tad to,k tl.e
which hokept, and aeon We I.loe
easily. Mr.lJcat-
'waas•shaving f:•,.nd it impc..,ibie for bin. to pass
his opts, cent, sesiAned the nisseh v.tailst gii..g the
last h.lif mile. Tar winner of the race ueat time
also. by half a mir.use.

Readies Races. in AA' vi, were very fully ar.d
fashionab:y Genrirrion% Pnr
!Lit. was WOO by Capt. 1.1. ACPIAAt A 11l A'a /(O,4:a:CP,
beating Mr. 1... A Damages Arrori •c.—For the wecp.
stakes of sgs. each, five horses :tart-d, and .air C.
Busaustv'a .%ry came is fast ; fiat riorn Cat ari:lcti
of not paying the entrance money hefOie atarong.
the stakes were allotted to Mrrjcr ‘Vir.sur.'s brother
to Locos, which came in second. On Thursday
the Sweepstakes :)Ogs. caell was won I.y Maj
Wrason's c. by bratirg Mr. Escroth's f.
litehl.ted La”. For the Tcwn I'urse only two .
horses started. A. Match for SOgs. was also ru
and won by Mr. Emak.t.'s trrtnt4 b.:wog
Major %VI tseN's three-year old colt.
Wednesday mot ;in at 1 l t;',..leck, a rre was dis-
covered in tii.e ahaost uninhabited irotaae of
the Premier of Great Britain, ....reatened
destrullica hot duly to the.: czren.i.e pith ins
themselves, but also to the re.idince of the Cian•
teller ut the I...r:chequer, and to the Treasury
itself, wail which the back, part of the Premier's
house has immediate cemmunicatian. When his
Grace of Portlaad thought proper to retire from the
official haute, and return to his private house in Pic-
caJilly, he left one female servant only to take
care of the house. His Grace has long side: esta-
blished his ch.:taller for magnificence in hi. ea-
tertainments ; and it is necessary to be stated, that
by the cxiensivc employment of the crofts, and con-
stant o.ar of the kitchen. a copper flue which ran
thrcb-• diffident apartments on thus ground ft.u.e
because foul. Wednesday morning, alter breakfast,
the young woman went up stairs to dust the furni-
ture.
On her return she wished to dress some little
article of food for her dinner s but on openirs the
stove-door it huist out in a strong volume of flame.
This alarmed her to such a degree. •hat she imme-
diatak ran out of the house. Her first thought was
to call'im Mr. Newcombe, the owner of the Henry
the %untie. Head, airport adjoining. He first
closed the mouth of the stove with a set blanket;
by continuing to keep it wet and to preclude all pus-
eibibty of the entrance of air iota thellize that was
ran file, the fine. from being red hot, was in a she
time rechlcadth a moderate hear. He then procured
the assistance of some bricklayers and carpenters
who were at work making some irnprcivements in
:er (Mr.
by the
mg close
rrin, %An.
a the Sc.lule fabric
time in

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e
the residence et a reasury Messengc
Gotedyer) who has. been Istcly *minted
Duke vf Portland. The flue passed all alni
to the ceiling of the steward's room. still ro,
breb room, lc, t and, it it had not beets for
live exeri.,os rf Mr. Newcombe. the win,
would snow probahly have hewn in a short
Laws. However. the whale was salmi rd
neseesind ihearesa limas AMYL