The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-04-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR Of THE BRITISH PRESS.

St::—As f take in daily your ve-t valitable
Pa-
per, I hope you will excuse the liberty of my
troubling you with this, to request you will twilit
out, in any way you think hest, the objectioos there
are to Lard Castlereagh's Local Militia Bill, which
is likely to disgust great part of the VOlunteer
force of the Kingdom, if curried into effect in
tidier ruts of the dominions as it is in this county ;
where two battalions of old Volunteer corps have
most of them transferred into the Local, expecting
that their officers were to accompany them; hut,
instead of which, the two old Majors, one of them
ail old officer from the Line, having been rejected,
or at least not appointed into the Local with their
men, who are now to he commanded by young
men who have never before served: and thole young
men, who haveknever before served, are to rank be-
fore old officers of the Voluoteer corps, who have
served for six or eight years, and who c.rine for-
ward in the first moment that their country was
su plowed to require their service.
Beside. the Bill is altogether objectionable, as
it is taking the very same 111C11 to perform ate name
number of days service in the year, at an additional
expense to the country of three or four hundrcrl
thousand poungls per atm. and instead of the same
men being commanded by their old oP.icers, they
are to be commanded by young buys just come
from school.
Gloucester, April 16, 1801. A. B.

The St. 'Michael's Youths, of Aslitnn-under-
Line, rang e tine peal of Bob Major, couteiningi
"10,240 harmonious chaugem, oil their peal or eight
bells, at Sr..filichaers church, in their noted loyal
village, which was nobly brought round in six
hones cud thirty minutes, composed and conducted
by Mr. N. Moss. who rang the tenor-hell, to the
leitonishineatt of hundreds of attentive hearers, who
miseiabled on this particular occasion.
The St. Peter's Youths rang, at St. Peter's Go-
thic church et Sheffield. in Yo.kshire, a tine peal
of Cambridge Surprise, containing 6,048 changes.
which. was moldy brought round in four hours sod
eighteen minutes, hesn4 the greatest length in
that method rung in the British dominions, asst
we* both composed and conducted by Mr. Gnaws
WILD, an eminent little warehouseman in the
silver.platiug trade.
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On the first jest. a young wornso, named Cw Alt-
bore% Entreat, was accidentally shot by her staters
MANY-ANN FOSTER, who was playing with a gun,
not knowing it to be loaded. Tne Coroner's in-
quest hating been taken on the lyirly of the de-
ceased. and r► verdict of Accidental Dead; having
bean returned. it was on the 7th init. interned, in
the clink:it-yard at East Crinsteirl, by the 'Rev.
JOAF.PII LANGLEY, Cu►ate of that Parish.

Anode& elopement took place last week, at a
villa.e in the Sew Forest, Hants. A CLergyousii
of consideVante property had a party at his house,
to spend the Easter holidays, among whom was
Captain S. an half-pay dragoon c•-.lerr. The
Captain remained until Wednesday last, whin he
took leave, and retired, u has since turned out, to
an hi*, at Salisbury. On Friday, Mrs. P. the
Clergyman's Lady. who is between thirty and
forty year.= of age, was missing at the dinner hour,
and the family were thrown late great consterna-
tion at her absence. Her arrival was anxiously
waited that night, and on the (unerring der it was
ascertained that a Lady. answering her day
in, had beet, seen walking with a Getithmian
three titles from Salisbury, on the Stockbridge-
Recta; and they were afterwards taken up fn a cr-
ude, prettchaiee, which conveyed them Into the
other Western Road. The parties, after three
days' search, were tared to Sloane-street, in lodg-
ings, where theriemained yesterday, no step hav-
ing hero taken by the husband. Mrs. P. has a
family of three children, has been merited six veers,
and lived on the moat affectionate terms with her
littsbintd.

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A moat arketne; circumstance occurred on
Thitri:clay, the tith in font, u. a plic•e!called Iligh
IVotr.l. rie p.iri-li 44' T. 1,1, soy, shout tin miles
(*ram Lincoln, ili..roughly. to inform our readers
of the plum Lars, we mina to•gin the iiarrative,,by
'Overt tog to ir.itite vire -nivicei %%hill, ii few years
preceibd the event.—About ei.4lit years
ego, Mr. Joreidi IL of fligh Would, inarricd
his present wife; Mani after which vb.! lictro3cd
symptoms of menial derangetnent, and orteli *i un-
ties-A about the lipids surrounding their hoe-e in a
star of iiitellectihd rospein,ion. After start6'lg
under this dremirul Wuladv fur ablait hJit a yin-,
Met. (Alison racovored, and continued in good
bralth until nbt ut tine weeks ago, .wrien site awije,
hecnine depresie.l uud permit..., and did oh! in to
give ally utiention :o her children, or aiucu she
hid three--oue ;shout four months old, the otheni
two anal three year:, lu ennsequeliee of
the tli.-
tressing little:011 into which the had rehipv...4.
perrou, of riaxilby, named Mary Noble, iv :is hiti.'y •
engaged to attend upon Mrs. Gibsti, 'mil to
in the tare of the family. This tirrann Knvr tl.a
foliowing evidence htFore Mr. LltatntY, The Cort,
r, shins public services have been called tut by
the melancholy caturtrophe
" On Thtir,sday morning last Mrs. fiihroir (muse
into the sitting-room, about a quinter pest . trtna
o'clock 'Lipka to her, hut did not remark triy
alteration in liar person tll behaviour. 'rim iuia r
door of the house was shut ; the outer door, near rt.

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it, was open. and Mrs &neon had the key ot
Slw Na: in the room fur a oho: t time, vt•ry c.ool-
poserily, nun then said she would go Mtn the garden
and that the two elder chilthen should go sills
her. She led the children to Ow door, ono in
each huuid : she shut the inner doorovith violent ,
and at that moment I observed the got hold of the
children's arms with her left hand. The manner of
shutting the :our altirtned unt; I ran to it; but be-
fore I reached it, Mrs. Gibson had locked the outer
door. I then became more alarms's], knowing the
well was only about *it yards from the house, in:d
with a violent effort I succeeded in breaking open
the door; which I had just accomplished when In.
Gibson stood beforevie: she looked wild and agi-
tates); and, before I could speak, clapped her
hands and exclaimed, 1 have put them both in 1.
I looked into the well, and New both children lying
in the water. At this moment Joseph Newhy, a
young man. stn./rut to Mr. Giboonvearbe to qa,
and Mrs. Gibson was forced into the horns.. -
by went down into the yell, by means of the welll.
chain, and Fnt both the'chihlren %%pow his knits,
(Although toe well- is twelve plrds deep, cud Lad
ten feet of water lit ii) t I 'endeavoured to
draw them up, and three times taistql them
to some height, %hell I found my strength in-
sufficient, auvl was obliged to let thein go down
again. At the tinie of my making the thir.l ~t-tempt,
tempt, Mrs. Gibson rn,hed oat of the Ituu,e,
ran very' fnst : I thought she was ju.,lting for. a:it
pond. and left the youtig man and the children to
go after her." 'Mr. Gibson end- smile asiistints
providentially arrived at this instant, cad the set •
veint.mais and the two children were drawn up,
after remaining in the aetl nearly three qu wets
of an hOur. Anu,thetelder child. abont three y rnrs
old, was dead, liar skull being fractured by the,
force with which. it is supposed, she 'was .prec:pi-
toted apt nst the aide of the well-by her mother;
the other child was not hurt.—The Coroner's Jar;
sat on Wednesday, the 13th itst. and returned
verdict of Wiald Mahler atisitist Asa Gibso,s. the
mother.

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Yesterday se'tinight, at Yarmouth, the lady of L. K. Lo-
fton, Eeq. of a eon and a daughter.
• MAILB4AGES.
At St. Dunstan iu the West, Thomas Erskine Sutherland,
Esq. of Ediultnrgla, to Miro Highley, of Fleet-street
At Whitclutil, by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, the Kiehl
Hun. Lord Gardner, to the Hun. Cher:Ate Smith, dau,;lder
to Lord Carrington.
On the isik Met. at Ivsv Chureh, Spurgenn Ferrer, Faq.
of Cele Braylield, to•the comity of Burks, to Mrs. :Wilford,
relict of the late Capt. 1,...try Milford, of the Royal Nary,
and dauehtcc of the Hue. David Aastruther, of thIaISILIOIC
Park, Bucks.
DEATHS.
In December Istuf, hi of his woonds,Capthilien
Baron tie Belmont, sou iii.law of Baron de Lterabirt.
At IYellitieboroa;th, Northamptoushire, in his Jul. year,
John Arden, Esq. late Wine in the id, ur Eine's ow., %-
Koons, tout eldest son of the late Rev. John Artieu, of Lut.c.-
ciroft.hell, Steltinalshire
On IVeduesdny ee'n,tie•ht, after a lone and severe illmrs,
at his house in Upper Ilsrley-street, the lady of Sir Ja.tice
Sibbaki, Bart.
Suddenly, lies. Fantods, sife of Mr. Edwards, of Tynan,-
place, Islington. After breakfast she went up stairs to speak
to the servant in the bed-room, set demo its a stair, coin-
plainest eta sudden pain in her head, mud (lied iustatitly..
In Sumerset.place, in the mad year of his elle, G.,us.ge H.
Tavel, EN,. &Captain in lilt R. N. and one of the Commis.
tamers of the Transport Board.
George Barker, First C...m!..ii,sioner fur the Siximuoy
Debra payable to Greenwich Hospital.
Oa Salcurtny sesnieht, susideuly, Lady Baehr', an old ru4 •
very resin etableintwildtant of Sauthampton, relict sf Admiral
Sir Itirliard liughee.
On the T2ll nit. Mr. William Wilkinson, of Feldum, veer
Monate, thinner, aged 71. He was wnrkie in the dead till
evening, when be ease borne and complained of billequisi.
lima, and tout Lis family be wee tome to air, geed several
directions respecting tie althea, and the.. dud
lately.
At Dumftles, on the gth April, aged pa, Mrs:Jean Dv.,
dam:liter of the arc need John Hey, Esq. Insnectur-et I
of the C11A1411114 in Scotland, m:sl relict of Mr. Arelott.3
Malcolm, cue of the town-clerks of Dumfries.

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